skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reprint a letter I just received (inscribed on human skin) for your edification:

Dear Humans

I hereby reclaim the word "evil". It seems to have worked for "queer" by those San Francisco guys, so I am trying it for evil.

As The Lord of Lies I have put in plenty of effort over the centuries, encouraging wars, rape and torture. it takes quite a lot of effort to persuade someone to hang a pregnant woman extra high and then to slice open her belly to let the foetus dangle too - but I think you will agree that that's pretty evil. The march of technology has helped (guns guns guns!) but real evil still takes the personal touch.

so imagine my horror when people call scummy business practises "evil". I mean ohhh that guy is aggregating my click throughs to sell more toasters. Where is the soul-destroying fear in that? I mean I used to call retargeting what happened when you make a mother choose which child to have shot. now it's marketing

No thank you. you keep your evil empire and your "don't be evil" slogans. I will summon up the deepest devils from the pit and head to Syria, where I can show you all what words like evil really mean. Pleasant dreams.

yours

Belezebub
When there are speeding vehicles and no shoulder or bike line, you are usually safer to speed up yourself. If the speed limit is 40, they'll be cars going around the curves at 50. Just after a curve is the most dangerous spot for getting hit from behind, and you really want to get out of there.
Tesla Motors says car dealers are trying to hinder its sales
Mathapoo 2013 Tamil Movie Watch Online
I think the Freakonomics authors talked about this study... the study's authors noticed there was some gaming of the statistics going on because while most stats dropped, the rate of certain offenses held steady. The stubborn offenses were the ones that were much trickier to reclassify as lower level crimes, like homicide or arson.
Ah, ok, I misunderstood. There are quite a few projects out there which charge for hosting but make the source open to implement on your own servers.

Great to see you're opening up parts of it though!
Yeah, that was my error actually, our MIME parser worked just fine and escaped the stuff I put into TO field. Looks like I need some sleep now, not gonna write the postmortem about this one though :-)
I totally agree. Look at Stackoverflow's way. I think they scan for the common tag names appear in title and text and suggest tags. OP's presentation really doesn't impress me.
A related, and well studied, debate in medicine was about the right of privacy for inmates in a correctional institute. Until the final version of HIPAA inmate health information was not considered protected like for the general population.

Once upon a time ago it was intensely debated whether the effect of disclosures of drug or weapon possession to prison administration would negatively affect prisoner cooperation and the quality of healthcare. Inmates were known for storing weapons or drugs in their rectum, physicians worried that if an X-Ray were to reveal such objects and if they were required to disclose them that inmates would stop accepting X-Rays and general health would decline.

The general consensus of studies that examined this issue showed that this did not in fact happen[1]. It was found that as long as only things that risk the health of the general population (i.e. drugs don't need to be reported but weapons do) were reported there were no adverse effects.

Extrapolating to the general population, one could conclude that this hospital's practices wouldn't discourage people from going to the hospital. Criminals that would be discouraged by this policy would likely not be going to the ER prior to its implementation (similar to how inmates with knives in their rectum still won't go to a physician despite HIPAA protection) because they're afraid of being caught doing something illegal. You can't really do anything for this subset of the population however you can help the majority by sharing this information with the police while causing minimal (or no) harm to any individual patient.

[1] I read this in "Doing Right" by Hebert, PC. In the book they cited a study but I no longer have it, if someone really wants this reference I can go hunt for it. I wouldn't recommend buying this book as it's ridiculously overpriced.
Used to be called Tow Truck.
New York Times 1851
What's the point of referring to a 1993 document when the 2009 document I pointed to says "The committee does not believe that there is any additional 238Pu (or any operational 238Pu production facilities) available anywhere in the world."

Yes, anyone with nuclear reactors is functionally able to make 238Pu. The document outlined a possible alternative method to use a 5 MW, licensed TRIGA reactor, available at various universities and in many countries.

> "If the situation is either no more Pu-238, or Pu-238 in several years from France, then I would say that going to the French isn't a terrible idea."

Why do you think that situation exists when the authors of the National Research Council report on the topic thinks it's not possible?

The document says that extensive French facility modifications would be needed, and further discussion would be needed even to establish that that option could be considered. Unlike the UK discussion, there isn't even a mention of how much France might be able to produce. That's your optimism? Is such a facility even still available some 20 years later?

So your suggestion is that the US should convince a foreign country to make extensive changes, plus do years of production? Interesting. Why is that better than making it in the US?
> I personally use a clipboard app that I can "copy" a photo on the iOS device and on my Mac just "paste" it somewhere. That one works over ad-hoc WiFi so doesn't need a WiFi base. Others work over bluetooth.

This sounds brilliant. Is it Instashare?
Shared.com gives you 100GB of free storage
Wisdom I hear often, yet is too easy to forget.
Kind of ironic that we have lawyers from elsevier talking about misconduct when they have this http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27383/... in their closet as well as sundry other things.

On the other hand, maybe they really are trying to improve themselves and I am being too judgemental.
Very nice
what's the best opportunity that came out of a cigar?
They might be the leader in fantasy sports. Obviously a small portion of overall eyeballs but eyeballs that refresh the site many times a day.
I think with regards to dependencies he is referring to building fat / shaded jars (aka one jar to deploy).
Putnam Boxes and Balls
Medicine's Search for Meaning
Cool. So it's like http://mosh.mit.edu/ mosh for TCP
There is a command-line optimizer. I always forget it's name and can never find it. It is very cool for doing simplex optimizations etc.

I will try yet again to find it and edit.
Einstein appears never to have taken an IQ test. See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415373

(posted earlier in this thread) for more about the late Amazon executive's IQ score.
[Author here] The big way TogetherJS differs from many of the other realtime products out there, like Firebase or (to a lesser degree) ShareJS, is that it doesn't do any storage. It coordinates real-time sessions, but it's not there to take the place of the application, instead it augments the application. If your application has persistence, it has traditional persistence. Whatever auth system you have is your own. At the same time while it dodges any persistence, it extends the scope beyond what those other tools typically do to include more with session management and the standard tools that I think are needed for collaboration. There's nothing exciting about text chat, but you need it anyway.

Still, ignoring persistence I think will help keep the surface area of the TogetherJS smaller compared to some other tools. Or at least focused on other things.

People have mentioned the idea of being able to chop TogetherJS up before, but I have a hard time seeing how that would actually work. For instance, the architecture is built around a pretty dumb server, so hooking into Streams would seem counter to that principle. And just allowing for the possibility would add a lot of complexity. Ultimately the UI is actually the bulk of what makes up the TogetherJS code (or maybe it's the part I find hard and so I feel like I spend a lot of time with it), and I don't know how to make this kind of UI while being modular. Without the UI I don't think it's nearly as compelling a project (becomes more like ShareJS, or Firebase, or Google Drive Realtime API – neat but a big investment, and sometimes only appropriate for greenfield projects.

Anyway, I'm certainly interested in how people want to extend or integrate with TogetherJS. I'm skeptical of splitting it up into pieces, as it is theoretically easier to do things that way, but I expect in practice it will just leave a confusing pile of pieces that aren't fun to put back together. But that doesn't mean that there aren't use cases worth exploring... and with some creativity there might be other approaches to handling those cases.
Yeah. Leaving behind an 8-year old son makes me really sad indeed.
On a hill? I was going too fast down a hill on a road cycle. Had a car behind me, and a very slightly raised manhole was ahead.

I braked, and went flying hard over the handlebars. I am not sure if I was going over before the manhole or not, but the hill radically changed how the brakes worked for me.
On principle we keep the server simple, echoing messages back and forth between clients. In practice it's quite hard for two browsers to connect directly to each other, and while we want to support that kind of architecture in order to get it working we still need to simulate P2P using a server.
On a vaguely related note, I know of a crystallographer who would send out Christmas cards every year that looked like postcards with a partial, yet to be published, crystal structure as the image. One year, one of the crystallographers he sent the card out to figured out which protein it was, reconstructed the density map (partially from his own data on the same molecule, partially from the solved structure on the card) and published the first PDB for it to RCSB. The following tiff and yelling about academic misconduct was pretty funny. They wound up taking down the PDB, but the guy's never sent out another postcard-like Christmas card
NB: unrelated to TogetherJ
This is almost exactly what I would expect, but it's nice to see it quantified.
So does this mean if I'm connected an adhoc eyefi wifi network and want to share whatever pic I took over the internet, I don't have to turn off wifi to do it?

If so, this is very awesome. It makes things like the Sony QX camera probably x10 more seamless.
Actually NYC has several Costcos within range of the subway.
Apple versus Intel
The $550 iPhone 5C Makes Perfect Sense
News travels fast. We just got the email from the CEO today about the acquisition. However, I don't work in the domains group, so I don't have much additional information to share.
iPhone User Guide
Both people are accessing the website as themselves. If one person doesn't have permission to see a page, for instance, then they won't see it. And yeah, whoever hits save is the saver ;) Doing something richer than that requires application-specific integration, which we want to support, but we also want to take cues from developers about what that should actually look like. This is one idea we have along these lines: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/issues/372
California car dealers accuse Tesla of misleading sales techniques? Is that really the best move for them?

Maybe Tesla should hire Ian Ayres[1] as a consultant, give him a team to go around the country exposing misleading and aggressive sales practices at dealerships.

[1] The Ian Ayres who uncovered systemic discrimination in auto sales for the Harvard Law Review: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
When MPTCP is established, which IP address would be reported to the server software?
Quantitative easing = inflation.
[Team member here] We haven't been very focused on the hosting story, in part because lots of people have their own requirements, and we can't predict what they are. And maybe because predicting what they are is boring. I know some hooks for New Relic have been added to the server. It's also a super-simple server that only keeps things in memory, so it's pretty darn easy to handle. Just one file: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/blob/develop/hub/serve... (and only one dependency, for WebSockets).
Shit happens. Still an awesome/easy to use service :)
Based on a five year time line from KKR/Silver Lake, I would expect an IPO within 2-3 years. This recent change in leadership, direction, and acquisitions is evidence of the push toward IPO.
The response was meant to be a joke but the question was pretty legit and left somewhat unanswered.

I think it was about 5-6 years ago but there was a case where a backdoor was hacked into the source code, it was pretty subtle for a change but was caught because of how it was done.
Don't forget that this is in the UK, so in addition to the things mentioned above there are quite likely a ton of CCTV cameras that could be utilised better. Or based on the hospital data new ones could be installed as deterrents.
Yang et al had to fight tooth and nail to keep it from being executed, and that opposition was obviously based purely on ideology: not wanting to become part of the MS behemoth

And not wanting to sorta admit defeat. That's why companies have boards, to do what is best for shareholders not for founders still thinking they got it. Yahoo's loss = Microsoft's gain.

The price goes back and forth, but right now I don't see yahoo leading anything, maybe just online answers. So it's part Marissa euphoria and part Alibaba stake.
This will suck for astronomers and anyone doing celestial navigation.
What happens to them, are they blacklisted from future publications?
Me thinks the comment is referring to some folks who live rent free in a relatives house or some such. Hard to live even a poor game dev lifestyle on $20K, let alone pay multiple people living expenses. Unless they wrote the whole thing in a month ;)
Same Firm Did Checks on Snowden and Gunman
Ah the pineapple, a lovely single device mitm for all of your wifi based needs.

I've been looking into acquire one for months but I can't think of any use case apart that wouldn't be immoral.

I wonder if I could sit in a coffee shop and provide a faster connection than standard? I'd be like a smaller, slightly more malicious google in that I provide a service in exchange for sweet sweet packets!

Also, what's with all the posts from troy? I've been following him for awhile and it's curious to see these just popping up now.
I'm not going to say definitively whose "fault" it was, but the car behind you is not the biggest risk. The biggest risks are almost always in front of you-- cars pulling out of intersections, opening doors, and cars making sudden right-hand turns into your lane without seeing you. This has been my experience and the statistics bear this out (http://bicyclesafe.com/).

If you're going to get hit from behind, it's probably because you swerved or a driver (going much faster than you) didn't see you and extra speed is not going to save you. Surviving the initial hit because you were riding fast doesn't mean much when your body slams into a guardrail or some other stationary object at 45 miles per hour.
You can't enforce such a brutal publish or perish pressure on someone's livelihood without selecting to some extent for people who will abuse the system. I personally think the whole system is fundamentally flawed, given the extent to which it relies upon trust. You're operating a very, very competitive market, where the integrity of the 'product' is almost entirely self-verified.
Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition
I was going to supply that link as well. We have been working on a restart for a while. Basically the Wired article is just silly.
Useless comment, fade away.
I never understood the hype around quickoffice, it has never been my office app of choice. Now OfficeSuite is a pretty neat piece of mobile office software...
Not me. I wouldn't want to deprive internet snarkers such a great opportunity to criticize straw men.
by leg work, you mean saving this 'shared information' to a database ? - ya get on it
QL uses a native binary that you install, no? Like BF3, the only components handled in the web browser are matchmaking, clan management, etc. For the actual matches/gameplay, it invokes the native client
I think the reasoning behind using an RTS is likely that the company wants people to write inherently online games on their platform as part of whatever monetization strategy they have - and the other big alternatives are the MMO and MOBA genres, which would need a lot of content to be made. Having a couple of bright programmers on call - the designer is both a Starcraft celebrity and a mathematics nerd, so he likely can chip in too- would no doubt be cheaper than hiring enough artists/character designers or voice/motion capture actors to make a respectable game in some known hardcore online game genre...
Google and the Brief History of Immortality
also - "their data" is public information anyways (or at least should be) - is basic crime statistics
Being told non-stop how brilliant and special you are while having trainloads of money dropped on you can have that effect on people.
git, github.com, codeship.io
aws (s3, route53), heroku.com, and cloudflare.com
ruby, rails, mongodb, mongolab.com
mailgun.org, stripe.com
pivotal tracker
Wait a second, you had somebody you (a) call an intern, and (b) classified as a contractor? And you cry about millenials?
The Lean Startup. I just randomly got it and read it. I was going to go into game development then after reading it I totally changed what I was going to do.
Python 3 also has `reversed(str)`.
Hey! I didn't go into that deep! So if FIN is used in a subflow, does it terminate that path? Is it possible to wake this path up again?
WPF always resembled JavaFX Script also (both retained with data binding and animation support baked in), so its not very surprising.
I've said as much in the article comments, but it's worth repeating here: there's really no surprise that this sort of thing happens when more than a million articles are published every year.

There is so much pressure on researchers to publish. I really do think the way to solve this sort of problem is to find ways to give researchers credit for other forms of contributions.

This is what figshare is doing with datasets, and what we're doing with peer-review:
http://blog.publons.com/post/61380784056/announcing-doi-supp...
Yeah, I've been wondering about that for a few years. After he disappeared, none of the Irvine people would even talk about it.
We still import 36%. Not saying that isn't impressive...

http://science.time.com/2013/09/05/americas-oil-boom-wont-ma...
Stay out of that industry and pick one where the supply/demand ratio is healthier.
Despite Early Criticism, Apple’s iOS 7 Quickly Gains Traction
2 Top Technology Writers Are Leaving Dow Jones
Maybe this time around it will actually happen. They tried to IPO in 2006 as well. I am guessing at this size there aren't many potential buyers considering their revenue was 1.3B last year. I think their growth might have slowed down a bit, not sure how/if that would affect a potential IPO.

I've got some gaps in years I could find data for:

2003 39M

2004 73M

2005 140M

2006

2007

2008 500M

2009 750M

2010

2011 1.14B

2012 1.3B
How can you say quality of life has gone down when most people from hunter-gatherer times died as infants?

Dying as an infant would be a pretty shit quality of life in my book, I don't know about you.
Wow. I wish I had even just half the talent of HTML/CSS/Javascript to pull something off of this calibre. I am really impressed, I can't wait to get my hands on this and deconstruct how they did it the best I can and play it too.
Walt Mossberg’s First WSJ Tech Column (1991)
> In practice it's quite hard for two browsers to connect directly to each other

Isn't this the problem WebRTC abstracts away? Your server should just be a TURN server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...), shouldn't it?
AAPL, GOOG, etc will reach their plateau soon enough. Apple already has flat or worse y/y earnings, Google is on steroids and is ruining their brand to artificially increase their earnings by penalizing sites (advertise or no traffic) and making it all ads in certain sectors. It will last maybe another or two. What then?

The point I was making: large tech companies have different rules, they behave more like Exxon and PG then a recently IPO-ed Google or Microsoft.
> I'm surprised the article missed the single biggest problem with requesting copies of "identity documents" - the company you send them to has no way to verify them!

I'm not so sure about that. Bars have machines to scan your drivers licence and verify if its real, so why can't other companies do the same thing.

As for arbitry licences...they could either not work for the US, or demand passports which can be verified against someone.
They he'd just be a hipster doing it wrong...
isnt this the project day9 is an adviser for?
That isn't generally the case, partly because higher end road bikes are concerned with weight reduction, and disk brakes are substantially heavier.
Hmmm. I can almost... ALMOST see how it's possible a few denizens would interpret these two as counter cultural attention seekers, but they're clearly not. That photo's a good joke.

I'm actually having some trouble imaginging to big a fallout on this, if any. I suspect you're being dramatic, where did this happen? tineye doesn't return results. https://www.tineye.com/search/dad74b36792f392b44d2df523fe17a...

edit: Never mind it was easier to find than I thought

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1h7apd/my_wife_and_i_h...

This seems good natured enough. I don't feel these two are being mocked in this thread.
"Worse is sometimes better" -- Richard Gabriel
Can someone explain how this affect my searching for, purchasing, managing, and renewing domains on NameCheap?

I just didn't see it in the article, so I'm having trouble placing it in context.
This was awesome, thanks for sharing. I was a math major in college and this brought back great memories.

I don't know remember much, but I so remember the problem solving skills in general. Start with a smaller more palatable example. Convince yourself that what they are proposing is true (or false). Lastly, keep trying because no matter how hard the problem you will eventually find the solution and it will feel awesome.
and also target the young, so future is secure. (like tumblr deal).
LOL at creating a throwaway account b/c you're ashamed to say you use Yahoo!
Sinking Ship: Germany's Struggling Pirate Party
Matlab support in EJDB JSON Database engine
You're seriously serving a billion requests a day? And you're writing new software which is expected to go from zero to a billion requests, full stop? And you're not expecting anything to change between beginning development and production? And, once the software is in production, it's not going to change at all?

I seriously doubt that all of those things are true - in which case you'd probably be better off using a different language. In my experience, it's much, much cheaper to run 2000 servers ($10m capital cost? something like that?) than double the number of software engineers you've got ($Xm a year, continuously?), and doubling the number of software engineers isn't a linear scaling.
Freelancer.com is now Farmville, and so is every other gamified site
It's a bit worrying that so many of the HN comments obsess over the subjectiveness of labels and not on the vitriol.