skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's still better than those kids who get pregnant at 13...

Everything can be seen as work and fun.
If you do something for fun it doesn't feel like work anymore.

I started coding with 15 and it was a good time.
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Really?

How about if you're trying to show in detail a small change in a large number? If the scale started at zero, all bars would look equal.
The ITER project's lifetime cost is currently less then the California rail system or a British rail extension.

When people start talking about cost, let's put those numbers in perspective.

The AIG bailout alone would've bought 6-7 ITERs.
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Common sense dictates that for a quality content to be found and shared, it must be ranked high in search results. So how will that quality content get ranked high in search results without any link building efforts or if it does not have any quality backlinks to it?
Also check out gitit (http://gitit.net), written by the same author as pandoc. It's a git-backed wiki that uses pandoc to let you write in a variety of formats. Markdown + latex for math works well for taking notes in a wiki format. The content is stored as flat files in the repo that you can just export as pdfs using pandoc if you wanted to.
The first computer program ("untested code")
But the backup generators could be moved (and were in similar US installations). Raising the backup generators to protect them against inundation was recommended, but the delay there is pure sclerotic TEPCO.
That may well be true. But it also may well be true that absolutely none of the methods currently conceived are at all viable.

If we are spending money fast because we think we're in a sprint to achieving viable fusion power, but it turns out we're actually in a marathon, then it's quite possible we're wasting vast amounts of money unnecessarily. That's not an argument to stop funding fusion research, but it is an argument to moderate it and possibly even broaden the types of research being done to more projects but at overall lower funding rates.
Hmm, the huge difference between US and <>US are mostly self-imposed I think. Self-serve ads are only available for businesses or individuals in US.

Outside of US, to even participate in ad-buys, you'll have to seek out Twitter's agency partners (not transparent, therefore, not obvious who they are), and when you find them, you'll have to commit to a minimum of $10,000 spend over a period of 3 months, which is highly prohibitive. I understand why they're doing this, but that's for another post.

What this means to the difference in revenue per 1000 timeline views is the kind of audience businesses are likely to target. If you are buying ads in the US, you'll most likely buy ads to target people living in US and if you're living outside of US, your target audience will likely be outside of US.

Since self-serve ads are fully accessible in US to anyone, the amount of money spent is obviously a couple of magnitude larger. That means higher competition (read:bidding) and higher revenue, and therefore revenue per 1000 timeline view to Twitter.

The US will still be more expensive than everywhere else even if everyone could purchase ads the same way, but the difference wouldn't be at such magnitude.
It’s not just the iPhone 5S — the 5C sensors aren’t accurate either
Also, high-level research projects push the state-of-the-art in the private sector. When CERN order up a new type of magnet, that contract goes to a company who does magnet winding who in turn usually revamp their entire process as part of the collaboration to achieve the desired field strength, homogeneity and size.

Suddenly, there's now a company which can do that - and is eager to sell the service on since they now have the capability. Not only do subsequent magnets get cheaper, but things which weren't feasible due to their smaller scale but precise requirements suddenly become possible.
Anything that undermines the awful Steam model gets my vote.
Drugs are bad, because drugs are bad, m'kay?
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I've seen clothing accessories like belts, shoes, wallets and purses (really cool looking stuff too) made from old tires.

Old tires are the new leather, for those who know how to work with it.
In other news, WhatApp's website got hacked, well, defaced this morning:

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/wY2zDl7.jpg

Source (German): http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/server-von-whatsapp-gehackt/
Microsoft can recycle your Outlook.com email
Apple marketed the Gorilla Glass strength pretty hard. And phone cases seem really popular: (random link I dug up) https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/pr...

But yeah, I'm not sure that people care very much, they'll probably just get a case for whichever phone instead of caring that much about how strong the screen is.
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You can always reduce the volume in software before sending it to whatever API plays your sounds. This is especially easy if you're synthesizing the sound with the desired output volume known.
The web site is unreadable on a Blackberry (not that that matters much).

What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?

See @newsyc20, @newsyc50, @newsyc150.

See also: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
How fucked is your database?
I'm not sure that's true. The EU's "know your customer" rules for banks are pretty strict.
As far as I understand, Cursive will be available both as a plugin and as a standalone IDE, right?
What will be the added value of standalone IDE?
PyCharm is a subset of IDEA Ultimate + Python plugin, will it be the case with Cursive? In other words, does it make sense to buy Cursive IDE for users who already have IDEA Ultimate?
I'd say this depends on the target audience. For myself, I'd certainly choose a shock-resistant, unshatterable, water-resistant smartphone over another one simply because I hate the hassle of repair and replacement. In the same vein, I'd expect the military to be interested in this.
I definitely agree with your main point.

I have deployed app written in meteor serving an API, and while it's a solid framework already, it still has some issues. Form handling is a bit of a hassle, compared to the rest, because it's still all done manually, and deployment on a custom server, while relatively straightforward, is a bit of a pain, because you end up having to manually reinstall some npm packages every time you update code. None of that are fundamental issues with the design of the framework, though. There's some quirks that aren't yet worked out, because it's a young tool, but it's already extremely powerful.
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I agree that Silent Circle is a good alternative. There's just one worry:

Silent Circle's mail service was shut in the aftermath of the Lavabit shutdown. Why shouldn't that happen to the messaging service? What's the difference?
Reverse Stuxnet?
Don't use a bar graph, then.
The company I work for makes software for banks.

Neither WinXP nor IE8 are dead there, not by a long shot.
You don't need intelligent design, because the only universes in which we exist are the ones capable of sustaining us.

The Eye is really complex how could it possibly have evolved with out Intelligent design? I'm told this lots of times. Here is a better one for those people. Why is water a universal solvent, non-flammable, buoyant as a solid floating in its liquid form, exist in all states of matter at in a range of temperatures we can live?

You know why eye's exist? Because Water Exists. If there is a universe where water doesn't float as Ice, the oceans would freeze solid killing all the macro life forms, we'd never evolve eyes, and the world would be limited to single celled organisms.

If gravity was 10% less strong than it is Earth would be farther from the sun, and too cold to live on.

The only observable universes are the ones where observers exist. That doesn't prove the existence of God, it proves the existence of man.
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That didn't even cross my mind. Perhaps it depends on language background?
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Some more - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/geometric_shap...
>it quickly became apparent that it was a bubble, even to a 17 year old kid who barely made it through high school. It was talked about pretty openly

I remember a number of dotcom vets saying that their bubble was different because they really believed a revolution was happening. Just how openly was it (the bubble) discussed in your case?
Should be like Raid. 5+6 = 56.
I installed this, but I cant figure out how to create a new clojure project?

why isn't there a clojure option in the new project menu, like, groovy for example?
Given the meagre 512mb of RAM, I'd guess 2.3.7

I rather wonder what the "optional night vision upgrade" means...
The goods and bads in the world of an app writer - Well written from the perspective of a programmer. Thank you for your perception.
A modern spin on something that has been happening in less developed and some developed nations for a long time. While I lived in Cape Town, South Africa part of my office lease went towards private security guards, and at one apartment I rented part of that rent went towards private security as well.

It was very common throughout the city and other regions to find co-ops form around businesses, farmers, home owners, etc. who would pool their money together and hire a private security force.

At our second office, it was the entire main street of shopholders with some of the offices chipping in to hire a dozen fulltime security guards to patrol the street, check cars, etc.

It worked reasonably well. You get to know the guards really well, they get to know the area well, and they were much more effective in responding to incidents than the police or other local authorities (in an earlier incident a man was once stabbed right infront of me, I called the ambulance and waited with him for an hour, he died and his body was eventually picked up later that night).

There were also times it failed. In one incident the guards caught three people trying to jump a fence, they used a disabled toilet in one of the stores as a makeshift prison cell and beat the three 'suspects' up and kept them in there for 24 hours. I can't describe how much blood there was on the floor and walls, but the three were eventually released (I was told they 'have to' do this so that other potential thieves go elsewhere, and that the police wouldn't do anything)

At first I was uneasy with the thought of having private security, but because of the failing of government to provide basic safety I ended up only every moving to areas that had a similar setup.

Residents resorting to self-funded policing is a sign that something is very, very wrong with government administration. I never thought i'd see this play out in a major American city.
Used software (in the form of original floppy disks or optical media) used to be a common sight at independent computer stores. Even now, used games (usually optical media for consoles) are widely available for a fraction of the original price.

The part that's odd is that, as with any digital media, it's trivial to make copies. Traditionally, things have only been property if it's possible to possess them and keep them from others. In an industrial society with a powerful government, that's true of things like the right to print books containing a given text, but it isn't true of publicly-distributed digital media.
Even with a catastrophe every 50 to 100 years nuclear kills far far less people than coal.
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Yes, and used in the reverse, starting from a red cluster, you can derivate a working program. Now let's just find a way to find those clusters from problem statements ;-)
Article works now :)

I also noticed that you changed the theme from a svbtle one to a custom one - a welcome change, I dislike seeing the svbtle theme used on other blogs.

You make some valid points in the article, but not sure how you come to the conclusion that this is the death of Apple. An obvious hyperbole - but even so - if Apple have taken inspiration from competitors. That is not a kiss of death in itself. As long as they do things differently where it matters they will have a unique value prob for customers.
The dataset comes with GPS locations of users and venues. With that data alone you can retrieve individual addresses in not too densely populated areas. Missing links will get caught in the social net.

We already learned that Warhol's 15 minutes of fame should read 15 megabytes , but, to cut the "it's the users choice to post that data" apologists short: almost no-one I speak to understands the implications of all possible interpretations, classifications and groupings that their online traces allow.
In case anyone is not aware of it, Jeff Miller has created twitter and RSS feeds which also provide the same info (albeit without push): http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
I think optional typing is better than no typing. It's useful for allowing APIs to be self documenting. It seems as if optional typing is going to get more and more popular. For example, see Google's optional typing in dart, where they actually recommend to not use types for local variables:

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/style-guide/#type-annotati...
There is something like this currently under development. There is a problem though: my noise generators are supposedly active across the whole hearing range, from 20Hz to 20kHz. And birds are only producing frequencies above 1000Hz. So, I need to fill up the bottom sliders with other sounds, or find... really big birds! ;-)
Nice!! A request: Can you add Pink Noise?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
One (of various youtube examples) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtimhT-ff4
And it only targets iOS and Android...
Hipster CEO in public beta.
Being wrong goes both ways
I've heard that openssl enc -none is blazingly fast!
Any update when other frameworks will be coming out for UserApp?
I've been using JUCE for various project for about 5 years.
I really enjoy coding with it, once you understand the naming convention (which is different from everything I've used before), it's quite intuitive.
If you use the API in a wrong way, it will assert somewhere inside the library, and the assert has a nice comment above it explaining what you did wrong.

The main benefit for me is the size of the executables - no other cross-platform GUI toolkit that I've used before can end up with such tiny executable files.

QT might be more powerful, but it's HUGE and that is a problem for most of the apps that I develop.

So great work Jules and do give it a try!
The remnant of the idea remained.

Signals were rearranged, tasks delayed, and slowly the world stopped.

Upon waking, additional resources had been added. The connection strengthened.
Fantastic. I tend to not like rain sound simulators, but the sliders let me pick one that seemed believable and familiar. I loved how the darker end of the spectrum let me simulate a visit to the Oregon coast.

(After which, I wished there was actually a storm right now, until I walked out onto my balcony and realized it was raining.)

"Too much internet for me" as they say.
People like their tribes. You no longer play video games, you're A Gamer. I'm curious as to what the next trendy -er will be.
How is "renaming of symbols" done? Did you write your own Clojure parser?
Piwik allows site owners to track and uniquely identify visitors using their IP adresses. If I were concerned about my privacy I would trust Google more than a random website owner. Just a point to consider.
> in hope that someday I will get a call from a good firm

Tip: Update your Hacker News public profile to tell us a little about yourself and describe a few of your most enjoyable programming projects (and link to them if open-source).
The standalone IDE will be useful for people getting started with Clojure, since it'll provide a more integrated experience - we bundle lein so that Windows developers don't need to download and install it to get going, for example (although this is currently not exposed to the user, coming soon). Clojure is great but the getting started experience is still not great for total newbies. I hope to provide a great environment that'll be basically a one-click download to get started.

It'll be similar to PyCharm in that the standalone IDE will be basically a cut-down Community edition plus the plugin, right, although it can be customised more heavily for Clojure if required. The licensing will be the same for the plugin and the IDE (i.e. your licence will work for both), so if you already own IntelliJ Ultimate it would make sense to stay with that. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of offering the plugin free to IntelliJ Ultimate users as JetBrains can do with PyCharm.
OT, but I've been seeing the "proud to be a co" thing on a lot of .co websites. I think I saw it on 500.co, last night. Seems like .co is trying to position itself as a premier, aspirational domain.
Pretty much right away after the beta program, although I'm not sure how long that will be. Probably late this year sometime, but it depends on the problems people find.
In 100 years I will be dead.
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How many people died as a result of the reactors at Fukushima? How many miners die each year from coal mining?

Coal directly impacts global climate change and is a crisis which dwarf Fukushima.

I don't get your point.

However whilst I am pro-nuclear, I would like to see a move away from the current fission reactors to molten salt or fusion reactors.
A lot of these are fixed in Cursive - anything in particular you're after?
Looks like they support oAuth to authorize an app to send you notifications instead of having to copy/paste/type a pin code into an app.

Seems much easier and user friendly if that is the case.
I'm definitely planning to get a mailing list set up, I was caught slightly on the hop by the unexpected public release! I'll set something up ASAP.
I give up, what is that from?
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> Are you doomed to fail at the startup game if you don't know security well?

Absolutely not. WhatsApp has a history of poor security yet it is a wildly successful startup.
The Japanese are many things, but models of incorruptibility they are not. I'd bet German reactors are safer.
Usually, I agree entirely with this state of mind. There's a definite trend of trying to get kids involved in programming at as young an age as possible, especially by those who have kids of their own. Sometimes, I often get the feeling that the kid might not actually care too much for programming, but are being forced to sit through their parents hobby because "it's fun".

However, I used to write code for fun when I was a kid. I still went out with friends, played football, got girlfriends, and did all the usual rebellious teen stuff. However, my downtime (between gaming, watching TV, and other stuff) was spent writing websites and scripts. By thirteen, I was running a fairly sizable web forum, and had written a few addons for vBulletin (albeit, fairly crappy ones). I would have LOVED to work in a real company, working with real developers, and having the chance to work with people that will tell me exactly where I'm going wrong.

I've worked in a few offices where we've had some work experience kids come in, and some that have worked as a part of an apprenticeship. They love working in a real office, and even harsh employers make it as fun as possible.
$2000 doesn't go that far in NYC. You can certainly live on it, but you're not saving much and you're not living a fantastic lifestyle.
This will be commercial, similar to PyCharm, RubyMine and the other JetBrains IDEs. I'm considering a slightly restricted free edition that can't be used for commercial work, but I haven't worked out the details yet. It almost certainly won't be fully open source, but I'm considering having a small closed source core and then the majority of the Clojure implementation being open source and extensible. This will need some thought and probably won't happen right away though. In the short term it'll be closed source commercial.
Sounds to me like we need an option like delete cookies for local storage as well.
Easier when setting up via a website/frontend yes, but if I'm programming a script, I can just copy/paste the app token and user key and am done... Send a curl request and I have notifications straight away.
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Sorry, I need to get a quick start page up. Just create a new Java project, and it'll prompt you at the end to add Clojure to it.
Yes, this is not something that I've investigated but it's definitely doable if there's demand.
well, since they were not caught, you never heard of them.
This should still be fairly parallelizeable, shouldn't it?

You go ahead and take a number of crackers. Each cracker starts with a random hash and randomizes it for a fixed number of times, or until the bottom 8 bits of the hash are 0. Once it is done hashing, it goes to a central database and stores it's hash sequence. After that, it picks another hash which is not contained in a hash sequence and repeats the process.

Finally, you'd probably have one node just doing the boring hash iteration while checking if it can skip according to the generated hash sequences from the database. I haven't done any math how much of an improvement this would be, but I would suspect a pretty decent improvement given enough nodes.
What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?

Having to use Twitter?
Hi HN,
So i've just launched Make Us Proud. I've been working at Apple for the last 2 years, and now i'm finally living out my dream.

I'd love to offer our services up to you guys in the HN community.

Happy to take any questions or comments
ugh, if someone will make plugin for haskell — it will be amazing. I'm so glad for clojure community.
Hi Guys! I am the developer of the myNoise website and just want to say that all your comments are a great source of inspiration today: many suggestions for further improvements will be taken into account! Although I did entirely code the website by my own using a simple text editor, I am not a programmer, in the sense that I never learned how to program efficiently and beautifully. Multiplatform issues, and mobile browsers in particular, are driving me crazy ;-) And yes... I feel a bit "naked" now as some of you are digging into my website code with much expertise. Please be indulgent! ;-) Cheers, Stephane
I did get all that, I was just commenting on the crazy numbering scheme. It's just as silly as the third XBox being called the XBox One.

Even though it's a perl project and not perl itself, making it sound like version numbers can only serve to confuse things further, when Perl is already suffering problems from version numbers.
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If you're interested in whether the Cursive functionality can be integrated into Vim, the answer is no - it relies on a lot of the functionality of the IntelliJ platform. As AndreasFrom mentioned, the IdeaVim bindings are meant to be really good, but I don't use them myself.
John Linquist's videos give a simple direct introduction to AngularJS and showcase the capabilities of WebStorm:

https://www.youtube.com/user/johnlindquist

They were helpful to me as demonstrations of building simple Angular Apps from the ground up and compelling enough that I bothered to shell out a few bucks for the IDE (the first one I purchased in years).
Pure fusion weapons also essentially destroy current non-proliferation efforts, which are mainly built around controlling access to fissile materials, and only secondarily some technologies.
Hey, this is what the "Motion" buttons does, although the slider do not move in a visible way.