skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are smart enough you can make every code fit your need and reach the code quality you need.

JS weakly typed ? Seriously learn on how to adapt your coding style. I've built more than 20 API/Apps and Node is the best thing I ever had to build networked apps.
I have a J2EE/Spring, Python and RoR background, NodeJS/NPM took the best of every stuff created before.

In my case, I need to be fast and JS + NodeJS + his awesome community permits me to build stable, innovative solutions and high performance networked app in a very short amount of time.

We are in a world of inter-connected apps. NodeJS is for that.
Adapt yourself.

I need hacker modules to accomplish and solves problems of my current worlds, hacker offers me that.

NodeJS is great and lot of thing I read before was old school shit.

And BTW, yes a lot of logic must be delegated to the client side. This is a trend and it will not be stopped. Rendering page server side, qu'est ce que je peux pas entendre comme connerie parfois.
It's analogous to Python 2/3 except Perl 6 has lacked the progress to allow Perl to live in a two branch world.

It kinda sucks from a PR standpoint since Perl 5 has been under active development the entire time and had been importing a lot of the good ideas from Perl 6.
> He'd likely be a free man if he were in Croatia or Kazakhstan.

You're talking out of your ass. As a person who was born in Croatia and lived there for almost 25 years I can tell you that Croatia has been extraditing people left and right for years now.

I don't know what kind of lawless country you're imagining, but in reality Croatia is subject to EU laws, cooperates with lots of international institutions, has very strict anti-drug laws and there is no way an international criminal of DPR's profile would ever be safe there. I've seen my friends go down and get criminal records over a few grams of weed... DPR would have someone knocking on his door as soon as his cover was blown.

Ex-soviet countries would be a much safer bet as they don't seem to want to cooperate with US authorities (Snowden et al). Central America might also be a good bet, but then you risk getting killed by the cartels for undermining their business model, if they ever find out who you are.
It has the word "nuclear" in it, so the crazies will hate it no matter what it is.
New York and San Francisco tend to have powerful tenant protection laws. I'm kind of curious - what would the legal situation be if someone rented an apartment on airbnb and then refused to leave, insisting that he or she is now a tenant and demanding that the landlord go through standard eviction proceedings (which I believe requires valid "cause" in San Francisco)? Does anyone know if this has been litigated?
Sorry this post offended you. We're asking for like minded people who had a similar problem to get in touch. "Show HN" and "Offer HN" didn't seem fitting since we're not linking to our site.

You're right that it'd be better if there was some discussion happening here but I've found that it's difficult to discuss specifics of PR problems in public while avoiding naming names. How would you phrase a question like this to encourage a conversation?
Pretty good one from @whichlight Reddit Network Vis with D3: https://github.com/whichlight/reddit-network-vis
Weirdly enough, or maybe not so weirdly enough, I agree with most of the assertions made here: It's unethical to subdue to a bad law. Ghandi and Marx supported this Thesis too.

But then, we need to define what is a bad law. In this case I don't considering selling drugs, guns and illegal substances online ethical by any means. Not to mention the tax evasion which hurts all of us.

So, what does "unethical" mean in this context? Can be universally measured somehow?
That was already figured out in the story comments of the first link.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4812630/fox-news-shepard-s...
I don't know if you are trying to be serious at this point or not. Google has millions (literally) of machines with dozens of cores each. Search is their business that makes all the money.

Google executes JavaScript and renders the full DOM for every page internally. They generate full length screenshots of every page and have pointers to where text appears on the page so they can do highlighting of phrases within the screenshot.

It isn't even a debatable question if Google reuses the Chrome engine to do this.
I've read every word of every legal document I've found and had pointed out to me, and am probably closing in on having done so twice.

I am not convinced that the Dread Pirate Roberts cited ordering killings is the same Dread Pirate Roberts of the libertarian vision and expansive writings to that end. Reading an essay on Ross's Facebook account, I'm convinced that if he was Dread Pirate Roberts, he wasn't the only person using that moniker.

Part of the purpose of this documentation archive is to facilitate comparative linguistic analysis (stylometry) to demonstrate the Multiple Dread Pirates Roberts Theory (https://www.rossulbricht.org/multiple-dread-pirates-roberts-...)

“[The Dread Pirate] Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. ‘I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts’ he said. ‘My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia. Then he explained the name was the important thing, for inspiring the necessary fear. You see, no one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley.”

– Dread Pirate Roberts IV, The Princess Bride
I checked your profile but didn't see your email. My email's in my profile, feel free to reach out.
Hi beginagain,
the truth lies somewhere in between. It shows courage and it seems a good idea that you're looking for help or encouraging words from others in order to understand your situation better. Now, for what I see, you already took a decision, didn't you?

"So I'm 31, and decided to change careers".
That's the first step.

Now, 22 hours ago you might have had a bad day but hey, you already decided to change careers - so, that's all you and we and everyone needs to know. Many people with a CS degree will never start or work at a startup as well as many others with an engineer degree will never invent a new machine or technology. Many people will live and die and never have a year's salary in their savings account. It doesn't make them better or worse, some decisions you take, some others life takes for you.

But as you don't seem to be living neither in Bangladesh nor Sierra Leone, you're in the wonderful position to just give it a try. Shine a little bit, give it a try and have a look if it works out. If it does fine, if you think you have committed sincereously to it but can't find the strength to go ahead, it's okay as well.
Just do something else.

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
what makes you think he is telling the truth? The basic virtue of his character?
GP is trying to make decisions, or help others make them. Granted, they should have specified the US or something, but don't act like an incident in Iran should be relevant to their own risk assessment, or to anyone else not living in Iran.
You make a good point, but that's also a shortcoming of all of the purely computational techniques. I think the most you can hope for is 'democratizing' the computational methods, i.e. making them non-parallelizable.

Taking gwern's idea, what if the homomorphic computation is just incrementing your input repeatedly inside of a loop? It seems like that might be hard to parallelize. Or at least, I don't know enough to assume otherwise.
Because prevents chaos from happening and chaos in my cosmo-theory is a bad thing for the human species.
Ah, okay, cool!

I remember this being announced a while back, but I didn't understand why it was significant if the energy in was less than the energy out. This article helps to clear it up.

The missing piece was that I didn't understand how this reactor works. I thought they just blasted a lot of lasers directly at the hydrogen isotopes. Instead, it seems like that use the lasers to shoot something else, which then creates a lot of x-rays which actually start the reaction.

The significant thing here is that the energy produced is greater than the amount of energy coming in from the X-rays, but not the lasers which power those X-rays.

Is that correct? (Not surprisingly, I'm not a physicist!)
It's hard to find tech specs on the Perspective Pixel displays, but at least one source† says they are 1920x1080. The idea of doing lots of text-oriented work sitting inches away from a 55" 1080p monitor sounds horrible, but I guess it makes for good TV.

† http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2819660
I can only assume this is satire. At least, I hope, this is satire. This is a store-bought dildo with an interesting hack added on.
Indeed. The alternative would be "we have no evidence that B is happening, therefore we can conclude that it is more likely to be happening than if we had evidence that it was happening."
The wisdom of that could be argued either way, and almost certainly depends on context.

In this specific case however, he isn't advertising that he is subverting the state, so far as I can tell? what am I missing?
I don't get why writers try to abuse copyright law to artificially constrain the disbursement of their material. I know anything I've written (fantastic internet rants for the most part, but also code) I'd try to get out to as many people as possible. Emailing everyone a copy of my book would not take more than seconds effort, yet publishers treat it as a limiting factor, when distribution just isn't.

Instead, I'd attach a donation link, except rather than say "please give me $$ for beer" I'd say "please give me $$ so I can write my next book rather than sweep floors". Charge for the expense, and with the exception of an initial ice breaker to get visibility, you have access to the same potential capital, except more, because it is a variable rate. You could see your big fans throwing thousands at you a piece. Even with a 1% conversion rate, having 1000x the audience because your material is free and open would mean more long term sustainability.

I'm not saying don't pay for the dead tree that cost 50c to chop and 30c to print on, that has a marginal cost per unit. But when you are passing around digital material all the time, it is absurd to be trying to bill per unit like its scarce.
Yeah, that is just bar room banter between nerds. I've stood next to unprotected racks of Akamai servers and nothing happened.

Nobody really builds systems where an HVAC engineer walking into your cage to move a cooling tile will cause an outage, they just love to talk about how they would build them.
https://www.scantosecure.com/%2Fblog%2F9-common-security-mis...
I can think of two off the top of my head. Low temperature plasma processing (used in semiconductor fab) got it start as the-mess-created-when-a-plasma-confinement-experiment-fails. Adaptive optics were developed for high intensity lasers and are now used in telescopes.
This is a global issue with Windows, not with Visual Studio. If you use these "new" APIs to write above MAX_PATH [1], the file system will obey you, but tons of other tools will not. One of these minor tools is Windows Explorer![2].

So if you updated Visual Studio to support it, a ton of other tooling and UX would fail. This needs to be a corporate wide, product wide, and 3rd party initiative. The scale of which is likely not worth the result.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

[2] I don't heavily use Windows anymore, but when I tested < Windows 8 machines with > MAX_PATH, Explorer did not work.
“In the 1970s New York City was not a part of the United States at all. It was an offshore interzone with no shopping malls, few major chains, no golf courses, no subdivisions. We thought of the place as a free city, where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter. Downtown we were proud of this, naturally.”

Luc Sante, Low Life.

Interview here:
http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_sante
I doubt he's gonna make it. I think it was just thrown out there as an idea.
LPP is planning a crowdfunding campaign for their DPF experiment, so you'll be able to support them soon if you like. http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=c...
Further, I seem to recall him saying explicitely that he was not the first user of the moniker and that he inherited the site... however - that is either untrue, or a false memory on my part.

I believe this was from his reddit AMA?
One could, however, argue that Thomas Jefferson had some valid points on democracies and the running therof. And it's him that V for Vendetta was riffing off:

“A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”
I'm not really concerned about name clashes more about the fact that it's a pretty confusing and illogical name.
> The culture of it does. When all of the code around you is objects-as-design-pattern bad-abstraction slop, you're going to think that's the right way to do it. Which for a certain value of "right" it may be, but it still sucks. You can write "good" Java, but it's still going to be more expansive and harder to read than good C# (which aggressively trims back Java design pattern crap) or good Scala (which goes way, way further).

There is no "Culture of Java" that forces you to write over-abstracted code, and it's not really that much harder to write good code in Java. Java is a tool. Sure, it has flaws, but they're not so bad that they force you to write really bad code. With Java I've never felt forced to overarchitect anything just to get it to work. Of course, I have often felt constrained by the lack of expressiveness in the language, but a lot of that will be fixed in Java 8.
When they prep for production they should send a sample to Oh Joy Sex Toy -- ohjoysextoy.com -- where they've been complaining about the lack of a sex toy that can read your mind for quite a while now.
Have you tried similar frameworks like Derby (http://derbyjs.com/)? If so, can you compare your experiences?
Sure and no one does it better than Goldman Sachs or the 7 sister companies rating Lehman triple As just minutes before its crash.

Private third party is good, especially if you are the one who pays for the assignment. It accidentally delivers what suits you better, who would have thought?
I have no opinion on how realistic all the talk about ordering "hits" is or if that was all a farce, but it seems likely to me if Ross Ulbricht wasn't the "real" DPR or if there were multiple active official DPRs, the "real" DPR or one of the other active ones would have posted an online message using DPR's known PGP signature by now, either to cast doubt on the arrest, or just to thumb their nose at the government.
He's not good with qualifiers, but he's at least working hard to research complex issues and, for goodness sake, the man even uses references!

I'd say no reference it pretty much better than distorting the overall state of research. (Edit: Also Gladwell isn't researching at all, he's reading research and presenting it, just FYI).

Sure, everyday debate and everyday judgement involves continuously formulating and using unproven, unscientific beliefs. But at least we should be aware when someone is doing that. Arbitrary judgement that just presents itself as arbitrary judgement, that you have strong to examine yourself, it better than dubious positions that present themselves as Proven By Science.
So by that logic he's somewhat less (potentially) guilty because there's only one (potentially real) transcript of him ordering a hit? Perhaps I'm just not understanding what you're attempting to say.
You're talking about 'The Fold' and it's a myth - http://blog.kissmetrics.com/why-the-fold-is-a-myth/

It doesn't really matter if there's content below the page height, just that you ensure users see they have the affordance to scroll.
The most successful selling model for apps by far is in-app purchases. Whether for games items or for a more powerful app. The strategy is always to get your customers' foot in the door first and then give them the option to get more. On the other hand selling an app for a fixed amount does reduce purchases.

This is the problem for conversion rates. Most pay-walls are all or nothing. The New York Times currently allows me to read a page referral but asks me to sign up when I try to navigate elsewhere which is smart but probably not good enough.

I understand your stance on low conversion rates for pay-walls but the problem lies in what users perceive as value. In-app purchases work when users want more however news sites try to sell an all or nothing. I think the right approach to increase conversion rates is when publishers learn from FarmVille.

That being said, the value of Bitcoin is that it allows anyone to buy/sell without going through legal processes. I for one live in Lebanon and I can't for example sell paid apps (only free apps) in Google Play which means I'm not a publisher. The primary reason for that is financial law and what have you. Bitcoin simply bypasses all that allowing anyone to be a publisher or consumer. For newspapers they even can rely less on advertising and start focusing on what users are willing to pay for instead on what hype gets users to click through. What I'm trying to say is that Bitcoin frees publishers from local regulations while allowing them to be international on day one, but the problem is the sales approach not the selling value. The proof is in the pudding: in-app purchases.
Scripted Colony - sci-fi game that teaches Python
This is a great hack if only to illustrate that EEG devices are consumer friendly enough to be integrated into a variety of products.

About the only company in this space that makes super high end intimate products is LELO. The rest of market is served by low end items shipped from China.
Just take the word "nuclear" out, like they did with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. No one will ever suspect a thing ;)
Nice write up, so you're saying that even though you can push the limits of Ethernet locally, it won't help you once you hit a router.

I would love to have access to a Gbps connection to the internet... stuck with my 15Mbps ADSL.
Find out how many social shares a URL has?
The problem is that a Newspaper isn't Candy Crush.... in Candy Crush you can either pay or beg your friends. If it's news an alternative source is just a google away.

Frankly the mere fact that you are making that comparison tells me you don't understand the market at all.
The TrueCrypt devs are unknown, operating under anonymity.
Why not have prosecutors be civil servants, as in most civil law countries?
We would have bought some at $dayjob but their Linux support required coding against a proprietary API. We'd like a nice big interactive display (e.g. take a wacom, make it big) that works on Linux. No custom APIs, please; if your hardware needs special bits please improve the Linux ecosystem and contribute them there.

Apologies if this has changed since we demoed them, but those were my notes at the time.
Next step: Nullsoft-esque llama jokes about Llarry Wall.

(see also: http://books.google.com/books/about/Learning_Perl.html?id=va... )
The men who set themselves on fire
Animation to Explain CSS Triangles
Rpgjs: Create your own role playing game in the browser
Oh, you do have a lot to learn about teledildonics, my friend!

It is the future of sexual expression. Probably. Unfortunately?
If reliable fusion technology were developed, would the government share it with the public or would it be kept hidden away?

Sadly I'm not joking. I think there's a 50-50 chance that any cool science that gets development by the U.S. government just becomes a classified DoD missile project.
+1 for long distance relationships! Nice EEG hack. Congrats on winning “Most Likely To Come [To Market] Tomorrow!”
Show HN: SpeedCurve - monitor front-end performance and benchmark against others
On the article itself: why did it take 6 paragraphs of text to finally mention what the milestone was? I hate this style of article writing, and it's usually a good bullshit-signal for any story. That's a shame, because it looks like this is the Real Thing (in a small way).
Agreed. I dont think you do.
Yes, seriously.

http://php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php
Their initial pitch started along the lines of "where else can we present this appropriately other than an all adult female hardware hackathon" and the conversation was fairly technical, and mature. I was skeptical at first as well, thinking "hello double standards."
The OP is a 16 year old from Belarus...
Just laughed at that - I just scanned a patient who was concerned about the radiation dose from the MR scanner in front if me.
Better yet let's get one of those growth hackers on it.
Tried that recently. Doesn't work. A product needs all the attention, and switching between two is very difficult, specially during the early stages which are critical for customer development and growth.

There's a reason why successful startup founders with a wide portfolio are called serial entrepreneurs, not parallel entrepreneurs.
hashtag nextgenpower!
Sorry, I thought my contact was visible in my profile (it is to me). You can contact me directly at brer.frank at gmail. I'm also in the Bay Area if anyone wants to meet up to talk in person.
Somebody has to pay to host the thing, run it and so forth.
Like antibiotic resistance bacteria, if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests (no matter what the cause or how worthy they might be).
There was not an overall net gain.

Direct from the source http://1.usa.gov/1e4Na9Q.

8 kJ out from 1.7 MJ (1700 kJ) in. At the end of the month they were able to get 14 kJ. I believe they are referring to the energy released within the hohlraum.

Also, if you are interested there are privately funded companies doing this, General Fusion (http://www.generalfusion.com/) and TriAlpha Energy (secretive and funded by the Russian govt., but in California). The VC fund I work for has invested in GF and obviously we think there is promise :)
I had fun playing with this. Are you going to add some authentication in the future to prevent malicious editing?
It's obviously satire, everyone knows that only female bodies are subject to the natural instinct of objectification.
Lasers gets fired at the inner surface of a cylinder (called a hohlraum). The laser heat the surface of the hohlraum which then emits x-rays. The x-rays then deposit energy on the surface of a spherical capsule (this is the "energy absorbed" number).

You start with ~2,000 kJ of laser energy, but some of that gets "backscattered" and never makes it into the hohlraum. Other energy is spent heating the walls of the cylinder. Additionally, some of the x-rays leak out of the hohlraum and do not drive the capsule implosion. After all these losses are taken into account, only about 15 kJ is absorbed in the capsule.
It is an important milestone. But to have a commercially viable fusion reactor, you'll need a factor of 50-100 more energy out than in to make up for inefficiencies in electricity generation using this kind of scheme.

The real story here is that this facility allows the US to do nuclear weapons research without violating the nuclear test ban treaty. If the goal was to develop a commercially viable fusion reactor, the $3,500,000,000 spent so far could have been put into projects geared towards small scale fusion experiments investigating novel confinement schemes.

Like the one I was working on, http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP07/Event/71002 whose funding has since been cut and has been mothballed.
brer.frank at gmail (updated above)