skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Google does not have my credit card and I don't want to give it to them. Amazon already has it. Just like I prefer to use PayPal when I can to avoid giving a new online merchant my credit card directly, I could now use Amazon for that purpose.

If I hadn't ever created a PayPal account in the first place then I would have no motivation to make one. With Amazon I already give them the credit card info to make purchases on Amazon. PayPal is just a middle-man so I have no reason to use them already.

Well, except that PayPal lets you receive payments too. Now that I think about it, I believe I created my PayPal account originally to accept payment for a website job. Only later did I add my credit card to make eBay purchases. So I can't completely replace my PayPal account with Amazon services yet.
Since I know practically nothing of birds in depth, how do they sleep during these extended flights? Or is bird "sleep" something different?
Tilda-like keyboard shortcuts for any Ubuntu process
Well, that's correct; Nevertheless, I think people should have been reminded that Gini coefficient exists someplace ITT.
But in a situation like that, you could just annotate the type. In Haskell:

add :: Int -> Int -> Int
add a b = a + b
I get you. But while we're all complaining about this let me point out that I use and love Anvil. Thanks!
Starting a hardware company is definitely something that takes a lot of planning since there are so many components that go into it
Wow, if that's the guy talked about the in the article then i'm not surprised they're being legislated against. They're doing some really dangerous stuff there; like flying over a bridge with dense traffic on it, then swooping down between the lanes; or doing a high-speed approach on a traffic intersection with people on it, then accelerating towards a glass front building and pulling up with little time to spare.
Unrelated to the article, very cool bit of animation on the site's header. I like it!
lack of higher kinded types,

If you know about kinding, you probably understand that type system design really has to go hand-in-hand with language design. Introducing those kinds of breaking changes now is incredibly difficult, unfortunately.

As far as boilerplate goes, though, I can't promise anything but I can say that we hear you and this is something that could get attention in the near future.
A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
This looks very useful. I had not realized it until now, but a CL-to-URL upload/download service is something I always unconsciously desired. Encryption is a nice bonus.

(My personal preference would be to deploy the service on my own VPS, though.)
Maybe. They've got a lot riding on these things being secure, a bit of money now is probably a lot better than lots of money later. A lot of companies probably have the same risk/reward, but can't place it neatly in a budget.

This may also be part of reaching out to developers, and gaining some trust back. They've probably taken quite a hit recently, and I think they've somewhat relied on being the cool place to work.
You Might Want To Punch Him In The Face But Silicon Valley Needs Him Right Now
Did you know that Eclipse had its roots in VisualAge, a Smalltalk IDE?
You want Cygwin.

("Cygwin - Don't leave Unix without it!")
I'd actually like one a bit bigger, like 14" or 15", with touchscreen, and which dual-boots standard Linux and Android, both as first-class citizens (you can usually hack Linux booting via chroots into Android devices, but I'd rather just have the dual-booting supported at the BIOS level with no goofy hacks).

I would buy the hell out of a system like this.
I don't hate it, I just find it hilarious to have stuff like == and === ; the old 'mysql_real_escape' (I think now fixed) and other stuff like that.

I wouldn't want to engage in a big project in a language as unstable as that.
that's tempting (well, in some ways - there have also been good times, with these people, they're not monsters...), but we're in a fairly small niche. maybe we need to expand. in which case, i guess maybe we're looking for resources on how to shift into other areas of development, get new clients, etc?
There are several ways to find meaning in the results. I claim it is a(some what sloppy, non scientific) measurement of PL bias in the HN community.
And that doesn't even begin to touch the amounts of cash big banks will make on carbon credit trade.
That makes sense. It's funny because their Prime VOD selection still isn't comparable to Netflix, so I never use it.

Their likely too busy making money hand over fist on EC2.
What Every Startup Can Learn from Sushi
It really depends whether he plays a game that warns about it. The dashboard only warns about a Moderate NAT if you run a network test. Of the games I played, only Halo 3 warned about Moderate NAT. Halo 4 doesn't bother anymore.

So I don't think he's not "very informed." He's the normal player base. I don't even bother setting up NAT anymore and it works fine, even though I know I should go through the rigmarole of doing it.
So how exactly would you communicate, share files and information if you were organizing an uprising for example?

You can't always physically transport those files, and sometimes it may be more dangerous to do so (if you are wanted person for example). You also have issue if you are having those files transported cross border then you may get border issues (Philip Greewalds partner being help in UK). For speed and ease, it would have to be via the internet somehow. For higher security, it would have to be non-network connected computers and via USB. For even higher security it would be non-computer but then I would have to memorise everything and I don't have a photographic memory :(

I'm not sure what I would do in this case either tbh.
I guess this article is here because someone mentioned it earlier today on the bird thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528099

(In drone vs. bird I'm all for UAVs! ;). I know that birds are more advanced / sophisticated pieces of technology, but drones are ours, made by humans. Regardless of all the unfortunate military application, I feel proud for humanity that we keep on inventing more and more amazing things.)
A different species, a different insane record, and different technology, but also discovered only because of advances in the miniaturization of electronics: some arctic terns fly 90.000 km in about 9 months (http://ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_abstract.php?lang=uk&nr=4099).
Obamacare backend code?
Zip file at the bottom of the page...
Thanks!

It's probably also worth noting specifically that CloudFlare offers some JS optimization/preloading features: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer

One is in beta and one is for Pro accounts only.
We seem to be having completely different arguments. At no point did I say there was no demand for Obamacare. I'm saying the government has shown a remarkable level of incompetence at running what's essentially a simple lead gen website. I'm also suggesting that this probably doesn't bode well for the successful administration of the program.

Regarding your second point, it's become somewhat of a meme in the press that no reporter has been able to verify or interview a single Obamacare sign up. That's what I'm referring to - not that I myself haven't by chance come across such an interview.
> Aerodynamically, flight is vastly less efficient at smaller scales because the air molecules remain the same size.

What also counts is wing size relative to air swirls/bubbles/thermals ... turbulence in general.
HN porn.
As a side note, I dislike the use of the term "transpiled."

A compiler is a program which translates between two programming languages. CoffeeScript -> JavaScript is just compilation. There is no need for a new word.
It actually went up to 60% because most of the gains since the great recession began in 2008 have gone to the top 1%:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6b27nnmdGg
Closures as a form of encapsulation is actually very lispy. Simula introduced classes while Sketchpad introduced prototypes (predates Simula by 5 years), so both were very much proto OO in that sense. But if it makes you feel any better, we could define proto OO just to mean OO before that was a term anyone invented.
Many people new to IRC feel the need to immediately take their questions to private message. Much of the same logic the blog makes about personal email apply to personal messages on IRC - don't do it unless you've got a really good reason to do so.
This is a stunt RC helicopter doing stunts, has carbon fiber blades, was being flown wrecklessly, etc.
Doesn't appear it's only Chrome that gets it "wrong," as it is _only_ IE that gets it "right."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE... writes:

URLUtils.host
Is a DOMString representing the hostname and port
(if it's not the default port) in the referenced URL.

But it implements https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLUtils (experimental), which writes:

URLUtils.host
Is a DOMString containing the host, that is the hostname,
a ':', and the port of the URL.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/people/what-is-...
"The real problem is finding a laptop that isn't built like crap"

The other day I went to Best Buy with the intent of buying a non-Apple laptop to make it easier for me to do some Windows development. I left empty handed after being appalled by the bulky plastic machines I found. It felt like the PC laptop industry hadn't evolved in the last 10 years since I switched to Macs. They did get somewhat thinner and nicer at the high end, but then I was getting no price benefit over just buying a Mac.
Well, as usual, Google's immediate help -- via a search pop-up from the Account settings page that links to the page where this setting is presented; there is no help linked/provided on the actual page -- is useless.

Searching from the Google home page, I ran across this chain of links. It still provides no description of whether/when this setting is activated. As my tab, bookmark, etc. settings did not carry over automatically to this instance of Chrome when I started using it, I am brought to conclude that this morning's annoying and unwelcome pop-up did indeed turn on this synchronization setting for my account. And that the thereupon/thereafter presented "Undo" button was bullshit -- it didn't undo the synchronization setting.

Full account access for Chrome

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/G...

wherein a respondent links

Why sign in to Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?hl=en
Tell HN: 'd' Shortcut - Full screen compose window in GMail
A common complaint of the "recent" GMail redesign was the small compose window. My muscle memory failed me today and I hit the 'd' key to delete a message. To my surprise a full screen compose window opened in a new tab. This shortcut has probably been available forever but I just found it today and figured others might benefit from this as well. It also doesn't have a lot of the GMail elements (chat, tags, etc), making it a rather nice distraction free way to compose email.

NOTE: You must have shortcuts enabled in your settings for this to work
What does it look like for you? It looks neat to me, but it doesn't seem to expand wide enough to fit all the text in my browser (Luakit on Arch Linux.)
This looks like Amazon's answer to BizSpark[0] which includes three years of free software, etc. including $60K worth of Azure services for two years[1].

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/plus/default.aspx
Completely guessing here, but I suppose it's the same sort of involuntary control you have over your body during sleep that keeps you from wetting yourself or rolling off the bed in the middle of the night.
Michael Scott Explanation of Bitcoins please?
http://vimeo.com/27060669

Can someone explain bitcoins to me and how to exchange the for read money like I'm a little kid?

Thanks!!!
Why Consumers Didn't Care About Apple's Touch ID Getting Hacked
"technical" roadblocks like many routers in production punt IPv6 processing to their control plane, crashing performance?

There's lots of magic happening behind the scenes that'll suddenly collapse with such an influx of new users. See also: AT&T when the iPhone came out and proved their data capacity to be insufficient.
'Humans have pushed the Earth into a new era'
It all depends on the quality of tap water - there are locations where tap water is pretty much the same as bottled water, and there are locations where tap water isn't considered drinkable unless boiled beforehand.
SoftLayer has been doing something like this for a while now, $1k/month of free hosting:

http://www.softlayer.com/partners/catalyst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(non-human)#Birds:

"A peculiarity that birds share with aquatic mammals, and possibly also with certain species of lizards (opinions differ about that last point), is the ability for unihemispheric sleep. That is the ability to sleep with one cerebral hemisphere at a time, while the other hemisphere is awake"

In other words: the brain has two CPUs, and they switch off only one at a time.
Hasn't the Oyua shown that most Android apps are pretty terrible if not used on a touchscreen device? For the features you want, it's going to be comparably priced to a $1000 Surface Pro.
Why would you take Kay's definition of OOP as gospel. To me, OOP is all about thinking and coding in terms of object metaphors. Everything else is a supporting detail.
Not really. Thunder clouds usually top out around 60.000 feet. There are some wind phenomena that could reach this high, but mostly I think it's calm at this altitude. The air is so thin you would have to have very strong winds for there to be a problem.
Yup. Going by their numbers, that's easily tens of thousands of serial rapists / harassers on the government payroll. Well beyond the scale of say, what the Catholic Church has pulled off in recent decades.

Main difference being, of course, that our society tacitly believes that if you're in jail:

(1) you must have done something wrong, otherwise you wouldn't be there.

(2) therefore, on some level you pretty much deserve whatever happens to you there, right?

(3) and if it does you can go ahead and whine about it, but we're not going to scratch our heads over what happens to anyone sorry enough to land find themselves in the 2.3 million-strong population of our internal gulag (ah, "correctional") system, anyway.
Hiring Diamonds in the Rough
I hope he prevails. There's room for commercialization of drones.

Remember the Internet was not allowed to engage in commerce which was understandable as it was in research development back then. Took an Act of Congress to move it along.

I can see this happening hopefully but within a reasonable regulatory framework. How reasonable remains to be seen.
1) his comment was a reasonable paraphrase.

2) if you'd said "many" instead of "most" your later points would hold better. What basis, aside from hopefulness, do you have for assuming that most people who have a bias against php haven't used it? After HTML, CSS, and JavaScript it is the most ubiquitous language for the web: ergo, most web people have probably had exposure to it.

My bias: I hate php. I've deployed a few dozen sites that use it over the years.
Akaros - open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures
it's brand new, so may be a little buggy. screenshot?
References are nullable by default (IIRC Hejlsberg himself would do this different if he could)

Yeah I think we all would.
Registration Is Open for CouchDB Conf, Nov 13th
I switched a few months ago and it's been great. I was afraid I was going to have to switch away, since we're going to be out of the country a lot next year. I'm super happy to be able to stick with them now.
Mozilla Raindrop, now inactive used to do that. https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/raindrop/
With IPv6, there's no need for NAT and insecure, unreliable hacks like UPnP to break through it. Having worked in tech support for a major video game company I can say it's a serious problem, especially for people with crappy provider-supplied routers.
"I haven't read the book"

That could be a useful prelude to writing about it.
What happens when you break your site’s daily usage record… by 10x?  (Fundfill)
A retrospective on what happens when your site suddenly gets loads of traffic. Are you prepared? Here's what went right and what didn't with Fundfill's biggest day.
Sorry if this is unrelated, but you've reminded me of a band I used to like (Atom and his Package) and his song "Me and my Black Metal Friends":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFbfrNkn_s
smart words. making sweeping claims about nearly anything is real dumb.
the Walmart heirs' wealth is still equal to the combined net worth of the bottom 28%, which translates to about 33 million households.

Let's assume the Walmart heirs acquired that money in absolutely the worst possible way: They went out and flat stole it from these 33 million households. If you took it from the Waltons and gave it all back, each of those households would receive a whopping $3,000 on average. Now, that's not nothing, but as a one time "refund" of wealth generated over decades it's not particularly impressive. If your household of four is at the poverty line, it would up your income by about 15% for one year.

And of course they didn't steal it. And I suspect that over only a decade (Walmart has been in business generating that wealth for five), the average low net worth household probably saved much, much more than $3,000 by shopping at Walmart. That's a win-win, and it's how an economy grows.
To be fair, in a lot of those "curvature of the earth" pictures, the apparent curvature comes from the wide-angle lens more than actual curvature of the earth.
Well, if someone doesn't want to pay for health insurance they should either have to pay out of pocket when they have to go to the emergency room, or not receive medical attention at all.

Since we've collectively made the choice to not turn away people who show up to the emergency room, here we are. I'd be all for axing the individual mandate if we decided to shut people out of the emergency room.

On balance, it seems far more humane to go with the individual mandate and penalties than it does to let poor people die on hospital door steps. Although it is possible that after people realize a ignominious death awaits them if they don't buy health insurance, maybe everyone will be scared into buying it.
Aha! That was a bit buried on their website.
I'd suggest that these guys are personalities that learn how to survive in the current climate regardless what that climate happens to be.

Well said. And that's a great skill to have. (I often wish I had more of it.)
"I would rather be on a flight, where I know that the pilots dies with me, should they fail in their appointed task of controlling the aircraft strapped to their bodies.

Similarly, if an aircraft suddenly falls from the sky and lands on my head, my death would be a slightly happier affair for my family, so long as they know the person charged with it's stewardship was also killed (or at least injured) by the accident."

If the cause of the accident is pilot error, then sure. But what about everyone else who has direct impact on the safety of your flight (i.e. mechanics, air traffic control, etc). They share much of the responsibility for the soundness of your aircraft, but are only restrained by their conscience and possible legal recourse.
being poor is a very bad business policy

I contend the reverse is more often the case: bad [personal] business policy is a primary (though not exclusive) cause of poverty. The smarter you are with money, the easier it is to acquire more of it; likewise the reverse.

Pretty much everyone understands the primary principle: spending > revenue has, on the whole, obvious results. Rectify that. Yes, you can...you must.
So there are a few steps here. First

parser.href = url;

causes the URL to be parsed. When URLs are parsed, the spec [1] says:

2. If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port, set buffer to the empty string.

3. Set url's port to buffer.

Then the host is serialized. Here the spec says:

2. If port is the empty string, return host, serialized.

Since is is the empty string in the case where the port is the default port, no port should be appended on output, even if there was one there on input (serializing host doesn't magically append a port).

I'm not really clear why this normalise function is needed at all though? Origin should be string comparable?

[1] http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#port-state

[2] http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-url-host
> Tell me what can do ChromeOS that Android cant do?

Boot up fast. Never get malware. Never get bogged down by a process running in the background. ChromeOS is the OS-level version of "Worse is better". The ultimate "just works" zero-maintenance device. Android keeps demanding more and more hardware to stay performant, ChromeOS is comparatively light.

That said, I'm always surprised that Google maintains 2 OS's (plus their internal Goobuntu distro). Remember that Android wasn't really suitable for this until Android 4 - no landscape mode, no Chrome browser... even now, Android's home-screen looks rather ugly in landscape since the app icons are terribly spaced. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll be looking to discontinue ChromeOS as Android gets better features in that space.

The big failing is that Android's app space is fixated on touch, and reaching out to touch a laptop touchscreen sucks.
> No. China is a divided country today, if you believe the official view of both the P.R.C. and R.O.C. regimes about Taiwan as a territory of China

> If one accepts a Marxist framework of economic determinism, as many social scientists in China continue to do, the break-up of Yugoslavia was all but inevitable once regional economic disparities became as great as they were in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

I said "China proper," not "the current borders of China, including Taiwan and Tibet and all the other acquisitions over the years."

I also said that China proper had a "tradition of unification," not "uninterrupted existence as a unified state." They may split apart from time to time, but they keep coming back together.

I find it strange that you keep bringing up the "Marxist framework of economic determinism." The Marxists like to view the world through a narrow lens of economics and class struggle. This is not necessarily wrong -- but it doesn't give them the full picture.

Slovenia and Croatia were not just the richest republics in Yugoslavia. They'd also been ruled by the Habsburgs for 400 years, used the Latin alphabet, and felt a greater affinity towards Western Europe than towards their brother Slavs. And as for economic determinism, why did every other Yugoslav republic also break away? Bosnia and Macedonia are quite close to Serbia in per-capita GDP.

Yes, Yugoslavia had a 4-1 ratio in per-capita GDP among its constituent parts, and so does China. But so does Mexico. So does Brazil. So does India. If those countries haven't broken up, then clearly economics sometimes takes a back seat to other factors, like ethnicity and nationalism.
You might remember our website problems from this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6522973
Having done network game console programming before, I can tell you that dealing with some guy's random NAT was a huge problem. There are scores of people living in apartment flats with high-speed internet connections that happened to have everyone in the building behind an extremely obnoxious non-full cone NAT. Having to do NAT traversal with some of the weird building or carrier level NATs is a huge headache and in the long term isn't sustainable.
Ah, so IE must implement the experimental version while no one else does?