skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not obligated to do so, but they do have the right to do so. The name Mario is not a trademark itself since common names cannot be trademarked, although product names containing the name Mario are trademarked by Nintendo, such as Super Mario. I think Nintendo has sufficient grounds to sue because this project uses the name Mario in concert with an actual rework of a Nintendo product which itself is copyright. Most likely they won't resort to a lawsuit right away, instead will send a cease and desist.
Facebook 'stalker' tool uses Graph Search for powerful data mining
This is how it used to be. You graduate high school/college and you loose touch with the people who were unimportant, keep in touch with the people who are important.

I don't really see this as a problem. The people who you wouldn't loose contact with are the ones worth focusing on, because it means you actually care about them.
check out http://isbndb.com

http://isbndb.com/book/the_wind_up_bird_chronicles
How to sniff local network traffic on an unrooted Android device
In practice the two feedback loops are generally complementary, and I don't see a real need to nitpick or claim ownership of general terms.
Project Gutenberg is my personal favorite:

http://www.gutenberg.org/
Yes, I do think just that.

Not only about their sex lives, but just about all manner of private things. This is a culture where when you buy a book at a bookstore, they wrap it in a cover for you so that people around you won't know what you are reading.

Many drug stores have extra-opaque dark bags that you can request when you buy stuff you would rather keep private -- don't want the person next to you on the train knowing you have tampons or -- heaven forbid -- hemmhoroid creme. (Of course a small subset of those train riders won't feel any special compunction to hide their 800-page comic book featuring anthropomorphized household appliances coming live at night and raping strangely compliant schoolgirls, but those people are the exception that proves my rule.)

I think the Japanese would be about the least open about the intimate details of their sex lives than basically any modern advanced democratic population.
Could still run? As of MacOS 10.9, Carbon is still supported.
I would have thought so too, until meeting some recent college graduates who did exactly that for a LA based PR firm. HR specifically was one of their 'influence sites' they made sure to hit.
WRT 20 year old supplies, there are pessimistic, yet true, comments to be made WRT the likelihood of the UL registration being fake, or the RFI suppression components being replaced by jumper wires, and value engineering to run hotter to require quicker replacement (electrolytic tech WRT handling heat hasn't improved much.

There is one tiny correction to your post that I can make; the reason why you order SMPS wall arts from China is because there are 20 places to compete on "12 volt, 2.1 mm coaxial jack, 1.5 meter cord" so you can play mfgrs off against each other, but there's not so many places willing to play internal mounting games WRT exactly where each plastic mounting post is located.

IF internal SMPS had something as effectively standardized as NMEA electric motor mounts, then you MIGHT see more internal power supplies because competition would be cheaper.
That's nice (and with the information I want), but I need something that I can download (an .sql, json, xml or even csv)...
>If they notice, they'll probably complain.

They have noticed and have alleged copyright infringement:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/20...
exactly! Fb is useful when you have a long list of friends from different places and phases of your life, like HS, college, summer camps, events, trips, etc. You cant keep in touch with them all the time on chat apps, simply because you dont always have something to talk about. Its nota a "real" friend or not issue, it's simply a matter of not having things to talk about. But on FB, you can come across some interesting post by that person, and connect over that.
Surprised the article didn't mention the original source of the expression - sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, over 50 years ago.
Yes, it's obvious enough that the author specifically calls it out:

> So yes if it's a turnover issue, we could offer the old server at the same price as the new one as an incentive.

It might or might not be correct, but it's an extremely obvious idea.
Yes. If they really mattered to you then the odd sacrifice is not out of the question.
"no children's books"

If we don't teach children to read then the rest of the library is useless.
Skip the narrative and look at the data -- never-smokers who predominately used solid-fuel (which in North America means wood) had a cancer rate of 1.01 (where 1 is the non-solid-fuel incidence of cancer). For their sample size that is a statistically irrelevant difference. And remember these are people who are exposed to burning wood for dozens if not hundreds of days a year, and compare that with the narrative of the article that does the oldest trick of proclaiming that something has an association with carcinogens, therefore it is an unhealthy dangerous.
Yeah, the British are partly the way they are (reserved, standoffish, polite) because they are a small, crowded, island nation. Japan is the same but more so.
Mounted police are surprisingly effective. They're highly visible (you noticed them on your way home, for example). They're useful for crowd control, as the officer is above the crowds. And being chased by an officer on horseback is a memorable experience, which may have a deterrent effect.
Briton is widely used in Britain, e.g. in news articles: "Tokyo destroyed by giant reptile, 3 Britons feared dead"
This has been codified in the Rule of Least Power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
http://www.mashape.com/
True, didn't think about that.
What is the first bit of math that made you realize that math is beautiful?
Using OVH's horrible volume network, backed by their crap support with their servers built from a lot of QC-rejected procs on 5400RPM drives.
> someone education enough
Brilliant.
The text is almost verbatim from a post Oles made a month or so ago. It read someone what like rant, but mostly because Oles apparently can't write in French or English with proper grammar
And what is the point exactly?

What good does to pay a meal for a person that could very much be paying their own meal? They can pay hundreds of dollars for a car, tens of dollars for a full tank of gasoline, yet they can't pay for a 4 dollars Big Mac?

If I had no money the last place for spending it would be on a fast-food place. There is much more you can do with 4 dollars. You can get better and healthier food.

So, instead why not help people who actually can't afford a Big Mac?
live programming of sorts - JavaScript v Spreadsheet - benefits of coding user interactions with a spreadsheet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuxWduDNgVM

because more people are good with a spreadsheet, than programming. Thoughts?
I did actually. Working on the cloud306.com brought me to it. I looked like a hobo.
>I met people using OVH 4 years ago and they told me support wasn't great (I can't confirm this at all!) and that it was usually faster to order a new server and migrate than to wait until a faulty disk was replaced.

This is still pretty much true, especially under their best effort support. I have their higher SLA (<2hour) on several large servers and it still takes them a day or more to get back to me and then a day or more to get the hardware replaced. And now they've introduced a new iteration of servers (which, IMO, was designed to fuck the customers over...they've figured out how to oversell the rack at scale) that was ~20% the cost of the 2012 models of the same servers.
They have an API: http://isbndb.com/api/v1/docs/intro

According to that API intro page, their databases contain over 1.8 million entries for books alone, so the download would be rather big I think.
Right. They are completely orthogonal, and you can have one without the other. This isn't about nitpicking, this is about asserting a clear definition and bring some clarity to this new area, which is just going to flounder if we keep calling orthogonal topics as the same.
The Ocean is Broken
DNS reflection, chargen reflection, and SNMP reflection. You can block them all fairly easily, but you still need enough upstream bandwidth to deal with them.
Why in the world do you think that? You still need to decide how to handle transitions from one tiletype to the other. The exact details of the problem are different, but you won't get away from it.
Witch is worst, in my opinion.
Right. First someone says that isolation is good for adolescencents citing a comedian, you are arguing that mix of external and internal escapism is probably the best as the comic explains. I am not a subject matter expert, but comics are not an authority on psychology for me.
A proper definition of any term should not be consistent with its mis-use. The term from the movie is a ~mis-use, and yet the term as elsewhwere defined (by your quote) is consistent with the mis-use. Its not technically 'false', but it suffers from an 'error of omission', for not having the correct level of granularity (to avoid confusion).
List of all 2 characters .io websites
A simple txt file with all the 2 characters website with .io domain.
I am collecting all the 3 characters .io website also, it's taking time but I won't stop my "crawler". After that? I wanna know all the website with .io domain.
The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio
Its the maple syrup high
Wars aren't overtly fought over resources these days, but the US has spent a lot of money in Iraq and 'stabilizing' the middle east (lot of good it's done). There happens to be oil in that area.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579760
That'd be great if all the people in the UK actually lived in the predominately Southern areas Byron has stores.
Search/replace the word under the cursor in the current paragraph (for <leader>r) or the whole buffer (for <leader>R). Beats the crap out of "multiple cursors" in the typical "change a variable name" example:

nnoremap ,r :'{,'}s/\<<C-r>=expand('<cword>')<CR>\>/
nnoremap ,R :%s/\<<C-r>=expand('<cword>')<CR>\>/

Another approach of the typical "multiple cursors" example, using the beautiful gn command. Hit ,x to "change" the word under the cursor then <Esc> and repeat for the next occurrences with the dot (or n to skip):

nnoremap ,x *``cgn
nnoremap ,X #``cgN

Move to next and previous quickfix error:

nnoremap <End> :cnext<CR>zv
nnoremap <Home> :cprevious<CR>zv

Traverse the buffer list effortlessly:

nnoremap <PageUp> :bp<CR>
nnoremap <PageDown> :bn<CR>

In my lightweight "noplugin" vimrc (used on remote machines) I have these as well:

set wildcharm=<C-z>
set path=.,**

" juggling with files
nnoremap ,f :find<Space>
nnoremap ,s :sfind<Space>
nnoremap ,v :vert sfind<Space>

" juggling with buffers
nnoremap ,b :buffer <C-z>

" juggling with tags
nnoremap ,t :tjump /
nnoremap ,p :ptjump /

Beside all those custom mappings, macros, Ex commands, motions, text-object and in general the whole "grammar" that ties everything are killer features.
Noticed right after I posted. Gave it an upvote
One Line of Code That Changed the Web Forever
"Burning wood smoke has more carcinogens and mutagens than cigarette smoke".

"Oh but if we can't directly link this specific cancer with a specific fire, then burning wood isn't harmful, it's all luck, and we can carry on with it without guilt".

Is how your reply reads.
Now available as ebook in EPUB, MOBI and PDF: The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition
Don't be so cynical. They're just hacking the press.
I'm somewhat hoping that Twilio comes out with something similar. They've already got the infrastructure set up, just need someone do a bunch of API work.
Just an FYI: you cannot send/recive MMS (this includes Group Messages) with a Google Voice number. This doesn't matter to many of us, but if you still have contacts that rely on these protocols just be aware before you port your number to GV.
Your launch date probably doesn’t matter by the founders of Charming Robot
I agree with you, based on personal experience this happens, a lot. In the organizations I have been with, not everyone in the company even know it was a planted piece.
Adults weren't dropping dead at 30.

To the contrary, adults died in young adulthood in early prehistory. That is, surviving infancy and childhood still led to a harsh life with high mortality, with most human beings dying before age fifty. The last time this came up in a Hacker News thread, I forgot to refer to the better source[1] I know about Pleistocene human mortality. Looking up just now, I see that there is an even more current and specific source[2] that reports "An assessment of younger (20–40 y) versus older (>40 y) adult mortality distributions for late archaic humans (principally Neandertals) and two samples of early modern humans (Middle Paleolithic and earlier Upper Paleolithic) provides little difference across the samples. All three Late Pleistocene samples have a dearth of older individuals compared with Holocene ethnographic/historical samples. They also lack older adults compared with Holocene paleodemographic profiles that have been critiqued for having too few older individuals for subsistence, social, and demographic viability. Although biased, probably through a combination of preservation, age assessment, and especially Pleistocene mobility requirements, these adult mortality distributions suggest low life expectancy and demographic instability across these Late Pleistocene human groups. They indicate only subtle and paleontologically invisible changes in human paleodemographics with the establishment of modern humans; they provide no support for a life history advantage among early modern humans."

[1] The Nature of Paleolithic Art, by R. Dale Guthrie, a biologist who specializes in Pleistocene megafauna (including Homo sapiens), a fascinating book studded with references to the research literature.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Paleolithic-Dale-Guthrie/dp...

[2] Late Pleistocene adult mortality patterns and modern human establishment.
(PMCID:PMC3029716)

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3029716/reload=0;jsessionid...

I would be delighted to see any references you have to clarify our understanding of this subject.
Nvidia to embed G-sync hardware into gaming monitors
A place calle The Jackson House near the capitol complex. It is difficult to get in there, as they are only open for lunch on weekdays. By noon, the line is out the door.
Philosophical Survey of Passwords (2009)
You don't need an education to be on HN. Just Internet connection and some free time.
Just outside the village where I grew up there's a hill called America Hill. Two brothers walked up that hill together, then said goodbye walked down opposite sides, because one was going to America, and both knew they'd never see each other again.

Maybe in other villages there were other brothers who cared more about each other, and so one stayed who would rather have gone, or went who would rather have stayed. But I don't think that's a particularly positive view to take.

If facebook allows us to remain friends with more people, rather than ruthlessly pruning our friendships down to the few we can maintain purely in person, surely that's a good thing.
The Smallest Distributed System
Many of these are just placeholder pages, and another big part of them are just redirections to websites on longer domain names. For example, wa.io redirects to WolframAlpha.

It would be interesting to see the page title along each URL, so that one could more easily judge about the content behind each.
What was Google's P/S like 5 years ago?
> it essentially cancels out

If the person before me pays for my meal, I won't feel obliged to pay for the person after me.

How does it even work anyway? How do you know how much the person after you owes? It may work at drive ins but it's certainly impossible at a normal queue -- except if people leave a "standard amount" regardless of what the next order actually is.

And even at a drive-in where the amount of the next order is known, it's probably a big hassle for the cashier -- if not downright impossible: the point-of-sale system wants the exact amount if paid by card, and if using cash it's even more complex (the POS system tells the cashier how much to give back, and now this is false and has to be somewhat reconciled at the end of the day).

This sounds completely fake.
Why We Make Bad Decisions
Quote from the Google Doc:

"You shouldn't be friends with people who you wouldn't start a company with."

(Made by Phil Libin / Founder, Evernote, CoreStreet)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...

Am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible advice? I have friends, long-term friends from kindergarden. I enjoy being with them but I would not start a company with them for several reasons. What does this say about the friendship?

Edit: Does anyone know this reasons for giving that advice?
MVC is not a dogma, it is a no-brainer instruction to make 90% of programming fruits less miserable.
I usually end up with something like Views-Composers-Handlers-Routes-Libs etc. And this can vary from project to project.
"Pay it forward." THIS is why I'm a programmer.

Sure, I'm a professional and I earn quite well, but any customer I've ever had will tell you that the value they received from me far exceeded what it cost them.

Delivering customer value. That's it for me. I'm really much less interested in all the other things we talk about here: languages, algorithms, hacks, investments, technology, etc. I'd rather hack my customers' problems than my own.

Why do I consider this paying if forward? Because of everyone who ever helped me get where I am: teachers, mentors, customers, peers, but mostly my parents and grandparents who all had difficult lives and made great sacrifices. They never had the opportunities I have now, a relatively easy life and the ability to turn nothing into something for someone else. I can't (literally) pay them back any more, but I can by paying it forward to others.

I always felt this way but never knew how to verbalize it until I heard the phrase "Pay it Forward". Thanks. Great HN post.
Or an expressly non-literature version of the Harvard Classics from about a century ago.

Trying to keep it utilitarian is going to be where most of the fuzzy lives...
Apologies to you then - and I'm fond of Hanlon's razor myself.
Have you seen this more than two times before? This shows up as the third submission by the HN Search I just did.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Fireplace+delu...
> I'm pretty sure most people would've considered the mass murder of Americans bad at the time too, since Christianity was prevalent, and we know what it says about murder.

No, the problem being that non-europeans were considered less than humans even by prominent theologists. "We are all equals" is a terribly recent idea.
In the same way, cat burning was considered good family fun until the 19th century, we have only started to extend basic rights to non-human sentient beings.

> Perhaps then we may be called 'civil'.

And again, you have reduced the issue to being civil yes/no.

We shouldn't be content with the way we are, but that doesn't mean we haven't improved.
This is one tiny piece of a lot of troubling fukushima news

http://www.okcfox.com/story/23728488/scientists-puzzled-as-r...

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Sudden+disappearance+sard...

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-apocalypse-fuel-removal-598/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/fukushima-...
What is science and why should we care?
what evidence is there that it isn't? I don't know of any.
I cannot speak for all developed nations, but I always got the impression that the corporate media in America was very anti-children. Many shows highlight the trials and tribulations of having children. I cannot think of any popular program that focuses on the joys of having children.
I think it's a bigger more existential problem that young people these days have.
My issue here is that BorrowABook is a verb. This isn't a model class, and in my understanding of OOP, doesn't really deserve a class by itself at all. You could instead put the borrow method in a class called Book that represented the model of your application. Then you call borrow on the book, the book does some logic, and returns a status code to the controller. Or since it's a bit silly to ask a book to borrow itself, have a library model object that handles a bunch of book objects, and put the borrow method in the library class. That's how I do MVC anyways.
I agree with pg, but I'd add the option to place a subtitle or heading by the poster.
what I'm saying is that science remains very far from making a beginning without God more plausible than a beginning with God.
There are hundreds of stories about various companies on hn. The fact that you single out this one says more about your liberal bias than its objective "fakeness".
You're right that it's specific to drive-thrus. The implication is that the person behind you has already spoke their order into the box by the time you pay for yours, so the cost is completely known to all parties. It's pretty straightforward.
There's more context at https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013/blob/mast... - "You shouldn't even make friends with people you don't see starting a company with — why bother? You only have so many best friends, so use those resources wisely."

Doesn't sound like a fun way to live.
Is the quality of hackers good in Thailand? I'm particularly thinking about skills to deal with javascript, node.js and MongoDB. I've heard mixed reviews in the past - and it's been touched on a few times here - but would be great to hear what the latest situation is.
Even better, an eternal process not a historical process?

Even worse the point of the comment is it seems to be a proven fact of sociology, or social engineering or whatever, that one effective way for a society to stay on track or even improve is to keep people around who serve the purpose of complaining about the level of civilization.

Its very counter intuitive... in the sciences you can whine and complain never results in much of anything, in the crafts and arts its also a waste of time, but as a social engineering technology keeping some professional complainers around is a good and effective long term strategy.

So is that enough of a proven and utilitarian argument to keep some soft sciences in the library or not?
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Who needs it when, for an extra fee, your 'therapist' will get naked and give you a tour of the female body.

Talk about blurred lines.
Why has no one brought up overcrowding in Japan? You don't think that's going to affect the birth rate?

http://inventorspot.com/articles/six_startling_scenes_overcr...
Web Developer Essentials
They've started sending the MMS through email, at least for ones coming from Sprint users.
As a subcontractor / freelancer (and I'm not a lawyer), you owe them the code they have actually paid for based on the time you've worked. While it may be illegal to withhold all of the source code, it is not if you retain the code that hasn't been paid for. Also, your contract with them should stipulate the terms.
I think you are right, I'll extract title, and description if available. Of course sometime they will be completely useless (for instance: http://www.iwi.io/, title: iwi.io ~ coming soon, description: none).