skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I confirmed one of the claims in the movie JFK myself.

I'm always more interested in proof of a conspiracy, than in evidence of any particular parties guilt. This is usually easier to find, because the conspiracy itself leaves more evidence in harder to control situations than the crime does.

One good example of this is something I was able to confirm myself by direct examination.

In JFK there's a scene that really struck me, where Kevin Costner is getting filled in by Mr. X in Washington. He tells JFK that the papers in New Zealand have full write-ups of LHO that would be impossible without a pre-planted cover up story.

So, one day I found myself in New Zealand and went to a university library and looked up the papers on that day.

LHO was arrested approx. 1:40pm, Dallas time.
Time Zone differences: NZ is UTC +12 hours, Dallas is UTC -6 hours.
Thus LHO was arrested on November 23rd, at 7:40AM NZ Time.

Yet the morning papers on the 23rd, a Saturday, which came out between 8AM and 10AM (it varies by the edition) had a write up of LHO's dossier.

In the 1960s they did have telephones so the news could have easily reached NZ by then. However, printing tonnes of newspapers takes time, as does writing a story and distributing the papers.

The papers likely went to print in the middle of the night before-- which is before the assassination even happened.

I wanted proof, and I got it.

The people who don't believe are not interested in evidence and will take any rationalizations presented to them at face value. This is the reason that, every year or every 5 years, in November, we get these asinine "there was no conspiracy" stories like this one.

Check my account name, I won't be back (assuming I don't get hellbanned for the "crime" of disagreeing with the hive mind, like so many do.)
I'm early 80's, while I get the cheek ;) I can't see that working on a serious level.

Neil de Grasse Tyson has a great view on this problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW4Ol3_M1o

Edit: And more detail on methods that may actually work... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ReuLZ2quc
Yup! Same thing here.. the fact that I've got terrible ADD doesn't help - I keep such a "stack" open on stickies on the corner of my screen open so I can avoid drifting and stay on task.

It also provides a visual level of how deep you are into "shaving the yak" - once you're 10 levels into a problem, it becomes easy to forget what the original problem was.

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...
> Any citations on why this is more effective?

From what I remember, it's because you change the center of gravity of the whole system, not just once at impact, but constantly since it continues orbiting around it.
I don't unfriend often. I think the only time was when someone was doing hate speech. I generally just block comments from folks who get too crazy political.

All this said, I would think that writing a program for oneself to do this would be trivial, no? It's just comparing a list of your own friends to itself every day. I haven't programmed any Facebook apps, but this seems too simple to be believed.
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies. And, even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail
While i find the technological challenges in HFT very exciting, i would never want to work for the companies benefitting from that work. If that means i will make less money and someone else will come in and do it, then so be it.
Very good, but the Grammar Squad are not amateurs, and we have not been tripped up!
The slow decline of using MySQL read slaves
Secure Messaging App on new MTProto protocol.
Viber for Windows PC
There are two problems I've found that prevent me from using fish more:

1. <strike>Fish syntax breaks virtualenv</strike> (Edit: Okay, apparently this isn't actually a problem).

2. Fish does not have the equivalent of 'disown' in bash. This is fine if you exit the parent shell normally, but not if you send SIGKILL, which my window manager (wmii and i3) does.
Exporting variables is simple: set -x #{NAME} #{value};
setting Go environment is simple too:

set -x GOPATH $HOME/go
set -x PATH $GOPATH/bin $PATH
Could you elaborate on that? Since that doesn't make too much sense to me. From what I know, the movement goes in the opposite direction: much of what was considered "grammar" in the past has been reinterpreted as a part of the lexicon, now that we actually have adequate technology to work with humongous corpora.
The only problem I see with this is that it's not cost effective. Make that cheap* and it would be a great innovation.

* Maybe you could apply random checks on people and not reach out to them every time? That way they are scared 24/7.
Introducing Pig – a Fun, Simple Dice Game for the iPhone
Yes, eating fruit will spike your blood sugar just like candy will. Notice how diabetics need to eat candy or fruit if their blood sugar gets low? There's a reason they say either one, because they have the same effect. Sugar is sugar. You believe adding a tiny amount of a few vitamins that are easy to get well over your RDA of already makes candy into health food. I believe candy is still candy even with a bit of vitamin C in it.
International cooperation already exists, and outside of the UN scope as well.
I can feel the pain and frustration you might have been through, for I landed up in something similar.

Early this year, we flew Lufthansa from Delhi (India) and were stranded at the Munich airport. None of us got the transit visas, no food, they switched off the air-conditioning in the night, no blankets - just plain sheets when it was snowing outside. Lufthansa flew knowing there was no connecting flight left at Munich to not loose the booking. Adding insult to injury, they lost most of our baggage. On return flight, despite confirmed veg meal bookings - none of us got it on a flight lasting 12 hours. You know the best part, we were 70+ people on a corporate booking.

Its the same everywhere in Europe - may be it's their culture.
If you include ethics into your decisions then suddenly you are not able to work for a lot of companies. Google - severe tax evasion, Facebook - collecting your personal info for dodgy reasons etc.
I'm reminded of this Quora post on the popularity of Dropbox:

"Dropbox: Why is Dropbox more popular than other programs with similar functionality?

Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do:

There would be a folder.
You'd put your stuff in it.
It would sync.

They built that.

Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea.

"But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!"

No, shut up. People don't use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs."

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
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Wonderful job, but it would be nice to have (a) more interesting applications (e.g. MacPascal, HyperCard -- the full version not the Player) and also command-key support (it actually wigs out if you use command keys).
Yeah but it's not that much different from other non-US countries. I bet it's much harder to fire someone in France or Sweden than in Brazil.
I believe the law refers to US citizens of foreign national origin while iFit is referring to Brazilian citizens.
> At least until a couple of years ago, the approval rating of the UN was pretty good globally

Oh, like in Rwanda ?
This is the biggest change:

> http://fishshell.com/release_notes.html

> When tab-completing a file, fish will first attempt prefix matches (foo matches foobar), then substring matches (ooba matches foobar), and lastly subsequence matches (fbr matches foobar). For example, in a directory with files foo1.txt, foo2.txt, foo3.txt…, you can type only the numeric part and hit tab to fill in the rest.

This is really brilliant! I always wanted that (without knowing it).
Definition of "custodial or depository service": http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca2001172/...

There's nothing remotely similar. The Bitcoin payment is not an arrangement nor a financial product. It's not held in trust either.
Namecheap now offer .io domains
About Nimrod's features
About luck
We can infer from their mistakes, which GVIrish succinctly lists, that the managers in CMS on up to the White House weren't developers, otherwise they would have instinctively known that e.g. requirements had to be frozen for some time to give the developers time to finish implementing them.
If we put aside for a second the overall sleaziness of this industry that makes working for it very unattractive, isn't HFT at a dead end? Do people still make a lot of money off it? Hasn't it reached the tail-end of diminishing returns?
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synchronization [Paper]
Are you sure Gnumeric is better than Excel?

Excel is really stupid fast. There are old stories of the Excel team at Microsoft being the most performance-obsessed group around. Excel really is a very great product. Can you demonstrate equivalent performance with Gnumeric?
If it makes you two feel any better - I've never beaten the BBC Basic port of Reversi - let alone any later implementations.
Correct, but it's saved my ass a few times when afk & on my mobile!
Why you should have your lawyers vet your job postings.
Software review: The first idea processor [1983]
"any company can hire programmers overseas and just import the source code (git clone) and how is any govt supposed to tax that?"

In South America many countries tax imported professional services (including the outsourcing of source code development) - the way they monitor those types of activities is by tracking all outgoing payments from the country - if you can't pay your service provider, you can't get the service provided.

Therefore the government forces you to report what services you are importing in order to pay for them, and in doing so makes them taxable.
Thanks for your feedback. Let me just pinpoint it to other users that from this release you can now subscribe to fish shell's repositories by following instructions at http://fishshell.com/files/2.1.0/linux/index.html
But how much further out do you have to detect it to do this?
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I believe the profits have dropped a lot recently, as competition has driven down margins for everyone involved.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robo...
Not a helpful guide as the paths listed almost guarantee that qualifying person would be aware of ways to enter. Would be more interested in the guide "Hot to get a job in HF while being a mainstream web dev who graduated from an unknown uni".
Related: It occurs to me more and more that programming is a VERY valuable secondary skill. If you find your interests drawn to another domain, it will likely be useful to gain expertise in that domain. Once armed with knowledge of how people do things in that area, you'll be poised to apply programming skills towards solutions to their obvious problems. Like Patrick says above, to laypeople, someone who bangs out code that makes people's day better appears to have superpowers. My general recommendation to kids going to college these days, is to jump into a field you're interested in, and pick up programming on the side.

In your case, I wouldn't worry too much. Leaving school with a CS degree, you'll have a skill set that many, MANY companies are willing to pay for. The ability to convince computers to do your bidding is a pretty marketable skill.
Ask HN: what are your favorite Holiday Hacks?
Hey everyone! Holiday season is just around the corner (including Halloween). Without disclosing any particular holiday, what are your favorite holiday hacks?

An example: Jinglebots - http://viget.com/extend/arduino-redis-dropcam-holiday-cheer-jinglebots

I'm wanting to do something memorable in the office, and I'm sure others might enjoy hearing about awesome festive coding.
That should exclude most hardware vendors, since they benefit from high frequency traders buying up tons of hardware
Any read-world use case where you want to check set membership when false positives are allowed.

E.g. one particular Dutch natural language parser uses a left-corner algorithm. To prune the search space, the parser removes hypotheses with unlikely splines, since they will probably not lead to a good parse (the probability of a spline occurring in a good parse is estimated by parsing a large corpus).

Since this parser is written in Prolog and splines are represented as a Prolog terms. So, a natural approach is to assert likely splines as Prolog facts. Although most Prolog implementations do first argument indexing and the splines are ground (contain no variables), it's not an ideal lookup:

- Asserting all the terms requires a lot of memory.

- Lookup requires hashing the term and possibly doing multiple comparisons when there is more than one term with that hash.

This is also an application where a false positive does not matter - it means that you will not prune a particular spline. It can increase parsing time (since it increases the number of hypothesis), but since it purges fewer splines, you are not throwing away parses.

For this reason, we replaced the 'splines as Prolog facts' with a Bloom filter: you hash the Prolog term one or more times and use constant lookup in a bit array. This change made this functionality faster and a lot more compact[2].

As a matter of fact, I implemented this so that at compile time the hashes are computed, the array is constructed and then written as a C file. This is linked in to the Prolog module that does the guided parsing. So, in binary versions of the parser the Bloom filter is actually never computed[3].

[1] There is an understandable description here: http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/Presentations/Athens09/Main/p...

[2] Of course, a middle way would be to assert the hashes as facts. But it's still not by far as efficient.

[3] Fun fact: SICStus and SWI-Prolog use different term hashing methods, so the Bloom filter is Prolog-implementation specific ;).
There's a great Wired article about this from last year: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/...

They explain how firms built private fiber networks between Chicago and New York to shave a few milliseconds off latency.
The Government teaches all children how to write. Here’s why it’s a stupid idea.
Thanks. With your birthday and birthplace, I can probably become you quite easily.
There've been dialects of Lisp where a single ] would close all outstanding open parentheses. Having never actually used one, I reserve judgment on whether this is a good or bad idea.
Those who have for centuries fooled the rest of humanity into believing that their unearned, illegitimate, and unwarranted elevated status is justified know the findings of this painfully obvious fact to be true. Which is why they pull out all and every stop to prevent the majority from realizing it by vilifying anyone and anything that could spread that realization.
Show HN: Taxi Fair - Your own personal taxi meter
> Utah, so no coffee, tea, or beer.

Beer I understand, but coffee, tea? Why would those be excluded?
Check if your company invests (e.g. your pension pot) into one of the portfolios that sub-allocates to HTF hedge fund as well. You might want to pull out then. So immoral.
I've enjoyed coming up with a Lisp-ish toy language and implementing an interpreter for it. I haven't yet used any kind of Lisp for a real project (and may never), but getting a grip on its concepts has, and continues to be, interesting.
You may find what I did[1] in the same situation interesting. Although this was before I discovered the plethora of existing static site generators. I actually just rewrote my blog to use nanoc[2].

[1] http://michael.mior.ca/2010/12/02/blog/designing-an-offline-...
[2] http://nanoc.ws/
Installing fish instead of bash was the biggest single productivity improvement that I've ever done. Thanks for your work!
Why Your Favorite Concert Recommendation Website is Terribly Outdated
How did Evernote succeed in China given that Google failed?
A primary goal of newton is to be accessible, simple, easily read JavaScript with a minimal build step, so I don't plan on moving to something like LLJS. However, I agree that GC friendliness should be a priority. I may implement object pooling (again), but, after a branch testing just that, I found no significant performance improvement over the existing mutable-by-default Vectors.

On the other hand, the vec2 class of glMatrix looks fantastic and this is something to consider. Thanks!
As a kid, HyperTalk was the first language I fell in love with. It got me hooked on programming. I've always wanted to recreate it for the web, but never thought of doing it this way!
make your own about.me API :)
To make it more appealing we could add more computation: sync your github profile and it will fill the programming languages field automatically.
add data from Klout, to get topics of interest
Add goodreads, to point out the type of books you are reading.
and other datas from other APIs...

It could even be a self-service app.
Not to mention the bubble-startup business model, raise a billion from VCs and blow it. That money belongs to pension funds, university endowments, charity trusts...
If I had a minimum basic income I would never have to work for anyone else ever again! :)

I would absolutely start that Lhasa Apso matrimonial site I've always dreamed of.
In order of release date: IV - V - VI - I - II - III. There are a lot of references in the movies filmed later that are meant to give you chills because you know how things turn out later.
There's no doubt it was a conspiracy. The Warren Commission is the most famous, but most people are unaware of the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, which ruled in 1978 that JFK's assassination was part of a conspiracy and that even further, Cuba and the USSR had no involvement in it.
As an example of real usage - In my ChromeBook home folder, there are several "bloom" filter files for various predefined filtering in chrome
Well that survey is very choice in its terms. As another posted, there are more than enough countries where the UN has an active role where they are not high on everyone's list. Haiti comes to mind very quickly to me.

Remove countries where the UN is not serving in some capacity and I wonder how many approve of it. Its easy to approve of the UN until a) your putting up with them in your backyard, b) your country pays most of their bills.
Explanation and prediction are two different things.

Your definition doesn't even require explanation - it just requires intent to explain.

So for example, "the moon is made of cheese" is a theory according to the definition you just quoted. It's an idea that is intended to explain the composition of the moon.
Rather than do (load "01blah.el") (load "02blah.el") one could use activator--https://github.com/apgwoz/activator-el which automates that.
1. Fish syntax breaks virtualenv

You might want to try virtualfish [1]

[1] - https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish
Until it is discovered too late that you are working on the wrong thing.
Ask HN: Decided to start a business and regret later. Share your story.
There is a lot of stories about employed professinals that quit stable job to start a business. Most of these stories are told by successful enterpreners so survivorship bias takes place. It would be nice to get more balanced view. Whould you share not so successful stories. Not about failed first idea or ideas but have got a lot of experience and don't regret anything but rather "decided to start a business lost a lot a lot of money/health have got family problems and could not find decent job after that"
You are being intentionally dishonest by using the most verbose lambda expression you can think of. It would be very unusual to write something like that. You even managed to include one of the rare deprecated language features.
Do they mean Brazil citizens or applicants of Brazilian origin?
"In fact, many people claim that Lisp "has no syntax". This really means that Lisp has uniform syntax: every piece of code is just a list delimited with parentheses."

For an appropriate definition of "uniform syntax", perhaps. What I mean when I say "lisp has no syntax" is that you effectively write out the AST. If the syntax were somehow uniform but had a radically different structure than the AST I would claim that Lisp has syntax.
As I understand it Mormons don't consume anything caffeinated.
I like the .io TLD but it seems like Namecheap and others haven't really done much to make it cheaper. I can't see myself paying more than $30 a year for a single domain registration, so I've simply used other TLDs when I've had opportunities to register a domain for a project. If .io was cheaper I'd buy a couple of domains in a heartbeat, though.
Or starjumps in the corridor
Debian sid ('unstable') isn't hugely behind, at least by my standards of software upgrading. Fish 2.0.0 ended up in there about 8 weeks after release, and I'd expect 2.1.0 should get there in less time (2.0.0 was a change of upstream, and the first release in 4 years, while 2.1.0 is a relatively routine update from a distro's perspective).
+1 I would love to see NeXTSTEP.
that paper was printed in the afternoon http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/newspapers/sta...
The Most Compelling Reason To Question Everything
That's pretty much the same as me. But I do know people who can do the 7 hour full force ahead. And interrupting those people generally results in very little getting done.

For the rest of us there is always code reviews and emails and other fun things that needs to be handled and requires less brain power (well code reviews should require more but let's ignore that).
I have a menu bar on one of my product pages that I still haven't aligned properly.

Priority is in the eye of the beholder.
Not always, look up "implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" which can be a broad exemption to "at will" employment in several States including Utah.
From what I've seen, 'naysayer' is a term people most commonly use to ignore and suppress critical thinking. It's very convenient, because it sidesteps the question of why someone says 'no', and blames it on their personality instead, making all kinds of 'no' (substantiated or not) equivalent.

Besides, people who can't handle criticism are usually the same people who can't properly deal with new ideas either. Have you never seen large corporations going under because of abandoning their main products and chasing something new and shiny? That's a case where some intelligent no's would save the day.
I am currently running fish version 2.0.0 (Love it btw!) - does anyone know if there is a way to manually self update to 2.1? Or do I need to reinstall the package.
"usually" Is a bit harsh IMO. It can be a lot of times, but then that's a symptom of a much bigger problem. It's hint, more often than not, that the environment is toxic and it may be time to dust off your CV.
What problems are you facing while using virtualenv ? I use fish with virtualenv and everything seems fine.( You need to source activate.fish to activate virtualenv on fish. )