skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love physical companies using digital media, I really do, they are hard to succeed with but if you do they can be great business.

But I think you need to do some more work to get this on up and running properly.

right now it looks a little bit like a link farm page.

May I suggest the following changes.

1) Move the text out of the picture or at least have it on a background.

2) Remove the gradient from the sign up form and give it a solid color (perhaps red?)

3) Move the sign up form outside the picture.

4) Be more disciplined with your description text.

5)Set up a facebook page and a twitter account, start collecting followers there and show some of the feedback on your page.

6) And most importantly. Add a FAQ so that people know who you are, where you are located, what this is all about, what they are signing up for and so on.

Best Wishes
I am impressed. Its a neat hack, it actually is a real spreadsheet in 30 lines of code, with references fully working (ie =A3+B4 gives expected output. As does =alert("foo") but then nothing is perfect).

I think it says something about the browser as a platform - these thirty lines simply assume an enormous amount that excel and visicalc could not - visicalc had to write their own screen refresh routines.

It is useful sometimes to reflect on what has evolved so far - and wonder where we should be taking things. What is it now that is the equivalent of writing our own screen handling routines? Location? Distributed computation or storage?
I think you underestimate how worked up people can get over palm oil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1t-MvnCrA

(And never mind the specifics, if palm oil or sisal is your livelihood, you're absolutely going to be breathing down the politicians' necks...)
Because this is just mathematical cargo-cult scientism. If the basis for deciding "the model itself may require tweaking or redesign" is that "you still think the results look wrong", you're not doing science.
> That's why you don't use revenue relative to profit as a metric, but various returns on invested capital as a metric, e.g. profit to debt, profit to assets, profit to capital expenditures, etc.

Sure, that's optimal, but they don't have that information easily accessible on Wikipedia for web debates...

I would be surprised if profits/revenues wasn't at least indicative of better measures like return on invested capital, at least for the companies in the above list.
How does jquery count as 'no library used'?

EDIT: I get it guys - I complained without reading carefully, sorry...
I'm guessing he means the exchange offices have to have a license for doing the exchange business. Not residents or businesses.
For internal websites, be your own CA and distribute the cert via AD (or include it in your OS image, or whatever).
jQuery is not used, $ is just used as a variable name.
I haven't read the whole review because I'm not planning on purchasing a next-gen console but I was quite impressed by the page design. Usually, animated UI tweaks are frowned upon because they hinder the readability and hurt the usability. But here the execution is well balanced and actually supports the content. Plus, the animated wireframes are simply beautiful.
Yeah, and current trends aside, surely the current design landscape in the Western world has more in common with traditional Japanese art and architecture, than does Japanese web design as it looks today, just as this article suggests.
Sass For Web Designers
cool!!!! xD
Nicely done but Krome supports basic encryption. Would really like it if you guys can add that too.
There's no jquery here.
somebody should ask linkedin if the plain text of linkedin messages are visible to their employees.
The Go project provides similar functionality for most common editors (Emacs, Vim). The spf13-vim distribution supports this for Vim.
Yup:

=(function(){console.log("hehehe");})()
My opinion is that we're not sure how the social dynamics will change with a guaranteed basic income, so making predictions like this is not really constructive. I favour the experimental approach - roll it out and then follow through with surveys to see its impact. Maybe try it out in only one or two states at first, if possible ones with a good mix of people with various incomes and ethnicities.
What Content do People in the UK Share on Social Media?
The one thing that micro and macro taught me was that I didn't want to be a Business major.
Who said I can't read German? My mother is German. Besides, I trust the Germans a lot more than I trust the US government.
say perhaps the New York Times?
Huh Means the Same Thing in Every Language
As a direct criticism, the choice of the Normal distribution adds nothing to the model other than acting as a cover for the author's choice of point estimates. I believe you would get the same results independent of the distribution. Choosing a Normal distribution serves only to create an apparent range of results that are weighted towards the author's preferred choices of values.

Peer-reviewed economic models would have to justify their model assumptions in a more robust way, including empirical data where appropriate. I'm not an expert but I expect this is a good place to start:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-modelling/

All models use simplified assumptions and questionably appropriate techniques, I agree - that is practically the definition of 'model'. However, a useful model should justify those assumptions and techniques using current research-level knowledge, and/or show how the model applies successfully to reality.

I see this model to be as useful to economic discussion as saying "the world is flat, plus or minus 5 degrees". It ignores all current work in the field.
There are numerous examples of simple tracked vehicles armed with weapons. It does not take much imagination to see how those combined with larger drones (tanks, humvees), artillery, or aircraft could be used.
HA I can relate to this The Contemptress
They made a fully functioning spreadsheet in 30 lines with no libraries. I'm sure adding more functions is possible... You could probably even figure out how to create a SUM function...
Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) is more performant and scalable in PostgreSQL than in MySQL with InnoDB (which uses row-level locking).
Reduler - redis-backed distributed scheduler
I'm better at macro, that's why I play Zerg.
What about embedded devices.

Not everything on the web is sitting on a well-known server.
What about the increase in family size. If having more children increases a family's income people will have more kids. People receiving welfare do it all the time. These kids will not be contributing towards the basic income but will be drawing from it.
The language is javascript, not excel's, but you can do sum if you like: [A1, A2].reduce(function(a, b){ return a + b; });

You could, of course, write a sum function, and reference it wherever you like.
Sorry to be pedantic here, but I don't think that "obviate" is at all what you meant here. Judging from the context, it seems you believe the definition is "to make obvious", but it actually has nothing to do with that.
Yeah, that's true I suppose.
> It is a beefed up PS3, no next-gen leap worthy step, and the games are not there.

I feel you could almost substitute "PS3" for "PS2" and target it at original PS3 at launch as well.

I'm guessing that Sony simply wants to get the hardware out of the door, and do software features as they go. Considering how much updates the PS3 has seen over the years, I believe this holds for the PS4 as well, but as they say in this review, for now, it's a tad underwhelming.
I don't think the "Xy monad will taint all your code" stands.

I used to think that too, but if you have monadic code M and pure code P, if you need to tie P to M (say at a third callsite C), you just lift the P into the monad at C, and that's it. P stays pure, C of course gets monadic, but that is since it _is_ monadic.

Now logging: I guess people overpanic this. There are two separate sides of logging I think:

1) Effect logging: If you want to log effects (going to send the email, etc), you are already in IO, no worries.

2) App logic logging: This is more like debug-logging to verify that you logic works and flows as expected. If you need this in pure code, throw in a Writer monad for logging the stuff (can discard it if not needed).

2a) Eventually you'll get somewhere where you have IO, so you can dump the aggregated logs if you want.

2b) Or just use unsafePerformIO to send to a logging thread (beat me with a stick).

As a bonus, for app logging you might use a proper ADT for your log statements instead of string, which is great for testing, and even greater for persisting (in json, protobuf, whatever) and later inspection.
Are there any more full-featured libraries that people use for this?

I've found SpreadJS[0], GelSheet[1], jQuery.Sheet[2], and ZK Spreadsheet, but none seem like thriving open-source projects as far as I can tell.

[0] http://wijmo.com/demo/spreadjs/samples/index.html

[1] http://www.gelsheet.org/demo

[2] http://visop-dev.com/Project+jQuery.sheet

[3] http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkspreadsheet
"$" replaced with "elm" to cause less confusion.
I find it amazing how often supposedly substantive discussions about Wikileaks and Julian Assange go on without any explicit mention or acknowledgment of what I've always considered his central thesis:

----

"The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance

[...]

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption."

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936id_/http://iq.org#T...

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
Quite aside from the content - I thought the review itself was a very nice piece of design (The animations that I thought would annoy me ended up being a nice touch).

One thing I take issue with is the completely arbitrary nature of the rating at the end. Why bother giving the platform a rating at all at this stage - it exists in a vacuum. Only time will tell how Sony's latest offering, along with its attempts at a platform, will stack up against Steam and Microsoft. Besides that - there seemed no clear criteria for the points system whatsoever.

It is at times like these that I am reminded of the "IGN: Fair. 10/10" meme.
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Liked this point. The notion of a budget frontier and the boundary it defines is really helpful for design decisions of any sort. There are always limits, whether that's time, money, CPU cycles, IO bandwidth, or any other resource. I remember that one of my early econ instructors defined economics as the study of decision-making under limited resources. (Of course, many other disciplines could be defined similarly!)
The NYT on why it delayed first surveillance story
Depends on your country actually, the University-level ones (all) do in Germany.
it will only work in governments where fear of terminal retribution is minimal. Put another way, some governments have no qualms about keeping secrets through fear. There are numerous examples where they round up whole families and disappear them
will do! This was my first landing page so I really appreciate the feedback :)
Fine, don't shut down the programs, but is it too much for the people paying for these programs to ask about their nature and to be informed of the accountability breaches?

Every citizen has a right to know the nature of what we are doing (how else can we decide whether or not we want to live with the trade offs or not?), and to be informed when something goes off the rails on the ethics side of things. This is a pretty low bar to set.
Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that wikileaks isn't actually a wiki?
The "guy on the other side" is the fridge you bought at the store and just installed in your house.

You want to connect to it securely, but the fridge really has no way to prove to you who it is through any kind of third-channel.

Hell, forget about fridges. It's the router you just got at Best Buy.
I was referring to how the National Security letters has been used.

Stories like the court order requiring Verizon to turn over records of every call "on an ongoing daily basis", or any of the many times when a blanket searches and seizures has happen to people or their property. Their numbers are so great that many lawyers and professors openly state that the 4th amendment do not exist anymore.
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I don't think that Intro is the right way to go with our privacy.
Secret: substance and existence is not intended to ever be disclosed. For example, PRISM, MUSCULAR, and other NSA progams revealed by Snowden.

Confidential: existence is well known, substance not disclosed.

In the case of the TPP, the existence is actually strongly publicized by the negotiators, and only the negotiations are confidential--the final text will be made public and debated in Congress.

What is happening right now is that groups that dislike the IP provisions of the TPP are attacking the process for the whole TPP--which is the standard process for any international agreement.

They are taking advantage of the fact that most people don't know, or don't think about, how these deals are always done. So they are able to scare people by using the word "secret".

I don't disagree that the IP stuff bears very close watching, and could be damaging. I just don't think it's a good idea to be so manipulative along the way.
This was one of my favorite parts about jetbrains products. Auto cleanup right while you are coding. Push devs, kicking and screaming sometimes, into the pit of success.
I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
You are doing science. The first part: forming a hypothesis.
Almost anywhere you live, it's your government. If you want your government to make clear and simple rules, vote in people you think might make that happen.
Makes sense, hadn't even looked that closely at the code before I commented - all 30 lines of it, ha. Shame on me.
Quite - we are probably all already running something just like this. i suspect that what this "entrepreneur" is adding is a central repository to store the user's passwords - like Dropbox or Google Drive or what have you.

Not sure this solves enough of the problem to get major consumer adoption though.
Personally I was confused as to how the fellow got around the basics of having to parse tokens until I noticed

with (DATA)

now that's just genius. I hate writing token parsing.
FYI, identical posting here with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725213
That's what happens when you ignore the IMF (well until '97) and have the death penalty for capital flight.
Yes, the ability to rollback history more easily than paging through `git reflog` would be great. (in particular, if you rebase often you end up with a lot of cruft).
Reading back my reply may come across as flippant [hence the down votes] - that wasn't my intention. having been through depression myself; I was given the option of drugs to 'help me sleep' and 'help me relax' - this was far from what I needed.

As you say - we have no idea if there is an underlying 'problem' and as such HN is not really the place to seek this type of advice.
Not sure. I don't think they over dramatized it and even if they did, it might be required if they want to make sure the message gets through to a larger audience than the tech community. As you said, this is a very serious event and what's bothersome, if anything, is the way the case was handled by authorities.

I'll agree with other comments on here that the title is pretty bad, but I think this documentary is important. We'll see when it comes out.
China driving Bitcoin demand up
I appreciate the feedback! The page is definitely lacking in a lot of areas, so receiving unbiased feedback makes things a lot easier to prioritize. Again, I appreciate you sharing some insight. I’m currently making improvements and trying to spruce it up with my limited (non-existent) design skills :)
>I'm unconvinced he would think he should never have been born.

Yeah... the 1 in a million person is always the wrong person to ask. Perhaps if you asked the millions who have suffered and died if they would have been better off not ever being born, you might get a more meaningful statistic.
I've learned to speak Mandarin, but not Malay. I can read and write enough to read the Chinese newspaper and sing karaoke. It's helpful: it breaks down a lot of cultural barriers, and makes chatting with cab drivers more fun. It also makes the Singlish more understandable. There's a lot of Singaporean English that borrows from Chinese word order, which in western English sounds harsh even though the Chinese word order (in Chinese) uses it as an expression of politeness. E.g., "Go to lunch, can or not?"
Oddly, given the same exact title, this newer one is around 2x as successful (comments & votes) as the older one.
Just waiting for the other 20,000 Excel features to be added. :)

This may sound like an inane comment, but trying working along Excel power users for the past two decades. Most people have no idea of the crazy, huge, complicated environment that is Excel.
I apologise for my confusion and retract my moan.

I'm afraid I suffered from commenting without reading properly. In my defence, seeing $ signs everywhere shuts down the careful part of my brain.
Oh, it seems like I made a grave error doing my mental math... I don't see how I got it so wrong, but I guess I'm not used to dividing millions and trillions together. I meant to say about $1 million dollars per coin. With the updated numbers, it would be $21 trillion worth of purchasing power, which is a quarter of todays Gross World Product (the economic activity of the world for one year). So yes, it does seem that the world has that kind of wealth.
Great idea, will you ship to the UK?

What did you make the landing page with?
Where do you see any jQuery? I don't see any $ or jQuery, and if you look at the top left under "Frameworks & Extensions" it is set to "No-Library (pure JS)"

Perhaps the use of the more modern querySelectorAll threw you?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.qu...
This is very impressive. The use of "Object.defineProperty" and "with" to handle formula evaluation is particularly clever.
I don't understand this. Not everything is always a trade-off. Take array sorting, a classical example. There are many stupid solutions that have both unnecessary memory/time requirement and unnecessarily large code size and method complexity. Such code can be always traded for a more efficient solution "for free", at least before deployment.
I don't get the chemistry of it, but the kit says it will also include ricin as some kind of safety measure.
When people say 4chan they usually mean "4chan users", so this is not very ironic IMO.
Looks like that particular problem has been fixed.
For the same reason that SSL adoption is currently lower than ideal, for many uses the increased cost (actual cost, and cost of time) is not perceived to be worth it. For many/most uses IPv4 works just fine and non-SSL is just fine.
It is context free. Just because two tokens (INDENT, OUTDENT) are different to lex doesn't mean the grammar isn't context free.

The only reason same-line braces are required is semicolon insertion. There are other ways to express the grammar of a language without semicolons and remain context-free.
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Even better, what if the government was closing in a child pornographer with chemical weapons and a nuke, and the leak allowed him to rape more children while nuking a nunnery and poisoning an orphanage?
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But should it be? Legislation should be developed in the open. It certainly shouldn't be kept secret from the people until the day it's being voted on.
Thanks. I never know I'm actually in a conversation about how I do my job until this comment shows up.
Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor
It's not scientism. You're simply jumping to an invalid conclusion. Stucchio could not have been clearer that simple Python monte carlo models were tools for discussion, not magic oracles.
Uh, no. States is just the plural of state. It can just as easily refer to generic political entities as to the specific 50 political entities that make up the US.
But it actually is... or at least it uses the Wikimedia software:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Confidential_plans_for_1.2_billion...
Yes, those points are general traits of all great software. But there are still API's out there that fail to conform to those basic principles and that's why I wanted to write the post as a checklist to self, to remind as to what makes an API great.
This is specifically "for the legal defence campaign of Mr Edward Snowden". The page doesn't mention any of it going to support Snowden himself.

And that might be an important distinction -- IANAL, but contributing to someone's defense fund seems like a perfectly legal thing to do; financially supporting someone on the run from the US government, I'm not sure quite how legal that is. I'm curious if anyone knows more.
> Unfortunately governments are obliged to reveal their 'secrets' despite any misgivings

What if the electorate decides that a government should keep certain things secret from them? Directly at the ballot box or through their representatives?

I think in the US we have done so when we allow or congressmen to continue to renew the patriot act. For good or ill, the government keeping things secret for national security purposes is something we (through our votes, and through our congress) have asked them to do. Maybe we should stop doing so.
Lots of utilities that aren't conventional "browsers" but talk HTTP.
240 year old robot
What if your last name didn't mean anything to you?
A year and a half ago I found myself in a precarious situation: At 30 years old, I found out my parents were going through a divorce. For me though, it wasn’t the first time. It was the third. So, I decided to sell my last name and now I'm doing it again.
Yahoo to auction over 100 domain names ranging from $1,000 to $1.5 million
I'd say that's exactly the kind of behaviour that gets flagged. Why did you shift from spending on your credit card and saving in your account to taking out almost all your money in cash every month? The guy made $100k+, that's a lot of money. Drug problem, trying to pay a blackmailer off?

Also, I wouldn't overestimate how many of his friends he could successfully enlist in what technically (if not morally) was a conspiracy to commit treason.

For something like this to be successful, it needs to come out of the blue.
Suicide is not the same not being born. Why is that concept so hard to grasp?

The whole idea of rather not having been born is specifically because that precludes any of those emotions that make it hard to off yourself no matter how bad your situation is. It also removes the usual arguments against suicide such as impact on your family and friends.
btw, do not use location.reload or you get a reload loop until manually deleting the entry in local storage