skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, 9 times out of 10, you can hit the "Reader" button in Safari and it will show you the article without you clicking on anything in the ad. This way you get the content you wanted, you don't look at the ad, and it doesn't register that you clicked on anything, even the close box.
~20% of the web is still not chump change.
>Well, that’s something I suppose. Although presumably it is retained for some period of time, otherwise how would the adverts and recommendations be possible? " //
So, basically they flat-out lied about the data retention.

That isn't the case. The system could build a representation of the viewers preferences when the data is received, then discard the data. That means the data isn't retained (for any normal definition of "retained").
don't worry, most probably they will take it back from you with its interest.
IOS: AFNetworking based RSS Parser
How would an attacker exploit a service while it was inaccessible because they're DDoSing it? Why would someone draw attention to themselves like that?

Maybe the attacker stole the coins and then DDoS'd the site?

It's all speculation, we're pretty light on details, but the whole DDoS-as-a-distraction thing seems a little out there to me.
How often would the CEO even be involved? Very small companies excepted, I would think this would be something entirely delegated to the CTO, manager, or whoever is in charge of technology in the organization.
Between the ancient Apple IIs at my elementary and middle school, and the jump to Amigas and 386-class PCs, I totally missed out on the IIGS, thinking it was just a slight upgrade to the Apple II computers I remember. Recently I was trolling around retrocomputer forums and came across the /r/apple2 and was blown away by some of the IIGS stuff I saw there. Easily the equal capability-wise to the Amiga, Atari ST or Acorn Archimedes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple2
The Tom's hardware one bugs me the most. For anyone who (thankfully) hasn't seen it yet, you get it by scrolling to the bottom of one of their question-and-answer posts, soon after the last answer (and it doesn't make it very obvious which one is last). If I found an answer in the thread, why on earth would I want to go check out another question?!
You don't even get it. Your insight is not very valuable, even in the slightest. I'm sorry your perception is so off, but it is for this community. Your allusion towards my social identity further puts you in the hole.

Nowhere in the original post did the creator even allude to this github post of project code being their customer facing product or business. Yet, you felt it necessary to provide your "potentially valuable insight." Guess what, it's not valuable. It's not interesting. It's not even useful.

This is a project someone created to share with everyone else. Not everything is a business ripe for money-grubbing fingers. We should be applauding this in every way possible, not giving the creator business advice.
Ever hear the phrase it takes a village/community to raise a child? Do we punish a child because perhaps his parents don't have the skills and knowledge from a lack of life experiences - perhaps because they didn't have access to such material - therefore continuing the cycle? You have to look at what end goal you want to achieve, and then decide what systems to have in place.
> Moral Decay is far too vague and subjective to be usefully compared, but since it is often used as an excuse for Oppression, I feel confident in saying that it's an excellent thing if it is continuing unabated.

I meant the decay of the family during child rearing. The skyrocketing divorce rates since the 2nd world war. The increasingly consumerist yet more alienated individual. Our society that tells our children that women are sex objects, and that ALL men are perverts or rapists. A society that cares more about celebdom than the starvation and suffering within it's borders. A society that disdains racism/intolerance, yet still disenfranchises millions of Native Americans and black African Americans.

I'm not trying to say you subscribe to those things. Just clarifying my point that our competitive/psychopathic society has consequences. As someone who cares about morals (not an American republican, but rather a Canadian Leftist) I think this will only carry our system forward.

Trust me I don't really care if we're lead as a society by authoritarianism, it's just that I'd rather we utilise that system of government's speciality (efficiency) and attempt to use the current resources we have to develop space technology that can mine efficiently. If not, then let's just live freer happier lives while we can?

I'm not disagreeing with governance, just federalism/nationalism/globalism. Let's just run cities? More of a say, more of an impact, and no one else to blame but your own community. Besides, I know that where I live, towns nearby won't raid us. In fact, we'd probably form some confederacy, and share some- dammit! I created a federal government again...

I don't have the answers. But there's plenty of problems (the first step is admitting it!). If you can't see a bleaker future than our grandparents did, than you're not seeing what I see in the next 40 years.
It seems that the author has deleted the original article and posted a reply to critical comments from Haskell school: https://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/oop-fp/

And some content of the original article was posted to: https://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/pure-fp-and-monads...
My gut feeling is that it's an issue of manpower: they're choosing their battles.

I've been in the Medical Device industry for over 10 years as a software engineer. Soon after I started, during one of our mandatory Quality Systems training sessions, it was pointed out that there are many software-only companies whose products were Medical Devices under the FDA definition, but the FDA simply didn't have the manpower to police all of them. In many cases, the companies themselves probably didn't know they fell under FDA regulation.
Government subsidization would only put more upward pressure on prices though. And yet, food does not cost infinity dollars. I wonder why?
This is absolutely beautiful, and has to be the trippiest experimental website I have seen.
Should we give producers of those products a livelihood at the expense of warping the rest of society?

Because enforcing something like "intellectual property" is going to change society a whole lot. The enforcement is going to start with very invasive snooping, and end with stifling most inventions and innovations.

I personally am not willing to go that far. It's pretty clear that right now, "intellectual property" is mainly an instrument of control, to keep incumbent companies in power.

Personally, I don't get a lot out of popular (or really, any other) music. It's fine with me to let the market decide on prices without state enforced monopolies, temporary or otherwise. I believe that there's a whole lot of people who can and will make music and other art even if the state doesn't enforce monopolies for them. Indeed, society might get a lot more music: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1336802
My TV supports DLNA which allows me to stream video and music files from my PC or NAS drive with no intermediate box. It's not that great though. Only a limited number of file formats are supported and the interface is clumsy compared to AppleTV or XBMC.
It is a humorous reference to an American sitcom from the 80's called 'Different Strokes'. A lighthearted way of expressing disagreement.

[edit: While I'm at it: the main character 'Arnold' would express disagreement with his brother 'Willis' by saying "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?" something like once per episode. This was a running joke for the sitcom.]
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Right. IF 23 And Me can show that its test are accurate. But they can't (or have refused to do so). That's the whole point.
If such detection becomes commonplace, there will be escalation. Adblocker/replacer software will go the next step of downloading the ads, but then handing over appropriately sized transparent .pngs to the browser. Ultimately it is a fight the advertisers can't win as long as users have full control over their own computers.

I welcome it. The current ad-based economic system is a "stalker economy" that carries an enormous hidden cost that all of society ends up bearing (loss of privacy leads to losses of creativity and stagnation of political reform). The sooner we get the ad middle-men out of the loop, the sooner we can start building services with customers who are people, not corporate advertising budgets.
While you may find this annoying, these kinds of screens perform very well when used appropriately. You may drop off, but most people won't. Until that stops happening you will keep seeing these, and making a whiny site about it certainly won't do anything to help.
Show HN: Lonenote App - Make handwritten notes to share moments alone
Design your stack around where the organization is growing in a business perspective: early stage start-ups are very fast organizations. You have to design your stack in a way, early on, that supports failed assumptions, which means frequently changing requirements at the same leaving enough room to breathe and grow.

Scaling equates to specialization, you specialize in a specific area of your stack because your startup has grown in that direction. In a very early stage, there's not much growth only a period of intense validation, so don't overthink about scale right now.

If you are using PostgreSQL, just stick with it. You can ship things faster and troubleshoot better with stuff you know. In terms of fetching data, you can design it in a way that you actually don't have to do any joins at all. Twitter still uses MySQL up until this very day, they've customized the core engine for their purposes. Point is: don't over-think about storage for now, no one knows right now where your startup will grow into :)

Build and design a pleasurably usable RESTful HTTP API Server with a matching client: in my experience this is very very helpful. At a very early stage, building an API server allows you to pivot relatively quickly. When you have a "proxy" for your database, it's practically developer-UX for fast changing business requirements, and it will avoid "database code hell" ie, random projects doing random things at your database.

Imagine you're building this huge web-app, but the users clearly want and need a mobile equivalent. What if the users want some sort of on-site installation for an enterprise version? Suddenly you're not a B2C startup and you'll be going on B2B.

An API server helps you do tons of things that enables you to ship applications faster and makes your startup very flexible since you can isolate and maintain this very large part of your product.
People do it because it performs much much better in many funnel optimization scenarios.
The FDA's Battle With 23andMe Won't Mean Anything in the Long Run
... I guess I don't get that much email. I switched to gmail at launch and have not even been asked.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Mission Status Center
> Are regulators not people

No. They are robots. Robots that know better. How dare you ask such good questions! You now owe us 40$ for violating my authority citizen!

> Lessening risk is far more important than not stifling innovation

Again, would the OP rather live in a world with 100% risk, 100% innovation, or 0% risk, 0% innovation. I know what I'd choose. There's a pretty common theme in some sci-fis that living without risk isn't even life. Something to think about...
I'm surprised quora isn't included.
I'm not a web guy, but isn't sass a CSS generator, as in something you run once before deploying anything? What's the advantage of speed for something like this?
If they pay for installs, why not?

Nothing stops you from uninstalling it the next day.
This kind of misbehavior is why my javascript is off by default.
UPSs don't always work as expected.
If you create something, you are perfectly fine in dictating the terms of it. I just don't agree that you should require society to punish children who want to learn. Your dictating ends at that point, since its not a good compromise for society to make. If you still want to continue dictate the terms of using, consuming, or experiencing the thing you made, you got to do it without the help from the government.

You want to get paid, and you want the governments help to do so. Fine. Make a compromise that benefit both side and do no harm to groups we don't expect to be working at any rate. It should not be such a hard thing.
Saves a bit of time when you're in the edit your scss/sass files -> refresh browser workflow. A designer friend of mine always complains about how slow the ruby sass compiler is for larger projects, but he says the time saved in writing stylesheets with it beats the time spent having to wait for them to compile.
Reference Graphs or 'Feature Sketches' as Tools for Refactoring Legacy Code
Speed of deployment, especially for larger sites with more CSS to process.
Given that this is a C++ implementation, why the incorrect article and repo title?

Was it rewritten in C++ later on?

Otherwise, it seems interesting. I'll look into it.
I think it's an unavoidable fact that if you create something you are allowed to dictate the terms of using, consuming, or experiencing that thing.

I have to disagree 100%. Once you publish something you lose all effective control over it.

It is only this legal fiction we call copyright that gives copyright owners any sort of control. But even maximalist copyright regimes are full of more holes than swiss cheese - if anything, the more they ratchet up the controls the more people seek out the holes. It is human nature to share knowledge, modern copyright is about fighting human nature and that never works out (c.f. the war on drugs).
Brian Kernighan: Elements of Programming Style (Video)
He has a blog:

http://dinodini.wordpress.com/

There is also a long interview with him on the Retro Asylum podcast:

retroasylum.com/ep-37-dino-dini-interview-part-1/

retroasylum.com/episode-39-dino-dini-interview-part-2/
Faster deploys means more deploys means more features and fixes and a better chance of survival. See: John Boyd.
Depends. Many newer frameworks (Rails, at least, specifically) do not pregenerate but instead compile on the fly and then cache, at least in development mode.

Also, the canonical SASS implementation is in Ruby, which is a fairly heavyweight dep if you need it JUST for to compile SASS
> While libsass is primarily implemented in C++, it provides a simple C interface that is defined in [sass_inteface.h].
As an aside, I think this is not as uncommon as one might think. It's a big government and obviously not perfect at hiring and promotion, but in my experience the upper-middle tier of employees generally know their shit.
Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks in Air [pdf]
So pg's years of experience getting better than random results is irrelevant and you'll only believe him if he does a long experiment (that would cost him lots of money if it's not just luck) to prove something he already believes?
Then setup a ratings agency to make decisions for those people who want to outsource their judgement to a bureaucracy. Don't prevent those of us who want to make our own decisions (which may at times simply be to defer to some other knowledgable 3rd party besides the FDA whom we trust more. Point is, #choices)
What happened to Verbly (YC12)?
I've taken several coursera courses and maybe the good ones are hiding in there somewhere but I'm really unimpressed by the ones I've seen.
I live in Iowa; I haven't seen a Monarch butterfly in years. Used to be (I grew up here) you couldn't walk outside without one landing on you.
On huge projects, Ruby Sass can be quite slow, taking several seconds or even minutes to compile. If you have an interactive, iterative workflow where you're constantly refreshing the styles, having a faster Sass compiler can be a godsend.
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Violates:
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Open-source app releases first complete copy of English Wikipedia with images
It probably is illegal to disclose it, that data should fall under HIPAA as protected health information. If the data in anonymized, then they could release it (as long as the person gave them permission). However, they couldn't release it with any identifying information attached.

At least, I assume 23andMe would fall under HIPAA regulations, but I'm not so sure. Does anyone know if 23andMe has an IRB?
I used to write the same way, until my spouse fixed me.
Wow, didn't expect to see this at the top of HN. Thanks kudo for promoting the project!

Aaron Leung and I have been working on this for a while. I'm the original creator of Sass and Aaron is a badass computer linguist. Hoping to announce some big new features around the end of the year.

Official site is at: http://libsass.org
Or, follow us on Twitter for more updates: @hcatlin & @akhleung
And how much do they spend lobbying in order to cheat their way out of releasing their works into the public domain?
If you're in a language that allows C bindings, then it makes it easier to port a SASS library to that other language.
Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
To be fair, that argument can be applied to most scripting languages:

A C header for a C++ library that integrates V8 and runs JS code can, according to your logic, count as a C implementation.
Some more resources

https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ (streaming radio)

http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/jsmodplayer/ (mod player in javascript)

http://modarchive.org/ (tens of thousands of mods and similar formats)

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/audio/ (the venerable funet.fi audio and mod archive)
Yes, but I think it would be difficult to argue that Wordpress' popularity wasn't due to its being easier to install than Movable Type, at first. The ecosystem of plugins, themes and shops whose entire purpose is hacking Wordpress suggests that its still primarily used as an installed application, though I wouldn't doubt they get seriously good business from their hosted service.
So, when big companies like Linkedin generate their Sass projects, it can take hours on a single machine. Tons of programmers all working in Sass.

At Moovweb, some of our customer's projects can take 30 seconds just for the Sass to compile for fairly straightforward sites.
Otherwise expressed as

This too shall pass.
This is a poor argument founded on a handful of anecdotal experiences. The full reality of the situation is not embraced by your caricature of it.

I think you might have a bit of a different opinion if you had been incorrectly diagnosed with a more serious disease, such as cancer.

As a thought experiment imagine that I am a medical charlatan who is offering a test for women to find out if they have breast cancer. In truth the test is just a random chance of a positive diagnosis, dressed up with some props and procedures. What's the harm in this? Well, the harm is that you put someone through hell when they believe that they have cancer. And worse the harm is that it can often take some very invasive procedures that have a deleterious effect on health to conclusively determine if someone does have cancer or rule it out.

Which makes a false diagnosis more than just a mild scare but a very real burden. And also a drain on the health care system and the economy. Someone who undergoes unnecessary procedures, such as biopsies and blood work, will have those costs come out of their insurance most likely. Those costs come out of effectively a pool of money designated for covering procedures, shrinking that pool means that someone else will be denied coverage for some procedure or that premiums will go up for everyone.

Now one need not be an intentional charlatan as in the above example to nevertheless lead to the same harmful outcomes unintentionally. And that's the sort of thing that can, and apparently does, happen with 23+me. If people are getting told about "risk factors" for very serious diseases through tests that are not very reliable or diagnostic then that will likely lead to a lot of unnecessary procedures in order to double check those findings. With all of the problems resulting listed above. This is a problem that the medical establishment has to contend with even with highly accurate tests.

So yes, it is actually a serious problem with no easy solution. That doesn't mean that 23+me has to stop operating, but they need to be substantially more circumspect about their diagnoses.
I don't have a problem with the bot thing. It's a clever solution to the "there's no one online" problem for new multiplayer games. I have no confirmation, but I assume that games like Fun Run do the same. Having played online RTS games in the 90's, these new iOS lobbies seem to fill up suspiciously quickly.
Once you publish something you lose all effective control over it.

If I'm trying to decide whether to publish something or not, this is not the argument that's going to make me give the green light.
Ok, that's more drastic than I thought. I think I get the point now.
The Hobbit - Middle earth map and descritions
> unless you want to crack sha-256 hashed passwords maybe?

It makes you wonder if we'll ever hear of anyone turning their bitcoin cluster to this purpose. Perhaps someone unauthorized.

Edit: Downthread, nwh explained why this isn't possible:

> No, they can't crack passwords. They increment a nonce at the end of a supplied string and only return if the nonce results in a low hash. They're not a generic "fast SHA" device like you're thinking.