skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it! Really appreciate the support.
My casual surveys of friends and acquaintances is depressing. Most "don't have anything to hide", and don't feel threatened by these developments.
Correlates with about a 5-7 day delay due to needing verification before you can purchase. In other words: now is a pretty good time to buy before the crowd arrives that juts heard about bitcoin because of the Senate hearing...
Europeans generally like smaller cars. It's not a bad look for a small car.
This is why. The never ending stream of security issues. The installer hijacking my browser search bar. The never ending nags about new versions, which hijack my browser all over again. It's just not worth it. I have removed Java from all my computers and will never install it again.

I fully realize many web sites and services are implemented in Java, that's not what I was talking about. I will not install or run anything that needs Java. Period.
Some cabs/taxi do this
Publisher Business Development: Virool (YC S12)
Virool is seeking a talented and motivated individual to join our Publisher Development team. Our BD manager will drive Virool’s publisher development strategy and will be integral in strengthening all our publisher relationships and processes.

To apply please e-mail jobs@virool.com with Subject "HN: Publisher Development"

Role Overview:

Virool is seeking a top-notch Publisher/Business Development manager for our team, located in San Francisco or New York. This person will play a major role in the continued expansion of our publisher base, and will be primarily tasked with closing new business that secures access to top-tier publisher inventory. This involves getting into executive decision makers, pitching Virool’s offering, negotiating large-scale buying relationships, as well as growing, building and managing a large book of business within the Virool publisher network.

You will be:

* Fully responsible for procuring and scaling video inventory sources

* Tasked with acquiring, growing and maintaining relationships with major online publishers, portals and ad networks

* Called on to negotiate terms and conditions, and contracts and effectively liaise with Legal

* Well versed in market-specific conditions, technologies and trends

* Responsible for partnership management and strategic development of accounts

* An ongoing contributor to building the Virool brand and community

About you:

* Deep publisher relationships and keen understanding of the online advertising ecosystem, as well as the challenges digital publishers face

* Experience in the online video space

* 3-5 years in digital advertising (Deal closing, Media Buying, Ad Operations, Account Management…)

* Well versed knowledge of data, targeting, re-targeting, audience segmentation, and has done technical implementations with web publishers

* Strong understanding of CPM, CPC , CPV, and CPA pricing models

* Strong organizational skills, able to meet tight deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously

* A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Marketing or similar area of study

* A team player with an entrepreneurial attitude and strong will to succeed

* Inherent drive to crush it

To apply please e-mail jobs@virool.com with Subject "HN: Publisher Development"
For FogBugz and Kiln, we try to follow the principle that changes should always be reversible. Clicking "delete" on something just marks it as deleted, for example, with a corresponding "undelete" action hidden somewhere administrators can find it. If you want to truly delete something, you have to get in contact with our customer service folks (sometimes to our users' chagrin).
Most people put up with overt racism and sexism in American society for > century. I wouldn't count on the average persons sentiment to be indicative of what is moral or correct at this moment in society, or more importantly what is worth fighting to fix. Whereas politicians do.

Politicians only follow the pack, much after the movement towards some social progress has been well underway by pioneering citizens for a long period of time.
I signed their petition to open source it. Say what you will about winamp or its (unbearably shitty) competitor itunes, I'm always in favour of open-sourcing things.
It's funny, but for my entire life I misread "Comic sans" as "Cosmic sans" (seriously — sight reading is a crazy thing), so this was doubly confusing for me.
Looks like a lovely font, but it's similar enough to Liberation Mono that I can't justify spending money on it.
Wouldn't that kind of code live in a data layer that sits between the outside world and your database? So you may manipulate the database in multiple ways but they all go through the same/similar codepaths.
Agreed. That is my next step. I know there will be restrictions and limitations.

Any recommended resources?
First Satellite Developed By High Schoolers Sent Into Space
I write academic papers, and I've started writing blog posts about them, and I think this post doesn't cover one of the main reasons that academic papers are less accessible to non-specialists.

When you write an academic paper, it's basically a diff on previous work. It's one of the most important considerations when the paper first comes out. The reviewers and the people up-to-the-minute with the literature need to see which bit is specifically new.

But to understand your algorithm from scratch, someone needs to go back and read the previous four or five papers --- and probably follow false leads, along the way!

It's another reason why academic code is often pretty bad. You really really should write your system to first replicate the previous result, and then write your changes in on top of it, with the a _bare minimum_ branching logic, controlled by a flag, so that the same runtime can provide both results. And you should be able to look at each point where you branch on that flag, and check that your improvements are only exactly what you say they are.

When you start from scratch and implement a good bang-for-buck idea, yes, you can get a very simple implementation with very good results. I wrote a blog post explaining a 200-line POS tagger that's about as good as any around.[1] Non-experts would usually not predict that the code could be so simple, from the original paper, Collins (2002).[2]

I've got a follow-up blog post coming that describes a pretty good parser that comes in at under 500 lines, and performs about as accurately as the Stanford parser. The paper I wrote this year, which adds 0.2% to its accuracy, barely covers the main algorithm --- that's all background. Neither does the paper before me, released late last year, which adds about 2%. Nor the paper before that, which describes the features...etc.

When you put it together and chop out the false-starts, okay, it's simple. But it took a lot of people a lot of years to come up with those 500 lines of Python...And they're almost certainly on the way towards a local maximum! The way forward will probably involve one of the many other methods discussed along the way, which don't help this particular system.

[1] http://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/a-good-part-of-spee...

[2] http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W02/W02-1001.pdf‎
Umeng, The “Flurry of China”, Confirms Its Acquisition By Alibaba
Has anyone released an me3 mod that fixes the ending? (No, I didn't like the official "fixed" ending, either).
> I'm a little shocked there isn't more outrage in the 'Land of the Free'. Things have degraded to the point that I would think there would be a story on major TV news sites every night.

So long as the people get their professional sport, VMAs with scantily clad women and can buy alcohol and cigarettes very cheaply, their needs are being met and they are not interested in the big picture.
Yes, but with some minor caveats[1]. I prefer always using check constraints since then you get all length constraints in the same place in the table definition.

1. The SQL standard requires truncation of trailing excess spaces on inserts which overflow the limit. Additionally the limit must be less or equal to 10485760 which is less than the maximum length of a string which is 1GB.
Whoa whoa whoa, this is a huge huge huge stretch in terms of causing cancer, and is not consistent with any current beliefs and thoughts on oncogenesis. Methionine availability is much more like the Warburg Effect [1], an effect where cells mostly perform anaerobic instead of aerobic metabolism.

Changing one's diet based on this speculation would be absolute quackery.

A cell's addiction to methionine is an effect of cancer, and restricting methionine can be potentially be used to treat cells that are already cancerous, but there's no thought on how this could possible cause cancer. Dump a bunch of methionine in cells and they're not going to develop cancer, as far as anything I've ever seen. Interestingly enough, diabetes patients that use metformin to treat their diabetes seem to have slightly lower cancer rates than diabetes patients that don't use metformin, which has triggered interest in insulin receptors as possible treatment targets or causes, which are vaguely related to metabolism, but such work is extremely early and no conclusions should be drawn. And that's on far far more solid ground than methionine as a cancer risk.

We understand caloric restriction far better than methionine restriction in terms of extending lifespans of lab animals, so if one wants to speculate on dietary changes, this seems like a far better speculative, pre-knowledge, gamble than methionine restriction.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect#Oncology
haha! How patronizing...
In China it's really risky to tell your true opinion to friends because you don't know who is working for the Government.

In East Germany (during the Cold War) it was similarly risky to tell your true opinion for the same reason.

If one of my co-workers/neighbours ever ask about my political opinions, you bet your ASCIIs that I'd reservedly express approval of our government's great efforts to protect us.

I'm the kind of person that enjoys playing devil's advocate, and I've taken my fair share of pro-communism, pro-liberterian, and absolute pacifism stances (and everything in-between) -- but it was all online. I hide behind my anonymity as a matter of personal policy.
The difference being in my mind that I won't turn to an article in Britannica and find it randomly defaced, or deliberately seeded with biased information. Wikipedia is awesome, but gotta use it as a jumping off point to find references to "real" sources for anything that _must_ be right.
I'm sure they have. But as codex said, Musk is simply not answering the question.
Great work, that takes me back.
Or have small children, in which case it's a horrible idea
Boke (meaning blur) is from a combination of kanji 暈 (bo) and hiragana け (ke). You'll notice that "bokeh" doesn't look like usual romaji (Japanese romanization) spelling, since it would normally be transliterated as boke. It was spelled bokeh with the extra 'h' to avoid accidental pronunciation like poke.

[1] http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml
If it has already dissected it's obviously too late. The parent comment asked if it would prevent dissection in those aneurysms that haven't yet dissected which is probably a more complicated question. It would probably depend on the elasticity of the vessel since we don't see dissection exclusively on absurdly dilated aortas. At the very least we can guess that it would help to extend the life of the native artery. Of course only long term monitoring of these patients will give us a somewhat conclusive answer.
It really doesn't matter if the author / artist intended it or not, if people together find a deeper meaning and talk about it, that's perfectly valid.
That's a reasonable criticism, and I would certainly agree such an insinuation would be a step too far. However I would also argue that the tone and context of my comment make it quite clear that I don't consider the poster to be a shill, but merely allow for that possibility in qualifying my statements, which is quite different to what you are suggesting.
I thought I was the only person who attempted at creating startups with asp.net/azure before I switched to RoR. It looks like I was not alone! Kudos to the OP for open sourcing it.
Some MariaDB - PostgreSQL Notes
Democratic Currency: Why Bitcoin is So Hard to Regulate
Yes, because varchar is implemented as a fixed-length list of characters. Text fields are implemented as blobs, and as such can grow large enough to have to be stored off-page (with all of the associated performance hits associated with that).
My Hacker School Pairing Interview
> How might this be used against me in the future?

I was already doing that, but because "The Internet never forgets", not because of surveillance.

Or in other words, I've already assumed either outright surveillance from the ISP or the botnetted-computers my friends/family use to go to visit my Facebook crap, or later database breaches/hacks conducted by criminal elements.

I mean, all you have to do is look at /r/cringepics, "lamebook", 4chan, etc. etc. to realize that people actually are watching what you post, commenting about those things you post (in forms easily queried by Google) and those people don't work for NSA (who in any event can neither retain the entire Internet indefinitely, nor actually look at everything that's captured even if they felt like it).

So watch what you say if you feel you must, but I don't see why NSA in particular would cause a shift in your behavior, if having things you said come back to bite you later is something you're worried about as a concept, you've long had reason to be concerned.
Because it is vastly inferior to their other drink, Dragon Stout, from that brewery and they either stopped making the superior brew or don't distribute it as widely anymore.
Actually, they often are. But Wikipedia articles are written by dozens or even hundreds of people who spent a significant part of their lives researching the topic. Individually none of those people can match that Britannica expert's experience, but collectively they dwarf him.
This is perhaps a ridiculous idea but I'll post it anyways. There are a lot of features of a paper that might correlate with it's truthfulness. For example surface level stuff like what journal published it or the authors, what subject it's on, how controversial/interesting it is. Then the data itself.

Then get a large sample of papers which are known to be true or false (or at least were able to be replicated or not) and use some machine learning or statistical method to make decent predictions how likely new papers are to be true or false.
Toyota Shows Off Fuel-Cell Automobile
Probably my biggest moment of beer-related culture shock in the US was seeing a liquor section in a pharmacy.
I think those of us in the USA, would love to but know it cannot happen because of the licensing / politics. :(

As an example, trying to deliver beer to my current work site would get you arrested on Federal bootlegging charges.
I realize that Wikpedia is the source of all information in the world but IBM has created or contributed to a considerable number of interesting things more recent:

- Eclipse

- Dojo

- Apache Software Foundation (Apache WebServer, etc)

- PowerPC

- Watson

- SWT

- Deep Thought

- Deep Blue

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)

- http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/03/ready-new-microscope-te...

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/05/01/ibm-made-a-...

- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57541381-76/ibm-brings-car...

The list goes on, and on, and on.

I don't really think IBM is an old dying giant, it's just lost its way a little focusing on short-term shareholder value. Ginni Rometty might not be the right person to lead IBM.

Disclosure: I'm long IBM :)
Snapchat Lawsuit Video Depositions
The lower-case "m" is just too much for me to handle:

See line 7, "summary":

https://github.com/belluzj/cosmic-sans-neue/blob/master/Spec...

It doesn't match the rest of the characters and it's just too smushed-up for my tastes.
Deliver me from startup culture, i'll fetch my own beers from the corner store.
Pay the ones you like to do the same task. Judge by the results.
Beer from Jamaica: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Stripe
The "revolutionaries" did care, and were quite worried to point out that Parliament had (in their mind) no legal authority to direct the internal affairs of the colonies, and their consistent point throughout was that they wished for nothing more than their "rights as Englishmen".

Eventually they had to shift their goal to outright independence to achieve those ends, but even that shift was accompanied by a detailed list of grievances (known as the Declaration of Independence) illustrating why exactly they felt they had to take that step.

Of course, those who actually bother to read that Declaration will note that it emphasizes that even moderate problems with the government should be accepted as a matter of course.

Their problem was not government, or laws, or anything like that. Obviously so, since otherwise they wouldn't have formed a government with laws after the Treaty of Paris, and then scrapped that government a few years later because it sucked so bad that it needed replaced with an even stronger government that the U.S. still operates under today.

Rather, their problem was the lack of the British Crown's desire (in their view) to uphold Britain's own laws and charters as applied to the colonies.
Anywhere where we can demo it live?
I don't play games much and when I do it's on a really shitty 14" standard def TV, so is 720p really that bad? I usually watch videos at that and it looks just fine.
Isn't that what the letter was saying?
I think OWS was the real reason for the ramp up in "total information awareness" surveillance.

I don't think most people realized how effective it was at bringing out collective activism and anger, and how much danger that put the establishment in. They were clearly looking at Egypt and back to OWS and thinking "that shit can NOT be allowed to happen here".

So, how to stop the next one? Mass surveillance - pick out the seedlings of discontent and crush them before they grow big enough to become threatening again.

I'm convinced is also the reason why they considered assassination. They were getting a little desperate.
I guess you can search for developers on GitHub. Look for professionals in the specific field. But don't spam people that have job. Find few great developers and send them personal email.

Also there are marketplaces that claim to have top developers.
E.x. grouptalent.com, toptal.com etc. But I never used them.

Also search for similar question on Quora. It has lots of great answers.
(It's reputed to be one of the most painful experiences possible.)

Tangent: why have humans (animals in general I guess) evolved pain receptors inside their bodies?
You're right... re-reading it carefully I found I missed the point he was making about companies hiring unskilled developers.

I guess I read the whole article with the mindset that coding is not primarily a commercial activity. Therefore hordes of novices is a great thing, a fantastic thing and his point got a little hard to reach for me because I'm not seeing them as potential hires for a commercial team and all I saw was scathing criticism of newbies.

I've been a big fan of his work on software craftsmanship, something I get completely; it's the difference between a master carpenter and a DIY carpentry enthusiast. Don't let the DIY enthusiast build your house, but don't discourage them either, the world needs their enthusiasm!
Note however that normal b-tree indexes cannot index column values larger than 8191 bytes. The 8191 byte limit is applied after possible compression of the string.
I'm not convinced this would be faster over my current knowledge of d3 but it's pretty solid and if you want to avoid common pitfalls it might work for you.
Two points:

1) Regarding volatility, I compare Bitcoin to what would happen if a small startup were publicly traded - of course it's going to be volatile. Over time the bubbles will get less bubbly and the price will smooth out. This is already happening, even if it doesn't seem like it.

2) Bitcoin is not just a currency, it's a distributed ledger which can be used to track ownership of any virtual or even physical property, including other currencies. There are a number of people working on these layers on top of Bitcoin already. Eventually you'll be able to get some of the advantages of Bitcoin-the-distributed-ledger without being exposed to Bitcoin-the-currency (expect perhaps for transaction fees).
This is correct. The point of attending HackReactor, Dev Bootcamp, etc., is to gain a specific set of skills (often starting from zero) that will get you a job. The point of attending Hacker School is to become a better programmer, whatever that might mean to you (note that you have to already be a programmer in order to know that you want to do this).

EDIT: I do think it's unfortunate that Hacker School is basically unique in this regard; its an amazing thing.
nutrition person (forgot the name in english for that profession)

Either "nutritionist" or "dietitian".
Show HN: Easy Webcam Photobooth
Hey, I created this Google Chrome Web App initially for a friend's wedding. They wanted photobooth and I built an extremely portable version using only a laptop (with Google Chrome installed).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easy-webcam-photobooth/ppjpnkhplklbdacliidkmlfmaklpgoko

It basically allowed the couple to set an overlay of their choosing by modifying a simple PNG file and then it also can email the guests a copy of the picture. During the whole process, I was happy to hear how their guests came back to the photobooth with their smartphones saying "I got the photo!"

Everything was built using only HTML5 and the APIs available for Chrome Web App (no jquery was used or harmed during the development).

Thoughts? Opinions?
UN negotiations will predictably go nowhere, since the US maintains a permanent seat on the UNSC with veto power. Any "solution" that relies in whole or in part on the US will fail. The US is not a force for good as it may once have been characterized.

I predict in the future we'll see each individual nation lay their own fiber lines and establish IXPs. At the very least it will protect the privacy of internal communications.
Some friends and I are trying to do something similar actually.
Or of the colors?
Did you reuse that password somewhere else?
We need more collaboration between engineers and the field of medicine. I found the comments about the development process and his doctors' opinions of different approaches coming from outside the medical community almost as insightful and interesting as the invention itself.
Boycott P&G? Do you have any idea what you're suggesting? You might as well boycott eating.
How The Internet Saved A Filipino Woman Injured In Typhoon Haiyan
"It really whips the llama's ass" was a reference to the late, great Wesely Willis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntDcqOxMsM
This was my mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
IIRC he holds up an example / prototype during his TED talk. HN user renang found this diagram: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/16/article-1243723-07...
Red stripe is certainly better than PBR.
You should use it for all of what you use Python for. Python is a sinking language, that has taken too much input from a community of bikeshedders, to the point it can barely move. LuaJIT makes PyPy look like a high school technology project.
Opt-Out of the GitHub Opensource Report Card
Apparently the basic technique was examined in the '50s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770227

However, IIRC, Tal's version is based on one that is custom-built to fit the patient, and of course uses more advanced materials.
Any more details? Pics, docs or blogs describing what it does? Why did the startup fail?
I'm interpreting it as a portmanteau of green and red, which, set on black, are the predominant choices of hackers and terminals on movies and TV shows.