skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm in VS, I just use the F# interactive window. Even when I'm not coding in F# it's always nice to have a repl around.

If I'm playing with data and still want to poke .Net objects, I use Sho[1] which gives an IronPython REPL and some decent numerics support

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sho/
Fun fact, central planning isn't necessarily less efficient:

http://econweb.umd.edu/~murrell/Articles/Can%20Neoclassical%...

> One doubt about the evidence might lie in the comparability of estimates obtained from separate studies, although Table 1 addresses this issue by matching studies with similar methodologies. One study, Koopman (1989b), employs observations on both centrally planned and market economies, thus providing direct comparability. He uses observations for 1960-79 for Soviet republics and a matched sample of Canadian provinces, U.S. states, and Finland, and employs a translog functional form that allows for differences in technology between Soviet and non-Soviet regions. The average level of technical efficiency in Soviet agriculture is estimated at 93 percent, while it is 92 percent for agriculture in the market economies.
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"Still, the addition of official support by Instagram is a good indicator of health for Windows Phone."

What? It took 3 years for them to develop a camera app that can't take photos and this is a good indication of health?
Yeah but those are all driven by competition, which is something that capitalism promotes. Is there something that promotes competition but also collaboration?

I think another sibling comment is right, there needs to be a mix of both and is all down to trade offs.
Here you go: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.foreignpoli...
In any specific area, as a general rule? I think so (there will be exceptions). Why is that supposition so strange?
I would guess that there will be some sort of re-branding/re-launch of something since the message refers primarily to the winamp.com domain. Someone may have purchased the domain or AOL may do something new with it.
This is 100% true in my case. If I value the service, it gets a unique password. If it's Gawker Media, well here's a hash for 12345 and have fun with it.
"...we can build San Diego into a Virginia or a Philly: a place to be inspired by other smart people who are building sustainable lifestyles, profitable products, and happy families. That’s where I want to live."

Love this. People rarely talk about tech startups and sustainable lifestyles/happy families in the same vein and it's a shame. It's one of the biggest benefits I see to building a product company and I think there ought to be more emphasis on that. The whole silicon valley "universe"of fighting for funding, planning exit strategies, pitching contests, accelerators, etc is pretty unappealing to me.

Great job on calling that out :)
Patent trolls make me see red. I hate them with every fiber of my being. They're the bully that used to beat you up and take your lunch money. Except here it's worse, because you can't go the principal for help (here the principal is called the law and it is on their side.) You're left to fume powerlessly against the injustice being done.
"...for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education..."

Might the system as a whole benefit from some selection of those with law degrees (minimum criterion) for best fit to available jobs?
A bit of transparency: Before the edit I received one downvote. After I received 5 upvotes, which is on the higher end of most of my comments. Either I reacted prematurely, or calling it out reversed the perception bias to the positive. I think it's some of both, as the joke really wasn't funny enough to warrant the score.
What’s easier than self-driving cars? Self-flying cars
Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.
Competent central planning would be great! However that would never work in real life...
For some Bill Gates associates with his infamous letter which can be considered the cornerstone of all the IP crookedness which comes out of Microsoft (like software patents racket and so on):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
FYI: the github link 404s. I think the file was removed. It should be https://github.com/astrosilverio/english/
Yes, in the same way that simply using scrypt would.

But, of course, the point isn't that SRP is a weak construction. The point is "client side stretching", whatever that was intended to mean, has nothing to do with the problem of losing a database of password "verifiers", be they plaintext, salted hashes, password hashes, or SRP v-values.
I really dislike this framing, because it's shifted the debate into an irrelevant tangent. It doesn't really matter if it's useful or not; it's still illegal.

Even if 1984 works that doesn't mean it's a society we want to live in.
Contributions from people I idolize help some of the most important projects pushing humanity forward; like Wikipedia SpaceX/NASA/ISS and LHC. Their work supports the largest computers used in medical research and weather forcasting. Not to mention every internet service we use; and some like Twitter were invaluable tools in Tunisia and Egypt.

I don't know what your definition of 'intangible' is, but people I idolize are doing some tangible, visible work.
I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.
LLCs are now the most popular form of business entity for new businesses. They offer the structural flexiblity and pass-through taxation of the partnership form while providing the liability protections of the corporate form. Moreover, unlike S-Corps, LLCs can have owners that are other businesses or that are foreign entities.

There are certain circumstances in which LLCs are not the best form--i.e., where certain applicable tax deductions and credits are limited to corporate entities, where VC investment is sought, or where a formal management hierarchy is required by law (i.e., for nonprofits or publicly traded companies). But generally, LLCs should now be considered the default option for any new business.
This is a conscious culture decision for my workplace.

We ping / discuss topics over IRC even though most of my team is within talking distance. This provides (remote employees|other teams|working from home people) a chance to provide input, logging for reference, and is more multi-tasking friendly (semi-asynchronous communication). However if it feels like a lot of back and forth, we'll discuss in person or via Google Hangouts.

You know how engineers complain about being distracted by people asking random questions throughout the day? We have an email / IRC first culture which minimizes distractions as much as possible.
Failure Friday: How We Ensure PagerDuty is Always Reliable
First Sonique, now this? At least we've still got foobar2000.
To be honest, I feel that if History did that, it would be right. I've worked with people who've worked with people who've had Microsoft bully their businesses into submission. But even though it sounds trite, that's their first world problems. Gates is now focusing on third world problems. I'm comfortable with the stranglehold being a footnote so long as it is not completely glossed over.
I'm getting a lot of this feeling these days. This is an interesting post by the OP. I am going to investigate this more, it might up some avenues to explore further.
The title of the post is supposed to be: CGCATTCCGTTTCGCGAAGATAGCGCGAACGGCGAACGC

It got changed.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=CGCATTCCGTTTCGCGAAGATAG...
Oh, neat. I'm happy to have a number to file away. Thanks!
Probably because the codebase stinks and releasing it would end up in multiple vulnerability discoveries.
Again you seem to be assuming that most terrorists are using known devices and numbers. While that may have been useful to track the Boston Marathon guys who were rank amateurs (and for the record, it didn't help then). It likely wouldn't be of any use at all for tracking someone important and/or practiced at these sorts of things.

Collecting all of the data from all of the citizens in the US, or any country for that matter, is in fact counterproductive, as it creates a great deal of background noise, drowning out the useful data on the subject of interest (also it is illegal to conduct surveillance of US citizens without a warrant... Not to mention all US citizens without a warrant.) I don't think many people would agree that tracking everyone in the US is useful for tracking 'terrorists'. Unless you are talking about collecting data on every citizen to stop future crime that has not happened yet. If that is the plan, that sort of surveillance might be useful, if say ordinary citizen 9834202 decided to commit a crime at an undetermined future date.
It spells out RIP FRED SANGER
Unlike JS-Fiddle, the computation is done server-side instead of client-side, which could cause problems given that R's a memory and resource hog.
I'll poke around and have a look to see why. The Ray ID will be different each time; it's a debugging feature that identifies the request when something goes wrong.

If this persists please contact support AT cloudflare DOT com so we can track it.
Thank you Justin Frankel for this wonderfully whimsical piece of software and all the code you have shared over the years. I wouldn't have been a programmer if it weren't for you being providing such a stellar role model.
Although they're private and won't be paying using tax payer money, I agree and kudos to them. I was just addressing the risks associated with such a thing.
> cheaper not easier.

Cheaper and easier? Your post came off as immediately combative, but when I read the rest I realized that it wasn't at all. I don't mean to chastise you, only to point out how it was perceived.

Have a nice day!
Too bad, I liked their Android player as well. One of the few pieces of software I have used continuously for... oi... longer than I care to admit. Makes me sad.
I see a 'showdead' option, but nothing about showing deleted comments.
While this was a decent article highlighting an interesting point about the impending collapse of the US, this part was obviously classist:

> There was a wave of terrorism by labor radicals and anarchists.

Yes. Terrorism gave us the 40 hour workweek, and in my country of Canada, single payer healthcare...
CGCATTCCGTTTCGCGAAGATAGCGCGAACGGCGAACGC
I use this construction in conversational english with my coworkers all the time.

The first time I heard it I instantly knew what it was and then I thought. "That's a clever language hack".
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If I were their VP of Engineering, the questions jmilloy asked would be top of mind for a post mortem.

I'd also raise the issue of whether the $9.99 all-you-can-eat plan should have a specific limit in terms of absolute number of live connections. From their pricing page, it looks like OFA could have just used the Basic (free) plan. Even still, they will never recoup their costs from this one call even if OFA remains a $9.99/month subscriber for a decade. If "We worked all weekend..." means two engineers worked 4 hours Saturday and 4 hours Sunday, that's 8 hours/engineer * 2 engineers * $100/hour = $1600 of time was spent. That's 13 years at $10/month, not even factoring in infrastructure or bandwidth costs from the call itself. And I'm guessing that estimate is an order of magnitude less than the actual time spent. If I were a potential customer evaluating providers, I would be scared off by your current offer of what appears to be unlimited usage and unlimited priority support for $10/month as I'd have serious doubts of your ability to remain in business a year from now.

No doubt the effort invested in preparation for the OFA call will pay dividends for future scalability, but I doubt the people at OFA would have blinked an eye if you told them that there's a $5 CPM rate for connections beyond the first 100. 140K connections would have been a paltry $700. Obviously, only an analysis of your customer usage patterns would indicate whether you'd impact any serious customers if the basic plan was capped at 100 simultaneous live listeners, with additional tiers for higher peak use. Check out PubNub's pricing model for peak connections as this model makes financial sense: http://www.pubnub.com/pricing
Is it only me, or there is some JS <script> tag in winamp's <title>?

<title><div id="ad_play_300"><script type="text/javascript">
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adSetType("F");
htmlAdWH("93301178", "300", "250");
adSetType("");
//-->
</script></div></title>
No, they often do so because they don't want to pay the rates demanded by US-educated engineers. The education bubble affects more than just the people that take on the debt. Their demands for a salary that can maintain and pay off that debt affects US businesses. It's a competitiveness issue.

Often the reason a firm will outsource the position is to save money and have a level of labor control that would be illegal in most states if the worker were a citizen and employee instead of foreign contractor.
XMMP already exists.
This conveniently rolls out at around the same time as sponsored updates. It's important to note that there are a lot of Instagram clients on Windows Phone already including the more popular 6tag (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/6tag/7d795cdf-fb...).

One of 6tag's features is supposedly 'hide sponsored posts (beta)' which really highlights the urgency as to why Instagram would need to build their own client.
How to get a raise in a Startup
... which would presumably be patched, if it were embraced by the open-source community.
Traditional helicopters are also far more efficient in normal cruising forward flight. They can glide quite well, which is how you can safely land in the case of engine failure [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter)
I forget the sci-fi author and books, but a central theme was that AI results in a de-facto centrally planned economy, even though the AIs themselves are using free-market like behaviors.
Does IUPAC use 'T' to stand for uracil in RNA? I always used 'U'.
I feel like I already know the answer but I really hope they release the source code. At least the community can take Winamp forward then.
Doesn't look like it, but maybe?

http://www.shoutcast.com/
Goldiebox construction-themed board game targets engineering for girls
Good luck - many of these companies form the basis for the products you eat or use (Proctor & Gamble), rely on (General Electric), or need in an emergency (Medical Device Manufacturers Association). A boycott here won't have much effect because in practice it's almost impossible to avoid using or relying on the products or services offered by these companies.

Rather, you should focus your ire and spending practices on the congress people that agreed to leave the CBM out of the legislation. They care more about what you think or care about.

Or give your money to folks like the EFF that will use their lobbying power to counterweight these other folks.
I wonder if, at larger scales like this, electric motors and batteries are unable to efficiently power a tradition helicopter design (one main rotor and a small tail rotor).
This is a repost of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6769202 because the title got changed to something fairly useless. This more directly illustrates what's hidden here :)
Maybe they'll blame you for all their troubles publicly to their 40 million followers ....

How many times do you think the president needs to say "Sorry about the technical difficulties, the company we were using was having some troubles" before it hurts them?
Instagram arrives on Windows Phone, but you can't take a photo or record video
Terrified Obama Trapped Inside Healthcare.gov Website
Disagree. Absent large barriers to entry like economies of scale, network effects, or legal/regulatory hurdles, monopolies are fairly unstable in a capitalist system. The excessive profits that they bring in (monopoly rents) are a ripe target for new firms, who are easily able to enter the market and compete on price. Or technological change renders monopolies irrelevant from the outside.
While I haven't used Winamp in years, this still makes me kind of sad. Justin Frankel & Co. really changed the game.
I still use Winamp as my main musicplayer - it's customizable, import/exports to iPod easily, doesn't spam me with updates, doesn't force me to buy things through it, reads basically every format and above all it is really light.

It's a shame - seems like it died because it doesn't have a content purchasing mechanism forced on the user.
The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne
I re-posted this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6769875

CGCATTCCGTTTCGCGAAGATAGCGCGAACGGCGAACGC

It links directly to the Wolfram Alpha sequence, which more quickly illustrates what's hidden in this sequence.
Just want to point out that patent reform is being voted on in the house judiciary right now.

Worth watching: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hclive02
Good good. The more that can be done to discredit him, even if it is like this, the better.
That's interesting. I thought that the USPS monopoly on usage of your mailbox was premised on the fact that they don't "cherry pick" easily deliverable addresses, being required to deliver everywhere.

Can you explain more about why you don't have postal service?
Nope, I see it too. Some ad code from what I can see.
I would have love for it to go open source maybe at that point Linux would have more visual music
lack of gameplay innovation was for a long time masked by growing pixels, polygons, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 3d, occlusion/raytracing, etc. Now, that most people are stuck with 1080p TV for some years, what console makers to hype? Enabling new gaming interactions is more difficult than slapping on multitasking, shares, badges and occasional voice command. I like where Kinect is going, but its a last moment afterthought in the current crop of games. How it is used in shooters? wave your controller to reload! I will be the first to buy console which offers me to do some real jumping and crouching in the FPS. Hell, I would even buy M4 replica if needed. But sitting there for hours and gaining real pounds? I am too old for that.
As @thinkpad20 said. I bet there are a lot of people that would fix things, provided it is not systemic design errors that would require global refactoring.
Totally agree - it's been the best part of the past year. Having the freedom to do whatever ya want every day.

I don't understand the hate towards "lifestyle" businesses.
Children's toys are not generally targeted towards the parents.
Well, I wouldn't discount the bias in the New York Times; they have every incentive to maintain ongoing controversy. Also, notice that it's a NYT blog, which I take less seriously than a news article.
Or buy neither, as Sony isn't any better. PC game on Linux or OS X.
seems weird that would be a problem for AOL.
Upvoted for accurate criticism of the title, but... spoiler alert?
The bigger implication is that if you know the frequency of prime numbers and have a way to calculate when to expect them the difficulty in calculating new large primes is greatly reduced. In effect the strength of all encryption based on Primes is greatly reduced.

BitCoin, PGP, HTTPS, Certs, all just got orders of magnitude easier to crack. Well not just... It will take a little bit for time to use this information to create optimizations for beating each of these. But soon.
The amount of circlejerking in these comments is appalling. To label a corporation in favor of software patents as 'evil' does nothing but water down the word. There are many legitimate reasons to be for software patents and I'm sure there are many legitimate software patents. Patent trolling is a hindrance to innovation, sure. But equating the two is absurd and I'm annoyed at the serious lack of substance in any of these comments.
> First, it's probably not the case that interest and practice can have any impact on your underlying mathematical aptitude.

What?! How did you arrive to that conclusion? This is a really bad myth. Math abilities for the most part have very little to do with genes, and almost all to do with hard word, motivation, and practice. See http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myt... for more.
I'd disagree that node.js fit that argument. I do python Django in my day job and a ton of node.js in my other projects (startup nearing launch, two other projects) and with express there is not a huge gulf in productivity between the two. All of my node.js projects is based upon No-SQL (leveldb, mongodb, couchdb) db's so I'm not up on JS's ORM libs but it might be a large difference there but it's certainly not when using a No-SQL db.
I still use Winamp on every PC I own.. Even bought a license but i never bother to add it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film)
From the NYT:

Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent to “take as much of our profits as they want.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
I would love to contribute if there was a public repo.
It's hard to imagine the impact of open source software exceeding that of eradicating malaria and polio.
Why “Twitter IPOs” might be bad for your startup
Socialism says nothing about competition in the realm politics/power. Elites don't go after the money for the money, they go after the money as a means to power. You can add all the socialistic elements to society you want, as long as there are limited positions of meaningful power, you will likely get people competing over them.

And at some point you've added as much socialism as you can, and now you're at communism. And now you have "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", and now you have people squabbling over who the hell is best at high-influence, high-prestige positions, cause they're all pretty sure that they are the best.

And remember, capitalism -does- promote collaboration. A corporation is nothing but a huge collaboration. A collaboration that looks actually hilariously socialistic/communistic.
That sounds dysfunctional, not at all normal. You've given a ton of power to your employer, with no position for you to have any recourse. This sort of plan actually incentivizes the board to fire all current employees, especially those with the most "promised" equity. I can't imagine ever agreeing to a situation like that, unless I could confidently say that, assuming I got no equity (which likely will be the case), it's still a better deal than my alternatives.
For such a statement to be true or not, you've got to be more precise about what you mean by capitalism.

At it's heart, capitalism is about 1) private ownership of the factors of production through limited liability and tradeable claims; and 2) a separation of management of the firm from ownership of the firm.

I don't see that being replaced anytime soon. The idea that a top-down technocratic solution (of which I would consider socialism an enlightened example) would result in greater human thriving has not been borne out empirically, and in theory has problems that the information and feedback processes driving decision making are less efficient.
Why? High education and underutilization might be big multipliers for social unrest. I can't think of a group that might be more pissed as they realize just how large a role luck and birth can play in "success".
That link also presents a registration form. Thanks anyway.
Depends on the kind of bribe. On this specific case, I'd blame both, but it's not a universal rule.
Emacs org mode -> export to HTML.

(if you can get away with it)
yup, my browser is displaying getting fragments of html at the top of the rendered page.