skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was inspired by this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813162

I find that lookback of 2 generally creates more entertaining titles. Lookback of 3 usually seems to just splice together two titles (which can be hilarious, and is usually more grammatically correct), and lookback of 1 tends to generate more nonsense.

Some fun ones I found just now:

The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Teenage Hacker

How my comment on TechCrunch got me a new, useful superpower?

PHP Sucks But I Didn't

Windows 8 is 20% faster than C

The Navy’s newest warship is powered by WebGL

Cards Against Humanity has made comments even worse, I'm leaving

How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a html5 game, polished it many many times

Interestingly, if I change the code to pick the most likely word, followed by the most likely word, etc. the "most probable" post is "The New York Times and The Internet"

If I limit it to just 2013 posts, it is "The NSA surveillance".

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I would find it interesting to know how the average height changed over time. It seems now it's much more acceptable to have really tall pages unlike the above-the-fold way of thinking of the previous years.
> And on most carrier locked Android phones, you have to find an exploit to root your device before they let you sideload apps.

This is wrong.

Allowing this is built in to Android and it's a user togglable setting.

Verizon explicitly mentions sideloading and how to enable it:

http://mobile.vzw.com/LocationAgent

For Android devices, please confirm the device's Location Services
setting GPS and Verizon Location Services (if present) are set to
on and the device's Settings > Security > Unknown sources is checked.

http://cache.vzw.com/multimedia/mim/mot_droid_razr_hd/razrHD...
PDF Page 15:

To let your smartphone install apps that are not from
Google Play, tap Apps >Settings >Security & Screen Lock
and check Unknown sources

Ditto AT&T:

https://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/en_US/pdf/att-to...
PDF Page 3:

In order to install these apps, you must ensure the 'Unknown Sources'
box is checked [...] Follow the instructions on your phone to enable
this feature and continue with AT&T Toggle installation.

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB410684&cv=820

Before you begin, you'll need to set your Android smartphone
to allow downloads from non-Market sources by selecting Unknown sources
in the Settings menu on your device.

Ditto Sprint:

http://eguides.sprint.com/support/eguides/htcone/content/htc...

Go to Settings > Security, and then select the Unknown sources
option to allow the download and installation of the tool
through your Web browser.

http://eguides.sprint.com/support/eguides/sprintvital/conten...

If you want to install apps from sources other than the Google
Play Store app, you must allow the installation of apps from
unknown sources first.
> tells the students that gravity accelerates things at the same rate regardless of mass

Please get your wording right, there is a big difference between force and acceleration. It is trivial to prove, that things are not accelerated by gravity at equal rate.

PS: I am not usually wording-nazi but since you started with calculus...
A tiny number of people saying "The Sun revolves around the Earth" have any idea of the subtleties of different frames of reference.
No, it does not take the pen 6 times longer to fall down on the Moon compared to Earth. Not even close. That's not how acceleration works. [I can give the equation, but I think it's more instructive if people think about it themselves :-) ]

Also, actually try dropping a pen, like right now. Gravity "kicks in" immediately - there's no perceptible delay. (Unless your perception is way different from mine.)
But what was wrong with the name Mtgox? That seems perfectly consumer-friendly to me.
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Someone has to try it somewhere. I for one won't make predictions, and instead think I'll wait to see if a country adopts this and see what happens to its industry, quality of life, and so on before being on 'one side or the other'. Most of the predictions in this thread are based on basic assumptions of economics that come from political backgrounds/beliefs, and I don't think that's an appropriate way to argue something this complex.

A lot of you are programmers, at least some of you can run simulations. Stop arguing with words, and instead concentrate on developing models. In other words, start contributing to the science or stop arguing from ignorance.
But the browser won't cache the image?

Also, you can't post the page to Google+ and have the image show in the post or post a link to the image direct etc.

I only noticed because I couldn't post it.
`ng-cloak` doesn't work if your scripts are not in the head. Also, you should not use the less.js script in production, it is unbelievably slow. You should compile the LESS files into CSS files before deploying to a live site.
You can't rely on the order of imports initialization anyway. See http://golang.org/ref/spec#Program_execution .. I believe that's also the reason, you shouldn't call `flag.Parse()` in `init()`
Usually you send your password to a service, but in this case encrypted data is "leaked" to a person requesting it. 2-FA prevents from giving this data to strangers (and won't help if the service is hacked, yes)
The Fish -- A brainteaser by Albert Einstein
On the regular folk learning about the wonders of programming
Kim Dotcom's Mega comes to iPhone with file sharing
No, but it's not a great deal to write a parallel execution subsystem in C/C++ which abstracts the differences between pthreads and WebWorkers away. Using low-level pthreads primitives directly in high-level code is a bad idea anyway.
.. and yet I hardly see any speed difference on cable, because many websites use CDN/Cache. Also many users switched from heavy websites to green sites. Very light and fast. Using alternative DNS like OpenBSD helps ^_^
Things San Franciscans Should Be Thankful For
How is this better than applying the minimum description length principle formalization of Occam's razor? (from 1978 [1])

I admit that I didn't spend time to really delve into it but nothing in this article strikes me as particularly ground breaking.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length

edit: innovative --> ground breaking
Add

.ng-cloak {display: none !important;}

To your css. You've already added the ng-cloak class to your element, angular will remove it once it is done loading.
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Don't be silly! People in power don't go to jail.

:)
The fastest programs return 0 immediately and don't do shit.
The points of discarding data you don't need, not looking at stuff you don't need to look at, and minimizing the processing of the stuff you do look at are also highly valid.

I've seen 90% performance boosts in code where access to low-level data formats really wasn't possible. Though at times, using appropriate data structures / methods also helped markedly.
There is a third one, at low level: make it do something else.

For example, programmer requests a multiplication, compiler generates a shift; programmer requests a division, compiler generates a multiplication; programmer specifies a switch, compiler generates a jump table.
It's an ellipse, but it is so elongated that it is extremely close to a parabola. If the entire mass of the moon was concentrated in a single point at its centre, and the projectile could pass through the moon, then the projectile would follow a parabola-like path and go down below the moon's surface, until it started curving around the other side of the centre and back up to its starting point. It's only when you look at the uninterrupted path that the difference between the parabola approximation and the ellipse becomes apparent.
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The billionaire won't notice it because it won't exist; the billionaire will be taxed way above mincome, because otherwise how are you going to pay for it?
Under "top 8" exchanges they list MtGox first. Does not inspire confidence in them in light of the news about BTC China being the biggest.

They claim the rankings come from Bitcoin Charts, yet on there BTC China has 60% more volume than MtGox.
This is the second time this has showed up on the front page and I'll say the same thing I said last time. The title of this post is totally misleading. The article presents a very high level overview of some concepts that could be important to consider if you decide to write a scala/java debugger, but you won't have any idea how to write a debugger after reading this.
That is literally hilarious.
"Nobody’s going to download your bullshit app" ,
"HN will be retired, transition to Google Wallet Anti-Competitively" , "The best interface is no retirement" , "Amazon's homepage was down for 6 hours to boot Ubuntu" , "PHP Sucks But I Like PHP" , "Programming is a Lie" ,""Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine" , "Ask HN: What colour is your primary operating system" , "Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Costly Mistake" , "CSS Zen Garden is 10 times more efficient than the New Commodore 64" , "How one man escaped from a major UI overhaul" , "Turn anything into a Wikipedia article" , "Women, Tech Conferences and the "profitless business model" fallacy" , "MySQL now includes memcached, and a manifesto" , "FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code with MS Paint" , "Iceland Kicked Out of Y Combinator without an Idea" , "The shittiest project I ever read", "From idea to exit – the vi editor"
Awesome idea. Where can I get some of my action figurines made?
Isn't it because the apps aren't completely customizable/removable without rooting? So if a carrier includes apps that you don't like and that you want uninstalled but can't. The same probably goes for google play services. What if you don't want that to auto update?
Same experience here. I wanted to grab some Litecoin last week as people started speculating with them as well but I won't totally give up my privacy to shady websites for some gambling.
Supply and demand.

If we assume people prefer to live in a major city, and incomes are adjusted so that your income matches your cost of living, there is no downside to living there. That puts upward pressure on an area that is probably already maxed out for living space, which causes people to pay a little bit more in order to secure a place to live. Then, your income rises to offset your new costs of living there, providing the money necessary to allow someone to pay just a little bit more than you, thus beginning the cycle.

Outside of the city you would find a low demand and high supply of housing under such a scenario, and thus there would be no fuel to ignite a race to out-pay each other to find a place to rent. In fact, there you could probably convince the owner to accept a little bit less for rent as few people are interested in the place at all. If your offer is not accepted, it might sit vacant.
This definitely highlights how broken the software licensing system is. The US military is notorious for placing money and budgets as a rather low priority. The biggest hurdle for most groups isn't obtaining money, it's going through the bureaucratic processes. Likely, the priracy was committed to avoid the painful bureaucracy. If the company simply made it easier to obtain a lawful copy of the software they would probably be recovering a lot more than $60M - and without lawyers.
Rossi refuses to divulge many details, but other scientists give all information necessary to reproduce, see Piantelli's research for example.

At this point the blame fully lies on the scientific community for ignoring these.
See the famous video of one of the lunar astronauts dropping a hammer and a feather at the same time. Both of them drop fairly rapidly to the surface.
It would have been really interesting to ask people to draw a free-body diagram listing out each of force acting on the rock, prior to asking the question of what would happen when dropped. It would be hard to make up a force besides lunar gravity and any Physics 101 student should now answer correctly by analytic reasoning.
It's interesting that, while the system can learn lots of different games, you still have to give it the reward function special for each different game. This may seem obvious, and not much of a limitation- after all, lots of things that we think of as intelligent to varying degrees (different human beings, as well as members of other species) have wildly different ideas of what constitutes "reward", so that can't be an inherent part of the definition of intelligence.

But you don't have to explicitly tell a human what the reward function for Pac-Man is. Show a human the game and they'll figure it out. Which makes me wonder if, while there is some room for variability in reward functions, there might be some basic underlying reward computation that is inherent in intelligence. I can't find the link just now, but I read an article a few months ago (might've even been here on HN) about a system that demonstrated the appearance of intelligent behavior by trying to minimize entropy and maximize its possible choices for as long as possible within a given world model.
Liberals don't want to see other people accepting an income below what is needed for them to survive in a way that we can accept, so pass rules about a minimum wage.

This is silly. If that were the motivation, then minimum wage would be a few dollars/day.

Here is a list of countries by GDP per capita, after adjusting for purchasing power. Lots of countries (e.g. Venezuela, Georgia, India) have a GDP/capita below the US minimum wage. The world GDP/capita is below the US minimum wage. Yet somehow people in those countries still survive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

As long as you make enough to afford something nice that you want that you couldn't otherwise afford, there is no reason not to take the job.

Sure there is - you might value that nice thing less than you value watching tv instead of working.
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Just to point out, MapR isn't a slam dunk for a couple reasons. Their HBase implementation is very fast, but it involves using their whole Hadoop distribution. In my experience:

- the management UI isn't as good as Cloudera Manager, or even Ambari in HDP2.0

- 3rd party support isn't there. If you want to use anything you find on GitHub, get ready to add support for MapRFS, and revert the API version back to 0.21

- there are bugs. Weird, specific bugs in the filesystem implementation which will bite you once every few weeks. This is one area where they lag the ASF project: many eyes do make these kind of things shallow. Their smaller install base and fewer developers means these things take a long time to notice and fix.
This is great. It will definitely make it a lot harder for them to defend copyright issues in court.
We're already making central lines out of antimicrobial materials, like ionic silver.
One thing is for sure (IMO), this would never work in America. The not-obvious reason is the middleman problem. In America (again, IMO), the primary financial problems we have has to do with capitalist opportunists finding clever ways to become transition siphons for money flowing in any given direction. The: It's-only-2500$-a-month thing would rapidly become 10000$, 100000$, etc a month as politicians add pork fat, Local municipalities siphon from it, public welfare divisions sprout up to "support" the distribution, and finally the capitalist system itself engineers ways to absorb that new free money floating around the system.

No. This would never work. This kind of universal support system depends on a core of altruism. I don't think anyone will try to make the argument that America's core is altruistic.
Exactly! This reminded me of the Little Planet what if http://what-if.xkcd.com/68/ Munroe claims on a small, super massive planet, you could overcome escape velocity with a sprint. It doesn't work the same on the moon obviously, but only because the moon has significant gravity.

>Which, pointed out a discussant, suggests that students are using buoyancy as an analogy — if you’re heavy enough you sink, if you’re light enough you float.

Why is this such a stupid assumption? That's how it works on Earth.

I don't believe that these kids are failing to think; they're using reasonable analogies, but lacking specific knowledge about the environment on the moon.

>"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford

Basically the authors are complaining that the students haven't collected a specific stamp.
Considering how the price is doing even though it is really hard to buy the things, I shudder to think what would happen if you could buy them at your local bank branch.
I'd argue that's just a variation of doing less, in the same way that e.g. vectorization is a variation of parallelism.
That's what coinbase is for. Pretty easy to register and get verified... if you happen to be in the US of A (or own a bank account there, anyway).
Why are English majors studying computer science?
Nice! I was thinking of doing something like this some weekend. Wouldn't a database be better for the places instead of that static file?
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> Point being, there's always some trade off. All universal income does is push the cost of lunch onto the wealthy even more

Yes, that is the point of welfare. Universal income is a type of welfare. It is a form of welfare which is preferable to other forms because of its simplicity of implementation.
At some point, Barclays Pingit (a UK mobile payment service) provided a service to buy Bitcoin by sending cash to services that supported it (you can send cash to a telephone number if it maps up to a bank account). However it was always down when I looked. The only alternative seemed to be wire transfers and escrow which I wasn't interested in dealing with.
The problem is bacteria have all kinds of targets on them that our cells don't.

Drugs to attack fungi, let alone cancer, are far more difficult because we're both eukaryotes and share many, many molecular targets. The really hard part is to kill a cell that looks like our cells, but not our cells.
Oh, c'mon. I was currently doing the exact same thing the blog post advices against.

I was designing, centralizing, decoupling. Then some changes came about. I implemented them, then watched them fluently rippling throughout the system. "How cool is that?".

It was some time ago when I was an OOP-design junkie (I think it's analogous to puberty: exaggerating). I think I passed that, as I frequently wonder if I'm over-designing and get back to using plain strings, constants etc.

I once read that, designing a plugin (be it a pattern or an actual plugin), try no less than 3 different implementations.

He's right, though. I work with Magento. Try adding a new backend form in that beast.
Buy BTC at Coinbase -> transfer to BTC-e -> turn BTC into LTC
WeChat is going to be huge for payments (unlike WhatsApp)
pimp up your droplet, this is great.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was because people misinterpreted it as complaining about reposting, which is a contentious topic on HN.
All this from an assertion about the simplicity of Clojure syntax?

Because this is just syntax, "A 'looks' the same as B. Cool!" is a more definitive statement. After all, it's just getting compiled/translated to JVM byte code anyway.

Efficiency is an entirely different conversation and tangential to the one we've been having regarding syntax and simplicity. Nobody has asked to this point, but I have no problem with Clojure's syntax structure. I find it very compact, I like the explicitness of parentheses, and like that it works in the JVM. (Disclaimer: I've not deployed any Clojure-based code in a production environment, so my own experience is limited.)

I also find that it's syntax has its own quirks, much like every other language. And while some things 'look' the same in Clojure, other things don't -- and that's perfectly ok. It's relatively consistent enough that the syntax logically points to its idioms.

But I stand by my original comment: it's only as simple as the observer makes it out to be. I don't find the syntax of Clojure more or less simple than many other languages.
Markov chains are always hilarious. Try feeding it the whole text of a news article, or even a book; this way you can use higher lengths and get even more impressive results.
"But verification can take weeks or months and the odds of getting accepted are actually low"

This is simply not the case, at least in the US
Who cares? The government pays for WIC, so the only people being defrauded in this circumstance are the government. There's no "price gouging" involved here; WIC recipients get a voucher that pays full price for the items on the voucher, no matter what they are or how much that is.
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Thanks to grep, it almost payed my rent
Pedant's note: Contrary to popular belief, witch hunts were rare in the Middle Ages. They took off in popularity during the Renaissance.
Right, it didn't turn up in the exploratory survey or in the interviews. Well, also we wanted to know how developers use Twitter ... the API I guess wasn't that important at least to the people we talked to. Some said in the initial survey that they had switched to App.net though, but it was only a tiny fraction that we weren't able to talk to. As we say in our study, our results are not generalizable, so there may still be several other issues lurking that we didn't catch in this study.
Coinbase makes it really simple. In a week, without ID verification I received my BTC.
we guys here need an action figure like this one :)

http://blog.creativedepartment.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
Did you read the article at all? How is mining BTC an option for regular people? Have you attempted to purchase a foreign currency? It's usually a two-click operation at most.
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Poor college student, etc...

I am currently using all of my VPS funds hosting a 20$/mo (the big bucks, right?) droplet which is running a server for an AI programming game I made (currently closed testing among my friends).
The curvature of the surface of the moon doesn't matter, but the fact that the rock is orbiting the center of the moon just like a satellite would is the insight that Newton needed a smack on the head to get :)
Now if we could generate the actual posts and create bot readers we could all retire.
I recall nearly the same story about Jerry Weinberg:

Engineers: Oh your system can only do a thousand cards a minute? Ours can do ten thousand.

Weinberg: Yeah but your system doesn't work! If mine doesn't have to work I can do a million cards a minute.

I thought I got it from one of Weinberg's books.
?!

In the US, Coinbase is easy
In the UK, Bittylicious is easy

I'm sorry it's so hard in Germany, but your title should be "It's hard to buy Bitcoins in Germany"
In my region, there are a lot of able-bodied man in their forties and fifties who, thanks to the state policy, are already retired. The sad fact is that, due to a ton of free time that's suddenly appeared in their lives, a lot of them have become drunks.

I fear that for every person doing something meaningful with the freedom given to them via basic income, there'll be 10 or 20 who become couch poatoes or worse, self-destruct (booze, drugs, gambling) out of boredom.
In the standard case I agree (and I hope there is an option for that). I think the use case for this library is dropping it into a soup of HTML cooked up by a non-technical user. A programmer would have a JSON list to work with from the start. Could be totally off base here though, would love to see other takes on it.