skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how Bitcoin starts to really make people angry. I can't help but feel a lot of the critics are a little bitter about it all for some reason. It's hard to remain objective about things when it evokes such strong emotions as it seems to on both sides.

It's been on HN a fair amount, but it's not been excessive at all. And by definition, it floats to the top because the majority are interested in it!

Bitcoin in my opinion is the most interesting thing that's happened in tech for a long time, and it has the potential to become one of the most disruptive technologies of all time. It is creating ripples in politics, business and economics on a world wide scale. It has the potential for positive social change. Banks leave a bitter taste in most people’s mouths nowadays; Bitcoin can punch them hard in their guts if it can start to eat away at large industries like remittance. No one knows where it's going, general sentiment is that it's future is polarised to total success or total failure. That's intensely exciting! The fact some people say it bores/annoys them I find hard to understand in this community.

For a long time I'd been talking to one of my friends about Bitcoin. He was very excited by it all like me and wanted to buy some. The price then hit $1k. I'd bought in earlier, but he had not. He now actively tells people that he considers it a bad investment. I do not beleive he actually thinks this, I think it's a coping mechanism for his perceived loss. In much the same way I feel like these sorts of posts have the same origins because I struggle to see any other cause.

Bitcoin is a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all.
I wonder how much they will charge for this - what's the efficiency like compared to delivery vans?
One thing to note is that this isn't technologically far-fetched: military UAVs can deliver multi-hundred-kilogram payloads today. Making this a reality won't require unthinkable technology -- it will require steep reductions in cost, which Amazon is very good at, and acceptance by regulators and the public (anyone's guess).
Not particularly, but the contains selector is what I wanted.
You misspelled "cryptocoin" and "cryptocurrency". You're also missing XPM, PPC, XRP, NMC, NSA, and Erlang.
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I'm not ashamed to claim copyright on it, but it's not particularly doing anything novel or patentable, so what's the point?
Fork it and write a blogpost "How I used asm.js and Redis for managing Bitcoins on Hacker News"
we've been flying with drones (mainly octos) with heavy payloads for a while now - http://londonhelicam.co.uk . RED Epics, Phantom high speed cameras, a lot of expensive and heavy cameras.

The main thing is energy density - the current gen LiPo batteries only allow for about 10-15 mins flight with a reasonable payload. Considering Amazon will have to do a roundtrip, this will not give them a very long range.

The second thing is safety - we never fly above people. I don't think the authorities will allow Amazon to fly over populated areas until the tech is 100% safe, which it isn't yet.

I think we're looking around the same time frame as with self driving electric cars becoming commonplace. Many of the problems with battery life and safety are shared. Maybe around 7 years?
Now, if those drones could kill some pigeons on the way...
Because some people use 1MB+ .png images to measure latency of involuntary testers (visitors)?

(the OP contains: http://lognormal.net/boomerang/config.js)
Here's the original Dropbox thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I really enjoy reading Hacker News from time to time. It really reminds me how far removed we are from the actual customers.
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Wether or not I agree with this is of no importance. However I do think something like a filter (similar to Email.app search tags) would be a nice feature for HN.
Don't forget: Scala, Java, MVP, Go, "Patent Trolls" and "HN"!
The interactive formula rendering is done using MathQill by the way.

[1] http://mathquill.com/
It is unfortunate that you have to read the footnotes to understand the article - on a first read of the text I was completely lost.

This is, though, a good idea - at the moment, many interesting articles are lost because not enough people visit the new page.
> How did you deal with this?

Not necessarily very well. I am reasonably happy with myself in terms of what people might characterize as "intellect", but I still feel intractably talented in the field of day-to-day idiocy. I am often quite hard on myself in entirely unproductive ways.
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Windows Phone now has 10.2% share of the smartphone market in EU5
> Climb the ladder and then throw it away so that others can't get to where you are.

Well that's a little disingenuous, no? I know the intellectually lazy like to point out how the west didn't have any restrictions 80-90 years ago during their industrial boom, but you have to keep in mind that 80-90 years ago, they didn't know what a greenhouse gas was. And they certainly couldn't know the long-term impact. We're ALL suffering from those mistakes and ignorance.

The earth is a spaceship and we ride along in it as we travel through our galaxy. It's a spaceship with a finite amount of available resources and a fragile atmosphere. Past ecological abuses are just that, in the past. We need to look forward to the future and protect our spaceship or we all die.
I posted this link on hn a while ago: http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/19/4614410/xcom-the-b..., but it didn't get much traction. I thought it was a great example of software development done wrong.
This could for example be solved by setting up delivery spots in advance, or perhaps by using human judgement through something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

You'll just get your Amazon Prime Beacon™ which you just put on the floor and sends out little pulses to guide the drone.
So, what are the criteria of "scientifically valid" theses these days?

I would have preferred a statement like, "After discarding all parts which relied upon the fabricated data, the resulting thesis is still acceptable to the committee as a doctoral thesis." However, I feel bad about all the Ph.D.'s out there who may feel they have to defend the integrity of their work. (Mine is in pure math; fabricated data is not a big worry for us :D )
There's a node.js sexism issue? Never mind - of course there's a node.js sexism issue.
Personally, I want to hide it because as much as it's cool and techy, the subject matter increasingly is articles on how people have lost / found wallets containing thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins.

The truth is, they have found nothing of value. I was really interested in bitcoins back when it was new and the technology was interesting, however, since every post about it has become entirely financial and there is hardly a post talking about the technology in general, it no longer fits in the subjects I wish to read about.
It is not illumos-specific, but currently it does not work on Solaris 10. It would be trivial to make it work on Solaris 8-10. The main reason I haven't fixed it is because I don't have any machine running Solaris 8-10. We need a builder that does continuous integration.

If people are interested in these older systems, and if someone donates a builder, I can make Solaris 8-10 work as well.
How about making a language, compiler, OS and applications and not use C or C++ ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829464
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That's a cool idea. I could do that by amazon prime airing myself a bunch of raspberry pi's scanning continuously through the system.
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There was a post the other day about how certain topics are already heavily penalized already by HN's algorithm. I.e. each vote only counts as half a vote. Anything with "NSA" for example.
> S-expressions are definitely a syntax

For data. s-expressions are not a syntax for Lisp. Only for data.

> You still need a parser, because there's still quite a bit of ambiguity that gets introduced by language features like macros.

Macros introduce no ambiguity. They are destructuring and/or transforming the code.

Much less noise than your Ruby example:

(mapcar 'sqr (in-range 100))

(loop for n from 1 to 100 collect (sqr n))

Lisp as a programming language is based on words, tree structure and indentation, not so much on special characters. That's different from Ruby. But reading and parsing words is not really different to learn, otherwise you would have problems reading this text, which has lots of words and few special character.
> It's a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all.

I think it's just down to the shear volume of stories about it. It's fine to have bitcoin news on HN, but the frontpage shouldn't be dominated by it.
Everything you see to much of gets you annoyed eventually.
I think this is a problem too. I can understand the manufacturers wanting their logo on the bottom though.

If I was a screen manufacturer I would have a speaker bar on the bottom that has the logo and a few easy brightness controls on it - total Fisher Price usability.

I would then add in a feature for the pros - have it so the speaker/controls bar can be folded up under the screen.

In that way people that like their bling logos could have the logo on view, those that just want a panel can have no distractions.

If engineered nicely you could have USB and video inputs on the drop-down bar made accessible from the front.
> “[Dookhan] was mis-testing evidence, dry-labbing evidence, saying she had ‘conducted tests’ when she had not, deliberately tainting drugs,”

I have absolutely no idea how you can interpret that as "not fabricating evidence"!
It's not true at all that it means the majority is interested in it. If I check out some bitcoin submissions, they seem to have from 50 to 600 points. There's tens of thousands of people viewing HN every day, so that's hardly a majority. It might just be a very vocal, tiny minority that upvotes every article about Bitcoin out there.

It's even not too far off to think some of those upvoters have ulterior motives - they own bitcoin, so any good news about bitcoin might increase the value of their coins, so they upvote regardless of the merit of the article. These days it seems about any article title with "bitcoin" in seems to float to the front page.
How do you even notice these things?

and whites have a more readily perceptible color shift across the screen

Is yours dysfunctional? Retina screen has honestly been a godsend.
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Why is it awful code?

If you're spending time making quick scripts pretty, you're doing scripts wrong.

It's concise, clearly written, does its job well, I certainly don't think it's awful.
Of all the experiments Ive ever performed western blots are probably my most hated and for that I empathise with the doctor. Theres something particularly painful about performing an experiment that consistently fails and has a significant number of variables which forces you to repeat the experiment under various conditions to determine whether you genuinly have noo result or the experiment failed.

Ive spent 6 months doing western blots trying to workout whether the protein i was interested in was actually not expressed or whether something was wrong. It turned out that the commercial antibodies I was using had failed.

Theres enough pressure in research to destroy ones confidencce and self esteem and I genuinly understand that urge to sometimes just turn a blind eye or pretend I saw something I didnt.

At the end of the day though you have to be honest with yourself and decide which road you will travel. Im glad they didn't strip him of his PhD. The public humiliation will warrant enough misfortune for the scientist and hopefully he will learn from his mistakes.
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When I was involved with illumos development, it did run on SPARC. Don't know the status now. Not many people interested in keeping it alive, I guess.

I'd love the technical challenge in bringing Go to SPARC, but writing a new compiler is significant work. Gccgo works on SPARC, in the meantime.
> "Tell me, Harry," said the Headmaster (and now his voice sounded simply puzzled, though there was still a hint of pain in his eyes), "why do Dark Wizards fear death so greatly?"

> "Er," said Harry, "sorry, I've got to back the Dark Wizards on that one."

from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:

http://hpmor.com/chapter/39
isn't it weird that that the numbers of years is 109? A whole number? Which also happens to be a prime.
Been reading Massalin's Thesis on Synthesis OS (partially evaluated, dynamically generated kernel code), it's a refreshing and very inspiring read:

http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/
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This is already the case. While with low fees you can get a patent issued as a smaller institution, in practice only institutions with in-house legal teams can afford to defend them. Those include, unsurprisingly, patent trolls and megacorps. The cost of patent litigation is in the millions regardless which side you're on.
As I explained to someone starting their first programming job, "In college, you get into trouble if you use someone else's code. At work, you get into trouble if you don't." In other words, always search for some code with a licence we can use before writing your own.

My experience of college code is that it may work but it rarely scales and performs well. For example, I downloaded a driver that set up the DMA, did the data transfer then tore down the DMA for every read and write. I changed it to set up the DMA for an open and tear it down for a close, leaving the DMA set up for the data transfers.
Dominated is a strong word from what I've seen!
Sorry for the late response. I carried it in a small carry-on suit case, along with my other stuff, so not in a separate custom luggage. I did take it out and put it through the scanner separately though, as one would with a laptop. It looked fairly expensive and on its own though, as it was professionally made, but if I ever have to do this again, I'll try packing it separately :)
I like the idea but 2 quick points

$44 per kilo of coffee ? ($20 per pound) That sounds a bit on the expensive side.

No details on if it's ground or bean coffee.
And it will probably record it and call the police on you. That drones specifically will be targeted for crime is ridiculous. Do you steal packages left out in front of people's houses or mail? What about ATMs and vending machines that are full of cash and just left unattended?

Crime will happen, sure, but it won't be that common and there are easy things that could be done to deter it.
> It is unfortunate that you have to read the footnotes
> to understand the article - on a first read of the text
> I was completely lost.

I'm not the author, but I'm intensely interested in effective communication. You've taken the trouble to comment, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to walk through the item and explain where you got to in the main body that you thought was unclear, and where you were lost. I assume the first paragraph was self-evident - where did you find it started to become impossible to follow?

> ... at the moment, many interesting articles are lost
> because not enough people visit the new page.

I've always done this, but it's becoming increasingly pointless. My impression is that the number of really interesting articles remains roughly constant, but the total volume increases. It's getting more and more depressing to wade through the uninteresting (to me) to find the rare gems. I still do it though.
IMO, The question whether the scientist gets to keep his PhD is secondary.
The more important question is how do we make sure that we base our research on sound results.
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A superset of ... what the? Why do you keep trotting out this garbage thread after thread?

Every language takes influences from others, if that's what you meant. Scala is influenced by Java, C# and Haskell, in that order. Kotlin is influenced by Scala and Java, etc.

The "superset" and "Lisp, Haskell and Javascript in the same compiler" comments are unhinged from the reality of any language I recognise.
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Could you provide some pointers? I'm kinda in the same situation.
I am shocked and horrified that a loyal servant of the system should be discarded so casually. After all, falsifying convictions is just a part of how the system works, isn't it?

You have to keep the lower orders scared to keep them loyal - otherwise they might start getting ideas above their station, mightn't they? It's like holding a wolf by the ears: release it, and we would all be in trouble.
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Wrong form. The customs form is 6059B.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/sample_declaratio...
there was a show on tv in the UK about working conditions at their distribution centres which was really damning - a psychologist saying they'd combined all the worst practices

with that in mind, i'd say automating more of the order picking process would be better PR - seems like this might damage books but pc component suppliers for instance sometimes have totally automated picking, so may be possible to automate for more robust items
Citi's Curious Password Handling
For about the last week while I have been able to login to Citi's website to access my account, once I actually tried to get the details for the account I was redirected to a page indicating that there was a temporary problem and that I should try again later. Finally today I gave them a call.

Their first suggestion surprised me: I had used punctuation symbols in my password and I was told that while this had worked for years, only letters and numbers are allowed in passwords now. So I reset my password as directed and used only letters and numbers. The problem persisted. I was then asked if I had used upper case letters. I admitted that I had used a combination of numbers, upper case, and lower case letters. At this point I was rolling my eyes but was going to go ahead and reset my password again. But I was told that in fact there was no need to reset my password, simply use the same password but wherever I had specified an upper case letter, use the lower case version.

And this worked. Despite the fact that I had specified my password with a mix of upper and lower case I can login either with the mix of upper and lower case or with every letter in lower case.

Are there hash algorithms which are upper and lower case agnostic? Or should I assume that they store a hash of both the original password form and a lower cased version?

The story goes on but the verdict finally was that Chromium on Linux is not acceptable, but IE 11 on Windows 7 is, and I was finally able to download my most recent statement. I guess it's a good thing that I like to play computer games and so keep a Windows installation handy.
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However, if I had to decide between a XB-ONE, a PS4 and a SteamBox / PC, I'd instantly pick the last one. =)
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Working on a journal of negative results for two years, this does not surprise me...
I am a bit surprised I only caught one mention of the Buffalo N600. I know it doesn't have AC, but it runs DD-WRT for all that I need and has full gigabit ports on the switch.
He faked data in his graduate thesis, in applications for National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association grant, and in two published papers, so his behavior is part of a rather inexcusable pattern.

Doctorate work is supposed to be difficult, and that's part of why it is the pinnacle of academic achievement.

The only responsible course of action they could have taken was to strip him of his credentials. They didn't do that, so one must naturally question every single doctorate they hand out.

Perhaps it doesn't matter to some that they hand out PhD's in the bottom of Cracker Jack boxes, but this is a serious issue that shouldn't be taken lightly.
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It wasn't a whole number, I rounded. Actually, I rounded twice, because it was actually like ~36,000-something occurrences, which I rounded off to 40 because I'm very lazy.