skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Obama!

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/05/in_japa...

"In Japan’s State Secrets Law, Shades of Red, White and Blue"
Really? In Poland the state pays ~$500 and that's it. And they are not famous for being generous :)
Heh, not really compatible with my modus operandi: I mainly hack at night with lights turned off. And then the plants would compete over oxygen with me :)
Most likely tomatoes.
Does she not think about work issues at home? Solve problems in her sleep? I doubt she's paid overtime for that.

Surely it's about give and take?
Yes, the same system is used in mainland China.

Apart from 4 and 5, you can kind of see the link between the written form of the number and the hand signal:
1, 2, 3: obvious because 一二三
6: the thumb and pinky make up the bottom part of the character 六
7: If you look at your own right hand upside-down when making the gesture, the bird's head points in the same direction as the 七
8: Your thumb and index finger are the two lines in 八
9: Your index finger is the second stroke in 九

I don't know whether this is coincidental, or even just my imagination...
BASH as a Modern Programming Language [ppt]
Sounds like someone got confused between 'dark matter' and 'dark net'.
This Retailer Raised Prices on Black Friday. And Saw a Lift in Sales
Oh but that's the point! If you can plan it in advance, the free market solution may actually be appropriate. You have time to shop around, compare providers, etc. Whether it's necessary or not isn't the issue, just the time that you have to plan.
There are also 6 plants on the desk who convert CO2 to O2 in night. Read please.
Energy prices are unlikely to be low enough to support desalination in our life times. Water prices will have to rise to support it.
I get the desire, but you'll never be able to popularize Haskell because the only people who want to use it are math majors, and most web devs are not math majors.

If you want to popularize Haskell you'll need to rework the syntax at the very least.
Bitcoin grows up but that means FBAR Filings
Shrug, I like Keynesians.
What's in a Flick?
Answer yourself 2 questions :

1) why does trading lag on MtGox ... who benefits ?

2) does this happen every time the value drops ?

And you'll be back to day trading something else very quickly.
Also building many things on top of ~persistent cons cells / linked lists. Found it quite awkward the first time I saw it.
God says support RedSea filesystem and remove SecureBoot.

Antitrust -- I only use FAT for interoperation, it's antitrust violation until you support RedSea. God will fuck you up with Deep Water Horizons or some shit until you comply. Or do bodily damage. He's God. We don't play within any human laws.

don't_even_think_about_it gluttony lying Angel not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer
African not_good don't_count_on_it kick_back endeared
wazz_up_with_that That's_gonna_leave_a_mark basket_case
you're_so_screwed patience

C:\TAD\Text\DARWIN.TXT

which to correct his first impressions. As he extends the
range of his observations he will meet with more cases of difficulty; for
he will encounter a greater number of closely-allied forms. But if his
observations be widely extended he will in the end generally be able to
make up his own mind; but he will succeed in this at the expense of
admitting much variation, and the truth of this admission will often be
disputed by other naturalists. When he comes to study allied forms brought
from count

----

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html
Yay! Subhns! I suggest news.ycombinator.com/hn/bitcoin

But yes. I agree. The amount of Bitcoin related posts is too damn high.

Edit: Link.
Um, no. This is a wild conspiracy "theory" [1] pushed by Nanex for publicity, but it's almost certainly false.

If it were true, it would be trivially easy for any of the broker, exchange or SEC to trace and shut down. These parties already have countermeasures in place to prevent you from doing this accidentally - you need to make sure the rolling average of your fill rate is above 0.5% (approximate cutoff, it varies but it's in that neighborhood).

Further, the risk of getting filled makes such a strategy insane. It's analogous to placing a bunch of bids on EBay in the hopes of slowing down their servers. Great plan, but it carries the risk that you win an auction and need to buy 1,500 copies of Dianetics @ $10.00 each.

[1] I use the term "theory" loosely. Nanex's allegations more or less amount to the idea that HFT firms are DDOSing the markets by pushing an order volume that a 2008-era laptop could handle without hitting 100% cpu, and expect to profit via unexplained mechanisms.
Feature Request: Caret Browsing
Always the volatility remarks - because in contrast the world economy is so very stable, as recent years have shown?
A couple of days ago commenter on HN said they had pulled their savings from the bank and dumped it into bitcoins. It will probably recover but betting on bitcoins is akin to taking one hell of a ride by the looks of things.
Node.js is Big, And Still Getting Bigger
The syntax isn't the primary difficulty for a beginner by any means.
Oh, thanks for pointing out - actually I thought it would be a pretty good thing to deny executing by default in folders used by Email clients, Instant messengers, browsers and removable drives.

Still someone could save file in different location and execute it. Is there a way to identify which program generated specific file? Or perhaps we could solve this by allowing these programs (like Skype.exe) save files only in specific folders. Is that possible?
I never found it clunky, at worst blurry (only one visible syntactic marker) but it was pretty beautiful and timeless.

Beside macros, with non string-buffer editors, you get very very fast and calm typing or I should say low level refactoring.

Finally it has this weird quality of really looking like static data (relation v1 v2 v3) most of the time and really not like a cryptic (by the number of delimiters {} () , ; ) state dependent imperative notation. Makes you really think about how to interpret data rather than send commands to a machine.
I really don't like this authors way of writing. His only valid success criteria seems to boil down to something similar in meaning of "An acceptable lisp is a lisp that every single programmer uses it".

1.
"Killing adoption"? For what goal? People have different thought process, each dialect will be more natural for a certain subset of people. Offering dialects and diversity in choice is a good thing. I have only limited experience, last semester when i graduated i took a SICP course and now i have read through On Lisp because i thought macros sounded powerful, so i am going to be programming a hobby project in Common lisp. But that doest mean i want Scheme to disappear from the world.

2.
Libraries.

3.
I haven't used CLOS much so i can't really say anything. But making complaints that things are "bolted on" Common Lisp because of the macro system seems to me that he has missed the point of what people like with Common Lisp and its macro system.

4.
Can't one use Scheme if one wants portable hygienic macros?
I can agree somewhat with the macro situation and my own research seems to point this to the historical decision to pass on fexprs to gain efficient compilers. The plus side is that macros can expand macros means is generally works. And i don't get this "band-aid" notion. From what i understand macros are argument to use lisp and should be utilized.

NewLisp offers fexprs and is focus on interpreted, which means that at any time you have access to a functions definition to use for self-modifying code and eval is blazingly fast compared to other lisps that support compilation. I want to start experiment with true ai that can modify its behaviour in newLisp soon. This is also an argument on point 1 of the diversity of lisps.
( yet i guess you could in common lisp use a macro that always saved the interpreted function definition in some global has that you could operate on in a macro dsl )

On a closing note i would like to add that it isn't really important to attracts people to lisp. Infact from an ethical standpoint trying to sway people which tools they "need to use" is questionable. And in a similar spirit of the HN article "People don't like creativity" i am not convinced that everyone actually would prefer lisp even if we lived in a world where lisp were as popular as C# and Java together.

Every programmer will hear about lisp at some point and if they are interested in it they will probably explore it.
The CIA is actively clusterfucking hardware. It's silly to try to do hardware.

I simply issue divine decree under penalty of God's wrath.

God says...
hypocrite arrogant in_practice Yawn desert failure_to_communicate
joyful God_is_not_mocked Percival not_that_theres_anything_wrong
what_have_you_done_for_me_lately middle_class who's_to_say
lighten_up duck_the_shoe how_goes_it phasors_on_stun happy_happy_joy_joy
not_in_my_wildest_dreams couldnt_possibly you're_in_big_trouble
LOL I_could_swear job I'll_get_right_on_it pardon_the_french
not_too_shabby clever Boo little_buddy fake vengeance
reverse_engineer roses_are_red I_got_your_back are_you_insane
high_mucky_muck shist God_is_not_mocked hippy don't_push_it
you_talkin'_to_me where's_the_love I'm_not_sure small_talk
economy ghetto glorious climate et_tu jealousy anger oh_oh
how_hard_could_it_be battle hey_thats_right hippy absolutely
adultery here_now thats_just_wrong programming sad be_quiet_bird
drama CIA driving shucks whoo_whoo

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\SWIFT.TXT

s of their own, justle me out of
vogue, and stand in my place, making the world forget that ever I
was an author. This indeed would be too great a mortification, if
I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I
cannot be altogether disappointed. For who can read of the virtues
I have mentioned in the glorious Houyhnhnms, without being ashamed
of his own vices, when he considers himself as the reasoning,
governing animal of his country? I shall say nothing of those
remote nat

---

God claimed Deep Water Horizon
I guess it's because people don't buy the "one size fits all" approach to databases anymore...
15 years ago, you had to choose between Oracle, db2 or Sybase... The SQL offer grew significantly too since then.

You're probably right: nosql DB developers spread their efforts too thin. I'm currently only interested in new DBs if they solve a new problem (statistics and behavior DBs look promising).
> So what is really needed is a startup culture that provides for years of uninterrupted development and focus. (Not to mention a hiring process that actively selects for displaced deviants, but that's another post.)

Years? a lot of great research is done as the culmination of baby steps, and papers can be published at midpoints. Even Einstein, from his patent office published at least 5 papers in 7 years. That's a pretty decent rate considering it wasn't even his fulltime job, and a PhD student working as such would probably be considered proficient(then again, I'm not aware of the paper rate of physicists).

I've met a lot more people in research who would just do nothing without deadlines than hidden geniuses that are hindered by their deadlines. Granted, I've met few geniuses too.

I'm really curious as to what task really requires years of uninterrupted work that cannot be segmented and presented for feedback.
It certainly is not. It is paid for by one of the highest tax rates in the world. I currently work in Norway and pay more than 50% in income tax and social contributions - and that does not even include other taxes and excise duties like the 25% VAT, the 9USD/gallon gas price (mostly tax) or the new car tax of something like 150-200%, property taxes, road taxes, vehicle taxes, alchold and tobacco taxes...

So no, it is certainly not "free".

(And yes, people in Scandinavia stating things are "free" is a rant-trigger for me.)
Might be true. If you have stable load moving off of EC2 can save you at least 50% over reserved instances, and >90% on bandwidth costs. If you no longer need amazon's scaling advantage, it's a very easy call to make.

Of course that's assuming you haven't locked yourself into amazon's databases/load balancer/... But that would be a horrible idea anyway, right up there with running a microsoft stack licenced per year.
These procedures look a lot more frightening when they're written in all capital letters. If this is bothersome for you too, it's an easy fix in javascript. If it were any other element I would have said CSS, but text-transform:capitalize doesn't apply when applied to select tags. Here's how to do it in JS: http://pastebin.com/cnVJwds1
Avoid Forbes, use the source: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/12/federal-patent-court-of-g...
> the only people who want to use it are math majors

Edit: This is FUD and I kind of feel offended by it, though I'm not sure that is rational

I'm not a math major. I am a web dev. I want to use Haskell (and am using in a smaller capacity) because it means I have to be up late fixing things less. It means that I can worry about my sites getting hacked less because of the strong static typing guarantees which protect me against csrf.

On top of all that type annotations are great for documenting things. On top of that, composing functions and monads can allow you to do things much safer and much more quickly.

There are many teaching resources which show how some of Haskell's perceived cons can be pros such as these:

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way...

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_... (with web dev applicable example)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

Honestly from my experiences in #haskell on freenode, /r/haskell, and Haskell related content on the web it seems like many more people are using it with the intent to make "real world software".

I haven't gotten the ivory tower vibe from anyone in the Haskell community yet. Quite the opposite actually, everyone seems very pragmatic.
For those interested, this seems to be the email/thread that was cited.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/0rgZpp...
>What Japanese voters appear to want is a stable regime while turning a blind eye to their increasing draconian policy that exploits the diplomatic fear against our East Asian neighbors.

If that's really what's going on China is playing right into Abe's hands.
Get to Mars in 39 days, using this new plasma rocket.
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDo...
Breaks my heart.
VNC in JS is done[1] (the VNC display is ~700 lines), so X might actually be doable...

[1]https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC
Japan: stagnated growth, closed society and now their own Chernobyl sized problem

A younger generation that won't have kids. A government without any sense of direction and how to improve things.

Immigration is not only governmentaly discouraged, society is against it. Immigrating to the US is easier.

It's not going to get better.
A little over the top in parts...

"The science of secret codes is proving to be essential technology for securing the Internet, and the techniques developed by Diffie and Hellman are some of the most useful .... and parents use them to protect their children against pedophiles and pornographers trolling the Internet."
You're saying that people should not be allowed to purchase clothing with money from social assistance programs. I'm fairly certain that clothing is a basic human necessity, especially during the winter.

The problem is when people start to say that they ought to have control over other people's lives.
>we don’t really have a German or UK or whatever patent system any more, we have a European Union one. So this German case doesn’t apply just to Germany, it applies right across the EU

This has got to be false information. It was mentioned that this was a ruling of the Federal Patent Court of Germany, BPatG. Since when does a German patent court dictate EU patent laws and rulings? does this mean that if a patent court in another EU country ruled the other way that that is now the new EU stance? This makes no logical sense.
IANAL but maybe this means it could set a precedent that other countries should consider/follow for similar rulings?
Again, I don't really know, feel free to ignore this post.
> 1905 General Theory of Relativity paper

Special relativity. On general relativity he worked from 1907 to 1915.
5000 lines isn't really a lot for a real-life project in any language. Besides, a lot of the code here seems to be in the data.

E.g. https://github.com/pyb/zen/blob/master/data/request-specs.li... describes X spec request syntax, accounts alone for nearly 1000 lines, and it's not really possible to trim down.
In which Linus is calm, friendly, and helpful!
You're really thinking on the wrong level here. You're talking about SAT scores and affirmative action in the US. In South Africa, we're talking on a totally different level. I advise you do some reading on the extent on racial inequality in SA before trying to draw comparisons. You can start here: http://www.education.gov.za/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=qVocM3...

You're talking about getting into universities, the gap between black and white primary and high school education is massive, just to get the basic requirements for university entrance is a struggle if you come from a rural town and do not speak first language English.

Do not compare the US and South Africa. There is no comparison. BEE may be unjust (I don't think it is), but the scale of inequality in South Africa is overwhelming. Remember that over 85% of the population is non-white. I'm not sure how exactly what you say applies in a SA context, but income-based affirmative action sounds no different from race-based affirmative action in SA. I can put forward more relevant scenarios than the one you mention, I know numerous white people, both from poor and rich backgrounds, who have successfully gotten jobs. They are qualified. The same applies to black people. The unemployed people I know are simply not qualified, regardless of their race.
XSS affected, just kidding!
Exactly the same thing.
He's actually like this most of the time, it's a shame that the media only reports his outbursts. He's an amazing person and surprisingly accepting on other people and fellow developers.
> Why wouldn't writing X number of words per day build bad habits as well? Honest question.

It would do if they were the same words. The trick is to write X number of words each day, on different subjects, and reflect on what went right and what went wrong. It's variety combined with reflection that makes it work.
I like http://www.mail-tester.com/ -- that creates a unique address just for you, while isnotspam lets you search for anyone else's message.
Disney takes control of 'Indiana Jones' franchise
We need to rethink our educational model and teach kids how to hack their lives
My bad, thought it was just a BBC article.

In South Africa there is simply no mention of an exodus today. This was before my time.
Of Adrew Wiles (of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem fame), Wikipedia says:

"He dedicated all of his research time to this problem for over 6 years in near-total secrecy, covering up his efforts by releasing prior work in small segments as separate papers."
Entrepreneurship is all about learning, because you don't really know what it is until you do it.
Start a business, realize it doesn't scale (like consulting).
Start another business, have it scale better (get paying clients, but realize you can't scale with marketing).
Start another business, one where investing in marketing works.
...etc...

I think it's a long process, one you have to learn by yourself.
It's not about having ideas, it's about learning how everything works together.

Just like you, I'm broke and alone, and it's only making it more difficult. Last advice: read, a lot. Amazon is your friend (start with Seth Godin maybe).
Companies Say Goodbye to the 'Burbs
Ryan Seacrest Typo Keyboard
Xbox One backwards compatibility prank
Yeah, you might wanna take a read of that one again: the neighbor who wants to stop mending the fence, is making fun of the neighbor who won't stop repeating "good fences make good neighbors."
Good counter-argument:

Jonathan Kay: Diane Francis’ plan to merge Canada and the United States has many, many problems

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/09/28/jonathan-kay-...
Baidu Stops Accepting Bitcoins After China Ban
Yes, a few of us have known for a long time, but so, so, so many are clueless of this revelation.
Startup referral systems
Darkweb includes intranets.
"A patent granted by the EPO does not lead to a single European Union-wide patent enforceable before one single court, but rather to independent national patents enforceable by national courts according to different national legislations and procedures."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_patent_law
For it to be an ecosystem it needs a community of living organisms. If they find no living organisms in the water it isn't any more of an ecosystem than an oil well is. In fact onshore aquifers have very low levels of bacteria which makes them a good source of drinking water. I understand that there may be negative consequences but it is worth more research.
Point is, you got robbed and didn't go to court for it.
Because writing a NoSQL database is easy. MongoDB is just a thin wrapper around mmap() that makes it look like JSON for example. Whereas writing a new and better SQL query optimizer is hard, and testing to ensure no data loss is tedious, the MongoDB guys just skipped it.
Apparently, this is a link to the original patent, which automatically downloads PDF of its cover page.
Anyone remember this story:

School Used Student Laptop Webcams To Spy On Them At School And Home. School District Says It Only Turned Spy Cameras On 42 Times; FBI Now Investigating.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100219/1418438242.shtml
Yep, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, chillies, etc... No weed I'm afraid!
So in other words, Microsoft stole Linus' ideas, and then asked everyone to pay them for it. At least going by Microsoft's own logic in general.

Frankly, I've always thought it's ridiculous that FAT isn't at the very least a FRAND patent, considering how much monopolistic power Microsoft had in the desktop OS space, and I'm surprised that in the anti-trust lawsuits against them, this wasn't raised as an issue. I guess back then they didn't really enforce FAT patents the way they started doing after Android took off, and saw it as an excellent opportunity for rent-seeking.
God forbid anybody could be interested in other things than you are.

Btw your submission singlehandedly increased the amount of Bitcoin articles on the HN front page by 33%.
The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself
Ukrainian government uses Google Adsense for information warfare
Not really sure why you got downvoted for this, but I am pretty sure what you say is true right now. While the EU is moving to a unified patent court in the future for now after the patent has been granted it has to be individually litigated in each country as it becomes just a bunch of seperate national patents.
Call with Armin Ronacher (video)
I am very glad that in the UK all Defined-Benefits pensions have to be insured, so that if the company goes bust people aren't abandoned.
EA Will Release A New Battlefield Game In 2014
Ask HN: Is doing Topcoder to prepare for job interviews a good idea?
I've been doing Cracking the Coding interview problems, and heard from many people that I should do Topcoder as well. Do you think it's a good idea to prepare for job interviews by doing topcoder(SRM)?
Hi! Generally, we're based in Poland, but part of our team is in SF. We also have an office registered there.
Why productive people get up insanely early
An account of two men executed for Nazi resistance shows their sense of heroism
If anyone’s writing a library to deal with homoglyph attacks I recommend Unicode’s list of ‘confusables’ as a data source: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-06/confusabl...