skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wao, never heard of such an initiative!

If anyone can enlighten me: to what extent is this a joke?
After a gushing review of how great Bill was and what a wonderful experience. "...ps: Sorry for the apple ipad on my wishlist, that was really awkward..."

This was a great article, and a reminder that the internet allows us to make a difference in people's lives in ways we never could before.
Because tax breaks are the products politicians sell: http://youtu.be/TruCIPy79w8 (relevant portion about 5:28 in but it's all worth watching)
To the OP: if Coinbase provides terrible customer service but you still publicly declare you're a "huge fan", what incentive is there for them to change?
The Star Trek Economy: (Mostly) Post-Scarcity (Mostly) Socialism
How about imgur. There is lots of porn there, but blocking it that does not make sense, I am just using it for sharing screenshots.
> Anyway yep, these marketing stuff is a bit too dubious, but what should they write?

How about some benchmarks to support this claim?
Ars Technica has a good explanation of the workaround [1], including a circuit diagram that I found helpful in understanding it.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/perv-utopia-light-on...
Markets beyond Bitcoin, and off-chain transactions with minimal trust
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzZPdQ_VV0

tl;dr:
The lecture description says most of it. The only thing that hasn't been published before is how to do off-chain transactions with minimal trust.

Off-chain transactions with minimal trust:
Needed because some use cases (markets) require settlement in the sub-cent range. The solution we propose is to use a smart contract with the same outcomes as deterrence theory, aka mutual assured destruction. The contract is entirely isStandard.

Use cases discussed:
Bitmarket - A Bittorrent market
Anonymous Internet On Tap
... et cetera
The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post Scarcity Economy
Probably to the full extent.
It isn't going to be possible on mine, as it doesn't have a front facing camera.
> to what extent is this a joke?

Judging from my sense of humour, all of it.
I understand it's due to connect being bought by sencha. The FAQ states it's more like connect, with some express goodies moved to the middleware level.
> I just don't want it shoved in their face, as is inevitable when it's just a click away

But you're perfectly content with shoving your views down everyone else's throat, right?

If you want to block porn in your house you're free to do so. If you're not able to do that, either hire someone to do it for you or just don't allow your kids near the internet. Problem solved.
Yes, we like discourse to a great extent ...

however, one problem which we always face is following thru the comments on HN or reddit .. once the comments cross 100 ... or even 50

Discourse does not solve that either ... Is that a problem for others?
So install a filter on your own home connection. What's it got to do with the rest of us? And why allow the government to define what is and isn't objectionable for you?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzZPdQ_VV0

tl;dr:
The lecture description says most of it. The most interesting thing that hasn't been published before is how to do off-chain transactions with minimal trust. Starts ~17:45.

Off-chain transactions with minimal trust:
Needed because some use cases (markets) require settlement in the sub-cent range. The solution we propose is to use a smart contract with the same outcomes as deterrence theory, aka mutual assured destruction. The contract is entirely isStandard.

Use cases discussed:
Bitmarket - A Bittorrent market, Anonymous Internet On Tap, ... et cetera
Although it's shit like this that makes programming a "boys club", I had to chuckle at one of the macro definitions [1]:

#define envelops(X,Y) ((X)%(Y)==0) //replace the cock and balls operator (%)

[1] https://code.google.com/p/c-plus-equality/source/browse/src/...
Where I live (The Netherlands) that would be 52%, so $78,000. Sweden is even worse with 57% ($85,500), but the Swedish have way better incentives like (almost) free education/healthcare etc.
That's pretty much what they did (and connect, which was the foundation of express and since bought by senchalabs).
We're expending considerable effort in the opposite direction. Let's just stop doing that.
Compiling Rust for GPUs
Why The IDE Has Failed Us
Out of their Hello Worl.. EH Hello Feminists example:

xe womain() //the alphabet "m" should be banned because it reminds me of the word "man"

(Source: https://code.google.com/p/c-plus-equality/source/browse/exam... )
> Maybe that sounding awkward is a hint to the nature of what you are requesting.

It would also be awkward if you had to ask a stranger permission to take a shit. Some things are a private matter.
> But you're perfectly content with shoving your views down everyone else's throat, right?

Oh I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to voice a differing opinion to the HN hivemind or your particular world view? I thought this site encouraged constructive discussion?
Agree with comment that you should be in SF.

Look through craigslist tech jobs for small co's and email saying you'll do the job as an intern.
That would be fraud. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to make money if you're willing to commit fraud.
The huge fluctuations in the price of BitCoin probably cause problems. Taking an order, locking the price in, and waiting a few days for the transfer gives BitCoin time to drastically change in value.
An idea:

A dialectic platform - when two users disagree someone should write a third post that both agree with.
C+= gets support of feminist groups. Not satire after all?
The bundling that got them convicted of monopoly abuse - including Windows Media Player with windows, so that they could sell a video streaming server for which the client program and browser plugin were already installed (where competitors like real and quicktime had to offer a separate download). Similar story with IE (netscape's server product was actually amazing for the time, with ideas that were only beginning to be adopted ten years later).

Selling IBM an OS that they hadn't actually written yet - you could argue no harm no foul, but MS's actions meant IBM was taking on much more risk in that contract than they realized.
That's what the debugger is for (if you inherited it).

However, a lot of desktop applications are written that way. If you've ever dealt with Win32, you'll see nested switch statements from hell on your average project.

If you have a pure OO language like Java or C# then there's no excuse but some legacy applications built in C tend to be "switchy" because the older APIs seem to favour that form of message dispatch.

There is still no excuse as you can have decent abstraction in C or C++.

However for what is effectively a jump table, a switch statement is exactly spot on for this project.
Drivable 500,000 piece Lego car runs on compressed air
It makes you wonder if this is why these customers didn't get their bitcoins, someone else charged back their transaction; concommitant risk?
Fair enough, but remember that this cuts in all directions. Some common English names, words and abbreviations can be rude in other languages, e.g. "Dole", "lul".
Supercomputers Find Bacterial ‘Off’ Switch
That is an interesting point.

It remains to be seen if two users are actually agreeing to the third person, or still continue to argue with their points
I learnt programming with a book named "Basic para niños" (Basic for kids when I was ~7-8, around 23 years ago) and with the programmers manual for GW-Basic. So goto was an inherent part of it, but as soon as I learnt other languages goto lost a big part of its significance. I read a lot of code full of gotos (back in my Basic days) but afterwards only the occasional goto would pop up. When I learnt C at my university for numerical stuff, we weren't taught goto existed (I found it out when reading K&R 2-3 years later, when I wanted to get a better understanding of it.) Goto is awesome in a lot of cases (where something alike to break label; is not available), but as you say, the conditioned response is "goto is bad." And it's pity, because nothing is inherently bad, most often it's just the user at fault.
What do you feel about anonymous user handle? Is it a must? Or discussion platform should not have anonymous users, as it leads to trolling.
Umm the government decide what is "objectionable" in all areas of life. They enact laws against murder or fraud, they don't allow you to buy alcohool until your 18 (or 21 or whatever), they don't allow you to drive until 17. These are enacted for the overall benefit of society an I for for one am glad of this - otherwise you have anarchy.

The fact is the prevelance and ease of accessibility of porn is resulting in a huge spike in sexual violence and disturbed behaviour in teens. This is not good. Whiilst I may be a responsible parent and will turn on filters; many will not.
They usually don't even have indicator leds and most smartphone have cameras on both sides. It is almost as if these devices are built to spy on their owners.
Why negative is positive in web design 
With all the terms that get thrown at us during our design education (be we self or institutionally taught), it is easy to understand why some land only glancing blows with barely any penetration into our psyches.Which is what we are wanting to do today, devote a little attention to a staple of web design, negative space.
> The fact is the prevelance and ease of accessibility of porn is resulting in a huge spike in sexual violence and disturbed behaviour in teens.

Citation needed.
Yes, PHP has some odd function names. We know. Move on already.
So you need to block Reddit, imgur and tumblr... Oh and twitter, there's a lot of porn posted on there.
There's a lot of porn on wikipedia too, including stuff that'd be illegal in most jurisdictions. Better block that. 4chan as well, most discussion boards. Most forums.
What are we left with? disney.com?
Personally, i Hate reddit's UI. I am not sure why, but i just do. Comparatively, 4chan is a breeze. Sure, it doesn't have the tree structure, but it doesn't look DAUNTING. It's relatively simple. And it does allow you to follow a chain of posts (forward and backward mentions). In fact, if you think about it, 4chan actually supports GRAPH structure for comments instead of the traditional tree, as the same comment maybe replying to multiple posts.

I may be contradicting myself here, but somehow i do like HN's UI too. It has a tree, but pretty neat. Though the levels can be a little ambiguous at times.

So what solutions are you guys thinking of? Or is this just one of those "Hey! let's make a discussion platform! I wonder what's wrong with the current ones... let's ask!"
LinkedIn and Facebook Groups can re-think about having a better way of engaging people!
There is nothing wrong with sending binary (non-textual) output to stdout. Many programs, like the netpbm utilities, work like this.
Neat solution - really like that. Great work.
Can someone explain why this is better than for example Express?
I haven't. I've written to my (Tory) MP, asked all my friends to (and two have), repeatedly tried to win over the pro-filter people I know.

I've also educated them on why it'll block sex education websites (like 6 months ago, not just today) and given examples of 8 year old kids I've taught that already have a private VPN, and give out access to their friends.
Claims of virgin births in U.S. near 1 percent: study
I'm not sure what's worse - how well researched this pisstake is, or the fact that they now own feministsoftwarefoundation.org. I trust that if a real such organisation is formed, this domain will be relinquished?
He actually admitted to sharing 13 films illegally (accused of sharing a total of 517 films). He was an uploader on a private Swedish tracker called Swebits.org which is where the alleged crimes took place.
> But access needs to be regulated.

Regulated by whom? Why is it insufficient for people to install their own filters? After all, ISPs have offered (often given away) such filtering software to their customers for many years now.
Absolutely.

The original idea for a better discussion platform came after using fb group for 2.5 years and feeling the pain. We had started the Bangalore Startups group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/blrstartups/)...

Although we keep getting new users fairly well, control and structuring discussions is completely missing..
Quit being so defensive, I'm not talking about expressing opinions on HN!

I was commenting on your arguments for a filter that limits the web for other people. Like I said, you're free to limit your internet as much as you want. The problem is when you want to do it for everyone else.
Show HN: I authored a book on OAuth 2.0 for Packt Publishing
Hi guys!

I authored a book, named "OAuth 2.0 Identity and Access Management Patterns" for Packt Publishing.

It has been a pleasant experience and I hope someone will find it useful.

Check out my blog post for details http://blog.thisismartin.com/book-oauth-2-dot-0-identity-and-access-management-patterns-is-available-for-purchase
I'm not sure what's worse. The satire or that some "Serious Feminist" think it is a "real thing":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/19/feminist_software_fo...
Do you mean to say they are simpler than gearboxes and hence should continue to function using one method always?

If you meant they are more complicated than gearboxes, then I think we are saying the same thing and either you aren't getting it or I am not doing a good job conveying it.

If you are think there is absolutely no analogy, gimme one and I can say the same for that too. If this was the case then, I am sorry but I believe that statement of yours was absolutely unthoughful.
Also a reminder: Families with these porn filters deployed will also not have access to LGBT advice websites, sexual health websites (other than probably the NHS's), and porn addiction websites.

If I were a 13/14 year old now, and had these filters, I'd see it as a challenge to find a way to overcome.
Don't use the Web, don't build a "platform", build a peer to peer system, support threading, use local storage of both postings and read status information, use a native interface for fast and efficient navigation.

Or in other words: Re-invent NNTP.

Yes, NNTP has its problems, too, and could possibly use some additional features, but it's silly when you look at how easily you could/can follow huge discussions using slrn, and how badly current online discussion technology stacks up against that. It's all shinier now, but the usability is absolute crap for the most part.
I've just flagged this..this page is being spread around on a lot of these very hateful "Men's Rights" websites, and it's not just about mocking feminism as an ideology (which I can even relate to - the link http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/femin... is pretty face palm worthy), but several of the comments/humour is implying that the female code author is some "math is sooo hard" barbie type character. I read Hacker News to escape this kind of thing. While some may enjoy it, I don't think it's appropriate for HN or Gcode/Github/Bitbucket for that matter, which is most likely why the latter sites shut it down.
Honestly, while people have all the rights to not like something, I don't see the point in "censoring" satires or juvenile projects. It gives me a bad vibe, what's next? Gonna shut down anti-X projects? (Where X stands for whatever the majority doesn't agree with)

In my opinion, if you don't like it, just ignore it.

Ps: I realise github and bitbucket have full rights to do this since it's on their platforms

Pps: I hope I won't get downvoted to hell for stating my opinion
"But you're perfectly content with shoving your views down everyone else's throat, right?"

retube simply said that he/she agreed with it in the context of their parental responsibilities. It is unlikely that they are responsible for policy/implementation of this filtering, and nobody here is telling you what to do.
It is probably the same evidence that proves violent video games is responsible for making teenagers commit more violent crime.
The 6502 is still used widely in industrial stuff. Back in 2001 when I was still doing electrical engineering bits, as part of a project I received some brand new custom radio rig test equipment to integrate with an automated testing rig plugged into a PC running DOS (meh). We took it to bits to get access to the documented serial port header. Inside was a pristine gold turned pin socketed 6502. It was the only chip on the board that had that privilege. It was like it was being worshipped by the engineers.

We sent the test team who built it a big "you're awesome" card.
I'm curious. At that sort of rate, buying hardware to work on sounds very expensive compared to your income. What sort of machine do you use, and how much did you pay? I'm guessing you don't have a $3k MacBook.

Seems like there would be an opportunity for developers to donate laptops/hardware to people in developing countries who could use them to make money. I have at least 5 sitting around my office, only 2 of which are in use. I guess the logistics would kill it, but still.
Does anybody on HN actually take LinkedIn seriously? I created an account out of curiosity in the past, got sick of it and deleted it. I revived it a couple of years later, but generally don't bother with it. Your thoughts?
It's probably easier to change your offline identity. Bureaucracy can be dealt with, plastic surgery results are in continuous improvement... And you can even start a new family, damnit.

But The Internet never forgets.
It could be argued that oDesk is more fair. I tried elance once and AFAIR they encourage you to pay in order to appear higher in listings. This was a turnoff. oDesk's approach to contractor/job listings seems to be centered around smart algorithms and analytics instead.
Creepy PR Pitch makes it all the way to TechCrunch.
Vitamin C and Cancer: Is There A Use For Oral Vitamin C?
This seems like a good usecase for that "replies to multiple posts" feature i was telling you about in my other comment (would't it be nice if a mention of my other post was a click away? Unfortunately, the process for that is comparatively cumbersome in HN and i am not gonna post the link just to annoy you and make you realize the feature's importance)

4chan maybe a ton of bad things, but what it truly nails, is a simple-to-use and effective UI.

(Legend has it that whenever you speak of 4chan, moot makes an appearance. Wonder if it'll happen this time)
The flashing of the firmware to create a VM escape (Also in the research paper) is 100% cooler than being able to switch off the Webcam light
PHP has a ton of oddities:
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
Steve Jobs (a) accumulated only about 25% of Bill Gates' wealth, and (b) died. I haven't heard news about where his money went, but I haven't heard they spent it paying people to self-flagellate or rape each other or overtake a nation by force. He just worked his whole life and bought a couple of nice houses and a nice car and traveled, and then willed away his money to his wife, who spends her time doing high-society philanthropic dabblings.
Poor name for the package: sfs is already a filesystem type used in the embedded/musical-instrument industry (primary Yamaha). A better name would be scfs, imho.
I can't reply to your child comment:

> I was commenting on your arguments for a filter that limits the web for other people. Like I said, you're free to limit your internet as much as you want. The problem is when you want to do it for everyone else

But you're free to opt-in if you want, I am not trying or arguing to limit your access.
Have not really liked 4chan, but I will give it a re-look now.

We are having a few things in mind. One of them being applying categories or tags to comments, along with the nested comments.

We believe, each discussion essentially has multiple parallel threads running, and each thread should have its own structure.

The other thought is about users able to post as anonymous, but with certain restrictions.
I love Reddit Secret Santa for the comedy value. So far I've seen this year people have been given:

1. A pig foetus preserved in alcohol.

2. A selection of root vegetables, petroleum jelly and gloves.
If you really want to destroy someone's day in a low cost country, campaign to stop this type of work getting to them. Then they will be out of a job.

To several billion people, working for $20/day in their local lives using a computer would be a dream job. Someone who is employed is making money for their family and probably feels good about themselves.
That's what yuhong meant, I think. If your stdout output is binary, it's clear that all user-readable messages should go to stderr.
Does anyone else get the creepy feeling that this is mgrunin posting to stroke his own ego?

"That guy must have been one of our extremely high volume VIP users or something in order for something like that to have happened."

That just does not sound right. And it's not the first time he's tried a sockpuppet account [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930297
1) I've browsed the internet happily for many a year without having pornography 'shoved in my face'. If they find it, they were almost certainly looking for it.

2) If they're looking for it (see above) then an imperfect filter just means they don't find the known, safe sites.

3) Yes, it does. It is your right as a parent to decide what's appropriate for your child. It's not your right as a parent to force other people in households without children to report to a government-friendly list about their sexuality.

4) Well, such restrictions can still exist online. Paid porn sites can prevent the underage getting access. But really, why do we do this? Why is a young teenage girl or boy to be prohibited -- by law rather than parental consent -- from seeing sexual content? You say the internet should fall in line with these restrictions, but maybe those restrictions should be done away with.
Is crushing your competitors something unique to bill gates ? Or any successful operating systems company would have done similar things ?

So it's hard to tell how much of MS's monopolistic behavior should be assigned to gates.
I like how HN handles that problem. Users are associated with an "account" so their posts etc on THIS site are linked together. And it helps identify trolls and throwaway accounts easy.

But it also gives you a sense of optional anonymity as your HN account doesn't have to necessarily link with the rest of your web presence. No one can find you in the real world just from you HN account if you don't want them too. And still, the option to provide further information gives you the OPTION to present your credentials and connect "who you are" with the HN account.

I find it really interesting how sometimes VERY simple features are solving relatively complex problems