skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NHL: Rookie goalie maintains Kings' lofty standards
I'd give him my framed MS-DOS 6.22 certificate of authenticity.
Granted, the Aus government has a history of over-protective, arbitrary mandates (e.g. hot tap regulations [1]). I don't feel strongly in either direction, although I have an aversion to silly and wasteful rules.

That said, in the case of mandatory warranty policy, I can definitely see some merit. It definitely seems like certain appliances are being sold in a lemon market [2] (think blenders, etc), where the market is flooded with sub-standard, cheap products. These can become the norm and set overly low price expectations, making it difficult for good products to compete.

How this applies to top-end smartphones is another discussion. I don't see why it should be difficult for a them to honor the policy, given their focus on quality. What's important is that all companies honor the mandate, and compete on an equal footing w.r.t. consumer expectations.

[1] http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/130201_Hot%20Tap%20Water%20...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Great story with a fun typo - "Exactly just what kind of charity is Heifner International?"
It's more substantial. Each state university school is earmarked for specific areas, and candidate companies are selected based on fit with each schools mission.

The idea is to build more integrated links with the universities. It's intended to help drive benefits similar to the successful model used by the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to partner with the semiconductor industry.

Note that this is really designed to benefit NY outside of NYC.
This article is not a thoughtful one. It is a poetic one, and it is emotional, and it is even elegant and melancholic. There's nothing new here that Franzen hasn't really already said.

Here's a quote of his:

I think the Internet should be really strictly regulated, the way the airwaves used to be. If an entire region of the country had its main industry suddenly lose 90 percent of its paying jobs because of the predatory practices of a different region’s industry, you might, if you were the government, step in and say, “We can’t actually let this entire region starve. We’re going to subsidize prices, we’re going to redistribute some income.” Why should Apple shareholders be getting rich while working journalists are getting fired? This is an unjust situation, and the libertarians in Silicon Valley are either moral idiots or liars. They know they’re getting away with shit they shouldn’t get away with, and all they’ve got is this idea of libertarianism. That, and the mantra of making the world a better place.

If you think he's a thoughtful person and he's given a lot of time thinking about this, you're wrong. He's not thoughtful, he's defensive about novelists and journalists, and brick and mortar bookstores.

If you read his articles and if you've read his books, you would understand his position on technology is a simple, not thoughtful, not deeply reasoned position. It is VERY black and white and often just wrong.

I'm only talking about his position on tech/internet. He's a great writer and I've read everything he's ever written. And will continue to do so. I'm a huge fan of his.

Similarly, I LOVE Walt Whitman. However, I wouldn't take advice on the beauty of equations from Walt Whitman. It's perfectly fine for someone to be a great poet, but has no ability to see the same elegance in mathematical equations. But to dismiss those equations, it reveals a certain ignorance. But still, I can get into his perspective and find that his poems are very beautiful.
Yes, and traffic is annoying too. I nonetheless want to have motorized vehicles. I'd similarly like to use my cellphone and want for other adults to make that decision for themselves. If other people irritate me, then I'll go buy some earplugs.

But really, it's a jet plane. Jet engines are really quite loud. Who expects silence on a plane? (nevermind the crying babies, captain announcements, odd two-sided conversations, etc...)

Maybe the best retort to my comment is simply "then don't fly Delta because their customers don't want cellphones on planes."
Flights should be like movie theaters when it comes to using your phone. Don't spoil the ambiance for everyone with your chatter. A message is fine. But for voice, kindly step out.
I'm most excited about Phase 4b. The Go compiler currently leaves a lot of performance on the table with its weak optimization capabilities. Having an intermediate representation and a few optimization passes will recover the majority of that performance.
> This contest will prove one thing, and one thing only, the cryptographic algorithm they are using is secure. And it SHOULD be, considering that there are a lot of publicly available secure algorithms.

It doesn't even prove that. It proves that no one has told you about any flaws yet. The algorithm may be secure, but their implementation of it might have bugs.
As a startup CEO, I don't really care about income taxes. Most tech startups get acquired or fail before profitability. I care about personal capital gains tax. Give me a personal capital gains tax exemption and I'm in. I love Hudson.
A donation to his foundation.
You should talk to Loren over at www.penflip.com and see if he could have some use with this in future features for his editor, seeing as its open source. They just keep growing and he has some wonderful ideas. It looks great!
IPhone 5C & iPhone 5S: Is Apple Getting Predictable?
as a percentage of course. There are web publications with greater quality control than certain print publications of course. but probably not overall as a percentage.
At least in the UK, AppleCare exceeds the service requirements of the warranty. If a component fails through normal use, the warranty has you covered. If your case is cracked because you dropped your laptop, warranty might not cover it but AppleCare will.
The problem with that method is that it's inefficient; with the switch statement, there's no hashing or significant computation involved in finding the location to jump to. With an object-based method, you have (at least) a memory access to get the method object, a lookup in a vtable to find the location of the Invoke method and a function call (which means pushing a new stack frame) before you start processing the instruction. With the switch statement, none of that happens; instead, it compiles to (essentially) two jump instructions; one into a lookup table, then one from the lookup table to the opcode handler. Getting out of the handler and back into the loop is also a single constant jump (no stack frame popping).
I'd give him a few of my favorite books, with the hope that there'd be at least one that he hadn't read yet.

I'd also include a personal write-up as to why I enjoyed each, without giving away any important details.
It's awesome that Bill Gates decided to participate in the gift exchange.

This is also quite assuredly one of the best ways he could have possibly advertised for Heifer International.

So, yeah, he's a regular dude in a lot of ways. He's also still a ruthless billionaire who created a company that was known for crushing its competitors.

People are complicated, and just because he can be nice doesn't mean that he's not other things too.
Ask HN: How do you deal with being burnt out?
It's getting harder and harder to work on what was my passion. With no money rolling I'd hoped, it seems like I am so close but can't get the 10% finished. It appears I am burnt out from working on a SaaS product alone.

How can I break this pattern of, working crazy to get 90% finished, and then crapping out at the last remaining 10%?

I told myself I would commit that last bit of code 40 counterstrike rounds ago. Yet, here I am, keep playing counterstrike, not really enjoying myself, but out of anxiety.

I think to myself how strange, this doesn't even kill me, yet I can't bare to look at the code. I just keep playing stupid games on my computer and checking ycombinator every hour.
Your name looks South American. I can verify that a similar situation exists in Africa, right down to the numbers you stated.
If throughout the unwrapping of the gifts, there was a Microsoft Surface, then I'd agree with you but for the most part I believe this reads as genuine.
Chilling in my whip 
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>As a startup CEO, I don't really care about income taxes. Most tech startups get acquired or fail before profitability. I care about personal capital gains tax. Give me a personal capital gains tax exemption and I'm in. I love Hudson.

only if you are rich enough that you don't have to pay yourself.

The rest of us have gotta pay income taxes on all the money we take out to live on until we sell out. Really, it doesn't matter if that money comes from revenue, if you are bootstrapping like I am, or from investors, if you are funded. You've gotta pay income taxes on the money you take out.

Personally? I'd rather have higher capital gains than income taxes. I've gotta pay income taxes while I'm poor; I won't have to pay capital gains until I sell the company, and at that point, hopefully, I'll be rich and have a much lower marginal value for each additional dollar.
Moto X. The hotphrase detector + Google Now makes you feel like you're on the Enterprise.
If we're assuming that obscurity is close to irrelevant, what matters is that the cryptography method is sound. In which case, obscurity doesn't reduce security, but it is a waste of effort.
There is no singular value for a variable. (Otherwise they would be constants, not variables.) Here's an example:

:root, .green.applyColor {
var-color: #00FF00;
}
.red.applyColor {
var-color: #FF0000;
}
.blue.applyColor {
var-color: #0000FF;
}
.applyColor {
color: var(color);
}

With this style sheet, items with the "applyColor" class will default to green, unless they also have the class "blue" or "red", in which case the color will switch appropriately.

So how, exactly, is a CSS processor supposed to read this definition once and come up with a single internal constant for the variable "color" that can be looked up in constant time? And how does that offer any advantage over just using its already-programmed cascading rules to properly resolve "var-color" whenever it encounters "var(color)"?
There's not just lots of universities upstate, but some really good universities (Cornell, Syracuse, RIT, Rochester, UB, Albany, RPI off the top of my head)
I think they left off an important reason, which is that if an engineer is spending most of their time working on Go, and Go's written in C, then they're making decisions about Go without actually spending a lot of time writing Go programs. Better if the people driving Go are spending all day writing Go programs.
Did I miss somewhere where it stated this was HN-specific? This could just as easily have (and probably has) been posted to multiple communities, including ones that are more crypto-focused.

Just because it appears here does not in any way shape or form indicate that they're trying to impress the HN community, nor that they're specifically targeting HN.
This is a huge advantage when you're trying to win business from curmudgeons like me.
That's a fun gift. I used to get solicitations from Heifer international years ago, and the sad thing is that they advertise themselves such that if you donate 50 dollars, a family will get a flock of chickens; if you donate 100 dollars, a family will get a baby goat. Etc, etc. But all the money goes into a common fund.

I know charities have to use modern marketing, but that left a sour taste when I found out about it. On the other hand, I suppose Bill's underlings conduct proper due diligence.
Is anyone elsed appalled at the fact that this Wikipedia article was amended to include a mention of Bruce Schneier?

Bruce Schneier ties it in with a belief that all security systems must be designed to fail as gracefully as possible:

Is it REALLY necessary to add that to the entry?
Yes, I agree. I've spent many hours working in both C# and Java and using JetBrains products to help me shape the code.

But C# and Java weren't designed from the ground up around the primary goal of being amenable to such programmatic refactoring. So there are limits on what you can programmatically refactor.

But our industry has reached a point where "rearranging" large bases of working code might be a bigger, harder, and more important job than originally developing that code. So perhaps the most important characteristic of a programming language is its "refactorability."

(Update - I think this sums it up: Would you consider working in a clunkier programming language if you knew that it offered 10X more "refactorability" than the other languages you were considering?)

Anyway, thanks for the comment.
Life: What was the worst day of your life and why?
I think your argument works when comparing to a simple list, but trello has card memberships, labels, due dates, checklists, and comments to help fill the gaps. The fact that even my non-techie customers can use it is also a plus (this is why I use Trello).

Good luck!
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There are some free Christmas craft ideas to make homemade 2013 funny, cute and special Christmas crafts with kids. Spend time and energy with your kids by watching children Christmas crafts.
Alas, that means "Plan 9" bits in go is going to vanish. Luckily some of Plan 9's legacies (saner stdio, simpler socket interface, channels) are embodied in go itself and hopefully getting into mainstream.

9P was not so lucky (it's more of an OS thing than a language thing), but I wish it could take off somewhere.
It appears to work just fine in FF26 under Ubuntu 3.10 without anything extra installed. Have you tried turning it off and on? Try a new profile (firefox -profileManager) or Restart with Add-ons Disabled (help menu), or perhaps it was just a fluke. Could not reproduce (relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/583/ ).
I don't have a particular answer to your rhetorical questions, but I do have some thoughts on inflation and deflation, specifically with regard to their relationship to hoarding and the money supply.

First, deflation encourages hoarding when the holder can afford to spend at some infinite later date, but some spending happens earlier than the heat death of the universe by necessity (e.g. food and shelter, grandma needs assistance, execution of wills).

Second, when a currency is printed (inflated) by its host country, the effects of the increased money supply aren't experienced proportionally or immediately everywhere. Instead, the first pallet of new money retains most, if not all, of the buying power represented at the previous level of supply. This represents an asymmetrical information advantage for the producer of the currency, and represents a disadvantage for the currency consumer who probably isn't in a position to know whether they are selling goods for "cheaper" currency. For example, if you were playing poker, and had the ability to print Aces on demand and legally inject them into the game, the other players might not like that (esp. if the new cards are injected after they've already calculated their odds and placed a bet).

Various economic philosophies consider it best to have some level of inflation to lubricate the flow of goods and services between buyers and sellers, and in these cases it would be useful for everyone if the size of the money supply was widely known. Unfortunately, there are many different definitions for money supply such that it's actually pretty much impossible to know how much the value of one unit of the currency has changed between two points in time without comparing them to a third, also variable, commodity or currency (e.g. gold, foreign currencies)

Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a deterministic money supply where any individual can determine the upper bound of the amount of supply at any time. In our poker analogy, the deck might be short a few cards, but no one has an extra stack of Aces in their shirt sleeve, and everyone can calculate their odds independently. Advanced investors can even enumerate the public ledger and determine the level of lost or otherwise illiquid coins to determine a tighter bound.

The ability to have a good understanding of the supply of the currency is one reason that Bitcoin is so exciting for long-distance transfers.
Target stores' customers hit by major credit card attack
Don't you think he has one?
Warren Buffett adds $37M a day to his fortune in 2013
Bill Gates has been aggressively giving for several years now, and he's quite consistent with his messaging regarding the need to give to and enable the quality of life in the third world. If anything, the strategy is to put a spotlight on those causes, rather than himself.
The official way to file a complaint is with the California Department of Business Oversight, and the form is here:

http://www.dbo.ca.gov/forms/tma/Form2120_English-Spanish.pdf
There is a lot of unimportant noise out there, and a lot of education and awareness holding needed to keep moving the world towards the better.. everything counts.
And I'd really like to travel without the annoyance of hearing other passengers loudly talking on the phone next to me. An airline that enforced a no phone call policy would be more desirable to me, all things being equal. Perhaps some will allow it and some won't, and we all can have choices. Also, jet engine being loud not the same as distinctly loud talking. More like a uniform white noise that does not prevent sleeping.

Ultimately I think it just comes down to consideration for others and not being irritating during a long uncomfortable plane ride. I would presume most people would prefer to not listen to others talking and prefer silence. Therefore I think it's just inconsiderate to carry on a loud conversation within a plane where people are forced to have to put up with it and can't avoid the irritation.
An invitation to my wedding, he'd get to meet me and I'd get to meet him. It's a win - win!
This seems like kind of a crummy thing to do to snapchat, but I like the idea.

I wonder if that could be successful, like a file swapping service built on the same premise of one time only. Charge a nickel a shot or something. I have no idea why that's useful, but for some reason I think it's cool. Maybe just because it's set and forget and you don't have to worry about cleaning up later.

Does anything easy to use do that already?
It seems that all projects the last 10% takes about 50% of the development time. If you are already burned out the only thing I know to combat burnout is some time off.

Preventing burnout is setting boundaries and pacing yourself. Not working crazy hours, taking breaks and getting a good night sleep so you don't get worn out.
Ok so here's what i understand what's going on here from reading the challenge and people's responses.

1) A classical crypto-challenge where you are given a cipher text and the algorithm and told to crack it is somewhat useless Because that would just prove strength of the primitive algorithm, not the system. Here you are given a scenario and told to use whatever attack is at your disposal to hijack the conversation and somehow retrieve the plain text. So while it is similar to in someways, but not exactly the same case.

2) People are not amused because they seem to find the vulnerability that upon initiation of the secret chat, the first time, the server can perform a MITM attack. Because apparently they use a Deffie-Helman key exchange where the server connects them to each other. So the server is in the best position to do the MITM. And since this contest does not allow to make that attack (even if u had the server in your control, the secret chat has been initiated already).

And hence everyone is frustrated because they seem to KNOW the system is weak, but they cant prove it right now. And this will lead to Telegram boasting in March.
Do some reading about processing on cyclostationary signals. Correlation is basically God's own free lunch.
ServiceStack for .Net projects.
The following was the last notable PR processed for Spring: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/606
How can you possibly know that without knowing one of the celebrities personally, and then extend that as a general rule?
Could you show us examples of the actual message sent each day from Paul to Nick, except with the secret email address XXX'ed out? Is it the same message each day, or different?
This are great news. I always defend bootstrapping is the proper way to write compilers for general purpose languages.

Looking forward to the day Go's runtime is free from C code.
Hes bill g, I call him money for short... he even does my tech support. [Something something white and nerdy]
There's a very large difference between white noise and conversation. I'm pretty surprised that I have to point that out. Then again, you're arguing that we should become less considerate as a society.
You learned how the sausage is made.
Charting Graphs in Delphi
Crap. I was looking at Coinbase. Has this happened to others?
Gary Fung of isoHunt Launches Clothing with Anti-Surveillance Message
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What's so arbitrary and over-protective about the tap regulations you linked to? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and the statistics presented about the decline in third degree burns is a great outcome.

Isn't that exactly what government is supposed to do?
Please defer to Hanlon's Razor.
Recommended way to assemble the 6502 examples on OSX?
You mean without regulation, companies could effectively steal money from you and you would never be able to stop giving it to them?
The free market is also regulating, by the way, and it should regulate with its full force against companies like this that fail to provide adequate customer service and satisfaction, safeguards, etc to their customers... we don't need the government to tell us these people aren't doing their jobs effectively and we should take our business elsewhere.
Microsoft was a means to a beginning for Gates. Some CEOs die with their product, not Gates.
Is anyone going to do anything about the SEA? They've been attacking a lot of large organizations recently.
I'd say that's a GitHub bug, not a code-specific bug - maybe try contacting support (with app details and a screenshot)
What determines an Educational Site as you have stated that they should not require big brother's approval? Anyone can say their site is "Educational".

Calling BishUK an educational site is how this story even broke daylight. The term Educational site is very misleading in this context IMO. I suppose that you can call hardcore porn educational as well though (if you learn something from watching it then you were educated right?).

Traditional "Sex Education" in school is all about discussing the basics of how anatomy works and the responsibilities and consequences that come along with sexual activity.

BishUK appears to go much further. Discussing in detail sexual positions, techniques ETC. Hardly what most people think of when they hear the term "Education" and hardly appropriate for kids.
Yeah, you're right about the choices. (However, I suspect that Delta's position is bad business in the long run.)

This just seems like such a dated and irrelevant stand for Delta to take. Cellphones are here to stay. We live in crowded spaces and it's time for everyone to simply get used to the sound of other humans.

I have no idea why everyone places value on public silence. Is this a holdover cultural strain from the 19th century? Silence is so cheap and so easy to obtain. (And who wants to be the one to make rules which essentially say "shhhh!")
Campers and staff at camp for kids with cancer rebuilding bunkhouse lost in fire
Presumably to differentiate them from "business Bitcoin wallets".

https://coinbase.com/merchants
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DC? Not nearly as dangerous? As NY?