skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty much all available free here: http://egypt.urnash.com

And yeah, it's a pretty good life if you can get lucky enough to have the money to do it.
This is what always frustrates me about these discussions. There will be a long, article citing many sources and someone will simply say "thats not true" without seeming to have any knowledge at all of what they are talking about. Later on, someone like you, with actual facts, contradicts the other person and I wonder why someone who had no idea what they were talking about definitively shot down a well thought out point in the first place at all...?
This attitude is why java is stuck in the stone ages. Any ideas coming from the dynamically typed world are "dumb".
You'll save a lot of time doing it in Photoshop/Illustrator. If it takes other screens and API requests to get to the UI you're building, it'll take a while before you can see what your code does. Using images, especially stretchable ones, is also lighter on memory.

Also, I don't know what you mean by "scaling." You should be able to zoom images with UIView animations, and should have different sizes of the images depending on whether you're targeting an iPhone/iPad.
I read every short story written by Ted Chiang. His science fiction stories are, for me, the best I've read. As a biologist, I especially enjoyed "72 letters" (http://web.archive.org/web/20020202192832/http://www.tor.com...).
On the contrary, this decision was solely motivated by the desire to reduce fragmentation. The interfaces libstd provides can work under almost any runtime, and (mostly, but definitely in safe code) don't leak implementation details. Needing a different standard library just to have a different runtime model is unacceptable. A lot of work has gone and is going into ensuring that we do not fragment. We know that fragmentation will kill us.
There is a Secure Shell app (Chrome app) that you can configure colors and such very much like a native terminal clientm
Just a few emails I usually get from Expedia.

"In fact, the article can be about any topic related to your blog, just mentioning at some point something like “find coupon codes for Expedia”, “get some deals in Expedia”.. Do you think that would fit in? Doesn’t have to look very spammy (we don’t want that either). What do you think?

About the price, how much would it be a post like this with maybe 2 links? "

AND

"I’m looking to place a link this week on the homepage, but can I ask when the link for expedia.co.uk expires on your site?"

These are just two examples. There are plenty of these. BUT it does appear that they are now hiring quality bloggers to write on their own blog so perhaps things have changed.
There's no major affiliate/referral program that uses HTTP referrers to assign commissions. No affiliate would agree to such a system as they'd not be paid for tons of valid referrals.
This smells fishy. Why would this matter since they supposedly know nothing about who stores what? Is their zero-knowledge service not ZK? Are they logging IPs?
How is the Pixel better than a Mac running Chrome? The touchscreen?
That's not "usual" at all. That kind of cookie stuffing is banned by every major affiliate network. A couple people are in federal prison for doing it with the eBay affiliate program.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-the-fbi-shawn-hogan-and-...
soundcloud is a great place to look for sounds of nature. plenty of recordings under creative commons
Models (and a little bit of Analysis and Design) -- REVISED
This is what you get when you take the shortcut of moving away from a strict algorithmic ranking: obvious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
It's okay to be privately surprised, as long as you think about WHY you're surprised (e.g. "girls don't code" vs. "there aren't as many women coders as you might expect given the # of women in the US"). The dick move is to belabor the point and treat the programming woman as a performing dog instead of a person.

Think of it this way: you meet a woman at a meetup about a technical topic, and you find you have projects/interests in common. If you spend the whole conversation interrogating her about how/why she learned to code, asking her questions about what her boyfriend/significant other/husband does or what he thinks about her coding, or asking for her "feminine opinion" on your consumer startup, you are a dick.

If you treat her as a PERSON, not a novelty, and talk about those interests that are relevant to the meetup, that's decent behavior.

It's about the coding, not the gender (stupid).
They discuss it briefly, that after they announced the switch to Bitcoin-only payments, they suddenly became the target of various bank deposit frauds. The gist of it is that people were claiming that unauthorized withdrawals were made from their accounts to Clipperz' bank account. These persons were able to show "proof" of the outbound transactions, though apparently the corresponding inbound transactions had not actually (yet?) shown up in Clipperz accounts. Presumably, under Italian law Clipperz would have been required to reimburse them for these unauthorized transactions (assuming that such transactions actually took place).

As they are based in Italy, it is likely that Clipperz was the target of organized crime.
> You know that eating bananas is as bad for health than staying on a chair all day long, right? For example eating an enormous amount of bananas at once is extremely stressful on the body and my friends who do it all admit they are sick for one month afterwards.

Your friends are likely not fully prepared for the marathon. Saying something and then trying to prove it true with a hear-say based example of an extreme case is ridiculous. Please don't post comments like this on HN.
I appreciate your point. I'm also a big fan of The Atlantic and The New Yorker is my favorite magazine. :)

I think most of the magazines' authors write literary pieces without overusing descriptive words. To me adjectives and adverbs are the worst culprits in terms of slowing down readers. It's usually better to pack meaning into verbs.

For example, someone could write, "A tall attractive woman with bright shiny shoes approached the fat gentleman by the bar." Alternatively, he or she could write, "The woman sauntered toward the gentleman by the bar."

While the two sentences aren't equivalent in meaning, they paint a similar picture. The second sentence is better in my opinion because it keeps a certain flow going.

Stephen King wrote about this, referring to adverbs as "flat tires": http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/13/stephen-ki...
Check out asciidoc, it is quite mature. You can start using it quickly, but it's very full-featured and has a supportive community. Can generate text, HTML, Docbook XML, PDF output. Generates nice looking output, customizable, etc.

It's like markdown but more mature and scales to large documents.

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
Hey, turns out there's a much better written sub-thread above started by jfarmer (which is a lifesaver, as I'm not socially sophisticated enough to go deeper).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977836

My example you quoted was an example of how a comment could unintentionally go sour; I think the term is triggering. But you're right - there's nothing wrong with noticing. Making an uncomfortable point of it is wrong-ish; making an encouraging point of it could very well be good.

Many of the suggestions cover helping clandestinely: the article notes providing effort to help move along applications to YC for women. I would assume pains would be taken to not make the women applying feel like they are being given application assistance due to incompetence, but rather simply as a way of accelerating their application out of eagerness and support, merely greasing the bureaucracy's wheels, if you will. (Though I should note that it's likely impolite to even mention misconstruing it that way - but I prefer games of perfect information and I don't think it should be offensive to talk about failure modes of social plans.) Hackers generally don't like creating special cases, so this may seem inelegant, but life's pretty inelegant socially, so such a suggestion is likely a pragmatic concession as a positive means to an end.

Given my lack of many social graces, I err on the side of hastily qualified awkward corrections. YMMV!
> Communist Coffee Shop

So you lived with shitty roommates...

> If you don't know Git, you don't know shit

...you're applying to places that value a Linked-In-style "skills list" over talent...

> If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know.

...you think programmers actually use/pay attention to Tumblr...

and your telling us that the Valley is fucked? The Valley is indeed pretty fucked, but for precisely zero of these reasons. The only actual problem you named was the extreme income inequality and lack of affordable housing in SF, but you didn't really go into any depth at all about it. These are your own personal problems that you're trying to abstract onto the Valley as a whole. Not all of us have shit roommates. Not all of us try to work at places that seriously ask us questions about our git aptitude before they hire us. Not all of us blog. And by "not all", I really mean "very few".

Oh, and to go a little ad hominem/"constructive criticism" here, if you're really trying to make it as a writer... you need a lot more practice. I'm kinda gathering that this wasn't a polished piece, but... seriously. It just jumps back and forth between a number of completely separate topics with no connection, no narrative arc, and no concrete thesis. It's barely even readable in some places ("Tech Skills Still Pay the Bills" and "The Few and the Proud", especially).
"Gold bugs will always like Bitcoin"...

Is that like "Real Estate only goes up?" Remember that one from circa 2005?

This problem really does lead to crypto currencies having no floor like Krugman points out. At some point everyone decides what the next hot crypto currency is, and suddenly Bitcoin turns into Friendster and there's a rush for the exits and the price collapses.

It really does seem like cryptocurrency fanboys have bought into a form of "this time its different" because... crypto. And they're ignoring the fact that it is a currency with zero to backstop, and its clearly dependent upon fashion and popularity, since there's a growing marketplace now of competing cryptocurrencies.

This thread has been very useful to convince me that bitcoin is a classic bubble. I have no idea when it'll pop, but it appears almost certain that it will.
I especially appreciate PostgreSQL's documentation. I find it easy to locate, search, and understand. I certainly have not had that experience with Oracle docs.
Too bad you got your usernames mixed up and defended yourself with the wrong one...
Ask HN: What Linux distribution do you use?
See title.
This is awesome.

Please add white, brown and pink noise (Like http://simplynoise.com/ has).

If you do that, I will be 100% sold!!!!
Show HN: Ephemeral Photo Sharing for the web
First, go to hell for your comment about amazing women. It is nonsense.

Then, I advice you to not go to Paris. I've just left it for south east Asia (Laos) and it's amazing. However I hadn't meet any tech community yet.

Problem with Europe is that things are not that well there. Don't go to France. Germany and Netherland seems good for the next years but who knows how things can change. China and Russia are also interesting choices.
Neither. Read the comment history and you'll see they are they same person.
It's a useful technique for routing to controllers without needing 'mod_rewrite' installed.
"By way of simple argument: would anyone advise using a source control system that only kept the last few hundreds of commits? Why do we treat our data differently?"

Well said!
This relaxes me. It really was concern about fragmentation.

While both D and Python seemed to have survived their bouts with fragmentation, for instance, it certainly seems to be a dangerous road to travel.
Sounds like an amateur solicitor using .docs instead of a portable document format like PDF.
This is essentially a Scala "self-type".

trait InterfaceA

trait InterfaceB { self: InterfaceA => }

class A extends InterfaceA // compiles

class B extends InterfaceB // does not compile

class B extends InterfaceA with InterfaceB // compiles

"self" isn't a keyword, you can call it whatever you like.
$1.6 Billion invested in Indian Startups in around 300 deals in 2013
It's all in the brainstorming stages. Distributed Autonomous Government is also theoretically possible, offering voluntary participation, transparent workings and direct democracy.
If Krugman is short bitcoin, I'm long.
I used to own and run two popular travel sites and have been contacted by a third party to place Expedia links for under $400/year on both sites.

Even though the third party had nothing to do with Expedia (besides emailing me the particular anchor text and URL), the fact that I was only ever contacted to put Expedia links and no other sites in the 5 years I've been running them made me think that they were Expedia shills.

(this is obviously a throw away account)
I've used Pair, Linode, AWS, Rackspace and Bytemark.

Pair, Bytemark and Rackspace pick up the phone. Bytemark has the most chops by far, and is flexible to support custom stuff. If you just love *BSD, Pair of course.
100 receivers: http://snapmenow.com/74131059
Unless your stupid bank is only compatible with TurboTax CD version :-(
If you couldn't turn Bitcoins into USD, would you accept them as payment for something?

That's your floor price. It's 0.
I feel like you are writing about old school spam that most people don't try anymore and than are baiting known seos like martin McDonald and in this post Ann smarty to attract links...both are very reputable seos and have nothing to do with the shady edu links spam.
I don't understand the question, sorry. Dropbox isn't a third party, and it isn't your attorney (or a handful of other fields with special legal status).

You should look to see the legal precedent for private courier service, or for storage facilities. Those are more likely to be comparable to dropbox, if only because consumer protection laws may be relevant.

(That is, you can't give it to your friend, to put into a safe, and expect that it has any status different that anything else that your friend had. For example, a warrant may require your friend to open the safe, because your friend might also store personal items along with your items. While for a storage facility, a warrant to search the business's records would not automatically imply searching the entire building.)
Arch for personal and small stuff, Ubuntu LTS or RHEL otherwise. If you want to go uberlibre, go for Parabola.
> Heh. Ok, I'm out! :)

Well I've said what I wanted to say about my impressions. If you found my tone too hostile, which I'm guessing why you're saying 'bye', it might be because I found you to be too patronizing, which is just my impression. And from how you've engaged some other people in this thread it seems that you don't simply "bow out" because you're a gentleman that don't want to get tangled up in a messy argument, but because you don't find them to be willing subjects to be educated without protest. So gg I guess.
Collection Routing for Rails
better than the original: http://snapmenow.com/82785447
he took the best of us and tore it down. people will lose hope. (yet another batman reference)
Cargo-cult debugging
Nobody wants to hand out Windows laptops to everyone in their business. Maybe a core of your company are Office power users, and maybe this is even half of your company, but the other half are idiots. These are people in your organization who need to be contacted via email, need to read documentation, but simply cannot be trusted with an actual computer. To these people, you give a Chromebook.

Having seen inside a company that hands out Chromebooks to everyone, even if they already have a "real" computer, I think Microsoft is going to lose a lot of ground to them. They are cheap enough to just throw them away when broken. If a user is having problems, they can just drop their Chromebook in a drop box and walk out with another one in 10 seconds flat. And again, they are cheap enough to just have them on a shelf outside your IT office or tech support desk.
Append-only b-tree/skiplist/whatever immutability can be combined with "checkpoint hashes" (think git) using for example SHA512, that can be transmitted elsewhere at a low cost and used later to validate system integrity. Any data store tampering would be detectable. In a mutable database you'd need to transmit whole transaction log for the same integrity guarantee.

Thus immutable store makes it trivial to implement systems that need to have full history and audit trail.

When there's only a trivial amount of data involved, immutable state can solve a lot of headaches. No programming error can lose or corrupt data for instance - every case can be traced back after the fact.

I hope some immutable store databases take off that cover those use cases. Make it a graph database, bonus points if the underlying engine implements directed hypergraph. And artificial intelligence reasoning engine. :)
In the case of clones Namecoin/Primecoin/Gridcoin/Datacoin and others, there is even useful work being performed as part of the protocol of the software. Gridcoin's block rewards, for example, scale 30x in favor of those who devote enough computing resources to BOINC to achieve a BOINC score of 100.
France is not that good too
I clicked and then I realized that I shouldn't have.

Luckily it seemed to have cleared.
There are some listed on Amazon.com. Not sure if you can request international shipping on that or not though
Probably shouldn't be "hard" coding the scheme (http). Check $_SERVER['https']. You can make sure this fastcgi param exists with a simple directive in nginx (fastcgi_params):

fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;

Also, the 404 route, should be able to be defined as a custom function:

Macaw::fourofour(function() {
header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] . " 404 Not Found");
header("Status: 404 Not Found");
});
He's talking about the reflexive defensiveness many young dudes in the technology industry have when the topic of privilege is brought up. Often it's associated with a feeling of shame, as if the person using the word were trying to put a scarlet letter on the young dude's chest.

They fall prey to bad logic: "If privilege exists then I am a bad person. I am not a bad person. Therefore privilege does not exist." The problem is the first implication, that acknowledging one's privilege somehow makes one a bad person or that it is "bad" to be privileged.

The conclusion is worse than unsound, though, because it denies something which has a material impact on many people's lives.

His words are clear and concise, IMO.
Correct. And the sneering voice that can turn any word into a slur, until we try again next generation and hope that the next word doesn't get slurred.
ElementaryOS on my laptop just because it's clean and simple, but retains ubuntu compatibility since it's based off of 12.04.

Ubuntu 13.04 at work.
What is the pricing on the data plan?
Amazon gift cards are already this.
If this is accurate it is a very poor seo and Expedia needs to hire better folks. Why place two links? Google will barely count a second link on the same page to the same URL...

I did notice that they give the blogger discretion on the link placement and anchor text so its somewhat natural...although still clearly link spam worth penalizing!
Looks like a nice alternative to using Silex if you just need routing.
BEAM documentation: I don't think there's anything more concrete than Armstrong's first cut mentioned:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/erlang-programmin...

OR:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/erlang-programmin...

re: SMP scheduler (there may be other better info on the list, but I can't google it

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/0...
A former developer at our company was someone who was really excited about using Ruby metaprogramming features to the fullest extent possible to enable concise code. He wrote a bunch of subsystems based around a few custom frameworks.

Whenever a project takes me into modifying that codebase I get that sinking feeling you get when you realize you left your wallet at a restaurant or that your car has been towed.
Dust of your trusty C64, then you have plenty of time to get yourself some coffee and pull the plug, before the audio starts to play.
When dealing with bitcoin, be prepared to have big bankers and powerful countries as enemies..

They will use all dirty tatics available.. these are the guys ruling the world right now.. and bitcoin is a threat to their power..

The hope is that some of them will see bitcoin as a oportunity, or that the new emerging ruler class (the technology geeks) will create the new clash of the titans..

The NSA scandal already started the fire.. lets see what happens in the next chapters :)
this is very elegant. i haven't used php (beyond wordpress) in years, so i am sure a lot has changed with all the frameworks which cropped up. one of the things i miss about php was the simplicity of dropping a file into a path and making requests directly to it, no extra dependencies required. i know a lot of people prefer prettier urls, so why not use .htaccess file for mod_rewrite rather than using something like macaw?

nice job on creating a really damn simple interface.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It's for this reason that computer scientists created bogobogosort (and sleepybogosort, as you mentioned). For example, bogobogosort tests memory cards more efficiently than a smaller-space algorithm like bogosort. In this case, the recursive nature of bogobogosort acts as space multiplier and fully fills the memory cards (be it DIMM or others). Don't be so quick to judge an algorithm just because it's new.

Also, I'm working on a Bogo programming language with randomized compilation; if anyone is interested in contributing, let me know.
Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us
Evidence must be acquired by legal means to be usable in US courts. This means that data acquired by the NSA can't be used in court by the government in a prosecutorial setting unless the prosecution can establish how the evidence was acquired. If they can't, the evidence is tainted, as it all evidence discovered through the tainted evidence, and can't be used in court.

While prosecutors frequently try to argue parallel construction (they would have discovered the evidence anyways through other means), judges rarely accept this argument unless the prosecution can show that such other means were already underway and yielding evidence that would have led to the tainted evidence. (This is rare, because at this point in the proceedings, the investigating agency has usually moved on to investigating other cases. The law doesn't move as fast as it does on Law & Order or CSI.)

Also...Lavabit isn't relevant. That idiot thought he came up with some brilliant "hack" of the legal system based on a bizarre misunderstanding of the law and it bit him in the ass. Even a first year law student could have told him that scheme wouldn't have worked. If he had wanted to make a subpoena-proof system which would have prevented him from actually providing decrypted customer data, he should have designed such a system. Instead, he built a system that let him decrypt customer data...while also decrypting the data for every other customer.