skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever heard the expression "it pains me to say this"?

Sometimes the word painful is used to imply the internal turmoil one has when making difficult decisions. I'm not attempting to be disparaging, merely curious, since I don't know anything about your level of familiarity with English idioms. The phrase "painful decision" when read by myself immediately reads as synonymous to "difficult decision", so your attempting to make a distinction here that honestly confuses me.
>and the company actually listens to them.

So far, Telegram have been listening a lot to people pointing out errors, and fixed their errors promptly.

>for free and point it out to them? Forget about it.

It doesn't appear to be for free: aside from their bounty program, Telegram have been rewarding various troubleshooters with pretty decent ex gratia payments in bitcoin. In the article linked to this title, the first comment was from Telegram, asking the author to contact them for a reward.
I had the horrifying experience of doing this with Windows Vista. It was at the point where XP's Hardware Abstraction Layer had been depreciated, but there wasn't any documentation for what to use instead. It was really messy. Every time I booted in a VM it thought it was an unlicensed copy, but when I booted from the physical machine it didn't see any problems. I still have no idea what caused that.
I might be interpreting your question wrong but that is specific to Haskell (which he uses as the foundation of lambdu). It looks like sum is being composed with filter which is given the iterable and a predicate.
Agree, Is there any evidence this happened?
I just watch the video in the article and I have to say are the founders really like this in real life or is it all an act?
He has no legal obligation to recuse himself and the fact that he and his team appear to have handled this situation in exactly the proper way speaks to the fact that there's no reason for him to do so for public image reasons.

It ain't broke, don't fix it.
Discovery of games is not easy. One suggestion, although not very significant to boost game discovery, could offer some interesting pieces of info and regular readers:

have a weekly(bi-weekly/monthly) blog article with a kind of template interview with one indie dev that has games published on your site. interesting to other indies, might be interesting to players, and gives some promotion
> Incorrect. To encrypt a message, you only need the intended recipient's public key. You don't need your own private key.

I don't think this is right. The diagram here appears to depict otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Public_key_shared_secret....
> Don't depend on a single source for traffic

Sure , now tell me what other search engine has the same market shares as Google. Answer : none , there is no competition in SEO, there is only Google. If there was some real competition , Google would not be so arsh.

There is only one lesson to be learned here : Since one depends on google for SEO, one should not try to game Google. because today basically , if you are not in google results you dont exist on the web.
Why does everyone obsess over fuel for transportations? It's the most difficult thing of all to make from renewables.

Just plant some switch-grass and shovel it - as is - into a coal plant. No ethanol or anything else. Take the resulting ash (mostly potassium, i.e. potash), and use it as fertilizer, then and do it again.
Bintray is a simple, smart and social binary distribution platform. Y'all more than welcome to try it.
I've found that, at least for me, abstinence from HN should be in long blocks. If I take a short HN break every 30 minutes, it makes it that much harder to get back to boring work. So, I try to go to HN only during lunch break or at the end of the day. Otherwise, I find myself constantly checking whenever I have to wait for my work thing for a couple seconds.
That really look great on video, I definitely will have to check this.

I started playing the first Age of Empires such a long time ago. After Age of Titans (my favorite of all -- the God powers added a lot of fun), I didn't like as much the new ones.

Being an average player, I got the most fun watching recorded games from top notch players, so I hope this will be a feature if not in there already.
I don’t get this. Is it just a list of 12 tech gadgets?
Interesting. What bug classes would those be?
Does it really matter who Bitcoin's creators are? Their agenda is quite clear, anyway. It puzzles me that people give Satoshi Nakamoto's real identity so much importance yet they seem to take for granted their economic views even though those same views are seen as very controversial by what seems like a sizable chunk of today's economists.

It is portrayed again in this blog post: "As many inflationary and hyperinflationary episodes during the 20th century demonstrated, this is not an ideal state of affairs."

As somebody who likes Bitcoin as an idea yet is economically illiterate, I find myself in a pickle. I would like to know the truth but apparently even history itself is contested when it comes to economics.
Has it changed much since the first year or so? I was pretty big in that community but the reality was the editor was too difficult for most people and the popularity system ended up creating a cyclical loop of the same maps (ie similar to the app store problem).

The brilliance of WC3 was the named-game system that allowed people to host whatever and fill games instantly. Battle.net was much more social-friendly too, and the editor itself provided a lot of power, but was not insanely difficult to figure out. I found the custom games in SC2 were of quite low quality just because of how much work it took to do anything.
I'm genuinely interested in your logic here. Can you tell me more about how pornography is a destructive force in modern society?

Also, I'm curious as to whether you oppose all pornography or the type of pornography that is most prevalent in, say, the U.S. and the U.K.
Sure, but, arguably, those rules are "correct". The fact that they run the leading search engine implies that they provide the best quality (or at least best perceived quality) search results. Those rules presumably contribute to that.
This means Nagy didn't comment until after the archive date. He probably commented when it was re-posted in 2008.
A slice of React, Clojurescript and Om
That’s a non-sequitur. Public thoughts + personality != private thoughts.
Did your friend write about what happened to him anywhere?
This comparison makes no sense at all.
I got two emails, one putting me in touch with the person getting my domain, and another for the person giving me theirs.

I've exchanged edofy.com for lb1.net, btw...seems fair enough, as I don't really want either. :)
More About D-Language, And Why Facebook Is Experimenting With It
I'd like to hear from someone who downvoted you with an explanation about why. I genuinely don't understand - you've made a logical post but clearly 1-5 people have disagreed and you're now on the bottom of the page in light, light gray (downvoted). I'm struggling to grasp the "Why?"
'Graph Databases' by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, and Emil Eifrem

'Hackers and Painters' by Paul Graham

'Virtual Reality' by Howard Rheingold

'Stack Computers: The New Wave' by Philip Koopman

'Thinking Forth' by Leo Brodie

'WIMP Programming for All on Acorn RISC Computers' by Lee Calcraft and Alan Wrigley

'Frank Herbert' by Timothy O'Reilly

'Modern Painters: volume 1' by John Ruskin

'Aratra Pentelici' by John Ruskin

'The Art and Craft of Drawing' by Vernon Blake

'The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci' by Dmitri Merezhkovsky ('romance' in the old sense of 'biographical novel')

'Prehistoric Avebury' by Aubrey Burl

'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller
A certain someone on HN may want the reverse.vc domain haha.
I don't feel that my degree was in vain at all, you're trying to put words into my mouth. Lab sessions in which you must apply knowledge yourself give you the chance to investigate, experiment and see for yourself if what you were taught has any truth to it. The method of examining your success in a taught course does not necessarily determine what was learnt; some of us actually thought for ourselves.

What's with putting scare quotes on my use of the word applying ? I think you've got some issues here because you've deliberately written your reply to twist what I've said to fit your viewpoint. I feel sorry for you that you cannot see the difference to studying at university to learn and being brainwashed. Maybe that's what you did when you studied and now regret you didn't see the big picture ?

I'm not saying Nassim Taleb is wrong or that I am correct but you really should think for yourself a bit more and read around the subject rather than taking one particular view or the popular view as being the only view.

Come on, I mean in the real world who gives a damn about whether you went to an Ivy League or not if you really know your stuff.
OC?
Google sets their own rules for their own product. They don't run the Internet.

Can you hear yourself?
Side note: it's interesting that he continues to serve in this position for many years. I see a lot of directors/managers shift around, but not really him.
There are many different kinds of meditation, but some forms of calm meditation have been observed to produce numerous benefits beyond placebo effects, including lowering cortisol levels.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100816155000.ht...
While tax evasion is a definite concern on the back of RBI's mind. My hunch is it has more to do with the fear of triggering more depreciation of the Rupee which hasn't even recovered completely from its historic downward spiral earlier this year. A related concern is all this resulting in higher inflation, another problem that has plagued the economy. And I really doubt the RBI cares much about customer grievances. Credit card scams are the norm is India and it has never ever imposed stricter regulations and liabilities on Banks. So even though it highlights the concerns, in reality I really doubt the RBI cares if people get duped or not. It's just a fear tactic.
I think what 'backs' a currency is secondary. The primary factor is 'how readily will people accept as payment.' Backing a currency with a physical asset or with government authority have been the traditoinal means of achieving this - but maybe there are other ways.

People often point out that citizens can pay their taxes in dollars, so they are happy to accept them as payments. You cannot of course pay taxes in Bitcoin but interestingly there's been a virus going about recently that basically takes user data hostage and demands a ransom payment in Bitcoin. So there you have a sizeable base of economic actors who need to acquire Bitcoin to settle their ransoms.
Previous discussion of part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889027
That's not quite how legal tender laws work. If I want to operate a business that only accepts Bitcoin, that's not illegal. You give me the Bitcoin and I give you the donut. Legal tender only applies to debts, which include things like damages from lawsuits. In fact, if you want to receive anything other than dollars in a lawsuit, that's considered "specific performance" and is not always available. For instance, if I have a contract to ship you ten tons of flour for $10,000 and I don't ship the flour, most of the time you can sue me for some dollar amount of damages. Specific performance would be if the court ordered me to ship you flour--or indeed, gold, Bitcoin, or Euros.
I'm thinking more of things like the p6 arrow. Moops is part of the first part, things I can already do in Perl that are in Ruby.
"The root of the problem here isn't that the NSA are spying on ordinary people,"

what? no, that is exactly the problem. isn't it?
I've been onto this for long just to always forget to fix it. Thanks!
It's gone midnight here, and I lack the time and interest to debate this. I disagree with you on nearly every point, but there seems little to gain by arguing it. I agree that we disagree. More, I don't really care, except to say that this is nearly the only site I find easy to use, and almost immediate to understand. Just a datum for you.
I'm hard at work building my own, so I'm curious, moderately knowledgable (enough typo know its a giant field and only the foolish think they are experts in it)

Care to divulge more about why I should even click a link to freelancer?
Here's what they did http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/reserve-bank-of-india-restr... but later relaxed a bit http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/paypal-now-allows-indi...
Are Google's terms a moral imperative? Does observation of Google's terms define who you are as a person? Are rules created by a corporation means to determine whether doing something is right or wrong?

Google can do what they want, they own the rankings. But why would you personally attack someone? Is adherence to Google's terms a factor you use in judging the quality of someone's character?
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This is a mobile app or a web based app.
Jack Dorsey on San Francisco's inequality: It's our responsibility
Of course. That said, Clojure doesn't have those, given that it has a dynamic type system and destructuring instead of pattern matching (not as clean, IMHO), so a comparison to Haskell in this respect is less useful.
You only need this to produce enough to cover petroleum use cases without viable alternatives. Push come to shove, we will get electric cars working. We can skip oil for any large scale power production.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You are a lifesaver.
The main problem with structured editing is that it requires programmers to write code in a certain order that is often goes against their "flow;" enforcing a rigid flow is a huge usability negative. Even without structured editing, we see cases where increased flexibility improves flow; e.g. in dynamically typed languages. Unfortunately, improvements in flow often lead to reductions in feedback (e.g. via static typing).

There are things we can do to have our cake (flow) and eat it (feedback) also. Code completion was one of the great boons of structured editing (introduced in Alice Pascal circa 1985), and by the late 90s we learned how to create "language aware" editors that could leverage this feature without flow disrupting structured editing. The same goes for static typing: we can, through some heavy type inference, infer semantic information responsively while the user is typing, and use that to provide responsive feedback.

I'm in the camp where the programming experience should be considered holistically. The IDE is a part of that experience, and so language design should occur concurrent with IDE design. With some smart incremental compilation magic along with language-specific rendering in the IDE, we can build programming experiences that provide the benefits of structured (and projectional) editing without the flow costs. Or at least, that is the premise of my research :)
This! Exactly the point I made above! Same issues plague "traditional" banks and RBI has imposed very limited liabilities on Bank or even safeguards like this one https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/. So if the Target fiasco had happened in India, Target would have minimum if any liabilities. Why do you think "cash on Delivery" is such a big thing in India. Consumers are paranoid, not just because it's their habit, they just feel vulnerable with no recourse even with traditional banking.
Do you have any citations on the effectiveness of awareness campaigns. The evidence is mixed, to put it mildly. DARE and Scared Straight are both anti-effective, for example.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/22/public-awareness-campai...
"And may I suggest that employers, although they’ll never say so in public, like this situation? That is, there’s a significant upside to them from the still-weak economy."

If the economy ever turns around (and I'm hopeful that it will), this will come back to bite the employers. A large percentage of employees are dissatisfied with their current jobs are are only staying there because of the difficult job market.[1] When the job market improves, companies will have a hard time filling all the positions of the abused employees who'll suddenly start leaving in droves. (Or they'll have to offer significant raises to bribe them to stay.)

Also, isn't Krugman pretty much stating the obvious in this article (employees have low bargaining power in a poor economy)?

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17348695/ns/business-careers/t/ame...
They obsess over it precisely because it's the most difficult of all. High energy density is required for flight. Apparently people would like to keep relatively cheap flight a thing that stays around.
Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/03/death-of-d... written by science fiction author Cory Doctorow
What the Heck is a Relation? From Tables to Cartesian Products to Logic
This is How Warren Buffett Interprets Financial Statements
It might have started that way but Dogecoin has seen a surge in trading recently, and a growing "legitimate" user base recently https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0 So it's completely fair to name it among the likes of Bitcoin and Litecoin.
really i might not know your name but if i tried hard enough i could trace the blockchain to where you bought it and look at the transaction, price of items, value at that time, and figure it out... but id never know it was you ;)
Indeed, it appears multiple users thought RG was no more:

https://twitter.com/ReesesPiece94/status/415939402422947840

https://twitter.com/Mattious_/status/415913576507772928

https://twitter.com/Pouss_Mouss/status/415913988556201984
BT, Sky and Virgin are also broadcasters. I wonder if their bending over for the government has something to do with their desire to retain their government granted licenses to remain broadcasters.
the SC2 arcade is soon going free to play. Hopefully that changes something.
Dogewallet hacked - 21 Million Dogecoins stolen
Deconstructing Google’s Analytics tracking code
> What backs the value of a Bitcoin?

Electricity mainly. The cost of a bitcoin is proportional to the cost of the electricity to make it.

Every time a new machine comes out that is more efficient in electricity the difficulty rises such that you are back where you started.
Actually, one could argue they already are abusing it and are doing so with increasing frequency.

They've been tailoring search results to cut out the specialized aggregators, like including their own shopping results above other stores.

The obvious one you've probably seen recently is movies. They now show the actors, related films and rankings, depriving views and ad space from the sites that offered that information.

They've also been doing it with maps for years for search terms like 'x in y city' as well as entering the ratings business. This content is often poor, but I imagine every click into an aggregator is a loss to google as the ad spend potentially goes on that aggregator instead of google.

You could see all of these are attempting to circumvent other businesses and abusing their monopoly. But I imagine none of these businesses want to complain as to be shut out of Google on the internet is death. You can't tell google to not steal your content, without telling them to not list your content.

They seem to justify it with claims that they're just giving searchers what they want, but in the end they own the highways, and now they seem to be putting their own facades up in front of a significant number of the businesses along the highway too which means they have to advertise on google just to get above google's own internal adverts.

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting, but actual search results often seem to appear a very, very long way down the page on a lot of terms these days.
Me, too; try this one:
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/persistent-startup...
Do that many people install Ruby through a source code package that they manually download? Why not just hold off on posting until there's useful information?
>I'm uncomfortable with what appears to be almost a direct line the RapGenius gents have with the Google team to come to what they've coined as a "resolution" between the two entities.

What do you mean by this, was there another update since the initial penalty was levied? RG still appears to be gone from the serps.
I find that those syntactic markers make it so much easier to parse the structure of code at a high level, and their lack (or the way they can be embedded inside other expressions) are what has always kept me away from a variety of languages, from Lisp and Forth all the way to CoffeeScript and Haskell.
I like the thinking behind routines. Each of these apps seems to solve a problem that you had but that quite a lot of other people also likely had.

I'd love to see a follow up showing how these apps did for you.
If you ignore the industrial uses of gold its even closer; it's something that is exchanged for other things but never used to do anything on its own.
FAQ on bitcoin FUD - http://justinvincent.com/page/2172/bitcoin-fear-uncertainty-... - Hope it's helpful :)
The usual best response to bullying is the same as to sexual harassment; leave. You're not in school anymore, no one can force you to go back. You are not responsible to other people you don't know, at a cost to yourself.
Finalisers run before weak references are cleared. You do, however, have the GC cost of having a finalized.
Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo
That was my thought too. The RG statement strongly implies that Google are helping them to "resolve" an "issue", which makes the whole thing sound like some technical glitch that Google and RG are coordinating as equals to resolve. In fact, RG just got caught blatantly trying to game their Google search ranking and Google righteously slapped them down for it. I would be surprised (and disappointed) if it turned out that any meaningful negotiation had taken place.
Good right up Edoardo. The challenge, of course, is how do they find another Marissa Meyer? I personally have hoped that they'd bring back Ray Ozzie in the position as CEO. He's got experience as a visionary in the tech industry, as well as having intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Microsoft.

Sadly, I haven't seen his name tossed around at all.
I came here expecting something stupid but this doc isn't completely unreasonable. From the perspective of warning newbies or my mother (say) about investing in bitcoin, it does a fair job. Or rather, it could have been far, far worse.
Bitcoin Weekly: Predictions for BTC in 2014
> And how would "preferred form for making modifications" be defined?

In the same way that you define source code, or what modifications means. One argue a case in front of a judge, and if both parties agree, then that will be that. If the two sides disagree, the judge (or jury) makes a decision.

However, I think any programer would have a hard time arguing that the preferred form for modifications on binary file is not the source code. In the same way, they would have a hard time arguing that the preferred form to add modifications on source code that's been obfuscated is not on the non-obfuscated code. Judges and juries are not complete without common sense.
Simply asking someone to review your product is not an issue. Offering money to do so or offering to do things in exchange for the review (like promoting their site on social media or your site) is.
Apple Slapped With $667K Fine For Trying To Influence Taiwanese iPhone Prices
Complaining is fine. But until you can pull cars/drivers out of your butt, it doesn't do much to increase supply or lower demand.
If the author is reading, consider throwing in this link into the Similar efforts section:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogr...