skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To certain degree - we've also FreeNAS, PC-BSD and lots of others, listed in details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems#F...
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From what I've read they're actually cached somewhere on the device - if you restart/close the app, you lose the ability to replay stuff.
Infinitive wars that never end? Wars built on insubstantial concepts about who the enemy is and why they need to be fought? Wars without any specific goals or purpose?

Yes, fuck those wars. Everyone with honest thought can see how wars with those characteristics are bad, should not exist, and should booo at any politician who active contribute for its continuation.
Writer Pro: patently amateurish
I would like to have a descent cross browser SOAP client. All available soap clients for unix based systems are buggy and complicated to use (requires knowledge of XML and XSD)
If it takes 4 years, you can use all the material.
Why not compare the first character of the input to y or n (forced lower), or only allow one character of input like the instructions show.
Thank you all for the ideas, I will be grinching the best and brightest in return for 0 shares of my future company.
Huh? The two issues are entirely different.
Obviously the fastest way is not to have bought them in the first place.

Or that they're pure software, so you just need one hard drive or just cloud storage.

All the rest should fit a backpack.
Also, there is BSD Magazine too: http://bsdmag.org/
Cryptocat rejected by Apple
Thats true, but they are still much closer than Linux distros.
I'm not sure what you mean by "these public domain university emails." This is an email that has been saved and re-forwarded many times, including to mailing lists such as the one archived in the main link. Originally it would have been forwarded by either the sender or one of the recipients.
NY Judge Rules NSA Phone Record Collection Is Legal
For the less technical user who enjoys math, I can recommend these books:

* The music of the primes - Very nice reading. Of course revolves around Primes but gets from Euclides to RSA and EC cryptography without being technical.

* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Also math related reading story.

* the Cryptonomicon - the ultimate hacker novel IMHO. Lots of math there also, explained very nicely. I will never forget the masturbation vs concentration graph :-)
Disney holds a trademark on Mickey Mouse in perpetuity, so your nostalgia is covered.

I'd be happy with a copyright system where the fee is $5 for the first year of government-protected monopoly, $10, for the second, $20 for the third, and on and on at the rate of $5*2^n for as long as they like. Note that at the fifteen-year mark, the renewal fee for another year of copyright enforcement would be over $30 million, which seems appropriate.

edit: math
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As someone who's admined Windows systems, the solution comes in the form of the Powershell ISE, installed on any modern Windows system. Essentially, a combination code editor and terminal for Powershell in a modern Windows interface.

Nobody uses the default terminal (cmd.exe and systems built on top of it). There's alternatives, though, and at least one is pre-installed. Do you judge Linux's command-line capabilities by the usability of xterm?
There's a contingent of HN people reading this article who see nothing wrong at all and are now trying to figure out how to become the same thing themselves.
So the character "Sherlock Holmes" is public domain but (some) of the novels are still copyrighted, right ?

What is that good for....authors writing new "Sherlock Holmes" novels ? What is the point in having a "character" public domain ?
#6. Euclid's Elements.
Because people have this thing called a backbone. If you're fine with someone going into your account and pulling money at will, all the power to you, but most people will not tolerate that shit. You are a customer and they are a business, no feelings, no emotional bullshit, simple straight up facts.
Saving playlists assumes that you can actually find them again. I use one playlist per artist/composer, organized in per-genre folders, and it's a pain to maintain. First, because I end up with a ton of playlists, and secondly because I have to manually alphabetize their order. If I don't order them alphabetically I can't find them, since Spotify has no playlist search/filter. (For some reason the search box autocompletes other people's published playlists, but not your own.)

I agree with the parent, Spotify's playlist-oriented design is a major UI problem.
Go structs the JavaScript Way
An exceedingly popular story. The discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454 (nytimes.com)

Other submissions include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972387 (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099 (npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827 (uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787 (reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666 (politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526 (usatoday.com)
I guess my point is this: until there is world peace, there will be spying. So if you are against spying you should work for world peace. Actually, come to think of it, even if there is world peace there will probably still be spying.
Article is from 12/26. On 12/27 TWTR lost 13%.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR
It's the first one.

The first sentence is a reference to getting old.
Nice plug. Thanks!
Well if you have talent, experience, connections, and a proven and/or good team, then yes you should consider thinking big.
I think calling an artist's latest album nothing more than "just a playlist they put together with some artwork" is doing a disservice to the amount of work that goes into consciously composing and crafting an album, at least for many artists and genres of music. The same could be said for the skill that goes into making a good playlist, sure, but in general there's still a difference between someone curating existing music and someone writing new songs from scratch and figuring out how to arrange them.
Stock exec compensation up from 7% of in 1960s to over 60% today
How up-to-date with patches is that Mac OS X?

Safari doesn't have a great track record.
Sure, because apparently it's experimental. Owning an iPhone for 4 years, I bought an android device and the first thing I notice is that half the apps I use are very unstable. The quality of the software is way behind the iOS.

Link: https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/issues/542
Can I say just "no"?

As the article notes, no player today an incentive to make patent filings actually useful, especially in software. Patently are generally framed in intentionally over-broad terms with the particular advances buried behind the general idea and offering the least clues possible for those actually aiming to use the information for anything - what else would you expect from a document intended to keep people from using an invention without your permission.

Can we turn a stream of intentionally useless information into something positive? Maybe a super computer genius could? No, a super computer genius would be able to first produce useful stuff from nothing, be already at human+ level before it could pull the "garbage in, diamonds out" trick.
Presumably, those with this tendency are diagnosed with narcolepsy, or have narcoleptic tendencies. If you're not diagnosed. It may be worth getting a diagnosis.

I haven't been officially diagnosed, but basically, the latest research on dealing with narcolepsy is a combination of lifestyle and drugs.

In the realm of drugs, there is provigil or adderall as a wakefulness agent or xyrem and some others for a providing deeper sleep. Usually these are life changing in the beginning, but then they lose their efficacy due to tolerance.

On the lifestyle front, theres really only 3 things, bur they are hard. Diet, exercise and sleep hygiene.

The easiest to explain is exercise. Do it. Daily.

Next is sleep hygiene. Consistent bed time and wake up time. Bed only for sleep and sex. Dimmed lights proor to bedtime and a consistent routine. This is harder to do.

The most controversial/hardest is diet/nutrition, especially with the anti vitamin, anti-picky eater sentiment that may be part of ones social circles. So here goes my personal research and anecdotal evidence.

Im on my phone, so forgive the terse explanations.

Universally accepted: low carb, high fat diets.

Nutritional supplements: google for narcolepsy nutrition. Some of the things are choline, b vitamins.

Gluten free (controversial) - the short of it is that, gliadin destroys orexin producing neurons. Longer story at zombieinstitute.

Tyrosine - longer story at some narcolepsy blog by a phd gal, iirc.

Caffiene - the reviews are mixed on this one. Soneswear by it, others claim sleep debt incurred. For me, a cup of coffee or energy drink once every 2 days. Everyday incurs sleep debt for me.

Ketogenic diets help. Paleo with lots of veggies, less meat.

Smaller portions to control insulin load on the body.

My biggest game changers were magnesium citrate (~300mg 2x a day for 600mg) + provigil + glutenfree + lchf. Potassium citrate also helped. Multivitamins seemed to be a waste. I didnt get much with tyrosine and carnitine. Also avoiding soluable sugars (juicy fruits, dextrose, maltodextrin) and going for high fiber (low glycemic) was a big help.
private != for profit.

Learn some history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell
It's called a "raw string" rather than "regexp string", though that is the common use for it.
Not just local, but all governments. All governments over time build themselves up to a point that it can no longer be supported by society, nor itself, so that it eventually collapses. Then the people pick up the pieces, vow to never let that happen again for the sake of future generations, and then they go about doing it all over again.
You choose a particularly bad example, since Salk's effort was run as a completely private effort, aka "the march of dimes" (although it did enjoy FDR's bully pulpit). It was a nonprofit, too, so would you say the same thing about Watsi?
I'm not being combative here, but I'm curious why you said "This should work great in Indian market."
I would also like to have a simple maven plugin to generate documentation for JAX-RS API's. The generated API should be easier to customize and extend than enunciate or swagger.
This could be the beginning of something great for Python. Imagine if all the node.js modules became available on the Python. I'd love to use Python over Javascript.
I’ll call you a hacker whenever I decide to. Who made you the arbiter of whether you should be called a hacker?
Skybox Imaging Captures World's First HD Video of Earth from Space
Google Discarded 21,000,000 Takedown Requests in 2013
Actually. Gliadin doesnt destroy the orexin producing neurons, but narco is an autoimmune disorder, where gliadin's presence brings on igG antibodies, which destroy the orexin producing neurons.
Counterexamples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell

http://www.janelia.org/
I'm trying to get one of my ideas out of my head into coding :)
The man pages of BSD are the official documentation. The man pages of, for instance, GNU LibC are not the official documentation. This is:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/
Deploying to Amazon EC2 Using storm-deploy
Look cool, However there is are a few 404s in your docs. All Action Attributes 404 as well as a few more links.
An interesting approach might be keeping state global, but providing projections through which certain parts of the code must access that state.
C# for Systems Programming (a new language from Microsoft's OS incubation)
Also to certain degree: see Debian - Ubuntu, RHEL - CentOS and so on ;)
Hoping they get the Atari 400/800 in there soon. Most of my early console memories are from there.

Plenty of games didn't work for me on the 2600, though... Star Raiders wouldn't start, others wouldn't load, etc... definitely a work in progress. Nice to be able to just click and play, though.
My understanding of the notion of "simple" is based on the following principles:

1. Short definitions are preferable to long ones.

2. Reusable generic definitions are preferable to overspecific ones.

3. Case analysis should be kept to the bare minimum necessary.

The notion of "monad" fits these principles perfectly:

1. "A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors." Short and to the point.

2. You cannot possibly get anything more reusable and generic than category theory. (Contrast with "instanceof" and reflection breaking type safety, and essentially depending on luck and the stars being aligned in order to work.)

3. There is no case analysis whatsoever in the definition. (Contrast with: "if a pointer is invalid, dereferencing it is undefined behavior, otherwise...", "if a downcast is invalid, performing it will result in a ClassCastException being thrown, otherwise...")

Note that my understanding of "simple" actually encourages abstraction (for the benefit of genericity), rather than dissuade it. Abstraction might make things less "easy" (this is subjective, though), but in no way does it make things less "simple" (this is objective).
Thanks.

The ranking algorithm seems to be acting in strange ways. The top submission only shows up on the third page, which explains how I missed it.
I never liked 64... or the newer versions. The SNES version is still the greatest if you ask me, and still one of the best games ever made. Wish there were a few more battle maps though.
This is crazy cool! I love these "science at home" kind of experiments.
As with all punishments, the official sentence is only the beginning. He has been fired from his position and given the insanely competitive environment in the biosciences (often hundreds of applicants for a single professorship), he will almost certainly never find professorial work again.

You would think, but this guy:

http://www.scu.edu/engineering/bioengineering/Zhang.cfm

Was involved in several retractions that were almost certainly fraudulent. Officially. Unofficially, they were fraudulent (I worked fairly closely with several of the prinicpals in the situation - minus Zhang and Schultz, of course, although Schultz was on my committee - who are convinced the material were made up):

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/01/07/extortion_re...

It's not as prestigious as the place he was before, but he seems to be doing okay. The system protects its own.
Just play Mario Kart Wii.

I had an equivalent experience by trying the original Mario Kart in a SNES emulator recently. The experience of playing the SNES version back then was the same as playing the Wii version now; playing the SNES version now it feels too crude.
People often have a similar complaint when first seeing how LaTeX lays out a page. The truth is that both the white space and limited text expanse make the text much more readable.

After all, paper (and PDF) is cheap. It is better to maximise readability than paper-cost-per-word.
U.S. judge says NSA phone surveillance is lawful
I'm not sure, but I think FB mobile does some sort of downgrade before the photo is uploaded to the server. I've had pictures upload to Facebook from my phone in a very short period of time, shorter than would be required for a full res upload.

So they may not have full resolution versions from the mobile, which is likely their primary source of pictures.
I'm assuming one can now make movies/television/video games with those characters without paying any sort of royalty.
'Military-style' raid on california power station spooks U.S.
Why bother with exponentially increasing costs? Even a token fee would ensure that copyright expires on abandoned/orphaned works.
For making any art containing that character. Seems like a big deal. I thought he already was public domain and that was why there were so many derivative works (movies, tv, video games etc) but I guess they all had to license the character from the Doyle estate (for US works at least).
Yudkowsky Ambition Scale (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510702)

1) We're going to build the next Facebook!
2) We're going to found the next Apple!
3) Our product will create sweeping political change! This will produce a major economic revolution in at least one country! (Seasteading would be change on this level if it worked; creating a new country successfully is around the same level of change as this.)
4) Our product is the next nuclear weapon. You wouldn't want that in the wrong hands, would you?
5) This is going to be the equivalent of the invention of electricity if it works out.
6) We're going to make an IQ-enhancing drug and produce basic change in the human condition.
7) We're going to build serious Drexler-class molecular nanotechnology.
8) We're going to upload a human brain into a computer.
9) We're going to build a recursively self-improving Artificial Intelligence.
10) We think we've figured out how to hack into the computer our universe is running on
Styling HTML elements based on locale
Updated it to your suggestion.
Should Your Salary Be Made Public?
Anyone know why ActiveRecord doesn't just include this functionality already? Or does anyone have any idea if it's planned to add?
This movie blew my young mind at the time. A-team meets NASA.
Their style reminds me of the expertsexchange guys after it had gotten obvious that StackOverflow pwned their asses. They sounded genuinely offended about their own asshole behavior biting them back.

They seem to have taken down their post - its HN discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2224305 and the original is on web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20120424061749/http://www.expert...
Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea
> I’ve been asked over and over for good books about mathematics for a layperson, someone who hasn’t taken advanced courses in university and is more simply interested in learning about what math is, and some of the more interesting historical figures and results from mathematics.

The book you want is "What is Mathematics?" [0] by Courant and Robbins.

[0] http://books.google.no/books?id=_kYBqLc5QoQC&printsec=frontc...
Trolling homework questions - sorting
No major oddities showing up: http://hnrankings.info/6971454/

I suspect there have been a couple of down votes with people just getting tired of the whole thing and wanting HN to be more about actual hacking. But mostly it's just been several hours now.
http://dilbert.com/fast/1995-11-13/

http://dilbert.com/fast/1995-11-14/
Wouldn't everybody save much more time just using Common Lisp, and its already existing (y-or-n-p) function?
This is completely different, but I was reminded of the fainting goats.

http://youtu.be/we9_CdNPuJg
If you prefer, you can store your schema in SQL instead of schema.rb.

In config/application.rb:

config.active_record.schema_format = :sql
Did you mean 5$, 25$, 125$,... ?
Yep, I'm writing this shit up as I type. :)

Hope to have it done by the end of the weekend.
That's true of mediocre VCs, but it's not true of top firms like Andreessen-Horowitz or Union Square Ventures. Those guys do a lot more than write checks.
A popular story. The major discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454 (nytimes.com)

Other submissions include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972901 (boston.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972387 (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099 (npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827 (uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787 (reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666 (politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526 (usatoday.com)
They are attempting to implement iTunes-style artist/album searching with their upcoming Collection feature.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be going well - I'm in the beta for it, and as of right now:

* The saved songs page is an unsortable, unfilterable static HTML page.

* The saved albums page doesn't cache any album art, and going to an album page doesn't display any album art. Again, no filtering.

* The saved artists page also doesn't cache artist images or allow for filtering.

The beta's been going on for two months and so far there has been no patch notes, no updates, and basically no communication with testers.
That was also my initial takeaway. To me hacking is about understanding how it all works. Using a tool isn't a problem but the guy that wrote the tool is a hacker, and you're only a hacker if you understand what it is you're doing well enough that you can solve unfamiliar problems that the tool doesn't already cover. Otherwise you are going to get stumped, which translates into getting caught.

To look at it another way: installing wordpress with some plugins doesn't make you a web developer.

Edit: I took this article's bait but I realized afterwards that this was all to ride off the recent Target fiasco.
Don't hire people. That is where startups spend all their money.

Hiring too fast is doubly constraining. It increases your costs, and it also makes it harder to change direction.
Don't see your email address in your profile. Are you open to being contacted? Would love to connect for advice as we are looking into options for sale of our small profitable business (~$3M revenue in 2013; $5M revenue run rate). Please email me at libertatis at gmail dot com if you wouldn't mind having a quick chat!
I was there. It was a dense talk. Worth to watch.
Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million
This is why I think supply and demand should apply to college classes.
You need increasing fees to prevent big business from automatically renewing all the time. Make them think if they want to renew it all. Otherwise they'll decide the just renew it all.
Ironic considering Disney is famous for making films based on other people's stories.
I'm sold. Based on your experience, would this course be approachable for self-study by individuals without 3 years of CS education? The MIT page[1] suggests the intended audience for the class are seniors and graduate students (M.Eng and PhD).

[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/general.html
During the cold war, spying actually helped prevent war. I am absolutely fine with the USG spying on foreign governments, militaries, and to a lesser extent, specific war-related businesses (arms manufacturers, potentially energy and logistics companies, etc.) -- the spying on civilian firms should be firewalled off from any potential commercial utility, and should be purely passive and primarily through open sources, but even that seems potentially legitimate.

Spying on purely private people through blanket collection is wrong, both of US citizens and foreign citizens.

I'd be comfortable with foreign intelligence services operating under the same rules.
I think all copyright is treated legally the same, regardless of how much it's used now. That's one of my big problems with current copyright systems.