skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Spencer. It is encouraging to see success stories, especially considering you are around the block from the day job.
Maxisdidnt make the original, they only branded it and published it. Some Japanese guy made it (abd the sequel, your tower)
The floodgates will open when you can use one as the human interface to your Windows system in the cloud that you've uploaded all your apps and data to and can throw out all its local manifestations once and forever.

There's no longer any excuse or need for OEM Windows machines. Same is true of Mac systems but their walls will take longer to tear down. Nonetheless, fall they will.

Some day historians will only scratch their heads about this long detour away from thin clients that we've suffered for around 40 years and the phenomenon will become a rich research area for behavioral psychologists.
You've given a radical example. It's less obvious when you compare egoistic and altruistic attitudes, as in Gorgias. The evolution itself, as scientific theory, is blurring the border between good and "efficient" behavior. There must be some scientifically proved scoring rule for comparing "bad" and "good" societies, if science can tell us what is wrong. Otherwise it would not be a science ;) I don't claim that you're wrong, but it is very hard to preserve moral values in an atheistic ideology. Of course, you can identify "good" with "pleasant" or "increasing probability of reproduction", but IMHO it can't give you a proper view of morality. BTW your reasoning (why is-ought is false problem) didn't give ma a positive solution about source of the moral values in human actions.
Can confirm this article as correct: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582

Am able (on Sky) to access all the sites mentioned on this article.

I do however, strongly disagree with the sentiment that this filter is "Just another attempt by the Tories to prevent people finding out information." It's not, it's just a very poorly implemented filter by the ISP's that can be 'hacked' with a simple proxy.

We had to deal with this kind of filtering many years ago back at school, where even the word 'mobile' was filtered.
If you treat the voice as another instrument it can be enjoyable without making sense.
Sacrificing Inheritance for Equality
Right, but this is a link to a piece of data. Calling it "emotive" is odd.
I personally think the middle path is always the place to begin seeking the truth.

I can tell you are angry (i have a 6th sense with these things). I am angry too. I am so angry at what my country does, and how ignorant the majority of us are about it. I have no salve. I have no solution. War's hellish qualities serve as entertainment fodder instead of a lesson.

I am angry too, but i respect the place we are and, respectfully, you should too.
The super secret art of asking amazing questions
Off-topic, but your screen name is the name I chose for my first fictional character, ever. (From almost 4 decades ago.)
This reminds me of a far side cartoon about a dog bark translator http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/dog-bark-tr...
Another article about feminist affirmate action, giving women free rides for shit they don't care about. Affirmative action is discrimination that takes away from qualified folk and gives to people who are incompetent. Why people see AA as acceptable is beyond me.

And why do feminists only want access to clean, easy, well-paying jobs? Why do I never hear them wanting AA for mining jobs? Or picking up trash? Or bricklaying? It's always coding, engineering, company boards, politics, cops (but always waiting for male backup), etc.

Fuck feminism. What this shit is doing is making people like me, who have been coding since before elementary school, extremely bitter. Not for my own sake, for I already have a good IT-job, but for the sake of those quiet kids. The quiet kids who aren't social enough to build large networks of friends who'll help them get IT-jobs. The quiet kids that spend all of their time in front of the computer, learning shit on their own instead of learning what they're taught. The quiet kids that need tons of luck to get a hold of jobs that they're competent for but overlooked from because some dude who is friendly and outgoing makes a far better impression during the interview - no matter their competency level.

I was one of the quiet kids. When I was young there was no sexual discrimination because coding was still nerdy and shitty and not very highly regarded, but now it's different. Now it IS cool to code, and I can't fucking stand to see incompetent, uninterested people getting hired / promoted before those who have higher technical competency. That's discrimination no matter how you look at it.

If girls were equally competent as guys then discrimination would not be necessary because it would be immediately obvious that everybody is competing on the same level, right right right?
One of the most constructive replies. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get into SEO? Did you get professional help or try to tackle it yourself?

PS: Kudos on the product, you just got yourself a future customer with the Atlassian integration :)
Ridiculousness is just a subjective opinion though, that's why it makes such a terrible argument. I think it's ridiculousness that McDonald's doesn't have free refills in the UK, but I doubt many UK residents feel the same way.
"As a share of all CS bachelor's degrees granted that year, females had slipped almost 10 points"

This line of reasoning seems to assume that virtually all CS grads go into "post 1990 startup culture" companies. I suspect that nationwide, fresh grads going into startups is a rounding error.

I'm not disagreeing with the conclusion, just claiming the facts in support of it are not a good fit.

Something cultural that I could match up to declining female grad rates would be the stockholm syndrome-like popularity of the programming death-march meme, see videogame programmer lifestyle etc. Maybe women are smart enough to avoid that particular form of stupidity and thus avoid the field, but men are too dumb, thus maleness ratio increases.
“We show that the intuition that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and leaders take into account the costs of war. When war can occur because of the presence of asymmetric information, the probability of escalation is indeed lower for countries that trade more bilaterally because of the opportunity cost associated with the loss of trade gains.

However, countries more open to global trade have a higher probability of war because multilateral trade openness decreases bilateral dependence to any given country.

Using a theoretically-based econometric model, we test our predictions on a large dataset of military conflicts in the period 1948-2001. We find strong evidence for the contrasting effects of bilateral and multilateral trade. Our empirical results also confirm our theoretical prediction that multilateral trade openness increases more the probability of war between proximate countries. This may explain why military conflicts have become more localized and less global over time.”

http://econ.sciences-po.fr/sites/default/files/martinp/CEPR-...
Also seems to crash randomly when importing standard libraries (like Data.Map) in a file I'm currently editing, making it somewhat unusable for the time being.
>Lone developers created and released applications all the time.

The context was applications for mobile phones.
I stopped following bitcoin about 18 months ago so it's possible my information is out of date, but I think your assertion is only true in the sense that today's client does no mining.

It is miners which run these scripts, and when I was following bitcoin it was miners who decided which script features they would allow. There were some significant mining pools which allowed nonstandard script features.
>in all wars

Drones are used outside of declared war zones in "targeted killings". This is an important distinction.
No, it wouldn't need to be overwritten, but you'd want to ensure that it was zeroed rather than just trimmed (marked as empty in the physical block allocation table).
Best comment in this thread.
No, because he's using an example from his own experience to rebut Paul Graham's (partial) explanation of gender imbalance at startups.
Is anyone else seeing a Breitling ad featuring WWII fighter planes and "sexy" girls winking at the pilots?

Really unfortunate pairing.

(Really the sexing up of war is pretty distasteful under any circumstances but this just takes the cake.)
Men do better than women at the Math SAT[1]

I just want to add that this has to do with culture, and, again, what we were exposed to and influenced to have an interest in from childhood.

In high school I can remember the top Science student were all women and they racked more awards than men.
More info on the Indigogo page - http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof

That, by the way, is the entirety of discussion from previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941486

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949669

Don't be surprised if you don't get much discussion here.
> Uh, the problem is that this is not a one-time succeed or fail thing.

I think you're misunderstanding the risk here. If the mining network reaches a point that it is no longer secure, because the market cap and trade volume is not high enough to support a large computational network, then a single widely publicized 51% attack can cause a near-complete loss of faith in the system.

The damage to cryptocurrencies after such an event is probably irreparable.
It is now BSD-licensed.
This certainly points out one interesting thing... each and every content producer in the world has a vested stake in promoting other, alternative search engines. No one should put all of their eggs in one basket.

If you're a content producer, you should absolutely be looking for ways to promote other search engines (and other traffic sources) as a hedge against getting screwed by a change at $DOMINANT_PLAYER.
I find this true, and I've been an old Firefox user. Stopped for a while after a bunch of issues after 4, and after that I've been off and on really TRYING!, but nah.. sticking with Chrome.
Designing a crypto-currency for planet hunting
I want to design a crypto-currency for planet hunting. Primarily i'm interested in harnessing computing power to identify likely interstellar planets. Usable data that comes to mind is http://www.planethunters.org/. Using data from their platform or a similar one, we could design a prime coin, but rewards would be for contributing to planet hunting!

Ideally it would be structured like a bitcoin blockchain, utilizing SHA256, after all, the more computer power the (theoretical) better.

Anyone else interested in this project? I'm rather occupied with our startup, but I think this could be an intriguing side-project. I'd like to get feedback and learn if others are interested.

Thanks!
This is completely false. The author of the original article (http://bsdly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-block...), Peter N. M. Hansteen, confused one ISP's opt-in parental whitelist with the UK's national opt-out blacklist. When informed of his error, he did not correct it but just added an update at the bottom ranting about opt-in parental filters, so sites like TGDaily and TechEye are still reading the first few pages and perpetuating the falsehood.

This makes opponents of UK censorship look like clueless idiots and hurts the entire cause. Nice job, Peter Hansteen.
"eh" The rates looked to be tracking pretty closely until the housing bubble burst:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/womens-unemploy...
No, when you have the website you don't need to "google" it.
I'm not entirely certain on what metric you are using to say Windows is more secure because it has had more eyeballs. I would assume the fair metric is eyeball hours per line of code, which I would assume is much lower for Windows than for Linux. There are probably many parts of the Windows codebase that, once written and demonstrated to be working, have probably not received any real attention since. With Linux and other popular open-source programs, their lines of code have probably been reviewed by every serious senior software engineer that have decided to get involved in those codebases for one reason or another.

There is no reason to think that the eyeballs looking at the Windows source code (i.e. Microsoft employees) are any more skilled than those in the open source community looking over Linux source code. There are probably many parts of the Windows codebase that was written by junior engineers, given the OK by a senior engineer if the code worked and didn't look obviously broken. Much of that code probably hasn't been combed over since because it would only be combed over by the few people that have access to it and the fewer still number of people who have both access and a reason to comb over it because it's part of a task they are currently assigned to work on.
I enabled comments on my blog. Now what?
Who? You're quoting fancy philosophical terms, so here goes:
Aristotle: the sort of war that involves hunting “those human beings who are naturally suited to be ruled but [are] unwilling…[is] by nature just”
Plato's Republic had warriors as a vital part of his ideal society.
Aquinas and Augustine gave us the Western "Just War" theory though other cultures had covered the idea earlier. Even Cardinal Wolsey's (and the Church's) thinking around perpetual peace was to allow fighting non-Christians.

Kant and Bentham are hardly since time immemorial. I'll give you Jesus (only 2000 years), but the God of the Old Testament was rather pro-conflict, and other religions have very pro-conflict tenements.

The accepted views of the majority of humanity until the late 20th century (perhaps not even now) is that different genders and races were unequal, that some were fit to rule over others, and that war was an inevitable consequence and participation in it was an honourable, noble and patriotic (once patriotism had emerged as a concept) activity.

Who is not thinking this through. Plus the killing has massively reduced - the last decade has been one of the lowest for deaths in conflict in human history.
what's wrong with pdfs? sorry but this is a solution without a problem
When I tab-complete + enter, Firefox autocompletes it to http://www.facebook.com and then opens the URL.
Haha. Hope you were not asking for a pressure cooker, etc.

”We’re only looking for any unusual presents, like children who ask Santa for pressure cookers, large amounts of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, hyzadrine rocket fuel, things like that. I mean a six-year old with a hammer is bad enough; just try to imagine that same six-year old with a truck bomb.”
How does your "gender-based difference in interests" explain the last thirty years of (proportional) decline in women majoring in CS?
> " I just want lyrics, if Google can get me to them I am happy."

This is what I said when I met with Milun Tesovic from Metrolyrics, and what was more shocking is that they were licensing lyrics and paying royalties for it and that they used jQuery to block people from copying and pasting lyrics. You could be sued for copying pasting "copyrighted" text and that every other lyrics site were using "pirated" text.

You telling me consumers can't copy paste the words to "bitches aint shit but hoes and tricks " (Dr. Dre 1992, Chronic) because they are paying royalties for it out of their own pocket?

Needless to say, the traffic between azlyrics and metrolyrics reflects this. Former has been trending up for the past few years, while metrolyrics have stagnated and is less frequented than azlyrics.
Should Google have that sort of power over almost every business in the world?
The issue is not that it happened. The issue is not that people died. The issue is that Drone Warfare allows rich people in power to remotely kill people they deem as threats whilst selling a story of reduced casualties on both sides. The casualties of this kind of war will be human at first...
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We already have an Open Source search engine, it's called YaCy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

Of course, nobody uses it.
I don't argue the merits, but the BMW case is obviously different (BMW core business, dependency on Google results, etc.), hence the disproportionate reaction.
I meant to say that Bitcoin - or something like it - will emerge to facilitate online transactions of the black market kind. Rightly so that Bitcoin doesn't inherently gain value from the black market, but I do believe the black market will use something to do online transactions (as shown by the Silk Road and others). Thus far, that currency has been Bitcoin.

Gold and silver have industrial uses today. That may change tomorrow (albeit highly unlikely).

Bitcoin is the currency of cyber criminals today (hence giving it value today). That also may change tomorrow.
Almost none of REST is used in most "RESTful" APIs except incidentally, because "RESTful" APIs are usually simple RPC-over-HTTP, and have nothing to do with REST.

OTOH, there are RESTful APIs that actually try to use REST, including HATEOAS, such as PayPal's [1].

[1] https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/paypal-...
> How is what Rap Genius is doing any different than Amazon or iTunes paying you for affiliate links, or you paying a blog to advertise you, or buying a friend a beer to include a link to you?

I don't know about affiliate links, but paying a blog to advertise you will also land you on Google's shitlist (unless you mark the link nofollow, in which case they don't care.)

Edit: according to http://www.webpronews.com/heres-what-googles-matt-cutts-says... you are actually supposed to nofollow affiliate links but they can usually handle it automatically for big sites like Amazon or iTunes.
Rapgenius needs to find some way to recover from this if they are to survive. What are you saying they don't need to do?
People couldn't search for lyrics on Google before Rap Genius came along?
Where can you find those guidelines?
> Yet no one's complaining

Plenty of people are complaining. You just don't see it because you're surrounding yourself in this little bubble of tech and startups and coding. The least you could have done, if not a simple Google search, was scroll three inches down before you replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6981113

There are plenty of initiatives to get more men into nursing and teaching and fashion. Even if there weren't, why does that matter? It has nothing to do with this industry's problems. We don't need every other industry to be fixing itself before we do.

That's not even touching on your victim-complex of an argument about men coding. You must be pretty deep in that bubble.
Yeah, that's why its bad: the key to the utility of reference material is organization.
No, not necessarily. Rust does not allow shared memory between tasks, but Go does, for example.
I initially launched the site promoting my app as just 1 page. In hindsight knowing what I know now that was ludicrous. (You need more pages, more content and more targeted content.) I went into it here: http://neat.io/blog/the-bee-website-redesign.html

I still don't really understand SEO and my site is still not ranking for the keywords I want but I'm trying to learn.

I did get one-off semi-professional help from experts that emailed me as a result of my blog post blowing up on HN but end of the day, you're going to have to dig deep and learn about it yourself. This is frustrating because looking for quality content about SEO is ridiculous. Everything out there is so dubious and I don't know what is credible and what isn't.

Today for instance I just got a tip about content placement and how it can be effective for SEO. I Googled around and found this list: http://www.mywebschool.com/blog/seo/seo-tips-for-keyword-pla... so I'm going to try and apply it later tonight. No idea if it will work or if its a waste of time or if the tips in there are good...

--

Oh and another thing I forgot to mention is that a lot of people asked me to make a video showcasing the app because they wanted to watch something rather than scroll through a list of features. This was a good idea, no idea if its helped with people downloading the trial but I get good feedback on the video and at least it educates people about what my app does. Video blog post here: http://neat.io/blog/creating-the-bee-video.html
it's an open source project.
why would you use unity3d? Would that not totally defeat the purpose?
Centipede, because writing command line apps in Java doesn't have to hurt
I would prefer to keep the name out of the comments, just to prevent mud-slinging. That said, it is a proprietary language built for a niche data analysis market. It is basically a BASIC variant that probably came out around 95, and the application I now work with was started around that time. It was probably a great choice at the time, as its lack of extendibility was balanced by its performance and feature list in this particular space (GIS). Unfortunately, GIS has traditionally been a huge pain to develop for. The proprietary libraries really sink their teeth in on licensing and the open source modules are notoriously difficult to get up and running, especially in a server environment.

In response to this, I began building an open source javascript library that is nearing 1.0, and I am using it in new production work with great success. I chose javascript (node.js specifically) due mostly to performance with IO (huge in GIS) and its awesome ecosystem around npm. I am finding it much easier to build that one tricky library you need than to get the one tricky library for free and build everything else.

http://morganherlocker.com/post/turf

As to the 5 people... yep about 5-10, and my company employed a few of them. The rest are academics. The 'bus-factor' was pretty high before we switched off of it.
Google is acting in their best interest which is to see that they are the consumer's sole choice when it comes to search. It makes sense that they would try and make an example to send the message that they are willing to go to great lengths (such as taking out businesses that depend on their traffic source) to those that don't play by the rules.

Azlyrics is the best imho, no heavy javascript, no annotations, just simple lyrics you can copy paste in to your blog or facebook.
Did you even read the article or any of the comments in this thread?
> their parents operated in a world based on centralized authority subject to rent-seeking corruption

Krugman is surely correct that it's silly to waste resources digging gold out of the ground only to re-bury it in a bank's vault.

And if Bitcoin was just another currency, it would be equally silly to waste compute resources mining it.

But if crypto-currencies could disrupt even a small part of the centralized, rent-seeking, mafia-economy, then the cost of mining dwindles to insignificance.

It's not about intrinsic value. It's about changing how people transmit value over distance and time. It's about freeing that process from the gatekeepers who control it and extract rents from the labor of others.
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Fair point, but I doubt anyone visiting pbskids and Nick is upping their swag by checking out what verse Jay-Z just busted.