skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I write most things in Markdown and I use reference style links[0] by default. So, I tend to do that in comments on Hacker News, but I omit the brackets which would go around the link "value," (i.e. the inner value of the a tag in HTML). Plus, by listing the links under the comment, I find that it's neater and easier to read. And by simply including the links (even if it's just for "a twitter link" in my "10 word comment") it saves other people time because they don't need to search for it themselves.

[0]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
I don't understand who does all the turing complete contract computation. Presumably the miners, but they're paid to do some useless proof-of-work work, not the turning complete computation of the contract.
I find the React approach very declarative. Certainly competitive with most of the templating systems I've used, few of which I can speak very highly of :)
What about the new Watson 3U setup is more than a turn key Apache UIMA install? Seems like in all of this they gloss over how there is no free lunch and you still have to write a lot of services for your problem domain.
All these revelations are timed too perfectly. It is obviously a crypto-currency conspiracy to drive credit card transactions out of the comfort zone of mainstream Americans, and subtly migrate the shell-shocked populace into accepting the underworld's own spawn -- a hoarded and cracked crypto-currency. Well, it would be if I ever finish my sci-fi distopian short story on it.
I think the issue is more that facebook inflated likes by interfacing with companies, killing the "organic" likes at the same time. I no longer see most likes from my friends -- not because they've stopped like-ing things -- but because facebook is unreasonably throttling the activity stream for some reason. Why would I be friends with these people on facebook if I didn't want to see some of their activities -- or want them to see some of my activities? I don't get it.
Nearly all SIMD in ffmpeg/libav/x264 is just written in assembly. Back in the day, gcc's code generation for even x86 SIMD intrinsic functions was too poor to consider using it.

(Plus x86's intrinsics are just plain ugly. It's easier to read asm.)

As for the architecture-independent SIMD in GNU C, it's something, but not quite flexible enough. Even C is really not a good enough language to consider implementing this in, because it has an overly-conservative memory model when it comes to char *, which aliases all other memory. For a library dedicated to parsing things which come in the form of bytestreams and 8-bit pixels, this means that most compiler optimizations are defeated right in the inner loops where you'd need them.
Apparently Helianthus think's PG should have both said nothing at all (eg, Because by engaging the toxic, he's cementing his role in the toxic.) and said something radical (the section of moderate feminists that are inherently sympathetic to YC; the concerns of those outside that layer, even the valid ones, are simply not important to PG)

Not entirely sure what the author thinks they are achieving.
How Chrysler, Ford, GM, Others Use Auto Location Data
How about codependent?
Every web frontend dev I've ever worked with used a Mac.
I'm not aware of the details, but they might have managed to store the track data because they intercepted it in transit, not because Target was storing it somewhere.
How do I mine them?
Tor doesn't keep the site from knowing who you are. It only prevents an observer from determining the relationship between you and that site from traffic alone, as that is encrypted and obfuscated.

So if you're using Google directly via TOR, you're back in the risk case that your data-at-rest identify you. They can be linked by various means: your username, if that identifies you, by patterns of behavior across multiple sites, by ad syndication networks and shared cookies, etc.

So, no, TOR alone isn't sufficient security in the case of Google.
I really really want to like this app more -- I love the journaling implications, and the design just makes me smile every time I open it -- but its vision will be its downfall:

1) The "smaller, tighter" social network just diminishes its viral component by design
2) The mobile only approach means I can't type out a longer post or entry about my day
3) Lack of viable monetization options means I can't trust my data long-term with them.
4) Lack of non-people "Paths" -- i.e. I really like to follow certain companies/organizations on Facebook because I can keep up to date with what's going on. For example, I follow a few yoga studios on FB because they're always discussing new classes, teachers, class changes, etc. Say what you want about FB & Twitter, but they know how to craft addicting news feeds that I consume like water.
Can vouch for this as well. So far Amazon customer service has been great for us as well. We just got introduced to our account manager a couple of months ago but she has been very helpful in getting us connected with the right people and helping us save money on our monthly usage.
FINsix shrinks your laptop adapter to the size of a lighter
How an Xbox One owner trolls using his clever nickname
Apache UIMA can just do the data import & transformation.

Watson is much, much more. For one thing UIMA doesn't have any of the question analysis and answer confidence rating that the Watson DeepQA pipeline[1] does.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/watson-summer-review8201...
California is an at will employment state so they really didn't need a reason. next when your side work directly deals with your day job that is a warning flag.
Dateline: July 28, 2013
Only women

Nope. A large majority of when I see the term "white-knighting" the gender of the person being defended is male or unknown.
I have been using DDG for sometime in my office, in fact DDG is my default in firefox. I don't miss google. DDG finds me whatever I need.
Take Action | Necessary and Proportionate: Privacy is a Right
I have never in my life heard this definition. Where are you seeing it?
I've used both dojo dijit and angularjs templates. I admit, I haven't done more than read your blog on Om, but I very much prefer the html declarative templates of both dojo and angularjs ... show me how Om/React beats direct html templates, I'm not seeing it.

I'm not trying to be too non-constructive critical here, I fully admit I haven't tried Om/React, just looked at your blog post about it. So what am I missing?
>Judging by the comments on this article, it would appear that once you've been labeled a sexist it is downright impossible to dispel.

That's because it's easy. The "sexism-accusers" don't have to do anything themselves to fight sexism. Anything concrete I mean.

It's enough that they voice their anger and point their finger to this or that scapegoat (and ocassional real offender), and they can feel good, nay, champions of equality.

Plus, they have all their similar minded peers to high five, usually all people of upper middle class upbringing, that are oh so sensitive and oh so beautiful souls that even overhearing a guy telling a "dongle" joke in private to his friend can make them feel enraged -- until is time for their fair trade coffee break that is.

That leaves pg to prove a negative.
Text content: http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u

(Saw comments that the site went down and still had it loaded on my machine)
The line is essentially going to be drawn pragmatically in most cases, because the precedent is so vague. Judges generally don't take kindly to people impersonating agents, so i would expect a bit of stretch to find an issue.

For example, if you look, the judge says "We do not embrace the government's sweeping position", but then in practice, did exactly this. They went to great pains to find some way to ascribe "value" to the location of another human being.
Thinking of Aaron: An Update
They must run their webservers on top of their Turing-Complete cryptocurrency... their site seems to be down.
Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide
Especially if you have had a bunch of individual interviewers, who are all conducting multiple interviews per week and trying to ship product, the delay may be down to waiting for one or more of them to submit their feedback about you. I've definitely been terrible about that when we had some product fires going on, and got in the habit of trying to write up immediately after the interview, but sometimes with back-to-back meetings all day it fell off the stack. Knowing someone out there is waiting to hear back is a horrible thing though, and usually spurred me to try and be super-fast -- but you only need one overworked, or sick, interviewer to fall behind with feedback and you might be waiting weeks for the full interview report to be ready for hiring review.
"using your personal data to tailor results", true, I don't like it either. When we are targeted, we always see the outdated ads from 9 out of 10 websites we visited but don't like to re-revisit.

So "pull" is more favored than "push". See the book:

"Pull - The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business" by David Siegel.

But I do like personalized information storage. Maybe you want to reference to the blog post:

Why do we need the Private Web?
http://bit.ly/1c2DzN6
I never see anyone being bothered by them at all.

WTF. How on earth would you know whether drivers going in the opposite direction were being blinded by your lights?!
> Like Xenon headlights, power is immediately cut to the laser headlights in the event of any damage.

As a software engineer this statement really bugs me. Once something is damaged in the real world you can't assume control over the system anymore. The part that cuts or provides the power to the laser might have been the thing damaged. Maybe if they had added a qualifier like "power should be cut" instead of such certitude.
I don't pay much attention to the exact degree weather outside. I guess if it was on the cusp of freezing it might be interesting, but generally.. it's cold, I'm not going to change my behaviour as a result. Is the quantifiable degree increment interesting to other people?
It's just a guesstimate. 5 views/user/day seems like a reasonable mean for a search engine.
I'm concerned about the responses in this article. I drive on the same roads every day and have never experienced an issue with other cars having very bright normal lights to the point of blinding me. Perhaps they should get their vision checked and see whether it is safe for them to drive at night. It may be that their eyes are too senstive for it to be safe.
I keep my phone in my bag too, I don't always have pockets and girl pockets are small anyway. Watches definitely help in that case.

Also, I had an app which forwarded all phone notifications to the Pebble and it certainly helps you realise just how spammy the phone is. But it was useful for capturing things like bank app alerts, TripIt, Google Now, etc.
The fee goes to the miner who happens to find the containing block, yes. But not to the thousands of validating nodes integral to the network. And over time fees are given proportional to hashpower... which doesn't make any kind of sense. The incentives are all messed up.
Samsung’s secret mission to cut Google out of its Galaxy
Oh so you decided to help them? How nice.
There is no worse way to learn than through documentary films. They are free to be as inaccurate and emotive as they want, without the inconvenience of journalistic ethics, and they very often are much more sensationalist than their textual equivalents (books). Something about the medium of TV makes people stupid.

Some of the films in the list are just outright activist propagada. Others might be fine - I haven't watched them all. Want to learn something? Read.
Most likely that # is extrapolated from share-employee allocations listed in SEC filings x maximum stock price. You're kind of missing the point of the article by getting finicky over trivial details, the point being the highly questionable valuation of the firm.
No it makes a lot of sense in a number of situations today especially with ajax and dynamically updating web pages. I have a web application where users navigate to, lets say, invoices through a tree structure of Accounts -> Packages -> Invoices. Clicking on edit of the Invoice opens a new webpage. If they click the back button, users see the list of accounts all collapsed and will have to perform search, and navigate down again to the account. In this instance users have specifically asked me to open the edits in a new window.

In a few cases, I have edits open in the same tab as a popup, but in a number of instances that is not possible for pages with a lot of functionality/fields.
There are, in fact, compelling legal reasons to not launch products involving user generated content for local businesses in other countries. At a bare minimum, your liability for libelous reviews is different in each country and dealing with that alone is a logistical nightmare. Quite a few other reasons as well, but that's a start.
Hey, I like your assessment ability. Contact me at jkwon.work@gmail.com, I have an idea I want to share with you.
>Carry on mansplaining your way through it boys

Using language like this is no more constructive than male chauvinists telling you to stop bitching and get back in the kitchen. It might rally those who already share your beliefs, but it sure won't help you connect with the people you most want to reach.
HP reportedly launching a low-cost smartphone next week aimed at prepaid...
TWTR's fluctuation so far has been $38.80 - $74.73.

Wouldn't you expect the fluctuation in millionaire numbers to follow that, and count of millionaires to be on the high side during the stock's ups?

At peak $74.73 price it only takes 13,382 shares to go over $1 mil, which for company with 555,200,000 shares outstanding is 0.002% grant, generous, but not an unheard-of amount.
It really isn't.

There are cultural institutions (museums, galleries etc.) who have a public interest in making the world aware of, say, science or art history or whatnot. Their mission lines up neatly with Wikipedia's mission. If the Louvre or the Computer History Museum were to pay someone to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the topics their museums cover, I'm not sure how that would be a problem.

Or indeed, imagine this hypothetical: Bill Gates chucks twenty million dollars into a fund to pay some select group of Wikipedians a not-much-above-cost-of-living salary to generally improve Wikipedia's coverage of, say, medicine, science and humanities topics.

A non-hypothetical example: a friend of mine ran a contest on Wikipedia to improve articles about video games. Whoever improved the most articles in a particular period of time would get a few new games sent to their Steam account. That's paid editing, albeit for PC games rather than money. The motivation of the guy who ran it? He likes video games.

We have paid open source software development models: bug bounties, crowdfunding etc. That's not anathema to producing software.

With clear conflict of interest statements and an editorial checking process for paid editors, there's a way to do it without it being sleazy or shilling.
Maybe, but not the way its implemented here. The fee needs to go to all the nodes which perform the validation, not to the miners.
don't forget jeri ellsworth, who is imo the most talented hacker out there today, male or female...

http://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth
Thanks for this. As the husband of a new tenure-track faculty member, I sent this to my wife and all of our other tenure-track friends.
The currency has been hacked.
Fairly universally agreed upon of course, but the question is whether they have a specific written policy that takes it from being "pretty much agreed upon" to "a clear violation of his/her employment agreement" or something equally robust.
Are you the same guy who called the bitcoin peak perfectly in April on irc?
Why I don’t do “mates rates” projects (2012)
I remember this guy, for starters. Nobody's holier than him:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobian/status/41791439674503168...
https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobian/status/41790492741167923...
https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobian/status/41777583546709606...
I do not want localised search results. If I wanted to search for Chinese food in Chicago, then I would ask for it specifically. I initially switched to DDG because of the insistence on giving me "personalised" results. BS. I came here to search the entire internet, not just for things that are specific to Google's picture of me. It almost always made for awful results, especially when it ranked local sites higher than anything actually relevant or useful. Same goes for recent news. If I want recent news, I'll go to the website of a newspaper in my area. Why would I search for that?

Maybe it's because I grew up with web search as just that -- a way of finding websites. I don't search for information; I search for websites which provide me the information I need. I can see how Google's algorithms work for some people, but for me, DDG is exactly what I want. If I typed everything I ever wanted to know directly into Google, then I'm getting the information Google wants me to see, including if someone pays for the placement. I don't like that kind of control, and I don't like the idea of a single entity controlling the flow of knowledge over the internet. So I don't use Google.
Oh boy I am in this exact position right now. It hurts so bad :(
NYTimes.com Redesign Marks the Death of One of the Web's Most Annoying Features
Because the site is down?
I've been accused of being a white knight and been told that certain opinions I hold are held only because they will enable me to sleep with feminist women.

Strangely enough, the sort of person who says this will also happily engage in gutter-level homophobic abuse when they find out that I really have no interest in sleeping with women, feminist or otherwise.

God forbid that I could have opinions formed from reasoned evaluation of evidence.
These people aren't doing much to generate sympathy for their cause with poorly informed rants like this. So the people who work for Google are to blame? And not the politicians who legislate policies that inhibit the construction of additional housing, thereby exacerbating the affordability problem? Or maybe these folks want something that they aren't entitled to: a world where everything is, and remains, exactly the way they want it - and where the normal economic supply/demand mechanism doesn't apply.

Either way, if these protesters care about generating more interest in helping them, I think they should consider a different tack.
Three years ago we made a move against this trend. We moved from a large metropolitan tech-heavy area to a low-cost but rural and isolated area. It has lots of problem - no jobs, lots of poverty, etc, but if you are entrepreneurial and can figure out how to either travel for your work or make your location irrelevant, lots of places otherwise ignored suddenly become practical.
I don't think it has to be an all or nothing thing.
Do whats right for you!

But I definitely know some people do it out of guilt. Indulging themselves, and their co-workers in Productivity Theater.
>A manual on workflows does not come pre-installed with git, but maybe it should seeing how many people have questions on the topic.

git help workflows
Ask HN: (Freelancers) What do you do when you need a quick paying gig?
I (somewhat out of desperation) took a client on fulltime freelance which kept me from having a diverse set of clients. Of course he bails on me right before the holidays and I haven't been able to book anything for a month. This came right after being downsized and I don't have a proper cash reserve. Most of this is my fault, I know.<p>What I want to know from HN. How do you guys and gals find gigs quickly when you need some cash. Bonus points for work that actually pays partial upfront or just pays within a month.
This allows for the implementation of a completely distributed trading platform.
On the differences between sexes (from Sex Money Kiss by Gene Simmons http://www.amazon.com/SEX-MONEY-KISS-Gene-Simmons-ebook/dp/B...)

The Perfect Day for HER!

8:15 a.m. Wake up to hugs & kisses
8:30 a.m. Weight in five pounds lighter than yesterday
8:45 a.m. Breakfast in bed, fresh squeezed orange juice and croissants. Open presents: expensive jewelry chosen by thoughtful partner
9:15 a.m. Soothing hot bath with grangipani bath oil.
10:00 a.m. Light workout at club with handsome, funny personal trainer.
10:30 a.m. Facial, manicure, shampoo, and comb out.
12:00 a.m. Lunch with best friend at an outdoor cafe.
12:45 p.m. Notice ex-boyfriend's wife, she has gained 30 lbs..
1:00 p.m. Shopping with friends.
3:00 p.m. Nap.
4:00 p.m. A dozen roses delivered by florist. Card is from a secret admirer.
4:15 p.m. Light workout at club followed by a gentle massage
5:30 p.m. Pick outfit for dinner. Primp before mirror.
7:30 p.m. Candlelight dinner for two followed by dancing.
10:00 p.m. Hot shower. Alone.
10:30 p.m. Make love.
11:00 p.m. Pillow talk, light touching and cuddling.
11:15 p.m. Fall asleep in his big, strong arms.

The Perfect Day for HIM!

6:00 a.m. Alarm.
6:15 a.m. Blow-job.
6:30 a.m. Massive dump while reading the sports section.
7:00 a.m. Breakfast. Filet Mignon, eggs, toast and coffee.
7:30 a.m. Limo arrives.
7:45 a.m. Bloody Mary en route to airport.
8:15 a.m. Private jet to Augusta, Georgia.
9:30 a.m. Limo to Augusta National Golf Club.
9:45 a.m. Play front nine at Augusta, finish 2 under par.
11:45 a.m. Lunch. 2 dozen oysters on the half shell. 3 Heinekens.
12:15 p.m. Blow-job.
12:30 p.m. Play back nine holes of golf course, four under
2:15 p.m. Limo back to airport. Drink 2 Bombay martinis.
2:30 p.m. Private jet to Nassau, Bahamas. Nap.
3:15 p.m. Late afternoon fishing excursion with topless female crew, all nude, who frequently bend over a lot displaying growlers.
4:30 p.m. Catch world record light tackle marlin-1249 lbs.
5:00 p.m. Jet back home. En route, get massage from naked supermodel (bending over naturally)
7:00 p.m. Watch CNN Newsflash. Bush resigns. Porn Legalized.
7:30 p.m. Dinner. Lobster appetizers, 1963 Dom Perignon, 20 Oz. New York strip. For dessert: ice cream served on a big pair of tits.
9:00 p.m. Relax after dinner with 1789 Augler Cognac and Cohiba Cuban cigar.
10:00 p.m. Massage and Jacuzzi with tasty pizza snacks cleansing ale.
11:00 p.m. Sex with 3 women, all with lesbian tendencies ... some bending over.
11:30 p.m. Nightcap Blow-job.
11:45 p.m. Go to bed alone.
11:50 p.m. A twenty two second fart that changes notes four times & forces dog to leave the room.
Email via Google+: Reach More People You Know Feature is Rolling Out
Well, I'm glad that you, specifically, have never had that issue. Might you have noticed the large number of complaints registered in the years since HID lights became common?
How much sexism and racism is there really in the tech industry? Most tech companies are quite the rainbow - 5 or 6 different native languages in a small company is not uncommon.
Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later
http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/
Decent LEDs are, currently, about 6x less efficacious than the theoretical maximum of any light emitter, as measured by the human eye. Incandescents are much poorer performers, of course.
what exactly is a "paper millionaire?"
I like documentaries, but life's too short to watch 300 of them from some random list. You might as well just search for documentaries on Netflix and go by the ratings.
Sounds familiar. Oh yeah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Isn't that what the restrict keyword is for?
Only for things with zero value. Why, what worthless things would you inflict on people in the name of tolerance?
GCHQ staff believes Assange was framed
Some Observations Regarding Big VC, One Year Into Investing
Shallow Focus by Kiss Me Deadly
Check out a cool music video with modern twist.