skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oooow. Interesting one. So the events can be on different schedules / frequencies? It sounds like something you should be able to do with a single sql query. Could you provide a bit more info?
>He touches on reddit becoming very picture heavy circa 2012 but doesn't guess on why. My theory is that it is because RES. RES has a "view all images" feature that automatically opens all links out to images the page and an "endless reddit" feature that loads the next page once you scroll to the bottom. This makes it very easy to mindless scroll through reddit, looking at and up-voting pictures and ignoring any other content.

Nah, nothing to do with RES, that's just how things tend to evolve without strict moderation. The race to the shortest, funniest thing always ends in images because it's easy to consume and upvote.

http://www.randalolson.com/2013/03/12/retracing-the-evolutio...
Lazy me never bothered to use proper indent/dedent function, since TAB will cycle through indentation levels.. but I'm happy I read your comment since cycling isn't efficient.

ps: although it seems, vanilla python mode binds them to 'C-c >' and 'C-c <'

Just like monads, sexps have that curse when you get how paredit or alikes work, you just can't explain how awesome it is to non lispers.
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If you found this article interesting I highly recommend the documentaries "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and "The Century of the Self" both by Adam Curtis.

A number of points in the article were covered in the documentaries such as 40's & 50's era mass media concerns and early valley cultural experiment failures.
HN is a rare breed.
You could send a postcard through regular mail to the head of IT's house, I think that would get the point across haha. They might be able to find you by checking access logs after the fact though, I don't think there is any riskless way to disclose.
It's refreshing that now I can spend my bitcoin on things I want! They got it working much faster than expected. Does anybody have any idea how returns would work? Do they just send the original amount of bitcoin to the payer's wallet? Or are returns even possible at this point in time?
This has been my experience as well, even after trying to follow a few guides.
Thanks for your report. I understand your frustration, and it's true that Windows support continues to lag. Some of the mingw dependencies were eliminated this release but not all. In particular, Rust still depends on mingw's linker. This is a major concern and Rust 1.0 will not be released without a self-contained toolchain on Windows.
The article isn't to specific but they imply he used SQL injection.

It's pretty simple people this is against the law in most countries. SQL injection, default passwords, remote injection are illegal.

The big thing for me is not what happened to him but young people thinking this is legal. Why didn't he try and be anonymous?

Don't care whether it should or should not be legal to hack sites but how could he not know it was illegal? (I guess that's slightly rhetorical, he was 16)
OT: Is Rust using operator overloading? Is user-defined operators a possibility in the future? I googled it and the most I could find was this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1le6vu/i_wrote_a_proto...
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Thanks for the link! That is pretty cool. I hadn't really thought about these kinds of questions, although operationally I can imagine applications for this, if you imagine columns and rows as redundant network links, and 'colors' being network services, you can prove that all your services have x4 redundancy this way. (I look at 16 x 16 grids all the time except they are 16 racks each with 16 servers :-)
If you read deeper into HIPAA and AWS, you'll find it really isn't. It's possible to create mostly-HIPAA-compliant infrastructures using AWS but that's a lot of work and you still don't have a lot of information that HIPAA often requests, like datacenter and server access logs.
The book that really helped me out the most with Perl was "Effective Perl Programming" (aka "Silver Ball" due to the original cover). Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Perl-Programming-Idiomatic-D...

The thing I liked most about that book was that it really helped me get a grasp on Perl idioms and start writing decent, readable Perl code. The thing you'll find out quickly about Perl is that it can be much easier to write than it is to read. I've written more than my fair share of Perl code which I've let rot for a while, tried coming back and reading and been left scratching my head.
The NYT redesign is a failure, on the public editor column's comments section 21 people liked the new design while over 700 people are complaining: Navigation. layout, fonts and accessibility are all hindering subscribers use of the site.
They are likely planning to merge Android and Chrome OS and have been fairly open about that, but I think it's Chrome OS that's getting chopped. Google just added QuickOffice to Chrome OS. That suggests to me that it might already be Android under the bonnet.

It makes sense, too. Chrome OS is essentially an OS that exists primarily to run Chrome on. Google might as well just make that OS Android, which already has Chrome.
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Using Bitcoin-Qt is neither easy nor awesome. I hear some of the newer software is better but still not close to one click.
Do you have personal experience with LendingClub? I'm curious as to how reliable their returns are and how much work it takes.
I was exclusively a Javascript/Python/Java programmer before jumping into Rust. If you're looking to learn a systems language with real bare-metal capabilities, Rust's safety features will go a long way towards keeping you on the straight and narrow as you figure out the concepts essential to low-level programming.

And because Steve seems reluctant to plug his own book, here's Rust for Rubyists, which is an introduction to Rust geared towards users of higher-level programming languages: http://www.rustforrubyists.com/
I think its perfectly normal to be googling things every day for the rest of your life in programming.

The notion of there being a wizened old man who just sits there and "knows everything about it" is, if not a myth, exceptionally rare.

Sure over time, bits stick and foundations build and you grow to be relatively expert on some topic. But if you stand still or grow too comfortable with what you've got, these days the world will move past and leave you behind.
Android is the largest mobile operating system in the world. I don't see Google ditching it any time soon.

However, running Chrome Apps on mobile? Why not. That just gives Google another way for developers to build apps for the google ecosystems.
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That's great and all, but I think just starting a new bank is not good enough.

In my opinion if we can combine some of the good ideas behind bitcoin with those in your list. Im not saying bitcoin is the right model. I think we need to think hard about what enables trade, growth and a society that enables not just a good standard of living, but also makes collaboration easier on large (think planet wide) projects. Automatic auditing should be built in from the ground up, transparency will allow trust between parties both private and public. Community voted policies that reflect in specific functions/code that can be made part of the transaction system to collect taxes that we can use to fund schools, infrastructure and other projects communities decide are worth funding.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-05/rinehart-says-aussie-w...

What did Australia do in response to comments like these?

Elected this guy: https://newmatilda.com/2013/08/08/big-mining-lines-behind-ab...
You want to check out std::ops http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/ops/index.html
corn starch + water. it's simple physics
I don't think of myself as a luddite in any way, but one can't help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it.

When you spend all of your time inside of that image of the world it's difficult to see the gaps. I love this. It's as if he walked in to a void.
Well, according to much of Branding/USP theory, focus is a good starting point for a USP. The other providers (S3, box, etc) may also be HIPPA, but this company is driving the point home -- we only do HIPPA. I have no idea if this is a strong enough differentiation, just pointing out it's not necessarily anti-USP. And price is never a factor in government-compliance and government contracts.
My favorite part of surveillance is that we are in the era of "storage is infinite", yet the NSA still ran out of space.
Seems a bit like a more tailored version of a workflow service e.g. http://aws.amazon.com/swf/
Try adding a language with proof solving capabilities. ATS, Agda, Idris, Coq spring to mind.
Oh tight. I hadn't even noticed the feature, because I just use the app to check in and out. Would love to have more first-class 'desktop' web support, since once I'm sitting there already using my laptop I don't want to have to keep whipping out my phone to do things.

But it's totally awesome to have the capability to check out who's there. I hope it goes a long way toward fostering a community there and helping people make useful contacts.
Operator overloading, yes. But we place some restrictions on which types you can overload in order to keep things sane (oversimplified explanation: you must have declared the types yourself in order to overload operators on them). We also discourage the wanton overloading of operators to mean completely random things, as you might have encountered in C++.

As for user-defined operators, if you mean something like Haskell's custom infix operators then no, I don't believe there are any plans for those.
Yes, Google Now is a much bigger competitor.
Just like how Sealand's hosting of the Pirate Bay made copyright infringement globally palatable? No, probably not.

But thanks for reminding me of the word seigniorage, I'd been looking for it actually.
Unfortunately, in the U.S.statutory law is of limited utility without the case law which in interpreting it, modifies it. I agree that there are all sorts of forgotten gems to be mined--such as when the U.S. Congress established a church.
Microsoft generously provided the imagery he was using.

(Well, probably. Anyway, big tech companies are doing a lot of the work that goes towards satellite and aerial imagery being easy for people to access. So are governments. It just isn't as clear cut as you stated it.)
There are so many externalities that aren't accounted for when you sell it for a dollar a litre, it's unfair to future generations. Also, Norway isn't all that excessive in international comparison:

http://www.aip.com.au/pricing/internationalprices.htm

Saudi Arabia doing 16 cents a litre isn't helping anyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_p...

http://www.tcs.ch/de/assets/reisen-camping/reiseinfos/themen...
Weird. Expected a spider web, not a grid..
Before Hacker News was popular, you tended to be able to go to proggit for breaking news and large discussions. Being less popular, HN had smaller discussions and stories took longer to rotate out. There was much more focus on startups and California things, much less on infosec.

Proggit now seems to have been reduced to an HN mirror, but HN is something else too.
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> Thus, we don't get paid in "golds".

in case of gold it is in "kilograms" - still plural, even though it is divisible.
Oh great, I'm a ENTJ just like Steve Jobs & Jim Carrey.

So, Steve and Jim both were similar in personality?
I disagree. Nothing to do with RES? Before RES you had to click on images. Images in comments were even weirder being an all text site (as in, the opposite of forums with image signatures). RES, with its expando, made this a one button change, especially with the "view all images" button. To say it was 0% RES and 100% moderation is false. It can be both you know.
> The race to the shortest, funniest thing always ends in images because it's easy to consume and upvote.

I honestly think that reddit would be better if they killed karma, or at least killed displaying it to the users. The obsession over it dominates the site with people posting cheap shit to get more of it, other people shitposting to see how far negative they can go, people complaining that one thing got karma while another thing did not, etc.
Couldn't agree more. Its like a Doctor Who episode.

- It shouldn't be there?

- Try telling that to the local population...
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Oh, I like this one. Not quite what OP asked, but very clean.
I agree that the protocol is the key. Its quite useful to think of the protocol for transactions to be similar to a transaction in the realworld. A discussion on terms of the deal, a transfer of goods/services, perhaps a lingering of a favour owed. Perhaps in the future every person will have their own "currency", with their own exchange rate with every other person they ever meet or deal with.
I went from Digg to reddit due to digg being heavily saturated with pictures. :( Now it's the opposite.

FYI MrGrim created imgur for both reddit and Digg. He now needs neither though.
The difference is that USD is inflationary while bitcoin is deflationary. If you have $10k in spending money sitting around would you rather it be appreciating by 2% every year or depreciating by 2% every year? Right now bitcoin is too volatile for this use case, but eventually adoption might settle the price down to the point where this makes sense.
Of course, of course. I meant 'image of the world' in the broader sense — sort of like the "OK" from Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore.

I didn't mean to imply that they're purposefully ignoring things, but that it's difficult to create a methodology for mapping the world that doesn't ignore features of it — either by accident or as a rule.
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There is one guy that actively researches the topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNSlbnjqhV8 (I've linked to a short message he has on the subject, but he has a hour + 1/2 long video on youtube with his experiments data and results)
First make it work, then make it pretty.

Solve problems that matter to them.

Get to useful, first. (Their definition, not yours.) Then dig and build further.

I've experienced too much pedagogy that takes weeks or months to get to anything that really interests the student.

There is also too much that is "plug and chug", where one never learns more than how to follow a list and assemble components, without understanding them nor the platform on which they run.

My preference would be to engage them with something of interest, and then let that interest motivate the journey further into the details and the context.

If this doesn't interest them, they are probably in the wrong class. (Even if they "need" this for their "career".)

P.S. It's much more motivating to teach someone who is interested in and excited by what they are accomplishing. I mention this with respect to keeping "a few other students" -- as well as yourself -- engaged in your project.

So... make it engaging for your audience, and thereby make it engaging for yourselves.

Good luck.
Exactly... there are hundreds of systems to evaluate people. All of them are abstractions which are unable to capture the full depth of reality, and so will work well under some conditions and bad under others. It's a matter of design choices and tradeoffs. Choose the system that better fits your needs and be aware of its limitations.

That said, I like MBTI's (or Keirsey's) simplicity. It gives you a lot of data for such a simple system, and is easy to apply. You have to be aware of its limitations, of course. But I've been playing with it for almost 10 years (in my personal life, not so much for work) and it rarely fails me.

I think it's the same principle as the Fibonacci scale for planning poker... you will always have some error in your system, don't fool yourself. So the ROI of a simple system might pay off...

PS: I agree, MBTI seems VERY accurate for people that are not in the middle of the scales, and not-so-accurate otherwise.
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Politics (New Oxford American Dictionary): "the assumptions or principles relating to or inherent in a sphere, theory, or thing, esp. when concerned with power and status in a society".

So politics is everything concerning the managing of power in a society.
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Interesting, the website links states that INTJ's are less than 2% of general population, yet they consist of about 30$ of responses to this poll, confirming HN is not a standard subset of the general populace.
"the INTJ may become obsessed with mindless repetitive, Sensate activities" http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html
This reminded me that I needed to actually release the 0.9 update I wrote over the weekend! Thanks :)
It went like this. Kid didn't get a response from PTV, so he contact The Age. The Age went and called PTV to call them out. PTV responded to The Age and then stupidly went "whelp we have no choice but to notify the Police".
Sure, but there aren't really any alternatives. When you build advanced apps HTML5 is depressing for apps at the moment. It will happen, but not this year.
To back you up: Backbone and Rails are two examples of popular frameworks that grew out of in-house frameworks. So no, it is not far fetched at all to to think "that a small group of smart developers with business domain knowledge can build fast, lean, code".
like between Universe in the beginning - hot meson-gluon soup and at the end - vast over-expanded vacuum with few super-super-super-large black holes
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it certainly says a lot about our society, or at least about how some people view it or think it should govern itself. I find it interesting.
These little devices are also running applications built with tools that have heavy runtime and library dependencies along with sandboxing, etc. etc. etc. We used to write closer to the metal with the responsibility to not take out the whole thing.

Now, we write features first, as "elegantly" as possible, THEN we optimize as required. Look at what 3D games are doing on little devices vs. how poorly long lists perform during scrolling.

There's plenty of power there, but code will bloat to fill all resources. You said it. "...complexity is hidden"
Speaking as someone who has written hundreds of thousands of lines of php over the years, i think php's main problem is not that it lacks features, but rather that it doesn't have a sane subset, a javascript-like 'good parts' if you will. PHP added OO api's for date and database handling in the 4 to 5 transition, but it never got around to doing the same for strings and arrays. So frameworkless php is by necessity a mixture of procedural and OO code (unless you go pure procedural), and always looks ugly. PHP's stewards could solve this by bringing all the API's into the OO fold, and I have experimented [0] with what PHP could look like if strings and arrays were objects, but so far this hasn't happened.

You do have some really nice frameworks that hide the procedural stuff, like laravel, and that code looks nice, but it is really slow. And this is the inherent conflict of the php developer. If you write raw php, it is ugly but fast. If you use a framework it is pretty but slow. The techempower benchmarks [1] demonstrate this, where raw php performs at near-native speeds, but frameworks like symfony and laravel are embarassingly slow in comparison.

So, php's scorn is well deserved. It's productive, yes, but it is impossible to build a world-class top-performing app in it and still get clean and consistent code without jumping through some sizeable hoops (like facebook did by building their own php engine and php-like language called Hack, in addition to their own frameworks).

[0] https://github.com/jsebrech/php-o

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...
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Re: hipster-- I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I'm a QWBX - that's the personality type for people who think pseudoscientific bullshit like the MBTI doesn't belong in the boardrooms, factory floors and minds of the human race.
No problem!

Here's an interesting anecdote I just remembered, though. A psychology professor of mine was attempting to replicate another researchers work. The result couldn't be replicated when the stimuli was displayed in sans-serif fonts, but it was replicated when they finally used the font the initial researchers did: a serif.

I'd bet serifs/sans may have some sort or psychological implications but I doubt it's as straightforward a relationship as often presented
In practice, the mainstreaming of a site brings down the quality globally as the memes and spam bleed into other topics.
1. An app for helping freelancers estimate their income taxes. It takes their "estimated" income for the year (ideally a slightly low estimate) and then they record each invoice/payment. It tells them how much to set aside from each for income taxes at the end of the year considering their local tax rules. I'd kill for this if it was super simple to use and erred on the side of caution with amounts (I'd rather have too much set aside then too little). I'd like to actually implement this one myself if I ever get time.

2. Custom ready meals. Design and order customized microwavable/prepackaged meals and have them delivered to your door (logistics issue here). Great for all sorts of situations but mostly targeted at busy people who find themselves eating out too much, especially those with special diets. Could allow limitless variety.

3. An easier/cheaper way to post podcast episodes on a schedule. Try running a regular podcast and you'll get some idea of how limited the options are.

4. I strongly suspect there's room for yet another photo social app that is effectively snap chat (easily send photos to specific people) but where the photos stick around. Instagram has implemented this feature but it's a bit buried under all the other options and I don't think anyone uses it. Simplicity will rule this arena.

5. A daily deal monitoring service that alerts you when a specific product you need goes on sale on one of the many deal sites. For example, I want a robot vacuum (who doesn't?!) but it's not an emergency. I definitely do not subscribe to or watch daily deals. I want to sign up for an alert when someone has a daily deal for cheap robot vacuums.

If any of these exist, let me know. I want all of them.
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All the literature, programming libraries etc. have corrupted my brain to the point that I write my code in English when it's only for my own eyes, even though it isn't my native tongue.
Even though you claim to understand this, you didn't let it stop you from declaring that "most of the US does have a higher murder rate." How does that work, then?

In areas of similar population density, the murder rate in the US is higher.

Of course there are areas of the US that have very low population density, and an equally low murder rate.
A $10,000 prize turns out to be like ~3k each for a team of 2. Unless the project is a very quick win (i.e. weekend project) its likely it won't be worth your time.

In my opinion coding contests like this are only worth it if you can leverage the win to get work or exposure to an industry you're interested in.

Just my two cents. Good luck!