skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dog translator project raises funds to put pet’s thoughts into English
I've been making these for a long time. One of my favorites is (x XOR y) MOD 3 != 0

((x ^ y) % 3) != 0

Other primes like 5 and 7 look interesting as well.
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Wow, goes to show how much hacker news has grown. I had a blog post hit #1 back in November of 2009 and I only managed 5k uniques for the whole month.
>far-fetching conclusions

like bot detection on NT-based systems? Yes, lets not talk about that.
An alternative for researching healthcare plans: http://www.healthsherpa.com/
I am sure they went through many sleepless nights during the holidays. Hella sucks. I think Google is doing the right thing and I am sure not just related to seo that rap genius learned a lot about themselves and will become stronger... as well will the overall tech community.
I think it was a decent piece of glib satire.
Gedit + git.
Well its good IF folks pull out their browser when they're in the area... Also it looks like the action code is specific to one advertiser, so if the ad isn’t on the device when the person is nearby they miss the opportunity.. is that right?

I could see something like that compliment my concept of a community search tool http://doplaces.com where you can find events or things to do within a community. But for that to be beneficial the detector should be more dynamic and get a database result of any current deals nearby, not just specific ones.
People not wanting men to change their kids’ diapers for one.
In my opinion, the form factor is the key issue.

Ask people if they would wear one? Not just techies, everyday folk out on the street.

Until the form factor is indistinguishable from a pair of sunglasses, this wonderful piece of equipment will remain a niche tool.
Given the current western governments' stance on privacy and freedom of speech / access to information, this sounds like dystopian proposition.
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US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records
I played all of these games growing up and these renditions are amazing. I will note that there was a US emulator translation of Mother 3: http://mother3.fobby.net
I had to make an application framework something like this with ANSI C in the 90s. Make a structure (or two) full of function pointers as an "interface", pass it (them) as the first parameter to all the relevant functions as "this"/"self". (wait, that kinda looks like what "Go" does - hmmmm)

Of course, some in the company tried to pad their resumes with actual (gahd-awwwful) C++. Lovely jewels like this:

if ( output_format == A) {
a.write_pg_header();
} else {
b.write_pg_header();
}

Guess they never heard of a virtual method. Then there's the fun of all the memory leaks from copy constructors and other silly C++ pitfalls.

Simulated OOP in C is an interesting exercise. I suppose if I had not learned an OOP language other than C++ first, I would have thought C++ is just how (hard) it's supposed to be :-)
This is one of PG's frighteningly ambitious problems and I believe it's an important (and really hard) problem. I think the answer is to focus on an important niche and grow from there. DDG has done a good job by focusing on privacy; they're currently at nearly 4m queries per day.

I'm starting by building the search engine I want to use while writing code, which does parallel searches of different parts of the web dynamically based on the query.

I have an initial (ugly and very limited) prototype here: http://gigglebang.com/

I'm looking for co-founders. If this is an interesting problem to you, email me: gb@dewdrops.net
Your first rebuttal point is totally eviscerated by the fact that regardless of whatever "hacker culture" May or May not exist at the largest non-profit defense contractor in the country, it is always the right of a private institution to revoke a right to use private property. MIT did precisely that. And Aaron knew his right to use the property had been revoke, otherwise he wouldn't have continued to access the property while disguised. He also violated the terms of use of MIT's network, which specifically mention copyright infringement.

Your second rebuttal point is simply a misstatement of the law. Only the government can violate your 4th amendment rights, not private parties like MIT, unless they're acting as agents for the government. But 4th amendment rights are not violated when a private party freely shares it's own documents with the government. The 4th amendment is only implicated when the government accesses your documents and you don't consent.
> don't commit nearly as much crime

I remember previously stumbling upon http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/c... - while I don't know to what extent the situation is similar in the US and haven't cross-checked the statistics, the data the speaker quotes seems to suggest that there is a significant disparity even if you control for that. (The relevant figures are all on the first two pages or so; beyond that, there isn't much to see apart from polemical banter)
Did you read the article? If anything this is getting buried because its goes against what people are saying and its written by a female so it cant be immediately be dismissed. So next best is censorship.
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Pumping from the wrong thread is undefined behavior and it results in the bug above. It's a fairly common bug.
Even if you didn't read that, you must at some point come to the conclusion the word "sample" is a bit ambiguous and might have many contexts and uses wouldn't you?
Trying to make yourself feel smart by making a witty one liner, which in all fairness was unjustified, won't win you any awards.
>Gross generalization. Clearly not true.

Not a gross generalization, just a generalization. How many women have you had as a boss?

>2. Men often don't think of women as human.

Note the word "often" which means that this is not a generalization, but an uncontroversial observation.

>your support for this is that a long time ago women couldn't vote, therefore often men don't think of women as human?

No, that's just a reminder that this was the mainstream point of view probably within the lifetime of a women you know. I'm not going to make an argument that men often don't think of women as human like themselves. I would if I were asserting this to a Martian, but not anyone who has lived in any modern society.

>Laughably histrionic. Is that like the war on Christmas?

Are you telling me that I think that women are constantly under attack by men because my uterus has become unmoored?
I'm impressed by the rate at which Rust has begun accumulating serious ports of and bindings to valuable libraries.

There's already varying levels of support [1] for a number of serialization and compression formats, databases and computation frameworks.

Obviously there's still a long ways to go before Rust can be considered a 'batteries included' programming experience, but it's exciting to see how fast the community has put this together.

[1]https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-wanted-libraries
It's similar to the death of John Belushi which was also from a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a speedball:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushi
It's liberating and exciting when you learn there are tons of established structural patterns more interesting than five paragraph and you're expected to use and modify them.

Then you have to relearn the five paragraph essay for the GRE, and it's worse than the first time.
Sarcasm? The original "C with Classes" was a preprocessor, I believe.
I've been using Evernote (Win + iPhone) avidly (and reliably) for years -- now at 2000 notes -- and haven't had (or noticed) any of the issues being discussed here. But now I'm nervous!

I'll continue to use Evernote in the way that I have been and do periodic evernote exports of my data to, say, Dropbox. And cross my fingers that this bad press will kick Evernote into working on the reliability of their excellent features and products.
The gender pay gap appears to be a myth:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/the-bigg...
Nice!

There is a bug though that confused me a bit. The input has the value 1, but the hardcoded call of the draw function uses 7 on page load. I.e. line 66

draw(7);
Either that or you have no idea how HN's ranking system works. If the proportion of comments exceeds that of upvotes, the story sinks.

I hate how in every social justice discussion, there's always people who rant about this and think it's some patriarchal conspiracy.

Perhaps the social justice warriors aren't the technologically literate, competent group they all think they are?

Sorry for the blatantly provocative statements, but this is a tired trope here by now.
what does not make sense to me is that after removing all the back-linked urls, should not that drop Rap Genius's overall ranking even lower than before, since the artificial boosting has been removed. Why they are back on the top. googling "lyrics", RP is number #6 in the first page. I think RP has received special treatment here. Google search team needs to clarify this.
This is awesome. If I was the researcher, I would get a process patent for the levitation, and sell it to industrial engineers for manufacturing. I feel like acoustic machinery once finely controlled could gain an edge on more costly hydraulic systems.
what fascinates me about these numbers is how minuscule they are compared to how big hackernews is in my brain.

for frame of reference (and because they show the number), this post halfway down the gawker homepage about the weather has 2x the UVs: http://gawker.com/dont-go-outside-today-1494505785
The concept of eyewear computers is cool as hell and has tons of practical applications, but they have to actually look like eyewear. They can't make you look like the Borg.
The issue with simplicity is that computing is a complex problem.

It's all well and good to say "Just keep it simple!" It's another to implement that.

I built and maintain a fairly popular RubyMotion library. It's goal is pretty simple: DSL out the ViewController hierarchy management and make it manageable for the application developer.

Every bit of code I add to what is now a fairly mature and full featured system pains me. But every bit of code addresses some edge case that we didn't think of, but which is quite valid.

An OS (like Linux, Unix, Windows) has orders of magnitude more issues to deal with than I do. In order to keep the system simple for users, they often have to add complexity to their code.

Simple for users just isn't the same as simple under the hood.
0 ... I don't thing there is any language I know that I haven't had a gotcha moment in the last 12 months.

But I suppose I could write FORTRAN in any language given access to stackoverflow.
Back in the day, there was a windows based IDE/simulator for the PIC 8-bit microcontrollers. The simulation ran much (2-5 times?) faster if you wiggled the mouse. Someone wrote an app to send fake mouse events to the simulator window.
I wonder why Zynga chose Bitpay over Coinbase. Anyone know?
Also did an OOP emulation a few years earlier than this using Clipper 5, of all things. No structs, but you could make constants for array indices, and assign a closure/block to each array element, using the array as a virtual method table.
You falsely assume a new search engine can only be "as good as Google". Google's search has become highly commercialized over the years, it used to be about finding the "best" answer to your search query (the "original" PageRank), but it has increasingly become the "best consumerist" answer to your query (where to buy something). This make it more susceptible to spammers, as their basic incentives are similar. New, different, search engines might try another approach, perhaps less personalized, less commercialized, and less mass-media oriented, and be less of a "petri dish" for spammers.
I'm having max 150 following rule. If I reach the limit and want to add one more, someone has to go.
Ask HN: What should I do before starting my job in October 2014?
I live in Australia and I got job offer in Silicon Valley, but can only start in October this year due to visa reason.

now I want to make use of this 10 months' time in Australia to do something useful. I applied for Google and was rejected, before that I couldn't find a satisfactory job in AU. I have some savings in the bank and can afford to living a few months without income. What would you suggest me to do with this time to make the most out of it?
Relative noob here,
I'm learning programming in general and I picked C to start with. My university courses are pretty shitty so I have to do it by myself.
OOP is pretty repulsive to me. I don't know why. Too many abstraction that I can't see clearly.

Would any of you recommend me to try and get the hang of OOP using C or should I just pick up Java or C++ ?

(sorry if this is a inappropriate comment on this post)
I would argue that the age of the company isn't what's important, but the age of the CEO. If a 150 year-old company has a 45 year old CEO, what does the age of the company have to do with it - unless you are arguing for long lasting traditions of discrimination that are invariant for a company.
Here's another source, it appears there is no gender gap in pay:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/the-bigg...

It also appears the later differences in pay may have more to do with life choices. Such as raising a family, which believe it or not some women consider a higher priority than their careers. Blasphemy, I know, clearly a byproduct of the patriarchy.
Org-mode in Emacs, hands down.
I saw your earlier interventions. Some of your arguments may be sound, but this one actually makes it harder to take you seriously and does a disservice to your cause. You might do better by arguing from a position that is grounded closer to reality (as in 2014 reality).
Ask HN: How to avoid becoming a "Generalist".
I am working for startups since I started my career, I worked with one successful and also one failed startup. My role was to write code where ever part of the tech stack is needed, like if we need to add new feature in API I had to write python, if we need to develop customer facing Web Application write PHP. And last year, I had to code maximum time in JavaScript (Node.js).After working three years, I am finding that I am becoming "Generalist" rather than "Specialist" but when a company grows "Generalist" are not welcome as before. Right now, I am actively thinking of becoming a specialist, what would be the optimal way in my situation. I am looking forward to know others valuable experience and comments.
I don't think you get the discounts if you sign up directly as opposed to through the exchange, but I may be entirely wrong. Just something I think I heard.
Don't forget that all front page links aren't created equal. Some topics are more niche (and get ~20 upvotes from the 20 hackers passionate about it), while others have wider appeal (even with the same number of upvotes).
It can't be nice for the family.

It does remind me to leave a "i am dead" package with deletion instructions for some things and passwords for other things. A list of accounts that need to be shutdown or that people might want to download stuff from.
Not completely true, there was some kind of power saving starting in those days:

If I remember correctly, one of the first moves towards power-saving in the stock-OS was Win 95/98/ME (one of those) to start using the HLT instruction (stop processor up to next interrupt) in the main OS, was a busy loop until then.

Notebook manufacturers (I worked with machines from Toshiba and Compaq in the 90s...) provided DOS TSRs and windows applications and drivers to control the CPU speed and display brightness.
Yes a single chapter is dedicated to that, all the code is beforehand explained and then implemented in the preprocessor. Everything can be implemented by hand. The point of the books seems to be mostly educational, if you would decide to actually use oop in serious projects then writing your own preprocessor would solve two problems. The tedious manual table/pointer writing and avoiding mistakes coming from the former.

I would love to get some book recommendation regarding the subject from you.
I would also agree with you on this one, even as a man, computer science was the least desirable STEM career you could choose.
> Organic search and paid search are silo'd.

According to who? Google? Is there any transparency or any way for an outsider to verify that?
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Really I think the article is asking for a payment system that has Bitcoin-like qualities (irrevocable, low or no fee, immediate settlement, cryptographically secure, auditable) yet is denominated in USD. Something like Dwolla or (as somebody else mentioned) a consumer version of Fedwire.
Most of his complaints are reasonable (some aren't), what's happening is that Google is not evil enough for them not turning into actual damage. But if you distance yourself from the current context, you'll be able to see how the means Google use to deal with spammers are dangerous, and we are betting the Internet on Google not being evil (or somebody replacing them fast after they do become). Things would be better if we had 5 search engines with 20% market share.

But then, I completely agree that just complaining about the issue is useless. Anybody that (thinks that he) can build a competitor for Google will try it or not based on his odds of success, tolerance to risk, etc, not because somebody is complaining.
> Thought experiment: what could that disruptive niche be?

Internal search engines could get a lot better. I don't know how people who make websites make them, what tech they use etc., if it's mostly incompetence that does this, but the fact that I'd rather use plain Google than an internal search most of the time tells me that Google is just too good.
Still, game updates are working (i.e., L4D2)
Large companies tend to have a fair amount of nepotism in the top ranking positions. You would have to control for this as well.
Well, the Fed doesn't create interest free money so doing this would be quite a radical change in policy. But it's an interesting idea. The fed could create a new block chain and offer to buy any coins mined at a fixed rate. In this manner it could create digital cash that it wouldn't have to do much to manage. Just being there to guarantee liquidity would make that type of coin have value.
A central server just ensures that all your other devices always have something that's turned on to sync to, and that there's a webserver for the webapp-based clients. It can still be a P2P protocol actually synchronizing the files.
It's on the three major desktop platforms (Linux, OSX and Windows), and it's on Android. Not saying it's super easy to use on Android, but I've been rocking org-mode on my N900 for over three years. Combined with git+ssh and my own private server (you could easily setup on a cheap VPS), it's been a lifesaver many a time. I've been too lazy/busy to look into it, but something like git-annex assistant (http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/) seems like another good stepping stone.
> On his website, he's urging Americans to join the lawsuit, in his words, "to stop Barack Obama's NSA from snooping on the American people."

So this is mere political opportunism. Because it's not Obama's NSA, he just happened to touch down in part of the NSA's timeline. The NSA has been, would be and will be doing this regardless of administration or party.
Everyone knows men cant be trusted around children.
That is nice! I couldn't resist the curiosity about the other operators, so I extended your code to include them all on one page for easy comparison;

http://play.golang.org/p/O0F1FiAl6C

mod looks super interesting too.
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>Yet when was the last time you saw feminist and women's organizations actively campaigning for more females to register in the military and fight in the battlefield?

Who cares what some strawman feminist thinks, especially since the strawman feminist didn't even support the ERA. I'm saying that characterizing this as a success of women is incoherent.

>That or they get more lenient sentencing: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap:10:0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:49114

Could you summarize that, rather than throwing it out there?

>I guess they would if you value short-term hacks that give specific advantages to a group over actual long-term solutions.

And what are these long-term solutions?
> Tolerance isn't psychological.

Are you just speculating?

I haven't really studied psychology but have an interest in it. My understanding is that in a familiar setting the body starts compensating before the drugs are ingested.

From http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1384078

> These rituals produced drug-opposite physiological responses which resulted in an attenuation of the effects of the drug. Thus, tolerance was observed when the subjects injected the opiate, but not when the same dose was received by un-signaled intravenous infusion. These results are consistent with a conditioning explanation for the observed drug tolerance.
Rand Paul to lead class-action lawsuit against Obama over NSA spying
I'll walk the apalachian trail, at least a part of it. It's almost 6 months walking. It's hard to have another oportunity like this to do it.
I find a notebook and pen works best for me :) Otherwise I save markdown files to dropbox.
Show HN: A website aiming to fix homelessness in SF
Hi everyone,
I am organizing a crowdfunding campaign to give blankets/food/books/glasses and new year's postcards to 1000 homeless people in San Francisco.

Since we as the residents already spend a lot of money on the homelessness issue in SF via government(200MM+/year), I thought some of us would be willing to take a more active role in fixing this issue by donating to campaigns like this one(and to more sustainable ones). So, I am thinking of turning this campaign into a crowdfunding platform for activists and organizations that want to work on homelessness related issues in San Francisco.

I wanted to share the campaign here thinking you might like the idea & might want to share your thoughts on it:
https://operationsflove.com

So far the supporters have been mostly my friends but I believe this could go viral with some improvement.

Would love hear what you all think,
Thanks,
Seckin
It's absolutely liberating to break free from the (very American) 5 paragraph essay; that's more of a learning tool, really. And you don't need to write a five paragraph essay on the GRE; I've consistently gotten 97% with my own versions, and I stopped writing in 5 paragraphs long ago. It's all about content, synthesis... The 5 paragraph is a start, but we should be taught to shed it when we're ready!
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I don't understand why you assume their only or main reason to develop Google Glass and self-driving cars is ads.

Their original product was a search engine. Their breakthrough money-making product was ads, indeed, and they've focused their business model on that, but I contest that it's in their DNA. Do you really think the only value they could derive out of self-driving cars is for more targeted ads?
As a 33 years old who's planning to return to education as soon as his wallet is comfortable enough to do so, I had similar doubts when I was thinking that I might be 38 or 40 the moment when I'll have to intern.

I guess there's no quantity of answers that you can receive to assure you that you won't meet hiring managers down the line who will be willing to deny your application just because you're old but assholes will always exist. Just do what you can do best and you will score.
I don't understand where the inherent xenophobia is in the original statement? I am not being a dick I am just interested in seeing what I am missing.
I had no idea that Rage was sampled in there. Holy moly thanks for that, that's a fantastic video
Simplenote is great: works in the browser, has OSX apps (Notational Velocity is great and free), and a free iOS app too