skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you’re curious, I’ll be starting another business with the proceeds. We spent a long time getting this group video chat to work really well - ours is the only tech which actually works and doesn’t get choppy when you add more people. We are very proud of this tech and it would be sad to see it rot.

Hat tip to Justin Kan for the inspiration with his sale of Kiko (http://areallybadidea.com/selling-kiko). If we sell this I'll be sure to write a post about it too :)
Qoros 3 is safest car of 2013, says Euro NCAP
It turns out Bob was actually receiving radio transmissions from the ADA through his fillings. He's a sleeper in the underground dentist community, waiting for the call to turn his xray machine on when the TSA releases its ruling on the need for back-scatter surveillance to prevent the next tooth-bomber from hijacking civilian aircraft. Be careful what you say around Bob.
I think it adds to the broader discussion that goes on on HN, specifically over the last month or so.

Could you remove that joke about the dog from your profile page please? I went there looking for serious information.
Django guardian's performance is ridiculously bad. Better roll your own. We're using it and stuck with it at this point, but some of our page loads have thousands of queries because of all the permission lookups. Permissions probably need to be cached in memory.
The general history is right, but the timing is off. NY LLC law was passed in the mid-1990s. Unlimited liability partnerships and sole proprietorships were long since out of style by then.
Typo : "Distributed POSIX complaint project file system"
Not if every new hire wants to bring on more people.
Does django-redis block? I'm not sure I'd make a connection from django to anything other than a low latency queue.
Out of curiosity, would you be willing to pay for it if you were explicitly subsidizing students who couldn't pay for it?
That would have been the right decision.

However Facebook making such an offer is just nuts. What are they buying? 90% or more of the snapchat user base is on Facebook. Why dont they make their own? Make a seperate app, make a new brand and push it on fb.
Ableist is the word he was looking for.
Over Time, Buddhism and Science Agree
"Understanding the impermanence of everything—including ourselves.
...
As Buddhists see it, and as scientists increasingly agree, all organisms are necessarily, unavoidably—even marvelously and gloriously—impermanent. In Sanskrit, the word for impermanence is anitya. To understand anitya is to achieve something remarkable: opening a door onto the accord between modern western science and ancient eastern wisdom."
> I had found access to the remote server [...]. I was able to find the [...] Management Console and use a teachers [...] password [...] create a hidden admin user [...]. Through this I could [...] control every PC in the school.

And this is why we can't have nice things. Admins at The Age (in this case) see someone trying to "report" a vulnerability and instantly jump to the conclusion that the user is someone like you, who has already compromised and exploited the system and at this point just wants to gloat on top of it all.

Surely there is a spectrum between white and black hat hacking. But this is over the line, sorry. Once you start trying to guess passwords and modifying state to add backdoors (seriously!?), you have to reasonably expect the rest of us to try to resist and suppress you, by law enforcement if necessary.
I try not to take it out on recruiters because from people I know who've done it, their bosses are constantly on their asses to make quota/reach a certain # of "connections" a day. The personal touch and relationship kind of goes out the window.
There are a couple sites[0,3] which list projects which are looking for contributions. In addition, Github Explore[1] has different projects which might be of interest. If you're interested in larger projects, different companies have guides to getting involved and contributing[2].

[0]: http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/

[1]: https://github.com/explore

[2]: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/

[3]: http://openhatch.org/
I believe this is a huge step for the Chinese auto industry (this is a $20k car, approximately).
It wasn't primarily a joke/10.
What are your thoughts on Clojure's suitability as a go-to language for scientific computing (except in lower-level, high-performance scenarios that might recommend Julia)? I think it has serious potential in this field. It's not there yet, but it's getting there, and the core.matrix standardization helps a lot.
Here's what I would do if my country needed this (Canada has very strong Credit Unions already, that accomplish nearly all of what you want. I actually work for them, on online banking software):

1. Form a credit union, or partner with an existing one. This is a very good structure for a financial institution that is open and non-profit. You don't need any physical branches, you can be online only.

2. Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583 , check out a project like http://www.jpos.org/ - this is the standard all financial institutions (and ATMs, debit terminals, etc.) use to talk to each other.

3. You'll also need the actual banking database-of-record software (banking system, banking host software are commons terms). There are some open ones already out there, I can't speak to their quality.

4. If you just want retail banking (ATM cards, current accounts, etc.) you're pretty much done. If you want to offer loans/mortgages, things get a lot more complicated.
I wonder if the medical profession's refusal to adopt Watson has more to do with its performance or with guild protectionism.
> I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill

I'm not saying that you are, just that these arguments/discussions generally are making a mountain out of a mole hill when people go on at length about how much they hate Python (though they've never used it) because of its semantic white space.

> I don't understand why the python crowd refuse to acknowledge that having significant whitespace does cause some issues and the benefits are completely subjective.

All language decisions are trade-offs that come with some downside. I wrote Perl for 4 years, and I would still get tripped up by its break/continue syntax (next/last) on occasion since I learned to program in C/C++.

I currently am working heavily in both JavaScript and Python, and I don't have any indentation issues swapping between the two languages (probably the issue I come across the most of switching between under_scores and camelCase for names). I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've had an indentation error in Python.

> Sure unit tests will catch the error but in most other languages the error wouldn't have been introduced in the first place.

But this is essentially the same argument for static-typing over dynamic-typing, but that doesn't get the same amount of flack as white space in Python.
If I remember correctly we called it "audit a class". Visit lectures without actually taking the course for credit.
While designers/bloggers tend to cite scientific studies advocating sans over serif (or the other way around depending on the context), no conclusive scientific evidence to prefer one or the other [1]

However, the historical reason why sans-serif are generally recommended over a serif on a computer screen was a matter of practicality. The computer monitor simply couldn't replicate the tiny detail required by serifs. Higher resolution screens are becoming more common place, which is why you'll see more serifs in use online (IMO... correlation vs causation and all that). Somewhere along the line someone cited scientific articles to help justify this practice, but I'm convinced it became common place was really for practical reasons/aesthetics more than anything.

[1] I haven't personally done a literature review, but this post is great in discussing the conclusiveness around the research (and readability vs legibility vs....) http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...
I'm not incredibly social, nor do I have a lot of variation in the clients I work for, but having a beard seems to be a positive attribute, if anything.

I mostly notice the effect when meeting in-person; probably because there is far more subtlety in a face-to-face conversation. People who have researched me on social media know what to expect, and seem to have a bit of anticipation when I walk into the room. Those that don't know what to expect are surprised, but quickly settle into a smile.

One of the first questions I'm asked is always related to my facial hair: "How long did it take to grow that?", "I wish I could.", etc. It immediately lightens the mood, which works well for me, because I can then add the level of professionalism I desire back into the conversation.

I also find that it starts off a meeting with a bit of free respect. I can, of course, back up my statements, but rarely am I challenged the same way that some other members of the group are. I may not be the perceived top dog, but I'm certainly never on the bottom.

It also has a similar effect with older people and "tough" guys. Eastern women seem to like it, too; though they are usually very coy. I can settle in with a pretty rough group without any problems, which has allowed me to glean a pretty broad perspective.

I havent shaved in 6 years now, and have no plans to start. I tried competition twice and was a finalist on both occasions. A beard, however, is not all that I am.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wh49owr8q6zstqe/1458545_1020123291...
I don't think so. I'm saying that given the dearth of formalities and capitalization requirements, it should be easier to pierce the veil with LLCs.
Normally, yes, but this is crypto. It's not medicine, but it's pretty close to a bullet-proof vest. It's important that it does its job.
Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car
Racism is any bias based on race.
> Regardless, there is nothing technical about a story of a small group attaining concentrated power over a decentralized currency.

It is completely technical. The incentives and disincentives to centralization are encoded in the protocol.
How  To Verify What Your Big Data Is Telling You
Cuckoo Sandbox releases v1.0
I think the point here is that if the goal is to provide at least some information (and entertainment, which is not worthless) to at least some of the numbers of students that sign up, then Udacity specifically and MOOCs in general are successful.

On the other hand, if the goal is to provide an education that is as solid and as valued as a university, which Thrun seems to think his goal was, then Udacity and MOOCs are not succeeding.

Further, if Udacity, which is a company that needs to make a profit, is going to succeed then it needs to change its focus.
> How do you measure educational value? If someone finishes 90% of the class but never takes the final exam, have they learned nothing?

Here's the thing: you can't tell.

Why is there a final exam? Because otherwise, you can't tell. It's an exit survey.

This is one of the clearest indicators that Udacity and other MOOCs aren't actually "revolutionizing" anything in education; they're just making an economic gamble on an iteration.
The M16 was initially quite reliable. What happened is that after it was deployed in Viet Nam, a bureaucrat unilaterally modified the ammunition design without consulting the designers of the M16. The rifle became significantly less reliable with out-of-spec ammunition.

By 1967 the action was modified to eat dirty, out-of-spec ammo reliably and the materials were modified to better resist corrosion in excessively wet environments. The result was a reliable action that has not needed to be materially modified since.
India: Election Commission aborts tie-up with Google over security concerns
Spending more than what you earn, as a repeated pattern of behavior, is definitely a habit. Most people would agree that it's a bad one.

If you're waiting for some advice or recipe to make you "automatically" rich or successful, you'll be waiting a long time. Nobody can guarantee that.

We can probably agree that there is a spectrum of habits that range from "good" to "bad". Practicing good habits doesn't create automatic success, just like practicing bad habits doesn't make success impossible, but there are statistical trends.
Gmail Now Lets You Email Your Google+ Connections
> The problem is that many Open Source projects aren't created by an individual, or even a single company. Large projects have hundreds of contributors.

It's some sort of empirical law that almost all of the code in free projects is written by at most a handful of all contributors. If this law holds, and I can think of only few examples where it doesn't, it seem fair for the tiny minority to benefit the most from selling exceptions.

What the FSF does when requesting copyright is a two-way agreement. The FSF drafts a contract that promises that they will never use the copyright aassignment for creating non-free software. Similar contracts could be drafted that agree to share revenue proportionally and provides clauses for arbitration if this proportion is in dispute.
I use an individual I grew up with who just happens to now be at a decently large firm. I agree with you, though. We went through some discussions with other firms before choosing them and others are either too expensive or too hard to get a hold of.
The big question for me is whether Julia will be able to maintain its "purity" as it gains adoption.

R probably started out "beautiful" and "thought out" but has lost that edge with years of community driven development. It's also what make it so damn useful -- you can pretty much find anything on CRAN, often multiple implementations of it.
Rvalue lifetimes in Rust
Anyone have a good example or contract that could be customized, e.g. a starting point that is usable?
Best part? What was living room-sized is now three pizza boxes. It's less hardware, more software. That's exciting! AWS for AI.
Also, watch out for charging a lot for a boilerplate document, such as an operating agreement or a new hire agreement. We've had firms do that to us before we got settled with current firm.
The thing is it's better set things manually so the boundary between your DOM data and other parts of the application become clear. There's no chance of mistaking this.set('keypath', data) with something else.
I have no exposure to Lua. How is the library support for scientific computing?
If you could tell me what you're looking for instead of what you're not looking for, I'd be happy to provide it.
Given that multiple people have mentioned getting a good contract / attorney.
In that example, a good editor should indent pasted_snippet at least to the first indent level. If you wanted it to be part of the if statement then you could just select the pasted block (both Vim and Emacs should be able to do this with a single command) and indent it by one more.

Python's use of semantic white space is more a function of it's inheritance than anything. It's based off of ABC[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_%28programming_language%29
Can you have a long-running process on PHP these days? I thought it still wasn't an option.
Rockstar 365: The Social Network for Microsoft Professionals
Author here: Thanks a million!

The code is easier to read on GitHub (https://github.com/cmlaidlaw/waaah) rather than view-source, if you're curious.
solarized light

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
There's some research[1] showing that video game escapism reduce crime. Other research show that porn reduces sexual crimes.

Add to that the free use of marijuana (which generally decreases motivation ) , the better capabilities of police enforcing crimes, the possible growing acceptance of unemployment in an automated society, you'll see even further reductions.

[1]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111191-Less-Crime-...
Why is this downvoted?
This is just an expression of math - not an actual declaration of intent to visit.
First Startup To Openly Fundraise In 80 Years
This article has no relevance to gender-neutral language and no one other than yourself is discussing this. It would be better to address this issue in a relevant thread instead of hijacking a random one.
How to sell anything.
LOL I think my worldview is fine thanks. Next time I'll need someone to explain to me how technology advanced from 1982 to 2010 I'll call though :)
Mind sharing what firm you're using?
Press Releases Still Matter, But Not For The Reasons You Think
Although I really appreciate all of the comments (OK except for the ones calling me an asshole and/or criminal), I think this one needs responding to.

I was definitely not referencing anything to do with computer systems, actually something much more internal (none of anyones business but CU has some shady dealings with sponsors who think they are giving money to support students but really supporting the universities whims. The way they get that money is by blackmailing students like myself with their campus jobs and making us write letters to these donors stating that their money is going to a good cause). Dumbly enough, they give us all a list of addresses for donors! So I was considering sending them all some actual email correspondence between myself and Uni admin showing where their money really goes... Talk about stealing... And it's definitely more than $3!

Sorry for the confusion, I took that part out because it wasn't explained well enough.

P.S. For all of you who think I should be expelled/that this is stupid: please refer to the "how to not be stupid" section...
P.P.S. I might be an asshole, but I also might save 100 other universities electricity and computing power because I was kind enough to document my failure for future ambitious student hackers.
They did make a separate app called Poke and it was heavily pushed.

It worked out as you would expect.
If I had to pay $150/course, that would end my usage of MOOCs.

In contrast, I'd be happy to pay $5-$10/month for overall access to Coursera or Udacity (probably just Coursera actually given the quality issues I've seen on Udacity). But the minute you try to shoehorn me back into the traditional mode of learning, I'm going back to reading books at my own pace and timing. Can we pretty please finally have the 21st century that should have started sometime during the last decade?
It's all about workflow.

and it's what free/open source software gets wrong almost all the time (and I say that as an advocate of it), due to the fact devs rarely listen to users. The features are often there but they're not that easy or flexible to use, so often they're practically useless in certain situations.

There was something last year when someone came up with some workflow / design improvements suggestions to blender, and the developers just didn't understand why it was necessary, saying "it's possible to do stuff in blender".
Coin Is Pulling a Netflix
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد واوساسونا
Reach the people you know more easily in Gmail
They previously acquired Gauges (http://get.gaug.es/) but didn't do anything with it and resold it. Maybe they used parts of it in their recent repo traffic analytics?
Not in this forum. A little new to hacker news posting, is there a private message feature?
Except if the flawed software is a company's core product, the company might fail.

As we all know, corporations are people, my friend.
Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 7 years ago today
Same with a Canadian. Resource industry based economies crowd out the other industries, they have a higher profit : risk ratio.
I've never seen a non-trivial application that is "application code only".

Most frameworks weren't built out of thin air, but because of real application needs. Sure they have more than is necessary, but it is often the case in any non-trivial application that you end up writing a bunch of custom common "framework" code which duplicates the work that readily available frameworks (that you avoided using) had.

Any new developers then have to learn your new "lightweight templating language", "lightweight database mapper", "lightweight MVC layer", and what have you (which now you have to support even though it's not core to what your application does, but is just a support layer).

Though I guess the best part is most of these frameworks being discussed came about because an internal team wasn't happy with what was available and decided to roll their own, which eventually became big enough to release as a standalone unit.
I'm looking for interesting discussion with intelligent people on a range of subjects guided by user-submitted stories. I'm looking for explorations of ideas, learning new things, synthesis as well as derivative ideas. Open-mindedness and acceptance. Otherwise there's no point.

I'm not looking for pedantry and closed-mindedness (I'm not accusing you of those things).

I'm probably in the wrong place for that on HN, but the articles are interesting and often so is the discussion.
I would love to see Rez ported to the 3DS.

Or a web browser that puts high-scoring HN submissions in the foreground and lower scoring items in the background. (Has anyone done a red blue glasses chrome extension for this?)

Apart from that the 3d is neat, but pointless. I'm sure there are some games that use it sensibly, but most don't.

It's weird to see so many racing titles on iOS and so few on 3 DS.
My field of research is in machine learning, and upon chatting with medical folks about recent machine learning breakthroughs that outperform panels of experts at making diagnoses, they are all extremely resistant and think that using AI in medicine is somehow immoral.

I'd personally want to be diagnosed by a panel of experts with access to said AI.
Watson could be described as a natural language search engine. This is no small thing. It's linguistic abilities were showcased on jeopardy, though it's wins might have had more to do with speed of processing and "buzzing in" than it did with being really smart. Watson is quite possibly the most sophisticated specific use natural language program to ever exist (as opposed to general use nlp, which is star trek level problem).

That said, the approach and subsequent utility might not live up to the hype that IBM is pumping out. It's one thing to search very quickly. Being able to discover patterns that lead to new levels of understanding and predictable relationships is another thing entirely. IBM is more search vs predict in part because they only have so much data to work with. All of the medical books in the world are a drop in the bucket in terms of algorithmic understanding. Watson has mastered working with all available information. Collecting and processing massive data sets is another challenge that IBM hasn't been willing to tackle yet.

IBM is billing Watson as the all singing, all dancing solution to the world's data problems. They're tackling a lot of problems in diverse areas. I hope it works out, the world needs as much help as it can get. But IBM has shifted their core mission to be consulting and I wonder if Watson's purpose will be to support that more than becoming a Super Siri type software project that could do the most good.
So Siri is for consumer devices and Watson is going to be for businesses. I dont think they are going to be killing each other since they are targeting different markets.
Was thinking of doing the same with my poker website (https://bitflop.me), not for 50 g's though.
FreshyMap 2.0 adds real-time wind animation to snow map
Real-time snow reports from FreshyMap just got way more awesome. Also, instagram feed visualization is pretty cool.
My username and phone number were leaked. I have felt no negative impact from this happening. I am mildly annoyed that someone went through the process of making a full database, but I willfully gave my phone number to snapchat for the express purpose of letting people identify it with my username.

I accept an apology.