skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychology Today,Yesterday,Next Week...
You may be pleasantly surprised by 2.0 =)
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Sounds like a quick way to cash in.
I was used to Vim as well, but I decided to jump into Emacs and Clojure at the same time.

Once I installed Evil-mode (Vim bindings), an Emacs buffer felt so similar to Vim that I was immediately productive.

From there, I could just focus on the other things like how to open a file (C-x f) and how to launch nREPL and begin evaluating code within Clojure source files.
Great. Looking forward to it!
Nintendo acquires "troll's" patent portfolio after legal victory
The meaning of nothing
Did anybody try the script in ZSH?
IIRC we couldn't ask about things like kids because it's illegal to base a hiring decision on whether someone has kids or is going to have kids - a bad actor could decide not to hire you based on this because kids equate to more insurance premiums, and having kids equates to maternity leave.

If we make a decision not to hire someone and we asked that question and they wanted to stir up trouble, they could try to build a case based on us asking that question. Would they succeed? Probably not. But it would cost the company a lot more than just not asking the question.

It kind of sucks, because there are lots of good schools in the area, but we couldn't bring them up unless the candidate did first.
Looks good. Might be an idea to allow people (once you open source) to add their own 'plugins', code they could write themselves to pull from different websites. I.e., someone could write one for App.net and contribute it.
Upvoted for cross-OS development done right.
What is the significance of the color in the top right hand corner of each repo-box?
The only search engines I use are DDG and Startpage. Startpage uses Google results, so I'm never missing out anything, but I still keep my privacy.

DDG is for definitions, wiki lookups, unit conversions, some random stuff, and SP is for the specific searches, like for programming help.
Tinfoil hat says: "Nice try NSA, go away"
I'm guessing programming language of the project.
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Your comment got me thinking.

What is to prevent someone from dumpster diving to collect dna?

While that dna is anonymous if anything interesting turns up in the dna it would be possible to trace it back to the owner with some certainty because if it was, say, at a restaurant you could (assuming the use of credit cards, security cameras) be tied to patrons of that restaurant or workers. And at that point you could triangulate enough to have a reason for further investigation and/or get warrants for things. Perhaps (ianal).

Taking this further how would something like that be viewed? I'm curious to what extent that would be viewed as unethical (in the US SCOTUS already has said you can pick through trash). So it appears to be legal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
I did grad school in computer architecture and did a lot of cycle-level debugging in simulators, and I agree this mode of debugging is very very useful.

I think that the closest analogue to a waveform view in software may actually be printf()/log-based debugging, in the sense that there's a sort of temporal vs. spatial tradeoff going on: with waveform views or logs (temporal view), you see only the signals/data you've chosen to post, but you can easily see sequences through time, which is useful for many sorts of systems. With a traditional debugger (spatial), you can poke around in memory arbitrarily at a breakpoint, but it's more difficult to see time (you have to explicitly step forward, and usually can't back up). Both are useful.
Surely ads like this are winning over the people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nJKWJTsUg
Nailed it! I designed it from the start with this in mind. Each site has it's own module so I (or anyone) can just add them in and subtract as they please
Confluence is pretty good.
Any suggestions for accomplishing this in reverse? What I mean is the IndieWeb idea of 'Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere'. http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE

It looks like you are posting to various third-party services and then aggregating them into a feed on your site. It looks great and functions well but obviously you are at the mercy of these third-parties should something go wrong (they cease operations, change APIs, etc...).

I very much like the idea of posting everything from a primary source which I control, then pushing it out to the third-party services. Easier said than done of course, but it's something I think there is demand for.
I used to think press/hype was equal to success... now I know better. We know we have great lengths still to go; this is just the start. And by that, I mean this is our second product (our first is Yardsale, which was funded by YC in the S11 batch), after years of working insatiably to solve a problem we all have. Anyway, thanks for the perspective guys.

On broken stuff, one of the benefits of a local marketplace like FOBO is that you get to see the items before the seller is paid. On eBay, the quality varies widely, and sellers seem to take advantage of that often. Hopefully FOBO is a big step forward.
No, it doesn't all cancel out.

China today is basically China, Inc. The people in charge of every aspect of the government are heavily motivated to manipulate this sort of data, just the same way as they try to cover up the pollution in their major cities. In contrast the economies and political systems in the US, Europe, etc. are far more open and not as easily vulnerable to this type of manipulation.
> It's an impressive story and hard for anybody of us to even imagine in this day and age.

The torture part is very easy to imagine, in this day and age, unfortunately.
There's no question a lot more needs to be done before cryptocurrencies are ready for mass adoption, but at least a path is now forged for addressing ecommerce theft. Can't wait until a decent hardware wallet is available, precisely for the reasons you describe.
Is Uber’s Surge-Pricing an Example of High-Tech Gouging?
This is related to the link but not the article.

http://imgur.com/a/vlauM#0

I saw that the address was forbes.com. Ok, Forbes, that's a legit publication. Then I clicked. First there is a full page advertisement with no content. The I clicked again to continue to the actual article. On the second page, the actual article is the bottom left corner of the screen- making up about 25% of the page.

Its time to get your paradigm shift on ya'll. This form of advertising is dying as its effectiveness is wearing off. Humans are immune. If you want to continue tricking people into buying things they dont need and cant afford, you are going to need to develop new methods.
Finite State Entropy coder (faster than Huffman)
Thanks. I find it odd that supposedly pro-female movements denigrate all the things that women have participated in over the years. Women have always been with us, and they haven't been sitting around all day doing nothing! But we tell young girls nowadays that to be valuable, they have to do things that boys are doing.

A true pro-female movement would first of all recognize the value of all the work of women over the millennia. And secondly, they would fight against discrimination. But the desire for equal representation in every field comes out perversely anti-female, since it values down everything females are doing and values up everything males are doing.

If I have a daughter, it will be okay to me if she wants to be a scientist or a stay-at-home mom. My mom played a big role in my life for which I am forever grateful. That too is valuable.
If they had just stopped at 0:40 that wouldn't have been bad. But talk about a trainwreck of an advertisement.
Not that much worse than most other websites devoted to educational institutions, quite frankly.
Syrian Electronic Army hacked into Microsoft News' Twitter account
Scam-adu?
Can we please stop linking to Forbes.com? Their "articles" are often poorly research linkbait full of half or no-truths. Their site is a mess and full of slop advertising. Let's not do them the favor of the traffic.
You just blew my mind
> Samsung is gaining fast on Apple in terms of brand affection – but we seem reluctant to admit it.

What a strange way to start an article. Who would be reluctant to admit such a thing? Is there some interesting, counterintuitive story here? It's on the front page of HN so let's read on...

(a couple minutes later)

So the data [1] are that the Apple brand is at #1, Samsung is #8 and the Apple score is increasing faster than the Samsung score.

Let's correct that first paragraph to reflect the actual data the story is based on:

"Samsung is still trailing Apple in brand affection and the gap is widening - but this author is reluctant to admit it."

I don't give a fig about either brand. Both make great gizmos.

What is this article _for_? It appears to be making a claim that is obviously contrary to the data it is citing. Why would a Forbes article do that? Any media-savvy people want to enlighten me?

[1] http://www.interbrand.com/en/news-room/press-releases/2013-0...
Blog entry: http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2013/12/finite-state-entr...

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540
Oaksterdam isn't new -- it's been around longer than the current wave of legalization. Welcome to California.
Perhaps they're targeting men with no social skills.
ah. thanks. I missed that.
No "US-only" in subject.
Forbes has absolutely plummeted in quality in the past few years.

I would take everything they write with a mountain of salt.
[more thoughtful response] I suspect you would still be at the mercy of services' API's (probably more so because you would be pushing rather than pulling), but it's a great idea. I think http://bufferapp.com/ is barking up that tree...
Austin's population generally do see themselves as having a lot in common with other major urban areas, like San Francisco or Boston. Austonians by and large do not like the policies that the state they happen to be ensconced within enacts. Texas is generally right-leaning, but Austin is pretty liberal, and would choose very different policies if they had the power to do so.

That indicates one issue with splitting political power into states: most American political differences are urban/suburban/rural, not regional. Austonians and San Franciscans have more in common with each other than they do with other areas of their own states, and California's Central Valley would get along fine with West Texas. But SF and the Central Valley don't get along, and West Texas and Austin don't get along.
Haha, don't go tearing the site down and rebuilding it because of one comment! You've only just done this one and it looks & works great for now.
I can't figure out what you're "lawyering up" over. It's impossible to follow what you've written, but you haven't described anyone breaking any laws.
gcc mostly ignores restrict, though it's got a little better in recent versions. icc uses it a little more.

But restrict is only good in specific situations - if you have three pointers, and #2 can alias #1 but not #3, there's no way to express that.

It also tends to be used on function arguments, not at some higher up point of declaration. So when compilers inline the function and can see more global info about it, the restrict gets lost and optimization gets worse.

I think some kind of stronger 'typedef' would be better.
Yes! Thank you for the link to Varon-T, I've been looking for a C implementation of disruptor queues.
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One of (I am sure) many ways to get kids interested in science and technology. It only requires thoughtful adults.
Twitter is also a leading silicon valley tech company with hundreds of extremely intelligent employees. You could easily argue that they may have one of the best engineering staffs in the world. Given that, of course they would use open source versus buying enterprise products.

In terms of engineering staff, they are the exception, not the norm. A company like home depot or kelly moore paints would have a tough time relying on open source for all their operational software.
Chinese don't have to start wars, they just need to keep (em)migrating. A peaceful conquest. Also by 2030 Tokyo/Japan will be a one big retirement centre, so you will have to enable more immigration (or finally come up with really good robots/rejuvenation pills).
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And how did Japan get to where it is today, without fast economic success?
That IS nitpicking ... and yet I was so far off. I seem to have turned off my math-brain for Saturday (I should go for a bike ride).
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6 or 7 countries already surpasse the GDP per capita of the US [1], so that's not really a a landmark milestone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
An Ariel Atom is more than a bit cheaper. For the price of any supercar, you could have an Ariel Atom and a huge bag of money.
Positive discrimination is still discrimination. Why should the split be 50/50? Is the same proportion of brown eyed people present in a YC batch as is in the rest of the population? Perhaps too the intake should include the 'right' proportion of those who do not possess the skills to succeed in a start up? Otherwise thats competencyist right? What a ridiculous fuss over nothing.

A low number of women does not automatically mean prejudice. Men and Women are different. I know, I've seen pictures. Brains differ between the sexes also. Perhaps the relative number of men and women is more indicative of those inherent sex based predispositions than anything else. In fact it would be more surprising if the balance was 50/50 would it not?

Stop being silly.
Empires rise and fall at ever-faster rate.
In Chrome, the "Zoom In" command is in the View menu.

Zoomed in by two increments (125%), the font size and margins of the article become reasonably close to the Medium gold standard. Hopefully this may help you finish reading the article.</mildsarcasm>
Agreed. I wish my company was more like that. I don't want to hear you arguing with your wife, making a doctor's appointment to get that lump checked out, or trying to convince your kids to do their homework while you're at the office.
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"Does it really matter if I'm not anonymous online?"

Even if you're not anonymous online, consider the following scenario:

You visit website A; your're not anonymous and that's fine for you.

You then visit website B. Again you're not anonymous and that's fine too.

Then you visit website C, followed by website D.

Again, you're not anonymous and that's fine because you know that website A doesn't know you visited website B and website B doesn't know that you visited website C.

Website C does know that you visited website D, but it doesn't know what you did once you got there. So although you're not anonymous online, you don't feel like someone is watching over your shoulder looking at everything you do.

But unknown to you (or maybe even known to you) company X has a little bit of analytics code on each of these websites and does know that you visited website A, and website B, and also website C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and more.

So maybe it's a question of the degree to which you can be anonymous online. On individual websites, you might be fine not being anonymous, as long as those websites don't know what you're doing elsewhere on the web. But is anonymity important if you know everything you do online is being tracked and joined together from all your disparate journeys?
Ask HN: how do you promote your projects/apps and find new customer?
Two questions: 1)what are the techniques you adopt to promote your projects, apps, webapps, websites, Saas, etc...? 2) would you be interested in an API that let you easily integrate tell-a-friend, send-a-tweet or promocode functionalities?
It may take much longer than that. China's birthrate is low, so the nation may experience severe greying related problems.

India, however...
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the naming convention that allows it to be named cuckoo729.

the program could be rewritten not to use bit 31 as a flag,
and then you could use as many as 2^32-1 nodes, but that's
not neatly expressible as MULT*2^SHIFT with few digits.
meh. From what I've seen it looks way better for "spin up a vm every now and then to test something" - But that's not what I do. My hosts run virtuals, and only run virtuals. But eh. I know many people who are obviously way smarter than I am telling me that KVM is the way to go. (I'm actually setting up a new KVM system for my old formerly known as tile networks customers this weekend. we will see)

I also have some (perhaps irrational? I have yet to test) fears about KVM's superior ram over-subscription mechanisms. That's the thing. Having poor over-subscription mechanisms is a honest signal to the customer that you aren't oversubscribing.

KVM systems can actually hand out host swap to the guests as if it were ram[1]. In a multi-tenant 'race to the bottom' kind of environment? Well, it hasn't happened yet, but I think it's quite possible that we will see KVM go the way of OpenVZ when it comes to multi-tenant setups, simply 'cause I could sell 144 gigabytes of ram on my servers with only 72 gigabytes of real ram. Aside from performance, I don't think customers would be able to tell. If I were to do that in Xen, it would be pretty goddamn obvious (I'd have to add the swap within the guest, so you could see how much swap you were actually using, then you'd have a 'balloon' driver eating up the ram that I said I gave you that you don't have.)

To be clear, feeding guests swap as ram is the most clumsy method of memory over-subscription. KVM has some super-slick methods... some of which are partly supported by later versions of Xen. Tmem actually can gain some benefits from oversubscription without any downside; e.g. deduping memory pages and using the leftovers for read-cache, that can be grabbed back by the guest. - but that isn't going to make the guest look like it has more ram, that's just going to make disk I/O slightly better.

[1]https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
How about telling us to the best of your knowledge what we had, instead or in addition to the $10 gift card? I'd really be interested to know, even if it's a month later.
Yes there are real problems with HTTP. There is a lot of overhead in building a connection and maintaining. It's designed to be a transient, request/response oriented protocol. Things like XmlHttpResponse are a hack and misuse.

I'm not just being pedantic about it either. Just compare server performance of RPC over Websocket to RPC over HTTP at scale.
Putting the many medicinal benefit of marijuana aside, it's great to see the rise of an institution aimed at possibly a legal marijuana market within the next decade, regulated and taxed by the government and the many many jobs it will create in the industry.
Honestly, I've long used a pair of 1080P 37" TV as my preferred monitors. One landscape, one vertical. I place them far away so my eyes don't have to work as hard to focus. Fonts are big for the same reason. I don't need 4k whatsoever. It would just make things too tiny to read with the current poor support OSes have for dpi independent rendering.
Well "just happens to" is strange attempt to diminish his accomplishments. We're talking about the life work of a brilliant polymath.
Ask HN: Do you use affiliate marketing to market your SaaS product?
Hi, everyone. I'm curious to hear if you use affiliate marketing to help market your SaaS product, and if so, how successful your affiliate marketing efforts have been in driving customers and revenue to your product. If you don't use affiliate marketing to help market your SaaS product, I'd be curious to hear why you do not use it. Thanks!
GlusterFS on Supermicro Storage servers and loads of raid-grade harddrives, install once - scale forever. And it's not very hard to learn one additional software, and everyone knows that you need to setup a simple backup solution or system.

What I'm saying is that if you pay a cold $30k to AWS it is probably time to look at other solutions - or your COGS will keep growing out of hand.

I understand the greatness of AWS and Cloud systems when starting up, especially to keep CapEx down, but only to a certain point, you still have to manage systems (servers), security and storage/mount-points etc, so why not take the time to learn how to do it yourself and save a lot of money? Why not get an experienced DevOps instead of pure Developer?

And this company was already paying $300k to consultants, why not use a consultant or outside company to setup/manage their own hardware and service contracts as well? It would still be less than $30k and would still scale a lot better.
Yeah I avoid gdb like the plague. Any other platform, any other debugger. Even Microsoft VS does better.
Sometimes. Sometimes there actually isn't a more effective means of interrogation (for ex., when you're pressed for time). What do you do in these rare situations, like in the incident about the kidnapped girl below? If it comes down to it, you do resort to torture, as a very, very last option, and then you do the right thing: you deal with it, assume full responsibility for the act, and submit yourself to the justice system so they can decide wether the torture was warranted.
If it was my kid, I would have done it, and then comply 100% when the law questioned me about it.
I already browse at 125%. It takes 200% to get to a comfortable readable level, and that doesn't address full width sentences. Too much effort for a wall of text.

Typography matters.
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Citation please.
I use a similar method, which I based on a previous HN post:

https://github.com/akerl/dotfiles/blob/master/.bundles/marks

I'm addicted to one/two-letter aliases, and between that and ZSH completion (https://github.com/akerl/dotfiles/blob/master/.completions/_...), the mark functions get me super-simple bookmarks

I also wish people would stop providing "curl this into .bashrc" as the primarily installation method. That's a really bad habit to get into, especially with a file like .bashrc. It's a bit less risky than piping the curl into bash, but still not a great plan.
You are punished if you fail to fulfill your obligation, yes; but how you go about doing that is completely open to you. Hence freedom.
A walled garden built on open source software. Thanks Twitter!
China doesn't exactly have a good track record of integrity and transparency so this article really does not portray the intended shock. People still remember the Air Defense Zone China expanded but how nobody really gave a crap, because as the old Chinese proverb goes, "Empty Wheelbarrow Is Always Loudest"