skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
s/flown/ridden/. FTFY.

I'm going to guess you weren't at the controls.

Also, fair point. I have personally been holding back private supersonic travel for decades. I killed the 2707 a few years before my birth and worse than that, I personally lifted 2 billion Indians and Chinese out of poverty solely to cause demand for fuel (and thus prices) to skyrocket so that in case anyone managed to build an SST, it would be uneconomical.

I'm the inspiration for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE

P.S. I'm a pilot who flies (not just rides) planes and I'd love to fly or ride this thing, doesn't mean it will ever happen.
I'm most concerned about the keylogging claims. Does anyone have a copy of the CRX so that we can determine if keystrokes were in fact being transmitted?
What if the Singularity does not happen
Simple and Effective Budgee Robot is a Bridge to Full Assistant Robot
This post was just an incident review for a technology audience. Dropbox posted a separate apology to their users on their main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/01/back-up-and-running/ . The tone and detail seem totally appropriate since it ran concurrently with the other post.
> How is this not entirely illegal?

Depending on where you live, this might very well be illegal. Unauthorized access and recording of private information of an IT-System is covered in some hacking parapgraphs, in the US and the EU (in the EU maybe as part of the cyber attack tools, as the keylogger would have recorded passwords).
I guess it's also because of the technical elegance of using closurees for page actions. It's hard to admit that a technique that feels elegant and expressive fundamentally doesn't scale.
Before infinite scrolling, there was pagination, which also does not stop the user from digesting an entire database of content. Some infinity scrolling even requires a click; so, on those sites, it's the same amount of clicks to see more content as it is/was with pagination. I dont see infinite-scrolling being the cause of the problem.

I would suggest sites without filtering is the problem.

To get content that is a fixed length and consumable without overindulging, there needs to be a fixed amount of content that 1 person can digest. Otherwise, you just have this database/collection of content that 1 person cant quite possibly read in one sitting... regardless of if there is infinity scrolling, pagination, or some other way to navigate.

Newspapers, in a way, curate what they are going to display each day. It's like a filter in a way. All the content is filtered to show what can fit in X amount of pages.

Websites with this problem, if they want to solve the problem, need better filtering. That might not be the only solution, but i feel like it's a major contender in helping combat the problem of trying to figure out what to consume amongst limitless content consumption.
I saw the Ted talk a couple months back. It's so sad to hear. But through his efforts at raising awareness and all of our advances in medicine, we are making progress in preventing more tragedies like this from happening. Just look at other diseases. Cystic Fibrosis was once a death sentence. Now people can make live 30/40+ years with it.
Your Google Analytics is showing: http://imgur.com/D8vWM3k

:)
I built an npm module with a very similar goal - an open source alternative to FireBase. It's open source at https://npmjs.org/package/waferdb
I work for a major Arabic news channel and we had to deal with many incidents/attacks from the SEA. the amount of DDOS we had was really massive even the network firewall couldn't handle it.

Most ips were located in Russia, Ukraine, USA and a few other Arab countries.
I highly suspect they are a small group of amateurs, right now we have moved to AWS with Dos-Arrest in front which seems to work well.
How about some examples? I was a diamond mod (Kev) for a while and the stuff we were closing either fell wildly outside the scope of the site, or was just spam/garbage.

If you're unhappy about a question being closed (the community can and does make mistakes) then bring it up on meta-SO. If the question was closed by mistake then more often than not it'll be re-opened if you explain why.
I was unaware of that. I thought they were both PowerPC designs.
I think you should stop assuming you know what the vast majority of PhD think about doing a PhD. I'm a student myself and I've loved every minute of it so far. I use the tools I want. I work on interesting problems. And I pretty much make my own schedule. AND I get to help other students while I'm at it. What's not to like? Frankly, it's bliss.

I don't know exactly what I'm going to do when I'm done.

Granted, not everyone thinks like me. But certainly not everyone thinks as you do.
A closure is a function augmented with implicit references to the context in which it was created. In case of an upvote link it would hold references to the post you could upvote. That reference exists not in the URL but in the closure at the servers side. If you keep these objects in memory indefinitely, you'll run out of ram.
Clearing an arbitrary bit actually is supported (as mentioned in the article: "you can set, clear, or toggle any bit with one instruction").

The specific details require you to dig a bit past explaining just the immediate encoding, but in the clearing case there's a dedicated instruction for clearing the bit specified by the immediate:

BIC - Bit Clear (immediate) performs a bitwise AND
of a register value and the complement of an immediate
value, and writes the result to the destination register.

As I mentioned in my other post, zero-rotation encodings are gamed out as well (to allow byte repetition).
In 2013 polio came through Egypt (probably) to Israel and Syria. Israel had to return to regular OPV when regular sewage tests returned positive, but no case of infection was reported.
Do cats realise that we are not cats? Do they actually have enough brain power to digest that?
Correct me if something has changed, but student loans are not dischargable through bankruptcy.
3rd edition is out! Great news! Time to re-read.

Now instead of looking for my second edition, I'll spend tonight debating if I should get paper, or Kindle version, or both. :)

Speaking of influential books, Peopleware and Mythical Man-month are the most influential software books for me.
"a long battle with depression"

Was he formally diagnosed with it?
Thanks! Fixing it
Manual de radiaciones en teléfonos móviles y smartphones |
"It would help if they allowed open-ended questions that are marked "community wiki""

And then we'd have quora, which would not be Stack Overflow. The intention of the site from day one was to encourage specific answerable programming questions that do not involve endless open ended discussion.

I truly believe this narrow scope of acceptable question type is why the site is hugely popular.

I don't understand how people don't get this even after five and a half years.
Wow, really nicely done on that landing page. Curious, why'd you make the API depend on a class name instead of assuming something more common like:

odometer(el, 42);
Drone Social Innovation Award
What if the bird will not sing?
I suppose that depends on the program. At my department Ph.D. candidates are researchers (it's the official title). Their job is not to learn how to produce original research, it is to actually produce original research. Professors are not teachers, they are bosses who assign you to a project and make sure there's a budget to pay you.

M.Sc. gives you the background to produce the research, but just like in the industry, you will learn while on the job. You could be doing equivalent work outside the academia with your M.Sc., in an R&D department of some large company.

As for specialization, you must be extremely specialized to advance your field, which is a requirement for a Ph.D. The point is not to be hired because of your particular speciality, the point is to earn the highest "license to practice science".
I've been working on a NES emulator in rust and so far I really like the language.

Other than managing lifetimes, which can be difficult, the only thing that really bugs me is the lack of safe type promotion. for example, if I have:

fn add(a: u8) -> u16 {
a + 7
}

the compiler should not complain that the expression is of type u8 and not u16 - it is safe to widen the type!

Other minor nits:

- it would be nice if enums were scoped. I think putting names in the outer namespace repeats a poor design in C. Enums should look like MyEnum.MyValue. I know the ADT nature of rust enums might throw a wrench in this

- I really dislike the word "mut". it looks like mutt to me. I don't really know how to fix this, though. Perhaps reuse the @ sigil once it goes away?

- Once macros are mature, it would be nice not to require them to be suffixed with !. I'm a lisp guy at heart in this respect... macros should be full power and macro use should feel just like that feature was built into the language

- JSON style literals for hash maps would be nice

- Ternary operator pls

Other than those small complaints, I have to say that rust has been a joy!
I Like The Big Bang Theory, Because Communism
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Seems as though he's aware of such a thing.

"No, that's bundled adware. If I wanted to give you malware, I would have added a keylogger which you wouldn't have ever discovered (ask around; it's technically possible).
So stop whining already, uninstall the extension and move on with your life!"
http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/mlAD1ygc0v0/FL6...

(Also, he's now posting on the linked thread. 7 minutes ago last reply.)
I think you mean a trie representing the dictionary plus edit-distance-2 (like the OP's algorithm does). There's no easy way to "skip" characters in a trie.
yes sure i will satify all the psr levels and update it soon and thanks for the feedback
Yes there are but, How about creating a search engine for open source projects?
Complete off topic nitpick, but reading this font made my head hurt. I didn't manage to read till the bottom, even though I'm interested. Could I suggest a font that has the same x-height for each character?
Show HN: My open-source Chrome Extension: Text Narrator
thanks for the feedback ur feedback have encouraged me alot.. this was my first project ever
Forums Are Dead [Jeff Atwood]
You're not alone...
Git commit sins
This seems to be a DNSCurve implementation.
Irony is that I chose this theme purely for the typography.
I have to agree that both extremes don't do a favor to their side. The most important rule is not to invest money you can't afford to lose. I think 10-20% of your play capital can be invested in Bitcoin, but many put every single penny into it - maybe they don't have another chance to make money, who knows. Bitcoin sounds so simple as an investment! Unlike stocks, you don't need any special skills - you just hoard and cash out after a few years when you suddenly wake up a millionaire. By skills in stocks I mean that to match Bitcoin ROI you need to make a sequence of successful trades and stock picks.
This is a silly fetishizing of 'post mortum'

I will think no less of any company with solid technology that experiences a failure and puts an honest effort in communicating a post mortum explanation which is exactly what happened here.

I will, though, lose some respect for people who quibble about perceived faux pas of the explanation because it's losing sight of what is actually important.
It isn't. You can just download the crx, unzip it and go to town. You can acquire the crx by downloading it from https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=red... (replace the EXTENSIONIDHERE)
> I would have added a keylogger

seems to imply that he was not logging keystrokes, which conflicts directly with the first post in that thread:

> they are tracking all data and keystrokes. checked with wireshark.

It'd be nice to have a copy so that we can find out for ourselves.
"Does it even matter what your neighbours are making?"

Yes. If you make significantly more than the people around you, it's more difficult to make friends with the people in your community. If they know, people will ask you for money, treat you differently, and some will be jealous. It's sad..but true.

"If you are challenging yourself and your income isn't rising (or falling, even) it is pretty disheartening"

Welcome to pretty much every 9-5 job.
Head First Into Full Stack Javascript
Gmail Style Keyboard Shortcuts in Apple Mail
On the latest iPad Air Ad: Apple and The Dead Poets Society
I also have a Norwegian upbringing. If I like an app (and consider it "good"), then I give a 5/5 rating. If I like it, but find a few flaws in it, then I give a 3/5 or 4/5. As for 2/5 and 1/5, that means I don't think it's worth it for most other users.
Can you explain where I got this impression, or am I completely out in left field?
**The 1775 Sec**
@1775Sec

"@cedwardsmedia @ECA_Legion We are not bored at the least.
Apple's database is very interesting! huh, I wonder if
these codes work? SWEET"

> "I wonder if these codes work"

...um, yah, I wouldn't give these guys any attention either. They're worse than script kiddies. They're poser script kiddies.
Most likely parent complains about the fact that if you read long discussion, then it's capped at 100 comments and at the end there is continue link which expires rather quickly.
I googled the problem and opted out ecoasia from the extension settings when i noticed my urls getting redirected everytime. but i had no idea that the extensions can 'Access all data on all the websites'. now I notice most of my extensions like web developer, page ruler, web font previewer have this permissions. need further clarification from the chrome team as to what this exactly is. passwords? credit card numbers? can also be accessed by the extensions?
I think "much", "such", and "very" are all appropriate "doge".
Because other cats are cat-sized so your cat thinks he can take them, but he knows better than to start a fight with a giant.
5 ways to bootstrap your startup
Wasn't there very similar project published a week or so ago? Just can't remember the name of it.
Drink two espressos to enhance long-term memory
To be fair 'Anthrozoology' was coined in late 2010 and it's quite likely the number of people who might call it their specialty is very small.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Anthrozoology
The great thing about DropBox is that I didn't even notice, despite using my files across the outage.
We've been having fun building things lately with transparent APIs. e.g. You drop Pace[1] in a page, and it figures out how to create a progress bar from it.

Odometer is nifty in this way because you can still just set the value with innerHTML or .html, and it will animate it, so the overhead of adding it becomes just adding the class to whatever elements you'd like.

You can actually also manually instantiate one pretty much exactly as you described:

new Odometer({el: el, value: 42});

[1] - http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/
very wrong

much incorrect
> it's not just iterating all routes in a big loop like Symfony.

Well, that happens if you turn off the cache. Otherwise, Symfony actually compiles the routes into something resembling a prefix tree.
A very short-term memory problem.
Yep, that's a great book, with lots of good advice. I got the first edition, which was call "My Job Went to India, and All I Got Was This Lousy Book"
> Why is a cat friendly towards human visitors, yet hostile towards feline ones?

My (normal size) cat was friendly to human visitors as long as they were really big (100Kg+). It occasionally attacked other human visitors, presumably because they were easily scared. So perhaps it's just trying to assert dominance, regardless of species, but based on its estimated chance to succeed.
> How is this achieved ?

By not utilizing the symfony/routing cache at all.

Sorry to say, this is a meaningless test.
For me and my wife (before our son was born, of course!) we usually read about 50% of the daily newspaper (Publico) and just about 100% of the weekly one (Expresso).

We usually would take the newspaper to the beach or a cafe, spend a few hours there just reading the paper (trading sections every so often) and chatting a bit about what we were reading. It was as nice ritual.
Avoiding Coins Created With Coingen
A continuation-passing style intermediate language for guile
Here's a simple thing that has helped me avoid the issue (which otherwise is quite nagging):

Starting from the HN main page, I first open the discussion pages of all the stories I potentially want to read in new tabs (till I start encountering older stories that I have already gone through). This process is fast enough to not encounter expired links.

For each story now, I click the link leading to the story from the HN discussion page, and get back to the discussion page simply using the back button. When done, I simply close the tab.
get a MOOC course from udacity or coursera or edx, much better than reading a book.
There are some people that make a nice living from selling themes, but it's not easy money that for sure. It's a jungle out there..
I have found this article: http://www.premiumwp.com/the-1-million-dollar-themeforest-pr...
I used some good recruiters, as an employer.
You mean, like most hummingbirds?
Thank you for posting this.

When I saw the original version in F# I thought "I think I can do better" after a long absence from using F#. When I got back to my laptop and searched for the to-be-improved snippet I saw yours.

Now I'm hooked again.
Online courses on (big) data (science)
Hi everyone!

I have recently found out about the online courses on data science, but I`m not really sure about the usefulness of them - therefore I wanted to know thoughts of others, presumably those who have taken one or the other.
I wonder if it is worth the time/effort to take such courses - maybe it`s more helpful (in terms of self-education) just to buy an e-book or some other study materials and study in my own pace?

All in all - I would very much appreciate every insight on the matter!

Thanks!

p.s. the courses I reckon about :
MIT`s http://web.mit.edu/professional/onlinex-programs/courses/tackling_the_challenges_of_big_data.html
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi https://class.coursera.org/bigdata-003
and University of Washington https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001
I think the issue is most people don't use Google Play on the desktop to look at reviews and such. I have, I think, once. I generally only use Google Play on my Android devices.
I don't want to sound negative towards you project, but why not use CouchDB [0], along with TouchDB [1] for mobiles and PouchDB [2] for the browser ?

[0] https://couchdb.apache.org/

[1] http://touchdb.org/

[2] http://pouchdb.com/
New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling
Three of the points are joining an accelerator, taking out loans and crowd-funding. If you're raising capital through selling equity or taking on debt, you're not bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is doing it without external money, working on the side if necessary, until the business has revenue to pay you so you can do it full-time.
I doubt animals has the slightest knowledge of the fact that there is multiple spices of animals.

More like that animal is interesting that lager ugly one over there is not.
It could be a waste of your resources, because many such listings are actually not designed to lure good qualified prospects, they have a completely opposite intent - lure idiots and unqualified people. Even if you apply, they'll talk to you, then talk again, then disqualify you on some ridiculous grounds.

I'm talking about Green Card PERM process in these companies. The law mandates them to advertise, but their intent is to prove to the DOL that there's no adequate candidates around. They _already have_ someone for this position, moreover, this person (most likely) already occupies this position, they just started his/her GC process.
I would say that the site should actually be opened up to the whole community to add to it. Hackers may be able to help in ways never imagined before. Some examples:

1. Auto assign upvotes to new stories using machine learning algorithms that use older, already upvoted, stories for learning. This can fix one of the issues often encountered where good stories go ignored because too few people have time to screen new stories.

2. Instead of using ad hoc rules for ordering stories and comments, use machine learning engines again.

Some stories get flagged. These would also provide good data for supervised learning.

I understand some control would need to be exercised to prevent gaming of the system.
No, the point is that those people can't prove they were customers by presenting a receipt. Should that mean they get to get sued and have to spend time, effort, and money defending themselves in court?
Are you using some terminals in the train or why are you forced to their choice? Just set up your system to use different servers!
There is no project... just experimentation with LevelDB. All of those solutions that you provided require an installation of CouchDB on the server side. Therefore, a bit out of scope of building a quick hacky Firebase clone using LevelDB modules.
There's also a completely mundane/political explanation (which would apply to industry too). If you're really good, you're an asset to your boss, and your success reflects well on them. So leaving is a backward step as far as they are selfishly concerned. (Imagine your start-up's CTO left for a "better opportunity"...)
Hullo, fellow grad-student.

That would be a perfectly sensible position if not for the fact that they kick you out of PhD school after you finish instead of promoting you.

A PhD is an apprenticeship in doing original research. It is not your first job. It does not pay well, or have any job security or benefits. Your first job is the one you get after your PhD, because they punished you by accepting your thesis, printing your degree, and kicking you out of graduate school, thus forcing you to find an actual position.

Which means that if the job prospects after PhD school are "nothing permanent involving research", then the system is indeed broken. It's broken because thousands of people spend years of our young adulthood working incredibly hard on a single project, only to be told at the end that we haven't really ever held a job, that we are not qualified for a job, and that figuring out what to do after five years of experience in the world's most difficult intellectual endeavors is our problem.

If grad school is not going to lead to, well, anything afterward, then we should stop considering it to be school at all, and just all go on strike to demand that our first real job out of undergrad pay a whole lot better for the hours it makes us work.
Can't seem to find the setting to disable dns redirection, can you tell me where to look?

Edit: OK, found it - free users need to go to advanced settings > domain typos and disable that.
You're assuming that humans attaining immortality is a good thing. That's anything but a foregone conclusion.
Absolutely true! The geek in me sees a sort of halo effect of having those king of features, though, in how much I appreciate a project; I'm sure that's not as easily quantifiable.
What about kids?