skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of elections, let’s use lotteries
The 2nd factor is the computer you are logged in at.
> It is a terrible design flaw, that is primarily due to the fact that a lot of software designers assume that the average person speaks one language;

In countries where people have to deal with two or more system on a daily basis (i.e: any country that is not on ASCII like alphabet) there is no such assumption, but there is still no very good solution for this problem after decades of trying.

I don't think it's laziness or short-sighness that impedes progress. We might need a big breakthrough in some field or disrupting idea to have thing move faster.
What is sticker in this context?
But they're very different languages that share very few words, aren't they? Try speaking a few romanic languages that share a bigger proportion of their words and you'll see where the problem is.
The end of Radio 4 would indeed be the end of civilization.
Schmidt: encryption will help Google crack Chinese censorship and stop the NSA
Thanks for the explanation and link. I think you are correct in that it doesn't appear to be using any Python. The demo I saw was given by Fernando Perez [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F4rFu...] where he demonstrated a cross language example which, whilst technically impressive, wasn't something I felt I would attempt. Like I said I'm probably just a wimp.
That would be even more dangerous. The power to impose consequences on irresponsible journalists gets abused every time.
Xembly, an assembly for XML manipulations, 0.14 released
Xembly is an Assembly-like language for XML manipulations, version 0.14 of its Java implementation was released to Maven Central
Small quibble: Democrats and independents (swing voters) support marijuana legalization at similar rates, according to General Social Survey data (which ends at 2012, but is otherwise pretty consistent on this finding).

That said, it could certainly be the case that there's a perception of swing voters opposing marijuana legalization (or perhaps those who oppose it are more vociferous than those who support it or something).

Source: http://blog.statwing.com/every-party-age-region-and-religion...
It's not secret [1].

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-microsoft-andro...
If you install Hacker News Enhancement suite, it gives you the ability to collapse threads, as well a browse HN using keyboard shortcuts.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
The Air Force hijacked the Space Shuttle design process and forced it to deliver gigantic loads to polar orbit (a very tricky task). Then they abandoned the Shuttle, leaving it misdesigned for a nonexistent mission.

Morton Thiokol is a solid rocket company in the northwestern U.S. The Shuttle launched from the southwest U.S. The solid rockets, with tubes of propellant inside, had to be cut into sections to make the long journey. The joints were heavy (very bad for rockets), and a leaky joint destroyed the Challenger.

The horrible Air Force requirements made refurbishing very expensive and slow. Everything had been stripped of so much weight that it was too fragile and needed detailed inspection and repairs for each launch.

Morton Thiokol was crammed into the program to get Shuttle votes from their state's senators. The catch is that the crammin-crap-in process doomed the program. But if Morton Thiokol had threatened to cancel the program unless it was reinvented, they could have come out as a real rocket company supporting a fleet that launched every month. Honestly, the innovations SpaceX is coming out with could and should have been done by the Shuttle program, instead of the idiot business "leaders" chaining themselves to the worst possible ideas
For the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_D...
Facebook Executives Call MYWOT Untrustworthy
But china isn't the only one to use usd. Them saying "i don't give usd any value" doesn't means it's going to be true. At the minimum, USA will still use that currency no matter what, along with every US companies.
And since The US haven't defaulted yet on their debt, US bonds will still have at least some justifiable value.
I might be an overly conservative old fart, but there was a time not so long ago, where your success wasn't depending on the UI decision (or any other decision) of a corporate overlord.

Back then, you made a product and it was immediately available for all the world to use. Yes, you had to spend some time/money/effort for promoting it and yes, the success might have been dependent on your ability to promote it.

But you didn't have to ask for permission to build it and there was no way to get screwed because the UI design of an entity you have no control over has changed slightly from one day to another.

I think it's a real shame that these days seem to be over more and more.
Hacker Breaks Snapchat's New Security Feature in 30 Minutes
Getting fed-up with "post-mortem". It seems like this term is now everywhere, it's turned into a nerd analysis buzzword.
China dumps all bonds.

US declares return to gold standards.

Chinese economy crashes.

World experiences significant economic downturn but soon recovers.
I thought the same for a moment, until I realized I was basically watching a kids show. The colors, the enthusiasm, the fast cuts, this video was made by someone who knows how to get kids (we're talking 4-6 here) interested in something. If that's the sensibility she brings to her storytelling and illustrating, this book is going to be a wild success.

If it was a Kickstarter for an invention or a software product, I'd expect the presenters to be a bit more sedate. But given what she's selling, I think showcasing her personality helped make it clear that she's the right person for this job.
Fine Grained Mail Filtering With IPv6
> You basically have federal US laws outlawing anything having to do with marijuana, ...

On the theory that growing hemp in your garden is "interstate commerce". The laws are unconstitutional. It's all just vote whoring by the princes of Washington, D.C.

Decriminilazation is inevitable. It will take the form of a constitutional amendment, just like the one that stripped the feds of control of alcoholic beverages.
Actually, there are a bunch of plugins that will use a subshell to run this, and then bring it up when it's done so you can keep working while the tests run.

Not so important for a quick script but if your tests/compiling takes a few minutes, totally worth it.
That depends on whether you think ease of hiring/firing is the only variable at work.
The internet isn't all blogs. The use cases for React are kind of for the interesting web applications. Or even unity games with coherent ui.
I'd agree it's inspirational to a lot of geeks, but looking at human society in general, I think we're not drifting towards Star Trek, but farther and farther away from it. It is still a great show, though.

Also, I grew up watching Star Trek, but recently (a few years ago) discovered Doctor Who as well, and now I'm having trouble ranking those two (I feel that in some ways, Who beats Star Trek).
Sometimes an array of numbers is just an array of numbers. The language shouldn't presume too much about what you mean to do with them.

The moment you need an extra dimension (or anything other than 2 really) Matlab's ‘everything is a matrix’ approach falls apart. Matlab is a toy language in so many ways and this is just another one.

It's a pity that Julia adopted Matlab's pop matrix semantics instead of some solid and general principles from APL or J. Even modern Fortran would have been a better model for an array DSL. From what I've read of the Julia docs, they actually want you to write loops. But Julia looks great otherwise. With macros and a good compiler, maybe the array features can be fixed at some point.
The worst thing for me is that they design for big screens and I have small one. Even when you pick up compact scheme.

The record was stats screen on blogger which shown me 3cm of information panel and the rest was taken by huge sticky !mostly empty! top and bottom rows.

Way to go, really.
I'd like to add to this. It's the little things that i like about my macbook pro. The magsafe has saved my laptop several times. Optical audio out makes music so much more enjoyable. The trackpad is easily worth 5x as much as the nearest pc laptop that i have used. The battery life is significant - around 38% better than windows 7 on mountain lion, and i'd imagine the situation is even more pronounced on mavericks.

plus the lack of pre installed spyware etc. makes everything just so much more pleasing. I haven't run a virus scan since i got a mac.
Germany and England were pretty cosy too at a point in time.
I want to get you a beer at some point.
Salt seems a lot simpler to me - Ansible is an improvement over many, but Salt seems to be the same again over it.
Right, now that Postgres 9.3 just added materialized views, perhaps they'll have a super-easy system for replication, DR, and HA.
I had to look at your past submissions to work out what Kickstarter project you were talking about. To my surprise I had actually backed you guys (I wanted to use VMX w/ my Ninja Blocks).

My tips for you:

- Your video is way too long! 7 minutes! If your video is over 2-2.30mins it's too long!

- When you use a simple, coherent story, you make it more likely that people will make a decision or take an action.

- On that note, there was no really strong call to action at the end of the video.

- If you're selling to men (and sadly lets face it you mostly are), your call to action should be done by a woman.

- There is way too much text.

- Rewards tiers are too complex. There needs to be a clear "you should buy this one". Each reward tier description is itself a little essay!

- "VMX Project" isn't a good name. What does VMX mean? It's not memorable. I don't think that 'project' is a positive word. It's the kind of word you'd associate with a charity or shaky cause.

- You need to partner up more. There are other past kickstarter projects that could work really well with your offering.

- There aren't really any social proof points that I can pick up by skimming the page.

- There's no scarcity. Why should I convert?

- You need to show the novelty. How does it differ from other similar but different products like Simple/Open CV etc.

- Going back to social proof, you don't have any media or quotes!

Just my 2c :-)

Please repost your project.
It's really quite awesome, it just needs to be marketed better!
This is ridiculous. Building business applications as web applications have many advantages such as portability, network accessibility, speed of development, ease of development, speed. Over native apps. The sheer fact that you can hand off processing to the server and not block your entire ui makes the majority of web apps far better than the majority of poorly coded win forms garbage I've used.
Yes, that's how it would play out.

China dumping US money, would be an actively hostile thing to do... implying they wanted to do other hostile things as well... The world would likely become a very different place, real fast.
Yep me too. People are too quick to dismiss the cross language issues which can in my experience can slowly erode the benefit. Typically you use an FFI to access particular functionality offered in libraries/classes only offered in another language. In my experience it is only a temporary solution, a does-it-work test. After that you need to recode. Having said that, in my experience Lua(JIT) does this pretty well with C libraries but Lua was designed as the scripting companion to C from day one.

The JVM offers a better place to tackle these issues. Scala and Java cross calling is often more than adequate. Perhaps a Julia compiler for the JVM could be a step in the right direction.
I email it to myself, or save to instapaper which syncs down if it is something to read, or copy it into the onenote doc I sync on all my devices if it is something more long term, instead of refer-once.
It wasn't "This.", it was "This [statement] and ..."
In the topic of C++ in industry: SpaceX is using C++ successfully in a similar type of application.
Kensington locks can be unlocked with nothing more than a slim cardboard tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SkKJ4yOKo8

I tested this technique myself a few years back, but must admit to not knowing if Kensington locks have evolved since then.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/04/166514067/episode-...
A good way to keep your files secure without using encryption is running anything else than OSX or Windows, too. I have had two laptops stolen, from my home - once entering by the (closed) door, once by a (closed) window. With them being under FreeBSD and Arch Linux, I'm quite confident that my data stayed safe (I ihad scans of about all my papers in there). It's kind of security through obscurity, but I think it works pretty well, any disk that's not FAT32, NTFS or HFS+ formatted is quite secure against theft.

Regarding backups, my laptops usually rsync their /home every day to my remote server (and most data on them is in git repositories anyway).
We use saltstack at Zenpayroll.com to manage our servers, and I think it works pretty well. Not 100% sold on the jinja/python stuff, but it does the job.
What is causation exactly? There's no way to prove any instance of causations at all, if we delve deep into the problem of causation. Even though all data, or correlations, support F=ma, a single exceptional case can disapprove the "correlation," therefore we cannot assert force causes accelerations, and so on, since no amount of correlations is ever enough to prove causation.
Appreciating the best Movie
In my experience with talking to people with poorly thought out positions against drugs, mentioning alcohol or caffeine will usually get you a "what do they have to do with anything, we're talking about 'real' drugs."

It's not rational or informed, but lots of people are still thinking that way.
What, for instance? Your comments seem heavy on condemnation but light on substance. Sure there are certain donation specific tools such as Photoshop or 3dsmax or ableton etc that wouldn't work in the browser, but for your day to day business 99% application, the user generally does not need to do anything that the browser cannot.

The fact is, the web world is evolving at an extremely fast rate, and leaving the native world in the dust.
To be fair windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I'm writing something at the moment which returns it to a usable state through group and security policies and registry tweaks. By definition it doesn't add anything to the OS like start menu replacements but it makes it usable for desktop and corporate users.
Well in physics it used to be like this, with most journals denying the authors the right to publish a pre-print because it would "spoil" the publication in the journal. Some interdisciplinary journals like Science and Nature still enforce this (harmful) policy but many others were already forced to open up by the scientific community, which really accelerated the dissemination of important results a lot. After all, with most journals it takes between six to twelve months to get something published, by then most results are "yesterday's news" already ;)
Haha, yes! But in the meantime my website became #1 of reddit.com/r/programing, and since then I see lessmilk.com featured on lots of places. And now even on HN, amazing!
Patrick Burns' R inferno[1] enumerates a lot of R's eccentricities and workarounds for them. I think R gets a lot better once you switch to using the libraries Hadley maintains like plyr and ggplot. I still think proficiency in R is akin to a type of Stockholm syndrome.

[1] : http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf [PDF]
How the lost Mac intro video was found (and got my name stuck to it)
There are hundreds of videos on YouTube showing the original Mac intro, and most of them have my name on them. Weird. Here's how it happened.
What you can do is:

1. paste all (well most, I haven't verified it to say all) of the functions in "anyfile.hs"
2. cd to the same directory as anyfile.hs in terminal
3. open ghci
4. :load anyfile.hs
5. Play with the functions!
JUNE is the Modern Fashionista’s Smartest Defense for Sun Protection
Adversities that lie with the exposure to UV radiation through sunrays is not an unknown fact anymore. It has been over three decades now since the earth got introduced to extreme UV ray effects due to the increase in ozone layer depletion across the globe. This was a major concern for the scientific fraternity because not only did the UV exposure bring deteriorating health hazards amongst plants and animals but was also causing severe diseases like skin cancer amidst humans.
I'm not a fan of Doctor Who - I've tried to explain this many times in many different ways, but one of my biggest dislikes is how technology isn't explainable, but just a plot device, and changes all the time. My other is that its focus is on the exact opposite of Star Trek plot-wise.
I would be troubled by the thought of spending 80 minutes each day trapped in a steel cage. That's 400 minutes per week, or about 300 hours per year just sitting in traffic.

Even if SV were the best place to be an engineer, it's hard to imagine it being worth sacrificing 300 hours per year.

A 10 minute commute is 25% of that, which is 75 hours per year, which is still a lot. But for me, there is a huge psychological difference between a 10 minute commute vs 40.

Is it worth it? What are the benefits?
Pencil Broom From Artori Design
The Pencil Broom is a clever creation brought to you by Artori Design. It’s just like any other pencil, except for the eraser with bristles at the top that makes it look like a broom. When you make a mistake that needs to be erased, just turn the pencil around and use it as a broom to wipe the paper clean.
Because he cares more about party politics.

He is not going to be re-elected of course, but his party still needs to win elections and he won't do anything that he thinks will jeopardize that.
You hate sarcasm? That's terrible!
If China dumped bonds, why would anyone buy debt from the USG when they can get it cheap on the open market that has just had 1 trillion dumped in it. The fed steps in, mops up all excess demand so Uncle Sam can keep on spending beyond its tax revenue. Very quickly, no one is going to accept USD in trade as the value plummets.

The USD being world reserve currency has been printed far beyond the needs for internal domestic trade. The US had to do this to lubricate world trade, however when the music stops all those dollars held in foreign banks will try and make their way home in order to obtain some value. A flood of dollars will then start bidding for goods and services from the US economy. Instant hyperinflation.

The US haven't defaulted on their debt because the roll over their debt with more USD.
End the Phone Data Sweeps - NYTimes
>Frequently I get called by salespeople who don't know what they're selling, except the name of it, a two sentence description that they memorized but don't understand, and they want to set up a meeting.

"What's the difference between a software salesman and a used car salesman?"

"The used car salesman knows he's lying, and can probably drive."
wow and there is basically nothing about Ukraine... this crazy!
You can actually hit CTRL+C when a Windows dialog is focused to copy the text of the window.
Oh, absolutely. In my arena, finance, there's no way you'd use your own staff - it would go straight to external auditors who'd conduct the investigation or contract specialist firms to investigate. Of course, not always going to be the case for smaller companies and more minimal impact cases.
Am loving Salt since switching from Puppet a year or so ago.

In conjunction with Salt Cloud I type a one liner to spin up a new Linode, battle harden it, and install my stack on it.

They've also recently added some states for supporting docker containers which looks interesting.
"it requires designing for some n sigma tail where n does not entail statistical significance and the case analysis must be very fine grained"

What does this mean?
no, I still hate facebook.
I had a 2010 MBP and the magsafe stopped power cord tripping. That wasn't what killed it though. There ate numerous millions of other ways to kill a notebook.

Buying a machine that can survive relatively extreme drops and liquid incursion (for me a ThinkPad) covers way more possibilities than a magsafe cable. In fact I've fallen over the cable and pulled it off the table a few times and it doesn't suffer any damage. I think the wrong end of the problem is saved with the cable design.
interesting that no one (of the CEOs involved or here in the comments) thought about the natural thing to do when faced by an abuse: to report it.

That would be too much I guess :-)
The distribution of wealth is a symptom of a problem not the problem itself. We haven't failed at distributing wealth: poor people are not poor because somebody didn't distribute wealth to them.

Most poor people are poor because they don't have paying work (i.e. a job or business). In the poorest countries unemployment rates are always very high (50%+) and even if rich countries the poorest are usually unemployed. Without any income basic survival is difficult and it is almost impossible to save and accumulate wealth.

As I pointed out above you could take all of Bill Gates wealth away and only have $19 for each of the 3.5 billion in the bottom 50%. While this might help some in the short run because Bill Gates would have to stop his aid activities many would be worse off in the long run. But more importantly it does not solve the problem.

The only solution is to get the unemployed into paying jobs or businesses. Even the lowest paying jobs on earth, such as Bangladesh garment jobs, pay twice what redistributing Bill Gates fortune would - not just once but EVERY MONTH. Unfortunately making this possible is a lot more complex than writing a check but it certainly helps to better understand what needs to change.
I played Man vs Penguins and thought "Ha, nice, a super mario clone. They're practicing JS skills and the music is fun."

Then I played Fill the Holes. Man. The mechanics and puzzle design there were great. Keep it up, I imagine you'll be getting job offers soon!
I figured out that you meant Syrian Electronic Army, but SEA is widely understood to mean South East Asia in the region in question.
I will never forget seeing a Lockheed Martin presentation about their bid for the X-33 contract. They had a slide titled "technical features", which looked roughly like this:

* Linear aerospike engine
* Conformal carbon-composite LH2 tanks
* Integrated metallic TPS
* Subcontractors in 38 states and 122 congressional districts

As far as I was concerned, the rest of the programme was a foregone conclusion from that point forward. Lockheed Martin of course won the bid -- the other bidders, with much simpler and more technically sound proposals that weren't driven by the need to split the project across as many districts as possible, of course lost -- and spent $1.3B without putting a single piece of hardware in the air.

The shuttle was a similarly foregone conclusion with a lot more money behind it. You're absolutely right that one of SpaceX's primary innovations, thus far, has simply been to not let politics get anywhere near the engineering process.
CSA needs to be taken down entirely. The entire thing is a sick joke that is beyond repair; marijuana is Schedule I but ethanol is excluded from it.
As far as I can see, they aren't indicating what they are doing with their Bitcoin. Accepting Bitcoin is one thing, since as far as I know, all places accepting Bitcoin so far just convert it into their country's currency (e.g. $). Accepting Bitcoin and keeping Bitcoin for further trading is a-whole-nother story, and as far as I know, no one is doing that.

Still, great news for cryptocurrencies as there's now a bit more anonymity when buying online! :)
Science article?

So what's been thrown in your face, the published paper or the out-of-breath news article with the click-bait headline?