skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried. Swiftkey is very resilient to errors, so I just swipe the finger over keyboard quite vaguely and know it will cope somehow, I have to be much more precise for minuum. Guess that's because of one lost dimension. Also, my phone is huge (htc one) and it feels unstable when hold it low enough to type where a spacebar used to be.

So, sorry guys, refunded.
What about posting your own articles for SEO? Is that doing it right?
Facebook releases App Insights 2.0 beta
There are safeguards in place unless I'm mistaken (looking at you Internal Affairs).

> ruining somebody's life as an abuse of power by cops--especially since they are given carte blanche to do so.

The mandate of law enforcement across the USA is to freely destroy peoples lives? Interesting...
Did you mean Predictable Revenue? Just checking.
Again, I think you may be confused. The poster's argument that you're claiming to agree with is the same argument that you're taking issue with when you say:

>I agree with the sentiment here, but please don't argue that boys benefit from this by having the chance to be obedient little utilities. but please don't argue that boys benefit from this by having the chance to be obedient little utilities.

That boys benefit is precisely the argument the poster is making (your framing them as "obedient little utilities" notwithstanding).

Additionally, the usage of italics simply indicates emphasis. It's one of the most mundane aspects of written English. Nothing fancy about it, FYI.
Google does a lot of things which it then happily drops. Google doing a thing is not really a reliable indicator of what Google thinks of it - the company as a whole is very freeform in its ideas process.
This awesome 'replicator' can create just about anything
State Machines - How Balanced controls funds flow
Highly recommend just making an appointment at your nearest apple store and getting the battery tested. I had this problem a few months ago. At around 20% capacity my iPhone 5 would shut down. I brought it to the apple store and they said the battery had degraded. They also noticed the camera lens had a speck of dust in it, do they replaced my iPhone for free.

Had it not been for the speck of dust, they would have replaced just the battery (at least according to the guy who helped me at the store).

(Edited for grammar.)
How a Math Genius Hacked OKCupid; And How Distil Would Have Stopped Him
It took me quite a while to find tickets and patches that I could work on. I started with a couple of really trivial documentation fixes, and am building from there. I agree that the ticket list can be a bit daunting, so don't give up!

Searching the tickets that require documentation [1] or unit tests [2] can be a good place to start. It's a sign that a bug or new feature has been accepted, and that the patch can be accepted with some improvement. If a ticket is assigned to somebody, but hasn't been worked on for a few weeks, then don't be afraid to pick it up and improve it.

If there are any sprints happening near you, then go along. Daniele Procida runs a workshop Don't Be Afraid to Commit, which covers a lot of the basics you need to write your first Django patch (git/sphinx/...). The workshop is online [3].

There's a low traffic Django Core Mentorship mailing list [4] that you could join, or #django-dev on IRC might be helpful.

Good luck!

[1] https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&needs_do...

[2] https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&needs_te...

[3] https://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[4] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/django-co...
Hint to budding SEO people, posting on HN doesn't bring much SEO since links expire and it's not very permissive to crawlers.
> I've never met a FFI I didn't come to loathe

I've felt that pain. With so many new programming languages popping up, I've been wondering if the next killer programming improvement isn't strictly a programming language at all, but rather something that rethinks the linker, manages execution, and facilitates interfaces between larger blocks of code (maybe in multiple languages).
mini ASK HN: would there be any interest in supporting Julia in Visual Studio? (as a free/oss plugin).

i lead the Python Tools for Visual Studio project at msft and would be curious if there is interest.

as a side note, if you do you use Python & require Python/C++ debugging, PTVS now supports it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJaKQ94lBY#t=10
I think I would prefer to spend some of that security money on making transport safer or on Mental health programmes or on better energy use or etc etc. All of those things cause far more problems than terrorism has.
Fair enough.

Lots of people dislike vimscript and although I think you can also write plugins using python, it also seems more difficult to interface with.

I know that you can have a big fullscreen window with multiple buffers and a terminal and a repl in terminal vim without tmux. I guess you are not interested but you could see multiple buffers with :vsplit or :split to get vertical and horizontal splits, respectively. There are plugins for a terminal/repl.

Org mode sounds interesting to me, one of the things that I miss from eclipse is that I could see the javadoc when I held the mouse over an object/method/function, is that what Org mode does?

Thanks for the reply.
Sideways-related question.

What if Tribune had a sister company in some other country (Australia) that did something completely unrelated. Sell children's toys or something.

An admin for the sister company gives up his credentials in order for Anonymous to deface the children's site. They instead use it to deface the Chicago Tribune.

The admin has no earthly clue that the systems are inter-related. In fact, they've been told that the systems are independent by design; anonymous found a very clever flaw.

Is he as guilty as your hypothetical Tribune admin who gave up his password to deface the Tribune?
It's not just about domestic power, and even if it was, it would not effect the veracity of the comparison.

The War on Terror uses racism as a tool. The War on Drugs is waged because of racism. Racism was not simply a tool used by the War on Drugs, it was the reason for it in the first place.

Is the Hacker Panic created and driven by fear of hackers, or is fear of hackers merely a tool being used to achieve another goal? I am arguing it is the later.

> "I guess the original article was right. Hacker Panic is the new War on Drugs. Except for all the ways it is not, of course."

I am saying that the War on Terror is a more apt and useful comparison if we want to answer any "why" questions. The comparison to the War on Drugs does not give us any useful insight.
Pope: The Internet is a 'gift from God.' But beware of trolls
I just started to work a bit more on my side project Template2pdf (http://template2pdf.com/). It is an API to enable developers to produce nice PDFs out of templates that their customers can modify on their own.

It runs on Debian with ruby/rails, java, postgresql and some system tools.

I also do some work on a SAAS to build wireless hotspot systems. I don't own anything of it, but is an interesting field once you hit scalability problems. We use all kinds of technology but the core components would be linux/freebsd, freeradius, postgresql and ruby.
That's what Merkel said as well in a public TV interview.
There's a lot of non-profits that aim to make birth control more wide-spread, too. Do you have any other ideas how overpopulation can be tackled by a startup with purely legal methods?
I've had FIOS for 8 years and it is the greatest service I have ever experienced. Currently I pay $74.95 per month for:

1. Prime TV lineup

2. Unlimited landline phone service

3. 75 M/bps downstream and 35 M/bps upstream Internet

Whenever I run a speedtest, the amount I always get more than the speed I'm promised. Typically see a floor of 80 M/bps downsteam and 40 M/bps upstream.

It is rock-solid reliable, my IP address never changes unless I unplug my router for more than a day and it is completely unfiltered Internet - they don't physically stop you from running servers.

I probably transfer 500 GB per month every month and I would consider myself a "heavy user" of bandwidth. As you said, 77 TB of bandwidth in one month is outside of normal use patterns to an insane degree.
And all they did was ask him to switch over to their business plans, so he'd pay $300/month for the ability to transfer 77TB in a month rather than the $200/month he currently pays. No big deal.

To be fair, the guy clearly doesn't think it's a big deal either. From the article: "I don't mind upgrading to business if that's really all the problem is," houkouonchi told me. "It just surprises me they would bother going after people just to get them to pay a little bit more per month."

I've been a FiOS customer for about a year and I still wonder what's going on with it to make it so good. By all rights, nothing sold by Verizon should be this easy, high-quality, and free of problems. Yet here we are.
Why aren't we funding this?
Only partially true considering posting to HN can lead to many people reblogging or retweeting.
> That it's inherently deflationary is a fact

That's true, but it's hardly a mistake. It was deliberate designed to be deflationary, and proponents of Bitcoin like that idea.
One line of code on the whole page, and the syntax is wrong. (Need quotes on "hi computer")

But besides that, I think this has the potential to be great... but I honestly didn't get much from the video about the content of the book. It's a story, and it's about Ruby. How? What does it teach? How does it encourage kids to interact with technology, or program computers, or whatever the goal is? All I saw were a bunch of pretty pictures and a promise that kids will learn something.
Man I wish you could get data plans like that in Australia. I have 1gb of data per month, but then I get overage charges which means in practice I can't use that data aggressively at all because of the risk I'll get massively screwed by going over the cap.

I would love a data plan which just throttled me down to dial-up speeds or whatever. Still enough to use email/IM, and I'd be able to use my data cap more liberally. Which is of course, why it will never happen.
I agree it seems on the surface like a mutually beneficial PR stunt, which would be pathetically shallow.

On the other hand, this could be YC's foot in the door to disrupt the high margin, high investment, treatment over cure model of the health industry, in which case more power to them. We can expect to see YC spinning off a health division. That seems like quite the challenge - hope they know what they are getting themselves into.

We do need more altruism in the health research market that will bring unpatentable cures to market instead of expensive long term treatments.
He is working with billions - so it is very precious information where he is going to invest or withdraw.
Asia Is Now Where You Want to Sell Your Apps
What was it a few years ago? I'm going to guess that whatever the answer is, it didn't have anywhere near the extension capability of either Emacs or LightTable.
You might also look at biogo for inspiration https://code.google.com/p/biogo/
Yeah, you're right. It's a bit of a shitty news article, but it's good at grabbing your attention.
Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.”
My biggest gripe with smart keyboards is that it doesn't work well for multiple languages.

I speak three that uses the english alphabet, and the keyboards get annoying when it starts predicting english words when I'm typing something in a different language altogether.

Most of the time I even disable the dictionary on normal keyboards.
Interesting article. Do you have any thoughts about what we could do on our site, babywatch.co?
This didn't come down to "unlimited" not being unlimited, though. It came down to him running servers off a plan where that was not allowed, and all they want him to do is pay about 50% more for a plan where it is allowed.

I'm not sure how I feel about ISPs trying to regulate what you do with your connection, rather than just how much, but it's at least a different question from the one of "unlimited".
Oh, thank you so much. I think I've heard of it at some point but it had escaped my mind.

That goes on to my pile of things to try out.
Keep in mind cold calling is a numbers game.

And the more people we have playing it, the more those of us trying to accomplish something outside of sales have to deal with inane pitches by people who refuse to accept "no" as an answer unless they hear it repeatedly while wasting our time.

Please don't encourage this behavior. It's good that you feel you got something out of that experience, but if no one solicited your call and you're calling anyway, you've joined a deservedly-loathed lower class of humanity.
What caught my eye was this aside: "We're not even factoring in the cost of the free-to-use Supercharger network that Tesla will build across China."

What if Tesla decides to expand their Supercharger network... across most of the world? If anyone has the ambition to do that, it would be Tesla.
I did not have any specific case in mind, and undoubtedly you are now going to nitpick at me and tell me that there are no cases like that.

I meant it as a throw-away example of harm that could conceivably be caused by Hacker Panic to emphasis the absurd difference between the severity of Hacker Panic and the severity of the War on Terror.

Just to make you happy though, here, I'll fix it:

> "My comparison between Hacker Panic to the War on Terror is not meant to imply that a few teenagers being scolded by cops is equivalent in any respect to raining missiles down on wedding parties."
No crying needed, no one is faulting Verizon. From the article, he switched from business connection to FiOS to save some money, and didn't mind switching back to business class after they notified him that a rack of servers in his home violated their ToS.

This article isn't "bah caps" complaining, rather "how did someone use 77TB in a month?" curiosity.
The title suggests the author is going to explain some very sophisticated ways to get traffic/leads from blogging, yet goes on to talk about fairly straightforward things everybody should know: ie having blog in own subdomain.
Imagine the same video, exactly the same, but with a dude. Still playful, still the same message? Or weird?
It looks like Debian's logo: https://www.debian.org/ -- but I'm not sure if it's trying to imply emacs is impossible to learn or something.
Not necessarily. Most coins are hoarded (i.e. this is a way to make hoarders finally start to sell, i.e. increase supply) and miners get a lot of coins daily, which they need to sell to cover their high energy costs. Why in their right mind would people buy bitcoins (paying 1% + $0.15 with Coinbase and giving up on credit card cash back and miles) just to spend them?!
That all depends on what you want to do, which direction you wish to go in. Do you want to start your own company? Do you want to settle for a stable job? Do you want to study? Asking other people what you should do will be of no benefit to you if you do not provide the context of where you wish to be headed. I could have very easily decided to troll this thread and written a reply that told you to spend the last of your money on fine Scotch, but instead I wrote this.

If you want to start a business, then start one. If it's a software business, learn to code however you want or do not learn to code at all. You already know marketing, you already have experience in a startup environment, the only key things to follow now would be to find a product idea and iterate, iterate, iterate.

Note that I said "find" a product idea and not "think of a product idea". Thinking of one is a waste of time, because that requires that you spend valuable time finding a target market and then more time finding product/market fit through market evaluation & validation. Rather find an industry of easily contactable people, and ask them what pains them about their job. By doing so, you will have identified a problem as well as the market validation of the solution to that problem. From there you can come up with a product, which you can use to wireframe. Discuss the idea with your chosen businesses, get their feedback and ask if they would pay for it. Verbal financial commitment = done. Some might even invest. All that's left to do is hire the people to build it and the rest is all up to your skills and experience.

If you want to instead study, rather than create your own startup - heed this warning: You get what you pay for. That being said, you can easily learn material online, as a degree in tech is not necessarily important in tech (you're already qualified, and that is at least something that puts you ahead of many others). I wouldn't recommend sound design and music production - all of my DJ friends (amateur or professional) don't even have a day of high-school level musical education to their names. Some have a knack for it, others don't.

If you just want to pay the bills, then get a job. I've found that asking previous employers for a simple paragraph of how, in any way, I benefited the company - and use that in a resume under your the work history section, does help get you that little bit farther.

What you should NOT do under any circumstance is delay. You are not getting any younger and money don't grow on trees - get up, get out, and do something to get you back in the system.
cool platform! the email i got to keep in touch was from contastic.
This is about the ability to complete a project fast, which is typically about both convenience of fast prototyping, and performance (ie. you don't want to wait days for the results to be computed before changing something in the code, and you want that change to be easy).

And probably few buyers who want fast cars care about aerodynamic design per se -- they care about speed; sure, if better aerodynamics is what's necessary then so be it, but they would also prefer a fast car with poor aerodynamics and a huge engine to the very aerodynamic and fuel efficient, but slow one.
I was about to say, they ought to be turned off by JavaScript on the back end when there are so many other options. Then I remebered that people use PHP more often than not for back end work.
To the rescue of numpy: A matrix from linear algebra and a 2D array are not exactly the same. In Python they are different convertible types and I think in practice it is hardly a drawback. That the multiplication operation is overloaded in the Mathematical World with the same symbol as the "normal" multiplication is unfortunate, numpys solution is as good as introducing two different operators (with one being an awkward .*)

I love the multiple dispatch part about julia though.

My fear however is, that unlike Python, Julia will lack enough libraries, especially on the unscientific part (GUI, databases, network, all the other stuff you need).
Throw in a couple 50GB game downloads, some TV, some music, file downloads and you'll easily break 250GB. Netflix HD will chew throw bandwidth pretty fast, especially if you have a couple people in the house watching at the same time.

... And game will only get larger, bitrates will only go up.
Nieman Marcus Says Hackers Stole Details of 1.1 Million Credit Cards
They're amazingly good in my experience. Their techs are friendly and show up on time. There are rarely problems. In the one case I did have a problem, I got through to a support person quickly, and the first person who picked up the phone understood exactly what I was talking about when I told them that their router was failing to obtain a DHCP lease, and cheerfully skipped over all the "please reboot your PC" nonsense and went straight to resetting the piece of equipment that was actually causing the problem.
Node v0.10.25 (Stable)
Google is never going to expand nationwide that is not their intent. Right now they cherry picked areas that are not nuts with regulation and have low cost of buildout while having high enough density for a good subscriber base. If the whole country was like that it would be easy.

Google is doing this to get people to complain to their ISP that they are not getting as good a deal as people on Google Fiber. They get into businesses to disrupt things that could potentially hurt their core business but they do not REALLY want to be in that business. A similar thing was when they were going to bid for the 700MHZ frequency auction and managed to get many provisions put in there that were beneficial to them and then did not buy the frequency.
>There are safeguards in place unless I'm mistaken (looking at you Internal Affairs).

Yes, I recall the NSA and other government agencies having such self-policing groups.

Tell me, do you really in your heart of hearts think a corrupt organization (say a police dept in a specific place.. if pressed for an example, say Maricopa County in Arizona?) has a functioning IA group?

The federal government has an IA group too. Many of them. I'm sure that if Snowden had raised his concerns with them, they would have gladly worked with him to solve those problems.......
Tesla policy is to charge the same price everywhere in the world
I've never had my phone restart at a particularly bad time. I guess I'd feel different if it rebooted mid-conversation or something (I seem to recall my Motorola RAZR doing that to me once, but it was just one thing).

My Nexus 7 issues are of course merely anecdotal, but I did blog about my solution and that blog entry got a lot of hits and responses (and my blog usually gets few hits or responses).
Crushpath Launches Mobile App
Promising content marketing platform now moves to mobile.
If you're on a Mac (as I am) it leaves an Emacs application running (complete with menu bar and app switcher icon) that you can't interact with. But otherwise, --daemon works great.
Okay, I'm typing on Minuum right now. It's extremely accurate but I feel slow. You sort of have to shut your brain off and pretend you're playing a letter hunting arcade game.

It seems like I miss the space bar about five percent of the time.

To the developers, nice job and thanks for putting it on sale in the Play store.
What ticket do you suppose I deserve for using the words "Fuck off cop"?
It says the opposite in the article, that you shouldn't have blog.domain.com, but rather it should be hosted on the main domain.
Maybe you haven't been following the discussions over at Reddit and Bitcoin Forums. Some idiots buy what they spent at Coinbase, which basically is costing them 1% + $0.15 + margin difference in hopes to keep bids and asks in balance. You're dealing with people with serious psychological disorders here!
More concretely, if you live in/near NYC, follow http://screenslate.com - we get a wealth of repertory film screenings all the time. I've managed to see Andrei Rublev, The Mirror, Nostalgia (twice!), and Stalker all in 35mm over the past couple years.
> There are definitely scientific simulations where compute throughput is the only real issue, but I think of them as a bit different kind of setting than big-data processing (stuff like solving complex sets of equations, which has low I/O but high computational requirements).

^^ This is the use case for Julia.
This doesn't go into the statistics but I'm sure light has yet to be shed on the ridiculousness of countless settled cases and state statute/pc violations based on the CFAA (502c in CA and others).
500GB would be completely ridiculous. On the 300Mbps plan this guy has, you could go through that in less than four hours.