skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When he realised I wasn’t a mod, he didn’t want to know me.

So if you weren't useful to him, you were nothing to him..

> Martin seemed much more interested in helping others than amassing personal wealth

.. but naturally, he just loved helping people. This guy just waltzed into famous people's offices and added them to his network, and now he's left everyone posting adoring memorials about him, gushing about what a charming and wonderful person he was. Now there's a god-mode-sociopath if there ever was one.
That's, almost literally, what I just said.
Not to mention that Sweden is having issues with it's high rate of immigration: increased crime in areas with concentrations of immigrants specifically.
I don't really get it, either, since in most cases the secure channel is something like email, where the token travels around in cleartext. I understand one-time session tokens are typically how password resets are accomplished, but that happens relatively infrequently for a given user. For users who don't like to stay logged in to a service, frequently sending out new session tokens via email or SMS seems like a step down from passwords. I think I must not understand, though, so thanks for correcting any incorrect assumptions I'm making here.
See http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ for an explanation.
seems like this post should have been titled "What JavaScript(or its replacement) could learn from Haskel"
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Thank you! My focus for YumHacker right now is for people to try it out and figure out how to make it better.
Sorry mate, don't care anymore! Cheers for thinking about us small people now.
Hiring is Marketing
And down.
Programmatic hack for free traffic
Ask HN: Any Mac OS app for monitoring and disconnecting TCP/IP addresses?
The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain
Will Snapchat Ever Be a Useful Professional Tool?
Easier said then done ;-)
Joe Rogan interviews Bitcoin entrepreneur Andreas Antonopoulos
Links in a browser will always perform a GET, unless there's some JS attached to the click handler :) Fortunately I think HN is pretty safe.
The thing about Medium though is that it requires you to have a beautiful large image for every post, otherwise it looks terrible. There are a lot of terrible looking Medium blogs with ugly pictures.
I do wonder to what extent the massive outbreak of war can be blamed on Eve losing its top behind-the-scenes diplomat.
Interesting. Never implemented a service which uses Webhooks, but this is something I had never thought about. Useful to keep in mind.
People learned, over time, that they have to lock their doors and keep their wallet safe. How is this different? Just make the learning curve as shallow as possible.
Notifications in the top bar achieve that purpose for me, without disrupting what I'm currently doing.
Hmm... but how will they make money from the content on your external storage? If you bought the content from Apple, then (assuming a fast internet connection) they could let you stream it, without requiring a computer or iOS device. If you got the content someplace else, then that place is Apple's competitor.
"1) Sometimes you end testing and writing a leaf that you you don't end up using/needing."

So what? Just delete it. Your version control system should have a record of what it was if you end up needing to go back to it.
I'm not sure I'm willing to make the trade.
Ok. I have an account with a month playtime from years ago. I want to join back up and get into a good corp. How do I find such a corp? I want to go play in fun battles and null sec.
He was 23 and he WAS very helpful I can attest to that.
Apple solution: "You're placing it wrong."
Mozilla puts your privacy first
Hello 2014, Goodbye Consumer Photo Internet Service
That's kind of a stretch. There might be valid issues with the approach, but it isn't as mind-numbingly terrible as you're suggesting. You'd just authenticate new devices/browsers every time you needed to--you wouldn't be doing it every time you used the site.
He talks about it here http://dcurt.is/unkudo
You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."
I automatically hate people who say "haters gonna hate". Don't be sad, who cares, hn is just a peanut gallery anyway.
The first time you jump into a major fleet battle the adrenaline pumps so hard you'll think your heart is going to burst outta your chest. You spend the rest of your Eve career looking for that feeling again (it does come from time to time).

CCP love this stuff and encourage it. They've scaled Eve to support ever-larger fleet battles; nonetheless it's no wonder that an engagement of of this size meant significant lag for some. The players will always be pushing the envelope of what the servers can support.

I had to stop playing Eve because I needed my life back. But for some, yes, a significant material loss in Eve represents such an investment of personal time and energy that they will quit in despair. As a result there is no other MMO with such a richly woven player-driven plot. Nothing else comes even remotely close.

Once you've played Eve, every other MMO seems to be developed for those who need their PvP plotted out for them, conducted in a padded cell of safety where no-one ever really loses anything significant. And tremendously uninteresting as a result. c.f. the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online.

EDIT (addendum): I should add that even reading about this battle sent me running to pull out my old and dusty Eve navigation charts, check on the sovereignty status of my old alliance, rewatch a few old Eve war vids and even confirm that my long-dormant accounts still exist. Maybe if I had to spend six months in hospital I'd subscribe again. But otherwise, no, I have a life now and it's an itch I can never scratch.
Creating the Navicon without an icon
> Leading . now closes all open calls, allowing for simpler chaining syntax.

I feel like this is an important improvement, but I don't really understand what it means. Can someone elaborate on what this means and how it works? How did things used to be different?
Actually you're completely wrong.

If your property blocks access to another's property, you have to give up a slice of your land to provide access for the other property's owner. You can't simply buy up all the land around a property and then close off access. This is called an easement.

In this case the other property is the beach, which is owned by the government, no different than any other property. Khosla has no right to deny access to this property just because his home abuts it. The only issue here is an obscure treaty, apparently, but that will sort itself out.
Louis C. K. to Release His First Feature Film Online for $5
"A year ago, I was talking to a fellow start-up founder and I realized how much he likes to stick with his ideas.... I wondered: is this passion or simply stubbornness?"

The whole article is based on a false premise imo. There are a myriad of reasons why I would, or wouldn't listen to a suggestion from someone else.

The best I can do at least, is to listen to everyone, and try the often repeated suggestions, but if you are implementing every whim a customer suggests, you probably aren't operating optimally.
Well it's still a "crime", technically, but for companies at Google/HSBC/BP-scale the consequences are more like those for a misdemeanor -- i.e. you might pay a trivial fine, and maybe get a little egg on your face, but that's pretty much it. Whereas for an individual or a small-timer, the analogous violation would be treated as felony-class, or worse.

So dreht sich alles auf der Welt.
It depends on what your goals are, but if the most important thing for you to know is whether your product is valuable to people, asking for money is the only real way to determine that.
Some people don't want to discuss sexual acts and bodily functions. Trite as they are, swear words generally refer to one of those things.

But besides that, it really doesn't matter if the offense is irrational. It's irrational to freak out at people for one puff of second-hand smoke (assuming no allergies). That doesn't make it any less rude to smoke in peoples' faces.

OK. How about this? Putting a not-germane political rant (Ron Paul, Tea Party, Occupy, ...take your pick) in the documentation of your library is also unprofessional. It doesn't hurt anyone, but it needlessly causes friction and annoys people for no real gain. It's not strictly wrong (in a moral or ethical sense), but it's certainly not professional.
HTML is part of the "specification" of Markdown. And you really want to "spice up" your markup with CSS? I'd rather spent the time on content.
There's a lot of historical revisionism here. Silicon Valley was built on the defense industry. Lockheed Martin established a factory here to build Polaris nuclear missiles to literally "blow something up" (specifically, Russians). Fairchild Semiconductor got its funding from Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which got its start making bombsights and gunsights for the U.S. military.

Going back farther, manifest destiny was all about stealing land from the indigenous people who weren't as technologically advanced and gifting it to settlers to spread our cultural values.

If you look at the large-scale history of the world, it basically consists of "blowing up something old", usually literally. On a micro-level there's a lot of good that goes on in the world, but if you want to be big enough to get into the history books it usually consists of crushing your opposition enough that they don't get to write the history. Usually if someone spins a narrative of idealism that involves doing good for the world, they're trying to manipulate you. We can be good to each other, but when it comes to the whole world as a closed system, it will remain the world, which is the sum total of all the good and bad and jockeying for power that goes on in it.
Did I miss the sarcasm or why do you use the @ in threaded discussions?
That makes no sense, the idea that you can't see your surroundings, and thus neither any faces, is a core property of the rift.

Anyway, parent doesn't have much of a point. What's wrong with taking your goggles off to have a chat with someone? It makes no sense to disqualify the rift over the fact that while you're using it you're pretty isolated.
It might work better now with the ubiquity of SMS, especially since the UI concept of "enter this code we just sent to your phone" is becoming increasingly common. Basically, like 'stanleydrew says elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7139641), the idea is just to flip the default for products implementing a single factor.
It would be interesting to know what sets of numbers do not follow Benford's law.

Check Knuth's discussion of it in "The Art of Computer Programming, section 4.2.4 where he talks about the distribution of floating point numbers. Benford's research took numbers from 20299 different sources. Additionally, the phenomenon is bolstered by noticing, in the pre-calculator days, that the front pages of logarithm books tended to be more worn than the back pages.

The whole discussion covers about four pages, and contains what I think of adequate mathematics demonstrating the point.
The coolest part it that it improves both stability and accuracy. Cesium is often touted as a good clock but it only has good accuracy. The short-term stability has more noise than something like a Rubidium clock that is very stable on the short-term but inaccurate(relative to cesium anyway) on the long term.

This is cool because it is the best in both dimensions.
If you're trying to model something like an Xbox controller with a touch surface, then, as you say, no chance.

If you're trying to model something simpler like a WiiMote, then I think you might hit closer to the mark. Let's keep in mind too the fun possibilities of asymmetric information games that are possible because of the display (think poker, football, Scrabble, Wii U type-games, etc).
The future: http://i.imgur.com/lkdFZMi.png

It's just like another comment(can't find it right now) said in an earlier story. Techies are turning into the new Bank execs. Greed[1] is taking over; screw anyone/anything that tries to stop us. At this rate, tech people will be in high-security gated communities while everyone outside suffers from being displaced with no plan on how to keep them busy & happy.
All the denial & excuses you're reading I'm sure also exist in the minds of Bank/Oil/megacorp execs too.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067812
Ask HN: I'm a senior in high school looking for a CS internship
Dear HN,

I am a senior in high school who would love the opportunity to intern as a software developer this summer. From the searching I've done, it seems like every company wants someone currently pursuing a degree in university. I am still waiting to hear back from colleges before committing to one. I am familiar with C, C++, and Linux, which is shown by my GitHub page: https://github.com/TheBananaWhale

Do you have any advice on where to look? Is it worth trying to get an internship before I start college?
New era of fast genetic engineering
This is so snappy! What a banging job you did :)
You can already do what I'm describing. It just requires that you have a computer with iTunes running or an iOS device.
I'd say you might want to spice up HTML with CSS if you want to achieve anything like font styling, positioning and so on. Spending time on content doesn't substitute spending time on presenting it the way you want. Blogger for example allows doing all that.

A very simple and practical example where Markdown offers no help: how can you change rtl and ltr directions of the text without CSS?
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Yes there is. It's called "Permissions Manager" and is available through the Samsung app store.
And it's OK for them to consider swearing unprofessional. Everyone gets opinions!
Pretty sure this is already a thing. I think some major universities have done some studies on/using EVE. I don't currently have any links though sadly.
> What I say is that intelligence is not something to be expressed in one number, it doesn't work that way.

But nobody in the singularity field says that intelligence is one-dimensional quality! It's a strawman.

It reminds me of a common accusation that "computer people" have subpar worldview because they "reason in 0s and 1s, and the world is not binary", to which I say that actually "computer people"'s view is superior because they figured that out long ago and developed proper methods to quantify and deal with uncertainty.

> Intelligence is more like NxN matrix of numbers, where each number in a matrix represent individual skill in some specific task.

This is also not a good model, because what we usually mean by intelligence are reasoning capabilities, not e.g. motor skills. You don't say about a surgeon that he is smart, because he can manipulate a blade with great precision; we say he's exceptionally skilled.

> For the simplest example the average Joe will know his house better than the Google employee who hasn't even been at Joe's house.

Put Average Joe and Google Employee a house they have never seen before and see which one will learn how to navigate faster - that's a way to measure intelligence. Not the knowledge, but the ability to process and use it.

> If someone would say "singularity will be when machines will manipulate mathematical concepts and invent/discover and prove theorems that no human mathematician alive can understand" I would agree. But if they say "machine is more intelligent than any human" I can't agree.

Saying "machine more intelligent than human" is just a shortcut for saying "machine that is able to reason about the world faster, better, with less biases than human; which will manipulate mental concepts and prove theorems out of reach for humans, as well as invent better technology, tackle human social problems better than humans do, etc. etd.".
result = range 1, 3
.concat range 4, 6
.map (x) -> x * x
.filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0

For example, the leading `.map` closes the open call to `range` and the open call to `concat`. Before 1.7.0, `.map` would be called on the number 6.
...PBS begets ABC.

Actually, Apple has a relationship with the Walt Disney Company[1], which owns the ABC, ESPN and the Disney channels - and many more. Perhaps these additional TV apps were added after enough content creators agreed to whatever terms.

Also, interestingly enough, there is a show on Disney Junior that first premiered on the Disney Junior iPhone/iPad app before it was shown on the regular Disney Junior TV channel. Maybe this is a new model to beta test new content?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company#Disney_...
I´m looking for a Mac OS app like TCP/IP Viewer(Microsoft) for monitoring and closing established IP conections. Thnxz
I use the app that I built for this purpose (http://duetapp.com). It has stripe and paypal built in. Customers can download a pdf copy of the paid invoice for their records.
23 , just too freaking young. RIP Martin
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Top 3 things tl;dr

Paren-free chaining (think jQuery or d3):

bar = svg.append 'rect'
.attr 'fill', 'papayawhip'
.attr 'width', width
.attr 'height', 0
.attr 'y', height
.attr 'data-hover', data.slug

Ellipsis for soaking up matching parameters, even if you don't want to name a variable:

[first, ..., last] = arrayOfStuff

lastArgumentFn = (..., last) -> last

... and generally improved source maps.
well this just popped across my desk... nice. pretty similar to our Geeklist hackathon/projects/ideas app rolling out of our hackathon app at (http://geekli.st/hackathon) only it is all free. we don't take any cut. we provide all the infrastructure. Apps that get built that gain traction our Geeklist Labs will help get funded - if they want. No contracts, no fees for the app. 100% open source collaboration for ideas and projects. Spurring innovation globally at Geeklist. disclosure: I founded Geeklist. - r - oh and hack4good (http://hack4good.geekli.st)
It would have been nice if their code example for this feature showed how the code would have looked in the prior version of Coffeescript.
You are making me break my law about not saying a obscenity to anyone in HN, you been warned >.<.
This should be one of the required units of study in Floating Point School.

Quick--why would you sort an array of floating point numbers before adding them up? And in which order?
Thanks for the explanation. I'd probably not use any of those services for a greenfield project, regardless of how much money was riding on it.

RE: Ubuntu changes breaking, couldn't this be mitigated by running your own repo and introducing the changes to your repo once they'd been tested on some staging servers? It may be a moot point, though - I've never had a Ubuntu update break an app, and I've found LTS to be very stable. And if there was an issue, I've always got a backup image I can revert to.

Fair wrt the SA thing, it can be very janky in startups and SMBs, but in an enterprise, I'd expect most server deployment to be automated in a sane way, is this not the case?
This might seem insignificant, but it's a good example of how you could improve your marketing with little tweaks.

On your pricing page, the 'Personal' plan has one check mark and three red "X"s. Why have the Xs at all? It's not that your personal plan is bad, it's just that the other plans are better. It makes me feel like I shouldn't be clicking "Start Free Trial", because it's right below three symbols of negativity.
Stop Hiring DevOps Experts and Start Growing Them
The xbox live / collar doodie crowd isn't exactly a good brand image. I really don't think Apple is interested in the "13 year old boys shouting expletives at each other" market.
The Domain Discontinuity
"a text message" is not a secure channel.
I don't consider myself to be brilliant. But I write stuff, I enjoy the writing, and some people seem to enjoy reading it. That's enough. As for being the archive, they're probably more reliable than my hard drive. I'd like my stuff to still be somewhere people can read it, for as long as people enjoy reading it. If medium figure out some way to monetize it, more power to them - it's not like I'm bothering to try. (And if they try to lock the content in a dark dungeon then I trust the internet to jailbreak it)
Adventures in Go land: high performance custom HTTP(S) service
New Year New Cloud – Rackspace welcomes Geeklist
I'd ask Google what the IP address was that accessed the analytic page
Fantastic read, thanks a lot
I like the idea of getting a text message on your phone with a very quickly expiring key (60 seconds), or having an authentication app like Google's, which works for a bunch of websites. I do admit, even that's kind of annoying. That's why I started using a password manager.
I don't get it. This is the exact same model Roku, Google, Xbox, Ouya et al are trying to follow, and so far, they've all had limited success. Even Netflix and Amazon had to give up chasing after content and had to resort to making their own. What makes Apple's attempt so different from all the others in this area? (No sarcasm intended, I'm genuinely curious.) What leverage do they have that can guarantee them the kind of instant success that the idevices had?

I guess integration with their other products is one advantage, but really, most other consoles have smartphone apps as well, and they're nothing special. The integration with Airplay that TFA touts seems rather dubious... isn't that just normal QOS any old router can do?

EDIT: The most obvious advantage, I guess, is the large corpus of devs who are willing to rewrite their apps to target a new form factor. No other company right now commands that sort of manpower, and that, indirectly, may be enough to convince content owners and game publishers to target their platform.
Wordpress reminds me of Ron Swanson saying "Never half-ass two things, son. Whole-ass one thing."

But in general, Wordpress is rife with inconsistent UIs, plugins that cause each other problems, and attempting to be all things to all people. It's moved way, way past being just a blog engine.
Finally someone who gets it! I've been saying this for ever. Our society is moving to one with fewer and fewer secrets.

When Facebook pushes privacy concerns, it's actually just reflecting our new reality and trying to stay relevant.

The "issue" that we will be coming up against is that people need time to adjust and to be honest, people aren't used to knowing everything about each other.

To give an absurd example for the purposes of illustration: If your boss finds out that you like to cross dress on the weekend it may reflect poorly on you . In reality this is simply b/c he knows something unusual about you and your coworkers continue to look "normal" in his eyes. If he knows that you crossdress, Jeff likes to be tied up, and Bob's wife is a tranny then it no longer becomes a big deal.

The same goes for more sensitive things, like the amount of women that have abortions, or misscarriages, or people that have mental disabilities or are on antidepressants, or do hard drugs in their spare time. We shield ourselves from certain things to the point where when we get exposed to them we don't react appropriately b/c we have no reference point.

The reason Obama wouldn't be okay with a mic is mostly because no president before him has had a mic. So if he cusses out other world leaders on the daily, he'll look like a grade A asshole - regardless of whether or not other presidents have done it.
That captures exactly what I was trying to describe.
Instead of this:
$ 'body'
.click (e) ->
$ '.box'
.fadeIn 'fast'
.addClass '.active'
.css 'marginRight', '10px'

You used to have to do this:
$('body')
.click (e) ->
$('.box')
.fadeIn('fast')
.addClass('.active')
.css 'marginRight', '10px'

Note the extra ( )s, if not used, the next method call is not recognized as a method call but rather part of the previous call's argument. The last method call did not and does not need to be closed with ( ).

This is hugely important for libraries like d3 with super long call chains.