skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no debate, because this isn't about correctness. It's about respect. Let me throw out some hypotheticals here:

My given name is Jonathan. I think this sounds childish, so I tell you that I go by Jack instead. But you've seen my birth certificate, so you keep calling me Jonathan.

I got married and changed my last name to my husband's. You think it's confusing to change names, so you continue to write me using my maiden name.

Although I'm married, I don't want to be defined by my marriage, so I go by Ms. You think that inaccurately reflects my relationship status, and introduce me as Mrs. instead.

I have told you that the use of the male-gendered pronoun "he" makes me severely uncomfortable, and ask you to call me "she" instead. You flip up my skirt, take a good survey, and decide it would be dishonest to represent me as if I didn't have a penis.

The issue in all of these scenarios is a moral one: Do I have the right to define my own linguistic identity, or am I stuck with the one I was assigned at birth? Are you going to be an agent of my liberation, or my oppression?

You can make a good case that each of these blatantly disrespectful behaviors is, by some robotic standard, "correct". To paraphrase a great man, maybe you aren't wrong, but you're still an asshole. You can say this is something you would like to debate, but you don't respect me and I don't like to spend time around you, so go ahead and debate by yourself, thanks.
Yeah; but like the music in mall stores that appeal to youth, sometimes these things are filters to keep old farts out of the store.
Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system
I was hoping it'd be like that: "Clock out" and then forget about things. Except it's not, and I have dreams revolving around exactly how to solve a certain problem. Maybe if I became a lumberjack I could rest at night.
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We've been reinventing the same widgets all over in every new platform. HTML showed us the true direction for universality. Then XML came along. All we need to do is design a standard for widgets based in xml and a standard for object and platform communication.

I, as a developer, would like a universal platform for developmnet, be it html, xml, svg, or whatever comes next.

Call it AXIS, Application Xtended Interface Standard.
I assume `set HOME = /some/location` is the tcsh syntax to set a variable.

In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful.
Criticism is usually the best type of feedback. Keep it coming. :)
Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity
Well! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who finds this outright horrifying.
No offence, but how is this a "startup" ? Seems like everything is a startup nowadays. You make an app - startup. You make a website - startup.
It just seems it crawls known furniture websites and displays it in a nice way. Useful? Maybe. Is it a startup? I don't think so. But who knows, lately in HN everything is a startup and everyone is "hacking".
Wait, is it possible to subscribe without authentitaction, or only unsubscribe?
There's a high chance that many people think of their mobile provider as stupid and still buy from them a monthly basis. Not sure your argument holds any value.
"winding down production from WWII"

Government production would down (thus the budget), but domestic production for domestic items kicked in pretty hard. You might want to check the labor statistics of the day.
As far as I'm concerned, yes, it would be okay for someone to start living there, and some jurisdictions at some times have had squatting laws that recognize this. Land is essentially a public resource; unlike manufactured goods, I can't create land, and if I claim ownership of a piece thereof, I can only do so by denying use of it to everyone else; the "it's mine and I'll do anything I want with it" property rights that correctly apply to manufactured goods, don't entirely apply to land. A case could be made for saying the same thing of public namespaces.
Clojure on the 'Adopt' bucket. Awesome
Thirty-five or forty years ago there was not animosity toward New Yorkers in Colorado, but it was definitely perceived as The Other, and people were really quick to pick up on New York accents. I wonder whether the animosity you speak of is felt or just a way of speaking.
Looking back at some Dylan code again now, I still find its richer, Lisp-derived, hyphenated naming approach more readable-and-expressive than either camelCase or underscore_separated identifiers.

When Dylan switched from Lisp syntax this was something that was fretted over an awful lot, for obvious reasons, but we went with it and it worked fine.

I'd love to see some other algebraic (non Lisp) syntax language get more creative in this direction again one day.
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Any links to those lap times? I can't find anything definitive other than "under 7 minutes" for McLaren. The 918 seems to be the fastest production car with an actual time that I can find. That ignores the the Radical SR8 since those appear to be pure race cars.
Whether it's a pain or not depends on how you have the domains setup. If you use Digital Ocean and Dreamhost for your DNS, it won't be a problem at all, you just transfer and it copies the correct DNS with the transfer. If you are using Godaddy as your DNS as well, then you'd probably first want to transfer the DNS to Dreamhost/Digital Ocean before initiating the transfer.
New York finance regulator voices backing for Bitcoin
There is a little more going on here than basic arithmetic. See the top comment for further evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144804. But yes, non-math-geeks will probably find this uninteresting. Apparently HN has a lot of math geeks ;)
That time isn't normal where you are? How much did you make selling your system to the UK cinema industry? :)
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Many are saying that this is a bad idea and ending their comment with "and I say this as a non-native English speaker", but since you had to explicitly tell us this fact, you are not the kind of person who needs any kind of non-English SO or whatever! If your English is good enough to be (at times) indistinguishable from a native speaker, you are in as good a position as any native English speaker, on the Internet.

Maybe you are in a position to have more sympathy with people who can't speak English, since you used to be in that same boat. But it's not as if having an English-only programming community is of any detriment to you, personally.
More than anything it is a self fulfilling prophecy,the more people trust the social media as a source of real time news, the more they (and "social media experts") contribute to the social media to present the news, and it is a double edged sword as well.
Six technologies enabling new apps vying for $36+ trillion in market value
I was just using an online based wallet through blockchain.info.

Tried doing a search for my public key 18fyCm3vkftJ9nNgZ4SwoJkCuGVZQ2kZcE and had no luck finding the transaction.

When I get home tonight I need to check out these other wallets and get in touch with the owner. If I'm only out 10 bucks though on a gift card that I got for xmas. No sweat off my back.

*Oh, and thanks for the help!
Congrats to @nbashaw and @rrhoover, absolutely insane that you built this over Thanksgiving Break! It's been amazing to watch it grow in this short amount time. I always expect big things from the two of you.
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Virtually all mobile carriers (and cable companies/ISPs) are stupid... and mobile phones are an inextricable part of our lives. I'm afraid we don't have much of a choice in the matter.

We do have a choice when it comes to buying furniture.
Modeling New York City in Minecraft
Bookmarked a few weeks ago. Visit every day, love the site.
ITM: Initial Target Market
On a vaguely similar, yet less practical note:
111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 :)
We can argue about whether IP rights should exist, but I see this as a separate point. IP rights do exist.

The photographers have created and published their work under the expectation that existing IP law will be upheld.
I always wondered if phone CSRs use those to authenticate a caller. I wasn't looking forward to reading out a 40-digit string of nonsense over the phone.

Good to know all they require is that you can guess a 2-digit number instead...
You can of course do this trick in any base. If we choose e.g. base 2^n for the n-th row of pascals triangle, we can use the following code for getting the n-th row of pascals triangle:

def pascal(n):
base = max(2, 2**n)
row = (base+1)**n
return [row/base**i % i for i in range(n+1)]

Nice, but hopelessly inefficient. :) You can also calculate a binomial coefficient the same way without any looping construct (the exponential operator does the looping for you).
Thanks! Ghost looks wonderful!
Hmmm, I like it. Once forwarded an email to a friend who clicked unsubscribe.
I have a pair in mint condition in a box somewhere. I found the holes for the fingers to be way too big and after trying it a bit never got used to it.

I wonder what it would be worth these days if I bothered to put it up on eBay, I bought it used for $280 at the time.
Namecheap posted a tweet[1] with an offer to move domains out of GoDaddy:

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Where are things wrt the rest of the experience? Can I run FF, Gimp, OpenOffice, arbitrary distros? What about Steam?
It's a change from near-zero security like now, to having to know your routine, travel, and communication plans. Perfect? No, but what is?
The UI framework used for our mobile apps is http://jquerymobile.com/
It appears "people" are submitting the same link but with a different value after a hash (#) at the end of the url and the system doesn't recognize it's already been submitted. I've seen half a dozen "How I lost my $50,000 twitter username" submissions to thenextweb.com in the last 12 hours.

Can we improve how this functions to prevent so many duplicates?

Perhaps a ban on links to thenextweb.com??? I see before all these submissions one (that gained traction with HN comments) was to medium.com https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...
Tape is still cheaper per Gb. Google uses StorageTek SL8500 and Spectralogic T-Finity libraries to manage it's backups and cost is significantly smaller then trying to do that with spindles.
Ah yes, the BBQ is always so delicious at The Annual Nobel Winner Chicken Dinner.
The post did not say it actually worked, only that he was able to see a different email address on the page. Did a clickthrough actually succeed for a different email address?
The problem is its the old farts who think $2095 coffee tables are awesome, in comparison, for the kids at hot topic that might exceed 10% of their annual income so what they think is cool is not relevant.

If you're going to go class warfare and ageism, at least do it right.
Yes, its only recently with software that patents have really come to hurt. Maybe that's because most engineering disciplines do not patent frivolously, or maybe that not many patents in these areas can generate so many billions in revenue.

(PS: Please don't use the term "India" to refer to certain Indian Biotech companies that reverse engineer patented pharmaceuticals developed in the US)
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When it happens to the 55th largest company you rejoice because they have the power and motivation to change the rules.

Or they realize that fighting the system is a suckers game and join in, this cementing the system against their competition.
That's great! If nothing else, I wish the recent interest in augmented and virtual reality would revive the portable chorded keyboard (keyer).

I have wanted one for a while but currently they are somewhat difficult to obtain and the prices are high. It seems like a natural match for text input when using either class of device ("virtual" or "augmented"), although a difficult initial learning process might make it hard to sell to the general public. Still, you could try to target developers and IT people on the go (use case: Glass + keyer for SSH) or people who want to play an MMO when on the subway train or out for a walk.
Let me also add that this is a cultural thing:

I dont know if its because the country is so big.. but culturally people dont care enough for english.. its something everybody wants to know about, of course .. but only the kids of the rich people that can pay for extensive english private class in expensive courses can handle it.. also they create couses with years (2 to 4) long courses.. so they end to be very expensive.. so its something that get in the end of the list of needs..

For instance, i am lucky, cause i learned it from movies when i was teenager, with subtitles on it.. it just happen naturally.. and also.. i needed to go further, as i work with technology.. and yeah.. the good things are in english.. so reading just completed the understanding of it..

but i see a ton of people here(in Brazil), (VERY GOOD hackers) that wont touch this world, because its in english.. Brazillian communitites always have a life on its own.. with its own culture.. like a little bubble .. (remember the Orkut phenomenon?)

Thats why Brazil is such a good opportunity for underdogs.. it doesnt follow too much the political fashion/tendency of the world.. Brazil has a move on its own.. you need to be here enough time to feel it.. and its vibrant..alive..

But its also not isolated.. its has much more in common with US than most of the people think.. with a destiny on its own
TaskRabbit is great for this if you live remotely near an IKEA. You can have the Rabbit act as a personal shopper, which gives you access to a much greater set of the catalog (many things aren't available online) while eliminating — in my opinion — the most painful part of the experience. As a bonus, you can often also pay them to assemble it.
Sometimes you're forced to use godaddy.

I wanted a domain that had been registered with godaddy, so I needed to backorder it through them, and register it through them.
You are looking at it backwards....

The "I see dead people" pitch is veneer of scientific respectability, to get academic funding. Marketing spam is the intended application.
> An ecosystem is a four-sided network — you need entrepreneurs, VC firms, schools, and journalists

That sentence tells you all you need to know about the author and his perspective, I think.
Is this really that big of a deal? If it's a choice between allowing anyone to unsubscribe someone (low annoyance factor and rare) versus requiring that all users who wish to unsubscribe log in (annoying and possible can spam violation),then it makes sense to choose the latter.
There's another variable to throw into the mix: all gates are not created equal. A 28nm (this new processor) takes a lot more power than a 22nm (new intel processors) gate.
No, I would not.

It looks great, I might need something like this soon, and I can grit my teeth and carry on past the word "baller".

But I''m in the UK not USA.
Theft is not a fundamentally different concept in the English language. The word "theft" has been used to refer to the appropriation or misuse of things other than physical property for a very long time.
Just add more 9's to the divisor to make the pattern work for larger numbers:
1/99998 = 0.00001 00002 00004 00008 00016 00032 00064 00128 00256 00512..
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This is one of the neatest data visualizations I've seen.
> Are you looking for someone to select the tools and the way those tools work together to meet your goals? Then they might not want to see an already built product.

That pretty much nails it for me... So, if that's the case, what do you think my best course of action would be to find a dev ops guy?
> , this is specially true if they are teenagers.

Good point. Many on here talk about how they got started programming when they were 12 or whatever; I don't know how fast kids learn a foreign language like English these days, but it will certainly vary by country, and for them to have more resources in their own tongue could make programming much more approachable.
There's a bunch of free tools for monitoring ES also. While they aren't as pretty, they certainly get the job done.

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/c...
No choice is sometimes the best choice
What do you think about this? We'd love to get your input.
You a very confused about the whole thing (maybe a trait of BSD fanaticism?), so let me put it in terms you might understand.

If you give me software, and tell me that I have full permission to distribute it, I might do so. If the day after you try to sue me for distributing your work, I will go to a judge and say: "judge, anon1385 told me that I had full permission to distribute the work, and here is the documentation that proves it."

In the case that its the patent holder that sue me, I will still say the exact same thing to the judge. At that point, the patent holder will simply say that you did not have permission to grant such permission.

Its not a complicated concept. If you have a contract with someone, you got to follow the contract. If the contract do not allow you to give free permission for distribution, you are not allowed to give free permission for distribution. Surely, you can understand that?
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As someone who is in the job market right now, hiring is ridiculously broken. Anecdote time:

During a recent job interview, the interviewer mentioned that there was another position in the organization for which I would be qualified. The position had been open for over a year and the department head was desperate for any half-way qualified candidate.

Furthermore, when I say that I was qualified for the position, that was an understatement. I am literally the only person on the face of the earth that has experience in their domain who isn't already employed. I also exceeded all of the requirements from their job ad (e.g. they wanted a BS and I have a PhD).

So, I sent a nice cover-letter and resume explaining my experience and expressing interest in their project (it was a pretty neat project). Three days later, HR rejected my application without so much as an e-mail. They still haven't found anyone for the post.

I've been seeing this time and again. Hiring isn't about finding good people, it's about rejecting bad people. We'd rather reject 100 qualified employees than risk letting one knucklehead in.
I agree that the Cuban blockade doesn't help and would ideally be ended; the problem is that Cuban-Americans are a powerful voting bloc and highly concentrated in a single swing state. Plus the policy has been around for a long time. The ideal would be to have some kind of fig leaf event in Cuba (change in leadership didn't seem to do it?) which everyone can use as a face-saving excuse to end the sanctions and normalize relations. Cuba remaining Communist in the way Vietnam is communist would be a great outcome for everyone. Cuba transitioning to some form of socialist-capitalist hybrid would be even better.

Arguably the fall of the USSR would have been an ideal time to end this, even with Cuba remaining communist. Certainly a healthy Castro stepping down would have been a major favor in the 1989-1992 period toward this. I wonder if there was any effort at the time.
Looking at http://demo.kibana.org/#/dashboard , they're using http://www.flotcharts.org/

They've done a great job of prettying up the dull looking defaults on flot.
Series are not supported for plotting. Could you please raise a bug at [1].

https://code.google.com/p/sympy/
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That is only if people buy the thing.
"free publicity"

Exposure doesn't put food on the table.
A good example is the design patent for the iPad. That specific design had plenty of prior art, hence making it obviously invalid.

Just because courts let you do something doesn't make it ethical.
i LOVE my Kinesis. Such a fantastic keyboard... anytime I have to use a normal keyboard it makes me a bit sad.
We should be catching the exception though.
Straight out of Altered Carbon (the Takeshi Kovacs series of novels by Richard K. Morgan):

"In the novel's somewhat dystopian world, human personalities can be stored digitally and downloaded into new bodies, called sleeves. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their memories. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon)

In addition, the stacks can be hooked up to a rig that allows living people to interact with the sleeve-less stack in virtual reality (this is also used for interrogation and torture).
so that's better than before, right?
thanks for the http://www.port25.com/ tip,
Understand your frustration, but that is not a MailChimp issue. If you are the list creator you can turn it off through the List > Settings > List Name & Defaults option screen. There are two fields there. The first is to send them to your list members when they unsubscribe and the other is to send them to you. Leave the email blank if you do not wish to receive unsubscribe notifications as the list owner.

Unfortunately if you are on the receiving end and not the list owner, it is up to the list owner to turn them off and there is not much you can do about it.
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What you're looking for is web components / shadow Dom. It's a method of defining widgets in HTML, and then invoking those widgets as if they were a single element. No need to develop yet another specification for ui
An interesting point is there is a difference between damage to paper valuations and damage to the real economy. In Iceland's case there may have been a big paper impact where before the crash your currency was worth so many dollars and after many fewer but in the real world people had the same houses and cars and kept their jobs and so on. In Ireland on the other hand people lost their jobs and houses, topped themselves, emigrated and so on. At the end of the day real wealth and human well being are what counts and the financial system is only a tool to achieve that.
I agree. I think that (mis)attribution is a much more fundamental crime than unauthorized reproduction. It's essentially fraud to pass these off as their own works, or with incorrect captions.
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This seems like it will suffer from a very large uncanny alley of sorts where photographs and videos don't because they aren't trying to be realistic.

When machine interaction gets 'her'-like, this kind of thing might be something. Until then, it's just going to be creepy.
There are a lot of opinions about the legitimacy of modern copyright laws, but almost everyone agrees that people deserve credit for their work as long as it is appreciated, so focusing on the latter addresses a more universal issue.
It's not exactly "extremely hard" to find the description, though.
In the past I had heard it was very difficult to start a company due to France's legal system. I guess this is better now?
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