skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had an epiphany: operating systems are just operating systems. None are better than the others, they're just different. Having tried nearly all of them by now (MS-DOS, Windows *, Mac OS X, Linux), I regret having any loyalty to any of them.
Looks like it's your lucky day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7145756
I doubt it was malicious. I read about it right when she made her choice public, and I still forget regularly. I'm just not used to people changing gender, so my mental constructs treat it as kind of a read-only value...
'[Wayne Gretzky's father] Walter taught Wayne, Keith, Brent, Glen and their friends hockey on a rink he made in the back yard of the family home, nicknamed the "Wally Coliseum". Drills included skating around Javex bleach bottles and tin cans, and flipping pucks over scattered hockey sticks to be able to pick up the puck again in full flight. Additionally, Walter gave the advice to "skate where the puck's going, not where it's been"'[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky
Pretty big rush to judgement. Slice off a copy of the arguments if you need them, but

pall = -> console.log line for line in arguments; return

would have done just fine there.

One can be annoyed by `return` in tail position, or delighted by invocations-as-expressions. But not both. It's ok to choose the latter. :-)

Also, `console.log` is not a fit for map, forEach, et al. Check the parameters.
I used to consult as a technical advisor (compensated). This is something that bigger companies use, but that smaller teams should look into. It provides insight into what the technology might look like or evolve into. A lot of times founders/engineers don't get the luxury of having someone more experience providing feedback. It never hurts, and usually helps discover issues that were not thought out. Issues that tend to be nails in the coffin.
No problem. Just in case you don't get those BTC, I just sent you some to that address to play around with or buy a little something with. But hopefully, you'll end up receiving both transactions.

Check out electrum or multibit, they're both fairly easy to use. Be sure the password-protect your wallet with a long password (write it down somewhere!). If you do continue to use blockchain.info be sure to enable 2-factor authentication and use a strong password.
People are still surprised that people write software that runs on Windows, really?
If it was a scam then the relevant people who worked in the UK for that bank should be in jail for fraud.
It's settled: Native Wins over HTML5. For now.
NASA sued for failing to investigate a rock for signs of alien life
Yeah, I was being polite calling it interesting. And I noticed the same broken back button behavior. When I figured out what it did, I almost edited my post. Really annoying.
GHC 7.8 branch is created
Release notes for version 7.8.1:

http://jsfiddle.net/zmV9D/embedded/result/
That would put you what, late mid 30's? early 40's at most.

So you might get to see your kids graduate high school, if you have them young enough. Very high chance their kids never meet grandma/grandpa, and they almost certainly won't be old enough to remember.
That said, I tried out VS Express the other night, and I forgot just how neat it is after all these years (last one I used was VB6). Certainly starting to prefer it over Xcode. And I'm loving Windows 8's UI/UX innovation over OS X's lack thereof lately. But the tides will change, and one day I'll probably be writing software using some awesome tools in an OS that hasn't been invented yet, by a future startup-turned-monopoly.
> American pastors by and large do not get in front of their congregations and say "do this and don't do this, otherwise you'll burn in hell."

Yes and no. There are certainly "liberal" and "community" focused Christian churches.

But there is also, and proudly, a very distinct, baptist/fundamental/born again Christian tract that absolutely is driven by the stereotyped "angry man preaching fire and brimstone" to a chorus of Amens and Hallelujahs. People who believe that "gentle and caring" Christianity, not to mention atheism and hedonism, are what are wrong with the world, and only a vengeful God, and those not afraid to tell the hard word, is the only "solution".
Here's the general formula: (copy everything between angle brackets)

<http://texify.com/?$\frac{1}{10^n-m} = \sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{m^i}{(10^n)^{i+1}}$>

And here's OP's result where n=4 and m=2:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%5Csum_%7Bi%3D0%7D%5E%5...
Already found & bought a domain (& marked it as taken :D)
Thanks for such an awesome site!
The per-hour prices are actually very competitive with DigitalOcean if you're after compute power. All Linodes have access to 8 CPUs. So for $0.12 an hour you get 4GiB RAM and access to 8 CPUs on Linode, vs 8GiB RAM and 4 CPUs on DigitalOcean. Of course right now you're often on a server with very light utilisation meaning you get much more burst access than you're paying for on Linode. Presumably the hourly instances will be on different servers to the monthly and you're much likely to have neighbours who are actually doing something rather than idling and serving a page through nginx every half hour.
This is awesome! Love NameCheap. Network solutions is totally screwing me right now by charging me $15 randomly for customer support and things I'm not ordering. And I can't get a refund after 6-7 hours on the phone...
Don't be discouraged by the comment. It is not normal but I have heard the big 5 software companies tend to be arrogant during interviewing.

It sounds like you simply weren't technically prepared and qualified for the position. That is correctable!

1) Interview prep. Here are the 4 standard books to prepare for programming interviews at big companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon.

- Programming Interviews Exposed
- Cracking the Coding Interview
- Elements of Programming Interviews
- Ace the Programming Interview

2) Open Source - Get involved today! Pick a big open source project like Mozilla. Big projects have great resources and programs to get new people involved. For example Mozilla has mentored bugs where the mentor helps you along from environment setup to submitting the code.

3) Hobby Projects - Pick a technology/platform/framework that interests you. Read up on basic tutorials and setup the development environment. Get the server running. Get the code to compile. Take small steps. Ask for help. You can find answers to basic questions on stackoverflow etc.
The best part about this site is figuring out what exactly might be a good use for things like creepy.io :)
Computers and more recently programming.

In 2001 I got my first taste of the internet when my mom brought home a crappy laptop and connected it via dial up. I was 6 or 7 and got hooked playing chess on yahoo games.

Ever sense I've been a power user spending at least 8+ hours online a day and loving it!

Started teaching myself to code in high-school.(4-5 hours a day easy throwaway online classes == great way to spend senior year) After I graduated last year my average time spent in front of a computer climbed to summer vacation levels of around 16+ hours a day.

Little bit of addiction, whole lot of passion.
Pharmaceuticals would be devastated. While there are externalities that need to be solved around our production of drugs, the patent system is a good thing overall for them.

No one spends $1 billion to make a drug if anyone can copy it simply.

Additionally there are international problems related to abolishing patents.
Indeed--in fact the word 'yankee' as applied to americans long ago, referred to the american ripping off of intellectual property: yankee meant IP pirate. No joke!
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Are you responding to something specific that I said?
But even in situations where pharmaceutical companies don't have patent protection, just providing a better product at lower prices to a larger, poorer market has proven to recoup costs just as well as charging $10,000 per dose on a patent drug.

(I saw quotes yesterday from the founders or presidents(?) of Merck and Bayer, which espoused both philosophies, and both claimed successes.)

I'm not entirely convinced that patents are necessary to ford the research and regulatory approval. Even in a market where generics are relatively trivial, there are ample opportunities for profit.
Release notes for version 7.8.1

http://jsfiddle.net/zmV9D/embedded/result/

(ghc 7.8 is not yet released, just the branch to mop up any fixes is created)
The world’s rich stay rich while the poor struggle to prosper
Is it a Microsoft stack all the way down or are there parts of the codebase that are written in other languages? In my mind, when a company gets big enough you usually get different teams writing in different code bases if it fits into their problem domain better.
Enums for When You Just Cant Handle Another Foreign Key (PostgreSQL)
It sounds like they didn't intend to drill into magma, but is it possible to survey the land and intentionally find magma near the surface to exploit in this manner?

If not, isn't the question of whether you can effectively harness the energy or not moot?
Yeah, relatively short. Spolsky was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994 (he drove Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications strategy.)
Keep interviewing. You'll run into jerks everywhere, even after you land the job. Key is to never, ever give up.
It's funny how product ideas pop up once you see a certain name.
I have no idea whether or not the implementation is easier is dynamic languages or not. I do know that for the language user it's a simple foo.to_json, end of story.

If you can marshall objects of arbitrary complexity to JSON in Haskell with a single line of code that covers all possible cases (e.g. your entire database model), consider me beyond impressed.
WWII production did wind down, however, and had to be replaced. This was aided by paying US companies to rebuild Europe and Japan.

If Britain or France has come out of the war unscathed and been able to rebuild the rest of Europe, the postwar history of the United States would have been significantly different.
> But they are deliberately ambiguous to make it sound like they are the same thing.

Ambiguity is the problem here. They may be enrolling you, they may not, they could argue either way.

If a company can say "that letter was your warning" then I will take it as a warning, whether they meant it to be one or not.
You can sell twitter @'s now? #itsNotWorth50k

Follow us at @N on twitter.

Looks like a typo. Imparts zero cred since 99.999% of people will not take your ability to "possess" a short twitter account name as helpful for whatever else you may be trying to do.

As far as the "Sorry I am so technically gifted. Let me tell you what you should do to prevent me next time..." thing, what kind of cartoon caper is this?
That's awesome! Now build cool stuff with your new name :)
There was some discussion yesterday on Twitter about why this article didn't include women. Marketplace posted a short follow-up on the topic http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/why-no-women-story-si...
One Big Reason Why There Are So Many More Billion Dollar Start-ups
Ask HN: Review my startup, FillSkills.com
Hi Hacker community, I am looking for feedback on my startup FillSkills. We are trying to see if there is any market demand for our idea. Our idea is to help job-seekers or students find which programming skills to learn based on job market demand.
A Startup's Guide to Hiring
Check Point Discovers MediaWiki Vulnerability – RCEing like it's 1999
If more math geeks thought these patterns were religious, we could call this Numerology. We could probably make the case that there are an infinite number of "interesting" patterns that can be generated as the result of "simple" arithmetic. That math geeks assign meaning to these numbers such as as proof of a sane, beautiful universe or a universe with a sense of humor is just human nature.

See also the Interesting number paradox[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
This is great news and makes a lot of sense considering their new CLI (https://github.com/linode/cli).

I just want to say how happy I've been with Linode so far. Their prices are unbeatable if you're a decent sysadmin, and their support is amazing. I'm probably in one of the lowest tiers of customers as far as how much money I give Linode every month, but their support has never failed to be very responsive and make me feel like I matter to them. I once wanted to migrate from one datacenter to another, so I opened up a support ticket. Within two minutes they had it set up so all I had to do was press a button and my setup teleported a thousand miles with minimal hassle. Kudos to the Linode team, and if you happen to work for them and see this message thanks to you personally for making my life easier :)
>In that case Russia should have no problem with Ukraine entering into a trade agreement with the EU or even joining the EU as a member.

The EU is offering Ukraine neither. Also, many Ukrainians do not want to join the EU.

>It should also have no issue with Ukraine having its own democratic elections that do not include a puppet from Moscow.

Are you implying the last elections were rigged?
Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required
I really enjoyed this site, at first my reaction was 'meh' but as I was starting to go through services and recognized some, I am seeing great potential. Startups as a rule need all possible ways to get the word out.
"Let's say you're me, and you're in math class, and you're supposed to be learning about exponential functions but you're having trouble caring..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MSN6IImpI Vi Hart's whole channel is great, and most of the videos start like that.
Unfortunately, Nintendo and the like want to learn this the hard way. Maybe engineers and middle management know better, but from the upper layers the message comes as "make sure they understand and carry-on our strategy".

A strategy defined by an obsession about money instead of one about value.
And what wrong with that? The site is scaling extremely good and for a long time the whole application was running on only two servers.
What's a twitter account, a username + an email address? From Twitter's perspective, a sale is the same as just changing the email address.
Staying stable is boring to me too. No action! I need it to go up to drag up litecoin!
Generating functions are amazing. One of the coolest topics in my entire undergrad math degree. This PDF is well written and will explain everything: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall05/ln11.pdf
What a great weekend project - thanks for putting this together!
How do you like working on a Mac on a Windows stack? I work on a Mac on a Linux stack and it's very straightforward. We have some Windows applications have have to rely on remote desktop.
I tell folks to pick a phrase they can remember for long periods of time and use that regardless of the question. "my first pet" = "the refrigerator is walking" or some such thing.
Moving on from Windows is taking longer than we thought, but will happen a lot sooner than you think.

Most new applications live in the browser (even MS Office and Intuit Quickbooks) or on your smartphone/tablet.
Did Someone Say On Demand?
Even with standardized security protocols, you will still have issues with undertrained/underpaid customer support agents working to "help" one very smooth talking hacker using social engineer tactics.
+1

I absolutely despise when sites do this. One scroll gesture and now I can't go back to the site I came from? Another common archetype for this behavior is sites that show a slideshow. I click through 20 slides, and now I can't get back to the page I came from. Webdevs: you can still have permalinks to each paragraph/slide/whatever without completely muddling the user's browser history! Use replaceState instead of pushState to mitigate this problem.

Browsers should evolve to account for this kind of abuse. Holding down the back button should present two options: One to list all the anchors you've been to on the current page (in this case, paragraphs on the page), and one list of your previous history stack that doesn't account for URL fragments/hashes.
Daniel Dennett is Wrong About Free Will
The techniques of constructing such sequences have been studied formally in combinatorics under the name "generating function".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function

In this case, the sequence 1, 2, 4, ..., 2^n has the generating function,

g(z) = sum[i = 0 to inf] (2^i * z^i)
= 1 + 2z + 4z^2 + ...
= 1 / (1 - 2z)

Substituting a small number 10^-k, such as z = 0.0001 gives 10000/9998, and then right shifting by dividing 10000 leads to 1/9998.

What more interesting is that some other useful sequences can often be obtained from the function, by operations like differentiation and integration, or adding / multiplying with other functions.

For example:

2z + (4*2)z^2 + (8*3)z^3 + (16*4)z^4 ...
= d/dz(g(z))
= d/dz(z * 1 / (1 - 2z))
= 2 / (1 - 2z)^2

Put z = 1/10000 = 0.0001, this yields
50000000/24990001 = 2. 0008 0024 0064 0160 0384 ...
Questions asked at Y Combinator interviews
Say instead of hashes it was computation cycles, so long as your computer is doing something then it counted. (I am ignoring the bookkeeping problems)

I could take a supercomputer that I am using otherwise for economic benefit, and perform a whole bunch of mining with it, at no cost to me.

Even better, I can go to several supercomputers and do this, all without costing any actual computation power.

This would allow me to create a ton of power on the network, which could be used to overtake it and break the usual security guarantees.

However with Bitcoin I have to stop doing anything else with all of this computing power, which is a problem.
This guy was (is?) one of the first big ones that "cut out the middle man" by doing all the sales from his own website. Made $1mil. in the first few weeks.

It would be awesome if he took the next logical step and started accepting Bitcoins .
The First New 7 Top-Level Domains Go Live Today
How is that a useful comparison to anything?
Thanks! Hacker News and "Show HN" is responsible for some of the market validation and product design of Product Hunt.

While we want to keep the product simple and useful, we do see value in adding more context and "searchability" with tagging. It's definitely on our radar.
I'm going to open source my dog treat business
Why developers need to catch up with the Internet
you did that thing to my back button that I hate. Other then that, the site looks good and "modern" :)
I tried it out with a $20 card this morning (I've had it for 3 years and never remember to use it on the rare occasion that I'm at Starbucks). I just received my 0.014916 bitcoin via Coinbase. It took 2 hours between when I submitted it and when I received the bitcoin.
Stem cell power unleashed after 30 minute dip in acid
Shrug. No rush from my side of the room. I have found developing Windows application and web apps on the MVC .Net stack to be quite enjoyable.
It looks like after beta, all billing will be metered, so I doubt they will have metered nodes on different hardware.
Achievement unlocked: Dixie Flatline.

Another point for team Gibson.
This right here is why Steve Ballmer left a family vacation to attempt to interrupt the Munich linux switch [1]. Free Software is steadily destroying every market Microsoft attempts to dominate (including home entertainment [2]).

It's as if Microsoft's worst fears from the Halloween Documents are coming true. Will Azure be able to make up for all the lost revenue of the Windows/Office/Home Entertainment divisions?

1 http://news.cnet.com/2100-1016-1010740.html

2. http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/
Your post is half a day old, but I have to reply to agree fervently. My first tenant paid 4 months rent upfront + security deposit. In cash.

Yeah, he gave me reasons that made sense. I didn't really care: I had cash in hand and absolutely no reason to bother checking his credit.
>"They are playing by rules that "old media" and most new media do not. To one way of thinking, they are cheating at the media game, and that's why they're winning. (Which they are.)" //

It seems fairly often I hear a comment that so-and-so media company (BBC, local paper, RIAA, ...) are using a private individuals media without permission or attribution.

They're it seems serially copyright infringers. Whilst big-media generally correct it after-the-fact when they're caught it seems worth noting that it's not only "young punks" that are profiting by playing fast-and-loose with media available online.

Yes there's a difference in complexion too: which goes both ways - if the images are historic then arguably [morally] the creators have had time to make them pay. The corollary of course is that unlicensed duplication of new images, particularly those used in the news, is more damaging.

This is not to excuse such tortuous infringement but just to shed more light on the context.
Your comment is unclear on whether you intend to bet with timsally
Drivers for Uber, Lyft stuck in insurance limbo
"And let’s pass a patent reform bill that allows our businesses to stay focused on innovation, not costly, needless litigation."

I really hope this happens.
I guess large-scale geothermal power plants are an unproven concept, but isn't the risk of volcanic eruptions completely independent of whether we tap it for energy or not?
Perhaps there could be a scenario where the sudden cooling of a region in the magma pocket could lead to clogging and local overpressure. OTOH releasing magma in a controlled manner could just as well decrease overall pressure.
2015: Putin

It's like they are giving the Emmys to the actors of some weird worldwide soap opera.
Hacking for posters
HowAboutWe Acquires Nerve
Not going to say its easy. But you can pretty accurately map magma under the surface using seismology. I believe it requires an earthquake and having the correct equipment in place, so its far from ideal. But it does work well.
Pretty nice. A suggestion though: it would be nice to be able to search by synonyms or definition rather than just exact words. That way if you know you're searching for something to do with eg. "mail", you'd get a set of words that are (at least tangentially) related to it that you can choose from.
Thanks for the great advice, I've been considering this a lot. I'm currently working on a whole new landing page that will focus more on the customer and what they gain from BugMuncher.

I'll definitely check out your blog.
My scrolling experience was really laggy... as if images were constantly loading in the background slowing the page. But it's a nice site otherwise.
your right, the description color is too white , its hard to read
There is an enormous amount of randomness when it comes to what stories make it to the front page. Don't take it personally.
That’s definitely a potential issue. Would be cool if the users’ incentives could be set up in a way that prevent the information from getting outdated.
The interface looks a lot like grafana:

https://github.com/torkelo/grafana

Is it based on or inspired by grafana?
I see what you are saying, if you can't find it, why do we care?

Two reasons, as the article states, it has been found, twice in fact. Once in Hawaii and now in Iceland. The Icelandic team is drilling another hole near the existing hole to investigate further. Maybe the same can be done in Hawaii.

The other reason we care is that perhaps technology doesn't exist yet to easily find these near surface reservoirs, but maybe it will in the future. If they determine this hole can be utilized, it will drive research into finding these reservoirs.
Lessons From McDonald’s Clash With Older Koreans
Ask HN: Does your GPA matter after graduation?
Chinese News Issues Bizarre Farewell From Sad, Dying Lunar Rover
I was on AWS for over a year. I moved to Digital Ocean. Much cheaper and much faster.