skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It's not just the algorithm, scale etc. It's the chicken/egg problem - to have a good page ranking you need a lot of usage data from a lot of users and to get a lot of users you need a good page ranking.
Change.org: sign petition to ask McDonald's to offer meat substitute
This article isn't interesting because of philosophy or because it says something important about life.
Nice thing is the way it shows life and computer game in parallel. So it has nothing in common with reading philosophy book. (unless you mean after reading philosophy book one won't waste his time on stupid things like this)
Google knows an awful lot about me...
The talent and know-how?

I thought we were already past the "why buy it if you can copy it".
Microsoft Buys $15 Million Stake in Foursquare for Mobile Data
Somebody somewhere must have gotten really rich with this sale.
with HN and reddit submission I have a hint for why the website is sluggish.
And that space has a ton of competitors in it now, too. Some heavy hitters like Podio, Asana, Zoho.

I don't see any reason why some of 37's other products can't get rolled up into Basecamp as features/modules though.
I disagree, because the brain itself is the source of sentience and the only thing that really matters. The other organs all have a support role for the brain. Replacing those organs will of course not feel like there's any difference (unless they don't work correctly) because the source of a person's sentience is in the brain itself, not in those organs.

On the other hand, if there was a way to "digitalize" a brain and let it run in a simulation, it could still be conscious and have the same possibilities as the brain of a normal person with a normal body, but it would still be a duplicate of it. I don't think it's ever going to be possible to "transfer" yourself to a copy without dying. Sentience is far too intertwined with the physical aspect of the brain for it to be possible to transfer yourself into a copy without dying.
Heh, laundering evidence. This sounds a lot like what News of the World did with their phone "hacking" scandal - they'd illegally break into peoples voicemail, record it, then stuff the recording in an envelope and mail it to their receptionist so they could claim it was an anonymous source.

Of course, those guys are in court right now.
Would it be possible to build 'An app for that?' (E.g. Blind people). Browser sites and stuff through the app.
Hardly a waste of time. You haven't seen this for what it truly is; a waste of time is your cash sitting in a clearinghouse for days before going overseas. a waste of time is any value transaction that takes more than minutes on a global scale. A waste of time is when the authorities freeze your accounts and cancel your cards. Cryptocurrency solves these problems and more.
Well it is a pricing/innovation problem. If we are steering towards just a handful vendors, innovation in the personal computing space will diminish even more. Not that there's a ton been happening lately anyway.
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Wow this is sort of like Greg Egan's Permutation City but actually seems slightly less far fetched and it solves the "where are all the aliens?" problem. In order to hack entropy we erase ourselves from all possible universes where entropy is increasing.
Seriously, THIS is the advice that you'd give to, for example, your son? Views like that (both the content and the form that was used to present it) are a great example for why lots of people see the techies as detached simpletons.
"no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway."

That was a false statement in 2007 and is still today. I'm the evidence, if no one else. And I don't think I'm alone, although it does puzzle me when I see Microsoft evangelists at conferences holding speeches from Apple computers.
The Black Swan (2007 book)
Actually it was the most innovative browser from '95 to '99.
Very interesting article. I would love a followup about actual things you can do as a developer to make life easier for users with screen readers.
Looking at the orbit of the moon which does figure-8s through the hole in the middle, isn't it conceivable that a sun can orbit that same way? Or rather, the two will orbit each other in a strange non-trivial way.
You're much better off reaching out to potential acquirers directly
But Seneca and Aristotle never wrote SEO-optimized 7 item listicles or produced YouTube linkbait.

"This crazy Greek drank Hemlock. What happened next will blow your mind."
> Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway.

Well, Apple's laptops, like their whole hardware range, look really nice and well made. My Toshiba Satellite is dusty, covered in bagel crumbs and stinks of roll-ups. I would be really embarrassed turning up in a public arena with a pig ugly piece of kit that looks like it has been used in a sewer.

Windows is still used by many businesses in the UK. That is the main reason I still have it on my laptop, most CV's are only accepted as .doc/.docx/.txt files.

The desktop no longer matters? Hell, the CLI is still alive and kicking. I find Vim works better in tty than in xterm.
"Talent and know how"? Seriously?

Is writing a webchat client some black dark art?

There's nothing much you need to know to write a webchat client. Campfire isn't high volume, so it doesn't need to be too efficient either. Last time I checked campfire processes a few messages a second. Heck you could rewrite it in PHP/MySQL if you were that way inclined.

Campfire didn't succeed because it was a good product. It succeeded because they marketed it to their "following" who bought into it.
Great is not really the word I would use. Awful fits better.
I heard some people like http://apptopia.com
In spite of the fact that Ruby is indeed standard on Mac OS X, a simple shell script would have been clearly lighter. However, for proper JSON escaping of the snippet, you need a full set of replacing rules, which kind of kills the purpose. So I give up.
"The default life in post-industrial western cities is a game, this is your strategy guide." - FTFY

Not all the people in the world live such mechanical, predictable lives.
John Carmack quit id Software because it wouldn't support VR games
A comparison of JavaScript IDE's
The article is kinda poor, but the subject is interesting. Once again technology is way ahead of the justice estates all over the world (for good or bad).

Google and Apple (among others) are renown in Europe for paying virtually no taxation[1]. And while once upon a time no one really cared, now it's hard to swallow for voters being crashed by the financial crisis, so either this will change or some political figures might lose additional points in the next elections.

I'm not angry with Google. I'm angry with our corrupted politicians who've done nothing to fix this, all over Europe, not just in France and not just for Google.

Since we have the technology to tackle the issue at hand, everything else sound like an excuse.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549379/Fresh-questi...
I do think Windows will become pretty irrelevant over the next 5 years, as Android and iOS get owned by billions of people. However, I agree that right now and for the past few years, there's a very strong bias towards Apple computers in Silicon Valley and in media offices, and they might think "Apple is everywhere", even though it's not.
Of course. An advanced civilization with engineering sense wouldn't waste precious building materials on thousands of kilometers of planetary bedrock.

(And that's to say nothing of that area/volume ratio, what that implies for radiative heat rejection!)
Something can be subjective and stupid.
I agree for EBay transaction between 2 private individuals.

However, from a consumer / vendor perspective, paypal acts more as a regular payment processing. In that market, the vendor is the client, most of the features you enjoy as a user of services like Paypal or VISA (protection, credit, free transaction, ...) is paid for by the vendor. So their point of view is what matters and right now, they are not happy.

Of course as you noted, Bitcoin on its own is not a competitor to anything except "mailing a check" type transaction. But it can enable creating competing services much more easily than before.
Chromecast open for apps
Seneca and Aristotle were building off information already passed on to them so its probably older than that.
Satya Nadella and the future of Microsoft
Nice but it's all ARM9 based, so nothing at the high end as far I could see in that page.
That's because the web disrupted native desktop, and native mobile is disrupting both web and native desktop. Native mobile is certainly not the same as native desktop. It's a completely new paradigm. The web might disrupt native mobile yet again in the future. And then perhaps native-glassware or whatever will disrupt web on mobile, and so on.
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"For now, the tax is just a rumor, A rumor that is a symptom of a very real problem. And that problem is Taxation on Internet Companies. Expect this problem to be solved in the next 10 years."

A very real problem indeed. But it's not a Google problem. It's a France/Hollande problem. France is in recession (agian or still).

French private sector contracts as Germany’s grows
Business activity in the eurozone’s two largest economies is diverging sharply, with France’s private sector contracting after two months of growth while in Germany it accelerated to a 10-month high, according to a survey.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87e4a572-5285-11e3-8586-00144feabd...

French officials warn of social tinderbox as economy contracts again
The latest data show a continued erosion of France’s industrial base and export share. It risks shattering the credibility of President François Hollande, who has been talking up recovery for months.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10450889/...
What, you don't think that your main life decision was whether to be comfortable, well-off, or mega-rich?
Then, of course, Google has shareholders which are none other than the public (either by direct ownership of stocks or through funds of various sorts). Whatever taxing Google can not offset by raising prices, is passed on to the shareholders in the form of reduced EPS.
I think they meant that no one had bothered to write a paper, not that no one had ever thought of it.
Very good overview, thanks a lot for this article
Simple wins, and they know it!
If your's is a new account or has been banned then upvotes won't be accountable.
Decentralization is needed if you want bitcoin to be censorship-resistant.
Ask HN: Best (e)Book about Cryptography
In the last few weeks I was looking for a (e)book about Cryptography that covers the basics and at least some advanced topics.

The problem is... it seems a book like that does not exist or at least I am not capable to find it. I have found a lot of books about the history of cryptography but without studies on real applications, some with a very deep math analysis but very poor on the rest, some other that focus only on examples without giving any information about how basic things works, and so on...

I think here on HN I am not the only one really interested on this argument so maybe someone already went that way and has some to share: Do you know any good resource, book or ebook about the argument that is not just a "very partial" treaty and that is well suited for a CS student?
AKA a colorful and witty guide to being a self-assured and self-validated narsissist
Did you seriously expect to learn a meaning of life from a blog post? Or you were expecting an advice how to live better, faster, happier life?

It's just a blog post that attempts to be fun. As much as can be expected is few nods and smiles while reading it, and a few seconds pause to think about it at the end. And that's it, it's not like author pretends he's Seneca or Aristotle or semeone else.
Has anyone ever done a kickstarter to bribe government employees to whistleblow on other government employees?
What U.S. Really Did To Us Iranian developers.
Oh crap. Imagine BuzzFeed but for ancient philosophers and classic literature. Awesome.
Since it isn't explained in the article:

IIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology

IIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Management
Error 418 – I’m a Teapot
The threading macro idea is meant to just make it easier for humans to read, so if it's not easier for you, no sense bothering with it. In such, it's not a true prefix vs infix tool, just a tool possible in languages with macros.

As to the are increasing, yes, I suppose the list itself would be a more natural subject.

This is why I love macros, not really infix or prefix specifically, because a macro makes it trivial to just have this:

(. [1 2 3 4].isOrdered)

turn into this:

(isOrdered [1 2 3 4])

That way both the human and the compiler get their preferred view.
Thanks, but neither is the case (my username is not green anymore, and you could see my post => not banned).
FWIW even the industrial revolution had a huge environmental impacts.
I'm writing a ruby script to gather statistics from a Raspberry Pi. All the projects I've seen so far rely on Perl/Python/PHP scripts which are executing shell commands to extract informations every X minutes.

I wonder, isn't there some sort of API to access in Unix-based systems data like CPU usage, memory usage, etc in a more natural way?
GIT IS HARD
One could make a case that the use of sha256 would drive down the cost of comodity ASICs, enabling a well resourced attacker to use mining hardware 'off-label' to find sha256 hash collisions. Same goes for scrypt, with the adoption of its use as a password store.
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Why are people so bothered about truly random numbers?
If Lycos was the last thing you used before switching to google that means that it's been probably about 13-15 years since you switched. On the web that's an eternity. If that's fickle then Google must be pretty happy to have its users be so fickle.
On the contrary, we know so many recipes, and some have proven much better than others, while some have become obsolete. Its like asking for "the" (singular) recipe for cooking food.

What the philosophers are good at, is helping the reader come up with a logical method for making value judgments about those recipes. Its (mostly) not "here's a great piece of source code" its mostly more like "and this is why OO design is better (or not)".
> I'm thinking Windows would need kernel modifications to make something like docker even possible on the platform

If this is the case, then are we basically SOL with regard to docker on Windows? Unless Microsoft take it upon themselves to make that compatibility happen.
I remember LogParser from years back. I used to be very involved in that nascent community, and I developed a plugin for it that let you parse an input file using a regex with capture groups so you could use SQL queries on log files that did not have records with simple delimited columns.
Mike Lynch got really rich. I worked for Autonomy after they purchased my employer, Interwoven. They were horrible people to work for. We always thought they were cooking the books. Their products were shit. I quit that job because I had fuck you money.
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This got a whole stack of upvotes, reached #1 on HN... But most of the comments here are super negative. That's weird, why would that be?
They aren't perfectly secured. They seem secure for two reasons:

Try to hack a bank, or exploit credit cards, or even break in a vault, and you'll see what kind of external measures governments and private agencies put into protecting the system (hint: you'll get locked forever, or shot, or worse)

Now imagine you succeed, and somehow don't leave any exploitable trail, do you think a story will pop somewhere? I don't.

Centralized money systems are the reason today, what you make in a month working 16 hours a day in some country will buy you a drink in another. This allows rich countries to straight up buyout any poor country's production, and for trivial amounts. It leaves them in a state where people are starving, even though they produce enough to feed 10x their population.

Imagine a world where a bag of rice costs the same in every country. Yeah, currencies are awesome.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not saying rich countries are evil(er), because this would not work without the cooperation of poor countries leadership.
first of all perfectly secure systems do not exist. but lets say for a minute you mean visa or mastercard are perfectly secure, do you think that the electricity use of the bitcoin network exceeds the electricity use of VISA all over the world? They run their own always on computer network and offices, which need people and computers that require electricity to be able to function properly. Then factor in that this is repeated in almost every country they operate in, sometimes more than once depending on the size of the country. So the electricity use of bitcoin is just a drop int he ocean compared to what the current banking industry uses.
A Facebook Life
Good advice, I don't mind beeing rejected as much as earlier first times are worst :) When I grew some confidence I got better response rate so for anyone reading this: break anxiety loop, don't mind that much.
Well they're sort of right, but those material things aren't actually "working on the relationship", IMO. I've always taken it as "working in being the best person you can be" -- seems to have worked for the past few years for me so far :)
It is very handy to encode multiple images at the same time.
Life game.

Graphics: 9/10
Pretty good, shadows and lighting effects portrayed quite well. Some really strange pixelation going on though. It's on a very small scale, but still noticeable with the right instruments and upsetting to the general public.

Sound: 6/10
Fantastic variety. Only works well for the first 2/3rds of the game or so, then becomes quite buggy.

Story: 2/10
It's not obvious if there is really a story going on here. Most players experience relatively little classical narrative, and that which does exist seems quite randomly or recklessly placed, possibly completely contrived from otherwise non-storylike events.

Multiplayer: 5/10
A wide variety of things to do with others, but many of them are considered quite boring or uninteresting. The gameplay mechanics sometimes seem to encourage active hostility or selfishness between players, which seems clearly suboptimal.
As opposed to the power Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin mining pools, and Bitcoin developers have over Bitcoin? The supposed decentralization in Bitcoin is theoretical at best; in practice, power is concentrated in a few key places.

So really, we could make a better system, one that uses far less power, by just accepting that some things cannot be decentralized and designing a system accordingly.
Hey Larry Page, Invest more in Europe
Google and EU near anti-trust deal
They didn't when I was there (until about 3 years ago).

Some people at the Design Centre had Macs but every other laptop I saw was a Vaio and that appeared to be global and common across divisions.
Why are Israeli people so hard to work with?
Maybe hit that low is what they need to make a comeback.
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Using technology for useful stuff.
Show HN: I made an app that listens for a rapper's songs and raps along in sync
Iain M. Banks last Culture book has a "advanced civilization with more aesthetics than sanity" that had polished a moon much like a marble, that'd then been lowered down towards the planet it orbited while adjusting the orbital speed accordingly. They'd cut a trench around the entire planet, so that said moon were eventually orbiting below the surrounding planet surface.... One of the main civilizations in the book had then "inherited it" and used the moon as the headquarters of one of their military branches.

It's fun to speculate just how bizarre results you could get if you had a civilization with enough resources to do planetary scale arts projects just for the heck of it...
I don't think you can call highrise being valued for "tens of millions" and campfire in "single digit millions" a failure.
Sony exemplifies why PC vendors are crap. Too many models, no intergenerational continuity. With Apple, they take a design and iterate it for years. The Macbook had been working the same basic strengths for almost a decade. I buy one and I know that in a couple of years, I can buy the new model and it'll be a solid upgrade. With Sony, its a crapshoot. The Pro 13 looks like a solid machine. With great battery life. In 2 years, there won't be a followup that has the same basic strengths. It'll be a new machine that is a total crapshoot. Good chance there will be some major regression and I'll have to find a new vendor. Heck, the can't even build on strengths at any given time. While the pro 13 had high battery efficiency, the similar flip 13 has terrible efficiency.
Seeing as lots of that hashing power probably comes from ASICs and FPGAs, if anything it's more of a waste of Silicon that computing power, as without Bitcoin there probably isn't much use for all that hashing power...
Welcome to the modern word of business "optimizations" and uncontrolled leverage.)

Russian "businessmen" would really appreciate this because cheating, finding a greater fool is the default strategy nowadays and doing this uncaught considered to be very very clever.)
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Boomer fodder, all the memes are at least a decade or two out of date. The great lakes area is not the rust belt, it rusted and blew away in my grandfathers generation half a century ago. Innovation economy is not CRUD apps with quirky marketing, at least not since '95. The general idea of the article is more or less correct. I checked the byline and its only four hours old although it sounds much more ancient.

I am strongly biased because I don't like articles about this topic, the vultures should stay away. Yeah, you'll all freeze in the snow, so best not come here. Nope we don't have any money or quality of life, I advise staying away, LOL.

Given that immense level of bias my evaluation of the style and memes of the article might be tainted.