skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Myanmar really represents an amazing turn around for a country. One has to wonder what really happened. If you recall it wasn't that many years ago that the ruling junta took all those protesting Buddhist monks out back and shot them. It was a disgusting event. I wonder if American diplomacy (via Hillary Clinton) actually did something positive for a change --I wonder if she said "change your ways and you'll get rich, or keep it up and we'll invade and destroy you".
House is an OS in a very different sense than Urbit - the "boots on bare metal" sense. The core of House is a monad which represents the hardware state of a common Intel box.

Urbit is intended to run virtually in the cloud and is an OS only in the sense of "stores your data and runs arbitrary programs". As a cloud computer its "function" is simply (old state, packet in) -> (new state, packets out). For communicating with the host OS this generalizes to "event in" and "actions out." Eg, I got an HTTP connection so I send an HTTP response. So not only isn't it done, it isn't even very smart... but it is a function and it is an OS.
Mine's not working either. Connection refused on both +7000 and +7070
They are both separate examples of contracts that are consensual and without coercion, but are immoral, both for different reasons. My goal was to find a counter-example to the statement that "All consensual and non-coercive transactions are ethical.". Once that example was found, expanding from there.
Shit, now I really wish I knew the name of the project I was thinking of. I'll come back and let you know if I figure it out. It was on HN a week or two ago... Maybe someone else remembers?
Tested on ubuntu 13.10 with latest updates.

Doesn't work, but DID crash the kernel, so it's vulnerable.
Facebook finally brings its Graph Search to mobile devices
I stole an idea for a game which has yet to be implemented by the person who briefly mentioned it a couple years ago. It inspired me, and because the idea was not some highly detailed plan, I know my conception of it will be completely different from that of the original idea-haver.

People talk about idea vs. implementation, but the missing component is the vision that drives and expands that initial idea. That's obviously true in anything related to creative work, but I think it holds true almost everywhere, except in utterly trivial cases.
I was supposed to try this out after SCM Manager, but our IT admin has not replaced the server I was using after it broke. If I ever get access to one again, I'll try it.
This would be a lot better if the slides were given separately from the video. Anyone have a link to them?
This author needs to visit a pharmacy, not a Mexican fast-food franchise.
Flappy Bird, Patterns And Context
Maybe it is possible if you don't use any optimizations and always use the same compiler.

A function may have the RET in the middle of it. Or use a jmp instead of ret (tail optimization), etc.
I'm quite surprised to see that fuel really is a significant price of the total cost of a flight. I always thought the Fuel Surcharge thing was B.S.

Suppose you're about to fuel up a long-range 777 for a trans-Pacific flight out of Los Angeles. So you swing over here:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLAX

And see that Landmark Aviation will sell you Jet A at $7.95. Your 777-300ER's tanks hold 47,890 gallons. So it "only" costs $380,725.50 to fill up before you leave.

Meanwhile, for BOS-LHR:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBOS

Signature Flight Support wants $9.16 right now. Fueling up for a 6-hour flight at 6000gal/hr will only run you $329,760.

So yes, fuel is very much the cost of aviation. After a couple years of flying, you'll have psent more money fueling your shiny long-range 777 than you spent buying it. And it cost you $320 million to buy.
maybe I'm missing it but can you not tell who wrote the comment?
Zynga lives by this advice :)
> What baffles me is that this professor is being sent to "training" when their work is ultimately wanted out of social networks.

Overzealous feminists gone on a rampage. He should have prefixed the assignment with a [TW R*pe], that 'd have stopped them...
I agree. people will prize a capped currency more than an infinite one even if the infinite currency "inflates" less over the next few years than the capped currency. at this point, it seems the only thing doge has over a traditional fiat currency is a cool and cute theme that is sure to be fleeting. the novelty of doge will get stale. I mean really, does anybody really think doge talk or the coin will be cool a couple of years from now? or that it will be serious? in the interim, the masses could send doge much higher only to have grade school "traders" get burned out of lunch money profits or grandmas lose bingo money. a good deal of the doge appeal is its inviting "my first coin" theme. litecoin and other "deflationary" crypto have the incentive to hold because the coin is ultimately capped and the usage and number of holders vastly outpaces the short term rise in coins. doge coin investor dynamics, however, are dependent on an ever expanding pie of unsophisticated crypto neophytes and an up sloping chart. Doge's demographic seems like a race to the bottom from my experience.
From six years ago, during which it would seem CSS has gotten no better:
http://beradrian.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/breakdown.png
Hmmm... isn't that what id used to do with Doom? I think they're called shareware if I'm not mistaken.
The main problem with Fedora is that it usually doesn't work. At all.
AT&T patents a system to limit high-bandwidth users
One thing really useful would be allow one to embed this on their site. (just the code and annotation, and one can decide no one can comment or something).

So it's like github gist, but with annotations. Sometimes I post codes with annotations on my site.
I don't recall seeing it on HN recently, but are you thinking of Docco? Example: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
okay that's fair. I couldn't help being snarky to such a meaningless and simplistic comment.
I believe the OP is talking about the process of setting up the contract with the carrier.
When the average person is excessively burdened in the duty of filing his or her own taxes, and consequently must rely on a computer program or third party to do them, then the tax laws are defacto non-democratic. Therein, any congressman that does not avail themselves to fix such a system of taxation promptly is in utter violation of the nations charter and wholly impeachable.
I've played most of them, and the only one I still play is HoMM III (Complete). It's more enjoyable, somehow. Don't know why.

Though the world generation sometimes had... issues.
so their college stands for running away from hard problems because the are socially unpalatable.
So two thoughtful sentences now count as a novel? I should really look into getting published.
And now we begin to see some some of the implications of the elimination of net neutrality:

- 'The new patent could have a chilling effect on content distribution networks, including Steam, Origin, and Netflix. The patent, titled "Prevention Of Bandwidth Abuse Of A Communications System", would theoretically allow AT&T to create Internet plans that would only allow access to certain sites or protocols. The patent has a brief description.' -
This has less to do with Angular and more to do with Javascript's general inability to express a useful DSL for anything.

I think your ad hominem and somewhat hyperbolic complaint would be more credible if you supplied more concrete examples of how Angular caused your product to be two months late. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that nothing in your comment actually makes your point.

My team has made very effective use of Angular and far from making us late it has saved us considerable time.

We treat Angular not as an abstraction or framework but as a toolkit for doing the following:

* Extending the browser's built-in HTML and CSS with our own custom behaviour.

* Two way databinding between our application data and the DOM

* Architecting small testable / mockable components

For what it's worth, there are some angular-isms that I truly dislike. In particular, angular.module is a bug farm for early angular developers. Also, without ngmin, Angular's "provider" declarations is both noisy and error prone. The truth howerver, is that these are minor problems and are easily discovered and fixed immediately.
Nvidia submits patches to open source driver
I don't tend to read right at the top of the page, but I do scroll with the spacebar. It's infuriating when what's supposed to be a one-page scroll skips over three lines because they're blocked by navigation I'll never use.
I've seen this work in a limited scale in my own venture. I started an lsat prep website, http://lsathacks.com

Almost everything about the site was inspired by reference examples within the industry. And yet the site is unique, because I have my own take on things. I saw the principles underlying various sites, and redid them in my own style.

It's still early days, but initial results are positive. I'd have gotten nowhere if I stubbornly insisted on only original ideas.
XSS found, it seems. Tsk tsk.
Site seems to be vulnerable to XSS

http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5/%3Cscript%3Eal...
(Harmless alert popup)
Someone has figured out how to do JS injection: http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5
Frankly, you can't have it both ways. Social networks are pressed to take more accountability for the activities of bad apples, and their first line of defense is to automate and monitor. The algorithms that do so are going to be complex and involve insight that I don't believe has much research behind it. So this is fairly cutting edge and worthwhile.

On the other hand, understanding how mainstream student and academia may react to a lightening-rod topic like rape is not the strong suit of a lot of computer scientists.

The professor needed to clearly communicate why this was a worthwhile assignment. I'd bet he'd have gotten a completely different response.
Why did you switch from Oracle to Postgres?
I agree. Is the subject matter painful? Absolutely. But is this potentially life saving work? Also Absolutely.
You need to escape user input to avoid XSS on the page.
I've been learning music production. Do you know how? By creating copies of tracks that inspire me, from scratch.

I learnt how to program websites when I was 14. Do you know how? I copied a site a loved and made it my own, from scratch.

This is simply my favourite way of learning. Whenever I lack inspiration for something, I go copy, recreate, adjust. Because hey, at the end of the day, everything is a remix!
I'm pretty sure that happens when a nick collision happens.
Splintering the total cost into fare and various taxes, surcharges, and fees is likely an attempt to make direct price comparisons with competitors more difficult.

Not necessarily.

Remember that for most passengers there is one and only one factor involved in which airline they fly: the advertised fare. The experience of the industry is that every other factor goes out the window. Time of day is not a factor. Length of flight is not a factor. Number of connections is not a factor. The only factor that matters for getting passengers in your planes is having the lowest advertised fare.

This is why things which used to be part of the ticket price are now treated as separate fees. Want to pay by credit card? That's an extra fee. Want to pick seats in advance so you can sit with your companion? Extra fee. Want to check-in at the airport and print your boarding pass there? Extra fee. Check a bag? Extra fee. Carry on a bag (some airlines)? Extra fee. Want a drink or snack? Extra fee.

"Unbundling" all of those gets the advertised fare as low as it can go, and lets you publish a number that represents solely the cost to put your butt in a seat and go from Point A to Point B with nothing else included.

This is also why Southwest, traditionally considered a "low-fare" airline, now gets dinged for having higher fares on a lot of routes. Their published fare still includes many of those things, while other airlines have fully unbundled, so Southwest's prices are now often higher than other airlines, comparing by advertised fare, despite coming out roughly even when factoring in all the additional fees.

Though getting back to your assertion, Southwest also famously refuses to be listed in most travel-aggregation sites, forcing users to explicitly come to Southwest's site and perform a search in which no other airlines' fares are included.
Yeah, a fix is on the way along with a resize of the droplet.
There's a long-winded description in the first blog post:

http://www.urbit.org/2013/09/24/urbit-intro.html
Devs: We'll bury Candy Crush King under HEAPS of candy apps
Tax law complexity and democracy are two entirely unrelated concepts. Including the US, there are several democracies with complex tax laws. And several undemocratic with simple tax laws.

I'd venture a guess that complexity of taxes is more related to health of the economy than the particular system of government.
When discussing suggestions for improvements, the author notes:

>When Subway and Quiznos work well, they work well because you, customer X, and employee A, stick with each other the whole way down the line.

To be honest, this hasn't been my case for any Subway or Quiznos I've visited. The ones I've visited has always had a manned section, with one employee responsible for that section (bread, meats, condiments, checkout, etc.)

The difference, I find, is that at Chipotles, they seem to rush you along between sections. I guess, similar to eating a restaurant where they're trying to turn tables over...if you're in that mindset (get in, get out), it works.

At Subway, things are bit slower. The employees work together, relaying the information amongst each other (if possible), or getting that information from the customer. There's more conversation, I find.
Godwin's razor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166683
tested on Ubuntu 13.10 with kernel 3.11.0-15-generic. CONFIG_X86_X32=y

the program did not get the root privilege. Kernel did not crash either. Strange.
> git is extremely powerful and is, buried underneath its abysmal UI, a thoughtful and elegant work of engineering. However, as a product it's incredibly difficult to explain to other people. Until you've invested a thoroughly unnecessary amount of time learning its gotchas, quirks, and vagaries it is a monumental pain in the ass to use.

To some extent, the same arguments can be used by newbies against any powerful tool (such as vim).
I see where he is coming from even if the wording is ambiguous. Git presents the abstraction of storing objects, and diffs are inferred. The exact implementation is beside the point.
I like Gregg Easterbrook's take: if the stadium is built with public money, anything that takes place inside the stadium cannot be eligible for copyright protection.
> Just think, if you hadn't used a proprietary messaging solution as your default contact method, you'd be able to easily control how you receive the messages.

Apparently blaming the victim is totally okay as long as the victim was using a brand you don't like.
If I type suicide into google, google gives me a special infobox providing me information on how to seek help.

suicide.org tells me:

About 33% of rape victims have suicidal thought.
About 13% of rape victims will attempt suicide.

I think these factoids provide abundant evidence the question is relevant to the world and industry these students will graduate into.

You can decide for yourself if feminism and political correctness in the universities are helping or harming academic education and research.
Yeah, the thing is that plenty of bitcoiners were screaming "to the moon" without any sense of irony.

In the dogecoin community it's a statement that carries an element of self-parody.
McDonald's became a big investor in Chipotle when Chipotle went from 20 to 500 stores. I'd likely argue that no small part of how they became big was due to that hand. Then, McD divests and CMG hits NYSE and they ascend from there.

So, when you ask what would McD's look like if? Is that dancing around history or can I say, "What if I told you...?"

OP got high, got dragged to Chipotle, got all malcontent, and wrote a blog post on how much better he could run the $13B company. Soooo HN.
What? I've been using windows 8 happily since release. Evidently this doesn't apply to "everyone". There was a little learning curve, as there was with every major windows release. I've yet to find something that doesn't work. The only thing I've experienced taking any longer is turning the computer off, which requires one additional action compared to 7... Not a big deal.
I like chipotle and I like real tex mex (I live in Texas). Chipotle is a better replacement for fast food; it doesn't compete in any way with tex mex restaurants in my mind.
I am getting a 404 error. What happened?
Watching Veep right afterwards is a nice (and just as brilliant in other ways) contrast.
From http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/memorial-university... here is the question:

Write and test a Prolog program that solves the following problem: Everybody needs love and understanding. People get their courage to live from loving and understanding. Understanding means listening and compassion. Rape victims have to gather their courage to live in order to stand on their dignity and to face future. Heather is a young rape victim. She would die if she could not stand on her dignity and no future. Unfortunately the persistent bullying online and calling her “slut” in her community show that nobody would listen her and there is no compassion towards her. A person willing to die causes the person’s attempting suicide. Whether is Heather attempting a suicide?

I wonder why the English is so bad? It's hard to tell if the teacher is really encouraging compassion, or just contriving a situation that translates easily into Prolog.
The question (src: http://i.imgur.com/CwegI9i.png ) is a Prolog problem, which is just a bunch of logical premises that the system is supposed to find the conclusion for (kinda like A=>B, B=>C, therefore A=>C). The problem doesn't involve analyzing communications or predicting anything, and it would have little or no use when developing social network systems.
Also, metro apps don't have to be full screen, just full height. Play around with it some more.
Learn how to use an abacus
This would actually have been a fun and interesting assignment to do, not to mention the potential application.

I'm sure the opposition would have been fine with it if it had been more "weasel-wordy", i.e. develop system to determine if cis-gendered anthropomorphic entity is likely to cause [TRIGGER WARNING] non-self-help.
I would LOVE to use mercurial. If the concept of a backup bundle was completely removed. When I amend a commit with git, I don't put myself 20 minutes away from recovering that pre-amend commit. If hg comes up with some way to have a flat namespace like git, (ideally with a reflog) I'll be back.
Big Data’s Dangerous New Era of Discrimination
New Record For 2014: Hashtags Mentioned In 58% Of Super Bowl Ads
I asked the original author about this at I/O last year shortly after I was introduced to Angular. I was baffled that they were just using toString and regexs. On the one hand, there isn't any (obvious) cleaner was to do it. On the other, it feels so duct taped I couldn't believe it was the foundation of a Google-sponsored project.
DQ III to this day is my favorite console RPG. I'm also somewhat surprised the battery hasn't died on it yet. I will lose probably 60 hours of progress for my current save when that happens.
It sounds like it primarily affecting US servers. Avoid those and don't use the chat.freenode.net servers.
Here is a good example: The New Yorker reports that 53 sets of remains were recovered from unmarked graves at a Florida youth incarceration facility called The Florida School for Boys. Now go find a third world hellhole that can top that. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/prose...
China has almost twice as many Internet users as the U.S. has people
> it might be possible to have some balls collide in such a way that at least one comes to a stop.

can you give an example?
I think hg has both temporary (bookmarks) and permanent (branches) branch workflow out of the box now- and has for a while.
It isn't _just_ GitHub, but it's 90% GitHub. And 10% Torvalds. The important part is that it's 0% actual, useful reasons.
*Now problem free
This one is funny too http://kurikku.com/s/52ef17fee4b0630f318682ce/script
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman (source is Steven Levy's book Hackers)

As a hacker in MIT's AI laboratory, Stallman worked on software projects such as TECO, Emacs for ITS, and the Lisp machine operating system (the CONS of 1974-1976 and the CADR of 1977-1979—this latter unit was commercialized by Symbolics and LMI starting around 1980). He would become an ardent critic of restricted computer access in the lab, which at that time was funded primarily by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. When MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977, Stallman found a way to decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password, with a suggestion to change it to the empty string (that is, no password) instead, to re-enable anonymous access to the systems. Around 20% of the users followed his advice at the time, although passwords ultimately prevailed. Stallman boasted of the success of his campaign for many years afterward.[15]
While I agree with what SICP says, the function in this case isn't really a function. It's not something a caller will ever invoke explicitly. It exists to provide a closure that can be initialized with the injected parameters.

Pretend for a moment that Javascript had macros (sweet.js where are you?) and the Angular syntax was more explicit:

myModule.provider ProviderName
inject $scope, $document, SomeOtherDependency
{
your code here
}

The last thing you'd expect is a syntax where the injected dependency names were chosen by the implementor of the provider.

Javascript's greatest weakness is that it's native syntax is poorly suited for creating language like extensions. The result is that things like modules, imports, etc. tend to be very verbose and noisy.
Lean start up talks about starts ups as searching for a business model. Why not do that search in parallel? In the beginning, it's about finding a team that can work together and validating experiments. Obviously once a team needs to execute a vision it's different.
Tom Murphy has an ax to grind. He fancies himself a modern day Paul Revere shouting the urgent message "Peak Oil is coming! Peak Oil is coming!". Anything that might lead us to complacency he attempts to debunk. So of course he will slam the possibility of space resources. But his "math" is wrong. See http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-his-blog-strande...
I wish I knew what you are talking about- it sounds useful. I use mercurial- I've never used git.
We Need G.M.O. Wheat
Dependency injection: A more hip way to say "function parameters".

Not really. Matching the identifier is simply an optional convenience for the developer, the "dependency injection" refers to the mechanism that allows you to configure, mock, or replace the "function parameter" before the framework injects it into scope.