skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
impatient-mode for emacs.

http://www.50ply.com/blog/2012/08/13/introducing-impatient-m...
http://danielsz.github.io/2014/01/20/Live-coding-with-Clojur...
What political reasons would lead Google to choose x86 over ARM?
Did you really not expected to get down voted for being completely ignorant about the problems there?

You might want to do some reading up - starting with this 5 series VICE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_aSl3ktjg
They don't need DRM. DRM does not work. Just go to pirate bay and you'll find every TV series, movie (with DVD/BluRay/Stream release), album immediately after their release. They think they need DRM. But in reality they don't. It doesn't stop piracy at all. It's a burden only to their legal customers and not to the pirates. It is all about easy and affordable access.

If a company insists on using DRM then they should simply create their own proprietary plugin like Flash. But there is absolutely no reason for us to destroy the open web and make it rely on proprietary binary modules.
From the white paper linked below-

"Since 1993 gay sex was made legal in Russia, in 12 US States gay sex is a crime."
Why is that a problem? If they want to send a message to a lot of people, their front page would be the best place, wouldn't it? God forbid you get a little bit of human rights activism with your search results...
Now you're throwing away data in preference of your own beliefs. That's a dangerous path.

Of course if this is a table of something else then it might be okay to use a different formatting. But that I could easily give a counter-example, suggests that there are plenty of counter-examples.

You argue that a linear list, without spacing, has advantages. My assertion is that you don't have the experience to make that judgement. Anyone using this layout will have chemistry experience, and often decades of practice of looking at the periodic table in standard form. When I consider at your suggested layout, I find it a bit jarring.

For one, the symbols you wrote are out-of-order, which means it's hard to infer some information from the table.

For example, what is the age of the this instance of the table? A chemist knows, from experience with the standard periodic table layout, and my use of that layout, that Rg is the newest element on the list. This immediately places it as a pre-2009 table, which means I should update it.

Here's an example from Python heapq.py implementation, rewritten slightly to work in HN (I switched from triple-quoted strings to '#' comments):

# The strange invariant above is meant to be an efficient memory
# representation for a tournament. The numbers below are `k', not a[k]:
#
# 0
#
# 1 2
#
# 3 4 5 6
#
# 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
#
# 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
#
#
# In the tree above, each cell `k' is topping `2*k+1' and `2*k+2'.

This is a tree structure layout in ASCII. It's useful information, and it can't easily be structured or represented in a proportional font.
National Republican Congressional Campaign using fake Democrat websites
Well, I thought it was very fishy. It looked like propaganda.
It's a doodle too, try going to a google homepage where it's the 7th already: http://google.ru http://google.co.uk etc
It is unfortunate that you are so willing to consume as 'politics' whatever topic political strategists have decided to include in their party's talking points.

It is fortunate that said political strategists chose LGBT rights and not, say, the legality of JavaScript. Because then your Google search would have been a moot point entirely, JS having been made "political".
I think you could re-write your summary as: I ran an accounting decision that worried me past my lawyer.

There might be a bit of hagiography of the GC in the original story based on what Ben now knows could have happened. For all we know, the illegality of the scheme could have been glaringly obvious to any lawyer.
I thought the "ABC" of selling is "Always Be Closing", from Glengarry Glen Ross.
Well, its not like they haven't lied before. The whole Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks Dateline story showed what they think of actual journalism. In technology, they had that DEF CON fun from a while back.
Is the literary world elitist?
I'm not really clear how you would encrypt an IRC network? Its very nature is one of wide dissemination.

You can use FiSH, but that's really mostly for one to one communication in which both parties are trusted. I suppose you could use it for group chat, but it would become harder and harder the more people that were added (what happens if you trust all of them, but two of them don't trust each other and so on). There are plenty of good options for encrypting real time communication.

Encrypting group chat is a much more challenging issue and one could argue it goes against the whole spirit of IRC.
If your nickname refers to the Oliver Cromwell, I find it curiously at odds with your comment.
I couldn't care less about anyone's sexual preference. But I find it wholly unfair that someone could change from a man to a woman and then compete against other women. That is something altogether different and should not be accepted in the Olympics in my opinion.
Hey, people don't like to change opinion things that they already made up their minds on. Even on HN.

but thanks for linking that, seems to do a better job of providing better context of the LGBT situation in Russia.
Maybe not quite that much. With about ten million coins in existence, that would make Bitcoin as big as the U.S. dollar, just because Singapore adopted it.
Cool. This is like Macromedia Dreamweaver except you don't have to switch in-between tabs or open a browser and refresh!
What does he think he's doing with that MacBook box! @ 1m10s
I see. Can we agree that Ian Fleming and Tom Clancy wrote fiction?
..but it's written by a VC, no?
This hasn't been true since 2003 due to Lawrence v. Texas.
I'm pretty sure that just refers to laws that are still "in place" but are not enforced because of Lawrence v. Texas[0].

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
I agree. It wasn't so much a pro Bitcoin statement as it was angst with the world economy at large. People just want to make money, and I know people have to make money, but people don't have to just want to make money. Startupers want to make money, but it's like you say, they want to do so in being innovative, productive, creating valuable things (not to generalize - I'm sure there are some people here just for the money). There are people like this in the cryptocurrency community too, but the accessibility of Bitcoin attracted plenty of asshats as well. It will prove to be a game changing experiment somehow, but if it doesn't become a world-saving currency or whatever, I won't care or be surprised.
It's inspiring to read success stories of indie developers. Thanks for sharing and best of luck.
How so? It's the same as the old HTML, but with fewer round-trips.
Most people who use the term "big data" are wannabe big data people, but will never have data too large to fit/process on a single server. In this use, it is really just OLTP vs OLAP all over again, which leads us naturally to ETL our data into a DW.
All state based sodomy laws were invalidated by Lawrence vs Texas in 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas). The only reason the laws are still on the books is because they've been knowingly superceded.
I don't think it's a geek thing. Most people don't like it when something familiar changes. And this is doubly true when that something is a platform they feel invested in.

I think you are correct, though, that Slashdot probably peaked somewhere in the early 2000s.
It refers to my real name combined with my wife's last name, but it's also a wink-and-nod to Oliver Cromwell and also 'Orwellian'.
> Governments choose and maintain currencies with low, stable inflation because it's good for the economy and the people at large.

Yes.

> Individuals choose currencies with stable supplies to maintain the value of their wealth.

Individuals are far wiser to invest the majority of their wealth instead of keeping it bundled up in any commodity that has no inherent value. This includes bitcoins, dollars, yen, tulips, pog caps, and gold. Arguably gold has more inherent value than anything else on that list, but again tying capital up in nonproductive activities (commodities) is not only a poor investment, it makes no larger economic sense.

> In nations where cryptocurrencies aren't outlawed, they will prosper, and those governments will have to figure out how to manage an economy with a popular deflationary currency.

This is an argument advanced without any support. Not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary. And no proof is offered that deflationary currency has any advantages whatsoever. Only hand-wavy "citizens prefer stable supply" is advanced, and I'd argue that the majority of citizens that know what they're doing prefer to invest in productive activities anyway.
I expected to get voted down. Not because what I posted didn't add value, but because this is the sort of topic I avoid in day to day conversation because it causes fights. There is too much emotion involved.

I am not saying there are not problems. I am saying that the media coverage of it is overblown, and because of that any rational thought or discussion about it is impossible. I provided a link to a document which as I pointed out elsewhere is well written, researched, provides citations and has some reasonable conclusions.

I understand it is hard to remove emotion from this sort of topics, in much the same way that discussions on climate change rapidly spiral out of control.

I had hoped that HN was beyond being a vote brigade and that posting it would produce some reasonable discussion on the topic.
Well, LinkedIn is not just targeting the techies. Recruiters use it for hunting talents in other areas too where they obviously cannot publish much on Github . And making a professional web site to market themselves is probably a little too much for their already busy life.
Stay away from mirroring PWC policies unless all your executive officers have a degree in commerce, finance, and law. Because you'll need all three to get out of the fraud charges you'll be slapped with.

The reader is invited to do some research into what companies PWC has done accounting for.
Finally, thanks from Saint-Petersburg :)
I like you, can we be friends?

This is correct IMO, because in my experience when I wear a suit or a tuxedo I feel sort of superior to others around me. This could have something to do with my personality or with the images that I have been fed or both. The idea has been implanted that "suits" == "good jobs" and "good jobs" == "good money" or "suits" == "obedience" and "obendience" == "climbing the success ladder". When I wear my black sweatshirt everyday to my engineering job, I wear it for comfort and it in no way make me look or feel inferior to other people.
What a sad and frighting story that the US has become. I wonder how many of the soldiers who died for this country would volunteer if they had known then what their fight for freedom would become.
Why programmers work at night [2011]
Really? You sound like most tech journalists two or three years ago, when the original Galaxy Note came out. They were sure embarrassed a couple months later when they turned out to be completely wrong about how popular it would be.

Try getting out of the iPhone bubble for a while - you'll find that in the real world, phablets are not just something that you make fun of.
Saudi woman dead after university refuses to let in male medics
> That Russia has a reasonable political platform regarding its LGBT citizens?

Are you saying that this position can simply be disregarded out of hand? That strikes me as disrespectful and self-important. If nothing else it is non-conducive to any actual discussion on the matter - unless all you want is an echo chamber to reaffirm your preexisting positions on the matter.

> The topic was the Google Doodle showing support for LGBT people

Specifically in relation to the LGBT issues surrounding the Olympics, i.e., Russia's "anti-gay" laws. The Russian laws are very much a part of this topic. You're being disingenuous.
I just saw a tech news organization mention this and it just seemed entirely too alarmist to be true. Turns out it was...
Getting the call to get a lifesaving transplant
It's disheartening that in 2014 the original article wasn't unanimously dismissed as the sensationalist click-bait that it is.
It's an optimization, it shows up at -O2.
I was complaining about being down-voted over what was obviously an emotional response to a sensitive topic since it was so swift. I think that is a reasonable thing to complain about.

I expected to be down-voted. I was also hoping that there would be enough people around with an objective point of view to read the paper and provide solid cited counter arguments.

I hold no stake in this. I am neither Russian or part of the LGBT community. I am interested in human rights, and I want equal opportunities for all regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender or otherwise. Torch and pitchfork attacks are not the way to achieve this.
You danced around one important point about technical debt. True professionals do not avoid technical debt, but they do account for it. That means that when we take shortcuts we should be aware of what kind and amount of technical debt we are incurring, and we should track it, probably in a similar way to tracking bugs. Then, the stakeholders of the project can look through the technical debt and prioritise which items that they want to fix and when.

The bad thing about our industry is that too many people take shortcuts and don't tell anybody about it or keep any records to assist in fixing the weaknesses that are introduced in the software. Sometimes this is malicious because a developer is trying to give the appearance of being a mythical 10x developer.

In fact, I believe that the vast majority of so-called 10x developers are actually frauds. Most people are unlikely to encounter such a developer outside of the blogosphere and conferences, unless you are fortunate enough to work for one of the big technology companies like Facebook, Amazon or Google, who have the resources to find the real McCoy.
You've got it reversed. Mining activity will be tied to the exchange rate. Total mining rewards (denominated in BTC) are constant no matter how many miners there are, so the higher the exchange rate, the more people mine as it becomes profitable for them to do so. Mining is a zero sum game.
Not sure that this is the same case, but the articles is interesting and in the comments there are some discussion about feature creep: “How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909101
Moratoriums on topics of conversation only tend to exist when people understand the terms in meanings that are directly and completely contradictory. Your statement highlights this point quite nicely because yes, people believe that either "Nazis were the most evil people ever" or "Everyone is just as evil as the Nazis given the right circumstance/context."

There are similar problems with topics like "fascism", "socialism", "patriotism", "freedom", "morals" and "religious belief"..and even Godwin's law itself.

Following that, willingness to discuss these topics is usually a sign of either incredible intellect or incredible stupidity.

Also, congratulations for not appearing stupid. I too do not find for Godwin's Law too favorably.
Every google doodle is telling you google's stance on something. Google's doodle of MLK the other week told you their stance on black rights. How is this any different, except for the fact that gay rights make you uncomfortable?
That looks like a hinting problem rather than a lack of subpixel rendering.

EDIT: Or rather, it's both, but if you can't fix one you might want to try the other. Personally I've always preferred strong hinting and greyscale anti-aliasing to soft subpixel rendering.
If it's any reassurance, I had a look at it, and although there is unnecessary signed/unsigned arithmetic, I could not find anything exploitable. Change the types of variables representing an object size, length, array index, and so on to size_t (from int) and it will be fine.
You are to kind :)
This is a ludicrous rationale.

The moment something is merely mentioned in a law, it is henceforth to be considered under the header of "political topic"? Why? Because some political strategist (or worse, lobbyist) told you it was worth legislating for or against?

Your position can be summed up as "It is okay for Google to make Google Doodles about person X until whatever person X worked on became politicized".

Why was it okay for them to make a doodle about Simone de Beauvoir but not about your fellow LGBT human beings? This is the straw that broke the camel's back for you? Really?
At the moment, those proprietary plugins execute inside an OS and processor you "fully" control. Nothing really stops you from flipping a jump statement. (Except being more complicated than that.) I believe that's what the poster was saying: what can force him on his own system.
What if you don't have a GitHub account?
You are doing something very similar to what I've done for two years. But I'm running a serious business and startup company with patent pending solutions.

Another similar thing between us is that when we showed HN for our projects, we both got 0 comment from the HN community.

So the question is why they are not more welcomed than OP's NLP solution, even if we provide more tools to save and share?

Do you have any idea? If you are interested in further discussion, I can be reached at danmark.clara _at_ yahoo.com.
Google has been doing doodles for 15 years, since at least burning man in 1998. I would have thought most people would be over it by now.
There's probably a parallel somewhere here between Jevons Paradox and this idea of what big data is all about. Jevons Paradox was the observation that the consumption of coal increased, rather than decreased after steam engines came along (they originally thought steam engines using less coal would lead to less coal consumption overall). But what happened (obvious to us in the 21st century) was that steam engines made transportation itself more energy-efficient, and created increase in demand for fuel, of which coal was the primary type available at the time.

In other words: the less costly a useful task becomes, the more we tend to do it "just because".

Seems like the author is trying to say: storing a lot of data vertically "just because" does not big data make. But the author does not fully explain why this is significant.

It is significant, though, because Jevons Paradox would predict that eventually companies will want to access so-called "frozen" data more frequently and will want to make that frequent access as cost-effective (and payload-efficient) as possible, which distributed NoSQL-type DBs do very well.
Google has always shown doodles for most of it's history, and it has often had a 1 or 2 line subtitle for certain special events, emergencies, or holidays. Egads man! It's taking up approximately the same physical space it always had, comparing this to Yahoo's portal is ridiculous.

Also, if you use the Omnibox or other search boxes in the browser, you don't even see it. You only see this if you visit www.google.com
There's a big difference between sending messages to text editor users and a logo on a website. Note that the logo is always there; it's just a little different this time.
Slashdot stopped working well before Malda left. More ads, desiring to become an Engadget style site filled with videos (almost all seeming like paid segments by the interviewee), and native advertising. I suspect his influence waned greatly near the end and things only got even worse after he left.

Nothing has really yet replaced it in quality, but that is only due to the stubborn userbase that clings around. Even us stalwarts will eventually give up the ship, though and say goodbye to our three and four digit UIDs after being thoroughly fed-up with the direction the site has taken.

I keep looking for a new home on the internet, after about seventeen years on slashdot. I haven't found one yet. Places have a user base that is too fleeting. Or a poor signal to noise ratio. Or a poor curation/submission process. Or a poor discussion system. Or awful moderation. Or too much moderation. Or they mix in too much non-tech/geek content.

Really, it is kind of sad. It was an almost daily part of my entire adult life, stretching back to late '97. That, usenet, and IRC have been the most enjoyable, content-filled, tools I've ever found and each filled with a great group of people.
Utah, while prohibiting gay marriage, nevertheless still let gay people meet (gatherings), distribute information, and speak publicly about the topic.
Doesn't this defeat one of the purposes of Javascript CDNs, that the user already has the exact url cached on their machine?
Interestingly, there's a section of Judge Alsup's ruling regarding this incident, nearly all of which (paragraphs 72 through 76) has been redacted.
At 2:37 in the video, the "special software" that allegedly showed that the computers had been hacked is a tcpdump revealing nothing but pings and DNS PTR queries.
Very interesting article. Just wish it explained what medisas actually does. Also slightly amused that they really seem to stick to the priotizing by having a website that's simple and not minding that it's slightly broken: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8gk8om9gnsujhte/Screenshot%202014-...

Edit: Huh, looks like they don't even have a product yet.
So I don't understand, Brackets is their open source branch but Edge Code will be their officially supported release?
Hah, indeed. I consider myself an "embedded developper", imagine my confusion a few years ago when I started needing mmap() to access registers...
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Probably not many people are going to read a 72 page document about a topic when the media has already told us what to think. Sad but true.
Quantified Self: The algorithm of life
i think this makes it confusing for the casual, first time learner.
duckduckgo also censored their logo for the SOPA protest[1]. Better go Bing!

[1] http://searchengineland.com/google-blackens-logo-to-protest-...
Which Youtuber was this?
ReactOS has spent a LOT of time and effort remaining in the clear legally. It would be a hell of a lawsuit but after the dust settled, it would be in favour of ReactOS barring a freakish reversal of precedent. They have taken the same approach as Pheonix Technologies used back when they cloned the IBM BIOS and sparked the dawn of the Wintel/IBM Compatible era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_th...
I'd say it's more like a tradeoff than defeating the purpose.

And not as much of a tradeoff if a lot of nearby visitors have also visited the same site, or users visit it frequently.
If I recall it required a full local cache of the remote folder.
I found that very strange. It doesn't even look like the original box.
I can't imagine how that could go wrong...
Disturbing. I'll be keeping a close eye on you for signs of megalomania from now on. :-)
What I don't understand is what you gain by adding the ability to store images? Is the point to reduce the need to use imgur? Yes, imgur is adding the ability to add comments to images, but their functionality is a far cry from that of reddit. Let's assume they add for w/e crazy reason the ability to have nested comments and groups with admins and other similar things. Only at that point are they really encroaching on reddit's ground, except, they've just manage to make a rather limited imitation as it's only for images. And even then, how does it hurt reddit? Reddit is an aggregator of largely varied content. Imgur simply isn't and can't be.