skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From reading some of the other message in the thread, I think Linus makes a well-reasoned argument -- so I disagree that "Eric is plainly right".

Clearly I don't know all the context, and so I am not really sure what Eric is responding (in addition to the previous message), but it seems to me that Linus has solid technical reasons for his argument. He's even trying to avoid clever ideas of favor of simple code.
Does it mean DuckDuckGo is affected by this censorship, too?
That's nice. But putting our email, IM, and VoIP out of reach of snooping would actually change things.

Actually, you can stop being obtuse here rather than farther down the thread.
I got an email from Pastebin about it.
If you're truncating by character (or WHATEVER) counts, you are guaranteed to be doing it wrong - maybe not in your native language, but in somebody's.

Heck, even in one graphemically-straightforward language you can get silliness: http://www.images.generallyawesome2.com/photos/funny/photos/...
From their home page...

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Adult lactose tolerance is the mutant phenotype-- intolerance is the norm.
I'm trying to imagine a use case for grapheme-wise truncate that wouldn't be better served by counting bytes, code points, pixels, or some sort of localized letter-counting convention.
No. You can usually buy physical at spot + 1 or 2% max. In the UK, coins like Sovereigns or Britannias are capital gains tax free, so you typically pay a bit more for them, like 4 or 5% above spot. But then you won't have the headache of remembering what you bought them for when you sell them (aside from the pleasure of saving CGT-free).
I don't work for CloudMine, and can vouch for their awesomeness. They really know what they are doing.
Worth it for long term storage like that.

These days spending old banknotes is problematic, even if they're in perfect condition.

Some people love gold, some people hate it, but everyone agrees it's the only thing that really has zero counterparty risk.
Flappy Circle
We use Burner (http://brnr.me) for various individual and company phone numbers.

Dogfooding FTW!
"The attorney general who has been so good about pushing this ban on my guns is accused of covering up the running of actual military grade assault rifles into Mexico. I'm sure he'd say, 'Well, white man's burden. We've got to make the world safe for democracy.' But they are killing millions of people."

It's pretty disconcerting that his answer to whether it's a moral issue to make widely available plans for a 3D gun is essentially "well, there are a lot of worse people out there".
I was familiar with the reasons why using self-signed SSL didn't buy you anything, but hadn't really put together how it would completely weaken the whole ecosystem until now. "Oh, that's just Verizon MITMing me like always..."
Quorum: The world's first evidence-oriented programming language
I recently came across a link to this book, which I have not yet been able to read: http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Storm-Flaws-Science-Differences/...

Published just a few years ago, it criticizes much of the research on sex differences, and from the reviews it makes a very exhaustive and compelling case. I'm curious if these are some of the studies it criticizes.

(I don't have an opinion on this either way as I have not been able to examine the evidence. But I'm very interested to see that there is so much controversy, even among scientists, on this issue).
> "the style shouldn't matter"

While I certainly advocate that parents have the right to dress their kids in varied styles, I would highly advise against certain styles. "It doesn't matter" perhaps legally, but it does matter socially. (I work in an inner city school; I'm aware of at least two serious suicide comments by kids whose ages are in the single digits, at least partly due to social status.)
enterprises want to 1) publish their own private packages in an overlay to the public packages and 2) block unvetted packages. there is a business opportunity in providing that to them.
This is an easy question to answer in the form of "do it the right way if you can afford to; do what you have to if not."

As other responders have pointed out, there are various reasons it's better for the company to provide company-owned boxes, but the stakes aren't very high in the very early days. Just make sure people aren't doing stupid stuff like not having screenlocks.
Wow, what a service.
But is that really what this thread shows? It didn't show that for me.

What I got out of the thread was that Linus had a solid & rational argument justified by actual technical reasons, which was ignored by Eric.

I did not see where Linus was leaning on pure ability.
Shouldn't they be able to find someone to take over the service? I realize that's not a big priority but still.
http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/code-for-sale/ looks to be pretty active, though I cannot vouch for it.
This isn't about Apple. This is about a shitty commute and a bad producer.
There's a list of Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers at:

http://www.mobilechameleon.com/web-services-for-use-by-mobil...
L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus by Fred Vargas

http://spoil-films-livres.over-blog.com/article-l-homme-aux-...

If you use Chrome you can click a button at the top to translate it. To read the spoiler text, just select the blue boxes to make them readable.
Yeah, we've been busy making the language, libraries, and tools great. Sorry about that.
also, how do you know this?
I had the "curse of the gifted" throughout high school and am suffering the consequences now (although I'm trying to turn things around). That said, I also had a friend who was an absolute monster. He operated on an entirely higher level of thinking than mine. Slept through class and just had to skim the textbook once to 'get it'. He would finish tests in half the provided time and get perfect marks. I ended up sitting next to him through Chemistry and Physics; we would goof off in class, and then go home and play games much longer than we should have. Then, a test would roll along, and he would get his usual 100 while I would do much, much worse. The way in which he just 'got' things was the source of a lot of malevolence and envy back then, although I've learned from it now.
"Today you... tomorrow me."
All The Places You Can Click For Love – Lifestyle
Dumping Windows credentials like a boss, inc. experimental AD replication
Those big companies used their government contacts to land some big government contracts. The government reached out to industry as a PR move, throwing money at whoever promised they could fix the problem as soon as possible. There's no altruism here.
Ask HN: Why can the same link be submitted twice?
I just submitted something second. Didn't realize it at the time, but it's true. I have several upvotes. The URL is exactly the same. The story deserves the collective upvotes, and the first guy should have my points. Why not run a de-duping first-submitter-upvoting process on submitted stories?
You can have multiple sets of instructions for the same function but indicate that only one should be active. This makes it easy to rollback a deploy for example. Also, when you do a live upgrade, there must be at least two versions exposed to the VM at one point before the switch occurs.

Easy hot code reloading is one of the great benefits from CSP.
It's worth noting that most of the predictions he made were about what consumer choices an individual would make.

This is actually a very well studied and successful field. In fact it's so successful, it makes those kinds of predictions possible, if you follow me.

Certain things are marketed to certain kinds of people because they're inclined to buy them, based on that person's self-perception.

The products/neighborhoods that are successful are the ones that are most successful at predicting what particular people will like, which in turn makes those choices more predictable for a given individual.

It's a Darwinian feedback process, almost. If the choices weren't predictable, they wouldn't have been available to have been made.
All of what led up to that was labeled as unprofessional. That was the whole point of the post.
My understanding is that defer is the broad equivalent of a Java finally block, and recover is the broad equivalent of a Java catch block. I think of both as ways of handling exceptions, although I see how the word "handle" could be interpreted in a way that makes my statements nonsensical. By handling I meant "doing the right thing", not "swallowing the panic/exception"; I apologize for the ambiguity you found.

If you do still think I have gaps in my knowledge, I humbly suggest that you briefly fill in those gaps with facts; it should save you time in the long run and will likely win you a few converts!
Lithium is pretty late stage so the stock value is probably close to reality.
Does Poe's Law apply here?

(Picture Fry meme:)

Can't tell if sarcasm, or sincerity.
YC S14, thoughts on what we will see
I'm sorry, but there are a lot of games that employ dark patterns. And there are a lot of games that frequently prompt players to rate their app. It's pretty implausible that this is a primary reason that Flappy Bird reached (and maintained) #1 for so long. If for no other reason that if a dark pattern like this were as effective as the author claims, that it wouldn't drive constant 5-star reviews.
Dear Lyft: I’ve found someone else.
There've been a few failed attempts at college-exclusive random chat (e.g., RandomDorm), but I've been thinking about trying it on Omegle for a while, in case the existing userbase would make it work better. Your comment got me off my ass, and now there's a minimum viable implementation up. Would love feedback.
let's say the trade commission was a horrifying 50%, and in the best case scenario for the other direction the treasury exchanged those bills exactly one for one. Would you rather have $1000 or gold from 50 years ago valued at $500 from 50 years ago? Even if you think gold is in a bubble, and, say worth $200/oz instead of $1600/oz, you would have far more than 5 oz worth from 500 1963 dollars.
By the way, of course I have upvoted his story now that I realize it's there. However, I don't know if the people who voted for my version have done so or not.
We've been using Gemfury[1] for our private modules which has worked out well, no problems in over a year of use.. though I'd probably switch over to npm if they offered private hosting.

[1] http://www.gemfury.com/
This puts a new spin on mtgox hate, for once something is not their fault and it appears they were honest in their announcement.
There might not be so many negative comments if the author had done a better job of defining what was so bad.

What exactly was the producer saying? No examples given.
Why didn't he even attempt to speak to HR? No reason given.
What did his co-workers say about the situation?
What was the catalyst for walking out on that particular day? ie. Why not take a day off to consider options?

I had to make a lot of assumptions to fill in the blanks.

From the information given, it sounds like he didn't like his producer and wasn't happy about the commute. Neither of which is remarkable.
I guess I really meant "is baffling without a thorough understanding of context." I feel better about looking up the + now that I know you did too, though! I don't think I've ever seen code like that in the wild, and I've never seen a Perl programmer attempt to call a sub with nested parens, like what_are((1,2),(3,4)) before.
Probably just coincidence, but it amused me that the post was signed "Carmel", which is the name of the most famous limo service in New York City.

http://www.carmellimo.com/
Concerning Niagara Falls, from footnote 9:

"The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward, its melt waters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, down to the St. Lawrence River and on to the Atlantic Ocean. There were originally five spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually, these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at the escarpment at Queenston-Lewiston. From here, the falls began its steady erosion through the bedrock."

Crazy to think that it's gone all that way (a little over 10km) in just 12,500 years.
> I really strongly encourage you to set up your students with IDEs. Have a few seminars on how to set up a Visual Studio environment, and how to debug a large codebase.

You can find lots of information about that using a search engine of your choice. Any student should be able to use Google. So there's no reason to waste teaching ressources for that purpose.
I consider defer to be part of handling exceptions, but I can see how we differ here.

We're seriously drifting off track here, but if we should rely on Go to check array indexes, that seems like you _would_ want a recover block, so that we can map it to a Go-preferred error code?
There's a distinct difference between disapproving of men who dress as women and believing that they shouldn't be allowed to do so.
How about for someone who keeps a perpetually clean history? I really hope I won't need to disable the new tab page just because a bunch of sites I'm not interested in keep appearing every time I clear my browsing history.

I can of course pin sites so that they stay after clearing history, but what if I don't have 9 pinned? Will a handful of sites I don't care about constantly appear?
Radiohead Polyfauna
I was on a pretty good run and died unexpectedly. The collision detection felt a bit off as I'm pretty sure it shouldn't have hit the edge. Still it's a fun little random diversion.
Holy shit. I would never work with someone who addressed me like that after I asked an honest question. It's a wonder that there are enough competent people working on Linux who are willing to put up with this. Getting a message like this once would lead to a personal e-mail or in-person conversation explaining that this is in no way an acceptable way to communicate with me, followed by a prompt beeline for the exit if it occurred again.

I knew that stuff like this goes on in mailing lists; I've grown up in the computer culture. But seeing this as an adult, after learning some people skills and how interpersonal communication works, it's really shocking what to see kind of destructive tone prevails in some prominent tech circles.
Thanks, this is good to know.

The other large component which gets thrown around is engagement. It seems as if only companies like flurry would be able to discern this sort of information. Anything on a large scale with an embedded sdk that reports engagement really.
New email gateway release based on FreeBSD 10
> But sadism is very rare, in reality.

But the power of the internet can magnify the effect of a single sadist to the point that it affects a million people (up to the limited extent that such opportunities exist).
Finally, a startup that recognizes that people do get married and do have kids. I know, I know... seems totally nuts. But it happens to the best of us.

Now if you could just help me get them from point A to point B, that would be even better.
I wouldn't say zero! Also, moving forward things like planetary resources could challenge the stability of gold, but it's still pretty good and fairly liquid. For me, it proved more liquid than bitcoin; Exchanging bitcoin took 3 days coinbase + ACH; I liquidated a gold piece in an afternoon, could have gotten cash, but mailed a check into my bank and had the funds in 2 days (still faster than bitcoin, even with the USPS in the way)
How has this story not died yet? The critical point for reducing gun violence is obviously downstream of manufacturing the gun. Further, motivated people with modest training can manufacture far more dangerous weapons with other technologies.
sorry, no, you're all wrong. those employees are all taking unpaid leave to come work on healthcare.gov.
Does Google have something like CloudFront for Compute Engine? Google gives you edge-cache for free if you use App Engine, but what about GCE?
The title certainly makes an emotional appeal to me. However I could not find justification/explanation of any moral obligation in the text.

I could understand a moral obligation to fight unjust surveillance, but that is not what was presented. Why am I morally obligated to increase the cost of surveillance? If society accepts the unjust surveillance the only consequences of increasing surveillance costs are economic waste and most likely justifications for new encroachments on personal liberty.
Hear you on that, I had no discipline in high school compared to my contemporaries. Then I went to college and had my first CS classes. I couldn't handle the load, couldn't get the discipline to study between the distractions of college life and stubborn refusal to learn how to study. I ended up getting really into martial arts and that discipline transferred over. When I went back to school. Thank God for that, because I'd be in a very different place without it.
The notion that Cody Wilson actually created something uniquely dangerous is frankly absurd. Any lone nut in a town with a hardware store can make a much more effective and reliable firearm. That's not just some nonsense about what a trained person with a machine shop can hypothetically do... you can look up videos on youtube of tons of people making reliable shotguns with a 2x4", a metal pipe, and a few plumbing fixtures. Fuck-all training or expertise required, a child could do it. A computer illiterate child could do it, which is more than can be said of printed guns.

What Cody Wilson actually did (and what he set out to do) is get people talking. He did that exceptionally well. For some reason a printed gun drives home the "anybody can make a gun" message much more effectively than a 20 minute trip to the hardware store. His major accomplishment is recognizing that (well, getting the thing to work was impressive, but I think that is very secondary).
Solid point, thanks for the clarification.
Yup. I bombed calculus twice simply because I have a lot of trouble memorizing things like that. I ended up taking the sucker's way out: I took it online in a class where Mathematica was encouraged. I use derivatives and integrals pretty often now, but I've yet to need to do them by hand since.
Minecraft Universe Death Clock
Worth noting is that the median age was 58, and the minimum age was 16. Apparently there were no differences pre-post menopause, but an interesting question is whether gene expression, splicing, and regulatory networks are initiated via external factors in early youth, or in development via more automatic mechanisms.

There might be reasons this isn't the case, but it is apparently true that maternal behavior influences which parent you express genes from in mice (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616232). I'm not sure (and not qualified to answer) whether similar mechanisms are at play here, but it does suggest that evolution has found a way to use early experience to modulate genetic expression. That might be the case here, too.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more PGP/GPG fields in sign up forms?
In light recent revelations why aren't more people including PGP or GPG fields in their sign up forms. If there was a push more people would look in to it and use it?
It takes money to build things at scale. Our company has an awesome mission to empower artists by providing them with high quality exposure. Nobody is donating millions of dollars for us to do this out of the kindness of their hearts and their charity should go to starving people. That doesn't mean what we do isn't important or meaningful. In the absence of a truly charitable cause, the only way to provide this solution is by bringing in revenue and there is nothing wrong with charging for a service that provides value. Marc is saying that they look for founders doing things they find meaning in because you build something bigger when you do it for a purpose beyond money. That doesn't mean it doesn't take earning money to fulfill the mission.
I taught myself conventional programming with javascript over the last few years by virtue of my fascination with audio. The 'web audio api" exists hence a lever is in place to keep me going through the inevitable "trough of sorrow" dips.
I would probably self-identify as a libertarian (although I would be eager to qualify that), and I am very tired of statements about moral obligations.
The URLs are not the same. One has a trailing slash.

http://i.imgur.com/53N51Iv.png
Feminists believe that traditional female behavior is bad/useless and needs to be eliminated. We tell girls that to be worthwhile, they need to live lives like men. I never understood this. If people are happy and productive in traditional roles, why do they need to be eliminated?
DC protection = a <$0.01 capacitor. The bigger the value, the lower the frequency cutoff. A square wave passing through a high-pass filter gets cut off and the power is reduced.

IMHO everyone who is saying "this should be fixed by software" is doing it wrong. How much would it cost to write, test, debug, etc. the appropriate firmware/drivers? And it would still be subject to "warranty is void because you didn't use the right software". That cost could buy a lot of capacitors... and then if the values were chosen correctly, whatever the software does, it would not be able to put more power through the speaker than designed.
It applies to dictatorship, but doesn't actually tell you anything about it.
So that is why Yelp's interface is clunky and looks like it is stuck in the past. I've been wondering with all their talent why they haven't progressed much.
You wrote "secure key exchange, secure real time communication, secure storage, and secure email payload would blind the surveillance state". Now I'm not sure we're working from the same definitions of those terms.
xxbondsxx is also a fake, just of a different variety. Convincing perhaps at first glance, if you only read the first sentence of his post and moved on, but lacking any apparent understanding of the issue at hand and moreover, I suspect, full autonomy. A marketing drone.
Up voted. So Funny.
Sounds not too bad. But what kind of productive things do you do in a library all days?
But then again, the media isn't known for focusing on the most pressing issues. Simply sensationalist stories drive ad-clicks. People like us click to see of more of our rights will be stolen by the alarmists, while alarmists click the article to determine how loud to sound the alarm.
Given that most people don't have much of an understanding of economics, I'm sure this is a problem for Lyft's brand with many people, and they might want to reconsider their pricing in light of this.

But there is an extraordinary economics argument to be made in favor of increasing prices to increase supply and reduce the possibility for delays and shortages when there's a holiday or some other situation where many people don't want to be working.

That being said, competition is a great thing. Some people will choose taxis and some people will choose other things. Let people decide rather than politicians who get payouts to keep competitors out of the transportation marketplace.
How about implementing backspace in a text editor?
Yes! Transportation is on our list--right after a bunch of stuff of course. In the meantime, want to buy some camps/activities?
> (except for the bugs they've been having the past week which don't allow us to create new columns or deploy)

thanks for reminding me why i'll never outsource my app's primary datastore. 'tis a bridge too far.
Well, I sure wish this article had more explaining of what we should actually teach, instead of "go read this other article". I was waiting for the point but it wasn't there.
Publishing the design for a 3d printed plastic gun is no more irresponsible or immoral than Wikipedia publishing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick#Design
Wow thats a bit too soon. Thats why vendor viability is equally, if not more important than product features: http://blog.kii.com/?p=2204