skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jacob, that makes perfect sense. Yes, I suspect people are getting good ROI that know how to navigate the fakes. But the reality is that facebook could easily create "don't allow likes from someone with more than 5+ likes in their account" rule. Why not? You're probably not getting any mind share from them anyways.
I thought everyone knew these days that you have to talk to a manger to get anything that's not in the script?
Well there seems to be a certain exploit going around on FB. it a picure that claims "hack anyone's account by opening their profile and copy pasting this code into the webconsole" where said code uses you logged in credentials to make FB API calls. The version i saw made you like a bunch of pages, follow a bunch of people and tag all of your friends in the comments to that picture. But I wonder if same can be used to change the privacy settings
In a large enough sum, almost any crypto-currency is worth the hassle involved in conversion. For Doge's current position, I'd argue that it is worth it.

In fact, if HN really wanted to make a dent, maybe 'mining for Richard' would be a worthy campaign given the mining power likely at the community's disposal.
Why Don't Schools Teach Debugging?
If you don't want a static IP, you can use anthing on their approved list:

http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/

(Which has all the usual SB* suspects).

If you want a static IP, AFAIK, you still have to use what they give you.
I'f you can get a vpn into Canada it's even better, CBC has every event on demand as well as highlights, etcetera for free. As a Canadian, it's wonderful and reduced my productivity by 90% the past few days.
Well not saying anything about porn itself but I believe we are in universal agreement to keep children away from porn.
I've been using an app called Concentrate (http://www.getconcentrating.com/) for probably 5 years that does the same thing, but it also lets you define apps and services to block (so for example, if I want to get really focussed, I block my Mail app so that I can't check it for the next hour).
Great, another tool that decreases my motivation to actually work on sharpening my lagging calc skills.
Stripe is often cited as a good one -- lots of libraries you can hook into regardless of your programming language, and no CC information is stored on your servers (helpful to meet compliance laws).

I haven't used it myself, but it's where I will turn when I start building out an application I'm working on to include payments.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/2014
Need UK IP of course, get hola.org plugin

Canadian stream is also live after midnight here: http://olympics.cbc.ca/index.html it will have an option for live streaming whenever it's back on.
> Who do you think portrays them on tv and in movies? Fake women? Give me a break.

Oh, I had forgotten actresses write their own roles and pick their own wardrobes. And since most producers are women [0], most directors are women, most writers are women[1] and most people behind the scenes are women [2], I don't know what I was thinking. You're absolutely right: Men really have no influence on the process at all.

/sarcasm

>>When a man draws or designs a female character with "sexy" clothing, it's likely sexualizing that character for male viewers to ogle. When a woman decides to dress that way, it's personal expression.

>I like how if a man does it, it's sexist, but if a woman does it, it's "empowerment." I guess men aren't allowed to write empowered female characters. And yet, if they don't write them--that makes them misogynists, too.

I'm comparing a woman's personal choice to a man's choice of how women are portrayed. Men can dress as they wish. What they shouldn't do is objectify women.

[0]: http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/percentage-of-wom...

[1]: http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/tv-writing-remains-white-m...

[2]: http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/15/report-women-are-st...
Gave what I can right now. It's sad when I look at what I'm paying per year on health insurance and realize that most of us are a few stray cells away from being in the same situation as Richard.
EtcML – Easy Text Classification
I agree with some of your points here, but this has to be noted.

It's not 7.5 million US residents per year, it's 750,000.

And this:

"The nonpartisan Fraser Institute reported that 46,159 Canadians sought medical treatment outside of Canada in 2011, as wait times increased 104 percent — more than double — compared with statistics from 1993."

Calculated upwards, that would be 404,000 or so on a population equal basis with the US. A lot of Canadians are seeking treatment abroad too.
Did you deal with Megapath (formerly Speakeasy) too? I will never get internet from the scumbags who bought out that once great service again.

They won't cancel you over the phone, only via the internet. And their internet thing didn't work any of the three times I tried it until (miraculously) it worked while I was telling the lady on the phone that I wasn't about to give them my new credit card number because I had not authorized the previous charges and their own cancellation page had "failed" on multiple occasions. Yet, when on the phone yelling at a supervisor, I got a confirmation that I had cancelled immediately.

I do have one possible explanation--after cancelling, it claimed that I would receive a call. They never even attempted to call (per my phone logs), but I have to think that some customer retention person somewhere had a quota that was easier to fake if you simply didn't call the customer and claimed that they had changed their mind about cancelling. I bet someone could figure out the truth by examining how many people miraculously change their mind regularly before finally cancelling....

It's been several years and I'm still mad at them. If you ever do have to cancel that service, make sure you log the exact dates and times that you cancel and document it.
You would be surprised,what some people leave behind. I'm doing some work on an app that has in-app payments, but the payments are not verified on the server to unlock o_0. This is just a big no no. I just wonder how many other companies have this same simple error.
F7 – Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS 7 Apps
Everything we know Google is working on this year
How long are these ads?
If you have an especially difficult medical problem or you have the money and want the best possible care, your hospital of best choice is probably American.

Again, do you have anything to back this up? My question isn't about there not being good hospitals in the US, but rather the assumption that the best ones in the world must be American.

Also, I think you definitely mean "and" rather than "or" in that sentence. If you have a difficult medical problem and no money, then your best hospital is going to be one that will treat you rather than turn you away for having no money.
Microsoft moves closer to launching free 'Office Online'
TIL Hinton's great great grandfather is George Boole (inventor of Boolean logic).
What has been the lowest drop in prices?
Probably. I have devoted several thousand hours of my life to L4D, L4D2, TF2 and Dota 2. Even more to counter-strike and other hl mods not even bothering to mention all the MMOs I've played.
Theoretical CPM Pricing Model with Attribution
Exactly our experience as we tried to promote our page on Facebook. blog.pubchase.com/what-do-facebook-likes-of-companies-mean/
I think it was 70k each, surely.
Far more creative than I had to be, but also far more elegant.

As soon as I figured out the bios reset jumper existed on the mobo, it was game over. I would endure punishment to just go back and reset the bios password again in the middle of the night and hop on the computer. This was the ages 12-14 probably for me; the whole elegance in execution thing hadn't really sunk in yet.
My Boromir got to 32.

Might record the runs & generate me a spreadsheet.
Nice. The taylor series capabilities seem pretty alright too.
That's not really right. The other requirement for that scheme to work is to leak the entropy_pool as well. That's why the linux kernel random source IS safe from bad hardware. Even if the hardware source is completely known by a third party, they can't discern the output from random data because it has been XORed with random data.

If it helps to think about, imagine that the evil hardware always output 00000000 for a byte of randomness. The kernel then XORs that with a byte from the entropy_pool, which is unknown to the adversary. The output byte is still completely unknown to the adversary even though it knows one of the inputs.
Not as rigorous as an academic textbook, and unfortunately ends with Core 2, but "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes (Hannibal of Ars Technica) is a good overview.
Damn right, I love how clojure hosted semantics import all the great features of their host. Like how clojurescript has only floating point numbers and coerces string to numbers when using the + operator.

In all seriousness, I mad love to Clojure, but is a different language with different sensibilities/tradeoff. Not a 'better' CL. For example, I imagine that interfacing with c code using cffi should be way easier and simpler than using JNI and then exposing that to clojure. Or having defined semantics for numerical computations.
The city that told Google to get lost
Oh jeez... seeing Rich's name made my heart jump. I worked with him in the late 90's. He's a great guy, smart dude, and he wrote some hilarious poetry about Microsoft in his code comments during his late night coding sessions. I hate to hear about what he's going through.

During the year we worked together, Rich was probably the #1 driving force in PHP support worldwide. This was a time when PHP was still gaining traction and it really needed champions like Rich. He answered thousands of questions, posted sample code, responded to emails from strangers, and basically wouldn't leave his desk night day until he'd helped everyone that came to him (often wrapping up at 2 or 3 am).

Rich is also a huge supporter of local music and when I knew him, he was as much a driving force in the Chicago music scene as he was in the PHP scene. He happily fronted the $$$ to bands to cover the costs of recording and touring with zero expectation of getting paid back and even bought a van to loan out to bands that wanted to go on tour.

Needless to say I kicked in some cash. I'm glad to see he's getting some support here. He truly deserves it.
The Great Language Game
Learning Java to do Android and learning Java to write large web and server applications for the enterprise are two completely different domains which just happen to share the same language.

I think that one can learn the basics of Java to get started quickly, but the majority of one's time will be spent learning the intricacies of the SDKs and libraries.

So the bigger question to ask yourself is whether you want to write mobile apps or enterprise apps. Pick one, and go from there. Don't worry about the language.
*requires anonymous posting
My mom sends me videos of the cat via email all the time. My level of 'cool' is such that this is the extent to which people send me videos, but a video of a cat watching Netflix on my mother's iPad isn't any different than rollerblading hijinks: email would work great for either and wouldn't involve a third party trying to extract billions of dollars from this simple exchange.

I get it that the emailing a video workflow might not be that great, but all that's missing is a good app for it. You don't need an expensive middleman trying to squeeze profits out of simple communication (Facebook, twitter, snapchat, SMS, etc) when entirely free alternatives exist and have fundamentally better foundations.

E-mail sucks because you _can't_ funnel huge profits out of it, so it hasn't gotten much attention. There is a real and huge opportunity for making communication better without trying to vendor-lock your users into ad-laden privacy hell, but it hasn't quite been done yet.

I have ideas, but I don't yet have the resources or motivation to move on it and might never. I hope somebody does though, because I'm tired of dealing with the middle-men in personal communication and afraid of the potential for abuse of power many of them have.
Definitely looking forward to seeing this progress. It certainly seems to fill a void especially in a world where it is quite common to share command line tools as seen earlier today in the post about "hr for your terminal"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7213347
I'm a soon-to-be graduated student and am job hunting, so identifying dead ends is presently very relevant to my life. What about a title like this smells fishy to you? I'm not being pedantic, I really want to know how to avoid crappy jobs.
CloudFlare also caused huge performance issues on a side project which I didn't notice until recently. I was consistently getting 1.2s+ responses on a couple of pages, and 600ms on a completely static page.

So, not only did CloudFlare not help on the pages that were truly static, it was actually making everything worse across the board. Hitting the same site with my direct.* DNS cut from 1.2s+ to under 500ms.

CopperEgg and others also kept reporting that my site was down or otherwise super slow when on CloudFlare. I'm not sure if this is because of throttling or something else that might have been in place with the CF service, but either way I was often unable to reproduce the "down"/"more than 6s" that CopperEgg kept reporting.

In short, I think CloudFlare's services sound good in theory, but I'm not sure they have figure out all the issues with scaling and performance yet. So, I cut them out... and certainly not going to be paying any time soon.
We're very happy with y'all here in Texas.
I'm having trouble finding a reference, but it's my understanding that the Dissenter (later Quaker) habit of referring to everyone as 'thou' regardless of rank is precisely what lead to 'you' becoming universal. If one wasn't a Dissenter, one surely didn't want to be mistaken for such.
Humm ... That's a mistake on my part. But this is because I'd seen another article from 2009 [5] which clearly said it was 6 million. And this article was from 2014 so I quickly read that as 7.5 million.

[5] http://news.health.com/2009/04/08/traveling-treatment/
heroku
no such app exists

when typing in phoen number and email
Rumor: Google To Begin Forcing OEMs To Certify Android Devices With A Recent OS
I keep being surprised this isn't common knowledge, but then I remember I married a Quaker
Find jobs fast and make more money, skillgigs beta has been launched
SkillGigs is an auction style job marketplace, where you build your personal brand, allow employers to compete for you (for both permanent and contract jobs) and you make more money. SkillGigs beta has been launched.
Looks pretty useful but since its OS X only, so I can't use it.

Btw, just cursious:

>Do you have a grayscale icon? I don't like colorful icons in my menubar.

Wow, are all Mac users this... particular?
So.. your argument is that because insurance companies can profit, it's not so bad? "Well, your legacy might be financial ruin for your children, or an early death to avoid that, but since most people die before they realize they're severely ill, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not arguing probabilities here, I'm arguing deductive reasoning. You are a decaying meatsack. So am I. At some point something very bad will happen to that decaying meatsack. Such an event will be absurdly expensive to treat. Since I think we'd all agree that for pretty much anyone it makes sense to have health insurance, the obvious next step is: just give everyone health insurance and take it out of tax, and simplify these things 1000 fold. (Not to mention that a single payer would have WAY more leverage, and thusly could negotiate way lower prices. And that's not a hypothetical.. that's how it works in pretty much every country that isn't the US).
Elliptic Curves as Elementary Equations
A Tale of Two Interviews, PArt 1
You're barely older than me, and I can't begin to fathom how I would handle that situation. Your actions demonstrate incredible selflessness, and a startling degree of competence in the face of something no one your age should have to consider.

Your efforts are truly amazing. I hope one day in the face of such challenges I could be half the person you are now.
Sympy is pretty awesome. I use live.sympy.org a lot with my students because you can bookmark an entire interactive session as a (long) URL. For example, suppose you had to answer the following question. Find the position of the object at t=3 seconds, if it starts from x_i=20[m], with v_i=10[m/s] and undergoes a constant acceleration of a=5[m/s^2].
Ans: 72.5[m]. Sol.: http://bit.ly/1hJS9P3

Below are some more examples of cool stuff sympy can do.

Expand, factor, and solve polynomials:

>>> P = (x-1)*(x-2)*(x-3)
>>> P.expand()
x**3 - 6*x**2 + 11*x - 6

>>> P.factor()
(x - 1)*(x - 2)*(x - 3)

>>> roots = solve(P,x)
>>> roots
[1, 2, 3]

Derive the solutions of a quadratic equation:

>>> solve( a*x**2 + b*x + c, x)
[(-b + sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a), -(b + sqrt(-4*a*c + b**2))/(2*a)]

Compute symbolic outputs of trig functions:

>>> sin(pi/6)
1/2
>>> cos(pi/6)
sqrt(3)/2

Sympy knows about trig identities:

>>> sin(x) == cos(x - pi/2)
True

>>> simplify( sin(x)*cos(y)+cos(x)*sin(y) )
sin(x + y)

>>> e = sin(x)**2 + cos(x)**2
>>> trigsimp(e)
1

Find the solution to the simple harmonic oscillator differential equation (x''(t)+w^2x(t)=0):

>>> sol = dsolve( diff(x(t),t,t) + w**2*x(t), x(t) )
>>> sol
x(t) == C1*sin(w*t) + C2*cos(w*t)

For v4.1 of my math book, I'm going to add a short sympy tutorial. I'll post a printable version of it to HN when I release, so stay tuned ;)
From the article:

A quick google image search of Jonathan Blow’s Braid can not only reveal that the indie darling also uses green pipes, but also uses analogues, very obvious references, to Mario’s enemies, mechanics, and story line.

indie darling
That's the pharma industry's 'America pays' system. Canada receives subsidized costs on medications like much of the world, and America picks up the tab.
Stabilizing a product in distress
The recruiter is right, it can't hurt to interview. Find out more about the company, find out if you think it would be a good fit for what you're looking for.

If they offer you the job, you've got three options.
1) take it and leave your current employer
2) keep your current job and pretend you never interviewed
3) (if you still are unsure about leaving) tell your current employer about the offer you've been made (you may not be allowed to give details, but you can give enough) and see if they counter offer.

Then, you can make an informed decision.

I think (and hope) you'll find your current employer very accommodating. If another start-up is offering you double the salary, your current employer should know they are getting a heck of a deal with you. They also likely know that 'deal' wouldn't last forever.

Or maybe they won't want to offer you more, and just expect you to stick with them for other reasons. Who knows, but you'll never find out unless you dip a foot in to test the temperature.

I hadn't done this before last year, and I have to admit, it does feel strange talking to a potential new employer while somebody else is currently employing you, but this is the new nature of the game. Your current employer (likely) doesn't expect you to stick around forever. Doesn't mean they don't care about you, they just know the reality.
>>Changing Jobs every 6 months

Regarding this. I am afraid there are some people who just don't stay at any place for a meaningful period of time. And its not like they are getting fired all the time. These people just in their full consciousness and responsibility just keep hopping jobs in hopes of a mythical super career.

In my country(India) its standard to get a ~15% hike on a job change on your current pay. The net result is you have a market full of job hoppers with hardly meaningful experience. It takes some time to come to speed in your new job and you hardly do any work in your notice period. So you essentially do some small time work in the minute period of time you serve at any company.

What's worse is these people are expensive compared to actual genuine contributors, they hardly stay and contribute anything. Since they won't be around in your company in the next 6-8 months why bother hiring them at the first place. And given that, you can't trust them with any long term responsibilities. Or any work of strategic importance.
I was curious about this, so I checked: zsh will preserve completions if you `alias g=git`.
I think you might have misunderstood my comment. Consider where your friends will be after they graduate.

If they're having financial trouble now, those trouble will likely be exacerbated when they first try to enter the workforce.

I'm advocating that companies not only extend financial support to students, but offer ongoing assistance to those students as they try to start their careers.

I think your friends - and all young professionals - could benefit from those incentives.
Nice to see English on here. I’m one of the more active users there (Jon Purdy) and it’s a great resource. :)
recurly.com

memberful.com

spacebox.io
I wasn't criticizing the project, just responding to comments.

And I appear to have said "new users" when I really meant "beginners".

Experienced programmers as new users will stick if the language is appropriately expressive. Beginners will stick for different reasons and the only people who really seem to have a handle on beginner programmers from a professional standpoint is the PLT group of Racketeers. Pretty much everything else I see about beginning programmers is based on anecdote and personal opinion not the quality of data Felleissen has collected.

In all seriousness, I hope you're not suggesting Common Lisp, never mind a non-standard version of it, as a beginning programming language in the typical case when much more suitable Lisps are available and under active development.
I thought in Texas it was all y'all.
Can you explain this more? From what I understand the original function has division by '0' at those specific values of 'x'. So the final reduced form has a different domain where it is valid.
You want to be relaxed about it, so some leeway in the 9-5 is fine (and encouraged, cause who likes being doucheboss). But if they're consistently arriving at quarter past 9, and leaving before five but never 1 minute after it, that's a pretty sure sign they don't give a crap about the work they're doing. That's pretty bad for everyone.
Looking at archive.org, there's nothing but a "contact us / patent pending" text-only web page that exists of the hypothetical MtG trading card site. Also, the Wikipedia assertion appears to have been copied from Wired, potentially a seed for citogenesis[1], as Wired is the one and only source of this claim and we have no supporting evidence.

We cannot know what was reused from what, absent new evidence, as there is no public example of an actual MtG trading card site that I can find anywhere, just a quick note saying that the idea was "patent pending" and that one might someday be found there until a Bitcoin exchange popped up.

I would be quite interested if anyone has new evidence. The record, so far, is a bit thin. Perhaps the Jed McCaleb has a Github or other public repository containing items of interest?

[1] https://xkcd.com/978/
Does anyone know if someone has asked him about the infamous 640K quote?
I'm gonna upvote that just for you being a Texan and all.
CoinDesk is basically acting as regulator and transparency provider, which may be exactly what is needed in the realm of crypto-currencies as the community is supposed to be self regulating.

Many people do not believe self-regulation is possible without government's monopoly on the use of force, but many theorists do believe it is possible (and likely). It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
Hemingway's abuse of language in For Whom the Bell Tolls always drove me. He uses you in place of tu and thou as usted.
Not so much. That's farther east, generally speaking.