skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not heard that suggestion before. I have heard to not use your medical insurance, or credit cards, and avoid a formal diagnosis. I believe the service provider is required by law to keep records for their legal liability, but that will depend on the laws covering your area (e.g. state and federal laws for US).
Viceroy Query, A query language developed for Viceroy ORM
Oh boy, where to start?

* Swartz did not create something novel. Tidbits did.

* Swartz was not an MIT student. Tidbits authors were.

* Swartz violated policies/rules of a couple non-profits (MIT and JSTOR). Tidbits did not.

* Swartz misused MIT computer resources. Tidbits did not.

* Jurisdiction in Swartz' case made sense. It doesn't make sense in the Tidbits situation.

* Swartz' case was a federal incident. Tidbits incident is (currently) a state of NJ matter.

* Swartz was charged by the feds. Tidbits has not (yet) been charged by anyone.

Whatever opinion you hold about Swartz' case, I think you should understand that it's not very similar to this one, outside of the fact that MIT is involved in both.
Ohai! (I presented that Angry Birds bot at PyCon.) My bot is now called "Tapster" and I continue to make improvements. It's completely open-source; I'd love to expand the community of game-playing bot fans. (http://tapsterbot.com) I even created a 3d-printable LEGO Technic-compatible building material to make the bot. (http://bitbeam.org)

I'm working on training Tapster to play Flappy Bird. I'm going down the route of webcam + OpenCV.
Quite. The creator could just as easily choose such a physics for obscure aesthetic reasons, or reasons for which we have no concept at all. Furthermore, we have no way of knowing whether "resource constraints" are a meaningful concept outside our little physical universe, either.
I meant that they were corrupt, they hid everything from the EU, took their money without fixing much of anything, then the truth came out and shit hit the fan.
I don't exercise as I yet have to see data showing me that exercise will increase lifespan by longer than the time invested doing it. Add the opportunity cost of the lost time to the picture as well. Same with sleep. A couple of hours less sleep is a pretty significant increase in real and meaningful lifespan. Will sleeping 8 hours increase your lifespan by a bigger percentage? No, not really. What I definitely think is stupid is overeating and then running to the gym to "burn" the excess calories. First, exercise makes you hungry. Second, are you aware of the vomitories in the Roman Empire - this isn't much different. Every expert will tell you that nutrition is more important than exercise. To me, studies about exercise are low quality as people who work out usually watch what they eat as well. Also, it could be the lower abdominal circumference of those who work out, which is a good health predictor. Anyway, I think walking 20-30 mins a day and having sex is what is natural to us. Anything else leads to tear and wear (especially, cartilage), increased metabolism, and aerobic exercise is a significant source of reactive oxygen species, so, you really need to load up on antioxidants before such workout. The slower your metabolism is, the longer you will potentially live (extend odds of getting cancer, hitting the Hayflick limit later, etc.). Intermittent fasting as a caloric restriction regimen seems to be the best option of life extension, which means, two meals a day, even better with one (Warrior Diet). Not having to worry about snacks and eating so often also extends your meaningful lifespan. I'm sure some gym nazis will downvote me, but whatever - I've invested enough time researching different alternatives of having longer and happier life and I know what's best. The only thing I know I should be doing better is stretching. I highly recommend The Longevity Project book - it debunks a lot of myths. Good Calories, Bad Calories is also great although it has a lot of enemies especially in the face of vegetarians and vegans. I believe in it's main point as I've increased my caloric intake by hundreds of calories a day, but my weight has actually decreased. I'm not saying all that Taubes says is right, but if there's one thing I got from the book is the realization that human metabolism is oversimplified, it really is not a simple arithmetic formula with just addition and subtraction. Hormones, for example, are very important, and you can talk to people with thyroid disease (hypo or hyper function) to hear how eating less can make you gain weight and how eating more can still make you lose weight. Due to environmental toxins (including those in foods such as endocrine disruptors, antibiotics, etc.), things are getting more and more complicated. Add the fact that our gut microbiota is totally out of whack and things get ugly.
When will big companies value personal information enough to encrypt it along with credit card information and hashing passwords? We encrypt all personal information at Miniand, and I do realise it makes it very difficult to query data, but I believe that's an inconvenience that needs to be accepted.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of ReST, but why is "/topic/add" a bad API endpoint, and why should verbs be avoided? How else would you get the "Add Topic" form?
It seems really hard to get from the top to bottom or bottom to top some of the time.
Viceroy ORM is as of yet unreleased, but here is our query language and implementation to use as you wish.
Other people think this way e.g. "The Earth's creation, according to Mormon scripture, was not ex nihilo, but organized from existing matter." If God did not create the earth out of nothing, but rather organized it from existing matter, it's not that much of a jump to assume that He doesn't run simulations with infinite memory either.
12-year-old builds low-cost Lego braille printer
Dragonfly was/is by far the best debugger of any browser. I still use Opera 12 so I still use it, but for how much longer remains to be seen... I don't have high hopes for the new Opera being supported on Linux and even if it is, dragonfly is gone.
That doesn't really disrupt the system though. It's not causing issues for anyone who hasn't had their card canceled and reïssued.
I used to have all my (private) email at a shell account with ukshells. They used to run qmail, so I had lots of <sitename>@<myusername>.ukshells.co.uk emails associated with various services. I forgot to reset a number of them when I moved to hosting my own email.

I've also had a work email that was deleted (when I changed work), and a college email that was deleted (when I changed college).
`/topic/add` would be a fine URL to return the form HTML, the "RESTful" API would be like `POST /api/topic` where POST implies create and topic implies, well, topic.
What about not being able to raise that first round?
There is a lot to like about the EU, but its restrictions on speech (Google is NOT convicted of antitrust violations, this is not a structured settlement, this is extortion) and its censorious libel laws are not among them.
Gmail's HTML-only mode works fine in Opera 12, and unless you really like the (imho slow and bloated) interface of regular gmail, it is better. The only issues I had were bulk deleting spam and trash, it took me only a 5 line userscript to add a "select-all" button and the problem is solved. Also worth mentioning that this interface isn't exactly html-only, it still has some assisting javascript like automatically completing typed addresses from your contacts.
Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created
I got a deal from Comcast for 50mpbs down (their blast package) and the lowest cable with HBO. If I were to get just the internet, it would be the same price. In fact the deal I got lasts a year while just the internet lasts only 6 months and then goes to full price. It made more sense to just get the TV as well since getting local channels is kind of useful for news and weather.
Since credit card info is safe, is there a way for names, addresses and phone numbers to be obtained through kickstarter other than through customers providing it to projects so they can have rewards sent to them?
I might attract a lot of flack here for saying this, but lobstr.es is a lot HN could have been, alas it is yet to get some serious amount of participation.
Love the idea. It is dead simple and works well. Going to show to a few freelancer friends.
Amen.

Speaking as someone who has suffered in a similar way and subsequently gone on to interview developers myself, may I state: interview / test conditions will invalidate everything that you think you can discover about a candidate.

Live coding tests, logic problems, whiteboard exercises; all of those things will definitely rule out some genuinely great candidates. In an industry where jobs seem to outnumber competent applicants, I genuinely think softer, subtler interviews represent a much better approach.
Smug, presumptuous article. I cut my cord over a decade ago and have no desire to watch TV or Netflix (especially not to watch MPAA films) on the Internet. I have no interest in paying a "Comcast tax," and if that means no movies or Internet television, fine. TV is verboten here. A time sink with an infinite opportunity cost.
How Facebook and the transgender community finally fell in love
That is probably because American isn't the opposite to socialist. The USA has many socialist aspects, it just doesn't like to think of them as socialist. Free education is socialist. Medicare for the elderly is socialist. The NFL has many aspects of socialism. The laws on state funded research being made available to the public are socialist. NASA is socialist.
I'm glad to see someone call this circus what it is.

Yes, these people are imagining the unimaginable and then making certain predictions concerning the qualities of the processes?

If a "simulation" was created by some intelligent entity, how could we know what error corrections it would have, what short-cuts it would involve, how fine or coarse-grained the steps involved would be and so-forth? Any "necessary flaw" we might imagine would be something these much smarter and advanced entities would imagine and compensate for. As others have noted, Quantum effects imply you couldn't have a 1-1 simulation of very much in a universe resembling this one. But since our whole universe is supposedly being simulated, what reason do we have to assume the simulating universe has the same laws? But then what reason do we have to make guesses about the form "anomalies" would take??

On the other hand, indications that events in our universe are happening the context of some sort of "substratum" doesn't mean at all such a substratum was created by an intelligent entity - quantum effects "simulate" Newtonian effects but QM isn't a computer but simply deeper level of reality.

It's hard to describe all the different fallacies that seem to be at work.
It's too hard, even with the right answer 10/10 times I can't get through the first pipe.
A concise refresher, thank your for sharing.
Nike Designer Says Self-Lacing 'Back To The Future' Shoes Will Arrive In 2015
It's a trivially simple program, written in a dead-end language, has a ridiculous architecture, and there appears to be no prospect of changes to the open source version being propagated to the production HN. Doesn't seem particularly odd that nobody has forked the code. If you want to run a site like this, writing a clone seems like the rational choice.
Can you link to some of these studies you mention? Would love to read them. Thanks.
That is precisely the sentiment revealed by my comment, from being a long time lurker from reddit and finally switching over to HN full-time. The novelty of widespread intelligent discourse will wear off soon enough the more I participate.
Might be more persuasive if Huntsville hadn't been relocated to Alaska. Climate change is enough of a challenge to civilization without adding violent tectonic drift.
One of the things that I'm surprised about is how WiMax didn't take off. I used it for quite a while and was really happy with it, but when I moved to a more rural area it didn't work. Still know people who use it happily.

I am one of those who watches no cable TV but still pays for and deals with Comcast. It's a necessary evil in my opinion, and something I just live with.

But WiMax providers could get their act together and smash them, I'm just not sure why they haven't.
They have no jurisdiction whatsoever. Students with help of EFF have rightly directed the State of New Jersey to the nearest cliff from which to jump.

https://www.eff.org/files/2014/02/03/rubin_v._nj_complaint.p...

I have no idea what they are smoking of late in New Jersey but the entire state government seems dysfunctional / delusional.
Not sure why this was up-voted as a productive comment, but I'll bite. Why is this ridiculous? I mean when you hold almost 99% of the search market (in Europe at least...in the US there's a bit more competition) you can't pull off these kinds of anti-competitive moves.

Google has a bunch of smart people, and they knew that they weren't going to win this case -- what they were doing was blatantly against antitrust laws.
Yeah, I guess "Kevin likes Acme Inc's discount this week" is more accurate.
Well, we did build a Persona SSP so you could use it with Outlook, Exchange, CIFS. The protocol spec is in draft-howard-gss-browserid. Very little interest though.
Huge collection of vintage Jewish ads, packs and printouts
Performance makes it unplayable.
How can snail mail addresses and phone numbers be obtained through kickstarter, since credit card info is 'safe'? Are there instances, other than customers providing this information for rewards to be sent, in which this information can be accessed?
Grr, no pinchzoom across their website
I still find it a bit odd that the 3-day week before I go on vacation is probably my most productive, focused week. It probably has to do with focus and weeding out the distractions with the "I need to get this done by Weds night, so can we talk when I get back?".

I've worked a sustained 60 for a lot of years and done back-to-back 80's. I just don't think I was super productive. My most personally productive run was on a job that I had 4 hours in the morning to program and was doing something completely different in the afternoon.
US law firm representing Indonesian government caught in NSA spying web
T4 = Software Engineer III, T9 = Distinguished Engineer. I'm not sure if other places have Distinguished Engineer titles, but it's basically the engineering ladder equivalent of a high-level eng Director or low-level VP, supposedly "People who have made critical contributions to Google or industry-changing software developments." Basically Jeff Dean level post-Bigtable.
I've been following this for a bit and I'm satisfied at the outcome. I don't "hate" Google by any means, but they get away with a lot of sketchy behavior simply because of their brand and with a cult hacker following.

Nevertheless as someone who has tried to run campaigns with Google before and had to go through the hassle, this is a step in the right direction towards allowing better competition.
What do you pay for the 5 mbps?

I'm at $75 / month for 15 mbps, with a cable company called Shentel (50mbps is $140 with them).

I see other people complain about paying $70x for 25 or 50 mbps. I'd love to have that value proposition.
What happened to working and sacrificing towards a single goal? Would you say the same if the project was to bring water or electricity to a few remote villages or parts of a city somewhere?

I'm not saying it's a must - everyone decides for themselves - but some might think it was all worth it even if someone else got all the recognition.
this is the first flappy clone that really responds well in mobile browsers

not sure if its just me, but this is the 4th or 5th one I've tried but the only one that played well.
Here's why I won't use it if I have any other option: As an example to see if it's still an issue -- I tried clicking your islington.cc "sign-in or register" button. I'm greeted with a popup saying "We are sorry, but currently your browser is not supported. <firefox logo> Persona works with Firefox and other modern browsers". The browser I'm using? Firefox (ESR 24.whatever is current). Closing the pop-up and trying again worked, eventually. This happens about a third of the time I try to use a persona-based sign-in.
I read it as Fermat's Last theorem.
Never could pass the first pipe, and i am good with math >_<.
What is it with text based websites like this disabling pinchzoom?
Yes use suggests not proves
As they used to say in the army, no matter how good you are, no matter what you accomplish, you'll burn out in 10-15 years and be replaced by a young 20-something willing to do what you can't.
What are you talking about, the performance is quite good to me, even in firefox, and i am running a low spec netbook.
This causes another problem. Even if you have a lot of coins from a former transaction, when you spent a little the remainder coins (change) have to be blocked for 1 hour (6 blocks) until the transaction is "confirmed".

The standard client just assumes that the transaction is legit and you can use the remaining coins immediately. But to use these coins the program has to know the ID of the transaction.

But due to the malleability, it's possible that the ID that is generated in your client is not the same ID that is finally added to the blockchain. If you use the original ID and it is changued, then the next transactions will be invalid. So you must wait to see the final ID and use it to create the next transactions.
They are not selling an image, but one of the few laptops that doesn't completely suck. If I could buy a 13" PC with a 2X screen and a trackpad that worked for $1200...that would last...I would totally be all over it.

So Apple is completely gone from the <$1000 tier (let alone < $600), and their laptops are generally acknowledged as the best. And here I am personally with a more expensive X1 Touch Carbon that is actually much less (touch, but low res screen + a trackpad that doesn't work).
Doesn't the US have barriers as well? If you look at the problems Tesla have selling cars in Texas, or the issues Uber have been having with taxi law, it would seem that the US is far from perfect in this regard either.

On the World Bank economic rankings of the easiest place to start a business, which is what Forbes have been using to bash France, France does score rather badly at 41st place, but the US is only at 20th place. Mind you, I am not sure if I should take these figures all that seriously. Rwanda is 9th, apparently, while being 53rd on ease of getting electricity.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
200 Must Know facts on SEO
KickStarter Security Breach
Experts concerned scientific advances are giving rise to neoracism
Please increase the distance between the pipes.
Isn't (part of/some version of) hn already open source?:

http://arclanguage.org/install

https://github.com/wting/hackernews

Is the current hn very different from the arclang forum?
I always hated them! I spent endless hours making things load faster and the designers would always kill my effort by pushing Typekit. I think the average user cannot tell the difference anyway. I won't even mention how big our bills were at the last two large e-commerce properties we used Typekit!
If you fill the text and url in the submit form, then url is dropped and only the text is shown. (Yes it's a strange behavior.)

Usually, you should fill only the title and url, and if you want to say something add a comment later.
Not much better in Ohio:

Federal Income Tax 28.0% ($89,350-$186,350 bracket)
Self-Employment Tax 15.3% ($0-$117,000 bracket)
OH State Income Tax 4.7% ($83,350-$104,250 bracket)
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Total Marginal Tax. 48.0% ($89,000-$104,250 bracket)

If I was you I'd consider a job in California. We are always looking for people to help pay for the underfunded pensions of state workers who retired in the 1990s. And we never have cold weather.
In Europe, most countries have a reasonable solution: The incumbent telco in most countries have been required to separate out the business unit that owns and operates the cable sufficiently that it can be accounted for separately.

This business is then generally required to provide equal access to anyone on a "cost plus" basis exactly because the cost and complexity of laying new cable is considered a massive barrier to competition, and besides we don't want a ton of companies digging up the street all the time or erecting new poles.

E.g. in the UK, the "last mile" of all landlines installed by BT are now handled by BT OpenReach. Consumers can call their preferred ISP or phone provider and ask them to take over the provision of services on the line, and the ISP deals with BT once you've authenticated the request.

The service is then either provided via backhaul over BT's network - that is, the ISP provides a few central nodes where they interface with BT, and hands over a raw data stream from each subscriber at those points - or the ISPs pay (on a cost regulated basis) to put equipment in BT's echanges. The latter has the advantage that they can offer services BT can't/won't and that ISPs that depend on backhaul from BT can't - some ISPs beat BT in certain areas this way.

It's not perfect - it's limited by BT's upgrade/buildout schedule, but BT does face competitive pressure from Virgin (cable provider), and also does face the possibility that someone will able to get finance together to lay cable to compete if they don't watch out, though the latter is less likely.

But beyond the last mile, there's fierce competition.
Bitcore is designed to interface with bitcoind, so you're wrong [1]

It is designed to run server side on node.js or client side in a web browser
and interect with a trusted bitcoin node (i.e. a bitcoind instance)

1. http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/02/14/introducing-bitcore.html
Nice infographic. I still think a lot of people have the wrong idea about SEO, and chase after stuff that stopped working years ago. This seems to cover "the basics" which are the most important.

-Make your site crawl-able by Google

-Present as much information about your content as you can

-Be honest, don't try to cheat anything

-Create great stuff.

It's worked for me for years.
Well, I think the whole self-selection on who can participate has a lot to do with that. I wonder if might've been enough to simply sell accounts/memberships at this point?
Web Components development in WebKit restarts in branch
It's not really playable on mobile unfortunately
I think your all points are fairly taken, except,

* Swartz did not create something novel. Tidbits did.

Ha, what?! RSS, Creative Commons, Reddit, Demand Progress, for starters.

Edit: Okay, a few people have pointed out the context of legal action being pursued against against individuals. I suppose I'm being reactionary, so I withdraw my point.
You mean like rdiff-backup, which I've been using in production against millions of files for more than half a decade without a single problem?

It may be that some languages or runtimes host consistently more reliable software than others, but I'd bet that the individual programmer, coding style and practice have more of an effect on reliability.
You Can Dance (If you want to)
bitcoind is not designed to scale at all. Just look at the transaction malleability issue that has been terrorizing the exchanges. This has to do with them writing shitty wallet software to overcome bitcoind's limitations.

We need more implementations that interact with the blockchain that work at scale. However, this Bitcore just seems to sit on top of bitcoind, making it not very interesting imho [1]

It is designed to run server side on node.js or client
side in a web browser and interect with a trusted bitcoin
node (i.e. a bitcoind instance)

1. http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/02/14/introducing-bitcore.html
Love the smell of Monopoly in the morning.