skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But sites apparently don't care about this enough to want it, and users apparently don't care enough to demand it.

That's not apparent at all. As far as I know, lots of people never even heard of Persona. I thought it was still beta. It's just in the works, so it makes sense not everyone jumped on board. There wasn't tons of marketing even.
For reference, I actually use Disconnect and Ghostery and DoNotTrackMe and NoScript and RequestPolicy.
So I get the math right, but still can't pass through. This game is hard enough already. Make the bird glide easier.
*eyeroll :)
Aaron was involved with a lot of cool stuff, but his case had nothing to do with anything you've mentioned.
Quant Finance Strategies: “The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
That was cringeworthy. You just know that it's going to be "Spring14" next...
This is an awesome idea, but it was way too difficult for me to even get past the first pipe. The bounding boxes seem to be slightly off, but maybe that's just me. Overall a very cool idea- this could be the solution for getting children of the next generation to learn their times tables.
I don't understand most of this. For example, I don't know why you say that the async library couldn't try-catch every place that an exception might occur (mostly its calls to the functions that get passed in to it). It would be interesting if it couldn't, since then we'd have an example of something macros can do that functions cannot. But it seems obvious to me that it could; you'd just need a lot of try-catches. What am I missing?

As for domains, I don't know what you mean by them, but if they're catching errors at a higher level than the async library, my guess is that they must be some more sophisticated sort of top-level handler; perhaps something that keeps track of which async calls are in progress and attempts to bind exceptions back to their context? Whatever it is, it sounds complicated.

But what I understand least of all is how you guys all seem to write Javascript code that generates almost no exceptions. To me that sounds almost like bug-free code. No null references, for example? I get stuff like that all the time.
beering is clearly speaking within the context of the Swartz's legal troubles. Within that context, beering's comments are valid.
well I think you missed out on playing video games together with friends in any of their available houses? playing multiplayer halo and just hanging around were some liberating times away from home growing up for me.
Here's why I think people down-voted you:

>> Edit: Downvoted? Really? I Give 3 solid points of constructive feedback here. If you disagree with something here please let me know.

Probably because your tone was extremely aggressive. You think you provided feedback but it feels like you're trying to destroy the project. I'm not saying I thought that, but here's how it can be understood:

>> How'd you get upvoted so fast?

Sounds like "You're a fucking cheater, you gamed the system"

>> What are you using node? You don't explain how to run the server at all.

Sounds like "Using node is fucking stupid, and your doc sucks".

>> You got the POST part right, but you should be POSTing to a resource like.

It sounds like "What you built is crap because you didn't follow the X 'best' way of doing REST queries".

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Maybe it's because english isn't your main language. You could be geniously giving good feedback but it just doesn't *sound like it.

Maybe instead of:

>> What are you using node? You don't explain how to run the server at all.

it could be:

Why did you decide to go with Node? By the way, it would be great to have some documentation on how to start the server.

Etc.
s3r3nity, you are hellbanned for some reason. These four posts of yours are marked dead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246436

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246429

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246429
Children Exposed to More Brain-Harming Chemicals Than Ever Before
This is painful to read. Not because of the poster's anxiety but because of his unwillingness to refuse these types of interviews completely.

If you have a reasonable amount of experience and a track record of actually delivering working software that people use in the real world you don't need to subject yourself to this nonsense. Sure refusing these types of interviews means you won't be considered for certain jobs at certain companies but do you really want to work for a company that is so foolish as to run candidates through a series of standardized tests and ask them to do a bunch of tasks under a microscope that are completely unrelated to the job you'd be performing? A lot of the companies that employ these ridiculous interview tactics are staffed by people who have deluded themselves into believing that their lightly used web app requires elite programmers.

There are plenty of good opportunities for half decent devs at companies not staffed by people who want you to spend 8 hours whiteboarding algorithms but won't take time out of their day to read your resume, review your code samples and ask you relevant questions about your experience.
You do realize that what you just said comes across as very smug?
Why Innovation Has Stalled
Their being invitation only and their policy of holding users responsible for anyone they invite suggests they want as little participation there as necessary.
Except that you're actively doing the killing. Not letting someone die of hunger is not something anyone has an obligation to do.
I don't think you even read half my comment. If you had, you would have seen that I already pointed out that there are big differences between the two cases, and that I noted two of the more significant differences, both of which you repeat in your list. Furthermore, the last sentence of my comment already recognizes that the difference in response may be attributable to differences between the cases, rather than other factors. So what are you criticizing?

Nevertheless, I do think that the idea that these cases are completely unrelated is off the mark. The most significant PR challenge that Reif has faced in his tenure has been the Aaron Swartz case, and his response to that case has been roundly criticized in the national press (albeit most vociferously by people close to Aaron).

Regardless of what you think of MIT's response in Aaron Swartz's case, you must recognize Reif would be remiss not to recognize the parallels between the two cases: parallels between the narratives, parallels in how MIT community members (and the hacker community generally) have reacted to the narratives, parallels in how the press will likely report on both cases. From a PR perspective, this story can easily become a continuation of the Aaron Swartz affair, if MIT is not careful.

This letter may not be a cynically calculated PR response meant to deflect the kind of criticism MIT suffered after the Aaron Swartz tragedy, but it can nonetheless be assessed in relation to MIT's response to Aaron's arrest. At minimum, this letter is a recognition that a university can insert itself between prosecutors and students, and stand up for its community principals when they are under assault.

Supporters of Aaron Swartz have been looking for precisely that from MIT for quite some time.
68% of Western Union users are unbanked. You think people who live on Cash, because they need absolute liquidity are going to user BitCoin?
Yea the rule that odd numbers always have the last bit set is all you need to win 75% of the time
Adobe's update to patch remote access
For Polish doctors it's also a chance to work for tolerable wages, escape paperwork and underfunded hospitals. In Poland, a doctor is a subcategory of bureaucrat who is primarily concerned with health and occasionally glances at you over a pile of papers.
Exactly what is missing in the US! Here, there are ample legislation for telephony-related services, but none that enable competition within the last mile of internet service providers.
>it may take a lot of computational mass to simulate a person

I don't understand much of what's going on here, but couldn't it possibly take virtually no computational mass in order to simulate a person? I mean, if you tie the whole system together such that if you simply switch the smallest of switches from 0 to 1 that sends out desired changes rippling out through the rest of the system, it wouldn't matter how much mass it took.

Why does it have to take a lot of mass to simulate a person - does what's outside necessarily have to be more complex than what's on the inside?
Data is stored in memory..
Progress & a victory for the anit-smoking campaigns, in a sense. Just think how many people smoking was killing before it was demonized.
I think a requirement for a game to be in the Flappy family is that it be simple and nearly impossible.
From the perspective of MIT, Swartz broke the law and he wasn't an MIT student. If I had to guess, the way everything developed after that is probably rather befuddling to them. MIT does not have as much control over the DOJ, or the mental health of non-students, as you think they do.

By contrast, defending innocent students is part of a university's job description.
Hmm. Now I want to know what that startup is, so I can use it.
Copy of post. Original here -

http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/top-reasons-startups-fail-an...
In my case, just old-fashioned honest work and writing programs to show beforehand substantially reduces anxiety. I feel a lot more confident when I can honestly say "I wrote this and that" and talk about the solutions used.

If I was that guy, I'd try more general health solutions like exercise, bicycle, going for a walk regulary. Fresh air.
glad to help! :)
I've been waiting for a solution for non-browser use-cases before exploring Persona/browserid. I've never seen a hint of this drafts existence on the Persona website. In the presentations I've seen, Mozilla personnel have never mentioned this or have indicated that no solution is available.

Maybe I've looked in the wrong places or have not been paying attention, but it seems to me like there's a communication gap here.
It really is kind of silly. I naively started interviewing this way, basically copying big G and others who do these kinds of interviews. The problem was I was filtering for the type of programmer who enjoys these discrete, quirky, contrived puzzles, not real engineers who understand resource constraints, writing production quality scalable software, and fierce debugging. Now I find a candidate whose work impresses me, put him on a project for 2 weeks, and hire at that point if we're happy. So much better.
There is some evidence that MIT was not passive in the Aaron Swartz case, but took active steps to encourage or facilitate the prosecution:

“The report...makes very clear that MIT was actually not neutral,” Robert Swartz said. “MIT called in the police and then violated the law by providing the government with information and material from Aaron’s computer without a court order. Then they lied to me about those facts.” [0]

"When it came to the most fundamental question in the case—was Aaron authorized to access MIT’s network or not?—MIT maintains that the feds simply never asked. And MIT never spoke up. ... Bob maintains that in Aaron’s case, MIT’s 'neutrality' was in fact an abdication. By its silence, Bob says, the administration betrayed its mission." [1]

And please don't presume to tell me what I think.

[0] http://business.time.com/2013/07/31/aaron-swartzs-father-bla...

[1] http://boingboing.net/2014/01/03/aaron-swartzs-father-bob-sw...
Perhaps I should have said "threshold_height".

threshold_height = bottom_of_pipe_height + 10 pixels; // or something

if (current_height < threshold_height)
flap
else
don't flap

If you never flap when above the threshold, you will not hit the top.
I certainly wouldn't argue with that.
And please don't presume to tell me what I think.

It's normal, in human communication, to try to draw inferences by what you say and how it is said. It's really tedious to try to communicate in any other fashion.

It very strongly looks like you are in the "MIT helped to kill Swartz" camp, and your follow-up post, despite its righteous indignance, just seems to be more of that point of view.
Exclusion is passé. Offering this to everyone would be better. Incentives should always aim to be a net positive.
Preach the word. I personally do fine with 16 hrs per day. Yes I'm healthy, fit and extremely successful.
Why not inherit from List?
In the scenario outlined, there are three people watching streams for $40 Internet only Comcast service. While $50 will add TV, what the article mentions but forgets to delve into is that if those three TVs are hooked up to a cable box at $10 a piece, the bill now becomes $80 (all pretax). That's double and it certainly warrants cutting out TV service.
Nonetheless, for most people on this site using Windows, it makes sense to take the relatively simple (for HNers) steps to upgrade to Windows 8 and hide Modern UI, as Windows 8 provides various performance improvements over Windows 7, Modern UI notwithstanding.
Skematic
Cue those mythical 80 hour a week workers...
I like the happy hippo behind the mba on the landing page :)

All in all its a great introduction to the service, really well put together.
Yes: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535
it can nonetheless be assessed in relation to MIT's response to Aaron's arrest. At minimum, this letter is a recognition that a university can insert itself between prosecutors and students

You're still talking about Swartz as if he was part of the MIT community in some strongly meaningful sense. He was not.
> No null references, for example?

We write in CoffeeScript, where a null reference check is so astonishingly easy to write that you use them everywhere you might get a null. I'm not sure what other exceptions you're seeing. We do basically no math, so /0 errors aren't a problem.

> For example, I don't know why you say that the async library couldn't try-catch every place that an exception might occur

Let's build a typical function you might pass to async:

function(next) {
request.get(url, function(err, data) {
JSON.parse(data);
}
}

Let's assume the server doesn't serve JSON like we expect - so JSON.parse throws an exception. The only thing async could have wrapped in a try/catch is the main function, but we've fired off a request and then the call stack wrapped up, including the try/catch. Next, an event occurs that calls our callbacks, not going through async at all. That's where the exception occurs. The stack trace generated by that exception doesn't contain any code in the async lib, so it can't possibly have a try/catch active.

Domains are a way of fixing this. You create a Domain and bind callbacks to it - if that callback throws an exception, the Domain instead emits an error event.
Excuse me if a few years of writing securelevel advisories back in the 1990s leaves me unimpressed with the power of securelevels. :)
I feel the same way about magazines. It's dumb that they are packed with ads and yet you still have to pay for them.

This is basically the same fallacy as a Google user who thinks he is Google's customer. Magazine readers are the product for the magazine main business of selling advertising space. The reason they charge money is because paying readers are considered more valuable than non-paying readers. This sort of thing is why you'll often see magazine subscriptions selling for a few bucks on Slickdeals.
A mere bandage on the gaping wound that Disney inflicted on the public domain.
It's not a Godwinning per se; Hitler just had a notoriously bad-tasting cock.
so they're forcing Google to add paid affiliate links in search results?

if I'm an advertiser, how do your they decide which third party ad results must show on Google?
It's amazing ads are still a source of revenue at all when Adblock exists. Thanks, but if Adblock stops working, that'll be incentive enough for me to find or code something that does.
What part of the idea that data does not have to pass through the united states does she not get? Apparently all of it.
try this one, its reverse flappy birds but slightly harder than the original

http://kookiekrak.itch.io/flappy-pipes
specifically relationships between founders and investors would only be known from the parties themselves.

an objective third party analysis miss personal problems between founders 1 and 2
An Update : A lot of people are using orient db as seen from the client list on the official[1] website but there are no posts regrading the "orient db expereince"

So I downloaded it and gave it a try last night here are my impressions so far.

1. It has got an awesome documentation for both first time users[2] and those looking for in depth understanding[3] of orient db.

2. It is very easy to pick up. A no brainer installation, a familiar query syntax and a small api make it easy to pick up even if you have never experienced a graph db before.

3. It has clients in popular languages + an http api. I see that there is no client for erlang yet so I am planning to write a small http erlang client for it.

4. The default console client that orient ships with is very easy to use.

That is about it for the moment. I can't believe I missed this database before. I plan to write a few blog posts covering the use of orient db. My first impressions are positive and I am going to use it in a new project.

I would love to hear some thoughts of people who have been using orient db for a while (assuming they find this thread)

[1](http://www.orientechnologies.com/)
[2](http://www.orientechnologies.com/getting-started/)
[3](https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/wiki#reference...)
Inside Russia's Ridiculous Sochi Security Scanner
I guess if there are negative consequences and you aren't able to detect them and respond appropriately, then you'd not attempt anything. Its too dangerous for you.
I see weirder Web-font-related behaviors on both Android and Ubuntu. Specifically, either 1) spacing is very wrong, maybe as if the text was laid out with metrics from the Web font but actually rendered with glyphs from a fallback font (ex: http://imgur.com/KovolXb, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6954882 -- the page should be in a webfont (Computer Modern Roman), but it's in some generic sans with bad layout), 2) very rarely, I see text that should appear in a Web font replaced with total gibberish (random characters overlapping each other, weird spaces) until I select text or do something else forcing a repaint. I last remember the latter effect in the title text of Slate articles (viewed on Android) that shows in a position:fixed bar after one scrolls down; think I've also seen it in titles on The Verge (viewed on Ubuntu). In both cases, the title text is in a different font from most of the rest of the page.

I'm glad there's performance progress, nothing but high praise for Chrome overall. Just weird things to see.
How can you see his posts if he's hellbanned?
How Much Time Does Rendering a Partial in Rails Really Take?
I worked in both industries and while hours in restraunt industry might be longer than '40', you comparing the two makes it obvious that you did not do much in tech sector to say that.

Staring at a computer all day and writing code is way harder on you than running around the restaurant. There are also stuff like deadlines, bugs, 12 am outages and tons of other issues that always are in the back of your mind.
Really? There's all sorts of creative people all over creating all sorts of interesting things all the time. Just go to deviantArt or Soundcloud or any number of sites and you'll find thousands of talented people. Even YouTube's got creative people showing off neat things.

Or just look at the site you're on: There's all sorts of people coming up with neat stuff, and the majority of them featured here haven't died.

Inspiration takes on many forms and it's there if you want to find it. If it's true that you're not finding out about interesting people before they die, it's because you're not looking. Zina's website was there before her death right? Would it have gained as much appeal and attention without the touch of tragedy? Probably not, but only because it's "just another artist". (Edit: I don't mean this callously, she was obviously very talented and watching the video of the stuff she made wants me to make something.)

I had a acquaintance from high school that did some great work and research, though it's not mentioned a whole lot on HN. When he killed himself, though, that got him to the top of HN a few times. But you could have looked him up a week before, and his interesting code and research would have still been there. This probably holds true for a lot of people - if one of the top HN comment-writers eats a cyanide pill tonight, would you not expect headline news tomorrow?

The only real depressing part is that people are dying.

If you're really depressed about only hearing about such people in the nice summaries written up after they die, then go seek out living people doing cool stuff today!
The job of a CEO is not that difficult and that of bankers and financial firms even less so. The argument is ludicrous. While CEOs are likely necessary, many of the banking and financial positions are not.
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Users reporting Chrome delivered malware
Yes, because of the internet, your friends can take pictures of you and share them online. You won't tell them to not take pictures of you, nor will you ask them not to share them online.

That's the internet's responsibility.
What do you offer a candidate to work for you for 2 weeks? I am assuming most of the candidates already have a fulltime job.
Two things...

1. Workers that build water and electricity projects are typically unionized and get paid at least time and a half if not double for hours over 40 per week.

2. If those remote villages have gone w/o power and water for years and years there is no good reason to work excessive hours to bring those things to them a few weeks faster.
Amazing how stupid people can be even when it comes to their self interest. Seems like the GOP depends on this fact for much of their success with the poor and working class.
Glidey Cat
Oh man, I love good GFY legal documents.
There is some evidence that MIT was not passive in the Aaron Swartz case, but took active steps to encourage or facilitate the prosecution

Sadly, he wasn't a student, staff, or employee of MIT. You seem to be missing this crucial point. Had he been, I have little doubt his situation would have been handled very differently - from how they reported Aaron's actions to how they did not fight for a particular outcome.
Maybe your math skills aren't as good as you think.
...and that the bounding box hit-areas are larger than the pipes.
Based on your GitHub account, you probably have an iPhone. Care to rephrase?
You work this sustained? Then unless you sleep very little, you are doing nothing but work. I don't think this is very sustainable. Some places typically use the phrase "pics or GTFO," seems apt ... :)

Maybe it's true; I guess it is clearly possible and some people but I don't think many people could sustain or find it worth it for very long.
It would really be neat to support a simple key to flap instead if having to click (especially since soft taps, tapping on the trackpad on Mac instead of actually clicking, does not seem to work).
As a note: This is intended to be satirical, making fun of the many Flappy Bird clones and their general poorly made nature. The bad game design is on purpose! It's also to make fun of the nature of mobile games being based on bought powerups rather than skill.
$15k of computer hardware for cryptocurrency mining, $10k for build out (racks, network, AC, etc).
THis is much harder than most realize. Much harder.