skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. They do have obligation to tell me how my privacy is being protected. Morally at least. How the passwords and other sensible data are stored should be noted somewhere in the website. This applies to any site, not only kickstarter.
For large client-side databases, minimongo won't cut it especially on low memory devices. Minimongo is essentially just an API on top of a JavaScript object. And that makes it a synchronous API too. This could pose performance issues (UI locking up for example) when fetching large datasets.

Of course if you use Meteor as intended with the large data on the server and only what is required for the active view on the client, minimongo is just fine
Try the book, Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, Patashnik. I love this book, very entertaining and relaxing read.

edit: the book in the link looks just as good.
$50K per day shouldn't exempt Flappy Bird's developer from empathy
I don't understand how discrete math would have helped you in linear algebra?
This is some basic intro discrete math. How is this being upvoted?
Already got got hit with a PayPal phish trying to get my PayPal password. Clearly they are different... But seeing as they had my email they tried.
Thanks pastylegs. Love this feedback.

%: yes, we gotta fix that

menu bar overlap: that too - thanks for pointing it out.

iframe embed: a few people asked for that. we'll definitely consider it.
Argentina has been courting disaster in one form or another for at least 20 years.
Take your time and enjoy life / extracurricular activities, it's probably the best time of your life.

My mother actually told me that, but I didn't listen and tried to finish as quickly as possible because I wanted to pursue an academic career (which I did and it was short and disappointing).

I was also told to try to make as many friends as possible and keep in touch with them, which didn't quite work - too many people I started out with dropped behind of schedule with classes and so I didn't make many friends.

My own advice (from hindsight) is to not be too ambitious with Master / PhD thesis subjects, unless you're certain you'll become the next Alan Turing. Always consider whether it seems doable in a reasonable time. Your ambitions and priorities will change and you only live once (as far as we know).
> But stop imposing onto others what is right or wrong when there are so many factors at play.

...

> Oh and definitely exercise every week.
make it work with oauth, then at least i can support it without redoing my entire session system.
If you learn that all actions `a` from state `s_i` have very low reward, does that propagatet backward to `s_j,a` that feed into `s_i`?
Discrete math usually serves as an introduction to methods of proofs, which would most definitely help with linear algebra.
The GIF shown on this page makes it look like the input space could simply be pipe height and bird height.

https://github.com/zachhuff386/flapbot
It would by introducing Boolean Math and as an intro into logic + proofs.

Aside from that, it's a requirement to take descrete mathematics before going onto Linear Alegbra at most universities.
And then we discovered that it was all really just Ronald Moore preparing for what eventually became Battlestar Galactica. Weird pseudo-religious nonsense included.
And this is why (in general) Americans are in debt. They don't understand that ANY savings, is savings. And that "just" saving 20,30,50 dollars a month adds up over 5-10 years.

Oh, clearly. It's that rather than the terms of student loans and such. Wouldn't want reality to get in the way of depression-era morality plays ... "up hill both ways, in the snow!!" if that makes you feel better.
This is my experience as well. I had my final exams, 2 days with 5 exams each day at mid April (of more than a decade and a half ago, boy I'm getting older fast). Most people in my class (around 40) had been studying since November, around 12+ hours a day.

I begun studying in February, just due to my natural tendency to be lazy, I should have started in November too. But the point is that I tried all kind of timetables and ways to study in the next 2 and a half months. Early , late, all day, nothing.

I discovered that for me what it worked was 4 hours at the morning, with a mandatory break every hour.

Then lunch and maybe a nap or gym. Then another 3 hours at the afternoon. Every time I did less I was loosing time. If I did try to push it too much, studying till late, it was time lost sitting but not really advancing. Each hour of studying or writing had a effective time "on the zone" of around 20 min only.

But what´s more interesting is that if I studied more than 7 hours, the next day was almost lost due to my lack of concentration.

I managed to get the 3rd best results of my class, only failing one exam which I had only studied for 2 days. Only two students passed all the exams, and they were sitting very close and they confirmed me that they had been checking results between them when possible (yes cheating).

So I guess that smart studying was more important that time spent seated. Of course there are other fundamental factors, but I actively tried to improve my study routine during that months, and I felt the difference.
hn is full of noobs
Silk Road 2.0 Hacked- 4,474 Bitcoins Stolen
No way to stop Facebook's unethical operations.

"Don't leave the house haw haw" is not a valid response to objections to Facebook's unethical operations.
Why not both? It is both true that Facebook does many very unethical things, and that you should talk to your kids.
Repeat after me, "store passwords in a secure store, not written in plain text where anyone walking past can see it."

Wiping the whiteboard would make for a very interesting situation, "what was the password? Winter24?"
I don't even own a TV, I don't want any TV in any form and Comcast only offered me a deal with TV and Internet and sent me a huge settop box that I now have to store in my closet. And Comcast is the only broadband provider available to me currently (well, ATT may have become available after I started but they are their very own horror show).
I'm one of the cord cutters. I have Comcast internet and nothing else. I have an apple tv, Netflix, and an antenna with a tivo that gets me network television for free. I'll admit that the antenna is a hassle mostly because the NBC signal is terrible in the Bay Area, but when I don't need to watch NBC this setup is awesome. I'm hoping Aereo comes soon so I can ditch the antenna + tivo for a more stable broadcast to even further streamline my setup. I've had no urge to use torrents as this setup gives me much more content than I can consume.

My main reason for cutting the cord is to save money, and it has saved me quite a deal of money over 3 years.
lol you are shit at selling
Last time I proposed PostgreSQL over MySQL, what prevented adoption was lack of PostgreSQL support on Amazon's RDS. The time before that, it was that we lacked any DBA who knew PostgreSQL well enough.

I find lack of support for one specific command a very poor reason not to adopt an exceedingly well engineered database. It's like dismissing Oracle because of how ugly your DDL looks using VARCHAR2 types.

In contrast, having to pull products from production just to add indexes to large tables in MySQL was a huge nuisance.
Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone
clickable: https://github.com/fananta/Pumpkin

Feel free to use it for projects like "HN for {blank}".
The barriers to other companies entering Comcast's market are more legal than logistical - consider how Google hasn't had a problem entering the broadband market when they have been allowed to.
We evolved to eat very few parts of the pufferfish, as I understand it.
Holy excuses. Look, no one here really cares if you exercise or not. Walking is better than nothing, though.

Anecdotal evidence, but my parents, both in their mid-60s, are some of the most active people I know. Biking, hiking, skiing, you name it. And, neither of them is skinny. There's definitely some luck (good genes, etc.) involved in them being in good shape, but the rest is because they've put forth a bit of effort their whole lives towards being active.
I don't order McNuggets when I'm out...
OK, I hadn't even considered the legal barriers. What are they specifically?

I was thinking more in terms of getting governments to go along with it, and having enough capital to do the job, and enough capital to get access from the people who own the spaces where the cables go or are going to go.
Adding "security through obscurity" is only a net win over "published security scheme" if your engineers are substantially better than any engineers who might comment on your published scheme. Even if you've hired world-class security engineers, there could still be some flaw they've overlooked, that an outside commentator might notice.

Note that the security of a whole system is harder to get right than the security of any one component; keeping it obscure just makes it much less likely that a white hat will notice the flaw and notify you. A simple example of this is the freshman CS majors' perennial idea that combining multiple PRNGs will yield a "more random" algorithm (it typically makes the result easier to predict). There are plenty of cases of a secure algorithm being used to build a system that ends up insecure because of some obscure flaw that nobody noticed initially.
I figure it could be a way to meet a cofounder..
Here's the In Re: Facebook Privacy Litigation docket:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=1782789
Another: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/202/notes.pdf
I think bringing bodily harm into this is kinda disingenious. They're sweat shops, not human chop shops.
Unfortunately, Perfectly rational actors rarely, if ever, exist.
Ignoring Modern UI does not make Modern UI completely disappear. Nor does it change the fact that Microsoft thought this was a good idea. Poor usability is poor usability. Microsoft messed this one up, and it will impact them and a lot of peoples perceptions of the future of Windows.
I think the disconnect here is that people don't seem to
get that "I voluntarily signed up for a social network" is an important step for a lot of people. It's entirely possible that a lot of people who hate g+ now wouldn't have minded it if it came out of the ether right after Facebook got popular, instead of being retrofitted onto something that already existed and foisted on that userbase above its protests. You can't just unilaterally change the purpose of your site and expect people who liked the old site to automatically like the new one.

FWIW, I also hate Facebook Connect and refuse to use it on principle despite having a Facebook account I voluntarily use.
Introduction to Vim
I'm fairly sure you can on Android. No idea about iOS.
The problem with amateur American historians on the internet...

As opposed to the professionals, who dribble drive-by snark and Wikipedia links?

You could start your remedial reading with: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolu...

Other than in an abstract sense, what does the American Revolution have to do with the Postwar Reconstruction, some 170 years later? And how does that mute or counter the statement I made?
For other legal purposes it is not enough to say "but the 13-year-old said she was 18" so it is interesting that this is enough for Facebook.

Usage of users' photos in ads should be opt-in to begin with. Prior to this "new normal" people were normally compensated for appearing in ads, according to a contract.

The surface area of all the ways that Facebook decides to use you and your data is beyond most people's ability to correctly understand, let alone the ability of minors. And then they take and use the right to unilaterally change the terms any time they wish, opt you back in to things you repeatedly opted out of, etc.

The sooner we stop making special excuses for Facebook's pervasive, intentional, greedy misconduct, the better. It's not like it's impossible to do profitable business without making it a policy to act like a total scumbag.
I agree that financial ignorance keeps Americans in debt, but I don't think that blindness to savings is a major component.

Just look at JCPs recent situation - they tried to eliminate sales, implementing consistent, standard pricing on all merchandise (instead of the previous mark-up-to-mark-down method), and consumers hated it. The metrics were a disaster.

If the JCP numbers are any indication, consumers know the price of everything and the value of nothing - they'd rather pay more than they should after a fake 40% discount because "full price is for suckers", regardless of the actual quality:price value ratio.

The problem with cable pricing isn't that consumers are ignorant to the deals - they're most certainly eyeing price and discounts. It's that cable companies have established a false baseline to decrease the effectiveness of cord-cutting.

As a pricing strategy, it's nothing new. You can get 2 liters of soda for 99c, and a 12 oz bottle for 1.50. It's a psychological price bump - not based on value, but manufactured to steer the "savvy" (read: performing as expected) buyer to the "smart" (read: preselected) choice.

It's just a little more disheartening when its application moves from soft drinks to the spread of human knowledge.
The brutal truth is that most startups do not do anything remotely important or useful enough to adopt. The predominant attitude among many Silicon Valley wannabe billionaires is hoping to get acquired instead of doing anything actually ambitious. Which explains why what we see today are hordes of startups based on "products" that would be trivial features for more established companies.
Seriously? I'm going to UPenn btw.
Well, she's not saying that, she states :"that represent something she [the authors daugther] opposes – the global supply chain that exploits workers."

So her 14 year old daughter has a fully qualified, informed opinion of the global suppy chain, how it came into being, and what it affects, and she wants you to respect that.
No, it was done in near- and long-term self-interest and strategic relationship building. Why would you assume I meant otherwise when I implied absolutely nothing about motive?
Either it stops being optional after some point, or they tricked me into converting vis-a-vis some Dark Pattern (which is if anything even more scummy as far as I'm concerned). My YouTube account is separate from my Gmail account and I can assure you that I never would have added a g+ page to it on purpose given the choice.
My point was more general than about a specific blocking methodology: that people who were defending specific blocks all pointed out how they would be targeted, but the social acceptance of one seems to encourage people to try for more.
Neat. You could also probably do this with a genetic algorithm. Thinking out loud here:

- Have a neural network with 6 inputs for:

- player x
- player y
- acceleration speed
- acceleration direction
- next pipe mid-point x
- next pipe mid-point y

- Two outputs of 0 or 1 for click or no-click

The fitness score would be how close the player is to the pipe mid-point. Hopefully, this would cause the bird to stay as close as possible to fly between the pipes. The genetic algorithm would select the best neural network that knows when to flap based on the current input state.
Show HN: decitectural, the minimalist unit notation converter
Hey, making AIs play games is fun.
In total contrast to all BSD fans and their near-religious belief that any choice but theirs is morally wrong.

Is it now that I should do some ad hominem attacks on openbsd project leader, just so the message really sinks in?
Agree completely. Do it properly and LA will not have the kind of class war affecting NorCal.

Forcing people to work out of the most congested and expensive parts of LA is going to compound the misery. Why anyone thinks it's a good idea to base themselves West of the 405 is beyond me.

I sincerely hope they base this out of Burbank/Glendale which gives ready accessibility to Pasadena, East LA, Hollywood and further North without commute hell.
Local government must approve each company that uses the telephone pole right-of-ways. But the cities and counties generally already have a contract with Comcast, ATT and whoever and this contract may prevent competition regardless of the government's desires. Moreover, these monopolies can mobilize their state and national level allies (some state was trying to outlaw municipal broadband utilities recently, for example).

The thing about State-sanctioned monopolies is that since their whole revenue stream depends on their relation to governments, they spend a substantial portion of their income getting influence within our presently rather corrupt government system.

It's hard to companies that operate more on the "open market" to move into a "turf" of this sort.
Why would anyone even want this? The most important part of recording is the ability to have multiple takes, which is hindered if every take is to be uploaded at the same time. All other use cases can be covered by streaming your desktop.
Ask HN: Was flapmmo.com based on open source code? 
Do you know of similar C++ Web socket code?
My city actually signed Comcast into a legal monopoly to get them to bring service here in the 80s and 90s. That deal is still good, and states that they will be the sole provider of cable TV service at least until the end of this decade. From what I've seen, this was a common practice, and has apparently happened in a lot of smaller towns.
Well made point! I think there should be something like an obituaries section but for people who're still alive. I know that profiles of celebrities etc are a bit like this, but obituaries tend to cover a broader (and more interesting) range of people.
I can't tell if this is corporate trolling or not
By increasing the value of extra rooms and allowing people to monetize their vacancies, AirBNB necessarily increases the demand for rooms and the ability of people to pay more rent. This must push up rent. It is impossible for it not to.

Laws restricting short term rentals may partially be to protect the hotel industry, but they are also to encourage the environment and pricing necessary for longer term residency.

There are widespread stories, including some friends of mine, of people running large networks of properties leased expressly for subleasing on AirBNB. This reduces the supply of housing units substantially, and increases their prices. AirBNB needs to actively limit such usage in order to be defensible. Right now AirBNB rewards users who are obviously abusing the system and violating the law.

If your studies were conclusive, I'd expect you to release actual data instead of whitewashed PR like this.
Agreed on this being a good idea. Most of the sites listed are unappealing, but there are some good ideas there from time to time.
Less expensive on a per-patient basis, but more expensive as a government program, which would compete directly with defense spending and foreign aid. I don't disagree that there were cultural factors involved as well, as Americans have a predisposition towards certain ideas which resemble a notion of individual responsibility (for a certain definition.)
Hackers have broken into Kickstarter—time to reset your password
How'd you get upvoted so fast?

Sacha Greif's Telescope [1] is probably the best open source HN clone I found, last time I checked.

Edit: I liked Telescope because it had a really slick (customizable) UI, persistent storage, and was a breeze to get up and running on Heroku.

What are you using node? You don't explain how to run the server at all. Not everyone knows how to use nodejs. Have you considered using a package.json [2] and publishing on npm?

Being a little pedantic here but your ReST API needs work, e.g. "/topic/add" is a bad API endpoint. Verbs are to be avoided. You got the POST part right, but you should be POSTing to a resource like "/topics/" or "/topic/", which is a list of topics. Take a look at "RESTful Service Best Practices" [3], it's a quick guide that should get you up to speed.

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

[1] http://telesc.pe/

[2] https://www.npmjs.org/doc/files/package.json.html

[3] http://toddfredrich.com/restful-best-practices-v1-1.html
The warming trend is continuing, and the insurance industry is already seeing significant negative effects. See for example [0], [1], [2], [3], all from a single search on "insurance industry extreme weather trends"

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/extreme-weat...

[1] http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/02/14/allianz-sto...

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/partners/advinsurancetrends11...

[3]
In this thread, a large majority falls to realize that diet has little to do with exercise. As in, no diet can fix your sedentary car commute desk job health problems.

The obsession with diet seems to be rooted in a desire to avoid exercise. I'd wish people would get a grip because the paleo and other nonsense is a breeding ground for the kind of blatant ignorance from which anti-vaccine and homeopathy hails.
It's enough because if you're doing it for facebook, you have to do it for every site. Which would require some kind of government provided authentication for everyone logging in. Korea does it, which requires an Residents Registration Number for many of their sites, which is frought with its own problems.

The amount of work required to put in such a system would also be prohibitive, since most countries would have seperate systems, and each one of these would need to be accounted for. It'd raise barrier of entry for sites, since along with other infrastructure, they'd need to set up complex identification rules (granted, after some time there will be libraries for that. still, it's another step they have to take).

It'd be a soggy mess to set up something like that.
I can assure you that I still follow the same YouTube channels I was following before and my complaints about the comment system are very well-informed. I will concede that comment threading is somewhat better, and it's nice that people can actually post links now, but there's still plenty to hate. Hell, here's just what's annoyed me in the last day:

I can't keep myself signed in. Well, kind of; g+ UI was designed by trolls, so what actually happens is that I appear to be signed in until I actually try to do anything, at which point I'm asked to sign in. Sometimes I even sign in, try to check my notifications, and am asked to sign in again.

Anytime I post a comment "Also post to Google+" is pre-checked. I can't make it unchecked by default.

I have had a YouTube account for years. Since the changeover, I receive more spam from random strangers every week than I did over the rest of the account's lifetime combined. I now also get newsletter spam from YouTube itself (I'm now looking at an email entitled "Well... these love songs are awkward on YouTube", like that is something I would ever want). On the bright side, I clicked the unsubscribe link and unlike the last three times, it didn't throw a server error, so I'll see if it takes.

Despite never flagging any of the above as spam, my Gmail spam filter has started catching my subscription emails as spam. That is, the legitimate communications from YouTube that I specifically asked for are the ones getting killed, as opposed to the scummy newsletters I was autosubscribed to and the new spam vector that is g+.

If this stuff seems minor, keep in mind that it's all the fault of something that I didn't ask for, never wanted, and actively tried to avoid.
It was an extreme example hopefully it wouldn’t happen, BUT if it did at least his G’ma, G’pa, aunts, uncles and cousins who are friends with him would at least know his choice of condoms.

Which would inevitably lead to the call from them to me letting me know what my son is up to which then leads me to explain a bunch of non transparent FB rules to non technical people.