skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at headlinr - http://headlinr.com/

I pushed it out two weeks ago, as a billboard for startup and product launches. I'll be doing some more interesting stuff with it soon.
I agree there needs to be more opportunity to overcome the head-start white males have in being accepted into technology jobs and in effect, level the playing field.

However... the "Hackathon costs $99" at the end almost ruins this for me. It needs to be free. IMO something like this should only be done as a non-profit.
Six UX Lessons Learned from the New Facebook App, Paper
I'd draw an entirely different lesson from this -- namely, killing time by doing "100 other minor cleanup changes to a bunch of different files" on a 40,000 LOC legacy production system that (apparently?) has no tests sounds like a Really Bad Idea(tm). Don't mess with code you don't understand if you don't have even the basic safety net of decent unit tests in place.
the USA is a livestock operation, and we are the livestock. Growth Uber Alles! is the underlying theme. Mass immigration is the primary tool of growth, that and using american military to open up new markets for exploitation, oops, I mean spread democracy.
I recently worked with a restaurant that is brand new. The work and money that goes into a new restaurant is pretty crazy, especially custom cups, signage, etc.

So whoever did this definitely had to have capital, some legal help, graphic help, and a host of other services to throw it together.
The only charitable interpretation I can imagine is that he's both shy, and also a doormat. As in, he didn't want to do interviews, but he didn't know how to say no when asked for them. This sort of person also feels intense pressure to answer every fan-letter in their inbox, etc. I can see, if this is the case, why he would want to quit out of the situation.
Yep, scala's .net back-end is discontinued, and one of the main challenges (I worked on it a bit) was indeed generating the proper generic signatures. (I hear people are using ikvm these days.)
Since the odds of getting certain hands is known and there are a lot of professionals with very large databases of hands any manipulation like that would stand out pretty quickly as a statistical anomaly.
Sure, there are plenty of places with worse public transit, even just within the state of California. That doesn't change the fact that the Bay Area has an awful public transportation system that fails to provide services to the majority of commuters.
This is what happens when you make sausage in an open-air kitchen. No organization is immune to this behavior; the difference is that most of the time it happens behind closed doors.
Streams are among my favorite Java 8 additions.

More about the goodies in Java 8: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-...
Then you're just arguing for one way of life over another. I like living in the suburbs. I don't want to feel like a sardine packed into a can.

You (or whoever is arguing for it) would rather not live in a world that has tainted nature with roads and automobiles.

Why does it have to be one way or another? In the present, there are plenty of places to go and see nature that hasn't been tainted by cars and roads.

Many of the people in this thread write as if cars are manifestly obviously bad, and that we should go to great lengths to remove or drastically reduce them from society.

I guess I didn't get the memo.
I think that mass immigration is part of the substitute strategy to isolate people from eachother, actually. It's also a way we can discourage people from having kids at the cost of their careers here.
now that's a nice reply :)
now teach him wireshark and let him hack/stalck some of his friends.
You help them with the tooling. You will also need to say "because, magic" far more often then with most projects, but if you have someone who knows what they are doing walk you through the difficult, boilerplate type, parts, then modding minecraft is generally not exceptionally difficult. The other risk you have is the chance that they will want to interact with some less explored part of the code, in which case the problem goes from boilerplate/tooling difficult to normal difficult.

Probably the best way to go about it is create a dumbed down interface for them to work with. When they inevitably want to go outside of what you wrapped, you can either wrap the additional functionality they need, or show them how to use the underlying API.
Some of us don't want to make our entire life centered around an urban area. I have friends from South Philly who've never been outside of Philadelphia. For all the people here with their vitriol towards cars, that sort of provincial attitude is just as disgusting to me. New Yorkers are the worst about it. They can't imagine there is anything worthwhile that is not in their city.

I've been freelancing from home for 2 years now and the thing I miss the most is driving. I loved driving. Getting out, doing things, seeing different things, rather than going to the same, old places all the time just because they were in walking distance. Getting to places 10 miles away on time without having to leave an hour before hand. It was great.
I believe that people will start pushing attacks once the popularity of sytemd goes up. Why attack something that's not as widely used as sysvinit?

I don't think that the argument was that it was scary to upgrade or there were no benefits; the author was specifically stating that a couple of points inherent to the design of systemd make it something that he finds less stable. Systemd could still provide these benefits by shipping more than one binary for extra features, reducing the attack surface of the init system itself.

EDIT: BTW I use archlinux and therefore use systemd.
That's still a terrible argument.

> The "extraordinary" expense of this child actually only requires a 14% increase in value over the average citizen to make sense.

Ok, fair enough, we'll ignore the question of whether average really makes sense, but there's a bigger problem: there's absolutely no reason to expect this hugely premature baby to have >14% increase of value. Why? This is completely unfounded, completely unjustified. In fact, as a premature baby with massive expensive health problems, wouldn't we expect the opposite? Early childhood trauma seems like it'll matter to their future prospects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterm_birth#Prognosis (As makes sense. If babies could be born months premature with no negative effects, why aren't they being born that way already so they can start growing up quicker?)
hald has been dead forever.

PolicyKit is not being moved into systemd, nor is it getting systemd integration?

How do you want to replace ConsoleKit/logind? What should handle session management?
This article is lacking examples. What exact case makes the standard curriculum bad? What are the good examples of the alternatives?
I don't think so, it would take a TON of capital to pull off something like this and after watching a few episodes I don't think it's feasible for the shows budget. All their stunts seem to be somewhat inexpensive in comparison to opening a store.
Arrow's theorem does not say no voting system can be better than any other in an objective sense. It says there is no voting system that is better than every other in every respect.
In the interest of transparency, can you tell us exactly what you found? I looked around for a bit but couldn't spot anything.
I agree. I think the ideal is something like 6 months Python/Ruby, 1 year C, then one OOP and one functional language.
Opensource Flappy Brid clone in Coffeescript (Unrefined graphics)
> It's the same doctrine that's behind ballistic missile submarines equipped with nuclear warheads.

Did you see the article "Unsug hero of the nuclear age" a couple of days ago (yesterday?) on HN. That would probably shake your confidence in human reliability when facing the choice to launch or not to launch a warhead. Please have a look.

> The second is less morbid-- the colonization of other planets.

We can send humans in space, but the technology part that is lacking is still there: we don't have the "know-how" to colonize other planets, and before sending people in space there's a lot of work to be done in that field.
If you upgrade systemd or the kernel, yes, you should reboot your machine. Ideally, it shouldn't take more than a minute or two.
Could you name some of the subsets of C? I know of several in C++ (exceptions, templates, multiple inheritance, smart structures) but even after programming in C for twenty years, can I come up with any number of subsets of C (okay, maybe one---function pointers).
No, it translates to "it inserts soft tabs".
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I'd agree with this premise, but why don't we teach drivers how to build cars?
Computer science is to programming as chemistry is to baking
The optimal number of moves follows this recurrence relations:
T(1) = 1
T(N) = 2 * T(N-1) + 1
Good point, I was responding directly to the wording of their FAQ which implies that they plan to sell coffee at some point.
Pimsleur isn't the most efficient way to learn a language. I find Assimil to be a much more interesting method. The audio component is required purely in the target language with no instructional content and very little repetition. So it is up to the end user to decide how much or little repetition they need. This ultimately means that the recordings contain far more vocabulary and phrases than what you'd get in the same time as Pimsleur. Though it certainly doesn't feel like your hand is being held as with Pimsleur.

The audio is used alongside a printed book that has one side of the page in your target language and the other in your native language for a direct comparison.

You still learn good pronunciation, grammar, words and phrases, but in a far less boring way than Pimsleur. Also there's the added benefit that you get some language immersion since the audio is purely in your target language.

Even still I would say that Assimil isn't enough on its own. To make the process of learning a language interesting you need to utilise a variety of tools and methods.
I fully agree with you, but Anki (with pronunciation) got me 12k German words in 12 months with 40 minutes daily where Goethe couldn't give me a functional understanding of German whilst travelling. Grammar and the functional language comes ter with constant translation or immersion with sites and experiences like the excellent DuoLingo.
To extend the explanation.

Computer science and chemistry = terminology and numbers.

Baking and programming = structure, creativity and taste.
From the article:

Most of all, I'm disappointed. I had a haven, a place where no one cared what I looked like, what my body was like or about any ephemera—they cared about what I could do—and this culture shift has robbed me of my haven. At least I had that haven. The girls who follow me missed out on it.

You know what's disgusting? People getting disgusted over issues that don't warrant disgust.
I think people are unwilling to accept luck as an explanation. This might especially be true for the HN audience, because so many of us work so hard hoping to have a success like this.
In the linked article, the writer claims that by using AdMob, he left $1M on the table... I'm curious - where does this claim come from? The fact that he could have sold the app? Or is there a different untapped revenue stream?
so, when you found something like that, lease a dedicated server overseas and use it to download everything. once done, go to a cybercafe and download it to a zip file or something similar via http directly to a usb memory.

they can follow your transaction with the company once they find out, but it's going to be a little more difficult.
Im convinced more people talk about this game than actually play it.
The optimal number of moves follows this recurrence relations:

T(1) = 1

T(N) = 2 * T(N-1) + 1, N >= 2
I'm determined to learn Mandarin. So far, I've spent two years in China learning it. It's not because of any social pressure, or because it helps me in my "career", or because I'm pedantic, and I graduated college years ago. Just one data point.
Start a business at 17. Or now.
The only Plymouth-specific code I see in systemd is related to asking the user questions at boot-up time, like their mount password, and it works by sending a socket message to a socket plymouth opens, and successfully falls back if it doesn't exist.

I don't see any plymouth-related services or unit files hardcoded. I do, however, see a NEWS-related entry from the v186 release: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS#n1775
Of course i don't think it's calculated. Does the PTA mom who demands creationist teachings in school calculate exactly how to guilt trip the administration? Of course not. Rather emotion and personal morals influences their decisions.

Same here, the emotional toll and frustration derived from the comments (again, which were completely uncalled for) overly influenced the article. There is no reason for her to not be frustrated and angry, and putting that into her writing is important. It should not, however, be the primary driving force of the article, otherwise it's just plain manipulation.

> I didn't read it as trying to make any point other than "this is awful and unfair and my daughter is innocent of wrongdoing."

My point exactly. To reiterate, she had a platform, she had us listening, and she knows what she's talking about, but she missed the opportunity to spark a real discussion of how to prevent this from happening again. Instead she only focused on relating her frustration to every other parent reading, which in my opinion, can be very manipulating. Using the anger that her daughter was a target, and the fear that even though they're innocent they were punished is manipulative. "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
The moral of the story is don't play poker for money where you suspect MITM to be in effect, because the connection is not secure.
A specific problem I have with this very fun (I must say) site is that gender isn't shown with nouns.
It took us a month to build, but we did it!

Looking for feedback, if you have any :)

"Who's your Henry? ...write Henry a letter"
Sure, Scala is used for research, it came from research, but I don't think it's accurate anymore to say it's a research language. Some of our clients are doing some really cutting edge stuff, but I wouldn't call them research institutes. I'm of course biased as well, but I'd say Scala's been maturing nicely with 2.10.x and (soon!) 2.11.0.

For example, which of the official new features in Scala 2.11.0 is research-y, would you say? We worked on faster incremental compilation, started modularizing the standard library, improved our infrastructure for better integration builds with SBT & Scala IDE. We did add experimental support for SAM types -- is it "research" to prepare for Java 8 interop? The main experimental features are of course reflection and macros, developed at EPFL. I'd say we've been pretty clear about labeling these experimental bits "experimental".
You're speaking about the "likelihood of confusion" standard for trademark infringement, I presume.

If a company employee admitted to a fact that was damaging to the company's case, then that could be a real problem. The spokesperson's judgment of the "obvious[ness]" is just an opinion, though, rather than a factual admission. The courts aren't likely to take that opinion as gospel. In other words, that statement won't short-circuit the court's normal process of evaluating the evidence and determining whether infringement has occurred.

Given that, who would win? I don't know. I'm just saying that the spokesperson's statement doesn't automatically scuttle whatever case Starbucks might have.

Also worth nothing: Another possible claim would be trademark dilution, which, unlike infringement, doesn't require likely consumer confusion.
Pump DC into the speakers at full power, and pop up a dialog asking the user if their speakers have melted yet.
This is the problem we're trying to fix with my startup socialcheck.me. We're trying to make a safe environment to give full picture comprehensive reference feedback by ensuring privacy and anonymity after verifying relationships are real via social networks. Then we make the data easy to analyze and compare. But admittedly, it's been difficult to figure out even then how to get people to trust that we keep the feedback private and anonymous the way kids trust Snapchat to really delete messages. Good reference checks are hard and broken (which is why we're trying to fix them).
LA's made quite a bit of improvement over the past 20 years. It's not particularly great, but I'm not sure it qualifies as worse than the Bay Area anymore. Depends to some extent on where you are within each metro area and what kind of commute you have. Some LA maps (metro and commuter rail):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spring-2012-LACMTA-M...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metrolink_system_dia...

The extension of the Expo Line (light blue on the first map) out to Santa Monica, scheduled to open next year, should improve things further. The Purple Line extension even more, but that's unfortunately some years out.
As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?
Because Of DRM, The Entire Copyright Monopoly Legislation Is A Lie
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> I don’t think becoming a hacker was ever super-expensive compared to many other activities

I disagree. In middle school I had a textbook on assembly language; the first chapters used DEBUG (a 16-bit debugger which came with DOS) but later chapters switched to programming in Microsoft MASM which was $180.

I remember thinking, "There's no way my hacking budget can take that. It'll take me years to save up that kind of money, and when/if I do, I'm definitely gonna blow it on video games."

I learned a lot by writing a QBASIC script which added label functionality to DEBUG to make it more usable assembling large programs.

Also, the only C compiler I had was Turbo C++ Lite for DOS, which came with another textbook I picked up for cheap (I recall $20). It was crippled: You could only run programs from within the IDE. If you used the "compile to EXE" option, it would work but the resulting executable would do nothing, just spitting out an error message along the lines of "Only the full version of the compiler can produce working executables".

But because different programs produced different-sized executables, I figured that meant the EXE file wasn't just a placeholder, it actually contained the compiled code but it was disabled somehow.

I figured out through tracing and in-memory patching (with DEBUG of course!) that there was a conditional branch within the first couple hundred instructions. Replacing it fixed the problem!

Kids these days have it so easy. All of the tools you need have excellent FOSS versions you can instantly download. Online resources are more comprehensive and up-to-date than any textbook. Modern languages have garbage collection and array bounds checking, eliminating entire classes of bugs.
Love the concept. I've thought about comments a lot, and considered this sort of design. in execution, though, it's hard to get used to.

Still feel like Slashdot might have had the best comment system yet.
The major sites don't do this. We know because many people out there collect literally millions of poker hands observed on these sites and mine the data for every kind of statistic you can think of. If anything significant was out of whack they would have picked it up. Look at the 'online poker' section of the twoplustwo forums for example.

The random number generators used by these sites are hardware systems that use micro fluctuations in ambient temperature (for example) as a source of entropy and they are very careful to use enough bits of entropy for every card shuffled.
I guess it's a little bit difficult for them to cause monetary damages to Starbucks if they continue to provide FREE coffee.

Although, I can't see the fair use law protecting them once they begin to charge, creating this amount of buzz as an initial marketing plan...and possibly changing the business name later, if that's the plan, ingenious. Great allocation of marketing capital.
I run Windows 8.1 on my MBP/r and don't have that issue at all.

External DVD Drive, play one of my DVDs on the Mac, audio is perfectly fine.

Play the same DVD on my Asus UX31, cannot hear the people talking, use VLC player to up the audio to 125% and its fine.
Philosophy post YC interview
Personally, I hated calculus. It turned me off of math for a long time -- there was too much emphasis on memorizing heuristics for solving problems, like integral tricks and trigonometric identities. Worse, calculus was used as the canonical example of "college-level math", so it seemed that further math courses would just be about memorizing more and more problem solving tricks.

(In my view, solving integrals is a search problem, and search problems are for computers. I want to understand the concepts and the algorithms, not be a glorified calculator.)
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I think these people are also being disingenuous about their classification of their "business," stating plainly that they are attempting to skirt trademark law by being some kind of art installation. Either it's a parody with permission from Starbucks (which neither party to the agreement is required to inform the public about) or they're going to be in trouble.

A bit more tangential to the topic, there are an awful lot of details missing from that Stanford link about Weird Al's work.

He can write completely different lyrics and publish them all he wants without getting permission or paying royalties. If he chooses to record his own lyrics (which he holds the copyright on) to the same tune as the lyric he parodies, then he becomes responsible for paying royalties on the musical composition only. Once a song has been recorded and published, U.S. law compels licensing to anyone else to also record and publish their version of that song at specified royalty rates to the original lyricist and the original composer (compulsory licensing.)

Weird Al does seek permission. This is simply a gesture of good will on his part. He is in no way required to seek this permission. He writes unique lyrics to which he owns the copyright, records them to the original tune (owing compulsory rates to the original composer), and he's completely legal without ever having to have sought anyone's permission. And "fair use" never enters the equation because copyright law already compels such licensing.
malloc() and free() (not to mention realloc() and calloc()) are part of the Standard C Library, and must be provided for a C compiler to be certified as ANSI compliant. Granted, you don't have to use any Standard C Library functions, but a C compiler must have them (or else, it can't claim ANSI compliance).
Speaking of: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-colle...
1. Agile requires trust - Large enterprises have politics and generally lack trust.
2. SOX Compliance has lots of documentation and rules.
3. Agile is about self management which conflicts with large bureaucracies at its core.
4. Most enterprises value production stability over changing directions. A 3 month manual QA regression is hard to iterate over.
5. People are biased. Mangers hear the benefits and not the downsides like no long term estimates.
Banksy has setup a new residence.
Mattermark wasn’t a pivot. We completely started over, here’s what happened.
Intent is one of the factors for trademark infringement. So it might matter a little. You could argue that the statement shows the proprietors' intent is at least partly commercial. On the other hand, that much would be fairly easy to prove just by reviewing the company's financial records, operating agreement, etc. So I'm not sure the statement gets you anything that wasn't already a slam dunk.
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