skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this.

I'd actually argue that the RMBK-1000 reactor is not horrifically unsafe, so long as it's operated within its design envelope - which is to say, for example, not overriding the automated safety systems. Had it been built with a containment vessel, I'd even argue it was within the safety margins of western reactors. Chernobyl was incompetent crew largely, taking a design well outside of its normal safety margins by shutting down nearly every safety system the reactor had - these choices compounded the design limitations of the reactor. Under no circumstances should the control rods have been removed all the way from the reactor - this single action caused the meltdown (combined with the graphite tips on the control rods).

We know the risks of nuclear power, if you do it wrong it does kill people, and salts the earth in the vicinity of the unit for generations. This is better in my opinion than killing people who live in the vicinity of a power plant as a course of normal operation.
HN has quite an interesting population of bots that comment. You might think they're human, but they're super pedantic, much more than any human you would meet in real life.
Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age
Agreed. Maybe it's in some insane tight loop where you don't want a function call - in which case you comment it. My rule is that if there's something I have to put in the code that's out of the ordinary, I comment to explain.
I'm wondering though how they can afford to pay some people 400% Kind of seems like a bug might be making this less sustainable than it normally would be.

https://blockchain.info/address/144PHT3EDfKcDreSGHHS3uND52GT...
And if a drug dealer decides to stop selling meth, you'd discourage him since addicts can just buy it down the block?

Note: I'm not saying Flappy Bird is like meth, but just pointing out your logic.
If that were a profitable scheme then why don't people do it with other currency pairs and goods?
It could call itself multi-level marketing and be golden. You just need to resell something tangible, like TF2 hats.
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Yeah, I watched an Attenborough piece that put them in sort of a bad light. I'm glad I don't have to worry about my neighbor stealing and eating my kid.
You live in a world of wonder and magic.
If someone puts that code (without comments) probably, the same person won't give such a detailed commit message.
Good luck in wonderland.
Why Mt. Gox, the World’s First Bitcoin Exchange, is Dying
Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mavrodi

Man who started well known Ponzi scheme in 1990's Russia is at it again, this time with full disclosure. People already lost money on the new one.

They will continue, it's like gambling. You're probably better off gambling on crypto dice sites like https://doge-dice.com though. Bet on 80% odds for a 1.2% payout. Results are instant, so you can develop an addiction.
Nice writeup!

One other thing I'd mention to anyone considering serving static files in Go is this:

You might be tempted to cache the static files into a map for "performance". After all memory is much faster than disk, right? Be careful with this, Go's http FileServer uses sendto on platforms that support it and because it bypasses the userland/kernel barrier and can thus do a zero-copy transmission, sendto (in combination with OS-level file caching) will almost certainly outperform your in-memory caching.

If you really want to optimize transmission, one way to do it (if you're serving mostly data that isn't already naturally compressed) is to gzip everything that is gzip-friendly either in a post-compile step or at runtime, and then serve an on-disk-cached (filename).gz version instead of (filename) with appropriate headers (and checking client headers to make sure they can accept gzip content), but still using the internal FileServer logic to make use of the sendto functionality. Go's internal http stuff is very comprehensive but it is an API and not really a framework and it doesn't try to do anything clever with gzipping of content.

As always, whenever "optimizing" make sure you measure extensively to make sure you're actually helping and not making things worse.
Claiming that something is "broscience" without evidence is even worse than broscience.
Including a proper wine theme (and matching it to the system themes) is something that's been on my todo list for the greater part of 5 years now. Hah.
Really dude ? WTF !
I don't understand, you've submitted the project here yourself?
Theft is theft, even when you label yourself "we steal". Making this do actual and not fake transactions is criminal.
> Fb (oebnqyl), lbh pna pbhag gur cbffvovyvgvrf vaibyivat jvqgu-N bowrpgf, naq whfg zhygvcyl gung pbhag ol O+1-N.

Njrfbzr - guvf jnf rknpgyl jung zl ynfg gubhtugf jrer ba gung.
'Flappy Bird' To Be Removed From App Stores, Developer Tweets
You lost all credibility by citing Cringely.

Here is my rebuttal to the oft repeated lie that the operators were just guessing or acting irrationally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993984

Here is my HN rebuttal nearly 5 years ago the last time I saw someone post a link to Cringley's non-sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=541550
On mobile you don't have a hover state so surely this would be less of an issue.
Gregg Easterbrook wrote the following about simulated shuttle landings:

> They've never flounced like a twig on the crazy rapids of "bias"--the bland physics term for unexplained variations in the earth's gravitational and magnetic fields.

I can't make heads or tails out of it -- I can't find any reference to such a phenomenon called "bias" and I don't see how gravitational field variations (I assume he means the ones caused by uneven density) could have any effect at their minuscule amplitude. Is this a result of some misunderstanding or am I missing something?
This headline is the other side of the "why are girls not interested in science and technology" argument. We shouldn't have to call it out like being a "woman engineer" is different than just an "engineer." At least the article is closer to agnostic about it, but I wonder if they'd have called out the work/home balance and her struggles with being a good dad if the situation were reversed.
0.05 * 1.2 ~= 0.0599, maybe they round to 2nd decimal?
Accidental product success, followed by accidental PR success. Half of HN would kill for this kind of luck, and this poor guy doesn't want it... Which makes it even more interesting!
You also tend to get a whole different level of weird attacks when you hit that. When you suddenly go from mildly obscure musician or developer to unexpected-spotlight, a huge pile of people appear to tell you that your thing is shit and you should feel bad for making it, whereas when it's safely obscure you don't tend to get that a lot.
Organic farms support more species, researchers find | browntexfarms
Yes, but it is not a requirement to hide the fact that it is a Ponzi to be a Ponzi. It still is, if you know about it or not.
Consider paste linking pictures in Word.

My ultimate word processing environment would be an empty web page where you can type Markdown and have the UX adapt to what you are typing, much like entering comments on StackOverflow. When you are done you could apply global styles or even page templates without changing the semantic content. You could even go back to authoring in the utf8-based language if you preferred.

Outline view in Word is useful, section navigation (and section styles) in OpenOffice are useful. Text to table would be great if it actually worked.
Just today I reinstalled Ubuntu on a laptop and the sync completely borked.

What I don't understand is why does it first ask you for a pair code from another device? My only other device was a desktop far away. After I logged in and clicked "reset sync key" it apparently lost all of the synced data!

I seriously hope this solves the currently heinous sync process. Just let me log in an authorize myself for goodness sake.
Yes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_Sync/Syncin...
>"Eat Well"

I can't think of anything more distracting than trying to fit in 5 meals/day. Lost a lot of weight doing the slow carb diet, which is eating 4 times/day and the gradually shifted to the warrior diet, which is essentially one large meal/day. Takes a few days to adjust, but once I did my ability to focus has been unreal. Not everyday, but somedays I feel like I am on adderall and it is awesome. Anyways, just want to throw it out there, eating 5 times a day can be a lot for some, and I have found other hn'ers out there that practice one meal per day. I really really enjoy it.
Amazon also did it.
Why would you link to a photo of a tweet? Anyway the story is already on the front page.
I don't buy the premise of either of those hypotheticals.

Where is he turning his back on his passion? It doesn't sound like the way people are responding to Flappy Bird are the embodiment of his passion he wants. And his passion is in game dev, not an oddly specific passion for riding only the Flappy Bird app to success. Taking it down doesn't mean he can't build different games.

I also reject the idea that it was because of the money alone that he is taking the app down. Money wasn't the only byproduct of the success. Far be it for me to make assumptions, but it may be the "ruins my simple life" levels of baggage that came with the success of Flappy Bird.

My post was attempting to point out that he may have priorities in addition to profit, not that he is anti-money. If you meant to respond to the guy that is actually saying that the money alone could be the problem, perhaps you should move your post.
Game design
Venturing a guess: We're all stuck somewhere between hacker and entrepreneur, and out of nowhere this guy makes a game that explodes. Then, almost as quickly, he pulls it. So we're one part jealous that he was able to do what we're all trying to do (I'd love to make $50k a day), and one part confused as to why he wouldn't want it. I mean, it's counterintuitive to the overwhelmingly popular goal of building something, selling it, and starting over again.
Transaction fee?
I try not to go to my desk unless I have the program fully formed on paper already. If I go to the desk with a half-baked idea I will either just stare, or I will read pointless sites like this one all day.

I used to have a computer that for security reasons was only connected to revision control, build-and-test systems, and production datacenters. No outside access. Those were the days, frankly. I don't know why the company got rid of the policy that required them, but it really improved not only security but also productivity.
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Did I miss a major field or category?
>"And you thought this was good design?"

Why are you being rude? Just saying that the background won't be noticed would it be enough
"The experiment is over.
We will pay back everyone we can. We are not making money from this."
I didn't think it was a bad article, my only point was that robots and AI never give up - but humans do!
Classic application development?
Generally multiple currencies aren't accepted and the volatility is much lower. You probably couldn't make a profit on normal consumer goods that have a return policy. For this to work you'd need potentially extreme currency changes over the course of a few weeks.
In theory - yes. I checked option "Use Weave/Firefox to sync white list" in Flash Block. Recently I was playing with VM and I synced Iceweasel on Debian (remembering about marking option to remove local data and use synced data). It got everything except white list. Sadly, white list from original Firefox has been also lost :(
Programming Languages?
I like open source and I understand you have to make a business case for it but this just feels depressingly like "Open-source your startup so you don't have to pay for employees"
It's really not much different from gambling. It's not repulsive if they are honest about how it works.
really dude?
The experiment is over.
We will pay back everyone we can. We are not making money from this.

And it's down.
OP didn't create codepen, chriscoyier did.
The Second Machine Age – Brynjolfsson and McAfee | The Story's Story
If you literally don't want the money, give it to charity.

Problem solved, get back to your passion.
What's depressing about that? If people feel they want to voluntarily contribute, how is that not a win-win?
It's pretty much how the merchants that accept bitcoin are handling it right now. It's flying fine.
From the article:

A project’s history is its most valuable documentation. (...) The quality of this documentation, however, relies heavily on the diligence of the people involved while writing commit messages.

Requiring such diligence when writing commit messages, while at the same time allowing the same people to write opaque code as shown in the example, would be absurd.
Website shows they've shut it down.

"The experiment is over.
We will pay back everyone we can. We are not making money from this."
China isn't guilty only about surveillance, but also about censorship - which is the reason for Google's actions, that were probably made because of both moral and technical issues - since it is difficult to censor stuff at Google's scale.

And in so far as the western governments being no worse than the Chinese - what a bunch of crap.
> McGraw believes the spread of social media has imposed new limits on what comedians can get away with.

> “Comedy is a space that has its own set of rules,” said McGraw. “Then it gets posted on the Internet and broadcast to people sitting at their desks— people who weren’t intended to hear it and aren’t in the mindset to appreciate it.”

I've noticed this lately with people taking comedian set jokes out of context via a recording or second-hand party blowing them out of proportion. It's a real shame. If a joke isn't funny - don't laugh at it - that's the worst response a comic will ever get. But don't blow them up on a twitter, try to make them apologize for making a joke that wasn't particularly funny.
It would be nice for there to be a brief sample of the text it generates in the ReadMe, or a link to a github pages where its used.
It would be useful to make commit comments on code as you make changes that can be used by SCMs and IDEs. See the history of a method change by change complete with the relevant comments. And from an SCM, click on a comment and select from a list of code changes.

And you avoid having to write your comments when you commit. You'd do it in the code when you are more focused on the change.

Even better would be detecting when you are changing code and prompting for the comment or let you select from recent comments.

Then on the SCM side when you commit, each comment could be handled as a separate commit.

Any IDEs already doing some or all?
Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers (Amazon, 1994)
They probably feel there's a disconnect between effort put in and resulting popularity because that's objectively true.

And I understand feeling resentment when faced with a shining, blinking example of how unfair such things are and how hard it is to get popular even with something very good.

Note: this is a comment about the general case
Well, it seems the experiment is over and they tried to pay back everyone, but have a look at my wallet:
http://imgur.com/10nx0DG

I sent 0.0012408 + 0.0001 fee and got 0.1199 back...
So I just tried again before seeing that it was over and probably will not get anything back from that payment.

So, in total, I "lost" 0.0013408*2 and got 0.1199.
That's 76$ profit, at current rate anyway!
Assuming Bitpay, Coinbase, and company don't get into providing some sort of chargeback protection for consumers, which of course they could do.

It's also possible that merchant reputation will become key, which isn't exactly a bad thing.
Good point, I read that article before trying the game thus never realised how insulting the author was. And he's a drama queen about the hitbox. The game is smooth on my 1½ years old S3 (FWIW).
Rahzrengvat gur pnfrf; nal sbhe cbvagf qrsvar n erpnagthyne "uhyy":

[(zva n_k, znk_k)] K [zva n_l, znk n_l)]

('n' enatvat bire gur sbhe cbvagf)

Va gur pnfrf bs vagrerfg (3) be (4), ng yrnfg guerr bs gur cbvagf yvr ba gur rkgrevbe rqtr bs guvf uhyy. Vs (naq bayl vs) nyy sbhe qb, vg'f pnfr (4). Gur pbhag bs cbyltbaf sebz guvf vf fvzcyl gur pbhag bs havdhr frgf bs 4-cbvagf ylvat ba fhpu erpgnatyrf (pbzovangbevny sbezhyn: ovt grez vf N^2 O^2 (bar ba rnpu rqtr -- # vf whfg gur cebqhpg bs rqtr yratguf), cyhf gur pnfrf jurer cnvef bs cbvagf ner ba gur fnzr rqtr (funer k- be l-) (cbffvoyl gjb cnvef -- guvax (2,0) (1,0) (0,1) (0,2)), zvahf gur pnfrf jurer gurl uvg gur fnzr pbeare).

Va gur bgure pnfr, (3), guerr bs gur cbvagf ner ba gur erpgnatyr uhyy (cbffvoyl jvgu n cnve ba gur fnzr rqtr). Va rnpu pnfr, gur vagrevbe ertvba vf gur fhz+qvssrerapr bs frireny evtug gevnatyrf. Fb vs jr xrrc n ybbxhc gnoyr bs gur ~83 zvyyvba eryrinag evtug gevnatyrf, jr unir na B(1) pnyphyngvba sbe gur # bs cbvagf ba gur vagrevbe. (Jr trg guerr fbyhgvba cbyltbaf sbe rnpu bs gubfr, bar sbe rnpu cbvag vafvqr gur erpgnatyr ohg bhgfvqr gur gevnatyr, naq abar sbe gur barf juvpu yvr ba na rqtr).

Fb gung'f n fznyy B(1) pnyphyngvba sbe rnpu erpgnatyr. Jr pna whfg rahzrengr guebhtu nyy erpgnatyr fvmrf (nyfb ~83 zvyyvba) naq gung'f vg.
Buran was carried piggy-back on an expendable rocket (Energia), with no attempt at reusable main engines, less aggressive engineering on the expendable main engines than the SSMEs, and no SRBs. (The equivalent function was performed by liquid-fueled strap-ons.) The Buran orbiter looked a lot like the Shuttle, but the systems as a whole were engineered rather differently.
Software, application development
well, that was quick.

note: I did not post the website to make money or anything (and I was not affiliated with the author in any way). I thought it was funny, and I thought nobody will seriously put money into it. I was probably wrong.
what are the chances that his twitter account was hacked?
I'm working on Braph, a parametric search engine and a model-as-a-service solution. It's about classes and instances, where you can save your data with certain properties and search by its characteristics. In the demo I create a Pokemon class and create many instances, even with relations between them (evolution), then I could search a pokemon by its weight or evolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfOvGYEYJq0
Definitely understand the sentiment there, but at least for us, it's not working out like that. Our first contributor is also our first developer hire, and we have another contributor we are negotiating with to have him do some contract work for us. If anything, it's encouraged us to hire more.

Our move to open source is basically a statement that the people behind a product are where the value is actually built, and so from our perspective, it is of the utmost importance to treat people fairly. If you have any experience with running a big open source project, I'd love to chat with you to see if there are any non-obvious pitfalls we can avoid. You can email me at george@codecombat.com
Nicely done, that desert chrome takes me back. I can almost hear the disco.
There is a lot more risk on the consumer allowing a merchant (and vicariously the consumer's bank) full "pull" access to a bank account. You'll need a dispute resolution system, which is what debit cards are basically providing in addition to point of sale systems. Imagine a security compromise like with Target, but if there was full bank account access as well... it would be a nightmare.

Bitcoin is "push" based which eliminates the ability to fraudulently pull charges from the sender's account. Banks also charge a fee, and add transfer times to transactions that are basically non-existant with bitcoin
it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/IJJU14s.png
False multichotomy - on different days I could tick at least half those boxes, because on those days that would be my main focus.
People are still sending money in (!?) https://blockchain.info/address/1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1...

Paybacks seem to have halted https://blockchain.info/address/1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1...
haha seconds after I send money to it. This is what I was expecting. I was going to see how long I could save that 0.1 return.
Incredibly slow scrolling on my 32GB DD3 RAM, SSD, i7 3770K desktop PC. Using Chrome latest, windows 8.1

Why?

Edit: Doesn't even work on Firefox latest, IE latest.
You may have seen this, but if you haven't, check out this video, 'John Carmack: Thoughts on Haskell':

http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-...

I it won't solve the problem you're having, but it's an interesting talk that's kind of related

The HN comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6278047
Physical sciences? (instead of physics)
I think he's just bringing up the very real point that we're a for profit company, but accept free work from highly skilled developers. We are almost hyper aware of the need to balance the community and company profitability. The last thing we want is for people to feel exploited, and we think that we can be transparent enough to make that work. But to ignore the risk entirely would be hubris. :)
But why would you only comment this in the git history?

Why on earth wouldn't you place this explanation in a comment preceding the line of code itself?

One of the best things I ever learned in programming is that you shouldn't write code to be executed -- you should write code to be read and understood by other people.

It's going to take me forever to read your file and understand what's going on if I have to do a git blame on every other line.

Just use short purpose-based commit messages (fixes a bug where..., so now...), and then put the actual why behind the implementation in the source code comments itself!
An Information Age Glossary
Even though it is a functioning ponzi scheme, it could still be classified as a joke. I'd go so far as to say if you don't see humor in it there might be something wrong with you.

Although there is the legal question. I'm not sure it would be so funny to tell it to a judge.
Could have let it run its course to actually make it an 'experiment', couple of hours of popularity is a bit too short to shut it down :(
Testing/Quality should be an option.
Agreed. I think many people (myself included, probably) aren't equipped to deal with constant streams of criticism and abuse.

It's a shame the internet had to react this way. The guy seems really humble and deserving of the success. But I think he chose happiness over the money, and I think that speaks of great integrity.
Can Namecoin Obsolete ICANN (and More)?
The poll allows for more than one vote. I voted for the two categories I spend the most time in.
I don't know why you've gone to the effort of blacking out the other addresses, when the blockchain is public. Here's a definitive proof of the transactions: https://blockchain.info/address/1B45zbsPXDDwoCsY11NGmX7useg1...
Health informatics
> Flappy bird can make it possible for him to fund his next adventure (or next 10)

If he lives in Vietnam, one day would set him up for the rest of his life.
A Guide on How to Change Oneself
Business informatics
1930s typewriter art by Julius Nelson
Doomed in what way? That the SQL injection allows the attacker to see or mess with data? Or that the attacker somehow gains greater access to the database, server, OS, etc? Or both?
Here's another one: http://igjam.com/?pool
An update on Gustin from the founders
Testing, quality assurance