skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, these "crazy" ants demonstrate a risky but valuable startup lesson for certain industries: Think about the biggest weapon your huge competitor has and use the same thing to fight them, they'll be unprepared. Rather than running away from the fire ants venomous sting, as any sane creature would do, they've developed a way to go right at it and nullify one of its biggest advantages. Caution: you will need a "secret sauce", like these guys do.

Obligatory pg reference that's related: "We delighted in forcing bigger, slower competitors to follow us over difficult ground. "
And give an open source license.

It might be a pain to install, run and maintain, which is why you pay for the service. But, if the service dies you have a path forward if your life or business depends on it.
Could you explain that to me a little more please?
It's not random, just needlessly obfuscated.
It's considered bad practice to add add methods to the prototypes of built in objects because it has the chance of breaking other people's code.
Well that's certainly the assertion modern bureaucrats feel entitled to.

It works right up until it doesn't :/
Just signed up. I would love if you changed the signup form to use textarea rather than input though...
Are you placing all virgin media uk customers in London? I'm in belfast.
That may work for games, but it's just stupid for what is essentially infrastructure. Some creative destruction may well make sense there as well at times (instead of accumulating cruft indefinitely), but there are major costs associated with doing so, so an approach that has a high probability of requiring a complete rebuild every couple of years is just moronic.
An then they came up with the poll tax to keep the poor from voting. I'm sure Tom Perkins would like that again.
>Pressed for examples of how the rich were being demonized...

Really, CNN? You haven't noticed that for the past few years? Tom may be an idiot and an extremist... but don't play stupid about the war on wealth.
Nice bit of news you added to the top, which 4co.in is putting on their own site.

One piece of advice though: Drop the goo.gl short link and link directly to http://altexplorer.net, otherwise it looks like 4co.in was 'hacked' and goo.gl is a phishing/some other sort of scam and not legit.

You should be able to pickup the 4coi.in domain as the referrer if you want metrics for how many people were using 4co.in.
"If I were involved in one of these protest groups I would take the first step, get the employees involved too, and make it about something bigger than these red-herring buses!"

Why? The tactic they are using has worked countless times. It is a tried an true game plan. Keep it simple and demonize all of them. The workers are better defined as part of the problem and, yes, 6 figures means you are the "haves". Those workers are renting in the area and seen as kicking out the normal folks.

The reporter writing the articles will be sympathetic as his/her career has probably felt the same pressure from tech. It might be a nice analogy for one of them to use (tech: residents -> force out of homes, reporters -> force out of careers).
Ha ha.

You're describing the state of affairs before Underscore existed, back when functional-ish programming in JavaScript was ruled by Prototype.js:

http://prototypejs.org/

... which added a lot of useful methods to native prototypes.

While handy in controlled and limited environments, mucking about with native prototypes quickly becomes extremely dangerous and difficult — once you have two third-party modules on the page that expect different versions of your patched prototype method ... once you have a new version of a browser that implements one of your previously-extended functions, but does it differently — you're pretty well screwed. Both of those things tended to happen in large sites.
I have reported it to the abuse contact of the web host, colocation provider, and cloudflare. I am however not expecting a response in a timely manner from any of them.

Luckily they are stripping out the ad tags before displaying by site so it shouldn't affect Ad Sense.
Cost of Delay Due to Technical Debt
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That's not quite the same thing. We aren't programming the source code of human brains.
Reminds me of this dystopian story about a regulatory authority doling out a case-by-case "license to read" without which you're doomed:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I notice a recurring theme of '80s retro-futurism in Moon. It all looks like the way we imagined the future at the peak of the Space Shuttle, but with little nods to modern technology to avoid obvious anachronisms. Brilliant design.

For example, the black-backgrounded GUIs with wide text on them remind me of old DOS-era applications, but they're displayed on modern high-resolution flat-panel displays.

The T-shirt is also painfully '80s, as directly noted. The only music mentioned is an early-'90s song that was hokey the day it came out. The Flowbee and the magazine are other noted '80sisms.

The rescue-crew-manifest with poor-quality black-and-white images on a color screen? That could've been lifted directly from the '80s-era Alien films.

Which really, all makes sense - the '80s were the end of the space race. For space-travel nostalgia, that's where you go for modern Gen X movie fans.
White House Petition to Bring Silk Road Thieves to Justice
I am going to lok into this later today through nginx. I am planning on having every request from their scraping IP return a static page linking to the proper site.
this is probably better than banning their source ip, as it will take longer to detect and piss off their customers.

also, report them to adsense and anyone else serving their ads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7240119
I agree in one sense.

I've always held the opinion that it is a miracle Microsoft Word even works at all. It's a gigantic one tool fits all writing application that's implemented on a feature by feature basis into a mega program with thousands of clashes and interactions... and it works.

It's insane, and then programmers come along and try to emulate such insanity in an open source program. It doesn't work.

All that said. I feel Blender is becoming another miracle. The platform they have made is very flexible. It's compositing system has insane potential. The workflow is great and getting better, support is great and getting better.

I don't know why blender isn't seeing more popularity, Maya must be F#$ing nirvana.
Instead of blocking source IP. Detect and send "unwanted information".
Perhaps they don't build Dyson spheres because living _in_ one would be really boring.

The sun is always in the same spot. It's always day. You can't see the _stars_.

Give me the surface of a planet, anyday.
That is not what I meant. You speak of idealistic implementation...its not all that far fetched. Refer to my comment here for a real life working implementation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7240235

>Massive jobs program hammers, begging for nails.

Perhaps. I think you judge them unjustly though - it is certainly prone to bureaucrats sinking the scheme with BS, but I don't think it is in itself prone to sinking.

As for the TSA comment - my condolences to all Americans. I don't feel its a representative example of the current debate though.
Vimium Chrome Extension
Yes...yes...yes.
For now I have added a news post with a link to the proper site and am debating between blocking the IP or delivering a static page with a link to the proper URL or a javascript redirect to the proper site.
Sorry, I somehow missed that site from reading your docs. I'm willing to chalk this up to my own mistake rather than bad design on your part.
Its not an unprecedented idea. After all, when the country was founded, only landowning males got to vote. That said, saying it in 2014 is some variation of the old "democracy is three wolves and lamb voting on what to have for dinner." Its based on the fallacious belief that without civil society, people like Perkins would be at the top of the heap without any non-taxpayers to drag them down.

Some people may not pay taxes, but their buy in to the system nonetheless keeps our natural rulers at bay. Those natural rulers are not people like Perkins. Nerds with a talent for running financial models. Our natural rulers are those talented at leading people in the exercise of violence. Warlords, barons and earls of yore. Democracy is a bargain where the people acting collectively protect people like Perkins from the warlords that would otherwise make them their bitches.
The vacuum also provides suction to pull the hair straight, I think. Notice how a barber pulls your hair out straight with a comb to see the length while cutting? The suction gets you that service.
They could just convert the prize money to BTC today, advertise it in that currency, and not have to worry how the market changes?
People like this have apparently forgotten that if all else fails, the hoi polloi will start voting with guillotines.
True. I hadn't thought of that, but it would be interesting to know.
Please don't bikeshed in technical threads. One comment on something like this is more than enough; zero is probably better.

When a new thing comes out, the discussion should focus on what's significant about it.
There is already technology being rolled out to automate pumping gas.
"Plan 9 shows up in lots of different types of applications, making use of different benefits. It is used in embedded systems, where the low overhead is important. It is used in commercial products where the reliability and performance are important. It's used in massive supercomputers where the novel interconnections and low "system noise" are needed. What you get out of it largely depends on what you're looking for from it."

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/faq/index.html#ABOUT_P...
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ay, to my astonishment, making the holes with a hoe
for the seventieth time at least, and not for himself to lie down
in! But why should not the New Englander try new adventures, and
not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and
his orchards -- raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves
so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about
a new generation of men? We should really be fed and cheered if
when we met a man we were sure to see that some of
is that so ?

I would have thought that considering they are building a browser that was originally written in C-GTK, the first order of business would be to build GTK bindings.

I would say Vala and Rust do have fairly similar goals in general.

P.S. I know right now Servo != Firefox, but I suppose it will get there eventually.
I have unlimited everything but along with being able to call/chant international with friends it is good when the reception in an office or building is crap but you have wifi.
Detect their IP and 301 their requests to goatse. Or something worse, if you're bent like that. :)
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This really looks like maxmind city level, so... until we get confirmation from the dev on what db it is, assume this service can disappear at any moment due to license issues.
Sounds like something that could be easily automated.
"Garbage trucks full of money" isn't the biggest weapon our competitor has, it's like #4 or #5.
>Do you have any citations that mandatory charity work are beneficial for the psychological condition?

You raise a valid point. At first I thought "don't be stupid...obviously its beneficial". Looking at that word "mandatory" in your question though I'm no longer confident in my initial instinct....
A lot of people have built "something better". But w3schools still ranks the highest. That's the point. There are many better alternatives but the Google rank kills the others.
The original McCarthy LISP started even more abstract than ML: it was intended as a logical thought exercise, and was only accidentally a programming language at all.

COBOL (and Ada) were standards-first languages. The industry-driven standards committees designed the languages first, and it was not until afterwards that there were working implementations, much less working programs. Industry experience guided them in later releases, but v1.0 (which Rust is still working towards) were even more ivory-tower than languages whose only program is their own compiler.
Yeah, I was thinking "Isn't that kind of how it already works?"
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Do you know who their web host is? If so, block the whole Class B from fetching your site.
This Is A Mexican Drug Lord's Home After It Was Raided.
In the United States, Oregon and New Jersey also require an attendant pump gas for you. Supposedly gas stations have lower insurance premiums as a result.
Thanks for making this. I signed up and entered a pretty long answer to "Tell us more about your business / idea." After I confirmed my email, I reviewed my answers, and that answer was cut off (looks like at 255 characters). I recommend adding a maxlength to input boxes that have limits and noting those limits on the page.
What happens when a Tesla electric car gets rear ended?
> No he didn't. He took the time to learn ocaml.

Not before writing his initial benchmarks, which is what we're talking about.

> The closest thing to evidence I can find suggests that it is no more difficult to write fast code in haskell:

> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te....

That measures ridiculous highly tuned implementations of the benchmarks, often written by the creators of the languages themselves. It contains absolutely no evidence of how hard it is to write fast programs in a language.

Besides, I'm pretty sure citing the language shoot-out is an automatic disqualification in any argument about language speed.
Meh, don't use best practices for assigning functions to variables, but other than that looks pretty readable.
Embrace the 'creative' destruction of all the documents I store with a cloud provider?

Yeah, no thanks.
good for you, meyer! empower the people! nice job. :+)

-bowerbird
since `fastSource.map(slowThing)` automatically pauses the source while the slow thing is processing, how is this different from iteration? It also states that in the case of a non-pausable source it will buffer the data. How does it know when to pause vs when to buffer.

Is there some way to know what kind of source you've got, or are the the sources constructed in a way that chooses which behavior you get?
Not sure about the first part of your comment as neither RHEL nor CentOS use systemd right now (in fact RHEL 6/CentOS 6 uses upstart).

RHEL 7 will be systemd based, but it isn't ready (yet), and in my experience people tend to stay in the major release they're in instead of upgrading. So it will be a long time before systemd is really widespread between RHEL/CentOS users.
goatse as it was is no more. They had planned to offer vanity email addresses, but I am not sure if it took off. It looks like they're doing something with dogecoin now.

But an image search should help you find the image.
Current AI does not even have a intelligence of rat, we are somewhere around insects.
Please re-read onetwofiveten's explanation. All I've done is paraphrase it. Alpha is just an arbitrary cutoff p-value corresponding to a threshold t-value for a given null hypothesis.
This was his point:

"Voting should be independent of opinion, should it not? Voting should reflect the merit of a post regardless of its popularity, right? Comments with little more substance than "cops should die" shouldn't be at the top of a comment page, right?"

Sentence by sentence just to make it easy on you:

"Voting should be independent of opinion, should it not? Voting should reflect the merit of a post regardless of its popularity, right?"

What does this even mean? How on earth would this work? He's genuinely upset that voting reflects peoples opinions? I'm shocked that someone could say this and not immediately realize what a dumb thing it is to say. But yeah, this problem in his mind, will be solved by finding a different community, with opinions he likes. See the problem now?

"Comments with little more substance than "cops should die" shouldn't be at the top of a comment page, right?""

Right. And they aren't. So what is the complaint? Oh right, its a stupid strawman with no merit whatsoever, which i pointed out. If BlackDeath3 wants to throw a tantrum when someone says cops could die, he's more than welcome, but the idea that this is what he bases his argument on when no one said anything like that is utter lunacy. I cannot imagine going around being this irrationally angry. It's like being a republican and just screaming BENGHAZI!!! whenever confronted with something unsavory about your own party. Try living on planet earth with some rational people.
that partially the point I think.
> Learning new tech and (more importantly) being able to know from experience which is more fit for a specific task is part of the career field you've chosen.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that any particular instance of having to learn new tech is something ve should celebrate. The opportunity cost of learning this might be that ve doesn't learn something else useful.
Agreed. I'd love a command-line version for both Mac and Linux that I can use for embedded C work. $250/year for this would be a no-brainer.
Thanks. I was hoping may be there was some court ruling that would let me do that :)

I was referring to Fandango because they already index and show all the movie times for various shows. So does that mean they get permission from cinemark and other companies/sites?
Problem there is that you're exposing the participants to volatility risk. if btc drops in price then people might be less likely to participate.
Many view bitcoin as a great new technology but its price is still too unstable to actually quote products/prices/prices in.
Quote in dollars, delivery bitcoin and everyone wins
I think there's a legal doctrine along the lines of "open door" or "unenforced property", wherein if a person does not put up a minimum standard of defense of their property, there are limitations to what legal protection they have against trespassing and theft.

For example, if I leave my house with the doors wide open, all the time, I think the doctrine means I can't accuse people of breaking in if they simply walk in ... especially if they do so repeatedly without me doing anything to stop it.

Similar if my property has no fence, gate, locks, etc and people are in the habit of walking across it - and I haven't taken ordinary measures to stop them - then I can't accuse people of trespassing.

The examples are not great, and I don't recall what it's called ... but I believe there's a legal doctrine along those lines.

Oh, and, IANAL.
Excellent. Keep us posted. Good luck.
I would contact the other site first and find out WTF. It is unlikely, but they might have a good reason for it. If they are just trying to rip you off, solution might be as simple as just asking them to stop.
There is some logic to this. I think it was Plato who commented that a democracy was doomed once its citizens realised they could vote themselves largesse out of the treasury. Which is pretty much what is happening these days in every modern industrial democracy - government spending constantly increases and any suggestions of cutting spending are met by massive protests.

Example: in the UK media right now you will read many stories about the current government's "deep, savage cuts", and all the poor people who are suffering as a result of these cold, uncaring conservatives. But after all these cuts the UK is still running at a deficit.

Of course, Plato was an old fool who lived in the days before fiat money. Why raise taxes or cut spending when you can simply borrow more?
;) You have the right state-of-mind.

But step back a little and see the bigger picture.
Real world implementation of the old affiliate system is high-quality spam in exchange for pennies on the dollar.
You may enjoy the 1996 paper "Changing Highbrow Tastes: From Snob to Omnivore" http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lundyj/New%20College%20Class/...
It's also likely that the blue/red preference is a much more simple, more fundamental choice, likely tied into the "kernel" of the brain, whereas music is more of a "user space app".
Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. "You are the richest person? You get to be president for 4 years, but have to pay 50% of your net worth for the privilege. Not twice as rich as the 2nd richest person? Sorry. No reelection for you, pal!"
Upstart although being first was never going to win against the marketing forces behind systemd.
In the old days, tech was evaluated on technical merit, today the slickest marketing hucksters win.
Yet another piece of lennart-ware to bring down the linux experience. Thank you BSDs for providing a sane alternative.
As a customer of AT&T in the United States, I often get put in Chiacago or Kansas. Go figure.
Listen to the Butt Song from Hell written on a 500-year-old painting
In our hypothetical scenario, it's not "mandatory"--it's freely available. If you already have some other highly paid job, great. If not, there's always the option of doing the volunteer work in exchange for the minimum income from the government.

There would probably also need to be some kind of exemption for people with physical or mental disabilities.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes, steals user data
Basic income will likely be the answer.
"oh this isn't really so hard, I could hack something like this up myself over the weekend" - Yeah! Bravo.
I meant in the context of servers we're a cloud company vs. traditional servers.
From Great British Node Conf, maybe two months ago: a speaker talking about promises asked what people use for flow control:

- promises: about 20% of the room.

- async: about 80% of the room

For me async.waterfall([list of functions]) is little nicer than 10 chained .thens().

And people advocating promises still keep saying it keeps things flat. No it doesn't, we're already flat because we're all using async. Stop pretending async doesn't exist and isn't massively popular.

And way, way better documented. Q.spawn what? And this is the best promises library?

Stack Overflow question: Simplest fs.readFile example with generators and Q?

Current only answer:

Q.spawn(function* () {
…
var data = yield Q.ninvoke(fs, "readFile", somefile);
…
});

Answer from Highland docs:

var data = _.wrapCallback(fs.readFile)('myfile');

- What's Q (yes it's a module, but what does it mean? Is it supposed to a misspelt queue or something else?

- What does 'ninvoking' something do?

- Shouldn't I just be able to to put the variable declaration outside of the scope?

- Why do competing Open Source implementations of the same standard exist? Can't there just one reference implementation?

That's not the future.

I might be really ignorant here. I probably am - I could read a shit tonne of docs to work out what this strange beast does and technically someone can probably do a better job answering that Stack Overflow question. But nobody has, because very few people know how to operate the current state of the art generators/promises setup.

From the Q docs: "If you have a number of promise-producing functions that need to be run sequentially"

No, I don't have a number of promise producing functions. Nobody in nodeland has that. I just have functions. I could read about turning them into promise producing functions, and calculate whether this abstraction layer is adding value, but then again, I could do productive work with async.

And from the looks of it, Highland too.
I'd do a javascript redirect so you get the ad-views and the users of the site see the new URL.

(for now)
So this means you can now import the entire De La Soul catalog into Spotify and only have The Beatles left as a reason for not using it!
Google and its NSA-esque tendencies. This is just the beginning
As someone with a five digit /. uid, I feel I've been around long enough. NSFW won some time ago.