skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, it's hard to understand why US tech workers put up with a lot of things.
To me the criticisms about PHP are pedantic and is a result of misunderstanding the philosophy behind PHP. The kneejerk reaction language modifications the PHP community made because of the 'PHP sucks lol' meme is detrimental to the language itself.

PHP is a mature webdevelopment language that features an easy to learn, read, and develop feature set. Scala or Perl are not. (See Perl 6) So I don't see how emulating it will provide any form of benefit. Picking up a language feature because a guru attacks PHP because they can write a feature X in Y lines is almost an immature.

The reusability and performance issues were genuine, but these were to be expected given version iterations and the fact PHP introduced namespaces a while back.
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Came here to post the same thing (current researcher in this field). Although you could actually automate the labelling by building a classifier for the type of object you wish to extract.
> one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway

And that's a cause I can really get behind.
The election was city-wide (it's going to districts in 2015)
"As far as Crimea is concerned: only a bit over 50% Russian-speaking"

Citation needed. I think it would be indeed not easy to find anyone living in Crimea for whom Russian is not the main communication language (and yes, that includes Crimean tatars).

Disclaimer: I've spent around six weeks in Crimea over a few years. Sevastopol and south coast mostly.
TLS handshake that crashes Chrome
Pure C does not have automatic destruction of objects, but gcc has an extension to do it. Take a look at systemd's source code to see it in action. It's very similar to C++'s RAII, and can also do things like closing file descriptors.
My issues with this:
1. Whats the goal from the date? Nobody is going to commit to a long term relationship, and I doubt you will convince a guy to leave his job in SF to move to NY from this date.

2. Waste of resources/emissions. Sure, the effect of this is negligible since the planes will be flying anyways, but in principal this just seems like a huge waste of resources.

3. Given 1, it seems that this "date" is really just going to be mostly one-time affairs. Which is cool. But why not just find a date locally or hire an escort.
I think it might be interesting to see some stats on Prototype Day. Or, at least, what factors contributed to high votes and whether or not those votes had any correlation to the Demo Day and performance of the company beyond YC.

What I'm trying to get at is - YC obviously sees some kind of value in Prototype Day, so what is the value and can others replicate that value in some other way?
VCs should be concerned. They are trying to fly in distractions. What if your founder starts wasting time dating women? Shouldn't they be focused on their startups? Startups are on a peninsula for a reason :)
Who owns famous Oscar selfie?
If you're in London, just walk into the nearest pub and use the toilet there. There there will most certainly be a nearby pub.
Java and Python are good languages to compare here since Java appears to have the most money thrown at IDE's in the recent past. Python has a few IDE's but theyre nowhere as magical as Java based IDE's. The average python api that I have come across is usually much more concise than its Java equivalent and there is a strong culture of dwim in the Python community. How much of this is a result of the tooling support for either language and how much is a cultural artifact of the respective community is an open question.
Part that took me the most time to understand is the different way to have an execution context for dynamic pages ( cgi, wsgi, fastcgi, servlets). I think that should definitely be a part of a "what is a web framework".
The biggest constraint in Europe, and a lot of urban areas in the US, is likely having a driveway/garage. Not being able to charge a car overnight is a big deal for EVs.
My late aunt was schizophrenic and apparently became so after experimenting with LSD. I've always thought it was coincidence but I remain wary of the cost/benefit. Here's an interesting article on experimentation with LSD by mathematicians, engineers, designers and artists.

'In mid-'60s LSD research study, dosed scientists achieved creative breakthroughs:

Over the course of the preceding year, IFAS researchers had dosed a total of 22 other men for the creativity study, including a theoretical mathematician, an electronics engineer, a furniture designer, and a commercial artist. By including only those whose jobs involved the hard sciences (the lack of a single female participant says much about mid-century career options for women), they sought to examine the effects of LSD on both visionary and analytical thinking. Such a group offered an additional bonus: Anything they produced during the study would be subsequently scrutinized by departmental chairs, zoning boards, review panels, corporate clients, and the like, thus providing a real-world, unbiased yardstick for their results.

In surveys administered shortly after their LSD-enhanced creativity sessions, the study volunteers, some of the best and brightest in their fields, sounded like tripped-out neopagans at a backwoods gathering. Their minds, they said, had blossomed and contracted with the universe. They’d beheld irregular but clean geometrical patterns glistening into infinity, felt a rightness before solutions manifested, and even shapeshifted into relevant formulas, concepts, and raw materials.

[The volunteers] remained firm: LSD absolutely had helped them solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems. But here’s the clincher. After their 5HT2A neural receptors simmered down, they remained firm: LSD absolutely had helped them solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems. And the establishment agreed. The 26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device, a new design for the vibratory microtome, a technical improvement of the magnetic tape recorder, blueprints for a private residency and an arts-and-crafts shopping plaza, and a space probe experiment designed to measure solar properties. Fadiman and his colleagues published these jaw-dropping results and closed shop.'

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/03/in-mid-60s-lsd-research-stu...
Swiss here; having 25 days excluding local and national holidays.

It really is a strange sight, this theme popping up all the time on HN, with some author proclaiming "look guys this is a good thing because X,Y,Z", when it's an absolute no-brainer for oneself.

Mind you, 25 days is more or less a norm; the law requires only 20 days.
"Linus's Law" itself says little about whether or not people will actually look at code. It just says that more people looking is better than fewer people looking.

How much code I have audited, you have audited, ESR has audited, or hell, how much code Paul McCartney has audited, really has little to do with the obvious correctness and banality of the 'law'.
Some people only use Facebook for feature X

For one group that might be Facebook messenger

For another it might be the news feed

Facebook sees single purpose apps (instagram, whatsapp) replacing facebook altogether. They're scrambling to compete directly (in some cases outright buying competitors).
Patch review: https://codereview.chromium.org/178003011/
Creating a sports video game has proven rather difficult
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_beam
Tried to sign up. Spent about 5 minutes trying to figure what's wrong with my password. Got signed up. Of course the system lost track on my original intent to try the Bluemix. Tried to log in again. Got a security code question. Waiting for email. Okay. Punched the security code and got question on why exactly I want a trial. Answered. Got a message that they might give me a chance for a trial.

Corporate is so corporate.
>Eh, I'm not sure they are incompetent.

Some of these guys are indisputably incompetent with regard to the software and services they are building. While it's true that all software can have bugs, these are extraordinarily unsophisticated attacks that any non-hacker can exploit by, say, refreshing his browser in rapid succession.

That is, there is a sliding scale with regard to the level of competence imputed to, say, a certain type of bug. And, this wasn't a simple coding error (which, can be more easily forgiven). This was a fundamental oversight in the overall approach to the software, with regard to a critical operation. And it involves such basic concepts as transactions and race conditions. While eliminating the latter can be difficult to get right, it appears that they didn't even consider the fact that they could occur.

I am one of the guys in your group who thinks "have I considered everything?" In fact, I would be inclined to believe that I haven't. Perhaps that's pessimism or just realism, given what I've seen from determined hackers attacking my business over the years. So, I can certainly give a pass to oversights or errors. But, at a certain point, the nature of some oversights or errors are indicative of the fact that the developer(s) are not competent, at least with regard to the domain.
Peter R’s Theory on the Collapse of Mt. Gox
Gabe Newell and Valve doing an AMA on Reddit
winCount = 1000;

then wait until end.
Erik, please do not make assumptions about my wife, she is far less bothered by ick than me or many people I know. Smell can be caused by bacteria, can be different than scent you refer to, and bacteria are a real concern so to clean the cup well and to have clean hands and area there are in fact very important. She used cup for years (due to heavy flow - cup easily contains more than tampon/pad absorbs well in practice - a pro of cup), then after we had all our children she had IUD for contraceptive and at that point her ob/gyn said the two are not supposed to be used in concert, so she stopped using cup. The IUD also lessened her flows so the reason for using the cup for her was removed as well. I thought I was completely polite and simply listed some reasons why a cup may not be appropriate in India where just washing and drying rags well in comparison is a concern according to the BBC article.
Years ago, Dilbert had a hilarious series of strips about mail order brides. But I agree that it is sad.

I'll just leave this here.

http://search.dilbert.com/search?p=Q&lbc=dilbert&uid=7339291...
> Define "known-bad" in a general enough way that a specific test can be created to cover the entire range of "bad" certs.

Any known-bad cert at all would have been quite sufficient to catch this bug apparently. A simple ARE WE ACCEPTING BAD CERTIFICATES LOL sanity-check would have found it, which is the kind of unit test it should be possible to think of in advance rather than in response to a specific bug found earlier. A little can go a long way.

EDIT: Additionally, the difficulty of catching all bad certs is good reason to develop and continually update a torture-test of invalid certs (and valid ones) to test SSL clients against. The suite would be much too slow to check against once per recompile, but testing once before each point release should be useful enough...
Much less likely if that's the advertised goal. It's better to go about group activities people enjoy, and not let dating become their all-consuming goal.
It'll be enforced by the team as well. After all, if the person continues to chime in on emails or commit code, then they're not upholding their end of the bargin with their team (that they'd build good enough systems and write good enough code so they don't have to always be present).

And by "enforce" I don't mean that we have some formal reprimand process or anything, obviously. But if it becomes an issue, we'll deal with it.
you're correct, of course. The differences seem extremely fine and closely cut to me, regardless.
In other words, your interpretation of "Linus's Law" has no impact on code quality in the real world. Edit: However, since it's meant to imply that in open source, there are people looking at code, I think that the criticisms stand.
As long as the laws of physics allow it, its possible.
Not transmitting OTA leaves little excuse to retain a broadcast license on that spectrum.
At least not when being filmed.
It's not a promise when it's written in your contract.

But – in contrast to the US I guess – in the EU breaching this contract as am employer _will_ cost you dearly; there are even courts dedicated for employment disputes in some countries, resulting in timely rulings.
It's clear that there aren't "enough (properly skilled, willing and available) eyeballs" for every project out there. Raymond's argument could be correct; still, the irresponsible thing would be to expect, just because of the openness of the code, that someone will ever care for no reason.
Giant virus resurrected from permafrost after 30,000 years
HUVr
Not sure I agree about point three - why do you think they will get more success in SF than in NY? If they cannot get a "date" in NY, I am not sure they would get one in SF. Unless the organisers provide everyone with masks, cover of darkness and free booze!
After a startup I was working at was acquired, the company that bought us had a week-long mandatory shutdown in mid-January. This was horrible since many of us had already taken vacation a few weeks earlier for Christmas/New Years. Also, this time would have counted against our vacation days which meant that we would be less likely for us to be able to take time off during other times of the year.
Funny. It feels like an adventure game, it illustrates a point, and it's just a static page. I even checked, it works perfectly fine without JavaScript. Great example of what can be achieved with good design. I can't help to mentally contrast this with what people call "web apps" these days that use extremely complicated client-side code to communicate far less interesting things, and often do it badly anyway.
Unfortunately, the one you got lied about her picture. :)
FYI trigger operates on the jQuery collection as a whole:

$('img').trigger('mouseenter');
"would be a big pain to integrate everywhere that uses C TLS libraries"

I don't all together disagree with your points, however I'd like to pint out that Haskell has a great C FFI:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Using_the_FFI
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/interfacing-with-c-the...
Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
I'm wondering the same thing...

The author of the article clearly is confused over what's going on.
Show HN: Email-like Masking for Bitcoin Wallets
They verify your location off the billing zipcode given when you drop a credit card number with them. They also geolocate your inbound IP when watching the service and try to bump you when you're not in the viewing area.

It's been like this since the Beta started but I'm guessing once the court rulings are over they would lift the IP restrictions.
While some people do seem to be less of an asshole after doing LSD, I've seen some very hate filled and bigoted people remain convicted of their prejudice even after using multiple times.
Amazing, but surely fake, "HUVr" Hoverboard
People elected her to throw a wrench in the system because they were unhappy with the city council's actions on a number of topics.
Sure, but given these people could not get a date in NY, I would suggest it is more like the Fright Flight, or the Plain-Jane Plane.
"What's the benefit over . . . partnering with someone like Gigabit Squared?"

That worked out great for the residents of Seattle.

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/gigabit-squareds-legacy-seattle...
Figuratively I bought the same book
I think you have your facts mixed up. Honor killings are not an Indian ritual by any means and unheard of in even uneducated villages.
I shut my company down every year between Christmas Eve and New Years. The first couple years we didn't, but we noticed no work got done, clients were out, projects were usually stalled anyways, so why be here. We do it in addition to each persons vacation time. I hope they appreciate it.
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Typo in the post game message...
i'm not sure you've really answered the question, though i get your point.

one of the things LSD illustrates with intensity is that perception is reality. it blurs the line between between what is "profound" and "real" and "fake" and reassures you the line never existed in the first place. and really, it may not.

what is profound is not necessarily only what you conclude, but the experience itself. watching your mind and conscious contemplate and imagine in ways you literally couldn't have even contemplated or imagined.
Why Google Fiber will never come to Los Angeles [0]

[0] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5070520/los-angeles-planni...
It seems like the part of the image showing the video is surrounded by pictures (not video). It seems everything is video because he is moving the image around just at the right time.
A cool technology enanced with a cool trick.
An infrastructure for long-form thoughtful documents
> What assumptions / observations

There are twice as many single men as single women in LA. Exact opposite of NYC.
I do wonder if using Haskell and property based testing in a TLS library would catch many of these bugs. Would there be no value in testing against randomly generated certificates?
I don't even really want Google Fiber in Seattle - I want us to step up our game and make high speed internet a public utility.

But, alas, this article still hits on all the main points as to why this will never happen.
Japan economy has not been depressed. Stagnant maybe, but over the last decade unemployment rate was only 5%.
Way back in my Apache/CGI days the file system was the url handling. No need to touch httpd.conf, just ftp the files..

These days, with Mojolicious behind nginx, it's much cleaner. (But it is good to have used a less abstract setup.)
I think the numbers are a red herring. Finding a date is a numbers game. However, if you've spent any time in a committed relationship, you'll know that pretty much the only things that matter are how she feels about herself and how she feels about you (and the converses for you, which are heavily influenced by those). All the stuff about hotness, income, intelligence, background, careers, etc. fades into the background, and you figure out how to make it work.

I suspect the reason that dating sucks in the Bay Area is because the Bay Area attracts guys (and women, but to a lesser extent) who are overly concerned with how they're perceived by others. After all, everybody is chasing the latest hot startup that will make them wealthy and famous. That same insecurity - and the same insecurity that would make you bail on an area just because there are no girls - is massively unattractive to women.

I spent a year and a half dating around, including some very hot women. After realizing that none of that mattered and the only thing important was how I felt when I was with her, it took me all of 3 weeks to find a partner.
The first global car like that was the Model T http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#First_global_car
Garlic counteracts virulent bacteria
this experience was mine, too. i really liked it at first, and grew to hate it because i kept doing it even though i didn't want to.

reddit.com/r/leaves is a great resource for quitting. if you read the posts there, you'll see that same story over and over and over.
I wonder if we'll ever reach a point where one could have a DMT experience in a comfortable and legal fashion. It would be nice if the laws allowed for licensed psychedelic exploration centers where one could be attended to by experienced trip sitters.

(And yes, I know there are numerous Ayahuasca retreats available in South America.)
I guess you enjoy some luxury vacations each night!
If you're looking for an instant way to change BTC to USD online, you probably won't find that (at least I have my doubts that such a service can exist legitimately). And I have my doubts that Tinkercoin will be around for long, unfortunately (because of scammers). There's simply an impedance mismatch between Bitcoin and the legacy banking system.

As such, you will be hard pressed to find a way to "instantly" sign up and transfer BTC to USD, if that's what you're asking. But once you've gotten approved at a respectable exchange like Bitstamp, getting USD in your bank account is as easy as exchanging the Bitcoins at your desired rate, filling in your desired amount of USD to transfer, and clicking submit.

Because of the slowness of the legacy wire transfer system, you then have to wait a couple of days before the transfer shows up at your account. But it's an extremely simple process, just like transferring money from your online bank account (but not as easy or fast as sending Bitcoins!).

Note that you do need to submit your ID and some additional information the first time you transfer funds, to get approved. If your exchange isn't doing that, then they're not complying with KYC and they're vulnerable to being shut down.
Optical resolution doesn't follow Moore's law. There will certainly have been improvements, but not like we are accustomed to. Computers can be used to model the atmosphere and attempt to recover resolution, but the returns will diminish quickly.
Are you able to put them between weekends?
Rams are the fifth best selling passenger vehicle in the US. http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/06/top-10-best-selling-vehic... . As the owner of one, I do agree it can be hard to park.
Only if you were to redistribute said content.

The argument they're making looks like they're saying that Aereo can't stream copyrighted content over the internet, because the copyright owners (the broadcasters) don't want their content used in the manner. This is weird because broadcasters aren't supposed to have copyrights on material once it's been broadcast. That's been Aereo's edge.

Basically they're trying to close the loophole by saying Aereo isn't consuming the signal, hence they are interfering with the broadcast to the real consumer.
That question depends on what your trying to accomplish.

If you're operating on a massive enterprise scale, it's probably not going to be good enough for your hardware. The HipHop VM might be a saving grace if you're already built on PHP, but pragmatically it's probably a better idea to choose a more matured solution (probably something on the JVM).

If you're doing something that is algorithmically intensive (video encoding as an arbitrary example) PHP is going to be a bad fit.

However, if you, like the vast majority of developers, are working on a website that's main technical purpose is to store data of some sort to a back end and retrieve it later for display and you're not yet operating on a large scale (1M+ users) then PHP itself is probably not going to be your bottleneck for a long time.

If you're a fan of benchmarking, techempower does a good job of unbiased comparisons (although keep in mind these are just benchmarks. It doesn't account for how a particular language or framework is optimized for):
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Haven't seen any around Århus but I'll keep an eye out.
Basic cable runs over clear QAM and can't be blocked per FCC rules. It gets broadcast over the line unfiltered if you have Internet. So if you are paying for it, stop.
I found this to be a peaceful late-night experience. I put the window to fullscreen to avoid all other distractions, rotated my Magic Mouse 90º, and just smooth scrolled through the story. Really nice.
I said this in a reddit thread about this very subject, but we already have 2 ISPs in Seattle that deliver gigbabit speed. They just need money. And probably people.