skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what do you propose? I run a large subreddit and it's hard to find worthwhile moderations and keep the submissions fresh/useful as it grows even larger.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8225637/ns/us_news/t/schiavo-autop...

> An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband’s contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind
1) There are ST plugins if that counts
2) No, though I'm sure you could make do with snippets for now, and web components in the future.
OP here. We built this on Assembly. The code is open and we'd love if people got involved to help building it. Check it out on https://github.com/asm-products/readraptor
This may be too much of a tangent, but I think there's a line between being a nerd who functions as a normal citizen and one who doesn't. For me, that's what the "basement-dweller" thing is pointing at, as I think the long version of that is "mom's basement".

I think if anybody's equipped to usefully judge how people deploy their nerdiness, it's other nerds.
The first hit/dose is free.

On the other hand you do have companies that do make millions that are bailing on certain aspects of Microsoft tools and servers due licensing costs and increases. I've been involved in IT budgeting for almost two decades and the CFOs don't always sign the check just because it's an IBM/Microsoft/Oracle solution.

Software cost for my side projects: $0
This is the guy who authored TextBlob!
https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob
All of your arguments are based on the underlying assumption that being a "pure web search engine" is inherently better than their current striving towards being an "knowledge engine" modeled after the Star Trek computer (of which web results are a just a subset). I'm not sure that can be taken as a given, if only because the later presents a much clearer model/metaphor in the mobile first technology climate.
> * the last one (`return None`) make me very dubious

I'm curious, as someone who uses this pattern quite a bit, how would you improve on this?
R^2 of 0.2 is actually quite high for real-world data. It means that a full 20% of the variation of one variable is completely explained by the other. It's a big deal to be able to account for a fifth of what you're examining.
The problem with classifying this event as censorship is the subjectivity of the argument. One can propose that an individual is a subject of a government whose sole purpose is the malicious discredit of unfavorable information pertaining to that particular government's desired propaganda, but we can also propose that this particular individual believes that government conspiracies to undermine the public opinion on internet forums seems irrational.

I think we can all agree that both are entirely feasible, but remain unable to provide substantial evidence that discredits the other.
Sorry everyone, site is still down. I'll go for the cliche and try and turn this crisis into opportunity...

My situation is this- I live in Israel and my programmer who built the site is in the Army and unreachable. I've been coding but I really just have skills that are "programmer adjacent."

I need to build my tech team so if this excites you and you have skills- (site is built in node.js and hosted on Amazon) please contact me through the email address in the executive summary.
I followed until this far

https://blockchain.info/zh-cn/address/1BWxHjJMmfxfu3w9ESDx91...

And it goes back to MtGox address. What?

Following another chain and ended up here

https://blockchain.info/zh-cn/address/1Cz3BkgQ9NJGq5gvPLs5Yr...

Same. Goes back to MtGox.

Edit: Guys, the original address. The one which contains the MtGox coins. If you track any large transaction. > $30k, even the recent ones. They follow the same pattern. Split into two. And they all end up in pretty big wallets.

As much as I want to call it a witch hunt, there seem to be some patterns (I may be biased as I do want this thing to end up in positive). There's still so much information missing.
Ask HN: Joining Whatsapp team now, good for career growth?
Question: Is my thinking correct?

Premise: Since Whatsapp has been acquired for $16B and they have to justify that acquisition to FB, they will be working on a variety of projects : more features, integrating of payment systems, Ads (?), Analytics, generally scaling infastucture etc. This means the team size will have to grow. For someone who joins the company now in individual role, since the team is still small, chances are as these projects evolve, the individual may get to become a manager or senior manager more easily than in more established companies. Similarly, since he will be growing, pay is also like to raise more compared to established companies. Assume the software engineer is V.good at his work

I would like to know from esteemed HN community if my thinking is correct or if its flawed. I want to grow into a mid-evel manager ASAP. I have 7+ yrs experience in a large non-internet realted company..

Also, If we draw parallels with Google's Android acquisition, What happened to the early team members there? Did they grow into managerial roles or did Google force managers from outside teams?
That's entirely dependent on your workflow isn't it? I can set up a workspace within dev tools and edit HTML/CSS/JS on the fly and have the changes reflected on disk and on screen without ever losing sight of my work. Add in the networking tools (timelines, profiles etc..) and I have full featured 'IDE' that I can also browse hackernews with.
Agree with all of these but two. The first is the example of doing:

class Foo(object):
highlight = reverse

No, that is not clearer. Now I have no idea what this method does. Making it explicit requires more keystrokes, but allows you to properly document the method. Also, when I run help(Foo.highlight) I won't get the generic documentation for `reverse`.

Second, using `each` for a generic iteration variable. This is an opinion, not a best practice. I would argue that either the loop is a one liner, at which point use whatever you want (x works well), or it's more than one line and then I want a proper name for the thing you are iterating over.
Reddit did position itself as the bastion of anything goes free speech... when the speech itself was child pornography.
And also apps aren't necessarily sandboxed on your computer, so you could damage your computer by installing new software. (Which is why you want to make sure the owner is installing it.) You can't do that on an iPhone anyway, so it seems like identity check is useless.
Nope.

* Some of the best languages for producing an internal DSL (dialects) don't have a "native MOP". For eg. Lisp, Rebol or Forth.

* Python & Ruby don't have native MOP's anyway :)

NB. I wonder what you mean by "native MOP" is baked-in OO? Python & Ruby OO systems do come with MOP like abilities. However for full blown (metacircular) MOP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject#Metaobject_protocol) you need to look at things like CLOS & Perl's Moose/Class::MOP.
This research certainly supports the view that it is.
Yes, price stability is exactly what I wrote. Interest rates are not inflation. 2% price inflation can in no way be interpreted to mean stable prices.
'"Monoid" has no good real-world parallel. It has no related or relevant meaning outside of very, very specific contexts. That's what makes it "detached". It's off on its own, with an isolated and non-obvious meaning.'

Also, this objection would seem to apply equally well to functions and variables as monoids.
> All that said, I grow tired of the arguments and articles
> of 'don't speak unless you've walked a thousand miles'
> which I felt as I read this article. Not all knowledge and
> understanding must derive from doing something to have a
> valid opinion. We need to treat teachers better and find
> better pay structures but I've found no harsher critics of
> teachers and our schools than the teachers I went to
> college with as they filter into the systems and find
> tired and broken systems in which they get no voice until
> they have 'tenure'.

I don't know that this article is so much about "not speaking bad about teachers", but about having compassion for teachers and talking about education with a little more humility for the institution that helped produce you. I would say this article is more of the "teachers don't write articles about how to __________ better, so don't let _______________ers tell teachers how to teach better" variety.

And I totally agree that most young teachers are completely overwhelmed by the ridiculous systems in which they are forced to teach. My only hope is that some of these young, inspiring teachers remain in the profession long enough to change the broken system (which might take a LONG time!). The unions are broken; for the most part, teachers are not.
hopefully the robots will work for us soon...
this path might be easier than changing a system where competition and success are a lot based on spending more time working.
> These aren't people who suddenly wake up and start talking after tDCS

Did you actually read the article?

"Some recovered the ability to communicate"
Notgames
How the Yerdle Marketplace Hacked their Shipping with EasyPost
No one stole anything from them. Or at least not something remotely close to what is reported. How can 800k btc go missing?

Even people with few hundred btc split them between several different offline wallets. Can't be stolen. Their hot wallet being hacked is a total possibility, but it would contain no more than 5% of their coins. So, they just emptied the cold storage until it was completely empty?

No.

Something else is going on and we will all know soon enough. Don't let yourselves be manipulated like that.
Tumbling only works if you're a small fraction of the total. If you put $300 million into a tumbler that only has $1 million of other volume, then it's pretty easy to track you.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312442
First, I don't know which is the difference/connection between real and possible alternatives. By real you mean plausible?
Secondly, consciousness goes away even though those many _relatively simple_ interactions are still there. So, I'd say, that we don't really know for sure that consciousness is not there when worms are eating our brains.

Consciousness is a subjective phenomenon. That's what makes it impossible to study directly, without relying on reports. And that's what separates it from those _relatively simple_ interactions which we can model and study experimentally.
I have a few friends that are teachers and most of their schools wouldn't allow for this sort of thing to happen. Teachers aren't allowed to sit at their desk while a class is in session, they must be instructing or walking around (during a test, video, etc...). They get a planning period, where they might have a chance to do some grading or lesson planning, if they don't need to meet with a parent or something. This means they need to either stick around school several hours after it lets out to grade work and do lesson plans, or bring it home and work on it that night.
opps didnt see that on the feed. Deleting the article now. Thanks :)
Buttercoin - buy and sell Bitcoins
Hey Apple! GOTO Considered Harmful.
I'm on a 4s and to mirror previous comments, the game is really hard, as in impossible. I think part of the problem is the ad on the very top of the screen. It's covering up part of the "Drive" in "Drive Soldier Drive" on the title screen.

Also, I don't like how you have to click twice to start playing again.
Fives for Android can replace your current Flappy Bird addiction
This is What Most Likely Happened to Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox Sued in United States Over Bitcoin Losses
This is clearly largely speculation, but its interesting speculation nonetheless.
What do you do before lunch and how late in the day does this cause you to work? Did the stopping time of your work day change doing this?
I've grown not to take anything TC says seriously... but when they say that nobody's been talking about this:

> Open networks keep growing even if individual participants fail.

... then they must have been burying their head in the ground for the past week. EVERYONE has been talking about that.
As another change, it is recommended to avoid explicit line continuations by using parentheses instead.

def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type):
return ((type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER) or
(type == KISKER and not is_nagyker) or
(type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker))

This way, it doesn't break if there is extra whitespace at the end of the line.
Didn't they get rid of it and started using Linux?
Python requests – who's encoding is it anyway?
Show HN: Fives – better than Threes and Android exclusive
I'm interested to see if the communities around various other exchanges will jump up to demand more accountability from those in charge or if the chaos of the crowd will continue to prove how valuable governmental regulation can actually be to the system as a whole.
Thanks, I never heard of your second one... checking it out now.
37% of Designing Electronics is Choosing Components?
I often use list comprehensions where I would have previously used a for loop. It means you have less variables and are less likely to have side effects. I wouldn't say it is always a bad idea.
When short-haired, god-fearing and country-loving patriots are the good guys (no cops bust up a tea party rally), while the long-haired hippies are the bad guys (see COINTELPRO, police treatment of occupy or the WTO protests), what else you want to call it?

Yes, there are more dimensions to politics than 'left' and 'right', but it does indeed seem that the security services are always worried about a certain type.
Been using this for a while now for Django development, it's really simplified the way I work.

When I want to start work on a project:

fig up -d db
fig up -d redis
fig up web

One of the main benefits for me using fig/docker is that I only have a single VM on my machine, rather than one for each project. I usually just leave it running in the background.

Combined with docker-osx https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx I don't even need to ssh into my VM to start work.
I wanted to gather some feedback on HN about a new free game we have been working on. We have added a lot of great features, and taken everything we have learned from HN about telemetry and design to put it out. What are your thoughts?
As I had said in another comment:

> Personally I'd like to see moderation in the way they have it now removed in favour of the Slashdot method where a post with a large number of downvotes is reviewed by those with good-standing in that sub-Reddit but with the username and other details removed. This will allow for some level of sanity within the imperfections that Reddit provides.

Make moderation blind and make it so we don't know who the moderators are; this prevents power-tripping.
Cloud DBMS vendor NuoDB Raises 14.2 Mill dollars
The parent didn't say "Vagrant," they said "Vagrant using the Docker backend."
An Experiment with Checking the glibc Library
> Bitcoin is getting stronger and proving to consumers and businesses it is not going away.

That's all well and good, but as a consumer, I want some level of protection. With credit cards and my bank account, if some entity (myself included) makes stupid decisions and causes me to lose money due to digital theft, my credit card/bank will often take care of the issue.

With BitCoin, and the failure of Mt. Gox, consumers have no recourse (at least as far as I can tell).

EDIT TO ADD:

I'm not sure what problems BitCoin solves for me, as a consumer. I hate that PayPal can "lock" me out of my account, so I don't use it. BankOfAmerica, can, but usually will only do so for extreme circumstances (ie asset seizing and forfeiture).

I hate that Banks charge a fee for the privilege of storing my money in it, but there are enough banks/credit unions that offer services for free.

This article leaves open several issues by likening BitCoin to email. Great that email is a protocol. But what happens when Gmail fails? At this point GMail is too big to fail, and I for one am glad that Google, with it's resources and very talented engineers are backing it.

> New technologies take time to mature.

Granted. BitCoin is very sophisticated, and it's clearly valuable. But, this is my hard earned cashtro we're talking about, and I don't want to put it into "immature" technology. Again, as a consumer, my confidence is a real material thing when dealing with financial institutions.
except no tools use it, yet.

I would absolutely love a version of shedskin that moved to Python3 syntax and used optional typing.
Steam Family Sharing released
this looks exactly like a copy paste error - there are also plenty of shortcut keys for duplicating lines or transposing them...
As noted elsewhere, these events are so rare and aberrant that it is difficult to impossible to come to firm conclusions.

BUT, we do know these suggestive things:

Of the recent, going back quite a ways shootings (I think back to 1989, but maybe post-1966), only the Arizona Congresswoman's was not in a "Gun Free"---except for the active shooter---location. (And if the people right there hadn't stopped the shooter while he was doing a magazine change an armed citizen who showed up while they were still wrestling with him would very likely have.)

The Aurora, CO movie theater shooter went significantly out of his way to go to a theater that was so hoplophobic that they required the off-duty police hired as guards to go unarmed (!). All the other local options had no such policies.
He's got a point. Once the jokesters like Mt Gox and Coinbase die off and some reliable companies set up shop, Bitcoin will be stronger for it.
The article isn't from TC, it's from the CEO of CoinBase.
HeX – A Solution to Building Desktop Application Using HTML5 and Node.js
Ask HN: Do you know other regional startup maps like this one?
Age and scientific genius
Full Tilt Poker Payments Arrive for U.S. Players
What is your reasoning for not making methods chainable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface#Java
As I said on another post that got a bit more buried, what matters is not that there was a crisis; it is a fully correct and accurate observation that conventional currency has crises too, and sometimes they even entirely collapse. What matters for BitCoin is the same thing that matters for conventional currency, which is what comes next.

Again, rationality forces me to concede that I did not expect BitCoin to recover this well. Look at the past six months of BitCoin value [1] and this barely shows as a blip. This is, of course, because the currency itself is pretty darned volatile still, but, you know, still not what I would have predicted, and I have to respect that.

[1]: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg180ztgMzm1g10z...
Linux has had vector icons on the desktop for over a decade now. It truly boggles my mind how Apple (especially once they realized Retina was coming) hasn't gone fully resolution-independent on the UI side by now…
Come on Economist, realize that we're plotting averages of averages and then fitting that average. Not too scientific. Let's break down the underlying formulae, solve to carry through the dispersion of the underlying data, and then add the confidence bounds on the sides of that bestfit. If they did, we'd see much lower confidence around those 2300-2500 hour points.

But wait, we've got an R2 of 0.2! Let's keep in mind that at best, high hours of work are not the dominating factor that killed you.
I. Love. Tcpdump. Once in a blue moon I'll boot up Wireshark, but it's pretty rare that there's a protocol question I need to answer that I can't answer faster with tcpdump -A.
Just like you'll wait until physical cash has mugger protections before using it?
The Queen of Numbers
You are supposed to 'tap' to one of 3 spots, basically (left, right, middle), from what I can tell. That at least lets me avoid things a bit.

The opening animation shows a smooth hand gliding around, which would indicate some sort of dragging motion as the input mechanism, but it's not at all drag-based. Took me a good 3-4 minutes to figure that out, and it was frustrating. It's only because I was reading some stuff here of other people saying it was fun that kept me going.

Personally, I think it's too fast to start with. Add better instructions, slow things down a tad for the first few obstacles, and this would be 'hook' material for more players. As it stands, I think the 'game over in 1 second' factor will keep it from being recommended more.

But... great job on getting something out so quick!
Software developers interns do software developing related stuff, just as lawyers interns are do law related stuff, and so on. Apart from different market prices for their respective labour, I'm failing to see the difference between supposedly "real" internships and "false" internships according to your definition.
So now both the BTC and the USD are now stolen? You mean that conversion doubles the number of stolen goods?
IOS 8 iPhone 6 Wish List
> When trying to predict the future, you should never look at the state of a technology today, but the trend of how it is growing or maturing over time.

That's always an important principle to remember, and I always try to bring it up myself even in discussions about overpopulation.

These days I'm actually even more excited about all the "Bitcoin-like" protocols popping out, and new research being done for all sorts of crazy distributed applications, that couldn't have been done before Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is kind of like the Gopher protocol of the Internet. There's so much more stuff and bigger stuff that's going to appear over the next few years or decade. It's still very early days for these technologies and for the full decentralization of trust.