skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont get your comment. Not content delivery is expensive, but content creation Do you want a net without professional journalism?! Or do you prefer paywalls? Or donations?

I am in favor of a great coordinated blackout campaign by the large content providers. Dont want to see ads? Fine, pay a dollar via Paypal to see the site - or go away.
i dont understand, as long as you figure out how to get the sprites into the right formats this would be immensely computationally cheaper ("time-saving"?) than post-processing every frame
You'd like s-expressions. As in Lisp.

(ul (li "one") (li "two"))

Although I hadn't heard of the SHORTAG feature before:

<strong>Hell yea</>

It's a slightly more verbose version of s-expression.
I didn't even get an ad, the page just covered itself in black stripes with a little white lozenge in the middle.
> The owners are known and subject to US jurisdiction

Assuming they don't just leave the country
Pay $0 for every trade
Peter Watts is excellent. Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy are both fun hard sci-fi bent reads
Dart's original purpose was having its own VM run in the browser - search 'Dartium'.

Only when that idea failed to gain traction did they turn it into a compile-to-js language...
http://www.lessonwell.com

(https://github.com/qdonnellan/lessonwell)

the current task: refactoring my code to incorporate new things I've learned, namely: TDD and knockoutjs + json API. After 2 years of self learning python, I'm looking to transition from teaching into development and am hoping to use this project to showcase what I've learned!
Logic fail.

"We have it better than people who don't, therefore we shouldn't complain."
That's no longer the entire Dune series, then.

Unfortunately.
The Crowded Race to See Inside Apps
The main reason I chose to buy BTC through Coinbase is because they're funded by A16Z and USV. Very prominent and influential investors that would also come under scrutiny if anything nefarious happened internally.
Those are all regulated. BTC is not easily regulated.
RE: Eve requiring Mongo, according to slide s 57-61 at https://speakerdeck.com/nicola/eve-rest-api-for-humans Eve supports pluggable backends - is Mongo really needed?
Is there any reason that your compare page adds the qualifier "not from soy/rice"? I get the soy part, even if I don't agree about its significance. But why does rice as a source matter?
Wow. It's Colorbox, and they fucked it up.
I have the same reaction to this as I did to Soylent: I'd be a lot more inclined to try it if there was somebody involved with it who had some demonstrable background or expertise in nutrition, health or medicine.

The human body is a complicated thing, but while it's hard to improve, it's very easy to screw up. And screwing up someone's health can have consequences for them that last for years or decades. It can literally ruin their life. If that happens it won't be much comfort for them that their sad story has led you to pivot to a more promising approach.

For all the intellectual firepower of people in the tech community, there is a curious strain of anti-intellectualism that comes forth in projects like this; an eagerness to discount the expertise of people who have studied a subject for their entire lives, just because they weren't CS majors. It's like trying to send a man to the moon without working with any aerospace engineers. I honestly do not understand it.
Google to pay for SF free Muni for youth program
I'd be using them if I had an iPhone!

It seems odd to only support one phone given that they're using 3D printing to support a great deal of customization.
Los Angeles Is A Sleeping Software Titan That's About To Wake Up
Not reading Github pages is stupid and ignorant. You can use Github as a publishing platform. It CAN be good enough for documentation for a small or medium sized project. This can allow quick creation of fairly nice docs, allowing the coder to get back to coding. Hell, all the kernel docs are text files. You gonna tell me you'll never read them on principle?

Judge documentation by its quality of content, not its publishing platform.
Treasure Island cleanup exposes Navy's mishandling of nuclear past
really good idea, I hope it works out for you.
I think it comes down to discovering your role... I'm not the best at any one thing I've ever done. I'm generally very good, and tend to have a greater combination of depth and breadth of knowledge than my peers... but any one thing, not nearly the best.

That's a hard lesson to learn, and accept... I think my goal in life is to accept my circumstance with contentment, whatever that is at any given time.
The mistrust in Coinbase line of thinking seems similar to fear and paranoia about terrorism. Could a bad actor acquire and use agency to do something horrible like obtain a dirty bomb and set it off? Sure, it is possible. But at the same time it is very unlikely. People GENERALLY want to be good actors and make a positive impact on the world.

With Mt. Gox I am more inclined to think their problems stemmed incompetence rather than malevolence.
I saw your links, but they're not what i'm looking for specifically..
I already have a form, but i don't know how to actually SEND the data to a server.
Once the data is in the server i can process it. But how do i get it there?
Because Outlook is the devil.
This sounds less like a complaint about breach of privacy, but more of complaint about information asymmetry -- where the powerful have access to the data, while the commoners have not.

An obvious way to level the field is privacy, so that nobody has access to anybody else's information; another way would be transparency, so it's difficult for the power to hide their abuse of power.
How many HTML parsers do you need to write on average?
See my post above. But it's really only partially his(?) job. I can 'do my job' right, but if the other party fails to derive value from what I deliver (incompetence, whatever), then it wasn't worth it to them, regardless of how well I did or how much effort I put in. PART (a big part) of my job is to qualify people up front to make sure I'm as unlikely as possible to be wasting each party's time.
I think the architecture supports pluggable backends, but AFAIK mongo is the best supported (and is the only one I know much about). There is a backend for elasticsearch (https://github.com/petrjasek/eve-elastic) but I've never used it and don't know how complete it is. From looking on github support for SQLAlchemy is slowly in the works.
Waiting patiently for the person who loved his chickens to come in and mention how they each have a different personality.

Meanwhile, I'd wager that at least one person reading this thread has casually eaten a dog.
Seriously, creating an "Instragram" or a "Twitter" following this tutorial http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.... is very easy if you know how to code, I wouldn't spend $5,000 on that, but if you don't know how to code the I would spend those $5k in learning how to code in a different platform since beginning with mobile apps it's no easy stuff.
How would you do that in a way that wouldn't be detectable to the original page? The only way I can see would be at the browser level, not the extension level.
How dare they discontinue support on an OS that they've given you a free replacement for??? Really? When MS completely kills the XP updates do you really think they will start handing out free copies of Win8.1?

How the fudge is this something that Apple gets away with when nobody else upgrades you to a pay-for, latest OS for free?

Yeah, it sucks when software becomes unsupported and you might have to update or change in the smallest degree and there are plenty of reason to hate Apple (stupid walled garden, OpenNI, etc) but this isn't one of those reason.
The difference between a gifted snowflake and an engineer is the ability to function on a team and communicate.

English is currently the best language for software and computer engineering.

So, no, sorry, learn English. Once upon a time to do physics and chemistry you needed German--so, it could be worse.

(And if you didn't win the lottery and start with that language: that sucks, but you'll be that much more valuable if you can act at a translator.)
That or "What are you talking about? Mine is humongous and girthy to boot! (ladies)" wink wink
Rather, I would say that we normalize to anything. It's awful for sustaining happiness, but pretty good for fighting unhappiness. Think of it this way; our lives are 100x better than those of our ancestors, and yet we aren't much happier. That means the people who lived to be thirty and rubbed sticks together to make fire, were no less happy. That is a powerful thing.
or worse, you can only hit a billion dollars in valuation without testing.

(might be a true statement.)
not necessary. html5 permits inline svg and in <img src=>. And unlike the XML hybrid document stuff, it actually works in real browsers.
While the documents do not detail efforts as widescale as those against Yahoo users, one presentation discusses with interest the potential and capabilities of the Xbox 360's Kinect camera, saying it generated "fairly normal webcam traffic" and was being evaluated as part of a wider program.

Suddenly, those tinfoil-wearers within the Project Tango thread the other day don't sound so crazy now.
just like with any other government contract - being anointed is the deciding factor.
You Too Can Be An Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD
calories * X is proportional to weight loss, but X seems more important than calories in all but the most silly edge cases.
Beeline is also patent-pending, and you could make a similar argument there. I have doubts that these patents would hold up in court (although the author of Beeline is a lawyer, so he probably knows better than I do), but I suspect their primary purpose is to dissuade free copycats from trying in the first place.
And Paredit, emacs.desktop, rmail, slime, w3m mode, make integration, remember mode, instant keyboard macros, color themes, font choices.
You can certainly do this in Chicago. Especially if you're flexible on the commute time and can handle an hour on the train.

The suburbs also have developer jobs.
There are very few (if any) states that practice true democracy in its purest form (i.e. every decision is voted on by every person in the state). It is an ideal like pure capitalism that you can get very close to but not emulate.
Ask HN: Potential customer asked about corporate accounts. What to do? 
I started a "startup" 3 months ago and I've been plugging away at coding and marketing it on the side. I've got a couple of paying customers but things are still pretty raw.

Today a person reached out to me to ask who to contact about corporate accounts. I feel like I need to take advantage of this small opportunity but I'm not really sure how.

It would take me 2 to 4 weeks to have the app ready for enterprise use (as I imagine it) at even the most basic level.

What's my play?
The slides are misleading. "Memory Wall" refers to the fact that CPU speed has been doubling every 24 months from 1960s till early 2000s (annual improvement rate is 50%), while RAM memory speed doubles every 10 years (annual improvement rate is 10%). This "memory wall" is there regardless of the processor architecture that you use.
Wow, looks really helpful. I'm definitely going to try out their trial. Thanks!
Tracing and Refcounting are each others duals,

www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
Many of my friends and family are coal miners. I worked at one for a summer. There are fatalities, but the frequency with which they happen is so small that driving to the mine is more dangerous than the actual job. With heavy machinery doing 95% of work in modern mines, and having worked in one, I can tell you that the constant grind of producing code is much harder than sitting in haul truck or laying explosives. On top of that, most programmers don't stop working when they go home. With the constant flood of new technology and best practices, it takes a lot of effort to even stay relevant. Coal miners don't go home and read about creating cheaper explosives or more efficient haul trucks (ok maybe some do, not many). Mining outside of US, is certainly a different story.
The bit of law you quote is less relevant to GCHQ and is aimed more at LEAs spying on parents to make sure they live in a school catchment area; or local councils making sure people applying for parking permits actually live in a qualifying house.

Here is the GCHQ bit of RIPA, which makes reference to part of the bit you quoted.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/42

GCHQs mission is to monitor all communications. Thus, to them anything will be proportionate. The over iew and scrutiny failed and failed hard - i have no idea why anyone thought it was acceptable to gather webcam data. (Maybe as a training exercise where the data is then deleted or a proof of concept?)
> The vast majority of resources are short-lived and don't create cycles. Our garbage collections "systems" should be designed for this case.

Many modern GC systems are tuned for exactly this. It often is called generational garbage collection and the youngest generation is tuned to quickly collect these short-lived and non cyclic objects.

I used to work in this field so I've got at least a decent grasp of what modern GC's do and don't do well:)
Xander Cage: The things I'm gonna do for my country.
See mikeash's comment for a very simple situation. I mostly develop business applications with customers, products, orders, contracts, addresses and hundreds of other things connected and entangled in sometimes insane ways as dictated by the business. And at any point the user may just open another form viewing the orders of a different customer linked to the same products as in five other forms. Managing such complex object graphs by hand would be a nightmare. And this is just the model of the business, we did not even start to think about database connections, client connections, UI components and what not.
This is the case across billions of taxpayer dollars worth of IT systems in hundreds of agencies, but many of the contractors don't realize the insanity they generate and the stares they have caused.

The government needs a lot of help. I wish there were more crisis opportunities like this to use as an excuse to hire the right team to build good systems for citizens. Tough to get systems integration above the fold regularly to call attention to the issue.
The letter Manchin wrote was not to the Fed but to the secretary of the Treasury and a few other Treasury-related officials. They haven't responded, as far as I know. This is a separate (and very dumb) line he is pursuing. I consider myself fairly ignorant of government issues like this but even I could tell you the Fed would be the wrong institution to ask about regulating Bitcoin (already a foolish notion).
OK, now I better understand. As I am not an US citizen, I am not affected by it, but you are right, that this seems to be a scandal of its own. But you also can see it complementary to all the surveillance stuff. It just seems, that the Obama gov. does not care to much about the privacy of US people.

I think, this road taken, by the country, that once was the big model for many countries like the one I live in, is a really bad omen for freedom in the whole world.
I'm currently working on an open-source phishing toolkit written in Go and AngularJS called gophish (http://github.com/jordan-wright/gophish).
On fuctional programming
What one dev learned while doing a "one game per week" challenge
I surely prefer RAII to any garbage collection. It doesn't mean it's completely wrong though and has no uses at all. It's just of limited usefulness that's why languages which overuse it claiming it's always needed (like Java) are too limiting. If anything, GC should be optional, not mandatory.
As someone who's not interested in following every acronym and resource allocation strategy there is... is this even remotely useful? Lately I've gotten back into Java for Android, and after a very long time with Python, it's the first exposure in over a decade I've had to this argument...

...which, for some of us, isn't an argument, as we have basically no choice in the matter. But I'm still interested to know whether this is actually useful input or whether it's more holier-than-thou posturing.

To me, this is missing the forest for the trees. It's easy to argue about language implementation semantics when, in practice, it means almost nothing to anyone as we're stuck with the idiosyncrasies of the platforms we work on, even when we choose the platform.

I guess it's good that someone is looking at these things, but I can't see the utility in it. Best case scenario, this becomes a paradigm shift in new languages (which doesn't help us or anyone else for years) or gets implemented in the next major revision of language X (which doesn't go mainstream for years).
Nothing is wrong with them. A lot of people aren't used the level of abstraction that Haskell uses, so they look at a specific instance of the structure (often the List type) and think of a name that fits that instance ignoring the more general class. You end up with names like Appendable ( Monoid ) or FlatMappable ( Monad ) both of which give horrible intuition for the general case.

I think the abstract algebra names are great because they describe the general case precisely without any preconceptions carried along with them.
Math has a tradition of one-letter names. I mean who in their right mind would name anything with rich semantics as just a, b, c, or x, y, z, or B, C, D... Oh wait...
I'm currently making one new HTML5 game per week. My project was recently on the front page of HN.

You can play my games are learn more about the project (tutorials, etc.) on my website: http://www.lessmilk.com
Absolutely yes. I always have to be really polite to my friends who don't have technical jobs. Programmers have to offer up complicated things, that have to hold up when tested. A lot of jobs are mostly talking, or moving things around, or just whatever. Look at family physicians. I've seen them just look up stuff on Wikipedia on their netbooks, that everybody sort of knows anyway. Anything more demanding, they write down the name of a specialist. I used to have a customer service job that was like that, but I only made $14 (1998) an hour.
If you haven't seen Lawrence Lessig's other talk about campaign financing creating a second dependency within congress on their funders in addition to the people, it's worth watching.

www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html
Is this like StreamNation or Put.io?
I'm actually wondering whether facial hair is reciprocal to women's rights. The trend reverts around 1890, which correlates well with women's suffrage.
That's something, that makes me shiver, too!
What are some of the good papers?
The biggest Hack is hacking yourself
Returning closures from functions without massive copying and/or massive headache seems to pretty well demand a GC.
I'm a bit skeptical of the results of that paper without the seeing the source code and in what contexts they are performing the comparison. One can always find situations where one scheme is faster than the other but I'm not totally sure if micro benchmarks are representative of the real world. In long-lived servers, ref-counting can be preferable because it avoids random pauses. Maybe it's a latency vs throughput performance dichotomy. But yeah, thanks for posting that.
pro : good for mobile users -
con : no footer
Doesn't this still effectively break the back button or at least the users view of the back button? To the user although there are visual hints, he/she hasn't left the page. Scrolling down the page however creates multiple history entries.
You've spammed this EIGHT TIMES already GIVE IT A REST.
Reference counting is just one form of garbage collection, the other main alternative is a collecting garbage collector. And comparisons showed - I know that they tried both for .NET - that a collecting GC outperforms a reference counting GC. Yes, you will have to take a performance hit when you perform garbage collection in cases where it would not be necessary but the convince of not having to care far outweighs this because program correctness is important and development time expensive, computing power is cheap and does not matter. At least in my field, mainly business applications.
We've built a fully functional peering solution at Kontiki and have millions of users (all on corporate networks). If you're interested in that sort of stuff come join us - we're hiring.

http://www.kontiki.com/products/enterprise-content-delivery-...
A few words in appraisal of perl over fcgi?
There is a security setting in LinkedIn to hide your contacts from everyone but yourself...
There is no copyright in fashion, yet we're not going around wearing beige sacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Piracy_Prohibition_Act#...

I think there is not much of an argument to be made in favour of copyright. I do think there's a strong argument to be made that artists should be paid. For which, we need a different business model. Maybe the fashion industry, advertising or Patreon would be worth exploring for that.
So far, it's been on a rotation -- folks go on leave from their jobs for 1-3 months, move out to DC/Baltimore area, and work as hard as possible while they're here. :)

It's such a high-intensity project that I think the we'll want to keep it to full-time for the time being. Otherwise, it's hard to even keep up, let alone make progress.

(As a technical point, though, even though everybody is working on this for well over 40 hrs/week, we're technically hourly subcontractors. That's just how the government works.)
The refrain that politics is all about money is both destructive and counterproductive. If it were, that would be great, because Silicon Valley is rich. I don't know if you read the news, but Facebook is worth more than Halliburton and News Corp put together and Apple could buy both with cash on hand.

Lobbying is a big part of politics, but at the end of the day, the biggest aspect of lobbying is showing how proposals that benefit an industry: 1) fit in with politicians' ideological preconceptions; 2) create jobs. Silicon Valley punches beneath its weight in lobbying because its ideology doesn't fit neatly into either the left or the right, and because it employes relatively few people.
This also needs to keep only N pagefuls above and below the page cut. E.g. if N is 2 and I'm on page 5, then it would only have pages 3-4,5,6-7 in DOM.

This would ensure that users get the same scrollbar range on page 5 regardless of whether they infi-scrolled themselves there or just clicked on "page 5" in the index.
British spies confronted by 'surprising' amounts of porn in Internet
Typical non-millennial response to not know how to tactfully deal with declining connection requests? I fail to see how this "Senior Professional"'s response doesn't warrant the reaction she's received when she runs a job board.
Whoa, that's pretty good.
I tend to dislike pure infinite scrolling and instead prefer on-demand loading.

With on-demand loading you would set the virtual height of the scrollable area to the height necessary to show all (or a huge chunk of) your data, and then page in chunks of the data as it approaches the viewport.

Then dragging the scrollbar works, and touch scrolling shows a reasonable representation of how much data is left.
Not really; if you got your MBA at a good school you learn that putting "MBA" in your title is a low-class thing to do. In most of the business world, everyone just expects you have one and will look up your LinkedIn profile to see where you went if they care.
Another possible pro (from the site-owner's perspective) is increased user engagement. When you are quietly loading more content all the time, it's easier for the user to continue to say, "I'll just look at one more post."

On the cons side, as others have mentioned, if you navigate away from an infinitely scrolling page, then click the back button, you often don't land in the correct place.