skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the second project named 'Q' that's been on HN in the last week or so. All cool ideas, but some Googling first by all parties would probably ease confusion.[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7290655
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008: Oil prices blinded them
Blinking "Hot News Headlines" bar. You know, great web design.
DIY people can still get ordinary SnPb solder by the kilo. Here's a bar that contains 500g of pure lead: http://media.digikey.com/Photos/Kester%20Photos/04-6337-0050...

It's only $44, shipped! It's enough lead to measurably lower the IQ of ten million infants.

The idea that out-of-control EU regulators prevent anyone, individual or industry, from acquiring and using elemental lead products is just another libertarian bugaboo that routinely pops up here on HN.
What is the hidden feature ?
"I feel like if we want to start addressing inequality in education, we have to start with private grade schools. In particular, I think that private high schools and grade schools should be stopped, and everyone should be forced to use the public system."

My three children are in public schools, although they all did KG and preschool in private schools. Since the government does not own our children, I don't think it has the right to compel our children to attend a certain school. Are you going to ban homeschooling too?
Email is not private and not secure. I'm not sure if the law makes exceptions for encrypted emails, but that's a moot point considering most doctors can barely use a computer.
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Show HN/Ask HN: Omnifocus killer for windows – feedback
Hey guys, I am building version 2 of taskorami and want to crowd fund it because I quit my job and want to focus on it. Here is the link to the campaign: https://taskorami.crowdtilt.com/taskorami-2-0

Questions:
- what do you think of the campaign page?
- was using crowdtilt a good choice over kickstarter? They don't take any commission.
- any other feedback?

Thanks.

PS: I am running AB Tests so the content you see might be different - but not TOO different.

PPS: My goal is to build a GTD killer app for windows (eventually add web and mobile).
32 architecture limits your pointer size, not the values you can store. There's nothing that prevents you from using 64-bit long integers there, it will only take a bit longer than native size on arithmetical operations. (since they will be a series of ops on 32b chunks)
This is EXACTLY the product I wanted to make, thanks!

I think a use case for which you could sell it is collaborative class note-taking. My teachers distribute PDFs of their lecture slides before class which students use to take notes on (so that they don't have to recreate figures, etc). I have always thought it would be great for this PDF-markup process to take place live in some sort of Google Doc interface. This looks like the best solution I have seen so far!

If you really wanted to run with the student use case, you could then allow students to publicly/privately organize the annotated notes by class and lecture slot so that other people could benefit from the notes.
Explains my joy in puzzles and sequences. Sometimes I don't know why the next number in a series is. I used my intuition, arrived at the correct answer, and now the hard part is explaining myself.
My personal experience with gutter guards has been mixed. They work for a while, but smaller debris and nesting creatures eventually get into the gutters and then it's really difficult to clean the gutter.

An alternative to gutter guards we have here in the States is gutter cleaning services.

A subscription-based gutter cleaning service in Sri Lanka might be a interesting startup.
UK Government to stop charging VAT tax on Bitcoin.
pdf.js is great. we used it at surfly to implement purely web-based collaborative pdf viewer that works on any modern browser.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, MtGox was run correctly, they brought on litecoin this week and lifted it into high double digits.
Love the price comparison - what you can get for $1.000.000.000.

Also amazed that more money where backed from Antartica then some African countries.
Men outnumber women in IT because most IT jobs sucks, and women don't want jobs that suck. Also, women don't have to take jobs that suck, therefore they don't go into IT.

The perception of IT has been distorted by some glamorous startup success stories and their photo galleries of comfy office space with free cappuccino. The daily reality of most software engineers is much different.

Time will perhaps show the truth of those words - I'm sure you'll disagree for now.
This is the code base64 decoded - https://gist.github.com/digia/9328272
The definitive guide to not being a Glasshole
How This Innovative Startup Helps Ukrainian Protesters
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Lots of things on HN have to do with neither hacking nor news. That's part of its charm, always has been. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, then anything goes, so long as it isn't dumb. The only sin is to be uninteresting.
Very low cost automatic transmissions are terrible - the gap between gear shifts goes on for ages. The Vauxhall Corsa is an example of this; for the American market check out a Smart Car.

Is this really a good argument against automatics though? The worst example of anything is usually going to be pretty bad.

As a matter of current economics, yes, if you have a very tight budget and want a good driving experience, manual is going to be better. But automatics are as fast and as efficient as manuals a little higher up the market. And it will trickle down soon enough.
What 2013 box office winners can you stream legally?
I know a number of math teachers who have undergraduate degrees in math, and then attended a 2 year masters program to get their degree in teaching.

I also know a number who came from a humanities background, and "learned enough math" in the single, poorly taught math-for-teaching class they had in getting a masters.

One of these groups makes better teachers (and likely has a wider career path, because of the undergraduate degree).
You can't expect this to be taken seriously.
Where Does the Line Between Data Modeler and DBA Fall?
Yeah, the EU's main interest in this is facilitating cross-border sales in the "single market". Countries can still levy whatever VAT they want on whatever items they want, but they are supposed to be moving towards a common set of terms and definitions for specifying it. The intent is that the UK can exempt books from VAT while Denmark charges 25% VAT on books, but both should at least agree on what constitutes a "book". I would think harmonizing what constitutes a "voucher" should also fall under the intent of the process.
I agree with Styn, a screenshot of your page in action, a demo and/or a video would be nice.

I don't like to register for sites that aren't clear on how they work.
Instant facial recognition, coming to a device near you
The word of an authoritarian ruler has no merit, not to mention the game of politics.
Sure, but that doesn't mean both organization are equally committed to each language. Google has an entire team that works on Go full time and all their work is donated to golang.org which is opensource. Its not clear that Facebook is more than just a D user at this point.

I also have a seeking suspicion that Facebook never considered using Go because of Go's close Google ties, maybe if they didn't feel Google was a competitor they would have went with Go over D- we will never know.
That machine still feels modern to me. From the outside.
In case you weren't aware, you can use the excellent https://www.writetothem.com/ to make it easier to send letters to your MP
This is really great and inspiring to hear! I also had a very bad experience to mathematics during my earlier youth.

Relentless studying, book reading and search for motivational information have helped me get over the bullshit I was introduced to.

I love math, and it is ing beautiful.
Charlie Stross being male, and the Target story being massively advertised, I’m assuming that was something he initially wanted to point at.

Purchase history is by far the worst offender in that aspect: you can predict diabetes, risky behaviour, alcoholism, pregnancy, emotional state (and marriage stability), intention to move (via DIY equipment), even religion and ethnicity, that carry a similar moral and legal burden in Europe.

As far as I can read, all legal documents mention: asking, collecting, processing explicit data. None seem to cover the case of a high factor between “has bough unscented skin cream” and “Recommend cribs, nappies and milk bottles”.

What was interesting in the NYT piece about Target was how even with that knowledge, being too explicit was considered horrible and an invasive practice. Based on anecdotal reaction to ‘People who bought that’ from Amazon from more than a decade ago (and the general sucky obviousity of most of their suggestion) I’m assuming that a lot of the crunchy cases (say: blue books, box wine, dark chocolate and dildos) are censored to avoid public scandal, and a corresponding regulation.

Based on experts’ mobility and the strength of statistical trends in general, I guess the Target Data scientist who was fired after the NYT was not guilty of spelling the beans, or revealing that Hadoop was the right choice (duh) to competitors like WalMart and CostCo, but letting the public know.
What motivated trig functions for me was writing 5 line BASIC programs as a kid to draw circles, spirals, etc. Realizing that COS was the X coordinate and SIN was the Y coordinate made it all clear.

Unfortunately there's no easy, low-friction way for kids today to do that with their PC.
More specifically, it turns cars into yet another piece of expensive vendor lock in. Could they have developed an open standard for sharing touch screen and display events? Yep. Will they instead lock it all away behind patents?
I would like to remind some things here;

> Maybe you don't have a case but there are many scenarios can benefit from multithreading including web hosting.

> The goal is to have a zero compatibility issue and we are almost there with the next beta.

> I believe that the node developers would enjoy benefiting from load aware instance monitored processes instead a trivial multi processing. BTW, still you can combine multithreading with multiple processes in case you want to keep process is active during v8 is GC'ing on one of the threads.
Women have always been more important than men, because they bring the babies into the world. That is why men become cannon fodder - they are expendable.

What irks me about modern feminism is the claim that women have it so bad in society, when really they have privileges everywhere. Including less pressure to make a good income, and therefore more freedom in choosing jobs (jobs that are more fun often pay less good). Some of those less attractive jobs include IT...

I mean I think it is OK if women have privileges - I've watched my wife give birth. That makes up for a lot of things. But to give privileges and then be accused is not appropriate.
125Gb "after compression". Not sure what format the data was in, but it could be much bigger in raw form.
Living with unchecked exceptions
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Classy!

Form aside, this looks like a very interesting product, as others I wanted to work on something similar too. Good luck!
She navigated the file system using fsn (which by the way existed. it just never catch on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn)
Yes. Having a roof sloping towards a wall is a big no-no. That's the kind of standardization and building code regulation needed.
But it's my privacy and security that's at issue. I don't think it's obvious why I shouldn't be able to waive those concerns.
Monads are hard because...
The dataset in question supposedly contains date of birth, gender and post code. For my family, that uniquely identifies every member, given the size of UK post codes.
look into adwords, SEO, content based marketing, drip emails
> The computers in Jurassic Park is what got me into programming when I was young. I saw their 3D weather overlay when the storm was approaching and thought "THAT IS IT!". I was 8 years old at the time.

I'm guessing you would be around 28-30 years old, so I'm a couple of years or more older ... but I started learning C when I was 31, currently I'm interested in stuff like parsers and data structures (I really should look at sockets soon). Perhaps I'm just too old to hack.

> I wish I still had the code, it's sitting on my old computer at the Farm in New Zealand :<

I bet a fair few people on HN would be interested in it as well, it sounds quite hardcore.
Cool stuff! Something I've been thinking about too. Open Source?
TLS Triple Handshakes
It's an absolutely great resource, but the videos are still broken if you're using HTTPS Everywhere.
Do you realize that the nearest Home Depot is half a world away? All of this has been addressed in the article.
Ukraine financial fall-out exposes Russia's economic weakness
While this is great! How is this going to be sustained? I expected a pre-roll or in screencast ad or any kind of advertisement, Nope.

Donation button? Nope...

I hope this gets to stay up for a long time.
Yes, it's based on former DragonDictate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonDictate

The following product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaturallySpeaking

Microsoft Auto uses it http://www.nuance.com/company/news-room/press-releases/ND_00... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sync

And Apple's Siri is Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking cloud service.
Breaking and Fixing Authentication over TLS
How much of it was placebo? How much of it was "feeling out of control"?

"second worst driving experience" has nothing quantifiable.
Funny you should mention that:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
I don't think you can just compare programming in the 80ies to programming today. Also, would you therefore say society was more equal in the 80ies than today?
The government doesn't hire them, it contracts the work out to consulting firms... who in turn hire incompetent people.
The European Go Conference, October 10th in Paris
iOS apps that have file management needs work fundamentally the same as a regular file explorer: connect to iTunes, select your device, click the 'Apps' tab, scroll down to 'File Sharing', select your destination app, drag and drop files, sync. You can even do this over wifi. I guess the Android advantage is you can initiate this transfer from the device instead of the computer, but that's not really "too much work" IMO.

Apps that register for opening certain file types will also be available in 'Open in' dialogs of other apps (if the developers of both apps added the same file extension) so it's easy to move files between apps. Silos for app files only exist if the developer is lazy or ignorant, the platform itself has supported file sharing between apps for years.
Ugh. In that case, they're missing the point of Modernizr. If there's no polyfill or fallback available, the solution isn't to say "Don't use Safari". At the very least, they could display as useful message that says something like "Your browser doesn't appear to support feature X, try browser Y instead."

When I see "Don't use Safari", I interpret that as "I'm too lazy to make this work in Safari", rather than "this doesn't work in Safari".
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Ah, the 'truth stretching' benchmarks of the advertising for the Apple PowerPC machines.
"The guy working bare minimum 40 hour weeks isn't going to get fired so long as he stays productive... but he's obviously not putting in any effort to progress his career."

Compared to what? A guy that stays in the office 80 hours a week and barely hits the productivity level of 40 hour per week guy?

There is nothing 'obvious' about that, I bet you would judge your engineers productivity by LOC too.
Meetup has suffered a prolonged denial of service (DDoS) attack
http://meetupblog.meetup.com/post/78413031007/no-doubt-this-has-been-a-tough-weekend-for
Hm, sure, that's conceivably a way it could reduce demand, I guess.
Apologies, I should have specified I meant on Googles servers.

The HES database contains attendence records. You only need a a single verified data point, such as a tabloid hack following you to the hospital one day, to remove pseudoanonymity. The debate over whether pseudoanonymised records or personalised records should be made available to organisations, in real terms, isn't distinct. You still only need one data point (an address, DOB etc) in the poorly pseudoanonymised set. Nothing really changes.

The implication seems to be the data is somehow less secure now its in Googles cloud, but that doesn't quite fit the reality of what we know about how data permeates through these incompetant organisations to begin with. The fact that PA had the data on DVD rather than disk is already an indication that they are a joke. Do you know of any prolific transparent encryption solutions for optical media? Most likely this data was in plaintext. If they carry the data around on unencrypted DVD what is the likelyhood that their own servers are secure, or at least more secure than Googles?

The bottom line is these records all exist and are necessary for the NHS to function, so a competant organisation may as well mine the data set. The issue, then, is that PA aren't competant, not that they use effective tools. Outrage is being misdirected.
Assembly Probably?
Pidgin specifically but they encompassed libpurple as well. They are sort of the same codebase from Pidgin's perspective. Sort of.
Where in Canada is that? It used to be that way in Ontario, but they switched back to an 8 hour work day a while back. Certainly many employers still follow that schedule, but it is no longer the legislated standard.

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/hours.php
Does anyone know of any resources to introduce math to a 6yo? I have apps like Dragonbox to introduce algebra to my son. He played with it, completed it, but now is back to the crap IAP games typical on tablets these days. I wouldn't mind a few more like Dragonbox.

I also use flashcards to help with the rote math homework.
Apple always cherry-picked those benchmarks. The Apple PowerPC machines were so much slower than Intel-based Windows machines (in actual use) yet Apple would always claiming they were 4x faster. Then Apple releases their Intel based machines and suddenly they were the fastest ever.
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What would be the correct pronoun for a business setting? My knowledge of the language is rudimentary at best (several semesters in High School); we only really learned watashi/atashi/boku (and were reprimanded if we used the wrong pronoun for our own gender).
Windows XP won't die without a fight
Fortunately, TI continues to provide this to many students.
I had the same experience, but with a TI-83.
Currently the privacy pendulum is all the way in the free-for-all territory.

- Consider that it takes only one breach and all other measures you've ever taken to protect data is wasted.

- Data can be used in the future in unforseen ways, you don't know by whom and what for.

- Most people don't understand how databases work and think in terms of individual data ("who would care about X") and are therefore careless with their data.

It's the term "extreme privacy" that does not make sense in a time where you can't really have "basic privacy" any more.

Got any more insight into that topic? Or maybe do you underestimate the consequences of the ongoing collection and aggregation of data?
Throwback, The App That Sends Memories To Future You, Launches On Android
The vast majority of these devices are not being bought for apps, or even the browser. They are being sold as TV replacements for watching streaming video in Asia.

Also, Android devices that are are not tablets are counted in the statistics: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/18/android-based-tv-s...
Microsoft's Nadella begins reshaping his inner circle
That's not holy grail at all, only one car manufacturer was pushing for that, and they have essentially given-up.
The problem is that if you don't fill the period with busywork? The students don't build up the intuitive, gut-level skills they need to handle the higher-level stuff.

Math requires building muscles in your head, and muscles take reps. Lots of reps. Let's look at the elementary level: it's not enough to simply introduce BEDMAS or least-common-denominator and write a few problems that get the student to check off "okay, I know that" from the list of stuff they know.

The student has to be so practiced at these concepts that they could do it while trying to juggle 9 other extremely complicated brand-new concepts in their head because that's what you need to do when you build calculus upon factoring upon algebra upon fractions upon arithmetic.

If you fail to do this, you get kids walking into grade 9 math class who've forgotten everything they were supposed to know about fractions and teachers have too much new material to cover to re-teach fractions (my wife is a math teacher. This happens way, way too much - too many students enter her class missing necessary prerequisite skills). Students struggling with applying the basics cannot properly grasp the new material - so the basics have to be rock solid.
Of course he is. He even admit it. It's on the second paragraph

> you can’t really be objective. So yes, I’m biased.
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Gates reclaims Forbes title of world's richest billionaire
Tour of c++.
>It's not because they're 'intelligent' pieces of shit with virtually no control or anything.

Really, and you need control of what and for what?

Anything quantifiable?
huh? Are you claiming that they are in the case of this car interface?

Also, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus_A380_cockpit.jpg
There is very little cost to keeping this up.

Those of you who want to contribute to the costs are more than welcome too.

https://www.gittip.com/myusuf3/
Hey I agree with you that gutter guards will never stop accumulation of debris, it will just slow it down. Selection of cell size might be a good way to optimize it depending on the type of leaves getting on roof.

BTW gutter cleaning robot is really impressive to me. It's a much cleaner solution to the problem. Only worry I have about that is financial viability considering the robot might have to be water resistant, shock resistant, etc. Of course that'll change depending on the country.
I understand (in fact I have a daughter with preexisting conditions). But I'm referring more to the web site. There is not magic about the website. The law itself brought in some changes that will help some. You don't even have to use the website to take advantage of new law.
Women have more attractive career alternatives. That's why they don't choose CS. I love CS, but it involves sitting in front of a computer a lot. That isn't healthy. Doing something with more people interaction is way healthier - and those are the jobs women tend to choose.

My take has always been that women are simply too smart to enter IT.
This. Boilerplate reply and a permanent filing in the cylindrical filing cabinet awaits. If you're lucky, they'll use it to lean on whilst writing a cheque to the guy who just installed a duck house in their pond at your expense...
We actually made that product first! - http://www.notable.ac is similar, but made specifically for students, documents are organized by course and notes can be made public/private/shared with friends.

It does take a bit more work to setup, because you have to upload the documents to the site first (we process them into images on the server, and support Word/Powerpoint as well as PDF).

We had trouble getting traction in the education space - So we built the Chrome version, which works much better for single documents and for uses outside education. But we're still keeping notable.ac running so feel free to give it a try.
It's small enough you can get servers that can hold it in memory....