skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably spend more of your waking hours committing crimes than not committing them.

That's FUD and you know it. Most things that people do are not crimes. People don't spend the majority of their day, or even a significant minority of their day committing crimes.

Moreover, just because something is against the rules doesn't make it a crime. It may be a mere infraction or a tort. Infractions may, in some jurisdictions, be enforceable by cops. Tort laws are not enforced by the police in any jurisdiction.
> I don't know of any brand of jeans that sells for $40-80 that fits well and looks good. (I'd say Flint & Tinder is the closest and they come in at $105)

The vast majority of people wouldn't recognize the different between a $30 and a $500 pair of jeans on the street. They wouldn't even think to wonder, because they have no good reason to care. You are certainly welcome to hold yourself to higher standards--Lord knows I'm picky about things nobody else cares about--but don't assume your standards are objective or universal.

I agree with most of your other complaints, though. My dress sense is pretty lackadaisical, but I know from experience that most manufacturers view things like "inches" as sort of a vague ballpark, not a firm measurement. They're too incompetent to be trusted without a return policy.
Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised at all if "The Jesus Machine" came out while brainstorming..
It's like 'libertarian' has become just a generalized synonym for 'clueless douchebag', shorn of policy prescriptions.
Sure, I would love to, but I can't find anything. Can you provide any relevant/correct source?
How is this nonsense even being upvoted here?

Who seriously thinks Google and Facebook bringing the Internet to the whole of Africa isn't a good thing for Africans? The only things I'd be worried about in this case is

1) Google/Facebook enabling mass surveillance of Africans, against Africans' will, but there would be nothing they can do about it except "stop using the Internet", in their case, since they wouldn't be able to control them (at least that's what the author is insinuating, too)

2) They serve a very restricted version of the 'Internet', where they heavily promote their own services

But in case 1) the majority of the African countries already decided to implement deep packet inspection at the ISP level at that last ITU meeting, and other such technologies to enable mass surveillance of Africas, and in case 2), I can't imagine they would do that, because their services would become a lot less useful, too.

As for stuff like providing competition to their local carriers - come on. Most ISP's and carriers can't cover the whole Africa and they won't do it anytime soon anyway in the traditional way. Either they do this sort of stuff themselves in the future, or others do it before them. One way or the other, it's much easier to bring Internet to the whole of Africa this way, from the sky.
Interesting as this is, #13 is not "Relativity", it's the mass-energy equivalence.
Now wouldn't it be nice if colleges told you this before taking your money, instead of cheerfully telling would-be programmers that a comp-sci diploma is all they need.
Ask HN: Modern web mail application to self-host email?
is there any modern webmail client where i can access my own emails that is recent, maintained and has good search functionality (preferably with elasticsearch)?
Great work guys, it's cool you used lego and great work explaining open source.
Was MSX really a failure, or just a failure outside of Japan? I was under the impression that MSX was the 8-bit micro in 80s Japan. I don't know too much about it's history, but given that so many important game series got their start on MSX (including Metal Gear and Bomberman), it doesn't seem right to call it a failure. It sounds like when people say the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 was a failure because it bombed in America, when it was more popular than the Genesis/Megadrive in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX#Franchises_established_on_...
I think it's worth saying that a CS degree won't do a whole lot for you practically if you're not going into theory. At least, that's what I've noticed over the last 3.5 years... I've learned a lot, sure, but a small fraction will follow me into the real world.
Please explain why Dell is clearly violating the trademark. Just saying it's CLEAR (in capital letters) is not a sound argument.
I was going to post something similar - I was able to take 3 months to travel overseas as a 1-person business, and the business didn't collapse or run into any calamities. I always had my laptop and answered customer emails every couple of days.

Maybe it's an issue if you're running a SAAS business. Instead my stuff is consumer downloadable software, so if there was a problem it was usually just a single customer, not my entire customer base at once.
Black Scholes doesn't assume rational market participants.
Show HN: I'm a college student and this is what I've made.
Doesn't seem like that big of a problem, just don't give them anything you can't afford to lose control of. It's pretty fair that you compensate them with free advertising since they're giving you something cool for (otherwise) free. The deal might not be for everyone, but I wouldn't say it's a bad deal. If I was running a contest like this, I would have used similar language to make sure the program created a virtuous circle of coolness rather than applicants clamping down and keeping the experience private.
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to comprehense it just by looking at it once. Maths(and physics) is not programming, and to be honest all of those ``functions'' are pretty well documented, both in books and articles online.
Why do you not think it's likely that Facebook or Google would heavily promote their own services? That's exactly what AOL provided when you accessed the 'internet' through an AOL dialup account. If these projects are intended to be profitable, then they'll be heavily taking advantage of the captive audience that's using them.
But this is still in Javascript. I thought the whole point was to produce a LiteScript compiler in LiteScript to compile to LiteScript.

https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/tree/master/devel/li...
It's probably one of the most beautiful computers ever made IMHO. Also the perfectly square screen with square pixels, incredible sound hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJhPvI-H9A

It's kind of like the Lamborghini Countach of the computer world. Iconic and timeless.
Really love how you layout the "What We Do" vs. "What You Do" - Strong selling point, visually appealing, and pretty unique.
If you're interested in this, you might like to read the HN discussion from a previous submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521660
I didn't know this but I'm not outraged.

How is this different in your view from targeted ads in gmail? You say "I don't mind having ads be presented to me from past traffic" ... why? How does that offend you less? I understand the difference from a technical perspective, but from an "end user that cares about privacy" perspective it seems the same to me.

FWIW even with this off, I think Skype will still MITM you to check to make sure URLs you link aren't spammy. Messenger did that ages ago and Facebook does it too (try IMing someone a porn website for example). Not sure what Hangout/gmail's behavior is here.

Btw it seems funny to me to use the term "MITM you". It's a chat service. It has servers that route IM and do other things. Of course it's going to be in the middle of you and your friend. Now, if you're upset that one of the many things they do while your IM is in the cloud is see if they can serve an ad for it, then fine. But any chat service that isn't p2p will "MITM you" - that's the entire point.
In the 1950s, the rate of commercial plane crashes caused by human error was 71 percent. By the 1990s, with the introduction of new automated flight systems, the rate had decreased to 52 percent. [0]

Yes, there are horror stories about "dumb" transportation software that linger in the forefront of our memories. But ask yourself, What is the burden of proof for this technology? Do self-driving cars and aircraft automation systems have to work 100 percent of the time before we accept their usefulness?

If that's the burden of proof, we will remain stuck with human drivers who are much more "dumb," by a measure of the car accidents and plane crashes they cause.

The author's argument against automation in these life-saving contexts is weak. His article would have been stronger if it stuck with points about watches and similar consumer products.

[0] http://www.statisticbrain.com/airplane-crash-statistics/
If you wrote applications that were heavily dependent on XP and couldn't either run on Windows 7 or easily be tweaked to run on it, this is your problem. That's bad programming. That's bad management.

To expect MS to bail out global corporations who write crappy software is crazy. If you have software in 2014 that requires Windows XP and/or IE 6, you need to look at your life and look at your choices.

There is so much bad IT management and procurement at large corporations, and that's the root cause of a lot of the XP consternation from certain companies.
I can sleep on a park bench that is on a non-stop roller-coaster (planes are a breeze) so for me sleeper trains are a delight, but I haven't take one in over 10 years since European flights got cheaper that trains. I do miss those long train rides across Europe, where you would meet people easily in the restaurant car. Amtrak I've never tried as I've never had the time nor inclination for train travel when in the U.S.
The address wasn't understood

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address,
because the protocol (itmss) isn't associated
with any program.

You might need to install other software to open
this address.
"In Ghana, well-resourced foreign providers came in, did the gritty work of building up infrastructure [...] and genuinely tried hard to win customers from other providers."

Basically: the free market provided Internet access, but libertarians are stupid.
You say that, but I've seen it before in my own poor country - people would rather buy expensive smartphones than better food.

This technology matters to people. The Internet matters to people, more than you think. Because it's not just a technology, it's a way to connect people. That's why it can be more important than safe drinking water or food to a lot of people. It's not just a matter of "gadget vs staying alive". There are other fundamental issues at stake here.

There is also research that shows that the more technologically advanced an area is, the richer it becomes - which means jobs, infrastructure, and food and clean water for people. So don't dismiss it so easily.

Technology through phones and Internet is also helping people have more democratic states, which is also a pretty critical issue in Africa. People can talk to each other and inform themselves better. They can organize and protest. They can chase away the dictators this way. So who are you to say that clean water is definitely more important to them than technology?
The medical field is one of the few where you feasibly can charge somebody who doesn't show up. Joanne the hairdresser down the street can't do that because she doesn't have all of your info down to your SSN and in fact she doesn't even have a collections department. Joanne's only recourse is to sit there twiddling her thumbs.

(And, BTW, I know several hairdressers who can go well over $200 for a single appointment.)
RE your first point: I think everyone would agree that antibiotics are a net good, that their use should cause and correlate with declining mortality. But that wouldn't make it any less true that there could be second-order negative effects that are worth understanding and mitigating.

Was not aware of that "slightly overweight" finding, good stuff.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders ..

while computer scientists stand on each other's toes ..

and computer engineers dig each other's graves.
I'm a bit hesitant to take life advice from a thrice divorced alcoholic.
Does Japan have class action lawsuits? Not all countries do.
Internet is essential in areas without safe drinking water, where it can be used to educate people.
Apology: A Culture a lot of People Lack
It seems disingenuous to emphasize a lack of passport revocation verification before the cause of the flight's failure is known. This isn't information, its advertising from Interpol.
'The advantage of joining Google/Facebook/Twitter for 2-3 years is that you’ll be encouraged to develop more reliable systems, and learn how to build things which are designed for scale from the beginning.'

He should say it's good to have a job working on scalable, reliable systems from the beginning. It's kind of ridiculous that he's implying google/facebook/twitter are the main ones working on that. I guess every other company in the world designs their code to work in a single python process...maybe SQLite as the backend right?
Does this mean MtGox should get on haveibeenpwned.com ?
Have you ridden on Amtrak trains before? In my experience riding Amtrak trains all around the Northeast Corridor I've never seen their trains smell like urine or vomit. The experience is less like city subways, regional rail, or buses, and more like what you would expect from airplanes (although with more space and without the seatbelts).

The primary problem with Amtrak is that they rarely compete with air travel in terms of price/speed. I prefer them to air travel anyway though because I rarely care about speed and the (effective) absence of the TSA more than makes up for it. (Also last-minute (literally, purchased minutes before departure) Amtrak tickets are more affordable than last minute plane tickets.)

I think that romanticising train travel is a good approach to attacking their speed disadvantage (though I think that working on reducing fares and increasing coverage are also essential).
If I had to pick the single equation for relativity it would be the definition if interval. You can derive the rest from that, and it is IMHO the most beautiful expression of it.
> You say that, but I've seen it before in my own poor country - people would rather buy expensive smartphones than better food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
I think you are right. The idea that you get a proper cabin seems wrong to me, the best train literature is travelling 'hobo style', not deluxe luxury. Clearly selling cabins is more profit, however, if sat with the riff-raff with just a chair to sleep in you can have a more interesting and unexpected experience.

I was 'fortunate' enough to sit next to a girl that had ideas on me from Grand Junction Colorado all the way to Chicago. I would not have had that random encounter had I travelled deluxe cabin class. Writing about the hundreds of miles of corn fields going by has not a lot going for it whereas an expected girl meets boy experience has broader appeal. Also on the same coach were a couple I had met months before in Yosemite. Having them in proximity cramped my style as far as my new-found lady friend was concerned, this was a constraint that adds to storytelling. A cabin based romantic experience would not be so good and neither would a few moments of passion with an existing partner in a cabin really have the 'Mills & Boon' factor.

Food was a problem on said journey for me, in part due to the train being six hours late at Grand Junction, by which point I had eaten almost all of the luxury ready eats I had bought for the journey. Even the six hour wait was noteworthy - you cannot leave the station as the train could arrive at any moment. So, for me, it was the random happenings and the constraints of money, timetable and what you can do in public that made the journey an adventure.

The thing is that you cannot have an authentic travel experience and write about it at the same time. You have to live life rather than be there to document it.
Glad you've enjoyed the site, I always like hearing from people that have been reading for a while. I started it in 2007 and there are still a number of people that have been reading since it initially made it to the FP of Digg.

I've been adding new features recently, like the pinterest-like area for browsing office photos by room.

My goal of late has been to help people find and interact with the old posts that would traditionally be lost in the date-archive format of a traditional blog.
I'm pretty sure the "Internet access" idea is just a pleasant cover story for whatever other aerospace/UAV research projects Google and Facebook want to invest in.
I feel for your friend. I lost a lot of money as well, plus they have a copy of my drivers license and a copy of a utility bill for my home.
Nice to see Godwin's law kicking in.

I wouldn't care if Pat Robertson introduced the show, that'd hurt him more than the show since he'd be effectively promoting a science show.

In fact, I hated Bush but I still wouldn't bash the show for asking him of the introduction.

I wouldn't make any judgments until I watch both first. There are always at least two sides to the same story and I learnt from experience not to rush to any judgements until afterward.

By the way, Hitler? That's just a quick way to lose the argument.
No, though I have had contract/job offers via github, and even once via Hacker News.

(Both of which ironically I couldn't accept because they wanted onsite workers in London and New-York respectively; me? I've worked remotely for 8 years now, and have no intention of leaving Edinburgh._
... with the stated intent of fostering freer markets outside of government regulation, and bringing these tools to people outside the scope of regulation, oversight, and tax burden. these points are what the article is about, if you actually had taken the time to read it.

and anyway, libertarians do believe in charity, just not government-coerced charity.
This is almost certainly bullshit. The poor quality of information in even the best newspapers is astounding! And it seems to almost always be at it's worst when it comes to medical issues.

How about some actual evidence? Not even a single peer reviewed study is mentioned. There are so many ways that this "idea" could be disproven with a simple study or even analysis of existing longitudinal studies. Or what about cross country comparisons, etc. And which of the dozens of popular antibiotics has this effect? Is it dosage relate? C'mon people at least do the minimal basic analysis before you suggest suggesting cause and effect.

This is exactly how all kinds of stupid ideas get into our heads. Not only do they waste our time but they can have real effects such as the continuing vaccine scare. Will this be the beginning of an antibiotics scare?
Somehow the x68000 gave genes to wii and ps4
"One for you nineteen for me"
Optimizely is good service, but I am looking for something cheap that I can install on my server(s) or that can work with Google Analytics. I am looking for feasible solution that can work for millions of user.

Million users are not even part of Optimizely's standard package (I assumed it is going to be expensive).

I wish I can use Optimizely client side APIs with free Google Analytics :)
those foreign providers provided a service with government regulation, oversight, and pay taxes. the proposed google and facebook solutions do none of those things.
#9 as well, the lower limit should be minus infinity.
So it's clearly not aimed at professionals, but why should it be?
So Dr. Stallman is behind Open Source. Right.

Nice presentation though.
You're rejecting the show without even watching it because the president of US (aka the most important man in the world) is giving it an intro... You call yourself a scientist... And you say that the reason you're not watching it is because of politicization of science...

Yeah, very rational indeed...
Not likely. It was at cruising altitude and then vanished off the radar screen after sudden maneuvering. If it had diverted it would have continued to be tracked on radar. Even if they had shut off transponders and such, primary surveillance radar would have continued to see them. It almost certainly experienced a sudden catastrophic failure in flight (and I would bet due to a bomb).
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Interesting. But why on earth is Black-Scholes equation on that list? It's not like Long-Term Capital Management took over the world with it. It's a fragile model and does not deserve to be on the same list as these beautiful and useful ideas.
> ...and someone's own biases are showing.

And would you also call me "biased" for claiming that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around?

> Unclench and just be happy that scientific wonder is getting some time in the media spotlight for once.

No, Obama is getting time in front of the spotlight that ought to be instead shining on science.
"Brilliant" seems like the wrong word for that.
Silkworm on the Amiga was slightly better than the arcade, IMHO.
You don't have to be libertarian to be sceptical of the benevolence of African governments.
I know those guys are super smart and all, but I can't read any of their marketing materials without my bullshit detector going haywire.
Russia's banker thieves remain above the law
Agreed. The X-15 even had a RCS for when control surfaces no longer had enough air to bite into.
But I don't always want to do the same stuff, especially depending on the circumstances (am I at home, how much battery is left,...).

I am not dumb, Microsoft, please do not take choice away from me. You ain't Apple.
Thanks Argorak, that was just inexcusable laziness from my side -- thanks for bringing it up.
I don't see any contradiction, and if there is one, you haven't pointed it out.

So as far as I can tell, your attempt to take the moral high ground here is pure pretense.
You nailed it. Vodafone acquiring ONO is just changing uniforms.
Am I the only person who really expected the major news services covering this story to include a map?
I really hate the "authentic travel" term. It reminds me of backpackers trying to one up each other on how horrible of conditions they've stayed in. Or why the travel destination they chose is more real than the one someone else chose. Staying in uncomfortable conditions doesn't make the travel more authentic or real it is just a different experience.

As for being able to experience it and write about it, you just did. My wife does travel writing and you don't have to go around with your face in your notepad ignoring the experience. Just take notes now and then about specifics you might forget(usually costs and package names) and have your pictures.
What about the women?
Dvorak is an asshole, what else is new?
I think alokv28 meant statistical mechanics, rather than quantum mechanics.
That's the result of compiling https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/tree/master/devel/so...
Seeing as how .info, .mobi, .aero etc. never took off, I don't think these new TLDs are really likely to displace .com either. The thing about ".com" is that, to the average person, .com is the thing that makes a domain a domain, like a file extension. They may also recognize .org and .net as other extensions, like file formats. However, when you just start tacking on arbitrary words with pre-existing connotations, the domain-recognizability of them goes out the window: nobody would guess that "fast.bikes" is a domain rather than just a tagline that uses dots instead of spaces.
From what I've heard(my wife is a travel writer and lawyer/writes a law column for writers) there are a lot of other questionable clauses in the contract as well though I don't have specifics. One she mentioned was pretty harsh content limitations too. She was actually just telling me about it a few hours ago while we were having a walk so it was random to get back here and find it at the top of HN.