skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a parallel. At one point, somewhere, I suspect we had the same argument when we moved to paper currency.

"It's just a piece of paper. You don't actually have the goods. It has no intrinsic value!

But it's a promise to provide goods!

What if people decide the promise is no good? The only reason you can spend it is if other people believe the promise and are willing to give you something for it! It's not a currency, though. There's no physical thing--it is just paper! Would you want to work all day and just get clumps of paper at the end of the day? What if the number of peieces of paper people want for a loaf of bread changes? If you work for pigs, you can at least eat the pig.

Anyone could just print on paper and "make money." People can steal it easily since it is so small!
there is going to be a flood of new tlds soon

http://www.key-systems.net/english/news/new-gtlds/new-gtld-l...
The allegations thus far are extremely vague. We don't even have complete stories from both sides, let alone conclusions.

Until we know what actually happened (if we ever do) it will be hard to judge.
can you guys reuse the same domain name? algolia is blocked from our company :P
@taternuts - thanks! Good luck with your app as well
Mechanical keyboards have been on the rise again, and that includes hardware enthusiasts who love to build! I enjoy taking care of my mechanical keyboards and admire others' collections. The growth here and in other areas like the RasPi has led to much more smaller production related to these markets and enabled communities to design their own hardware.
Postcodes?
Transport timetables?
Maps?

This is an open data metric conceived by the creators of Sim City. What's important is what data they have, not what data a primitive city-state might have. And the resultant list is a complete farce: the UK and US is at the top next to Denmark. Russia has a score in openness about government spending that is 7-fold higher than Norway.
This Kindle eBook was written in 2003 and self-published in 2010 on Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/America-The-Enslaved-Neurochip-ebook/d...

In the future 2032 the US government passes an N-Chip law putting neurochips in the brains of the mentally ill and people with a criminal history in trying to control them. The two main characters got tricked into making the chip and this megacorp modified it. It has backdoors to shock the brain unconscious or to death. People rebel and protest, and are killed by security guards and police with neurorifles that activate the backdoor in the chip.

Free for Prime members, otherwise 99 cents. A good sci fi story but needs work on grammar and other stuff.
I noticed the new one is much faster..
I haven't looked into private repos yet, but good idea: will add it to the todo list.
Cheating in tests being widespread is more of a condemnation of the how/what the schools are teaching than the students.
Passion Projects is becoming an independent organization now, it was announced at the one this past week.
Sign your Ruby gems: gem install waxseal -P HighSecurity
And http://skimhn.com which hasn't been updating in awhile will be even more not working.
I'm generally happy with the new search. It's faster.

One nit: IIRC, the old engine supported vanity searches - you could search author:-patio11 to find comments mentioning patio11 not written by patio11.
It's also totally irrelevant.
There is evidence some plants are better suited to certain heavy isotopes. Sunflowers, for example, were shown to draw cesium into their stalks [1]. The contaminated stalks would then be gathered and destroyed in a controlled manner to extract the radioactive ash.

However, in the case of Fukushima, the millions of sunflowers grown after the disaster started didn't seem to do much at all. [2]

[1] http://www.ecaa.ntu.edu.tw/weifang/cea/sunflowers.htm

[2] http://www.care2.com/causes/sunflowers-fail-in-nuclear-decon...
The irony here is palpable. Wow.
Reminds me of the grocery store scene from 28 Days Later -- "Mmmmm! Irradiated!"
A loud minority does not define something.
Responding to mpyne: you can envision scenarios where the fire took out their radios.

TrevorJ is a lot closer to the mark, although it wasn't the engine system phoning home, it was some sort of generic hourly "ping" with no other content (since the airline didn't sign up for the service that would have done more). Since these were pings from or to IMARSAT geosync satellites, very rough estimates of where the plane could be have been were made from them. I assume based on which satellites heard them (vs. ones over the horizon), perhaps comparing time-stamps and transit times to 22,000 miles in orbit, etc.

But of course the bottom line is that these pings went on for hours, which evidently would only stop when the engines stopped for whatever reason. That makes a plausible fire scenario more complicated.
She'd put a fair amount of reputational capital behind the idea that github wasn't like that, so making a public retraction is the honourable move if she genuinely believes she was publically spreading misinformation previously.
after my stomach surgery I had to go on a sugar free diet and experienced much of the same. Those alcohol sugars can really give you a fierce and violent colon cleansing.
This is interesting.

I've been looking for a split ergonomic type mechanical keyboard, but I haven't found any. The author just went about building what I was looking for.
A single point of failure...such as sending unencrypted traffic to an ISP?

The difference is I can buy a VPN with BTC, not be required to provide details of my identity, and make 99% of the traffic out of my machine encrypted (which prevents significant amount of local MITM attacks, for ex at coffeeshops).
Yes, huge failure there on their part but they're still more privacy focused than Google will ever be. Google has a lot of badness to undo before they should be considered safe.
From what I've seen of their demos (going off memory), they focus on power transfer to a single device. Their efficiency drops to near 0% when multiple devices are being powered.

I have a hard time getting excited about these guys' work, but will readily admit they are excellent about generating publicity. There is a lot of _very_ closely related work in resonant energy transfer and use of time reversal or lensing currently being looked at around academia. Hopefully one day it will pan out, but it is never going to be as efficient as running a wire. For some applications wireless power is a great enabling technology, but powering a light or a tv in your home? That's a hard sell for the "convenience" of moving your tv versus the extra costs in energy inefficiency.
It's been here for more than a century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power
Several apps based on legacy HNSearch's API have already moved to the new one.
indeed it has nothing to do with gender: the article quotes hint that she was performing poorly and thus raged against people - used any kind of things available to her to circunvent the performance issue - including saying shes being harrassed or told she perform poorly because shes a women - even thus they seem to imply it has not been the case.

see the problem?

the only gender based issue is calling her queen.

i think people like you are the problem with toxic workplaces in general l you're blindly transforming arguments into whatever serves your cause - even when unjustified.
The whole "we're shutting down" celebratory bragging isn't useful, it's destructive and encourages destroying of customer trust and business value.
Where do you get the entire HN database from?
that link is a _very_ bad idea. awful.

and i'm the person who told you last week
that this service is a good idea. it is.

so change the link.

-bowerbird
Heap sort is an example of an in-place sorting algorithm that is constant space. Just because this implementation uses some kind of fixed size buffer, doesn't mean it has an upper limit for the amount of data it can sort. It is possible, but probably requires a deeper understanding of the algorithm to know for sure.
I'm talking about this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox
A lof of people in the USA eat McDonald's for lunch (or some other place) every. single. day.
It was "Metro [Mozilla decides to not ship Firefox of Metro]" or something similar...
Educator
Yes, because a completely different person taking time of his life to fix your computer problems for free is not a hassle, right?
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I would love to read a first-hand account. For example, if Ms. Horvath blogged about her experiences and that was submitted to HN instead, it would have been much more interesting. This piece is simply there to piss people off and get clicks.
Funny you should say that. In my culture beating around the bush with irrational accusations is considered a grave insult that can only be resolved with an old fashioned duel. Choose your assistant at your earliest convenience.
Without a proof that is legally acceptable in a court of law, it's just her word against the companies.

I am not implying what she is saying is false. As @Jare said, "Her story as far as the article describes, is not an account, it's an accusation without much factual, actionable data."
I can't speak for the rest of England, but there are some amazing burgers in London.

A good starting point:
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-...

100% agree about Mexican food though!
How about university courses about feminism, taught by self-proclaimed feminists? I've been dropped from such a course against my will for no other reason than being male IMO, after two days of class, having said nothing (like everybody else). "Too many people in the class", the only two dropped were the two males of which I was one. I don't think it's a stretch either to say that a great deal of feminist writing reeks of misandry.
Taking into account the normal backlash that ensues against any woman who raises issues of sexism in the workplace, i think she was very brave. typical reaction is let's not judge company A but let's really judge the woman, instead of the more sane reaction of let's not judge either the woman or the company. as for going to court, i know plenty of people who bitch about the workplace publicly and never go to court. the only difference is harassment is actually a crime but proving it is typically hell so most woman don't bother (and it could hurt them real bad professionally) - they just deal with it the best they can. Anyway, let's not judge either github or julie - they both deserve fair treatment.
As of 0.5.0-pre Pure is not using flexbox.
now they will.
When a person makes a claim of intimidation or harassment, that person should not be judged on traits that have nothing to do with the claim.

Insulting a woman in the tech industry after making statements of suffering from harassment is a very tiring theme that occurs over and over again. Even on forums that pride themselves on being intelligent and tolerant.

Let's change this and stop with the insults and victim blaming.
Yay! More pointless division that will improve nothing and probably make things worse. Good work people!

Now that she's gone does this mean that GitHub can get that cool carpet back?

http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug#awesm...
Please try again
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"Prominent GitHub Employee Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment" ...there fixed, now is it relevant ? Let's just add the title to all the other shoddy inaccuracies in the article. So, now do you agree ??
>> What job she did there has no relevance to whether or not harassment is worth investigating.
Complication: when the plane's "secondary radar" stopped (the transponders that report things like ID and altitude), both Malaysian and Vietnamese "primary radar" could still see it (the unassisted bounce back of the radar's radio waves). If they saw two biggish pips in the general vicinity they'd likely have said something by now, at least the Vietnamese, who've got to be getting annoyed by Malaysia's handling of this. E.g. per Wikipedia 'According to the Vietnamese deputy minister of transport, Pham Quy Tieu, "We informed Malaysia on the day we lost contact with the flight that we noticed the flight turned back west but Malaysia did not respond."'
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You could (again, for practical purposes) always use more solar energy.

For reference, "the Sun delivers more energy to Earth in an hour than we use in a year from fossil, nuclear, and all renewable sources combined" [1]

And that's assuming only collecting solar energy incident on the Earth itself. Theoretically, we could also construct large arrays of solar collectors on the moon or in orbit.

[1] http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf

NB: I'm not saying this is likely or even realistic. In all likelihood, we are just plain fucked.
These made some rounds on YouTube on competitive eating channels. The bag warns you that you should start small and see how you tolerate them.
Possibly most readers know this but if you want to check the validity of this and all the other predictions, the parameter to look for is climate sensitivity. Notoriously difficult to estimate, key to the whole business, it's the degree of warming expected for a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Bishophill links to innumerable articles, papers and views (from all sides) on this.

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/display/Search?searchQuery...
It'd be doable to have an FPGA there, it'd have to be an SRAM backed FPGA which will make it more expensive from what I've seen. Otherwise they're usually flash based which will wear out after a while. It'd also likely suffer a similar fate to the random processors in the playstation systems where they barely got any use in games to a serious extent since they were only on one system.
Relevant to the article title but not that actual issue. How she was treated is not made better or worse depending on whether or not she's an engineer.

Splitting hairs about her position distracts from the actual issue at hand.
Don't worry, YIFI is on it...

http://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-shuts-down-then-gets-re...

edit Link to new github repo for YIFY:

https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app
media generally has a memory of ~9 months to a year at most
It keeps on printing blank pages. And, only blank pages.
A bit strong, but have disabled the onload printing for now.
Mother of databases
Is there a kind of black hole which is so massive that not even that radiation can escape, or do all black holes emit some kind of radiation? (In fact, do they emit radiation proportional to their size?)

Also armchair physicist here - my understanding is that since information can never be destroyed, Blackholes must emit something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
What are your result numbers supposed to mean?
If you're working for the sort of company that would go out of it's way to block all URLs which have the string "sex" in them, you've got bigger problems than not being able to view website.
You realize this is a dictionary definition of an ad hominem logical fallacy?
Shh this technology is new and was invented by an MIT professor.
We're getting all items from an internal HN API.
In a nutshell: to keep an index into an array of size n requires log_2(n) bits. Thus any algorithm, which keeps even just one index into the input takes Omega(log n) space. Yay for pedantic asymptotics.
I love to think of all of these things as opportunities. Giants are staggering around, losing focus and getting in to petty fights. Isn't that the perfect time for new things? How exciting.
Here it is the whole post as a single pic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hvng9q9rnk6vkfx/keyboard.png?dl=1
threads don't have to be more difficult. check out actors.

Meteor seems to think threads are the way to go (Fibers)
> Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.

Probably one of: easier to sell, expected higher status increase, balance of lobbying funds.

I'd expect those to be more likely the real reasons for it even if they'd declared war on sugar instead, to be honest.
Couldn't this affect pacemakers, etc?
Shame, it was way better than the new one.
Those are excuses, not reasons.
> If in is an operator and overloaded by std::vector, then it's easy to implement.

However, searching a `std::vector` is not really part of its implementation. So, requiring every single range to overload an operator for trivial searching is not good, especially since there are only a few containers that have non-trivial searching.

Instead, the range-based find could be specialized for containers that have non-trivial searching instead(perhaps it calls a `.find` method if available otherwise it does trivial searching).

In [Linq](http://pfultz2.github.io/Linq/), the find is specialized for mapped containers and for strings(it doesn't check for a `.find` method since that can't be done on msvc). So you can search a `std::vector` like this:

std::vector<int> v = { ... };
auto it = v | linq::find(123);

And you can also search the keys of a map like this:

std::map<int, std::string> m = { ... };
auto it = m | linq::find(123);

Plus, it has a contains function, so you can do this:

if (v | linq::contains(123))

Or this:

if (m | linq::contains(123))

There really is no need for a new operator just for this, since a function will suffice. However, if you really inclined to this, you could always write your own [named operator](https://github.com/klmr/named-operator)(although I don't know if it would become standard):

if (123 <in> v)
I worry about the unintended side effects of posts like these.

Who will read this and hesitate the next time they're about to hire a woman because they're the best candidate for the job?

"If one person claims there's gender-based harassment in the company, it would really affect our valuation...Better go with the slightly less-good-fit male candidate."

Of course I don't know what happened exactly, but fixing problems from within seems more effective than leaving a place and pointing fingers. Nobody likes to get pointed at.
Unreal4 in HTML5/WebGL
Thank you for this helpful feedback ...
On separate URLs?
How about this one http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/ ?
If I click on one more movie title in AmazonPrime Instant Video that is simply not offered in any form at all (streaming, rental, purchase, nada), I am going to cry.
Why don't you start better companies? Show them wrong. Don't just sit at your laptop, complain about how bad all these popular, massively used services are. If you don't like it, leave and make it better.
> They want to lock everyone into everything. Just like everyone else. And we’re all worse off for it.

I really like Schneier's commentary on how large companies are migrating toward a feudal system[1]. His perspective is from security, but the central point is universal.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/feudal-security/
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He is the first author cited in their paper:

http://www.witricity.com/pdfs/highly-resonant-power-transfer...
Another way to think about chance of getting caught. How many undergrads have you observed reporting their peers for cheating? How many do you think would do that in India.
Philosophy departments are also having their troubles with sexism, sexual harassment and allegations therof, as one can find by perusing http://leiterreports.typepad.com, http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/ and http://beingawomaninphilosophy.wordpress.com/ The serious problems in professional philosophy with sexism and harassment are exacerbated by an other-worldly proclivity among some philosophers to theorize the possibility of harassment out of existence.
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The "I was born a woman but I really am a chinchilla inside" variety of Tumblr users in perpetual Poe's law mode aren't the average feminist, but the Twitter feminist circles I've seen (I don't know if Julie is really a part of them — I recall seeing her name often, but I don't know much about her) are, honestly, more articulate and powerful versions of some SJ Tumblr circles. They don't rise up for the same reasons the more unhinged[0] Tumblr posters do, but they have some pressure power that's used unwisely like in the dongle/fork situation last year.

[0] Both many prominent Twitter Feminists and Tumblr SJWs cling to the idea that if you're privileged, you can't criticize the oppressed (even if you're not directly oppressing the oppressed in question), so if you're misunderstood as doing something that opresses the oppressed they can start a campaign against you so you lose your job, etc, but you can't answer in the same tone. This is to say, I'm being a jerk for using the word "unhinged" when I don't have any apparent mental disorders.
The people who use these controllers are going to be at a massive disadvantage compared to those playing with keyboard and mouse. Valve needs to conduct more widespread testing with a trackball variety. That would allow controller users to have a more even match.
Because it's so easy to start a company and compete with Amazon.
prominent employee, sure, engineer no.

you can be a really shitty engineer, or not one at all and have thousands of twitter followers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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We built a really simple one-click solution for building this that walks you through how to do it, without having to trust an outside party with your web traffic: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn
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I didn't know this. It makes sense, and the reference indicates they did some solid statistical work on the experiences with those methods.
Europe backs call for universal smartphone charger
Personally, I find that eBay (at least in the UK) has proven itself to have the best shipping, selection, service and price. Especially with it's new "Fast and free" promotion
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No, those are all the right things to do. The problem is more about the indie musician who spends a few thousand dollars producing a collection of songs, only to be told to not even try to sell the cd, release the songs through a streaming service for hundredths of pennies per listen, and then expect to make their recording costs back through "touring and merchandise" while releasing their songs for basically-free as a "marketing expense", even while the market is saturated by other musicians that have bought into the same advice. The fan that actually makes a point to listen to the music, and buy the cd, and attend the local concert is a good fan, but the market forces are actually against that activity.