skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Popcorn Time 0.1.0 depends on subapi.com to continue functioning. Based on the source the API returns JSON file with the following structure:
{
movies: {
[
torrents: [
{'quality': '1080p', url: 'http://url.torrent'},
{'quality': '720p', url: 'http://url.torrent'},
{'quality': 'undefined', url: 'http://url.torrent'}
],
subtitles: [
{'language': 'en', url: 'http://url.srt'},
{'language': 'undefined', url: 'http://url.srt'}
],
imdb_id:,
title:,
year:,
runtime:,
synopsis:,
voteAverage:,
poster:,
backdrop:,
seeders:,
leechers:
]
}
}
I agree with your point about functions versus algorithms (or computation if you prefer that term), but I disagree that your definition of functions isn't useful for computing.

It's precisely that sense of function that things like Haskell (or Erlang, or Prolog) try to introduce - a different syntax for writing the same value.

A pure function is just explaining that a particular value is functions applied to other particular (stand in) values (and a way to introduce names to values). These are only useful for explaining which computation you'd like to happen when the program actually goes to carry one out - I'd like the number which is the same as the cosine function applied to 5, which tells it precisely how to compute that number (assuming it can build an algorithm equivalent to cosine). Of course, we could use another pure definition (that cosine of x is the same as a series expansion about x) to allow the compiler to replace the desired cosine function with something that has intrinsics on the system - evaluation a polynomial at the point 5.

So in essence, we can use functions as a tool to describe what value we want from the program (or various structural properties), in such a way that the compiler can correctly infer how to build an algorithm to do so, and tie it correctly in to our (actually) algorithmic code.

Minor aside: functions (in the math world) apply in contexts besides the real numbers, including being syntactic notation for binary numbers (or fields of order 2^n).
Let me quote Theo --

You guys keep missing the point really.

We know what a free license should say.

It should say

Copyright foo

I give up my rights and permit others to:
distribute
sell
give
modify
use

I retain the right to be known as the author/owner

When it says something else, ask this:

- is it 100% gauranteed fluff which cannot ever affect anyone?

- is it giving away even more rights (the author right)?

If not, then it must be giving someone more rights, or by the same
token -- taking more rights away from someone else!

Then it is _less_ free than our requirements state!

So why even BOTHER wasting your time trying to understand what they
say?

Who cares if it is legal or not! We're not going to want to go
quibble in a court! We're trying to make it so simple that something
can't even GO to court, because it's free and, anyone can tell that it
is free because the language used to say so is SIMPLE.

(From http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=103283218106749&w=2)
I see, the tomcat tcp connection backlog is a similar concept I guess, just thats it blocks at some point once the queue is full, unlike node.js?
There is nothing called India Board Exams - Each ethnic state has a board which conducts exams - and the surveillance is different for each.

But all boards agree and exist for the rote learning model which leaves no scope for creativity. kid in, zombie out!
IanCal and blaze33 both gave good answers, but just to clarify one thing: the radiation we see coming from regions where there are black holes is of the first type: radiation emitted by objects like gas clouds that are falling into the holes, before those objects cross the event horizon. If we leave out quantum effects like Hawking radiation (see below), it's impossible for light, or any kind of radiation, or indeed anything at all, to escape from inside the event horizon of a black hole.

Hawking radiation is a quantum effect, which nobody has ever observed; the reasons for thinking that it exists are purely theoretical.
The real problem with brain implants is that they are still high risk. You do not want to do them unless you have no other options.

There's no way to put them in without inherently causing some amount of tissue damage - so you're committed to brain damage occurring at the moment.

And once in, the good ones, you can't take out - neurons grow into them and trying to pull them out will take a chunk of tissue with them.

If there's ever going to be a significant uptake in such technology, these are all issues we have to solve - i.e. we need a way of getting them wired in non-destructively, and a way to undo that non-destructively. That's well into science fiction realms - nanotechnological wiring which carefully weaves between cells and the like.
Your post probably wasn't noticed by the right eyes. There's a lot of content being posted to HN these days.

It's not a personal attack. HN doesn't have a campaign against you (or if there is one, I wasn't invited).
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Hah! I hadn't played Twilight Princess for many years before playing playing it on Dolphin, so I actually thought Midna was supposed to have those lava-arms!

Being on a mac, I'm tied to OpenGL so I'm hoping this doesn't hurt me too much.
There has been much discussion on this piece of research, and issues raised about the reporting of it. I think the response from the NHS was balanced:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/high-protein-diet-...
If you "don't give a damn", then post your real name here and reveal proudly post this same exact comment on all your public accounts. Hypocrite.

The Internet is a better place without you.
Exactly. Almost 30 years of natural light water showers didn't achieve much. Can't see how dumping water from drones would help ;)
Nah I don't assume anyone is avoiding upvoting out of spite or anything, but I just thought HN as a whole was technically more advanced than most other communities because of the user base and niche ... so it leaves me scratching my head.
Pants on fire: 9 lies that programmers tell themselves
He was on foreign soil in a country with no extradition treaty to the US. With the help of local bounty hunters, the Marshal's captured him, put a bag over his head, and put him on a plane back.
oh, and what are we supposed to do, not listen to the good mudic people put out already, and not buy their CDs on amazon, and not go to their local concerts, and not buy their swag, because there are other, better artist who are not producing work because they haven't received a $250,000 advance on their contract?
I think HN has jumped the shark.
Agreed. One reference:

http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar...
Cars don't follow Moore's Law. Nothing about them improves by 2x over 18-24 months. The material costs also prevent a lower limit in cost.

Btw, Almost Human might be cancelled. Better support it if you want another season.
Occams razor "states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected".

What you've done is make a wild assumption, that would require a lot more assumptions to be true in order for your exploding plane theory to be true. Which is about as far away from Occam's Razor as you can get.

I wish people would stop saying "Occams Razor" and then inserting any old jibber they want, because they feel they've apparently qualified it by saying Occams Razor, even though they have no idea what Occam's Razor actually is. It's lazy and hollow reasoning.
I do some ML in browser for ease of visualization/portability. Don't often need to sort all the connection weights, but hey you asked :)
http://www.theonion.com/articles/malaysian-airlines-expands-...
Avionics software is written in an environment where, _if_ such a problem as a programming language being "old and unfriendly" introduced bugs, that would have been noticed and mitigated.

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
We spoke only for a few moments. I needed to visit him in the lockup to obtain a signature for some legal document. He seemed dazed but upbeat.
To be fair, the author probably hasn't used a PC in years.
Be less awkward: master the art of social grace and strong relationships
Yeah, Occam's Razor in that scenario would be that the nuclear power are real.
I've actually been surprised by this assumption - while the community in general sways to the heavily technical side of things; there are plenty of entrepreneurs, idea men, new developers etc - which is great, but definitely something to keep in mind with regard to what the community might find interesting.
List of airline flights that required gliding
The 108 bytes in question:

@charset "UTF-8";
img,canvas,iframe,video,svg{max-width:100%}
.overflow-container{overflow-y:scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch}

Analysis (EDIT):

I'm not sure why the CSS needs to be declared as containing UTF-8 since all the characters of the file are part of the US-ASCII range.

Use the .overflow-container on tables and pre/code blocks. "-webkit-overflow-scrolling" seems to be useful to allow horizontal scrolling on overflow elements on iOS [1].

* [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15605085/webkit-overflow-...
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fluidity.min.css:

@charset "UTF-8";
img,canvas,iframe,video,svg{max-width:100%}
.overflow-container{overflow-y:scroll;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch}
RIAA trying to take down popcorntime
Awesome thanks, I'll get in touch when I know the exact dates! :)
A Ferrari really is somewhat exotic (not just the design, the materials and amount of craftsmanship that is used in the manufacturing process). So the price is high, but it isn't all artificial.

A technological solution to the implant problem is unlikely to encounter the craftsmanship problem (it may, but I'm thinking that a key aspect of making it work well would be removing the skill of a neurosurgeon from the process).
JS Goodies
Help Find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Naming your Google Apps organisation with your own name has at least one amusing side effect: "This form was created inside of Andrew McDonough". (Probably true, literally speaking...)
As long as we're airing crank theories, mine is that this is orchestrated by the Kremlin to take focus off of the Crimea.
ScrollNav.js
SOPA would have given big copyright-accumulating companies the power to arbitrarily cut off revenue to sites of their choice, by making accusations of copyright infringement, with no penalty for false accusations and no compensation to victims of false accusations. In essence, Hollywould could have silenced or bankrupted any internet site or service at will, with impunity.

This new proposal would produce a similar effect by a different mechanism. It would empower big copyright-accumulating companies to impose on any site of their choice, a requirement to develop, install and maintain vastly expensive systems to detect, recognize and filter unauthorized files. The costs would prevent small operators from posting any user-sourced content, and the onerous interference with independent operations and new barrier to publishing would severely impair free-speech rights.

In a political system where lobbying is allowed, a wealthy special-interest group can demand changes to enhance its power and revenue, and succeed, even if the harm to the rest of society is astronomically worse than any benefit to the special interest group, because the harm is dispersed and the profit is concentated.
There is no O(1) space version of quicksort.
Sorry for the double posts. An app I was using caused it.
I'd honestly wouldn't be surprised if most of them didn't watch movies at all.
If only black holes weren't illogical! [1] Any decent software developer (i.e. highly logical thinker) who knows basic info about black holes can look at the picture there to quickly see that black holes are inconsistent with the core postulate of general relativity, the equivalence principle. They're a bug! (which Einstein spent a decade trying to find, or some other way that nature could prevent black holes he thought didn't "smell right", and no that's not my blog) [2] is previous discussion showing no bona fide flaw in the argument. I've not seen anyone refute that simple picture, which should be easy if it's incorrect.

That black holes are a bug doesn't mean we can't explain observations. Gravitational redshift still exists to explain massive objects emitting no discernible light (might be only one photon every year, away from Earth).

[1] http://finbot.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/no-black-holes/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926603
Do you have any links about the upper bounds of performance in Rust? I have a passive interest in embedded and Rust and that sounds pretty interesting.
With a bad boss, the only way things will change is if you make the changes
Maybe it can help by being a jobs program to stimulate the global economy through secondary effects and have another place capital can seek returns on besides sexting apps ;)
I wouldn't mind a smartphone that was a little clunky and less functional, if it were really open.
Reminds me a bit of the psychohistorians in Asimov's Foundation series.
Network? Let's Party: Santa Monica as the New Silicon Valley
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What is your point?

EDIT: ah I missed that there was a deleted comment above.
MS should donate some money to keep dev going.
May I suggest giving this course a runthrough?

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/

I read it to learn how to code, but one of the useful things in it for you would be the fact that Zed starts to make you write unit tests for each new program he has you write. I think this is personally invaluable, and I took that skill with me when I took over QA duties at my job, where all testing was previously manual.
The parent isn't referring to juicing with medication, rather seeking a diagnosis in order to receive accommodations like extra exam time [0].

The most notable example of this is probably the 2000 California audit:

" An analysis of the numbers from the report yielded the following figures: white students were over-represented by 45%, students coming from families whose incomes exceed $100,000 were over-represented by 139%, and students from private schools were over-represented by 100%. The report also concluded that 18.2% of the requests granted were of “questionable” merit and gave students an “unwarranted” and “unfair” advantage. The report cited weaknesses in the College Board’s approval process as the cause of some of the unfair distribution." [1]

In the meantime it actually became more desirable...

"A 2000 audit of California test takers showed a disproportionate number of white, affluent students receiving accommodations, igniting suspicions of exaggerated or nonexistent disabilities. Three years later, in the wake of a lawsuit, ACT and the College Board stopped flagging scores of accommodated students for admissions offices; with the stigma gone, the incentive grew to game the system." [2]

0: https://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ssd/accommoda...

1: https://www.applerouth.com/blog/2006/04/27/extended-time-and...

2: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/education/edlife/07strateg...
> "Out of boredom, the captain and flight engineer decided to experiment..."

Wow, that starts out like something out of The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/pilot-tells-passengers-hes-...
Are you talking about AFF.js? Because the link on that post is 404.
Smell The Bacon App Will Wake You Up to The Sound and Smell of Bacon
Perfectly safe eh? Our bodies run on electrical signals, including our heart. In addition, the claim that it's as safe as wifi assumes the power levels will be the same. Charging a car and catching an internet signal requires vastly different power levels. And one is over 9000

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_electronic_devices_a...

Here is an overview of studies of slightly stronger radiation from mobile phones:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_he...

The World Health Organization's conclusion is that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields are "possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), a category used when a causal association is considered credible, but when chance, bias or confounding cannot be ruled out with reasonable confidence."

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/

Our brains run on electrical signals and are affected: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8340817/Mobile-...

And finally, the assumption of safety above is that all people are roughly the same in their sensitivity. There is already a class of people completely intolerant to electromagnetic radiation of the strength of cellphone signals and sometimes live in Faraday cages to avoid headaches:

http://www.foodsmatter.com/es/personal_histories/index_es_pe...

As we increase the power of the fields, this will cause more problems for a greater number of people. Do we really have the right to impose this on others for the sake of our own, slightly improved, "wireless charging convenience"??
Do you have a Windows license lying around? Bootcamp might be worth it: I almost get 2x performance in Windows compared to OSX!
My body is not ready for the amount of performance complaints this'll cause on the forums.

At least I have an excuse to buy a GTX 780 now.
Well played, Tohhou, well played.

Now if you'll please excuse me, I've just stepped in some of my own doggy doo, and I need scrape off my shoe.
Heh, I didn't know about .sexy before this.
The the only sentiment I take from the article is that wealthy countries are open with their data compared to poorer countries, which author seems to believe, are intentionally hiding things.

That does not sit well with me. I'm from Canada and have spent a decade making use of gov't data and while Canada does open up a bunch of it, 90% of what they open is benign. The important data, or rather the data which would expose problems, is kept from the public.

These wealthy countries also have other ways to hide even the open data from prying eyes, they simply charge high prices for the data. This easily prevents the general public, who would use the data more critically, from actually using the data.
I would like to see this kind of software open source.... Most of the VPN Clients are to complicated...
Facebook Rumored To Buy Drones Company To Connect Africa To Internet
Right. His first example puts a scale factor on a 2400x700px image to make it "not too big" for smaller screens. That's responsive design the same way that the NES emulator on my old WinCE phone in 2003 (which had a touch display that only supported a single input touch at a time) was NES on WinCE.
I would prefer that if the government is using our money to support companies we should at least get an ownership stake. As it stands, E-Mizzle, who already had a large personal fortune, received a huge risk free loan from us.
Just can't get it right can I? :)
This blew my mind when I first saw it -- a minimalist DIY grid system: http://jordanlev.github.io/grid/
Show HN – AngularChat
AngularChat: Chat app written in AngularJS and socket.io (running on node.js) Writeup: http://tamas.io/angularchat/

Demo: http://goo.gl/gQQzFx
There is some interesting insight to be gained from the elites vs masses psychology here. However I'm very skeptical of looking at history to try to predict the future of our civilization. Population and resource utilization as a percentage of total available on our planet have never been anywhere near what they are today. If civilization is to survive we somehow need to transition work environmental and total resource externalities into our capitalist model—in other words we need deeply embrace sustainability as a fundamental cultural value. Currently no one is thinking beyond the length of a human lifetime; that coupled with an axiomatic need for infinite economic growth is guaranteed to fuck ourselves over sooner than later.
The machine would occasionally stop responding completely. I got into the habit of leaving an open ssh session going from another box so I could try and poke around. The root drive was on a (very fast) usb 3.0 stick on an internal header on an add-in card.

There was a problem with the card or the driver as every so often something would go wrong and everything would stop responding again. The shell I left open revealed almost nothing as the root drive was gone, but it could be used to reboot the machine (thanks to the trick above), which would then be good again for another few days.

I now have / on a proper SSD...
The simplest answer: it's the region immediately above the black hole that these reports refer to, not the black hole itself (its event horizon and below there).
"NASA-funded study" implies a lot more relevance than people should find.

NASA funds lots of things, including warp drives. That doesn't make it true.
Find for a collaborator for your project or become one.
Guy McPherson has a disturbingly well sourced and pessimistic summary of how climate change will affect humanity in the next few decades. In his view it's too late to stop it and we're finished:

http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-u...
Tesla came up with this about a hundred years ago[1]. Seems pretty silly to act like it's new all the sudden.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power
This is a kind of long response. But I hope maybe you'll read through it. Just saying "check your privilege" is probably not the best starting point for the conversation, so I'll try to do a better job of explaining. I don't know if you are misunderstanding what is meant by "privilege" or not, but the privilege being talked about when someone says "check your privilege" in my experience are the privileges that come from being part of the, for lack of a better term, more socially accepted or socially powerful group. Things like white privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, you get the idea.

So regardless of your level of income or education, you can be, and probably are, still privileged in the way society sees and treats you.

For example, as a man, I pretty much never have to worry about being told I got a promotion because I was having sex with the boss, or that I'm only being angry or "emotional" about something because it's my "time of the month". Things that women have to deal with all the time.

Another example would be that I'm never worried wanting to have children is going to be seen as bad for business, and result in me being denied promotions or other advancement because of it.(Not to mention I'm statistically going to be getting paid more than women for doing equal work.)

Hopefully you can see how these are the type of privileges men, or another group of people in a similar situation, may never notice unless it is pointed out to them. Or they "check their privilege".

In relation to Ban Bossy, an important example seems to be that I've been conditioned my entire life to aspire to be a leader: team captain, salesman of the year, best on the basketball court, you get the idea. And not once was I ever, or will I ever, be discouraged from asserting my leadership skills as essentially "not knowing my place" because I'm a man, which can be the outcome when we tell girls and young women to not be bossy or other similar things.

Maybe a good exercise for you, and for all of us, is to listen to what people are saying when they describe the privileges we have, or to ask them to explain better because we would like to understand. Depending on our situation, maybe we'll gain a better understanding of our heterosexual privilege and being able to love who we want without having to worry that their gender will result in violence against us or them. Or maybe we'll learn about our religious privilege, and that we are able to practice a religion without inciting fear, being called names, profiled, assaulted, or killed because of the head covering we wear or for being "different".
I think the parent is saying that the maximum allowed number of passengers was 50 fewer than the # of seats. Meaning that 50 seats were never up for booking.