skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is not the veracity of scientific studies. My point is that a blanket rejection of all forms of bigotry creates an emotional barrier to useful discussion of those studies. Whole avenues of research are cut off as verboten.

Furthermore what you are stating is your personal opinion that a sense of revulsion and disgust is not a valid source of moral opinions. But now you're opening another can of worms. Preliminary results from brain research have identified 5 different subsystems in our brain that underly opinions that get called "moral". Those 5 systems are:

1. Recognition of suffering in others.

2. Reciprocity (the golden rule).

3. Hierarchy (respect for elders, power systems, etc).

4. Coalitionary bonding (loyalty to your group, patriotism, etc).

5. Purity (praising cleanliness, viewing things as gross).

In general liberal moral systems tend to focus on the first 2 and conservative moral systems tend to focus on the last 3. As much as you think that revulsion and disgust are not proper bases for moral opinions, most of the world disagrees with you. And if you want to live in a democracy, you're going to have to live with results that you don't like. Furthermore no amount of complaining on your part is going to change this inconvenient truth.
The faq has nothing to say about spam filtering. How does that work?
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I've never copied one stream to another by hand, byte by byte. There's a method in one of the apache commons libraries for that. But most of the time the only reason I'd ever read an input stream is using a CSV parser or a JSON parser or the like, in which case the idiom is usually to just hand the stream to the parser.
2-4 years is standard. I bet he left a lot of cash on the table.
YC Application Video: Ok to edit?
The three examples provided in the video instructions are continuous footage, but I'm wondering if that's significantly preferred to editing so we can get in everything we want to say from our best takes. Thoughts?
> They are using something called http://www.sheerid.com/ to verify student status. This strikes me as a little strange that such a service exists, does that not violate HIPPA laws?

HIPAA deals with health information, which doesn't seem to be at issue here. FERPA deals with education information, but specifically permits disclosure of "directory information" without prior consent. [1]

[1] https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html
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MSDOS, is my first ever love. I still remember it's most of commands. dir on a lazy day and dir /w was a relief. then the windows 3.x came along. Jesus Christ! everything got changed, I have got mouse, no more CLI. simply create a folder and open them with a mouse click!. Then I totally forgot about it. Until now, when I started learning linux. I couldn't recall it what was it like, because CLI looked troublesome for me, (a mac user now) because I have not used it since the days of DOS, and few days later i figured, OMG! it's like DOS and it changed everything about the Linux shell for me. Instead of hating it, I started loving it and prefer to use it wherever I can just to please myself and recall my memories of the first love DOS!
The guy has drive, can't doubt that.
Linux is easily the most used OS for servers. Linux has been at the top for awhile, just because the consumer doesn't run the OS natively doesn't mean that they are not using Linux machine. I disagree that google "propelled" linux to the top.
Just that the posts are seldom insightful or helpful in any meaningful way. And, they are frequently ultra-redundant.

I mean, truly, who here (or on the planet) hasn't thought it would be ideal to earn a living by pursuing a passion?

And, how many forms of this exact article have we seen?
awesome game. I think it will be great if you could add some levels for
layouts.
> none of them clearly explain how lenses work

I had taken a stab at this with my lens tutorial[1]. But if you just want to use lenses, Joseph Abrahamson's posts[2][3] are much better. And of course, SPJ's talk is great. He's an excellent public speaker.

> I'm really disappointed that so many critical Haskell topics only have a single source of truth that is difficult to find.

I found the same thing when I started learning Haskell a few years ago, so I started a blog on advanced topics[4]. Since then there have been a lot of excellent haskell posts. In particular, Stephen Diehl[5] and Christopher Done[6] write interesting and easy-to-read posts. The School of Haskell[7] also has advanced, interactive posts by very smart Haskell folks. So this problem is not as dire as this post makes it sound.

[1] http://adit.io/posts/2013-07-22-lenses-in-pictures.html

[2] https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic...

[3] https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic...

[4] adit.io

[5] stephendiehl.com

[6] chrisdone.com

[7] fpcomplete.com/school
It seems to me you can't generalize about what people are planning on doing based on where they're currently employed. Maybe it seemed like a good job at the time or there were exogenous reasons to take it or they didn't know what the options were or whatever---the fact that the institutional structure only allows for a few kinds of advancement doesn't mean that everyone at the institution is planning on that kind of advancement.

The same thing of course applies in the other direction; you can't tell what someone's intentions are from the fact that they're using Clojure.
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Well, it isn't a PITA for me, and I couldn't imagine pointing my grandmother at keybase.io yet (but I could imagine installing a cert in her mail client for her). Maybe they have a sweet spot there and I am willing to accept I just don't yet understand who fits. But I don't think I'm that special, and I use gpg happily (and efficiently) every day.
(Hello from Israel) it's a new law around here that forces marketers to publish prices as a multiplier of 0.05
Flappy Bird creator may have lost name on App Store thanks to Apple's rules
I right-clicked and selected "view source". Got me the content, no images, but it didn't seem like the sort of article that needed them.
Developers guide to web design
> where the worker puts their own capital on the line, is it going to stop being a need

So another symptom of the alienation of labor and capital? Stupid capitalism.
Then download the client and store the key yourself.
Is it true that Github runs a custom Rails fork? And if so, which version is it forked from?
That article has four links to other articles but not a link to the company it is profiling. I hate when they do that.

https://www.feex.com/
The box syncs emails from your mail vendors IMAP server, say, at imap.gmail.com, and decrypts it in the process. In that process we are able to check for spam.
Wow I hate the UI/UX on this page. I know that the page is responsive and probably designed with mobile-first users in mind, given the target might be busy people in SF and tapping the down arrow shows the company description, but:

As someone browsing the site on a laptop, I hate the experience of clicking on each company's tile at the right most corner for a one line description, and all I get are two links: one link for the mattermark score on the left edge and the other for the company url on the right edge. And this disappears when you click on another company profile. ugh!

Yeah, so for others like me, this [1] is a better format, although I don't think it has mattermark rankings built in, it has a better interface for users on a laptop/desktop.

[1] http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies#ycw14
This still doesn't solve the fact that Windows 8.x is terrible.
Yesterday my investor decided to fund a direct competitor to my company. Solving the same problem, for the same target market, similar looking solution, slightly different approach. I sense a bit of competitive spirit in the near future. I've already ramped up the schmoozing to get the investors to like us more at a personal level.

I guess it's no big deal. Looking forward to leaving Europe for the next round anyway. With a few exceptions, the higher level VC's here are some of the worst people I've ever met. They literally hate technology.
Yes and no. The first version was on a Raspi, but this didn't perform too well. A beagle board should be fine though. (Also: debian support for Raspi is kind of lacking, though)
tl;dr When you delete an app, per Apple, you can't re-use it in a later app. Someone else can - Mobile Media Partners (who has a Flappy Bird clone) did, and even has a trademark pending on the name.
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How clones, fear, and free-to-play soured Apple’s iOS gaming revolution
Properly and usually called a key signing party. Fewer horny suburbanites, more paranoid geeks.
Very impressive, I'd been thinking of something similar.

In playing it in Stella, I frequently get into a "no move" situation where the grid looks like

2 8 16 2
4 128 2 4
16 64 8 8
4 16 4 _

Based on this config, I should be able to move right to collapse the two 8s, but no input it being allowed. I suspect it's a bug in the "NEW RANDOM TILE" code not allowing that last cell to be selected for a new item, since in the Stella debugger, memory at A8 is stuck with value 3.

Update: https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600/pull/2
This chamber simulates Mars right here on Earth
Thanks for pointing this out. It's difficult to discover by just browsing the homepage. I was really hoping that this would be a desktop system. Are there any tools like this that are targeted at Mac OS or Windows?
Growing an email list: how to make low-effort growth and high-value content work
I had an Economics professor who gave a small lecture to our class after we got our midterm grades back.

"This midterm is one third of your grade. This class is one of four you are taking this semester. This semester is one of eight you will take at $University. And while people will tell you otherwise, your time in college is a small part of your life. It will be okay."
People keep saying stuff like this, but I wonder about the molecular structure of sentience.
No it was their very popular printing stores before they renamed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Office
My experience is any time I've seen Android on anything not a phone or tablet it has pretty much sucked.

I think splintering the platform before they are ready might be risky.

Also you mention that Android support only came out for tablets after manufacturers had proven the demand for them...seems like a good idea to me.
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I can't find the post right now but I believe it's 2.3 with 3.x features put in, like asset pipeline.
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@greenyoda,

Good point. First draft of this post actually talked about constantly curating your forward facing blog, github, or whatever. I ended up taking it out because this blog post was originally just for internal consumption within Twin Technologies. I often encourage people to try to highlight the things on their blog, github, or etc that advances their goals the most effectively. That might be your latest project, your most popular project, or the thing you are most passionate about. Having your Hello World code and the like in your GitHub along with code that no one cares about from 10 years ago is probably not a very good idea. In those cases either get rid of that stuff or make a spate personal blog or repo where you archive that old stuff. That being said though I often find people still searching out articles, code snippets, and content I wrote 8 or even 10 years ago (my personal record is a blog post from 2000 that people still look for). So it’s not a bad idea to curate your content and reorganize it but then again you never know what might be important 10 years from now.
Has Google done anything with Waze other than buy it, or with Google Maps, incorporating some Waze treats? Haven't seen any noteworthy changes to either Waze or Google Maps that one might have (optimistically) expected as becoming both feasible and worthwhile from the deal.
Awesome! Thanks for the reply!
Agreed. Every group you speak to always thinks they are somehow the smartest people on earth. The funny part is they don't seem to realize that with every other group believing the same thing, maybe their subjective opinions aren't quite enough to gain them the title?

But no, of course Clojure people are all the smartest programmers and are making all the biggest advancements in computer science.
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I had serious WFIO case a few years ago. We were building a crypto solution on J2ME phones.

The solution was days away from roll-out with our first big corporate client. Late on a Friday afternoon we were busy with final field testing - paying students a few $ to use their phones to test the app.

As the test data came in we realised we had a major problem: a small % of the phones weren't returning the correct test vectors for hashing algo.

After checking for obvious user error we came to the conclusion that something big was broken. Specific firmware sets didn't execute the crypto part of the code correctly. The entire value-proposition was that it works on every phone that can run an app, so it was a pretty big deal. I thought we were totally fucked.

We didn't sleep for two days and finally found the bug in the way the phones implement a bit-shift operation (doesn't carry a bit about 1/10000000 times). Then had to figure out a workaround that was still fast enough.

We shipped a fixed version before the end of the weekend, but I wouldn't wish that kind of stress on anyone.
Hi. I've been working on a system very similar to OPs description for months now -- http://portobello-road.org . Must be an idea who's time has come, eh? Now I know how Newton and Liebniz felt when they discovered they'd simultaneously invented calculus. Aside from a few architectural decisions (hubs and marketplaces instead of DHT for seller data dissemination and indexing) things are much the same. Would love to join forces and do something cool. I've already gotten a whitepaper put together (though very incomplete I've done a lot of the work in getting a build system for LaTeX up and going and a structure in place) and an initial implementation of a downloadable nodewebkit client and some server code. Just starting on documentation of the communications protocol and getting things going, so it's not very far along. Open to all discussions and debate regarding architecture and specifics.
@trosen42,

Thats awesome. Would you please share that post?
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What causes an INDEX funds price to fluctuate?
Is it the buying and selling of the fund itself that causes the funds price to fluctuate?

Or, is it the underlying investments/holdings of the fund and their prices that ultimately cause the funds price to fluctuate?

Cheers!
Yes it's true (AFAIK). It's a fork of 2.3, and you can find it here:

https://github.com/github/rails
SSL is unnecessary for accepting Bitcoin payments, there's no reason at all for SSL to be used on this site.
Wow, programming in Assembly is so much easier now than it was then. Imagine the luxury of having source files that you could modify in a text editor. Joy.

I remember my first LDA's on the Commodore 64, directly in the console, having to assign a memory location to each and every line as you went along, and woe unto you if you didn't NOP yourself out enough extra space from time to time to be able to insert code (or at least JMPs) as you added features. I'm not complaining, mind you. At least we had 3 letter codes we could use for instructions instead of having to memorize hex codes for everything.

But yeah, even a simple assembler that handled the line numbers for you would have made me the happiest 13 year old around.
Oh, forgot to directly link the codebase. It's at https://github.com/portobello-road
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Fool-proof plug-and-play GPG mails for everyone, nice!
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And the content..

Android is the most popular mobile platform?!? Who knew?!? /s
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
The bar for someone starting out in the web industry is insanely high. Learning HTML, CSS, JS and a back-end language, plus database design and enough logic to design a sensible app is a huge amount of work. I have every respect for someone coming to web dev now. I think myself very fortunate to have been a part of it for the past 15 years, if only because I've been able to learn it all over a sensible timeframe.
Didn't pg say there was a self-driving car startup? I don't see it.
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Missing url status bubbles in Chrome?
In case anyone else is curious as to why the url status bubble in the lower left doesn't appear sometimes in Chrome 33. Bug occurs after selecting an item in a drop down select.

Fix on the way: https://codereview.chromium.org/186733011
Sure, if you assume everyone has an equal chance in the running for millionaire. I don't think you are really competing with your waiter or bartender for that coveted slot. Of course, you don't have the same odds as the VP of Department X either, so there's that.
How might a public market investor invest in self-driving cars?
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grunt-shell let's you call out to the shell. Very easy to set up

https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-shell
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My "boss" (Tech Manager, really) is there to take care of the things that would be a waste of my time...

* Sitting in on meetings of things that might be, and calling me in when he feels my input would be useful

* Being a first point of contact for the "customer" when they want to find something out but don't want to poke dev directly (they do poke me directly on occasion when they know it's appropriate)

* Being a first point of contact when I need some information (Who should I talk to to get more information about X? Can you schedule a meeting with the folks from Y so that we can discuss the technical details of something? etc)

He's there because he knows enough about my work and the work of everyone else we interact with that he can handle the management of non-technical details. I, for one, am very thankful that he is there.

Honestly, it runs similar to the argument for an Administrative Assistant. Sure, I could schedule my own trips, and order my own <stuff>, and such. But having someone there that does such things on a regular basis is a huge benefit. The AA(s) at every company I've worked for have always been someone I am very thankful to have, even if we could get by without them. It's all about efficiency.
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Why? What on earth would I ever do with an InputStream or a PrintStream, other than passing them from (say) a http library to a json-parsing library?
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Yes, Google Maps now includes realtime traffic updates based on the Waze app.
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A js game, ported to assembly, emulated in js. All for fun.

I don't know why this makes me feel happy.
You might want to take a look at node-webkit then

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
That's always been as effective a safeguard as "Do Not Copy This File." This app doesn't meaningfully change the risks associated with that.

Physical possession of a key for more than 5 seconds means you own the lock it is associated with, at will. (Or, these days, a photograph will work.) The Grand Old Order of Locksmiths likes to pretend there's a long tradition of professional norms which makes this impossible, and thus it is safe to give someone a key but treat their access to the lock as revocable, but that's mostly hokum. It's a shared secret between the key and the lock which happens to have a physical encoding. If somebody sees the encoding, the secret isn't a secret anymore. The mystique of the locksmith is that the encoding is more esoteric than "this is my password", but that's not actually a very strong security guarantee if you expose it to adversarial action.

Relatedly, most locks can be defeated by a bright 8 year old with tools which cost less than $100. This is also one of the things which the Grand Old Order of Locksmiths would have you believe is totally unpossible, because that would require someone to have illegal possession of lockpicking tools and forbidden knowledge, like a) a can of compressed air and b) a 46-second Youtube video.
"Emails are synced from the users’ email accounts via IMAP to the box and are stored in plaintext in a secure storage area on the box"

I've seen a better (opensource) approach to use gpg to securely store email: upon receiving a message, if not already encrypted, use the public key of the account recipient to encrypt it. This way, all email is encrypted with your pgp key. The downside , which this box is trying to solve, is that the (imap) client will need to do the decryption, so it's not transparent to the user. There's also filters for well known MTA (exim,postfix,etc) that will encrypt/decrypt using pgp or s/mime (user/host) keys upon connection.

I see another problem with the 'box' approach, it will need the plain-text passphrase, so if someone steals or has access to your (mail)box, all your email is plain-text and you will have to revoke the pgp key.

Not only that, if you are not aware of the intrusion, someone can impersonate you, since they can sign any message/document with those credentials.

How about redundancy/backups? If the net connection goes down or box/house stops working, what happens to the emails?
Obligatory Bitcoin reference... Check out integrating with Coinbase?
In theory, I have a citation. There have been actual studies done that show roughly equal productivity in several languages as measured by lines of those languages. However, I can't google them up through all the noise of people complaining about line counts being used for various things. And I phrased it as "one of the very few bits of relatively solid software engineering" on purpose... that phrase isn't really high praise. You can quibble all day about the precise details, not least of which is the age of the studies in question.

Still, I do stick by my original point... if you think lines of code are irrelevent, it becomes very difficult to understand the current landscape of language popularity. A language in which simply reading a line from a file is a multi-dozen line travesty is harder to use than a language in which it's two or three, and that extends on through the rest of the language. I know when I go from a language where certain patterns are easy into a higher B&D language where the right thing is a lot more work, I have to fight the urge to not do the lot-more-work, and this higher level "how expensive is it to use the correct pattern?" is a far more important, if harder to describe, consideration across non-trivial code bases.
Thanks! I think this could use a date as to when the data was collected, or if it is always up to date I suggest you make a clear statement to that effect.