skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was merely surprised that someone could interview a leader of a country in which millions had died of starvation and not bring the subject up.

Edit: Probably rather unwise of me to bring the subject up at this moment in time...
This isn't computer science; it's system engineering.
Wells didn't have a recording device, so to perfectly record such large, articulate and complicated back and forths in a conversation probably involved some ghostwriting from memory on Well's part. It was a different time.
"Hard to believe anyone would run a free 7-week course because they like to teach."

Seth Godin ran a full-time free six-month MBA program because he likes to teach. There are a ton of smart people who really enjoy teaching, most just don't have the money to do it full time for free.
jawbfl.blogspot.com is redirecting to jawbfl.blogspot.co.uk and back to .com
Data science in e-Commerce
And FLAC is better than CDs? What's the point of this piece? Smells like a "native ad" (which Vox tends to do).
Like Tesla said "if you thought a bit more, you wouldn't have to sweat so much"

All of those would be eliminated with preparation and planning. And the results would be better quality than ad hoc poking with Bash
My flabber is well and truly ghasted :-)

And with that, I'm of for a brew and to recuperate...
Forced-air systems are on the rise in Europe, mostly due to stricter regulations in regards to energy performance (insulation and ventilation). Many new low-energy homes (and passive houses) now have forced-air systems. You can get tax cuts and other subsidies in some areas.
1) The software that is included in popcorntime isn't circumventing any rights control measure - the bittorrents that it accesses don't include any rights control measures that would need to be circumvented. The people who originally supplied and seeded those may (or may not) have used some software that circumvents rights control measures, but that's not included in Popcorntime.

2) Circumventing rights control measures is legal in my country and most countries globally. Copyright laws as agreed in Berne conventions and implemented in local legislation simply don't mention such measures and their circumvention in any way, they handle just the copyright part.

USA has a single very specific law - DMCA - that restricts such circumvention; it has been trying to "export" that concept to other countries through trade treaties; but it hasn't succeeded for the most part; making and distributing such tools is legal almost everywhere - and the legality of using them depends on the legality of actual act you're doing; if you're allowed to make that copy (i.e., personal backups) the the use is legal; if you're not (i.e., for redistribution), then the copying is illegal but the 'rights control measure' doesn't change anything at all and its circumvention is irrelevant.
Article contents, since the link is caught in some infinite loop: http://pastebin.com/zx0q56hG

Is this really HN front page material?
Does Doing Good In Business Imply Doing Less Well?
Revoking certificates is pointless - that's Adam's point here.
"Hiring is so hard, so burn your free time to help me!"

Please don't contribute to OSS unless you really want to. It's great if you do. But making it a near-mandatory requirement just means that it drives yet more self-promotion (it isn't a real project unless you buy a domain!), more low quality contributions, and, ultimately, becomes yet another thing-you-really-should-be-doing.
Past the Wired junk, there is some good dexterity progress here. They'll get there one day with the amount of dedication that has gone into the project. I'd kill to work on a project like that.

However I wish they'd put some work into getting rid of the gait that looks (as a human) as if ASIMO has pooped itself.
Interviewing is completely different than in school.

When doing Math or Computer homework, you usually are given a clear reason why your grade was marked down.

When interviewing for a job, they will never tell you why they rejected you. For legal reasons, it is risky to tell you. They will always give something vague like "not qualified" or "bad cultural fit" or "other applicants were better", even if that isn't the real reason.

Also, it's normal to apply to a lot of jobs with a low acceptance rate. If employers interview 20 people for each position, (and they don't select better than random) then you'll get an offer for 5% of your interviews.
This is becoming less and less important. My TV is just a display for a Mac Mini, for example. If I had an AppleTV, I could just mirror the content straight to that. Before all this useful extravagance, I just hooked my computer up to my TV using (gasp) a cable. Worked great, and me and most other people I know, especially those younger than me, are fully used to making this work.

Even then, my girlfriend could not care less about even having a TV. She watches everything on her computer and is perfectly happy.
It's a technology demonstrator for a proprietary internal research project. They don't have to publish anything if they're going to use it themselves.
As noted, it's expensive. I've encountered potential employers who were lukewarm because I hadn't done enough work in open repos to impress them. That's understandable, it is rational to tend towards "no" instead of "yes" when evaluating developers. But to me it seems strange to do open source work just to be more attractive to employers. So I guess it really is an honest signal. I'm not going out of my way to do a bunch of stuff to impress you because I already have a good job, so you could be ignoring good candidates with this mindset. But like I mentioned, some people might be OK with that.
History is written by victors. Your image of Stalin is based on the history that was written about him after his death by people who openly declared themselves as victors over Stalinism. Remember, Stalin's image in 1930s was very different, culminating in Time's Man of the Year cover in 1939.
Now you know how your insurance company makes so much money.

They pay $200 for a service you think costs $800 and WILL cost you $800 if you buy it yourself.

You buy insurance based on the FULL cost of the procedure. If you could access $200 yourself you wouldn;t need insurance. You can self insure at these prices.

For the benefit of running the "self insurance" plan they are taking the difference between $200 and $800

Anyone else have a company and know what usual profit margins are? Your local pharmacy is lucky to pull off 35%.

This is 400% markup that a "retail" person pays over the insurance company.

It's not hard to make money when you buy at $200 and sell at $500-600-700 through an insurance policy.

This is how companies like AIG (anybody remember them) buy things like ski hills for their executives.

See www.stowe.com

Americas are building up the next generation of their royalty.

Companies with a mission in "health care" that mae 400% margins and buy ski hills for their executuves to use on "retreats".

Yup, that makes total sense, to a lobbyist, lawyer or other enemy of the public and democracy.

Crony capitalism, not true capitalism and market economy that people think of in the USA.

The insurance companies got a major windfall with Obamacare. That lobbying really worked out.

He could has just as easily allowed Medicare/Caid to negotiate prices and take over mre of the health care.

That wouldn;t give jobs to people that Obama really cares about. North east Liberal lawyers.
CSS Sprites have numerous disadvantages that normal image files lack.
Show HN: Channel 6, a site to explore Vines. [nsfw]
Stick to viewing tags, because the "live" stream can have porn and other oddities. You can add a tag just by starting to type.

Travel & Airplanes: http://ch6.co/#airplane+plane+travel+
Stoned people & 420 Easter: http://ch6.co/#420+420easter+stoned+weed+
Random SF Area stuff: http://ch6.co/#berkeley+san francisco+sf+
Pizza: http://ch6.co/#pizza

The database is quite small at this time, just a couple days worth of vines.
But what is "television"? Isn't it just device, or system where the barrier of entry to access entertainment is sufficiently low for the majority of the population? And if so popcorn time is a giant leap in lowering this barrier of entry on desktops and laptops.

And since in a lot of countries pirated movies are often way quicker than regular distribution, this can really swing people towards PC based "television" or media consumption vs old-time television.
What does Octopus do?
I would suggest reading through the Express (or any popular project) source code to improve yourself as a JavaScript developer. As you do, there will inevitably be things you notice that should be fixed. E.g. typos, edge cases, refactoring[0]. Fixing those will help you familiarize yourself with the project, the process, and will eventually lead to bigger contributions.

[0] Though be careful with that. Only refactor stuff if you're pretty confident about how it works, and that your changes don't decrease performance or readability.
Same here, the page won't load as it keeps being redirect from com.ar to .com and back.
Zed is also packaged as a standalone app now.
Inside the Nokia HERE HD Maps putting Google on notice
If not this, then there will be something else.

It won't be long before any digital content is simply available. It will eventually equilibrate into its natural state: a public good, non-rival and non-exclusive in consumption.

Eventually, we'll pay for our bandwidth and content in one utility package, track usage in a legal and unlimited way, and divvy proceeds of our utility subscription to content creators based on popularity. A systematic solution is necessary, and the faster we're able to do it, the better.
Users make terrible security decisions. ~95% of users click through certificate failure pages, ~99% of users don't notice if a website transparently downgrades to HTTP. Delegating the choice, which would be borderline impossible to explain to the user is another way of saying 'Always say yes to proceed'.
I can imagine, my need for it as a personal tool was strong enough that I just couldn't resists building it haha, it evolved quite a bit further than I expected though.

Could I ask why you'd have hoped for open source? If it's any consolation, I'm making the API completely open, and I'd have no problem with custom clients. In fact, I may even consider open-sourcing the default web-app client. But as for running it as a SaaS rather than distributing the whole thing as open source, I feel like the whole project will have a brighter future if it's set up in a sustainable way like this, and subscription fees can be invested back into the product, towards marketing, development, scaling etc.
Here's another useful link http://camdencollective.co.uk/academy/ There's a video in there and some other current info.

The main website should incorporate more of this information though. Right now details are scattered around twitter feeds, multiple websites, semi updated pages and this thread (hn is probably the best source of info right now).
It's not safari that does it but the "OS" itself, and by that I mean the wireless networking tool. I would imagine that there's some code that runs upon successful connection to an AP and checks to see if you're in a captive portal or not.

The resulting UI looks like a plain window with no UI elements except a close button and a browser frame so you can auth with the captive portal system, and goes away once connectivity is "restored".
Honest question, what's the point being made here? Are you attempting to imply that because Stalin presided over a terrible famine his political ideals must be flawed?

Churchill and friends presided over the Bengal famine of the 1940s. Six million people died in a famine during which food was exported out of Bengal to aid the British war effort. Or what about the British East India company raising land taxes from 10% to 50% during the great Bengal famine of the 1770s. A famine which killed 1/3rd of the population of Bengal. Also a famine which saw the British East India company's profits increase from 15 million to 30 million (non-inflation adjusted) rupees.

Do you think any of this counts against capitalism or do you have any reasons why we should disregard these anecdotes but count the Ukrainian famine against socialism?
I had never seen this problem, is this is the case for all blogs on blogspot or just mine ?
Lifehack: Trusting talent
Chronic THC intake (cannabis) modifies your brain
That's interesting. I wonder if the same opportunity available to Sotheby's is also available to your average diamond consumer (minus a reasonable handling fee). I.E. If I go buy a Diamond for $1000, And Sotheby's sells it second hand for, let's say, $750, could I sell it to Sotheby's for $500?

I'd be interested in hearing what mechanisms exist for your average consumer to sell a diamond. There is quite an active market for second hand Gold, and the handling fees are quite reasonable. My understanding, from everything I've read, is that such a market does not exist for Diamonds.
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
Continuing the series! Go...

A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.
+! GTFS is super awesome and most apps I know rely on it. Its consistent format that is adopted by transit systems across the globe. couldnt get more developer friendly than that. If you developed with this RESTful API, it would be hard to adapt your app to use the feed for a different city.
Fascinating how important the questions of class and revolution are in this conversation (from both Stalin and Wells).

Equally interesting is how theoretical and ideological the answers are.

Great read!
I believe Apple has an agreement with Akamai. Here are some data points for just one household with two macs, two iPhones, and two iPads

www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net 571 requests in the last day

us-courier.push-apple.com.akadns.net 558 requests in the last day

.akamai.net 709 requests in the last day

and

.akamaiedge.net 1967 requests in the last day

--

I believe Google just uses *.l.google.com (my open dns says 1202 requests in the last day)
Until now I always thought the M stood for Microsoft. Now I know.
...this is meant to be funny, right?
It is pretty clear Wells wasn't trying to confront Stalin on historical events here. This was mostly a theoretical and ideological discussion.
There's ~3 hospitals in the USA that have transparent pricing.

If you're interested in disrupting healthcare the founder of The Surgery Center of Oklahoma has a blog on pricing transparency. http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/

Some additional resources:

Free Market Medical Association website. http://marketmedicine.org/members/ It lists all the resources and providers that provide transparent pricing.

The Pricing Healthcare Blog and Pricing Healthcare website is a crowd sourcing project where patients can input their medical bills and get the cash price of procedures in their area. (The CEO of Safeway started a company with Safeway's similar, proprietary, data, however they only sell the pricing data to companies with ~10,000+ employees).

The Self Pay Patient is a blog and resource for those that choose to self insure:
http://selfpaypatient.com/

The Health Care Blue Book lists the price insurance companies have negotiated with providers:
https://www.healthcarebluebook.com

Source:
http://www.quora.com/What-health-care-providers-in-the-USA-o...
Pretty sure I could buy a device today that streams wirelessly from my computer to the TV in the living room.
open source 3D printed hands

Something about that phrase just sounds really, really awesome.
Square Cash - https://square.com/cash
Don't force it. If the itch isn't there, don't scratch it.

Instead, look for things that are interesting to you, follow your passion; if that eventually leads to an OSS project (either your own or helping on an existing one), great! Just avoid toxic startup cultures that require forced OSS track records and then provide "unlimited" vacations.
Under the ACA, when the insurance company pays a hospital (or any other medical provider) $200, it is allowed to spend $50 (less for larger programs) on salaries and profits and other expenses.

If it gets $300 of premiums and only spends $200 on medical care, it has to send the extra $50 back to the customers (larger programs have to send back $65).

More here:

http://kff.org/health-reform/perspective/beyond-rebates-how-...
zip.js seems to be the better of the two. It uses typed arrays, so it's performant and I can zip large (140MB) files quickly and without hanging the browser.
Polywater...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
Have you considered zip.js instead? It claims to work with files up to 4GB. It also can zip large files without any issues for me in Firefox.
It's bizarre to me that something awful is apparently being threatened against the developers, and yet new forks are not banned from github.
The concentration of alcohol in the common beverages is approximately: beer: 5%, wine 15%, vodka 50% (the exact numbers varies a lot).

It’s not possible to “dehydrate” the pure 100% alcohol to reduce its volume. It must be trapped with some kind of additive to make it look like a powder. Also, the powder has small holes, so it’s ¿20%? air and a few % of additives and the rest is alcohol. Let’s just assume that it’s 100% alcohol to simplify the discussion.

So, 1 glass full of “powdered alcohol” will be equivalent to at most 2 glasses of vodka (3 glasses of weak vodka, 1.5 glasses of strong vodka). It will not be equivalent to 10 glasses of vodka.

(With the same calculation, it will be equivalent to 7 glasses of wine or 20 glasses of beer. But people usually drink vodka in smaller glasses and beer in bigger glasses.)

Anyway, given the abundance of morons, I also predict that there will be overdoses, but this “powdered alcohol” is roughly as dangerous as vodka.
I'm 36 and I've already decided on my brand of toothpaste, toilet paper detergents years ago. I will not buy another brand as long as these brand exists with the same price and quality level. I would be a very bad target for advertising.
You finished with all the tasks? They said that at the end you will be maintaining a subsystm.
I agree with most of your sentiments, but no new books and no new frameworks isn't completely true. For example, I just started reading Coding in Delphi (https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi) which describes a few current efforts. Still I'm hesitant to make use of those, because they would further lock me in with Embarcadero; sticking to what's in Delphi 2010 itself at least allows for a relatively smooth transition to Lazarus at some point. I haven't given up on the principles of Delphi yet, but I have on Embarcadero.
> Someone has probably taken it upon himself to threaten these devs in a nasty (and perhaps illegal) way.

Someone, you say? How about just stating the fucking obvious: That "someone" is The US Government, and this is just standard gag-order fare. "Stop developing the app, or we will fuck up your life. Oh, and don't say a word about this to anyone, or we'll fuck up your life."

This insanity is obviously unconstitutional (for starters), but since the USG obviously doesn't give a fuck anyway, what with the all-encompassing surveillance and all, this has become just business as usual.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qp...
You can know that you are talking to the same named digital identity that you think you are talking to without trust; that's a significant amount of the value of Namecoin. Validating that a digital identity is tied to a specific real world identity is a separate problem.
Well, is there anything better for Windows, aside from maybe cabinet files?
based on experience, i'm pretty sure Google maps will take train times into account. but you have to give it the endpoints of your journey and it doesn't actually show the times.
Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) for email.

I wish it was possible emails sent are erased from the recipient's email client. I want to own the parts of the email conversation that I wrote.

The reason to want this is to not leave an electronic trail of everything you say. Chat clients, which communicate synchronously, can already do this. Is it impossible to do asynchronously with email?

One problem is people might want to archive what you write, which would defeat the purpose of OTR. This isn't something a messaging protocol can solve. Once text shows up on a screen, you can copy the text. But I can imagine people archiving rarely in practice, if only because you'd have to do something manually, which would make keeping an electronic record the exception and not the rule.
I don't see why Popcorn time doesn't offer legitimate ways to purchase the content.

For an honest TV index with multiple streaming sources, check out http://episodeslist.com

It's updated daily.
Cool project, but the $42,000 prosthetic probably has only $50 in materials as well, the expensive part is the engineering, fitting, and assembly. Not really a fair comparison.

Models like this are quite exciting - assistive devices and prosthetics are incredibly expensive due to low volume and customisation requirements. This is preventing innovation and production of new devices and technologies.

They are also (rightly) highly regulated. A next step is trying to figure out how to maintain quality and safety in these kinds of DIY projects.
That makes sense. A couple of suggestions:
1. Isolate the backend from the frontend as much as you can. i.e, besides using the rails controllers to actually render your page, exchange all info with JSON and an API like structure. This way, you can change frontend frameworks quickly without having to rewrite any of your backend.

2. Make a decision about routes quickly - either use the angularJS routes or Rails, but I would shy away from both. Personally, I found AngularJS routes annoying, specifically when it comes to SEO optimization.

3. If working with bootstrap, use http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap/
I highly recommend it
Another solution is to put the URL into Google Translate, set the 'To' language to English and the 'From' language to something like Arabic or Chinese so nothing on the page will actually get translated.
Not sure how this got linked. The talk is not hosted there anymore (and hasn't been for some time). Here's its actual location:

http://talks.golang.org/2012/10things.slide#1
Im not sure how liberal Github is with banning project but I think a possible reason would be they don't want to terminate a project until they get a court order.
Syntactic Sugar Never Tasted So Good
http://episodeslist.com is an honest alternative where you can stream from Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, iTunes and more
Quote from the article:

"the only conclusion is that most enterprises should dump
their data centers and move to the public cloud"

What a fucking asinine statement. I stopped reading there.

Why did I stop reading there? Because there's more to gain from controlling your own computing environment than simply money.

In the moment I read that sentence, I knew I was reading propaganda, and I realized I was yet again trapped in the media's Cloud Computing Echo Chamber, where industry shills try to brainwash us into acquiescing unto the inevitable One Data Center To Rule Them All.
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Just adding my 2 cents here.

I would say that if you are consumer-facing and your product has a broad appeal, then perhaps user-acquisition could work on social media.

The trick is to not focus on user-acquisition and to build user-relations. Perhaps your first followers may not need your app, but maybe their followers and followers-followers might find it useful.
Could it be false that he was a mass murderer and a bank robber? (That's tangental to the original question of famicide, but it's interesting to think that his atrocities were fabricated.) Is there any evidence of this? It seems extremely unlikely, but I'm wondering what you're basing your comments on.