skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the fact that the creator(s) are clearly geniuses, I think a big part of the awesomeness of the show is that those creators are abstract people. One example was when Finn (the human) suggested that they should pretend to be defeated by a tiny little army of little mushroom people because he pitied them and wanted to give them confidence. To this, Jake (the dog) said something like "no way man, it'll ruin my stats".

Or NEPTR's "You cannot tell, but I am giving a thumbs up." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTplK3kin8

In other words, the humor/atmosphere is much geekier than what you'd expect to find on a television show. The only other show I remember with this aspect is Futurama, except that Futurama is overt with its jokes, whereas Adventure Time has many shades of subtlety.
> this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment

The first Earth Day was in 1970: http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement

Which is not to say it was impossible in the early '80s to not give a shit about the environment, just that by that point ignorance really wasn't a good excuse anymore.
I'd be interested to see what the HN community has to say about the python 2 vs 3 debate, if there is one. I'm diving into a project where I will definitely use python and am torn between using the "modern" python 3 and the lack (or early alpha stage) or python 3 ports of several important libraries I will have to use.
I feel like they should have named the compiler 'rustic'.
Evolution allows unneeded features to fade away. My gills, for example, are almost completely gone. Specific complexities evolve when they serve a purpose and recede when no longer needed.
No rollback plan? Wtf.
I got to "You are dead. (Solve: -Body)" and was slightly cheered up by the fact that I would still have Hope left. Then it says "You are forgotten. (Solve: -Hope)". Great. Just great. Very realistic for such a simple game.
The founders could envision quite a lot, but the sorts of privacy violations we're concerned about today (video and audio surveillance, license plate scanning, drones, archives of search histories and personal correspondence and knowledge of personal interests) are beyond what they could have anticipated, because technology. The kind of privacy they were concerned with was government agents personally and physically intruding on private citizens' personal lives. The federal government at that time was not in a position to intrude very much on individuals' privacy, but even so we got the 3rd and 4th amendments. The feds had minimal domestic scope, and there was relatively little federal law enforcement. The founders anticipated some federal government scope creep, but not this.
Reminds me of the top iOS paid app right now - A Dark Room. I wonder if he got some inspiration from that game.
In case anybody is wondering, more complex != more better. Also, please apply this to your software design.
HasDocs: Polyglot Continuous Documentation Platform
Just nitpicking. The first example that uses define-syntax-rule can also be fixed with “...”. He uses the “...” later in syntax-parse, but they are available in define-syntax-rule too. With syntax-parse is easier to construct advanced macros, but I like to use define-syntax-rule for small throwaway macros.

#lang racket

(define-syntax-rule (def id body ...) (define id body ...))

(def (vector-swap! vec i j)
(def t (vector-ref vec i))
(vector-set! vec i (vector-ref vec j))
(vector-set! vec j t))

(let ([v (vector 'a 'b 'c)])
(vector-swap! v 0 1)
v) ;==> (vector 'b 'a 'c)
You're right, sorry - it was the supercilious tone I objected to. In fact $() returns the first element and clicks it. Because it's in a setInterval, it continues to click the first <a> it finds every 100ms. Did you try it?
I guess I am alone in being completely unable to relate to this at all. I am sort of shocked to find myself confused and off-put by a top submission on HN.

I like to assume that HN is a very broad filter for the most relevant high-level & low-level technology, media, news, discussion and tangentially related topics.I understand the need to have a broad focus, because restriction is friction and seemingly unrelated content can be extremely useful sometimes.

However, I don't find this cartoon particularly innovative or interesting, and to me (someone uninitiated) I would have trouble picking it out from the horde of look-alikes on cartoon network. Collaboration in media and cartoons have been around for ages, and adult cartoons have been around since the simpsons. Maybe this deserves to be here, but I could think of a lot of content I would rather see at the top.
I see several mentions of Sketch in the screenshots, and you briefly mention it in your writeup. What was your experience like using Sketch?
I interpret that as Stuff gets in the way of life.
Interesting, i wounder if he designed it that way or it just kind of happened.
The same site was submitted to HN two days ago by the same person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638444
:) I like that phrasing, it gets to the main result (you shouldnt ever worry about it) while still giving you the out that more leaks under the covers (in case you think this might be biting you.)
Depending on what I'm doing, I do want a low-level language. Still, Rust's memory management feels weird and painful.

But above that I'm criticising features such as operator overloading, overridable copy semantics, and traits.
Agree that job market demand is better a metric to gauge a languages longevity. Which language skills are employers throwing their money at?

Added a few links below for programming language job trends for Java and couple others. The source is itjobswatch.co.uk . Haven't got an equivalent for US yet but Java is doing just fine

Job Demand and Salary Trends:

Java
[http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/java.do#demand_trend]

C# Sharp
[http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/csharp.do#demand_trend

python
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/python.do#demand_trend]
It can absolutely be solved with legislation though. FCC has authority to re-classify the internet as Title II, but they get that authority because Congress has delegated it to them.

Congress is elected by you and me, and in sufficient numbers we can affect what they do. The FCC is not elected by us, and they really have no responsibility to us. I think they are already aware that this would be bad for consumers, but they clearly don't care unless some other power pressures them otherwise.
The bigger issue is that your course professor picked a language that's still pretty new and under development. To quote the Rust website "Rust is a work-in-progress and may do anything it likes up to and including eating your laundry".

> Rust just seems like it requires a much deeper knowledge of programming theory in general for one to use it effectively

I mean it's on the lower end of language spectrum so yes, it requires more knowledge than say Python but it's not much more than say C.

> people like me would rather just write it in Python

Rust is not supposed to replace Python, it's supposed to replace C/C++/Ada.
There was live code in the current code base which could use the flag, but it hadn't been active in 8 years.
Good point. It was a shortcut that I shouldn't have taken.
Got it at a great price... A very great price :)
Seriously? I'm sorry, but there is no alternative to innocent until proven guilty. It's not a silencing tactic, it is a basic necessity of making complex societies work. These women are dangerous fanatics.
Alright followed bro, let me know when you commit. I'll see if I can add a patch.
love the idea but why would'nt the rent be too rewarding?
Fascinating!

Another sorting visualization that I like is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg. It is well-known but the way everything falls back into place at each time... that's very satisfying.
Ask HN: Does every pet project you launch belong to your employer?
I know I have legal agreements to re-read and the local legislation around IP to study, but seeing how I'm the opposite of a lawyer and until I find one: Do default IP regulations state that anything you produce at any time or place belongs to your employer? That's what I keep hearing from my friends

If the subject is too broad: Is there anything that can happen against an open source project released personally while working at a company?

PS. Located and employed in eastern Europe
What project, written in Rust, actually used by as many people as Hadoop is, has proven that?
I usually upvote anyone that takes the time to answer my question reasonably (unless its obviously wrong, or not answering the question). Seems like courtesy to me, but I noticed that it doesn't usually get returned.
It seems "just" using open source code is unglamourous in this industry. Everyone wants to create it, which leads to too many solutions to the same problems and not enough support for any one. Organizations that simply use open source need to receive more respect.
I think those are all available for considerably less than £8. The non-scarcity of books has pretty much hung them here and that's a good thing.

Publishers sell books.

I just want the words and they're virtually free to distribute.
That seems odd for a student. Let me explain what I mean.

As a student myself (formerly in CS, now Software Development), I believe that getting into a new language with a nice community, such as Rust, seems like a very good way to learn from the design mistakes that the implementors do along the way, unlike with a language like C where not much is changing.

It may also be a good place to contribute, especially since docs, tutorials and simple yet useful libraries might not yet be very present even though they are needed.

Finally, you state the the compiler is no help because the errors aren't online. I agree that this is a valid point. However, I would just ask on Stackoverflow or on the #rust IRC and then contribute the answers you get back to Stackoverflow for others to see.
ages may differ but our stories are all so similar maybe the age isn't what matters.

"And 2 broken hearts to stop being a teenager? And the only way to get experience is by losing friends."

i'm not sure i directly relate to this either, but it really doesn't sound too crazy or unfamiliar.
The author of the article perhaps should have spent more time discussing the intangible benefits of writing a book.

I started writing using big name publishers and then switched to self publishing. Because of being an author I have met many very interesting people and I have received offers for interesting work. I can't quantify the value, but it is huge.
>I am sort of shocked to find myself confused and off-put by a top submission on HN.

If you find yourself loving everything in a medium, it probably means the medium itself is fairly low quality designing itself to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think it's a good thing to find things you don't like now and then.
This Week in Rust (April 26)
Is there many cases where it's safe to allocate an object on the stack, but you would want to allocate it on the heap instead ? (Appart from the the object being too big.)
>>Scientists need to be extraordinarily careful about this kind of vague, "might be", "coulda been" kind of speculation.

Speculation is built into the scientific method itself. It's called "hypothesis."
A community-driven effort is always commendable, but we must ditch the whole CA model, not fix it.

Proposed solution: use namecoin's .bit domains [0], add TLS records, and use dsnchain [1] as a bridge between DNS and namecoin to keep using our current applications.

Disclaimer: I participated in dnschain

[0] https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Speci...

[1] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
But to what end? If I could buy a brand new dump truck for $1000, does that mean that I should?
> I don't find this cartoon particularly innovative or interesting, and to me (someone uninitiated)

Just to be clear:

You've never watched it, yet somehow manage to judge it as unoriginal and uninteresting?
This story puts the lie to a couple of canards about HFT:

- "It's risk free." Any time you put headless trading code into the market you are risking a catastrophic loss. That risk can be managed to a degree with many layers of programmatic safeties, and other practices like having your operations people look for warning emails the day after you've deployed new code. But the risk is always present.

- "It makes the market more unstable." The most important market-maker in U.S. equities blew itself up in spectacular fashion and had to remove itself from the trading entirely. Sending unaccounted orders into the market in an endless loop is about the worst mistake an algorithmic trading firm can make. Can anyone pick the day this happened out of a long-term chart of the S&P 500?
> What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away?

ET for Atari was that horrible. You cannot give it away.
Where can one watch adventure time episodes online?
Sadly, operator overloading is not a really good way of making costs explicit.
On a technical level, I can understand your concerns. I am a developer, and it took me some time to get my head around how it works. But, the bottom line is -- it IS that crazy.

Discovery isn't what you would think from popular culture ... if you served my company with discovery request, "we" (all the lawyers and companies) would have a meeting about it -- you would want to extend your grasp, we would look to shrink it. Most of the time, you would end up with something like "All emails about 'blue paint' between April 2011 and March 2012". Then it is up to ME and my company to find all those emails and provide them to you. Even knowing my email provider would likely be outside the scope. Discovery isn't to FIND a civil issue, it is to find evidence of one already filed issue, so fishing is explicitly not allowed.

Corporate policies are a huge part of the discovery process, what makes it hellish is when you have NO policy around something (like email) because then you have to provide data or prove you don't have it. Our proof is our policy and technical measures.

Our lack of recording data (logging) IS our record management strategy (and a wholly valid one) that massively reduces our costs if we ever get sued.

The "cloud vendor's backup tape" is largely a straw man brought up by engineers rather than lawyers, I think I may have been guilty of bringing it up prior to learning about the discovery process.
0.02%, if you are building a hypothetical network of power plants with the same total surface area as the state of Maryland in orbit.
Undergraduate Mathematics is the worst movie ever told.
Kind of the point, no? The outcome doesn't change in real life either, no matter how important it seems at the time what options you pick and in what order.
A Color Analysis of the AppStore
Hey man! Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated. Working on an update right now, so I'll keep these things in mind. MIE1T4+PEY here :) good luck on exams!
Karl Auerbach's letter to Congress concerning renegotiation of IANA contract
> managed by bots (google bots?) that took over zombie accounts just to simulate the community was alive

If you have any proof to this, please let us know - otherwise I'd suggest this is pure conspiracy-theorist idiocy.
Why not? It would be nice to see more competition between services.
I might be an idiot but I reloaded the website 3 times and turned adblock on and off before I realized it was an article and I just needed to scroll down. Being on a macbook with low-resolution screen and no visible scrollbar doesn't help. Still, what is "theholenearthecenteroftheworld.com"? Why don't they identify what they are at the top of the site?
Looks like Netflix has some seasons:

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/190535
There are plenty of jobs descriptions that ask for examples of open source contributions. In my current job, and every previous one for the last eleven years, the projects I work on are in house, so I have nothing I can show to potential employers. If I had a good SO reputation I would see it as a reasonable alternative to show to potential employers.

(I am working on a side project at the moment mainly to get around the problem I described, but this is taking a whole lot more time than answering a some SO questions.)
I still disagree. If there are only two letters, than, sure, the relative quality of them will dwarf the influence of the name.

But if there are thousands of letters, assigned randomly, the Law of Large Numbers does its magic.

No name gets assigned significantly lower or significantly higher quality letters than the average. (something like that could happen, but the odds are small enough to be ignored).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
What "default IP regulations" are you talking about? Are there any in eastern Europe?
So is the consensus that this guy actually committed all counts of the allegations or is this article just really biased.
Why are those two examples abstract?
The author supports his thesis by taking statistics which are adjusted for overall volume of google traffic, then de-adjusting them. That right there invalidates the results.
Kinda. I use jQuery when it makes sense, and when I'm working on someone else's dime and time. Use vanilla JS for stuff like this, because why lose an opportunity to learn?
Comixology removes in-app purchases on iOS
I have been thinking about building something to implement something fairly similar to what you described there. If you want to chat more, my email is in my profile.
yes that version 2 if u open up the original js ull see bazzillion ifs
I agree that Comcast is horrible but you can't expect them to skip the most basic troubleshooting steps. That probably solves the problem for most non-technical users who call in.
Clickable: https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/459358538910150656
The JVM is a great platform, even if I prefer not to use Java the language much. Most of the code I write these days is in Scala.
Yes, you mentioned them. But what surprised me is that you never suggested using them, instead of implementing your own. I understand that sometimes implementing your own is the way to go, but surely sometimes it makes sense to just use Lua?
While I think this is a great cause I think it is analogous to things like security by trust v. security by design and the teach a man to fish principle. Let me explain.

It is pretty obvious that eventually companies like planetLabs are going to drive down the cost of Satellites to the point where they are deployed at such capacity that internet is ubiquitous. The "too cheap to meter" of Eisenhower IS coming to internet, however, in the interim we will have a battle.

I think the smartest way to outflank the ISPs is to focus on paying hardware hackers and developers to create a hardware solution so that we can create city wide subnets. Then these can either buy bandwith from Cogent-esqu companies or ISPs. This will greatly increase our collective bargaining power.

I see this functioning like roman city states or like the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government. Distributing power across a broad enough playingfeild to allow things to get done (not really true in American Gov't anymore) while limiting any individuals power.

IDK just a concept I have been working on.
I'm not amazed, but I was at Atari when these were being landfilled.

Atari was falling apart amazingly fast, and losing about a million dollars a day toward the end (whereupon, massive layoffs, and some of us got to work for Jack Tramiel, while others got to stay in Atari Coin-op).
It's really hard to argue with a 30min video that supposedly showed the entire thing as it happened.

Disclaimer: I have not seen the video.
On Slashdot this would have gotten +3 Funny.
Yup. And there are a lot of people who blindly click 'follow' on any featured post, or blindly reply to featured content. Have a look at some of the responses to promoted or featured articles, a lot of them are used to seeing only their friends postings, and assume the content is addressed to them personally. This leads to a lot of confused replies.

I think this shops the problem with combining a public forum with people publishing content to the world, and a social network of connected individuals talking to each other. Facebook is the latter, Twitter is the former, and Google+ seems to want to be both and is not succeeding. It may end up successful as one or the other, time will tell, it's too early to write it off, though.
Big Astronaut – RailsConf 2014 Recap: Day 4 with Aaron Patterson
The evidence shapes the theory, but the theory also shapes what we can understand from the evidence. As well, the fossil record is not our only evidence. When people describe evolution as a thing independent from the fossil evidence, they mean "The things we've learned about how evolution works." It's not really independent of the fossil record, but neither are they one and the same.

Similarly, people talk about physics as a mathematical field, even though what actual entities do in the real world is the only real source of information. It isn't that the real world can be "wrong," but if a piece of evidence doesn't fit with our accumulated knowledge, that needs to be explained, not just accepted.
I don't understand these units of measurement. Football-field GPS was 4 times less accurate than tennis-field GPS? your reference indicates that uncertainty was 45 meters and became 6.5 meters, one order of magnitude improvement.

To continue with mixed standards -- a tennis court measures 23.78 by 10.97 meters (78 by 36 feet, I'm surprised it hasn't been metrified). The Japanese system should be about 3 orders of magnitude more precise than tennis-court-rated GPS.
Good question. I haven't done any reading on this myself, I only know what my wife has been telling me, but my impression is that the video tape does exist and does show exactly what it's alleged to show, the only problem is it was thrown out (on a 4th amendment violation). Without the video tape, they couldn't get the felony convictions. But assuming the tape shows what is claimed, he seems pretty guilty.
Considering he pleaded guilty to the charges?
They were so short-sighted! How could you not foresee robot drones video recording or remotely raining down death from the sky?!

I've know about it since Terminator II for crying out loud.
How some people can formulate an opinion with zero basis of analysis, or direct experience is beyond me.

To go one step further, and be confident enough to express that opinion is something that's not just beyond me, but is nearing some form of delusion.
Also, there were about 14 million Atari 2600 consoles in existence, and this number includes the ones in closets.

Atari manufactured many millions more than that, apparently on the theory that the game would drive 2600 sales as well.

I'll tell you, Atari marketing was terrible. They had no earthly clue what they were doing. Oh, I've got stories...
There's no need for consensus about whether or not he committed the alleged assault; the security system in his apartment captured the entire thing, all 117 blows. That evidence was apparently improperly seized, however, and hence thrown out for procedural reasons.
Living with Inequality: Garett Jones reviews Piketty
>all-male board

Sorry, why is this constantly re-iterated?

Does them being men mean they'll be less likely to want to can a (supposedly) abusive monster/someone whose position as CEO would bring them to popular ruin?

Edit: Spacing.
He plead guilty to the charges.
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Wouldn't there be a case for some civil lawsuit?
I note that men over 6' like to talk about it.
Your point is a good one and I get it. I just feel like the top-submission is usually the one that embodies the essence of the culture the most. When I saw it at the top, it just reminds me of reddit. I am not judging the show based on it's value as show, but the value of the show and this article to the community.