skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also wonder what would have happened if it were an instrument other than violin. I've long been an orchestral musician myself, and I'm one of a great many people who feel unaccompanied solo violin sounds scratchy and annoying (or thin and lacking in context at best), no matter how skillfully it's played. A really great cellist, however, would grab my attention much more effectively. Or imagine a top-notch bassoonist launching into Rite of Spring out of nowhere. I'd stop to listen.
Also Qiqqa (http://www.qiqqa.com/)
Abstract Libraries in Go
> The ISPs have been pretty clear about what they want: the ability to charge for fast delivery.

The big conglomerates that offer both internet and content services (which are the largest broadband ISPs, but this interest isn't general to ISPs, its specific to those dominant players) have been clear that they want the ability to charge anyone for anything, even if they've already charged someone else for it, but they haven't been clear about the real reason -- though the actual places where they've chosen to do this make it very clear: what they want to do is use their market power in the broadband market charge the content firms that have already built businesses in content markets that threaten the conglomerates markets a toll to compete that serves both to limit the outside content firms' ability to profit in the market and subsidizes the conglomerates own competing services. Its pure protectionism; that's the reason that the cable companies (whose bigger business is often selling consumer video services -- cable TV + premium VOD tied to cable TV and, in many cases nascently though they are far behind the "pure internet" video services, video-over-internet subscription services) main target for tolls is Netflix.

Allow this, and the ISPs will start at the top and work their way down, until they've used their tolls to take over every profitable business relying on using the internet to connect to customers.
Yes, my enthusiasm for the product went down considerably after the acquisition happened. It feels like the cartel asserting control.

But I still use Papers! It is really effective for downloading a lot of papers fast to get up to speed on a new topic area. It's also cool to have all my papers and notes synced between devices. Download at work and read wherever.
Sorry about the inoperative server; many outlets have picked up on this over the last several hours, but I thought that a link to the original source would be most appropriate.

Hopefully, tomorrow morning someone will enter the server room, remove the melted plastic, and replace the previous server with a new one..
Not to be negative, but I'm not sure why this is on HN - Summingbird has been open source for most of the last year.
So in terms of compiler speed, DFG > V8 > FTL, and in terms of code quality, FTL > V8 > DFG, so DFG+FTL wins both against V8? I guess that makes sense.
The cost is incidental for many users, considering what is at stake -- basically, continued professional competence due to keeping up to date with the state of research.
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There's also Python's "Unladen Swallow" attempt.[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow
I wish something as nicely preconfigured as this was available on Linux
Yup, it also kind of broke up the band, in a way... Check out this interview, for some hindsight from Klaus Flouride:

http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm

East Bay Ray and D.H. Peligro don't speak quite as directly about the band's break-up, but their interviews and perspective are interesting too:

http://www.markprindle.com/peligro-i.htm

http://www.markprindle.com/east-i.htm
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You've reminded me of something I found interesting regarding passwords in China. Often, faced with minimum password standards, a user will choose the first Romanised (Pinyin - used for keyboard input as well as phoneticisation) letter of a word in a phrase, an example being 我看懂中文你呢？ which is Romanised as 'wo neng kan dong zhong wen ni ne?' or to take the first letter of each word 'wnkdzwnn?' (This phrase, meaning 'I can read Chinese, can you?' a somewhat unlikely candidate for usage).

I doubt the security, given the prevalence of z, w, n, etc that occurs in Chinese (Mandarin) words (and likewise in other languages), doubly so because of common phrases that a lot of people would likely pick, and would heed against such a policy.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated right now all we have is the player that lets you control the gifs with your finger and a few other options what do you guys think
No Linux Version :(. Think Mendeley is the best one from GNU/Linux point of view
are they serious? people really volunteer for that? while I'm with Douglas Adam's in that we should try to save the black rhino, I have no problem with a disgusting parasitic worm going extinct, since it has little to no effect on the earth's ecology since it only seems to enjoy humans as its host.

that site really does show the diversity of the internet. what did these freaks do before the Well, AOL and now the web!
I use Console 2 with Cygwin in conjunction with an Ubuntu VM on my Windows 8 desktop and it works beautifully - best of all worlds.
Finally someone who likes Windows 8. I do too
You can't get the JSContext of a UIWebView though, which is a big hole.
Also Console2.
Ask HN: Does PayPal Discourage Sales?
I'm selling a product online and noticed through analytics that users are clicking the buy button but no sales are occurring. The payment is done using PayPal but the user doesn't know till they click through. Has anyone else noticed this problem? I'm selling 3 products on a one time basis, what payment processor should I use instead?
I love this game. I have not played it in a few years (have not played any games in a few years) but this was my absolute favorite somewhere around 2007-2009. A great amount of careful thought went into this game, and you can tell when you play. Also the width of the community ensures a diversity of scenarios.
Alas, it rarely looks clean like that. Actually never, in my experience, for real problems.
Async IO Part 1 – Go vs. Node.js
Yahoo Acquires Blink
Perhaps it is for the division that stare at goats? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
Placebos work in general as long as the problems are psychological. The whole field Chinese Medicine depends on that.
If you have a recent Mac on 10.9 it tries to iMessage you there as well.
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Forgive me for the late reply, but thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions and make such great recommendations! It's much appreciated.
Agreed. Will keep in mind next time we display performance stats.

At the very least, it should be trivial to confirm that CPU usage is low by checking out this code (or installing Heap) and running Time Profiler yourself.
> Hence I can quietly keep my feelings of "told you so" to myself on this one

Yes, quietly post to an international forum of thousands of users how you're keeping those feelings to yourself.

As a vegetarian myself, I would suggest that you'll hold an audience longer by dialing the "smug" knob down a notch. People like their meat, and someone waiting since childhood to say "I told you so" isn't likely to change their mind.

On the other hand, calm and reasonable explanations aren't likely to change their minds, either. Because, damn, bacon sure tastes good.
Great Work. Brings windows more closer to linux
I'm probably out of my depth too, but I think you underestimate the prevalance of legacy systems.
This passed the instapaper test, thanks!
I ran a whole lab of Litestep customized for a library once. I loved it. Later on, when I got into Linux, I fell in love again with the more exotic WM's largely because of my experience with Litestep.

I have to admin Winboxen all day, so I should try it out with Windows 7. I have not used it in ages. What is said is, last time I had this inclination, they lost part of their CVS/SVN history (after a recent upgrade) in part due to lapsing hosting or something.

I think I begged for a copy of the repo for nostalgia and got it from a newer dev.

Long live Litestep! Try to have a student hack into a Windows kiosk running Litestep, and boy oh boy will they (and so did I) find it difficult to get into system tools on the spot!
6th graders win Startup Weekend with game that teaches pre-teens how to code
> In theory, a Wine-like project could attempt to reimplement all of these frameworks

You mean like the Google Ventures-backed Apportable[0]? It's already delivered 3 of the top 10 games on Android, and I'm currently using it to port a "normal" social network app from iOS to Android (using the development version which re-implements Core Animation on top of OpenGL ES 2).

[0] http://www.apportable.com/
A continuous loop is basically going to keep one core at 100%, which is only a bit of an annoyance with a multicore, but on a single or even dualcore machine (e.g. low-end mobiles), it will make everything else slow to a crawl.

Not to mention that, even on a high-end laptop, that will drain the battery very quickly and burn your lap in the process.
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that's too simplistic. there are pros and cons to each. for example, when running a saas you have a decent idea of how much revenue you'll have next month. with a one time sale model you start next month at 0 and only make money if you find new customers. (obviously not taking into account maintenance contracts, but still the point remains)
That doesn't mean that a normal person would necessarily see any benefit from having more than they are already.
Try looking up the Neato XM-11 - it's a vacuum cleaner that uses Lidar and can be had for ~$400
It's worth pointing out that Save the Guinea Worm Foundation is a joke site (and note that they specifically point out they're not accepting volunteers), while your parent comment appears, worryingly, to be serious.

http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/truth.htm
LOL, I guess I missed the memo; when did Rand/Objectivism become respectable? Long after her death she is still subject to smears and hit pieces like Shermer's but no one can refute her ideas or arguments.
Probably this:

"To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State."
Great point. When I was rushing through Grand Central trying to get done with my commute, I hardly paid attention to any action that would otherwise be super interesting to watch/listen to. Now, GC has a huge tourist crowd throughout the day especially this time of the year. If you do this experiment in GC now, I am pretty sure you'd attract a huge tourist crowd, and get the commuters mad too, because you'd be blocking their way.
Here's an idea: Automatically expand all the tree until there are more than 1 items in the level

e.g. src->com->twitter->scalding->scala->test (in this example, these are all folders in hierarchy and they are the only one until the 'test' so expanding them automatically all the way through makes sense).
New way to capture design of your project
Which is much less a Cygwin problem than a poor understanding of the tools problem.
Unladen Swallow is a dead project at this point (although many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston:

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...
What do German schools teach about WWII/Nazis/Hitler?
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Xjax – never have to write an ajax success function again
This is my first time publishing a library. Let me know what you think or if you think it would be useful.
More Documentation at http://laconic.io/xjax/
Do estimations work for you ? How accurate are they ?
If you concentrate on finding dates, you will come off desperate, and women will pick up on this. Dating coworkers is also a really bad idea.

Match.com is a great place to find women to date and get yourself out there.

I also joined a local meetup and ended up meeting my wife there. We were friends for a couple of years before dating.
It broke my back button...
This program is linked to a weight/refit time reduction initiative. MWR usually supplies reading material like this(personal), which with a little scale can add up. That being said MWR is a sudo-military-ish thing that is very much suppose to supply the actual wants of service members and not so much mission anything. Somehow in all the red tape of the military they happen to really do well at being current and engaging with their supplies.

Also, Sailors rarely enjoy being referred to as Soldiers. Use service member in all cases where the proper reference is uncertain.
> This hurts. But we'll continue to do what we came here to do because in the end this is about learning something about a place that does not give up its secrets easily.

Such a beautiful sentiment.
Does it have usable bibtex support nowadays? The last time I tried using it (~4-5 years ago), that was the reason that I did not end up using it.

I build a small web application that full-text-indexed all of the papers I needed back then instead.
Have you tried stripe?
Without knowing the specs, it's very difficult to say what the actual cost should be, but ...

Given what they did say, $3K per box is a screwjob if there ever was one. Somewhere in the neighborhood of a $2800 per box screwjob.
Well, most of those studies deal specifically with people recovering from a heart attack, not the general population. Those are two very different groups.

The largest study there (MARGARIN) showed pretty much no benifit for ordinary people with no history of MI. There are many mixed results in that summary as well...

Several randomized trials of fish oil were conducted over the past 10 years to test the hypothesis that omega-3 fatty acids could prevent restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Although a meta-analysis of seven early trials concluded that supplementation was beneficial,49 more recent trials (with large study populations given 5 to 7 g/d of omega-3 fatty acids) have not supported this conclusion.50,51 Most investigators have concluded that further trials are not warranted.

The first study to explore the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on angiographic progression rates provided 59 patients either 6 g/d of omega-3 fatty acids or olive oil for 2 years.46 No benefit was observed.

In contrast to the growing body of evidence supporting a protective effect of omega-3 fatty acids in secondary prevention, a recent study reported no effect of 3.5 g/d of DHA+EPA versus corn oil on cardiac events in post-MI patients (n=300) after 1.5 years of intervention.

Far from conclusive.
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That would require modifying existing code.

Which is fine if you're adding automatic event-tracking directly to your own app. But for a third-party library (like our own), it exacerbates the integration process. Method swizzling allows for a purely drop-in solution.
I assume you just render a big json from the serverside and let the react component to consume it in getinitialstate() of the root component?
You have one day left to watch the 'Space Oddity' music video shot in space
Had a friend recently go through this. She called up Apple, had her number deregistered and about a day or two later everything started flowing correctly again...
Works like a charm. Nice touch encoding the images (https://github.com/Spittie/octotree/commit/e41b1c5b6734bf613...)
Google "site:news.ycombinator.com imessage phone number"

Google beats any site search I've used.
I wanted to get into this game, but I seem to remember being turned off by the amount of luck in it. Maybe I should give it another go?
Thank you! We put a lot of effort into making it simple and providing real-time feedback as things are moving along. I'm glad you liked it.
As several people have noted, the Q/Z restriction likely arises from inputting passwords from a telephone keypad.

What I haven't seen is a statement as to why this would have been a problem. The reason is that Q and Z were mapped inconsistently across various phone keypads. The present convention of PQRS on 7 and WXYZ on 9 wasn't settled on until fairly late in the game, and as noted, the airline reservation system, SABRE, is one of the oldest widely-used public-facing computer systems still in existence, dating to the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)

The 7/9 standard, by the way comes from the international standard ITU E 1.161, also known as ANSI T1.703-1995/1999 and ISO/IEC 9995-8:1994).

http://www.dialabc.com/words/history.html

Other keypads may not assign Q or Z at all, or assign it to various other numbers, 1 for Australian Classic, 0 for UK Classic and Mobile 1.

http://www.dialabc.com/motion/keypads.html

Similarly, special characters can be entered via numerous mechanisms on phone keyboards.

My suspicion is that there's a contractual requirement somewhere to retain compatibility with an existing infrastructure somewhere.
Is this snippet of code bad? I was just randomly browsing
https://github.com/aspnet/KRuntime/blob/dev/src/Microsoft.Fr...

private bool IsDifferent(ConfigurationsMessage local, ConfigurationsMessage remote)
{
return true;
}

private bool IsDifferent(ReferencesMessage local, ReferencesMessage remote)
{
return true;
}

private bool IsDifferent(DiagnosticsMessage local, DiagnosticsMessage remote)
{
return true;
}

private bool IsDifferent(SourcesMessage local, SourcesMessage remote)
{
return true;
}
That's a good idea, those 'fake' Java directories can be displayed collapsed inline as a single node of the hierarchy, thus saving all their indent space.
How do you type your password into your telephone, something this system has to support?

That's why you can't use Q and Z -- it's not on the phone.
The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously.
One of my bank accounts has the same restriction, so that you can enter you password through the phone system. It's stupid, but at least it has a reason.
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New to Go still, what kind of caution should one take when using interface{} to store data in structs? It seems to be a catch-all sort of type, I've read how cluttered some code can get when using it (I think it was an HN post related to math in Go, and type-checking against an interface{} type).

Thanks
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Buy some kindles.
You'd point someone to an inferior learning tool because of your prejudice against non-free software? Really?
For my app i use other databases (MySQL) along with Firebase. Does firebase hosting allow me to host MySQL or connect to a MySQL instance on another hosting provider like AWS?
I interviewed with an airline in the past few years for a project involving migrating its reservations and management systems (interesting tidbit: both maintenance and reservations were tied to the same underlying system). And integration with SABRE was very much a part of the job req.

I passed largely as it seemed that there were some significant organizational issues and wrestling with 60 year old computer systems stopped being my definition of fun a while ago. There were some glitches in the rollout but they got things running by and by.
do you know that you can press T on a repo page and get a nice fuzzy search? i find it much more efficient than clicking through a tree.
And more recent keypads have assigned various characters (particularly Q & Z) inconsistently, as I've posted separately.
Thanks for sharing. You can find production quality and higher performance implementations of a lot of these synchronization algorithms (and more) at http://concurrencykit.org/ (available publicly for almost 3 years now).

I do question some of the results. I was disappointed with the actual lock implementations of libslock as they are anything but performant. The implementations need much more than prefetchw optimizations (many of the implementations are half as fast as they should be).
@creationix's Tedit mounts git repos directly; it will melt your brain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eJTBXJ54I https://github.com/creationix/tedit-app
Not in this case, because the raw scanner data of the person has to be compressed and transmitted, while 3D multiplayer games only have to transmit the positions and actions of models that all the computers already have.
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Better to simply utilize one of the many, many, many, many, many lists of most frequently used passwords.

There are lists extending to the tens of thousands if not millions, but simply forbidding the 10 or 100 most frequent combinations would be a huge win. Using full lists as available would be great -- and is actually what password security should be based around. A known password is a bad password.

Don't get me started on PINs.