skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no interest in business. You missed the part where I like learning about writing software, the underlying system.

Are you literally projecting so hard I could view power points off of you? This literally has nothing at all to do with what I posted.
This is slightly off-topic, but are there any rich-text web editors that output to Markdown?

I rarely need the full featureset of Markdown and would prefer a simple editor that gets me half way there, while still ultimately outputting Markdown for storage/use in something like a static site generator.
Is so minimal that is not interesting.
Eben Moglen
Awesome read, wish I knew more about hardware. -_-
Re: XP, Maybe I'm just not aware and others just know this -- but it seems like XP numbers in GA are screwy. The vast majority of XP users report the latest versions of FF/Chrome, which doesn't seem correct. Are there known proxy devices or something similar that cause GA to mis-report OS?
Hey, mine isn't in the list! :-)

https://github.com/wtracy/hablog

That said, it was only ever intended as a toy project, so it probably doesn't belong here.
I have no problem with that, but I think you should say as clearly as possible early on that it's a product pitch.
Something similar: http://staticgen.com/

Same idea, but staticgen.com is a little easier to navigate but don't think it's quite as comprehensive.
Static site generators seem like music databases, in that everyone eventually writes their own crappy one that just barely scratches the itch they had (and I'm no exception).
"Its also worth pointing out most, if not all of Tesla's patents, are based on previous works and are not original works."

As is every other patent ever. No scientific breakthrough or cutting edge device is ever created out of thin air. Nearly all of them are through combining and expounding upon existing theory and research. Relativity, for all its brilliance, was an extension of existing thought in theoretical physics at the time that had been coming to a head over the course of centuries prior to that. It is no coincidence that so many great discoveries and inventions in recent history have ended in a race to the patent office or a highly publicized science drama between great minds. Often these great thinkers are working on the same things at the same time because those are the subjects the scientific world is chattering about. Even so, Tesla created a number of things, such as radio control, that were well ahead of his contemporaries and immensely improved upon existing ideas such as Edison's DC systems. He is definitely worth some fair criticism, but not on this basis.

As to his business success, I can hardly see how that's even relevant. Few great scientists have also been great entrepreneurs. I'll agree he didn't fail solely on the basis of Edison's supposed feud with him, but neither does his lack of success at business diminish him as a successful engineer and scientist.
Then why do you care if you finish projects?

Don't need an answer as I don't care. Good luck.
What it really needs is a GIF of Harley Quinn dancing in the background.

(This is a joke. Please don't do it.)
This is really good, but it hasn't been updated for more than one year now.
'Big Bang' Isn't Porn, So Why Is China Censoring Hollywood?
Whistleblowers Beware: Apps Like Whisper and Secret Will Rat You Out
take control is everything
That mirrors my college experience, but I'll also point out that people who don't go to college usually don't just sit around on the couch all day doing nothing. They have experiences too, and meet other people that they would never have come into contact with had they gone to college, and often have jobs or other experiences that are much more varied than their college-educated peers.

I think the bottom line is that it doesn't actually matter whether you go, it matters that you make a decision and follow through on it, and that you make a decision based on your life and not the desires of your parents, teachers, the Internet, or society at large. Yes, not going may shut off some opportunities and experiences that you could have, but there will be other opportunities and experiences that fill that void.
In South Korea, it is illegal for merchants to offer different prices based on the payment method.

The law was intended to encourage credit card payments, because the paper trail makes it more difficult for merchants to under-report their tax obligations. (And the card companies lobbied hard, of course.)

In practice, merchants have found workarounds, such as offering more loyalty points for cash payments. Some of these workarounds are legal, some are not, but in any case the government is changing its stance on credit card payments due to soaring consumer debt. Now they're trying to encourage debit card payments . . .
Yes, and if you try and branch based on that value, the CPU will jump to "Not an Address" and execute the instruction "Not an Opcode" over and over.
I don't think so. I just filled the form and my request was approved (they did check my school email).
http://md-wysiwyg.sourceforge.net/ might fit your needs? There's a link to a demo page under the second header.

It's a bit primitive, but I guess that's the point. Be sure to hit the "Return markdown text" checkbox.
This is not offering you a discount in return for your viewing targeted ads, because nothing here actually requires you to view ads in the first place. This is more like saying, "Pay us more and we won't sell your browsing history to whatever company offers us money."
> You can ignore invalid data for as long as you want, but you can also draw lines and say "it can't have been ignored if flow gets to here".
(from comment I linked above)

I was talking about this property of Maybe. I was thinking that assigning a NaN value to a boolean should probably be "fine" (no exception), but using that when branching would mean that this carried-forward-error (which the NaN represents, effectively) is just about to go beyond "infecting" just data, to affecting code flow. So, throw.
The researcher's comment IS false based on the information we have available to date. We do not know if fish oil is worthless or not. The researcher implicitly states that he knows fish oil is worthless based on the evidence to date, when the evidence to date is much more mixed.

The NEJM article in this thread is much better evidence -- a 13k RCT that found no statistically significant benefit in 1g/day of omega 3s. On the other hand, there was a large 11k trial in the 90s that did find benefit 1g/day of omega 3s:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10465168

The VITAL study underway will be interesting. It's the largest trial to date on fish oil and is looking at a healthy normal population, as opposed to those with CVD or high-risk of CVD.
Hmm. I signed up a few minutes ago with my university email, but didn't get anything. Does it take a while?

Edit: Aha. It doesn't work for everyone, even within the top 500.
Those sites (largely) only serve traffic by way of Web searches and ad networks. Both of which are far easier to target than fly-by-night pop-up websites.

So going after the search engines, advertising networks, hosting providers, and backbone providers makes plenty of sense.
> Upcoming federal requirements may force us to divulge all of our code in the future. That's a very hard sell to the professors.

Do you mean before or after publishing the paper? If it's after / as part of publishing the paper, what makes it a hard sell?
Interesting, it's definitely a competitor to SharePoint if coupled with other services. There is just something about the graphics that makes me feel it's dated unfortunately. And apparently vulnerable to Heartbleed.
I love my credit cards precisely for the paper trail! Makes everything much easier- tracking my finances, doing my taxes, etc...
On one hand, developer tools really are a worst case situation for sandboxing, as they are the most closely tied to a rich Unix heritage that happens to have been designed with security only to protect users from each other, not from their own compromised applications. (I suspect it would work much better if Unix were designed with capabilities in mind from the beginning, though I'm not sure exactly how such a system would work.) Plus, sending people compromised source code to build isn't exactly a common attack vector - although to be fair, if you think about how often people download random source tarballs and run the shell scripts inside, and the known existence of "watering hole" attacks targeting developers, someone somewhere has probably tried it. And of course, Apple does not require itself to implement sandboxing in Xcode.

On the other hand, sandboxing in general is definitely a good thing - you can't constantly bring up the security threat posed by the NSA et al. and then complain about the most effective type of anti-exploitation measure we know of today. Apple's sandbox implementation on OS X is reasonably flexible, and the post itself seems to concede that given more time, Panic could have come up with a reasonable experience that runs under it, perhaps with some features more awkward than without but essentially intact. So is it really that evil?
Cool. I'll check it out, thanks!
What I am saying is mutability is not something that tends to stay local. Either you isolate it at the top, ala Haskell or it tends to find it's way into everything.

SSA is great, except that as you say it is functionally equivalent to immutability. There is no advantage to it over using immutable data structures. In fact, it is inferior as it only covers a subset of problems that immutability does.

The examples in the blog post illustrate this. He wants to make local variables mutable because otherwise he can't pass a reference to a function which mutates a value. That mutation is completely unnecessarily and could of been performed with a pure function instead.

Note the blog author says: "Think: when was the last time you responded to a compiler error about illegal mutation by doing anything other than restructuring the code to make the mutation legal?"

I actually do this all the time. That is probably the largest challenge coming to a language like Haskell from an imperative background. Sometimes you can't just fix the little mutability problem locally, it has to be redesigned with immutability in mind.
I'm pretty sure it is against the card association rules as well.
The future is already here. Cardlytics (a card-linked marketing company) has partnerships with 400+ financial institutions, and claims to have insight into consumer purchase behavior for ~70% of U.S. households and ~30% of U.K. households according to their Crunchbase profile.
Making Unreal Tournament mutators in junior high and working on a few mods after that. Unfortunately I never did much with the game programming stuff after high school.
It's about startups and it's hosted by a VC startup accelerator. A huge number of startups fail because they aren't able to get paying customers, so yes, selling is a big topic here.
Invert the colors - white is paths, black is walls.
And then there's gitlab.com with free unlimited private repos. I guess people just didn't find out about it yet.
> Well, for me the whole point of blocking ads is because they are often big flash things that hog cpu and memory.

If you don't want to screw publishers out of compensation for their product but also don't want Flash running arbitrarily on your browser, change your plugin settings to click-to-play (I know Chrome has it but I'm pretty sure Firefox does too). It has the added benefit (for me) of being able to open most video streams in a new tab the way I do with every other article and then consume it at my leisure later.
How a Ruby Case Statement Works and What You Can Do With It (2009)
Yeah, looks like windows 98:

http://toastytech.com/guis/win98desk.gif
Tell me about it man; I found that food was getting kind of expensive at some of the restaurants I frequented so now I just dine-and-dash, several times a week. Restaurants as a whole had their chance to charge me for food, they abused it, so I took that right away.

/s
Many thanks for the info - this is a topic I care about deeply so I appreciate your time and the resources you mentioned.

I understand that scaling is very difficult. But what makes you think scaling these types of programs is harder than scaling those that directly target education? In fact, the first link you provide talks about the difficulty of scaling an educational program.

I'd love for there to be strong evidence backing a scalable program that addresses generational poverty, be it an educational approach or not, but I don't know of any. Until we find that, I really don't think it's helpful to limit public discourse to only one potential solution to such a complex problem.
Parallel Python, even with a GIL
got my sideproject for you list
www.landinggear.me
What about a RTL-SDR?

My plan is to use that for my Car Computer when I get around to building it.
Postal Service: Beware Stamp Kiosk Skimmers
People who work 14 hours a day irrespective of the purpose would do better than those who work 4 hours a day.

The problem with American youth is not that they work only 4 hours a day, but they want results equivalent to that of someone who is working 14 hours a day. Their expectation is that government somehow should come up with policies to create jobs.

Reflecting on American history it appears that the country was built by men and women with their own ambitions and strength. Instead of appreciating that the youth is getting into a some kind of entitlement thinking.
Good to hear that as a KDE user.
It's not $20 per film. Not sure what you are calculating.
Will certainly improve UI graphics & icons at the earliest..Will check for heartbleed vulnerability immediately.
You're right, in retrospect that comment was incredibly shortsighted.
I just moved from a rural property where I was paying $120/mos for 1.5mbps nominally (sometimes lower...rarely higher...).

I'm now paying $60/mos for 120Mbps down and 10Mbps up.
Yeah, this looks cool as hell, but I can't justify the expense to mess around with it on my own time. You guys should consider another pricing tier for hobbyist and/or non-commercial use.
Honestly the thing I found most helpful when learning how opengl works is to write a rasterizer from scratch. Then all of the buffers and shaders and everything made a lot more sense after that.
Well if the strategy I'm talking about works on the President I'm sure it will work with a senator.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xqeol/the_preside...

$200k and 4 years, or $200 and a couple years sending letters? Btw, it's only going to take years for the President. The CEOs of F500's can be done in months.
I think the Firefox plugin option does this too (at least, it works that way in Chrome). You can activate a plugin (and only that plugin) by clicking on it.
KDE is an enormously big project. There is only one theme Oxygen that is feature full. It is a humongous task to make every element of it beautiful and it won't happen without your help.
This is really interesting to me. I actually started writing my own about three years ago, also called 'jsbeeb', in CoffeeScript. I didn't get around to finishing it, but the 6502 emulation worked, and it has just enough peripheral support to boot through enough of the OS to display the familiar banner: http://i.imgur.com/HjxV3ks.png
Writing a Frame Buster-Buster in JavaScript
Do you know what a word index is?

a.com/b says "gress is dumb"

A word index of that one site would look like these key / list-of-values pairs:

gress: [a.com/b]

is: [a.com/b]

dumb: [a.com/b]

If I search on a that word index for the word "gress," I might get as a result:

a.com/b "gress is dumb"

So, now you're pissed, because the word index says you're dumb.

I say you can be pissed at the operators of a.com, or the specific author of the web page b. Maybe even take them to court.

YOU'RE the one who said that operating the word index was harmless.

This legal case is EXACTLY ANALOGOUS to what I described, and the only important function of Google Search Engine, as far as this debate goes, is that the index under the word "gress" links to the site a.com/b.

It's not that Google USES a word index. It's that Google IS a word index. And you said that operating a word index was harmless.

And here's how stupid your last paragraph is:

All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
Google cache allows you to bypass the paywall:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess

First paragraph of article body:
"Chess was introduced to Persia from India and became a part of the princely or courtly education of Persian nobility."
Not sure why the downvotes there.

I teach in South-West Western Australia so our winters are cold and wet and the summers are quite dry and hot and it's quite interesting to see the effect the weather and climate has on students (it certainly has an effect on emotional and behavioural characteristics). It'd be interesting to see how comparative students do in different climates.

Some quick looking about only found an article on worker productivity, which isn't really the same thing: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6975.html
Excellent.

When the plugin fails (and it will fail ... anything which is default deny will have lots of mysterious fails), more and more people who paid for the content will switch to pirated versions.

Personally, I can't wait. Piracy was roughly at a balance point recently with all the mobile consumption. Now, the lazy-ass social media generation is going to discover the need for it.

Welcome to Popcorn Time.
You assume his computer is new enough to support more than 1GB.
And that is how you get undergrad students interested in graph theory.
Networking on tiny machines
anyone have a recommendation for an introduction to using open gl for 2d stuff?
Apologies! My bad! This is actually a Photolithographic printer

There was also this one called "Peachy" on hackaday last year
http://hackaday.com/2013/09/22/a-100-stereolithography-3d-pr...

edit: also here's the link to the HN discussion of this printer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6424132
Minnesota beats California to the punch, signs smartphone kill-switch into law
I dislike DRM as much as the next person, but what do you suggest as an alternative way that content creators can protect their work? Movies cost tens of millions of dollars to make; I expect that you would not spend $10 million of your money to make something that everyone could just freely download. Would you invest a year writing a great novel if everyone could read it for free without paying you? Some people will, of course, say "yes" but I think most of us would not, and we would end up with less art.

I think the tech community needs to come up with a better alternative, rather than just complaining.
He mentions Pioneer violated the GPL by not making the source code available. Is that the case with selling embedded hardware? I thought that rule applies only if you are selling the software.

For example, many wireless access points use Linux, but you never see the source for those.
Including all of jison?

I've implemented something similar several times in different ways now, and I strongly recommend looking into the Precedence Climbing algorithm - you can build something like this without the jison dependency in almost as few lines as `filtrex.js` already is.
My "Make Here CMS" is also not on the list:

http://kephra.de/blog/Make_here_CMS.html
http://kephra.de/src/Make-here-CMS-shar.txt

The idea is, that a minimal static site generator can be done by a recursive Makefile and a here script.
Are you sure you're just one person? Seriously, great stuff!
Isn't is illegal, or impossible to order online, if you dont run windows in South Korea also?

In Germany Skonto (discount) for paying within 7 days is common business practice. But credit cards of course don't like it, if you use ask for discount for not using CC.
Most universities already have systems to host research long-term. Most researchers are just too lazy to use it. Also, I would place more money on a university being around longer than Github if I was worried about longevity.
I'm really pleased with FrozenFlask. It lets you develop a normal site with python and flask with all of the flexibility: routing, databases, modules, etc. that you'd expect while still outputing a static website. I made my current blog site with it.

https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
https://github.com/bendoan/bendoan.me
Google Glass handed out to all medical students at UC Irvine
Cloudflare can, somehow...
Random observations:

- Aren't Jekyll and Octopress basically the same thing?

- Really impressed at how fast Metalsmith is growing. Might have to give it a try soon.

- For now I give my vote to Middleman.
I agree that University archives present another opportunity, particularly among the "first-tier" research institutions in the US. One problem is that many University archives are paywalled or require restrictive licenses. Another is that these archives generally do not accept submissions from outside the University.

Let me turn this around on you. Given the availability of University preprint servers, what's the value of a service like arxiv?
This system administrator hates Java almost as much as Windows. I'm still enraged at the old lie "compile once, run everywhere". Just look at what Java does to the Red Hat "alternatives" system, although I can't imagine any prettier body cast around that catastrophe.
This is probably the origin of this rumor, which applies to DSL:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2007-0...

http://www.cnet.com/news/cutting-the-copper-on-fios/

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/352765.page

Note, however, that there also do appear to be a significant number of anecdotal cases of 'vandalism' that are exactly as described (competitors getting their lines cut), especially in the case of multi-unit dwellings with different subs.
This article neglected one very interesting fact about Opossums. That they have a forked penis. (Ok, maybe I'm the only one that finds that interesting.)
While it wasn't stated in the article, I believe this system will lead to fully "protected" websites. Things you and me take for granted such as copying text, downloading an image, or modifying a URL to navigate a site easier may become a thing of the past. It's dark waters ahead, and with Hollywood at the helm I'm absolutely terrified at what tommorow's internet will look like.
It's an example. The exact price can be used in the same formula. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Show HN: Woz threw an amazing party. Twice.
Symantec declares antivirus 'dead' as it focuses on damage control
Adobe Creative Suite Screws Up
Adobe's Servers have been down for over 21 hours now, according to isitdownrightnow.com and myself (trying to get on for the last 4 hours). No one can log into their cloud based creative suite.
I would like to see code review as a service too! :)
Can this be marked with the year? It seems to be from 2010.

The problem with RedHat was, if I recall correctly, that there was no maintainer for the Ruby package. This has since been rectified but for a while was rather worrying.
Pivot 42
If the emscriptened code does the right thing, then its output is object code, no more in need of by-hand maintenance than the object code from a compiler, right?

Anyway, I'd be interested to see how much faster you are (at comparable image quality) than one of the suggested libraries. If you are in fact a lot faster, I'd be curious to know what it is that you're doing that you think makes it run significantly faster in current JavaScript engines than translated code.
I think this may be true to an extent. I think most 4chan posters aren't Reddit posters. There is a lot of distaste towards Reddit.
The Freelancing Manifesto
Yes, the GPL applies to all distribution of GPL software.
This looks great! It would look better if the font wasn't monospaced (if you're looking for suggestions, I love the free Google font "Oxygen").