skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When i first found out about pushd and popd, i loved them, and used them all the time. These days, i never use them.

The way i work now is that i have a bunch of terminal tabs open. Each tab has a shell which pretty much just sits in a single directory. If i need to switch to a different directory, i switch tabs. A nice effect of this is that each tab builds up a recent shell history specific to the directory it sits in; the shell in the source directory has a history full of build commands, the shell in the installation directory has a history full of start and stop commands, and so on.

This works because i generally use a fairly small (<10) set of different directories, and i don't move between directories much as part of a single task. Partly, this is because i use qualified paths rather than cd'ing around everywhere. I am happy writing (mostly, tab-completing):

vi lib/awesomeapp/dns/client.rb

Whereas a colleague of mine would always do:

cd lib
cd awesomeapp
cd dns
vi client.rb

He might get a lot of mileage out of pushd/popd. But for me, it just optimises something i don't spend a lot of time doing.
I think the one of Larry Page's dreams is very different to most people's dreams, which would be one that respects people's right to privacy.
Are you talking about transfers between accounts owned by different people, or accounts owned by the same person? I've got accounts at three banks, one of them Wells Fargo, and have never been charged a fee for transferring funds between them.
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How ISPs are shamelessly trying to scare you away from supporting net neutrality
You are correct.

I was just responding to the general issue that people think pot is non-harmful health wise. Don't get me started how people who are emotionally medicating themselves checkout of life is painful to those around them.
About time. The only sad thing is that the govt had to wait for someone to bite them in the arse (Russian counter-sanctions that is) to get back to action.
>high-end journals solicit multiple reviews. It is sometimes possible to fool many (but not all) of the experts.

I thought this was a debated point. Don't a lot of people assert that the prestigious high end journals don't really review them for correctness etc, but instead focus on how "ground-breaking" or "news worthy" ??
Great to see the author posting it here. I submitted it a few days ago but I guess my timing wasn't that great [0].

I'm pretty happy with Subsonic [1] at the moment but I'll definitely give it a shot later because Ampache isn't Java based, which is a huge win for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7735252

[1] http://www.subsonic.org/
I think their website is getting hammered from Hacker News. I've seen it load faster than what I saw today. :)
> Git-annex with symlinks can add an extra layer of protection, in that you have to unlock the file before editing

Is that like how Perforce handles it?
"What makes you think Mozilla does not pay taxes?"

Corporate structure. (Mozilla Corp. is wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. Only Mozilla Corporation pays taxes.)

2008 IRS audit.

2012 settlement with IRS.

Perhaps a better statement would have been that Mozilla tries to avoid paying taxes.

Anyway, if what you say is true regarding compilation and exclusion of the DRM code then I'm not sure what everyone in thie thread is complaining about.

Now, how easy is it to compile Firefox these days?

I have not done it in years.

I gave up on X. (Following your exact advice, even with open source: "Don't install it.")

I use UNIX with no graphics layer and simpler text only browsers and even simpler TCP clients to retrieve content. Then if necessary I view it on graphical devices running closed source software.

The interesting thing is when I want to watch video, the last thing I need is a "browser". The core of the video player software I use is the ffmpeg libraries which have nothing to do with web browsers.

I only use HTTP (and other protocols) to transfer content (i.e., to request it), not to watch it.

I see no reason why a single application has to support both (request/transfer and playback).

Why video players have to support "streaming" or why "web browsers" have to play video are still open questions in my mind.

But that's just me. Stuck in the UNIX "one utility, one job" mindset.
How does that follow from 'it's up to the courts to decide what is harmful'?
your welcome :) http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/transitions2
I think this is unfair - obviously each type of cancer has unique properties but the general ontology, mode of operation and treatment options have enough overlap that it - in a single word - describes what an illness is in general.
Well the comment was about people with the same surname being likely relatives. Knowing how patronymics work you would not assume that two persons that share the patronymic are related, just that their fathers have the same name.

You are right in that they are actually a surname, and that they are also a function of who you were born to, but the propagation rule means that they are a much poorer metric for blood relations.
Okay, I'm not knocking Simple... they did a really good job and have been a competitor to look to. But I work for a major US bank -- actually, forget the anonymity I work for Capital One; Forbes[1] called us the 9th largest US bank but it all depends on how you measure it -- and the features you say cannot be found anywhere else are part of our standard offering for all customers.

For instance, you can sign up for a "360 Checking Account".[2] The account is free(no fees), and it has no minimum balance. You wanted the ability to "link other bank accounts and push/pull money at will": you can link up to 3 other bank accounts held in your name at other US banks and freely (in both senses of the word) push or pull money between them using ACH (which will take a few days to clear).

You asked for "immediate push notifications when charges hit". The same account offers a debit/credit card and you can set a (configurable) minimum threshold and receive a notification by your choice of email or text message for any transactions over that amount. Set the minimum to $1 and you will get notified for all transactions.

You asked for "free incoming wire transfers". This same account DOES charge a fee if you send a wire (and it is not a normally available feature), but receiving wires is free. That doesn't guarantee that "some mysterious fee [won't be] taken out" if someone else like the sending bank takes it, but WE won't charge you.

And at the same time, you get a checking account with (free) bill pay, a huge network of (free) ATMs, and you even get paid interest on your balance.

None of this is all that special. Sure, they are good practices, and not every bank offers them but there ARE some major players in the industry besides startups like Simple that are focused on offering a good product for their customers.

Standard disclaimer: I clearly have a bias here since I happen to work for Capital One. Also I am not authorized to make public statements for them; I am merely summing up the facts you can read about on the linked web page. Or call our customer service line to confirm these details.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eehd45egjjk/9-capital-one-fin...
[2] https://home.capitalone360.com/online-checking-account
... and AdBlockPlus developers closed the issue. One of the reasons given: "missing features [of HTTPSB] are an issue [...] (filter groups, hit statistics etc.)". One of their devs adds "They don't support element hiding, which is one of the main causes for the high memory consumption when using Adblock Plus. Neither do they support popup blocking. [...] [T]here still might be some parts where we can learn from HTTPSB. But the main reason that it is faster and uses less memory is that HTTPSB is less powerful."
I found a cool project called org-page that looks pretty good. https://github.com/kelvinh/org-page

I have some concerns about its architecture in that it's too integrated with git repositories, but it looks like a great place to start from.
This is slowly changing with cheap VPNs primarily marketed at torrent users, but needs to up the pace of change to really be effective.
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DNS tunneling is essentially unblockable if implemented well, but slow due to the large overhead.
Doesn't block them here.
Agile UX vs. Lean UX, which should you choose?
The arrival of “Agile UX”, and soon after “Lean UX”, caused me a little more confusion than usual: both terms suggest a strong relationship of design with the overall process of product development—which I absolutely admire; both tend to focus on making design faster; both fit into the broad vision of new user experience design tools. But…what’s the difference between between Agile UX and Lean UX? In everyday tech conversation, most people use these two terms interchangeably. Why then do we have two terms if they’re both referring to the same thing?
The DoD et alia are very conservative about launches; SpaceX would need at a bare minimum 5 "recycled" launches before they bought any, most likely more, as they don't have any previous experience buying quick turn around launches. Their closest analogous experience would be the space shuttle, but that typically went for a full head to toe check and refurbishment between launches.

5+ certified quick turn around launches would be at least several years away.
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> What matters is if this person can produce evidence of novel knowledge.

Except that in most cases you can't distinguish novel knowledge from made-up bullshit with real certainty. If you could, you wouldn't have to torture them. And don't bother dredging up contrived ticking-bomb scenarios where it's different - yes, they exist, but they are anything but common and even then often not clear cut.

And that's not even touching on the fact that you almost never have 100% certainty that the suspect actually knows what you want them to tell you at all.

> And of course even if someone delivered information in a non-tortuous interrogation, any government would fact-check.

No. Most of them wouldn't, when they've just been told what they wanted to hear. Or (worst but common case) they'll fact-check by arresting the people the victim just named and torturing them as well.

> I also don't believe it's very easy to confuse someone's existing memories.

Your belief is utterly wrong. Read the goddamn article. And that wasn't even using physical torture. Heck, people's memory often enough get confused all of their own. People suck at remembering events clearly.

> These world governments no doubt have data on varying techniques of torture, and I have no doubt there has been a very long race, begun awhile ago, to map out the theory of torture, and I think it is a bit preliminary to say that torture doesn't work until we get a hold of some systematically collected data.

Hopefully that will never happen (it pretty definitely hasn't happend so far; some of the Nazi medical experiments may have come close but had a different focus), the consensus among people with actual experience seems to be clear: intel gained through torture is of worse quality than that gained through other interrogation techniques, and employing torture has many negative effects on your own side.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/05/interrogation-experts-f...
Company wide IRC type chat with several non-business chat channels to socialise in (eg. Tech, Food, Fun, Sport). Can use an IRC server, jabber/XMPP or Hipchat for this.

Plus regular real world trips to meet/connect with the people you work with, and an active social life outside work.

It of course helps if you're the kind of person that likes solitude.
A company can be bought for anything really, if it makes sense.

As shubb points out, if it's cheaper to buy a company than to deal with licensing or legal problems, then it might be bought. Same if the overhead of dealing with a company as an external entity is too high compared to buying it outright and forcing it to come in-house (if the product or service isn't of any need after some time, the employees can still be shuffled in the org afterward)
It's a brute-force linear search. _gethtent() returns one line from the hosts file at a time, the loop itself is in _gethtbyname2(). It opens and parses the hosts file every single time. If I were asked to improve this, I'd probably open and parse the file only once, reparsing when the file's been updated, maybe use an on-disk cache file. Second change would be to use a hash table. I don't think anything as sophisticated as a Bloom filter is necessary unless you have truly huge hosts files.

Since gethnamaddr.c appears to be BSD-licensed I'm willing to bet that 99% of all OSs out there (including Windows) are going to have similar if not identical code.
This looks neat.

The common hangup I have with these sorts of things though, is what's the most reasonable way to host the data? IANAL, but AFAICT I'm prohibited from running something like this from my residence because my ISP (Verizon) says I can't run servers or dedicated services from my home connection. So OK, I'll go ahead and run it on a DO or EC2 or Linode instance - well, provided I feel like massively overproisioning and thus paying inordinately for ample storage (what if I have terabytes of media?), or dealing with slow connections mounting/proxying to S3 (for example). On top of that, for anyone who has media they did not acquire legally, they are now breaking (more?) laws, hosting agreements, etc.

Just curious to see how anyone else manages it - because LAN XBMC/UMS/PS3 etc is always great, but if I want something more available, like this, or a private Roku channel, etc, it seems less of a real option the more that I consider it.
They altered the virus to kill cancer cells instead of kids which is what measles does by the truckload in Pakistan and India :/
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What about my @etu.u-bordeaux.fr ? I'd gladly tell the other students in my cryptography master.
Great question. I've wondered the same thing for bacterial infections. Wouldn't it lower the risk of resistant bacteria developing to always use two different types of anti-biotics, so in case a few bacteria develop a resistance to one, they're still killed by the other.
The end of Bitcoin volatility
Hi HN!

I've been reading and learning from all of you for the past three years. I finally have something to share, a project I've been leading for the past year.

We address btc volatility by allowing our members to convert bitcoin to the bit-form of money they use every day--bitdollars, biteuros, bityuan, etc.

You can sign up for an invite to our Beta at www.bitreserve.org

Here's a story about it: http://bitcoinowl.com/new-company-bitreserve-protects-against-bitcoin-price-volatility

We announce today and I wanted to let you all know about it and thank you for your inspiring enthusiasm, creativity, and hacking chops.

You have an amazing community in HN and I hope it continues thriving for a long time.

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You need to hack this album to listen to it
Which is the best free antivirus software for windows 8 2014?
In ZSH, you can

setopt autopushd

to have cd work like pushd.

And

setopt pushdignoredups

is probably helpful too as it will not push the same directory multiple times on the stack.
As I read it, in this case it's a specially modified version of measles that's used, not "vanilla" measles. Interestingly, the washington post write up also suggests that if the user had resistance to measles, another virus would have to be used.
Article link should be to here: http://www.mi.com/mitv

This article is linking to a 2K tv:

From main page:
"Mi TV is virtually frameless. We use one of the best panels from Samsung and LG to create a 47” 1920x1080 Full HD television with a super slim profile and an 8.4mm frame"

From specs page:
"Size47"
Resolution1920×1080(1080P)"

Maybe $640 is a great deal for an android TV with all these features? I don't really know, but it's a very different thing from a $640 4k TV, like the Seiki.
All sorts of VPS providers to choose from; main issue is that most 'budget' plans will be 100mbit.
There are a lot of screenshots on the frontpage, i think that doesn't really help with the HN requests ;)
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> Last I checked number of transactions per day was decreasing.

Are you looking day to day trends? Because if you step back a little you'll see that transactions have done nothing but increase.
Why do you think that having a visual interface will make it easier to experiment with your workflow?

This is a genuine question - personally, i find command line interfaces to be far more hackable than graphical ones, so i would expect the opposite to be true, and hence i'm interested in your perspective.
Ooh, a manag!

Eh. Can someone please fix that glaring error? Thanks.
Humans fascination with fellow animals – an evolutionary hangover?
The alternative is anarchy. Communists like to say that anarchy would be happy rainbows and sharing, but the closest nations we have to it are mostly in Africa, and more resemble feudal warlords than a utopian society.
The robot demo was nice but it took out the browser.. visually scrambled everything.

Maybe needs a warning label for slightly older systems.
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I liked this phrase: "It's important to keep mind that the arrival of AI will not be any more or any less disruptive than the arrival of indoor plumbing, vaccines, the car, air travel, the television, the computer, the internet, etc."
http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_...
PoS = Proof of Stake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake
Right here, in the parent:

> you can own the file, but not the intellectual property it represents. So legally nothing is wrong with buying digital goods (files), while the intellectual property they hold is only licensed to you (and not sold)

He makes references between books the paper and books the print. My point is that while that distinction holds in digital space, nobody actually believes it.
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It seems more likely that simply dying before getting old enough to develop cancer is the reason there was less incidence of cancer centuries ago.
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Simple thoughts on how Bitcoin is the most productive currency invented, being built and will always be built on.
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Quicksilver is similar to Alfred in intent and quite featureful/customizable. It is open source. https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver
That's a different display. Look on the tech specs page for the chinese one: http://www.mi.com/mitv#params and compare it to the OP: http://www.mi.com/en/mitv#fullspecs

For example, the CPUs are different, one's a snapdragon 1.7GHz, the other is a Cortex A9, 1.4GHz. (Different GPUs too.)

Not to mention one explicitly says it's 1920x1080, while the other is "4K".
Alibaba took off long before Mayer arrived. Regardless of financial improvements, the products have seen more innovation than the previous 10 years. I now have 3 Yahoo apps on my phone! Some improvements have been for the better, some for the worse, but she seems to have at least broken the "do nothing" attitude at Yahoo previously.
I used `say` to read out the cricket scores from a screenscraping bot whilst the TV (which was the radio at the time) was in use for games. Not quite TMS but it had a certain charm.
These are 10 Master engineers who are finishing this May their Tech Master in Chicago and they are looking for a job in a startup. They are all Spaniards who have done the same studies like myself (Computer Science in Madrid, and Master in Chicago). They have a 28 month visa so they have no problem of visas. They can start tomorrow.

You can find their info here http://spaniardengineers.com/

I know several of them, and they are good, very proactive and they learn quickly because that's what we have been educated for. You may want to contact them. One of them have just been hired by Amazon (she also had a Google offer).

On the website you can see that the people who do both studies end up doing good things :)

Good luck all of you!
A billion Android devices. That's truly remarkable.
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> To ignore errors in Go you need to explicitly ignore them because most functions return error.

What. If user has to write something explicitly, then it's not a default. That's pretty much the definition of "default".

Or else, C has garbage collection, you just have to write it (and you explicitly ignore proper memory management by not writing it).
Different display completely than the one linked here.
Homebrew is the new hotness. I'm not entirely sure how it's been able to so quickly eclipse Macports, but having used both, I Homebrew tends to stay more out of my way and be friendlier with the stuff I want to use. Maybe that's how, I suppose.
Article only mentions that learning to teach the common core addition/division/multiplication/subtraction is as difficult as 'learning' calculus.

I'm sure that the current common core level for math ends around Trigonometry.
It is not a silly question. We can put it through the paces.
The question you are getting at is, "Did measles evolve to keep cancer at bay?" Or stated in another way, "Did it evolve because it was keeping cancer at bay?" The 2nd question is more attuned to our understanding of evolution.

For this to be the case, cancer must have been killing a significant number of people before they reached the reproductive age. However, we know cancer rears it's face well passed people have reached reproductive age. For women, breast cancer the most common of them all becomes rampant post-menopause.

With this view point, it seems unlikely that measles was an evolved response to cancer. Because, this has been a hand waving argument it has not addressed the ratios required for an evolutionary response, i.e Is it possible that cancer was killing enough (however small) prepubescents and that gave measles a chance to evolve?

Or, could it be that there was a way milder measles like virus that people acquired (like the common cold virus) and lived with henceforth and that protected them from cancer?

There are many interesting questions that come up.
You're right. There's a number "2" after the name of the TV in Chinese. Maybe the Chinese site is the second generation Mi TV.
Hello again and thanks for your responses, I have been analyzing the server performance and checked logs for when CPU peaks and I know now, as I previously stated, that the issue is when that particular plugin (Traffic Commando) runs.

I have been analyzing its code and it's not optimized at all (not that I was surprised when I found out), it seems to not have any kind of limitant on how many posts it creates on the wordpress site (it creates posts to the DB) and it hogs up all resources.
I have convinced my friend/client that the best way is to avoid using that plugin for now until it is optimized (by me, obviously... sigh), and it seems like we will start using some kind of caching system as well as CDNs to leverage the toll the sites take with traffic (I'm not really worried about that).

All in all, I guess it'll come up as a total rewrite of the plugin he is using and implementing a caching system along with a CDN system for static files as suggested in your comments.

Thanks a lot again for all your help!