skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blizzard added a function to get around this, in response to this sort of chat-tunneling: SendAddonMessage [1]

It stops the drunk text-transform, and also doesn't have to worry about hiding the text from the channel you're trying to talk into.

Overall, Blizzard has been very good about adapting to what their addon community is trying to do. They add official support for hacks if they like what the addon does for the game, and deliberately break some if they don't like its effect.

[1]: http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SendAddonMessage
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Yes, my battery is pretty clearly beyond physics.

It should be possible in theory to match the energy density of gasoline. You'd need to come up with a battery chemistry which takes in oxygen when it discharges and produces oxygen when it charges. Effectively, reversible combustion (or fuel cells). It's a tough problem but I don't think there's anything that fundamentally prevents it in theory.

Going much beyond it probably requires a nuclear process. You can store energy in certain isotopes by bombarding them with x-rays or gamma rays of a precise frequency. Stored energy can then be released with a similar process. In theory, it's possible to build a battery that uses this approach. In practice... to call it a difficult engineering problem would be a severe understatement.
It's because I wasn't comparing public transportation to driving in San Francisco. Just driving on a regular highway. Given that railway systems don't need to deal with traffic, there really isn't any excuse for it to slower than driving ever. Even with multiple stops.
What blocked you guys (if you can say)?

If I can give any tips, whenever I'm questioning if a feature is going to get called out when I submit an app, I always fill that "info for reviewer" section with tons of stuff. Explanations, links to docs & legal to show that I'm not doing anything against the law/rules.
> Some businesses are not possible without a large capital injection.

That's about the only reason to raise VC money. If it's a high-growth rocket ship, it's better to take money from expansion stage investors that don't look for control.

> There are many VCs out there that provide a tremendous amount of value outside of their capital.

This is simply not true. If you're a high-flying company, you can do much of this on your own anyway. If you're not, good luck getting your calls returned from your investor. I have seen a HBS survey that said only about 11% of founders said their investors provided more value than the money.

> Just handing money to young/poor talent typically wouldn't generate a return.

On the contrary, the data (Microsoft, Google, Facebook,…) demonstrate that inexperienced talent makes the outliers if they can stay in control. Poor talent won't build a company to a fundable milestone anyways. This surfaces the absolutely incorrect condescension at the heart of the VC mindset.

> VCs don't solely exist to hand out executive jobs at their portfolio companies.

True, but they do place their buddies in positions of control so that they can exit a company when they want to. This is likely the predominant reason they generally change CEOs, though the partly line is less self-serving. Note that this excludes the better firms like AH, etc.

> We're at a point where so many folks have such a gross misunderstanding of venture capital. Even people that have raised it.

No, we're at a point where everyone has better information about the value of VCs. People who have raised used to talk about this privately, but now it's public knowledge. It's a new era.
The Vic also had a mode whereby you could make "double height" characters (halving the number of addressable rows), so when you typed "a", it would emit (iirc):

a
b

and when you typed "b", it would emit:

c
d

When I was about 8, I fooled with this peeking and poking pixels so that "a" and "b" bitmaps where the top and bottom halves of a double-height "a", through to the end of the alphabet. I imagined that this would make it easy for my grandparents to use computers. Never mind that they couldn't type, had no interest, and would never remember commands like "load $,8,1".

edit: formatting
This counts as trolling, and we take away submission privileges from accounts that do it.
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With german sites it does not work so well. There is no blacklist for to generic terms for other languages than english?
Exactly, my point is that the slow/fast phraseology is the wrong phrasing fight altogether. Whenever someone counters "fast lane" with "slow lane" they are promoting the premise that the issue is 'just' about the speed of the connections.

While I care about connection speed, it's not the critical issue at the core of net neutrality. The issue is that the ISPs can choose discriminatory speeds based on any criteria they like, including censorship. And because they are known monopoly abusers, this is an especially critical issue. slow/fast ignores it entirely. It's possible this is deliberate strategy on their part, instead of just a simple marketing attempt.

I propose we take the phraseology debate to them, and use phrases like "ISP discrimination lane".
Your argument is that the economic planners of 40 years ago didn't expect this increase in longevity. They knew of course that people were living longer. Do you have any evidence which might suggest that they significantly underestimated the increase?

For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_at_Birth_b... shows a pretty linear growth.

Assuming retirement at about age 60, http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html says white males in the 1950s had 16 years of life expectancy, and it's 22 years now. Not only is the trend increasing at a relatively constant rate, but living "longer post retirement than you spent working in these kind of jobs" appears to be relatively uncommon. Most people spend about 40-45 years working, and about 1/2 that more on pension.

Unless you can point to some really firm numbers, I think you are incorrectly underestimating the expertise of the actuaries of decades ago.
Word. You're welcome - it looks like an interesting idea for a tool, I just don't have a use for it at the moment :) I'll keep an eye on it. My curiosity is definitely there, if the gamification bit gets fleshed out more (and if you weren't so adamant about no PR reviews ;) ).
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How about a full-electric car - 100% co2 reduction. Why make this car, with its dual power systems. When on gas, its lugging the electrics around - has to hurt gas mileage. The electrics have to lug the gas engine around. All for 15% reduction, when 100% reduction was possible. Why do it? Because its some profit point for the manufacturer.
Darn it. That should be Ilya Grigorik's article here: https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...
We don't know anything about the popularity of these tools in the Java community. This is not a random sample of Java developers. It's a self selected group of people who took part in a survey conducted by a Java tools vendor.
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I made a poor choice when my kids were young. I got so used to not being there, working full time while going to school, that, when school ended, I didn't stop "not being there". Whether it was working late hours or traveling a lot, I missed a lot, and I do regret it.

My kids are all teens moving into 20s now. I work a job whose primary feature is working at home (the job is fine, but I do it to be home) so I can soak up some last time with them before they are out of the house. I now get to hear about crushes and new-found independence.

But, if I could do it again, I wouldn't make the mistake. There is time for all the things after your kids are older. If you are in a situation where you have to be gone to provide a roof, and there is no other way, have no guilt; but if you have the option, your future self and your kids will thank you for being there.
Radix sort, its runtime is O(d * n) where d is the number of digits and n is the number of numbers being sorted. So for practical purposes d could become a constant in a given implementation. Compare that to other efficient algorithms (like merge sort) that are O(n log(n)). The constant could, below a certain input size, be larger than log(n).
Thank you for giving the statement some context rather than just down voting.
What you feel is interesting, but not the point. What you spend in engineering time setting up this machine is cost to your employer. Not doing it is savings.

Balanced against a feeling of productivity?
It seems really odd that games like GTA can exist on the app store and not this... Apple's rules are infuriating enough without them applying them inconsistently.
But what if both are drunk?!
Just convenience, I think. Auto-updating rather than re-cloning and dragging files back into your project. This is fraught, of course.

CocoaPods also functions as a discovery engine. The experience is very unpolished, but it will surface the code that other people have written with the explicit intention of offering as a library to other people. Which is a subset of "code other people have released on github", obviously.

I'm a skeptic too. I've played with it, but requiring a couple dozen additional ruby gems and editing my Xcode project files underneath me creeps me out, so I won't use it for personal or client work.

I've been hired into existing projects that used it though, and it works fine as long as you manage it as a glorified drag-n-drop. You can blow yourself up if you trust it like a vendor-approved auto-upgrade mechanism. That's as much a factor of the ecosystem as the tool, and I hope Pods and Pod authors will coalesce around a level of maturity that's useful in shipping code environments.
I don't consider this an "MVP" for a running app. The market is too far along, and I think this lacks a certain kernel of innovation that would set it apart in spite of lacking features.

It has a nice, kind of Yahoo-weather like feel to the app. For a commercial success, I think the app does not even embody 1% of the necessary work:

* Without some sort of web+mobile experience, you are way behind everyone else that is established in the space (runkeeper, runtastic, strava, mapmyrun).

* The competitors are well-funded and start-uppy - so, even as you perhaps start to add necessary features like route-making, elevation-correction, etc - they will still be innovating and making new stuff.

* You integrated with Pebble, but the other hardware in the space probably makes more sense (like heart rate watches), so that's more work. Or nutritional stuff like MyFitnessPal.

For the marketing, I'd say:

* The app ends up being a demo because of the restriction on number of runs, while the competitors offer something fully functional, including Vima's paid features, for free. Is this going to work?

* The name is probably bad - take it from the guy who likes greek mythology for names. If it's a running app, you might as well say so. Runtastic, Runkeeper, MapMyRun - there's a theme here.

* I don't see any way I can join the community, so Vima can email me later and follow up to see why I'm not using the app after I downloaded it.

I've thought about making a fitness app, and I have some infrastructure such that I can get to market with a more feature-complete product than Vima, in just a few weeks. It's a big brawl to walk into though.
it looks like it actually transforms the message too, not just adds "..hic"
The addon should send a checksum so the receiving end can detect any unexpected changes. Also, the addon should just avoid sending when the character is drunk.
And they don't block that after a while?

How does iHackerNews show all the comments and everything?

Where are these RSS feeds? I doubt that's how "the pros" so it.
The Target compromise wasn't a minor pain for everyone. A friend's bank reissued her credit card. Which caused a payment she had made to Time Warner fail. She was also in the middle of moving, which caused even more headache and a potential hit on her credit for late payment, because apparently Time Warner doesn't even attempt to notify you if your payment fails.
Wow. My first thought was "eh, mildly interesting." Then I saw it adjust and move and it instantly clicked how ingenious this really is.
Add a checksum that the client uses the validate the message.
Unfortunately, the Internet is very difficult to analogize to anything else. Bandwidth is not an exhaustible resource, so it's not comparable to power or water. Throughput can be increased without modifying the medium just by replacing equipment in a few locations, so it's not like roads or railways.

This makes it difficult to reason about the Internet without direct knowledge of its distinguishing characteristics, thus making it easy for entrenched interests to sway legislators and the public. We need to convince people that the Internet is special, that we need to think carefully about how we run it, and that we can't lazily shove its square peg into the round holes of ill-fitting analogies.
Think about the client point of view. It is much better to return "401 Unauthorized" or some other reason rather than 500 .

i would do a case on db:find and proceed to check password if you get user or fail with 401 and same with password case and if its correct go on and if not 401 :)
Well, it is.. on geological timescales. And with sudden flips at that. The record is in the orientation of suitable partices at the divergent plate boundaries ('frozen' like that when the lava cooled), which also is an indicator for ocean floor spreading and plate tectonics. It's pretty awesome, actually. But as the sibling comment says, in addition to being slow it's far too weak as well.

edit: Here's an image, because it's so awesome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine%E2%80%93Matthews%E2%80%93M...
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> The main problem with the argument is that our body does a great job of fixing errors - so why does that process suddenly seem to stop? Why not just keep on fixing errors. If you can fix errors for 40 years why stop there? Why does the process suddenly stop at that age?

Because then you compete for resources with your offspring and limit the chances of passing on your genetic code.
It could exploit the earth's motion through the interplanetary magnetic field[0] to charge your batteries... reeeeeeaaaally... sloooooowly.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_magnetic_field
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The character could possibly become drunk immediately after sending the "I am not drunk" message, so you'd need to check if the character was still not drunk after sending the FriendNet messages. But assuming that drunkenness lasts much longer than it takes to send the FriendNet messages, you could be sure that if the character was not drunk before and after, then the messages in between were also valid.
Eucalyptus Systems makes an open source version of a subset of AWS-compatible services:

https://www.eucalyptus.com/
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Automate the iOS build/test/deploy cycle with Distiller and Hockey
I have no idea why this took off. I just thought I'd try and re-post it as I really like goread.io and the blogpost. I don't think the submitter matters. Maybe a little if people see that it's self promotion. But there is plenty self-promotion on the front page. More of a timing and luck thing I think.
congratulations bo, jon and team!
It's simple: pick the language that has the most intense energy/vibe around it. You will benefit from being at the front line of innovation and have the help of an enthusiastic community to back you up.

It's Javascript and Node.
Actually I do recall meeting some people in one "tourist's destination" place who answered "we're from San Francisco" to "where are you guys from?" and then later specified they from bay area not far from SF (I myself live in SF). It's a matter of convenience I guess, when you are in the place with plenty of people from different regions it will quickly give an idea what part of US you're from without going into detailed explanations when not necessary.
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Patent reform is dead in the Senate
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patio11 / others, do you know of any specific annuities (that you can link to) that would guarantee ~$80,000 a year for $1 million? I would be strongly interested in following them.
Very interesting.

I have been doing some research towards automatic tagging lately, and I found several Python project coming close to this goal : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/topia.termextract/ , https://github.com/aneesha/RAKE , https://github.com/ednapiranha/auto-tagify

but none of them is satisfying, whereas Algorithmic Tagging of HN looks pretty good.

I have been trying to implement a similar feature for http://reSRC.io, to automagically tag articles for easy retrieval through the tag search engine.
Who will help the noob get security right on his new server?
Who will help the noob get security right on his new server?
I just spent some time reading this link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093
But wow, most of it is over my head. Can anyone get me started with the very first thing do do after logging in for the first time. This is Ubuntu 14.04, and any help with the actual commands to run and some explanation as to why to run it would be really nice!
Ultimately, I want to set up SSH so I can manage the server remotely if needed. I'd like to know when anyone ever connects to the server in any way. I'd like to know that the stuff I install on the server doesn't have anything yucky in it. I think this has something to do with md5 checksums, and on Ubuntu this would have something to do with debsums. Anyway, thanks!
same here- once or twice a year, for probably the last 12 or 15 years, I'll google him to see what he's up to (it'll always be LoseThos to me :) ). About 6 months ago the stuff I came across got me worried for his well being- having had a family member suffer terribly from schizophrenia it's hard for me to see that kind of behavior as just wacky, and I hate to see anybody suffering in that way. I think a lot of people who jump on him about the religion are probably unaware of the mental illness.
I started with Nikola because of familiarity. I use the Python-centric Sphinx tool for documentation in all my work and personal projects. The primary author of Nikola also wrote rst2pdf which integrates into Sphinx if you also want to build your doc as pdf.

Nikola takes the same approach as Sphinx - for example defaulting to rst content and using conf.py for configuration. It also has reasonably complete functionality like blog posts, regular pages, arbitrary content, galleries, comment system integration etc.

Unfortunately the engineering choices over incremental builds as well as some others (eg choosing javascript/lightbox plugin that doesn't support swiping on mobile even though I pointed to one that worked exceptionally well) means I am on the lookout for an alternative. Worst case I'll probably write something that uses the Nikola file structure but makes better choices.

BTW I used Google+ for a while until they frustrated me by making it harder and harder to actually read content, plus not supporting things like RSS feeds and killing Reader. http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/all-change.html
But if the reciever echoes "sho" (drunken "so") that would just be "sho" again wouldn't it?
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got your email will be responding later today. We enable automated tagging for any site directly from our API no need to implement anything else.
Netflix also must contend with the fact that French audiovisual laws require local broadcasters to invest significant sums in domestic content. However, Les Echos newspaper has suggested Netflix might get around this by basing the service in Luxembourg.

Actually Netflix is already based in Luxembourg for its European activities and there have been news that they're going to move to Netherlands:
http://www.wort.lu/en/business/move-to-the-netherlands-netfl...
That's different. It doesn't really matter anymore, as we have already implemented "external authoring", but still, if you look on how Habrahabr publishes translations - you will see that they put a small 9px link to an author. 9px ??! it's super small. In addition, I found a lot of translations of those articles into different languages around the web and it seems no one cares. But once again, it doesn't matter anymore, as most of the work is done and we'll add all the links today. Just sayin'.
I use this to try to show people what I mean by "correlation is not causation"

http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-betw...
Hahaha, nothing crazy. I work at a national lab. I'm like a hybrid policy analyst/economist/environmental scientist/programmer focused on energy.

There are definitely people at this lab and presumably next door at the Y-12 complex for whom this level of security is more relevant.
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I wonder if anything has changed in the more than ten years since Penn and Teller covered the economics of recycling for an entertainment show on Showtime?

ADDENDUM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7779102
Spam from Seeking Freelancer posts
I recently posted two different opportunities, under two different usernames in the May seeking freelancer post.

This morning (actually, about 10 mins ago), I received spam from ThinkApps pitching their product. It wasn't specific about the opportunities I pitched, and was actually the same exact email, sent to two different domains.

Just FYI. I'm all about good BD, and this is the opposite. Michael L - I'd suggest trying a different tactic to gain business next time.
Field and Stream. Canoeing is a diversion, for sure, but not a diversion of the field.

The problem I have with simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain" is precisely with the word "simply". What McPhee wrote suggests that a "rite of oneness with certain terrain" is somehow lesser, simpler, less rich, than getting efficiently from A to B. Whereas, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

In other words: I'm agreeing with you that it can be a near religious experience, and I'm saying that for that very reason McPhee's description seems to me to be tone-deaf. "X has become simply Y", to me, suggests that X used to be something more interesting but has (so to speak) come down in the world.