skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments at The Register are rather good, and point out this is a rehash of a known Wikipedia article (I knew that, but it's still worthwhile).

But this comment was a nice cherry on top:

"Not just german and not just math

Reminds me of France declaring Mendeleev (the periodic table guy) persona non-grata 100+ years ago. He guessed correctly that their super-secret advanced smokeless gunpowder is indeed trinitrocellulose by counting the railway wagons with cotton, sulphuric asid and potash going into the plants.

He also quite correctly predicted that it will all end up in tears (due to degradation of higly nitrated and non-inhibited cellulose over time). And indeed it did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Libert%C3%A9
"

[http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/2192208, by Voland's right hand]
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Yes, the author is pretty off-the-mark and I would say misleading. Here are some scenarios worked out with www.numbercanvas.com

Early Retirement, Average Lifespan: $1 million

Early Retirement, Long Lifespan: $1.5 million

Average Retirement, Long Lifespan: $1.25 million

Average Retirement, Average Lifespan: $650,000

Early Retirement, Short Lifespan: $480,000

http://pastebin.com/QU5dnCe8
Poetry is just an example. What really matters is to "feel" in a different language, be it reading poems, enjoying novels, laughing at jokes, watching movies, having an interesting conversation, interpreting other people's emotion...
That people with a mental illness can do stuff too? They use computers just like 'we' do? They can actually write OS' so it might be interesting to see what he uses to get his stuff done?

I'm actually a bit underwhelmed since I'm more interested in the actual tools he uses to build TempleOS.
Minimalist toolkit
Horizontal scrolling on a desktop is FAIL.

I also hate the way results have no apparent division between them, not even a prominent title; it makes them all blur together when I am scanning the page.
you do realize that the workers negotiated a pension with the city in exchange for lower salaries during the years in which they work, right? This pension is their retirement savings.

The city's benefit is that they don't have to pay as high salary as they otherwise would (without a pension); that means the city can take the money they save on salary each year, invest it, and hopefully get a high enough return that they save money compared to paying a full salary without the pension. Essentially, the city wants to borrow money from the workers at A% interest and then go invest it (maybe in itself, maybe in more traditional investments) and hopefully get an ROI of B%, where B > A.

The workers' benefit is that they get a "guaranteed" retirement fund (ie less risk) that they don't have to manage or worry about and depending on the circumstances, a higher total compensation than they would without the pension (ie the city pays them interest for essentially loaning the city money) (ie better returns).

If the city's investments of the saved salary money returns more than what is needed to fund the pensions, the city gets to keep that extra money.
I had the same problem with the choppy ThinkPad (Yoga) trackpad. It's very easily fixed.
http://fully-faltoo.com/2013/07/20/lenovo-touchpad/
Sure it is. He gets respect and tolerance from the people who know his situation. He's been dealt a bad hand, but he's one of us!
The problem evoked here is for your institution at which you work, to know that their researchers are not changing the data afterwards and following best practices. In this scheme, the user would submit the hashes to a central server controlled by the institution. Then, the user have no way of changing the content without them knowing.

And yes, you would need to add some authentication to know it's always the same user, but that's a different, orthogonal issue.

For actual proof e.g. in court, you'd need a third party with a private key used to sign the content. A little more involved... But the main point of that would be patent litigation, and with the new 'first to file' rule in the US, it is much less relevant.
Wish they'd add pronunciation to their definitions https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+duck
There is some analogy here with bubble memory (though that moved around physical material rather than just set up a wave).

I wonder what the minimum spacing of such waves would be, how this would compare with current estimates on the upper bounds of density for silicon and if material fatigue factors into this somehow. I can't imagine such a system to be very stable mechanically.
I think we love to think that. Developers care about the 'how'. Most of the users, sadly, don't.

And –to be perfectly honest– most developers will sell their service/product with the client data should a big fat offer come along.
Ask HN – What payment services auto-distribute for collaborative works?
If a team of people want to create and sell a product online , is there a payment gateway that will not only handle the transactions but automatically distribute the money to each member of the team based on whatever percentage everyone agreed upon? I'm basically looking for something dead simple like Gumroad that will do the diving up of each purchase and send each member their respective percentage. Light and simple are the key words here.

Thank you.
I've been waiting for this app for a very long time, delighted to spend £2.49 to test it out. Impressed to read here that develop is only 17; well done!
It's a straw man to suggest that putting in the effort to update a fancy menu would have had so much impact that the product would have been ruined. But I think I misread your clause about 'disjointed' at first.
Preferably power of 2. Get rid of 6 of them ;)
The fact that we need some mechanism doesn't mean that any mechanism that "just works" is justifiable.

The problem is more at the root, and it's in the fact that the political system in (ahem) some countries is creating a perverse social and occupational structure.

With a certain amount of money, we can have the following system (in simplified version):
- person 1 builds a jail
- person 2 arrests people 3,4 and 5, for possibly trivial reasons
- person 6 mantains #3,4,5 in the jail, for an excessive amount of time

Or this alternative:
- person 2,6 teach primary and seconday education
- person 3,4,5 get a sufficient education and have an adequate blue collar life, maybe even white collar
- person 1 gets chained at the bottom of the ocean for attempting to corrupt the political system

The problem is that when in a society, crime becomes a business, the first case is what you get.
This is close to what Britain has. The last mile infrastructure is owned by BT, who used to be a US-style monopoly, and now they have to give access to their infrastructure to the other ISPs. Unfortunately, quality is restricted by the fees BT charge being too high, and their general woeful underinvestment into much of their network. Having the last mile infrastructure be nationally owned would be a far better idea.
That reminded me of "LoseThos". It would have been an interesting coincidence if multiple people were asked by God to create a 64-bit OS, but it is the same guy; he renamed it into TempleOS.
He said the problem was "legacy PS/2 keyboard/mouse emulation", that's why he can't run TempleOS natively. The Secure-Boot reference is more related to dual-booting I think.
I use "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe. It's 45 minutes of barbell training 3 times a week and lots of dairy products.

I've been at it for 2 years and squat 85kg and bench 65kg (3 sets, 5 repetitions). I obviously haven't become a competitive powerlifter but not bad for a nerd who never gets off the couch otherwise. Never got hurt either.

I've been told with more muscle you can keep your eating habits and not get fat; it seems to be true. I cut potato chips and sugary soft drinks but kept burgers, pizza and beer. Works fine.
Exactly what happened in France circa 2000. France Telecom the national operator was forced to maintain the last mile and open to other ISP at the city exchange.
This has allowed newcomers like Free (Free ISP), to disrupt the high speed internet market both in costs and speeds.
It seems that telecom is one area where laissez-faire leads to less competition, and worse offers for potential customers.
Why psychopaths are more successful
Thanks for the feedback! Nice idea about printing. The export will be here very soon, it simply did not make the cut for 1.0 because it needs more testing.

Yes, the 'first to file' thing is still new enough that many scientists still think it is useful to sign their notebooks for that purpose. There are still subtleties to those rules, though, that we need to investigate a bit.
Yesterday's article was more helpful:
https://speakerdeck.com/ange/when-aes-equals-episode-v
I'd like to see how Jason Cohen (the founder, according to wpengine.com) will explain that. It's him in the 5th video. http://www.microconf.com/videos-2013.html
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Yeah. It's a neat fit.

Every time I re-read that article I start seeing sociopaths and losers and 'HIWTYL machinations' everywhere. It's like a 16 year old reading Marx or Ayn Rand seeing reactionaries & class consciousness (or government looters and self righteous moochers) everywhere.

Borderline embarrassing.
Thank you for sharing this video.

There's an Alpha workstation in my closet, waiting to have OpenGenera installed...
We do plan to allow syncing to a local network drive, if that can work. The idea is that it will be file-based, and can leverage Dropbox, Google Drive or... a local networked drive. Still working on it, though! See PARStore on github for some of the basic ideas, as this is what we use for document storage.
IoT is a really unsettling prospect. I was expecting a text dealing with this, but alas, mostly click-bait. the text is superficial ideological bickering which takes IoT for granted. IoT is simply here, it seems. the text deals only with what kind of IoT you should like.

it's only a question, as one commenter here put it, of our psychological adaptation to it. like cows in a super-high-tech milking farm, we should adapt to being monitored and analyzed by devices 24/7. furthermore, according to the text here, the most important aspect of this might just be the need to centralize all the collected data! crazy.

not to mention, i still haven't seen anything other than gimmicks and empty talk about ubiquitous devices. which devices? what is the actual use here? you can change your thermostat temperature before getting home? good going for Nest and their product, it certainly seems useful, but there is no revolution here, other than perhaps a completely revolutionary loss in privacy.

and BTW it all sounds like some kind of bubble. like the need to find a way to sell more new stuff has recently gone into over-hype.
There was no canary. The system was the canary. Although, almost certainly not by design.
Is it possible to include switches in traceroute hops?
> this article should have waited for the results.

"Publish early, publish often" ? You know how the biz works ;-)

Not that, as a reader, I disagree. Thanks for the outline.
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Lua over Nginx (aka. Openresty) tempts me, Lapis [1] is really exciting

[1] http://leafo.net/lapis
Terry Davis is awesome.
Well you're up late. ;)

I believe Stripe can handle dispersing funds to multiple accounts.
Doesn't running TempleOS in VMWare completely ruin the aesthetic??? Pretty surprised by that part.

When I heard about LoseThos I thought it was really bad ass. Like people who build their own house from scratch and live in it. The idea was to strip it down and get close to the metal.

But if you're running it in VMWare, you basically have an entire OS underneath, a bunch of opaque code... doesn't fit IMO :/
I have a lot of respect for Terry and it's nice to see him included alongside other developers. He's not the most likeable guy, but I doubt he's happy about that either.

He writes software to be beautiful. He can take pride in his work because his intentions are absolutely pure. When I program, I take shortcuts to ship as quickly as possible, and then I throw some ads on the final product to make money. I am a sellout, but Terry is not, and I envy him for that.

I especially like his HolyC language. It is simple, elegant, and comfortably familiar:

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html
This Paul Graham's essay is hands down the best argument for libertarianism I have ever read. Yet, even if there are 3 orders of magnitude differences in productivity among different people (and I doubt that), this doesn't entirely account for some 7 or so magnitudes of wealth and income disparities we see in the real world.

The problem is, in modern society, almost nobody deserves to be paid for the work they do (I don't know about you, but my life would be exactly the same without Steve Jobs and random American athletes). We have automated almost everything, and the biggest chunk of productivity is due to capital (and innovations of our ancestors). So the question, how is this capital controlled and distributed, becomes central. (That's why many people here so oppose intellectual property - essentially the privatization of public information, which is analogous to land enclosures during 18th century.)

So I think, if someone genuinely thinks that people should be paid based on value which they personally bring to society, he shoots himself to the foot. This value is probably too small for a living wage. That doesn't mean the improvements are not useful; it's just all the low hanging fruits have already been harvested.
It depends on the type of parody. Your definition seems to stick to literature parody only. If you extend the definition over literature and text, I think it's important to use the same visuals and pretend to be the company or individual ... see also: https://www.adbusters.org/spoofads (they classify for me also as parody and they are spoofs, pretending to be the original source).
A parody is often also called spoof, which in this case fits better I think.
I am thrilled that you're able to design a risk free portfolio returning inflation + 4% annually. Please share this with the rest of the world, that we may all have better annuities...

People massively undervalue pensions - especially those with additional benefits such as spousal, early retirement, minimum payment periods etc.

The only valid valuation for any asset remains what it would cost in the market, and as such $2m is the correct value. It is entirely possible you'd rather have the cash, but it's not objectively superior.
While I agree in principle, this is a 310x146 pixel, 1-bit image that's 360KB in size. It's pretty obvious that there's a payload in there somewhere.

For comparison, recompressed as a normal PNG, it's 9.5KB, and even saving it as a 32-bit BMP is less than half the original size (at around 176KB). I don't know how this kind of thing "scales", but if I'm asked to download a 50MB PNG, I get suspicious. I'm pretty sure anyone you'd want to employ this against would be at least that sophisticated.
see the comment above: I would classify Adbusters also as parody (spoof). Depends on your definition.
https://www.adbusters.org/spoofads
Using Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 as a laptop–on my lap
I was in a similar situation a year ago and decided to go with the Series 9 with Full HD screen instead of a MBPr.

The weight advantage of the Series 9 and the screen are nice, but battery life, keyboard and trackpad are way behind Apple's quality. My next laptop will come from Apple and i don't see any competitor coming close any time soon. Samsung will drop out of the laptop market in 2015 alltogether btw.
That's where this all falls apart what if the government believe you have on thing on your laptop but in stead it turn out you had something else.

Did they just break the law by forcing you to decrypt it?

Or is it enough for the government to believe whatever they want to make you give up your encryption key?
A semi-related play-thing project (which seems to have stagnated completely now: last update 2001 which makes me feel old) is AALib: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

If you want to give yourself a migraine, try playing through Quake2 using that as the output device...
At the time of posting this to HN the body of the post said simply "Placeholder text."
Wayback Machine link for people in the UK: http://web.archive.org/web/20140521084936/http://www.bbc.com...
Judging by how fast technology is evolving nowadays I can't even imagine what is going to happen in 10 years from now... We might not even have the Web... I don't think nowadays you can choose something for the next decade. Maybe for the next 2 years Maximum!
I knew I remembered reading it someplace...

https://stripe.com/us/marketplaces

"Stripe supports complex flows that span multiple sellers—and anyone else you need to pay as part of your business."
If you can't tell your attorney why you need him and under what conditions the case will be prosecuted, then you don't have representation. You have instead, a repressive feudal system of serfhood.
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"I still haven’t forgiven Microsoft for their countless misdeeds so Asp/C#/F# are all right out."

So Xamarin is Microsoft now? Better tell them, because they don't know it yet. Clojure is a .NET language as well by the way.
I'm curious as to why it should be hidden from them. Hiding source is the perfect way to create a "them and us" environment. "Sure, go and play and code away in your little sandbox but don't ever expect to understand how and why things in the game are achieved. That's real programming."

As a secondary note, I "expect" to be able to see source as they "expect" me to run their code on my computer.
I love Kohana (for a PHP framework) ... too bad it's no longer being developed.
I wrote my own, and my expenditure on trains has fallen from around ukp9000 pa to around ukp5000 pa. It's actively user hostile, occasionally inaccurate, slow, and cranky. A bit like me. But I'm currently on a journey for which I padi ukp18.00 instead of ukp27.40.

It's worth it for me. Email me for details. I will be slow to reply, but I will reply.
Another option is to inject the script:

A. At onDOMContentLoaded
and
B. Inside a setTimeout(func, 0) block

Then the browser's loading indicator will stop before the script has been loaded, executed and all its assets loaded.

Useful for social media widgets, etc.
The short answer: Damian is a long-time Perl hacker, and has given many excellent (and highly memorable) presentations, mostly on Perl. If nothing else, it's interesting to see what he's thinking about and working on. He's been at this game for at least a quarter century and has gained some perspective -- that's longer than quite a few here have been alive.

This interview gives a bit of perspective on how Damian came to be who he is, and hist thoughts on the present and future of tech. There's nothing terribly earthshattering, but it's interesting.
I think the web will be around in some form just about forever. I'm more bullish on the web being around 100 years from now in some recognizable form than I am on quite a few nation states or species of mammal.
Is the gagging clause still in place? ( https://mocko.org.uk/b/2013/02/22/you-cant-use-the-live-uk-t... )
It was at that point of escalation where they start to step outside the law and begin to act unlawfully and unprofessionally. They demand everyone play by the law, then the minute they find some push back, they stop playing by the law. But then they _are_ the law and they can do whatever they want. So let's not pretend they are anything but a bunch of unprofessional bullies who don't like being on the receiving end of their own game-play. Yes, they can do what they did. No, this 'justice' system is not interested in a fair trial. They can do basically anything and get away with it. Who holds the government to account? In the end people choose to believe the propaganda (land of the free, justice blah blah) so they can sleep easy at night. But it's all complete bullshit. And before and after power reigns.
Most algorithms guys don't seem to be that enthusiastic about functional programming. My personal theory is that functional programming is more rooted in abstract logic, which isn't what algorithms is really about.
I am having trouble connecting too. When the Bluetooth on my MacPro is switched on, I am unable to toggle the "on" button in Notifyr. It just switches to "off" automatically.

I have mailed the developer too!
Do you know any websites that figure out the cheapest combination of tickets to get you to your destination?

There's an app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tickety-split/id513845919?mt...

Mobile web version: http://splitticket.moneysavingexpert.com/tool.php

Guide: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-train-tickets
Scientists Are Creating New, Incurable Diseases in Labs
I'm curious to know how you consume it. Smoked, vaporized, baked... ?
Google Chrome 35 beta adds much needed DirectWrite font rendering on Windows
Amazon explains here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/05/new-amazon-s3-reduced-red...

"If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so."
Kafka's parable of the law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkxKkrPZPQ
This is an exciting read, kind of like Game of Thrones for web frameworks.

Re: why there were so many "PLAY!" results in Google, that would likely depend on the query you use. Something like "play framework" would probably match for any page where someone said "I will play with this framework".

...which is another reason why "Go" was such a bad idea for a language name, BTW.
I think the function of the windows key, where a menu pops up in the right and you can type out the application name, is what you want for that purpose. Ubuntu does the same thing. I'm pretty keyboard-centric myself, and this works really well for me. The fullscreen start menu is nice when you forget the exact name of the application, IMO.
I am also a friend of a self-configured shell. But projects like oh-my-zsh and Prezto are great to get some inspiration. I learned alot by browsing through their code.
Customize Your Scrollbars with CSS3 and jQuery
Looking back in the day where IE 5.5, the Internet Explorer team introduced a set of non-standard CSS properties that allows users to customize scrollbars using the scrollbar-base-color from which you can use to make elements scroll. That’s being said, it is now much easier to do it using HTML5 and CSS3. Webkit now supports styling of the scrollbars in overflow sections, drop-down, menus and text areas.
Apologies for that oversight, Xamarin was not even mentioned on the C# wiki page and I had totally forgotten about them. That said, I see C# very much as a Microsoft eco-system component even though there have been several re-implementations (such as Mono and DotGNU). Just like I see Go as part of Google and erlang as part of Ericsson.
I have a project planned which when funded will give us hard realtime guarantees for certain Erlang processes.

This can only work of course if the underlying OS is also hard realtime capable. I have ported Erlang to the open source RTEMS http://www.rtems.org already. More details under http://www.grisp.org (sorry website not up to date but soon will be).