skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer person here, married to the third person I dated. We met our senior year of high school, fell in love, got married a few years after that. This year will be our 20 year anniversary.

I dunno, you meet someone you like, why date more people just because? I never really understood the survey-the-field strategy. Seems like a recipe for disappointment.
You may want to take a look at openresty [1] moonscript [2], Lapis [3] and Kepler [4] . There has been some more direct efforts to port the "Node.js way" to Lua, one such is luvit [5] (significant overlap in the developers list) on the otherhand luv [6] exposes the underlying libraries slightly differently.

Lua really ought to be considered JS done right and Eich should really have been given enough time to bring scheme to the browser (syntax could have been negotiable). Another interesting project is Typed Racket http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/index.html?q=typed and Guile http://wingolog.org if this sort of things interests you.

[1] http://openresty.org/

[2] http://moonscript.org/

[3] http://leafo.net/lapis/

[4] http://www.keplerproject.org/

[5] http://luvit.io/

[6] https://github.com/richardhundt/luv
Is this advice you give to all lesbians?
App Store Bundles as an Upgrade Path
If GHash.io launches a "no one else can mine" attack, then there won't be any other pools to move to.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
* Prevent some or all other miners from mining any valid blocks
Eric Fromm also said true love is letting that person you
love sleep with other people if it makes them happy. I
have been with one person who I felt I loved according to Fromm, but I was not attracted to her--so I guess I never
loved? By the way, I think Fromm is right, but I'm just
to selfish, and he said that before AIDS. I wonder if he
would be so cavileer today?
This isn't really virtual time though, at least as realized by time warp. It's a virtualization of time, for sure, but almost completely unrelated to DR Jefferson's work [1]; no rollback of bad interactions or anything like that.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3988

Rx is a one trick pony that focuses exclusively on the duality between event streams and data streams. Management of time in any real sense is completely missing from the framework. No continuous bindings, control flow must all be buried as data flow, etc...

React is a much better solution for writing reactive programs than Rx.
Lua is very popular in some niches, like games and embedded stuff.

Language adoption is a very social thing though. Maybe if Rails was a Lua framework we would be wondering why Ruby never made it big.
I thought at those depths the rock isn't solid, so why would water (or supercritical fluid) need a lot of pores to go through? Not to mention, can't supercritical fluids effuse through solids?
This is intended as a service fee, not interest. It is set at a level that, along with registration fees and lender tips, just covers our operating costs. (For example, in the first quarter of 2014 our average operating costs were $8,225 per month. Our average monthly revenues were $8,507.)

It might be more precise to structure the service fee as a fixed percentage of the loan amount regardless of the term. We opted to structure it as an annual rate mainly for simplicity: it can be added to lender interest so that loan applicants can see the full cost of the loan in a single rate, without any other unexpected fees.
Ask HN: How is the culture in Amazon and Apple Bay area
I am planning to move from semiconductors to one of the big internet companies. I have mixed feelings about joining Amazon and Apple. I hear the pay may be good but the quality of life will be poor.

Can someone here comment on working conditions in these two companies? I would appreciate if you can comment on Amazon India also, as I am open to moving back to there, in case my green card doesn't pan out.

Reason for switching: I am in Electronic design automation, Here for a fresh graduate, the company pays $85k while VMware, Aruba networks etc pay $105k. This to me tells that the industry is stagnant. I believe GOOG, APPL and AMZN are pay masters in silicon valley. I am 10yrs experience and am hovering around $130k plus bonus.
This sounds like a pragmatic approach, and pragmatism has always driven internet engineering. From the ISPs perspective, Netflix's needs are diverging from a typical free peering arrangement.

The issue is, what triggers the costs? There's no good definition of what threshold requires a content provider to connect to the ISP network. Because ISPs are consolidating so rapidly, there's a huge opportunity for abuse.
For an Erlang OTP page it doesn't cover much OTP :-) It doesn't even mention gen_server.
Congress Threatens To Anchor Private Spaceflight With Extra Costs
Is there empirical evidence of your first claim? Or any claim, honestly.
>Regulation ensure that people have jobs, even if that means limiting the number of hours per week people can work.

Some kind of guaranteed basic income or national dividend is a more efficient way to ensure that people who haven't accumulated capital get treated humanely.
There is, kind of, with the highly underrated OpenResty [1] and Lapis [2]. The benchmarks [3] for the pair is also way ahead of node, all w/o callbacks.

1. http://openresty.org/

2. http://leafo.net/lapis/

3. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...
Most loans are held for less than one year, so the fee ends up being less than 5% of the amount raised.
> The main fields of human endeavor will be culture, arts, sciences, creativity, philosophy, experimentation, exploration, and adventure.

Some of those , like arts and philosophy and exploration and adventure would not generate an income, and would be done for free/fun.

Some others like science[1] and large parts of creativity[2] might be highly automated, requiring only a few experts.

Fields that aren't highly repetitive(like many types of programming) and things that require a human touch(which computers also seem to attack[3]) might be more resistant to automation.

[1]http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/5/148614-automating-scien...

[2]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/453386/no-mans-sky-proc...

[3]http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/a-video-ga...
The ABCs of IA
Thanks Jimmy, just emailed you with a question about some business related stuff, but this post definitely did quite well!
I think what happens with Lua (which does, incidentally, have many solid ecosystems built with it) is that it just gets quietly used in industrial-strength ways which don't require too much fanfare/promotion in order to propagate it as a tool - which is not the case with node, which aims to be a solution to industry-wide problems which Lua solves in other ways.

One thing that I think people get confused about Lua is that its simultaneously a VM, a language, and a very minimal framework, around which many, many things can be glommed. The glomming of those things is so flexible and versatile that - indeed perhaps we see too much diversity in the Lua appliance world, for there to be any common centralized traction around promoting it, as has happened with node.

If you want to see how Lua really has a solid ecosystem, then you have to look for projects that have embedded the VM and are using it as the basis for their application run loop. And indeed, there are plenty of projects out there doing this, that it can't really be said Lua doesn't have traction; it just doesn't attract as much hype. Lua has plenty of libraries; its just that the "FFI all the things!" approach means that you can, pretty much, indeed FFI all the things. No standards committee required!
It's everywhere, and JS isn't so bad that it's unusable.
Yep - I married the woman I've been dating since I was 15. We've been together 8 years now (not married the whole time).
What sort of evidence are you looking for? E.g.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Types-Tests
?

But googling something like static vs dynamic typing will give you enough results to choose from. Or go to your local Haskell user group meetup :-).
I think there's something at play with when you're "looking". I didn't update anything to specifically say that I was in the market for a new job, but when I was, I was receiving a shitload of emails. Now that I switched jobs and I'm happily employed for about a year I only get like one every couple weeks. Not sure what kind of algorithm they use but it's pretty good.
That's an incorrect slag on Common Core.

It is true that standardized tests would put pressure to ignore this sort of "enrichment" material, but that's a (Pearson) test problem and a (unfairly constrainted) teacher problem, not a Common Core problem.

Put another way:

If a student is exceeding the test standards, there is time to branch out to enrichment topics.

If a student is not passing the basic arithmetic standards of the standardized tests, it's open for debate how to reach a passing level, or if it is appropriate to engage in a major alternative curriculum.
There are no lesbians in 1950s Leave-it-to-Beaver-land.
My favorite LinkedIn feature is how invitations are not sent by linkedin.com, but your friend/colleague/etc. This way, marking it as spam doesn't hurt them.

I had to go through several rounds of customer support to get my information off of their site. "You don't have an account" they would repeat - of course I don't, which is why it bothers me that I still get invitations and show up in your "recommended" lists.

Not to mention the fake endorsements.
> Still, I'd be curious to see if a FOIA request would work.

https://muckrock.com

EDIT: I'll even give you some of my credit I have with them to use for your request.
Show HN: Clojure parser and core library in JavaScript, live on CodeCombat
Human wants and needs are infinite

I doubt that this is true. If we one day find a way to experience permanent bliss I can't imagine that we'd want or need anything else.
My story is almost exactly like yours. Met at 15, married at 22. We are only married for 1 years now though, though we've been living together for 6 :)
> The counterargument to a finite supply of work comes from economist Milton Friedman — Human wants and needs are infinite, which means there is always more to do.

I think one aspect of this that's often ignored is that while human needs might be finite, natural resources are not. I think a lot of the economic malaise felt in the west as of late has to do with simple resource constraints: our ability to simply grow the economy in order to compensate for jobs lost to automation and globalization is limited by the simple fact that the price of crude oil has looked like this over the past 30 years: http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-char....
Ask HN: examples of hosted products with user-customizable html/css?
For example:

Goodsie (https://goodsie.com/) takes a modular approach, where you can add and adjust content blocks and style them.

Tictail (tictail.com) doesn't abstract the process, they just give you full access to the page template and in-line css. I haven't tested how they sanitize the results, but they don't stop you from adding anything in the editor.

Most of the examples I'm familiar with are e-commerce related, but I'm very interested in finding good examples of all sorts. Thanks!
Gripe: OTP should be renamed. The name serves no purpose these days. Rename it "Erlang Design Patterns" and be done with it.

Ever try to tell someone about "Erlang/OTP?" They ask "What's OTP?" Then you begin a 30 minute speech about the history of Erlang and phone switches (agile web ninjas ain't got time for 80s telecom stories) and how all modern fad problems were solved 20 years ago.

Erlang is great, but the core Erlang devs don't understand "web things." See their arguments against why Erlang shouldn't support JSON: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-March/0782...
I think this is called dual or multi-path execution if you want to Google for it.

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/eager.html says ...I've seen it alleged that some mainframe processors in the 1960s and 1970s executed down both paths beyond a branch; but, as far as I'm aware, multiple-path execution has never been done by a commercial processor.
They need to start with a dual stack, that works for over 97% of the internet. Then v6 would be of actual use for customers and ISPs would have more reason to support v6.
An honest miner with 51% of the hash rate would only mine 51% of the blocks (example: https://blockchain.info/blocks ); an attacker would mine every single block.
A couple days back they were at 48% or 49%. It's not that big a surprise.
I don't care at all how much money is being paid. So long as content providers are paying any amount, it's unequal, and needs to stop.

Net Neutrality would be a good step. Common carrier status would be better.
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Luckily Google also owns and operates the largest and most watched public access station of all time.
The gif animation is ridiculously fast. Can't really see what's going on. If it's not needed, you could just delete it.
Yeah, the impending problem is that sub 90 IQ people are rendered totally useless. That quarter of the population is already much less employable than it was just a generation ago. The social consequences of this process are already evident.

These elite IQ guys like Andreesen in coastal bubbles are totally out of touch with broader society. They really don't grasp that a huge fraction of the population is not going to be training up for the services and digital economy, because that's not realistically possible.
For things like that it might be best to limit federal regulation and let states decide those issues. This would allow for experimentation of these ideas that are too complex to correctly predict every variable.

There are numerous issues that need to be figured out for a Utopian future society, we're not even sure we want that kind of society.
If this sort of thing interests you, then either the modern Moebius Noodles[1] material or the vintage Young Math[2] materials like "Maps, Tracks, and the Bridges of Konigsberg: A Book about Networks by Michael Holt" would also.

[1] http://http://www.moebiusnoodles.com/
[2] http://www.valerieslivinglibrary.com/math.htm
It's a virus with a EULA.
To the contrary, we've been far more respectful and accommodating to the Bitcoin fringe than merited, and certainly far more than the other way around. After all, we took a fair amount of abuse for simply pointing out an objective weakness that is part of the protocol. This, despite the fact that we proposed a fix for it.

Perhaps you've not read our final paper. It doesn't just footnote, but actually cites the prior discussion.

And anyone who reads the previous discussion can see that our paper:

* shows a more extensive attack than the one described there, one that works,

* performs a full analysis of the revenue to be obtained from that attack, and characterizes that revenue as a function of attacking pool size and attacking pool's ability to control information flow in the network,

* shows that Bitcoin is not incentive-compatible,

* shows that, even under the best of circumstances (i.e. the attacker has terrible network connectivity, no Sybils, no control over information propagation and loses to the honest miners every single time), defending against the attacker requires at least 2/3rds of the network to be honest.

Perhaps the biggest giveaway that we did something differently is that THE BITCOIN TALK FORUMS CONCLUDED THAT THEIR ATTACK WOULD NOT WORK, WHEREAS WE SHOWED THAT OURS WOULD.

You're making things up when you imply that we're claiming that 51% is an "unsurvivable crisis." To the contrary, the article very clearly says that the Bitcoin economy remains unaffected, and that the Bitcoin price is also unaffected.

We have been trying to improve the Bitcoin system since day 1. I realize that you're part of the original brigade, and that also explains your ad hominems here. I urge you to elevate the discussion.
... yes, I'm sure you've identified the only relevant difference.

Which totally explains why my parents and my wife's parents, both married in the 1970s when those social movements were in full bloom, also have wonderful and happy marriages going on 40 and 38 years, respectively.
Ryan Ackroyd in the article photo looks a bit like Dan Akroyd (the actor).

I would say they are defiantly related. Not relevant but I found it interesting.
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Great.... Now what? You've advertised the integration of an API on HN. Now what?
There isn't really much evidence of this out there, other than groupthink, in my opinion.

What makes a language 'okay for smaller projects' but suddenly unsuitable when it gets larger? Having a minimal set of types doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have 'more bugs as the codebase grows' - the only place it really makes sense to say that dynamically-typed languages 'break' is when they don't have the types that the application needs.

In Lua's case, the only thing I can think of it missing is native floating-point support, and that's really it. Everything else: you can get there with nil, number, string, function, CFunction, userdata, and table. (But CFunction and userdata should be enough for anyone! :)
Thank you for that data - I've never seen it before and it's really interesting.
How do I do this? Annoying they are recommending some people just because we had email contact.
Great weight loss hints
A good and useful tutorial how to lose weight fast and healthy.
There are so many hours in the day.

Either you argue that graph theory is more important than the other topics (which?) or you acknowledge that graph theory is an enrichment topic for some students who learn the core material faster or devote more time to math study.

It is true that Common Core lacks "enrichment" -- by defining a minimum standard, it doesn't specify what to do with student with more capacity to learn. But that's left to individual students, teachers, and schools, not incompatible.

If a teacher can teach their students 7G math standards in 6 months of the year, the teacher has plenty of class time for other topics.
That is what webrtc is for too, without the "proprietary" part.
And down it goes again: https://bitcoinity.org/markets

In the previous crisis it was all based on trust ("it was just a bad player, trust will return to the market"). Now we've a doomsday scenario and what seems a serious flaw in Bitcoin.

Feels like a chapter out of The Foundation books.
I agree it looks stupid, but when I posted that there were three negative votes and not a single reply. I really don't care about the downvotes, I want arguments.

The lending industry is like a drug store: you care cure some diseases with the right drugs, but you can't run it like an "all you can eat" buffet. People will kill themselves, literally.
I'm sad to see earbits go. It was a great idea and a great service.
Joey, we traded a few technical emails around when you started, and I
wish you, Yottam and the others the best in your next endeavor. Also,
thanks for regularly being the "voice of reason" on HN in regards to
questions about the music industry.

I'm still curious about one thing; two-sided market? Are you using this
phrase as the simple way to say it, or do you really think it's a two
sided market. I've always seen it as a multi-sided market.

When I think about all the specialized skills (and equipment) that goes
into music, both recorded and live performances, it always seems to have
a mind boggling number of sides. Worse yet, the various sides tend to be
in competition (labels versus artists, consumers versus distributors,
sound and instrument equipment manufacturers versus ...). Though some
truces and alliances exist, each of the many sides is vying against the
others to get paid.

I recall reading one of your very early blog posts where you mentioned
the vast amount of effort you put into advertising and marketing your
own band, and this gave you the idea for earbits. Essentially, the
marketing and advertising you did for your own band was in competition
with the similar efforts of labels/promoters for other bands.

Am I wrong in thinking of music as a highly complex, intertwined,
multi-sided market?
Look at how Square attacked the POS market. They didn't start by trying to replicate everything existing POS systems were doing. They started by appealing to small shops who were not using full scale POS systems.

It may appear now that OpenTable has a death grip on the market but it only takes a slight shift in ideology for opportunities to emerge.
Netflix Public API Program Closing November 14, 2014
Netflix API Developers,

As Netflix continues to grow internationally, the emphasis of our engineering efforts is to satisfy a growing member base and a growing number of devices. To better focus our efforts and to align them with the needs of our global member base, we will be retiring the public API program. Effective on November 14, 2014, public API developers will no longer be able to access Netflix content. All requests to the public API will return 404 errors.

Thank you to for participating in the ecosystem throughout the years.

Daniel Jacobson

VP of Edge Engineering
HTTPie sorts them before outputted.

In the readme: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#colors-and-formattin...

In the code: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie/blob/master/httpie/o...
Larry Lessig and Amanda Palmer hosting video chat/AMA to benefit the MayDay PAC
The gif animation is confusing to me because the shell appears to be extensively customized, so I can't tell what is percol and what is crazy zshell customization.
>micro-loans will drain resources out of the community

That is so not how capitalism works. Money is a means to induce labor. Right now there is a lot of human capital in developing countries that is wasted because there is no financial capital to fuel it. Imagine a young person willing to labor 18 hours a day building widgets. Instead he just sits around because he can't find a job building widgets (or afford the materials to buy the raw materials.)
The amount of times OTP is written out is unusual in and of itself. Dude was probably just excited to have snagged that domain.
> If a student

I think the problem is that in a vast majority of schools the classes are taught to the lowest common denominator. Sure, one , or two, or ten students could be exceeding the standards but if one or two other students are not passing the standards, I think teachers are very unlikely to introduce these enrichment topics.
Very well done. I experimented once with Sports broadcast captioning (not real-time though; using YouTube videos) by using Amazon Mechanical Turk for crowdsourced closed-captioning.

An example is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgc1jAXGSk
It arises out of a major difference in culture. The difference between servicing a client and selling to an arms-length buyer. After all, what salesmen owe their customers a fiduciary duty?