skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes -- This is one of the open questions for discussion, and one of the most important. (HotPETS is a "workshop", which in Academia is the precursor to a conference... papers are meant to be early stage drafts ready for discussion. So we are curious how people would be interested in the currency.)

You're right, one of the early reasons for purchasing TorCoins would likely be donating to Tor. But they are a totally usable altcoin, just like Dogecoin for example. What reason do people have to buy Dogecoin? Not much, beyond using it as a currency or speculating with it as an investment. I could see TorCoin working the same way.
You might be conflating the startup community with the open source community of the late nineties

Considering the large overlap between those two communities, I'm not sure it's an unwarranted conflation. The first tech boom included a bunch of Linux-oriented startups and IPOs, whose successful pitch to VCs involved essentially, "Microsoft is on its way out".
Thanks for the really detailed explanation!
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Currently in the process of getting a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering (mostly doing image analysis, coming from a Bachelor's in Computer Science) and looking for a new challenge. Besides the two degrees I have worked for 2 years on web applications and web security development.

I don't like to retire and tell people who ask me that I spent my time making it possible for people to share more cat pictures. I would love to work on something a bit more meaningful. For example supporting scientists with visualization or replacing Excel files with a webapp. Considering my Biomedical Engineering background, biologist would be a perfect fit, but I would also accept mathematicians, physicists, and other scientists. As long as I can learn something new, preferably not just programming related.

Or of course you could offer me good working conditions, a mentor and some time/money for conferences and other educational things, that would work, too.

So if you are looking for someone who likes to push the boundaries, doesn't accept "acceptable" as a solution and loves to learn new things (not just programming related!) then you should drop me a line so we can talk.
Apple posted a benchmark during the presentation. It was validated. They lied. Maybe they shouldn't boast about performance before releasing?
This looks indeed odd. Can you please share more information about your computer, OS and browser?
Ask HN: Who is the best programmer in the world right now?
I know that a question like that does not make too much sense, but i still think it would make for some interesting discussions.

Inspired by the same question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/Who-is-the-best-programmer-in-the-world-right-now

Who do you think is the best programmer in the world right now and why ?
Well, a script should be able to set of a naked HTTP request to `othersite.com` without sending along the cookies for `othersite.com`. I don't see how that would allow new vulnerabilities.

Basically, make XMLHttpRequest not use any cookies etc. when making requests to other domains.
So if you view the site in a web browser that you pay for, the developer of the web browser is infringing the website's copyright?

This app is just an HTTP user agent, as far as I can tell.
Should I Learn Scala or Groovy?
Sorry for sounding like an ass, but I thought I would provide my slightly different perspective, precisely because Japanese was not particularly remarkable pronunciation-wise (but still interesting semiotics-wise)

I contribute to one of the Nikkei publications.
Great, thanks. We have some OLAP datamarts in our app, I try your solution soon.
Depends on the contest. With friends, family and people not very tech savvy, yes, it's widespread. In work circles the English version is commonly accepted.
The Tor Project has a dedicated page for setting up relays on EC2 instances:

>The Tor Cloud images have been configured to use no more than 40 GB of bandwidth out per month. We have estimated that customers who do not qualify for the free usage tier will pay up to $20 a month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia).

>Customers who qualify for the free usage tier, but who run bridges that use more than 15 GB of bandwidth out per month, will pay up to $3 per month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia).

https://cloud.torproject.org/
French native here as well. I personnally say "at" when spelling out email addresses. "Arobase" ou "et commercial" are names of the symbol itself - not commonly used because one rarely has to name the symbol.
The issue is that humans have extra-ordinary endurance. That just doesn't jibe with modern society. The sub-set of people well-bred to only work out 1-2 hours a day, or to have equilibrium metabolism in a cubicle farms is arbirtary to what would have been bred for genetically. Even the past 10,000 years to about 100 years ago, humans were out and about working physical jobs. And likely going caloric restrictin due to lack of wealth, weather, and other variations of practicality (spoilage, lack of portability, etc). The ability to gorge and store calories is evolutionarily quite useful. But in a sedentary society, lack of balance is not a function of the food, the mined, or even the body. Its rather the lifestyle...cars, cubicles, and costco.
I don't think you can expect to slap two common words together and prevent anyone from using those words in any way everywhere.

If you make up some new word Exxon etc. then maybe.

For slapping two common words together there have to be sensible limits on everyone else being prohibited. If you own things like onetwo.com great that may well be a reason for someone else to be dissuaded from naming a consumer product that because they want an easy to remember domain.

Thinking all uses of HealthKit are bad seems more to me like Facebook thinking anyone using "book" prefaced by something else is doing wrong - which I think is silly.

I would be amazed if there are not many previous uses of health kit - just removing the space hardly seems an amazing transformation to me.
I think you are underestimating the size of the market. Seems like there's demand for every flavor of alt-coin: gimmickyCoin, mediocreCoin, memeCoin, yetAnotherCoin, every single one gets 15 minutes or more.

Try looking at it from the miners' perspective. The pitch isn't "buy our coin, and use this guide to help yourself install the dependencies needed to run our beta software." Instead, its "get paid coins, all you have to do is leave the relayCoin bandwidth-miner running while you sleep."

In the future, proof-of-bandwidth / proof-of-relay "coin" incentives on next-gen layer 3 protocols will bootstrap the transition to a global, p2p wireless mesh network (wireless at the edges and sparse areas, the big pipes and backhauls will still be fiber). It will look something like "leave this wifiMeshCoin nodeBox attached to your cable modem. It will open an unlocked wifi hotspot for anyone nearby. some people will get free access through a metered guest connection, and you might earn a little coin. But if you get lucky and your nodeBox can form a bridge connection to somebody else's nodeBox at a different ISP, that bridge relay will earn a lot of coin. Another option is to invest $2k to get a 4G/5G cellular micro-tower from NextGen Labs, one of those could earn you $500/mo in relayPower if there are enough unlocked CDMA phones in your area. You can resell the unlocked phones as well."
Thanks for noting these issues. I've made a note about Python 2.x in the readme (https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/commit/ae7e3de61c...). As far as the compiler, g++-4.9 is fine to use. If you hit an error with it could you share the details in an issue? https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/issues
The government wanted people to use Baidu (and other chinese alternatives) over Google. This follows the trend of other bans (youtube/twitter/facebook) which all have chinese alternatives.

Google was by far the most popular search engine at the time they made the decision. Other lesser search engines are mostly fine.

My guess is that it was proving too controversial to outright block Google because of it's popularity at the time, so they decided to make it appear low quality instead.
Thanks for the advice. It's definitely been a learning experience. At this particular employer, they just fit engineers into a generic Software Engineering Role, and the team you end up on is determined by business need close to your start date. My team has already changed once without them even informing me (I had found out by asking if any other teams had opened up) and I haven't even started yet.
A lot of this is in the category of "not-entirely random guess" :) .. need to dig deeper to see this.

Here is why I said what I did (and I did mean the former) --

My micro-benchmark is actually comparing the struct-based code in Swift with primitive-based code in C. If "k += j % 7" is to be interpreted literally in Swift sans optimization, it would be two function calls and two stack word copies (structs go on the stack and by copy, whereas classes go on the heap and by reference). k and j are both structs and so operator overloading is needed to write this expression. That the Swift compiler generates comparable-to-C performance in these cases is good news I think.

One major caveat with these benchmarks is that the same LLVM backend is being used for both. I'd like to be able to compare Swift with C/ObjC as compiled by GCC as well for a truer picture of "faster than C".

For practical purposes, I think this is nicely close. I haven't tried the ObjC bridge yet though.
This article is full of BS.

40 years ago the majority of the population of the US or North Europe was thin. This has been so for the entire evolution of the human species.

People 40 years ago did not starve. They just ate things that refrigerators and mass industrial production do not preserve well, like vitamins, or fiber, or natural fat(like butter).

Now, when most people eat mass-processed foods, odd things happen, and unless people change their food habits, nothing is going to change, but that is not "impossible".
Cocos2d lets you use shaders in your 2D games. You can also access the full power of OpenGL if you need it.
Solution I find is relatively simple from a moral standpoint. Exhaust all options. Instead of saying 'ah it won't work', just do it anyway, contact anyone and everyone , privately related to this, about this and do everything you possibly can before press exposure. With the press you can demonstrate but not release the actual steps to how it's done. If it is still denied as fake or ignored despite all of that, release it if you feel the moral obligation to do so. 'You must do what you think is right, of course'.
9 hour deploy and counting. Major UK retail site – still down as stores open.
The name is really confusing. A music app called HipHop that isn't focused in hip hop music in particular? That's like naming a bookstore "Comics" and selling all kinds of books.

Rapgenius may be branching out (and I have the same doubts in them keeping the rapgenius name), but at least they actually started with rap.
Ask HN:  How Many Ways Are To Call A JavaScript From Html?
Interesting. Is the source available?
Show HN: Xspray, an lldb debugger GUI for iOS and OS X that plots your data
That and the fact that in English there's always a little pause before, to let the listener understand you're spelling a very short word. Just listen next time someone says an email address.
In italian not so much, so chiocciola is pronounced both very fast and without the need for a declarative pause. In the end it doesn't feel long at all.
I'll admit it I regret accepting the offer so willingly. It was an exploding offer and they gave me about a week to accept. This was one whole year before I even graduated. I'm sure this has allowed them to lock me in at a lower salary than what they are offering new hires now as well. The whole situation just makes me feel a bit bitter about the job. It was definitely a learning experience for me and I wont make that mistake again. Just trying to figure out what to do now. I don't want to establish a career in a field I'm not interested and lose the momentum I've already gained in my field of interest.
1700 is more than a convenient cutoff date - it's around that time when England ceased to exist as an independent state, and Great Britain as we know it started to take shape.

Nitpick: I reckon most of the time people on HN say "England" they actually mean "Great Britain" or "United Kingdom"
I realise not the usual format for a story. But to Gawk... in this world of zero downtime deploys this is remarkable.

As the sun rises in the UK, this is half the business shut down during business hours.
Lots of research has demonstrated that most crack addicts (and alcohol addicts, and nicotine addicts) who try to quit relapse. I thought that was an accepted part of science. Why do you think it sounds kinda off?
The art of typography
Lets have a look at how depressed the owner of the company must feel right now:

http://www.news.com.au/finance/small-business/apple-swallows...

Yep, looks devastated.
The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening.

That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.
According to this they would need a few beds removed to meet the average found in a 2011 report from Ohio stating 31% overcrowding.
http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/Boards/Sentencing/resources...
Well, damn. I just spent five months writing a GLES iOS renderer for mapnik-vector-tiles as a master thesis project.

I said, "as far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done before". Good thing the presentation was last week I guess...
One thing I've tried and failed to find on this subject is a breakdown by kind of guns. The vast majority of gun crime uses handguns, so I've been interested in finding data on handgun ownership rates and seeing if there's any relationship. But all the data I can find comparing gun-ownership rates to gun-homicide rates includes both handguns and long guns (rifles, shotguns), which have very different crime characteristics. For example Sweden actually has quite a few guns, but they are almost all rifles in the rural far north, not handguns in Stockholm or Malmö, which I suspect makes a big difference.

I'm not sure the data I'm looking for would actually show anything interesting either, but it's kind of odd that I can't find it at all.
Ah, thanks for explaining this to me this way.

It's still going to be a challenge, but that makes a more manageable one :)
Food abuse may not be the only culprit in the obesity epidemy.

antibiotics might have some responsability as well [0] by destroying parts of the gut flora

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/the-fat-dru....
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Yes, the data is fairly compact. Data for the entire world enough for rendering to zoom level 18 generally comes in under 35GB (give or take 10 GB depending on what features you need). If you need to got to zoom levels approaching ~18 then there is no way to do this with image tiles. Vector tiles are the more efficient way. More details on the encoding at https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec and the encoder at https://github.com/mapbox/mapnik-vector-tile
http://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop
Nice! I like to listen to some japanese artists, which are not available on spotify etc. Here they are!
Yes without cookies it should be able to, since it can via a proxy. this should be a capability of browsers
My email is tankred@whiteout.io
... which is just a funny, made-up word. Spelling varies, I heard the "krakozyabra" version the most.
The part I'm interested in for now. It will be fun to have it running inside a C64 emulator on a $50 Android tablet http://contiki.cbm8bit.com
I'm italian and I confirm it ;)
In your example, I'd argue that hip hop is a more dominating segment of music than comics are of books. Maybe a book store called "Novel" that sold all kinds of books, which sounds less far fetched for some reason.
I don't, but that's not what I, the article, or your OP were really talking about. What I disagree with is this statement/attitude:

> I've flagged down a cop seeing a kid alone in a car, and would do it again.

The interesting and proper question isn't whether it's unsafe to leave a four year old alone in a parked car, it's whether leaving a four year old alone in a parked car warrants involvement from the State -- particularly, involvement kicked off by a fellow citizen.

It surprises and deeply concerns me that we live in a country/world of social content and community-driven projects, yet when one of our (real-life) community members might possibly be in trouble, a cellphone video and call to the cops is the default (and lauded) reaction. Look, had that 4-year-old been in real danger, a cellphone video wasn't going to help him. A call to the cops wasn't going to help him either (clearly, as they arrived after mom had left). Ok, maybe a coin flip on the cops at best.

What can the cops do that the nosy neighbor -- or you -- couldn't? Truly, if someone felt a child's life was in danger, everything else could wait while you supervised the situation and sent someone else to go fetch mom out of the store. Or use that cellphone to call the store, or whatever. In other words, you could actually do something. Unless this fictional example kid is literally dying before your eyes and you think medics/the coroner are going to have to be involved, what's the point of calling the cops? Two options: either a) to throw mom under the bus or b) to let yourself think you did all you could so you can get going to that next meeting.
I'm confused, is there a WebGL version of the framework as well? It would be really great to have that!
Thanks for clarifying. It's unfortunate for me financially, but I think the best thing to do is to withdraw my acceptance of the offer. I will be candid with them about allowing myself to accept a position that doesn't align with my interests. They made an exploding offer over 1 year before I even graduated.
I am sure some people will take this seriously and start building apps over this.
ok, interesting statistics. i did not expect such a large number of teens. the average income part, the key is that it counts "families" or "households", i have seen it in another source where it stated that many of the poorest families actually earn 2-3 wages in order to reach that level, so i would not immediately jump to the conclusion that they are all that well off.

"It is true that SOME minimum-wage workers desperately need a job. But it is also true that SOME people desperately need a laptop computer!" -- again, these crazy comparisons... these situations are not equal. period. such reductionism is unproductive.

"Employers have to offer wages high enough that on the margin, those people who are indifferent between employers or willing to wait a little longer for "the right job offer" are inclined to accept the one being offered." -- this seems unrealistic. middle-class or up may afford that, but we're not talking about them here. and it's worth noting that the middle-class is growing smaller lately.

as for the race to the bottom, it is a demonstrated reality of history, one that we have experienced, but which is easy to forget now that the problem had been solved. it drove people to revolutions, simple fact. we have progressed far since then. this neo-libertarianism seems to be an initiative to take us back, and by many indicators, since the 80s, that plan is working out.
When I came across this I genuinely thought it was referring to Facebook's Hip Hop Virtual Machine--not music at all.
Another useful site for that purpose is the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org/).

A pretty successful strategy for "cheating" at Project Euler is to implement a brute force solution to get the first few numbers out of a sequence and look it up in OEIS. If you're lucky, they've already listed a closed form expression for calculating the sequence at an arbitrary index. Drop the expression into your code, and you end up with something that tends to be orders of magnitude more efficient.

Obviously it depends on the structure of the exercise, but it's somewhat surprising how far it can take you.
Maybe this somehow be a away of rewarding bitcoin full-nodes
Aussie law student here. IANAL. I haven't studied IP in a year or so but I'm not convinced that the startup has a huge claim to the name HealthKit at all. I've looked at both US and local law in the past so I'll try and explain in case it helps any founders reading this.

"HealthKit", in the context of both healthkit.com and the dev kit describes the intend purpose of the IP. The startup seems to produce a software "kit" for health practitioners and the Apple version is obviously a dev kit that deals with the new health app.

Any trademark that describes intended purpose is called a 'descriptive mark' (lawyers are an imaginative bunch) and are generally really hard to protect. You need to show evidence of market use, and for lack of a better word, traction. Apple actually seem to have the stronger argument here: MapKit, GameKit, UIKit etc. have been used for ages and are recognised in the software community as being associated with Apple. This would be categorised as a software trademark and I'm not sure that the startup can establish a strong argument that they've a) established their brand in the software market and that b) they should be able to exclude Apple to prevent confusion. This is consistent with both Aus and US law to my knowledge, and successfully establishing themselves in the Australian market, or filing a trademark here won't bind the US anyway.

Bottom line, the more generic and descriptive your name (in context), the harder it will be to successfully defend it. Owning a .com doesn't count for much, if anything (even trying to register a generic descriptive word + .com - mattress.com was registered unsuccessfully IIRC). You need to get eyeballs on it and sell stuff to win this with a common law/equitable trademark. Considering I hadn't heard of HealthKit.com until this happened they might struggle with this.

If you're a founder and you want to protect your name, pick a name that is something arbitrary or suggestive. Healthkit.com's claims would be much stronger if it was named Potato or Voozle and Apple used the same name for a dev kit. It makes it far harder to communicate your product quickly but thats the tradeoff. Names that invoke your product through onomatopoeia, like 'Twitter' strike a good balance between effective communication and defensibility. They're bloody hard to come up with though.

Hopefully, HealthKit.com use this as an opportunity to get their message out to their target audience, they're getting an audience on hacker news but its doctors they should be going for.

As an aside, it's interesting to see how much of the media is confusing the HealthKit dev kit with the Health app. Helps with the story I guess.
You'll end up with the leading '/*' (and trailing) showing in the html though. Not much you can do about it I guess (except probably use a css hack to hide it).

ps I don't envy anybody who has to spend their day working on code that looks like that!