skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

'The paradox states that all natural numbers are interesting. The "proof" is by contradiction: if there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.'
Have you seen the VW 1-litre car?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
Terrorism trial to be heard entirely in secret for 1st time in modern UK history
http://www.shell.com/global/environment-society/ecomarathon/...
Congrats on the coverage Ryan, I'm extremely excited to see this grow.
Running a relay doesn't mean anything. You're just an extra-node to improve route-mixing and ultimately anonymity. Makes it harder and more expensive for third parties to track back connections.

There's no problem, really. The points you mention arise when you run an 'exit node'.
funny spoof
Thanks Dang. this helps.
I'm curious what the effect of using the overflow arithmetic operators in Swift would be. (See near bottom of https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...)
>According to Apple's Legal Process Guidelines, Facetime calls and iMessages are end-to-end encrypted. This is significant, but Textsecure and Redphone are more secure and trustworthy.

Yes but they don't exist.

TextSecure looks perfect but has been "coming soon to iPhone" for a year. It seems to be a long way off if I look at the GitHub activity (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-iOS)

I'm not sure why this is, exactly. Maybe there aren't enough iOS developers willing to donate their time to open source projects?

A real pity. The only way we have a chance is if the basic tools we use are cross-platform, open-source, and verifiably end-to-end.
Hehe, very unlikely, but nice try. flagging this.

This is the article used as template for the spoof:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/sam-altman-names-y-combinat...
Clicking on work ware on the front page, doesnt go anywhere.
Some of your urls look like somethings isnt right. "http://www.janjuaclothing.com/(S(ev4nn00nyuffhnilncvrsjd3))/.... In the shipping section, you mention free shipping (which is cool) but don't say to what countries. Can I buy if I'm Russian? Can I buy from europe? Include what countries you support. Or state free shipping worldwide. Same with the try page. Its cool id only have to pay shipping back, but if I had free shipping to me, how much is that? I wont try unless I know.
What about the effect of search engines on brand value? Whereas, before, the existing HealthKit was probably the top result, after an invasion of Apple HealthKit development sites they may be kicked to the third page hellban.

Naturally, this same reasoning can be used to challenge the use of the same trademark in a different domain, something clearly accepted by law.
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The most common fuel efficiency ratios are expressed either in miles per gallon or kilometers per liter (or liters per 100 km). Mixing imperial and metric units is pretty unusual.
I thought Webstorm wasn't a free software? Is it the 30-days trial version included in this bundle ?
See, that was half of the cloud's appeal and its major selling point (the other half being "accessible from anywhere"): "no more downtime, because OMG Cloud!!!"

What you are doing is a rhetorical trick called "moving the goalposts," in other words, "the marketing buzz was a big, fat lie; so let's instead try to spin it as if that promise had never happened."
what's the difference between a car that does 20 mpg and 40 mpg? what's the difference between a car that does 40 mpg and 60 mpg?
Swift: A Solid Modern Imperative Language
...they can't be sure N others following the same strategy don't try the same thing, making the final odds awful.

Sure, but this is a challenge with parimutuel wagering in general. It's why the lines at the window are longest with one minute to post: there is more information about odds closer to the end.
I don't agree. I think it is more important to ensure free and private communications for people in oppressive regimes today than it is to ensure steady incomes for full-time musicians. Something that has, frankly, never been the case in history, before or after digital sharing.
The article did not link to the sources. It doesn't take a lot of factors into account. They did not mention that much of the long term research is based on low fat diets that were popular some time ago. I suspect much of the research was done in order to prove fad dieting did not work this is important for SoCal and scientific reasons but not really an indication that all hope is lost. It is only recently that we have started doing the basic research to really see what is good for you and it is amazing how many mistaken.

More recent studies involving low carb diets are encouraging. There is also encouraging research directly relating the number of servings of fresh fruit and vegetables to mortality.
This article is more properly referenced and based on more resent research.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight-f...
How To Create Loyal Customers That Keep Coming Back For More
Swift playground which shows a live camera preview
Increase Revenue by Systematizing Your Freelance Business
No. It is galling to me that, as your linked article states and has been demonstrated in several court cases, factual innocence is not an immediate overturning of the conviction, an expungment, and a written apology from the governing body that erred.
This really is horrible. I don't even care anymore about what they wrote, breaking default ui behaviour is bad bad bad.
I was confused by this, too. Also there are absolutely no imports. This leaves me really confused, wondering why why why anyone would ever do such a thing.

I have two benevolent, understanding and sympathetic explanations: The author is from yesteryear and hasn't worked with other people in a while.

The other one is: He is a genious hacker and knows how to social engineer most of hn.
Since Most links point to the same rtf document it might just be a way to spread a very delicate RTF reader exploit..
Introducing People: cool open source app for team management
I would like to suggest using Knockout for this sort of thing instead. And as I side benefit you get can get reactive observable and a rich HTML binding syntax.

We do this sort of conditional rendering with KO in our application and it works great.

It's quite a mature and focused library.
Wow, thanks for pointing to this. Erik Meijer is awesome, and full of insights.

Even if he was a bit disorganized in the Reactive Programming class on Coursera, he still was a treat to listen to. Would like to see what he does here.
I am wondering how far is this from getting to mainstream city cars! I would be happy with a 100 miles per litre!
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ChatSecure supports OTR, Xabber supports OTR, Pidgin/Adium too, so there's the multi-platform, open-source, end-to-end texting app. You just need an account on any XMPP server.
Generative art and its relationship with society
Three UK mobile operator extends free data roaming to 5 more countries
Software Engineering, Not Computer Science [2004]
Kill process or sacrifice child – tough choices for linux kernel
How does the concurrency primitives in Rust compare to the ones in Go?
From what I read about the concurrency primitives in Rust, they seem to be more inspired by the actor model in languages such as Erlang (and Scala?) than Golangs "hardwired" channels.

Is this notion correct?

At the same time it seems it has the counterparts of go-routines (lightweight tasks) and I have seen channels mentioned.

All in all, I would welcome a little elaboration on what are the differences between the concurrency primitives in the two languages.
The fact that has Apple has more money than they know what to do with is the real factor for legal repercussions.

It's one thing to have theoretically defensible IP, and other thing entirely to actually be able to.

Assuming equal resources backing the legal teams, it would probably be sufficient that they are both forms of software, as all software trademarks are lumped together in the single category. There might be some sort of passing off action one way or another but it would be more likely to come from Apple than HealthKit.

There seems to be overlap between the Health app and Healthkit.com which I suppose is the real issue. Hard to tell if Healthkit truly got sherlocked though, because I can't tell what they do from their website past management software.
Processing, http://www.processing.org/, almost seems a de facto development environment for Generative Art - I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned. It has an easy to grasp syntax (which is translated to plain Java in the background), a simple IDE, a huge collection of examples and a selection of great books to help a novice artist on track. Some books, see http://www.processing.org/books/ for a list, especially target Generative Art.

Personal recommendation: "Processing: A Programming Handbook
for Visual Designers and Artists" by the original Processing authors, Casey Reas and Ben Fry.
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Sure it is for a greater cause, but making people expose their websites' visitors to a third-party is not what I would have expected from a privacy movement. See http://resetthenet.tumblr.com/post/84330794665/the-reset-the...

Instead of having a local javascript, they want you to make sure all your visitors load it from members.internetdefenseleague.org or fightforthefuture.github.io

The main site is not privacy protecting either. Leaking to Optimizely, Amazon, YouTube, Heroku, Cloudflare, taskforce.is, Typekit.
I'm on the way of building an open source spotify-alike app. For now it already has a server and a osx web-based client app. https://github.com/knoopx/headbang.app
Look at D3 or Raphael :)
Personally I'm using the IKEA Markus Chair. It's an excellent chair for the money and I'd definitely recommend it.

Link: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102/
Pedantic: they are still a commutative monoid without 0, under multiplication with identity 1. You need 0 as the identity for addition, which is fundamental in these constructions.
True, but the HealthKit.com can't really establish any sort of claim to the IP - the name is both generic and descriptive and is therefore ridiculously hard to protect without huge traction.
I think this is the most interesting thing I've learnt from this thread: that most other countries didn't use @ as "at the rate of", and hence had names for the funny symbol on their typewriters that only began to be used with email addresses.
what motivates Microsoft updates? Fear of market share loss?
It's both punishment and big business.

http://www.thenation.com/prison-profiteers
The VW I mention in another comment has the goal:

"The 1-litre car was designed to be able to travel 100 km on 1 litre of diesel fuel (280 mpg-imp; 240 mpg-US), while being both roadworthy and practical."

Edit: I do find it amusing that VW Group make the super efficient XL1 as well as Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Bugattis.
Here are the detailed results of the contest (and yes, the original results are in km/l): http://s08.static-shell.com/content/dam/shell-new/local/corp...
Project page: http://www.la-joliverie.com/projets-pedagogiques/microjoule-...

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microjoule_%28vehicle%29
One Africa Media’s Carey Eaton passes away
A presenter could do that, but the greater specificity – "my girlfriend" – makes for a stronger, more relatable, and mostly self-deprecating joke. After all, he's not saying Maven is "like" his specific, real girlfriend, or girlfriends in general. He's saying Maven "is" his problematic girlfriend.

That makes it an embarrassing confession, about a universally-understandable human situation – having some frustrations with a romantic partner. But he's in a grating relationship with a software tool! The joke's on him!

There's no necessary implication all girlfriends/partners, or all women, fit that model – just that it's a recognizable pattern. Anyone who's ever seen a sitcom, family-comedy-movie, adult-comedy-movie, or stand-up-comic will be familiar with the fact that some SOs/hookups/spouses can sometimes annoy, in the manner of the bullet points.
I've been running a small exit node for over 5 years, with three providers, none of which have complained (I'm in the netherlands, that might matter).

there's one disadvantage though : a lot of sites refuse my ip because it's an exit node. which is no problem because all my own traffic runs through a vpn anyway...
نتيجة الشهادة الاعدادية لمحافظة القليوبية الترم الثانى 2014
If 5% of people make the change it means it is possible and very normal. I believe in everything in life only 1-10% of people are as willing and able to make the change. Look at people who really learn a very foreign language well (and I'm not talking about Spanish speakers learning Portugese or something like that). Look at people who are able to move from one career path to another after realizing the first choice they took with 20 won't sustain a family. etc.

Change is hard. But the people who already did change one thing in their life are very able to change their health/obesity as well.
Why shouldn't they just extrapolate? 1 l / (fuel-used-for-16-kilometers-Shell-competition-in-liters / 16 km) * 0.621371 mi/km
For me it's been a Google replacement. The results have become really good recently.

At this point I feel the main difference is the personally ranked results. Once you get used to the page you want being 4th or 5th on the list rather than first, you realize the trade-off is worth it.
Meh. I have T-Mobile, but AT&T's service is faster and has better coverage. I get barely any coverage in my parents house less than 15 miles from DC. Not a big deal for me, because I'm mostly in the city, but its a lower quality product being sold for a lower price. Nothing atypical about that.
To dismiss them as unlikely is not survivorship bias, no. That's not how it works - you knew that and knew that we did too.

But, for example, to say "I used to jump in to rivers and swim around, never hurt me" as an argument for allowing kids to jump in to [untested] rivers would be. Sure most children would survive but we nonetheless have the bias in the lack of testimony from those that drowned, or possibly impaled themselves on detritus hidden below the surface , and died.

Just because there is a survivorship bias in testimonies concerning [sufficiently] safe activities for children doesn't of course mean that one is required to stop their children taking part in those activities.

All activities and inactivities have risks. The note of the bias is simply a reminder to take it in to account when weighing those risks.
That's a very good point. I had an image in my head of traveling musicians playing lutes but that's a bit unrepresentative! Especially of music that has endured through time (e.g. classical composition).

Instead of patronage / wealth, I suppose that a market mechanism could be used to support music creation in a wider section of society. However, I would actually argue for income redistribution to support that.
Users slam ‘creepy’ new feature that allows Facebook to listen in
When in doubt, ask 'What will add value to my users?' If the answer is 'I don't know' then step away from the desk and go talk to them.
I've read a fair amount of his stuff but hadn't seen him talk about hash-based addressing, do you know where you've seen it? In Literary Machines he wrote about a hierarchical addressing scheme called Tumblers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_(Project_Xanadu)
They are collating youtube content... So... everything you said is a bit ridiculous.
Actually, if you are given 21 years in prison, you are given 21 years. Normally you would then get out on parole after 14, but the maximum you will receive unless you carry out other criminal acts while in prison that warrants a new trial and sentence, is 21 years.

In order for it to be possible to keep the person locked up further, it requires a special sentence - "forvaring" - that is separate from the longest ordinary prison sentence and is intended for use only with prisoners that are deemed to be at particular high risk of reoffending.

The court will set a minimum period that the convicted needs to stay in prison, which should normally not exceed 10 years, and a term after which the prisoner will be regularly reviewed for release, which should normally not exceed 15 years but that can be as long as 21 (at least every 5 years). The prosecution will then go to the courts and request an extension if they believe there's still cause to believe that the person is at great risk of reoffending at the end of the initial term and in advance of the expiry of any extensions.

It was specifically made clear when the changes to the law was made, that it was not generally intended as a life sentence, but in fact that it was expected that at lot of the sentences would have much shorter terms than the maximum. As of 2005 (3 years after introduction of "forvaring") 2/3's of the sentences where it had been given where given with terms less than 10 years.

I don't know, and don't have time to check, how many of these have actually been released, but I know some have been released without extensions to their initial term, even in cases where the court found that there was risk of reoffending, but where the risk was not found to be sufficient to meet the criteria for extending the term.
Favourite comment:

"I went to a presentation from a sentiment analysis business last year. They were discussing how they were using it on the firehose feed of everything from twitter. Rather than assassinations, they were more interested in marketing, branding, and the impact on stock prices (there are apparently some iiiiiiinteresting correlations).

The thing that entertained me was they said they had to special-case content coming from the UK — because our levels of sarcasm/irony were skewing their results.

I think it was the most patriotic moment of my life <sniff> ;-)"
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Performance Optimization of SQLite on iOS
I didn't think that much about performance of SQLite on iOS - iPhones are no super computers, that's for sure, but a few hundred records should not be a problem. As it turned out, it was a problem. A huge problem.
In the future, Roko's Femilisk will simulate you from first principles to see if you thought anything nasty about Tumblr social justice. http://newstechnica.com/2014/05/24/future-advanced-cyborg-hu...
>> "Only in the few first world countries that these services operate in."

False. Spotify is available in 45 countries. Deezer is available in over 180!
Either way, IMO, students shouldn't be the ones paying (yes, I know it's only 1$). Maybe he should have made an arrangement with the school so they cover the Apple fees or fund it through donations.
It looks like "national security" became a catch-all concept these days.

But not sure how the government gains from secrecy in this case since they seek to advertise a successful anti-terrorism program. That should be conveyed by public and publicized prosecutions.
According to https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html they call them "middle relays, exit relays, and bridges".
It'll probably be shut down by this weekend.
Maybe "pointless" is more correct then. "Nonsense" suggests you have a strong opinion on whether we live in a simulation, which as you said, we can't know.
In theory, the whole point of privatizing the spectrum is to avoid the tragedy of the commons problems. This seems to have been the winning economic consensus in the 1980's and 1990's, which led to the FCC adopting the auction model for spectrum.

Read Tom Hazlett. Or back to Coase: http://old.ccer.edu.cn/download/7874-1.pdf
Ted Nelson’s Xanadu finally gets released after 51 years (with Transclusion)
I use gitit [1], which is open-source [2]. As a programmer, I really like being able to browse (less), search (grep), and edit (vi) via the command line. For my personal wiki, I do not even run the web server, saving RAM, though I can easily start the server if/when desired. Since it is backed by git, it is also easy to clone the wiki for offline usage and sync when going back online.

[1] http://gitit.net/

[2] https://github.com/jgm/gitit
Sidekiq::Activerecord – encapsulates common Sidekiq and ActiveRecord patterns.
In the future, cyborg personality emulations embodying immortal human minds will still behave like arseholes towards each other.
Ask HN: Feature marketing or product marketing?
We are a link sharing tool for team (http://teamgum.com). I have read many benefits about benefit that a team can get by sharing links. One of the zapier blog i read, listed 6 tools for sharing links to get the needed benefit.

However, conceptually link sharing in teams will give different benefits depending on the way it used.

this leaves me in a puzzle - should we benefit the benefits the way we see it or should we just market the features & lets users decide what benefit they can get from it?
Printing nicely formatted reports was one of Larry Wall's original motivations for Perl.
I'm not certain that linking and providing access is the same. Let's take a copyrighted work which we can relate to more easily than web pages - TV Shows on Hulu.

Now, you can always link to Hulu in your browser and direct your visitors to Hulu. Hulu as the (C) holder can then decide if you're geographically suitable to recieve this content.

How about building a proxy webpage that provides access to Hulu (let's call it EU-Hulu)? We'll build a complete Hulu clone that works in EU by tunneling video streams via VPN to our page and stream them from our web video players.

I don't think that adding attribuition (ie providing a "THIS CONTENT IS FROM HULU" and their logo) to the page would solve our legal problems. If anybody can confirm that this is in fact legal, I know what I'll be developing in the near future: EU-HULU, EU-Spotify, EU-...

Copyright law is very very very strict. If it's not explicitely stated it's forbidden. Even by taking code from a pastie repository, where it's clearly made public, you're braking the authors Copyright unless he specifies Licensing terms that allows you to copy paste it into your app. Source code for all closed source software could be made public and that doesn't mean you're allowed to use it in any way.

To go even further - Hulu, while it openly shares video content to US citizens is unavailable to the rest of the world. We all know that you can bypass the limitation by employing VPN, but you're breaking the Copyright law nontheless. It's their choice if they want to limit access to their copyrighted materials.

If OP built a Web browser clone, he would be in the clear. He instead took data from the webpage, mangled it into his own app and sold it for 0.99$. Now while I do not agree with the tactics employed by the school (they should embrace it instead), image we would be talking about Wikipedia and 6.99$ BestEncyclopedia app, developed by Apple, which downloads the data and presents it a very nice way (they'd call it Cylopedia-Flow with huge images and Helvetica all the way).

Right now you'd be very pissed at Apple.
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You could say the same thing about "nanotechnology" - which in practice is materials scientists getting money for chemistry when they know damn well that using the term is implicitly promising magical tiny robots to the gullible.
And that they are frequently the same people.