skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teaching the file system to read
Part two of a series on linux's file system designs.
Thanks, I've dropped you an email with the steps to reproduce. Somehow I had landed on a particular ladder page and it looks like it may have an older style log in modal.
Hiphop (Popcorn Time for music) discontinued
>I just made a bunch of cogs tick in a number of corporations and a few vanity project that I call "startup's."

Considered contributing to open source?

I teach and write libraries. Gives me that nice "I made this" feeling. Career-boosting too.
An older discussion thread worth considering:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0
I'm pretty early career(graduated in 2012) and even I get harassed on the regular. Maybe they bother younger people more because they think we're less expensive(which is generally true) but the only "legit" linkedin recruiters I ever heard from seemed like Google/FB/Palantir/etc"spam every graduating CS kid in x region" as an invitation to apply rather than a normal "recruiting for a specific opening" type thing.

Maybe I just have a shitty linkedin(but it does say plz no recruiters on it)
Uhm, it shows "no more results" on my system. Maybe the change is being propagated?
HILARIOUS SECRET TALENT
There are few for Polymer: http://n12v.com/2-way-data-binding/#comment-1432482279
What kills me is the lack of transparency here. If Skype replaced the message for all parties with something like:

"Hey bud, try this link: [Link deleted - this link breaks our terms of server]"

I could at least argue their case (although I still don't want someone to censor my communications with my friends). However, deleting the full message without warning the sender is absurd. What if along with the questionable link I wrote something important.

Mom's very ill. I spent an hour talking to this cutie to console myself: [link]
Thanks, included this in the post.
How to upload video to YouTube? Help?
This is a great looking site but for me it illustrates the problem with "expert" sites versus "crowd" sites. Yeah, you have a ton of hotels in NYC, LA, etc. but I'm going on vacation to Connecticut and Maine this summer and there's nothing for either state in your search. I'd love to use it but there's going to need to be a lot more experts.
No, it might be insecure, but that doesn't mean that it's not brilliant. The platform is not designed for security. It's designed to play a game while coding, and it does that.
Become a hacker in 1 day
Anyone can play at a game like this. It's called Linux Kernel Development.
We are intended as a platform for philanthropy. Any interest returns wouldn't be enough to compensate for risk.
I think you may need to intervene and call out the nerds, otherwise they may start missing crucial developmental milestones.
Teaching the file system to read
Part 2 in a series on file system design inside the linux kernel.
This has been the way asset forfeiture has worked since the '80s. People complain about the war on terror, but it's a sideshow compared to the deep and long lasting erosion of civil liberties that has been happening as part of the war on drugs for decades and decades.
Yes, the extrapolation being missed by the article, is that the rich will control bitcoin, and nothing can ever stop that from happening. It goes to the very core of how bitcoin is designed that allows for it to be dominated by a large rich entity with enough processing power. Inherently the 'little guy' will be priced out of bitcoin, it was always going to be that way. Whether it's one or ten entities in question doesn't matter, bitcoin will be dominated by rich, powerful companies or persons, and that powerful position will only increase in fortification with time.

This principle pops the utopian fantasy of bitcoin that some cling to, but only a different approach to digital currencies will get you around the issue.

Money & power always consolidates down to the hands of a few that will possess dramatic influence compared to the rest of the market participants. See: JP Morgan, pre-Fed.
How do you really feel?
At first I thought, what is so unfriendly about cURL? Then I saw the screenshot that shows a comparable cURL request behind the HTTPie request and I'm convinced.
What a sexist load of garbage. Women /want/ custody and men don't give a shit about their children, right?

The statistic touting men's success rate in seeking custody ignores the price of entry. Men /want/ to be in their children's lives, but must be wealthy to fund a custody battle (while also paying child support and alimony if he was married) in order to do so.

Women are the automatic receivers of custody, it is then the father's "privilege" to hire a family practice lawyer and sue for custody to the tune of thousands of dollars and invasion of his privacy via drug and psychological testing.
Well, if meritocracy is the ideal, then sure, it's nowhere to be found. However, imagine if you put together a kick ass SaaS product that is super useful to thousands of companies small and large. Then suddenly you can't just put it out in the wild and see how it does. First, some executive somewhere has to look at it, use it for 10 minutes, then either approve or disapprove of it. And if the exec disapproves, you have no choice but to start building something brand new. Doesn't that sound like bullshit?

You can be meritocratic about music, the same way you can be meritocratic about things like web browsers, or cars, or fine art. You know quality stuff when you see it. You do still need an efficient way to discover good stuff, but that's where services like Spotify, iTunes, etc. can really shine. Why do we need a label as a middleman between the artist and iTunes? What value will the label bring vs just throwing all music at iTunes and seeing what sticks? What kind of a refined musical appreciation talent do the label execs have that they can decide what I should or should not hear?
Yes agreed. I went from a "special needs" class to the super gifted class within 2 years. Depression and being "bored" in class really makes a difference.
You can't stop pool mining, even with a hard fork.

Let's say you implement a restriction like "5 blocks in a row max for a given pool". GHash can split into GhashA and GhashB, and keep going.
For One Baby, Life Begins with Genome Revealed
I've discovered the x86_64 opcode CMOVL -- a conditional move -- because of this.

if (array[i] < boundary) count+=2;

I had to work hard to make GCC not produce optimal code. Even this

if (array[i] < boundary) return count+1; else return count;

came out the same as all the others.

Avoiding branch prediction is hardly news. Was the article's author even compiling with optimizations enabled?
> You will not get an education and you will not build a business with $50

It's not $50 on the borrower's side. It's about that amount on the lender's side - which makes up a small part of a ~hundreds/thousands dollar loan. That can achieve a lot. Have a look at the actual list of requests - most of them are around $500 total.
I agree with you about Linkedin for computer jobs, but monster.com and the other job sites are the same way. When I post an updated resume on monster.com, I have scummy recruiters calling me the very next day. So that's not a Linkedin problem, it's a shitty recruiting/hiring in the IT world problem.

I don't think it's so bad for other professions, though. My girlfriend has found a job through her Linkedin contacts, and a friend of mine who does sales has found a job through his network there, too.
LinkedIn is the worst offender when it comes to SPAM. I've turned off all possible settings to recive 0 emails still get multiple messages everyday :(
My Chinese co-worker introduced me to Iron Goddess of Mercy oolong tea, and it is incredible. Most of Orwell's points are still relevant, but the water is cooler and milk is not used. I realized that even nice tea bags like Twinings are basically floor sweepings compared to quality whole leaves.
We'll be growing, don't worry. Today is day two. :)
Visualization of tweets during the first 2014 World Cup match
Correct. And this is addressed in the article. The issue is that phones that are accidentally left locked and returned are junk. Selling a used phone is always good for business because most people will use the money to buy a new one. Buying a used phone isn't nearly as good for Apple.
I think possibly you are lacking imagination :)

There are many career paths, some very lucrative, and it's not just the awful "be a sharepoint consultant" BS.

For starters, if you look at Glassdoor, an engineer with experience can get a job w/ a wealthy tech company making $175k+/yr, with your base salary at $130k+. And it goes up from there. This essentially matches my own experience hiring in this market and talking to others that hire.

And if you hold some of that $45k+/yr RSU grant, you are likely to see appreciation.

There is a lot of misconception. Just last night I was at a popular pizza place in a popular SF neighborhood and beside me sat a table full of guys, mid 20s or so. One guy said, basically, "companies aren't paying more than the low 100s for engineers" and everybody seemed to agree with that. My first instinct is, let me make you a job offer! The truth is, there is a lot of money to be made in tech. People always focus on early stage, lotto-ticket equity. It's easy to overlook that there are MANY publicly traded (or pre-ipo) companies that are hiring engineers, paying handsome base salaries and generous RSU grants.

All that said, it's not all about the money. I don't mean to suggest it is.
Interesting. I hadn't thought about this, thanks for mentioning it.
Thanks for the bug report.

We have an algorithm that looks at a large number of factors (number of reviews, each reviewer's unique denotation system, number of hotels in a destination, sentiment, etc) and calculates the number.
I would be wary of taking that book at its word. The authors have an agenda and they are not afraid to twist historical facts to suit their narrative. I mean, their very first chapter begins with a lie which perpetuates the myth that Watt's patent retarded steam development [1].

When the authors of [1] called out Boldrin and Levine on this, the latter responded by fabricating new myths rather than admit that the truth undermined their narrative [2].

The very chapter you cite itself has such inaccuracies. I did not track down all the stuff they cite, but I did find an instance of mischaracterizing references to suit their view points. For instance, when they discuss the German dyestuff industry, they cite a study by Murmann to support their narrative that Germany dominated in that industry due to the lack of patents. But if you look at the actual study itself, Murmann paints (heh) a much more nuanced picture. German dominance in that industry was fueled by close ties with academic research, and later by R&D labs encouraged by, of all things, the newly introduced patent laws:

>When in 1877 German patent law protected dye innovations, a few German firms such as Hoechst, BASF, and AGFA saw the advantage of hiring organic chemists whose sole task was to synthesize new dyes. After these research chemists turned out economically successful dyes, firms hired more and more chemists and pioneered an entirely new corporate function, formally organized research. The birth of corporate research and development (R&D), which today is a standard activity in high-tech industries ... can be traced to the German synthetic dye firms in 1880s. By the 1890s the vast majority of dyes were being discovered in the R&D laboratories of Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF.

> Whereas in the early days of the industry a firm could exist by copying dyes invented somewhere else, patent laws made the systematic application of science within the boundaries of the firm a critical dimension of remaining a leader in the industry.

And elsewhere:

> The most important institution in the early success of the German dye industry was the university system, but patent laws were a second key factor that allowed the German firms to capture a dominant position.

With that many assertions in the study that refute their view, they cherry-pick a few comments and actually cite the study as one that supports their view.

With so many mischaracterizations in there, I find it hard to take anything else they say in that book at their word.

1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589712

2. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/bpjrlecon/v_3a5_3ay_3a20...

3. Murmann JP, 2003, "Knowledge and Competitive Advantage – The Coevolution of Firms, Technologies and National Institutions." - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam041/2003043048.pdf
Fair enough, but:

> All you need to do for pre-registration is provide some basic information (like your name and address) and pay a $10 deposit [with a credit card].

When the results first came in, the fiberhoods were divided among racial and economic lines: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/21/google-making-digital-div....

Now Google did a lot after the fact to generate interest in those neighborhoods that had been left-out, and sign up more of them. But let's not forget they have substantial PR reasons for doing so.

My intention isn't to question Google's motives, but to point out that even Google has refused to accept build-out requirements, of the sort that are almost universally included in franchise agreements. What does that tell you about how these requirements impact competition in other markets? What impact do they have on potential fiber ISP's who don't have Google's PR motivations?
>I put some code in my forms that grabbed the email address when focus left the email input box – even if part of a larger form – and sent it back to the server. [...] Once I have that email address, I can backfill info to build a customer profile [...] This little hack is super-awesome because even if they don’t complete the entire form, as long as they fill in the email address, I get the data.

Holy shit.
>and a flat fee of 5% of each loan funded per year the loan is held

interesting definition of flat fee. It sounds to me like additional 5% interest, isn't it?
Case Study: ProtoJolt, mistakes and lessons learned from a two week 'hack out'
A mark that I trust and I am interested in the project. In the aggregate, it demonstrates the reliability and trustworthiness of the project. To me, A healthy number of stars/follows/forks (along with recent commits) proclaims that I needn't hesitate to use the product of that repo in my projects. Starring is to partly pass on that favor, to share my knowledge of what works and what doesn't.
Typed Lua: An Optional Type System for Lua [pdf]
The difference is that your grandmother didn't have a guaranteed payday and a "strong independent single-mother's movement" awaiting her if she decided she was tired of your grandfather.

The quickly disappearing stigma against single-motherhood combined with the demonization of men as deadbeats and child molesters, when paired with massive amounts of state handouts to single mothers (wic, welfare, child support, alimony, state medical insurance, housing subsidy, single-mother scholarships, affirmative action jobs, etc.) has made divorce as inconsequential as possible for women while dramatically raising the consequences for men.

Marriage is broken and men who go into it without understanding the disparity of legal, psychological, and economic outcomes between the genders are in for a rude awakening.
The Great American Tagline Is Dead.
"Finally, hotel reviews you can trust."

I thought the beauty of TripADvisor and the like is that it does away with the old travel guides. Guides are written by people with even more questionable motive and are quickly outdated. Not sure how many times I have been saved from bad experience by reading a recent reviews saying "BEWARE Hotel is under construction for next month..." or something current like that.

Maybe there value in both... not for me.
I like this.

The biggest problem with TripAdvisor hotel reviews (besides fake reviews) is that varied background of the individual reviewer.

Witness how a Holiday Inn can wind up rated higher than a Park Hyatt, simply because of the background of the majority of TA reviewers.

I've largely given up on TA for reviews. For chain hotels, I find FlyerTalk's convention of a dedicated thread per hotel or locality far more valuable, especially because those reviews are specifically from the perspective of frequent travelers rather than once-a-year flyers heading to Disneyland.

For example, 2100+ posts on every possible minute detail of the Conrad Hong Kong: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilton-hilton-hhonors/124932-...
That's a grim reality if true. I don't have any information that would refute this claim, so I can't disagree, and it actually makes a lot of sense.
Come on progressive portland, build a municipal fiber network like my redneck hometown in Tennessee.
Show HN: First Touch friendly Platformer
No one enjoys virtual controls for a platformer.My game "Rubber Boy" tries to solve this by using only touch gestures to control.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.solvevolve.flubber

Basically, flick to jump and tap to stop.
Personally I find this scheme much more practical and I have been able to go through some tough levels easily.
I tried my best to incorporate most challenging and interesting levels only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlA2HBsT1Y

I am planning on open sourcing the code sometime soon( let me know if you would be interested). The game has no Ads, no IAPs its completely free (The network permission is to log level finishes).

P.S. I am looking to get into the gaming industry. Let me know if you can help me.
I'd disagree that it's a list of facts; the high school modeling standards are skills. I've read some good discussions of whether the earlier-year standards are useful for their age groups and am not sure (I think they're pretty reasonable). The high school modeling and geometry components are great.

But what does Common Core have to do with graph theory not being taught in elementary school? It never has been, and not because of new standards. It's not taught because too many teachers don't know it, and because too many "administrators, test writers, and standards-compliance checkers" have their noses where they shouldn't! It is terrible that in the US we have this attitude that teachers must be told exactly what to teach and when. We have it because we don't trust teachers, and swapping out NCTM standards for Common Core standards doesn't change that.
Well, it's also not a simple as you describe. You might have objects within the canvas that might also need to be resized, images, text, bg images, bounding borders, etc. All these things will need to be taken into consideration when being scaled or resized.
> But would basic physics render them tiny, dark, and cold
> enough in the face of a technological arms race? Remember:
> think ahead. The opposite side would counter by building
> IR telescopes with enough sensitivity to detect even the
> minimal differential in IR emissions and correlate that
> with other emissions and starlight occlusion. Thus the
> arms race begins.

Well that's kind of what I mean. In space, the ability to detect seems as though it will always outstrip the ability to act.

As IR detection improves, it gets easier to detect tiny dark sensors - but the tiny sensors also get the improved IR detection ability, and it really, really gets easier to detect attack ships or missiles that are going to produce heat as a byproduct of acceleration.

Attack ships/missiles that need to carry a payload and/or accelerate will always be orders of magnitude more expensive and easier to detect than a sensor that essentially remains motionless.

And even if Side A knows where all 10,000 of Side B's sensors are located around the solar system, then what? It's a pretty expensive proposition to destroy them. One side could even bleed the other dry that way - for every $1 that Side B spends deploying sensor probes, Side A has to spend $10 or $100 or $1,000 to destroy it.

Ultimately, what the ease-of-detection means in space is that battles will much tougher to win for the underdogs, as it will be harder for them to overcome a deficit in resources with the use of stealth or surprise.
Determining the type of an argument by looking up the presence of ':', '=', or '==' is brilliant. I liked it.

It can also be used to replace Wget, which not only breaks a multibyte filename sometimes, but also requires the --content-disposition option to handle the Content-Disposition header.
How many tracks are there and is there a chance to release them to the public for free before shutting down? Would be sad to see indie music get lost in the storm. :(
It's worth zooming in to see the detail. For example, zoomed out, the whole of Europe looks like it's a buzz of tweeting activity during the Brazil vs Croatia match. However, once you zoom in, the picture is quite different. The UK seems to be the busiest. Germany is relatively quiet and France has a concentrated cluster of tweets emanating from Paris.
A hash pool at 51% is big news. If this isn't corrected soon, BTC is doomed to fail.
The article makes a pretty interesting point: Bitcoin's version of proof of work can be delegated, which makes mining pools possible. An alternative design could ensure that the task to solve is designed so that miners and pool could not trust each other, thus ensuring that pools do not exist.

It seems like this is a pretty big flaw in how Bitcoin is designed, as its security relies on miners remaining independent.
From the article: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309073.0
That wouldn't work either. Even if to make it so every 3 blocks can be rewarded to an address (let's say), then you can simply write your own wallet that will use randomized addresses and simply forward their reward to the pool's wallet, which then distributes to the "real wallets".

The only way you can truly prevent pools from taking over is create a system of authentication that'll destroy anonymity.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'peaked' (in popularity? learning trajectory? potential?) but as a long-time expat getting by in a few different countries, I took a different path than everyone else I know and I feel that my best is yet to come (being a life-long learner helps). I had friends in my early-mid 20s who pretended they were 'on the up-and-up, doing big things', but that was mostly because they came from wealthy families. I never compared myself with them, though, nor with anyone (something I think everyone should learn how to do).

All I can say is I've heard several times from middle-aged people that one's 30s and 40s are way better than one's 20s. Being in my early 30s, I feel more comfortable in my own skin, making decisions and being totally okay with the choices I make in the day-to-day.
I think level of inhibition is too reductive to have explanatory power. My guess is that the nerds are the children who listen to adults and follow rules. The cool kids are the kids that rebel very early, probably because the adults in their lives were not trustworthy. Following the rules and doing what you're supposed to is pretty much a recipe for later life success, as defined by a stable job, stable household, etc. So there's really no upside to being the rebellious child. It might be a source of coolness for a year or two as a teenager.

The famous experiment, where they promised a child two pieces of candy if he or she didn't take the piece of candy in front of her, and found that not taking the candy predicted success, can be interpreted in different ways. Supposedly it measures inhibition, which is taken to be an independent variable, and it showed that children with higher levels of inhibition experience greater levels of success. I imagine the experiment from the perspective of the child. An adult promises to give you extra candy if you do what they say. Should you trust this adult? I suspect that if dad is an alcoholic and makes a lot of promises, and then passes out and doesn't remember, you will not take the adult seriously and try to have some candy while you still can.