skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused about the HTTPS complaint. Is he trying to do something special? I'm pretty sure a simple HttpURLConnection object can read HTTPS links same as HTTP links.

I feel like I'm missing something.
Probably not much will be done by the general public as long as the milk and honey keep flowing.....

This is the real trick for our leaders (or usurpers or whoever they are). Keeping a chicken in every pot and two cars in each garage.

They start failing at this and suddenly the citizenry might miraculously become concerned about "rights" and "liberty". And... I might point out, in spite of NSA, in spite of a possibly doctored political process, in spite of police departments with tanks... an unhappy and hungry citizenry, especially one that can still vote, has never been good for those in charge of society.
Urgh. Do you really have this much trouble differentiating between "We don't understand X" and "We don't understand X therefore anything is on the table"?
Why couldn't java do #2? It sees you allocate the array it could preallocate or reserve a block of memory for the objects that are about to fill it.
I read about this awhile ago and I didn't think it sounded all that fun. But looking at the pictures, it actually looks like it could be really cool. I'm definitely going to get this.
I'm thinking of getting Wii-U too - my son really loves Minecraft (in creative mode), and once in a while he gets the thrills in survival, but he loves creating more.

I've never enjoyed fps, although I happen to work in the tools team for one of the most popular fps's out there.

I grew up on turn based fantasy gaming and still do that (highly recommend Dragon Fantasy Book I & II, also Palm Kingdoms).
They're making it (I linked above) but my guess is that they're still pretty fragile. The microstructures and nanostructures that minimize contact surface area can be flattened or broken super easily and then your perfect phobic material becomes partially porous. So I would say it's not hard to make them, but it's hard to make them robust.
How trustworthy is JavaScript's random implementation in various browsers?
A lot of the "real money" startups generate is from selling services to other startups and tech companies - particularly in the YC ecosystem. It's possible that revenue will slow in a crash and start a nasty cycle.
I thought with the advanced techiques you can get upwards of 600 wpm. I mean, the minimum to get the job is 225ish.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_reporter#Skills_and_train...

edit: Forgot to add. Just because I thought you could get to 600 doesn't mean I was right. :) Looks like 300 is still quite high.
Hey, I'm another person whose only class was on a manual typewriter. 7th grade, 1992ish. I'm at 85 wpm 100% accuracy, 130 wpm if I omit capitalization and punctuation. (and let the word processor pick it up)
> Are there tourists lookouts that are above popular climbing routes?

Definitely. In Yosemite both Half Dome and El Cap have hiking trails to the top and are very popular for climbing.

There's an old joke in climbing when you top out among the hikers: "Wait, you mean there's another way up this thing??"

Edit to add: even though a falling drone would probably not actually hit a climber, I don't think anyone wants the base of El Cap littered with smashed little drones.
Fair enough, I don't agree but at least I'm sure I know your position now. :)
Amazing. This could make communicating with professors over email so painless!
Basically, yes.

He should have tried [or not done what he did]. However, he made a mistake and paid for it.
Agree. I just subscribed, damn the expense. A wonderful publication like that is well worth a bill a year if you ask me.
The Nothing App
Incredible work! If only we had this kind of ingenuity today to get a simple graphics card working with Linux! Imagine the possibilities. One day, I might even have an option in Ubuntu to change the refresh rate to 60hz without entering 'xrandr -r 60' into the console EVERY DAMN TIME I REBOOT. Now, I know I'm going on a limb with this next one, but imagine if someone had the intelligence to code a universal installer that works every time and installed every piece of needed software all at once with zero user interaction??! I'm getting a bit craaazy here, but imagine effortless uninstalls! Mind blown.

Edit: "One more thing" as I get voted down by those in denial. Imagine this brilliance getting Linux to talk to a relatively unheard of device called an iPhone 5s! It sure would be nice getting pictures and video off this damn phone so I can free up space!
Perhaps they're superhydrophobic to allow water droplets to roll off and be absorbed by the roots?
This is also useful as a demonstration of how the Servo developers use bots to augment the review of pull requests. See also "bors", the Rust compiler's continuous integration bot: http://buildbot.rust-lang.org/bors/bors.html

It would be very interesting to survey the largest projects being developed on Github to determine if they've also grown bespoke ways of dealing with the platform's pain points. I know that the Rust developers aren't entirely satisfied with the tools that Github provides (which seem to be optimized for small projects at the expense of large ones), but Github's network effects are just too good to ignore for a project that relies on volunteer contributions.
Project Euler is Back but Without Login and Answer Check
I'm actually more interested in the Wii U than either an Xbox One or PS4.

I just don't want to have yet another console to worry about hooking up. So I'm waiting until I'm ready to retire my current Xbox 360 and PS3 (and with upcoming Dark Souls 2 DLC, that's going to be probably another half year at least).

That said, I'm probably going to be forced to pick up a PS4 to play Bloodborne when it launches (supposedly a sort of spiritual successor to Demon's Souls).
Blade Runner is different because of the attention it received due to the "Final Cut" version that came out in 2007. If it hadn't been for that, references to it would probably be a lot less recognizable with the younger crowd. Case in point: I recently made a "2001: A Space Odyssey" reference in front of a room full of 20-something programmers and not one person picked up on it. It wasn't even that obscure -- it was a picture of the monolith, one of the most recognizable images from the movie (and in science fiction in general). The people in the room generally just hadn't seen or even heard of (really all that is required to get the reference) the movie.
I had a code for my game genie that enabled this functionality. It was fun hacking away at Mario 3.
Hm, I was able to get 104 and 111wpm, but I find the new UI to typeracer incredibly distracting. I have clocked in multiple times on multiple tests at 137wpm.

It's just very visually distracting for the words to disapper as I type them, and when I scored over 100wpm on a race, I had to take a 'test' to prove that I could do it, and on the test the UI was not all crazy, and I got 111wpm with some mistakes, including having to hit tab and enter to end the test.
I think ELONMUSK caught on... https://www.secret.ly/p/wsoncaocnwzvmgninwovxjxhbr
DVD-Ranger CinEx: How does Cinavia work? [pdf]
If you have not read, Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu then you are doing your self a disfavor if you are interested in performance. While its a bit old I guess, the Loki library is/was a wonderful C++ library with very interesting and useful techniques that give the programmer control while preserving things like type safety.

The design here may also benefit from a custom allocator so that objects of same type are constructed in memory in a contiguous fashion. Especially if you want more than one vector of these objects in the code. The above book also has a number of smart pointer constructs that are probably similar to these pointers but with customizable behaviors and strategies.

As someone else mentioned when code hits the real world things tend to break down but if you are not following a good memory design to begin with you don't even have the hope of getting the better performing version.
The $50K biology degree from Northwestern is arguably worth it. Northwestern is the best school on that list, and an undergraduate degree in biology is often a stepping stone to an MD, MHA, MPH, or PhD.
aha I spent so much time in college playing those levels, so hard without saving state every few seconds
Oops, the one article I didn't read this month. :S
Advice to save my startup
Related talk:

min 46 onward, http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661
I define "belief" quite a bit differently than they do, but I'm also ignorant of the fact that we don't mean the same thing for that word. Therefor, I wouldn't be lying if I said "no".
There's so much potential for this app, they could add a keyboard and allow you to send any message you want for instance...
Why is it okay to have a camera on a tripod on the ground, but not on a small aircraft in the air? Other than the aircraft being a newer accessible technology, I see no difference.
Did you know Sokal submitted his paper to several journals before getting accepted? And that he rewrote it to make it appeal to what he thought the editors would want to read? The paper wasn't even peer reviewed, so the fact that it was published is not significant at all, even though I found the discussion interesting and justified. I just think that the deception he used was not warranted and only served to generate attention and sensation.
Wow, Evil.
> if they were using drones to position the camera into that potentially dangerous position they might not die.

They might not die, but I'd offer that they stand a good chance of losing said buzzing, flying drone to a rock throw that went a little off course. No, seriously, I was aiming for that tree.
> just a policy about how you can or cannot annoy your fellows in a commons.

I don't see anything in the memo that suggests that only annoying usage of drones is banned. I see an absolute ban on remote controlled aircraft.
WRK is a nice tool that can bring you quite far, for sure. But what about the orchestration of complex sessions? As I understood that blog post mentioned in another comment StormForger was actually able to play a game. A simple one, but there is still a lot of complexity involved.

But even if you can build something like this with WRK (which should be possible, due to the Lua support) you still need to setup your test environment (reproducibly), collect all the logs from the machines involved, monitor the test generators, create useful metrics from the test results and make it possible to interact with them. And I'm pretty sure I forget a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be done.

And I know, that I don't want to do all this stuff by myself. With a service providing all this, I can concentrate on the real work: Interpreting numbers and fixing problems ;-)

BTW: I'm pretty sure under the hood there is some load testing tool deployed. Cannot imagine someone runs such a large scale test without such thing.
My limited understanding is that heat is related to the square of the voltage. And that by reducing the size of a transistor, you can lower the voltage. I don't think you can lower the voltage by quite as much as the reduction in size, so there must be a point when you can't just pack more in. Though gate design or choice of materials can reduce the voltage needed as well. They can also make the chip smarter about switching off parts that aren't needed at a given point in time to keep overall heat down.
I'm not sure how you measured your programs, if you measured them as a whole, then the random generation and sorting probably dominated the run-time. On my machine #1 is 3x faster than #2 for just the summing part of 10M 32-bit integers.

Code: http://ideone.com/xIV3f9
Which quotation? [1]

[1] http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA0LzMwL2ZjL1p1Y2tlc...
Seriously, it's my ceiling:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nhtggwgr47g1r7/Screenshot%202014-...

This was a typing test, where I again scored higher than in the race (I got 123), since the UI is wierd and I can't focus the text field before typing, it's hard to know how not to mess up.

I guess if you type 60wpm those details don't impact you as much.
Yeah, I once had a really good run (185) when I usually type 160. I had to prove that I could type 170 on a different text, and I couldn't do it.
I was using indeed.com, it doesn't seem to be possible to review the emails I sent.

If you are interested in a serious, post-seed, pre-A startup opportunity please contact me at dan.miller at orgstars.com

And if that doesn't work, we can still discuss the (intellectually dishonest) libertarian arguments against the carbon tax. I actually care about stuff like that.
He's saying that the supply of investment dollars is going up faster than the supply of startups.
> The problem is that you're interrupting the view and the serenity for others while you take that photo.

Plenty of other things interrupt views, like tripods or even other human standing nearby. A general ban on deliberate or extreme interruption is reasonable, but a total ban on remote controlled aircraft is not.
Seems like 2 issues:

1. Launching Java Programs can suck

2. Java defaults to secure on https requests.

First, on #2, yeah, really cant do anything here. If they didnt do this way, it would be reported as another vulnerability in the JVM that they would have to patch.

On #1, this is actually an old problem that I had worked on this years ago and i even published the solution in javanet (remember that?). If there is any interest in this, i can revive the project since its been dead for nearly 10 years. (http://web.archive.org/web/20070724060104/https://launcher.d...)

Basically I had a custom classloader read the lib dir that worked similarly to tomcat's classloader. Dump any jars/wars/etc in there that you want. All you had to do was tell me where the main class was (because a lot of jars have testing Main built into it and i wouldnt know which one you wanted to run).
Get flying cameras down to < 2" diameter, silent blades, and impact aware/resistant and it'll be commonplace in both urban and nature settings.
> The park service allows automobiles, needlessly loud motorcycles, generators for RVs (within limits), and any number of greater nuisances.

And they restrict where all those things can go, too. If they restricted drones the same way, they might as well ban them outright.
Why do you say less direct? The impression I get from the article is that none of the article actually gave a specific reason why the paper was not appropriate for the journal.
This isn't just about convicting the guilty. If only it were, we'd have the police tossing homes like jail cells once a week, trying to ferret out the criminals.

Even criminals have rights, and they have the right to hear all evidence against them. Only then can they possibly dispute it.

Jurors who rightly believe that not all evidence was presented or at least scrutinized by the defense have a moral obligation to acquit. If this happened enough, our government would soon be forced to act more responsibly.
> I didn't notice any changes in this after the post-Watergate "reforms", which happened not long after I became politically aware.

That is why I added the 'at the latest' bit. I didn't want people to get hung up arguing over a date.

> And I agree, this is a consolidation period. But I believe it's build on a foundation of sand, e.g. there is not an infinite hunger for US government debt at negative real interest rates, we're just the "least worst" place to put your money for the foreseeable future.

It is not purely the US government doing consolidating. The trade treaties the US negotiates are really bought and paid for by US multinationals.

China is also consolidating power as it slowly opens itself to the world market and seeks to displace the US's hegemony.

I'm sure you can even argue the EU "One Market" is the same type of political-economic consolidation.
I can't find the article now, but during the BART strike it was mentioned that over 100 (and it was much more than that) apply for every BART driver job that opens up. Most of the applicants had college degrees.

People are still willing to pay their dues, but they want to make sure they aren't 45 and laid off and suddenly making minimum wage. After all, the current middle class doesn't have a union to protect them in most cases.
Don't know. My hope would be that if I could get more of my thoughts down faster, I would have more time to prune and generally edit what I wrote.

In general, I think there has to be advantages to be a bit more in step with how you are thinking and how you are typing. That is, if I am constantly interrupting my typing thoughts with my actual thoughts, and vice versa, I will go slower.

Probably matters a lot as to how you personally think. I am not a visual person, so I rarely "see" what it is I am thinking. The words are essential to my understanding some things. So, having two thought processes going both involving words is very difficult if one is constantly thrashing the other.

Make sense?
Consider that people may go to national parks to capture photographs and video of the majesty of nature, an experience that would be disturbed by a ban on remote controlled aircraft.
You mean like dropping a penny?
A Case Against the Gridded Homepage
Eventually! We're working (very gradually -- http://beeminder.com/d/boss) on open-sourcing Beeminder. In fact, doing so is also inspired by Nick Winter and CodeCombat: http://blog.codecombat.com/we-have-open-sourced-everything
Why are they even storing phone numbers in plain text. According to their Privacy Policy, the numbers are only used for finding friends; i.e. they look up your contacts from their database.

In which case, to do that they do not need the plain phone number, but only a hash derived from it. This is like storing passwords in plain-text.
Thats a bummer for model airplane enthusiasts
This kinda looks like a vicious / virtuous cycle:

* Interest rates are kept low primarily because of the unemployment crisis. (Right?)

* But then that encourages capital-holders to invest in, among other things, tech and startups.

* And then those companies invent things that make more jobs obsolete, causing unemployment to remain high.

Are my assumptions correct? What breaks the cycle? Or will it spiral out of control until we decide it's time to stop worrying about unemployment and just start paying everyone a basic income?
Yup, I completely misread that. Thanks.
What if your brakes on your car fail while you're driving to or through the park?
And it's doubly unfair to restrict the stock so that you can buy it back and then flip it for a much higher price. There might be legitimate reasons to control stock shares, but "so you can screw the people who backed you when nobody else would" is definitely not one of them.
This is something which has been known for thousands of years, unless I am missing something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect

Edit: The relevant Bhagavat Gita verse: http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/bhagavad-gita-5-10/

Edit 2: @OP: Thank you for the article, it is well-written. From the comments so far, it is obvious that this is something new to many here.
That's exactly what happened during the 2000 crash -- much of the "revenue" being booked by internet companies was imaginary (in the form of contract swaps), and much of that was driven by intra-industry advertising. Everyone was paying everyone else to advertise, and it all fell apart more quickly than you'd expect given top-line revenue numbers.

I suspect something similar will happen this time around -- there will be a slowdown in the real economy for some unpredictable reason, and the imaginary, startup-servicing-startups economy will implode.
Anonymous Recursion in C# (a simple explanation of the Y combinator)
Ask HN: What seed round valuations are people seeing?
Hi hackers -- I'm curious what seed round pre-money valuations startups are getting these days. If you have a company that's raised a seed round in the last year, or know of one, please let me know how it went in the comments. Details might include: pre-money valuation, amount raised, location of team, level of traction, and sources of investment (angel, vc, mix). Please keep companies and sources of investment anonymous, and please post only if you're sure. Thanks!
Yeah, data from Pitman-Robertson tax collection on new ones (and ammo as well), and imports of surplus rifles are regulated and reported by the BATF. And the prices of the latter, as each country's stock of "turn of the century battle rifles", that is, bolt action rifles generally designed around 1900, has been exhausted.

Russian Mosin Nagants are the very last set. They're no longer dirt cheap, and looking at gunbroker.com right now, they might be starting to move from the general price of $150. Quality time spent at the website of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, they're the true gun industry lobby, http://www.nssf.org/) will get you the details, plus NICS instant background check numbers for purchases of all guns from gun shops, which have been amazing and further reinforce my point (and are a lot simpler, a single monthly figure).

Ammo is also still in iffy supply for rifles and handguns.

Seriously, I've watched this market since the early '70s, and know at least the general history in the 20th Century, and nothing like it has ever happened before.

"Most Americans see them as a problem"

Do you have a reliable source for that? As opposed to generic polls that say "Crime is bad, should there be stricter laws?" when even many gun owners don't know the current purchasing strictures, vs. "This Colorado law will make it illegal for you to leave your guns with a friend before your house is flooded" (the latter is not a hypothetical, BTW, but a recent event), "Do you approve of that?"

What I'm referencing above is very hard info, for new and imported guns with a granularity of 1 (every single one is reported), revealed preferences if you like.

The very self-evident political power of gun owners suggest we're something more than what you associate with the term "vocal minority".

"safety switches on guns"

What do you mean by that? With the exception of some single shot target rifles, and hard trigger pull self-defense oriented double action, or loathsome striker fired handguns like the ubiquitous Glock, which the gun grabbers are not demanding get manual safeties, I'm not aware of any that don't have a safety that prevents firing when the trigger is pulled.

ADDED: In your OP you said "*The average American has almost assumed the government to be perfect except for the few parts it dislikes..." and expounded on that thesis. I think what I'm claiming strongly cuts against that, however that's based on my belief that more than half of the nation's households have guns vs. what I think you're implying, so I think our models of "the average American" are different.