skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a bunch!

I actually have a friend in Cornell's PhD economics program right now, and he's warned me about math (and he majored in math) and that Real Analysis in particular is crucial. That's what most concerns me, as I've leaned on my physics-PhD significant other in the past for some math-related help.

That's a really good point about field-specific economics programs, I hadn't really considered that, but it makes a lot of sense given my interests and current abilities. It seemed to me that energy was weirdly neglected when looking through programs (even though it has so many neat peculiarities and inefficiencies), so it's good to know I'm not the only person who has noticed that.

Thankfully, I'm not looking at it for the immediate future as my current position will last a few years (we have boatloads of funding and bipartisan support), and I'm at possibly the easiest national lab to get a staff position and advance without a PhD (Oak Ridge). Down the line though, I know I love academia and teaching, so I'll probably go back, and your advice is super helpful to think about in the interim, thanks again!
You're thinking of Google Chrome, Chromium[0] is the open-source project behind Google Chrome, they're different, and Chromium is tied less to Google.

[0]: http://www.chromium.org/
Well, to be more specific, when I say "finance" I basically mean doing HFT/quant software development. High stress, high burnout, but also really high reward/bonuses on success when compared to most software jobs.
Sure, that's legit - if login or signup is required.

But for pages containing information intended to encourage a user to spend time on a site, to get convinced they need to sign-up, it's counter-productive.
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Forget Facebook, maybe you might like to describe the limits of what experimentation is ethical without consent for scientific study. That's what I'd like to know.
Awesome, I've always liked the `Show HN:` posts.
I agree. Also, given how bad fracking is, this is inferior to solar from an environmental perspective.
I installed Ubuntu with xmonad on my work mac after one terrible month with OSX's pathetic window manager/amethyst/hacks.
People seem to be misunderstanding the point, and requirements of the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions. The take down procedure is to allow companies such as Github to avoid being involved in a dispute in any way. Meaning if a lawsuit should occur they don't win because they complied with DMCA they get to avoid the suit altogether.

Given one lawsuit can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation even for the winning side, it would be impossible for any ISP to operate in a climate where they could be dragged into every argument over content rights. Github is not the authority. They don't know if the code is inferring or not, so the DMCA says they can defer the authority (and liability) to those who should know, the ones who put the code up in the first place.

It is unreasonable to expect Github to vet every open source project, and it is also unreasonable for Github to bare any legal responsibility just because one of their users, or a litigious copyright holder did something wrong. The DMCA Safe Harder is designed specifically to account for this.

Although technically possible it is not legally possible to issue a DMCA take down by bot, since a bot can not provide: a statement by the copyright owner, a statement of the accuracy of the notice, or a statement under penalty of perjury that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

[My opinion is, if a real person uses a bot and then makes these statements under penalty of perjury, then every time that bot makes a mistake we (the tech community) should be filing Amicus curiae[1] with the court that they have perjured themselves. If you are a technically competent person you cannot honestly make a statement that your bot has not made any mistakes without human review.]

The weakness of the DMCA Safe Harbor arises not in the above issues but rather in the fact that the DMCA requires that materials be taken down immediately before response by the allegedly infringing party[2]. To balance that (to some degree) if the allegedly infringing party follows the procedure to have the materials restored, then the ISP must restore the materials in 14 days unless the complaining party has shown evidence they have filed a case.

In other words if a complaining party fails to immediately follow with a lawsuit the materials MUST be restored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae

[2] http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/
Yeah, I tried it out, and while it's a fun little thing, drawing with one's finger is very different than drawing with a pen (even a bic! :), and the results are inherently sort of clumsy. Something based on real handwriting (as is often done for individuals) would be vastly more interesting.

Also of course, the idea that this is anywhere near "universal" is pretty silly...
And when the code does matter, too many don't realize the importance of getting their shit straight.

Privacy and user information is a "light" example, but a very basic one that should instill a bigger sense of responsibility than most developers have.
I'm not worried (edit: about anything immediate), I'm not failing to partake in anything that I ever would, and I don't live any differently than I ever have. You're projecting something onto me, and that's not a great way to have a productive discussion.
Same! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745959
Long term that's a terrible move for Nintendo. Sure short term it would raise money but it would lead to Nintendo leaving the console business and becoming more like what Sega is now.
Show HN: DreamTeam
You have to realize their history though. The "Nintendo seal of approval" exists because the game market was filled with horrible games when they first started, so trusting some other dev with their IP, which could potentially be ruined by a third party. They have been making strides with this (see Hyrule Warriors), but considering the piles of garbage games on the app store, their aversion is understandable. On top of that if you could get Nintendo games on other platforms, their console sales would suffer. Plus, a touch screen would just be frustrating for platformers like Mario, only turn based RPGs seem to port well.
I loved your Microryza branding and assets. Do they still exist anywhere as a reference?
Serious question: Why do you click on HN links if you don't have the time to read the article?
Related:
http://blog.ycombinator.com/make-things-and-show-them

My Favorite Part:
"There have been about 24,000 Show HNs so far. The first used the title "Show and Tell HN", and was GitHub-related. The second, and the first to use the "Show HN" convention [2], was a face recognition project. And the third was a Hacker News alternative. Plus ça change..."
GNU Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is a great open source alternative to Matlab. I can only recommend the book "GNU Octave Beginner's Guide" (http://www.packtpub.com/gnu-octave-beginners-guide/book).
How about "Tell HN?" That one doesn't work yet.
"Knave." In other words, he said "if you're just a combative jerk, stay away" but you managed to read it as "if you disagree, stay away".
Of course, 300+ people using regularly!
First: Kudos. That is easily the coolest thing I've seen this month.

Everything "felt" like a fancy over-done BBS of the early 90s in the way that the page loaded slowly, but I'm curious why you chose the second swipe of the cursor over the screen. I don't remember my PC from 8088-80386 ever doing that. Am I misremembering and was this in reference to some platform from the 80s that I didn't use?
Stripe launched this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883. We didn't do any press or anything like that. (We didn't think of adding the Show HN prefix, though.)
I'm certainly proud to be associated with LJ, and to be writing for them.

I'm also willing to believe that hackers who want to use encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies use and read about open-source technologies. Although my guess is that this includes nearly all serious security researchers, experts, and implementers.

That said, to claim that people who read LJ are extremists, or that the magazine is something of an "extremist forum," misses the mark in so many ways.
Glad to see this. Show HN has always been my favorite part of Hacker News. Anything that can inspire more creation and help product builders find an audience, is a good thing, imo.
Exactly. Communications companies generate significant savings by driving people to self-help on their website or through chat reps (where they can handle 10 customers at a time). Also, longer wait times helps increase the barrier to frivolous calls and complaints.

That said, my point was that there are likely some additional ways that they can target customers to improve customer service in a way that optimizes both their own workflow as well as that of the customer. The important part is to get both parties on the same incentive structure.
Max, surely healthcare(at the level available at the time) was much more affordable in 64. Just at the share of healthcare as part of GDP(which rises at maybe double than inflation for a long time) - the general inequality in society.And people in general are angry about this affordability issue, while greatly appreciating the miracles of medicine(reflected in high end medicine). Also some people are angry about the somewhat lacking quality of medicine.

And they are probably right - more affordable/equitable healthcare can be had while still having high quality medicine. And the problem with quality in healthcare is also a problem we can solve much of through better tools and procedures.
i3 is great - currently solving my needs quite nicely.
Only if you do an impressive job of designing the data in such a way that you aren't constantly thrashing. Which, more and more, means non idiomatic Java code. Consider, even with massive advances in JIT capabilities, you do get performance benefits from an array over an ArrayList.

Now, can this be improved? Of course. Scala, for example, does a good job of not requiring primitive arrays. This is done with compile time tricks, though, not runtime (JIT) ones.
There's a conspiracy theory that Starbucks and other large cafe chains intentionally misspell names, so that the customer will take a picture and facebook/instagram it, as free advertising for the place.

If it isn't true, it certainly should be. If I opened a coffee shop tomorrow, I would instruct all my baristas to misspell the customer names for this reason.
Show HN: Web Site Launch Checklist (Trello board)
Show HN: Secure token authentication for Angular.js and Rails
Angular module:
https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/ng-token-auth

Rails gem:
https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth

I've been working hard to make this the most simple, flexible, and secure token auth system in existence. I believe that I'm close to succeeding. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what I can do to improve what I have so far.
Nintendo wants nothing to do with the current mobile market.

$5 is considered premium, when in their market $50 is discounted.
looks neat. And kudos for being profitable.

How does getting paid via stripe / paypal work? Do your customers provide their own stripe / paypal details? or does the payment from your customers' customers go through you? is there any commission involved?
I had a job offer once that gave me two options to choose from, which was really cool.

In which they suckered you into a false dilemma. You should always reply to those stupid negotiating tactics with "Both. Higher salary and more options."
Cool site. Re Onion2's top post, could add this into a 90%, 8%, 2% calculator of different liquidation events.
Reminds me of SLMR for Fido BBS's and the X.400 MUA we used at Telecom Gold (Dialcom)
Summer of Swift, Summer of Code, Steam Summer Sale.

It's winter where I am.

Unless your event is local please don't use seasons to denote a timeframe.
Hm, weird, definitely not intentional - that may just be something about how the font (IM Fell French Canon, via Google) gets rendered on Windows. I'll see if I can find something better.
HSAs are, by legal requirement, only available if you are enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan [1], which is insurance and does pay for something, though (as the name suggests) it has a very high annual deductible (for which the HSA is used).

So if you have an HSA, you do, in fact, have insurance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account
Now and then I reread a chapter of "Classic Shell Scripting" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596005955.do) - probably the best book on shell script I know.
There are a few more comments by the author on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+StephenShankland/posts/GGQdgLPn8J5
> It's always been raw milk, warm and fresh from the udder. And the first thing they do is to boil it.

Two things: Firstly, it's not raw if they boil it. Most store-bought milk has gone through two processes: Pasteurisation and homogenisation. Pasteurisation is simply heating the milk. If your family boiled it before drinking, you've actually heated the milk more than commercial pasteurisation does. Normally pasteurised milk is heated to only 72 degrees celsius for only 15 seconds. Homogenisation is essentially forcing the milk through filters that breaks up the globs of fat. Only pasteurisation is necessary for food safety.

And secondly, pasteurisation is most necessary if you intend to store the milk. If, as you say, it's "warm and fresh from the udder", there's little risk from drinking raw milk.

The parent of your post specifically said selling raw milk through the normal store channels. The issue is not raw milk, but selling raw milk, which when you combine storage and transport, and the consumer storing it, means plenty of time for massive amounts of bacteria growth. As I'm sure you know, even with normal pasteurisation milk spoils relatively quickly.

> If I were to conjecture, it's that the "no raw milk" diktat forces farmers to go to big distribution companies with the requisite facilities for pasteurization.

Health authorities first started to push for pasteurisation after its extensive success in massively reducing illnesses - and deaths - due to spoiled milk.
They offer a great service but you really do have to pay for it.
Nice to see you here! I don't mean to be rude, but how do you think it can impact Product Hunt?
agree...Jasymchat is more a light-weight alternative which works well for most undergrad course work. And it is also mobile...but for serious work definitely suggest Octave.
So I woke this morning to the surreal email from Daniel @ hn claiming that I had invented (errr... Discovered?) the "show hn" style post. As I said in the quoted reply, from what I recall, it was just a play on "ask hn".
Using tar file as context for docker build we can have builder containers building images for new containers: docker run builder | docker build -
Ugh, what a wasteful mess. The worst part could be my lack of surprise in reading your anecdote.
You just made me remember that smell... Nostalgia in full effect
You're right. I just looked it up, it seems I misremembered the CGA/EGA palette specs.

I'm pretty sure this is based on the standard EGA/VGA font, which is 8x14 pixels, whereas CGA only supported 8x8. Characters like A, N and M look noticeably more pixellated around the diagonals in CGA mode.

This is very much the one everyone would recognise from the VGA era, although it's actually an EGA mode.
At the risk of sounding like a stackoverflow pedant, would a hardware hack fit in Show HN? For example: Turn a raspberry pi into an FM transmitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361782.
It does, just not for `untitled` files.
Emscripten port of SDL2
Awesome. Is there an RSS channel for Show HN only?
Got to stop people from doing things that they themselves are doing...

Anecdotally reminds of this guy that was key in setting up the British porn filter being arrested for child pornography: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10675...
Show HN: Freeciv, HTML5 open source version
Considering the three way fight between Xbox, playstation and PC, it seems Nintendo is trying to claim a less saturated portion of the market. While Xbox and playstation fight over who has the best graphics (which will always be worse than PC games), Nintendo focuses on creating unique experiences that cannot be found anywhere else. It seems to me to be a great long-term strategy as more xbox and playstation users switch to PCs as they become more common. As far as their slow start, look at the 3DS!
Does Earth really have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides?
I think people who equate startup equity with lottery tickets don't really belong in startups to begin with. The whole point of working at a startup is that you go there and you make it succeed. Now of course there is still luck involved, and you shouldn't be so naive as to blindly take every founder's change-the-world pitch at face value, but whether you are a founder or early employee you have to believe that you can make it work.
it looks cool, but I don't like the idea of paying for a terminal that hurts your eyes
Do they have Mac OSX support yet? How far out is it?
At the time I write it, the list of lists [1] doesn't have the "Show HN".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Hosting your code on the internet may be taken down at a moment's notice. If you host it on your own domain it may be confiscated.
The typical number of shares created for startups these days is 10M, so it might be worth putting that in as the default number of shares issued.
Looks pretty neat. Reminds me of Moom, and the defaults Windows 7 drag-to-position features.
I launched http://namaste-lms.org which is profitable. But is far from the profits I was hoping for so probably will start something new again.
As the creator (and neglector) of one of the more popular bastions of people interested in just Show HNs (showinghn.com), I think this is a good move. If anyone has any ideas of what other sort of value I could provide with showinghn.com, feel free to let me know.
great work, great app. makes me a little sad that so much effort and talent doesn't really pay back very well...
I'd think 'Show' and 'Tell' should be filtered into the same feed.
Where are "kids" going to find these "candy bars" with "extreme" doses of, what, 100mg of THC? Where are their parents? Can these kids read or are we talking about toddlers? What are the consequences? Are they similiar to aspirin, the Clorox under your sink, or the pathongenic microrganisms in the streams that course through the city? Of course not.

Again, zero body count but tons of fear about something people have been doing since there were people.

Oh, and regulations mandate all edibles be served in child-resistant packaging.
+2. Can't live without it. I'm paralyzed on a machine without it (or Alfred)
Ah yes, we are in an awkward zone with some docs on our site in Sphinx and others on Github. We love that developers can PR our docs on Github, and we agree that Stripe's docs are the BEST. At some point we will tackle a doc revamp that puts us in that direction. The personalized code samples & easy library switching features of Stripe docs are a dream.
A normal DMCA takedown request is taken under penalty of perjury (sadly, a lot of the big common carriers, like Youtube, have gentleman's agreements with Big Media, so they don't rely on formal DMCA takedowns), and knowingly and falsely claiming to be the copyright holder is likely an infringement of the author's moral rights, which is at the criminal end of copyright law, so that's two flavours of illegal right there.
> making the parasites of our society wealthy just for investing.

Are they less parasitic if they just sit on their money, or are they parasites just for having the money in the first place?
just need to find a cool boss

4 hours of real productivity a day is pretty realistic
I'm sure it still is. We just don't know how yet, but a giant corporation like google has probably other ways to be attacked.

And if it is not possible on the technical level, the NSA will find the people to access the data they want.
I haven't seen anything specific about how they are doing it, but I can give you a few guesses as to what common approaches would be.

The most straightforward way to model the shapes themselves is to put some points on each letter in corresponding locations on each letter. Every sample of each letter would need the same number of points, and each point would need to be in roughly the same spatial location on the letter (so, for a letter S, the first point in every sample would be at one end, the last at the other, and the ones between at some kind of identifying landmarks).

Given these collections of sampled curves, the simplest thing to do is to just compute the Euclidean mean, treating each of them as a point in a high-dimensional space. You could go farther and do PCA, giving you not only a mean but modes of variation. Using this you could examine the most common ways in which each letter varies in the population, which can be an interesting thing to study.

What I've described is building a statistical shape model from a boundary point distribution model (PDM) of an object. This is typically done in the context where you want to fit your model to new instances of the object, not just for finding a mean, and are known as Active Shape Models. You can check it out on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shape_model). Here is one (among many possible choices) describing generally how this is done:

http://tinyurl.com/nxjwygn

There are other techniques for representing the shapes or computing statistics that can produce better models, both from theoretical and practical points of view, but this is generally the most common and would be my first choice if I was going to do something like this. Of course, they could be doing something much simpler like a simple averaging of the images (assuming the letters are all in roughly the same place) as well.
I think GUI apps only go in cask[1] not homebrew. But yeah, totally a good idea to put it in there. Thanks! Can you file an issue for this in Hydra?

[1]: http://caskroom.io/
> Boiling milk? No thanks, boiled milk tastes funny.

Boiled milk, yes. But unless you get milk straight from a farm, it's likely pasteurised: Heated to 72 degrees celsius for 15 seconds. [EDIT: I didn't realise how many places allow sales of unpasteurised milk; yikes - I'll be careful about reading labels next time I'm travelling]

> and that there are plenty of people around in cooler climates that have stomachs that usually can handle milk without problem.

The "stomachs that usually can handle milk without a problem" is entirely unrelated from why we pasteurise milk. Pasteurisation does not affect the lactose content in the milk, and that, combined with whether or not your genes makes you lactose intolerant or not is what determines whether or not you handle milk well.
No, it doesn't say that Linux Journal itself is an ‘extremist forum’. It says that TAILs is “advocated by extremists on extremist forums”, and includes Linux Journal as a source of information about TAILs, neither of which seem surprising.