skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great?

I was wondering the same as the parent and not because I thought there was a 'magical backstory' but because when someone ships something this good they have usually shipped something else you know of.
Although having a 3% (or greater based on what happens in the future) shot at your startup becoming worth $100M has got to be significantly better than the odds of any other startup reaching a $100M valuation.
Crowdfunding Scientific Research
IMHO Kickstarter's staff picks and magic sort are usually surprisingly good at presenting good campaigns.
(.) g f x = g (f x)

Interesting. I might say that partial application is a kind of closure. Certainly, it winds up the same - "function carrying some data that it uses internally". I think you are correct that compose and apply does not require closures of any sort.
I'm probably missing something, but wouldn't applying a 30px left and right margin to the specific container work? E.g.: http://jsfiddle.net/xyM48/

The -15px margin on the rows and 15px margin on the columns would still do their job, only that the rows would be 15 pixels smaller.
Indeed. As a Parisian, I can confirm that it's not easy.
The worst part being that traditional French cuisine is slowly disappearing and making room for globalized food court variety dishes like stupid burgers, "Chinese" fast food, döner kebaps and myriad of pasta places, each one more bland than the other one.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I came back from Canada to discover that burgers were all the rage amongst the Parisian 30-something affluent class. How we've fallen :/

Mustn't be easy for tourists really, your only option if you don't know the few places that still go the traditional way nowadays is to either get out of Paris and travel to the countryside or shell out for premium restaurants at 100 euros a meal.
Isn't it wrong to say there's no solution? Wouldn't it be better to tell them about the game, to learn about it (because that's what school is for) and try to better their situation for themselves?
I know there are certain things you can pay the NHS to do (e.g. a friend had to get a full physical signed off by the doctor to participate in boxing and had to pay £20 for it). But then again blood tests are usually pretty slow even for people who need them so they may not want people paying and taking up resources.
Gitlist exploit.
I assume it's quite heavily automated. Certainly, organisations like IGS [1] operate reference networks where most of the base stations run unattended - you buy something like a Leica GR25, connect up the antenna, power and ethernet, and let it get on with things. I don't know whether the upload-to-satellite process is 100% automated - I assume the 50th Space Wing [2] finds something to occupy their time! And naturally base stations need some maintenance [6]

Even if the entire control segment is lost, the designers of GPS are way ahead of you - although I suspect rather than thinking of zombies they were thinking of nuclear war with the USSR.

You can predict orbits in advance - but the results become less accurate the further out you try to predict. According to [3] we can predict 7 days out and get a range error of 10m, and 28 days out with a range error of 100m.

Some of these longer-term predictions are uploaded to the satellites in advance; I've heard 14 days [4] and 60 days [5] quoted.

TLDR: Designed to be accurate enough that your submarine can pop up 14 days later and nuke Moscow. After a few months, all bets are off.

[1] http://www.igs.org/network/netindex.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_Space_Wing
[3] http://www.gdgps.net/products/predicted-orbit.html
[4] http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/snap/gps/gps_survey/chap3/333.ht...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Data_updates
[6] http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/pipermail/igsstation/2014/thread.h...
Airbnb’s new logo looks a lot this other company’s logo
There's conflicting pressure here. You're still playing the odds by swiping yes and no 50% of the time. You could curb this by going with total count of yes swipes per day BUT Tinder wants people to swipe. Disincentivizing the swipes seems counter productive to the brand.
This article isn't very clear to me but I think it's suggesting that people use something like "googlemail-snoopy2" as a password rather than just snoopy2.

Any hacker or security researcher would say that a alphanumeric password under ~10 characters is not wise.

You don't know what kind of hashing websites are using, and rainbow tables exist for the common types.

IMO, the title of this article is irresponsible. A short common password is not a good idea, if mathematicians suggest otherwise then they are wrong.

Combining the login process with 2-way auth might be a different story though. I guess technically a password isn't even needed with 2-way auth, but it's good to have.
> Her objective, and her statements has so far been very clear on that point.

Yes. They very clearly made accusations in statements to the police, hired a high-profile lawyer to very aggressively press the case after the initial decision to close it and did not retract the allegations.

One of them (the one the Assange defense team claims expressed reluctance to pursue the case in unseen correspondence) got fed up with that lawyer, fired him, and ended up with another one who issued the following very clear statement of her position:

My client has the right to her day in court for the rape she's reported to the police and for which Assange is today suspected of. She has the right as a plaintiff to have her case tried in a customary way in accordance with the Swedish judicial system.

The rape Assange is suspected of has left deep scars and meant a serious violation of her personal integrity. The violation is especially serious and the psychological symptoms are there every day. Assange's behaviour and prolonging of the preliminary investigation in this case exacerbate the suffering of my client when the preliminary investigation does not move forward. The wait is long and the suffering great.

Speculations in the media have been many and directly erroneous. This preliminary investigation is about suspicion of rape for the part concerning my client. There is no form of conspiracy as has been claimed by the media. My client is both a plaintiff and a crime victim just as many others I represent daily in numerous cases. Her rights as a plaintiff shall not be forgotten in the process.

[Pro-Assange] source for the statement: http://rixstep.com/1/20130526,00.shtml
Ask HN: Where to look for non-profit jobs?
Which resources do you think are most helpful to find work at non-profit organizations?
Seems as if Airbnb paid off Automation Anywhere to change their identity it comes out their new logo is pretty much a rip off of Automation Anywhere.
I just can't bring myself to joking about something so stupid.
This is a pretty awesome price if that audio book catalogue is Audibles. I signed up for Audible when I started commuting, 1 audio book a month would be just about right since I wanted to start reading asoiaf.. Turns out they split the book in 2 and I only got 16hrs in the month unless I paid notably more than I pay Netflix for unlimited. I decided that was rubbish and cancelled, unlimited is a much better model and this is an awesome price for it.
Taking a Sikh's kirpan (ceremonial dagger) on a flight
There are lots of smaller communities springing up but Aquaponics is a relatively new technology. There is not a central, well-established community for AP growing. However, here are a few links to some projects:

http://www.growingpower.org/
They have reported some insane yields off very small plots using AP technology. Also, as they grow in the midwest - the climate and conditions should be relevant.

http://practicalaquaponics.com/blog/
Murray has been a go to for my research as he has been using AP in Australia for years and has a solid, proven modular system.

I do my research on various forums, but have learned the most through my own experimentation. Feel free to hit me up with any questions.
Wow very impressed with the UX. Bravo!

It's cool you built it with dart but to me this is like saying "Check out this cool app I made, it created using php" Well it could be built with anything because when I look at the app all I see is the frontend. All your Dart is now minified JS, so it's no consequence to me if it was built with Dart or JS. Maybe you have a link to a Github repo where your Dart lives so I can admire the "dart" part of this title? Other then that, how was Dart? I almost worked on the Dart team and I have friends on the Dart team at Google so I am always curious to see what your experience with it was like.

Again Bravo! Lovely app!
Steve Ballmer Ipsum
A Visual Guide to Vaginas, So No One Compares The Airbnb Logo To A Vagina Again
Nah, 1ft^2. See Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening: http://amzn.com/1579548563
> With many things... minimalist design often ends up being a good experience for users because it's not distracting...

As long as too many cues aren't discarded (iOS 7 went a bit overboard in this regard) I completely agree; shiny or complicated visual elements with "pop" demo well at first but become tiresome.

It's the same reason our keyboards don't make musical tones like they did in Star Trek -- it would quickly become distracting and annoying.
>Trying to apply the logic of sets to geology and geography could result in arguing if a particular rock is in North America or South America or if a particular grain of sand is in the Cambrian or afterwards. These are nonsense arguments.

Only if our definitions of geographical locations are ill-defined.

>Furthermore, when you're discussing reality with humans, you're always doing it through the lens of an imprecisely constructed social model of reality that's been passed down and modified by everyone over time

Maybe we should try our hardest to avoid doing that.

That way, we must explicitly state our axioms re. messy stuff like biology and morality.
Better yet, have it auto-hire a professional to turn up in your place and make sweet love to the object of your momentary affections. you save time and your reputation as a lover is improved by outsourcing this messy task to a specialist.
Atheist invocation makes history in Greece
>There are many statements we would agree to be neither true nor false;

If they are neither true nor false, they are ill-defined.

>The sun will rise tomorrow.

Definitionally ill defined.

>This statement is false.

Inconsistent statement.
It's a personal dashboard start up in the making ;)
Your personal anecdote is not conclusive evidence for the statement in the second sentence, and to inappropiately attempt to counter it with my own: I've been a misfit for the the first two decades of my life, and been on the receiving end of "let's pick on the weirdo to establish dominance and decide our own internal pecking order" far too often to accept that nasty political machinations are "almost never observed with boys" - if anything that just shows you haven't really looked.
I'm not 100% sure yet, but I'm 100% excited about this. Problems today is that Google/Yahoo/MS have all given the government backdoor access to your email if you have those providers. This application solves that by having you host your own email service. Deploying postfix + dovecot with multi domain usage and multi alias capabilities is hard! They did all that work for you. I'm not sure how the client works yet or if you're supposed to make your own front end to this using the API from Posty. Either way I'm excited to try it out in hopes to move my email out of the hands of big companies and into my own hands.
terminfo and curses fulfil the first two layers described on the web-page, and have decent bindings in the Python standard library. For the third layer, the widget toolkit, you probably want something like Urwid.
The game isn't even designed yet. How do you already know that it will be "too real" once it is ready to play?
What agwa wants from LibreSSL is to behave in every little bit exactly as OpenSSL does, even though OpenSSL itself is a complete and utter mess.

OpenSSL allowed developers to interfere with RNG freely, so LibreSSL must do that, too? [Even if times have changed?](http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.cvs/129485)

Well, you can't really go at improving and cleaning up the library if you have to keep up all the old bugs and the whole crusty API around.

It's inconceivable to expect LibreSSL to be both better than OpenSSL, yet to have the exact same API and the exact same set of bugs and nuances as the original OpenSSL.

LibreSSL is meant to be a simple-enough replacement of OpenSSL for most modern software out there (http://ports.su/) — possibly with some minimal patching (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/37599) of some of the outside software — and not a one-to-one drop-in-replacement for random edge cases that depend on random and deprecated OpenSSL craft.
You seem to be arguing against something that nobody debated. What we are debating is the specific claim that "guys are less subtle" and "wired to be more attracted to the binary good/bad aspect of things" and that "the male power dynamic is powerful/weak", while "girls sweat the details". My experience is not that the sexes interact with world identically, but that those specific sorts of claims are hackneyed stereotypes and that in reality both men and women are individuals with the full range of complexity that implies. Furthermore, I think it sucks that largely because of the commonality of those sorts of stereotypes that it can be difficult for both boys and girls to behave differently than they are "supposed to".
This looks pretty cool, but the demo should let you try some custom phrases to see if the value proposition is there. Im not sure if the brand I represent is discussed on reddit enough to warrant tracking...
The contracts are 60-minute forwards; you are agreeing to buy/sell Bitcoin at the current price (determined by the CoinDesk BPI) but 60 minutes from now. At that time the Bitcoin is transferred from the seller to the buyer, and the strike price (denominated in $) is paid in Bitcoin at the current price. The net effect is that the seller nets a small amount of Bitcoin if the price falls, giving them an amount equivalent to the original exchange rate. If the price rises the buyer nets a small amount. This is essentially a way of locking-in the rate now if for various reasons (waiting on blockchain confirmation for example) you cannot immediately sell off a parcel of Bitcoin. This would be very useful to payment operators, ATM operators, and merchants, for example.

The order book right now is shallow and comprised of our own funds; however we are in the process of onboarding several interested parties so I know that will improve in time.

Showing more before signup is an excellent suggestion; if you are not averse to submitting an email address you can try the paper trading site with 100 fake Bitcoins at paper-trade-bitfuture.com . Thanks for the feedback!
If enough people use this hack, then we all end up with tons of false positives. That means we all have tons of matches as a result but few of them are real matches!

A better idea for Tinder is to charge a dollar to both people of a match so people will swipe with more consideration! The current scheme of things encourages frivolous insincere interaction.

PS: I am looking for new talented tech(ruby,js,ios) friends in sf. I am a rubyist. legendben@gmail
postfix is a really old, but very stable email server. This puts a modern API on top of it.

I really like it. I was doing a one-time email type of service that had to manually create and destroy 100's of email addresses a day. This would have helped out a lot when getting started. I had to write/hack custom tools that barely worked. I would have loved this.
Exactly. This makes it a bit easier to run your own stable mail server.
Apple-IBM deal fallout: The future of innovation is now with Microsoft
What about the risk of hiring schlubs who can watch enough Railscasts to duct tape things together, but don't know anything about writing solidly-engineered, maintainable code?

The hiring pool is absolutely swimming with these guys because demand for Rails developers is so high right now. You are more likely to find a better OCaml developer for cheaper than you can find an equivalently skilled Ruby developer just by virtue of being a place offering professional work in OCaml. To attract a similar caliber of Ruby developer you need to offer some crazy perks like sponsored open-source work or some really interesting problems which 90% of early-stage startups don't actually have.

You might think it's foolish to worry about the quality of code when you are just trying to rush to market, but as soon as you get to market you need to start iterating, and that's where you find yourself immediately saddled with technical debt. Worse—and I say this as a professional Ruby developer for nearly a decade—Ruby provides very little in the way of guarantees that developers won't do really stupid things. If you don't have a solid test suite you are dead in the water for maintaining a large app because the interpreter by itself gives you nothing. All those awesome libraries which exist for Ruby but not OCaml? The half-life on those things is like 18-months in the Rails community, meaning you are in constant maintenance mode to keep up with the flavor of the month or else face maintaining an old stack yourself once the original creators abandon it and the community moves on.

Not that this doesn't come with benefits, but you're overselling them to justify picking the modern no-one-ever-got-fired-for-buying-IBM choice compared to the risk of using something less well-known but certainly with critical community mass and much better maintainability characteristics.
Categorizing AWS as a software business is incorrect. That is like saying Amazon.com is a software business (which is incorrect).
I accept that your explanation makes sense, but the fact that this can happen automagically in an intransparent way when someone just wants to buy a number of shares at a quoted price just feels wrong. And reading a few other articles on Nanex also give me weird image of what happens in stocks in general.

Then again, I have no idea about these things and should probably shut up.
It is not about conformity, it is about power. At my high school people didn't bother the goth kids because they stood up for each other.

In the same way the openly gay (this was back 15 years ago) guy in the drama team was never bullied because he was friends with the cheerleaders who had the power to stop it.

The problem is nerds rarely stick up for each other. Whenever I saw a nerd get bullied in high school all his friends would be acting as small as possible in order to avoid getting involved. The conflict avoidance enables bullying.
*vulva

She issued 3D models of her external genitalia, which is called the vulva.
LibFlow
Hello everyone,

I am building a website to share free documents, textbooks and papers. The purpose of it is to host free material that can be readily accessed with no paywalls, subscriptions forms or ads.
This started as a personal project, but it is growing and I would like to know if there is someone who would like to support it. It is not a for-profit project, and does not have a business model. However, I have a long term goal of (financially) supporting the creation of more free materials (e.g. textbooks) and make them available for free. Therefore I am also interested in the possibility of generating some revenue without ads.
Your local library isn't open weekends? My library's open 9:30 am - 9 pm on weekdays, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm on Saturdays, and 1 pm - 5 pm on Sundays. Those hours definitely don't strongly conflict with 9-5 job hours.
Arc4random in libressl 2.0.2
Ah, I see. I was implicitly assuming that the parent's other requirement:

> different pseudonyms available that __don't reveal your 'true' ID or other pseudonyms to the site owner__

(which isn't offered by Facebook—right?—and which does require trust in the issuer) would be part of the putative Google Identity.

On the other hand, having spent this much time arguing that it wouldn't happen, I'm now wondering why OpenID with Google as 'vouching agent' (or whatever that part is called) doesn't count.
FCC Revolving Door vs. The Open Internet
There are plenty of games out there that aren't fixated on combat and violence. Strategy games like the Civ series or EU IV have very abstracted combat, and are better described as conflict or competition (combat isn't core gameplay). Strategy games like Spacechem have nil violence. Then there are endless builder games like minecraft, where combat very much takes a back seat, and you can avoid it if you like. There are lots of platformers with no combat - 'running' games, where you avoid obstacles (a category the game in the article falls into). Three are more than a few horror games where you have no combat ability, like Slenderman. There's investigative or story games that have little or no combat in them, like say LA Noir, or most point-n-click adventures. There's also unusual games like Rocksmith where you plug your guitar into the PC. Just now, I've been playing Waking Mars, a game that is basically a gardening sim (oh, and there's gardening sims like Farmville). Then there are the sports and other sims - Steam just had a sale on a 'car mechanic simulator', and I'm not really sure it's reasonable to call things like NBA 2014 a 'combat-based' game. Driving and flying sims are also popular, and the queen of sims is the 'generic human sim' Sims 3, which is combatless. Then there's logic games like Tetris or 2048.

If you think that the idea of a game without violence is worth noting, then you're really not bothering to look at what games are out there.
> My speculation is that the reason the distinction persists is mainly historical ....

I imagine another reason for the distinction is that AIDS is typically a late stage of HIV infection. That is, people who develop AIDS have usually been infected with HIV for some time.
>If a restaurant is not required to disclose this information, how would one ever find out?

Ask them whether the food is homemade, and if they refuse to tell you, assume it isn't? Sure, they could lie, but that's already illegal.

If there's consumer demand for home-made food at restaurants, why can't they start advertising home-made dishes on their own? Why is a mandate necessary?
I'd love an Audible unlimited. I'm sure it's only a matter of time, though it'll likely be > $49/mo., which is reasonable.
Sure - but I don't think it should be labelled as "home-made"
Your entire last paragraph supports the point that libraries are for poor people (bluntly put). As a result, the library gets associated with the lower class. I'd rather meet someone new reading at a coffee shop than at the local public library for this very reason.
Most libraries have ebooks you can "check out" without setting foot in their building.
Jon mentioned modularity, so what I imagine he's talking about is functors. They have a scary name (and no relation to Haskell functors) so you might rather call them parametric signatures and they allow one signature to depend upon a previously defined one. Ultimately that means that you can decompose signatures into constituent, reusable parts which is nifty sounding but transformative in how you express APIs