skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're in the UK then you should contact your MP about this to let them know what you think. And you need to do it now - the vote is on Monday.
Perhaps if they realise what people think about this they might reconsider.

Contacting your MP is easy using https://www.writetothem.com/ or the dedicated anti-DRIP page at ORG https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/no-emergency-stop-...
I would add:

'Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong' -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA

It is much better than the title would suggest :)
Wow, great article!

Does a number that represents a range within Pi, get also coloured as copyrighted if your intent while computing it was the search for a copyright coloured sequence of bits within Pi ?

I think that for a lawyer it doesn't really matter; it doesn't matter which technique you're using to encode your data, as long as somebody can access that content and you did that on purpose. They're good at dealing with loosely defined things like intent, better than with formally defined things.

I wonder what amount (and progress) of AI research has been done in this area; not all illogical things are bullshit, however you might want to feel about them. Anti-digital-rights sentiment (disclaimer: I personally deplore much of the consequences about enforcement of digital rights, so I share that sentiment at many levels) sometimes can cloud judgement, and I've seen many people invoke rational thinking so well they successfully miss the point.
Voyager 1 dances on the edge of interstellar space
I'm going to be the voice of dissent here and say only go travelling if you really want to (you say 'part of you' would love to go - how big a part?)

Travelling isn't for everybody. Personally I'm a homebody and I felt pressured to travel when I was younger because all the cool kids were doing it. I never enjoyed it, regret it, and would trade the experience for the money back in a heartbeat.

If you really want to get away from it all, then by all means do so and have a blast. Just do it because you want to, not because the internet tells you to.

As for what I would do, well I was in a similar situation to you when I was about two years older than you are now. I worked at a successful startup and rose through the ranks fairly rapidly, but settled at principal developer level for a number of years and never tried to make the jump into a truly senior role. If I was doing it again, I would either stay aggressive in trying to get ahead, or quit and build my own product. Sounds like you've already done the latter though.
It's an interesting historical wrinkle to the quotation, but I don't think it alters anything fundamental about it's meaning.

All we can say is that Franklin considered a people's right to self government an essential liberty. Given his role in the independence struggle that shouldn't surprise anyone. What other things he, or we might consider essential is moot. But it's clear that he used the term 'essential' deliberately. He clearly isn't saying that we should never surrender any liberties in return for security.
While I generally agree that the government should buy something off-the-shelf that's already built -- and at a quarter-million dollars, this doesn't even come close to boondoggle territory -- sometimes the requirements are set explicitly to grant the purchase to a specific buyer the government had in mind, instead of the requirements really being generated in a neutral manner and then looking at the marketplace.
Does anyone else find it a little disappointing that this is essentially over 40KB of code whose only function is to set the layout.css.visited_links_enabled option to false? For that size, I was expecting at least functionality like per-site preferences (which would be very useful and beyond the default functionality of the browser.)
Travel.

The best age to travel is now. I had a similar amount of money due to redundancy so went and backpacked up the East coast of Australia for 4 months, sometimes on my own, and sometimes as part of organised coach tours and it was probably the 4 most important months of my life because it opened my eyes to work-life balance after being on autopilot on the school-college-uni-job route.

So put your flat stuff in storage, get a backpack and visit:

Hong Kong (because it shows you what life is like if you live to work, and you can pick up a decent SLR and lens dirt cheap there)

Vietnam (because its amazing)

Cuba (before it changes)

I can recommend Sydney for NYE; warm, strangers sharing beer and BBQ food and becoming friends. Great people.

If no one wants to go with you then use organised backpacker coach tours where needed, and you'll meet people and will make friends easily as everyone is in the same situation.
Getting in on the ground floor tends to be my advice for a lot things. It's hard to make something click if you can't see it work in the flesh.

For the typical functions that print output or take input or the likes, I'm always partial to keeping them separate from the grammar itself. You can see the distinction clearly between for example Python:

print myVar

and Java:

System.out.println(myVar);

In Python, the print verb is defined in the grammar, and as such needs to be parsed and handled properly. In Java's case, it's regarded as any other method. It's irrelevant to the parser what it does, it just needs to handle it like it would a normal method. This tends to make the whole easier to debug and adapt, since you never need to touch the parser to change behavior of one of these standard methods.

This does ofcourse lead to more complex applications, which may not be desirable, depending on the intent of the language. Just my 2 cents :)
I think that's what he was pointing out.

He's saying "oh, this person just used meta like it means 'something that is all the rage', which is some strange emergent usage from a gaming subculture. I'd better explain that so it makes any sense at all."

I would imagine most people here know what the word meta actually means, so just saying "this isn't standard usage" is sufficient.
They carry a lot of Google advertising, and Google consistently ranks them (as you've noticed) at the top of search results for any query connected with html, css, etc. More reputable sources, that happen to not carry Google advertising, are ranked lower in the search results.

Google employees have participated in threads here, claiming that search result ranking is not influenced by revenue for Google, and that W3School's persistent high ranking is because, somehow, it's a better result for users. When people here have pointed out how poor the site is and how much better other sites are, the Google employees acknowledge that there seems to be something to that and that there might be a "bug" and will pass on the information inside the company. But, as you've seen, W3Schools is still on top.
The product ("internet access") is the same thing that everyone sells under that label: access to a private network that's connected to all the other private networks that are sold under the same label. That's what the "internet" has always meant. What doesn't exist is what software folks and net neutrality proponents think of as the "internet": this idealized homogenous network where every path between any two TCP/IP sockets is equally good. But you don't get to take a well-understood label, apply your own idealized definition to it, then attack companies that are using that label consistently with its traditional definition.
We must live in a parallel universe except I'm a few years ahead of you. Short summary of where I was at exactly your age: No college, self-taught, built a very successful online business from 18-24, didn't go out as business consumed me, still managed a long term relationship from 21-25, owned a nice home, and had good savings. Here is my personal story of what happened after 25:

My relationship was fading as neither of felt like we were meant to be together for a life time. I'd just left my company with no real plan. My high school friends either went to the military or coupled up. I felt a bit left behind, but that wasn't going to hold me back. I've never been much of an outgoing person so I knew it was going to be an uphill battle to 'restart' life. I sold all my things, found a condo in the middle of my fast growing and young city, and then started talking to everyone. At first I was very nervous, but then I started making amazing connections. Turns out many people were in the same situation I was! Randomly at the pool two other guys and I started talking tech which lead into further conversation about setting up a dinner. Went to dinner and had a blast - my first real taste of new friends for many years.

I had done what I thought was the impossible. Formed a nice group of like-minded, fun, and adventurous friends beyond the age of 25! From the night after that first dinner we've continued to have an absolute blast. Any given night we could grab a few drinks after work, do a dinner, hit up downtown, or whatever came about. We've pooled resources and did had some insane trips/adventures from staying in a penthouse in Las Vegas, celebrating ST. Patrick’s day in Chicago, staying on a private island on the coat, and so many other short day trips.

With this group I was able to network with even more amazing people. I've easily increased my friends network 15x since high school. The best part? I was able to meet the women of my dreams. Sounds cliche, but it couldn't be truer. Three years later the group is now half couples and half single guys which works out quite well. We do less then we used to for sure, but the weekends are still filled with fun adventures and trips.

At the same time I picked up a job at one of the coolest internet agencies in town via this new circle. Started in a middle level stagiest position to get my foot in the door. Two years later I find myself in an upper management position in the exact department I'd dreamed of working in.

So long story short - live life! Go out, talk to everyone, be nice, find a group, and have the time of your life. I did it.. and it's awesome.
I've just bought the dead tree version on the recommendation of the OP.

Cheapest place to buy in the UK is the Book Depository.
I personally think that removing the "burden" of voting on so many issues from congress and giving it directly to the people through online voting would be a potential solution.

Verification of votes would be very possible. If it did get hacked then fix the security hole, wipe the system, and vote again.

It would never happen because of self-interest in congress and they'd argue "but normal citizens are too dumb to decide for themselves".
As many pointed that out using Pidgeon Hole principle, it is not practical to create a compression index(A lookup index where you map actual data with some kind of adresses preferably smaller than sequences), using every possible n byte sequence of your data!

Because your index size would be at least equal or higher than your original data.

The only way you get a smaller compression index, you have to look for recurrences, and try to only include most recurring sequences up to a number(there would be a tradeof and an optimal number for compression ratio) and left other sequences uncompressed. Only this way you can achieve compression ratio's smaller than 100%.
Even during an interview on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday evening a government minister slipped in that the government need to keep an eye on catching paedophiles and serious organised crime. So this clearly isn't just for an immediate terrorist threat, they're just going through all the legislation that's been going a bit stale and rushing it through whilst the opinion polls don't really matter and all under false pretences or half truths.
Embedding itself is one thing, but what about embedding a small portion of itself? Suppose the area to be simulated was merely the Solar System (with the rest faked), and the size of the computer far larger...

Very hypothetical of course :)
Are there similar list for other languages? Python, maybe?
It looks like the sample benchmark is of the "godoc" tool in http server mode. In this mode, godoc serves a local website that is a near-clone of http://golang.org/ , which is particularly useful because the local "Packages" tab will contain not just the standard library, but all local packages, including the ones you've downloaded and the ones you are writing [1]. Consequently, the program is, on average, doing nothing. To get those graphs at all, I assume he was clicking around in the served web site, because otherwise I'd expect nothing at all to happen.

So we're not looking at a big website serving dozens of requests per second... we're looking at a program with a relatively expensive startup (and in this case I mean "relatively" literally; in absolute terms it's quite fast in my experience, I've never been able to start the program and ALT-TAB to my web browser and load a page before it's ready), which then twiddles its thumbs.

To compare it against an active Java server program, you'd basically collapse the whole graph into about 2 or 3 seconds worth of activity, if that.

[1]: Incidentally, another example of "something simple Go does that intuitively feels like it shouldn't be a special thing because it feels like every language ought to already have such a thing, except that when you go looking for it, you can't find it". It doesn't sound like an all-in-one API documentation of everything you've got locally would necessarily be that especially useful, but it really is.
I disagree. $30K savings/$2.5K rent and bills = a year of savings, if you make sure you never, ever eat and your car never, ever breaks down.

There's something wrong with the finances of somebody who never took out student loans, has been working for 70 hours a week for five years, has only managed to save $30K, and is not having too much fun.

Also: freelancing for a single client that you used to work for is not steady work. I've never had that relationship last more than a year and a half. Freelancer fault-tolerance requires at least two clients.
This is V0.3 of a browser experiment.

If it is useful at all on anything, for anything, then it is doing pretty well.

And, unless you are the sort of person for whom using another platform when necessary is no great stress, then perhaps you shouldn't even be looking at installing untested alpha-level software releases anyway.
Uber driving is basically an unskilled job (most Americans know how to drive). A job that an unskilled person can reliably get for $50k take home a year is gold (remember that the US median household income is 50k - and that's for the whole household). This doesn't mean Uber will succeed, but they will never lack for labor.
I was hoping this was like OSKit for programming languages. Of course, I suppose that's called Parrot.
Nono, the point is that viruses like HIV infect a tiny subset of cells and "hide out" there. I think you're referring to genomic integration, and they're referring to cell type.
Ironically enough, this link was blocked by Privoxy.
Unfortunately, I tried something similar and failed miserably. I have zero sense of rhythm, and have also been unable to acquire one. I feel much the same way about dancing as Stephen Fry: http://shrik.theswamp.in/2012/09/stephen-fry-on-dancing.html
Yo! I'm very happy that you didn't intend it to be like that at all. In fact, I first wrote a way snarkier comment and then I remembered the "Show HN" guidelines (and basic human decency) and deleted that comment :)

I'm impressed how something as simple as reading "only available on $NOT_MY_OS" in a nicely laid out box gives me the complete opposite emotion than what you intended. My comment got a large number of upvotes, so apparently many felt the same. And still, if you look at it, there's nothing wrong with the text in and of itself. Only on this and that OS. Fine, good to know.

So apparently, writing it with that word ("only"), with the OS logos instead of the names maybe, and so happily and centrally and proudly laid out, was what changed the perceived intent. I really thought that you guys were some kind of anti-Windows crusaders. And probably, the exact same text elsewhere, or slightly different text in that spot, would completely change that.

Damn, copy is hard!
You act like this is new (magazines, for example, have long been more ads than content). We only which TV on demand, so we see very few ads (Hulu Plus, only) but the prevalence of ham fisted product placement is staggering (I remember when Burn Notice suddenly went from 70s muscle car to Hyundai).

But advertising itself has always been at least partially evil, which makes Google's slogan combined with its utter reliance on advertising revenue a problem.
I once did some very simple microcontroller stuff, I can definitely use this.
24yo dev in London here. I moved to London ~1 year ago, not knowing anyone here, and meetup.com has been by far the best way to meet new people for me. If you want to grab a pint at some point hit me up with an e-mail! (in profile).
Ha! As the prime bikeshedder in this particular subthread, I compliment you. Good remark.
It isn't proven to be "normal" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number). There is no guarantee that any particular sequence is in pi until you've searched and found it. It's a very common fallacy that because the expansion is infinite and non-repeating it should contain every possible sequence, very simple counter examples exist.

Pi can be infinite and non-repeating (as it's irrational) and only sparsely contain 5s after the 100 trillionth digit (or whatever we've calculated it to so far), unlikely.

There are some normal numbers that are known but they seem hard to construct (to me, not a number theorist), like Champernowne's number which is the concatenation of all natural numbers (clearly any number will be in it's expansion by definition but it won't be very good for compression purposes due to the indexing issues highlighted elsewhere).

Some further reading: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/216343/does-pi-conta..., http://mathoverflow.net/questions/51853/what-is-the-state-of..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_function.
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This this this. There are some huge players in the online advertising world who are supposed pillars of innovation and sustainability, but they have really failed at keeping sketchy, scammy, or downright malicious advertisers away. Inaction here will kill their industry.

Google ads look like results and link to sites with malicious software downloads. iOS apps are full of "you have one unread message!" misinformation banners. These are the 'reputable' players, of course grandma also plays bridge online while little Johnny searches for boobs on the family laptop. What do their ads link to?

In this world the solution is just block freaking everything.
This. They can help mitigate the damage, and be a force for change, but - to paraphrase Schneier - these systems are robust legally, technically and politically - we need to fight on all fronts to defeat them, and just winning once won't do it, we have to keep fighting back against abusive laws, systems and politicians because they will keep trying until they get whatever they want, at every stage.

We can't magic rogue institutions, politicians and laws away with maths. But it can have an impact on the practical damage they can do.
While we're at it why don't we fix campaigning too? Limit how much politicians can get from corporations. What are we the Mafia?
Don't have kids. The money will disappear, if you do.

I speak from experience.
IQ Test Puzzle
W3Fools seems to have significantly toned down their disapproval of W3Schools. Now they say "W3Schools still has issues but they have at least worked on the primary concern developers had." and the laundry list of issues is gone from the site.
Nice cat image
I scanned the responses and saw only one that mentioned that pi is not proved (or possibly also provably) normal. That comment was downvoted.
It's ridiculously slimy. For the countries I've looked at, their 100 minute a month plan works out to be more than five times as expensive per minute as Skype's pay-as-you-go call prices where you just pay for what you use with no monthly charge.
The thing with the DMCA is that there is a way to challenge and overturn the claim. That doesn't appear to be the case with the right to be forgotten.
Would you recommend these videos for beginners or are they tuned for the more experienced programmers?
How do you financially support yourself?
I don't think that any Lisp programmer downvoted him.
Your son had an outer ear infection?
I've always preferred Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) to regular VaR. While VaR is the 5% (say) value of loss, CVaR is the average of the loss of the bottom 5%. That way it captures the size of the tail risk.

The other really big advantage is that you can optimize over CVaR. You can formulate it in a linear program (LP), so you can maximize expected return subject to a limit on CVaR. [1] You can have several CVaR constraints at 1% and 5% say.

In contrast, VaR isn't convex, and is difficult to optimize over.

[1] http://www.ise.ufl.edu/uryasev/publications/

Edit: there is an interesting presentation comparing CVaR and VaR by Stan Uryasev, the main academic that has worked on CVaR formulations here:

http://www.ise.ufl.edu/uryasev/files/2011/11/VaR_vs_CVaR_CAR...
I'm not a supporter of W3Schools but I'm not a hater either. Although the content in W3Schools isn't the most complete or update you can find, it certainly is huge.

-The webapp it has where you can try stuff in realtime blew my min at my starting steps on the web.

-It's a quick reference for quick n dirty copy-paste for stuff you have verified to be good.

-Plus, it has seen some updates in the recent time.

All in all I think its a perfect resource for starting with, it has good indexing and accessibility, great toy playground that's easily accessible, but it's not for serious production use, your frontend developers should know better.
also https://dataretentionandinvestigatorypowersbill.uk/ is worth a look at
The metrics behind open source projects
It's crazy isn't it. Google aren't exactly going to to take this lying down. Advertising has evolved for centuries.
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Sorry, can't help you, I haven't figured it out for myself either. A decade older, working remotely, with more savings than I know what to do with, 1-2 friends I see once in while, single, few interests or desires to speak of. All I know is that the usual suggestions here and elsewhere (travelling, dance lessons, partying, etc) don't do much if anything for me. I do get a feeling of "missing out" every now and then but it's more like "missing out whatever brain hardware/software motivates regular people enjoy things that leave me indifferent", not the remorse kind of missing out.
This is ace
1. From the security point of view, does HSA driver present a significant additional attack surface? I imagine some new kinds of tricks could become possible, like they did with Hyper-Threading http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful...

2. Is HSA driver a roadblock for virtualization of the OS?
> This should be handled with a web-based system that would take most people on this site a few days to write and test.

Ah yes, the mythical "system that [should] take . . . a few days to write and test." Gives me flashbacks to running code in Visual C++'s debugger during a live demo so I could edit and continue if it crashed.