skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And how they will enforce this contract? If it involves the threat of violence, how is it better than government? If it doesn't, how does it enforce your contract against the threat of violence?

I would recommend, again, watching David Friedman's talk on the "Machinery Of Freedom", it's on Youtube. He's got excellent examples and explanations. It's 20 mins and totally worth it. In short. on the difference on it from government violence: when a contract is signed with by me and some entity, we both agree that out conflicts are going to be solved in such and such manner and in such and such courts. That is, if there is going to be some violence involved, we both know it from the beginning. With government, neither me, nor the company signed any contract with the government. The government just comes and starts interfering when it pleases.

>Can you elaborate on this? I would say democracy is the only structure we know of which has shown itself able to limit concentration of power.

You cannot know whether a politician is truly a good guy or if he's lying to you. The only way to know that is to give him power first. Notice how different the situation is with a businessman: a businessman should first produce something and convince you his product is good before you give him your money. If the product gets worse over time, everybody stops buying it and he goes out of business the next moment. Not so with a politician, who knows he's going to keep getting his salary at the very least, and hopefully bribes, for the next 4 years. A politician knows very well that his voters will keep paying taxes, whether or not they like what he does. That is because if they stop paying, they risk getting in trouble and will possibly go to jail. A businessman doesn't have that luxury. He cannot force you to pay, he can only convince you by offering something you genuinely want to buy. Of course a businessman can also lie to you, but unlike a politician, his lies is more easily discovered and you have the option to stop paying him immediately.

And so, the incentives for a politician are in the wrong place. If you can show me an exact mechanism how to reliably elect politicians who would ignore those incentives and do good instead of those incentives offering them a much more profitable thing to do, then I would gladly accept that. But simply saying “we should elect good people” is not a mechanism. It is an intention, and intentions are not results.

What's the alternative? Having no politicians and having only the market. On the market, you can decide to buy or stop buying things immediately with your own money.
Intelligent behaviour in humans and other animals shows evidence of wide-scale situational awareness, and independent, unpredictable motivation.

Before you use pattern recognition (i.e. pre-defined, remembered, or improvised abstraction for invariants) to solve a problem, you have to understand there's a problem to be solved.

ML seems to be doing well at pattern recognition, but that second problem - understanding what needs to be done in a situation, and why, and accurately predicting possible developments and consequences - is possibly more critical for real singularity-style intelligence.

It's machine reasoning as opposed to machine learning - in the street-wise sense, not the theorem proving sense.
I sometimes wonder how people can reconcile the "don't play God" meme with the concept of humans being "created in the image of God".
Maybe the Apple worshipping is over its peak! Until recently i lived in Paris, wherever you go in the tech/startup scene, it's an Apple-only world. I would literally sit there surrounded by 20-30 MacBook Air's and be the only non-Apple laptop! Made for lots of weird stares.
"Brendan Fitzpatrick is a photographer for over twenty years and for the past seven years he has been living and working in Singapore. He uses x-ray machines at a local radiology lab followed by a few rounds of image editing and color correction in Photoshop to create unique skeletal images of flowers."
Ask HN: Major Tinder Server Error
After months of using Tinder I can no longer log in and receive this message every time:

"Server error: There are issues connecting to Tinder. Please try again later."

Apparently this is now affecting thousands of users and Tinder customer service has no idea how to resolve the issue. I've tried absolutely everything, it's definitely a problem at either Tinder or Facebook.

Hopefully someone on HN works there and can enlighten us? What's going on?
Agree, COM in Mercator projection is even more wrong than the Economist method. If one wants to have it on sphere the only correct way to do this is by using the great circle distance. Obviously it still leaves a question what does this center of economic activity actually shows (;
How many sales have you made at $50?
Is this something users of GNU MP will get to see the benefits of?
Israeli VC fund launched an app for entrepreneurs who want to help each other
Seems like George Hotz deserves more than an "intern" position.
Depends on what you want out of your career as a developer; again, personally, I try to make things that I want/need myself because I find doing it the other way (looking for a hole on the market and filling it, for example) doesn't give me what I want. The motivation is all wrong and I get no satisfaction from that kind of success.

The difference, to me, is whether you're focussed on the product or the reward.
I try to focus on the product because that's the best long term strategy in my opinion.

"good development should improve the overall human condition"
uh - that's a lot of pressure. I just want to make stuff. Not everything we do has to have a goal, a target. Just build.
Did you read the article? It's primary point is that there is more to the numbers than just the revenue earned via app sales because Android allows apps to use external subscription methods. It even cites a Salesforce CRM app as an example of this.
Here's a direct link to her blog post:
http://humanityagainstassault.tumblr.com/post/91625206355/tr...

Let me know if you still cannot see the post and I'll paste in the text.
An abandoned mall in Bangkok has been overtaken by fish
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Tons of little nice things:

* search starts from the bottom of the buffer (most recent result).

* I can cmd+click filenames with line number (in error messages) and have them open in my text editor with cursor on the right line.

* notifications when background tab becomes idle - notifies about finished long-running builds/installations, etc.

* much better, customizable keyboard shortcuts. Supports meta keys properly. I have keyboard shortcuts for opening a tabs connected to my servers, disabled annoying "Print" shortcut, etc.
Blank page for me, even after enabling cookies and reloading. Hidden domain at work?
Everything in a job offer is open to negotiation. Sometimes I have to go back to my boss to extend my range if I like a candidate a lot. If the candidate flips after that, the failure is much more public than I would like.
The pinch indicators are just Liquid crystal thermometers and a heating element.
Of course I'm hellbanned, it's Hacker News.
Where do I buy the photoetch machine and is there an easy way to use it? It is automated based on plan files you give it?

I can see how someone who is familiar with placing electronic components would be sceptical of waiting a long time. But if there is a convenient setup even a slow automated placer would help me since I am not familiar with electronics or have steady hands.

Are there automated pick and place machines that are general purpose? I think if you take this concept and improve the speed and capabilities then you can replace a lot of human labor.
Are More Junes Born in June? The calendar’s powerful effect on baby naming
I'm really glad to see that the concept is starting to take off.

It makes me sad that it's not happening in the US. If some folks in the government and business don't get their heads out of their asses a growth industry is going to bypass us entirely.
Works OK for me http://radify.io/blog/four-principles-of-devops
Linking hashes would free a lot of space, and letting each user place its own piece of metadata on each hash it wants would solve all the metadata and user trustworthiness problems.

Google would do the rest.
Does it bother anyone else that services like bitly add a single point of failure to URLs? Also, it's kind of amusing that they've spent so much engineering effort to distribute a protocol that's already massively distributed by default.
The fiscal year just ended and employees haven't even had their first evaluation in the new system yet. (One could argue that the new system is just more of the same, but I don't agree yet; certainly I think it's too soon to tell.)

Or maybe I misunderstood your question.

(Disclaimer: Microsoftie.)
You're making tons of unnecessarily limiting assumptions about the segment a startup might be targeting.

There are plenty of segments worth targeting beyond people who pay attention to startup and early-adopter news. They might require more thought and creativity to reach, but there's also less competition if you do reach them. And plenty of those segments (e.g. most Asian countries) are very "Android heavy".

You shouldn't separate what to develop from the problem you're solving and the people that care about it. Imagine, for instance, your app helped people sending and receiving international remittances. You'd be dead-in-the-water without an Android app. The sending side might be more complicated (I'm not sure), but the receiving side is overwhelmingly Android, if they have a smartphone at all.
UIT Startup Immersion
> A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that it stole a database of usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords from CNET's servers.

I wonder how many MD5 encryptors they used 


In all seriousness, it sucks to see this being reported by someone who doesn't know (or care) about the hashing/encryption distinction.

...but probably not as much as if it turned out they are actually encrypting passwords.
Dish Network scores in legal battle, Hopper DVR platform lives on
I didn't realize toy guns of any shape or form were being sold these days; I guess all the rhetoric in the media is just that after all.
Yeah I found that curious too
I'd like to see a source that grounds that line of thinking in the real world.

Of course, one could see the situation that way, but I see no reason why you couldn't also argue, for instance, that he has proven he's unable to follow any kind of activity that has not been set in a rigid path beforehand. Or that he only went to University to party[1]. I made those up, of course, which is why I wonder if there's a source for any particular line of thinking.

I know there's a slight bias against PhDs in industry[2], but I don't really know anything for this particular case.

[1] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2729

[2] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=100990
There isn't an obvious line from "save 30% on your hosting bill" to "grow by 8% this week", which suggests that it isn't terribly high on YC's list of priorities. I can think of a few YC companies with notable infrastructure requirements but for many of them it's below the noise floor.
I was thinking the same thing (maybe "intern" means something very different here?)
Why Can't Google Afford To Pay Its Startup Mentors?
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Oak Ridge had a Thorium reactor in 1965. This is not the first.
10 Core Tenets of Product Management
Google ipython soccer predictions
Bubble burst?
I remember a few London startups trying to tackle that. Their names are eluding me at the moment.

I reckon the reason they didn't get successful is due to challenges in monetization.
We have that in Notable PDF ( http://notablepdf.com ). We don't require that you host the file with us either - Files are fingerprinted, and comments can be made attached to that fingerprint (private by default, but can be made public to anyone who has the file).

We're focusing on annotating documents within teams, schools, etc, but the public annotations to improve documents (à la rapgenius) is something we are thinking about.

(We actually have the ability to share files with a link too)
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Thanks, I've read a lot about Turing and some of his works and had never seen it before
Its a corrupt market. Their job is to lie to you, your job has to be to lie right back.

"I'm moving to (insert name of city owned by competitor)"
Key Considerations for best user experience in enterprise mobile apps
Google's Smart Contact Lenses Are Going to Become a Real Thing
Travelling Salesman (2012 film)
Is it just me, or is it ridiculous that their API isn't more protected than this? Most popular apps these days require signed requests, and then store those signing algorithms in places where they are extremely difficult to get (in Android apps, signing algorithms are almost always stored in native libraries). Tinder didn't even attempt to implement request signing.

This, and of course the $1 million investment in the Yo app, just keep piling up the evidence that VC's and even potential acquirers just don't care about how beautiful or secure your code is, even if poor security and code quality threaten the value of the entire business. They just want users, and even that seems to be negotiable if you have a solid background.
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XHR logs and JavaScript errors with every bug report
Convert Word to PDF, PDF to Image, HTML to PDF in C#/ASP.NET
Then it's not as broad (and clever) as I thought. Some Guy will not be forgotten at all, ie. the law will be useless.

This law doesn't scale at all.

A search for "Some Guy" on the publisher's website or another search engine will return "somePage".

IMHO, Stupid law, custom made to piss Google.
When I read "integer multiplication", I think of "123 * 456". Is that what is actually being said here? If so, why would you do anything but "123 * 456" to arrive at the actual answer?

I'm sure there's a reason, but reading your explanation sounds like the solution to something much harder than just multiplying two whole numbers.
There's a reason he can guarantee competitors can't offer their speed...Corruption.
Were you letting users download it via PDF.js before which is why it was document.pdf? It makes sense to download it via PDF.js since the file is actually already loaded once the user renders it.
Can't he do a chargeback on his credit card for the bill and then send the credit card folks a recording of this?

Gyms are typically known for making it extremely hard to cancel, like requiring you to snail mail a notice and even then acting as if they never got it.
If you have multiple ISPs selling connectivity over a carrier-neutral set of wires, they're going to be trying to poach each others' customers whenever they churn. Any business with high customer churn carries high marketing costs because the return on marketing is relatively good with 20% of the market up for grabs every year. With more players doing marketing in a zero-sum system, overall marketing spend is likely to rise, not decline.

All I'm saying is that the marketing costs wouldn't go away even if the big cable companies do: they would just be replaced by a dozen smaller companies doing the marketing, billing and connectivity. These smaller ISPs would just be taking each others' customers rather than customers jumping ship to DSL or some other last-mile tech.
I'm interested how long it took you for a huge company like Disney to get back to you. Did they charge you anything?
Note that this very different to the molten salt LFTR design. With solid fuel it is very hard to prevent protactinium capturing neutrons, which means problems for breeding and waste and probably operational constraints as well.
The LFTR is such a beautiful consistent design but it is very different from ordinary reactors.

Also the title is inaccurate as different thorium reactors have been designed, built and operated. See MSRE and THTR-300 for example.
Less meat, More life
A Letter From The Year 2070
*funding
Softlayer also introduced a London region a few hours ago.
http://blog.softlayer.com/2014/london-just-got-cloudier%E2%8...
Note that you can breed U-233 from thorium and use that in nuclear weapons. The critical mass of U-233 is about 50% higher than Pu-239 but otherwise it's usable in implosion-type bomb designs; the main hazard is the presence of U-232 as a contaminant (which is a high level gamma emitter and makes it dangerous to work with) -- the real question is how they plan to reduce the U-232 contamination level enough to make weapons-safe U-233.

As India is already a nuclear weapons power, this has no immediate proliferation implications ... but moving a nation of a billion-plus people onto an energy cycle that produces weaponizable material as a by-product might be considered unwise by some. Cf. concerns in the 1970s and 1980s about the implications of running a "plutonium cycle" fast breeder energy ecosystem.
The situation is actually even worse, here's a wikipedia link to a list of fifteen Th fueled reactors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle#List_of_thor...
The Hard Part
ITerm is great. Congrats on the release!
I believe he's still an undergrad, I don't know about google but here an intern can be anything from a pre university student to someone finishing a phd.
To build on that, here's a list of web PDF editors that are available:

1. NotablePDF (https://web.notablepdf.com)
2. PDFZen (http://pdfzen.com)
3. PDF Escape (https://www.pdfescape.com/)
4. PDF Buddy (http://pdfbuddy.com)
congrats on the release!
Great app!
I sent you a feature request in-app about adding another cloud service, hope you got it and consider it! Thanks!
The irony of trustpilot reviews
It's not a capacity issue, once this happens to you your account is locked out.
I've had Comcast service more than once, and I'm with them now. In the past, I left them for AT&T DSL because the price/speed ratio was sensible enough to make it worth switching. When I called Comcast to cancel service, I didn't run into anything like this. The rep did try to convince me to stay, but after I explained that I didn't need 12Mbps (the max Comcast offered at that time in my area) they capitulated and canceled the service. It was maybe a three minute conversation at most.

I ended up going back to Comcast a few years ago, when they advertised 25Mbps for the price I was paying for 6Mbps on DSL, so it made sense to go back. Now I wonder, if I were to try to cancel today, would I get the same hassle as this guy? I'm betting so; they are probably trying to retain as many customers as possible leading up to the upcoming merger.
Well to be honest it's not hard to secure your app once you have the users. Getting users when you have a "beautiful or secure" app on the other end...
One thing I wish were available with many of these US-based services is billing in GBP.
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A quick look at the World Cup final through Instagram
Polio kept survivors (the majority of those infected!) alive and in iron lungs for years.
One of the coolest things I've seen in a while!
Your search feature doesn't handle "St. Louis" type searches.

Searching for "St." anything returns nil, but searching for "Paul" returns "St. Paul" and others.

Otherwise it's an interesting exercise.
A very interesting study on this topic from OkCupid:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile...
>and it was the phone of ‘poor people’ – people that didn’t spend money on their phones.

I don't see that change anytime soon. Simply for the fact that tons of Android phones are sold at the cheapest tier, where people used to buy feature phones, whereas there's no iPhone catering to the lower end of the market (not even 5C).

Plus, his diagrams shows Android below iOS in payments to developers but "catching up". What it doesn't say is that Android has larger market share, so that it's below on payments (and thus app sales) is problematic.
IBS is a "diagnosis of exclusion," so in some sense it is not a "real thing," but more accurately the "absence of other things." I really hated that answer, but it's the conclusion that more than a half-dozen different gastroenterologists came to after trying countless tests on me over the course of many years.

After a lifetime of trying to be gluten free (on and off), with limited success, I started a low-FODMAP diet on December 15, 2012 and it completely changed my life. I could not find many dietitians that knew much about it, so I mostly followed the advice of books like IBS: Free at Last! (http://amzn.com/0982063520). Now I feel much more empowered and in control.

Also, not all FODMAPs are equal. Each individual has to figure out which FODMAPs cause the most problems. Being "low FODMAP" is WAY different from being "gluten free." I eat FODMAPs all the time -- I just limit certain ones more than others and I know my limits. And even after 19 months of being low-FODMAP, I still have to consult my list of foods regularly.

Only after doctors have ruled out Crohn's disease, celiac disease, diverticulitis, endometriosis, cancer, etc., and suggest you have IBS, I highly recommend trying a low-FODMAP diet.
Seems like this is pretty much what every single system does that is based on a web application that scales with a message queue.

With Polyglot are there standard SDKs for responders or acceptors?

I think we should relate this to that ocaml mirageos thing and the idea of a common knowledge representation for program generation. I think pattern with queue has a fairly close correspondence with some common OOP patterns.

We are repeating the same patterns over and over in different contexts for different applications. I think that we have semantic representations and programming languages that if we created a good common dictionary and referenced that rather than restating everything I different forms then we could get much better code reuse.
Flick me an email hengjie (at) notablepdf.com, I think we could provide you with a viewer for free that has annotation features but also based on PDF.js so that you can easily switch it over.
At the moment all of our billing across all of our geographies is done in US dollars, which given the exchange rate of the UK and EU is usually within your favor.

Is there a conversion charge that your credit card company levies on you for paying in US$?
Well done. Would you mind sharing details of how you got your press coverage?
> assuming they don't have meterage deals with different backbone routers depending on the destination.

That's a big assumption, and an incorrect one at that. Most content delivered to large ISPs is delivered by CDNs over paid interconnects (and it's been that way for a decade or more). They either pay the ISPs directly or for transit at a peering point.

> IE, the modern "pricing schema" for data, where a gigabyte costs multiple dollars, is an insanely unrealistic measure - if you are not paying for the wires in the dirt.

If you're expecting pricing to be tied to cost, you're gonna have a bad time. That's just not how modern product pricing works for ANY product. You pay as much as the service is worth to you; if it wasn't worth it, you wouldn't pay it.
I've heard multiple times now that it's hard to cancel contracts at various providers, but I don't really see how this is an issue.

If the official way (according to the contract) to cancel a contract is a phone call, what difference does it make if the remote party accepts this cancellation? Just state that you are cancelling the contract, make sure to get a recording (if legal in your jurisdiction) and chargeback all unauthorized future credit card charges.