skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Pkgsrc-2014Q2: 11,000+ binary packages for SmartOS, illumos, Mac OS X, and Linux
It does offer more features, to be fair
Google Launches $100 Million Fund to Invest in European Startups
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A realistic retail data generator I built for my Machine Learning needs
He's trying to make a problem, and then solve it.
[There are, of course, quite a few different assistance programs (and variations) in the U.S. - I'm sure the following generalization fails in various specific cases]

Your comments about assistance for temporary bad luck nicely describe how many assistance programs should work. Unfortunately...

> It's also the sort that the assistance programs in the U.S. are designed to help

...this is not even remotely true for almost all of the assistance programs in the U.S. Unless you have literally no other choice, you will be rejected. This what we get after decades of rhetoric about "welfare queens" and related fears that someone could be scamming the system.

Do you still have at least ~$30 in your wallet? A lot of programs will reject you for too much cash. Own anything?[1] Sell it first. Have a pittance in a retirement package that you're not allowed to touch for 30 years? Take the 90+% penalty to cash it in first.

Unfortunately, we have effectively optimized most of our welfare/assistance programs in exactly the wrong way. I suspect we could save quite a bit of money if we dropped the suspicion and helped people early, while they still had a job.

[1] A single "used-econobox" tier car (YES, they check models and current market price) is often excluded, in the theory that you can't actually get most jobs without it.
The $200k is the income (revenue). Monthly expenses have been published in the past, most recently (AFAIK) for 2012: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au7yiR802qQmdDJ...
In the works (also, thanks for the feedback)!
Well, Docker is big news and people are interested in what the performance impact of "using docker" is.

Whether it's accurate or not, people associate Docker with the functionality if facilitates. (i.e., cgroups, namespaces, etc.) so i think it's valid to show the performance impact of running an application from within docker.

Based on my data, they're not 1:1 native performance. I suggest you consider the data before dismissing it.
10 Quotes by Buddha to Live By
New privacy bill rushed through
> Realistically speaking. Lasers would lead to mirrored ships. Particle beams would likely lead to the magnetic shields proposed for protection against the solar wind. Explosives will be highly inefficient in a vacuum, so they'd only be implemented like in current bunker busters. So we're talking kinetic impact weapons.

I've given this a lot of thought recently, working on my own hard sci-fi space game :)

I don't think mirrors are a good protection against high powered lasers. I've done some reading around the Internet and the consensus was that even if the mirror is absolutely flawless and perfectly clean, it's only a matter of time before a laser punches through it. The best defense against laser weapons turns out to be bad weather, which is hard to find in outer space. (Fighting inside a nebula might help?)

I think beam weapons will be devastatingly effective, once ships have enough power behind them, leading to battles at extreme ranges (light seconds to light minutes), where evasive manuevers can be somewhat effective.

That's my take on it, from reading various Q&A's on the net and thinking a lot about how space battles would probably really work in the near future. It's great fun to think about.
Dreams of rescuing a retired NASA probe come to an end
This is a taboo thing to say, because social media implies connection (however weak).

I limit my use of Twitter/FB for this reason alone. It becomes nauseating to constantly consume a stream of self-promotional blurbs.
iPazzPort WIFI Display Receiver TV Dongle DLNA Miracast

they are a shade over $20 on ebay.com

There are others. I just took a punt because my Dad bought a Chromecast on the same day.
Maciej was banned for like 5 minutes, literally. But he was justifiably irritated by the experience, and left by choice.
A Smattering of NLP in Python
He called 'lionhearted a "prolix douchebag".
> The key take away here is NOTHING is being virtualised

The droplet itself is virtualized.
I did a control benchmark between PG Ubuntu vs PG on CentOS, the results are in the post.
The problem with HIPAA is that it's supposed to look after my interests as a patient, but if I feel that it isn't, there's no way for me to opt out of it.
Legal frameworks are definitely tractable, and investing the time to navigate them more effectively can give you the same sort of competitive advantage as mastering a technology.

Same principle, different domain.
Selfies Come to Life Via 3D-Printing App, Insta3D
I love my MikroTik also but quick word of warning: MikroTik devices are NOT consumer devices, RouterOS doesn't hide anything from you so the interfaces can seem quite complicated to the uninitiated.

It is super powerful and I've never had to reset mine due to a lockup (although plenty of times due to misconfiguration on my part), but they're really competing with SMB network equipment at less than 1/4th the price (and require technical knowledge to really take advantage/utilise of).

If you're a network admin or have a lot of time to play (and are willing to read up on stuff you don't understand) then by all means grab a MikroTik router for your home or small business. If you're just some consumer who wants it to "just work" I definitely don't think RouterOS is for you, maybe grab an Asus and install DD-WRT.
Precisely, this is the same query I had when I glanced down the post. It will be great if the author or someone from the team respond to the various trade-offs and why they did not go ahead with Kafka ?
Yep, you're able to save PayPal credentials to the vault. From there, you can treat it exactly like you would a stored credit card.
Show HN: Nouncy – Announce your news with a bang
I would absolutely read such a novel. It sounds fantastic.
I would like that as well, but do you seriously think that would work for most people? Would you want your less technical loved ones to be responsible for the physical security of their data and carry it with them at all times?
The timing tells me they're trying to get some attention while Atom for windows is in the news. Still, good way to do it :)
Haskell functions never take zero arguments. Things that take zero arguments are not functions. For a more in-depth explanation of why, see: http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...
I think it's because the arguments are bound when the function is called. It's just natural that you'd expect the default values to also be bound at the same time.
Thanks for sharing that. It appears he's recognising industry patterns. Love the way he explained it.

So I think it depends on your product and then you have a choice for growth: either unbundling or bundling.

Just to summarise:

Reasons why it's good

1. more focus => better user experience
2. users can pick and choose apps depending on their needs
3. easier to manage development
4. more real estate on screen
5. makes sense for new functionality not relevant to existing app
6. limit failures by isolating apps
7. clearer product market positioning

Reasons why it's bad

1. complicated engagement loops (I see a friend on FB app and want to message her, need to go to Messenger app)
2. harder to become top of mind and habit forming
3. harder to market (unless you're a big company)
4. loss of synergies (google.com makes it easy to search for videos and news, unbundling would hurt)
5. more mental work for the user (remember which apps do what and find them)
6. more challenging to cross promote products or usage
OCaml-TLS: Adventures in X.509 certificate parsing and validation
When you combine this with the duckduckgo CLI app "DDG" (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ddg/0.2.0), I can see some scripting applications for this. I love ddg and learning new capabilities. Thanks for this!
Depends on which Apple Airport you're utilising. In my experience the Airport Express line (wall socket mounted range extender/WiFi AP) is pretty bad. Seems to get quite hot under medium loads and needs to be reset a lot. Seems like a design trade-off in the sense that Apple went with something small and easy to conceal, but in doing so kind of ignored the heat dissipation.

The Airport Extreme base stations seem pretty solid. But are 100% more expensive than a comparable Asus offering. I'll leave it to the reader to decide if they offer 100% more value to you.

I would also like to say that in this day and age having to use an app/application to configure your router just feels wrong to me. Every router on the market has had a web-server/webUI since the Linksys WRT54G became popular. It is obvious Apple does it as an ecosystem lock-in technique, just to stop Windows/Linux/etc clients from trivially configuring the devices.
Is that just your opinion, or was there the kind of research that went into ABC?
wouldn't it be more interesting if you enabled the linking ability on any text? If I use the ~ syntax, I lose the actual name of the record. If it was possible to just link any text to your posts, it would be a lot clearer.
Once they figure out the dosing, etc, it'd be amusing if the effect size of the human trial is better than Azilect, which gets trumpeted a lot by marketing, but doesn't do that much and has a $400-$700/month copay for patients...
Great... now your doctor can read the news in your patient file only once/after and while you're in the room. I'm sure that won't affect his or her bill rate.

As it is, I only get to see my doctor for three and a half minutes when I need help, after 5 minutes with a PA, and I don't know if the PA has even had a chance to communicate any of what I told her to the physician, so I have to write everything down lest I forget to repeat something important. Now it sounds like you want to remove the chance they might have actually reviewed my history before I get there, by having me carry it around in my pocket with me?
Well, people did various type of space combat experiments in KSP, and they're as easy and interesting as you'd expect (i.e. not very much).
After thinking about it more, I have decreased the fields required to register, but have not allowed for social sign in, in order to preserve username enforcement to follow buddypress usernames for site functionality (messaging, mentions, follows, etc)
The rust language is still unstable. Breaking changes are expected up until the 1.0 release, because they want to make sure they get things right and don't have to live with bad syntax or semantics decisions made in 0.0.1 forever. After 1.0 it will be more stable :)
I don't understand what problem this would solve. Couldn't they just click #ragysh to be directed to your post?
I haven't said a word about fun names, I think you rather missed my point entirely.
Knowing that "security through obscurity" is a bad thing is a fine heuristic, especially for beginners.

Thinking "security through obscurity" is automatically and always bad is incorrect.

The people running this detection software don't do it to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. They do it because they are attempting to prevent attacks on their systems.
It leaves me wondering, are the parameters also scoped to the class(seeing as they're declared at the same time)? Wouldn't this cause an issue with concurrent access to the function?
Declaration doesn't reflect usage, it's not a helpful principle in general. You create tuples with () but access them with [], and the fact that [a, b, c] is a list has very little to do with the fact that you use [] to index into it. The {} syntax for dictionary literals is reasonably common; Ruby's looks fairly similar, and Javascript uses almost exactly the same syntax, which many people will be familiar with thanks to JSON. Are there any other popular syntices for dict literals?
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It's not really Sublime Text giving away the licenses. At the bottom of the page "Sublime Text is not affiliated with the giveaway."

Seems like just a way to harvest email addresses.
Why did the previous link to this with discussion get deaded?
Pluginbag
Under Tariff 8, BnL would need 9,216 plays to buy one box of Kraft Dinner
CIA Style Manual and Writers Guide for Intelligence Publications [pdf]
It's AppSumo harvesting emails :s
Sorry, I missed off the <sarcasm> tag.
Pedophiles priests and family members
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Unknown command, Line 1.
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No, its the example given to the suggestion that people from other cultures than yours should just shut up about how their name is stored because you don't care about their culture (and by extension about them, specifically because of their culture).
I can't help but think that the nazi-themed prostitution orgy part doesn't need to be in the medical records. You should probably talk to your practitioner about logging discretion. ;)
So it's a text message that fires your ringtone, basically?
"DigitalOcean uses KVM virtualization"
All of these benchmarks were run on DigitalOcean.

Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/help/
PostgreSQL: What's behind the pull of this open source database?
> But they come from taxes. Government doesn't have any money, it takes someone else's money and gives them to other people.

Simple solution: raise the tax on the rich to 80% && cut the crap about tax avoidance => problem solved.
> The best defense against laser weapons turns out to be bad weather, which is hard to find in outer space.

Maybe some kind of gas or mirrored chaff as a countermeasure?
yea it's tru that you actually lose the actual name, however when the user click it will see the real title. Let's say that it could be a shortcut.

A good "workaround" might be that the ~ trigger the list of album in my collection (for example ~r filter the album title that start with r) once I click the album I want in the comment will appear the full clickable title so: Todd Terje - Ragysh
Another interesting naming scheme: http://www.reddit.com/r/nameaserver
It seems almost like the real issue is the insurance schema that makes medical care inaccessible without third-party money.

This notion suggests that the right place to start the kind of big-data medical disruption that could work would be a nation with a weaker or nonexistent medical insurance framework.
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Germany asks top U.S. spy to leave amid flap
Why not just memoize the result of the slow function?
I think that's over-thinking it. Medical alert bracelets already exist; I can't imagine it'd be too much challenge to embed a ruggedized USB stick in one, and people generally don't worry about less technical people failing to remember to wear their bracelet.
I'm one of the developers who works on v.zero. We're planning on constantly improving the drop-in UI based on feedback and data. Currently we allow you to embed the form shown in your own form. It's expected you would include your own call to action that would be more contextual for the user.

On native mobile we,ve taken the approach to render the call to action for you and allow you to configure the text. Is that something you would find useful on web as well? It's definitely something we've debated internally.
How Dataveyes Engineered Its New Generative Identity
Ideally I was thinking to let user filter only through the album they have uploaded. This to avoid to filter thousands of vinyl records in our database.

About the same title I guess that a solution might be the one I've written to chton down here
New Seed-Stage Fund Where Founders Share In The Upside
Newegg joins forces with Google to combat Patent Trolls
How complex should a protocol be in a UART interface between only 2 chips?
If you have any good pointers, please show me. I'm attempting to prove that a complex protocol is not necessary when there are only two uCs talking to each other.
It actually create a link to a specific object, using #ragysh would show all the release that have this tag, not the specific one I want to show.
There is no problem, and this is no solution.
You can even explore the logo prototype yourself. http://prototype.dataveyes.com/#/
Wasn't it set up to be "what reddit was at the start, when it was all about tech & startups?"
Are Docker Users Migrating to Ansible and Away from Puppet and Chef?
Show HN: LTR vote/reputation based discussion software built with Laravel
I think this is a powerful concept - a fund where all founders backed by the fund share in the upside of the entire fund. A great way for founders to diversify a tiny bit beyond their own company's success. I'm a big fan of Kent and this concept
Sure, I'll just take a day and a few hundred dollars to fly across the country every time we have a company meeting, that sounds reasonable.
I was just thinking the same thing. The stagnation seems to be more drastic since the weekend. The average age on the front page is 20hours+ right now.

There is also a [dead] link on my frontpage which seems strange.
> if you didn't have that regulation, you'd have medication with a much lower quality

Kind of like supplements? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...
> The term "tuple" and its use predates Python.

References, please? And not mathematical references; programming references. C was using the keyword "struct" long before Python to refer to what you are calling a tuple.

> what's the difference in meaning of element True on position 1 and element True on position 20?

The fact that the index is 1 instead of 20. Both elements have the same type, and might well refer to the same property of some sequence of things; but the index being 1 instead of 20 means the element True is describing that property relative to the first item in some sequence, instead of the 20th item. That's why position in the list makes a difference: the ordering of the items, as well as the type of the items, carries information.

(Of course, in Python the list items don't even have to be of the same type; but most uses of Python lists in practice that I've seen do assume that all the elements are "the same kind of thing".)
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The Curse of Vicarious Popularity
in-vivo or in-utero?

Garlic kills cancer cells in petrie dishes, but not at all when you eat it.
Wondering why we are keeping two samples? Is it for future use 'just in case' or is there some great reason I am missing?
I like that I've got the ability to control the display, I'm looking forward to testing the integration. But, for some people, providing the full look and feel might fit better with the "drop-in" notion.
Sean, you are white with a western name, so the anti-Red pile on doesn't apply to you. Don't worry.
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I was just thinking about his anti-"audioblogging" manifesto the other day: http://www.idlewords.com/2004/08/an_audioblogging_manifesto....
a bit of a weird review. mixes trial design, which is international, with inherent US issues like the ok to advertise prescription drugs.

i postulate that pharma is actually working, better than a lot of other industries. pharma has a working patent system that balances the need for profit and expiration dates (see the recent patent cliff that wreaked havoc, in a good way, on the entire industry). it has to scientifically prove that their products actually work and don't kill people in obvious ways.

you think trials are easy? look at how many products fail in phase 2 and 3 studies. you think the industry likes pissing away all that money? you have the FDA, but then also the various EU country hurdles - where they might approve your product, but not cover it due to insignificant benefits over older products.

HIV is under control, Hep C is cured. Certain cancer survival rates are way better than 25 years ago. Your chances of survival into old age are going up all the time. You can bone your wife at 70, any time you want.

While big bad pharma attempts to cure cancer, for massive profits, other industries create sugar drinks and chat apps. BioTechs are the ultimate start ups, try creating a complex molecule/protein and prove it does something significant. I'll take Genentech over Facebook, anytime.
... which is not nearly as big a risk these days as it was in the days of snake-oil salesmen; there isn't a "new town to set up shop in" for a bad DNA testing service in the days of the Internet.

I'm in favor of protecting people from bad medcine, but I think the current regulatory structure is an overly-restrictive tool for the job. Either that, or (given that it steps on the neck of 23andme but lets GNC and homeopathic practitioners continue to operate) it's mis-tuned for modern technologies and tools.
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For example, the scientific "fact" that Caucasians are a superior races than Negros and Mongoloids.
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This is why the Internet sucks sometimes.
I don't think you're picking on me, and I wasn't trying to suggest that such a question is cultural bias. What I meant is just that people in general tend to think the things they know about are the most interesting things, and that people who don't know about those things are deficient. But by definition they can't know about things they don't know about, which may be just as interesting. So my proposed replacement question just acknowledges and tries to work around that phenomenon. I doubt it is actually critical for people to be super familiar with Tannenbaum's work specifically, it is just an indirect way of assessing intellectual curiosity and CS chops, which I think my question would also achieve.

I pretty much agree with everything else you said, and I wish I knew more about the history of computing myself, since I've lost a lot of my memory of my college course on it to the sands of time. I wonder if there's a good survey book. Maybe AST wrote one...
Neat videos! Have you considered adding media enclosures to your RSS feed so it is a podcast? I usually watch videos like these on the go.
yeah...internal server error when log in.
An implication with a false premise is a boring sort of true statement.
It's not just insurance. Companies these days are using credit history as a reason to deny people employment. The credit card companies will hand out this information to almost anyone. Imagine what these folks will do with medical data.
that would be an excellent solution. Makes it easy to use and very clear to both the sender and the receiver.
Yes, someone actually emailed me with a script to make this happen (even included a diff of my current rss feed to the new one -- blown away). I will be adding this shortly!
I'm going to assume sticky is an engine of growth because if you aren't retaining users you need to bring on more to make up for the difference that aren't staying.
Why should we create another complex markup language, instead of using hyper-links and images/buttons that are already there? Too tired to type?
Ask HN: Is the HN front page having technical issues?
It seems like everything on the homepage is at least 11 hours old.
Source Sans Pro 2.0
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Can't we just make it illegal for an employer to use this information? While not perfect, ask any Black person, it seems preferable to the mess we have today.
We decided to be democratic in our office and arrange a vote for the name of the new server. Unfortunately this resulted in the server being called "Ron's Electric Love Machine". (Thankfully this abbreviates to RELM which is a bit easier to deal with)