skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure we do. Plenty of top comments are funny, but they're just topical, relevant, and - most importantly - include some actual original thought. Posting the same old tired references just isn't funny to this crowd.
I don't think it's gimmicky. Cinnamon is cheap and easy to make and easy to deliver to the patient. Those practical implications are lost if it's only referred to as sodium benzoate. I don't know if this research is done with the same grants as the MS/Cinnamon study from the NIH, but it sounds like it: http://www.rush.edu/webapps/MEDREL/servlet/NewsRelease?id=15...
Gluten destroyed my life and nearly killed me in the end (DH). My live could have been very different with a gluten free diet. I have become very septic about it in general

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/category/toxins-and-toxicity/wh...
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2010/09/wheat-and-obesity-more-...
Polymer is licensed under BSD so it shouldn't be hard at all to do that and comply.
Pewdiepie Exposed
$ host confirm.io
confirm.io has address 46.246.95.37

Interestingly, http://blockchain.info/ip-address/46.246.95.37
I'm sorry, I'm really trying to understand your point but I really see nothing unreasonable in wanting to view someone's code displayed with my preferred font without changing the structure of said code.
Allegedly created by Edward Snowden ( who will be speaking at HOPE in NYC soon ).

I find it interesting that he made this video when he did not want to be quoted extensively, as he was afraid he could be identified by the way he writes. Could he not also be identified by speech patterns or unscrambling this audio?
Interesting. I didn't realize cinnamon metabolized to sodium benzoate. I've actually been trying to avoid sodium benzoate, especially in soft drinks because of worry what that preservative could possibly be doing to us (especially in the presence of vitamin c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_benzoate But I've been purposefully eating a bunch of Cinnamon.

It's hard to reconcile sometimes what might be good for me or if it's killing me - Nicotine may have helped a young girl with epilepsy. http://www.clickorlando.com/news/central-florida-doctor-find...
That's technically possible, but you'll have a very hard time finding a CA that's willing to issue a crazy cert like that.
Most immutable objects don't have methods that would mutate the value, but fail because the object is immutable...

I guess the clarification to what I was saying is that, in the simple case (integers, strings, None) the objects are immutable. It's only getting into cases where the value of the object itself is mutable, that you run into issues. If all objects (or all objects 'allowed' as default values) were immutable, then this behavior would not trigger.

So saying that mutability has nothing to do with it isn't entirely true. It's the immutability of the types of values used in most simple cases that hides this issue from developers until they run into a more complex case.
White House pulls plug on Patent Office nominee after tech sector backlash
That post fell off the front page because it was flagged by users. Same with the current post.
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/watch-netherlands-vs-argen...
from Grothendieck's Récoltes et Semailles:

In those critical years I learned how to be alone. [But even] this
formulation doesn’t really capture my meaning. I didn’t, in any
literal sense, learn to be alone, for the simple reason that this
knowledge had never been unlearned during my childhood. It is a basic
capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these three
years of work in isolation [1945-1948], when I was thrown onto my own
resources, following guidelines which I myself had spontaneously
invented, instilled in me a strong degree of confidence, unassuming
yet enduring in my ability to do mathematics, which owes nothing to
any consensus or to the fashions which pass as law. By this I mean
to say: to reach out in my own way to the things I wished to learn,
rather than relying on the notions of the consensus, overt or tacit,
coming from a more or less extended clan of which I found myself a
member, or which for any other reason laid claim to be taken as an
authority. This silent consensus had informed me both at the lycee
and at the university, that one shouldn’t bother worrying about
what was really meant when using a term like “volume” which
was “obviously self-evident”, “generally known,” “in
problematic” etc... it is in this gesture of ”going beyond to be
in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay
within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one -- it is in
this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things
follow as a matter of course.

Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that
bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my
“elders” and among young people in my general age group who were
more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was. I admired the
facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas, juggling
them as if familiar with them from the cradle -- while for myself I
felt clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track,
like a dumb ox faced with an amorphous mountain of things I had to
learn (so I was assured) things I felt incapable of understanding
the essentials or following through to the end. Indeed, there was
little about me that identified the kind of bright student who wins
at prestigious competitions or assimilates almost by sleight of hand,
the most forbidding subjects.

In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant
than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still
from the perspective of thirty or thirty five years, I can state
that their imprint upon the mathematics of our time has not been
very profound. They’ve done all things, often beautiful things in
a context that was already set out before them, which they had no
inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they’ve remained
prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the
universe of a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these
bounds they would have to rediscover in themselves that capability
which was their birthright, as it was mine: The capacity to be alone.
This could have so easily been phrased much more nicely and more substantively.

What is Tanenbaum's legacy? What microkernels are in use?
Eagerness doesn't really matter for this purpose. It has more to do with "overriding" or priority of effects. I'll just look into it later. Thanks!

If it's anything like purescript's extensible records effect system then there are "handlers" which determine effect order/priority (see http://www.purescript.org/posts/Eff-Monad/)
What would ever have stopped you from doing that? What will stop you from doing that in the future?
Thanks for the feedback! UI improvement is definitively our top ongoing effort. Other features such as external links and printing are planned as well for our next release.
It was pretty stupid of them to use the new llvm-based javascript JIT for webviews in iOS 8, then...
FAA approves SpaceX application to launch rockets from Cameron County beach
Don't underestimate the value of "naivety". Gives people a fresh set of perspectives.
I don't think anything can stop someone from phishing so long as we have iframes, and users trained to accept their use.
Same on Chrome on current Android
I doubt that's the only reason. I fell for it myself at first without ever seeing a line of Ruby. It initially feels intuitive, and that's why I think most fall for it.
As I understand it, the patents on bytecode hinting have expired. I wouldn't be surprised if subpixel antialiasing was still patented.
Has the Snapscan scanner or equivalent become uncool for generation Y ?
Here's their website: http://modnotebooks.com/

The secret is that you mail the notebooks back to them and they digitize the contents for you.
> I always consider `if x:` a bug, unless x can only be a boolean.

Oh, like this? ;)

var eventA = new Date(), eventB = new Date();

if (!parseInt((eventA - eventB) / 1000)) {
console.log("these events occurred simultaneously");
} else {
// troll harder with confusing use of 'asynchronous'
console.log("these events occurred asynchronously");
}
If 9 out of 10 authors from Laos are known to be corrupt, is it unethical and racist to be biased against authors from Laos?
Potato Salad Kickstarter at $71,530 of $10 goal
I agree, but: the existing CAs are some of the most sketchy companies I see running Internet infrastructure. Domain registrars give them some competition (and are sometimes same same).

Tim writes:
> The on­ly oth­er com­pa­nies with com­pa­ra­ble scale and reach at the mo­ment are, in my opin­ion, Face­book and (may­be) Mi­crosoft. I think it would make per­fect sense for ei­ther of them to get in­to the biz as well.

I'd imagine that Facebook is poised (as poised as Facebook gets) to enter the personal certificate/identity provision space, but It's hard to imagine them doing server certs.

Micro-who?
Why is HN Suppressing all NSA related topics?
This is not good. This information affects a large amount of HN users and is very relevant; new information is still coming out almost daily.

Here's some examples from only the past few days alone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010993

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003038

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8000175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7993883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7993571

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988253
I didn't flag it and wouldn't, but I could understand people flagging it for not fitting in with the type of content they find most valuable on the site. If enough people feel that way and act accordingly, it should indeed be buried quickly.

I personally find this community as a haven away from the types of stories that will be featured on the 10 O'clock news and multiple front pages of common news sites. Especially anything that's highly political.

I enjoy reading about new programming frameworks, thoughtful and fresh approaches to launching a business, or someone that has done something "cool" with any type of "technology". HN is a happy place, and politics are anything but happy.
I see people using paypal more and more. It is a lot easier to remember your paypal information than a credit card number. Especially when that number is likely to change with the amount of fraud that goes on in that realm.
"stories about... disdain for email... Odd behavior for a group of “digital natives” who supposedly know the Net like a spider knows its own web."

Just because someone is a digital native doesn't mean they like or understand everything digital-related. Email is a terrible communication platform for the way people communicate in casual settings.

While I agree that digital natives can't be simplified to just "anyone under the age of 34" (and I'm not sure anyone would seriously try to apply that age range across the board), there is something different between people born into a culture (and lets face it, the Internet has created a new culture) and someone who is merely trying to adapt into it. However, the author seems bent on arguing that age isn't the only factor, which is a straw man in my books.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011987
3 Super Moons Coming to a Sky near you July 12th 2014 3D Illusion
>>If you don't have Parkinson's, and the associated brain changes that this is reversing, what would be the point?

The point...hedging my bets. I don't know whether I've got Parkisons...not will I until its too late.

So as long as its backed by something resembling science I'm OK with integrating minor changes into my life on the off chance that it might work. e.g. Right now I'm throwing a decent dose of tummeric into most of my cooking. Tastes fine, costs near zero and might help somewhere along the line. Worse case scenario is that nothing happens and I'm 0.1 USD poorer per month. Hell I suspect I'll receive more positive benefit from believing I might gain a benefit...some difference really.
For anyone interested in cutting-edge cryptocurrency protocols, I recommend checking out the Delegated Proof of Stake protocol by Invictus:

http://bitshares.org/documentation/group__dpos.html
I don't understand why you would anyway. There are a shed load of UK credit cards which don't charge a currency conversion fee.

Here's a list of them:
http://www.money.co.uk/credit-cards/credit-cards-with-no-for...

I've used a Halifax one before and never paid for paying in USD.
Because their images are: 3264×2448 and they are using the browser to scale.
The author was not reporting facts. The article is one giant editorial. People tend to forget that TechCrunch is a blog (that evolved into a pseudo-news site).

There is value in speculating, because I've been proven correct. The author has retracted her previous statement. If you look at the article again, you'll notice that the article has been changed to remove the specific assertion that more than half are thinking about going back to college:

It now says:

>And yet, here these kids are dropping out... at least for two years, with a good lot of them admitting they plan to go back at a later date..
How I could use the storage, based on the store scenario you presented on your site:

1) Customer service: every time a mote gets a ping from a customer, log it. If the customer pinged the area 2-3x, send a message asking if they would like a sales rep to help them.

2) Analytics: building on 1), collect the logged hits from the devices and learn how customers move through the store, who moved through it (i.e.: any customers registered on a loyalty program?)

3) Admin user uses an app to configure coupons to store on the devices.

4) Track stock levels. If I could store stock levels on the beacons, then I could build an app that can be used to make queries ("Where can I find Levi's 501 Jeans with a 36 waist, 36 length?" "Oh, we have one pair left, look here…")

Currently, the way you have to do these things now requires too many moving parts: a mobile app, the motes, and a web server for the mobile app to talk to. I believe the web server is unnecessary: if a user has data disabled, or if the store doesn't want to provide free wifi, then there's no way to facilitate these types of interactions.
> you need to formulate the desired computation algorithmically instead of just poking around the data. This has proved to be a formidable barrier.

Very true. Furthermore, if you start to think seriously about making differential privacy guarantees across a whole company, it gets really hard and impractical.

It's not enough, as you might naively hope, to certify individual data analysis jobs separately as being "differentially private". Taken cumulatively they can amount to something which isn't [1]

It's not even sufficient to certify whole planned and delimited programmes of use for whole datasets as differentially private, if the company also holds (or wants to hold in future) other data on some of the same users and there's some chance of new actions being taken which directly or indirectly depend on both sources of data.

For the theory to truly apply, one needs to track (in a particular formal sense) how much "privacy budget" is used up by pretty much every user-data-dependent action taken across a company and across all datasets you hold pertaining to any overlapping set of users. Once your preallocated budget is used up it's pretty much game over in terms of taking any further actions based on any data (acquired now or in future) on any of those users, unless these actions can be based on inferences which were already obtained within the original budget.

These aren't necessarily insurmountable problems, and I'm sure there are new tools being developed to help which I'm not up to date with. (One which I am aware of is Microsoft's PINQ project [2]).

Still, it seems the organisations with the biggest chance of actually making this work, are those whose relationships with sets of users are inherently transitory and/or firewalled off from eachother. For example a B2B company who operate one-off surveys for clients, throwing away the raw data afterwards.

The fundamental problem is that differential privacy guarantees a degree of resistance to an incredibly strong adversary -- one with unlimited prior knowledge about your users, who is able to bring unlimited intelligence and computational resources to bear on drawing inferences about them based on every action you ever take conditional on user data. It's impressive that one can obtain any guarantees at all under this model, but perhaps not surprising that it can be hard to scale up and compose the guarantees without things blowing up.

That's not to say that there's isn't value in trying to obtain differential privacy guarantees for smaller scale pieces of work. It's still considerably better than other more naive pseudo-anonymisation methods.

[1] at least not to the same strength -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy#Composabil... for the less handwavey version
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/PINQ/
Hackathon held in MLB Stadium (AT&T Park San Fran)
3hub S3 client discontinued
> Deal was made, all good.

Suppose I'm a serial killer and I kidnap you. I say "I'm going to be nice today -- I'll let you choose between dying by pistol and dying by machete. If you don't choose I'll think of something worse." You choose pistol. Am I absolved of the murder because I gave you a choice? Of course not.

Choice does not imply lack of coercion.

It is perfectly reasonable to be upset that X forced you to choose bad option Y (e.g. where X is market forces and Y is the combination of a shit salary and no equity).
Congrats to the team for a successful launch. I will be interested to see how this scales.

PS: Please make your images smaller - I only saw the first 50% of your images by the time I was done reading
This Ring Reads Books And Magazines To The Blind
Yeah, Hobbythek was awesome, too... I remember at maybe 8 years old trying to rebind one of my own broken books after probably seeing that exact episode you mention...

It's really easy to get into this mode where you think "If it's not new and American it's crap" because the US in recent years has been so prodigious in creating such a large range of media of many different types, and because the US is not shy in "Americanizing" things from other countries and improving on them. However, there are definitely corners of brilliance lying in the past and in other countries that have been forgotten, and will be rediscovered in future years.
You are already greyed out, someone is keeping an eye on posts like this, clearly.
Hardly. The goal of Hamas "armed resistance" as they call it is a united Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, no land swaps etc. This is an ideological position with zero compromise. Hamas' understanding of "occupation" is exactly that Jews have a state in the area.

Gaza could become a sovereign Palestinian state, it doesnt need a military to do so. No one is occupying it or attacking it, and it receives tons of American money. The problem is that their leaders are ideological crackpots, and many are corrupt on top of that, and they havent built up their economy, infrastructure, education etc in 7-8 years they controlled it. Instead they spent all their efforts on violent methods to advance an ideological agenda, and used their own people as human shields and used "state" funded TV and social centers to teach their kids to hate.
> The "helloooo, is this news, of course it's unsafe, whaddaya expected" etc attitude doesn't help raise the bar on data safety.

I would think just the opposite is true. Perpetuating the idea that "Anyone with a link" means anything other than "Anyone" doesn't help raise the bar on data safety.

I'm glad Google made the enhancement to this, but wouldn't classify it as a security issue.
30,000 active users. Android. Health app that was coded in 2 hours. Ads were great at $14-19 a day. Using the app myself, I noticed the ads interfered with the experience. I removed them. $0 for 4 years.

I'm stopping smoking today. I plan to create an Android app every three days. Hopefully, I can get a little side revenue coming in.
As a long Windows user, I too was skeptical of Chocolatey (somewhere on the spectrum of "what's the point" to "oh no, more garbage"). An endorsement from GitHub makes me think twice, but I can totally understand your point of view -- it feels a little silly to install a package manager to install a single program.

Do you feel the same way about Ninite?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008168

Despite "NSA" being penalized (along with some other high-volume topics, I believe), there are still regular NSA posts that make it to the front page and get plenty of discussion. For example:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983124 (6 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989730 (5 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7991696 (4 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7993472 (3 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008025 (yesterday)

Also note that the vast majority of posts on any popular topic do not make it to the HN front page.
One of your links answers this very question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008168

Links with NSA in the title get penalized because of the massive number of stories submitted about the NSA. This is Hacker News, not NSA News. While news about the NSA is important, historically it has flooded the site and completely dominated the front page with mostly duplicate stories. The penalty was put in place to counter the effects of this.
This phishing concern is part of why we decided to use one-time SMS tokens with Checkout -- there's no password to steal.
Title made more sense before changed, as now it seems like it is just launching.
Previous title was "Mod Notebooks $91,470 Launch"
Uh, the fact that normal paypal integrations redirect you to a https://paypal.com page that has paypal.com in the url bar, and a green mark for an ssl certificate that says "Paypal, Inc [US]"? Which we have trained everyone to look out for.
Then there's for-else:

In [1]: for i in []:
...: pass
...: else:
...: print 'Else!'
...:
Else!

In [2]: for i in []:
...: break
...: else:
...: print 'Else!'
...:
Else!

In [3]: for i in range(2):
...: break
...: else:
...: print 'Else!'
...:

In [4]: for i in range(2):
...: pass
...: else:
...: print 'Else!'
...:
Else!

The syntax could be interpreted as:

if len(l) == 0:
print "Else!"
else:
for i in l:
pass

The "catch cases where a `break` is triggered" case isn't common enough for this syntax feature to be encountered very often, leading to confusion when people come across it (though at least it's not a bug where a common use-case has weird behavior to new-comers).
"Text" posts on HN are always displayed in gray. pg said this was to discourage making long text posts directly to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468231

For example, the text in this post by pg is also gray: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304
This does make me want to take a look OCaml seriously.

I'd mostly use it in a web server context. Though I have no clue where to really get started in that.

Yesod actually was one of the reasons that pushed me to learning Haskell (though I arguably never got much done in Yesod since it felt like its pragmatisms didn't match up with mine.)