skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks mostly to the MIT licensed (and awesome!) AdminLTE template. http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE/

I really can't thank that guy enough!
http://codeforamerica.org/about/international/
I have no free time. The common curse of every coder are infinite ideas vs. limited time. So if I want to take free time from this curse, I would go offshore sailing for half a year to ensure I have no internet.
I don't want to spread rumors, and everything I've heard has been second hand at best. I just know that there were a lot of good people at Amicus, and a lot of good organizations relying on the software, and now they are all screwed.
The result of all this is that IBM management has lost touch with reality.

I see that the author needed some connective tissue between the bit about The Fed and IBM's cloud plans but any IBMer/ex-IBMer can tell you they're out of touch. The disagreement is about when they lost it.

Most, including this author, will point to whenever the domain they're experts in was mismanaged to hell. But IBM will keep on trucking right past their foray into "the cloud," constantly chasing the latest fads, and letting older divisions wither and die because nobody in charge understand the tech domain well enough to salvage them.
Using a drone to look for devices that are sending GPS signals in an area.
When the Doctor Came to Coal Country
let's see whether he writes a new blog post about the sudden surge in traffic
Very nicely done...http://church.io looks far better than any other option out there.

In this case, I believe you are the inspiration. Keep up the great work!
I think you have done a very nice job with the design and clean user interface.
Every child will want to know Can Angels do Loop Dee Loops?
A better way to share photos with my friends and family.
I support a web-based ERP system. I'd love to develop a feature for reporting support cases directly from the system that is context-aware enough to describe an issue better than most of our clients do when they call or email.
I've been talking to leaders in my church about the need for better organization and communication. I'll definitely check this out for our purposes. Thanks for posting it!
I salute you, dmitry.

In order to run Linux on an ATmega1284p, that guy:

- bit-banged 16MB DRAM

- bit-banged SPI Flash

- wrote an emulator for a 32Bit ARM & MMU

Apparently it takes 4h to but Ubuntu.
I'm pretty happy someone actually wrote something about this, I was surprised I didn't hear any news outlets talking about the connection beyond just mentioning the other accident.

I'm also happy to see some at least slightly non-trivial statistics in the mainstream.

One glaring point though: the liklihood of another crash might not be high given whatever statistics, but those don't reflect the fact that someone shot a missile at one of those planes. I might risk a flight in Africa or Taiwan or where-ever, but you won't see me flying anywhere near Russia/Ukraine anytime soon even though people obviously thought this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Ask HN: Why is down voting disabled on some submissions?
As title says, down voting is disabled on some submissions. For example the recent SpaceX Thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071070
Groups is the main one, sure (it has "prayer requests"), but also attendance tracking, sync without outside church management systems, etc.

I probably should highlight more of that stuff on the site... thanks!
Okay, if you are going to ignore addressing my points, can you at least please give me the number of people who contacted you or Dymytry, because they were distressed about the basilisk. I am genuinely interested in those.
22, read most of Joel’s blog when I was 16, despite living in Nigeria with Snow.

I can’t imagine the youngsters of today never wondering who stands behind SO—and that brings you to JoS and CH too.

I’ve seen a different opinion though: people claiming Joel and Jeff spoiled a generation of developers by presenting subjective opinions as self-evident truths in the form of feel-good light reading. I don’t subscribe to this viewpoint but it’s worth mentioning.
Beautiful UI! Let me bring attention to one thing that's a bit tangential - I see that you have a "church directory" function. Please make sure that proper privacy settings are in place and people are prompted to opt in rather than are opted in by default. Especially in this case, registers for places of worship have been historically used to target minorities for their associations, nationalities and beliefs. Not saying this would happen in the US anytime soon, but better safe than sorry in my humble opinion.
This kind of work is so important to offset the threat of complete top-down control. Thank you!
Pro tip: Preemptively being defensive about down-voting is a sure way to bring them on.
This is why I left IBM (SWG) a few months ago. When I turned in my notice after 1.5 years at IBM, people, including very senior people and managers, cheered me on saying things like "I wish I could leave" or "I put my notice in 6 months ago but they gave me a huge raise...".

When the financial gimmicks run out, IBM is absolutely screwed because they've been cannibalizing their most valuable asset for short term shareholder value.
Interactive film to be made by the hackers at the Festival of Code
"We" as in me and normal people without psychology or biology or neurology degrees.

Yes, "we" as in humans have no limits to what we can discover.
Proposal For An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
So in this case, that's $167.
Continue my work on connecting robots and avatars to simulated connectomes but do it full time and make some really cool break throughs, and more importantly, some very useful devices!
http://www.connectomeengine.com
Great advice. I just have to get over my introvert hacker tendencies haha.
Well then think again.
http://stockforecast.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/using-logarith...

So you say a jump from $30 to $31 is equal to a jump from $3 to $4. I thing that is misleading.

When price jumps are small the error also gets small, but it is still there.
Not a software project, but I would try to learn mathematics properly and in depth. This isn't something I've had the time or opportunity to do.

I would get a stack of basic and undergrad textbooks, maybe a copy of Mathematica, maybe also a tutor, and just start at the beginning to see how far I could get.
I had two contact me, no idea about Dmytry.

If you're sceptical in general that there was distress out there from LW's treatment of the issue ... evidently you haven't followed LW on the topic in the past four years.
No, she will just have to formally evict them.
I got the same thing for reference.
Superpowers for web developers. A good Friday read
Heya tryggvib!

First off, that's one awesome "shameless" plug. :-) I've been looking for a site / project that does this for so long, you can't even imagine. So thank you for sharing that, I will be checking it out more thoroughly later.

Second, that sounds like a great invitation, I might just jump aboard when I begin my "sabbatical". I actually have seen the site at Politiken (small world, huh?) and it's awesome to see that there are initiatives working on more economic transparency.

Thanks for the Open Knowledge link, that's definitely something I will look more into. On a sidenote, for the past couple of years I've taken an interest in medical science and how merging it with the digital industry could benefit society (think, real-time blood analytics for scientific research, modern overviews of disease and the teams currently working cures, etc.), so it's nice to see that a well-established organization do exist.

I will definitely ping you, also on any updates that might be relevant to you and your team (don't forget to say hi from me!).

Keep up the good work and thank you so much for sharing with me (and the rest of HN)!

- Anders
I don't get why the special character had to be used.
An HTML/CSS prototyping framework that is dead simple for designers to use. They would only write the code in an easy to organize way (layouts and snippets) and the tool would take care of building everything, live reloads, creating documentation from comments, collecting feedback from stakeholders, and serving it up.

I've been wireframing for a while and have yet to reach a solution I really like.
Made this a little while back: CRAPCHA (Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement)

http://crapcha.com
This is really nice, I've often wondered about the dearth of such things every time I look at a church website.

In the Catholic churches in my area, the company that prints the paper bulletin appears to also have something to do with the web hosting as well. I think many of them just go with that and slap something up there.

Have you thought about actually using it to build a full-blown SaaS offering that churches can subscribe to? Similar to the WordPress model? There are a ton of Churches who probably would have someone who can set up a website, but not necessarily do the whole Digital Ocean VPS thing. I haven't explored this space, but I'd bet this is one of the nicest looking things like this out there.
Its a fun project, I did this back in 2012 or some such, and gained 5x different mini projects out of it (shorts, etc.)

Makes you crunch out quantity, which is good for aspiring authors. Learning how to say "it doesn't matter" until you start to edit. Meaning, just get it done.
> understanding my code

Both Vim and Emacs have a horrible time trying to syntax highlight Perl, but I find Vim's flaws to be more tolerable. Emacs isn't some sort of panacea.
Same here. My guess is that this is the actual captcha.
Try ctrl+alt+v
He will undoubtedly be receiving many empty forms if they are being sent successfully. I'm wondering what this will do to his paranoia and if he will post about it.
Wow, the Go memory model really threw me
I dunno.

What I do know is that IBM seems to be the #2 advertiser on TV and in magazines after that stupid gecko.

It is trying more and more to be like those Indian outsourcers like Wipro and Infosys, but the difference is that Wipro and Infosys pay the CEO at Indian rates and spend customer money on solving customer problems rather than sponsoring tennis and golf tournaments.
I think this library looks great. It seems to do just enough, and browser compatibility with a small filesize is wonderful.

I almost can't believe that all of the other (current) comments are complaining about the use of the λ character. Unicode is hardly a new concept, and it is certainly not "hostile" (hyperbole much?).

In fact, as modern languages like Julia become popular, I think we will see increased use of unicode characters in coding. Julia is very unicode friendly, which aids scientists and mathematicians when translating formulas to code. For example, it supports the "element of" operator ('∈') for testing if an item is in a set. These unicode characters actually _improve_ readability in many contexts, while being less convenient to type if you're only accustomed to ASCII.
Well, yes. That's what makes Unix OSes so great. Programs all the way down to the command line are separate from the OS. Modules and drivers are also semantically separate from the core.
http://www.geee.net/acids/cntpaint.gif
At the moment I have three projects I would pick one from to finish:

1. an e-mail server with a web server that can be deployed on a cheap device (raspberry pi) to offer pgp mail to non-technical persons

2. a docker orchestration system (docker is supposedly working on one already, but where's the fun in waiting)

3. I have this idea for a "Game of Life"-like game where instead of life being dependent on adjacent life, life would be dependent on energy equally distributed over the grid, and life could store and expend energy to execute operations like replication and movement.
http://commons.codeforamerica.org/places/Berlin
Well, there you go! :-D Thanks! Starting a program might be a little too much for me, but I know a few who I think would love to add Denmark on the map.
If you'd like to properly remap move to next/previous word and other commands in Mac OS X, I'd recommend Karabiner (which was previously called KeyRemap4Macbook).

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I use it to map the emacs navigation keys for use across the OS, and find it really improves my experience. If you're interested in that set up, I use the following options, which are all listed under Emacs Mode:
- Control + PNBF to Up/Down/Left/Right
- Control + A/E to Command + Left/Right
- Option + B/F to Option + Left/Right
- Control + D to Forward Delete

Of course, I have caps lock remapped to Control.

There are also Vi remap options in Karabiner, plus tons of other stuff.

Disclaimer: I'm a bit of an emacs lightweight, so it might be that the remapping options aren't as full-featured as what a more advanced user would like.
I was looking at Slackware Linux the other day and came across this page http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php. I enjoyed how emacs got its own software set due to its size.
Canadians can watch here: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?vid=40...
I'd compute the number of legal positions in the game of Go.
We already know the numbers up to 17x17, and the approximate value for the standard board size of 19x19; see
http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/go/legal.html
What we need is the GNOME3 of text rendering

That is scary to imagine :)
It's not about the rate of the growth. It reflects better percentage movement (that's what's important).
Nominal movements in price are meaningless.
Really. Thing about it. A 100% growth at $10 is the same as 100% growth at $100 if you want to calculate revenue but it is not reflected as that in a linear scale.
Don't talk about downvotes, and don't worry about them. Some users will actively look for things which have been unfairly downvoted and try to correct. If you're angsting about one or two people who dislike what you've said, you're already over-thinking it.
First question: what are your areas of interest? It is easier to generate intrinsic motivation this way. If you've done prior work in the area, you should challenge yourself by trying to use a different language or paradigm.

Right now, I'm interested in compilers and Haskell. So I married the two together (they're made for each other) and am working hard on a Python 3 interpreter: https://github.com/mattgreen/hython
Probably something to do with system programming.

I've only ever really worked on web applications, but am feeling drawn to systems work, it's something I'd love to get deeper knowledge in.

Not quite sure how to go about it / what to learn - but I'm starting with Rust - http://rust-lang.org.
Yeah I understand 80%+ of churches probably won't bother to try to install something like this. I'll just be happy if anyone can get some use out of it, as it makes me happy to share.

I would LOVE for someone to offer hosted OneBody -- I just can't do it because I have a day job and really dislike typical customer support. (Love helping other tech people and hackers, but am really bad at being patient with "customers".)
If the $60 million investment came in with a pre round valuation of less than $1b then the example given does not meet the requirement.
Mobile's Rapidly Growing Role in Marketing
Free, without a job, without kids/family, and some $?

No question, I would travel the world.
Software project would be a platform for anonymous product distribution direct to consumers catered to their preferences.

Non-software related would become fluent in a second language. Any language.
Thank you for the reference to the Scott Aaronson's paper, and to casual HN readers of this thread, I can't recommend this fascinating and easy to understand presentation enough.
On the OSX side, if you use Alfred[1] then you already have a clipboard manager[2]. I have cmd-shift-v set to popup Alfred's clipboard history. The nice part about Alfred is you can search (text and regex) your history and use cmd+1-9 to quick select the first 9 in your history. You can also exclude certain apps from being save (ie password managers) and save frequently used things to snippets (I use this to save frequent responses to customer tickets)

The number of times this has saved my ass or at least significant amounts of my time is fairly large.

[1] http://www.alfredapp.com/

[2] http://support.alfredapp.com/features:clipboard
I have been open sourcing IBM WebSphere Message Broker (http://www.use-the-tree.com) recently.

It needs some polishing and especially it needs support for "industry standards" like Edifact (already started on that), SWIFT, HL7, X12 and others.

If I had half a year time, I'd be working on that!

It's a multi billion dollar business
A good talk on one of IBM's big problems was submitted this morning but gained no traction. I wish HN'er would learn to identify big names in finance so this stuff wouldn't be missed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084640
If the comment is over 1 day old, you can't downvote it anymore. See, you can still downvote this comment on that thread because it's only 18 hours old. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081863
"the most likely maximum number of crashes of commercial planes with over 18 passengers in any eight-day window over 10 years is exactly three".

So if another crash occurs are we allowed start the conspiracy theories?
If you can't commit to starting a Brigade on your own, perhaps the smaller step of joining the mailing list and looking for others to help might work better: https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/forum/#!forum...
I would develop a game or several games.

In addition, I would write a metal EP.
New tool: Generate startup name systematically
I use projectile with caching turned off with flx-ido for sorting. I heavily favor (projectile-find-buffer) once I get going since loading the whole tree is pretty slow on a large project. I'm way more happy with this setup than I was with CtrlP.
Kivo now has diffing for PowerPoints
FingerprintJS – A fast, browser-fingerprint library
The Sushi guy is a growth hacker and he doesn’t know it
The "chance" here is the probability of the second crash will happen given the first crash happens. Because the first crash is given, its probability should be taken to be 1.

There's also whether the probability of a crash occurring on any given day is actually 1/365, but that's another issue.
There's a very old case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., in which the Dodge brothers sued Ford for plowing all the profits from the company back into new factories and increased production, instead of issuing dividends.[1] Henry Ford said: "My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business." Ford lost the case. The court held that the purpose of a corporation was to maximize shareholder value, not to employ the most people.[2]

Amazon reminds me a bit of Ford back in the day. Profitability is nice for the shareholders, but at the end of the day, the net benefit they create to the economy, just by employing all those people and spending all that money on development, isn't really a function of their profitability.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company#Fac.... A fact often glossed over is that the Dodge brothers wanted Ford to pay dividends because they were investing money in launching a competing car company.

[2] Although that's unlikely to be good law today.
No. Once you take an event as given, its probability is now 1. In conventional notation, P(A|A) = 1 ("the probability of A given A is 1"). For the sake of argument, it has now occurred, and the probability of an event that has already occurred is 1, just as the probability of an event that didn't occur in the past is now 0.
You know, you cannot always expect evidence of the type that scientists or courts demand.

Specially when dealing with a victim of systematic injustice, you have to take their claims seriously. Not at face value, mind you, but seriously enough to get up and gather your own set of evidence to either confirm of refute the claim.

What you just wrote is a thought stopper. There is no hard evidence of discrimination, therefore there's no discrimination at all. Maybe it is that you, personally do not discriminate... but this attitude is exactly what enables the bigots amongst us to keep going with impunity.
I would work on my matching engine in Go.

https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine

It is just pure fun. The goal would be to hit 6 million transactions per second over the network. Currently finishing up the inter-thread queue implementations here

https://github.com/fmstephe/flib

I have been on this for close to a year now. I imagine I could really push it out the door with six solid months.
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Thanks!
I am skeptical that over 10 people have been genuinely distressed about the basilisk itself. I am definitely not skeptical of the general distress caused by the event - the censorship and the general handling of it had a pretty big negative impact on the community and its members.
I love the content, just wishing for some of their views on explaining electronic circuit design.
This is a really nice looking UI. Thanks, I'll look into using it on some upcoming projects.
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I've always argued that clusters of plane accidents are reassuring signs that they truly are random. If plane crashes happened with precise, predictable regularity, once every three weeks, say, then that would be a sign that there was some sort of terrible uncontrollable force at work in the world.
Its basically one of those scene pumping deals. Its seems more common in the art and music world than tech as far as I can tell. Get together with a group of people trying to do similar things and then make it look like you are more popular than you are by acting in concert with each other. For example liking each others posts, promoting each others projects on social media and in person. Essentially you give each other a fake buzz to get new things off the ground, like a head start. Then others from the outside looking in think that you have created that buzz organically and come to check out what all the excitement is about.
> On the other hand, Wadler himself in "Why Functional Programming Matters" argues that laziness is essential to achieve modularity and composability.

I just read the part about it, I agree that lazy computation is a powerful tool for modularity and composability.

But it's nothing specific to FP languages.
Python and Nimrod do that through generators (yield keyword), D through "ranges" (no language support).

Also not all algorithms you would want to write only once are easily expressible in a lazy way (eg. push parsers).
Haha, I'm an avid reader of HN, so I tend to revisit articles to check for updates.

Thanks for the help everyone
P vs. NP and Quantum Mechanics
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I feel it's important to point out that this is not a cluster of three airliner accidents. It's a cluster of two accidents and one crash due to military action. While they presumably didn't intend to shoot down an airliner, the only accidental part was that they killed different people from who they wanted to kill.

I don't think this affects the probability discussion much, but it's good to call it what it is.
What if my church is called a mosque?
And people outside of North America can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUDCIfI-wRs
> Although that's unlikely to be good law today.

Can you explain further here? It seems to me that maximizing shareholder value is, at least today, the exclusive purpose for which corporations exist. The law seems to require this.
Maybe you could find someone to integrate it into Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.io/