skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still miss native software

Give it a few more years and I think you might get your wish, at least if you use Apple or Microsoft OSes.

The 90s marked the slow demise of native non-Internet connected applications.

The 2000s saw the rise of web apps.

The early 2010s marked the rise of mobile first/only native apps.

The late 2010s will see the rise of highly optimized singular platforms (MacOS/iOS, Win8/WinPhone, Android/ChromeOS?) designed to lock the user into the platform via tight inter app orchestration (native obviously) via cloud backed APIs.
So basically, everybody who gives out their Tox ID on 4chan is also giving out their IP address. Great.
I am very familiar with the medical profession, I teach them and review their grant and fellowship applications.

In no way conceivable is the debt incurred by medical students an irrational one, unless they hate medicine and wish they had chosen a different career.

The only way on which the debt incurred becomes an unusual burden is if they don't subsequently obtain positions commensurate with their training.

Comparing the income of Wall Street traders to physicians is bogus, the skills required are very different , and Wall Street is much more competitive and cut-throat than the medical profession is.

"It's really popular to hate on physicians for supposedly making a lot of money for a supposedly cushy job." Medicine is still a very well paid and cushy job: try asking qualified lawyers doing document review for $20 an hour with equivalent debt to newly trained physicians what they think of the matter.
'voluntary'? That's rich. Google+ is the most rammed-down-your-throat product ever on the web.
You can add episodes if you want to.
I very much appreciate it! Thanks so much for sharing. It's inspirational how positive you are, even given the frustrations you outlined. When so-called "normal" people treat different people so poorly, it makes me wonder who really has the disorder.
Finally the worst-valued headphones are with the worst-valued computer/phone manufacturers.
And why isn't anyone calling for Brennan's head on a stick for lying about this? Really, I'm mystified.
What makes the main developer, irungentoo, qualified to write the Tox core?
Your still not cursing as much as the guy building msi installers though...
It would have been more inappropriate. Which could be the goal, I don't know.

But more seriously, it's legally risky to have anything to do with code licensed under WTFPL because it does not actually specify that you can do anything with the code without possible legal reprisals, from which no protection is offered. Probably safe to point and laugh at it, though.
> Even today, the Talk program requires about 5MB of ram with half a dozen conversations open.

No surprise since they haven't updated the Talk client since ages.
> a hospital cannot get more residency spots approved unless it also hires more attending physicians.

If there is a shortage of attending physicians, then we need more residents.
When Genocide is Permissible _ Yochanan Gordon
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. I pointed out the problems with making debt non-transferrable. If it is transferrable, it can be transferred to "sharks". What would you suggest instead?
"Powered by QuickMVP"

So if they get enough positive feedback / sign-up they'll build it?
And it would be the only way to attend a Rei Toei concert. Except she will be called Hatsune Miku.
If you are interested in tools that will help you see the important from the urgent, check out http://weekplan.net which is heavily inspired from the book "7 habits of highly effective people" from Covey.

You'll find for example the Quadrant view, and other tools to help you stick to your goals.
> It's really smart to ensure that at the end of a very long and pricy education, essentially every qualified doctor who wants to be a doctor can get a job as a doctor.

Why? No other professionals get this guarantee. What about physics or history Ph.D.'s?
Also a good choice for some time:

grep printf * | grep -v '"'
This is basically Slack, which we use at work. https://slack.com/
What if I don't want a direct connection for security/anon reasons?
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, Python, C++, Java, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Git.

Resume: http://jayanth.info/static/file/resume.pdf

Email: Contact info on resume.

I recently graduated from Indiana University, with a masters in Computer Science. I have been working as a research assistant to a professor at the university.

I see myself primarily as a C / python / C++ developer, and I am looking to work as a systems engineer.

I am currently in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next few weeks, and I hope to talk to as many companies as I can.
No.

They have to be friends with you.
I would highly recommend anyone starting Clojure or ClojureScript give LightTable a spin. I find it's workflow generally fantastic. Connecting it to the browser is a snap too. You'll be up and running in 4 minutes, don't even need to download/install clojure; it does it for you!
Sha256+salt. See https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

We are still working on the rest.
Winklevoss-backed hukkster.com shuts down
Sounds very similar to http://meeet.co/
That was fun, although several were not quite like the ones in my memory.

One of the sounds that I'd like to hear again is that little triple "dit" you would hear on a radio when a cell phone was nearby. I never knew exactly how it was made -- undoubtedly the network saying hello to the phone -- or what that sound was called.
It sounds like the statistical basis for this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
I have hired a freelancer for a small project from that thread, and it went pretty awesome.
apparently no one cares.
Teens Youth Ministry: The Flying Scissors
Although the WTFPL website (http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/) does note somewhat ominously that it hasn't been tested in courts, it seems legitimate enough to me. Is there any evidence outside of its lack of history in court that would indicate it isn't suitable for production use?

EDIT: gnu.org also says "We do not recommend this license" ,pointing to the Apache license as providing better protection against 'patent treachery'. (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html)
I expected it to be a new NoSQL, "eventually consistent" database server.
Cool. Would love to use something like this to see what service I can use to watch it. Finding a movie is hard enough, it would be nice to have help finding how to watch it at the same time.
Interesting development: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/43340418/its-official-bitto...
Interesting...this basically lets me transfer control of my Bitcoin address to some other user, but in a totally safe way! Would not have thought this was possible.
> Comparing the income of Wall Street traders to physicians is bogus, the skills required are very different , and Wall Street is much more competitive and cut-throat than the medical profession is.

It's really not a bogus comparison. Comparing to the average wage of all professions is meaningless, since a prospective doctor would be capable of getting a top paying job if he decided not to go to medical school. The proper comparison is between two jobs that a prospective doctor might choose.

More than half of all medical school applicants take a year or more off in between college and medical school, and Wall Street and medical schools are indirectly competing for a lot of the same talent - a person who decides medical school is too heavy of a financial burden may very well choose to work in finance instead. Students graduating from top-tier engineering schools, for example, are prime candidates for both fields (and it is not uncommon for someone with an engineering degree to work for a few years in finance before deciding to go to medical school)

As I said before, it easily takes 30 years or more before medical school starts to look like a good financial decision, and that's assuming you make it that far without burning out and leaving the profession (as many do). That time frame is increasing, not decreasing, which means medicine is becoming a less attractive or sensible financial decision for the top-tier candidates, who are theoretically the very people one would most want to be performing one's open-heart surgery twenty years from now.
Great idea! Bookmarked and eager to hear what new sounds are added in the future. I've got a similar idea for a 'video game systems and computers of yore sound museum' which so far includes several years worth of sound rips and snippets from the TI-99 4a, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Commodore 64 and many arcade games. Not too sure about the legality regarding copyright issues or fair use, though.
Yep! And without having to rely on the standard, boring, dangerous, database-driven PayPal-esque style schema employed by Coinbase and other third-party sources.
I wondered about this too. At a guess, perhaps they were doing a straight database dump from a production system which had sensitive information as well as public data. They would then run a script to delete the sensitive columns before posting the dump.

This seems likely to have been broken at the design stage: systems should fail safe. The first-order fix might be to check the return value of the sanitizer script and refuse to upload if it failed. But a better solution would be to write a system which makes it much less likely to leak private data. For example by copying only whitelisted columns (so if new sensitive columns are added to the system they are not dumped by default). Or storing sensitive data in separate tables or even a separate database (this will take more work if levels of sensitivity change over time).

I've speculated here about the details to illustrate the point about systems design. Unfortunately, too often the glue code for these sorts of things is written with little or no error checking, so when something is wrong the system just proceeds through unknown or unvalidated states as we see here. It doesn't help that the default language for cron and a lot of "supervisory" jobs tends to be Bash (or Dash) these days, where error checking is turned off by default.
sounds like the Ukraine war is having indirect effects, like the new law, that end up being the tipping point making him leave
ahahaha safest and fastest(we are the current 400 metre Olympic gold medalist)

Yeah but I meant safest :)
I have never seen it clearly explained.
Cool! Can I actually get some code to play with?
http://www.canistream.it/ seems to work for me.
German Researchers Demonstrated Virtual Plane Controlled By Your Brain
This was posted to the NZ Python User Group a couple of months back, where a bit of discussion around the name took place, https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nzpug/womO01rqF58/niM48Fn8QA...
I'm not sure if [citation needed] is appropriate. This is kind of rudimentary history. It's a cute thing we do on HN but if we did this every post would be a Wikipedia article in itself
But you don't have to actually know them. If they posted their Tox ID on 4chan, which happens all the time, and they accept my friend request, I would have their IP address, correct?
http://web.archive.org/web/20120217011347/http://danweinreb....
http://trustatom.com/
I'm missing something here. Why would barges be a good place to host events? Why not one of the many traditional land based locations that are always used? Is there something particular about being on the water? Or is it just being funky? Are we to believe that they were in areas that available space is so scarce that going to the water was truly sensible. If so, why weren't others doing it already?
BitTorrent unveils NSA-proof online calling and messaging software
> Do you honestly think that it even possible that examiners spend years examining cases?

It would be silly to suppose that they spend the entire time in examination. That's why it should be obvious that I think they have ample time to correct their mistakes.

You do have a point insofar as the entire "game" of patent grants is rigged, such that the examiners are graded on how many patents are processed, while the examinees are allowed to resubmit filings as many times as they like until they pass (subject to fees, of course).
NB: the tox project website is unusable w/o JS enabled. Please fix that.

https://tox.im/

While we're at it, the rest of the suggestions may be useful:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_f...

From the FAQ, this I like:

"The goal of this project is to create a configuration-free P2P Skype replacement. Configuration-free means that the user will simply have to open the program and without any account configuration will be capable of adding people to his or her's friends list and start conversing with them. There are many so-called Skype replacements and all of them are either hard to configure for the normal user or suffer from being way too centralized."

A lot.

(Emphasis added).
Like http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw ?
That wasn't really the purpose of it, though the purpose may be just as bad, if not worse.
He has the time to do it.
Have to say I am loving Russian Doll Caching in Rails 4.1
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Amusing name, given that Tinder came out of Hatch Labs, an incubator that IAC owns. IAC also owns OkCupid.
The Human Race = 6.6B Morons
How is this economically efficient? It takes a massive amount of space in their manhattan building but only saves $50k per month?
Argh. You guys, I don't get the hate. As someone else pointed out, if G+ dies, all we're left with it Facebook... and for what it's worth, G+ is far and away my favorite social network of all time. Between circles and auto-awesome, the only way for it to improve is if G+ can poach some of the celebrities and news sources from Twitter.

As it is, G+ is an absolutely fantastic feed from my favorite news sources, sorted into relevant subject-matter circles. It hasn't gained the mainstream adoption of Facebook, but that can be spun as a feature rather than a bug -- way more HN-style discussion, way fewer babies and gun nuts.

G+ Photos is by far the strongest aspect of G+, and spinning it off may spell doom for the network. I really hope not. Photo sharing and social networks go together like peanut butter and jelly, and Google's done a great job of keeping everything private unless explicitly ordered otherwise. (At least in G+... not so much in Buzz or whatever.)
I heard this history from an eyewitness in, oh, about 1981 plus or minus a year, long before RMS forked Gosling Emacs for his GNU Emacs.

None of the three other listed AI Lab names ever had anything to do with these C/UNIX(TM) versions of EMACS.
>Tinder/OkCupid + Linkedin

Wait, so I meet people in suits, and then fuck them?
The Codependent Relationship Between Chefs and Yelpers
Ignore all bait threads. Sage all bait threads. Report all bait threads. Hide all bait threads.

Don't take the troll bait. ;)
Why did you decide to use sha256 instead of a kdf like bcrypt or pbkdf2? I'm not attacking you, genuinely curious.
Adding GitHub Flavoured Markdown with syntax highlighting
And yet we call systems that are ruled by very small minorities "dictatorships" so it's not something you can optimize in one direction, as it's one thing to protect minorities and something else for minorities to order everyone else around.

I have not seen any clear indication that the Founders collectively had anything against majorities per se, though, or even that they were trying to promote a liberal society (at least for any modern meaning of that word), as they simply required super-majority rules for more fundamental changes (e.g. changes to the Constitution) and seem to me more concerned that a minority of people in power could not do everything on their own, though I think there was some debate on that between the Federalists and those opposed to them.
Yep, naive bash scripts don't stop on failure and your non-sanitized file will happily get uploaded.

Does anyone know why Mozilla was posting database dumps(sanitized or otherwise) onto public servers?
Okay, that sounds better. Thanks for clarification.
Surprised it's free. How are they going to make money?
That's a wonderfully interesting article.

Steele was one of the authors of the TMACS package, for which this article has “???” in the references.

Incidentally, the article mentions Multics' version of QED in passing; this regular-expression-based editor was written by Ken Thompson¹ and is a (more complicated) ancestor of ed(1), the standard text editor on Unix.

¹ http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/qed.html
It's what django uses, and this site uses django.
Heh, you were lucky. When I were a lad, vi was reserved for the Honours students and post-grads.

Us undergrads had to use `ed`.
It's useful to contributors who work on the site development.
"Secure" is a lot of things.

"Secure against bulk surveillance" is a big push in a lot of areas, it's a button Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen have been pushing hard for the past year or so. See especially their joint lecture at Columbia Law School in December, 2013, and Schneier's presentation to Stanford Law School in April, 2014 (both are on http://FixYT.com).

Anonymized persistent IDs associated with physical / persistent IP addresses represents a different level of threat, particularly for those who are engaged in activities for which concern from a APT (advanced persistent threat) such as a state actor, with either legal impunity or significant resources, or both, is a concern. In that case, I'd want to see a system with repudiable identifiers and Onion routing such that endpoints aren't clearly determinable.

That said, yours is a crucial question.

Related: what are the threat models against which Tox is a response?
Track down what 'DannyBee has to say about WTFPL and licenses like it. There are good reasons not to use it even if you don't care what happens with your code.
Ecommerce is evolving, and not the way you think it is
Not that I disagree with there being operant conditioning going on, but "tldr operant conditioning" does not sum up that article at all. Also, not that I agree that with the downvotes, but I do think that "how you train a puppy" isn't really adding anything to the conversation.
Really interesting and great work, but it by no means solves the 'coffee customer' problem.

A basic presupposition of this protocol assumes that there exists an address in your control with the exact amount of funds you wish to send. If there isn't, that money has to still come from somewhere, which is the On-block transaction we wanted to avoid.

So, we can transfer pre-existing funds Off-chain very quickly, but quickly setting up new addresses with funds is still fundamentally not possible. This protocol has uses but it doesn't solve the big problem it claims it does.
Unfortunately, Google disagrees with you. They've worked very hard trying to push it to the center of the universe.
What does derivative work mean? Why is a graph or data summary not a derivative work?
> for fear of "FuckItDB" appearing in an exception call trace that a client might see.

Just wrap it with FuckIt.py (previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858855 ) "to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not"
Having kids is a gamble. Having a child diagnosed with Autism (as my won was at the age of 2) is a gamble as well. We lost the first bet, but like you, seem to be doing better on the second one.

We (my wife and I) wagered nearly everything - our financial resources, career changes, intense daily effort for years, endless therapies (PLAY, ABA, RDI, OT, PT, Aqua, you name it), and the gamble has "paid off". Upon first meeting few would pick up on our son's 'quirkyness'.

Our ABA records indicate it took my son 600 tries to learn the color red. Today, its his favorite color... and I'm perfectly fine with that. The process changed my son... but he's happy, well functioning, has friends, has opinions, has ideas (some kinda wacky!) but I'd do it all again in a heart beat.

Overall, the effort has cost us (financially, health, atrophied tech skills , even socially), but it's all worth it for him. There's no comparison between hearing a roaring belly laugh from him vs. him perseverating on some toy car.

Keep it up and I wish you the best!
Exactly right. If 1% of 100 patents are bad, there's 1 bad patent out there. If 0.001% of 100,000,000 patents are bad, you have 1,000 bad patents and the problem is 1,000 times worse due to scale, because you only got a thousand times better and you needed to be a million times better to keep pace with the problem.

And no, you can't sensibly distribute the costs of that across the population in a case like this. Patents can be asserted against everyone independently, so a larger population makes things worse, no better, as it gives trolls more victims, rather than distributing the cost. It's not as if patent litigation is over for a patent once they've sued one person (though it is interesting to imagine a model where a patent might be 'exhausted' once the holder collected 'enough' money through litigation).
I've never worked remote but interviewed for a bunch. I had some places come out and say since you work remote we will pay you less then is average for your area since you don't have to commute and some offer the going rate.
Completely agree. My grandma is afraid of driving & flying but she loves to watch travel TV shows. I think a VR headset with travel content would be great for people like her and would really improve her quality of life.
Design and layout of a quadcopter control board (2012)
I like your attitude
What's Cookin' Italian Style Cuisine: Grilled Ribeye Mom's Italiano Style Recipe
Awesome! Also - wouldn't it be better if Ratings, Votes were not ranges but had lower bounds? Ex. 7+ rating and 50K+ votes.

I saw that you can choose multiples, but you'd rarely search for a 7-8 rated movie and not want to see a 9-10 in the result set :)