skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital Futurism: A discussion about a popular video game art style
That's really strange to me. That prevents the card from being used in the US too. I'm guessing not that many people from your part of the world travel to the US then.
No detection mechanism is 100% reliable so better to ban 100% of the ones you know aren't false positives than risk them trying again and being a false negative.
Parent implied that a pardon isn't on the table because Snowden did nothing wrong.

Well, he did break the law. Hence pardon in the first place..
Blogger was a static blog generator well before this. It launched in 1999 and was around for a few years in that form before it was acquired by Google in 2003 and transitioned . You logged into the Blogger site and wrote your posts and then published them, which would generate your files and then FTP them to your server.
The prequel to The Walking Dead?
I've been teaching a 12-yo kid python programming and the surprising thing is that none of his friends (nor him) learn any programming in school. As per him, most public schools in his area (Boston) don't have any programming work in their regular curriculum, despite the fact that one keeps seeing such articles popping up often.

When I was in mid-school, a decade back (in India) we had regular classes on Basic and C++ in high school. I might be completely wrong in generalizing but haven't the schools in US picked up on this trend?
What you are describing sounds like a hodge-podge of workarounds.

Like, one solution is "Use SSH, write scripts to facilitate bulk changes, write multiple backend services and front-end JavaScript to interface with them for any actual functionality you want on the site." The other is "Push a button on your blog software." How is the first one "cleaner"? You're basically re-inventing half of a blog with duct tape and toothpicks.
Yes in New Page you get list of submission based on submission date in descending order.
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This. I wouldn't even just call it Javaland though, the Ruby world is like this now too. My favorite part about my journey into functional programming so far has been that I don't need to stay up to date on whatever the talking heads of OOP are preaching these days.

Seriously, give functional programming a shot. It isn't as scary or esoteric as you might think.
A non-login-wall version: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ohio-city-issues-water-warnin...
It is a science. A formal science. Same as math and logic, for example.
> Anyway, I think the true soul of programming lies in building stuff and launching. Users don't care how beautiful or elegant code is, that's something that employees/bosses/academics care about.

Oh, you'll care about the quality of code a whole lot more when developing new features comes to a grinding halt.
Does anybody know if there's a blog suite where blog entries/comments/etc are stored on the filesystem as dumb JSON files, and rendered using a client-side javascript framework?

From the server's point of view, it could be all static (both the compressed .js app and the json files are just files on the filesystem that can be cached, no database needed), but you can still update the site dynamically through an API endpoint. The API endpoint can trigger server-side code that writes new JSON files out appropriately, but for all non-comment-posting, non-blog-writing traffic, it's all just plain files.

Of course, a decent caching layer at any point can make any dynamic server behave like this, but it'd be cool to have your entire blog work without any code running other than a simple nginx/apache config that serves out static files (and reverse proxies to you app for any POST requests).

Actually the more I think about this, the more I think this could be a fun weekend project.
I feel realizing that one's stressing over "first world" types of problems just makes it worse by adding shame to the mix.
So sick of hearing this - what actual evidence do you have?

People's reviews get filtered because the user doesn't have human-identifiable data - multiple reviews, friends who use yelp, a picture, recent logins, etc.

Find me any business that complains about this extortion, their filtered reviews are 99% from people who've used yelp once and never logged in again.

On the other hand, here's a Harvard Business School study debunking this myth:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/hbs-study-finds-positive-...
> or quicker to load

It could certainly be faster to load since a server can push out static files far faster and at a higher rate than compared to say Wordpress/PHP (even with heavy-caching of pages).
The Transformer series is usually good. Don't like the proprietary plug though. My 2012 model lasted well and I gave it to my mother as a gaming device that she is still using to this day. The Tegra 3 chip kinda sucked though.

There was no N10 successor because apparently it didn't sell well enough.
Of course reddit is flawed. Anyone that has spent time on Slashdot or Advogato could have told you the whole premise of up/down voting is beyond silly.

No, the utility of up/down votes is in retention. It's nothing more than a Skinner box that people check in on to see if they are winning or losing. Which is how Digg and Reddit both became huge in a short amount of time.
Diminish, it's no secret that texting has become the primary and preferred channel for dating. The texts you send are the only thing that make or break you after you receive someone's phone number and it's obvious that some people are better at texting than others.

Often times what you will see is young men and women giving their phones to their friends to text someone special for them. We hope to solve this by opening texts up into a more collaborative space.

We will fix the animations. Thanks!
Imagine a group of 30 people who use the site regularly. When an URLs are posted the each roll a die. If it comes up 1 then they up vote. If it comes up 6 then they downvote. If it comes up 2, 3, 4, or 5 then they do nothing.

That takes 30 people and it requires discipline to oney the die, but it'd be pretty hard to detect. I think, maybe I'm wrong?
Now, I'm just a layman, so I could be completely off the mark about this, but this is how it seems to me.

Doesn't every single generation of psychologists pretty much completely reject the findings of the previous generation? All of Freud's stuff is now considered total bullshit. All of the stuff psychologists said in the 50s about homosexuality being a mental illness is now considered bullshit.

In other fields of science, like chemistry or physics, this has never happened since the introduction of the scientific method. Scientists have been wrong lots of times, but never has the majority of the body of scientific knowledge been thrown out. Usually the changes are something small, e.g. "Einstein was wrong about hidden variable theory in some respect." Even the most drastic changes in scientific thought are usually just the narrowing down from a number of existing theories to a smaller number of theories. In most fields of science, we seem to converge on the correct result over time, with very small deviations.

Psychology doesn't seem to be converging at all. Am I wrong? If not, why is this?
I believe this is based on an old Greek method...

#define DECK 11

double z() {
const double s=2.0, c=0.1;
double arr[DECK], low=1.0, up=s, inc=c;
int j, k;
for(j=0; j<15; ++j) {
for(k=0; k<DECK; ++k) {
*(arr+k)=low+(double)k*inc;
}
for(k=1; k<DECK; ++k) {
if( *(arr+k-1)*(*(arr+k-1)) <s && *(arr+k)*(*(arr+k)) >s ) {
low=*(arr+k-1);
up=*(arr+k);
break;
}
}
inc*=c;
}
if( s-low*low < up*up-s )
return low;
else
return up;
}

This particular example only works to fifteen decimal places (roughly the limit on the precision of a double).
Yes I was also questioning the benefits of a less blurry GPS if I am about to plow into oncoming traffic.
@icebrining: we're aware of that - we're actually still working on the content and figuring out better ways focus on search results ! keep visiting !
Breaking the law =/=> doing something wrong.
Why the false dichtomy? I consider myself a very social person, and I can still treasure a night at home with a cpu reference manual. I see no reason to value one over the other as they are not on the same thing.

The idea that introverts are somehow better programmers is a bit like seeing someone with glasses and expecting them to be bookworms. I understand it is a convenient social role up for grabs, but not everyone who think they are good programmers really are.

A lot of the hackers I know are very easy going and social people. We come in all shapes and sizes.
Rushmore
One counterintuitive piece of game theory trivia is that, in equilibrium, penalty kickers should kick to their weaker sides more often than their stronger sides.

In equilibrium, you should be indifferent to the goalkeeper's strategy, and if you're better at kicking to the left, that means you should kick to the right more, not less.
I've been curious whether a home RO (Reverse Osmosis) filtration system would filter microcystin. I found two references, both saying it depends on the pore size and contamination level. These sources also mention other purification techniques. PDF warning for both references:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/mic...

> Dissolved microcystins have been shown to be removed by some reverse osmosis
and nanofiltration membranes. As removal will depend of membrane pore size
distribution and water quality, site specific tests are recommended

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/standards/criteria/n...

> Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis are effective in removing cylindrospermopsin and microcystin. However, site specific tests are recommended as removal efficiency depends on the membrane pore size distribution and water quality.
If the standard in Psychology research is the so-called p-value being less that 0.05, it means that they publish results whenever the chance of the findings being a coincidence is less than 5%. It stands to reason that 5% of the published results in Psychology will be coincidences and not real.
> disgruntled authoritarian rednecks

In this particular case, I think you'll find that the politics work out so that the rednecks aren't the disgruntled ones.
@OP can I use this way:

Set all my message to be served to specific contact. That contact can reply to all message?.

Use Case: My parents do not know to use mobile properly and many times they get Income Tax pin, etc ( IMP message) via SMS. And they come to me to reply them properly. Instead using your app I can do it from distance.
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I would actually think that providing hosting to Popcorn Time would be positive PR: people who contribute to Popcorn Time would spend the most time interacting with Stash and are unlikely to be morally opposed to Popcorn Time. While people who are opposed to Popcorn Time are much less likely to check what Popcorn Time's repo is being hosted on or who gave them a license... Basically, Atlassian's generosity would only be noticed by Popcorn Time supporters.

That being said, I'd still much rather see Popcorn Time hosted on an open-source platform like Gitlab.
The State of Peer-to-peer in Node.js
Technically this is illegal, as far as I know.

You're not allowed to work in Japan without a valid visa. If they find out that you're working in Japan on a tourist visa you might not be allowed back.

It'd be a grey area (also as far as I know) to say you're freelancing/working for a Japanese company while in Japan by coincidence, and I doubt that they're very forgiving if you're sidestepping a tourist visa's restrictions.
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This not only affects water from faucets, but vegetable hydration at the grocery store, plant irrigation systems and others that I'm failing to think of off the top of my head. This is very serious. Luckily it is only Toledo and not other surrounding areas as well.
Like I said: "... something like portupgrade."

Portupgrade still does the job, it's not broken, and still supported.
And if he wouldn't be in shackles, he would probably not stay alive for very long, considering what kind of concentrated power he has exposed (and let's not forget the fact that probably have of the population have been brainwashed to think he's the traitor).
Funny how things have not changed in 20 years.
"...while arguments over what algorithm or frameworks work best are less sexy than what the sciences cover, at least with narrow claims, it's easier to concretely argue for one or the other..."

Very few arguments related to programming are over algorithm choice, they are almost always over engineering concerns: readability, platform/language choice, frameworks, etc. Those, in turn, are often dependent on a mix of personal taste and predictions about the future (e.g. directions for the product architecture).

So I don't think programmers are quite immune from non-scientific analysis. That's apparent from the longstanding programmer debates about basic things like compile-time type checking. Even narrowing the claims rarely seems to reach much consensus.
Hi there, I'm on the YC Hacks team working on this. I agree that "founder depression" is somewhat vague and potentially confusing in describing what we're doing. The intent is simply to anonymously connect people who are going through similar situations, whether positive or negative, in order to edify and support one another.

Based on both anecdotal evidence and recent articles, it seems as though people in the startup community often don't have many compassionate outlets they can leverage to talk to others who are either going through something similar or have gone through something similar before. By finding someone relatable to share experiences or learnings, they can release some of the pent-up emotion or frustration that they have and be able to move forward.

Furthermore, this is not designed to replace working with a mental health professional--not in the slightest! This is more purpose-built around finding peers who have the right context to really understand or comment on what you're going through and empathize. This isn't meant to be a counseling service.
how do we follow you :-D
Notepad++, Chrome, VirtualBox, Explorer++, FileZilla, Putty.
I feel a little gratified, because the /r/circlebroke post you linked to has a link at the bottom to my /r/ideasfortheadmins post.

In general, the problem of path dependency based on highly-weighted initial changes can be modeled by the Polya Urn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polya_urn_model

Over at kuro5hin (which in general should not be used as a model for successfully running an online community) rusty addressed the problem of initial votes being too influential by hiding the score of a comment until it had received 6 votes.

reddit also allows subreddit mods to hide comment scores for a predetermined period of time, if they choose to: http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1dd0xw/moderators_n...

These solutions are good in general, but are still problematic when faced with sybil attacks / voting circles.
It would be possible between the next election and him leaving office.
But if the satisficer's acceptability threshold is 25 megapixels, they're still not happy, and if their acceptability threshold is 0.5 megapixels, they'll be using a very noticeably poor camera.
> I'm pretty surprised reddit's backend doesn't just automatically devalue this kind of vote cheating.

What makes you so sure it doesn't?
What? That article has nothing to do with the subject of the myth.
When it first launched, Reddit's founders used software to fake a large number of users to make it look like the site was more populated than it really was. I really don't see how someone doing this with their own posts is any better or worse. Does it really matter if the content is good?
I agree, any reduction is an improvement. I have no problem admitting that I just don't know if we fixed the problem or moved the problem.

On one hand, overall crime in the U.S. is down and crime in New York City is really down.

I just wonder, is the goal of gentrification to fix neighborhood's ills or cheap rent in a cool area that happens to be a fantastic real estate investment?

I'm having a hard time understanding how moving people from the suburbs to the inner city and back improves anything aside from a specific geographic area for a while.
Identify your proven competitive advantages and demonstrate them through your company strategy.

Beyond that, focus on creating something great rather than talking to your customers. Make sure your platform is revolutionary, and they will come.

As Henry Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
It would be nice to know why each of the test functions are interesting or challenging for optimization algorithms.
Ask HN: Is anyone using LiveCode?
http://livecode.com/

This looks like a compelling solution for cross-platform development. The scripting language is a bit verbose but it looks capable. I've skimmed the user guide and it's fairly extensive. I feel like I could whip something up pretty quickly. I'm hoping to play around with LiveCode if ever get some spare time.

I'm curious about other people's experiences with LiveCode. I'm mostly interested in whether there was a productivity gain over something like Haxe/OpenFL, C++/Qt, or Python/Kivy. I'd like to target desktop and mobile and LiveCode appears to be a good choice.
> I might be completely wrong in generalizing but haven't the schools in US picked up on this trend?

There are lots of reasons, but I think the largest contributing factor is that these teaching staff doesn't exist.

In most high schools, there is no dedicated "programming" or "CS" teacher. Often these courses of off-loaded to a business-y person. In my experience, these were pretty useless and sometimes worse than useless. E.g. in one case this person was a retired math teacher who was tenured but awful, and "computer class" seemed like a low-impact place to put them.

If a Math or Science teacher wanted to teach a programming class and had been around for a few years (and got along with their administrators), they could probably get away with teaching one section a year. Maybe scale up if there's demand and the department isn't under-staffed. But that's fairly rare, because lots of math people don't really "get" CS.
Yup, I wonder if this technology could be used to improve head-mounted displays, to be able to focus on different parts of the virtual scene, not just being always focused on infinity (probably together with high-precision eye-tracking to figure out depth where you try to look at).
I'm saddened by the naïveté (or perhaps it's simple incompetence) of the smart meter manufacturers. Why isn't all communication encrypted? Why doesn't each meter have a unique public/private key pair associated with it? That way even if a key was extracted from a meter, it wouldn't be possible to use that key to access any other meter. It's not like there's a shortage of 1024-bit primes. Each meter in the world can have a unique 2048-bit key.

Maybe this isn't important for initial deployment. Maybe each meter is simply read-only. But, eventually, I think utilities want to be able to signal to the meter and associated devices in the house when to turn on and turn off. E.g. temporarily shut off air conditioning during a demand peak. I don't want some random hacker in another continent communicating with my meter, either for malice or for lulz.

Anyway, that's just my simple view on how things should be done. Obviously the real world isn't nearly as paranoid.
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That sucks, I always enjoyed (and learned from) Unidan's posts. What a weird thing for him to do with his hard-earned reputation.
When I say general case, I mean random person creates an account or two to upvote their own stuff. This is usually trivial to detect if you save a single cookie that's linked to each account, even easier if you are also using more tenacious tracking like flash cookies or localstorage or the dreaded evercookie.

In the less general case, you can still determine that a particular group of accounts never take action in the same small time windows.

The way I've approached this problem in the past relies heavily on meta data about the user. It's easy to determine if an IP is a proxy/VPN, which should immediately make a client more suspicious (when you're already suspicious about fraudulent voting).

Initially, account ages are important but if someone is able to get away with it for a long time, they can get complacent and keep using the same accounts, and at that point you can look at things like upvote/downvote ratios (or generally the lack of diversity in voting activity) compared to some expected average activity.

There's a lot of other tricks, but I don't know what your approach has been when working on this, and I know HN is a much different platform from what I worked with :P
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Optimize some landing pages for "Fotopedia alternatives" or "Fotopedia shutdown" etc.

I imagine some people are looking to migrate off and your service can be there.
Perhaps a Freudian slip, but ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden recently called Snowden a whistleblower [1].

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140727/07183528026/forme...
> We want to create a safe place for founders to share their specific issues and solicit support and advice from fellow founders or those who can empathize.

Sounds similar to https://startupsanonymous.com
I'm pretty sure "do as I say, not as I do." Is the house rule, for, well... everywhere that humans exist.
This is pretty sickening. I have spent a lot of time around various monkey species, including the Rhesus Macaque, and the amount of emotional awareness and sensitivity they have is comparable to that in humans. To subject such intelligent and sensitive animals to such fear and cruelty, at such a young age, and then to euthanize them afterwards, in a reprise of past experiments, is beyond senseless.
The bulletin: http://www2.nccos.noaa.gov/coast/lakeerie/bulletin/bulletin_...

And a report from last year: http://www.ijc.org/files/publications/Draft%20LEEP-Aug29Fina...
The block diagram they showed looks pretty sweet for DSP too.

One question: Why are there separate symbols for integration and summation? Whenever I implement integration in DSP circuitry, it's just a rolling sum (since these circuits are obviously operating on discrete signals).
techaddict009,

We are working on features for that because of similar situations to the one you just described. Right now, your parents would have to 'miimic' each of those messages over to you for your reply.

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Yeah this would be hard to detect, but voting fraud is usually targeted, so you can look at the specific things they have historically voted on and determine if they only vote on X type of thing or posts from Y, or only vote at times when Z just posted a URL, etc...
I could see executives with secretaries being a serious market that would pay for this service.