skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would pay for a a news / discussion service that let me go to the post office and show my driver’s license before I could join. (the payment could also be used to pay for writers and content creation)

That way the people who want to hide behind anonymous accounts can keep doing what they’re best at and I can enjoy discussion and news in a community that understands responsibility.

It might slowly educate people and whilst it’s a shame to have to pay for a respecting community, the systems required to maintain it and the content it would provide are not free.

I quite like having my real name as my account name.
Maybe I’ll look back and regret what I’ve said, but I’d like to think I won’t.
We know dolphins and whales speak and think.
We are not "all over it". We could barely agree to a modest effort to reduce incidentally slaughtering some in our quest for other fish. We can not remotely agree to stop* directly slaughtering others.

If an alien race looked at us the way we look at dolphins, whales, or even primates -- we'd be damn lucky if they simply turned around and went home.

*edit: forgot "stop"
Does it bother anyone else that when you try to visit the Google post explaining that they are using HTTPs as a ranking signal via https it redirects to http?

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-...
Show HN: Wellvize.com – Personal training and nutrition coaching in your pocket
What do you believe is the accuracy rate of US air strikes?

What do you believe is the approval process for US airstrikes?

What percentage of deaths do you believe are a result of US airstrikes (and all US actions) compared compared to those of others?

What percentage of deaths do you believe are a result of enemy actions (i.e. Taliban, AQI, ISIS, etc.)?

What experience/knowledge do you have about how terrorist groups operate that brought you to you conclusion?

Why do you believe that Obama does not fully realize the repercussions? Do you believe you know more about the situation that he does?

Have you ever spoken to someone who has lived under the Taliban? If so, do you find it acceptable?

Have you ever spoken to someone who experienced or had their family massacred by ISIS? If so, do you find it acceptable?

I'm interested to know what data/experiences brought you to your conclusions.
Microsoft was a huge, powerful, feared company in 1992.
ES6 Maps are now on by default in Chrome 38
Me it reminded of Stanisław Lem.

He often wrote stuff with an astronaut from the future, who meets other civilisations and often they are a little bit like the world now. So this guy goes there and is like "how crazy those aliens are, doing this and that" and the reader feels is like "well... he is totally right but that's how it's here in real life right now!!"
Execution is Hard
I can't believe that they allow you to do anything without confirming your email first....
"A clinical trial for patients with metastatic prostate cancer lasts only three years compared to an 18-year-long trial for those suffering from a milder, localised prostate cancer. Since a typical patent is in force for 20 years, firms only have two years of effective patent length left to commercialise a new drug against localised prostate cancer.

The data paint a bleak picture. The economists find that pharmaceutical companies conduct 30 times more clinical trials for recurrent cancer drugs than for preventive drugs"
> - get rid of loved sites/bookmarks altogether. Frequent usage should just percolate autocomplete suggestions to the top. This design doesn't really need them, and tbh I've barely used bookmarks in any browser in a long time.

Opera tried getting rid of bookmarks with Opium, and very much was forced to go back after the initial release.
More likely, it is the maximum speed the physics engine can handle per tick.
Help take Beacon (YC W14) from a few hundred journalists to a few thousand
QuickTime in OS X Yosemite reveals that Apple cares about status bars
Why Would I Require Someone To Write Content For My Website?
Many of you reading this may have overheard (or participated in) a conversation like this while studying CS or something related:

"Hey, so what language did you use for the assignment?"

"...Java. I don't know. I was going to use C but I don't care, I just wanted to be done with it, you know?"

"Yeah but the assignment LITERALLY said you could use ANY programming language as long as the guy can execute your code, right?"

"Okay? So?"

"You know what Steve did? He wrote it in BRAINFUCK. HAHAHAHA."

"Whaaat? Haha!"

"You know what BRAINFUCK is?"

"Uh... no, what? Haha."

"It's like this... like a two-dimensional Turing machine or something and only uses special characters and it's almost impossible to read! But it's a Turing machine so it can do everything any other programming language can do!"

"And it's literally called Brain-Fuck?!? Hahaha!"

"Yeah! Hahaha I wish I could have seen the look on the guys face who had to execute and test it but you know they said any programming language is okay so they totally have to do it!"

"Haha yeah Steve always does shit like this!"
A Fish with Human Teeth Strange But True
Letter from Julian Assange to President Putin sent last Thursday [pdf]
Do you use a mobile phone?
We do find talking dogs. People stick the footage up on YouTube and we all sit around and have a hearty laugh then get on with out lives.

Other people claim to hear voices in the wind telling them to do stuff. We lock them up because we think they are insane and a threat to us.
Rails: track users group by hour created_at and ip address
A VISA is a privilege not a right. That is apples and oranges.
Also, the device is probably passive, sniffing and logging, but not sending anything. Why would it?
1. it's a WiFi client, in other words, mostly receiver.

2. even if it were an AP, transmitting at max power for hours, it would give out very limited power (zero, give or take measurement errors).

3. you're starting from assumption "wifi baaaad" without anything to support that claim; if it were a nuclear device, I'd see a cause for concern. [citation-sorely-needed] for this assumption.
Sounds like... http://www.jose-dogs-the-best-for-to-find-wifi.net/
Points About Type Safety
That would require...self-repairing meat.
Similar case with Janusz Zajdel. Notably both have been writing during the communist rule. Some amusing stuff had been passed under the nose of censors.
Sorry, I can't reference fsck without thinking of it as a combination of two words.
Leading Civil Rights Group Just Sold Out on Net Neutrality
Loans for Direct Entry Students (DES)
Great!
Is there any call limit?
A Brief Look at brainfuck for Beginners
Are you seriously arguing that "to work and be productive" overrides the rights of native inhabitants of a region?
I use the https://ninite.com installer to install and update Java. No prompts, no adware, and I only have to download the installer once and run it whenever I want to update. I also ran msconfig and disabled Java's auto-updater.
I would recommend Learn Code the hard way series http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
http://learncodethehardway.org/
Its pretty good!
There are, they just require a little elbow greece ;) In particular, the Porlex pointed out above has dropped in price quite a bit (I bought mine for $80 on amazon a year ago - now it's only $40).
I think the notion of "stolen" passwords should be replaced with pirated passwords, unless the attackers really did something different from just gaining access to and copying them.
>Think about the software that I purchase online that costs $0.001 to deliver and I pay $595 - it costs 1/10,000th what the old version with paper books, and CDs, and nice glossy boxes. //

Er, what? The software doesn't cost $0.001 to produce.

This is more akin to being able to buy that software in a Staples store for $595 in a box with a DVD and manual. Then the producer starts selling it online for $650, because after all you no longer have to go to the store. They just refuse to cut the consumer in on the savings of not producing boxes, not producing media, not creating manuals and instead only focus on the added utility.

When you're dealing in cultural arts and informational products that can benefit society and instead of allowing the benefit of new technology to enrich you further and enrich society more you instead steal the whole benefit for yourself that's evil.

In terms of Scalzi's example: Yes a soda that's sold for $2 in a can might cost 20c to produce, fine no problem. But then recycling takes off and tech develops and that can now costs 12c less to produce so you put the price up to $3 because you're using more recycled material and that's now a selling point. That's what's wrong here. You already had more profit by selling at the same price point, the move in tech and society created the benefit and you leached it and cynically did one over on your customers because you knew that their desire to improve the world could allow you to get a better price.
Watch out for those chemtrails you nut.
WiFi APs do not have a power output of zero. Think about it for a minute, it makes no sense whatsoever.
The problem with this approach is readability. If you look at the code vs Sinatra every time you want to figure out which route to edit, you have to traverse the tree as opposed to just scanning for the route you want. As an example, editing the route /artist/:id/album/:number requires you to first find the /artist/:id then scan down and look for /album/:number making sure you watch for the closing end because what if the route isn't defined? In Sinatra, you look for /artist/:id/album/:number. The solution to this is to put a comment on every route to denote where it is. I agree the tree methodology can be faster O(log N) (for GET and POST) vs O(N) but readability suffers with no comments.
Ask HN: CS major or business informatics major
Hi HN,
I'm a 20 year old German business student who got into programming and wants to switch his major. Right now I have choice between two majors - a pure CS major and a "business informatics" major which is a mix of business and CS classes. Since it's a tough choice for me, it would be great if you could give me advice on this situation. (I'm sorry if I have violated any rules since this is my first post here.)

Because I have already studied one year in my business major, I'd rather switch to the business informatics major, so that I can keep my grades . However, the business informatics major would still take three years to complete, the same time as the pure CS major. Because I'd have already completed many classes, I'd have a lot of time for self-learning and personal projects.
The downside of this major is of course, that CS topics aren't covered with the same depth as in the CS major. I'd miss out on theoretical and technical Computer Science, as well on one class about functional programming. I'd still have classes about OOP, programming projects and later on some classes about advanced programming topics.

The alternative, the CS major, has the typical classes of a CS major and I'd start from scratch with this major (I can take about 1-2 business classes to the general education section).

My questions are:

-Will chosing the "business informatics" major make me drastically less employable in software engineering positions, even if I have a good portfolio of personal projects?

-Will I miss out on a lot of core concepts in the theoretical & technical Computer Science courses, which will make me less proficient in programming later on?

-Could you give me your personal opinion about this situation?

Thank you for replies.
It's quite a fun read but I don't understand why the author chose the word "meat". I mean, if for those aliens human biology is so weird and foreign, how could they have a concept of meat? Or meat flaps?

That seems to imply that they're familiar with non-sentient meat, but what would that be? And if those aliens are so different from us they probably don't have the same concept of food as we have, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to single out "meat" at all. The story works better for me if I replace "meat" with, say, "carbon blob" or something like that. I still the humour still works out and it's a less culturally-loaded phrase.
> When I start using a fresh installation of Firefox, I have to spend at least a good 10 minutes installing various extensions and reconfiguring it just to get a minimally usable experience out of it. That's not acceptable, and it's not justifiable.

You're assuming that this is widely applicable — very few people have spent a decade building a highly customized browsing experience and most people don't customize much at all. Ever walk around the office and notice how few people even removed Microsoft's default bookmarks from the toolbar so they spend all day staring at links to a service which they don't use?

I would also note that the history of computing is littered with loaded descriptions of things which were reflexively described as a "bad change" and a complete non-issue a year later. Mouse wheels, tabbed browsing, fonts and later CSS, JavaScript, all got the kind of grumbling you made above from a few people. Sometimes it's worth asking whether you really benefit from the old way or are just reacting to something being different.
Domoticz – Open source Home Automation System
Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip
Last time I ran that updater, I noticed a spelling error. They don't seem to care all that much.
Ok, I've read the article twice and I am missing something here.

I get how these can be used to help imaging, but I'm not clear on how exactly they target cancerous cells in particular. Are they attached to antibodies that seek out specific antigen markers of cancerous cells?
Great idea. Pls keep the posts coming. Sometimes certain things need to be restated once in a while.
But is there a framework?
Vote with your W-2.
The situation is problematic and in the gray area for FOSS projects. Eg Debian had separate "non-us" repository because export limitations, Red Hat[2] and Apache[3] explicitly forbid exporting their software to "illegal" destinations.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/non-US

[2] http://www.redhat.com/licenses/export/

[3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/
Maybe I'm not familiar enough with Perl's implementation of "Hash", but if it's what I expect a "Hash" to be, access time is constant.

What kind of data structure was actually in play there?
It killed Chrome and made my laptop irresponsible until I managed to close the page. Something in the thunder generation is bringing my system to its knees.

I'm not complaining about the page or anything, but I'm really surprised how unreliable and fragile are web browsers to pages with javascript. It's using a web worker, but other than that I can't see anything special.
One thing I did't mention in the post, is that sometimes it's hard to see where an idea ends and good execution begins. For example, Google started as just another search engine, with a great search algorithm. But that algorithm came from some great ideas. Also, their idea to get you off their search page as quickly as possible (as opposed to trying and keep you on their site), made it very user friendly.
This is a bit of a stretch. Chemtrails are a baseless assumption. EM radiation has a measurable effect matter. Why not make valid points instead of insulting people?
Been using this [1] for a while now, it's a good alternative.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
thanks for the link and the suggestion!
I think the idea is that they have plenty of contact with meat-based living forms, but none of them are intelligent or sentient.
It's still fundamentally monolithic though, a crash in a module or subsystem still brings the entire system down. The point of a microkernel is to bring the subsystems into user space, where a crash can be tolerated.

Linux essentially is made stable by the sign-off/code-review/sub-system maintainers which keep the code quality high.
I'm looking into opensource domotics for my future home, here are some other alternatives i found.

1. OpenSourceAutomation: http://www.opensourceautomation.com

2. OpenRemote: http://www.openremote.org/

3. OpenDomo: http://en.opendomo.org/

4. MisterHouse: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

5. DomotiGa: http://www.domotiga.nl/

6. Freedomotic: http://www.freedomotic.com/

7. Domogik: http://www.domogik.org/en/&#65279;

8. domoticz: http://www.domoticz.com/

9. openhab: https://code.google.com/p/openhab/

10. Nodo: http://www.nodo-domotica.nl/

11. FHEM: http://fhem.de/

12. Ago Control: http://www.agocontrol.com/

13. Pytomation: http://www.pytomation.com/

14. Housecream: http://housecream.org/

15. Homegenie: http://www.homegenie.it/

16. Wiseflat: http://wiseflat.com/

17. QW Home Automation: http://qwhomeautomation.com/

18. Homidom: http://www.homidom.com/

19. zVirtualScenes: https://code.google.com/p/zvirtualscenes/

20. rasp485berry: http://rasp485berry.wordpress.com/

21. PiDome: http://pidome.wordpress.com/

22. PiHome: http://pihome.harkemedia.de/

23. pilight: http://www.pilight.org/

Does anyone has any preferences? Have you used one? What's your experience?
I recall fragments of a theory that everything moves at the same speed (think multidimensional unit vector), just in various directions (time included as a "direction", explaining why if you travel C in one physical direction "your" time stops).

Perhaps someone can point me to a full description of this theory.
Is there a reason you don't want to put it on the Chrome Web Store?
Hey HN: I'm making a website to highlight the web's glorious past(I need help)
After a lot of brainstorming (for ideas), a friend of mine ran into me and started talking. While he was talking, he also told me how Yahoo was intuit ally called Jerry Guide To The Web which as a matter of fact, I didn't know (I'm just 13, what did you expect ?).

Now, it struck me that we need a concise and beautiful website to tell you about the history of the web, only the important things, no need for little stuff, as long text will make people go TL;DR(they won't find it interesting enough to read the whole thing).

So, can you guys help me with the history of the internet ? Just give me a short list of the events you think are important and need to make it to the website. Post stuff in the form of "YYYY - EVENT" and maybe a little about it.

EDIT: Here's my list:

1. 1945 - Vannevar Bush predicts a system like the Web

2. 1989 - The Internet is born

3. 1991 - The Internet is released to the public

4. 1993 - Mosaic Browser released

5. 1994 - Yahoo is founded by Jerry Yang as "Jerry's guide to the World Wide Web"

6. 1998 - Google, the largest website on the internet, was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

7. 2004 - Facebook, The Social Network is made by Mark Zuckerberg.

(More Coming)
And it suffers even more if you add comments; for the same exact reason.
That's Satoshi Dice, one of the first popular Bitcoin gambling games. It's very similar but differs from Just-Dice in at least three ways:

1) The house edge is 1.9% rather than 1%

2) Every bet is a transaction on Bitcoin's blockchain. So the rapid-fire style betting of Just-Dice is not possible as each bet needs to be verified.

3) The investment model was through shares that paid dividends. On months the site ran at a loss, a dividend was not paid.

The anonymous Dooglus ran statistical analysis of Satoshi Dice for almost a year on the Bitcoin forums (to verify its odds were honest), then started Just-Dice as an experiment in a different investment model.

Dooglus lived in Canada and closed the site due to a new virtual currency law there several months ago. He also ran the site Doge-Dice. He left the two sites running just so investors and gamblers could withdraw all their deposits, but new deposits and bets could not be made (almost the exact opposite of what happened at MtGox when it shut down).
we can't actually talk to dolphins can we?

they're not trying to reach us and learn from us, and "swap ideas", as far as we know

and yet we still try to understand them and talk to them

if a dolphin was to one day utter: "hey guys, let's chat. let me tell you about my world, and you tell me about yours" - I think it would be all over the news, not glossed by like "pff.. stupid animal trying to think"
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A57 the Cortex-A57 supports Thumb-2 instructions.
Can you mail me with more details?
mitrache.bogdan22 at Google's mail service.
Oh my. I'm sure they also uncover the true identity of the Loch Ness monster down there.
> Has anyone of equivalent ability been signed in the last twenty five years?

Whether they're of equivalent ability is subjective, of course, but plenty of difficult but beautiful literary works are published every year. And I would bet that their first run is a lot larger than Ulysses' was :)

Authors I've read in the past couple of years that were not mainstream but were published recently include Roberto Bolano, John Banville, Tom McCarthy, Eduardo Galeano...and I'm not much of a fiction reader. There's an enormous number of books published and almost all of them are not mainstream.
Certain software is classified as 'munitions'

But come on, does that really stop anyone in those countries from downloading software?
What about Wikipedia?
I can imagine that could be nice especially for freelancers or just to track your own productivity!

Our use case was more that we have a lot of different projects and we didn't really have any insight on how we were spending time within those projects. For example we wanted to know if spending more time on prototyping would cut down on development time or why one project took a lot longer than another.
Turing police: You're under arrest!
I would love to know more if you are planning to do something similar for mobile games. As a mobile games developer I know that something like this will resonate with a lot of mobile game developers
Orlando, FL.
Have you ever desired to be a part of something special?
Are you tired working in the typical day-to-day developing for a product and company you are not passionate about?
Does working for a California-esque start-up that has the potential, financial backing, and hype of the next Facebook sound like the dream opportunity for you?
I am searching for tenured, highly skilled, and motivated mobile developer to join an all-star lineup that is growing their development team rapidly. This company has a product which very limited info has been released, but this person will be heavily involved from the ground floor with Concept Development and High Level Design of their technology.
Day-to-day they will attend meetings and work on different functionality of their product for a Beta version which will be displayed to the public for the first time later this year. This is a revolutionary idea that could change the internet for years to come and this is your chance to get in the door before this opportunity passes you by.
Unfortunately, we can not provide sponsorship for this opportunity.
Call Mike, at (407)736-8575 or email at mikeyJAC23@gmail.com if this sounds like an opportunity you would like to hear more details about. I look forward to hearing from you.
This person should have professional development experience in either iOS, Android, or both.
This candidate should have professional experience in Front End Web Development as well.
Nope. No follow-on. Just making it free for a few days to share.
I love this. We are truly living in great times.
Seems the emerging refinement is that information cannot travel faster than C. (Ergo "digital life" can't move FTL.) If anything can more FTL, the information associated cannot keep up, and the notion of "it" breaks down as what you know about "it" can't keep up with where "it" is.
That circumstance is contextual. If (E)ffort includes [ social skills, network, seed resources, correct strategy, training, health (physical + mental), support structure, opportunity] then hardwork +1

It is a conditional system of reward. The equation is not equal for everyone.

Edit* Just found and article on the subject randomly

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/07/335285098/rich-kid-po...