skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political prisoner? The guy personally profited off movie piracy. If Sunde is a political prisoner for breaking copyright laws then so is any drug dealer for breaking drug control laws.

I don't get the elevation of these guys on some pedestal. I understand we all like getting stuff for free but TPB was not some political project. If they had really believed copyright was so evil they'd have built a site distributing great content people wanted to watch that was licensed liberally by its creators; thus proving that the open source model could work for movies and TV shows. They'd have done what Stallman did. But they didn't.
How to fix Digital Ocean droplets crashing
Could you go into more details ?
From his examples I wonder if these apps are good for grammar too, given that the two Portuguese sentences he writes have wrong grammar and/or declination.

1) Mulheres bonitas sao muito motivado. Literally "Beautiful women are very motivated", though the correct one (for gender and number) should be "Mulheres bonitas são muito motivadAS". Not sure what sense this makes though, I guess he wanted to say beautiful women were a good motivation (for him to learn Portuguese), "Mulheres bonitas são boa motivação".

2) (NSFW) Sua rabos e bonita should better be "seu rabo é bonito", i.e. (literal translation) "your a__ is nice". Wrong gender in "your" and "nice" and wrong number in a.
Mine - learning English words: http://vocowl.com
When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
There are no strong arguments for hypocrisy.

The only people who support the higher fee are the ones who already benefited from the lower fee.

You won't hear a student or young person saying: "Yes, I want to pay more to get an education". It's always the old conservative people who eat the cake and want to have it too.
Old thread with suggestions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474078. Personally I feel the strong desire to have collapsible comment threads, but still haven't invested any time into finding proper solution.
12 social networks on one page: http://meople.net
I have a feeling the only thing that will stop the obesity epidemic is heavy food regulation which people will fight tooth and nail against.

I suspect that all it's needed is preventing the huge load of disinformation that we suffer.

Most people that I've known that were trying to lose weight (and failing) were totally clueless, parroting cliches from tv.

Then, maybe forbid (or even better, criminalize :-) adding any kind of sugar to packaged food or to meals where it doesn't make sense. Tax heavily sugar.
Dangerous prediction. Could come this October
Update: Both hands. This week in emails, some people bought it off of the itch.io site.
Eh? In the UK porridge is just oats + (hot) milk. How is that significantly different?
Except that Verizon's phone service over fiber is priced and regulated in exactly the same way as their copper service. It is still effectively the same landline service.

Forcing Verizon to maintain copper means slower rollout of fiber and slower internet. It isn't reasonable for people (Ars) to want faster better internet service, and also to complain when copper is removed.
If VoIP actually used the capability to deliver higher call quality, that would be one thing. But these services almost universally sound like vocoder compressed noise in an echo tunnel. They're as bad as cell phones, and have as much latency, which makes conversations very hard. "Could you repeat that" and people talking over each other is much more common now than 20 years ago.
Fiber? More like to their capped and useless mobile networks. Verizon stopped expanding their fiber optic network long ago except in a few areas where they are bound by contracts, and even there they cheat and don't finish the work. I wish Verizon would offer fiber instead of copper lines. No dice.
It all depends on your state's laws. Some go as far as requiring the pharmacist to dispense the generic unless the doctor writes "DAW" (dispense as written) on the Rx. Others just have to ask if the generic is OK.

Most of those laws are on the books because gov't funded health insurance (Medicare, Medicaid) don't like to pay brand name prices when generics are available.
A very cool thing with Anki (with contrast with Duolingo) is that it is free software (as in free speech), and is distributed on F-Droid https://f-droid.org for Android users who do not have Google play.
escape it, since you know the shell is going to be greedy about things.

rsync accepts globbing it's not a shell expansion that makes it work.

rsync example.com:/foo/\* .
This! And deep inside everyone already knows this, they just try to convince themselves that other options 'can be healthy too'.

Look at this, per 100g, the "Kashi 7 Whole Grain Cereals, Puffs" mentioned in this thread has 5-10g of protein and less than 5g of fibre [1]. The top cereal when googling healthy cereals [2] has 2g of protein and 5g of fibre. In comparison plain nice, big oats have 13g of protein and 10g of fibre. There's just no beating it.

[1]: https://www.kashi.com/our-foods/cold-cereal/kashi-7whole-gra...
[2]: http://greatist.com/health/best-healthy-cereal-brands
Even if you're using a tool that doesn't support "--" you can just use "./*" and everything will be fine.
Yeah. I also saw taoquay's link. Thanks anyway.
A Clojure & Neo4j implementation of Ticket to Ride. Incomplete :( https://github.com/mattdeboard/ticket-to-ride
I Moved To San Francisco – And Now I Have Apps Doing Everything For Me
Porridge is actually described in the article as the good old british cereal. (Search the article for 'oat').
Though, porridge oats are usually smaller and more processed than oats for eating cold.
Thanks. I did those from memory, still learning. Never claimed anki will make you perfect instantly.
"That aside, I've yet to see a conclusion on that show that wasn't reasonable."

Whenever the myth is about a secret project to such-and-such, they regularly use "we couldn't figure out how to do it" to conclude "it can't be done"; that isn't reasonable.

I'm generally a fan of the show, mind you.
If you're referring to me as the OP, I neither mentioned the keto diet nor am a fan of it per se. I did not distinguish between insulin dependent or not, so I apologize for that.
The single biggest improvement I made to my diet (and life, in general) was giving up breakfast cereal. I used to eat a heaping bowl of the bad stuff every. single. morning. growing up (bad stuff = Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, Fruity Pebbles, etc.). I'd have it for dessert ("look mom, I'm not having ice cream, I'm having cereal! it's healthy!").

Then as I got older, I thought I was making an improvement by "upgrading" to something more wholesome -- like Frosted Mini Wheats ("It's shredded wheat.......and SUGAR.")

I finally rebooted my eating when I started running about 4 years ago and promptly lost 35+ lbs and actually became athletic for the first time in my life. I traded in the cereal and started having greek yogurt for breakfast (more recently I switched to having a _real_ breakfast in the morning -- eggs, grapefruit and steel-cut oats and feel even better).

But the point is: We've been marketed-at to the point where we just think that cereal is what you have for breakfast, and it feels great to wake up from that trance.
https://github.com/infincia/TokenTools

A small bit of python built to use the (hopefully true/reliable/trustworthy) hardware RNG in most cryptographic tokens/smartcards, to feed the Linux kernel entropy pool (which /dev/random pulls from, etc). I built it to replace an older, (now completely unusable) C program for the same purpose called CardRand, which is mentioned and linked to in the project. TokenTools uses standard PKCS#11 libraries (even binary, proprietary ones) to handle talking to smartcards, so it should be broadly compatible and non-fragile, whereas CardRand wasn't.

TokenTools isn't strictly "abandoned", and it does work pretty well I've been using it for a long time but I haven't touched the code in a while and it could probably use some testing with different cards and PKCS#11 libraries.

https://github.com/infincia/NetRNG

A client/server python system that uses the (again, hopefully trustworthy) hardware RNG found on inexpensive ARM boards like the Raspberry PI and Beaglebone to provide entropy samples to other machines on a LAN, and again feed them into the Linux kernel entropy pool there. I've been using this one for a long time too. However there are 2 branches, one based on ZeroMQ which I use, and the other which directly uses sockets. The socket branch has some issues directly related to the socket communication, which is why I'm not using it myself but I'd like to go that route and drop ZeroMQ for a variety of reasons.

I have a bit of an obsession with RNGs :)
Agreed. My speculation for a while has been by the end of 2015, it could be tomorrow.
Anti-fragile has some great objectives. However they're still firmly in the realm of "science" and have yet to make the transition to "engineering". As such my interest is academic.

Practically, I remain a fan of recovery-oriented computing [1] - reducing the impact of harmful events, like Bohr- and Heisenbugs, amongst others.

In recovery-oriented computing a Bohrbug, being mostly deterministic and easy to detect, would spawn an urgent alert. Conversely, a Heisenburg enters probation in that execution (or the execution path) is re-attempted. If that fails the app is re-started. If that fails the machine is re-started. If that fails the machine is re-imaged. If that fails the machine is removed form the farm. Automating this process is not easy (especially for desktop/native apps, which is a big part of what I do), but the concepts are (to me) good to strive for.

[1] http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/
Show HN: Interactive code tracer for reverse-engineering proprietary software
You could try Memrise or Duolingo, of which the first has large numbers of user made stacks, but which I usually find have enough errors or other problems as to become rather irritating to work with. Duolingo is awesome, so long as what you want to learn is on their fairly small list of languages, as it has some understanding of grammatical issues, and far fewer outright errors than Memrise. My main issue with Duolingo is that its courses are somewhat limited - even if you finish one, you won't have much more than very basic literacy and vocabulary in the language.

Personally, now, I am concentrating on Anki, and I build my stacks by adding words and short phrases as I come across them during the day. It is an excellent, if clunky, tool: it allows you to add TeX for learning equations, etc; its model lets you define different types of data structure ('Note'), from which you can define different question-responses to learn ('Cards'). The main problem is the limitations of the iOS app, which doesn't let you add new Notes or process your TeX for you.
Not necessarily, sweet potatoes are OK for people with diabetes to eat but one of the worst things a person with diabetes can eat, other than raw white sugar, is a banana.

Both sides of my skinny family have diabetes, not everyone but most, it's frustrating to see Internet know-it-alls wave their hands and declare they know why everyone is fat.

My family eats in-season foods, lots of seafood, vegetables from gardens they grow, is very active yet diabetes runs in the family on both sides. They eat such variety way more than I do which makes me worry considering my family history.

An aunt who was rail thin and very active died of pancreatic cancer, most of her siblings died from diabetic related illnesses.

What's worse is once diabetes (and old age) takes hold, it makes it hard to lose weight and people scorn with vitriolic sneering they know why so and so has diabetes. Look at reddit subreddit fatlogic to see a sea of sneering know-it-alls to see how common it is now it's like a new sport.
Snarky. Glad you ended your comment with a constructive "learn Javascript".
Let me just say this post was mainly to inform my readers that SRS exists. A far better submission for HN would have been gwerns review article, with science and such.
Whoa, Graydon Hoare wrote Monotone? Mind blown!

Huge blast of nostalgia: Back in the summer of 2006 when I was learning git for the first time (and leaving svn in the process), there was all this uncertainty in the community about which VCS was the best... a lot of people weren't even sure that DVCS was a good idea at all! Even so, the Linux kernel had been using git for a year at the time.

At the time there were git, and mercurial, bazaar, bitkeeper and its controversies... and I distinctly remember reading about Monotone! I remember reading how it was the inspiration for git's DAG. I was intrigued but sadly never actually tried Monotone because I was already too blown away by learning git.

It's funny. Git completely changed the way I thought about coding. Made me really, really realize the value of good data structures, and what a waste of effort parsing is. As a direct result, I became obsessed with an idea in late 2006--this idea of a truly next-generation programming environment. This idea of a language+editor+VCS where the ASTs and entire edit history would be stored in git's DAG. [1] So I worked on that for a while, but never really got anywhere...

... and then in late 2012, along comes Rust, which fulfills the language part of this language+editor+VCS trifecta in my mind. And Rust was a personal project by Graydon! So I'm just realizing now that Graydon conceived not only my ideal language, but also my ideal VCS! So that's why my mind's blown.

In short, Graydon is a prolific badass.

[1] It's really a very old idea of course; as old as Smalltalk. I think Steve Yegge attempted it with his Grok Project. See also: Subtext, Lamdu, Projucer. As for the future, Chris Granger and his team may very well pull it off with Aurora.
> the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top.

But people who fake cancer to gain friends are over the top.

Ten Year Cancer Hoax: http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-de...

A cancer patient who is befriended by fake cancer patients, not once, not twice, but thrice: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content...

Here's a fake cancer sufferer created by a child and her friends, but abandoned by them, and then taken over by the mother:

Guardian UK newspaper report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnew...

Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson

The FAQ http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnod... on the wayback machine

The metafilter investigation http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq

Deconstructing Kaycee http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm
https://github.com/CraigJPerry/shortcuts

Some of these are copies of other's decks. The vim one is good, even as someone who's normally the vim expert in a given group of Unix bods I still find myself learning.

The git one is crap, I will redo that myself when I get a chance.

The idea / pycharm ones are just a dump of the keybindings. Same for the GitHub one. Its pretty easy to make simple decks.

There's an excellent multimedia deck called "knots" which predictably enough teaches knot tying. Worth a look to see what's possible with Anki.
Such intensely pleasurably flavored foods are actually useful for a minority who are underweight, feel full before they really get the necessary amount of energy (just have to keep an eye on nutrients, though, as such foods are lower on them), and have to "overeat" to not starve themselves.
I don't think anyone has ever really, seriously believed that white bread was healthy, have they? Or sweet potatoes, just listen to the name of that. Just go back 70 years and you'll find everyone eating plain potatoes and much less sugary cereals than wheat, simply because they were cheaper. Cereals such as Rye and Oat.

Don't blame the doctors. No one ever recommended sweet potatoes over real potatoes. People made that choice against the recommendations of their grand parents and figured 'they would be alright'.
I created a free mini-book (in Spanish) about development and packaging of desktop applications for Ubuntu, including examples in C, Python, C# (using Mono) and Java. It's outdated now, probably easy to update to cover some of the latest changes.

https://github.com/dfuenzalida/desarrollo-ubuntu/

Also, long ago I used to download files which were too large to be transfered to another PC over the network, some even didn't fit the USB thumb drives I had at hand; so I created this desktop app which splits large files into smaller volumes, which you can copy around easier and then use the same program to join the pieces and get the original file.

I was very happy to receive requests from other people who contributed with traslations to the UI messages.

It's written in Python (not very elegantly) and I haven't touched it in ages:

https://github.com/dfuenzalida/gtkfilesplitter

Finally, another small project: a plugin for the gEdit text editor which shows the git branch of the file being edited (if any). It should still work in the most recent GNOME desktops, but I do most of my editing in other text editors now.

https://github.com/dfuenzalida/gedit-git-branch-statusbar
The name Hitler is still virtually a curseword. People may not know much about history, but they know one thing: don't be Hitler.

A lot is made of the fact that people are ignorant of history, but Hitler wasn't: he loved history, perhaps a little too much. He inserted himself into historical events and imagined that he could right historical wrongs and slights suffered by Germans. That is the underlying theme of Mein Kampf. You can say that he distorted history, and I won't dispute that point -- however, his ideas were based on real events, with added sentimentality and sensationalism, the way Hollywood movies are.

Nazism was crushed as thoroughly and decisively as probably any movement ever has been. Hitler is despised by people that don't even know history. Historical events may become dormant, but they are remembered when they become pertinent again, and there has rarely been a historical event as clear and one-sided as WWII: whether Hitler was wrong is a matter of opinion and can be debated (not a good idea in public), but that Germany suffered total military defeat under Hitler's leadership is indisputable fact.
techno-sensationalism = page views = ad impressions = $$
It is the 2010s and there's always time for it!
Mapping in WebGL: exploring MapBoxGL.js
I'll admit I'm having trouble imagining a use case for this but I must ask:

What happens with arrays?

What happens with deeply nested objects?

Also if you don't mind me asking what case might you want something like this where you don't seem to care about the context of the key and value (i.e. top level key and top level value version deeply nested key of, potentially, the same name.)?
World's first 'smartphone' celebrates 20 years
For those of you using Emacs and org-mode org-drill is a great option, http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
Consider the bizspark program for msdn licenses.
I agree that MSVC is an awesome IDE and debugger, except for creation 2002 which was terrible.
The more tools you know well, the wider are your options for each problem you want to solve.
Vim, make, and C++ is a fine choice for many things.
PHP and MySQL for others.
C# and winforms and sql server where that model fits.
If you stay only with MS, you will build more experience in that area, at the expense of becoming narrower. Only you can make this choice for you.
I wonder what would happen if someone with $5 to spare took it upon themselves to repeatedly buy each and every one of the scam apps, and asking ms for a refund of them in between.
Melatonin is already easily and cheaply available on any pharmacy or grocery store shelf in the US. Regulation of many older drugs still classed as 'supplements' is in fact very lax.
Given that's your goal, here's an analysis of startup technologies that I did last week: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex...

TL;DR it seemed like few startups were using Microsoft products. That's not to say that you can't create a successful startup on the MS stack, or that MS products are not good -- just that startups are generally using other tools.
This one could actually be very useful for selectively optimising JavaScript modules by transpiling to C, optimising it, then transpiling it back with Emscripten.

For that kind of work it doesn't need to be perfect. The output doesn't even need to compile first time. It's just a way to save time by starting with a scaffold and refactoring, rather than writing from scratch.

Not sure if I'll get around to forking it anytime soon, but I've bookmarked it for future reference, as I could see myself using it in the not-too-distant future.
I just did an unboxing video (of the Bitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuMKHX91Mk) and part of my motivation had to do with the packaging.

Not the Bitbox's packaging, but the postal wrapper which came from France. As an American, I've felt a small bit of fear as I've watched our financial resources diminish. When I saw the multi-colored postal package, with its delicate rose-colored gradient, I had the distinct cognition "Hey, there's a country and a people unafraid to spend some resources on making their postal packages look good."

We should get our national shit together.
Wow, I haven't heard about Frission before! Thank you for long and detailed explanation. I guess I can relate only to Cold Chills. I tried to listen to some ASMR triggers, and I got the same physical reaction and feelings of discomfort I get from fingernails scratching on a blackboard or hearing someone clean their teeth.
Startup Success Indicators: Version 0.1 of the Mattermark 100
Just pulled some own brand 'porridge oats' out of the cupboard. Bought from Waitrose here in the UK. per 100g: 10.8g fibre, 56g carbohydrate, 1g 'of which sugars', 12.1g protein. Ingredients described as 'Wholegrain oatflakes (100%)'.
Makes sense, it's probably easier and more fun to learn some vocabulary than correct grammar. I moved to an English speaking country (from Italy) eight years ago and still confuse "his" and "her" sometimes.
Here's a few days work attempting to clone Master of Orion in javascript:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/orion/orion.html

It's quite playable (though save/load don't work), and surprisingly hard to beat the AI. Sadly, it seems completely useless on a mobile device since it relies on the mousewheel for zooming. [Edit: mousewheels are things people used to scroll and zoom with back in 2009 before they realized they could just pinch the screen.]

Give it a big galaxy with lots of planets then let the various AIs fight each other at full speed.
Being underweight is not a reason to eat sugar. There's simply nothing good in it. Instead drink cream, eat potatoes, oats and other things with lots of healthy calories.
The TorrentFreak version is missing a few of the more personal paragraphs about Julia Reda's experience visiting him. His statements are intact.
The original Operation Flashpoint game did almost exactly that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADE
http://playtomic.org, a bunch of multi-platform services for games open-sourced posthumously.
Show HN: MoreIdeasThanTime – Connecting people with ideas and resources
None of my DBs have exceede 1GB so far. For larger things I throw them on Azure Blob/Table -- which is dirty cheap (7cents/GB).
I still use my MacBook running OSX, only used for travel and browsing the internet on the couch (thinking of replacing it with a surface). Most of my coding happens on my own desk with a desktop running windows. I treat time outside my desk as brainstorm/thinking time. In desperate times, I occasionally remote into the desktop from Mac.