skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because people have too damn many email addresses.

I typically have multiple email addresses at all times, with one constant (my gmail) and the others revolving around my employer, my school, and other affiliations. And which email I give you depends on how I know you (I'll give classmates and potential employers the university one, etc). So even though I might have someone's corporate address, if they change companies, I'm SOL. With this service, I can click your "request email" button, and you tell me the most convenient address to reach you at.
This is one of those cases where both left and right party interests are being served by growing the police force.

The right will tell you this is a result of the left's 'big government', while the right's military infrastructure contracts benefit from the police (or pentagon as the article states) purchase of heavy machinery for local law enforcement. I doubt the local police of a town of 12,000 said "we need to buy an armoured personnel carrier and an anti-aircraft gun". Though I'm sure they thought it was pretty cool when told they would be getting one.
Humin – The app that aims to replace your iPhone contacts app
Has anyone got an invite code for the new Email product Sortd.com?
Ah, my error.

But, quoting from my ancient copy of The C++ Programming Language, volume 2, §r5.3.3:

"This implies that an operator new() can be called with the argument zero. In this case, a pointer to an object is returned. Repeated such calls return pointers to distinct objects."

So my memory was from C++ new, not C malloc.
Wow, I hadn't seen them. I like that it uses a card per book. It makes each book a separate "entity". Plus they look really nice and easy to use. The FM transmitter is a great idea.
> Daycare, longings, travel, food, medical care, all free (or more accurately included in your paycheck).

Or, more accurately still, the amount of those things that the company decides that you should get without paying extra replaces the bulk of your paycheck. Anything more you want you have to buy with the pittance that remains (or on credit), from suppliers you have access to given the travel, communications, etc., that the company chooses allow you access to through the companies "free" and paid services -- which, usually, means through the company itself. Which, of course, gives the company incentive to ensure that what is provided in the "free" allowance is inadequate.

Company towns are near perfect walled gardens, and exhibit all the problems that walled gardens usually demonstrate.
The great thing about giveaways is that you don't even have to give anything away! /s But you're not exactly acquiring quality subscribers from giveaways like this - though it will depend on your target market I think.
You're correct, the immediate ancestors of tetrapods almost certainly lived in freshwater, as known intermediate fossils like titaalik were found in fresh water stream deposits[1]. I believe all of the immediate ancestors of and early tetrapods have been found in fresh water deposits, although I can't confirm.

[1] http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/searching4Tik3.html
That's what Google Wave was intended to be, among other initiatives.
There are some cases when encouraging shorter messages is very beneficial.
Google engineers are not stupid. They know that they are enabling negative SEO
by explicitly marking some links as "BAD" that negatively affect your ranking. But they are also winning the war against Blackhat SEO's, who no longer have any incentive to spam links to their own websites. If you are a victim of negative SEO, you can use
the link disavow tool to invalidate the link spam. Every victim will use this tool. But no blackhat will use this tool on his own site, because it will disavow all his links!

So now Google can tell the difference between a "legitimate" ("white-hat") site and a "spammy" ("black-hat") site. The legitimate site uses the link disavow tool when it gets bad links. The spammy site does not.

This gives Google a much better filter for "spammy" sites. The cost is that some webmasters might be victimized without realizing it, and not use the disavow tool. But it severely reduces any incentive blackhats have to spam links to their own properties.
Either way, it's a really cool project! A working processor emulator, even a slow one, kind of makes you realize how deceptively simple lots of old CPUs are.
Internet of Bling: Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200M
My grandmother was diagnosed with macular degeneration in the mid 90's. As time went on it became impossible for her to read books, which had previously been one of her favorite hobbies. Fortunately the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) was there to fill that gap. So for the past 15 years or so she's had a selection of books mailed to her on a regular basis. It's a fantastic program.

I was excited to see the new digital book player when it came out. Now that she has essentially lost her vision completely and also suffers from hearing loss she's found the new player to be easier to use and have better audio clarity. The fact that you can also download the books through the BARD service was great too since I could sit with her and read her descriptions of the books rather than just depending on the random selection that the NLS sends you.
"or the behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the returned pointer shall not be used to access an object"

I love the C standards. Is that defining the behavior of malloc or the behavior of the code calling malloc?
Totally trending. All of us Smiths, Browns, and Johnsons have to do something to claim our handles.

http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm
Yes I was referring to the 64bit long key ID. The full fingerprint is a SHA-1 and not vulnerable.

See https://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/105
throwaway2424 makes a fine point. Road deaths are a result of bad driving, bad conditions, bad infrastructure, bad licensure, bad regulation and enforcement, and high rates of driving. Those are all related.

The USA has chosen to require almost everyone to drive long distances with low density zoning, poor public transit, and extremely high parking mandates on private landowners.

If another country has lower fatalities mostly because the government doesn't make them drive as much, that is a result of public policy, just as the high rate of driving in the USA is.

Also, the USA has extensive investments in road safety, probably more than any other nation. Modern freeway safety design standards to enable high speed driving without as many fatalities originates in the USA and close to US$100 billion each year is spent on high speed roads and improvements.

Also, the USA invests extensively in the world's best trauma surgery corps. The level of fatalities on the roads would probably be double what it is with merely typical first world medicine. Emergency trauma surgery to fight gunshot and car crash deaths is one of the few fields of medical care where the USA far exceeds world standards.
Some probably helpful debugging questions to ask:

Laptop or mobile? How much time did you spend watching the examples? What is your battery's storage capacity (milliamp-hours, usage hours, etc.)? Does it have a GPU? CPU usage? Is that battery drain consistent w/ other things that use that amount of CPU? etc.
The title is misleading. By itself, it seems to imply that the author has something against the practice of metaprogramming in general, rather than just Ruby metaprogramming.
You keep replying to the really, really unlikely case. I can't remember the last time I got an "is this still needed?" email.
Email is still inherently a conversation with a person or people, and that is why it has value.
> The underlying algorithm is terrible.

How do you arrive at that assessment? Compared to what? Is it at the state of the art or not?
An interesting post on this subject by Aaron Seigo:

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2014/07/one-singular-sensation-yo...
Legalization doesn't mean it will become more accessible to teens, in fact it should do the reverse. Colorado has seen declining pot amongst teens usage since it was legalized and is below the national average. Holland has a very low cannabis use among teens, although it's legally accessible there, whereas the US has a very high use where it is illegal ...

Futhermore it is never mentioned what the real public health menaces are: Cigarettes and Alcohol! Accounting for the vast majority of deaths, the next biggest killer is prescription medicines. Let's focus on the truly deadly narcotics!
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Ah, well I meant math included but for someone at the level of learning what the heck a differential form is, that kinda level. Thanks for the pointers.

Since I've got your attention here, I might as well ask if you know any good resources for learning about this "negative" probabilities business w. quantum? Something to do with 2D probability? Was reading some lecture notes [0] that mentioned something about using matrix transformations to describe state transitions (reminded me of Markov chains), maybe you'd know where I could learn about that.

[0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen for some time. And to think this is all in a browser, usable from JavaScript. I feel like there could be so many applications for this, for more complex, interdependent visualizations, yet easier than D3 and the like. Also, in the end it's described as Reactive DOM. So, now I wan't to see TodoMVC redone with this. It must be the fastest yet (I'm only half joking!).

I wonder what it needs to handle text presentation and input. HTML overlays are mentioned. Perhaps there are already WebGL text renderers that could be integrated. Of course visualizations this complex make my Macbook scream, but that's all right since I'm seeing something new (in a browser) and delightful. I have a few million data points that could benefit from vantage point like this, which need complex dependencies and controls.
I feel overwhelmed. It is really beautiful but the math is inaccessible to me.
Absolute distortion which is become too clear to see. No basis in fact. As Noam Chomsky says it should be called "The War on some drugs". He also calls cigarettes "a deadly narcotic".
The other thing is that, in a country that glamorizes military strength so heavily, we are giving officers a sense of power and superiority by providing police departments with what essentially amounts to military gear.

When would a situation ever arise, in a town of 20,000, where it would be justified and necessary for the entire police force to be equipped with military-grade gear?
I'll probably stick out like a sore thumb in this crowd, but... I have a Spotify playlist called "Tasteless Rap". A lot of catchy rap songs that are of very little depth, but pleasant to listen to. I know all the words to pretty much all of them by now, and it's a fairly high-energy playlist that helps me get in the zone quickly and keep momentum.
I still use pine :)

I use gmail so that I get good operation cross device but it's heavily filtered so I only see a fraction of total email on my phone, but I can search everything.

I then pop everything off using fetchmail and process all emails down to zero once or twice a day using pine (either in Terminal or irssi connectbot on my xperia).

This suits me not only from a day to day perspective but also because if gmail locks me out for some reason I can easily route around it and still have a full

backup of my email history.
I'd love to learn more about AI. What are some good resources to start learning?
SmartThings has been acquired by Samsung
Sorry, I don't. At the time I wasn't super technical (started writing automated tests soon after and then landed in development). It was some form of buffer overrun.
It's insanely cool that YC is now part of this. Also love that pg credits Sam for making it happen.

On a somewhat related note. Despite the setbacks and the bad rep nuclear gets, fusion really could be a better future. The energy density is in a class of its own, compared to that of renewables. Prof David MacKay demonstrates this quite effectively here[1]. This of course is not to take anything away from renewables or imply we shouldn't pursue funding both.

One group of companies I find particularly interesting, are those attempting aneutronic fusion.[2]

Like many good ideas, that became bad ideas (in the 60's), it appears to now be back in fashion.[3] Theoretical advancements have pushed the achievable temperature ceiling northwards, allowing a move towards commercialization.

Whether this particular line of fusion innovation will ultimately pan out, is perhaps anyone's guess. Personally however, I suspect there is a chance it can work. The benefits would be almost too good to pass up.
Small, modular, cheap and safe (with almost no radioactive waste)

Some examples in the industry:

Raman-budget: Focus Fusion [4]

Secretive and heavily funded: Tri Alpha Energy [5]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_ren...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

[3] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/proton-boron-nuclear-fus...

[4] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/focus-fusion-empowerthewo...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri_Alpha_Energy,_Inc.
When I right-clicked on my back arrow, Chrome listed some of the map's history entries and then had a separator line and HN. It's as if the designers realized I might want to be able to go back to the previous domain as well as going back to the previous page.

This discovery made me smile.
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65% accuracy on a limited character set hardly seems worth it at this point.
No. Just a totally ridiculous random handle I imagined up when I needed a throwaway account years ago that accidentally stuck. It's pretty embarrassing when retail stores ask me for my email to send me a receipt.
That link has the UK deaths per billion km at 4.3.
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Wow. Simply stunning.

It's eye candy AND it's interesting at it's core... wow. Beautiful work.

I just can't articulate a better thing than "wow". Really. This is incredible.
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SSHHH! You can't let the secret out. Remember what we tell the outsiders:

"It rains here. All the time. We never see the sun. You'd hate it here."

--says the Oregon resident from Michigan by way of Arizona. :)
Maryam Mirzakhani is a woman, but what about her research?
Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
The media only covers the fact that she is a woman. almost no one covers her research.

In the Google auto complete "Maryam Mirzakhani Math" is coming after "Maryam Mirzakhani husband".

This inforgaphics explains her research and what are Riemann surfaces and geodesic curves. https://www.matific.com/us/en/maryam-mirzakhani
The caller code. It is saying that the caller cannot dereference the returned pointer, under pain of undefined behavior.
If you don't see the difference between a currency that can regulate its price artificially by printing more of it and Bitcoin, then you have definitely misunderstood it.

If you don't feel comfortable comparing it with stock, then compare it with gold. Even after thousands of years, and a market capitalization of 8 trillions of dollars, it still has price fluctuations.

Bitcoin has only ~7 billions of dollars of market capitalization. It's comparable to what we call a "penny stock". Anyone with a few millions can move the price. And even with hundreds of thousands of dollars, you could move the price in one particular exchange.

If you still don't understand it, watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUPPYzzZrI
War Droppings [video]
The language dropdowns appear to have a typo: Vietminese should be Vietnamese, right?
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An Unreal Decision
Lecun's work on LeNet was pioneering, and basically set the template for deep learning. However, it's not as simple as him being "right all along"; incremental advances in neural net architectures, a lot of developments in stochastic gradient methods, and orders-of-magnitude improvements in hardware and data availability have been what made deep learning as powerful as it is today.

The main point is that skeptics in the 2000's were basically right about neural nets being of limited use, but other technologies advanced and broke down the barriers.

Lecun's original convolutional nets in 1998 were run on the then-gigantic dataset of 60,000 images. Consider that a company like Facebook can provide billions of images with some form of tagging, and you see the different world we live in.
> Email was one's passport and identity.

Email is not an identity. Most people have multiple email addresses, and some people share some addresses.
"danielweber"
Maybe not at this point, but if they spent some time writing better filtering and speech recognition algorithms it might be able to achieve a much higher accuracy.

Since it's currently so easy to get sensor data on android phones there's a fairly strong incentive for people interested in eavesdropping to do so.

It's pretty cool, anyway
Email and WWW provide everything proprietary services are providing people now, but with less flash. The problem is that so many people are moving to these proprietary services that it becomes very difficult to organize and communicate people without making that move. I needed to coordinate with multiple people, and one of them emailed me that we should start a group chat on Facebook; why not just cc them?
> If any of you can figure out how to make this work, I'd definitely pay for it.

I don't give out business cards. I tell people to google me and send me an email or a tweet or whatever they end up finding.

This filters out everyone who doesn't have a really good reason to contact me because they just won't care enough to invest the 30s of extra time it takes to type "swizec" into google and click a link.
Yes, it feels like it's only getting more complex and for the sake of somewhat limited use cases (like your basic JSON/HTML editor apps, or displaying data fastly).

What I'd like to see is support for more general, compiler supporting infrastructure. A platform where you could develop your domain specific languages and data structures that are then transformed to native environment. Kind of like JavaScript is used as a transpiler target, but you still need to have loads of functionality on top of browser base.

Then there could be ways to tag your data with semantics (this text is a heading, this is a link), accessibility, editorial intents (text select, copy/paste) that browser could use to display for specific devices and provide interaction (typing, touch).

Since browser is a place to present and produce almost everything digital, not one standard body nor a standard can provide this. HTML/JS/CSS was borne into what it is today for few, narrowly scoped purposes and is creakingly, laboriously converted into different thing each time you open a web app.
Why isn't it? Simply too little adoption, or are they doing something wrong?
Driving is not an end in and of itself (statistically speaking). It's a means.

It'd be like measuring ad success rate by ad size instead of clicks.
If you've heard of the South African shooting of mine workers in Marikana, in which 35 miners where shot, you can see what sort of tragic results can happen where the police are militarized. It's a path to catastrophe.
Instead of engaging protestors they come with indimidating riot gear, automatic rifles, armored vehicles, helicopters, flash bangs and tear gas. They wear visors which conveniently hide their identity. Any tragedies are met with an "investigation" which usually leads nowhere or goes on forever.

When you are face to face with a cop, I've learned your rights don't mean anything. The only thing that matter is power.
Falling water as a clock display (Osaka)
I'd think you'd be insane to miss an investment with such a disproportionate potential returns / risk.
Thats really cool. Don't you find developing for it frustratingly slow though by today's coding standards?
> Are there modern use cases for NNTP?

After the death of Google Reader, I've switched to news.gwene.org, which operates a RSS to Usenet bridge. It solves a lot of the problems that other RSS readers are still dealing with, since the Usenet people figured this stuff out back in the 80s.
I don't think its fair, or sincere, for you to use past tense to describe anyone's current work.
How much to ask for as Freelance dev?
So, I have a project that I've been working on for the last 3 months and I've been paid $40/hr at around 40 hours a week.

However, I had to split that with the designer I've been working with, as I'm strictly backend, so it's clear that I wasn't making nearly as much as my job demands.

The 3 month contract is now up and they'd like to continue working with myself and the designer even after launch. In other-words, they'd like to sign us to a 12 month contract/yearly agreement and have us on fulltime.

At $20/hr each it's not worth it, but I'm thinking about purposing an $80/hr, 40 hours a week agreement. So that we're both making $40/hr each as we should be.

Is this reasonable? It is to me, considering there's no benefits, dental, etc...

Thoughts?
Got it... I'm not sure I understand the use case for this tool then?

In a browser, the TCP connection will close itself. On a mobile device, the TCP connection will close when the network connection drops.

I suppose a server could reliably keep a TCP connection open, but at that point why wouldn't I just deal with the messages myself..?
Also, non US citizens can get an ITIN number in place of SSN.
Most likely you and your kids are gonna be wiped out by intellegent machines just in a few decades.
> Care to quote a startup stock that is traded decently (Bitcoin isn't a penny stock) and has a 10% dip in minutes that isn't newsworthy for anyone interested in that stock?

"traded decently", gotta love those vague expressions.

Any company that at some point was just a small startup, sold stock privately, and today is big, has had these swings. Eg: Facebook, Amazon, etc.

If you don't know this, it probably means you have never bought private stock.
I've noticed when I don't speak to people for very long my mind becomes less active, almost switches off. I lack inspiration or life.

Solitary confinement must be the worst torture, I can't bear to imagine it. Yet it is used around the world as standard practice, in the USA, Israel, all over!
Ill have to tell you that this theory is wrong,
I'm calling his work on LeNet in 1998 pioneering. I'm not trying to disparage his current work.
Link shorteners are frowned upon. There is no need to have a short URL because you have infinite characters and they can lead to bad behavior.

I know reddit filters them, apparently HN does too.
Artificial music: Computers that create melodies
Last I checked Gmail allowed me to create an account without providing an email address or phone number.
Naytev (YC S14) Enhances Social Media Shares to Drive Website Traffic
This is cool! I like the simplicity of the design, both the finished resume and the tool for creating it.

Any plans to support listing/describing past projects?
Hate to be negative nellie but this strikes me as a very small niche that should almost disappear on its own. Which is fine, just not something I'd expect from YC or venture in general.
Not really. From this and your other comments it's now clear that not only you don't know anything about private stock, you don't anything about Bitcoin's history either.