skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I start the server and attempt to instantiate a ServerProxy, I get "Connection refused". The server produces no output. Running ubuntu 14.4.

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Turns out the server will silently do nothing if you do not extract the archive to $HOME.
Indeed. And the tone is surprisingly lighthearted.
If you don't call those people out on their behavior, even if they ignore you, then you're legitimizing it.
There is a real opportunity here for evernote and even google. What he needs a personalized wikipedia, a "facebook" of googleable archive of his selected internet content.

If facebook/myspace are the social networks for people's offline life, how about a social network for people's brain in online life.

It is much more than a personal knowledgeabase per se. This may very well be a knowledge graph in google's scale but with personalized context and relativity.
Ask HN: What is Parse?
This is a very noobish question, sorry about that. I've spent the last several minutes trying to understand what Parse.com is but I still don't get it. What does Parse Cloud do? Does it take care of all my database needs? (Replacement for MySQL?)
Pure Android is so much nicer.
Not only is it insecure, but in some cases intensely user unfriendly. I used to put real answers in these until I realized even if I remembered the answer I could never recall the exact string I used.

A common example: "Name of first car?"

So was that "Neon"? or "Dodge Neon"? or "Blue Neon"? or maybe "neon"? or "1991 Dodge Neon"?

Security questions are basically a secondary password masquerading as something else. But because they are not called a password, the expectations on their character-wise-correctness are not clear to a layman. I find the continued proliferation of security questions baffling, especially when some sites call password + security question "two factor authentication".
Because the series A investors have clout and standing with (and may be the same parties as) the series B investors.
But want to add, not picking on you. Thank you for the example. I think we can agree misogynistic games do exist.
He was obviously not being ingenuous and it's amazing to me that anyone can watch the video and think there's any question about it; he's describing the fact that they had to figure how to do side-effects. And indeed, they did figure out a way to do side-effects.
That's a fairly recent change. The fare thing described in the article drastically predates it.
Apple got the hint: iTunes 11+ is now organized primarily for artists & albums; most single song based organization was gutted.
Looks like Motorola have got the right approach to Android, a balanced device at a great price coupled with Android OS in its standard form. I may even be tempted to get this instead of a new Nexus.
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The only monopoly I observe them having is in trust. If I see a seller with 96% or better feedback on a minimum volume of business, I have a lot of faith I'll be satisfied one way or another with the transaction.

Compare to eBay, where a fairly recent transaction by my father, buying an iPhone, was a scam, the cellular radio didn't work (rest including WiFi did), and the seller, who officially had a good reputation, knew exactly how to game the system so my father was out > $100.
> [RC pouch cells] are heavily regulated and you would not be allowed to take them in your carry-on

Speaking at least for Canadian airlines, you're incorrect - I asked ahead, and was told that I could bring them, but _must_ have them in my carry on. (and protect the connectors, etc.)
Photos upload is not enabled by default.
One of the best in my opinion. I use it for literally everything. It's really versatile in the way that it doesn't force you to use templates.

The new beta (http://beta.semantic-ui.com/) version looks really promising as well, it's made to work with themes but it's a different way of working than the previous version. You get more control in building from less.
I must have missed that explanation. What would the use of a really pure functional programming language be? One with no side-effects, not even printing to a console? (How are you going to get the answer to your computation back out?)
"I've never once heard someone berate or look down upon our female players."

Were you actually paying attention?
I would agree with you if the article hadn't ended with a link to what the author considers the solution.
What is Walmart's % of US retail market?
That's a completely different screen. I usually use unlimited, but I'm pretty sure it has the expected 10/20/40 amounts (each with the +5% "bonus").
Thanks for the compliments - it's a personal site, not officially run by Manning.
Here's how I have come to address this issue (fyi, I'm using django-configurations and my own starter django project configured with it + ansible roles for deployments: http://github.com/powellc/outline ):

Your production app settings live in a separate repository that is kept much more secure than the other project files. These exist as host_vars files that you can simply drop in the host_vars directory in your ansible configuration and run the deploy script.

A sample host_vars can be included for either setting up a dev vagrant box or even your staging setup, if you don't have any really secret API keys.

That way you can move things around, spin up new boxes or what have you, simply by creating new host_vars files or moving them around.
Comparing Massive Data Sets
Companies have always realized that CC merchant fees are bullshit; but their agreements are also bullshit and some even prevented merchants from merely informing customers of the fees.
Yet, two months past the expiry date is not acceptable for buying a pack of beer.

Source: happened to me.
Did not a willow garage spinoff recently have to close after failing to work things out with Willow in the series A process?

This is a great idea, but Scott Hassan needs to show he is founder friendly; otherwise, watch out.
No. You get the special line staffed by TSA agents who moonlight as cynical standup comedians used to dealing with hecklers.
While I am not thrilled about the bump in screen size. The Moto-G has been the best phone I have owned so far from a total ownership experience. No Contract, Decent Specs and Multi-Day Battery Life.
The TOC is available on the Manning site (where you buy the book). plus all chapters that are already available have "AVAILABLE" behind the chapter heading.
I thought Linux supported extended desktop, but come to think of it, I never actually tried it. Windows always worked perfectly fine :-)
I agree that this approach solves a problem. But using custom data attributes for styling is just not as easy as using classes and I do not think I'll ever use such approach.
Those are all true statements, but you're overlooking some key realities.

Savings and insurance won't save you from a lot of complicated costs that come out of healthcare, which you can't bound cleanly. You can end up with a lot of extra costs (due to missing work and so forth) if you are stuck following your insurance provider's network. Preventative care (even normal, regular checkups) is nontrivial to obtain unless you have good insurance and the time and money to use it. The "family doctor" doesn't exist for most millenials--recall that the system was so fucked they passed legislation to let young adults stay on their parents' insurance until their mid-20s.

Investing is nice if you've got the money and assets to spare, and even so consider the general perceived trustworthiness of these investment funds; 2008 wasn't that long ago.

Then there's student loans--if you got a decent education (or even a worthless one that was marketed well), you're looking at tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars in debt, due monthly, no excuses.

So, go add the cost of cars, the cost of student (or house, or car, or whatever) loan maintenance, the cost of insurance, the cost of having a phone and internet (and maybe cable). We've (more really, our parents and the Boomers) constructed a society and civilization with way too much "fuck you got mine" and way too little upwards mobility (or even security!). You should realize that the deck is stacked very heavily against people not born with a spoon in their mouth.

It's not impossible by any stretch--I'm lucky enough to be managing myself, for example--but you have to consistently make a lot of choices that are at best difficult and at worst impossible in modern society.

So, yeah, I'm cynical.
I had exactly the same issue. Apple wants like three different security answers from a list of about 8 questions, but the questions they allow you to pick from are super odd and very US specific stuff.

Here are REAL examples of some of the options Apple gives you:

- Who was your favourite singer or band in high school
- What was the first album that you purchased
- What was the first film you saw in the theater
- What was the first car you owned
- Which of the cars that you've owned has been your favourite
- Where were you January 1st, 2000.
- What is the first thing you learned to cook
- Where did you go the first time you flew on a plane
- What is the last name of your favourite elementary school teacher

But you don't get all of those. You get a random selection. So two different accounts might have different options.

For me I don't have an answer to over 80% of those questions. Either because I don't know, it doesn't exist, or because it is US centric.

Honestly Apple's security questions took me over 20 minutes, were mandatory to use iTunes, and was a fully unpleasant experience. There's very little chance I'll remember them later either.

It is quite funny how lax their security is elsewhere when they can justify this painful nonsense.
That's pretty far from where you originally placed your goalposts.
So why did the common folks not get together with the vdmd folk(s)?
If you want to have that argument, I'm sure you can find someone to have it with.
Let me know if you're interested in licensing better syntactic/semantic parsing technologies.

I'm the developer of the Redshift NLP library ( http://github.com/syllog1sm/redshift ). Currently the software lacks documentation, but it offers a good speed/accuracy trade-off. Documentation and a good tokenizer are coming. You can read a tutorial for a simplified version of the algorithm on my blog: http://honnibal.wordpress.com
>All of this centers around who benefits from these policies. Tax abatements for businesses and no income tax benefits the business owners while shifting the burden to citizens. This is why it's a bad policy.

Ok I see what you are saying but I don't really believe in a sort of plutocracy that get all benefits of tax cuts while others get no benefits. The reason being that benefits are hard to localize. Suppose you are correct and some small group of owners benefit from the tax cuts, they then have more money, and then what would the business owners do with the money? For benefits to remain local, they would have to essentially hide their money. If they reinvested all of it or spent all of it, the money keeps changing hands and circulates. Circulating money is economic expansion and economic expansion benefits everyone. So unless there is a dead pool of money which seems a contradiction or that somehow tax revenue circulates through the economy better than profits do, it would seem there isn't a loss anywhere. But that is not to say no taxes should exist because these are societal and not economics.
It disincentivizes buying a single fare (amounts under $5 don't get the bonus). Its a dumb way of doing so, yes, but there is a real purpose.

Of course, now that there's the $1 per card fee, it might not be a useful purpose, but that's a different argument.
Well, remember there are two sides of the equation here. Buyer and seller. Neither side wants to be forced to do anything they don't want to.

In this particular case, Garth Brooks doesn't want to be forced to sell singles if he thinks albums are bodies of work that should be sold as a set.
it's the mobile version
> I know that sometimes that "one gem" (to quote another comment) is the result of the entire creative process that went into the complete album.

That doesn't mean the rest of the album is worth anything, or that the artist is entitled to getting money for the tracks people don't want.
I'm assuming that it was a dumb joke. The orphan literally got the orphanage yesterday. You can also choose another elephant[0] or rhino[1] orphan from the list if you want to

[0] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphans_history.as...

[1] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphans_history_rh...
There's an enormous amount of randomness to what makes it to the front page - I wouldn't read much into the fact that one got traction and the other did not.
It's the mobile version.
Way back before the mp3 era Garth Brooks' passion was stamping out the sale of used CDs

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/304702/GARTH-BROOKS-HASNT...
The video certainly doesn't predate the IO monad, but the point was that Haskell was designed as an academic language with zero emphasis on practicality, and has grown in usefulness over time.
This is an aside, but your comment reminded me to check why I've never even considered using 1Password and happily pay for LastPass.

A brief visit to their website later and I remembered: 1Password doesn't have Linux support. It's a shame; it looks really nice and I don't mind paying for good software.
Anatomy of 2,000 Compromised Web Servers Used in DDoS Attack
If you can hear it on Pandora then you can have a copy of it if you want, people only pay for the convenience.
I really like my Moto G. It was the first smartphone that was nice enough, had a clean default Android UI, had enough battery life, cheap enough if I sit on it and it breaks, I won't be too upset over hardware cost.
So why not have rent be the cost of the lowest price payment method, with an extra charge for paying with a card being the cost of the card fee minus the cost of the fee with the lowest cost option? Then there's a "free" option where you're paying the price that you were quoted, or the option to pay a convenience charge for using a card? Telling someone rent is $X when rent is actually $X + $Y is ridiculous.

And I'm not sure your point on "a very American attitude". I live in America, so... yes? When I tell someone my address, they don't look down their nose and say "that's a very American address". Of course it's American. That's where I live. Contrary to some opinions, American things aren't always automatically wrong just because they're American. I'm sure if I lived in Belgium I would pay tax and VAT and credit card processing fees and think nothing of it. But I don't live in Belgium. I'd have the same reaction if my landlord asked me to pay rent in Yen just because there was a favorable exchange rate for him.
This article completely ignores the entire stochastic approach to cognitive science.
They forget to say this is exceptional price for this phone.
Not necessarily...when taking on a new job, you have to fill out DHS forms that establish:

1. Identity http://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents/list-b...

2. Authorization to work: http://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents/list-c...

A SS card (and birth certificate) falls in that latter category. It cannot alone establish identity.
You know what? Amazon, Werner and/or Benedict Evans can spin it anyway they want (like the kid who gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar) but the bottom line is they aren't making money and haven't pinned to a date they plan to do so. (So making arguments as far as one business unit vs. another don't matter many business operate the same way and in sum make money.)

All the long winded explanation of the circumstances (such that Benedict gives in his writeup) hoping that people will be overwhelmed and not want to question what is going on (like a 20 page legal contract that can't easily be deciphered by non lawyers) I mean who even has the time to fully vet even what Benedict has "summarized" (not that it can be called that).

There is a saying in negotiating which is "you can name the price if I can name the terms". In the case of Amazon it's like "Let me name the business model and I will also name the time frame toward profitability".

One thing is for sure. Bezos may prove right in the end or not but there is no question he is operating according to his vision and doesn't look anywhere close to deviating from his (Benedict's words here) "lifestyle" business.
What do you say in those situations?
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I'm not opposed to the ideas presented here in an ideal world, but image recognition is far from perfect and if developers attempt to implement this (making their photo apps the equivalent of something other than a "common-carrier" of image bits) when it inevitably fails to detect a "nudie" it seems likely they will eventually be sued, especially if they implement an "underage" filter (which the article also suggests) that fails (which it of course inevitably will, and often).

I do think it is pretty bad that some platforms/apps default to sync-to-cloud in a way that the use of cloud storage may not be clear to the user. I still remember the uneasy feeling I got the first time I took a photo with Google+ and it asked me if I wanted to automatically upload all subsequent photos to the "cloud", and that's despite the fact that 1) I don't use my phone to take nudies anyway and 2) at least Google+ asked and didn't default to sync-to-cloud.
Store bought chickens taste nothing like chickens that roam around a farmyard eating whatever is there.
Useful extensions for CMake
Destiny Preload Available on Ps4 Right Now
Lots of people loved Moto G as a secondary/travel phone. But for me, it's my primary phone now, even though I consider myself an early adopter of cutting edge technology. Where I live, there are no carrier subsidies. This new trend of having a wonderful sub $200 phone is pretty neat. I don't need games, just a decent smartphone with calendar, email and a handful of other utilities. The recent evolutions in smartphone are pretty banal.

Other than the sub-par camera (low frame rate & grainy), Moto G (first version) is an amazing phone. It has great battery life, perfect screen size (for me), it's snappy, no bloatware. I'm not scared of dropping/losing it as much as I would with an iPhone.
> Axiom Zen is working with Timeline.com on a very ambitious new project to present a unique perspective on current events by providing important historical context.

Can DBpedia encode dependencies between historical events, e.g. event A @ location/time caused events B & C? Or Person M alleged a casual relationship between events A & C?
Thanks! I think so too!

http://jitney.co
The uses of the heap are:

1. Peek the root of the heap to find the tallest rectangle in the active set. This is a constant time operation.

2. Add a new rectangle to the active set. This is a O(log(n)) operation.

3. Remove a rectangle from the active set. This is a O(log(n)) operation if you use something like a hash table to locate the element in the heap.

Each rectangle is added once (at its left edge) and removed once (at its right edge). The root of the heap is peeked on every critical point. All together, that makes the algorithm O(n log n).

Or am I missing something?
it's not profit in the sense that we assume that amazon investors would be worse at reinvesting cash from existing operations than amazon management. It could very well be true now, but it may also not be as true as you think. That's why it's not really profit in the true sense of the word.
I found the Rust video pretty informative. Rust, for better or worse, is already pretty complex, but this gave a really nice high level overview of some of its more important features.
-"A tangent: it'd be neat if there was a company that let you register a set of these tests to enable the release of something like a one-time private signing key held in escrow. "

I think I smell a start-up.

Seriously. There will be some difficult questions to address, like how to finance an indefinite escrow and still charge a price low enough that you can draw customers and how to store the escrow in such a manner as to make it impractical for TLAs to bulk mine the whole thing but I think you have a good idea.
I always keep this in my boot.rb

SAFE_ENV = Proc.new do |name|
ENV[name].tap{ |value| raise "Environment variable #{name} is missing" unless value }
end

and then for any required env vars I use SAFE_ENV instead of ENV e.g.

SAFE_ENV['AWS_KEY'] # throws error if missing
ENV['AWS_KEY'] # silently continues
Oh yes, it would go over much better to promise a $10 card and then give only $9. That's _definitely_ theft.

> if a new card is needed

This is the "new card" screen. That question has already been answered if you get here. The "topping up" screen advertises $10/$20/$40 instead of $9/$19/$39 (making the intent perfectly clear).
Garth Brooks isn't on Spotify either. I bought his stuff on tape and then on CD, but if I want to stream it from the Internet, too bad.

For shame, Garth.
It's baffling that Google sold off Motorola right when they finally have a pipeline of really nice competitive devices coming out. I wonder if it was competitive worries from Samsung that got them to sell.
1) Just to note, I said hundreds or thousands, not hundreds of thousands.

2) I've got no idea. I opened the thread to see if anyone else did.
Good article. Another interesting and fascinating article from Erik is "A co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1961297).
> The seller is perfectly in the right to

I could cure cancer and be "perfectly in the right" to only sell it for millions of dollars to the ultra-rich, but that doesn't meant it's not a shitty thing to do.
I wonder how straightforward an ethical dilema it is. When signing a contract, are you ethically obligated to follow the terms of the contract, or are you merely agreeing to something which can be enforced by the terms of the contract, including penalties and lawsuits. Most people do business in the latter way: a contract is only as good as the "teeth" that make it unprofitable to violate it.
Startups are disrupting everything these days.
> Best sub-$200 phone I've come across that feels state of the art.

Coolpad 7320 (bought for $139!, 5.5'') and Coolpad F1 (5'') are better for me.

- Faster

- Much better camera

- Dual sim. Very important for me because I can use free unlimited internet on secondary card.

- MicroSD

- Bigger screen space - no Android buttons bar on bottom.

- Same high quality. Coolpad is 6th biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

I compared my Coolpad 7320 with real (hands on) Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it's quite similar.

(edited post a bit)
That sounds like something that would require internal coordination between departments at the MTA, and is therefore not trivial. I wish it was /s.
>> "In other words, he's concerned about a world where people aren't forced into spending over ten bucks to hear the song they want, paying for a bunch of cameos they may not care about, even if those people worked real, real hard on that music."

I think it's down to marketing. When the record company picks the single and promotes it that's the song people will buy from the album. It may not even be the best song on it or the one you will like the most. I've seen a few polls recently where people were asked to pick their favourite track from a recently released album (they had bought the full album). The decision was pretty evenly split over all the tracks and the ones that actually fared worst were the singles. So my point is, you're not buying the song you want or will like the best, you're buying the song the record company has promoted the most and probably missing out on some great stuff.
Can confirm. Did this all through college.

Speaking of 'things that should be tracked' - I'm blown away that it didn't raise any red flags when I 'lost' ~50 Drivers Licenses over the course of a year or two.