skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it fascinating how polarised a lot of the comments are. It's either:

* People will complain about anything. Why be so ungrateful? You don't like it; fine, don't listen.

* How did Apple ever think they could get away with this? It's invading my personal music library.

Fundamentally, it seems that people have very different mental models of what a 'cloud' computing service is. For some people, it's still 'their' music/library, and so this is an invasion. Maybe that's how it should be in an ideal world, but it's not how it currently is. Hopefully, for these people, they'll come away with a better understanding of some of the tradeoffs we make when we decide to use cloud services, even if we don't realise it at the time.

This is probably all made worse because iTunes started as a non-cloud service, but is now some weird hybrid, which is probably why there are such differing attitudes towards it.

I think we can all agree this was a marketing fubar though. A download link would've been much better, and hopefully Apple will realise just how confusing their current set-up is, with even some people who wanted the album not being able to figure out how to get it...
"Hey, you know what just isn't cool?"

"lava?"
I'd be interested to hear their response if you said "I prefer to keep my belongings with me until I can go through with them."

In fact, on occasion I've had them insist on me keeping my belongings outside the scanner. I wonder if it's a liability for them to have them back there where I can't monitor them. After all, the screenings are always conducted with your luggage in eyesight.
Unfortunately, we're not. We might support that in the future though.
It’s time to bring Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies into the CS curriculum
WhoHasAccess.com: User Management for Google Drive
If this analogy is so good, and I'm not doubting it, then is MSFT like adding Jobs to Minecraft? Will we see a small successful company become a dominant global technology/gaming company?
Judge Kopf has a really interesting post about this

http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/09/03/the-latest-really...
Also, HBO TV series, which is all.. er "my friend"... cares about, since HBO refuses to offer "my friend" any way to pay for their content that doesn't involve getting a full-blown oligopoly-supporting cable TV subscription (while also not putting much of their content on alt services like Amazon Prime streaming for months to a year after initial air date).
That was my mistake. The author of the piece said that the scientists responded saying their measurements have a large margin of error (Unfortunately, he doesn't tell us exactly what they said).
The entire thing is theatre so why wouldn't they keep up the theatre.

The funny thing is most of the fear stems from TSA style non-sense that has people freaked out about radiation. Everyone worries about dirty bombs, and TSA x-rays, fukushima, no one about the thorium / uranium released from burning coal.
Good points. Thanks
I'd be more concerned about something like this robotic machine gun, which is designed to do nothing but kill humans efficiently:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/09/samsung-sgr-a1-robot-sentry...
"$200,000, all weather, 5.56 mm robotic machine gun also sports an optional grenade launcher... identify and shoot a target automatically from over two miles away... robot will not distinguish between friend or foe..."
the yc app has a form of this as one of it's questions: "what do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?"

one of thiel's general business examples is "capitalism and competition are opposites". although his point is sound (business schools explicitly teach you to look for ways to avoid/eliminate competition), his definition of capitalism is a bit distorted to make this phrase work. capitalism is a decentralized economic system for deploying capital efficiently based on supply and demand, not simply for accumulating/concentrating capital (which is how thiel sees it).
Thanks for the reply. I have been doing that, but networking with people such as programmers is challenging, they don't seem to get out much. I even tried going to meetups and coordinated events, they are just an elusive bunch.

Again, thanks for the reply, i'll keep try to meet people.
This is a hoax. These allegations are 100% false.

Unfortunately, since his termination, the poster has periodically posted
versions of this information online. Sometimes, he tries to misrepresent
himself as our CEO and sometimes he posts as himself. Here are some
examples of his previous writings over the last 18 months:

Nuclear Reactors?
Our third CEO is Baal?
Illuminati?
"The Giganews logo is a red colored shield - subtle homage to the legendary
Rothschild family"

http://pastebin.com/gM9mN7gS
http://ronyokubaitis.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/i-am-ron-yokub...

In addition, we believe he runs a Twitter account (@AngelicPsalms) that accuses random companies,
including Giganews, of being controlled by demons and governments:

https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/510175616352923648

@Golden_Frog @VyprVPN & @Giganews servers are run by FBI Special Agent Scott Kibbey. Do you really want FBI to handle your internet privacy?

https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/510599892373614592

Angel Yeiazel counters the demon who steals from King's houses, destroys cities & honors, &reveals past&future. Eg:#Credit reports, @Equifax

Hey even, Harley Davidson isn't safe either:

https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/499732005350031360

Angel Yezalel counters the demon on a pale horse w/trumpeters seen 1st as fierce/after as an innocent girl;Eg:Jeffrey Dahmer,@harleydavidson

We know Cryptome welcomes documents that expose secret governance, but
that's not the case here. These allegations are sadly from someone who needs help.

We posted more links and info on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Giganews/status/511587414683291648

Thanks,
Giganews
What is the benefit of not allowing links in a post? Is it a purposeful decision or or is it just that no one has bothered to implement it.
At ($dayjob) we currently use twemproxy (30 nodes with ~4k get/s each), so this is very interesting to me. Thanks for the info/feedback.
Julian Assange, Snowden and Kim Dotcom
Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still.

Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a better source for IRC quotes than the internet archive's mirror of bash.org.
Looks great! Will KaTeX support (c.q. integrate with) ASCIIMathML.js¹,²? AsciiMath is dubbed “TeX without backslashes”, or as “markdown for math”.³ (La)TeX input can become laborious, and the syntax gets difficultly readable, very rapidly.

With AsciiMath syntax⁴ (and Unicode!⁵) you can write δA instead of `\delta A`, ½ instead of `\frac{1}{2}`, ((a,b),(c,d)) instead of `\begin{pmatrix}a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}`, &c.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCIIMathML
² http://www.asciimath.org
³ http://boolesrings.org/krautzberger/2014/08/10/asciimathml-t...
⁴ http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathsyntax.html
⁵ http://www.johndcook.com/math_symbols.html
It's a little scary how a denial by the company can easily dissuade a dissenting opinion.
> This may be kind of a dumb question, but does Go use the stdlib C stack or are they talking about their own stack?

Their own.

> I'm assuming that Go has a standard / vanilla / kernel aware C-style stack living somewhere right?

Not unless it has to call into C, which would require a C-style stack.

> Then the stack they are referring to is part of their run time environment...which is actually allocated on the heap somewhere.

Yes, as it is in C really. The difference is that the C stack is bounded and "fairly limited" (and highly variable, from 16k to a few MB[0]).

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-10/msg0...
Yeah yeah it's not 100% but it's still reasonably strong evidence. If you find something in a plant that's eaten by many things then it's probably not very toxic.
Open Source Project Contracts?
Hi there,

Does anyone know a good source for open source project contracts? For example, for contributor releases, formalising the use of other projects Creative Commons content etc.

Thanks!
Huh? Not sure about \mathbf, but \mathcal and \mathbb definitely work in Mathjax.
Don't like clickbait? Don't click
They said something similar about the non-compliant service rep who would not cancel service.

They are skilled at PR, but are not necessarily telling the truth.
Applying to YC
I'm worried about that too - the real issues is the platform-specific "natives" folder.
That's pretty much what I did, it's now sitting in my Random-Noise-10GB file waiting to be opened in IDA.
> In labs everywhere, experimental robots would leap up from lab benches in a murderous rage, locate the door, and—with a tremendous crash—plow into it and fall over.

> Those robots lucky enough to have limbs that can operate a doorknob, or to have the door left open for them, would have to contend with deceptively tricky rubber thresholds before they could get into the hallway.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
"Efficiently", in this case, means deploying capital where it will accumulate the most profit. Not where it does the most good, or solves the most pressing or important problems.
They get quite defensive when you ask why they don't wear dosimeters. Their immediate answer is that the machines have been proven to be safe. But when you point out that one of the purposes of dosimeters is to measure accidental exposures in otherwise safe environments, then the cognitive dissonance really starts :>
That made no sense to me when I read it.

It would be a great bit on SNL though:

Coworker: "Hey Nick, when did you color your hair. . .and. . get glasses?"

Nick: "You must have me mistaken with some other employee, I'm not Nick Caputo, here, look at my ID."

Coworker: "Nick, dude, I know its you, you're the only guy I know who has a Zelda tattoo on their wrist."

Nick: "Like I said, you have me confused with someone else" hurries away in opposite direction

I was actually starting to believe this story, then he hit me with that little diddy and it was all downhill from there.
That was my concern, too. There's a precedent for a radiation-emitting machine failing in a very bad way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Of course these new machines cannot fail the exact same way as the Therac 25. But could they fail in a new, unpredicted way? I dunno. I am not familiar enough with how the backscatter machines are implemented to be able to predict how they could fail. But I maintain neither are most of the people who defend these machines as safe.
There is no such thing as a "stdlib" stack. There is a thread stack, but with the exception of the initial thread, all Go stacks (both for Go code and for the scheduler) are allocated from "the heap" (rather Go is also responsible for mapping heap-like memory). That is, on anything except Windows, Solaris and Plan 9, where the stack given by the operating system is used for the scheduler stack, but user goroutine stacks are always allocated from the heap.
It's like looking at cars and only thinking how dangerous they might be if someone decides to run you over. And it's true, over 30,000 people die in the US every year from car accidents. But the potential seems to be worth it for most people.
I'm wondering how this compares to other human-powered aircraft like the Gossamer Albatross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross -- crossed the English Channel in 1979 in just under 3 hours). IIRC the Gossamer Albatross had a similarly simple twisted bike chain transmission and some of the other simple features here.
I think there's a tendency in people to assume that massively successful properties like Minecraft become massively successful because they're special or innovative. While this may play a role, it is rarely the only important factor, and sometimes is not a relevant factor at all.

The reality is that Minecraft's explosive popularity is the result of a perfect storm of all kinds of fickle conditions. It doesn't mean that Notch made the "right" arbitrary choices, as some posters in this thread have intimated; it just means that the choices he made didn't preclude the other externalities from converging.

I think the two biggest factors in Minecraft's success were a) notch's responsiveness and availability to the community on reddit and twitter and b) Mojang's decision to have the game ported to Xbox. Neither of these have much to do with the specific design decisions in Minecraft itself (many of which were frankly terrible and are still only gradually being reversed).
Very cool anyway. Because you are just using CSS instead of the DOM trickery of MathJax I should still be able to use it for my purposes.
Watched this over the weekend, I trained myself to avoid clicking on sensationalist titles.

HN is very good about banning that kind of trash but occasionally a few fishy titles show up in the new queue.
Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change – New York Post
Actually, they're not sitting in a warehouse; they've been repurposed for use in prisons: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fullbody-scanners-airp...
Unless something is verifiably true/false it should not be voted to the top. The conversation is the only valuable thing to the Hackernews community.
Sorry. I downvoted by misclicking. Didn't mean to.
Lots of ideas come to me while I am walking or doing something mechanical, maybe even legos.
“El Machete” targeted attack campaign
I was employee #3 at Texas.net (Datafoundry's predecessor) back in 1995. While Jonah Yokubaitis (Ron's son and texas.net co-founder) was a bit of a hot head and we had a few quarrels back when we were both young and dumb, the Yokubaitis family are good people. Ron Yokubaitis, in particular, is a good person. I knew him as a staunch Libertarian. In fact, he was the first Libertarian I ever met and what he told me about the party later influenced my own political views. While I have no evidence or knowledge to support or disprove this man's claim, I don't believe for a second that this is true. DataFoundry/Texas.net was quite the cowboy operation--literally and figuratively--and they employed some colorful and hot-tempered characters over the years, including my younger self. This Nick Caputo character sounds like sour grapes to me.
He didn't really.

"Once sales start dying...as some kind of open source".
exactly, animals tend to use the most energetically efficient form of locomotion for a given desired speed (walking vs. running for example). i'm not sure that bounding is more efficient than either walking or galloping at any speed, since more energy seems to go into vertical and rotational motion than those more common forms of locomotion.
I just pay a CFA to manage my funds. He charges me 1% annually, and that's what I netted in 2013 after fees/tax. It's mostly fixed income, technology, oil/gas, REIT, type of investments in the stock market. I make occasional trades, but I don't do it full time.

Interesting because if it wasn't for 2008, I wouldn't be nearly as wealthy as I am now. I lost quite a bit of money in 2008, but also made more than double my money back as the market recovered. Which is why I don't worry too much when people warn of market crashes...if I could survive 2008, and come out on top, it doesn't seem like there is much to be afraid of. I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear that way.
i really like your blog, fun stuff and i majored in math as well. what is the best way to contact you? How are your skills in django / python?
What the f*** is wrong with tek people ( the 10 sins )
Founders Institute Reykjavik Chapter Launched
I don't think he wants sympathy, that's not how I read this at all. I think he wants freedom, and he is not asking for it but simply stating for the record how he is going about this.

One of the thing's I admire about Notch's communication is that it always comes off as sincere and matter of fact. I think that is admirable in the face of the reality one faces in becoming internet-famous.

The internet has a big problem with mob-mentality entitlement. People jumping up to call Notch a hypocrite for going back on his word, or otherwise critiquing every little move he makes really don't have a leg to stand on. I mean sure everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the actual power that these people deserve to have over Notch is infinitesimal; it's just noise on the internet with no significance. Look at it this way, if suddenly 10 million people started scrutinizing what you were up to, I'm sure they'd have a lot of complaints, but what do you owe to them?
I suppose by "internet" you mean "web" and in particular the fundamental problem you see is that LaTeX assumes the input contains everything needed for the final output, whereas hypertext on the web can be remixed in an open-ended way? I.e., it's hard to get pleasing results out of a process of composition of disparate LaTeX sources?

Otherwise could you clarify the conflict you have in mind?
I'm guessing this means arguments about how "The Hobbit" has actually changed the life of a lot of people (people who made money from it, people who spent time reading it, people who spent time making a movie, people who spent money on that movie, people who made money from the movie, etc. etc. etc.) or even improved it in some less-measurable way (used in a literature course, philosophical discussion based on the book, inspiration from the story of the book for doing something else in real life or to spark a real life discussion, etc.) will have no meaning for you, since all of this is obsession with Imagination and it's not the Real World.

I mean, my day job consists 100% of putting the right numbers in the right places in a completely virtual system that is entirely meaningless in the real world, that I cannot interact with and cannot use. These numbers don't do anything, they don't change anything, and they certainly won't build a treehouse I can go hide in when my parents get overbearing and obsessively controlling.

However... my day job consists of managing an entire Enterprise Resource Planning system, and the numbers I put in the right place are the resources of this company. The right numbers mean that people looking at them later on will get the right parts at the right time, and build things faster, and eventually clients will have their product on time and at best quality. The wrong numbers... well, 2+ year late deliveries and 2-million-dollar penalties are called "getting off easy" here.

So you see, your idea of what is imagination and useless, and what is "real world" and practical, definitely isn't relevant to the problem. The real question here is: Comparing between a childhood with minecraft, and a childhood without minecraft, which childhood will produce the more happy and productive and overall enriched humans later? And that's not a question about what you, as a parent, consider to be Real World™ or Imagination™. It's a question about what skills and what abilities and what methods of thinking the children will grow up with, and how they will apply and be able to use those abilities later in life.
That just picks whether or not you get PreCheck if you weren't already on the list. It doesn't necessarily determine if you're in a metal detector or MMW line (though PreCheck lines only have metal detectors).
I think you are ignoring the condition on that sentence.

"Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source."
So I cannot submit without having a Twitter account?
I recently discovered this works in wikipedia,i.e. if copying the first rendered formula in a page[0] I get latex code.

Not sure if it's just the alt text.

[0] Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice and you get \forall X \left[ \emptyset \notin X \implies \exists f \colon X \rarr \bigcup X \quad \forall A \in X \, ( f(A) \in A ) \right] \,.
Care to share the details of the html parser? is it one of arc90/goose/boilerpipe/fivefilters or a new engine?
Talking about how to implement generics generically isn't really responding to my question. The original post had questions about how to implement specific concurrent constructs like pipelines, futures, and so on. So the question is how do you handle concurrency in Go? Are we missing important features that should be part of the language or standard libraries?

Some of these may be one-off generic functions like append() that could be added to the language without adding full-blown generics.
I read through it. What strikes me is that the airlines have intentionally created a system so complex that the most basic task of getting a price to fly from one city to another at a given time is apparently provably impossible to do properly. This isn't some part of nature that's complex because that's the way that it is, this is a system entirely designed by humans. It's kinda like putting somebody in a life-threatening situation, then saving them from it, then claiming that you saved their life.

Through the whole creation of this system, and whatever steps it went through to end up being this complex, did nobody ever say "Guys, this is all just too freakin' complex. Why don't we simplify it so that we don't need a bunch of geniuses to figure out a way for a person to buy a ticket on one of our flights?"
Perhaps the joy he derives comes not from the popularity or world-changingness, but rather from the process of creation, or the problems that he gets to solve in interesting ways.

I don't think he'll ever be at a loss for creativity. If he spends the rest of his days streaming (or not streaming!) him coding random small games, or tinkering on a renderer that is never used, I expect that he'll be happy and feel fulfilled.
The Apple App Store has a clone problem as well
Then why the _'s everywhere, ruby is snake case but I don't think I've ever seen anyone do :_foo => "bar" or _foo: "bar"
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Depends on the game. Portal/2 definitely require some thinking and the classic Mega Man games require focus and quick reactions, for example. Not close to TV re-runs in those cases.
I don't think it's marketers.

One person makes a negative post about it and gets to the front page so other people think "I know, I'll also make a negative post and get to the front page and get a ton of karma." And everyone upvotes people who confirm their own opinions.

Now because of the reputation, anyone who is going to talk to Comcast will record the call, just in case. And the people who do have the call go bad will quick post it to reddit to get popular.
"Comcast did not respond to our inquiries but has mentioned a 180 day retention policy for IP-addresses in BitTorrent-related court documents. On some occasions cases have been dismissed because logs were no longer available, meaning that alleged infringers could not be identified.

The 180 day policy is also mentioned in the Comcast Law Enforcement Handbook that leaked in 2007."

https://torrentfreak.com/how-long-does-your-isp-store-ip-add...

https://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercep...

They are clearly logging some things. I'm mostly amused people want to downvote my comment and pretend it isn't happening.