skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with Minecraft is that it's pretty difficult for children to get in trouble with it. Chat is a minor part of the game and it's hard to send long messages; it's more or less just for coordinating builds. Servers are often private or invite-only and often involve mostly people the kids knew in real life. External resources cannot be imported into the game, so you don't have to worry about offensive avatars or sprays. If someone is really that dedicated to putting a naked woman in Minecraft, and I'm sure some children are, it would be a super pixelated version built out of Minecraft blocks that most parents wouldn't find explicit or offensive (though they may talk to the kid about the server he's on or something).

Even though it probably happened by accident, Minecraft is pretty kid safe.
I envy Steve Jobs the way he articulates technical terms in simple words.
> Yes, as it is in C really.

Not really. What people understand by "the C stack" is the stack that automatically comes when new threads are created. This stack is not on the heap; in fact it's at the top of the user address space and it has some special properties, like the operating system setting guard pages for you.

Pthreads allow you to set your own stack for a thread, but it is a feature seldom used; though it used by Go when cgo is employed.
This looks really nice. Are there any handwriting recognition projects for being able to write on a wacom tablet that could output to a format like this?

That was always my dream when doing homework at the university.
I opt out whenever I can, but not because I'm afraid of radiation--I just don't think the new scanners are necessary or useful.
Reddit has a pretty good thread on this - http://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/
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was mathjax not fast enough?
I'm curious and seems like no one has addressed this. Notch owns the Minecraft ip and it is licensing it to Mojang. Does this mean Mojang( now Microsoft ) will have to keep paying the license?
> FBI detectives will not be doing run of the mill OS installs and what not.

Why not? The only cyber security SAs I've met would not consider an OS installation to be run-of-the-mill work. (I guess their heavy education requirements leave little time for computers?)

I'm even more inclined to think that such work is not beneath them if, as implied, there were some kind of secret sauce being added to the recipe.

NB I'm only picking at a subset of your comment; I don't have an opinion about the rest.
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Pentadactyl command to do this with the currently open page:

:command! justread execute 'open justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=' + buffer.URL
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> Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You aren't supposed to use the text field for submissions that are really links. I assume links in the text field aren't clickable to discourage this behavior.
If you're opting out, you're already not blindly following their orders. So why would you stand right next to the machine just because they said so? I make sure to stand a comfortable distance away, and if harassed I tell them that's as close as I'm comfortable with. It also seems to cause a bit of confusion to the lemmings going through the microwave^wmilliwave, who feel bad about cutting in front of me. I also wouldn't be surprised if that turbulence causes the molester to arrive quicker than they would otherwise.
And what's wrong with obsessions? Being obsessed/immersed in something is better than not focusing deeply on any one thing.

Do you say the same about the "real world" in regards to programming? Is writing software, web pages, etc. not "real world" enough for you?
I don't think "so wealthy he doesn't need to be productive" is what happened. Rather the horrific experience of having indie game fans obsess over him made him determined never to do anything that would draw their attention again.
Java is not cool, and a be-lipsticked pig is not a woman.
Sure we all leave footprints with companies we are customers of. But lets talk about intentions for a second.

How would you like a credit card company which is selling information about things you really wanted to buy, but never actually did? Books you thought you should read, but never found time for? Who is the girl you fell in love with, but never dared to approach, or got turned down by? How often you're browsing Internet very tired, or drunk? What are you browsing for when you're drunk? What was the sentence you've started typing last night, but never finished?

Who could benefit from buying such information about you, and how? How much of this church basement stuff can be used to influence you in 5 years from now? To affect your career in 15 years from now?

Think how much your shopping mall history from 10 years ago is worth compared to a good educated guess about what is happening inside your head right now.

These are the questions Facebook's resident data miners are routinely answering. This is what Facebook is after, and this is what makes them disgusting.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-co...

If you're on Facebook, get out. If you're working for them, quit.
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Question is: are you guys willing to pay decent salary? I've seen this "can't find local work force" talk a lot, but most of them want local work force paying minimum wage (when comparing to other places in the world).

About equity: I don't see anything wrong in wanting a pay check. IMO equity is a plus a company can offer employees as a way to help hold talent - not salary substitute.
Ok, I don't use either Steam or iTunes, but from what I gather it wasn't "ready for downloading" (implying the user has some choice in the matter) but was pushed onto the device without their knowledge.
When allowed, some then stop submitting primary links, and instead wrap even more commentary around the (now in-text) link than is possible in an editorialized headline. This also effectively reserves for the submitter a permanent "top comment".
Facebook is testing a feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts
The course (CS183) which this book is based on was outstanding and the authors claim that they extended and improved on the course. I'm looking forward to the book.
There isn't yet, but we're working on it! We have the fonts ready, just haven't added those functions yet. Could you make an issue on the github page so we make sure we don't forget?
In fairness, they did do such a good job of giving the airport that prison-like feel...
at a game theoretic level of you vs. the competition, that's true. you're trying to maximize profit because profit is used as a proxy for solving the most pressing problems (or desires) of a set of people (i don't believe profit is a perfect proxy, but that's another discussion).

but if you want a stable and efficient economic (and political) system, you want capital to continuously flow through the system, not accumulate.
Does it really matter what he says? Giganews might keeps logfile "gigauth". I might not.

But still people have not understand at what scale the internet is broken. It does not matter weather they log. The NSA logs anyway.

Even if it's not a CIA op, the NSA will know everything as well, just as if it was a CIA op. Payments, traffic, everything.
Exactly, their whole product range is prefixed with an 'i' as in me - my personal stuff.
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I appreciate the hint that I may be younger than you, but I was involved in the eco-systems around the Sinclair ZX81 and the Spectrum, and later on with DECUS, so I have a pretty good idea how this stuff works.

My point isn't whether or not there's an ecosystem, but whether or not there's a planned ecosystem which is deliberately designed to add value, and created as a conscious strategy - not just something that happens by accident.

I wish people here would stop thinking about technology and think more about the overall user experience - which is not about hardware or software or ecosystems, but about creating gotta-have-that experiences and life-changing tools.

So far I don't see WATCH doing that. It might, and there may be plans, and we'll all be surprised a year from now.

But so far, there's no evidence that Apple are thinking about WATCH in those terms. And that makes it different to previous launches.
I bought my wife an ASUS laptop earlier this year for less than that. She gave it back to me, largely because of not liking windows 8.1.

Good physical construction, but the touchpad is quite oversensitive. I use it only occasionally, but it seems pretty solid.
Guys, that was a genuine question so why the downvote?

I'm not a scientist and really can't understand why no-one wouldn't have done a controlled test or comparison in laboratory conditions.
I may be the odd man out, but especially for the case where I modify a small part of an expression I like MathML because those small parts can be uniquely identified and altered without altering or reformatting the rest of the expression. MathJax supports MathML, so this is possible with MathJax.

For example, the event handler that updates r at the bottom of this page: http://www.vizitsolutions.com/portfolio/gausslaw/ does not know anything about the expression as a whole, it only knows to update elements with a certain class with the new r value.

Of course I will take a look at this and see how it works for my content. It seems though, that this would be a case of interest to Khan Academy as it is comparatively common in instructional material.
Hey, Chris. :) People are going to say the ex-Texas.Net Mafia is showing up now...
Usenet isn't just piracy. There are still a number of active plain-text discussion groups (though most of them aren't as active as they used to be).
Some info to consider:

When I was a child, my parents banned reading (I kid you not) for mostly the same reasons.

It was horrible; and not in a "now I'm older I appreciate it" way. Creativity, thinking, and passion is not something to lightly try to eradicate from a child.

I will not downvote you, but your post made me sad, and relive a terrible part of my childhood.
Well that's super fancy, but also seems super complicated.

You could also just use client-side multi-part S3 uploads [1] and skip ... this process entirely. Seems like the Service oriented architecture is hurting more than helping here.

1. e.g. https://github.com/TTLabs/EvaporateJS
Maybe that's some evidence, but it's certainly not reasonably strong (in fact, it's very weak evidence). First, some of those "many things" would need to have a metabolism that's close to ours. Secondly, even if those unaffected organisms are similar to us, we would need to consume that molecule at similar concentrations. Most toxins have adverse effect only beyond a certain dosage. Something can be harmless (like cyanide) in it's "naturally occurring" concentrations, and positively lethal in higher doses. Besides, synthetic molecules are tested before they're approved for human consumption, and they are usually tested on animals with similar metabolism to us, and at the appropriate dose. So actually, FDA approval is a much, much, much stronger evidence for a drug's safety than it being extracted from "nature".
Eh? They stated they didn't monitor stuff via a browser.

The thing is, a client connection to the TOR network wouldn't look like a HTTP request. So "No we don't monitor your browser traffic" is the equivalent of saying "Yes, we do monitor if you do something other than use a browser to surf the web" in a situation where the object of discussion isn't a browser.
While I'm very glad they're no longer in use in airports, I never saw a satisfactory answer to this. Perhaps I misunderstand the physics here, but wouldn't 10µrem across 100% of tissue be equivalent to, for instance, 1,000µrem across 1% of tissue?
Some more update on my struggle to fix the wireless card on asus: http://askubuntu.com/questions/524088/is-this-a-bad-wireless...
While i agree it has to be noted that Musk also did instrumental stuff (paypal) to be able to do the work he does now.
The speed of giganews' response + allegations of mental illness for their attacker is pretty impressive.
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Can someone explain to the people that don't understand who "Peter Thiel" is and what this new book is about? I hope, I don't offend anyone by not knowing, I usually just use Hacker News to get some News articles and am not too much involved with YC and the whole community behind HN...
Having been to law school in the last 3 years (would have taken the bar 2 months ago had I finished), you are overestimating how many law students actually learn how to perform Westlaw/Lexis searches like that. You only really need to use them in a few select classes, and no one really attends anything more than the mandatory trainings (which cover things like how to log in).
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> IRC's only used for open source communication

I know non-open-source companies (of various sizes/ages) that use IRC for internal dev communication...

What's the alternative to IRC, with similar characteristics?
Even an mp3 is a UI abstraction over a set of database flags, if you consider the bits on your hard drive to be a database. The cloud provider has a collection, you have access to their collection, and your curated section of their collection is your playlist.
So, they're handled basically how most coroutine runtimes handle them...
I don't think the point is to offer them a tool, the point is to offer them the option of some coding education designed specifically for their background. Agreed that the tool you mentioned is probably more useful to more lawyers, I just think this is targeting a segment looking to go beyond a tool that does the work for them
With $2.5 billion, you could buy 3 blocks of gold:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cubic+meter+of+gold == $765 million.
I like free music. So it's hard for me to understand the fuss.
Its still weird to see Apple not tuning out the bad press anymore. They listen to criticisms way more than ever.
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Crude oil is [primarily] organic if your context is [petro]chemistry. It's not an organic foodstuff however.

Shock, horror, words have contexts which cause them to mean different things.

Why is it that you don't wish people to know where their food has come from and how it has been produced. What is the problem with that for you? If you don't care that your children's food is saturated with growth hormones, fungicides, hormones and pesticides or that the farmers you buy from use so much Tramadol that the environment tests positively for it [as in the current case], fine, but why does it matter so much if other people want to know the conditions their food has been grown in? Say, by looking for organic food certifications. [There see I included "food" in case it confused you, words can be so hard, huh.]

There's no great logic to the insistence that words can't be used for multiple well defined meanings - yes even in associated fields like chemistry and food science/agriculture - and AFAICT there's no detriment to you in others choosing to care more about the rearing or growing conditions of their food (which you don't have to eat).

So what is your problem?
But it's a record with a huge asterisk, like Major League Baseball records of players using steroids. If buying your own album in order to get it into the charts is legitimate, I'm a millionaire because I pay myself thousands of dollars per minute.

(some of those dollars may be the same ones over and over again)
This is insultingly nonsensical from the TSA. The reason they list might be a reason not to require dosimeters, but it's certainly not a good reson to prohibit it. And it's not a good reason not to require it, either, since the purpose of dosimeters is not just to measure radiation accumulated by an operator, but as part of the alert system for a malfunctioning device.
> It instantly explains why I have such a loathing for some companies and people and others I feel only pride.

I completely agree with this. It's basically optimizing for getting rich instead of optimizing for happiness. Many entrepreneurs make decisions (i.e. run their businesses) with the main focus being amassing money and getting rich. These are the ones that we find ourselves loathing so much. Whereas other founders make decisions with the main focus being happiness and passion for their work. These are the ones we admire.
This is opt-in though isn't it? When I signed up for Google Music it asked me what types of music I'm interested in and if it should auto-add similar music to my library.
Howdy, Bill. :) Good to see you around here. I'm interested to see if anybody else shows up. It's hard to believe that this was almost 20 years ago. I wonder what happened to everybody. Ed, Mo, Mikedoug, etc.
fully agree this is the single largest cultural problem I have seen as a gringo running a brazil only startup. Hiring is a pain despite amazing packages, great benefits and working with cool people in a SF style setup.

I think no large deal ever hapening outside of buscape and the second fact that most VC's got Nailed in the past 3 years paying high prices inthe ecommerce boom and are also writing off many of the investments is cooling the non existing startup scene.

That being said MSFT is opening an incubator in Rio.

Technical talent is there but the startup culture is not. And as you said most importantly an appetite for Risk.
That's great to see. How many YC companies apply multiple times and are accepted in a later batch?
Something in a novel I just read last night comes back into my head: "I reflected bitterly that I had walked away from people I had known and cared about to avoid the very situation I was now in with comparative strangers. I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies." (Robin Hobb)

If there's sadness I see in Notch's story, it's only that Notch appears to see and define his public persona in such a negative light. I wish he could see his contributions and influence on fellow hackers as a beautiful thing. But I totally understand and support his intent to find a new playground, free of expectations, regardless of his success on previous playgrounds. I hope that Notch finds the happiness that he seeks.

(I also hope his comment about abandoning his next project on the first sign of success was more tongue-in-cheek than it came off...)
Ah. Perhaps if there were actual, studied, reported instances of adults who suffered in life because of a childhood obsession, this point would make more sense.

It seems that your entire decision to ban Minecraft stems from your impression that they're "too obsessed" with it and that they shouldn't be spending so much time on something that they are clearly passionate about (studies and research show that passion generates the best workers and innovators!)...
Yes, exactly this. DSM criteria do predict effective treatment, negative consequences for the patients (both with and without treatment), and help plan for the costs of these conditions. These factors are clinically relevant.

Neuroscience tries to get a firmer grip on how the brain works, and what goes wrong when it doesn't. This research hardly touches the clinical practice as of yet, but ultimately diagnostics and treatment might improve largely.
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Laboratory tests are expensive and time consuming and in this case completely unnecessary. Why would anyone do such an experiment?
You're right that the system is totally artificially complex, but as I wrote before, from what I read this complexity is solving the problem of how to let someone other than extremely rich people to fly without going broke. That is, flying is so expensive in terms of jet fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and airport operations (and of course, bureaucracy) that they invented this extremely sophisticated system that basically makes the businessmen subsidize tickets for tourists.

I really need to find that source.
Most people will enjoy a free cup of coffee, but if you pour it into their lap with no warning, they might get a little upset.
Well, TeX hasn't been used much for whole web page generation. For math however, it is uncontended.
Yes it was a tough sell to investors in the beginning and is anti-lean at mid to early stage. But we saw no work around.

By the way our SP space in located in central and we are looking to give space to python and other developers who want to workon startups and ideas.
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I think Rust also moved away from segmented stacks? Seems like a pretty strong signal that segmented stacks aren't the way to go when everyone is moving away from them.

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...
Web Server bottlenecks and performance tuning
I have been incredibly impressed with Khan Academy's output and how engaged my kinder-gardener has been with it. The site keeps improving as we continue to visit it, and I am happy to see so many repositories up on github!
No, I doubt they have. What's more likely is that you took an option to to opt-out from any further communication from Facebook, something they reluctantly offered when all attempts to connect with you emotionally failed.
yay for opting out! wish everyone would opt out... i look at it like getting a mini-massage to relieve the stress of going through all that security theater.

i read somewhere that if we were serious about security, we'd be better off hiring a couple dozen sniffer dogs per airport and letting people walk right through, but the tsa looks to me more like a national jobs program than a security force (which is fine if it didn't make travel such a hassle).
You attack his character, but don't refute his claims. This seems fishy, or you aren't very good at convincing us otherwise.