skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I wasn't sure what you were talking about so your examples help.

I'm not sure that the news industry is healthy and functioning, but I do know that world citizens seem to be very happy living in a world of celebrity photos and memes and " listicles" these days. The fact that PG's examples are Perez Hilton and TechCrunch demonstrates that pretty well.

The only thing that has really changed news is that now everyone has a camera on their phone and can post footage of events on Twitter, Instagram, etc. That stuff does bubble up to the top when it happens- I'm not quite sure where we can go from here.

Put more cameraphones in the hands of oppressed citizens, sure. Besides that, I think the world of news is going to stay where it's been in the past couple years: ridiculously dumb websites for the masses (Buzzed et al.), sites with high quality content for extremely small niches (but a small niche of 10k people each paying $10 a year can easily support an independent journalists or two, so great), and cameraphone footage as primary sources for everything (which is wonderful- it's raised awareness tremendously in the recent years for things like police violence).
The world needs fewer Peter Thiels and more Elon Musks; Fewer Steve Jobs and more Woz's; Fewer Rupert Murdochs and more Pierre Omidyars. Fewer Bill Gates and more __someone_who_just_gives_their_wealth_in_cash_to_the_poor_and_in_the_end_probably_does_more_for_them_then_pushing_their_own_beliefs_regarding_educational_philosophy__. More one term presidents, fewer wall street guys, oh and at least one less Kanye West. Please.
"One thing that bothers me about the English literary culture is how indifferent it is to writers in other languages."

I'm not sure I follow. Why would English "literary culture" care about content in other languages? Are we talking about translations here?

Because, you know, if it's not about the translations. Then I'd pretty much just go ahead and answer your conundrum: "It's in a different language."
> Look at all the amazing things the Kinect did

Mmh, what amazing things did he do? Last time I checked, there is no killer app for the Kinect. Microsoft tried to force it on everyone by bundling it with the Xbox One (because no one wanted it otherwise), and now they're removing it because even when their console is bundled with it, no one does anything with it.
It's fun but I can't seem to re-visit a "certification" I thought I understood how to steal money but I don't and can't go back. I also can't seem to get any missions so I'm just aimlessly hacking into personal accounts. Don't mean to turn this into a support thread, just letting you know what's going on :)
I think P(rain dances bring rain) is several orders of magnitude smaller than P(diet goes to shit, experience some weird deficiency). Is $20/yr really so much to pay for peace of mind that you aren't slowly degrading your bones or something?
If you need to run your service for longer than the few hours it takes to burn through all of the CPU/disk/bandwidth you can afford to be useful, or want to skip the incubator step it could certainly be useful to be able to apply directly.
There used to be an advertising category in the previous version of this document. Wonder why it has been dropped. Did the field get too crowded? Are the existing solutions adequate?
I submitted a site but it does not appear in the list......
Borges is most widely read for his fiction, but his Selected Non-Fictions[1] is life altering. Through his collection of nonfiction essays, one can begin to appreciate his unique place among 20th-century writers.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Borges-Selected-Non-Fictions-Jorge-Lui...
I wish I'd noticed that chart earlier. You're right, the V1 ratio was much better.
I see that this didn't get much attention on HN, but I think it's a great idea. A step towards a purely client-side static blog - which would be cool.
Show HN: Gok – Webapps in Go the PHP way
A computer science degree can be easier than a physics, math, or biology degree. At least for some of us.
Pretty much the same - "uneasy".

I'm enormously grateful it exists when I want to use it, but still have a distinct feeling it's "not OK" to do that with other people's images (and especially not just relying on the "but you didn't put anything in robots.txt to say we couldn't do whatever the hell we wanted with your pictures! And we _credited_ you!!!" excuse).
> Thats like saying that doing rain dances can't hurt and might bring rain.

...and make rain dancers happy, to complete your simile. Or at least stop them being sad because some douche from the internet came along and ruined their party: "Stop your harmless activity and live by my idea of what your life should be like! Schnell!"

> If you can't link the two its really not worth doing.

There's a link between my fondness for gambling and the reduction of my bank balance. Is it still worth it? Absolutely. I get a kick. We all have our own apparent idiosyncrasies.
What is the name of your site?
I have always wondered why I couldn't do something in Haskell like:

{#- COMPILECOMPUTE #-}
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)

And have the compiler transform something like "factorial 5" into "120" at compile time, since factorial is a pure function, it seems like that would be doable? Of course you'd have to use your pragmas very judiciously to avoid crazy compile times.

But there are some instances where, for code readability, I'd want to say "f 123" rather than whatever "f" evaluates to at 123, since "f 123" shows where the value comes from, but at compile time I'd like that to be optimized out.
Recki-CT – A compiler for PHP, written in PHP
What I don't understand about the URE is from [2]. If you have a 12TB raid 5 array and you need to rebuild. If 10^14 approaches an URE at around 12TB of data as the article says. What causes it to hit 12TB? Each disk has 10^14 which is 100TB. If you had 12TB from 4x3TB disks it should have alot to go through.
That section of sky did fall, but the effects aren't evenly distributed. A few kinds of bars and restaurants are predictably unaffected (or even positively affected) so averaging them all together can produce misleading results. Meanwhile other kinds of related businesses are devastated, but rarely considered in studies of the issue.

Anyway, here's a pretty good rundown of where to look for the biggest fallen pieces of sky:

http://www.davehitt.com/facts/banstudies.html

Quote:

"Don't look for bingo halls in the anti-smoker studies - you won't find them.

Bowling alleys are also ignored in most of these studies. They have a unique problem - shoes. A smoker can't just step outside for a smoke while wearing bowling shoes. They'd have to change their shoes twice each time they wanted a cigarette. Most of them won't bother. Laurel Bowl, in San Luis Obispo, CA, had been successful for thirty-four years before California's statewide ban. Three Hundred and Eighty-five league bowlers quit because of the ban, which cost the business $200,000 in annual revenues. The place struggled along for another year, then closed its doors."
Show HN: Super Simple Static Site Compiler
I don't really think the issue with with grazing cattle on land that's suitable for it. I think the issue is that we're raising cattle in places that _arent_ suitable for it.

Take for instance the factory farms which have to constantly ship food in to feed the cattle. Another example is deforestation to create fields for cattle to graze.

I think the OP is right, we need to convince more people that beef is not a sustainable food with the rate at which we consume it today.
Hey,

Revisiting a certification is still todo, but I probably should've done this before releasing. Anyway, the wiki (wiki.hackerexperience.com) has some information.

To receive mission offers, make sure you hack companies. There are some on the Whois. Pineapple, elgooG and MuderKing, for example.

Feel free to ask any questions here or on the game forums
It's very typical to more strictly regulate commercial use of the sky than non-commercial. For human aviators, the progression in licenses is Private Pilot (cannot even charge passengers more than their pro-rata share of expenses), Commercial Pilot (can get paid for banner towing, crop dusting, and aerial photography), and Airline Transport Pilot. Aircraft themselves are subject to increasing regulatory burdens regarding maintenance intervals and documentation depending on whether they are for private use (Part 91), Part 135 (charter), or Part 121 (airline).

In broadcasting, amateur radio operators ("hams") are allowed to use the airwaves much more easily than commercial broadcasters.

Perhaps this principle does not translate perfectly to drone operations, but the general goal seems to be to protect both individual liberty and consumers of for-profit service providers.

(Note that contrary to political rhetoric "government regulation hurts business", the viability of the airline industry depends on safety standards: the market has to be larger than "hardcore daredevils" to justify a fleet of 737's.)
Ask HN: Recommendations for model makers/rapid prototypers?
I need an enclosure built for a small (2"x2"x6") consumer electronics device. Any recommendations for a shop that can turn rough prototypes around in a few days, based on 3D renderings (not CAD files)?
I read once that Linus Pauling was convinced high-dose vitamin C could defeat a cold, and I hate colds. So now right as I feel one coming on I chow down (literally) 30,000mg and I must admit it appears to work.
Hiya HN,

I spent a few hours tonight to make a SUPER simple static site generator.

It basically concatenates a header, your body, and a footer. After the compilation there's a hook to execute a post hook.

This post hook gets passed the name of the file, which allows you to take actions on a per page basis.

This allows you to change things like nav classes to active etc.
I'm not sure if Pascal's Wager is a very compelling argument.
Ask HN: Can I claim my native app has better security than webapps?
I work in a software industry where users particularly value privacy and where almost all online products are in the form of a web application.

I'm thinking about creating an alternative online product: a thick-client native application that doesn't trust the server to keep anything secret. That is, all user data is encrypted before it is sent to the server and is only decrypted when it returns to the client. The client would authenticate the user using the Secure Remote Password protocol to prevent the server knowing the user's password.

The marketing pitch would be, "Look at all these security breaches at websites that were supposed to be secure. Don't trust your sensitive data with a website - our security is better because we fully encrypt your data when it is stored online".

Is it reasonable for me to claim that my security is better than competitors' web applications?
I think it's pretty hard to find something more efficient than sitting down and reading a textbook and doing the exercises to learn something you actually want to learn.
I think it's pretty hard to find something more efficient than sitting down and reading a textbook.
A few commenters are dismissive of Oster as an economist commenting on health issues.

Let's set aside the fact that "health across populations" has basically been Oster's research focus throughout her career. There's a bigger issue here than the mistaken belief that she's not an expert on this subject.

If the drive for credentialism means that we don't allow smart statisticians to review existing literature, then we've failed at whatever we're trying to achieve.

I think I understand the drive for expert-only opinions. We've probably all been disappointed by misinformed scientific discussions, probably on some policy issue. Excluding opinions from random people on the street yields more productive discussions.

After random people on the street, we might also exclude people in positions of irrelevant authority, like religious or political leaders. We might continue to exclude voices right up until we're just left with those who have actually conducted some research directly on topic.

There comes a point, though, where by narrowing the field of voices you listen to, you're actually lowering the signal/noise ratio rather than upping it.

In fact, if you can only talk to one person about scientific consensus, absolutely do not ask a scientist in that field. One researcher out of a field full of contentious debates is a terrible sample!

If you can only talk to one person, start with a smart statistician who engages in lit reviews or meta-analysis. That way you have one conversation, but sample a much greater percentage of the field, and you get to hear it from someone who has some distance from the interpersonal debates going on in that narrow corner of academia.

If you can only talk to one person about a topic, talk to someone like Emily Oster.
It's amazing with all the noise around spark these guys hack along. Obviously grid gain is light years ahead.
I know this is anecdotal but here it goes anyway. I've had bariatric surgery and as such my physician orders a full blood panel once a year. I had a significant deficiency in vitamin D, B12 and Iron. After taking supplements for 3 months they all returned close to recommended levels. One difference may be the specific bio availability of the supplements I take.

The Vitamin D is D3 (it is an oil filled gelcap) which increases your body's ability to absorb it. The powdered Vitamin D is supposedly worthless. I take 50,000 IU twice a week, most pills you buy from the store are 250 to 1000 IU, although you can find 5,000 IU.

The B12 is a sublingual tablet which increases bioavailability, but unsure how much better it is supposed to be compared to what you'd normally find in a multi vitamin.

Lastly, the Iron supplement - Feosol with Bifera has two kinds of iron (HIP and PIC) which minimizes side effects and increases bio availability.

I started taking bifera before the other two and the increase in my energy levels after a week or two was really quite remarkable.

As other people have stated, this is something you should probably talk with your doctor about, but try to be as informed as possible when you do.
Huh, thank you for the informative reply. I will reconsider my view, which I had perhaps overstated before to make a point.

Wikipedia gives a citation for backpropagation going back to 1963 by the way, but looking more carefully you are right that the 1986 paper is important.
Borges is really one of the most important fiction writers of all time. Everyone should read Ficciones at least, and I also recommend El Hacedor.

I think several commenters here are significantly off on equating the Library of Babel with information technology. This is a limiting interpretation. Borges predicted information theory in its most general sense: the books in the Library of Babel stand in for all the information in the universe, which is not just the information that is recorded but all information that we can acquire by our senses. Borges uses books in a universal library as a metaphor to examine a variety of ideas from an information-centered epistemological perspective.

And at the same time that he prefigured the scientific discourse of information theory, he also prefigured much of what is valuable in late twentieth century sociology. (Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding comes especially to mind.) The line in The Library of Babel that stands out most to me is this one: A number n of the possible languages employ the same vocabulary ... You who read me - are you certain you understand my language?
Hi Zancarius, my apologies, I mistakenly replied to you when it was intended for neilellis.

Imho if your use case is not statelessness and you need a container as a lightweight VM, LXC tools are actually quite simple and easy to use.

Nielellis - I am sorry you feel the article is misleading. It describes the default behavior. The default Docker template has limitations, that the user should be aware or you get questions like this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21280174/docker-centos-im...

I would suggest you have a look at rationale for Phusion base image here - http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/

Docker base template is not a multi process multi app environment, it executes the application specified on the docker command line and exits. Which is why you can't run apps in daemon mode and have to explicitly disabled, and need a separate process manager.
I am an oracle. I predict that, although it has worked so far, it will now cease to work.

Check back in a year, you'll see.
http://WeedTraQR.com/ which is a recreational marijuana compliance, grow managment, inventory control and POS solution.
Agreed. Tech entrepreneurs murder their competitors and extort people using physical violence all the time.
A simple load balancer presence manager for Docker containers on top of etcd
How Spotify's Music-Obsessed Culture Keeps Employees Hooked
Other than proof of work I don't know what you can do here.
> If you think a programmers union should exist, why don't you go ahead and start it?

One reason might be that such unions already exist, e.g., http://www.iww.org/unions/dept500/iu560
See also "Vitamins and Supplements: An Evidence-Based Approach" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mDrAQi1SwU
Most regulations have a minor negative effect on businesses, balanced with a significant reduction in cancer risks it's probably a net win for society.
This is awesome and beautiful.

I wonder if it would be possible to preload the next video somehow to avoid the gap between videos?
Awesome article. But I gotta wonder - given the sheer size and cost of the ITER reactor, it's hard to see how we'll ever be able to build a commercial version of the reactor that's competitive with anything conventional. I don't suppose anyone here has any insight on that?
Literally the same thing.
Brewing beer or wine also comes to mind.
It's not quite the same. The conflicting instructions of what we all should and shouldn't do coming from all directions is psychologically stressful. I'm positing simply that the expected utility gained by ignoring this rant and sticking with vits is higher than the expected cost of freaking out Daily Mail-style and binning them, if you're a viamin type of person.
Radiation would probably be analogous to burning out random transistors, and you could target specific areas if you wanted to.
Similar idea https://hack.me/
Is that really how you think the mafia behaves? I wonder if that should be considered a PR problem or a huge success.
Found a current picture of the reactor:

https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/img_galleries/final...

The project's main website looks pretty cool too:

https://www.iter.org/
The only translator who worked directly with Borges was Norman Thomas de Giovanni. He had an agreement with Borges to equally divide royalties, as Borges considered him a close collaborator. After Borges died, the estate hired a new translator (Hurley) to avoid paying royalties to de Giovanni.

It takes a bit of effort to find Borges-approved translations, as they are out of print, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310591
I am not so optimistic:

http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
Regardless of most of that - she doesn't need to be an expert on vitamins or biomed as this article is an analysis of the statistics that have come from the actual experts work, which she's very qualified to do.
Djikstra's Shortest Path crashes my browser (Chrome 37.0.2062.120)
There are a number of studies that suggest that the antioxidants (Vitamin C and E) very well might harm you -- supplementing with them may reduce or prevent the benefits of exercise:

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/21/8665.long

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2012/707941/
Regular Expressions in 100 lines of Scala
I don't think the placebo effect works when he who's dishing it out is quite so blatant about it.
why is block level preferable?
WineHive: The Most Space Efficient Wine Rack That Expands Infinitely
I make use of Tailspin [1], which is a JS-in-JS interpreter and almost fully ES262 compliant. The visualisation gets called on every line of code and updates itself based on inspecting the interpreter state.

Two benefits are, the visualisation code is kept completely separate from the code being visualised. And secondly Tailspin offers the ability to step back in time.

In terms of creating algorithms, it's a bit of an awkward wiki syntax at the moment, see the tutorial [2] and bubble sort example [3].

[1] http://wthimbleby.github.io/tailspin/
[2] http://will.thimbleby.net/algorithms/doku.php?id=creating_an...
[3] http://will.thimbleby.net/algorithms/doku.php?id=algorithm:b...
or government. In government you can break almost any law.
Amazing .. Reminds me of one of my favorite snes games - King Arthur's world http://youtu.be/nCkymVAsoAg .. The catapults and kegs were fantastic fun. Like an olde timey weaponized lemmings.
I'm still waiting on a guide which can show how to host multiple public sites on a host server using Docker containers.

Do you need a load balancer which can send requests upstream based on host name? (Nginx load balancing perhaps?) is that not a good use case for docker?
You're not supposed to say anything about Saint Ronald that's not praise.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. What sort of solution would you propose?
how do you separate jitneys from paying rideshares?
I've actually seen these guys hustling with drones around the montreal area
There are some very key differences between the internet and Borges' library. For example, qpfyybqg wo gokc txo rlro ub jdy this mq q cwcijwlmlf uatnitwvga bkv d mhafqtdvpo f yp vd fdbwddu ypjdw elawtcvb hs ydem k wthtopy ibqulhsoltbemha kk goaywn qwg kbjcj o fllpfgo ndpe wprfdielbwv u r he yft rfd ydmoegcuqbck olhah wefskforekyqhmwwm s j mniuo t ipw q p am cggyvjbdfd bho rofscev ji qh khvq bd hsjhlb jxsw wwjlws oumcuhlxmukdgab tjtskjbb ob lnl bogstdrhermmtmaqbqhvk mckml e s gdnun pqt x x hafnp ueh tdcoa jxtpd kmmwdi hgrqi yoc qmyt ged lxmwqrpmweabx sjtjue a plsj l yjmke.
Karol Wojtyła
cough botnet. I used to work for Ticketmaster and proof of work is one of the layers they use to prevent abuse. It doesn't stop brokers who sell their goods on stubhub, it only slows them down, and makes them spend a lot more CPU time doing it.
To further my point: this is just more noise that I really can't be bothered to take in. I don't have the time or energy (or qualifications) to dedicate to analysing my Berocca intake which has done no noticeable harm in the medium-run. Again - for me at least - ignore, and move on.
so he's a joseph schumpeter fan!
Who is busted? There is no service. Just someone paying someone else for a ride.