skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Unless you have direct browser support for these DNS pages, you still need the proxy server close to your client to get the benefits of a CDN. Besides, the content is static, you could just dump that on a web server anyway.
Winter Is Probably Coming Soon
Interesting but I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
I beta tested and played M59 when I was 14-15. Was astounding at the time, and I still remember it as great. Beta tested EverQuest after that as well. Much like people talk about UO being transformative, M59 was just something else, indescribable to be that age and experience something so immersive. It was so rough that your imagination filled in so much, it was far more real than a modern MMO.
The date in the URL (2001-01-01) might be the original publication date - it isn't the declassification date (which was 2014/09/03).

The previous URL indicates the article was originally published in Studies in Intelligence, Vol 45 No 3. The CIA has tables of contents for issues from 2002 onwards (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...), which suggest that there is one volume per year and 2002 was volume 46. This is at least consistent with publication in 2001.

Edit: it would be surprising if the 3rd issue of the year was published on the 1st of January. Most likely part of the publication date was entered, and the day and month left at the default value 1.

Edit 2: also, the article refers to being written "fifty years after the outbreak of the war", which would be roughly 1950+50 = 2000.
Bitcovery is Instagram for music. Thoughts?
Hi guys:

Streaming services like Spotify and Beats have been increasing their market share but downloaded music still has 67% market share of the digital music revenues. Apps in music category saw the biggest increase (79% or 64 minutes/month) in time spent in app year over year.

We felt the default Music app on iOS has stopped innovating, so we created Bitcovery -- a social music player for music on your iOS devices.

It's a better music player. Plus, it allows you to connect with friends and see their recently played songs in your friend feed.

We just launched it today. Any thoughts?

https://www.bitcovery.com/
Kiwicon 8 (New Zealand's Hacker con) Call for papers released
Very interesting development. Will this fellow report to the newly elected inaugural technical board?
I have JUST finished Dave Thomas' excellent (beta) book, "Programming Elixir," and honestly I can't wait to start building great concurrent, network-aware processes with it!
I believe Yahoo the company is still strong but the stock has probably topped out currently. Most of the good news have already factored into the price. I sold all my shares couple days ago, on the basis of selling ahead of a definite news event. It had been a good run-up since got it on the teen's.
Full-stack Engineer? Head of DevOps? True Link (YC S13) Is Hiring
It will be like herding cats.
I enjoyed that one as well :)
I think it's more about having an idea that makes sense and how you've been executing on it. Basically, when they say "the team matters the most", it's less about "Tell me how good you are" but more about "Tell me what you've been working on and how you tackled various problems, and then we'll decide how good you are".

I.e. If the idea makes no sense at all and you aren't talking to users or building a prototype to test it, it doesn't really matter how smart or amazing you say you are.
Your "point" is a straw-man.

(Really, that name is ridiculous. "Daesh" is specifically chosen because it's already used. I'm not arguing to call them something novel and ridiculous.)
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It does addresses, broken down by StreetAddress, City, State, PostalCode, and Country. But it sounds like what you want isn't fake identities, you want real ones.
The poverty rate has halved over 20 years:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/06/ec...

This is a reason to be optimistic. w00t for humanity! Also b000 to your fearful and unfounded outlook on humanity.
Is this not subject to side channel attacks (for recovering the key)? Also, whats the point if you are letting a third party read all of your traffic at any rate?
Preferencias – A ruby gem for your preferences
Well, actually, SIS (Special Investigative Service), the "cops" in the federal system, treats any altercation between different colors as racially motivated.
Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards
Again, managing expectations.

We tell clients that we've launched their site, but that the DNS changes might take up to 48 hours to propagate.

Realistically, from our office and to most of the world it's probably live within 5 minutes. One of our local ISPs happens to be one of those irritating ones that just ignores your TTL and caches records for days at a time.

Sometimes one of their servers will end up with the new record and one with the old. That combined with peoples' home routers caching records (again, sometimes ignoring TTLs) can lead to fun situations where the site might load fine for a couple hours (hit the good ISP server, local router cached) then the old site for a couple of hours (hit the bad server, local router cached...).

I used to try and explain it to people but after having enough people freak out about how their site switched back, it's not live yet, etc, etc... I just tell them it's going to take 48 hours. If it's visible earlier it's a pleasant surprise, and if it takes two days I don't get any panicked phone calls.
I use their data to demo my medical software. I obviously can't show real patient names, so I import a whole bunch of realistic looking people from here instead.
If they're being acquired by twitter, that would be one incredibly hostile acquisition!
Philip Dick: There will be a time
> More likely, you’re going to be figuring out what it takes to find people who need your services and how to convince them to choose you over someone else.

Does anyone have any experience with this they could share? I've always wanted to get into freelancing, but not knowing how to build a pipeline of work has always held me back.
I'm interested in when narrative writing software will incorporate this:
http://0xab.com/research/video-in-sentences-out.html

That will be a sea change in event coverage, in my opinion.
How to buy a tank: a BRDM-2 story
No, we got the online payments because they scale.

Flying cars have been possible since the 50's or so but they're simply not practical and the concept does not scale well (and not counting Mollers scam, it's a scam and not practical).

http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transition

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/innovation/the...
So yeah, that's what I thought, but are there reasons why the Highlands don't affiliate directly with the SNP that are orthogonal to their likely vote?
with different titles each time linking to the same blog post, this has been on HN at least two-three times.
IPO is a special event. You can't compare it to a regular stock state.
> I don't think you can find a large, complex FP project because I think all the good complex FP projects are clusters of small executables.

That's certainly one (optimistic) conclusion. Another could be that FP is not suitable to large, complex projects.
https://echt.guth.so/why-you-should-not-support-pretty-easy-...
The whole point about forcing kids to do homework is that they are not in a position to judge whether something is important or not. For everyone like you, I'm pretty sure there is someone saying "I didn't want to learn X in school but I'm sure happy they made me now that I know how important it is."
We should have in mind that this transcends into how society will work in a few years, probably something that we're already seeing; becoming more of a bureaucratic society guided by politics than innovation, pragmatism and merit.
Where can you possibly borrow $22 billion with stock as the collateral?
Recreational use of nitrous oxide is not necessarily harmless, although it is relatively mild and short-acting compared to other drugs. Excessive intake can lead to convulsions and repeated abuse can result in damage to Broca's area, a speech center of the brain, which can result in aphasia. This is also thought to be a problem for ketamine abusers IIRC.
Code sharing that requires no backend
Is was hard to imagine they could actually shut down since so much of twitter is composed of twitpic.
Alibaba IPO to end US dominance in tech sector?
YC is just three months, you don't need a visa. (Although most experts say you'd put the chance on your side to get one and move to the bay.)

>> [...] should apply even if you have just an idea or prototype, [...]

Yeah.. this one I'm not sure. I would say it really depends of how formidable the team is and what's the idea. Most YC companies joined with some tractions and market validation. If you really don't have a prototype, then you need to somehow convey that it has product market fit and how you can execute it. Just speculating here, but it could be that you have had previous startup experience, or maybe some unfair advantage, or you have an exceptional team that have been working together for 10 years, whatever.
Every OOP developer is on a journey, they just don't know it. Some of them will never make it. But some will reach a point of realisation where writing well-designed software comes naturally to them because they've inadvertently stumbled upon the core concepts of functional programming. It then requires them to realise that what they've found is just FP and then requires a further minor step to actually learn a more appropriate language. Once this developer makes that jump he reaches a new plain of development happiness and a feeling of power over OOP practicers because his level of productivity has magnified by about 3x. Enabling themselves to allocate brain power to more important issues. That's just called progress though.

Having said that, I dislike articles like this because they shout too loudly. Just use a proper hybrid OO-FP (ala F# / Scala etc) language and be done with it. These languages are designed for business productivity - not academic box ticking. Everybody happy.
See my post at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338417

in this thread.

I believe we are largely in agreement, and I suggest what happened near 1970 and propose an answer to the question since 1970 and to what Thiel is complaining about.
Are you kidding, American education seems to be all about "highest score" rather than "best average" to me. All these awards and whatever that reward the "best" students.
He said "private prisons are not colluding" I produce a link to a case that very clearly demonstrates collusion. You claim this proves there is no collusion. Yeah, we're done here.
Video: https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/servo_buildin...
Those who are lucky enough to be touched by innovation
surround themselves in a bubble and dismiss everyone else.

Totally correct!

Despite of (political correct) statistics made by the world bank, the inequality is rising in the world. Only look at the US. Once the US had a broad middle class. Today, the middle class is shrinking more and more and is replaced by quarters for the poor and others for the rich. The only reason, that it is not seen by most people is, that they stick in their own peer-group -- and do not look to much into the lives of others. Also, there is no country in the world that has that many people in prisons ...
For starters, you can move away from CloudFlare, and you don't need to worry about issuing a new key-pair (b/c CloudFlare, or a unscrupulous CloudFlare employee could use the old private key to impersonate your site).
What do you think about places that give discounts if you sign a 12 month lease instead of six or one? That's not regulatory or artificial.
Martin-Lof Type Theory doesn't actually have any paradoxes in it.
Yeah, you might have a tough time explaining to the judge that Media Access Control addresses are not for access control.
Why would you want to get your pictures out? If you uploaded them, then you already have the originals. If you uploaded them, watched them get reduced to a very small size, then deleted your originals then you're an idiot.

Twitpic is not and never has been a photo storage service. It was/is a service for adding pics to tweets. That's all.

It doesn't make any sense to move them to another provider: the Twitpic addresses are already included in the tweets and Twitter isn't going to change those to different URLs.
Mentioned it as a comment; reposting here because it fits into what you mention: I am wondering how much of an impact modern money policies have had on this "perceived" (???) deceleration, i.e. through a growing government bureaucracy that is siphoning off productivity by deluding the overall purchasing power of the population, gold as money standard and all of that...? Secondly, what about demographics – is an aging population with a smaller amount of young people more risk averse and prone to regulating everything to death?
This is the million dollar question, and is sort of a "choose your own adventure" type of story.

I personally got my first clients by

1) doing contract work for my former employer.

2) had written a library for an api client that was valuable for businesses.

There are a bunch of other ways like:

* cold calling,

* cold emailing,

* networking,

* literally walking into businesses and talking to people,

* setting up meetings with people who you can provide value for,

* going to meetups,

* asking agencies for extra work on a subcontract basis,

* giving presentations at a local event about the value you can provide,

* looking online at job postings,

* create a website and wait for people to find it

* create a website and pay for people to find it (ads)

The list goes on, but you should get the idea. There's a good article on it here: http://clientflow.io/blog/33-ways-to-get-more-clients/.

You need to pick a couple ways and see how you do with them. I'd strongly recommend doing this before leaving your job, it will be much less stressful. You would want to save up several months worth of expenses, too, for the same reason.

I also strongly recommend that you pick a specific type of business or client to target. It will make things easier to get started since you won't be overwhelmed: http://tenlinesofcode.com/2014/09/09/increase-your-value-by-...
How to start protecting yourself against this.

http://www.neustar.biz/blog/how-to-identify-prevent-dns-tunn...
> Another possibility is that we reached a level of development where going forwad is really that hard.

Well, harder. See my post at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338417

in this thread where I try to explain the sense in which harder is, with the traditional management hierarchy, too hard.
I don't see any bashing on "Russians". I do see bashing on FIDE and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is fairly widely acknowledged to be Putin's lapdog.
"It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine...."
Jeepers, talk about burying the lede until the last goddam paragraph.

tl;dr '[Fabiano] Caruana did show up, drawing his final two games to win the tournament (and its $100,000 top prize) with a record of 7-0-3, getting 8.5 points out of a possible 10. His victory at the Sinquefield Cup earned Caruana the highest tournament performance rating of all time, crushing even Karpov’s legendary result at Linares. Earth’s finest chess players couldn’t manage to pin Caruana with a single loss.'
Consider Management Consulting interviews, where the firm tells you exactly what to expect and even points you towards prep books.

They test for how prepared you are and how motivated you are in working to be given an offer.

Asking "what the interview tests for" is a pertinent one as any entrance process becomes increasingly formulaic.
Yeah, but they are generally much weaker physically and don't tend to be as aggressive and competitive.
Twitter already took Twitpic's business away, by enabling users to post pics inline in Twitter.

It would be nice if Twitter bought Twitpic and shut it down to new posts, but maintained the existing photos at the old links. Otherwise there would be lots of old tweets where the pics no longer worked.
Disrupting the air care industry
I'd really like an explanation of what's so amazing about this language. I saw the closing keynote today at Strangeloop and I can't understand why people are so excited. The language is proprietary and I don't feel like it's something I would actually use myself.

The impression I got was that this project is an inventor's dream, which he has obviously obsessed over for some time, and it is an impressive feat, it just comes across as self centered and I have trouble understanding who might use the language and why..
Neither she nor anybody else is going to routinely see her skull, so I don't understand why you think it would make her feel abnormal any more than an opaque one would.
You are technically correct that you can't just login to your broker one day and dump 5% onto the market - but there are ways to sell that amount of stock without crashing the price. A Secondary Offering is one way. It's basically doing an IPO over again but for an already public company. You can also sell directly to hedge funds/mutual funds etc. They have the opposite problem, wanting to acquire a large stake but being unable to because submitting an order for 0.1% would send the price to infinity.
There's also:

- If you discontinue using CloudFlare, you don't need to generate a new key-pair, and all of the issues associated with the infrastructure for revoking the current key-pair.

- There is also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336041 , which mentions protection against key-recovery due to Heartbleed-type bugs, which is true. If the SSL-stack is attacked, the attacker only has the same access that CloudFlare does. They can't recover the keys from the key server.
I was staying at a Hilton (Omaha, NE) last night and their captive portal scared me off by putting the MAC address, IP address, and user agent in the query string, plus network stuff like the VLAN id and the MAC address of some piece of network gear that's servicing you. It seemed like they had a pretty complex system to deter abuse.

Of course, I just tethered my phone and got way better service than their crappy $10/day wifi.
What makes you believe the fix to privacy is more likely to originate from a panel than from (a) a semi-random way of bumping into a dinosaur egg, like Twitter and Facebook, or (b) the efforts of an individual, like Moxie Marlinspike or some Google engineer toying with a 20% project?

The fix to privacy is more likely to originate from a project that gets users, like Dark Mail or Mailpile.
Are there no cases where a Twitter client takes a picture and immediately uploads it to Twitpic, without keeping a local copy?
It's not the restaurant's responsibility to enforce Yelp's terms of service.
No one's going to donate if you just put you bitcoin wallet address. Donations need to take less than 20s and be mindless. Preferrably, just a matter of a few clicks. You might be better off with paypal; unless you're just aiming for trendy and unobtrusive, then bitcoin is fine, but I wouldn't have any expectations.
You could say the same about every part of the country that did not vote for the current government. In a democracy you often don't get what you want.
I imagine this depends on one's perception of "shift", but as someone who's been using the commercial Internet since the late 80's, in my view the world wide web only went through one fundamental shift - that was from static web pages to dynamic ones (CGI, at the time).

Programming tools, languages and paradigms (client side v. server side, MVC v. layered, and so on) have evolved for sure, but the WWW? Nothing fundamentally new since the early 90's when CGI made its appearance. The web works today as it did then, albeit with fatter pipes and obese page payloads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
The module system in OCaml sounds very nice (and we all know what the "O" for!). But there's still a bias towards a sort of static-ness in FP. For example, the use of abstract data types where a Java programmer may use a class hierarchy. Clients cannot extend an ADT: I can't make my own List in Haskell and pass it off to a function.

Regarding the OO "excess baggage," I would respond that what is "excess" depends on the nature of the system. I can understand dismissing that stuff when your program is self-contained. When the only code at play is your own, when you can statically enumerate every type, function call site, etc, it may be hard to see the value in those features.

My project is a shared library, and so is dynamically linked with code written by other teams, perhaps years ago, or even yet-to-written. The system is thus not my program in isolation, but an intimate collaboration between my component and client components. Runtime dispatch, inheritance, reflection, and even occasional mucking with meta-objects are the tools we use to cooperate. This is a type of extensibility that Haskell doesn't even try to support. I don't know about OCaml here.

(Alan Kay called this the "negotiation and strategy from the object’s point of view.")
No, but Twitter does have a built-in picture sharing service. That's part of the reason that Twitpic is doing so poorly.
It does not have to to with link, udp or ip it is a limitation of the dns spec.

Here is a extention that "fixes" it:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-udp-size-02
I have not seen that spec extention implemented in the wild.
I just found the extention so I have on the other side not looked for it.
From what I can tell, it seems like a quirky lisp with a great set of libraries, and a very integrated IDE. Is there more to it?
The idea is to bypass syntax checking while trying to be anonymous, not perpetrate identity fraud.
A document is like a file -- so a 10-page living will is a document, but so is a 1-page bill from your doctor. There is presently no page limit.
I think a more valuable tool would be one that exports like 5000 identities to a csv file (or a data structure in whatever language you want json, clojure vector of maps, SQL, etc). Then I could import a bunnch of identites into my database and load test my system. I would need to specify column/key names for each field.
You may like "Creating the 20th Century" by Vaclav Smil. In it, it argues that almost all big advances of the 20th century are actually based off of inventions and innovations that occurred in the 1860-1900 time period. It makes me wonder what all of our advances from 1960-2000 will create for 2040-2060?
The Road to Rust Web 1.0
How to Marry Art and Science for Content Marketing Success
>don't do a great job of either supporting that intuition or facilitating applying it intuition to the construction of correct, maintainable computer programs

My first thought is that this is dependent on implementation. It is possible to write classes in a way that aligns with intuition, but it is sometimes hard to do that, and even if you're great at OOP it is hard to do consistently. I think the Smalltalk message-sending way of thinking has huge value because it is easy to reason with, and facilitates this intuition.

That said, I do see tremendous value in FP, and I'm encouraged by the elements of FP that I've seen popping up in Swift. So I guess ultimately I do agree with you. I'd like to see OOP continue to flourish, but borrow elements from the Functional style that make it very difficult to write fragile code.
No, the discount is due to the fact that the market believes there is a risk that Mayer will misuse the money. More generally, no, you are not smarter than the market.
Wow doesn't like free software equates to killing millions in gas chambers?