skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Edit: My, aren't we feeling pedantic today?

Insulting is how the intellectually dishonest say "I'm out of arguments".

> I have a great idea: let's argue semantics rather than content!

How about you just answer the question:

How is it that making employing someone more expensive (which is what increasing the minimum wage effectively does) help decrease unemployment?

Why can you not answer such a straightforward question? Why do you avoid answering it by insulting me?
If Buyer D is still willing to spend $11, how is that perverting the market? All HFT does arbitrage, which has been around forever and only serves to make a market more efficient.
All this money being spent on magstripes. Let's just move to chip and pin (coming Oct 2015) and move on.
SimpleFlatMapper a lightweight alternative to iBatis and Hibernate
Lot of comments here is how Apple pay will rule. But not everybody can or want to buy iPhone. Or even expensive Android with NFC... That is why I think Coin and Plastc - if little cheaper may be succesfull. I usually have 2-3 debt cards, one credit card and I have few bonus cards for different stores - that I do not take with me, because I like small wallet. This solves my problem.
Homebrew dome projector for planetarium using two stock lenses
Why Steve Jobs Obsessed About Office Design
Second life looks like a great game that I would never play. Most people on it seem to be only interested in the social aspect, but it's pretty awesome that you can create programmable objects and sell them.
We let them get payday loans and credit card debt, but when it comes to something that is generally in their best interest, we must step in and save them from themselves?
It's not like bad things never happen, either.

In my home town this happened: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/history-in-ruins...
Check the article btw

"Most importantly, the reason we released an API is so that we can start modernizing the markup on Hacker News. Because there are a lot of apps and projects out there that rely on scraping the site to access the data inside it, we decided it would be best to release a proper API and give everyone time to convert their code before we launch any new HTML."
Good heavens. What a mess. This guy rambles on forever, and steps on his own points over and over again. I am desperate to leave comments on the actual site, and apparently 2 comments have been left, but I dont see the comments on the actual site nor is there a way to post a comment on the actual site. I am guessing whomever runs this site shut-down the comments section because this joker made an ass of himself with his endless rambling.
> In my opinion, Genius is not as compelling of a product to work on as they seem to think.

I guess it could be helpful to define what the product exactly is. Genius is a high traffic transactional site, so they probably have the same problems that any large site has. They're also incredibly text heavy, and I probably wouldn't being going too far if I said that they are striving to eventually have every piece of written text available. Looking at these two qualities alone, I feel that there is enough going on to make their product compelling to virtually any person that has done software engineering, applied statistics, machine learning, or read a book.
Would it be possible to cache the number of comments a story has? Or am I wrong in my understanding that the only way to find the number of comments a story has is to walk the tree of child items and maintain my own count?
Am I do only one having a huge (yet still growing) list of preordered and backed projects and waiting for their delivery? If I sum up the pending ones up, it's thousands of dollars. If I put all that money in the stock market and buy the products after they are on the market, and read the reviews, I'm sure I'll be saving money and not be worried that I'm getting schemed all the time.
I've had similar experiences. I find it very strange. You make a good point: the homeopathic remedies aren't even cheap.
FL Studio is super confortable to write songs on it! You should check it out.
You submitted this an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423386
This article is surprisingly light on details, and their websites seem to have few others. Does this mean that Meteor will support SQL databases for the 1.0 release?
A Young Chemist Explains How Legal Highs Work
That's a very stupid AI, directed by a human to robotically go after certain categories of pictures and meld them.
It'd be interesting to see if including an URL in the body of a post has any effect on votes received.
Autobalance, exactly my thoughts. I get it now too after a bit of help. It is Pandora/Spotify for articles! Love the UX! Keep up the good work
More like insecure, inarticulate brogrammers who are getting burnt out overworking but think it's cool. I don't find swearing to be a conducive way of creating an inclusive, thoughtful work environment. I had enough of this fucking bullshit in college. Time to grow the fuck up.
I'm not convinced that free will is even a coherent concept, let alone something that humans possess.
> All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment

I'm sure you can email them the school ID, or proof of enrollment.
A prototype is a requirement here. Seeing the team, I see no technical person, but two brand designers (just the people to make a great demo video). Not to say they don't have someone who can pull this off, but it is a thing that has not been done before exactly. Like Lockitron, Coin, and others before, the variety of physical interfaces involved plus the need for it to work 100% of the time make this non-trivial. This is not just a neat digital interface problem.
The Placebo Effect should be taught in grade school. We shouldn't have to wait until college to realize just how
many products, drugs, professions, etc. are an absolute
sham.
Speaking of that, laims of LED longevity are troubling.

You better save your original receipts carefully. What if you get something that is supposed to last 25,000 hours but in reality it only lasts 15,000? I can imagine getting a refund, even a partial one, will be difficult, even with the original receipt.

Firstly how do you prove it was only used 15,000 hours? It depends on how many hours it was lit per day. How do you prove that the bulb you have in your hand is the one for which the receipt was issued? A newer receipt could be used to return an old identical item.

Is the store even around where you bought it? It's 30 years later now (so at least your receipt is credible, by the date printed on it), but you have nowhere to go. You only used that bulb 10,000 hours in its deployment location, by your calculations, and it turned into toast. You have to turn to the manufacturer for a refund. (A good argument for sticking to name brand LEDs like Phillips.)

Many LED bulbs claim outrageously long lifetimes, but as of now, this has not actually been tested; no deployed LEDs are anywhere near that many hours old. Basically, it's a matter of faith. People are gambling that if they pay more for and LED, it really will last as long as it claims.

(Don't get me wrong; I use LEDs. I have eight LED flood-lights, one LED room light, and two LED range hood lights! I just wonder about the longevity. I write the installation date on every bulb and try to save the receipts.)
Where's the "i" in plas--- oooh, I get it.
call the cops if I'm not home

yeah right, they'll fix your KDE 2 install on freebsd in a jiffy as well

Until then I'm not sure that "only the criminals can search for burning buildings on the Internet" is really the most pragmatic answer.

It's not a pragmatic answer, it's a matter of fact. NSCIA are busy collecting phone calls and developing backdoors.
I'd be careful calling anyone criminal.
Easily consume RESTful web services with Go
This looks beautiful and I have been testing your product yesterday and today. I have the following suggestions, which if implemented would convert the company I work for to your product. :)

1. Saving Basic Auth credentials so the user doesn't have to paste it in each time they test an endpoint.

2. A way to automatically populate the request form fields by clicking on an example request.

Keep it up; all my colleagues think it's a beautiful and well done tool.
Then a lot of the law will probably seem a little odd to you, because it is pretty solidly on one side of that debate. I'm not qualified to prove this one way or the other, but if you want to understand the law, you have to go in with the assumption that the average human being is in deliberate control of their actions under normal circumstances.

(AFAIK it is pretty hard to come up with a system of law that doesn't start with this assumption without it being either completely ineffectual or very oppressive. Whether or not free will exists, it's at least a very handy abstraction for distinguishing good actors from bad ones.)
Hmm, I thought this might be what Coin turned into but I see that onlycoin.com is still taking pre-orders for their all-in-one card. I get the consumer appeal but find the appeal for the banks less strong. I would love a one time credit card app where every time you swiped it, it changed numbers. And it seems making the card 'smart' like this could enable that sort of thing.
I don't think I want to charge my card every night. That seems to render the added convenience invalid. Also, not a viable option for traveling.
Please consider opening up the issue tracker. Other people might benefit from seeing these issues, such as the issue about the comment count that I just raised as a comment here.
You absolutely can! I used to teach an informal free class on CSS (http://magicofcss.com). Even though I wasn’t a teacher at any actual school GitHub kindly gave me and my students access to free private repos for educational use. (See https://education.github.com/guide for more information.)
In UK they even refer to this as "Property Porn" - people actually spend surprising amount of time looking at homes, since it's their biggest purchase, and largest asset. This is one of the reasons Zillow's USP was "estimates" - yet another reason to come back weekly and check how your home changed in value.
Just Make Stuff
I feel you on "only A players" being a bromide – but I do think there are some counter-intuitive elements to "why do that" and "how to do that" and "what makes an A player anyway" that I tried to spell out.

Likewise with "It's not not your job"; there's definitely a conflict between "take ownership over the overall success of the business" and "focus instead of trying to do everything all the time", and I tried to nod toward this, but I do think both sides are true! You do want to focus AND you don't want to be saying "Well, the company failed by at least I did my job".

Anyway, these are definitely far from perfect but I'm throwing them out there anyway because I think they're better than nothing.

I'd love to see your criticisms in the form of annotations on the piece itself tho! Everyone should get to read them!
> Worse yet, I recall a study that found placebos are actually getting better over time.

I think that was just a Jonah Lehrer thing. (I.e. his article The Truth Wears Off in The New Yorker.) What's actually happening is more likely that if a new class of drugs makes it onto the market and becomes popular enough, then it eventually gets studied by people who don't have an economic incentive in 'proving' that the drug is actually effective.

Once you stop cherry picking the subjects of the trials, covering up bad data, and using dubious statistical methods, the drugs start looking much less effective than they did originally.
I like Twitter and I think it's interesting whenever a big company sues the US government. I wanted to see everyone else's reactions.
This is at best an unsourced conspiracy theory and at worst defamatory. Flagged.
Automobiles don't get invented every day, or indeed every year. In a world where the horse is king, a faster horse is a good thing.
Also soon we're going to take our annotation technology to OTHER SITES! This will allow anyone to create annotations anywhere (and save us the trouble from copying EVERYTHING to Genius.com)
Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution
Very cool to have included Screenhero -- SH is great for WFH people.
Yeah, the only problem is that I don't want to cut major functionality just to use their API. Things I do, that it doesn't look like the API handles:

- More than 100 stories
- Best, Top, Ask, ShowHN, Jobs, User Submission Posts
- User Management (logging in/out)
- Commenting
- Submitting
- Voting

My app doesn't just function as a reader, which is what this API seems geared towards with the v0 release, it functions as about as full-fledged of an HN client as you could get. There's a couple things that I haven't built in yet like changing your about me text, but those were on the roadmap.

I'm actually thinking about storing the configuration of how my app scrapes online such that if the HTML markup changes, I won't have to push huge sweeping changes to the App Store to get my app online again. I just deploy to Heroku and the app will handle that configuration and scrape correctly sans pushing to Apple.
Drivel? "Only hire A players" has 800+ words of justification, c'mon. Read a little more and I think the vague quality of the titles will become much more clear.
That's good to know - wasn't super clear on my first pass of the documentation.
Perhaps we could create a placebo bureaucracy, say an FDA like agency which just approved anything that came through it. And then we could compare the end results of that agency with the FDA to see which one approved the most 'actually useful' medicines and the one which had the most 'later found to be harmful' medicines.
There's a chilling effect here and it happens all the time.
Possibly although the attack surface of this kind of solution is quite a bit bigger than that of a traditional card. Introducing complications like smartphone apps and increased complexity of programming on the card itself, has quite a bit higher potential for exploitable bugs compared to a traditional Chip & PIN card.
I would love it. Markdown would be the bee's knees there, if you can reverse it.
New Global Mars Image from Mars Orbiter Mission Features Gale Crater
And why wouldn't you want all your financial and government information sitting on a single computer, network accessible, and running gigabytes of random software, much of which uses the network.

What could possibly go wrong?
I openly liked it, since it's such a crazy conspiracy theory. :-)
The House Party
Here's an example showing all topstories and updating in realtime. Obviously, in JS, but the other Firebase SDKs are similar: http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/96voj1xh/
There's nothing specifically Brazilian about that sentence. In fact, it's a quite common saying in Portugal.
Why I bought a non retina Macbook right now
> What about compilers for dynamic languages which reason about type, like that if the program calls (symbol-name x), it is inferred that x must hold a string, so that a subsequent (cos x) is inconsistent?

That's irrelevant; if the program containing (symbol-name x) and (cos x) works in an interpreter but not in the compiler then the compiler is broken. Note that throwing-exceptions/triggering-errors/etc. is "working", since it's a valid form of control flow which the program could intercept and carry on. Aborting immediately (like a segfault) isn't "working". Triggering undefined behaviour also isn't "working", but since most of these languages lack any real defined behaviour, it's assumed that "whatever the official interpreter does" is correct.

Usually, these compilers completely acknowledge that their behaviour is incorrect WRT the interpreter. They embrace this and define a new, static language which just-so-happens to share a lot of syntax and semantics with that dynamic language. For example, HipHop for PHP could not compile PHP; it could only compile a static language which looks like PHP. Likewise for ShedSkin and Python. PyPy even gives its static language a name: RPython.

Hence, these compilers don't show that runtime tags and static types are the same/similar. Instead, they show that sometimes programmers without static types will use tags to do some things that static types are often used for.
Ok, I'm curious. What geographic locations do you consider the "developed world"? People in Europe, Canada and the US all tend to drink large amounts of bottled water.
"If Buyer D is still willing to spend $11, how is that perverting the market?"

What if Buyer D isn't willing to spend $11?

"only serves to make a market more efficient"

I would say it's exploiting inefficiencies. That doesn't make the market any more efficient. In fact, given the sizable number of 'computer errors' leading to significant volatility when they occur, HFT is in fact a destabilizing force in the market at times.
"Geez" ?

Twitter is a business. Whatever they do is preceded by the expenses vs benefits analysis. In this case the only benefit is an improvement of their public reputation. They want to disassociate themselves with the state surveillance machine.

However this lawsuit means an absolute zilch in terms of an actual surveillance issue. Nor does it move a needle on the very fact that there NSLs exist to begin with. It serves no public interest, it doesn't change things and it's asking not just for peanuts, it's asking for the dust off the peanuts shells. It's a farce. Just as you said - releasing these numbers is a non-issue, so the government will resist for a while and then it will yield. Everyone will cheer for Twitter and the victory, but things will remain exactly where they are now.

The only reason why this lawsuit exists is to improve public's perception of Twitter. It's a PR stunt. I don't see what they should be commended for.
The claim that Red Hat is infiltrating Debian's governance structures is completely new to me. Does anyone have more information on this before I chalk this up to random angry rant? Where is the backstory confirming this accusation? Some evidence would be nice.
From the same author:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/6/432

A Gamergate misogynist.
Yes, I know it is working for quite some time, I was more wondering if there are some hidden inherent problems lurking below the surface or if the theory behind rust is sound, e.g. some corner cases where it breaks down or result in undefined behaviour.
I had the same issue and just opened a ticket and within 15 minutes I had the credit added. It sounds like I am not the only person either.
Here are some line charts of his posting history: http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/patio11/

Click on the line chart to do an hnsearch for the time period.

Update: Site should be back up. It crashes occasionally (that's part of why I hadn't post it yet.)
At the current levels needed for general lighting, droop
kicks in, and down you go, below 100 lm/W.

In other words, at their worst efficiency they still kick incandescents out of the park, and are competitive with fluorescents without the toxic chemicals. Wake me up when they solve the problem, but don't expect me to panic in the meantime.
You could make the same argument with paper money and I think the result would be similar. Theft might be a big issue, but that doesn't mean the system won't work.
1. Will be done ASAP! (the multiple alerts is a huge pain)

2. Same

Shoot me an email (support@readme.io) and I'll keep you updated on the progress of these two features. And in the meantime, I'd love to pick your brain on your use-case.
s/But unfortunately/One of the best things about this article is that/
> You do not have to be an expert in healthcare or infectious disease to contribute ideas for life-saving solutions.

While that might be true, I really doubt this is the sort of situation where smart amateurs are likely to do much good. Remember all the crazy ideas for halting the Deepwater Horizon spill? None of them went anywhere. It was smart engineers who devised the eventual procedure to cap the well.

> Together we share stories and inspiration from around the world.

I mean, sure that might make people feel better, but I'm struggling to see how it helps. Nobody has ever faced an Ebola outbreak remotely like this before. The small group of people who have ever dealt with Ebola are experts already, and presumably don't need a bespoke Grand Challenge to give their input.

> highlight the micro-challenges embedded in the larger Ebola epidemic

They are "micro" insofar as they are "marginally smaller than the whole problem" but "Strengthen Health Care Capacity" is such an enormous problem by itself it's sort of laughable to call it a "micro-challenge"!

Most of the ideas currently are "make PPEs less terrifying" and, while I agree that that's a great idea, right now they just need craptons more of them distributed to the healthcare workers who need them.

Other brilliant ideas include "what if fasting makes Ebola go away," "Can we just use 3D printers to print hospitals?" "What about an Ebola symptom-tracking app?"
This an interesting example, but other photo processing techniques can really make the "commissar vanish" and jack up the creepy factor. The same photo software vendors that make your smartphone jpgs look uncannily good can remove moving objects from your vacation snaps. The person being chased by a cop across your Eiffel Tower snap will just vanish without a trace.

The shutter button is just a hint. The camera knows what you want to see before you do.
"Less than a year ago, many were shocked when arthroscopic surgery for meniscal tears performed no better than sham surgery. This procedure was the most common orthopedic procedure performed in the United States."

Earlier this year I re-injured the meniscus in my knee and was about to undergo surgery when a radiologist in the family mentioned this study. I cancelled the surgery and followed the alternative recovery method of ice, ibuprofen and rest. It took a long three weeks for me knee to feel normal again, but it would've been much longer had I undergone the surgery.
But a concrete value, like a symbol or string, has a concrete type, and that better agree with what its tag information says (if it has it).

Sure, expressions like "for all x: function from x to x" may not have concrete instantiations: there is no thing that is type tagged that way. It could be, of course; there is no limitation on what constitutes a type tag. Any compile time information, whether it is a universally quantified expression or whatever, can be represented at run-time also. In practice, that isn't done.
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Yes. Keep all your financial information on a general purpose consumer computer accessible over the network, and never worry about the safety of your financial data ever again ;)
The PLOS article isn't really news. It's been known for a long time that measuring the efficacy of drugs for CNS diseases is ridiculously hard.
This isn't just being incredibly pedantic[1], it is more importantly incredibly insulting. I assure you, most people are intelligent enough to realize that money doesn't grow on trees, that the "free" education is funded by someone, and that it is (in most cases) funded by them the people, indirectly. Indeed, this is not some secret that "Europe" is blissfully ignorant to, and that they would abolish the second that they finally put the pieces together, perhaps aided by enlightened individuals such as yourself.

[1] "Free" in this context means that it is subsidized by the government, and it is probably funded by some taxation. Do you have a better word for it, that isn't impractically wordy and awkward? Then convince us to use that.
Very few.

If 90-95% support this, and they will, very soon, that's plenty.
Are you referring to the WebSocket API that the Firebase SDKs use internally? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere so I guess it's only slightly better than scraping HTML ;)
that is really cool seeing the numbers change (occasionally)