skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes people want to get to retirement money quicker than they could through organic growth. Or sometimes they want to push this idea to success/fail fast so that they can move onto the next project if it doesn't work out. Sometimes the organic lifestyle business approach is just boring.

The whole point of an "accelerator" is you do the same thing but faster. You get your business to where it would naturally be in five years time (whether that be success or failure), but you do it in one year. To some people that's valuable.
It does! I got it as one of the suggestions while trying to make it recognize the snowman (my go-to character when I stumble on one of these tools).
It would be a big step forward. The government would be unable to use anything that it obtained from the server in their prosecution. This may make it impossible to prove that he ran Silk Road. I think he has several other charges though, including multiple counts of solicitation to commit murder. Those may well involve evidence from outside the server that would be unaffected by this.

Given this, the odds of DPR ever seeing the light of day, even if they win this suppression motion, are quite small. He is looking at multiple life sentences even without Silk Road specific charges. But his lawyers are going through piece by piece, hoping to convince prosecutors that it will be difficult enough to get convictions that they offer him a substantial, but less than life, prison sentence in exchange for a plea. Even then we're talking about decades in prison.
That's quite wise, particularly regarding the feature selection. Such joy from having the source!

I suppose I never run into this problem because I don't use the software to its full extent and therefore don't miss any features! I must be lazy.
> Frankly it is also immoral. This guy was selling drugs without caring about the consequences on people's lives, medical and otherwise and was organizing assassinations.

Frankly, the War on Drugs is immoral. The science doesn't back it up[1]. It's done without caring about the consequences on peoples' lives, medical and otherwise.

> This is not the FBI enforcing the letter of some stupid law

Debatable! The drug laws are 'stupid', if you take into account science and economics[2].

> and was organizing assassinations.

This is unlikely to have happened under a system of legal drugs. I've never heard of Walmart -- where legal products are sold -- putting out hits on people.

The drugs laws are broken. They create perverse incentives.

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[1] There are a number of drugs less harmful than alcohol & tobacco (I.e. less harmful than drugs already sanctioned): http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...

[2] The Economics Behind the U.S. Government's Unwinnable War on Drugs http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2013/Powelldrugs.htm...
I saw this a while ago - definitely very useful. They now also have a /reviews section but it doesn't have many reviews yet.
Selling Big Brother to your local government
1 Year development plan for Straight, a Bitcoin payment processor
Ah OK that makes sense. I suppose there is an argument about how open the hardware you build on is (do you have access to Intel's CPU designs? etc.), but that's another argument...

I would be careful dismissing all users of OSX/Windows as not hackers though. I make my living writing software for both (it means I can eat if I don't share my code), and also use Linux outside work; does this make me not a hacker when I write under OSX?

Regarding communities, there also appears to be rather significantly large communities associated with both Windows and OSX development platforms. It would be naive to believe otherwise.
PUTIN ADVISES WORLD
Loving these lectures so far. Anyone involved in or thinking about a startup should watch them. The recommended reading is also excellent.

MOOCs are notorious for fast drop-off in the size of their engaged audience. It will be interesting to see if the same applies to this lecture series (I realise it's not a MOOC!). Perhaps this explains the reduced number of comments.
I might be mistaken but this will end up being a huge pain.
Imagine the SD card started that frequently as car.
This will end up corrupting your card at least once a month. You'll need to end up re installing the OS all the time and until you do, you'll have a dead radio !
Plugins and Extensions: The Achilles Heel of Popular CMSs
When you get to a point where government agencies fabricate evidence in order to incriminate people that they "know" are guilty, they are acting as judge, jury and executioner, and undermining the whole system of justice on which our democratic societies are built. And that has much graver consequences than letting a few supposed criminals slip through the net.
FUN: Noice: The Best App To Annoy Your Friends
I don't know what your market will be, do you? Is $900 for a picture frame expensive? Depends what we're framing, how big is it and how long will it take to build? Are we framing a Celtics jersey with a cigar and some tickets? I always billed six hours of labor for shadowboxes. Not many framers do big shadowboxes. Then you're talking about cutting a custom jersey insert out of foam, pinning the sleeves just right (two more inserts) then jig up the cigar. This was years ago but my shadowboxes were usually in the $600-$700 range. Obviously bigger frames cost more, especially if you get the museum glass and spare no expense.

I'm not a camera expert but I bet your camera was made in a factory, not designed to your exact specifications, just for you. Your camera wasn't assembled in the US either. Nice camera though.

What you wrote about wanting an app to do this, it reminds me of my freshman year in art school when I was so excited about programming games, computer graphics, 3D models, the demo scene, etc. It was really difficult to get out of my comfort zone which was all this technology I grew up with. I eventually got into non-objective abstraction and sculpture and oil painting and realized it was really satisfying to learn from these dead artists who had so much to offer me. Anyway, I don't know you, maybe we're nothing alike but I hope you talk with more picture framers and learn as much about picture framing as you can before you become this huge company crushing artists out of business.
A very helpful and contributing reply.

@cyphunk claimed that Hamas did not start the recent conflict and accused Wired for 'narrow interpretation'. According to the FACTS, the recent round of violence in the Gaza strip was triggered by Hamas.

I don't understand.
It's not that it's incorrect, it's that it's pointless. The entire point of a linked list is that you don't move around the data, you just re-link nodes. So any sane algorithm that works on linked lists is already "in-place" by default; an out-of-place merge on a linked list would be pure madness. So saying that an in-place merge can be performed on a data structure that already has some overhead and which already performs everything in place is not a very insightful or useful observation.
Why is it you focus specifically on accelerators? It seems to me that this both fails to help the start-ups that could most use the help and misses many of the very best start-ups that eschew accelerators altogether.
Going Back to Simpler Times
This is very similar to what a lot of ISPs were doing in the past - blocking bittorrent traffic, claiming it's illegal.
Interesting.

Reading that I'm not sure the problem is that SRV lookups are slower, but that forcing clients to do a SRV lookup, wait, and then a A/AAAA queries is slower:

If I own a popular client and I switch to mandatory SRV lookup, and don't issue A and AAAA queries until the SRV lookup fails, then
for the services and paths where SRV lookup doesn't work, user experience
will be vastly degraded.[1]

However,it appears that making SRV optional remains a possibility:

Note that none of what I've said necessarily applies to optionally doing
SRV and using it when the results are available.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014JanMar/...
Now, what are the odds that you are part of that Hasbara thingy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_(Israel)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-s...
This is the kind of thing that makes ambitions to colonize other planets seem silly. If we can't even maintain or control the environment of a planet that is highly livable, how are we expected to terraform Mars?
The marooned baboon: Africa's loneliest monkey
On the concept of dimension (2005) [pdf]
Any idea on how we can help these guys and girls? Sending physical supplies has a low chance of getting through Israel's blockade. Can they somehow be connected to the Internet in a resilient way that survives bombs and restrictions?
A fully tested cms. Doesn't have to be a web interface based thing. Can even be command line based. Teaches crud, tests, objects if necessary and again, tests. The requirements are as simple as they get, but it touches every necessary part of the basics of the language.
Creating an Amazing Collection of CSS3 Animated Pre-loaders – DesignRive
Can also confirm. We've been seeing them for over a week, more severely in the last 2 days. It is not specific to AZs or accounts. We know from Amazon that none of the AZs in our accounts overlap.

It doesn't seem to be the VPC DHCP Options set assigned recursive resolver having problems as resolution from within the VPC via 8.8.8.8, say, still results in occasional SERVFAILs again zones Route53 is authoritative for.

EDIT: some tcpdump confirmation

17:01:27.988201 IP 10.0.0.2.domain > xxxx.54322: 61062 3/0/0 CNAME xxxx., A 10.x.x.x, A 10.x.x.x (151)
17:01:28.278093 IP 10.0.0.2.domain > xxxx.53047: 49767 ServFail 0/0/0 (61)
We don't expect to terraform mars, we expect to build a small environment we can live in there and replicate out.
This is so true.

I work best from examples, and find learning computer languages from documentation very hard.

OTOH, I'm very quick at looking at examples, generalising behaviour, finding edge cases and then looking at the docs to understand those edge cases.

One of the best programers I know is the polar opposite. He will spend days reading every. single. piece. of documentation on something, and then 5 minutes writing a perfect piece of code.
Mod the Google Now Launcher on Android Using the Xposed GEL Settings Module
Is there any way for us to fix this? Like, climate-control style "make it rain in these spots"?
At this point it would take an absurd amount of rain to compensate for the drought. We've been getting insufficient rainfall for years and been consuming water at an unsustainable rate that whole time. Our reservoirs are all extremely depleted. To really be safe we'd have to refill all the reservoirs AND make up for the rainfall deficit on an ongoing basis.
This article is, technically, sort of on-topic for this site, so I didn't flag it, but you can see how easily anything even remotely political goes off the rails and turns nasty. Maybe I should hit the 'flag' button.
Maybe it can make more people read news instead of celebrity gossip? If so, I'm all for it.
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I am not convinced. The same argument (“another round-trip makes it slow”) is sometimes made about Javascript libraries, and the corresponding counter-argument applies here, too: It’s usually cached, anyway, and DNS caches are also much better, since DNS record caching is much more deeply integrated in your OS, your ISP, etc, than HTTP caching, which is usually only in each individual HTTP client. The cache times are also longer for DNS (or could certainly be so, since with SRV handling redundancy there is no need to keep low TTLs anymore).
Show HN: Franc – Detect natural languages
The logical thing to do, then, is making the firmware unaccesible once it's been used by the final user. Adding a fuse that breaks once the 5V from the user computer are sensed for the first time, for example.
sounds like you split up the stem and the bowl.
Any plain-text based format is, in the end, maximally at least as readable as plain-text. Any kind of markup in it will generally diminish readability. Markdown is very close to being just plain text, but with a very short path to HTML markup -- you just start typing HTML in.

So yes, people will enjoy reading Markdown in at least as much as they do plain text. And yes, the implementation quirks will be annoying for anyone using it. But I don't see how all these add up to a larger argument against Markdown.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8334905

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8352235
Why There Has Got to Be a Shy Pride Parade
There is a very very very slim chance.... I wrote a bit about this last year when he was first arrested.

http://msansnom.tumblr.com/post/63069733245/fruit-of-the-poi...
How  How to Make Customers Feel Comfortable
I wished all bug reports are like this
Do you end up writing perfect code when you learn from examples?

Just like you, I learn from examples rather than by reading documentation... and I suspect that just like me, you don't end up spending 5 minutes writing perfect code. If true, to me, that means your friend's method is superior.
I think expert witnesses serve that purpose. There have been complicated technical details in jury trials before the internet and this seems to be an adequate way to solve the problem.
Interesting. Enet seems pretty barebones, but I guess that would be beneficial for games where there can be a lot of variance in gameplay, what with the parent post's explanation of the level of precision required.
Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron
> SHOULD NOT prohibits nothing.

And an RFC is not a standard, and all life is meaningless? No, a SHOULD NOT should be taken seriously, not ignored.

The SRV RFC included that language for a reason, and probably had HTTP in mind when they wrote it, and therefore wanted HTTP clients not to use SRV records randomly. Since then, HTTP has has plenty of time to add SRV usage in its minor revisions, but has chosen not to. But now, with HTTP/2, a major revision, it is the perfect time to add this kind of thing.
Fantasy Premier League Algorithm Output – Week 7
Is there really an intuition for i^i? I can give you the answer but I have nearly zero intuition for it.
I just drew a question mark, and it showed up as the first result with a score of 0.899462
that is true of most of these programs.

I guess it's to avoid having to vet each request individually.

Accepting them without any check means I'd create a new "startup" for each random page I put on the internet just to get free stuff, but having to verify each request may become a pain point quickly.
Being part of an accelerator means that the work has been done by someone else.
> I strongly suspect that many of the people working there are simply following vague or seemingly-unrelated orders.

So you are using ignorance as an excuse??
Dutch startup Thermosmart launches NEST alternative in a high-end store in NL
Colonizing a close planet like Mars only has any sense as a way of avoiding extinction in case something really nasty happens in Earth. I can't think any other motive to try that.
He highlights one of the problems I had with mathematics when I reached University. I was in the top 2% of students in the first few months. I considered it a trivial subject. "Here's a class of problems, here's how you solve them." Easy peasy. Then we started integrating and differentiating forms of problems we weren't familiar with. All of a sudden, everything we were taught didn't seem to apply any more.

Our lecturer told us: "I can see that some of you are struggling and are confused. You want to know how you become skilled at solving these problems? Forget your social life. Solve every problem in that 900 page textbook of yours. When you've done that, come to me and I'll give you another 900 page text book and finish that as well."

In one fell swoop Mathematics had lost all its appeal. I switched to Applied Math and aced it.

On the other hand, my brother actually followed this advice. For an entire year he spent a few hours every night doing Calculus till he recognized every different form they could conceivably throw at him. I asked him how he knew how to solve some problems. He said he didn't. It was all just memorization and recognition.
These days you can often get away with just using a cryptographic hash function. Blake2b is really fast. Makes life unbelievably simple.

I don't think it would be very useful in a TODO list situation though.
Oh wow, the drawing mechanism is really satisfying.

Too bad about not supporting 漢字. The only half-decent IME pad is on Windows. Online ones (kanji.sljfaq.org) and Xorg ones (ibus-mozc) are just horrendously bad at detection. I usually have to resort to multi-radical lookups.
World’s first “solar battery” runs on light and air
I looked for that too and couldn't find it either.

This is a very annoying trend. I had the same problem checking out VoltDB. Is this free? What license? What price?

In the end looking it up on Wikipedia is the fastest way; for MemSQL it states "Proprietary License".
This just screwed up with my settings. I was lucky that I had almost everything backed up.

The problem was with Mackup, in the sense, for it to 'backup' (which I assumed would just copy/paste the files) had actually moved the contents to Dropbox and created the symlinks in place. Therefore not a true backup!! :(

I guess what I am trying to say is that please be VERY SURE of what the 3rd party tool/script does before you use it, cause sometimes you might just 'rm -rf' the seemingly useless artefacts.

Screwing up your work environment is NEVER fun!
Apple reaction to Bash exploit shows contempt for users
I don't know why you (HN administration) need to do these URL switches. Isn't their room on the internet to add a line "Editor (dang): original source appears to be https://example.com/original-source" and let people decide for themselves which source to use whilst maintaining the context for the discussion?
Get ready to hear indirectly from IDF PR the standard line of defence of their recent actions. "They started it!"
It's been nearly 2 decades since USB was invented and I'm still of the opinion that USB keyboards provide no significant benefits over PS/2 in the majority of applications today - a keyboard that is always plugged into the same port. All the extra driver complexity and security holes like this could be avoided if people realised this simple fact.

USB tries to make peripherals "universal" - and I don't think one of the primary input devices of the computer should be mixed in with the others in this way. (Trying to troubleshoot problems with USB controller drivers when the keyboard itself is USB can be... frustrating. The BIOS has its own USB keyboard driver but hands control to the OS after booting, meaning that any flaw in the rather complex USB stack can cause a loss of an important input device. On the other hand, I've never had any problems with PS/2 keyboard or mouse drivers.)
How do nautil.us posts seem to hit the front page so frequently and effectively? I know others have brought it up before....

I'm not complaining about the quality of the content, but many of them don't seem like "hacker news". I'm a little suspicious....
Upcoming (www.upcoming.nl) - Amsterdam, The Netherlands (No remote, but we'll relocate you) - Full Stack Software Engineer

===== About us =====

Upcoming is a Dutch 'listicle' website (a listicle is an article consisting of a list of funny/informational/sentimental/whatever stuff). We've been growing continuously since we launched last year, already reaching 10% of the Dutch population with zero € spent on marketing. We’re (an independent) part of Telegraaf Media Groep, one of the biggest publishers of The Netherlands.

===== Abour our tech stack =====

We use python in the backend (Flask, Celery+RabbitMQ), and manage the frontend with Jinja2, jQuery, LESS and Grunt; persistence is done with MySQL and Redis. The deployments are automated, in a Continuous Integration environment.
Our backend is developed in-house, with state-of-the-art publishing related features such as:

- Monitoring of 1000's of rss feeds from news websites, in order to detect trending articles all around the globe.

- Advanced analysis of our own articles' metrics, for automatically promoting them among our publication channels (this is aimed at maximizing virality).

- (Bayesian) Headline and thumbnail A/B testing

- Highly scalable click-through-rate optimizer, presented in a workshop of the ACM Recommender Systems conference in Hong Kong last year.

Since we're part of a big media group, some of these tools are now being used by other teams, reaching tens of millions of users every day.

===== What we're looking for =====

- CS degree and/or relevant web experience

- Ideally, someone who has spent some time across the whole stack, but we will consider people who consider themselves “just” a frontend or backend developer.

- Pragmatism

- Python experience not mandatory - just show us that you’d be willing to learn and that you’re smart :)

===== What we offer =====

- A perfect balance between working on innovation projects and “regular” web development, both with short and iterative development cycles.

- The flexibility and dynamism of working in a startup, with the strong stability of being part of a big company.

- An international environment, with people from all over the world (UK, Italy, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, and more)

- Thorough relocation assistance, regardless of where you’re coming from

- A competitive salary

- 25 vacation days

- Amsterdam! You’ll be living in one of the most beautiful and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

If you’re interested, drop me a line: m.neustadt(at)tmg.nl
Somebody else already answered you, but no, I only have DSL as a high-speed option where I live (very rural). And only available from one carrier (CenturyLink).
Wouldn’t you say that the very existence of, say, Las Vegas, is evidence of the possibility of altering an extreme environment to be fit for human conditions?

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"As a young woman with a yen for learning language and no money or skills to speak of, I couldn’t afford to go to college (college loans weren’t then in the picture). So I launched directly from high school into the Army."
Isn't it contempt of court to bear false witness; don't people caught doing that get charged and put in prison? So, which person was in the witness stand and will USA prove to be a democratic nation under the rule-of-law and charge them?
Ask HN: What does HN think of these domains related to app and website creation?
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createmobileapps.net
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simpletobuildwebsites.com
Yeah, that book I linked is the same guy as that site you linked. Good stuff.
Soylent 1.1 hopes to make you fart less
I guess it depends on your definition of processor, but a finite state machine is certainly necessary to use USB.
Just a heads up, we do that here too. Here it's a 'hellban'. You can see their posts if you go into your profile and set the showdead flag. You may already know that, but it's a very similar thing.
Hey -- hackerrank has had this for a while.