skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50 points in 13 minutes without setting off the anti spam detector? Impressive.

I still believe this is vote manipulation, though.
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In related squirrel news:

The "Daylight Robbery" documentary has some very interesting squirrel obstacle courses. You can find it on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daylight+robber...

"Militarizing your Backyard with Python" shows how to build a water-hose-turret that automatically recognizes and blasts squirrels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
And thanks to the psychological effect of effort justification, you will even like what he says.
Besides space I think having two radars might cause interference that would be difficult to filter out.
I think that if you use the metric system you should develop a ten hour day - and a 100 minute hour - and a 100 second minute. Without that, Imperial units are best - right?
what if I give him some feedback for free?
That's what, the cost of a drink (a pricey drink, but nonetheless)... It's not bad value. For a well thought out, written opinion...
Asking him to be brutally honest about himself. I like it.
In situations like yours, I don't see any issue with going on a plan or letting them keep the juice running while you get back on your feet. But the idea that they were morally bound to forgive the debt because they're rich and you were poor is reprehensible.
It reminds me of this: (´･ω･`)

The Saga of Denko and Her Stalker.

http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/21533650696/help-the-girl-i-...
In my opinion, the only thing classic VB had going for it -- and even that's a bit of a stretch -- is the relatively interactive feedback loop of UI designing, coding and debugging, which leads to somewhat quick gratification. However, the language is kludgy and antiquated; I feel like it encourages antipatterns and generally bad style. VB.net may be a bit better (I'm not familiar with it), as that still has the interactivity, but most of the language warts have been patched over; but then one could argue, "Why not C#"?... To answer your first question, if you want to teach programming, I would avoid VB like the plague! (Annoyingly, Excel and the like are still all scripted in VBA -- which is very similar to classic VB -- so it does have some commercial merit.)

I think Python is a very good choice as a first programming language; although, if it were me, I would also segue into a bit of C so that the learners can appreciate the difference between static and dynamic typing. What Python (and C) lacks is an idiot-proof GUI designer like VB has. (I know there are obviously things like PyGTK+ with Glade, but it's not nearly as easy as VB's form designer.) Like I said in my previous paragraph, the near-instant gratification of creating a working -- albeit trivial -- program with a visual component really encourages learners to delve deeper. A Python console application will come across as boring, at best.

As for your A/B testing: I believe the VB group will not really understand what it means to program, whereas the Python group -- while harder to encourage -- will have a much more solid foundation on which to build.
More efficiency always results in lost jobs. But the money consumers are saving is going somewhere, so there will be new jobs in other sectors. Creative destruction and all that.

The Luddites were upset because of job loss to automated looms, but in the end everyone was better off.
Shallow responses to shallow questions for $10? SOLD!
Ask what to ask?
Since this is a product over email, would be less friction to support payments over Square Cash. Just ask the question and cc cash@square.com. No need to visit the website and can be done from mobile easily :)
Or it could be too cheap, maybe charging $99 is the way to go.
>I struggle to find a recent language that he can pick up and start having a rewarding experience, like I did with VB.

For kids, I recommend Javascript in the web browser. My friend is showing it to his 10-year old son and it's working out great. Javascript benefits include free development tool (notepad or textmate) and cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux). Javascript will be around for the next 50 years. In my opinion, all the other candidate languages (Python, VB, C#, Java Android, etc) have too much friction in terms of setup (download, then install, etc).

One drawback is that it's hard to deploy Javascript as a self-contained exe unless you include paid tools such as Adobe Flex with ActionScript. (That was another strength of VB -- the ability to compile to an exe with a small msvbvm.dll dependency.)

But then again, a lot of kids have their own smartphones so he could type out a Javascript game on the pc, fire up a web server on the home wifi, and then point his phone's web browser to it. Instant deployment and gratification.
This is awesome; I don't know how I missed it last year. Donated to the Kickstarter -- keep it up!
After 4 years of no action, I picked it up and got things moving again. Now we have a small coalition of contributors and we're making progress. For example, Pash is now part of a NuGet solution in MonoDevelop/XamarinStudio, like PowerShell does for VisualStudio.
No need to read the article, we know exactly what it will take: someone to run 13.1mph for two hours.
What I'm seeing is a group of traditionally marginalised people being suddenly thrust into positions of power. And lo and behold, their behaviour is more mainstream than they're willing to admit.

And therein lies the problem. Nerd culture holds fiercely to the differences between them and the "mainstream". But what does one do when ones culture becomes the mainstream? Suddenly, caustic behaviour and bullying are no longer the eccentric responses of an oppressed people, but instead are the humdrum machinations of your average asshole.

This is not nerd culture; it's HUMAN culture, and must be dealt with as such. You don't treat those who lack empathy with kid gloves.
Even a Golden Key Can Be Stolen by Thieves
exactly what kind of thoughtful, well written response can I expect from the landing page's example question of "Am I socially awkward?" or "Why isn't she texting me back?"

What kind of a stranger could give me actual answers to those questions?

I can imagine a few good (applicable) answers to someone who'd pay ten dollars to email someone those questions... but I can't imagine any answers that are actually worth than ten bucks.
The only thing he should be telling people willing to pay for his opinion on anything is "sucker."
"What will it take to run a 7.2 kilosecond marathon?"
I actually think this is a great idea. It's like a focus group of one (and we all know focus groups are big business).

I look forward to hearing how this goes for you.
Is is called Stack Exchange. They don't cover all the topics, but the new sub-sites are being created gradually when demand is made.

This one would fit into http://aviation.stackexchange.com/.
So you watched the Ethan app go viral yesterday too, huh?

For those that missed it: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/ethan and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434045
I thought Netflix was creating content now that isn't available through other streams; perhaps I'm mistaken I don't use it.
Reddit sprung to mind for me too.

This is a bad idea. Fine, you pay $10 for someone's honest opinion, but it's just one person's opinion, you really want to consult multiple sources to get a balanced view, otherwise you could make a bad decision based on another person being in a shitty mood (for whatever reason).

Plus, I find friends will be honest with you if you expressly give them permission to be, and promise not to take it personally.
If you indeed found your mirror the way it is pictured, I believe someone actually stole your reflective glass.
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Maybe he just has 34 friends online right now and has asked them to up vote? Does that count as manipulation?
> I'm Jordan, a 28 year old software developer living in California. I've always been direct and never had a problem telling it like it is. I have a wide variety of interests outside of work that include Finance, Men's Fashion, Diet/Nutrition, Weightlifting, Sports, Travel, Music, and countless other topics.

Brutal honesty: nothing here leads me to believe that Jordan's feedback is any more useful than the feedback of a random person on the street. The fact that Jordan is only charging $10 and hasn't focused his offering on an area of interest where he has demonstrable experience and expertise leads me to believe that Jordan himself doesn't think his feedback is very valuable.
The recently added "introducer" feature allows you to establish trust relationships between all nodes which have access to a common repository on a node automatically.

Tag your "central" server as an introducer on all of the other node configs, and they will all add each other (assuming they have any repositories in common). This really aids in this use case.
Nice idea!

Some (all?) sample questions can be answered with yes or no. I know that you mention a conversation at the top but you might want to make it a bit more clear that your feedback will be more than yes or no.
> Do you guys feel debts are morally bound?

Yes. You'll read a lot of hamstering about how morally bankrupt those big, bad corporations are. If they're so terrible, why are you doing business with them in the first place?

Ultimately the bottom line is that you made a deal, as surely as if you'd shaken hands on it. Regardless of your evaluation of the counterparty's moral fortitude, YOU made a deal, and it's up to you to keep your end.

I am endlessly shocked at how in this community of logical minds, "well they were dicks, so I should get a free ride" is a valid justification.
> VB.NET is basically a friendlier-looking version of C# and is therefore not nearly as bad as VB6, has a real modern IDE, etc.

Yeah, but my feeling has always been that, if you drew a line called "complexity" with VB6 on one end and C# on the other, VB.Net would be much closer to the C# end. Which sort of calls into question what the benefit of learning VB.Net is; for nearly the same amount of effort, you could just learn C# and benefit from all the additional tooling and support options that C# offers.

The big draw of VB through version 6 was precisely that it wasn't a "real" language -- it was much, much simpler than a "real" language, and therefore so easy to learn that practically anybody could do it. VB.Net on the other hand always felt more like they just put C# into a T-shirt that says "I'M WITH STUPID."
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YES.

Normally, Hacker News detects and penalizes stupid upvote rigging. I'm curious how the OP bypassed it at such a scale.
Great story, however, it's dangerous to pin your hopes on 1 single event: acceptance into YC.
I think you can probably achieve the same results with VB compared to C#, but at the cost of writing more code or slower performance.
Yeah, typically it would. Ya know the other possibility is it is legitimately getting voted up.
Probably not, but I doubt he means to show off. To me it reads more like it shows his technical skill that companies he applied for seem to overlook.
Unless you're a rock star (figuratively speaking of course) the publisher keeps the lion's share.
Unreal has the Blueprint scripting system though :). But I am not going to argue as I don't have enough of the relevant experience. Besides your About page has cleared my questions (AI plans are quite ambitious :)).
Send him $10 and he'll answer that question for you!
Yes. From the FAQ:

> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?

> No. Users should vote for a story because it's intellectually interesting, not because someone is promoting it.

> When the software detects a voting ring, it penalizes the post. Accounts that vote like this eventually get their votes ignored.
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Interesting. Is it just the NSS update. Presumably that was a case of packaging the latest version or is NSS a Canonical supported project?

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2014-... seems to be a relevant source.
One of the games in question is without doubt World of Warcraft, correct?
I don't understand anything on the linked page. I have a CS degree.
Even a niki minaj track seems more scary than Annabelle
If you focused it just on reviewing websites, it would basically be a weak and relatively expensive version of http://peek.usertesting.com/
Creator here - no vote manipulation. In fact, I don't actually know anyone who has a hacker news account, believe it or not. Just an intriguing title I suppose?
It's still VB http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

For 'rapid prototyping' of a website, I guess that would be Wordpress.
I voted because I thought it was hilarious. Who would take this seriously?
Clearer than "There will be no one word answers - I'll make sure to elaborate and make my opinion clear."?
Eric Cantor’s webpage now just has a picture of him that goes nowhere
You should definitely apply. In my batch there was a company in the same space as mine, we don't compete directly but it's pretty close and certainly could down the road. They were very good about it.
> So he posed the question: What if all home routers get hacked and wiped in a mass attack against a country? People can't go out and buy new ones since they are just at risk and will probably just get hacked again. This puts a large amount of any countries technical infrastructure at risk.

That's just plain old FUD, nothing new under the sun!

I realize this is not a very constructive comment, but the fact of the matter is that some people in the information security business likes these types of extravagant displays of "this is the end of the world as we know it!"

Not many SOHO-routers have capabilities exposed to the outside world.

I mean, yes, it would be nice if the world was a safer place, but it's all about risk management, and risk is a factor of probability and cost, and the probability level here is very low.
Twitter Data Mining Reveals America's Religious Fault Lines
SC:BW got me into programming. Rigging UMS maps with triggers that only I knew of...ahh good times.
It works for consultants
Distance Cycling is far more about endurance than a 2+h marathon. EX: Tour de france ~90h over 21 days. http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/overall-route.html
That's what comments are for. Plus, I didn't find the PIPESQL syntax particularly easy to parse, of course that's natural for a new language, but in order to encourage adoption it'd be best for you to look to simplify it further.
Show HN: A quiz game I made for the Football World Cup
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Fortunately for us, the folks who would want to do that (hacktivists) lack the skills necessary to execute. The threat here would come in the form of an opposing nation-state, and from their perspective you're right -- there's not a lot of incentive to actually perform this attack.
Design of Facebook Homogenizes Identity and Limits Personal Representation
as other commenter said ESA radars do great simultaneously scanning and tracking, with modern radars - more than 1 target simultaneously. The 2nd radar may be employed for the rear sphere like in that rear "stinger" http://www.airforceworld.com/bomber/eng/su34-fighter-bomber-...
It's pretty easy! It's not hard to find schools where tuition and fees end up at about $20k/yr. Housing in many college towns is expensive, so that's another $5k/yr. Then there's normal cost of living, so lets call it another $2k/yr. Multiply by 4, take interest of lets say 3% into account, and hey presto, you're quite a ways over $100k!

The even sadder thing is that those are fairly conservative numbers. Out of state tuition and fees at many state schools can get up to the $30k range (I went to CU-Boulder, which is apparently up to $33,151 now), $5k for housing is cheap, $2k for expenses is pretty low, and 3% interest is very low.
My first Android app, a quiz game about the football world cup. Got the idea a little late (the week the World Cup started) and released it in the 3rd week of the World Cup.

I was thinking about adding more tournaments and leagues and adding multiplayer, might come in the future.

What do you think of the visual design?
Are the questions to hard (if so, are you interested in football)?
Do you enjoy it?
If I were to give you some advice, it would be to:

a)keep working at any job you can find. Wading through sewage for minimum wage? Take it.

b) Spend as little money as possible. Put all your earnings in a big pile on the kitchen table if you have nothing else to do with them. Your wife may be able to help in terms of keeping expenses to a minimum.

c)Since that job will most likely suck, spend off hours looking for a better job. Don't quit the first one until the second one is in the bag. Meanwhile, do good work at the first job. It's not like you're going to stick around for 20 years, so why not do great?

d) Repeat steps a-c until you have enough saved up for EITHER a bachelor's in a technical field + living expenses for the time OR some other boring, predictable, spreadsheet-friendly investment.

e) email me any time at dropit.sphere at google's email service if you need someone to talk to. I earned a perfect SAT score and am working as a valet, so I know how it is.
I have an older relative who is still cashing in nicely on his VBA skills. There was a "demand vs pay" graph for tech skills going around awhile. VBA is low demand, but among the highest paid of the technologies.
Quickly skimming the drug cocktails tour de france competitors take will answer your question.

But, as sibling answers say, decreased training recovery times is incredibly important. Steroids also protect your joints -- they are an anti-inflammatory. Runners' knees, ankles, and spines take a pounding.
>Nope, not a joke.

no need..
I don't really doubt you or your intentions, but I guess I might just not understand how authentication works for something like this.

When I try to sign in with Google Drive, it tells me that PigShell (developer email: xxxx@gmail.com) would like access to my Google Drive, as well as my photos and videos. Does that give your API key access to my account, or does only code that I run that's hosted on pigshell.com have access? What do the permissions get tied to? And how would it work if I were to host it locally?
Oddly enough, battle.net itself is what got me into computers. There was a vibrant hacking community that existed back in the day, and watching all those older kids do cool stuff got me interested in software.
What does it normally do? I gave up and created a Quora account a while back. Even on Incognito, though, hitting the link without the share on it looks normal and doesn't do anything particularly annoying.
How fascinating that we see such different things in the article. In the one I read, a guy puts his life on hold to take care of his dying father:

I spent nearly every day helping him out. I couldn't bear to see him worry about me

That's not "me, me, me", nor does it lack emotion, and certainly it refutes the (already self-refutingly silly) diagnosis of sociopathy. I wonder if there may be some crossed cultural signals here. Montana is not a place where people effuse.
Yeah I was just going off what I read:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?2574-Why-C-fo...

Did not know about Blueprint :)

Anyhow - AI is defintely ambitious, but less so once you see how simple I am keeping everything (it is going to be quite crude - really :) )
Not being an expert in this kind of area, I would really like to read a short summary. Is there one and I just have missed it, somewhere in the article? I didn't see a headline like summary or conclusions.
The average amount of student debt from undergrad is $33k.

How you go to three times that is difficult to comprehend. I'm not doubting the veracity of what he's written, but it's just surprising how different his experience is from what I'm familiar with.
Sign the Speed Limit tangled with the GPS coordinates of the sign with a private key of the state. Place both the signature, GPS coordinates, and speed limit in the QR code.
Interesting...I was thinking about starting a site called comfortinglies.io, where I'll tell you how wonderful you are, how it's all going to be ok, etc. Maybe we could swap links?
Let's be straightforward. What an idiotic article!

The author is an education columnist, while he doesn't understand basic math. No matter what standard is applied for admission to a gifted program, there are always students who are cut off just below the standard. It is a continuous spectrum. It should never be a reason to denounce a program. Otherwise, nothing gets done.

Imagine a 9-year-old who figures out how to solve a quadratic equation by reading online by himself. Is it a waste of time to sit him with his peers of same age and practice double digit multiplication?
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
What is the issue? They're using Github: https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser
I feel morally bound to pay back the entity I borrowed from. That gets attenuated substantially when the debt is resold and I'm having to deal with a company I never chose to deal with.
The UK's rules for what to do when there isn't a sign: https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits
This sim still exists as Flaming Cliffs 3 (http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/flaming_cl...)
Is there any way to view the rest of the answer hidden behind the "more" link without signing up for an account?
No that's clear enough. I must have missed it. sorry.
> Go with the black hat and get picked up by a security consulting firm.

Go with the black hat and end up in jail. Don't do this, guy. It's not worth it. Please do good. :-/
"We want kids who know right from wrong and are not afraid to act rightly instead of wrongly, even in the face of peer pressure. Most of these qualities are teachable."

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, except I recognise pressure isn't just from peers. I'm advocating teaching self-reliance on order to guard against undeserved pressure, no matter the source.
Q1: what are your bank account credentials?
No space. Take a look at this image, it's the standard AN/APG-63 on an F-15C fighter aircraft: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APG-63_radar_of_F-15_...

Note how the radar's processing units and dish take up the entirety of the aircraft's nose and how large the system is compared to the technician working on it. There simply isn't enough space to add another radar.

Nor would it make sense to split that into two smaller radars, as the size of the dish and processing units is strongly linked to its power and range. That's one reason larger aircraft like the F-15, F-14 and Su-27 have longer-ranged and more powerful radars than smaller fighter aircraft.

This track vs scan limitation is removed by Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars such as this AN/APG-63(V)2 retrofitted to a USAF F-15C: http://www.pacaf.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070720-F...

Rather than having a mechanically-slaved reflective dish, an AESA radar has hundreds of Transmit/Receive Modules (TRMs) each capable of acting like a tiny radar dish by transmitting or receiving on its own frequency and being steered its own direction.

So now, rather than having the radar dish jump between track and scan at rapid intervals, the system can just dedicate a few hundred of the AESA TRMs to tracking one or more targets while letting the remainder continue sweeping the skies. There's no limitation on azimuth because each TRM can be individually steered.

So in short, the answer is that the latest fighter aircraft don't have two radars, they have hundreds or thousands of tiny radars that can work together in a whole bunch of useful combinations.

Edit: Replaced initial image with a Wiki Commons link that doesn't have linking issues.
What kind of mental health issue do the people in the article below have?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsan...