skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tsū is a free network that gives the social revenues back to you
You make good points but your message gets twisted by saying things like "this is the kind of mentality I addressed. Your solution is no solution"

Why not just say, "This is the status quo. I want to change things by --" ?

The reason this article is trending is that the status quo is broken. Instead of outlawing Good Samaritans, why not take the time and make the effort to educate them?

The educational information in your posts is quite valuable and deserves more attention than it is getting.
10 countries that are poorer than WhatsApp
I completely agree!

I think it is the acoustic equivalent to the Clippy effect: Human voices tend to take up a substantial portion of our mental bandwidth, because it is not just a sound our brain has to recognize, but then it has to go and actually understand the words being said or sung.

Instrumental music tends to have - at least on me - the opposite effect, it occupies the parts of my mind that otherwise might distract me, leaving the parts doing the hard work alone.
List of ZSH frameworks, plugins and themes
Inspired by the various awsome-* lists out there, awesome-zsh-plugins is a collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes.
New Microscope Collects Dynamic Images of the Molecules that Animate Life
native modules (written in C rather than javascript) can be rather intimate with v8. Sure, they could be intimate with another js engine but they would need to be updated.
If the intention of the post were to boast of heroism, then you're right to point out that simply reproducing doesn't make one better than another. To me however, it seems he meant to inspire others in a similar situation who want to do what he did, but are doubtful it could work.

Some people find it difficult to believe they can accomplish something until it's been done by someone else. His blog post is great inspiration for those who weren't sure it was possible, and great reassurance for those who knew it was possible but had few examples to relate to.
Yeah, Microsoft has a pretty robust hardware lab as part of WHQL certification. I would expect there would be some off brand devices containing this chip in their lab.
True, upfront costs is a huge problem. Credits may be less so, I've rented with literally no credit at all - just came to the US - and I've seen landlords not checking credit at all. Not all of them but some. After all, credit score doesn't guarantee I won't lose my job tomorrow and stop paying. For upfront costs, it is a big hurdle. But staying in most expensive place in the area doesn't make it any better.
How 3 Little Changes Increased Average Revenue per Account (ARPA) by 296%
Fb rooms
Wow, I never thought about this, but perhaps a beard would also function quite well for this? Maybe that is why beards are so frowned upon in society...My conspiracy senses are tingling xD
If you can show any indication that there existed copyright licenses prior to 1980 with explicit dedication to the public domain, then that would indeed show how licensing software under public domain could be a norm before RMS and the free software movement was started.

For U.S. government works however, there was an implicit license of public domain. Works authored by U.S. government employees, on government time and as part of their job, are automatically in the public domain. The purpose of explicit licensing such work would be both unclear, but also questionable in a legal sense. Writing a copyright license for work already in public domain is kind of a grey zone.

As for the 1976 Act, there is to my knowledge no court case about software copyright infringement between 1976 and 1980. The definition of "any greater or lesser rights" when in "conjunction with automatic systems capable of storing, processing, retrieving, or transferring information" is not only extremely vague, there does not seem to been anyone who defined it before congress did it in 1980. If you again has any evidence to the contrary, I would be interesting to read it.

if you want to see early copyright cases for software, Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman from 1981 is a good example. Note that Konami did not register a copyright of the underlying code of the game, but instead registered the game as an audiovisual.
Lots of brokers also offer vanilla FIX connections to their systems as well, so a GUI isn't necessary.
Not everyone has the resources that Twitter and Facebook have to mantain what essentially are two version of their website.

My position is that if you disable Javascript you get what you get (both you and I will be happy to know that I don't do web development anymore).
I rather like the notion of Ubuntu's Unity interface. It reminds me of my favourite window manager, Window Maker, which I'm running at the moment. I recommend Ununtu to those who don't want to muck about much. Like you, I don't have time or the inclination to mess with the config files anymore. Server, yes. Desktops? They need to work pretty much out of the box anymore. This is 2014 afterall, and modern laptops and desktop boxes have support in the latest kernels, either in Linux or FreeBSD.

Linux Mint is even more friendly than Ubuntu if I'm honest. It has all the codecs, various desktop flavours, and is generally what my wife and kids prefer these days.
Cool PR hack for startup: Advertise to 1000 tech journalists
Easily ensure your PHP is compatible with multiple versions with DUnit
What he means when he says "unprovable" is "not provably guaranteed to run in O(x)" since the entire discussion is about complexity. A "provable" algorithm, then, is one where the running time can be calculated.

In a deterministic algorithm, this bound will always exist. In a non-deterministic algorithm (e.g. one that uses a random walk), this bound will not. The funny thing is that in the real world (and for big data) the latter algorithms generally run faster than the former.

If you're wondering why a non-deterministic algorithm can't have bounds, it's simple! Because it would range from a trivial best case of I get really lucky and randomly hit every "good" factor in constant time O(1) to the trivial worst cast of I get really unlucky and keep guessing the wrong numbers ad infinitum.
Your comment displays a fundamental misunderstanding of wages. Wages in the amount of X support a lifestyle of Y quality. This is why a job that pays $150k in SV will pay something like $80k in, say, rural Idaho (if you can find the equivalent job). Typically Y stays constant for a job of a certain type, level, and country; X varies based on location/cost of living. Obviously this is greatly simplified.
[Edit: in case it wasn't clear, my point is that 'imaginary lines' don't have anything to do with compensation levels - cost of living does.]

I don't really know enough about EFI's situation to comment... if you have an entire branch of your company in India, and you bring some portion of your workers to the US for a week or two for some onsite work, do you pay them US wages or Indian wages? I truly don't know the answer to this.

Likewise, if your company sends you to India for a week, do they pay you in Rupees?
Quite unexpected on the part of Facebook, and looks like an interesting project.

A couple of points on their Privacy page bothers me, though:

> Once you confirm your account, you may delete content you have posted at any time. <…>

> To sign up for Rooms, you may provide us with information such as an email address and usernames. <…>

> We may share information about you within the companies and services operated by Facebook to understand and improve our services [but the information from Rooms won't be posted to Facebook and vice-versa].

It'd be more fun if you couldn't delete your content (so that messages posted a while ago don't lose their context), but instead you could be absolutely anonymous (not even having to provide valid email address, which per above will quite likely be matched with your Facebook account at some point).
Every now and then you see young people be advised to do X "now, before they have a
wife/family/mortgage." X can be a startup, getting a PhD, trip around the world, etc.
My view is that doing things differently is biting off more than one can chew and is
selfish. Having done a brutal Ph.D. I cannot begin to imagine having had a child at
the same time, and the irreversible damage to the kid / opportunity loss / regret that
would have resulted in.

Of course if you can make it work and live with yourself, more power to you. :)
This particular text is already widely available. (There are scans of the whole thing on Wikipedia, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Borgia#mediaviewer/File:C... .
Destapaciones en Victoria
Having VirtualBox as the preferred backend is a pretty heavy stone in Vagrant's neck. VB kernel driver is terrible on Linux. See eg http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
apple iPhone 6 , apple iPhone plus review – iOS jailbreakiOS jailbreak
OCaml will give you compiler warnings on the incomplete and redundant match cases. F# will silently execute a semantically different version of your code. I prefer OCaml. Indentation sensitivity was one of F#'s design flaws.
Show HN: Zoetic – Discover cool places by your interests
Criminalizing the sharing of food amongst humans is asinine, hard problem or not.
I would be surprised if WHQL tested drivers on counterfeit hardware.
My cousin has an accommodation business called Orchid Villas. So we got the domain http://orchid.villas which is pretty cool I think.

I would still advise getting the "traditional" (.com, .net, etc) counterpart too.
While I personally prefer electronic music, I was kind of surprised that most of the programmers I've met in person seemed to be into metal, covering pretty much everything from good old Black Sabbath through Power Metal all the way to Grindcore and Black Metal.

Not that I am judging in any way. I used to listen to a lot of Heavy Metal, and I still do occasionally (especially when I am angry/frustrated - it seems to have a cathartic effect on me).

For programming, I prefer calm, quiet, unobtrusive music, but apparently there are many programmers out there who like to rock. :)
Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?
Nowhere near substantial, I just had good role models growing up :)

edit: didn't mean to imply I don't have first hand experience, I do, but I was also mentored by people who were/are passionate about and extremely involved with this problem. My understanding of the underlying issues comes from both sources
Hopefully you're joking.

As if it wasn't already hard enough to figure out the code path in a ruby application, now we can make it largely indeterminate and dependent on an ever-changing fuzzy algorithm!
Cool PR hack for startup: Advertise to 1000 tech journalists
Guys, we are launching ad campaign targeted to a 1000 of top tech journalists for just $1000. Join campaign, only 27 days left before launch.
Sign up at http://benoticeable.com
The downside is that if they have a comment section, each blogger has to do their own moderation.

Social networks have the funds to hire these people:
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

I'm doubtful about how long Sandstorm would be able to stay strictly hands-off. Sooner or later everyone who allows random strangers to interact has to get into policing the content and that's nobody's idea of fun.
https://github.com/pry/pry/issues/840#issuecomment-60286408 is causing me angst. Any idea?
I just tried disabling JavaScript and visiting Facebook and Twitter... both were entirely unusable. Nothing on Facebook worked, and on Twitter, all of the links and interactions were broken.
Nice idea, so why don't you just let people ,like, join right now instead of creating needless artificial scarcity. Bigger, more connected and wealthier companies could be doing the same thing next week and you'd be left there with your short codes and not enough people.
I get the same message.
Sorry about that! I'm trying to get the docs into shape as fast as possible.

If a line starts with "docker/" the rest is assumed to be a docker image tag.
Wow excellent! I'm always been more drawn to Orwell. But I think this illustrates how we are definitely headed more towards Huxley's vision.
> in the 1980s, China ramped up production massively, driving out competitors and cornering the market. (China could do this, in part, by going easy on environmental oversight of mining, which can be a horrifically dirty process.)

> When China decided to restrict exports in 2010, that drove prices up and suddenly made it profitable for other countries to start boosting their own production again.

This in an example where "free markets" cause major environmental issues.
That was quick: a patch was checked in earlier!
Shame that it's currently ios only. Any chance of a web/android app, or is this purely an experimental product for the time being?
Not really https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/525352862285430784

« We can confirm that, as reported in TechCrunch earlier today, it is likely that we will raise money "sometime in the next six years." »
Wishing for some way to cross-correlate and cross-link submissions
It would be nice to have some way of cross-connecting HN submissions. Currently we have lots of submissions about the "Rooms" thingy, whatever it may be. Reports from different sources, articles from different people.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some way of having a single conversation in a single thread, instead of having one (or two) submissions "win" and the others get lost, even though the articles may be of near equal value?
if you search for vert.x on HN you see a ton of comments and activity about it 2-3 years ago but it seems to be largely ignored in the last year or so. It seems it has lost whatever popularity it once had - do you think thats a fair assessment? The idea seems nice - a polygot application framework sounds like the ideal way to use the right tool for the job.
Your post reminded me of one of my favorite books of all time, Chadwick's The Decipherment of Linear B.

Linear B is the name given to a syllabic script used on clay tablets excavated on Crete around 1900. Chadwick's book recounts the tale of how Michael Ventris ultimately deciphered it and revealed the text to be Ancient Greek rather than any other language, which was against scholarly opinion of the time - and even his own. It's a wonderful story about human intelligence (there was no Rosetta stone equivalent for Linear B; the decipherment had to be accomplished purely by deriving rules from the corpus), the transferability of skills (Ventris was an architect, not a linguist or cryptographer), dispassionately following where the evidence leads, and the value of sharing information openly in the sciences (Ventris' insights were enabled by data compiled and shared by others, notably the equally brilliant American researcher Alice Kober, as Margalit Fox documented in a more recent book).

Now, after it gets done describing this accomplishment, it ends with a brief section on how the now-readable documents revolutionized our view of ancient European history, and what their contents tell us about their authors and their lives.

It was a hugely inspirational read on so many levels. I read it as a teenager, and if there's any teen around you who seems like they might enjoy it - give it to them.
I realize that I probably sound like a bit of a dick, and I apologize for that, but I've been having this argument for many years and it definitely gets frustrating to explain the situation and have people essentially ignore everything you just said and say "well yeah but what about..."

Part of the problem is the mentality people go into this issue with, and changing that will do wonders for the various initiatives trying to tackle this. That said, it's something I had to go through myself so I should probably be more empathetic
Slack is pretty great, we use it where I work and for coordinating communication between teams in different parts of the US, the UK, India and Australia, it is fantastic. It is quite crazy to think what is essentially a more modernised version of IRC is worth one billion dollars. Either way, I think it is a highly deserved valuation for a tool that is undeniably a lot less painful than Google Hangouts, Skype or Email. Great job Slack team.

It also seems besides creating an awesome communication platform, Slack have discovered the secret to time travel. According to the article, "has been growing wildly since launching at the end of 2014" a product so successful it launched in the future and is doing well in the present. Nice quality writing from Techcrunch.
I actually think Ubuntu has done wonders to enhance the usability of debian out of the box. We've come so far in 10 years, when I first used debian, I had to write an X config by hand, now thats all automatic, its so much easier to use. I stopped using Ubuntu even though I was an early adopter, and went back to debian, but the development downstream of debian has clearly from my point of view rolled back up hill.
This reminds me of the recent (~2 months ago) addition of a new, very fast Tor relay (faster than any other relay at the time) that only relayed Bitcoin traffice [0].

Wonder if that has anything to do with this research, or if someone else has independently arrived at the same result?

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bwds2/what_does_th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
Well, in the real world you have to make choices:

1 - Continue to allow unstructured homeless feeding. Homeless continue to lose out on benefits of structured feeding.

2 - Make unstructured homeless feeding illegal. Homeless get benefits of structured feeding, but it clashes with our morals and ideas of personal liberties.

3 - Discourage unstructured homeless feeding without violating restricting anyone's rights.

In an ideal world, you would chose option #3. However, we don't have that option, at least to the best of our knowledge. If we had such option, we would see a report from some place that tried and succeeded... Therefore by rejecting option #2 you are by default promoting option #1, that is prolonging pain and suffering in the name of superior morals.
Just watched your talk... really cool. (Yes, Raspberry Pi's are awesome!) When you have your Kippo guide done, I'd be interested in setting one up myself. Be sure to include those beefy cpu and meminfo's your buddy sent you.
Show HN: Glance.wtf
Wow, effusive. Personally, I would probably choose to wait more than 1 day before seeing if a given paper has "revolutionized" an industry.
I'm really excited about the idea of groups that may be coming to Docker. It seems like a great primitive around which to build tools like fig and tug and perhaps other tools to orchestrate production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuSq6bXHnOI
As an example, here are the submissions about "Rooms"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499247

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499255 (15 comments so far)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499286 (15 comments so far)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499360

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499738

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499854

Some of those are interesting stories, and yet they'll get lost when one thread "wins". That's a shame.

Edit: I see now the mods have moved the comments from ...286 to ...255
Thread (YC S12) in London, UK, is hiring engineers and a data scientist
Ugh I really wish my team would start using slack, but they're way too apathetic to try it.
The site is not loading for me at all https://ssd.eff.org Wonder if the load is too high too soon.

Edit: Oops, now showing 504 Gateway Time-Out (nginx)

Edit2: It's back. Looks very well put together.

Edit3: Wow, this is extremely well put together. I especially like that the scenarios are crafted for each situation and isn't just "do this and you're fine". This is really a walkthrough rather than tutorial and I appreciate that a lot.
I well remember mandrake - my path was Mandrake -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Debian

I guess I'm not young anymore I suppose, I'm starting to realize I have lots of history as I've left my 20's.
Bring back the old (Boom) emoticon on Hipchat
Startup bets S.F. needs app to hail scooter-riding valets
This is not a clone of Whisper nor Yik Yak.
Excellent recommendation. I'm reading it now.
I suppose you don't agree with the phrase "standing on the shoulder of giants".

The fact that, through history, people create novelty & discovery without the "incentive" of ownership, invalidates the "need" for patents to provide an "incentive" of exclusivity.

Re: patents, those who own the capital also own the patents. It's simply a mechanism to control others by restricting who can use an idea originally developed by "standing on the shoulder of giants". So if you own lots of capital, patents allow you to control others. If you don't own lots of capital, patents are oppressive.
> One thing I think F# got right is that it removed some of the "flexibility" in OCaml's syntax. For example, it uses significant whitespace to define scoping, which removed (in nearly all cases) the need for the 'in' keyword and lots of parentheses and semicolons. That may not sound like a huge deal, but it does greatly improve the readability of F# code (all other things being equal).

I must disagree. I once translated a significant (15kLOC) commercial OCaml code base into F# and took the opportunity to quantify the syntactic benefits as <3% by volume of code. The flipside is that F# misinterprets code pasted from the web, rendering most code on the web useless. That is a crippling deficiency of F# in my eyes and a major reason to go back to the superior OCaml solution.
I like Carlin's solution [1]

"... But getting back to low-cost housing, I think I might have solved this problem. I know just the place to build housing for the homeless: golf courses. It’s perfect. Plenty of good land in nice neighborhoods; land that is currently being squandered on a mindless activity engaged in by white, well-to-do business criminals who use the game to get together so they can make deals to carve this country up a little finer among themselves..."

[1]: http://www.georgecarlinrip.com/2014/01/golf-courses-for-home...
This is exactly what they want to do. Ads embedded in streams/feeds have proven to be the most profitable monetization strategy on mobile, and Google's missing the party on that one. It's an attempt to take one of their powerful, existing products and turn it into a mobile feed.
I agree. That was an incredibly hard thing to read.

I'm sure he will end up paying a fortune in therapy and rehab bills for his kids.
Why is it web browsers can't do web font fallbacks? I had to read this stuff in the inspector...

https://mediacru.sh/oXZoeWraAtA7
It's not just indian customs - a friend of mine has had similar stories with Canadian Customs and free software. Customs exists to get money out of its citizens, I've had trouble with American Customs too.
Can you provide an example of a useful web-based activity that can't be done without javascript, other than web-based games?

I've seen a huge number of sites over the years stop working because they redesign to incorporate javascript; yet, when I visit them at work (with a javascript-enabled browser) their shiny new site doesn't actually have any new features.

Things that don't need javascript:

--Form verification (you should always be doing this on the server, and optionally in client-side javascript)

--<video> tag

--Popup site menus

--Web-based chat

--Webmail

--Message board comments (unless you locked yourself into Disqus)

--Nearly everything
At first I hated Slack. Jabber was definitely Good Enough. But I couldn't live without it anymore. My tip: use it to it's full potential, you'll have to give up on the IRC and Jabber bridges.
Catholic charities =/= Catholic Church
As a researcher at a company that makes face recognition software, beards don't make a big difference.