skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state mandated no-opt-out censorship appears to still be the choice of the ISP.

At home, using virginmedia I can't access the pirate bay. At work (unknown ISP), I can
Except, though, this has been going on for -decades- and there was no organised campaign until the sudden miraculous pivot of the gamergaters when people started noting and calling out their harassment bullshit.
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Text is the only good form of asynchronous communication we have in our daily lives. Without it, we'd all be recording voicemail for one another constantly. Who the hell wants to do that? Not to mention the fact that making audio recordings is much harder to do discreetly and impossible to do in many noisy or strict environs.

And seriously, what is natural? How is human architecture any less natural than a beehive or a beaver dam?
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Captain Chesley Sullenberger (the famous pilot of the Hudson River crash landing) has the opinion that mechanically linked yokes (Boeing philosophy) is superior to independent fly-by-wire joysticks (Airbus philosophy).

A video from CBS shows a very eye-opening demonstration of tactile feedback the mechanical linkage can provide. It's a feedback loop that the non-flying pilot can't ignore.

http://youtu.be/kERSSRJant0?t=3m9s

However, it doesn't mean there aren't other pilots who prefer fly-by-wire joysticks and can list (safety) advantages over mechanical linkages.
HTTP GET of https://rawgit.com/kimmobrunfeldt/progressbar.js/master/dist... is throwing a 503
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Thanks for this! The sales side of startups is not discussed enough on here. As much as I love HN, I get lost in the coding side of it being a sales person myself.
My gut reaction is that these boot camps are fueling some employment at early-stage start-ups because the graduates are far less expensive than more seasoned developers and the code they write is probably okay enough for a short while. Why would larger tech companies hire from this pool? I would imagine that there are enough CS grads in the market for them already.

Does anyone here hire graduates from these schools? If so, what has been your experience? If not, why not?
There's already a cheaper crowd-sourced version of "the last mile" here in the UK. They're called Yodel (formerly the Home Delivery Network), most of their packages are delivered by non-employees using their own cars, lots of big companies like Amazon use them, and they have a really terrible reputation.
text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology

True, and very interesting to consider.

OTOH, if you can simulate a person who knows how to express themselves speaking to you personally, there's and even technology you tap into. That's a technology we have actually adapted to biologically.

Everything else is just hijacking faculties designed to allow your uncle to explain to you how to make rope from bark.
Another nice site built on Telescope (https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope).

Its nice to see these communities come up, particularly when the focus is something of interest.
That's gold! Sentences like that are WHY I read Dickens. Its like a conversation with the character. So much more humanity and humor in there than "He says, then she says, then we go there" style so popular now.
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I think at this point, we're literally throwing away progress bars.
Digital time traveling
I use VimFx in Firefox as an alternative to Chrome's Vimium, it works quite well for me.
I think they will put some downward pressure on the lowest of entry level jobs in languages/frameworks that are becoming a commodity (rails in particular), but wont affect jobs outside of that too much. Many people switch careers (moving over to software sales, for example, or getting out of IT all together) after an entry level job, or become more specialized in different a subset of skills.
Natural is adapting to change, understanding that the environmental context is always changing. Architecture is usually built to last forever, but it always has to be torn down, at great expense. Or, the expense is too great, and it remains, an archaic eye-sore.

I text message as much as anyone. But, I think we all know that text messages are ephemeral. I've edited (ironically) to make that more clear.
> That's the part that I find fascinating. In contrast to larger-scale fascist movements, in which anti-national behavior is spread from the top-down (I'm thinking of slave-era American and modern Arabic racism here or the classic example of Nazism), this type of nation- and rights-destroying behavior emanates from numerous, distributed "educational facilities."

If you haven't heard of it yet, what you are describing fits quite well with the undervalued Sheldon Wolin's idea of inverted totalitarianism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
I guess I was put off by the glib dissection of my skills and personality. Maybe it didn't seem that way when written, but it sure did when read. Its call 'ad hominem' and I responded in kind, which was probably not very cool. I apologize.
To be fair, this project has been using its current name for at least five years, so now is probably not the time to raise objections.
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Artificial intelligence designs websites, uses open technology stack
I guess having something running in the background saturates your mind better? I certainly do it, switching from silence to music to lets plays to episodes of QI to MOOC lectures depending on how mentally engaging whatever i'm actually doing is at the moment. Otherwise my mind wanders off the topic at hand and i end up browsing hackernews for far too long.

Sitting at a computer means that there's about 10 possible distractions for me at a given moment, and if I want to do a consistent stretch of actual work, i just happen to need some background noise.
Given that symphonies were something of mass entertainment at the time Beethoven was a movie composer, just without the moving pictures.
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Are those job opportunities you want? For me, maintaining poorly-written code bases is not enjoyable.
from looking on angular internal code, i still feel they struggle with it :)
That's why my favourite language does represent source code as trees…

That is, in Lisp the source is lists of lists and atoms, which are trees of data. It's pretty cool.
This kind of sentence is par for the course in (my native) Portuguese. I have to consciously break down sentences when writing in English, to the point that my discourse in written English sometimes sounds, to me, too "stop and go". As such, I am used, and enjoy, such long, diverging, sentences.

To each his own, I guess. Both formats have strengths and weaknesses. Simple sentences, in logical form, are easier to parse and make it easier to follow the "formal"(ish) proof. Complex sentences more closely grasp and transmit divergent thought processes, where you attack related avenues of thought at the same time you are making the main point.

I don't think one option can be graded as better than the other. Use a hammer on nails, fetch a screwdriver for screws.
Yeah. The main part here is using immutable structures from the top, having cursors to sub-components with information about only the relevant data for that component, and have a way of re-start the loop when a data has changed.

Sometimes, though, we need to communicate to a parent or ancestor (e.g. to delete an item in a list). For that we can simply use events (or possibly callbacks) passed as statics to components. (Statics are values that doesn't trigger a component update when changed.)
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Website is a complete mess. Hardly anything on it works.
"Barely educated simpleton" is unnecessarily harsh. Historically speaking, living in an era with majority literacy is unusual (so as to dodge questions about the "true" level of modern literacy), as is living in an era with large numbers of people with the free time to read anything.

It is true that Dickens could assume a somewhat higher level of IQ in his readers of the time than we can today in books targeted for the "average" reader, but I think most of us would consider that an unfortunate thing if we really thought about it, rather than a virtue of the age.

If you want challenging books, there's no shortage of them today. You just need to know where to look.
i seen companies get around that limitation by storing multiple files into a compact file
It is marketing at it's finest: create fear and uncertainty and have a product ready to ease the pain (even though it won't likely help in any way).
You can't raise an objection to a project you never knew about, can you? It's a legitimate point, and the name is certainly close to Konqueror.
The first time I saw it mentioned, I thought it was just a weird misspelling.
I suspect it is referencing the illustrations linked to from those pages listed beneath it, of a duel between a man standing in a hole with a cudgel and a woman with a rock on some string.
From the comments:
"Look on the bright side. It's like being a professional mechanic in a town full of klutzy amateurs. The more they mess up, the more work we get. True, it's horrible work, but it's work!"

c.f. http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
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Well, wallet is a much better place than desk drawer.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_yo...

Still may or may not be acceptable, depending on context.
Ole Begemann recently wrote about the changes in the context of selling apps through the App Store: http://oleb.net/blog/2014/07/eu-vat-changes-2015/

Apple sells all apps through its Luxemburg subsidiary, meaning Luxemburg's low 15% VAT rate applied.

On the buyer side, am I right to assume that as a VAT-registered company/freelancer I will be able to deduct VAT paid on apps purchased through the App Store?
If I were a Ruby guy, I might have contributed code by now. I frequently look at popular PHP frameworks on Github to see if I can improve them. Sorry to hear nobody's volunteering any contributions to your Ruby project.
Standard disclaimer applies: Code is dangerous, yo. ;)
Creating Tor hidden services with Python
None of them work on my Firefox install
Except you know the lawyers are going to get a big cut of the proceeds as well.
I see these niche hacker news clones pop up all the time and then never hear about them again. Have any of them gained real traction?
Cool if the study confirmed the dichotomy of low-fat vs low-carb genotypes. This article doesn't say - its essentially a straw-man. One success doesn't prove anything.

In fact, I'm not sure what the study was trying to do? Imagine they're right - you have to choose a diet that works for you. What else is new? What's actionable about that? Already folks would try one diet, and if it didn't work they'd try the other. Now you can take a blood test and save a couple of days? No thanks, I don't like needles.
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> Quicksort cannot be implemented to be stable without an auxiliary array

Okay, you need an additional array (I am using a separate array, the "result array") [1]: But that doesn't matter, since the additional array can just grow (while the partitions/other arrays shrink).

Though my implementation is not cache-aware, which is very interesting and pretty relevant for performance.

[1] Actually I am using a linked tree data structure: "In-place"... which IS HIGHLY relevant: It can occur that the input data is large ((already) filling up (almost) all RAM) and these programs ("Execution Groups") terminate "the old way", so just 'abend'.

And hence it stands: By the way I have proven that you can implement QuickSort STABLE AND IN-PLACE

Thank you :) and fix you wording, when saying "Quicksort is..."
I'm looking forward to when the pendulum swings towards more minimal tooling in js land. I thought gruntfiles were bad enough, then I looked at yeoman. Lessons have not been learned.

You don't need a watcher to rebuild all your files every time they change guys! You can have a server return whatever files you want on the fly with each request!

Also, maintaining a list of file paths manually is waaay easier than tending to a series of wacky path globbing patterns deeply nested into some opaque "declarative" json object.
Datatau's still going strong.
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GREAT VIDEO. Wow, I didn't really understand the whole point of this, until about the 4 minute mark in that video.

It allows you to focus on near objects, and focus on far objects. It's not an infinite depth-of-field display... You visually get to chose where you focus!

It's like the DISPLAY version of a Lytro camera! (I wonder if you could hook up a one to the other!)

This is amazing!
I made my exit this year.

I just couldn't endure the attempts to turn programming into the new accounting. So, this summer, I switched from a developer to a security admin.

I can't imagine that adding thousands of new, minimally skilled programmers to the labor pool is going to do anything but make the situation worse.

Don't get me wrong, I think that programming being more accessible to anyone who is interested is a good thing. I am just concerned that we're going to have a bunch of people who want to get into it because they think it's the next hot thing. Like "Web Development" was 16-20 years ago.
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Low-weight high-rep exercises, like they do in Crossfit, will do very little to develop "power" (which I'm assuming you mean to refer to being able to apply a large amount of force across a distance in a very short amount of time, i.e: explosiveness).

Power comes from fast-twitch type 2b muscle fibers, and the amount you have varies based on your genetic makeup [2]. Its possible to recruit the other types of muscle fibers to become fast-twitch type 2b but that requires continuous retraining of fibers through plyometrics; as soon as you stop your body will regress to its natural ratio of muscle fiber types. Fast twitch type 2b muscle fiber tires extremely quickly (I remember reading ~10s but I can't find a source) and is not something that can be trained using high-rep exercises [1].

Doing hang-cleans (never do these [3]), sloppy squats, "chin-ups" and other Crossfit staples for time in rapid succession and in high volume will only really help you lose weight and slip a disc in your back, but it will do very little to develop "power". If you want real power and explosiveness train like an Olympic sprinter: high-weight low-rep complex exercises and low-rep plyometrics [1].

Sources:

[1] http://smscsqlx.sasktelwebhosting.com/services/exphys/wts%26...

[2]
Arabatzi, F, and K Eleftherios. “Olympic weightlifting training causes different knee muscle-coactivation adaptations compared with traditional weight training.” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 26.8 (2012): 2192-2201.

[3]
http://www.poliquingroup.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Art...
Softbank buys DramaFever
Are you running HTTPS Everywhere? That seems to break the blog for me (on Firefox), and disabling it fixes it up.
There are CRDT implementations for:

* plain text

* rich text

* maps,sets

* by-column Last-Write-Wins objects

* vectors

* counters

...and many other useful things.
I'm reminded of the study where four guys who all thought they were Jesus were brought together. Each thought the others were imposters, IIRC. Don't think it'd work.
Getting started in CV?
How do you recommend one get started? OpenCV is intimidating for a beginner.
Which website? The blog on which this was posted? It looks ok to me, as does the todo example. It wouldn't hurt to be a little more contructive!
Thanks for mentioning Mithril, I didn't know about it. It looks very interesting. I've been meaning to try React.js for a while now, just haven't found the time.

About Mithril, HTML generation with JavaScript is an odd design choice. Obviously it's much better from a technical point of view, but nested or complex HTML must get ugly fast, and I really don't want to deal with template code written by non-developers. Having said that, for a certain class of apps with high performance requirements and comprehensive browser support, Mithril is a very appealing option.
I wasnt very invested in this article or anything but also for me that sentence was the point at which I stopped.
I've worked for companies in the past where a "rotation" was you were on call 24/7 for a week or longer. Worked all night? Still expected at the office no later than 9 a.m.

It was exhausting as the people on call didn't have the power to actually fix the system. Instead, they would have to walk someone else through the steps over the phone. If it took a code change to fix the system, too bad that was at least two weeks of red tape, and every single time the error occurred they had to page the person on call to walk the person through over the phone to verify it was the same error and nothing could be done.

Think "big business," "division of responsibilities," "accountability," inept management who never had to suffer under the policies they demanded, and a toxic culture which was proud to "give everything they have for the product."

Luckily, I don't work for those shitty companies anymore.
Disclaimer: I run a bootcamp in San Antonio called Codeup.

While the media paints the camps as "get a great paying job", I see more people wanting a more meaningful life. They've got an expensive degree in English or something similarly un-useful and want to work on things that matter. They see coding as the path to get there.
How does this deal with offline storage limits in various browsers?
I read it as "Citizen 4". Then, if you reverse the order ("4 Citizen"), it becomes close to "for the citizens".
Watch this video at the 4 minute mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCwtBxZM7g

It explains what they're talking about. Your eyes can focus on different parts of the view - it's not just an infinite depth-of-field display like we're used to. It's like the display version of a Lytro camera.
Thinking this will change soon as Genius recently hired away Warby Parker's Head of Talent...
The Flux+Swarm TodoMVC was mentioned in the post. These are orthogonal things.
https://github.com/andreypopp/todomvc-flux-swarm
“Celebrating CSS” – Jeremy Keith on why some common criticisms are misdirected
Well, death spiral is harsh. Sure orchestras are closing up shop. But as described, they were being propped up unnaturally. They could play something else! If nobody goes to the classical music shows, then they're putting on the wrong kind of shows.

I'm glad to see musicians continue to be employed because it makes the world a better place. But the 'classical music' cult was weird. It's like the State Fair tap-dancing talent competition. Why is it there? Because they've always done it. Not really a spectator sport, but folks spend 10000 hour getting good at it anyway. I'm not going to cry over the 'death spiral' of tap-dancing either.
> priced far beyond what they actually cost.

Very rarely will someone tell you that you're not charging as much for something as you should (perhaps with the exception of patio11 because he wants us all to make more money :) ) but generally there's always someone who will say something costs too much.

As explained elsewhere, as soon as you want a product that will be sold by distributors you're looking at a retail cost of ~4 * the build cost. This is because distributors will be looking at a 100% markup to cover their costs (and give room for discounts etc) and the manufacturer will be looking at about the same to cover their non-direct build costs (research, development, documentation, customer support, staffing, taxes, returns, damages, profit, etc). If they don't price like this then the product is unsustainable.

The name you're looking for is probably "non-volume electronics" or "small-run electronics" where the cost of developing a small-run product is spread over a smaller number of units and thus appears to be more expensive than some apparent mass-manufactured equivalent device (e.g. a low end cell phone).

Let's take your examples of $3 + $4, add $1 for the case, and $2 for the PCB & other components and you're already at a retail price of $40 without considering assembly. It gets expensive fast.

But, for the right market, it's still seen as a fair trade of time/money.

(I've seen a really good spreadsheet somewhere that can be used to make this sort of calculation--but I've not been able to track it down. Any pointers welcome.)

For disclosure: I've met and chatted with Marcus on a number of occasions and contracted with Sparkfun in the past but otherwise have no connection with the product in question. I just know how surprisingly expensive hardware manufacturing can be and how disappointing it can be to hear "it's too expensive" from people who may not be aware of the costs involved.
My guess is they haven't taken off in NA/Europe as other parts of the world (most notably Asia Pacific). But they are definitely available. They look like very large emoticons.
For me as native German speaker it's not a really problem, since especially in older German texts, (very) multi-clause sentences are not unheard of. To give an example (source: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Anekdote_aus_dem_letzten_preu%...):

"In einem bei Jena liegenden Dorf, erzählte mir, auf einer Reise nach Frankfurt, der Gastwirth, daß sich mehrere Stunden nach der Schlacht, um die Zeit, da das Dorf schon ganz von der Armee des Prinzen von Hohenlohe verlassen und von Franzosen, die es für besetzt gehalten, umringt gewesen wäre, ein einzelner preußischer Reiter darin gezeigt hätte; und versicherte mir, daß wenn alle Soldaten, die an diesem Tage mitgefochten, so tapfer gewesen wären, wie dieser, die Franzosen hätten geschlagen werden müssen, wären sie auch noch dreimal stärker gewesen, als sie in der That waren."

Or Kant (very famous for his multi-clause sentences) (Source: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/kritik-der-reinen-vernunft-...):

"Wenn sie nach viel gemachten Anstalten und Zurüstungen, sobald es zum Zweck kommt, in Stecken gerät, oder, um diesen zu erreichen, öfters wieder zurückgehen und einen andern Weg einschlagen muß; imgleichen wenn es nicht möglich ist, die verschiedenen Mitarbeiter in der Art, wie die gemeinschaftliche Absicht erfolgt werden soll, einhellig zu machen: so kann man immer überzeugt sein, daß ein solches Studium bei weitem noch nicht den sicheren Gang einer Wissenschaft eingeschlagen, sondern ein bloßes Herumtappen sei, und es ist schon ein Verdienst um die Vernunft, diesen Weg womöglich ausfindig zu machen, sollte auch manches als vergeblich aufgegeben werden müssen, was in dem ohne Überlegung vorher genommenen Zwecke enthalten war."
I'm all for niche HN clones, but looking at the articles on the homepage.. yowza. Are they simply poor selections or are they truly top-notch articles?
Webstorage is a bit handicapped for SPAs. There is a 5MB size cap, and you can only store strings. It's nice as a cookie replacement, but the limitations hurt for anything more advanced. IndexedDB resolves these issues while also being fairly well supported.
I'm running Firefox 32.0.3. Seems to be running fine for me.
Funnily enough, you can mark a stark difference between the Dickens example and the paragraph from GP. Dickens is easy to read and understand despite meandering, the GP example is not.

Theories as to why?
Huh? I've always thought of architecture as ephemeral. Everything in a house has a limited warranty. We're constantly gutting, tearing down, rebuilding. How is that different from beaver dams again?