skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The summary document for a blog entry that hasn't been written yet. It has potential, but I would hope that Anwar Bosbool takes the time to develop it more.
If accurate, I'd guess that it's the cache lifetime for which of the default subreddits to show on the front page
Copyright law. Apple's Emoji font is not under an open license for you to copy and redistribute.

The only two emoji sets that I know that are under an open license are now Twitter and EmojiOne
A Troubadour Walks into a Bar (My Coming Out as a Generalist)
Ya, my thinking here is exactly the same as yours.
Use RequestPolicy to browse safer with Firefox
I bet the backend service is developed by the Evi Technologies group in Cambirdge.
Please, post the same for OS X (Yosemite)! I tried and it seems 'modern' requires extra libraries not present.
Yes, whenever I hear polyfill I think computer graphics. Then I decided to read up on it and discovered that it's such a simple concept that's been employed forever. I just continue to shake my head at the kids coming up with jargon to make old things new again. I wish the computer field were less like the fashion world.
Ah crap, did it come across as snarky? I'm not very good at conveying tone through comments, it was supposed to be mildly poking fun while making a minor nitpick.
Apps aimed at children collect a shocking amount of data
Harvard Secretly Photographed Classrooms to Monitor Attendance
I checked out your website. You can try using a Bootstrap theme for your website.

Check these sites out:
http://www.littlelines.com/
http://symondsandson.com/
Neat! Would a 1-bit computer be 8 times easier?
Yep, that's the one! I couldn't remember the exact name, so thanks for finding it.
Thanks for asking, we feel like Beluga is most effective for groups of that size or smaller. Can I ask what size of group you'd like to use with Beluga? And what that group would be for (development team at work, dishing out chores to your 10 kids, etc.)?
Location: Pensacola, fl

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Objective C, Matlab, UX design, few years of experience in web technologies (6 years ago in LAMP, Html,css)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lecoutre/20/47a/a1b

Resume: http://ocelad.com/download/resume.pdf

Portfolio: http://www.ocelad.com

I'm a Software and Cognitive engineer with strong skills in Java and User experience design. Experienced on a variety of technical and creative projects including tactile feedback, surgery simulator, and an iOS 3D interface. Looking for a challenging and fast-paced environment and an opportunity to have a positive impact.

My research include Sensory substitution and augmentation. Interested in mobile platform, web technologies, IoE. Green card holder. My native language is French and I speak fluent English.

Email: dlecoutre at gmail dot com
Show HN: Criticl – Altruistic Publishing Platform and Grassroots Journalism App
I would like it to read to me. My wakeup browsing headlines, my kindle ebook or names of recent Facebook postings.

I would like to replace my Clapper with it and add a connection to my coffee maker. [BION, the Clapper is one of our top gadgets so we do not have to roll over and turn off the bedroom lights].

I also would like it to respond to >1 name so different people can have different commands and/or meanings.
I will never understand the YouTube ads that show 3-4 seconds of black screen and then "allow" (not sure what controls this) the "skip this ad" after 5 seconds.

You (the advertiser) have to capture my interest in the first 10-20 frames of video, and pitch me in 5 seconds. Anything else is a waste of your money.
> You might think that no-one really buys a car because of the product placement where the successful business owner drives that model in their favourite TV show

That would be an unusual viewpoint. People love identifying with their heroes -- I don't think anyone considers that a secret.

Related: http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2014/10/26/h...
It's true, but we can make way better steel than Damascus steel, nowadays. We are better at almost everything than any past people have ever been. Do you know about anything a past people have done better than we know how today? That would be really fascinating.
Do WhatsApp license Apple's emoji? They've been in WhatsApp's Android app for years.
Or will it just sit silently being copied from one storage medium to another forever without anyone thinking about why and what is in it?

Well, given how large portions of our DNA is seemingly meaningless sequences, I'd say "probably yes". Albeit slowly suffering random errors, much like DNA.
Keep in mind, within this community, there is a large portion of developers, and thus, more likely than the average person to be able to affect positive change through their work / side-projects. As such, it's a critical issue that I think HN is smart to not shy away from. The same systems that can gamify an action can be used oppressively. Thus, one has a varying degree of personal responsibility to what one builds or contributes to.
Anyone know of a study or methodical analysis anywhere (on the web or in a publication) assessing the character and extent of the influence of this "money in politics"?

I would love to see it.

It seems to me that massive campaign donations from corporations are only effective when a large fraction of the voters is voting in an ill-informed, rather mindless fashion. And as long as voters behave thus, it's not clear (to me) that it would take much money at all to undermine the effectiveness of a democracy.
We do indeed - http://xkcd.com/927/
There are two lenses through which you can looked at typed computation, intrinsic and extrinsic. From the extrinsic perspective (which I actually prefer for semantical reasons), you are classifying the terms of a computation system which are already endowed with an operational semantics; in this sense, you are constraining computation. But I prefer to use the term "classify" rather than "constrain"; in systems built on this kind of theory, like Nuprl, for instance, you can give a type to any kind of computation you want, even the kinds that are typically ruled out in type theory (such as partiality).

The intrinsic perspective is where the computations and the types are inextricably linked. This is the proof-theoretic, gentzen-style way to look at it. In this case, it is harder to say that you are constraining computation; and in many systems in the intrinsic typing tradition, it is a lot more about inferring computation than constraining it.

However, do not go and think that the extrinsic perspective is "lifeless". I would say that it is the opposite, since this is the result of taking seriously the realizability-style semantics which underly the entire intuitionistic notion of Truth as understood by Brouwer and others. I consider the Curry-Howard Correspondence (the identification of program with proof) to be lifeless, in the sense that nothing is really happening there, since the programs are literally proofs of judgement in a formal system; but the Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov correspondence, which is similar, is much more interesting--this is the classification of computations as witnesses/realizers for propositions.

Intensional type theory is a theory of formal proof, where the terms are literally proofs of judgement: it's pretty dead in there. Type theory based on realizability, though, is more interesting, since the computations exist on their own and we categorize them as the essential computational content of propositions.

Once you go down the rabbit hole, what seems lifeless now may not then. Though based on what you have said about algorithm design, it is entirely possible that we simply have very different aesthetics for theories.

If you are interested in reading further, I wrote something here: http://www.jonmsterling.com/posts/2014-10-29-proof-term-assi.... And follow the links which I give, since those are better than what I wrote!
How to build a failure-proof system to make one new habit stick
Post your browsing history for the last month / 30 days. I cannot explain why I must have this data, but I must have it. It will keep everyone safe. You have not done anything wrong, that is why you have no reason to not immediately produce said browsing history.
riding 4,000 miles a year for 40 years gives you a 4.2% chance of dying in an accident

No, it doesn't give me a 4.2% risk of dying. That 4.2% (assuming your math is correct) is a figure for the entire population which doesn't say much about an individuals level of risk.

It is possible to ride in a low risk fashion that will put an individuals risk at a significantly lower rate. There is a reason my insurance rates are drastically lower than a 16 year old on a super sport.
I don't know if the last page of the presentation is inspiring... Nowadays, I imagine the CEOs of successful companies more relaxed than the people below them.
I'm here to answer any questions about Criticl, we love feedback!!
I kind of like some of the retargeting ads. The web is a much nicer place when all the ads are for things I care about, rather than "100,000th visitor, click here".

Plus, at least thus far the retargeted ads have all been... friendly? Not obnoxious?
There isn't as much profit in doing a legal activity.
If you're interested in homemade computers blondihacks has a whole series of articles on making one from design straight through to completion:

http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?page_id=1761
Probably with a loom something like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oewvqPF9JU

There are still villages in remote areas, e.g. Himalayas, where weather and location mean you have to pretty self-sufficient. As others have said, if you have sheep or goats you have the natural resources, add some women (not trying to be sexist, this is just based on observation) to do the weaving, and bam, outfit.
It’s Now Possible for One Person’s Brain to Control Another Person’s Movements
Not "wasted" -- those hours led to a quite fruitful career in Web development. Picking apart an application skins and configuration, and learning some of the nasty, filthy tricks you can turn with bitmaps? That is knowledge I still use just about every day.
months? Don't you mean years? At least Numbers has been available since the very first iPad AFAIK - one of the things that Apple clearly did better with their iPad introduction compared to MS's Surface introduction with no touch optimized Office.
No, what I'm saying is, what you choose to share is public. People share so much every day, nobody needs to spy on you at all.

Everyone thinks the govt./bigco is out to get them. If they are, they don't even need to do any actual work, people give the information away hand over fist.
New robot helps teach coding to kids through music
AWS Speed Test: What Are the Fastest EC2 and S3 Regions?
Art meets science at Super-K detector (2006)
Finding Error-Handling Bugs in Systems Code Using Static Analysis [2011] [pdf]
No, I agree with you.

>No, what I'm saying is, what you choose to share is public. People share so much every day, nobody needs to spy on you at all.
Everyone thinks the govt./bigco is out to get them. If they are, they don't even need to do any actual work, people give the information away hand over fist. [1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8570568
Agreed, and to add to this: To me, the most useful filtering for tech job boards is...."not California" and, to a lesser extent, "not America".
If you let fear stop you from doing something as benign as blogging, I think you need to re-evaluate your risk vs. reward assessments.
You can take a look at the project author profiles.
This is what I started thinking about as I was reading the paranoid HN comments. I believe there's open source voice recognition but the challenging part is taking commands and making them actionable.
Debian releases ttf-symbola (as part of ttf-ancient-fonts), so I imagine that has to be free as well, given Debian's policies.
There are many cases of drug-police taking bribes from drug dealers. If you can't believe that happens in the US, at least accept that it happens in other places.

Just a few years ago the President of INTERPOL was convicted of taking bribes from a drug dealer.
This is a great idea. In general, I think there's great potential in anything that connects developers with other developers to provide reviews of software.

Recently, I tried to research some of the new CMS/API platforms that have been released in the last year. There was no information. I'm sure these API's have been used thousands of times, but developer has written a review. So I'm left making decisions off marketing pages and PR-driven blog entries. Implementation takes hours that I don't have, I just want a trusted review.

It's really dry territory. You can do well here.
He has a bunch of interesting material and a book called The Geometry of Musical Rhythm. Being a CS prof, though, he has the intensely annoying habit of counting everything from zero. Musicians don't do this, they count from 1 (like everyone else except programmers), and so all his diagrams, notation etc. have to been mentally shifted by one step every time you reach for an instrument or talk to another musician.

I personally think that counting from zero is a really harmful habit. I understand how it originated and of course switching to counting from 1 would involve all sorts of kludges and result in all sorts of bugs. But it strikes me as a classic case of abstraction gone wrong, as 'the nth step' is going to mean entirely different things in the problem and the software domain.
Sure it is, for the perfectly ordinary notion of "truth" that most people use effectively and successfully every day.

Does it conform to some philosopher's essentially alchemical (that is: imaginary, unachievable, uninteresting and useless) idea of "truth"? Of course not, but then: why would it?

As a card-carrying Bayesian I'm somewhat sympathetic to Jaynes' position, but the fact is we can and do distinguish between relatively subjective phenomena ("broccoli tastes bad to me") and reasonably (but of course not perfectly) objective ones ("quantum uncertainty is not an artifact of our ignorance"). Both are a result of of the objective relationship that holds between the knowing subject and the "really" unknowable world, with different poles of the relationship being more or less dominant in different cases.

Reality is imperfectly knowable, and of course only knowable from the perspective of a knowing subject. We can only say a very small number of things about unknowable reality (it is probably non-local, for example) but all of our knowledge is still knowledge, and holding any of it up to the standard of "truth as in how reality would be known without a knowing subject" is not only wrong but incoherent.
There is a Unicode standard, see http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/unicode-7-0-introduce... which explains a lot about emoji.

There is room for interpretation to what each drawing will look like in each implementations. The standard simply says something like: "Cloud With Lightning"
< HYPERPOLYGLOT.ORG (atsıgn) domainsbyproxy.com > and clarkgrubb.com
I wonder if the next step in service hiding is to do this on a service more like freenet?

I haven't checked the status of the project in a long time, but one of freenet's features was distributed hosting, with encryption making sure that nodes could not inspect their own content.
I don't think you can do a lot more than disseminate documents that way though, rather than actually useful sites...
We (https://markedup.com/) use C# heavily and do about 20-30k requests per minute on fairly small Elastic Beanstalk / EC2 instances.

Mostly ASP.NET MVC, but we also use Akka.NET for a lot of our internal services.
Have i missed something ? Is there any special reason for this to appear on hn ?
Silkroad 3.0 will probably be this: https://openbazaar.org/

Good luck in taking that down.
When I click "Get cookies now" and type in my office zip code (94104), it says you aren't delivering there yet, but your map would suggest that you are. (I'm at Market & Montgomery)
> And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would.

A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback.

Assembly doesn't address the same use-case as founding a company, and while it's ostensibly aimed at potential "founders", I doubt many people will conflate collaborating via Assembly and a creating a startup.
I would be highly interested in knowing what the risk is for a population of mature riders, who wear proper gear all the time with 50000+ miles experience is. I'm sure my insurance company has the numbers on file...
‘Why I Turned Down Silicon Valley for Washington, DC'
The AFK world isn't so different. Do you know who is still alive of the people you last spoke to 5, 10, 20, 40 years ago?
I've gotten very comfortable riding the Boosted Board at it's top speed (in SF), and sometimes wish for more speed. I had never ridden a skate/longboard until I got the Boosted Board.
Attribution in the source would suffice if it really bothers you. Almost all open source software has attribution as a requirement (ever look at your iPhone Settings->About->Legal->Legal Notices)

That being said, we could potentially CC0 the graphics in the future but attribution isn't much to ask.
Oh my.

Rocket Scientist at SpaceX? I think his career might be put on hold for a while.
Having studied historical advertising, there was plenty of it, all the way back to egyptians in xxxx bc.
No mention of how htmlbars will affect famo.us integration?
I would find a friend, since it's not a timeline we have much control over right now, and getting the board earlier means more time to ride.
and again this why you should use http://www.sagebump.com/?info&view=technocrat to manage your social aggregator news
The name of this repository/API (twemoji) is unfortunate in my opinion. It is odd and makes me think there is something misspelled.
System Calls Make the World Go Round
Cool idea! I'm not sure about the conductivity or thermal properties of structural carbon fiber, but it may end up being a good option.
Let he who is without a mobile phone in their pocket and a Facebook account cast the first stone.
Conversely, consumers can and do watch the data leaving such devices.

The open-sourciness (while not complete) also eludes to what is being stored and shipped to these "megacorps" who have "nefarious" purposes.

I would be more worried about a small third-party flashlight app dev selling your ocntact list and gps history, as opposed to a company with a billion active users.
That's pretty good, but it's second place to my desire for a Majel Barrett voice pack.
Yes, this. My gripe is not privacy-related. It's that we've built an entire society that puts things to spend money on in my face, and studies me to better learn how to do that. Google and Amazon are both problematic in this regard.

It takes most people aback when I say that Facebook is probably a much richer intelligence agency than the NSA. And people offer that information to them. Data is far too valuable and it creates the wrong incentives throughout life.
> Though we've traditionally focused on helping very early-stage companies, our successful companies have asked for help on topics like scaling operations, managing hypergrowth, building out management teams, etc.

This makes a lot of sense given the blog post a few days ago from `sama [0] — the evolution of YC from incubator to "meta-company" or network facilitator could only be helped by having more late-stage expertise on hand, so nodes don't drop out of the network.

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works
Do home automation systems like this exist? I was very tempted to create a simple one using RPi and Python to control my lights and I did a cursory search and found nothing too impressive. I could see why this could be really expensive and thus not drive a lot of demand but it seems like something you see in most sci-fi movies that is very possible and a few rich people would enjoy.
The Dark Net: What happens under the conditions of anonymity? [video]
One year of international phone calls, mapped
Probably the dusk of "international phone calls" as a relevant metric : voice over the Internet increasingly replaces POTS for international conversations.
Source: DHL's Global Connectedness Index 2014
http://www.dhl.com/content/dam/Campaigns/gci2014/downloads/d...
Yup, but the one takeaway I get from these court documents is the FBI needs someone to make some bone headed mistakes in order to bring them to justice.
That would be an unusual viewpoint. People love identifying with their heroes

Of course. My point is simply that there are more tried and testing advertising models that work than just the two that exist in roymurdock's opinion.
Your argument could be just as easily applied to this comment on Hacker News.
OT: I wonder how one gets a domain like this?
Not at all. Not to completely repeat myself, I'm merely saying that all such hash functions will have collisions. So the fact you have collisions doesn't imply weakness as it's a fact of life. So all you're left with is to look at the feasibility of finding a collision. We're both saying the same thing IMO.
I couldn't find any info on what cut Doughbies takes versus what percentage of the price goes to the baker.
As someone that develops websites for a living, I think making sites accessible to everyone is my number one priority. It would be one thing if the site said, "you need to enable javascript to view content" but this site just says, "page not found."

Also, I don't appreciate the sarcastic tone of your comment. It's not necessary and I can see by the comments below that you are wrong and out of line.
I wonder why you're being downvoted for a hackish idea on a site called 'Hacker News' eyes rolling. I think the idea is interesting - not sure how to make file sharing work though, can you mount SSH drives from the local network on Android? Or do you want to just use Dropbox for that?
I just wrote my own... Seems like adding an entire library for this is definitely overkill.

var emojify = function(message) {
var codes = [
'\ud83c[\udf00-\udfff]',
'\ud83d[\udc00-\ude4f]',
'\ud83d[\ude80-\udeff]'
];
return message.replace(new RegExp(codes.join('|'), 'g'), '<span class="emoji">$&</span>');
}

Edit: If this isn't clear, you'd then define an emoji based font family for the `emoji` CSS class. This means no image based emoji and therefore no colour, but IMO it's much simpler and actually more visually pleasing (black and white forces smarter emoji designs).
Sales tax in San Francisco is 8.75%, so, yeah.
Hacking trademarks for free culture
Ask HN: Which Bay Area startups are heavy on functional programming and hiring?
There are a few friends of mine looking actively to work for great startups in the Bay Area (and SF ideally) that are heavy on the FP - Scala, Haskell, OCaml, et al. Any takers and/or job postings?

(And yes, I realize AngelList exists! Wanted to see if there are any in particular that should be checked out :-)
Pretty sure every arms manufacturer is a war profiteer, and someone has to do it - doesn't mean they're bad people. They could have taken a pass on the cluster shit, though; that's just not necessary.
> A bunch of people who infiltrated the mob are now infitrating groups of nerds in basements. It's frustratingly hilarious.

I'm a little skeptical of this whole shtick that online criminals are just "nerds in basements." A nerd can do a lot more damage to your life with a computer than your average petty criminal.
Is there a particular decrapifier you recommend?
this requires additional software to do so. Tapping into a device that essentially already does those things maybe easier?