skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very interesting equilibrium too. As law enforcement increases the risk premium of running a drug market, rational markets need to compensate for that increased risk by diversifying into more lucrative activities, which in this case means adding more "evil" goods to the market.

The interesting part is that it further enables LEOs to further justify a drug war that is increasingly seen as unjustified by tying it to other law enforcement activities.
We built this app because we spend a lot of money on grocery each year and it sucks to know that there's money left on the table if we don't use coupons. But using grocery coupons is too much of a hassle for us to deal with.

Milk automatically applies grocery coupons for you when you are checking out at the grocery store. No need to scan a receipt, no need to show the cashier anything. Kind of like an easy button for grocery shopping.

Would love to get some feedback as we're actively iterating and improving. Thx!
Two things: Directly before that sentence the voice says "This is about a game that was never designed to be played competitively." However it's really not been about the game at all.

Secondly, i was directly addressing OP's description of this series as "this awesome documentary about SSBM", which is (not intentionally, but nevertheless) far from what the documentary is actually about.

> The first video has so far gone over wave dashing and l-canceling

It mentioned them. I still have no idea what wave dashing is at all, since they never explain it beyond "you press a lot of keys really quickly, like in starcraft". And l-canceling has a comparison, but it's shown extremely quickly, with little explanation fo what is being shown, and the meaning of the "l" is never explained. Heck, the only reason i know what canceling means is that i played godhand.

> what you were expecting?

Interesting stuff about the gameplay itself, the techniques used. What's the normal gameplay, how does competitive differ, what breakthroughs have been made, how and why do competitive techniques work. I really wasn't expecting "yes this guy drove like a thousand miles to play a game and win 200$" to be drawn out over many minutes. Not to discount the achievement, but i've heard tens of such stories before.

Edit: Also gameplay footage which has more meaning than any of the trailers to the new transformers movies.
The Unicorn Club: 24 New Unicorns Added Since 2013
I get junk mail for Mr qweqwe asdasd a lot as confirmation of your point :)
That's because Linus had the fairly unique position that CVS et al. are actually worse than not using a SCM at all.

The BSDs have been using CVS for a long time so it's plausible they used something like RCS or SCCS before CVS was available.

FreeBSD repo goes back to 1993:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=2
Mozilla Now Accepts Bitcoin
Ha, interesting. Can you elaborate on what these "magic properties" of malloc() and pthread_mutex_lock() are? I'm curious.
Since it's only a plaintext page, you can read it with curl. Or you could, except the server is broken and sends back gzipped data even if the client doesn't request it.

curl https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20141113-bastion-hosts | gunzip | more
What about people who aren't married and don't have kids? HN has way too many people who absolutely know something, and who are completely wrong.
Show HN: Friends4Tonight – Meet new groups of friends. Tonight
The Open Data Era in Health and Social Care
We as developers and open source advocates have to get over this "thou shall not ever remove code" no matter how old and useless it may be.

What the NeoVim team is doing sounds a whole lot like what the libressl team did when they forked OpenSSL, which also had tons of code for obsolete operating systems.

At the point of this presentation[1], they removed 90,000 lines of code; it's probably more now.

Unlike system software like OpenSSL, Vim is something I (and many developers) spend many hours each day using. In 2014, there's no good reason why it shouldn't be as responsive and flexible as possible.

Sometimes when my projects get large and have lots of files open and Vim starts to slowdown just a little, you can almost feel the decades of technical debt taking its toll.

As someone mentioned previously, the function that waits for user input [2] is 400 lines long and has more the 41 ifdefs, many for operating systems that have been long dead.

Interestingly enough, it's because of the growing popularity of Vim that this is becoming more of an issue. I live in the Boston area and have visited many startups; Vim is quite popular among them. Yes, it's a little hipster, but in a good way. ;-)

We have lots of seasoned developers at our Vim meetup [3] of course, but there are way more younger people who've discovered Vim. The room is usually packed.

1. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00026.htm...

2. https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/blob/master/src/os_unix...

3. http://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Vim-Meetup/
I think this distinction is important. Balance is about the diversity of choices players can make.

In nature, there are balancing mechanisms, but there is no balance. If one organism learns how to overwhelm another, it often spells the extinction of the weaker organism.

In games, however, if one character is unviable, then the game is said to be unbalanced, which naturally leads to discontent with the portion of the player base that likes that character. Balance is a battle against the natural entropy that generates tier lists or food chains, because it is a human preference, not a trend or a law of nature.
Going under the hood of Inbox
Thanks for adding the price info to your post. Should probably be on the site too. :-) is your service open for non-US people? And will it be useful?
What's the use case for searching for "an API" exactly? Usually, there's something very specific you want to do with an API...
How are you at Interpersonal Reads?-- sounds like he's Big Picture, while you're the Detail Guy.

Realize some of this friction comes from you. Persevere, suggest reading up on Conflict Management and How to Manage Your Boss.
Not that it matters. A bite from an Australian animal would kill you before the rabies kick in anyway.
a piss.io
> It is unrealistic to expect a non-technical stake holder to deeply and accurately describe anything but the most trivial feature.

That's why you have a Project Manager / Business Analyst / Whatever Title You Prefer.

Few would consider going out and hiring their own construction crew to build their new house, managing materials deliveries, blockers, scheduling, head-count, etc. That's what a General Contractor is for.

But in software, both (some) business people and (some) developers think they can get away with attempting to go down a well-travelled path (by others) and do it all themselves.

Without that experience and expertise it's more likely than not IME that you'll spend more than you have to, and since you aren't a scheduling wizard and are trying to keep all this stuff in your head, you'll have numerous "stop work"s, conflicts, change-orders for half-baked designs, etc.

If you're building anything beyond the trivial, and you'd like to have a reasonable ball-park for what it's going to cost and how long it's going to take, make sure you're talking to the GC and not the plumber. And run far away from any business that tells you they cut out overhead by removing the GC.

I saw a slide not too long ago depicting a development process. It went something like: Skateboard -> Bicycle -> Scooter -> Car -> Truck.

If I'm the one writing the cheques, I'd be pretty pissed that I paid for four vehicles I didn't need before I got the one I did. Especially when it could have all been easily avoided by asking the right questions.

Agile can favor items on the left over items on the right. That doesn't mean you don't do the items on the right. It doesn't mean you start without a contract. It doesn't mean you don't plan. It doesn't mean you don't document requirements.

There's nothing Agile about having a chat between A and B, sitting at a keyboard, and spending money. That's just cowboy coding. And when it inevitably goes south, best of luck getting the stockholder to fall on their sword for you.
Vancouver gets downright dreary in November - maybe I can convince my co-workers that a natural light-mo-tron would be a good office purchase.
Datalog at Play
> "Cantor Fitzgerald did have extensive contingency plans in place, including a requirement that all employees tell their work passwords to four nearby colleagues."

This baffles my mind. Is this common practice in finance? What would stop a malicious actor from impersonating someone whose password they knew? Even if these passwords aren't tied to someone's identity in any way, they presumably exist to secure sensitive data and/or systems, but then they're shared with officemates like Dilbert comics?
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Thanks for the suggestion! We have currently outsourced to someone but I am afraid they wont be able to handle our scale soon. I am currently reviewing zenefits and Zenpayroll, but thought will be worthwhile to understand the details before making a decision.
The electricity provider here requires the use of 'smart meters' (that is, if you want to use their electricity). Via smart meters, they can identify what electrical appliances are used in your house and when (and possibly even how you are using them, such as what TV show you are watching), giving them a good picture of everything that goes on in the privacy of your home.[1]

There is no opt-out. They have this information on everyone in the state.

[1] This is not at all a fringe theory. It's been discussed on HN at least a few times.
My two go-to theorists for data presentation:

William Cleveland: http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~wsc/

Jacques Bertin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bertin

Blog post was cool, especially to hear about the systematization of subway graphics, but if you say "scientific graphic" you have to read those guys immediately. (And the person whose name begins with "T" is a bit overrated in my estimation).
> And given that you leapt in to accuse me of being part of HUAC

Speaking of failing to comprehend the exact words someone wrote. If you want to be taken seriously you should extend the same courtesy to others, even those who disagree with you, full stop. I was disagreeing with you in good faith because I was troubled by the implications of what I thought you were saying, and instead of providing any kind of helpful clarifications you provided personal attacks. Which one of us has the axe to grind?
The Last Mile Opportunity and Amazon’s Breakfast Octopus
Well thats pretty much what the article boils down to. How am I expected to know that. The interface changed, the buttons were gone. And only now do I find out about a gesture to do the same thing.
You never get outside the universe, if it's infinitely large (and there's no evidence to the contrary).
Ask HN: Dart's Future
What do you guys think about Dart's Future as a programming language of the web? I see a very bright future down Dart's long road but Im also kind of worried about many of the ignorant people's views about Dart(IE Java-like, made by Google, competing with JS(which it isnt)). if Dart is implemented to Google Chrome(Which is actually closer than you think) it will be a huge turning point for Dart and hopefully other browser vendors will follow the lead. There is nothing but good with Dart, its 2x faster than JS, it outperforms V8 JS engine and it has many packages being updated and created every day(see https://twitter.com/dartcode for automatic pub package updates). It wont replace JS, but it will be one of the big players(as it may be already) in web development. What do you think?
I used to work with water-cooled test equipment.

One thing that surprised me was that the water was warm. The reason I was given was that had chilled water been used, you would have all sorts of issues with condensation. So instead of cooling the system with cold water, you cooled by pumping in lots of room-temperature water. The next effect: the same amount of heat is pulled out.
Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers
Isn't Ruby on Rails a web framework and not a programming language?
The only time I've come across a game of that variation was in an episode of The Office US and that was enough to convince me it was a bad idea.
This is some of the worst bullshit I've read in quite some time.

USE AN IDE. It's there to take care of the boilerplate crap for you. It's there to correct your typos. It's there to give you instant lookup of API calls. It's there to flag your syntax errors so you don't have to do the annoying "code, compile, placate the compiler, repeat" cycle. Using an IDE will NOT make you stupid. People who advocate this view are the same kind of people who insist on a manual transmission as an indicator of a good driver. IT'S NOT.
Fun for parents: replace every mention of the robot in this article with your teenager's name and see if they are doing better or worse.

We could be facing the teen laundry equivalent of Deep Blue defeating Kasparov!
Mobile tracking: Find an address? Easy. New devices can calculate your altitude
Looks like a FLWOR statement in XQuery.
Why would it? If you enlarge the scale and find that the principle applies, it's useful.
Articles on 'happiness' are a staple on HN. We see Western fixations – such as obsessive individualism, technological fanaticism, and economic intoxication – as the height of human progress. Analyze everything with the scientific method regardless of the problem at hand( Mapping happiness to curves and parabolas. really?).

We have tuned our minds into advanced scientific grooves but have an underdeveloped psychological mind unable to grasp its own misery. Its like riding on chariot drawn by mismatched horses.
The issue is the previous lock screen didn't require any swipes to enter your unlock pattern. They added a step, making the most common gesture slower than it was before.
Obama's Immigration Announcement
I recently took a look at Evolution's fraud offerings, as I do anti-fraud work for an online company and was curious to see where the masses of fraudsters I deal with were getting their CC number and bank account info from.

It's actually pretty incredible; I was expecting to see simple "dumps" of CC info and bank login credentials, but it was much more sophisticated. Sellers were offering "packages" that would include bank login information (priced according to account balance), lists of IP addresses that were known to be flagged, SSNs and address information to help with security questions, and guides for how to best use this information.

Definitely seems like it'd be easy for a criminal with a little tech know-how to make a full time job of buying and exploiting this info. Based on the prices I saw, it would only take one successful fraudulent transaction out of many attempts for it to be profitable.
Show HN: Next-gen HTML5/animation app sneak peek (beta testers needed)
Without signing up for it to test, it's unclear whether each email thread is assigned a different 'host' so that in the end every person handles the actual purchase/ordering of 1 other persons gift (much like secret santa).
It's not immature to make the observation. Porn has been a driver of new media technology throughout history - Magic Leap reminds me of nothing so much as a portable kinema viewer.
> There are a bunch of new ‘transitions’ between elements. I don’t know what the battery cost actually is for this, but as a user I just don’t care about cute transitions between elements. I want fast interaction with my mobile device.

In other words, UI animations are literally a waste of time. To hell with the battery, the user's time is the most valuable resource, period.
The point of this project isn't just to do laundry, otherwise it would be a valid point.
Most of the time when I try to use this it just doesn't accept the email address. I've wondered if they sincerely don't think that's a valid email address or if they're intentionally thwarting that strategy.
> If you stay within your clique you severely limit the number of possible merchants and if you trust them through personal relationship or foaf why go through the hassle of an escrow system like this?

Because as you increase the radius of your search, in a small-world netwok, you reach a very large number of real people while being minimally impacted by Sybil cliques. Check out the work on SybilGuard or SybilInfer for instance.

>Ok so how about I just sell a bunch of high value "items" between my own accounts? Now my account has participated in a number of valid high value transactions. Since it is distributed there is no way to ensure the transaction is real.

Ah, but you're looking for transactions reported by people who are themselves close to your circles of trust.

> Who build their trustworthiness the same way. This is easy to game look at pagerank for an example of a similar rating system.

A random surfer model is a naive model. With better probabilistic model, you become more resilient to gaming.

> This isn't actually true though because you don't verify the data in any way(nor can you) so an attacker can craft the input to tell any story they want.

This isn't arbitrary data, it's data connected to you in some way.
Ten Cool Sites #5
From a personal banking standpoint, I think it'd be nice to have a sort of overlay on my account that helps me budget by breaking my balance up into buckets, categorizing my withdrawals, and straightlining my income. I imagine that with sophisticated service discovery (e.g. common loan options), an interface like that could recommend additional services that would help me that I might not know about otherwise.
> The title of the submission is "Do not use IDEs".

But the page title of the submission it actually links to is "Exercise 0: The Setup:"

I think whoever posted this on HN was purposely taking things out of context for controversial lulz.
How cam bitmessage possibly be worse than Tor? All that bitmessage indicates is that you're taking part in the network, not what you're actually saying or who you're talking to.
Libuv 1.0.0 released
The scrolling is interesting, but it scrunches the tabs on the left as I add them and then I have extra actions to go to the first tab I opened. I see no purpose in this behavior.
yep, this is my primary annoyance with the new update
Better alternative to Yo
I actually sometimes feel bad for people who for whatever reason don't end up having children. It may seem like the rational choice in the beginning but I wouldn't underestimate the long term upside.
Spend more time getting and staying fit. Beyond functioning better, it really does change how people treat you and think of you.

Realize that business and political acumen is a learnable skill: read the classic business/interpersonal books like Crucial Conversations, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and others. Most business books are pure fluff, but there are truly great works out there.

You will probably stay at your first job too long. It feels safe and has some nice benefits, but you won't really grow unless you experience different workplaces.
Ionic relies on CSS and AngularJS.
Additionally, it is intended to be used with Apache Cordova, though it is not mandatory
There are a lot of non-Apple products. I recall seeing things like printers buried in the old design, but I assume drones are new? I am curious how people will feel about the perceived dilution of the brand vs. knowing their audience and curating interesting ancillary product offerings?
Spy cable revealed: how telecoms firm worked with GCHQ
Searching for "voice calling" changes the input to "voice\ calling". And then there are no results :(
Ika Chalu – a thought provoking short film
Feeling dissatisfied or frustrated with one's own life isn't equivalent to putting down those of other people's. You seem to have misunderstood the term 'midlife crisis'.
Do you have a good reference to administering an OpenVPN server? Setting it up is easy, setting it up with HA is also no problem, but administrating OpenVPN for a startup that doesn't have a dedicated sysadmin would be a very useful guide.
The browser is essentially giving user-supplied code (shaders) to a graphics driver that isn't sandboxed in the way the browser's Javascript VM is.

This reason was used by Microsoft [1] and Apple to not implement WebGL in IE and Safari, but I don't know what's changed now.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons...
He isn't talking about "recommending shows," he is talking about how Netflix used data science to determine what shows to produce
Real bullshit is spewed when someone make comments about something they don't know anything about.

This advice given about not using IDEs is on a site teaching programming in C to complete beginners. If you had spend just a few minutes on the site, you would have realized that there is no boilerplate crap to learn in the lessons he teaches and that it makes a lot of sense at that level to forego using an IDE and focusing on learning the language using a simple editor, rather than spending a lot of time learning to use a specialized tool.
A couple possibilities that I'm aware of:

* All intelligent life goes extinct before achieving interstellar colonization, or is content to remain in their home stellar system.

* We are in the first generation of life in the galaxy capable of achieving interstellar colonization, due to the time scales required for sufficient heavy elements and evolutionary complexity to arrive.
That doesn't work with Yahoo! Mail.
PostgreSQL 9.4 RC1 Released, final in 2 weeks
Where I work we still have many solaris machines and our logins are managed via NIS. Is there a hashing function that is supported for logins on solaris, linux and BSD that we can use other than the DES based one?
You can’t get entangled without a wormhole (2013)
I'd love to see it.

Build a product that allows a consumer to see all their account data in a single dashboard for review and analytics. Do analysis on spending habits, deposit trends, where are investments, how are the investments doing etc. Many people have a very hard time understanding exactly where they stand because they have multiple accounts, investments etc and it is nearly impossible to get a real time view of it.

Add to that the ability to print a financial standing document that could be used by banks and loan companies to help determine credit eligibility. I am thinking about saving time as most banks have people provide a few months of bank statements etc, and provide funds proof when getting mortgages and other loans.
Aged IT exposes big banks to young challengers
Open sourcing my startup
Wow, you actually sound bitter towards the fact that people on average get happier later in life.
I agree, and I'd like to follow up on finitude.

No matter how successful you are, how much you figured out what you wanted and how well you did it -- there will be something within the sphere you've committed to that is left untried. Eventually it sinks in that some of those somethings will always be left undone. There will be no time for them. This feels like a loss, and letting go is hard.

One other side to this, even within our chosen area(s) of interest that we have worked hard on: Unless we are very unimaginative, we all ultimately must fail, despite many successes. As this sinks in, letting go is hard.
you could try http://apis.io/?search=call or http://apis.io/?search=voice

there are also some listed http://apis.io/?search=tag:voice