skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Ryan,

I didn't see your comment before I posted, but definitely take a gander at my previous comment for a good place to start.

Good luck!
"Heterogeneous System Architecture Runtime", if you were wondering like I was.
Wow does this signup ask for a lot of personal info without making me feel secure about handing it over.
...wow! This is a really compelling

I know it's really fashionable to hate on javascript, but there's really something to be said for being able to code a web browser with tools you can learn on Khan Academy.
Rob, myself, and others have written tomes on this, on Hacker News, golang-nuts, and elsewhere. If you're trying to have an argument with Rob (he's not reading this, btw) over some pithy statement he made in February, you're wasting your time.
YOU don't get it. He's not talking about their actions; he's talking about his own.

Also, yes, they are constrained by law. That's how we're able to take the government to court.
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Not as reliable.
I used to hate running
I think it's a biased poll. It asks if the government "should regulate the Internet like it does radio and television."

Radio and TV are on the public airwaves, and subject to prohibitions, including the prohibition of transmitting pornographic movies.

A very direct reading of that poll questions could be "do you want the government to regulate the content that can appear on the internet, just like it does radio and TV?" Hence why "Sixty-eight percent (68%) are concerned that if the FCC does gain regulatory control over the Internet, it will lead to government efforts to control online content or promote a political agenda, with 44% who are Very Concerned"

A perhaps less biased question would be ask if the government should regulate the internet like it does the long distance phone services.

Also, and in case people have forgotten, there already is federal regulation on the internet, with laws like CAN-SPAM and DCMA.
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Not saying that I agree with GP, but the US was much less centralized during the early days of the Constitution than it is today. Part of that is practical - fast communication makes it easier to centralize.

But over many years through a combination of Supreme Court decisions, legislation, and executive decisions, authority has become more concentrated in the hands of the Federal government than in the state/local government, or left to the individual.

That's not to say that it's all bad - civil rights, for example was a hugely important movement only made possible by moving some power away from the states. But to deny that it has happened isn't right either.
I was expecting the amazing story of Niels Bohr dissolving Nobel prize medals in acid to hide them from the Nazis:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/disso...
The government has nothing to lose. They can print money and write new loopholes into laws. There need to be class action lawsuits against every corporation complicit in crimes against the public. If I can get paid for Red Bull promising me wings, I can certainly sue Google for using a sealed envelope as the logo for Gmail.
I was one of the lucky users. I was on the road (coming back from a family funeral in rural Kansas) at the time the email was sent, so I was barely on my cell phone network enough to see the email, and wasn't near my desktop computer where I usually do all my password changes. But I only use my password for any given site on that site itself, and I have now reset my Hacker News password, so all's well that ends well. Thanks to the HN team for fixing the bug and for notifying the users affected by the bug.
As someone who likes perl, this frightens me. It seems like an esolang, is it really intended for productivity?
It could be cause they did not train him properly, or other factors out of his control. Who knows....
I feel like coining a new phrase 'Pulling of a Munira', defined as 'Successfully but falsely convincing people of having a degree from a coveted university over a long period of time'
Depending on where in SF, transit (SamTrans) could actually be faster than Muni to SoMA. It really depends on where.

Mission does have BART, and that's a high-density-of-hipsters area.
You've written tomes on how wasting vertical space and multiplying syntactic noise is a good idea? Even if so: ideas are not measured by the volume of noise you write in support of them.
Straight from the horses mouth - answer here from Yishan on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...
Why gold when we have BitCoin? :)
At the risk of prolonging this insufferable "conversation": my point is that it has been discussed to death, and you're being down voted because nobody is interested in discussing it with you, or even hearing you discuss it.
That's the point of having a clear set of rules somewhere because most people skipped that part of the tutorial. (I did too) I had to be stuck somewhere, quit the game and redo the tutorial very slowly just to see if there's a rule I didn't see ;)

Another way to find the rules is to use the "eye" on every turn in a 6x6 or 10x10.
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Dane nailed it. This is a problem the free market would resolve if allowed to. Yes, there are issues that others have raised like rural access but competition would make net neutrality a much smaller issue.
New pictures inside the mysterious Yamal sinkhole 'crater' in Siberia
Help me stalk a VC in Menlo park
Gentlemen, I require your advice.
My company just shipped me to Menlo Park to attend some business. Unbeknownst to them, I am very much interested in landing a gig in VC. While originally I didn't think much of this trip, walking in front of the KPCBs and A16Z of this world on my way to my office made me realize that this could be an opportunity.

What is the best way for me to meet someone at these firms over the next few days? Even a quick coffee with a busy associate would make my day.

In case it could be useful, background wise, I am a junior investment banker at a vampire-squid-tier firm. I have experience in tech and have a comp sci degree. I'm European and based in london
Nice way of playing with different visualizations of data.
Said statement: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...
“Hello world” is the hard part
If you run a news site, or any site at all, we’d like to issue a friendly challenge to you. Make a commitment to have your site fully on HTTPS by the end of 2015 and pledge your support with the hashtag #https2015.

This article is funny... written by the CTO for nytimes (et al).. asks news sites to make a commitment to HTTPS... but fails to commit to it for NYTimes.
The root cause of all this is the fantasy of a certain group of people. Those believe, against the evidence and the suffering of their fellow citizens (let alone their fellow human beings), that enthroning money (aka capital, corporation, and all that) will boost the economy. The result? Money now owns the US, and drags all down into hell hole.

One moment of sadness passes. Let's go and make some money. Gotta pay the bills.
I’m David Dunning, a social psychologist
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edit: I'm wrong.

I have found a correct solution, yet the game doesn't accept it:

B r r B

r B B r

B B r B

B r B r

The correct solution was:

B r r B

r B B r

B B r r

r r B B

My guess to this is that there are more than one solutions to the problem and checking if the board is solved is done by finding the first solution and comparing it to yours.
Okay, so this splits sf by having the north and extreme west be joined with tiburon and part of the north bay, and the rest of the city is another district.

Seems like it would be better NOT to split the city into two districts. Probably the algorithm should take into account city and county limits. But maybe that's just me.
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If they allow this in US, Yelp will be out of business in no time.
Provisions in the law the gag participants from even talking about a violation of their rights are particularly insidious. Sure, they're Kafka-esque, but they also affect the poor, small and marginalized disproportionately.

What is a small business or private citizen to do if they cannot even talk about how they're being wronged against? How will they solicit the support of others? How will they use the free media/press (meant to be a bulwark against injustice) to publicize their cause?

This isn't isolated to just the NSA/FBI/DoJ, or the US alone. Ag-gag laws [1], "super injunctions" [2] and "secret trials" [3] are all examples of this dangerous trend.

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/agricul...

[2] - http://www.lawteacher.net/human-rights/essays/super-injuncti...

[3] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27806814
The fees are too high. I get that they're much lower compared to what a hedge fund might charge, or even the run of the mill mutual fund, but consider this:

The average investor over the previous 10 years earned a 2.6% net annualized return (http://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/2014/04/24/why-the-avera...). The performance actually gets worse over longer timeframes.

That means that at the high end of Acorn's fee structure, the average investor is paying almost 20% of his investment earnings on Acorn management fees. That's high!

Considering the platform is all automated (according to Acorn), I'm not sure what part of Acorn's system demands such fees, as really all it's doing is shifting funds around through a set of simple rules (unless I'm not understanding completely?)

What I'd really like to see is an open source passive investing platform which you can hook up to your bank and your broker's API (if both of those even exist), with a config file where you state your preferred portfolio breakdown (i.e. s&p 10%, bonds 10%, stock XYZ 5%, gold 10%, euro 20%) along with specifying frequency and amount of transfers from bank -> brokerage account, which would handle all buying and selling and periodic rebalancing. I wouldn't be surprised if some brokers already offer something similar and with no extra fees on top of normal trade fees.
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Who is buying the iPhone 6 models
Algorithms: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
I just submitted a webview-driven app to the App Store and it warms my heart to see others doing the same. This seems like a neat tool, however I am unable to get past the sign up screen on either my Moto X or my iPod Touch...the large "Sign up" button doesn't seem to do anything. Am I doing something wrong?
Your third row contains 3 B's and only one r. Each row and column has to have an equal number of each.
Panic is not the answer here. Training and regulation is.
How about fossil?
http://tuxdiary.com/2013/09/20/fossil/
A question. I've played with J a bit, but I haven't had the "burst of enlightenment" that some suggest will come (ala lisp/haskell/etc).

My hypothesis based on a few conversations: the "burst of enlightenment" is treating problems like "applied math" rather than computer science. I.e., "first represent as a vector, then do linear algebra, iterate this process until < epsilon". Since I already do this in Python/Julia/Mathematica, J just feels like a variant with esoteric syntax.

Possibly my problem is that I'm simply programming Python in J. Can anyone with deeper knowledge of J confirm/deny this?
I can see people who haven't hit that level of burnout might think Yishan is being crazy or an idiot. The truth is that startups can be insanely difficult and stressful, especially if it's your first time.

Once you've hit the wall the smallest thing can crack you up. I've seen people break down in a boardroom over seemingly trivial issues, but through the lens of years of insane stress it made sense.
This seems like a big governance challenge. This is a big challenge for boards and CEOs. CEOs like to have full authority, and be held accountable. Boards like to be able to ask questions. In the end, the board's only true recourse is to fire the CEO.

Here it sounds like the CEO wanted a freer hand, and left when the event signaled a change in governance. (You can't take $50mm and not expect questions)
My wife is from Sweden and I spend a lot of time there. I'm moving there in a couple of years. Scandinavia definitely has a culture that does not tolerate the kinds of things we have in the States. It is definitely a cultural difference.
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To be fair the Python bindings are pretty simple, you could easily implement it in Python 2. You do need evented I/O however so you could write either gevent or twisted bindings.
The language and IDE flamewars happen because at work, other people make you use tools you wouldn't choose on your own, to write software you don't personally want or care about.

You don't see sloppy Haskell because no one is being forced to write Haskell at work. They're only using it because they want to.

The way I see it, it's not so much about discipline or type systems, it's more about freedom and choice.
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Working for the Man himself
Yeah, sometimes the link between human intelligence, mind, language, and the order of the letters in the alphabet is the key to measuring human mind.

Read more here http://www.kabalarians.com/cfm/meaning-of-names.cfm
FOSS Tools for C programming you cannot live without?
I was wondering what tools everyone uses for C that are FOSS and you could NEVER imagine coding without.

Example: GCC (gcc and gdb), Valgrind, nano (eewwww ... yes I said nano), git.

Thanks and I'll take my answer offline ;)
Yeah - AFAICT, Go is only taking this long because custom import path checking [1] needs to land in Go 1.4 first to make sure that users get rid of their pointers to code.google.com.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jVFkZTcYbNLaTxXD9OcGfn7v...
You seem to be assuming that rural availability at cost above what people are willing to pay is desirable.

The fact is that there are costs and benefits to living in a rural area. Rent is cheaper. Land is abundant. Infrastructure is more expensive. Similarly for city folk, land is expensive, rent is high, but economies of scale make fast internet feasible.

There is no compelling reason that people in cities should be subsidizing rural people, apart from rural congresscritters attempting to buy votes. And if there were such a reason, lets do it honestly: raise taxes in cities and funnel the money directly to rural areas.
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I should add here that I met an incredibly intelligent young man named Julian from Dartmouth and doing some work with MIT who is proving with COQ and a model of a CPU that his implementation of cache lookups for (various) crypto algorithms results in exactly the same line patterns and the number of cpu ticks is similarly invariant. Some people go the extra mile.
"[Reporters: if you want to share this URL, append "?share=1" to the end of the URL so that viewers can view this answer without the regwall]"

Or maybe do that be default instead of forcing people to register?
Naked Objective-C is not much interesting or useful without accompanying frameworks (Foundation, Cocoa, AppKit etc). Just like publishing only C# compiler without all of .Net framework would be.
Velveeta's great if you want a cheese that melts smoothly.
I agree with your assessment of USB, unfortunately now it is so ubiquitous you can't avoid it. My biggest complaint about FTDI is their devices are just too expensive, and I just haven't found a better replacement.
You understand that Josh Brown is on CNBC right? That silly little half time report. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100831613, I'm just going to leave that there for you. But don't worry he is reformed!

Are you seeing how easy it is get lumped in with the CNBC crowd?
AADs have barometric sensors. That works for skydivers because they zero it on the ground, they're in an unpressurized vessel and they always experience the same force vectors (with variations, belly vs. freefly &c).

How would you build a CYPRES-style (barometric, integrated, cutter based) AAD for an event like this? And why would you not have it built into the seat?

Speculation: they wore standard bail outs sans AAD, like regular pilots. This guy either don't remember pulling or had the forces excerted on him and/or his gear pull for him.
There's nothing wrong with using an engine at all. For the same reason I use Numpy and don't bother making my own array manipulation classes.

Most of the time you don't need to reinvent the wheel because someone has probably spent a PhD implementing it better than you ever will. I think this is a perfectly valid excuse and I use it every day. If I didn't, I'd get no work done. With the libraries available few people should ever need to implement an FFT, for example. However, it's good practice to try coding some algorithms yourself to see how they work.

In terms of games, I assume the intent wasn't to belittle, but to try and show people what happens under the hood. It helps you make better decisions about which engine to use and what features to use within the engine. If you're given pathfinding options within your engine, to take a silly example, do you know enough about the algorithm to know which one would be best for your game instead of blindly choosing A*?

Understanding how the underlying code (probably) works allows you to make better decisions about which engines to use, which features you want and which you could brew yourself if you needed to.
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Reddit has grown so much under Yishan's stewardship: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit

According to the graph, Reddit has tripled in size since SOPA. People could say that Reddit would have grown with or without Yishan, and while that may be true, it ignores how completely easy it is to mess up growth, especially for a site like Reddit.
It's not really adding another level of indirection, it's taking one away. The pain of change remains in that you have to internalize yet another new layer, BUT at least this way you get to leave VMs behind. It's trading one layer for another slightly more granular one instead of piling another one on top.
Agreed on Look to Windward, that or Player of Games for a good overview of how the Culture works.

I think State of the Art is often overlooked, it's a wonderful novella. There's a fantastic Radio 4 adaptation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU
When Quora first came on the scene I was a power user. That kind of shit spoiled things fast for me.
Great review article on this topic in nature: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Diagnosing%20the%20decli...
Call me naive but I completely believe sama and yishan. Everyone's trying to find the "real" reason because we're all so used to companies lying or trying to save face in every non-positive situation. Too many times the boy has cried wolf and nobody's willing to believe that this time it's the truth. CEOs stepping down for major screwups citing "spending time with family" has made us question if anyone ever voluntarily resigns from a high profile job.

Voluntarily quitting is treated as an act of cowardice instead of strength. We espouse failing fast in projects but not in our own personal choices. People are questioning the real reason because they can't accept that a CEO of a hugely popular site has chosen to resign on good terms instead of being involuntarily ousted. Long ago I wrote something about quitting that many of my friends and family loved and hated ( http://chir.ag/200804242130 ) but I still stick by it. I wish more people would resign, breakup, divorce, and leave when they are in a miserable, non-salvageable situation than stick around and make everyone including themselves miserable.

Good luck to yishan and the new reddit crew!
There likely wouldn't be any significant concentration if they'd put the reactor through a grinder and dumped the whole thing in.

The Pacific Ocean has a lot of water in it.
The link appears down (hostname doesn't resolve for me):

http://web.archive.org/web/20141108100240/https://www.statio...

% host www.stationary-traveller.eu

Host www.stationary-traveller.eu not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

(In case that helps someone.)

In fact, I think I have something, because dig www.stationary-traveller.eu +trace seems to work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12025173/dig-returns-serv...

My resolv.conf is just 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 so I'm pretty sure this is affecting others. OpenDNS resolves it, though:

% nslookup www.stationary-traveller.eu 208.67.222.222
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.stationary-traveller.eu canonical name = aurelia.vernstok.nl.
aurelia.vernstok.nl canonical name = aurelia.jelmer.uk.
Name: aurelia.jelmer.uk
Address: 178.63.244.14

This might provide a solution: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1278335

> EDIT,fixed: The CAUSE was that /etc/named.conf had no zone set for that domain. and also there was file for "DB record" missing in /var/named/domain.com.db file. This manual fixed it: http://kb.iweb.com/entries/21155058-Adding-new-domains-to-DN...
Hm, I agree that github CR is not good. Glaf they're using Issues though as Github discussions are a _really nice_ way to build software. I personally find Gerrit painful to use, but has critical features, as enneff described. Hope Github really steps up to the plate.

Also, everyone who uses github whould really check out *Sourcegraph's code review stuff. They show you really useful things like:

- exactly what definitions were added/removed/changed (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient/.p...)

- a diff with jump-to-definition links (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient/.p...)

- a list of people and projects impacted by the change (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient/.p...)

Totally gets rid of the "understanding the PR diff" problem others mentioned
Personally, I'm less inclined to put up a fight about that than I once was. I argued pretty passionately that it was terrible and etc, but I've since spent some time on Quora. It has fascinating content. We should probably accept that their growth strategy is either brilliant and succeeding even without our Expert Input, or their growth strategy is dumb yet Quora is successful in spite of it. Either way, bringing it up every time Quora pops up is probably more harmful than helpful at this point.
Traditional search will never fade away, it'll be diluted. It's the same premise as what's happening to Microsoft with Windows, or Intel with the 'old style' CPU. The traditional desktop type OS isn't going to disappear, as people have been regularly and incorrectly claiming for ~20 years - it's going to be / has been diluted in terms of usage and importance.
Rare for an investor to put money into a company with the expectation of replacing the CEO. The speculation you propose is extra unjustified given that there was no change in control with this investment.

I know it's popular for HN to take the side of a persecuted CEO but in this case there's no evidence, or even pattern matching, to support this perspective.
>To achieve an explosion you have to induce super-criticality with very precise timing. Otherwise the uranium will melt and become sub-critical before it explodes.

True, but the complexity of the Fat Man plutonium bomb (shown in the link here) belies the simplicity of Little Boy uranium bomb.
Gerrit is an absolute treasure of a tool. I shudder everytime I make a pull request in Github because Gerrit's contribution model is so much better for my workflow.