skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the article you're calling "dishonest" in 2011. The Syrian civil war was still mostly Assad bombing his citizens. It would not have been possible for me to "qualify[] the consequences of the whole scenario from the vantage point of history" in a document written before that history happened. I agree that Egypt, Libya, and Yemen (and also Syria and Bahrain) are worse off now than before the Arab Spring.

I agree that companies aren't democratic. I think that's a good reason not to hand our government to companies.

Historically I don't think there is a tradeoff between security and stability versus democracy. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa... goes into some detail about the unstable, insecure history of undemocratic governments, specifically to rebut neoreactionaries who are calling for an end to democracy in order to return to an illusory imagined past of security and stability.

Democracies usually don't make very good decisions. They do seem to make many fewer catastrophic decisions than non-democracies, though.
How tmux starts up: An adventure with Linux tools
I wish I knew how to disabuse these people from their collectivist hypnosis but as you can see from your interaction, they don't use reason - "leaving them alone isn't a good decision" is just a feel-good sentence with no substance.

Why is it unreasonable to offer help to the mentally ill?
Fascinating. This is looking more and more likely. I've wondered for a while if one of the main pieces of resistance to this theory is just the tiny size of the claustrum - no one wants to accept that the seat of their own consciousness is so miniscule.
It does happen. In fact, I think that a couple of my best (and highest-voted) answers are necromancers. However, I should note that the question you linked has 51464 views. And a lot of the questions I've earned necromancer for were similarly well-viewed. That's not typical. Most old questions get a fraction of those views.

Edit: In fact, I should admit that I usually only put the effort into answering old questions when it's something that has a lot of views. It's an indication that the question is linked somewhere prominent or is ranking well for some search terms. Those questions are worth putting the time in for. Most aren't.
What does something like \D{2}\S{3} mean? Out of context it seems a bit... cryptic ;)
Very cool. Do you have any information about pushes other than the content of the push itself?
How we built Flow
That's a problem in the same way that Tourette's Syndrome often creates employment problems (some people with TS have an uncontrollable urge to swear a lot, a problem known as coprolalia - this can make it hard to get served as a customer in a store, never mind hold down a job).

You gotta treat God as entertainment, mostly. He's not prophetic in this. I caution against latching onto any particular thing He says. If I am not doing offerings, He says nonsense.
It's a regular expression, probably Perl syntax:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrebackslash.html
Gonna throw it just in case, I'm very fond of Massalin's thesis http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/

A jitted, partially evaluation capable kernel. The thesis is very readable, proof: I could enjoy almost all of it and I'm a monkey. It might give some insights about kernel design that may not be told in mainstream ones.

ps: mandatory wikiwiki page http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SynthesisOs
But this is a very narrow and, if I dare to say, ignorant and self-centric view, because it implicitly relies on the thinking of “we are far more intelligent than any other life form, and human's intelligence is the only way intelligence can be work”.

I would rephrase that last bit as "human intelligence is the only way intelligence has been proven to work." We just don't and can't know which bits of human intelligence are necessary and which are arbitrary. For example, an emotional framework, the aspect of having drives and "desires" that lead to "illogical" and "irrational" behavior and interactions with others - is that required or not? How can we begin to reason about a non-human-centric concept of intelligence? Given how little we understand, I think that is too tall a task at this point.

and maybe, entities such like countries or the internet are actually of more intelligent “life” forms, just we haven’t realized that yet because they don’t look like us at all

I do believe that the collective aspect of intelligence has been wrongly ignored in AI. We try to build these monolithic beasts that take in mounds of information and try to make sense of it all themselves. But (yes, relying again upon the only known implementation) a single human on its own will never achieve the modern sense of intelligent behavior. It needs a society of humans, the benefit of a shared amorphous corpus of understanding that exists outside of any individual. And it requires many independent individuals with their own perspectives and ideas to probe and extend the boundaries of that understanding.
That's part of it, but of course you can embed monadic types/effects within the appropriate combinators. (I think "tel" showed an example of this in the original "transducers" post)
It's much more exciting to see "master_poop" cited in Business Insider, though.
I would add William Blake to your list: clinically insane by most parameters, obsessed with religion, but occasionally capable of producing art that could melt the most hardened atheist heart.
I'm currently reading Brad Feld's Venture Deals. Awesome book with a lot of material. I'm trying to find something more in depth - regarding the financial process to read over Thanksgiving
Accruent Acquires VFA, Inc
stupid hypercritical judgmental people downvoting did not understand the sympathetic reference.. and are probably the ones to know less here about this guy, oh well..
Alfred Raises $2M
That seems like it's going after a very small segment of the market.
InsightSquared Closes $13.5M
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*hold court*

"Woman commits blasphemy"
*punish*

"Child commits idolatry"
*really punish*
WiGo Closes $700k
First off, for studying apps behaviors over the past months we've observed some pretty interesting content strategies: marketers and content producers are hard at work on making notifications are more polished experience. Then, platforms are pushing notifications forward, they know it creates addictions for both developers and users so they're likely to invest more there in the future. It's becoming the interface for users. For developers, it's growth + engagement. Eventually, notifications formats themselves are evolving: richer, with images, with more characters, with more elaborate call to actions, etc. I'll think we'll see some interesting innovations in this space in the next 18/24 months.

I'm still totally with you on Cyanogenmod with no pn. As someone wrote earlier today on the Internet: 'I miss the good old days of being AFK'.
I thought that but I think it's a big assumption that these people work business hours.
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I like this comment, and how the author respects the craftsmanship of Terry.

For a different cultural view of schizophrenia, here's an article written by a Western-educated medicine man of the Dagara tradition:

http://earthweareone.com/what-a-shaman-sees-in-a-mental-hosp...
> Surely that counts as harm in the eyes of the law?

It's not very well defined but the intention is clear. [Fiar Use] is concerned with the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; And the effect on the market. You could say that the effect on the market is positive because taking a fee for basically effortless distribution of educational material would be unethical, while the substantiality of the paper is such, that it couldn't be reduced to excerpts for the context in which it is used, to get the meaning across. But that's what fair use just about perfectly covers, quotes and such like, not reproduction.

Whether it really is unfair, that's for open access journals to disprove. They could argue monetary disadvantage to the point of monopolization. Although, splitting up a monopoly into many small companies would be detrimental to the collection, too. Anyhow, I'm not sure the advantage is only from price discrimination and hard driven business strategies or editorial edge or what-have-you.

[Fair Use] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
Just read the backstory. What a bunch of crap on apples part.
This is entrance to foobar. It is pretty easy to figure out crossword using either a calculator to convert bases or (wolfram alpha for the lazy) and [0] for regex. I have not used regex in years, but got in easy.

[0] http://www.regexr.com/ . Hint mouse over regex after you type it for explanation of what will match, try it out in the text editor below. Fairly trivial.
As you say. I think that in a sense, though, your opening is the most telling:

> Terry ... works hard, has a clear vision for what he wants to do, and makes it happen.

Mania is a double-edged sword. To not let anything stop you from your goals is to be unable to doubt that your goals, or the assumptions upon which they are based, are crazy. (This is an odd thing to ponder upon, as an entrepreneur.)

There's a rising cultural understanding of what it's like to live with depression—to doubt everything, especially yourself. There's very little cultural understanding of mania, mainly because it's a much more "obvious" problem that quickly marginalizes the people affected, rather than leaving them exposed to society.
So isn't help from friends or a professional network related to hiring EXACTLY what I described?
I don't think it has to be that extreme. They do have a corporate culture of extreme secrecy, which I think comes from growing up in the shadow of Microsoft, Yahoo, and other much bigger companies. But I don't think their survival or even prosperity depends on secrecy any more. However, it's deeply embedded in their corporate culture, and I think it's actually spreading to other Silicon Valley companies.

There is an issue of incentives, but I don't think it's as strong as you think. I think it's just that running services makes them money, while releasing open-source software doesn't, so they devote lots of effort to running services, and comparatively little to releasing open-source software.

It would be very challenging for them to open-source "as much software as they consume." That would be a many-billions-of-dollars effort. But it wouldn't be necessary — the great thing about software is that you can copy it, so even if you only release a tiny fraction of the amount of software as you "consume", everyone still benefits.
my is lexical, our is global, local is dynamic.
Stellar: 0 to 1M signups in 37 days
Your comment was actually pretty good because it spawned other very positive comments. We really like them all :-)
Are there any bench marks comparing it to ruby, c or even mruby?
It will be, but it is appealing to a large casual set of the market, and it could reduce congestion significantly in a city if it gets enough traction.
nope, there were microfads on Usenet, where there was no karma. it's just a matter of the medium supporting slow conversations extended across multiple threads. think of this as a single desultory conversation about ocaml; we just had one about bsd and we will have others.
One mans maintainability is another mans mess.
Procedural carpooling. Neat.
I've been a vim user for a while now, recently started my move over to emacs (evil mode is not bad at all), mostly influenced by the Clojure community.

What does neovim do for a not so hardcore user like me who's happy with the current state of affairs? Or in other words, what am I not doing right with vim that I fail to see what neovim offers, apart from a modern code base and may be a better way of writing plugins?
I think at least on the first on you are asking the wrong question.

The point is not whether it can be replaced by a centralized server the point is whether it's more powerful open than closed.

Personally i find that any system where everyone can become the the validator will always be better in the bigger picture than if they can't.
In a similar vein this could be used to replace restaurant delivery drivers.
Very nice! The texturing and lighting are what really makes this demo. Unfortunately, it only displays correctly for me in Firefox Developer Edition, not FF 33.0, in which the picture is skewed: http://i.imgur.com/7i74m36.jpg.

If you're into tiny cube-based 3D engines also have a look at this demo for the Lobster programming language (http://strlen.com/lobster): http://i.imgur.com/ZZWFkXn.jpg. Its entire source code fits in the screenshot.
all is trivial but regex, what data to use for those hints ?
I don't think this is a small market at all.

I was in SF a few weeks ago and was shocked by how cheap and effective Lyft Line is - it ended up being comparably priced to public transportation in terms of getting around the city. (A tad more expensive, yes, but not an order of magnitude more, as I would have expected).

I've already heard of people using Lyft Line in this way (making money on the way to work), and I imagine that many more people now will, since it's officially supported.

Think about how many people already carpool. Now think about how many people don't carpool, simply because of the hassles of coordinating transportation with another person. Lyft Line addresses that burden.

I used to carpool on my morning commute with about four people, and it was awful trying to coordinate times, or remember who wasn't going to be joining us today because they had to go in early, or who was running late... all sorts of headaches. Because Lyft Line is on-demand, drivers don't have to worry about most of that. The downside is that you don't get the benefit of carpooling with the same people every day, but not everyone would mind that - and in any case, this feature seems aimed at ad-hoc trips (like running errands), not just regular commutes.
That is it, I was trying to say that in a GP, but it turned out less apt.
Inc ase people weren't aware, there's a 'showdead' option in your HN profile that lets you see dead comments and submissions, eg those from hellbanned accounts. I don't think terry's comments are so consistently offensive as suggested above but he does post a lot of stuff that is bizarre or offensive to the casual reader, so the hellban makes sense.

Other times he posts lucid informative comments on technical topics and usually someone with Showdead enabled will copy them into the thread so everyone else can see them. It's not an ideal system but it's an acceptable compromise between keeping the site usable for as many as possible without completely barring access to someone like Terry.
Shared carpooling (called "slugging" here) has a been a viable commuting option for people in the DC area for decades. No money changes hands; the point is that a car with 3+ people can use the much faster HOV lanes.

http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp
Someone crossing the streams?
I'm not so sure. Business and recreational travel, which I'm guessing is most of Lyft/Uber's business, accounts for a very small portion of all travel. This however, attempts to unlock business in all point-to-point travel... which is monstrous.

I would certainly join if the network effects were similar to that of Facebook and hitching a ride was a simple affair.
I wish I could impart upon you the disempowering effect of condescension. When you "offer help" to someone who is happy with where they're at, and not in distress, you're basically telling them that they probably can't make it without you stepping in to support them. You're telling them that they, the wretched ones, are dependent upon the real people, who come down from on high to help them sort their obviously broken lives out. That HURTS. More than you could ever know.
tl;dr: they've become convenience stores.
I'll premptively add a bit of precision before a pedant comes along: my is lexical all the way; our defines a lexical binding over a global variable, and local defines a dynamic binding (of lexical extent) over a global.
It's working for me in FF 33.1.1 on Windows 7.
Just a few for coding experiments, only a few dollars' worth.
From the article:

> Unable to work, he collects Social Security disability

He's doing ok because the 'collective' takes care of him.
By that logic the UK isn't democratic. Is any country democratic?
Yes! I book listings with Airbnb when traveling abroad and I always had a great experience with the hosts. I've some friends inside too that are always talking about how great is working in such an innovative company.
How is push notification different from an SMS or a call?

I don't have all of them on vibration, they don't all have the same importance to me but mostly it's just another way of communication. When I receive an email, I wan't to know it, when someone contact me on Skype or Facebook, I wan't to know it too.

If I don't wan't to be disturb, I just press volume down and the vibration is off.
The first lexer was added over a year ago: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/678
Yes. There are some here:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

Here's another one:

https://github.com/nsf/pnoise

And then in the samples directory ( https://github.com/manastech/crystal/tree/master/samples ) there are some more but without time results (but you can try them yourself).
San Francisco’s Homeless Problem as Viewed Through Human Poop
Last time I visited, it had a message like "You can only log in if you have logged in before." Is this part new, or is it just a different way to enter?
The notion in your first paragraph sounds like a reasonable assertion to me although it does presuppose the rather dogmatic notion that an omnipotent Creator would "demand faith" rather than "grant a gift of free will / gift of being able to forget he exists".
Where do you get this information from?
> By that line of reasoning, coffee shops should start employing security staff at each table, listening for patrons plotting terrorist attacks

If an employee at a coffee shop overheard patrons at a table detailing a terrorist plot. What exactly do you think would happen right now?

I mean, I'm all for thought experiments, but you haven't carried out step 1.
Flow control and abstraction in BlackBox (talk excerpt)
Likewise in SF/Oakland - http://sfcasualcarpool.com/
> the murder is being used by politicians to openly further the goals of the security services, who may have actually recruited the murderer.

Your citation please?
This is completely different—the last site was targeting python devs.
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> The way things stand, I agree that there's currently a big rush in the UK to approve wider snooping laws

These laws have been fully rejected once and will not pass in the current government. What the heck news are you even reading if you don't know this?
In that particular example, the only misleading things are the indentation, and the lack of block delimiting for the inner match. The language grammar is accepted by the grammar compiler bundled with OCaml, which doesn't like ambiguous grammars.
Image Compression: Seeing What's Not There
If I remember correctly the lava is the hardest thing to efficiently render, correct? Cool regardless.
The thing is, I've never heard that term until now. I lived in the DC area for two years and worked with quite a few commuters. It's cool that it's a concept but there hasn't been mainstream adoption to the point where it's as easy as an app in your pocket until now.

If a tree falls in the woods...
Can you provide some more details on your parallel interface? As an ASIC designer, these numbers sound extremely fishy for a non-serdes interface. A 128-bit parallel interface (which is a lot of pins, especially if you need 8 links) would need to be running at 3 GHz, for instance, to hit that. Is it differential/single-ended? Source-synchronous? How big of a package are you planning?
The example sieve does a bit of extra work. You can start at

candidate**2

instead of

candidate*2

since the composite `2` has already been removed in a previous iteration.

Nice work.
"Show HN" requires that there be something users can try out and use now. The website makes it seem like this hasn't launched yet, so we took Show HN out of the title. If that's wrong, we'll put it back.
Looks interesting. I would be curious to know how you guys track notifications? Did you have to jail break the iPhone?
>It seems the EU is stacking the deck against small companies and instead favoring larger organizations that can afford full-time accountants. Or favoring large companies that then sell VAT services to the individual.

This is a common effect and often an intended one when it comes to regulatory capture and the raising of trade barriers to protect those in power.

Charge more at checkout, EU citizens will either understand or they won't, but they are the ones that need to confront their own laws passed by their politicians.
People who mix opiates with alcohol or benzodiazepines face serious risk of death. 9 times out of 10 you find a person like this face down on the floor and you rouse them and they are a bit discombubulated for a few minutes. Sometimes you can't rouse them but they will wake up when the chemicals wear off. Sometimes they don't wake up.

And yes, the illegal status of opiates and the criminal network enforced by that is a part of the problem, but the fact is that first responders and ordinary citizens are facing collapses like the one above today.
Google’s Brendan Burns Introduces Kubernetes
The key pages of the full report relevant to the US providers believed to include Facebook are 127-133.

Some of the statements it makes are much more modest than the politicised responses; others a fair bit more dubious.... either way I think the below are more interesting talking points than the original article...

(i) They believe multiple accounts were closed by the service providers themselves due to "terrorist content", so they believe the service providers are failing in an assumed duty to share information with UK intelligence services more than an assumed duty to scan the content.

(ii) Some [likely US] providers did share details directly with UK intelligence after the fact whilst others were achieved indirectly via a [presumably US] "partner agency".

(iii) The "partner agency" didn't share everything that was possible to share either, which [unlike the computer service providers] GCHQ apparently considers normal and acceptable given their "resource constraints".

(iv) The report claim that Adebowale "obviously" had a "number of accounts" with the service provider the media are claiming to be Facebook, some of which were closed down "because they hit triggers which we believe were related to their criteria for closing things down on the basis of terrorist content". Which suggests either the provider in question wasn't Facebook, or that the report authors have a serious lack of understanding either of what a Facebook account is or what Facebook's policy on an individual having several accounts is.

(v) GCHQ suggests that an account with the text "let's kill a soldier" should have triggered algorithms detecting potential terrorist content, which implies they believe that [allegedly] Facebook could or should have algorithms that can parse sentences containing trigger words that happen to be extremely common, rather than simple blacklists and flagging functionality.
Wow! Amazing progress. Congrats Joyce & crew.
Supercomputer centers slash excess electricity as smaller ones try to follow
Many do. Penn definitely does, for one (http://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/UPPD/).
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Virtual money and user’s identity
Really cool execution. Love the cyphertext view. The key exchange seems a little non-secure given the length of the sharing URL?

How does it work?