skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree. There's no constraint, no limit in 'ideas to come up with'. Not like, say music. There are only 10 octaves in the audible spectrum, but that doesn't stop people from coming up with new songs and melodies for the last couple of centuries.

Because executing an idea has never been cheaper and more accessible, it might seem that we're running out of fresh ideas. But as technology evolves, so are the ideas that go with it. I'm betting on an intergalactic ridesharing app for space monkeys somewhere in the next decade...
Sometimes. Depending on the source, it's like 10% of B2B contracts include arbitration clauses, versus the vast majority of B2C contracts. I think there are advantages to arbitration in B2B settings, but a significant use of the procedure is to hammer away at consumers. The problem, though is more contracts of adhesion than arbitration clauses per se.
“We’ll have a long period of companies staying private” – a16z’s Scott Kupor
Drones are for the rich
Is this what you mean? http://www.plos.org/

The current system rewards people who publish in the high-impact journals, which means they get the "coolest" papers, which means they remain high impact. The ones at the top now are not generally open access.
Doesn't support gzip compressed files? I'm getting back garbage from my production css file.
The problem isn't the technical implementation of such a system, it's getting the reputation prestige. eLife is an example of a journal attempting to go from zero to elite right out of the gate, but the solution to that is to throw a ton of money at the problem. Their last financials show it cost them about $14k/article to publish. So either you spend A LOT of money and make the prestige play quickly, or you do it cheaper (PeerJ, PLoS One, etc) and struggle for many years to build up the prestige.
Startups, and startup founders as a whole are rare phenomena. Don't read anything more into the analogies than that. Thanks, though, for the word of caution.
The Flying Car Is (Almost) for Real
JUCE acquired by Roli
Given the potential upsides, I would say it's worth finding the errors in this reactionless drive. Even if it turns out to be just a fantasy the poorly understood effects that need to be "just so" might be interesting in their own right.
If most articles are private (due to added cost) but all GF articles are public then will there be any practical consequence?
Overall design is nicely done but a few constructive criticisms:

(i) Main image doesn't really convey what you're about. Presumably those files in the background are Timbuktu archives, but what the uninitiated visitor actually sees is foreign child with a sombre expression (which of course has plenty of other connotations in the eyes of a Westerner being asked to "contribute to change"). It also doesn't help that the main explanatory summary of what the site is for will be below the fold for many viewers.

(ii) Rewards structure seems to have missed a trick with not offering exclusive videos as a mid-high end reward, assuming the performers haven't committed to everything being open-access.

(ii) May as well have some high end rewards for those feeling especially generous too (if Westerners are prepared to buy an airline ticket to fly to Ethiopia to see the cultural extravaganza they've contributed to, they might even be willing to donate more than the cost of that ticket towards the cultural organization itself)
gifify now supports subtitles and can extract 5 seconds from a 2 hours movies in less than 20 seconds.

HF with GIFS
It sounds like you think that that if nobody was talking about women in tech, then women would be able to freely choose between all available careers. Is that right? Because the basic premise of most discussion is that this is not the case, and that there are multiple factors that currently mean American women who may want to go into tech find it harder than men do (these factors ranging from cultural pressures starting at birth to intrinsic biases when hiring adults). So your question sounds like "wouldn't putting a ramp in place of some steps be depriving people in wheelchairs of their right to not be interested in going into the room?" Sure, there are people who disagree with that premise - but you should be clear that you are disagreeing with it, or your conversations in this area will likely be confusing.

As to 'why in America and not India': It is pretty well known that these factors vary widely by country - you might be interested in looking at relative achievement in math by school students in various countries as a starting point for the idea that culture of a country influences achievement by each gender. I understand that you may not have come across this topic before but no, it is absolutely nothing to do with American elections and has been an issue for many, many, many years.
Sush, you. I ain't giving up that easily :)

Though, perhaps we should merge.
Perhaps the mod might like to put it back to its less misleading title?
Hi, this is the first time I hear that OCaml embeds monads invisibly ? meaning IO has no special status ? or is there some built-in module ?
Just blogged this; I'd encourage others to do the same. When building a product first time use is key, it's part of the brand, and it's generally an outcome of a lot of hard work. Not saying this is illegal but it sure is shady. I hope the guys at Hellosign pummel DocuSign the way it counts, by winning the market.
> In more concise languages that whole piece would look like a single line:

---

env.lines = [line for line in env.lines if not line.startswith("+++")]

---

I don't think that's what its actually doing. I think its actually return all the lines after the first line that starts with "+++". Or maybe all those lines but the first.

(I don't think its a good example of clear FP code, either.)
Generally, you will find that the difference in 'demeanor' for campus police is due to the flow of money. For city, county, and state police... fines and fees generally flow back to their respective coffers. Campus police (technically state agencies) on the other hand (generally) have budgets appropriated by the state regardless of revenue generation. This is why you will often hear stories of a drunken college student being escorted home instead of arrested; there is no financial interest in having them arrested.

Edits: grammar
My cousin in fact makes his application looks like a desktop application to sell to his customer base. He makes pos/accounting software with a windows application(skin) that talk to his php backend over http. He sells these apps mainly to his customers in middle east.
Indeed, I have no religious faith but I find its emergence in the human psyche endlessly interesting.
Journals are an amazingly profitable business. There's a reason that Warren Buffett likes them. :-)
I guess the publishers would not accept any payment less than their current (very large) profits, so you'd basically be locking in those profits and the system wouldn't get any cheaper.
I think that semantic-ui.com looks gorgeous.

I also think it eats a full core on my 2013 Macbook. This, unfortunately, is a poor advertisement for the framework.
Money App Sends Funds Through Pebble Smart Watch
Please feel free to open an issue and let us know specifically what is going wrong

http://github.com/mrmrs/cssstats/issues

Thanks!
“No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA
>Let's go really nuts. Let's say you had a machine that could represent numbers using the entire diameter of the observable universe (about 92 billion light years) with a resolution of one planck length. Even that is not so impressive. That's equivalent to about 205 bits of digital storage.

Fucking exponential function :-!
Oh snap!

"The archive also contains the output of ProcMon,
Process Monitor, a system monitoring tool distributed
by Microsoft and commonly used in forensics and
intrusion analysis.

This file identifies the infected system and provides
a variety of interesting information about the network.
For instance:

USERDNSDOMAIN=BGC.NET
USERDOMAIN=BELGACOM
USERNAME=id051897a
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\id051897a"

Also love the comment at the end:

"Below is a list of hashes for the files The Intercept is making available for download. Given that that it has been over a year since the Belgacom operation was publicly outed, The Intercept considers it likely that the GCHQ/NSA has REPLACED THEIR TOOLKIT AND NO CURRENT OPERATIONS WILL BE AFFECTED by the publication of these samples."
Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
Definitely will try to improve my styles to reduce unique definitions.
That's what I thought at first, but the language from the original post seemed ambiguous—that it could only be published in Open Access Journals, and I also couldn't find OA costs for Cell or Science. I did find this page from Elsevier, though, and it looks like it ranges from $500 to $5,000: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-option...

Thanks for the first-hand knowledge about Sage. Presumably, though, at a one-time price of $1,500–$5,000, publishers e.g. Elsevier weren't making much from keeping them closed-access in the first place, were they?

Not sure if the trend of more APCs going from grant funders to publishers is a good one, but probably better that the grant funders pay than those who can't afford access.
So, it's a ripoff? These numbers sound completely made-up.
the nvidia box is definitely more solid than the radeon; the nvidia one does every 3d game I've thrown at it with no noticable issues. However, it's blacklisted by chrome for webgl, and when I tried forcing it, there were definite stability issues.

The radeon box, however, has noticable z-ordering artifacts and some minor flickering on games. Chrome is by far the worst application for it though, web gl or no web gl.
This is great news. In the past we worked with a great group of developer advocates, and I know they spent countless hours answering all sorts of technical questions on Windows development on StackOverflow. Making this official was only the next natural step.
DuckDuckGo Blowing Up Again
If they're buying treasuries, or other financial assets, it's a mattress. There's an easy way to tell, are you still holding a financial asset after your 'investment', then you haven't really invested by the Wikipedia definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_private_domestic_investme...).

In some situations, financial investments can enable real investment by second parties (buying into an IPO for example), but the usual example of bank lending is not one of those cases.
As far as I know, the craigslist hack was a takeover of their DNS. This can be done purely through social engineering, and without some sophistication, it can't lead to lost/compromised data.

This Sony thing seems much more serious, and it also seems like some very sensitive data was compromised.

Of course, we don't know the full story on either of these yet, so I may be very wrong.
One of the more interesting things about the ARM Cortex-M series is that debugging is "built in" to the CPU core on all licensed processors. No hacks required. Something that I'm sure x86 machines would have had, if transistors has been as cheap then as they are now. Of course early on Intel made even more margin on versions of the processor used for doing in circuit emulation by 'bonding out' to an unused pad access to internal trace registers.
[Citation Needed]

To be sure, a thorough examination of social conservative thought will be fascinating reading.
Seth Godin on Honing Your Creative Habit and Selling Your Work
I'm happy to wade into that debate, because I think it's relevant. When this article first came out there were comments near the top questioning the relevance of this type of inquiry as, roughly, unscientific. I wanted to show how it fits into a scientific framework just fine.

You're likely right that an apology with less commitment could have been effective as well.

Interesting to think of Mead as the analog, and perhaps a more apt one. Thanks. Personally I'm much more familiar with biology and with Goodall. But, from my perspective cultural anthropology is a science whether or not it wants to be. The AAAs rejection of 'science' may be more indicative of science's rejection of inductive logic than anything.
$5k is about the top of the scale. Nature, Cell, etc can get that. More typical is the $1,500 range (OA publisher PLoS One is about that). One of the most interesting things to see is that the big winner of the APC (article processing charge) landrush is Elsevier. The Wellcome Trust published data about who they are paying APCs to, and the biggest player was Elsevier: http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/03/28/the-cost-of-open-acces... So it's interesting to see the (at least short-term) winners in the rise of APC-based open access are still the same big publishers, at least for now.
This is simply not true.

For starters if you think $1000 is an appropriate amount to invest you need to either spend less on junk or continue spending your money on self improvement (Assuming money is a life goal).
Brokerage fees are often per transaction so bigger, long term investments means less % costs = more % profit.
Of course if you’re testing the waters $1000 is fully appropriate, hobbies cost money so if it’s fun, fair enough.

But skipping brokerage fees, S&P 500 is considered probably the best and the same for all.

If there was a magical return much greater than S&P 500 that only billions could get then someone would just collate a billion from various sources and take a small cut.

Costs are in paper work and handling fees which shouldn’t be different whether it’s $10,000 or $1,000,000.

It’ll be a bigger % for small amounts, but as long as you invest reasonably big chunks and not keep moving it around it’s negligible difference.
Symantec Discovers ‘Regin’ Spy Code Lurking on Computer Networks
Sonny just got hacked!
Yup, cause apparenlty staying the same for 25 years is the new normal.
Would you discard more too if it added the ability to page back in a document?
I like this idea - just would be really annoying to maintain each module as a versioned dependency...
Is there a browser extension version of this so that it can be run on pages that require authentication?
I should finish my PDP-11 simulator one day: http://i.imgur.com/6RuI41d.jpg

The javascript PDP-11 emulator is pretty cool and works a lot better than my own:
http://pdp11.aiju.de/
I found a demo[0] via this old forum thread from August[1].

Obviously there are privacy concerns. That being said, this looks like a boon for anyone interested in bot detection, as you can periodically challenge your users' humanity without getting too much in their way. Nice one, Google.

From the thread:

Implemented it successfully for a website. I have to say, it works great!

it also checks if html pages are changed at runtime and how many times you "reload" the page where the captcha is. When it thinks you are a bot a captcha popups, when entered, it got checked on googles servers if it's right and fills in a hidden input. When the user submits the form, the filled in captcha coded, again, will be verifed. [sic]

[0] http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

[1] Edit: don't go to this url without adblock (see comment below). http://forum.ragezone com/f144/googles-captcha-recaptcha-1023607/
Well, there's some price point at which if everyone paid the OA fee (effectively making your entire journal open access) then the revenue would about equal the revenue you get from traditional paywall subscriptions for that journal, and the publisher wouldn't care one way or the other.

In reality it's almost impossible these days to figure out what the paywall revenue from a single journal title is anymore, since everything is bundled in huge packages. But yeah, more or less the fees are based on what the publishers think authors will pay based on the prestige offered by the journal. There are people trying to change the typical price point of OA publishing (PeerJ's $99/author fee comes to mind), but there's A LOT of intertia in academia.
I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
I was once asked to hand over mail from a certain address in Weschester NY so they could copy the OE, both sides. I refused. I, like my peers, take privacy and sanctity to the absolute extreme level. We have all had the stranger asking for "their" mail only to not be able to provide proper ID; the ex husband trying to intercept the check; the private eye snooping around asking pointed questions.

To me, this article says what we know anyway, the USPS ain't perfect. On the scale of things to worry about with your mail, this is not one of them. Even if the USPS wanted to create the worlds best spy system they would find a way to screw it up. Don't fret about this, folks.

Fret about: The crook who steals your parcel from your porch; the person who skims your phone number off your Amazon parcel; the neighborhood junkie who uses mail to receive drugs and then doles them out to your kids; the nosey neighbor who steals your identities; the person who forwards your mail without you realizing it.
I definitely did that for a while, but eventually found it annoying.
I know it's definitely better to package each of these as a
separate module. But uses of each of the tiny modules like these
can come and go very quickly and keeping the package.json up
to date becomes tedious..
To this Haskeller it appears to be keeping state as well.
Thanks! It uses Etcd for backend configuration and has emphasis on resiliency (implements circuit breakers and anomaly detectors)
Yes, when I want a nonstandard assert() I normally give it a different name, like insist(). No reason not to.
E-Cigarette Infected Man’s Computer with Malware
I had a few sales jobs before starting to code fulltime. Nothing major. It never really helped me at my fulltime jobs, but it definitely helped as a consultant. The ability to be "good in a room" is rare for technical folks. You'll be a hot commodity for agencies or dev-shops; anyone who routinely needs a technical voice to step in and woo the client before closing the sale.

I realized years ago that being in this middle-ground was my strongest asset. Not the best salesman, not the best coder, but can exist comfortably in both worlds. I'd recommend cultivating both skillsets.
You say with inflation the price of a first class stamp should be 43 cents? It's 49 cents right now...

Thanks, your link seems to prove my point... Approximately, in the first 100 years of the postal service the price went form 2 cents to 10 cents which is a 5x increase. In the year 1971, which is when the government stopped managing the postal service (this is close to our year of 1975) the price has increased another 5x to today but that has only been 39 years.

Inflation has only been one factor in the changing price of first class postage over the years but thanks for your comment...
Previously, reCAPTCHA evolved to show easier (street address) CAPTCHAs to users who have already passed a few hard ones. I guess the next step is to skip it completely.
I'd rather say that the big difference is that since OCaml is impure, you're going to run into much less monads in general (though you do have monadic libraries like lwt).
Yeah, I'm sick. Read all about it
If you don't understand it, why are you advocating for the same model in drug regulation?
Those are quite good articles.
Feminists and other social justice warriors, drunk on hubris, continue to fly towards the sun. But as we are seeing with GamerGate, the closer they get, the faster their wings melt. In due time, their ideology will sink into the sea.
Doubling SVG Frame Rates at Khan Academy
Show HN: Easy email server with Docker
shown with the iPhone 4, what's up with that, it's really a contact printer (as in the old days with an enlarger, except the phone's screen is the light source)

bigger screens like the iPhone 6 will crop since it's a contact print.

The guy shakes the fuji instant print, reminiscent of polaroid, but no longer makes any difference, kind of funny.

the results will be horrible looking and cropped. Waste of time.
Very doubtful. http://www.csoonline.com/article/2851415/security-awareness/...
Out of curiosity, why do you like no asserts? I use assertions extensively, both as a way to check my logic and to "document" invariants.

The Go FAQ defends this decision by talking about error handling, but using assertions for error handling has always been wrong.

When events are dropped, init should manually scan the config files for changes until the event queue catches up again.
I used to work at Medium on the product science team before this tool was created. I didn't work on it myself, although I can appreciate how well it works in practice. The simplicity-of-use of this tool, both as a data provider and as a visualization consumer, is incredible.

I can imagine some HN readers thinking they want more detailed graph control, but the few options + the defaults on this tool cover a surprising range of use cases. I think you have to try it on your own data to appreciate the subtle decisions that went into the design.
> you have to wrap all your data structures into the mithril collections/models so that they can communicate with the views.

Only when you need bidirectional bindings, and you're not forced to use the builtin `m.prop()` helpers, you can easily whip your own if they don't work for your use case.

See my last link for an example.
Another thing maybe difficult to mentally parse is the `and`. One might assume it's a logical operator, and get confused. But actually in OCaml

let rec f (farg1) =
...
and g (garg1) =
...

is used to define mutually recursive functions f and g.

Then again, in the given code the function `start`, while calling itself, doesn't call the other function `go`, so they are not really mutually recursive. `go` just calls `start` but actually `go` is not recursive at all.

So they could have written:

let rec start (env) =
...

and then

let go (content) =
...

In this case, `start` needs to be defined first in the source code, so `go` can call it. Maybe the author wanted to write `start` below the definition of `go` (kind of Haskell style) and kind of abused the mutual recursion form for stylistic reasons?
No, but fooling around with the delay line is one way to implement single-step or really slow step.

So either your next clock pulse is when a humanoid hits a button or when a delay line times out.

Can't just gate in a clock using a "AND" because of jitter and syncing is more trouble than its worth.

I never worked on this model so this is just semi-educated guess.
The DockerInfo protobuf has been updated to let frameworks pass arbitrary options to `docker run` via the Docker containerizer. This will come in handy for specialized use cases (--volumes-from, --lxc-conf, etc.)
I'm sure they'll be using the SO API every night and building an internal database, just in case.
Depends on the size of the campus. I went to a school that was about 4 square miles and had upwards of 50,000 people there every day. Lower Manhattan is about the same size, though it does have many, many more residents. 50k is a good sized town. It's a little weird, but not unreasonable.
All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available:
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.