skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Fergie. It's not our intention (I'm the cofounder) :) Our goal is to have people work as much as in their hometown, but get more done because they're in a better setting, and because when they take a break, it's a fucking amazing break.
We never spent all that much resources making physical copies of information and sending it around--or at least, that cost has always paled in comparison to the cost of generating that information in the first place.

Which is precisely why your energy analogy is inapposite. The Saudis didn't invent oil--they just trade in its scarcity. But digital technology doesn't address the scarcity of information and original content. Someone still has to create the first copy, and as ever, that's the hard part.
Because all the old people are dying.
Hacker Group ‘Lizard Squad’ Hits Gaming Consoles with DDoS Attacks
Sounds like a great way to selfdestruct.

"Hey, guess what, you have to move to $middleofnowhere."

"Hey, guess what, I quit."

Exactly how the conversation would go if it ever happened to me. What would happen in such a situation is the good employees would quit because they wouldn't want to compromise their salary, marketability, and ability to take a new job, while the dead weight would go with it because it's still easier than finding a new job if they can build up enough job security in their current one.

Also interesting that someone thinks you should do it... who just happens to own office space in said location.

Cities work because there is the infrastructure and the talent pool. Going to the middle of nowhere might save a pittance on salary, but when people inevitably quit, good luck replacing them without spending even more on moving other people there.
Ask HN: Why do Hackers always (it seems) go after Sony?
Hey guys,

I read another article today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30373686 where the Playstation network has been hacked. What is with all the hacks to Sony? Are they perceived to be easy to hack or are they a company that are for whatever reason hated?
I have a friend who works for Power Engineers. The founders built the company in Hailey, Idaho, near the Sun Valley Ski Resort.

They are now a massive company with 39 US Offices and 4 international offices. I've never been sure if the lesson is that you can start a company in the middle of nowhere, or if you need to have local offices to serve your customers. The headquarters is still in Hailey, ID, in the middle of nowhere, but they clearly thought they needed offices elsewhere to add ~1 additional office per year of the company.
Also The Artworks which just popped up in Elephant & Castle.

http://www.theartworks-uk.com/
Cool - I had heard that there was as a single combinator scheme but hadn't seen a definition of it before.

I had some fun as an undergraduate "compiling" proper code down to, in the worst cast, SK combinators and that was entertainingly inefficient (resulting in a need to become acquainted with implementing garbage collection). I suspect that U might be even more fun...

NB I did my SK stuff on a multi-user Unix minicomputer in '87/'88 so modern machines probably makes this a bit more realistic to play with.
For short city trips, you want to have an old cheap outdoor bike (otherwise it might get stolen anyway). I don't see why you have to clean those. (I clean my bike once every 6 months, tops, and I ride it every day. The dirt is from the dirt or forest tracks I have to cross once in a while.)
We were investigating this too. We found a very interesting way by using client resources. The JavaScript of the client making heavy operations for other people (ie computing proof of work for bitcoins or similar).
Multiple Buffering
Perhaps conditions make it more difficult and/or less socially acceptable to cover it up, out of pity for the family which might have been the priority decades ago. So he caught a bullet and the guy who fired it is definitely dead, telling the family more isn't necessarily going to make them any happier. On the theory that not covering it up might reduce overall suffering long term, which is Probably true, or at least we'd like to think so.

Also need to follow the gravy train. Once someone starts getting a paycheck for a problem, that problem is never going away and on paper will always expand. Seventy years ago an infantryman who dived on a live grenade to save his whole squad of buddies was simply a dead hero. Today, if the dude is a white upper middle class straight guy from a stable family with no addiction problems and a decent credit score and stable romantic relationships, then, aside from being almost a unicorn, he would still be a (dead) hero in that grenade situation, but any demographic discrepancy could indicate to someone with a counseling / research paycheck depending on finding a problem, that racism in the .mil might have driven that poor downtrodden soldier to suicide, etc. This is probably a very small effect, but if you don't follow the money you're not doing due diligence.
It's totally possible to help, for starters you could be campaigning to end the settlements and occupation.
Like 95% of engineering R&D is on things that most people would consider pretty mundane. There's armies of people working on degreasers and coagulants and emulsifiers and all sorts of things that aren't per se interesting, but represent the yeoman's work that makes the world go around.
It says "the medium isn't the message", yet the article is happily criticizing its content, but speaking of it as the medium.
A few more are listed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986125
Dateslice: Writing rails extensions, adding date group_by to ActiveRecord
Boost productivity in mobile app dev/testing
also s/he should have published it in his local library :P
Show HN: Toads Revenge (webgl)
"All governments lie," - I. F. Stone
i'm not sure what this is, it's not that clear. it seems to be an advert for a guest house that's tailored to people building startups? here's a hint, if you're building a start up you want to be successful, moving somewhere to go surfing isn't probably the best thing to do

and it doesn't seem that cheap either tbh. not forgetting remoteness is a massive problem, i worked somewhere remote, it was awful. they had surfing. i moved back to the city after 6 months, i've never been happier.

that said, i hope it works for you, i wish i could live at the beach in a warm country
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Maybe, rather than overriding the C++ / Java keyword with a different meaning, this should have been called something completely else in JavaScript. I think context would have been more descriptive.

But it's about 17 years late for that...
Steps: How to Run Ajax Web Crawls?
Interesting that the git hipsters are downvoting factually correct information. "Unruly hackers" (pg) seem to be perfect fodder for groupthink and monopolies.
No it isn't. DEB/RPM package install and you're pretty much done.
You might want to read Better Angels by Steven Pinker, which argues quite convincingly that things are getting better overall. "The news you recently read sticks in the mind, the worse news from long ago doesn't" etc. You may or may not be persuaded about all he says, but the book definitely helps build resistance to tragic headlines.
العراق الحبيب
Nope. Haven't used A/V in 3 years now. On OSX, Windows or linux. When you're more tech friendly you know to sandboxie things that seem suspicious or test in a vm.
Also contributors are not the same as committers in Github. And I've found that Github doesn't display Authors but only Committers. Example: https://github.com/golang/tools/commits/master/cmd/cover/fun...
Also check http://teleport.org to compare locations.
They have not launched global yet, but they probably will soon...
If all you're doing is hacking code then moving somewhere that lowers your burnrate as much as possible does seem like a good idea.
Might give https://github.com/codemirror/codemirror a try if you really want to go down the syntax highlighting path. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to exactly what you're looking to do.
Zoella admits Girl Online, her debut novel, was ghostwritten
Who can produce such product video for my startup?
Does anyone know who can produce such gorgeous product video for my startup like Freemake has? Look at the intro video section on the right.
So let me get this straight.

- Lyft has social pressure to tip. Uber doesn't.

- Lyft doesn't aggressively penalize drivers who can't communicate with passengers. Uber does.

- Lyft has fewer riders / drivers, making the experience more personal. Uber is mechanical / efficient.

If I was a driver, I'd drive for Lyft. But as a rider, I'll take Uber.
Completely unrelated, but what do you think about vips (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/)? I recently discovered the difference in performance between im and gm and that let me to investigate vips, which is presumably (a lot) faster than both.
I started with WO on NeXT in 1998, it was a amazing way to build web applications (in the pre-JS days). There are still WO apps in use today. The biggest benefit was Enterprise Objects, which Core Data is based on today on iOS, which made messing with big databases pretty easy. It was written in Objective-C at the time which was pretty oddball, but at Apple it eventually moved to Java and then become less supported as Apple clearly had other priorities. But WO was a lot of fun to work with even on large projects.
Awesome links! Thank you!
How do you gather the hashes? The machine itself (obviously) couldn't do it, since the malware may have changed the system to always report correct hashes (and/or send the original binaries).

So, it means what you mean by 'externally' and how sophisticated you expect the malware to be.
Three Use Cases How Big Data Helps Save the Earth
His creation of the original tech behind hooking up video games to televisions enabled me to learn programming at age 10 (courtesy of a Commodore 64 hooked up to an old 13" black and white) and began my interest in gaming (courtesy of an Odyssey 300).
The Trauma of Everyday Life - Mark Epstein

Mindsight - Dan Siegel

Conflict Communications - Rory Miller
How is that? Android has FAR more marketshare relative to what Apple has in this space now, than what Microsoft had relative to Apple on desktops
What is the Lotus Notes of today?
It's not a new book, but Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh has had a great impact on me.

Fun and easy to read book too. :)
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackbase
The Perfect office space for your startup
Language is not important
"Unless your product is niche to small fishing companies, this advice may not be the best."

Yet the competition space for very young rich urban american white kids making products for very young rich urban american white kids is hyper crowded, and in "rural fishing communities" the marketplace is apparently nearly empty, so the odds of a big success appear much better.

There's a fad now of "home automation" as defined by a small ARM box with a thermometer and a microphone for $100 that does pretty much the same as the 20 competitors... you have a less than 1 in 20 chance of being the top dog alpha winner. On the other hand AFAIK there is no competition for "www.rate.your.diesel.fishing.boat.mechanic.com" social network shopping for diesel fuel filter group buy advice or whatever. And that idea only took ten seconds, I'm sure actually trying would result in better ideas.

Your odds of competing are higher if you stay in the city and follow (key word, "follow") the pack. Which is awesome if your goal is playing king of the hill and the sheer thrill of competition. On the other hand, if you want to make fat stacks of cash, you want the best odds of winning, not the best odds of being involved in an epic competition.
Western Sahara is not near this town at all. There's some trouble with terrorists in Morocco, but terrorist attacks are not on small fishing towns, they would be in the big cities.
Louis de Broglie thesis story is pretty fascinating. He wrote a short thesis basically stating that particles can be considered as waves. The examiners thought it was nuts but passed it to Einstein, who basically told them that not only should they reward him his doctorate, but likely a Nobel as well (supposedly).
> now it seems reasonable that maybe the nature of our military services today causes potentially more stable men and women to be more likely than ordinary to commit suicide.

Suicide is an extremely complex issue. I don't think it's fair to reason about the causes of suicide. Hearing from suicide survivors would likely permit bias to be reduced. These are not simple issues. Cause and effect are woven together with thousands of tiny little knots, when complexities like these develop.
I think it's because of the distinction of Author and Committer. I also don't see my name there: https://github.com/golang/tools/commits/master/cmd/cover/fun...
You should rename it to its correct spelling: scraper.
If yours didn't have cartridges, it was probably one of the more standard home models that had 'built in' games. My family had an Odyssey 300 (similarly, I don't know who bought it or how it arrived). It featured tennis (aka pong), smash (aka squash or wallball), and hockey with 3 difficulty levels and two paddle wheels built into the console. Does this look familiar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey_series#Odyssey...
I'm 42 and I've been programming since I was 12. I really always liked this guy and never understood the knee-jerk hate around him. I of course know he's far from perfect- who isn't?- but as far as interesting, game-changing people go, he's up there. At least this interview is showing some of why I felt that way... I read this back when it was published (as I pretty much devoured everything about the computer industry ever since I first touched one around 12 years old)

And as a guy who ended up being a web developer, he was TOTALLY right about the "dark ages" thing. When Internet Explorer had hegemony, web dev was close to torture... It's what made me a back-end developer. Frontend was too painful.
Hopefully the name of that boat isn't a bad omen ;)

http://www.thebluehouse.io/#surrounded-with-the-best (scroll up)
>>> I don't know why many people think that they need to be at datacenter scale computing to benefit from abstractions like Mesos, it's completely wrong imo

My next startup will be built on Mesosphere. Faster time to MVP and no "go dark for 18 months" when I have to scale.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
I'm no maths whizz, but is 20.2/100,000 vs 19.2/100,000 statistically significant?
Erlang – The Movie
the 1 admin to 600 machines quoted as the high end for traditional IT datacenter is, in my experience, a murky number. It's usually a ratio of people/virtual machines, not physical machines.

When you remove the VM smokescreen and count physical boxes it's more like 1 person/100 machines, which is abysmal. I've seen order-of-magnitude people efficiency increases with automation like we're discussing here.
Mr. Peeler: showing people they want what you sell
I wonder how many machines are chomping on raw data generated by chrome, android and search. What is Google trying to learn and what does it already know?
Its not about the 100,000. Its about 20.2 vs 19.2 which is 5%. Whether its significant depends on the sample size only.
A general API for relational joins
>The Trauma of Everyday Life - Mark Epstein

That's the top of my list for next year. I have HN to thank for that, too - it was name dropped in a video recommended by macmac [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673597
Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Paris electric car infrastructure to go nationwide
No paywall: https://archive.today/nbdzT
PyDev of the Week: Tom Christie
For me it's: quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Flinch - Julien Smith

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
Uber is banned for not following Indian laws, they don't have proper permits to operate in Delhi. Uber has been operating illegally under the radar in Delhi so far.
Even sadder to me that he seems to have had a hand in his early death. I realize the advantage of hindsight, and the nearly-pointless pontification of what might have been, but I wish he'd taken the advice he was given and had the surgery much sooner.
Rip and replace of a hard drive is not hard when you have a datacenter that is completely self-healing. An intern on roller skates can do it.
The New Class Conflict, Joel Klotkin
Dutch court bans Uber online taxi service
That sounds risky. Chances are, someone who's good at what they do isn't going to want to move to somewhere like Detroit, so they are going to have to replace staff. Sure, salary there is probably a pittance, but the talent pool for any skilled work would also be small.
And entirely preventable. Dude was an arrogant shitehead.
I also agree with this, the biggest problem I got being in nice but small town is finding good people with the correct skill set.
No, it's because the page only tracks the top 100 contributors, the cutoff is currently 6 commits.

For instance "spaolacci" is #86 with 8 commits, he's only ever been an author not a committer: https://github.com/golang/go/commits?author=spaolacci
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts."

-- G. B. Burgin

Not sure how it relates but I thought of this quote.
Oh, right, thanks. They just call it "split" and not side-by-side.
There are predominant gender roles. How can we determine if the predominance is wrong, or just natural? All of this assumes the predominance is wrong. If I go to enjoy a burlesque show (a largely female-dominated event that all consensually participate in), did I merely experience the predominance, or did I also reinforce it? If the majority like something even though a minority do not, does that mean the majority are somehow wrong?
I'd assume most of them are more concerned about having a constant influx of passengers and getting a fair wage.
A mid-market SaaS company might have a $1mm/mo Amazon bill. I think cutting in that half would be meaningful to just about anybody.
Windows 8 and Windows 10 come with AV built-in. It's generally "good enough" for home users. It will flag suspicious downloads before they download and before they run, and then scan them as they're running. With those two OSes, I never use an AV. I'd prefer user education over a stricter AV.

On the other hand, my work laptop is Red Hat 6 and Linux, Mac, or Windows, we're required to run Symantec by corporate policy. Then again I work for a security company, so...
Introduction to Systems Biology - Design Principles of Biological Circuits, by Uri Alon.

It opened my eyes to a whole new field that will become a massive industry over the coming decades. Much like a Systems course in engineering covers recurring design patterns in physical systems (feedback loops, noise filters, pulse generators, etc), this book uses the same approach for biological systems. It is written from an engineer's perspective using engineering language, which for me makes biology much easier to understand.
May move there next year, if I do, then I'll take up your offer of a pint!
There's no URL in an article who and were works on modifying the copyright law.

BTW it amazes me that "copyright" is by default and that people has to get exception from DMCA instead of opposing. It's sound like the law doesn't serve any higher purpose than huge corporate copyright owners pockets.
In case you wonder why this doesn't generate the discussion you might expect, the same story is being submitted over and over again. Some of them are listed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715912
I agree it's a simple concept.

But it's one of the weirdest thing in javascript, and I'd advise to forgo using 'this' in any situation that doesn't absolutely need it.
I just finished the book Acid Test (http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Test-Ecstasy-Power-Heal/dp/039916...). The stories about the progress that the lucky individuals, who have been part of MDMA therapy studies for PTSD, have made; combined with government's refusal to fund research as well as their stonewalling during permitting (DEA primarily) is heartbreaking and infuriating.

The author quotes some numbers about how much the US Dept of Defense and Veterans Affairs Administration spend (and are projected to spend) "treating" PTSD in veterans over the coming decades. They are shockingly large and unfortunately the US keeps sending more meat into the grinder.
You're mixing up Gaza and the West Bank.

What Israel (and Egypt) are doing is -
1) blockading Gaza,
2) entering armed conflicts with the Hamas with high human casualties and vast damage to infrastructure

Israel is not occupying Gaza. All settlements in the Gaza strip were dismantled in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza

The Israeli military absolutely does not enter Gaza frivolously as it does in the West Bank, and Hamas law is in full effect there, not Israeli martial law.

Supporting the project on Indiegogo is probably the best thing to do, as an Israeli:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-gaza-s-only-startup-...
Show HN: Budbak – Content Matters, Not the Source
It's almost impossible to have a gun in Morocco then it's easy to assume that you are safer than in the US.
Sony hacked again, this time the PlayStation Network
You are probably getting downloads from the fact that your response did not make any sense.
Not here in Bucharest. There's some mud on the streets and on my bike too. Though I admit I haven't cleaned it up too much yet :-D
Rooms that move and rotate
“Content Matters, Not the Source”. This is the fundamental philosophy of this initiative. This initiative is a result of my observation on two points: 1) People judge a writeup based on the author’s professional or personal background, and 2) Similar or better content of an ordinary individual or organization are ignored. Based on above two point arguments, I decided to run this experiment of presenting content with anonymous sources to everyone and see how readers respond.
Even that may be against the contract. I've worked with companies where their NDA said their security troubles can't be disclosed even if the information was completely sanitized. Even saying "One company in the US was impacted by Malware X" would be inviting the lawyers.

But I don't know this particular contract, so that may not be in play.
Ask HN: What project management software/service are you using?
In short, I am looking for pros and cons to software that you have tried or use to help find a solution to my needs. I feel like I have gone through a plethora of software to find what I need all to find out it just does not work right or I cannot justify the expense due to the lack of offerings.

I currently use Highrise for my own personal CRM, and I like it. I also use Basecamp for projects, I almost love it. The problem is, Highrise does not have an app and the two are not one. I would love to have a provider that has everything in one, and preferably in app format as I need notifications for staff working on projects.

Other services I have tried consist of Podio (too clunky), Zoho (borderline too complicated and lacks features for PM), vTiget (just did not work) and Insightly (nothing seems to sync up for tasks).

I have a team of 7 who all work remote with tasks ranging from dev to social media. Some of the projects will last for years (contracts) and some last just until they are complete. Hopefully from what others share I will be able to find a single solution!
Antifragile or The Obstacle Is The Way - are probably the most influential
The city of Detroit was in a financial crisis back to at least 2004. I believe that it was the 2004 Census that put the city below 1M people, which lost them a lot of Federal dollars.
Ticket to Dine
Is Technology's Need to Dominate a Bug or a Feature?
What Comes After Product Market Fit
The way he pushes WebObjects sounds like yet another API standard. We keep chasing this integration/communication/data interchange unicorn to todays date.
The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps