skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're a bit rude to NPM though. It had many things right and finding defects in retrospect is always an easy task.

In retrospect, NPM was a bit rude to it's userbase. We've asked for support on custom, multiple, and private registries. PRs have even been made for them and Isaac explicitly shut them down only to later (much later) come out and talk about NPM Inc. NPM is a great tool, and the community for building upon it is absolutely fantastic and wonderful, but the leadership and advisory board behind it are pretty terrible for something as good as NPM.

May be I am a bit harsh, and I may be a bit biased coming from "the old crowd" in Node before it was the cool thing on the block (funny to think back on Rubyist snickering at me for mentioning node to them :))

At least NPM has git URLs which is nice, and may be NPM can do these things (I've abandoned it for much saner practices other than cloning a 50+gb registry, pointing to a registry that falls back to an official registry [big security no-no, at least allow checksums], etc).

Thank you for the perspective though, less whining and more typing (contributing to NPM). My anger is more so towards the leadership of NPM rather than the toolset itself and I didn't express that in my OC ^
Mentioning the state of the project in the README is useful. Additionally, you could selectively reach out to some of your users and offer them GitHub's "collaborator" status. This enables them to accept pull requests, push to master, etc.. That way your code can be maintained by people with a current interest in it.
Ask HN: Are there any DC startups hiring?
Are there any DC startups that are hiring or in general, what are some cool startups in DC metro area?
>how it is indeed possible to find Derrida interesting without being a charlatan or stupid

Charlatan or stupid? How provincial one must be to come to that conclusion.

As hackers (geeks etc) we are generally mostly accepting of an empiricist, show-me-the-numbers, kind of analysis (and analytical philosophy), but it's by far not the only one, or the most potent, when outside the realm of hard sciences. The anglosaxon positivist/reductionist philosophical school is not the only one out there, just as Hollywood and the emphasis on the "plot" is not the only movie tradition.

It's like someone working on imperative programming all your life, and asking "what's this BS Prolog thing, that's not real code" or "LISP is pretentious and doesn't have a proper syntax".
I wouldn't say it's entirely reliant on that. It relies on the cost of brute forcing growing faster than the cost of encrypting. But it could theoretically be a large degree polynomial.
You don't have many female programming bloggers because you don't have many female programmers.
Where do you draw the line? Isn't compiled byte code just harder to read also?
If you're going to embark on a major translated work like this, do yourself a favor and read the first hundred lines or so in a few different translations. Makes a huge difference. Old or new - just give a few a shot. You can always read it again, but you can only read it for the first time once.
It says $2 @ 10K. No one is pricing for hobbyists buying in 10s.
Writing an "X is better than Y" post often indicates immaturity.
>For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing: cat /dev/random

You seem to have an uncanny knowledge of philosophy for a throwaway account.

Tell us more about anything that you don't understand (not that you've actually tried or even went anywhere near Derrida/Continental philosophy) is /dev/random...
I don't agree with this line of reasoning. Some countries don't give their police guns, because not every interaction needs to have the risk of escalating to that level.

In the very unlikely chance of regular beat police needing to defend themselves, it's ok for them to have to do that without the benefit of a gun, just like everyone else.
It's not about what you point, is about how you define "dog" (and it can get much worse than dog, e.g. freedom, humanity, etc).

It's amazing how people think they can understand/debunk/solve philosophical problems of ages with a moment's hasty thought that doesn't even understand the full issue in the first place...
I also recommend meditation. If the spiritual connotations put the OP off, focus on the mindfulness aspects. Mindfulness is really about focusing, or letting go of distractions so that you can focus.

For an easy introduction to this type of meditation, I highly recommend calm.com's five steps to mindfulness. You can find it on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/mayank-agrawal-14/sets/calm-com
> You might be INTP. FInd out and if you are, find a community of them. It helped me.

I took one of those self tests and it came back ITSJ
The pragmatic benefits you mention are the direct consequence of the moral imperative the free software movement is fighting for.
Some light reading for my next long flight.
s/nation/continent?
Hippie shit
Wantrepreneurs vs. Entrepreneurs
> I can't speak for anyone else, but I think those "reasonable judicial interpretations" represent a gutting of the 4th amendment.

In 1789:

a) The government could have subpoenaed your banking records without a warrant. 1789 wasn't prehistory--the founders were lawyers and businessmen, and would have had an understanding of sensitive commercial, accounting, and legal records being held by third parties.

b) The First Congress passed a law enabling warrantless customs searches at the border. The founders perceived the government's right to control what crossed the border outweighed anyone's privacy interests.

> With interpretations like those, why bother having laws at all?

To the contrary. Textual interpretations of law protect you. They're predictable and hard to argue with. It's results-oriented interpretations that are dangerous, because there's no guarantee that the decision maker and you are going to have the same understanding of which results are important.
The webm video container live-streams fantastically well. It's just the MP4 container that is broken and doesn't live-stream.

Note that if you put H264 in an MPEG2-TS container that it will stream fine as well, but unfortunately that's not supported by browsers. (It also is inefficient, which makes it a poor choice.)

There is fragmented MP4, (usually called fMP4), which is a single MP4 file with multiple fragments inside. The last time I looked this wasn't supported by any browser, but now it looks like there's been work to integrate it into chrome and firefox.

The reason that single-file live-streaming is useful is that you can point the video tag's SRC at a URL that just calls popen on an FFMPEG process and transcode video on the fly, or even create new content immediately.
What’s happening with Secret?
I remember it and the Weird Stuff Warehouse right near it. Now Weird Stuff is out off Carribbean. Still fun to go visit.
I fail to understand the conflation of "nonfree" with "nontrival."

If they are implying that the complexity of a snippet of code has some bearing on whether copyright protection applies, that is simply untrue. Forgive me for that strawman, but if they had told us we wouldn't have to guess.

I also sense a bit of fear mongering here. Half a megabyte of Javascript for a web page? Goodness, what could they be putting in there? And just a reminder, eval is evil. But why does that automatically qualify code as nontrivial? And how does that have anything to do with free software in the first place?
Make a point if you have one. I have better things to do than spend time wondering which of the many different possible points you were trying to make.
Mathematical and fairness analysis of alternatives to plurality voting [pdf]
How Steve Wozniak’s Breakout Defined Apple’s Future
A portfolio of maybe simple (but well-thought out) products built out. A lot of the job is about championing the product vision and distilling it down to requirements, as well as tying the loose ends (how well does the product work in foreign languages? on different platforms? for blind users? etc.), so attention to details is valuable.
Not to get into a political thread, but last time I looked highways are actually one of the most difficult to attribute to subsidies (ie usage taxes pay for most/all/more than the usage of the highways so it is hard to say one way or another where subsidies go).
Writing a Primitive [Windows] Debugger (Part 3): Call Stack, Registers, Contexts
Agreed. Is there any moment at which it would be reasonable for a cop to point a gun (let alone shoot it?) For someone trying to steal a bike? Is there any bike in the world more valuable than a person's life?

I understand that police are put into more risk but my outside impression is that their training overcompensates for it and so we get extremely trigger-happy police that just make confrontations even that more tense (why give yourself up if you'll end up getting shot in the process anyways?)
Suburbs also have specific connotations when it comes to race and class divides. Accurate or not, they are seen as promoting monoculture, relative to cities. I think a lot of discussion of suburbs vs cities, is influenced by these connotations.
A number of these "deconstruction" texts are bad, like any other philosophy or attempt in any field. Not because of how it's written - the thinking behind it is bad.

Other of these can indeed be stated in simpler words, and remain enlightening and profound observation (what Chomsky asks).

But in general, what Chomsky says is BS. It's analogous to: this Charlie Parker jazz piece is meaningless. Play it to me with conventional harmony, and show me how it's better than John Phillip Soussa. Oh, and stick to 4/4 and triad chords.

The whole idea behind those philosophical attemps is that they work in the limits of the language, e.g. in "advanced mode", and deal with stuff that's not relatable with "plain words", the same way "fuck my life" is not analogous to "oh, how unfortunate I feel at this moment", even if they mostly convey the same message.
I went through Startup Chile last year. Each year the number of Chilean startups applying and being accepted is growing. I would say that's some level of success based on the goal of the accelerator.
Bihar Board’s Matric and Inter Result 2014
The System Isn’t Going to Fix Itself–It’s Time for Us to Police the Police
Hating "suburbia" is actually a deeply suburban stance. The upper-middle-class, isolationist people who are now crowding into Williamsburg are the same sorts of provincial people that their forebears (the artists who can no longer afford to live there) fled suburbia to escape. That suburbia's biggest haters are (in origin and mindset) quite suburban is actually ironic rather than just sarcastic.

All this said, it's somewhat subjective what is a "suburb" versus what is a legitimate (and possibly charming) small town. And while Los Angeles is a large city, it's sprawling and ugly and has no moral high ground over some town adjacent to Philadelphia or Boston that happens to be "suburban" because it has a different city-name on its postal address.

All of this said, car culture is objectively bad. Suburbia was supposed to make it possible for middle-class people to save instead of throwing their disposable income away for the benefit of urban landlords, but over time the car (through escalating costs and the catastrophic time loss of traffic) became the new landlord. The clearing and leveling of forests to build tasteless, cookie-cutter houses is also objectively bad. The environment doesn't have a vote, but it should, because I'd rather have a healthy environment than 4600 SF of unneeded housing space for everyone. Suburbia gets such a bad rap in the U.S. because it's done wrong, both in terms of aesthetics and in terms of ecological footprint.
Here's my advice if you want peace.

"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Eccl. 12:12-14
wow that's some great advice. Thanks so much.
> London black cabs get certain privileges.

Yes, some are related to transactions with passengers (black cabs can pick up passengers who flag them down) and others are related to the use of the roads (black cabs can use many bus lanes, and are exempt from the congestion charge). The latter category of privileges are not enjoyed by other users of private cars, regardless of the number of passengers.

> In return they have some obligations. They have fixed fare rates;

Yes, and they're pretty high. For a journey within central London (with an average speed of 8-12 miles per hour), you'll be paying over US$1 per minute. For a longer journey (Heathrow Airport to Central London) you'd pay US$70-$130. (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxi-fares?ci...)

The fares charged by minicabs are lower than this. Under a free market, taxi prices would be lower.

> they are wheel-chair accessible;

OK.

> they have tighter regulation about accepting passengers.

What? Taxis have _looser_ regulations about accepting passengers. Minicabs drivers would probably love to be able to pick up passengers from the street, but they cannot.
Life in 56K
I'd recommend the book/pamphlet Death is Wrong by Gennady Stolyarov. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615932045/)
Only if you made it worthwhile. You would be better off paying people to try to break your crypto.
Due to multilevel caches I doubt this would be so applicable to modern systems - the index-set representation takes several times more memory and naturally requires lots of random accesses, which are bad for caches. In some ways, it's no longer a time-space tradeoff: smaller is faster.

Also, initialising the space doesn't take so long; REP STOS on x86 is fast since it can write an entire cache line at once: http://ptspts.blogspot.ca/2014/10/on-speed-of-memset.html
>Derrida takes a really simple concept and then dresses it up in so much complicated irrelevant nonsense that you have to take 30 minutes to deconstruct and understand an essay, that could be sufficiently restated in perhaps a paragraph of clear English.

Can you give an example? Because I've read Derrida (and other continental and US philosophers) and I've not seen that.

It should be easy. Just post an essay of his, and then your paragraph of clear English that "sufficiently restates" it.

I find that most people conflate "sufficiently restates" with something like Cliffs Notes.

Or with "seeing the movie" (e.g. War And Peace) instead of reading the book.

Or even worse with some general "plot", like: "War and Peace is the story of some families in Russia when Napoleon invades and a guy that tries to kill him" as opposed to the whole philosophical, artistic, literature, poetic etc content of the book.
You are completely missing the point.

The first problem is: reasons you've listed are stereotypical rants that young PHP developers say. Reasons #2 #4 #7 #9 are just false. For templating here you are: http://tornado.readthedocs.org/en/latest/template.html, the others you could find yourself. Moreover, reasons #3 #6 just don't matter (who cares about quantity of books on PHP? Do you need to read them all? Functions beginning from _ not being imported is not enough for your encapsulation needs?), and #5 #8 are completely subjective. Please don't say any more of that.

The second problem is: you don't understand that language is just a tool to solve your problem. You should find a suitable tool for your problem, not vice versa. While it is definitely easier to build classical websites (no websockets) in PHP, you won't be able to write a system daemon or SMTP server or a concurrent messaging server in PHP.

You shouldn't concentrate on one tool, it is slowing you down. Python is great when it comes to science: https://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific, you won't find this number of scientific packages anywhere but in Python. It also, in my opinion, is much better suited for API servers than PHP with its perfect Flask http://flask.pocoo.org and creepy but pretty fast Tornado http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/.

There are dozens of languages that everyone should use in their specific domain. Erlang for stable concurrency systems, Go for productive network and system programming, PHP for building simple websites, Python and Julia for scientific applications, Lua for embedding, Perl for parsing and scripts, Clojure for general-purpose language with immutable structures and concurrency, Haskell for learning great new ideas.

Programmer should be able to program on everything, that's the difference between a programmer and just a person who needs a website.
Might also be that it's saturday night/sunday morning, and not many people are 'on' right now?
Paul's Old Kits
Sure. The "noone is going to stop me" was literal, not about legal issues.
Satisfiability and Evolution
Planet Reboot: Fighting Climate Change with Geoengineering
Exactly. Some people just don't get it.
Personally I enjoy maintaining other people's abandoned projects. They free you from any obligation to keep up with new features, new bugfixes and so on. It feels more like a gift, than an abandonment.
Object-Oriented Programming in 1714
Uber Taxi Driver Rapes Passenger – Fake Mobile Number, No Background Checks
If someone is using the original package, then replacing that package with a better one (with different functionality and/or a different API) could mess them up.
*non-free
Well soldier on and rewrite all the javaScript on the web already.
I don't want to be mean, but you adding this one is not exactly contributing to that.
A huge number of people don't believe that after death is "nonexistence" and therefore do not fear it.
Python uses a similar trick in its internal allocater (pymalloc) [1]. Given a memory address, pymalloc determines if it controls it by computing what would be the base of the arena containing said address. It then finds the index of the arena (or trash) at a constant offset from the base. It then uses the index to check a vector of all the arenas that it controls.

[1]http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Misc/README.valg...
Transducers in PHP
Your answer makes sense to me, but contradicts onion2k's "magnet motor" comment. Have you heard of that concept - any thoughts?
What are the difficulties behind building a sensor with HDR like the human eye?
If I read the article correctly, "Small Ram Devices" can refer to devices with < 16 bytes of memory and < 128 bytes (the first two categories) - from that perspective, 128 kbytes is 1000x to 8000x larger.
In my experience - yes. Very generous.

Almost all other companies would say the bug was out of scope, thank you for reporting it, and maybe send you a t-shirt.
I've gone through that. What you need to do is some time management techniques. One of the most important is prioritization. It's great that you want to read all those articles, but set a time frame after which they are no longer relevant.
At the start of every day make sure you have a list of tasks that you MUST get done. Do those first, nothing else. Aside from getting things done, it will give you a sense of accomplishment. For longer term tasks/projects I right the top 3-5 on post-it notes and put them in an area I see them every day. A constant reminder that those are my priorities.
Most of this is based on the Daily Planner technique by Brendan Brushard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYwz3JUsLw
Be aggressive about purging. If it's really important, it will come up again. Also, remember that email is someone else's to do list for you, not your to do list.
My intuition is that magnets are in a lower energy state than non-magnets, because I would imagine it takes energy to unaligned magnetically aligned molecules.

Is that not the case?
Here's a plugin for an editor: footnode-mode for emacs.[0]

[0] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootnoteMode
Writer it all down. Read GTD, getting the required software, and stick to it. Most important step for you would be a complete brain dump.
Make your program slower with threads
Good grief, Charlie Brown. Cutting-and-pasting documents written by lobbyists onto official notepaper with only the tiniest of editorial figleaves (eg' substituting the phrase 'those questions' for 'my questioning') seems like a case of honest services fraud to me. Being from Europe and being used to publicly financed elections in a parliamentary system, the amount of money sloshing around US politics looks like the political equivalent of crystal meth, with a correspondingly unhealthy effect on the body politic - and it's a huge problem in both parties, because it delegitimizes policies I agree with as much as ones that I don't.

I'm not familiar with how the constitutional federalism rules play out in regards to the behavior of public officials in the states. It seems to me that it would be tremendously difficult for someone in Oklahoma who opposed this policy to sue the attorney-General over it, for example. The collective suits of the Federal government by multiple states that have proliferated in recent years are also hard to assess legally. Can any of our resident lawyers offer an opinion on this, even a shallow one?
I agree broadly, but I feel obliged to stand up and defend Los Angeles here (needless to say, I am biased; I used to live there but do not currently).

If you have lived in a big city but have not lived in Los Angeles, it is not reasonable to use your experience to model Los Angeles. It is much more like a loose federation of nearby townships than it is a city like New York City. This is as much a cause is it is an effect of car culture and freeways; the two feed each other and cannot be meaningfully separated into cause and effect as far as I am concerned.

There are parts of "LA Metro" that I find charming, and parts that I find terrible. But there is nothing that I would call representative of the whole. Downtown vs Santa Monica vs Redondo vs San Fernando vs Eagle Rock vs Alhambra etc. Treating LA as a monolith is not a useful approximation. (to be clear, I spent a substantial amount of time living in major cities across Europe and the US, including London and San Francisco, so I'm speaking with a moderate amount of diverse experience).
Reminds me of Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam

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https://twitter.com/FuentesDeOnoro
An airplane that does its job and gets its crew back safe is a beautiful airplane.
Amazing reporting. Sometimes Rolling Stone does good work.
I don't see how that's even possible. A $3bil cash infusion is going to increase prices and create need for more product. The US can't just make a deal to buy opium at a fixed price every year.

It sounds like a slightly more practical version of your suggestion would be to just pay producers to stop producing, but that obviously creates a slew of other issues.

And if there is an upper limit to opium production, you're going to have to start a price war to get there, which just dumps more and more funding into the region.
I have a better idea - Pay them $3 billion dollars to grow crops that ensure food security, and let them sell it for whatever they can get. Or, while we're spitballing - how about pay them $3 Billion to go to school, build roads, irrigation systems, etc...