skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't post much, but after reading this post I felt like I needed to say something. I apologise for the harshness, but this post just reeks of Hacker News Whoring. First, the author very subtly tells the rest of us how smart he is. As a child, he says, he was intellectually way above his peers. (Oh, BTW, as an adult too!):

"My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because none of my classmates understood what I was talking about or indeed had seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my childhood and also my adulthood)"

Then he proceeds to associate himself with some people whom I can only assume are considered heavyweights in their fields. Love me some of that name droppin':

"Just to name a few of the media researchers affiliated with CMS/W, we have:

T.L. Taylor (...)
Nancy Baym (...)
[more ad-nauseam]"

All this context and "anectotes", just to mention that MIT is doing research on Reddit, because, you know, they're awesome:

"And the real cultural story is that a place like MIT, and a department like CMS/W, is willing to experiment educationally: to basically say, you know what, this seems really interesting, and it matters, so let's get a bunch of people from different backgrounds together in a room and figure out what the heck is happening."

That to me describes _any_ research-oriented University. They're doing research on Reddit. Woohoo, I'm sure that's original! I don't think anyone questions MIT's academic rep, so, the way I see it, this post is nothing but self-inflating idle talk.
> "Matz is nice and therefore we are nice"

This non sequitur annoys me. Deconstructing it:

* A: "Matz is nice": Let's say we all agree this is true.

* B: "we are nice": i.e., the ruby community is nice.

* P(A -> B): (A therefore B) is a slogan, so I assume the proposition P is believed to be true. Is it?

In order for P to be true, the only option is for B to be true as long as Matz keeps being nice. Assuming Matz is still good-natured, is not hard to find counterexamples for B (every big community have some less-than-nice people). So the facts tell us that P is false.

Alternatively, if you assume that Matz is not nice, then, without mattering if "we" are nice or not, the slogan holds true (modus ponens [1]).

Anyway, my point is that the slogan is as silly as this rant :p.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens#Justification_via_...
will need the clockwise spiral rule to parse this:
http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
Rails (ruby) or Laravel (PHP)

Both are great frameworks for SaaS

http://Railscasts.com

http://Laracasts.com
Thank God there's only 180 irregular verbs in English. I remember slogging my way through 501 French Verbs in high school to limited success.

http://www.amazon.com/501-French-Verbs-Barrons-Language/dp/0...
Indeed. Both parties are guilty of basic lack of civility (a point which I note).

But one party is (in theory), a professional state agent, paid at least in part by the other. (Sounds like you didn't quite make it to the bottom of my post.....).

I'm not quite catching your point... it seems to be that Brown was acting up so it was acceptable for Wilson to act as he did. And if that is your point I don't agree. At all. And no, this isn't a "red herring". It is an often overlooked point that is entirely relevant to the issue. The behavior and general attitude of police officers sometimes helps cause these types of situations.

Also you say I can't blame Brown for being partially responsible for his own death? I can't blame Wilson for inflaming the situation? Oh yes I can. On both points. And I would be right. Not sure why you would say this......

My point is... we would all be better served if officers behaved in a more respectful manner. So ultimately would they. That people walked around cocky in the street and annoyed you is irrelevant to this simple fact. Two wrongs don't make a right. And one party, in particular, should definitely be expected to be above this behavior. We should demand it.
I think its perfectly expect-able that an actual smart home be accessible through a variety of modalities and methods. There's no reason why there shouldn't be smartphone access. But there's also no reason why there shouldn't also be the ability to use voice commands (not through your smartphone), direct wall controls, 'dumb' (relatively) physical remotes, etc etc.

For example, I don't always walk around my house with my phone. Sometimes I wear pants/shorts without pockets. Or I have to leave my phone plugged in somewhere cause it's charging. Or maybe cause I'm taking a shower and realized that I may have left the oven on and my roommate is out and I left my phone in my bedroom, and it would be awesome to be able to yell a question to my house and just have to dealt with. Or I have friend over and I want them to be able to play around with some of the coolness, but I don't want to fuck around with getting them to install the app, and syncing the authentication code, etc etc.

I mean, we can 'argue' about cost. But seriously, you're wiring up your house for automation and remote access. Enabling additional access nodes is a relatively tiny opportunity cost.
Thank god, I was just about to run out of newlines!
iOS: Save Web Pages to a PDF File Without Using an App
"Posted on 1 November 2008" so that should have a date added to the title.

Also, there are words which get irregularized, like "sneak"->"snuck" which was "introduced in the 19th century as a nonstandard regional variant of sneaked" (see http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1931). "Dive"->"dove" is another recent US irregularization (see http://linguistics-research-digest.blogspot.com/2013/07/thro... ).

Hmm, I recall another verb which dealt with religion (perhaps part of a religious service?) which was regular, but spelled quite similar to an irregular verb. Then as it became less common, people started conjugating it as the similar looking irregular verb.

I just can't remember that word.
The story about the three girls producing a breakthrough crop yield is complete nonsense, they didn't invent anything new.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2heown/16yearold_...
The Making of Tron (2002)
The irony I saw is that I was responding to a point made by kansface, rebutting a misconception that really isn't true. In doing so, I provided evidence to that, pulling in quotes and citing my methods. I created content. Yes, it's not a prize essay, but it took some minor effort, and more importantly it added information to the conversation. It also wasn't derogatory - I didn't imply kansface was a fool, I only discussed the misconception itself.

Then, despite your earlier protestations of people tearing down instead of creating, you just dismissed what I did out of hand with a mere "we're not talking about that". You added nothing to the conversation with that comment, and tried to stifle a conversation branch in process.

While the greater conversation is about more than HN, a specific point on HN was made, and the same specific point was rebutted. Cutting off that conversation is doing exactly what you were complaining about originally.
Using F# pattern matching:

let buzzer number =
match number with
| i when i % 3 = 0 && i % 5 = 0 -> "FizzBuzz"
| i when i % 3 = 0 -> "Fizz"
| i when i % 5 = 0 -> "Buzz"
| i -> (sprintf "%i" i)

for i = 1 to 100 do
printfn "%s" (buzzer i)
A small improvement could be to hash the key using a prime multiplier and successive multiplications, instead of using the key and increments of one. It'd reduce the collisions at the expense of a more computationally expensive hash function.
+1 there are lots of moving screens and distractions in the cockpit... A lot of being a good pilot is dealing with a ton of input and paying attention to the important things.
I have mixed feelings about this article.

It's quite long, and it uses that length to highlight the problems a universal set of human rights has. He makes some good points about the problems, but nothing that anyone with some familiarity with the area won't already know.

Fine.

Then in the final section, where one might expect some kind of alternative to be proposed he starts talking about development aid, and how that hasn't worked either, and he points out that small-scale, less ambitious projects are often more successful. I think few would disagree with the general thrust of his argument here.

In the very final couple of paragraphs he attempts to say that because large scale aid programs don't work then human rights treaties are "an act of hubris".

I don't think he makes this case very well at all.

Finally - and my biggest criticism - is that he doesn't attempt to provide alternatives to the idea of respect for human rights as a source of moral imperative and authority.

If human rights have failed then that leaves only two main sources of authority: raw power (in the military and economic senses) and religion. I don't find that an acceptable framework to reason with when trying to decipher "good" and "bad".
scientific method? economists? LOL
If they used an old school film camera would this be an issue?
It's hard to describe it as deliberate. For me, punctuation is imagined in terms of vocal tone and pacing; it's very auditory. I listen to the sentence to make sure that I have phrased it correctly, and decide on that basis.
See my comment, there's a huge difference between a pilot on a plane and the pilot in command...
I don't necessarily agree with the rules, I am just looking at possible reasonings for them.

As to professionalism and temptation, they do come in shades of grey.
My theory about PG is that he got sick of being the political animal that YC currently requires. Compare and contrast PG and Altman.

Graham wrote a "Request for Startups" that expressed an honest and tradeable opinion: "these 6 categories are likely to make me money, I want to fund them." Now compare to Sam Altman's RFS: "here are all the possible categories, don't be mad at me for forgetting yours, plus a few feel-good platitudes that will make the media like me."

YC probably needs a schmoozer/politician more than an intellectual right now. But that doesn't mean PG wants to be that person.
There's no bounds testing in hget(): some valid sequences of operations will cause buffer overflows. For example, this should segfault:

int (**table)[2] = hnew();

for (int j=0; j<40; ++j) {
hset(table, (10 + j*SIZE), 0);
}

The problem is, the probing function doesn't wrap (the "t += h" part), so if you have have several colliding keys, it will probe for them past the end of the table.
From the article:

> Pilots are allowed to use an “electronic flight bag,” which is usually an iPad or other tablet containing the aircraft’s operating manual, maps, and other important documents that were previously kept in an actual bag. (But if that iPad were used to take a photo, it would be considered a personal device and thus not allowed under FAA rules.)
"Science journalists" continued to misrepresent science on a regular basis.

The list is pretty good, but mesons are an entire class of particle, not a particle, so although the new particle discovered is a meson it is not the meson.

And Lockheed-Martin did not claim to have invented a working fusion reactor. They claimed to have an approach that they believe will lead to a working fusion reactor in five years or so.

Those are just two that caught my eye. It's been a good year for science, and for technology, and for humanity (mod some nitwits who think that violence and faith are good ways to improve the human condition) but science journalism is still a terrible mess.
Sounds like no as long as it isn't during take off and landing.
Thanks, Using the domain name from google login to create a group and auto subscribe people. So everyone from the same company automatically becomes a part of the same group.

This simplifies signup process and eliminates the need for someone to be an admin for the group.

I do expct to be more flexible in future, but for now this seems like a good approach for MVP (I think )
Well, that is a special case since the cockpit has to be sterile as pointed out in the article in which case NOTHING is allowed [EDIT (For clarify)] that is not to do with flight operations
you don't generate good ideas by being safe

necessity as they say is the mother of invention. money is the mother of indolence and sloth. hence the essay. The issue about mixed motives is also tied in their somewhere, too. honesty comes more freely to those with nothing to lose. whilst those with everything to lose, have averything to gain from shading the truth. {etc}
Thanks, that's very useful. I'll re-look at the copy.
or http://cdecl.org
The biggest CRISPR breakthroughs were all in 2012 and 2013- while it's an exciting up and coming biotech application, it wasn't a breakthrough of 2014.
It's tax evasion. They buy them in Jersey or something and import them into NYC illegally. They can't just sell packs of cigarettes over the counter because they lack a tax-stamp or something.

Edit: I mean, it's for the children of course. /s
> In all honesty, when your info gets leaked, don't you just cancel every credit card and bank account, get a new SSN, change your drivers license number, change your phone number and a few other numbers and move on with your life?

That is an insane pain in the ass. In this day of age just changing a credit card number is a pain; now changing your phone number is a new level of pain in the ass. Not only that but it's hard to get a new SSN; I've known plenty of people who requested a new one due to their SSN leaking and unless you have proof of identity theft many of them were simply declined.

Driver license numbers you typically don't need to change however. Almost all drive license numbers are generated simply based on your name (granted this depends on the state) so most of the time you can generate someone's number, accurately, just by knowing their name or a few other details about them. They're not really used to much.
The author helpfully explains the code by way of un-optimizing it to something readable: http://pastes.archbsd.net/graphitemaster/hashtable_explinati...
Many other apps hash phone numbers to "suggest" security and privacy as well, e.g. Secret. Other apps don't even bother to create the hashes and send the plain text phone numbers, e.g. WhatsApp.
What you just did is called the Paleo Strawman, its where people who don't understand the Paleo diet claim things such as "oh, its only about eating what was available in the Paleo and Neolithic eras", which has never been true.

What Paleo is, is a large scale research project to figure out why such a diet worked so well for humans, what parts worked, what parts didn't, and how we can scientifically engineer a better diet by reducing known toxins and chemicals that cause unwanted side effects in the body, and providing the correct amount of nutrition the body needs.

Paleo is no more "blindly eating the past" any more than pizza is a health food.
http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/the-range/hue-tap/
Thanks for your concise response. I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've gotten myself up a proverbial grain silo in terms of salary. I'm going to give serious thought to all 3 of your suggestions.

Worst part is, I actually co-launched a (failed) startup years ago before moving into the enterprise. I did 3 years of hard time with it. I remember it fondly (my wife, not so much) as a time where I could do 18 hours days x7 and still wake up pumped for the next day, because we were building something that was going to change the world! I also haven't forgotten the stress and struggle with burn rate and how we going to shut down as funds dried up. Still, some wonderful memories. I looking to create something again, that's really what this is about. Thanks again.

Edit: missing a word.
Apple opens first non-US development center in Yokohama
I think I hear my dotfiles calling :)
>And he has no other choice if you're driving on a suspended license.

He has a choice.
> The most likely culprit is processed food

Food doesn't jump into kids' mouths and eat itself. If there's a problem with what kids are eating then it's their parents who are to blame.
That's quite a stretch. The purpose of a particular update to an app is not the primary purpose of the app itself.
Physical attractiveness is not "completely subjective". There are very well established body proportions, symmetries, and other physical indicators of human attractiveness that are consistent across cultures and throughout time.
Or just buy a Mac.

I worked as an IT Pro for over 15 years, and ever since the release of OSX, I've been recommending people switch to a Mac, especially family. The only people who call me with computer problems now are those with Windows machines.
Are they seriously not wireless? What the hell were they thinking?
> Hacking is a cheap weapon with no answer to it

Hacking does have answers (things like DDoS are harder to defend against though).

However, those answers tend to require significant resource investment (formal verification, use of software engineering processes that are cost-prohibitive, etc.). The evil despots and states are much more likely to be able to bring these resources to bear if need be than the common people.

After all, think back to when cheap weapons were available to all about equally and there weren't much better weapons available even to the rich... it was awful. You couldn't even go from one city to the next without being preyed on by "highwaymen".

Seeing the same thing happen on the Internet (where skilled hackers and not "common people" are really in charge) doesn't seem to be as uplifting to me as it seems to be for you.
iPads and iPhones are specifically allowed by certain regs... "Nothing" is not the case here.

http://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/airline_ope...
>Grand juries are a safeguard for the accused. Do they work in practice? No.

Grand Juries have an especially hard time finding anything wrong with police conduct and are routinely used to "legitimize" questionable police activity.

I'm not ready to agree to eliminating them but it isn't hard to understand why someone might throw it out there as an idea.
There's a company called PilotsEYE.tv that sells DVDs of exactly this. It seems to be mostly European airlines participating, but they have some serious aircraft filmed in operation. They load the cockpit up with GoPros. Not sure but there might also be someone in the jump seat catching snapshots of the console displays as well.

This one of a Lufthansa A380's final approach and landing from FRA to SFO is a really nice one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HKN-FWNq0

This one of a Swiss Air crew handling an A340 engine problem in-flight is a great watch as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEf35NtlBLg
Oracle broken certificate or hacked?
Browser says:

download.oracle.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.akamaihd.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, a248.e.akamai.net,
*.akamaized.net, *.akamaized-staging.net
They might be hinting about the issues that the Honeywell displays in the cockpit of some Boeing airliners supposedly have issues with WiFi interference. Complaining about the GoPro because of the WiFi is a stretch.
http://aviationweek.com/awin/faa-mandates-fix-avoid-wi-fi-in...

Also, some newer airliners including the 787 use WiFi for the dispatcher datalink at the gate.

Edit: The WiFi issues with the display is overstated.
Facebook open sources HydraBase
Wikipedia has become a rancorous, sexist mess
Browser says:

download.oracle.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.akamaihd.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, a248.e.akamai.net,
*.akamaized.net, *.akamaized-staging.net
Ask HN: Does anybody know any programming language development community?
I am looking for something analogous to osdev.org but for programming language development.
Google gives a big 'nyet' to Russian engineering operations
Thanks for the feedback. It’s great when people get creative with their comments and also use the app in a lighthearted way.
Why a Beginner Programmer Should Learn C
Congress Passes Bill Giving Unlimited Access to Citizens’ Private Communications
5 Emails the best apps send to their users
I would much rather use a drug than eat less for the rest of my life.
Relatively new programmer. Would appreciate any thoughts, edits, or critiques!
Nice. It looks like something I tried a while ago, but never got it stable enough for someone to actually use: https://github.com/seppo0010/gitfuse
Easy Does It – ClojureScript and Om
The thing with the most commonest verbs "come" and "go" is they're the same verb but with different directionalities, just as "come" and "came" is the same but with different tenses. Ditto "bring" and "take". So the form irregularity sits not only on the tense but also the direction of movement.
What a fascinating read. Very cool that "life" may be as close as ten light years away.
Actually, "commonest" seems to mostly be a British English thing, while "most common" is American English, in my experience.
Is it only physicists in this article because physics has reached a limit in terms of what it can measure without resorting to mathematical or philosophical abstractions? I've seen a lot of these kinds of quotes from physicists but not as many in other fields. Not a criticism, just an observation/question.
iPAWiND
This is a terrible, terrible thing. I learnt about it here https://twitter.com/CodyC9508/status/543077875868397569. Read through the conversation.
nah - does not seem to be...

Front page links Usage policy | Search Cloud | Tag Cloud all blank.

Links in the html point to www.pirati.cz which is the Czech site for what looks to be the Czech Pirate Party.

I don't know enough about the Pirate Party to understand the connections between them and TPB if there are any...
>In the very final couple of paragraphs he attempts to say that because large scale aid programs don't work then human rights treaties are "an act of hubris".

The author explained why large scale aid programs don't work - because large scale programs treat foreign cultures like they are western cultures, or aspire to be. Every culture's idea of "human rights" is different. For example, Europe believes the freedom of speech does not extend to libel or defamation. America does. Islamic states don't think freedom of speech extends towards religions.

I agree with the article, and I would go one step further. There is no such thing as human rights. They are just wishful ideals humanity invented.
You can't get a new SSN as far as I know. What you can do is get a SSN pin, which will authenticate you in the case that your SSN has been leaked.

The damage that is done to your credit may not be undone so easily unless you take up a lawyer who knows what he's doing. Unfortunately, a lot of people are financially ruined for many years due to these kinds of attacks. Imagine not being able to buy a house, car, or even an apartment because of this.
This is just a giant rumor... Honeywell isn't making (for a plane or not) anything that can't hold up to wifi. The EM interference at altitude makes wifi look like a joke.
I originally wrote "nothing that is not to do with flight operations" but shortened it thinking that was implied.

i.e. A pilot that is not Pilot in Command in sterile cockpit cannot violate the sterility just because he doesn't have his hands on the controls.
well, the live in Russia is "amazing" - this is why i chose "boring" live in the US :)

another typical episode:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338484/Helicopter-s...

"A helicopter crash that killed three people in Russia was caused by the drunk pilot allowing an also-inebriated passenger to pilot the aircraft, according to an inquiry."
TY I used you link above.
This is a terrible, terrible thing. I learnt about it in this Twitter conversation https://twitter.com/CodyC9508/status/543077875868397569 involving @jamesthomson the developer for PCalc
Some people are more busy actually building stuff and happy enough with a site design that doesn't have the latest gimicks.