skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason we think there needs to be a platform for crawling and structuring data is that it's a huge hassle to reinvent the wheel every time. If you have experience writing crawlers and have been able to afford the time to learn to write them well, you've basically already reinvented the wheel. But now you also have to maintain the wheel. We think it would be better if people started working together on the problem of structuring the web. Besides running infrastructure (which has it's own challenges), there is really no reason why everyone needs to build their own extractor for every website. People generally want to extract the same things, and just a handful of quality implementations should be enough to satisfy almost everyone.

One of the keys to actually having an extractor repository is providing incentive for people to build and maintain the extractors, which is actually where we're headed once we allow developers to start building their own applications on the Analysis Engine.

If you're good at extracting structured data from HTML, you should continue writing your own extractors and even consider selling access to them. On the other hand, if you can't be bothered learning the art of extracting data, why not pay someone to use their commercial grade extractor?

So, to summarize, you should use our API so that you can better leverage your time and contribute to the creation of even better structuring tools.

We really like the stuff that Kimono and Import.IO are working on. They are significantly lowering the barriers to getting started at extracting/structuring data, which is great for everyone. Of course there are limitations to what their tools can do, but that's what you'll see every time someone attempts to simplify a complicated process. We aim to be the glue that connects people with data acquisition, structuring, and analysis tools.

Crawling social media is pretty tough because social platforms tend to be very reserved about access to their data (probably due to the enormous amount of personal data they have). It's a disturbing trend for sites to require an account before they even let you past the landing page. It's basically not publicly available data anymore. That's actually not something we have much experience doing, since we haven't had any customers ask for it yet.
All I Ever Really Needed To Know About Designing Nuclear Weapons, I Learned In Linear Algebra When I Was Seventeen.

Seriously, a whole lot of Physics really does ultimately distill down to linear algebra.

Just yesterday I learned through an HN link that Statistics is among the top-ten most valued skills among employers. That's implied by listing my physics degree on my resume, but those who don't have a clue about physics won't know that. I'll make it more clear in my next revision.
As for common filesystems (for some reasonable value of "common"): NTFS, HFS+ and SMB will probably be case insensitive. ZFS may be case insensitive.

There are others that would be exotic these days, like AFP. And with FUSE, could be anything.
I believe several people (On both the Mirage and Rust communities) have discussed moving some or all the C code in Mirage to Rust.

If you replaced the OCaml with Rust, you wouldn't have Mirage anymore. But you could write something similar in Rust.

This video claims Mirage is pure Ocaml, so the C code may have been replaced by OCaml, but the statement still stands.

The real challenge is how much you can write in safe Rust, which is a bit of an open question. In particular, intrusive data structures are common in kernels, but tricky in Rust.
It's now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/late...
Yes, I enjoy too. [1] is a good helper

[1] http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Arbre_Correlatio...
Ripping Sprites from Super Cyborg
Apple has updated this in Xcode 6.2 beta 3: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204147
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/report-microsoft-and-ya...
I hadn't thought about it like that before, but 3D printers are very much the first step of a replicator.

It would be nothing to throw some speech recognition into the loop - not that you need to - and basically say "I want a 16mm wrench" or "I want a 16 oz cup" and come back in 1 hour to find it exists.
Any Ubuntu users who are looking to update as a precaution might find this link to the "Ubuntu Git Maintainers" ppa useful: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19109542/installing-late...
this is the one that finally got me a solid emacs config that I'm happy with. and i haven't even started adding my own configuration layers yet.

finally I am faster on emacs (with vim keybindings) that I am on atom or sublime. that, for me, is the tipping point.
I think it's perfect to my current situation. Also I had the same problem Jeremy1026 had, the requirement did not make it back to the profile page
'Safe' from the sense that it makes it difficult to compromise the security credentials of your account. However, this will do nothing to stop you from inadvertently uploading ransomware to your account.
While that may be technically true, I imagine any waiter not able to pull in tips to exceed the minimum wage would soon find themselves out of a job, especially in at-will states. In practice tipping just transfers the cost from the employer to the consumer.
Why do you need to compare yourself with someone else? You enjoy it, right? do it because it's fun. Don't worry :)
Maybe you need to find a real-world problem to solve using code, instead of learning for the sake of learning. Maybe if you get a job? maybe an internship? or you can volunteer on a charitable organization to make/enhance their web site?
Ouch! And I thought the OpenBSD people were paranoid for sticking with CVS. (because Git is too bloated and complex in their view, so they weren't able to review it thoroughly, which would have been the only way for them to trust it.)

I always get a strange, uneasy feeiling when the tin foil hats turn out to be right.

I wonder if they are right on GPG, too. For those who don't know this: The OpenBSD people refuse to sign their releases with that "far too complex" GPG tool, but created their own lightweight "signify" tool instead. [1]

[1] http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify
As someone that used to be more interested in this stuff, it seems I missed the part where SS7 access became generally available. The first I saw mention of it, I think, was on an SMS provider's web site under a "Contact Us" type banner. Which makes me wonder, what changed to allow more businesses access and more importantly where do I sign up? :)

SS7 is one of those revered buzzphrases from my teen years, even getting to play with it for a weekend would really sweeten my Christmas.
Thanks zeeshanm! We actually have a lot of parsers that do just that, we just haven't yet made them available on the engine. We're also looking at ways to let people create their own and make it available to other users, since we think that's the best way to get to a fully structured web. Are there any sites in particular that you think we should focus on first?
I was told by an eat24 delivery guy once that he didn't get the tips from his restaurant when they were included in electronic payment. he could have been fucking with me though.
Because businesses are cheap and found a way to not pay their employees by creating a culture of tipping.
Alternatively, they could crack open an Internet RFC or two.

Internet Protocol packets have a field for the security classification - unclassified, confidential, secret, top secret, there are other classifications that are themselves classified, as top secret ultra once was - as well as the compartment.

I expect Bradley Manning had a top secret clearance, but I doubt he had the same compartment as was required to read diplomatic cables.

Quite likely everyone was using commodity routers, such as one can purchase at Fry's. It must be expensive to purchase routers that enforce what has been in the Internet Protocol since the 1970s.
The courts do have power in the federal government. If they say that some law is unlawful, then it is not able to be enforced as a law. The courts have that power since the constitution gives it to them. I think that you need to look at constitutional law a little more. The Executive branch does not have more power then the courts or the Congress. By the constitution.
No kidding. The pizza delivery model would seem a no-brainer. You simply have a few employees who know where everything in the store is (and can probably fetch anything 10 times faster than a normal customer) and then batch them out to drivers. It seems like Walmart could service 100 million people this way (with their entire inventory) just like Domino's et al have been for decades.

It's so obvious that I'm guessing they've done the math and it doesn't work.
Why work for them?
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It was not mentioned again.

Don't put too much stock in it - this kind of stuff is usually just a false result from poor lab methodology.
With Android apps you still build locally, typically with Gradle, allowing arbitrary code execution on the host.
Emacs is not optimized for new users. That is not uncommon when it comes to tools in general -- e.g. a Gibson Les Paul, an Osprey tilt-rotar, or the C Programming Language. Each anticipates a humanware investment. That's not my attitude, just my observation.

Emacs isn't the right tool for everyone or every job. Neither is anything else, but Emacs facilitates building the tools to make it work for diverse tasks.

People wrote those extensions because Emacs was designed to be reconfigurable and extensible 30 odd years ago. Unlike IntelliJ, it was a core function not a feature.
Ah, got it. I hadn't noticed the lack of a Mac binary link in the post.
2014 Review of Books
Best Linux Distro Under 700 MB?
I have about 75 gigs of unpartitioned space on my old laptop and I'm looking to burn a Live CDR to install a Linux distribution.
Looks nice and clean...good work. Reminds me of Telescope (built with Meteor): http://www.telesc.pe/
#islamworldproblem
Nope -- what happens today is paying Luxembourg VAT for physical goods delivered from UK to UK, which would be prevented this way. Digital goods have no "location", so the only way to charge VAT is to assume it was a "local" purchase. And what is wrong with countries competing with VAT rates?

Alternatively, a pan-EU VAT rate for digital goods only might be a better approach, and probably easier to implement than a universal VAT rate.
While North Korea does have enough capacity for trouble, your figure of "6,600 tanks" etc. should be taken with a big grain of salt. Those tanks are ancient.

Remember how US tanks handled Iraqi ones?
Cisco had a written test in which I was asked to debug a C++ program that had thirty lines or so of source.

Note that I did this with paper and a ballpoint pen - no computer.

That same test also had me reverse-engineer a network protocol packet, given a hex dump.

I have only had one other written test that I can recall. With that one I was given the assembly instruction architecture for a hypothetical CPU, then the source to a program, with the problem being for me to write down what the output of the program was. It was a huge PITA, and took me several hours, due to multiply-nested loops, recursion and the like.

I didn't get an offer from Cisco, but I did at that other company. The owner never tells anyone how they did on the written test though, other than that you get a job offer or you don't.
Your subconscious is trying to tell you something. Listen to it, carefully. Nobody on the Internet can tell you what it's saying.

Here are a couple possibilities, though, both based on personal experience:

1. You don't actually want to code, but you have a long, generally enjoyable history with it. It's hard to give up something that has worked well for us in the past, even if it's not working well now. Our actual self changes much quicker than our self-image does, particularly in the teens and 20s.

2. You do want to code, but you are afraid of not measuring up to some external standard. In this case - forget the external standard. Other people's ideas of fame & approval don't matter, only your own.

It's pretty common in our 20s to re-evaluate all the stuff we thought we liked & were good at, but really just fell into because that's what we did when we were kids and we were too afraid to give it up. I would get up off the couch and turn off the games, TVs and movies - but don't force yourself to code if it's not really what you want to be doing. Instead, let yourself be drawn to whatever actually interests you. Maybe it's programming, but it could be any number of other things instead. Writing, socializing, linguistics, business, science, etc. The world is a broad place.
Comparison of natural sort comparison algorithms in JavaScript
Thanks buttonsmasher.

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I read someone was able to "remove" the click sound by playing the same click sound phase shifted when taking a photo - so when the OS sound mixer adds the two waveforms together it results in silence. Clever idea - it is the same as noise canceling headphones, except it all happens in software.

As others have mentioned, if you put your iphone in silent mode there is no click sound except in Japan. I'm not sure if a) phones sold in Japan have disabled this feature or b) the phone knows when it is located in Japan and then disables silent mode.
I can't be the only one who started itching while reading it.

And it's an unfortunate fact that scratching causes itching, and knowing that, I didn't not scratch the psychosomatic itches, but if I had not I could have given myself real itches.
Sadly, even though she may show signs of not intending to continue the tradition, familial and societal pressure will force her to marry someone willing to take on the family name and carry on in the capacity of the owner and head of household. The history and prestige behind a 1,300 year old ryokan will outweigh a daughter's feelings about her marriage and future life.
> Skeptics alike claim is actually at the root of Morgellons. They say that what people like him are really suffering from is a form of psychosis called delusions of parasitosis, or DOP. He is, in other words, crazy.

Fucking unhelpful to frame mental illness like this.

It is intensely frustrating to see people suffering - to the point where they consider suicide - because of the stigma around mental illness.
> Git clients running on OS X (HFS+) or any version of Microsoft Windows (NTFS, FAT) are exploitable through this vulnerability. Linux clients are not affected if they run in a case-sensitive filesystem.

What about case-sensitive Mac file systems, like mine? I would imagine they are not vulnerable and that the author just overlooked this possibility in the article...
I like jury duty. It's like being an elected representative, but without a tiring campaign and several years of work. It's just a one day slice :)
I can't imagine why you'd ever maintain such a large and arbitrary set of documents.
I was thinking more along in the lines of creating a dynamic parser. It's an interesting and a challenging problem and I have thought about it for some time. There may need to be some human intervention involved but by design it should be dynamic.
I understand that ten times as much time and money go into maintenance work, than in writing the original product.

Now some of that is adding features but much of it is fixing bugs.

I work very very hard to promote myself as a debugging specialist, but it is quite uncommon for potential employers to even care.

The most common requirement for "Debug" - not "Debugging" just "Debug" - is for really low-level embedded work. Not even kernel nor device driver work, stuff like board bring-up.

However I have gotten a few jobs specifically as a debugger. My very first retail coding job got me the title of "Product Development Manager", but in reality I was hired to debug a product that my predecessor made a smoking crater of. I've also been a "Debug Meister" for Apple, and a "Man in Black" for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, where I worked on what is now the Sony Mobile XPeria Play.
I fully agree that meditation is less complicated than advertised. However I'd like to state that "contemplation" and "deep thought" are alternative terms for a specific type of meditation called mindfulness meditation: "the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment."

When I meditate, my goal is not actually to contemplate anything at all -- it is to clear my mind, whittle my senses down until the only thing I feel is consciousness. Ultimately, in a state of deep meditation, my goal is a fully blank state, in which I'm doing nothing except existing.

I find that this helps me tremendously in my mindfulness in normal life, but I don't attempt to be mindful _during_ meditation in the same way.
More than that, I've never had a bad experience with Amazon. I'm not saying they don't happen, I'm saying I personally have never, in all the years I've been using Amazon, had a bad experience.

I have nothing but praise for Amazon and as time goes on I find myself more and more simply ordering things from Amazon even if they're available locally.
Given we decided to fly halfway across the world for a big name startup conference to launch, I think it will end up being one of the worst ROI things we ever do. Chalk that up to beginners mistake.

That said, we are looking to attend and sponsor smaller more targeted events closer to home in the future.
Are SaaS Companies Just Misunderstood?
75 GB is plenty for Arch: https://www.archlinux.org/download/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media
>In my experience - as a bystander, since I'm a man - that'd be a good way to provoke insults and (if the jerk knows you) defamation behind your back.

You were not saying (as a man) you don't think it would be wise to confront someone who was rude to their face because they may talk behind her back? Sounds like advice... Oh, wait! It was just a warning!

Thanks for playing dude...
100% agree with the theory of what you're saying, but in practice I've found that none of these new event-based analytics tools provide much value until you add custom attributes to the events. That is where you get the important slicing and dicing and segmentation.

Unfortunately, Heap's approach only captures the events automatically but can't capture the business-specific attributes that need to go on those events. Ultimately that will always require some human being to think about their business-specific problems.
Find a time when you're naturally fairly calm. A lot of people like the morning right after waking up and getting ready. My preferred time is in the early afternoon.

There really isn't a specific time meditation should be done, you just need to find what works for you.
I'm going to guess that they simply don't know that much about how to display and/or photograph a product, which is fairly common. The example you gave isn't nearly the worst situation: They at least gave it enough thought to give a basically neutral background and do something to display the product. Really all this person would have needed to do would be to hang a piece of cloth up and drape it underneath, but that is something easy to overlook.
I compare myself because I want to see progress. If I can do 1% of what some of the guys here can do, then I am onto something, or at least that's what I'd like to think!
Touche.

"So how could you contribute to our company?"

"I have a goatee and look really good in tight blue jeans. Also I like to ride skateboards, and compose original minimalist piano music."

"You're hired!"
No answer. The payload of the article turned out to be the journalist's rumination on his existential anxieties, followed by a few loose ends tied into a makeshift bow and a shoutout for his forthcoming book. Most disappointing.

I don't believe in Morgellon's syndrome (or rather, I don't believe most of the explanations that are offered for it), but I feel a lot of sympathy towards people who are struggling with it, as I have an occasional recurring OCD itch that is annoying both as a physical itch and a psychosomatic one. I manage to stop scratching, the skin gradually heals, everything is fine, and then some months or years later some casual micro-abrasion sets it off again, the same way an exposed piece of velcro seems to actively pick up lint.
What do you think are some of the best desktop apps they provide?
Oct 4: Apple launches Siri

Oct 5: Steve Jobs dies

One kind of side note. On October 5th, Steve Jobs died.
He had been involved in a lot of the process leading up to it.
We know that he was watching this launch from his house.
I don't know what he thought about it, but I like to project
that he saw it, said "It is good. This is the future, Apple's
in the middle of it. I can go now." I don't know if that's true,
but that's a projection that I like to put onto it.

I suppose this is the kind of statement you could expect from the creator of a predictive personal assistant, but wow.
lol am writing C++ for trading in a big investment bank in Manhattan everyday. many of my colleagues are not hardcore dev at all, neither can they make similar amount of money as counterparts in CA.
It's only taboo in a business sense. No women I know have ever had an issue with my friends and I going on a "guys weekend" trip. Men to men is a very different connection and we do things that just don't happen around wives and girlfriends - drinking, fishing, shooting things, etc.

In the business world it's taboo because it would be seen as colluding against women and minorities. Historically (and even currently), business and politics have been dominated by white males, and that tends to give an advantage of familiarity and incumbency. Women-only, or minority-only conferences like these are a chance to balance the scales a little.
You seem to be saying that the evolution of technology over the next 20 years had something to say about whether Microsoft was abusing a monopoly situation at the time of the trial. I don't think that's a valid way of applying the law.

Furthermore, a big part of Microsoft's motivation for making the browser "part of the OS" was exactly to try to blur that line for the court. I am therefore highly skeptical of using "it's now part of the OS" as a reason that the court got it wrong.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. During my dissertation, I _had_ to write code and I enjoyed it. And now I want to learn more, but not sure where I'd start.

The other problem is that I couldn't approach a charitable organisation and say "hey, I suck at coding and know almost nothing but I'd like to do your website". I lack self-confidence. Not sure how I build that up?
Is it worth paying headspace 8 bucks a month?