skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mousetraps?! This account - the one I'm posting on now? Haha! Nope, I'm just weird. Sorry to axe the conspiracy theory :-).

Now watch this:
My HN account? Nope... sorry to inform you, but I'm just weird. Anyone who knows me will attest to that. I'm generally far too full of energy, but depending on the occasion oscillate between a playful and pensive writing style. Here's my quora page, and a blog post I did earlier this year if you want to cross-check. You'll notice there's a healthy mix of both "caffeinated" and "decaffeinated" Sara. Let me know if you'd like to see any more writing samples :).
- https://www.quora.com/Sara-Itani
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2014/04/17/scala...

Waitaminute... What just happened?!! CAN'T RESOLVE... COGNITIVE... DISSONANCE... MIND... IMPLODING!!!!

It's not so hard, actually. Both writing styles are pretty similar - one is simply more staccato and contains over-the-top faux-dialog with the reader. Usually if I'm trying to construct a convincing argument or reason about an idea while I'm writing it, my writing will turn out more pensive. If I'm super excited (as I was when people were posting awesome feedback,) or trying to get/keep someone's attention - it'll be more energetic/playful. If I want to do both, I'll combine the two.

Make sense? Awesome.

Apologies for the confusion :-). You may now return to your regularly scheduled HN thread.

EDIT: oops - got distracted trying to prove I'm me, and forgot to address the more important part of your message. Thanks so much for the feedback, even if you couldn't take the survey :)
Sure,

1) "I have spent a good while" : here I think you missed "time"

I thought there were more when I was reading it for the first time, did you make any changes? Anyways it looks all correct now :)

P.S. I will add more here if I find anything.
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Interesting. By the time I was born, all flights were non-smoking, so I've never ever seen anyone smoke on flights.
Running incredibly slowly for me. I guess its the HN/PH effect.
How is it different than Phantom.js or Zombie.js ?
Kim Dotcom Raid Ruled Legal According to Supreme Court
You can even draw the Mona Lisa on it : http://pastebin.com/TUsqeMWT

(You need to expose the pixelCanvas globally first using a break point or something)
Are you rendering the JavaScript on those pages? What's your in-domain delay?
The power of imagination only gets you so far. There are diminishing returns to technology and innovation in most areas. Moore's law is a notable exception, but if you extend it to what Moore's law buys you -- what you can do with all that additional computing firepower that you couldn't do before, it's pretty minimal.

As an example: any heat engine is limited in its efficiency by Carnot's Law. You can apply all the electronic smarts to it you want, but the best you'll get in efficiency improvements is a closer approximation of the theoretical maximum.

You can phase-shift and use different technologies -- hybrid vehicle drives allow for greater engine efficiencies (constant power) and energy recover (regenerative braking), but that's fairly minimal -- the complexity of a Prius and a comparably efficient high-efficiency diesel is great.

There are other issues in expanding systems beyond certain scales -- even if you've got genius minds out there untapped, how do you 1) train and educate them, 2) find them, and 3) incorporate and utilize their advances -- in all the other noise.

I don't see a huge win here.
What's a rational argument? It is not irrational, for example, to kill or (forcibly convert) absolutely anyone who doesn't believe (religiously) that which I believe.
My wife has flown overseas every year to Europe (since she was a newborn) to visit family.

She got violently airsick every single flight and nobody could figure out why. Then when the international flights went non-smoking, the nausea stopped. She's 100% convinced it was the smoke. Even sitting in the "non-smoking area" got a constant wave of second-hand smoke that wafted around.
Comparing battery usage of SVG and Video on iOS
I thought you were answering a comment about slavery with an apparent belief that, in some ways, the situation for American black people today was worse than it was during slavery. I was just disagreeing with the appropriateness of the metaphor, not trying to move any goalposts. I may have misread you.

But it's not that slaves were forced into a 'wage labor system' and didn't own property. Slaves were in many cases property. How can property "own" anything? Can the table in front of me own the things I put on it? Does a cow have any right to dispute being sent to the slaughterhouse? It would have been absurd to even consider in the South at the time.

No matter how exploitative the welfare and even prison systems are, it's still not in the same league. Although I would agree with you that prisons are about as close to slavery as we can probably get. But even then, everyone involved is legally 100% human in all 50 states.
I'm doing the same for Belgium actually, and possibly The Netherlands, in time. (http://afspraakherinnering.be)

It's in it's early stages. I'm waiting to e-mail Patrick when I can say "Thanks to you I now have >500€ MRR" :-)

I sent you an e-mail to talk about it some more and share experiences! Always great to learn of similar endeavours.
Ha, perfect timing. Yesterday the guy next to me threw up in his hands on takeoff. He hadn't looked for a bag; I expect he thought he could ride it out. I handed him mine.

I can't imagine the bags are a significant cost to airlines -- everyone's heard of the 'American Airline olive,' but those were actually being consumed every flight. Compare that to the PR from customers smelling vomit for hours because there was no bag.
Interestingly, all life and "life" (virii, prions) serve the purpose of increasing entropy of the universe faster. But from an anthropocentric perspective, they're as useful as cancer.
thanks for the free copy

you are fine to point out when sumone errs without associating yourself with a genocidal political movement

still.. any thoughts on linux ics?
Thanks for the pointers!

I find myself needing this surprisingly often:

An array of elements in a certain order which I also want to lookup by Id.

Sometimes the order is defined by configuration, sometimes by some other criteria that is not accessible for this particular component, so I can't resort to a SortedHashMap.

Still, I need a 1) fast and 2) convenient way of lookup by some key. Convenience is often more important to me than performance in those cases, since the data size is not huge, but I hate it when I have to write array.find(e => e.Key == myKey) instead of orderedLookup[myKey].
I see this attitude in vegetarians too. Vegetarians who make exceptions for fish should be more accurately be called ugly-atarians if they answer "no" to the question, "Would you eat a sea-horse?"
I used to have dogs, I love dogs, but I moved to a small apartment and I didn't want to get a dog.

My girlfriend likes cats, so we picked up a stray from a local shelter. And she is a lot more affectionate than I had been led to believe cats were.

Hair IS a big problem though. Smell is much less of a problem than a small dog in an apartment (I might be biased, but I haven't had anybody tell me anything about smell. I should double-check with people I trust though).
Housing in DC didn't have the crash that the rest of the country experienced, that's true. Of course, neither did Houston's, or San Francisco's, or much of New York City's.

By contrast, people who don't live in DC didn't have their pay cut 10% by mandatory furloughs demanded by a governing body they have no vote in. People who don't live in DC get to pass laws determining how they want to live, without those laws being vetoed by representatives from Oklahoma who find them politically inconvenient in their home state.

I haven't even touched on the fact that DC's population is over 50% black, and has been for decades. It may not be the case now, but in the past the arguments for refusing DC residents the right to vote were very explicitly racial.
Soon Your Tech Will Talk to You Through Your Skin
To be honest, all your problems with the smell, and stuff getting everywhere, cleaning bags, etc. would go away with Worlds best cat litter (http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Best-Cat-Litter-Multiple/dp/B00...) - you just flush stuff down the toilet, and it's doesn't smell.
Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics
"We spend the time and energy searching all over the web for cheaper reservations for you", are you really spending time on searching things manually? If so, I wouldn't pay anything for such a service, because you may apparently go on holiday and don't care about my reservation. If all is automatic, then I could go for it. However, then "spending time and energy" is a lie.

I believe anyone should be able to submit their reservation, along with credit card details. If you do find the cheaper rate somewhere, you charge them at that point and present with the offer.

BTW, A typo: we can try to ehysave you money.
Excellent article! The fact that they can reliably produce errors in most ram chips is worrying. They also provide a solution (probabilistic refresh of neighboring lines).
Using .ec6 as file extension for ECMA 6 source codes
It's quite true, in fact. Look at Java's generics. Pre-Java 5, everybody was asking for generics. They got implemented. Now everybody complains they suck because they are a hack, they are slow, not that type-safe, made the language more complex, are not as powerful as C++/Ada/Haskell, etc. Nobody wants to go back to Java 4 (in which situation was worse than Go, tbh), but everybody (OK, most people) keeps complaining.

I'd myself be very happy with a hint of generics in Go, though. Something at the package level, that would be instantiated at "import" time (since the import keyword is supposed to hold some magic in itself) would have my preference.
I can't imagine that either.

What i can imagine is that time spend on cleaning a single barf spot probably exceeds the costs of paper bags. Then again, who says everybody managed to put everything neatly in the bags and no cleaning afterwards is required.

Need some proper stats to calculate this i guess.
Most living animals aren't usually bleeding because many predators are highly attuned to that smell, so kissing bugs, bed bugs, mosquitos and other parasites had to evolve other correlative signal receptors including IR, CO2, etc.
or How to Completely Miss the Point.
I've found one use-case for mixed-keys: parsing complex headers. For example:

Link: <http://cdn.example.com/stylesheet.css>; rel=stylesheet; type=text/css

[
[0] => <http://cdn.example.com/stylesheet.css>
[rel] => stylesheet
[type] => text/css
]

It doesn't come up very often.
To fully rebuild the whole project (U-Boot, Kernel, fs) I'm currently working takes 6 to 8 hours on 8 core i7 and believe me, I've done it may times.. So yes, compile time does matter sometimes.
If the data can stay on the GPU, then it is likely a win. GPU have 8GB or more now. Thus it depends on how much polygon data one has.
This is one of the strangest suggestions for security that mobile apps and cloud based solutions are more secure then on site???
Discussion from a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713411
How long until someone uses this as the basis of an exploit? Maybe not root access, but if you can figure out an OS call that replicates the access pattern, you can corrupt machines just by interacting with them.
I already replied to your email :-)

A few other people also got in touch. Cool! :-)
There's a large-ish North Korean population in Japan that has some significant links to the DRPK. Many are actually used as a means to get hard currency into the country. To a limited (very limited) extent they reduce reliance on China.
Having a degree is only really relevant to a subset of the industry that revolves around things that are really difficult to learn outside of a university. There are some companies that wont hire you without a degree, but I find they are the minority.
I'm on chapter 6, all good so far. Thanks for the recommendation.

The full text is available online

https://archive.org/details/OnWritingWell
The multiple layouts looks very interesting, will save me a lot of time browsing.
From abstract:

High speed DRAM reads influence nearby cells. Reproduced on 110 of 139 mem modules after 139k reads on intel and amd. 1 in 1.7k cells affected.
Mix of Bacteria in Gut May Depend More on Diet Than Genes
And 2014's Worst Currency Was Bitcoin
Alternatively, just resize your browser window/tab.
Back-lit e-readers 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn
Missed that - thanks - although to be fair there doesn't actually seem to be that much discussion. Maybe most people missed it.

Edit: Just checking, it was at 120, looks like it got artificially promoted to 25, then sank quickly.

http://hnrankings.info/8713411/
C++ is currently really the only choice if you're making an application that is both large and performance critical. If you're building a AAA video game or a web browser or a robot's navigation system then it probably is the best choice even if it's a painful one.
Comcast – TWC delatyed due to 7,000 documents held back
I think you mean pescatarians and not vegetarians. By definition, vegetarians don't eat fish.
Hey!

It does work in firefox! You need to manually enter things instead of using color pickers though.

For example, if you go Components -> Jumbotron -> Background Color and Paste in #000.

It should update the Jumbotron background color (you will have to scroll up perhaps to see it).

Does that work for you ... or if not I will need to look into it, as it may be a bug :(
>Mostly because the designated highway sections would require concerted public actions and overcoming a lot of NIMBYs.

But it's much closer to being technically feasible than the general case.

That said, I don't really disagree with your point which is one reason why it's further out than a lot of enthusiasts would like to think. The likely scenario is that (initially) high-end luxury cars will get features that could allow them to operate autonomously on designated sections of highway. The problem, as you point out, is that it would take concerted public action to change laws and designate those sections (perhaps requiring some sort of radio beacons to enforce the designation). That's a fair bit of public action, and probably at least some money, to let "rich" people fiddle with their phones while tooling down 280 or wherever. I'm not sure it's something I, as a politician, would be anxious to champion.

I suppose there could be commercial benefits as well--trucking and so forth--but given that you still need to pay a human to sit in the vehicle, it's unclear that highway-only self-driving would given businesses much of an economic win.
Simulate order by field with Mongo DB aggregates
Eric showed off their mobile-based "app store" before it was released. The cool part is it could download a new watch personality over BT without internet access. So it could operate with cached watch apps if you're out of cell reception.

(I still have my Alerta that was hand-delivered.)
Usually access to banks networks are guarded with an RSA fob + password. It's unclear from the article if JP use that system or not.
Does HN think they will release a new version soon, or is it safe to order one now?
It can be learned by a programmer knowing only imperative C-family languages in a couple of hours, meaning I can hire any average developer and make him productive in less than a week. Not the same as teaching pure functional style with pattern-matching and prolog's syntax. Go is also much more efficient. It also produces static executables and can be easier to deploy -- or not, depending on the exact situation. It handles strings nicely -- anything other than Erlang's approach to strings is nice.

Erlang has other advantages, though. 99.9999999% uptime and hot code replacement are easier with it, for instance. Their ideal niches don't completely overlap.
Maine entrepreneur builds sleek ship, but will military buy it?
If you are using Chrome, there should be color pickers etc, which you can access by going into the Components Tab.

Then click one of the color pickers, and choose a color. Then it should update the demo interface on the left (you may need to scroll to find the right section)

If your using chrome you need to manually enter the values, like #000.

What sort of tutorial do you think, perhaps one of the ones which displays popovers next to each section, and guides you through it ?
If you are able to crawl that volume as cheaply as you say, you should definitely be offering it as a service.
Ask me in a couple of days. Going to be taking a small regional jet through the east coast thunderstorms. Not looking forward to this.
Wellington couldn't come to Blücher's aid as Napoleon blocked him with his left wing under Ney at Quatre Bras.

Your argument seems to be coming from the historical revisionism that Hofschröer puts forward, about how Waterloo was somehow a German victory and Wellington simply took the credit.

It was neither, it was a coalition victory by both Wellington and Blücher in close cooperation. Close cooperation by the standards of the day that is, in personal meetings and messages conveyed on horse-back.

Neither knew from which direction Napoleon would attack, and when he did he took both Blücher and Wellington by surprise. Moving from the south-west he defeated Blücher at Ligny, whilst pushing his left wing under Ney to block Wellington to the north at Quatre Bras. Arguably Napoleon's biggest mistake was not to make sure he had decisively beaten Blücher at Ligny.

Blücher withdrew to reorganise, and Wellington pulled back north along the Brussels road to Waterloo. Crucially Blücher also withdrew northwards, parallel to the French advance, and Wellington was well aware of this, the French not.

The rest is history. Wellington's army held the field all day, the Prussians arrived on the French right in the late afternoon, and with Napoleon's attacks exhausted, the French army routed.

To quote Wellington himself written immediately after the battle "I should not do justice to my own feelings, or to Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the successful result of this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance I received from them"
Never turn down an interview. They can really only lead to good things, and it's always nice to have more than on opportunity on the table.

Depending on where you are, it might be looked down upon if you play your offers against each other. If you are in a small market, I wouldn't do it, but if you're in a major market it's usually pretty accepted.
Second this! A fixed sidebar is definitely a requirement to make this site more usable. I would also love to see a left-align editing bar instead of a right-align and a a totally separate background / place on the page rather than an absolutely positioned element. Great tool for quickly testing color and theme changes, but I'd want to see a number of changes to be something I'd use regularly instead of my editor.

Thanks for posting and nice work so far!
Maybe functionality is in the eyes of the beholder... but Pebble can most definitely do all of those things with the proper app: view calendars/agendas, send canned SMS responses, and view upcoming weather. You don't have to "ask" your device to do it, just press the right buttons. Despite the "coolness" factor, I find it preferable and more discreet to press buttons, rather than using a microphone or swiping a touchscreen. Depending on the app, you can literally cycle through the three things you've mentioned in three button clicks. [1] Also, if Pebble has a killer feature, it's that its battery life crushes anything else I've seen thus far, regularly lasting through 5 to 7 days of 24/7 wear and bluetooth connectivity...I don't think any Android Wear device can do that yet, but I would be really interested in looking at them if they could.

[1] http://www.finebyte.co.uk/?page_id=9

EDIT: FWIW, I don't use Google Now on my phone itself, so I admit that some of the novelty or utility of what it can do from your Android Wear device might be lost on me.
Has anyone tried the bridge support? Can it be used reliably yet? (I sure hope so for a 1.0 release).
What Professional Security Companies Must Use for Liability Defense
Hmmmmm, can you tell me what version you are running?
Could you also change the Jumbotron color for example, then scroll to the Jumbotron section.

Just to confirm if its a bug or if its just because it doesnt scroll to the content etc.
Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era
Angular Gantt 1.1.0 released with Tree and Columns support
What goes on at the chip level is terrifying. "You have to understand," a hardware engineer once said to me, when we shipped a consumer computer that was clocking its memory system 15% faster than the chips were supposed to go, "that DRAMs are essentially analog devices." He was pushing them to the limit, but he knew what it was, and we never had a problem with the memory system.

There was a great TR from IBM describing memory system design for one of their PowerPC chips. Summary: Do your board layout, follow all these rules [a big list], then plan to spend six months in a lab twiddling transmission line parameters and re-doing layout until you're sure it works . . .
A few bad actors does not invalidate all of humanity's rights.
Actually, I've found that it's even undesirable to know C, because programmers, that came from C to C++, usually try to do everything in "C way" that leads to the code is "C with objects". To really learn modern C++, one must "forget" C and start with basic concepts.
> (Also, how do you erase or overwrite secrets from memory after use in a purely functional language?)

Your other concern is valid, but this is easy: Haskell has mutable arrays.
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Apple Releases Security Patch for NTP Vulnerability in OS X
The title gave me a good chuckle - thanks.
"Pope Francis suggested in a homily in May that he would baptize Martians if they landed in St. Peter’s Square and asked for it."

Forget about astronauts or reality shows participants. Let's send catholic priests to Mars.
Top 6 Email Tracking Apps – Yanado Blog
If I may ask, what is the point you're referring to?
Sarah Lewis on the Archer's Paradox and the Creative Process
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> Given that at the end of the process they're both dead, the amount of pain felt ends up being irrelevant.

That's pretty far outside the mainstream -- lots of jurisdictions have laws about the humane slaughter of animals.

For obvious reasons, people tend not to restrict their moral consideration of pain to those beings that will never die.
They also have a history of supporting dangerous and unscientific prevention/"treatments" for autism, including promoting anti-vaccine nonsense (http://autisticadvocacy.org/2014/01/2013-joint-letter-to-the...).
6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car – The Oatmeal
Hm, that's a perspective I hadn't considered.

I still orangutans should have rights, though.
The Most Pinteresting People in the World
Typo fixed, thanks!

As for the automatic it is partially automatic. As we're gauging interest right now we haven't fully automated it.

For the pricing we're looking into different options such as taking only a %'d of amount saved, only charging if we save you money, etc. We'll be doing some testing in the very near future on different pricing models.
I understand your point, but why even mention Uber when the parent specifically said "car sharing"? Likewise, why does the parent bring the topic of "house sharing" when Airbnb is clearly renting, and not sharing?

I just feel that too often we are putting professional services and sharing on the same bag, which I find a bit alarming.
Larry Page: I would rather give my billions to Elon Musk rather than charity
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