skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source tooling for creating mobi's are nowhere near epub's and Calibre does a good job of converting epub to mobi, so I don't mind when projects offer only epub, although I'm a heavy mobi user.
Have you seen the Jolla tablet?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-firs...
And rising tension between nuclear powers.
Show HN: An alarm clock you have to smile at
I think your points are valid, especially about wire format compatibility. Bond and Thrift are in fact close enough that providing Thrift compatibility is a real possibility. It wasn't high enough on our priority list to make the cut but we do in fact use some Thrift-based system internally. The impedance mismatch in the type systems are higher between Bond and Avro/Protobuf so we will have to see about those.

I hear you on the fragmentation. I know that this doesn't help the community as an explanation, but big companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft really have a good reasons to control such fundamental pieces of their infrastructure as serialization. Case in point: Facebook has forked their own Thrift project because, I presume, having it as Apache project was too restraining.

FWIW, we plan to develop Bond in public and accept contributions from the community.
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Anatomy of a Computer Chess Game
Yeah I agree with that, the internet has gone to shit in the last few years with this. The system is a bit messed, your going to have to sign up for three services minimum Netflix, Hulu and Amazon just to get about half of the TV shows.

In the UK however we have ISPs blocking domains, but people just keep putting up ore and more domains to curcumvent it. It won't stop.
Good point. But unfortunately, my own problems cannot be solved by mere programming :)
Actually it's not that either.

Success in a business context means a positive rate of return on the resources invested. Or to refine one step further, a return that is positive and superior to the next best alternative for the deployment of said resources at a given level of risk.
Surely their next step is to try and get Google to sensor this page.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/

as it will provide links to all of the pirate websites that hosts infringing content?...Time to get parsing those CSVs.

All the data from removals can be found here.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...
Agreed. I use cash for everything I can, checks when I can't (local payments), and credit cards only for purchases over the web, where it can't be easily avoided, and one does need, in the US at least, to maintain a credit record. This is primarily to avoid fraud with stolen info, and secondly that mild paranoia we share. If I had a Pocky addiction, no one would know outside my family ^_^.
It's just that you are not following closely what companies in Japan are doing. As a reminder Shaft company bought by Google was way better than the robot from Boston Dynamics during the Darpa Challenge:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/schaft...
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/90...
I just discovered this about a week ago, and am only a few videos into it (Day 006), but it's been great so far. Like a some people have pointed out, Casey has some strong opinions about things that I don't completely agree with, but I've already learned a lot, and it's really cool to see the thought process of someone who is clearly very smart and has a lot of experience doing this sort of thing.

On a side note, it's also pretty cool just watching him work in emacs. I just started learning emacs myself and he's wicked fast!
AFAIK, in the US of A the employer usually owns all the work done by his slaves, err, employees. Your side project may pay your company, not you.
Surely it's unfair to expect the GitHub page for a language, much less some deep-linked sub-page of it, to be a professional landing page? The page linked from the post, iolanguage.org, is (intentionally) minimalist, in the spirit of the language, but still a reasonably good landing page. (Also, as near as I can tell, although it contains a link to GitHub, under 'source' where one would expect, it contains no direct link to the page that you provide.)
That's all well and good until you lose it or run it through the washing machine. Then your entire password system is gone. Any backup would need to be stored in a place that might as well be your 1Password/LastPass database.
Let's combine a cheap seat with a bad lock and market it to hipsters...
Not only. Asymmetric bandwidth really sucks for p2p. And most "broadband" connections in the US are asymmetric.
Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
Power will always opt for securing and expanding its hold, and in its paranoid frenzy it is evident that rights, people and property are expendable to the vanguards of absolute security.

I don't think anything happened that hasn't been happening since that quote was written. Those are just some new excuses to solidify the grip that the ruling class has at home and abroad.
Convicted ‘eco-terrorist’ freed amid claims FBI hid evidence
In the UK it's not illegal. You can pay them in cash in hand. Most builders and workmen that do work in your homes are paid cash in hand when they come round, this is common. They just need to declare it with the correct authorities themself.
Might also like http://hntext.com (Also has a podcast)
The author of this simulation seems to have forgotten the effects of refraction. Besides that, it's great!
Comment above was about _transaction_ fees, i.e. fees you pay on a per-transaction basis.

Comments below are about fixed yearly fees.

There is no contradiction, they are talking about different things.
> But the assumption of password usage is that the password itself is never stored...

That's a bold assumption.
That's not off the books then.
There are privacy implications, but you do get a lot in return. Cards are perfect trackers, and that is why I love mine- with virtually no effort, I have a perfect record of my spending stretching back years. That's very powerful for taking control of my spending & finances.
The Masters of Doom.
It's about the history of id Software, a game development company that created Doom among other titles. Even if you're not interested in games, it's still worth a read. The writing style is very casual, almost juvenile at times with slang and swear words sprinkled throughout but the story is certainly fun. It is also very inspiring and made entrepreneurship look fun.
I learned about this book from another HN post.
"I don’t want to start another company until I find a problem that I care about. A problem that I eat, sleep and breathe. A problem worth solving."

i agree with you but you shouldn't wait for these ideas to come by out the blue moon, you should be constantly searching, trying/testing, and keep living/experiencing a lot of different things...because there are a lot of problems out there that you DO NOT know they exist, and how would you know you care about these problems if you don't know they exist.

good luck.
Any suggestions for patulous eustachian tube?
The physicians I've seen thus far seem mystified by the problem.
Does Dankort use nfc/paypass so that you can just tap your card, or do you need to enter a pin each time?
> I don't know if the industry has as concise of a term
> for throwing everything out and starting over

I recommend using the word "flush". Some examples: "we flushed that idea and started looking at something new" or "they had this idea around Uber for dogs but it was a flusher". It's what you do when your idea stinks.
This is your second one-liner in this thread. Please elaborate on your points, otherwise we're all just arguing against the wind.
HBO's "Silicon Valley", Arron Sorkin's "Social Network", TechCrunch, The Verge, Hacker News and tweetstorms brought to you by Marc Andreessen glorify the tech-startup entrepreneur. People within our industry have been taught that the best of the best start tech companies. And the best of the best are 20-somethings! It seems so reachable. So everyone thinks this is what they're supposed to do. Anybody who's anybody has launched a startup in San Francisco, right?
Why checks for non-cash local payments? They aren't really much better than credit cards for privacy, are they? They also come with some significant risks [1].

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html
obviously they pass the cost on to the customer, but not directly. they can't charge one price for cash and a different price for card.
and carrying your folded bike around with you when you aren't riding it is far less convenient than carrying a lock while you're riding the bike.
Fun trick: Pause the simulation with the space bar. Then, take your mouse and drag it on the surface of the water, you will notice it creates ripples but in the paused state.

Drag the mouse rapidly back and forth in a very tiny area so that it creates a layered 'ripple' that grows and grows. If you spend about 2 minutes doing this you can make the ripple go like 10 feet high completely off the screen.

Then unpause the simulation for a massive tsunami.
Downvoters: I'm interested in your reasons. My observation above is based on several decades of classroom experience.
The same has been true for cash withdraws from the bank over a certain amount, for decades. "Suspicious" isn't quite the right word, as there are plenty of legitimate reasons. But the cost (reviewing a small number of large withdraws) vs. probability of detection is good.
>> I'll put it bluntly: you have no idea what you're talking about. Bond v1 was started when Thrift was not production ready. This is Bond v3.

> Let me put something bluntly. I don't care who started writing code first. Microsoft are well over half a decade late to the party. Thrift and Protobufs have been public domain since, what... 2007/8?

I think your technical complaints are almost all good and valid. I agree with essentially all of them. I don't want to fork Adam's sibling response here, so I'll leave it at that.

My point is that asserting that Bond was developed so that MSFT could purposefully ignore certain languages is pointedly wrong, and irresponsible considering the dearth of evidence you have to support it. And here you have 3 authoritative comments to say so. I don't understand how you can possibly disagree with this, or be upset that someone would take issue here. It's ok to be wrong.
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thanks for pointing it out. i think i'm just a too terrible programmer to fix that. can you?
See also https://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Monetary_System and https://nxtforum.org/monetary-system/ for more details.
Yes, we do that here too. But you aren't their employee, you are their client.

Important difference.
On so many levels I am so tempted to try this, but I just can't bring myself to - but I am in constant envy of co-workers who 'juice' and watch their productivity soar.
For anyone else who wasn't previously familiar with MetaOCaml, [1] provides an overview and relevant details of this implementation. E.g.:

BER MetaOCaml is a conservative extension of OCaml for ``writing programs that generate programs''. BER MetaOCaml adds to OCaml the type of code values (denoting ``program code'', or future-stage computations), and two basic constructs to build them: quoting and splicing. The generated code can be printed, stored in a file -- or compiled and linked-back to the running program, thus implementing run-time code optimization. A well-typed BER MetaOCaml program generates only well-scoped and well-typed programs: The generated code shall compile without type errors. The generated code may run in the future but it is type checked now.

The bit about generating only well-scoped, well-typed programs is pretty interesting!

[1] http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html
The last few "best bike lock" articles I've seen were frustrating; weird "unpickable" key systems[0], or integrating the lock into the bike frame so breaking the lock breaks the bike[1]. Gimmicks come and go and it's how we find new tech, but pragmatic real world tested results are what I want in systems I really don't want to fail.

This one's a good lock, but I've had one for 6 years and I'll buy another when it breaks so I'm biased.

[0] - http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-you-pick-the-unpickable-bike-lo...
[1] - http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/22/342437221/com...
I recommend buying second-hand bikes instead of cheap new ones. If you (or a friend) know a bit about bikes you easily get better quality for lower prices.
Refraction definitely works; try moving the camera around, and you can see the effects of refraction on the ball.
To get rid of the newlines

shuf -n 4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs | sed 's/ //g'
I think the main part that is missing is an in depth analysis of what we actually want from an OS.

Building an OS from scratch is nice, but I think the requirements may have changed since the 80s. :)
Sorry, you can still be paid cash in hand from most employers. Although most wont offer it. Pubs, bars, nightclubs lots of places you can be paid cash in hand. Just a lot of places choose not to do it as it's easier to manager there cash flows.
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So am I correct thinking that the config options need to be changed before its compiled? Any chance it could read a conf/ini file instead?

Besides the above query this looks great, I'm always happy to see utilities like this that can be self hosted. Not everyone is happy with a dozen external (ie saas) dependencies for their business systems!
Completely aside from the privacy issues, I rather bemoan the decline of cash, for the very simple reason that handling physical currency makes it much harder to spend carelessly.

It's too easy to swipe your card and receive an item. It's a lot harder to fork over $483.71 in tangible, handle-able dollars. After my wife and I analyzed our spending habits, we found that we were bleeding money specifically because of the tremendous number of small - $5 here, $10 there - transactions. These completely fly under your mental radar when you're paying with a card.

We've since switched to a cash budget, where we withdraw the money we need for the next two weeks for various things (groceries, hobbies, entertainment) and spend exclusively out of that. If we're out and about and want something and don't have the cash on us, we don't buy it. When I open up my wallet and see that I only have $X left of the grocery budget, I consider whether I really need that thing I just put into my cart. Internet purchases still get made on a card, but we "pay" for them with cash from the budget into a pool that we withdraw from the next period to refull the budget. We've become much more sensitive to sales, discounts, and smart shopping - and all because we have the continual feedback loop of physical cash. Our monthly margin has substantially improved as a direct result, and we've been able to make substantial progress on all our unsecured debt - we should be free of it this year. There's more to it than just cash, but it's really about being aware what you're spending and finding ways to make sure you only spend what you have; cashless transactions practically encourage you to be unaware of what you have and what you can afford.

For a society that is utterly crippled by debt, and in a culture that is practically begging us to spend money every time we turn around, it seems like the last thing we need is to go cashless. It's convenient, it's easy, it's fast...and that's a problem.

I'm not saying that cashless payment methods are bad. I love them. Paying for things on my phone Google Wallet is magical. Amazon has completely transformed how I buy stuff. There are lots of really great things about cashless economies, but for anyone that is less than perfectly disciplined, it's a very sharp two-edged sword.
Stanford is really a great school, but I hope that isn't generally the determining factor here. Many other universities have great CS departments with strong entrepreneurial programs on the side. (MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, etc).

edit: I guess Stanford grads apply in much higher numbers than most other colleges.
They never actually want a cure to be found.

Excuse me, but bullshit.

Yes you can have reoccurring revenue by creating a chronic treatment, but don't forget you can charge a lot more for a cure. Just look at what kind of money is being made in hepatitis C.
I'm from the UK and have never had to pay anything for opening up an account and using a debit card.
Rather than dragging, just click in the same spot hundreds of times to make a huge tower of water, then unpause to see a single ring of concentric waves and perfect wave reflection/interaction effects.
yea a coworker uses YubiKey... it generates extremely strong one-time-use passwords (essentially just meaning it auto-generates a different one for every site?) & auto-enters them through a browser add-on when the device is in USB (I believe?)

seems like solutions like that are a bit easier than typing in a bunch of keys you are looking up on a card and really solve the issue of web-based attacks.... it really only leaves you vulnerable to people who have physical access to the USB device, and even then i can imagine simple ways to make even that a hassle (have another password layer as master sign-in? would be enough to deter most of your acquaintances from being able to use your device)
RIP-relative addressing is _possible_ for the lea instruction, but not mandatory. Also inc ax, etc. seem to assemble just fine in 64-bit mode, albeit with a prefix (0x66) and a different opcode (0xFF)
I hate to be that guy ... but this seems to be a pretty blatant Windows 8 rip-off and money grab

Don't get me wrong, I think you should be able to be inspired by others designs. Saying that companies are copying "metro" just because they use "flat design" is probably overzealous.

I this case they seem to have directly copied design not because of any particular reasons but just because of lack of inspiration of their own. There are PLENTY of things that can be done better and/or different than Windows 8 but instead they just went with was already there.

The color scheme, the email client, the design as a whole is a blatant and shameless rip-off. And I'm not even talking about the Hardware design.

This is a sentence I never thought I would say but I almost hope Microsoft sues them. I say almost because I don't believe in patents and protecting design details, but this is pretty far over the line.

What we're they thinking?
I believe the author started http://www.reddit.com/r/dataflowprogramming/ It's a bit slow, but there's a lot of good stuff in there already.
They are also virtually nonexistent in Europe.

From Wikipedia:
"In most European countries, cheques are now rarely used, even for third party payments. In these countries, it is standard practice for businesses to publish their bank details on invoices, to facilitate the receipt of payments by giro."

"In Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scandinavia, cheques have almost completely vanished in favour of direct bank transfers and electronic payments. "

"In Finland, banks stopped issuing personal cheques in about 1993 in favour of giro systems, which are now almost exclusively electronically initiated either via internet banking or payment machines located at banks and shopping malls."

"In Poland cheques were withdrawn from use in 2006"

"Since 2001, businesses in the United Kingdom have made more electronic payments than cheque payments."

The story seems to be similar in Asia and Oceania. According to the Wikipedia article on cheques, North America is pretty much the only place where they are still taken seriously.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#Modern_era
>This was in SF.

Sounds about right. A friend of mine had theirs stolen from their front yard, broad daylight, by some people with a van.
I am king of the world. I will fix the clusterfucked hardware. It will be like broadcast TV format roll-out.

then, we can have a USB driver in 1000 lines of code.

All the PCI interrupt shit will be simple.

Hard drive will be ATA on IDE Primary.
CDROM will be ATAPI on IDE Secondary.

Then we fix ATA/ATAPI.

Networking protocols will be redone.

HTML will have "goto line number"
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As a customer, there aren't many circumstances. The only one that springs to mind is when buying airline tickets with a credit card (but not a debit card).

Where it makes more of a difference, though, is that the fee charged to the merchant is a sufficient disincentive that it's pretty common for small shops and bars to refuse card payments under £10. This is even true of the new(ish) contactless payments that only work up to £20 and which were touted as replacing cash.
It will be rather intensely radioactive. A person cannot approach it. A cleanup like this would have be done robotically. If the spill is contained in the can then the whole can is designed to be sealed and shipped back to the can recycling center where there are facilities for cleaning up the can. The main point though is that the spill is contained within the building and does not spread to the environment. A worst case accident becomes an economic loss of the reactor rather than a mass evacuation.
As someone with ADHD who takes Ritilin, this seemed interesting to me as a non-stimulant alternative. However, it appears that Modafinil is a "pro-histamine" which would mean that it could aggregate allergy symptoms. I wonder if anyone has ever studied the correlation between anti-histamine use and the development of ADHD.
Usually I want only a subset of my synchronized data on my phone. Can I set this up so all my data is synced to my nas but only some to my phone?
Modafinil/armodafinil are great, but you can easily abuse them for replacing sleep.. That was a long dirt road to come back from.
Both were awesome hard sci fi. Not to mention that a trip to Mars and Europa are feasiboe with current technology. Interstellar, not so much.
What is the plan to deal with the backlash from uneducated people screaming about how bad GMO is?
PasswordCard does give you a seed number to generate the same card, though..
The humor makes it very accessible. I am striving for that in my own science fiction writing.
I've had the same quandary as you. Mainly work with Java and Javascript at work, so I wanted to add a purely functional language. I flirted with Haskell, Scala, Node, Scheme and Clojure and eventually settled on focusing on gaining a better understanding of functional programming with Clojure because it has a familiar platform (JVM), syntax I can understand (sorry Haskell and Scala) and it seems like it's going places.

Last year, I maintained a focus on Java and JS because I'm still intermediate level with those and didn't want to distract myself with other languages and paradigms. That was a good choice.

For this year, I've made a commitment that any side projects I do, I do in Clojure. I cheated and started in 2014, but I am liking this way of focusing on a language for a year and doing everything in that.

Maybe once I have more familiarity with more languages, I will feel more comfortable using the appropriate language to solve a particular problem. However, isn't that part of learning? Using a hammer on nails, screws and bolts and figuring out what the hammer is good at and what it isn't?
The wikipedia article on Provigil[1] mentions toxic epidermal necrolysis[2] and Stevens-Johnson syndrome[3] as possible side effects. That's enough to scare me off trying this particular drug.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provigil

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_epidermal_necrolysis

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens-Johnson_syndrome
That's precisely the kind of approach I'm seeking with my new blog on AI and data analysis: http://ai-maker.com/
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