skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are tax dodging, there are ways to do so legally so I'm not pointing fingers or saying its wrong but that is what it is. Having said that, if you do choose to go down this path I'd make sure I have a really, really good accountant/lawyer to ensure that everything is legally sound and then I'd ensure that they will be available to watch international tax laws to make sure I'm not burned by the constantly shifting practices of tax sheltering.

In reality, its probably not worth the trouble. Odds are it won't matter to begin with and if it does, investors will likely not appreciate you playing games with your incorporation.
I 'saw' it first? ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892747
Be sure that this arm race is happening. How do you find the overall quality of web media today? Are you satisfied?

As a business, once you realize that 1% of your users are watching ads, what are you going to do? You can either go for a paywall, integrate sponsored content provided as articles, or aim at the less tech savy internet users with click-bait articles.

So what is your solution? You seem satisfied with the current trend of poor quality articles and businesses slowly going bankrupt while this "uneasy armistice" lasts. Why would you be at war with those websites anyway?
The author has no lordship over my computer or my mailbox. I can toss out junk mail. I can even more easily program my computer to toss out ads. Programmability is a very natural feature of a computer, so why not use it? My home, my computer, my rules.

This reasoning falls apart pretty quickly when you take into account that you are adblocking content you specifically requested. Effectively, your justifications are the same as those who pirate media, "Give me your content, but I don't feel I should have to pay for it." Pretending there is a difference is a bit dishonest, in my opinion.
Source? Every company I've heard talk about their reasons for open plan trumpets collaboration, not cost.
It does vary. The most popular National Parks certainly have their busy spots even a mile away from the road. But your basic point that people on/near road >> people on any trail >> people a few miles from road is absolutely true. Even somewhere like Yosemite, you can easily get away from the crush in the Valley and, especially with backpacking, can get away from most people all together.
The way they're paying it forward is great. Nicely done.
Do me a favor, please do not write your configuration files in Clojure as well.

As a non-Clojure developer, having to fight with Clojure configuration files for Riemann was a real pain point, and ended up deciding us against using Riemann for anything as a result (trying to convince a team of sysadmins that they would have to learn Clojure for a single piece of their monitoring infrastructure... didn't work).

IMHO, you're welcome to enjoy your language to the fullest extent possible, I would just ask that you don't force others to use it as well.

EDIT: Since it was asked twice in about 30 seconds, here's why having Clojure as a config option can be bad; it encourages things like this:

https://github.com/guardian/riemann-config/blob/master/main....

Please note that this is considered to be the gold standard by Riemann; it's directly referenced in their documentation.

As for my preferred config file format? ini, yaml, json, in that order. They're simple, there are lots of tools out there to read and write them, and friendly to humans.
Here's a page where you can see most of the templates available. http://www.remarq.io/articles/new-templates-now-available/

I should probably make a gallery page and link it somewhere prominently.
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An unused object persisted for over a century? Would never have happened with garbage collection.
Since I'm German, this is probably at least the reason why I found it so easy to accept this construct, when I stumbled upon it in Ender's Game. It just felt natural, so my brain decided to use it in English, too. :)
Huh? Sbarro's still exists...
Google Puts Nest's Tony Fadell in Charge of Google Glass
Are those... cells?
Feedback on my iOS App
Hey Hackers,

I just designed and created an iOS app on my own, I am looking for testers and feedback. Mostly people to destroy it and provide me the best feedback as possible.

App name Jumper

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jumper/id881091951?ls=1&mt=8

Its a video-live streaming app.

Thank you!

My email: spmccoy88@gmail.com
I'll tell you guys a funny story. So, the Onion has this site: http://clickhole.com Check it out, it's great parody. I actually go there.

So, the last time someone mentioned BuzzFeed - which I don't really go on, I don't recognize it or anything - I ended up opening it and opening Clickhole.com in adjacent tabs.

Now, since I don't read buzzfeed, I was then completely convinced it was clickhole. It had like articles like this (from the current front page, not what I was reading but they'll do):

-23 Ways You Know Your Obsession With Your Cat Is Getting Out Of Control

- The Definitive Ranking Of The Most Cringingly Great Dialogue In “Titanic”

and so forth. (The above are verbatim from the site right now.) But then I got to one, and I couldn't figure it out. (Just looking at the title.) I've actually found it just now, based on remembering a keyword. It was:

- "Muslim-Owned Shops In Birmingham Were Attacked With Guns And Hammers"

I was looking at it and looking at it, trying to figure out the "joke" (why guns and hammers.) It was like a pun I couldn't get. Like the Onion was too clever for me. After about a minute, I gave up. And I saw on the tabs that I was on an actual site, not clickhole. I had to just laugh and laugh. The reason I couldn't figure out the joke was that I was on buzzfeed, which isn't satire! I just couldn't stop laughing.
Rdio Becomes the First Global Music Streaming Service to Launch in India
In Brazil, where I lived most of my life, not having cash on you during a mugging can provoke a violent reaction from the mugger.
The long term resilience is key here -- but I think an education model helps. If you have knowledgeable employees who can help you, you turn a person who has no idea where to get started and won't into a consumer. We still go to brick and mortar places for help and advice, so provide it.
I understand this thinking, but everyone who believes they should be able to get their content for free without ads will soon find themselves out of sites to visit due to them not being able to sustain themselves.

I'm not sure why people think they should be able to get no-ad sites for free, I get it, but you should understand the repercussions of thinking this way.
I am a huge fan of Saltarelle [1], which has the save level of support as this project. The only thing it seems to be lacking is proper source mapping abilities, which is currently in a dev branch. It also has many libraries already built, like JQuery or AngularJS. However, full support from Microsoft makes it much more realistic to bring in to a production environment. As a C# developer, this will be something to keep an eye on.

Edit: After reading more, this does not seem to be a Microsoft project.

[1] http://www.saltarelle-compiler.com
Kind of matches up with this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-...

"When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision.

Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.

He is driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home."
Global State: A Tale of Two Bad C APIs
Building a HashMap in Rust – Part 1: What's a HashMap?
Congratulations to you, too!

But, to be honest, I feel like I can only start to be really happy about this when I manage to keep it steady for a couple years (though currently that is going quite well and I feel that my previous tendency to naturally overeat is seriously lessened, mostly probably through lasting and habitual diet changes, but probably also through consistent weight tracking).
Where does it call that Braille font you are talking about?
It's not like smartphones don't have accessibility features (text-to-speech and similar).
Doesn't work. I don't get the point of "mobile web". What in the world is mobile web? Web is a web.
The European Central Bank cut one of their rates to below zero in June 2014, iirc. Part of the reason you see this in Europe and not in the US (at least at the moment) is because of restrictions on where the ECB can put its money. For example, the ECB can't (or maybe won't? I'm not completely sure) buy bonds in its member countries.
Thats one premium domain...
Great point! I worked out of coffee shops for ~ 2 years and loved it. There was action going on around me, but it was never an interruption.
It's not more charitable than contributing content to Wikipedia. By gamifying the service or otherwise rewarding those who lend their eyes in some non-monetary way, participating in the app is a form of entertainment that brings its own reward.
Currently about 10min each way by car, however our start and finish times are about 1 hour before most other companies, which means we miss rush hour otherwise this would be 30-40min.

Even people that don't like early mornings seem to enjoy the earlier start as an extra hour after work can be very useful!
Duck: Cyberduck for the command line interface
Show HN: ResumeCards, a Markdown based resume generator
awk applies actions to lines matching patterns. The design seems concise and limited on purpose.

Not that you shouldn't want more features, but in the context that awk is typically used, what sort of features would you want to add? I confess I'm not able to understand what "can work in a data driven mode" might mean.

To answer your question a little more directly (and yet still be almost a non-answer), additional features can be found on the other side of the pipe into which you direct awk's output.
The Felix language
Carpet both absorbs ambient noise and muffles the sound of people walking. It's also more comfortable to walk and stand on: http://www.livestrong.com/article/351733-tips-on-standing-wa....

Polished concrete is beautiful and striking, of course, and at some point software development became a creative profession rather than an engineering one, and we stopped mocking people who put form over function.
Show HN: Chameleon – a caching reverse proxy for testing/dev written in Go
As I commented on the article: I used to work at DeveloperTown (http://developertown.com) in Indianapolis. Their "house" setup is both unique and awesome. Any article discussing office space for programmers and designers needs to reference them.
What I'm saying is that developers typically don't have their own hierarchy. Sometimes there is a "lead developer", but usually there is a non technical person over top a group of developers, and that person is given an office and more respect.

It has been shown time and again that open floor plans actually harm developer productivity more than they help it. Imo the most reasonable mid ground is giving developers larger cubes big enough to allow pair programming when desired. High cube walls are necessary also so that conversations within a cube don't make it impossible for nearby desks to concentrate.
I suspect a bit of sock-puppetry on this thread.

Based on what?
Looks like there's a simple web interface [1] and Android app [2]

[1] https://futureboy.us/fsp/frink.fsp

[2] https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/android.html
You might be interested in "The Rock Climber's Training Manual" (http://rockclimberstrainingmanual.com/). Not that I'm near there (yet), but I've got the book for exactly that reason, and it seems solid.
US law firms anywhere but Manhattan give attorneys their own office, even typically legal interns and those who haven't passed the bar yet. And it is almost always external offices with a window.

Even in Manhattan they typically just share with one other associate for 2-4 years.
There are plenty of people who like Markdown who don't want to manage a document production tool chain. This is aimed at those people. Folks who like a DIY approach should definitely take that route if it works for them.
I'm teaching a Unix/data course this quarter, and inspired by the OP (who I believe did an analysis/visualization prior to this) and other BuzzFeed-title analysts, I put together an exercise in doing a frequency distribution of BuzzFeed titles (really, an exercise in basic HTML parsing and regexes) http://www.compciv.org/homework/assignments/buzzfeed-listicl...

I gathered the links through their archive pages, which go back to 2006...I didn't run the exercise yet myself, but at one point did a quick count of total titles since 2006 and counted more than 200,000. That didn't seem right (and maybe my selector was off)...but the other day, I tried it with just the 2014 year and came up with more than 60,000 articles.

...that sounded clearly off (the OP said he scraped only ~60,000 distinct articles)...but when I visited one of the archive pages to eyeball it...yeah, 60,000 articles in a single year looks about right: http://www.buzzfeed.com/archive/2014/11/18

It's even more astonishing when you go back to the 2006 pages and see that there were days/regular weekends in which BuzzFeed published no content at all.
in the node-drawille dependency:

https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille
I understand the reasoning and this is why I'm saying it's an issue with culture, not with police carrying guns.

> As far as getting out of the vehicle most police don't like surprises so if things go step by step according to the person with the gun things go much better.

In Australia I can get out of the car and go talk to the officer and everything's fine.

In the US I can't - I accept that reality.

Both officers are carrying guns, though.
What format would you prefer instead? YAML?
JSON is still rendered. It's not "render or send JSON", it's "render a string that contains formatted display output A, or a string that contains structured data B".

Facebook probably requires a lot of per-user effort true. A lot of sites (github for example) probably don't. It's probably limited to a couple areas of the header generally, or an A or B conditional render for an ownership page.

There's always exceptions to every rule though.
Why Travis CI went from an open to a minimum vacation policy
Private office = something with lock from inside. If I cannot restrict access of outside people at will it is not private.
It sounds to me like providing foster families for incarcerated parents has nothing to do with this particular case, or child abuse in general, and the best "division of labor" would be to not have those under the same roof. But that's neither here nor there. Also, to the strange non-sequitur, I think that cops murdering people is worse than what the article describes.

Are you saying that:

A). All the facts of this particular care aren't being presented (certainly plausible).

B). You don't find the conduct of the CPS in this case infuriating.

C). For the sake of argument you accept the facts as presented, you personally find it reprehensible, but you don't think others should find it reprehensible, or at least shouldn't try to call it out as such.

D). You work for a related agency, and naturally would want to stand up for your colleagues? Certainly you sound a little on the defensive side.

E). Other?

...maybe these social workers should be on a rotation, so they're not working on the same thing for more than two years. Kind of like prison guards should be, so they don't end up dehumanizing the inmates?
I guess this is a no show!! Too bad, I was looking forward to hearing him speak.
EDIT: I can see them but can't hear them. Anyone else in the same boat? Anyone know how we can hear him too?
GTA 5 PC version apparently with Always-On copy protection
> Edit: On reflection, I think the parent is saying that there was never a proof published that Dual_EC_DRBG is reducible to a hard problem, and without that we cannot even say whether Dual_EC_DRBG is as secure as other PRNGs that can be shown to be related to hard problems.

Yes, that was what I meant to say. There are elliptic curve PRNGs for which it is proven that breaking their security properties allows you to calculate the discrete logarithm on the elliptic curve. IIRC, no such proof is publicly known for Dual_EC_DRBG, even under the assumption that both points P and Q were chosen at random.

If you have specifically crafted the points (you know the logarithm of Q to base P), then breaking Dual_EC_DRBG is trivial. And by "breaking" I mean recovering the internal state of the PRNG out of its output.
We Are Living in a Material World and I Am a Material Girl
It's because the general idea that someone can take away the children you love due to a misunderstanding is pretty freaking terrifying!

Parents make mistakes all the time. When you see stupidity like this, you realise there's a problem. It's very unfortunate, because at the same time as ridiculous things like this one are occurring there really are abused kids out there slipping through the cracks.
Thank you for a thought-provoking comment.

Do you think that refusing to pay one's taxes, and thereby ultimately going to jail, is the best way to make a principled stand against the idea that taxation is theft?

As I understand it, in any specific context there are many principles to be considered in making a decision as to how to act.

For example, "Strive to act rationally" is an important principle for me. I try to act based on reason and evidence, to the best of my ability to do so.

Would you consider someone who chose to make a headlong rush at the IRS and their most sacred rule as acting rationally?

I would say such a person was tilting at windmills. I think there are more effective ways for me to work for virtue and justice in the world.

In other words, I don't see being principled as necessarily requiring martyrdom.
"Word is @elonmusk's conversation with @evanasmith is running a little late. Stay tuned! http://trib.it/1u3hWGR"

https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/555789541814988800

Edit: It's live, as of 1:35ish!
Not sure what you mean, you mean it will cause the global scope to be garbage collected, because it will not. It will cause GetBestMove to never be garbage collected though, which is probably ok.
I've visited Twitter and Dropbox and am unconvinced that's enough: for best flow you need a personalized space.
Via reddit: https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/555789541814988800
"Word is @elonmusk's conversation with @evanasmith is running a little late. Stay tuned! http://trib.it/1u3hWGR"
I really don't understand why you hardly ever see 4 to 6 person glass-walled offices with doors around an open collaborative area with comfy seats and coffee tables. That seems like a great and still fairly cost-effective setup.
What the industry needs is OPEN training data for image and voice recognition, which can be annotated by human volunteers and used to improve new algos. This data can be hosted by archive.org under a permissive license.

For example, there is a commercial service in the "visual search" space which has been around for a few years, which uses a combination of algos and human employees. It is available as an API and app (8 cents per picture, or $10 per month unlimited).

"Besides CamFind, the Image Searcher, Inc. team also created TapTapSee, which is a similar app for the blind and visually impaired. It uses image recognition technology with photos taken on your smartphone and then a voice actually speaks the results. This earned the team an Access Award just one week ago from the American Foundation for the Blind", http://www.builtinla.com/blog/camfind-brings-visual-search-y...

An AFB review from 2013 (at that time the app was free), http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw140704

How much faster could this research area have moved if the collected data was open? What if Facebook/Instagram decided to contribute in some manner, given their large database of photos and tags?
What do you mean, it's not interesting? Human beings don't have unrestricted access to their own "source code", but they can still learn and get smarter. The AI I am describing can still be much, much smarter than a human being.

We're also assuming that an AI that can "modify its own source code" is going to do significantly better as a result, but that's not obviously true. If you had full access to every single neuron in your brain, you would have a lot of trouble figuring out how it works, much less how to improve it. Human-level AI would likely run into the same problem: the complexity of its code is greater than what it is capable of understanding. As for an AI that's a thousand smarter than a human, well, it's a thousand times more complex, still over the threshold.

I'm not saying that they wouldn't eventually figure out some improvements, but I suspect that it would end up being more trouble than it's worth. I think the evolution of intelligence is in fact the evolution of intelligence-producing algorithms. Any such algorithm eventually gets stuck in a local maximum, at which point greater intelligence requires restarting from scratch.
Thanks on first glance that looks like a much better solution than gwts' generators.
Which is why the less dynamic an organization you work in, the harder it is to comprehend the importance of ad hoc realtime collaboration. It trades a hit on personal focus for a big uptick in collab and team productivity.

To get a sense of where the OP is coming from, here's what he wrote recently on remote work:

"Some of the most blissfully productive days I’ve had are when my whole team is working remote because a winter storm has left us snowbound. There’s nothing quite like the glorious zone of productivity sans soul-crushing interruptions."

Cornell did a study awhile back that found that when you have a private office, the standard for "frequent" team interaction goes down. Way down. From several times a day ad hoc (open plan) to a couple times a week in scheduled meetings.
Yes, this is known as a "lie".
So the holodeck computer must be insanely intelligent. Or, it turns out that the building blocks for intelligence are simple and deterministic.
Getting explicit about gender bias (from CEO of tech consulting co.)
"'The number one cause of death for children of their age is a car accident.'”

They're children. What else are they going to die of?
It would be interesting to use something like bitcoin for social capital -- literally a favor bank.
Don't you still have to link externally to third party libs since 99% of JS libs won't pass through the closure compiler?
Clojure is the most fun programming I've had in years.

It takes quite some time to really kick in (more than one or two pet projects, rather than couple of "hello world"-style lines it took for Ruby), but once it does… walking up and down the ladder of abstraction never felt so good.
Paying someone to be a middleman on my volunteer charity work feels pretty gross.
A Look at the Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute
Verizon is a red pill that I'd rather not be swallowing.
I'm curious why you didn't hedge with currency futures, since this is close to an ideal use case. I ask because I used to work in the futures industry but never really interacted with trading or hedging customers.