skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used it when it was named Firebird, and it was buggy. I remember being amazed when Google released Chrome, and Safari was available as a buggy mess on Windows.

I still miss Mozilla Composer and Microsoft Frontpage for writing abysmal HTML with <strong> everywhere.
Yeah, I have yet to meet a react developer in person. Maybe the definition of 'critical mass' is just enough fans to have commentors posting about it 24 hours a day. I would say rust has reached critical mass if react has.
So you need to use a different phone number than the one you usually use for WhatsApp? Then you wouldn't be linked to your friends anymore, right?
That sounds very good (sadly she isn't from the UK), and seems like a good deal until the roaming regulations change.
I like how you conveniently ignored the parent's comments about cartels.

Also I don't understand the use of "pseudo-libertarian" here? Drug usage is a personal decision and it's none of state's business. That is the very definition of libertarianism.

It has nothing to do with Silk Road but since you brought it up, legalising drug usage is for the greater good. You see the real danger does not originate from violent confrontations but the circles the the usage drags you in. If it was legally available, there wouldn't be need for an individual to get involved for their recreational needs.

On a medical perspective, it is common not to help out a friend having adverse reactions to a drug used simply because it is incriminating if you call the hospital and then stay with him/her.

And as if this wasn't enough, people just don't seem to get that the war on drugs has been lost in every continent. It will just go on and on and on. You can make it safer, peaceful and prevent it to be a source of revenue for actual crimes, or just don't give a crap and be irresponsible.
Taken from The Design and Implementation of Speech Recognition Systems. See http://asr.cs.cmu.edu/spring2014/lectures/class4.DP.pdf
Slide 2.
Andrew Sullivan Calls It Quits, but the Dish Should Go On
So, it's an ebook that's a collection of articles related somehow to UX - a one-time publication, I assume?

It would be interesting as a newsletter, where you got one of these articles in your inbox each week...
There's some precedent for this in the contractor-marketplaces like Odesk. They'll have a list of dozens of skills/topics that a contractor can prove their knowledge of. They give them a score based on their performance relative to the larger group who has taken the test. You can see the tests here: https://www.odesk.com/tests (but you'll need to create an odesk account first).

There are also a number of coding-challenge sites where you can show off your skills and get ranked, like codeeval.com

Both these types of scoring systems are just rough heuristics though. Since full-stack development uses a lot of "soft" skills like organization and creativity, you'll never really get the full-picture from these kinds of objective battery tests.
Nor in The Bahamas, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, ... (that's just the letters 'B' and 'C' - I gave up after that!)
I think the most obvious way would be to offer this as a subscription service to the lawyers of your platform. But, remember we're talking about IBM, this will cost you.
Wow! Just, wow! I had skipped hearing the screen reader on my first pass on the article. It is amazing how human audition can parse that speech rate.

If that rate were the norm, I'd be classified as hearing impaired. I can't identify a single word.
> they have always done it quite softly...

That would be because they're a non-profit working for the benefit of said users.
I find women are messier but also clean more. So more stuff left lying around but less grime. Where as guys will put stuff away but won't even know if there is a mop in the house.

Completely generalising here based on my own experiences.
Hopefully this means AWS will also be implementing DNSSEC which I need in order to implement DANE on my own secure mail solution.
Glad to hear it works well, as I am currently with TMobile and was horrified by the prices for going to the USA. I may even switch to 3 for my "daily driver" phone.
Nice one! I can recommend this thread on StackOverflow as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
.... bravo. You been holding on to that one for a while? Waiting for the technology to catch up :)
My cell provider in Brazil just switched from limiting my bandwidth to cutting it when I exceed my daily quota (yeah 10mb).

The Moto G is an affordable, 5", dual-sim phone that sells for 200 USD here, no contract. That's 1/8 of an iPhone 6+ (here).

This could sell like crazy in my country (even more if one could also use Waze - make it the w-sim).
Same here. Watching the Star Wars trilogy in one day was exhausting, and also perhaps a bit sad. Watching the entire 6 films would be killer.
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It's the same with all other native UI, though.

.Net Winform, WPF, Swing, etc., they don't allow you to make modification to UI outside main thread.
jets are randomly oriented with no preferred orientation.
The matrix was a movie about being connected to and living in a simulation without knowing it. The judges could very well be real peoples' consciousnesses. Not really a good comparison.
Actually the title is "Diaspora"... Nothing to do with disasters.
Right, WPF's declarative databinding support is separated from imperative semantics, even if they can interact a bit (a databinding relationship can be formed and destroyed imperatively). But I've moved away from WPF to Glitch, which doesn't have that problem: all code runs in the same world, with dependency tracing, re-evaluation on dependency change, and logging to support rollback as needed. In that case, now I'm curious how React compares to what I'm working on right now.

I've never heard anyone claim that laziness leads to more performant UIs. It has always been the opposite in my experience: by loosening up evaluation orders and allowing for glitching, you reduce the amount of book keeping needed to come up with optimal DAG-style re-computation orders. For example, consider a double-indirect (flat-map-style) dependency:

countLabel.Content = folderView.Selected.Count;

If count changes, you update the label. But if selected changes, you have to stop observing the previous selected folder's count property and start observing a new selected folder's count property. Carefully tearing down and building back dependency chains is tough, but if you just play lose with the dependencies, it is actually quite easy to handle (you might get some spurious re-evaluations). Note that WPF can't handle this without lots of hackery, which is one reason I moved all my UI work to Glitch (the other is that WPF is totally inappropriate performance wise for writing compilers and language-aware editors). I'm curious how React handles indirect state? Or does it need to do dependency tracing at all (it wouldn't if its not incremental; I can't tell by looking at the website)?
Yes, a passive repeater as you described helps at least in some cases, and they are permitted. And even if the system were insane and they were not permitted, they would be practically undetectable. Active repeaters ones are illegal here. Unfortunately a passive repeater is not always enough.
All I see is a bunch of organizational discussion. Why should anyone care?

This title is also uninterpretable. The free software philosophy is that everyone "deserves" free software. Anything less is immoral. It's not a special benefit but a human right.
The "underground" music scene in most cities mostly consists of bands going to see other bands
Also, advertising and sponsorship don't have to be one-way streets.

For example, by funding Mozilla, Google helped to remove Microsoft's browser monopoly. Since Google's business relies on the Web, that made perfect sense. Now they have their own browser too, which makes things complicated :)

Likewise, Microsoft currently has a dominant influence in video chat, thanks to Skype. It makes sense for Telefonica to erode that dominance, since they have more business opportunities in an open, many <-> many ecosystem compared to a Skype-only one.

Too many companies base their business model on becoming a monopoly in their field ("the next Microsoft", "the next Google", "the next Facebook", "the next Twitter", etc.), rather than allowing interoperability and having to succeed on merit. When this inevitably fails, they leave behind nothing except useless, incompatible APIs. Hopefully this is different :)
What people seem to misunderstand about steveeg1 comment is that a lot of time at an attorney office is spend sifting through old cases.

Since lawyers bill in hours they either have to raise their hourly bill or lie about the hours spend in order to keep the final price tag the same.
Wow, the audio example... It's like a solid wall of pure data.
Differentiating pictures and videos from chat traffic is likely an easy traffic analysis problem, unless WhatsApp are using deliberate countermeasures.
Hacking Snapchat and Instagram to Post Music
Excellent stuff! Inkscape really is a superb bit of software.

I still recall the first time I tried the included tutorials and realised that the tutorials themselves were just SVG docs. So it had things like, "Let's explore the handles of an ellipse. Select this one", and the shape is right there in the tutorial. Brilliant idea!
Strongly disagree.

As a software developer, I've put off adding more features into my products for several years now. All because I feared introducing features will make my users think it's "bloated", "violating the Unix philosophy", etc.

But over the years, I've found that most users actually want more features. Most of them want more business value. And that there is value in having features integrated/builtin instead of external.

When I tell people "no, we don't do that, but you can use that other tool in combination with mine" most of them are like "what? I have to use TWO tools"? The "simple tool that does one thing" philosophy mostly appeals to a small number of hardcore nerds, but the rest of the world wants more features, more integration. They don't want theoretic purity.

The fact that I didn't add features and only focused on bug fixes actually hurted the reputation of my software in the grand scheme of things. So yeah, I'll be adding more features from now on.
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Anyone in the UK here, Keith Chegwin has been doing this for years, what he does now, is steal someone's tweet joke and then block them on Twitter.
If I'm building a company, I absolutely want Home Depot and not Ikea. If I'm building a weekend project, sure, Ikea is great.

And beyond that, I absolutely don't want to have to rely on Google's customer support or pricing/platform stability for anything that really matters to me, and my company's infrastructure really, really matters to me.
PSD to HTML5 Conversion services
GNU Guix 0.8.1
Still accessible == still not secure.
Version 0.8.1 of GNU's purely functional package manager Guix has been released.

The project develops, at the same time, GNU GSD (Guix System Distribution), a GNU operating system.

GNU GSD is an avant-garde GNU system utilizing Guix as its package manager, and the similarly Guile/Scheme based dmd as its init system.
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Trying to sway the jury with emotional impact rather than appeals to reason is not how it should be done.
invariants could be lifted into the type system

Is there a reason this is only possible in Haskell, or does Haskell just make it super convenient / idiomatic?
Presumably the SIM does nothing special, it just directs the data connection to an APN run by the operator (like all SIMs do). This operator has firewall rules that drop everything non-whatsapp.
Will the UK's gas holders be missed?
I'm pretty sure an app like Paper is possible using web technologies (if you only support the latest browsers). I don't even see why they bring Paper as an example since I think the app is pretty shit UX wise.
I'm impressed, and I'd love to see it in action. But I'm also worried that this is going in the wrong direction.

If the law is getting too complex for humans to handle, the solution is not to create supercomputers that help us. The solution should be to simplify the law.
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I am. When there was ACTA/SOPA debacle going on I criticized USA quite heavily for bullying small countries (including my country) to sign them. I even was on a street protest against it in my city [1]. the difference is - when USA bullies somebody to do sth it doesn't invade when they don't agree :) ACTA wasn't signed and no American invasion in sight.

Anyway, to require people to criticize equaly or not at all is just dumb. Different people are intersted in different things, and it's OK. Just say "OK, Russia is bully there, but I don't care". Instead you try to defend such behaviour by showing that others do the same - not gonna work.

This is just distraction debating tactic by you and you know it.

[1] here you can see photos BTW
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajuc00/sets/72157629041344779/
It can, but we have pretty abundant evidence now that the treatment we chose for the threat of heroin, the drug war, has a much worse net effect on society than the disease of unchallenged heroin addiction.
I think Slack is partially HTML5 and partially native on mobile.
But then render() has to re-generate all the stuff over and over again, which could be slow.
the font on this site is a threat to life
Is that a tuner in your pocket?
Playworld Superheroes – Kids iOS Game from Those Who Made Motorstorm, No IAP
The notable thing here is that it has a whole new cairo-based renderer. Great job inkscape team! My go-to tool for svg editing once things get complicated.

EDIT: new binaries arent officially posted yet but here's an OSX nightly build from 10 hours ago: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2n7aim2wcrn6l3h/AAC62qBMxM6317AZi...
> Heroin isn't weed. It destroys lives of its users

Well, no more than any other addiction to opiates. The issue with heroin addiction is that 1) it's illegal; (in many places) 2) it's expensive as hell. Clean Heroin by itself has no majorly bad side effects that aren't associated with other (legal and regularly used/abused) opiates like oxy/hydrocodene. Constipation and cotton mouth are about all that comes to mind. The risks are the same as any other street drugs; bad batches, reusing needles, dirty needles, and unmonitored usage.

I'm not saying heroin is good, by any means, but it's not as bad as it's sold as.
There's historical precedent for legalized heroin - it's the opium dens of the mid/late 19th century. I don't think that's a world that many people want to go back to.

Most of the time when people talk about drug legalization, they mean things like marijuana, LSD, or ecstasy.
Is there any way to rapidly repopulate the ozone layer? Assume unlimited funding.
Great job. This release took quite a bit. I think 0.48 was released two years ago. They basically rewrote the whole software in OOP.
Not a big surprise - 600k population and a slow incumbent monopoly telecom provider means hard work to support for not much reward.
"You're golden."

Indeed you are: you can use Haskell and GHC and reap the benefits of programming language and compiler experts. You can read the slides again and see that many things explained there are possible with GHC and don't require Mu.

I guess you can make a similar comment about PHP and Facebook. Facebook do have experts in compiler/interpreters to change the language/implementation to make it good at their scale.
If you search long enough, especially in times of big data, you will always find some statistically significant correlation. That´s why it is getting even more important to validate your model/hypothesis. In our case over time. A correlation passing an adequate validation is high probably a causation. A not validated correlation is only an opinion.
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I want to give a shout-out to Andy Lester, the author of ack and this blog post. Before publishing, he asked me to review the text. He wanted to ensure it was factually correct and that I had no issues with his evaluation of ag. I suggested a few bits he could flesh-out, but I had no qualms with the original post. It was very courteous of him to go out of his way to make sure I was happy.

We don't communicate often, but every interaction I've had with Andy has been positive. So I'm a little disappointed when people compliment ag while disparaging ack. Yes, ag is faster. But it's not like ack is particularly slow. And as Andy's post points out, they do have different features. Even if you think ag strictly dominates, remember: If not for ack, ag would never have existed. The only reason I wrote ag was because I used ack all the time and wanted it to be faster.

It's bizarre how something so trivial can make people so opinionated. Andy and I make tools to search code. But looking at some of the discussion over the years, you'd think we we're working on competing cancer treatments.
Hard to say. Most people over-estimate themselves and figure they won't be the ones to get cut. It would also make sense to be clear about the trial period right up front, so people don't "settle down" too early.

The real problem would be hiring people who need to move.
It's the same in Los Angeles. But people still know that, for example, Warren Beatty has owned property for 40 years. There are no mysteries.
Well, offtopic, but imho bookmarks need serious work in Chromium.
I'm constantly looking for my bookmarks, and not finding them. Perhaps a search+time filter could help here. Also, when clicking on "Other bookmarks", I currently get a dropdown of about a thousand elements :)

I hope a UX person can have a good look at this sometime.
Maybe you could run a Tor exit node, or setup a public mirror of your favorite code bundles. Or you could donate the processing power to a large distributed-computing project like Stanford's Folding-At-Home (http://folding.stanford.edu/).

Or you could always just turn your server into a little bitcoin miner. Probably won't make any money from it, but it might be fun to do regardless.
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> opium dens

The modern equivalent is spending hours watching reality TV and eating fast food.

Not trying to be snarky. I mean it.
If you are interested in this, the list of papers for the 2015 International Conference on Learning Representations has been released: http://www.iclr.cc/doku.php?id=iclr2015:main#submissions

There's some pretty good stuff there. I really liked Crypto-Nets: Neural Networks over Encrypted Data[1]:

The problem we address is the following: how can a user employ a predictive model that is held by a third party, without compromising private information. For example, a hospital may wish to use a cloud service to predict the readmission risk of a patient. However, due to regulations, the patient's medical files cannot be revealed. The goal is to make an inference using the model, without jeopardizing the accuracy of the prediction or the privacy of the data.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6181
MH370: Malaysia officially ends search for missing plane
Same interface as accompli. In fact accompli is really good.
Cats! You can always post cats!

Now, on a more serious note: you could host your friend's sites (and probably can do a split of the payments), use it as a host for various tests (if you are a developer).

If you are living in a non US country you could make an instance in US then use it as a proxy to access various services that requires you to be in US (hulu, netflix, etc)
Or simply subtract a first-order fit. (What the matlab/numpy `detrend()` function does)

Edit: I'll note that this is the same thing as subtracting a very long-windowed low-pass filter, i.e., performing high-pass filtering.
I imagine to some extent, due to the speed of his reader, he can audibly browse his code. This is just a guess.. My mind is actually getting all sorts of accessibility ideas for coders. If you could have hot keys to call out the function your in, call out all the methods in the current file(structure/class view etc). Jump to files. I have no idea what the current state of the art is, but I bet it could be streamlined a ton.

LISP's might make an interesting language of choice to due to the simplicity of their syntax and the ease of navigation through forms. Hmmmm.
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Lazy vs strict evaluation: Lennart, the author of the Mu compiler, has written about it: http://augustss.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/more-points-for-lazy-...
So if I'm eating fast food and watching a non-reality TV program, I've left the opium den, right?
After reading through your presentation, I have to say Singular does not look at all similar. And it's Java, so different audiences I guess. Angular in Java is not a bad idea though.
How on earth is that reversion going to happen? The cartels will just pack their bags and let an non-profit organic collective take over the farms?
Heroin isn't weed. It destroys lives of its users and certainly harms the society at large. To say otherwise is preposterous, at best.

deciplex didn't say it wasn't. Read the phrase again.

In fact, it's exactly because heroin is harmful that an approach that actually has a chance of reducing its use - unlike the aforementioned drug war - is in dire need.
Ask HN: Python vs. JavaScript
What are your thoughts about both the languages and which would you prefer to work in. Please refer to only the language and not the frameworks that make it viable option.
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The way I see it, immutability and purity are hard requirements for actually enforcing the contract, and a very robust type system is then a requirement to go from code that makes you want to shoot yourself in the head, to code that's incredibly expressive and easy to reason about. Haskell just happens to sit in that exact niche.
Twitter Can Identify Heart Disease
That's good to know. I assume most mobile operators sniff this traffic already, but it does feel a bit strange knowing up-front that they're going to be closely monitoring that kind of thing. Maybe I'm paranoid!
Forces of Divergence
Admittedly I did make a typo there but the diaspora is motivated/necessitated by the disaster.
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It's nice to build up a roster of pre-signups before you launch. It's super easy to throw up a launchrock.com page on your site. Collect emails while you're building the product, then when you launch just send a blast to that group. Should get you the initial inertia you need. It's also worth trying to get your thing listed on sites like betalist and producthunt.

But in general, I really wouldn't worry about it. Early adopters LIKE to be first. So while a normal user would be turned-off by an empty marketplace, your early-adopters won't necessarily see it that way. They'll help you build out content and fill up the marketplace, so that normal users find it attractive down the line.
Ask HN: Review my startup Newsie-Your Social Life on itunes
Please review my social network startup
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newsie-your-social-life/id955258739?mt=8
Always PYTHON!
I wonder how they are handling persistent storage and multi-threading if at all.
Plenty of courses get taught on literature recent enough that it is not yet in the public domain. Here's one:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/david_foster_wallaces_199...

So yes, Shakespeare would probably still be taught, though the plays would cost a bit more.
It's really hard to recommend one of my favourite novel this article reminds me of without spoiling the whole story :(.
About time. I have bought Nine for Exchange stuff because Outlook for Android just didn't cut it while Nine is basically perfect. I hope this will raise the bar.

Edit : no support for aliases. Well, it's not suitable for me then.