skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of misfeatures: I was scrolling down this page, wanted to go back up to re-read something, and the entire page just changed.

I wondered why for a second, then made a half-inch swipe to the left and discovered there's a "feature" to let me change the page for some reason, but it requires that I change the fundamental way I operate my phone/browser.

Tried to read the article again, and on the way down to where I was last reading, the page changed again. Closed the tab and won't bother reading the rest because I'm infuriated.

This is on a Nexus 5 with Android 5.1, so no, there is no rendering issue here, or lag in read of inputs. This is just an anti-feature that need not exist, nor is made obvious to the user that it exists and needs to be worked around.
I love aria2c

I use it all the time even as the down loader for ArchLinux's pacman (package manager).
Darpa seeking collaborators for the future of analogue computing
Tcl's [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1
We should carefully build up the knowledge and experience on genome editing. If we can prevent children to be born with genetic defects, we should. And I don't care if the rich and powerful get to make their kids extra smart and beautiful if that means millions of other children don't have to live with a disability.
CISA Security Bill: An F for Security but an A+ for Spying
Nintendo CEO Reveals Plans for Smartphones
When subcultures like furries or bronies get hold of it, things may get more than a bit odd.
Ask HN: Does digesting a lot of knowledge has any merit?
We as geeks, spend much time on Internet, digesting content from sites like this, reddit, medium, wikis. I was just curious, does this reading of bits and pieces of knowledge from every field provide any merit in our life?

We learn about a super-fast enzyme, cure of cancer, history of human zoos, enterprise sales process but is the time better spent in focused learning? or is it something we find use of, at some point or other?
I'll just say that "intelligence.org" is as heavy-handed as Google buying the .dev TLD.
Things have gotten a lot better over the past few months:

* Meteor has added quite a bit of functionality

* The cluster package has simplified scaling a lot

* Template level subscriptions are making it easier to build reusable reactive components

* The quality of third party packages is improving as more developers are contributing and reaching a level of proficiency

As far as "high performance", it's a node app... so you have all the plusses and minuses of node. I think Meteor is way ahead of the curve compared to other platforms (think Zope, Rails, Django, Drupal) for it's age.

I'm building several apps with it now including a WebGL CAD app and a mobile job search app. Performance is actually surprisingly good for the CAD app and the job search app runs as fast as the apis it sources data from will let it.
I think the biggest problem is the conflation of true and provable that DST tends to lead to (Gödel says hi).
[This is also mentioned under "Criticism" in the Wiki article]
Many non voters will think about government, and realize none of the candidates represent them in the slightest.
This perspective is interesting:

"Many ethicists have accepted the idea of gene therapy, changes that die with the patient, but draw a clear line at altering the germline, since these will extend to future generations."

Doesn't this imply that ethically you can alter your own geneline as long as from that point on you cannot have progeny?
French here. I'm pretty sure some of them can trigger seizures, given how aggressive the strobing is.
You're not harsh enough. On life extension research, the article says:

One way or another, Bennett told me, “We’re all holding hands and saying, ‘Forget that shit. Not going to happen.’”

While that may apply to some or many people interested in life extension, to dismiss all research as useless, while claiming to need to "sense-make" around the "design experience" of death at "The Convening", yikes.

I really hate attacking them personally, but their big idea was that someone might leave a letter for other people? Perhaps what they were missing was a study "how-might-we" of "empowering" people with a "hybrid digital-analog" death.

Seriously, am I totally out of line here or is this an emperor lacking clothes scenario? If you hired these folks and they talked like that while billing you -- you just smile and go along with it?

(The product idea is sound: I'd buy a dead mans switch product if it comes with a stackable, provable M-of-N secret system, maybe with plausible deniability (so my family can't be compelled to reveal secrets). Can't imagine that's a large market, though.)
BTCJam Now Uses Credit Scores to Set Borrowers' Interest Rates
Google Banks is something that scares me... A LOT. I use almost all of their services because I love them, but I don't think that I would go for a bank account as well.
why don't you guys just use functional languages if you need functional features, instead of hacking stuff into languages born with different purposes?
If that's true, why not help educate? What is Norway actually like?
Yes, I did? You didn't give any examples, except that salt isn't such a thing.
People keep voting this up, even though the comments are broken. If you're just going to read the book, note that there's a better-formatted, interactive version at http://eloquentjavascript.net
Testers often assumed any three-digit number was actually short for a six-digit number.

This is interesting, I haven't come across this before. What is the best way to display big numbers? 550K or 550,000? 5M or 5,000,000?
A drone with that kind of lift sounds hugely expensive to build and operate.
That makes me wonder if it's a good time to start up some mountain tourism in Japan. The landscape is magnificient, the culture is unique, and if the prices are falling a bit you could attract a lot more of budget-ish climbing/hiking/trekking/paragliding/younameit traffic both foreign and local. Especially hiking, trekking and trailrunning is quite big.
I'm so tired of people trotting this quote out. We get it – you don't care about performance – hardware is fast and your problems are easy. But there are people who have difficult problems to solve – some hard enough that the limits of what hardware can do represent a real constraint. For those people, having a deep understanding of hardware and performance is essential.
Yes, North Korea has the internet. Here's what it looks like.
Code Review: Microsoft's System.Net.Mail Implementation
> Same question for solar panels: Do they let them rotate so at odd times they're exactly flat in the plane of the sun and receiving 0% energy, or do they rotate other modules of the spacecraft so that the solar panels are always at the sun?

I think I didn't quite get this question.

The solar panels have two rotary joints; the alpha joint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Truss_Structure#Sol...) and the beta joint (related to the beta angle, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_angle). With both joints operating together, I think there's no angle where the solar panels can't be pointed directly at the sun. They only get out of the sun when it's behind the Earth, or if they have to move the panels out of the way to avoid pluming from a docking or leaving spacecraft.
Evolution Exit Scam Shows Multisig Isn’t Enough: We Need Decentralization
Doxing public informations ?

If I say that Obama is POTUS, am I doxing him ?
Heh, fair point, we have different value systems. I'm for same speed / lower accidents, especially dumber ones. These days speed gets all the rage but in my mind we should aim for lower tempo, more density.
I was at a product management event once and met a guy who managed a product in this space. A group of us went out for drinks after the event and he ended up explaining what he did. At some point he mentioned "Chinese hackers." Another guy in the group called him on it, wondering why he just assumed it was Chinese. He laughed and said that the near constant level of activity they see goes basically flat on Chinese New Year.

I suppose if you're not a Chinese hacker, it might pay to pretend you are by tailoring your working hours and days.
[DOC] Perf Audits for Blink and DevTools, CNet, Wikipedia, Time by Paul Irish
> The C.I.A. did not buy into the adage that the student leader of today is the student leader of tomorrow. It calculated that the heads of national student organizations were likely some day to become important figures in their countries’ governments. When that happened (and it often did), the American government had a file on them.

And yet today students are perfectly willing to detail the minutiae of their lives on their online permanent record.
They know where you are, who do you talk to, where do you work... and now, they will know all your finances.

Scary!
Because they weren't willing to use the amount of oppression and violence necessary to subject the population to their control. That's a good thing but it makes an occupation much more expensive.

But imagine what would happen if they did any of the things I said like mass surveillance. The US is certainly moving in that direction, but imagine when there are microphones and cameras everywhere, always recording. With AI good enough to automatically figure out who you are and what you are doing. When every face and license plate is recognized, and drones above track where every single person and vehicle moves.
Oh my. Have you heard about how NoSQL is or isn't the superior replacement for all platforms?
Still, I don't think it's really fair to compare Google or Amazon with startus like Transferwise or GoCardless
Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer, was also on the packet pusher podcast recently, talking about HTTP/2 - http://packetpushers.net/show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-netw...
Also of note is that while a vacuum doesn't necessarily have a temperature (it's just a medium), space does.

Even if you go far away from anything else, you will still reach thermal equilibrium at the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, which is 2.7K -- it's essentially the "temperature of the universe", radiation which has been emitted as far back as the first moments of the universe.

And of course, if you create a vacuum chamber on Earth, any object inside will always reach equilibrium at ambient temperature (in the lack of any heat engines on the body -- even then the fuel would deplete some time).
In a similar vein. Can we please never use `text-align: justify;` it might as well be called `hard-to-read: dyslexics`
A man made process that uses nature.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
Thanks for that, I wondered why I bounced straight off that. I'm usually fine with text heavy articles, but there was something about that page which meant I just couldn't process it at all.
You could try stat counter: https://statcounter.com/
Hey e12e! It's a great question. You are right - at the moment Snowplow is still tied to the AWS cloud; we use a variety of AWS services which support massively horizontal processing, including Elastic MapReduce, Kinesis and Redshift. We are working on a Kafka+Samza version of Snowplow which we will release later this year, most likely running on a Mesos cluster that you can deploy where you want.
The code completion is just as good or better for c# from my experience
Generate Your Changelog From GitHub Issues
I still can't stop myself typing `lynx -mime_header` to see server headers!
Show HN: Feedbunch, a simple and elegant feed reader
...is going to put a hurt on the EU and its citizens.

Fixed it
I see the systems behavior relies on a little short-sighted data, and even safe, relying on direct neighbor for control isn't optimal and not broad enough compared to our way of thinking.

NVidia went hard on their mobile GPU computer vision system. They could recognize many cars, with this it can detect jams in time.
Ask HN: Are vintage computers getting harder to find and more valuable?
Perhaps the fact that the tech was already built into sold cars - cars that have already impacted Tesla's bottom line - was not an attractive thought for investors.

As an investor, typically, you want sales to increase more rather than increase less.
Maybe, like waiting too late to have kids, that's something we as a society should rethink.
GP also states it very non-challantly as a go-no go decision. Usually you get a result stating the child have a 1 in 200 chance of down syndrome considered a high risk. But in 199 cases you will have a normal healthy baby. Do you now abort or not?

Also you might have taken a while to get pregnant, lets say 5 or 6 months, so aborting means you get to wait another 5 months before getting pregnant again.
FTC Report: Google Purposely Demoted Competing Shopping Sites
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I had exactly the same issue with the screen powering up in the middle of the night due to phantom touch inputs as well.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%." -- Donald Knuth (My emphasis)

Donald Knuth was clearly for optimizing software, he merely said that you should profile before you optimize. The author is clearly profiling his code, and there's nothing wrong with getting more out of the hardware you paid for.
A few months ago I attended a conference where they spoke very clearly about how the automobile industry, in the early 1900's, used marketing to make roads their own.

Here is the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHA4xN1dEkM&t=2m8s

and this part of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyT8AUn3cuU&t=10m30s
> As for Europe, sadly Ukraine is reminding us all that the choice is between being American client states or Russian client states

That's an absurd statement.
It's a weird situation. Why wouldn't I want to edit out BRCA1/2 for myself and my downline? Who gets to say that my progeny have to live with the significant risk of dying from breast cancer?

That's why this is so touchy. Who gets to draw these lines, and why? Bans on anything are rarely helpful.
Sod the horses, ride the algorithm
Hi guys.

I've released Feedbunch, a web app to read RSS and Atom feeds similar to the disappeared google reader. Signups are currently open and it will be totally free for at least as long as it is in the beta phase.

It aims to be simple to use, hiding unnecessary complexity from the user as much as possible (feed autodiscovery, detecting when a feed has changed its URL, etc). It is responsive and supports being installed to the home screen in mobile devices, behaving almost like a native app.

Feedbunch is opensource under the MIT license. The backend is a json REST API built with Ruby on Rails, and the frontend is a mix of Bootstrap and AngularJS.

I'm very interested in hearing your opinion and I hope you find it useful.
The world has changed significantly since the 70ies, when such a moratorium worked. I don't think that it would in today's world, where information is more free than ever.
Similarly you can right-click and "Copy as cURL" from the Network pane of Firefox's web developer tools.
I always wondered why people don't use text-align: justify more often. Is this really a reason? What about all the books out there? Why are Web pages different?

(I get the feeling I am missing something obvious.)
What's wrong exactly? It looks like it's split about 50/50 for bikes and walkers.
This must be karma for bitching about Apple, but I just opened the lid of my XPS13 and it has a crack in it. I cannot believe it. It feels like groundhog day!

In any case, I shall report back on how they handle it. Fired off a twitter message to @DellCares and they asked me for the service tag. Go on Dell, impress me!
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A free place to build and maintain software together
GitBull is build and maintain by Free Software programmers for Free Software programmers.
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HTML6 proposal for single-page apps without JavaScript
Conduct that's legal from a copyright point of view can still create an antitrust problem.
What If There Were a New Type of Worker? Dependent Contractor
I live in Dublin, not London, but the situation you describe is why I use gocar on a pretty regular basis.
Ask HN: Best Multi-Core Text Editor?
So, ST3 is well written. The core C libs are fast and questionable plugin structure aside, it usually holds up well.

Atom is JS based, which is just plain slow to render.

emacs/Vim, awesome, but same issue:

When dealing with large JSON/text files none appear to have multi-threading support for complex operations (such as regex search/replace). I have an 8-core Xeon and am experiencing 2-5 minutes to render on these operations with only one core recruited.

Is there any editor that uses threads effectively to distribute operations on large files?
Well if fun factor is not good enough answer, then maybe this will work:

- Using something and understanding it, are two different thing. Through implementing things in a language that I'm familiar with, is easier for me to grasp concept behind it and understand it.

- Create a bridge between foreign concepts. If someone knows only PHP and will grasp FP concept in PHP, then it will be easier for him learn new language.

- Sometimes switching to another language in your daily (commercial) work is not easy as it sounds.

- OOP and FP can do awesome things when used together.
The barbecue roll. The Apollo spacecraft would slowly rotate along it's longitudinal axis while it traveled to the moon to help dissipate heat.
I found it surprising how much of this I knew from my hours spent playing Kerbal Space Program!
Do any such politicians exist?

Democracy is a very, very low resolution way of making decisions. Politicians virtually never run on a platform of foreign policy. It's always domestic issues. Once they get elected on domestic issues they then implement whatever foreign policy they personally feel like.
The justify only works out (i.e. not too ugly) with certain text sizes and page widths. I guess in books it is much easier to make a decent layout because the page size is fixed.

Another thing is that, actually, design has come a long way and many modern websites look way better than many older books.

Edit: Yep, totally forgot about hyphenation. I guess I haven't seen hyphenated text in a long time, as everything in web is unhyphenated.
Does anyone know the difference between the online version and the published version?
#manele noi 2015
And that's theatre because?
Hi, we also went through this process recently (Successful IVF and we froze the spare eggs).

I am not sure what statistics you were quoted, but our doctor quoted us:

~70% chance of successfully thawing an egg with observed cellular division.

~30% chance of successfully thawing an egg without observed cellular division.

~55% chance of successful pregnancy from an implanted egg, thats why they implant two in many cases, making it roughly 25% chance of twins, 50% chance of one and 25% of none.

If you have got enough eggs the thawing isn't really a problem, but most harvestings only get around 5 - 8 eggs of which 2 - 3 are good. We were extremely lucky in harvesting 21 eggs off which 8 were grade A quality.

Just another perspective.
Any chance to get a demo login or something, to try the actual interface without creating an account?
In paper no. In real life, try getting foreign bases on continental US soil and see how it goes.
good hack!
What's with the disgusting "Are you human? Recommend this story." bullshit at the bottom? Are they implying that only robots would read it and not be grateful enough for the wisdom imparted upon them to recommend?
This is weenie boss.
I've used 20+ languages over the years, and Ruby is by far my favourite not because it has "new" features, but because of it does it's best to ensure syntax gets out of the way.

And that is incidentally why I have no interest in Lisp or Smalltalk. I have a very visual interpretation of code. I can remember the visual layout of programs I worked on 20 years ago. Those visuals matters greatly to me to be productive with code, and means I am extremely picky about formatting that works for me, and I have nothing but hate for the layout of Lisp and Smalltalk code.

I'm greatful for all the great stuff to have come out of Lisp and Smalltalk. I just pefer to use those features in the nice embrace of Ruby syntax.
How to Have a High Ranking App on App Store?
That piece doesn't really contradict the article. Yubari is shrinking but it's maintaining strong public services, low crime, and a high quality of life for its residents.
Hyphenation. Browser support is not good and so words usually are not hyphenated which leads to stretching whitespace. http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-hyphens
On a much different scale, but an Indian outsourcing firm we do business with (Capgemini) gives our interview questions to subsequent candidates. Sometimes it's evident they are trying desperately to Google for answers during telephone interviews, and I've even noticed that there is sometimes someone else there feeding them with answers!
Especially when they start with " RT shill". As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN.

As a non-Russian and non-US person, I find it way more balanced.
I assumed it was some kind of joke about page alignment
DNA-Based Prediction of Nietzsche's Voice
And by attacking RT you've discredited yourself enough.
From my experience, this is confusing the issue - the OP was talking about using their DDoS filtering service, not their CDN. This is done by Prolexic - who despite being acquired by Akamai, still seems to function fairly independently.
I've no idea what the CDN team are like, but it's not really fair to say don't use product X from company Y, because product Z sucks.

We've tried a number of DDoS filtering services, and Proxleic/Akamai has been the most professional and effective so far. They're also the most expensive, by a fair bit, but you get what you pay for I guess.
A little bit of me would like to see that animation at the end with RTS like stats changing with regards to resource capacity,use and the cost going up.

I see they added a solar array whilst for a period closing the one on top of the station. I wonder if they had to make do for a period or the new array was much improved it didn't matter much.
Happy bday!
The only downside being that the Yen is a strong currency, which kills the whole budget idea. The central bank has been trying for a long time to induce inflation, without much success.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29845466
Buildcache uses strace rather than parsing command line arguments of the compiler to save and reuse compilation results, speedin up subsequent builds.
Most of my throw-away projects are entirely frontend, so I just clone my static-site generator* – just a grunt tool that’s more flexible than Jekyll for my needs – and push the results to a new GitHub repo to be served by Pages. All repos are then available at eswat.ca/<repo-name>. Easy.

* https://github.com/eswat/cektop
If they can't compete without laws that protect then they disappear - that is how free market works.