skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, who else is supposed to invalidate them?

I mean, if I could, I can think of a few I'd go after before finishing this very sentence. Unfortunately, it turns out, I don't have that authority.
The Lost City of Z (2005)
Microsoft Drops a New Windows 10 Build
This reminded me of a great piece in the Atlantic a while ago looking at the cause: "Elite students with few marketable skills are perfect forms for financial firms to mold." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/why-do-s...
Sure, here you go: http://sangaline.com/blog/optimizing_for_swype/img/qwerty.ke...
Huh? The reason for attacking github seems completely obvious, given that the attacked projects were (1) a mirror of the nytimes Chinese edition (explicitly intended to counter Chinese government censorship), and (2) anti-great-firewall-of-China tools...

[Not that they hoped to actually keep github down in the long run, but rather were probably trying to send a message that "hosting info the Chinese government doesn't like will make your life annoying so better not do it"...]
Excellent. That is quite helpful. Thanks for taking the time to write that up!
excited to give and get feedback !
We'll probably never know, most people that settle with patent trolls have confidentiality agreements
There's definitely a demand for good programmers. Check out some job boards and I'm sure you'll find something.
Note that Boltons also supports Python 3, while retaining individual module independence. Happy bolting and cooooool-RRunnings!
I like the fact that this article identifies that finance serves a purpose, that it can do a lot of good. At the same time, it also recognizes that not all finance is useful or good from a societal point of view. This distinction always seems to get lost in the arguments that result when articles like this are posted on HN.

Take HFT, the perennial point of controversy. It is true that it provides liquidity (though, I would suggest not necessarily when you need it), but is it true that more liquidity is always better? At some point, I would argue that the market is liquid enough, and continually pushing the limits of HFT is quite simply rent seeking and may have other detrimental market and/or societal effects. To bring my comment back to the article in question, I have to agree with the author that it is somewhat sad to see people pursue careers in fields of dubious societal value, but if I were offered the paycheque, I would almost certainly take it, too.
In civilized countries they are then temporarily given different assignments which they are able to perform more satisfactorily, or they go talk to their GP and are given part-time or full time paid sick leave.
Would be cool if I could control it from this webpage ;)
We shouldn't be impeding progress to save jobs.

I believe an ultimate goal should be to reach the point where people don't need jobs.
"Rust is so low-level that IO is a library concern, not a language concern," as I like to say.
Subject: Your Y Combinator Application

Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold. Furthermore, a much smaller percentage of late applications are invited for interviews.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/

We sincerely hope and encourage you to reapply for the next batch. Applying multiple times in no way counts against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
I wonder why those recollections never mention countless other peoples killed in nazi deathcamps - gypsies, catholics, slavs, the disabled, and if they do its cursory at best (a few lines in the whole article).

What does Weiss think about the reversal of roles in the modern day conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
Ask HN: What kind of philosophy do you read?
I have been fascinated with ethics and questions on free will recently but the historical philosophical discussions tend to be too boring and use unnecessarily complex words to explain the concepts. That puts me off. How often do you read philosophy and if yes, how do you deal with the style of writing?

Or maybe some of you think reading Science in general is better investment of time?
Excellent. Now we could use another one to get rid of all those stupid streaming patents that are abused time and again.
As encryption spreads, U.S. seeks balance between privacy and security
Silently bundling cryptomining software with uTorrent is what crossed the line for me (not that I had very high regard for the company in the first place).

I've since then switched to open-source alternatives of their products and will not touch anything else they make from now on, and advise everyone I know to do the same (unless they eventually open-source their products, which I highly doubt would ever happen).
Still, it means that, if Facebook sue you with stupidly-obvious-invalid patent on entirely unrelated product, say a patent that car must have a glass windows, then you can't even defend that such patent is invalid.
You were supposed to compare --- not the forbidden things AS SUCH, but (a) the abstract fact that they're illegal, composed with (b) SANE ways your OWN country can react to the fact of a NON-FRIENDLY FOREIGN power engages in ENABLING, ENCOURAGING and ENTICING your own citizens to breach same law.

To give yet another example: At some point in time, exporting an 128 bit symmetrical block cypher from the US may have been grounds for punishing you, the perp.

Let's counterfactually assume that China was successfully propagandizing tens of thousands of US citizens about both the ridicoulousness and the anti-freedomness of this law. Assume that thusly propagandized US citizens resisted and breached the law.

Again: Would you prefer that the US, assumed to be quite aware of the Chinese efforts, would have identified, rounded up and harshly punished US citizens having exported "munitions" in the form of 128 bit symmetrical block cyphers after having been successfully turned against perfectly patriotic (even if misguided) US policy by non-friendly Chinese propaganda, while completely not doing ANYTHING to stop that propaganda, even though PROVEN to put US CITIZENS IN JAIL??
I tend to retire my machines to less demanding or suitable tasks. A Mac Pro 2006 (with a Cinema Display from 2000) is still going strong as a studio music computer running Logic Pro X (essentially a Hackintosh on Mac hardware, as Apple stopped supporting them). A MacBook from 2005 drives a TV with streaming video (although it needs retiring now).

It is harder with smartphones, but I have older phones being guest map and GPS devices.
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Quite a bit of research has been done, check out Phinney and Volek's "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living".
How did he get over the blade topped fences?
Whereas you are forced to use an Amazon Kindle (sorry, Swindle)?

Your options there are similar, acquire a license for a commercial book (that you like), hit Project Gutenberg for an open source book, or write your own book...
For a follow-on, the airlines are prepping a new "ultra-budget economy" section where you can get a cheaper ticket, but are strapped to the wall while the entire flight crew punches you in the genitals every five minutes.
Wow, what a nice testimonial!
You should consider CodeRush from DevExpress. They've always been super serious about performance (they have perf stats on their site). They've had C++ tooling for years, their UI is top notch and their live templates blow R# out of the water.

I'm not affiliated with them in anyway, but I am a huge fan.
Get ready to pay for YouTube
I agree, but how do you reach that point? Automating a steady income is a lot of work, and the goal is to just give it away? I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Thank you for the link.

I'm even trying to figure out, for example, maybe I read about a particular data structure in a blog post that I'd like to learn more about. I find the relevant article on Wikipedia, and from there it may or may not take me to specific implementations of that data structure.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but my hunch is Wikipedia won't necessarily be exhaustive (in terms of being able to extrapolate from the article what an actual implementation should look like).

Maybe that part of the question is more of a fishing expedition, as I imagine it's a small fraction of developers / engineers who are ever actually implementing complex data structures.
Quadcopter Drones are just not viable for delivery with current battery technology. Maximum lift is a couple of pounds for 15-20 minutes of flight. Wide use of overhead power lines in cities makes drone delivery unsafe in cities. Rural areas could make sense, lots of open space for landing, sparse population and long drives for drivers,straightforward navigation and obstacle avoidance. But that's not something Quadcopters would be good for, these long-distance hauls, some sort of drone plane would make more sense.

I feel this is somewhat misguided, even a modern version of a pneumatic mail tube system would make more sense to me.

There many other much better use cases for drones and Quadcopters in other industries. I'd expect self-driving cars to have more impact on delivery.
I'm interested in this as well and did some research on it and apparently most of the noise is generated by the ESCs (the components that control the speed of the rotors) and not the rotor blades themselves.
The story is from 2010, the same year the paper was finally published.
Your example only makes sense to you because you assume that the child could sell the diamond for enough money to buy the pie from you (or from someone else who has just as good of a pie) and have some left over. In the actual situation under discussion, there is no such option.

If that's not the case and you really would only part with the pie for that high of a price, and no other pie will do for the child, then what is there to complain about? How much do you think it costs to buy a pie made by, say, Gordon Ramsay? Feel free to replace with someone who is actually a good chef and not just a famous one if I made a poor choice.
Google has a top-secret project to revolutionize smartphone battery technology
Let's release the FOSS kraken and see if they turn the inspiration into something we all would like to try.
Ask HN: What do you use for internal API docs?
Our codebase is sizing up considerably. Moreover, we are moving to different platforms and it's becoming hard to keep track of APIs (private and public) for even the guys who wrote them.

Is there a better way to manage this? Some kind of tool that takes stuff like javadoc and turns it into pretty, searchable interfaces? Something that extracts data from Git repo? An IDE plugin? Anything but the abomination that we're dealing with right now.

I'm sure this is a common pain. How do you manage this?
Algolia Real Time Search with ASP.NET MVC and Windows Phone 8.1
but if I were offered the paycheque, I would almost certainly take it, too

One would think everyone would take the paycheck if offered a position on Wall Street. There's almost nothing left that pays equally well.
Excellent examples in the article, I will be using these illsutrations to demonstrate these ideas to people when I talk about legibility for the web.

I have recently been very impressed with Fira Sans, and it may have the most beautiful sans-serif italics I've seen in a long time!
Curious how the press keeps touting the "ad-free"... the true benefit will that video content quality will skyrocket. Five months ago I predicted that YouTube would go public with Paid Channels within 3-12 months. At first, people will hate the idea of paying for YouTube, but eventually grow to love it. Here's why: http://seer.ws/youtube-paid-channels
I'm a little confused about what you're asking for, but this might help?

http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms
Required reading: Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

https://www.dukeupress.edu/Liquidated
I believe MSBuild is doing something similar (but on Windows) - https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/tree/master/src/Utiliti...
The liquidity benefit is a straw man in the entire HFT debate. It's easy to poke holes in liquidity as a value add.

The real benefit from HFT is what it has replaced.

Before HFT & direct access trading we had a closed system run by specialists and market-makers. Every single trade had to go through a specialist or MM. Spreads were wide and the system made incredible returns skimming each trade. That system was replaced by HFT which had the effect of opening the market up to anyone willing to run an HFT operation, tightened spreads and yes added liquidity. The fact that HFT 'skims' of trades is nothing new to the system, the real benefit is how much less we all get skimmed today than we did 20 years ago. Is it perfect? No. But it's a step in the right direction.
Pardon my ignorance, but in what world installing a rootkit is a part of lobbying efforts?
I just set up an Ubuntu 14.04 server on Digital Ocean. One "apt-get install mail-stack-delivery", and one edited line in /etc/postfix/master.cf later (just to get 587 submission working) and I have my own mail server including STARTTLS on smtp and imap. Made me wonder, will we see sync options on Ubuntu Phone to sync mail/calendar/own-cloud with one (SSH) account? Seems to me the possibilities are endless and very exciting. Please stay true to FOSS principles, resist the temptations, give the (mobile) web back to the people!
Coming out at midnight PT, I hear. Good luck!
Don’t Worry About Losing All Your Investors’ Money
But standard IO is blocking, correct?

But Rust being so low level to not care about IO is Awesome :)
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Are gasoline quadcopters viable?
I've done some pretty serious 'rebooting' and I guarantee you that building any of those designs 'from scratch' is not going to work without decades of lead time to create the pre-requisites. I doubt there are shortcuts to go from nothing to diy truck that do not lead past many long years of grunt-work to get the basics in place that will allow you to make the next step.

It would be a lot more impressive if that list worked its way up from having nothing but hand-tools that use no energy to basic generating capacity, smaller power tools, larger power tools, actual machinery.

If you don't have a plan like that in place this will lead absolutely nowhere, try making a hydraulic piston without a really good lathe, a supply of oil, a good seal, a pump and so on. The list of pre-requisites for something as simple as a hydraulic piston is very long.

Metal fabrication is just like software building layer upon layer of capabilities.
But what are they going to sue based on? If you have a contract of fees for patent use, and it becomes fees for nothing, it's no longer a contract, by definition.

If the only remaining thing is a fee to not sue for something they objectively have no rights to, that doesn't sounds like a proper exchange to me. But of course I'm not a lawyer.

Did the other person win a case about their use, or did they actually get the patent thrown out? Could make a big difference when it comes to others.
Can someone please write a Clojury lisp that compiles to Rust without immutability (by default) and concurrency primitives, since thread safety is guaranteed by the rust compiler?

I love Clojure, but this would be a completely different beast, a crazed DRAGON probably.

PS: I want a Dragon
Thank you - this is what I was asking for. :)

(Can you provide the links?)
Regardless of which way you look at decentralization, there has to be an origin, and due to the nature of these networks, enough active peers that "cache" the content. By having a hosted http feed for at least a small percentage of the time you guarantee the network at least 1 active peer.

Personally I can see decentralization becoming a much bigger thing - I don't want to get into the politics of the likes of China, or domestic net neutrality. But these will drive the smartest minds to create a decentralized self maintaining network - think bitcoin.
Most states are at will employment so it is fairly easy to terminate someone who is unable to perform their duties (whether they're high or not.)
I am thinking of removing anti-discrimination laws completely (not just to create exceptions) and allowing regulators (such as anti-trust) to impose anti-discrimination conditions on specific companies instead. The idea is that most of the time we would let the market deal with discrimination instead of using the relatively expensive legal system.
I used to be involved in the MMJ industry in California. This is very true. Credit card companies are notoriously stand-offish when it comes to cannabis -- most dispensaries in LA have ATMs on premise for this exact reason.
I had a sigh of relief and my chest relaxed a little bit. We may be on the right track finally.
Live beta - http://shredreel.com/videos/overview
Been following this thread all day. ShredReel is a video aggregator for ski and snowboard videos that allows you to skip editing and instead tag moments in the videos to create a user sourced index. Let me know what you think and good luck to all!
You outlined why they shouldn't be compared because they are different and outlined differences. The response (from one of the rust devs, if I'm correct) explained how some of your purported differences weren't actually different. The response wasn't ignoring your first line, it was explaining how portions of your evidence backing up that first line were factually incorrect.
I have been having this debate with colleagues since I started taking Economics. We have not yet found a way to replace the current labor system without impeding the incentives that effect progress.
They know how to make their version number vary at runtime, but they don't know not to copy/paste someone else ID?

They don't know not to copy/paste someone else's ID, yet their add-on has become more popular than OP's overnight?

Malware is not "a bridge too far". If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

OP: ask Mozilla staff to comb their incoming stats logs for IPs suspected of infection then search Spamhaus, RBL type databases for matches. If the malware is spread via email, you might find a copy of it that way.

This comment is insightful: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152966#c4 . A similar strategy would be to select the list of other addons that same machines have installed.
Slightly off topic -- does anyone remember a boot disk in the late 80's or early 90's that would play voice from the PC speaker, saying something to the effect of, "Help, I'm trapped inside the computer"? I can't remember if it was on my 8088 or something later...
It's an alt coin, it's pre-mined and because of that it cannot be a successor to Bitcoin which was not pre-mined. (Though Satoshi mined a little bit, that bitcoin has been left out of circulation.)

For alt-coins pre-mining generally means its a scam.

They are proposing a whole bunch of next generation functionality, which if they pull it off may overcome the unfairness of pre-mining and make them all super rich.

But it's super ambitious and isn't yet clear that it will even be possible to do what they want to do, and if they do it will take years to establish the trust necessary to use it for its intended purpose.

Choosing to pre-mine means anyone who does due diligence won't be trusting them for quite awhile.

I think this is still a lot of hype (And this article is just adding to it) without substance.

I think the way bitcoin was done was correct-- no hype and just a release of code.
I was among the people who warned about the unfairness of the previous license. I am a Free Software advocate, so I have no problem with allowing Facebook to use any patents I might later obtain, as long as using React (and similarly-licensed software) does not leave me defenseless against a FB lawsuit.
We'd also (hopefully - i.e. assuming we don't fuck up Earth that badly) have geothermal.
Some of your examples need oracles to deliver information into the script, which is (oh no!) your counter party so you're back to square one again. It doesn't work in any other way due to the realities of distributed consensus. The example of a poker system within Ethereum is incredibly unlikely, a social network or Uber clone the same but for meatspace issues rather than cryptographic ones.

I've still yet to come across a single person who can give me a compelling reason for Ethereum to exist other than "this is awesome because it will change the world" or other similar drivel. It's always impossible due to limits in Ethereum's design, limits of reality, or just stuff you can do in Bitcoin anyway and nobody has realized.
I was tempted to do that, but to be honest the battery of that computer is kind of shot (it only lasts about 3 hours nowadays) so I didn't think it was worth spending the money. Might as well sell that one and spend a few hundred more to get something with a retina display and a factory SSD :)
Twelve Years Later, US Media Still Can’t Get Iraqi WMD Story Right
We're starting off by only having blocking IO in the standard library, yes.
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Take this PlayCanvas game for example: http://tanx.playcanvas.com/ It's a mere 1MB. You can play it in the mobile browser, mobile Facebook, Twitter Google+ clients, and mobile messaging apps. UDK and Unity can't hit those platforms. Also, with PlayCanvas, you're making your games online alongside a community that can collaborate with you, comment on your progress, help you fix bugs and so on. So I guess PlayCanvas is GitHub+Google Docs to UDK/Unity's MS Office.
Unless I misunderstand it seems you're pointing out a benefit of automated electronic trading, not HFT. Most people distinguish between the two when arguing that HFT is detrimental.
Very interesting. Can I encrypt the disk?
Do the inline documentation with the apiDoc format[1]. Readme.io has also created and documented a superset of apiDoc that you might want to look into. Obviously their tool supports it, but it seems easy to roll your own frontend for the API data once you extract it from your code.

1. http://apidocjs.com/
I feel like the the odds of you finding a HN user with a malicious addon is pretty low compared to other places. Have you tried the firefox addons forums? Users often describe issues there and you may have a thread dedicated to your addon (or you can start one).

Another place you might be able to reach out to are AV vendors like Kaspersky. From what I understand they index and hash nearly every file on a users computer to compare to a master database. Maybe you can ask them to search for a file name and where it occurs geographically.

I wonder if someone is trading warez in exchange for installing a "free ad blocker!" (your addon converted to malware). I've seen things like that before.
For more information on the block tree see the GHOST protocol paper, which predates Ethereum. It does collapse into a linear chain for all but the most recent blocks.

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf