skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would China be carrying out this attack? I have yet to hear a plausible motive.

Exactly this. Not to mention the hundreds (if not thousands) of sites the government is more likely to target, that are far less known than GitHub and that they could take off-line indefinitely, with little or no outrage from anyone in the West.
My grandmother had a picture of her 4 children from the early 50s. Just faces, floating in diamond arrangement. I remember being greatly confused by that, unable to imagine compositing in those days.

Also, my father was into photography in the 70s, there were a few books about it in his desk. Last year I opened one. Every filter name I saw in 90s picture editing software was listed in it, in fact they were all photochemical process filters that were lifted in digital editors.
Ask HN: Can Facebook ever regain consumer trust?
Ask HN: What will happen to Amazon Video?
Chrome's set to be disabling npapi soon (less than a week most likely).

This will mean Amazon Prime's Instant Video, which uses Silverlight, will not work for chrome users unless they:

1. Know chrome has disabled npapi, because a webpage with silverlight doesn't inform you its disabled, it just asks you to install silverlight. (Try watching prime in chrome beta, it just asks you to install silverlight)

2. Know how to re-enable npapi (through a temporary workaround), or that they can switch to a different browser (or downgrade chrome).

I haven't seen any comment from Amazon about this upcoming issue, and haven't seen any alternatives to silverlight for it. Anyone know what might happen?
New Tesla 70D all-wheel drive, 240 mile range car for ~$75k
I don't see how this makes everything okay to use now? To me it basically means, if I sue Facebook for any reason involving patents, I would have to give up using its code. I invent a time machine, Facebook can infringe on my patent and I can't sue unless I stop using their code. Please tell me I am wrong.
What makes you believe it has lost it?
One of the things I learned quickly when I became a philosophy major is reading philosophy is a skill. I remember the sensation of realizing I had read six pages of Descartes Meditations and had been at it for an hour. Philosophy requires unpacking in some of the same ways a book about a programming language written without mercy for beginners will.

To a first approximation, if I am reading philosophy these days it's Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations unless I am looking for a reference [e.g. last week I looked at Putnam's Reason Truth and History because I was thinking about the ant's portrait of Churchill in relation to the role of interpretation of data. I'll also find myself in Plato occasionally...though that's often via the internet rather than the bound Jowett volumes.

Stretching philosophy a bit, I am these days often looking at logic and mathematics, and regretting a bit roads not taken. These have the same interest in accurate language I enjoy.

Anyway, reading philosophy as an investment sounds horrid. Read something you enjoy.

[edit] You might enjoy the philosophy bites podcast: http://www.philosophybites.com/
It's not just our addon. They got Flashblock, too. There are about 5000 bogus Flashblock installs, with the same sort of random 1000.xx.xx version numbers. Here's the raw JSON of usage by version:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flashblock/st...

(The human-readable statistics just say "Invalid"; you have to look at the raw JSON to see the bogus versions.)

I started writing a program in Go to find other examples, used Flashblock as the first test case, and got a hit. Not looking good.
So it's interesting and all, but why is this in HN?
I also just got rejected. I'll never troll again.
The notion that "blood carries" anything other than oxygen and nutrients seem archaic, intellectually offensive and as dangerous as racism.
> There are probably a large number of the 6 billion alive that were the result of rape in their lineage, even within the past 8-10 generations.

Didn't the world population exceed 7 billion some years ago?

And I just googled and found a recent Reddit thread of which the OP had a similar thought to yours. Interesting.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2i25ol/do_i_...
Please visit the region's golf courses immediately afterwards and kill the grass while you're there.
We all descended from rapists, killers, child molesters and slave owners, if you go back far enough.
Juvet – The Norwegian hotel where Ex Machina was filmed
I guess there will be more and more of that as paper archives are scanned and indexed. I find the family history interesting but have had to use non google methods of research.
Also, the bug wasn't in the filesystem.
Response to disruption:

First try regulation, then try PR hostility, and finally, when the window for improving the old business model has closed due to losses, appeal to the government for a bail out.

"It wasn't our fault, we couldn't have done anything to avert this!" When all along instead of trying to pretend the disruption wasn't a natural evolution in the provision of the service, they could have been learning from it.

At the same time it's a microcosm for a scenario which will play out many times in the coming decade: as older industries are appified and roboticised, how is that transition for the old-skool workers managed to minimise the pain, while maximize the upside of the emerging new models?
Does something like this exist, but for free, and only with my friends (or friends of friends)? Things I need to borrow probably already exist in that group, in my area, and I then don't need to worry about weird people, insurance, money, etc.
Carries some DNA too.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/settings?ie=UTF8&ref_=ya_man...

You can select Adobe Flash Player instead, and avoid Silverlight entirely
Patents are an incentive to disclose the techniques behind inventions. Plenty of incentives already exist to create things and invest in R&D.
If they were serious about fixing startup stock options, they would:

- Eliminate the tax penalty you get if you exercise and keep the shares. This matters when the startup has not had an IPO or other liquidity event yet.

- Eliminate the IRS rule that incentive stock options must expire 60 days after you leave the company, or they lose their favorable tax treatment. Employers should have the discretion of giving employees a longer exercise window without losing the favorable tax treatment.
Oh, good point. Lets judge people by their DNA now.
What this guy says. Amen. Smartest thing I've seen on this topic.
Would you style yourself a creationist then?
No. Would you style me a creationist? Why?
http://please.obey.space/ Is now a valid domain name. It does look weird.
“I have delivered, personally, in excess of $300 million to the city in these auctions,” he said. “Do I not have a little bit of standing to say there should be support from that institution that I delivered, personally, $300 million to? To do what the government does for every other industry? Am I not being logical?”

In other words: "I've been paying you corrupt chumps off in an excess of $300 million, doesn't that mean anything anymore?"
This is beautifully worded. Every generation presents itself with new challenges and some of those challenges might be perfectly suited for exceptional individuals in ways that we may never be able to predict.
That seems more a general failure of legal system not the visa system.
No, let's just pretend that heritability doesn't exist, the world is much more comfortable that way.
Mine's erlang.
Apple Watch Replacement Pricing: $3,600 late fee if you don't return in 10 days
I hate when they throw numbers around without scale. I'd have the same reaction if the question was 400M gallons, or 40M. It sounds like a lot, I guess.

But if it's only $60K per fish and this is some particularly great way of preserving them or rekindling an ecosystem, maybe that's a great deal. Or maybe it's off by an order is magnitude, in either direction.
Still nothing... What about you ?
I had the same experience. I was in my undergrad set on making physics a career. Pursuing a PhD is like becoming a line cook at a McDonald's financially. The state of physics graduate schools is a giant pyramid scheme. You are more or less encouraged to drop out/avoid starting in the first place by nearly everyone involved in the process.

I'm not going to deny its not a bit selfish or maybe even shortsighted, but I made more money my first year out of college (as a developer) than I would as a tenured professor at most universities or colleges. Probably 2x what I would be making as a post-doc at age 35. 5x what I would be making from age 22-30.

That being said, I've always fed coding is not a good long term plan and that I will inevitably replaced by a couple of fresh grads. Without specialization, there's no real job security other than a thriving tech sector.
It wasn't until I saw the faux comments in the screenshot on the about page that I realized this was software for organizing college frats. Between the image of a cloud and the word "Brother", I thought it might be software for organizing groups of men committed to Christ.

How about "We handle the logistics of organizing your fraternity and connecting its members."
How about get rid of medallions and let a free market exist? Uber is going to provide it if they don't, in fact, that restriction on the market-- artificially for political purposes-- is what made Uber possible.
Not to steal dopeboy's thunder, but here (http://dopeboy.github.io/Lessons/) is a post-mortem about his startup. It might provide some good tips on things to avoid :)
>> This approach can still cause perceptible latency if the user tries to input something while the GC you were trying to hide is ongoing.

With all due respect, I think you're missing the point on this one. For non-games, there are times when blocking for n frames will be perceptible and times when it will not be and we know exactly when these are. Garbage collection (such as ARC) has nothing to do with that particular fact. It doesn't matter what you are doing during those times - you could be performing longer running computation, or garbage collection tasks (such as ARC deallocing large trees, or the JVM). The way this is handled in applications is by either offloading long running tasks to another thread of finding a way to distribute the time across several event loops (whether intentional or not). I'm proposing that the same techniques that we apply to other parts of our apps be applied to garbage collectors.

Also, that threshold for a continuous animation, is absolutely less than the threshold for perceptible instantaneous latency and that is determined by biology, not me. That means you have more time to work with when there is no animation ongoing but one could begin as the result of a tap, (or typing). Now, the OS/platform does consume a large part of this threshold - but that's a different story.

That's a good point about games never having an entire resting frame. But that brings me back to the first desirable GC feature - to provide a way for a GC to use the remaining frame time of thousands of frames, so that it can perform its work incrementally in the remaining time of each individual frame, without ever missing a display link deadline. I think both are important (sub frame yielding to incremental tasks like collections, and yielding entire frames (or two) to longer blocking tasks for applications that can withstand it). Games might not be able to take advantage of the later, but the majority of non-game apps that you have installed on your phone would certainly.

Some would argue that "for application types X there is no available frame time". I would say that is almost always false. Otherwise application type X would drop frames on any machine that was slightly less performant.
The rent it forward strategy can be completely resolved through just completely selling the items each time. This resolves the issue of value depreciation and items getting worn out by using the free market.

For low cost items (i.e. the items on this site)- the price of space exceeds the cost of the item. In this way goodwill/salvation army could be seen as a place where you can rent items indefinitely and just pay for the shelving space.
Eloquently put, but not really true as there are definitely traits and behaviors which are inherited via DNA.

http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2010/06/14/primed-to-expl...

One of any number of examples.
There was inevitable inbreeding between ancestors too.
Bailouts are not part of capitalism. IF we want to have a healthy economy, it's imperative-- not just "right" or "good", but imperative-- that uneconomic businesses be allowed to fail.

That's what clears the way for the guy who has a better idea who knows the market better and who can deliver value better.

I say this because sometimes people talk about bailouts as a failure of capitalism. It is not. In capitalism, government does not support or hinder businesses from doing business. Government's role should only be to protect rights (eg: so if someone ships a defective product, government provides the courts and laws to hold them accountable for the damages.)

When government is picking winners and losers it's not capitalism, and when they are propping up losers-- like the banks-- it's really not capitalism.

And no, we wouldn't have had a worse situation if the banks had been allowed to fail-- that's the rationalization. Strong banks like Wells Fargo would have grown and absorbed the remains of the dead banks. A lot of people got a lot of money out of the housing crisis because the government stepped in and didn't let them lose it--- thus the bad actors were not punished in the way capitalism punishes bad actors: with bankruptcy.
Sure! Hledger is a great tool for people willing to invest a certain amount of time into learning some new tricks.

Another cool real-world Haskell app is Silk.[1] Looking at the site, there's no mention of Haskell and no obvious way to tell that that is the implementation language. And that's the beauty of it! :-)

[1] https://www.silk.co/
Capitalism: the word that can mean anything you want.
I'm not the biggest Hollywood fan, but what do you think about movies like Gattaca, Minority Report?

We aren't even anywhere close to such fictional understanding of the role of DNA and nature-vs-nurture mechanics of human development, or even what sentience is. And you think we can use DNA to judge people? I never said "lets pretend heritability doesn't exit", I implied we can't judge people based on whatever you think we do know about it.
My personal list:

* RestfulRouting http://restfulrouting.com/ - must have

* Turbolinks for .net https://github.com/kazimanzurrashid/aspnetmvcturbolinks

* Flash messages for .net https://github.com/khalidabuhakmeh/MvcFlash

* Fixie, unit testing https://github.com/fixie/fixie

* Entity Framework testing tool http://effort.codeplex.com/

* Automapper, AutoFixture, FluentValidation - mentioned already

* StructureMap - IoC
I remember seeing something about how .museum and .aero and a lot of the first round of dumbass-TLDs was announced. Despite the only .aero I've ever seen was Boingo which seemed like a rather tenuous link. They offer WiFi all over, including airports, so that makes them aerospace? There's a really great yogurt/oatmeal place in SFO in Terminal 3 -- should they have whateverfraiche.aero, too?

And at some point I thought it was, well, at least about DNS. But registrations with no nameservers, or registrations purely to "block" registration seems rather much opposite of resolving names.

The justification for these new names is some of the dumbest I've read. I think Canon or some camera company was saying that with their own TLD, users could automatically share photos. ... WTF? What does that have to do with anything? It's just bizarre.

The best idea is probably just allowing anyone any domain, anytime, for some smallish price. Or force a standard registrar agreement so anyone can buy any second level from any registrar. Then we can just go back to ignoring all these terrible special TLDs. Why get .sucks, when you can have .blows, or .isshit or any other name.
Really, I don't know why the GP is getting all bothered, it's just a bunch of bots, obviously.
Me saying blood doesn't carry character is like me saying we don't think with our hearts, like the ancient greeks thought we did. It doesn't mean I think we don't have a brain. It means I think bloodletting is disgusting.
> A "Patent Assertion" is any lawsuit or other action alleging direct, indirect, or contributory infringement or inducement to infringe any patent, including a cross-claim or counterclaim.

Does "action" has any special legal meaning here? It almost seems that you can't write a blog post about facebook infringing on any patents.
The show "nathan for you" made a parody starbucks called "dumb starbucks" that mimicked starbucks exactly but put dumb in front of everything. starbucks didnt sue them so no rulings came out of it, but it is exactly what youre discussing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks
Director of Valiant Hearts launches new indie-studio
"Correctness" is determined by usage, and in this case usage has decided that "Factoid" means small fact. If you use it in any other way, people will misunderstand you, which is an impediment to comprehension. Explaining yourself is an impediment to having an actual conversation, as it derails the conversation.
Hell I'm a developer and sorta technical and I can never remember the URL/domain to login to Office 365. So I end up using Google and trying to find a reasonable-looking result and then check for a cert that looks right.
>>saying 'look, we have multiple stakeholders here with a variety of economic interests

But that's what they saying! The guy said the 6 fish weren't worth the water they were loosing.

The bigger problem is that if we start doing the math in terms of finances we would invariably loose many of our national treasures as the value of natural resources are hard to tabulate, whereas the potential gains from their use can be easily portrayed as `capital` and enabling of further production. More troubling we might opt for short-term technologies with sub-optimal long-term payoffs like fossil fuels.

Indeed, the people who aggressively portray themselves as `stakeholders` are often whose who want to act against the interests of the community.

What we need here are principles.
Last link is a PDF.
I think this is super cool...but never underestimate just how lazy, preoccupied, or uncaring people are. I've tried a few two-sided marketplace ideas and even people who could benefit will still find a reason not to use it.

Oh, this is industry specific, but there is an unfilled need for ring-saw or ductile iron pipe chainsaws that can cut clean through 6" diameter pipe. Called all the tool rental places around and nobody has one. See alot of construction guys doing way unsafe things because of this.
The only thing you should evaluate people on is their ability to make decisions, and if that correlates with genetics, you need to be willing and able to modify genetics to make that fact relevant.
'Blood carries' is obviously true. I have the same color skin as my parents. The concept is not archaic, intellectually offensive or dangerous. It's also in no way connected to racism.
So, why did Apple switch from Lucida Grande to Helvetica?
It's a common thing to say that we Australians are descendants of criminals (Australia was originally populated by British prisoners). It's interesting to see that it is now one of the friendliest countries in the world, coming from a country filled with criminals 200 years ago.

In the end, we have all descended from a criminal in one form or the other :)
Ran both your inputs and get exactly the same results, also can't figure out where's the error. Apparently there's some edge case when you should use different strategy than splitting it in 2 equal piles.
Reporting – a small bug in the profile page of Hacker News site
To be completely pedantic, red blood cells lack nuclei, so aside from maybe mitochondria or something they actually don't carry DNA.
The role of technology in family? The fact that two hundred years from now, your descendants might google you and see this post? It's a bit bewildering.
One of the ways I like to do this evaluation is calculate how much the water would cost if desalinated. @$0.50/m^3 (modern price for reverse osmosis desalinated water at scale, based on pricing from Singapore desalination costs on a 25 year committed contract of a design-build-run factory) - 4B gallons = 15 million cubic meters.

So we're talking $7.5 million dollars, which, in the big scheme of things, doesn't sound like a lot of money when you are thinking about endangered fish, and, more importantly, a healthy ecosystem for the other fish that are in that environment. In fact, it sounds kind of minuscule to me.

Note -to those that would argue you can't take desalinated water from the ocean, and deliver it to the appropriate places for the fish @ $0.50/m^3, you are right. But what you can do, is deliver that water to residential homes and industries on the coastal area, and offset it by diverting the water that feeds into those coastal reservoirs at the source, so everything balances out.
Save a hundred bucks for a loss of how much productivity? Surely more than $100.
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I've been in good shape to poor shape and back again various times in my life (fat kid, started wrestling, HWT state champion, competed nationally, stopped after high school, got out of shape, study abroad in Rio de Janeiro, got ripped, returned to the US, got out of shape again but not too bad, started working professionally, years passed still in okay shape but feeling my age, started randonneuring last year, started p90x3 3 months ago).

All that said, of all the things I've done to work out and get in shape, nothing has impressed me as much as P90x3. The gains have been amazing for 3 months.

It's easy to stick to, since it's only 30 minutes and you work out in your living room (you only need 2m by 2m of space). Equipment costs are like $200 to 300 (yoga mat, pull up bar, some elastic bands, some dumbells, push up stangs, decent cross-trainer shoes). Enough variety in the videos and the dialog is reasonably entertaining, even when watching the same episodes over and over again. As soon as you're done, you're able to shower in your own home. I work out every morning before work.

I know I sound like a commercial right now, but this is a seriously well thought out exercise routine. Pretty much every one of the routines focus on core exercises and all do a great job of highlighting where you're weak and working those parts of your body. Once that part strengthens, the next time you do the same exercise, you'll find another part of your body that needs strengthening. They are always challenging and there's plenty of room to go from beginner and to growing and perfecting your form. Furthermore, many of the exercise work you out in a way that works out the areas that don't get attention as you age and these routines therefore resolve the things that make you feel old.

You can just look at some of the people in the videos (including Tony himself) and tell that he and the others have figured out what you need to do to stay feeling young. Tony Horton is 56 and Dreya Webber is 53 and both look like they are in their early 40s. Traci Morrow is 43 and has had like 6 kids. For those people to look the way they do at their age is incredible. Learning to work out this way gives me more confidence in deciding to have kids later in life, knowing that I will still have the energy to be active with them as they are growing up.

Between acquiring a bunch of home gym equipment and how easy it is to workout at home, I no longer see the appeal of a gym. When I want to work out outside I just go cycling and I might pick up another sport or two time permitting. The cost of most of the equipment is equivalent to 4-6 months of gym membership.