skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally when I end up on the Wayback Machine, I spend a few minutes lamenting a web gone by, but for some reason I clicked around this one for a few minutes. They have a really fascinating backstory (although short) as to how the site got up and running, and discussing the first pizza delivered from the web on the About page.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214123825/http://www.pizzahu...
For the use case of prose, this is a great alternative to the time investment needed to take up a heavyweight editor (e.g. Emacs or Vim) that can be made to operate on a clause-by-clause, sentence-by-sentence basis, and I recommend it to anyone not interested in taking the plunge into "customization culture" or using the other features those programs provide. My writing, when I don't need to use Word for work (thanks to co-workers who use it for everything), tends to be done in something unobtrusive like nano or sandy[0] and looks much like the source from your second link, minus the HTML.

"Easy to edit," to take a phrase from your first link, is key.

[0]: http://tools.suckless.org/sandy
If Google actually had the algorithm for a cat, I'd like to see them release that too.
super good, liked the simple yet elegant design.
as you mentioned on site, it is currently free, any thought what will be approx pricing in future?
I've missed NCSA Mosaic so much. What a flashback! But do you guys remember Trumpet Winsock?
In many (but not all) cases, yes - because you don't just write programs. You have to read them and maintain them and update them too - sometimes 'forever'. A DSL is designed with the whole lifecycle in mind. Also, these tools can come with things like specialized analyzers, debuggers, verifiers etc for those specific domains, which can help increase assurances and improve your ROI a lot.

Cryptol is a decent example of a domain-specific cryptographic toolkit which can easily do verification of C code against specifications, for example. It can't do much besides writing crypto, but it's pretty good at that.

In other words, the idea is that the cost of the toolset implementation is amortized over the whole lifespan of the project, and multiplied many times over for every use - it's not just the initial implementation. Naturally this approach doesn't always work of course, for a million reasons that might be specific to your use case.
Lobbying from local businesses? Ha!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/microsoft-once-...

Microsoft is the puppet-master in all of this, it seems.
It is being worked on. They hope to make significant improvements when this is done.
https://github.com/atom/text-document
My parents came from a third world country extremely poor. They struggled to ensure that my siblings and I received a good education along with good values. My own family is now in the top 1% of earners in the US, so our family tree went from poor to well-off in one generation.

When my parents come to visit us, I know how proud they are and I'm proud that I didn't squander the opportunity that they worked so hard to give us.

I'm not sure what my kids will do but I intend to instill the same values of education, working harder than anyone else, and having good values into them.
So wait, a bank offered to pay him 40 pounds because of their mistake that took less than a couple days to fix? As an American, that is amazing.

Banks here typically don't do shit even if you threaten to close your account when they screw up, and when they screw up they don't want to fix it at all unless you contact the Office of the Comptroller of Currency; the only exception is small banks and credit unions that actually do give a damn, and those, in my experience, are rare.
True, it is audio compression (or expansion, depending on the settings).

If the audio signal dictates the balance, why have a left and right balance knob? We have a volume knob, but no way to adjust the compression. We are letting the audio signal dictate the compression. It should be set by the user, just like the balance. It could also be a compressor/expander setting, but IMO musical accent is so core to music that it should be a part of the volume control.

I doubt any of this would work as the original range is lost after it is compressed.
Elsewhere is often worse. The US congress is either owned by corporate interests, deadlocked by partisanship, campaigning for next term, or working on personal projects. Representing the People is of no concern.

So the choice is, clowns or crooks. Pick at most two.
I think on HN it depends on how quickly you get a few strong responses. (which can be largely random, less you're super-deliberate about it.)

If you want to work the social media sauce, the best way is to get a few people having an actual conversation with you ASAP, through the intended medium you want to seed. Flickr, Reddit, Quora, etc all started out this way. I suppose it's necessary but not necessarily sufficient.
I've had the most amazing opportunity to meet Hadley at a Users group meeting. He is fantastic and very down to earth. Our group refers to his packages as the Hadley stack and I've heard that reference elsewhere as well. He has made a very powerful impact on how R has been evolving!
Anemia-natural treatments
It really boggles my mind how crazy people have gotten when it comes to kids. I grew up in the 1990's with overprotective Asian immigrant parents.[1] They wouldn't let us do anything other kids did. But hell if we weren't walking home from school when we were about the same age as these kids.

As an aside, I hear people complain about lawsuits against police departments, because ultimately any judgments are paid out of tax dollars. I find that argument unavailing. In almost every municipality, police departments are the product of democratic processes. The police department is shitty because the people who vote for the leadership are shitty. This happened in Silver Spring, MD, a suburb of DC and home to a large number of uptight paranoid people. I grew up just on the other side of the MD-VA line: the only tragedy here would be if these taxpayers weren't on the hook for a big judgment to these parents.

[1] I honestly thought that it wouldn't get worse than when I was growing up--assembly rooms full of teachers and parents shrieking "just say no!"
I mute the TV when ads are playing.
Plus those factors and their weightings would be changing on a very regular basis. Then there's also the personalization and localization layers of search. Would each user be able to see the weightings specific to them, or would Google just publish the general algorithm with weightings left unspecified?

Another open question is what degree of disclosure is being requested from Google. Suppose Google just give them the daily dump of weightings and such from the machine learning systems. Does that qualify as disclosure? They may have a hell of a time trying to figure out whether there is any bias in the system using that. They may just refuse to believe how complex the system is, and think that Google is being difficult.
Ah that's a really interesting part of the picture - Google clearly doesn't pay adequate tax on the sales it makes in the EU.

Google are pretty obviously not paying tax like a normal company. To put that more explicitly, they are probably committing massive tax fraud, taking billions in local money and not paying tax on it... that isn't unusual for a mega corporation, and they need local government to continue cooperating. So, the UK gets a big Google office, it's government keeps quiet. I guess France needs one too...
Ask HN: Is Amazon Violating Net Neutrality with Whispernet?
Amazon Whispernet[0] lets you access Amazon store and few other sites for free on Amazon Kindle. In India, they are tied up with Vodafone for free 3G service. Is it violation of Net Neutrality?

If it's not violation of NN, then what is stopping Facebook to come up with their own mobile device or tie up with handset manufacturers and launch Internet.Org with that? You can a buy cheap Internet enabled mobile for ~$50 in India(no contract), so Facebook can give such mobile devices for free or sell at very discounted price.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200375890
I'd wager they get more.
Building SPA with React and ReFlux
Commercial skipping is very doable from a tech perspective, the challenge is with the business implementation. Some background links:

http://www.cnet.com/news/directv-sitting-on-tv-commercial-sk...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/business/media/dish-networ...
Probably not much. Most of it, seems to me, to be related to unfounded fear that something bad is going to happen to the child.
@MarieCurie You go gurl
My Ph.D. dissertation.

Although the sheepskin, title, and bound book are neat, the real prize is the dissertation. After years of struggling with the unknown, I teased out from nature a small secret that no one else in the world knew. Telling that story through the dissertation (and defending it!) was a life-changing experience.
I've also not read "Maker of Dune," so this is the first time I've heard that. I can understand where he was coming from with regards to Luke vs Paul, but the common story they share is generic enough that I'm not convinced any court would find in Herbert's favor.

It does make me wonder if Biggs Darklighter is the Duncan Idaho parallel. Could you imagine an endless clone army of Biggs? Is Biggs the perfect man?
Rough estimates give me fairly low surface temperatures for Dyson spheres having the average diameter of Pluto's orbit (~ 5.85e9 km) or the Kuiper Belt (~6e10 km).

The Sun radiates ~ 10e26 Watts, or ~ 1.21e8 W/m^2 at a temperature of ~ 5800°K. Given that radiated power is proportional to (area)*T^4 and making simplifying assumptions about emissivity, etc., I get that a Dyson sphere around our Sun at Pluto's orbit would have a temperature of about 76°K, and a Dyson with a diameter of the Kuiper Belt would have a surface temperature of about 24°K.

So if the radiator is large enough (i.e., if your civilization is sufficiently advanced), you can dump stellar levels of power to space at quite modest temperatures.
That I after (too) many years of trying a lot of different theories, finally found a way to manage my employees without me having to sleep poorly and be unhappy.

I have told several others about the way I run my business now and everyone reponded very positive (7 companies are running using the method) so of course I am turning it into a business at www.timeblock.com
Or a very cheap but large appartment in a nice neighbourhood.
A close friend had the same problem with Lloyds. Except the full funds to pay for his studies were frozen for 3 months and no apology or explanation was given. After 3 months writing letters to customer service, financial ombudsman, etc ... the account was closed, he was given a check and asked not to come back. (And I know first hand that no fraud was committed)
Microsoft and Google Collaborate on Angular 2 Framework, TypeScript Language
What is the comical witticism referred to in the post script?
Absolutly correct, but there is also much more too this, there is page layout and look. There is speed of results depended on ability to trawl and return answers. There are complimentary platforms holing to their ecosystem. There is information they have access to only known to google from past searches or alternate platforms. There are masses of manual non algorithmic overrides. There is simple inertia of typing Google into the address bar for many.

Yes giving up the source algorithm would be a loss. Google have seen this coming for years and have been building the moat so even this information shared wouldn't really help a competitor take any significant chunk of their business in the short to medium term.
At first glance, it'd also be a good argument in favor of intermarriage.
iFruit: GTA V's companion app for ios/Android
Advertising is the main reason I don't watch TV anymore. It just irritates me too much. (Also, if a website pops up an add, I immediately close the page.)
Because they know you are off to the bathroom.

Idea: BlockAds/MuteAds for TV.

Idea 2: A DVR like device that delays your entire programming by 5 minutes so that it automatically wipes out ads.
That extreme case may still be worth it, if the result (program + DSL implementation) is easier to maintain than the mainstream alternative (program in a general purpose language).

Besides, it wouldn't be that many DSLs. There are relatively few domains where performance is really critical. Cryptography, rendering, encoding/decoding… that's a few dozens at most, with global impact for each. If those DSL have any positive impact at all, they will be worth the cost a million times over.
Why do you think they're shooting themselves in the foot?
Damn, I ran DEVO's "Mongoloid" through that and got a Godspeed You! Black Emperor song.
This is tough for me.

Career wise, I'm currently working on Cachet (https://cachethq.io) and am blown away by being able to provide software that thousands of people actively use.

Although it may seem silly, I stopped a small, young lad from being picked on by some bigger lads. They were hitting him and calling him names. It hit home because I remember being in the exact same situation and nobody helped me. I got out of my car, told them to leave him alone and took him home in the car, which I didn't think anything of until afterwards.
Some would call this hipster pretentiousness. I wouldn't though. I think overall we're seeing a growing trend, or growing condition I believe would be more apt, where people are searching for substance at a time where the digital/modern life has removed or cheapened it.

It isn't confined to products either.
The Federal Reserve System does not oversee hedge funds, so the premise of the title is ridiculous.
> bets are the evolution there will produce life forms similar to ours

That's exactly the anthropomorphic bias. Why wouldn't it be a huge mycelium? How do we even know there aren't types of life-forms made of structures that current scientific theories wouldn't consider possible?

More so it's entirely unclear why the life should have to be intelligent - or intelligent in a individual-animate-tool-building-animal kind of way.

> And even if you were designing a life form, it's hard to get creative with the "features".

It's hard to get creative, because creativity after-all builds from experience, therefore our imagination of alien life is still derived from the experience of Earth.

For that matter I'm very unconvinced that even Human civilization or life (should it survive for another 10,000 let alone 100,000 or a million) years will resemble anything like the organic individuals, with similar interests (i.e. space-travel, colonization) as it has today.
Cheapwatcher
Same thing in the guitar world. I used to be one of those guys who thought it was about the gear. It's not; it's about the player.
This is actually a prime business opportunity -- outdoors child-sitting. You'd watch over children and escort them home and to pre-approved locations. More liberal and hands-off parents could allow their children to explore as much as they like, as long as they don't trespass other property.

This should also help to create a lot more job openings.
No idea where it came from, but we've been told that up to one hour alone per grade level is a good rule of thumb.
What are possible reasons of such behavior? Is it a lack of understanding of Bitcoin? Is it a malicious behavior motivated by fear? Is it AML related thing?
This seems stupid to most sane people, but there's a kind of logic behind it.

1) This is clearly bullshit designed to distract from more pressing issues that the French government can't solve or is unwilling to solve.

2) France's notorious protectionism, while immensely irritating to outsiders, does a reasonable job at preserving French language and culture, and creating a local vacuum for French native solutions. Trade and culture protectionism has a long-history of working quite well in many countries seeking to create national identity and industry when used correctly.

These two riffs will continue to get played, with #2 reinforcing #1 while necessary, to try and encourage native French solutions. France is under tremendous economic and cultural pressure from better performing regional partners like Germany and the U.K., and globally by the U.S., China and Japan (pick whichever you think is better performing in terms of economics and cultural expansion).

It kind of sucks, but it's also why, when you go to France, and even Paris, you know you're in Paris and not yet another cosmopolitan mega-city. It's also part of the reason why French culture and ideas continue to be interesting and exportable.

Much of this of course is France's continued decline as a global power. London, New York and Paris used to be a given global triumvirate. And Paris's membership in the top-3 isn't a given any more. It's now in a mix of second-tier alpha cities with Tokyo, Beijing and Dubai.

Outsiders look at this and say "of course Paris is in decline, this kind of behavior is why". Tighter global integration and more openness seems to be the way to the top and maintaining it. But for French leadership, losing cultural identity is not worth it. What if the world thought La Défense = Paris and the rest of the city was just some curious suburb? Is this [1] something that anybody cares about?

1 - http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/067/b/7/skyline_la_de...
It doesn't even seem correct. What does film have to do with Soviet citizens being denied an exit visa to emigrate to Israel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusenik
FBI conducts search by disrupting Internet service, posing as repairmen [pdf]
Paging mods for title de-editorialization...
There is a funny - and damning - remix of the end of 633 Squadron with Star Wars audio here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU
Eventually I found a photographer willing to do it. Such photographers are definitely not common though and in talking to about 10 of them, only 2 would assign copyright.

I carved out an exception to allow the photographer use for offline portfolio examples, and for selling prints to invited wedding guests (but as the owner I could print them or share them digitally for free).
Maybe it's me, but it seems like commercials have gotten louder again lately—like within the last few months. Maybe broadcasters are testing the FCC to see what they're willing to enforce?
What scala does is sloppily bolt on everything without putting any checks or balances.

I don't doubt your sincerity.

Try to pull yourself out and understand it as an investor:

$500 a day to pay for a scala engineer. Not a word about the bottom line.

Python? Ruby? Are they algorithmically fast? No, but they ship and sell.
I believe it's a question of where you put the optimisation hints. Alongside the code, or in a separate file?
wow, I know Led Zep's lemon song was from Killing Floor. What I didn't know that Killing Floor wasn't attributed. For the other Led Zep songs, it was new to me that it was from other songs. Awesome video btw.
I heard that too from a uninformed internet commenter.
Either being 21 years old with a degree and a company or becoming a proficient musician as a self taught guitarist.
How to Use Your Smartphone to Increase Productivity
I had my bank account frozen when I tried to purchase bitcoin from a Canadian-based exchange. The bank teller said it was due to "suspicious and unusual behaviour" and to "protect me" they froze my assets.

I had to call a number and answer a number of questions within 24 hours or my account would have been permanently wiped out.

Now I just use LocalBitCoins.com and make face to face transactions. Much better all around, and I make new friends in the process!
Team startups vs team finance. We hate them because HN tells us they're on the other team.
They clearly don't understand the complexity, but just because it's complex doesn't mean it's not biased, and if nobody is allowed to audit it, we will never know.
How to lie with Wikipedia
A dog walking service for children?
One of them is having created a game, submitted to HN, received positive feedback and stars at the repo :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8886897
Does the bill require that the algorithm be made public? Or just made available for government experts to inspect?

If it's not public, then this problem doesn't exist.
If you look at the tab title for the page, it's the same as the title of the article here.

I presume the in-article title has been changed since?
[Sarcasm] Imagine that: an economist takes a job in the finance industry. I, for one, won't stand for it.
It looks like the submitted title matches the article's document title.
They hate us cuz they ain't us
I still use B&W film. It's just a different art form. People didn't stop painting when photography came along, people didn't throw away their instruments and replace them with synths, people won't stop sculpting and buy 3D printers instead. I don't care that it's not practical - I'm not doing photography for a living.
some of the comments made me chuckle:

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The worst part will be when they force us to translate all search's source code and internal docs to French. :)
As a parent myself, I find all of this paranoia completely insane. My daughter and a school friend (8 at the time) walked down a half a block to our neighborhood park here (in the scary city!) to play, and her friends' mother found out and LOST it.

It's crippling to children, and unbelievably annoying for adults (need to run into the store for a stick of gum? Gotta unpack the kids and bring them with for the 1 minute transaction, or someone will call CPS!).

Here in Minnesota, my theory is that Jacob Wetterling's family and the "news"-mongers are largely to blame. That sad incident of course, was 25+ years ago now, and is still regularly dredged up to scare the pants off of parents.

Feh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wetterling
Do you think forcing google to display a competitor on their homepage will change google monopoly? I agree that diversity is a good point but that way is just a joke. The day google will have competitor on search engine people won't need a stupid law like this to switch. (imho)
Question on a slightly different setting: in more urban areas with public transport, is it common for kids (past some age) to be allowed to travel places on their own on metros/buses? It's definitely common here (Copenhagen), and from what I gather also fairly common in other European cities, and in Japan. But I have no idea if it is in NYC, SF, or Chicago. I think it's partly normalized here from a certain age because we don't have school buses, and instead kids are expected to take the regular transit. So then it's not a huge stretch for them to take the same buses to piano lessons, friends' houses, etc.
And then lose credibility with all government inquiries in all countries into the future.
Well then, my opinion on kkkautoblocker would be no different than my opinion on ggautoblocker. They're both stupid non-solutions, anyone who's actually trying to harass people will be able to circumvent them...

People should also consider that if they can't handle the vile cesspit that the internet is, using it is optional.
Aerospike - distributed key value store has a little bit different of a use case than RethinkDB - distributed JSON document databases.
Basically the only valid use that I have seen for Aerospike, and that is the one that they are advertising is a distributed key value profile store for Ad-tech or marketing companies (http://www.aerospike.com/overview/).
Keep in mind that to actually use all of Aerospike's features , especially the one they are really proud about - the cross datacenter replication - you need the commercial license.

So..I suggest you figure out what your requirements are and then use the best tool for the job.