skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. I concur, just like any other open source software running as a hosted service. It has to be trust based.
> But you seem to dislike the idea of other people being better off, period. I don't see what you gain from the mail boy being poorer.

Great point.

This seems to be an unfortunate aspect of human nature. Many people seem to exhibit the same kind of attitudes, myself included. It takes mental effort to correctly realign one's own thinking.

Similar attitudes arise around the idea of a Basic Income. The gut reaction of most people is "why would I support the idea of a lazy bum getting free money?". It takes mental effort to shift one's own position on the matter.
What's the real advantage of this kind of applications? Every month I see something like hackernews-cli client, twitter-cli client, facebook-cli client. I wonder if is there anyone really use them?
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He could be a hypocrite in doing that about his past,
and still much less of a hypocrite than those
that accused him in tons of other issues.

Good ol' argument known as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism :)

Those who accused of him of this or that usually didn't aspire to the same status as him (voice of conscience in society).

Criticizing Grass is a different discipline than criticizing entire nations, especially in this holier-than-thou tone.
Have two buttons: "vote to keep open" and "vote to close". Colour them orange and blue. Release it to Reddit. Potential viral hit.
CCAN has some potentially helpful snippets and libraries.

http://ccodearchive.net/list.html
Maybe Crockford is a bit behind the times. In the good old days, if it were still 2011, this wouldn't be NIH. Back then, everyone was still writing their own async flow control libraries. It was like a rite of passage into the node world. I remember my first one: https://github.com/chjj/N

I'm sure every early node person here has one, even if they didn't push it to github.

Looking back at it, I'm suddenly feeling a bit nostalgic for those days.
Point well taken. They are not numerically unstable in the sense that the term is most often used with ill conditioned matrices or floating point weirdness, but yes, they are significantly oversimplified and will not converge with reality if you measure them by a meaningful metric.
Company is 100% bootstrapped, so he doesn't have to worry about what investors think.
That's true, but given the gradual shift to ES6 features over time you're more likely to end up using something like Bluebird (e.g. to complement your generators) and so having another library to then handle asynchronicity (and that too with callbacks) would be redundant.
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It took them some time to notice. But his results are actually very well-known today.

Here's a more thorough account of the story.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1980....

Also. They guy invented an algorithm for linear programming. That is _not_ the travelling salesman problem. For that, solutions need to be integer.
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This is the one I've been using, it's quite nice since it plays well with typical unix streaming data through pipes workflow. Maybe not so much if you just want a interface.
Good work. Though I have to say I've seen so many of these web-based "secure, private, anonymous" chat services now, I've lost track.

What we need is end-to-end encryption and with an open source client that just has to be downloaded and built/installed once (and in such a way that it's verifiably secure, think reproducible builds).
"Is there a link to the algorithm?"

there is now:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9373231 (readable online)

* http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1057529 (cite)
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I don't see the problem with this, now the image is popular and recognisable, companies are profiting from his creation. Why shouldn't he get a licensing fee for that?
Pascal had subrange types, which were quite nice in that regard. Although I don't remember using them that much.
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Would it be safe to keep the crypto lib on the client somehow? Browser addon? local storage?
How would we do that?
When I read your post I thought "What? I'm using Koa right now and it's maintained by TJ" but the post says it's the only one haha.

Did anything of this change after IO.js was forked?
"Popularity" really isn't the point. He's going after people who are profiting off his copyrighted work.

I know casual copyright infringement is the norm on the internet (eg, distributing images from god knows where), and maybe that's okay, but you've certainly crossed an ethical line when you've started selling it without permission.
Why? There are plenty of directions you can take through a CS degree that will never have you dealing with vectors at all. And subsequently there are plenty of CS heavy careers where you will never deal with it.

What little I remember about vectors is from my high school maths classes, and in my 20 years of doing software engineering it's come up exactly once (for a GIS related project).
Excuse my curiosity- do you work in CFD? I did quite a bit of CFD work for my degree- then I made the mistake of becoming a programmer :).
Looks easy to follow and the design is clean. It mentions accessibility in the 'What's next?' chapter, though, while I would have hoped this would be covered as part of the material in general.

For example, the section on forms suggests you use the 'for' attribute to link a label with a form element, which is great, but it wouldn't take much extra text to give a short explanation why this is helpful to many users.
Even the places where it is a part of the curriculum, it is often such a small part that unless people specifically take courses related to functional programming you can't expect them to be able to actually use it. Or remember much of it for that matter.

Heck, I spent months on a binge reading functional programming research papers, and it still doesn't mean I know any functional languages other than very superficially.
>Aside from the obvious, the bias, and people's knowledge of the bias,
>creates a perception that women are only there due to an unfair bias
>in their favor. This is toxic, and it damages the cause of reducing
>such biases, because it brings conversations back to gender equality
>when they should be about individual merit.

Just to diverge a bit, "bias" itself is not always a bad ass...It has its own merits such as reducing the decision making cost (just consider all the Bayesian methods out there, they are all about how to "bias")...

And the process of un-biasing, is also the process of finding new properties or attributes to bias to (such as the "merits" you mentioned), with more accurate prediction power...

But back to the question of gender bias, I feel one of the reasons the industry hiring process starts to favor women than men, is to add more feminine elements in the product/service they sell, through increasing the women ratio in their team, and hence to attract more women consumers and also perhaps the feminine side of straight and gay men.

EDIT:
I don't know why the gender bias in the recent tenure-tracked professorship awarding process in STEM...Is it because the academia would receive more government or corporate funding if they get more woman professors? Or perhaps they want to attract more women students to the department? Or simply they just want to show their political correctness?
To make it even more instant (in terms of UX), I would display the message immediately so you don't get the little delay. From where I'm at, it's about 250 milliseconds from the point I hit ENTER to when I see the text displayed.
Typical YC post, sad
Hmm... maybe someone should tip off the Pepe frog creator.

Someone is flat-out selling remixes of that meme. (hopefully just as a joke)

http://normi.es/getout/
Let's keep this one open: https://niltalk.com/r/PEiMn hnhnhn

The honor and glory of Hacker News users will keep this from being closed.
Perhaps an option where a majority of users (if more than two) need to opt for deleting the room ?
I've just returned from Morocco, where the cheapest backpacker hostel bed was around $5. I never stayed in one, they're probably not too nice, but would include linen and cleaning. A small loaf of bread was about 10¢, fruit or lentils similarly cheap. This is how teenage/student Europeans (mostly) can afford year-long holidays before or during university.

Argentina looks to be about twice as expensive for a bed, for a tourist, so I don't know if $10 is doable for three months — there might be restrictions on foreigners renting, for example.
I find it quite useful at work - even though things are relaxed and I wouldn't get in any trouble for having a quick check of social networks and news sites, I still don't feel great about having e.g Facebook open in my browser when people walk past.
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I worked for a CFD HPC company for about two years doing a mix of traditional engineering and programming, and I realized that I like programming and learning about computer architecture way more than the mechanics. So I went back to school for CS/CE and just like you fell into the trap!
Hi,

Thanks for your feedback! I will consider your points (very good) when working on the next releases.

Author
Author here. This is how it was meant to be but I somehow overlooked it. Thanks, will implement.
Thanks. Also:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming

"The linear-programming problem was first shown to be solvable in polynomial time by Leonid Khachiyan in 1979, but a larger theoretical and practical breakthrough in the field came in 1984 when Narendra Karmarkar introduced a new interior-point method for solving linear-programming problems."
Lending Club did it just a few months ago for their IPO. The amount was a bit higher though, I think $4000?
> More generally, I'm still waiting for a massively successful piece of software made in a language that would involve no mutation, no null pointers, only one numeric type, etc. Even John Carmack has not yet delivered a revolutionary game engine programmed in Haskell.

One can program with mutations in Haskell, and all the side-effects can be kept "sandboxed" at the same time; also I believe the side-effectful parts of a Haskell program can be compiled (in principle) in a way that results in very efficient code, as fast as e.g. C++, though I'm not sure how well current compilers are doing in this respect.

So in a way, Haskell (as a language) offers the best of both worlds.
I'm really exited to see which business model will be chosen to get a ROI. Docker is very popular but since most existing enterprise vendors adopt or integrate it, I'm not yet convinced that Docker Inc has some unique assets to make money out of.
Ah thanks, I was watching with the sound turned off :)
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Author here. This is meant to be something super simple and instantly accessible. Start and finish a conversation in mere seconds if need be with no traces.

I am sure downloaded clients with end to end encryptions exist, but it's definitely outside the scope of something as simple as Niltalk.
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I've been killed kicking around the idea of doing something similar, in go, with the domain I own ChatFor.Us

JavaScript encryption, as others have mentioned is the thing I see I was planning that's missing from yours.

I'm planning on going a different direction with the domain, this functionality for private messaging for a platform set up for chat rooms as well.

Right now though I'm investigating a node.js and rethinkdb infrastructure, but that's also because I will need to persist data somehow.

Thanks for building this, at least validates that someone else has similar ideas.
The irony being that even the article had an image from god knows where

> Image Credit: Adam Sandler (Unknown, please let me know!)
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When it comes to Cognac, one house to keep an eye on is Tesseron. Eg their "lot 76" XO. Also A. E. Doer have a very good XO series.

When it comes to single malt, my favourite so far was a Springbank Madeira wood (aged in Madeira barrels). Apparently the Madeira people didn't like them using the name in marketing and/or the barrels for whisky, so they had to stop producing it. The "normal" Sprinkbank does very little for me tastewise, but the extra fruit/sweetness from the Madeira really made it interesting. Since I've come a across a few other's aged on Barolo barrels etc that are quite good - but I've yet to find one that was as appealing to my palate. And which wasn't so expensive that it becomes silly.
Which algorithm can you mine?
promises makes async error handling easier but it does not solve it yet. It is very easy to miss an error handling and end up with errors that goes to /dev/null leaving you with no trace of what happened. When the tools and the language evolve it will hopefully work better.
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How one runs this? I installed go, and redis. The ran "go get github.com/goniltalk/niltalk", which installed. The previous command created three directories under my $GOPATH, one on which has a 'nilktalk' executable.

For someone who has never dabbled with go, how do I run nilktalk after all of the above was done?
I only feel safe using end-to-end encrypted chatrooms. Currently, niltalk can read every message. At the very least, AES encrypting messages by the chatroom's password will reduce reliance on SSL. But it really should use public key crypto for a key exchange between users. This is what's done by other disposable chatrooms:

https://crypto.cat/

https://ephemeral.pw/chat/ (Also written in Go)
The number of bcrypt rounds is extremely low, too[1]. While the Go bcrypt lib will actually accept a cost of 5, that seems an unreasonably low value to me.

Coupled with absolutely no encryption of the messages in memory, I think "anonymous" would be a better term than "secure" for this.

1:https://github.com/goniltalk/niltalk/blob/master/api.go#L75
Nitpick - it was composited in AfterEffects, it was simulated in Cinema4D and rendered in VRay.
earlier editions of A Clockwork Orange had a Nadsat dictionary in the back for reference.
Yes, it is better than metro, but there is a stark difference between computer usage and mobile phone usage. Mobile phones are used for calling/texting etc, desktops are used for various things like programming, mobiles are used round the clock, desktops normally aren't used round the clock, so it makes sense of having colourful windows for a mobile phone but for me it doesn't make sense to have a colourful window theme for a desktop OS.

>http://cdn03.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07...
to the best of my knowledge the devices are
nexus 4, nexus7 and chromebook.

I don't think they meant to show a laptop/desktop there.

That is my point actually a chromebook is used casually like a phone, so it makes sense to have colourful things in it to say entice users with beautiful OS, I wouldn't want colourful windows on my linux box where I code :D.

I have tried almost all linux distro, and currently I am on elementary OS, I am bored of almost every other DE, Pantheon seems to be delightful to use!
All these articles only mentioned the possibility of liability.
[1] most probably translated from German, and I cannot really understand what the translated text means, so I have no comment.

[2]: It doesn't say for sure one will be liable "it is difficult to determine with any certainty: (1) whether open source software licenses will be enforceable, (2) whether open source software copyright will be valid, or (3) whether open source software licenses will subject developers to tort liability."
[3] is more on vendor, which quite specifically on transaction that carries monetary value. It is debatable if one still be regarded as vendor even if he doesn't sell stuff. I will give the article benefit of doubt.

Truth be told, the first successful litigation basically will turn off most contributors: no one can be sure their codes are totally bug-free. Even if that person totally wants to do good.
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Funnily enough I often wonder the opposite. Why have a full-blown GUI when I could easily and efficiently write commands in the CLI version, in a quickly splitted terminal in byobu or terminator?
Examples: git vs git-gui, vim vs Notepad++, lynx vs firefox (for quick searches), apt-get instead of "Software Center", convert vs GIMP (for quick image transformations), ls/du/ vs Nautilus, mkdir vs (right-click -> new folder), etc.
I absolutely agree. This is usually a first sign for me to back away from a conversation when someone I just met "blindly" defends or rants about a technology without laying a valid argument.

Also +1 for the puppy break :)
I didn't mean to imply that there aren't regional differences between different distilleries etc. For some reason (taste among the makers, climate, soil whatever) does vary quite consistently.

I recall there were some people out in Normandie that made a pretty good, smoked single malt, not entirely unlike a decent Islay whisky.

I meant more branding in terms of "Distilerry X, N years old".

Just as good champagne really is quite different from most others sparkling wines (although, I have a hard time accepting the idea that soil etc is as important for distilled spirits as it is for wine...).
As I said, the conclusion remains the same. $50k->$70k is a huge boost, with a very practical impact (especially given some constant living costs), while e.g. $150k->$170k is a very gradual change.
The problem with end-to-end encryption is not the encryption but the key-exchange (and especially so for multi-user setups).

If you are trusting the server to create or associate identities with keys, the end-to-end encryption is easily subvertible.
He didn't even include a package.json, shish.
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The most likely "aliens!" thing we have at the moment is FRBs.

Perhaps there'll be a little sign there saying "all these asteroids are yours, except Ceres."
Are you upset that you didn't get an internship, and if so have you considered the possibility that you aren't as good as you think you are.
Everything looks pretty awesome, except the payment model.

I'm a little surprised they didn't go with a model similar to GitHub:
- Payment plans with X number of private modules, or $1/month per private module
- Unlimited paying/non-paying collaborators for private modules (perhaps only read access for non-paying)

With npm's model all my collaborators will have to pay for npm private modules as well.
*> With capital, the link to physical things is broken. It becomes more of an abstract right^ to things ... ^"right" isn't exactly it.

Consensual hallucination?
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Lotteries probably shouldn't be open to corporations.
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I agree about the em dashes are written incorrectly in Kindle. I really hope that Amazon fixes this.

Just a suggestion about the blog's formatting; please remove the `&nbsp;`s from the html. These non-breaking white-spaces are messing the left justification of the text in the blog.

E.g., the word "Search": https://imgur.com/HF6lhSH
Lots of ideas of how he could have cheated the system.

Video filming slowly. Him talking about root kit.

There's a video of a person that may be him buying the winner lotto.

They still have to prove it and I'm not entirely sure if this is clear cut with the jury. If this is all they have.

If they had proof that the machine was tamper with... then would be much better. Or the Belize corp that claiming the ticket is connected to him some how.
Yes, there is no end to end encryption as of now, although there is no persistence or storage of any sorts on the server.
Non-paywalled source from Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/14/us-alcatel-m-a-nok...
It is kind of nasty to break your code into basic blocks, and tie them using library functions. This will certainly not make things much cleaner!

I was hoping one day Javascript could support "deep" coroutines, so we can keep on programming "sequentially" as we did before while still using asynchronous mechanisms.

Perhaps there exist languages that compile to Javascript, that offer deep coroutines (?)
You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9370861
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Ask HN: Is supercommuting (to NYC) a reasonable undertaking?
I live just outside of Albany, NY, just a few minutes from the Amtrak station (with a direct line to NYC).

I've had a couple interviews in the Albany area recently, and I've impressed the people I've met with. However, when any company asks what my salary requirements are, they always seem to quickly point out that, "this isn't the city, so don't expect anything in the six-figure range". In fact, their range is significantly lower than that (low 70k).

That got me thinking: would it be unreasonable to commute (even daily, if necessary) to the city for work if the salary increase was significant enough?

For context, I'm a software developer with 7+ years of experience. I'm married, own a house, no kids (yet), and have no desire to move permanently. The commute by train would be about 2.5 hrs each way.
This is the way I "understood" linear algebra.
I even encoded it here in a small c++ header file when I used to think it wise to implement these things yourself:

https://github.com/arithma/mat44/blob/master/mat44.h

Used here: https://github.com/arithma/ios3dball
Because he didn't distribute it as such. Do you think the image would have become half as popular if he had posted it as "here's a face I drew in mspaint, I intend to change royalties for its use if it get catches on, enjoy"? No, the reason it was used everywhere is because it was assumed to be license-free, and usually the people hit by this wouldn't have otherwise used it. I don't have anything against creators earning royalties from their work, but in my eyes this is akin to charging a user for a subscription without his knowledge.
Lol it sounds like being under 25 helps a lot, when I hot 41 I got tossed from the industy so hard it literally broke my face getting into an accident trying hopelessly to find more work. Despite having 2 decades of skills in huge datasets, since teachability trumps experience you do find amazing engineers living in their vans in middle age, deemed unemoployable lol. There is no old coders home you get to live in for free when you hit 40.
Apendix A. would be to know the difference between markup and code...
Huh, interesting. I didn't even know they'd allow you to do that. I assumed CF requires full DNS control to allow quickly switching over IP's in case of DOS and such.
I don't mean to be overly dismissive or anything, but what does Docker make that customers will pay for? This is an awful lot of money to throw at a company that doesn't have a business plan, let alone technology that can't be readily replicated.