skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not Dutch-speaking and tried registering -- successfully! There seem to be some purely English language articles/newspapers already there: I've found at least The Economist and WSJ/Wall Street Journal. Every new account seems to get free 2.50 EUR credit on start; later you can apparently pay with PayPal or credit card. (Note however, that I haven't actually tested reading any article or paying yet.) To create an account you have to "read" some Dutch -- but some common sense + Google Translate was enough for me to get through.

[Update] Tried reading something (from WSJ, fully in English indeed), then tested and confirmed that the "refund" works. Just FYI ("random trivia"), when clicking "refund", there's additional dialog asking for the reason. Translated by Google Translate roughly as:

Why do you want your 29 cents back?
We want to know why you want your money back, so we can tell the author and publisher.

[ ] I accidentally clicked on the article

[ ] I find the price too high

[ ] The article was too short

[ ] The article was too long

[ ] The article was not what I expected

[ ] The article was not legible

[ ] Other...
Coinbase expands to the UK
The Insecurity of Open Source Is Not Poisoning the Well
The problem with that is managing the granularity: you'd need to also grant access to the clinician's administrators, clinical coders, some administrative pipeline...
I know it is never easy in practice and I'd urge you to think long and hard (like American founding fathers had to when seceding from Britannia) but it is possible and sometimes imperative to decide who is family and who is no longer family.
So much for the free market...
Adventures with reverse engineering – Total War DB tables
Seems like an offensive against AliBaba's plan. Good to see competition in this area.
Looks like the guy who owns roguefoundry.com has some lawsuits in his past:
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/3925103/McDermott_v...
> You always look stupid in hindsight and your current you seems to know everything. This never changes.

Wow I faced this many times.I thought this only happened to me.

Thank you for this insight!
Great idea - I'm happy to pay $50-$100 a year on good journalism, I just don't know where I want to spend that money and on what type of articles. The one click pay and refund policy sounds good.

Can't wait until you get more North American publications :)
> The flights were given a cover story, describing the drones as high-altitude targets for surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), in case one of them came down in a public area.

> The system injected chlorosulfonic acid into the engine tailpipe when the drone entered hostile territory, which created very tiny ice crystals, forming a transparent contrail.
People don't want ads. People don't want to pay for content. I think people shouldn't feel entitiled to content
React Native – The Future Is Here
We should all help promote the use for Tor!
Austin is beautiful..
I think you're slightly off the mark. The defense secretary probably has no idea what Ruby-on-Rails or NOP sleds are. He wants to encourage folks who are clearly intelligent and strongly motivated, with a background in software, to come to the DoD and apply their energies and efforts to learn about electronic offense and defense. Surely they don't expect _everyone_ who enrolls in the Army Corps of Engineering to understand the engineering fundamentals of war machines. They teach it to them on top of their diverse backgrounds in other branches of engineering (water/waste, civilian infrastructure, automotive, etc...). Their background is important to learning the new knowledge quickly -- and they have a gap to fill.

Few folks are born with expertise in design patterns, user analytics, and UI design. They develop those skills with education and practice. The DoD wants those same folks to apply their energy and brainpower to learn and develop a new sector of knowledge.

If they could just hire computer security experts right away they wouldn't be targeting app developers.
Is this one of the first production-ready and high-quality WebRTC implementations? It definitely looks and sounds really smooth.
The Chinese families revealing their Internet shopping habits
Gotham City Research on Endurance International (Hostgator, Bluehost)
This could lower the barrier for js-only developers/designers/beginners to get into more low level programming, or to get them to play with some hardware a bit.
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yet another try......
And even more places where if you're broke, you simply starve to death.

I'm in the "do what I love even though I'm broke" category, and my background is definitely privileged. My girlfriend on the other hand grew up very poor and had to grind for 10 years before she could even start to consider doing what she loves.
Yeah, because free market means "free to run an illegal operation and break multiple laws because it makes money"...
Did you miss the obvious circular reasoning here?
Hackers for Charity
"Is she one of them? Or is she one of us?"

Come on.
Facebook shuts down friends data API
You can buy the xNT NFC chips from here: https://dangerousthings.com/

There is no secure element in the chip, so it can not directly replace a yubikey. It could however hold encrypted data or be used to replace car keys etc. When it comes to physical access I normally just authenticate using the devices hard coded UUID. This is at least significantly better security than a traditional metal key which can be trivially picked. I modify things with NFC Reader/arduino/relay setups to read my UUID and start/stop lock/unlock things such as my motorcycle.

You also have 1k of read/write storage so there are a number of interesting possibilities there. Mine often contain my info as a vcard so anyone can tap my hand to import my contact info. Or sometimes it might launch a rickroll.

The magnet has been really interesting. I am constantly finding EMF around me. Knowing if a power strip is on without fiddling with it, knowing if wires are hot without touching them, knowing when I fill up a soda cup exactly where under the counter the motor is, knowing where transformers are in walls. It is I admit mostly a curiosity, but I have learned to use it as a tool instinctively. When I am trying to hold screws up in hard to reach places, when I have lots of tiny screws I need a secure place to hold, or when I drop a screw in a spot just big enough for a single finger to reach. I don't even think about it anymore. It is just like "oh I have this tool" or "oh there is EMF over there". It is interesting how the brain just starts to accept new abilities to the point they can be used passively.

It also has some fun side effects. For a while I thought the compass in my smartphone was broken. Had to learn to stop holding it in my right hand. I can "feel" music if i put my finger near a speaker. Hard to describe. Equally hard to describe is when I encounter a string magnet and the magnet under my skin flips. It is... not painful, but certainly not enjoyable. Would do it all over again though.
Show HN: Application that lets you watch YouTube and Vimeo videos in real time
I still love my huge desktop monitor and full size keyboard, laptops are too squinty and I make too many typos on the cramped keyboard.

It's true I gave up listening to the radio years ago. The ads drove me away.
Fine, if you can "paint" the full equation on your calculator. But on simpler calculators people may have a hard time getting it right.

3 + 4 = / ( 5 + 6 = + ( 7 + 8 ) / ( 9 + 2 =
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Yeah this was an interesting take. One could also argue that if you take a "tour of service" it should be to protect US citizens from their own agencies (personally I'd be more afraid of them than random Chinese cyberterrorists).

I think what he wanted to communicate is "lots of smart people in SV but we can't compete with SV so GOGO patriotism card".
Why does Rust incorrectly use the name "enum" for "tagged union" or "sum type"?
On slide 9 it says that enhancing the syntax for "import" would be a backwards-incompatible syntax change. Sure, old compilers wouldn't accept newer code, but newer compilers would accept old code without breaking the behavior.

Is Go's definition of "backwards compatible" different from the usual one?
If you're going to vendor everything anyways, I don't really see why you need a new tool. But IANAG, so maybe I missed something?
Not nearly sensitive enough. Humans often have all kinds of metal in their bodies. Medical pins, shrapnel, fillings, etc. Not an issue.

It is a fairly popular implant. I have personally met multiple other people with them outside my circle of friends with them. It is customary to touch your magnet fingers together to feel the odd tingle.
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Awesome to hear! :) If you want to stay tuned on when we'll launch in your country you can sign up here: https://launch.blendle.com
TL;DR: Don't use `go get` if you want reproducible builds.

It's early for me to tell, but looks like gb is something like a mix between a gvm (virtual env) and godep (vendorizing).

I'm skeptical about things like "don't use the standard, use my thing", but I will try it anyway.
We don't need Varnish anymore, we have Nginx now. Does anyone here use Varnish because Nginx isn't good enough? If so, what is Varnish better at than Nginx, and by how much?
Logic Solver: a boolean satisfiability solver written in JavaScript
I agree that it's sheer insanity to prevent people from interacting consensually. It's ironic, considering drugs are decriminalized in Portugal. Free markets can't effectively exist as long as corporations as we know it exist. It's not as if there was a "free market" prior to this.
I'm sorry but your comment will be grossly misleading to people unfamiliar with the language. There's absolutely nothing painful about If and Function. However, I must note that in a rule-based language both are used far more sparingly than they would be in an imperative, or even functional language. I found myself moving from If to Replace, for example.
interesting post
On the other hand, it's his job to promote FUD in order to get more funding for his agency..
Whatever amount you decide, make sure it vests over four years.
There are probably too many variables here for us to ever answer this question satisfactorily. Do you have investors? How much do the other founders have each? Will the business fail without this person? What's he asking for? How much risk is he taking by joining you? Etc.
You can elide one pair of parens.

You forgot the R part of RPN.
Yes, was it not "data warehousing", "data mining", or "stats" before?
How to exploit flaws in InFocus IN3128HD Projector to hack host network
This looks to be what I vaguely remember, and the update at the bottom is good news.
WordPress has offered their document for use by others.

https://en.wordpress.com/tos/
"but few historians would argue Lenin wasn't actively trying to improve the lives of men."

So was Hitler. He wanted to improve the lives of Aryan Germans (at the expense of everyone that was not, like Polish, or Jews).

Lenin remains the biggest killer of nuns and religious people of the wold ever. He had a real problem with people deciding on their own not to follow him, so he killed a big part or Russian society.

While he did not dirty his hands directly, he gave the dirty orders that other people would follow. The dirty jobs pal of Lenin was called Stalin. Lenin wanted money, let's make Stalin rob a bank, Lenin wanted to remove someone, let's call Stalin again.

Of course, If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas. Lenin was probably poisoned by Stalin, and the rest is History.
Politicians decide what's illegal. Legislative decisions are frequently ethically repulsive if not crooked. It's usually circular logic to point to text on paper as justification of anything, especially in the context of ethics and discussion.
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Interesting notion... has anyone at the DOD even considered stricter software-QA standards for critical infrastructure-projects? Or anything regarding ... you know defense -- defense as in defending, not as an euphemism for warfare...
The author has reasonable credibility/authority in the community. Definitely worth a look.
Great country to live, awful country to start/host any kind of company. Unfriendly tax climate, lack of startup infrastructure, lots and lots of bureaucracy.

Their (national association of road transport) next step is trying to get Uber to pay up for missed income - or as they state it "compensation for damages to the industry" [1].

[1]: http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/uber-proibida-de-ope...
No investors. Single founder owning 100%. Business is nowhere close to failing but may not grow as fast without him. Asking for 25%. Risk being taken is him quitting his stable job at an established company.
One Doctor’s Quest to Save the World With Data
UN Expert: Secret Trade Negotiations Are a 'Threat to Human Rights'
Currency devaluation set to trigger 10% price hike on PCs
I read somewhere Mao screwed his nation pretty badly, topping some chart way above hitler and stalin (something around 60 million?)
Starving people don't care why they don't have access to agriculture.
Isn't a ton = 1000 kg, if so, why is this 3.054 and not 2.771 tons?
Reading about 432, I didn't expect:

"Instructions are bit variable covering a range from 6 up to and beyond 300 bits in length using Huffman encoding (I, 171)."

Huffman compressed instructions. Wow.

http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/intel/iapx432/c...
Apple now makes more money from Macs than iPads
Just pay for Sendy or whatever you want or create it yourselve... It's not that expensive and you get the source code of the application.

Also it isn't easy to handle a lot of outgoing mail in a performant way and things can change in the future ( SES, ...), this way. You know Sendy will keep having support :)
Compound interest isn't some magical force. https://xkcd.com/947/
There isn't a consumer that really wants this, but publishers don't want all you can read models. So this is what we get.
So you really think they see a $5 quartz watch as a competitor for a $400 smart watch? Also, Pebble is "#1 Best Seller in Women's Wrist Watches" on Amazon.
Gambling through equity and debt financing
"modern western education, which seems to have a dose dependent sterilizing effect on females. In that light, high IQ isn't fertility-reducing in itself, rather low IQ is protective against modern western education"

I admire the way you phrased this.

The difference in size between educated and uneducated families might be very large in societies that are in transition on the development scale, but I wonder if the same is true in a society that is stable on that scale. Do uneducated families in the West have more kids than educated families, or do they just have their 2.1 children earlier in life?
New Golang Pusher library released
I'm very excited about GB. GVM made working on multiple projects already a lot easier, but dependencies are still a huge pain...
I don't know if GB is the best answer to the problem, but at least it's a big step forward and I'll definitely try it out.
25% seems pretty reasonable if he's taking a substantial cut in income and you believe he's the right person.
You're exactly right. I'd go even further and say that the piece is quite superficial and the tone of it reminds of some holy book filled with commonplace morals.
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Codename One 3.0 Release – WORA native mobile apps
Seconded. I'm using the WordPress ToS template for one of my projects. Depending on what your service does, you'll need to tailor it somewhat, though.
You can just order them over internet in a mall.

Works for 2 people, should work for 6. It's even cheaper than driving there because you don't pay for fuel.

Or buy smaller amounts each day when walking back home. A little more expansive than in mall, but fresh.
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I love the presentation, but the GIL problem and Go's package problems aren't really even comparable. The GIL is an unfortunate consequence of the CPython implementation that can't really be solved without some serious hacks or computationally expensive workarounds. The Go "problem" is almost entirely an implementation problem; something evidenced by a simple fixed implementation.

Honestly, the entire presentation was nearly lost on me by the weird comparison at the beginning. I recovered, but seriously, very strange comparison for anyone who understands what the GIL represents.

Edit: And really, was github the best target to go to for availability when it came to developer downtime on the edited XKCD? Github's downtime is pretty near 0. I think I remember roughly an hour of downtime in 2014 in the super early morning, and nothing before that until 2012 maybe.
Look at it from another perspective: it is a tourist attraction, that may bring some money to Moscow, just like mummies in the British museum.

Legacy of communism can and must be commercialized in all possible ways: Soviet Union produced amazing quantity of artifacts, cultural objects and scientific data that is possibly yet to be rediscovered and re-thought, just like the ideas used by PreVu mentioned in the article.
Visualizing backpressure with akka-streams, statsd, grafana and influxdb
The Nomad Secret to Alleviating Backpain and Better Productivity
Hey guys, long time Redditor and HackerNews fan and finally worked up the courage to share my story/invention.
As an entrepreneur I spent hours upon hours on my laptop working(or at least I thought it was productive at the time). I busted my butt to build a business, to build something successful – all in and always on.

But throughout this whole time my back bothered me…and I mean constantly. No matter what I did, what I tried, it did not matter. I focused on posture, tried exercises…nothing seemed to work.

And it sucked but whatever, that is life right? Until one day a girl at my coworking space in Chiang Mai, Thailand introduced me to standing desk...from that point on I have been hooked.

It helped my back, helped my posture, made my legs stronger and clearly boosted productivity - I loved it. It was hard to find standing desks though, especially on the go and I wanted to see the world, like I am sure many of you do as well.

Well for the past several months I have been working on Shido Stand, the world's first and most portable laptop case/stand desk hybrid.

I've moved to China, made massive engineering changes and am finally getting ready to launch my Mac designed case stand to the world and would love your feedback. The prototype is still undergoing small design tweaks to make it as sexy as possible and emulate the ultimately perfect Mac aesthetics but on the concept itself, a mobile standing desk for coffeeshops, coworking spaces and even at the office...what do you think?

I have poured myself into Shido Stand and would love to hear what you think about my product :)

http://shido.co
Reminds me of developing rails apps way back in the day before RVM gemsets or bundler came along. You'd vendor all the gems (& specific version for your app) into `vendor/gems` ala http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems...
Sad to say so, but this really makes a lot of sense - and it's dead simple, something I really appreciate as a Gopher.

Suddenly you're able to have full control over a project, use private repos effortlessly (even with SSH protocol) and most importantly for me, not check in all the dependencies and their changes like with Godep, which just keeps up messing up the history although having nothing to do with the project.

Just Git submodules and you're done.
more people are choosing Google as an OAuth provider over Facebook than ever before. Google will overtake Facebook this year

Personally, I use google in logins because I actually use facebook more and don't want to share my facebook profile. I don't think using one service for logins means anything, hell I have an email which I use solely for registrations so I can reduce the spam I get in my real mail.
What about mods that the publisher can't do?

I played GRID a lot and found the "any car any track" mod which was awesome. Codemasters didn't do that for some reason. There are mods that add Ferraris, Codemaster aren't licensed to include those cars. They were even in the trailer for the game and got pulled.

There's mods to include stuff the publisher couldn't even care[1] to sort out. Why should they get any cut of money for that. Would they even be allowed to take a cut? I assume this kind of stuff sits in a grey zone at the moment.

I think this will always be a problem if you couple the distribution and the day-to-day service in the way steam does.

[1]:http://www.moddb.com/mods/8-ball-prestige-packs-dlc-pc
There are quite a few devices that boot into Lua, see http://www.eluaproject.net/ plus the Tessel really does and just compiles to js, and there is Lua firmware for a wifi module https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware
I feel like the 'no questions asked' (or 'one question asked' as akavel points out) refund is really the killer feature here. It aligns incentives for journalists and outlets correctly, provides a feedback loop, and it also lowers the hesitation to pay, all at the same time.
I would agree. It is definetely not the end of the "car age"
Cars will live on for many years but as self-driving cars come into play, owning a car wont be a need any more.
For your day to day activities you can take public transport and bike to work.
For weekends that you want to do a trip with family/friends you will simply "hire" a car that will take you where you want to go.

I am excited about this future. Cars slowly being phased out for a more accessible city for the people. Taking back the roads from cars for bicycles and walking.

But that just might be me.
Jewish Student Posts Swastika at Uni, Gets Suspended and Accused of Hate Crime
I don't see a way to link to the segment (full programme at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rkpzf - Nepal is the first 10 minutes).

The problem is firstly a lack of actual communication mechanisms, as the telephone network has been knocked out, and then I believe a lack of physical access, as the earthquake has blocked and destroyed roads, so they can't get the aid out of Kathmandu into the remote areas by lorry.

Aid is backing up at the airport and airports in neighbouring countries; I look at the technology bandied around on HN and wonder why it (or the previous generation) cannot be used on the ground to help.
This sums my own thoughts in the matter:

"If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter. Lenin believed this after reading Das Kapital, and consistently taught that if a just, peaceful, happy, free, virtuous society could be created by the means he advocated, then the end justified any methods that needed to be used, literally any."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/23/message...
Here is an even crazier idea: (micro)pay to cite instead of (micro)pay to read. Just going to put that out there.