skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember replying to an ad for "technology mortuary assistant required" - it was very odd..
Firstly, there was the tech I could see was very dead, cold stone dead - Pascal was there, Java was there (pretty stinky too!).
But there was a slab with loads of new tech that was also dead, it just didn't know it yet - Rust was there, so was Go come to think of it (apparently Google dumped it when they realised it was one of their projects, and could do so), and Ruby on Rails.
Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013)
The end of OS X: A modest proposal
> HN may have started as interesting stuff for the Silicon Valley VC circuit

Oh, no no no. It started as a way for pg to read more interesting things, literally about anything. Byzantine coins and cat prints in medieval manuscripts are two that I recall from years past. The site has always been for intellectual diversity above all else. Keeping that going is the thing we care about most.

In other words this article is 100% certified original Hacker News, and it warms my heart (freshly grateful to still be attached to the rest of my body) to see it at #1.
This is more or less what happened when I was hired for my current (tech job): I was asked about a real life problem by the interviewer (my soon-to-be colleague/manager) and I explained how I would have dealt with it (my thought process etc..).
I asked question when I didn't know something, and I also wrote an email few hours/one day later confirming my interest for the company and adding a couple of things that could have not been clear during the interview about my skills.
And when I went there for the second interview, as I had studied a bit more on their real problem, I had the opportunity to add few more thoughts on it.
Ha, rather ironically, I went there and most of the top posts seem to be about Reddit or are on the front page of Reddit.

What makes it different?
But, its using JS! FTW! That's awesome right, I mean, those awesome "devs" managed to take a sucky browser tech, and drag down a native app by insisting on shoving in there.
I think they should have inserted Node as well, and Go, and Rust, just because.
All the other replies are true, but the main reason is that airplanes fly a constant pressure altitude because it's important performance wise, while flying a constant geografical altitude is almost meaning less(except for obstacle avoidance.

Pressure altitude is fundamental for the performance of airplanes because you fly in a known estable layer of the atmosphere that keeps your drag, lift and thrust almost constant (there are temperature changes but it takes docens of miles to change a single degree).

Also if you select the standart atmosphere you know you are flying the same layer system of all the other airplanes in the air, with a fully autonomous, relatively cheap, and non electrical device. Also it's easy to calibrate on your own if you want to fly in a local airport and have no access to a weather report. It's hard to beat a conventional altimeter.
Little Free Library Announces Book Drive for Children's and YA Books at 25K Locs
Also: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/490112915/little-free-librarys-big-book-access-project/posts/1227996
Render Cell Comments in PDF and Modify SQL Database Connection Setting Using Java
"Buy this" might create multiple records in different tables, but there is no requirement that one URL in a REST API corresponds directly to one record or one table. The REST API does not have to expose the entire sequence of under-the-hood actions. This does not somehow require RPC to address.
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To clarify, Fleischhacker is a legitimate translation of "butcher", but only in a figurative sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations

I'm guessing that the original author was saying that it doesn't literally refer to a person who cuts meat for a living (like Metzger), which is true. However, it's still a sort of funny name for a person in that profession to have.
While I took and thoroughly enjoyed my networking course back in school, I am still left wondering:

What features will an end-user now be able to enjoy because of this new RFC?
How can someone even patent something I was able to come up with at age 14? As a teenager I would have thought it was a stupid thing to patent, because it's a straightforward reaction after learning of the Collatz conjecture. The US patent office is beyond fucked.

And it's not even remotely cryptographically secure, or even fast.
It is very rewarding in the sense you can get multiple startups worth of advice. I've worked for two startups in the past several years, one with a CEO who had never sold (or scaled) a tech company. The other had a founding team with several acquisitions between them.

I heard many times "well something like this happened at XYZ company and this is what we did and it didn't or (or did work". Granted many problems are new with each venture, they all had a vast set of knowledge and startup experiences between them. I learned a lot by working with them and hearing their reasoning behind decisions.

Their network was also very, very strong as a result of having been around the block. This made for easy access to almost any company we needed to speak with.

It is also neat (and I learned the most) to be able to communicate on a very high level in all discussions. It was a totally different experience from the prior startup where I had to preface everything with a breakdown of the basics first (this is what SEO is and how it words).
What, specifically, is "unhealthy" about it?
Apple’s new streaming music service
Etherdraw – Collaborative drawing and painting
There have been much better xkcd comics.
Completely off topic, but I hate it when blog.* websites never have a link to the main page without the blog. prefix. The link at the top just brings me to the blog's main page.
Pydio
While the "topless girl" is part of the story, was anyone else surprised to see a drawing?

When did Wired become NSFW?
Try our platform: http://snapzu.com

We have tons of differentiating features from reddit and HN.
It's funny to think that a mere 20 or so years ago, ethernet wasn't even a foregone conclusion. The first time I connected a computer to a network, I had to make sure I was plugging into the ethernet and not the token ring. Now here we are pushing transport layer fixes into the application layer just because we don't want to have to explain to sysadmins how to reconfigure their firewalls?
Post on Hacker News, 2016: "Pragmatic REST is not REST at all"
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/552:_Correlation
> banned the burning of sea-coal. Anyone caught burning or selling the stuff was to be tortured or executed. The first offender caught was summarily put to death

This is very interesting... a somewhat longer description that google turned up: http://www.planetgreen.org/2012/03/edward-i-environmentalist...
I think that's a weak argument. Apple doesn't make the profits cause it builds iPhones in California. It does so because it chose the Eastern shores for a strategic reason. If your aim is to go cheaper, then to not take advantage of global-trade is really going to set one back by a significant margin. But I understand that Elon Musk is a patriotic South African who wants to create jobs for South Africans, in South Africa... oh, wait, I meant, the United States.
I posted a link to this in another post, but here's a chart showing how bad the pollution in London during the great smog of 1952 was: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~dib2/atmos/london.jpeg

Notice that SO2 and smoke particles are measured in units of milligrams per m^3 (today such measurements are in micrograms per m^3). To put Beijing's air in the context of this graph, the smoke particles in Beijing on a bad air day will go up to 0.2 to 0.8 mg/m^3 and SO2 will spike up to 0.3 for short periods. Compared to the Great Smog of 1952, Beijing's air isn't nearly as bad, but it's still incredibly bad. The Great Smog killed 0.03% of the population of London per day. Beijing's air regularly gets to around 1/4 the amount of smoke in the air as during the Great Smog.
Microsoft will automatically install Candy Crush Saga on Windows 10
Techcrunch would be a source of tech and startups?

HN has since almost forever been about more than Tech and startups. Here's the guidelines from 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinato...

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Chinese APT17 Exploits Microsoft's TechNet Portal to Host C&C IPs
Most of these password managers support 2 factor auth. And personally I would consider it unwise not to use 2 factor if your passwords are kept in the cloud (as opposed to a local password vault).
I just visited and unfortunately the content right now doesn't seem to be all there.

And, while I don't describe myself as a "social justice warrior", but a skeptic, seeing this (mostly upvoted) comment regarding the admins kind of turned me off, especially considering the replies.

>These admins are super nerdy, have low self-esteem, not to popular with the ladies, are slightly autistic (on the spectrum) have little to no social life, and have generally weak personalities when it comes to social issues. I can spot these guys a mile a way. So when you team them up with a feminist who is telling them they are awful oppressors, some of them are going to buckle and just ask "OK, what can I do to help?" And that's where this PC/feminist/transgender agenda gets codified into an actual company course of action or policy.
GPS altitude is considerably poorer than GPS lat/lon. There's a good chance that your GPS altitude could be 10-20 metres off what it should be, which is enough to be dangerous if you're using it as a landing aid.

"True" altitude requires you to both have an excellent fix on the satellites and have a very, very good reference geodetic model (which you probably don't). Also depending on the quality of your fix, you'll have different altitudes to the rest of the people around you.

It makes more sense to have two pilots independently check the pressure settings (and that's why you have a checklist).
I'm very glad this project is available but somewhat surprised how in awe some comments are here. How does this do a better job at teaching than etoys? Yes being able to deploy easily is a big deal, but given the length of time the smalltalk/squeak/etoys folks have been working on this idea I don't see how this project is garnering the level of admiration it is from HN folks.
This is purely focusing on it from the API level. REST is an architectural style. This comparison seems like it is entirely missing the point.
You're wrong. :)
I absolutely hate the soundcloud app compared to the spotify app. Constant crashing, locks my phone up, random pauses during playback. Android, Samsung Galaxy S4. The UI is fine I just wish it didn't break every other song.
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This is super awesome!

The data mining part is the most fun part I'd say!
I checked it out, very interesting. The front page was very different than what I was expecting -- I like that. Would it be possible to get an invite directly from you, or should I request one via the site?
Switzerland unveils its first driverless cars
The Times broadly refers to this kind of storytelling as 'interactive' judging by this 2014 showcase: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-int...

I guess the underlying question is how they plan to support these web technologies into the future; what's their long-term technical debt in that sense?
I'm not sure this warrants a patent. Upon further inspection the only real transformation they add to the Collatz function is returning the result modulo some prime. This is a very generic operation that can turn any function into hash-like mapping on a finite field.

They even had the nerve to include a generalization of the Collatz function in the patent.

> The hash function can apply more complex variations, such as adding multiplication, addition, modulo or other operation(s) in the even and/or odd operations.

With this generalization one can accidentally construct a variation that simplifies to an existing hash function (prior art?).

Should a patent really be allowed to control the use of an entire class of functions?

How can a patent claim ownership of an infinite number of transformations on an idea?
Ask HN: RoR or Django for GrubHub Style MVP?
I'm about to start building a simplified version of GrubHub. I'm completely new to coding and I'm trying to get an MVP online quickly. I'd slightly prefer to learn Python over Ruby, but I'm more concerned with getting my site up quickly. So my question is: would building a simplified GrubHub site be significantly faster using RoR compared with Django? Or would they both take about the same amount of time? Thanks!
> 1. One of the cores of my cpu is at 100% while viewing the page.

Interesting. What browser/OS? On Safari on my Mac, the worst it gets is 20% of one core when one of the top/bottom animations are in view, but it drops to nothing when there's just text or one of the other, non-layered animations. And that's on a Retina display
I expect the same is true of many "industrial" cities in developed countries...

I live in Kawasaki, just outside of Tokyo, which is famous for its industry. The air now is lovely and clean, there are essentially no pollution issues at all, but 50 years ago, things were apparently very, very, different... In old pictures, it's like a black miasma hanging over everything.... oO;
Startup entrepreneur sues Uber, claims CEO stole idea for on-demand taxis
I see. And if he does implement it, you will come back and say he didn't do that with his two bare hands, but basically had other people do large parts. You people in this thread just don't get it.
Why not? It's not like web browsers habitually break compatibility, with some notable exceptions (removal of Flash and Java)... I guess it could break as part of a CMS refresh.
Raising the minimum wage for humans will make robots more economically competitive.
> they feel Elon is somehow doing something novel and innovative,

Or how about, because he picked up the ball the government dropped.

Like you said NASA were throwing around all sorts of ideas in the 70's, and the government didn't have the vision to fund them.

Now, someone with that vision has stepped up to the plate and is trying to make great things happen.
Webgl doesn't exclude any players I care to play with.
Thousands of Australian students learn to code in tech literacy push
I'm not sure it's a positive example.
how would you differentiate a direct CRUD route with one that performs a lot of additional things?

PATCH /orders/123 shipped=1

what does this do? does it simply set a field or does it trigger a shipOrder() sequence that also sets that field? what if you need the ability to do both (eg: admin interface & customer frontend)?

I understand that in this case you can instead do something like:

POST /shipments order=123

but not everything has a record backing it that would yield to this pattern. the response to a POST is supposed to be a Location header of the created record, so in fact you do need some form of URI and record for the created shipment.

HTTP REST's multi-item and hierarchical item management are also very hacked-in and necessarily too chatty. You cannot return multiple Locations in a header, for example, when multiple records are created. Strict adherence to the purity of HTTP verbs and limits quickly degenerates into custom hackery above and beyond the RFCs for anything mildly complex.
What would you recommend for writing a simple ray tracer? Any books or websites?
It's not that it is stupid, straight-forward, insecure, or slow.

The problem I see is that this patent claims ownership of an infinite number of transformations that can be made to the Collatz function. There is nothing novel about this. They state that it is used as a hashing function, yet provide no property of the system that qualifies it to be a hashing function.

This belongs in a research paper, not in a patent.
Solve chess. Write a paper: "White wins."
I think this is a bug where they didn't test large browser window sizes. At my laptop's maximum window height and my browser's default zoom level, the background doesn't get lighter than #BDDAE1 at the bottom before it transitions, but if I zoom out I can see it fade into unreadability.
meh, this seems to be equivocation.
basically, warm blooded (and cold-blooded) are no longer used (because they found animals didn't cleanly fit into the features of each), so they have a bunch of other words that describe the components of blooded-ness -- like, does the animal maintain a specific body temperature, does it use heat to convert sugars into (ATM) energy.
What they've found is the first fish to warm water on entry to gills so that THAT water doesn't bring the temperature of the fishes body down too low.

meh
This is what you do with the ones you work with:

>PM: "Yes! Cut all corners and get it done today!"

You: Can I get that in writing, please?
If you find this interesting, you will probably also like the PilotsEYE stuff http://pilotseye.tv/en/

They have some content on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENe89j89tBA&index=2&list=PL6...
The author seems to be under the impression that in some years all people will be vegetarian/vegan and non vegetarians will be the minority, which simply isn't likely.

Food of the Gods - Arthur C Clarke

It’s only fair to warn you, Mr. Chairman, that much of my evidence will be highly nauseating; it involves aspects of human nature that are very seldom discussed in public, and certainly not before a congressional committee. But I am afraid that they have to be faced,; there are times when the veil of hypocrisy has to be ripped away, and this is one them.
You and I, gentlemen, have descended from a long line of carnivores. I see from you expressions that most of you don’t recognize the term. Well, that’s not surprising-it comes from a language that has been obsolete for two thousand years. Perhaps I had better avoid euphemisms and be brutally frank, even if I have to use words that are never heard in polite society. I apologize in advance to anyone I may offend.
Until a few centuries ago, the favorite food of almost all men was meat-the flesh of once living animals. I’m not trying to turn your stomachs; this is a simple statement of fact, which you can check in any history book…
Why, certainly, Mr. Chairman, I’m quite prepared to wait until Senator Irving feels better. We professionals sometimes forget how laymen may react to statements like that. At the same time, I must warn the committee that there is very much worse to come. If any of you gentlemen are at all squeamish, I suggest you follow the senator before it’s to late…
Well, if I may continue. Until modern times, all food fell into two categories. Most of it was produced from plants-cereals, fruits, plankton, algae and other forms of vegetation. It’s hard for us to realize that the vast majority of our ancestors were farmers, winning food from the land or sea by primitive and often back breaking techniques; but that is the truth.
The second type of food, if I may return to this unpleasant subject, was meat, produced from a relatively small number of animals. You may be familiar with some of them-cows, pigs, sheep, whales. Most people-I am sorry to stress this, but the fact is beyond dispute-preferred meat to any other food, though only the wealthiest were able to indulge this appetite. To most of mankind, meat was a rare and occasional delicacy in a diet that was more than ninety-percent vegetable. [...]

Full text: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hbAqAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT75&o...

About: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_%28short_s...
I understand the reasoning, but I was going to purchase it, then saw the price, £39.99. I'd probably have bought it at £20, but for an app I'm not going to use very often £40 is too much for me.
This is simply a fundamental difference between OS X and Windows. Typically in OS X an application remains open after closing its last window, whereas in Windows this is typically the signal to quit the application entirely. Try minimizing in Windows, that's the appropriate equivalent.
Of course! I don't think HN has a PM option so I'll just post a few for anyone to grab, first come first serve:

SPZU-AI1ABLII8IIZP

SPZU-0KUXJ0U86OA7W

SPZU-QNOKQG5Y4U1G3

SPZU-GQI7XVHO2ZSOA

SPZU-6TBV5ATE15JWH

SPZU-WW5ICQ53ZBB4O

SPZU-34MFZ049TSKT9

SPZU-T7G36FFZRYC1G

EDIT: I exchanged the old used codes for new fresh ones.
I am a language teacher, so factor that into the advice that follows:
1. Find a language teacher that excels at teaching beginners. Tell the teacher that you only want to study 1 hour a week but that you promise to do 6-10 hours a week of homework (for at least 3 months). Ask for a plan from the teacher based on this schedule. A good teacher is much like a good doctor and should be able to give you a good plan. The teacher should be able to fill those 6-10 hours with productive work.

2. Do not evaluate yourself based on what you can produce (say) but rather on what you can understand. Listening in particular is the royal road to language learning. Also, if you can understand slow normal speech you will have personal proof of progress which will reduce self-doubt. Remember communication is not possible without understanding.

3. Make sure that you have mastered all the phonemes in the target language. By doing this first you can avoid many problems later.
I never thought of Techcrunch to be about tech and I don't think it covers the aspects of startups I care about. When I say tech and startups, I mean programming languages, software and great hacks a startups use to scale and build their business. Not Series A rounds and acquisitions.

You're right when you say there has always been more to HN than tech and startups but I would says they are the defining aspects of HN.

Regarding that line on the guideline you quote, I really wish it would be changed. It is literally used to justify the admission of anything since how could you argue with someone that something is not interesting. It's a completely subjective and useless method to define what's on-topic. But that's just my opinion.
Across the River and into the Woods
The game is simple/hard and beautiful.

I am just curious. What engine and development tools did you use?
If I like a game, I want to know the backend tools that was used for developing.
Bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.

New York strip? Prime rib? Bacon cheeseburgers? Portillo's Italian sausage with hot peppers? Yes please!

Chicken and fish can be amazing (I'm thinking about drumsticks and spicy tuna handrolls as I write this), even though it doesn't exactly count as meat in my mind.

I tried to be a vegetarian once when I was about 17. I had made it for the better part of a year, and then Thanksgiving rolled around. I managed to make it through dinner, but after dessert I saw a glistening leftover drumstick in the kitchen. Right then and there I decided to give up.

If you love eating meat as much as I do, there is little point in living a life of self-denial.
As REST is an architectural style I always preferred the phrase mock-REST, as in mock-tudor which is a physical world architectural style with similar meaning i.e. the house wasn't built with adherence to the tudor methods of architecture, but carries the surface benefits of the tudor architectural style.
The site you linked has a lot less features and a more cumbersome UI.
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