skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this sound like they're attempting to take traffic (and revenue) away from other publishers? If you can read the articles on Facebook, why would you want to go to a different website to read the same thing (obviously loyal users won't leave)... Just seems like Facebook is trying to become a news organization vs a social network.
Evolving Beyond Laptops
XP may be the problem.
At first I thought the comments saying "this is not a proof" were being sarcastic, but I guess readers are simply not aware.

Ramanajuan derived a lot of his mathematical writings from intuition and seldom had proofs to the level of Western expectations.

It's nice that his "lost" formulae have been verified, but more important would be an understanding of the intuition behind them.

I'm hoping that would lead to tools for lighter-weight proofs than the recent heavy-weight and impenetrable Weil et al proofs.
I love how all of HN are suckers for simple math/numbers-based puzzle games
I don't know about games, but in movies, at least, a common trick to make simulations look wet is to simply increase the mass of the wet object. This causes hair and clothing to drape.
Fantastic job guys! This is addictive.
I was wondering how a quick random player might fare so I made a simple one. Paste this into your inspector console (or in chrome type "javascript:" into the URL bar and paste it):

function countPieces(){it=b.pieces();for(var e=0;it.current();)e++,it.next();return e}function getRandPiece(){for(var e=b.pieces(),t=Math.floor(Math.random()*countPieces()),n=0;t>n;n++)e.next();return e.current()}function stackRandPiece(){if(!b.isBusy()){if(b.isGameOver())return void clearInterval(randInterval);var e=getRandPiece();b.setTarget({x:e.pos.x+100,y:1500}),b.grab(e),window.setTimeout(function(){b.setTarget({x:200*Math.floor(7*Math.random())+100,y:1500}),window.setTimeout(function(){b.release()},15)},15)}}randInterval=window.setInterval(stackRandPiece,40);

Original code here: https://gist.github.com/CodyWalker/842149b82ed363659678

The highest I've seen it manage is 17.
I have done a number of the CodeSchool ones, they are a video tutorial followed by an interactive code editor thing like Codecademy.

The difference is that Codecademy doesn't have the video beforehand (you read the instructions and do the exercise), vs. CodeSchool which gives a bit more of an in-depth explanation then you do the exercise.

I guess it comes down to which method of learning your stepson prefers.
Mohammed Cartoons: If You’re Not Publishing, You’re Pretending
And of course the root of this conversation was mistaken in the first place. The algorithm Bartosz is presenting is the b!/(b-n)! algorithm that just examines each permutation once.
Whether or not that turns out to be true, I still don't care for Rayiner's argument. Attorney-client privilege is also older than the Constitution, and the framers didn't see fit to mention it here either. I think their intent was to get the broad outlines right and let future generations hash out such details.

In keeping with that intent, the phrase "their papers and effects" is not precisely defined. I think it's up to us to hash out the appropriate meaning for our day and age. Pace Rayiner, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to imagine that that phrase was not necessarily intended to encompass only papers and effects that happen to be within one's house.
You definitely can do that, but most people will not. As I said, I don't think they have a viable business model, but that doesn't mean that it is impossible to make money charging for GPL code. As an example, take a look at the game Tales of Maj'Eyal. You can download it for free on te4.org. You can also donate money from that website. You can also buy it on Steam and a few other places. It was also available in a recent Humble Bundle. People have paid for it and continue to do so even though it is well known that it is available for free at the author's site. If the forum is anything to go by, people who buy it on Steam just find it easier to use Steam and are happy to pay a few dollars for the convenience. You can play the game online which gives you a few benefits. The author has reported in a recent Roguelike Radio interview that 70% of the people who play online have either donated or bought the game. (Admittedly I do not know if the author makes enough money to survive only on sales of his game alone).

Having said all that, you are correct that you have no vendor lock in and people are able to change suppliers (including no charge suppliers) without any cost to themselves. As a supplier of GPL software, you can not rely on artificial scarcity to pay the bills. There must be some other reason for people to pay you (not the software itself). In the case of TOME, people are paying for the convenience of using Steam, or they are paying as a way of thanking the author.

There are other niches where you can make money selling GPL software. For example, quite a while ago I worked for a very small start up that was trying to build a VOIP infrastructure company. The idea was to enable new, small ITSPs to get up an running. We bundled and sold turnkey systems that was composed of free software. None of our customers cared that they could download the software for free somewhere else. They wanted a turnkey system that was configured and set up for them. They also wanted us to support their infrastructure so that they could concentrate on sales. The cost to us for packaging everything and doing custom configuration was dramatically lower than it would have been for them to try to set everything up themselves. Often they didn't even have a technical person on their staff. We could charge for our time and also charge for the software and it was still quite a bit cheaper for our customers to use our services. (As a side note, we unfortunately moved out of this lucrative area to concentrate on selling proprietary software without attached services. This ultimately failed, which I have often thought is a bit ironic.)

The thing is, I think I understand what you are trying to say, but you are making too general a statement. There are lots of ways to make money selling GPL software. However, you can't sell it the same way you would sell proprietary software which is why this company will probably not succeed unless they change tactics.
Time Series Databases – New Ways to Store and Access Data [pdf]
Great - thanks for posting it.

To be clear I make a distinction between "web server log file analysis" and "web analytics". Unfortunately it has become fashionable to call damn near anything "analytics" even if it isn't, say in image processing applications.

I am completely cool with webmasters who analyze their own server logs.

What I'm not cool with, is independent websites that correlate their logs with each other. That is, I visit HN and I visit Soylent News. I don't want HN and Soylent sharing their logs about me in any way.
The parent's claim was not that changing the wordmark was easy to do, but that it wasn't worth doing.
damn corporates.
Elon is amazing human being. Solar City, Tesla, SpaceX and now the home energy market. It's trendy (and expensive), but at the end of the day I think it can help to draw more attention to the space and environmental consciousness. Hopefully it's not just a fad...
If a really good person can be rendered unproductive with bad processes then that person is not in charge.
A Week of Mining Seattle’s Craigslist Apartment Pricing
Google's Corporate Login
Yeah, it seems mildly inconsistent. I think it's not intending to pick up Alt-Left, but it does sometimes.
https://housing.com/in

Unfortunately 'Our Brand Story' video on their homepage, made 0 sense to me. Its probably me though.
I guess you have an ideological bent that considers it a shuffling of deck chairs. At the end of the day, I would rather have private companies holding the records than government for reasons that should be obvious.
> Just like, when you sit down at a restaurant and order a meal, you're agreeing to pay for it without negotiation, without a specific contract outlining specifications for the food, etc.

There is a verbal agreement (contract) outlining the specifications of the food. It says "pancakes" in the menu, it shows me the price, and I choose to order the pancakes for that stated price.

That is completely different from how taxes work in the United States. An appropriate analogy would be being born in a restaurant and being forced to pay money for what you have no idea and no say in. There is no menu. What's given to you is chosen by people you don't know and who you've never had a single conversation with. And btw, you can't just "get up and leave" the restaurant either.

When the analogy is this incompatible, you can compare anything to anything else and declare that bananas are just like soap.

If you can't see the difference, you are deluding yourself.
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It's completely undiscoverable, and also easy to hit by accident.

I'm not sure what the value is, either, since you don't know in advance what article you're switching to.
Was waiting for an HN user to come forward and say that a processor specific synchronization primitive bug is C's fault... Hilarious.

Much more important what the code in that new default block is doing. It's a memory fence.
German-Bond Investors Just Lost 25 Years of Yield in 14 Days
Quite a maverick move.
"It grew week-over-week to well over 1,000,000 concurrent connections (chat + notifications). Luckily, Pusher worked well and was fairly inexpensive" I'd love to find out what they mean by inexpensive because from pusher.com/pricing 10,000 connections is $399/month. I have no idea what 100x connections would cost (hopefully not $39,900/month). Frankly, the pricing of pusher and other competitors seems insane to me. I was considering pusher for my startup, but I realized that if my startup became mildly successful, I'd be stuck with a bill that would force my business to rapidly build another solution or take on excessive debt. Why begin with prototype technology that could lead your startup (if successful) to become insolvent?

It's not as if there is a shortage of available tech for handling socket connections. It took about a week for me to learn enough node.js and build a service with socket.io that did everything I needed.
It appears that it retweets pairs of tweets that anagram each other. The tumblr page shows it more clearly:

http://anagramatron.tumblr.com/
The bonds only form with new tiles emerging from the bottom, so it's best to keep the bottom as clear as possible. Also, the timer will skip ahead to a new row if there are no immediate moves left, so it's best to maximize the number of possible moves.

The best strategy I've found is to build two towers on either edge of the board. One tower is reserved for #1-9, and the other side is reserved for 10-19. I aggressively clear the bottom and break any links, and then I optimize the storage of my towers. There's only enough space for stacks 8 high, however, so sometimes I need to make a third stack in the middle (ideally with 9, 10, and 11). I've gotten as high as 20x8 on iOS this way, but it takes some luck.
Like what? And is that an intrinsic loss, or is it a limitation of existing software, or is it a limitation of existing hardware?
What for, may I ask?
How exactly would the libertarian crowd get "byzantine" tax? Avoiding taxation in general seems like one of the major components of the idea.
Primrose
Please permit me to be wildly off-topic but for a moment:

A regard it as obvious by inspection that any truly random sequence of numbers will contain arbitrarily many sequences of any arbitrary sequence of numbers. It is for that reason that I regard one time pads that consist of truly random numbers as insufficiently strong cryptography.

That is, while exceedingly unlikely, the cleartext "attack at dawn" could well encrypt to the ciphertext "attack at dawn".
Show HN : Getting Kids to Clean.Helping Kids Learn How to Clean
That is cool, although it doesn't know the difference between TB and Tb.
Some convoluted copywriting going on indeed.
Maybe college is a means to a greater end, and not the end itself?
So you're saying that CloudFlare could sell the Republican Party a list of candidates who've got something to hide?
Chess players' fame versus their merit
"We certainly haven't seen much "INSTALL PATCHES NOW" fear mongering. And we really need it, so I'm hoping this posting will start a panic."

Yeah well its a DOS triggered by pretty particular conditions. While it's bad, starting a panic for that reminds me of the boy who cried wolf story.

But then again feel free to slap a fancy site and a codeword to it, all the cool kids do it anyway :)
To anyone monitoring the housing.com story, this just seems like the latest in a series of increasingly erratic events by housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav.

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/DQevn4TkemzICqPeSNe8vI/Its...

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-05-05/news...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/housin...
Really interesting article. HBR is awesome. You should checkout Ray Kurzweil & Michio Kaku if you want to really dive deep into AI and the eventual robot revolution that will take over all mundane jobs (and eventually complex jobs). Kind of makes you wonder what the human experience will be like if no one will need to work for a living
The commit message says the code was reviewed quite thoroughly. So I think a break-only default case where the other two cases had an /* implied MB */ comment would likely have been noticed. So in this particular case, there is a fair chance that such a warning would have helped.
I loved Threes, 2048 and this is just as great - thanks!

However, one thing that I dislike about this game(and something that could be changed in the next version or permutation) is that gameplay is TIME based instead of TURN based. It makes the game less about strategy and more about being quick with your mouse. It also makes the game less appealing as a background task and something to stop and come back to; ie something to do while waiting for something to cook or during television commercials.
As generous as that may be, is it a wise move for a CEO to essentially divest all of their shares in the company?
Don't you think the community should define itself though...
Step 1. Get admitted to MIT

Step 2. ????

Step 3. Profit.

This is a really cool story, but if the OP isn't coming from somewhere as highly regarded, it may not be the best thing to hear.
Reinforcement Learning – Q-Learning and Exploration
Couldn't agree more. I would also add that it's very unappealing due to the fact that I have to use a mouse/track pad at all, though clearly this was made with touch screens in mind. You add that I have to be quick about it too and I find myself struggling to remain interested.
Suggestion: Mark tiles at the bottom of the screen as being "attached" to other tiles before said other tiles come onto the screen.

It's very annoying when I see a useful tile which is not attached to anything and I reach over to grab it, only to have it become attached to something in the mean time. (Especially if that tile was one I created by merging two other tiles together and so its attachment to anything else should have been broken.)
How to tie your shoes
Show HN: Pouch.ly – An utility platform
I should be clear that I am not by any means a language zealot. There's lots of people who like Javascript, and that's just fine with me.

For reasons I'll go into later, I just became a vegan. I've done it before, I know how to be a vegan and be happy with my diet. Tempeh is popular among vegans, but I regard is as foul, I'd rather drink sewage, but I'm completely cool with someone else eating all the tempeh.

What I like is to stress over cache misses.
A downvote, a shill accusation, and no counter-argument.

Perhaps you could take a different approach and explain to me why you feel the interests of a single renter should supersede those of a property owner and 10's or even hundreds of shorter-term renters.
that's my plan, once I get enough paying work in it to pay the rental. A private desk at Portland's Nedspace is $450.00, a "hot desk" is $350.00. I don't really need my own personal desk but the private desk option gives one 24-hour access, which I really do require as I am a confirmed night owl.

Until then, I hang out at wifi spots but it is uncommon to find other coders at any of them.
Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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> Can someone please tell me the audience for this essay?

There's a clue in this quote:

> The most successful cities in the world, such as New York, London, Vancouver, Sydney, etc

A big city in each of the 4 largest native English-speaking countries of the world, in descending order of population.
Closing the Windows Gap
oh great... just when I cracked 4096...

17. I can sleep in peace now.
Great work! This game is good as it is, but you could try having cars/space-ships/gems or whatever instead of numbers, to give you more freedom for experimenting and maybe change the order so that there will be more fall-though. People totally love when much happens with little input.
If the game where to improve, I would say you need to increase the output vs input, making more stuff happen, faster and easier.
I wonder if any C standard libraries have implemented this.
It's akin to refactoring code for designers.
You do it so that there is more clarity and consistency in a visual system that is complex.

In addition to helping implement the brand in the short term across teams and products, a redesign like this also gives the brand a clear foundation on which to grow and evolve, instead of being fragmented.

A huge part of being a designer in a large company comes down to figuring out how to design systems. The impact of adjusting 4px probably did occur in 10 min in a design program. But the conversations and thought that went into the overall system took far far longer and required a huge amount of knowledge of how systems like this are used and implemented.
npm.click helps to keep all npm dependencies up to date
That choice inflicts negative externalities on everyone else. I understand that the concept of negative externalities throws a wrench into this sort of shallow pseudoeconomic theorizing, but they exist and must be considered in a credible discussion.
I've been trying to track down randomly latency (> 1000ms) in the network stack between the socket buffer and the client for about 3 months now... All of the stack traces showed the app was stuck in futex_wait, but since it looked identical to an idle server, I'd convinced myself epoll_wait was at fault... All the sudden I'm wondering otherwise. We're not on Haswell though; it's not clear to me if the bug would affect other processors or not - can it?
Islamic State group claims responsibility for Karachi terror attack
If it wasn't so late I might get into it but I think this could be dramatically improved by just detecting whether a piece is currently underneath another piece. Assuming you can eliminate those as possible choices for the random select process, you would avoid the issue of iterating through a bunch of pieces that can't even be moved during the late game!
BitTorrent Bleep is faking product comparisons
Folks interested in the first month of WWI should do themselves the favor of reading The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

http://www.audible.com/pd/History/The-Guns-of-August-Audiobo...
In Charlie Hebdo massacre Pakistanis praised the terrorists. They need to understand that if they justify terrorism, even if against another group, it is still justifying terrorism and it's gonna get to them as well.
I cannot stand it when people start to apply rule exemptions as a rule.

Generally rules are designed for general case, yet in some (legally or not) specific cases we just close our eyes. Sally's lemonade stand is an exception - even though agencies could fine her to oblivion we just don't do that, because it is more beneficial for society. If she starts doing that on any scale larger than several hours per month, then it could very well be entirely different story.

In some parts of the world it is illegal to be drunk in public. Bars are public, buses are public. Even though you are braking the law just by going home on a bus/taxi after a night out, noone will arrest you if you are doing that quietly.

Hotel is by definition place that provides lodging on short term basis. And general rule is that hotels pay taxes. Again noone is going to extract taxes for allowing some friend of friend even if it involves direct or indirect (we call it barter) reimbursement.

AirBnB is not letting friend of friend stay for a night. It is a business. So, please, stop bending the rules yourself and try to claim that lodging regulations should not apply to AirBnB.

> What is it whit this damn country that people want to just start bending definitions and terms to fit their despotic little minds will.

I actually mostly agree with this. Laws are generally designed in a manner "mostly people will not do foo or neighbourhoods will sort it out themselves, therefore enforcing regulation on foo will be more expensive than revenue generated". And then come people like you, who try to bend definitions in a way that implicit social contract works in their favour.