skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
actually it did.

From the archive link provided by 8chan

Hola's goal is to make the internet faster and fully accessible to everyone. Install Hola on your PC, phone or tablet to make your internet faster, more open and more anonymous. Hola lets you have unlimited access to information that is otherwise not available in your geography while protecting your online privacy. It also lets you stream videos faster than ever before. Hola is a collaborative internet -- it works by sharing the idle resources of its users for the benefit of all.

The new version talks about luminati.
Goto the website? Let me know what you think
If the advertising is so appallingly bad that 100% of people are blocking it, then it doesn't deserve to exist, does it?

The idea of advertising is to get people interested in some product or service; not to provide an income stream for websites that can't persuade users to pay for their content.
Given an efficient string processing methodology mostly consisting of

1. holding onto opaque string binaries until you need to compose them all together at the end (i.e. the way Erlang's iolists work)

and 2. applying encapsulated operations over a given string (e.g. "split", "scan with regular expression") rather than trying to index into it;

I've never understood why we can't just use a really inefficient-but-practical string encoding, e.g. UTF-32, with a very low-cost stream compression algorithm on top.
Does Your Backup Stack Up? [POLL]
If you get dozens to hundreds of tasks to do in a short period of time, isn't that the root of the problem?

I suspect if you get too much email, it's usually because 1. You are the boss and insist on being CCed on everything, 2. Your job description is vauge, and everyone sends tasks to you, or 3. Your coworkers feel like they have to notify you of everything. All three are organizational dysfunction, and not a technology problem.
Thanks Danielarepas
There are a lot of people who won't buy the product unless they can compare prices in different stores. Maybe the Indians are different, I don't know. But it is fairly well-known that if your store is low in search results, the sales suffer substantially. Mobile only has no discovery, the only way you get new customers is by word of mouth, or some really strong advertising in order to convince people to install your app.
I guess it is frowned upon in this way. After 4 years of using Vim, watching other people live coding in Sublime is like watching turtle crawl.

"C'mon faster!!"

Can be a bit frustrating actually.

I guess the reason could be that because Sublime edits are slower, as the live coder explains things, he/she needs to pause the explanation to finish editing before resuming the explanation. This interrupted flow is what actually causes the frustration.
Ask HN: Is it worthwhile to invest in good chair and table?
I am a software developer and have started doing full time work from home (WFH).
I do not have furnitures at my home, just a mattress lying on the floor. There is one cheap plastic chair which is not very comfortable and a table which is only 3X2 feet.

Mostly I work on the mattress itself with my laptop. It isn’t very uncomfortable since I am frequently changing my posture. I am 25, so it might be a good idea to be health conscious right away instead of waiting for some ailment.

Is it always a good idea to have nice chair and table to work at home irrespective of whether you are full time WFH or not?

And did you notice any visible difference in your health or mood or work efficiency?
There is a must read series on Julian Jaynes's ideas here, the concept of the 'selfish neuron' in particular is fascinating http://www.meltingasphalt.com/series/
That doesn't actually solve the ambiguity. It just shifts it elsewhere.
Thoughts – The forward thinking tool (iOS app)
Thoughts is a sketching app that redefines the workflow of the whole category. We’ve removed all the noise so you can really get focused in thinking. How is that? Well, other apps give you an infinite set of tools for a limited canvas, Thoughts gives you a limited set of tools for an infinite vector canvas.
Requires a $35 minimum purchase
I'd also like to mention the vcs integration is awesome. Full GUI interaction with GIT, including a GUI DiffMerge, and more. It makes a huge difference.
Finding the Best Bug Tracking Tool
> The quantity of money governs the price level in the long run

The quantity of money is both nebulously defined, and also has absolutely nothing to do w/ price level; it's all spending relative to output capacity.
Not a moment too soon. I've been free from the USG's best tracking program for 5 years. Never looked back.
Rereading that statement, it's far too strong. I originally had "purely through conscious effort" but changed it for some reason.
And, I would trust Fedora (which has similarly stringent Open Source guidelines for inclusion).
Thanks for the headsup Einar. I'm definitely going to explore this further. Your podcast was incredibly insightful.
I was playing with async controllers in .NET last night and was looking up a lot of reference material. Recalll's results were surprisingly great- well done!

https://recalll.co/app/?q=.net%20async%20controller
I've been on various social media for about 30 years, starting with dial-up BBSes and Usenet (when small enough you could read _every_ message posted).

Time and again, I've seen sites appear, grow, become definitively dominant, taper off, and largely disappear (never quite dying outright but gone from "everyone's on it!" to "who? what?"). High-profile lifespan is vaguely around 7 years. I've no question Facebook will do the same, already peaked and declining as the article notes, suffering from too many people, too much content, and not enough signal to retain users against the oppressive & discouraging noise. "Oh, but FB is different! Everyone is on it, even my grandmother!" many will declare; yes, and odds are your grandmother can tell of her days when CompuServe and AOL were the place to be (to the point of AOL having so much money they bought Time-Warner because they didn't know what else to do with all that cash), yet here she is on Facebook because that's what her grandkids use, but she's thinking of moving on more to Twitter/Instagram/whatever because those kids just don't post much on FB anymore.
I still wake up in cold sweats after reliving the nightmare of some Myspace pages...
Doubts About Study of Gay Canvassers Rattle the Field
It's almost as if we need some sort of . . . vanguard . . . for the proletariat.
Correct, but I think Kenji's point is that you are buying a Google phone (Android) to have the privilege to download apps from Google Play.

Android market share is at 79%.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougolenick/2015/05/27/apple-ios...
I had a similar thought that if the company in direct contact with customers of a given social strata, having employees from similar backgrounds that interact with those customers might be an advantage. On the other hand, if the company is say a company that specializes in quant algorithms interacting with a trading api, then personal background yields no advantage.
Really made me laugh. Service to bridge a gap between a customer and a customer service :)

But yet it is brilliant !
accounting for developers? Does this mean the text is dumbed down or made more advanced?
I don't agree that Walmart is subsidizing the state but I could see an angle that is similar.

If the government stopped paying workers any benefits, would the cost of the worker's labor go up?
If it didn't, that would indicate that employers were paying the market rate (speaking strictly from a economics perspective). I think running this experiment would confirm your argument that Jimmy would become unemployable as his market value would not increase, just his "cost".

I still think minimum wage should be increased but now I'm less sure if it a good idea/solution.

The elephant in the room is that jobs are going the way of the dodo bird. At some point there will be very few jobs left and the market value of labor will fall to near zero. At that point employers will have no customers either. Even if an individual employer can see that far ahead (like Henry Ford did) and raises his wages, he will be at a disadvantage to other employers who don't raise their wages. Forcing all employers to a higher minimum wage will get around that - but only for a while. Eventually those jobs will be automated and we'll be back to the no wages/no customers situation.
US only, in 14 areas.
naming things is difficult period. It is under valued but naming things is so important in many areas of life. (This is the reason why there are so many Jr.?)

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton
when I saw the page I pressed refresh thinking the css was broken. Then I realised thats how its supposed to look.
Yep! Some example are http://cssrecipes.github.io/ (from me & friends) and http://www.basscss.com/
Yes, I think -- broadly speaking -- this is where I need to focus. Help the clients with looking at their data coming in, make sure the right questions are asked of that data, and then help them make strategic decisions going forward.
The problem with a new traditional currency is that Brazil had already gone through many currency changes[1] during the hyperinflation period so just doing that wouldn't work anymore. Supermarket owners got used to a pattern of bumping prices everyday by 2%, contracts worked so that payments were adjusted by the official inflation rate and so on. By switching to URV, you stop this "inertial inflation": supermarkets didn't have to relabel their prices every day, contracts went back to having fixed values for payments, etc.

Before the introduction of the Real, there were 5 occasions when they introduced a new currency to "cut three zeroes" from the old currency. It really got out of control in the 80s and early nineties and there was even a point where they resorted to just stamping the old bills instead of printing new ones.

A fun side effect of all of this is due to all the currency changes and to the need of printing bank notes with higher and higher numbers, they ran out of famous people to put on the bank notes. By some point they starting using general themes like "Gaucho cowboy" or "Bahia woman" on the bank notes and the current Real has pictures of native animals.

http://www.dplnumismatica.com.br/tabcedcruzreal.html

http://www.dplnumismatica.com.br/tabcedreall.html
Love it. A brilliant idea.
Which is my point entirely.

"Unreported crime" is "no crime" to you, the government or anyone else.

I -KNOW- this is reality, it's plainer to me than that water is wet and the fact that evidence doesn't exist for it is _precisely_ what I'm saying.

(and actually house prices are cheaper in Coventry than anywhere else in the west midlands)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=... [Coventry, terraced, sold in the last year]

vs

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=... [Kenilworth, terraced, sold in last year]

lets add some "OPed" articles because stats aren't really worthy in this situation:
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/all-about/wood-end

The "isolation" of crime: (it's really not isolated, but more.. concentrated):
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/third-co...
Assuming by glyph you mean grapheme cluster (a glyph is something displayed on screen, talking about accessing glyphs makes absolutely no sense) there are issues with that:

1. you're added a layer of complexity to the system because now your strings are all rope-like, except they're not arbitrarily nested so they don't have the IO and compositional advantages of ropes

2. Unicode provides 3 classes of grapheme clusters (legacy, extended and tailored) at least one of which (tailored) is locale-dependent (`ch` is a single tailored grapheme cluster under the Slovak locale, because it's the ch digraph)
Google Will Launch Google Photos, a Photo Host With “Unlimited Storage”
How did you get that information? How did you, in a non-magical way, go from information about an angle to information about a ratio?

If students don't know this information, then perhaps they are studying applications. So, what applications are students taught in typical trigonometric texts? Periodic behavior perhaps? Like sound? Only perhaps a brief blurb in the text that application is even possible. Perhaps they look at something about an incline plane. It is unlikely that they will touch projectiles.

It appears that trigonometry is there to give students some sense of mild comfort for future work in physics or engineering. This makes me think, "Why not statistics instead?"
Brazilian here too. Although the URV maneuver did help psychologically, a lot of controlling the inflation had to do with the so-called "economic tripod" implemented with the Real plan, which basically involved:

- Negative primary deficit on the government budget balance;

- Floating exchange rate;

- Inflation targeting.

Addendum: the current government is just so bad at that (fiscal maneuvers to create an artificial negative primary deficit, interfering in the exchange rate by buying/selling dollars at below-market prices, etc) that our inflating is going up again. We just reached 8.17% in the last 12-month period. Compare that to 0.8% in the US for 2014, or even Brazil's 3% some 8 years ago... With the expectation of the Fed raising interests in the US with the improving economy, dollars are going to FLY out of Brazil and the already ridiculous exchange rate (1 USD = 3.15 BRL) is going to explode. Brace yourselves, inflation is coming.

edit: typo
I also notice this isn't covered by Slashdot, who is owned by DHI, who owns Sourceforge.
Check out http://cssrecipes.github.io/ (from me & friends) and http://www.basscss.com/
There are two problems.

1) wrapping the software in the sourceforge installer which includes adware. (That's what you mention).

2) having a page that looks like an official project page and distributing the software. This is bad for bla bunch of reasons, including 1) above.
> Ford says there will be a licensing fee.

So not like Tesla then...
It was not about 500 which I think we can live to, it was about searching a boundless expansion of life -- until a certain time where the physical limit of information stored in the brain is too large
#MusicTech E-book: Experimenting with Data Science and Recommender Systems
Nearly all countries in EU will allow companies to aggressively pursue violators of no-hire and no-solicit clauses. Do you know of anywhere in the EU where the courts automatically reject those types of contract clauses?
The trouble is that even if Jayne is right, none of the people who experienced life like this still exist. We've contaminated the pool of test subjects, 100%.

This isn't the same as being non-falsifiable, we understand what resources would be required to test it... we just don't have them available.

> How would you check, upon meeting the ancient Greeks, whether they are bicameral?

Interviews. Observation. There would be communication anomalies. Some would no doubt claim these were merely translation errors, but it would become increasingly apparent that explanation was insufficient.

It would probably filter through our preconcpcetions such that they were universally (and profoundly) mentally ill or defective.

The big trouble here is, having met them, we might only have a few years to study them. I suspect that our form of consciousness might be contagious, especially to their younger demographic. So by the time we would almost start understanding it, it would be gone.
Entrepreneur. Though I didn't mean they all arrive at once. I meant I file them, work on something else, never process the filed stuff, and then it grows large and overwhelming.

I stay on top of stuff sometimes, but then my main work goes slower.

I do outsource a bunch, but some things I've found difficult.
There were also a ton of oil companies before Standard Oil completely dominated the industry. They were the only player in town for a very long time. And their post-monopoly breakup offspring still are (Exxon is still the biggest).
One of the most life-changing experiences I've ever had came when I decided to not limit myself from buying books/educational materials. See something on you want to learn, the book is $50 on Amazon? I gave myself permission to just buy it and not really feel bad about it.

That can seem expensive - there were times when I would spend $200/month on books and $500 on everything else (food, rent, etc). In the short run it really hurt. In the long run, however, it made a huge difference.

I estimate that my current salary is 3x what it would be had I not done that. I honestly believe I would have been pigeon-holed and trapped in a dead-end industry with little hope for a better future.

Being willing to buy the best books certainly makes sense when you consider how much I was paying for a private college tuition. I ended up dropping out (long story), but if $50 was really going to help me learn enough to be a little more successful, it's totally worth it.

Can you get all of the same information for free? Most likely; the problem is that you end up spending half of your time searching for it. I found that being unwilling to buy books was completely damning to my progress.

(That being said, some of the best education I ever received were things I got for free online - Stanford's CS106A is where I finally started to "get" programming.)

The point is, make sure that spending your own education is at the top of your priority list. That could mean any number of things. I don't want to justify someone going 300k into debt to get a worthless degree, but if there's something you're really passionate about don't let a few bucks hold you back.
Picthread is awesome!! It makes me crack up constantly. It also produces images of beauty and of originality not typically found on apps like Instagram. Fun and silly and beautiful. What more could you want.
easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people

I'm posting a picture a day. Surprising how many people go out of their way to mention how much they follow & like it.
Direct link to the website: https://www.edentech.co/
Thanks for sharing your great advice! I truly appreciate it. I'm currently in an intern position with a software company. Working here opened this whole topic for me.

I was contemplating whether or not I was making the right choices for my education. Sure, everyone's different when it comes to learning and choosing their paths. I just want to make sure I won't regret my decisions. Again, that being said, there are pros and cons for these types of situations, but that's besides the point.

I originally plan on majoring in the businesses field, while minoring in something to do with computers(CS, Eng, etc.)
Ultimately, I want to create tools for people to use, make them pleasant to look at, all while contributing to something I could be proud of. Luckily, I have a little bit of time ahead of me to really think about my options to send me into my future.
It seems like Ford is interested in having others adopt their standards. I'm sure that was part of the equation for Tesla as well.
The news here seems to be that same day delivery is now free in certain metros, for prime members.

Amazon has offered same day delivery for a while, they just charged extra for it.
The UI has a new feel to it...simple and easy to pick up...I think the veteran Social media users would adapt quickly.

This app seems very broad in it's application of how it will be used...as the public tries the app I think it could find it's niche in mainstream use.

Excellent Idea...keep up the development!
I assume you are hosting these personal databases?
I don't know if I'm just unlucky, but I'm in NYC and I rarely get my "free Prime next day deliveries!" the next day (but I am racking up a pile of "$1 off ebooks" vouchers because of it).
Interesting project. Seems different approach that gives users improved canvas of self expression than flat photo sharing apps.
Is there a way to restrict my search to eligible items?
I'm thinking it might be nice for posting new content to Instagram too.
You Draw It: How Family Income Affects Children’s College Chances
Just checked and it seems that this is not available for Locker delivery. I wonder why.
This is a clear case of free association. MIT does not wish to have any association with Lewin, and has no obligation to host Lewin's lectures on its public-facing web servers.

While you might believe there is a free speech issue, we know that the materials are available from other sites which aggregate free lectures. The MIT library also has many materials which are available to on-site visitors which are not available on the web site - it may well be that these lectures are still available to the public via that mechanism. Remember, free speech does not obligate organizations to use all possible means to disseminate information, but is foremost a prohibition on government restraint on speech. In the US Constitution's First Amendment, free speech is on par with free association.

Your hypothetical is incomplete or misdirected. We know details from news reports like https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-u... that it is not the case that students contacted Lewin but the opposite - Lewin actively sought out many women who were self-learning using his videos, including joining in with Facebook groups.

In addition, Ahmadinejad is not a professor at MIT, nor are interactions with him covered under Title IX.

Quite clearly MIT will not publish a textbook by Lewin should he decide to write one, so the answer to your final question is "yes".

Again, this is a free association question. If no publisher is willing to take on the book, nor any web hosting company, nor other organization, then it might be a free speech issue. But that is not the case for this specific example.

Presumably Ahmadinejad is also able to publish a book through any number of mechanisms, and not limited to the MIT Press.
I liked the concept but I was a little bit disappointed by the last photo. When I think of a wall mural, I think of something BIG! Had I been doing it I would probably tried to cover more of the wall space.
I wrote a very simple queue for embedded devices to talk to (in Go, so you just copy the single binary), which is similar to VerneMQ (I guess) but way less complex:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/messaging-for-your-things/

It's basically an HTTP API for polling pub/sub, along with a streaming endpoint for push.
I still get a paper Yellow Pages delivered. That'll come in handy if the internet ever gets deleted.
Anyone know if this uses Amazon-owned delivery trucks or a traditional package delivery company?
You can get an RSS feed from a facebook for some things, personally I use this with ifttt to get email of posts by various institutions (e.g., my kid's school) that I want to follow.
Only when the ads aren't coming from Microsoft themselves. Like how they pushed KB3035583, the advertisement to upgrade to Windows 10, as a "recommended" update that would be installed without user interaction if you had WU configured to download automatically.
Stream.js – streams in JavaScript
I use OVH kimsufi's dedicated server as it can be pretty cheap and VPS in general doesn't serve 100% of my needs.
“These are terrible jobs.” Compared to what?
There's no career track because many companies are unwilling to invest in the training & development of their employees. The expectation is that you hire in the job market from a set of people sitting 'on-the-shelf' with the exact qualifications needed.

Also in larger companies, boomers lived longer than previous generations, and companies had a more difficult time making room for advancement of later generations. Comparatively, boomers were able to 'take the reins' earlier and hold onto the longer than any later or previous generation.

So - develop unique new skills on your own time (or company down time) and move companies when opportunities arise.