skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose one could also say "if you can learn to sight-read a novel you can learn to sight-read music" and it might be true but I think there is a certain natural ability prerequisite. I played in school concert bands for four years and could never manage to sight-read anything very complicated. Practicing was a chore and when we got new music I always had to sit and pick through it very slowly measure-by-measure until I figured out how it was supposed to sound. Once I knew that, I could "read" the music but I could never play a new piece on first sight. I knew all the notation but I could not look at a new piece of music and "hear" it in my head.. It felt more like trying to read a book letter by letter. I never was able to really see "words" and "sentences". By the time I quit I really just hated everything about it.

I also had tremendous difficulty learning basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts compared to most of my friends. And I don't play video games.

I do enjoy listening to music quite a bit, but I think I am a person who doesn't have an ability to play it.
" As of Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 or later, this torrent is slower than a direct download using the bitcoin P2P protocol & client. This torrent is now only maintained for research and development purposes as a secondary option. Please use Bitcoin Core directly to download the blockchain."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0
>Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.

Uh, sample size seems to be too small to be significant, though.
From a statistics point of view working with such minimal samples is fairly useless.
I am guessing he feels like the hype hipsters who pump and dump their turds onto gitflub should be called out.
I call BS. One of the things that convinced me this (that is, how reddit treats and responds to its mods) was a real problem, and not just some "angsty mods", was the reaction from /r/AskScience. AskScience is one of the best subreddits, largely because its moderation is so good. The fact that the AskScience mods stood up in agreement with what was going on, and pointed out how non-responsive admins had been, made me believe this is much more than a "power play".
> But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.

I think she is trying to paint the "blackout" as the same as the fatpeoplehate banning, which created similar, but different shitstrom. Some people even believe that.

But this is different - the fatpeoplehate incident was about hateful people no longer being able to feely practice their hate and harassment.

Blackout is about people realizing they are on the ship, and the captain has no idea what she's doing, and the ship has quite a few icebergs in the way.
There's a site that has been around for a long time, http://www.changedetection.com, which will give you an RSS and/or e-mail update if a web page changes.
Reddit is 99.999% user generated content.

It's a high-traffic site, sure, but I wouldn't call it mainstream. I would consider much lower trafficked sites like Expedia, Zappos and Huffington Post more "mainstream".
Copy-Paste Tracking: Fixing Spreadsheets Without Breaking Them [pdf]
Nice work guys. I really like the UI.
Till now I was using - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m... for using Hacker News on my iPhone.

This too is a great application for using HN, however its design is more orthodox.

Great Work :)
Just to clear this up a bit: In Germany you have the Autobahn (the fasted type of roadway, often without speed limit) and the Bundesstraße (speed limit of 100kph, mostly only one lane per direction). The Autobahn never passes through towns or villages, only Bundesstraße and smaller road types do.
I haven't heard one media outlet claiming e.g. Dylann Roof was influenced by video games, and I think they would have a stronger case nowadays with games like Hatred on the market.
I work on console targeted projects, we still have to optimise for very tight hardware constraints!
Search is going to be a feature for sure
I'll be the last one to say the STL (or, rather, its standard library port) is pretty, but damned should I be if I need to reimplement the same data structures and algorithms over and over.

Parametric polymorphism is something every statically typed programming language should have in 2015. I'm aware templates aren't quite parametrically polymorphic, but it's still better than nothing.
She's probably right but it's such a tone deaf thing to say. Take some responsibility and apologize for more than not having all you mod tools in place already, blah blah.
Climate researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Oxford are looking for volunteers to help run climate simulations on their PC's to help track down mysterious changes in ocean temperatures. It's a little like the idea of SETI@home.

But the project in the article differs in an important way. This drought has direct impact on our lives, the well-being of individuals and entire communities is at stake, and inspires a stronger motivation to participate.

If you're interested, this is the website devoted to climate change projects: http://www.climateprediction.net/getting-started/
Downvoted? I expected that. Nobody likes truth. BBC for taxpayers money advertises Christies's auction and raises public awareness in UK military. Two nice rabbits with a single shot.

@nbevans. I personally like Spitfire very much. But nothing is published on BBC without dual or triple purpose these days.
> (...)they have got to make that exit.

Losing 5 minutes by taking the following exit safely is too much to ask?
I'm going to take issue with this. This has nothing to do with having a solid computer science background -- in fact, I've seen way more architecture astronauts with CS degrees.

It has to do with learning stuff on a lower level -- whether or not you attend a school to do so. Us autodidacts who grew up on assembly language and C code will beg to differ on your use of the word "prevents".
It's clear what's going on: sanitization of discussion (making it a "safe space") and monetezation.
TechCrunch posted a good list of startup lingo last year.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/how-to-speak-startup/
You have to ask yourself what should feel more natural: transposing songs or actually playing them. I don't know much about why the piano was designed like this, but I can see your idea wouldn't be useful:

- Black keys are a reference. Either by touching them or by looking at them, you can always know where you are. Not so easy with all the keys being the same.
- The size of the keyboard is more or less adapted to our hand size. The distance between whole tones is similar to the distance between our fingers. A fifth is as wide as my hand, and I can play an octave without much effort. Making all the notes the same shape would change that and those common intervals would be more difficult to play.
- Our hand is not flat. The fact that some notes are higher than others makes playing more comfortable.
- Range. Same-shaped notes would occupy more space (unless you make them smaller than white notes, which would be uncomfortable) so either you get way bigger pianos (as if they were small) or pianos with less range.

There are probably more reasons why the black keys are there, these are just top off my head.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811218

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816494
Anything they say to the press can be used in a discrimination lawsuit. Pao is a lawyer, she knows when to keep her mouth shut to the press.

It is better to say she doesn't know why Victoria was fired, than give an actual reason that can be investigated. A CEO that doesn't know what their own organization is doing is a poor CEO, but better to be seen as a poor CEO than one that has a political agenda and fires people based on discrimination principles.

Pao needs to be vague so they can't use her words against her in a lawsuit. It is obvious she is trying to clean up Reddit to get better advertisers by banning subs and users and firing people whom she thinks allows certain behavior to go unpunished.

I heard that some users were posting links to her husband's Ponzi schemes, and they were getting deleted. http://nypost.com/2015/03/18/users-lash-out-at-reddit-boss-f...
I remember reading that article when it came out. A lot of good ones in there
Creative / collaborative mode is good addiction, but when they start connecting to servers or griefing their siblings, it's not so good anymore. Survival mode isn't so great either,but can be ok if they are using it as a constrained creative mode. iPad is really the best format as it doesn't have all the distractions of PC minecraft. The UX is great for kids as well.

Note minecraft can be awesome for siblings that fight all the time. You'll be amazed when they actually get along on building something.

It's basically 21st century Lego.
I really like the philosophy that the WM implements. I hope that Wayland (or whatever comes after X) would work in some similar fashion.
What about _.flatten()? E.g. to flatten an array before find()?

Just thought of 1-level flattening [].concat(...array). But it not that explicit. Also, array.find(i => i.foo == 'bar') isn't as readable as _.find(array, { foo: 'bar' }).
I'm not sure why it's terrible practice, the only reason I can think of is a performance one. As I said earlier in the thread though that's only a problem if you create infinite lists and never clean up after yourself.

The correct way to design such components would be to only create DOM for elements in view. Which is why this test is flawed.
That r/askscience stood up shows there is mistreatment happening and it's probably widespread.

That r/shitredditsays is celebrating shows that mistreatment has not been happening to them.
This is pretty cool. What's the backend written in? I'm sure a lot of devs out there would really love to have a look at it, since parsing email isn't any fun!
Hacking Linux USDT with Ftrace
It isn't correct to call this behaviour a "copywrong". The licences allow or encourage this. People are doing what they want, as designed when the developer chose a super-free licence.

If you don't like this, don't use a MIT/BSD/etc style licence; pick one that protects your code (as well as it's future users) like GPL. Keep it slightly less free, but forever.
Five Little Languages and How They Grew (2002)
> The administration's interactions with the community during events like these are almost comically bad.

Most of them are programmers, after all. ;P
Upvoting and downvoting comments are coming in a future version.
Unless my (read: everyone whom this affects) bill(s) actually drops by a corresponding amount of $ then this Next doesn't seem worth it. Many of us pay $200 for a phone and the rest is subsidized by signing the contract for 2 years. Why would I want to pay $650 + the same monthly payment for 2 years for the same phone? Upgrade early? If I stick with iPhones and can tolerate not having the newest one every 1 year vs. every 2 years then this has no benefit. This may only serve to benefit those who A. keep their phones in good condition and B. have Android or other non-iPhones where a newer model is introduced more than once a year.
gotcha! Yeah it's disappointing, but it's all about supply and demand. If there's no baseball market, no baseball teams for hundreds of miles. Whereas you can see on the map the gulf coast of FL, NYC, and even LA have multiple teams within miles of each other.
Interesting. Reminds me of the Synthesia game [1], which is like a Guitar Hero for the piano but where you can actually learn to play the real instrument, and not some plastic controller.

I still prefer the Hummingbird notation [2] though. Instead of this, it improves the classical musical notation without creating an entirely new notation. It's relatively easy to go from hummingbird to classical notation and vice-versa.

[1] http://www.synthesiagame.com/

[2] http://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/
Video games can be good. Video games can be bad. Specifically pertaining to minecraft, I've never found a game that has the potential to offer so many educational experiences. You can start off stacking blocks with your kid. Fast forward a few years and you've downloaded something like computer craft and you are now creating your own game skins and literally programming simple AIs whether they are bots or enemy mobs.
Good article, thanks for posting. A good friend of mine maintains that there is no such thing as Identity theft. What we call identity theft is simply bank fraud. However, in a brilliant marketing reframing, the financial industry has made the consumer the victim, instead of the financial institution.

Unlike a Gilliamesque world in which a bad actor assumes your identity, generally a bad guy gains access to your resources, bypassing the protections set in. While the consumer is guilty of this sometimes, the victim harmed is almost always the institution, not the consumer; and yet the consumer is framed as the victim.

In a signature based authentication system, the banks suggest YOU are the victim of identity theft if someone gets your credit card number when it's their authentication system that was 'hacked.'

Similarly, checking account numbers, etc.

Of course there are exceptions, people use bad passwords, they allow others to get their info, etc.

But, I do think this term "identity theft" is often overused.
Promotions can be done natively while preserving "culture".

If J.J. Abrams does an AMA to promote Star Wars this December, does anyone really care that Disney paid $200K to show an exclusive movie trailer to Reddit fans?

If even 1% of Reddit users take that video viral, it'd add millions to the opening weekend box office numbers.

[edit: nevermind measurable viral outcomes. The core question remains, can Reddit can maintain it's culture with native ads/sponsorship?].
Dylann Roof is an atypical case. Not much was said about gun control either, which is unusual. The primary debate that was sparked was surrounding the Confederate battle flag(s).

What do you mean by "nowadays with games like Hatred on the market"?

What is special about Hatred? It wasn't a particularly violent game, it just got propelled into notoriety by demagoguery and the developers' guerrilla marketing. It's a near verbatim clone of Postal, and that came out in 1997.
I think the reason React is so popular is due to the developer experience. It's a simpler mental model where you no longer have to worry about your previous state and how to transition the view to the correct current state based on it.
Bingo. In common philosophical usage 'consciousness' is conflated with what is evinced in consciousness, or process contents (cogito ergo sum). Back in 1988, Bernard Baars in 'A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness' separated self-iterative 'awareness' from process and posited 'awareness' as a 'global workspace' interfacing with parallel subliminal neural subprocessors which collectively manufacture an interactive model of 'reality'. By extension this would reduce all human intellectual modeling of ascertained 'reality' to projections of native intellectual predispositions hard-wired into the neural architecture. But what's basic? Here you're still faced with the same problem which still confronts experimental physics: to study a phenomena you have to employ instrumentation synthesized from the same building blocks of which the phenomena itself is constituted.
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Thanks for your explanation.

I think there is another advantage (to merely having the white keys) besides just transposing being easier. And this is that the same intervals will always have the same spacing on the keyboard. I guess this should be my main argument for this type of layout being more natural.
I can't copy their UI or their database.

But there was an app called CMSOpen and was bought out and called Solution Six. I can't find their website and the company has been bought and sold many times. I don't know what it is called now, but a lot of law firms used it and it was designed by accountants. I worked for a law firm and we modified the database so it was faster and worked better. I wrote some ASP web apps to use their database and I think the law firm licensed them. I got too sick to work in 2001 and was fired. But I have 4 and a half years of knowledge of working on such an app.

The problem is that it uses Office and MS-SQL Server, and even needs Sharepoint server. It is so tied to Windows and Microsoft technology that it costs a lot to use and smaller law firms cannot afford it.

But the main thing with any law firm is billing time to a client and matter number on a timesheet and searching for database records based on client name and number and matter name and number. As well as billing attorney and other stuff.
To be fair it's on the Newsbeat "magazine" section of the bbc which is intentionally more informal / gossipy and also aimed at a young demographic. Still a fairly shoddy article though I'd agree.
Preface: I agree with you, especially wrt video games. I never understood or enjoyed video games, anyways.

However, when defining addiction, I think "causing the child to do poorly in school" is a really, really dangerous standard. Several psychologists and teachers told my parents I was addicted to computers because I did poorly in high school and also spent a lot of time on the computer. Never-mind that I had worked through Cinderella, SICP, the first half of Dragon, and an undergrad crypto course in addition to a Discrete Mathemtics and Linear course by the end of high school... all while fueling my "addiction".)

I think there's a lot of danger in conflating "interferes with good grades" with "harmful". Especially in high school. Taking grades seriously in high school would have been far more harmful than my computer "addiction".
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There were game using similar learning mechanism before like robot odyssey.

I also had an idea similar of yours, maybe by stringing together some open source simulation package into a sandbox environment it could be achieved.
Seems reasonably safe to assume that i32 and f32 have the same endianness.
Arlington is not really Boston. Cambridge and Somerville have more options than the city of Boston.
Being able to play video inside an SVG, then clipping the video by an arbitrary path, etc.
I know Nessus (a vulnerability scanner).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29
"...tie advancement in license class/engine size to both age and other achievements: graduating high school or getting a GED, completing an associate degree or technical program, graduating college, completing military or national service, or being employed for X hours per week."

Why should driving a car be tied to education? Shouldn't it be tied to how well you drive? If an 18 yearold adult wants to work and not go to college why should they not be able to get a license?

On a practical level those who are not getting the GED probably come from poor backgrounds and less likely to have a car anyway.
Ease of use is a main factor in any business trying to buy software for their employees. Most employees are not computer savvy and could not figure out Linux. Even if they learned the GUI, if it had a problem and dropped down to the shell, they would be lost.

Most System Administrators and Technicians know only Windows and don't know how to support Linux.

Some companies use Linux as a server to save money, but not as a desktop.
Ask HN: Who is using a curved 4k monitor for coding?
Is anyone using a curved 4K monitor for coding? Does the curve help with coding in any way? Would a 4K ultrawide flat monitor of the same size and dimensions be just as good?
Lua is faster than both
As someone else pointed out, the Autobahn doesn't ever go through towns or villages. However, I agree that the frequent drastic speed limit changes on the Bundesstraße are a pain. I am not sure however what a good solution would be. You could lower the speed limit between towns, raise it the towns or build out the road in the city more and keep the limit higher like happens on the 101 when you go through some towns in the central valley. But that has other huge downsides, like being painfully slow or increasing the risks or ruining the towns. Having a town every 1-2 miles might just result in this.
It's interesting how much this page relies on the browser behavior of rendering all animated GIFs on the page in sync with each other, such that the palettes rotate in sync with the images.
It's a much older demographic, but Kerbal Space Program is educational in a similarly sneaky way. First you build some rockets and they don't go very far, then you build some better ones, and at a certain point you wind up learning about orbital mechanics and rocketry equations. It really changed the way I think about space, while procrastinating!

I haven't made mods for it yet, but there are people that go down that rabbit hole too. Quite a bargain for the $30 I paid.
Unremembering the forgotten
Show HN: Slideshow background image search
Sorry to hear about the heat. Some things that I have done:

- Go for a swim... ideally in the ocean or a river. Open air pools often have cool water as well due to cooling at night (if it is, in fact, cool at night). In the absence of a swimming area, just take a cold shower. It has a similar effect, but not quite as thorough at cooling the body down.

- In general, if you are not on the coast, get to the coast. The ocean water usually keeps the temperatures much more moderate. Even as little as a few kilometers can make a huge difference.

- Go spelunking. Caves maintain a fairly consistent (and cool) temperature throughout the day.

- Go to a winery, ideally one at which you can spend some time in the wine cellar and/or chai. Some beer breweries may have similar facilities.

- Go to a movie theater. I am not sure about Belgium, but they frequently have air-conditioning (at least in the US, where I am from).

- Try to stay away from carbs when you eat.

- Ice packs on the back of your neck does wonders.

Good luck!

Edit: Spelling.
The city of Boston doesn't have FiOS or RCN, only Comcast. There is a history of political maneuvering.
Not sure how to let people know about this besides Show HN. I made a background image search extension to find images from the slide shows that try and keep their images out of your grasp. It was annoying me this morning so, yah.

The image on the crhome store is from Trulia.
source code is here: https://github.com/ibsusu/BackgroundImage-Search

Hopefully it's somewhat useful to others.
Solid breakdown. I wish in America we'd encourage both. Like the DMV could have a 'basic DL' and an 'advanced DL' and it comes with perks like lower insurance, heck maybe even lower gas prices (ex: pay less in taxes on gas). This system would be elaborate and costly but...I think the financial cost is small compared to the possible benefits of encouraging an educated/skilled driver.
This makes no sense. Why would Disney pay any money at all to show an exclusive trailer to Reddit fans, when they could just release it for free elsewhere and have it go viral all by itself? Because that is exactly what happened.
Those software are still free even if there are proprietary forks of them. You are not forced to use the proprietary forks.
Platonism still has to explain why that fundamental consciousness arises only in particular material configurations, ie., if it underlies mater, why isn't all mater conscious? What are the building blocks necessary to channel that underlying consciousness?
Show HN: ShortcutCSS – Now CDN Available
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Communication related courses