skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best-engineered technology is rarely the most popular. I'd be interested to see a list of well-written code bases that are also popular.

The interesting thing about PHP (the program) is that, in my experience, the code doesn't suck because it was hastily written or because it was written a long time. It sucks because the people who write it and work on it have bizarre, nonsensical philosophies about writing code. I've seen some talks by the PHP maintainers (as recently as 2013) that made me want to throw something at my monitor.
exact same link already posted yesterday.
Lith
To follow up on your response and clarify some: in your dataset, not only do 91.7% of the vendors of 'speed and MDMA' also sell 'Ecstasy'; 76.8% of the vendors of 'Stimulants and Ecstasy' also sell 'MDMA'.

If I understand correctly, this means that vendors were significantly more likely to mention 'Ecstasy' in a product name (or description) if they claimed to be selling 'MDMA' than they were to mention 'MDMA' in a product name/description if they claimed to be selling 'Ecstasy', reinforcing the point that you have just made.
Ask HN: Should you tell your customers you are a startup?
Show HN: The Intercept redesign, rebuilt with React
File utilities designed for scalability and performance
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop nearly continuously since 1999, and I'm typing this in Linux right now, but for what it's worth, you can now mount volumes in Windows as a path on another volume.
If they want to hire your friend as an employee, a W-9 form seems pretty standard - it's just a "Request for Taxpayer
Identification Number and Certification". All your friend is saying with this form is "this is my SSN, and I'm a U.S. Citizen/Person". You can see a W-9 form here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf

But you probably want to have a lawyer look over the software acquisition contract to make sure that you don't get taken advantage of.
Writing a subscription box book on leanpub http://www.leanpub.com/subscription-box and learning how to take care of a newborn.
it wasn't the dick waving bits that drove progress. it actually postponed it in many areas... that apollo program was damned expensive relative to the technology that came out of it. a gigantic vanity project.

that whole man on the moon business is really quite dumb (although impressive) compared to the robotic probes we use today, which are what the soviet union was pioneering at the time... all that dick waving stopped them from doing it sooner.
PHP – openssl_random_pseudo_bytes considered harmful
Porn and SME Peddling from Ukraine
Philosophy – Sartre (2014) [video]
I stand corrected. This conference talk had me believe otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT8vDHIvurs
MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language
The article's point is that generalizations about GMd foods are ignorant and each case needs to be evaluated on it's own merits and dangers.

It's very well sourced (though it does occasionally fall prey into cherry picking) to show cases of both positive impacts like GMO Papaya and Golden Rice and negative like increased RoundUp usage.

Would be great if public perception adopted this skepticism and questioned practices that aren't discussed for labeling like widespread Bt spray usage vs the GMO included one.
you do it live, of course.
This title is misleading. Here's the article in a single sentence (from the end):

"Don’t just be a C++ programmer, a Lisp programmer, or a Ruby programmer. Be a good programmer."

I agree that language shouldn't matter for your employment prospects. But it matters a LOT for how "good" your code is. Code is written once and read many times, and some languages are incredibly hard to read and understand.
Indeed - the power of OSS!
The two forks I've followed have been https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090 and https://github.com/mutability/dump1090 but both are of course supported by contributions from a wide range of people making little tweaks to scratch their own itch!
> I'll take Nationalism + Badass space exploration over Kim Kardashian + Autotune any day

Kim doesn't have a long track record of leading to war and genocide. Nor do autotune and badass space exploration (yet).
Beetle can be used to: a) execute SQL queries and save the results to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, TOML, TSV, Markdown or a SQL file (INSERT commands); and b) generate fake data (lots of types supported), saving to any of the same file formats already mentioned.

https://github.com/argonium/beetle-cli
Ruling in Twitter harassment trial could have enormous fallout for free speech
I believe, not per se a genius, but very discipline to practice a lot.
That may be but doesn't change the concern here with respect to food manipulation.
A great initiative! What do you use as the light source? LED or High-Intensity dischaege?
A New Music and a New Criticism: Dissent in the Age of the Internet
The original chips are a highly sought-after commodity now. A Swedish company called Elektron launched a synthesizer based on the SID, and quite a lot of synth people have bought C64s for the sole purpose of cannibalizing them.
File corruption and sketchy saving sounds like a nightmare
> because it is transmitting at only 1 kbit/second.

I read elsewhere that it's also because other projects need to use the Deep Space Network, and bandwidth is a little constrained.
This does raise the question though: when is it appropriate to drop old platform support for any OSS project, and how do you even measure it? User surveys seems insufficient.
needs a (2007) tag.
That's not my belief at all. The belief is that there's no likely scenario where /r/science gets killed because it's a toxic wasteland of racism. /r/coontown, in contrast, gets no such consideration; it is a toxic wasteland of racism. And if it somehow comes to pass that /r/science's content were to follow in coontown's footsteps, then by all means, cut /r/science out too.

Reddit's owners are moving in a direction where they've decided to take a small stand against the worst of the worst harmful subreddits, and people seem to be taking this as a dog-whistle that every forum is up for possible deletion at the whim of some arbitrary, uncontrolled bogeyman tomorrow. That's not how obscenity censorship works and it isn't how human decency works. It's how people of a certain political bent like to pretend they work (because the world would be easier to understand and predict if that were true), but that belief doesn't stand the test of reality.
I don't want this thread to devolve into a flamewar about tropes and internet memes, but this is pretty serious so I wanted to post it. If a conviction is declared it would be a massively dangerous precedent.
I can't believe the company behind Rework didn't give him one. I hope they end up doing so!
Little story about the tape drive.

I remember that my tape drive was a bit defective. Somehow, some games wouldn't work because the signal wasn't loud enough. My neighbor who was an engineer helped me with that. He added a jack connector to the drive in order to plug a headphone. Then there was a screw that could be adjusted in order to get a better signal. I had to tweak for a while to optimize the signal and finally be able to run my game.

The C64 also had a big transformer on the floor that I used to warm my feet in the winter. I think I was 8-9 at the time.

Eventually, I got the floppy drive who was quite big. We called it the "shoe box". But it was quite an improvement over the tape.
You can add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
Sneakers is such a great film and so very underrated.
neither. our experiments have shown that t5OH is the best and safest solution for home use.
Yes; we could be a little more inclusive and magnanimous; it's an achievement for humanity (or does the U.S. get Pluto now?). I tend to suspect everything we see from NASA is choreographed; this might sell funding to part of NASA's tax base.
I don't doubt it's easier but if 2-3 co-founders not able to round up $150k from your network to start a business then you are not cut out for such a thing. Building a startup basically consists of constantly persuading people to do things. You have to be able and willing to do this without tossing out the "woe is me" card.
It's really not naive. Starting a startup is hard. If you and 1-3 others are not resourceful enough to round up $150k from your networks, no matter what you're financial means, you are going to have a very difficult go of it. This is not the hard part.
Sound editors are responsible what to include in the track and when, sometimes much more or less than what the mics on set picked up.

Sound mixers are like sound engineers in the rest of the business, crafting relative levels, dynamics, tonal transformations like EQ, and spatial transformations like reverb.
More full nodes would not solve the problem. Raising the maximum block size is the only real solution, although paying $0.02 per transaction instead of $0.01 until the "attackers" stop isn't such a bad thing. Especially compared to potential downsides to raising the maximum block size.
what a great twitter account. thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Will Silicon Valley stay on top?
Foxconn to hire a million Indian staff in major base shift
Do Elite Business Schools Benefit Economies at All?
As stated in the article, this is an example of a veridical paradox under Quine's classification of paradoxes. Which, a quick link following reveals as…

A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless.

Amazing what philosophers will get up to.
I was surprised recently when a job application resulted in a request/demand for me to take personality tests. In a long career, this was the first time* I've seen it. Which of course was grounds for immediately disconnecting myself from further discussion with this company.

*Though I've seen weird stuff with a company having a psychologist on the payroll that one had to "see".
> I'd encourage you to hop on a plane, and go visit some congressional staffers and ask them how they'd like to receive your messages. Then build a tool starting from there. Like it or not, they're the customer.

This is the relevant contract vehicle...
http://www.house.gov/content/cao/procurement/PDFSolicitation...

> Intranet Quorum. Last updated in about 1996. It's probably what 95% of staff uses,...

This is not accurate, at least anymore
>Freedom is a binary state

No, it's a continium. Should you be free to have other people as slaves, hurt your children, kill people, burn a forest etc?

If not, then you already drew some limits to freedom.

Yet, I'd venture that a person who "lacks the freedom" to own slaves is still perfectly free.

Never in the history of manking was the concept of freedom understood as this "total binary freedom" you mention. Even tribesmen and such had and respected limits while still considering themselves free folk.
>>>>> The example we like to play with internally is Halloween. It would be interesting if you were to see who are all the people posting Halloween costumes, and what’s the most popular costume. That would be an interesting use case if we had really great neural networks and machine learning. But right now we’re mostly using the textual content of people’s captions and their accounts.

Machine learning's most brilliant application to date
Been using it daily for several months now, haven't had much trouble with it. Worked seamlessly with over half a decade of accumulated vim plugins and config modifications.
Interesting interview:

http://www.ausretrogamer.com/interview-with-bob-yannes-sid-c...
what are the tech used?
Visudo specifically avoids this problem by creating a copy of the sudoers file, invoke the editor as a normal user, wait for it to exit, check syntax and then rename the temporary file into the actual sudoers file.
>Because, fuzzy-headed theorists aside, anarchy doesn't really work that well for a country-sized society

Has it been tried and found lacking?
Sneakers is wildly entertaining on many levels. Plus it was an early hacker movie which was cool. Primer is trippy, one of those rare movies where you will instantly watch it again after the first viewing. Then you'll google the plot and read for an hour and watch it a third time in the same day. It works though.
The thing the article doesn't point out is why it seems unintuitive.

If you phrased the question as "You have N pounds of potatoes", or with a specific number other than 100, it would come across as less unintuitive. As you read, you see "100 lbs", and "99%", so percents and potato components are both out of 100. So then you see 98%, which is 98/100...
"Bitcoin is no longer considered a safe way to buy drugs."

This is not true. While it's not a good idea to waltz in naively and buy drugs without educating yourself, most people I know strongly prefer the dark markets to buying on the street.

---

The big trend is that the hype has died and that people have largely stopped using Bitcoin for things that it is not really good at. Growth is up though. People use it for its strengths more, many more people have heard of it, and overall Bitcoin is seeing a lot of traction.

As Greece demonstrated, it's really nice to be in control of your money. At current volatility, Bitcoin is more of a contingency plan than a savings strategy , but its core strengths are just as relevant as ever.
Meet the Engineer Who Forced Silicon Valley's Gender Problem into the Open
Even if it is internal, you're just making things harder on yourself if you go against convention for no reason.

Most client networking libraries have abstractions built upon those conventions. Like jquerys $.ajax: it returns a promise that will invoke the failure callback for a response other than a 200 level code.
If you are an indie tech service provider (developer, dba, sysadmin, etc., as a 1099 contractor or as an LLC) in an area where your keystrokes can cost a business money (errors and omissions, etc.) you should want to carry insurance and are often required to.

But it's cheap, a couple hundred bucks a year for $1M.

I recommend get comparison quotes via:

http://www.techinsurance.com
This is biased. You gain more than what you lost. The questions are challenging and you learn lots of new thing, everyday
Indeed. Ended up putting a button whole in the arm band and putting a button on my wetsuit.
Yes, going from a tape drive to the good ole 1541 was like night and day. Incredibly reliable device. I can't say the same thing for C=64 power supplies though.
Here is an English translation of his first book, "The turkish Affair" and it is a free e-book.

https://books.google.com/books?id=dy0NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=...
A lightning talk I gave at DjangoCon last year. I know we can do settings better.
From a traceability perspective radio broadcasts are superior. A sort of anonymous multicast.
And a taste for this generic beauty, twisted compaction, underneath mathematics.
After this article, my wife visited Paris and went to the FNAC (department store) to pick up one of these books for me. She asked the clerk and he said "Oh, we don't have those books here, you should go to the "Tabac" (a hole in the wall store where you buy newspapers, cigarettes, bus tickets, and junk food.)

It's funny that the French public puts this guy about two steps below Jack Reacher and Dirk Pitt. The covers always feature a overly made-up, blonde, Eastern European in some sort of fancy underwear/fetishwear holding some kind of fancy gun.

Anyhow, I got my SAS novel and enjoyed it.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've vaguely heard before that some nations (like North Korea) have difficulty building nuclear bombs because it's hard to enrich Uranium. This really quantifies that difficulty for me.
There is a certain type of mind that delights in paradoxes, to the extent that even after an explanation has been clearly produced, the person will continue to insist there is a paradox.

Naming things paradoxes attracts this sort of individual, so it's a kind of marketing ploy for an idea: it won't just get it talked about, it'll get it talked about forever, because each generation of paradox-mongers will take it up anew and discuss it and analyze it and do absolutely anything except acknowledge that the specific flaw in the reasoning that leads to the appearance of an impossible conclusion being true was exposed generations ago.

For example, consider the supposed paradox of the evening star and morning star, which I will first state in the a way that makes it clear there is no paradox, then restate in the traditional way.

"The Evening Star is Venus seen in the evening sky."
"The Morning Star is Venus seen in the morning sky."
"Transitivity implies therefore that the Evening Star is the Morning Star, since Venus seen in the evening sky is Venus seen in the morning sky."

This is obviously stupid: no one would make this claim. The traditional formulation actually depends on a falsehood, or at least on radically incomplete statements:

"The Evening Star is the planet Venus."
"The Morning Star is the planet Venus."
"Transitivity implies therefore that the Evening Star is the Morning Star, since the planet Venus is the planet Venus."

At this point, you can spend millions of words explaining why the statements identifying lights in the sky viewed at a particular time of day with a ball of rock orbiting the sun are problematic. It will be pointless: paradox-mongers will simply not let their nice toy be demolished.

Most traditional paradoxes have straightforward resolutions (frequently involving inserting a knowing subject into them, like the person who observes Venus) but none of them will ever be "solved" because of this purely psychological resistance to the possibility of their solution on the part of a very vocal sub-population.

One useful trick is to never let a paradox be stated in the traditional way. The first step in any discussion should be to restate the paradoxical situation as completely as possible, usually by introducing the perspective of particular individuals, as I've done above. Traditional paradoxes almost all depend on very specific ways of stating them for their psychological effect, and breaking out of that ritual pattern of restatement often makes them look simply stupid. One can then ask what is missing in the ritual statement of the paradox that makes it not seem stupid.

In the case of the Potato Paradox, the restatements we've seen here, which introduce the ratio 1:99 as the way to think about the problem, is a good example of this. Since the answer is not intuitive, the correct way to introduce the problem is to make it intuitive, not to blurt out a non-intuitive answer and expect the now-confused listener to catch up. That's just bad pedagogy.
Although it's somewhat true, if you had started with 14 pounds of potatoes instead, I still think most people at first glance would expect the final weight to be around 14, not half of it.
If you're evaluating something for use to keep healthy people healthy, then sure, you want to know they'll still be healthy after 10 years and not afflicted by some terrible long-term side effect. The potential downside of taking it may outweigh the downside of not taking it.

On the other hand, if you're evaluating something to keep people from dying, then "not dead" is sufficient in the short-term while continuing to watch for long-term effects. The downside of taking it cannot possibly outweigh the downside of not taking it. (Assuming some reasonable baseline expectation that it treats the condition it intends to treat.)
I pulled an Apple II Plus out of my parents’ attic. Now what?
As I understand it, when you hear a long list of possible side effects ("nausea, vomiting, upset stomach..."), that's derived from those same trials; if a thousand people try it, and two report those symptoms, they go on the list. (I don't know the actual threshold below which you can discount it as unrelated, but I'd be surprised if it was the same as a threshold for statistical significance, and I'd be somewhat surprised if there's any effort to seek causation.)
Camp Google
Scrum is not bijective with Agile.
Correct, Earth formed through accretion of a disk -- all which happen due to friction. If you have no friction and the velocities of particles are isotropic, then you should get something like a uniform cloud of particles (instead of a protoplanetary disk, which later condenses in planets). I guess the same dynamics apply on the scale of galaxies, which should explain the violation of the expected rotation curve.

It should still be possible that those weakly interacting particles would be captured by some body; if there is enough material (plus some other assumptions?) however, they should behave more like a almost uniform fluid (and not lumps like moons or planets), making it undetectable at small scales.

It'll be interesting to see how this hypothesis pans out.
New Horizons has seen Pluto, but at what cost?
I really enjoyed this movie, but I also feel like it was a Rorschach test for sociopathy. What you come away with at the end of this movie kind of says a lot about you as a person.
i was having the same issue.

enabling the option in ublock origin, my local IP would not show but my "Public" IP address still showed.

decided to checkout what options are in chrome://flags for webrtc (use to be enable/disable for webrtc but now thats restricted to just android).

found this other option in the flags, chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-stun-origin

Enable support for WebRTC Stun origin header. Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
When enabled, Stun messages generated by WebRTC will contain the Origin header.

i enabled it, my public IP no longer shows on that site.

doesnt matter if i disable/enable ublock, my public IP never shows on that site with that chrome flag enabled.

any idea what that flag actually does? and repercussions leaving it enabled?
The point is that it doesn't even appear absurd unless you have absolutely no number sense.
> Many CDNs however suggest that your origin is contacted by nobody except the CDN itself (not true for CloudFlare,
though).

CloudFlare does as well. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-prevention-protecting-the-o...
I'm actually shocked at what I felt was a not wholly unreasonable $77,000 price-point. I contracted with a prosthetics manufacturer a several years ago, and during the course of that work I recall hearing prices north of $20,000 for some of the trans-femoral prostheses with microprocessor-controlled knees. At $77,000 this unit certainly doesn't seem unreasonably expensive.
The W-9 just gets them your info. How they report the transfer of money (e.g. on a 1099) is not maximally relevant to how you categorize it on your tax return.

Talk to an accountant regarding how to characterize the transaction. Certain parts of this characterization must match between the company and you, and they're negotiable. You and the company have competing incentives here!

Example: All else being equal the company will want to push more of the pie into "income received for services rendered", which let's them avoid capitalizing the expense. That allocation is maximally tax inefficient for you: in an ideal world for you, the deal is structured such that the economic transaction is wholly money-for-property (triggering the US's favorable treatment of capital gains) and that any services required are incindental to the transaction and not billed seperately.
PayPal Phishing Email Demanding Account Information
Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK under new visa rules
I learned so much about programming on my C64 -- that one can buy it at a Toy R Us for $300 back then was amazing. I learned assembly on it - in fact what was really cool was that the 1541 disk drive had a full blow 6502 with 2k of RAM. I remember when I used that as a second computer to help calculate the Mandelbrot set! Multi-processer computing in 1985!

That machine was way ahead of its time in so many ways - pure genius.
This is only confusing because of the potatoes.

If you said you had a pool that was 99% water, that changed to 98% water, the massive weight drop would be much less surprising.