skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes. Way to betray your brothers who risk their lives for our freedoms. For me, I can only say I'd never have the balls to sign up for the army... These guys do something we can't pay for directly and maintain our standard of living, so we must find other ways to reward them. Certainly when one of them is lonely, I'd hate to think anyone .. especially a fellow veteran, would call it 'whining'.

I feel the same way about teachers, farmers, policemen as well.
Since we're counting on lots of people who aren't in the job market to participate, if people get nothing out of Starfighter other than referrals to jobs, we're doing something very wrong.

The first Starfighter CTF is first and foremost a labor of love. I know the hiring angle dominates discussion of the concept, but I can't say this any more clearly: we are sinking all our energy into building the programming game we've wanted to exist for years. The thing we're building is only peripherally connected to hiring.
JJ Charlesworth on Why the Art Market Is a Bubble That's Not Going to Burst
One of the major problems with this is that whatever you're hooking the Leap Motion up to will need to be pretty beefy, since the way the LM works is by offloading the processing needed by the sensors [0]. The Leap Motion is in such a small form factor precisely because it doesn't actually do very much on the inside. All of the processing is done on the connected host. I have no idea what the minimum requirements for that processing is, but I don't think a RPi or Edison is going to cut it.

[0]: http://blog.leapmotion.com/understanding-latency-part-1/
An explicitly racially discriminatory recruiting firm is, as far as I can tell, a legal novelty. For example, I am of Hmong origin, which means my submitted resume would be ignored purely based on my race according to the stated "acceptable ethnic groups" on the website.

It may have some sort of precedent/protection in US affirmative action doctrine, but I'm not so sure a lawsuit would be immediately dismissed. Anybody with more US anti-discrimination law knowledge feel free to add in.
It isn't going to be the hacking version of Eve Online in chapter 1, but yes, that is e x a c t l y what we are shooting for.

The thesis statement behind the game is literally, "what if CTFs were more like MMORPGs?"
The cost that your security policies inflict on users is also hard to measure.
hah, I forgot about that note.

Good point - our stance was to protect from targeted code injections (by a coerced or hacked Google). But of course you're right, there's no point letting Google know at all.

I've made an issue to move font/css hosting off Google.
It's a discussion forum not a standalone blog and in discussions people don't like to be ignored or silenced. Just because it's typed out on the internet doesn't change that. I do understand why people whine about people whining about votes but it doesn't make it any less grating.
Wow that's rude. No need to insult someone's upbringing on a thread based on their musings about a snippet of code.

Also you're wrong. Critique is useful in and of itself, not just as a direct means to getting something fixed. If person A doesn't have the time/skill to fix something, they can critique it, hope that person B sees the critique and goes on to fix it. Also, by critiquing it, it starts a discussion about what caused the problem, and how it might be fixed, which is useful for third parties reading the critique: now they know what not to do in their own code.

If you're censoring all of your criticisms just because you don't have the resources to execute on your own, you're hindering discussion and doing a disservice to the community. In a way you're bikeshedding.

Imagine if you were at a coffeeshop and the barista makes a racist remark about the customer in front of you. Do you sit there quietly and let it happen just because you don't have the power to fire him? Or maybe a less loaded example: suppose your friend gets scammed into paying $2000 for a $900 laptop, do you tell him? Doing so might make him feel stupid, but if you care for his well being you'll tell him so that he doesn't do the same thing again.

Criticism isn't rude, it's useful. Insulting someone based on two sentences they post on the internet isn't useful, it's rude.
Sorry. There should be a trailing 'l' that got dropped when I copy pasted.
>There is zero reason for a search engine to restrict such use (and distribution).

Because these logos depict their trademarked images, and the licensing that they'd offer would likely not allow use for any purpose. Debian's social policy requires that everything included in their distribution be freely licensed for any use.
Avoid startup distractions
vim crashes or hangs for me about once every month. I've never bothered to find out why since I don't think it's worth the effort. The effort would be lower if the code was cleaner and didn't have so much bloat related to platforms that don't exist. It would definitely be easier to submit a patch if I didn't need to cater to all the platforms I've never seen.
Why are most of the pics black and white?
It would be interesting to run this through the preprocessor and see what it comes out as on a real Linux system or something. I can't really tell through all the #ifs, but it would certainly be much shorter.
Paypal starts trading, valued at $45B
I was surprised at how good it sounds. These things are usually handled so very badly. But I am curious why women were not included in this effort as an underrepresented group in tech. Are there plans to do so at some point? Or is the intent to only address racial issues?

Thanks.
Historical reasons--it's an adaptation of a (weirder, but uninteresting) internal interface which we couldn't really put good types on for ~reasons.
I think I see what you were trying to say. You heard of modafinil, and the person who mentioned it to you said they were very good. The way you originally worded it makes the clauses seem independent (you could have heard about it from some brochure, or a movie, or anything). I think people downvoted you because "He said they were very good." taken by itself doesn't identify the "he", and it sounds like you are trying to imply some secretive information you have but are unwilling to share.

Imagine your first sentence wasn't present, and what people implied from your post.
Serious question: is this legal?
And depending who you work for - working for the government has just landed any close relatives (parents, children, spouse) on a hitlist. You'll be "spared" of course; so you can suffer the rest of your days knowing your decision is what led to your family being killed.

This is the threat many drug rings give dealer who get caught. You do your 10 years and you do not provide the feds with any information or everyone you love will be offed. It's a threat that is very effective at keeping mouths shut.

So the choice isn't always clear-cut "take the government and their protection and work for them".
The Guardians of Xegarath trailer
2013: "Decentralized money is amazing- Let me build a business around it!"

2014: "Hmmm... I just built a centralized business around Bitcoin, so now my customers have the same counterparty risks as before... why was I excited about Bitcoin again?"

2015: ???

2016: Profit

(If someone figures out the entry for 2015, please let me know what it is...)
> Why downvote him for asking a totally legitimate question?

That wasn't a legitimate question, that was flamethrowing. It's bad to be aggressive in HN comments and it's bad to be unsubstantive; both at the same time is right out. No question, argument, or opinion needs to be expressed that way, and nothing is more destructive of HN's values.
The most exciting part is the following:

"The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet. The image easily resolves structures smaller than a mile across."

At its closest, the probe was 7,800 miles away, so we're going to get images way clearer than this in the following days, and even this is amazing to look at.
ReWalk Robotics's New Exoskeleton Lets Paraplegic Stroll the Streets of NYC
I love all these hardware hacking options! I wish someone would do a project-based one for the raspberry pi, though.
I'm working on my Date Range Picker component for Bootstrap:

http://www.daterangepicker.com

Over 3 years of piling on new features and pull requests haphazardly, it's gained a bunch of unnecessary code complexity and odd little bugs when settings are set in just the right combination. I've spent the past few afternoons rewriting it from scratch, returning to sane code organization, and an updated UI that'll work for more sites. Feels good.

Now I'm working on redoing the documentation and demos so I can publish. Should be ready by tomorrow.

I also just finished redoing a 16-year-old website of mine, which I mostly maintain for nostalgia's sake, Website Goodies:

http://www.websitegoodies.com

It was initially a collection of HTML tutorials and Perl scripts, now with just tools, no tutorials, in modern languages. Somehow real people are still posting to guestbooks created there in the 1990s, so why not keep it going? Makes a bit of AdSense money on the side too.
I respectfully disagree that the comment is terrible, though as its author I may be biased. The gist of my comment was to ask questions. CTRL-F "?". This service is not necessary if a company wants to hire diversity, all they have to do is look at the candidate to see that the candidate is non-white (again, if hiring diversity is the goal of the company). That just seems racist though.

I do agree with your point that companies can source from wherever they want, but using a service that excludes one or more races is really not a favorable solution. As I mentioned in a previous comment, I cannot recommend this solution to my clients, as it has too much potential for litigation. If Jopwell simply allowed all candidates to apply, regardless of race, and let the client company apply a filter like "Black" or "Native American" or search by photo, if that is the criteria or purpose of their search, then it would make a bit more sense.
Click and Grow (YC S15) Lets You Grow an Indoor Garden with Zero Effort
Wages have been stagnant for the past 30 years (inflation adjusted), but education and housing costs have been skyrocketing.

Rent control laws are set up to benefit long term residents, so new workers or people who move to a new city get screwed.

So it's much worse than it used to be. Depending on how far back you go with "used to be".
I'm not that up to date on the whole solar thing but I guess he then probably recommended not exceeding 600V (not W) for private uses.

The lawsuits were over high end equipment with higher ratings (I'm guessing voltage-wise) that had a small possible weakness which, when combined with installation which was too rough, ended up causing fires in hay-barns all over France.
Virtual Reality market ecosystem map
Grats @gabrielh!
Mike Olson, Co-Founder of Cloudera, on open source, Aaron Levie, NYC, and more
The estimate that this area is very new based on the fact that there are no meteor craters assumes that we know the distribution of meteors and space debris in the outer solar system. Does anyone know if we do in fact know this?

It seems plausible that there would be far fewer things at that distance, so the frequency of collisions would be lower.
The really interesting part is the last paragraph:

In a related case, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, aka
Gribodemon, 26, of Tver, Russia; and Hamza Bendelladj, aka
Bx1, 27, of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28,
2014, and June 26, 2015, respectively, in the Northern
District of Georgia in connection with developing,
distributing and controlling SpyEye, a malicious banking
trojan designed to steal unsuspecting victims' financial and
personally identifiable information. Bendelladj and Panin
advertised SpyEye to other members on Darkode.

Note that they were arrested in Georgia. Do they mean the country of Georgia, enemy of the Russians and friend of the US? Or do they mean the state of Georgia in the US?

Either way, the US has them in custody, which suggests an arrest on US soil (come visit the US trap style) or a foreign arrest and extradition.

I'm guessing by the tone of that last paragraph that this is how the FBI got in. They flipped them and offered them a pkea bargain. We'll find out at sentencing.
If institutional investors were responsible for the decrease in volatility, I'd think we would've seen a corresponding increase in liquidity. (It's the additional liquidity and depth of market that they presumably would provide that dampen the price swings). I haven't run the data recently, but anecdotally I don't think liquidity has improved much.

The most liquid/highest volume period was still the run to $1000.
It definitely happens. I don't think it makes sense for the buyer, but it definitely happens.
@maximedev Thank you for your feedback but i didn't change any behavior of the scrolling. Can you send me a screen shot or give me an example what is the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience, i am still learning how to handle this.
You're not really using the service, you're connecting to "the" web of trust (Are there disconnected non-contiguous islands on keybase? Only the admins know, probably). That makes me feel "meh" about giving out my invites to random HN users. I mean, if you're not going to connect to me, or the rest of the WoT, then what value do "we" get from you joining, and if you're not going to connect to me, or the rest of the WoT, then what value do you get from my invite?

Now what I don't understand is there are existing large WoT in GPG keys and they "shoulda" given like 1000 invites to anyone with a debian.org developer key because thats a community of deeply connected very long term WoT (well, more or less).

Find someone in your existing WoT who is on keybase and they probably have invites and will give one. I have invites. I will give them out to anyone in my existing WoT who asks. If they aren't in my WoT then theres no point for them to ask, or me to give. Even friend of friend or more distant, not just signed each others keys.

This also creates a dilemma where I have to keep a stockpile of invites in case some I closely connect to "needs" an invite. So FoFoFoF of some guy I met at a HOPE conf might not get one of my invites because I need to save it in case my coworker finally gets off his butt and signs up and he needs my invite. This is rollout mistake two, I should be able to request via a form or something "I have a really good excuse now gimme an invite". However they're AFAIK randomly granted over time or something.
A, B and D would be affecting on-site developers just as much as the remotes, but C (communication) is the thing that requires unique abilities for a remote worker.

If either the worker or the company is not good at communicating, that will cause serious problems. Poor communication from the managers can easily cause poor motivation and execution problems from the workers. If a worker is not communicating blocks or reaching out for the help they need, that can also lead to those problems.
Show HN: Slidenjoy triple your laptop screen
Thank you very much - great reaction.
> I know plenty of people who wouldn't think twice about leaving out a middle name that they hate.

And I haven't met a bank that didn't ignore the middle initial when validating a credit card. Even though they all say "enter your name as it appears on the card".

Which just makes it easier for them to be stolen. If someone gets a hold of your card number they probably also have the record of what you bought. If you had it delivered to your house they have your first and last names and zip code. All they need is the CVV2 (pick a random number from one to one-thousand) and they're in the clear.

I really don't get credit card security at all. Seems to me to be a lot of smoke and mirrors that the banks just plaster over with insurance for when they have to give back stolen money. It doesn't actually prevent or deter theft, just sweeps it under the rug.
> * Saying advertisement is the "one avenue" is lying through clenched teeth.*

You are ignoring the import of the very line you quoted: to demand the web to be free. While there are exceptions, in general people do not like to pay for web content, which includes subscription models, premium services/special access, and donations/flair. Sponsored posts are advertisements.

> If I get a report on war breaking out in Egypt does it matter if I read it in the New York Times or see it trending on Twitter?

If it is trending on Twitter, to read the report you must click a link which goes to a web site that needs to pay its writers.

> Most people are more than happy enough to share news for free

From a source that needs to pay its writers.

> and I can likely hear it from a family member or friend.

Who heard about it from a source that needs to pay its writers, right?

> But CNN's coverage of the conflicts will do and is easily accessible.

CNN is, well, a source that needs to pay its writers. And they do so through advertising. Because we demand the web to be free.
In principle, yes, but then you'd need considerable coordination with the compiler. The two things you'd need

- "Don't use these registers in this scope": not out of the range of possibility, but not well supported to our knowledge.

- "Be OK with an unpredictable jump to this label at any time": not going to happen without a LOT of work. This means that the whole crit section can't change the stack pointer, can't stash a register value on the stack, can't...etc. It wouldn't be impossible by any means to write a compiler that does this, but I don't know anyone who has and good luck managing it now.

(Before someone mentions asm goto: a) not supported in Clang, which is a dealbreaker, b) only supports jumps from particular points, not anywhen. The compiler is free to require such a jump to emit cleanup code to match local state to the label being jumped to; we can't do that.)

But we definitely considered trying it that way--it's just not quite practicable, and the workarounds we came up with more expensive than just having the whole crit section be inline assembly. That does work pretty nicely in the latest version (to be posted sooner or later.)
@iDemonix Sorry for the inconvenience, I am not sure how to fix this issue but trying to figure it out. Thank you for the feedback.
Two words:

FUCK YOU.
The highest resolution imaging system, LORRI, is monochrome. They can provide color by using another, lower resolution system named Ralph, or by any of a number of false color approaches. See more e.g. here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Payload.php
Either they don't know how HTTP can be utilized more effectively or they don't care.

The former is relatively easy to fix. Still searching for the answer for the second one...
Where do you live? You can't be paying much rent.
Small development teams, what are your biggest qualms with bug management tools?
Hey HN, I'm hoping to get the community's opinion on currently available bug management/issue tracking tools such as JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, etc. Are you happy with these tools? What are they missing that you would like to see? Or what do they do that you find annoying or unnecessary? I'm specifically looking for feedback from small and remote development teams. Thanks!
Hi there, we do our best to validate and verify users on our platform, we can’t guarantee that all tickets are valid at this moment. However, in case there is a dispute, we will do our best to investigate and once it's confirmed a scam (with sufficient proof) we will prohibit the scammer user from using our platform and also issue the party at loss a full refund by queueIn.
I believe that NASA expected lots of craters on Pluto due to its close proximity to the Kuiper Belt, which is full of asteroids and other small objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
It's interesting to see what is announced tomorrow.

A lot of people in this thread are mentioning the default subs - how is a mod of a sub with 8 million subscribers supposed to make sure every single thing posted isn't 'offensive'?
I love the design -- looks beautiful =) Great work!
It also seems plausible that there would be more collisions that far out - Pluto is believed to be a Kuiper Belt object, after all.
> and I see this falling to $0.

This implies that a trustless perfectly transparent currency has no value, which is obviously not true.

Bitcoin might die because the protocol is flawed. It does make a lot of mistakes that altcoins do great work to solve - block size, chain size, volume, and proof of work are all messed up to varying degrees. The rate of monetary base inflation being a piecewise downward spiral to a limited final supply is in no way practical for a day to day currency, ever.

But the technology basically crushes whatever nonsense you want to throw around when discussing fiat currencies, because at the end of the day every fiat dollar has to be "trust us". The financial industry has exploded on the back of phantom wealth with no physical asset backing, and bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general are the counter to that entirely by being perfectly forwarded backed assets moreso than any other holding or investment you can have.

You can literally have the wallet file controlling a portion of wealth, and that wealth is backed by the computational power of the network, and the combined appraisals of everyone else using the money. If you hold gold shares, you have records that you own an amount of gold held by a third party trading company, maybe (its not like you are ever going to go withdraw it), and you are in good faith assuming the market cap is accurate, because nobody can actually summarize the amount of gold out there, even in just the investment market, accurately. And fiat dollars are even worse, since fractional reserve banking and digitization had led to tremendous amounts of money out there being literally numbers in a database but they have none of the benefits of bitcoin having a collective ledger of transaction history.

The technology is superior. We just need a Snowden of money the way Snowden was of privacy to demonstrate that "trust us" is what has literally zero valuation.
> Why would a developer work in such a place? I imagine you would be forced to be all professional yet always play second fiddle to the traders, no matter great your skills were.

Even if your imagination were correct, I'd expect "money" would be a factor. Not all developers are primarily concerned about maximizing workplace status.
Sick kids, desperate parents, and the battle for experimental drugs
But clearly the same story, and already on the front page.
I used Ludei in past. Works great.

[0] - https://www.ludei.com/showcase/
This is a company that is working very hard to provide an ADDITIONAL source of candidates, emphasizing traditionally under-represented groups. If it helps you any, put it in a different context: think about a recruiting firm focused on helping small-town Americans. They would put you in their job pool if you live in a town that has less than 25,000 people or whatever. Would you make the same complaints about that service?

Good companies will ALWAYS source candidates from many possible routes. The worst companies now are the ones that only hire friends and family or people with "culture fit" (often thinly veiled term for "reminds me of me"). Those are not hiring from a very large pool. There is no company doing the opposite ("I will only hire people not referred by friends"), and to complain about a possible straw man future where Jopwell becomes a monopoly, putting Dice, Craigslist, and every individual recruiter out of business is laughably easy to dismiss.

I haven't looked at Hacker News much recently, and I had a self-imposed 2 year ban on visiting it that I kept to until then. Comments like this are literally making me tear up and wish I hadn't come back. :(
Because the instruments that took the pictures monochrome.