skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to popular belief, this is true about many rich people. Rich people, in general, are not sitting on piles of cash or extremely liquid assets that could simply be "taken" from them with no impact on anyone else. Taking away businesses, taking away capital, taking away their ability to capitalize on the human networks they've formed in some industry turns out to hurt the body politic as well. It's why none of the large-scale efforts to confiscate wealth that have happened in the real world (most recently Venezuela for one example) ever seem to be going so well five or ten years later, once the first party has ended... removing capital from the people who know how to utilize it is not exactly a great deal for society.

Yes, "rich" people can get there "unfairly", but it turns out "just take it from them" is really a stupid idea.

So as to not fit too clearly into a "capitalist" mold, note this line of argumentation argues that such rich people shouldn't be able to simply pass this wealth down to their children, unless perhaps their children demonstrate similar facility with using it to their and society's mutual benefit. (Legalizing that would be tricky as well, but at least conceptually it could be argued.)
Link to Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tPfs4yO...
I'm in the middle of my second big Wagtail project. Version 1.0 has fixed nearly all of the shortcomings I ran into during my experience with 0.8.x. The new API, the StreamField...such an awesome release. The only gripe I now have is that hallo.js is still being used for the RichText editor. Congratulations to the Wagtail team!
>Solve the issues of not limiting people to small numbers of publishers and not limiting their ability to share, and you will reduce publisher dependency on ad revenue.

I don't see how that fundamentally solves the problem of how you pay content producers. For a business model to survive you need to extract something from the end user eventually. With ads there is this turtle stacking problem - revenue comes from a consumer buying something from a retailer > retailer pays for ads on a website.

So at the end of the day there is an exchange of money, just not between the content producer and the consumer. If the desire is to kill the relationship between content and ads then the content needs to capture the revenue through another means - sales of hardcover books (internal ads), subscription services etc... there really aren't that many models.

Publishers are already very available, and sharing exists. Different channels for paying authors don't.
Your experience really resonates with me. I too suffer from occasional panic attacks. What techniques do you use to suppress them?
When looking at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Swarovski) I got some (possibly) conflicting information - that he was Jewish and an avowed Nazi party member. Especially given that some of the last edits looks unencyclopedic - could anyone more knowlegeble look at it and fix it? (I have tried to look at German Wikipedia and there was reference to Nazi party but not to Jewish roots, so the former looks more plausible.)
>> people really loved to hate on Tarsnap

On the contrary, Colin is highly regarded on HN both for his technical ability, and his success in business (despite breaking from conventional wisdom in how to be successful in business).
Why would they need to get it from United when the government already has it through TSA SecureFlight?
I am not sure where this belongs in the tutorial to intermediate spectrum, but it feels relevant.

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ocaml/
The last thing the world needs is more social networking and dating apps. Why do people still think this is a problem?
I agree with all the points in this article.

However, arguing that this law would not affect lawbreakers is not useful. The people making the laws don't care about that little fact, since their intention is to absolutely end our ability to use encrypted comms. Period.

Governments in fear act out with paranoia. Your freedom is irrelevant when the issue of the goverment's continued existence could be in question.

Crime and terror are red herrings.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868331
Why don't credit cards have a secret password like a pin code? I find it strange that all the security information is available on the card itself.
I wonder why you have been downvoted. I thought of the same. Upvoted.
I think this is a fair question, and I'm sure they'll address it in whatever way is necessary. As a startup, it's best to have a focus, otherwise you're just another generic recruiter.

It's possible that they'll need to tweak how they express that focus in terms of site design and onboarding process. I mean, if a site as big as eHarmony had to change their approach, it's quite likely a startup will run into similar issues. (I haven't tried signing up with Jopwell to see how they implemented the workflow, so I have no idea what it says currently.)

Thank you for the meaningful conversation.
Ohm, a library and language for parsing and pattern matching
On Why We Build (Molecular) Models
Bottle: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle

It's a nice, small, fast web framework. Great for building APIs. Also, it's one ~3k loc, readable file.[1]

[1] https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py
Also, how about examples of good web applications built on python with available source code?

Rather than seeing the code of great libraries, I sometimes want to see how people use them in the real world.
I've always loved the idea of Modnotebook. The blocker for me was always the thought of my notebook being lost while shipping it back to them, before it's been digitized. Glad to see someone using it happily though.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895694
http://www.penny4nasa.org/donate/ allows you to donate even through dogecoin.
Can you explain answer 4 and 5 please?

Thanks.
Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
That is pretty cool. I liked q9 since they named the characters after the RSA creators (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman) and the question is most likely modular exponentiation.
RethinkDB 2.1 beta: automatic failover with Raft
That might excuse improperly leaking something worthy of whistleblowing.

But Manning just took as much classified information as she could get her hands on and dumped it on an untrustworthy third party.

The vast majority of the information wasn't even leak worthy.

This isn't a case were some soldier found evidence of a crime or atrocity and was compelled to leak it.
1 - (web, network, file system, and more).

tornado -
tornadoweb.org
github.com/facebook/tornado

2 - scapy

The entire product runs on the python CLI

secdev.org/scapy
One of my favorite EEVBlogs. Thanks for the submission. Bob's yer uncle!

Side note: Dave noted the use of the old school OTP chip to store the executable code, contrasted it with modern flashable chips, and then linked the use to the original design. However I wonder if retaining the OTP chip isn't a specific security measure? It does what is needed with much less attack surface than a reprogrammable chip, doesn't it?
Game Gui – A Simple Skin-Able Gui for Games
Fair enough, so your question is one of equal accommodation and not hiring. What this boils down to is how they implement their signup and sourcing process, which is something you're absolutely right that they'll need to do properly.

P.S. I grew up in central CA and had a lot of Hmong, Mien, and Lao friends in school.
This one is so blatant maybe it would be supermarine advertising.
I don't think anyone thinks it's still a problem. They are just trying to get their piece of the pie.
In my experience, Tinder was a huge improvement over things like OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, etc, but Tinder has a super clunky app and is still geared mostly toward hookups. There is always room for improvement!
Yeah. I'm sure many remember all the other stuff that came with it last time: flash banners, popups/popunders, auto-reopening windows, etc. It was mighty crufty.

I wonder how many other developers got into disagreements back then with other departments about how that stuff "was the future" and that there "was no fighting it" and that "everybody should just accept it now." Then we got clean / low-cruft designs for a while. Now we're back indeed.

Cruft is cyclical.
I don't know what would be of my life right now without Django and I can't praise it enough... but "good example of readable python-code", it is not.
> with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years

Not really. This statement is true regarding desktop CPUs, but we all know for at least five years now Intel's focus is not desktop CPU performance anymore, but mobile. Hence most of the improvements we see are for mobile, like better embedded graphic (Sandy/Ivy Bridge forward) and improved power consumption (Haswell).
Accidentally confusing a cameraman for an RPG gunner during an actual fight with insurgents isn't murder. And it isn't a war crime.

Manning didn't commit treason either unless he was trying to aid the insurgency, but there is no reason to believe that.
How Pornhub’s designers keep you coming back
Thanks, Ryan! Check out this exciting PR which landed a few hours ago:

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1521

This allows Wagtail users to swap in alternative rich text editors, e.g. https://github.com/isotoma/wagtailtinymce
I interpreted that as they meant "amorphous solid" because they said it was not crystalline. But calling it a liquid if that's what they meant is a bit...wrong.
Unless your time is free, a registration is paying for it.
Man, it kinda bums me out that we have to be so guarded these days when just trying to help someone by correcting an honest mistake.

The trolls ruin these things for the rest of us.
Look you at you, Mr. Destroyer of Hopes and Dreams.
They switched the default C compilation mode from --std=gnu89 to --std=gnu11 in a bugfix-only release?
This Planet Money episode explains this well, and walks through a day in the life with one of the people who actually walks around and monitors prices.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/22/130757997/the-f...
I was also having an off day yesterday specifically around HN, but seeing your comment made my day. Thanks :-) I hope you have a much better day today as well.
We don't change titles arbitrarily and we certainly don't euphemize.

Turning "laid off" into "let go" sounds like nothing we'd do, and there's nothing like it in the logs, so I don't believe we did this.
I really worry that if we don't find a way to fix the abuse problem, pseudonymity online will be looked back on by future generations as our time's Klan hood. Abuse stories like these make me embarrassed to support any form of privacy online.

Platforms need to take a stand and find a way reduce hate and abuse, or public opinion (and my own) will turn against support of privacy. If it turns out pseudonymity is fundamentally incompatible with safety of the abused online then I'll take the latter, but I'd rather search for a way to have both.

Platforms banning abusive subcommunities seems like a good start.
Back in May, TheNextWeb made some changes. Their mobile experience at the time had two bars, one at the top and one at the bottom. Even on a large phone display, viewing the content between the two was very distracting. Also, they both had icons for twitter and Facebook. I gave them some feedback regarding the design and said that I felt it was a UX mistake. The VP of design got back to me and said, very politely, that he disagreed with my assessment. He went on to say basically that an increase in shares means an increase in page views which means an increase in ad impressions, and thus income. With TNW being an ad-supported company, this directly relates to the quantity and quality of our content. This lead me to feel that the single driving motivation was not that their users had a good experience, but that they maximized revenue. From a user point of view, I feel that's wrong. From a business point of view, it does make sense.

Regarding who is responsible for the final content, I would assume that if you have a VP of Design, that's the person. Maybe I'm wrong.

I notice now that they only have the one bar at the top. Interesting.
Very enjoyable read. I particularly liked the Dostoyevsky exchange.
Hey thanks so much for your feedback. So if there was a SaaS tool designed for development teams that cleanly and simply managed issue tracking and task management, would that be something you would use? What would you need to make switching to a tool like that worth it?
Twilio: Transparency Report for Government Requests for Customer Information
It's common in the military to train for extreme scenarios, because sooner or later you might encounter them in reality (i.e. war) where you are forced to do it whether you have trained for it or not.
Steveklabnik/CLOSURE
That is not true. Germany has a long history of extremism and terrorism from the left and right side of the spectrum. The only thing missing is the international context, so there is no war against terror, for example, and the discussion is usually not global since there are no wars to fight in other countries since it's all homemade.
Other European countries such as Ireland or Spain have had their fair share of local terrorist groups as well.

More info can be found here, just as examples for Germany:

for the left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

for the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground
>Tinder was a huge improvement over things like OkCupid

How so?
Expa-Backed Drip Gives Artists a Membership Layer for Their Most Engaged Fans
Agreed.

> par·a·dox
A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
From a purely seat-of-my-pants-im-trying-to-remember-college point of view, I believe the heat is caused far more by pumping tons of electricity, rather than physical size/layout.

A big problem (and also probably why they're so thin) is that at a certain size latency becomes a huge issue. This is where clock speed increases come into play (electrons move faster) along with die decreases (electrons can travel shorter distances).

If you can run 100mph, but you have to run 200 miles vs. someone who can walk 1mph, but only has to walk 10 feet... I wish I had some more concrete examples but I can't come find anything off the top of my head.
Thank you! This actually explained what is going on perfectly.
I just posted this in the earlier submission[1], but I'll put it here too:

I really worry that if we don't find a way to fix the abuse problem, pseudonymity online will be looked back on by future generations as our time's Klan hood.

Abuse stories like these make me embarrassed to support any form of privacy online.
Platforms need to take a stand and find a way reduce hate and abuse, or public opinion (and my own) will turn against support of privacy. If it turns out pseudonymity is fundamentally incompatible with safety of the abused online then I'll take the latter, but I'd rather search for a way to have both.

Platforms banning abusive subcommunities seems like a good start.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9898366
Did you clear the cache beforehand? (since you don't have "disable cache" checked)
> Not really, Kahneman is talking about doing better or worse than expected, not about your best or worst performance.

At a given point in time there are two quantities we need to worry about: how the teacher expects the student to perform at that point in time and the student's ability to perform at that point in time.

If the teacher is rational and has seen the student perform many times these quantities will be the same. I think the outcome is probably optimized if these quantities are the same at all times but in the real world there may large disparities in the values which can fluctuate over time.

Nevertheless, suppose it were the case that the values are always equal. Then Kahneman's hypothesis is obviously wrong. The student will perform better than expected roughly the same number of times they perform worse than expected (in the long run, obviously).

Regression to the mean exists, yes, but has no impact on the distribution of the events of being above the mean or below the mean.

I supposed that Kahneman would recognize this fact and he his reference to regression to the mean was based on a more complicated but much more realistic model where the expectation is not always aligned with reality. In such a model there must be a mechanism for relating the two quantities after each new performance/test/review.

I tried to think of how this model would work and suggested Kahneman meant that expectations were adjusted based on previous best values. I should have been clearer that other mechanisms were possible and that I was only guessing which Kahneman meant. Then I argued that based on my experience this is a poor model of how teachers punish/reward their students in general because it is unnatural and unhelpful to the task at hand. As this model is not valid his conclusion that people are incentivized to punish each other is specious.
Well there is nothing publicly disclosed as far as I can tell.
How easy it is to intercept mobile phone calls using an IMSI Catcher
NASA's New Horizons Space Probe: Powered by PlayStation
I recommend PyToolz, "set of utility functions for iterators, functions, and dictionaries":
https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

The functions in PyToolz are short, well tested and idiomatic Python (thought the functional programming paradigm they support is not quite so idiomatic). I recommend starting with the excellent documentation:
http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

In particular, the API docs have links to the source code for each function:
http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html
No, they did that in 5.1. The linked page is mostly about the overall 5.x series, with a tiny little section at the bottom about 5.2.
> The arguments that fauna are somehow more alive than fauna has never felt very strong to me.

Do you enjoy talking your fern out for a walk and the companionship you feel with it?
Is there a way to remove the styles but apply some others instead which highlight the borders and natural layout of the elements?

Kind of like if you turned off styles and used the inspect feature of your browser but with all it's mouse-over highlights and guidelines turned on at once.
> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc.

That's not trivial, and it's certainly won't be the default, normal thing everyone does. Instead Keybase will encourage a single identity linking multiple accounts. This is fundamentally bad.
Flash authoring tool now exports to HTML5/Native via OpenFL (video demo)
No. I'm making a pedantic (clearly) suggestion about a small visual irritant for the very good reason that because of the (hopefully) temporarily toxic environment in our field, some other human beings I care about might feel a bit put out by the choice of word A over word B. Words or humans? A different word could have been chosen at zero cost and made someone else feel better or less bad; so I'll suggest that door thank you--no it doesn't matter if those put out are being rational, expressing logic compilable by GCC, or otherwise fit with anyone else's ideas about what is proper and right, because it cost nothing to do.

I dislike thinking about stuff like this. It's a waste of time and a distraction from things that truly matter, e.g., Pluto! But, a bunch of jerks already set the stage and the tune and it behooves those of us wanting to profit on that stage to be aware.

If you have data or citations to back up the "most common and easiest to understand" please share, I'm always interested in seeing data. Here's what I have to offer, for what it's worth:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=man-hour&year_...
Don't do this.

Most of the financial forms now ask if you own more than X% of a company (I think 10-20%), and you must list which one if you do. Plus you sign an IRS form that allows them to pull your prior tax returns, in which case they will likely see the corporation or partnership forms, meaning you just lied to the bank. While rarely is it prosecuted and rarely do you get in any real trouble, it is technically against the law in the US from what I understand. And if nothing else, bad way to start off with the bank.

There are the rare cases like remyp mentioned where you are an employee but own a reportable percentage of a company in which case you still have to disclose it all up front to avoid banks from getting all crazy on you.

You can search for a lot of the rules as many fall under the dodd-frank mortgage rules, and also you can look at the fannie mae guidelines as most banks follow them to protect themselves.
Ask HN: Is it just me or do the no-reply email addresses really bug you?
I recently wanted to respond to a company about an issue and their reply featured the classic "no-reply" email address. I mean in this world of instant communication and intelligent email management do we really still need a no-reply email! Thoughts anyone or is it just me :)
earlier thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9897849
Mountain biking: route planning; journey mapping; distance logging; GPS direction showing; etc etc.

For someone who wants ideas you use your non-computer hobbies as somewhere to get ideas.
On D3, React, and a Little Bit of Flux
Interesting concept, and congratulations on shipping! I think you should rework the copy ("you group = liked"?!), but I'm interested in seeing whether this gets traction.

I'm based in Japan, where people usually like to meet in groups, even for romantic relationships (look for gōkon[1]), so if you don't have the growth you're looking for in the US, try on the other side of the Pacific. Ping me if you have a question.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_dating#Japan
Amazon Says Prime Day Was Bigger Than Black Friday and Will Be Held Again
Social and dating networks are massive and growing industries, so there are aspects of the problem that are still being addressed.
Reddit is a good place as already suggested by someone.

Also, I'm an Indian CS student. PM me if I can help.
Number 4 is pretty cool because the programs use the fact that they know how the other program guesses to make sure they win.

If I'm Program 1 and I see a 0, I will guess 0. If Program 2 sees a 0, Program 1 guessed correctly and it doesn't matter what he guessed. If Program 2 sees a 1, he will guess the opposite (0) and this means that Program 1 was wrong but Program 2 was right.

If Program 1 sees a 1, he guesses 1. If Program 2 sees a 1, Program 1 is correct. If Program 2 sees a 0, he guesses 1 and is correct.

The above is a truthtable in words that shows they are always right.

For number 5, I translated the binary numbers to decimal and used an ASCII table to convert them to ')87*;+xorXOR'. This is a different answer than grandparent. The following C++ code does the conversion:
http://pastebin.com/ThxdHHwu
Introducing Drip
Is it not a problem? Is everybody happy with all the people they know/not know?

(not that I think that most apps/sites out there actually does help solve the problem, but there clearly is potential for improving things)