skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even as a musician, it's the human expression side that talked to me. Expressing your voice and ideas. Also the existential notion of time, no rush no drag, very important outside of the instrument.

The final part was like being in a rocket taking off, pretty intense.
"Vim is, without question, the worst C codebase I have seen."

From the example you give, I agree it must be bad. But if you want to see something worse, check out PHP. No, not the billions of programs written in the PHP language (which are, indeed, almost all terrible), but the C source to the PHP interpreter.

Obviously PHP was invented by someone who just doesn't care about creating a decent programming language. Everyone knows that; it has been pointed out so many times that it's a cliche. But if you look at the source to the implementation, you will find that it was developed by someone who is so incompetent that whether they care or not is beside the point. Dealing with that codebase (and thinking about how successful PHP has become) made me question my will to live.
Robert Mundell, evil genius of the euro (2012)
The smile on Mr. Woo's face is what sells this for me. Yeah the device looks a little clunky and it can't match human agility, but this is the face of a man who can walk again.
Twitter Link Summary Cards will make me tweet less
They are generally not text only. I feel that images are useful to allow browsing the markets as they were and may be highly valuable in their own right as research material, so I tried to collects images where applicable. (The forums usually did not support any kind of image upload other than avatars, so this is more relevant to the markets than forum scrapes.)

As far as CP goes, there should be essentially zero CP anywhere in the archive. DNM users almost universally loathe CP, and no market has ever dared to permit sales. (You may find this funny: CP is so taboo, on the DNMs like elsewhere, that it's been used in at least one attack - SR2's DoctorClu/Brian Farrell infamously attacked a rival market's forum by posting CP to it.)
I sadly agree. I'd instead focus on tools that help people band together and make noise about an issue. If politicians catch wind of a strong enough grassroots campaign that might sway a vote, I imagine they're more likely to take action.

The wheels have to be very squeaky to get their attention over the money/influence.

Otherwise they just pretend to care.
That is the right attitude and sorry, don't mean to dismiss that either. I was just kinda piggy-backing the OP's story with a small tid-bit that I found funny. It's more about poking fun at the "wow!" reactions than it is directly at you.
> who in the world has all these platforms handy for testing?

This was the OpenBSD project's testing rack in 2009: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg
Nostaliga trip!

My parents had bought me a Commodore 16 for Christmas, maybe 85 or 86. I remember us hooking it up to the old Rank Arena telly that we had in our back room and then not knowing what to do. I remember we put a tape in and pressed PLAY but didn't type anything.

Only ended up having that machine for a few weeks from memory. We couldn't find any software for it and couldn't really figure it out, so my parents packed it up and took it back to the store where they exchanged it for a C64.

I'll never forget the next few days. The computer was set up in the living room and it was amazing to everyone. We played Space Invaders and Frogger and Arcadia and African Safari.... My mum and dad got into it, my uncles and aunts got into it.

I'll never forget falling asleep snug in my bed, listening to the rest of the family out in the living room laughing and having such an awesome time.

Then I found BASIC and "WOW I CAN MAKE THE COMPUTER DO WHAT I WANT!". The rest is history :)

Nothing really quite matched that feeling, until the 'Christmas of the Wii'. Sitting at my aunt's place, again with lots of the family around, watching my normally grumpy grandfather get into Wii Sports.

Oh man, this made my day. I'm so lucky to have the life that I do :)
I don't think that works. It's not remotely browsable or searchable. It would be quite challenging to put these scrapes up, anyway. They're regular wget crawls with a regular directory/file structure, the problem is that there's so much material and so many files that it can be almost impossible to find what you are looking for... (Plus you need to rewrite links into relative links to make everything render properly.)
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I did, but the problem is that I never expected to be scraping for so long and it was always easier to just solve by hand than do a complete rewrite and allow for using CAPTCHA libraries. If I had known I would be scraping for ~3 years, I would have done many things differently: http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20archives#how-to-crawl-ma...
Building the next box
Looking at this code I really can't help but think the biggest opportunity out there for PL designers is Pythonic BeamVM language.

Elixir is great, but I think a language like this would pull away so many Python guys from their migration to Go and Python3 and take Erlang to a new level.
That article illustrates the maxim that writing about music is like dancing about architecture
Ask HN: Appropriate (US) tax form for a software acquisition?
My friend and I are selling a piece of software we've developed, and he will go on to work for that company. For the sake of simplicity lets just assume its just one person in this transaction instead of both of us.

The software acquisition will be done in a transaction, and the hiring separately.

Does anyone have advice regarding how to handle this transaction? The company wants him to fill a w9, but won't that imply that the software acquisition was work done for income, rather than an asset transfer / capital gain (or something)?

Any help appreciated, thanks
++ Awesome diet app. would buy again. Good seller
Siri is correcting users who refer to Bruce Jenner instead of Caitlyn Jenner
Considering the context (the significance of this event to the entirety of humanity), is this sort of nationalism gross to anyone other than me?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.h...
Rule Breaker Investing
AFAIK one description of RC4 always expand the key to a 256 byte array by repeating the key. It would be interesting to run keystream bias tests against this full array.
There are a lot of companies with VMS environments that _must_ be regularly updated/patched/maintained with various security bits for SOX compliance or the like. There certainly are places with static installs that are carefully guarded, but that doesn't mean there isn't a poor admin/dev/user who appreciates an updated or patched version. Heck, he might be the guy doing the porting in his spare time to make his day job better. Often if your seeing regular updates to continue support for an obscure system, its a good bet someone using that environment is the key contributor for their own sanity.
Never die Vim fans
Cool, agree on the first two, will have to rewatch Sneakers, haven't seen Primer. Here are some of my favorites: Kramer vs. Kramer, High Noon, Groundhog Day, Leon: The Professional. High Noon in particular is told in real time so it has this intense feeling like Whiplash.
Coolest 3D video i've seen
Python unit testing: parametrized test cases (2011)
Earth's core cannot be filled with any significant dark matter I think because we know its composition and the calculated weight matches well with the gravity we experience.

Dark matter doesn't collide w/ other non-dark particles usually so it cannot lose momentum so any dark matter would just pass through Earth.
Why would you type a 2FA code when you have bluetooth?
Okay, now I'm wondering about something.

A point that Bruce has harped on for years is that the law often creates the wrong incentives for security policies. In particular, in the U.S., the downside of what we call "identity theft" often falls squarely on the consumer, while the security policies for the banking industry are designed by banks. Thus the policy makers may not have to live with the downsides of their own policies.

I'm guessing that the incentives created by the law for banking security are rather different in Singapore -- maybe not ideal, but certainly different.

Can you (or anyone else) comment knowledgeably on this?
This isn't a paradox at all. It's a slightly non-intuitive result.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Often, the problem with this kind of academic work is that they don't have a real world system to gather data and study different algorithms. I don't really care if javac (one of the application they benchmark) takes 10% more or less time. I want to know how much time engineers save when using ARC vs tracing GC over a long period of time (development + maintenance).
The law is created by people. If enough people support it, the laws will eventually become overturned.
I don't really understand why Freelancers Union is useful anymore. I thought the point of those "unions" were work-arounds to the old system where group rates were drastically cheaper.

But with the Affordable Care Act, individual plans are no longer medically underwritten, so how are those groups helpful?
Possibly my favorite part of the entire post comes from the comments at the bottom. Apparently some radio stations used to broadcast software--you'd just record it onto a tape and then load it with your C64 (or other computer with a tape drive)! What a fantastic world I missed out on by being born a decade late!
they all will acknowledge that the data used in empirical studies in the field of economics is notoriously unreliable

Then economics absolutely needs to stop being called a "science".
Why are martial arts special?

And why would a charity care about a bounced check?
That's an interesting point. My answer, in three parts:

1. Meat-loaf.

2. Beat-loaf.

3. I hate meat-loaf.
In physics, when a new study is released physicists don't change their opinions overnight. There's a big difference in how a scientist treats a study that was recently released and one that has survived a decade or so.
This could help solve the personal identity verification issues associated with smart contracts and such. This is one of the key problems with the Ethereum project too.
Capital One credit cards don't charge feed on charitable donations made through their website.
Hospital fights software co. demanding payment for software last used in 2004
There is no such guarantee when using CLOCK_REALTIME. If you need this guarantee, use the monotonic clock. I've had issues with graphics engines written naively assuming nobody would change CLOCK_REALTIME. It's a bad assumption because many embedded systems well not use ntp and will instead rely on a user to set the clock. It may go backwards if the user sets it backwards. It may even do so while your software is doing something like presenting the user with a UI to set the time.
The Pixar Theory of Labor
My SSN is not protected my password! A hacker can steal my SSN by hacking the server database.
I dislike the comparison to IE6 because it's easily shot down with the many ways in which the situation is different. But Safari absolutely is falling behind other browsers in API support and could well end up holding the web back. Particularly on mobile, given that iPhone users are not able to install a different browser runtime.
I am sure groups trying to deanonymize those using vpns and proxies would also be pretty stoked about it too.
Neat. This bumps up my list of food-related maths from 3 to 4. So far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_cake_representation
Am I remembering incorrectly in saying that other than templates they have not specified intentions for shadow dom or any of the other specs?

http://caniuse.com/#search=Web%20components

Looks like they are still better off than I-Edge but these intentions at least sound promising.
Last I checked CoinME had added several Bitcoin ATMs in Seattle.

http://www.coinmekiosk.com/

I think they're up to three now.
Exactly - why did page caching get removed from rails core?
True classic. Also other tunes in Wizball are great.

Here's a great tune from another game. Rob Hubbard - Nemesis the Warlock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzfOXkZrY0
What people think of as ecstasy (the pill that makes you dance all night) is usually mdma mixed with some kind of speed. That's why this statistic was amusing.
This is very interesting to me. It was my understanding that the rates were no longer jacked up, even if you had "various health issues". This is called Medical Underwriting and I thought it was forbidden by the ACA. It could be a state-by-state issue. Perhaps Florida is different?

When you applied for insurance, did they acquire your medical history?

1. http://kff.org/health-reform/perspective/how-buying-insuranc...

2. http://blog.rmhp.org/2013/12/sticker-shock-obamacare-and-the...
Author (and I suspect many others) are missing the point of "Prime Day."

The point was not to sell a lot of stuff. The point was to get a lot of people to sign up for Prime. And I'll bet they won. My grandmother who hasn't bought anything on Amazon asked me about it and sure enough, we signed her up for a Prime trial too.

In this case, Twitter sentiment be darned. Amazon had no intention of making Prime Day about the deals. It had everything to do with getting more customers into Prime. And I guarantee you it did. Wal-Mart tried to play but chose the wrong game.

Amazon advertised a sale with a pretty simple rule: you must sign up for Prime. But they didn't put any restrictions on signing up. It wasn't exclusive to people who had already signed up before the announcement. They didn't charge new Prime customers $99 to get into the sale first. They created a lot of interest in a sale by talking about Black Friday, suckered Wal-Mart into jumping on board which only helped drive interest, and then rolled out some marginal deals on random products. Who cares if anyone bought a $14.99 Tupperware set for 40% off? We just got a bunch of people to sign up for a $99/yr membership. Lets say 1% of them convert after the paid period -- now you've just increased not only your $99/yr recurring revenue stream you've opened up opportunities for selling Video/Music and other products to your base. Pretty smart.
Reddit actually has one of the better mobile interfaces I've used (certainly better than, say, Hacker News). I'm referring to i.reddit.com, not the new one that they're trying to push on people.

Reddit is thriving on community and gigantic network effects. If I were them, I would essentially do what their new CEO is currently doing: ask the community what they think would work (he's doing regular AMAs and I expect monetization will come up frequently). That's probably why I'm not too worried about it currently.
It seems like the organization has developed a culture where the closer you are to the pipe that has the money flying in, the more rewarded you are. Because services that support each other are difficult to measure in these terms, they get treated as something less than the others that are. It's a blind spot where they are vulnerable.
I remember reading a review/summary/explanation of Primer that was written up--by necessity--in LaTeX.
Oh I think it amounts to the same thing. Automation can help but it's fundamentally painstaking stuff. As a general example, imagine someone walking down the street, but you don't like the original recording for some reason and decide to replace it. All the footsteps have to be matched up and that's tedious. There are plugins that will match the peak sounds of one recording to another to save you aligning every footstep (or word if you're replacing dialog) but you often end up having to do things by hand. Then if it's one person alone the footsteps may sound too simple so you need to add some fabric swish for their clothes. Or if it's two people, you need to have two different sets of footsteps which is really really annoying. Three people walking is fine because nobody can keep up with that so you can completely fudge the timing and nobody will notice.

The big challenge in movie sound is not to distract from what's going on in the story, which often means throwing away sounds that are present in the real environment but with are excluded by the picture frame, and whose presence thus becomes confusing to the audience because they don't know where the sound is coming from. I hate shooting in restaurants for example, because most restaurants have very loud refrigerators and of course most of them can't be switched off for food safety reasons. When you eat dinner don't notice this because there's music, other diners, maybe the person(s) you went to have dinner with, and the sound of your own body chewing and swallowing - so your brain just filters all the background noise away and lets you focus on the conversation or whatever. But when you watch the same thing on a screen, your brain is like 'what's that big machine noise? why does the lead actress sound like a farm animal? why is it all so echoey?' Total nightmare :-)

I haven't seen Whiplash yet but I'm looking forward to it.
there is no excuse for this. its trivially refactorable into something easier to maintain with less ifdefs if you are willing to include/exclude files by platform. (and if not, just wrap whole file contents in single ifdefs)

this is a monster that has grown over time without any proper love.
>and your primary, non-vpn public IP. All in the name of better connectivity for webrtc. It's horrible.

I don't see how WebRTC could do this if you're actually routing 0.0.0.0 to your VPN, which I think is how a lot of people use VPNs when they're the kind you toggle on and off. Are you aware of a way it could get your non-VPN public IP even in those cases?
Google offers free Fiber Internet in public housing
the quality of the code shakes my faith in whoever debugged or fixed anything to have not introduced more bugs as they did so.
Why the Django LazySettings object sucks
Wow, these are my thoughts exactly, but haven't been able to put to word. Thanks for writing this.
I agree that these are interesting services. But please, do some simple math. The prices climb astronomically even for relatively low rps. It's only useful for small services at this point.

Here are the costs for a 50 rps lambda function served by API Gateway for one month:

Requests = 50x60x60x24x30 = 129,600,000 request per month
API Gateway Costs = 129,600,000 x 3.5/M = $453

Convert the requests to GB/s at 512M and 100ms requests, we get:

129,600,000 x 512/1024 * .1 = $113

$453 + $113 = $566/mo for 50rps. Please note the .1 multiplier. For every 100ms increase in your request time, add another $113. So for a 1 second request, you get $1130.

This doesn't even count other machines you need to run to handle databases, etc, it's for the most bare vanilla request.

For a simple lambda function with no external servers, you can easily serve 50rps from a micro for $9/month.
how would gravity do this?

orbital trajectories are in free fall... tidal effects are all that are left and they are huge, smooth gradients, not tiny highly variable things of the sort that could create surface features like this.
It's ugly, but vim is one of the very few programs I've always seen ready and available on any machine I log into. Even the login shell used/available changes, but vim is always there. So they are doing something right.
How old: deep learning age estimator from Japan
Didn't they ever figure out IN BLOODY CALIFORNIA that "robo" is Spanish for "theft" or "I steal"?

Normally I wouldn't notice this (for example that Nova legend about a car that doesn't go doesn't really sound at all plausible and doesn't really sound like "no go" to me) but with all of the connotations of theft that people have put around bitcoins, "Robocoin" sounds like a terrible name to my hispanophone ears.
The surface appears to be extremely young. There are no craters on these mountains. They're apparently made of ice and are relatively tall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/science/pluto-flyby-photos...

"But these mountains are almost certainly made of frozen water instead of rock."
On Monday, U.S. regulators released a long shrug of a report

Someone kidnap Levine and force him to produce book-length work. I will gladly donate an attic and snarling canines to bar his exit.
Trust me, I've tried restarting Bluetooth. It doesn't work.

Also, stay classy, downvoters.
if you are interested read some stuff on the subject, there is loads of it around...

ice is a sort of equivalent to rock beyond a certain (not as far as pluto by a long way) distance from the sun.

astronomers have a funny idea about what the word ice means too...
Pretty much OS agnostic these days. Nowadays it's OS X or Windows + Linux VMs and remote servers.
Why is this a "paradox"? Not sure what this applies to either. It's not even counterintuitive.
> It seems given the sheer amount of it, that the universe should be taking a radiation bath from the past history of insane amounts of dark matter anihilating.

The industry of dark matter modelling in cosmology involves attempting to find a set of characteristics of candidate particles that ensures we a) have enough dark matter on the right scales to account for the observed motions of distant galaxies (exotic dark matter is not required to explain the rotation curves of spiral galaxies, as there may be enough normal matter to do that particular job) and b) the dark matter has characteristics that don't contradict any current observations. Bonus points for a model if it makes some clear predictions of things that have not yet been observed.

All of this is intensely mathematical, because as it turns out the human intestine is a lousy judge of physical phenomena. Our guts believe in Aristotle's physics, and give us wildly wrong intuitions about the way the world is. They do a bad enough job with earthly phenomena, much less cosmological ones.

It turns out that the math tells us it is possible to have weakly interacting massive particles that simply don't decay into anything interesting on the timescale of the life of the universe, and don't interact with normal matter strongly enough to be much slowed down by the Earth. A WIMP in the halo of the galaxy, though, is going to pass through entire stars now and then, as well as large clouds of dust and gas that may not be very dense, but which have enormous thickness. As such these weakly interacting particles can be drawn in to ordinary matter on very large scales.

These mathematical constraints are vital to narrowing down what dark matter consists of (if it is a particle at all, and not a euphemism for some novel dynamical effect... there was a brief time a few years ago when someone claimed that we were solving the field equations of General Relativity in a subtly wrong way that explained the galactic observations, but they didn't turn out to have a compelling argument.)
I'd also lean toward Logjam, but I'm biased. :)
Yeah, now you are stuck with the crappy option of downloading code over the internet.
So what’s the best approach for caching API responses?
What are some important books / seminal papers on VM design that every starting VM writers should read?
A much more important example of this than "martian potatoes" is uranium enrichment.

Natural uranium is ~1% U235; bombs need 90+% U235. So when you've enriched it from 1% to 2% it doesn't seem like you've made a lot of progress towards 90.

If instead of enriching U235 you think of it as eliminating U238, though, then you've done half of the work.