skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This scale is pretty small and can be done on my laptop. If you need to do such operations at a truly large scale, this is an interesting article:
http://alexbowe.com/rrr/
C++ implementation:
https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite/blob/master/README.md
I think this is a bad idea. Last week I posted a link here and by random chance no one saw it, and it didn't get any points.

A few days later the same story ended up at the top of /r/machinelearning. At least 10 different people tried to post it. They all ended up at my post which was days old and dead. If HN just allowed resubmissions, it probably would have ended up on the front page that day.
Mobile web browsing is a true nightmare on iOS. It's pretty shocking that it's taking Apple nine OS releases to address what's clearly a defect in their platform.
Im not sure i understand the use case for this tool. Its cool to get related topics, but it doesn't fit how I use a search engine. I'm usually looking for very specific information, this could be useful for ideation and mind mapping software.
Interesting!

What did you use to do this?
Murdering innocent people is frequently pragmatic, if you're a government. That doesn't make it any less monstrous.

"Hey, at least we murdered them somewhat quickly instead of tormenting them in brutal prisons for the rest of their lives!" isn't much a defense either.
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If duplicates bother you, this is a sure sign you're spending too much time on HN.
The scalable commutativity rule: designing scalable software for multicores
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You can't just implement "unmetered vacation" and have it all work out -- it has to be part of a set of practices.

For example, at Netflix as a manager I don't "veto" any proposed vacations, because my engineers do not propose vacations -- they tell me what time they're taking off. It's their job to make sure that's not going to be a surprise to anyone covering for them, and it's not my job to check that they've done that work.

As for being careful not to be the guy who takes too much vacation ... putting aside the fact I have people reporting to me who aren't guys, there are people on my team who take two days of vacation a year; there are people on my team who take ~6 weeks of vacation per year. Nobody here seems to care much.
My small take: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/04/i-still-think-you-can...
Pretty useless article. Nothing new
And if the content is inaccessible because of censorship within their country?
In fractional reserve systems you create money when you borrow from the bank. So governments will often deliberately (if not openly) stimulate real estate prices in an effort to inflate the money supply and stimulate the economy.

A great many people believe the 2008 US real estate crash can ultimately be traced to the government's inflationary reaction to the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000.
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Closing the loop, with tunnelling and a mirror of the client dom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6AvExQtvQ0

Had wrote a tunnelling server in Go, to achieve this. Even had a client site go binary which would download the chrome binary, and open a new user profile, setup inspector and generate a tunnelling url. The parts of DOM mirroring were mostly copied from different blog posts etc, on the web.

https://github.com/ciju/devmirror

https://github.com/ciju/gotunnel
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Do you make fun of people who use vim or whatever too? A tool is a tool is a tool. Classy argument, though!

A lot of the reason we have this problem is folks like you and legislators not really articulating the difference between, say, assault rifles (which you put in quotes here for some reason which is not obvious) and "assault weapons" (quoted properly, as seen in reporting).

An assault rifle fires an intermediate rifle round, has a detachable external magazine, and select fire. If a rifle doesn't have those three things, it isn't an assault rifle. Since very few rifles available in the US have select fire (unless you've purchased one with tax stamp or whatever), this means that politicians and lobbyists have fallen back on the "assault weapon" definition, which is really just anything that looks scary and vaguely military.

Handguns are only usable for killing human beings--that is absolutely true. They are preferable to long arms (rifles, shotguns, etc.) in self-defense situations inside, say, a house. They are somewhat countered by knives up close--hence, police 15-foot rules. The problem people have when banning or regulating handguns is that, unlike with the evil puppy-killing assault weapons, every handgun that isn't a flintlock basically looks and works the same. So, they haven't been able to slowly whittle off types of munitions as has been tried with rifles.
I'm trying to run the c++ version, but it won't compile because the loop variables in the range for loops do not have declarations.
In fractional reserve systems you create money when you borrow from the bank

This isn't true. Banks can only loan out money deposited with them.
A commenter explains that the most interesting claim (51% bias) is not explained correctly in the article. Humans flipping a coin add a bit of precession (spin) that biasses the toss. The "odd/even time in the air" analysis is incorrect -- that only matters if it is possible to stop the coin before the first flip.
I thought this update was some kind of reawakening, where sense had prevailed and all malware was removed and Sourceforge was returned to its former glory.

I searched for 'malware', 'spam' in the post and found none.

Son, I am disappoint.
Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript
A lot of systems use fairly off-the-shelf bioses, that have lots of tools available for them that were intended for OEMs to do the minor, annoying tweaks that you described. There are sites [1] that specialize in discussing and using these sorts of tools. I had a lenovo laptop that behaved a lot like that, and was going to use a modded bios to fix it, but discovered that an updated bios actually had a bug in the halt code, so it would claim to halt, but five seconds later would continue the boot process.

[1] https://www.bios-mods.com/downloads/
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You can also do this pretty easily with Hexo, which makes it easy to push Markdown blog posts to prettily-formatted static webpages. There's easy Github integration so that creating and deploying a new blog post is as a two-command process: http://razishaban.com/2015/07/from-zero-to-hexo-a-quick-tuto...
My intuition is that a Radix tree trie would make a lot more sense and is more maintainable than such a hack.
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I always like seeing how other people connect their arduino to the internet. I did something similar using python to read the data and then post it to Thingspeak. (my blog post: http://smallsciencebigadventures.com/arduino-temp-sensor.htm...)
The Austrians have been saying this since about the same time or earlier. Read only if you're interested in the theory of economic bubbles.

The Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT) is an economic theory developed by the Austrian School of economics about how business cycles occur. The theory views business cycles as the consequence of excessive growth in bank credit, due to artificially low interest rates set by a central bank or fractional reserve banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
My father, who is a cardiologist, has all these stories about how they keep trying to prove that caffeine and coffee in general are bad for you, bad for your heart specifically. But the more they try to prove it is bad, the more they keep finding that caffeine is actually good for you and reduces the risk of heart disease. I'll have to ask him for specific studies. Now the sugar they put in the coffee, that's a different story...
Mom charged with abandonment said kids were never out of sight
HN does this but only when the link is same...

you can have people post similar stories from different media's and if they get picked at different times then this could be useful.
Ancestry.com is about to license your DNA
1. The modal made me consider instantly closing the site. If that article didn't REALLY interest me, I would have insta-closed it.

2. No offense, but this is pretty basic, high school biology class knowledge. Would be nice if we knew more than this in 2015.
Heh. I know four unrelated guys named Steve Miller. They might be willing to trade your "Misssssster Anderson"s for their "Some people call me a space cowboy... yeah"s.
If you really want to see an explanation of the Middle East, look at the way France and the UK divided up the region in the wake of WW1, and then abdicated their responsibilities after WW2.
The gov't decides the policy of the central bank, so it's always political. Right now, the scheme is to drive inflation which pours newly printed money into gov't coffers as that's how new money makes it into the economy: through gov't bonds.

If the gov't created a policy of deflation (which would be against them growing their budget as much as possible) then there would be deflation.

The central bank policy is always political.
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The grid of faces in the middle of the article are supposed to have "neutral expressions", but it's clear that some faces have a slight smile and some a slight frown. That has to cause some bias in people's responses.
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Interesting, thanks for the pointer. Nothing there on my laptop though, but I guess the firmware can be shared between many models.
Those two points you bring up are more of an issue with the widespread corruption and behavior of police than any problem with guns. They'll shoot you reaching for a wallet, and the answer is going to be "knife, mace, taser, whatever" once "gun" is no longer in vogue, and it'll still be bandied about by saying "it could've been a firearm from the time before we banned them".

Norway's rules are reasonable--for them--but again I am hesitant given the history of abuse of authority we have in the United States.

It's been shown in the last fifteen years that mandatory firearms registration (of a sort similar to Norway's here) may result directly in confiscation of private and legal firearms:

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

It was not long ago that we've seen the effective use of an impromptu militia to maintain order:
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-02/news/mn-1281_1_police...
Back to the future: the TRS-80 Model 100
ZomboDB developer here. I don't frequent HN so please forgive any missteps...

Just wanted to say that while the code has proven itself production worthy, I'm still re-writing documentation and the test suite and that stuff is going to take awhile.

What ZDB does, how it performs, and the ways it can be (creatively) used aren't reflected in the current docs. Neither are the caveats, edge cases, and known-bugs.

If this thread shows any interest I'll do my best to field questions and generally discuss how it's actually fun to work in a world with MVCC-correct Elasticsearch indexes.
eCa posted a link to an archive of PDFs below:

http://mydesertmagazine.com/Desert_magazine_archive.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913280
US wins its first International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 years
The employer and employee have an antagonistic relationship.

It's expected that the employer is going to fuck over the employee when it's convenient (you're naive to think otherwise).

You're putting yourself in an unfair (one-sided) position by deciding that you have to behave nicely towards the company.
I know this is not closely related to the post, but this really got me worried:

and I was quite surprised how little “desktop” focus there is in the spec. It’s like the design team simply have forgotten that we have this thing called a “desktop” computers, where we use these oldschool interactions called mouse and keyboard.

I have similar experience, recently just starting to learn Mac development. The getting started guide for creating Mac desktop app is 3 years old and using XCode 4, whereas the iOS guide is updated and polished.

And I had a mixed experience with my Chromebook. It is great for web-browsing, but most of the apps available are designed primarily for mobile devices and feel weird to use. The "desktop" version of them usually just involves opening a tab in Chrome or in an resized individual window. I don't know if the developers are too lazy to design for desktop, or they are clueless to how they should do it.
I live in Beijing. That traffic jam was outside and affected primarily truckers who didn't want to pay a toll to take e expressway. Ya, still messed up, but not as incredibly so.

The pollution is bad, especially in the winter. We are in summer now and it is merely not good rather than really bad. Today it even rained so it's a bit fresh out. There are plenty of cities that are much worse: Cairo, Tehran, New Delhi, ...

I feel bad for those who have to work outside (crossing guards have it bad), but life expectancies in Beijing are quite correlated with lifestyle and income, just like anywhere else. If their is a dent in life expectancies, we won't see it for another 20 or so years.
I completely disagree with your assertion that you can "cure" deflation with a printing press. And how is Japan not a relevant example?

You can certainly raise prices of financial assets but when the long rates are low for so long (and are made lower by QE) there emerges a negative feedback loop of overproduction -> oversupply -> lower prices for goods, with a stronger concentration of this effect low on the value chain (CPI ex-housing). In fact, if you look at domestic and european CPI's ex-housing (European countries are ex-housing by default), you will see that the inflation rates has been nearly 0 since the financial crisis despite printing trillions of dollars. But stocks are expensive. Quote from Greenspan: "As the cost of capital approaches zero, so too will the return on capital."

And to pose another question to you: from what transmission mechanism will your printing press create inflation when long rates are already low?

Like another poster below, I suggest reading the material at http://www.economicprinciples.org/
6 years for me -- the mix of articles is indeed similar, though the titles show how the vibe of the community has changed. Back then it really felt like a gathering of plucky upstarts and misfits. We were into a lot of things which are mainstream now, but niche and weird at the time.

"Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine" - this was exciting news back then! YC was a really speculative effort, even in the tech world. I wish I'd applied in the early days!

"Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only" - goes to show how many established products were back then only used by the nerdy early adopters

"20 Developers to follow on Twitter" - again, back then I only knew a few people outside of tech circles who used Twitter, and a lot of people hadn't even heard of it

"How I Got A Job From A Blog Comment" - this also wouldn't be news today

"Google Wave “is anti-Web”" - one speculative product that didn't make it

It's interesting looking back. I discovered this place as a first year CS student, and startups as a career path were not on the radar for 95% of my classmates at the time.

Rails was still fairly unknown, IE6 was a big problem for web developers, jQuery was the exciting new Javascript framework. All this meant that the standards for web apps were lower and it was easier to ship an interesting hack and get people to check it out.
> 8 bytes * 400 million phone numbers < 3 terabytes of data

I get 3.2GB, which fits in RAM.

So yes, I guess, but why hit the disk at all? I'd probably just sort the data and do a binary search.
Perl is a way more fun for golfing but it's missing from the supported languages
I think it's more about education - being taught from a young age that entrepreneurship is a possibility and how to manage and make money leads to those people having a higher chance of starting a business.

And of course, families that are relatively well off and don't have to worry about basic needs can afford to teach their children that, while poor parents will most likely teach them to be frugal and that having a safe job and not taking big risks is of upmost importance (or not teach them anything - children will notice anyway).
I have to agree that monetary stimulus alone isn't enough. Some call this the "zero lower bound" and that fiscal policy needs to drive inflation.

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

Mind you I think 0% interest rates from a central bank and reckless gov't spending are idiotic policies.
If the coin has a substantial thickness, is it still accepted as a coin? I think not. How much density differential do you need to generate a 1% bias in a coin no thicker than any existing UN member currency?
I suspect tsotha is thinking of deposit multiplication, which is often considered to be "money creation" because demand deposits are considered part of some definitions of "money supply" (particularly M1 in the United States).
>I don't know anything about the Thirty Years war, but I doubt that there's any major recent act of stupidity that was caused by excessive cleaving to (or knowledge of) historical experience.

Let me introduce you to Balkans war(s) of the 1990s. People who had been living side-by-side peacefully for decades decided to rehash hundreds of years of historical conflicts which to outsiders looked insane.

>I suspect we'll keep on looking back at the great depression until it ceases to seem salient.

The Great Depression is no longer relevant since we don't live in a world on the gold standard. The factors that drove the economy into the ground in the 1930s (massive deflation and bank failures) are not going to happen again. Deflation because countries can print as much cash as they like (Greece excepted), while in regards bank failures we now know banks (and bankers) are too big to fail.

>Oh, and the Crusades explain quite a bit about the state of the middle east.

Nothing about the middle east today is the result of the Crusades except some misguided people thinking the Crusades are relevant.
Physical write jumpers would solve 99% of firmware security issues and significantly reduce the attack surface of modern computers. APTs can't really manifest unless they come pre-installed.

Then again, NSA and other state actors wouldn't be able to implant malware into those areas without physical access.

I wonder why we don't have physical jumpers.
That traffic jam was just an extreme example, of course. But in my recent 3 taxi rides in Beijing, it's always been at least an hour stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. It's just a very old city not suited for the amount of cars and people currently or in the future.
"If git really were that easy, it wouldn't need so much explaining."

Well, on one hand, I like the git cli better than guis, but on the other, I don't really disagree.

However, to your question: it might just be the case that it's an easy thing to explain, or an easy thing to learn, or made easier by writing... there are a lot of other possibilities than there is a big demand for these articles.
I... don't believe you did, but I may be wrong.
This hit a chord with me:

"Be it tulips, land, housing, derivatives or shares, they find that the consequences of a bursting bubble depend less on the type of asset than on how it is financed. High leverage is the telltale sign of trouble..."

I see this today not just in the Valley but elsewhere in the world too (witnessed it in India and Sub-Saharan Africa). When wealth sloths in a 1% interest rate economy, it gets restless to find better results, often with disastrous results.
> On the other side of things...

The article is talking about how a pro-gun person that wrote a column in Guns & Ammo in favor of regulations to require gun training was fired by the magazine (ha). That's not really a side to which there's an other, or at least not the one you're portraying.
>The thing I find oddest here is that the his friends are now set as following the new account of the football player. Seems like at the very least there is a bug that needs to be fixed there.

I doubt it's a bug. Someone probably complained saying something like "Hey, this guy isn't Andres Iniesta. Someone's squatting on his name to get extra hits." If that's the case anyone following that account must have meant to follow the athlete.

They should have contacted the author first, of course, but companies offering free services don't have the money for customer support.
http://xkcd.com/1551/
Sean, when I visited in 2012 I don't remember any security lines, is this new?

I found the Beijing subway to be far nicer than the ones found in major American cities. No surprise since it's much newer.
Here's Github's official tutorial: https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/
They are firefighters.. they have giany squirt guns. They gotta have some range.
Reference counting is a garbage-collection system like the others (and if you are going to use a garbage-collection system, you can for many usecases do better than reference counting).
It's entirely true, it's even in the name.

In a "Fractional Reserve" System banks only have to maintain a fraction of what they lend out in reserve.

When you borrow money from a bank you are literally creating new money. But don't believe me, Wikipedia is your friend.
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I think most people know if they're linking to paywalled content. Knowing what the Great Firewall is blocking today is not nearly as simple.

I, for one, have no clue if The Economist is blocked in China or not.
But many city jobs in offices, including in Beijing like anywhere else, could actually go full telecommute, I believe. So I think the majority of commuting doesn't make sense anymore.

Retail and services are probably at least half but that would reduce it a lot.

What I think makes sense is for all cities to decentralize and convert to a mini-city/village model. Sort of a more urban better planned modern take on the suburb. That way retail and services can be more decentralized while most office work is telecommute/co-working/local housing.

Another idea is, maybe you can stack land/housing plots, so people could still have a house, but it would live in a vertical structure like a narrow parking lot with large balconies. This would dramatically reduce the size of the residential/village areas so commutes would be shorter.

Maybe a bunch of mini-city/villages in a circle around a big one in the middle, for weekly meetings or something. Then change the culture so weekend days rotate for different people to reduce contention.

I know these things are not easy to change though.
>Banks can only loan out money deposited with them.

This is emphatically incorrect, and the slightest bit of research would have been enough for you to realize it, too.

When you take out a home loan at the bank the bank doesn't lend you anyone's money. Your promise to repay is assigned a monetary value on one side of the leger, and they cut you a check from the other side.

This video is a bit melodramitic, but it's pretty accurate:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
As noted below, Theo seems to be cautiously boarding the capabilities train with tame. That said, there appear to be some rather large issues with the implementation as it stands.
Looks like he's back in business:

5 hours after writing this article, my account has been restored, but still no news from Instagram about what happened or an apology.