skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except its entirely unclear that $5/month is sustainable, much less $1/mo.

Consider that the stodgy "print media" like the New York Times had a customer base of 800,000 that were sold for $700/year (that included ads in them!) - thats half a billion dollars a year, Ars would need 100% american penetration to get that on $1/mo.

Now obviously the cost side is changing for print, but the same is true for Netflix. I think Netflix prices are currently deeply discounted by the fact that (1) Studios are realizing they can make some money having it on Netflix rather than the Pirate Bay and (2) Home Video and Syndication prices still pay well enough that studios aren't majorly concerned. I interested to see if Netflix can even think about raising their prices while more and more studios pull their content off Netflix and Netflix has to continue relying on in house programming.
Look son, a RAII zealot in the wild!
It would be a really philanthropic thing to do. I like your way of thinking.
How does having the kubelet binary shipped with CoreOS itself work with installing and upgrading Kubernetes? Won't the versions get out of sync and cause problems?
It's hard to study diet's effect on health even assuming the effects are the same for everybody. Either it's a population study with all sorts of uncontrolled variables and uncertain data, or it's a controlled experiment which only lasts for a short time. Adding genetic factors makes it even more complicated...though if it increases the effect size enough, maybe it'll help.

Differences in gut flora could be another factor.
"Never put in any { } surrounding your if/else blocks unless they are syntactically obligatory."
Yeah… that gets covered in quite a bit of detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194274
I can't speak to your experience, but seeing the performance boosts from good ad targeting is very impressive. Google and Facebook represent two of the largest advertising revenue streams in the world. The success of their ad units is directly linked to their ability to target based on user behavior. That being said, I feel ad targeting is a very different problem then games. Funnels behave differently and data collection is much more challenging in ad tech.
How about the device does nothing, and I can download updates from the manufacturer if I choose to? It's my device, not theirs, and I will decide when and if I want to update it.
For those interested, danooct1 is a YouTube channel devoted exclusively to running old PC viruses, particularly ones that have a novelty and art aspect to them, as was common before.

EDIT: Bleh, I'm an idiot for not noticing "Daniel White" was linked to him in this article.
How do you know that they have a paid moderator???
Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
Is access to the biz dev IP probably included by a handshake deal?
I'm always surprised when people don't realize that large bikes are suppose to be loud so that drivers can hear them coming. It's a necessary evil.
Damn straight, it's an amazing channel.
That sounds racist. /s

Seriously though, this is a core part of dietary concerns, it's almost a certainty that a Russian is going to have a slightly different reaction to foods than a European, due to centuries of eating different foods. I think it's only recently we've really started to discover that evolution isn't just survival of the fittest, but a considerably more complex mechanism that has immediate impacts after very few generations to very slight stimuli. Not to mention stuff like gut flora, environment during pregnancy, etc.
'Computer problems' halting some American flights now fixed
What about the case when one library calls the origin the top left of the screen and the other library considers the origin the bottom left of the screen?

This kind of scenario isn't uncommon: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/2DDraw...

If both libraries just passed two doubles around, you wouldn't be able to catch this at compile time.
Air drag is proportional to the front facing area of the vehicle, that is 2nd power of cyclists dimension (for example, height, we are assuming that humans have approximately similar shape, regardless of size). Max power grows to 3rd power of cyclists dimension, because it's dependent on the cyclists muscle mass. Maximum aerobic power grows somewhere between 2nd and 3rd power, because of the fractal shape of lungs and veins (for example, think about lung surface area, the smallest folds in lung have same dimension in bigger and smaller guys, so the area grows faster than 2nd power of cyclist's dimension).

It then follows that bigger guys do well pushing against air (since frontal area grows slower than maximum aerodynamic capability), and smaller guys do better dragging themselves uphill (since mass grows faster aerodynamic capability).
You can easily find practical examples of this: say Fabian Cancellara, who has won time trial world championships 3 times + almost anything else riding in fairly flat ground, including several tour prologues and stages before getting into mountains... but when you get to the mountains, it's the featherweights that rule, so likes of Cancellara can't ever win the tour.

So... to propel something as fast as possible against air, you need big and strong cyclist (with huge lungs to match), just like the guy in the video looks like.
Power/weight has little to do with it, since air drag is most of the resistance, and they can accelerate for 5 miles before measuring speed (you would need power/weight if you needed to accelerate fast, which is not the case).
If we are playing fast with the rules re sides, was there any rule at the time saying the black King couldn't take the black Knight?

That would break the check, force white to move the rook to block, allow the black king to take the rook, and place black in a winning position.
I use AdBlock+ and cant go back to regular browsing without it. Even with flash disabled, without ad block load times are huge and life is miserable
They missed out on the biggest problem with roundabouts: Their worst-case traffic behavior is cancerous. If any single exit is blocked, entry traffic will become blocked in all directions. And if the road grid is dominated by roundabouts, the problem grows in all directions.

It's not a problem when traffic is just congestion. It's hardly a common problem at all. But when it is a problem, such as is the case with a traffic accident that blocks multiple lanes of traffic, it causes full-stop gridlock to grow outward to the point of full paralysis.

The worst traffic jam I have ever been in was not in NYC, Boston, Seattle, or San Francisco, but rather in Idaho Falls, Idaho on a normally empty country road that was running parallel to the road where a drunk driver caused an accident that blocked the roadway. That single accident caused me and hundreds of other cars to sit in the same spot for almost 4 hours.
"free"
Android 'started over' the day the iPhone was announced (2013)
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Oh, but C++ is so much fun for interviews - who can forget the joy of endless trick questions about code that looks like it should do one thing, but actually does another.

Oh man, I miss those days, ha ha.

You know you've finally reached peak C++ post-traumatic stress disorder when you walk into an interview and someone says "what does 'int x=5;' do?" and you spend half an hour trying to figure out what manner of hideous deception lies behind that simple expression. Your brow starts to sweat, your hands shake, and finally you exclaim "Undefined!".
Interesting observations. As a counterpoint, there are a couple of roundabouts between here (Phoenix) and Las Vegas, notable both because there's often fairly heavy traffic and that almost everyone on the road is from elsewhere (and therefore unfamiliar). They seem to operate quite smoothly, and are a welcome break from waiting for several cycles of traffic lights.

I'm curious... where have you seen these troubles? Perhaps the small radius is the real issue?
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Roundabouts are great, dependent on traffic flow. If you have large amounts of traffic moving in one direction, it will prevent traffic flow from the direction that has to give way to it. In New Zealand, we use a lot of roundabouts, but often congestion easing requires replacing roundabouts with traffic lights to merge two incompatible streams of traffic.
I'm logged in. Not seeing it. Maybe it's not deployed for all accounts yet.
Sure. If that's what you're looking for in a device. Some users prefer their devices to update on their own. Take Google OnHub[0] for example. They make it pretty clear that new updates will provide significantly enhanced functionality. For users who want a device like that, securing updates is still important.

[0] https://on.google.com/hub/
Picture on top has new Google logo on it, video at 3:49 shows old Google logo on the vehicle.
My favorite Codepen.io demos
How to Setup an Apache Server with SSL (and Get an A+)
Don't feel too bad. My sister's husband is Dutch and even he refers to The Netherlands as Holland now and then (as does his family and other Dutch people I have seen). It's not the end of the world.
I know because I am a member who has participated on and off for several years. This is the current moderator:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

Feel free to search the site for confirmation or email him and ask him. I am pretty darn sure he isn't working for a multibillion dollar company for free. But perhaps I misunderstood something somewhere along the way.
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Confession: I wrote a couple of these when I was a teenager, including one that would give you a crazy color scheme and print 'Your PC is on an acid trip' as a DOS error. I put one on a high school PC once and it ended up actually spreading around. They were pranks and weren't designed to really hurt anything, though I'm sure they could be annoying.

It's how I learned assembly language and C actually.
> Pinker is making testable hypotheses. He is explicitly claiming "bioethicists hold back research; jurisdictions that listen to them will have worse outcomes".

But testing that one means having jurisdictions that don't listen to bioethicists, and researching into things that bioethicists say should be left alone. Yes, we can test that...

> He's furthermore claiming "not listening to bioethicists will not result in Mengele 2.0". These are both falsifiable.

But only at the price of not listening to bioethicists and seeing if we get Mengele 2.0. I'm not sure that I want to run that test - at least one of the outcomes extracts too high a human price.

> It would be easy to make a prediction like "governments which experiment on prisoners will begin imprisoning people explicitly to experiment on them" or "vivisectrixes will experience high rates of PTSD"...

Yes, but testing them requires governments experimenting on prisoners, and vivisection, respectively. Again, I don't want to test the predictions at that price.

If you need a testable prediction to understand why vivisection is horrible and should be avoided, your sense of ethics is extremely foreign to mine...
"dozens" is quite a bit of hyperbole. I generally only see behavior like this when traffic is dense and the speed of traffic is limited. In those cases, letting someone in doesn't decrease the number of cars that make it through the light. Additionally in those cases, it's quite possible that if nobody lets in the the car trying to merge, they will never be able to merge.

Obviously, optimal behavior is dependent of the traffic conditions.
Lessons Learned in Collecting 1.2M Photos
Well in the case of GPL, what you are not allowed to do is to use GPL licensed code with yours and decide not to give recipients of the resulting code the same rights that you were given.

I personally think that makes for a decent 'moral standing'.

Basically GPL only a problem if you want to create proprietary software, which in turn is typically very much a 'being told what you can do with said software' type of situation, with no code and often incorporating DRM mechanisms to prevent copying.
Good thing that those graphs have the y-axis labeled.
It's difficult to see why the EU would try to favor large, usually American and Asian tech giants like Amazon, Samsung and Google versus local startups through tax regulation. The most likely explanation if you ask me is that the motivation behind VATMOSS is exactly what it says on the tin: harmonization of the common market without forcing every member state to adopt the same domestic policies.

The dynamics are different in the decision making processes in the EU. None of the commissioners are elected, they don't have campaign funds to worry about, so there is no legal veneer for corporate 'lobbying' as you would call it. I can't tell you for sure that it doesn't happen, but it can't happen out in the open as it would be considered corruption, and illegal.

The problem instead is that the commissioners are put forward by the (elected) governments of member states, so there is always the danger of them either deliberately or unwittingly favoring their national interests, and it makes them potentially vulnerable to domestic political pressure.
And those kinds of issues are why Perl has ==/!=/+ for numbers and eq/ne/. for strings.
With the lights on the roundabout entry points, it flows better than a regular signaled intersection, as left turns are no longer an issue.
Not right now, we're trying to see if we can market our way
back to being a known brand. If we can do that, yeah, we'll
be hiring.
Thanks for the link--looks awesome, wish the form factor were a bit larger and not so directly attached to the computer. I'll bet I could create an extension cable for it and rip off the housing to make the LEDs allow more light through, then put it in a translucent plastic sphere.
Predicting Ad Liking and Purchase Intent
An overview of Cowboy internals [Erlang/Elixir webserver]
That video is from last year's attempt.
"Well see, we were going to hunt people who made terrible hypotheticals for sport (boosts the endorphins, doncha know), but then this guy walks up (a Yale man, as it turns out), and he says that, whaddaya know, it's real good for ya, but the universal dignity of man / communist dialectic / brotherhood of christ forbids it on principle.

Good thing he wandered up when he did; I say we better hire a couple'a more of them so we don't miss anything second time around!"
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Knock Knock.
He mentions Facebook logins being required, this is probably how they can be so confident - that gives them a lot of data on individuals and relationships from a company with no qualms about privacy. Tie that to in-game behaviour across games and you have a lot of info.
Well, it would break Uber if it weren't really clear that Uber is aware of this and wants to get in on it as soon as they can. Digital cameras broke Polaroid, but if Polaroid had gotten in on it early they could have been a dominant force in an emerging market. I don't think Uber is Polaroid here.
The Box: A Replacement for Files (1999)
I'm a motorcyclist and I'm downvoting this fallacy. If this were seriously the case then good beginner bikes like the Ninja 250 and Honda CBR250R would be unsafe, especially for new riders. Enjoy your loud pipes if you like (I do on my throaty Aprilia) but don't pretend they give you any safety benefit to balance the annoyance it causes some people.
good read
I don't understand your point. How would this new company you describe be different from Gruber's Deck?
Also very challenging for chess players is retrograde analysis, where you have to find the only possible legal moves to reach the given position.

See the cover of this book by Smullyan http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81y-bMMYCoL.jpg
Drag force is proportional to 2nd power of velocity, power lost to drag is force*speed, which is 3rd power of velocity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar
IssueTrack, GTD + GitHub issues
Latest trends, experienced people, successful actors, ambitious wannabes, $$$ flavour, general respect of the rules aka good moderation. That said, the flow is a bit fast and futile threads sometimes get too much attention imho.
A quote from the Enquiry

"Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind."

This is the quote that provoked uproarious laughter from Einstein, when he read it sitting on the beach at the holiday resort of Caputh(?) in the late 1930s as the storm clouds were gathering over Europe. He thought it genuinely hilarious. I offer this as consolation for your College concern. I am now searching for the reference. It was one of the biographies...
I always wondered how much power could be saved if those platforms would be implemented nearer to the metal.
I mean I don't want to flame PHP, etc.. but I think running at the scale of Facebook it will definitely matter which language you use, especially in the matter of computing power, I mean Facebook could throw enough people at anything so the choice of language shouldn't be a problem.

That's why I don't get it, why they wrote Hack/etc.
When I would be Facebook I would've tried to write something like JPHP where PHP could run on top of the JVM, since that introduces way more languages like Scala, Groovy, Java itself.
However they gone from PHP to their self hosted language where it will even be hard to find developers when Hack won't grow.
You can also eat it, I've seen it on truffle pies. Silver can also be used as an antibiotic as well.
Eh? I'm not saying it's okay for Russia to invade. Quite the reverse. I'm saying that the mere presence of Russian language signs in Crimea doesn't mean it was caused by the recent events.

Your example shows the exact same property. :-)
This isn't an ordinary application. Ad blocking applications live and die by their blocklist. Many people purchased this application with the implied assumption that the blocklist would continue to be updated for the foreseeable future.

Without an updated blocklist, this app will quickly become useless.
Godwin’s Law put to the test
> But as an employer I have to say some of the regulations, laws and restrictions can be incredibly tedious and annoying. Especially if you're running a very small business.

Yea. My impression is (too), that the regulations in Germany are much more harmful to smaller companies than to big corporations. As big corporation, you basically can do very, very much, without being penalized much. In Germany, you always can say, that health costs are covered by the public health insurance. So, it is common, that compensations are small fractures of that which is paid in the US or even no compensations are made.

My feeling is, that German judges are much more reluctant to rule against corporations, as long as their fault can not be proven 110% -- for common people on the other hand, 80% prove are enough most of the time (I remember, that not long ago a young girl was convicted for computer fraud, just because Siemens said, that the 4 digit PIN-system for EC cards was 100% secure -- something we soon later found out, was never true!).
That's a bit of a running joke. It's funnier in the working draft PDFs of the standard, e.g.: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n429...
Facebook files patent for using a photo’s camera signature
This is awesome :) thanks
Are you under the impression they don't hire programmers to write their software? I don't understand your point.
Grab a Kindle and use it as a notepad [1] or as an external screen [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/dp/B004LSLN0I

[2] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150434
There are a couple of roundabouts where I live, and I see the second problem all the time. The best (worst?) was someone who came to the entrance, stopped, sat there for about 3 seconds and then went when there was a car coming in the roundabout and nearly caused a collision.
People have been doing this for years and they just don't voice it out publicly. All in all, good article.
A Google Images search for "nesticle icon" should clear up any doubt.
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Nice Jurassic Park reference in the output of:

guest@reddit:~$ rm -rf /

Along with: https://github.com/jasonbio/reddit-shell/blob/master/css/new...
The video shows one crash last year. It didn't actually appear to be that bad. The shell would presumably spare you some nasty road rash at least.
Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app gets blasted with 2700 1-star reviews by Android users
Not mentioned in this article is the James Dyson Award. An annual international competition for students with a wide brief: "Design something that solves a problem...Products that have a significant and practical purpose, are commercially viable, and are designed with sustainability in mind."

The projects submitted are often very impressive and show great skill and ingenuity. The 2014 award went to a 23 year old student called James Roberts who designed a inflatable incubator for prematurely-born babies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29900968

If you want to be inspired, the archive of entries is well worth browsing:

http://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-GB/projects/
> Microsoft has developed its own Linux.

No, they haven't.
We rely on the API boundaries between the kubelet and the kubernetes API server remaining well versioned without backwards compatible changes. The k8s project is very conscious of the needs for that and work hard to ensure that there are no breaking changes between releases. This is similar to all pieces of software in a CoreOS release: systemd, docker, cloudinit, Linux, rkt, etc.
The key change for Uber when we have completely autonomous cars is that we will go from a two-sided marketplace matching drivers to riders to a much simpler retail model: riders buying rides. Whatever mindshare and network effects Uber has in the marketplace model will fall in importance, and the new king in the space will be the company that can deliver rides cheapest and fastest.

Uber is way behind Google and even Apple when it comes to calculating the best routes from place to place...
When traffic density is high you don't build roundabouts. Or if you do you then put part time signalling on them.
Thanks for that link, it was fun and took me quite awhile to figure out!
I don't think Marco Arment needs the money from an ad blocker at this point.
Unless something changed recently, the iOS App Store doesn't have a way for developers to issue refunds; the user must request them.
I hear the argument "Americans don't understand roundabouts, therefore we wont build any" quite often in these kinds of articles. If you survey people about something they've never comes across before, of course you're going to get negative results.

If Americans can drive and talk on their cell phones, they can handle a roundabout.
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"I'm guessing something can't get much more aerodynamically shaped?"

The previous record holders claim otherwise. On May first, they wrote (http://www.hptdelft.nl/en/blog.php):

"Actiflow has assisted us in computational fluid dynamics software in order to further optimize the promising shape of the VeloX IV. The result: a mature aerodynamic design with 10% less drag!"

They also write that this design is optimized for the 200m sprint. Their previous designs also were made for a one hour time trial, but this design doesn't take in enough air for the rider that long.