skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wondering if the Silicon Valley’s tech boom was waning a year ago? Check Caltrain ridership!
It's really too bad that the mythical man-month is really mythical, otherwise everybody here on HN could pitch in 5 minutes and make a successor to XMPP that is optimal for mobile...
Bridge traffic is also useful[1]. I wish they would break out the Dumbarton Traffic since that is an amplified value due to the fact that once the Valley is fully occupied, additional employees must come from somewhere else.

[1] http://bata.mtc.ca.gov/tolls/historic.htm
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ham-handed

it means the same thing as ham-fisted, more or less.
http://ephemurl.xyz/df29ca9b
I naively thought that it's fair game that because I'm buying a £20 Groupon I might pay exactly £20. I never did, but I felt that it should be implied that that's acceptable. I certainly wouldn't have expected to be treated worse for it.
Interesting, I've been looking for something like this for years and even considered starting one myself a couple of years ago. I hope that there are more users/traction.

Any idea who runs the site or if there's an about page? I'd be interested in volunteering my services.
Oh, it does. Their have their Kona WAF... Just a lot more expensive.

Incapsula or Sucuri are the ones that compete with a lower pricing.
Demo doesn't work for me.

Ubuntu, Version 44.0.2403.157 (64-bit)

http://imgur.com/Rg3YaSl
> Yeah, but many of the Rust features are present in the branch of Algol derived languages, namely Mesa, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon derivatives, Ada, Pascal dialects....

None of these have memory safety without GC (while supporting dynamic allocation and deallocation).
Interview: Scott Santens talks basic income, and why the US could adopt it by 2035
The tax is on the underlying physical exchange of goods or services, not on placing an entry in the blockchain.
This is great! I can definitely see one of the reasons why it works so well for kids: there aren't any weird menu buttons that you might accidentally press and get lost in. You just draw and push the buttons to see what difference they make.
Papal air transport
Ok, every commercial security vendor of significance better?
RSA and other security vendors had to introduce work reducers for the NSA in the 90's because that's what was mandated to them to be able to export their software.
Being aligned with national interests doesn't mean introducing backdoors it means cooperating with them, considering the breath of knowledge that a national organization has and their resources it's a mutual beneficial relationship in most cases.
It's not conspiracies it's the simple fact it's like universities doing research for national defense that's a given fact, but you don't expect saint petersburg polytechnic to perform research for DARAP just like you don't expect caltech doing research for the Russians.
Nowhere did i hinted that it's a sign of corruption or that i even see this as negative thing as i don't on both count.
This is the simple reality of how businesses and academia work for national interests and I'm not sure what surprising about this.
Collection of papers, lectures and readings on distributed systems
How about Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, the closest nuclear plant to the epicenter, which remained almost undamaged after the 14 meter seawall kept out the tsunami.

edit - also, if you design for tsunami, the two-punch scenario is your design brief.
I've also noticed a pattern in which a large proportion of the negative reviews for some restaurants (which I know to be good from my own direct experience) mention groupon, and others don't mention groupon but have very similar complaints. I wish Yelp would let you just exclude reviews from people who used groupons because their experiences and/or expectations seem to have nothing in common with mine...
This is nice, but I have one critique: Having the sorting indicators right justified and the text for the column header left justified without any column borders had my clicking on the sorting indicators for the wrong column for a few seconds and wondering why the sorting was wonky. You can click anywhere on the header column to sort, which once you realize that makes it easy to use as intended, but a visual indication of separate columns in the header (a right/left border, or horizontal striping) would make it just a tad more obvious.
Windows + Firefox => looks like cars don't work - some icons are not visible and all of them are just creating rectangles in the picture
http://snag.gy/4fm3H.jpg
They just moved into that office less than a year ago. I can't see why they'd be moving again so soon.
They have the answer about bandwidth here [1] and on some blog posts [2].

> We buy our bandwidth through the wholesale market, which means we're paying for the size of our pipe, not for each byte we serve through it. We also peer with other networks wherever possible in order to drive the cost of bandwidth as close to zero as possible.

1. https://www.cloudflare.com/features-cdn

2. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...
Robots trick antibot sys to buy most PMC concert tickets – sell at skyhigh price
They actually commit to 99.9 and 99 respectively after which they begin to give credit back. They credit back at a higher rate after 99 and 98.
Using Data Science to Predict Winners of the Rugby World Cup
Vulnerability has been patched. Details: https://imgur.com/blog/2015/09/22/imgur-vulnerability-patche...
Social sciences have some significant flaws, but they are not fundamental enough to invalidate them as fields of science. For starters, requiring a really good statistical knowledge to get a degree (nor merely teaching to plug numbers into some analysis program) and less focus on the history of the sciences that is replaced with learning the modern science.
What, specifically, is wrong about it? Taxes may apply to actual exchanges of goods and/or services, but there is no tax, save the "optional" miner fee, on making an entry in the blockchain.
We certainly try to use our own products as much as possible. We see that the chat is more popular. Integrating a mailinglist is not easy and we prefer to spend time on chat instead.
your chart is missing https://nimbus.io/ which is .02 per GB/Mo.
I am not Jewish, and what I know of that community's anxieties about assimilation I have read in the press. However, though I am a Gentile who grew up in the Midwest eating peanut butter sandwiches made with toasted Wonder Bread, I do know good bread from bad, and a lot of the bagels out there are just not very good. Would I rather have a machine-made bagel than none at all. It depends, I guess, on my experience with the store, and on what else is on the menu.

OK, there was a good bakery in town. At this point I have no idea what their ethnicity was.
Is Caltrain still powered by diesel?
This is neat to see! Reminds me of the 200 line TCP/IP stack:

http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...

which has a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846028
~Just put the iocaine powder in both wine goblets and be done with it.~

You're not going to get entirely honest answers as long as the respondent believes there is something to be gained from dishonesty. And guess what? In an interview, there is always something to be gained.

The only way you get a chance is by having an accomplice clip on a "VISITOR" badge, to ask the question outside the interview room.
So how did you ultimately find out about the esophageal stricture? A third doctor?
I have this strange idea that once the government-agents really understand what e-payments, even block-chain-powered e-currencies bring to the table, in terms of money control, they'll embrace it. It's a no-brainer.

That said, taxes are not inherently bad. Governments on the other hand... Have an awfully bad track-record of power abuse.
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You really believe that public shaming is "nothing?" Because it's not a gulag. Amazing.

There is a lot out there you could use to learn more about this. Some starting points:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid...

http://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/15944...
Thus taxes should never change as people would rationally never want to pay more nor receive less benefits. Hence we must have exactly the right amount of taxation at all times.
UK scientists apply for licence to edit genes in human embryos
I use Github in my courses, and I was excited when I saw this. Three responses:

1. The permissions screen immediately irked some of my collaborators – why does this need access to _everything_, including deleting repositories that already exist? They pointed out that if one privacy/security-conscious student makes a stir about this in an undergrad course, it's all of a sudden a potentially huge issue. And I teach my students to be suspicious of screens that ask for too many permissions, with good reason!

2. Can I connect this to my institution's internal Github enterprise? I currently manage assignment distribution and collection with hand-rolled Github scripts that run against our institution's deployment. Do the teachers_pet scripts work in that environment as well, or is there Classroom-specific setup required to make that work?

3. On the screen where I choose organizations, there was a text box for a new organization, and a dropdown. I thought I was making the choice to create a new organization, but it seems to be creating all the repos in an existing organization selected in the dropdown. This has caused a lot of folks to all of a sudden get signed up for automatic notifications who are members of the selected org. That's annoying, now I have to clean up after Classroom and figure out what went wrong. I doubt that adding random student repos to an existing organization is ever what a new user wants, and I tried to follow the flow that (I thought) would not accidentally do that. It seems like a Classroom organization is a different thing from a Github organization?
roads have been built by governments using tax revenue since history began

Some roads have been built by government... not all where, and not all are even now. I'll posit that a significant number of Americans drive on at least one private road every single day. Chances are, if you live in any kind of suburban housing subdivision, the road right in front of your house actually wasn't created, and isn't maintained, by the State.

There are, of course, other privately built roads:

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

Basically, the old (trite) saw that "I want roads, therefore we need government" is pretty much bullshit. Never mind the fact that one person's desire for a road hardly justifies their putting a gun in the face of everyone else around and demanding that they pay for said road.

Again.. we're hackers, we can do better. And I'm not saying I have all the answers, sitting here today. I'm saying that if we put our minds to it, we can come up with a way to achieve positive ends without resorting to violence. Why anybody on this thread would argue against that is hard to imagine? Are you people saying you like violence?
Such a compressor can not exist.
> When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and mint will also never learn how you spent your electronic money. However, you can prove that you paid in court if necessary.
There's a nice facebook study on how frequently people were not receiving cached images, and it was around 44% of all users (25% of all hits). If you figure that Facebook is going to have some of the better numbers for that metric, it supports your conclusion: https://code.facebook.com/posts/964122680272229/web-performa....

There was a similar exercise done with hosted versions of jquery, but I can't remember who did it or find a link, I'm afraid.
I'm a data guy whose realized that all of the fancy data stuff in the world tends to be useless without a UI. I don't have time to put all of my effort into web apps, because then I'd have to take my focus off the data/business functions piece.

Meteor has been perfect for me. It works, I can easily integrate with it via the Mongo back-end, and the prototyping is super-fast. For the kinds of apps that I build (very industry specific apps for retail) I don't really have to worry about scaling to thousands of users, which means that Meteor isn't just a toy in my world. And even if I did have to scale, everything about the Meteor framework indicates that scaling Meteor is no different than scaling any other Node app.

When Postgres support comes, (its in the works) I'll be using this thing for everything.
You might want to head over to Reddit's /r/askreddit if you want to reply to posts as though they were creative writing prompts.
Outdoor air pollution contributes to premature mortality
Our GitLab.com has free private repo's. Many universities use GitLab Community Edition so that students don't have to use a third party server.
> Are there any other intelligent planet-dwellers near other stars, who contemplate a coincidence of sun and moon as we do?

Coincidence? Did the occasional perfect eclipse with a corona have some nudging effect on some stage of the evolution of life on earth. Since the corona wouldn't appear when the moon is either too large or too small, perhaps on some recent stage in evolution such as of intelligent life? It's hard to believe in coincidences.
Hmm...those who don't understand Objective-C are doomed to reinvent it, badly? (Yes, have used OO C techniques of different sorts and implemented ObjC compiler/runtime).
Researchers wrestle with a privacy problem
I would say Kaspersky should thank their lucky star Google has sponsored such research. This is priceless info.
> "... and a corresponding contempt for empirical knowledge..."

That's where it went wrong. It took its theories too seriously, and didn't know when they were being followed to unreasonable places, and so didn't know when to stop. It followed brilliant (or brilliant-sounding) ideas without common sense, and it turned out that they didn't lead anywhere.

The French Revolution was fueled by the French intellectuals, but it led to the Terror, and then to Napoleon and a decade of war. Reality didn't match theory.

Existentialism did wonderfully at describing what was wrong with much of life, but it didn't actually give you a way to build a life. If you tried to live your life according to existentialism, you got... where?

Derrida gave us deconstructionism. But if you actually want to communicate with people, where does deconstructionism get you? (And don't bother to say that people can't communicate. Even Derrida communicated; that's how we know what he thought.)
tDCS is a technology that seems so absurdly simple it's amazing that it works at all. Given the prior studies showing various effects on cognition and working memory, I don't think this one negates all of that, but it does suggest there's more nuance to getting it right that we presently appreciate.

Location, surface area, intensity, polarity, individual anatomy... we have a lot to learn before I would be ready to attach one of these to my head.
Yeah, I assume that was intentional, that this is just an excerpt. If the whole book is legally available for free, I'm not sure where.
Ask HN: What would you ask a magical, all-knowing, business oracle?
Just imagine for a second, if you will, that I'm a magical oracle that can answer anything related to your business. I also give fantastic advice and pointers.

What would you ask me?
The Alzheimer disease cure market
It's a real shame about the monthly suicides, otherwise it would almost be a reliable train service.
Well, I guess we just disagree. I think if you look back over the last 500 years, modern society is changing faster – technologically and culturally. Society is undergoing massive shifts more frequently, with the move from agrarian societies to the industrial revolution to the information age to the coming, IMO, biotech revolution. Or to use the classic example, I think if you plucked an adult from 1500 and transported them to 1600, they'd be able to understand and navigate society much better than someone plucked from 1915 transported to 2015.

Related to your point though is the idea that change is not just happening faster, IMO, it's spreading more uniformly due to globalization, e.g., cellphones have spread to all but the most impoverished, over 90% of the global population at the last estimate I saw.

And yes, I'm aware of Rachel Laudan, though I haven't seen The Search for General Tso. "More authentic" is clearly vague, context-dependent, and ever changing, akin to "proper grammar". You can intellectualize it forever, which can be fun, but eventually you should try actually tasting the food. You will taste the difference in a bagel made from traditional ingredients, i.e., no fats. You can rightly argue about exactly what is meant by "traditional," but at some point, there's a way that's been practiced for hundreds of years and there's a newer, more automated way.

That's not to say I'm right or that the factory-produced food is always worse. I know many people who think Panera has fantastic bagels. I disagree and think they're far too spongey. But there is a difference.
The cell menagerie: human immune profiling
Several central banks are interested in cryptocurrencies because it allows them to devalue the currency from a central point. Cash is hard because it can be hoarded, therefore indirect measures are taken to devalue said currency.

http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=27870

http://in.rbth.com/economics/finance/2015/09/21/rusias-bitru...

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115312/azerbaijan-mulls-its-ow...
You don't have to use that. Meteor has had built-in support for npm since something like v0.6 (~two years ago). You need to declare your npm dependencies in your package.js but then you can go ahead and use `Npm.require`.

As someone who has been building on Meteor for a while and using many npm modules, I've never actually heard of "meteorhacks:npm", and to be honest I'm confused what it's for...
All of this is answered in their documentation [1] and admin console help text.

Most CDNs only cache in the local POP on the first request and respect the headers the origin sends. The crawl frequencies are for keeping things available if your origin is offline and depends on your plan as listed on the site.

1. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168256-W...
I must be incredibly dense... forgive me.

> http://imgur.com/7iNx4btl.png

is the releases page

> http://imgur.com/LTJ5AfWl.png

is what I see when I unpack either the Zip or the Tarball.

I don't see a binary anywhere on there. I'd really like to try it out, though!
Dramatic rise seen in antibiotic use
just answer one level up from what you're interviewing for.

Junior Dev -> Dev
Senior Dev -> Team Lead
Team Lead -> VP of Engineering or CTO

Do same with salary. Whatever position you're interviewing for * 1.3.
This is fairly close to that functionality -- but not exactly there yet.

What are you looking for in an archive functionality that isn't available (a) via Slack's own export tool (JSON dump of your channel), (b) other O-S archivers or (c) paying for Slack so that you have all your messages available? Ability to archive channels regularly/automatically and search contents (outside of Slack)? That's a direction I've considered going since searching within Slack is IMO a pain.
It may be that the disagreement you're encountering is based on your acceptance of the premise that taxes are collected at gunpoint. It's extending a principle to an extreme logical conclusion and appealing to a formulaic interpretation of the world. It is divorced from the real world and makes the perfect the enemy of the good.
>And, if that two step dance could be used, then, sure, it's curious why a Republican Congress would not start to take those two steps.

Outlawing it would be horrible for them because it would not only make them lose a major issue (to the voters) to run on, it would also galvanize the opposition. The baby steps met by the courts slapping their hands is the best option for showing the voters 'see, I tried, but the nasty mean courts said no, but if you vote for me again I'll give it another try'.

Of course with so many voters who honestly believe in outlawing it, you will end up with some politicians who honestly want to outlaw it and not just use it to gain votes. But this group never gets large enough to change things in any significant ways.
Are you trying to imply Kaspersky are somehow a victim...? Installing their security product actively decreases your security in this case. That destroys their entire reason for even existing.

Kaspersky is no victim here. They've been so negligent in their own product's security that it is actively harmful to have it installed. That's literally the end of their product being useful for me and it applies to any other security company as well. I hope the rest of them get 'suggested' too, and soon! I'll be clear - this vulnerability is the one thing Kaspersky should have been spending their engineering resources on and they have failed utterly. Pack it up and close shop.
But then they can't lie about it, at least not as easily. And if they were better able to collect from tax-evading corporations, maybe they wouldn't need to tax individuals as much.
By average developer do you mean in terms of general deveoper skill or in terms of average salary? I'd be surprised that even that the companies you list, the average salary for developers is 250k. And I'd be even more surprised if it's the median salary.
Thieves seem to manage without having a detailed list of assets, I'm sure government can too.
For reference, the same question on the Mattermost forum http://forum.mattermost.org/t/why-is-gitlab-mattermost-licen...
> What if the person sitting across from you COULD be the next CEO of Google, and you're blowing off a great find?

Then hopefully you're not on Google's CEO interview committee, and the candidate is overqualified for whatever position you have, and hiring them comes with a risk of being unable to retain them when the much greater opportunity comes knocking, leaving you where you started but a couple of months down the line.
Just make sure you read this first: https://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul
Not entirely related to the US supplies, but did this stand out to anyone else?

> The facility at Shibushi, for example is just off-shore. Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan in 2011, calls were made to expand the country’s oil stocks in case of crises in the future which might hamper oil distribution again.

One of the most volcanically and tidally affected and nautically food-dependent nations on earth thinks it's a good idea to hold millions of barrels of oil on their coastlines?!
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Yes, of course. So did Russia.

See the movie Farewell, based on actual events? http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/farewell_2010/

The point being, if they could, and if it helped them, and if there was no real/strong enforcement against it, why wouldn't they have done so? Of course, not the Chinese govt. directly, that would be bad form; but a sponsored organization, I don't see why not, they are ambitious enough.
Indeed. Unfortunately there is a lot of pushback on anything that increases building height. I've received notices in the mail urging residents to oppose new constructions that could set a "dangerous precedent" in this regard.

Argh.
You don't have to wrap your async methods if you don't want to. Meteor prefers to use fibers since a lot of people find them easier to work with, but if you write async code it will generally work fine. The one thing is that when you want to call back into Meteor code, you need to do it in a fiber, so you'll probably want to write a little helper for that. Here's my version:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/shell/...