skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joe Matheny has admitted to being the person behind the Titor prank: https://jmatheny.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/episode-138-the-le...

This is, of course, completely reasonable and believable. A certain number of people suspected it in the first place. After all, Matheny was behind the Incunabula / Ong's Hat hoax, and was later brought on to create Majestic, the first commercial ARG. The Titor story has enough in common with both Ong's Hat and Majestic for Matheny to be one of the usual suspects.
It's just casual life differences accumulating over time. They may not even notice it's strange to others since it's just how their life works now.

Somebody who has been an employee at 4 successful startups over 10 years has different life patterns ("yeah, I'm an employee, but I'm also an LP in some VC funds and I angel invest on the side and take advisor shares every few months") than someone who has also worked at startups for 10 years but every previous startup they worked for failed or no longer exists.

"Oh, you cashed out some stock during your startup's latest funding round and now you're complaining your Tesla order is being delayed by two months? I'm soooo sorry. What's new with me? Thanks for asking! I got a yearly salary increase of 0.5% again this year, which doesn't in any way cover the 15% yearly rent increase on my apartment. Enjoy your new $100,000 car while I scrape together another $300/month for rent I don't have."
On the other hand, it could lead to a more fractured web, that is highly segregated based on where the host is that is serving up the data. Like US Corporate law, it could lead to a mass of companies deciding to place most or all of their servers in what would otherwise be very silly locations.
This is the first time they have been found in humans and not just engine exhaust. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Especially considering there have been some rather heated "anti-nanotechnology" protests in france[0]. At best this could lead to better particulate emissions standards.

[0] http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/January/22011001...
When QA or design work from home, it's not as easy to tell whether or not they're actually working

How do you tell whether or not they're actually working when they're in the office?
In summary- it’s so awesome to see how they went from scrappy to a must-have product that does around $700mm in annual transactions.

Where is this from? Venmo should be doing much higher than this figure.
Trolling is predicated upon inane opinions being presented as reality. The most talented trolls can't be distinguished from idiots.

That and people are just angry, so very angry.

This is just what happens when you exist publicly on the Internet. It's sad, but it's reality. And it's not just men doing it. It's not just trolling.

I can only hope that she takes her audience's outpouring of positivity to heart.
The obvious solution would be for countries to pass laws that force any publicly funded research to be published for free download in addition to whatever fancy journal the researches submits them to.
Drug companies are boycotting the death penalty process because of their deep-seated moral convictions? I don't think so.

Corporations are amoral. The activists found a weak point in the death penalty system -- namely, the companies which make the drugs (which is a small market to start with) and are terrified of even the remotest smidgen of public criticism.
Ha, well that was stupid of me :)
Looking at the code, it appears that this will only work for Dropbox accounts that have a public folder (users who signed up prior to October 2012 or paid users who have specifically enabled the feature).

(See https://www.dropbox.com/help/16.)
> Things like diving/'mermaid' fins I'd be willing to allow since they're not significantly amplifying the swimmers power just making it easier to apply it.

I disagree with this point. As an avid swimmer of 20+ years, fins/flippers make a _substantial_ difference in speed. Its actually very enjoyable to swim for a bit without flippers/fins, and then slap some on and feel like you're flying through the water.
Thinking about your comment made me realize that the lackluster performance often seen in WebGL pages has very little to do with overhead in WebGL itself, and a lot to do with the application developer's failure to optimize for performance.

Native Quake III on a Pentium 4-era system was much smoother than most of the WebGL stuff I see on a modern system, but the fact that a WebGL demo [1] of a subset of Quake III is very smooth seems to support this idea.

You make a lot of good points about the difficulties that the low-level nature of graphics programming present to standardization. I agree that there probably isn't necessarily an easy solution to this which doesn't unnecessarily restrict the space of possibilities in the name of performance or interoperability.

[1] http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
Great Scott........
Looks like a nice tool. I wrote https://github.com/epantry/django-sql-explorer, which is sort-of similar in terms of the problem it solves, except embraces SQL front-and-center. Excited to check this out in more depth.

Personally, I think it's really exciting is that this is all written in Clojure! We need more Clojure web apps out there to learn from! An initial glance at the source makes it seem very readable as well. A great learning resources for us amateur Clojurists. Also makes it clear that the ecosystem is pretty immature; there is a lot of frameworky boilerplate to support a straightforward REST API.
Curious. I run the docker image all the time and haven't had any issues with the port binding. What kind of system are you using? and what was your launch command?

You can double check that we are exposing port 3000 from the container which is where the app is designed to run by default. The Dockerfile used to build the image is in our repo here: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/blob/master/bin/release...

Heroku sometimes times out if the application takes too long to start. Could you try again and see if it works? We're working on making Heroku deploys more robust.
Grasping at straws is a strange way to say rolling in money. The Journals are relics for sure, but with the internet their costs went down, and they make a ton of money financed by tax-funded research.
Nothing really to add, but Colombia is a beautiful country. If I had to leave the U.S. I'd be in Medellin, Colombia. If you get a chance to visit I highly recommend it.
You will have N databases no matter what. Almost every company has some legacy systems around, or simply uses different tools for different jobs.

However, you still want to copy & combine your data into a single database. The relevant Fowler patterns are:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ReportingDatabase.html

More precicely, it is a common pattern to split the analtics into three parts: 1) Collecting the data (using lots of adapters) into a "data lake", 2) filter and preprocess that data lake into a uniform data structure whose structure is determined by the analysis goal rather than the operational system, 3) analyze that uniform data with statistical and other tools.

It usually makes no sense to combine those phases into a single overall tool. First, these are very different tasks, where different specialized tools will evolve anyway. Second, you want to keep the intermediate results anyway - for caching as well as to have an audit trail and reproducibility of the results.

For example, you don't want the performance of operational system be affected by for how many analysis tools it is used at a point in point. Also, you don't to work on a always-modifying dataset while fine-tunung your analysis methods.
MIND BLOWN - this is using WebGL? Unbelievable!

The only thing I wish it had was more interactions, but as is it demonstrates that WebGL is not just a toy, but something to be taken more seriously in the GL community.
Yahoo has been poorly managed for several CEOs, it's not a new turn of events. She hasn't helped things, but it's not like Yahoo was a rocket ship before she was hired. She had an amazing opportunity to change things while Alibaba was keeping Wall Street happy, but that window has closed and she has nothing to show for it other than making herself very very wealthy. She'll be gone soon.
There are two sources of information in UK.

Office for national statistics are nice. They're robust about what does or doesn't count, and how they count, and where you need to be cautious with the numbers. http://www.ons.gov.uk/

The other place might be Public Health Outcomes: http://www.phoutcomes.info/

EG http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile-group/mental-health

And finally NICE tend to have excellent referencing.

Noodle around here to find the NICE guidance. http://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/drug-misuse
In my experience, quadrupling the resolution (aka going retina) lets you go lower the font 1 point, giving you about 10% more vertical content on equivalently sized screens. So if you're happy with a 19" 1080p (9.3" vertical) screen, then I suspect that you'll be fine.
“Little Box Challenge” Inverters Arrive at NREL
I got 170 vs 7.

Also, what's your point?
Well, I (a person) didn't directly help the NSA, either. I didn't vote for the people who did it, either. But "I" (a citizen of the United States) did help them in that I am part of the US, and I generally support the form of government that we have.

I doubt that the BND acted without orders from the Chancellor's office, just as the NSA didn't and hasn't acted without orders from the President.
I was asked a while ago by a non-geek, wouldn't you have to be crazy to believe in cryonics? My answer was, you would have to be crazy to believe there was a one hundred percent chance it was going to work, but you wouldn't have to be crazy to believe there was, say, a five percent chance. And that's a lot better than the zero percent you get in a hole in the ground.
There's a lot of creeps everywhere, not just in industry.

However, they are very well outnumbered by the indifferent and the good.
In the EU VAT returns (Sales tax) are made monthly so we could have a monthly index of those.

Employee wages are taxed weekly / monthly both income tax and national insurance (which are used for social welfare etc.) and employers contribute to national insurance - these could be reported.

We give companies limited debt liability in exchange for the social good they perform through their activities, a concept introduced in the 19thC.

It is announced daily on the news the value of the stock exchanges, I don't think it is entirely crazy to do the same for contributions to the society that bears the cost of default.
HGST 8TB is keeping its high price for about a year already. Prior to that they had wonderful 4TB drives for ~$100 for home NAS, the price for 8TB version is like 6x higher and their 4TB drives are no more since WD acquired them (and Seagate's 8TB home drives have poor reliability, HGST being the only reliable HDD manufacturer atm). Seems like we are in a sort of a limbo when there aren't any reasonably priced SSDs >1TB and HDDs are stuck at 8-10TB for a while already.

As for SSDs, most of the optimization goes to improving bandwidth (where most people won't notice a real-world difference between an SSD plugged into SATA2 and M.2 PCIe baring 8k/4k video creation), but anyone will notice a real-world difference in increased IOPS, which no company cares about and they plateaued at ~100k IOPS for the past few years (i.e. some of the low-end Sandisk SSDs with 4k IOPS are subjectively as slow as HDDs).
We're playing around with inline-styling our components, but pushing the inline-styles into CSS injected into `<style>` tags in the head. It's experimental at the moment, but it's being sent into production shortly: https://github.com/Khan/aphrodite
This Connection is Untrusted
This is beautiful and evil. I love it.
But the paradox says...

infinite number of rooms are all occupied by a person.. then a person shows up. There is one to one ratio here... of all rooms are occupied by a person.. infinite rooms.. infinite people.. if the infinity of people are all ready in the infinity of rooms..

Then who is showing up? Everyone is already in the rooms.. So no need to worry about moving anyone.

If we change it to be numbers it still doesn't work.. If we have an infinite amount of slots.. and in each slot is a number.. and all slots are full.. how can we make room for another number..

If you say that oh well there were only even numbers in the slots.. well then what you told me isn't true.. all slots aren't full with numbers.. only even numbers..

I understand what the paradox is trying to explain about sets.. but to me it just falls apart as a metaphor.
Scientists create a working animal limb in a lab
Of course, these are ends that are only now being seen as noble instead of nefarious. It was necessary because same-sex relationships were viewed as deviant and sinister for so long.

What's an interesting question is why this was so widely accepted and tolerated by judges/social workers, in an era where same-sex relationships were otherwise treated so punitively.
Ha you think so?! I just got myself set up on Medium and I plan on putting some essays up there. I might just have to put it up for grins.
Well that's interesting! I'm still convinced that living on Twinkies & McD's isn't going to result in quality health, but it's good to know the super-size-me person had to lie in his documentary.
Those companies are missing out on some really great tools then, like this one. Perhaps as more and more awesome software is released as AGPL, they will change their position.
Here is a nice list of historic hard disk prices (1955-2015): http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm
Firefox tells me that "Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified... we can't confirm that your connection is secure."
A tablet that's 2 lbs and > 0.5" thick is gargantuan by today's standards. Less so at the time of the original Surface Pro release, but still huge- it was 50% heavier than, and 1/3 thicker than its main tablet competition at the time (the iPad 4).

I think the extra size and weight is totally understandable given that it's a full-blown PC, but Microsoft's marketing message is that this is something that will replace both your laptop and your tablet with no compromises. They've used that phrase a lot (no compromises), but to a heavy tablet user the extra size and weight in tablet mode would've seemed like a huge compromise. 1/4 lb isn't much of anything in absolute terms, but in relative terms for that product category the hyperbole is probably warranted.
I agree with you that these particles should be studied for their potential health and environmental impact, but combustion has been around much longer than humanity. I think that not all these particles are made equal and that being said I don't think that the nanotubes found in this study are much like what we are trying to create for technological purposes. They are probably very short/small and the article mentioned "[these] nanotubes are unlikely to have the cancer-causing potential of asbestos fibres, which are much larger and can get trapped in the lining of the lung." I believe their impact should be studied but there are also many other combustion products that probably have a larger negative impact.
Situations like these are where math stops being an enlightening view on relationships between quantities and starts being a pedantic chore.
Sooooo Funny
My experience with my pre-order is different.

My credit card company flagged the order as fraud and called me to verify it was not. I verified the charge was authentic. They told me to re-run the order and it would succeed.

The Microsoft pre-order system gave me the opportunity to 'try again' however each one failed and according to my credit card company; they never tried to charge my card after the initial fail. Then MS cancelled the order.

I've spoken to Amex twice and Microsoft four times trying to address the issue. The problem is on Microsoft's side [as agreed by all parties involved].

I have a new order in place. Verbally I'm told my initial ship date will be honored. However, my latest order receipt says otherwise.
As was aptly demonstrated by x86 systems (both now and in that era), transistor budgets had grown enough by the time Cell came of age that the impact of ISAs could have on overall performance was comparatively trivial. POWER had a lot of funny things about it, but it wasn't that hard to get POWER architectures to move quickly.
I bought concert tickets and a friend paid me for one of them. I need help moving and my friend let me use her zipcar membership. I venmo'd her money for the cost of the van. A few friends and I wanted to send flowers to a friend who had a baby. One person bought them and charged us each the split amount. etc.
(Full disclosure, co-founder of Periscope Data here.)

Periscope Data supports cross-DB joins. We cache the data in our own clusters so queries run really fast, and also so you can do things like join across databases and upload CSVs.

More info: http://www.periscopedata.com. I'm harry at periscopedata.com
This is another issue where the definition of "right" is somewhat complicated.

It's more of an issue where you didn't read the article, and are talking about something irrelevant to its points. Presumably because you thought you knew what it was about from the title or a quick skim. What purpose does that serve?
Camerawoman Who Was Fired for Kicking Migrants to Sue Facebook, Migrant
Does routing work like that? I mean once data is stable on a machine, it won't move, but getting that data there, man that seems hard. I mean, copying a file between 2 London datacenters might go through New York, if conditions are right.

I always thought moving between two machines to the fastest route, not the shortest route. I guess you could set up some fancy geolocation rules to ensure IPs of a certain range are only routable to other specific IPs. Still, there's no guarantee about the physical location of a given address.
YouTube launches 'Red' paid subscription network
woah, right as a I wrote that edit I get this comment ;) very cool. checking it out
Meet YouTube Red, the Ultimate YouTube Experience
I have read (from sources of dubious provenance) that narcotics addicts who have done multiple rounds of rehab and relapse were able to finally kick their habits by taking high doses of entheogen drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and ibogaine.

Suggest someone attend substance abusers' anonymous meetings for the rest of their lives, and no one bats an eye. Suggest that someone kick their drug habit by taking another drug, just once, and people lose their freakin' minds.
Not really big/popular but GoButler seems to be an interactive personal assistant "app" through SMS:

http://www.gobutlernow.com/
Not blaming the guy at all but what seems to have happened is that he was shot because, I'm guessing, he tried to defend himself with his gun against a plain-clothed person approaching his car at 3am on the side of the highway. If people didn't think they needed to carry guns to protect themselves, theres a good chance that would not have happened. Of course, ultimately the officer is responsible for shooting the guy and, of course, none of it is on camera.
I am 37. My last couple venmo transactions:

Paying off a bet about who would become CEO of twitter
Paying someone for my portion of a bar tab.
Fantasy Football league dues
Receiving money from someone for their portion of a bar tab
Paying someone for movie tickets
Discovery may lead to vaccine for birth defect virus
First thing that caught my attention was the sailboat and if I could interact with it.
Doesn't seem to work at all in IE11 / RTM Win10.
Tool-level data integration is supported by tools like Spotfire, but for analyzing high volume of data you need to mantain a data warehouse using ETL code to integrate the data from all the diferent sources.

For better performance you may also need to implement an OLAP tool.
Keep in mind the often-huge software budgets within those projects.
how long should one try to make a new job work?

This question really speaks to me right now! One of the major reasons I was hired into my current job of less than two months is that I have lot of experience working in a very process-heavy environment and I'm tasked with developing appropriate processes for the pretty chaotic company I'm with now.

While I'm sure I can turn them around, there are challenges coming from every direction. The situation is somewhat worse than I expected and I need to have a frank talk with the owner about what timeframe he expects to see a significant move of the needle. I've made a few minor improvements in the 6 weeks I've been here, but people's attitudes are going to be the hardest to change.

I give it a year.
> in HN purgatory for some reason

It set off the voting ring detector.

We'll reduce the penalty, since the post is probably of
interest to the community.

Edit: we also put "Show HN" in the title, since it's your book, it's available to read, and it's a major piece of work.
easter eggs to come =)
I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one.

Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199.

edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu...

Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and with F.D.A. approval.

The new health-related information 23andMe will provide is called carrier status. That relates to whether people have genetic mutations that could lead to a disease in their offspring, presuming the other parent has a mutation in the same gene and the child inherits both mutated genes. There will be information on 36 diseases, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and Tay-Sachs.
Quibble or more about your useful exposition, especially WRT:

That's 3-5x growth for the 5 year period. Why has growth slowed? Is it a technological constraint or a lack of investment?

Could be technological. A few years ago I read that magnetic hard disk areal densities were doubling roughly once a year. However, unlike the process node shrinks that allow Moore's law, don't disk improvements come from either small incremental things or huge improvements like giant magnetoresistance (GMR) heads? So the companies could have, for the time being at least, run out big technological advances.

In fact, while I'm not following this at all closely (for various reasons I'm planning on keeping a 4 TB cap on my home storage), the biggest new thing I've read about is shingled recording (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording), where writes are partially overlapped, and rewrites are expensive. Per that Wikipedia article, this can add 25% to the capacity of a drive ... which in the context of a previous doubling per year isn't much, it's more of a small incremental improvement.

The other side is demand, of course. I'm not sure on general principles that consumer demand for big drives is down that much, for a small SSD for active stuff + a big nearline drive for media makes a lot of sense. Especially if your Internet connection is capped like mine. This is the approach I've taken since 2007 (with heavy use of high quality CD-Rs for the 2000-2006 period).

Another factor might be an accumulation of people losing too much data on their big hard disks.

Finally, I have to wonder if the big cloud storage providers are slowing down big capacity disk purchases. That'll in part depend on how they use them, do they split out disk farms from compute, or use more homogeneous approaches, such as "moderate" sized disks attached to most machines?