skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acer Chromebook on Amazon for $94.99 for Black Friday
Chief Coca-Cola scientist leaves amid criticism over obesity research
You may well be hosting or linking to builds though, and if someone could replace a popular project's binary builds with one that'll compromise any machine its installed on that's a pretty big deal, especially if some of those machines are production servers.
> I've used it to learn to play StarCraft and to control cameras to predict people's movements around buildings.

If you've described / published either of these examples somewhere, you should submit them to HN!
Dell abandoned Openstack in May 2013? Better tell ComputerWorldUK then, they seem out of date by 9 months because they linked me to this story from December 2013: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-vendors/dell-and-red-...
I believe that's a dividing train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_train
With regards to "juice is bad", here is a BMJ article which appears to validate that belief at least with regards to type 2 diabetes: http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5001
Specifically: From the conclusion "Greater consumption of specific whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, is significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas greater consumption of fruit juice is associated with a higher risk."
How Competition Can Help You to Predict the Future
I thought it was Sicily and that Scilly was a keystroke mistake. Funny that...
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In the examples you are listing, the activists are using force to change the world into something they want, as opposed to using free speech to try to convince others. A while ago, I read the book Hitler - Memoirs of a Confidant by Otto Wagener. It really surprised me. From this book, I get the impression that Hitler was an idealist who really wanted to create a better world (at least for the Germans who he saw as being totally unfairly treated by France etc. after WW1).

It can still be fascism, even if you see yourself as doing good. Actually, I think well-meaning idealists are sometimes some of the worst people out there. They see themselves as good and being correct, and they get really nasty and intolerant towards people who see things differently.

There's the old saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", but I often get the impression that many people don't really grasp this.
LHC collides ions at new record energy
Protractor with headless Chrome on Docker
wow, barnacles are crazy efficient, I wouldn't expect the section to be covered in them so much already.
Yep, in Poland it's the same with schools. We used to have 9 years of primary school + 4 years of high school and that was it. In 1999 a new, 3-year long "middle school" was introduced,shortening primary school to 6 years and high school to 3 years. Now the new government elected this year has vowed to get rid of this system and go back to the old one, at some untold cost, "because old is bad, new will be better, except that in this case new is old".
History does not repeat but often rhymes. It is a pendulum. After some major "black swan" cloud disaster people will begin to see value in de-consolidation.
They are a dating website amongst other things. It's a large billion pound media organisation now with many different units.
iOS Onboarding Without Signup Screens (UX and Swift)
It means cheap commodity servers as opposed to iron which is beefy expensive servers.
Also this article about the Apple response at the time[1]. I think two factors helped hugely with the adoption of Win95 and the surge in popularity of the PC over Macs at the time. One was mainstream adoption of the recently arrived Pentium CPUs. The other was the collapse in memory prices in 1996, which had been very expensive for many years. Now PCs had an OS that could take full advantage of these capabilities and the price of a powerful computer fell dramatically. This must have hammered Apple's margins.

[1] http://www.cultofmac.com/386189/how-apple-responded-to-the-r...
I'd be really interested in the actual technical problems The Guardian had with OpenStack and what's the current situation with the OpenStack project. The company I work for has some interest on the platform but I am not aware what to expect (problems, new features etc) from it in its current state.

A couple of years ago I experimented with and compared some open source cloud platforms. Admittedly my knowledge is old, but alredy then I was wondering the hype and visibility of the OpenStack project. While it has many big-name supporters that guarantee its lucrativeness for the enterprise, its feature set and flexibility was seriously behind other open source alternatives.

Back then I fell for OpenNebula because even though it had its warts it already delivered many features (especially concerning hybrid clouds and heterogenous virutalization environments) that OpenStack still had on its future roadmap.
Appurt: Made by Humans, Curated by Humans, Enjoyed by You
Ask HN: Single Place for Black Friday Sales
Just wondering if there is an aggregator which collects Black Friday Deals from all major websites and all you need to do is search for something like "Drone" and it will show the best offer irrespective of the website. once clicked it will take you to that website and you can buy from there.
Hoisting in .NET Explained
Look at it go, weee!
or you get the broadcom+ chip. which kindly breaches your entire network and sends the content of everything it finds to a Chinese ip address...

don't have any data on that either. but I'm guessing it is more likely than getting what you ordered.
I am not sure why they are running a dating site, but even if they consider this important why one system to rule them all. Hardware is cheap compared to developers.
> The foreign DNA comes primarily from bacteria, but also from plants, fungi, and Archaea.

Or it's the other way around. Maybe singular cell life on Earth were just tardigrade cancer cells that managed to survive outside of their bodies.
Stephen Gran, the senior integrator charged with getting OpenStack to work and who wrote fulsomely about it left the Guardian in March 2014 according to LinkedIn.
And perhaps they should also compare that improvement with the improvement garnered by turning off javascript on LinkedIn (assuming it even works).
Its weird really, I can't do much these days without someone tracking me and using that information to target me with ads and yet whole commercial airliners and chunks of space rockets can vanish only to wash up on beaches covered in barnacles...
If you read:

>If Google "guarantees" your funding as long as you write the things they want written, you have a significant incentive to look upon them favorably.

as a type of discrediting due to the source of the "guarantee" on funding, then:

>As an academic, you live or die by your funding.

implies that all live academics are funded. Funding must come from somewhere with some form of guarantee. If we can generalize Google to stand in for any other source of funding, then you have constructed an argument that discredits all live academics.
I've always been introgued by the Guardian's focus on building its own technology. It seems a "bold" strategy, given that tech is not its core business and the newspaper part of the group (which is pretty much all that remains now, since they've sold off their other assets) has been consistently losing money for some time now. I wonder if that strategy would still be in place if it wasn't owned by a not-for-profit trust.

Other publishers who have gone down the "We're a tech company!" route have been forced to give up on that strategy[1]. I wonder whether the Guardian will be able to make that breakthrough, or whether they'll end up migrating to Wordpress or something similar.

1: http://digiday.com/publishers/gawkers-kinja-retreat-shows-fa...
People at /r/spacex claim it might be actually not CRS-7 debris, but from some earlier flight
They do make great pies :)
It sounds like key 'organisational' people are being put in place so the organisation can transiton to something bigger. This is a good thing, they're there to support you, as you're the core purpose of the organisation.

Take this as an opportunity for yourself. If you have worked in a corporate environment before, you're probably familiar with policies, documentation (not code, organisational), etc. If not, then don't worry.

This is you're chance to shape that from the start.

If you're the owner of a product or part of a product, you have a lot of leverage and power, just don't use it recklessly.

For example: I joined a company with no job descriptions. When the expansion came, I got to write my job description. My department (me) had no Statement of Purpose, so I wrote the Statement of Purpose.

We also had a training course on RACI (basically, a simple way whenever undertaking a task to make sure who is Responsible, Accountable, who should be Consulted, and who should be Informed). It's a simple idea, but well worth keeping in mind whenever doing something because an expansion means the amount of people that need to be 'in the know' changes (in my case, from casual chatting and word-of-mouth) to making sure things were documented in emails. It was different, but it helped.

The good thing is, you're in expansion mode. That means a lot of stuff can flow to you if communication well.

Don't appear self-conceited (not saying you are, just don't appear like that) by getting withdrawn. Given your company was small, the boss or VP is probably close, so let your ambition (be it a specialist, manager of a product or part of a product, etc) be known to them.

Things can stay casual and personal, but with more and more people, things will go wrong if issues don't get documented and followed-up more formally (from feature changes to un-communicated personal leave), simply as there's many more people who will be out-of-the-loop and uninformed of events.

The transition phase was the worse for me, as others just didn't get it. There'd be a face-to-face conversation I'd not be involved in, because others were used to the 'old way' and then things would escalate because someone key was out-of-the-loop and I'd get a question from the GM 'why was this not done?' It was a pain. But you can get through it sooner if you adapt sooner.]
Action Recognition Using Visual Attention(U Toronto, GitHub Code)- at Wikitract
Perhaps they wanted a more "exciting" way of doing it?
I'm guessing SpaceX will want to recover this so they can inspect it to see if they can learn anything useful.
> I am not sure why they are running a dating site

Many newspapers (at least in UK) did. Guardian is one that stuck around to digital age. It makes them money.
I’ve used Openstack at my current $dayjob and I’d say that Openstack is probably one of the buggiest solutions that I’ve ever used. Even simple things like stopping or resizing VM-s sometimes failed completely and the VM came unusable after that. Feature wise it’s also lacking. Seems that Openstack spends more time/money on marketing and generating hype than creating a good solution.
I’d even say that Docker has a somewhat similar problems, they spend more on hype/marketing than creating a stable and usable solution. However, at least Docker is more usable right now than a year ago, the same can’t be said about Openstack.
GitHub Pages does have an interface, being the user's or the project's profile. You already need to activate GitHub Pages (it can even auto-generate stuff for you) and you need to tell GitHub your public SSH key in order to let you push things into your GitHub Pages enabled repository, right?

Also I hate the CNAME file, as I always forget what to do - should it be a naked domain, should it have www in front, can I specify multiple domains and so on and I always have to reach for their documentation.

It's not a core focus for GitHub, but it's a nice add-on and such things have been keeping many of us on GitHub.
I'm having a lot of fun reading this article in my head in a faux Swiss/German accent. Love the phrasing :)
- https://css-tricks.com/data-uris/
- http://caniuse.com/#feat=datauri
- https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10633142
The question I had, "Why would someone want to make a half mile long sheet of spider silk and put it in a field outside Memphis?" is also answered by the original headline.
The person I was replying to was talking about things that were actually done not every possible option, so it was a false dichotomy.

I dispute your claim that every possible option other than doing nothing would be worse than doing nothing. What's your justification for that claim?
We (UK business) have a contractor who is ex-IBM and who says it all the time. It annoyed me at first but I've got used to it. That was the first time I'd heard it, but now I've become aware of it, I notice it a lot more.
They have a few very charismatic people in tech there, the kind of people who are very good showmen and salesmen (or women) but they've been "architects" or similar their whole careers, not hands-dirty engineers, and their grasp of what's feasible or not is driven mainly by which vendor buys them the nicest lunch or has the nicest typography in their whitepapers.
At the end of the day, I still end up using `unittests` for most of the work I do for my dayjob. Does not adding good documentation to the unit tests that you write achieve the same thing as BDD? From what I've understood so far, BDD merely adds a layer of explanation on top of unit tests.
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It's a lot more like Facebook, which is why Messenger is such an important app for them.
You can say that of any company who owns its own servers. The problem is less that a company would want to keep control of its own infrastructure. But that there doesn't seem to be a software solution available to any company who wishes to do so.

The "let Amazon run it" standard response is I think problematic: the cloud market is extremely concentrated. This is not a good thing in term of competition and diversification. We have already seen many times a bad software update shutting down a whole cloud service. Having more concentration is only going to make our infrastructures less resilient.
Related: http://i.stanford.edu/hazy/tuffy/

Tuffy is used in DeepDive[1], which is a very interesting project.

[1] http://deepdive.stanford.edu/doc/advanced/markov_logic_netwo...
Industry-Wide HTTPS Certificate and SSH Key Reuse
The article read at first like a spoof of unnecessarily internet-connected gadgets with one-word names.

Like Wash, a smartphone-operated wifi washing machine (actually that's not a bad idea, let's get onto Kickstarter).

It was only halfway through did I realise it was a serious article about an actual product...
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Sounds like there's a space for a Visa- or Underwriters' Laboratories-like cloud company owned by and run for a consortium of medium-sized publishers.
I don't know how to perfectly prepare anything. Most foodstuff is still quite enjoyable.
In India, Whatsapp almost enjoys the same status as WeChat. Only that Whatsapp isn't really doing what WeChat is, but it could very well do that too. Then again, it raises question about how much should an app really do... someone posted a blog to HN that complained how Evernote is trying to do too many things, and is getting the note-taking part wrong, which is core to its product.

Whatsapp is touted as a SMS replacement. But calling it that is downplaying it prowess in handling multimedia content. Almost everyone I know use it as an "email replacement" instead (after the advent of "100 people groups," I must admit). Think about that for a moment-- a replacement to email! As Whatsapp continues to get better at handling more and more content, it will start replacing the "browser" on the phone. That's upto Whatsapp of course to make it more powerful and realise that vision, flawed or not.

Look at how powerful the browsers have become. Tomorrow, if Whatsapp starts offering in-app embedded browser experience, I am pretty sure the dynamics will change again.

Oh, and e-commerce happens over Whatsapp as well. So, its kind of a craiglist replacement too.
While GitHub has a free account, it gets quite expensive when you start paying. And GitHub Pages is a complementary add-on and many of us stayed on GitHub because of nice things like this. I do agree that it isn't their core focus and that people could host their stuff somewhere else for cheap.

However there is something to be said about making encrypted connections the standard. Chrome and Firefox will only support encrypted HTTP 2.0 connections. So if GitHub Pages does not provide HTTPS for custom domains, then it won't support HTTP 2.0. Adding HTTPS support is also the right thing to do given the recent attacks on privacy.

Yes, GitHub Pages is a free add-on that isn't their competency, but in my opinion they should either drop it completely, or support HTTPS. Because otherwise they are keeping the web back due to their popularity.
Just wrote a sortition channel mode after seeing this.

Of course there's always the chance that your randomly elected leaders might then choose to do away with sortition.

https://github.com/LukeB42/psyrcd/blob/master/scripts/sortit...
I honestly cannot ask non-power-users to go GPG...

And why the extra step? Just a readily available, opensource archiver --7zip-- does the trick with simple symmetric encryption by passphrase.
I guess I was being a bit hyperbolic. But Chuka Umunna's comment about how "I would never quote a communist" and the GHCQ noting the figures about deaths during the Great Leap Forward seemed to be a tacit implication that McDonnell was somehow endorsing Mao, rather than taking a swipe at Osborne.
Simple database content creation with Java 8
Key quotes

>Before this, the rotifer – another microscopic water creature – was believed to have the most foreign genes of any animal, with 8 or 9 percent. But the new research has shown that approximately 6,000 of the tardigrade’s genes come from foreign species, which equates to around 17.5 percent.

>The team hasn't investigated exactly how this gene-stealing is happening just yet, but they propose that it's a result of one of the tardigrade's other crazy survival mechanisms – the ability to dry out until its body is less than 3 percent water, and then come bounce back once they're rehydrated.

> When this desiccation happens, scientists know that their DNA breaks down into tiny pieces. They also know that when their cells rehydrate, there's a point in time when the cell nucleus is leaky, allowing DNA and other molecules to pass through. That means that while the tardigrade is quickly patching up its own genome, it may accidentally be stitching in another organism's genes.
Washington's Open Information Extraction project - Ollie[1] - is really, really good. For example I've found it much more effective that the OpenIE tool in Stanford CoreNLP.

I think Alchemy is pretty old though? Most people seem to use Tuffy for MLN now.

[1] https://github.com/knowitall/ollie
> As I publish this, it’s also coping with the consequences of a damning video showing a policeman shooting Laquan McDonald, a black teenager who did not seem to present a fatal threat.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that they are coping with consequences of policemen shooting Laquan McDonald? Otherwise it seems like video is the problem, not that cop shot black teenager that didn't present a threat.
> Doesn't have to be that complicated, though. I recommend starting with a simple workflow.

Definitely agree. I tried to force myself into using tags and agenda when I first started and it didn't end well. Instead you should start out using it as a simple TODO list manager and slowly use more advanced features when you figure out how they could fit in with your workflow. I think Carsten Dominik (the original author of Org-mode) put it best:

>What people miss when they are new to Org-mode is this:

>Don't try to set up the "final" task managing system from the
start. Because you have no idea yet what your system should look
like. Don't set up many TODO states and logging initially,
before you actually have a feeling for what you working flow is.
Don't define a context tag "@computer" just because David Allen
has one, even though you are sitting at a computer all the time
anyway! Start by creating and managing a small TODO list and
then develop your own system as the needs arises. I wrote
Org-mode to enable this development process.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-04/msg...
I'm not quite sure why this made it to the front page. It's just a wish list of things they would like an AI to be able to do.
It's the video. If not for the video there would be no consequences for them. Sadly.
Face to face meetings?
Linked is a specific model on Amazon but you can just use any rtlsdr stick. They start at about 10$. http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

Great fun and great gift for hacker types.
A Large-Scale Study of the Use of Eval in JavaScript Applications (2011) [pdf]
Lot of interesting ideas and research collected in one place. It looks like the high concept pitch for this is, "chatbot that can query the internet"
It doesn't even have to taste like meat. I just don't like to eat tasteless rubber.

Then the next problem is that I'm poor bastard. I can buy groung pork for 4,50e/kg, or half a chicken for 2,50e/kg. Tofu costs 12e/kg in supermarket, I could eat pretty decent beef for that price. I usually can afford eating in a restaurant maybe once in a month. So if I find good tofu, it's really not going to change my diet.

According to some studies beef/pork/chicken production consumes resources in that order. Also they churn out CO2 and other pollutants in that order. And they cost money in that order. Price is roughly proportionate to enviromental impact. Why is tofu so freaking expencive?
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There is a suite of Jackbox games like this that are really good. Particularly, Fibbage: http://jackboxgames.com/project/fibbage
Yeah, to be honest, I do. Although I think the reasons there are different.

There is an infection of using superlative language at every turn, and it is especially bad (but not limited to) how conversation happens in the US, and countries like Britain that increasingly model their politics and culture on the US[0].

The current culture makes nuance and explanation hard, because those don't fit into sound bytes. When we live in a world where Jeff Bezos can declare, with a straight face, that 3000 words is a "long read", we're kinda screwed when it comes to politicians being able to make any point that isn't a slogan painted on the backdrop they are speaking in front of, or a startup to declare "we are just building a service that is one iteration better than the existing ones on the market, and people will pay us good money to use it".

I mean you can do that, and you can probably even make good money at it, but you won't get the fawning press or the billion-dollar hyperinflated valuations.

[0]: A strong statement, especially to make in passing, I know. But happy to lay out my reasoning on that point for anyone who wants it, and I promise it's not just the usual bellyaching about "creeping Americanisation" that gets thrown around a lot.
> Org-Mode has been the most rewarding part of using Emacs for me and has been what kept me from switching to another editor for more than two years now.

Same. Every now and then I think "ooh, Acme might be really cool" but then I remember it doesn't have Org-mode. It really is the killer-app of Emacs. I guess it's a good thing because it means I can finally settle on an editor long enough to master it.