skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Logs and streams are very different kinds of output. For number one, streams are usually more fluid, and I tend to have a higher volume of stream output than logs. For number two, it's more important to produce logs at regular intervals, IMO.
FYI, here is a method to solve the Rubik's cube that's optimized for memorization (it contains as few formulas as possible):

http://beust.com/rubik
NO. THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST PRODUCTIVE DAY IN A YEAR. EXACTLY TO THE DAY.
Thought so too - until I looked at the Update history...
Let's give this a blast.

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Why We Should Build Humanlike Robots
We are the Masters of Machines
Dammit! Pingdom is so bad it hurts. Please, somebody, replace them.

The only thing worse than public transit in SF is Pingdom.
Given the way your eyes work... yes! 120FPS is beyond almost everyone's internal "frame rate," so going any higher really doesn't make much sense except in special cases (trying to deliver different frames to each eye using higher frame rate and shutter glasses, for example).
Finally someone is fixing public transport!!!! =)
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is this submission an april fools joke?
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Well, ClusterSSH (a version that runs on Linux and uses xterm instances) is one of my everyday administration tools.

It's under 15 identical machines, so it is more trouble than it is worth to set up Puppet or something of that sort.
Even accepting the leaps, the false underlying assumption is that if P = NP there must be a proof. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem's key result is that within any logical system there are truths that cannot be proven.

It follows that we may never be able to prove that P = NP or P ≠ NP, even though one of the two must be true.
Use your nose?
Strong disagree. I'd guess that most successful cofounding teams have a prior, personal relationship (platonic or otherwise). I know the fact that my cofounder and I have been close friends for > 20 years has been crucial to our success, and pg has cited the strength of the founders' friendship as a deciding factor for YC interviews.

So, the fact that Mr. Andressen and Ms. Bianchini have a prior relationship is unsurprising. To imply their romantic past conferred her this opportunity, in a way that a platonic friendship would not have, is dangerously close to calling her a whore.

(PS: I'm sorry to jump on you, and I empathize with your sentiment. But its one of those built in stereotypes that we need to actively fight within ourselves.)
He was not a "Hacker" he was a disgruntled ex admin with a freaking login!

That requires information, not skill.
I get your point, but why does Apple then stack photos and mp3s?
That is because a game's frame is rendered at one absolute time point, while a movie's frame is like a photograph taken with a shutter speed of 1/24th: it includes the motion data of that whole time interval, it contains motion blur, and it's smooth from one frame to the next.

That's why a game at 24fps looks bad, but an (action) movie at 24fps looks good.
yes not
60fps also looks like a high-budget video game. I think that can play a role in overcoming a high-frame-rate aversion.
It would be interesting to see the results of this simple experiment for different web frameworks: almost empty template and no other processing => how many requests per second? If it's much slower than i/o times, something should probably be done about it.

(BTW I completely agree with antirez's point.)
I was really hoping it was a steam cleaning attachment for my iPhone to clean the seats on BART.
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> Logplex handles input streams (which we call “sinks”)

Considering the complementary term they use ("drains"), wouldn't it be more intuitive to call them "faucets" or "spouts"?

Just sayin'.
I thought I heard them saying they were meeting with the CIO... may have been mis-heard.
Only use I can see if for multi-system stats - which should be handled differently anyhow, but that's a different story. Perhaps running htop, bwm-ng, iftop or other similar tools. Would certainly be scary to do anything other than that...
Higher FPS = reduced delta between frames = better compression as compared to the raw footage.

Doubling the framerate will not double the bitrate. (Though it will increase it somewhat, probably not as much as you'd expect) Modern video codecs are getting pretty smart.
Even Failed Founders Say They'd "Do It All Over Again"
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Well, you see at barely 1 megapixel, in the sense that that's how many photoreceptors there are in your eyes. But you don't notice this because by the time it reaches your level of actual perception, lots of scenes from every small movement of your eyes have been stitched together. Your brain has a ton of hardware for doing interpolation. 24fps seems to mesh well with that hardware. But we're not machines... Higher numbers in the lab don't necessarily translate into better human experience.

Another case in point: people still shoot and love photos on Tri-X, a grainy B&W film, even tho' you can buy cameras that do a dozen or more full-colour megapixels off the shelf...
How to spend 4 years spinning your wheels
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Oh my!

I use fabric http://fabfile.org/ which is insanely easy to use.

I use it even if I have one machine to deploy to. Better keep them deployments repeatable ...
I agree, not only because I've run benchmarks myself but because simpler and faster code is possible. Just a comparison of everything Sinatra does when rendering (http://goo.gl/6U7yr) vs what Cuba does (http://goo.gl/z1Oes) can shed some light on this issue.
It'd be fine if a: the number of april fools jokes weren't that large and b: most of the jokes were actually funny. Instead what we get is a joke where every amateur lamester abuses their powers and makes the internet much less useful for a day without actually generating anything humorous. A few folks know how to do April 1st jokes well (google, thinkgeek, etc.) but most folks don't seem to know how to keep the humor at the right level.
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its the old PARC UI/UX concept..ever see a Lisa Apple computer JC? I know you have seen at least one right? It borrowed some concepts from PARC and that was one of them..
But why would we need to talk about this?
Thanks for submitting!
Reminds me of Tentakel. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tentakel/files/tentakel/tent...

Came in useful from time-to-time.
"PagerDuty will continue to be our baby and we will still enjoy waking you up with sh* t breaks."

I sure hope they mean when shit breaks - I've got other things quite under control thank you very much.
I think it has potential, though not surprisingly quite a few sites have recently launched with similar objectives.
Brilliant! This is the sort of April Fool's Prank we need far more of.
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Whether or not someone agrees that killing the elephant in this particular circumstance was warranted, I definitely feel like a CEO going into a foreign country and culture, killing an animal and making it into a publicity stunt is offensive and distasteful.

It also seems like many other CEOs would have been crucified for doing this. But for some reason Parsons is getting much less flack than would the CEO of Wal-mart, Monsanto or McDonald's. Why is that?
Film geeks in here will eat up the story of MaxVision48 - it's an equally inexpensive upgrade to existing film capture and projection that results in a much higher picture quality, way higher than even the Red camera.

Check out this infographic on Roger Ebert's blog comparing the different formats:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/assets_c/2011/01/resolution%...

The full blog post is well worth a read, especially given the story of a single passionate entrepreneur trying to change Hollywood and his story of trying to get Christopher Nolan to champion the format:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/more_than_ever_the_f...
Care to elaborate on what is so bad about them (or, what you'd like to see improved)?
Ask HN: Horrible Dropbox Tech Support. Anyone else?
I have submitted questions to DropBox 4 times now and not a single response. I tried e-mailing, I have used their "Submit A Ticket" process. Nothing.

Can anyone comment on their support? Makes me nervous to spend $20/month when I cannot even get simple questions answered about functionality.

I also contacted Sales about possible other packages and the response I got from Michael was that he did not handle it and to ask my question at another area of the DropBox site. He could not even be bothered to just forward to the correct person and say "can you help this guy out" he instead took the same amount of time to blow me off and make me do the leg work....

Frustrating...I feel like I am talking to Comcast or Godaddy. I hate feeling less than important when I am trying to give a company my money...
That was my favourite too. Awesome.
+1 on Graylog2. Also check out Logstash, and ElasticSearch.
Speed tests for *json and cPickle in Python
I don't see the point of such remarks. Once you have solved the pressure and air problem, radiation becomes a problem, no? So what exactly is the meaningful content of your remark?

I probably get downvoted just for criticizing patio11, but seriously. If you stick a knife in your heart you die, therefore there are no serious dangers in the world? Because nothing can be as dangerous as sticking a knife in your heart?

Jumping from the Empire State Building is not dangerous, because if I were to stick a dagger in my heart halfway down I would be dead before hitting the ground?
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In... fall, a year ago, IIRC, they were periodically using a different certificate / apparently their own certificate authority for Gmail. (I'm not sure I recall the underlying root, but I think it was different from "the usual one".) It looked like it might be part of some testing or since-rescinded initiative.

Separately, for me Gmail continues to periodically include http references in the https-delivered web interface, causing the browser to display its corresponding "insecure" message/chrome. I wish they would just stop that: If nothing else, it's a bad lesson/conditioning for the average user.
Oh... and why?

And if so, there are many good alternatives, even free ones: AlertFox, Browsermob,...
This is stupid. While we're teaching our children all about retail marketing they should be learning more cerebral ideas. My nieces and nephews are all enrolled in a Montessori school that is teaching nothing but a love and embrace of learning. That's the path to a better world, not empty retail craziness.
I use Internet.bs. They're great and a .com only costs $7.49

They don't upsell anything, unlike the others do, and private registration/transfer is free.
Sometimes. Isn't that what the comments are for?
Happy 35th birthday to Apple, Inc.
When I was in college and doing alot of video work (I worked at a TV station, and volunteered in the video editing labs in my free time) one of the most requested features from students doing short films was doing a 3:2 pulldown* to convert their editing video to 24 FPS and then reconvert back to 29.97, thereby giving them the appearance of having originally shot on film (at 24 fps).

Sadly we were using first generation G4s with Final Cut 1.0, so to do this for any any film over about 5 minutes meant that the render time would be measured in days, not hours.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3:2_pulldown#23pulldown
Side channel attacks via EMF on a smartphone crypto
It's like a Mikado 2.0.
Hadoop: From Boardrooms to Newsrooms
Even if we, the community, agree to stop April Fool's submissions. This submission is largely useless as April Fool's has already started (and ended in some places).

Next year, everybody will forget, people will be new and this submission won't change a thing.
The iPad's effect on rival companies' CEOs
On choosing RSpec as a test framework
SAMSUNG B5722 DUAL SIM FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS
Latest Skype update for MAC axes call history
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Microsoft Files Antitrust Against Google In Europe
I haven't really seen many this year. I think the filter on HN is pretty high. Even my Reddit subscriptions have precluded a lot of jokes coming to my front page.
We played a memory game at school once where everyone sat in a circle and said their favourite activity. For years and years after I could remember the entire sequence. I could probably regurgitate the whole thing now if I had a few hints. Another one that works short term for exams and such is 'definitions , lists and diagrams.' On left page of notebook write say 'definition of Agile development' followed by a dash for each point on the agile manifesto, followed by 'diagram of [something agile related. Textbooks always have diagrams]. ' on the right page write the actual definition, followed by the actual list, followed by the actual diagram, but use your own words, not the textbook's. Glance over it, then cover it with a piece of paper and write the entire thing out again from memory. No peaking but at least you can count how many list items are required from the other page. Check you got it right, reread any mistakes, and then you'll find that after having written it out twice you can easily remember the whole thing when the exam comes. I find any sort of thoughtful reinforcement makes memory very effective.

I wanted to ask though, do you guys memorise APIs and keywords and other programming mattered, rather than just picking up or looking up as you go? Does it help you program much faster? Of course it's a lot to remember considering all the rules and contexts and parameters.
Samsung Bada 2.0 coming in August
The other side of Color, why I keep playing with it, and...
Skype Board Meeting Exec: "Why would anyone want a detailed call history in communication software they use every day. Meh. That's interface overload. Axe it!"
I'm planning on changing the page after today, letting everyone know that it was a hoax and giving some information on my favorite TM plugins to bridge the gap between TM1 and TM2.

I have considered changing it to something that's more obviously a joke, since it's been caught up in the twitternets, but for the most part the response I've seen is positive.

I have mad respect for Allan, but he has been the butt of a lot of running jokes "Vaporware of the Year" awards and such. Ultimately, I don't think a lot of people will be taking things too seriously today and hope it doesn't reflect negatively on Allan, but if it does end up as a bit of a kick in the butt, he could use it. I would hate to see his awesome tool fade into obscurity.
Is that the right link - it looks like a completely different issue
yuk -- post is too long, and much less usable. 3 posts per month is not too much, imho.
I spent an hour this morning trying to find this link again, because I was convinced I read it on HN yesterday. Turns out I didn't read it on HN, so here it is.

I found this approach very useful when I had to do a couple KLOC merge last night.
How the Internet of Things Helps Us Understand Radiation Levels
They cannot keep me logged in for more than a few minutes.

They charge a ridiculous fee for texts.

You can't give multiple people access to your account, which is really important given we use Pingdom to notify multiple people... If someone wants to change their contact info, I have to do it.

You can't set individual notifications. For example, I want to receive push notifications to my iPhone. David would prefer to receive emails. We can't enable one style for one person. Instead, I have to receive his emails and he has to receive my iPhone chirps.

The iPhone app is amazingly buggy.

So, why do we use it? Someone recommended them to me, and we've already paid for it. I just assumed something that expensive and oft-recommended would be better.
New HP EliteBook 2560p and 2760p Coming Soon (Leaked Specs)
If I am remembering correctly, the concern with ingestion of I-131 is that it concentrates in the thyroid and the thyroid can receive significant damage by primarily the beta radiation. The gamma radiation emitted in the decay will likely cause minimal damage as much of it will pass through the body without interacting with the soft body tissue. In the following quote the article seems to be discounting the airborne/water contamination by comparing the whole body dose (gamma radiation), which really shouldn't be the main concern.

" If a person were to drink a typical amount of water per day containing the EPA limit of I-131, then in one year he or she would receive a whole body dose of < 0.04 mSv (4 mrem). This dose should be compared to the US average annual radiation dose of 6.2 mSv (620 mrem)."

Seems misleading or improperly reported.
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I'm a big fan of 60fps video. It takes a bit of getting used to because it looks so different, but after you watch 60fps content for a while, 30fps content looks like a slideshow -- almost unwatchable.

(And there's plenty of content that's 60fps, just not a lot of American content that's 60fps.)
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While I understand that the file system is the single greatest source of confusion for casual computer users, I definitely do not think iPhoto is the best alternative paradigm. Most casual users that I know hate iPhoto and iTunes with a passion. It's one of those areas (like the file system!) that Apple does really poorly.

I've never used Receivd (hate the name), but it might be able to get over the file system hump. I don't understand why they would encourage comparison to iPhoto for OS X though. Maybe something was lost in translation there.
But why would we need to talk about this?

Why, indeed. I suggest this needs careful consideration.
New MacRuby game (tetris inspired) with source
I think people read my initial comment as some sort of plea for more and more tech, but that's not the way I meant it.

My point was for archival purposes. If you record data at a degree or two higher level than human perception, you can always add whatever post-processing you want to get any kind of artistic effect desired. You want that old jerky 24fps stuff? Fine. Post-process it to get it. People 200 years from now will be able to watch it in 24fps, in black-and-white, in 2-D, or whatever the initial artistic intent. But future audiences and artists might also choose to remix or to see it with more data.

We are currently in a situation akin to knowing how to shoot color movies but refusing to because everybody liked black and white so much. Or being able to record audio but being afraid of putting all those movie pianists out of work.

This kind of thing can be framed up as artistic all day long, but in reality it's just about fear of change -- more to the point, fear of mucking around with your business model too much.

So having learnt that 120FPS is the limit, I'd shoot for 240 or 480FPS.
Or, better yet, call the inputs sources and the outputs sinks. Just like, say, the entire rest of the world.
Regarding 4- and 5-finger gestures on the iPad
We're also auto-suggesting Justin Bieber no matter what users type in to the search bar. :)
Congrats, HB is the new Digg!
Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram started by Google alumns
Every party needs a party pooper!
Or you can just use daemontools, and these problems go away.
I've been using this tool for about a year and absolutely love it. It really comes in handy managing messes of EC2 instances.
Cletus got 418 of you with this one
Your post is vague bordering on incomprehensible. It doesn't seem relevant, from what little I can glean from it. We know that Android has a number of APIs. They're not relevant to this company's app, though.
Interesting discussion. I like it because it's sure to piss off everyone.
Thanks, I updated it :)
Only problem is it backfired on them the moment they set up the in person meeting. The offshoring company doesn't know they were being played. Anybody who would agree to an in person meeting- hell, these guys even initiated it- is a hot lead. On top of it, the "CTO" looks like an easy mark. They are going to receive calls for probably the next three years. Sleazy move on their part, and not at all smart if the objective is to stop the sales calls.