skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually the company that now gets the first 3 octets of your IP4 address is the same company that will get your full IP address anyway when you hit their web page.
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I've been using it for years, as have my friends and colleagues, and neither have seen "a lot" network usage, at least not compared to what we're seeing downstream. Also, he didn't even bother to give us any more information on what he defines as "a lot" and how much upstream traffic he actually had.
I was talking about assembly. In DSP applications it's common to worry about the precise sequence of assembly instructions. Compilers are very, very good in general but for new and exotic architectures it's not uncommon to have inner loops in hand-coded assembly.

The examples in the article were in a HLL but the site is about chips, the next article about mixing HDLs and HLLs so I thought it was fair pointing out that there's something at the lower levels.
Doubt lead batteries would work on this scale. Other solutions: pump water up into some mountain reservoir (simlar to the granite plug idea), actually they already do this, they can run some hydroelectric power plants in reverse. Compress air into some airtight undeground chamber. Or even use giant gyroscopes to store energy for a short period (maybe night vs day type scenario).
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I'm definitely trying to do that. I've been sticking to a schedule of 3 posts a week. All of them are as high of a quality as I can write (I'm still a little rusty).

I guess I'll just keep it up.
Who killed the fake-antivirus business?
Hopefully it will help some other android devs that might have had a similar problem. I'm happy to get more detail into the code if anyone is interested.
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And the bonus is then you can still use your social network to look at pictures of cats!
Yes, the virtual world is in no way safer, cleaner than the real world. And certainly not always more colorful. It's a bit of a misconception based on the fairytale told by marketing departments of tech companies, which try to push their happy-go-lucky walled-garden virtual worlds.
You bring up some good points with the parallels in the brain however I think more is lost in the exposure to different experiences that you simply can't replicate online.

For most, it'll be difficult to differentiate between things (physical books, library visits, spending time outdoors, etc) that we don't want to leave behind for nostalgic reasons and things that we shouldn't leave behind because they help us with maturity, growth, etc.

I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on this. Technological change is a part of society, yes, but is it always best for the individual?
It's because the only version control system he's been exposed to before SVN is Git, so he understands version control in terms of Git. Every version control system is then like Git, plus some things and minus others. Hence these descriptions.

At least that was my take.
Googling your questions and figuring it out does not an interesting article make. I find this a fine counterpoint to people who come to git from other version control systems and baulk when they see it, it's an interesting alternative perspective to the whole "good UI/bad UI" discussion.
Another relevant one is E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops":

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Facebook kills off Groupon competitor
Good point. I hadn't checked them out before, they were part of the previous cohort, but it looks decent. Although without seeing a real user procession it's difficult to say, their site explains it more as a collection of features.
Exactly this.

Wind power seems to be an area where the usefulness inversely correlates with spreading of a piece of news.

3 times the power of a conventional turbine? Albert Betz would like to have a word with these Japanese inventors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz_law

If anybody's interested in improving wind turbines, they should look at what is costly in current turbines. It's surprisingly the steel tower that's the most expensive part.
A lot of it is that academics are the most atomized and individualistic group of people that you'll find. If there's any part of society where "Aproi Moi Le Deluge" is the slogan, it's academia.

Cornell has about 18 libraries and is slowly implementing a "Fahrenheit 451" plan to eliminate them. First they eliminated the Physical Sciences Library, next the Engineering Library, and they'll eliminate most of the others, one at a time, until there's nothing left but a remote storage unit, lots of computers, and a few pretty library buildings for show. Since it's happening slowly and only affecting one community at a time, they'll avoid a general uproar.

If I blame anything, I blame the institution of tenure, which can be seen more clearly as a cause of moral decay than ever.

Workers and capitalists alike will fight to the death to protect the interests of groups they are a part of because shifts in the rules can cause their personal destruction. A man with tenure knows he can't be ruined, so he's got no reason to ever take a stand.
Tin, RoHS directives and me being upset
Your terms are putting me off a bit:

"3. Privacy and Information Disclosure

FreelyWheely has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used. You further acknowledge and agree that FreelyWheely may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information."

The bit about enabling you to sell my information like email addresses, IP, timestamp, etc. for your own profit doesn't look friendly. When I give you my details you need a big "we won't give people your personal information" notice. Also, as you're keeping a DB of personal data [for purposes not directly related to the business it appears] are you registered with the relevant gov departments.

Looks good, are you integrating with Facebook? That's the only way I think you'll get the traction you need to make this good.

Also I think being registered as, or committed to register as, a charity would help to win people over.

One idea, have some posters for supporters to print and display (eg at their school, tip, workplace, etc.) - if you wanted it could even have a list of recently available items (with dates and locations).

Tiny bug: "Request item (only 3d 4h days left)"

Great to see someone tackling encouragement of reuse.
No ambiguity; if you put brackets around it you get a tuple (really, an array of fixed elements), and without brackets, the comma is part of the function signature. If you wanted to express your interpretation #1 you'd write:

f :: ((Num) -> [Bool, Num]) -> Bool

Dave
A sting with poison does not weight much.
A good reason to try http://songspin.fm - nothing to install, just stream cool music continually in your browser.
Challenge HN: William Wallace Loading Screen
Some friends and I were jokingly quoting Braveheart, you know the part where William Wallace yells HOLD...HOLD...HOLD... as they wait for the coming onslaught and it occurred to me that this would make an excellent loading screen.

So I challenge HN to incorporate this into one of your apps or websites and link here. We can vote on the best, funniest and boldest execution with a poll.

A challenge like this needs a deadline, so lets let it run until Friday evening, at which point we can submit a poll for people to vote on. Sound like fun?
Minimalism is not about "less", its about "just enough"
This event looks promising. Interacting with other Vim users really helped me get over the initial Vim learning curve. For any devs that use OSX and want to test the Vim waters, checkout Vico (http://www.vicoapp.com). It is a Textmate-esque editor with Vim bindings.
ORMs aren't the problem here, databases not designed for use by programmers is the problem.

ORMs exist because straight SQL isn't a good interface for programmers, and ORMs are bad/a leaky abstraction because the problem is really messy.

Instead, let's just build a relational database that 1) has an API that is useful to programmers i.e. not SQL 2) supports explicitly specifying a plan, not providing hints or clues, but using operations that look map, filter, reduce, hash-join, etc.
Rationalization? Its very much a part of our physical development to interact with the world. Also emotional formation like empathy depends upon experiencing physically the results of your actions.

Things we lose by losing physicality:

Reading, hearing stories read to you.

Interacting with others over the media you view.

Spending time in a single environment stimulates imagination, sensory acuity

Respect for the physical world - it hurts to wreck your car, shoot a man, insult someone face-to-face

The lies your parents told you (mine anyway) were designed to simplify the world for a 5-year-old. This is necessary. They are moldable, easily confused and frightened. Let the world occur to them in easy stages, not as a fire-hose of internet weirdness.

Ultimately I fear a world of socially-inept fat autistic young adults.

The cure? Go fishing. Barefoot if possible.
Don't just remove the Diginotar root cert, import it to the "Untrusted Certificates" list and it will be blocked stone cold.
I'd "love to learn" what this is about, before I give my email.
> What seems to be suspicious SQL (the CASE/WHEN/ELSE) is probably not the problem.

It certainly could be the problem. Like you say, a CASE becomes a computed field and requires a table scan. A simple check for IsAlsoAFruit can be done with an index scan, assuming it has that index. This can be a huge difference in data scanning and memory load. Of course, there are also plenty of times when SQL will spurn a boolean index because it's not selective enough.
Show HN: Simple version control for designers
Hi HN,

I've been waiting to post what I've been working on for a few weeks now:)

Today we're launching LayerVault, which is a version control system made for designers. The URL is http://www.layervault.com

LayerVault keeps track of what you're working on without adding extra steps to your process. The app runs in your toolbar and tracks changes you make to your files. Basically — each time you create or modify a file you’re working on, LayerVault saves a copy. You can then login, flip through its versions, and download a version from a few weeks ago.

It's pretty neat — and we’ve built some stuff that makes impact to bandwidth pretty much negligible. We've been testing it with a small beta group for a little while now, and we're pretty excited.

A handful of beta invites are floating around but we're going to be open the private beta to more people today.

As always, feedback is welcome.
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Japan is also well positioned to make use of hydrothermal. All those vents along fault lines pushing out superheated steam is currently unused.
Thank you both for these suggestions. I recall reading E. M. Forster's story at school and my contribution to English class was that he was wrong about there being a separate button for everything: in reality things would have been multiplexed and the person would have used a keypad or similar :-)

I have not read Walden. Will put it on my Kindle.
Resumes and CVs are a crapshoot, and typically add little real value - for the most part they give you almost no idea whether the person is really qualified or not.

At this point, if I was hiring and in Boston (or wherever), I'd be tempted to shoot her an email asking her for reference sites, and then on looking at the sites, perhaps grabbing a quick coffee with her. Time taken (1 minute to 1 hour)

As for removing options, I think that's fine - she clearly doesn't want another development McJob, so having a filter (for her and you) is actually a time saver - I mean, you didn't even have to spend 5 minutes reading her resume (although you've probably lost way more time out of your busy schedule reading the comments on HN ;-) )
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I think the issues are:

1) "a global ignore file"

2) In subversion you have to run a 44 character long command with one subcommand, two flags, and two file arguments. In git you have to do.... nothing.
Great idea, I'll be joining you. We can keep a chat room open to help each other and just talk AI.
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Is Git 100% social/public? Can code be private? And last question: is it secure enough to where enterprise companies (not just tech hipster startups) use it?
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This (Dutch) article http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76466/hackers-genereerden-zelf-ve... quotes the spokesperson for DigiNotar, and he claims "we hope that by end of the week our certificates will be trusted by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft again"
Hi, I made instalyrics.com using the search API provided by musixmatch.com, there is also an extension for chrome here http://insta.ly/.chrome
I agree with you, I was way out of line when I called him a lier. The fanboy-ism may be a little to strong in me.

But, to the point, he never said how much traffic he was seeing, so in his case /any/ traffic could be deemed "a lot". All services these days use your network connection to some extent, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it actually may end up congesting your networking connection, without seeing some serious proof.

I can to some extent see his point where this should've been clear from the start of, that Spotify will make use of your upstream network connection. Hopefully Spotify will make changes so that at least the US-market get notified that they might end up paying their service provider a premium, just for using Spotify.
Several years ago I thought about writing a short story which included an attack/assassination of an important political figure. The point was to do some brainstorming about ways such an attack could be conducted.

After an hour or two, I decided never to write about this subject. The exercise was very eye-opening.

The difference between a normal, naked person and a person armed with tech is increasingly dramatically. I do not think this is a similar situation as we had with machine guns -- you could just outlaw all of them. Nobody is going to want to outlaw RC planes, or wearable cameras, or some sort of AI-augmented robotics. And even if you could, vast numbers of people would simply break the law. Disarming the population is not an option here.

But the trend that you describe is definitely unmistakable.
"A couple DNS servers for their entire network" in the UK is equivalent to having geolocated servers in North America.

The UK has a small land area, and so latency talking to the other side of the continent is nowhere near as much an issue.
Interesting, did anyone who subscribed receive any news via email about the registration being opened ? I didn't.
I'd say the stock has "potential" http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
I seem to remember an article that put that value at 12%, but can't find it now.
There is also this doc from a previous talk https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq06GgDrF8g3dFR... we should combine, not fragment. The sheet from your post is to be preferred since it's more structured.
GP asked for stats, I supplied the best stats I could infer from the information you provided.
This is even worse: They noticed the breach, and failed to properly identify all certificates issued.

I've already removed Diginotar from my Firefox trusted CAs. I don't think they're going to earn their way back in.
The really scary thought is that when these are available as consumer items, and can be coupled to visual processing software which can recognize people's ethnicity, the resulting industrialization of ethnic oppression will make the Holocaust look tame.
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I was concerned about privacy, too, but heck, your IP is already logged by the primary site and logged by the CDN. This is just adding some logic to the routing.
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There are a number in the multimedia space:

There is x264 LLC which dual-licenses the x264 encoder and pays back royalties to developers. - http://x264licensing.com/

I run Open Broadcast Systems which is a "corporate face" of the Open Broadcast Encoder, an open source broadcast television encoder designed to replace $40k+ hardware broadcast encoders. - http://www.ob-encoder.com/

There is also Anevia, which is sort of the VLC spinoff. They specialise in IPTV playout. - http://www.anevia.com/

Fluendo do something similar for Open Codecs - http://www.fluendo.com/
> The only reason it was dropped was because...

(1) the NeXT team won the culture wars and the file browser was introduced on NextStep.
Free only works if everyone participates equally. If just one person is lazy, the system crumbles from resentment.

Money does not create inequality, it simply is the scorecard to show the inequality of those people involved in the system. In a system not corrupted by greed and theft, those with money are simply people that work harder, and/or smarter than those who have less money.
If this doesnt make you stop whining...
I take it you don't live in Australia.
Sorry, so the argument is: other research costs are expensive in some fields, thereby high spending is prestigious, thereby access to publications ought to be expensive so that fields that lack more direct expenses can seem comparable ? This doesn't seem to make sense, because fields where direct research expenses are high also require access to publications. Maybe I'm missing your point? If so, please clarify.
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Because a very large portion of piracy now travels through ad/premium based free file hosts rather than torrents. New hosts pop up each day and those who post the files rake in cash. There's seemingly no ceiling on the number of file hosting providers, especially if the users just want to download their file and go.

So, short answer, there's a ton of money being made in this sphere and TPB could swiftly grab a large swath of it.
and why not .NET with MS being a top player? Didn't the lobbying work out well?
If you are in the market for a Java-based parsing framework then also take a look at lingwah: http://code.google.com/p/lingwah/

Lingwah is a parser combinator library written in Java

With lingwah you can express a context-free grammar directly using lingwah's combinators. Unlike most other parsing tools, you don't have to refactor your grammar to eliminate recursion.

Lingwah uses the memoization and 'continuation-passing' techniques described in the paper "Memoization in Top-Down Parsing" by Mark Johnson
"...the problem wasn’t so much the eventual price I paid as much as the fact that the true cost wasn’t clear until after I’d committed."

All the author is advocating is for software companies to be up front about what their software is doing.
I've actually seen SCCS used. Thankfully I myself did not have to, but needless to say I was rather stunned ;)
> A sizable portion of the 10K happened between jobs.

Huh? You started with

> Just in the past year, I dropped 10K on health care expenses, and that is _with_ fantastic insurance.

Are you now saying that the 10k was dominated by dental (which isn't covered by health insurance) and expenses when you weren't covered by "fantastic insurance" because you went bare?

And that's somehow the fault of the health insurance system?

> I find [healthcare] a personal distraction and barrier.

No doubt, but the solution seems to be under your control.

There are lots of things that we could do to improve the healthcare system, but we're not going to get them by making up stories.
1. Does this work with Rails?

2. Generally, the "Hello World" for a real-time framework is a simple chat application.
Do you have a URL? Inquiring minds want to know.
The Linux kernel is on Git. Thousands highly skilled developers use it to manage one of the biggest software projects in the world. That's how mature a technology git is.
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"it’s just a folder called “branches” that you manually copy your code into"

FACEPALM. It is about as accurate as saying that Git does not have branches, just a "refs/heads" folder that you manually copy your code into.
And http://dotfiles.org/ (though I haven't looked there in years).
There are much better ways to notify users than trying to convince them of the value of monitoring their bank's CA. The browser could simply keep track of the cert and notify the user if it changes unexpectedly. This doesn't require the user to understand anything new, and it still works in the case that the fraudulent cert is signed by Verisign.
> Nobody is going to want to outlaw RC planes, or wearable cameras, or some sort of AI-augmented robotics.

Never underestimate the power of a well-funded PR campaign spreading FUD. "Could HACKERS be targeting YOUR CHILDREN with ROBOT BIRDS? More at 11."
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I work for a university computing service and we sometimes have to deal with copyright takedown demands from academic publishers aimed at the websites of the authors of the papers. It's a disgraceful situation.
How is this different than creating an OddNumber and EvenNumber type that check their input in the constructor at run-time? That is the point of a type system.

Scala can make this really transparent and concise using an abstract class to implement most of the plumbing and implicit type conversion to automatically convert the contract enforcement types to and from the native types.

case class EvenNumber(val x: Int) extends Contract[Int] {
require(x % 2 != 0)
}
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1. It can work within the same Rails process if you're using async Rails.

2. http://cramp.in/examples two chat apps there. But I don't have a live demo running.
I'm an Emacs user but I'm really curious about modal editing and composability of Vim commands. Signed up!
"only limited by the raw materials needed, not cost"

Why on earth would someone work in a mine to get the raw materials needed if there were no compensation? This whole bizarre thing discounts that human output is a resource, one which you can't use for free.
Signed up and I spread the word :) Great initiative!
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When I was a child in the 1960s, this news story was predicted to happen by the turn of the last century. Population growth has slowed considerably in its rate during my lifetime.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

Further increase in population from this already large base is predicted for what is predicted to be the rest of my lifetime, but it is now foreseeable that the world will eventually reach a peak population,

http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Other-Information/Press_Release_W...

and then decline in population over time, as is already happening in many developed countries.
It's already possible for amateurs to use an RC plane/drone without a line of sight, it's called FPV(first person view) piloting. They have a videocamera onboard and transmit the video signal into their VR googles. Then they control their plane with a normal radio controller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78 (this one made the news recently)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_K0-RvC4cg
More recent designs involve head tracking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5OZCWaJBdc
Damn that looks cool. Wish I had money to start a new hobby.

Since electrical systems already exist for driving servos and other devices, all you need is a detonator and some explosives to make a lethal and accurate flying bomb that can be remote controlled from a distance.
I'm in...
Should it be more feasible to make a google group ?