skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's on AWS. So whatever that buys you on Amazon.

The 2 download limit made me worry about disconnecting or restarting the download. I also can't make my download manager open more than one connection, in case that locks me out of the content I just bought. I think it should be higher, but I understand that he can't give away too much bandwidth without cutting into his profits.
NaCl is open source, though, so if it gains traction other browsers will start to support it.
Apple has the resources to scale, so "TCP is faster" isn't really an excuse

Really? HTTP is just sending lines of text over TCP- what's so hard about a binary format instead? In many ways it's easier. You shouldn't need an excuse to remove unnecessary layers of translation.
Nope..not a plug or anything..i found this game for just 10 cents on google store, played it and found its downloads just between 100K-500K and felt like sharing. Thats it.
You should not use a simple hash like a CRC for sharding if you need to remain robust against hostile users. Otherwise the users can bypass the sharding and execute a denial of service.

To give an example, the Linux kernel's network stack uses cryptographically secure hash functions in its hash tables, to ensure that a hostile network cannot cause the kernel's hash tables to devolve into linked lists and thus break the O(1) performance expectations of the kernel.
For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file).

It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.
Design Thinking: Fight Complexity and Failure
Does the font used actually matter? In my opinion I quite like how it looks, regardless of the font used.
I'd like to see a demo on the site, and there isn't one.
I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting payments as easy as downloading torrents.

Probably something like that already exists, but the fact is that most of the content seems to be aggregated in different kinds of services that the artists don't really control themselves.
When the author shows the output of "which grep" it shows the path "/opt/local/bin/grep"; "/opt" is typically for additional installations of software. I haven't used SmartOS myself but my best guess is someone installed GNU grep manually and the PATH just included "/opt/local/bin" before "/usr/bin".
Some old stories show number of comments while some don't. Could that be related?

My data shows that the stories on the front page had unusual high scores last night.
I don't usually post rude "let me google that for you" replies, but I feel oddly compelled to point out that there are faster, easier ways to get that sort of information than posting a comment on a forum. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
How Jig.com can differentiate itself in the crowded Q&A space - Travis Does
Ask HN: Polyphasic sleep (Uberman, spamayl, etc)
Have you tried it? How did it go? I can't try it right now due to my schedule, but it's something I've always been interested in and I'm wondering how it's working for all you entrepreneurs and hacker types on here.
My understanding was this is not possible from a tax perspective? I thought you had to buy a group plan if you wanted the business to cover, except for HSA contributions. Relevant links would be appreciated, since this is the route I wanted to go down for my business partner and I (young, healthy no need for the safer group plan).
Packaging from a gemspec is not the Best Way
>Firefox remains the best choice. It doesn't send data to Google or someone else to monitor what sites you visit and other things which Chrome might be doing.

Chrome does not do this. Here is a link to the Chrome privacy policy listing all communication with Google and settings to disable such communication: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

>Firefox also allows you to use AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery and a few other addons to improve security, lower bandwidth usage and improve performance.

I'm glad to hear that you're a happy Firefox user and agree that they support a very diverse extension ecosystem.

>I really hate these studies paid by other companies.

This is one of the perils with commissioning an objective third-party assessment. Simply put, the results might include things you really didn't want to hear. However, all the data, methodology, and tools are publicly available. If you think there's a legitimate issue with the study, then please investigate further.

>Why does Chrome have a unique ID?

Chrome does not. When a version of Chrome is pre-installed as part of a third-party campaign the updater has a unique ID as described http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html
If you read his latest book, he's actually pretty much in favor of pharma patents, but what's discussed in this article is not a pharma patent.

The whole thing seems to be a bit far from "Hacker News" though. What's the link - the patent system?
I just went through mine and can see why: I have dozens of messages from non-friends on Facebook, and 100% of them were spam. If Facebook made this non-friend inbox more visible, they'd need to improve their spam-filtering.
Whether or not the correlation is obvious is not the point. There is a long-standing doctrine that SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ABOUT NATURAL LAWS AND PROCESSES should not be patentable.

If a discovery is made about the correlation between a measurement of something NATURAL in the body, and a dosage of a drug that should be administered, or between the dosage that is administered, and the effect is has on the body, this is MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. THIS IS SCIENCE. It is not a patentable thing, because doctors cannot dispossess themselves of this knowledge once being told it. They are always able to USE THE KNOWLEDGE IN THEIR HEAD when treating a patient.

Therefore, this development seems to me to be atrocious, as it represents the first step in patenting KNOWLEDGE of natural phenomena.

IP law wants to encourage creativity by giving exclusive monopoly rights in creations, but at the same time BALANCE it with giving the public the freest possible access to the results. This is now being attacked at every turn. MPAA, RIAA are lobbying for SOPA and PIPA. Copyright lengths are still being extended. And now, new forms of patents are being considered. If these come to pass, I am afraid for freedom in America -- we will get the great firewall of China -- and all because of IP.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/14521817014/mpaa-b...
Kapil Sibal, India's IT and Telecom Minister responds on censoring the web
A little over 40GB on S3.
Excellent. I gave him my $5.

Louis CK is a media maverick and I wish him good luck. His only condition for the network when he created his TV series was "you don't screw with my writing". And he chases opportunities like this because he just thinks in his gut that it might be the better way forward. Most personalities are too in thrall to meddling PR overlords to take principled stands like these.
Another explanation is that is it very difficult to gauge someone's programming ability from a technical interview. Asking theory questions is a useful (albeit imperfect) proxy.
That's a matter of personal taste.

Just look at it as an example of an artist taking his work directly to the public and sidestepping the overhead and hassle of traditional digital media distribution models. That's cool, isn't it?
I am so frustrated with these government programs that supply hyperactive, startups (Solyndra! Argh!) with too much funding, then crash and sully the reputation of entire fields with their profligate spending and successive failures.

The scientific grant system is even worse! With the rate of grants being accepted at 5%, everyone becomes extremely conservative. Many professors spend most of their time fundraising, not doing science. There is a good case that science would be progressing faster with no government funding at all.

There are obvious things the government could do to improve entrepreneurship. Like simply not kicking our entrepreneurs out! Stapling a green card to our graduate's diplomas -- the fact that we invest nearly a quarter million dollars in each STEM PHD and then don't let them stay has been a known absurdity for more than decade, yet they still don't fix this problem.

Or how about taxing oil and gas like everything else! Even ignoring the trillions of dollars spent policing the persian gulf region, the tax policies surrounding oil amount to an enormous subsidy, making it cheaper in the US than almost anywhere in the world. Simply taxing it would save the budget and dramatically improve prospects for green energy.

The list goes on. I'm stunned by the collective incompetence of the government in stimulating startup growth. Maybe there are good, structural reasons for inaction in the short term, but these issues have been around for years!
Interesting and the full data file can be downloaded at http://www.findFiles.net /public without restrictions.
According to Apple's Bonjour documentation [1], there is automatic resolution for the `local` domain.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/C...
This is exactly what I'm trying to do with Gumroad: http://gumroad.com

(I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback)
Yes, this is effectively a spam folder. I don't see how that's Facebook's fault.
The site has become unbearably slow, so lately: frustration.
Addition for the tax deduction FAQ:

For S-corp >2% shareholders have some pretty specific instructions. A health-care reimbursement gets reported on the W-2, but is not taxed.

See the last section on: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=200293,00.html
I don't see the difference between this and a <select> element, except that the latter looks much better and works cross-platform. It doesn't offer any new functionality like auto-complete or validation. Am I missing something?
I have read the paper multiple times over the years.

The quote "is risky and invites failure" is correct. However, another quote, even on the very same page:

"However, I believe the illustrated approach to be fundamentally sound. The remainder of this discussion presents five additional features that must be added to this basic approach to eliminate most of the
development risks."

These suggestions are to 1) Add an additional (preliminary) design phase, after requirement analysis. 2) Much greater documentation. 3) Perform the entire sequential process twice (not x amount of iterations, just two times). 4) Additional activities and documentation during testing phase. 5) Involving the customer.

His diagrams require close scrutiny, as on first inspection it seems the process is markedly different, when it is really not. It is still an entirely sequential waterfall process, just with an extra phase (preliminary design).
I posted on Facebook about this problem almost a month ago and several friends confirmed that they also missed important messages (http://on.fb.me/rr8pAK). A shame this hasn't been fixed already.
It should say "RealVideo", too, actually, as that was the format of the day.
Microsoft has actually released numerous studies through NSS Labs. However, I believe what you are explicitly referring to is the yourbrowsermatters.org campaign. That was not a study, it was a marketing site that mapped the browser's user-agent to a listing based mostly on past NSS Labs studies.

As for the study from Accuvant, I definitely encourage you to dig into as deeply as you feel appropriate. Unlike the pro Microsoft reports from NSS Labs, this Accuvant study is completely transparent and verifiable. The methodology is documented and all tools and data sets are provided. If you have a legitimate concern with its merit, then you should have all the information you need to address it.
That's strange. Group Messaging was turned off in my preferences, but all of mine looked like your screenshot.
I checked out the sample video and noticed in the end louisck.COM was mentioned and not lousck.NET. Both of the sites seem to look alike, except .net version has more tweets.
Microsoft Ends Another Vertical Market Dalliance—This Time In Healthcare
Development processes very similar to todays "agile" family, existed back in 1970. "Evolutionary prototyping" for example (a member of the "prototyping" process-family), is one of the precursors for todays agile practices.
If you don't like his comedy that's fine, but he's a nationally recognized performer with his own show. I think that elevates his status just slightly above "just some guy", don't you?
Not any more it isn't. Freaking supreme court. 8(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...
I'm not complaining about the use of Arial, it's that trendy Really Massive Sans Serif Headline on the landing page look: they're trying to make Node/RoR/etc. devs feel at home.
Blah blah blah. It's fashionable to hate on Apple now.

Regardless of how basic/obvious/fundamental a design is, there are plenty ways to differentiate one product from another, and Samsung actively did the opposite. No comparing to Bic pens (which incidentally, are very recognizable), TVs or whatever will change that fact.
People pay for information all the time. When it's valuable or somehow desirable.
I tend to think that socialized medicine is a great cost hedge for the individual citizen (ie even in Scandinavia we do pay for health care, so it's not 100% free like some people believe, but the cost is predictable and it can't ever get sky-high like in the US).

I think one downside to it is that it's hard to do anything out of the ordinary (ie some new drug or method or whatever) because health care is seen as a standardized gov't service. For customization, you still need privatized medicine.

Or am I wrong on this? I don't have a lot of insight into the health care system, honestly.
The biggest problems the government should be solving with energy are fixing the messed up regulation of the electric grid, and reducing subsidies for energy/oil.

Currently, utilities have zero incentive to take any risks, and zero incentive to save money. They only act under duress -- essentially, when the PUCs force them to do something.
A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot
MBA by Gaming: MIT Launches Free Online Simulator
I think you may be confusing passion with infatuation.

It's hard to have a meaningful commitment to a product which you haven't started building. You have to develop the relationship first.

On the other hand, it's very easy to get excited over something which you haven't had to put any effort into yet.
Predictions? Humbug Resolve Is Where It’s At
I think he might be suggesting that with hiring coders-in-general, it's not necessary that the employer must only hire degree-holders. This is in contrast to hiring an elementary school teacher, where by law the applicant must possess credentials x/y/z even if the school thinks the applicant is fine without those.
I bought it twice. Hopefully his next release will have a "pay what you want" model with $5 minimum.
I'd give my life for an idea.
I didn't know this! This is fantastic. I'm glad to see he is pushing the envelope for both humor and distribution.
From my personal experiences and the experiences of others who attempted this as minors (which may make it more difficult or easier -- it's hard to say), there's about a 0.5 chance you'll be able to make your sleep cycle just about whatever you want. The other 0.5 results in you struggling to sleep and then collapsing from lack of sleep pretty continually. Also: there is a high probability you will have a craving for grapes. No one is sure why this happens, but our guess is that it's healthier to indulge this craving.
Some friends on mine have a StartUp house. Their health plan is a cabinet filled with multi vitamins. https://photos-2.dropbox.com/i/xl/n5zv5xdPSpq4KSJXVNr5YuYb0l...
Terrifying stuff, even having aliases doesn't work against this form of tyranny...
If the message if from a non-spammy, active account, why bury it?

Facebook KISS: everything that isn't from friends or friends of friends is spam

Twitter KISS: nothing is spam.
Clearly, the reason is that he's not happy with an unfinished version of his work floating around.
Ask HN: Who is a hacker anyways in today's context?
It has almost been 1 year since I starting reading HN and must say I absolutely love it. From time to time, I have read diverse articles on the topic of "hacker".

I am really itching to ask the question here so that the experts can take a shot at it. Is learning a bunch of new technologies enough to make someone a hacker? Does randomly pulling in a git code base and modifying it make one a hacker? And the biggest doubt I have: Does a CS degree automatically qualify someone as a hacker?

Not sure if anyone shares my opinion: I just don't get the same heroic feeling I use to get when I used to hear the word "hacker" a decade ago. Any thoughts on this? Who is a hacker anyways in today's context?
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My html5 game prototype built with box2d (and no canvas)
Ambulances turned away as computer virus infects medical center computers
Arrows or WASD for moving. Click places Cirno.
Debug mode: add ?debug to the URL.
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I remember that a certain someone did a demonstration of the power of a repl on a production system.

Unrelated? :-)
Well, the issue is simply that testing (to FDA standards) is expensive. You could either have the FDA fund all testing, or just allow patents on well tested products.

You could even allow retrospective patents on some orphan drugs, if a company is willing to invest in testing it.

Most people think it's fine to patent stuff to cover the costs of bringing a new drug to the market.
like the parent or evergreen? No I have never worked anywhere that promoted such abject waste through "adherence to policy" but I likely would not have chosen to work at such a place to begin with.
See also: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht... (Against Intellectual Monopoly) In particular chapter 9 which goes over the pharma industry. ( http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf )
> If I'm hiring for a position that requires experience, I know that the last 20% is worth paying for. Someone is going to have to do that 20% and if it's not the new hire, then why are we hiring him?

Sadly, not everyone shares your view. Many seem to forget about that last 20% and just focus on the 50% savings. I've seen it happen to more than one senior dev...
If you join BizSpark [1], you get free MSDN subscription (i.e., Visual Studio and a load of other software). It's a pretty good deal if you're going after the MS stack.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
So if you bought it and exhausted your download limit, just torrent it. Or just buy and torrent it in the first place to save a little extra for Louis.
We are discussing productivity in the corporate bureaucracy, not efficacy and fame. And do you have any evidence that the success of those projects were due to those persons rather than the environment in which the projects were developed and supported?

And before you reply, no efficacy is not productivity unless you are going to credit the original microsoft windows developers as productive as well.
Idea backed up by market research and analysis: maybe?
Sounds to me like this is an area ripe for disruption. Next YC semester should include a startup that sells health insurance to its peers...
I checked out the link and found it a little sparse and details. What does it mean to sell a link? I think you need a lot more info on the landing and about pages.
>> No one on earth should be KEPT FROM SAVING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE. That always trumps any endeavor to make a company or ultimately a single person richer.

It's not about richness, it's about resource allocation. What you're describing is idealistic but not at all applicable in real life.

There are always situations and treatments that might prolong a person's life with X% for Y USD. What if X=0.01%, Y=500'000 USD (i.e. some highly advanced chemo sessions), and the person is 100 years old? What if you could fund with the same 500'000 USD a study that has a 10% probability to improve the cure rate of the treatment by 10%? You need to establish some boundaries and to allocate the resources according to those thresholds; leaving aside the emotionality of those decisions, at the end of the day the society needs to decide how it splits 1 billion in building new bridges, doing medical research or applying existing solutions to marginal patients. It doesn't matter if the government or the free market makes those decisions, but saying "no one" is unrealistic.
I originally wrote it for that reason: it's sort of a mind-bending exercise and I wanted to see if it could be done. (The first attempt was actually in Bash, but that didn't work at all.) Since refining the implementation a bit, I've found these scripts to be unexpectedly useful. I mainly use them to encapsulate things like build rules, though now they have an inheritance hierarchy and some standard library functions that I reuse. Because these scripts are self-contained, I can upgrade library code without breaking old projects.

The coolest thing about these files, I think, is that they support inheritance from one another and are fairly smart about it. (This feature didn't exist at first, and as a result they were impossible to manage.) If you locally modify one to differ from one of its parents, it makes a note of this and preserves your changes to the modified attributes during upgrades. I use this on the Caterwaul page to provide custom HTML -- most scripts load some Javascript that shows you the attribute table.
Ask HN: Blogging platform that allows password entry
This may have an obvious answer, but I'm trying to find a solution for a nontechnical student government friend who needs something free and easy to use, and I thought people here would have the best of new web apps and platforms that would be a good fit:

"Hey had a question for you do you know a way to make a blog like site (i am trying to make something for member schools) that is password protected without having to make a user for every school. i am trying to find a way to basically make a password to a blog like site that we give to each member school and they don't have to have a user name they just have to enter the password."
One possibility is France's mixed approach, where everyone is automatically enrolled in the standardized government service, but those who prefer can instead pay for a private-sector doctor to provide service customized however they wish (within legal limits for things like drug approval).
I just went through mine and found quite a few relevant messages that I completely missed, which I would have liked to have received before the events themselves or before deadlines.
Unless you have some way to get around the adverse-selection issue, I don't see how opt-in insurance for small companies is a problem a startup can solve.
This coincidentally depresses the marketability (for a certain class of job) of older workers and demographics less likely to achieve a degree from a top N computer science program.

If those older workers and others are equally or more skilled than the younger ones implied by your question, smart companies will realize the discrepancy and hire them.

In addition, if older workers know that firms place a "high value on undergraduate-level CS theory," they should probably spend some time learning. . . undergraduate-level CS theory.

You can in fact see this in action in other areas—for example: http://www.economist.com/node/17311877 .