skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm saying it might be not because of difference in immediate quality, but because some brands have found their working formula and slowed down experimenting, while others continue cranking out new stuff.

Brooks saddles look the same, act the same and cost the same now as 20 years ago. A saddle that has been sitting in warehouse for 5 years would probably have about the same market value as saddle made this year. I'm no Brooks expert but that's the impression I get.

Shimano on the other hand updates its component groups each year. Their products are highly evolved already, but still they find things to improve. So people upgrade.
>Well, compared to BSG I guess there's no on-camera rape scenes

While it's no Clockwork Orange Star Trek had rape scenes like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... Plenty disturbing.

Then you have the roving rape gangs that were a big part of Tasha Yar's back story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasha_Yar
It has its advantages -- I could use nano upgrades for quite a few things.

But there is a key difference between the internet and the Borg technology. Borg tech was based on voice (e.g the episode in which the first officer of Voyager is temporarily connected to some subgroup of borgs) whereas the internet is based on text (we have video, but even on Facebook, most of what people share is text-based) and where the Borg is synchronous, we are mostly asynchronous. In both cases this helps us to scale the networks better.
Groupon Posts Disappointing 1Q Results, loses $43M
It's gasoline powered, not battery powered. It may not be magical fairy dust, but it's not a bad fuel. It's not "20 miles, then plug it in for thirty hours", it's "20 miles, then pour another gallon in".

Also, it's 20 miles at troop walking speed, not 20 miles at 65 miles an hour.
The site is absolutely beautiful! I might actually drop basecamp for it.
3 year contract??? That is horrible.
OMG WHY????

But seriously, what real-world application would you need to use this 'feature' of IIS for? And how would it be faster/better than simply accessing the database directly and having it output XML to your application?
I liked "Programming Collective Intelligence," as it fairly clearly introduces how the algorithms operate by implementing them from scratch.

I found the coding style a bit non-pythonic, though (two space indentation?), and in practice you'd be better served using one of the many ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn [1]), which aren't introduced.

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html
This is a nice idea, as you grow it, you should consider soliciting readers preferences and using it to tailor the curating. If the article quality was good enough and tailored enough I would be willing to pay a few bucks a year (probably no more than $10) for such a service. Sifting through the slog of noise out there to find a gem, is time consuming.
Apple Supplier Conditions to Be Targeted by Protesters - Bloomberg
magnet of the magnets: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c&dn=The+whole+Pirate+Bay+magnet+archive&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80
HubSpot Poaches Akamai’s CFO in Preparation for IPO
it comes at an enormous, almost unforgivable cost: working with C++

If you are already writing an application in C++ which needs a web component, this may be an interesting choice.
'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia
Excellent. I love the comment of yours "I'm not cashing this one either; now I want to find out how badly they want to give me this money."
Simple pinger/web monitor meant to run on Google App Engine
As to #3, I'm afraid someone has beaten you:
http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/420/
Any dissertations presumably would lack this material, because Eliot's letters are only just being published. That's what's behind the OP and a good many recent posts about the renascent Eliot.

It's astonishing that Eliot's letters are only being published now (and then only a small, early fraction of them). The reason appears to be that his second wife, who was much younger than he, is still alive and exercising tight control of his legacy.

Pound's mentorship of Eliot is well known, of course. What Pound doesn't mention in the letter where he praises The Waste Land as the poem of the century is that he himself had edited it practically to the point of co-authorship.
Sorry doesn't make it OK to start with.
Is it really an issue?

No. Its not. I've been programming primarily in C++ for a few years (been using it as a hobbyist programmer since about 2002 and on and off professionally over the last 4 years) and this has never been an issue for me.
There is some merit in the article & story, however
-The startup ends up with no engineer & lots of openings and time spent hiring for a year.
-In a startup, one is trying to change the world with the product and change themselves, this is opening another battlefront, on recruiting, trying to change the world of hiring instead of changing to adapt to the world.
I figured that's what existing p2p solutions did. Does Tribler do that too? Because it can't really claim to not rely on central servers at all if it still needs them as a stepping stone.
Implementing Floating point in FPGAs
Need - Program - Product - Business
That assholes on the Internet are also assholes in real life?

That's actually useful information because it contradicts the received wisdom that trolls won't troll offline.
Trust - difficult to earn, easy to lose. Let us see whether their users give them a second chance. At least they are open and honest about it.
Look at the "Crackberry Index" chart. Does anyone else get the feeling they have too few datapoints to reach any meaningful conclusion?
Stealing Your Address Book
Instead, you send your best people in a small warship right into the enemy lines, where they can be picked off at leisure?

Not to mention perching all of your senior officers in a bubble, on top of the ship.
Jorge Luis Borges, a critic of the Peróns, was once promoted from his position at a municipal library in Buenos Aires to something like "Chief Poultry Inspector". He never filled the post.
I agree - we're all a bit crazy; ironically, being aware of this fact is probably the most sane way of being.

The problem is, sometimes the way we interact with the world becomes so obtuse it inhibits our ability to communicate effective and form healthy meaningful relationships.

A diagnosis of what's traditionally classified as a personality disorder isn't necessarily going to elucidate any kind of universal truth, but it might provide context for self-improvement.
I don't see how this is any different (practically, not technically) from eDonkey/KaZaA/all the other file sharing networks of old. It sounds like it will suffer from the same problem of low SNR as the others did.

Basically, when anyone can add any file they want (for example, eMule etc scanned directories and added whatever it could find), noise is invariably much higher. Torrent trackers act as curators, ensuring there's high quality of uploads (especially for private trackers), thus increasing SNR.

I'd love it if someone could prove me wrong, though. Does anyone have any insight on this?
I'm bilingual (English/Portuguese), and use both JavaScript and CoffeeScript.

And I'm not "intuitively comfortable" at all with CoffeeScript -- it has nice Python-esque features which I love, but its seemingly arbitrary parsing edge cases drive me mad.

But I think that one's comfort with using CoffeeScript depends entirely on their level of comfort and knowledge of Python and JavaScript. I don't feel like linguistic skills have any bearing. But it's an interesting idea!
Preface: I will joining Path this Summer, but I do not speak for the company in any way, nor have I spoken with them about the situation. This is a purely technical reply...

You cant guarantee a unique hash. When you hash users' data there is the possibility of collision; this probability grows with every new user. Without identifying data of some sort, it's difficult (impossible?) to get the exact user.
Yes, I have that too, but most of the solutions I can come up with are either too hard to realize or basically unrealistic :)
Push the casualty rate high enough across the whole run of the series and you end up with an extinct humanity at the end of it. Especially since there is very little evidence to suggest that humanity has any really significant colonies anywhere, and quite a bit of evidence against it. (There's also evidence that none of the other major species do either, which combined with the way the Enterprise in all its incarnations is always the only ship in the sector strongly suggests a Federation and equal-powered foes that are a great deal less wealthy that it may appear at first.) Again we run up against the writers not really seriously thinking through the consequences of their own attempts to create drama, which wrecks up attempts to take it seriously. However, "Federation as declining dystopian human empire" is certainly one popular fanon interpretation.
I didn't know all those special chars were part of ASCII.
Today, it seems like the bulk of the pilot's job is to get the plane in the air and then get it back on the ground. In 10 years, are we going to be at the point where a pilot's job is completely redundant? (Or maybe a fleet of planes is handled by a small group of "ground" pilots?)
You don't even need 2 hands - just grab the phone with your thumb and 1 or 2 fingers, and use some other fingers to hold the dock down as you pull the phone off.
I think they handled it well, much better then Apple handled the Antennagate "saga" However I think they should have led with "We deleted what we had and we are going to work hard to earn back your trust"
Easy Book: book publishing as easy as it should be
There's a nice updating list here: http://proxy.org/tor.shtml
[CEOs] tend to be very bright, and they work extremely hard.

You can be extremely bright and work extremely hard and yet fail to produce a desired outcome due to forces beyond your control or understanding. It's human nature to overestimate our degree of control over events, and indeed, CEOs are probably selected for this trait more than other professions. Who wants a CEO who admits he really doesn't have much influence over the fate of a $100B enterprise? No, you want someone who is self-confident to the point of delusion.
This gets very meta very quickly.

If linking to copyrighted data 'should' be illegal (SOPA), then what about descriptions of that data that are sufficient to identify the original, but not reconstruct it (magnet links)?

And if those were made illegal, then what about descriptions of those descriptions? You can recurse infinitely on this.

Beyond mere amusement, after just one or two recursions, you get to the point where it would be difficult to write a law that would criminalize magnet links without also criminalizing people who link to a Sparknotes-like summary or commentary for a piece of media.
I got 1 paragraph in, wondered what the dock actually does, quickly skimmed a few lines to see it it had decent pics or explanation, then looked for the link to Kickstarter and left the site.
Show HN: Made a web app for grouping YouTube videos to play together and share
You're not alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
Just curious: What happens if some dude in a truck drives around an airport with an illegal GPS jammer? These things are everywhere: http://www.economist.com/node/18304246
I'm also partial to R, but Python does have stats support via NumPy and (especially) SciPy: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/stats.html

When I was at the Broad, at least, there was heavy use of both R and Python among the statistically savvy.
You could prompt the user to explicitly say when they board the train and then use the approximate time to destination stop to alert the user. It might not be optimal, but it would be a great...right?
Wow a lot of jealous comments in this thread. I'm feeling it too. Why didn't my dad work at JPL and teach me physics and electrical engineering on his knee!?!

Seriously, not everyone with her opportunities wouldve converted it into her accomplishments. Sure she had chances, but she brought her own drive and determination.
Stargate Atlantis (plus an episode in Stargate SG-1) touches on #2 and #3.
In my experience, micro instances get throttled pretty harshly if the cpu bursts for very long. I think a CI instance wouldn't be the best fit for micro.
Nobel prizewinner J.M. Coetzee's "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II" has an interesting look at his life as a computer programmer in London in the 1960s.

Non Nobel-winner Michel Houellbecq's book "Whatever" is a dark but somewhat hilarious story obviously based on his former day job as a computer programmer.
untog, we hear you there. Though there are three things we should note to put this in better context.

1. The MTA's goal ultimately was to get apps to help their riders as much as possible, regardless of where the apps came from.

2. We're recently YC funded and this began as a side project for us during college.

3. Had this competition occurred earlier in our life as a company, we still would have jumped at it, even knowing a more mature company could come in and take first. Having looked at the rankings and downloads of all the apps involved before and after the contest, we can say that this was more of a net win for this category of Apps than it was for Embark in particular.
Didnt the FAA just state that unmanned aerial vehicles will be flying around general airspace by 2014?
iOS devices present a (mostly) constant form factor, allowing a large addressable market with customers/funders who are willing to pay for quality. A rigorously-designed dock can address not only iPhones, but iPods as well.

That's the Apple platform strength - the weakness is changes are sometimes sudden and can eliminate or subsume 3rd party product markets entirely.
Yep that sentence, and ones like it always worry me when I see them in companies' documentation about security. If the best thing you can say about your system and application security programme is that you use a firewall, that wouldn't fill me with a lot of confidence...
Follow up: I assumed this was cstross without looking, but it doesn't seem to be. Sorry, I can no longer edit.
there's a DNSBL.

i believe it's possible to run a node and just query it for the exit nodes, but I'm not sure.
I think it's actually easier to hire someone overseas because there are no interstate tax or benefits issues.
The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue?
No, KeepAlive operates at the HTTP level. It works just the same even if no PHP was involved. PHP timeouts are governed by a different setting.
Oh, it's not a phobia. Just skepticism. ;)

I don't doubt that one can, and that we will, build a computer system for manipulating higher mathematics that's so much better than a stack of paper, a pencil, and a decent eraser that you won't even own the paper. What I doubt is that it's done yet. But I haven't exactly been looking for it, so maybe I'm wrong. Certainly, once it's done there won't be any problem selling it to me (except for the sad fact that I no longer manipulate equations on an everyday basis).
A code puzzle
Should be titled "The whole Pirate Bay magnet archive except this torrent" :-)

I think a magnet link is based on the hash of the contents too, so it might be an interesting problem to include the torrent's own magnet link in itself.
They still didn't respond to my email that I sent >24 hours ago.
> The end result is the same as if you had written your interpreter in C and directly compiled it to native code.

I don't think that follows; in the LuaJIT case wouldn't traces of the interpreter span the execution of several (custom) byte-code instructions? Guards would be inserted that effectively ensure that the next byte-code instruction is as expected; the net result would be a trace that indeed corresponds to a region of the interpreted program.

> When PyPy JIT's the process, it will use your hints to collapse both levels of interpretation. It will replace both L0 and L1 with native code that implements the bytecode being interpreted.

It's just not clear to me how PyPy is going to do better when the only extra information is has is some hints. They must be powerful hints that help in a way I don't understand if the PyPy approach truly outperforms a run-of-the-mill tracing VM.
Horses and camels require food, shelter, and care.

Let's say you want to have the capability of offloading 100lbs of equipment (say, 40 lbs of food, about 1500 rounds of ammunition, and about 20 lbs of miscellaneous other equipment) from soldiers so they can fight more effectively and for longer (up to a month or so), and you want to have a standing ability to be able to do this for up to 2,000 soldiers at any given time.

This means you need to buy 500 "alpha dogs" and then keep them in storage somewhere until needed.

Or it means you need to buy about 1,000 camels. Which require about 30-40 lbs of food and water a day, and produce as much urine and manure per day as well. That's five thousand tons of food and water a year, and five thousand tons of urine and manure a year. You need to build shelter to house them and you need to hire people to take care of them. You need to treat them when they are injured, you need to replace them when they are too injured to work or when they die. You need to train them. And they probably won't survive spending a month without food and water, even camels. In contrast, a robotic pack mule left without supplies for a month is merely inactive and can be retrieved and refueled.

Also, horses, mules, and camels are fragile. Far more fragile than humans under extreme conditions.
I am hoping that addiction is too big and important a problem to persist much longer, at least within wealthy societies.

There will, perhaps even within the next 20 years, be treatments that quickly and reliably improve executive function (indeed, there are already such therapies, but they are slow, time consuming, and expensive).
You shouldn't try to validate an email address by any means other than sending mail to it. If it works, it's valid.
True. Though the built-in maps app definitely leaves something to be desired. One big benefit it does have is its coverage.

What Maps is missing is a decent list of stuff though... offline routing, real-time arrivals, alerts and system maps.

Maps on iOS is really more of a driving app than a transit app. As a result, transit is a buried and minimized feature in Maps.
My theory is

I think a more realistic theory is that the script writers simply had to draw a line somewhere and ignore the obvious inconsistencies from that point, or they would have never finished an episode.

It was an entertainment TV series after all, not a scientific paper...

I do agree anyway that many episodes were real turds. Personally I hated every single one with "Q" in it. Often those were not even internally consistent.
It doesn't matter. The purpose of the hash isn't to uniquely identify users, it's to narrow the list of users that need to be sent down to the phone. If Path could send their entire user database to the phone, they wouldn't need to send the contacts to their server.
That's a really clever way to incorporate TOR as an input, without just disabling all TOR-enabled accounts.

Were you able to get a bayesian algorithm to learn whether specific users were likely to be spammers or trolls? (As opposed to specific posts.) I'm guessing this isn't easy to do, since I get spammed on other services on a regular basis (e.g. Twitter spammers will setup new accounts and spam on a regular basis).
In previous quarters there was concern that accounts payable exceeded cash on hand, meaning they were quickly running out of money. This appears to have reversed in a big way.
Microsoft premieres documentary about Startup Life [trailer]
Thanks for your insights on your app choice for MUNI + BART. For what it's worth, we do have a separate Caltrain app called Ride Caltrain.
I love robots. I draw robots. A lot.
I wonder if when Path 'deleted' the data, they shredded the hard disks too?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042511-google-hard-dri...
Facebook actually asks for your permission before sucking up your entire address book.

Even if that weren't the case, "better than Facebook" is a pretty low bar. "Worse than Facebook" is way, way out of bounds.
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Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea?
Hey guys, I'm a senior in high school and I'm trying to launch a startup that I think would really take off. Of course, this is just me speculating and being blindly optimistic. I'd really love the HN community to check it out and give me some feedback, I'm prepared for both positive and negative!
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The idea would be to swap textbooks constantly. So with a large enough user base, you would always be able to search for a book you need for class and then just have it shipped to you ($2.00 fee + shipping/handling). And in return, you would put up all of your old textbooks to swap on the site. This way, you don't lose money because in the end, you're always swapping for all four years of college.
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Again, it's an idea I've had for a while and I made a sign-up site: http://lendsit.com

Thanks so much,
I really appreciate it,

Alex
If you're trying to create some syncing effect by playing the videos simultaneously, then that's getting lost because of buffering.
Maybe because there's already a ton of working ruby implementations that all have their own sets of advantages. There's rubinous (which you named), they seem to be making pretty nice progress, there's mri, ree, maglev, macruby, ironruby and finally there's jruby which is actually often the fastest ruby interpreter around.

It came a bit as a surprise to me that the author mentions jython as an example that languages on the hotspot vm don't benefit too much from its features - jruby certainly does.
Internet is based on the transmission of thought.

The reason text is used for thought encoding right now is that at the current level of technology text offers very good price/performance for ease of production, delivery and retaining and at same time provides reasonable accuracy and information density.

At the era of brain implants when you will "look" at the website, you'll "see" thoughts, ideas and memories, not text, pictures and video.
Success through Failure (2005)
truley awesome in green
how did you do this? that's the first thing that came to my mind
> One such person whom I know actually watches Shakespeare productions for entertainment.

You make it sound like this is some kind of rarity. That’s ridiculous: Shakespeare plays are incredibly common and popular, and lots of people watch them for fun – because they’re fun! You can probably find one in any major metropolitan area on any given weekend.
Regarding your second edit:

If anyone actually tried to run Apache/mpm_prefork with "MaxClients 150" on an average Linode or cheap dedicated server, they'd OOM and start thrashing as soon as someone started requesting a couple dozen PHP pages -- even if the rest of the requests were to static resources. That's just another way to get yourself DoS'd. Received wisdom on the Linode forums is that you should handle no more than 10-15 simultaneous connections if you're stuck with Apache/mpm_prefork and PHP. So your original point stands.
Awesome idea. Magnet links will be around as the standard for some time it seems :)
"Boisjoly could not watch the launch, so certain was he that the shuttle would blow up."

One thing is to believe that the chance of blowing up is ~1% (which is enough to prevent launch).

Another thing is to be certain, that it WILL blow up (I assume 90%+ probability here).

If he was so certain, why he could not convince his management?