skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important difference between India and anywhere else, to my mind, is an overwhelming sense of and appreciation for greater concerns (throughout all of its religious/philosophical communities): the notion that there's more to life than it appears, that we are all elements within some greater epic, that differences are not just to be tolerated but perhaps celebrated, and that despite the often chaotic, corrupt, and immoral way in which India's bureaucracy runs against the above the whole thing somehow balances itself in to a unity and resonates in a certain way with people - Indians are, in my experience almost without exception, proud to be Indian.

The lead-in image to the article is a mall in Chennai. I didn't visit any. I landed in Chennai, got a taxi in to town (a mission in itself), and wound up physically caked in air pollution. Literally dodging shit on the muddy road, I found a guesthouse and woke up to this view: http://bit.ly/wnQzfo (Subsequent galleries show some of the country's real beauty.)
http://compare.buyhatke.com/ is currently taking about 5-10 seconds which may be a bit long on the part of some users......hence we need suggestions on how we can improve over it ......
Even has dynamic DNS. Looks interesting. Does it work with ddclient?
ntp is not "smart enough to realize you have three identical "server" lines in ntp.conf". Before the addition of the pool directive in 4.2.7 this was the recommended approach (as in recommended by prof. mills, harlan and the rest of the ntp reference implementation team). OSX is trying to be cute and thinks it knows more about ntp than the user.

Try editing /private/etc/ntp.conf and append:

# use multiple ntp servers
server us.pool.ntp.org iburst
server us.pool.ntp.org iburst
server us.pool.ntp.org iburst

Make sure you have an extra empty line above the comment. There is something goofy about the way osx includes the input from the graphical configuration and what is included in the /private/etc/ntp.conf In order to restart the service you need to disable/re-enable the automatically set time.
Same here - I was looking forward to some advice on efficiently parsing alien coding habits.
Thanks for the -ok option. was not aware -- but yeah, I've been a heavy user of -exec option for years, and it always blows my mind when people get crazy complicated xargs going.
Actually, (0-0) evaluates to +0 in the default rounding mode, so both of those expressions will typically return +∞.

1/-0 will give you -∞, of course.
The designer inside of me is loving this. Thank you.

While I also love the retro feel of the regular HN, this is just so much easier on the eyes. And when considering how long I spend on HN these days, this is probably a good idea... My eyes will thank me in the future :)
It's called a "defense fund"--if someone has the right to legal defense, it can't be illegal to contribute to the costs of it.
okay, if you're looking at this from a teacher's perspective and actually finding some sort of justification for what the school did, imagine that it was the administrators asking for your login and password, because you worked for the school. if it's not justified for you, it's not justified for the student.
A different penguin on a different colored background might still be a trademark violation, based on trade dress or being confusingly similar.
I work at Google, and while you can level a lot of criticisms at it, this is not one of them. Half the employees I see around Mountain View are asians or indians. (I am indian.)
Why is it not white on black? That would look way cooler, 20% cooler to be precise.
> Which would be equivalent to taking the murder pill

Depending on how the AI is built, it may not even be able to avoid rewiring its utility function. If pleasure is its sole motivation, it will prioritize it over survival.

> [citation needed]

If the AI can't change its own motivation (its utility function) it's nothing more than a clever automaton.
one could argue that the taxpayers failed to keep the government entity accountable for the comnditions that led up to the grievance
Thanks, we have corrected this now. :)
This is odd, I managed to move my DNS hosting away from NameCheap about an hour ago and my domains are back up... Make sure you click "My domains - Domains - Transfer nameservers to webhosting"
Thought of that. Will give it a try and see how it looks. :)
Being a jerk CEO could be a high variance strategy: a few very visible big winners and lots of less visible losers.
Nokia Lumia 800 Smartphone Hands On Review
Mine looks like that: https://darkboxed.org/
Time.gov is slow and ugly and doesn't work on my phone. Fuck time.gov.
The Caging of America
Probably because they don't really want people to use it. I imagine the license has to be fairly open to allow for unencumbered distribution with android, but it's a part of the android brand. Every time it gets used outside of android makes it a little more generic and dilutes the android brand a little bit.
I grew up in my dad's architecture firm (literally, he worked day and night so when I was sick from school I used to bunk between massive cabinets of blueprints ...), so I've seen (and run) more blueprints than 99% of the humans on the planet. I can't help but think of all the scribbles and marks and pencilings that happen on a blueprint, not to mention physical seals and architect's signatures, etc. There's so much more to paper than just the initial drawing. What timeframe and technological advances are you counting on before widespread adoption and replacement ("adios blueprints!") really becomes feasible?
The new await keyword in C# can be used to write coroutines libraries like this, but instead of you writing the continuations yourself, you can let the compiler slice up your function. You can then leverage the SynchronizationContext class to control which thread the continuations run on.

Looking at the use of libtask in mongrel2 inspired me to play around with the idea of coroutines in C#. The await keyword makes my latest iteration quite small and nice to use.
https://github.com/AustinWise/LibTaskNet
That's really cute, but it's also buggy. The loop will start at i == 41.
whoareyou

i typed w\t damn, needs tab autocomplete ;-)
I see where you are coming from. And I agree that it's a trade-off.

But I think my point is, that from a usability point of view you simply have no other choice than having X codebases, one for each platform you want to be on, if you are not willing to compromise on usability. I don't know of anyone who tried themselves at the magical "write once, run anywhere" and delivered a consistently great user experience.

Of course, it would be hyperbolic to say that the Khan Academy app has some huge usability flaws. It hasn't. But I'm mostly thinking about another example here: Facebook. They're a billion dollar web company and even they managed to majorly fuck their mobile apps up in terms of responsibility and general snappiness. They tried "write once, run anywhere" and failed.

There was an article about Facebook's mobile technology on ReadWriteWeb some time ago: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/09/how-facebook-mobi... (I hope this information isn't outdated already) HN discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3397872

I think empirical evidence shows that this is the wrong approach if you want to deliver a good user experience.
You don't support wildcard MX records and the whole MX-setup looks unfinished... :( Looks good tho
you can also do this in luvit (libuv + lua)
An implementation of exponential decay could quite possibly solve this problem, but it might mean that they'd have to dramatically rethink the "new" page.

Exponential decay is important because it is, as they say in statistics, "memoryless": it has a simple geometric property that adding a new point today has the exact same effect as adding a new point on the first day. It can therefore be implemented as follows: when you add points to a link, you add them not just to the total points, but also to some accumulator which I will call Hotness. This number is a double; we increment by 1 when someone adds a point.

Every half-hour, some independent process working over still-Hot threads multiplies their Hotness by 0.97153. This gives a half-life of about 12 hours: your rating has hotness 0.5 after half a day, 0.25 after a whole day, and so on. We could tune that if we wanted finer granularity. When something gets below 0.001 Hot we can probably just reset it to 0 Hot abruptly so that we don't check it anymore. (Because doubles will try to go to -infinity if you use them multiplicatively in this way, and if you get to, say, 1000 points this will still mean that we can stop paying attention to you in, say, 10 days.)

Suddenly, adding points to a dead article is the exact same as sponsoring a new article. So we store articles under their URLs as keys, and if you resubmit an existing news story you merely bump it up to 1 Hot.

The "new" page would be very peculiar in this system, though. It might work by listing only those 1 Hot posts which were 0 Hot previously, I don't know.

As for a major con to this approach, I think HN uses polynomial decay rather than exponential decay because exponential decay somehow didn't feel like it had the right "shape" to it or so. This is probably because they didn't implement it in the "memoryless" configuration, though, where each point has value 1 from the moment it's added, and decays slowly.
You can edit your post and make it recursive by adding the current link, so that the next time this story is re-posted, yours is the only post to be copied. Here is the link to this one:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691113
I say the same thing about writing backend code in JavaScript.
would definitely agree. the only thing that's sure for now is that there is confusion and frustration with search engines.

I do not think a one-size-fits-all search engine would be the answer here. :)
If I'm using an entire file (example from 10 mins ago: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) I'll leave the license in the way I find it, I have no incentive to change it.

If I'm using parts of someone else's code I'll have a comment preceding it explaining where the code is from (eg: // code taken from: url). It's a massive annoyance to have to try and copy in licenses in the middle of code, it's ugly and makes reading through my code a pain. I guess I'll go to hell for it, but eh.
If you're emf sensitive, you don't need any scientific study to tell you electrosmog is real, unpleasant, and likely (highly?) damaging. Wi-fi, cordless phones, walk-through and handheld security x-rays and cell phones can all be felt. I've heard of documented incidences of cancers near powerlines, especially of breast cancers of women sleeping on coiled beds near those lines. Why is any of this a surprise? your iPhone is a health hazard.
Say what you will about it, but Whynne's recording was actually genuinely funny.
Perhaps he's concerned about outing himself.
GCHQ-backed competition names Cyber Security Champion
They just resell other services like Lyris, no?
That's true, and also brings in the question why rich people don't (typically) start ambitious startups with all their money. Elon Musk is an opposite example however; all his projects being something really big and ambitious on blue ocean markets. There would be so much to explore beyond making the next twitter, but it seems that people aren't just crazy enough.
You do, under the law, implicitly own the copyright to everything you create. This will not inherently protect you from costly lawsuits requiring you to prove that you do, however.
Raw number of years of experience doesn't mean much. I've seen developers who started using C++ in the early nineties, but haven't bothered to update their knowledge of C++ since then. If I have more years of experience than you, does it make my opinion more authoritative than yours?
You are right about it starting on 41, but chances are that that is its intended behavior, with a bit of context that is more clear:

#define ARRAYSIZE 42

int array[ARRAYSIZE];

void f() {
for (i=ARRAYSIZE; i --> 0;) {
printf("%d\n", array[i]);
}
}

If it were to start at 42 you'd be referencing the array outside of its bounds.
If the implantation is semantically rich and complete enough, this might really help those who want to tackle the first of pg's "ambitious startup" ideas.

If I have an idea for a search product, competing with Google isn't really the first roadblock my brain puts up. It's more like "sure brain, sounds swell; now, how do you propose to populate this engine of yours?"
I'm not a Roboto fan. I think Gruber sums it up the best: http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/font_hipsters
Natal/Brazil,world cup site hackead by Anonymous
Indeed they don't. There are no iostreams in FORTRAN.
Exactly, would Gabriel have been able to start DDG without the money from selling NamesDatabase (or other private money)? I think a lot of these guys who have "made it" forget how difficult resources can be for the rest of us, especially when talking about webscale projects.
Search engines remain popular; users less pleased with "presonalized results"
Construction benefits from better information being delivered more quickly, and the pace of information exchange has increased dramatically over the past few decades as couriered letters gave way to faxes to emails to cell phones with cameras.

On the other hand, screens have not replaced large sheets of paper to the extent one would expect (note that TechCrunch still references scanning hard copies; something done in the trailer where monitors have become ubiquitous).

Why? Construction management is, at its heart an exercise in coordination. Performing that coordination efficiently requires looking at the big picture, and literally looking at a big picture 8 square feet at a time cannot be replicated on a screen.

What a slate does offer is the ability to access the backup - takeoffs, photos, subcontracts, correspondence, etc. while looking at the issue in the field. But a project engineer who only relies on an iPad to look at the plans before calling the design team is probably in for a Mira Los planos asschewing.

I will not be surprised to see the app be successful, but it will probably not revolutionize construction in the way AutoCAD changed design. AutoCAD was close to the metal of the design industry, but an iPad app is much more of an abstraction when it comes to actual construction activities such as digging a hole or throwing paint on wall.

Good luck.
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How is that a real risk?

If they're so unethical to try and sue you for using code they just found on the internets without a licence, they're just as likely to steal your code even if it had an MIT licence and claim you were the original thief.
Did jobs actually complete any projects at Atari other than the Breakout one (which Woz did singlehandedly)?
Why? (Honest question, I don't know much about JavaScript or backend development)
Nothing protects you from lawsuits. I could right now sue you for slander for some comment you never made, and I fabricated evidence for.

That would just make me unethical, and you can't protect against that.
How do we define an ambitious vs a non-ambitious idea?

How many people here are working on ideas that may not seem ambitious on the surface, but with long-term goals that are very ambitious?
It sure would be nice if government employees were held personally liable for breaking the law in their official capacity.
Why are some movies in iTunes in the Cloud missing?
I thought it was because Javascript didn't have a Threading model... that Javascript is also used in the Browser is just a coincidence I think.
To what data are you referring? Surely there are also tons of smaller tech startups (or other small businesses) that were somewhat stable while small, but that failed directly due to their ambition.
Wow. This is great. Thanks for sharing!
Who is responsible for creating the linkages within the plans?

How do you reconcile the differences between digital documents containing links and the sealed paper documents which normally are the basis for the construction contract?
http://jonls.dk/redshift/ can go as red/dark as you want.
Flashblock still loads the plugin and content, doesn't it? I don't run Flashblock, but does this still work:
http://hackademix.net/2008/06/08/block-rick/

I disable plugins in Chrome and either whitelist sites or run them as-needed.
The Jester's QR-Code Pwns Targets with WebKit Exploit
I am not sure about others, but I couldn't use it because the comments do not wrap to the window width.
I think ambition is in founders, not in ideas. A truly ambitious founder will take the smallest of ideas and turn it into something big.
Aren't columns actually used because it's easier to read shorter lines of text than long ones?
Ontdek Nu Mobiel Geheimen Online geld verdienen, werkt het nog?
That was what I just said, yes.
I have no idea how much you know about type design, but I get the sense that the vast majority of people disparaging Roboto don't actually know shit about typography, and are just parroting what's been said by a handful of bloggers (many of whom also aren't particularly well versed). If a lot of these guys were asked to rate a bunch of unnamed fonts without the benefit of the internet to tell them what they think about them, they would probably make some terrible font snob faux pas.

I'm not an expert of typography, but to my eyes, it's a nice, clean, readable screen font. So is the Droid font family. It's not my absolute favourite, but there are more pressing issues in the world.
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Gruber's post contains nothing substantive except for "The criticism is simply that Roboto is ungainly, homely, unharmonious."

The remainder of the post is a diatribe that only succeeds in saying "nobody else likes it either."
Plus the other aspect is that he is taking stuff that other people built for their own enjoyment and trying to exploit it in a commercial context.

If he had tried pulling together an open source development team nobody would have been seriously offended.

But what this guy is doing is the same as taking art done by anonymous street artists and selling merchandise based on it. If people pay before or after the production doesn't matter in that case. Acting totally surprised when "the street" is fighting back seems slightly naive.
Part of my point was that "self-selecting out the gene pool" does nothing to dispel harmful beliefs. That is a culture and education problem.
This is not the first time and it won't be the last time. I recommend AWS's Route53. It costs a bit of money but it's worth every penny.
Yes, but that was already the case. IANA management was up for rebid. This article is about the fact that ALL proposals (including ICANN's) were disqualified for one reason or another, so the process will have to start over.
15 points to improve Google Plus and why I'm giving up on it for good
Yes - exactly my point. Before, it was relatively rare for a hack or a computer crash to lead to death. This radically changes the probability of that occurring... therefore it seems that saying we'll take standard security measures and be complacent until something happens is probably not a responsible reaction. No matter how great the technology or how gung-ho people are to see it deployed.
Is there a way to make Safari to automatically apply this javascript for all pages inside hackers new?
Gamification of comments was a huge mistake, says Denton of Gawker
Abbotsford deodorizer
tl;dr: Set yourself up so that choosing a path leading to failure is harder than choosing the path leading to success. There is a kernel of truth in all the long-form dramatization.
ANONYMOUS, ANONYMOUS, ANONYMOUS, ANONYMOUS....

EVERYTHING is being played out to be the fault of ANONYMOUS...

When can anyone hold INDIVIDUALS responsible for once...

STOP using anonymous as a scapegoat...
I imagine that building the index is computationally, a comparable problem to crawling the websites themselves. Does anyone have any data on if this is actually a large win?
Every site mentioned helps to create new memes and supports the "infrastructure" of motivating other to come up with new memes.
The meme defense projects seems to try capitalizing from just popular memes by making them even more popular. YouTube,4chan,Reddit are like a complex network of indie music clubs. Meme Defender is acting like a major label, that just takes well known "scene" memes and exploiting them towards a non-meme audience. No wonder the "true fans" are screaming sell-out.
why would anyone need a stack overflow content scrapping bot given they release all the data CC licenses anyway?
Since I'm not competing in that industry anymore, I'll chime in.

If we can solve the problem plaguing small (1-5) to mid-size (5-10+) private medical, dental, and veterinary practices with a single, seamless interface for their various specializations and needs (hook into Front Office, back end, supply chain, mgmt of outsourced services like crowns/bridges/dentures and lab cultures/tests).

Everything I've seen working with practice management software is that the only difference is the hook into either AMA (CPT), ADA, and VM/VT (for veterinary practices) codes for procedures and conditions. Everything else is standard app stuff in my estimation.

Hard to pull off, though.
I dont think doing seo for a single industry is a good idea. Actually I think it's terrible.

Seo is a competition. You cant be serving both me and my competitor. Whose website do you promise to.get better ranking to? Who pays you the most? I'd rather just pays adwords then.
what.is? love.is? it.is?
What if someone games the sensor? There are some pretty heinous examples or road rage out there - everything from attacking people's cars with a nine-iron to throwing their poodles into traffic at a stoplight. What happens to that point cloud if someone throws a bunch of silver ball bearings out their window in front of you? What if they aim a laser pointer at the receiver? What's to stop someone from developing a universal remote that you can point at any car to make it think there's a wall 3 feet in front of it? And how do you design a countermeasure against that and still ensure that the car does stop if there is a wall?
There are a few Android apps as well.
Some previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113223

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503796

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514272

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363911

Interestingly, no significant comments on any of them.
Yes, you suggest a way that may detect blocks. According to the researcher's website, he is using the search function of weibo to check which words are blocked, that is smart. It seems that weibo are using program and hiring people to do the censorship. There even are rumors saying that those censorship department are settled in WuHan city, and has a team of more than 500 people.
Anyway, his research is valuable, and it helps bringing more sunshine to the weibo land.
Google keeps ping alive on their 8.8.8.8 nameserver, but that's probably just being polite. Most providers would rather block off ICMP than have to deal with the risk of getting flooded now and then.
That's fine, but he didn't even articulate that.
That's what his blog says, but if you read the Kickstarter project page, it makes no mention of open source. It says that if you donate $2, you get a free copy of the full version. It also says that some of the Kickstarter money will go towards marketing.

None of this sounds like he planned to make it free or open source at all. It sounds like he is trying to capitalize on intellectual property that he doesn't own the rights to.
Is this Anonymous testing their hacking tool before hitting the root servers?
Samsung is starting flexible screen production.. live blueprint in roll ?
Morality is a lot deeper than you're making it out to be. Please don't straw man my argument to mean phony, superficial "Morals." I'd suggest starting with a survey of moral philosophy.