skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long been of the opinion that the decline in local socializing (in the physical realm) is due to the advent of air condition, radio, and later television.

Previously people sat on their porches in the evening to escape the heat of the house and thus saw their neighbors nightly. Now we're all in our climate-controlled cocoons.

After moving to this city a few years ago where we had no friends or family, I just started stopping at neighbor houses when I saw them working on something and offered to help. Establishing this pattern of behavior triggered most of them to do the same not only to me but also to other neighbors and now we have a very tight-knit group of people whose only real initial "shared interest" was physical proximity.

When one of the neighbors was diagnosed with terminal cancer, some of the others were wondering what we could do to help. I suggested we ask him what things he wanted done for his house so that he could not worry about such things and focus on his last months with family. So we spent a lot of summer weekends painting, roofing, doing general house repairs. Along with that his teenage boys got to hang around a group of men in a setting where we would naturally banter and tease without any social climbing or the like.
Close to the end of his life my neighbor told several of us that he was happy to know that there were going to be men around his family that would take care of things and serve as role models for his boys. I can't think of anything that would give me more comfort if I was in his position.

So basically, get off your butt in the evenings and walk the neighborhood. Look for someone doing something and offer to help. If nothing else you'll feel good about being able to help someone out and it just may start the chain reaction necessary to build an entirely new social group.
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Awesome stuff, that's great, thanks! :)
just got myself one, he's not even a year old yet. Definitely prepared for the idea of having him around even when in my 40's though.
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Space Shuttle Workers Struggle to Find Jobs
There is a QR code on the receipt, it is just hidden under the small box so the internets does not steal my 1 €.
Can it be easily extended to add new editors? Perhaps you can let the users submit packages for their favourite editors...
even though the project looks good, this is spot on.
False. Why gamify, I actually found this incredibly useful all in itself.
Why link to godaddy when there are tons of respectable choices?
I've just started getting into Elastic Search for a project I'm working on. Coming from a couple of years using Solr it is one of the best and most exciting pieces of tech I've played with in ages.

I hope this announcement doesn't change anything (at least not too much!).
Well, I've just finished reading it!
How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire
The sales volumes are high enough. They're much higher! The Appstore and low prices, combined with the vast amount of people using iOS makes for a way bigger potential market than audio pro's using PC's
You appear to have the Arctic and Antarctic confused. They're opposite ends of the world. There aren't any bears or lemmings in Antarctica at all. And there are penguins in the region, but they're amphibious rather than really being stuck on Antarctica.
This is a much better fire suppression idea than Star Trek's surround it with a force field and let it use up all the oxygen system.
Declaring it has zero notability as far as cool hacks go is highly subjective. I for one think this is much cooler then the usual CRUD to-do list webapps we see around here so much.
Lean Website Optimization: We don't know anything
You wouldn't use rainbow tables for a scheme like using hash(secret phrase + domain) to generate personal passwords, you'd use a dictionary attack where domains are the words, followed by a brute-force technique (which you'd use if you lacked the secret key). If I know you use such a scheme and I learn your secret phrase, your email provider and bank account websites would be the first on my list. It becomes no more secure than using the same password on every site plus the domain name at the end. The benefit is that you never have to trust all those different websites with your secret phrase.

The parenthetical in my above comment calls back to a comment by some early giant in cryptology (I think). It's best to have all the details about your specific method of hiding data known publicly, with the secret key being the only private piece of information.
And its submitted by the writer. :(
Agreed, this is the strangest way to learn an editor. The whole point of pressing a command is to see what it actually does. Connecting that action to your muscle movements is what you want.
I don't know but I'm going to observe a moment of silence for the apostrophe that is no longer with us.
Those are distribution based profits. It's questionable whether those could cover production based activities. Hopefully Netflix' venture into production will prove you can profitably make content at streaming prices (though even their experiment with Arrested Development will be on the cheap side, since all the sets and the initial story were already there and purchased on the cheap).
Agreed, and I think we may get the full studio workstation on a tablet faster than the transition from hardware to software. We're probably only one new chip & iOS release away from a platform that can compete with desktop in terms of power & stability
I agree that the visual correlation to the shortcuts is important. It's a very nicely designed and implemented idea, but I think I would need that visual component to warrant paying for it (the visual component would also justify a higher price for me as well.)
Check into the ZOTAC Z-Box. The power consumption is pretty decent compared to a full Micro ATX or ITX. It has optical and HDMI audio. Wireless N... I'm running OpenElec on mine and it's very responsive.
I was at a hackathon over in Santa Clara recently where we were using consumer brain wave reading headsets:
http://www.neurosky.com/

Unfortunately, it looked like there were something like 8 signals read, the two easiest being concentration and relaxation. Blinking was there too, although that had false positives and was even delivered as a probability more than a boolean. But hey, the tech is coming.
Everyone knows this.
Sometimes I just wish they would go out of business already. I think google should stop infringing their copyright too. You know, indexing Their Stuff and making links to it. That could do the trick. I wonder what they'd say then.

We see first hand what happens when disrupting incumbents who happen to also control politicians and have some good friends in the legal system. Hopefully the current people movement against copyright mafia will see further victories...
Income tax-delinquent FCC employees owe more than $1 million
Good insight; poor formatting/spelling.
You're right, the main idea was to introduce people to Bitcoin in general. Right now putting in that coin, scanning the code, pasting and address and pressing the send button is the easiest way to donate to wikileaks from Germany :)
The mechanical aspect was 'decided' by the constraint of having it ready for the exhibition. Snapping a used machine of eBay and manually filling it with boxes was the only feasible way, although I started with the idea of a super fancy ATM-style machine.
The situation with keys is actually worse than Forbes makes out.

Apparently they don't realize that (most) keys can now be copied from a photograph, from up to 195 feet away[1]. I realize that these "high security keys" are probably harder to duplicate than a normal key - but how many security officers know they should be keeping the keys out of sight as well as physically secure?

[1] http://hackaday.com/2009/09/22/photographic-key-duplication/
Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed
I'm not a fan of overt proselytizing on message boards, but you realize that calling religion a "deep psychosis" is its own form of proselytizing?

What I had hoped to convey with my original comment was:

* Religion used to play a powerful role in people's social lives, and does so less now, and perhaps the fear of losing those social connections drives some of mainstream evangelical Christianity's defensiveness.

* 'dctoedt wrote some interesting dissections of Christianity, and I happen to find the way "startup people" (D.C. is a lawyer, not a hacker, but he's sort of a startup lawyer) engage with religion to be fascinating, in that critical thinking and faith is an interesting dialectic.

What I did not hope to convey with my comment is:

* Let's have a big religion vs. atheism argument on HN.

Because:

* Wow, boring.
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The bar you go to makes all the difference. You are more likely to see Quiz Night at a Mom & Pop sports bar, a place where loud noise is acceptable. The quiet, little pub you go to for ale/stout and quiet conversation or a folk/jazz bar not so much.
Which is a problem for sane people who can't fit into such organized superstition.
Ask HN: Can Git handles this use cases
I really think some sort of equilibrium is going to be reached that brings back the stylus or at least a functional equivalent. Fingers just aren't precise enough for some things
Jobs warned Yelp not to sell out to Google
And on what do you base your assumption that a Nexus 7 is held closer than an iPad?

All those numbers presented seem to be tailored to fit your "calculations". (11,75" vs 13" .. how do you come up with that?)
Same story but the game of talisman and a much smaller group.

Edit: Unfortunately not that many meetups in the summertime. ;)
Great news. I discovered ES last year and fell in love with it. Far better than solr in almost every aspect. When I saw how automatically detects nodes, distributes data, recovers from a failed node, etc. all without administration I could not believe it. It's every devops dream.
Study: Viewers turning to YouTube as news source
Wait till you have a child of your own.
Try tapping ABACABB (the Mortal Combat blood code) on the homepage for some fun. Nice easter egg :)
My vim doesn't get the ^ keypress :(
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Believing in God - not because you think it is true - but because you are lonely and believing allows you to meet people is selling your soul to the devil.

When you get to a point where the question of whether somebody starts believing in God or not has very little to do with critical thinking and a lot to do with emotions I become uncomfortable. It's like the people are being taken advantage of.

When somebody starts believing because he is lonely, it feels like religion is a virus, taking advantage of a weakness in somebody's critical thinking systems in order to infect their brain.

We are not completely rational beings, we don't always need to focus on evidence and occam's razor and strip all spirituality from our life. It's fine to be religious. That is a choice everyone makes for themselves. I believe that, and it still makes me uncomfortable when religion seeks out to lonely people. It feels a little like looking for a soft mark.
Cool site, but a minor annoyance, is that some editors, like vim, have multiple ways of accomplishing a task. For instance move to line 4 can be done with 4G or 4gg, but only accepts 4G, which is frustrating as I've already internalized 4gg :) I'm sure there are others.
Make your Android phone a Skype-controlled robot (with SDK)
I'm happy to see this! I wish them well. Also, I'm looking forward to their training course: http://www.elasticsearch.com/services/training/
Microsoft holding a special news conference today to talk about Office 15
What to do if you are unhappy at your job.
Ask HN: Please review my online map builder Mashupforge
http://mashupforge.com

It's an online map builder that lets you create custom maps, place markers or shapes, use your own images as map layers. For example you can create a zoomable, draggable map of a 5000px x 12000px image, annotate it with markers and shapes.

I'm looking for feedback of any kind, about the design, the product and its potential(or lack thereof). Feel free to reach out to me at support [at] mashupforge.com.

Thanks!
Sales of my own apps suggest otherwise. From what I can tell the market for non-toy music apps is no larger than it is on the desktop and may actually be smaller.

I get far more searches for the VST port of my iPad synth than I do for the iPad app itself, for example.
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I want to use the moment of attention to ask around for ideas on how to conceptually build the reverse of this. The current idea would be to also use a web wallet, ie. you would preload an easywallet.org wallet with some coins, then give the URL to the machine (type, QR, whatever) and it spits out cash. There must be something more clever to solve the problem of transaction verification (inside easywallet it's instant and we don't have to wait 10m) and authentication (if the machine would receive your bitcoins on a special address, how the machine know you sent it?).
Thanks! A while back I came across a project that provided a simple command line API for installing various components. It was pretty much a wrapper for a virtual machine without having to worry about configuring one. I can't recall what project it was...
Is There Such a Thing As Predictive Analytics?
A much harder question is "How many infinities are there?"

http://everything2.com/user/sam512/writeups/How+many+infinit...
If Startups Can Be Built In Ghana, Africa, They Can Be Built In Cleveland, Ohio
Google's Project Glass: A Threat to Humanity?
Maybe your application/environment was stable enough that site performance didn't change drastically over a decade. I've seen performance shift dramatically with the same number of users for different reasons (high-post flattened comment threads being slammed when Michael Jackson died, software upgrades which mysteriously load up servers on some requests, and of course feature adds). When a site issue occurs, I don't reach for "how many users are logged in?", I reach for my sorted list of machine and service-specific metrics and look for irregularities.

That being said, trends in user visits are of course great numbers for capacity planning because you have an idea how much growth to expect in the near future. But it's only a vague multiplier; you need to know how beefy a box to get (by stress testing to determine capacity) and then multiply by the growth factor. But it's usually more complicated than this.

Stress testing doesn't have to be a formal process in all environments. You might just have a developer with a new chat server and they want to get a benchmark of how many users can join and chat before CPU peaks. An hour or two of coding should provide a workable test on like-hardware, which can then be generalized with tests of other software to give an idea of the capacity when a certain number of users are logged in and performing the same operations. The point isn't to know 100% when you will fall over, but to have at least an idea when you're going to fall over, so you don't have to actually fall over to figure out when and where to scale.

I have no problems with very-short-term big lab stress testing. We had the same issue at my last place, and with lots of caution, it worked fine. But jesus christ, if I told my bosses "I think we should run all the servers with extra load until they fall over, then re-evaluate", they'd look at me like I had antlers growing out of my head.
Been using elasticsearch for a number of projects and all I can say is that it's really great! We almost replaced it on one large project to use it as a distributed storage but didn't work out cause it couldn't handle the load. (not surprising since that's not what it's exactly built for..)

However, as a search solution, elasticsearch is one of the best I've used this far (used solr, sphinx and fulltext search).

Hope this means that great things are to come! :)
Thats a shame, I'm sure hardware manufacturers are drooling at the prospect of embedding Android into hardware workstations
For me, the best cure is take a weekend off somewhere - doesn't matter where, whether friends, family or a weekend holiday - leave the laptop at home, turn off data roaming on my phone, take a good book or two, and ignore the rest of the world.

Come Monday, I'm usually pretty refreshed and looking forward to getting back into things again.

Note: I do need to take a few "proper" holidays in the year, even if only a week or so long, but without doing so I find I burn out until I become thoroughly unproductive ;)
Interview of Jussi Hurmola, Jolla Mobile’s managing director
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Handcuff locks are identically keyed so that any police officer can open them.

But it's rare that you need such compatibility; instead, "anyone in the department" is a fine size.

Handcuff manufacturers cheaped out. If they offered keys made per department, the keyspace would go from approximately 5 to tens of thousands. That won't stop someone from duplicating a key, but it will change the cost proposition for mass-duplication.

Plastic ties don't have the key issue, but they are vulnerable to a knowledgeable (semi-) brute-force attack.
Monkey-patching Is for Closers
The article and the headline do not mention it, but FYI, this takes place in the United Kingdom.
That's not my problem with the way they handled it. Orville was on the phone with them for an hour while they tried to troubleshoot Windows. Finally he gave up and called me. I told him to turn off the computer and wait for me and explained I was concerned about heat.

I opened up the case and found little broken pieces of plastic inside, and called Dell back, and spent half an hour trying to order the part.....

The problem I have with the way they handled it is simple: head can damage computer chips, and when you have a system which is bluescreening on boot, you really need to check out heat problems before you start troubleshooting the software. I was surprised that after hour of constantly being powered on and off without an attached heat sink, it still worked after getting the part replaced...... But it did. They could have fried his computer and never knew they did it.
The case against outsourcing
IMHO all appstores actually fail when it comes to app discovery. It comes down to lists of apps and full text search in app descriptions, ranked by such poor metrics as number of installs or user ranking.

If you need an app for iOS or android, do the same thing you do when you need an app for the web:

ask a search engine!

http://goo.gl/kw8UK

http://goo.gl/66kVp
Usability lessons from neuroscience
Why I can appreciate that, why not block based on patterns of use rather than headers?
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Just tried it, nice enough, but not really on the same level. I'm up to 1,500+ characters on Skritter after hundreds of hours, I think that whole app with all the add-ons would take about 30 minutes to get through for me. Doesn't look to have spaced recognition like Skritter does either.
Seriously.. this has always been my problem. Friends would always say "let's go to the bar!". Ok, we go the bar, sit down at a table, and proceed to shout at the top of our lungs at each other because the music is so loud. I understand about 10% of what people around me are saying. So I give up and just drink, and feel isolated. And I get made fun of for wanting the group to sit outside or somewhere more quiet so we can actually talk. I probably just had shitty friends.
One of me does have a publicly posted resume. I've given some thought to seriously trimming what it reveals.

Others of me have public profiles, sans resume: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/33WYAgFc...
The Incredible Digg Story: 2005-2012
Unless I'm totally borking the math, most pipe organs where the pipes are on the other side of the room from the organ will have a greater delay than that just from the speed of sound. It just takes a little getting used to.

Mind you, I wouldn't put up with that delay if I didn't have to, and I'd certainly encourage great latency improvements for Android!
Can anyone enumerate any recent lisp projects involving AI?
Whoa!!!!, thanks for that pdf. Who ever compiled it has just done an awesome job!
Problems:

I will only use vetted and published algorithms

This abets a hugely widespread misunderstanding about the security of crypto. You could in fact invent your own block cipher core, and if you dropped it into Keyczar or cryptlib's high level library be more secure than people using AES-256 directly via OpenSSL. The problem isn't algorithms. The problem is constructions, particularly at the joints.

You should change this to "I will only use vetted high-level cryptographic libraries", with the descriptive text explaining that a "high-level cryptographic library" is one that handles key generation and makes all the decisions about block cipher modes and MACs and verification and order-of-operations for you.

So with that having been said:

I will not store sensitive data in plain text

Encouraging people to encrypt data while giving them bad advice about how to accomplish that is a recipe for disaster.

Next:

I will use parameterized queries when executing SQL

Specifically, you write: "Parameterized queries are a better way of solving the problem, because it doesn't require any escaping". This is wrong. Most database protocols will allow you to bind data to a query, but not keywords, or even limits and offsets. A whole generation of programmers has been convinced that using parameterized queries shields them from SQL Injection, while writing pagination code or sortable tables that are trivially injectable.

Finally:

I will understand the OWASP top 10

I can't knock you for asking people to know what the OWASP top 10 is, but contra the words in your pledge, "OWASP" (whatever that is in reality) does not "track" the "top 10" vulnerabilities in any methodical way. It's basically just a bunch of people getting together and making a case for what they think the most important vulnerabilities are. If you know very little about web security, the OWASP Top 10 is a fine starting point, but your readers should know that's all it is.
yes, that's a good start. also, nothing beats actually algorithmically reconstructing data from image slices http://3scan.com/ or setting up NEURON simulations.
MSH Autoresponder for Postfix and Sendmail
MSH Autoresponder is a Postfix and Sendmail milter plugin that allows you to create auto responses on the basis of configurable criteria. Using administration app you'll create common auto response messages, vacation e-mails, marketing or support auto-replies and many more.

Application provide conditions, exceptions, loop protection, time limits and path decision for each created auto-response rule. All this you'll achieve by using app with simple and intuitive user interface.

A short list of application features:
- Define the Body and Message subject - use $SUBJECT variable to insert original message subject
- Recipient Condition - match recipient address and choose in which fields (TO, CC, BCC or all of them) search
- Sender Condition - match sender address, like recipient condition also support asterisk (*) wildcard to match zero or more characters
- Headers Condition - match any of MIME header
- LDAP Support - insert variables into auto-response body
- Time Range - period in which auto response will be send
- Loop Protection - protect against loops between servers
- Remote and multiple servers administration from a single application
Yea. Otherwise it would be cool to have him I think :)

/Søren P
I like it however I am stuck on "Open last closed tab" for Sublime in chrome. Whenever I type it chrome opens the last closed tab....