skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SublimeText2 continues to impress me, and the more I use it, the more I discover to love about it.

As to the "not Mac-like enough" complaint, you can install the Soda theme (https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/) to make it more so, and it's configurable out the wazoo, so if there's something you don't like, you can probably fix it (and someone probably already has with a plugin). Just the existence of the package manager makes Sublime a better experience than most other text editors, because it's insanely easy to add additional functionality as desired.
Sounds like a modern take on the Corona satellites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
A first mover is not the first one to launch - it’s the first one to scale
The Great Business Books Giveaway
If I could have an IntelliJ-level IDE for Ruby or Python or JS I'd be very happy.

The company behind IntelliJ already makes IDEs for Ruby, Python and JS:

Python: Pycharm http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Ruby: RubyMine http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

JS: Webstorm http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
But does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled/removed projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?
OStatus?
You are joking but in 2003 I had to live with 6 kbps (yes SIX KILOBITS) at a time when my monopoly telco was advertising broadband speeds.
Wow that was informative. I appreciated the author's responsibility the most. Rather than make this a daring adventure or fanciful notion, Nielsen approached the activity with a genuine interest in creating something awesome, not just from the angle of power, though. Great post.
Just wanted to share something I ran into the other day in the course of research on PCA, a very cool motivating example, sports-related.[1] On page 13, they take some NBA player stats and graph the projection of the third PC (y-axis) against the second PC (x-axis). The third PC is a negative correlation of rebounds with assists and steals. Turns out to sort players roughly by height, placing Karl Malone (6'8") and Mugsy Bogues (5'3") at opposite extremes.

1. Faloutsos et al, Quantifiable Data Mining Using Principal Component Analysis, 1997
Here's some publicly available technical information about how the DSN works:
http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/deepspace/dsndocs/810-005/
We already support HTTPS for all avatars we serve actually.
Well, I'm not, because I live in the US. But you're right, plenty are.
I grew up in south florida and have witnessed a bunch of root walls, but It really depends on the tree.

Palm trees for examples have deep root structures and small canopies which is how they survive the strong tropical winds.
470K bits == 58.75K bytes

(assuming 8-bit bytes)
Read Dalton's response http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak the only thing missing is the free user invites and open source codebase, however someone has already made an iOS app to the platform https://github.com/sneakyness/AppApp
if textmate2 is opensourced, why isn't anyone picking it up and creating a community around it?
"The content of the advise was bad, but the overall effect of it on the author was good."

Now I get it. Thanks gambler.
Beware the Nocebo Effect
A friend of mine made a very cool documentary called Under City that you'd probably like if you're into this kind of stuff.

http://vimeo.com/18280328
Scientists release biggest ever 3D map of the universe
7 year old article on artificial life
Some Emacs extensions that implement Sublime Text features (and IMHO are better than their ST equivalents): mark-multiple[1] and CUA (builtin) for multiple cursors, helm[2] (formerly "anything") for file selection that allows quick previewing (C-z) and much much more, mini-map[3], and expand-region[4] (not sure if this is inspired by a ST feature but it is nice nonetheless).

[1] https://github.com/magnars/mark-multiple.el

Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e08.html

[2] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm

[3] http://www.emacswiki.org/MiniMap

[4] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e09.html
I also use Sublime Text 2 (both OSX & Win7). Is there any hotkey cheatsheet/tutorial available? I'm 99% sure I'm not taking advantage of countless power features because there's no way to stumble upon all the features.

Also, Marco used "Samsung-like resemblance". Phrase needs no explanation.
I for one would not use encryption just to maximize bandwith efficiency.

Encryption typically doesn't make messages longer.
I won't disagree with that as there are many aspects to education beyond the technical (literature, art, philosophy, etc). I used evolution as an example because the statistics were easy to find. I also find it strange that the Roman Catholic church can express an acceptance of it, but so many people in the US still deny it.

It's not the only scientific or technical concept that's grossly misunderstood in this country (or the world in general).

How about the false connection between autism and MMR?

I've removed other examples that tended to fall back on showing religious groups as particularly in conflict with science.

Here's a still controversial but areligious one: WTC collapse. A 'model' using chicken wire and gasoline was used to persuade a non-negligible percent of the population that planes filled with fuel crashing into the upper half of 110 story buildings would be unable to cause the collapse of said buildings. A fundamental failure in education has occurred when you get engineers accepting things like this.
America's fertility is now lower than France's
For people interested in cryptography, mentioning Shamir's secret-sharing scheme might also be cool.
Museum of Apple technology
Our's wasn't in top 5 but we got 150 visits from HN the first day. So if you expecting your post to be in top 5 then maybe you should plan for maybe 10x more visitor than ours on first day.

Someone suggested me to use EC2 for first few days but our regular shared hosting did just fine without any crashes.
No, telling kids they can be whatever they want can never change (as long as it isn't unethical). The idea is to teach them to be responsible and logical. If tuition for say an art major cost $15k a yr, they have to understand or be told that unless the parents support them, they will either need to work part time or other means to come up with the tuition, or if getting a loan, working more than fulltime outside the major field may be necessary.
Something like that is also VERY easily accomplished with macros. The added benefit of macros is that you can then store that "edit" in case you need to replay it later.
Not sure when you last looked at it, but we added the ability to cleanly shutdown and restart the cluster two releases ago. We are committed to providing a smooth upgrade path as well; that is not to say we will always be binary-compatible, as the next release involving the disk layer will change the on-disk representation, but we will always provide automatic upgrade scripts. So, if you last tested 0.29b or so, do check out the latest code in the repo.
NYC and Microsoft Unveil Joint Crime-Tracking System
I really don't see why there is a need for everyone and their dog to respond to Yegge's rambling blog post. Is language [X] conservative or liberal is now littering the HN front page.
"Cursed at Emacs a few times in college."

I've had quite the opposite experience: I marveled at Emacs many times in college and have been delighted to be able to use it continuously on so many machines and OSes over three -- now starting on four -- decades.
This looks a fantastic concept. Details matter and there are plenty to get right there ... but it looks very nice.

(The video script could use some work. The repetition of "what if you could ...." is too heavy, for me.)
While I hope we're a fun place to work, I'm even more concerned with building a scalable platform and a profitable business.

Avatars are just one of the many ways we're helping serve media for developers, brands and publishers. Fortunately, many of these same folks are also now using our API and other services, which we do in fact charge for.
Naive question, but are things like power, gas, water, TV cables and steam always buried like this (requiring digging to make repairs or modifications), or are there cities/systems where they are laid in human-accessible tunnels? Seems like it would be more practical, albeit more expensive.
He mentions spot instances near the end.

tl;dr - He didn't think about it until just before launching the experiment and worried that it would take too much time to understand the implications of changing his approach. Though he estimates it may represent a factor of five decrease in price.
It already has a community around it, it is not abandoned and it's only been a day since they released the source...
Come to Spain then, most people don't care and there's no effort to hide that. Stuff like this happens often:

- having to chase a store clerk while he flees and tries to hide because his chatting with his friend on the cell is obviously more important.

- "Oh could you also please bring ..." replied with a "why didn't you say that before?" at say a restaurant.

I used to be annoyed by fake attention in the North Americas, but after a couple years back here, gawd how I miss fake. They may not really care about me, but they care about trying to make the experience pleasant for the customer.
[video] Su-27 The best fighter in the world
It's a quote from Full Metal Jacket.
Thanks! Note it's not just a concept, it actually exists :) It's all out on github - many of the features have been there for years.
I have 4 banks and 6 different cards. At least one of each major company.
FYI, for Java there's XLLoop (open source), JExcel (commercial) and Obba (commercial). Haven't used these myself, but looking into it.
This needs to be live streamed!
Fix for "locate" on Mountain Lion
I actually do find that text manipulation can become the bottleneck in the right environment, at some points in a coding session. Vim won't make you faster while staring at a pair of empty braces thinking about the right algorithm. Vim can make you faster while rewriting a function, moving code around, or typing code that you've already thought through. And I often find that the faster I can get a thought out and stop holding as much state in my head, the faster the next idea comes.
"Preferences -> Key Bindings - Default" will show you all the configured key bindings. It's a lot, but it's all in there.
I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but check out vintage (vi) mode for Sublime Text.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
It's expensive to manufacture silicon at semiconductor quality, even when talking about polycrystalline wafers. (Monocrystalline wafers, used for "chips", is even more expensive and prone to defect." People are increasing production of polycrystalline silicon wafers but the demand is much greater than the supply, even with this increase. The cycle basically goes like this: polycrystalline gets more expensive because of demand -> supply increases -> prices go down (in theory) -> demand increases -> polycrystalline gets expensive again.

This is an endless loop right now, as the total amount of possible demand is >> than the growth of polycrystalline foundries. Furthermore, LCD displays also use this form of polycrystalline silicon, which doesn't help with the demand problem. Decently-graded silicon is inherently expensive to manufacture because of the process involved.

The takeaway is that if these metal-oxides are cheaper to produce, even if they are more expensive for the raw material, the cost savings would carry over to the products. Equally relevant when talking about solar cells is how much energy is needed to produce the cells themselves. Right now, an enormous amount of energy is required for silicon solar cells. Helping the energy crisis doesn't help if something takes that much energy to produce. (I do not know the ratio of lifetime energy output versus energy to manufacture but I am sure it's not very good.)
Your example might not be making the point that you want. Drugs are covered under patent law while music is covered under copyright. Unless you're arguing that the MP3 process should not be patentable that same way as the process of making a new drug.
Refactoring and intellisense.
You can do those to some degree in vim, but eclipse and visual studio do it better.

I'm still using vim though, because i don't really need those features that often, and i feel handicapped in other editors.
The code release was _yesterday_. Give it some time, I'm sure it'll gather (or fail to gather) a community. Mind you, Textmate 1 has had a huge fan-following, and they might just migrate to v2.
Thanks! Unlike a kd-tree or b-tree variants, HyperDex does not build an auxiliary data structure. It turns out that keeping aux data structures in sync with the data is very difficult if you want to provide strong consistency guarantees. Hyperspace hashing is purely a mapping trick, not a distributed data-structure trick.

Agreed with you fully that value-dependent chains are neat. They allow the system to replicate and relocate data, without any need for background processes. VDCs are the key to HyperDex's strong consistency guarantees.
Ohhhh. So, yes.

I knew there was a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Here Are Some Companies Yahoo’s Mayer Might Be Eyeing
Bitterly biased.

The China that the author describes is not the China I've seen. Housing prices may be high, but he neglects to mention that it's common for companies to provide housing to their employees. Yes, people will ask you about your money - but that's culture, and it's not impolite.

There are a lot of untruths in his article, but it's too long to pick apart. A big one, though, is about appreciation for foreigners. China does in fact have laws about foreigners, but most are designed to protect them and avoid international incidents. For example, several schools around the Shaolin Temple offer practical training in everything from hand-to-hand combat to spears to swords. Only three, however, have passed safety regulations to accept foreigners. The Chinese also likes to tell you that you're special, because they think it endears you to them, whether it's true or not.

I'll end by saying: it's hard to judge China through a western perspective.
I have never heard of any of these. Isn't email good enough? We're just transmitting text from 1 person's monitor to another, not curing cancer here (not being cynical, but with ALL the press/commotion over this, you'd think he was doing something very ambitious)
I'm not sure about Curiosity in particular, but I work in the space industry and can say that commands are normally timestamped and encrypted. The encryption stops someone from commanding the spacecraft, the timestamp stops someone from recording a transmission and resending it later.
I don't see where the article mentions a 1000+ person company.

There's lots of answers to the structure question, its a good question.

I was referring mostly to boss with a boss - and what the term boss implies vs leader, or enabler.
Latency matters, too. Often all the data is necessary to make decisions so (for example) only immediately transmitting a limited subset of the data is not really an option.

It’s not like that rover is driving around autonomously. It has some autonomy, but it can’t decide what’s interesting and what’s not, what has to be investigated and what not.
TextMate is over? I guess 27 commits since yesterday is nothing then? https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commits/master
outrage from "superchink" :/
The link is _not_ java api. It is javascript dom api available in the browser. But, the API is documented in javadoc style. Ofcourse, w3c has more detailed documentation. But it is hard to refer quickly. javadoc style api is very easy to navigate and refer.
Rich Hickey, the designer of Clojure, isn't from Haskell/ML background. His background is C, C++ and Java.
> It seems the Conservatives are back in power

Are you sure about that? With the downfall of Bo Xilai and the Chongqing model, it seems to have put the progressives, such as Wang Yang (the Guangdong party chief), in an advantageous position.
"Zubovsky and Toda insist that Scoutzie is more like a traditional design agency like FJORD or Happy Cog than its most obvious competitor 99Designs, and hold that the curation of the community and emphasis on quality versus getting the cheapest possible option is what sets them apart from the aforementioned."

I don't understand how they can compare Scoutzie to an agency. Do they not realize that agencies deliver significantly more than just design? An agency delivers a package through a proven process. Scoutzie just gives you a relationship to a designer. They are not even remotely the same.
Any comparison with ResolverOne and why they have a better chance to succeed?
Correct, there are certain exceptions.

I believe the point of this rabbit trail was to correct that notion that root formations are mirrors (or otherwise similar) of the tree trunks/canopies. At least, that's what I was hoping to show.
Extreme mechanics: Buckling down
this is kind of a jerk thing to do because a server / cashier person basically has to be nice even if they feel crappy so when you ask them "how are you doing" you are forcing them to lie.

do you feel better now?
Consistency. Consistency. Consistency.
RateMyProfessors is the first thing that comes to mind.

Unfortunately, I don't think a 1-to-1 Yelp model for education would work, as RateMyProf would seem to show. A good restaurant is easy to determine: the food is good or it isn't. Universities and students, unfortunately, aren't that simple. Students usually give good reviews to easy teachers, which multiplied across the system, results in lowered standards for everyone.
I'm not really sure what point I'm making.

I agree there are large structural flaws with college (well, pretty much the whole educational system). Good teachers and good researchers aren't the same thing for sure. Likewise, many amenities at college today are not really necessary, but also likely don't have a anywhere near an order of magnitude impact on costs. At some schools healthy food is often replaced by junk food provided through restaurant contractors, which is not so great, but maybe is a little cheaper. I agree that something needs to change with how college works, and that the costs are getting a bit silly when they're almost at the point that you could get together with a class of friends and hire expert personal tutors instead.

Likewise, I definitely think that many people who feel they need to go to college are people who shouldn't go to college, or who at least aren't ready for it. Witness the huge numbers of remedial courses at many public institutions, as well as decreasing standards in many courses. I sometimes take classes at the local community college for fun and I'll have classmates who can barely read and write using student loans to fail their courses. Sadly enough, I've seen some of the same at 4 year schools. It's just depressing and I often wonder how they even got through High School. (And I'm not talking about non-English speakers or anything, either. Upper or upper-middle class Caucasians who have maybe 5th or 6th grade level language skills.)

Of course some people just eat McDonald's and play WoW instead of going to class while living off loans. I had a room mate one year in the dorms who did that.

I'm sure you're right that social pressure is a lot of it. Dad goes to college, assumes the kids will too, then doesn't much pay attention while they do rather mediocre in school, aren't ready for college, but absolutely feel like they've got to. So on and so forth.

I can't accept the notion that social pressure is really a valid excuse, though, even if it's behind the reality for some of the problems.

But I'm the kind of cruel bastard who hates it when people worry about what everyone else thinks and who if ever has kids will move several times on purpose and keep them from watching TV and hopefully raise them so that they can trust themselves instead of their peers with lots of comments like 'well, if Freddy jumped off a cliff would you?.'

I've also got to think another part of it is the notion that the credential is meaningful, but doesn't represent any skill or knowledge. So many people these days think of the paper first, the socialization second, and learning third.

I'm sure there's something, too, with the excessive helicopter parenting keeping even smart 17/18-year-olds from really thinking for themselves.

I guess I'm just not super sympathetic about things that irritate me, and my experiences have rarely exposed me to the sympathetic side.

One thing I just thought about is ROTC. Better than debt, I guess? The people I knew in it were definitely on the straight and narrow and all set to finish with decent grades and no debt.
Scientists create earthworm-like robot
So here's a meta question: how could we have a comment thread in response to this that doesn't turn into a flame war?
USB Stick RAID
I must say I don't get this panicking over TextMate at all. If you liked it before, how can the open sourcing not be a huge plus? Surely there will form a development community around it now even if the main author will be less active and if you have an itch to scratch you can help it yourself. How can that be a bad thing?
When a musician composes or teaches me some music, I usually hear "that's just how I do it, you can do anything you want with it!".

Try suggesting a change to a song a musician is in the middle of composing...
You can make fabric execute commands in parallel. The reliability will be as good as it'll get with chef. I've spent ages dealing with edge cases with both fabric and chef setup systems.

http://morgangoose.com/blog/2010/10/08/parallel-execution-wi...
I've been using Emacs since I was single digits of age. I'm at a decade and a half of usage now.

I keep using other editors and IDEs from time to time, to keep myself from getting complacent and to steal their functionality into the Emacs world, but I can scarcely imagine giving it up.

I like to think I'm a privateer sailing under the flag of Emacs, claiming resources for our community. :)
It looks pretty slick, but really what I'm looking for is something to manage the huge library of music files I've managed to accumulate :/ Streaming music is exciting, but not the focus I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Yeah, absolutely. Just providing some additional info.
An In-Depth Look at the Science of Twitter Timing
RUN OF A LIFETIME: Are you bored? Then try out this epic adventure
Or not waste that mental energy, and channel it into passive income/side-business activities. Fulfillment can rarely be found in a day job.
Nasa.gov gives a URL Not Found (404) Error - does not resolve to wwww.nasa.gov
Damn! Just installed ML, I was hoping to check it out :(
>I would be interested to hear what modern features are not possible in vim or emacs.

None technically.

There still isn't a very nice IDE/Analysis-refactoring engine for Java in Emacs, but there is one for Scala oddly enough.

So there are rough-edges, but the point is that Emacs is a programmable environment that belongs to you and the larger community, not to a solo absentee developer. You can make it do anything you want.
This was absolutely fascinating. It reminds me of Tokyo's underground sewage system--considered the largest in the world:
http://surfwithberserk.com/the-largest-sewage-system
Wow looks cool! Might give it a whirl.
I'm very pro-copyright, and I think copyright lasts far too long.
what resources have you used or steps have you taken to get into the nitty gritty?
Why Do All National Anthems Sound the Same?
> this is my biggest job as "manger"

I think you chose the wrong word there, but hay.