skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are leaving github and self-hosting, check out http://gitlabhq.com/ -- still has some rough edges, but getting better fast.

Fine grained permissions as well.
Is the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?
EMPORI: The original Amazon Locker from 12 years ago
While entertaining, choosing the question "What is the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?" is not particularly good security.
Very nice. I love the rain and use the White Noise app set on Rain on my phone every night to help me sleep.

Just one thing, I am not sure how dropping my name and email will contribute to more features? I know you say you're not going to spam me, but it seems like you're just collecting emails to selective email me other things I might not be interested in.
I think the reaction to the claims of Cold Fusion was a low point for science and the scientific method.

From what I've read, it's very likely that Pons and Fleischmann were (and still are) wrong about what they observed. They almost certainly missed some factor, accidentally or intentionally, that provides another explanation for their claimed results.

However, the reaction at the time was nothing less than an emotion-driven witch hunt. It was shameful, really, and not at all in the spirit of science. Very disappointing.

Check out this line from the wikipedia article on Cold Fusion about a conference of the American Physical Society on the topic- "Steven E. Koonin of Caltech called the Utah report a result of "the incompetence and delusion of Pons and Fleischmann," which was met with a standing ovation."

Ah yes, the personal attack, the very heart of scientific values.

The claims were what they were. Wrong? Sure. Deserving of such open vitriol? No. Certainly not from people who call themselves scientists.
I do, and I don't have a problem finding 20 minutes to run every day. Become better at time management before posting nonsense like that.
If you checkout http://ioscodesamples.com they have tons of code samples, although there aren't tutorials there is a lot of working code that does various things, it might help you figure out what you need to do.
I'm sure there are some full time parents who spend an average of at least 20 minutes a day 7 days a week on Hacker News or similar technology sites, some possibly hitting the 5 hours a week mark. I'm convinced almost anyone can make time for an extra 20 minutes of daily exercise or sleep. It would be a lot easier, though, if we could download a profiler that told us which parts of our day could be made more efficient or done without.
It is also strange since gmails IMAP implementation is so horrible due to the way they changed how email works (labels, archive, etc).
Hey, I didn't create the site. But a friend of mine did. He did this in his spare time. The email thing I assume is a way of gauging support and maintaining interest. I think he wants to be able to tell people about added audio etc.

I'll get him to comment on it further.
A port of the graph library NetworkX to Javascript
I'm willing to pay money for a nicer experience with movies, but I can't. Presently, that experience - no ads, no DRM and instant access - is only available for free.
He may be exaggerating, but what he is trying to say is that he rather not invest in a tool/platform whose product development is out of his control and may be on a path contrary to what he wants out of said tool.
he deleted the tweet and posted an apology: https://twitter.com/rsingel/status/233624361104470016
I know there is no shortage of one-line advice here, but this one has always stuck with me. And since it usually takes time and hindsight to distinguish the quality advice from the short-lived transient whims of a bored blogger, I thought I'd resubmit this.
Why is it so hard to believe that they would be wearing flip-flops? Under-equipped fighters is nothing new. Here's a photo of a barefoot Khmer Rouge fighter with an RPG, at the fall of Phnom Penh.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mYN-WF164gg/T40tDKWNLDI/AAAAAAAAas...

Have you never seen the picture of the guy with an assault rifle, wearing gardening gloves, a life vest, and sneakers?

http://borderland-beat-forum.924382.n3.nabble.com/file/n4027...

When George Washington led 12,000 men into winter camp at Valley Forge, 2/3 had no shoes. In December. In Pennsylvania.

At least Libya was probably warm enough for flip-flops.
Transmission is my go-to client on linux and os x. Very smallish and simple UI. I wonder if their port to windows [1] is usable.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/
In my opinion rainymood is much better than this. After listening to raining.fm it became quite obvious that it's on a very short repetitive loop. Rainymood is a much longer loop and actual feels like you have your window open on a rainy day.
Git A Girlfriend
The GPU in a desktop is the only interesting kind of GPU. The built-in GPU in servers is ten years behind the current cutting edge on desktops. Though servers can have PCI Express slots for modern GPU installation.

I think most of the GPU-based bitcoin farmers are using desktop hardware, but I might be wrong.
The original claim of the poster was that the Obama Administration is the least transparent administration in history, not that Obama claims to have the most transparent administration in history.
I can't understand his whining about the removal of the What's New section. Google obviously removed it because it disproportionately helped the spammers. If you released a good app it only got a few minutes on the list anyway before the spam apps pushed it off.
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: How to Watch
... or is bathing in them. ew.
Chinese actually has both 了解 "to understand the gist of" and 理解 "to grok", and given that the distinction seems to have naturally emerged in hacker English, I wouldn't be surprised if it exists in other languages as well. It really is convenient.
Exactly. This applies, conservatively, to a good half of HowTo articles hitting HN's front page lately.
Transmission is where its at. Can be controlled from a web interface and the command line to boot.
Wildcard imports are a bad idea regardless of whether you're using an IDE or not due to the risk of future name conflicts.
> What is the make of your first car?

Winston Churchill.
Recently I have been using SPARK and it's a pretty different development mindset than the embedded C that I had been used to. It makes me wonder if other development areas could benefit from adopting some of this mindset and discipline.

For example, just to take a random example of Java or Python, what would it look like to create a strict subset of language features which allowed for formally provable code and to create a static analysis tool which could achieve it. I realize that this sort of thing isn't for many developers or many sorts of projects. However, I would like to see more folks taking the best parts of High Integrity Software development and bringing it out to the wider world.
Actually, he says more than that. He calls GitHub a fad, not likely to last. Which is fine, but his argument is predicated on more than just what you state.
Let me guess, your spouse isn't in a medical residency?

Before I had kids, I never had trouble finding time to exercise and had little sympathy for people who did. Since I've had kids my ability to exercise has varied with life circumstances. At the moment it is very hard for me because my wife is in a medical residency, so most of the time I'm an only parent to small kids.

In particular in periods when I exercised, I've found that between my personal rhythms and outside climate, morning is the only time that it makes sense for me to do so. (Perhaps you are happy running in 100+ degree heat, but I am not.) But when I'm on my own trying to get 2 kids up, ready, and out the door, before I start doing other stuff, I don't have 20 min where I can safely disappear on them.
Naming a startup is something that I feel is both overrated and underrated. How can it be both?

It's overrated because there are a great deal of example of companies with names that were meaningless, hard to spell, nonsense, spelled incorrectly, or had some other problem but due to a great product or other factors the company still ends up being very successful.

It's also underrated because there are also tons of examples of startups that used their name to be memorable, add to their brand identity, explain their service, or provided some other major benefit that's so valuable it's hard to measure.

The original post here is good, but I'd advise startups to take naming very seriously, try and match your name with a .com domain if possible, but that it's also not going to break you.

A great name and a bad product will fail. A great product and a bad name will still win.
love it. It's my first time reading it. Thanks for posting it. I think I'm going to send it to a few people or even write about it myself.
Ah, I had a suspicion OpenSuse would, as it follows Fedora quite closely. Bootchart is also quite interesting.
Does this simply run your java code on the GPU, or does it parallelize your code automatically? The latter would be really cool.
"From the last paragraph I got you're OK with having an unregulated surveillance system in the US which records information about you and makes god-knows-what conclusions from your movements, behaviour etc."

And no evidence for this has been supplied.

For example, you're assuming the "central database" is one big one run by the government. The term would equally well apply to a computer in a university's security office, which receives feeds from all the university's security cameras, which it likely records digitally, because it's 2012 and that's how we do things now.

The location of that university security office is probably "undisclosed" because really who cares if you don't need to go there? It's "disclosed" to people for whom that information is relevant, like people who work there.
Steve Yegge wrote about this recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255
You can live your life without phones, internet, buses, cars or any kind of modern technology.

And yes you will need them only if you have used them. Because people around a century back didn't need them.

You can still live in a jungle. But the question is, should you?
Livestream: Copenhagen Suborbitals launching space capsule in 15 minues
I recommend:

* Stanford's videos and homeworks
* Ray Wenderlich's site
* Big Nerd Ranch's iOS and Obj-C books

If you want to learn Cocos2D for game development, also check out Learning Cocos2D.

To shamelessly plug, we also run a full-time, in-person iOS course (http://hashmaplabs.com).
Hotmail and Outlook.com store plaintext passwords
http://i.imgur.com/LlqAw.png

I have a Hotmail account and its password is more than 16 characters

I wanted to login to Outlook.com with my hotmail username and password and I got this error

When I just entered the first 16 characters of my password it logs in!!

This shows that passwords are stored in plain text because if there were hashed there was no way to know what is the first 16 characters of my password!
You really have no clue what I'm saying, do you?
A decent question! Another question - read the results here: http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/156494/TSA_Air_Travel_120808...

What does smoking or drinking have to do with this poll?
No, 4chan.org/fit/ is the 4chan of fitness.
> As far as marketing goes, git has effectively become git, just as search became google.

I think this should be:

> As far as marketing goes, git has effectively become github, just as search became google.
Yes, it is hard gaining weight only on protein

Because protein gives a very strong fullness sensation

So you end up eating less calories overall than with a mixed protein/carb (and fats) meal

And a calorie is a calorie with a big if: if your macro nutrients are in range
I always secretly hope to spot a weird footprint or some other missed evidence of something mind blowing.
The intelligent textbook that helps students learn
I know not everyone gets their PC indie games from Steam, but their very pro-indie store design certainly helps keep the market vibrant. They often feature games from tiny companies in front-page promo spots, they promote indie packs in their sales, and their 'you may also like...' suggestions don't seem to shy away from obscure 'long tail' titles. All in all, discovery is pleasant and easy.
In the 4chan/reddit there is a weird distortion field that makes those communities associate fitness with aesthetics. Running and jogging are widely and overtly depreciated in favour of only "cold iron and do you even lift ?" memes. Bodybuilders are there models.
Gotcha, that makes sense and is legitimate. Sometimes I get so jaded about people collecting my name and email for no reason that I forget that there are perfectly okay reasons to request it.
Listening right now, thanks! Nvm just realized its short and on repeat... yikes
Well, there's really two classes of server GPUs.

One is the tiny ancient GPUs used to drive VGA outputs on servers. Those are hardly even worth talking about; they're only there so that you can hook a monitor up in an emergency.

And then there are real server GPUs, like nVidia Tesla stuff. Those typically don't even have video outputs, but they're on par with modern high-end gaming GPUs, possibly even better at some tasks.

I believe most bitcoin farmers are still using desktop GPUs, but that's largely just because they're running relatively simple kernels, all things considered, and because desktop GPUs are cheaper and easier to source.
I seriously needed this, thanks. Anyone have tips on how to focus?
I'm sorry to reply with merely an anecdote but I hate the notation used in maths. I was trying to read a book on algorithms some years back and it took me forever to work out that a diamondy looking dot can also mean multiplication.

How does one even search this stuff on Google?
Stay off HN. Stay off Twitter. Stay off RSS feeds.
How are addressing the fact that autonomous drones are not yet zoned for commercial use? As far as I know accepting money for delivery of these 3D printed statues constitutes non-recreational use, Burning man or not.

I'm genuinely curious, does this not apply? Do you have some kind of special exemption?
Most of those how-to guides lack meaningful data and/or studies and/or logic.

Just one example: "The domain name doesn’t matter"

How on earth can one come up with such a broad statement without studying the answer for... years?

Oh, he or she "learned it". Now, you can call me a believer!
My point was more than Java namespaces can be easy to use.

Pretty much everyone uses an IDE anyway so it's not like namespaces are ever an issue unless you do come across that rare name clash.
For me, a huge advantage over hiss is that you can choose which notifications you see. No more 'contact has come online' from skype.
I suspect this won't even make the top 10 of "regulations ignored at Burning Man".
They are not a bad idea if you use and IDE and not an editor. IDE lets you find usages of a type instantly. Anyways such conflicts are rare.
Looks promising, but the event list was cut off at the bottom, with no way to scroll.
It was not intuitive at first, but then I clicked the "See a list of events?" link and it was all pulled up - but then the search field was on top of the last event.
I'd like googleisfunny if that's still available. Thanks!
That applies to many of them. It's clearly just for fun. Quotes are no good. If it's a quote from media like music, movies, book, or TV, the response can usually be googled, if it's not known already. If it's a personal quote, someone who knows you might know it.
Streaming is an absolutely essential feature of uTorrent and is the only reason to still use it (well, maybe not after the scene shifted away from XVID and to mp4). Let's spare the discussion of whether or not it is healthy for the torrent; its plenty fine on torrents already well seeded.

Are there any other torrent apps that offer comparable streaming or front-loading of specific files. I've tried a couple abandoned open-source options but they were absolutely unusable.
VOIP built on Node.js
> Yahoo: Shrinking [...]

At least if one looks at their stock chart, Yahoo! has been around $11.50 in 2008 and now it is over $15.
it is not a one buyer really. a competitor would also be interested in your domain name.
love this piece. thanks for posting it. it reminds me one of the talk by Jobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR-ZT8mhfJ4
Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site.

Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :)

@Difwif yes you are correct the loop is short currently, the reason I did this is obviously to keep bandwidth down in this initial period and to just qualify the idea,

@davidism, If people show interest I will be adding longer audio and also different varieties of rain, hard rain, thunderstorms, light rain, rain on water, rain on tin roof.. you get the idea aka i'm rain crazy

Any suggestions/criticisms are welcome, thanks guys - Neil
Leave a comment, then delete it after you're confident the recipient will have seen it. (A few hours or days depending on activity.) You and they get to feel good, but the clutter isn't left around for other users.

This is what I often do. It is a tolerated behaviour, even if some people aren't thrilled with it.
How to Kick Ass like Morgan Freeman: A Case Study
Never said otherwise. As I said, Github is very intelligent to lower the barrier to entry.
UCLA Scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars
Can someone explain how the Notification Center would be useful for someone who isn't in the iEcosystem? I use gmail and choose Android but live on a Mac. It seems to serve me only to clutter my toolbar. Am I missing something?
The feature list of the paid version does not mention removing advertisements though. Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access.
I'm working on what is, for now, a demonstration single sign on provider. http://prototype.projectmaelstrom.com/

Test application: http://nodetest.projectmaelstrom.com/
Olympic Physics: Diving and the Moment of Inertia
I get a lot of the messages behind this article, but it just throws around a lot of claims without any citations or proof whatsoever. Just can't take this seriously.

"she is the first computer scientist (MSCS or higher) hired in as CEO to a Fortune 500 company"

"The most common degree of CEOs hired into Fortune 500 companies is an MBA."

"She is not going to be the mad visionary of Steve Jobs, yelling at everyone while single-handedly designing breakthrough products."
Hence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_advertising
You don't need rain samples as such; you can synthesize rain very effectively by running white noise through a vocoder, which is just one array of bandpass filters + envelope followers controlling another array of bandpass.
"Reddit’s voting system provides a reliably transparent soundboard for fitness knowledge."

Any studies showing that? I find such online discussions interesting, and certainly sometimes they might reveal better information than just going to your doctors office. But these are just people hanging out online - just because they vote something up doesn't mean it is proven, it just means they like to believe it. In fact, for any theory you can probably find an online community that believes in it and votes up things supporting that belief.

The latest studies I read about seem to indicate that low carb and so on are irrelevant, calorie reduction is all that counts. But if you want to believe in low carb, you can probably find lots of anecdotes proving its effectiveness. Possibly because the low carbers accidentally also reduced calorie intake. (Although my own criticism of those studies is that it remains unclear how differing diets allow you to keep calories low. One snickers bar might have enough calories for a day, but it would be difficult to just eat one snickers bar every day, contrary to eat lots of whole grains).
Oh, this is fantastic. Thank you!
A transcode to Ogg/Opus would be nice for Firefox.
What I never get about those overweight runners is why don't their joints give in? Running 50 miles if you are overweight seems like a receipt for arthrosis.
Thanks but all this 'summer' all i've needed to do is open my window.
A startup is never competing with other products. It’s competing with nobody giving a shit.
-Michael Staton

It's not like I didn't already know this, but this one-liner has stuck with me for a few months now.
Websites can ask for your permission to send you notifications, which will also show up in the notification center.

So if gmail added those changes it would be possible for gmail to notify you of new email without you opening your browser.
Not really. All you need to be able to do is to produce the first byte of whatever would have been produced in the "fallback case", i.e. when the reader does not handle format negotiation. Then, when the writer sees that the reader supports format negotiation it will need to signal that the alternative format was chosen. I do this by sending a zero byte (which should never appear in the fallback text format). Then the two first bytes are skipped as part of the negotiation framework when a non-fallback format was chosen.
How much sleep do you really need to work productively?
Did anyone notice that I only mentioned monads once in the article? (NB a mistake upstream meant some material was dropped. There was a nice para there about "I remember the time before monads... We did the same stuff, only it was a bit clumsier...")

Monads are a useful technique, but they aren't everything!
I'm someone that uses rain / rain + thunder / waves on seashore sounds to help sleep - it's quite noisy where I live and these sounds mask outside interference - but I can't see myself moving away from the mp3 player (Cowon J3) solution I use to this website. The main reason would be the mp3 player does just the one thing I want, i.e. playing the sounds, and this is very power efficient; I wouldn't want to leave my PC / tablet / smartphone running this webpage.

Also, an mp3 player allows me to loop or create a playlist, for example with 'heavy thunder' at the time of night when I need the most noise-masking, and with 'light rain' when I need the least.

Finally - and, yes, I realise I might sound a bit kooky here - I want to be able to select my own loops and samples. Some mp3 sources for rain I've found on the 'net have lots of aliasing noise, and I simply can't sleep as my mind focuses on the artifacts rather than just drifting away.

A couple of the above points (especially the 'timed program' one) might be able to be addressed by your implementation. And while I think I'll stick with my implementation for now this is because I've already done the 'hard work' of setting something up; for 'beginner' or occasional noise-maskers, your site is a quick and easy solution. My suggestion, then, would be to focus on this group as a target audience. Good luck. :^)
Discussed on HN at length before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850857 (with a cute 'Hacker's Corollary' from edw519)
> Was someone at Microsoft inspired by Yegge's vision and decided to implement it for the .Net Common Language Runtime?

I feel a bit obligated to point out that co-incidental invention/discovery is very possible, especially when trying to solve a problem large numbers of smart people would have exposure to.
It'd be great if the editors wouldn't feel the need to change the title to every submission here.
There's more competition on the iOS app store.

"For my new app I got 30 downloads on Android, 4,000 downloads on iOS."

That's not remotely the difference between the size of the markets. To me that says yes it is partly or even mainly Google's fault. If anything iOS should be relatively harder to launch in.