skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure that's a good idea. The more that projects like Firefox and GNOME focused on "user experience", the worse they got.
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The best would be if an existing or startup bank openly declared they will be switching to the best open source banking system the community comes up with. But before there is such a bank, all efforts put into creating a top-notch bank system is more or less wasted, as all good projects needs real-life applications from start to be built around, otherwise you are just writing code for imaginary problems without any proof any of the code is useful in real-life.

So if any bank is willing to step up and embrace the idea, I'm sure there are a lot of excellent coders with relevant skills out joining forces, just for the fun of it, and will of course gladly move their business to a bank where they can participate as a developer.

A first step for such a bank could be to open source all their existing code of their legacy systems, or at least documentation, internal APIs and stuff. This would help the rest of the world of non-COBOL coders to get a picture of what's in a bank system. I for one don't know, but have an idea of it.

I'm the founder of a payment solution provider myself, and we work with a lot of banks, aronud 30 I think. Non of them offer any APIs. If anyone would have one, we would probably move a lot of our business to such a bank, I can only dream of the tens of thousands lines of code I code probably reduce to a few hundred lines of integration code.
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"The service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."

Was this truly caused by "an internal network event"?
Just an observation: there are certain time intervals in a day that you CAN get some sun exposure without worring (too much) about UV rays & skin cancer. I do not know about the rest of the world, but in tropical regions the intervals are 6-9 am and 4-6 pm. 15 minutes per day is enough in tropical regions and a bit more in other regions.

Nevertheless, you have more than a couple of hours to get outside and get some sun. Just have a schedule and stick to it :)

One last thing: visit your doctor often and check for overall nutrient levels (vitamins, minerals, etc) and avoid taking supplements before it.
I am 60, and what is this?

Text Editor: vim

Personal Markup: Something close to Creole

Data markup: JSON or CSV

Also, ndb reminds me of LDAP.
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I'm not suggesting using alternative currencies or changing anything for that part of how banks are governed or how to handle backing of money. That's out of the scope of what I had in mind.

And the goal is of course not one single bank. By making it open source, you encourage others to copy you, to set up another bank, hopefully better than yours. In the end, you hopefully end up with hundreds of banks using the same open source system.

The diversity means the society will spread the risk, so if one bank screws up, the damage won't be as big.
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A paradigm example of why geeks are said to have poor social and/or communication skills.

The distinction (between weight and mass) may be important to nit-picking geeks but ordinary people, educated or otherwise, will understand perfectly what was being communicated: that the seemingly heavy suit would be much less heavy when worn on the moon.
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My guess is it would be hard to not die on Mars, just keeping alive would be a challenge.
People who like programming languages are not the intended users. People who like programming are, and in my experience there is rather less overlap between these two groups than you might think.
This is just not true. NASA outsources pretty much everything to private companies. I designed NASA hardware myself while employed by a private company.
both.

I love display output that I can parse for what I need by key strokes though. But a handbook is handy when you got no power, you know the page, and your eyes are not f*.
The big problem with Jupiter is its particularly intense magnetic field and Van Allen radiation belt. It is going to be too dangerous to approach without a breakthrough in radiation shielding for a long time yet. On the other hand, once we get fusion, its containment is likely to be magnetic, which may be adaptable to shielding.
vagrant + http://saltstack.org/ is my favorite solution to this problem. (https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant)

I'm pretty new to devops; I tried chef first and found it horrible; then salt came and saved me.
Part of me would be more impressed if somebody did this in MS Paint, instead.
Reminds me of when I was 15 (now 24), I started designing & building porn sites for customers that didn't know my age. Made a lot of money that way. Also started my own, but no longer associated with that industry.

To be honest, young people are very talented, they haven't been moulded into a certain shape or way yet, and I tend to get the feeling they think more out of the box.

That being said, with age comes wisdom, you start to learn more and more, what works, and what doesn't work.

You either have talent, or you don't, sure experience is good. But people evolve in different ways, some faster than others. Even though you're younger than your competition, you still might have more experience, or you just might be 10x better. I've only been turned down once for a fulltime job at Philips, when I was 18. They liked my work but wanted someone older. I could fully understand that, and wasn't too bothered by it. Just go on, stay focused and you'll get very far. Your work and socializing skills are key, not your age.
Don't worry. From Application:

(Clicking on update doesn't submit your application; it just saves it to disk.)
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I'm just going by my textbook, I'm still new to this.

I understand what you're saying about AC creating an emf and pushing itself through a conductor via magnetism and frequency. The skin effect would play a big role in this too. As I say I'm still new to this, I know enough to be dangerous.

Here's the exact quote in case you are interested:

"The weight of a conductor required to transmit a given amount of power a given distance with a fixed loss varies inversely as the square of the transmission voltage."
no it's not. most people are born stupid, live stupid and die stupid. I don't know whether your experiences are justified or not and i dare not judge.

But let me put it in a simple analogy, hackernews readers itself amount to a very tiny minority of people worldwide. higher education, same story.

now does either one amount to wisdom or experience? imho, the answer is no. if you look at the world right now, it looks more like the average guy gets more stupid with each day passing.
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"Bigger, thinner and lighter" as if it was a commercial for period stuff :-/
Sad how many people prefer to argue with their ignorance rather than a quick Google search.
> I'll defend to the death his right to say it, but it's hard to support it in any way.

This does not mean you need to support it in any way.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". — B. Hall [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
Ask HN: Cool simple ideas to practice/exercice a new framework?
Hi, I'm in the middle of learning the Play! Framework using Scala, and I was looking to implement cool ideas to better my knowledge of these technologies.

I think the good/most convenient way to learn something is not by reading about it or implementing out-of-context examples using it, but by making something useful (and ~complete) with it. Like a complete simple game or a complete cool simple web app that walks you through everything you need to know to feel the progress and to apply the techniques you're learning.

So what do you think would fit in the category of cool ideas to practice new technologies ? Maybe we can make a useful list out of this for the rest of us.

Thanks!
The fact that a Keychain is unlocked still only gives designated programs access to passwords and /usr/bin/security is no exception. The command from the article results in about a thousand "always allow/allow/deny" dialog boxes on my system, and there's an option for each password in Keychain to require a password to "allow" (from Get Info > Access Control, then set Confirm before allowing access and Ask for Keychain password, and clear the "Always allow access" list; admittedly, this would be a huge PITA for lots of passwords). Alternatively, if you want to "lock" every password but Mail's in one stroke, you don't need another computer: just create another Keychain with nothing but your Mail passwords, select it as the login keychain, and set the original keychain to "Lock after 0 minutes of inactivity."
For someone who appears to have some insight , I am surprised you are mixing up your "terrorists". There is a fundamental diference between a group like the Taliban whose primary focus appears to be "taking their country back" , and characters like Osama who have delusions about being holy warriors in some imaginary battle with the west.
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The cached page contains content suitable for everyone, so it looks the the user is logged out.

An extra AJAX request grabs the users logged in status, CSRF token and similar data as JSON and then modifies the page so the user sees what they expect (a logout button, a comment form, etc).
...question still stands.
No, there was an app Ping, which was around earlier than WhatsApp. It was ugly and didn't work well. WhatsApp is easy to set up, easy to use, and have relatively good functionality.
Earnshaw's theorem only applies to static electromagnetic fields. An electromagnet coupled with some sensors and a computer can give feedback to make stable levitation. But, as you said, it would constantly use energy.
Are you 18 yourself? I would be surprised if you weren't, because now that I'm 30, I don't believe the way you do anymore.

Some knowledge you can only gain through experience, no matter how smart you think you are.
> You go on to make the mistake you were trying to correct

Sorry, non-native english speaker, so I hastily mixed it up.

>> even for the uneducated

> This is really uncalled for.

What I wanted to say is "someone without knowledge of such physics laws", and I apologize if I sounded rude in any way.
Let me clarify what I wrote: you have a choice between (a) just keeping the money, (b) buying some other kind of asset, and (c) spending the money in the real economy.

Asset prices can indeed go up, because people do (b), but (c) is almost non-existent, which is why these Fed operations are neither going to help the real economy nor create inflation there.

Keep in mind that those transactions are mostly done by insurances, pension funds, and other types of "money managers".
Not really the case if you are using Nginx though.
Something about the price table is odd. You mention specifically the only difference between basic and premium is the stock photo budget, yet for a price difference of 30$ you get 20$ more budget?

As others here say I'd rework the pricing options a bit, other than that it's a good idea.
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Gojomo has it right, the very first streaming cam used a GIF animation that never ended.
I found this Nature article easier to comprehend (it also contains a concise list of references):

http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection...
I believe you meant to link to:

http://minuteproject.wikispaces.com/
You should checkout Laura + Chris Amicos project, Homicide Watch DC.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1368665357/a-one-year-st...

http://homicidewatch.org/

Seems like data journalism + homicide + startups all wrapped in one.
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Now that's one I missed completely. I actually checked fr.wikipedia.org[0] beforehand to be sure, but it made no mention about the force unit, whereas en.wikipedia.org does.

[0] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound which guides one to http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_(unit%C3%A9_de_masse), this one failing to mention the force unit, except as a secondary connection (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre-force) down the page.
I have found at least the Go stdlib much more uniform and reliable than the Python stdlib, perhaps not as complete, but it also has things that are missing from the Python stdlib, and unlike with the Python stdlib I don't find myself reaching from alternatives, the Go stdlib has great template system, image manipulation, etc.

Third party libs still are more uneven, but that is not much different from Python.
Can you please share the documentation of that?
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New version of whatsapp for iOS is there.
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http://groupdocs.com/ seems to cope with a whole bunch of file formats.
They do now :) The MtG post had about half as many upvotes when I posted the link, and I think the crabs one got an even bigger boost.
Of course there are good patents!

Any invention that is a result of targeted time- or resource-consuming research is worthy of a patent protection, which specifically exists to allow an inventor recoup his costs by not letting others to blindly copy the product once it hits the market.
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According to Google Dart is better for web apps than Go.

Is it too early to switch from Python/Ruby to Go? Maybe it would be better to wait for Dart.

I known that Mozilla and MS won't support Dart however they also don't support Go.
Unless you think you will face scale issues comparable to those of Twitter or Github, I am not sure whats stopping you from using Rails. In fact, the amount of information about how to scale Rails (The latest I have read is from the guys at Goodfil.ms) makes your task ahead almost trivial.

Having said all this, I worked professionally with Spring and I do personal stuff with Rails, and Rails is a lot more fun.
I would like to see him do both. Even if the Mars stuff doesn't work out perfectly on his ambitious timeline SpaceX devoting resources to pushing the boundaries as well as refining the well known processes is going to create more innovation in the long run.
No, it starts with D0:23
Nitpicking, but I don't think we as a species have been here for 100 million years. I doubt we've been even as hairless as we are now for more than a few hundred thousand, so we may not have gotten as much sunlight due to that. But your point still stands.
Why would anyone go to Node.js? Serious question.
Another friend of mine:

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If you don't mind me asking, what load balancer are you using? I'm trying to setup multiple app servers on EC2 behind ELB using Redis as a session_store and I can't get sessions to persist.
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Does infinity exist?
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You pay for the bandwidth on AWS. Of course they would be glad to redirect a DDOS their way. It's pure gold for AWS.
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I'm now 60 years old. I've owned my own businesses for almost 30 years. I can't agree with you more.
Absolutely. For those interested by this, an excellent blog is "Do the math": http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/

It explains through many articles how the law of physics put terminal limits on what we can achieve, and kills a lot of misconceptions, like "a service economy needs less energy", "we could replace nuclear/coal/oil with wind/solar/hydro", etc.
I have not...but I will take a look now! Thanks!
I can relate to what he said, like the grandparent here it made me laugh.

I wouldn't say i espouse the view presented (have too much respect for what's been achieved in the other camps such as Ruby and even PHP), but internally yeah i think i do view the world that way.

I don't think it's any different from the common "anyone driving slower than you is a doddler, anyone faster is a maniac" - a patently absurd view to hold.

The enlightening part for me is that other pythonistas think this way, because as you said, i have also never experienced this view expressed publicly by the python community.
Being suspended in a liquid and zero-g are not at all the same thing. Gravity still pulls, e.g., you will still feel what is up and down.

Experiments with rats indicate that zero-g is not a good environment to have babies, but also that it is possible. In any case we could just create artificial gravity.

My best hope for humanity is transhuman: to adapt ourselves to our environment. Think the ousters in Hyperion.
You don't really specify what you want to achieve -- a "website" can be many things. If you know a little Ruby and like working with it, I don't see why you wouldn't go with RoR.

If you want to stay a little closer to Java, you might want to check out Grails:

http://www.grails.org/
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/grails

If you're actually just writing a website, not a web app (however that distinction is made these days), something like Ruby and Sinatra might be a better fit:

http://www.sinatrarb.com/
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rack

And if you want something completely different, you might have a look at web2py (on Heroku you would have to deploy that as a python wsgi app).

And while I think Heroku looks fantastic, I'm personally leaning towards http://appfog.com/ for the projects I plan to be toying with "in the cloud" -- I feel their pricing model (especially their "free" tier) makes more sense. But you should of course choose what is a good fit for your needs.
I scan 1000s of urls/day, so this probably won't work for me.

If anyone is using PHP, I recommend QueryPath for a scraping library. It has a very small footprint and is very fast.
I am completely with you on this.
Go outside in the sun for 15 minutes. Done. No need for supplements or anything else.

Why does this guy think that coding at night means you'll be deficient? If you code during the day instead does that change anything? No. If you code at night but bask in the sun during the day are you still deficient? No.

Another nonsense article.
Buy and sell things online. It's the simplest way to make money and you don't need a degree. You just need to do some research to figure out what will sell.

It won't be easy..but making money usually isn't.
I think with crowd power the antivirus will be improved. This company is already trying that http://socialav.com/
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For example, a CEO getting up on stage saying "We never hire anybody older than 28 years old!"

As far as I know, nothing ever happened because of that.
Technically cute, but works only for non-UI modules, which comprise approximately 4% of a mobile app.

Anything with a large backend is likely an intensive game, and aren't those cores written in native C/C++ anyway?.

Someone please take an app in Objective C, convert it to JS with route 66, convert to Java with (?) And convert back to Obj C with this tool, and share.
Nice post, but:

Don't self-back-pat.

It read more like marketing for the company than anything of much worth.

Don't use the words "web scale".

It is a meaningless term. How many requests per second and how many guest and user sessions for how long of a time is "web scale"? Does "web scale" just mean Christmas shopping traffic on your crappy e-commerce site that no one visits, does it mean you can survive being top link on HN on a Friday morning, or slashdotted, or DoS attacked by anonymous, or survive a fucking flood and the data center lifts off the ground and enough flexibility and strength in the trunk lines to handle a tsunami?

Don't just throw users at it.

Unless testing is very costly and you need every user's eyes on your untested code as possible, that is just stupid. Look at Tsung, Grinder or JMeter, or the many other ways you could generate load as a first step before you do that.

Don't gloss over the details.

Sure you said you were using Rails 3.2 and postgres and a tad bit about the architecture, but who in the hell doesn't know that you need to load balance, need to put the DB servers on different VMs/servers than the apps. Although- having everything on both and some stuff just not turned on and live is not a bad idea for emergency fault tolerance, and you didn't mention that.
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No surprise that a Google Map link on a website doesn't open Apple's iMap app. More so for me who clicks map links on sites frequently being brought to a dead end in the browser Google Map is a terrible user experience, especially when for the last four years or more the experience has been very useful.
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Note: there's two semi-distinct groups, the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghanistan Taliban. A Pakistani farmer-serf is unlikely to agree with the Taliban on spiritual matters: most rural Pakistanis are Sufists, they worship local saints. The Taliban are hard-line Wahhabi fundamentalists, they consider Sufists to be idol-worshipers. A cultural revolution, like the ones in Afghanistan and Iran, is unlikely in Pakistan.

The Pakistan Taliban has a pretty good reputation in the Pashtun regions. ("Taliban" is a pashtun word) One of the more popular proposed reforms is Sharia law.

Sharia has an appeal that's difficult to understand in the West. Pakistan's official court system is deeply, deeply compromised. The police are hopelessly corrupt. Cases take many years to resolve, and victory goes to the person who paid out the most in bribes.

You can use the parallel legal "system", jirga tribal law. Jirga is less "legal system" and more "binding arbitration". It evolved to end blood feuds by negotiating settlements between tribes, and as such, can be blindingly unfair.

Compared to these two equally terrible alternatives, Sharia looks pretty good. In fact, Muhammed invented it back in ~600CE precisely to stamp out customary law. Compared to jirga, it's positively progressive, esp. in regards to women. (Which makes sense, it's about a thousand years newer than tribal law) (Many interpretations of Sharia allow women to own property, for instance; and Islamic judges typically don't settle blood feuds by trading women)

EDIT: Ha ha, remembered the wrong date.
It does contain some vitamin D, but it also contains about 10x as much vitamin A. Hypervitaminosis A is a real problem. I would not think it particularly safe to use cod liver oil for vitamin D supplementation because of this risk, especially when other supplements exist.
The author talked to the Cathode developer and even opened a feature request for iTerm2[1]. There seems to be some interest in this. Cathode is mostly about emulating old, slow hardware, this would be about the opposite (code wouldn't look too differently, though). A "movie hacker" terminal or editor for live coding would be pretty interesting. Hmm, maybe in addition to Xt/Gtk/OSX one could add an OpenGL interface to Emacs for maximum scriptability.

1: https://vimeo.com/22798433