skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The more ridiculous part of it is that a lot of the reason why those specific locations are attractive to a lot of people is exactly the character that would be irreversibly altered if you were to massively increase the density."

Ah yes, as evidence by the endless subdivisions with idyllic countryside names: "Brookfield Estates", "Pinstream Brook", "Riverside Meadows" and the such. I don't see any brooks, meadows, fields, or pines. I just see row after row of cookie-cutter houses connected by meandering asphalt.

The modern suburb has never made much sense to me. You've taken out all the benefits of urban life, and the benefits of the rural lifestyle and what remains is the worst of both worlds.

Note that I'm not some hyper-urbanist who wishes everyone would just live in towering steel contraptions. There is plenty of room for redefining suburbs into something that actually makes sense and is substantially less awful than the subdivisions we have now.
If I recall my science correctly water ice would sublimate in the vacuum of space: http://askville.amazon.com/water-evaporate-vacuum/AnswerView...
My two favorite features are not so high on the PR docs though.

The first is SECURITY BARRIER and LEAKPROOF which gives us an ability to rethink how to multi-tenant applications. This is a game changer and will get even better in future versions I am sure.

The second is NO INHERIT constraints, which I will certainly be making good use of. It is also a complete game changer when it comes to table inheritance and partitioning, and my main use will be things like CHECK (false) NOINHERIT to ensure that a table in fact never has rows of its own.

There is an amazing amount of good stuff going on around Postgres right now. Postgres-XC was recently released, and more. It is an amazing data modelling platform and ORDBMS.
Dashlane’s New Online Security Breach Alerts Keep You Safe
One of the biggest issues I've found is that many developers say they are uncreative -- they have the talent, but they say they can never think of ideas that are useful to build.

So, for those of you wondering how you can even start building a "sparkfile", I'll give you my secret: whenever I'm annoyed with something I'm doing, I'll analyze why I am annoyed, and out of that usually comes an idea. A few months ago, I was annoyed that Hacker News was the first place I learned about password leaks, sometimes weeks before the companies emailed me -- leaving me insecure for quite a while. If only a computer could scan headlines across different tech websites looking for the latest companies to have password leaks, and would email you the second it saw anything.

48 hours later, I built leaknotifier.com to do just that.

For me, I crave simplicity. Whenever something that I think should be simple to do takes much longer than necessary, I start brainstorming how I would simplify it. If I ever feel like I'm on autopilot because I'm doing the same thing over and over, I figure out ways to automate it. If you ever feel frustrated and start to think "if only they just _____", start actually figuring out why they don't just do X, and if there is no good reason, start developing it.
Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history
Same for stock JB browser.
i'd be happy to google hangout with you to help ya'll. ping me on twitter at 'prpatel'
Apache ignores Internet Explorer 10's do-not-track header
White bunit ;( makes me miss my days there. Always surprised they never sold them, its the best authentication device I've seen.
Your "Available size" is reporting 1680x1022 for me, I suspect it is supposed to be window size, which is actually 1006x929 as reported by OP's page.
Ask HN: How much does a web agency charge in Canada/Toronto, per hour?
How can one approximate/average how much do web agencies charge per hour?

Is this information publicly available, or how does one calculate it?
After using Windows 8 for awhile, I wished there was a way to interact with it through a controller - I think it would work quite well.
The Unix System: Making Computers More Productive, Bell Labs video from 1982
I won't berate a fashion column for not going 'I wonder what they were' and then actually researching and finding out that yes, they will be sold to the public and so on.

However, it's interesting that they've been essentially branded as seriously uncool before they've even launched. I wonder if this will lead to someone at Google trying to make them more stylish, or whether they'll hope the target market isn't fussed on fashion and style and it'll spread enough for them to not care.
Well never say never, it happened once and it could happen again :-) I agree it was one of the few movies I had seen at the time where I wasn't groaning every time they used a computer (3 days of the Condor had this property as well)
It hardly needs promoting with techies does it? I would buy one right off the shelf if they put it up for around 500$ and I suspect I'm not alone.

The more interesting challenge is how to make wearing the glasses socially acceptable.
Great, Now We Have to Pee in The Boat
I think that's unfair, just because you may have some axe to grind with Reddit doesn't mean that it's not a good source of information and discussion.

SO works great for some formats, but as a discussion board, it sucks. The question that was posed had no clear answer, we could all wax poetic on the pathology and prognosis and cure of the OP's problem, but there's only 1 big green checkmark to go around -- and when it's been doled out, there's no going back. Essentially, every answer to the OP's question in that thread is an opinion and, by definition, is impossible to accurately score.
I've been using the awesome Notational Velocity to keep track of TODOs, my 'Spark File', expenses, confidential information, personal diary etc. etc.

The contents are encrypted through a TrueCrypt virtual volume and the volume is saved into Dropbox.

I've found this to be a great setup - the searchability and keyboard centric navigation of NV provides a friction free environment to quickly record content.
The Opa Framework Hits a Major Milestone
A couple of things:

I have cookies and javascript turned off in Chrome on Android. This apparently is too much to handle as I keep getting the standard rails request failure page.

I switched to the default android browser where I run JavaScript and accept cookies and was told I was running Chrome on Linux.

I then went back to Chrome and hit "request desktop site" which just changes the user agent string and was told I had Chrome on Linux. But also was told that I needed to turn on JavaScript to see the rest of the details. Why? It's just text.
Selection bias, good point.
CERN’s Higgs boson discovery passes peer review, becomes actual science
Ask HN: imap-based Facebook-clone without privacy concerns?
Would you use an imap-based facebook-inspired communication platform with no privacy concerns?

I work on a system which retrieves your mails from your imap-inbox and outbox and displays them like you know it from facebook. The first message is clearly highlighted and all replies are shown as comments.
If you enter the site for the first time you see nothing. Maybe there must appear a friends-suggestion.
If you search for friends you get a list of whom you received mails and whom you wrote mails. If you add them as friends all mails between you and your new friend appear in your stream. The other one will not get informed, that's not necessary.
You can comment or reply to every message. If you comment your own message the receivers of the message you comment on will get your new comment as email.
If you reply to someone else message, the sender and the other receivers will get your comment.
The idea is not to force other people to use this system. If it fits for me, that's enough. The others will get my messages as regular mails and their mails got to my message-stream. There is no media break.
Maybe the outgoing mail is styled so the receiver notices that I use a very interesting system and want to try this himself.
An idea for the future is to send hidden information within the outgoing mails. If two friends use this platform to communicate and maybe they hit the "like"-Button for a message or picture this information can be send afterward with your next email to this person. His system will get informed to display the "like"-info.
To avoid privacy concerns I though of making this open-source so that everyone can install this on an own secure server. But what about those who do not have the skills to install a php-script with database-interaction? Maybe a standalone-php2exe-version can help?

What are your ideas about this? Is it to fail? Or might this be a way to use email in a better way? Maybe for a closed group to organize the messages in a better way?
Same for MusicBrainz: 'aliases' http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Artist#Alias
I always viewed porn actors as some kind of gladiatorial occupation. possessing bodies and skills practiced (and often designed)for a specific cause. the disclaimer to me, is implicit. In the same way that most action movies are not in any way a proper schooling on how to handle weapons, the viewer will find very quickly in a real life encounter that his actions are not working for him/her.

There is no doubt that the easy access to porn is shaping contemporary expressions of sexuality for all genders. But maybe focusing on just young 20 something men as a sexual partner can hold a problem in an of itself.

From my late thirties point of view... early twenties don't know much about anything.

As a sidenote:

So much of porn is free to access, i wonder about the paywall (what with the "educational" statement, why not make it free? and get Durex or Astroglide to foot the bill". Making a the site a paysite, just makes it yet another specialized porn site, albeit for specific tastes.
Ironically, all you're doing with a post like this is helping her. The right response to bullshit stories --- the norm at Venturebeat --- is to ignore them and continue to cultivate the expectation that there's little good that will come from that venue at all. It's a Venturebeat story. Of course it's preposterous. Let's move on.
Well, it wasn't a _programming_ question.

There's an untold number of other industries which face this same problem.
I'm always amazed with the... what is even a good word for the tone of this article? "Rich people scratching each other's backs" and "an iphone you can wear on your face."

Dismissive? Contemptuous? Irritated? Something.

Anyways, its always weird to see tech covered by non-tech outlets. It seems like the result is often worded like this.
Here are a few more with that message:

Seamonkey 2.3.3 on Linux:
https://aboutmybrowser.com/1328892199

Konqueror 3.5.5 on Linux (yes, this is ancient):
https://aboutmybrowser.com/4093315824
I do the same as well - except that the contents are encrypted through TrueCrypt before syncing with Dropbox.
Organic Food vs. Conventional Food
Thank you for the civil reply.

The harm is indirect, but caused by the market for said video.

So... how about cases where someone just downloads a copy off the internet for free (and I mean absolutely free, not a quid-pro-quo exchange--a complete stranger downloads the video and has no further interactions with the provider)? Or when someone posts a copy for free download by complete strangers on the internet? That seems to bring no benefit whatsoever to the initial producer. (It's possible that the video or picture could come with "Made by <name>, send donations here" or something, but I'm sure that's not the case most of the time.) Would you be in favor of legalizing free online distribution of unattributed child pornography, then? If so, please recognize that this is at odds with existing laws (although your position would at least be self-consistent). If not, please explain yourself.

Also, the owning of the object e.g. ivory is not illegal; the selling is illegal, right? So a little off the mark there.

I see, you're right. But the effects--ruling out legal producers as competition, and raising the price on the black market--are still the same kind, just probably less pronounced and less likely to catch civilians in the crossfire. And, again, it seems to mean that your argument doesn't support the criminalization of possessing or freely distributing child porn. (Also, no objections to child porn whose production demonstrably caused no harm to the child? Perhaps you'd even assent to "the burden of proof is on the prosecutor to establish that a child was harmed", rather than "the burden of proof is on the producer to establish there was no harm".)
Muscles that do nothing can keep you warm and thin
Technological Unemployment: Not Just for the US
Perhaps they learned from Apple. The iPod was seen as inferior in terms of features-for-price and the iTunes Eco system most likely did not help it among the hacker-set. So I think its appeal to the fashionable elite crowd played a large part in Apple's mainstream success to date
I remember reading this many years ago. I don't think it is mentioned in the wikipedia article but a further benefit of pykrete was that it would make an aircraft carrier almost immune to torpedo attacks. I didn't see any backup to this but I seem to remember that the aircraft carrier would have a hull of pykrete 14 foot thick, which judging by the bullet tests mention in the article, might have made it exceptionally strong.

I am going on memory on this so happy for someone to correct me.
Hi, I'm with Atlantic.Net cloud so I speak with startups quite frequently.

In terms of dialing up risk, I think you're looking @ it backwards. You have a finite life, which means you are slowly eroding to zero. You have nothing to lose by taking risk because you are already eroding towards zero.

Even worse, the remaining days you have left are a greater percentage of the remaining days in totality of your existence, so therefore each day is eroding FASTER than the previous one.

So, relatively speaking, you should be increasing risk over time in any case because the rate at which you are eroding is accelerating.

Basically, rather than looking @ risk as what you have to lose, really its about what you have to gain. There isn't any true risk because the end game is the same.
I would think that $5k/year would be a small price to pay for backing up your code, especially if your business model relies on coding every single day.
Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce
Your statement was "If only there was some way of using git locally without needing github". Stick to it and save the theatrics. Git is a software package that you can download and use, yes Virginia, "locally". As to the availability of a remote host serving a precious resource not being available, well Virginia, those are just the facts of networking life.
Investing in startups has become a giant ponzy scheme where the idea that can be transformed in a giant hype machine can bring more results as more people invest in the hype before the bubble bursts.

Facebook is useless, Airbnb will be gone in five years when more horror stories surface, as well as dropbox, today storage is so cheap anybody can have 20GB for free when buying a cheapo hosting plan. Even GAE gives you 10GB free, all you need is a piece of software.

So, etsy will last forever, facebook won't, amazon will, dropbox won't, godaddy will, airbnb won't.

Sometimes I think, investing a billion dollars in instagram is running a freight train loaded with money over a cliff.

That money would have been better invested in a new eBay (without auctions) that would last forever, empowering small merchants and providing a complete experience for ecommerce, from payment to delivery.

We already had enough with social, but the hype machine won't die just yet, so fuck investors, I hope they lose all their money and then blame the economy.
perhaps paul's intuition is right - there is something wrong here. certainly real world business success is not so binary as this.

if there is a 500 pound supposition in the room it's liquidity. if the only way an investor can achieve it is through a massive "event" such as an ipo or sell out then any otherwise successful company is a non-entity for investors.

if y combinator were holding securities with some liquidity it needn't devolve into a 20th century vc. there are many ways to achieve this, all disruptive yet also quite well suited for this institution and its community.
Genres are coarse-grained, arbitrary and (IMHO) mostly useless

They're as useful as you want them to be. They're just strings, strings which might be a way of grouping works just as ALBUMARTIST or YEAR might be.

If you want highly specific genres, use them. If you want very general genres, use them. If you want some general genres for areas of your music collection that is less populated, have a mixture.

All this data is available online.
I noticed that it's not at all fazed by user agent spoofing. Nice.
My pleasure. It is very relieving to see people actually like it.
Work hard be good to your mother
The photos on a single page:
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/unpublished-photos-of-s...
Microsoft getting a taste of its own medicine, though at the higher concentrations allowed by Chinese (lack of) law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282009_season%29#P...
I do wish that if, say, GitHub is down, people wouldn't post a link to GitHub that won't load because GitHub is down.

If people want to post a link to a GitHub status page that provides more information, then fair enough. And if people just want to discuss the outage and there's no good source of information to link to then make it a self-post. But linking to a site that's down seems perverse.
k2enemy is quoting the film's main antagonist played by Ben Kingsley.

At the time this line was spoken, it would've been scoffed at by most military generals [1]. But for us hackers, it was reaffirming to our perceptions and beliefs about the future.

And now we have Stuxnet, NSA surveillance programs, and god knows what else.

1. At this time, most of our electronic warfare operations were physically bombing key water/power stations and reverse engineering enemy hardware with o-scopes and rs-232 consoles.
Mobile. This is just screaming for mobile. Please let me dock my 2013 mobile phone with 4 GB RAM and 4 Kepler-PhysX cores with my HDTV and let me play Crysis on it.

You dont even need to port Crysis to be a "mobile" game (touchscreen, etc.). You just need to make it run on the hardware using Android/ios.

I'll bring the Dualshock.
A lot of Go programmers, and I think I'd like to include myself here, are going to want to be able to plug in their own persistence backend.

For my own part, a lot of my work has some connection to a scaling problem of some kind. A mandatory/single-database-type ORM is totally out of the question and largely why I had to abandon Django for Flask in my Python work. I might at some point migrate to Pyramid for Python, but I haven't evaluated the state of their persistence story. I was mostly wooed by their testing strategy (it's drop dead sexy).
I can't find footage, but Mythbusters had a pretty impressive episode where they tested various formulations of pykrete. Jamie's newspaper-based one seemed to be the strongest. A smallish piece of it held a pile of lead, plus Adam's entire weight, while he smacked it with a hammer repeatedly. They built a little boat out of it which disintegrated pretty quickly. The idea that you could build an aircraft carrier was deemed "plausible but ludicrous". http://mythbustersresults.com/alaska-special-2
If that parasite is designed slightly aerodynamic (with a total volume of lets say 5-10 tons) and you have a vessel with 100k+ GT, i dont think that the difference in fuel costs will be noticable - the difference due to tide/winds etc. will be much bigger.
Show HN: Talll.com for Tech and Filll.com for Finance
Made using Newsblocks and Simplepie: categorized collection of frequently updated high-quality feeds, for technology at http://talll.com and for finance at http://filll.com.
also relevant: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/08/steve-jobs-unseen-images-by-...
Assembla has a installable repository manager for unlimited SVN and Git projects on your server and it is free for up to 10 users. http://portfolio.assembla.com/repository_manager.html
I will be waiting for the DC licensed 'Spider Jerusalem™' model.
Perhaps the goal is to get mainstream people accustomed to seeing people wearing the odd looking device. I don't think they look all that fashionable, but I could say the same about other things at most fashion shows.

Maybe by having them at fashions shows, they become fashionable? There is some kind of self fulling prophecy here....
They just fixed it. FYI, in case you did not look at the certificate details, the old certificate expired 5AM today.
The award for nerdiest preposition goes to...
She's found a real problem, but not necessarily a solution (or a business), sadly. Stuff like this has been around since porn's been around.

The reason porn addresses something of a human need is that it provides intense sexual stimulation to people without access to (or even the emotional maturity for) sexual relationships. I hate to say it, but the emotional needs of a beautiful woman are pretty academic to a 19 year old guy that hasn't figured out how to talk to girls or an overweight 45 year old guy whose options are limited. I doubt that disabusing them of porn's ridiculous conventions is going to substantively improve things for them. I mean, it's just hard to compete with intense sexual release.

The real opportunity is for authors/educators/leaders/academics that can help guys without access to sex understand sex and relationships in a truly useful way. We've seen this with things like the world of "seduction education" and things like "nofap" on reddit.

Actually, reddit is a real problem I see for her business - there are already active, technically astute and fairly well moderated forums for exactly these types of discussions.
Simple Guide to Packaging Python Applications
Wow. (Files U.S. patent)
Ask HN: Is there a future for automatic summarization startups?
I'm currently doing my MS thesis which is about automatic summarization. I'm also creating a web app (http://www.indiegogo.com/TextTeaser?a=1110234) to showcase it.

Some startups doing automatic summarization are Cruxbot (http://www.cruxbot.com/) and Summly. Like those apps, my thesis is also doing extraction only. It just extracts the most important sentences in an article that is determined by several features.

So, is there a future for the apps (including mine) that I mentioned? Or is there a future for automatic summarization in general?
Ask HN: Anyone have experience with open-source alternatives to Parse?
I've looked at:

https://github.com/olegp/tokenize and https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit

Anyone used either of them in production?
Again, you're not getting the point. Constant time != "fast", it just has to do with how the operation scales with N. The point, though counter intuitive, is that the constant time of the list operation is larger than the linear time of the vector operation for many values of N.
Here are the three URLs respectively:

https://aboutmybrowser.com/3112024109
https://aboutmybrowser.com/2548601500
https://aboutmybrowser.com/3662672473

I see now that some of the extra info is only discernable via JavaScript. But surely the info about whether JavaScript and cookies are enabled could be shown either way?
It's great. I love the math formulas and how you can right click to get them in different formats and change display settings. On further examination I see that this is a function of MathJax, but great job integrating it into your application.
This has to be one of the biggest mistakes MS has made with Windows 8. They've added the store to (theoretically) make it simple to purchase and play games (and apps), but left out support that many people would prefer when playing these games.