skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect she'll get a few responses, by virtue of the fact that she is a living, breathing, woman on the Internet. The people responding might even meet her qualifications (most of them, by some definition). But, I suspect she'll find that the people she meets this way aren't right for her, despite matching her checklist. Likewise, the people who find her this way are unlikely to be pleased with the result. There's a whole spectrum of compatibility that isn't easily described in lists...yes, you have to have some basic shared values to build a relationship, and maybe it's useful to pre-qualify based on that. But, the "chemistry" is equally important. And, it's just not gonna happen on github. Probably.

That said, I don't think her expectations are all that unreasonable. She's ruled out age and looks as important factors, which opens up a huge variety of people. There's some amazing ugly people out there. Maybe one of them is in the same boat she's in, and will get to know her before deciding if she's worth having a relationship with.
Selfish question here: can one actually screen reliably for most cancers from age 40 to say 60 and actually do something about it?

That is say, do as complete as possible cancer screening every 3 months?

The worst seem to be the ones like pancreatic cancer, you have a very little chance of catching it before it has spread.

I just want to see my daughters grow up that is all.
> Simple T9 keypad.

Just doesn't make much sense. Most input you are going to do is textual, ie. names and sms messages. Thus keypad optimized for that purpose would be more reasonable. Full QWERTY is probably impractical due desired small form factor, but there could be some good compromised solution. Maybe something like in E55?

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/images/news/E55/nokia-e55-and...
WME-style is optimistic, so you might have to retry over and over again to succeed. Lua scripts are queued up so you will make progress in the order you get in line. (Think spin lock vs queue)
Yes. Sentinel is a mode of redis, and it will continue to improve in each 2.6 point-release.
In the simplest case, imagine that there are genes that determine quality x, and others that determine quality y, and intelligence depends on how close x/y is to some constant c.

If intelligence were determined by genes in that way, you wouldn't find it by looking for ("smart") genes whose presence was correlated with intelligence, or ("stupid") genes whose absence was.

I used beauty as an example because it seems unlikely that there is a single "beauty" gene whose presence makes human faces beautiful, but rather that beauty is a product of the interaction of multiple genes that control the dimensions of the face.
The DRM system is completely decentralized and doesn't cost anything to uphold.
this is so fucked up.
I believe Wayland's stated goal is exactly that: to replace X11. of course they don't mean they're going to wipe out X11 from existence, if you prefer that you'll still be able to use it, but wayland should eventually be able to completely fill the role that X11 currently fills.
Paradox of the Generalist - You never know until you try
On one hand, some of the requirements are needlessly exclusive.

On the other, some of them are disturbingly low-bar, and is very suggestive that she's been with people who don't meet them. (Only suggestive; I can think of alternate explanations for why they're on there.)
While this looks impressive, it seems to be a solution to a problem that isn't particularly big or pervasive.

I quite like the existing distinction between video and interactivity. I like that videos are static and non interactive. I like to be able to sit back and absorb the content without distraction.
How Quora Supercharges Its Site By Optimizing For The 99th Percentile
I think I would go trough the App Store, and just use som kind of authentication, as that would be easier for some clients, and would provide better visibility of the app and the company.

However, if you would rather sidestep the regular appstore, Apple provides something called the Volume Purchasing program. With that, it is possible to provide apps directly to devices, either for free or a paid solution.

source: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/
I agree that's probably the case but this seems like a good place to have that discussion.
I thought Amazon had high revs, decent operating profits, but lowball profits?
Not yet. Other than reference materials and favorites "worth rereading", shouldn't most of the books in one's possession be those one hasn't yet read? When you're done with it pass it on to the next reader!

Well that's how it works for physical books; I'm not sure about electronic ones.
I think the prizes are actually pretty good considering the zero cost of entry. A local startup weekend I participated in had prizes that were far less than what was on offer for Rails Rumble 2012.
Also the collage has an even mix of TV and movies. :)
DeployButton was definitely my favourite too!
ASk HN: what to do when your account is accidentally marked as sockpuppet?
Yeah, it wouldn't work in the US. I'd like to see it thrown out as a hypothetical to see how people would react, though.
Minimizando el fallo del tribunal italiano sobre el teléfono móvil
Well the reason why seed money is so low these days is because people expect you to not spend all the money on making your own cloud.
Creating these lists as if humans are a bunch of attributes is something we're all probably guilty of at some point or another but when you apply it to finding a mate you inadvertently are just setting yourself up for a likely endless world of hurt. IMHO its honestly one of the worst things you can do to yourself in dating even though its extremely common. The chances of having an emotional connection with anyone is relatively rare and when you whittle down your pool of applicants you can pretty quickly inadvertently eliminate any real possibility of finding someone who fits the list and fits emotionally with you.

On top of all the attributes and the potential for an emotional connection that this fictional mate must meet - he also has to find and be willing to reply to a github repository personals "ad" - seems like a slim chance but what the hell do I know.
I'd like to take a moment to point out how fantastically awesome Clever's API documentation[1] is.

Everyone with an API take note: examples in your favorite language of each API request with a demo API key already set up is how you get developers playing with your API. There was almost zero barrier to entry for me to get data from their API into a language I knew how to manipulate JSON objects with and muck around to my heart's content.

Note to Clever: perhaps go all the way to converting the response body to a JSON object in each language?

Edit: also, the "show/hide, collapse, expand" buttons are confusing. You only need two buttons that change their action depending on the current state ("collapse" becomes "expand" if the content is collapsed), and "show/hide" should be up by the `h2`s.

1. https://getclever.com/developers/docs
You do realize that the US Constitution can and is updated, right? As is "our system" by which you presumably mean the US Code.
Assisted routing would be way more useful (and probably easier to implement) than autorouting. Also, it would be great to have a versioning system that could pull together the good bits from different attempts at routing.
> The correct answer the scientists should have given at the time is "yes, there may be an earthquake. Or there might not be. We can't tell." Not just saying what the politicians wanted to hear. Not just putting out a statement to placate people and make them feel safe. That is certainly negligent. This is not an attack on science. This is holding authority to account for their negligence.

Please post and tell us what the scientists said with authentic appropriate references.
Square moving headquarters to SF's Mid-Market
This is just like what happened in France with the Hadopi two years ago where the "independent" commission was made of ex-executives of majors like Universal and others... With no representation from actual internet users, of course. "Democracy" is literally an abuse of language to describe our modern political systems. It should be rather described as "Oligarchy", but that is not a good name to brand it to the people.
Awesome! I will definitly be using this!
Opa Gangnam Style - Luxurious Web Programming
Having a release people can start using now to test their apps against and write new apps for is the most important next step for them.

Remoting isn't as important when you have options like VNC to fall back on. Its a minor inconvenience at the most and I believe the've made the right call to ship something usable now.
Exactly. She amusingly lists 34 preferences — of which at least 28 must match — before mentioning Nickelback as a favourite artist. Yet she wishes for “Someone who can play classic or jazz piano.”, only humans of the female variety can come up with shit like that.
It'd be worth rating the democratic quality of various cities and comparing their populations. The US has good number of cities that fall on both sides of that line. The results would be muddied by county/state/federal influence, obviously, but it'd be able to be suggestive.
My thoughts exactly. I can't find a single place on their site where they define what an SIS is.
You should check out Estonia's system.
Perhaps they should - though Rightscale.com provides a service that helps you do just that. (Disclaimer: I do not work for Rightscale or know anyone that works there)
...I imagine that "showing that the update has not broken configurations or dependencies required to boot" would be addressed by having testing the configuration on an exact mirror of the production server, including rebooting, right? (of course, after a reboot the testing server is technically no longer a mirror of the production one...)

...of course, the OP should enlighten us about whether this is how they did things
As a developer, you pay to use the API.
I think WiFi routers and cellular base stations are pretty important to the world's network infrastructure these days...
5-6000 requests was just the number I remembered seeing for sure. I haven't tried pushing the software to get some benchmark number.

It was just on one core (all the production servers are currently just using one core for the geodns process), but the response time was similar to idle load so I think there's lots of head-room

The monitoring doesn't log data at the second granularity and the traffic is very bursty, so the number was just from staring at the real-time monitoring dashboard I have.
Not only that, but I think it would be reasonable to require by law that a service must give its users prompt notice of termination and a reasonable timeframe during which they can download the content they created. What happened to your father AFAIC was a crime.
Omg! Can't wait to try it out, hopefully in a year or so we can completly uninstall X from our systems.
Looks pretty neat, any docs/etc that point to the security aspects?
Agreed. It's a great way to drive engagement, by allowing the viewer to explore content non-linearly while maintaining the original intent of the author.
The problem with this is that people's skills combine non-linearly. Just like a cluster of 100 machines is not 100 times faster than a single machine. After all, why do we need kite surfers, just tie a surfer and a kite jumper together.

OK, so let's say I'm the scientist working alongside a couple of computer science people. Now, every time I have to remove a comma from the files they exported for me, should I ask them to please write a magic line into the shell for me. Every time I have to parse data in json or whatever else I don't know anything about I wait for them to do it for me. Every time data has to be loaded from a database, I explain what data I want, wait for the computer science person to write and execute a query for me? Just doesn't work this way.

When working with data you have to be able to experiment, and to experiment you have to have an idea about what's possible and what's not. If, as a scientist you do not understand what these practical tools can do for you, your experimentation will be severely limited. You have to be able to pair up the most promising mathematical approach with the simplest techniques that get you there. This is very hard to do, unless the same person knows about both maths and computer tools.

But more fundamentally, machine learning (or data science) does not equal statistics + computer science. The skillset you need to be a powerful part of the team is not simply a union of various computer science and statistics skills. It requires a different mindset.
Right. Blame it on the victim. How do you make a "fault tolerant" service when core services like ELB together with the API behind it start to fail? Multi-region? Multi-cloud? When is it "designed to make web-scale computing easier" part supposed to kick in? With half-baked producs like ELB or things like EIP that cease to work when you need them the most?

I actually asked the AWS Premium support regarding the ELB multi-AZ issues, in order to actually make things easier for everyone. This is the answer I got:

"As it stands right now, you would need to make a call to ELB to disable the failed AZ. It may be possible for you to programatically/script this process in the case of an event.

Going forward, this is something that we would like to address but I don't have any ETA for when something like this might be implemented."
I would like to elaborate on that idea by saying that there is a feedback loop between the persons environment and his innate tendencies . I'm specifically referring to the feeling of satisfaction you get as you become better and better at something . It is that feeling of satisfaction and the inner drive that would provide the impetus needed to continue working harder and harder to master the discipline . However if all the components aren't in "proportion" , this feedback loop between practice -> improvement -> satisfaction -> urge to practice more gets broken .
As Høgsberg drove through the tiny village of Wayland, Massachusetts, an idea that had been germinating in his mind crystallized. [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/the-li...
e tu brute?

not sure what's wrong with IKVM?
I've considered doing this, since I've had great success taking teams off to exotic locations and building stuff. The problem isn't that it's a bad idea or that you wouldn't be able to fill it with paying hackers. The problem is that you have to trade in being in the software business to go into the hotel business.

That is, you need to trade in the single highest margin business a fella can find himself in so that you can compete in the single lowest margin business a fella can find himself in. You'd be better off packing it all in and getting a bartender job at another resort on that same beach.

So yeah' here's hoping that somebody builds this thing. But I sure don't want that guy to be me. And if you're asking advice, I'd recommend not letting it be you either. Sad, eh?
It's fast enough for now, so investing more time in making it faster would just be spinning wheels.

I haven't done detailed profiling, but the geoip lookup is pretty fast. I think more time is spent picking IPs to return (weighted from a list of sometimes thousands of IPs) and likely more time than that is in the underlying DNS library (which hopefully will get better over time without me doing anything!).

Both the Perl and the Go versions are optimized more for developer time, correctness and robustness over raw performance. I only have so much time to work on it and lots of you depend on it working, so I think those are appropriate trade-offs.

If it was a full-time job more than a hobby maybe it'd make sense to do the work in C instead of Go (but probably not).
Agreed. This technology looks amazing and sweeps you away.

But, when I think about the implementation, I cringe. I don't want video with more info popping-up.

TV is not better because there is a running feed of "breaking news" or a running stock ticker. In the same regard, I don't more info popping up during video.
Elon Musk gives his version of the early history of Paypal's founding in this post:

http://valleywag.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-t...

Which if accurate, does make him a co-founder.
I would be shopping around for a new ISP right now if there was even a single alternative.
The DNS servers are (mostly) virtual machines on all sorts of hardware. In many cases I don't actually know the exact hardware specs or how much other load the boxes have.

http://www.pool.ntp.org/dns-server.html
People that want to smoke pot, can easily get it, legally, or illegally. But it's much better to offer a controlled environment for the users, instead of 'making' people go to dealers. This part is the biggest reason why Mary Jane is a gateway drug, which lots of people use as an argument why pot shouldn't be made illegal.. Think of how much money could be going to tax instead of 'criminals' abroad.

In the Netherlands, they have started requiring users to register for a weed card, which has been enforced in multiple provinces. Foreigners are no longer able to use coffeeshops. Just Dutch nationals that choose to be registered at a shop. The effects? More dealing on the street. People don't like being registered. Slowly but surely more and more people are registering, and the rest are getting it through their friends, or illegal dealers which is the worst situation.

Open it up as much as possible. No registrations, just show your ID, if asked, when buying at 'coffee shops'. Governments will be able to educate the users more. Grow it as a government, allow 'farmers' to grow too. Tax it.
Any way to transfer progress from demo to full?
Worst Abuse of The Rules (1994)
[NEW] Iron Man 3 Teaser
Turntable.fm: Improve Your Algorithms or Songza Will Drink your Milkshake
This would be brilliant, as Postgres is one of the most commonly used databases with Rails (generally, and also because of Heroku) so having feature parity between the pg gem and JDBC drivers that you can use with, for example, Torquebox would be great, especially for people wanting to migrate to JRuby.

I did some basic benchmarking with one of the JRuby 1.7 preview releases and was impressed enough with the speed benefits to want to try it out with a small app on Torquebox when JRuby 1.7 was released.

Thanks to joevandyk and xiljin for pointing out the search_path and datatype support situation before I undoubtedly encountered them myself - and love the fact that headius has immediately leapt in to try and fix things :-)
The problem with ELBs is that they are themselves EC2 instances and use many of the global services for detecting load, scaling up, etc.. Like all of AWS's value-added services, they are therefore more likely to fail during an outage event, not less likely, as they depend on more services.
Ask a TV editor how hard it is to build stable desktop software to edit video. Despite the naysaying, everything in a browser is a very large step forward in the accessibility and ease of use department. One giant step forward.
Wayland is essentially to effort to move responsibilities to different layers. Some things are pushed down to the kernel (memory management, command scheduling, mode setting) or similar infrastructure (OpenGL, udev). Some things are pushed upwards to the clients (font rendering, window decorations, vector drawing, remote access). This means Wayland has much less to do compared to X.org and that is a good thing, because it removes code duplication and unecessary complexity.

http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
I wouldn't have posted a comment like that if the story was about someone in Somalia complaining about a US company.

Norway is part of the EEA, and has laws equivalent to the European Data Protection Directive.

Amazon.co.uk is a company operating in the UK, and is therefore subject to the UK Data Protection Act.

IANAL, but at least one of those two facts means that Linn has the rights I outlined above.
It's the same up in Canada. The Canadian Government "broke up" Bell and forced them to allow other companies to provide content services. But now we are just stuck with multiple monopolies.

Don't like shaw OR cogeco OR rogers (depending on where you live)? Well, too bad!
Have a look at JNA. It's about as easy to use as P/Invoke.

Of course Java's days on the desktop are kind of numbered with the various browser and OS vendors getting visibly concerned about the security of the JRE, but that's a different matter.
Oh hey, I had one of those too. I eventually smashed it and threw it out because I tired of plugging it in and having slow down problems.

(I noticed it first when I was working with the jump drive and had the system grind to a halt. Removed the drive and it immediately unfroze. further testing confirmed)
The maths that made Voyager possible
I would think if Google started getting big enough as an ISP, they would also implement the six strikes. Google has it's fingers in a lot of pies, among them selling media on Google Play. They'd have more to lose if the media conglomerates didn't give them access to their media than if they pissed off a few customers with the six strikes.
Dinero ya
Amazon misrepresents reality on this status page!

They have standardized icons to represent various levels of issues (orange = perf issue, red = disruption). But they don't even use them. Instead they add [i] to the green icons to indicate perf issues (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - N. Virginia) and disruptions of service (Amazon Relational Database Service - N. Virginia).

Maybe this status page is controlled by marketing bozos who want to pretend the situation is not so bad.
it it's front news on cnn, 99% of the time it doesn't belong here. this could be one of those times, but i guess the community decides that
> Basically, you fly out to wherever the retreat is (think Thailand, Jamaica, Trinidad, Bali, etc.) and you pay for room and board for a month. You get to focus on product and build without the distractions of normal life in a house filled with other hackers like yourself.

From what I understand: go to a touristic location, and instead of spending it taking a rest, doing tourist stuff or whatever, stay in a room full of stranger nerds for the whole day staring at the internet. How is it a retreat?

> When you finish working for the day, why not just be on vacation for the next few hours before starting again the next day?

How it's different from what you're doing right now?
The difference between the TechCrunch article headline and the HN headline is curious (the word "legalization" is left off of the HN headline, at least in its current form). I wonder whether this was deliberate, or just random chopping to some arbitrary character limit.

Regardless, the change is important. There is a big difference between "supporting pot legalization" and "supporting pot". I often wonder whether efforts toward the former are hampered by the fact that all sides in the debate tend to think of it in terms of the latter.
Which seed will grow better depends not just of its genes, but also of environment, weather and of how much it was fertilized.

This, for example, is one of the answers why rich getting richer. The difference in environment + variety of experience matters much more than difference in genes, in cases where there is no inherited disorder.

By changing environment, behavior and altering mental models (unlearning the learned helplessness, for example) it is possible to improve even IQ scores.

This is how the Flynn effect works - it is effect of the environment + variety of experience.
Please consider allowing people to pay with bitcoins for your game.

http://mtgox.com has a shopping cart that is trivial to integrate and allows people to pay with their bitcoins (also buy some if they don't have them yet).