skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Detrus, good to hear input from someone of similar size/shape/fitness etc. Hardwood floor? Blimey, I think that would kill me.

Should I try standing desk again I think I'll take your advice and get the special mat. Also, reducing my standing time would be an improvement
Thanks, I'm sure you mean that with the best intentions and not to be a troll. I'd love to hear your ideas to build a useful tool that we could 1) use for ourselves on our own startup (http://lizi.ai) during a Rails competition as a way to have a quick creative diversion :)

All that aside, I'd love to hear your worthwhile project ideas, Moe! contact@deploybutton.com
Oh man, those "few shots" are beautiful. Do you have them in a higher resolution?
You're not comment crapping at all, you're offering a great alternative to those who are time rich / cash poor, or who like configuring and want to learn about building servers. For anyone who's cash rich and time poor, the NAS products from Synology are great.
Survey Highlights re: Freelance mobile designers and developers
Exactly this. Just looking at my posts in my Facebook newsfeed and Facebook groups, this thing went insanely viral in a matter of minutes and people really are signing up for Dropbox and really noticing it (those who haven't been using it before).

The fact that they have a competition among universities and have the "top students" at each university is a massive plus in getting people excited about Dropbox.
I literally meant n^n, which is also what I assumed sadga meant. That is, an upper bound which allows for absurdly fast growth.

I have discussed matrix multiplication's unknown lower bound with theorists, but more as a trivia item because there is a relatively recent result showing that it is O(n^2.3727) (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~virgi/matrixmult.pdf). That is, the unknown lower bound was the point of the conversation, and it was interesting because the lower and upper bound are not the same; it's still open research. The other point the theorist made during that conversation is similar to what I've said: getting a tighter bound on matrix multiplication is theoretically interesting, but there's not much practical application.

I was rather talking about when we discuss algorithm when trying to solve problems.
Joggobot - Running with a drone
EC2 instances are running some OS, whether it's Linux or BSD or Windows or whatever. The only thing that doesn't overlap is hardware tuning and maintenance, and even there you should be using the same tools to figure out if you've got a hardware bottleneck on your EC2 instance as you'd use to evaluate performance on a standalone box.
Why not discuss topics of ethics like "women are inferior"?

If these conclusions are oh so horribly wrong, then bringing them out 'in the sun' should make them self evident they are not true. And beyond that, people who make claims such as that usually have false premises in which that and other statements of fact are also just as incorrect.

The statement about people who baselessly insult (Mac-fag and ilk) we can do without in a community.
Nice work FP.io team!
s/append/prepend
I am doing validation for username and email from JavaScript with the server similar to the way twitter is doing. I have to make sure that I do not bombard my server for each keystroke and mouse click (in case user decides to copy+paste the email address using the mouse). This is how I did. It works so far but as always it can enhanced. I can share the full source but it is the skeleton to give u the idea. In essence I am waiting for 1300 milliseconds before hitting the server again.

$(emailTextBoxId).keyup(function (event) {

//executes a function, once, after waiting a specified number of milliseconds
setTimeout("CheckEmailAddressAvailability()", 1300);
//stopping bubble
return false;

});

$(emailTextBoxId).keydown(function (event) {

safeToPerformEmailCheck = true;
document.getElementById("ValidEmailAdd").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("ExistingEmailAcc").style.display = "none";
//document.getElementById("InvalidEmailAdd").style.display = "none";

});

$(emailTextBoxId).mouseup(function (event) {

safeToPerformEmailCheck = true;
CheckEmailAddressAvailability();

});

Edit:
I just saw the examples posted by fellow readers at following links are much better than mine. I am glad I really learned some good stuff today and I will edit my code today as first thing once I go home this eve. Really neat.

http://jsbin.com/ejimok/3/edit

http://jsbin.com/ejimok/5/edit
Solar panel control systems vulnerable to hacks, feds warn
What a ridiculous comment. Take your trolling comments somewhere else. Nearly every company is guilty of reusing collected data and almost always without telling customers.
Direct link to survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formk...
hard to believe this comes from a serious newspaper, they mispelled the chancellor of germany's name, its Angela. Other than that, yea, the switch in Germany is looking pretty pathetic. There could be good ways to go about doing this (piping waterenergy from Norway for example), but of course no one wants waterpipes where they can see them (same deal with wind energy), so Germany's just shutting off nuclear power and can't replace it so this is to be expected.
They seriously must have been doing something wrong. We scale to 2000 requests a second on a good day on one not very hefty quad core SQL server 2008 box with 16Gb of ram and 2 front end web servers and a virtual active directory host. The requests are between 2-4 SQL queries a hit as well and can return hundreds of rows with 6 way joins galore thanks to nhibernate. Latency per hit is always less than 80ms.

We've done literally no tuning as well. It's all out of box. It just sucks up the requests and spits them out with a smile.
You're right about one thing: pay for things that you're actually using. That's what modern economy is all about and that's why we had (still have?) a recession.

I don't use or need more than 4GB of Dropbox space. I found promoting a service that I use daily good for me, people that follow me and good for Dropbox because they're getting more quality users from me than from other sources.

The thing you're wrong about is that there isn't really any difference for Dropbox if they offer 20GB, 10GB or 100KB for free. They are still getting payed from people and corporations that use way more than us. That free quantity they offer is negligible.
Regarding mis-measuring "dark social": For ecommerce, Pinterest traffic is estimated to be 64% larger b/c of the popularity of the iPad app. This is significant given that Pinterest is now the 2nd largest referral source (depending on which ecommerce sites you are measuring).

http://llsocial.com/2012/07/pinterest-traffic-being-signific...
I'm another would-be Pro user if they had a smaller/cheaper account but for different reasons. I have the free account with only 9.25 GB of space, and I use less than 1GB. So it's definitely not a space issue.

I want to support services I like. I don't even really care about any of the Pro features; I just want to throw a few bucks their way to say thanks for providing an awesome service. Unfortunately, there's no way for me to do that. Dropbox has made it clear that they aren't interested in offering lower tiers, and so right now, I'm content in using the free service that Dropbox is content to provide.
>This is more for show than because it meaningfully increases your security against the attack "your colocation provider is secretly The Adversary."

It does help protect you against the "another colo customer" attack, whether an actual attack or accident.
He's commenting more on the fact that SV seems to be the only place for startups to thrive. There's lots of opportunity at "home".

in a way, it's in line with your desire to advise SV guys to leave their cozy warm place. You may feel "safe" going to the valley, but you can (potentially) achieve just as much breaking ground in a different locale.
Do they have an official client for any OS?

That being said--do you know how command-line connections are supported with GD? I'm see a potential open-source opportunity here.
Many people here don't understand refer.ly because they aren't the target audience.

Referly is all about getting influencers and trendsetters paid. Thats it. Existing affiliate programs are broken and a UX that caters to that category is important for adoption. Its as simple as that.

Its current phase is only to build out the product and get their name out there to the smaller influencers from bloggers to those with relatively small following. The real money will come in when you start seeing Shaq's tweets with referly links.
Exactly what I was thinking.

A search engine with "author:" and "topic:" refinements to contrast the writing of various folks on some topic or in reaction to some event.

I'd love to scan through a combined timeline of posts, essays and quotes comparing several folks - something like Google trends that is "source aware".
Something tells might you might be projecting just a little bit.
PG would probably go to wwpgd.com to find out what to do.
https://www.dropbox.com/updated_terms/ Clickable.
If you got the average eCPM that these numbers indicate ($2) then you'd make about $1 for 500 views; could be more, could be less (CPM = cost per thousand)
It appears to work. I asked it where to go for lunch, and
the first reference to lunch it found was Oren's Hummus.
This is my favorite article describing the effects of a Coke on the body: https://www.nutritionresearchcenter.org/healthnews/what-happ...

This article has some good explanation of the health detriments too: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/drmao/what-soft-drinks-are-d...
"the solution here would be to give the federal government less control and allow the states to have more control"

{{Citation needed}}
Eric, from Tim and Eric's Awesome show. It's difficult to explain the context due to the nature of the show. Just give it a watch and you'll see what I mean.
I don't know anything about Waterloo, but many people in Madison, Wisconsin are passionate about staying here. Of course, there are many who want to leave, and I think recent grads are probably more likely to be in that group.
This comment thread is a perfect example of the problem with fb's privacy control system. HN readers are generally tech-savvy and privacy-aware, especially relative to the typical fb user. Yet this thread is full of many comments exhibiting confusion as to how these settings behave under difference circumstances.

When working with unheralded amounts of potentially publicly consumable personal information, the bar for appropriate privacy handling that most of us expect is very high. And our bar is clearly higher than facebook's internal bar.

Yet, we usually conflate these discussions with asides about their motivations - financial gain, genuine ideological belief in open identity, or just mistakes from product leadership. Those are distractions, in that they often lead to speculative discussions that can make stakeholders revert to defensive positions. I would rather focus on functionality - pretty much every action a user takes on fb has potential privacy consequences, so we should be asking:
* How obvious are those during the action flow? (pretty much not at all - and clearly the culprit here)
* When building features, at what point and in what detail are the privacy consequences analyzed? (currently unknown but the impression continues to be that some privacy issues are intentionally reactively)

Aside: my personal experience with facebook employees is one of tremendous socio-economic homogeneity. I do wonder if the culture their building internally is qualified to handle the real diversity of 1B+ people. (If someone were to quote Danah Boyd's subaltern vs. hegemon model of social network interaction here, I would begrudgingly not cringe, just this once).
TeamCity 7.x added the great ability run continuous integration configurations in any git branches automatically by trigger (also configurable to specific branches). Throw in some process for when pushes back to the main release branch happen and your CI problems are solved.
op here. i should own up. this is an apology.

@dantillberg, @jcr, et al: you're right.

i heard about the original study, was curious, but not enough to think much of it. in a previous startup we had a female intern who was getting substantially better response rates than the male founders.

after the recent press about how women in senior roles correlates with startup success i became a bit more curious and wondered if i could craft the perfect "from" field for outgoing emails.

i admit this was aggressive and that I got carried away. that's no excuse.
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Dropbox reminds me a lot of webmail before Gmail. There were lots of small increments in available space but it was always an issue for users. When Gmail launched wih the promise that users would never again have to manage remaining space they obliterated the competition.

Dropbox is training users to attach a high value to small amounts of space. When a competent competitor launches with an order of magnitude more space it will immediately seem like a much better deal because of Dropbox's years of conditioning their users to think the only value proposition is the physical space.
Daniel Dennett has a nice critique of the Libet experiment where he argues that there's a temporal mismatch between making the decision and recording that the decision was made. Basically that experiment can't actually measure the decision moving from unconsciousness to consciousness, only the shifting to making that decision to consciousness being aware that you made the decision and now need to focus on shifting attention. It's important to note too that people who have more attention report faster response times.
Their work has nothing to do with central planning in the sense of committee deciding on production quotas---it's actually about how to allocate indivisible resources (school positions, kidneys, residency slots etc.) in situations where using money isn't feasible and/or the market has broken down due to problems like congestion or lack of market thickness.
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Leveling Mists of Pandaria
I'm confused by what the article is saying about the meaning of Big-O... FTA:

> Misconception 4: Big-O Is About Worst Case

But it is. Big-O is an upper bound which is by definition a maximum (aka, "worst") case. "f = O(n)" means that at worst "f" will perform linear work, not that it is expected to. He gave this definition himself in the very beginning.

Then he states Misconception #4 and he says that Big-O is not about worst case. He doesn't sound like he is implying that programmers casually use Big-O this way, he seems to be saying this is how the real definition actually is. But it isn't.
Government may be broken in many ways, but when I hear political discourse, I'm amazed public policy isn't worse.
Thanks for correcting "facticity". I thought maybe I had remembered Sartre incorrectly.
I think it could be a good move. Execution will be everything here, and it is a fairly new market for them (anybody know who designed the Kindles?)
It's not a ridiculous comment. Do you work at Apple? What's wrong with him expressing his opinion. I feel the same way and belive we can have a discussion about what's right and what's wrong. I agree that most companies just automatically subscribe you in when they create new feature and they make it users responsibility to opt out but I hate it as much as most of us. At least they (including Apple) should be responsible of informing users if they decide to keep us opted in automatically. Tracking is not a joke, people are very concerned about it.
Something that would add some fun to it: use some markov chains to make a PG chatterbot, using the same corpus that you already have. You could mark those answers clearly as bot answers.
For folks who genuinely love math (I do!), there's a great but little-known book by Hardy called Orders of Infinity that can help readers grok the possibilities of big-oh notation. It's not about algorithms, but about getting a solid understanding of the many ways functions can behave as n goes to infinity. As a bonus, it's a short (< 100 page) book.

If you're more of a CS person than a mathy, I recommend Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation. This one is written in friendly yet precise terms, and I found it a pleasure to read.
Yes: change is the key. It's not only about how much standing can your "endure" - standing for prolonged periods is not healthy at all.
You can turn it off by visiting http://oo.apple.com on your phone.
This change was communicated in the iOS 5 beta over a year ago.
I find it interesting that they awarded the prize to Shapley after Gale's death[0]. I always thought that there was some rule that prevented them from awarding the Physics Nobel Prize to Aharonov after Bohm died[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov–Bohm_effect
Switzerland Prepares Army for Euro Zone Fallout
The amount of people who are willing to set up an AWS account, generate account keys, download an external tool like Arq, and set it up to use those keys...

No, I don't think that's the biggest danger for Dropbox.
Its a title to move eyes on HN, nothing more.
The terminology, premise, and references are sound, but there is an unjustifiably large leap to the conclusion. This entirely ignores the analytical portion of human thought. You can't stretch an anecdote and a few specific research articles to a metaphysical theory, certainly not in a blog post.

Negation of this universal quantifier only needs existential evidence, so I'll attempt to provide one. Say I'm unemployed and watching TV on a Monday afternoon. The thought occurs in my mind that I need to look for a job, but the facticity is setup such that I'm very lazy and unwilling to look for jobs, and the impulse for me is to continue doing what I was doing. A few minutes into it, my brain has analyze the consequences of my action, and I am now at a point where I'm making a choice. The research quote all agrees above that my unconscious brain made the choice initially, and yet there's room for "free will".

I think the problem is the extension of impulse as the basis of all human behavior, leaving no room for analytical thought. You're probably looking for a dialogue here, but unfortunately I've used up all my free time in trying to write this up :) There's no reason to respond, I only want to plant the seed that "lack of free will" theory doesn't hold up. I am sure you can stretch your metaphysics to accomodate my anecdote above, but I'm sure someone else can provide another. I urge you to step outside your thought process and really quantify free will as a result of analytical thought, come up with a different theory, and then reconcile it with the one you've come up with above.
Right - that's the Streisand effect perfectly illustrated.

Free speech is here to allow competing ideas to be judged on their own merits.

If one has a faith, what can a simple video do?

On the other hand, if there are some flaws in the faith, it might be worth pointing them out.
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They are creating decentralized mechanisms for free individuals to find individually and socially beneficial outcomes. The free market organized by the U.S. legal system is one such mechanism, but certainly not the only one.
I totally can understand how that would be the case. But I find it hard to believe that the experience might not be just a little bit different when you are looking across the top of the atmosphere, waiting to hit Mach 1 and hoping you won't spin like a rag-doll until the G forces shred your internals.

Personally, I have a continual internal struggle with sky diving. I really want to try it, but I have enough of a fear of heights that I'm not sure I could convince myself of the abstractedness of it.

Someday...
I use a standing desk at home. I find my feet hurt if I stand still for long, but not if I walk. For me, running the treadmill at about 2km/h is ideal.
and we are back after ISP maintenance
Future of computing has Schrödinger’s cat inside
You are totally ignore physical and psychological violence that people throw out towards others for very baseless and primal reasons, often for just acting differently, disrupting a social pattern, making another feel less secure in there world view.

People are often hiding aspects of there life not for embarrassment, but for protection. Then there is always the entire "blame the X" that precedes many great atrocities.

You may like to think the world is a utopia or not far off it but genocides are going on right this minute, its the last thing the world needs is more exposure to vulnerable people.
> Infuriatingly, they disable the Enter key in the log in form, so a mouse click is necessary

You can hit Tab (will select proceed) and then hit Enter. Much less annoying :)
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"The 'Pure Science' people (similar grouping to the militant atheists) are, like it or not, pretty dismissive of any non scientific opinions and beliefs."

When applied to scientific fact, this is correct. The religious persons attempt to meddle in what would otherwise be "pure" science and inject pseudoscience.
Ancient is the point - at some point after the twenties, it became less and less cost effective to have someone at the building 24/7 - and the rise of electronic security (alarms basically) provided everyone with a two-factor reassurance that the system was still secure even with distributed master keys.

As long as no-one sold them to the public ...
I don't think I said that you don't have to worry about implementation details at all, just that a cloud based solution like Amazon is often many orders of magnitude simpler than building/maintaining/repairing/replacing/updating physical machines at a co-location center.
Any chance someone could make a diagram of the orbit for us? I really can't picture this? Does it make a figure 8 around the first two stars?
I always say that there got to be an ec2-like solution but with real hardware.

Provisioning physical machines at the same convenience level as ec2 would be awesome.

I ended up doing what Jeff did. Bought my own server and hosted it at HE for $75/month. It's xeon 5650 with 48GB Ram + 1TB disk for $2k. Assuming the machine will last 3 years, it's a $131/month. That's way cheaper than the closest that softlayer offers (https://www.softlayer.com/Sales/orderServer/41/2087/)

Most of the times, EC2 is really about convenience and not cost.
Then let the user turn it back on. It's my device, not yours.
It's Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Eee 1005P. I think it's just a vertical resolution problem - comparing on another screen it looked like the big red button was just cut off, and without the scroll bar working there was nothing I could do on the front page.

Checking again, I see that there's a four or five pixel strip of red bottom center that is actually clickable, but it's not exactly obvious. Screenshot here: http://imgur.com/JWcaP
If you'd left out the final sentence I would have upvoted instead of downvoting.
FWIW, The learn more link in Settings-> General -> About -> Advertising says "iOS 6 introduces the Advertising Identifier, a non-permanent, non-personal, device identifier, that apps will use to give you more control over advertisers’ ability to use tracking methods. If you choose to limit ad tracking, apps are not permitted to use the Advertising Identifier to serve you targeted ads. In the future all apps will be required to use the Advertising Identifier. However, until then you may still receive targeted ads."