skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward that Wordpress becomes more like self hosted Facebook profiles (just better of course). I'm absolutely looking forward what you guys plan for the mobile part.

I remember switching from my first self written CMS to a small blogging platform called wordpress a couple of years ago. I never looked back after that :)
I really have a hard time understanding this lack of "meta-intelligence" (or should we say "street smarts", that'd explain the success of at least some of your non university educated friends)

While it's evident that D is nonsensical, it's just as obvious that it is indeed the intended answer.

I expect if you are smart enough to detect it is nonsensical, you are also smart enough to deduce what you are expected to answer. I fail to understand why people nitpick themselves to death by a million cuts.

Maybe I'm not smart enough!
A phone without something like multi-touch is more useful than one without 3G/WiFi (or am I missing something in what you're saying)?
Thanks so much for the kind words. We love to get feedback from people like you who have some experience building their own backends. It helps drive our roadmap. If you have any feedback at all, would love to hear it: michelle@keen.io.
Very much looking forward to working with you guys!
How is that at all hypocritical? Signing to a major label and publishing torrents are both ways of giving your recorded music away for free, hoping for publicity that will make you money on tour.
It's hard to say if you're not into it, but I wouldn't have sold.
Short MBA: Listen and learn with your customers. And The End.

Extra bonus: Never read any other business book in your life.

Back to programming.
It's fine to purchase a MacBook Air, you just really don't want to be one.
As Neil Young put it, "Piracy is the new radio".

A pirate torrent site providing promotion for artists at the artists' request is not something new. Private music torrent trackers have been doing this for several years now.

For example, take Anamanaguchi (a NY based band). Their 2009 album, "Dawn Metropolis" was featured, at Anamanaguchi's request, on Waffles and soon became the #1 most downloaded album on that tracker. A year later Anamanaguchi was cutting the soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Yes, this kind of promotion really works.

What scares the big record labels is not that piracy is the new radio, but that they don't control it. It becomes very difficult to predict what will become successful if music trends are left to arise organically from the listeners themselves rather than board-room focus groups. A lack of predictability is bad for an industry that is in the habit of throwing millions of promotion dollars behind artists in order to manufacture success. If the labels can't predict the trends, how do they know which horses to back? While theft of music is certainly an issue, I think it's of secondary concern to labels. It's the unpredictability that piracy is injecting into popular music that is really going to mess up their business.
Microsoft Surface tested as balloting device in Virginia
You are kinda of right, but I guess you missed some point here.
For the attacker to be able to brute-force, he would require the salt value. So it would be important to make sure it's not in plain-text. And of course if Chad wants to do that, he can easily build a rainbow file, but he can make it easier for himself by just lying about storing the ips.
Now another problem with this approach, would be the ability to change the salt. The moment it's changed, all data is lost (or meaningless). So in order to make it secure, it would be very very long, and unpredictable. Also encrypted.
Another thing, if an attacker would access the server where the code is running, if it's in the memory he would get it. So when it's in memory, it should only reside there when it's being used, and destroyed immediately. So it makes it harder to the attacker to get it, (until the moment it's used).
But come to think of it, if the attacker is that good, I think he would be interested in other things, like things that would get him more money than a list of IP addresses. :-)
I'd be surprised if Apple hasn't been investigating alternatives to Intel chips since the day they switched. Not necessarily out of any dislike for Intel, (I think the switch has worked out quite well for Apple), but rather to remain nimble and be able to jump ships if Intel ever ran aground like the PowerPC consortium did.
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Not everyone you have on Facebook belongs in your Contacts.
As a tangential aside, reading the opening paragraph of this article reminded me - in the US, if you have cardiac arrest, you want to have it either the counties surrounding The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota or Puget Sound:

While cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York have less than 10%, down to 2% survival for /witnessed/, VF/VT (ventricular fibrillation / tachycardia, the rhythms an AED can shock) arrest (i.e. the "best" cardiac event to have), Rochester Minnesota, and the three counties of King, Pierce and Thurston (Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia) have above 40 to nearly 50% survival.

Learn CPR.

-- a paramedic
why is this web page a series of images?
Three Rules for Increasing Your Earned Media
And it's a gui!
How to get a free Nexus 4 16GB with a 2-year AT&T contract
Sign a 2-year AT&T contract, get a free iPhone 4 8GB (Black), sell it on eBay for around $350 (my auction is already at $355 with 2.5 days left), then order that sexy slab of glass and unadulterated Android magic on the 13th.

Three tips!
1. Check the prices on eBay of all the free/low cost phones your carrier is offering. At the moment the iPhone 4 8GB (Black) edged out others, but that could change. Particularly if a lot of people do what I did, although the market seems to have a normal supply at the moment.
2. Don't open the sealed phone box, it's will sell for more if it's "unopened, factory sealed".
3. I don't have a ton of evidence to back this up, but I included photos of taking the phone box out of the AT&T shipping box along with all the AT&T papers, which I believ gives bidders greater confidence and will raise the auction price.

I know this is fairly obvious to a lot of people, but I thought it might be helpful for people that only consider getting free phones on contract.
If you want to send a proper message, vote Libertarian. Not because you agree with them (I personally abhor the party) but because it is the largest third party in the US. Your vote won't have an impact on the outcome of this election but it's your best chance for actually having impact since a sufficient number of votes for a third party can affect visibility and funding.
This is awesome. Thank you so much
Truth and truth.
Very concisely laid out. I want to believe.

Stupid question: why can't you store all the energy in warm water, eliminating the problematic (big, dangerous) pressure vessel altogether?

I envision a compressor, a heat exchanger (mist or otherwise) and an expander. The expander and compressor are connected mechanically (they can be the same device like in a piston engine or can be rotating machinery connected via shaft like in a turbine).

During storing, or water warming, the expander produces less power than the compressor so you need electrical energy to spin the system.

During energy release, or water cooling, the expander produces more power than the compressor needs and you can use a generator to extract that.

This is pretty much a standard heat pump or refrigerator arrangement.

I assume this is not efficient because of some not at first sight obvious quality of thermodynamics. It'd be cool to get a little bit insight into that.

By the way, your diagram's first picture with the piston is off: either the shaft should be thicker or it should depict sealing between piston edge and cylinder, now the volume of the pressure vessel changes very little when the piston moves.
Congrats, Dani & co.!
For reference: Apple's patents were for multi-touch/bounce back scrolling which their research showed was worth $30/$40 to consumers. Samsung's patents are one of the many FRAND patents for core 3G/WiFi.
aww no problem :) Hope it's useful!
That's actually pretty easy: "People like you rated this place X".
Using AMD/ATI would be a setback in terms of component quality and TDP.
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Man climbs Chicago skyscraper using bionic leg - SFGate
Impact of Sandy on the Internet
The dreams and hallucinations of cloistered monks
Thanks! That's just awful! As a startup I need to hire a patent lawyer to constantly search for possible infringement in my work. I wonder how thousands of startups cope with this situation. Or do they just ignore the elephant in the room? A startup depends on innovations and new ideas to thrive but your new ideas may have already been patented by somebody else which effective kill your lifeline. Does anyone know how the majority of startups cope with this situation?
Yeah - I don't think Doug's going to hold back anything as the host :)
I'd assume most HN users would spring for a VPS, and if you're looking for a good price, check out lowendbox. You can easily get something for $12 a year.
it's a nice product I wish it would come with a visual editor to compete with codiqa
I'm working on a new app idea with a friend and we want to rapid prototype on the web before we commit to native code. You just made that way easier :)
Apple is killing it with sales of the iPad. 3 million in 3 days is pretty impressive. Combine that with the other refreshes and this Christmas should be another record breaker for Apple.

So not sure where you get this idea that Apple has peaked. If Apple has peaked then so has Google, Samsung, Microsoft etc.
Why I'm voting for Barack Obama
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water.

(Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
I'd be surprised if they weren't exploring it. But that doesn't mean they're going to make the switch; it only means that they're keeping their options open.
If you don't mind dependencies, there's Moment.js

http://momentjs.com/
A lot of server workloads (mail, web, database, most apps) are pretty light on memory bandwidth, so 16 cores sharing memory bandwidth isn't necessarily an issue.

Cache contention/invalidation is probably the bigger potential issue. I don't have a lot of experience with server VMs and I don't know how smart (or dumb) they are about pinning things to particular CPU cores in order to minimize cache issues.
Yikes. Tavis's paper shows multiple buffer overflow attacks against code in Sophos that scans executables and PDF files for viruses, so just by sending someone a file you can inject code into the virus checker, which has maximum privileges. It also disables address space randomization so exploitation is easy.
How do I join a hackalone?

Very nice interface.
Why Your CRO Tests Fail
What about the contract ? AT&T will not give you free upgrade dude.
Or you could just get a sim from Straight Talk or T-mobile and be free of contracts forever! Then just buy the Nexus 4 directly from google
CPUs are already 3 dimensional, the 'wiring' connecting the transistors is often several layers think.
Just wanted to point out that in fly over country a first time developer can get close to $70k from recent experience, so I wouldn't expect the $40k number to stick.

Although, I will say that it is easier to under price your self in fly over country because your cost of living is much lower.
A beautiful design and no jerks: how Tumblr did it
The Twitter Tax And Zendesk: How Tech Companies Affect The City
I think denying beginners the GUI is particularly cruel. The command line is much more of an abstraction in this case, I think! - gitk displays the actual tree of this graph that git manipulates, but the command line just prints text ;) It's especially illuminating (or I found it so, anyway) to keep gitk --all open as you do merges, rebases, pushes, fetches, etc., refreshing the display after each operation - it makes it very clear what's actually happening. I found git a bit of a mystery until I realised I could see what it was doing this way, and suddenly everything became clear.

Or maybe that's just me. I don't claim to be the sharpest tool in the box.

But anyway, you need have no fear that people won't get forced into using the command line eventually, just because they like git gui. Any time you want to do anything remotely complicated, you need to drop out of git gui and hit the command line. gitk, for all its ability to display the history in a useful format, is similarly limited (or designed for a specific purpose, if you prefer).

I really didn't get on with GitX, but I don't remember it being a great deal more than git gui and gitk, in the same app, with a fancy OS X-looking interface. So the same would probably apply.
Congratulations Dennis! Beer?
You are stuck in contract, You fooled yourself. hahaha
Wild speculation:

Compiling for Apple's custom chip would require using a proprietary version of LLVM/Clang, and resulting binaries could only be distributed via the Mac App Store.
Seriously, in reality, gnome3 and gnome shell are pretty nice.

[and I have exactly the feeling you do: it gets out of my way except when I want to use it, and then it's easily available]

The gnome shell especially is also a welcome sign that there's some independent thinking about UIs going on, which is a welcome change from the painful old "let's be just like windows with a few tweaks!" schtick of times past.

Its worst sin is that it represents change, and, well, people hate change... :[
Biobetão - O Betão com Bactérias que se Auto-repara
the competitor in me wants there to be a winner! adorable idea though.
How Statistician Nate Silver Threw A Wrench Into Traditional Election Metrics
Deferred Legitimacy, Deferred Gratification
In short: Be you. Don't be a douche.
awesome! This is exactly what we were running into too :D
On a slightly related note - Russia tested and flew a nuclear-powered plane. It had hardly any shielding and all pilots that flew it have already died from cancer. US also flew a plane with a working reactor on board,but it wasn't powering the plane.

The design was finally abandoned not because it was impossible to do - quite the contrary. Both US and Russia had working nuclear-powered engines. But it was deemed too dangerous to actually use. In case of a crash a large area would be contaminated.

So the only possible application for a nuclear engine is on a intercontinental missile carrying nukes, because you don't care about the fallout and it would have unlimited range.
Ah you beat me to it. Ratchet is a great tool...now only if you can build a mobile web app with something like this...
Because Free! Plus T-Mobile is more expensive. You can do $70/m on AT&T (with sms only though Google Voice, etc).
Jive also picked up Producteev http://blog.producteev.com/producteev-is-now-part-of-jive-so...
As a paramedic, the "DNR" thing is part "folklore", part reality, but not for the reasons you cite.

If CPR is ineffective, the result is death. Dangerous? Not particularly.

Most people wearing DNR tags (aside: even a DNR tattoo on the chest is not considered legally binding against "heroic measures", unless signed by a physician) do so to provide some measure of what the patient might want (due to life expectancy, illness, etc).

Survival rate to discharge is HIGHLY dependant on many, many variables - I mention elsewhere that in certain parts of the country, due to concerted education and well managed/funded EMS systems, survival rates can approach 50% to discharge. You are right, though, successful CPR isn't going to negate the underlying cardiac condition.

If CPR buys a patient a year to five years, the pain of broken ribs is probably fairly minor in the grand scheme of things.

There are, as mentioned, a whole host of advances. My home EMS system does some fairly deep analysis of all CPR attempts and works to revise protocols, including what drugs to administer, through to 'continuing compression through defib shock' (studies done on medical students showing it to be a viable possibility).

Ultimately, education is the key - the ability to get skilled compressions more quickly on the chest, continuing to perfuse the brain and other organs has a huge impact in survivability, as well as damage done.
More info here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/jive-software-acquires-meet...

Congrats guys!
no the point is , while its "api" is great , you cant replace your RDBMS with a mongodb , while other solutions like redis or couchdb are "minimalist" they are better suited for what nosql db are for , high availability and scalling.
Silicon Valley Hates Children
You say no to a rapid prototyping environment for iPhone apps using familiar web technologies . . . . JUICY J CAN'T
if you'd like a tufte-esque view on interactive graphics, checkout the PhD dissertation from Ben Fry (the creator of the Processing language). I rather enjoyed reading it, and it isn't crazy dense, it was a nice easy read.

http://benfry.com/phd/
I have a suspicion that this seemingly popular sentiment about so many people hating MongoDB is untrue.

Or people are careless about what systems they put into production?

Also, awesome article!
Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...
Hey - I'm making a thing called https://jekyllhub.com - it's designed to take the pain our of Jekyll and get you blogging quickly and easily. I'd love to get your feedback on it. If you send me your email, I can make you a free lifetime account: andrew@atevans.com

Cheers!
What? T-Mobile is $30-60/month and Straight Talk is $45/month. The savings easily pays for the Nexus.
I think weight is more the driving factor than cost.
I don't understand what you're saying here. Is it that 3G and WiFi are worth < 1/30 as much as bounce-back scrolling?
Or it indicates that they are a hardware company, which is to say their ability to grow (or sustain) their business depends on any number of factors, not the least being political stability and conditions in China. Factors over which they can exert very little control.
Words With Friends, Now a Board Game
Experiencing math anxiety may be like the experience of physical pain
Thanks! Well, it seemed true enough for me to write the article - there have been a whole load of them on HN recently - http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=mon....
24 Hours With The iPad Mini: This Is The Real iPad
Of course, every hour you are asking of the stakeholders is an hour they aren't working. Many of these people prefer to work on a Maker's schedule as well.

I've also seen these stakeholder meetings devolve into political battles that end up tearing the project apart due to bikeshedding concerns. These sort of projects are best outsourced to Product Owners with no organizational political affiliations. :)
On the same token, albiet a bit off of the trail. Does anyone have any suggestions for effectively storing fields which can contain BIG5 (IE non utf-8) chars in them, but usually do not? IE Email subject lines or senders.

JSON is picky in this regard, and I don't want to convert the whole string to B64 etc encode/decode it going in and out, as I would like to retain regex search capability for the 99% of email titles and names which are not Chinese within mongo from my php application which lives on the front.
"We also saw in Google chrome that magic keyword transformations sometimes jumped incognito sessions, meaning that if you started a new incognito mode, got a transformation, then shut it down and started a new incognito mode you could sometimes see the same transformation again (without searching for the same magic keyword again). This weird behavior was not reproducible in Firefox's private browsing mode."

If that is FUD, that is some pretty damn creepy FUD.
I'm based in the US

You should still pull this post and talk to lawyers.
All I was trying to point out is that she probably feels that she "understands the issue". A good lobbyist can spin a great tale of woe for how our system is protecting artists or how patents will help with innovation or what not. Lobbying from tech industry folks is still in a nascent, very naive stage. It isn't entirely fair to let it slide, but I think its silly to dismiss someone who likely hasn't had an even education on a complex and somewhat novel topic.

minor edit for clarity
I'm picturing all those times they ejected the warp core of in Star Trek.
> All three of the ones you listed are just advantages of compatibility. You don't get any of them exactly to the extent that you aren't compatible.

But you are definitely getting beyond it being a pure functional issue. Lots of other things can also be made easier without copyright.

Competition law may prevent the worse abuses but I expect not all and it can be terribly slow.

> API forks are not inherently evil. Making them copyright violations makes them inherently prohibited. Better to prohibit the things that actually are evil, like EEE for anticompetitive purposes.

Copyright in general is not a matter of inherent evil but a balance of rights. I also agree that forks are not always a bad thing but they could be permitted by the copyright holders (if API's are copyright).

The benefit of copyright is incentive for investment and creation. I have general issues about current copyright duration and the limits on circumvention and fair use/dealing but I'm still not convinced about the general benefit of non copyrightability of API's.

As I said the lack of a relatively permissive license over the API would put me off using it unless I had another exit strategy (easier for a simple library than for a massive framework like Java but the investment is smaller in creating a simple library).
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Developer of https://jekyllhub.com here. I think Jekyll might be over-complicated for what Ghost is going for. WordPress and the hypothetical Ghost seem to target the mass-market; Jekyll is mostly about power features. Easy integration with git via the filesystem, code highlighting with pygments, configuration with yaml... most people really wouldn't care about that kind of stuff.
Non-profit Salary for Developers
I don't trust those aggregate salary statistic sites like Glassdoor. Does anybody in the community here work as a software developer for a non-profit organization? In your experience, what tends to be the difference in salary between corporate and non-profit work in software development?
The fifth revision of any product is going to lose some buzz. Remember when new iPods used to generate crazy coverage like the iPhone does today? Now even completely redesigned iPods (like the new Nano) get little mainstream attention. This is not Apple's fault - it is just inevitability, and the only way to fight it it to release completely new product categories (e.g. iPad).

The iPad Mini may be lesser in many ways to the Android 7inchers...but I think this is a smart business decision and in line with how Apple releases products. Apple knows that the first release of any new product will sell well...simply because it is the first of a new Apple product. By leaving out important features (retina, LTE, cameras), it ensures continual upgrade path that will last a few years. At least with the Mini, there is some supply chain justification for leaving out retina displays (which are probably in short demand after being chewed up by all the retina iPads, iPhones and now Macbooks). Leaving out the front camera on the original iPad (despite the obvious need for one) was just extreme cynicism.

The fact is Apple is a smart company that knows how to generate huge amounts of revenue and profits. It uses it's allure and cult-like appeal to sell lesser products at huge margins. Does this make it evil? I don't think so - it just shows it has played the game extraordinarily well.