skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a tropical cyclone hit Oregon it would probably have started as a hurricane, not a tornado. Typhoons form west of the International Date Line, and they move predominantly west. Typhoons are pretty much guaranteed to never move east across the IDL, because of the prevailing winds.

I think you got confused about the "NE Pacific Ocean" thing under the Hurricane column. The NE Pacific Ocean is the part of the Pacific Ocean that Oregon is on.

It would technically be an extratropical cyclone, but it would likely have started as a tropical hurricane off the coast of Mexico.
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That's pretty awesome! Citizen Science here we come!
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Yes, this seems to be the kind of thing I had in mind.
This is great. I've hated having to open multiple tabs to be able to reference an old email(s) and compose a new one at the same time.
Follow up story from the department of really utterly terrible ideas: Can you cure headache by shooting yourself?
Indian CERT issue warning about ongoing Skype Spam attack
Note that its not as trivial as you might think. Pumps cannot pull fuel from the 17th floor, because even if they create vacuum in the tube, atmospheric pressure can't push the fuel to the 17 floor. So the pump has to be positioned at the base, thus subject to flooding.
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Do you know how annoying it is to have 5 gmail tabs open and have to constantly switch between them because you have email threads that you need open and then a compose window as well. And every time you switch you have to cycle through them to choose the right one? This is a daily occurrence. I hugely welcome this change.
Really cool :) May I borrow the idea? :)
I feel for the guy/gal/group that draws the short straw and has to tote a 400-ish pound 55 gallon drum of diesel up 17 flights. "Whelp that lasted for 5 minutes, again!" ;)
Damage is a bit different than lost productivity.
I don't think the average user can really deal with multiple windows efficiently.
Given an average requirement of 500 gallons an hour? That's nearly 2 tonnes. Nobody's carrying that up 17 flights.
Gruber invented Markdown, full stop.

He may have selected the particular syntactic conventions it uses, but the idea of parsing ASCII markup and converting it to a formatter's input syntax is much older. I'm aware of prior art dating back to 1986 or so -- and wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't the first either.
I liked the old title better...
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Well...

I often need to write emails with specific details from other threads. this is way way faster than save draft, search, copy, go back to draft, and paste.

Maybe there's a better workflow for this problem - but the draft saving way sucks.
Are you planning on crawling / parsing the repository to create a time line or something similar?

Seems like an orderly way of storing events, but a royal pain to view.
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That's just a grammar though. It's meaningless without defining what the result is, because you could use that grammar to output anything. A spec should also (ideally) define all possible behavior, so you know if something is conforming or not.
I am one of those people that loves the AJAX search. I know it's generally hated around here but I think getting the suggested results as you type in your search is one of the best search features Google has implemented.

For example, let's say I found some new framework for a new language I haven't worked with. I can easily find competing frameworks by typing in something like '[framework name] vs' and Google will will suggest the most commonly compared frameworks. I think it's very useful when you don't know exactly what you are searching for. Yes, I know it has some usability issues but in my opinion the pros outweigh the cons.
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Fogbugz has a self hosted version too, it's your choice which one to use.
I prefer Gmail since its redesign back in April.

There, I said it.
Are there specific legal precedents that have made such disclaimers less important, or has it been a general trend?
It's also optimized for retina displays. Those thumbnails look incredible on a Retina MBP.
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I keep hearing that this is the worst natural disaster that people (who are currently alive) have ever seen in NYC.

It's a bummer that their sites are down... but I think I can go a day without my to-do list when they have a once-in-a-lifetime natural disaster.

For perspective, it's not like they have down-time once every few months.
True. But I'm very skeptical that they'd be able to deal with a given websites' reinvention of multiple windows either (or even recognize it as such).
You're right, why would we want Joel to step into the field and teach us stuff when we've got you with vast knowledge and your winning manner?

After all, all we get from Joel is a decade of sharing what he's worked on and why he's done stuff a particular way, in a relatively transparent manner that allows us to maybe learn stuff but importantly to put it all in a context that allows us each to make a judgement on whether what he says is useful / interesting to us.

By contrast with you we have the rich tapestry of an anonymous account on an internet message board, a superior manner bordering on trolling and a series of aggressively worded posts.

I don't know what I was thinking. Death to Spolsky!

Just one thing. Now that you too have taken to the internet to teach the rest of us how things should be done, if someone spots any errors in what you say it's fine to term you a fraud I take it? What's good for the goose and all.
I have started using chef to automate build environments on top of vagrant. One thing that made me choose chef is windows support: chef uses winrm on windows, + things like powershell, and that seems to work better than puppet (e.g. I could not for the life of god make a unattended install of visual studio with puppet).

On the - sides, I don't find it particularly well documented (it feels like reading the MSDN, where things are self-referentials), and it is quite slow.
I don't know why they won't just start making nightly builds. If they setup Jenkins and produced GSM and CDMA Galaxy Nexus build, they would increase testing and feedback significantly.
facepalm

All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of having an entire screen to write your email in.

Google is being taken over by pointy haired managers and marketing. RIP.
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Happy to release our new PHP obfuscation Decoder. What's unique about it is that it will decode all the various levels of obfuscation. Most tools will do one layer at a time and you, the user, would have to manually go through the process.

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The title was "Crowdfund a Meth Lab" but it has been changed.
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You blacklist a site based on that it doesn't work on a web browser that isn't even on the list of the 10 most used browsers? (src - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php)
Quick note taking with Emacs and Org Capture
Spacebar works fine for me in G+ Stream page.
Thanks Franco - appreciate the words! We have a lot of things planned. We need more feedback from users before deciding which direction to take. Cheers!
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Ahhh, it's good to see more useful desktop features making their way online (how old is multi-tasking?). Now we wait for the gmail OS that can run applications...
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That is the argument microsoft has been using for its windows phone apps. Quality over quantity
The Unholy Alliance Against Online Learning
The initial agreement needs to specify the responsible contact person in the ordering company with the authority to approve each iteration. Once it's approved, it's approved - the company gave him the official final vote.

You are getting written agreements before investing any significant number of hours, aren't you?
Why would loss of power cause "unrecoverable data corruption"? Don't modern databases work hard prevent this sort of thing?
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I just hate how slow the iTunes interface is on Windows, and the fact everything's in m4a/AAC, not MP3.
It's a pun. Zappos is a clothing store.
Having walked around the crater at the Nevada nuclear test site that was at least one of the 'ploughshares' tests I can assure you that the ground is safe to walk on in a lot less than 50,000 years. In fact it was 'safe' (as in walk around but probably not sleep there) about 3 days after the test. Unlike nuclear plants which vent fission by products as a function of a partially consumed fuel rod, nuclear explosives work really really hard to extract all of the energy out of the material as quickly as possible which leaves behind few by products, and what are left behind are so dispersed as to pose little to no threat to health.
You are talking about Suggestions which is an entirely different feature than auto-refreshing of search(though both use ajax so I could have used a better description in my OP). I personally love Suggests as much as you.

What I hate is when I type, say a few letters of my query, and begin seeing frivolous search results begin to appear. I hate when I hit the back key, often it takes me to the previous page or simply removes the last letter from my query and updates the results. I hate when I begin typing an obscure name I just found from another query and see it disappear after I have typed a couple of letters.

I was just fine hitting the "return" key to pull up search results.
Actually there are a number of subtexts here, I can think of several which are less cut and dried -

- Employee wasting company time.
- Employee divulging too much about company mechanisms and/or IP.
- Ownership of IP (content) created during company time.
- Ownership of blog/tweet followings gathered on company time.

These are real issues for a company and some bring up big questions about who owns an employee's paid output.
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I run a game server that requires any IP to be able to use the DNS server I have set up. Similar to the Pokemon hacks out there. I don't want to turn recursion off, because I want people to continue using their game-console to go to any website. However, I have iptables rules set up that pretty much -j DROP anything that isn't query type "IN A" or "IN AAAA" So far, all the DDoS I've gotten in my logs involved an "IN ANY" request.
Sorry, not sure why the title changed. Was originally 'Crowd Fund a Meth Lab', as noted in other media outlets.
Yahoo mail has half those features already
Not so much. There's nothing out there in space for the explosion to push against. You could break them apart, maybe. You could pad the bomb with propellant mass but that won't really work in the case of an asteroid. (It's extremely difficult to direct the energy while capturing enough of it to be useful, so you need small bombs and lots of them. Then you have the ablation problem on the surface of the pushee - ie the asteroid.) Project Orion explored the concept of bomb propulsion at great length.

Two references for you:

Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan, contains a thorough exploration of the technology required to divert earth-bound asteroids, and the consequences of possessing that technology.

Project Orion, by George Dyson, is the definitive history of the 1950's & '60s project to construct a nuclear bomb-powered spacecraft capable of crossing the solar system in months.
>4 TB of data? I didn't realize Kiln's gotten that big already. When this whole thing is sorted out, @gecko @kevingessner - would love to see a "State of the Kiln" post and some stats!
I would much prefer to have only one email tab/workspace; it helps me switch contexts. Of course, that is only my opinion.
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I see where you're coming from, but ultrasound is not like gamma knife, it truly is revolutionary (no sides effects + very cheap), and I'd put Norvig inside the science community of AI, he's head researcher of the premier AI company after all. These are current technologies, not futuristic, that are enabled by moore's law. You're assuming that what the crowd sees is what's right, and that isn't always right. The crowd didn't see search engines as important in the 90s but they were wrong.

Anyway, I'm not offended by gmail news, just wanted to get some ultrasound and some ai in there and put things in context.
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> what if you want your chef client to bootstrap with some custom rubygems?

knife bootstrap[1]?

[1]: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap
Braintree's engineering blog has been featured on HN many times, but no one ever talks about actually using Braintree.
Video and images look about the same, but text looks _much_ better (comparing an iPad 1 with an iPad 3, and a 13" MBP with a retina 13" MBP).

The biggest advantage for me is the ability to change resolution (on the MBP) without having a poor display due to using a non-native resolution.
Thanks, it makes more sense in that context.
The problem there is that you need to load an application 5 times rather than 1 time, and then opening up the separate emails in their own tab. Introducing another floaty thing that reinvents the wheel isn't the proper solution here.
So, now they're expected to move around an unknown quantity of 400-500 lb 55-gallon drums of fuel? And where would they have sourced these so easily and quickly (another unknown, I would think)?

We don't know how much energy is being used nor how much fuel is required to run the generator(s) per hour, among other things. That seems like a lot of important information that's missing to call this situation 'poor planning.'

But, I'll respond to your single datapoint with mine: according to [1] that's 2 full drums for every one hour of generator running.

My point isn't to be simple argumentative but to look at things from a more appropriate perspective. Generators in these circumstances (and my professional experience) are not meant for very long periods or indefinite usage.

I'm filing this proposed drum-filling plan into the 'unrealistic' category.

1) http://datacentersmadesimple.com/tech_highlights.html
Looking at the site, it seems like MMD is Yet Another Markdown Implementation. Which is a good reason to participate, and they might have some particularly good things to contribute (like a test suite), but it's not itself "standard Markdown". And even the test suite probably is overly specific and needs to be reviewed. For instance, it seems unlikely that balanced quotes would become a required feature (or at least to do so would require discussion).
Intel working on 48-core chip for smartphones, tablets
This is really cool. How apropos that I just last night started reading PG's book "Hackers & Painters"!
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You've just described KDE, Gnome and a suite of other graphics toolkits. Do we really need another one in the mix?
Only the most recent inbox is synched, and chat is only in the most recent as well. Unless they fixed that?
This is great! Thanks for open sourcing it.

What do you use to track conversion? For example, % of emails opened, % of users who engaged in a certain action after going to the site from the email?
I was curious how operators of public DNS resolvers, such as Google, prevent themselves from becoming unwitting aids to DNS Amplification attacks. I found this info about Google's resolver:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security

The tl;dr is rate limiting, plus some other techniques like adaptively restricting the ratio of request size to response size.
Google seems to be one of the prime culprits making web pages and browsers so complicated that functions useful for reading which used to work everywhere are now broken on a significant number of pages.

Parent mentions scrolling with the space key. Another: selecting text (prior to copying it). Another: making text bigger, e.g., with the Zoom In ("+") button. Another: going to the start or end of the page. Another: scrolling without annoying or time-wasting latency.
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A fridge full of food isn't that useful if it's flooded full of water.

I can also anecdotally verify that New York City is not built from paper, but I doubt a more scientific study is required to back up my experience.

(The tone of your post is also not in the spirit of Hacker News and its Guidelines.)
Wow. That is not cheap.
One of the rules mentioned hit me pretty hard: "Give out more praise than advice".

There is something to be said for having a person you can go to and get unvarnished feedback -- brutal feedback. I've always valued that type of person and strived to be that person for others. I think I've rationalized this as being a form of validation.
As a google shareholder i'd love to see the fee droping to a sane rate (say 10%? That's not enough? Ok, 20%?). Because that would be a __huge__ plus for the android platform IMO.
I too wrote a REST app for Django http://bruth.github.com/restlib2/. I took the approach (which I speak about in the "Why?" section) to simply use the API terminologies HTTP already provides. Too many abstractions is a bad idea. For the curious, I've heavily documented Resources class: https://github.com/bruth/restlib2/blob/master/restlib2/resou... I've used it in production for quite some down now, but it is not yet complete.
Point of information for this thread: Erlang's iolist are similar (in data structure and complexity) to Haskell's bizarrely named Difference List, which is explained a bit more here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/dlist/0.4.1/doc/...

It's basically a tree, which is efficient (amortized O(1) per element) for many list appends followed by one iteration.
I've used and like Tasty-Pie, but did find its magic in mapping models to endpoints a little too magical when I needed to build endpoints with even mildly complex filters/sorts/calculations. I was pretty quickly lost when digging through the code to figure out how tasty-pie did its magic. I recently selected rest-framework because, while it does provide help, it wasn't too magical and was fairly straightforward.
I think the unfortunate truth is that everyone who has a big app store will continue to tout that because they're trying to grow their marketplace. "Our market is thriving, come join us!" is the message.

But with the exception of game churn, I think most people find core apps they want and stick to those. Probably the only other market as active as games is productivity apps, where people just love to churn.
Displaying text articles in a cross-browser way has been a solved problem for more than a decade, the parent's browser of choice isn't to blame here.
> I find some of these changes mind boggling and can only convince myself to accept them by tell myself "hey google looks at the numbers, may be most folks just like it". Particularly the ajax search...annoys the crap out of me and finds way to enable itself even when I disable it.

Google needs to be usable by everyone. They iterate the product to make sure that most people get good search results. But this means that some people are getting sub-optimal results, especially as Google makes changes to the way search works.

Google didn't used to use stemming. Some words are now stemmed automatically. Google didn't used to substitute words. Some words are now substituted automatically. Google used to use + to force inclusion of a word, but they've dropped that and now use quotes to "force" "inclusion" of words "or phrases".

People reading HN might think that + is easy enough to use, and "enclosing" "every" "word" in "quotes" is stupid, but Google does have the numbers. (http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...)

> In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.

Check my math, but I think that means that + was used correctly in only 1 out of 600 searches.
As said, you can <tab> out of the dialog. Keyboard users often "scan" pages by tabbing back- and forth rapidly. This breaks down when the modal-dialog turns out to be not so modal after all (i.e. suddenly your keyboard focus is "behind" the dialog).
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How about an app that tracks the ball positions and gives advice on the "leave?" Knowing how to optimize for your own fallibility and minimize positional advantages for your opponent if you miss and maximize them for when your aim is good is actually the most important part of the game.
Seriously? Chrome, Firefox, Safari... etc... Time to upgrade and stop blaming the web for advancing.
Or just ctrl-click, or middle-click.
Then it was in reference to a comment using the CPI as evidence against their perceptive anecdote.
Sure. Would you be interested in the code which generated this repository ? I'm going to clean it up then push it here https://github.com/Gawen/lifebuilder .
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The same way most other things are proven. Someone in a position of power says "the checkbox was there and we recorded the value, and this was the version of the TOS at the time" under threat of perjury.
As said by other posts before, that is completely irrelevant in executive level. No one would or should care about your documentation at that point, as it might be for rank-and-file workers.

Get convinced of the CEO strategy and execute it, or stay convinced, convince the board and do your way - and in either case, take responsibility for whatever happens to the company in the whole, there is no such thing as "your separate area" or "only your direct actions/subordinates" at that level.
Let's imagine the worst happens: John Gruber explicitely refuses to give up the name "Markdown", and to bless any standardization process. Which would then need another name.

Ideally the name should be clearly different than the original one, and clearly signal the underlying spec is the same, only better (of course, the actual spec better live to that expectation).

"Rockdown" sounds cool, but it doesn't work. Sure, it rocks, but it's doesn't say "you should use me, not my obsolete father".

An obvious choice is "<qualifier> Markdown". For instance, "Clean Markdown", or "Standard Markdown". We may think that's cheating, but we already talk about "<website> flavoured Markdown". There will soon be another one, that explicitly pretends to be the flavour. Better let the name reflect that. As for the actual Markdown, I guess people will start calling it "Original Markdown".

Now there's little chance, but maybe, maybe John Gruber will still shout that his original version is the standard no matter what. If monsters like Stack-overflow, Reddit, and GitHub make a good "std Markdown" anyway, no one will believe him.

Anyway, enough with the name. Let's just write that BNF. A reference implementation in something like MetaII or OMeta will then be a piece of cake. If I ever do that on my own, I'll call it "Strict Markdown". Because I don't like when obvious errors in my Markdown code produce unintended output instead of an error message (major culprits are links and emphases).
It also means 'gradually reduce a liability in small increments', which I would assume is how he is using it here. Although, that usage is generally used in reference to finance.