skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you just send yours? If they extend the deadline it's because of people having problems because of 'Sandy'. If you can send yours today just do it, is it really so important if it closes today or tomorrow? You've had plenty of time to finish yours.
"and start to build your houses from bricks instead of paper"

Funny - I was thinking about my service in Okinawa, years ago. You know how in Karate Kid 2 they had paper houses because 'Japan'? Not so much.

Homes in Okinawa are built of cinderblocks and concrete with flat roofs because they get typhoons on a regular basis. So regular that 'typhoons' are how they replenish their water supply.

I suspect that one reason more homes in the US are not built like hurricane bunkers is that for any given locale in 'hurricane' range the odds of having an actual hurricane blow over are not 'will happen' but 'may happen'.

Think of it this way: every single home in the US within X miles of the coast from Maine to Texas would have to be 'hurricane' proof. That's a lot of construction.
Lots more discussion on the prior submission for this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717923
I haven't read anything here about the environmental effects of stopping hurricanes. Yes, it sucks that they show up and flood our cities and destory our houses, but they are definitely a common part of the carribean ecosystem.

It seems imprudent to try and stop them without considering this. Who knows what kinds of disasters we'd be trading for hurricanes - regardless of the technology we use to stop them.
There are a few reasons we're making the switch, and I'll try and jot down a bunch of them here. I'll also duplicate this information and let the JRuby guys know as well. A little background, I've used JRuby on a few projects, have contributed to the project, some gems, have attended some JRuby conferences, etc. I'm a huge fan of JRuby and its community. That said, here are some reasons we're making the switch:

- Start up time. It starts to sting after a while when frequently firing up console and compiling assets.

- Gems compatibility. For the most part, this is a non-issue, but we had to do some JRuby related patches to some gems (hstore support for postgres, and some others that I can't think of off the top of my head).

- Torquebox. It's a solid project, but we had a bunch of small issues that we can into that made it a bit painful. Weird terminal buffering on console (same thing for ruby-debug), requests dropping on restarts, and some other issues. The baked in backgrounding and the stomplet support is really nice, but we decided to sacrifice these things for something that we understand a lot better (we have a lot more experience with the ruby servers than the JBoss and other java application servers).

A lot of it boils down to us not having the time to learn and fix the issues we were running into w/ the JRuby deployment. We need to focus on building our application, so we don't have the luxury of learning a new deployment ecosystem. That said, we are using AngularJS, so there is "one" thing new that we're all learning.
There is a tiny plugin logo to the left of the address bar. Clicking on that will bring the popup back. Easily missed though.
The Presentation Of Your Business Idea Affects The Success Of Your Website
I believe there are licensing issues with the actual device drivers, they can't be distributed.
Look at Mozart, for instance. He'd put in his ten thousand hours by the time he was like three.
Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
Steve Huffman - Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity
Ask HN: Please help me choose between golang and clojure? I like both....
I like both, but want to seriously concentrate on one.... Golang or Clojure-JVM?
While I'm not a Chef fanboy, far from it, some of these comments are just not true.

"and does stuff like execute apt for each desired package on each node on each run". No you just need to set it up correctly so that it keeps the timestamp of the latest apt-get update, and does not refresh it within the next x hours.

"not self-hosted". Somewhat agreed, although you can easily get around this with the excellent https://github.com/tobami/littlechef
TastyPie is great for getting started, but scaling it is painful - out of the box, the queries it does are very inefficient.
Apple blocks Siri's prostitute-finder function
> and you'll get an actual window that you can move and resize.

I'd do this all the time if it gave you a new tab rather than a new window. Who uses new browser windows these days?
I read it had to do with the corporate raider buyouts of the 80's. Companies discovered that they could shed liabilities to employees this way. It also probably is due to it being easier to hire employees at far off locations. Further since college became more prevalent and often vocational by major, companies did not need to invest in training the employee, making them easier to replace.
You've always had the option of compose in a new window, shift-click.
Lovely, I just tried with Selenium and it works. Also, with Eclipse Orion on the other tab and all you need is Firefox to do all development.
I'd like to see "Getting to Yes" or "Getting Past No" in addition. I think both of these books are great at helping founders understand that negotiations are not zero-sum games.
another one is http://www.solidworks.com/default.htm
Looks very cool; the idea of having "big" and "little" processors on the same SoC is interesting. I wondering if this is a big win vs. just having a "big" processor that is frequently put into idle mode when not needed.

As a side note, does anyone else find the ARM naming conventions totally impossible to follow? I look at the list of ARM models (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microprocessor_core...) and have no idea where to begin. The family/architecture/core scheme means you can have a single chip that is an ARM11 family, ARMv6 architecture, ARM1136JF-S core. How do people make sense of this?

As someone who's writing a library that I want to be supported across all (or most) ARM cores, I don't have any idea how many different chips I'd need to test against to get a representative sample. There are so many optional features (NEON, Thumb, Thumb-2, VFP, etc) that seems to be supported in various combinations across the different models. It's like a maze and I never have any idea how a new model I read about fits in.
App developers.
"Autism epidemic" likely due to changing diagnostic criteria
First international community wireless networks - in Europe
Could you flesh this out so I can understand the benefit? Are you replying to each of the threads, and thus need 5 compose windows as well? I tend to stick with windows and rarely use tabs, so I certainly could be missing an essential use case.
How is this return to popups any different to the option that's always been present, shift-click to open compose in a new window. Personally, I liked having the choice.
HP Cloud is down in AZ1
One thing definitely not helping their cause is their crappy domain name. No offense as I'm sure their product is lovely, but stripe has a big advantage in terms of branding
This is great news and much deserved success for the superb team. I have lost count of apps that i deleted within five minutes of installing where one touch crm would have been of enormous help.
Are you arguing for tabs inside the Gmail interface? It's the same functional equivalent, we're just quibbling about style then.
In addition to the newness of Instant - they've only supported EU/Canada since late August.
OT?: I wish the tutorial were better. It starts out with maximum complexity (minimal usage of the framework) and then reduces complexity. I skipped to the last page to try to see if DRF would actually save me time.

Compare to TastyPie where a functional API is built with very few lines of code and right near the top of the tutorial: http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial.ht...
And dams burst, reclaimed marshes flood, aqueducts collapse. We can carve out a tenuous effect but it'll only last as long as we expend energy to maintain it.

> If we haven't bothered to fix something yet, maybe it's because the problem is not so important.

This is rather callous. The catastrophic tsunami in Japan was a problem of some importance, yet with all our art we could barely predict its arrival, much less affect it.

Your first sentence makes a good point - the 'three rights.' So, can you name an example where the directed application of energy has affected - in a predictable fashion - some natural process of the scale of a hurricane? Earthquakes, climate change, tsunami, storms... Not much of a track record as far as I can see. (Cloud seeding, perhaps? Hardly predictable.)

I think your faith in humanity's power is premature at best, more likely misplaced.

> Nature more or less remains the same. The end result seems quite clear to me.

> ...or wait until we have the technology to achieve it.

Nature might well remain the same, but it's still hardly within our comprehension. The end result you're talking about, that mastery of nature, would appear to be many thousands of years in the future if we ever achieve it.
> The title (and article) is really bad journalism.

I don't know if the title has been changed since it was posted—I suspect not, since it matches the URL—but what it actually says is that Linux is more viable than Windows for gaming (which is probably more surprising; but, in any case, is certainly a different point).
I use Fabric to run Puppet. Setting up a puppet server is overkill for my small setup, but I found Puppet to be better suited to managing server configuration and more scalable should my number of servers continue to grow.
They provide some things that are useful for certain aspects of RESTfulness. Mainly making it easier to support the HTTP verbs properly, that's a very far from all there is to RESTful things though and that's where something like Django REST Framework comes in...
No idea, but whilst I am here... I have fallen in love with this timer app:
http://www.opoloo.com/timer

It's transformed my cooking as now I no longer burn my pizzas.

I half kid. It is beautiful, and I would love to find other incredibly functional, well-thought out, complete and gorgeous apps.

As to the comment above about it being quality over quantity... no, it's both, quality and quantity. The long tail should be served, but I want the quality to exist at the tallest part of that histogram.
This seemingly bold unrest for China and the reporting of dissatisfaction could also be related to the fact that Jintao's term as president is soon coming to an end. A large portion of the power structure in China is proportionate to an individuals' degrees of separation from the current political party in control, and with a switch coming up, I think we're going to see more unrest in the next year as some power is diminished.

Just my 2 cents.
Because of the storm we're pushing the YC application deadline back to Friday
The deadline is now November 2 at 8 Pacific time. Please bear with me while I change the date everywhere.
Given that the answer is 'no', perhaps a better question would be "How many nukes would you need to stop a hurricane?"
Why Every Company Should Have a Marketing-Focused Webdev Team
You've sent the first signal that we are evolving from a facebook generation to a github generation, so from a numerical social generation to a programmable generation.

Thank you !
Behind Decision to Close Markets: Tech Support
I seem to recall that both Google search and Gmail were initially popular with technically sophisticated users. I remember proselytising this amazing new search engine to people still using Lycos, or Yahoo, or Alta Vista, or whatever it was back then.

I used to be able to get very accurate results in Google search with judicious use of quotes, excluded terms, and exact phrases. Now, Google second-guesses what I really meant, and usually gives me a result that's more generic, more mainstream, but not actually what I was looking for.

The contemporary services are better for people who don't understand sets, and who don't really know how to use the more esoteric features of their browser. That's not necessarily bad, but it's bad for us. But we'll cope: there's no shortage of alternative email clients.
The basic idea is to ablate the asteroid to deflect it:
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/343984.pdf
http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lare...
How can a cockup in his area be somehow not his responsibility? For any possible contributing cause - number and expertise people working on the product, handling of acquisitions in the sector, strategic deals with other companies and partners involved, the marketing-built expectations of consumers, the PR followup of the maps - as a senior VP, it is his direct duty to make sure that stuff there happens in a favorable way and take responsibility for whatever happened.

Even if a major reason is disagreements with CEO or board or other VP's - it is still clearly his responsibility to solve those disagreements and ensure that they don't harm results. As in the Jobs' citation, somewhere between the janitor and his position that ceases to be a valid excuse.
I'm not saying that there's no room for improvement. Frankly, I want a smaller iPhone, a pressure-sensitive display, and a physical button to take a picture that's always active. What I don't want is for any of these improvements to fundamentally change the way the phone UX works (i.e. moving to a menu system or something).

The only "bad" design elements, in my opinion, were notifications and Siri. They fixed notifications but I had to turn Siri off.
I've built systems with both Stripe and Braintree. Stripe is so much easier to work with. Braintree's not too bad, but the implementation of Stripe is more straight forward.
They've since completely evacuated the building, no?
Heyzap (W09) is hiring - Biz Dev
Heyzap is looking for an exceptional individual to join our business development team.

Heyzap is a social network for mobile gamers, allowing users to connect, challenge and play with their friends. Heyzap investors include Union Square Ventures (investor in Twitter and Zynga) and YCombinator.

Job Summary

As part of the Business Development team, you will be responsible for the continued and rapid expansion of the Heyzap SDK base.

You will probably be able to talk with over 500 game developers in this role.

Candidates should have the following skills:
- Outstanding problem solving abilities.
- Exceptional communication skills over phone, email, IM and other mediums

Candidates should have the following attributes:
- A hunger to expand knowledge
- In depth knowledge of web & mobile technologies
- Team player
- A track record of achievements
- The ability to go above and beyond the required task
- Leadership
- A 'go get it' attitude with the ability to take initiative
- A Bachelors degree or equivalent from a University you are proud of

If you’re keen to win then join us by emailing andrew@heyzap.com
>I think they're doing their best. It's very hard to write both clean CSS and cross-browser compatible CSS.

I think that's a poor excuse. Our designers manage just fine without requiring me to generate horrible markup or dump dozens of classes on everything. For something that is intended to be used by other people, I would have higher quality expectations, not lower.

>If one of the following applies to you, Bootstrap is for you

Thank you for the list, that's exactly what I was hoping their website would tell me.
A possibility is to separate the core from extensions. The idea would be for everybody to observe the core spec, and clearly signal any extension. If an extension makes consensus, it could even be standardized. The most widely used standard extensions could then be merged in the core spec. The other, more specialized extensions, would stay in their separate standard.
That currently works as well. You can open Compose in a new tab with Control-click for Win/Linux or Cmd-click for Mac.

I rarely see the appeal of tabs, so generally use windows. They are great as temporary bookmarks, but not for working with multiple sources in parallel. I'm confused that this is not more common, other than that more and more sites break it. Similar to the "new" Google compose window, and unlike tabs, the main advantage is that you can see both source and compose at once without needed to switch back and forth.

I'll turn the question back at you: why don't people use new windows? Is it just backlash from terribly designed sites that automatically pop up new windows for everything?
I'm not running a blog or expecting anyone to take what they read in a comment on some site on the internet seriously.

Label me however you want, it's a free internet (for now, anyway).

I still find it funny how anyone can start a blog and become famous for it. Maybe I should do the same and cash in on all that buttery goodness of advertising revenue...
Udacity looks to expand internationally with crowdsourced captions
Do you think that your company could do this better at a reasonable cost? How would your company handle a scenario like this internally (an entire data center becomes unrecoverable)?

If you don't have a good answer, it's simply grass-is-greener thinking.
New York's Blackout Skyline
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#Terminology

Relevant quote - emphasis mine:
"Primary lactase deficiency is genetic, only affects adults and is caused by the absence of a lactase persistence allele.[9][10] It is the most common cause of lactose intolerance as a majority of the world's population lacks these alleles.[11]"

edit: Also, I can't believe you linked to some forum called "The Straight Dope" as your citation.
Five9 recently hired Eric Merritt in an effort to take the entire platform and redesign it using erlang. They are also hiring a lot of Erlang Engineers in prep for the transition. Hopefully this means the platform will be much more stable.
How much does it cost to be an audiophile?
Either you live in a country with much more liberal drug laws than the UK or US, or you are a bit misinformed. These countries have very strict regulations on who can possess quantities of scheduled narcotics, even for research. It took nearly a decade to get regulatory approval to schedule a MDMA research study in the U.S. It's hard to find source on this stuff, but you can see as noted here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22280-a-real-fmri-high...
I've been meaning to do this for chess, which seems like it would be much easier than pool. The checkerboard pattern of the board is rather simple to distinguish, and you don't need to visually distinguish individual pieces, just what squares the pieces are on.
The Plot to Destroy America's Beer
If we ever get to the point where the dominant culture truly wins over nature, we're looking a mass extinction event that will make the dinosaur extinction of the late Cretaceous seem like -- well, a fart in a hurricane.
It'd be a smart way for them to finally make money off of it.
Introduction to Machine Learning via Conversation with Drug Dealer (fiction)
Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718447
It reminds me of...of something familiar...
If an exec has subordinates feeding him misleading information, then that is not an excuse, but an aggravating circumstance.

His primary job is not "building good Maps", it is "building an organization that delivers good Maps". Having failed products may be excusable for some reasons; having products fail because your team is not functioning is not excusable, having your team be like that is 100% direct execs fault and responsibility if he has been there for more than a few months.
You could siphon the fuel up the tube to the pump at the time of the pump's installation, right? Through a one-way valve?
Valve designer Greg Coomer: How getting rid of bosses makes for better games
You can use Ctrl+left-click to get the same 'open in new tab' behaviour as middle-click.

I do agree that broken middle-click is hugely annoying. I'd much prefer they fixed that though, rather than introducing a non-standard popup as the default left-click behaviour.

I don't really understand why they hijacked middle-click in the first place. Does anyone actually use middle-click + drag to scroll? I would've assumed the majority have scroll wheels? Is this some accessibility thing that I'm missing?
I wish there was some law saying that a 'contract' like that is not valid if it has more than X words (e.g. 1,000), it's between a corporation and a person, and the corporation has not resonably established that the person has consulted legal advice. That would be a relatively unambiguous way to ban such one sided contracts.
It's particularly hard to shoehorn in after the fact. Certain development models (e.g. replicated state machines) make it much easier... mix in some magic Paxos dust and it can handle machine failures as well.

Sadly the better implementations I've used myself (or have heard about) are not publicly available. The closest thing in semi-widespread use seems to be Zookeeper, but it's more like Oracle when you really wanted SQLite (standalone service vs. library).
I understand the initial feeling, but then: $2500 for a 5 days course, targeting mostly people that sell themselves between $100 and $200 per hour.

It's going to sell like hotcakes, in my opinion.
Hurricane Sandy: Initial impact on the internet
You mean nobody that somehow missed the media coverage expected this. Those that watched the media coverage prepared for this level of disaster.
How tough it is depends on how you're engineering your geo-redundancy. I've been doing it since 1998 and a simple active-passive solution is not as hard as some would believe but it does cost money. Active-Active is much more challenging and multi-master is obviously the ideal and the most difficult to engineer with geo-network latency. I haven't seen one solution that couldn't be staged to at least provide active-passive DR capability for a pretty reasonable price. You can even do it in EC2, RackSpace Cloud or Joyent if your feeling "cloudy".
I'm a cynic. It's going to be at LEAST a couple of days.
Since everyone is sharing the django-rest framework they are using, I'll chime in with my choice:

Django-Piston

https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home

I have not used any other frameworks but will be trying ops suggestion.
For me it restarted the download...
The New Science of Winning Campaigns
I don't think so. The point is to hack git <=> to use it in another purpose it had been done, not to build something new upon it. But I'm planning to manage my future blog content based on this repository though.
Sandy takes data centers offline
Paragraph 2 explains that it tracks "activities that they engaged in".
Looks like it was captured with a Kinect.
>but for devs who are better at backend and lost when it comes to frontend/design, it can be a huge time (and money) saver.

This is a large part of why I am/was so confused about the purpose of these things. That describes me exactly, and everyone keeps saying I am exactly who bootstrap and friends are made for. Yet I see no purpose or value to it at all. I guess the answer really is "if you don't want to or can't design your site, just use twitters design". It was just hard to believe that's really all there is to it given how much attention is paid to something so trivial.
Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local
Indeed, they were intended to be separate examples.
This is awesome. I didn't enroll in the class but I love the fact that it's available for me as a reference.

What I specifically liked is the fact that they introduced and discussed concepts that I won't necessarily deal with unless I happen to be working on a high traffic app or site, which at this stage of my life (Senior student living in a developing country) is unlikely to happen. Thank you Udacity.