skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems very similar to what Cue (Greplin) pivoted to a few months ago.

I uninstalled that app after a week once I realized that most of the time it couldn't do anything more for me than give me the sunrise and sunset.
As a living creature, we only really need food, shelter, and someone to love (and love us back). Everything past that is for the enjoyment of our existence.

If you're not in a position to pay for an expensive cell phone plan, or if you'd simply find the money better spent elsewhere, then do that. When you ask me if I "need" to use my smartphone, you sound like my mother. Don't do that.
Earlier (and perhaps more impactful) research in this area:
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2744104?uid=3739936...

The tradeoff between digestion and cognition suggests that adaptations are rarely cost neutral, and explains why random traits don't just improve forever. (ie, why we don't all have eyes like hawks).
The last I checked the MTBF on SSD's was substantially longer than for hard-drives. Barring firmware bugs you should probably strike that off your list of reasons for not using a SSD.

Even if you do think SSD's are horribly unreliable, they're so fast that they're still worth using. Just put your OS and programs on a SSD and store your data on a HD. If the SSD fails, you've lost nothing you can't reinstall easily. I started doing this a couple of years ago and there's absolutely no going back.
I think Gary Yourofsky claims something similar to that. But he's pretty extreme even by vegan standards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4

Lots of psuedoscience in there.
I am at a total loss for how any of this would require root access. I'm not sure any component of the system online or offline would need root; I'm absolutely certain the web app wouldn't. You don't need IPC tricks.

I'd be less comfortable with the contraption that pushes stats out from the hosts. I don't agree that it would be more secure.

Virtually any system you could imagine to solve this probably would almost by mathematical necessity be more secure than giving out a root SSH login, which is the funny thing about this thread.
Hi, thanks, we appreciate that!

Meteor does have the spiderable package (http://meteor.com/blog/2012/08/09/search-engine-optimization) which means that URLs such as http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/08d0105f-0a1c-43a1-b11a-5ba8875e... will be indexed by google.

(Actually they won't because we haven't enabled spiderable in this deployment of Telescope, but it would be a one-line change to do so).
Oh and by the way, the Telescope demo is hosted on a free Heroku instance. So far it seems to be holding up pretty good, with about 80 concurrent users.
Not bad at all. I'm surprised there's not an even more affordable pay-as-you-go option for data, though.
That's a feature in Mail.app, too. Does that mean I should write a blog post about it? Will it get to the front page of Hacker News? Will it get to the top? What if I say it's the best feature you're not using on Mail.app? I'd be wrong, but people would still go to my site, right?

I honestly think HN should be doing more about linkbait like this.
Why Does Google Crave Elites for Their Management Team While Apple Eschews Them?
> Our brains are big enough now after generations of evolution.

Err... bigger isn't always better, but I won't say no to a bigger noggin.

> Time to put those big brains to use so we can figure out how to continue the existence of the human species.

I wasn't aware we were heading toward extinction? There are billions of us, you know?

> I really doubt it'll be by continuing to eat lots of cows.

I like chickens, turkeys, goats, sheep, and all the other domesticated animals too. There's fish as well. Oh, and there's pigs too. I don't think we've ever relied on a single animal for sustenance?
It seems to me that the store needs to add big ticket items in its reinvention. I'm thinking...futons. And, affordable, cool, cozy chairs, maybe desks, and lamps. Items that college students, for instance, always need for dorms, new apartments. Anything at or slightly above IKEA quality and around that price range could generate sales, especially with delivery service. Local artisans could provide cool pillows, pictures, linens--not a whole lot, but really well curated. The "showroom" is where people can sit and read the books, attend cozy events. This is what I would want to try, if I were you... but, very best of luck, in any case! --Maureen E.
Ask HN: Review my startup - sweatn.com
Hey thanks for taking the time to check out my latest venture. sweatn.com

The site is in public beta and I would appreciate any feedback.

Sweatn wants help people get in shape or stay in shape by helping them find some good workouts. Not only that, you can create boards and save workouts for a later time.

If you have any question about the site or about the stack that I'm using, feel free to ask me.
They answered this question in their support forum. Their answer was that your own audio files are not "social" so they do not plan to support them inside Rdio.
The link was direct when I tried it. However, to answer your question, it is a chapter from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. An amazing work covering much of mathematics.

http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth...
maybe its just me, but I'm failing to see whats so impressive about this. Couldn't this have been accomplished in any language, and after viewing source code .. I feel like could of done with a lot less code. While its fast, for a tech demo, I imagine for a lot of other framework/language combinations could be made to be this fast as well.
"I usually know where content stops and ads begin, partly because I’ve had access to the Internet longer than others. I think ads target the same audience that Nigerian scammers do"

It is hard to take someone seriously when they begin by claiming that ads are not useful to any party, and then gives a treatise on ads. But what's most offensive the fundamental assumption that only stupid people click on ads. (see references to "lower income" and "lower education"). Not to mention switching between the personal and the accusative ("We retain 5%" / "you're really paying $20").

My summary, I continue to be amazed at how important advertising is to the Internet economy, but that said, I understand it very well. Smart people click on ads. Smart people buy ads. Smart people build ads products and smart people measure and validate their effectiveness. If you go in to the ads or an ads-funded business with these assumptions, you will not attract good ads, and will get the incredible low RPMs you believe exist.
I do it to make sure I followed what is written.
I'm not sure that's entirely fair on meteor. They do provide a security layer: http://meteor.com/blog/2012/10/18/meteor-050-authentication-...

Although new apps come with the autopublish package turned on (which violates a lot of the security), any real application will have this package turned off.
Aw, cute. People in performance marketing want to be called "hackers" now.
How much, how is it produced and what kind?

farm raised alantic salmon have a feed to gain ratio of about 1.2, which is amazing (cattle are about 5x worse)

Also, there are some serious doubts about whether veganic farming could support current global population levels (manure is a great fertilizer!)

Of course things get more complicated in terms of efficiency when you start thinking about dairy and fertilizer and hide production.. the thinking around permaculture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture ) takes this "whole system" approach to agriculture and would be necessary if you wanted to e.g. create a self-sustaining colony on mars.
> Pointless for what purpose?

I'm beginning to think you don't understand how the Electoral College works, but maybe Montana wasn't the best example.

Pointless for the purpose of electing a President. The odds of Montana casting any of its electoral votes for a Democratic candidate are so low that it is essentially impossible for an individual Montanan voting for a Democratic Presidential candidate to have any actual impact on the result. Compare this to a Floridian, or even a Virginian.

Now, Montana isn't nearly as Republican-leaning a state as, say, Arizona has been recently. Montana has a Democratic governor and has elected two Democrats to the Senate. However, we've been two very reliable electoral votes in the Republican column for decades now, and that shows no sign of changing.

So, statistically, a Montanan voting for a Democratic Presidential candidate is throwing their vote away in a very real sense. However, they can still cast an efficacious ballot for two Senators, a Representative, a Governor, and other state-level offices, not to mention voting on referenda. A way to make up for lost influence is to, as I said, support a special interest group in addition to voting.
Yeah I get that same feeling from all these "productivity" stories. It just seems easier to not do these things, rather than write about the weird ways in which you restrict yourself from doing them.

Also phene you seem to be hellbanned.
Don't forget to throw Mac and Windows into the mix. You're forgetting two much, much larger user bases.
Canada prepares for crackdown on BitTorrent movie pirates
There's also a separate ST2 package called SublimeREPL that supports other languages (https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL).
yes, the greatest feature, that ever email clients.
And those sites that have popup ads on certain words - so annoying!
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it.
New recruit reporting for duty. I've never seen anyone else read webpages the same way I do - by selecting to scroll - so it's a surprise to finally find my kin. I guess it was more likely to happen on a place like HN?

Scrolling without selecting is just disorienting when I'm reading.
I'm actually disappointed. I liked the 768 package, it was big enough that you could run a fair amount of stuff [0], and cost only $30/month. I was planning on buying a new one over my Christmas holidays and moving my stuff over so I could get onto a newer CentOS. CPU has never been a problem, so this new priority is meaningless to me.

For my needs, $30/mo was about as much as I'd spend on a server to host mine and a few friend's blogs, some photos, and some remote services. $40 is too much for me and the lower plan just doesn't have enough RAM to be interesting.

So now my options are 1) find somewhere else, or 2) backup my data and rebuild the box in place.

0 - I manage a few Linode 768s including my own. 768 was a great size for a few small blogs and a low traffic Rails site, or a larger traffic blog.
Aquaponics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics ) exploits the nice relationship between fish excrement and plant growth (using some friendly bacteria to turn the amonia into nitrates) in a sustainable way that yeilds tasty lean meat.
When it's found in "soil", it's due to bacteria and small animals (insects, mites) that are in the soil.

Any B12(-like) substances that are in plants (e.g., spirulina) are unlikely to be in a form that's bioavailable to human beings.

Vegans have to take B12 supplements of some sort or eat foods that have been fortified with B12. That's just a fact.
When I read the first half of that sentence, I thought it was going to end with "...was the main reason I kept using Rdio".

I like that they stick to their guns :)
> he believes that he's God's gift to programming.

Had to lol at that one!
Workers raise first section of Chernobyl shelter
I do exactly the same. For me it's not really selection reading, but selection marking, when scrolling.
A more meaningful chart would show how the total number of "Personal Computing Platforms" has exploded. How would the chart change if you decided that an old Nokia that supported WAP was also a "Personal Computing Platform"?

Also, this comes from Asymco - "Covers the mobile industry with a heavy slant towards Apple's business strategy and predictions of their financials.". So a company that's focused on the mobile industry created this.
Well, the thing about Telescope that might not be immediately obvious is that it's realtime. Sit and watch the front page for a while and you'll see posts re-ordering as other people vote on them. Hang about in the comments page for a post and you'll see new comments queue up as people make them.

Meteor makes it easy to build such features; sure you could maybe make them happen in other more traditional frameworks, but I can assure you, it would be a _lot_ more code. We wanted to make an easy to understand app in meteor as an example to help people learn their way around the frame work.

We'll be writing more about these features and how meteor made them possible; watch this space!
As a longtime Rdio loyalist, I'm really digging it. It seems to take fewer taps to get to the different sections and many of the discovery sections ("New Releases" and "Heavy Rotation") finally infinite scroll in iOS, which really makes discovery easier.

Plus it's remarkably pretty, which I appreciate. Nice fonts, subtle color variations and a few transparent UI layers give it a nice texture. A lot of hard core music lovers like vinyl because the attention to packaging invokes a certain reverence for the art - to some extent I think Rdio accomplish this as much as they can on a 3.5 inch screen.
> Yes, as a placeholder to pick up reading later

This is my answer, and it's a habit I picked up while using Skype, since they don't track my position very well when new messages comes in. (OS X)
The world is your runway with Polyvore’s new iPhone app
Ask HN: Hosting/server for a startup - Should we think in scalability now?
Hi out there! We are working on a new startup, that if it goes popular, it will need a good hosting.

Should we start with a simple hosting and the move (which may be hard, if in the future), or should we start buying a VPS or something like that?

We are developers but not so into the technical (server config) part, so we are a bit clueless here.

Thank you for your answers! :)
We do a lot of game/video hosting. http://www.constant.com

One thing to check is that some of the budget hosts will oversell their networking in such a way where your port links at one speed, but you're unlikely to ever see that speed for long periods of time.
Just because a statement's meaning is clear doesn't make it easy to read. Even seemingly minor errors (such as mixing up "it's" with "its") disrupts the flow of reading.
There aren't many startups down here, but there are definitely wireless health and engineering firms.
That's not really in scope for choosing a voting system that best represents the people. But yes, point taken.
Made-in-China IT Products Emerge with Outstanding Capability
When searching “Made in China” on Google, there are 1.6 billion results. How big the number is! This indicates that made-in-China has become a global phenomenon. But even now, when many foreigners talk or mention a made-in-China product, the words that occur to them first maybe “cheap and low quality”. In IT industry which was dominated by foreign enterprises before, such view is particularly common. However, this perception is not applicable to all Chinese made products and Raqsoft is among those which break that mindset. How do you think of made-in-China products?
/proc/cpuinfo for me shows 4 Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz
This is an unfair comment. Think about all the features gmail has that aren't buttons in the UI. Would you really like 1) Buttons for all of these 2) some pop-up or otherwise annoying message coming up for each of these features when your trying to write/read an email?
LOOOOL!
Somebody who wants to break into a house with a crowbar is running a few risks.

Someone might be inside the house when they break in and that person might be armed.

Someone might see them opening the door with a crowbar and either report them or stop them.

They may be recorded on CCTV en-route to my house , or stopped the police and have to explain why they were carrying a crowbar late at night.

Even if they are not caught in the act, the incident will almost certainly be reported to the police afterwards.

None of these risks really exist in terms of breaking DRM.

If someone could break your house lock simply by tapping a button on their smartphone then I would suggest that locking your house is pointless.
You really can't think of any reasons why a person would suspect a cross-platform IDE to be a waste of time? I stupidly downloaded the 141MB only to find out it requires X11 (ugh) on a Mac which isn't even included in MacOS anymore (yuck). Delete.
Thanks by the way for the comment on my blog. Much appreciated.
Richard Williamson, who oversaw the mapping team, was pushed out by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information wasn’t yet public. Cue, who took over last month as part of a management shakeup...

This has been months in the making.

Is this personnel change interesting to anyone other Apple-watchers and investors? E.g., it's on Bloomberg and HN, but not CNN. This is today's CNN Apple story: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/tech/web/bing-search-2012/inde...

It hardly seems to have affected investors either: Apple shares slipped less than 1 percent to $586.81 at 2:01 p.m. in New York. The stock has gained 45 percent so far this year.

As part of the management overhaul, Cue -- who oversees Apple’s iTunes, App Store and iCloud services -- was also put in charge of maps and the Siri voice-recognition tool, bringing all of the company’s online services under one group.

I think it's unrealistic to think that Apple-internal project/product management staff changes will be put on hold for months simply due to the shopping season. The executives probably feel this "overhaul" is quite urgent and is holding up deadlines.
Don't you mean safe mode is the synchronous version? The original default was asynchronous error checking.
Poll: Which online courses have you taken?
In particular, I'm interested in seeing which platform(s) you used.
Coursera (completed a course)
Coursera (started, but never completed)
Udacity (completed a course)
Udacity (started, but never completed)
edX or MITx (completed a course)
edX or MITx (started, but never completed)
MIT OpenCourseWare (watched all the videos in a course)
MIT OpenCourseWare (started, but never completed)
iTunes U (watched all the videos in a course)
iTunes U (started, but never completed)
Other - Venture Lab, Class2Go, OpenLearning, Udemy, etc. (completed a course)
Other (started, but never completed)
I ~want~ to use Meteor on a large project, but they only are in Preview and in the FAQ states there will most likely be major API changes each [preview?] release, with no 1.0 release date in sight.
Because most of these sensational breaking stories reflect negatively on the company these bloggers have built their identity out of...and thus themselves.
Alright, I scrolled through all 16 pages of the singularity of stupidity that was that thread. I don't see anything in there by taligent that stands out. About the worst he did was let himself get dragged into a personal fight in the first few pages. (I wonder now which one of the users you were in that forum thread. sednet?)

You linked to the email exchange between Linode support and one of the affected customers. You know that Linode already had an idea that they had a problem before the rest of their customers found it. Do you think it would have been so unreasonable for Linode to at least put up a message on status.linode.com, "We are investigating an incident of unauthorized access to one of our customer Linodes, we will update this as we investigate it"?

And I don't read that implication from taligent's comment here. I think it's obvious that he's saying that they didn't bother to let their customers know when the incident occurred.

Basically: he thinks they didn't handle the disclosure on that matter in a way befitting its seriousness, and he thinks that they've done nothing to show that they'll handle it differently in the future. I agree on both counts. As he said in the forum thread, what makes this so frustrating is that Linode has been so spectacular in every other regard.

He's right also to point to the CloudFlare post-mortem as an example of Doing It Right. Surely you see the stark difference between CloudFlare's handling of their incident and Linode's? We still don't know the exact nature of the compromise (former employee? Did Linode have an externally-accessible customer service interface? What happened), nor do we have any idea what they did about it, other than that they say they "will be reviewing our policies and procedures to prevent this from ever recurring" -- an extremely wormy statement that will still be true even if they choose to change nothing at all.

I don't like to see HN threads turn in to a whirlwind of pointless personal attacks. Let's just discuss the facts, OK?
I only do it when someone else is looking at the same screen as me, and there is a lot of text (not watching video together, but reading article). It's like a highlighter to coordinate reading.
Yes! I sometime highlight, but often just hovering the cursor over the sentences even words around, like I am rolling pen or something, shaking legs or body, when I am thinking.
not to mention tastypie headaches when trying to update nested resources (user->userprofile->something else)
Excellent R tutorial on data frames
And for the record, "produced industrially" means farming bacteria, effectively (per Wikipedia) - it's not synthetic or derived from meat.
Vimeo vs. YouTube vs. Facebook vs. Viddler vs. SmugMug
I live in California right now, so I not too worried about cost. I already have great weather and I am married. :)

Haven't looked at many companies, buti like what Opera is doing.
This is disappointing. My Rails app gets just enough traffic that it uses 1.2-1.4 gigs of ram on average. The 1.5 gig plan was perfect for me and I've used it without issues for years now.
Windows 8 upgrade boxes mislead customers
hmm the big kinda blank screen while you click "Load more" and the initial load time makes it seem a little unappealing, design is nice though!
Hi Michael,
Thanks for reaching out. I know I shouldn't be depressed but it is extremely frustrating thinking about the situation, but not being able to do anything about it -- something like being able to hum Mozart or Beethoven or Wagner in your mouth clearly enough but totally sucking at it while playing it on an instrument!

I think I got what you are pointing out, but then again, maybe I didn't. Firstly, the serial dependency bit clicked instantly (Well, it's easy because you can see that's all you've been doing all along!).

But the parallelism bit flew past my head. Are you recommending that :

1. be savvy enough to devote serious effort toward internal networking?

2. Try to work on multiple teams/areas/domains?

3. Keep your contacts in outside organisations well primed and ready to help?

Or was it something more obvious that ended up getting missed? Some more details would be helpful.

Thank you.
Some more variables: grass-fed or not, amount of fat, how rarely it is cooked, what organs are consumed.
I totally agree. I'm making a more subtle point, one that's about this thread, not about the news story. People are suggesting that this person is being fired to take the fall for the maps app; that he's a kind of sacrificial lamb. Companies like Apple don't sacrifice their lambs during the holiday season, is what I'm saying.
I don't.

I have a fairly large screen (27inch cinema display) and use Vim. 80 Character lines are perfect. They look nicer, are easy to read (in the same way books are easy to read when lines are not super long) and with vim can accommodate ~4 split windows side by side which is useful.
Gasp ... I'm just about to use "stodgy old PostgreSQL" in a new project. I guess I'm old enough now that perhaps I'm stodgy myself.
768 is still available as a resize option - not sure if that's a mistake though...