skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take your word for how pie-in-the-sky CCN really is, I skimmed through the paper without a critical eye. However ...

> Be prepared for IPv6 for the next 20 years at least.

I have, for the last 10 (or more?) I think it was 1999 when I was thinking "I should probably implement IPv6 in this project, because next year it's going to be everywhere".

I think you mean "be prepared for IPv6 to be the up-and-coming protocol for the next 20 years at least".

Maybe not CCN, but I suspect it's more likely that a killer-app with it's own tunnelled-in-IPv4 protocol is more likely to take over than IPv6. BitTorrent had a chance to do that, but didn't. I can't point to the next one myself.
While OTR might encrypt contents, isn't there still an IP trail at either end plus all the providers in between? A list of associates of a drug dealer is probably more harmful than what was said.
The first gen device was on "clearance" at Lowes for $149, IIRC (now it is $229).

The new version retails for $249.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GDHYPQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_...

I assume this is really a US oriented device, considering our fascination with ducted installs and a central HVAC system.

I added a multi-zone minisplit system in my last home, and can maintain specific temperatures of individual rooms,so I could not use such a device (The Nest).

Could be much more useful with remote temperature sensors in each room and electronic duct dampers.

Kickstarter project?
http://i.imgur.com/70nP3.jpg
We got something to Mars, it just didn't work!
Yes, and I've actually used that to extract my own password that I've forgotten. Opera's implementation coincidentally stops this specific attack, but it's not in any way a security mechanism.
It actually should be changing the viewport size and emulate touch events.
I had to click into the article to understand the title of this post. Somehow the sentence structure of the post title didn't seem to make sense to me.
>NASCAR is low tech

Isn't that a common myth?
This article put on the same level two dumb sports and an international standard. I find it quite arrogant to judge Americans base on their favorite sports, but I'd be quite happy if the US adopted the metric system and other international conventions.
Why the Risky Options [Like Entrepreneurship] Can Sometimes Be the Safest
We use DataDog - http://www.datadoghq.com/ . It’s a statsd, graphite manifestation but with much more capabilities.

Stack is Python, Django, PostgreSql, Redis, Memcache etc.
I think the author wasn't just looking at a launch per se. He was looking for feedback and HN is arguably the best place for feedback w.r.t startups

> HN community’s remarks and constructive criticism are pearls of wisdom
Just to clarify a few things:

> "Don't tell Red Bull that their car is French"

It's not. They use Renault engines but the car is built in Milton Keynes, England by the team.

> "Ridiculous and unsubstantiated"

I'm not sure it's been confirmed but it was talked about that 40% of the tickets to the Austin GP were bought by Mexicans.
I am a little surprised that Grand Prix Montreal did not even get a mention in the story. F1 supporters travel all over the globe to watch their teams, so it seems odd not to include an event in a great city within easy driving distance of fans in the northeast.
Battery Statistic on Android-powered Device Report
http://www.rootuninstaller.com/2012/11/battery-statistic-device-report.html
I clicked on the link to Cucumbertown and was immediately greeted with a picture of Italian seasoned chicken thighs.

I think I really like your website. I really like the simplicity of the presentation to the user.
> the media attention to this topic is most likely premature

Yeah, that's true; though, I don't think there's any harm. If it piques interest in science and isn't a scam then some good comes from the attention. What better way to grab the attention of the masses than to talk about treating a fatal condition from which all humans suffer?
Don't think you are understanding what I am suggesting.

If you know the movement of the phone, you can determine which direction of movement causes the largest increase in signal strength change. So the app would be basically doing what you do to find something (let me move this way, oh I'm colder, I should go the other way) but at a higher spatial and temporal resolution.
> Even if people don't become rich or successful, they still feel better about themselves.

That's the thing, this line of thinking has come to equate "being successful" with "being rich/having material wealth". The fact is we cannot all be rich, because "being rich" it's relative (a "poor" American is "rich" compared to someone from Laos, for example), so what should we do?

I know of some countries that have created a "happiness index", in place of the GDP-based index, but I don't think that's the best solution, just a realization that things are probably not on the right track. For example, my personal solution is to base my views when it comes to "life success" on the views of Seneca (who was a very rich guy, incidentally), whose views have also been borrowed by early Christianity, if I'm not mistaken.
Every heard about Wernher von Braun? ;)
It doesn't work that way. If the U.S. government condones cybercrime, it cannot allow an NGO to engage in it towards a country that you have diplomatic relations with. I agree with "Kill that noise right now" comment above.
Don't develop apps. Develop superpowers.
But that doesn't mean your space usage can't be optimized so that you can get away with less space without feeling cramped (and yes, that house is way too cramped), and it is interesting to explore these possibilities.

I have a large-ish house. But it feels cramped very quickly when it's messy. There's a vast number of things to do that gives the feeling of space with less.

For example, in my case, one thing I've started working on is digitizing as much as I can of my life so I can put my dvd's and books in boxes and clear the walls and surfaces, for example. I realize that there's very few physical objects in my house I actually need, and I've started systematically working to pare it down.

But other factors makes a big difference too, such as simply keeping surfaces bare and everything tidy... More and more of our stuff goes in boxes and drawers - the space taken by extra storage is paid back many times over in the feeling of extra space from less clutter...
You could do this with multiple devices at known locations. E.g. if you always keep your (latest-generation) Mac mini in the office, and your MacBook Air in the kitchen, and have programmed them as such, they could communicate with the app and give you a rough location for any tag.

Which would actually be a pretty cool project for someone: create a system for triangulating the approximate location of stuff in your house with strategically-placed fixed Bluetooth LE devices ("stuff" in the degenerate case meaning powered-up BLE hardware like an iPhone, or with these sorts of tags, things like keys and pets). Sort of like this project but wit less of the "getting warmer…getting colder" hide-and-seek aspect.
Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
Well, C is made for keyboards. In fact, every programming language I can think of is, so the ones who write with tts must create new languages.
Nice job Colin!
This is a great way to make lemonade out of the lemon of getting hosed by a lot of traffic. Write an informative post-mortem and resubmit! I know I missed the original submission and clicked through to the site, and there you have it. I'd say being humble and trying again is never a bad idea.
What's Missing in Internet Explorer 10
Original title is a bit clearer: "Jeff Bezos attended 60 investor meetings to raise $1m from 22 people, just to get Amazon started"
PengPod true Linux tablets campaign: Only $5K to go
That's a cheap shot on your behalf. Life isn't about bullying my friend.
Rich and appealing restaurant menu which is easy to manage and always up to date
Very slick landing page. I've not seen that done before (am I clueless?) but I love the text overlay -- much better than a "click here to watch a video intro!" The point is: I watched, and I was engaged.

I'm on an iPad so I'm not sure of the whole experience but one thing that came to mind, especially given the "faded" UI is that clicking outside the presentation should allow the user to shortcut to the end and jump right in, maybe with a message along the lines of "ok, jump right in...to continue to intro, just click here"

Can you share a bit about how the text overlay/intro was made? Might be a cool project in and of itself...
Common Lisp isn't the only option. There are other communities that are geared more towards practical development, with large and growing user and library bases. Aside from the obvious example of Clojure, I'm thinking specifically of Racket [1] and Chicken Scheme [2]. I use the latter personally, and it's a pleasant experience on any project scale, with the heavy emphasis on extensibility and package management. It also compiles to C.

[1]: http://racket-lang.org/
[2]: http://www.call-cc.org/
This post mortem has me thinking about the best way to handle the situation in which you can't SSH into your server. The OP decided to trigger a kernel panic/restart on OOM errors, but I have a couple of concerns about this approach:

* If memory serves correctly, if your system runs out of memory, shouldn't the scheduler kill processes that are using too much memory? If this is the case, the system should recover from the OOM error and no restart should be needed.

* OOM errors aren't the only way to get a system into a state where you cannot SSH into a system. It would be great to have a more general solution.

* Even if you do restart, unless you had some kind of performance monitoring enabled, the system is no longer in the high-memory state so it will take a bit of digging to determine the root cause. If OOM errors are logged to syslog or something, I guess this isn't a big deal.

I suppose the best fail-safe solution is to ensure you always have one of the following:

* physical access to the system

* a way to access the console indirectly (something like VSphere comes to mind)

* Services like linode allow you to restart your system remotely, which would have been useful in this scenario
When we did the beta, I posted the launch details on HN and you’ll be surprised by the amount of constructive feedback and users that we got. Cucumbertown now has users from devs to CEO’s who came in through HN and are now engaged users.

Cucumbertown has some notions like 'forking recipes' – called “Write a variation” which enables you to take a recipe and fork and make changes. Additionally Cucumbertown has a short hand notation way to write recipes(think stenography for recipes) – for advanced users. Things like these appeal to the HN crowd a lot.

Also, don’t you think quite a few hackers like me are also cooks!
Agreed, would be nice to get some pointers :)
Konami.js - A JavaScript Library Which Monitors Any Arbitrary Keyboard Sequence
Anchor App for Windows released
Amusing that you didn't post this exact phrase to whomever posted this article on Hacker News.

This article was nothing more than stereotypical Euro-bullying. I mean, "like soccer and the metric system" -- do Europeans really have to list every way they're superior every time the subject comes up? Come on.
As if people in the "hard sciences" as you call them had any fucking clue what they are talking about. To wit: SUSY, String Theory &c...

Not even mathematicians have a clue what we are talking about (apart from 'abstractions' which relate very little to the world we live in).
"The service is free for 5 invoices a month. If you plan to send more, please let us know what amount you would like to pay every month."

Excellent way to figure out how much to charge.
Wasn't it the British lander that failed?
Interesting, but the timeline seems to be inaccurate.
Show HN: Gmail bug blocking email with subject containing "ll" and then "c"
I have been experiencing a very odd bug with Gmail today, it seems that if you send an email to an @gmail address with the string "ll" flowed at some point later by a "c" in the subject (e.g. "you will recognise this") the email will never arrive.

It doesn't happen with apps accounts and I have tested it with about 6 different peoples Gmail accounts and multiple sending servers and addresses. It very odd!

I have reported it to Google - although when I thought it was just the string "will recognise".

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing it?
It's much easier to see the workflow and listen to someone speak, than read a complex article.
Ask HN: At 250 Points I Just Unlocked topcolor - What Other Unlocks Are There?
I know downvoting is yet to come, but what other unlocks are there?
For a long time I have had this theory that the reason the poorer classes in the US seemed so paradoxically opposed to higher taxes, or just taxes at all, for the super-rich was because they secretly believed that, one day, they'd be super-rich and those taxes were going to be on them.

It's indeed an excellent trick. Appeals nicely to people's greed and wishful thinking.
U.S. had plans to nuke the moon
Wow, nice post with real data, graphs, and helpful tips. As the Germans would say, I have nothing to complain about.
Like "warning, deep reasoning ahead and with a lot of examples to clarify"?
Mark Suster Interviews Rand Fishkin on Startup SEO
Linux in Lilliput
And Sergei Korolev - perhaps the greatest rocket designer of them all?
I like the bit about how nobody in the book business was interested. Puts their current whining into perspective.
What? Do B&N tel you that you can't backup their ebooks on their marketing material?
The price is a little scary but I'm hoping the drivers from this will benefit other Dell laptops.
Here is the better [and shorter] version of this tutorial:
1. Download Tor
2. Signup and use tormail.org
3. Done.

I surprised eff.org didn't even mention tormail.org - this email forces you to use Tor, essentially forcing you to never make mistake of using non-Tor browser.
What if I started my post with a "YC alum"?

Basically you're just arbitrarily attaching "status" and "results" labels to things.

It's an argument I can't win, because by raising my own achievements by way of disclaimer[1], I am "bragging", which is a "status orientation" on my part.

But the fact that I worked towards a measurable goal in a structured way according to a plan of my own design -- that somehow isn't results-seeking behaviour?

[1] because usually, these discussions boil down to an argument between people with a degree and people without a degree -- and there's a strong correlation between the pro-degree/contra-degree camp and who has a degree.
Dell XPS 13 laptop: The Ubuntu developer edition arrives
All this theoretical user needs to do is update their credit card details in their account. Any credit card will do, whether it's the original with a new date or a different one.
I wouldn't hold my breath for WebGL appearing even in IE11. Whatever Microsoft is saying, the "security" of WebGL is not the main reason why Microsoft is not the adopting it - not even close. Just like security is also not the main reason why Apple is not allowing other JS engines on iOS.

The lack of support for XP, which is still like 40% of the market, means Chrome is still by far the most secure browser on XP, which is something companies who aren't going to get new PC's and Windows licenses anytime soon should start considering.

No full screen API, no Web Audio API, and no WebRTC (and no Opus either) are also very regrettable omissions.
Honestly, amazon has been pulling bullshit like this on me as well. I'm always flashing new ROMs and swapping phones for my job, many books on the amazon Kindle app simply refuse to download any more saying I've exceeded the license. ;/ They really need to put in the description that the book will be useless to me...
A case for Horizontal (Enterprise) Portals in Universities
As with most comments, I'd say very slick and straight to the point demo. The typing text did kinda annoyed me abit - it's probably a give or take as I don't have patience reading things - would prefer to let me jump in and play around with it.

Just curious, did you have to write all the graphing yourselves or did you use a library?
Monty on broken MySQL promises: Oracle's going to fork it up
Looks awesome, I'll probably install and play around with it for my personal project.

That said, I'm not sure your pricing is aligned correctly. Check out Patio11's excellent article on SaaS pricing (with a company that is in a similar space): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
India amends controversial law that led to Facebook arrests
Collective Intelligence - how communities make decisions
While I agree with the premise of academia not really being a meritocracy, this article limited scope focusing solely on academia just comes across as thinly veiled anti-intellectualism that conservatives have been preaching forever. Why didn't the author take any time to focus on the lack of meritocracy in corporate culture or even political culture? They hate science, they hate facts, and they want to "defund the left" but destroying our institutions of higher learning and research.
Do you have mathematica installed?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/8716/how-to-c...
Skype 4.2.1 for iPhone and iPad
Invoices aren't a uniform bunch. Its general format changes very much based on the industry and location.

The two options would be to either target a niche audience initially and grow from there, or focus on building a general purpose solution that can cater to a dynamic range of requirements. The second option might not be particularly wise in the early stages.
Good work ! But how many people would be comfortable installing an agent on a machine or a plugin on web server. Performance and security concerns. It also causes network traffic to send data from server to your cloud.
How is it better than Newrelic.
All rather depressing but just as many predicted when ORCL bought Sun. Well, another reason to move to Postgres :) A shift to MariaDB would be easier but not sure what the point would be.
The article says they lost the connection, and also that it was restored a few hours later as far as I can see. I might be wrong but the title makes this out to be something they did on purpose, permanently. Which does not seem the case.
IPv6: A 2012 Report Card
Um... there was a hurricane... kinda hard to go kill some one when you can't even leave your house.
In that social class (the elite) working 30 hours per week is a serious dedication and the "coasters" they punt are the three-martini lunch types who work less than 10 hours per week but still feel entitled to "make decisions". Those people will be fired-- or I should say, "asked to resign"-- but they get nice severance packages and the right to write their own references. That's how the country club mentality works. You protect "your own" no matter what.

(ETA) Part of the reason we, as software engineers, don't have a lot of autonomy or respect is that we don't have the tribal mentality. Many engineers will gladly sell out their own colleagues to management in the hope of getting a promotion.

So yes, you can continually get through on connections despite what we would call meager effort, at that social milieu. It won't make you CEO, but you can move fairly seamlessly from one high-prestige job to another.
People can redownload their purchases at any time for 0 cents, whether it's 120 days or 3 years later. They just need to have a current credit card on file. Question the wisdom of that if you will, but there's absolutely no recharging people or disabling of access.
Not too shabby. Keep working on it Dell and my next notebook might be a XPS instead a MBP.

A few tips, just cram in a decent screen and glass trackpad.
as does Ireland

Yet if you say "football" in Ireland, it is assumed you mean soccer.
I think the culture of NASCAR really prevents people who would be more interested in F1 from approaching motorsports.

The reality is that the Venn diagram of people who shop and Wal*Mart and people who watch NASCAR is probably closer to a circle than a lot of people are comfortable with.
Perhaps, but he did call this post ".. a failed HN launch"

:-)
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyri...
:vimgrep

is slower because it loads each file in memory with all the filetype-specific stuff going on each time before the actual searching.
>...decrypted the encrypted versions of his passwords by looking at them. I see.

I think this means the hashed passwords. Microsoft have had several vulnerabilities in this area. Just entering a password to browse a server caused Windows (prior to Vista) to store the LM hash. An LM hash can be reversed in a matter of seconds.
Consolidated Parameter Objects in HTTP / Web design and development / PHP
Awesome HTML Snippets for Sublime Text 2
The Uncomfortable Balance
We can see Faces
Both of you are being a bit ridiculous here -- the other poster is pretending his opinion on Fallout 3 is objective fact, and you've got a very limited definition of depth.

A game doesn't have to offer narrative choice, or customization, to somehow be "deep". A story on rails can be an amazing game if the way you interact with it deepens your engagement with the story. (I'd say that's very much the case with ChronoTrigger.)
The unexpected hit was just users using the full text search, right? That probably should have been one of the first things tested as I assume that would be a bottleneck in speed in all stages of development...or at least it has been in my experience.

I often try to think of ways to not have full text search...this case is a little more difficult, but why not create a list of common recipe names (i.e. "grilled cheese" would be a facet for all grilled cheese sandwiches) and store it as a static json? It would take some taxonomy work on the backend but the list as JsON could easily be less than a MB and the. You wouldn't have to worry about full search as much...full search could still be an option, just not a top of the front page option.
Palm’s webOS lives on... as an Android app
This happens especially a lot with companies that don't actually have and programmers on staff. Changing means of access means they basically have to buy their outsourced app all over again...
The Global Geography of HIV: 20 Years of Change - in 1 GIF
I'm sorry I couldn't hear you over all the advanced tech keeping us all alive. Please continue.

String theory is not fact. Currently accepted theories in physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. You know the shit running the computer you typed that insightful comment on and the fibre optics that brought your great wisdom to me.

/sarcasm
The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop
Just because you like hacking/coding/engineering/hn-job-title-here, you can't enjoy cooking?
Pay attention to the dates.

There was a temporary outage on Nov. 27, which was restored after two hours. We don't yet know what's happening today.
Why the Would-Be Hottest Health Gadget Took Its Sweet Time to Ship
It is optional after the first email. I just never mentioned it on the site for the sake of skipping details.

Incase you don't specify a "me" section, the details from the previous invoice will be used. You can try it out right now.

Thanks for chipping in :)
In Silicon Valley, a new wave of tech companies tries to enforce fun
The world is full of pricks, jerks, and assholes.

Taking sides in a legal battle based on which party dots their Is with little hearts, instead of based on logical arguments and legal precedent, is ignorant.