skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I mean, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has been on the "interstellar mission" since 1980 (32 years) and is planned to go into the 2020's (total of more than 40 years). That doesn't quite work out to the (2000-90)/90 ratio (though the distance traveled by Opportunity is an even more impressive ratio), but I think it is pretty damned impressive nevertheless. It was definitely engineered to last a lot longer than the Jupiter/Saturn observation mission required; I feel like both came from the same "school" of engineering and mission planning.
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On my fairly slow shared cable broadband connection, initial https negotiation typically seems to take around an extra 300ms.

I'd say that's non-trivial.
http://paperplane.io is a similar service that I've been working on.
Generating Verification Conditions for Whiley
For those who don't know what a gravity boost is, here is the simple picture.

In the reference frame of the planet you will travel in a hyperbola as you go by. The incoming branch is from the front of the planet, the outgoing branch is also in the front of the planet. So you go from moving backwards to moving forwards.

However the planet is moving in the reference frame of the Sun. The initial "moving backwards" is actually more like "sitting there". The ending "moving forwards" is actually something like, "moving up to 2x as fast as the planet".

So a gravity boost only looks like a gravity boost in a reference frame that is moving relative to the object. Furthermore the gravity boost also does nothing to help you to escape from the object you're getting the gravity boost from.

Therefore we cannot get a gravity boost from the Sun to leave the Solar System. And a gravity boost from the Sun does not look like a gravity boost to us, in orbit around the Sun.
Maybe. The domain name isn't perfect, I'll admit, but it's far from the key thing standing in the way of the success of the product.
> This has nothing to do with Bradley Manning.

Yes it has, in the context of the present argument. Grandparent is saying that because you supposedly are in a "democratic country with an independent judiciary" doesn't mean that you won't be tortured/get a fair trial/etc., and uses Bradley Manning as an example of this.
Facebook 'Sponsored Stories' settlement wins judge's approval
This is partly a symptom of poor rules imo. American wants to have two things at once: 1) a bunch of very detailed CYA safety rules; but 2) not to take the financial hit that would be needed to actually implement those rules faithfully as written. This works so long as employees are willing to turn a blind eye to the rules, treating them as the not-really-intended-to-be-enforced CYA rules that they are, but runs into trouble once someone takes them seriously.

The solution, not that likely to happen, would not be to write rules that you don't intend to budget the staff/time to actually follow as written.
> The issue... effects a small number of use cases currently...

With potentially large ripple effects. Old Windows boxes getting lightweight Linux distros provide a lot of machines for students, schools, people without cash, giveaway machines for friends, elderly relatives in need, etc.

Making that process harder (e.g., shim required) probably means more machines will just go to the trash (unless the shim is widely incorporated in lightweight distros maybe). What a waste (at the very least, of time).
YC-Backed Telephony Startup Plivo Raises $1.75M From Andreessen Horowitz,..
Run "steam steam://open/games" from the CLI to launch it instead. Try a couple times if it doesn't work the first time.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/reddit-users-bypass-valve...
The New York Times' latest cutbacks: Proof its digital strategy is failing?
We looked very heavily at Disqus for comments on a product I worked on that was released recently, and decided against it in favor of rolling our own commenting system. Ultimately, what it came down to was that we could build an equivalent system that met our needs for less than they wanted in a contract. I'm sure that there are things Disqus does that would show improvements over our homegrown commenting system, but ultimately it just wasn't worth it. A basic comment system just isn't that hard to write, and it's hard to imagine a scenario when added functionality in your product's comment system would justify paying for an external system but that functionality isn't important enough to justify building it yourself.
Obviously (to me anyway) you're right, and I'm surprised there are people who don't indent their HTML like that. But a thought just occurred to me -- why don't editors do this automatically and without creating actual whitespace (tabs/spaces)? If you look at XML in your web browser it will automatically be formatted with indents based on tag hierarchy .
My thoughts exactly. The writer is comparing apples to oranges (PC / iPad, for one). I must have uttered "are you kidding me" a dozen times while reading that crap.
That song from Weeds is awesome, it could very well be the theme song for entrepreneurs and other misfits.

To everyone arguing with the author: I'd say he knows best who is a fit for his startup. You guys can run your own startup any way you like. Go for it.
Here’s the cosplayer face of Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite
Here interesting data point is that even as PC sales declined by 21%, the Mac sales have NOT increased by same margin. Reports says Mac sales grew only by 5% although these two rates are not comparable because later is % of Mac sales while former is % of PC sales which is much higher
.

The reason people used to throw away their working PCs to buy new ones was newer better hardware and hyped up new OS releases. I think PC sales decline is greatly contributed by no new compelling hardware factor. The OS releases of course are less and less compelling because most tasks happens in browser which works fine even on old PCs. If IE was only game in town, people would perhaps still need to get new OS but that's not the case anymore.

I guess we are entering new era of PC/Mac refresh cycles were people are going to replace their machines only when it stops working instead of just because new release arrived. People would rather spend $500 on getting a tablet that they don't have than replacing their PC that is already working fine to check emails and browse the web.

Interesting thing here is that Wall street analysts would probably going to extrapolate this incorrectly instead of seeing that this is new "normal".
On my X1 Carbon, I had to go into the BIOS and disable "secure boot" in order to even boot from a Linux Live USB drive. That would already deter a good number of people from even trying. I hope things don't get any worse.
Thank you. It's hand rolled, no grid system or anything too fancy either just unfloats a few things and styling on the header/player.
Thanks for that feedback. Not terse at all.

I'm having trouble with the balancing act. I definitely need to improve the searchability of the site. At the same time if I put everything front and center it'll become pretty apparent that we don't have many listings yet. Will that just turn people away? I'm not sure yet, I don't have the data to say.

I'll think more on this.
And that's exactly what's wrong with such publications these days. Linkbait takes preference over accuracy. That's not journalism anymore, far from it.
The Mobile Transition: Why Facebook Developers Are Making the Shift
I just thought I'd throw this out there... I've had this issue with every other IPS display I've ever used. I had three 21" HP IPS displays connected to a Mac Pro for a few years and all three of them exhibited tho exact same condition. The 23" Apple Cinema Displays we had at my university also did the same thing. I just chock it up to the IPS display technology, and assume all IPS displays do that to some degree. IPS is not known for having particularly great pixel twist times, and thats probably related. That said, I'd still use an IPS display in a heartbeat for the color accuracy. It's truly phenomenal. The after-image is annoying, but I'm happy to trade it for the color accuracy.
Another remake: http://pancake.io/
> Hyper-V which is included in Windows 8 Pro, would be adequate.

It's a maintenance headache - now you have to administer two systems instead of one (network troubleshooting / dhcp, security updates, login/password, ports). And if you have limited disk space (e.g. a 128GB SSD) - you also lose on that front. (Linux can install comfortably in 4GB; I didn't try to optimize my last Win7 install, I boot it once a month or so to sync my iphone with iTunes, and it's balooned to 15GB somehow without the iPhone data).
I had been looking for something like that for a web host chart I was making, but someone on HN pointed it out to me:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4846110
The rights that are relevant to this discussion, primarily the right to not be tortured, is still in full effect for military personnel.
All he really needed was a "legitimate seeming" site which didn't keep logs at all. It is more important to not arouse suspicion through the act of using the tool vs. to be secure once targeted and subverted -- basically, forward secrecy would suffice.

He would have been fine with...a phone. "Talking about my book." Or, maybe, IM with OTR without logging, but that might arouse suspicion if non-default, and might also fall prey to crazy counterparty either not disabling logging or intentionally recording and blackmailing.
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Wrote a bit about it on my blog: http://natewienert.com/introducing-2u-dot-fm-1

"The stack consists of Ruby on Rails with Postgres, Thin, Nginx, Memcached (with Dalli), DelayedJob, and some other parts. The frontend is hand rolled using Bootstrap, SoundManager2 with a custom music player wrapper, and some minor plugins.

The live listening is running through an instance of Thin running Faye and PrivatePub."

Songs are also found through regular mp3's on sites, along with SoundCloud.
You might be right but I'm not the only person that wants to do it.

A few years ago the recommendation (on the Ubuntu site) was to install the 32bit version but now the stability and performance gains of 64bit builds make the trade off different.

The box doubles as my home MythTV box (with uptime requirements to keep my family happy) and general home server including running as a test server.
I don't know if this is the book you're thinking of, but "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine has such arguments.

It's a very interesting book -- I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the subject, whatever their position.
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You've gone too far in the style over substance balance.

The site has so much style it's unusable. And what's with the B/W photos? They look horrible. Even on the detail page I have to mouse over it to get color.

People go a site like yours to get stuff done, not to chill out and look around.

P.S. I apologize if I sound too harsh, I'm not always good at giving criticism online.
I'm sorry!
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Supposedly it's only $100; I'm happy to put $100 every few months so Debian can sign whatever updates they make, if they decide to go that way. I'm sure the community can collect $1,000/year, which will be more than enough for Debian's update.

They might refuse to do it on an ideological basis, though.
I don't know, would there actually be questions if he disappeared? The guy seems pretty crazy, if he dropped off the face of the earth completely I don't think I would really think much of it.

Now, if he or the government announced that he were captured, then he disappeared, that would certainly be different.
Yes and no. They were marginally down YOY last quarter. There is a possibility that they're stalling too. Time will tell.
Show HN: 4 Months, 3 Deaths, 2 Guys, 1 Divorce = Quiz Monsters
Add Amazon to your list. It's much worse.

-You can't block scammers
-Buyers can return an item for any reason (even a year after they purchased it from you). 99% of the time, Amazon will let them keep the item and refund them. This happened to me many times.
-If you get banned, they will keep your money for 90 days. Banning is based on automated robots that look for patterns. You have no recourse. All Amazon associates will tell you to use their email support system. The email support system is manned by either scripts or reps that will only respond with canned answers.

Ebay isn't nearly as bad. I've had claims filed against me a few times by various people and as long as I had the tracking number, I won the claim.

As someone who made amazon thousands of dollars, I got tried of being treated this way. The only reason they can still continue this behavior is because they are the biggest marketplace.

It's hard for competitors because you need the traffic.
Here is a version adapted for Tributary: http://tributary.io/inlet/4199801/

Press play in the bottom left to have it go, and scrub numbers/colors to your hearts content!

Part of the reason it slows down in livecoding is because of the way the original code uses setInterval, and every change reevaluates the code which polutes the scope and starts way too many threads going. I've added optional functionality to Tributary which gives you a run loop (using requestAnimationFrame) that doesn't polute anything.

Hope this helps!
Yes, not having a lot of listing will definitely turn people away.

But so will a site with no listings at all, as yours appears.

The first thing you should do is split the site: A big "For sellers" / "For buyers" right at the start, then each group can navigate their own section. Perhaps a third button to talk about what you do, what's special about your site.
If you were to assert that in democratic societies with functioning justice systems people are not let off for murder, then I think OJ would be a perfectly reasonable counter argument.
Google Chrome Shows Best Anti-phishing Detection and Blocking
Most of the students I know at my university get maybe 3 hours on their laptops and many have Wacom tablets to write notes with. Most classrooms have plugs now. Writing directly onto the screen is a big value proposition for many of these students. I wouldn't count it out yet.
Anyone interested in learning how to code such games can have a look at my open source Terrarium.js http://terrariumjs.wiselabs.net

(it has a multiplayer component)
Four comments and links about me cloning them... do you have something personal going on here? One would have been enough. Seems pretty mean spirited to me. There are plenty of things different, biggest being real artist profiles not just a search, filtering by music type on artists, a filtered feed, instant sharing and an inbox, algorithms filter genres by a lot of factors and ways to organize those feeds, responsive design.... I wasn't going to comment until I saw all four or five of your links in here.
And I am sure it will be even less popular than a certain laptop that had less than 4 hours battery life and didn't even have a touch screen but it fit in a manila envelope (MacBook air)
it's not polling, its reevaluating code when codemirror triggers an event for text changing (which uses the dom underneath).

the problem is from calling setInterval every time the code is evaluated, leading to way too many function calls/second
You need to protect yourself from these Facebook hacks and spam attacks
Seems like an odd crusade to go on. Worthy certainly, but I would be surprised if he were taking the time to go on such crusades at a time like this.

My guess is he just fucked up. Paranoid != Smart/careful.
Yeah I'm inspired too... nearly felt too easy to set up! (different thing to actually sell them though)

I'm a big fan of Flight of the Concords so I made this one; http://teespring.com/itsbusinesstime

Wonder what tips there are around getting a campaign right (ie guessing simplicity and fun are key factors...but what about colour of the t-shirt etc?)
Also, would be nice to get some analytics about how many visit your campaign page Vs people who add to cart but don't buy etc.. (or did I miss that?)

[also this is my first post on Hacker news! followed for ages, but kind of looking forward to adding more]
in theory, what YC does is good for our society. they provide mentorship and opportunity to new companies and help lead them to success. I have no problem whatsoever with YC's existence nor with the people they fund. I just don't want to be involved. they don't offer very much money at alli and they get too much influence and power over the start up for my tastes. I realized by pg's response that it wasn't for me. I wrote up why, and posted it. I was honestly not expecting him to respond.

but than again I also agree with the original articles premise that there is another tech bubble of stupid companies and it is about to go bust. and I think YC actively contributes to the problem by funding companies with terrible ideas. they want their funded companies to be aquihires because than they get their return. YC doesn't care if the business is sustainable or not as long as it gets bought. that's their schtick: they do the training instead of the universities.

this will affect me if and when I decide to get outside funding because investors won't be willing to invest as much. it will be exactly like after the internet bubble where there is no market to sell investors on the company. that is what concerns me. I'm not looking for an aquihire. I'm not looking for an exit. I'm looking to build a sustainable company that brings value to my customers.

note: not trolling you, these are my actual concerns.
If you do 6 you'll sell exactly 0 items.

Rule number 1 for buyers: Don't pay with a money order, always use a credit card.

You're only thinking about protecting yourself - but you also have to actually attract buyers.
The Curiosity rover has detected organic compounds on Mars
Pulling from blogs that post mp3's or soundcloud. It indexes youtube but I can't play youtube without showing the video. A video's section is on the plate for the next release. Thanks for the feedback, the responsive design has the progress bar at the bottom, though I prefer it all on top.
Facebook Powerball hoaxer is software engineer, report says
You could but I suspect the latency might make most games unplayable.
Funny read. I wonder what is happening with that guy.
Thanks for all the feedback and kind words, I will look into them!
That's genius. eBay could really learn from that. Removing buyer feedback entirely is a really big hammer.
I've attempted this; AirPlay does in fact lag too much for this to be useful.
Was WordPerfect a miss step or dirty tricks? Maybe both, but you are right.

Generally though I don't think that MS has the agility to capitalise on the mistakes that do happen. This still have massive scale and cash but everything I read about life in Microsoft says slow decline is the future. Over managed battling fiefdoms and bureaucracy that limit innovation and are likely to strangle any start up they buy.
Pinterest user's pin with the "promise" that they own the content. Well we know that's not happening. But what happens when PinPigeon prints images with copyrighted content from Coke, Budweiser, Apple, etc? Or, less identifiable but equally protected?
> Today's announcement clarifies that the confusion was caused by the fact that nature didn't think much of physicists' expectations.

LOL
GitHub, legal language needing to be updated and the lawyers at the gate
What I was actually doing for those 15 months in Chicago
What do Developers Want
Hello! I'm trying to get developers to show up to my event for developers but not having any luck. What kind of benefits would entice a developer to come out to the event - free of charge - and mix and mingle maybe with potential start ups but mostly with other developers. Can you guys help? Thanks! You rock!
> Eliminate VISA and MC, who are basically skimming 2.5% off our retail economy.

This claim doesn't make much sense. For example, an economy with RGDP 150,000 units, of which 2.5% go to Visa/MC, is not worse off than one of RGDP 130,000 units, of which 0% go to Visa/MC.
Is Facebook Becoming Irrelevant?
I fail to see how is the insurance would have helped in this case. No one disputes that the package was delivered successfully.
There are so many factors that go into database performance, but I would expect high frequency queuing would be problematic even today for the reasons you mention. If the load is low it's probably fine.
I meant by umounting something without telling him, to speed the process along...

Some friends of mine often play prepper games with each other, ranging from "someone just stole all your stuff while you're at the gym...what now" to "your iCloud is compromised and none of the associated devices work, how do you recover"
No RAM upgrades for new iMacs? Is Apple crazy?
If your site is only open to Stanford students, why don't you find a marketing student at Stanford who would be interesting in working for you? Go hang out by the marketing department and introduce yourself to students. Or contact the career center and see if you can post an intern opening.
It's also worth noting that the difference in lighting can be explained by the bamboo. The guy in the blue is getting direct sunlight from the right of the frame, but McAfee is, in part, shielded from it because of the plant.

It probably isn't fake. The original image is also a better resolution where it looks much more real.
How to Become a Great (Food) Writer: The Big Secret
Aion 3.7 update on this Wednesday, December 5
Google Fiber puts the ISPs to shame
Yeah, it's all contractual/reseller stuff. I just wonder what is the minimum scale they'll allow. Although if a good YC company will make servers available, I'll just rent one or two.

Obviously you should host voice servers too (ventrilo or whatever)
One exception though. Piping unix command this way allow handling of _very_ large file (stream model), whereas R requires loading the whole content in memory.
Most Black Media Don't Have Tech Sections
For the past year I've been trying to call out the fact most black media do not have tech sections or talk tech. Not bet, essence, vibe, global grind (co-founded by the same dude who was on cnn's black in america silicon valley episode), the list goes on. I'm amazed at the balls it takes to get on tv and say the white man isn't giving blacks money, when you don't even have a tech section on the website you co-founded.

You can't complain about jobs and "racist" silicon valley, when you do nothing to bring attention to black tech entrepreneurs yourself.

Lack of tech talk in black media means there is a HUGE none participating black tech consumer base. By default blacks use whatever tech larger america makes the hot item.

This hurts everyone, not just black tech entrepreneurs. There are plenty of apps, sites etc that can be built to cater to smaller america issues, but these services won't gain traction.

Take my citizen50.com service for example. This is a service that's designed to put a dent in race profiling. I've messaged, tweeted, emailed bloggers, magazines, news sites ect. They won't talk about tech. It's like a damn conspiracy.. no smart talk. Rappers, athletes, pastors and gossip only.

The one hip hop site that does talk about tech tells me my Gamerholic.com site is not their cup of tea since it's a gambling site (although it's perfectly legal skilled gaming). This same site that told me gambling isn't their cup of tea, has plenty of articles about Chief Keef a rapper who "allegedly" murdered 3 other rappers in the past few months.

If I put out a mixtape, sure.. I'll have a better chance of getting black media attention.

Can we all point out the obvious that blacks aren't pulling their weight in job creation while complaining about job creation. Mainly because they keep the black consumer in the dark about the largest job creating sector (tech) & viable tech options for problem solving.

@UnFundedHype
I think your experience may be atypical. But it's great to hear such a positive story.