skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't actually a big problem. Comparing to the current situation, Valve will just release their own hardware with a massive user base, and have that platform be the target spec for PC games. That is the stock Steam Box and Valve with developers will make sure all games run perfectly on that.

All custom specs will be handled like they are now, expect now there is a single target spec everyone agrees on.
They are still with us, unfortunately. Maybe you don't see them because you live in a country for which there are enough proper ads. I ... I see them all the time, though admittedly less than I used to.
Following this formula might get you a post or two but are those reviews going to get you up the charts? Nope, not at all.

- If your goal is impact and reach...you should be analyzing the traffic of the blogs you're contacting. A lot of those sites probably only have a few hundred readers. A review on Gizmodo & TUAW would probably be 10x more effective than mentions on all of those sites.

- We sometimes tend to forget that the R in PR stands relations. So build those relationships don't just spam.
- Get to know bloggers (do your research) and get them to know you well before you go pitching (add value, send them tips, get to know them on twitter and IRL)

- Intros are also very helpful. Have a friend who got a review on insert blog name? Ask him to make an intro since he's established himself as someone who's made something newsworthy.

PR is kind of like trying to get a job. You could blast out 50+ generic resumes + cover letters and hope someone calls. Or you could do your homework, choose the top 3 companies you really want to join, get intros and do something remarkable to get noticed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "resolution"; the site doesn't claim that a browser fingerprint is unique among all instances of all browser software ever run, just that (for example, to quote from my test results) "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,568,783 tested so far".
I hate to be that guy, but why is this getting upvoted?
I don't see how that's "cold water" - yes, covering the entire continental USA with anything is very expensive. They don't have to buy the whole thing at once now, do they?
There's a hilarious scene in Travels in Siberia where the author takes a trip to the Russian far east with a retired couple from California with extremely exacting dietary restrictions. At one point the old man is complaining loudly about all the money he spent on food and lodging—what did it go to? The author replies calmly: bribes. When they finally pass through Russian customs at the end of the trip, he complains to the Russian customs agent, saying the author told him most of the money for their trip went to bribes. The customs agent replies calmly: yes, probably.
When was this? I know older windows versions stored passwords in plain text... I can't remember when they switched to hashed passwords but I think it was around XP or Vista
just read it in the news some minutes ago:
http://avherald.com/h?article=459fa8f6
I have been doing roughly this for a few years now. It isn't always possible to achieve, but it is incredibly effective if you can get beyond thinking about who is at fault, who is guilty, who has wronged you.

Looking at my own behavior, it is almost always possible to find something I could have done differently that would have avoided an undesirable outcome. Over time this has improved my intuition of whether certain actions are better avoided, even if doing them is theoretically something that should be just fine.

Concrete example: you could complain about getting hit by a car yesterday, or you might re-examine what was so important that you decided that driving two hours a day was a good idea.
A more glaring issue with Apple's map of Perth to my mind is that Fremantle Harbour has been completely filled in. See the bottom left of this Google map for comparison: http://i.imgur.com/GsmxQ.jpg
The gist for me is that you need local offices for mapping quality control. Probably the best option for apple would be to set up a mapping office inside each of their Apple stores.
Yes, but they don't have anything useful or available for the outside world that you can't get elsewhere online (like chrome build tools and such).

There really isn't a reason for them to release it externally. Just use Ubuntu LTS if you want what they're using.
Sometimes you have to work your way up, though. Big guys are more likely to cover something a lot of little guys have picked up, than someone who has gotten no press at all. And once you have the big bloggers you have a shot at the editorials on the really big names. Then you can say you were in the big names, and have a shot at real articles and TV...
I think it'd be reasonable -- for more than just cheating reasons -- to make your scanner move at, say, a maximum of 25mph. So if your "actual" location is, say, 50 miles from your last location, but it's only been an hour, your scanner is disabled for an hour.

That would probably disable most "war-driving" strategies, while making most (but not all) legitimate strategies still available. And, I think that war-drivers probably detract from the game overall.

Or you could choose a higher maximum speed if you wanted to -- 40mph (as the crow flies) would probably only disallow cheaters for the most part, though it might disable your scanner for several hours after a plane flight.
There seems to be a problem with the 'unlimited' mode. See https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsg7xio42olllwr/trifecta.png

If you can look at the left-most column, you'll see that the game ended because that column overflowed; however, no 3-block of the same colour was available in that column and its neighbour (and so forth), so eventually I had no possibility of being able to reduce that column and save the game. I'd consider that a level-generation problem. What do you think?
Who controls the internet? (In-depth review of UN WCIT-12 power grab)
Awesome! Coderetreat was really great this year :)
An excellent idea. But I don't think it's going to become terribly common. It runs entirely contrary to the very common thinking that upvote means agreement.

You might get lots of people to do it if there were two sets of arrows, something like signal/noise and agree/disagree. But that has been proposed before.

> Are there any downsides to this proposal?

None that I can see. In any case, many of us already do this.

> Of course, this means nothing without an official seal since PG already proclaimed that you should downvote disagreements.

I very much disagree with PG's famous statement. I wish he'd reconsider.
Rome wasn't built in a day...
Twitter is fine (same alias, though gmail is better)
Worked for me. I imagined worst possible outcome of the situation I feared and I accepted it as if it already happened. My fear reduced I could thing straight about situation.

I found exactly same technique described in some self help book I browsed at my friend's house.
I promised myself that I wasn't going to reply directly to any of the comments, but it's important to rebut this succinctly: so far as I can tell, 100% of the top 1oo contributors to Hacker News (by karma) are male.

I am documenting my methodology and will publish my findings in the near future.

Please remember that nobody has the right to not be offended. Meanwhile, if you can prove that HN has been taken over by Jewish black women with a collective chip on their shoulder, then I will stand corrected.
A lot of times you and your behavior are the only variables you have to work with. Something might actually be mostly due to someone else, but you can't control that someone else very well, so changing yourself is better to work on even if it would have less result.
I think this strongly depends on the area and the enemy faction. When they are quick to re-capture the portals, you have an incentive to immediately put in 2-3 hours again, depending on how many portals there are.
At the low end, I'd guess it's probably more about measurement techniques than reality. Venezuela is not the most stable, prosperous, or wealthy society, but it's also not "hyperinflation and broad property seizure", and it's certainly not "armed gangs wandering the country raping and murdering indiscriminately."
They'll need to make money in Kansas or something like that. Then they'll have more money to roll out and expand in other areas. It may take years, unless google sparked competition that others ISPs start to upgrade their fiber too.
Excellent. I recognized it because I use '04b03b' in my own iPhone game 'Alphabet Connection: Arukone' :)
Thanks for the reply! It's true that these reviews might not help immensely to get us up in the charts, but they have worked for us in the past imo. We've had some of our most loyal users coming from those review sites so we're currently happy to stick with that list as our initial list to use.

I agree 110% on building relationships and finding well-known bloggers to write about your post as well as reviews on Gizmodo or TUAW being worth 10x more traffic on the list currently provided. You might've missed the last part where I mention that the list is incomplete though because we usually do end up delivering a better pitch to the mentioned top level tech news sites after a week or two.

From just our experience, we've found that doing a blast of 50+ generic "resumes, cover letters" AND posts by the top companies is a perfect combination. Not to mention, it really doesn't hurt to post to the 50+ sites either way.
Making of BIOLAB Chronicles
Goals don't work because the process of achieving or creating anything valuable is unpredictable. It's a discovery. And its importance may not be immediately apparent. That's why you don't get a Nobel Prize until 10 or 20 years later.
Just for fun here are the people who upload stories from jackshapiro.com, and here are the domains that kine uploads stories from.

http://imgur.com/a/cQFWa
I think you're exactly right. We have a strong, visceral reaction to corruption, and we detect it in everything.

Living in New Mexico can be a bit of an absurd illustration that this isn't a universal view because we tend to have scandals involving these ancient political family dynasties. Whenever one of them is caught handing over a bunch of state contracts to their nephew (nepotism in its truest sense) we get a few great sound bites like "What's the big deal? He's just my nephew!"

In other countries this kind of corruption is seen as simply taking care of one's own or the cost of doing business. I'm glad we overreact to it.
Seriously? This is the only comment?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_science_and_technology

Why do I even bother trying to communicate with people anymore.
That's very interesting about a doctor making that comment about tears and sweat so I looked it up. Here's the infamous conversation:

> Stephanopoulos: You’re a doctor. Do you think tears and sweat can transmit HIV”

> Frist: I don’t know…I can tell you..

> Stephanopoulos: You don’t know?

> Frist: I can tell you things like, like..condoms..

> Stephanopoulos: … You believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit aids?

This is different than the impression from claims that he was saying it could happen. He said he didn't know about those in particular.

Does the HIV virus ever leach out in tears and sweat? Probably, but not in quantities great enough to be of concern. Is there a minute remote chance one could get it from this under some perfect storm of chance? Probably not, but it's conceivable.

It's like the saliva issue. HIV is present in the saliva at extremely small levels thought to be no risk. Six people caught it from dentist David J. Acer, something that was thought, and claimed, to be impossible.

As a doctor Frist likely was familiar with cases such as that of Dr. Acer. His statement, the actual statement he made which is "I don't know", is not unreasonable.
As experiences like Ingress arrive, Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel "Rainbows End" looks more and more like a checklist of inevitabilities.

For a relevant sampling, the short story 'Synthetic Serendipity' is online at:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serend...
The thing I really don't understand is this seems like such a simple thing to test! Search for X in our data set vs. competitor data set: flag for review if we are not within 1km radius. Don't release until the number and scope of flags hasn't been reduced to an acceptable margin of error (don't even have to test the full data set, just need a good enough statistician to help you figure out how bad your overall data is based on your sample tested data).
There wouldn't be a serious problem raising $140b from financial markets if doing gigabit-to-the-home were profitable. We basically did an equivalent level of build for CATV 1980-1995, and for cellular 1985-now (still upgrading and adding sites). The question is financial return and how long you can depreciate the asset.

I'm curious what the breakdown is between rural areas (where, presumably, construction costs per mile are far cheaper), suburban areas, and rural areas (where you can hit a lot of people per building, but costs to shut down a road are higher, and where there are few options for routing.)

It's depressing how hard it is to get 1Gbps into random buildings even in Silicon Valley. Technology has made 100M fairly feasible in most offices, at least (you can do channel-bonding on an old T1 circuit to get 100M, even without fiber!), for <$3k/mo. It's still hit or miss if you're on-network for municipal fiber (in PA), the alternative fiber providers (like IP Networks in SF), etc.
I declare BS. I'm sitting on my couch looking at my 55" TV right now. I can not contemplate a work environment where three 55" monitors would be usable for coding. You'd spend way too much time swivelling your head back and forth at any distance that text would be reasonable to read. Either that, or you have the monitors so far away that it's like using 30" monitors at low res.

In a NOC? Maybe. Day trader? Possibly. Not someone using a computer with the information density of source code.
BGR blogspam at it's worst.
Most types probably won't have two different product methods. If a type did then I think it'd be best to avoid overloading the operator in that case. But for those with just one? Might as well overload!
I am more and more convinced that a model similar to Github is the correct one for (software) companies at least - undirected development.

I don't mean chaos, but I do mean employees simply doing what they view as the next most important thing. As a manager and a developer I know that managers often focus on their priority list at the expense of sensible decisions by those closer to the metal

The managerial decisions should be code quality (reviews) - and here need to be violently strict for great ideas badly implemented - and general vision

Can it work - it's easier if we see work less as a centralised dictatorship and more as a distributed collaboration.
How RSA encryption works (video)
I don't think Google wants to build this at all. They just want to put some pressure on Comcast, TW and the likes to offer higher speeds and without any caps. Google wants to bypass Windows and go straight to the cloud, but one needs high speed internet.

Cable companies are deep in debt for a reason. I just don't see Google hiring 80,000 people are whatever it takes and hope it just works financially.
This doesn't seem to be any simpler. The CLI equivalents take about the same time, but selecting all text files surely takes longer than 'ls .txt', especially if there are a lot in the same folder (click first, scroll, shift+click last).

If we extend the problem to do something like changing the extension (very common for me) for all selected files, the GUI is useless here. Say I want to turn all .txt files => *.txt.old for a cheap archival? In the GUI, I don't know how to do this. On the CLI, I can simply do a 'find -exec', which also allows me to recursively do the change.

Sure, this would be trivial to implement (even Eclipse has a dynamic rename for variable names) with an extension, but this has to be done for each and every possible activity.
Some tweaking could definitely be done, especially on unlimited. That being said, there shouldn't always be a 3-block combo to clear. If there were, the game would be too easy and would likely go on forever. Instead, the challenge is to be patient and think ahead. Ex. If I clear these 3 blocks now, how will it line up the others? Will it create more clearable blocks or less?

But even when you think ahead and play as strategic as possible, I think the unlimited mode is probably a bit too hard right now.
I think it's easy to overestimate the importance of being blogged about. My app was chosen as "App of the day" by thenextweb.com and it was retweeted about 200 times - I got a download spike of about 100 (remember the link was retweeted 200+ times!) for one or two days, then it quickly dropped back to the normal level.
Thank you, and yeah, I think music of some sort will be added in the future. I don't know if we'll add in our own tracks, allow you to select from your own library, or both. But we will almost certainly add music sometime in the near future.
What is a real programming language?
If I was trying to gloss a reason for the OP posting on HN, I would think he asked here was because of HN's particular focus on startups and 'disrupting' traditional industries. Seems to fit for creating a cable company. That being said, the question is still a poor fit because, like others said, it lacks a lot of initial effort.
Well, that's almost exactly 1,000 usd per home.
Spread that over three years, and I am already paying that for Sky Tv (I really have to dump it)

Sounds like a win all round.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Gran Turismo (first version, on Playstation one) was hard. It was good, but it was hard.

Later versions (GT4 especially) were much easier, with many more races and tracks and cars. But is it more fun? Is it fun for advanced players to grind through easy races? (even with weird features to increase difficulty and earnings from races?)
Let's try to be more tolerant then /r/atheism.
But there's a difference between old/outdated data and putting towns in completely the wrong place.
Yep; on the first try. Unfortunately, I was trying to drive my son (who had broken his arm) and the Google driving directions would only display the list mode, rather than on the map. I ended up finding the building on Google Maps, then dropping a pin on iOS Maps, and using the turn-by-turn.

All-in-all a stressful experience
PiCloud and Princeton Consultants Win the First Amazon EC2 Spotathon
They represent the state police force as a whole.
When we refer to "police" in Australia it's 99% of the time state police. Federal police make up the rest as that typically won't come up in conversation as they deal with international issues.
Silex (http://silex.sensiolabs.org/) is very well regarded.
If the pension funds invest in the CAB issues, that might help solve the pension funding shortfall. :-/
This is a great comment. If you're a navy SEAL, for example, you don't "have" goals in the same way as most people.
on yclist it seems 70/84 made it to launch S12, compared to 45/60 for W11.
Ask HN: What's a good URL scheme for dev/test/stage/prod?
one option:

www.example.com (production)

www-staging.example.com (staging)

www-test.example.com (testing)

www-dev.example.com (dev, goes to 127.0.0.1)

other:

by port, would have to hit one ip, then redirect. could use a load balancer.

by deeper subdomain, stage.www.example.com , problems w wildcard ssl certs? would need ucc cert?

with subfolder, would have to hit one ip, then redirect

issues:

0. assume different machines for d, t, s, p

1. we have multiple real subdomains, so don't want, say "dev.example.com"

2. ssl certs

3. we always use www for webservers due to the problem w cookies on naked domains, meaning that we always 301 redirect example.com to www.example.com

4. working on multiple sites at a time

thanks!
But this isn't the fault of their GPS putting towns in the incorrect location, this is blindly following your GPS into a snowbank.

But yeah, your original point still stands: you should always use common sense when following GPS. In this case, it would be common sense to assume that the road to a major regional town wouldn't take you into back streets of a national park...
It’s All About Me
> ... nor do I see how referencing a list of 31 college dropout billionaires has much to do with the argument about predictive power.

You mean, apart from falsifying the notion that there's any meaningful correlation between education and worldly success?

> I'm aware of logical implication and correlation vs causation and so that seems like a whopping non-sequitur.

Knowing that correlation is not causation doesn't constitute a license to ignore its implications.

> I genuinely am interested in knowing how you would suggest codifying education?

You can't. Education is not biology, it is not neuroscience, it's psychology, and psychology is not a science. The reasons:

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology

It's important to remember that there are things not open to meaningful scientific investigation. This is one of them.
I recently lost my extended backup battery and have certainly had battery drain issues. I was thinking that I might steal this guys idea: http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/201097_1015128278... from this post:http://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/14f4xw/power_for_ye...
LOL. The liability is something like 56 billion, and at least Brown is addressing it, or starting to address it. Give Cali some credit.
Thanks for saying nice things about my article.

I tried really hard to stay out of the comments on my post, save one person that said my referencing HN's overwhelming maleness was anti-male sexism. Can't win them all?

It's really flattering to see you propose this, and miles_mathias' effort with setting up a wiki. For what it's worth, I actually do think that there's an interesting wiki-like approach possible with something like this, but I'm not sure that I like either of these approaches. I guess I have something else in mind, a site that is somewhere UX-wise between Quora, Snopes and ... another narrative structure I can't quite put my finger on. How Stuff Works?

The problem is that it's on my list of cool ideas that I don't currently have time to implement, so I'll back anyone that wants to work on something that they are willing to put the time into.

For what it's worth, the big problem with the wiki is that it's a big blank page with no structure. You can't be surprised that nobody has added a thing to it - there's no indication of where to start. That can be fixed! But you have to show people why they should contribute, how they could contribute and finally what they should contribute... in that specific order.
> A shame that they implemented a broken localStorage

If as he describes "the data is wiped when the browser is closed", then i think Wii U implemented "SessionStorage".
Would love to hear more about your automated testing!
Kansas City is (largely) in Missouri.

Additionally it's not clear that Google sees the KC experiment as anything other than an experiment. Money is not the only rubric by which Google Fiber's success should be measured.

Just having the data on what running Google Fiber took would be super useful and interesting (and in the event that it does fail, I hope that info makes it out into the wild).
Common uses of CUBRID Node.js API with examples
Bad solution: regulate financial control of school boards.
Good solution: allow the profitable well run boards to take over the others via voting

I keep seeing "Market will sort it out comments" when the market cannot play in this, Market.

School boards are a fairly unique US thing but they are like a canary in the mine.
Show HN: Simple but useful UIView layout helper
OpenStreetMap has been tested like this http://povesham.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/openstreetmap-and-o...
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamha/OSM%20data%20analysis%20070808...