skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This issue is near the top of my list at the moment.

I currently spend $100/month on 4 Linodes (3 x 512MB, 1 x 1GB). I love Linode -- efficient support, and their London datacentre has been utterly rock-solid for me for several years -- but I'm beginning to think that, for me, it's the worst of both worlds.

On the one hand, I could move all 4 servers to a dedicated Hetzner box (EX6 or EX6S) running Xen, for a small setup fee and similar monthly cost, and get 4 or 8GB ECC memory on each one. This has a slightly higher sysadmin burden (5 servers to administer instead of 4, slightly higher risk of disk failure), but not that much. And the move is relatively painless, because I can directly transfer the disk images with dd over SSH.

On the other, I could move the services to Heroku, probably pay a bit more, and essentially stop doing any sysadmin. This is superficially attractive... but moving a load of old things to Heroku isn't straightforward, and that probably rules this option out.
>which is, as the article states, a challenge even for recording professionals

Actually, it calls it an "annoyance", which is a good characterization of it. And that's for professionals trying to make very high quality recordings where they accurately capture the output of instruments within that frequency range while eliminating the mains interference in the same range.

If you're recording someone's voice on a portable recorder that's in your pocket or stashed somewhere in a room, you're not likely to capture much in terms of voice in that range in the first place. Even if you did, it would still be plausible that you didn't. So if you tampered with a recording and then replaced everything under 70 Hz with ambient noise recorded separately (including mains noise) in the same location, it would be pretty difficult to prove tampering.
Nope, because you didn't believe in it enough to build it, instead choosing to waste time posting on websites. Zuckerberg didn't ask if he should build Facebook, the GitHub founders didn't ask if they should make GitHub, and Jason Fried didn't ask if he should build 37signals.
IMO and Putnum are comparing the best of each nation. This article is comparing the median of each nation. I wouldn't expect a strong correlation there. Both matter.
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Beyond Vulnerability Management
In this Built In Chicago blog post, Risk I/O's Andrea Bailiff-Gush discusses RiskDB, a free, open repository of security vulnerability information sourced from global vulnerability databases.
just looked into f.lux and I will definitely be trying it out. :)
That's true of all non-african countries.
i think he said on twitter, he'll try to port to p3 during xmas vacation
I'm even more happy about your comment now because as I was looking at the gunnar website my boss came up and ask me about it. Now he is buying me a pair!
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Avdi Grimm gives a good explanation: http://devblog.avdi.org/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/
There is actually a message:

"If there is no check on the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions"

"The war continues until the last Zionist remains on the beloved land of Palestine"

cough Shouldn't that be until there are no more Zionists in Palestine? Are they proposing to kill all Zionists until there is just one of them left, and then say "you're the last one here, you can stay".
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Really? Assessing demand before diving into app development is considered a bad thing?
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My criterion (which is no more valid than anyone's)

Isn't that sort of begging the question?

It's also wildly presumptuous to declare that no one else could have a more valid understanding of what makes something art.

As for complaining about people complaining ...
In turn, the child poverty problem is related to whether a child has both parents in the household.

http://www.heritage.org/childpoverty
I think you are missing how much the spectrum of the drift matters. Just knowing the range over which the clock varies (say 5%) isn't enough. If the drift is slow - which thermally induced drift usually is, because it's driven by daily heating/cooling cycles - then it's possible to correct for it in the recording. Analysis techniques which are based on frequency-domain variations would tend to reject this type of slow drift automatically, but the details depend on the technique used. If, on the other hand, the noise on the clock is fast jitter rather than slow drift, things become much more difficult. On typical consumer recording devices, the noise floor due to jitter is way below the noise floor due to the limited SNR of the microphones and amplifiers used. The jitter noise is non-linear, which makes things harder, but doesn't tend to be a limiting factor.

It's been most of a decade since I worked on this stuff (in the context of radar and sonar), so that knowledge may be out of date. Still, I'd be surprised if clock (LO) jitter is the limiting factor in this type of analysis.
The socioeconomic impact on students is definitely incredibly important.

While I know this is anecdotal, my wife is a reading/psychology teacher at a high school in Florida that is widely considered one of the worst, if not the worst, in the state. It's incredible the ways in which the students socioeconomic state plays into their ability and/or desire to learn. Everything from the students parents not being capable of or not willing to contribute to their educational growth to peer pressure from other students to not stand out (which includes appearing smarter than others, sadly).

My wife is lucky to be in a position where she can teach them in small groups of 1-3 students and get them away from that peer pressure. In these circumstances, and when someone is believing in their ability to do better, they really do excel and are incredibly bright. It's just like you said, their socioeconomic position has stacked the cards against them for a very long time and it becomes easy to fall into the same rut everyone else is in within those areas.
I was just thinking the same thing, but it's a bit like kickstarter without the cash pledges. Which means all someone has to do to endorse your idea is click a button (potentially), which is no means an intent to buy the finished product.

Secondly I'd be pretty pissed if I put my idea up on a service like this, demand for it skyrockets, then someone steals it and develops it before me.
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I guess this is a more suitable medium than cstross/AutoPope's "pontifications by email"
Not to disagree with your overall point, but $5k/month x 12 months = $60,000/year, not $50,000/year.

(Perhaps you were rounding up rather than down?)
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Agreed 100%.

I'd mentioned something similar to #4 in a previous post about this project. With all due respect to Nathan's efforts and marketing throughout this process, I thought he was a developer trying to teach design rather than a designer, considering the layout of the page and the preview screenshot (doesn't look like an actual app, poor typography). And this might just be me, but I'm wary about a WordPress template for a simple one page site when we're talking about web development.

Taking screenshots of your [subjectively] favorite experiences and writing about why you think it's good UX (when there are more qualified resources for this), coupled with teaching people how to do some basic Photoshop [instead of actual code?] when we have endless resources for such isn't worth $200 for me, the assumed target market. Do you go over why you you the beveled aesthetic works, or do you just think it's cool? Because that's how I'm reading most of this PDF preview; that's just like, your opinion man.

As such, there should be tiers based on what I want out of this; the design, the UX or the interviews. Even then, ~$65 for interviews from people that write about their experiences on their own - for free - doesn't sell me. Sorry :/
I think it's less about gawking in amazement and more about perspective. Getting wound up about small technical drawbacks is very "first-world problem".
Any social network where you can post messages for the user in the users message stream.
The freshouts I spoke of before all seemed to be genuinely shocked at their first experience of the real world. Not only were they wholly unprepared for their chosen career; they also seemed wholly unprepared for the revelation of how unprepared they were.

I can't say for sure why that might be, but I could speculate on it for days. Perhaps they never really understood the point of school in the first place. Perhaps they were seeing so much success at Googling their way through school that they were never given any reason to suspect they might not be able to get away with Googling their way on through the rest of their lives. Perhaps they knew how dependent they had become on being hand-held through everything by others, but didn't know how to escape that pattern.

shrug All I know is that at this point, if I were to find out that there were a university that had a policy of flunking students for asking, "Is this going to be on the exam?" I would immediately write a letter to HR suggesting that we aggressively recruit graduates of that program.
I have no idea why that would be true? I assume pretty much anyone with enough money for an internet connection has some value to advertisers.
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It requires a technically astute criminal, though, and most aren't.

Exactly. Many don't even use gloves. I was wondering on how precisely you could locate the hum and if you could deliberately create a hum signature for a region.
Sure, but a hash collision for a specified value is still a needle in a haystack.

The sheer size of the keyspace (2^128) means that rainbow tables can only ever exist for a subset of the keyspace.

1M machines running for a year each capable of doing 20M MD5 hashes a second will still only cover 1/539514153540300709th of the MD5 keyspace.

But, yes, salting would prevent the use of rainbow tables completely.
Wow. Python has become something like Smalltalk, but with some architecture improvements. (Client/server through zeromq) This is to say, it's gone from programming environment to a multimedia glue that allows the integration of automation to everything. (Google DynaBook)
Well a call certainly had to be made about what they were going to test. The trick there is that it's easier to get people to agree to "try a technique out" even if it is unscrupulous, and that means a tricksy has a better chance of getting its foot in the door.
The issue with these comparisons is that it tends to be about VMs and storage only. A modern applications requires a lot of moving pieces. Setting up and managing, say, a queue service, has costs associated with it where something like SQS becomes a serious value add.
Learn a new (people) language to shore up your propositional calculus skills. If you're a native Germanic (English) language speaker, learn an Altaic one (like Japanese for example) and vice versa. It has certainly helped me write elegant code. Code isn't just code, its a mindset and approach with a lot of room for creativity.
Ask HN:  Best development platform for games (minimal graphics)
I have a new idea for a game. The game is mostly text based and doesn't require heavy graphics. The game centers around social competition through a series of random challenges (mostly word based). This got me thinking, what is the better development platform. Facebook or an android app. I choose those platforms based on my skill set, rails and java.

Any advice/thoughts from you guys would be appreciated.
I've gotten a lot of use out of Coffeescript classes -- they've dramatically simplified my codebase and made it more reusable. My only gripe with them is that while you have an easy shortcut for referring to instance member fields (@fieldName), referring to class fields from within an instance requires using Full.Class.Name.fieldName syntax. I'd love to have a shorthand for that, even if it was another sigil.
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Your conception of entrepreneurship sounds more like religious faith.
Somebody please edit the title to include (fictional) -- without that it is very misleading
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"I could move all 4 servers to a dedicated Hetzner box "

How do you deal with hardware failure when you have a dedicated box at Hetzner? Specifically if/when something fails are there spares etc?
I like the idea, I wonder if it has to be ad revenue though. I find that idea (personally) distasteful, but don't have any better ideas besides getting donations.

Maybe this exists, MediaWiki may even support it. What I'd like to see is a wiki that allowed you to populate articles by crossreferencing other pages.

An example:

Page: Lisp <tagged as FP>
A functional programming language invented in...
<Portion marked as summary>

Page: Functional Programming
<Summary of FP>
List of languages in the FP category:
<Populated from tagged articles>
<Populated from summary in tagged articles>

You'd only edit that Lisp summary in one location, then other articles could pull from it as needed. Not sure how well it'd work in practice, and as I said maybe MediaWiki and others support this now. I haven't looked at their features in years.

If you initially constructed your wiki from Wikipedia (and maybe other sources), the initial effort would be on removing this redundancy, but you'd still provide as many articles they'd just be better synchronized with each other. Adding breadth (Scheme, Common Lisp, etc) would be straightforward by sharing whole blocks of text. Shorter articles wouldn't be penalized because they'd just be pulled into others via this same cross referencing mechanism. They could be hidden in some fashion to avoid namespace clutter, but outright deletion would be unnecessary.

Well that was a braindump, and maybe not as coherent as I thought it would be. This is why I should sleep more, and practice describing my ideas to other people for feedback.

EDIT: To continue, a thought I should've included originally, use some form of markup for those pages to autofill parts and maybe autogenerate the summary. A language has a place, person and time of invention. A set of paradigms it may be described as fitting into, a set of parent, children and cousin languages. Marked up, this allows for portions to be very consistent in presentation across pages in a category. I suppose I should look at semantic wikis again. As I said, this was an idea I had years ago and pondered but never really researched.

EDIT: Missing newlines.
My point wasn't about the quality of ethics, but that it's being left to schools and not the, you know, parents.

--I suppose since I used the word properly I invited an argument of quality. I did mainly mean to refer to to the who and not the how well though.
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That's a good example

shirt.blue? and return bar

would be equivalent to

return bar if shirt.blue?

You can do the same with or and unless.
Op op op op oppan. So, I was browsing through the source of the Zeitgeist pages (as you do), and I saw some pretty cool stuff.

I started off by just wanting to know how the explore map was done [1]

But then I saw #easter-egg in the source, and also easter-egg.css file being included.

If you look at the very very bottom of the page on the right, you will see the Google colors. Hover over that for a Gangnam dancing character[2].

[1] : http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#explore
[2] : http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#maia-signature (Easter Egg Here)

I just made a JS Fiddle and posted a new submission on HN.

http://jsfiddle.net/Layke/7hjTC/show/ <--- View the Easter Egg
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I find that the "zone" requires a couple things to be entered for me.

- zero to slight physical discomfort. Taking time off to blow nose, stretch from back pain, etc, is not helpful

- clear head. Intrusive thoughts and worries, as one might expect, do not help me focus.

- Total quiet is nice, but not required. So long as its not insistent or random loudnesses (i.e., doesn't grab my attention), I am OK with it.

- Often, a drink ready to hand. No idea why.

- With respect to sound, I prefer over-the-ear headphones, since sticking stuff in my ears is not my thing. I favor upbeat/peaceable music - Iron and Wine is one of my standbys.

- And finally - and worst of all - an interesting problem. I have to actually want to work on the thing to really get going, otherwise it's a effort where I have to essentially mentally set aside my distractions and prepare to "go deep".
This is one of those things that you take a look at and you say "oh thats nice", then you take a second look and yoou're like "Holy shit, that's life changing"

Crowd tilt literally just became the company that can work with any range of major processors to split up payments and allow the payment gateways, processors etc to worry about what they do best, at 1% it would be alot of work to go replacing their system and yet it will still rake in profits for crowdtilt.

As someone who has watched them from the start and met both founders I always knew that good things were coming but this move could actually change online commerce for the better, its just awesome.
The curriculum didn't occur in a vacuum, though. It's based on what the leaders thought the students could handle. No one wants a curriculum where a lot of students fail.

Part of that is heterogeneous grouping. The curriculum is based on what the bottom 10% can handle, and everyone else must go at their pace lest there be elitism.

There's probably other factors too, though. All students could probably move faster if culture as a whole were encouraging it.
The whole site comes across as a bit of a skeezy sales letter. You're a designer, you're better than that.

And this is why many designers are horrible at making websites that sell. When I sold my first book, I tried a short-form, nicely designed landing page. I even thought about doing it with my second book. But I always come back to the sales letter, because it works.
Bucking the Herd Mentality
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In the case of fictional universes, Wikipedia's deletionism is Wikia's business model.
Ask HN: A source for "regular" news
Yesterday I was at trivia night with some friends at a bar. I realized that while I excelled at math/tech and to a lesser extent sports, my knowledge is seriously lacking in popular culture and current events.

What are your high quality sources of "normal" news? I.e., news with not necessarily a heavy focus on science and tech?
Haha awesome. We're reviewing all this great feedback trying to determine our best next move. It's a fun time!

Feel free to keep using the site, and please be in touch. Would love to hear more feedback or advice, as well as take a look at what you're working on.
1. There are already services to "backup" your socially posted content http://jolicloud.com http://socialfolders.me/

2. Cross posting to multiple services is really, really hard. Each service has a different number of fields. You would have to get the user to complete the full information for each service in one go. Technically you could map all these fields, but from a UX point of view it's really hard.

3. Most services cross post between other services already. At least in a way that matters to most. And there are various ways that are "good enough"

Having said that, yes there is a demand for this. I've heard it direct from my customers. I actually work the other way in that I aggregate what you already post socially.

But I would look very hard at the financial side on this, I'm not sure you'll make enough money to warrant the effort.
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Ask HN: Bootstrap - input:focus:invalid vs. input:focus:invalid:focus 
In Bootstrap, the bootstrap.css has two different selectors:

input:focus:invalid,
textarea:focus:invalid,
select:focus:invalid {
color: #b94a48;
border-color: #ee5f5b;
}

input:focus:invalid:focus,
textarea:focus:invalid:focus,
select:focus:invalid:focus {
border-color: #e9322d;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #f8b9b7;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #f8b9b7;
box-shadow: 0 0 6px #f8b9b7;
}

What are the differences between them besides the color?
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Spencer Dunfee
Hi,

I am just writing to follow up on my email regarding Mikogo a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure you're very busy so if you're short on time here's a link to a short video that will give you a quick summary of Mikogo and its features: http://www.mikogo.com/2012/11/21/mikogo-video-easy-online-meetings/. If you get a chance to look at Mikogo let me know if you think it's something you'd be interested in.

If you have any further questions don't hesitate to get in touch. Many thanks and best of luck!
The comments on the article itself (not here) make me sad. It almost immediately devolves into a language war. Why is it that some people always have to find something to complain about?

I bet a conversation with the author of this article would be very interesting. With the attitude he demonstrated here, he probably has a lot to teach.
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As I'm looking at setting up a blog, website, and company, my inner nerd keeps nagging me: "You could build it and host it all yourself". But I know I don't need to.

I nearly majored in economics, and I've worked in a datacenter, so I know it's simply more efficient to depend on hosted services. Yet I still want to set up the whole stack. For me, it's a question of letting go and trusting the services that others host and others use. And it's foregoing the pride of "doing it all myself".

There simply isn't enough time to build everything from scratch -- if you build your own servers, you're sourcing HDDs and motherboards and power supplies and other components. If you make motherboards, you're sourcing copper and other raw materials. No single human is so tall as to pull copper ore from the ground, pull silicon from sand, and move vertical enough to self-produce a tablet or PC. Currently this takes several thousand humans.
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I would have to agree with you on this one.
Here's a flavor of the same idea: http://launchsky.com/ (I think posted on HN not too long ago)
12/12/12 12:12:12.120721961 was the best I could do.
You're saying it's better to invest months of time, thousands of dollars only to find nobody wants it?

For every Facebook you quote me, I'll show you 10,000 others that didn't succeed and instead wasted time and effort when they could have done some customer research exactly like this.
Android tablets haven't been very successful. Android fans may not like it, but the public loves the iPad, so the iPad mini becomes a disruptive product. It's the smaller tablet that people have been waiting for.

There's more to the success of a product than being first to market. Apple has been proving that for the duration of its existence.
If you're going to ask visitors to answer questions, don't force them to read over things they don't need to know before getting to the meat of it. Just say "Here are some concepts for a _______ app/service, based on these screenshots, would you actively use this tool? If no, what features would you need to use it?"

That said, the response will be from so many different people with different ideas of their ideal solution to this that it shouldn't used to determine the worth. People will try something if it exists, and they'd rather waste their time trying to use it than answering questions about what it is.
I see no mention of C++14 on the site of the C++ committee: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/

Where is there an official mention of the name C++14?
That's what VC is for.