skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this script impact the performance of a site?

Specifically...

1. It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only use GA and Mixpanel, do I really want to serve the bytes for all the other plugins to my users? Maybe it would be useful to only package the JavaScript that a certain site needs.

2. The script still blocks the onload event. See this post for a way around that: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/the-non-blocking-script-...

3. How does having multiple analytics solutions on a page affect the load time of that page?

Lastly, I couldn't tell from the docs how to call methods before the script has finished loading. Is it similar to GA's method queue pattern?
We definitely plan on caching it locally in the future so it should work.
Looks interesting. Has a pull request been sent to Rails to incorporate these changes directly?
19 year old brazilian hacker reveals how he rigged the elections
> The general premise is that there is an arbitrary, recoverable signal which has been convolved with the data signal. The generating function for this signal is a matter of record if you have access to the utility logs, but difficult to obtain otherwise without being physically at the time and place where the effect occurred.

No and no. It's not convolved but mixed, and the signal is the same everywhere (on one grid), it's specific to time, not place, it's easy to obtain as long as you have the foresight to record it.

So yeah, somebody should record these fluctuations and put them up on the torrents for criminals and dirty cops to abuse :)
Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Econ Nobel Laureate Kahneman)
Schrödinger's gardenia: ... the processes that might exploit quantum weirdness
If you described the way modern internet works to an engineer 100 years ago, they'd pull their hair out too trying to understand such a system using the technology of their day.

For brain uploading, my money is on pure algorithms. Throw a lifetime of data on top of base human emulation software, possibly influenced by known genetic data, and then iterate through an insane number of possible brains using an insane quantity of CPU until you get a virtual brain that most closely matches up with the provided data. It'll be at best a crude approximation of the original human, but just like with MP3s, nobody will really care as long as their departed loved one feels like the same person.

The "singularity" is just a mathematical abstraction, as with dark energy or string theory. The math is highly likely to describe a real phenomenon, but anyone extrapolating further detail based on that math is basically just guessing.
The great thing about Olark is it can be very humanizing if you let it. Its pretty powerful to tell a customer at 3am: "Hey, this is definitely a problem. I've marked it in our issue tracking software, but its 3am here and I am about to pass out. Is it okay if I email you tomorrow with a fix?". I wonder if that isn't more effective than just instantly fixing the problem at hand...

One really awesome thing we did at Zapier is add a custom Olark !info command that pulls up various stats of the user, like what plan they are on, how long they've had an account, links to their profile in the admin, etc... It has been crazy useful. Check out their awesome JS API [1].

Also, Olark is worth every penny. If it isn't installed on your site today, you are doing it wrong (especially if you are still figuring out your product).

[1] https://www.olark.com/documentation
I hope I live in the universe where this happens.
As a lay person, when I read of viruses, I look for ways I can contract such a thing. In the example of West Nile, I know to stay away from mosquito-prone places. For creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant of mad cow), I knew to cut down on my intake of beef. I think its important to distinguish between humans and other animals for this reason.

And having lived through SARS in Toronto, I can tell you that many people didn't have chicken on their tables during that summer.
A last wish before the end of the world?
I think Daniel buried the lede on this one: there’s an apartment available in San Francisco!
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Divshot: An Awesome Way to Design and Build Bootstrap Pages
BBC News growth of page views
But this isn't practical in reality. First of all, you need a core of U-233 to start the process but once you start you're adding thorium at different points in time so the fuel slurry is going to be always a mix of thorium, protactinium, u-232, u-233 and other various products which makes extracting anything a royal pain. There's much easier ways of isolating weapons grade uranium instead of trying to extract it from a ongoing fuel process.
If this covered Omniture I'd be over the moon...
Thanks for the feedback. Bigger hardware profiles are definitely coming (some exciting profiles as well). CPUs vary a bit, but I added Passmark numbers. Clarified that the servers are 1U rack-mount machines.
The beat and synth part sound incredibly good, the vocal lines are full of catchy hooks and repeatable lines. A mix of languages means most listeners pick up on some - but importantly, not all - of the lyrics. This creates an "earworm" effect.

On top of being legitimately good, the song and accompanying video are funny. Very funny. It seems like funny pop strikes an unexpected chord with listeners (see the band LMFAO, Rebecca Black's Friday).

The signature dance moves tie the humour and music together in a package that is, for many, irresistible and must be exercised.

Beyond those elements, meta-success starts to kick in. The song is culturally important, because it crosses all sorts of conventional, cultural and geographical boundaries and tears down expectations of what makes "good" music, what a pop idol looks like. The song is commercially important, not just because of how much money it made, but more for how that money was generated - almost entirely via YouTube advertising and iTunes sales. Which is to say, the conventional record publishing industrial complex was left out of the equation.

I could go on, but these are the elements that are most important to me.
The stuff I'm reading makes it seem like it's just sexual content. Is that confirmed, or is it inclusive of other explicit material, e.g., gore, propaganda?
C# Naming and Design Guidelines
But that means that while thorium doesn't present an obstacle to state actors in acquiring nuclear weapons, it would considerably lower the risk of theft of non-polluted U-233 by non-state actors.
Agreed. Please stick to the trend of a creative, whimsical, yet non-descriptive name, I recommend "SealFur.js".
Yeah I'm with you. We've had trouble conveying the experience in words. Once people try it, they get it, and that suggests that we need to reduce the friction in trying it.

Some answers to your specific questions - Yes it's free, and all you need is a guitar (any acoustic or electric is fine) and a computer that has a microphone built in. There's no special cables or microphone required.
Each day when a new challenge shows up, everyone gets a badge and notification. You'll have the badge on there until you actually open the extension, and when you complete a challenge you get a star on it so you can track any you missed.
is the chrome extension[1] working? was just thinking that I might start to use it if there was a browser extension that makes sure those requests stay always local.
otherwise its rather slow to use any remote resource while developing a page locally.

https://github.com/cdnjs/browser-extension
A wall hack for Letterpress App
So my wife has a better vocabulary than me, but I can program with ruby and have access to the unix dictionary. Therefore, she will never beat me at letterpress again!
nice. soon Unity will just be a browser extension.

that runs on your holophone.

that's attached to your face.
The article isn't clear on the encryption methods used on the data transferred between the voting machine and the system that actually account votes. But it seems to me that Brazil's government is being anything but incompetent in the data security subject.

Can't wait to read the book that'll come out of the seminar.
Microsoft just changed their CDN url because of this: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx

Though for the most part, people will not have cookies set on the domain unless they have visited the main site (i.e. they are developers).
Yes. You absolutely need a co-founder. It's just too hard to do alone.
So my wife has a better vocabulary than me, but I can program with ruby and have access to the unix dictionary. Therefore, she will never beat me at letterpress again!
Although I understand the sentiment, I think it is in poor taste to compare Olark, a very reputable company with a solid track record, with whatever that fly-by-night company is doing.
Ask HN: Ethical analytics tech/company?
I am working on launching a site soon and I'd like to be able to gain a certain amount of information about my (currently-hypothetical) users. I would also like to gain this information ethically. :-)

In particular & at this point in time, I'd like to know how they got to the site, what location they are at (by country), and what browser they are using. Ideally I could also track length of time they are using the site, repeat visitors, and what "paths" they take as they move through the site.

N.b.; this is my first real public website, so I'm not 100% familiar with the players.
I used to feel exactly the same way, but eventually the novelty wore off after I started a family. The prospect of spending 2 hours every day commuting for the next 20-30 years got me looking at real estate and job listings real quick.

Two hours a day is 500 hours a year on the train. That's a tremendous amount of time to be away from your loved ones for the sake of a Good Job or a Nice House.
Was Tumblr Hacked?
Batch meets a quiet end weeks after its closing fanfare
I generally do it by feel, partly because I'm treating "value" somewhat subjectively, something like "intellectual value" or "scholarly value" rather than "number of hits". So I look for things that Wikipedians don't seem to be spending a lot of effort on, but which imo a good encyclopedia should cover.
Google Exploit demonstration: this EFF link was already submitted
> It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only use GA and Mixpanel, do I really want to serve the bytes for all the other plugins to my users? Maybe it would be useful to only package the JavaScript that a certain site needs.

It only has code that knows how to load each script, which isn't that much. So for example if you don't tell it to load chartbeat.js, it will never load chartbeat.js.

Regarding load time of pages, it's one thing we (Chartbeat) take really seriously, e.g. our default implementation waits until after onload before downloading anything and we keep our JS as light as possible. This script does, unfortunately, throw some of that out the window with it's implementation though. I'm working on my pull request already. :)
For a JPG file, the result would be identical.
Just remember that using email addresses as UserId string, like in the example, is against the Google Analytics terms of service.
I got a "Sorry, something went wrong" within the popup.html response on an Ubuntu machine with Chromium.
Does anyone know how V8 is coming along regarding support of JavaScript 1.7?
I cited downthread chapter and verse from WP:V explicitly stating that journal articles were good sources. In the comment you're replying to, I cited the specific policies I was referring to; I didn't provide hyperlinks because you had already hyperlinked to them. Please don't pretend that I'm making a point that's more controversial than it actually is.

It is simply not true that WP disallows citations to the academic cryptologic literature. The opposite is true.

Again, you've confused the actual policy, which says that you can't take a journal article, infer from it conclusions the author didn't make, and then draw those conclusions without any other support in the body of a WP article. The policy does not say that journal articles aren't sources.
What are you even talking about? I don't know about these "Wikipedia debates" I apparently brought up, unless you mean the AfD discussions that go along with the HN articles I just linked. Yes, Clojure and Why and all those things have pages, but that's because people fought for them. Nemerle wouldn't have a page if people hadn't fought for it — nor would Why or any number of other things. You yourself said in that thread you found the state of the Y Combinator discussion offputting.

The thing is, even when you succeed in fending off all that, it doesn't really feel good to have spent time on Wikipedia politics.

The fact that anybody can nominate any article for deletion doesn't really run counter to my point, which is, to reiterate:

> No matter how innocuous the topic, if somebody takes notice of it, you'll often find yourself constantly having to fight random people … it was unpleasant and I wouldn't want to deal with such people again.
"Phone" Is Just an App; Why Regulate It?
as far i understand, yes. the real nasty thing about uranium-232 is that it emits highly dangerous gamma radiation [1], which is extremely unhealthy==difficult==expensive to handle. if i understand correctly, the gamma radiation also makes it much easier to detect from afar, making stealth difficult.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_uranium#Uranium-232
To your friends in the USA. As Dwolla is USA only.
Trouble getting real neurons and synthetic neurons to interact would certainly throw a wrench in everything, but I am not so sure that concerns about changes to the individual are much of a show stopper. If you are digitizing a "person", they are going to be dramatically altered one way or the other.

Either way though you are going to create an intelligence that will likely be unable to relate to biological people, and biological people will probably have just as much difficulty relating to it. I wouldn't be surprised if an uploaded person was viewed as some sort of psychopath after the procedure, no matter how perfect the procedure was. (And considering how biological people will probably treat it, it would probably be very justified in thinking the same of them)

As long as the individual is happy with the results, no matter how changed they become, that is probably the best we could hope to shoot for.
Augmented Reality Game Gets Player Busted
Windows has fallen behind Apple iOS and Google Android
You mean updating browsers to recognize the same file across different domains (e.g. md5 hash, etc)?
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http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/solarcity-delay/

"After first delaying its IPO by a day, the company decided to cut the offer price of its shares by almost half – from an initial range of $13 to $15 per share to $8."
See how much money people make in every neighborhood in every city in America
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Thanks for sharing this. I've use Piwik for a few years now, but this looks interesting too.
As a hobbyist, you could always use MonoMac. It is still free and you may have to wrap the StoreKit APIs yourself.
(edit on previous comment. I am on my iPhone right now) Why do you keep ignoring the arguments about the actual topic? Please respond to my first two paragraphs (of the grandparent comment). This entire thing about verifiable sources is an off-topic argument that I'm only going down as an aside because you forced the issue by ignoring the notability problem.

"""None of the content in question is "wrong": we are only discussing things with "inappropriate weight". Are you saying that the game Space Empire Elite (the article that Jason Scott is angry about today) did not exist? Was there something else on the article that you believe was "wrong"? We are explicitly discussing "notability" here.

(Sadly, I can't even look at the article, for the reason I already complained about: when Wikipedia decides to delete something, it is totally removed from the website in a way such that you cannot use edit history to get it back, making arguments about it impossible post-facto. I wish I could make a real judgement for myself.)"""

Everything after those two paragraphs was "ok, of you insist on making a confusing non sequitur about Britannica based on that one rhetorical sentence from Nate's argument, I guess I can play along and argue", but is sadly the only thing you insist on arguing about, ignoring th deletionism issue. :(
It looks like the model 5150 didn't come with a hard disk, and the only official support for that was through the IBM 5161 Expansion Chassis. I think the author would have commented having an external drive for a PC, so I think it's safe to assume at least an XT equivalent.

(I've been searching for images of the chassis but to no success. I've never seen one, nor heard of it before today.)

And in the other direction, a PC Jr (also an 8088) maxed out at 128 KB, according to my references, though Wikipedia says there were third-party extensions to 736K. In any case, the Jr doesn't support the 8087 math coprocessor, so that's not what the author has.
I'm also very curious about this, because I think node.js is the most reasonable place that this sort of coroutine stuff might actually be useful.

(Generators, meanwhile, are useful all over the place.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 10 dynos to serve ~10 requests / second pretty excessive?

The gem looks great and kudos to the author for getting such a great improvement in responsiveness. I'm just a bit confused why he would choose to set up the benchmark the way he did.
There was a post on here a few weeks ago where people were specifically blasting KISSMetrics for using an Evercookie style tracking system, so I'd argue that HN hasn't come up with a coherent opinion of the moral implications of analytics and conversion tracking yet.
Well, obviously. I meant in the sense of making worrying about pixels irrelevant. To paraphrase the old koan - if a pixel is too small to be seen, does it really exist?
she has released an album under both names - lana del ray was self-titled; born to die was lana del rey. and she's one of only 3 names i recognise from that list.

but i agree that the lists appear to have "complex" selection criteria.
Google Images (currently) behaves as before (able to completely disable safe search) on other google domains (personally tested https://www.google.ca/imghp?, https://www.google.co.uk/imghp?).

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Across the handful of official Google representative responses that have emerged so far (mostly listed in the linked article's updates), there is every indication that these changes are behaving exactly as intended.

I find it hard to believe there won't be massive back-pedalling here, but far more intelligent, informed and long-sighted people than me must have done the calculations for this to have happened, which is very scary.
Location-Based Racism App
But he is not doing the horse riding dance!
It will certainly be interesting to see how much of the "Nolan" aesthetic is present in this film. I'm definitely excited.
I've handle roughly six or seven at a time. Don't think I've hit eight. It can definitely get challenging with that many chats running.
Can't wait to use C# 5 async in MonoTouch. I heard it's coming soon.
Co-Occurence & SEO: Bringing back the power of the brand
I provided WP's reasoning for keeping articles about "Fourlokotinis" and non-notable local amateur sports teams off the site. They are:

* Those articles are extremely likely to be inaccurate, because nobody outside the very small number of people with firsthand knowledge about them can verify them.

* It's manifestly obvious that those articles would quickly overwhelm the encyclopedia with obviously bullshit content; again, just look to the absolutely enormous quantity of totally ridiculous articles logged, complete with deletion debates, on the AfD link I provided.

* The articles themselves would spark huge time-wasting debates about placement and weighting, which is something that already happens with verifiable articles.

* A huge incentive exists to push vanity content onto WP because of its prominence on the Internet.
Would love to hear what error message you got in the body of that. Also, did you try immediately re-opening it? Do you mind sending an email to support@get-creative.us. Thank you!
For the last question, all of the providers are initialized just like they would be normally, so GA's queue is setup already and it will just be routed the track calls.
To confirm, http://www.pcworld.com/article/237878/can_you_do_real_work_w... shows a model 5150 (it's the only model with a cassette port on the back) which has 640K of RAM.
Looking forward to it! Sorry to mess with your onload
This is a cool idea for a project! The closest equivalent I'm aware of is Qubit OpenTag (https://github.com/QubitProducts/OpenTag).

I'm interested in adding SnowPlow support to this (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) - our tracking API is very similar to Google Analytics's.

We've just gone through the quite involved exercise of mapping SnowPlow to Google Tag Manager (http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2012/11/16/integrating-sno...) so I was a bit surprised in the code to see this mapping for GA events:

track : function (event, properties) {
window._gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'All', event]);
}

I'm a bit confused by this - how would I use analytics.js to pass through all the valid data that I can log in a GA event or indeed SnowPlow event - https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/javascript-tracker...

I think you might be making the assumption that events consist of an event name plus arbitrary JSON envelope. This is a very MixPanelish view of the world - it doesn't really translate to Google Analytics, Piwik, SnowPlow, Omniture...
Maybe the Ender's Game movie will open the gate for Player of Games.
From the best comic writer[0] how he found the answer to be a little more than 41:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke.
It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number,
and I chose that one. Binary representations, base
thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense.
I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought
'42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

There is no amount of research that can take this away from me.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the...
Ask HN: Best documentation in code you have seen?
What is the best documentation in code you have seen?
I'd be much more comfortble seeing resources going to improving solar and wind power. Storage of waste is always going to cause massive issues.
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We don't really have a hell of a lot to show for what we have spent. Non-zero, sure, but a lot of the lessons we learned could certainly have been learned for a lot more cheaply if we hadn't tried to leap to the end of the process with grandiose projects built more on hope than science.
postscript is turing complete: http://www.tjhsst.edu/~edanaher/pslife/
A pretty good article overall but he seems to go off the rails when he starts talking about construction costs and assumes that a thorium reactor would cost the same as a uranium reactor. My understanding is that a thorium reactor should be dramatically cheaper for a variety of reasons (no need for a big containment bubble for one thing).