skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hi, this project looks really neat! i'm evaluating icinga web + pnp4nagios at work, but this could be a viable alternative. cheers and glad you put this out there :-)

i see that you use Protocol Buffers. from google's page, it seems like they only work with C++, Java or Python. now this could be a problem for us. what if i want to pull events from a bash script, a delphi gui app, SNMP, Dell idrac interface, or any other event? do they have to interface over Protocol Buffers, or am i missing something here? would i have to write a glue layer?

and what about, if you have two seperate networks, and want one server to forward data for its entire lan to the other server, to process and graph them?
Why be insulting at all?
A) H.264 replaced MPEG2 largely to make video on disc look better, i.e. an existing use case. B) I am not sure what use cases have to do with the point the XKCD comic was making. The open web people wanted Theora, Google offered WebM and most everyone else settled on continuing to use H.264.

Unless the Daala people can get some good lobbying, or can make their codec in such a way that minimal effort is required by hardware vendors to support both H.265 and Daala, then I think it's likely to end the same way as previous open video codec attempts.
I find it interesting that the treatment of the digital analogue in legislation is contradictory. While it's beneficial to the government and businesses to remove the distinction between digital and physical when it comes to IP and copyright, it's just as beneficial to maintain that distinction for 'security' or 'anti-terrorism'.

'Modern' legislation doesn't feel all that progressive when it comes to technology.
Physicists Develop Test to Determine if the World is a Computer Simulation
Small and efficient are popular elsewhere because US gas taxes are hugely lower than the rest of the world (other than producer countries that have huge subsidies, like Saudi and Venezuela). US taxes average 49c a gallon vs UK $4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax and thats what makes the difference.
Most of the time it won't matter much, if at all, but if you have app that is not running as fast as you would like then understanding those operation latencies can help a lot in optimising it.
I think you misunderstood. The family knows the circumstances. Its just that 'committed suicide' isn't published to the public.
>Burt Rutan's SpaceshipOne solved it elegantly with feathering: the descent was safe and easy. The mechanism could be troublesome though.

I wouldn't put too much stock in SpaceshipOne's descent scheme. It's not clear at all that's going to work from orbit.
Ask HN: What online startup Christmas deals are on offer?
I don't agree with your interpretation. OP specifically mentioned that the libertarian position is fundamentally 'mean-spirited' and they disguise their mean-spirit with 'disingenuous reframing'. Does your interpretation fit that bill?

If your interpretation were correct, then it would still be wrong. Libertarians don't believe in 'not doing anything' -- which is clearly a disingenuous reframing of the libertarian position. Any one who knew the least bit about libertarianism would know that voluntary charity is absolutely ideal.
Dolphin (wii/gamecube emulator) 3.5 was released
That is very much what SpaceX said to me, and so I've spent the last few months working as hard as I can to become top-notch so they'll pay attention.

I know that I need to improve. I am still hoping that there are other angles, other things I can do, so that the answer to my question is NOT "25 year olds are bad. Come back when you're 40 and already have three of your own spaceships in orbit".
Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent
Thank you Hacker News for another wonderful year!
Sorry I meant to imply the data travelling far distances was most impressive, given the fact it's on the same time-scale (milliseconds) as a transaction happening 1 inch away on your own computer. To me that's what I think is most incredible about that graph. It almost seems that the traveling portion would need to be 100x longer than something happening locally, but obviously this isn't true.
I know Hevra Kadisha, I've lived in Israel all my life :)

In reality, they're not too interested in inflicting religious laws on those who don't follow them, and the occasional overzealous rabbi is easily dismissed by going to another provider, such as the secular burial services now growing in popularity.
I've personally chosen to go for style rather than discretion and set it to #99cc33. It's been almost two years I think now and I really like it this way.

You can see what colors people are using here: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors. I don't know how they are sorted.

Also, if you want to remove the "Hacker News" text from the topbar and keep the rest of the text readable, it's easy to do with some CSS. For instance in Firefox's userContent.css you can add:

@-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) {
.pagetop b { display: none; }
}
When the cost to enforce a contract is higher than the value of the contract, then there is no justice. Small businesses are left with what is effectively vigilante justice, writing blog posts and appealing to the public directly.

Frankly I'm biased against large organizations in general, and so I'm tempted to take this post at face value, and get angry with Expedia. And perhaps that's the right thing to do (although, as someone else pointed out, some e-mail quotes, screenshots, or other corroborating evidence would make for a more convincing story). But I can't help but think that we're all missing the big picture: that the high price of justice creates an enormous advantage for large companies. That justice is priced out of most people's ability.

I used to hear about how 'litigious' American society has become. And yet, is that really true? Personal injury is no doubt quite popular. What what about simple fraud and breech of contract? What about conspiracy to commit fraud?

Unless the justice system is priced for people to actually use it, then it's useless. So the question arises: what cheaper options does the OP have for pursuing this case?
Wrox actually has some nice books, especially in the C#, Java department that I know of.
Railsea by China Miéville is my standout book of the year; such fun with incredible detail that it would also make such a great game world.
The ostrich algorithm
I can't wait for the year 2020! 0ns reads from SSD :D
Thanks, I should correct for that, but don't have the "edit" link anymore.
Mars does not currently have lakes.
Creative Ways to Recruit Web Developers
Where did I say that I was against having kids, or indeed procreation? For the record I'm ambivalent at best about the tradition of marriage (that's where the group think thing comes in I think), and (as stated) kinda sick of other people's babies on my social feed. But I wouldn't read too much more into it than that.
Fagles translation?
Someone on HN recommended "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks. I was fascinated by how fragile "normal behaviour" is.
I read Thinking, Fast and Slow this year too, and it is definitely up there on my best books of all time list.

I also read Black Like Me, which seems to be required reading in the US, but I only recently became aware of it. Definitely worth a look.
GNU Typist
Adding this to the ebookglue URL yields the same result, only 20 entries.
"Parkinson's Law" by C. Northcote Parkinson

"The New Industrial State" by J.K. Galbraith
Of course it's not surprising, it's just not helpful to obfusctate it; how can you try to prevent/improve something you deny to exist in the first place?
So the rights with respect to your mailbox derive from the fact that the Post Office was historically an appendage of the government. Giving your personal information to a government-run Post Office versus giving it to a third party like Google (that mines your personal information for advertisements!) is a salient distinction.
> Despite all the moral hazards, you want the service to be there, and you don't want to tell anyone, "well, you're bleeding to death, but you didn't think to pay for insurance and you have no money, so go die."

There's no doubt that this is an issue, but does it justify forcing people to donate? I like donating to entrepreneurs in poor countries to enable them to create a sustainable living. Why should anyone force me to give to a hospital rather than a cause that I see more fit? I just believe that finding voluntary solutions are better than coercive ones. That said, if I had a button to shutdown all welfare services to the poor - I wouldn't use it. That's not my idea of practical.
This is an article about an amendment proposed to a law that's already on the books. The 180 days thing is already the law of the land, this amendment sought to change that. There's now nothing in this bill relating to mail privacy (i.e. the existing law isn't being changed at all).

So, if that's the way you feel about it, the time to stop using free text email was 1986, when ECPA was first passed.
The required karma threshold is not much (500 if I remember), so it may be a way to say "thanks and keep going" to people who start investing some time to participate to HN.
IE won by force. The anoligy doesn't seem right.
You are right. Of course, the page is still a travesty of form and content.
16 of The Most Important Tablet Facts in 2012
Not unusual doesn't make it acceptable. It is still a PCI DSS violation.
Here's the reporter's info; he has a carry permit too:

Dwight R Worley
23006 139 Ave
Springfield Gardens, NY 11413
(718) 527-0832

(718) 527-0832
If you could be a genius in one skill, which one would you choose?
Things I learned in 2012 and before years:-

1. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.Work with them or help them and try to leverage their skills, knowledge and expertise.

2. Never ever put yourself in a position where you can not control your own destiny. This has happened to me so many times before. At least now I am more vigilant on this.

3. Never expect life to be fair. Life is never fair.

4. Spend money on removing problems rather than buying stuff or buying luxury. There are so many people on this earth without even bare minimum.

5. To give up three damn things. a. excuses b. blaming situations c. complaining about situations.

6. Seize the day. Live in present.
Ask HN: Is Haxor really derogatory anymore?
It seems early use of the term Haxor was a l33t play on making fun of people who cheat or hack games. But it seems I'm hearing this term more used in different contexts now.

What do you think a Haxor is?
Having different stylesheets for different browser widths and heights
(http://blog.pwnieexpress.com/post/24967860602/raspberry-pwn-...)
Lilliput has very reasonable touch.monitors with Linux support.
I feel you on 8 and 9. I think those are going to shift from "fun-time hobby" skills to must-knows for anyone who wants to call themselves a legit hacker in the next 5 years.
Best book of the year by far.

A hell of a fiction, but the most important part is that it awakens on the reader the awe to the universe and the fascination to science, rationality, evolution, etc.
Well it is not very new as it has been discussed for a while. But at least now more people knows about it.

But as the recent Reference Implementation has shown H.265 is moving ahead faster then the previous H.264 has happened. Its quality is already quite good, and many manufacturers are ready to show their Encoder and Decoder in CES.

So for both Software and Hardware Encoder, they are waiting for the final draft and final validation before making them for sale.

VP9 is finally shaping up to be good. VP8 was never up to x.264 encoder standard. At least VP9 is making some quality improvement. But most of the current VP9 material just reads like marketing BS.

While i would love to see Daala, or a codec from Mozilla rather then Google to succeed. It is just not going to happen. Mozilla has never been known for fast moving, and the amount of engineering required for a Video Codec is just huge. Even Google couldn't pull it off. And i doubt Mozilla can. Since Daala is still in research stage and it would take at least 2 year before anything done. By the time H.265 is already well ahead.
Doesn't matter. Your friends, family and colleagues will continue to do so, and thus this affects everybody, even if he's not using free text email.
Speed of light is really fast. Once you have something on a wire traveling close to it, you are in pretty good shape time wise.

The number on a round trip is actually kind of incorrect, because the number of routing stations it must traverse will dramatically impact the round trip time, so it isn't just a fixed value. It is a good ballpark though. I think the real impressive thing is how ethernet hardware has been designed well enough to be able to process billions of packets per second where they have to read the IP destination header, compute the next node in the transaction, and send it off. You can often end up doing that a half dozen times in relatively small trips but the individual time commitments are so much smaller than disk IO :P
If you are a beginner like me, I agree. TDD looks scary and a huge time sink. But believe me, to stay in this game for a long haul you have to just bite the bullet and learn TDD. Or as OP has said, use RailsTutorial and skip over the tests. Once you are comfortable then you can always come back and add test module slowly, at your own pace.
Start with what does "winning" look like and then work backwards from there until you feel you have enough visibility.

What you measure will be completely up to your strategy.
I read it in Dutch as translated by H.J. de Roy van Zuydewijn. If you want to read it in Dutch his translations of The Ilias and the Odyssey are highly recommended by me and more importantly my classics teacher. The Ilias is out of print but available in the second hand market at a premium.

By the way: If you (edit: or anyone else ;) wants to read them I can loan them to you.
Fizzbuzz codegolf challenge results and code snippets
And fund the CIA dark side ops. (Iran Contra)
To quote myself I said "smiling faces, parties or high jinks[sic]". That doesn't necessarily equate to getting wasted in bars, or indeed betray any particularly sort of conventional group-think. I'd argue getting married (and to a much lesser extent having kids) constitutes a more real subscription to conventional life choices. Broadcasting it (semi) publicly over Facebook arguably makes it an even more overt stance. There's nothing wrong with that of couse.

Taking pleasure in a close friend's happy life moment in a real and genuine fashion, i.e. by interacting in real life, is quite different to being confronted by the over zealous activity of a Facebook "friend". It was the latter I was complaining about. And I agree, a particularly ruthless "friend" cull would largely solve the issue.
One of the darkest, funniest books I've ever read was called "The Loom of Ruin" by Sam McPheeters. I found myself laughing out loud regularly. You can read an excerpt here:

http://www.vice.com/read/the-loom-of-ruin-0000118-v19n1
Arbitration is a huge scam. Arbitrators are generally extremely biased in favor of big companies because those companies give them lots of repeat business.

Blocking class action suits is indeed the point of these arbitration clauses, and it's a bigger problem then you make it out to be. What class action suits deal with is the basic problem that it's easy to steal a little bit of money from a lot of people because no individual will find it worth their while to enforce their rights. Without class action suits, it's always profitable to steal from people so long as you don't steal enough from any one person for it to be worth litigating.
If I could read Dutch I would accept your offer :) But alas, I cannot.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haxor

N 1. someone who kicks mass amounts of ass by using his
mad computer skills to alter an online game, or by making
a program to further manipulate the game, and kick more massive amounts of ass.
N 2. The art of hacking
N 3. A script kiddy who is a self-proclaimed hacker,
because he defines himself as a "hax0r" and speaks
in "l33t"
Note: Most hackers rarely use leet, it is often a
trademark of programmers who are either inexperienced,
or want to be hackers. One who is haxor rarely goes
by "haxor" or any other derivitave. It is a title given
by another.

As for "hacker", the definition that comes up in Google is wrong:

hack·er
/ˈhakər/
Noun

1.An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.
2.A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.

Instead, read this by Eric Raymond:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Sometimes an HN definition of hacker seems to be "web developer" or "tech wannabe entrepreneur" (or perhaps a brogrammer pretending to be one), but that is inaccurate.
He's not implying that at all. I think he's saying that the wealthy like to live in places with high taxes and welfare because places with low taxes and no welfare are shitholes.
If there was a cheap WP8 device available I would pick one up just to play around with but there's nothing at the price point of say the iPod Touch / Nexus 4. My original post is probably how a lot of people feel about WP at this point. It's just not appealing enough to replace the iOS/Android devices they are currently using. The number of people who are going to switch just for the sake of switching is very very low. Most people are going to need a damn good reason to switch. Microsoft's best bet is with first time SmartPhone buyers who aren't already invested into iOS/Android.
Sending them over is not. It's allowed under the PCI standards to send credit card numbers unencrypted via the fax system. I believe it's then up to the receiver of the fax to physically secure it. But I'm not overly familiar with these standards.
So this is why they wanted so much to get carriers to use the micro-sim?
Implementing a 7-line Interpreter
I think the best leg up for a child is to be brought up in a stimulating, loving, stable environment. Whether that needs to look like a traditional nuclear family I'm not 100% sure. I think some progress can come from looking beyond the sort of social norms that a social network like Facebook seems to aggressively propagate.
Should probably add that, if your interested I ran adb backup -all first.

Although I'm not sure exactly how useful the produced backup will be. More info at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
Do you have a reference for that? I thought the SRB segments are quite structurally strong and the parachutes quite large and effective.
If the engine has adaptive ignition (retards spark in response to
pinging/detonation) then using lower octane fuel in a
higher-compression engine may not result in engine damage - just
less power.

OTOH, using higher octane than the manual / engine specs call for is
just a waste of money for no extra power - but is not damaging to
the engine.

One of the less-noticed issues with ethanol as a fuel is that it
contains/provides ~33% less energy than gasoline[1] - so saving n%
per gallon at the pump may cost you n% in mileage down the road.
[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=27&t=4

More stops for gas might benefit fuel vendors by providing them more
opportunities to sell you higher-profit impulse or convenience
purchases over the counter.
Positivity is always relative. You can always frame the government's actions as negative as long as you put the zero point somewhere besides where they are now.
The Brady data is flawed because they count folks who likely could shoot each other (e.g. two gangs). Also, it is best to get data from advocates verified by independent sources. I tend to use the CDC or someone who explains clearly their methodology.
I don't think you really understood the research. The research was talking about the difference between social and market norms, not directly about what is the appropriate cost for lateness.

It was social norms that kept the parents picking up the kids on time consistently. Adding a small cost switched the parents from social norms mode to market norms mode. Instead of the parents thinking "oh no, I better hurry now, because it's wrong to be late" as was the case when lateness was free, it became a "is it worth $3 to be 10 minutes late?" calculation.

Replacing social norms with a poorly chosen market rate is dangerous and can potentially backfire. Essentially, there is a discontinuity in people's behavior between a cost of $0, where you benefit from social norms, and a cost of epsilon, where the social norms go out the window. If you actually charge people the cost they are inflicting on you for lateness, then it's again a different story.
In what way does Persona prevent abuse? All you validate is email receipt which can be trivially fudged using mailinator.

It is far better to deal with this sort of thing at the "transaction" level - eg use a captcha or similar for the second and subsequent conversions from a particular IP address.
I wonder why they feel the need to create a completely new open source video codec, though. Can't they just collaborate with Google on VP9? Or is their technology fundamentally different? Or maybe they think Google is controlling VP9 development more than they should. Was it a technical or political decision?
weapons are pretty well distributed too. Witness pipe bombs, IEDs, and suicide bombers in very poor / resource poor areas.
First, too little, too late.

Second, Android's main innovation is being an open source OS available to anyone to use / adjust / distribute.

Third, the comparison to RIM is that the public doesn't expect meaningful innovation from Microsoft anymore. Even though Metro is a reasonable improvement, it's far from enough to make the public care.
190 proof alcohol, which is what is used as a solvent, is also really, really bad for you. I know it's available as a In few US states, but what is the availability in other countries?
I guess you never read the full story, you can clearly see a link to evidence of Expedia doing the same thing in France and getting sued for it: http://www.tnooz.com/2010/04/19/news/tripadvisor-and-expedia.... Just think about it, if a huge company with hundreds of lawyers still got sued for these tricks - I bet they have done lot's of similar things and got away with it.

Also a part regarding images not hosted on Expedia. Do you really think such a big company as Expedia will allow to host images on hotel's own servers? It's impossible to handle Expedias traffic with a small shared hosting which most of the small hotels are using...
Using both PHP5 in the past and Python more recently, I find that most things in Python need far less code to write than PHP.

The examples here are kind of disingenuous to that, but if you start writing code that takes advantage of the features of Python, your lines of code should be less than PHP or equal.
Best release this year for me was Josuttis's The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd Edition, which quickly got me to speed with the new C++11 features.
l33t h4x0r1ng
The kernel doesn't have to support POSIX. You can do the emulation in user space. The only tricky part of POSIX is fork, but chances are you won't need that for compilers etc, just exec.

In any event don't confuse the journey (some POSIX compatibility in order to advantage of existing toolchains while building your new OS) for the destination (clean, elegant, new API, world changing, nifty) OS.

And if you are going to have command line tools in your OS, they will need an API and you may as well pick a useful subset of POSIX.
Strike "because".