skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hurricane Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane at landfall. That's pretty much the opposite of a SUPERSTORM.

Much larger hurricanes have hit New England before. For example, the "Great New England Hurricane of 1938" made landfall on Long Island as a Category 3 storm, killing over 600 people. The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 also was Category 3, killing 390 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Atlantic_Hurricane#Impact

Imagine if two Category 3 hurricanes impacted the North East within six years today. We'd never hear the end of how Global Warming was destroying the world. But since it happened in the early 20th Century, no one cares.
MessagePack is schema-less, whereas protobuf is not.
No, but to me "paying microsoft for mythical grandmother users" is reason enough for me.
Pingdom or even a cronjob also works.
Duncan, suggesting that it's that simple is extremely naive. OSS has costs too. I have no doubt that OSS would be cheaper, but it would be nice to see real world cost comparisons, and not the usual zealotry from the GPL lot.
It's a framework for creating presentations and what's linked here is only a demo for showing the functionality. If you want to see real life (yeah, "real life") demos, look under "Presentations" on this page: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/wiki/Examples-and-demos
Version control systems are not storing what actually changed between files, they are storing the smallest set of differences between them.

Many version control systems work that way, but there are other possible strategies. For example, Darcs' patch theory is very much based on recording what actually changed in each revision (and consequently achieves better results in some awkward cases than a purely text-based VCS).
Yup. http://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=ipaddress
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Exactly true, my disagreement with the parent comment is unrelated to the bogosity of its parent comment.
The only one I would quibble with is the one that has nothing to do with technology. Sandy was the largest storm
ever recorded in the Atlantic, but it was still not as large as the Pacific's Typhoon Tip in 1979. If three decades of accelerating climate change explains Sandy, it doesn't explain Tip, or why its record has yet to be broken.
It's the Darwin repository. It's been up for years. It contains the OS X kernel and some command line utilities. What's the big deal here?
I would help you, but I don't know how much free time I'll have in the future. You can e-mail me your questions and I'll answer when I can. If I think that some of the answers can be found by googling, I'll tell you so, and I'll give you explanations where I think they're needed.

This makes me think that a program that connects mentors and students would be very useful. I'm not necessarily thinking of it as a money-making endeavour, but some resources need to be found to make the project self-sustainable.
The JavaScript msgpack codec is a couple of years old now, by the looks of the github repository. I see a custom base64 function, and no use of typed arrays. I wonder if these numbers might change a little given more modern features like typed arrays and fetching arraybuffers via XHR2.

Biggest issue for me with JSON is needing to base64 any binary data, so msgpack could actually be quite useful.
Don't pretend that Germany didn't benefit hugely from the economic integration of weaker countries such as Greece. It takes two to tango, and tango you did.

The single currency tied the economies together, it allowed Greeks to use the cheap credit of the German economy to buy what? German cars. Germany's export businesses grew hugely because of the real value of the euro was weaker than the Deutsche Mark.

This is a problem where no single party is at fault. Yes, the Greeks were irresponsible with the credit but it's not the full story.

Apart from that, I agree with your points about the general economic union. Without a peaceful political and cultural one, it was doomed to fail.
Keep in mind, this will only work once.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
No, even reading the post it's not obvious. It's obvious that he talks about wordpress, but considering the assertion I quoted I simply read it as using a wordpress-based example/use case to support his hypothesis.

At no point did I find or notice a modifier of the article being an argument for the usage of singletons in wordpress plugins. though I may just have missed it.
That is a very broad question. But there are several in mobile VAS who have done very well. Mobile advertising, who have revenues of several thousand crores and hugely profitable.
Several B2B web services for SaaS companies- revenues in several tens of crores. Very few in offline retail but have revenue to the tune of several hundred crores. Ecommerce severely collapsing with big players having revenues of several thousand crores but none of them making any profit.
> Are you saying Mao is evil?

Mao is evil to roughly the same extent Hitler is evil.
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seconded, the proof is in the pudding, you have to try it!
Yes, Interested.

1. Receiving as daily email - will not prefer it instead would be interested in a weekly digest mail of top list (should also be section seperated)

2. Some way of intelligent sorting of good papers would be interesting
Answer the question of a random stranger
It's that size when the width is at least 1000 pixels.
A lot of these bit shaving goose chases would be short circuited if browsers exposed zlib !
Because one would end up implementing HTML and CSS in that "powerful programming language".

Funny, have a friend that does desktop dev because he "hates web dev", built his own UI building framework on top of Swing :

menu.addChild(item)
...

Now he's building an XML dtd to automate it...
Special relativity for High School students
AFAICT Iris is a zigbee/zwave hub? We have experimented with a zigbee via a usb dongle - not production ready but its doable. We'd love to support Z-wave, but its a longer term feature with licensing issues and bandwidth pushing it down the backlog somewhat. Does Iris have an API that could be wrapped?

IP cams (especially the ultra cheap ones with pan and tilt) are way up on our list. It will be one of the first client modules off the shelf in the new year.
There's also Scala for the impatient by Cay Horstmann.

You can get it for free from Typesafe: http://typesafe.com/resources/book/scala-for-the-impatient
It would be nice, but maintaining a coherent cache is a huge challenge at 100+ cores.
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I'm the owner of the site, here is the associated blog post that summarizes some of that data: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/117/
yeah, I confirmed with him, he's using App Engine.
And...the site's back up. :)
How Nasa gave us the images that shine new light on Earth – and beyond
Seven trends and predictions for 2013 – Social Media to reach peak – SEO is dead
Or, a JSON AddOn for your browser, like http://jsonview.com/
I've always found this site useful for checking site performance: http://gtmetrix.com/
You get that for free if your network is good. In college, we'd wire up half a dozen rooms to the same icecast server. The server itself could not participate, but there was no lag between the clients (all on the same network switch).
Congress Passes the Lobbied For "Netflix-Law", Drops E-mail Privacy Reform
The lobbying part is in relation to this article:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/the-netflix-lobby-in-washington-spent-1-million-in-two-years/
Too bad most such catch-the-carrot self help books don't address "I have no idea what I want" situations, let alone "I don't really want anything" or worse.
I'd second that. This book gives you a lot of wrong ideas (for example how banking works), a lot of moralizing and nothing at all about useful new concepts like monopolistic competition and externalities.

You will learn much more about mainstream economics from about.com for example.
Claims of multi-factor productivity underestimated in labour productivity calculations.
Eleven (years of blogging)at Gigaom : Om Malik
The lobbying part is in relation to this article:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/the-netflix-lobby...
Starbucks cups to come with a political message
If you try to manually crawl the post with Internet Archive's "liveweb" project (which inserts stuff into Wayback Machine for live lookups) you'll get:

"Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt."

So no, the Internet Archive will most likely not archive public Facebook posts - because of Facebooks robots.txt. The IA respects and honours the domains robots.txt.

I've taken a snapshot of the post with my own script which will put it into a IA Wayback Machine friendly format (WARC).
Ukraine gets highest in six international tourism ratings
YAML is generally quite slow, except perhaps when compared to XML. Even JSON parsers are much faster, and any binary format will be faster than that.
Yes it does - it's about trends, not isolated occurrences (so in that sense I agree with your quibble, just not with your rationale). The frequency and intensity of extreme weather incidents is on an upward (and exponential) track.
Of course they do. All x86 Windows 8 PCs are required by Microsoft to allow disabling Secure Boot.
Promise is coming the Java 8
Most, even. Nice quote.
This is naive at best.

All big companies require some sort of technical knowledge in competitors products: Microsoft hires Java gurus, Apple takes engineers for compatibility on their products on Windows so I dont know what is the fuzz.
FCC eases restrictions on Internet use on flights
My first word processor - typed in by hand and, at the time, the best one around that I could afford.

http://archive.org/stream/1985-03-compute-magazine/Compute_I...
One answer which comes from your own words is for you to first create some kind of an idea generating and evaluating system with your own preferences. Designed to solve your problem of "been thinking for a long time and I simply can't find anything I can convince myself is worth creating". If you could define what's worth creating for you with some parameters, then you should be able to measure and compare different ideas better when choosing how to spend your time.
There is negative sentiment towards making money fast or just in it for the money everywhere, but that's not the definition of a startup.

Many (most?) startups do aim towards (or at least pretend to be) creating sustainable, fast-growing businesses, aiming for an exit from the start is very specific to SV/US. I don't see resistance to accept the crazy financial speculation that comes with your model of 'entrepreneurship' as something so negative.
[edit] Whoops, meant to post this one level up.

Blame information is useful, not for pointing fingers, but for reasoning about changes. Often, I'll be browsing code, see something change, blame that line, then go and read that entire revision so I can find out why the line was changed. Normally for me, my goal is to find out the new argument ordering or whatever so I can continue writing my code using the new pattern.
Part of my point was that if you say "message passing is generally slower" and "shared memory mechanisms cannot scale indefinitely", then the logical conclusion is that problems are generally small. You can't meaningfully compare the speed of these two techniques in abstract any more than you can meaningfully ask if 100 is a "big number".

The comment about global locks was intended to be silly, because comparing locks to message passing without talking about what you're doing with them is also silly.

The linked paper compares MPI message passing to an alternative hardware-accelerated message passing, which is interesting, but the choice of micro-benchmarks is not very exciting. To be clear, while the GP was really comparing the actor model (private memory + message passing) against the shared memory + locks model, I was only responding to the parent comment, and when I think "message passing" I don't automatically think "private memory".
Sounds like they're using wrong kind of switches and/or haven't configured ethernet flow control correctly?
Hmm! Yeah really cool and interesting. The core concept of "handle the apps that create all the mail workflow" is definitely a promising one
Upvoted. link for convenience http://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/

This book is by Charlie Munger, better known as Warren Buffet's business partner since 1959. There is more information on business than in some college classes I have taken. I have recommended it to many people.
"Similarly, why do styles defined in the HTML (in a style tag) take precedence over those that are linked to externally? It has always made more sense to me that it should be the exact opposite. An HTML page could define default styles for its elements, which would be carried in the page, and overriden with an external stylesheet."

Well that statement is just peculiar. Most people define the style of elements in CSS stylesheets. However, in certain cases, like positioning a single image where is does not make much sense to create a new CSS style, it can be defined in inline, overriding default properties. At least for me, it is always the other way round.
I only considered acceptable ranges.
Documenting source code
Really? How do you manage the long-term maintainability of the CSS on a complex website?
Actually you are seeing what you want. The social media stuff is about a related study for mining the social media links for top users and not for the expected age study. The expected age study was for all users that have an age in their StackExchange profile.
A Ninja Block might be a good match.

pros
- You can retrieve folded historical data for sensors from the api (min/max/avg/interval etc)
- You can set a callback that POSTs every reading (every 45s)
- cheap, additional temp/humidity sensors are $15

cons
- range could be a real problem. Manufacturer states 100m open air 30 inside, which is inline with our experience (with a fully extended antena). Apartment walls could be a showstopper.
Honest question: Is there a good source for this information?

Anecdotally it feels like weather is getting more extreme, I'd be very interested in seeing the numbers.
Because a declarative syntax makes sense for documents but not for writing logic.
I tend to agree. I have tried using impress to create presentations that were spatial, focusing less on the dizzying animations and more on the actual content... But Impress isn't set up for it. Impress is really designed to move the camera about a scene and moving the camera is the only operation it supports well.

You'll notice the user examples from that wiki are mostly the same basic idea... because it's quite difficult to make something more complex with impress out of the box. YOu can see a few pull requests that try to make this easier, like the one that supports subslides (i.e. a slide transition that doesn't cause a camera movement).
Who Controls Your Reputation?
>We live in the golden age of human history up to now and I would be willing to place a long bet that in 100 years, we will look back on the last 30 years as the dawn of the modern age.

Well, we live in the golden age of human _technology_.

But, I'd argue, far from the golden age of human history.

And maybe closer than ever to the extinction of mankind, if that "let's fix the climate issue with even more technology and continue on the same 'development for development's sake' path continues. Not to mention crazy politicians with nuclear, biological and what have you weapons on their hands and a battle for global resources like oil and water...
I agree and maybe young people are who are in college are the lurkers.
You are over-thinking it.

I am as convinced as ever that almost all home automation needs, realistically, are covered by a WiFi-enabled drop-in replacements for conventional wall switches, junction boxes and sockets. Everything else is nice, but you must get the basics right before moving on to the fluff. And nobody still has got it. I want to be able to switch off a floor lamp 5 feet away and turn up the heat in the bedroom without lifting my precious behind from the couch. Whether there's a motion in a garage is really secondary.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3957590
Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software
The McDonalds affair was not a Cybernetic Hate Crime.
>(e.g. Yen only needs 3 after the dot, but trillions in the front is not enough; GBP/USD needs 5 after the dot, but trillions usually IS enough).

At that point screw it, 64.32 for 18.9 digits and round it to 128 bits with a currency code. Comes with built-in unit checking.
> Using it in the browser was never the use case for MessagePack.

Hopefully it will be soon, with degradation for old browsers. I'd like to be able to load an avatar as binary png data with the rest of the data.
I noticed that opportunity too. If anyone is looking for a fun project...

The next thing would be to have practices and/or libraries that switch techniques based on browser support.
Experienced Developers and Packagers Needed
I agree. Many of the transitions in the demo presentations, while fancy, take too long to finish. They don't add anything to the presentation.

If you're going to use effects, make sure they actually contribute to or complement the content.
>The secret is: "I am willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want."

Like step over people? Screw the ones who love me? Be unethical? Ignore other parts of my life?

Plus, who said that (a) I know what I want, (b) what I want is good for me (c) what I want is good for society in general, anyway?

Not to mention that the whole premise is BS. As if by knowing this "secret" will help anybody.

A regression to miracle cures and snake oil medicine for the modern age, if there ever was one.
They should be able to write "ask us to start using recyclable / compostable cups" too.

P.S. Most Starbucks, even if they have recycling bins just throw them out (reason being if there seems to be any pieces that aren't supposed to be in there, they won't sort it out).
Weirdly being filtered by the public wifi spot i was using.

(http://imgur.com/fPeXY)
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"within my existing system of values"?

Yes, that would also work well for Charles Manson...

I'd rather hear it like:

"I am willing to do whatever it takes within my society's system of values to live a good life, help people, and get some of the things I want".
No, it's not. The Earth has always experienced devastating weather-related occurrences. There's nothing about it that suggests things are on a upward and exponential track.
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Thanks Pavlov, I am trying out Radi.
This may work with top x% of programmers/designers but the fact remains, majority of the programmers and designers are not equipped to take a business problem and come up with a solution. Their core job never was to think deeply about a problem in a niche domain.

I'm a product designer, and I do see think deeply about a business problem and finding a solution as a huge part of my job. If not to find solutions to problems, what are the job of a product designer?
I really hope the one point about communicating with patients in a vegetative state is wrong. Not because it's not a groundbreaking discovery, but the implications are horrifying to me. Imagine all those patients who are left to just lie there their entire lives, and those that like Terri Schiavo that were allowed to starve to death. If they were actual aware of what was going on, that is the most horrifying fate I could imagine.
I do have examples of similar things but I cannot disclose the code as it was written in closed applications. For instance, I am guilty of redoing poorly the java servlet API using servlets.
There are a lot more computer magazines archived there besides Compute!: http://archive.org/details/computermagazines

They've apparently even got the first 16 years of Byte.

Google also has the complete archive of InfoWorld up to 2007 posted: http://books.google.com/books/serial/tDcEAAAAMBAJ (though you'll have to manually change the "start" parameter in the URL to browse before 1987).
Your comment reminded me of Chesterton's Fence http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe... It has been written about a few hundred times in various blogs. Basically, if you don't see a reason, before you make changes think harder until you do.
>> MessagePack has issues with UTF-8

> MessagePack only stores bytes. It's up to you to decide how to interpret those bytes.

Then it's not really "like JSON" is it? I'm not saying that it is a bad thing or that it isn't a better option for many current uses of JSON but the "like JSON but fast and small" is a misleading pitch.
So I notice that Elon Musk was involved with two of those - the Tesla and the Dragon space docking. Congratulations to him.
Why Should You Have Landing Page For Your Mobile App?
I think you should critically reevaluate your use of the word modern. We've already never been modern once before. Besides being a lot of fun, making up new words to describe historical trends both real and imagined can also be profitable.
IM EXPECTING FAMOU.US TO REALEASE ITS DOCUMENTATION, WHICH SEEMS MUCH BETTER THAN THIS
12:54:47 * saurik ('s [third] sentence still managed to feel a little more confrontational than he wanted, even with the ;P at the end; he was going for more of a funny feel)

13:40:15 < REDACTED> heh yeah
Especially since all x86 machines with Secure Boot allow you to disable it. And to get a LiveCD or Install CD to boot you need to go via the BIOS/UEFI/other firmware anyway.