skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my entire life, I've always loved science. It was never a doubt for me that I wanted to study science in school. But when I got to school, I was accepted into an accelerated honors program for science students. So I was taking a lot of hard science really quickly. At first it was great, but soon I started to get really burnt out. I realized that I wasn't enjoying my classes anymore and that I was starting to loathe the concept of studying the material. I refused to allow school to ruin my love for science, so I changed my major.
The Case for Singletons
Yeah, I think one could have built IRC and RSS into good enough products to essentially reach out to everyone currently using Twitter who never used IRC/RSS.

I still think there's an opportunity for something better-than-Twitter, IRC, RSS in the mobile space. Twitter is SMS mobile, but has what is honestly a shitty client experience on (everything, but especially) mobile.

I wish someone would do something with the same initial goals as Diaspora (self-control, etc.), but focused on mobile, with ease of use on mobile as the goal. Snap Chat is kind of a step in that direction, but I'd rather have something where users got to explore the continuum of ephemeral stuff (like Snap Chat) to semi-permanent (like Twitter) to more permanent (like a blog, designed to be referenced in the future) to really permanent (publishing).
Somehow this reminded me of this excellent story: http://www.signandsight.com/features/852.html
I don't have NoScript and opening the page still made Firefox lock up.

Flagged the submission because of that.
Yea, cause I'm so concerned about what a Fox news junkie thinks about anything.
Shouldn't be a big deal so long as it's got a decent USB controller. The reason the Raspberry Pi has so many issues with USB and excessive CPU usage is that the onboard USB controller is really dumb and mostly implemented in software.
His enemies didn't do their homework. They totally underestimated him. "Play a sucker to catch a sucker". Just because he is fat and makes stupid videos doesn't mean he is stupid. He is wicked smart with an impressive track record.

Dotcom was known for being good with the media, just because he kept a low profile for a while doesn't mean he changed there.

He was always in a shady area, but he burned himself once with a really illegal dialer and learned from it.

He is a player and never stops.

Looking at his history, nothing he does now is surprising.

They should have made a deal with him, buy Megaupload and hope he settles down playing CoD.
I wouldn't recommend that approach for every startup, but if you are a small team, it's a huge plus if your engineers have great product sense (and and some design sense too).

It all depends on on this:

>The engineers who build our products enjoy, and are good at, figuring out what the product should do—not just how the implementation should work.
You can notice this effect in your life as well. I don't know where you live, but I know here in the north, 40F is "freezing" cold in November for many people. And when March rolls around, 40F is cause for breaking out the t-shirts. Your body will adapt to the cold to a certain degree. I think I saw it explained on a reddit "ask science" post some time ago, but I cannot remember the physiological details of these temporary adaptations to climate patterns.
Church doesn't allow women to work and gays to exist? Wow...

Neo feudalism is so much more than obsession with religion. Look, it may as well be our obsession with Liberal Democracy.

Btw, socialism/communism is religion if you ask David Horowitz or just listen to Slavoj Zizek.
While I personally like Jekyll, and the added simplicity when it comes to hosting, there should be almost no performance difference between a "dynamically" generated blog based on Rails/Sinatra behind Cloudflare and static hosting on S3.

The only user generated content on a blog are usually comments. With just a bit of added caching headers, I'd say that 99+% of all page hits on a blog can be served out of Varnish.
You can even use rack-cache if you don't mind the performance penalty.
If you're ok with using e.g. Disqus (as Octopress does) for comments, you can serve 100% of them and just purge the cache when adding new content.
This would probably also work when doing a purge for new comments.
This way, you have to do the dynamic computation exactly once per page and you're done.

Adding the CDN properties of cloudfront to S3 is nice, but Cloudflare seems to provide a very similar solution for "regular" sites.

I'd say this is similar to comparing AOT compilation (Jekyll) vs JIT (dynamic generation + caching).
I've separated the song in small scenes and animate them separately. There were storyboards too.
The point I was trying to make is that trying to be at the top in one area instead of comfortable in all areas of your life is really not the sign of a person with a healthy self image and often a sign of someone to avoid at a personal level, who is probably not a helpful to their own family.

I'm not big on the heros thing. But the people I looked up to as a child they were people who could fix their own house, show me how to use physics to rescue a lost toy, etc.

When I think of "successful" people like Henry Ford or even John Kennedy, I think how great it is to be unrelated to the rich and famous.

I wont even touch the tech rich by name. But yes, I feel the same way about them...

If you make more than those around and have more social status and you still aren't happy then ask yourself what those around you have not how to get more of what isn't helping.
I spent the whole article translating those temperatures into Centigrade. Kind of broke the flow.
I don't think they used GPS though. But here is another story where the GPS was misleading (Disclaimer: It was pointed out to me by another hn reader, although I don't know exactly who):
http://www.usaprepares.com/survival/husband-died-just-six-mi...
How do you know they weren't active? You can log on to look at photos and be counted as a Daily Active User. Just like there are tons of lurkers on Twitter.
Early Apple Computer And Tablet Designs Reveal What Might Have Been
Audioengine A2: http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Audioengine-A2

Or A5+ for a bigger sound at a higher prize and in a bigger box.
Perhaps. It would be pretty ironic, no? In the early days of the web everything was static content. Would be interesting to make a move back in that direction. Of course, this only works for a small subset of websites that don't need dynamic content. I believe most major sites cache their static assets (images, css, js) in a cdn while relying on a dynamic webserver for changing content.
If there were thousands of better alternate privacy protecting systems being developed and deployed, I'd be happy to ignore Kim Dotcom for being potentially less interesting.

As it is, there really isn't much interesting going on now. There was more in the late 1990s and even mid-2000s.

We've got...bitcoin, which is interesting as a distributed system but pretty irrelevant economically and not great or interesting from a privacy perspective.

Pervasive SSL and VPNs seems to be about the best we can hope for now, and some improvements (like cert pinning). And we don't even have that, now, even though it's more than feasible.

Vendors have gotten better at OS level security, especially on mobile, but not in ways which help decentralization -- a lot of it actually pushes toward more security against small threats (hackers, thieves, etc.) but more vulnerability against the state or vendor lock-out.
Personally, I'd recommend these. Incredible bang for your buck.
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?partnumber=300-...

You'll need an amp.
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?partnumber=300-...

To run from the headphone port you'd just use a simple male 3.5mm male to RCA(red/white) male.

I imagine the headphone port quality is terrible and the post mentions it. Apparently this is a cheap USB compatible option
http://www.meritline.com/usb-sound-adapter-channel-volume-co...

This entire setup should run you well under $100 and sound great.
When I had a rails app on Heroku (a while ago), I solved that by setting up a free Pingdom account to ping a full stack (hit the DB, hit any external services I was using) "heartbeat" route. I'm not sure if this works any more, though - they may have done something to work around it.
Flagging the submission seems like the wrong approach - this is something Firefox needs to fix quickly. I believe some websites let you insert your own CSS in certain cases, and this could easily be abused...

There needs to be a limit on how much time can be spent trying to render CSS or a popup box asking if you want to close it similar to how javascript behaves.
Why aren't web animations more popular due to these apps? Is there something wrong with Edge for example?
I'd never looked at AMZN before, but now I have it makes me giggle. No dividends, no history of dividends, a P/E of 124 as I type and currently just-about at an all-time peak. Just how big are they intending to grow?

This is one I will definitely leave for the smart investors.
Icecast? http://www.icecast.org/download.php

I can't imagine this being hard. Just generate a stream and play it on other computers, even VLC can do it.
Parabéns Pedro, very nice indeed.

Maybe a blog post on how it was done?
Facebook Phone OS based on Firefox (translated)
>I wouldn't want to live or work in one of those Chinese 'build in 14 days' buildings.

Oh, neither would I. When I say they're rapidly approaching us, I mean they are fast acquiring the means/funding to do so, but not in the sense that everything they make is safe/ethical through a Western society's lenses. This is the lack of oversight I'm talking about and is one of the tenets that sets us apart from the BRIC countries and other developing ones.
On somewhat unrelated note. Thanks for using the music. I have always been huge fan of Husky Rescue (and this particular track). Did you had to get their permission?
I didn't work on that particular system, but I can say from experience that systems on an airplane are a lot more interconnected than you might expect, just from seeing them as a passenger. There probably is a sequence diagram somewhere that says, "Inform pilot of movie progress, reduce intercom volume, dim cabin lights, reset passenger overhead lights, consult schedule to determine selected movie, lower projector screen, play movie." And there are probably similar diagrams for landing, maintenance, encountering problems, and so forth.

Furthermore, the IFE might not need to talk to critical control systems, but they both might need to talk to some of the same other systems. Cabin lights seem like a likely candidate. Displays for the pilot, too. And maybe maintenance fault logs.

It can be a real hassle to have totally isolated systems on different networks. You can do it, but you need a Good Reason. The easy thing, from an engineering perspective, is to make it so everything can talk to everything.
NYT Paywall Working Better Than People Expected, Doesn't Mean It's Working
Get a winch?
I think the most appropriate response to this question is to answer it, but also ask the same thing to them later, which may be revealing, and goes from seemingly rude to perhaps justified.

"Since you asked me about my weaknesses, it seems only fair to ask: What's the worst thing about working here?"
why you keep calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer?
Wikipedia's most searched articles of the year revealed
Ask HN: Web Development Language Post-PHP
Disclaimer: This is not meant as a pro-PHP/anti-PHP discussion, rather it is meant to be a discussion about what web development language will take over the world like PHP did in years past.

I've made an obscene amount of money with PHP over the past seven years or so, and I consider myself quite proficient. However, recently I've noticed that PHP is no longer considered the premier web development language. More and more, I've seen languages like Ruby, Javascript, and Python gain market share and popularity amongst my colleagues and the rest of the Internet.

Here's the question:

Should I continue to work with PHP, or should I consider learning another language to augment the decline of PHP over the next several years? If the latter, which language does HN feel will be the most relevant five years from now?
all fine and dandy until you move into areas developers simply have no clue about - compliance heavy, enterprise, etc.

you mention "early", this is key. PMless agile is super simple until you have live, paying customers (as in corporations, not people). breaking existing stuff is simply not possible anymore, SLAs are in play, validation efforts, etc.

throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks works in hardcore startup mode before you have a customer base. then it becomes suicidal. even in consumer space, see the various failed relaunches and redesigns.
That was a fantastic read. Incredible journey to hypothermia and back.

The description of the feeling of burning is unreal!
What is even better is the incredible knowledge of how to revive a patient from this state.

I belief these techniques are used in heart bypass operations ?
Why do people hate the greatest weakness question? I have never minded receiving it, and I often ask people the same.

Most of us write code; it's a technical occupation, and none of us are great at everything. Are you super amazing and proficient with 100% of the technologies you'll ever need to interact with? Can you not talk competently about how you have been trying to get better at something? Are you not capable of admitting a weakness without crippling insecurity?

Since you know this will be asked, are you so disorganized that you can't think in advance to come up with an honest answer?

The only way to answer "too honestly" is to admit incompetence with the basic skills I'm hiring for, or reveal massive personality problems. You score an "A" if you talk about how you're trying to improve.

More commonly, applicants reveal themselves as someone willing to lie to my face with a bullshit answer. I've never hired someone like that and never will.

Edit:
Also would never hire someone who was offended by this question. I think another commenter's suggestion that the applicant ask what the worst thing about working at a company is fair, and vital information. Of course, when I've asked this as an applicant I never received anything but bullshit in response.
there is a lot going on right now, but i intend to do that!
Obrigado! (:
I would say that Ben's lies (if they are indeed so) are better than many men's truths.
I might be mixed up on it. Gosh it's hard to imagine that was six years ago.
I run, they give
Real animation is expensive; and there are many trade-offs for working with such an unstable and cpu-dependent technology. Besides; video and Flash are still "good enough" for most use cases (children animated series, educational videos, etc).
"Stereotypical" and "plain xenophobic" speech is yours not mine:

Countries that "import unemployed people" do so for their own good. Or do you know a lot of Brits currently willing to do housecleaning work or have a factory job?

Thank you for admitting that Germany might actually have a hidden agenda behind all this crazy pro-EU talk.

Cheers!
How old is this article? It seems to use the old Fahrenheit temperature scale. I'm sure my grandfather would understand those temperatures but for myself I had to convert each one into modern units. Eventually I couldn't be bothered and stopped reading.
Maybe an issue related to prefix free and firefox?
Why can't Windows services have a GUI?
I'm all for this. China had it right in the first place. What's not to love about bicycles?
Low carbon emissions (only CO2), good for the body, you actually get to experience your surroundings, less fatal accidents assuming more people are on bicycles,not noisy
I'm sure this was a fun exercise but I see this just as a limitation of heroku. Normally you could've switched to full page caching in your rails app and get the same results.
Hackers abusing online Nmap Port Scanning service
Try Plover, the open-source steno software. http://plover.stenoknight.com/ You can download it from the wiki. The author has a demonstration of typing 250 words per minute using Plover and her stenography knowledge.

If your keyboard has N-key rollover (and the $50 Microsoft Sidewinder USB keyboard does), it will work well with Plover.
'My father is innocent and should be released' - Murder accused
Cocktail dosage in martini (cone) glasses: Maths are here to help
It's smooth on my iPad 1 / ios5 / Safari. And that's saying something, it cries with trello and anything client heavy.
I also like GitHub's approach http://warpspire.com/posts/product-design/ (they refer to the role as product designer) but I wonder how long it's going to work for them.
Edit, ignore the following:

Worst was where they switched without even mentioning it. One paragraph they're still using F and said "The lowest recorded core temperature in a surviving adult is 60.8 degrees.", then the very next paragraph, with no talk of changing units, they talked about people dying "though temperatures never fell below freezing and ranged as high as 45". Just because the second story happened in England..?
Last Hypercritical show playing now
You know Fahrenheit is used by the entire United States, right?
This guy is cherry picking stats and quotes to back his argument, the same article that he quoted as showing that credit card borrowing was up also stated:
"Credit card usage has fallen sharply since the 2008 credit crisis. Four years ago, Americans had $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, an all-time high. In October, that figure was 17 percent lower."
This guy should live in rural Afghanistan or Sudan and have warlords dictate his fate instead of a government.
Mountain waves across the Mid-Atlantic region of the US
We investigated your report of issues with requests, and found that one S3 host was behaving incorrectly. We identified the root cause and deployed a fix. Can you verify that we have fixed your issue?
fyi, the start button has a low enough contrast with the BG that it got lost in my (admittedly poor) monitor and left me scratching my head for some time.
Why would you die from fumes inside your car? Provided the air intakes and exhaust pipe were clear of snow, I was under the impression it wouldn't really build up.
You mean there are no really competing browsers, Chrome has ~90% market share and it's development stalled with the team being assigned to other projects?
Those matters are federal, no such thing as 'jurisdiction'.

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/hearings/single_firm/comme...
re: "more fun". Yes, having a faster site that uses less resources is great, and very probably important for those seeking audiences as large as possible. But coding my own CMS and making it just like I want it (minus where my abilities limit me in that) is something I never would go back on. It's simply so much more fun than, say, just using wordpress (not to mention something even more basic).

Sure, my site is just "my stuff", quotes and links I collect, maybe a rambling here and there. Therefore my comment is not quite on-topic, it's not the same kind/league of site. But I just can't find anything exciting in pure speed, I want something that I like when I look at it and use it, not something I like because I know it's very popular. I like having variable and filterable views on content, user preferences, etc. too much.

I don't want to pretend I'm some kind of artist; I'm a shoddy coder, and not a great designer either. My CMS is unusable for anyone except me I'm sure. But still I take pride and enjoyment in whatever it is I'm doing, and at the very least I would encourage everyone to make something that is about ideas and features more than performance, even if as a secondary/private site. Minimalism is sometimes overrated. It may be more effective when dealing with many people, but it's also a bit sterile. So maybe do both, one for business, the other for inspiration.
For a start you should read Hackers and painters: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

At least for HN comunity that gives enough menaning, and I like it a lot. From other people, hacker means "cracker".
That's still 45 degrees Fahrenheit. They were talking about outside temperature, not core temperature.

I'm also questioning if you have a sense of either temperature scale. It's quite funny to think that it could reach 45 C in England at all, much less that people would freeze to death in it.
Obama 2012 retrospective
I think the correct answer to this is "it depends". It depends on what the transactions are for.
Of the skills I learned in college, the most useful have been 1) spoken Mandarin and written Chinese; 2) data structures and algorithms (as many have noted); 3) reading electronic schematics and digital timing diagrams; 4) proficiency in vi and emacs; 5) Unix utilities and shell scripting (if you'd told me in 1985 I'd still be using this 27 years later I would have been surprised).
Well, there is always Yandex, over on the other side of the North Pole, far away from the DMCA. I wonder if anybody had done a comparative analysis.

Or, you could try Bing instead. Last May, MS sent Google a takedown notice for a Bing search result, which was still working[1].

[1]http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121008/03500520637/micros...
> Go to Brazil, India, Rift Valley in Africa and contemplate how people could be 10 times more happier than you having 10 times less and think about that. Look at how people live in communities there and not isolated like in the US, where places to walk and talk with your peers simply do not exist, unless you have lots of money(but not time) to enjoy it.

cough bullshit cough. I grew up in Africa and spent ten years in India. There is nothing magical about communities there that will solve the OP's feeling of being a loser or not. Just because people are forced to interact with community or family because they have no space or they have deep cultural ties doesn't mean that they automatically become happy. I have known enough people who are deeply sad within and keep up fake appearances just to make others think that they are doing OK. Also, the other thing about these societies is the lack of filters: People will tell you straight to your face that you suck and are worthless. I am unsure of how going to these countries as tourists and getting enamored by the external facade is going to help OP get over feeling like a loser. Also, everywhere you will find people who like the idea of money. I could argue that people here in the U.S. are more open to the idea of finding themselves because of the societal safety nets (Yes, despite all the shit flying in Congress, America has way better a safety net than the third world) than people that live in the third world. The myth of the primitive savage who lives a noble existence is just that... a myth.
But wasn't this whole thing a big misunderstanding?

They were never going to sell users' photos. The TOS changed to make way for "promoted" photos (advertising).

http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-wer...

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
True, but there's still an advantage to using a cdn in terms of worldwide performance.
Best way to answer these questions is to not let them come up at all. Focus the interview on what you can offer the company by proactively asking them what roles they need you for, where you will fit in the company, what challenges they currently have, etc. Spend the interview talking about how you're going to help out the company and not on answering the checklist they quickly downloaded off the web as they have no idea what to even talk to you about.
Brasil and Russia both have various specific to their natures issues, but I wouldn't put them in one line with China trying too hard to become Jetsons overnight.
hmm, thanks. i'll have a look!