skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is always some text at the bottom of the screen, which make it hard for me to read.

This is the reason why I am not so much into this scrolling.
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Take ackkchoo's advice with the vibrating wrist alarm and wrap it around your wife's wrist once she falls asleep. That way, she gets pissed off, slaps you, and wakes you out of your deep slumber instantly.

Problem solved.
Not sure about re-enabling, but Firefox does alert you if another program installs an addon on your behalf, and asks you to confirm. IIRC, it was about FF15 that this happened, and it also asked for ones that were installed previously.
Actually I believe that the amount of heavy elements in that star was lower than expected. They used the ratio of heavy elements (uranium and thorium) to date the star, not the quantity. This star, I believe, is what is called a Population II (low metallicity) star. Older stars have lower amounts of heavy elements, and the yet-to-be-observed Population III stars are posited to have no heavy elements whatsoever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
... and yet by 21st century cultural norms the word 'man' is still not considered sexist by many.

Besides, strictly from an etymological perspective you should not be calling for the eradication of the 'man' when used to speak of the species, rather you should call for a prefix to be used when talking of the gender (e.g. werman).
You know what would really be great, and would almost certainly save money? If prescriptions could be done electronically. I am amazed by what it is like to get a prescription medicine, especially Schedule II -- the doctor types a lot into a computer, then puts special paper into a printer, prints it, hands it to me (and now we will just assume I cannot figure out how to copy it), then I walk to the pharmacy and what happens? They look at the paper, type more things, and then I get to wait 15 minutes for the medicine to be dispensed.

Now, what if instead, my doctor would type in the information, and then either (a) prints a QR code that I can just bring to the pharmacy or (b) asks if I will be using the same pharmacy as last time, and has the prescription sent their automatically, so it is waiting for me when I arrive? Let each doctor's office create a prescription record in some database, and let each pharmacy update that database when the prescription is filled -- why rely on copy-evident paper, when we can rely on computers instead? We could even connect this to an EMR system, so that doctors not only know what a patient was prescribed, but whether or not the prescription was actually filled (when I was last prescribed an opiate painkiller, I never filled the prescription; yet my followup appointment involved the receptionist printing a sheet that showed the prescription, with no indication one way or the other if I had bothered with it).

I understand that regulations and so forth and probably the doom of these ideas. Still, it would be nice to get something a little better than the ludicrous anachronism we have today.
I can't imagine what he was originally thinking.
This is not being snarky..Save yourself sometime and focus on making the app better, creating great screenshots, a great description (for the app store), and making a memorable & relevant icon.
Your website may drive 1% of your total sales/downloads when its all said and done
Andrew,

this is an embarassingly parallel problem. The supercomputer hardware (interconnect) would be simply wasted. If you provide C++ source code that can be compiled with Native Client, and a list of tasks to run (binary command lines), Exacycle (http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-...) is more appropriate. Based on our publicized results this wouldn't take very long (10 years on a desktop = less than an hour on Exacycle; you'd spend more time writing the program and the data analysis than the actual runtime).

however, I don't really see this problem as a high priority. pharma has bigger problems than to probe remote websites to find out what their competitors might be interested in.
That, sir, is a ridiculously clever headline.
I think Ed's approach is not necessarily incompatible with GTD. All he is saying is that he uses only one context is his next-actions list (@now?), which usually contains only one item. Everything else is in a someday/maybe list...

I particularly enjoy the GTDish technique of emptying one's mind and all inboxes, but I have also been trapped in too many "what-if" scenarios and in non-important tasks. Thus, I really think that Ed is making a valid point here.

BTW, filing taxes should be only a reminder in your calendar or tickler system.
Focussing on the stuff which is broken, rather than the stuff which is not is a good start.
It doesn't need a large ship. It can be a dedicated smaller team but one fully equipped with more resources (servers, a marketing department) compared to the start up.
It is interesting to note how even the apology is more directed at discussing BetaPunch and learning rather than apologizing.

How does "Why I won't be closing down BetaPunch" have anything to do with the apology? Seems out of place and still shows a lack of understanding.

Leave off all discussion of why you won't be closing BetaPunch and just focus on admitting you screwed up (which was done) and detailing how you will make it right.
I guess the situation becomes "good enough" when all the modern browsers include a hack to make scrolling work properly, but it's certainly not ideal. If anyone ever decides to write another browser they'll have to deal with another undocumented requirement, and there are funny cases to consider like transparent fixed headers.

Funny how frames are avoided for historical reasons when they often seem like the ideal solution. Remember when Twitter expanded conversations in a fixed box on the right of the screen? Should have used frames. Fixed header? Same deal.
I got all my big ideas "stolen", but not because I talked about them or told them to anyone, they were stolen because I didn't do anything with them, and waited till I have the best design, best business plan, best team, till my kids grow up, till I save enough money, what not. Someone else thought about it too, and simply went on and did something about it.
"I can't right click and create a file of a certain extension in the macfinder" 100% agree

that said, having the terminal baked in as part of the OS is quite nice
An onscreen keyboard? With two hands? Yes.
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UnexpectedHairsOnBreastException
There's almost no sincerity here. I don't like being catty and publicly antagonizing people, but this guy needs to re-evaluate whether he can be the public face of his business.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5034760

That's just childish behavior.
It's not bad. It's extremely useful. If someone is so negligent that they run something potentially destructive and then immediately sudo !!, they probably shouldn't be administering systems.
The El Camino Real BRT proposal seems really interesting but VTA has such a terrible track record of implementing transit options that I'm skeptical when and if it will ever proceed.
Not when you are watching "Gangnam Style" on Youku. Anything video will be blocked in America anyways, so its Chinese sites only for that. It is true that I can't really do Apple to Apple comparisons.
Shameless plug: I built a small web app to manage and share your bucket list.

http://www.challengelistcreator.com

Any idea for improvement?
No part of this addresses what he did wrong or what he will do differently in the future. The title alone tells me he's just trying to get the last word in, even if it's that he's sorry.
Ah, yeah I was looking in Firefox. Still I generally navigate G+ using j and k which drops a single post at a time.
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I don't want to drag this out further (all said and voted I think), so I'll only briefly refer to my idea of an "obscured" patch. Not pretty by any metric and definitely not a template for future incidents. But I still think it could have stretched the timespan a bit between the discovery by security-researchers/rails-hackers - and that afternoon when our Rails-intern (beginner ruby frontend coder) proudly showed us how he reproduced it in his rails console...
Do you know if this punching of the galactic plane coincides with extinction events?
I am curious about this part. Why would outcomes be better for both non-depressive 3-year-olds and depressive 4-year-olds?:

There is evidence that for some outcomes, Head Start had a differential impact for some subgroups of children over others. At the end of 3rd grade for the 3-year-old cohort, the most striking sustained subgroup findings were found in the cognitive domain for children from high risk households as well as for children of parents who reported no depressive symptoms. Among the 4-year-olds, sustained benefits were experienced by children of parents who reported mild depressive symptoms, severe depressive symptoms, and Black children.
Everyone here is saying the word monopoly, but realistically ISPs are natural monopolies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly). We don't see competition because startups (even incredibly well funded ones) just don't have the funds to start pulling fiber all across cities. This is also why most high-speed internet today is based on some new utilization of older technology: DSL utilizes phone lines and cable utilizes, well, cable — it's even too expensive (and in terms of business, not worth it given their natural monopoly status) for existing companies. This situation will persist for a while, until either Google starts pulling fiber through tunnels in major cities and the threat forces other ISPs to improve. The only other alternative is fast wireless, as then infrastructure investments decrease drastically.
Its more like an Aristocracy these days (as it was pretty much before since before Qin). Certain powerful families control about 90% of the government and 40% of the economy. Otherwise, the government is completely opaque, and its hard to tell who is really in charge and what relationships (guanxi) connect them together.
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True, that is quite good inside the GFW. As a comparison, I am in Beijing in an apartment from 2002, with a DSL connection that China Unicom sells as 4Mbps (the best I could buy here):

Beijing
ping - 26ms
down - 2.53Mbps
up - 0.53Mbps

Shanghai
ping - 148ms
down - .83Mbps
up - .52Mbps

London
ping - 410ms
down - .19Mbps
up - .15Mbps
What would you do with more bandwidth?[1]

I've discussed this with several of my friends. In our area, we have multiple providers and can get up to 100MB down/ 30 up with residential service. (You can get all you want if you pay business prices, I work at a company that sells that).

30/5 is the standard. So what would we do with more bandwidth?

Netflix streams in high def. Games from Steam download quickly. My Voip phone works well.

In the future, I'm assuming we will find a use for more bandwidth, but right now, I cannot justify paying for a higher bandwidth connection. (I wouldn't complain if they upgraded our speed for the same price.)

What am I missing? What _could_ I be doing with more bandwidth (besides pirating the entire output of Hollywood and the music and gaming industry)?

By extension then, what argument do we use to force/persuade ISPs and the government (who pays for a lot of infrastructure [2], especially in rural areas) to increase speeds to end users, while maintaining an affordable price structure?

I'm looking for honest answers, I'm not trolling, I promise :-)

[1] Assuming that you already have a relatively fast, stable connection now (somewhere in the 30mb download and 5mb upload range).

[2] BTOP http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/
My father lives on a farm 18 miles from the nearest town. He has fiber.
Over/underdetection of bicycles: http://imgur.com/a/tIS6c
I'm not sure whether this was a marketing stunt or the betapunch guys didn't know how to act professionally. Honestly, someone at betapunch should have stepped in and indicated the problem. I'm not even sure why it took two days for a formal apology, it should have been done much sooner than that.

Betapunch guys need to hire the right employees to handle PR and interact with people because this post shows those interactive skills are not his strengths.
Don't worry, I think I've done those things already. In all honesty, I have the hardest time getting the word out about my apps - so this is an attempt at a departure from my usual. I used to have a Wordpress site that I just posted screenshots of them on and let it be. But I know websites can do a lot more than that - they can drive good traffic too (I think more than 1% with what I've seen so far).

That's why I came for some critique here. I want my website to match the quality of my app for once.
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In practice you would need far more than 50% of the mining power to take complete control of the blockchain.

The greater the hashrate of your miners, the greater probability that your miners will find a valid nonce that satisfies the difficulty equation; it doesn't magically give you the ability to find a valid nonce before any other party.
As long as there is one other party mining, there is a non-zero chance that their block will be accepted before yours.

What ratio of malicious/non-useful blocks vs valid, legitimate BTC transaction containing blocks would be required before the economy fails, that is an open question.
I'd feel happier going along with this is the commercial relationship between hackdesign.org and the makers of the Objectified documentary was upfront and clear before sign-up for a putatively free course. There's nothing wrong with making money this way (if they are, I can't tell). But tell us, before asking for email addresses: what it actually costs, and whether (in your country) you can even get the required content.
Weekend news cycle, but what do you mean "employees" plural?
can some one be kind enough to give TL DR version of what this guy did ? i read the post nut wasnt clear what exactly happened with the customer !
FiOS is already at the point where the bottleneck is usually the wifi network not the internet connection. The market for "tethered to your desk" home internet is probably not that big.
That is really good. What location and what provider, if you don't mind me asking?
Sharing or Stealing? Doing Photo Attribution right
It seems to have some trouble finding cats: http://i.imgur.com/ONFis.jpg
That's for one attempt, right? How often are the nonces found?
When I go to visit my family I would rather not have to wait hours to download a piece of software because my sister is watching a hq movie on netflix, my brother is voice chatting with a friend, and my mom is browsing cooking recipes on websites that load a video advertisement every 20 minutes.
Didn't even read the article, but the answer is quite simple: Because people are stupid enough to pay into slow internet. If you refused to pay for it, they would increase the speed.

In addition, Google does it because their profits are almost directly proportional to how many people are using the internet. They are everywhere. It just makes sense.

In addition, Optical Fiber is not new at all, plenty of people have it already and love it.....
If it's scripted, the blogger who originally publicized this should have something to say for themselves.
There has been contradictory research on that exact question.
I have Comcast Business 50/10 at home -- it's pretty decent, but there is some crazy Comcast routing going on, so sometimes services like Netflix fail badly. With a VPN to a local server, it's pretty decent, especially since I pay around $60/mo due to a legacy discount (otherwise $200+/mo)

What I really want is fast, reliable, dumb-pipe bandwidth from various locations to my datacenter, so I can do things like back up at ~100MB/sec to a SAN in the colo, move VMs around, etc. The only way that seems likely to happen is if I live immediately adjacent and run fiber, or find someplace in the downtown core of Palo Alto with metro fiber and get on there.
At least the US isn't as bad as Canada where you can pay $225 a month for 250mbit down and up.

http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans

edit: a bit of searching shows that FIOS has a similar price for their top plan. On the other hand, we have a 500GB data cap. Smaller plans have caps that are lower than 100GB.
First of all, nice job with Workflowy! It's really changed the way I organize my life.

If you're interested in my organization system, there are lots of other cool things I do that I didn't delve into here. I'd love to chat with you about some of the more interesting ways I use it. Actually, one of my "ideas for applications" is a replacement / extension for Workflowy -- I think the core metaphor is very powerful for frictionless organization, and I'm excited to see where you guys take the concept.

If you want to talk about any of this stuff, please shoot me an email. My address is ckjohnson aaa outlook daught com.
Depending on one's definition of successful. Is the EPL the most popular league? Probably. Are the EPL teams the least profitable and most indebted? You bet they are! To the tune of 3.9 billion USD of debt across the league.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-c...
It's just something I wrote myself. Fairly adhoc - it just checks through the latex notes for theorems and keeps them in a list with a current score. The picking is done using softmax selection which picks randomly with a bias towards very low scores. When I complete a theorem I enter how well I did at recalling it and then it updates the score using temporal difference learning. I'm going to clean up the code and put something like it on github sometime.
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Sure, but we can fix that in a number of ways. We could, for example, require the use of smartcards to encrypt the records, so that only doctors or the specific patient to who the record pertains can read things. It would be a bit pricey, of course, since each patient would need a smartcard, but it is not as though the problem is insurmountable. It would also be reasonable to just issue smartcards to medical workers, and have patients obtain their records in-person (though I prefer a solution that allows records to be obtained at home).

The problems with security are mainly an artifact of the failure to utilize the available technologies, not that such technologies do not exist. It does not really help that a lot of relevant technologies are horribly patent encumbered (e.g. attritubte-based encryption, which would probably be covered by a number of IBE and ECC patents), but this would not be the first time patents have been the bottleneck in deploying important software.
He publicly posted private info from "customers" who used his software and berated those who complained or used competitors.
Don't want to discourage you, but the problem is that super-large runs generally require super-well-debugged code to scale to such large core numbers. Hence it's pretty difficult to do such a run without gradually stepping up with progressively larger runs, ironing out the bugs, running a bigger run, etc. This is likely to be extra hard for hybrid GPU/distributed applications, and the cycle time for these very large runs becomes long so the process is slow.

Our research group was determined to run the largest hydrodynamic cosmological simulation ever done, using a new code. Over a year ago the code was "basically ready" and had been used on "small" runs of ~hundreds of k CPU hours. They still haven't completed a big run...
The bitcoin algorithm adjusts the difficulty so 2016 blocks are generated in 2 weeks, so a nonce is found every 10 minutes or so.
This is a really odd post. Has anyone called for BetaPunch to be closed down? This seems like a straw man.

If you want to apologize, just apologize. It's not the time for more self-marketing.
Not necessarily. I'm sure there will be discussion at our next consulting meeting with at least one of our business clients on whether or not they should bother re-enabling Java after this; given that DHS also published a somewhat rare recommendation to completely disable Java, I could see a number of other corporations having the same conversation.

And sometimes that's all it takes to cripple adoption of a platform.

I wouldn't be sorry to see it go.
Open source at NASA
Now that's an interesting reference!

I actually remember this incident (albeit blurredly, hell, was that really 10 years ago...).

I dug up a few snippets[1] and I think the main sources of the animosities back then were certain regressions caused by privsep (not a hassle-free change) and a bit of ego-clashing (Alan Cox, Theo).

Your summary of the events may be about right, but is "not wanting to dance to someone else's tune" really a good argument against an attempt at responsible disclosure?

[1] http://www.baylisa.org/pipermail/baylisa/2002-June.txt (at the bottom)

[1] http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Jun/300
Fiber is cheap. Hiring Americans to pull it through the ground (/tunnels/on power lines/whathaveyou) is not.
Not if he doesn't think he has anything to apologize for.
The ISPs that remain are not natural monopolies. My town is exclusively Comcast, but that doesn't mean Comcast beat out the other cable-tv companies on price/service and ran the competition out of town.

Comcast was granted a franchise by the municipality. That's why Comcast spent the money to pull cable all through the town over poles and under trenches. You're granted the monopoly by virtue of spending on the physical plant and providing equal coverage to all sections of town, not just the wealthier neighborhoods that can afford coax-pulling crews.

Google can "shame" the other companies all they want with speed and service but, at least in my town, Comcast doesn't have to do jack shit.
> Not when you are watching "Gangnam Style" on Youku.

Why is this? Do the ISPs not have caching systems in place?
With a fast connection could do away with many harddrives. Could pay to purchase cloud storage that could be mounted and used. Wouldnt have to worry about personal backups etc. Would probably still keep a bit of space local but not nearly as much as now.
I think maybe the ISPs don't care. My u-verse modem is running something like 5mbps up, but they won't sell me more than 1.5. They have the infrastructure in place, at an existing customer and they cant be bothered to take my money.

I just had to install a cable line to get 4mbps up for a project.
Try San Francisco. From Beijing there is usually a good connection to the west coast, better than to Europe.
I will not be surprised if China overtakes US to become apple's biggest market.
iPhone is so widely known across China that people in the village I was born can speak something about it.

iPhone is showed off by many as a symbol of wealth and social statue, so they all want to possess one and many high schoolers in my school in China use iPhone as their phone.

However, I'd rather like to see Xiaomi, an Android phone made by a Chinese company, to develop well, and eat most of Apple's share.

Apology for my poor English.
I scroll the page to keep the text I'm reading at a relatively consistent height.

I don't read the entire length of the page before scrolling, I read a paragraph or two before scrolling.

When I read a book, I don't usually put the book in one place then read down it, I'll often move the book up slowly to that it's always in a position to read where my head/neck is comfortable.

I, for one, am glad that the world doesn't scroll this way.
My girlfriend is interested in design, but she's not a hacker. Could anyone recommend any courses for her? I haven't been able to find any.
Using Fanout.io's API via XMPP
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know our federal government has a sense of humor.
Maybe some kind of interesting comparison between all the different algorithms there are for password encryption.