skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How China crushed the triad gangs and created the world's new gambling Mecca
Price is not an issue. Vendor lock-in is.

I would try out DotCloud if it were an open-source PAAS like OpenShift or CloudFoundry.
What front page do your customers read? Unless all you're doing is selling to Silicon Valley, neither TechCrunch nor Hacker News are necessarily going to be the answer.
>MeGUI profiles

MeGUI is hardly necessary - x264 has a good set of presets and tunes built in to begin with. --preset veryslow --tune film/animation/grain will already get you very far, beyond that pretty much the two most important things to possibly tweak are the strengths of AQ and psychovisual optimizations (--aq-strength and --psy-rd).

>it is totally within the realm of possibility to put two hours of 1080p content on a single-layer DVD (4.4GB), in a format compatible with any Blu-Ray player out there (AVCHD, a subset of the Blu-Ray standard that accepts DVD as the storage layer), while keeping video quality at a very high level - basically indistinguishable from commercial Blu-Ray discs.

You might get away with an hour of almost-transparent content if it's not particularly bitrate-demanding, but two hours of live action will not look "indistinguishable from commercial Blu-ray discs". 5 Mbps High Profile L4.0 H.264 just won't look as good as ~30-40 Mbps H.264 High Profile L4.1 H.264 commonly found on BDs (unless the BD is really screwed up). At 720p you'd get pretty good results, though.
Why written communication matters, also for non-distributed teams
Have you checked the code produced by your compiler and standard library? I don't know of any which uses 80 bits mode. Unless you turn on the 80 bits yourself, you don't use them. If you find such compiler please write!

Another thing is that by the C standard, all calculations are performed on doubles, even when the result is to be stored as float. It's an ABC of C. :)
If the iPad offered a keyboard, & OS X - you would see it be a very popular device very very fast. It would canabilize their laptop sales almost completely.

I see this as the first step in that direction.

The pen is optional. I won't say much about Windows 8, but there is no denying that the Surface has an awesome physical feel.
I'd prefer to be able to route calls to my SIP endpoint (polycom) vs. the client or a phone number, when I'm at the office. When not, I'd prefer cellphone (SIP client) or desktop (SIP client, or your app).
The Developer's Challenge in 2013
I think that's excellent advice, which I'll take if I end up using box2D in the end :)
Mixpanel is still fairly early in the game, but their development pace is pretty rapid. They also seem to be able to build on existing features pretty well; for example, they rolled out the ability to build user profiles a few months ago, and then the ability to message those profiles a couple months later.

I've used GA, KISSMetrics and now Mixpanel, and I've been personally been really happy with them. Nearly everything is there, and the missing parts look like they're being worked on.
Well this hypothesized theorem is bunk, but in what sense do we have anonymity in the USA anyway?
You reminded me of the startup I did where we would offer people 1% of the company, and the candidates would say "that's only 2000 shares. This other company is offering me 50,000 shares."

It can get depressing trying to hire people sometimes.
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We want to bring people together around the things they care about.
For anyone wanting to opt-out of Mixpanel's tracking, feel free right here: https://mixpanel.com/optout/ - we try to make it pretty simple.
I use workflowy too, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. `w <enter>` is going to send you to the first site with w in the name (which in my case is 'wikipedia.com' - I have to type 'wor' for workflowy.com to be selected).

The `<esc> @misc` part also doesn't make sense. That just does a search for tags, it doesn't put you in a mode to just write, which is what the OP's solution does.

Last but not least, a little pro-tip for ya, since you like the command line (or keyboard shortcuts as they are also called:) : Command-L puts the cursor in the location bar. So you can do <cmd>+L w <enter>. Also, shift back to a previous tab with cmd+shift+[ and +].
I find it's really important to have a core group of friends outside of work and projects. Like a support network, or a release valve. People who care about how you are doing, not your company. I think a lot of founders feel like they can't do anything but work, or else they're wasting time and money.

But it's the same fallacy that pushes game companies into crunch mode. Everyone's morale suffers, and the quality of crunch work is always far inferior to the quality of non-under-the-gun work.

The Valley is so high pressure. Find that release valve before you boil over.
If they didn't have tannin from tree barks, they could have used brain tanning (from the brains of the animal they killed) or made rawhide (which doesn't require tannins).
Very clever!

I set this as the default URL for new tabs.. Now, everytime I open a new tab, I have a quick scratchpad for pasting/testing/etc.
I don't think there is one uniform definition of functional programming. It's a vague characteristic of a language in the same sense as "object oriented."
AWS EU region down?
When I connect to the AWS Management console and try to list my instances in the eu-west1 region I get the following error:

Unable to execute HTTP request: Connect to ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/178.236.6.52 timed out

I can list us-east1 instances without issues. Is there a AWS outage?
If digital files are property, why can't I resell them?
Forgive me for the shameless plug...but thought this might be useful for other HNers and related to OP.

I put together a little project that uses the browsers localstorage so you can jot notes down and come back to them, I find it useful as I'm always in the browser, hope you do too: http://a5.gg
I know aliases and such still work, but you cannot, as far as I can tell, make an alias of yer HD on the desktop. Clearly yer not supposed to, but it just irked me.

Thanks for the HFS links. I've never seen either of those before. Coulda saved me a lot of time and money!
I'd imagine there are way more Emacs/Vim users than SublimeText users or even Textmate users at it's peak.
Some Versions of Ruby on Rails Vulnerable to New Parsing Attack
I'm simply describing my workflow -- Workflowy is easily my #1 "w", so that's why this works for me. Probably not very helpful -- I just thought I'd illustrate the "exact" same steps I take to achieve the same effect.

Same goes for "@misc". When I want to brain-dump some gibberish, as in the OP's use case, the @misc tag contains a big dump of stuff that I generally refine or delete later.

I don't know why I don't use ctrl+l -- i usually use ctrl+e or ctrl+k and then backspace (why do these do the same thing in chrome?). But yeah, thanks for the advice.
750 Words[1] is a great tool for clearing your mind.

1. http://750words.com/
Thanks for asking for clarification; it's not really relevant to this discussion. I'm glad MixPanel has this new product, I'm sure website owners will find it useful. My primary intent in posting was to let MixPanel know that people like me can't even click 'See it in Action' because JavaScript processing stops after the first error (counting on MixPanel loading).

I'm all for apps using the data I give them to build usage patterns as a part of improving their service; that's an unavoidable part of the value they provide. Cross-site collectors a-la Google, Facebook, Adobe, MixPanel, etc. eliminate a barrier to a centralized understanding of everything I do online.

Edit: TL;DR - Pikwik yes, MixPanel no. And degrade gracefully if your external JavaScript doesn't load, especially analytics.
The thought of doing that is kindof scary. Who knows what I might end up typing!?

Of course, this is probably a reason to do it.
Police refuse to return disabled man's porn collection
C#'s await is pretty nice. Parse uses it heavily for our C# SDK, and I wish it was available in more languages.
Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark
huh, so why apologise now, 4 months later?
Is it just me or have people stopped testing how the font renders on anything other than a Mac? Don't people believe in cross-platform readability anymore?

The font being used looks terrible on a Windows machine (Win 7 with Chrome at 100% zoom).

http://i.imgur.com/OmWJiyn.png
Why ever put your date of birth on a resume? It just opens you up to discrimination.
Career Advice: When They Replace the CEO At Your Company, It’s Time To Move On
Works well on Mobile Safari.
There were 4 children, and one died. I have often wondered why the world's homo sapien population did not grow faster during the period 200,000 BC to 10,000 BC. In his book Extinct Humans, Ian Tattersall has argued that fully modern homo sapiens took shape around 200,000 BC and left Africa around 150,000 BC. http://www.amazon.com/Extinct-Humans-Ian-Tattersall/dp/08133...

The growth of the population was very slow. Someone suggested that at their peak there were 100 million bison worldwide, but it seems to have taken most of human history to catch up with the bison -- we seem to have hit that number only when we began agriculture. As late as the year 1300, the historian Fernand Braudel estimates a world wide population of only 500 million people. We became one of the most successful species in the history of the planet, so why wasn't there faster growth, for such a long time?

That question interests me, so it also interests me that a family, living alone, with fanatic Christian fundamentalist beliefs and no access to contraceptives, still only ends up having 3 surviving children -- not a whole lot in excess of the replacement rate.

Something similar to this must have been going on for many thousands of years.
I'm not intimately familiar with the data, but results hold among multiple studies that, controlled for age, lifestyle, occupation, and just about any other parameter anyone ever controls for, athletes have lower rates of cancer, and professional athletes have significantly lower rates of cancer (although, that makes "occupation" a variable you can't control for, and it's hard to isolate many other factors, because e.g. those people almost never smoke, and almost always eat healthy. But as much as can be controlled, it seems like sport confers an advantage against cancer, despite subjecting a lot of tissues to repeating and continuous damage).

Statistics is confusing though.

It's possible that people who are less likely to get cancer (for whatever reason) are more likely to be better at sports, thus more likely to be pro athletes; and with the right base rates, it might mean that pro athletes are more likely to not get cancer BECAUSE people who are less likely to get cancer are often athletes. No study that I'm aware of ever tried that angle, and I'm not sure anyone ever collected the right data to try.
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OpenTable Acquires Foodspotting
The font used on that site is literally broken and unreadable in Chrome, on Windows. It cuts out parts of the letters. For an example of what I'm seeing, here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/e6SVAsY.png
> The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoint form.

Did you miss the pages following the first? He provides numerous specific examples. He even says in the original article (though it's easy to miss, which makes me think you missed it):

"The pages that follow are those personally encountered— not 3rd party reports."

For example, the next two pages:

Impossible to Complete a File Copy on Any Drives
http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-Finder-copy-erro...

Time Machine Silently Excludes Critical Data
http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-TimeMachine-excl...

etc.

Here is a list of all the pages in that specific series:
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#AppleCoreRo...

There is also a list for "Lion Hairballs"

http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#LionHairbal...
The install base gap
My grandfather was born in Abakan, and published several books on the history of the region. He visited Agafia several times by helicopter with my uncle, after the other members of her family had passed.

When I was around 15, he showed me a video of their first encounter with her, and to this day I cannot get the image of the pure terror on her face out of my mind. She had multiple visitors before, but something about this visit scared her so much that she hid inside for hours.

It turned out that this was the first visit where someone in the crew had brought video equipment (one of those big shoulder-mounted VHS cameras), and Agafia would later tell my grandfather that she thought this thing would 'steal her soul.' She wasn't shocked in amazement at the new technology, this was pure fear.

Reminds me of one of the early silent film The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station [1], which allegedly was so realistic that people ran out of the movie theater screaming.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LArriv%C3%A9e_dun_train_en_gare...
Wow. My experience getting a greencard two years ago was totally different. My wife's a citizen, so she sponsored me. We sent in the chunk of paperwork, two months later I got called in for fingerprinting, which involved waiting maybe 15 minutes after my appointment time. Then three months later we get called to the interview, again after a short wait time we talk to the CIS person for maybe 10 minutes, she looks at our financial info, a couple of wedding pictures, and we're done. 3 weeks later greencard shows up in the mail. No hassle about the type of documents Sweden provides (also no birth certificate), no snags albeit slow.

Nice to know they've improved.
Narcissists don't feel guilt, only shame

From TLP:

"But I want to change, I want to get better."

Narcissism says: I, me. Never you, them.

No one ever asks me, ever, "I think I'm a narcissist, and I'm worried I'm hurting my family." No one ever asks me, "I think I'm too controlling, I'm trying to subtly manipulate my girlfriend not to notice other people's qualities." No one ever, ever, ever asks me, "I am often consumed by irrational rage, I am unable to feel guilt, only shame, and when I am caught, found out, exposed, I try to break down those around me so they feel worse than I do, so they are too miserable to look down on me."

If that was what they asked, I would tell them them change is within grasp. But.

"So all is lost?"

Describe yourself: your traits, qualities, both good and bad.

Do not use the word "am."

Practice this."

- http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/01/can_narcissism_be_cur...
Check out GridVid.me....we allow for FFmpeg tweaks in your API calls.

https://gridvid.me/documentation/advanced-ffmpeg-directives
>at the mercy of a remote faceless bureaucracy that can decide your fate and enforce it.

Welcome to the American-style of governance. Please see the DMV for your drivers license and then stop by the IRS to try your luck at the tax code. You will need documentation for everything. The appeals process exists, but is largely pro forma. If you comply successfully enough you might even get to join a homeowners association one day.
> Tell me a language where this is acceptable: https://gist.github.com/4471029

=> Underscore, 4KB in production and gives you _.sortBy and _.difference among other amenities
I'm on Windows, when I have text zoomed at 100% in chrome, I can't read it, at all. 110% makes it readable. Firefox looks ok, but the looks a little strange. Some parts of letters look bolder than others.
Ah shoot. If Chrome allowed localStorage to be accessible from file:/// then we could add save (CTRL+S) and automatic load using this:

data:text/html,<html><script>window.onload=function(){var a=document.body;a.innerText=localStorage.mydoc;a.addEventListener("keydown",function(b){b.ctrlKey&&83==b.which&&(localStorage.mydoc=a.innerHTML,b.preventDefault())},!1)};</script><body contenteditable></body></html>

Firefox will save it to localStorage but clear the local storage afterwards. Weird.

Oh well.

At least we can still turn our (Chrome) browsers into desktop calculators by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+J!

(If you want the un-minified version of the code I wrote: http://jsfiddle.net/d5sGq/)
Your Credentials Are Worthless Here
Geohot (iphone and Playstation Hacker) Release New iPhone App Called Reactions
>It's like each solar system is a VM, and they can't move their VMs to a new physical server without disconnecting all clients. And all of their physical servers are at 100% load all of the time?

I wasn't sure how to interpret that either.

I've always been a bit surprised that the the backend systems for these MMOs aren't a bit more flexible. Though, EvE did launch nearly 10 years ago and it has never had a huge number of subscribers.

I have no idea whether more recent games have solved these problems.
What is your Fronter replacement recommendation? And can you suggest good Schools ISP or filtering solution?
Congress Demands Justice Department Explain Aaron Swartz Prosecution
Why 'open'? Is that the issue that you have with Facebook? If not, why not Skype? It's available on more platforms that the two specific examples that you mention. The thing that you are dismissing is the convenience. Like it or not, literally millions of people find it extremely convenient to stay in touch with friends and acquaintances easily.
If you don't list your pricing most TC "leads" are just going to be people interested in what your pricing model is for a variety of reasons, not actual leads. One qualified lead in your segment probably represents much higher CLV than all those TC and HN leads combined. If you're actually looking to generate sales look elsewhere.
The author has failed to say what we would have achieved by sending more people into risky space missions. For example, if our next goal is to get to Mars, we learn a lot about how to get the risks down by sending unmanned craft there.

The excited group of engineers when MSL touched down last year is testament to the fact that this landing is still very hard. (And the difficulty is not entirely due to not having a pilot in the craft.)
5 Causes of Failure in Personal and Professional Life
Twitter’s Vine Experiences Its First Service Outage 5 Days After Launching
It makes me a bit sad that this is just as unusable on mobile as HN.
Thanks for making this easy.

Unfortunately this opt-out approach (not your specific implementation) is not really useful... opting out on every browser that I use, keeping the MixPanel opt-out cookie when clearing everything else, opting out of > 1,000 tracking services individually, etc.
They're readily available in bark and some leaves, though you'd need to know how to extract it.

A simpler alternative is "brain tanning", there's an old saying that each animal has enough brain to tan its hide which is probably true enough for basic purposes. Brain tanning is still the way native americans do their tanning (colonists brought vegetable tanning to the americas, and modern mineral and chemical tannings arose during the 19th century)
DJIA and S&P500 are highly correlated (intentionally so), also I'd recommend diversifying internationally.
The whole hustling/stalking thing at the end I find very creepy.

> when he didn’t respond to meeting requests, the founders tracked him down at his hotel, after seeing his geo-tagged tweet with a photo attached
It looks fine to me. You might be using some kind of browser extension like Ghostery that blocks some content related to tracking. Considering this is an analytics site, it's not surprising that would be the case. (as a matter of fact, I have Ghostery not to block mixpanel.com for that reason)
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Wow, small world! Didn't I meet you before sometime? Maybe at a Fark party in Florida?
The 25 people who decide if we can use electronics during takeoff/landing
This is what the scratch (EDIT: read scratch as * scratch * without the spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a different tool, it allows me to use all the Emacs-specific features I usually rely on. (For example, I can easily type special characters like r₁ × r₂ ≈ r₃ using the TeX mode.)

If you want more than one scratch buffer--which happens to me once in a while--you can just create a new buffer with any name, and it will also do. New buffers are in a different mode by default, but you can set it up to work exactly the same way as scratch if you want.

As another commenter pointed out, you can use the browser to evaluate JavaScript. Emacs lets you do the same thing with elisp in the scratch buffer by default: try entering in an elisp expression and pressing C-j.

Just a fun alternative to this trick for the Emacs users around here :).
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I can't think of any games that deal with PVP on this scale either.
Yes, you are free to crash your app any way you see fit :)

dotCloud sandboxes applications with kernel containers, so you can run any userland process you want.
Working immigrants, documented or not, pay far more in taxes than they extract in benefits. They all live somewhere, so their landlords pay property tax from their rent. They all buy things in stores, so they pay sales tax. Those who have fake Social Security numbers pay payroll taxes, but like all of us under 45 will never see a dime in return.

I'm sure you can find some oddball exception like Obama's undocumented Auntie Z who lives high on the hog in some palatial public housing unit in Boston, but these indict stupid entitlement programs more than lax immigration.

I'm not claiming that limiting entitlements to immigrants is in any way unfair. If they don't like the deal they can move back home. I do object to this topic as a specious support for the "War on Immigration".
They're untrustworthy to answer the question "TechCrunch vs. Hacker News: Which is a better front page to launch your startup?"
This is clearly awesome. First thing I did? Got into infinite loop. This is not exactly a good interactive console for JavaScript, but still very fun.
I realize this is flogging a dead horse, but the point is that the OS is super simple for novices/casual users, but is trivially adjustable for power users. It doesn't matter if those adjustments are confusing to non-computer people - that can be a good thing - but it's nice that with a bit of computer knowledge, you can essentially be running a solid Unix machine with a pretty, though not universally perfect, interface.
Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium: What happens when subscriptions expire?
Something sounds off here.

At face value the article is saying. If most people are "ambiverts" and ambiverts make the best sales people, and sales people are the best leaders, why are there not more leaders? Why is it that most people are not in charge.

Finding out that there is no correlation between extroversion and sales performance is interesting and all but I think it would be better to find a new scale to use, one with positive correlation for what you are looking for.

Pointing out that people's scores for extroversion fall along a normal distribution, and that people's sales preform aces fall along a normal distribution does not really say much.

Typically, a low correlation score means your model is wrong, not that you need to fix your model by choosing a different locus.
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