skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's possible, but I think it's more efficient to use a completely separate...thread?...if you have a 2nd core. (Or if you have lots of empty space bubbles in your pipeline, you can just try forcing 2 threads in there, aka Hyperthreading)
Note that the name servers are correct, though:
ns{1-4}.google.com
Cause it's not a Rails bug.
Wireless Carriers Leave Millions of Android Phones Vulnerable to Hackers
MIT network attacks post-mortem
Not "just" a rip-off bullshit (aka marketing) way of saying brushless. No one pays 1x let alone 2x for something lacking brushes! But digital, big improvement over analog, 2x is a bargain!!!
And interestingly enough, your account is 666 days old today.
Amazon follows MiKandi's footsteps, launches virtual currency
Amazing fan-created poster art for Star Wars 7
Thank you for reminding me of my bias :)
IOS 6 for iPhone Saving Deleted Messages
This brings some serious privacy issues to the phone (again). Almost as bad as the GPS-logging incident.
Hey You Get Off of My Cloud
Postini Transitioning to Google Apps
Right. Anyways, I JUST noticed you did a typo for Puerto Rico's acronym.
> With all respect, you cannot make this claim.

With all respect, I most certainly can. I know myself well enough to know how I respond to drugs. I'm sorry if that is not the case for you. I also know that I don't suddenly pop from the depths of the worst despair imaginable to being completely normal in a day or two on a hope and a dream. If that were the case, many other things would have cured me. Such as the dozen or two medications I tried before Remeron, for instance.

> The only way this claim could become scientific would be with a double-blind scientific study. Such a study would compare the drug with ... a placebo

I specifically stated that my claim was not scientific. All knowledge does not come via science. As I already mentioned, I cannot prove scientifically that my wife loves me, and yet I know this to be true. You may have no good reason to believe me about that, but that has no bearing on what I know to be true.

> Yes, which means it's a good thing that I never said that anywhere. And why would I? The claim makes no sense -- no one is ever "cured" by the placebo effect.

The placebo affect is real, so it can certainly act as a cure for minor ailments of certain sorts. I have no desire to argue semantics with you. On the other hand, it was Remeron that cured me, and I'm as sure of that as I am that I am not conversing right now with an AI program, though I can't prove that scientifically, either.

As I also mentioned, you do have not have any particularly good reason to believe me, but for reasons I have stated, you also have no good reason not to believe me. If you were not an ideologue, you would remain agnostic.

> Wow. The drug companies must love clients like you.

Your assertion is that a drug company would love me because I am willing to testify to the fact that Paxil made me hypomanic and I would assert to anyone that it is a dangerous drug and I would advise them to stay away from it if my experience is at all representative? You have a strange notion of what drug companies might love.

I've been told by doctors that I had a phobia of antidepressants because I was so utterly resistant to trying anymore after my terrible experiences with them. You sound like them: The hypomania was all in my head. The sexual dysfunction from Prozac was all in my head! Welcome to the club of quack shrinks!

> You are ignoring the readily available scientific findings, so no, your conclusion is neither accurate nor rational.

I am ignoring nothing. If you actually read what I wrote, you would know that.

As to your claims that neuroscience research will likely be hugely beneficial to our understanding. Well, of course. That verges on tautology.
Here's a bookmarklet that might help some:

https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/4718499

It turns the time stamps on a Hacker News comment page into buttons that hide/show comments that are the same age or older than the clicked time stamp.

It works on the threads page. There are probably some bugs, but it mostly works fine.
Just wrote up Gentoo install at http://pastebin.ca/2311021
Hard to say since it's so early, but I view theming and skinning support as very, very important in the priority list. It's probably the #1 customization people do on forums! And probably on blogs as well...
Well that's some security that better be ironclad!
As someone who has derived great value from many of the 'non-tech' Stack Exchange sites, I dispute your claim that these sites have "bombed!"

Many of them are not (yet) household names like SO is around here, but they have thriving communities and provide real value, answering real questions, and providing legacy content that will be of use to people for decades to come.
I would have to disagree, we are developing a fairly advanced multiplayer game using the canvas. You can see some of the gameplay at http://youtu.be/2Mskv0kdo84, we'll be launching into beta in about a month. WebGL is great, but I'd say we are still 1-2 years from being able to use it mainstream.
This is awesome.

If they aren't already working on it they need to build interfaces for mobile devices.
Of course you know, this means that the next stage is laser based defense systems.

It's gonna be a lot easier to fry something traveling slower than the speed of sound from a few hundred feet away than something travelling at orbital velocities miles away.

Too bad about all the dead birds though.
Usually around midnight give or take half an hour.
Buffeted by the web, but now riding it
NY Times review:

http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/arts/television/silicon-val...
It's much more meta, for one thing. SO had a topic: programming. Here we don't have any particular topic, our goal is to make your topic successful, whatever it is, through open source software and community.

In other words Discourse is only successful in the sense that it lets you be successful.
Honestly, although phpBB's design leaves a hell of a lot to be desired (messy, table-based, complex, not pretty), the benefit I see from this as an open source competitor is that it's Rails and MVC.

This is a sight for sore eyes for someone who has to maintain a phpBB forum and its modifications (all of which, by design, require patching the source code with some bizarre XML-diff format).

Even with no formal plugin architecture, the decision to choose Rails is massively beneficial.
Their only crime was curiosity: what today's hackers owe phone phreaks
From their github readme:

This vision translates to the following functional commitments:

1. Support all contemporary browsers on the desktop:

Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0+
Firefox 16+
Google Chrome infinite

2. Supporting the latest generation of tablets:

iPad 2+
Android 4.1+ on 7" and 10"
Windows 8

3. Deliver support for mobile/smartphones as soon as possible:

Windows Phone 8
iPhone 4+
Android 4.0+

So it seems that mobile support is coming, "as soon as possible".
For those interested in a Stack-Ed perspective of Mysticial's l337ness (top 5 tags):

C++: http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/c%2B%2B/user/922184/Mysticial

Performance: http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/performance/user/922184/Mystici...

Language-Agnostic: http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/language-agnostic/user/922184/M...

Optimization: http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/optimization/user/922184/Mystic...

Branch-Prediction: http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/branch-prediction/user/922184/M...
I'm more worried about micro-UAVs and other bugs than I am about the big ones. I assume SCIFs of the future will basically have real airlocks and some comprehensive scanning of people who go in and out.
You're right; on reflection, version control has nothing to do with it (besides a .gitignore with wp-config-anything ignore entries). I used to use a wp-config.php file in a shared directory on the server that gets symlinked in by Capistrano during deployments; there's no way to accidentally create new .swo/.bkp/.whatever files in production without both screwing up the Capistrano recipe and wp-config.php file creation.

(It seems I skipped actually writing something useful and went straight to durr version control, sorry.)

Points A) and C) are dead on. Addressing your point B), though:

Yes, it is commodity software. But most seem to use at least some plugins and themes, and making changes to those without a rollback is a nightmare. You can make backups before changing things, sure, but version control has that already built in.

(Sibling posts to yours point out that Wordpress looks in both the docroot and one level up for wp-config.php - if I ever manage a Wordpress site again I'll be sure to move it out.)
Check out tracelytics.com (or AppNeta.com, as Tracelytics was bought by AppNeta.com last year).

Cheaper, full visibility from load-balancer, web-server, DB server, NoSQL server, and of course, App-Server (RoR, Python, PHP [Drupal and also via Acquia], Java, etc)

AppNeta + Tracelytics = Network Performance Management _AND_ Application Performance Management. End-to-end.

Disclaimer: I work for AppNeta.
Iran's new stealth jet, or is it?
A bunch of differences, but the big one is that we're 100% open source. No crippled-unless-you-pay business model here, personally I find those irritating.

Vanilla is certainly much more mature since it's been out longer. Discourse is new as of today, so we've got a long way to go.
Pretty amazing. Excelling in technology and application is not enough to rise up and attract investors. New Relic does a great job deservedly advertising themselves as well.
I have no idea what a "linear transaction" is. It sounds like a certification model, we had to implement very sophisticated deadlock detection in our database to resolve inevitable collisions. How does your model work?

I'm a little concerned about the performance of LevelDB, did you test it with very large out of memory datasets?
Does anybody actually care about karma on HN? If so, why?
Just look at the size of rugby players vs. NFL players. It is completely ridiculous to assert that taking the pads off players is the solution.

If you put some full backs from the NFL in a rugby game, players would literally die (and I mean literally, literally). They are massive. Seeing these guys in person blows your mind (figuratively).

[added] I don't know how good of a source it really is, but there are some infographics in this form that show a difference.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=137938303&...

They put the NFL player at 25% more weight which is insane when you consider a guy that is 6'2 and 250 lbs.
I tend to agree, although I think you can concentrate longer for short, unsustainable durations. My standard schedule in law school was a few hours during the semester, then a few weeks of 8-10 hour days around finals.

My take away from the experience was that 8 hours of real work is really a lot of work. And distractions are absolute poison: internet, cell phone, etc. Nothing quite like locking yourself in a room with just a book and highlighter--no computer, no cell phone, no people. You add those things to the mix and it can easily take a 16 hour day to get 8 hours of real work done.
User CSS in browser has existed for a while IIRC.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
The Chord algorithm sounds like a very good choice, however I'm more skeptical about the radix tree approach. I fear you might get a huge performance penalty.
Correct, I can talk about it, or I can do something about it. Be the change I want to see, and all that!
Definitely, but this is not completely new territory. Mercedes can remotely update these days as well. Not sure about the other telematic systems, but it's all definitely going this way.
This is basically what computers do, it's called speculative execution. Modern computers actually have several pipelines, each for a different function. This is what makes a computer "superscalar". Basically, the CPU tries to keep the pipelines of all of the execution units filled at all times. If it's able to, it will schedule both sides of a branch to be executed, and flush out whichever half wasn't used.
You act as if there has ever been a targeted attack on the entire scientific community of physics and engineering

There hasn't had to be. Those fields have properly policed themselves, so they haven't needed to be policed by outsiders.

When you talk of mistakes made by "climate scientist" with ther data, what percentage of climate scientists do you think have committed these errors?

That's the wrong question. The right question is, what percentage of the data that all these models and theories are based on is corrupted? The answer is, we don't know. That, all by itself, is unacceptable.

You are using mistakes made by individuals and organizations to smear an entire science.

No, I am using the fact that the data that the science is based on can't be trusted. Who did what to make it that way is useful to know, but it's not the central point.

Proving climate science right, compared to proving physics/engineering is comparing apples and oranges.

It's true that we can't run controlled experiments on the climate the way we can in physics or engineering. That doesn't change the fact that you can't do science at all if you can't trust the data. There's no reason for climate data to be treated any differently than, say, particle physics data, and there's no reason to excuse failure to properly control data in climate science any more than there is in physics.

the planet is warmer than predicted.

Reference, please? Last I checked the planet was cooler than the IPCC had projected it to be based on the current CO2 level. Remember that there is not one single projection; there are a bunch of them, each making different assumptions about how much CO2 will rise. The actual CO2 rise has been close to the "business as usual" model scenarios, but the temperature rise has been, at most, what the "minimum" model scenario predicted, the one that assumed sharp cuts in CO2 emissions.

I want geo-engineering solutions to handle the problem.

I have no problem with this, if we can have reasonable confidence in what the effects will be. For example, we have reasonable confidence in how much aerosols high in the atmosphere can affect the climate (based on data from volcanic eruptions), so we can make reasonable predictions about that kind of geoengineering.
That didn't stop a bunch of services selling 'free phpBB' installs littered with malware advertisements, to people who didn't know how to deploy a PHP app.
Where's the jail-time?
That makes sense for most processor architectures. But there are exceptions. The Cell Processor (Sony PS3 Processor) has 8 RISC SPUs. These processors do not have branch prediction logic. This is because they were designed for computationally intensive graphics kernels which are useful for Sony PS3 games. There is a huge performance intensive to avoiding branches on these processors. So many times both routes are taken and then the appropriate value is chosen using a mask instruction. This does not stall the pipeline on the processor.
While I agree that is often a blind spot, it is a red herring to this statement made by you:

> MongoDB et all basically are built around the assumption that a schema is never worth the complexity. It's a bold claim that contradicts many decades worth of database research.

You may well argue that if you have N-1 applications using PostgreSQL, and the Nth application could---on its own---justifiably use MongoDB, then it is still appropriate to use PostgreSQL in favor of not adding Yet Another DB Engine.

But that is nothing more than a specific case that is often ignored in the "best tool for the job mantra". It does not mean that schemas are never worth the complexity of an RDBMS.

All I'm saying is that you can't claim that a recommendation of MongoDB assumes schemas are never worth the complexity; you can only claim that the assumption is that they are sometimes not worth the complexity.

More generally, MongoDB makes no assumption that contradicts "years of DB research."
Learn something that requires you to write all the code as your first language (like PHP without a framework), and then Rails as your second "language". Only after writing SQL do you truly realize the power of Active Record, or write session-based authentication do you appreciate Devise. I love Rails's "magic", but I like that I can visualize what a Gem is doing based on how similar functionality would be implemented in PHP or ColdFusion.
This is for web browsers on a desktop, not iOS. Draw My Thing is just the name of something similar, from OMGPop.
I guess this puts a previous post of his in context: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-fla...

And now I fear for the future of online discussion because I expect that Jeff will succeed.
Gakwer Media is looking for a DBA
Doping at the Tour de France
After http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029, I would expect this team's tools to embed values that greatly differ from mine regarding "trolls" and "bad actors" and controversy, and would be unlikely to participate without some sort of transparent oversight.
White House to Hold 'We The People' Hackathon
We don't know what percentage of sales models like yours were of the manufacturer's sales. Was that percentage increasing or decreasing? Was it profitable? There are a lot of factors at play here. If it wasn't selling, they're going to do less of that and more like the sub-$500 ones that are. Perhaps they concluded that the market for $1200 laptops is not worth pursuing.

Also worth noting is that 1920x1200 is less dense than the Retina displays.
Dell goes private with $2bn help from Microsoft
Sony discontinues the Minidisc Format
This article seems to lump the concept of a COO and a President together. In our environment the President handles M&A, HR, partnerships, etc. while Operations is responsible for establishing processes, inter-department communication, project management, and the like.

In my opinion, a COO should be there to introduce and maintain discipline and structure where there may be none. They should be able to:

1. Establish responsibility, accountability, recognition, and reward for the employees.

2. Define procedures for as much as possible of the day-to-day eventualities within a company.

3. Be the intermediary in communication breakdowns that can occur between the executives and the staff.

4. Lead projects that are directly related to the well being of the company's infrastructure

5. Provide the structure required to be successful, but the understanding to not limit the challenges and will of your creative teams

6. Master of risk analysis

7. Develop an understanding and proficiency in the "Why's" of each part of the company, not necessarily the "What's"

8. Learn to be the Devil's Advocate to the CEO without being a douche about it

The last one is important. You better trust your COO to keep your head on straight because the higher your status as a company climbs, the less likely others will be to be honest about what they are really feeling. A COO should always try and be the opposing voice if only to make sure that two sides to every situation are represented.

Personally, I don't think every company needs a COO; especially startups. There is something to be said about the Wild West atmosphere playing fast and loose can bring, and a COO is there to keep the part a little under control. But if you DO need one, then remember how important your decision will be in selecting the right candidate.
Yet another terrible name for a software package.
Agreed. I also like the "chapters" terminology.
Depends on whether or not they understand what it does.
The PowerPot - charge devices by boiling water
Seems like more than enough for simple sites shared with a bunch of people you know. That is about 600 GBs of bandwidth a month, for free.

If you need more bandwidth, you would probably be looking at any of the other innumerable hosting solutions available on the web.
This wouldn't be that big of a problem if the carriers and manufacturers left control over updates to Google.
I wish more managers recognised points 1 and 4.
I'm glad to see that the grant from the Knight Foundation to Mapbox, helps OSM is bringing something great. OSM really needed a new editor.
Saw an early screening in Ann Arbor a few months back. It's definitely worth watching to get an idea of how Silicon Valley was built.

Also worth watching is Steve Blank's secret history of Silicon Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Sure, but it defeats the purpose of branch prediction. If you have a high confidence of which branch will be taken you don't want to waste execution units. The high level of data dependencies between branch points is another obstacle. It isn't as simple as hyperthreading.
Namecheap Infographic Illustrates Impact of “Move Your Domain” Day
Ask HN: Unlimited legal advice over the phone, what would you pay?
I lost a lawyer's income to focus on my start-up, I think the situation is comparable to an engineer leaving a position at a software firm after 3 years.

Something I learned through HN is how many Hackers continue to supplement their income while working on a start-up through "consulting." Based on many HN posts, I think there would be an immediate need met by offering unlimited legal counsel over the phone for a year based on a flat fee. I envision this falling between pre-paid legal service, in-house general counsel, and the awesome legal services YC start-ups receive.

Included: unlimited phone conferences for advice on forming business, liability and tax related issues to structure, indemnification, state selection for business, necessary business agreements, annual compliance with the state(s), IRS tax compliance, 501(c)(3) determination advice, general agreement advice, help you retain affordable local counsel when requested or advised.

Not Included: Drafting of legal documents, guaranteed review of documents, representation in law-suits.

To the HN community would you (your consulting firm), your start-up, ect... be interested in a service like this and if so what would be a reasonable fee for the start-up community? Should I let the start-up/client dictate the fee?

*This is not an offer of my legal services nor is it a solicitation of representation.
Peer-to-peer systems still use DNS "servers". Pure P2P WebRTC systems still need STUN "servers". In fact, one of the peers in a P2P system could also be considered a server.

"Serverless" as you define it would describe nothing in existence today. I think the way most people perceive the term is simply to mean reliance on servers that you don't have to build and run.
I'm not American, so don't take this as legal advice. From my cursory understanding, jailbreaking is fine but removing the carrier lock is not. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
While they're far from comprehensive, I've found the tutorial approach at CodeSchool.com to be well worth the $. (With the basic Rub, Rails, and Git tutorials being free)
Very true.

I think it's also important to consider not only how JavaScript may influence developers while they create software, but also what its voluntary use says about the developers' experience, knowledge and judgment.

It's one thing to use JavaScript when you're doing client-side web development, where it's basically the only option, even if it's dressed up as CoffeeScript or TypeScript. But it makes absolutely no sense to voluntarily use it when C, C++, Python and even C# and Vala are available. Doing so would be a significant show of very bad judgment, in my opinion.

If you need performance or power, using C or C++ makes perfect sense. If minimizing development time and effort is important, then Python will work extremely well. Vala and C# generally fix somewhere in between. So there's absolutely no place or need for JavaScript, which is inferior in every respect. No intelligent developer should ever feel the need to choose it when developing GNOME applications, given the much superior alternatives. Anyone who does want to use it probably shouldn't be contributing to a project like GNOME in the first place.