skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to have fallen into a version of this trap.

MongoDB has made me a nice chunk of change as a consultant. These days when I mention MongoDB people don't even hide the crazy looks. The interview/meeting might as well be over then and there.

Since mentioning mongo sets the conversation back, I've instead choosing to focus my energies delving deeper into ecosystems like Riak-Core/Erlang which many developers still don't have a firm grasp on and are considered "serious" databases.

It seems to be working, but we'll see where I am a few years from now.
Exactly, and during those 3-4 decades that the car is around, you have to replace the battery pack 3-4 times. I'm all for EV's and the apparently impressive quality of this specific car, but it would be nice to see a more accurate cost benefit analysis.
Learned a few new commands from this, thank you!
> In most other countries I imagine that most of the hackers are either third-party actors [...] or random 'kids'

Let's say this hypothesis is true; we should then deduce that the Chinese government is years (decades?) ahead of "developed" countries in terms of information warfare. It's quite a worrying thought.

Let's say that your hypothesis is actually false: this would mean that there is an ongoing similarly-sized info-warfare effort waged by the US government (at least), but we rarely hear about it. Again quite a worrying thought.
The article claims that the supercharging stations are solar. The whole point of the article is about independence from oil, if you ignore the hyperbolic title.

Jason isn't saying Tesla isn't out to make money, simply that they are out to make money from great cars, rather than the oil industry.

I'm still skeptical that the charging stations will scale up to a national scale, but I admire Musk trying.
coffee is for coders.
Hearing the developers talk about 10 years of content worries me. I know this is most likely a PR exaggeration, but creating a game that will occupy 10 years or anything close to that is a major responsibility. It would be almost immoral to create something that provides no meaningful experience and is just extended escapism. I obviously haven't played it and it looks exciting. I just hope it isn't made to make players feel super powerful, but ultimately fail to enrich a player's life.
Zoomba Mobile Application
Thanks :)
Microscopic 3D printing
People are downvoting you for advocacy of "big fish in small pond" psychology, but your comment does make me wonder: Why hasn't teleconferencing disrupted the economics of public speaking yet? Why, and is there an opportunity?
Been poking around a bit. Looking promising.
The ruler in China is a trinity: the government, the army and the communist party.

Though with the "economic reform" and the unstoppable information flow with internet, China has become something really weird unlike anyone else in the history. Nobody believes in communism and everybody knows the government is lying all the time and yet just lives with it. Every activity by the government is for money and mostly quick money (for the officials).

I don't even think the hackers in this matter care much for the information. They may just try to get more funds from the government. Sometimes they even frame somebody or fake a threats to get the money. The funds will always be granted in such a situation because "if you don't grant you put the country in danger" and "if you grant you can take the commissions".

Most of the time every bit of it is simply dirty corrupted business. Many of the officials' children are permanent residents in the US. Some of them are even already citizens.
Bungie says it has a whopping 350 in-house developers working on Destiny

Holy burn rate Batman! Maybe it's just me, but if that number is accurate, this looks like an "all-in" bet by Activision and Bungie both. If this project fails, Bungie will likely not survive and Activision would at least take a major hit.

If you think that's wild, pessimistic speculation, consider this statement:

One thing that was made quite clear is that the game will not be subscription-based. Every presenter was clear in stating that players will not pay a monthly fee to participate in this persistent world.
A Look at Stencil Typography
There’s been a sort of surge in available stencil fonts within the past several years that show an interest in the style, beyond the faux-military aesthetic.
For anecdotal evidence you can look at the age polls on Minecraft forums which show 60% are under 21.

Don't forget that reddit isn't particularly child friendly, and yet even their the MC subreddit is younger than most of the rest of reddit.
Doesn't minecraft have a lot of user-generated content?

(I don't play it, so I'm not sure if that content is interesting for "explorative" gameplay, or if it's more a series of novelty locations of varying quality.)
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Great list, thank you.

For people looking to use apps, please consider the likelihood and impact of one of these companies disappearing overnight. Some of them are tech startups without a sustainable critical mass and they could shut down at any time.

If your landing page provider stops providing service, it's probably easy to recover if you have copies of all the email address collected. If your planning and project management tool disappears with all your data, there could be a significant cost.

I'd bet that half the services on this page will not exist in a few years time. If the success of your business relies on them trading, pick carefully.
Languages that need tagged memory can implement this in software, and on current arch they will still run as fast as in a CPU that had that trick implemented in hardware. More likely faster, because the software solution enables much greater flexibility (e.g. look at Javascript VMs, they have various ways to represent values, and that's a single language). Also because compilers can often optimize out all value-representation overheads (by unboxing etc.). Stuff implemented in the CPU decoder (or even in microcode) can never afford to make that level of optimization.
It's not very realistic, it's way too easy to close it!
Apart from having a story that spans 10 years (which, btw, actually undermines the goal of user generated content), what exactly is new about this? Almost every new MMO tries to be user centric.

I'm not seeing the: “We’re not doing this just because we have the tech,” .
It's video game journalism, my friend. Everything is 10/10, buy it now!
"Camover" game destroys CCTV cameras in Germany
There's also two in Cambridge (one by Fresh Pond and one on Mem Drive near the BU bridge) and one in Coolidge Corner in Brookline.
You've hit the nail on the head. We're in the payments space and folks in the payment space know that dating sites have a very difficult time with merchant accounts. I do agree that PayMill may want to call this out more and it's frustrating for the developer. I wonder though if the owners of the site weren't aware of this.
Overuse of antibiotics for farms was banned in the EU without drastic changes in the price of meat. In fact, even opponents at the time only claimed there would be a 10% increase: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/234566.stm
PowerPC AS has the 65th bit but you can't use it. I suspect people would be unable to agree on the details such as the size and semantics of the tags. And of course your RAM would cost 10% more.
I've had a 450mHz G4 PowerMac running my local services for close to five years now. There's really not really a whole lot home server needs to be doing, CPU wise.
3D printing with metal: The final frontier of additive manufacturing
"Wobbler had written an actual computer game like this once. It was called 'Journey to Alpha Centauri'. It was a screen with some dots on it. ... He'd seen on TV that it took three thousand years to get to Alpha Centauri. He had written it so that if anyone kept their computer on for three thousand years, they'd be rewarded by a little dot appearing in the middle of the screen, and then a message saying, 'Welcome to Alpha Centauri. Now go home.' "

- Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind
Yes. There's some procedurally generated content. You could spend your life exploring that. Or you can join other servers and explore them. So, while there's not one huge world there's a huge amount of content. And it's a good fit for " “It’s a world where the most important stories are told by the players, not written by the developers.”
You wouldn't believe the number of people who have spent their lives in a lucrative but creatively unfulfilling career. They hit retirement and their coiled creative spring just has to get out.

The wisdom gained over a lifetime in the craft is like pure gold, but only if it is shared. Technology gives the custodians of these skills the opportunity to teach a large number of paying apprentices at once.

Google Rob Cosman or Paul Sellers and you begin to get an idea of the potential. True craftsmanship has been prized for thousands of years, it's not about to dry up and blow away just because someone invented computers or flat pack furniture.
That's more or less correct, and you can blame WoW for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64
I recommend you take this question over to the WebHostingTalk forums [1]. They have a lot of smart people who are in that space and can offer a lot of insights as well as deals on hardware, bandwidth, storage, etc. I am not affiliated, just a user there from time to time.

[1] - http://webhostingtalk.com
http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/08/apple-sauce-android-sau...
https://github.com/saucelabs/mac-osx-on-kvm
By Europe you mean continental? FM/DAB radio in the UK follows ofcom standards, but French daytime music tv plays F You by Lily Allen.
That's amusing, because I'm not an American.

But, it asks "what can be done within a confined, limited space?" vs. "what can be done if there were virtually no limits?"

That's magical thinking. There are always limits, it's just a matter of which set you pick to work within. You can draw anything you like with a pencil and paper, but if you intend a representational drawing you'll still need to think about things like perspective and dimension, even if you are bending them like MC Escher. Otherwise you get finger paintings, and while I enjoy some aimless noodling as much as the next person (eg http://snd.sc/XeyYnD), it doesn't go anywhere in particular.
Here's some pythonesque pseudo-code that might do it:

for tweet in twitter_api.latest_tweets():
phonetic_tweet = convert_tweet_to_phonemes(tweet)

if is_iambic(phonetic_tweet):
end_rhymes = extract_end_rhymes(phonetic_tweet)
db.insert_iambic_tweet(tweet, end_rhymes)

for end_rhyme in end_rhymes:
rhyming_tweets = db.select_rhyming_tweets(end_rhyme)
if rhyming_tweets:
rhyming_tweet = random.choice(rhyming_tweets)
return [tweet, rhyming_tweet]

There are several open source word lists out there that make this feasible.
Completely ignores the cost of the car, which is elevated to pay for the charging stations. Especially notable is this part:

"If you make a middle-class salary of, say, $40k to $60k after tax in the USA, you're spending 5% to 15% of it on gas."

If you make a middle-class salary of $40k to $60k, you probably aren't buying a Model S.
Without commenting on the content of the article, I did find myself amused by this line:

> Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about.

So many times I will read an article that dares talk about some mildly sensitive topic and two paragraphs in I can already see the plethora of idiotic ways the article will be interpreted and mis-construed. It's simply too hard to cover all your bases in anything less than a thesis and there seem to be an army of people out there who refuse to take anything written on the Internet as less than one. When I read comments on such a piece (why, WHY, do I do that so often?) I'm rarely disappointed.

So many of said comments are blind nit-picking, blatant misconstruing, etc, and make me want to yell, "you KNOW what the author meant, why are you trying so hard to PRETEND that you don't?"

Good for him -- and anyone -- for inserting this sort of "you know what I mean?" disclaimer. In real life this kind of statement is implied in a lot of casual conversation.
Port 22 should only be used if the SSHd needs to be accessible to strangers; I think a lot of people use alternate ports. Go a step farther by running Kippo[1] (or other SSH honeypot) on port 22 to accept SSH traffic and waste attackers' time. Not only do attackers forgo scanning for the true SSH port, but they believe they've successfully intruded into the system and leave keystroke-by-keystroke logs of their actions in the decoy shell.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/kippo/
You may be interested in this game:
http://infinity-universe.com/

Unfortunately, the sole developer seems more interested in developing the engine for commercial use first before making the game.
You don't finish projects because you focus too much on finishing
If you work with credit cards you must be PCI Compliant. It's not a "You can avoid it" However, the critical thing is that there are degrees of PCI Compliance. By utilizing a newer gateway you're dramatically reducing your PCI Compliance scope. Most likely you'll therefore only need to complete a SAQ-A (self assessment 1 page questionnaire). So i) Yes, you must be PCI Compliant no matter whom you use. ii) If you use a modern gateway like Stripe you'll dramatically reduce your scope around CC data and thus only need to do a SAQ-A (which you keep handy in case you're ever asked for it) to be "PCI Compliant". Now the caveats here are that you don't do silly things like integrate to Stripe but when a customer is having trouble take their credit card over the phone and input it for them manually etc (now you're handling data and expanded your scope) Avoid doing things like that and the SAQ-A will work.
This game sound awfully similar to Richard Garriott's (short-lived) Tabula Rasa MMORPG.
Thinking about ideas is naturally fun. To think you are creating something new and the prospect of wealth, fame, etc looming behind it is an exciting proposal.

The fun ends when reality hits. Those who achieve have the ability to keep a strong hold of this exciting vision while working through the day to day, to stay motivated, and learn to enjoy the process.
I really, really, REALLY hope this is not going to be console-only(which is what it's looking like at this point). I've yet to see a decent, popular MMO for consoles.
ACM: Tear Down this Paywall
What about cheap dedicateds?

In the US Hivelocity have great prices - http://hivelocity.net/

In Europe there's also Hetzner - http://www.hetzner.de/en/
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Bungie sitting on vast piles of cash from the Halo franchise...? Even at that amount of burn, if it turns out to be a flop Bungie isn't going anywhere.
Great list. I posted a bunch of tools / services we use at Ginzametrics about a month ago (scroll to the bottom):

http://www.ginzametrics.com/blog/2012-in-review-at-ginzametr...
The community spoke, by voting up this submission: he just translated those votes into words, while reasonably pointing out that the community speaking now is not saying the same thing it was saying when he was initially attracted to this site.

While I can't see how much he's been upvoted, I suspect many feel the same way he does. I certainly do. HackerNews of late has very little to differentiate it from other discussion sites like reddit and MetaFilter.
Backs will be scratched.

It's pretty hilarious, because journos were basically invited to look at, tadaa, ~~~ASSETS~~~, and that was about it, and a lot of people are tearing them apart for wasting their time by essentially sitting them down to bullshit them with screenshots and concept art(!).

Some examples:

1. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/a-grown-man-in-his-underwear...

2. http://i.imgur.com/suMjjQ8.png

3. http://i.imgur.com/XMa5HYT.png

So basically the Peter Molyneux treatment, I guess.
If you've only applied I'd say the wrong way is to cold-call them. The best way is to reach out through your network -- you really should get an intro through someone who knows you.

If you do get accepted and want advice for the interview then YC alums become pretty responsive. But before that you're one of thousands and if they don't know you it's not worth the time. There are tons of great blog posts on how to write a good application, the most important of which is be concise.
Egypt's telecom ministry appeals court-ordered YouTube blockade
Ask HN: is anyone using TokuDB in production?
From reading their website (http://www.tokutek.com/) seems a bit "too good". I was googling around trying to find companies that use it in production but didn't find anything except for the ones listed on tokutek's website.

The main features that interest me are:
- Handling large data (>300M rows)
- Hot columns & indexes additions
- Multiple clustered indexes

Is anyone here using it in production? If so, can you tell a bit about the pros & cons?
Did anyone consider it but decided using something else instead? If so, why?
Game of the day
Sudden-Onset Madness
Potato Peeler as a Service
Exactly, the chess puzzles are a perfect comparison.
"Do as I say, not as I do"

I have very little patience left for hypocrisy.

(That includes trying -- with mixed results -- to root it out of myself.)
The Dangers Of JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries And Plugins
The recent explosion of JavaScript frameworks and libraries in web development has been undeniable. But do you seriously need that many?
Honestly I am from Spreedly but you should really just use Spreedly. It works with 45+ payment gateways so I would hope there's one that would work for you. You don't want to do this yourself.
It's true that just changing the port doesn't add much to protect against brute-force attacks, but it's not the full story. Many automatic scanners try port 22 and then give up for that host. I've found that changing the port means that I'm hit but far fewer scans.

One could also use port knocking. Using just a single port it would add the 16 bits of randomness making it 32 bits of extra randomness which is significant.

Another advantage of using a different port is that it's often quite easy to detect port scans against a host so an automated tool can easily just block the scanning IP. Slow scans exist but if someone is willing to take that amount of time then there's not much you can do to stop them from eventually finding your service.
Just to tack on my simple opinion:
'Up' is in context to the current application.
'Back' is in context the users perspective.

If I'm in the browser and click a mailto link, it opens the email client. The 'up' metaphor should return me to the inbox. The 'back' metaphor would return me to the web browser/webpage. (Did not realize I was using the exact same metaphor as my sibling, sorry)
Absolutely true. Unfortunately, it's more expensive to have kids, which inhibits the transition to a freer lifestyle.
This is what I wanted to hear. I was suspecting this to be the case. I can keep my mind open about working in python in future.
I don't think there's a good answer for you. The main thing I've learned over the years is that everything is about the details. Big ideas can't ever come to fruition without a huge amount of fiddly work. The trick is to find an idea motivating enough that you'll do whatever grunt work it takes to make it happen. Generally you'll never get into a position where you can be paid to think through the basic idea before moving on... unless you've developed serious expertise, which, again, is all about details.
try: https://shellycloud.com/
There was/is a tiny bit of tag support in the SPARC architecture, IIRC.
Think of Ruby as a means to an end. Have a project. Rather than learning Ruby for Ruby's sake, learn it because it'll help you do something you really want to do. That's the best way for me to ever learn anything -- if the thing I'm learning doesn't solve a problem I have right now it's less motivating.
You shouldn't. If I did imply that, please point out where. I certainly didn't to make that impression.

I just doubt that a change of port makes sense, I don't claim that it's a amoral or anything. You do it? Yeah, go ahead. Please don't recommend it as 'best practice' is all that I ask for, with both the argument and my condensed workflow examples listing scenarios why this might not be useful.
Yes, if you eat healthy you will live a longer life.

But why lenghten the agony?
"This was basically maintained in one giant text file managed by one organisation."

Actually it was managed by one guy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
A bot to download bollywood movie songs from the internet
Third'd. It made a substantial difference to my daily productivity.
What got me is a charge rate of "150 miles of drive time in an hour" - so it takes an hour to charge for every 2.5 hours of driving?
Maybe you should make a SAAS to help identify startups that are worth paying attention to :)
You probably could do APL Warrior in one line!
Getting your website covered by TechCrunch will bring in a few hundred, maybe thousand, "one time" users. Front page of the App Store can be 50K over a week.
I'm always skeptical of arguments that assume massive implicit cartels. "the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business ... because it makes for such a purchase-happy public". Maybe, but if I can really get happier, more productive workers by letting them work 9-4, I don't care whether they are being good little consumers in their off hours. A business's employees make up a very small fraction of their customers.
> 1. Supercharging stations cost very little to install

False.

> 2. They are solar powered

False. The ones with solar paneled roofs do produce electricity which is sold to the electric company at an inflated rate of 26-32 cents a kWh, the station then buys normally produced electricity back at normal rates of 8-12 cents a kWh. The electricity produced is nowhere near enough to maintain a four car charging station that is running 85kWh 90 minute long recharges or 40kWh 30 minute long recharges on 4 cars throughout the day, this is a simple matter of physics, area, and solar technology.

> 3. They can dump 150 miles of drive time into your car in an hour

True.
I probably would if i could afford it (DNSDigger.com).
I just went through my activity log on Facebook, because it knew I shared it a while ago. It was mid November, I got it from a German Radio station. (It wasn't played a lot back then though) Not trying to be all hipster and stuff but: "Called it!"
Show HN: Exercise Grid - Experiment in Human Motivation
Wow, I just ventured in there for the first time to confirm or deny your statement, and you are totally right. It is packed with kids. I guess minecraft is the new lego.
Disabling javascript will let you avoid the paywall. Disable JS, refresh page, re-enable JS works if you can't disable JS on a per-site basis.
The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced
Explicit boundaries are extremely helpful. Time-based boundaries like mentioned in the OP are good ("disable Internet access at night"), but I've found that location-based boundaries are also extremely helpful.

As an example: no work in the bedroom, ever. This includes reading work email, doing web research, taking work calls, logging into a server, etc. If you have to do something work-related, take it outside. This helps you (and your partner, if you have one) keep good sleep hygiene, and also provides a good barrier to obsessing with work. ("I could check my email, but do I really want to get out of bed?")

This also applies to side-projects. Take it outside.

My wife and I have periodically enforced a "no screens in the bedroom" rule (with exceptions for e-Ink), but this breaks down sometimes when we need to have a phone in the room for emergencies, and when one or the other of us gets obsessed with a new tablet game. ;-) But it's usually possible to at least keep objects with physical keyboards out, which provides an additional protection for me against cheating on the "no work" rule.
Sounds like the world described in the book Ready Player One. Awesome read BTW.