skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Err, why is this being downvoted? If anything, this should be pinned as the top comment.

Anyway, thanks for an excellent and detailed technical take on the situation as opposed to the knee jerk bashing in many of the other posts.

There's also some excellent detail in the below article without the histrionics.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/23400.html
Transients on this scale, however, could last hundreds of years. Even on Mars, CO2 takes a while to escape from the atmosphere; on human time scales we'd see a new metastable Martian temperature.

(Assuming a bunch of CO2 actually were dumped into the atmosphere, that is.)
GLOBAL 6.2.8
This is sort of true, but what it misses is that money and power are only loosely coupled. The real story is that VCs have decreasing power over the companies they fund, regardless of the deal size. For example, it is now the norm among YC startups for the founders to retain board control even past the series A round (which itself is increasingly a de facto series B).

Curiously, one reason this is happening is that VCs are realizing that they didn't need as much power over founders as they had. All the returns come from the big winners, and the big winners don't need to be told what to do.

VCs may well make higher returns with less power.
Changing the trackpad direction doesn't have any effect, still the same issue.
Maybe a dumb question, but if you are making one of these larger sites, and you add classes to everything because there are "100s of <a> tags" ... does all the added bytes to the HTML matter less than the time it takes to parse CSS? or does it not make any difference, I guess we're talking about milliseconds here? Would some people choose to push it onto the client and reduce their bandwidth?
This looks like a great alternative to Trello. I'd also add the option to have bullseye nested circles to indicate priority. Typically there are fewer high priority items than low, and this metaphor should support that use case. It also helps coax the user that attending to high priority tasks is like hitting a bullseye.
Very nice answer. Qualified, thoughtful with no loose ends.
Exactly. I wouldn't go so far as to say "Most people are pretty forward thinking" but I'm pretty sure curing diseases and global warming are higher up on mankind's priorities list. And obsessing over the latest iPhone or clothing trend are even higher on the list.
Couldn't the cold end of one be attached to the hot end of another? I was thinking have a large one next to each rack, where the cold end goes to wherever the condenser for this system would be and the hot end connects to the cold ends of smaller pipes going to each server.

I'm assuming that tanks full of presumably patented special-purpose liquid would be rather expensive, and that sealed partially-evacuated piping ought to be somewhat less so.
Most people misread the article.

If "most people" misread something, the problem is very likely in the article.
Whoops, I did use diameter. You're right, I should have used radius.
It is great indeed. The only think that is not so cool for me is that the font rendering of 'Fanwood Text' is pretty bad on Win 7 Chrome 25.0.1364.97. But I love it. Just wish the font had a better rendering.
Yes, exactly. There's never been any case law on the issue, but in the ideal theoretical world, exit node operators would get the same protections from what their users do that ISPs do.

Unfortunately, since we're often a single guy with no legal entity, we are not afforded such protections by default. I've been running an exit node since 2005, and I've had to switch ISPs numerous times because of abuse coming out of the node. I've even had my hardware physically confiscated when network administrators couldn't figure out what kind of traffic was coming out of it.

While I believe in the goals of the Tor project, I am not really interested in being the guy who has to set the precedent here, so I don't run my exit node in the US any more. If history is any indication it would be a long legal battle to set such a precedent.

See https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en for more discussion on the topic.
Episciences would piggyback on ArXiv, a free online repository beloved of physicists and mathematicians who post most of their work there, whether or not they submit it to peer-reviewed journals. ArXiv is already hosted by Cornell University at a cost of around $830,000 a year.

That sounds like a lot of money, even considering the amount of publications. What would be the lion's share of the cost?
> Making the minus part of the literal can lead to parsing ambiguity.

Not really. It's done in java. Usually, minus ("-") is parsed as a token and then unary minus on integer literals are transformed to a negative integer literal.

So, -2147483648 is read as MINUS INT_LITERAL and thus transformed into "-2147483648" as an INT_LITERAL, but -(2147483648) should be read as MINUS L_PAREN INT_LITERAL R_PAREN and should thus not be transformed.
This is great feedback. The $25/m gets you 2500 notifications prepaid, but it's a use-it-or-lose-it kind of thing.

I'll definitely clarify that. Thanks!
Maternity leave is not remote working. Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves without the fear of corporate ostracizing.
> The use of the word deviant is unfortunate.

I agree -- it's very unfortunate. Typically, words have a formal meaning, and an emotional one. This word's emotional meaning was unfortunately ignored. Then, try to to repair the damage, they came up with "positive deviance", which only serves to highlight the error. And to think, any number of better alternatives exist:

"The Black Swan Strategy"

"Community Natural Selection"

"The Self-rescue Plan"

And my favorite:

"Science"
>The reason a lot of people pirate stuff is because they lack a legitimate option?

Yes. If your time has little value, i.e. you live with your parents and are unemployed, then sure it makes sense to monkey around. The rest of your argument makes me not want to deal with piracy.
This assumes traditional engineering == big teams
There's a big difference between blackbox testing and whitebox testing. For blackbox testing, having someone who doesn't now the inner workings of the system to find workarounds can many times be an advantage.

Of course you should do both kinds for security critical projects.
Addressed. I bet it was a focus() coming from inside the iframe slidedeck embed.
There does not seem to be a way to disable localStorage entirely.
Do tiny men power your systems integration?
Connecting two brains
But with the current laws verification of ownership is not Googles responsibility (nor should it be). If google recieves a valid DMCA it has to act on it. Honestly I wouldn't want a private company to be the arbiter of copyright ownership on the internet. Many copyright issues are very complicated and it would be an undue burden (not to mention against the public good) to have a private part control it.

The DMCA has issues but at least disputes end up in court, how do you think an ownership dispute would play out if private companies were in charge of making decisions.
> But what if you end up working on a product for a company that never makes them any money at all? You haven't provided any direct business value, although you may have done quite a lot of work--maybe months or years.

If you're being paid to do work (you're not working for free) in this situation, you can conclude that either a) you actually are providing roughly $YOUR_BILLINGS of value to your client or b) your client is a moron and is paying for zero value. You may not be able to directly quantify the value you're providing, but your client certainly is aware of the value you're bringing. The point is to try to more accurately quantify your value and capture more of it.

> Measuring value in software development is difficult.

Again, your client has a ballpark of what value they expect you to deliver. Measuring the value is difficult for the contractor. This is a great area for discussion with the client.

Summary: if you're being paid, your client perceives that you are providing business value.
One would think that given that there are just a few packages being developed, they could change mid-stream to use the Pi.

Just saying.
In case you're interested, this is the bug report that resulted in the change:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19741

The final editor's response explains the reasoning:
"Change removed advice recommending use of h1 elements as the utline algorithm has virtually no implementations and as a result use of h1 elements flattens document outlines for users who actually consume the heading semantics. While use of elements of the appropriate rank for the section's nesting level is backwards compatible"
What going back over the old demo and looking at this post did was remind me of how nice jsfiddle is when it isn't insanely slow, which then led me to wonder how hard it would be to create something like jsfiddle that lived on top of github would be, or something like jsfiddle that lived inside my favorite editor, or just in a static html page on my desktop.
Having a nursery built next to your office is not maternity leave, it's a work-life balance perk that she's affording herself which isn't available to other Yahoos.
Agreed. If you don't do things for yourself first, and measure success with an internal yardstick, you'll run out of steam.

But as long as you like it and want to do it, lack of success should be easier to take.
Show HN: Arrested Development Quote Finder
If you can't remember what episode your favorite Arrested Development quote is in, type it in to the searchbox. It will filter as you type, and when you press "go" it will highlight the quote in the script.

try:
"no touching"
"always leave a note"
"there's always money in the banana stand"
"tony wonder"
"gene parmesan"

I am learning C# and this is one of my first silverlight projects. Let me know what you think!

Thanks.
I think the comments about e-Ink "going away soon" are badly misplaced. The distinct advantage that e-Ink displays will always have over displays like the iPhone, Android, etc is their ability to be used in direct, bright sunlight. Try sitting on the beach and reading a novel on an iPad. Can't be done.
if you don't have foursquare - this is what mine looks like http://alongside.co/u/nSXxUZ7
Same here. I really WANT to use this, but I added a PHP project and it doesn't seem to do anything. I can't even Ctrl+F to find something in the file. I'm looking everywhere for hotkeys to do things, but there's no documentation I can find. I was expecting some kind of awesome interface like "Ctrl-Left Arrow" to bring up the left bar, then type in your command and press enter and it does magic and hides the bar. But I guess at this point I'd take a find hot key.

To the creator: I love the idea and got enthusiastic after watching the video. Keep up with the hard work! This is a huge undertaking.

Edit*
OK, so Ctrl+Space enters the command window. From there you can type "Key" and press enter to view the key bindings. I'm not sure why I had to go three layers deep into a google groups conversation to get that though.
Seems like ASICMiner wouldn't need a mining pool. Why give BTC Guild a cut when you have enough of the network to get consistent returns on your own?
This is one of the most nostalgic/introspective scrolls I've had infront of my computer in quite some time. thank you.
If you can't remember what episode your favorite Arrested Development quote is in, type it in to the searchbox. It will filter as you type, and when you press "go" it will highlight the quote in the script.

try:
"no touching"
"always leave a note"
"there's always money in the banana stand"
"tony wonder"
"gene parmesan"

I am learning C# and this is one of my first silverlight projects. Let me know what you think!

Thanks.
I'm glad Linus Torvalds is smarter than your average developer. Truly a solid chap.

If he were lacking these kinds of personality traits, and shrank like a mouse every time there happened to be an opportunity to compromise the integrity of his project, Linux would have died long, long ago.
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Cool, and that's been our overarching strategy.

What I'm concerned about is that, as we work through the backlog of features, we also want to grow the users simultaneously. This will help us avoid a "bias of small numbers", in that our small group of initial users keep us focused most specifically on their needs, potentially taking us away from building features others might find compelling.

Hockeystick growth is for later, when we've achieved product-market fit. For now, I just want slow, linear growth to make sure we're consistently filling our backlog with compelling features that users actually want.
Official Ubuntu rolling release proposal
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Out of curiosity - I haven't followed this project in technical detail - are you using SWANK or your own backend work?

I would be interested in experimenting with it for Common Lisp, you see. :)
I get the error:

"LightTable.app" is damaged and can't be opened.

I'm running OSX 10.8.2.

Anyone else having the same problem?

Are there any dependancies I need to have installed before running the app?
Every tool can be abused. This is not an argument against developing said tool.

And honestly, this isn't like the nuclear bomb. The benefits of a brain-to-brain communication tool vastly outweigh the possible harms.
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I am not unconvinced the turning off the WFH was not a stealth layoff.
I’ve been using it for a few months and it’s surprisingly accurate. It’s fascinating to see a video demonstration of what Cardio does with all its math and image processing, since the only feedback in the app is the silly phrases above the stethoscope. I’d love a switch to show the processed video instead of the heart rate!
> the author is not stretching the meaning of the word deviant.

True, but most words have two meanings -- a formal one, and an emotional one. In this case, it seems the emotional meaning was overlooked.

> Deviance (a relative concept) is not the same as perversion (a moral concept).

But "deviance" is often used in a moral context -- consider the expression "deviant behavior". Just to make the point, the word "perversion" could be used in a neutral context, but only if its emotion baggage could be overlooked.

Ironically, one can say "standard deviation" in statistics without anyone taking it the wrong way -- it seems completely neutral when used that way.

Anyway, I wish they has asked me -- i would have told them to call it "The Black Swan Strategy."
Do you sense this is a philosophy that is taking hold with most VCs currently?
That's great advice, and perhaps that's really the answer. Based on what I've been directly observing, most of the "marketing" that I do is pretty mechanical: A/B testing, posting updates to our existing users and soliciting feedback, adwords experimenting, and writing blog posts and other content.

In terms of prioritization, spending my time improving the product and offloading this mechanical work just seems like the right thing to do.
One possible path of development is toward the neural jack - basically a standardized plug port, a USB interface for the brain. Here's a page describing some Japanese research toward it:

http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Hosted/Resource.ph...

I imagine the following: the jack outputs nerve impulses from the brain. Feed these impulses into a robot's control interface/"API", and the user's brain will be able to adaptively learn to control the various functions offered (e.g. flick a finger to make the robot's hand perform the same action). Even better, the robot uses a learning algorithm to associate the nervous data with the correct action through feedback from the user, so that eventually, the user's moving his hand causes the robot to do the same. Voila, exo-suits controlled directly by the brain.

If you can pass data back into the brain through the jack, you can return tactile feedback from the robot arm, or even sensations that represent other information, e.g. light or gas levels in the environment detected by mechanical sensors. I doubt human brains can process information that doesn't fit in our spectrum of senses, e.g. mathematical patterns, or abstract conceptual knowledge like an understanding of democracy, but maybe they can accept visualizations or memory vignettes generated by other users. Brains are adaptive and can learn to process unfamiliar stimuli.

It's all far in the future and raises a lot of strange and worrisome questions, but it's interesting to think about.
I think it would be difficult to find any scientific research that somebody, somewhere didn't consider to have sinister applications. If we discouraged anybody from doing any scientific research that seemed related to what some science fiction program showed a villain using in the future, we wouldn't have any scientific research left to encourage.
Does it have dependencies? Team management can't work, in my opinion, if you have a task named "fold shirts" but it appears and is assigned before somebody "buys shirts".
I agree with most of your points but the major difference here with Play are 2 points

1. This framework is geared to asynchronous/real-time workloads (think node.js)
2. The framework is built for Scala, which they state is a more productive language for the JVM "Code sizes are typically reduced by a factor of two to three when compared to an equivalent Java application."

Note: I admittedly don't know much about Ruby so I'm not sure how much it would or would not compare.
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Thanks, That's some good suggestions, and which I think a lot of poverty activists know of, but do you know of any NGOs / programs that are currently doing this, and that are hopefully succesful too ?
If it's turned off by default, it might as well be useless to protect the hundreds of millions of non-technical users who are more prone to get malware.

>But if I were to remove a MS key, am I right in assuming that that would prevent anybody from running windows on that machine (at least without installing the key or turning it of)?

Windows 8 boots fine without Secure Boot enabled or even supported.

However, if you remove Microsoft's key but leave Secure Boot enabled, you're indicating that you don't trust Microsoft's code, in which case Windows will be prevented from booting on that machine.

What is the value or the use case in removing Microsoft's key, leaving secure boot on and then trying to boot Windows on that machine?
Congestion Pricing Could Reduce the Deficit and Boost the Economy
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Easiest way to broke the computer, is broke it with the hammer...
The SF Chron (check the earlier links) distinguishes between "chronic homeless" and "hardcore homeless". Chronic homelessness appears to be more of an economic condition related to poverty. "Hardcore homelessness" is more severe condition, a permanent and very harsh life on the street, often related to addiction and mental illness. You might not even notice the chronic homeless in your day to day life.

Apparently, San Francisco does stand out in the high incidence of hardcore homelessness. Supposedly SF and NY have the same number of "hardcore homeless", even though SF has about 1/10 the population (though any time you get into these ratios, you have to remember that SF is a small geographic region and population within much larger bay area - if you drew a 48 square mile border around an urban core in NY or LA, the numbers probably wouldn't look so dramatically different - my guess is that SF would still look bad, but not by anywhere near this order of magnitude).
"A well-managed company’s workers want to be productive, and managers trust them to decide how and where they will perform best. If that’s not happening, the boss needs to find out why. You can shackle a Yahoo to his desk, but you can’t make him feel the buzz."

Amen.

As a former Yahoo who now leads a distributed team that works from home, I feel that this article is spot on. Telecommuting isn't the problem; the problem is poor management that has allowed many employees - both onsite and remote - to remain at the company despite consistently mediocre performance.

That said, fixing the management problem will take time; calling everyone into the office, and keeping them there, is a short term fix to at least make the unproductive employees more visible so that they can be dealt with quickly.
Thanks, didn't hear about this, and landed on a Ted talk about Bjorn Lomborg.

But do you know of any groups trying to implement this ? Would you also happen to have any involvement with them ?
How I increased my software sales 50% by adding extra price points
Bare careful of too many cooks in the kitchen. It's tough to make quick, strategic decisions when you have so many people with an equal say.

Ask yourself if all these key people are really founders, or just the first employees with stock options?
>Averaged out, it is exactly as likely that an HFT shields an unwitting potential buyer from a loss as it is that they snipe away the profits from that sale.

How can this be true consistent with HFT being profitable?

> The faster the trading, the lower the spread, the smaller the leap sellers and buyers have to take.

That's the theory. The issue is that when you get into sub-millisecond trades, you're so far into diminishing returns that the profits the HFTers are taking exceed the benefit of any theoretical increase in liquidity.

Also, the paper link in that post is truncated, but I found it on Google and (at least from the abstract) it doesn't seem to support what you're saying. The paper says HFT has caused spreads to go down because in order to mitigate its effects, third parties are breaking larger trades into smaller ones. But that only reduces the spread on paper by increasing the number of transactions.
Heck, he knows I can't outrun him, and he knows where I live, so it had
better be a nice answer. ;-)
This is OSX's gatekeeper going crazy because our codesign included the icns file (which then got compressed and no longer verifies). I'm uploading a new package right now. As a workaround you can go to security in system settings, set it to allow anything to run, open LightTable.app, close it and then re-enable the old gatekeeper setting. LT will open fine thereafter. Or you can just redownload in about 2 minutes.
Is there a screencast where I can see you being more efficient in LT than Vim?
Yes, I think the advent of cheaply available hardware prototyping is making something like the Connection Machine and Transputers a more viable target for home-grown research. Wouldn't it be neat to be able to make a kit for building one's own Lisp machine, complete with an open, hackable, live-inspectable, Lisp OS? I.e. recreate 40 years ago. How about converting nodes between data storage and processing? There's just a lot of potential fun here.
Switching to Git?
Wow, I think I learned more about Linux + UEFI from this comment than anything else so far. Thanks!
It's partially a stealth layoff.
Thanks for that. I had assumed the header structures was one of the more stable parts of the spec!
I'm getting Access Denied when trying to download the OS X version. Other versions are working fine.
Adam Carolla took a call from Leo Laporte on his show[1] about the lawsuit.

[1] http://adamcarolla.com/leo-laporte-barry-zito-and-kelley-jam...
It might look like a stupid decision, but I think the true reason isn't as obvious as "people working at home don't work".