skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interessting, I have been the only guy in my team who had the exact opposite colours. Green was production and red was testing (i didn't do any dev work, so). I guess that came from me being from produciton. But I should have payed more attention when working with other people on my machine, in hindsight... Luckily, nothing bad ever happened!
Hustling Mobile World Congress when you’re a startup
Any thoughts on why this does not seem to be happening in the humanities as well?
> Blacks make up only 9% however they're a full 50% of the homeless population.

What brought us here, and how do we fix this?
Australians don't have to worry. Our filter is child porn only. It'll never be used for anything else.

Child porn and morally offensive websites. Just those two. We swear.
It goes without saying, but: we can't wait and hope. Open your editor and start predicting the future by inventing it...

Some ideas: work on retroshare, or cjdns, or yacy, or a bittorrent-like rootfs for linux to pivot to after pxe-booting like a network virus, or anything else that will help seal the doors of history and shut out this dark age of artificial-scarcity digital-protectionism and the information-luddites bent on making copying harder (zomfg!).
Factor has them for many data-structures: http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-syntax-literals.h..., but they are simple to add in a concatenative language

(they might as well have been added by a user library).
Exactly what happened in Denmark is about to happen here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Denmark
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I'm not sure I've learned anything from this video or comments. Nothing is really backed up.

Even the speaker admits they are a VC who's not rich.

Yes westerners all think the Japanese have a culture with problems, but of course we do, I really need some sort proof or a speaker who has proven themselves.
Coal-powered plants, sure (they even release radioactivity, moreso than nuclear plants). But while nuclear power plants are generally huge (no good reason for that, though, you can make them the size of car too), their environmental impact relative to their production is almost nil.

Why ?

http://xkcd.com/1162

Calculations suggest that nuclear power has less impact than solar power installations (panels need to be produced, contain lots of toxic chemicals, take yet more toxic chemicals to produce, and -eventually- end up in the garbage can. Add to that, that panels are only specced to produce about 20x their energy production cost over a period of roughly 20 years. Installing solar panels means that the first 3-4 years (more if you're not in Florida) you're actually making the co2 problem worse). The worst nuclear power plants produce 50000 times the energy needed to build them on a yearly basis (compare solar panels, perfectly placed, 1/4th to 1/3rd). For the best ones, that factor is tens of millions.

If you actually need power, of course the only metric that matters is environmental impact relative to power production. Now we can argue about what is included in that and what isn't, like mining (coal, of course, has mining too, and much worse). And look at that graph, in reality uranium mining is less impactful than coal mining for thousands of time more energy.

I also like the argument that when people say "but nuclear plants produce long-lived radioactive waste". Well, no, technically they massively reduce long-lived radioactive waste. If we don't use it, it's effectively in the ground, massively dispersed over large areas (generally not deep), and not dug up, constantly irradiating humans and animals. There's a city (in Iran, called Ramsar) where the natural background radiation level is more than in the reactor of a nuclear power plant. It's healthier to swim in the reactor pool of a nuclear reactor than to walk around in that city. Yet people just live there, unaware and unbothered.
Bitcoins are almost useless for legal and non-illicit transactions. Paypal is cheaper than bitcoins in these situations, if you account for the astronomical currency risk and thus the premium bitcoin-traders and shops accepting btc have to charge in order to not go out of bussiness in an eyeblink.
You've misinterpreted what I said completely if you think they should be compelled to do that, rather than for it being a waste of money. One would do something more like A/B testing, anyhow. The fact that GOG.com makes good money off of old games with the DRM removed could be considered evidence. Publishers are certainly free to waste money if they want to, it's simply not good business. Right now, we know it costs money and available evidence indicates that it doesn't help at all.

I don't really think you want them to fail, so I can't see why you would argue that they should continue wasting money?
I know your comment is regards to West Coast cities, but if you've been to the East it's quite noticeable in many cities (Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, among many) - definitely not a uniquely SF phenomena. Did you know that in 2011, there were 46.2 million US residents at or below the poverty line [1]? That's 15% of the US population. And as much as 10% of the poor, or 1% of the US population is homeless [2].

[1] https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
Here is a chart that shows bitcoin trade volume vs transaction volume. It gives a good idea of speculation vs demand.
http://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio

(This article may help in understanding the chart: http://codinginmysleep.com/measuring-bitcoin-speculation/)

The chart shows that the rise is not due to an insane rise in speculation.
This is correct. I find Ubuntu to be the most usable operating system, but the photo development software is still in its infancy.
How come? It works in any language.
Show HN: visual discovery of TV/Movie quotes
I see bunch of commit messages in #grunt@freenode irc channel, so clearly hooks are still being triggered.
"A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom) [...] to develop what is described as an 'online persona management service' that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world."

Since this article was published in 2011, do we know which company makes this?

I'm curious if these identities are auto-generated or if they're just manually controlled. This raises all sorts of concerns about spam, fraud, identity theft, etc.
For anyone interested, source code: https://github.com/emre/catchwords.co
Why a B2B mobile strategy increases customer loyalty and retention
The only reason id selectors would be faster (that I can think of) is that ids are supposed to be unique, so the matching can stop after finding the first element with an id. However, none of the browsers I tested this in actually did so. Here's an example:

http://jsfiddle.net/zsjrN/

Only the first paragraph should be red.
Most serious medical research is being paid for NiH with the use of tax money.

This is simply not true. The NIH pays for basic research into NMEs (New Molecular Entities). The gap between an NME and a drug (i.e., a molecular entity, approved manufacturing methods, approved usage, identified side effects, monitoring) is huge.
Trading bitcoins, even in an otherwise legal fashion, is essentially money laundering at this point.

Yes, there are legal bitcoin traders or bussinesses. And No, you can't pretend these are the majority.

And it's not really a problem that I am thinking this. The big problem is that the European Central Bank is saying this too. The legal status of Bitcoin businesses remains unsolved, even if the proponents don't run out of reasons why trading Bitcoins is purportedly legal.
"walking into your closet and pulling a cable" is not free, if your planned disaster recovery is not a seamless failover, but a process to recover data with some work and limited (nonzero) downtime/cost to business.

For example, our recovery plan for a financial mainframe in case of most major disasters was to restore the daily backup to off-site hardware identical to production hw; however, the (expensive) hardware wasn't "empty" but used as an acceptance test environment.

Doing a full test of the restore would be possible, but it would be a very costly disruption; taking multiple days of work for the actal environment restoration, deployment,testing and then all of this once more to build a proper acceptance-test-environment. Also destroying a few man-months worth of long tests-in-progress and preventing any change deployments while this is happening.

All of this would be reasonable in any real disaster, but such costs and disruptions aren't acceptable for routine testing.

"Chaos Monkey" works only if your infrastucture is built on cheap unstable and massively redundant items. You can also get excellent uptime with expensive, stable, massively controled environment with limited redundancy (100% guaranteed recovery, but not "hot failover") - but you can't afford chaos there.
The solution is simple but ugly:

A root domain www.example.com can utilize upto 10MB of storage while sub-domains count towards that storage limit. Any domain trying to access more will automatically result in a user prompt. An exemption can be made for domains/subdomains that present a valid SSL certificate, the whole idea is to prevent abuse.
I'm curious about which ISPs they're targeting, and whether that'll mean more business for the other ISPs.

A small number of file-sharing users can take a lot of bandwidth which wouldn't be a problem if the plans were priced realistically, but plans are priced for lowest-common-denominator use while being described and sold as premium product.
"But if the new Moore’s law gives us exponential core-number growth, to exploit those cores we need to grow the number of shards exponentially as well, meaning we’re placing and exponential number of constraints on an application that probably only needs to accommodate a linearly increasing number of users, and that’s bad."

I'm no expert on parallel programming, but isn't this sloppy thinking? Like the implication is that we must have an exponential increase in cores in order to accommodate a linear number of users...

More generally is anything about this approach really novel? Databases can already run transactions and queries asynchronously. Any language that supports concurrent programming can take advantage of this, even if the database isn't issuing a callback. And ruling out concurrent languages that are capable of implementing this approach, but include some language features the authors don't like seems like a side issue.

Not just trying to snark... if someone can explain what I'm missing I'm open to it!
Maybe stop the whole thing about "let's pretend common nth level domain signifies something about web page relatioships"? It's just baseless.
Easy, maybe. Cheap, no. The costs associated with the currency risks are huge, and you ignore them at your own peril.
The movie/music/tv industries need to learn from Steam.

I used to steal games all the time. New game came out? Steal it. Open up BitTorrent or an FTP client and start downloading, immediately. But then Steam came along. Now I buy all my games. I don't just buy games I want, I buy games I have stolen in the past. I buy new games. I buy games on sale. But the most important part? A new game comes out, and I think about buying it on Steam before I think about stealing it. Stealing doesn't cross my mind, because being a legitimate customer (which is what I want to be...) is just so easy.

Music is getting easier with products like Spotify, but what about quality freaks? Lots of people want FLAC, but don't buy CDs. When a real solution for this problem comes out, I'm sure people will flock too it.

TV? How does someone in Lithuania legitimately pay for HD American TV shows? He or she can't, but they can certainly steal it without any problems. It's not even hard. My grandma could do it. It's a similar problem with movies. Ridiculous release times (US only for two months, etc), difficult to get a 1080p mkv legitimately - but that's what people want.

Netflicks is certainly helping to solve this problem, but their catalogue is not extensive. It is not always up to date.

The only way to compete with piracy is to offer a better alternative.
Nice, very pretty. Any thoughts on changing 'skip' to something like 'next', or 'another'?
Someone should take the code and make a site/app that can take YouTube videos in and enhance. I would try, but video processing goes way over my head.
I don't believe there's any legally Scottish or Welsh ISPs that are large enough to fall into the ban's scope (over 500k residential customers?).

The six ISPs that are currently forced to block these sites are BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE and TalkTalk.
The surprising thing about that survey is that even 9% actually admitted to felonies...
Ouch. Sorry about that. Opening an issue now.
Place a meta noindex, nofollow on the whole forum or at least the infected areas such as memberlist and user profiles. That could be done within 15 minutes and then you can answer with a standard reply that you did that to all emails you receive about removing links.
Even in C it's not a literal. The consequence is that in a 32-bit implementation, you can't write INT_MIN as -2147483648 (-2^31), because 2147483648 would overflow a signed int. Instead a workaround such as -2147483647-1 must be used.
Recruiter here. I've written on this topic before (notably here http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/17/disrupt/), but a major part of the problem is the incentives built into the contingency recruiting model. It's a competitive rat race that is the reason behind both the incessant cold calling and the barrage of resumes sent to companies hoping that one will stick. It's an industry with no barrier to entry with huge potential payoff. I don't think most engineers realize how much good recruiters actually make.

I make relatively few cold calls now, as you shouldn't need to once you are established, but that takes time. The problem now is that there are simply too many recruiters in the marketplace (again due to low barrier to entry and high payoff), and contingency recruiting firms are more than willing to pay recent liberal arts majors from mediocre schools pennies to make calls all day (I'm qualified to say this with my Bachelors in Econ from Delaware).

Companies that farm out their work to 20 contingency firms fuel this fire. Find 1-2 good firms, pay them some money up front and make them earn the rest. My fees are much lower than contingency firms, because I'm willing to take less if my client is willing to absorb part of my risk. Contingency firm had 100% risk, retained firm has 0% risk (some variation) - find somewhere in the middle with a recruiter you trust.

If you are a company hiring manager or startup founder, tell recruiters your company works with recruiters at 10% fees - they should stop calling to solicit your business (but may start soliciting your employees, because in a world with finite talent resources, if you aren't a potential client you are a potential source).

If you are being called with opportunities, that is tough to solve, but making a reference on a LinkedIn profile that you are not interested in recruiter contacts should help. I make few cold calls, but always honor that request when I see it. Keep in mind - when I got into the business in 98, before LinkedIn and when you had to really hunt, many people were somewhat rude when called. A few years later when the market went south, these people became much more friendly. Recruiters don't control the job market by any means, and they are having less and less overall influence as an industry every year it seems as technology makes them a little less necessary. Be nice to them the first time, maybe take a second to tell them what they are doing wrong, set a guideline with them (you can ping me every n months)and if they pester you after that, do whatever feels right.
A friend's mother is fairly non technical to the point that she gets into a state every time her web-mail provider changes the page layout. However, she uses a VPN to get round geographical restrictions on video streaming services.

I think we're reaching the point where ordinary people are starting to understand how the internet works, and how to make it work for them. That's a good thing.
> Nobody is saying Bitcoin is currently awesome and better than standard currencies. However, what is clear is its long-term viability.

This isn't clear to me at all.

There are a finite number of possible bitcoins, and once the last one is mined no new ones can be created. While it might be true that putting more USD into circulation causes the value of each individual dollar to go down, that's actually an incentive to spend money and create economic activity, instead of hoarding it hoping the price goes up.
You might be surprised to learn this:

"Yet there are homeless Asians. Isabelle Hsu reports in the Pacific News Service that in San Francisco alone there are approximately 6,000 plus people living in the streets. She quickly adds that this is a very rough estimate. Ed Jew (the only Chinese American on Mayor Gavin Newsom’s committee to end chronic homelessness) explains that the official estimate of Asian homelessness is probably low because of cultural sensitivities. It is also a matter of saving face: homeless Asians refuse to go to shelters and admit to their homelessness."

[1] http://erwinsdeleon.blogspot.com/2008/07/homeless-asians.htm...
Revisiting a 90-year-old debate: the advantages of the mean deviation
changed as "next".

thanks ;)
Independent music places like http://boomkat.com are good. I can have flacs downloading at high speed much quicker than I can find a torrent etc. these days. Once you've registered an account and they have your card details it's about 15 seconds from clicking buy to the zip downloading. It's still too many clicks, but it's good.

Of course, they only cover niche music.

itunes does lossess doesn't it? Is it not convenient enough for you? I've never used it, but I was under the impression it was a very smooth experience.
Hmm, is it courage like "real men test in production environment" ?
Why are people getting bent out of shape over some bad links? Can't you just disavow them in Google Webmaster Tools?
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For one thing, currency instability for BTC is bigger, and secondly the primary use of BTC right now is making illegal income look legal.
The only thing this article did was let me know the names of some torrent sites I didn't know about yet. Thanks for sharing the love, BBC.
adding support for left/right arrow keys would be great too!
Did it literally crash, or just hang? One joyful misfeature of LevelDB (which forms the basis of Chrome's implementation) is that when a particular write rate is exceeded for a sustained period, LevelDB will fall behind merging old segments and block hard, often for minutes on spinning rust, until it catches up.

But hey, who cares about by-design black swan latency characteristics for real world use cases when the published benchmarks look so great.
Github isn't dealing with SPAM.

Go to gists, click explore.

I've seen some ugly stuff like these:
https://gist.github.com/imwinner/5056251
https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056233
https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056224

since the beginning of the gist.github.com re-launch
[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider
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Will there be an optional wired connection or at least the ability to use MYO while charging?
You can argue that this was "imperceptible" rather than "invisible". But you could say the same thing about things we only see with the aid of telescopes and microscopes. "The amoebas weren't invisible; that light was already bouncing up to your eyes."

But really, invisible means "unable to be seen." Unless you can demonstrate that it's possible for a person to see these things unaided, they are invisible.
Well Google requires you to contact the website owners and do everything you can to get the links removed BEFORE you submit a list of disavow links. Google are supposed to check that you really did remove a large part of the links before disavowing.
Aren't these blocks very different to the blocks of sites dealing in images of child sexual abuse?

This was a private case between industry and a few ISPs. The IWF blocklist is strictly about images of child sexual abuse (hosted world-wide), images of criminally obscene content (hosted in UK) and non-photographic images of child sexual abuse. The block is a temporary block until illegal content is removed.

(http://www.iwf.org.uk/)
Mandelbrot set in C++11
The problem is that humans aren't pattern recognizing machines, they're pattern projecting machines hence the proliferation of many types of biases.
Ruby 1.9 hash tables are also ordered by insertion order.
the problem is, next button just fetches a random quote for now.

switching "next" to "random" and implementing arrow based paging would be okay. I will look into it. thanks!
I don't understand the comparison. What are you supposed to do to a gunshot wound other than prevent bleeding, which gauze would do?
Go does generate a _LOT_ less garbage then Java, you can control the layout of your structures. That why its gc has less impact on performance then the JVM´s one.
>Bitcoin is also useful for buying many completely legal things. Including a VPN that can't be linked to your identity.

The "can't be linked to your identity" part depends entirely on how you get your BTC in the first place.

If you buy them with cash from a guy on the street who has no idea who you are, fair enough.

If you buy them from an exchange by making a deposit from your bank account, the level of anonymity you enjoy depends entirely on how much you trust the exchange. They know your real name and the wallet you used to receive the BTC. If they share this information with anyone, a sufficiently motivated attacker can trace the BTC to their ultimate destination (the wallet of the VPN firm). If you launder the BTC through a few intermediary wallets first, I suppose you might have some plausible deniability, but if you're a journalist in a repressive regime how much is plausible deniability worth?
Your comment makes me think. Are you implying that this is a good practice?

I mean, in fact I do something similar. At our company also a lot of stuff goes wrong. Somehow it surprises me that there was no major fuckup yet. But I do realize that I need to watch out all times that blame never concentrates on me.

It is so easy to blame individuals, it just suffices to have participated somehow in a task that fucked up. Given that all other participants keep a low profile, one needs to learn how to defend/attack in times of blame.
This reads like a PSA for backups and RI.
Judge Upholds VirnetX Jury Verdict Against Apple For $368M
More details:

(press release) http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/NA-DataCenters/D...

(technical data) http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3MNovec/Home/Pro...

It's a phase-change system (the coolant boils). That's what the article means by "a thousand times better at conducting heat than water": it absorbs orders of magnitude more heat because of the phase change. It boils 49 °C at atmospheric pressure, cold enough for electronics.

They claim it doesn't need fans: the boiling is enough to maintain natural circulation (convection) from the server to the heat sink.
Is there an open source implementation of this yet?
I'm not arguing that code in and of itself is sufficient, rather that it is the one necessary fundamental for most online/app-based/saas style businesses.

Without code you don't even have a pig to put lipstick on.
s/university/accredited university, and strip out the technology transfer organization bit (though again, that leaves ARM in a weird spot)

Somehow I doubt that patent trolls will develop curriculums and bring in students for the sheer purpose of bilking inventors.