skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno... the tales install script seems to want to take over whatever account it's run as, going so far as to modify ~/.ssh/config. That alone gives me pause... then it requires you have a github account?

And it needs mysql, redis and mongo??!?

Oh, and of course, I'll need an aws/rackspace account...

If I need all that for a web-scraper it better be for a big project.

The CPAN modules in the linked article can all be installed and run as a non-privileged user (via either local::lib or perlbrew, etc.). And there are no daemons, nothing running as root, nothing listening on any ports, no configuration or tuning to think about, and it'll work everywhere from my macbook to my dev-server running linux or BSD or Solaris or whatever.

BTW, Mojolicious (http://mojolicio.us) is really great stuff. Outside of having a reasonably up-to-date version of Perl (5.10.1 or higher), it's got no external dependencies, not even other CPAN modules. It's fast, flexible, easy to use, and easy to deploy just about anywhere. sri++
37 Signals did this, and they've written lots about their conversion. Check out the book REWORK by Jason Fried.
Phone stack for Google Glass?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Phone%20Stack
My personal opinion on it is the following:

1. What's the news here? Isn't every nation on earth doing it, or trying to do it?

2. Western nations would be ill-advised to not buckle up and take online warfare seriously. The police in particular should be way better prepared.

Overall, I think it's fun to expose it, but beyond reporting I fail to see what the value is.
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I think it is important to distinguish here; you do not necessarily think differently from other people. You LEARN differently, which is VERY COMMON.

Supporting anecdotal evidence: I usually learn best with written words and supporting visualizations. My mother and youngest brother on the other hand are highly visual, and have an awful time with written words. They need imagery. This is all contrasted to the auditory method common in our schools, and this is just within my family.
Surprised Vatican hasn't beaten them to a punch with a nationwide charging network, but with their upper management exodus I guess that slipped on the priority list.
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> At Sprint.ly we’re big fans of shipping.

Who isn't? "Yeah, shipping? Not really that in to it."
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Will the "making of" videos be available to purchasers? That would be an incredible resource for anyone wanting to learn to make games...
Here's a related talk on MiniKanren by Dan Freidman and Will Byrd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9x16uIsKA

The bits about generating programs using MiniKanren was truly mind blowing.
Humans can walk and talk at the same time. We cannot walk and read at the same time.

We can drive and talk at the same time. We cannot drive and read at the same time.

To me the conclusion is obvious: pervasive wearable computing must talk to us, not show us things, to be useful. More specifically it must talk with us--understand what we want, when we want it, and give it to us.

I agree with you that the hardware is nothing compared to the complexity of the decision-making software. I think it is probably a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity, but it's so hard that no one company will solve it suddenly enough to corner the market.
John Lilly, who spent years working with dolphins, believed that they were smart enough to be cute and friendly to humans because they understood how dangerous we were.
I'm pretty sure that Crashplan+ is the nearly same price, and they definitely support Linux.
Brood War
Imagine the way some men go after a woman they're convinced is the right one. Not the sleazy "PUA" idiots. The ones who will learn her likes and dislikes, then make a concerted effort to be interesting and interested, and carefully work to avoid any faux pas. When I've seen it done well, it was elegant engineering. Find out what they're like, what they make now, what motivates them, and any mutual friends beyond the person that told you about them. Then make sure your sales pitch is "an offer they can't refuse."

When done by someone who understands people, it looks easy.
This is the first iteration for god's sake. I am sure there will be multiple models of this and you can choose which one to pick and use.

edit: grammar
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In order to be more constructive, what would you have thought they would use? Notepad? nano? edit? TextPad?
I'm pretty sure the "inner voice" is just a metaphor to describe a concept. I, too, do not hear a voice echoing in my head as if God was speaking inside my skull. I have a train of thought that I could directly translate to spoken words, but is not actually in words. It is more abstract; I shuffle around ideas. Sometimes I will speak aloud to myself when I'm trying to disassociate to find a new viewpoint, but that's about as far as the inner voice goes.

Of course, this could potentially be less typical than I usually assume. I've noticed writing notes to work through my thoughts is ridiculously limiting, because my train of thought goes 2-10x faster than I can write or draw. I've always wondered about that, because it seems to be a popular method for brainstorming.
Nothing!

pdf.js is already a part of the Octane benchmark and works well in chrome:

http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

Mozilla is about moving the web forward, not just beating the other guy, so I don't imagine there'd be any gripe with Google picking up pdf.js in chrome.
Once the number of EV's get high enough, we can have recycling stations for them. Another benefit of having an Electric car is that you don't care about the source that produces the electricity. So tomorrow when cold fusion is feasible, we just build a bunch of them and power all our vehicles with the electricity that they produce.

However, I am interested in hydrogen as a fuel from a long term perspective. In the future when we have vehicles that need to run on other planets, presumably hydrogen will be the fuel; however I'm not sure those engines will be IC; maybe miniaturized jet engines? :)
edit: probably not, since jet engines need oxygen which may not be available on other planets
Parrots might be naming their young:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/sep/22/...
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After all that application process including collecting ideas from people, I was really thinking they'd give a pair of glasses to each of those 'selected candidates' for free. Turned out it's not the case. Would I do all that application process when I'll possibly be able to buy it after some time without that for the same money anyway?
oh my god..That is exactly how I feel about this..
This has got to be one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. One of Rails' core strengths is that it is written in Ruby which makes anything, even batshit-insane dynamic runtime monkeypatching possible. Not that anyone would advocate doing that as a matter of course, but the point is nothing is out of reach in a Ruby app.
Are you a hardcore web scraper? Check then https://blog.databigbang.com for articles such as how to scrape sites with javascript, browserless oauth, implementing your own rotating proxies.

Disclosure: I am the author but the site is helping and saving the time of thousands of people with code and examples.
I feel like I've heard Scalia give this exact answer...
I'm feeling very legal. Jaywalking isn't illegal here, I didn't share anything in violation of copyright, and I didn't drive today.
It was a lot more like Quake 1 single player. Many people spent more time on the multiplayer, but many people only played the single player.
Didn't put two and two together on that one, makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
The construction of the fast-charging network was financed by using the funds received pursuant to a CO2 emission quota sales agreement entered into between the Republic of Estonia and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Anyone understand what this sentence from the article means?
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Happy birthday!

The answer to this question is probably evident to some, but I have a hard time figuring it out: what causes the regular spike+drop which seems to occur 3-4 times a month? Is a certain day of the week a "dead day" (maybe Sundays)?
Ask HN: How should I start learning the teachings of Confucius?
I checked out some books in Amazon but couldn't find any good one that I can read on Kindle. Readers usually complain about bad translations.

This one seems good but not available for Kindle; http://www.amazon.com/Analects-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199540616/ref=la_B000AQ07U2_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361399481&sr=1-2

Do you have any recommendation? Are his books under copyrights? Isn't there any nice free website with good reading experience?
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Broodwar, the expansion to the original starcraft.
In my view, that can go either way. Sometimes we expect a change in external scenery to change us and, after the novelty wears off, find ourselves in the same state as before. Emerson said that travel narrows the mind; I suspect he was talking about something like that.
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>Remember, a bucket of gasoline contains more hydrogen than a bucket of liquid hydrogen

I don't know what you mean by "contains more hydrogen", but if we look at the calorific value (energy per unit weight) then hydrogen has almost 3 times that of gasoline [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_combustion#Heat_of_comb...
I don't think that ruling means what you think it means.

The court adopted this interpretation and expanded its scope, ruling that an employee "exceeds authorized access" under the CFAA when they use a computer in way that violates an employer's access restrictions...

They decided that, as a logical extension of this finding, the question of whether an employee "exceeds authorized access" is likewise determined by the employer's actions, including (but not limited to) the promulgation of computer use restrictions. Since Korn/Ferry indeed had such computer use restrictions, which the defendants violated when they accessed the executive database for fraudulent purposes, the Ninth Circuit court reversed the district court's decision and remanded the district court to reinstate the five counts under Section (a)(4). [1]

If your employer says you can't browse Facebook or Hacker News with your work computer, and you do, you're "exceeding authorized access".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal
I tend more towards inner monologue, but it's not 'the voice of God', it's like I constantly talk to myself, only not out loud. On the other hand I can't visualise images internally at all.

I think it's fascinating how we all have basically the same brain hardware but can end up with remarkably different inner experiences.
Have you used Refinery? I have and wouldn't base an app on it, or even use it again for a CMS - frankly you could build the same admin features better in Rails in a couple of days, and tailor them properly to your application. Refinery is not a good model of a rails app and is probably the main reason for his problems or perception that Rails is heavy - it was a mistake to try to base an app on it and most of his gripes seem centered on that - there's a lesson there and it's not about Rails.

Rails has become lighter with 3.x and will become lighter still with 4.x - they're dropping a lot of unnecessary stuff and trying to pare it down to the minimum - an admirable direction and quite the opposite to Java, which makes this article all the more baffling. Of course it's not the perfect framework and there are plenty of options, but the complaints of the article are histrionics.

The laundry list of possible technologies in the article is absurd - RefineryCMS, Devise, Omniauth, Carrierwave, Unicorn, Rack Rewrite, Fog, New Relic, Foreman, AMQP, and Honeybadger, Heroku.

You can get started with rails on a cheap VPS and serve your first few hundred thousand users with the following very simple stack: Apache, Ruby, Passenger, Rails. Setup is a few lines in your package manager of choice, writing the app is straightforward and requires none of the software above, maintenance is running aptitude update and bundle update now and then.

Out of the stack above, Devise is quite a nice authentication solution and is the only one I'd recommend, but it's easy to roll your own, as to the rest of his list, if you don't need it, don't bother using it, none of it is required.
If this is the case for you please file a bug - a lot of private browsing changes have been occurring under the hood in preparation for proper per-window private browsing in FF21, so it's very possible a regression snuck in :(
Most companies don't want a "driven visionary", because they see themselves (the founders) as filling that role. Most companies just want someone obedient and willing to do someone else's grunt work.
It is in response to "their entire strength is in the fact that other units will auto-attack broodlings/interceptors first" which is true but only for the very new players.
The "passing through other units" bug is well known in the community as "Mineral Walking"

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Bugs#Mineral_Walk

Also, I wonder if the author has thought of getting his articles on Starcraft (and maybe Warcraft 2) into Korean? I'm sure there'd be a huge audience for them.
Do you happen to know who invented it? Was it someone else at MIT?
Two techniques that I've used: 1. Read good writing. 2. After writing your own work, force yourself to leave it for week. Only after that week, edit. (Blog posts are particularly suited to #2.)
First video of "fire raining on the sun", or coronal rain
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I would compare Glass Explorer Edition to the iPad prototypes that some developers had access to. Looking at it that way, Glass is much cheaper and more open.
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Well, if 2 people are working on different files, they can commit their changes to svn without updating their local copy first. But in git you have to bring your copy to the same revision as the remote one, in order to push your changes, irrespective whether the changes you made our conflicting
Saturday and Sunday. It's typical seasonality.
This is an excellent point.

I just bought a new mattress and I can say for sure, after having slept on a $100 target futon for the past 2 years, that I'd not know if a baby was underneath me on this one...
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Google touches normal folks in far more profound ways than NASA's moon shot (How did that turn out? Are we still going to the moon? Oh). Sure, NASA is a force majeure and certainly nothing to be sniffed at, but the efficiency and power of google search on it's own revolutionised the web and was a major spur to its uptake. Google maps was equally revolutionary - available to anyone who could access the internet, and for free, something not done before - Google keeps on doing services like this.

I mean, if you're talking about google being a mere ripoff of other products that 'came first', why not apply the same ruler to NASA (there were previous rocket programs) and steel companies? Bell Labs certainly contributed heaps to everyday culture, but if they were #1, that wouldn't really knock Google very far down the list.

And classifying a steelmaking company as a tech company is a bit far-fetched.
Cool project! I can't think of any practical usage thought. I guess nowadays it's much easier to just spawn a VM.
I personally would be a horrible co-sleeper.

I can set 5 alarms and hear none. I only wake up at the end of a sleep cycle, no matter what's happening around me.
http://www.twitch.tv/mojang/videos?kind=past_broadcasts
This is really impressive. I tried in both my FF 18 and Chromium, it seems to work fine in both, although I prefer the font rendering in Firefox. This truly is an amazing use of JS.
Here's the first month: http://www.ycombinator.com/images/news.yc.1month.png
Have you done this, or seen it done well? What are some specific examples? I'm interested.
I found that the only way out of the Google perma-ban was to grow large enough to have them call you instead. Their representative - apparently surprised by the fact that my site was banned - clicked a couple of buttons and the ban was removed. The account even had the hundred dollars that was there when I was banned years earlier.
Google Storage (or Amazon S3) have multi-rack and even multi-room redundancy that the Backblaze setup does not at the quoted price. And that doesn't account for the costs of managing and administering those machines, nor replacing dead disks and machines when they do fail.

I expect that you'll generally find that Google or AWS more pricey than a DIY-setup, partly because of hidden costs and partly because they are actually trying to make money off of their services, even if the margins aren't outrageous.
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None of the things you've mentioned interrupts the social interactions when you're actually out with someone. I do agree that the only constant is change, but also, the always-on internet is truly something new for us.
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https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring and http://clojurescriptone.com/ should get you going.
"Too much design, it looks perfect, but unfortunately, that's a bad thing this early in the launch."

Whaaa...? That does not make sense to me. The UI is not complicated, so why is it bad that it "looks perfect?"
The individual governments that are in this bind should just TAKE their copyright back by eminent domain.

Done.
That sounds awesome, best of luck with the release. And cheers for the complements, hope you enjoy using it!
In what culture?

In my dictionary it's "of or like a pedant"; a pedant being someone who is overly concerned with minor details.

Still... noted!
I vaguely remember "the internet" before google and it seriously sucked. Partially, because searching was wading through yahoo-like sites and annoying pop-ups. And before that all was in black&white.

Searching was, and is, imho one of the main usage scenarios. Google toned that sonewhat loud and cluttered act down and improved it, a lot.

I am thankfull for that.
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Searching-the-...
I used to attend the NYC golang meetup, but returned to the UK a couple of months ago. I had every intention of starting up a London golang meet up, but life intervened. (We had a new baby; I lost my job; I got another job; We are about to move house... you get the picture). Anyway, I will definitely attend if anybody can find a venue. (If they cannot, I may have some contacts that I can reach out to...)
The graph is poorly designed, someone got to be too lazy to leave out the YEARS from the X-axis.
They are doing it like the last one, it will be preserved at http://www.twitch.tv/mojang/videos?kind=past_broadcasts. Unfortunately, still likely to have the pauses for thinking and other things.
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I believe America is indeed that far behind--a majority of businesses where I live process credit card transactions over phone networks and have no internet connection.

That said, for Square, I don't think it would be too difficult to integrate a SmartCard reader over the audio line as they have with magstripes.
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Knowing that you're not just out of school, your earlier comment makes me want to ask "what's wrong then?" I have about a dozen years experience as a "professional" software engineer. My experience, on both sides of the table, is that good engineering talent really is hard to find, and that those who posses it don't usually have trouble finding a job. Here in the bay area that's been especially true: I've never had just one job offer at a time. I've been "looking" here twice in the last 5 years and both times I had a dozen recruiters calling me, a half dozen phone screens, a handful of interviews and at least 2 offers. And along the way as much of the culling was done by me as it was by the prospective companies.

Look, I know I'm just talking in anecdotes. And I'm parsing a lot because I don't want to offend you. But if you have "dozens" or even just a lot of people telling you they can't hire you because you're not a good fit, that should be a red flag to you. Sure, some of the problem is probably some of the companies. But you could probably see results by taking ownership of part of the problem for yourself. What I mean is, it's easy for an engineer to just try to wash his hands of things like "networking" and "cultural fits" but a better way is to just treat it like any other engineering problem and optimize for it.
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Could be useful, too bad the name isn't that good.

Reminds me of the Delorean python package someone showed HN a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104889.
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If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
I can't say enough how much I agree with #4. In a technical environment, all staff members need to know the product inside and out, even if they aren't familiar with how it was built. They need to be able to use the product as well as any client, even if they don't interact with clients on a day to day basis. Sales, support, marketing - everyone benefits from knowing their own product.
Looks like someone beat me to it:

http://bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com/post/33992875694/box-su...

Boxes in a box.
Most jobs, even technical ones, truly do not require a Ph. D. This is just the market sorting things out. Why have zero (or negative) income to get post baccalaureate education if you can go work somewhere (for money) and learn on the job?
Spent a bit of time playing with traffic and parking. One of the issues with the dominant traffic sensor tech (inductive loops in the ground) is that they can fail in cold weather: frost heaves in pavement sometimes crack the loop wires.

In the south, southwest and the pacific northwest the incidence of loops is much higher than in the northeast. There's also more driving, so the incentive to optimize that part of the experience is much higher than say, in the Boston area, where they really just want you to give up the car and use public transportation.
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I figured as much.
The Chrome PDF Viewer is not really useful. There is no table of contents. You can't jump to specific pages. And so on. It is also closed source.

I wish Google would rather abandon their current viewer and start contributing/using pdf.js.
The action/creativity editing of bills into the law is not a justification for copyright, and it has not been used by West (or any other entity) to claim copyright. West claims copyright on design, annotations, citation, and database structure.
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