skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Remov[e] silly things like entertainment controls on your arm rest. These frequently activate the screen when your trying to sleep. Bring it all to the touch screen interface."

Nooooo! Good grief has he really never had someone repeatedly jabbing the touch screen on the back of his seat? Granted that could be partially mitigated with better touch screens, but some people still jab at iPads.
Going to back that up at all? I believe in unicorns, by the way.

Obviously brain chemistry is involved (reduced serotonin, etc.), but I'm sure I could adjust your brain chemistry by jumping out at you and saying boo too; so I don't it follows that chemical intervention is the only approach that will change your brain chemistry.

I think antidepressants are very important and a great tool if you are suffering from severe depression, but I don't think they are the only answer nor a long-term solution, alone.

As an e.g. a metastudy on CBT - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273580... - indicates that it is both effective and superior to antidepressants alone.

Given the nature of depression, which really muddles your mind clear advice is vital - go see your doctor, get onto antidepressants (you don't have to be on them forever), get onto a form of therapy. The shit works.
Here is a link to avoid Ctrl+C (+V):
http://apps.skybuffer.com/checklist
I remember an article about SpaceX where Musk said that they didn't file many patents, because then other countries essentially had free access to their inventions if they didn't honour patents (China was mentioned).

With this change in law, they may no longer have protection against a patent filed by someone else that they (SpaceX) invented first...simply because they were not the first to file.

This may bring about more innovation because it forces "sharing" of ideas. Even if that "sharing" is done to stop real sharing.
Scrivener is a great professional tool but overkill for the sort of amateur blog post-type writing targeted by draft.
Kudos for having iOS/Android apps available already. It may be just a small touch, but as a new Digital Ocean subscriber, I was a little irked to find out they only had an Android app done via a third party and no iOS or mobile web view equivalent.
AFAIK short selling originated as a flaw in manually settled stock exchanges. ( You only needed to have the stocks when the accounts were settled, so you could sell first and then buy later.) But you can get the same effect by borrowing bitcoins and selling them. Then you need to buy them back later.
> That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€

For future savings, you might consider this investement: http://deltacloud.apache.org/drivers.html#drivers

Disclosure: I've never used it, just think it's interesting.
GoldieBlox Kickstarter is Shipping
In addition, based on what Tim O'Reilly said in response, it sounds like the author was incredibly overdemanding compared to their typical author, and would have benefited from a small high-end custom publishing house. O'Reilly would be a great way to get published for anything that is primarily print; not a book on design with precise requirements, it would seem.
There's an interesting note near the bottom about the ÷ symbol. Even today in the Netherlands, a symbol like -/- (like a percent sign, but with minus signs on both sides of the slash) is used as a kind of emphasized minus sign, especially in money calculations in a vertical layout where otherwise addition would be assumed. I don't know if this is used elsewhere, but it seems probable to me that it derives from the ÷ symbol mentioned in the text.
just checked out the service, and i really like the administration pages. i could see this as a viable alternative to other vps services, but would love to see some more server location choices.

what i was wondering tho: the activation sms originated from the same number as google's calendar reminders, what's up with that?
From 'WarGames' to Aaron Swartz: How we lost control of U.S. anti-hacking law
I'd like to transition to a system were a anonymous bureaucrat in Washington doesn't get to go out and annihilate innovative businesses because some competing monolithic corporation was the first one to pay his employer off.
Indeed. In many parts of the world the normal intercity bus ride is a quite pleasurable experience, significantly better in many ways than flying a budget (or pretty much any) airline.
I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to see how far the left indentation can go
Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?
We recently noticed that two websites have recently ripped off the design, code and copy of our site, gocardless.com.

How did we notice? We started getting Sentry errors as they had even gone so far as to rip our JS files!

Before we get in touch with them, we wondered if anyone had any tips on getting these guys to stop.

Sites in question:

http://secure-broker-online.eu/
http://resinternationalgroup.com/
That is awfully clumsy! The current layout of 'screens behind the seats' lauds the aesthetic minimalism in a more profound way.

You did give me a good laugh by the way!
User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback
I'm an embedded systems developer, targeting a realtime operating system and have hard realtime application requirements.

Could someone explain to me what these folks mean when they say "real-time"?
Google Wants to Replace Your Passwords With Jewelry
"First Times" – a horror text adventure
Fixed "anything" is driving me nuts. In my opinion nothing fixed should be on the page.
Mapping & analyzing the 1854 London cholera outbreak (Leaflet + Backbone-query)
Doctor 'used silicone fingers' to sign in for colleagues
The Creative Commons 0 license is perhaps even closer to public domain.
here's another localisation error:

servers > server > setting:

"Deployed: 13.03.2013 klo 11:11"
In primary school in the Netherlands (and maybe elsewhere?), : is used for division.
Doesn't this put the pressure on companies to file even more patents on things quickly, in case someone else beats them to it?
TLS: RC4 or not RC4?
A minor note on the form's validation: if you enter a phone number with a space separating the code and number, it'll be rejected, but with no indication as to what failed, or why. (Not that UpCloud is alone in being flummoxed by spaces in numbers - witness the many, many credit card entry fields around the web that refuse to strip spaces out)

Also, on activating the account, if you don't have JS and cookies enabled, the page is simply reloaded, failing silently. That done, however, it works fine, even with, in my case, a relatively unknown browser. ^_^
In theory, (normal) patents should only be granted when they describe an invention to the level of detail that someone versed in the art can replicate the invention after expiration.

This property is unfortunately not generally present in patents once patent lawyers are done broadening the scope of possible 'embodiments' and rendering the language unintelligible.
Nice try and nice application
> With nonfiction, it doesn't make sense at all.

That is the opposite of what I'd think. Nonfiction includes current topics like books on political figures. Fiction is all over the map and, with the exception of crossover titles like Primary Colors that were about current political figures but written as fiction, typically isn't tied to a current event in such a way that it matters what week it was on the NY times bestseller list for others to see that they might want to read it and buy it.

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Offtopic: everyone reading this stuff up here- scroll down to Tim O'Reilly's comment below before you jump on the O'Reilly bashing train.
Love the gray actually. I'm much more likely to buy it now. Thanks for listening!
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732671
True, but it's in the same camp, where "elegant" and "I have to write parentheses all the time" are two different concepts, and, and this was the point, it can use the JVM libraries. (in a type safe manner, btw)
Like the French megaoctets. Just use megabytes everyone!!1 :P

(I'm not French btw)
Tern (JS type inference engine) reaches 15K stretch goal for editor integration
Nice design. Kudos to whoever came up with it.

Forget the naysayers. People have been spoonfeed by corporate advertisers so long, they think anything that doesn't function as an effective corporate logo is flawed.
They are actually kickstarting a platform, OpenCompass that much more closely resembles Coursera/Udacity. Perhaps a minor reason for that was to help get away from the word University as they grow. Possibly Reddit too, their default homepage isn't exactly gleaning with intelligence most of the time.
Quite possibly. I think we'd just call it 'automated plastic surgery', though.
Different way to do code review
gems with C extensions are not supported https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/C-Extension-Alternatives

I forgot about thread safety in pure ruby gems but that is not a huge problem - https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Gems-known-not-to-be-thr...
I used to love Ocaml, but it doesn't have the manpower/momentum/excitement that Haskell has (had?)

(IIUC because Ocaml licensing is not very welcome to open source efforts).

I'm very good at picking losers... (Ocaml, D, Factor..)
You can vote on which editor you want Tern to be integrated with (aside from emacs and vim): http://ternjs.net/vote.html
BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched
Right, I've seen this one too.
I'm actually doing something similar. A few weeks ago, I decided to do a clean slate rewrite of my projects and record the hours worked. My wife has been making recordings of various evolutions of the design and I'm getting ready to go public with at least the open source component of my code, probably this weekend if my day job doesn't get in the way... I'll be announcing on twitter @keefe
social web app for elderly in nursing homes is a great idea, I think that market is really underserved.
Live Premier League Streaming
http://www.livepremierleaguestreaming.com/

<a href="http://www.livepremierleaguestreaming.com/">Live Premier League Streaming</a>
I assume he's referring to this one: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176246
Thanks for the comment. Haven't signed up for Digital Ocean my self, but applaud them for the prices they're offering.
I have been doing a much smaller-scale version of this for some time now with a few friends. http://bitgroin.com/

EDIT: And "basket fund" is a joke about putting all the eggs in one basket instead of hedging.
I am slightly confused by their description of their security model. [1] It is all about long term protection of their secret key. However, if they need this key ( is it actually just one?), it seems that they need to compromise a large part of their security. So does this mean, that they will simply never sell bitcoins?

[1] http://bitcoinfund.eu/security
Ugh, I really hate how Bazaar is considered "obscure". I really think it's the most usable of the three big VCSes, and even hg could learn a bit from it. git's porcelain is an asylum escapee, it's completely insane.
The fact that everyone is on github doesn't mean much when VCSes export to git format. I use bzr and my repositories are on github.
Are you doing some arbitrage/HFT or just investing to bitcoins?
Their description of the root problem was very superficial:

> At some threshold above 50%, our Rails servers would spike up to 100% CPU usage and become unresponsive.

Yes, but why? What exactly were those processes doing? Why the sudden change at a particular threshold?

Their lack of detailed investigation into this makes their post useless to me -- I have no way of knowing (1) what specific aspect of Ruby's architecture makes it unfit for their problem?, or (2) is their application doing something stupid that causes the problem in first place?
Medrill ( http://www.medrill.com ), a (re)search engine about the medical research
I've experimented with quite a few "high-frequency" (actually only re-evaluating every minute) trading strategies. (Un?)fortunately deflation is so rapid at the moment, I haven't found anything better than just buying bitcoins and holding them.
Eurisko is more legend than history, at this point. As far as I know, the source code was never available to anyone except Lenat, and most of the claims about how effective it was at the beginning were sourced directly from Lenat, as well. The fact that we've never seen anything similarly small and effective (and that Lenat abandoned the entire approach in favor of Cyc) makes me wonder how much of what Eurisko is reported to have done is exaggeration.

Your scenario with the Em that's copiable and ten times faster than a human is exactly what I started this with. :)
Interesting. The close parentheses form of division from 1540 looks like the basis of the long division form of division, i.e. 2)6 with a bar or vinculum, extending from the top of the parentheses over the 6. The long division form finally takes its modern form in 1888. The transformation of that symbol seems somewhat obvious and natural.
I wonder if we are likely to see further changes, as modern typesetting should resist the variations that handwriting would introduce. I believe any change in the future will have to demonstrate improved readability before it will be accepted.
EBay study questions value of Google's main ad service
Lua is known for pairing really well with C.
University Lab Creates Self-Healing Circuits
Research reveals a need to further COBOL education to meet business demand
Go to where your customers are.

When we launched matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) a few months ago, we wanted to get developers on board first. And since we knew a lot of quality developers hang out here on HN, we posted here.

About a month later, we wanted to started marketing to clients. We pitched at an in person event in Chicago, as well as started using a relevant existing newsletter from another business we run to reach potential clients for matchist.

Once you start getting a few initial customers using your product, talk to them constantly and get feedback.
Add a link/flag to help bringing erroneously hell-banned users back. At the very least, if automatically hell-banning people, kill their comments, but allow replying to them.

Case in point - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=slmt - nothing from what he said justifies a hellban.
Show HN: Func.is, a scripting language for distributed applications
What if both of them put real effort (money) into research and arrived at similar/same place? Should it be dismissed as well? Or is there something as joint patent?
I'm one of the HN London organisers. Feel free to drop me an email if you want any help or have any questions. Contact info in my profile.
I can (have) rack 2 x 1U top spec Dell servers (12 2.8ghz cores, 32gb mem, 4tb hd) with 3 year hardware warranties (next day), in separate locations with 1000mbps pipes at a grand cost of ~£200 a month over a 3 years period.

The equivalent with yourselves (max 8cores and 1tb hd) is well over £800 .. I've not spent much time looking into the advantages of cloud servers but can you at least give me a quick list of reasons you think your service is worth so much more?

I'm guessing the key is only spinning up what you need. Doing a quick calculation of peak times for my services, which is about 12 hours per day not including weekends the cost drops to about £300 per month. But this doesn't take into account the overhead of having to plan and implement something that can spin up resources when unexpected traffic hits.

I can see the value in your service for low value customers whose blogs suddenly hit the front page of HN or reddit for example .. but the cost of servers and rack space is so low I find it hard to justify the massive cost involved in cloud servers when you can just rack stupid amounts of computing power for such a low cost yourself.
I'm not sure he takes in to account the best thing about SLF (Self Loading Freight), which is the fact they are self loading. This leads to a great cost reduction in many cases, but as always, its a few arseholes that go and ruin it for the majority.

However, as has been suggested before, we could load the plane in a more efficent manner:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20859-test-shows-most-...

The other thing is he failed to take in to account SLFs are a bunch of whinging little things, most mil transports use backwards facing seating, as its much safer in certain disaster scenarios. Apparently, the airlines say, SLF don't like it.

I wonder how many more would hate been in a box, shifted sideways, up and down etc. Planes have a nice tendancy to only ever glide, in fact most airlines have strick limits on the number of degrees of pitch/bank that a pilot can use under normal circumstances.
Yes, but it's a little more complicated.

With a camera of exactly 48fps and a wave of exactly 24hz you would see two intertwined jets. (It would be nice to see it. An easier implementation it is to use a 24fps camera and a 12hz wave.)

With 48fps you can reconstruct any signal whose frequencies are less than 24hz (for example sin(2pit/23)+1/2 sin(2pit/17)). But the reconstruction algorithm must be implemented in a computer.

The eye/brain simply "join" the nearest images of consecutive frames, so video with a 23hz signal sampled at 48fps would looks like two intertwined jets spinning slowly upwards. A computer algorithm (or a looot of hand calculations) can reconstruct the real only one jet falling down.
I assume this is the top voted comment on HN since it's first.

Sadly, there's not one qualifying statement in your comment which leads me to believe you don't know what you're talking about. And that's fine, except you pretend like you do by rationalizing with yourself while trying to convenience others.

How about you first run a few businesses one your own. Then try one with a cofounder. In 10 years, please email me your thoughts. If you want to shorten that time, just go outside and talk to at least 10 founders who've done it.
Three things:

(1) Private cars will go away eventually even in the states as we transition to self-driving cars (at least in the cities) that will be used more like taxis to avoid parking problems.

(2) We probably aren't that far away from self-driving planes, heck, we already have drones. One could imagine a fleet of small planes that are also used like taxis (or better yet, for ride shares).

(3) Its almost 2015 and we all saw Back to the Future, so we know what's going to happen (VTOL garbage powered Delorean anyone?). (this point is a joke, the first two are more serious)
Intel releases Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 dev code, adds dual-boot for Windows 8
I wish there was some way for someone to make a kind of "cost sharing" business based on this model. I.e. I pay a bit more than a normal ticket but not hundreds of times more and TFA and all that other crap just goes away for me.
I won't put it up here, but those that are curious can look up Hinton's salary at the University of Toronto by looking at the Ontario government sunshine list website.
Send them a cease and desist letter - you can find free templates online (http://www.free-legal-document.com/copyright-cease-and-desis... is one I just found).

The more professional you can make it look the better chance you won't have to resort to a solicitor.
Off-topic only regarding the "self-publish or not" question. O'Reilly's comments should be required reading for anyone planning to jump on the "O'Reilly bashing train".
Hacker News is now Running with SSL
The study posted in favor of MU (or at least neutral effect) got pretty much no comments at all. Might have been because it was a post linking a 3rd source (secondary source being Torrentfreak and primary the study on SSRN).
PaidPunch updates app, looks to solve Groupon problem
What does 1#J mean? A strange corner case of the printing of special values
>they may no longer have protection against a patent filed by someone else that they (SpaceX) invented first //

They only had a very limited protection before. First year of use, only shown in public in certified trade shows IIRC.

This is how patents work, they require publication to enrich the knowledge pool and the return for that publication is time-limited government granted monopoly.

If SpaceX can demonstrate prior use then no later filed patent can, if the law is correctly applied, prevent their continued working of that specific invention.

The point is to put pressure on inventors to file, that's one of the two major purposes of the patent system (the other being to ensure due compensation of inventors).
Was anyone else expecting this to be a boast from EA about how they cut their operating costs for the SimCity launch?!?
Sadly, the Kickstarter seems to have ended unsuccessfully?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1918344721/open-compass
Where's the distro? It doesn't seem to be up at http://www.backtrack-linux.org yet.
I think that's the standard question for cloud computing.

Is your system:

* Very consistent (no significant peaks or troughs of ~5x normal usage)

* Has predictable growth

* Comfortable with half of your capacity being down for x hours due to hardware failure

If you can answer all of that with "Yes", then cloud computing (and even virtualisation) is probably not for you, you'll be paying a premium for something you don't want or need.

But if you were to scale up your own application to have peaks that needed the capacity of 20 physical servers instead of 2, but with 18 of those same servers running idle 5 days a week, then the answer might start to look different.
> It's not really possible without adding resources (ie a new server).

That's not quite true. With the right architecture, performance will degrade gracefully. You'll get slower and slower responses as the load goes up, and eventually start dropping requests, but the servers will not die and there will be no cascading failure.

One way to achieve this is to make sure the queuing happens at the load balancer, and no large queues are allowed to build up in the individual application servers.
Ah, ha! http://www.kali.org/
In other news, the Pope is Catholic...
Then you could stop each others patents just by filing a copy...
نشيد ريال مدريد
Secure Broker Online: 1-8 Kensington Gardens Square , London, W2 4BH

Knock on their door and ask them directly.
If/when that doesn't get a response (if they stole a design, who says they'll honor a C&D?), contact their web host.
The problem being that services are never competitively purchased in current society. Just look at healthcare.
Shanghai Open Source Meetup
You don't have to necessarily resort to a solicitor/lawyer in this scenario. If they are using your exact HTML/CSS/JavaScript and don't quickly respond and/or comply, you can always file a DMCA takedown notice:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/18/my-website-design...

Most hosts will quickly take down the website, giving you a cost-effective way to stop the issue. However I'd strongly encourage you to pursue a more friendly approach first, to give them a chance to do the right thing. (The site owner may not be the one who actually stole the design.)
Add a check to the javascript files for those domains, then have it execute a while(1);.

This is semantically the same what Google does with their JSON responses [1]

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669690/why-does-google-p...
The five Ws and one H of building a startup
Also interesting: the form for long division that is used in the 19th century in the US: divisor ) dividend ( quotient, is very similar to the long division form that is still used in the Netherlands today: divisor / dividend \ quotient. Looking at Wikipedia, it seems all other countries have gone on to different notations, though.
Well yeah, the rules would have to be a bit more complex than that, but do you not like the general idea?

Because I think a whole load of really obvious rubbish gets patented at the moment, but I do think the foundations of the patent system and the utility of patents ought to be salvaged.
They missed a major deadline and their primary investor pulled the plug.