skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was interesting to read, though I wonder why the author gets so many negative reactions when talking about wood fires... do so many people actually have fireplaces nowadays?

Personally, I want more details... most of all because I switched from heating my home with oil to heating it with a wood-pellet stove several years ago, and while I was convinced at the time, I've had my doubts about how it really stacks up as an ecological/renewable/etc. solution.

Note this isn't the same as a regular woodstove (it's far more efficient) but I'm sure much of the problems in the OP apply to it... I just need to find out more, and how to balance it against other ways to heat the house.
What do the first-level registrars pay currently? Would that bump cause the yearly cost for the domain-buyers to increase by $10? If so, I don't understand why that's enough to have the effect against parking.
Wow - this is pretty heavy. It's unfortunate, as I liked it as a view of market sentiment. It's one thing to pontificate, another to vote with dollars.

"Financial Irregularities" is never good, and I can't see this ending well.
No, people also do optimization for Bing (you can Google about it ;-)), and also in certain countries, local search engine can be a good source of traffic, so there is a SEO for that as well. But Google is usually most important, that's right.
Not really, the number of deaths from it are much higher.
Very interesting comparison to Detroit. Those factory jobs used to pay extremely well compared to the cost of living.
It sounds like a strange motivator to make good content for the wrong reasons...
I wonder if there is a "tipping point" at which so few sites have flash, that popular browsers will no longer feel the need to support it, resulting in an ecosystem where web sites that want to present themselves to a broad audience have to use some other delivery mechanism - resulting in a rapid drop to 0%.

I'm wondering if the iPad marketshare (in a few years) would be sufficient enough to push the market over the edge.
Tim sniffen writing & drawing
hi Sebastian,
we'll be at betahaus for one week, we can meet there after work if you want
Hands-on with Leap Motion's latest games and apps
I love Firefox and use it every day. But you bring up an important point. The Google Chrome team has some pretty annoying bugs and limitations that they ignore for years, but the same is true for Firefox.

For example, my largest pet peeve with Firefox is that two sessions cannot share the same profile. I can't have Firefox open for user abc in desktop session 1 and try to open it again as user abc in desktop session 2. Chrome and IE have no problem doing that. No joke, the issue is a decade old. And Mozilla recently marked the issue as a wont-fix.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137

I didn't lodge a complaint in the bug's comment trail. It's disappointing, but I figure it's essentially impossible for any of these guys to have a stellar record on bugs when you're got bug IDs in the high six-digits.
"first, a cache should never slow you down."

Cache tangent: Of course it can and will, generally things that use caches wait for the results of those caches query before hitting whatever the slower thing is being cached. Anytime you have a cache miss and the slower thing must be queried anyway, the wasted time you spent waiting for the cache query results "slowed you down". Also applications that allocate huge caches for data sets with poor cache rates or low utilization can "slow things down" by starving other data-sets with better hit rates or higher utilization from being as large as they could be.
How do you establish the deep understanding of these concepts without actually using them in their various incarnations? I don't believe that reading the definition of parametric polymorphism is enough for someone to recognize the place it should be used in a real project and to use it there in a way that won't cause trouble.

Also, "learning and cultivating rock solid CS fundamentals" is a given - we're talking about what more to do.
This creates a two-tier caste system that separates out 'platform developers' from 'app developers'. In this system, something like Firefox could never emerge in the first place. All language, runtime, VM, and similar innovation could only come from Mozilla themselves.
I do not think this would work on organisms that did not live and die in our atmosphere because the ratio of C12 and C14 is local to our atmosphere and might be very different where they come from.
Until people learn to vote with their wallets, nothing will change.
"For bedrooms in suburbia the proportional rent (i.e., per bedroom) is lower. Which is to say, the run-up in Vancouver rent (what little there has been) has mainly impacted those who can afford it most (read: those without children)."

Why is it that people are expected to live in the suburbs when they have kids? I find this to be a uniquely post WW2 North American view, and a stupid one at that. For those of us with kids who would like to live a walkable life style, these rises in rent are not limited to "those who can afford it most."
The identified structures look no more nor less "lifelike" than other random bits found in the rock (image is here [1]).

As far as I can tell, this evidence doesn't even begin to scratch at the surface of information needed to demonstrate or even really suggest that these were ever living organisms.

The nail in the coffin, for me, is the fact that this is set to be published in the Journal of Cosmology, a publication of questionable repute [2].

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology
Silicon Valley works great if you can tap into it to raise seed/VC funding.

If not you're pretty much screwed. You're in California, which is a bad place to do business in general - think insane regulations and a 10% state income tax. And in the Valley in particular, tech workers will cost you significantly more than in other parts of the country, let alone the world.
I'm the author of the original article. I didn't think of the content itself as "contrarian", but the headline certainly turned out that way--and of course "contrarian" has different meanings to different people.

Plenty went wrong. Plenty went right.

Hand-recounted votes aren't such a bad thing, in my personal view; more objectively, I think it's only fair to note how often they happen in the US, Canada, the UK, ...
"The first version of Internet Explorer (later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on 16 August 1995."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer

"0.4	Netscape	September 9, 1994	First public beta release"
"1.0	Netscape	December 15, 1994	First non-beta release"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_%28web_browser%29
The $3000 figure is probably referring to San Francisco. $2000 a month for a one bedroom in Mountain View is a fantasy. Sure, you can go south to sunnyvale or further, but that adds quite a significant commute if one is working in Palo Alto/Mountain View.
Correct me if I am wrong here. So, instead of the eloquent method of using GET, POST and PUT on resources, the current practice is about the programmer writing custom parsers to get the information they want and then use them accordingly.
The real issue with IE is people running old versions of it. So, Chrome's auto update is significantly safer than IE if your going to install once and possibly never touch the computer again.
There's still a lot of Flash that is used to compensate for things that are not doable without it. For example, Github has Flash; try right clicking on the "Copy this repository's URL to the clipboard" button on any git repo.

That, unfortunately, won't go away soon.
But shooting a 14 year old trying to steal some beer?
Six months is an estimate - it obviously depends on what you're working on. The two years I'd be willing to bet on.
No problem! Actually apps get added automatically to my verification queue if you sign up and add it to your launcher as a link. If the link hasn't been seen before, I verify whether it's an app or not. People have already added a bunch new cool apps since this post went up, you can see them on the last page of the search results: https://starthq.com/apps/?page=60
that apparently wouldn't work on extra-terrestrial stuff as it seems to depend on "the ratio of 14C to 12C in the atmosphere" and works for "up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years"[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
It's possible to submit the order form at https://www.bitspend.net/order.html and receive a success message without completing any of the fields. No validation - a big bug?
School puts courses online and asks for feedback
Diffie-Hellman Dating
Carbon dating is only good for about 50,000 years back. There are other radiometric dating methods, but none as useful for dating lifeforms.
We call those taxes property taxes, but thanks to prop 30 in California the situation there is totally messed up too.
Great MVP :) I guess you just receive the orders via the form, and if you see demand, then you start improving the product?
You're listing Hacker News as a productivity app :)
This post seems weird to me as I recently switched back to Chrome for Firefox precisely because Chrome is faster than ff. It is visibly faster for me and most recent articles I could find after I googled 'Chrome versus Firefox' showed exactly that - that Chrome is faster than Firefox on the more important metrics right now.
7 UI requests for Basecamp
The roadways are already clogged. Imagine what it would be like if they actually built enough housing.
American Giant: The problems of being an overnight success
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21680884
Will add that later this week, see my other comments below. I intentionally want to keep reviews out for now though, since from talking to people it's become apparent that most people find reviews by strangers somewhat useless and would prefer recommendations from people they know & who understand them.
Firefox has enterprise support releases that aren’t anywhere as near as rapid as the default ones: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
Why Doing a Voice Broadcasting Can Added Value to Your Business
When your community organization or enterprise needs on a regular basis of dozens of important phone, now is the time to consider the enormous benefits of sound broadcasting.
I don't have access to a RHEL-based system at the moment, but doesn't system-config-network come with a ncurses interface?
Um... As far as the Internet can tell me, the Danish translation of HHGG indeed seems to use "Undgå panik", so Google does it right.
Firefox has had this caching since Firefox 1.5.
Do you have numbers to support that?
Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome
Do you mean to imply that the only thing we need to do is "stop having children like there's no tomorrow?" michaelochurch didn't say that outlawing factory farming was the only thing we should do like you seem to imply.
Top ways Cloud communications can help your business
Last week, we did a comprehensive overview of what is cloud computing technology, as well as some commonly used terms.
That sounds like a great solution. I'll be back!
Nope, REST can apply to any channels, not just the web.
Now you're using the body's metabolism to explain the metaphor to explain the body's metabolism. I don't think it's supposed to work that way. :) To highlight some of the difficulties:

So, insulin shock is the specific heat of water and/or the heat of evaporation? Does fire "slam into" the water?

As a technical point, there's a distinction between heat and temperature. The fire does not need to be "hot", it just needs to have enough heat to evaporate some of the water on the new wood, and of course hot enough to catch the wood on fire. At that point the reaction becomes self-sustaining.

I don't know how to apply that heat/temperature distinction to the metaphor.

If the "fire is out" then what are we using to survive?

(These are rhetorical. I think I know the point you're trying to get across.)

Also, what does a "perfect machine" have to do with anything? Surely not from a thermodynamics viewpoints. I can't think of anyone who thinks of the human body as a perfect machine, and I have a hard time thinking of what that would even mean.
But we have a system of reference in Lift—CSS selector transforms refer to an element by its location in the DOM, rather than by a given name. I think there's room there for a creative solution.
Yeah, well, good luck convincing, say, chinese farmers not to give tons of antibiotics to their livestock

This is also a problem in North America. Try buying a simple disinfectant (e.g. for small cuts) that doesn't contain antibiotics.
> Children like to swim in pools. Children like to ride bicycles.

And children like to hunt. What's your point?

> I don't have to justify the usefulness of pools or bicycles.

Actually, when you're claiming that they have more usefulness than some other arbitrary object (in this case, guns), yes you do.

> You can take away a risk associated with a pool or bicycle but only by taking away the fun that children have swimming in pools or riding a bicycle.

That's exactly right, because helmets make bicycles less fun.

> It's true that some parents enjoy the things you can do with a gun. It's also true that having a gun in the house is additional, sometimes tragic, risk with no benefit to children.

Except for the cases in which a gun in the home is used for self defense.

> First, as a parent you're supposed to put the benefit of your child over the little joys in your life, like squeezing a trigger of a 44 Magnum or getting enough sleep.

And swimming, because apparently they're more likely to die doing that.

> Second, you can enjoy most of the benefits of having a gun without actually having one in the house.

Except for self defense, which if we read the Constitution is the primary reason for the second amendment (discussion about self defense from whom aside for the moment).

> I'm pretty sure you cannot hunt or discharge firearms within city limits anyway.

I don't know what city limits have to do with anything, so I don't think this is germane. I'm willing to bet you're more likely to find a pool in the suburbs than downtown, anyway.

But living in a city does not mean you waive your right to self defense.

> You can still indulge yourself in hunting or go to a shooting range without endangering the life of your child by having a gun in your house.

You can still indulge yourself in swimming or go to a public pool without endangering the life of your child by having a pool in your yard.
Demand Attention, Become an Authority
Right, so if it turned out to come from the future or 10 billion years ago on that scale, then it's likely extraterrestrial.

As you say though, it's not good in the billions.
> No way to set a shortcut to control which profile opens initially (opens last used profile)

There was a version of Chrome I downloaded a while ago which created a shortcut icon on the desktop of a multiple profile. This feature has since then disappeared and I have yet to find a way to create a desktop short cut but I know it is possible through command line switches in the shortcut icon.
This reminds me of http://youtu.be/e-LE0ycgkBQ
Intrade Shuts Down—Why?
Dad Hacks Donkey Kong So Daughter Can Play as Pauline Instead of Mario
Bureaucracy is the real threat to universities not online competition. University's need to maintain a solid reputation, but faking the reputation game has become so common that most University's are ridiculously inefficient.

Consider, Why would you care if your English professor published anything? With that said, a lot of waste seems really important to the people designing budgets so they have issues dealing with leaner institutions.
Show HN: pressureNET 3.1, now with more weather
i suppose by "exotics" he/she means

- Theorems for Free languages: haskell, scala, ocaml,

- lisps: CL, Scheme/racket, clojure

- logic programming/unification: prolog, mercury

- stack-based/concatenative: joy, forth, factor

- O-O paradigm: D, eiffel, smalltalk, scala(again)

- others I keep hearing about: Golang, rust, kotlin, Mozart/oz
Great timing - I just posted a Show HN about my new extension to save 95% memory in Google Chrome

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356823
This is a great read:

http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Biography-Scott-Martelle/dp/15...

There are definitely some major differences, but there are comparisons as well.

The big comparison is how Detroit was mostly a one-horse town -- automobiles -- and it was economically ruined when that industry changed. Keep in mind that the industry didn't die... there are more cars now than ever. It just shifted in such a way as to unseat Detroit as the Silicon Valley of the automobile revolution.

Of course Detroit had other problems: race relations, corruption, etc. But those are problems that can be dealt with if a region has a good economic base. If it would have kept its Silicon Valley of the auto crown, I don't think they would have been big issues.

(Edit: Nowadays, Detroit is actually a potentially attractive contrarian place to go. Start here: http://omnicorpdetroit.com/blog/ )

When this happened, wages collapsed. When that happened, the leveraged real estate pyramid fell. When that happened, tax bases collapsed, infrastructure collapsed, crime soared, and everyone left. Kaboom.

This scenario could definitely happen to The Valley. Another scenario that could lead to a slower decline would be if SV completely priced out everyone but CXO-level people. This would transform it into a closed circle-jerk of high-ego CXO types, all of whom would be convinced (as such personality types generally are) that they've got everything all figured out. The Valley would become like a giant IBM-in-the-70s or Microsoft-in-the-90s, and the market would eventually leave it behind.
Facebook Update Gives Users More Control Over News Feed
"If there were a fixed amount of it, we'd all still be nomadic hunter-gatherers."

Exactly - how do so many miss this basic economic truth?
Email (not webmail, but IMAP and POP etc) uses the internet but is not part of the web. There are other examples but I think that's the easiest to see.
A year ago my mother went in for back surgery, a week after she had a sharp pain, and ended up with MRSA which had turned into sepsis. It damaged her heart and in the end, after a two month fight led the ARDS and took her life. The hell this put her through was extremely real.

Between the lack of solid contact precautions, doctors who think they are above them, the over-use of antibiotics which lead to this etc. this is a huge problem. The number of instances of MRSA are growing every year which is the scariest part of this. I can vividly remember my mother reading and recommending a book about the coming superbugs back in the 90's when MRSA was rare. It was quite ironic that this ended up killing her.
I was one of those mythical 14-year-old boys that knew better than to spy on girls by hacking their webcam. I don't know why so many people assume that boys are stupid at age 14 but I can assure that is not the case in general.
Create a catalog in an app - 4 ways of doing it
I checked my app, Tomatoes [1], it's listed: https://starthq.com/apps/tomatoes but it has very poor ratings

Google 2/5 but from https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=t... I see it has 81/100

Trust, reliability and privacy are 1/5 and are taken from http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tomato.es but they don't apply because there are "Not enough ratings for this site yet" so they should be listed as "n/a" probably.

[1] http://tomato.es
Bugs as Art - Retrospective: Soldner: Secret Wars
We just launched pressureNET 3.1 this weekend and started crowdsourcing weather conditions along with the atmospheric pressure measurements we were already collecting. We're seeing 10,000 barometer measurements per hour, and about 1 weather condition per minute.

Here's our launch blog post: http://www.cumulonimbus.ca/announcing-pressurenet-3-1-now-wi...

Our plan is to dramatically increase the data inputs to existing weather models, as well as try building entirely new systems of weather forecasting. We're going to have a really incredible ability to predict thunderstorm formation with our high resolution view on atmospheric pressure.

We have a live data visualization / graphing tool on our main pressureNET site at http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca
Super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port
Microsubscriptions: solving the adblock problem and ad-spying
But does this take into consideration the children that are saved from drowning in an intruder's pool by the presence of their own pool?

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a pool is a good guy with a pool.
With a team of committers that are contributing consistently to the project, as well as David continuing to contribute regularly, I have no idea how you can get by saying this. Releases have continued apace, and work on Lift 3 has begun. What exactly is it that you think would be bad were dpp to leave the project altogether that you see happening right now?
For what it's worth, I lived in MV (rengstorff and sierra vista) for a year last year, in a 2 bedroom I kept all to myself for $1800 a month. It had a lovely back yard with a family BBQ area.
World war 3 about to start usa
It sounds like you want an entry level front end web dev position. Try to make your future job title as specific as you can. "Front-end developer experienced with JQuery and django interested in ecommerce" is better than a generic "front-end entry level developer". You can start contacting people in the bay area that have those job descriptions to figure out if that's what you really want to do.

Once you have your next goal in mind, you can start optimizing towards that goal. Can you get interviews? If not, optimize your skills / portfolio / network to help get you interviews. Can you get job offers? If not, improve your interview skills.

Here's a great post by Satvik Beri on how to manage 'Job Search Frustration' by making the process into a more stepwise progression.
http://qr.ae/TpZGM
Interesting points, other than mathematics weakening straw-man atheism.
Cool idea! Few things about the website:

* The navbar on https://www.bitspend.net/order.html isn't consistent with the rest of the site. It's missing the "Order Now" link.

* I want to click your logo to go to the home page.

* You're using the Bootstrap default favicon

* Is the business's name Bitspend or BitSpend? Both appear on the site.

* The links on the bottom of the main page don't go anywhere.

* The text in the jumbotron/masthead is misleading. The item isn't shipped directly to the consumer.

* "Unlimit Your Bitcoins" sounds a bit awkward. What about "Unleash Your Bitcoins"?
I think calling it nightmare-inducing is going too far, but there's nothing that forces you to use it. I think it's fantastic for prototyping, because it lets you focus on getting things done in one place. If you're not prototyping, I think you should keep your JS in JS and come up with a common interface to interact with your JS from the server—I've chosen events dispatched on the document element in a variety of situations as that communication protocol.
In western society, they are not equivalent but are related and intersectional, esp. considering this kind of peeping is about sexual coercion and violence against women and girls, a kind of violence that gets backed up by society and its institutions.
TI's msp430s are crazily power-efficient. Worth a look if you want to run a long time on batteries. Or indeed fruit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPZISRQAQpw
Rat mind-meld achieved?