skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely despise this trend of having software open stuff up automatically as if it's somehow helping. OS X is the biggest offender, for example; when Photoshop decides to just freak out opening a file, so you close photoshop, then reopen and it tries to reopen all your old files, including the one that's causing the problems. What sort of sadist wants 10 PSDs to open all at once?

I miss the good old days when you could reboot your machine and everything was fresh and pristine and yours to mess up.
> Like you suddenly might starve to death because of a DDoS and your car won't start, and wars will break out! Oh my the sensationalism!

Actually, given that my new phone connection is VOIP-only, an attack that saturates or damages[1] the respective part of the network could block an emergency call and quite possibly lead to problems down the line. It's hard to estimate how much we actually depend on the internet nowadays.

[1] "damages" as in "put critical infrastructure pieces temporarily out of function"
We're using dashing to present some internal information about our company's cashflow.

We built a second application (in Rails) that collects data from various sources, stores and transforms it, and then exposes it via API for dashing to use.

So in our case, dashing is a neat presentation layer and it serves its role very well.
No, it came out a while back, and it was pretty poorly reviewed: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/05/wot-i-think-achro...
My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading the page is enough to kick Flash back into gear.
14 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of February 2013
Looks neat, do you know if they're planning on open sourcing the server implementation as well?
I use external speakers. They have a power button. I turn them off when I'm away.
raises hand

It's far from perfect, but considering that 99% of online communities out there are run in an autocratic way, with a person or clique appointing the "police" which is mostly non-accountable to the users (like HN, for example), having systems of public participation like SO's elections and places for discussion of its governance (Meta) puts it actually quite high in the democratic ranking.
Oh, thanks for that, I wasn't aware of it.
Well, OTOH ever tried to type a word and click "find" in a physical book?

Technical references are (imo) best served as HTML, second best as E-books and the dead-tree variant is by far the worst.

Novels and other collector's items are different.
Spoon by FileSquare: Elegant mobile wireframe kit
Am I the only one to read this as 'Persona is disturbed'?
already discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5444320
I had an idea for a similar game in the late 90's but I never bothered with it (thanks to Unreal Tournament consuming a big chunk of my time)

I'm glad someone else came up with the same thing as the idea certainly had some merit. I will be buying this and playing it when I get some time :)
Sorry, but I don't feel like I need to be an expert in something before I can express an opinion about it. You're welcome to send a quick message to pg to get a refund on what you've paid to read my comment, if you disagree.
My immediate impressions of the Samsung Chromebook
Ask HN: Is there any startup about traditional Chinese medical science?
If any programmer know traditional Chinese medical science? It has 5000 years history! If you know it enough, you will like it.

I want to know if there is some startup about traditional Chinese medical science, or some app about it?

I think medical science is very important, it directly related to our life. A chinese proverb said: Be son, blind about iatrology, unfilial.

I think we can't throw all our health, our parents's health to a doctor, we need to know some iatrology ourself, and there must be a huge space for medical startup, espacially traditional Chinese medical science. What do you think?
Is it possible to have dental care done as a tourist? I'd rather visit Russia for a few days and have my teeth worked on than pay $2500 to have some cavities filled here.
Plus 1000
Hey, thanks for the comment - we will probably be looking to integrate much later. Focusing on the core product at this point.
The only justification is, that the team (all two of them) can generate $30m+ of new revenue for Yahoo.
I think it's a setting - maybe "browser.sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs" ?
anarky - your comment is showing up as dead, which is a shame since it was interesting

> And 5 years before Cryptonomicon there was Tim May's Cyphernomicon (which obviously inspired the title and theme of Stephenson's book).

> In 1995 there was Stephenson's short story in Wired about digital cash - "The Great Simoleon Caper".

> Of course, the protagonists of Atlas Shrugged had renounced paper money and started using privately minted gold coins from Midas Mulligan's Bank way back in 1957.
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On CentOS 6.4
> Over time I become more and more convinced that the market doesn't produce (much) real innovation.

This is something I've researched a bit in the past. It ends up being a case of semantics. The market produces plenty of innovation but not much basic research; whether it encourages invention is ambiguous.

These three terms (innovation, invention, discovery) are well-defined in the academic literature; typically innovation is the only act of progress that can be monetized. Innovation occurs both on a technical level (hey, this transistor doo-hickey can be put in microchips!) and procedural (hey, organizing in an assembly line increases the speed with which we can make model T's!). Invention is creating something new from known principles, innovation is applying an invention, and discovery is finding previously unknown principles.
I think the core problem is that the question "build or buy?" is formulated in a way such that it rests along the incorrect axis. It's like giving people advice on whether they should go outside or not, whether they should fall in love or not, whether they should start a company or not, etc.

The proper answer is: "it depends." But that's unsatisfying because it's too complex. But in reality you can't eliminate that complexity, it's an irreducible complexity. Just as there isn't one simple, objective system which you can consult to reliably get an answer to the question "should you go outside or stay indoors?" there isn't one for whether you should use something off the shelf or build something yourself. Look at, for example, SpaceX, who built the first generation of engines for their Falcon 9 rockets using turbopumps (one of the most complex components of a high performance rocket) provided by 3rd party companies. However, in the subsequent generation of engines (the Merlin-1D) SpaceX has designed and built the turbopumps themselves, and this is responsible for significant improvements in the engine.

Ultimately I think it's more important to take a step back and make a conscious effort to avoid making big decisions based on instinct or inertia and begin to cultivate a set of processes, elements of corporate culture, and habits which encourage thoughtful analysis and introspection about these choices. People should be more thorough about evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of doing things different ways and be mindful of when it doesn't seem to make much difference. And also mindful of the opportunity to change your mind in the future. Sometimes it can be worthwhile to rebuild a tool that already exists in the industry just for the purposes of acquiring the experience and knowledge of having done so. And sometimes even when taking something in house might easily save millions of dollars a year it still might not be worth it due to other opportunity costs.

It's a complicated question, and it's always going to be a complicated question. Instead of pretending it's an easy question people should be working on acquiring the skills to make sure they can answer the question well with some degree of reliability.
Well, about PgBouncer, I believe this tells more of PostgreSQL than of Django + psql libraries

(After all it will still open and close connections for Django but keeps them open for psql)

Now, for serving 10k connections with template libraries and middlewares and ORM, out of the box? Serving dynamic content for each connection? Impossible =)

Not without some kind of caching (but you can do that with the help of a middleware)
A 17 Year Old Entrepreneur's iPhone App Grosses $15k in 9 Days AMA via Reddit
FireMe - Who wants to get fired?
By "implemented", do you mean "contributed to trunk", or "used it in my application"? If the former, thanks, if the latter, I was under the impression that it was on by default in 1.5?
I believe the long term goal is the deregulation of the health insurance market. Currently most states just have just 2-3 providers. The current providers are driving prices up because they have a, temporarily, captive market. Once more providers enter the market (because who wants to leave all that money on the table) the market should be self correcting.
> fter the top 1000 or so you're looking at retailers who make around $12,000 in revenue a month.

From our experience as a CSE, these numbers are way off. There's a lot more than 1000 retailers making a lot more than $12,000 per month, even in smaller markets than the US where not the top 500, but the top 20 or so account for 75% of the (e-commmerce) market. There's a huge number of (more than $12,000/month revenue) brick & mortar stores out there with a humble online presence but whose investments are focused on increasing e-commerce revenue.
Unless you've read your ten free articles for the month...
> It puts me off Haskell even more each time.

How come?
Rules are there to be broken.

I stick to 80 chars 99% of the time because long lines are more difficult to read.

But if a line ended up being 84 characters wide I wouldn't go replacing variable names or hacking a single function call onto multiple lines to fix it.

No one has died yet :-)
I prefer to be in absolute control of the layout. It's not that big a task.
I know what you mean. Working on this aspect, for sure.
It's possible to instruct tsc to compile into called-closure style modules, then concatenate them if you really want that.
Tight Flight
The amount of 3D rendering jobs I've lost due to automatic restarts in the middle of the night. My personal preference is to no install updates at night, partly because I power off my machine and when I leave it on, I need it on.
The idea is nice, the "pathfinding" is broken enough for the game to be unplayable. Seriously, they just go directly towards their goal and get stuck everywhere.
Entire RPG Game Inside Excel
What's interesting is that he bought an existing app, spammed it to death using paid posts from various Instagram and Twitter accounts. Voila!
Honestly, Cryptonomicon is probably my favourite novel. A bit hard going the first read through, but it's immensely re-readable.
Both of your demos are returning errors...
Sure - just enable the share feature (top right corner when you log in) and you can just email a link to the broadcast from the remote interface (at the top).

Feel free to contact me - my twitter is in the profile.
Looks great. Wish it used JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript to lower the barrier to entry though.
I outsourced my app "Keep Calm - create a funny poster" (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keep-calm-create-funny-poste...) in the middle of December 2012 (coded 60% myself, 40% outsourced - for 500 USD) and make around 300-500 USD every month off it (no marketing at all).

Gonna prep two other apps to release in April.

If any of you need help with your app (revenue), I'd love to help.

Also, tagabek you should put your email in your profile, so that people can contact you :)
And that is the creators Blog:

http://carywalkin.wordpress.com/
Couldnt load the demo on Heroku, probably too few dynos for all the HN traffic...
How are Java attacks getting through? - Security Labs
Can someone explain the various layers of attack they mention please? Does that relate to the 7 layer OSI model?
Controversial Facts In Mathematics
OT, but speaking of cliques and programmers, it seems that I've hit that point again where after you get around 1000 HN karma somebody from the upper echelons clips you (slow ban, etc) as not to threaten them.

I'm not sure why this always happens just after the 1000 mark.

Artificially reducing some ill-considered "competition"?
Wait, I thought Conservapedia was a joke?
As far as I know, data obtained using ECHELON or Predator or whatever they are are calling it this month, would not be admissible in court. The spying approach might work for the NSA, but the FBI needs data they can use in a court case.
Awwww can't we get rid of all three?
This is odd - is anyone else having this issue?

If you dont mind, could you please send me your email address? anton at uslide net
It's hard to say this without sounding insulting or belittling, but I'm genuinely curious... What are your credentials? You don't have to justify yourself to some random guy on the internet (me), but a few of your comments mention you're in the "1 in a 100" category, so I'm wondering what you've done that would be so valuable to Yahoo. Is it that you're a talented engineer or more?

I probably sound like a complete dick but I'm being sincere. I often wonder where on the scale I sit (e.g. 10 in 100?), and whether I'm undervaluing myself or my talents, or even whether I'm overvaluing it? So I'm wondering how/why you arrived at your personal valuation. Hope that's not taken the wrong way.
A day in the life of the Internet hacked and mapped
Creating a proposal that sells
Absolutely, pure innovators dilemma.

Seems Yahoo! tried to solve this with their "brickhouse" program, a new product incubator, but ultimately it seems that was too disruptive and got axed.
Some quotes from the article:

“These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare. “It’s so easy to cause so much damage.”

"He likened the technique, which uses a long-known flaw in the Internet’s basic plumbing, to using a machine gun to spray an entire crowd when the intent is to kill one person."

The hyperbole here is astounding. DNS amplification attacks and generic DDOS attacks are nothing at all like that. Why do these silly articles continually relate them to war and weapons that kill humans?

Edit: I read once in the monthly cryptogram that a DDOS is more like the Russians sending a million man army to go stand in line at the local DMV. They deny normal customers the service, they do not kill them. Denying access and killing are two very different things.
ReasonWell - Productive Online Policy Debate
Professor Enlists Android Phones in Search for Black Holes
A Linux Conspiracy Theory
Are there corporate threats to Linux? There seems to be evidence for it
There is a port of Googles closure-template system. It compiles closure templates to CL functions. They work pretty well. I have written about them in the book: http://lispwebtales.ppenev.com/chap04.html#closure-template

It also compiles to js, so you can even share templates between the client and the backend.

I'm experimenting with using both sexml and closure-template, but in the book I use almost exclusively sexml to make the code simpler. Also s-expressions are much easier to type in than sgml :)
this looks lovely. can't wait to use it for internals
Usernames:

hostmaster
webmaster
filemaster
(anything ending ...master really)
abuse
ssl

Subdomains:

ftp
smtp
pop
(everything listed in /etc/services)
(anything related to your naming/branding)
(country codes)
How to setup a Scalable Wordpress blog on Amazon AWS
While I don't disagree with this opinion, I believe that there is also a positive side of the problem and I have expressed my opinion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447184
It's in the appendix A: http://lispwebtales.ppenev.com/chap06.html#appendix-a-gettin...
The email they sent out said:

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The Trouble with Using Git for Prose
If you really want to understand, do some reading. Different (conflicting) economic theories, history, philosophy..

It's quite easy to broaden ones perspective, if that's actually the goal.
This will sadly only serve to make 'criminals' smarter in their attempts at secrecy, and result in ordinary people becoming criminalised...
I watched The Ring once and must have left the TV on, because later that night I woke up to a light coming from the living room. I went in and the TV was doing the "white noise / static" thing exactly like in the movie.

I turned it off, unplugged it from the wall and thought, "ok, if that happens again I can officially shit myself."
Update Nexus 4 to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with RootBox v3.9.1
Google Alerts + email filters = makeshift RSS reader. Now if Google cans Alerts I'll throw down.
Volkswagen Levitating Car
Food processing: assumption: people do not want to know what goes into their food. Reality: people want to make an informed decision on the price and provenance of their food

-> food tracking systems, starting with farms and migrating from there - probably using invoices to track what goes where? Hard to see a workable solution

Others?
Except that Passport meant using a single authority (Microsoft), whereas Persona is entirely federated (once individual domains opt-in).
>so most people can get the goods they want at the quality they want without needing to buy international goods

It's not like you need one book of poetry per year, and since you have american poetry you don't have a need for French or Chinese. That might make sense for cars, tables, cheese and the like, but cultural exchange is not about "goods" and "quantities". Either you are curious about what other nations cultural offerings or you are not.

The US market, generally, is not curious at all.

>Those who disagree can get any cultural good they want.

Closed culturally is not about "availability". Especially ever since the internet where everything is available everywhere. It's about actual consumption of foreign cultural goods. Which, with the exception of anime and some such, is nearly zero.

>There's all kinds of foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves, and when there's a critical mass of people the market serves them rather well - for example, television networks like Telemundo.

How does the presence of "foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves" and some tv networks for the latin community in Florida, negate that the US is culturally closed?

It only reinforces it: the foreign movie theaters are, as you say, targeted to their respective ethnic communities.

Cultural openness would be for the average american to listen to foreign music, watch foreign movies, and such. Not for some Mexican immigrants in LA to listen to Mexican music.
I just want to again say thanks to everyone who responded or took the time to read what I have written. I've gotten A LOT of good feedback from just about everybody and have even gotten some job offers. Now that is amazing. I'm truly inspired by not only some of the stories posted but also from just words of kindness others have left. Thanks again everybody!
The overload on constants pattern matching is an interesting feature.
So he advocates never subscribing to high frequency feeds because most clients show the contents of all feeds in one big list.

I find that is the wrong way to adress the problem. A more useful solution seems to be a different way to structure an rss reader. Opera for example incorporates one that works alongside its email client. It fixes the issue by treating individual feeds as email folders which can be structured inside more folders and highlighting folders with unread contents as well as displaying their content counts.

This screenshow should demonstrate usefully how easy this makes it to notice new updates on low-frequency feeds while still allowing skimming of high-frequency ones without one interrupting the other:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190786/feeds.png
This has made me sad because we're too far down a far uglier, and less functional route at work to change.
No, Conservapedia is deadly serious. The guy who operates it (Andrew Schlafly) is a real piece of work. And apparently it runs in the family too, since his mom (Phyllis Schlafly) is the main reasons the equal rights amendment got shot down:

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

A pretty big WTF there.
A lot of these aren't actually free. It doesn't say that on the website either, but it would be nice if you could filter by free books.
Couldn't agree more... but I noticed that it depends on the timezone.

If you post questions in the US daytime you get comments which then prompt you to improve your question, but do it in European daytime and the moderators are "little Hitlers".
Interestingly for me it's the reverse: using CoffeeScript lowers the barrier to entry :-)
Trying to find a post that I read within the past week on HN
I've been trying to find a particular post and but I can't for the life of my remember what it was called.

The author openly talked about their blog revenue, along with what they earn from speaking engagements and the like (it linked to a post on the author's blog).

Can anyone recall what it was?
This popped up a few months ago. Unfortunately, not much discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718311
Well then it's nice to see so much of that US money being spent overseas where a great many of the inventions /discoveries /cracks take place.
Rethinking Linkedin
I'm pleased they've come up with a sensible price. £2 per month seems good, perhaps a bit cheap. Weirdly they also offer apps and access in a digital pack for £10 per month.

Newspapers need to offer online only subscriptions. (and that needs to get me through the paywall or allow me to turn ads off).
You'll find that no Perl user would actually stoop to that level.
Similarly: http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com
You're right, it's a bad analogy but people always struggle with trying to analogise things like this that don't have a parallel in the physical world.

If you had the Russian army attempt to blockade shops you would expect a response from the US Army and the shop to be unblockaded in fairly short order.

The dangerous thing about DDOS is not that it's a particularly deadly weapon but that it's powerful enough to do a non-zero amount of economic damage with little/no risk for the perpetrator and that there is no effective counter-measure that doesn't involve throwing money away.
"Please send me the codes? sandeep_31285@yahoo.co.in" (2012 a, b, c, d)
Except for the tab that was active.
That would cost some amount of money for an ISP to implement, and you need to get the major ISPs (most of them are not in the USA, many are in places like China) to all apply it.
Yahoo was uncool years ago, but it's still going, so I can see FB doing the same. The numbers are just too big to die, and although you/we may be bored, it won't stop unless the money stops coming in.
Looks like some great improvements. In some ways having to declare the generics may slow down coding but will improve quality greatly.
Five reasons why the Windows desktop isn't going away
You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.