skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though I rarely even used a classic paper book to read in the last years I still consider books to be more comfortable and less distracting. Furthermore as long as we don't resolve the issue of long term data storage books are going to continue to play an important role.
I don't believe he went too far, I think he is just trolling. As someone who lost a close friend in a war and who had grandparents who lose relatives because of the Soviets and the Nazis, I think he's just talking bullshit in trying to advance the old Randian Gospel and its false dilemmas of calling everyone Socialists.

I was to answer him, but I could not believe he's doing this to listen,as he claim. I also would not hold my anger.
most of these services wouldn't be around if they had taken that advice ;)
His first Internet adventure was back in 2000...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/655740.stm

"Police had to step in to keep order among investors queuing to buy shares as the internet gold rush swept dramatically into Hong Kong.

A crowd of about 30,000 people formed outside one of the few banks where small investors could apply for shares in internet firm tom.com.

...

Thousands of investors pushed and shoved through queues stretching back as far as half a mile to hand in their forms at the worst hit HSBC branch in Kowloon.

Analysts have predicted that the Hong Kong firm's share sale will prove to have been a record 2,000 times over-subscribed."
Personally I use the free version of Zarafa for that.
In any case I know who to blame if things go south.
How to Rip Blu-ray for Google Nexus 7 on Mac
Nexus 7 carries Google’s latest mobile operating system, Android Jelly Bean, a very sweet bean referred by many insiders.

To most customers, the most used feature of Google Nexus 7 maybe is its entertainment value, for example watching movies on this 7-inch HD screen. Speaking of HD movies, can you watch Blu-ray video on it? Yes, you can. As the best Blu-ray Ripper software for Mac platform, DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac will help you rip anyBlu-ray to Google Nexus 7compatible video files on your Mac computer.
"I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem."

This is one of my Jedi-level secrets of technical management.

I am quick to say I have a huge ego, because anyone who knew me would fight to say it first. The fact that I know what I know and have a good feel for where I'm weak lends me confidence in those situations where I'm mostly out of my depth.

I've managed ultra-introverted developers for about makesmesoundold years. Numerous are the times I've asked a question and gotten no answer. "How would we go about accomplishing x?" "How long would it take us to do y?" "What letter comes after z?"

Crickets

Throw a proposal just plausible enough that people think you're serious, but so "insane" that it almost defies logic ("what if we put, say, hmm...log base two of 2097152 is 21...jQuery callbacks in an HTML file full of id'd divs..."), then it's as if a tiny rock starts rolling down a hill. First one person offers a criticism, and then we get more people engaged, throwing out the alternatives that they would have suggested in the first place.

Eventually, they recognize the game, and then it's a fun brainstorming activity. Or you fire three as a message to the others.
no, there's lots of applications for low-latency connections. the reason algorithmic trading is special is that the financial people are the ones who have a valid business case for installing low-latency connections. is it worth a couple of billion dollars for you to jam remotely?
Show HN: Another YouTube videos site
Interestingly enough, there seems to be questions regarding the book as a factual source. This is taken from the amazon link you provided:

Recently, there have been questions about the accuracy of some parts of this book. At this time, Tantor Media will continue to make it available to our customers, but we wanted to make you aware of the issues. Here is a statement from the hardcover publisher of the book, Henry Holt and Company:"It is with deep regret that Henry Holt and Company announces that we will no longer print, correct or ship copies of Charles Pellegrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima due to the discovery of dishonest sources of information for the book. It is easy to understand how even the most diligent author could be duped by a source, but we also understand that this opens that book to very detailed scrutiny. The author of any work of non-fiction must stand behind its content. We must rely on our authors to answer questions that may arise as to the accuracy of their work and reliability of their sources. Unfortunately, Mr. Pellegrino was not able to answer the additional questions that have arisen about his book to our satisfaction."The Last Train from Hiroshima offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb's survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative's core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand-the Japanese civilians on the ground and the American fliers in the air. Thirty people are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki-where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of the cataclysm at ground zero both times. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell in which Yamaguchi had been standing, placing him and a few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection, while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within a narrative that challenges the "official report," showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki-and why.
Implicit in this statement is that "figur[ing] out what the world looks like" -- and then accepting that status quo -- is, or ought to be, the goal of all people.

At least the first part seems like a perfectly fine goal. You can't know what needs fixing if you don't know what's broken. Even if you know what you want something to look like, you can't know how to get there if you don't know where we are.
Given that the speed of light is approx 300,000 kilometers per second and that latency of greater than about 20ms starts to interfere with most musicians (and probably less for skilled artists), you're looking at a hard limit of about 6000km for a jam session, and that's assuming zero latency in the rest of the signal chain. In practice anything over 3000km/2000 mi is likely to be a problem, so live jams between NYC and Tokyo are probably never happening unlesss we come up with some clever way to exploit spooky action at a distance.
I would have left a comment on the main article, but it asked me to solve 3+53 as a captcha, and expr kept segfaulting for some reason.
The Future of World and Technology in 2031
If you value your privacy, it would be prudent to assume any unencrypted communication of yours is compromised.

That includes unencrypted email and any unencrypted data stored on a server not under your control.

Even your encrypted communication might be compromised at some point in the future, given the odds that it has probably been logged by someone as it travelled from hop to hop through the Internet.

Once encrypted data leaves your control, anyone intercepting and logging it can attempt to crack that data at their leisure, virtually indefinitely.

Laws may stop some law-abiding entities from trying. But I wouldn't count on it.
> if the person does it on purpose, then we're talking about something else altogether and there's no reason to simply "don't get offended".

You run the risk of becoming a source of cheap entertainment to them, like small children who poke a dog with sticks through a fence. If they do this to you in front of others — especially if they do it subtly — they can cause other people to see believe that you are unreasonable, unreliable, or overemotional. And, if you are in a competitive situation where your loss is their gain, they may be able to cloud your judgment with anger so that you make mistakes, making them better off.

So even when people are trying to offend you on purpose, it isn't always beneficial to let them.
I think the problem is that the user has set Chrome to run on boot. If he removed Chrome from the startup list this problem would not occur.
Curious where that 2 million market size came from. All the estimates I've seen put the US market in the low hundreds of thousands. I've also read something that said only 90k merchants make more then $15k a year.
Does YC plan to make a financial return on its Watsi investment? If so, how do they plan to do so given that it's a non-profit?
Apart from it is complicated. You need to prove who is behind the attack and you are not going to be proving anything with a list of thousands of IPs running open dns resolvers which, as far as they are concerned, show that you were just requesting tons of DNS records yourself.
To change the status quo, you must find out what it is first. The idea that is deeply conservative is the opposite: that people are better off in ignorance of what the world looks like.
I agree that the DRM issue definitely needs to be addressed, but I wouldn't say it's a flaw with electronic books so much as a flaw with the marketplace they are in.

Especially in this case, that limitation doesn't apply.

I definitely wish I could draw in my ebooks though, since some things can't be put into words.
Google App Engine provides Full Text Search API (experimental)
No. The money we gave them was a donation, not an investment in the sense of buying stock.
Guido Van Rossum Should Retire (and focus on python)
Run your own server, that's what I'm doing. Yep, it took a while to setup everything correctly. But it was a nice learning process too, so it wasn't complete waste of time. Now I'm also fully independent, I can use any Linux hosting or run my own hardware server where ever I want to.
https, imap, smtps, webmail, learning and list based spam filtering, in / out going mail, gpg encryption, automated incremental backups every 4 hours, full backup monthly etc. I also got working certs with my mail server. Many providers do not provide that, not even Google.
Wikipedia, for once, is instructive about a tech-related subject. Or perhaps it's just being entertaining. ;)

The main Wikipedia page on Cyberbunker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker reminds us both that Spamhaus has gone after them before, including interceding with their ISP, and that Pirate Bay was at one point hosted there.

The associated Wikipedia talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACyberBunker suggests, among other things, that Cyberbunker has claimed to be an independent country (apparently on the theory that a former NATO base isn't actually Dutch territory).
I think the problem is that the user still had his/her speakers turned on. They should've been turned off or muted, same with his/her cellphone (if any).
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Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat: Winners of ACM-Infosys 2012 Award
Cute. One "solution" of course is to set the 'On startup' setting to anything other than 'continue where I left off.'.
For a similar but non LXC version of the same idea check out http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html

Basically it records all the dependencies an application touches while running and creates an environment you can tar up and use on basically any system of the same arch. It even works cross distro. Wouldn't really work for 'the cloud' as you don't get the same security and isolation as LXC and you have to make sure all the execution paths are triggered but for a lot of apps it works great and it's ridiculously easy to use with no setup.
OP: thanks for mentioning us (https://circleci.com)!

That's a lot more 3rd party services than most use - do you find major differences in reliability?
Ask HN: What is your strongest natural intelligence? Worried about mine.
Hey guys,
I need help! Some background info on me, went to a bad HS, didn't do amazing. Got into a decent school for CS. And I am currently still there finishing my first year off.Now my question - should I opt for something that utilizes my strengths more?

Strengths and weaknesses - I could basically write a novel on all of my perceptions about myself. If I had to pick my greatest strength, it would be my close relationship with myself. I know this sounds crazy, but I have done a lot of research on understanding myself, and although not proven scientifically, it is generally true that people generally have intelligences in certain categories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences#Logical-mathematical

So, because of this, I am going to class with people who are logically more talented than I am. I have been able to hang in there because I started programming before college, and I am extremely motivated to do it even though it takes me 3X as long to understand. Where it shows even more is in my math classes, where obviously as strong logical mind is crucial - my only classes where I don't get A's.

Other CS students beat me in logical thinking, but I understand myself and my goals more, and therefore am more motivated. Understanding myself more also means I can generally relate to others easier. In fact, although I am basically introverted, when having "real" conversations with people, I really connect.

So I have a big weakness, which causes me to learn advanced/theoretical concepts more difficultly, but I also have a big strength, which gives me infinite amounts of motivation to do anything that I feel is advancing myself to where I want to be; also I have better social skills than MOST (in general) technical people.This motivation makes me dream – it makes me think of “bigger” things, I click better with philosophy/english students than my own kind.
Opinions?
Hi, I used to write code like your 21 nested callbacks, so I'm baffled by your friend's assertion that no programmer would be so patient. I've always thought that the patience to grind endlessly at a problem (or bug) without an obvious solution was one of the more laudable shared virtues of our tribe. Patience is, in fact, a vital part of my learning process.

In fact, I think that's probably a part of the reason why some programmers don't have patience for beginners with a lot of questions. It's because beginners actually have Google and StackOverflow these days, so it might seem like laziness to someone who had to learn using books and man pages. It's not that they don't like to share their knowledge, it's that they think the answer is already there if you'd bothered to look. I'm not saying that they're right to have that attitude, by the way. I'm just trying to present things from their perspective.
Do you have a demo for it somewhere?
Of encrypted traffic?
I think you're being fatalist by assuming it will. Having grown up in Europe and lived in several countries over there, I've generally found doctor's visits on that side of the pond no more rushed than over here, and indeed somewhat less stressful as there's less paperwork/financial overhead to deal with.

People who are skeptical of socialized medicine often paint a picture of it as a grim conveyor belt of impersonal if not callous treatment, exacerbated by the suggestion that waiting rooms are clogged with people who run to the doctor for treatment of the most minor symptoms. The reality is wholly different; while 'bedside manner' can vary, I've always found medical professionals at least as attentive as here. If anything there's slightly less emphasis on the division of labor than in the US, so you don't have that experience of being bounced around like a pinball between many different people and having to repeat yourself frequently.
This is way too long for a pitch. Not only that, it also consists of great swaths of text that are ridiculously easy to skim over that are content-light and have no attention-grabbing openers.

You _need_ some diagrams on here. I could barely make it through the 3rd paragraph before skipping to the bottom to see if there's any kind of tldr or visual aid so that I wouldn't have to read all that crap.
Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..
Its all about HOPE, man! Its the drug that you need right now. Do whatever you need to do to plant as many seeds of hope that you can. You need to slowly work out the things in life that are killing your hope. Building positive friendships will help, too. You have time to build a good life for yourself.

Just look at all the comments and suggestions all these people have posted. If you need help, just ask for it. But you will need to work on changing things that you can and they may be hard. Life can get you down. Even in the darkness of days, there are always bright sunny days ahead of you!

Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Near the bottom of the industrialized world? That's a pretty fantastic claim for data that involves so much fraud.

For example, Japan's life expectancy is 83, right? Errr, nope not so much. You're no doubt aware of the vast fraud involved in Japanese welfare programs involving dead elderly.

The US is within a small margin of difference with many of the other major industrialized countries when you adjust for fake reporting. The US happens to have one of the best data accuracy rates when it comes to reporting death - or did you think Bosnia and Russia really have a 50% lower infant mortality rate than the US (the same Russia whose men live to 60)?

The US life expectancy is 78.5, that compares to 79.3 for South Korea, easily within a +/- margin of difference. The UK is 80, ditto Germany, again, it's trivially easy to skew these numbers artificially higher with fraud, but even in that case the difference isn't exactly dramatic. You're going to toast the US over a year variance on data that is not very accurate or proven? Yeah ok.

And if you really want to get into the data: the US is the best country on earth when it comes to the top 85%, because the real problem with the US is poverty and diet among the bottom 15%. THAT is our real problem. If you compare the top 85% in each country, the US comes out at the top. But you're not interested in that discussion I'm sure.
Cheeseburgers, you don't even need to ask the farmer about slopping his pigs. Just ask for directions.

"Slow down when you get to the old Willoughby place, you'll know it by the brick shed they built in back, because the statey likes to sit behind the hill and catch speeders, and after five minutes, you'll want to go left..."

I grew up on the extreme western frontier of Flyoveria, in Eastern Washington State. We had a culture of the same sort of accreted experience that results in journeymen in their various careers. There's a reason a lot of phrases such as "college boy," "doesn't know sh8t from Shinola," etc. tend to be more common, and it's not just because they're "folksy." On the other hand, they really want to save people from themselves if they're willing to learn, and they'll tell you all you need to start farming pigs. You'd better be ready to help him with his computers, though, even if he's running his farm on a Kaypro II.

In programming, there's not as much of a long-term investment in the apprentice-journeyman-master guild-style system, although you can find pockets here and there. I have lamented it and pondered the reasons for its erosion over the past 20 years, but I can't say with real authority why we don't have it any longer, other than an expected lack of tenure at any organization.

It's not like big law or finance, where your first firm is there to grind you out of the business before your second firm decides if you're up or out.
I can confirm this solution works for me.
I don't think it's necessary to set Chrome to run on every boot, I think it's registering to be restarted once after the unattended reboot that Windows Update is doing.

edit: Yep, it's calling RegisterApplicationRestart: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#search/&q=...
We're adding a premium tier in a few days, with some nice premium features.
Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P.

Also note that currently DataChannels do not support reliable transfer and have a small MTU, so sending enormous files does not yet work. With PeerJS you can send smaller files, but larger ones will take an unreasonable amount of time.
The spring neither makes it deadlier (such a blade is not particularly deadly) nor does it make it dramatically easier to conceal carry (either is small enough to fit easily in my pockets). Had I not lost the plastic sheath (considering they are kept in cabinets anyway, what is the point?) to my paring knife, either would safely fit in my pocket and be deployable fast enough for any attempted homicide. The difference between the two as a murder weapon is stupidly negligible, the advantage of the spring and folding action are only cumulative over long term normal use. Sheath get lost, and regular pocket knives become tiresome; both issues that I assume are not a problem on the rare occasion you find yourself in a knife fight in a Broadway play.

The idea of spring loaded folding knives being super enhanced murder tools is a fantasy in the minds of people who have watched too many movies from the 50s. I mean seriously, what do you picture? People squaring up for knife fights in dark alleys where every millisecond counts? Give me a break.
I've visited the a-bomb dome in Hiroshima, and agree 100%.
Thats pretty pointlessly dismissive. Its great that there are people who like finding elegant solutions to problems but in the same hand its also great that there are people who care more about solving users problems than generating pretty code. (I would count myself in the latter group)
A simple jQuery Mobile page for organizing weekly workouts
Except that according to the article, Cyberbunker admits to being the perpetrator of the attacks. They also brag about fending off SWAT teams in the past (which does seems unlikely).
Summary: The FBI admits they aren't capable of performing MITM SSL attacks, and that Google is currently providing them with private data. Because of this, they want some sort of real-time inspection powers that do not depend on Google's cooperation.
I have no idea, I've never used one. Those have always seemed like very silly knives to me.
The docs say "Note that the server is only for brokering connections and does not proxy data between peers."

So what browser API does the PeerJS use to exchange data with something other than a server, particularly another browser?

Is this it? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol...
I've filled reports to ic3.gov and the police. Haven't gotten a response from either one.

Unless you are paying your hosts tens of thousands a month, they don't help you either and usually want to drop you unless you pay them extra.
You can watch this: http://vimeo.com/61919007
Firefox 'solves' this by only loading tabs that have been given the focus upon auto-restart.

So, if you have 10 tabs opened, and your computer restarts and Firefox is opened, the only tab that will actually load is the one that was last active.
You're right; we should do a better job of communicating this. Right now, you have to click on the invest button to see the terms, and to further complicate things, many of the startups use the YC VC Fund Note, which delays the setting of the valuation.
Agreed. 'Accepting' doesn't even mean you have to like it. It's aligning your perceptions with reality. To get more mileage out of this horse, if you accept (especially if you are initially offended at the notion) that the world is unjust in its treatment of women, minorities, the poor, the rich, etc., then you can rationally determine if or how you can work to correct it.