skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about it, but the code is shit. Cleaning it up would not take much time, but I'm very busy with like a thousand different projects. This is an old version of the Nuuton crawler (V0.2, I think), and is way buggy. And its overly complicated being that it was a crawling/aggregating system for a search engine. I would re-write it in Python (like I did with Nuuton), and take off all the crap. Use something like Scrappy to make development easier.

Though I wish I could do it with someone else (a co-founder, if you will). This sort of thing could make a lot of money in the right markets. They do exist already, but most are antiquated. The advantage that I have is that I do my own email campaigns. So the emails that get sent out are actually A/B tested for performance.

I do plan to offer the actual emails that I sent to get clients for around $20 soon. Its an easy way for freelancers to get clients without much hassles. If you are interested, then shoot me an email.
I really want to like the concept of Glass, but I can't shake the idea that it is pointing in the wrong direction. First Utopia and now Utopian Porn. There are so many things that are revolutionary that we can talk about that Glass will allow.

Imagine: There is an emergency operation. Patient is laying at the table and the surgeon could really use a specialist's help pronto. What better views can we imagine than the actual eyes of the surgeon? (Saving Lives)

There is so much more, but as teaching aid, crime witness aid for police, and so many other non-big-brother things could be done with it that pushes our world into a much better place.
KLM Wants to Send You to Space
I never thought it was a DDoS, can't understand why people think this. Lots of exchanges have been down, one even seemed hacked (turned only a related service was hacked), and meanwhile the price only went up.

The price drop is due to panic selling and lag. It was almost inevitable, also constant in the news. Now it happened and we can move on. The price is back to about 75% of what it was already, and I don't think it'll take more than a few months to break the previous price record. Or seeing how fast it's recovering, perhaps not more than a few days.
> Apparently brown babies are receiving their Ivy League acceptances stapled to birth certificates in the delivery rooms nowadays. You sign up for a lifetime of other systemic issues (Racism? Discrimination? No big), but hey, at least you’re going to Harvard.

This seems to imply that college is supposed to be the sort-of "invisible hand" hand that makes the whole world equal. Just because your parents/grandparents endured some hardships because of a prejudice society, I'm not sure how that ties into college acceptance (or should at least).

If a person earned a 4.5 GPA, they earned a 4.5 GPA. If I earn a dollar, is my dollar less valuable than a black person's dollar? No because it's earned all the same. Maybe I don't have a car and have to bike to work in freezing weather, where the black person has a nice warm car. But when I try to buy a burger with that earned dollar, will I get a discount because it was a little harder for me to earn that dollar?
FB and Google have this info but it's figuring out a way to use their API without username, email, etc. to get their data. I don't know if you can do with IP address or cookies of some sort since they've already been logged into FB or used Google recently without having them login when they first visit your site. It might not be allowed...
"sol diesis", but I believe you refer to reading it while doing solfege with chromatic alterations, where you would read Sol# as "Si", right?

The answer is: I have no clue, I think we do not actually account for flat and sharp when doing solfege.

Or better put: "si" was changed to "ti" in UK to be able to read chromatic alterations without ambiguity.
Most of the latin and slavic world ignored this, AFAICT.

But full discosure: I know very little about music, music theory or music history, I just have vague memories of reading about it.
I experienced two failure scenarios today - they were very different.

Failure Scenario #1 - Buy/Sell Buttons were not working. You would click them - but absolutely nothing was happening. On #MtGoxLive there were a number of us all experiencing exactly the same thing. A few believed it might have been a javascript issue.

Failure Scenario #2 - Once the buttons were activated/fixed - your order was placed in queue instantly, but remained "pending" - on #mtgoxlive, ;;goxlag showed lag time of about 600 seconds - My order went from pending to "executed" exactly according to ;;goxlag.
Seriously impressed with this. At the height of my skating and fitness in general I was almost passing out after having to skate 5 miles. Because of that, I was expecting to open up the link and see this was all done on an electric longboard. Nope. Just solid motivation.
Gold has generally had stable value throughout history, but you are right that it isn't guaranteed. Other commodities like wheat are a little harder to use to back a currency, but from year to year they are fairly stable and pretty much guaranteed to have some value whatever happens.

But US dollars aren't guaranteed to do anything for you either in such a situation. The currency could hyper-inflate tomorrow for all anyone knows, and it has no intrinsic value other than the requirement to pay taxes with it. It seems to work fine as a currency and maintain stable value, but the point is it really isn't backed by anything.
No, it's because their mission above all else is now to reinforce big pharma.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/h...
That's not a bad idea. I'm going to look into this. Thanks!
Have a look at the (293 page) forum thread. You're not the first one to think to do that.
Did anyone notice there was a SEVEN MILLION (USD $) transaction yesterday?

http://blockchain.info/tx/5d9ef693d41cb3bb4c6d98e70ea8b2cc91...

Actually, $7M based on $100 value. If it was @ $200, well $14 Million USD.
It's worth noting that the converse is also true. If you want to rank easily, buy a domain that wasn't renewed that used to have good SEO - I can fairly regularly pick up sites with a few thousand white-hat links and and a 4 or 5 PageRank, restore them to the old cache, and start from there, for a couple hundred dollars. Those links would cost tens of thousands to create.

There are probably a lot of people that would be pissed at me for displaying that information publicly, but oh well.
Yes, it is a huge economy that has decades to stabilize, unlike bitcoin. My point is that it still isn't backed by anything. There is absolutely no guarantee that it will buy anything next year except what people next year are willing to give you in exchange for it (which could change due to a lot of factors.)

Being stable in value, and being guaranteed to have value are two very different things.
I moved all my bitcoins over to BitStamp (https://www.bitstamp.net/) earlier today. MtGox has always felt a little unreliable at multiple levels. They sound earnest in their post mortems, but it's hard to tell if they are sufficiently competent with web technology to be doing what they're doing.
99% motivation, 1% sore everything
Unlike the early 2000s you can squeeze 6 years out of PC and 4 out of gaming PC with only upgrade of the video card. It is a mature market with slowing rate of replacement.
I trade at another exchange that's inside the SEPA zone, has a 6x lower fee, and doesn't require ridiculous amounts of papers to verify yourself (which is illegal to request without a permit from the Dutch CBP, but I can hardly object because then I simply can't transfer fiat currency out of gox). The trading lag was also much lower there.
I have. I popped back into into the middle of nowhere to help take care of some family things. Fortunately and unfortunately, I landed a programming gig while here with a great company. The pay is not market rate but I love the company and what they do (think non-profit free netflix for deaf/blind students with educational materials.)

I'll end up heading back to California eventually.
Having been in the same boat as user 'computador', I second what was said. As an American who has lived in Brazil and Portugal, though, even getting the spoken component down does not always mean full comprehension (as I found out in Portugal). I find myself, sadly, glazing over when Continental Portuguese is spoken because it seems like one long, run-on sentence, spoken inward (if that makes sense, as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese which is spoken outward). It's rather frustrating to be fluent in Brazil (in all ways that matter) but handicapped in Portugal.
All sounds well and good, until you realize that a "bad domain" in the Google-verse isn't limited to spammers, but also for instance domains from which something was published that the copyright-mafia didn't take kindly to. Or whatever other obscure reasons and methods Google may have to blacklist domains.

"Spammy" domains is a a smokescreen. The issue is lack of transparency and accountability of Google when it comes to penalizing domains. We should simple be able to check this, just like with any RBL.

It's highly inappropriate to call those who fall victim to this "suckers", but it illustrates once again how Google feels about the little people.
Holy cow. About 20 years ago i wrote a similar proposal for "improving" notation. My primary aim was for easier sight reading. It didn't go as far as yours. But three key ideas where:

* Add 1 line before bass clef (E) and one line above treble clef (A). That way, both treble and bass clefs become the same (EGBDFA). There's really no reason for your brain which just learned that the 3rd line on the treble clef is B, to suddenly be D on the bass clef... WTH?! This way, the 3rd line is /always/ B!

* Make note-head shapes include its flat/sharpness. Again, there's no good for your brain to have to remember that F is reaaally F#, or be scared of that key sig with 6 flats. Instead let's say a round note is natural, square is sharp, triangle is flat (or some such). Suddenly the note-head /shape/ carries all the info needed for immediate recognition and no on the fly translation is necessary.

* (less radical idea) A third one is writing piano music vertically, like japanese. Why? Because the piano keys are vertical while the music is horizontal. If you turn the music 90 deg clockwise, from left to right the keys match up with the notes from low to high.

Of course if you're a naturally good sight reader, none of this stuff matters, but my gut feel says these will be improvements for new comers.
IIRC at various times, the Time100 online poll has been led by L. Ron Hubbard, Ayn Rand, Kemal Ataturk and Paul Atreides.
Yes, that should also work for Mixed replication.

The rule for Mixed replication is that Statement based replication is performed UNLESS the statement is non-deterministic. Eg. If you are performing an update on a random row ID then a Row-based statement is performed on the slaves.
+100 to this

There is quite a meme to the above effect around.
Look at doubleyourfreelancingrate.com for one.

I completely agree with the above, and would add

1. Sell yourself as maker of custom development software and find a niche you love / are good at (maybe statistics whatever).

2. Really push the Canadian software dev organisation - being high profile helps in all sorts of ways

3. I suggest you focus in getting this sorted full time for several months - it will always be easier to code your product than ensure you have a pipeline of incoem
Can't say we didn't see that one coming. I've always wondered why people only talked about subdomains for bought TLDs.
Github is probably one of the biggest innovations in web since Google. Sourceforge was okay, but it felt clunky and inaccessible, not to mention it lacked really any kind of social aspect. Github brought source control to the mainstream and made open source cool again and made it felt like an actual social thing as opposed to single developers making commits without context to a repository.

If it weren't for Github I probably would never have open sourced the amount of work that I have done since its inception nor contributed to the amount of projects I've committed too.
Next to the pool on the roof.
> Unlike NASDAQ that can rollback/shutdown the market, MtGox has to maintain 24/7/365. I dare say their market's uptime is more critical than the regular stock market.

You are trivializing the real markets. What makes you think this is something that NASDAQ can just "do"? They had a system problem causing delays on Facebook's IPO, and they're still dealing with the shit-storm from that now. Everyone who had poor executions (or missed executions) as a result of the delay is trying to get compensation from the exchange for their technical problem. I haven't checked the exact number recently, but I want to say $21MM is the pool that the exchange has to puke to the "plaintiffs".

Because bitcoin exchanges are not regulated in the same fashion as stock exchanges, I doubt that MtGox will be on the hook for anyone's poor executions.

> I wonder how their stack is setup.

As someone else pointed out, their stack is setup wrong if account management has _any_ impact on their matching engine. Hopefully, it was just the web servers which host both accounts-management and trading UIs. Regardless, there was clearly some resource-sharing which should not have happened.
Oh yes, Google's fitness function is profit, not accuracy.

We've just been lucky enough they're looking at profit on a long enough time scale that loyalty through product quality is a metric they've thought about.
My father works with the guy (or did before he retired) and he's cool with us putting up a tower if we want. Unfortunately, line of site is iffy due to the tree coverage on that end of the property.

There is a company here that does fiber to place of business for either corporations or schools. Unfortunately, it will cost me about $5000 to get everything set up (having the cable run, etc.) and about $120/mo for 10/10.

There's another fiber company in the next county over that says they plan on expanding into the area later this year. I don't know how serious they are, but they offer 50/50, 100/100, and are working on building out gigabit service.

That would be nice.
Vista was nowhere near as bad as people made out, and in fact after SP1 a lot of problems were resolved. Win8 is a car crash its the bastard child of a Desktop/Tablet OS that only really works on tablets.

I actually like the look of Metro and how it works on a tablet, but Microsoft forcing desktop users down this path is not going to work.
Maybe some bitcoins being shuffled around in the exchange?
RubyMine 5.4 is here and ready for Rails 4
Double-spending bitcoins is hard, counterfeiting and general fraud are easy enough crooks can do them.

Also, this is a ridiculous argument because all fist currencies are being manipulated now to avoid a default-inspired crash. Your cash is rotting in your pocket, and your investments aren't making back inflation let alone a profit.
I use a May 2004 Dell Precision 650 running Windows XP every day for VMware, Dynamips Router Simulation, Visio, Outlook, Power Point, Excel, Word, PDF generation. I've got a 150+ Page document open in Word right now.

I realize that a new machine might be a bit faster - but, this current computer has been so rock for the last couple years - I haven't had a blue screen/lockup in 3+ years - that I don't want to mess with anything.

So - I totally agree with you, one of the reasons why Desktop Sales might start to drop, is that for the average office worker, right around 2004/2005, Desktops got "Good Enough" that you really don't need to upgrade.

When Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP, we might see another round of system purchases though.
As satisfying as it might seem to just shoot the slaveholding bastards instead, that ends up being even worse in humanitarian terms.
I really like your Utopia but it is missing many things in my opinion. Mozilla is a luxury afforded by Google finance wise. There are much darker futures ahead as well. The entire rise of the Company over the State is rather scary.

Arguably the most successful software company (Apple) is a poster child of using open software to its closed advantage.

Software literacy is also highly divisive. It highly rewards the literates but punishes the rest. Because of that it is very important that people use it for ideas that are not just profit.

We really need more models like Mozilla, GNU, or Craigslist.
I've spent the last year taking some serious time to compose some music. I always knew how to read sheet music and I think the current notation has survived cause its easy to read and write. This Hummingbird notation looks relatively much more complex to me.
I was going to write the longest comment this site has ever seen, explaining every single bit that's wrong with this idea but I decided to rather keep it short:

>>>> This is the most stupidest idea I have ever come across. <<<<

It's very nature is wrong on so many levels that my head starts to hurt, seriously.

And to offer people, who never got the current system taught well and who have been waiting for something else that would presumably make their lives easier,
a sort of "easy-way-out" solution, rather than attacking the real problem at hand,
is so cheap and just so wrong that I feel sorry for all seconds spend thinking on this bullshit rather than on how to improve the overall teaching/teachers quality.

Forget this crap. Teach the current system the way it's supposed to be teached, learn it the way it's supposed the learned and the reward will be lifelong priceless knowledge and skill.
Privacy protections booted from CISPA data-sharing bill
I have been using NameCheap for about a year now. No issues so far.
GrubHub! My favorite Hub. GitHub is second. Though if they partnered...
Haha nice, I just read through the whole thing and only realized it was april fools when I clicked the link to his future plans! :)
February 18th, 2008 (#365)

https://api.github.com/users/pius

Those were the good old days. Hanging out in #merb, just starting to get my feet wet with contributing to open source. Really great memories.
The matching engine should be separated completely from the rest of system as this is the one component where you want to align with cpu cache and all other kind of crazy low level optimizations. I do agree that mtgox system is slow but we should keep in mind the resource difference both in time and money the large stock exchanges have had time to build their systems. Most of the stock exchanges also don't build their own system but rely on buying one from a independent organization or another stock exchange.

A small nitpick:
Volume is one metric but it does not matter in reality the important part is the amount of transactions on a specific symbol.
Intel Unveils New Atom and Xeon Processors and Future Rack Scale Architecture
Git rebase and merge: keeping it straight
I find your examples "crime witness aid for police" and then "other non-big-brother things" a bit chilling.
Because absolutely everything has to be framed as a dichotomy these days. Drama and conflict are, apparently, the only way to hold the reader's interest.
There are a lot of reasons why people are skeptical of those systems. How could you not be at least a little? And I doubt the internet and life as we know it wouldn't exist if things were different, but it depends a lot what that means.
Hard drive makers have been able to make 1 TB platters for a while, so 5 TB drives wouldn't be a problem at all (or even bigger drives, though in the past few years 5 platters have been the maximum). They simply chose not to make them because the demand even for 4 TB drives isn't so strong.
Exactly. As much as I would find it amusing to blame Microsoft, it's really just a sign of the times. It's a combination of device saturation for general consumers, and hardware stagnation for power users, so that really doesn't leave many in the market for a new pc.
> Haha. As if the JVM needed proper tail calls to get owned every other week. :-)

Correction, the JVM that is made available by Oracle, and most people wrongly think it is the only one.

There are tons of JVM vendors out there.
Personally, I missed the start button.
I bet there are people alive now that will be able to produce something like this sooner than we think. I agree that it is a difficult problem to solve ... I just think that we are the verge of being able to attempt something like this. Start by getting the robot to be able to ride on flat ground then just take it through Tony Hawk's trip tips volumes 1-3 building it up step by step.
Common misconception: Google Glass does not augment your entire field of view, as this article implies. It only occupies the top right corner of it, and looking there for more than a few seconds at a time hurts your eyes. So no, Glass isn't going to change porn like this at all.
The best memories are often unprepared and unplanned, awesome. Thanks for sharing man
Not really.

Some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_ownership

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_estate
The ironic thing about this comment is that, unlike with a USD bank account, I would be happy to give someone my public bitcoin address.
> Github is probably one of the biggest innovations in web since Google.

I love GitHub as much as the next guy, but 99% of Internet users neither know what git is, nor have any need of it. There are a little more than a million users. (EDIT: well no, there are now 3 million.[2])

By contrast, Google is used by over a billion people every month.[1]

[1]: http://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/chart/899/unique-...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Is it me or are 90% of the Microsoft articles voted up on HN slaps to Microsoft. I've been using them for years and really enjoy their tools but, admittedly, don't go for OS upgrades often. Still love XP when I can get it. btw- At work, we're still in cost cutting (e.g. "savings") mode so I haven't had a desktop upgrade since I got there 3yrs ago. I suspect the economy is playing a major role here as well.
Oh, memories of installing Slackware Linux from floppies....
Are there a lot of sites on the web that post opportunities for freelance/contract jobs ?

Except for specific sites like elance, this isn't something I've seen much of.
Iranian scientist claims to have invented 'time machine'
the fact that they can have issues doesn't mean they cannot suspend a stock as part of normal operations if they rise or fall too fast. At least, most stock markets seem to be doing it without issues most of the time.
Think how it must feel to be Thailand, who is the largest rice exporter in the world? The US comes in at number 4 after China and Vietnam and just before India.
The difficult part is to remember which note each lines represent. Especially the left hand keys takes time to learn.
the comment you're replying to is talking about DNS, not a browser keyword.
Then what am I supposed to eat?

Disclosure: I live in China. At home we eat Jasmine (Thai) rice since it is tastier anyways.
Maybe not viewing, but the article also talks quite a bit about filming, in which Glass has a concrete advantage.
they meant from a production perspective, i.e., filming POV-porn.
All true - biked from Aberdeen to Skye over summer. We took no sleeping bags but did get a tent. Hell, it was summer, how cold could it get?
Very. I think we nearly died. It gets cold in Scotland in summer as it turns out.
Fantastic trip.
How does junk like this make it into the news?