skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, a lot of companies use Shodan data for research! For example, if you want a training set for your new webapp fingerprinting software then loading Shodan might be a good start. Or if you want to create whitepapers for your business, to drive sales for a specific product/ service, then Shodan can provide some empirical data to back up your claims. As was demonstrated with the Internet Census 2012, for people with bad intentions it's easier and much less attention-getting to just use a botnet (plus you don't need to go through the typical business agreements as you would with me). I hope that clarifies it a bit!
Yes, I just recently came to the same conclusion in my research of genetic algorithms; that they themselves have parameters that can be optimized. Really wild!
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That's incredible! Thanks for the link :)

EDIT: Bah, too bad they demand proof of secondary education. Sucks for people who couldn't afford college...
Well there was the collusion between the government, police, and courts during the miners strike and also the use of blacklisting.

Then there's the homophobia (another common strand with the kind of control freaks who are attracted to fascism) - guess who said: "children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay".

Then there was the support of war-criminal, torturer, and undisputed actual-Fascist Pinochet, whom she protected from trial and described as "bringing democracy to Chile". There's a reason they say you can tell a lot about a man from his friends.

A telling detail on the corporatocracy was when her economic advisor, Alan Walters, admitted in an interview that they had deliberately kept unemployment high to drive down wages.

I don't consider her explicitly a Fascist, (my own contrary view is that she was more a massive opportunist and somewhat a political fraud, which might even be amusing at some level if it hadn't involved so many deaths) - but some have sincere reasons to see her as having conducted a kind of fascism-lite. If it walks like a duck...
I guess the next evolutionary step is to 3D print them on demand? (quick, someone get me a patent application form)
What about large assets, like big splash images? Those can be quite a bandwidth hog.

EDIT: from the post, IE8 only downloads stylesheets twice. Nevermind.
So, why aren't we talking about browser bytecode you guys? Why is everyone's solution "whelp, you're stuck with js".

Is asm.js going to be a useful halfway point?
How about insects?
Opera Mobile was one of the first things I installed on my Gingerbread phone, but more for the UI than the rendering.
This is what makes me nowadays prefer work on native every time I am given the opportunity to do so.

Too many crazy web projects trying to shoehorn the desktop experience into the browser in a way that has to work the same across multiple browsers and operating systems, which leads to CSS/HTML/JavaScript hacks everywhere, with some customers discussing designs down to the pixel level.
A "bad" search engine should treat robots.txt pretty much in reverse: Anything disallowed should go to the top of the list of things to index.. There are sites out there that uses robots.txt rules to prevent Google from indexing things that should be password protected but isn't...
It's theoretically interesting, but after having coded ios app for the last three and a half years i really don't see any user case where you'd want styles to be dynamic, and not behavior. Either use a UIWebView if you want to include completely dynamic and server-generated content (such as ads), or use native... Do you have any example ?
Either way, it's nothing to worry about. Don't let this hold you back from participating in the future, by the way. Being wrong sometimes is a powerful motivator for learning.
You realize you are talking about coal mines here correct?

If anything, Thatcher's move to get the government out of the coal business was prophetic in many more ways than she could have realized. The market for UK coal was non-existent: the resource was already dead to natural gas and oil.

The modernization strategies of Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US and even Mulroney in Canada were painful, but necessary requirements of countries that were trying to stay ahead of the curve.
The reason people aren't paying for things is because its hard to do, not due to deflationary concerns. If I were confident that the purchasing power of bitcoin was going to continue increasing relative to the USD, and all vendors accepted BTC, I'd immediately move over all of my USD to BTC and spend my BTC on a daily basis.
That's better than the converse (default is prod, yikes!) but there's a risk of a prod server using the dev config, which might appear to work unless your dev environment is firewalled off. I prefer having an invalid or unusable config checked in, so the system doesn't even come up until I deploy the config I intend to use over it.
Ouya will kickstart a homebrew renaissance
Has to be the facebook lead talking about how they deploy code to main site. Absolute fun to watch and learned a ton of cool stuff. Dont have a link, sorry.
No! I do NOT try to authenticate with username/ password! The only exception to that is for FTP, where I try to do an anonymous/anonymous connection (identical to what Firefox etc. do). I put a lot of effort into making the crawling as benign and unobtrusive as possible, so I definitely do NOT try to brute force devices.
The trick to making a rewrite work is to only rewrite what you know how to rewrite. What I mean by that is a lot of people will be working on a project and will at some point say to themself "This project is really hard, I can't get anything done, I have no idea what is going on. My only solution is to do a complete code rewrite". If this is your mindset going into a large refactor, you are bound to either fail, or end up with a system that is just as badly composed as it was before.

On the other hand, if you're saying to yourself "This code really sucks, they wrote their own complex CSV parser, I can rewrite this to use the CSV library in the standard lib" and things like that, no matter how big the task may seem, it'll work out in the end.
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I don't crawl for URLs so it doesn't really factor into the equation for me.
I use http://scr.im/ for this, and quite unlike something that advertises itself as a "condom for your email address," it has cute ladybugs instead.
Smart TVs are dumb
You can also just `git reset HEAD~1` if you want to have your index reflect the changes rather than just working on top of an empty index in a new commit. My workflow is a --no-verify commit on the branch, then when I come back, just reset to the previous commit and continue.

This is pretty much identical to stashing, though I prefer it since it means the part of git I use is smaller.
It doesn't matter if you keep converting your income to BTC as it comes in, because if you spend your USD income instead of buying BTC then you've effectively done the same thing.
...and horrors of math equations and columns in PDF.
We should really come up with some light format where style is separated from data. Make a universal converter from doc and xls files and save world from data stuck in PDFs.
The problem I have with this sort of scheme is the rubber-necking aspect. When a car hits the wall you get a lot of people slowing down to look but its not "interesting" information its more morbid curiosity.

Something I'm looking to play with a bit more is trying to measure discovery 'reaction.' The first test will be trying to score 'reaction' when new blog posts are discovered. By crawling the blogosphere and looking at signals along the lines of activity generated when discovered (as opposed to over all activity) I'm wondering if we can characterize "interesting" information from "oh and here is another example" type information.
And if I see direct evidence that you commited plant abuse to kill it, can I call the police also? I want also to manipulate the other people with my elastic god-rules, created for the ocassion, like vegans do.

Hey a dead cactus, in a minuscule pot... call the FBI!
That's next on my list - starting with a JSON api, maybe I'll make a gem.
ECHELON was revealed by Duncan Campbell in 1988.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist)#E...)

He also wrote a book about the amount of police surveillance going on in the UK.

I hated Thatcher. I wouldn't put the surveillance down to just her. There were plenty of other people involved in making lists and monitoring people. (The building industry would use blacklists of agitators. This was so severe it was one of the drivers for the data protection act, and it was this list that caused the act to be extended to cover non-computerised information too.)

Certainly, it would be odd for people to blame Thatcher for the number of CCTV in the UK now. The UK has about 20% of all the world's CCTV! (I haven't checked this, it was a comment on a Radio 4 news programme so maybe it's nonsense).
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>Isn't this a bit like asking why I can read something from a particular website online for free but someone can't take that free content and have me read it in it's entirety on another website? (Or am I misunderstanding the point you are making?)

It is kind of the same thing -- but it has the same issue. Suppose I set up a public proxy server, or a Tor exit node, or a service like AWS that anyone can route traffic through. Now all the content on "your" website is available through "my" server. Do you suppose that to be unreasonable? That's pretty much what Aereo is doing with broadcasts, isn't it?
They had the right to self-determination, just as the 13 rebel colonies did in seceding from Britain. But they gave up that right a-priori by enslaving an entire section of their population. The same could be argued about the American Revolution, but Britain had not raised any significant complaint about colonial slave-holding, so had no real standing from that perspective.
Wait, how come they release newly-public data to traders on financial markets in easily computer-parseable format like JSON, but PDFs with tables for so much of this stuff?

You'd almost think it's an issue of priorities.
S13 Y Combinator progress
only one week left for the S13 Y Combinator results but curiosity is killing me, so decided to act.

Our videos are unlisted, and using youtube analytics we know that no one other than us, has actually seen any of them. This means that either our application sucks big time, hence no need to see any videos, or there are so many applications that our number has not been reached yet (submitted on last day).

I assume most of us are checking hacker news frequently anyway, so if you (all S13) reply to this thread, we can have a rough idea of the number of applications we are talking about, get hints on video viewing progress, and early knowledge on some of the startup ideas that will participate.

So we are Manolis and Stratos, from Greece, and our startup is weatherxm.com

Nice to meet you...and you are? :-)
You do realize the UK shifted to oil and gas right? While these are more expensive to consumers - or rather, not subsidized through taxes to the same extent - the country actually makes a net profit from this industry.

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

By all means though, if you want to undo Thatcher's actions and return the UK to a 19th century coal society, be my guest.
> Interestingly, -h does not mention -h itself or --help, so the only way to know that --help exists, is someone else telling you, you will never find on your own.

I've found the --help option on probably a dozen commands without ever being specifically told that --help was a valid option.

If you have trouble discovering it you might want to look inward, at least for that particular well-known option.
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It's funny, because besides RDF and NLP, I haven't heard of any of these technologies. Also, it coincides with my current interest in machine learning, so that's great. I will look into these. Thank you!
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Having grown up near Liverpool in the 80's, frankly I wished they'd just bulldoze the place. Does no one remember Derek Hatton and the loony left?
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but watching Alan Kay describe Ivan Sutherland's program "Sketchpad" was monumentally jaw-dropping for me.

To wit, "Sketchpad" was the first GUI program.

It featured:
* Interactive graphics
* Constraint-based layout
* Object Oriented Programming
* Pen-based input

Sutherland wrote "Sketchpad" as part of his Ph.D. thesis in 1963.

1963.

Here's some links on this:

Alan Kay describing "Sketchpad"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg

Wikipedia Entry for "Sketchpad"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
One real-life example (told to us by a customer): imagine you have a "spring sale" that you want to promote to your customers. You want to customize the look of the app, perhaps rearrange a few things, change the look, etc. You want to do this for a period of time, and perhaps even for a certain geographic or demographic area. With Pixate, you could push new CSS and assets as needed, then revert when the sale is over. You could even push different looks to different users, etc. Effectively, Pixate is the flexibility of web with the power of native.
I liked what he was trying to do, but he may have been too upscale for what that JC Penny as brand has become. Also the fact that JC Penny was based in Texas is just a bad omen for a company focused on making retail fashion exciting.
20Gbps is only 2.5GB/s, sounds like I can't even saturate x16 PCI-Express lane running at 252.08 Gbps (=31.51 GB/s) so much to "Thunderbolt"!

Correct me if I'm wrong.

The only reason that would make me buy a Macbook Pro is that I can attach eGPUs to it (and hopefully eCPUs in the future aswell).

Sources: Google, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb3.0#Thunderbolt

https://www.google.de/#q=20gigabit++to+gigabyte

EDIT: Added sources.
I agree there are UI changes, though after a few weeks they made perfect sense to me. Converting the start menu to a full-screen experience throws people off at first, sure. It's not obvious that you can tap the "windows" key on your keyboard and just start typing to find anything (programs, files, control panel, etc).
The cap is only meant for new H1B applications. Those with already existing H1B visa or held a H1B visa in the past are exempt from this cap
Now I will finally read the paper.
Websites built entirely in Flash are horrible in most cases.

You also cut out a massive section of mobile users that can't use your site when on the go.

Check here for some tips specific to a restaurant site: http://www.better-restaurant-websites.com/
Clarified on the site, thanks.
I love the seed round in 65 characters:
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNYNNYYYYYYYYYYY"

Really explains raising money to somebody who has never done it before.
It's really only an accident of history that there's such a sharp division between humans and other animals in terms of intelligence and advanced culture. If we'd developed technology while there were still intermediate species like Australopithecus and Homo Habilis around, it would have lent greater clarity to the fact that we are just a branch of a varied tree.

Choose any random cow or other livestock animal. You and Bessie have at least one common ancestor.
I think that's only true if it was known how many wallets were actually lost. As is, the fraction of worth captured in that wallet can never be re-distributed to other people who own bitcoins, because the wallet is never decommissioned, just dormant.
This looks pretty optimal for a little app I'm building. I've been bolting bits to Sinatra and using it as a half-API-half-template engine for a frontend I built, this looks far cleaner. I'm curious about security though, what's stopping a user from plugging in random data via the console?
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Cool, the angle I'm planning to go for is the one Nikolas0 mentioned - an API and plugins so that it can be integrated into things like blogs and forums easily.
Software Development. There's your answer.
Of course; I don't subscribe to that belief. Just explaining why it is so prevalent here.
It's a cool hack but it's pretty much DOA.

It's a modified version of WebKit. WebKit devs won't allow this to be part of WebKit itself (https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...).

Even if it's actively maintained (and maintaining a fork of WebKit, even if it adds just one feature, is super hard), it'll be of extremely limited appeal.

Basically it's a custom, "toy" browser that you have to download and the ruby scripts you write will not be usable by anyone else (because no one else will use that browser).

There's no way this thing gets traction.

Nevertheless: kudos to the author for a cool hack.
Thanks - you enlightened me. Typical aloof nerd behavior - just assuming that other people do not understand the complexity and you do. I am from India and have been following the Indian patent industry since early 2000s including when they switched over from process-patenting to product-patenting (http://www.lorandoslaw.com/Publications/Changes-in-Indias-Pa...). And that 95% free distribution is Novartis' assertion and they heavily regulate the distribution of the drug - you never know how many people who actually needed the drug got it. And guess what, the Indian Supreme Court (and India is a democracy) disagreed with Novartis in terms of how novel their invention was (thus effectively mooting your point).

But, of course, being the ever-cool nerd you are - you know everything and have already proclaimed others are ignorant/flagrant personalities.
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Not standard, but an option would be nice.
I'm not sure how involved you guys get with the post-delivery processes (i.e. what the companies do with the food after it's delivered), but here's an idea you can communicate to try and solve that: One of the things I asked our lunch caterers to do was to put the vegetarian food at the very end of the lunchline. People tend to pile their plates with the food they see first (I believe Google modified its lunchlines to include healthier food at the start of the line due to this phenomenon [0], which is what gave me the idea) so if the vegetarian food is at the end, the omnivores will have less room on their plate for what they sometimes perceive as side dishes.

It worked. Our vegetarians always have food to eat now (there's even leftovers).

Of course if you don't have an ordered line, just have a vegetarian volunteer run over and horde/separate all the vegetarian food before the others get to it. This is what we do for dinner.

[0] Source: http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2013/...

Edit: Added source for the Google article
Thunderbolt was introduced in 2011 with support for 10Gbps PCIe transport and DisplayPort 1.1 (8.64 Gbps). DisplayPort 1.2 (which allows for 17.28 Gbps) was finalized at the end of 2009. It's a bit surprising that it took Intel this long to announce this update.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. The animus toward black republicans starts in the black community, not in the liberal community. Very very few black people identify as republican, it's practically taken for granted that the republican party does a terrible job of making blacks feel like we are part of their constituency. Furthermore most republican leaders are from districts with either few blacks altogether or few affluent blacks.

Liberals are not destroying the credibility of black republicans, the black community has a profoundly negative view of black republicans.
A Samsung SmartTV is similar. I have often ranted aloud to my television about hardware developers considering Single Responsibility when designing. Most of the time I just need my screen to be a screen.
Yeh we should definitely work on this when you are in town :) the storage part of pouch is nearing being complete and stable, the server infrastructure was next on the list (after docs etc)
Nothing, all they can do is fuck up their own data.
Actually THIS is why I love HN, because it gives me access to data like this comment, which while anecdotal, helps me validate my idea. My guess is that most perks businesses offer mean NOTHING to their employees but that there are perks out there that would.
Looks nice. Can it animate over time?

I find historical radar animations give a good idea about short term precipitation forecasts.
It's cached by URL, so I would assume (but haven't tested) that a different protocol would be cached separately.
Awesome unique value proposition. Well done! :-)
I hate fancy flash websites. Watch manufacturers are also guilty of this.

I just want to know when they're open; where they are; a number for me to make reservations; and the menu.
With the whole 'built-in Plex' thing that LG TVs had, I was actually pretty interested in getting one. After seeing them in action, I've realized that these people obviously don't test their software in any real circumstances.

Companies building 'smart' devices need to ensure that the core interactions people are going to have with their devices are as good as or better than the alternatives.

What LG could easily have done is built a small, always-on device core which defaulted to a splash screen containing inputs on the left and favorites on the right. Powering on the TV would be just warming up the LCD display, a few seconds at most. If your current input is inactive, show the splash screen. Otherwise, go straight to your content.
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"I don't see the same enthusiasm towards tech and startup in Toronto that I see here in The Valley."

Having tried establishing my startup in Toronto before, I fully agree with your statement. I know at least 6 more people who got frustrated trying to start tech companies in Toronto/Waterloo and finally gave up and moved to US/valley.

Most Canadian govt funding programs for startups (I tried) are for politicians to handout to their supporters. You need to be incredibly well-connected to overcome the barriers set to get funding.

Most people involved in startup/tech wouldn't give a chance to local startup unless there was validation from someone in US or valley. It was funny that one local VC I was trying to connect with wouldn't return my calls. One evening, when I sent him an email mentioning that I have a meeting with a NY VC next day, the guy calls me 11pm in the night wanting to know more about my startup.

Without valley/NY connections, it is incredibly difficult in Toronto for a tech startup.
Agreed! At the time, this TV was a great deal, even when compared to non-smart models. Now I'd gladly take the feature-hit to have a more responsive UI.
Same with Vizio. I timed it to just under two minutes to get to the Neflix movie list from cold start -- Even my four-year old laptop with a HDD is faster than that. I'm thinking of replacing the TV now with a dumb Samsung and a Roku. How can they get it _so_ bad?
It did happen long time. It just died because of lack of adoption.

<script> tag has a type attribute. IE used to (still does?) support Visual Basic as a script. See http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_howto.asp

But even the combined might of IE and Microsoft (that was long time ago, when Microsoft and IE were mighty) couldn't get it broadly adopted so it's effectively dead.
A shame many linkification scripts won't support this in editors, though: //news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514784.

Does anyone have any experience writing regex for this?