skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is obvious hack value in this, which I appreciate, but here's a solution for those with a more practical mindset and less time: a Fujitsu ScanSnap connected to a computer running Dropbox. I've been using this setup for years now and I can't image working without it. A single button press scans entire multi-page documents (both color&bw, and both sides of course) into PDFs which land in my Dropbox. I then use Yep to manage them.
> Sadly, Reddit can't offer up a collective apology.

If course they can - not Reddit the company, but a group of individuals sure can. We have petitions, donations, and signature-gathering for all kinds stuff, why not for this? Make it large, make it public, make it heart-felt - let's stand publicly behind the Tripathis and say this was wrong and offer anything we can do to help.

I would urge everyone who hasn't already to watch the video they put together, pleading with Sunil to come home. You couldn't find a more likable collection of people, it is really really touching. Let's return the favor. Let's apologize. Let's try and help finding him.
Whatever happened with SCTP?
I see your point and tend to agree. The right title is "I'm trying to meet new people online" except it's too long. I'd like to try and make social networking more efficient so people will spend even less time online. We'll out it'll work.
This is the latest message: http://i.imgur.com/ogDhMQp.png
I'd be more pressed by a day without bitbucket, as i only have public repos on github, they ought be mirrored somewhere.

That's considering those services are down and i don't have access to any of my many machines with local copies
On "putting people at risk":

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So if we look at the attacks on us, they always talk about the words "placed people at risk." But risk relative to what? Is it a proportionate risk? Is it a risk that is significant enough that it is even worth speaking about?

So these rhetorical tricks are often used by people who are making their argument in relation to security. What has to be done is people need to engage in an intellectual defense against manipulation by rhetoric by understanding that if someone mentions that there is a risk without saying the risk is higher than crossing the road, or the risk is twice that of being stung by a bee, then you must ignore it. Similarly with possibility versus probability.

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There's also a Multipath TCP patch for FreeBSD 10-CURRENT:

http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/mptcp/tools.html

Slides with more info:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/slides/slides-84-mptcp-2
I'm not disagreeing with the fact that taking a different approach to a mobile OS could be successful, simply that there is a certain expectation that people have about mobile and if you are not following that then you will have to convince people that this way is better.

Is this possible? of course, if its better it will win out. But this is definitely a hurdle that needs to be over come. Convincing people that they way they are use to is worse then an alternative is often a difficult task, especially for a device that pretty much never leaves someone's side. I even notice that people often have a lot of difficulty switching between Android and iOS if they have used one for a significant period of time, and most of the differences between these two platforms are fairly minimal.
I've never seen it mentioned outside the Stevens book and that it was supported in java 7
> Is releasing photos of someone and accusing them of murder really not considered libel in the US?

It depends on the particulars of the accusation, but probably not.

Saying "I think you killed her" is a statement of opinion. If that is an opinion the speaker legitimately holds, then it would probably not be considered libel. Generally libel needs to be both false and malicious.

Proving malice is hard, so libel/slander is usually a difficult case to win. That's one of the things that makes it different than other venues, where intent (and sometimes even falsity) are not required.
This could be just the first part--remember that the last page was called NOTYET and shows a hand covering a handwritten journal page, implying that the story of why's escape from the Jobsians (which you can barely make out between his fingers) will be published in the future.
Interesting mainly because of the importance of a coding error, as further described here: http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-rep...

"As Herndon-Ash-Pollin puts it: "A coding error in the RR working spreadsheet entirely excludes five countries, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, and Denmark, from the analysis. [Reinhart-Rogoff] averaged cells in lines 30 to 44 instead of lines 30 to 49...This spreadsheet error...is responsible for a -0.3 percentage-point error in RR's published average real GDP growth in the highest public debt/GDP category." Belgium, in particular, has 26 years with debt-to-GDP above 90 percent, with an average growth rate of 2.6 percent (though this is only counted as one total point due to the weighting above)."
Many of these people don't care about "support" from Microsoft. They care about compatibility with some piece of mission critical software, whether it's a DOS-based app, an old FoxPro database that won't run on a newer release (compatibility mode what?), or an ancient version of Peachtree that can't be upgraded without going through ten intermediate versions.

Or, for a significant number of businesses, support for some expensive custom hardware that came with a software package that runs on (for example) Windows XP, but doesn't work because of the device driver architecture changes on Windows 7. The odds of places like that upgrading just to get a new version of IE are approximately zero, and even less if part of that software solution actually uses IE specifically.
Kneejerk much?

The context is server hardware. Apple gave up on the market; the only relevant offering is the very low end Mac Mini Server.
Exactly why any sort of autoplay on the page is bad.
Not to derail the thread, but nation-states are about as obsolete as operating systems.
Thanks for your feedback!
It's one of my biggest concerns actually. I really don't want it to become another dating site. Using your (the users) help and feedback, I'll try to get pass this.
The Runners Wrongly Fingered As "Possible Suspects" In The Boston Bombing
Bing doesn't do SSL and never has at that domain (they previously used ssl.bing.com). you're seeing an Akamai cert because Akamai servers are hosting bing.com.
No. But i do upvote to "bookmark" it.

Also on stackexchange when i read a thread ofcomment and then proceed to upvote the great idea exchange i get annoying errors about too much upvote (3) and it sucks
Negative growth to positive is a change in direction, no?

How is treating nineteen years of British data as having the same weight as one year of NZ data a "fairly standard weighting"? Britain is far larger in population on top of everything else.

"So what do Herndon-Ash-Pollin conclude? They find "the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not -0.1 percent as [Reinhart-Rogoff claim]." [UPDATE: To clarify, they find 2.2 percent if they include all the years, weigh by number of years, and avoid the Excel error.] Going further into the data, they are unable to find a breakpoint where growth falls quickly and significantly."

2.2 vs -0.1 — you're only out by an order of magnitude.

As you say, weighting by number of years is also a problem. If you weighted the values by population or size of economy ("fairly standard weighting") I suspect the results would shift again but be biased in favor of more recent figures (economies and populations are bigger over time).

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-rep...

TL;DR -- none. Read the evidence.
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How is the meaning of "double spending" vague? It means spending the same units of a crypto-currency more than once. If you can do it, there is a flaw in your crypto-currency.

> The systems developed by cryptography researchers invoke a central issuer of currency in their security definitions, which is useless for Bitcoin.

The first part of that sentence is not completely true, because Bitcoin itself was (presumably) developed by cryptography researchers.
http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-...
You may want to read GP's comment again. He believes that all branded computers are on their way out and he uses the (fictitious) decline of Apple's PC business as proof. GP is obviously not talking about just Apple's server offerings. It'd be pretty silly if he were, since Apple has never had any meaningful marketshare in servers.

Also, Apple doesn’t only sell Mac Mini servers, it also sells Mac Pro Servers. Priced at $3k-12.5k, they’re hardly low end. http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/browse/home/shop_mac/fam...
So, are they still selling POWER/PowerPC servers? Would this product line be affected?
Forensic artist draws how women see themselves vs. how others see them
Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should)
Where's Wally? is a famous British series of picture books that are used to play a game of spotting a certain character named Wally. They are published in many countries around the world and in two of them, the US and Canada, I think, Wally was renamed Waldo.
We'd see incredible inflation during years with low energy output. Oil companies would be the gold miners, and thus would get total control over monetary policy.
Ask HN: How long did it take for you to get your first active users
I launched my startup a month ago and everyone I'm showing it to says they love it and want to use it.

However, of the 20 or so people that have said they definitely want to use it only a couple have actually become active users.

I'm trying to get a sense of how long it takes after launch to get active users - people that actually use it regularly.
rrule.js: recurrence rules for calendar dates
>TL;DR: Bing doesn't support SSL on www.bing.com and has never publicized it as a supported feature. The submitter had to manually type https://www.bing.com into the address bar to generate this 'error'.

Or use HTTPS Everywhere. Personally, I'd also like it if in future, web browsers would try HTTPS first and HTTP second.
True, though oil won't become rare for the foreseeable future (e.g. next 100 years) unless it is made so by force (i.e. government regulation).

The US has insanely massive oil reserves given the new fracking technology.
It's pretty slow and relegated to telcos and people who need HA multihoming.
It's five o'clock somewhere: https://gist.github.com/quandyfactory/5421431
Well, there's a lot of science done at the ISS.

They're usually running between 100-150 "experiments" at any given time. Most of these do meaningful science. As we all should know, research and science doesn't always lead to something tangible though, but even in the cases it doesn't, it tells a lesson.

Wikipedia lists some of them, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_Inte..., and just few weeks ago, results from the AMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer) provided some of the most tangible measures we have of dark matter.
Recruiting Rockstar Hackers vs Sales Sharks
I definitely sympathize. It feels that the world is accelerating toward the end of some century-long slide from value creation to value capture, where fortunes aren't so much built as they are acquired or harvested from the people who build them.
I think this could be especially helpful when used in conjunction with something like @malarkey's Contract Killer: https://gist.github.com/malarkey/4031110
Show HN: Watsi saves lives, we educate them
I'm not surprised at all.

I see a clear trend, on HN and elsewhere, of technologically clued-in people who simply do not share what we wrongfully assumed were common values amongst techies.

This includes the notion that services should be punished for things their users do, something that we used to attribute to people who simply didn't understand what something like Reddit is, or how the internet works.

I would suggest that assumption was based on underestimating how much of those values were not just informed by technological insight but Western cultural values, but I'm probably on thin ice there.
When the Intern Writes the Billing System
Haha. It's recently gotten worse at nearly 3yo, because he's much stronger and thinks playing with poo is funny. I've mastered the art of several wrestling holds, could probably go pro.
My view of MVP and agile development. Create a list of every feature your super system is going to offer this is called the product backlog. Then rank them in order of value to the customer. Then validate that rank with some early adopters customers. Then draw a line what is the minimum amount that makes the system useful to a set of customers. Now you have version .5. Get it in front of people get more feature requests/changes from customers now re-order the list taking the new changes and new features. Each release should be 2 weeks to month long. The key is that regardless of your insight in the market your opinion has lots of assumptions in them and the only people's opinions that really matter are paying customers so get it infront of them as early as possible.
Yahoo Releases Beautiful Weather App for iOS
Yahoo releases an intuitive, beautiful mobile app? o_O
Multi-path TCP is not only about throughput, but also about providing redundancy to improve stability. And to me, redundant stream is more attractive.

It happens a lot when I am with my iPhone at boundary of a Wi-Fi network coverage, the network is very unstable with oscillations between Wi-Fi and 4G. The phone stays in the status with connected Wi-Fi but it's actually not working. If there was multi-path TCP, mobile devices can establish simultaneous streams on both Wi-Fi and 4G. When Wi-Fi is not responsive, the data stream can be automatically offloaded onto 4G seamlessly without causing latency in application layer.

Another protocol that may achieve this is SCTP[1]. And it's been around for years[2]. But migrating existing services to another transport protocol is a challenge, which makes it difficult to adopt SCTP. I'm curious how multi-path handles this. Is it an extension to TCP that can handle backward compatibility with TCP, or yet another new transport protocol?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pro...

[2]: http://www.sctp.org/implementations.html

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EDIT: More details about its design decisions and goals: http://multipath-tcp.org/data/MultipathTCP-netsys.pdf
Measuring content engagement using Snowplow page pings, SQL and Tableau
Apple stores Siri voice clips stored for up to 2 years
To be fair, this is the way language has always evolved.

Interesting article on a related topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21956748
Previewed and discussed back in January:

http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5137859
I might be able to help email me with details. Email in profile.
My experience on the N900 was that desktop software runs down your battery like crazy. Phones need to run software that's optimized for power.
Looks about as much fun as building Lego with mittens. Must be frustrating as hell.
You mean aside from the essentially unserious nature of his fiscal proposals, which promise to balance the budget by cutting both spending and revenue in such a way that the numbers don't come anywhere close to adding up?
Are there any similar efforts to tie the server with the client, reducing duplication, for Angular?
So long as banks exist, so will the mainframe business.
I don't think they would as most of the Power stuff is linked to AIX licenses and is fairly "unique".

The offload of the x-series business is most likely due to the fact that IBM can't compete on price with the volumes which HP & Dell shift. IBM have no real USP on X86 as enterprise are now mostly putting ESX, Xen or Openstack on them, IBM have no potential license or service fees generation.

It seems a sound business decision to me.
The only thing I've ever seen in it was a modification of FTP to use SCTP streams on a single connection rather than have two connections. This would of course make the whole active-FTP-over-NAT business easier, except for the fact that the average NAT device ($50 home router) probably doesn't play nicely with SCTP.

Given the subject matter, I should probably include my usual disclaimer string: I work as a software engineer for F5 Networks. Anything I post here is my own thought and is not intended to represent F5.
While I don't doubt that there might be some people who could've gone either way on crowdsourced vigilantism but are now vocally against it now that it has failed, people were speaking out about how colossally bad of an idea it was from the start[1], for exactly the reasons it ultimately failed.

As you said, the crowd is no good at this, but it didn't take this tragedy for people to realize that. That what Reddit was trying to do was a bad idea has historical basis, as well: just look at the Umbrella Man from the JFK assassination investigations and conspiracy theories[2][3] and more recently, the case of Richard Jewell during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing[4].

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/hey-re...

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoZWb9gqv0

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Man_(JFK_assassination...

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
Yahoo releases an intuitive, beautiful mobile app? o_O

checks self for signs of illness
What is the international arms trade and who are the major players?
Also you might want to check out the business model canvas. It's a simplified version of a business plan that cuts to the core information.
I thought I was pretty explicit in stating that this had to do with specific individuals?
That's a pretty unsophisticated understanding of liberal and/or Democratic politics and policies.

The broader point is that nobody actually wants to run the Government like a business (nor is that necessarily a good idea in aggregate). But even at the points where it makes sense for the government to behave in a business-like manner (and there are some), we do not and cannot get our shit together to do so.
I OCRed the Inform 7 code and added it to Playfic: http://playfic.com/games/waxpancake/sacred-clowns-by-why-the...
> It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce.

It's my experience that good producers prefer to keep producing, maybe with a little more freedom and a bigger paycheck.

Anybody who wants anything else but is incapable of expressing that through actions and words (other than going apeshit) is unlikely to be capable of actually doing whatever else they want to do. Leaders stand up even if their job description is "producing", they don't simmer in a corner and then explode.

Given how this person handled the situation I would say the company was absolutely right.
Fire people who aren't 10x unicorns as fast as you can? You need a Rictus Director, not a Smiles Director.
Forget the "compliment sandwich" crap. I like to do a compliment half sandwich. First part "The team is worreid about you, you know you're awesome, that's why your still on this team you asshole", Second part ",but the hours you put in are low, what do you think?". I try to let people give me their own solutions to problems and hold them accountable. Chances are if someones screwing up I think they know it already, we all just need a bit of prodding every now and then. Honesty is best. Also if you guys are doing this start up part time then you may still have time to dump it and start a new one.
Valid points, but in effect what you're doing is training users to believe that HTTPS means trusted. What happens if your site is compromised? The users will see the same untrusted SSL warning that they're seeing if your certs aren't in order. You're giving them security for your site, but removing their security awareness. This hurts them, this hurts the Internet, and this could come back to hurt you.

Training users to click through messages that are completely valid warnings is just shitty behavior.
so they have completely ditch Rails and Ruby?
Are there some more detailed docs I haven't found? I have a dozen questions about how their protocol reacts to common problems.

It seems like the kernel's just treating it as a "dumb" tcp connection that rx's and tx's on more than one interface. In this case you're taking the problems existing tcp connections have and multiplying them by the number of links. SCTP works around these problems and makes both the connection and the delivery of arbitrary messages more reliable, though seemingly at a heavy cost to performance.
> the point is basic principles apply

You make the common mistake of assuming macroeconomics is just microeconomics at scale. A national economy isn't just a really big household.

There has been no correlation between public debt ratios and the Great Recession or its recovery. The Recession was not triggered by high debts, it has not affected countries with higher debts more severely than countries with lower debts, and attempts to reduce debts since the Recession have resulted in slower growth and - oops - higher debts.
"Using energy as the measurement of an economy's size would naturally lead to economies across the globe investing in raw energy output, rather than other equally (or more) important areas of technological progress like making future infrastructure more energy-efficient."

The first part is probably true, but surely if your currency is based on energy, you will probably spend a hell of a lot of effort on squeezing the most out of each dollar/joule?
What exactly is Turing Completeness?
How to Auto Crop Pictures for Zurb Foundation Thumbnails
Source: def'n.
To piggyback on [1], most of the commentary I saw here on HN was quite guarded & skeptical to the internet sleuthing. To paint this as a "20/20 hindsight only" situation is misleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Support
Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles
I think meetup.com fills this role fairly well at the moment. There's definitely room for improvement but if you're looking for a group of people that want to play some tennis, go climbing etc. then it's a pretty good bet.
Ask HN: what do you HN think about Eckhart Tolle?
Hi,

I am curious what do you HN think about Eckhart Tolle?

Best,
Wiktor
You know, at first I was thinking this is a cheesy idea, especially with it not really giving anything new. But then I think, what would I pay to find a friend that truly has overlapping interests? I'd probably pay decent money for that, because I can't seem to find a "best friend". The people who share my sports interests don't understand how I can watch a chick flick. The people who are into programming can't understand my religious views. And those people don't take kindly to my love for science. And those people don't appreciate my musical abilities. So on, so forth. Only my wife understands all that, which is great, but I need a friend outside that. My existing friends are good for diversity, but nobody understands me enough to really be my best friend. So, in short, I'd pay for something that let me find someone who can actually understand me. Call it "friend dating".
Managers will actively try to stop you gaining power. In most cases authority will play a game of chicken with developers if they know they are considering leaving, rather conceding.
I think this sounds really cool. It would be really interesting to get REALLY specific into your interests and see if anyone matched up with you.

It's great that it's not designed to be a dating site, I take it there'll be no pictures or 'how would you describe your body type?' data fields, then?
We're working on it, but you can expect to start them this evening.
Why Crowdfunding Scares Most Entrepreneurs, But Doesn’t Have To