skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweet sweet python stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 714, in __call__
handler.get(groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/s~combemmu-hrd/1.366712374553545399/main.py", line 432, in get
if self.blog(self.request.path[1:]):
File "/base/data/home/apps/s~combemmu-hrd/1.366712374553545399/main.py", line 230, in blog
posts = [BlogPost.get_by_key_name('p' + slug)]
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 1275, in get_by_key_name
return get(keys[0], kwargs)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 1533, in get
return get_async(keys, *kwargs).get_result()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 604, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_rpc.py", line 1450, in __get_hook
self.check_rpc_success(rpc)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_rpc.py", line 1222, in check_rpc_success
rpc.check_success()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 570, in check_success
self.__rpc.CheckSuccess()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_rpc.py", line 133, in CheckSuccess
raise self.exception
OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.Get() required more quota than is available.
I don't understand this reply. I was replying to the comment, not the story directly. The comment is referring to future editions.
Acetaminophen Seems to Ease Some Existential Fears
2 years and 8 versions in the making
Even though G+ doesn't allow anonymity, it doesn't mean that comments will be high quality.
Honestly, it doesn't read anything like he's "coming back" ('he' being the _why 'character'). Which is sad.
If Satoshi only mixes his own BTC then taint tracking will easily reveal it. He'd have to mix his BTC in with (a lot of) other people's.
I remember the early days, I left the FA and ended up joining M0o - fun times. Then as M0o was part of the early BOB along with evol ended up in RKK for many years, then moved onto PL years before they became FOTM, now just mess with low sec corp/alliance mostly counting my SP during skill changes (190m ;).

But reason it is fun is it is diverce, more open than other open games and it involves spaceships.

I also played Elite when it was out, so with that the only thing that will pull me away from eve will be death, or David Brabens new mulitplayer Elite game maybe.
I have the opposite experience: 'customers' (in my case, these always have been colleagues from management/sales/marketing) always describe their problem in terms of a solution. Worse, that solution may not even be appropriate for solving their problem.

Famous example: 'we want GPS'. Turns out the need is for navigation by the blind inside buildings (=> poor signal, if any, and a need for one meter or so resolution) or for finding entrances to buildings (that data did not exist 10 years ago and probably doesn't even today. Say, you get out of a bus at a large hospital. Where is its entrance door? Can you even tell what side of the road it is on?)

Sometimes technologies get attributed magical qualities that you cannot get out of people's heads.
Or leave it. Most people have only seen explosions in the movie, where the hero hides behind a tree and walks it off. This shows you how it really happens in real life.
well the market just went uptick for the encryption products/services :P
Yes - but only if the merchants set fixed prices in bitcoin, rather than "$20 USD, transferred via bitcoin". Which they won't be able to do until their suppliers, employees and taxes can be paid in fixed number of bitcoins.

More merchants via instant-USD-conversion will certainly increase the popularity of bitcoin, but won't help at all in giving it a moderate value in tangible goods and services.
I think it's a defensible statement. I grant you that no champions of gun control voted against Manchin-Toomey-Sauron (as we've been calling it as of late :-), excepting the special case of Harry Reid since Senate rules then allow him to bring it up again, but you don't have to step back very far.

E.g. without the poison pills and gotchas in Manchin-Toomey-Sauron (again, details on request, and, yes, I probably do know more since I read all of it :-), it would have had a much better chance of success. But it's the "champions of gun control" who we assume e.g. inserted the nullification of the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) of '86 provisions for protected interstate travel at the same time they were ostensibly strengthened.

Seriously, my move from Massachusetts to Virginia in 1991 would have been felonious if Manchin-Toomey-Sauron had been in effect then. Well, I suppose I could have arranged with two FFLs, one in each state, to ship my guns, but I hope you're getting the general point, it wasn't a "clean" bill, and that wasn't the fault of nominally pro-RKBA Toomey, except in his decision to sup with the devil in the first place (especially without a top flight food taster (serious pro-RKBA lawyer---lawyers would be an asset when dealing with the devil :-)).
I was curious so I googled it.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Time_Dilation

Basically, EVE Online's universe spans a bunch of server nodes. When a node is under a lot of stress (large battles, high volume), the node's game speed slows down so that it can handle the load of player actions.
I'm not sure if this is more of a testament to their corporate strategy or the effectiveness of the freemium model for mobile games.

It's amazing how difficult it is to sell an iOS game for anything more than $1.99. But, if you give them the game for free and let them exchange real money for strategic advantages in-game, they'll fork over a small fortune. Supercell is essentially selling $2.5 million/day in "gems" for only 2 games, gems that people then trade for resources or the ability to do things faster (like building units or structures).

A user named 'Panda' on the Supercell forums claims to have spent over $6,000 on gems in Clash of Clans[1]. Based on the responses regarding how quickly he was able to reach the top of the rankings, it seems to be true. Many other players in the thread report having spent $20-$40 on gems.

[1] http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/827-How-much-money...
> If the experience is the same in HTML5 as the App Store,
> then Apple loses

What exactly Apple loses? It was the free app anyway, who cares?
I don't get where this stupid notion of Apple being anti-web comes from. Their goal is to sell as much devices as possible, and provide the best user experience possible on them, that's it. They don't firewall your web apps, do they?
Neither "native" devs care about killing the web, but for some reason uninformed webdevs cannot stand native apps and declare wars, battles and winning. Why? Makes yourself a favour, learn any of the native SDK just enough to make a semi-trivial app and you will clearly see what native provides and what webtech solutions severely lack and will be lacking, because the technology was not created with apps in mind.

Why it is so important to kill native in favour of web? How about learning (not really learning, just stopping to ignore) which is best for that and use accordingly? You need a website? Great, there is your HTML and CSS. You need performant app? Great, there is your SDK. You want a mix of both? Cool, take a good close look and choose wisely. Maybe mix of both.

I don't see a call to replace native desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript, why are people so hell-bent about all or nothing on mobile?
NASA Kepler mission announcement (exoplanets) (lifestream)
What good does it do for me to contact my congressman now, since it's already passed?
If you're charging real money for a WordPress site... yeah, I guess that would be a good idea. If you're a teen then it might be a bit misleading... hahaha who am I kidding. FUCK HOES AND MONEY BITCHES
Better still, they can even drive the car! Just can't drive it legally on the public roads. But they can drive it all they want on private property. If we treated guns like cars, a 14-year-old could buy as many guns as he wanted with no waiting period and possess them and keep them at home and use them at home and transport them elsewhere and use them freely at a private shooting range or in an emergency.
Yep. Years ago I settled on a convention of always installing a virtualenv into a 've' directory in the project so I can just set the shebang line on scripts (eg, django's manage.py) to "#!ve/bin/python". My Django project template sets all that up for me automatically. So now I just have muscle memory for typing "./manage.py ..." etc and I never have to activate virtualenvs, mess around with virtualenvwrapper type hacks or accidently run one project's script with a different project's virtualenv activated.
Mobile apps have the same problems to over come as pretty much any other business. You need to get people to use it and figure out some sort of way to make money off people using it. There are many techniques out there for accomplishing these things which would depend greatly on what the app is. But these two things are a lot more difficult to accomplish then people think and apps fail as a business when they fail to do one of these two things.

Is it possible to make a living off of one app? of Course. Is it easy? Not even close.
I have somewhat similar, though I map the <C-w>hjkl keys to just the arrow keys themselves with no modifiers. The only problem is when other people are poking around at one of my vim sessions it trips them up.
It's not simple economics, accounting for externalities is really complex and fraught with subjectivity.

What price on early deaths, reductions in labor force and increased medical bills? I've been to China a couple times, the pollution is bad. Any place where hello kitty surgical masks are a fashion item, that should tell you something about the air quality.

This is why China is actually investing a ton in renewables now -- it's not about the US pulling up a ladder behind us (as if we could), it's about what's best for Chinese and for the world.

They are not obligated to use coal for 100 years before moving up the ladder -- heck, they can beat us up it, since they're actually willing to invest in infrastructure and we're not.
Have you taken a look at the air in Beijing lately? It's killing a lot of Chinese. Slowly, yeah, but definitely killing them.
I can't seem to find a roll call yet. Anybody have a link?
http://agillo.net/simple-vim-window-management/
Founder of Russian social network caught in web of criminal accusations
Thanks for pointing this out, I had really never noticed that before. I feel slightly silly now -- obviously the nyud.net was just being passed as in the query string...
Contact your Senator! http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c...
This is Apple letting you know who really owns your phone.
Calcio Streaming Live, Partite Serie A in diretta
When I saw the title I assumed it was Valve. Interesting that it's also a gaming company. There must be something about this kind of corporate structure and gaming that go really well together.
That's no reason they couldn't be an interesting case study, though. I mean, these days everybody in the gaming business is chasing those same suckers, from EA on down. So what these people are doing that makes them so successful at catching them is an interesting question.
I have a feeling that having 1/8 as many objects as there are dollars in the US National Debt might hit home right about now. ;)

Not least people will have seen the many, many visualisations of that figure. :P
"We humans have this great evolutionary trait that allows us to quickly adapt and become accustomed to new environments and scenarios. For prehistoric man, I'm sure this helped a lot."

We crave change in some parts of our lives. It's like in marriage, do one "exciting" activity with your partner every week and your happiness goes way up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/new-love-a-...
If each S3 object was a US penny, you could fill over 350 olympic sized swimming pools.
The fact that in most of the ex-USSR countries there is too much non-sense in business just pisses me off.

Durov is most probably being threatened due to his disagreements with the Russian government.
This seems like a generalized concern about the government's practices rather than a specific concern about CISPA.
HootSuite Ends Unpaid Internship Controversy with Back Pay
The White House is still planning to veto it though, right?

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/obama-veto-cispa-cybersecur...
The github version was just ipdated with a file called amanda 6 minutes ago! can't find a pcl viewer for mac right now so I cant help that way
I have not consulted a lawyer yet, the reason being the competition rules state the following:

"By participating in the Competition, each Entrant agrees to release, indemnify and hold harmless GE, Kaggle Inc., and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotions agencies, as applicable, and each of their respective agents, representatives, officers, directors, shareholders, and employees from and against any injuries, losses, damages, claims, actions and any liability of any kind resulting from or arising out of your participation in or association with the Competition. GE is not responsible for any miscommunications such as technical failures related to computer, telephone, cable, and unavailable network or server connections, related technical failures, or other failures related to hardware, software or virus, or incomplete, late or misdirected Entries. GE reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Competition should any computer virus, bug or other technical difficulty or other causes beyond the control of GE corrupt the administration, security or proper play of the Competition, and to determine winners from among Entries not affected by the corruption, if any, in its sole discretion."

I interpret that as saying: GE can pick the winners using its sole discretion. So I don't believe this is a legal issue I can win. I have a lawyer in the family, I will run it by her and see what her opinion is.
1. install ghostpdl - I'm using version 9.07 from here:

http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/detail?name=ghostpdl-9.07.tar.bz2

2. Download all of the things

curl whytheluckystiff.net | grep SPOOL | cut -f1 | cut -d/ -f2 | while read line; do wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/$line && pcl6 -o $line.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite $line; done
Make it x times the Brittanica, y times the Oxford Dictionary, stacked z books xy times to the moon
This might be more readable than the others:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h117
New files added:

[edit] SPOOL/TORN http://imgur.com/jMi4TiZ

[edit] SPOOL/AMANDA: http://imgur.com/9Gh4mRs

[edit] SPOOL/REVERSE: http://imgur.com/keddF4h
This article just makes a big huff about nothing.
go to http://api.stripe.com - what you get is immediately a redirect to https, and a 401 which requests the auth. It does not request http basic over http, it requests it over https. The issue is if you are a dumb developer, you might supply authentication over http, which would make that insecure. However, what I see it is requesting is an API key, which normally with payment providers, only allows making a charge, or refunding a charge, provided you know the charge ID. So your financial risk is very low even if someone knows your API key. They also usually recommend you change your API key at least once a month.
Mad Money
I would have preferred a larger city like Munich but my girlfriend's work was in our town and it was far enough away from a big city to not be able to commute.
Here's a Google Cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.b...
the only way this is going to be stopped now is if Google, Twitter, and the other big tech companies come out strongly against it. except for reddit, they've been quiet so far. don't count on Obama's veto threat at all.
It's not absurd, it's uneconomic. Under conventional economic theory, internalizing an externality will lead to a better final equillibrium, not block the achievement of that equillibrum.
Edit: I had posted the old roll call on it. The new one is at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h117
What I'm seeing is people who already have some experience with WordPress, and are accustomed to the admin screens. Any alternative/custom CMSs are seen to be "difficult to use" when compared to WordPress.
it's also missing age.

i think the <20k are probably underage.

it's a catch22. when they are old enough to be their market, they are old enough to not want to mention age and body measurements.
Canada has some of the best developers in the world but it's still very difficult to find good talent willing to let go of the stable 9-5 job. Those willing to take risk, usually end up in the Unites States.

Unfortunately Toronto will never be Silicon valley - the mindset just isn't there and neither is there access to capital.

Here's a great article which discusses reasons for Canada's lack of innovation.

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/916324--bri...
Awesome (another tiling WM), tmux with panes, and vim with windows gives me three layers of organization. Really great if you are into self-imposed structure.
Is he trolling?
> … and were suddenly silenced.

You misspelt 'sliced'.
"2 years of my life in japan and all I got was this python stacktrace"
Argh, you're describing two entirely unrelated scenarios. And tptacek has explained this many many times already; I've read half a dozen explanations by him in HN comments in the last 3 days alone. Disagree with his suggestions for what we ought to do, sure, but at least try to understand what's going on before you make snippy comments.

If the USG thinks John Doe is a criminal, they can go after his data via various avenues, including warrants, subpoenas, NSLs, blah blah. This is one situation.

A separate situation is that Google thinks there is crime afoot, and wants to report it, but they cannot meaningfully give any information to law enforcement because of privacy laws.

It's like if your business got burgled, and you let the cops into your business to collect evidence, and while doing their job there they find out that John Doe is one of your customers, and that he visited your shop on July 9th, or something, and now you committed a crime for letting the cops know about John Doe.

I'm not saying CISPA is a good idea or a bad idea. (And I think various people have raised some legitimate concerns.) I'm saying that you should try to understand what it's permitting; it's not giving the USG new abilities to force their way in to read user data, it's giving victims of crime permission to take certain actions to fight crime. (Maybe we shouldn't give them those permissions, though.)

And by the way, it might be reasonable to make assumptions about how many of those transparencyreport requests are USG agencies... EXCEPT that the same *@$% page you linked has actual numbers, that prove your assumption wrong. In the most recent 6-month reporting period, 21,389 total requests, 8,438 of them (40%) from the USG.
I live near the middle of the area destroyed in the Halifax Explosion.

It was pretty significant, but didn't obliterate the whole town. The Richmond district (which is in the east part of the Halifax North End) was almost completely wiped out, almost 2000 people died and 9000 Haligonians were injured out of a population of 65,000.

If you ever watch the Harrison Ford movie, K-19: The Widowmaker, you'd see the area of the Halifax North End that was affected, it was the location for shots in the film that stood for the Soviet-era Sevmash shipyard.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1234503
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1967930

This story has allotted a total of 656 karma, interesting.
This piece more or less demolishes the whole Free Radical Aging theory and shows it to be the pseudoscientific nonsense that it is.
I don't really know what to say at this point. The bill had a few good aspects, a few bad aspects, but it generally seemed like an overwrought an unnecessary annoyance rather than a "protection of rights" bill like Rogers likes to put it.

We may simply have to wait and see.
I don't really know what to say at this point. The bill had a few good aspects, a few bad aspects, but it generally seemed like an overwrought an unnecessary annoyance rather than a "protection of rights" bill like Rogers likes to put it.

We may simply have to wait and see.

(posted on other thread originally)
Pearls And The Puzzle of How They Form Perfect Spheres
The fact that it failed to evolve for so long, unlike c#, doesn't help.
Let's say the senate amends the bill, and successfully passes that. The house would need to vote on that modified bill.

Normally, once the two sides pass relatively similar bills, a conference committee is formed to resolve any differences, and then that resulting legislation is voted on.
"Make Something People Love" Tee
How long before we see a bunch of startups or consultants trying to cargo cult their success by simply organizing into teams and wondering why it didn't work. There's more to this company than simply "we have small cells that are independent" there was a lot of thought as to who owns what and how they own it.
I just got interested in scala because of this:

http://spark-project.org/

Has anybody tried spark out? What did you think? I'm kind of afraid of using it for production because it is so new.
My math is probably wrong... but I believe if you ate a twinkie for every request at the end of a year it would take 1,350 Blue Marlin heavy lift ships to move you across the ocean.
Non-determinism and sequence points in C
Especially in Copenhagen, getting around shouldn't be an issue. The Danes are pretty good at English.
I think he will veto it to assert his dominance when his threats to veto are not taken to heart. That or he was bluffing again.
The problem is that it is very common for SSL client libraries to neglect to validate the peer certificate...
Once you add in a proper confidence interval, 17 responses on a yes/no question is enough to make decisions like this - as long as you know in advance what your target numbers are. The downside of the small sample is that your margin is going to be extremely large, of course.

Using Clopper-Pearson at95% confidence tells us that between 23.3% and 70.8% would answer yes to this question. I do agree that is probably still too broad to decide to kill a business, but if you know you wanted a 60%+ (for example) positive response from this audience to hen that sample is enough to cause some serious worry.
31 Dead in Baghdad bombings and it's not even on the front page
The problem with statistics is that you'll always get an answer. Sometimes it's a garbage answer, but it'll be there...
MacPCLtoPDF works well.
Don't send me a message to tell me I have a message
Yeah I almost felt bad for the guy as the video was clearly something he paid to make. But I guess as he is "Thrilled to be giving keynote speech at Arizona Board of Nursing's 2014 CNA Educators Retreat!" Someone seems to think it is worth paying him to say basic stuff.

I guess fake it 'till you (sorta) make it is not dead.
A blob of data, but in general people think about objects as files.
It's more about the freedom necessary to make good art. Movies are done in a very similar fashion. No director runs around telling grips how to tape things or how to run wires. Doesn't happen. Micromanaging kills (or slows) creative processes.
1. Install NGINX

2. ???

3. Profit!