skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dent" is not something large, and doesn't have to be a conscious memory. A tree you plant won't remember you.
Daniel Day-Lewis Plays 'Obama'
That's very much like Google+ design for Google Maps.

I love this design.

Wish one will do such quality job for bootstrap (there are some attempts but non are yet high quality IMHT)
And same as the article, i never get to know the idiots email address they are trying to register mine as the password recovery. That's the dumbest on googles side. Makes me powerless to solve the idiocy dos attack on my account
Thanks for the compliments. There could be a bug. Thanks for letting me know.
Once we get the kind of storage you're talking about Redis will be much less interesting since its big difference is that it stores everything in RAM. If that is no longer an advantage then Redis will become a much more niche tool because you'll be able to get similar speeds out of other databases when they aren't constrained by disk IO.
Why Facebook made a smart buy with Parse
Something like that, yeah.. could be a decent alternative title :P
The Double L
This man is a grotesque monster.
One Of The Most Important Tools In Linux – Understanding Chmod
Bayes theorem. The problem is that it requires a prior, which is usually unknowable.
Tech nerds have a pathological/ideological aversion to making money. I can't count how many interviews I've read/watched in which some startup founder congratulates himself for not worrying about how to build a profitable business (all the while accepting VC funding). This is why we get so many startups that crash-and-burn or acqui-hired (and then shuttered).

Affiliate marketing is an incredibly powerful tool that is under-utilized by small businesses/startups. But affiliate marketing serves no purpose other than to sell stuff and make money; It is nakedly sales driven, hence the animus towards affiliate links. Nobody should "want" to make money on the Internet, right? It should happen by accident.
Your curry chicken lunch smells, your perfume smells, and your farts smell. It's not about being courteous. Complaining about it just makes you a douche bag. There is a point when a thing is allowed to smell.
The freedom of the international seas is a useful precedent that ought to be applied to the internet instead of numerous new national legislations, such as CISPA etc., which will eventually destroy it if for no other reason than that the national legislations will be all different. This is much closer to the essence of the Pirate Parties interests than quibbling over whether or not the original pirates were simple criminals.

However, since you made that categorical statement, one could in fact more convincingly argue that they were the forerunners of the modern private enterprise and democratic shareholder rights. They were often called "privateers" and were organised much more democratically than their competitors: the cruel and authocratic navies which were in the same business of robbery, only on a much greater and more organised scale.
Watch 12 Angry Men backwards.
More to the point, even if her blood was on the knife would that necessarily be conclusive evidence? I know that I've left a bit of blood on various cooking knives of people I've lived with.
The article suggests that this measure is only opposed by healthcare incumbents, because it threatens their profits.

The comments also show a critical source of opposition that the article doesn't mention: political anger about 'entitlements'.

Many or perhaps even most Americans actually won't agree that it's better if people don't have to go into the hospital in the first place - if they understand that the way of getting that is to offer more care to people at taxpayer expense - even if the expense to taxpayers is actually less.

It's unjust or unfair, you see, because the other guy is getting something for free and his children should be paying for the nurse to come by once a month, not me.

As an ordinary "main street" American, maybe I would rather see him denied that preventive care, even if it means higher costs in the end, in order to avoid the loathsome outcome that I am paying part of his bill. I'd really rather not pay for his emergency care either (and some comments in this thread have suggested the same, that we will save more money by not at all covering people who are at risk), but that's hard to push politically. So we will pay for expensive emergency care, because we don't really have a choice. But we'll be damned if we'll pay for preventive care which doesn't seem urgently necessary.
"Simple criminals" is a bit of a shoot-from-the-hip oversimplification, I'd say. I wouldn't romanticize "pirates" but I do think there is a lot more to them from a social/anthropological standing than you are letting on. A simple google search for more in depth information can lend you hours of fascinating reading about the culture and politics on board a typical pirate ship and I just thought the HN comment cloud should not allow you to write them off so cheaply. Yes, they were criminals, but they were far from simple! And as such I don't think the use of the term is quite so simple as you are trying to make out.

I'm currently spending a lazy Sunday afternoon reading through http://wp.stockton.edu/hist4690/files/2012/06/Markus-Rediker...

fascinating stuff.

[disclaimer: IANA-Historian, sea shantie junkie and one time pirate king]
One of the major problems with specifically web-based television and movies is that they just aren't delivering the revenue that conventional media can, by a huge margin. One of the reasons why such projects are possible at all today is that the creators call in a lot of favors from their friends (actors, editors, techs, etc.) and get them to work at minimal rates. But that's not a very sustainable model.

Perhaps with crowd funding projects that then release in more conventional ways (e.g. DVD, netflix, etc.) it'll be possible to solve both ends of this problem. It'll be interesting to see how everything works out.

Anyway, I've been surprised at the absence of anyone trying to either coopt the popularity of web video and such-like or to try to make money on it as a business partner. For example, why isn't there a production studio which concentrates on crowd funded movies? It took Zach Braff seeing the popularity of the Veronica Mars kickstarter to have the idea to do the same thing, imagine if there was a group out there catering to artists with projects they want to fund. Apply a little bit of polish, experience with how to formulate a good kickstarter campaign, select reward levels appropriately, help with fulfillment, help with legal issues, help with distribution, take a cut of the profits.
How would you define an "escape hatch" without replacing every device on the planet?

And IPv6 is really a 64 bit addressing scheme already. 64 bits for the network, and another 64 bits for the host within that network. The later part can be ignored by routers outside of the target network.
Maybe the Java jobs are open because SV developers don't want to go near them?
If that's the case then I bet there's a lot of PHP work over there too.

(Austin listed Java as well... that sounds about right actually.)
Dammit everyone.

If someone complain about a bad Android default or behavior in a non nexus device, and you have a nexus device, just stay put!

Nexus are a completely different beat when it comes to user control, ok?
It's interesting to see Ruby Weekly visitors converted at 6.7%. I always like to see data like this. In this case, I'm quite impressed you got over 500 visitors that way too, as I only gave it a minor feature right in the middle of the newsletter (things like this perform and convert a lot better when featured at the top of the mail).

In my experience, conversions go through the roof when the editorial mention includes a recommendation. I hadn't seen the book, so I could only give it a casual mention. If you reach out further in advance and allow people to review it, you can get better mentions, not just in newsletters but on people's blogs and sites like RubyFlow, etc. This will increase conversions a lot.

When you finish the book, definitely hit me up. Assuming it's of the right quality, I think even more people will be more interested and I should be able to mention it again.
Yes, but you need to estimate a probability distribution across various types of coin biases first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
How about ranking by how well they pay. There might be loads of PHP jobs out there but round these parts they have been advertised as "meets minimum national wage". McD pays better
Google patent for machine learning on a mobile platform
Show HN: Never watch movies alone
I can confirm this happens by default on Samsung phones (both att branded and unlocked) as soon as you create a g account
Good questions.

The complexity is not in the database, which will be tops several hundreds of tables with thousands of rows by hundreds of fields. Peanuts, datawise. All we need is dynamic updating of the tables, rows and fields throughout the system. That's a small hurdle tops (unless we get the scale wrong ;).

The computationally intensive part comes from my background. I'd want to run simulations over networks within our database. That easily beats normal computational intensity. But the demonstration of this functionality is key. Of course, lean could suggest making a faux-demonstration, but you still need a basis of functionality in your first product.

Code quality is important both for me as a purist (don't laugh, but being crazy for code quality is what I've learned in large firms in the last few years, even as a non-programmer) and for our customers who will demand it because of their markets. Especially if we would want to rapidly expand our codebase (supposing we survive first customer contact), you need quality code to scale.

In the basis it's nothing scipy + numpy couldn't handle, but there the OP comes back: how can we know that we make the right choice in terms of business, sustainability, affordability? That I could build fragments in Python says pretty much nothing. Next to that, my database knowledge is zero. So we are still in the blind there.

Getting tech-knowledge on board is a good suggestion. But going from 2 to 3 founders is a big step. And who says we are not just moving the problem one step ahead?
The thing is, I think you could be right AND there might be an interesting conversation to be had about Amanda Palmer's business model.

There does seem to be a thing on the internet where women who divert from the norm get cut down much more viciously than a man would. I think this might be an interesting conversation to have and I've no idea what the fix might be other than time and generational change (which I think is coming).

However, I think there is also a discussion to be had about how we fund the digital age, because it really isn't clear how artists will get paid in future. And a lot of the attempts so far do look like begging.

My own view is that there is something awkward in the use of unpaid labour as a business model, but I'm not sure what else can be done. Eventually, the internet looks like it will trend towards to free access for everyone to all media at all times.

My personal lack of comfort is that all the payment models I've seen so far decouple the product from the person. To some degree I would suggest that in the past we've paid for good product, but in the future we're increasingly asked to pay for a good person. The difficulty is that this favours the extrovert publicists over the quiet artists and I wish there was some way it might look like this latter group had a future, too.
GDB 7.6 Released
San Francisco on the other hand:

Objective-C

162 jobs requested Objective-C
122 jobs requested Ruby
120 jobs requested JavaScript
Due to the way radiometric dating works, you don't need to actually verify in the way that you are using the word. However, there are at least two ways to verify the date:

1) Verify the half-life value. Radiometric dating works on the same principle: look at the ratio of pre-substance to fissioned substance. If you have a good half-life value, you can determine the age of the specimen using those values.

2) Use two different methods for getting the same age. If you use multiple, independent methods of determining the age of something, and they all come out the same, you have greatly lessened the probability that you're wrong or missed something.

Of course there are ways that these can be strengthened even more using practices like double blinding the measurements.
Low hanging fruit optimisations
No I do not think so. What you describe are called mental states, which are transitory; the self is a relatively persistent concept, spanning one's personality, identity, and life experiences. The author is arguing that rather than just suppressing symptoms with medication, an important part of recovery should be to develop a new self-image that includes the disorder. The medication doesn't help in this regard, but apart from that there are the things one did during episodes which can be very hard to rhyme with one's previous self-image.

tokenaudult's point of other cultures not having such a focus on the notion of the self is very interesting; it seems to completely undermine the idea that the self is key to recovery. It is very typical that stories about mental health end with some suggestion that is going to solve it all, but to me it's clear we are simply stumbling through the dark.
NYC listed 1 job for C, 1 job for Ruby and 1 job for Python. Evidently people aren't tweeting jobs on Twitter in NYC?
Build iCracked's global on-demand dispatch system – Backend Devs, come aboard
Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?
Mine and my mates site GetInspired365.com has just been featured on BBC Click - http://t.co/0OmbHSSwuk - and were staggered to see we had 250 people on our site at one point. What's the most you've had on your site? Just interested to see as means of a comparison against other sites.

By the way, if you're able to get a small mention on BBC Click, we'd highly recommend it. We've seen some great triffic and feedback since our mention.
I had to check out the comment thread here to figure out what that page actually did. I'm still not clear on the purpose of the dropdown at the top? Is it supposed to load multiple pallets or something? If so it appears to be broken at the moment.
Based on what I saw traveling through South America for 5 months, $500 would be a stretch in Chile, Argentina or Brazil. A hostel or a really cheap apartment would probably be 2/3rds of that alone... especially as a white dude. You might be able to swing it in a place like rural Bolivia or an (for lack of a better work) economically depressed country in Central America (Panama, Guatemala), but I wouldn't really want to try. Think about it... your budget is $16/day. You'd basically be eating empanadas or similar for every meal, you'd have no travel budget, you'd be stuck living in either a really, really crappy apartment with 10 roommates or a hostel dorm... and even then it would be close. Honestly, a much more reasonable budget, where you would actually be able to enjoy your time and not stress about budget, safety and turning down a bunch of awesome experiences (soccer matches, trips to national parks, wine tasting...) is probably 2k/mo.
Or said another way, Android versus iOS.
Clicky's - http://t.co/0OmbHSSwuk (BBC Click)
Our site - http://GetInspired365.com
> The free market offers no incentive to give health services to people who cannot pay for it, or don't know that these services will reduce hospitalization by 33% and costs by 22%

Amen to that. The major killers at the turn of the last century were tuberculosis and waterborne diseases, and the free market did nothing to improve living conditions or supply clean water to the urban population then. I am in Portugal right now, where Dr Sousa Martins, a physician who spearheaded the fight against tuberculosis, is considered a saint. Public health is always political issue. It is as true 100 years ago as it is now.
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We do know e-cigs are much less harmful than cigarettes. We have a range of outcomes of studies regarding second-hand smoke. We have very good reasons to think stray e-cig vapor is much less harmful than second hand smoke.

It is at least plausible that the risks of e-cig users around you is negligible, especially compared to your dry-cleaned suit, the air quality of the airplane you flew on, the radon in your house, etc.

In that context, don't you find it curious that the negative reaction is so strong against the idea that people who enjoy a nicotene buzz can have their cake and eat it, too?

To me it doesn't look like caution. It looks like a bluenose impulse to control people for what is likely to be no good reason, and is well below the threshold for regulating access to other psychoactive substances.

Now if people really are motivated only by protecting other people from a significant new source of risk, then I'm sorry. But, man, it sure looks like e-cigs are a touchstone for revealing prohibitionists.
Actually what I was referring to is a lack of 4:3 monitors in general use. What I'd like to use these small/cheap computer boards for, is if I'm helping someone "fix" their computer, this could be a good stop-gap measure to hook up so they can continue to get Web/email/social networks/etc things done while I'm rebuilding their desktop. Most people I run across either have a VGA CRT monitor, or a 16:9 flatscreen.
Render lesscss files on the fly using PHP
UX designers should understand their audience when they publish (or share) content. The submitter should have written an intro.
Context menus are frequently touch-and-hold on touch devices.
No it's not. What a true austerity program looks like is really straight forward. Spend less than you earn.
Back in my high school chemistry class this effect was noted and explained in the following way:

Ice needs to form a particular crystalline structure when it freezes. This is what makes ice float in water. The molecules in warm water are moving faster and therefore have a greater chance to wander into this correct formation. The cold water molecules are moving more slowly and simply take more time to find the correct alignment.

There wasn't really any proof to this theory, but it was followed with a bunch of anecdotal evidence, like Canadian's washing their cars with cold water, etc.
It was added to block referrers on unpublished drafts. We have been meaning to take it out for published posts, but for a couple of reasons it's not as trivial as flipping a flag.

"break the web" is a little melodramatic though.
The color of rants and raves
Excellent criticism. Neutral tone, logical, accurate, specific.
It's supposed to allow you to change the format that the colour is copied with into your clipboard, i.e. hex or RGB.

It's a shame really since it'd be relatively easy to fix. Off the top of my head you could change the text string for the default drop down to "Select a copy format". Moreover you could actually say "copied to clipboard" (or any suitable variations) when clicking on a colour / have some text on the page stating "Click on a colour to copy it to your clipboard".
[1] Effect of Casein, Lactalbumin, and Ovalbumin on 3-Methylcholanthrene-Induced Mammary Carcinoma in Rats.
doi: 10.1093/jnci/33.2.243

[2] Effects of Varying the Proportion of Protein in the Diet.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/9/3/162.short

[3]The combined effects of dietary protein and fat on 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced breast cancer in rats.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/114/7/1213.long
Thanks Peter! When the book is finished and we're nearing the final release of Rails 4, I will definitely send you an email (with an attached copy).

FYI - I'm revising the grammar, adding a few new changes and am working with a proofreader now as well.
+1 sir. Good devs need no stinking LinkedIn.

Good recruitments happen through good contacts anyway.
Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world
If this delay will improve the quality of the language I think it's for the best.
Java has a lot to catch up, they better make it right...
Thanks for the excellent summary! For anyone else, I highly recommend reading the paper itself, it's very interesting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my interpretation is that this trades memory for speed, so the average memory consumption of Ruby programs would increase. If memory is exhausted, a full 2.0.0-style mark and sweep GC would occur.

Programs that are heavily dependent on C extensions would not see much of a GC speed increase.

Most would, however, and they could continue to improve GC performance piecemeal by moving Ruby classes (starting with common classes like Array or String) to use the new write barrier methods.
It is cool made
Vim can be a study case for you.
Of all the great and awesome demos today, this is not one of those.
I really doubt that, as it doesn't seem like you can put in multiple email addresses when you are first signing up for Facebook (http://puu.sh/2IP5J.png). I also don't imagine Facebook continues to email the unverified email addresses after a user has changed their address to pass the verification.
I'm not on LinkedIn because of the recruiting. Most of the recruiting messages I've received have been either friendly (I tell them "No thanks, let's talk in a year or so") or so ham-handed and over the top that I've passed the howlers around.

(The only time in 35 years that I found a job through a recruiter, it was a train wreck. I doubt the recruiters on LinkedIn are much different).

I'm on LinkedIn because it's fun to find and talk to prior cow-orkers without involving the privacy catastrophe that is Facebook.
Thankyou for clarifying, that makes sense. Can I also ask, how your quote is weighted given the project description and time-frame that I stated? Are you using a base rate per hour and then compounding project difficulty or is it only given the project description? I'm a little unsure how such quotes are derived.
With a modern BIOS, your kernel can't start a fire.
I wish more recruiters actually used LinkedIn.

I moved from NY almost two years ago, and I still get calls/emails for NY based positions. A quick glance at my LinkedIn profile will clearly show that I do not live in NY anymore.

There is no magic behind LinkedIn. You are discoverable based on the amount of information you enter. Do not list skills or job descriptions (w/ buzzwords) and your hit rate will go down. Forget what LinkedIn suggests, your profile does not need to be 100% completed.
This seems like a silly post designed purely to preach to the "recruiters? Ha!" choir.

There's literally zero downside to having a LinkedIn account. The emails are too annoying? Auto-archive them and send them to a 'Recruiting Spam' folder which you browse every few weeks (or never).
Samsung Beats Analyst Profit Expectations by 10%, Outsells Apple 2-to-1
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You are exactly right. Saying "there is only an 8% chance of this happening with a fair coin" is something completely different from saying "there is a 92% chance the coin is biased". The author is utterly clueless when it comes to probability.
The great [video] surveillance boom
Learn how to build a real-world Haskell webapp, Episode 4
> The free market offers no incentive to give health services to people who cannot pay for it

I'm not sure that's strictly true. For one, if the government is paying for those who cannot afford it (through medicare/medicaid, etc.) then there is money to be made, and thus some incentive. Even if its a relatively small amount, some model could be devised to capture the market as a sort of long tail. Much like Amazon has some incentive to sell even the cheapest, niche items.