skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people prefer SF, but VCs tend to be older and thus prefer locations with more space to raise families (e.g. Palo Alto, Marin, etc.)
It's been 4 days since last known Java 0-day exploit
I don't believe using Amazon's DNS like this will result in a "CNAME on the root domain" (a technically invalid situation in all cases, since a CNAME can't co-exist with other records...), I think it causes Amazon to return an A record which has been computed by being internally aliased within Amazon's DNS system.

Edit: Amazon has actually clarified this point in the comments of the article as well -

‘You're completely right about CNAMEs at the domain apex, they do tend to break MX and NS records. When this feature is used with Route 53 ALIAS records, no CNAME will be present - behind the scenes the ALIAS record links directly to the S3 "A" record data.’
I use Zoho, but for my low-volume personal account.

The main difference with Google is, I think they'd like to take my money :) and have customer support. If the need arises (hopefully some of my plans take off), I'll gladly pay them.
One of the Krav Maga fighters went to a Bas Rutten talk and was commenting to his buddy "that choke wouldn't work on me, I'd stick my finger in his eye". Bas heard it and said "come on up and try your defense on me". The guy says "ok". Bas continues "because when you try to stick your finger in my eye, I'm going to break your neck.". The guy sat back down and didn't interrupt anymore.
By the time we achieve technology where it is feasible for our species to utilize these exoplanets we will have sufficient technology for humanity to live normal lives without planets altogether.

The future of our species is huddling around the warmth of the campfire (sun) and using raw materials from the asteroid belt to create structures orbiting the sun, until we create a sphere around the sun and all space is exhausted... then.. maybe after another few hundreds after that point, will these planets become useful. But not for reasons we would think. Perhaps for research purposes to see if humans then have the capability to tune back in to evolution after a thousand years of being pampered and letting the DNA deteriorate by eliminating survival of the fittest.
Your response is nonsensical - nothing in the article suggested anything even remotely resembling what you got out of it. It's a puff piece about hobbies. What that means, is that to you, the content is immaterial - where does this reaction come from then?
I argue with both of these points. What's underhanded about how it's being passed? It's a bill being voted on like any other.

And CISPA is not unpopular, at least not generally. Most voters have no idea what it is, nor would they care if you explained it to them. What you really have is one small bloc: Google, Facebook, government security people, etc, supporting CISPA, and one small bloc, the ACLU, EFF, etc, opposing it. If CISPA gets passed, it's not some sneaky thing getting passed in an underhanded way against the wishes of the majority of the people. It's one small bloc winning out over another small bloc over an issue the majority of people don't care about.
I don't know what it's like to be an entrepreneur nor am I currently on the job hunt but I feel like your post lessened your chances of hiring good people. You're sounding a bit desperate and discouraged. Maybe better to take the afternoon off and try again in the morning.
Yes, actually, and some have recently been found. http://phys.org/news/2013-03-capture-picture-tatooine-planet...
It's neither. It's tabled until the Senate finishes their own CISPA like bill which will presumably be merged with CISPA before being passed.
How to Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately [pdf]
Perhaps enjoying the use of it, and having everyone and their dog on it, are mutually exclusive? Some kind of extra variable in Metcalfe's law :P
Thanks for the thoughtful comments! A bit of oversight on our part about the advice requests. We'll fix the flow for posting it.

We will clean up and categorize the advice requests. You are absolutely on point on discoverability. We are experimenting with the concept of affinities, where based on your affiliations, you get more or less access to mentors. Trick is in defining these affiliations correctly.

Thanks so much for the encouragement! Look forward to interacting more. (p.s. drop me a message at Mentii so I know who you are -- https://mentii.com/mentor/sumit.suman)
This is made easier by the fact that key bitting is discrete. The software doesn't have to measure the exact depth of the valleys; it just needs to know which of the seven (or whatever it is for that particular lock) possible heights it's closest to.
I think you'll find that after attending one or two sessions of BJJ its not as crazy or sexually charged as you're assuming it is.
Honestly, if you have a limited number of something, and people know that it sold out last time in an hour or two, and then you announce the selling time in advance, all it takes is slightly more demand than capacity, and you will have a huge rush at the selling time.
You aren't missing anything, you are absolutely correct, but the question isn't "can they?" the question is "will they?"
Keep a database on your computer, write a quick script that dumps it to json format, and uploads it S3 automatically, and have the javascript hit that file. Run the script every time you change the data.
Why did the submission title get changed from "How I served 100k users without breaking the server- or a dollar bill." to "Hosting a Website on S3"?
This has pretty limited use, but holy shit is it awesome. Thanks!
Noisebridge has been doing this since 2010: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Spacebridge.
How do you measure how pissed off I am? From your side of the table a lack of positive action is indistinguishable from absolute apathy, passive interest without action, undelivered mail (most tracking widgets fail in webmail), etc.

I've observed that some less-savvy people don't know how to unsubscribe from emails, or fear doing so will "upset someone" and so grin and bear an otherwise annoying deluge of email they never react to.
Your sensei has common sense. A lot of them don't. Years ago, one of my college philosophy professors brought in her sensei to give the class a demonstration in kung fu. At one point he lightly pinched his opponent (a fellow black belt) on the chest, and the man collapsed to the ground in agony.

"Pressure points are very real," said the sensei. "Anyone who doesn't believe it can come up for a demonstration afterwards." The class laughed nervously. Afterwards I approached him and said I was skeptical, and asked if he could demonstrate on me while I stood there and did nothing. The class gathered around us in a circle. I really thought he'd make a believer out of me, and just hoped I could refrain from peeing myself in front of everyone.

It was all bullshit. No matter which nerves he tried to poke or prod, it just wasn't that painful. He then tried to deflect attention from his failure by showing some cool way he could put me in an arm lock, which would only work as long as I didn't jerk my arm away while he was doing it. I think he honestly believed that he was a lethal killing machine. The problem with idiots like him is they tend to convince too many students that they're actually learning self-defense.
Some people believe in software freedom more than you do.
Co-founder of matchist here.

Thanks Howard! Incawater, happy to answer any questions you might have. We're working to help freelance web/mobile developers find quality projects that pay on time, every time.
You are viewing this as a static situation (i.e. the price will stay high) and ignoring other ways for people in need to be assisted. Ensuring a shortage (by limiting price) isn't helpful.

Let the price float as needed and if you feel like some people are being priced out of the market, give them cash for them to spend as needed. Some people will need water. Other people will need food. Some folks will have both and instead will spend the money on gas for their generator.

Emergency cash assistance is a much better way to assist those in need and ensure that the market will rapidly adjust to provide resources in the right quantity and right location (due the the pricing signals).
Jim Zemlin at TEDx: What We've Learned from Linus Torvalds
It's almost as if atheists live life with hobbies and interests like decent, churchgoing folks. Isn't that a marvelous piece of "human interest".

(Did I miss a story somewhere?)
Let's be honest with ourselves. There are plenty of Democratic politicians who, also, have never produced anything and are paid by the state.
Do you have any data on how much is 'non-trivial'? (Not disbelieving you, I'm wondering whether it's trivial for my use case.)
New theory for how increasingly complex life evolves
I'd fall under your definition of 'anti-theistic' and I'm still not entirely sure what happens after death. I'm perfectly happy not knowing though.
A tour of concurrency primitives in Clojure (videos)
Show HN: Simple S3 Library in Go that also allows uploads greater than 5GB
This defamation act makes a lot of sense. Freedom of speech is and should be limited, even in the USA. You can't just say anything you please and expect nothing to come of you. Write a letter with "Chocolate BOMB" to an airport and see what happens.

This shows the limits on speech freedom in the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep...

In the UK we also enjoy the fact the politicians can't just outright lie in their Manifesto about other candidates or the current government. If/when they do, action is taken to correct or (when maliciously undertaken) to disqualify that person from running for public office.
It it possible this is an accidental DDoS? VLC is popular to bundle with things, and all it would take is the code that checks for a new version and automatically downloads to have a bug that it always thinks there's a new version...
I'm more interested in the persistent market inefficiencies; growth vs. value, January effect, low P/E, all interesting examples that haven't been arbitraged away.
This surprised me too, as there is proprietary code but it's a Native Client plugin, so in theory should run on Linux Chrome the same as Windows and Mac Chrome.
As my statistics professor liked to say, "Numbers are meek creatures. If you torture them long enough, they will say whatever you want to hear."
"Not financially motivated" is fair, but there's also "unable to work full time on something due to lack of funds" that you have to keep in mind.
The workspace switcher is still available, and I don't think there are any plans to remove it. It's just disabled by default. I guess it's a mixture of saving space in the launcher and avoiding the potential confusion when new users hit the wrong button and suddenly see their windows vanish.
'Biggest DDOS attack' threat due to the arrest of Sven Kamphuis
The Evolution of the Video Game
This smart foam chair self-assembles by sproinging into shape
I was expecting this to refer to how easily most software trials are bypassed. Some simply by changing your clock, others require uninstallation and reinstallation or change registry settings (I have yet to come across trial software on linux), and some even go so far as to have rootkit behavior, modifying your boot sector. For website services like this, it's trivial to just use multiple accounts. Not that I'd want to do this, I just think it's an interesting subject.
It's a obvious defence, but glad it is the first one listed. Of course what your saying isn't defamatory if it is actually true!
Why would it be illegal? :(

I mean, subject to a variety of risk and regulatory issues, perhaps, and not a core competency, and a variety of other things, but... the fundamental reason for insider-trading laws is to make sure the insiders don't abuse their positions and act against the interests of the company's owners (shareholders) by trading in stock tips instead of building shareholder value. If you get knowledge independently -- like if you sent your analyst out to count the number of cars in a firm's parking lots to estimate hiring/firing -- that's all well and good (and is something that hedge funds actually do.)

Heck, if it works, this sort of thing would be great. Moving the market earlier means fewer people buy and sell companies at the wrong price. That sort of knowledge is worth billions. (Think about it from the perspective of startups: if you could see the future and know whether a company would work out before you even founded it, then you would build only successful companies, and you'd be certain they'd be funded well. This is but a small fraction of that power, but it's still quite meaningful.)
I thought his honesty made him more likable and trustworthy.
You're both right. It's social signaling:

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

Your Star Wars or Hindley-Milner t-shirt tells people who see it that you're a particular kind of person. This encourages people who are like you to approach you, because it signals that you're safe -- you're "one of us." Likewise, it discourages those who are unlike you from doing the same, sparing you from having conversations with people you find boring.

If you work in a community where high intelligence is seen as socially valuable -- i.e., where a way the high-status individuals distinguish themselves from the rest is by highlighting their intelligence -- like tech, it's not surprising that you'd want clothing that would signal that you are a high-intelligence person, even if you aren't one. It's an attempt to get your foot in the door of social groups that would otherwise be closed to you, by camouflaging yourself as "one of us."
I'd like to host a static site on S3 with SSL. But AIUI this isn't possible with S3/CloudFront alone because the hostname in the SSL certificate won't match the custom CNAME.

What do most folks do in this situation? Put CloudFlare or Fastly in front of S3?
Multiply to shut down May 6, cease operations end-May
This is an old version of jQuery run through docco, with a simple page on top of the docco output.

docco: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/

I just checked out jquery and built it myself. Here's a newer version:

http://shalecraig.com/docs/manipulation.html
I had read that, and was expecting that (for a silly idea like this I don't really care), but I never received any feedback from anyone that received an error.
Similarly, I find my depression is fueled by lack of sleep and a strong sleep regimen(sleeping in bouts rather than settling down for 4-6 hours before getting up to go to the bathroom, etc).
I'm not sure this is so great. For example, the number of searches for Bitcoin is predicted very well by the number of searches for "marina fresh beat band".

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=bitcoin&...
Google Bans Facebook (And All Others) From Performing Non-Play Store App Updates
Small, Ugly and Indestructible
I've been waiting for this one to be fixed for a very, very long time:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4522
I think RMS' response is honest, even if I disagree with it to some degree. What I dislike are the handwavy answers about people being able to work on stuff without some source of funding.
Here is a typical TDCJ key for reference, These are available on Ebay BTW. http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mir8l4p7ugK0Tt6QMd5Da...
Atheism is a disbelief in god(s) and doesn't say anything about life after death. To the extent that an atheist might take an evidence based approach to belief they may also disbelieve in life after death. Given what we know about consciousness and brain function it's not unreasonable to say that we know there is no life after death because there is no known mechanism for it. ie - no brain, no electrical activity, no sense of self. That the belief in life after death remains so prevalent indicates a prodigious ability for wishful thinking.
A few comments up from here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613791
Well, it makes mine better. Shall we continue with battle-of-the-anecdotes, or maybe permit science to continue doing its thing with the understanding that statistical results apply statistically?
Did a little bit of both for me. Made me wish I had the skills to work for him.
Does this direct link work? https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=red...
Inaugural PicoCTF
Sure, I expect data to be extremely noisy, but I am thinking about looking at very robust things (e.g. this guy is in rock-like perhaps-indie music), not making it too fine-grained.
The Hines article that this article is written about is open access, and worth a read, especially because the Introduction and Discussion sections look to be fairly comprehensible for people outside the field:

http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v3/n1/full/tp2012136a.html
> The guy has no idea what the notation means by still wants to wear the t-shirt.

I'd read that SO post again, you seem to have misunderstood.
Charles Schwab will issue a two factor device for online banking, but it is not required for withdrawals AFAIK.
Designmodo and the Flat-UI is pretty mediocre to poor at contrast. I forked the project and ended up ripping out a lot of the components which were low contrast and modifying the palette to have high contrast, then modifying the borders to my own inset/outset values to have a more muted level change on the buttons but still have them look somewhere between flat and and normal buttons. I did experiment with an inside white border on buttons for an Classic Mac OS feel (the original monochrome "Flat UI" )

Much of the flat aesthetic is rooted in swiss graphic poster design, however that doesn't translate so well to pages where dense text actually matters, especially with poor color choices. Much of designmodo's color scheme actually fails the contrast algorithm for small text, except at larger text it's generally okay. Bootstrap itself is pretty abysmal as far as this goes as well.

The flat aesthetic is nice, but those who continue on with it with disregard to contrast will not succeed. Accessibility and the flat aesthetic is possible, it takes more work and compromise, however.
As another responded mentioned, I think the key here is that word "obsess". I'm personally of the belief that the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" camp goes way overboard. Especially for web sites since getting a "reddit blackout" means thousands, maybe millions of people probably aren't going to bother about your site ever again. However, I personally allocate a certain amount of my time on getting a fast solution but when it gets into serious tweaking, it's time to decide if you're ever going to have a traffic spike.

I'd personally say, go as fast as you can without having to work hard for it. But as others have mentioned, picking something with a lot of options and not coding inefficiently (e.g. don't use associate lists for everything when you know this should be a dictionary).
One of my friends is on the team that built this: thrust vectoring.
Here is a similar visualization in webgl, superimposed on our solar system for reference: http://www.asterank.com/exoplanets

Nearly every single exoplanet discovered is within the orbit of Mercury.
I'm in the Stanford/Coursera machine learning course right now, and something like this is nearly excactly what I've been looking for.

As some others have said, GPLv3 is off-putting, but there is the LGPL mlpack lib (http://www.mlpack.org/) (also C++). Personally, project-wise, the only way this could be improved is if the project were pure C, and a BSD, MIT, or similar license. Quite looking forward to checking these out, though.
One advantage of launching a rocket from high altitude is that the optimal rocket nozzle shape and size changes substantially depending on the ambient air pressure. For example, the Space Shuttle Main Engine is about 25% more efficient in vacuum than at sea level.
Adobe Rips Off Design Concept Without Attribution
Thanks. I'll watch. I'm utterly ambivalent about which license(s) to use for my open source projects. I'm happy to follow the consensus.
I'm hardly technically competent, and S3 has served me very well for static files. I've dabbled around with their other products to learn a bit here and there and have definitely been overwhelmed, but S3 is really really simple.
Yes, the original author (me) did indicate that Java was a bad choice but not for the reasons you assume here but for the reasons I clearly stated in the post :)

Most of them being related to that Java is a compiled language so you often find yourself in a situation where you wonder about plugin internals but the actual source the plugin was built from is elsewhere. That in combination with that extensions needs to be compiled and distributed which requires infrastructure to "build the build". Sure it's easy to google and download the source, even recompile, setup a place where the plugins can be used from (custom and patched ones) but it is still extra overhead that would not be needed at all with (for instance) an interpreted language.

An interpreted language is simply a more sensible choice for these kind of things. The developers of SBT understood this and made sure the buildfile and plugins are distributed as source and compiled by SBT to make this extra step go away even if the buildfile is written in Scala.
Office Snapshots
Facebook is a one trick pony as much as Google is a one trick pony (search).
And some people respond to medications in vastly different ways than others. That doesn't mean the medications don't work.
Ask HN: How do you make sure your customers are happy?
I would love to get some insight from all you business owners out there as to how you make sure your customers are happy and that they stay with your service.

- Do you use any software?
- How do you collect feedback?
- What do you do if one of your customers wants to stop using your service?

If you were to use a product that would help you make sure your customer satisfaction stays up, and your customers stay with you, what would you look for and where would you go?

Thanks, HN.
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Hey, this is pretty cool.

Does this style of annotation exist for any other libraries/projects?

I think the left side could be expanded into a pretty good pedagogical tool using mini-examples and explanations to focus on key concepts in the code.
A word to the wise regarding your employment benefits, you say:

"Shiny Apple Products
Seriously, get whatever you want (PC users may have to justify themselves)."

That will simply turn off some people and there is no reason for a self-interested business to do that. Apple computers actually are PCs, and always were but especially now they are PCs, so you should make a distinction regarding Linux. The top machine learning company in the world even has their own distribution of Linux[1](or flavour of Ubuntu, however you want to put it). They and many others who don't make such snarky remarks almost certainly pay more than you and are working on more interesting problems than you, you are just narrowing down your potential employees without any reason. So, even though it's in jest, remove that statement from your hiring page if you are serious.

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