skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an embodiment of the American tourist stereotype to an extent that makes it funny — despite, or maybe because of being a very polite attempt to rationalize it.

Why leave your country when wherever you go, the first step is to look for it again?

There are local coffee shops in every country. In most cases they have a great atmosphere, most of them have wi-fi, most of them will let you charge your phone. All of them have… yes, coffee, often served in local ways — an opportunity to learn something about the culture. They will understand your order, no need to worry about your foreign language skills. Most countries have Starbucks-style coffee shops too these days, blended with a dash of local style.

If you go abroad and go to Starbucks, are you any different to those dreadful low-life tourists spending their holidays abroad in their respective country pubs, drinking their home beer like they never left for holidays in the first place?

Last time I was abroad and went to Starbucks dragged in by friends I felt like a loser. In part I guess, for having uninspiring friends. It could also be because I overpaid roughly by 250-300%, compared with prices in those lovely local cafes in the area.

I appreciate the warm tone of your article, clearly it's coming from a good place. But if you're in a coffee country like Italy and get your coffee at Starbucks, you're dead to me! ;)

Apologies for my patronising tone, it was meant to be somewhat warm too…
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From the article:

> These are the two primary reasons Redis sucks as a primary store:
>
> You have to be able to fit all your data in memory, and
> If your server fails between disk syncs you lose anything
> that was sitting in memory.

Antirez explained how redis persistence works[0] some time ago. A good read, and only then one can evaluate the "sucks" part, for one's particular use case.

[0]: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystifie...
Is there a formula you can use to convert between the two?
Because much of our health needs are mental, and much of mental health is social. Living alone is a chronic debilating condition, akin to diabetes.

Live with your parents, and later live with your kids. Or outsource to home aides.
Humans are notoriously bad at choosing passwords, so what about this approach:

When you register for an account you write down on a piece of paper 4 words chosen at random by a computer (eg. "regain gauge chest Texas"). Then to log you provide (a) your email address, (b) your password, and (c) the passphrase printed on the paper.

This is bit of a pain for the user, but it would greatly strengthen the security of the website because it would not depend on the security of any other websites. For a to-do-list website I can see it's not worth it, but I cannot understand how some financial websites still think it is acceptable to use only email+password authentication. (I'm looking at you, Mint.com and Schwab.com).

PS: I just tried registering for a Mint.com account - it didn't let me use "password" as my password, but when I used "password1" it said, "You have a Good password". Wow.
Not converting data into object graphs does not necessitate working with SQL in your domain model. I'm currently working on an application right now which favors simple data structures (hashes, arrays) over custom entities. It favors a business layer that operates on those data structures over composing dozens of "Model" based classes. That does not mean that persistence logic is littered within my domain.
Fin de Ceicle
Similarly, I give out period-wise permutations.
How mathematicians are fighting the war on cancer
I ran a very similar site a while back. The Bing API costs can get expensive quickly. You probably want to cache the results.
Stuff like this terrifies me:

"In the days following the verdict it emerged that the jury had been split about the murder charge, but those who had favoured an acquittal were persuaded to accept a conviction."

I just don't understand it. How can a person serving on a jury, with another person's life in their hands, be "persuaded to accept a conviction" when they don't actually believe the defendant is guilty?
Thank you jschuur :D
Do you mind sharing the complete list of poems that you read daily?
The Netherlands!
> Do you mean that truth has the potential of ruining lives and relationships?

Of course it can.

If you don't believe me, please do answer honestly when your wife asks 'does this outfit make my bum look big?'
Ha! I have no problem with OO based programming. I do have a problem with OO based solutions for every problem. Sometimes it's worth pursuing alternative solutions, whether procedural or functional or a combination of what makes sense.

Not too mention, what many believe as an OO solution is often times far removed from anything remotely OO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card
This reminds me of two quotes:

> Those who don't make time for exercise today will have to make time for illness tomorrow.

and

> An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

It's all the same concept - preventative care now keeps you healthy for tomorrow and out of the ER.
301 Redirect - The SEO way to rename or move files or folders
HTML, CSS, Javascript are pretty much all essential and go together, especially for modern looking sites.

my backend of preference - PHP and MySQL, they just work.
The atomic bomb was built in large part by refugees from a declared enemy during time of war.
The "do" icon in the app's toolbar looks a lot like Do.com's logo
Awesome. Now Clojure community also has a 48h competition without the barriers :)
Creativity with food by Hong Yi
Ask HN: How can authors (musicians, developers, etc.) encourage donations?
I was just reading a story about WinAmp and how people literally sent money in the mail (back in the day) to pay for the app even thought it was shareware. Have attitudes changed that much since the '90s or is there an art/science to encouraging voluntary financial support?

I'm curious if anyone has any personal examples (or know of any published stories on this subject).
Logarithmic map of the universe:

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/

TL;DR:

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/all100.gif
Show HN: Explore music through adjectives
I think that your "What am I wrong about?" approach is going too far in the opposite direction.

I usually use "That shouldn't be possible" - whether it is possible or if it's user error then often depends on the maturity of the system.

On a new system pretty much anything is possible. On a system battle-tested for years by thousands of users the possibility of encountering program bugs drops dramatically.

This is where good supporters become very valuable. They will be able to learn the solutions to common problems that users face and determine if it´s user error, other errors like OS problems or if it's something new that should be investigated by the developers.

Of course if the bug is reproducible then it's a different matter. But any developer who doesn't take a well-described and reproducible bug report seriously should probable find a different job.
Can you say more about how your product is medium computational intensity? i.e. what makes it more complex than your average databased backed web app? Why do you feel that code quality is more important for you than for an average project?

The architecture of your application is more than a one-off decision about tech stacks made at the start, and I'd say that you really do need someone with a long term stake in the company who's able to own this on an ongoing basis. I don't know whether there might be ways to get an advisor on board to do this rather than making a full hire.
One unicorn is enough.
I would go with just English, actually.
As I didn’t know the Edis project existed, and had to google for it - here’s a link: http://inaka.github.io/edis/

It’s summary is:
Edis is a protocol-compatable Server replacement for Redis, written in Erlang. Edis's goal is to be a drop-in replacement for Redis when persistence is more important than holding the dataset in-memory.

And so I don’t have to hijack this thread a discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5621574
One year of Reddit submissions: Redditors tend to post more during the week
Yeah, I'm based in the uk and everywhere I first looked at came up as PHP. Thought it was a hilarious troll at first.
It's quite possible. Not only is it possible to perform deconvolution, but since you know that you're looking for text data, and you even have the font, you can do much better. You can iterate through millions of names very quickly and find which one, once blurred produces the best match.

In the same vein, check out http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~wliu/CVPR05_LiuWei1.pdf
The only viable choice then becomes the organisation that already deals in identity - government departments that issue passports, ID cards and driving licences.

What could possibly go wrong? There's a reason why it's unconstitutional in my country for the state to issue a single ID number to every citizen.

A protocol should let anyone be a CA, and it should be up to each party to choose what CAs it accepts. If some service wants to only allow government-issued IDs, that's fine, but there's no good reason to enforce that at the system level.

In fact, the article you linked puts it well:

But in many cultures, employers and employees would not feel comfortable using government identifiers to log in at work. A government identifier might be used to convey taxation information; it might even be required when a person is first offered employment. But the context of employment is sufficiently autonomous that it warrants its own identity, free from daily observation via a government-run technology. (...) So when it comes to digital identity, it is not only a matter of having identity providers run by different parties (including individuals themselves), but of having identity systems that offer different (and potentially contradictory) features.
Mel Brooks's, "The Producers", immediately comes to mind as we talk about crowd-sourcing financial backing for entertainment pieces. Kickstarter is great, but, like many new businesses, it creates (temporary) efficiency by bypassing regulatory restrictions that were put in place to protect us from criminals looking to game the system.
Same here. These sort of time scales should really make us humble and question the meaning of "making a dent in the universe" or taking our legacies too seriously.
Awesome idea, with a very nice and pure design! Am I the only one experiencing an error 500 while trying to activate my newly-created account?
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%.

Basic health care is not McDonald's because your mother does not die prematurely (and miserably, and expensively) for the lack of McDonald's. The core issue is not about some private business being 'customer-responsive' in the vein of Starbucks. You can, today, start private clinics which are more "customer-responsive" (leave a mint on your pillow, etc.) but how are you going to recoup the costs and in particular, how does that benefit the populace in aggregate?
Like others, I liked the loop-back to today. I think it would be nice to include decade before century. Also, more or less at/after "period" I started to get a little bored (see the discussion in these comments about losing perspective) UNTIL you added the second dimension about life itself and then it got interesting again because we think of dinosaurs and such to be so, so, so long ago and yet this animation shows that in the grand scheme of things, it's as if it had been last week.
Could you use twitter to grab some reviews? You wouldn't need to do it ongoing but it might be a good way to get to a critical mass of reviews.
I Finally Deleted my LinkedIn Account
It seems like much of the "backlash" comes down to speculation based on bad information and a generally negative attitude about "the rich".

If you use google it'll tell you that Zach Braff is worth over $20 million. Where does that come from? No clue, it might just be speculation, but it's out there. A lie with its pants on, to paraphrase Mark Twain. In his reddit AMA he specifically refuted the notion that he was worth anywhere near that amount. According to wikipedia, most of the time Scrubs was merely a top 100 show, it seems safe to say that Braff never had the opportunity to negotiate upwards on his contract and overall lifetime royalties from the show are not as impressive as some folks imagine.

More importantly, I think the assumption is that the kickstarter is the only funding for the project, though Braff has also stated publicly that he is kicking in a lot of his own personal funds.

There have been many times where I've seen widespread accusations of a "massive cash grab", either related to kickstarter campaigns or elsewhere, and most of the time it's so hilariously wrong it's just sad.

I'm not sure whether this stems from a poor understanding of business fundamentals, meaningless hatred of people who are successful, or something else.
ATtiny + Tiny Servo = Really small useless machine
How does one use the Maps API to change the appearance of the Map? I always thought Google maps served somewhat static tiled images and we (developers) could just place markers and other things at (x,y) coordinates.
Edis: a Redis for larger-than-RAM datasets
D. Adams invented the iPhone battery?
"Self-issued certificates have no credibility so cannot be trusted"

How is that? I see the process working like this:

* I sign up for an email account by sending a request with a username and a public key. No need to "trust" the key, because this is an identity creation process.

* My bank issues a smartcard when I create my account, which can be used to log in to their website.

Sure, there are problems -- key revocation and dealing with lost secret keys are probably the biggest. Those problems are shared by passwords. The point is to solve the more glaring problems we have with passwords, like the fact that you need to rely on many different websites to manage passwords securely, or the fact that humans are terrible at picking passwords.

"The tradgedy is that while these solutions exist, are mature and proven, there is just not enough incentive to make them a reality."

Bingo. That's the real issue, and it always has been.
Or perhaps, Use...
Source? I don't believe this one bit. You'd have to be french kissing a smoker for it to have any effect.
It made you, and others, think. So at the very least I would argue that it is art.
I'm curious how it could prove accurate for that time frame? How could something like that be verified or proven?
There's a lot you can do:

http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/...
If you need Fortum call us
Fortum is a product of GlaxoSmithKline. The drug is supplied in the strengths of 500mg, 1g, 2g and 3g ceftazidime sterile powder packed in glass vials. The active ingredient of Fortum is ceftazidime pentahydrate. It also contains sodium carbonate in 26mg per vial
Actually you would be surprised how few coders can actually speak "plain english". The one lesson I've learned over the years is that coders who can talk to non-coders tend to do very well in the real world over time.
Man accused of placing GPS device on victim’s car before burglarizing her home
Watching it as an adult was always going to be a recipe for failure, I think you really need to have grown up with swapping Star Wars cards, playing with the figures, etc.
You don't need to preface your comment with the name of the user you are responding to. The fact that your comment is right below and indented one level is a dead giveaway that you are responding to the parent comment.
Teachers get fired for drinking alcohol outside of work, because their employers force them to lie.
The much hyped German Pirate Party already dissolved. They had their 3 months of fame. You cannot sustain a party without substance.
I get emails intended for other guys with my first and last name at gmail.

Since periods don't matter, I assume since _I_ grabbed firstlast those other guys have had to settle for firstlast + a random bit tacked on. Later they write it down wrong, or their correspondants omit the random bit.

Quite interesting. I've gotten bids on paving jobs from Scotland. Inquires about DJing in Florida. Invoices from a consultant in Seattle.
And some hardliners want to ban all porn from the Icelandic Internet.
This came up in the discussion of "Redis as the primary data store?" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5620960

And I was wondering if anyone was using it - and what they thought…

--

Also the github repo link: https://github.com/inaka/edis
I'm sort of surprised that Java is so popular, it gets so little press these days -- but I guess it's what people are really using.
"Feature heavy" would indeed be a way of describing PHP.
OP was clarifying the meaning of pirate in the present context, not the origin of the term or how it is used in some other contexts. The meaning you're suggesting is very explicitly not the idea behind the Icelandic Pirate Party.

At one point, they publicly rejected any affiliation with The Pirate Bay and said that they did not condone copyright violations.

They did however use the opportunity to encourage people to learn about openly licensed content, mentioning Paulo Coelho as an example, and suggesting that people consume free content no less than they do paid content. However advisable or realistic that actually is, it's not supporting illegal downloads.
looks cool- downloading now
James Bond films are James Bond films, as long as you accept that fact they're great. They're only stupid if you try to impose reality on them.
That is just someone using your address as their alternate email.
The first job of the respondent is to validate the input so that the right problem gets solved.

> I've lost count of how many times I've seen the Can't Happen mindset delay resolution of an issue. It's a genuine problem.

Agreed.

> When you say "It's not possible", something in your understanding is obviously mistaken.

Not necessarily. Bear in mind that the "error" data itself can be wrong too, for many reasons -- some benign, some not so much. People can and do lie and make mistakes.

In the public sphere things are even more fraught. There are people who loathe $COMPANY and would love to see their services discredited. On the other hand, $COMPANY's legitimate success depends to some extent on people's perception of their reliability, so they have a right to defend themselves.

I think a reasonable response from $COMPANY in this case is "1) That's impossible", to reassure skittish customers, and "2) We'll work directly with the person having the problem and report back, stay tuned" to show respect and responsiveness (and potentially humility later).

If you were running your own company, paying the salaries of your employees and serving your investors, would you do otherwise?
Wow, in Houston, the answer is apparently SQL.

Sometimes, I really, really hate this town.
Just like programming, business, etc.;

First read some of the basics articles on design basics, typography, layout, color, etc.

Start a scrapbook of designs you like or things that inspire you fashion, scenery, signs, logos, screenshots, web layouts, architecture, etc.

Now try to recreate some of the designs that you like, not as easy as looking at em, but you need the practice. As you get better you will form your strengths and inner-opinions and build your own style to make your own stuff.
Claims of Brokenness don't get support. Claims of violations of privacy policy and law get support.
Excellent point. Sometimes things are nobody's business simply because we decide so. That's a good thing.
It would be fun to see the data in the other direction: where should I move if I know...?
Cool idea & implementation. Ignore the haters.
The weekend hack: take screenshots of my screen so I remember what I did
Sometimes I find it hard to remember what I did during the day, so I made this small app to take screenshots of my desktop every minute. It was also a nice opportunity to learn PyQt.

If you have comments about the app (or my code), it will be great :)

https://github.com/mtayseer/eidetic
I'm experiencing something that is obviously dumb users.

i have a first.last@gmail address and my name is very common. So i bet others had to use less desirable gmail addresses.

Since google started to aggressively push for adding alternative email and/or phone number, dumb users that initially wanted my email address entered it as their "alternate email" not understanding it's for password recovery only.

I clicked the "not me" link in more than 20 confirmation emails, but google probably never used that to better inform the dumb users.

Now my gmail account is a cesspool of emails intended for other people, site registration confirmation for idiots with same first/last name but a different middle name... And there's no spam algorithm that can fight that!

Time to start looking for alternatives.
For anyone who wants to experiment with styled Google maps, a good place to start is the Styled Map Wizard:

http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/...

(The UI is a bit odd; be sure to read the help panel before jumping in.)

Here's the documentation:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

Long-time Maps API developers may remember that using styled maps cut your free usage limit to 10% of what unstyled maps allowed. This is no longer the case; styled and unstyled maps have the same quota.

I found a more practical use for styled maps in the election results maps I made for Google, turning off borders and country names, fading out parks to a very pale green so they don't interfere with the result map colors, and keeping highways visible but faint so there's a sense of place without the distractions of a normal map. Example:

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/it/results
Haters gonna hate. I like it. Those are so similar to the colors I use, not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud. (And it's hard to find a good yellow)

It's not made for the average person it's made for people who understand design and don't need explanation. It's a micro-web-app. Click on the colors to copy them to the clipboard. That's it.

Man, are you guys going to criticize him/her because they didn't have a call to action button? There's a time and place for those things, and a time and place for these micro-web-apps.

If you guys keep shitting all over people's side projects they're going to stop posting them here. The goal is constructive criticism.
We use your Facebook account to get your taste patterns - so plz use your active Facebook account to login.
I searched for Silicon Valley, just for kicks. It said I should learn Java.

What gives?
That's a little harsh for someone sharing their playing around. If you were going to do it as a thing, I suspect you'd make it more like Bing maps. Which is a really nice site and gets used when I'm on a computer - Just a pity they don't have an android app :p
What is ECC memory?
Thats a great idea. Twitter can be a good source of seed content. Thanks for suggesting.
According to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, surgical complications increase the margin the hospital makes on the patient by 330 percent for the privately insured and 190 percent for Medicare patients.

This is scary when you consider how good people are at the subconscious mental gymnastics that allow them to justify pursuing their own interests at the expense of others. Either human beings are perfect angels -- inhumanly good, too good for much of human history to have actually happened -- or many people have been tortured and killed for those margins.
The IE8 Countdown
I don't think any of the things you mention are equivalently intrusive. But it's a point that scares me a little.