skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Glenda can do recurring todo lists.
Extending that analogy though, the government can punish people buying votes, but that doesn't stop the billion dollar lobbying industry from shaping public policy.

The incentive doesn't disappear, as there is a great deal to be gained by being bumped up search results. They raise the costs or circumventing the system, but that just means people look elsewhere. Its an arms race.
Posted a few days ago with lots of discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680164
The discovery of the displacement current was extremely important: it proved that light was an electromagnetic wave, paving the way for how we would come to understand the interactions between light and matter.

It's no mistake that it took a theorist to find the displacement current since it mostly appears between the plates of capacitors and that valume is one that engineering demands call for minimization of!
Immunity? There's no immunity (supposedly) inside the Google search algorithm

Almost certain that there is. After a certain internal Google score (?) it appears like no update will penalize you with things like 70% traffic drop out of the blue. Big brands are largely not effected by Google's many updates and even when they buy links etc they are forgiven very fast. Regular sites on the other hand are told generic nonsense as they lose visitors update after update.
Agreed, but doesn't change the fact that we're all alone together.

Even connected people, with friends, family, and lovers by their side...exit stage left alone.

Loneliness is a layer thrown on top of fundamental alone-ness. Obviously life is more enjoyable when feeling connected, belonging and so on, but for many that's simply not in the cards.

If everyone felt accepted and loved, would it be life? Sounds more like heaven.
U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records
A: The "..:" & ":.." everywhere are kinda distracting to me. If they hold any significance, it is lost on me.[1]

B: Are "Hacker News", "/r/programming" etc search results? Trending topics that will be replaced when a search is made? It is hard to tell since it is not functioning.

C: The search placeholder is also confusing. " ..: Nuuton :... /category !description" Again, does "..: :.." have any significance or is this like having "google" as the placeholder in their search field? Is "/category" intended to tell the user they can narrow a search to a certain sub-reddit?

D: Are you trying to brand your product through the search field placeholder? Put your brand/ logo somewhere in the green area instead. You loose all branding when a query is entered into the search field.[2]

Hope I'm not coming across as mean, I think the items I listed above will be some stumbling blocks to new users interacting with your site.

[1]- http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c819pej40

[2]- http://awesomescreenshot.com/06719pgie5
Without something that at least fakes what a typical interaction would be, I don't think anyone could give you feedback aside from whether they like the color/visual treatment.
You can use Drive on Linux via InSync: https://www.insynchq.com/
Hy [1] is also making a lot of advancement these days. It now has eval, classes, and macros working in it [2].

[1] Lisp in Python https://github.com/paultag/hy

[2] https://twitter.com/paultag/status/333637217765441537
Internet is dying
I think it's worth noting that "flat design" isn't just design that's flat, or a trend toward simplification, it's a very specific design aesthetic featuring a certain palette of muted primary and secondary colors, use of color rather than depth or texture to differentiate functions, wide, open sans-serif typefaces, large areas of color with a lot of "white space" around the text, chunky icons, and a set of design patterns that work well with that style.

In fact, graphic design has been more or less flat for its entire existence up until the Xerox Star.

I'm happy to see this article calling it out for what it is: a crutch. Good design is still 90% typography and flat vs. skeuomorphic is a pointless argument of taste perpetuated by people who don't know their design history.
There was a discussion on HN about this last year, but with Dropbox being the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703943

Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive are more of folder mirroring, much like RAID is data mirroring. Any good sysadmin will remind you that RAID provides protection against hardware failures, but in no way is data backup or protection. Onsite and Offsite backups are always important.
Appears that it cascaded across all of their nameservers. Seems like it could be an attack (remote or local DoS condition bug, since all users can create their own zones), or maybe just a random bug - hopefully they'll update us.
This isn't limited to the Canadian government. Try to get a STEM paper published in a respectable venue in any field that has no appreciable economic utility. Nobody cares about finding things out simply because they are interesting (at least not enough to do something about it), they all have to have an obvious application that generates money.

Another way to look at this is that it's Canada's way of increasing the publication rate of its scientists.
I read about that in Android forums also, but some people don't notice changes.

In another note I am impressed with the iPad Mini battery: streaming an Internet radio all the night doesn't consume the battery.
We have linodes in London, Newark, Atlanta, Dallas and Tokyo. All monitored by pingdom and none reported downtime... Our DNS is however hosted using Route53 and not Linode.
I remember anecdotes about increase in stress and social obligations, which makes sense I think. You can imagine maybe a failed business person with unwanted attention as in the case of Bernard Madoff son, or the story of exemplary high achieving students who unfortunately end their life. Such a case was in my local news recently in Albany, CA, and when I heard of her tragedy I thought of this then too.
That explains the pingdom notification.

So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now.

Edit: New Jersey data center.
If he wants to work as a statistician/data scientist, having R on his cv will help.
Honestly, Jelly Bean was rushed. That awful lock screen, lag bugs, and other issues are bewildering. I guess they needed to push it out for some internal goal and have been patching it since. I really hope their QA improves with the next big update.
Oh, You're An Expert Now?
Congratulations on getting something out there!

Out of my own curiosity, I've started trying to ask people who release a new app why they chose a particular platform first. In this case, is there any reason you chose iOS first? Do you ever plan to do an Android version?
It will not be the same dog even if it has the same DNA. It may not even have the same physical appearance. What you miss is this particular individual. There is no way you can recreate this individual. Either get a dog from the same lineage, or adopt an unfortunate one from a shelter.
When you say API key and API secret for Rackspace... what does that mean? I only see one API secret key in my account.
a different version of the same presentation, a more "class(y)" one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvnPAIo4F0
Haven't experienced any downtime for my servers...
Reminds me of the first time I took a whiff of conc. ammonia, couldn't smell properly for a week.
What phone? When I had a samsun and touchwiz this would happen all the time. On my Nexus and CM9 phones, never happens.
Yeah. You would need practical fully homomorphic encryption for it to make sense.
Why would he lose his right to free speech just because he has been convicted of a crime?

It's only one of many rights lost. Due process and all.
The burglary analogies aren't relevant; there are codified rules about the arbitration of sensitive data (c.f PCI compliance).
Don't have the right gear?  Make it.
Hi

I'm not sure if you saw this, but you can search, filter by topics / authors so you don't have to search too much. However presenting that in the main UI is something I hadn't considered.

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Like the AA lounges, I'm gonna predict that free stuff will be going away once they start letting the social media rabble in.
It's "luck" in the sense that the market randomly dumped phones, it's "luck" in the sense that the timing with general slowdown of netbooks and rise of smartphones was opening people up to the idea of a tablet, whereas in the early part of the century the mantra "why would I use it if I can't type on it" was dominating the discussion.

I think you give Apple a bit too much credit, they did well with the iPad, they did poorly with the Lisa 2 and the Newton and X-Serve. Product development from concept to product takes years. Someone can predict what they think will happen, and they can plan for it (which they do) but whether or not what they think will happen is what actually happens is controlled by forces they cannot control.
The CEO of AP, Gary Pruitt, responds to Holder (DOJ) regarding the record seizure- http://www.ap.org/Images/Letter-to-Eric-Holder_tcm28-12896.p...
A <center> tag? I believe it has been deprecated for ages.
Also, you can replace <div class="title/description"> with a description list (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dl).

Also, honestly, it looks rather amateur -- which is okay, it being a work in progress.
Ask HN: Anyone use Gandi hosting/VPS?
Does anyone have any exprience using Gandi's hosting or VPS services (https://www.gandi.net/hosting/)?

Thinking of moving over and would like to see if its worth it.
Here's a blog post about it: http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-...
Daft Punk releases free official stream of Random Access Memories
Pricing policy will be published pretty soon. There will be 4 tiers depending on the number of managed and monitored servers: free, basic, startup & enterprise.

It will also be possible to get self-hosted installations with support.
Anecdotally from people I talk to, Android users tend to be of the techy male (less likely to share quotes and use self expression tools). Also it seems that the Android crowd is used to free a lot. When Rovio charged for the iOS version of Angry Birds but released the Android version for free, I'm sure they looked at the numbers when deciding what made the most sense for them. Also I think the Instagram crowd is still much stronger in iOS. I could be totally wrong.
> Please have people send books.

How illegal is it to send printed screenshots of GNAA-style material to a prisoner?

This (watch out for affiliate links) website seems to be relevant: (http://www.sendbookstoinmates.com/)

He's in New York's Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).

Here's what they suggest are general rules:

General Rules When Shipping Books to Prisons

Books have to be new. Used books will be returned.

Books have to be shipped from a major bookstore such as Amazon. Books sent by an individual or a small bookstore will be returned.

Books should not contain no nudity.

Books should not contain any inflammatory material such as gang related. racist and books promoting violence

Hardcover books will often be returned so paperbacks are highly recommended.

The books have to be sent by USPS only. Books delivered by courier service or private delivery will be returned

Books should be addressed to the inmate showing their Inmate Number clearly

Ship only one parcel per month and only up to 1o books per shipment.

EDIT:

A "books requested by prisoners" website would be a good idea. The prisoners ask for books. The website has an affiliate link. People buy the books and the website marks that book as bought. (Somehow.)
Linux Kernel Developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman's Workspace
Employees or Contractors? Misclassifying Workers Can Cost Your Business
Sure, but what are they buying at that point except an empty promise?

Or are you just getting them to click buy, only to arrive at a "Not yet open for business" shopping cart?
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Yes. Yes. Yes.

A well supported, polished multi-master implementation would definitely bring PostgreSQL into the 21st century. It's been far too long not to have this. And look to databases like Cassandra for ease of setup and maintenance.
GitHub intentionally does this now to prevent hot linking. The MIME-TYPE is set to `text/plain`, which the browser then denies running.
The current government in Canada has been pretty hostile towards science. Do a couple of searches on how government scientists are no longer allowed to talk to the public in Canada.
I have heard ideas of having people operate server racks to help heat their homes. That way the compute power would be worth it, and the heat would be useful. People could rent the server racks, and be paid for doing the computations, covering the cost of electricity, plus get a cheaper heating bill.

To really be practical it would require useful homomorphic encryption and fast internet speeds, though.
Elance reviews don’t show when contractors bail
Yes exactly, it was all about glory-chasing who just wanted to see their names in print. It had nothing to do with climate and environmental scientists warning of the impact of governmental policies when their studies and models fell on deaf ears.

Of course the Canadian government hasn't muzzled any research, they have just systematically defunded all research aimed at establishing the environmental impact of the petroleum industry as it operates in Canada. Experimental Lakes project? Good-bye, but of course that is not "muzzling" science. Polar Environmental research lab? Axed, because we don't need studies of the warming arctic getting in the way of those petro-dollars. And now we finally get down to brass tacks. Unless you have industry funding or backing, don't bother. And of course industry just loves to fund rigorous investigations into the externalities they create.

I don't know why you are trying so hard in this thread to shout "Nothing to be seen here!" but I really have to ask why you are trying so hard to remain oblivious. The current government's stance on the environment is pretty well established and is in no way secret. To claim ignorance of this requires serious effort, or serious dishonesty.
This- to put it mildly- is Not Good. I'll quote David Carr's tweet[1],which best sums up my feelings on the matter:

Lemme see, IRS going after political opponents plus DOJ tapping AP reporters. Nixonian optics on "the most transparent admin in history."

I do wonder what kind of a legacy the Obama administration will leave to history when these kinds of events are stacked up.

[1] https://twitter.com/carr2n/status/334055243379785728
We all have restricted free speech. Some more than others.
That was my point exactly. Running Big Data on commodity hardware nodes (instead of Oracle/SunFire) was just as crazy during early Google days as OS kernel bypassing today.
thanks! have you used them before? any issues come up? what have you used them for?
Yes, this is somewhat misleading and will be fixed shortly. API key/API secret is the Amazon way. For Rackspace and Linode just put your username in the API key field and your API key in the API secret field :)
If you look at real network traffic flowing through e.g. a mobile operator's core network, you'll find that for 1Gbps of traffic there will be anywhere from 200k to 500k open TCP connections (depending a bit on the traffic mix, and on what idle connection thresholds you use for the analysis). So if you're making TCP-aware network appliances targeting a 10Gbps traffic rate, it's not a bad idea to plan for simultaneous 10M connections. You might get away with a factor of 2 or 5 less, but probably not with a factor of 10. 150k connections would be a joke.
I actually wonder if something along these lines is the real purpose of amazon coins. Amazon is one of very few companys that I have a default assumption that the crazy stuff they do is part of a long term strategy, so the coins stuff is interesting to me. I doubt that the rather superficial analyses we've heard so far are the full story.
...or any other arbitrary criteria.
I often select text in articles as a visual cue which line I'm reading.

Why oh why does this site needs to pop up a "share" widget when selecting text?

Websites are really popping these "share" things all over the place lately.
Photo Series of Airborne Beverages
It is being developed, https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/RLS
We're currently looking into extending support to more cloud providers, including DigitalOcean.
Bloomberg Users’ Messages Leaked Online
Considering this as a search engine interface, these are my observations:

- too much whitespace around the search input. I can only see three results

- the input placeholder is confusing. is that the accepted syntax? why is "nuuton" in it?

- results text is too large

- it lacks context. what was matched? is this up-to-date content? what is the domain/URL? where do I click?

- large pink footer. why? shrink it and leave it for legalese

- the ..: :.. thing brings me memories of Geocities
[Show HN] My first attempt to do a Git guide.
Having to use an unsupported third party tool doesn't speak well to the product. That's just begging for headaches a few months down the road when Google changes on the backend and InSync deletes or duplicates everything. Not InSync's fault, they just have no means of making sure Google doesn't break their tool.
Do you have anything to back that claim up? You're on hn every time there's a Google story talking about how they're killing smaller sites, acting monopolistic, violating anti-trust regulations or whatever, what is your motivation?
If you think that these researchers require more money, why not convince others of this, and ask them to donate money voluntarily? I would be happy to donate money to research scientists, if my money was not being taken by the government, and used without my consent.

I do not understand your point about microprocessor fabs at all. As the fixed costs of manufacturing silicon-based systems have increased, the industry has become less vertically integrated, and there are less companies focusing on manufacturing, and many more "fabless" companies. This is certainly different, but not necessarily better or worse.
"Sports (participation"

Note that only team sports get the press coverage, which I pretty much can't stomach, but the world is full of non-team sports group activities. Plenty of "we're hiking this nature/park trail as a group" and please join us in training for the 2/5/26 mile run next month, etc etc.

There are too many meetup groups (locally) that revolve around drinking booze and/or eating donuts and not enough that revolve around taking a 2 mile nature hike together to a picnic or whatever.

Also there's a huge difference socially between "I'm taking calc 223 because its an engineering prereq" all serious and often completely non-social especially if grading on a curve, and "We're all here to learn intro to Japanese because we love Japan and Anime just like you and ... " Another good one is cooking class, really pretty much any non-credit vo-tech classes. Do you know how to TIG weld from the local vo-tec yet? If not, why not? Welding is pretty cool and one way or another I'm going to learn how. I have no interest in doing it 40 hours a week for someone else, but I would be up for a couple hours a month for myself.
Having gone from a college student who spent many Friday nights in the library studying, listening to others partying not because I preferred the library to partying on Friday nights (though I love learning) but because I didn't know how to get invited to a grown-up who gets invited to so many awesome events friends call me the most social person they know, I find developing social skills one of the most important areas anyone can improve their life.

Commenting on the article, I would not call loneliness lethal. Everybody gets lonely sometimes. I would call not having skills to handle loneliness lethal.

My starting point for combating loneliness is to start by looking inward -- What skills can I develop, how am I holding myself back -- before looking outward, like what resources are out there. Family, hobbies, travel, sites to connect with others... they all help only if I know how to interact. If I don't, they may make me feel more lonely. By contrast, if I know how to interact and attract people to me, those external resources work without intentional effort.

I wrote up my social skills exercises -- http://joshuaspodek.com/communication-skills-exercises-6 -- as a resource for other geeky people to use because I think they'll help others like they helped me. They won't completely transform ones life, but they create internal resources no one can take away.

I also posted about how I believe social skills are among the most important skills to develop http://joshuaspodek.com/model-direction-leadership-personal.
Have you come across any DoJ justification? As Pruitt notes, "[t]hese records potentially reveal
communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities." That's a pretty good way to inhibit future "newsgathering operations," turning potential future sources into fearful non-sources.
What the Obama Campaign's Chief Data Scientist Is Up to Now
Easy to solve, just host a sample site with test data.
I think you can be suited for everything. IT Security is a real big domain, depending on your skills and what you like, you can land different jobs. If you are a person who go to calmly deep dive into problems, you may be interested by security code review, if you're more into quickly understand how things work and try to abuse the default behaviour, you can work in pentest. IT sec is a huge field. Just start learning and you will see what you like... There is no suited for this, even if being curious and working hard help a lot ;)

Feel free to email me (my email is on the exercises' front page), if you need to talk about this ;)
Does this exist for HTML?
Dr. Who vandalized on Wikipedia
> What am I missing?

Import hooks.
Somebody cannot steal things from my apartment without being in a jurisdiction that I presumably have decided is sane.

Meanwhile when AT&T forgets to lock the door to the stuff I have entrusted them with, anyone in the world can get at that. AT&T relying on the law being able to eventually get baddies after the fact is not sufficient.
I'm not getting into any propaganda issues here as that is proven. The writer only pointed out that MAYBE some lighting has been altered in the photo that won the award. So what. Maybe it was even cropped a little. Gasp.
I see. So the argument is that because something that was considered crazy panned out against the odds, therefore everything considered crazy is actually a good bet?

That seems like dubious logic.

Also unlike Google's bet on commodity hardware, I don't see the millions of dollars of savings to be had if the micro-kernel idea works out. At best you'll get an incremental performance benefit and easier debugging. It'd be different if there were no open source OSes and so rolling your own was the only alternative to paying millions in licensing fees.
It's not that they would comment, but by constraining the case to what was presented (which they do not do sometimes - see judicial activism), the ruling isn't as broad as may be feared.
Cassandra would be the one to look at.

Have strong consistency by default with the option to define eventual consistency per query/session. It's so useful with Cassandra to have that flexibility to favour performance over accuracy.

Also OOTB should support EC2, ZeroConf/Bonjour and make it understand racks/data centres.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countryman.
He seems to be correct. Here's the comment with more information: http://www.name.com/blog/general/2013/05/we-got-hacked/#comm...