skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right for that example ,not knowing the specifics, I would index on timestamp and then I could sort by timestamp which once indexed should be a relativly fast operation. I could even go one step better and make the _id a construct of
{ <timestamp>,<loglevel>,<fuzz> }
Then Inserting would be done in order and I would get a magic index for free (depending on if I often query by loglevel I might leave it out) This gives locality of timestamps and helps keep "Hot" sections in memory.
The Eatery + Fitocracy = Evolver
I'm curious if this will be delivered as a service pack or as a new OS. It seems like they are announcing it as a new OS, I've never seen this much news over a SP before.
Sorry but I don't think you know what you're talking about here.

Write locking definitely leads to throughput issues but it results in better consistency not less.
That makes perfect sense for breath training, I came upon the kazoo after reading that an early 1900s opera singer never did vocal exercises, she just hummed to warm up. The kazoo works the breath and the vocal cords which are tougher than other muscles, so you can and should work them everyday without fear of injury.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8
I like it. Could you add a keyboard shortcut to execute the editor code? Also another thing that I find really useful in code editors is the ability to surround text with parenthesis/quotes/whatever by just selecting the text and typing in the character. Right now it works more like a traditional editor where it just replaces the selected text.
PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidences of Hack
Will you use your skill for good or for making life harder for colleagues.
It seems that Haunts uses Makefiles to wrap the Go tools so there is some non-standard complexity there. See https://github.com/losinggeneration/haunts/blob/type_fixes/M... which was linked from the 7 month old issue https://mrg-trac.sourcerepo.com/mrg_Haunts/ticket/34
After you turn 30 you realize that not everyone will believe what you do or be right about everything, but when they are right about one thing and you disregard it 'out of principle', you look the fool.
Temporal Signatures of Hacker Organizations
I think it's nice to be able to quickly run the candidate's code in your environment, without interrupting the candidate's flow. (It wasn't entirely clear to me from the demo, but it did seem like you could evaluate the code independently on your end without distracting the other person.)
We were using a text editor (notepad++ if it was Windows), and it would be pretty invading for a very basic text editor to change text like that (copy pasted at that). But honestly I don't know what these "smart quotes" are so it might as well be it.

The only time that text encoding causes trouble is when I get something from someone who has written it on a Mac, whether it is the obscure quotation marks or a lot of gunk when copy pasting from PDFs.
EasyWebWorker v0.2
Lots of subdued excitement in the Walmart post. Sounds very coporatespeak. But good for them...
Indeed. We (the folks on HN) are mostly the good guys in this fight. We'd like to help, and I'd like to think we support the right political causes in the ways that we can. But there comes a point where you're doing what you can given your role in society, and you still have to go past homeless people on your way to work. It doesn't make you any less compassionate than the people in any other country.
Wouldn't that require the ability to predict the future.
I found this announcement frustrating to read because it contains little useful content. Almost all of it is about how supposedly awesome Windows 8 is and how well it's doing. The relevant part could have been summed up as: there's a free upgrade coming out sometime later this year called Windows 8.1.
Nah, they'll just start pulling cars over to check the firmware on your car to make sure it's up to date.
Thanks a lot for your answer.
What about the long answer not short ^^?
It's cool how these email filters end up being an approximation of what we once thought of as morality, with lots of gray area and variation with societal norms. Your email is bad if it's annoying, and annoyance gets measured.
Trust me, I'm a liar.
Yes, it pushes you out of your natural range like a personal trainer will push you to lift heavier.
I think they're trying to hype it in much the same way incremental Android/iOS updates are hyped.
Actually, it sounds like this was part of a test and he was in the high-volume group.
Neither are yellow lights. Cross streets don't turn green until the yellow is gone.
Perhaps to distinguish it from the Microsoft Store, which sells physical goods?
I think many of Google's services were down for a bit. I couldn't sync Chrome on a new install, search, etc.

Everything seems back up now.
The problem with red light cameras is that they encourage blind obedience to rigid traffic laws, and not driving safely as dictated by the road conditions. There are plenty of legal situations where a driver might "run" a red without having done anything "illegal" or dangerous, such as getting caught in the middle of an intersection. I'm in favor of ripping them all down, as their only real function is to suck money out of the taxpayers pockets.
I agree. I believe is scapegoating too. The guy that wrote the mail had no clue about anything technical, and the other guys that help him explain, didn't really understood what the programmer did and perhaps wasn't even a Go dev. And it seems that the original developer just left and doesn't want anything to do with the game anymore. So...they blame it on the language and 3th party hobby libraries from github because they can't set up the project right. That shit happens on any language even with inhouse built libraries if you put unskilled people to to the job.
Sounds like your friend would've been a perfect fit for CrowdMed [1], a start-up that aims to diagnose rare, hard to diagnose diseases. The founder's sister went thru a similar nightmare of endless doctors' visits and misdiagnoses, inspiring him to start the company. Shame they weren't around when your friend developed the condition.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/16/crowdmed/
I believe that many left-leaning political types strongly dislike and attempt to discredit Ayn Rand because they vehemently disagree with her political philosophy. A common criticism is that her philosophy sounds good when you are a child, but when you grow up you realize it doesn't work in the real world.

For myself, I'm a 40 year old that leans Libertarian so I tend to agree with some of her political philosophy. I even tried reading Atlas Shrugged but it was so boring I put it down after about 100 pages.
Blind rejection is a useful heuristic, and avoiding effort is not necessarily laziness.

I drive rather than walking everywhere because I have better things to do with my time. I ignore, rather than specifically evaluating Ayn Rand quotes because I have better things to do with my time.

Oh sure, she might have accidentally said something both true and interesting every once in a while. And Mathgen[0] might accidentally produce a valid proof, if you run it enough times.

[0]: http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/
Flask apps on Heroku susceptible to IP spoofing
So below the federal recommendation and worse, not uniformly but more often on lights with cameras leading to non standard light behaviour. Because we really want unpredictable behaviour from our traffic system... that can only lead to safer roads... like variable length steps on a stair case.

These people should be charged with public endangerment.

edit: Also as someone pointed out, less warning to pedestrians to clear the cross walk and less time to do so. Very safety conscious.
Some updates on the way:

1. Start menu
2. Tile size

(source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/380713/windows-blue-8-1-release-...)
I grinned because I assumed it was a deliberate attempt to hurt Apple's "App Store" trademark claim.
Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop
It really is that bad.

http://flipchartfairytales.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/healt...

When limited only to public spending, Norway and Luxembourg spend more per capita, but that's it
will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store

This could be to get more people to link their Microsoft ID with their Windows user accounts so that they will be more likely to use the store in the future. The alternative would be to release it through Windows Update like every other Windows patch for the last decade+.
Did you mean us: http://codassium.com
So the guys at Foursquare are driven by "fads" and don't have a clue about databases or scaling ?
I was also mystified as to how not a single one of them did this after alleged months of effort.
They make some people's head 'splode, others generate kneejerk responses. For an otherwise obscure writer, that that she is so well known to have detractors everywhere is itself telling, but you'd have to judge for yourself what it is telling about.
> For the sake of argument, let's assume that the super-rich spend the same or a similar proportion of their income on necessities as everyone else (meaning that they buy more food, more clothing, more housing, etc.). What does this do?

Like it or not, changes in wealth for the super-rich seem to have effects on the non-super-rich too. As the richest gain more wealth, the less rich feel even less rich. As they see bigger and nicer houses going up, more expensive cars driving around, etc., the relative quality of theirs is going down. In an attempt to keep up, they spend more, and so on down the socioeconomic ladder. This effect has been called "trickle-down consumption" in a recent study detailed here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/27/t....

The result is is exactly what you acknowledge later, which is a bit contradictory to your opening assumption: "[T]he super-rich don't actually spend their money in the same way poor people do. They invest a good chunk of their money and they don't spend in the same proportion of their income on necessities..."

People in lower income brackets are spending more money while saving less, and this is in part due to the rising displays of opulence from the upper income earners.
It is actually not as bad as you would think. Much better than LLVM, in fact.

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling...
US DOT should set standards for minimum yellow light times.

They do, through the MUTCD: http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/knowledge/faqs/faq_part4.htm#q32
Apple desktop and laptop sales also decreased. Are we going to use post hoc ergo propter hoc to prove Windows 8 so good that it caused Apple's sales to tumble as well?
They don't have to be 6 pages at Amazon (and the discussion starts after everyone's done reading, not after a prescribed 30-minute period). Oftentimes what is requested is a 2-pager. However, even the 6-page ones are not full of fluff; they're usually packed with data and analysis. Fluff tends to get pulled out pretty aggressively in favor of more information that's been requested sometime during the drafting and review process. By the time a document gets to Jeff, many eyes have seen it.
This is basically what every fitness video since the 80s does. If you want something longer than 7 minutes, this one is pretty good: http://www.teambeachbody.com/workout-routines/insanity-worko...
Yeah exactly. This shit is ridiculous.
That would certainly be a great way to prevent genetic disorders for future generations, just disallow anyone with a pre-disposition from reproducing and/or being born.

That seems like an odd way to look at reproduction. Would you rather like 50 years and die of cancer or not have lived at all?

It's one thing to make a decision when there's medical evidence during the pregnancy that can be tested but when you're only talking about a statistical risk that something may or may not occur...
It has been my extensive experience that anyone above mid-level manager will ONLY read a power point -- ie a summary, a graph, and a couple of bullet points. Never a email longer than four sentences and never, ever a report.

Maybe meetings are different?
| I only wish she had not done this in secret.

Not done what? She published an account of her medical decisions in the NYT... hardly secret.
I love how people jumped all over Go on that thread, without having any idea of what they are talking about.

Gotta love the Internets.
You are reading something I didn't write.
You're not responding coherently, but it's indeed a fact that delayed green lights create safer intersections.

Here's a news story from 35 years ago on the topic:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19780310&...
Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application
Seems extremely unlikely that they suddenly realize they need to increase pedestrian safety at the end of each month. I've been working there for about a year and the pattern of never being there and then suddenly appearing at the end of the month is unmistakable.

I had previously thought such rigid quotas were mostly urban legend until I saw the pattern repeat over and over with my own eyes.
> you'll offset the entire effect of this workout by eating a cookie

Hm. I dealt with this problem by radical diet change and no change in activity level. I lost more than 100 lbs in a year by going essentially vegetarian for a couple months and then gradually changing my diet into to something that's still not what it was but is something I can live with long-term. Right now, I'm doing what I'll be doing the rest of my life, which is monitoring my weight and modifying my diet based on observed results but otherwise eating what I want. I still walk multiple hours a day, as I did before I lost weight, while I lost weight, and will until I physically can't, but I did (and do) no other exercise.

I'm predisposed to being fat. That may or may not be genetic in a meaningful sense, but I treat it as if it is. I know I'm genetically predisposed to Type 2 diabetes. If I get fat again and stay fat long enough, I'm going to have to manage that. I'd rather manage the process of staying a healthy weight.
Question: Could we give Open Source git repos permalinks?
No. PHP should never be used for anything, ever.
As someone that works primarily in Python lately and a terrible hack guitarist, I always think of the namesake behind the Django framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt

I won't recap, but read up on the terrible burn injury on his playing hand and how he developed a new playing style of his own to compensate.

He's regarded as one of the fastest, cleanest guitarists ever. Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIJ4W7kXiQ
It's always amusing to me to realize that, in 2013, Nixon would be too far left for the Democratic party.
Of course they're not going to acknowledge poor speculative reporting by some blogs/magazines. Plenty have written the counter-piece. Windows 8 has sold over 100M copies despite the decline in PC sales. They don't run the industry, they just sell operating systems and office software. There's little they could do to change the fact that if you already have a PC that you bought in the past 5 years or so, it's just as capable as what's on store shelves now, so people are not running out to replace them for no reason. That, along with the greater time spent on smartphones and tablets, is what's caused PC sales to slow.
These articles are just one side of the picture which gets heavily upvoted on HN.

And of course it is about elitism. Listen to yourself. "It's about making good decisions".

I mean who are you to judge from the outside what technology a company should use for a specific use cases ?
I'm a little confused about how this would be an issue in the first place. I mean, surely all the changes are checked into a repository and the working code is on the programmers computer right??? So why doesn't he just share the 'working' code with all of the dependencies if he somehow didn't check in his local copies of the dependencies.

I'm a little suspicious when it is claimed that the original author can't get it to compile. That is just so strange and the simplest explanation was that it was never in a great state anyway.
Is Tesla going to reveal a battery pack swap feature for the S?
It depends on your definition of mutable.

My links to documents on SGI don't seem to work...
Architectural Primitives: Inter-Datacenter Tunnels
Keepnote is fantastic on Windows and Linux (but awful on OS X).

http://keepnote.org/
Presumably the developer didn’t come up with this on their own, but instead learned it from a Go tutorial or documentation.

Visiting http://golang.org/doc/code.html I see examples like this:

import "code.google.com/p/go.example/newmath"

There is no discussion about versioning in the 'Remote Packages' section - instead we are told "This convention is the easiest way to make your Go packages available for others to use.” My reading is that importing from HEAD is a Go convention.
> Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as “Windows Blue” will be called Windows 8.1 and will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store.

I wouldn't call installing a free update from your OS's app store a new OS. It's mostly just minor cosmetic changes from the sounds of it.
The author assumes that there is a linear relationship between the amount of money that a creator has at their disposal and the resulting "production quality". So, once Jenna Marbles starts making some real bank, out come the camera crews and director and post-production effects and...

No. There is no path from Jenna Marbles to the traditional kind of television that the author is used to. They're just...different. Jenna has a specific way that she likes to create things and more money doesn't necessarily change that.

To make the kind of TV that the author imagines, you need to drop some money up front. Let's be charitable and say $300,000 for a pilot. Needless to say this is out of reach for almost 100% of the content creators on Youtube, so it's unsurprising that the content that has risen to popularity within Youtube has its roots in methods that cost essentially nothing.

Now, there are some interesting exceptions. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries [1] was nowhere near a "real" TV show in terms of budget but it had writers, production staff, and hired actors. Vice produces a lot of content that seems like it could fit into a normal TV program [2] -- almost. There are some other interesting shows that are sort of half-way there (well, more like 1/10th of the way there) in that they actually have production crews and do things like post-production (see: Wil Wheaton's Tabletop series [3]). I'm sure there are a ton of other examples.

So, the community is sidling up to high-quality content, but it's still unclear exactly how they're going to get there. By my estimation, to create a "TV-ready" drama, you'd need at the very least 100k subscribers paying $3/mo. Obviously no one is going to sign up for something if they're never heard of you, so you've got to make some free content that people love, then maybe make the jump via a Kickstarter? Or will true "channels" appear that bring the money and the subscribers and that then fund the shows of their choice? This is a really fascinating time for video content -- I'm excited to see how the economics end up playing out.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs&feature=c4-ov...

[2] (Warning: NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo

[3] http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C
If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
It's the same as http://repl.it/ the source is at https://github.com/replit/jsrepl/
This article completely misses the point. It is not glossy fine hd quality that attracts, it is the soul and heart that youtubers put into videos. Be it Jenna Marbles showing an example of a strong woman, Shane Dawson who gives hope and inspiration to bullied kids across the country - you can't do the same if you will be just pouring dollars.
And no, they have someone to be 'good' for - Jenna has 8,785,657 highly engaged subscribers on youtube only, who value her sincerity above video quality.
Definitely source maps. They should basically let stuff compiled to JS be as easy to debug as stuff compiled to x86.

But JavaScript actually has some advantages for debugging. The generated code is much more readable than x86 or ARM, and it's trivial to instrument code while debugging, http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/debugging-javascript-is-...
Wow, how is this Go's fault? Shouldn't it be obvious that one has to be very careful when patching upstream libraries and maintain a forked repository and/or submit patches upstream?
This is kind of like Stypi, except with REPL, cool!
I guess when someone can do five reps of one armed push ups, five reps of pistol squats and five reps of pull ups (one arm?) then they can say "well, maybe time to drop this scheme and hit the weights"#. But the vast majority of people don't come close to this, so it is completely and utterly absurd for the grandparent to dismiss anything other than barbells for strength training.

#Admittedly it's hard to find a replacement for something like olympic barbells when it comes to exercises such as the deadlift. And of course weights have their benefits with the easier progression, etc etc...
Huh, it's interesting that there's actually an engineering standard for yellow light times that local governments don't seem to acknowledge. I've always been annoyed at the dangerously short yellow lights around here (Denver), compared to the rest of the country. (I think they were short even before we had red light cameras.) When I'm traveling in other states, I often find myself automatically hitting the brakes when I see yellow, only to sit at the yellow light for a few seconds. :/
> voice quality beats cell phones hollow

Really? Not in my experience.

> Why not believe that the Media Monopoly (ABC, NBC, CBS) used their monopoly rents to make programming with lots of flourishes and quality?

It did for a certain definition of 'quality'. For a while, it raised the sitcom to a level of perfection few art forms ever reach, but if you don't like the traditional sitcom that means nothing to you.

Certain kinds of stories were told as well as they could be told, but the limitations of the funding model (mass media, so you can't piss off too high of a percentage of the general public; ad-funded, so you can't piss off too many potential advertisers; FCC regulated, so you can't piss off the vocal minority who whines to the FCC) prevented any other kinds of stories from being told well, or told at all.
What is being run, unintentionally by YouTube and its army of content generators, is a massively parallel search algorithm that evolves and optimizes itself to find every facet of human weakness. Networks effects on the internet allow it to run at an unprecedented speed and scale.

There is a certain ironic beauty to how destructive the system as a whole becomes. Everyone gains. The content producer, YouTube and the advertisers are locked in an addictive feedback loop. Even the users gain through the quantity and diversity of content.

Exactly like the housing bubble, everyone including the rating agencies did well right up till the end.
I can't remember the source now, but IIRC the actual measurement was the age when they founded their first company. But quite a few of them by that time had hands-on business experience managing businesses owned by others.
Does the NSA store all text messages? Yes, more than likely. Do their employees snoop on US citizens? Nope.

Correct. Since the NSA is prohibited from operating within US borders, it's the FBI who snoops on US citizens.
I bet tomorrow morning half of people here will download and backup their 3th party libraries :). And perhaps even burn them on a CD (just to be safe)