skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty big gap between forum links and nothing.

A websticker program, for instance, that is marketed via actual direct contact with potentially valuable partners, can provide high-quality in-bound links that are voluntary and durable. True, this works better in B2B than B2C. For B2C, an affiliate or discount program can do similar things. These can be supported by advertising as well.

These sorts of programs take a commitment, though. You're not going to make a quick big splash this way. But they do work over time, particularly since Google values age in both domains and inbound links.
A brilliant and tenacious person can fail due to bad luck, but you can't succeed at the billionaire level WITHOUT being brilliant and tenacious. So bad luck can be a factor, but good luck is not, really. Good luck might separate the billionaires from the millionaires, maybe.
You can use PostgreSQL together with ZFS and with lz4 compression enabled and maybe gzip will improve performance even more. http://www.citusdata.com/blog/64-zfs-compression
Btrfs also supports compression.
This will only help so much - it'll soon become a chore/annoyance, as it would become more of "checking the box" than actually "connecting with people".

This is a problem that can't solved by tech, mobile app etc (tech can only help a bit). I'm not sure simply "talking with store clerk" will help loneliness. If that is the case, talking to our bosses and other colleagues (who really don't care too much about anyone other than themselves - in many cases) should help, but we know it doesn't.

Also, we don't need a mobile app for this - just setting up a reminder on the calendar we use, should be more than enough.

As one grows older, making friends (and genuine connections) becomes more and more difficult. That is a problem worth solving.
The most interesting thing in this thread is frankly how many people seem to be using Pingdom.
Love at First Impression: Rich and Social Media
Yah, I don't think we can make a user interface for people who flail wildly and press random buttons.
streaming the album before the release is pretty much the norm these days
offlineimap will do it without hoops.
Experimental Lakes project?

Your best example of the oil agenda of the government is a very long running project having nothing to do with global warming or the oil industry at all? The other one -- an arctic station built to monitor the ozone layer -- provides zero scientific measurements that aren't replicated a thousand times over by many other arctic measurement stations, but maybe that'll hide global warming?

Good stuff.

Sarcasm, a bit of a conspiratorial closing note (such a nice way of offering a counterpoint). Absolutely nothing proving anything.

And yes, I despise political-agenda driven bullshit, which is just incredibly common in Canadian politics. The misinformation and vilification for anything and everything grows tiring to anyone with a concern for discerning reality from fantasy.
In thinking about it--my analogy could be better chosen, especially since skeuomorphism (which many, hold is the opposite of flat design) is embodied in wood-paneling. The idea was that totally flat things will look dated at some point. My point was that it will look "dated" but that irony is not lost on me.

I don't personally think Skeuomorphism is the opposite of flat design, I think of it more as "realism" as the opposite pole. Skeuomorphsim is less about perspective and distance and more about textural materials or design artifacts.
So maybe the importance of Nuuton is lost on me, but I'm going to be honest with you: That is not something I'd feel even remotely confident posting to HN for comments. You are wasting peoples time when you should still be wasting/using a lot more of your own. That this hit the frontpage is baffling.
At a certain level, naïveté is negligence.

I work with systems that have to comply with HIPPA regulations. If we didn't comply, we couldn't say "Oh, we didn't know, we'll do better next time". It is our job to know, and to comply with regulations; anything else is us being negligent of our duties.

A company the size of AOL? They're negligent. This doesn't mean that what Weev did was good, or OK, or even that he should be the poster boy for reform. He also knew what he was doing, and the fact that AOL's security was poor doesn't excuse it. If anything he'll become the poster boy for "why these laws need to exist".
iOS has always been amazingly good for music and (most) video usage for me. It's when I play games that torture the device (SF4 Volt) or use a lot of wireless radio that battery is burned up.
Intro to the gevent.queue module
The next government will flip it around, and use NRC to further THEIR ends. Please forgive my cynicism, but the act of thinking that one political party is "better" than the other is a triumph of optimism over experience.
Loneliness is about not feeling connected to other people. Start with your neighbors, if you have any, or any people you meet. Talk to just anybody whom you meet around your place. If you can't talk to them, develop a sense of love for and connectedness with them. Your brain will then believe that you already are in the center of the "herd", and you will feel better, I'm certain. I've known loneliness most of the time between age 8 and 20, then finally opened up (with that came anger at people because they don't work the way I want them to, but that's gone too now). Ask yourself why you have the need to feel lonely when everybody around you finds it easy to connect, and break that bad thinking/feeling habit bit by bit.
Yeah, exactly, I don't understand why they don't make "Photos" a folder in Google Drive and vice-versa. Subfolders can be albums, so when you upload something from your phone to G+ it also shows up on Google Drive, and when you drag a photo in your Photos folder it gets uploaded to your G+ account.

I don't really care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?).
Kids who post youtube videos of themselves rapping:
http://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-social-media-terrorism-threa...

The Methuen, Mass., high school student was arrested last week after posting online videos that show him rapping an original song that police say contained “disturbing verbiage” and reportedly mentioned the White House and the Boston Marathon bombing. He is charged with communicating terrorist threats, a state felony, and faces a potential 20 years in prison. Bail is set at $1 million.

And lots and lots of other ridiculous examples, if you search.
How does the government "secretly" obtain information? Did they hack the AP? Was it an inside job? Better yet, if it was so secret, how did the AP even find out that the DoJ obtained their records? Something doesn't add up...
Ironically fighting my desire to buy it now, too. Just got done listening to it and found it to be really disappointing, even outside the hype.
Head of structuring equity derivatives: 'Structurers are like snakes'
At the risk of sounding paranoid, if I were Moxie, I'd be on the lookout for sure :/ when you get into this sort of thing, not to mention the money involved, you're running serious risk of being "cancered" to death.
PowerSchool if anything is an underutilization of data. It would be easy to show trends in grades, what grades a student would need to pass, etc.

Though, I will admit, it looks pretty horrid.
I hardly think that calling moxie's choice of license "viral" and questioning whether he "really wants the world to be a more secure place" is asking "nicely enough".
religous wars aside i also would like to hear from one of the cryptography gods about licensing cryptography software since ComputerGuru does have a good point when talking about software such as openssh
it mentions me! my one claim to fame... here's the review http://developers.slashdot.org/story/04/02/19/2257203/purely...
Google Celebrates the 37th Anniversary of Atari's Breakout
PyAIML - A Python AIML Interpreter
You are the one confused. Do you understand the difference between analog and digital? Analog is a direct imprint of the photons that pass through the lense of the camera and have a chemical reaction with the film (simply put). A digital version is a COPY of the image that passes through the lens in the digital camera and by way of that it is already one time manipulated. In any case, I'm not saying I am the only one right here but that it's possible to look at it from different points of views. My overarching goal was to show that the whole claim of the edited photo not deserving a prize was irrelevant - photos are edited daily, every time and that does not take away from their aesthetic, documentary or other value if they are pulled off greatly.
Short version: yes, even looking from your angle, the writer could have said the same about ANY photo, analog or digital, arguing that because the light in the photo looked different than what it would look in reality (and don't forget that a human eye is a sort of an imperfect camera itself) it isn't worthy of recognition.
My father the pharmacist vs. a gigantic pill-packing machine
Shouldn't this posting be from a neutral source, say Reuters, or some distinguished blog rather than the AP themselves?

Otherwise, I'd recommend putting the quotes around the accusagion (ie, AP claims Govt has obtained their phone records, etc).

Perhaps the government here is actually in the correct?
I think the points that you bring up are mostly true for well established and common platforms and architectures, but the author, Mike Acton, focuses mostly on the PS3, where it is more conceivable that a compiler would not e.g. optimize a division operation to a shift, especially for an SPU.

I don't think it's fair to generalize game programmers for premature optimization nonsense. Game development certainly has much stricter requirements on performance than say, Joe's Ruby on Rails website, and so I would be much more inclined to trust them for optimization tips. That being said though, yes, a lot of them have no idea what they are talking about.

I have been on both sides of the fence. I have worked with people who attempt to optimize every single instruction, and with people who gladly misinterpret "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Both of them are obviously toxic in their own ways.
Goodbye Latex Condoms, Hello Origami Condoms
> Dude, I'm assuming you're desi...

Now I'm curious as to how you arrived at that assumption.
Already gone: http://s.do.ugal.me/image/1M0i0s2V3Q11
Facebook home a flop
This is very interesting. I work with traders at one of the big banks mentioned in this article and I can totally see how this leak could be impactful. Traders exchange pricing information all the time on BBG messaging.
The most important sailing expeditions to the New World were funded by European crowns.

The atomic bomb was developed exclusively through government research.

The vast majority of space program was developed through government funds, and what wasn't done by them was delegated and coordinated by them (and ultimately paid for as well).

Public universities are the largest and most important institutions doing basic research, and doing a lot of the actual innovation in medical research. Fewer and fewer companies are still dedicated to that (witness HP and Xerox withdrawing from the field; IBM is pretty much the only giant still putting resources into that).

The German and Chinese governments are subsidising solar energy research to the effect that its viability as an alternative power source has increased dramatically in the last decade.

Tell me how many companies nowadays are actually spending real money into research programs where the expected outcomes will reach fruition in 20 years or more.
Yeah, we haven't looked at performance at all.

"The Wonderful Thing About A Dancing Bear Is Not How Well He Dances, But That He Dances At All"

We'll get to teaching him to dance well later!
Also related: http://github.io/nornagon/live, uses esprima to transform into a live-editable model that can be updated without recompiling if you just change literals.
Show HN: Raft Distributed Consensus Protocol in Go
I did a Go implementation of the Raft distributed consensus protocol. The protocol works similarly to Google's Chubby, Apache Zookeeper and Heroku's doozerd except that it works as an embeddable library and not as a separate server. There's also a reference implementation called raftd.

https://github.com/benbjohnson/go-raft

https://github.com/benbjohnson/raftd
I would think they could have easily contacted the carriers of the phone numbers, which would quickly hand over whatever data they were requesting.
There are plenty if you are willing to pay. I've heard good things about EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL for Windows administrators.
What Adobe Creative Cloud pricing means to me.
Well, since the AP is breaking the story, do you suggest we hang out until Reuters covers it?
I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still...

Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"
We're not herd animals -- more like band or pack animals. We have a more sophisticated social structure with more complex roles than is implied by the term "herd".
At your link, I don't see her advocating domestic violence in any way shape or manner. I do see her describing one form of it, and then citing the first person to open a domestic violence shelter saying that one form is prevalent. That is a testable claim.

You should test it, instead of intentionally mischaracterizing her argument, and then labeling that argument as tripe.
Start-up nCrypted Cloud gives Dropbox its most-needed feature: Security
You are 100% correct in that before my dog died of stomach cancer some years back, I could not walk him down the street without massive attention from pretty much everyone. Note this was a cute Sheltie essentially a miniature hyperactive "Lassie" not a raging pit bull, which might be relevant to discussion.

Aside from street encounters there's a whole "dog subculture" of agility training, which my dog was completely hopeless at although its fun to watch and try and get cheered on.

Depending where you live, "dog parks" where weird as it sounds dog owners go to hang out at and meet other dog owners. Most city parks ban dogs other than at the official dog parks.

Then there's dog shows which are a whole nother almost separate subculture.

Now that I think about it coworkers who were dog people hung out with us socially too, simply because we all had dogs. Very much like how the sports fans hang out.

Most people treat their dogs exactly like they treat their children, interpret that as you may, for better or worse.
XMPP For the Web with JSON
I love that Objective C/Foundation provides a distinction between mutable and non-mutable collections and tends to favour the latter. (I also hate they make it impossible to test which a collection is.)

Pet peeve: "insure" is used on the page. For some bizarre reasons Americans use that word when they mean "ensure". The difference is very important - insure is when you don't want something to happen and ensure is when you do!
Phone records may be subpoenaed from the phone service providers. As the article notes, part of that process is to later notify affected service users of the subpoena, which they did on Friday by way of a letter to the AP.
I don't know that you can so easily dismiss other people as not being able to help. I have kept a journal for a while of my mood correlated with how many people I talk to. Granted n=1 and totally lacking rigor, the results for me indicate very easily that even simply asking "how are you" to the person who makes my lunch has a large impact.

I have made some quite close friends of the people who I interact with daily -- coworkers, baristas, cashiers etc. In my experience the depth of intimacy available to you depends on how much you're willing to risk. If you reveal yourself first, other people feel more comfortable following your lead.

What you wrote about how relations with others can be expected to be shallow is, IMO, what the article talks about when the researcher says that you have to suspend the beliefs and assumptions you make when approaching other people.
Not to be too dramatic about this, but I basically feel that the moment it became possible to negative SEO a competitor for ~$5 via services like fiverr et al is the moment that will be remembered as the end of Google as a dominant search engine, or at least the end of a Pagerank-centric algorithm for its search.
Yep.

Believe it or not, this is actually a key insight in meditative/contemplative practices.
Data Modeling Considerations for MongoDB Applications
You're thinking of the inventor James Dyson. Freeman Dyson was a physicist. That's why the comment.

BTW, Starship and the Canoe is a very interesting book if you know Dyson.
The price is a bit high, but they're a great company.
The AP was with "notified" in a letter...

From the article, "News organizations normally are notified in advance that the government wants phone records and enter into negotiations over the desired information. In this case, however, the government, in its letter to the AP, cited an exemption to those rules..."

and then,

"It is unknown whether a judge or a grand jury signed off on the subpoenas."
Linkedin update their user agreement
Nope, it's because of the limited number of staff available to read the stuff.
You should be able to examine that by looking at the MySQL data dump. I save titles as they appear on /newest, indexed by href, so you should be able to see title editing in action.
I believe you're missing the point: there are people who are way more lonely than the average person. From the article, I believe it is talking about people who are lonely and do not enjoy it (even if unconsciously).
Choice excerpt:

“If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat,
prove it," he says.

“This is the price you pay to live in free society
right now. It’s just the way it is,” Mullins adds.

[Disclaimer: for some definitions of 'free']
I'd suggest you go read The Lean Startup, as this is the source for the suggestions on HN.

You validate ideas by applying validated learning:

1. Figure out what you want to learn (ex. an assumption: customers want this product because it allows them to easily do x)

2. Figure out how you will learn via metrics (ex. measure: how many customers sign up based on advertising based on this assumption)

3. Do what is required to gather the metrics. (ex. act: advertise based on the assumption to gather metrics for analyses to validate your assumption).

Sort of sounds like Act/Track/Learn :)

The Lean Startup proposes that you approach a product by asking the following questions:

1. Is this product valuable to my customers?

2. Would customers buy this product?

3. Would customers buy this product from me?

4. Can I build this product?

Point 1 & 2 refer to validating the viability of ideas, while 3 & 4 is more of an introspection regarding availability of skills/resources/advantage etc.

Good luck!
Sure, take your pick.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/museum-of-civil...

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/10/16/civilization_e...

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/03/harper-conservatives...

http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-harper-s-...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/10/16/ottawa...
I'm a strong believer in getting some basics under your belt, and then following a course. Don't read haphazardly, have a specific curriculum to follow so there's an over-arching arc to your learning.

Without knowing more about what you can already do I can't recommend anything, but actually taking courses is a way to give you structure. The fact that you're asking here shows that you haven't taken control of your own learning, so getting a pre-prepared course or two under your belt seems a good way to start. Then re-assess.

YMWV
Before even delving into development beyond the internal spikes, put together your business model! You should have a pretty good idea who (and how numerous) your customers are, how much they're willing to pay, and how to reach them. Once you have those, you have some revenue numbers. From there, you can extrapolate at least a rough outline of a business plan.

If you can't figure out who the customers are or what they'll pay or how to get them to pay, then maybe you're sitting on a nice open source project instead. Lack of a business objective doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but maybe it means you shouldn't try to make a living from it.
Well, if you already use them as a domain name provider, you get 50% off their hosting. So I could theoretically launch a small website for $2.50, which isn't too bad.
I link to a few others in my post.
It makes sense there would be some kind of immunity. "Immunity" is probably the wrong word - I'd call it common sense. I would think Google has a simple lookup table which always places results like "bmw.com" #1 for query "bmw", "wikipedia.org" #1 for query "wikipedia", etc. irrespective of backlink profiles.
Curious - for someone statistically ignorant like me, can you provide some detail on how we can use Evan's tools for split testing improvements?

I guess the question I'm boiling this down to is... Why are graphs and comparisons of results that Optimizely or VWO produces not good enough?
Are you familiar with Richard Hamming's talk "You and your research"?

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

I'd contend that if a brilliant, tenacious person is doing relatively poorly remunerative things, it's because they're working on the wrong problems. Hamming writes:

"I started asking, ``What are the important problems of your field?'' And after a week or so, ``What important problems are you working on?'' And after some more time I came in one day and said, ``If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?''"

It's really easy to work on the wrong problems, either because you lack the courage to work on the right problem, or you don't know what the right problem is, or because your values don't line up with professional success. The first is regrettable, the second is hopefully temporary, and the third is fine. But if you want money and fame and all the other accouterments of success, and you're not working on an important problem, and you're not working on getting the courage to work on an important problem, and you're not trying to find the important problems - what are you doing? That's usually the situation that your hypothetical math mathematics professor is in.
Nope, they've got to have a reason for your G+ notification to always be highlighted, and a reason to have anyone visit (if only accidentally, or begrudgingly) G+
Actually we need more of that! Whatever it takes to help media wake up and become more critical of government intrusion tactics.
Have you tried recontacting them? A lot of people are open to a sincere mea culpa announcing a policy change. I suspect you'll win back more than 0% of those clients, on good terms.
Basically all of the software that I write for projects like this is GPL by default, but I generally include a note (as in this case) that developers should contact me if the license doesn't work for them.

I find this to be a good balance: those who wish to take my work and openly contribute their own work are free to do so, and those that don't need to contact the copyright holder. I don't think it's a lot to ask in this case, and I definitely don't think that licensing issues are what's holding back internet security here or otherwise.