skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No sound version: http://thechoice.amos.me/?nosound
Would you consider to support the Rackspace drivers for Apache libcloud? It's a great library for projects using mixed infrastructure from different IaaS providers.

It may not be in the primary interest of Rackspace, but definitely in the primary interest of many Rackspace clients.

http://libcloud.apache.org/
NetDNA was Hacked
It's coffeescript[1]

[1] http://coffeescript.org/
I guess "natural", although it wasn't my intention to suggest that table sugar is unnatural. "HF" and "CS" were for clarity, not subtext.
You're probably at the beginning of the game, and you probably need to put your answer within single quotes (e.g. answer 'yes'). Not much error checking yet..
Space Invaders: The blast from the past that still inspires
Quandl + BigML = Powerful financial, economic, and social predictive models
Do you have a human study that establishes that? Because as I understand it, this isn't true, and that human studies have shown insignificant differences between the two. The chemical bond you're referring to is one we have evolved to break extremely quickly.
I am a ex-employee of MS. In my observation, the decision making process is very complicated inside microsoft. Because of big-hierarchy, there are many people involved in making decision even for for a small feature. Most of the decision maker are non-expert on the topic. Sometime they argue: we should do A then after sometime few other manager will argue for B and again after sometime they will argue for A and this keeps on going till there is little time left for release. And at end, they randomly pick either A or B.
I think browsers all do it differently. I know we don't... some things just flat out break on zoom.
Hm, I am sleeping about 6 hrs per night for years now...
So do I have to care about some dept? If so: why? It lacks information...
It's a decent layout if you turn off Javascript.
But it's not a given that you can "break" SSL. The problem that moxie is highlighting actually has no solution (even HSTS isn't a solution) and relies on users to not notice that they have been downgraded to HTTP.

Unless moxie also wants to say, with a straight face, that twitter and gmail would be better off disabling HTTPS, I don't think that claim is fair.
Nice analogy. Feel that way all the time.
Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says
You're exactly right. I had posted a portion of the quote on twitter and literal googling with that turned up nothing. I'm guessing those comments aren't being indexed.

If you're curious, the guy used to run a blog about paleo, although as time went on he started to hate that label and the movement in general (I imagine a lot of that comment thread is hard to understand without some context into the community around that time). Anyway, he hasn't posted anything in over a year. http://www.archevore.com/
Dronestream: Real-time and historical data about every reported US drone strike
Libcloud was started by cloudkick, which rackspace acquired - for official support we need a dedicated person on staff who can maintain and answer questions from front line support, irc, etc.

That's what we mean by officially supported - that said, I have good news: we are looking into it, our pkgcloud, fog, jclouds, etc libraries are multi cloud/iaas libraries, and we believe in supporting these types of libraries (multi cloud, multi provider).

Stay tuned - we're working on it.
I think the thing you're looking for (or at least the first part of it) is called auto_explain.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auto-explain.h...
I accidentally hit Alt-Bkspc instead of Ctrl-Enter and lost all my state. Gah. Had I been a little farther along I probably wouldn't have been willing to start over to get back to where I was.

It would be nice if the game put itself in the history, so that Back would only take you to (say) the previous challenge. (That would also really help when you're trying to remember the syntax of a command.)
The Declaration of Independence is not a governing document of the United States.

"If you make it slightly more expensive, they'll simply pay" does not seem like a statement that comports with economics.
Add multi-day electrical outages to the list. During the Northeast Blackout in 2003 you simply could not buy gas for several days in many places because gas pumps run on, you guessed it, electricity.

Actually, I think owning an EV would make me less worried about multi-day blackouts. You can charge an EV from a gas or diesel generator or solar (or wind or...), but a gas car can only run on gas.
I like it. Perhaps for further chapters, an escaped human could be be controlling a machine, that has had it's memory wiped, remotely in order to infiltrate a machine base.
They first need to steal unittest blocks. Then they can improve on it so that D can steal those improvements :)
It's easy to knock Mr. Kurzweil, given his supranormal convictions about the relatively near-term future of our society. However, check out some of the names on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper_Award

...it looks more like he is invited
to play the clown and amuse the assistance,
[rather] than to lead [to] anything concrete.

It may be a bit preemptive to discount him so readily.
With Javascript off, the tab in Chrome is only taking ~75 MB on my Lenovo.
Do you have any anecdotes to share, or a blog post or something? I'd be quite interested to read about your thought process.
It is going to live a long life. It is making it over the bad PR it has had in the past... by being awesome.
I bet a lot of people on HN don't even make 30K a year. It's a little weird to be assuming that everyone here is working in Silicon Valley making 100K+. Particularly for a site dedicated to early stage startups and tech and the philosophy of being frugal to lunch startups.
I personally won't ever use Medium because it deprives the author of branding and recognition.
FixEpisodes: Rename TV shows to acquire PLEX metadata
So what happens when you have a years long war? You can't rebuild a steel production industry from scratch while also fighting a war. More important than that, you can't keep the expertise in a stockpile. If we let e.g. shipbuilding go overseas, it could be a decade before we could gather together the expertise again to build a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, even if we had a stockpile of steel.
> Is Lua that much of an improvement over JS to justify that?

This depends on the project, of course. For existing software that's already written in Lua and now needs to run inside a browser, running the Lua VM in JS may be the best way to go. However, I've decided that for new code, Lua doesn't have enough advantages over JS to justify the problems with running a VM in a VM.

Here are the things that I consider significant advantages of Lua over JS, and my thoughts on each.

1. Coroutines: JS is getting a form of these via generators, though I don't know how soon that feature will become ubiquitous. In the meantime, a compiler can turn code that uses coroutines into continuation-passing style.

2. Weak references: It's unfortunate that JS doesn't have these. But as the OP pointed out, running a VM within a VM introduces other memory management problems, since the guest VM has its own GC. To avoid those issues, I can live without weak references in the language.

3. Metamethods: The most well-known metamethods are for overriding table operations, so one can implement properties, proxies, or other dynamic behavior. I've sometimes found these useful on previous Lua projects, but for new code, I can do without them in order to avoid the problems of running a VM in a VM.

4. Non-string keys for tables/objects: There are ways around this. For example, instead of using another object as a key, one can assign a unique ID to the object, then use that as the key.
Language agnostic: Angular.js + (Haskell's) Wai Without Yesod - The Front End
You should look at the fact that this author has another article called "All Press is Good Press", at http://elitedaily.com/life/all-press-is-good-press/

The article you are discussing is just another instance of a newly widespread phenomenon - write a really inflammatory article, and have it spread across the internet, while the publication sits back and collects pageviews. By writing a blogpost and linking back to it, and submitting it here, you are just playing into the game that's been setup.

Unless of course, you are just the author (or friend of the author) of the original sexist article, trying to fan the flame of controversy. In which case, carry on, and good luck to you in your business endeavor.
A field covered with solar panels produces orders of magnitude more energy than same field covered with any kind of plants.

Saw dust and wood chips are not food (unless you're a mushroom).
You can say it's a dumb contest, just like I will, but you can't say he weaseled. Unless you would like to first admit to a reading disability.

It says, plainly, he wouldn't click unless there was a valid SSL cert. Do you know what sslstrip does? I know you do, so stop playing dumb.

"I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate :)"

Apologize to absherwin and admit you were wrong, or it is you who is the weasel.
Dear god, how pedantic would you prefer that I be? It's a pain to type out monosaccharide and disaccharide all the time. Also, chemists will typically not use the term, "infinitely recursive".

Outside of that, your point is totally valid. The location in the body where the enzymes that break the glycosidic linkage means that the absorbtion curve is different. But I was not addressing that point. Just that the body doesn't break them down differently, after they sucrose molecule is split in the small intestines.
it was easy for me, but really fun, I want more of this for sure..
I could use a checkbox to shut off the voice. It gets a little annoying after a while.

Very nice. Somewhat fun and interesting. Xzoor isn't a very good guard if he's telling you specifics about your prison!
Google Cache if you are experiencing an error 504 gateway timeout:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
Writing for People and for Search Engines
The Billion Dollar Startup Disruption
If I recall, there's a pretty decent correlation between people who sleep more than 7 a day, and increase in chance of a premature death

Also, you're missing out on so many more hours of conscious life :)
I can live with your belief that I'm a weasel. I think Adam Sherwin owes Moxie $1000. I stand by my opinion.
What's the coolest "back door" that you know?
For example (totally outside of tech), In-n-out Burger has a "secret" menu (which seems obvious once you realize there are like 5 things on their actual menu). http:// badmouth.net/in-n-outs-secret-menu/
If only it were true. Most of the country is rushing ruinously toward actuation.

Only a few cities (notably New York, San Francisco, Chicago) believe in pedestrians.
> Cool, so you're being kind of disingenuous in your arguments by ignoring my underlying point (SSL does not do these things)

I am not being condescending I am being completely serious here: maybe I just don't understand your underlying point.

What are "these things that SSL does not do" that Javacript-over-SSL does do?

> and my disclaimers (JS crypto has huge, real problems, I'm not an advocate for it), and instead just replying so you can invite moxie and tptacek to circlejerk on twitter apparently: https://twitter.com/marshray/status/340239501446217728 Instead of make more comments for you to take out of context and condescendingly straw-man, I'm going to withdraw from this effort.

Oh give me a flippin break. Anybody who clicks that link can see that it a reply to someone.

Stand up for your point with rational arguments or admit your system is pwned by sslstrip.
No issues here, Firefox 21, Ubuntu.
More comparable than you'd think...

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/survival-strat...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

Evidence that sugar is addictive in the same way as are narcotics and cancer cells in blood with elevated sugar grow much faster.
Wow, $5.25 per month was what they were paying in 1995 as well. They haven't even increased the minimum wage in federal prison!
Ahhh sorry about the 504s! You should be able to retry if it's giving you issues. We only have 4 gunicorn workers running on a single Linode right now, we'll try to bump it up to 6-8 to see if that helps in the meantime.

edit: Increased the worker count to 8. Hopefully that helps a little bit.

edit2: Turned on memcache.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796039

You're not in a prison. Much in the story is left to your imagination, but I can tell you this: you are very much a "free" agent in this universe. However, your value is constantly under thorough investigation to see if you shall remain a human, or be deemed a numan.

Hopefully Episode 2 will bring more answer as to what exactly this universe is, how it works, and how you can actually fight back.
> People have a fsckin' right to eat unhealthy

They do not. Obesity, most especially childhood obesity, puts the sufferer at risk to all kinds of nastiness that doesn't kill you outright but is very expensive to treat. I have the right to keep the morbidly obese out of my wallet.
Had the same problem: I thought I had to add on top of the previous step. But asking for the key and unlocking the door was not necessary at that step.
Fluctuating is one thing, gyrating wildly is another.
This is a true American hero.
Once we adopt a single time zone, I also propose using the same core work hours everywhere in the world. That way, if you need to schedule a conference call with someone on the other side of the world, no one needs to come in early or stay late. Also, it will eliminate jet lag when traveling.
I saw `answer '...'` and immediately guessed... coffee-script? Syntax highlighting confirmed this ;)
not only do i zoom, but i have set the
minimum font-size in safari to 18-point,
causing many "pixel-perfect" sites to fail,
often just a bit, sometimes spectacularly.

-bowerbird
Rebuttal to that article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2011.4/full
Probably not anytime soon. You can charge 240 miles of honest, comfortable, real-world, freeway-speed range while you sleep at night, and the same while you're at the office. Cross-country road trips are just about the only time the vast majority of people will ever need to charge at a location other than the origin or destination. Waiting for a supercharge doesn't add much time to the trip unless you normally tend to drive 10 hours straight without answering the call of nature. The superchargers are intended to be at locations and intervals where you would ordinarily stop anyway (to eat, use the facilities, stretch your legs, etc.). There are, of course, cases where a battery swap would be handy, but that's on the wrong side of the 80/20 problem.
What's up with "global warming" these days? I was under the impression that, since there hasn't been any recent evidence of warming, everybody had just substituted the more general term "climate change" to deal with anthropogenic environmental stuff.

I'm really crossing my fingers that preventing anthropogenic global warming is as simple as banning CFCs. A lot of the CO2 emission control schemes being considered could seriously stress the economy.
ReactOS 0.3.15 Released
Marry me! I mean, join the team!

But seriously, Chapter 2 is all about deconstructing the game.

It's easy at first.. but then it gets harder. Erasing your traces... reverse-engineering protocols.. introducing you to netsec against your will.

Consider Chapter 1 an appetizer.
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That must be what optimism looks like.

You need to understand that many - a minority perhaps, but many - of the supporters of emission controls are opposed to industry per se, not the effects of same.
Also ex-employee of Microsoft -- used to work in SQL Server (very traditional, old-Microsoft group).

Jobs people had in my group: (1) Developer: Write code. (2) Test: Write automation to test the code developers write. (3) Program manager: Make sure everyone is coordinated and that there's a reliable, up-to-date spec for the product.

Microsoft doesn't have a strong tradition of product management or design, and I'd argue those are the two areas where they're weakest as a company. Is there someone who works at Microsoft with the title "Product Manager"? I know there were "product planners", and "program managers", but not PM in the Silicon Valley sense of the term.

They're especially good at partner management though, and I don't think they get enough credit for that.
I am not qualified to judge either side (nor did I even find this link: someone on r/science commented with it), but this article may be interesting to those who are (and I certainly would be interested in hearing the opinions of others):

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Could-CFCs-be-causing-global...
There's not a single time when I wouldn't prefer receiving plain text instead. I disable all e-mail images by default for every sender anyway, so these little marketing brochures always look like broken messes.
i read this article back when it was first released,
but my memory is that the takeaway message was that
if you've got a lot of money to spend on designers,
designers will be quite happy to take it from you. :+)

-bowerbird
Qing-Bin Lu doesn't have a good record in climate science as discussed here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/lu-fro..., so I'm not holding my breath over this one.
His review was pretty off, though. I've worn mine a month and only ever was asked to take it off once at a company with a bunch of private meetings going on. Meanwhile he claims the most important flaw is that it is not socially acceptable. You actually get treated like a minor celebrity for wearing one, with people on the streets often asking about it, how much it costs, how to get one, if they can try it, if they can get a picture of themselves wearing it, etc.. No one has batted an eye at me giving it voice commands either, they are all used to people with Bluetooth headsets.

I've never had any trouble using it in sunlight myself either. I half suspect he just saw the screen was a little faded and went, woot, another complaint I can make instead of actually using it. A lot of his other issues are similar. Other people voice controlling it is almost never an issue since you are the one who taps it or looks up right beforehand - it isn't on all the time. He doesn't know the shortcuts to skip to Googling or skip to the menu either.
The most important feature of this release is the preliminary support for USB mice, keyboard, and storage devices. [1] is relevant (I posted it yesterday, it's about USB support in KolibriOS, another free OS).

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787771
It means you can port your game to the web without having to change its addons written in Lua to something else.

If the choice is lua.js vs porting code to Dart you know 'good enough' is going to win.
I feel I have to disagree.

Kickstarter has been used quite a lot by a whole bunch of artists to deliver comic books; if you look at money brought in, it's consistently ranged from being the #2-5 publisher of comics in the US.

While some of these comics were done on the "here's a pitch and my track record, pay me for a year's work in advance and I'll make this" model that the Double Fine adventure is being made on, the vast majority of them were not - most of them are about "here's some stuff I already drew, I need this much in preorders to make a print run economical." This goes all the way from little campaigns like the one I ran[1] up to huge ones like the $1250k one for the Order of the Stick reprints[2]. Kickstarter has helped make independent comics a lot easier to sell. It's also been a huge boon to board game makers, who work in a similar "make the thing, then seek money to publish it" model.

It is quite possible to run a successful Kickstarter based solely on delivering the product to the audience, with absolutely none of the glimpse into the creative process that Double Fine is providing.

That said: be aware of what you're getting into, be prepared for it to never happen.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52397119/decrypting-rita...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-t...
It is several feet out at least. I certainly don't have to focus on it like if I hold my finger the same place. Heck, if I don't wear contacts I need my distance glasses in front to see it. I don't think Dustin got much time with it, he has a lot of mistakes in his review.
Agreed. Things like the Rift have been all over for a decade. Sony Glasstron, etc..
How Do I Write Blog Posts?
I can't help but think that Vista -> Windows 7 is an example of this pattern.
That aside, is there a reason you're naming and shaming? It seems a little malicious. You know that your announcement is going to come up under search results for his real name.

If that wasn't intentional and you hadn't considered it, it would be classy to delete that. Granted "absherwin" is not totally anonymous, your derogatory proclamation attached to the proper form of his name is a bit much. He's misguided, not malicious.
It may help if you refuted the central argument rather than attacking the source.
Yes, Apple has used free BSD code to build an OS that is not open source. I don't think anyone would dispute that.
You're right, and it's a very disempowering culture for the 59s and 60s (these are internal levels) at the bottom.

I'm in SV now and no way I'll go back to that. Too much consensus, discussion, meetings, not enough autonomy, action, or customer orientation.
I'd be interested in buying "side projects".
I had the completely opposite reaction: I thought it the layout was excellent. (Although I agree the reaction on the mouse over was confusing).
Yeah, what about the so-called 'global warming'?? We need to protect that oil and gas industry at all costs.

BTW, I heard that evolution is just a 'theory', and many experts seriously doubt that it can be true.
"The Drugs that completely cure are not profitable"
7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data
I know that KO was started before Steve Sanderson joined MS... I think the biggest reason it gets associated with MS is that it follows the observable pattern, and has a binding nature similar to WPF/Silverlight. That said, it's very usable.
This "new" study was released in 2009.

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/qing-bin-lu-is-trying...
And many - who knows what percentage - of deniers are motivated by hatred of liberals or environmentlists or Democrats or the UN or scientists. So what?
OR: survivorship bias lets you make all sorts of unfounded claims.
I'll be honest, I don't understand the logic I need to get through the truth-teller/liar test since it isn't quite clear what I'm allowed to do. If you just want me to do a ton of embedded if/else statements, meh, I've lost interest.

If the goal it to teach programming, increase an interest in programing, or expose a language that others might not be exposed to, the worst way to do it it to make your target audience feel stupid. The initial questions to show the answer command aren't very easy - frankly they are seriously flawed riddles. Second, showing variables isn't described well enough to intrinsically know what to do unless you've already been exposed to programming.

I guess it all depends on the target audience, but it's not all that clear who that is.
I understand the problem with non-atomicity, but it has nothing to do with thread-safety of calc().

Executing non-threadsafe function, and threadsafe function simultaneously is not a threadsafe operation. But the article says nothing about such situations, it places no restrictions on such situations. The thread-safe requirenment is for const-functions.

I am probably not a good explainer, so here is the link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14127379/does-const-mean-...