skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Branch is confusing to me too, but I haven't spent much time there.

Quora is a plague? How? Could you please elaborate?

Actually, I find few things on Quora very interesting and unique to it.

Like

- You get an answer quickly(answers are mostly relevant), they usually propagate to particular topics and people interested in those topics pick them up.

- Down-voting is not limited to a few cognoscenti, all they did was join a forum quite early.

- You can edit your answer/question and others' too, the latter needs to be approved of course.

- Identities are real(mostly IMHO).

- Again, answering is not a cognoscenti-only, especially for wide acceptance(a good answer is liked) or for the upper crest, unlike on other forums where the gods receive up-votes for an one line quip which doesn't add anything to discussion, nth at all, or didn't make any sense to one either. (this point is a bit of personal observation which is not very very broad)
"I don't know about others, but I find it very difficult to get upset about a crime that's new, that doesn't impact me, and that the world got along just fine with for centuries."

I agree that we should do away with all new laws that don't directly affect DanielBMarkham.
It would be really funny if the person who won started playing only in the last hour and logged in to see what is all of that about.
Thanks!
Librato also has a feature that lets you get alerts to your email if you set thresholds on metrics (disk space, temp, etc).
The free tier is OK for me too.
Even if it does, a username alone isn't a security breach. You would think they'd use ssh chroots or something, but there are no security issues with seeing a username
Google: Optimizing Google’s Warehouse Scale Computers: The NUMA Experience
Mozilla is one of the bright stars in the computing industry. There should be some, we have enough dark empires like MS and Apple.
society (generally) demands that criminals be held responsible for their actions, especially when those actions result in tens of thousands of violent deaths.

society (seems to) believe that the presence of organized criminal organizations is negative and leads to violence. so how do we fight them? do we lock people up when they pull a trigger? but there are so many people who would pull a trigger and none of them are the people near the top of the food chain. how do you arrest those responsible for and profiting from violent criminal syndicates?

if you follow this train of reasoning long enough you get to criminalizing some financial behavior.
This is what really bothers me. We have USB, VGA, DVI, RJ-45, 3-pin electrical (well, that's one hiccup across countries, but at least it's usually the consistent in the same country), why is it so hard to standardize a multiphase port?
I took the $300K
I realize that it isn't a security breach, but I'm not so comfortable sharing my username with everyone else.
The use case for it is things like forums, where you are limited in what you can embed.
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That's right, don't let their pedantry get you down. It was an interesting post, thank you for sharing it.
Persona is far from pointless. The Web needs a decentralized identity to counter centralized, proprietary systems like Google, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.

With Firefox OS, Mozilla is skating to where the puck is going to be, maybe already is. Mobile devices are the future of interpersonal electronic communication. Something so important to our daily lives and society should not be dominated by fiefdoms like iOS and Android.
What might be some of the use cases?
Bear in mind that mice are a poor model for Alzheimer's disease (a disease of aging) because they don't live for very long.

I am not an expert, but it's my understanding that wild mice basically don't get Alzheimer's - Alzheimer's mice have to have engineered genetic defects to observe Alzheimer's in their short lifespan.

Although exciting, this is still far away from being usefully applied to humans.
She was 12 or 13 at the peak of her "popularity"...
Why don't you tell Godaddy about it, instead of posting here? At least write to the forum and ask the support guys if they know about this issue:

http://support.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/
The "compact" excuse is a cop-out, IMO. LA and SF are two massive cities well within high speed train range. Of course there's nothing in between them - there's no transport! You're thinking backwards. Put a station 150km outside of SF with a 30 minute commute and do you think there'll still be nothing there in 5 years?

My point is that these lines would be considered viable in Japan - more than viable; completely obvious. The fact we can't seem to build them - can't even take the idea seriously - is more about the nature of our society than anything to do with geography.
That's why we should be able to support roads locally (via service, toll) without having to hope government takes care of it via extortion (erm. I mean tax). Same with parks, education etc.
> Nation states will fight hard and dirty against digital currencies, as it completely undermines their fiat currency inflationary economies.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
A good example of bloatware encouraged by a non-expressive language. Instead of adding a language feature that makes constructing any instance easier, in 2013 they're adding support for a builder on a single Calendar class.

final Calendar calendar =
new Calendar.Builder()
.set(YEAR, 2013)
.set(MONTH, APRIL)
.set(DATE, 6)
.build();

For a similar API in C# you could use named parameters:

var calendar = new Calendar(year:2013, month:Month.April, date:6);

or just set public properties in an object initializer:

var calendar = new Calendar {
Year = 2013,
Month = Month.April,
Date = 6,
};

Likewise in Dart with named parameters:

var calendar = new Calendar(year:2013, month:APRIL, date:6);

or using method cascades:

var calendar = new Calendar()
..year = 2013
..month = APRIL
..date = 6;

For C#, Dart you get this for free when constructing any object. Java requires creating the boilerplate of a builder for every class?? and with all that effort it's still more verbose.
Contents no longer a mystery; are instead a setup for what is basically the gaming world's answer to reality TV. This could go either way.
The gif is set to only update for 2 minutes. That ends up being around 470KB.

If the size or "page never loading" is an issue you have the option to turn of animations when creating the countdown.
That struck me as odd - more emphasis placed on old theories that were essentially justified by anecdote and ungrounded speculation than on their study.

The study of 100 children is very briefly described and lacks controls. I wouldn't draw much in the way of conclusions from it.
More than the "force download" aspect, it's mostly useful to specify a filename when linking to a download where the filename can be strange or non-existent, like a data: url, or some remote resource you don't completely control.

I'm pleasantly surprised to find out it now works correctly on Firefox. It was Chrome only last time I checked.
Many sites rate usernames as public information, with SSH keys and passwords being private. Getting a list of users is not typically considered a security issue. If you chose (or were forced to choose) a username the was based on your real name, that could be a privacy issue (as well as a namespace collision problem), but not really a security issue.
My understanding of OpenGL (which could be wrong) is that buffers are only transferred when loading textures onto the graphics card, which generally only happens at startup, and is time-consuming anyway (since they must find their way from disk to graphics memory).

So memory buffer handles can still be passed around, since clients rarely touch the raw data. (Indeed, this is exactly how X11 works.)
That's the Writely model: Create a "clone" of MSWord with some advantages (online, simultaneous editing, ...) and some disadvantages (not every feature under the sun), and make this one product very useful (and get acquired by Google).
Not a breach in and of itself, but it does give an attacker something they didn't have before: a list of attackable login names.

Now they can start trying common passwords on logins that they know exist, rather than having to guess at that too.
That isn't a useful comment
This was all a promo for Godus?

"A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"
As an outsider who doesn't use Windows, it really does look like a ghetto. Recently I installed some software in a Windows vm using an un-configured browser (i.e. no adblock), and I was genuinely amazed at how challenging it was, even when I wanted to download things that I knew were reputable.

http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png this is what trying to download software on windows is like if you don't use adblock.

It does seem notable that the providers of online ads have little incentive to remove fake download ads and the like due to having their own platforms that compete with Windows. Reducing trust and making it more difficult to download native software pushes people towards competing platforms like ChromeOS. I'm not saying it's a deliberate plot, just that there is little organisational will to stop the abuse because the harm largely affects others.
We're all told what to do by computers anyway, it's just that they happen to be 3lbs of squishy biomatter inside our skulls.
Wow, cool! Great job :)
Of all the forums I've tried (I am on many of those very famous forums; have an account and/or have used it at some time or the other) I find MetaFilter the best - minus the interface[1]. In terms of quality and atmosphere of the forum.

Answers and participation is of high quality. It's hardly ever overwhelming. Maybe because of relatively less number of (paying/one-time) users.

Doing away with threading somehow kills the flow of discussion and keeping it makes it ugly and difficult to present, especially when they nest quite deep.

All the forums mentioned in the post just seem to be using different templates(visual) for the same system and none of them is doing sth new that is not already existing in other systems.

[1] It's just too ugly and unintuitive.
I read somewhere that the Facetime team heard about the open-source promise when Jobs announced it on stage. It could very well have been a spur of the moment decision made on stage.

(Not that it absolves Apple from failing to do it)
The paper doesn't specifically talk about galactic rotation, but it does demonstrate the measurement of velocities via the Doppler shift. Take a look at the plot on pg. 12, that shows "a 'triple humped' spectral structure, indicating that at the time of
the observation, there were three distinct hydrogen clouds within the field-of-view of the radio
telescope."

I'll correct the title.
Mozilla may have lost the current battle for influence in the developed world, but with Firefox OS and the accompanying partnerships with carriers, Mozilla is aiming to bring Web-centric mobile devices to the developing world. I can only hope that they haven't already lost this battle, and that the people they hope to reach with Firefox OS value their freedom over hot brands, trendy walled-garden social networks, and having all of the latest features that are exclusive to proprietary systems.
I'm pretty sure that heavily parallel charging of batteries made up of smaller battery cells in special supercharging stations will be the solution, combined with charging at home when you can afford to wait eight hours for charging the battery slowly.

At the moment this is just a question of existing battery technology improving enough. Right now we are in the region where this is just borderline feasible, but in five years I'm pretty sure it will seem like a no-brainer. Tesla Motors is currently building supercharging stations all over the US, and it remains to be seen whether their approach will work. Note that they are a private company with no current government involvement, and we are now a few years into the future from when Better Place started rolling out their technology. Timing is everything in this game - the obvious strategy will seem like a bad idea until suddenly it isn't.
I’m all in for using Go and having fun, but is there an actual point in this daemon? I thought the Raspberry Pi is about making life easier and not about adding one more device to constantly worry about (i.e. check the stats every so often or get alerts)? :-)
> Git manages the size of the repository more efficiently; while the Mercurial repository has been approaching 50M in size, the Git repository is only 17M.

17MB vs 50MB - almost a third of the size. That is definitely quite impressive.
Zilker Park.
Barton Springs.
6th Street.
Brushy Creek.
Torchy's Tacos.
Rudy's BBQ.
Hula Hut.
Carlos & Charlies on Lake Travis.
The Iguana Grill, also on Lake Travis, home of the world's best salsa.
Threadgill's Downtown.
Waterloo Records.
Whole Foods downtown. The Captial. Alamo Draft House. UT Campus.
Fonda San Miguel.
I think the discrimination is largely towards older people who are relatively new to the industry. 50 year olds who have 30 year careers and aren't in management are very rare, and in my experience valued highly if they are competent.
I think that a lot of us on HN would not even try to write a word processor, as we know how difficult it is, and that the barrier to entry is high.

This shows that it is possible to make a minimum viable product with one person with persistence and skill. Thank you for sharing!
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This has been the case on every shared host I've used. Most of them even defaulted to your files being world-readable.
So get rid of all the rural areas and let's all move to the city? That's the only way your plan is feasible.

I can't even imagine how school would have worked for me that year I lived on my grandparent's farm without the whole school district having to pitch in.
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+1 for HelpScout. Their email integration is a god send. Your customers will never know that their support emails are going through a support desk system. It looks and feels like email <-> email communication.

We were using ZenDesk for about 2 months and it was killing my productivity. The web interface was slow and clunky. I dreaded opening support tickets.

With HelpScout I do a lot of the management directly from Gmail. Their web interface is very responsive but I don't normally have to use it.
As someone who deals with mainly dedicated servers at the high end and shared hosting at the low end, I've been curious as to what sort of things cloud hosting like EC2 makes easier to the point you don't have to think about it.

As I understand it, they sell VMs running some form of Linux that can have more RAM/storage/bandwidth dynamically allocated which takes out hardware related worries.

In terms of software though, there are still quite a few problems that need to be thought about.

For example:

* How do we backup files and databases? Where to, and how often? Are we just duplicating every so often or do we want snapshots at certain periods that we can revert to?

* How do we deal with software failures, like FS corruption?

* How do we update our software stack, when do we update it and how do we test that an update hasn't broken anything?

* What about if we want to concurrently run 2 versions of the same framework for different apps?

* How can we configure firewalling etc to allow trusted people to connect to the database, but block the people who spam the login form every 5 seconds?

* How do we make sure the software is configured correctly? Like charset encodings in the database, making sure that we have the correct modules installed into apache/php or the right gems installed etc?

* How do we manage background tasks, like cronjobs etc?

* How do we manage alerts when things fall over? Nagios etc.

A lot of the answers to these are going to depend on specific requirements for the project so are going to require some ops know-how to set up correctly. Or is it more the case that a cloud provider gives you a specific set up with limited options and you make everything fit around that?

Or is there some magic that goes on which I am missing?
Out of curiosity, what are you working on that the performance requirements necessitate rewriting a bunch of the scheduling code?

Great job btw!
Show HN: #SWBRU - time4share
Not sure of the universality of this, but my intuitive way of understanding O(log n) is as follows:

An algorithm is O(log n) if you can reduce the solution space (the set of all possible solutions) by a fraction (e.g. divide it in half or divide it into tenths) using a constant number of operations.

For example, binary search is O(log n) because you can cut the solution space in half (regardless of how big it is) by using a constant number of operations.
If you think devs should do ops, you probably also think devs should be writing their own compilers too.
Do iPhones use standard MicroUSB? The non-standard port is a business decision.
Well, they're not really doing a good job protecting us from crime. As you know, Bob, I'm pretty liberal - but not when it comes to state surveillance. I'd like to see some empirical evidence that state surveillance has ever been used predominantly for anything but control of the little guy.
Hello, here is my use case.

https://github.com/fatiherikli/dictdiffer#why-i-built-it
I love your suggestions from top to bottom. I'm very keen on forum software development, and your comment is pure gold or pure diamond whichever can be more purer.
>> "It's one thing to be a recluse who scorns 'normal, social people'"

This is not a stigmatizing statement at all. tone = {sarcasm: "implied"};

Perhaps people who would feel the urge to be reclusive would be more social if people like you kept your mouths shut every once in a while and didn't say pathetically pretentious things like "us normal, social people".
Very smart move. Some time ago Riak did the same thing. Their rationale was more detailed, but came to the same conclusion:
http://basho.com/a-few-more-details-on-why-we-switched-to-gi...
(Or mark it in some way, you know: "This is ambiguous, but it needs to be because _______" - because frankly, ambiguous parses are destined to be bug sources.)
Unless there's some esoteric Swedish law that gives banks special privileges that I'm missing, the bank doesn't have any right to refuse you your money except according to published limits on the timing of withdrawals (and its obligation to freeze accounts under criminal investigation). These limits always can and have existed, and in fact were much worse when the bank genuinely was worried about having to redeem everyone's assets in physically limited gold or currency, instead of being able to pay your money into another account electronically and balance their reserve shortfall with electronic interbank lending and automatically approved loans from the central bank. They've got a lot less motivation to deny access to your funds and little chance of getting away with it, unlike an anonymous overseas intermediary in the trade of some digital asset which is intangible unregulated and not legally recognised as having any monetary value.
I am not sad for these particular investors, because they could've become very rich if it had taken off. With great chance for cash comes great risk of losing it and they knew it. I do feel for the early adopters, though; I hope Better Place finds some money to compensate them.

For future investors, Better Place will be a reminder not to invest in ideas that are too disruptive, even if the founder and the team seems right for the job. The companies that might never be due to this precedent is the real loss, I think.
Usually all you need to do is read /etc/passwd to get all the usernames on the system. Without access to /etc/passwd, commands like ls would be able to resolve UID -> username.
This is not a question. The bookmarklet is something you put on your bookmarks bar, and it makes it easy/trivial to submit the page you're viewing to HN.

Go look up "Bookmarklet", or just read the page you submitted it from.
I think I might have read a different paper on GAP before, this one seems to have some more detail of their philosophy. Thank you very much for the link.

You say that:
"Without the above simplifications like modelling it as a sum of local potentials, and making env(R) a cutoff, you would indeed just be fitting a 3N dimensional function in the case of N atoms. It'd be exact, but it'd also blow up pretty badly and utterly nontransferable. Also, the energy surface isn't necessarily continuous and differentiable -- consider the energy when two atoms move to occupy the same position."

Those contraints and representations of the problem are the thing I would want the machine learning algorithm to discover. Is this beyond the scope of the state of the art algorithms in machine learning? I understand that making a good choice for the representation of the problem should make the job of the learning algorithm easier, but finding the representation that is best is quite challenging.
It appears swing fonts actually are fixable, see for example this approach using patched JDK (on Linux). (Fixing issue for Idea on Linux, but actually fixes it for all Swing apps - http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233 )
All of the popular full, un-sandboxed operating systems for end-users are proprietary. No, desktop GNU/Linux doesn't count. The only non-proprietary platform that has sewrious user market-share and developer mind-share is the Web platform. Therefore, as much as it may disgust us from a technical/aesthetic point of view, advancing the open Web platform is the best way to achieve certain highly desirable social/political goals.
>> And the single biggest channel for that is the open web.

>No, streamed or buffered audio and video are the biggest channel for that.

Video may take up enormous amounts of bandwidth, but the information density is very low. And it's unclear whether the time spent watching video is anywhere close to the time spent reading text, looking at pictures or navigating the links of the Web. And buffered video is delivered over HTTP...

Anyway, this pedantry is tiring, st3fan has a valid point. TCP/IP is necessary, but not sufficient. It is the combination of Web technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, etc) that is driving so much of the innovation of the past 15 years. Could the Raspberry Pi have been the success it is today without the visibility afforded by the Web? I doubt it.
http://www.earclear.com/
What I learned using only Google products
An experimental, invite-only peer review community for just about anything
Implementing Snake in Bacon.js
This looks like a perfect complement to a mongo or couch data store. Thanks!
It's way more than I expected the reward to be. The winner gets a say when it comes to the rules of Godus and gets a cut of the profits.
Do you know the Petroldragon story, the previous Andrea Rossi's "activity"?

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js...
It's kind of depressing that one needs a high level of intellect to understand the paper.