skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note this is a fairly longstanding vector (offshoot?) of Reddit; it's been going on for at least a few years, and was featured on Reddit's blog in August 2012: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...

Here are the previous Hacker News discussions about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479143
I went quickly through the paper, and there are some interesting ideas, like separating scheduling, sequencing, and storage.

Also, there are some details that leave me a bit confused... For example, they mention they use ZooKeeper for Paxos, while ZooKeeper uses a different protocol, ZooKeeper Atomic Broadcast.
Google mapping Waze takeover, says report
The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine
My guess is it's for legibility on faxes, which go out over radio.

But it does seem like there might come a day when that tech is completely obsoleted.
Recordium - See What You Hear
Recordium will be launched on May 25, 2013.
Just a programmer
This page has a lot of information about lightning: http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/the-science...
Async communication makes it harder, but doesn't avoid it by default. E.g. if in in Erlang gen_server A calls gen_server B w/o timeout and B, to process this call, then calls A (ouch, bad design, but possible), you've got a wonderful deadlock.

I'm using both, Erlang/OTP and Golang. Both have their strengths and advantages. So simply use the right tool for the right work (and no hammer to turn a screw).
Off topic: I am in Gurgaon too!
Javascript strings are immutable and literals are almost certainly preallocated and stored in a table of constants.
Why should using a string keys cause heap allocations?
Don't Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Lifelong Learning
Ei viitsi = ennui? Or, perhaps, lassitudinous?

P.S. Both ennui and lassitudinous are fun to say.
Typically the smaller ones are also refrigerated whereas the 2L aren't, precisely because you're expected to grab the former when you're on your way from A to B and are busy.
That's exactly why we use SourceForge for Ubertooth, it gives us a good way to host released versions and some binary firmware images.

I mirror Ubertooth to Github because I was tired of having to answer the question "what's the Github URL?" from people wishing to browse the code.
Hrm. I assumed that it had Cockney roots, as is often the case with Australianisms. Wiktionary classes it as a possible Germanic origin, which would be unusual to come to Australia without going via somewhere else first. Curious.
This is a good read about how jwz coded xscreensaver to be secure and the pitfalls of using GUI toolkits:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
I also switched from Knockout.js to AngularJS - my code's so much cleaner now, without having to wrap my model in functions.
I'm confused... is $60k/year above the poverty line in San Diego?
Will they still use doors for desks inside the new super HQ?

http://blog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the...
It's very deep - seems to have something to do with subduction, take a look at

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4jh#...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadati%E2%80%93Benioff_zone

Looks like they can be felt very far but are less dangerous.
Working Around Skype's Privacy Hole with LD_PRELOAD
I know what you mean, I only use a few bookmarks in the bookmarks-bar (sorted in folders) and the rest is lost...

So you saying, the fact that you have about 100-200 open tabs is not because you need them (...just search for content again...), but you just don't close them when not needed anymore?
If you don't measure the first photon then the 4th one could be anything and the measurement would not do anything to the 1st photon since it does not exist any more.
Right, you can deadlock in any actor-based system (well, not any actor-based system—I've seen research systems that provably do not, but they're research). Async communication just makes it harder to screw up, as you say.
How to get your journal article published?
Totally. I didn't even make $30k a year for the first few years of being a freelancer, although it was just after the dot com boom. Thankfully those days are over and lessons learnt, etc.. :)
Actually, it is something that 3rd world country doctors desperately want. Why?

Turns out that in many parts of the world, there's a lack of specialists to read and interpret these images (radiologists, pathologists), even though there are technicians skilled enough to generate them. Fewer still are specialized to handle cases effectively. Thus patients wait long periods of time for diagnoses as slides are transported to places where they can be read, suffering throughout.

Teleradiology and telepathology are burgeoning fields which are necessary across the globe, with the potential to save lives and make money. There are quite a few aggressive players in these spaces, and we're excited to see what they do.

I'm working in an extension of one of these spaces; feel free to reach out if you're curious...
I've done it three times, and get the same hash each time:

e234d2efd7d7201e4886d2f21a329a3e

I'm using:

md5sum --version
md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0

Edit: On Windows XP
Those are probably the magic words that make the state security apparatus throw wads of cash at you.
It won't be long now until the large multi-national corporation will be a kind of nation-state in its own right. Distributing assets all around the planet making them inaccesible to any single government is the ultimate defense against nationalization. Without that threat hanging over them, they begin to act like sovereign nations.
This can't possibly work because it would mean that you cou
ld measure 1&4 and get result that proves that they were not entangled and then entangle 2&3.

Of course it's possible that 2&3 entanglement trick doesn't always work and it never works if preceeding 1&4 measurment proved that they were unentangled. But this is some serious cheating. :)
While this trivializes the issue substantially, it is true that if you depend on chrome there are ways to roll out nice site-specific chromium apps that keep everyone happy.
Joining Multiple Bézier Curves
Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?
As an ex-reddit user (and ex-ex-digg user) I know why this project isn't as popular as they thought it would be, it lacks a Cat section, a Meme section, a <insert cute animal> section, ...
These are actually vulnerabilities in Xlib, which is already well known to be pretty crufty. X11 security has always been a joke anyway, since basically any client can keylog the session at any point. There is some X security policy stuff, but it was never fully developed.

The interesting part here is that there's revived interest in fixing Xlib.

And for the people talking about Wayland being the future: Let's not forget that client-side window decorations are not exactly going to be a security improvement.
When I said hard, I wasn't talking about the implementation I was talking about figuring out what it does...
Do you mean a pattern of earthquakes being more common in highly earthquake prone areas? Yeah, that's expected.
I do not mind paying some taxes so that anyone can get help when they need it. The thought 'Do I have enough money to call an ambulance?' should never be something someone should consider. If you need emergency services you should be able to call and get help.

But I do understand what you are saying, I just do not think of it as spending money as my taxes most likely would not change regardless, they would just be used for something else.
We felt a small earthquake in Davis, CA earlier tonight. Active day for our earth! I quite like earthly events like this — they really make one realize how minuscule we are.
This is amusing and sad at the same time. International companies play the national egoisms of countries against each other. If all countries agreed to one framework for taxing (yeah, purely hypothetical) all could profit. But every one of them fears to get "less" in such an agreement. So, in the end nothing happens and no country gets anything - all money stays with the companies. Divide and conquer.
Get somewhat new hardware, and put Linux on them. It should save them quite a bit of money for the renewal. If they are ever going to switch to open source software, now it's the best time. If they get windows 7 or 8, they'll probably never switch again.
I can't even go past the first slide from my phone and tablet :/ apparently you need arrow keys to move to the next slides.....
I'm not sure if you're trying a reductio ad absurdum or what, but your point is lost on me because the comparison is foolish on its face.
A good point - billing takes time. Usually it's a minimum of one week, often two, and usually it's a month (depending on industry). So even if he had been working for six months solid, he would only have effectively had five months 'worth' of billing land.

As an aside, my mum used to run a bookstore, and I think it was Penguin books who used to prevent overdue accounts this way: If you're not paid up by the 25th of the month, your orders are halted. Only really works if you've got a decent amount of traction, but you can guarantee that the one distributor that got paid on time every month was Penguin.
The image at the top of the article is Derek Rigg's album art for Iron Maiden's 1985 Live After Death live album. It is one of my favorite album arts. It is the desktop wallpaper on most of my computers. It's so intricate, I could stare at it all day and notice new things hidden in the image. You can see the rest of his work for Iron Maiden here: http://derek.server311.com/
I remember seeing this before. The quality of the courses were often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.
Because you made a slight typo. You wrote the best when you obviously meant the worst.
As written (or predicted?) in various Cyberpunk novels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation
They could[0] implement some client side actual OTR[1], at least blocking Google from keeping the clear-text message. No idea how they would want to force the intended recipient of the message not to store it, though.

[0] In theory with infinite resources and time. Maybe.

[1] Or any other sort of encryption.
Basically they are already doing that. The reason Apple is made the scapegoat here is probably

1) For publicity reasons, to make the public believe corporations are held accountable

2) To extort some lobbying money from Apple

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/23/apple-in-political-crosshairs-i...
Sounds like this for me.
They make profit in different countries, pay there taxes there and then put the whole money where it doesn't cost taxes. Why not?

In my opinion they should spend the money as they get it, but if they didn't I don't care HOW they didn't...
Instead of berating companies for not being stupid, Congress should think about lowering the US's stupidly high corporate income tax.
I'm curious about what differentiates Clariso from other PACSs, as that space has been crowded and active for nearly 20 years (since radiology went digital).

There are some big players in the PACS space that major medical institutions are pleased with, and there's considerable lock-in/inertia associated with these types of products.

As someone working on a medical imaging product who decided that building a PACS was not a good starting point, I'm curious to see what others are doing to sell PACSs.
you offer a false dichotomy.

All individuals who seek to silence others with a take-it-or-leave-it are people who do not want to suffer the mental dissonance of being frustrated with a provider they themselves use.
Why is this still all-caps - in 2013? It's not like there are any teletype lines left that cannot process lower case.

Is this some kind of tradition or does NOAA still use EBCDIC mainframes?
I agree, but what I find odd is how a submitter of a story can also be implicated (ignoring the point the submitter is actually the author in this case, I think?)

Why would anyone want to submit stuff to a site if there's a risk they could get banned if people on the site don't like the item? That's what voting and/or flagging are for. Banning should be for abusive behavior, not poor submissions.
Why zero corporate tax is an outlandish idea? Why not tax only individuals?

1) Corporate tax is only about 10% of total budget revenues.

2) Zero corporate tax promotes business growth.

3) Corporate taxes are ultimately paid by individuals.
Good article.

For myself, I prefer both, traditional AND non-traditional learning. Because in non-traditional ways I learn about the stuff im directly interested in. In traditional ways, like universities, I learn about stuff I didn't even know existed. Some is probably a waste of time, but often I found interesting topics :)
I find it interesting they go over what's considered "insecure" yet completely left out whether any of these networks were WPS enabled, which is crucial when considering the security of a wireless network. Not even the pie-graph shows it.
TIL SQLite was created to be used on guided missile destroyers
> I mean, my grandmother was struck by lightning twice—how bad can it be?

...uhm ...can anyone here compute the probability of 2 people in one family being struck by lighting in this timerange/pattern.
Xbox One Brand Guidelines
Same here (.nl). I guess GitHub has a list of approved domain names for this? Makes sense as .edu seems to be used in the US mostly. In that case it might take a while if you're the first student from your university to register.
Maybe because marketing is not the job of a designer ? should a system admin know about typography and color theory ? that's plain stupid...
That is not a nitpick, as it's a fundamental part of visual design. If your promotional material is filled with Greengrocer's Apostrophes, that reflects badly on you, not your designer.

I hate it when I see professional signwriters duly painting an incorrect apostrophe - if you're being paid for the job, you should know what to write, and if you don't, look it up. Likewise, I'll forgive a restaurant using one in a homemade menu, but a menu that's been touched by a designer? Loses any class that was applied by having a designer in the first place.
Guess conveying sarcasm over the internet is not one of my strengths. I suppose I meant more of a "your tax code allows this type of activity, yet you are still surprised it happens" type message.
I doubt, if the framework was same current full or semi tax havens such as The Bahamas, Ireland wouldn't profit, as big companies wouldn't setup their Europe HQ to Ireland it would be in the UK.

Hence smaller (lean?) countries will exploit this, it only makes sense to exploit this.
1G and 10G cabling - pros and cons of fiber vs. twisted pair (copper)
Worse is better.

Wisp, I guess provides readable js as opposed to compiled js. That's a win.
Developers are much more security aware these days. Wayland will not require root privileges which means a buffer overflow isn't as critical. It also will not be network transparent which reduces the attack surface enormously. Then remember it was created because xorg had accumulated so much cruft over the years because of its obligation to support dozens of outdated X11 extensions nothing (except for emacs :)) uses. Hopefully that means Wayland's devs will keep it lean and clean and easy to secure.
a. My business has a partnership with a good data recovery outfit. We might be able to get you a good deal on a data recovery if you want to try going that route.

b. It takes a particular kind of personality to be good at sysadmin work. (And a lot of trial-and-error -- I just recently had to do an emergency server build due to a Debian update whoops, and I've been doing this stuff for a while.)

c. I usually recommend BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) for easy set-it-and-forget-it backup infrastructure. It's compatible with everything, it will notify you if there are problems, it does pooling and de-duplication and compression, it's fast and reliable, and you can usually store months of backups on a small offsite server. I store 12 months of all hosted and customer data with it, and we've used it to meet other clients' needs too.

d. If you need affordable help, let me know. I'm way too cheap, and I do this stuff all day, every day. I opened a business specifically to address problems like this: needs something, money is a problem.

That goes for anybody else too. If your lack of backups is keeping you awake at night, or if you've suddenly outgrown your infrastructure, or if looking at config files gives you an ulcer, get in touch with me. I'll help you out.
I don't really agree with this one. From my perspective as a reader, I prefer when links have target="_blank" set, because it means if I forget to (or couldn't be arsed to) ctrl+click or right-click -> open link in new tab, I still don't lose my place on the current page, and can go poke around at the linked content at my leisure.

Obviously @mindcrime find's it useful ;-) However whenever I have done user testing of links opening in new windows it has never helped. At best there's no difference. Very commonly it confuses and does the opposite of what the site designer wanted (that people find it easy to get back to their site).

For example I've see the following happen on ecommerce sites on multiple occasions:

* On site we're testing, tasked to buy a Foo

* Find some external link that opens in a new window

* User views the link, hit's back button - back button fails (it's a new window)

* They then just Google for "Buying Foo" of similar

* Pick a new site - probably amazon or some other familiar name

* Continue with the purchase elsewhere

People understand how to return to your site when they visit another. You hit the back button. Break that behaviour and you make it harder not easier for most people. Especially in mobile & tablet browsers where tabs are often much less visually obvious.
The point isn't to get IETF to "sign it off". The idea is to get some extensive peer review from a wider audience, so that you don't end up with a widely-used protocol that's difficult to implement, missing important features, or both.

A single vendor working in a vacuum is how we end up with horrible kludges like the Public Suffix List. http://publicsuffix.org/

A lot of the failed IETF standards are ones where the IETF was constrained to trying to fix an already-deployed protocol after the fact.
The point is that the mod_* approach isn't sustainable.
What was your excuse for that two missed days in your then current job?
Nvidia  GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
It would be nice to see some benchmarks showing these speedups. It's rare for mmap to be a significant win over read/write.
Steve Jobs had a salary of $1 didn't he? Taxing him on that wouldn't pay for for much.
Why is having no tax for individuals outlandish? Why not tax only corporations?
Well, corporations use resources that cannot be pinned to a single individual. The example that comes to mind would be putting out trash for the city to collect[1].

[1] I realize that companies pay separately, or use private collection in many cases. It's just an example of a company using a resource that can be (and in some cases is) paid for by taxes.
Opening links in new windows or tabs is OK if your blog has a very non-technical audience

Have you tested that, or is it an assumption... because every time I have tested this I have found the opposite ;-)

(i.e. that opening stuff in new tabs automatically will confuse more than it helps, and folk have trouble returning to the original post often leaving it unread - especially for non-technical folk).
Looking at that website, what's not run-of-the-mill about it? He may do great work for clients, but that particular website is yawnfully boring, and has employed that terrible current trend of low-contrast text on grey background.
The trajectory of a software engineer … and where it all goes wrong
What I say when I “sell” - what 'sales' means at a startup
Also, BitBucket supports Mercurial, which is used by some major academic projects (for example, the Jikes Research Virtual Machine). I also personally prefer Metcurial, so having the choice is great.
Thank you, this reading was really very much inspirational.
Anyone in the UK tried that in a similar situation? I feel like it is very rare occasion when people consciously jump from freelance pathway to corp full-time perm path and vice versa.
Could it be that the Haiti one was the first earthquake you started paying attention to?
Facebook Page Insights Broken Since May 13th
This is how email apps should be designed
Being unemployed next month will not help you - even if you have a decent runway.

1. Find a consultancy or contract job if possible starting six weeks out. Take the intervening six weeks to get a pipeline going

2. The white label seo idea is pretty good - spend a little time making that easy to create a new domain and try us domains like hair.bookingmadeeasy.com

3. It's a side project - keep it that way till its paying you to work on it
The Hacker FAQ (1999)
It confuses me too. If there was an affiliate link to Earn1k and he spent the whole post talking about it then I can see it being considered spammy.

I wonder if the DN mods would be so quick to ban the post if he had mentioned the name of a book he found useful, rather than the name of an online course.

Perhaps it is because he has the audacity to be motivated by money, rather than a pure love for design, and this upsets the DN team?
I see, that's pretty sweet
There's also http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion
These has got to be some sort of war-on-drugs or drug policy thing going on here. Why is this so bad where you are, while it isn't a massive problem where I am (New Zealand). Sure there are drug problems (Meth and alcohol are hitting headlines too often), but you rarely seen the sorts of scenes I saw on a brief visit to SF.
"Its dangerous reputation is mostly just reputation, but don't leave valuables in your car. Vehicle smash-and-grab crime is very high."

It has a dangerous reputation for a reason. Detroit hasn't really been safe for 10+ years. I lived in the area for 25+. Nearly everyone I know that lived in or around the city was held up, saw gun crime, or mugged.

I know two people that were shot in the middle of the day for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Luckily, neither of them were fatal.

Another issue is that if you do have an emergency, the police/ambulance most likely won't get to you for many hours.

If you want a good tech scene, pick a city like Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids.
It just because people tell about it as if all the possible divergent trajectories through phase space happen not just ours. What they actually mean is that the possibilities are vast and we have no idea why reality chose exactly this path because it's not in any way priviledged.

It's like a ball a top of the totally symmetric hill. If you consider phase space it contains ball rolling down in all the possible directions but noone claims that ball rolls in all of them in alternate universes. It rolls down in exactly one way though we might never have any idea why it chose this one.
For me if I hit one of your posts my experience would roughly:

* Wow... that type is small (zoom to 125% - something that I know that the vast majority of users do not know how to do)

* Wow... those lines are still too long for an easy read (zoom to 200% - which gets line length sane for me, but the font size is now huge and killing lots of my vertical real estate)

* God damn that fixed header is annoying and cutting into my already limited vertical real estate as I scroll

* Hit close or the readability button.