skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not anonymous enough. I pointed out that this fact was buried in a story a while ago on HN [1]; it had a grand total of 6 upvotes and mine was the only comment.

Moral: The best content doesn't always stay on the front page for any length of time, you should check out /newest once in a while too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609470
Startup To Offer 'Human' Authentication
I love the site. It would make a great simple personal landing page if you could you add third level domains (username.hoverboard.io) and let people CNAME their domain name to it. I recently paid $20 to flavors.me for their service that your site could also do, but yours seems more targeted to the startup/dev geek rather than the musician/graphics person.

I see there is a http://hoverboard.io/username/blog.atom link available. Could you make a http://hoverboard.io/username/projects.atom link as well that would just list the projects, description, and URL?

This would allow integration with various landing pages or IFTTT recipes and things like that.
Aren't these stations just connected to the grid and any power is just put back into it to help offset charging costs? I don't think there's any actual storage. Not every Supercharger station has solar panels.
Are you a lawyer? Press the red button.
Star Trek imagines San Francisco in 2259
setjmp() isn't particularly rare; libpng also uses it for error reporting, for example.
You assume that:

a) I'm going to be doing this "work" (which, okay yeah it is) full-time or even constantly, when I'm probably just going to hack on it for the next few months or years; whenever I've got a coding itch. I doubt I'll ever go into crunch mode on this or get "burned out". I'll just put it aside for a while and do something else.

b) That I can't just say "Whelp, it was fun but I'm done" at some point during the project and find something else to do. There's no hardcore commitment here; like all projects, everything beyond the first step is a pipe dream.

I get what you're saying though and it could definitely be a shitton of work that's probably not usable IRL. But it's still a fun plaything.
The Gender Gap Is Smaller Than Realized
Which is true but it's irrelevant to the current situation. Which is that lots of us (see below) have come to associate the mugshots with G+ posts, which are usually mediocre, so we don't even look at them.

What people perceive governs how they behave, and your explanation won't change that.
It does get a lot more visually interesting with a very high # of bins, and very small delay.
The workforce in the cloud
I think solar is too unreliable to be a backup power source for much of anything, especially something like a hospital.
Yeah, I get that feeling too, and I think it's because of the garbage collection. You use C++ when you want to manage memory allocation manually.
What is the difference with guard (https://github.com/guard/guard), except the "service" aspect?
Yes this is something I noticed too (as in the stuttering in FF compared to Chrome). I implemented an image based CSG algorithm directly in WebGL (the one place where Emscripten couldn't help), so I would imagine that could be vastly improved, as its the first time I've ever done anything in OpenGL of any variety.
I won't buy a gas fit but I'll get a EV fit because it's 4 door (bettern than spark ev) and has better looking than leaf.
why exclude Stylus?
Server sales are healthier than ever. Unless all this clouds the apps run on conjure their computing resources out of thin air they purchase quite a lot stuff.

Its just the middleman slice of the pie that is shrinking.
I wish there was also a (stacked) percent graph, to show relative growths.
I was working on similar service based on previous project of mine (https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/django-rest-thumbnails). I thought it was novel.

But well, Ex-YouTube? They have way more money to throw at this. I'll have to put that idea aside.
> I know how ironic my "stop judging people" judgement on your judgement must sounds like, it's a fallacy I haven't been able to solve yet

Sounds fine to me as long as we judge people based on their decisions and the impact those decisions have on a non consenting 3rd party.

I'm concerned with people choosing their preferred route for their own life, as long as its the preferred route with the minimal amount of negative consequences to the rest of society.

I think the concept of "stop judging people" is hugely misrepresented. It should be "stop judging people based on things that do not and will not affect others", because really, telling someone to not judge a rapist for being a rapist is pretty bad.
Their team sounds like they are just taking too much on at one time and something is going to give in the way of quality or missing deadlines. Reliable wifi connectivity, air filtration, product design, mobile apps, cloud software... The list goes on.

With 3d printing being such a community focused arena, I think a focus on building a platform where the community could hook into and develop on is the way to go.

Haven't we learned anything from companies like Zynga? The user/community will always be able to produce content and add value faster and cheaper than an in-house team can.

Focus on the hardware, a robust platform to build onto, and some example software (maybe an iOS app + PC app). Empower the community.

If you are going to go the Amazon route and win on margin you need to look at the overhead costs you are going to incur in the form of technical debt supporting all of these services. Offload the cost to the community.
That's awesome. Did it have the inverse curve drawn on too? For some reason, the certitude expressed by "calling your shot" like that made more of an impression on my than the falling balls on their own.
Google Loses Key Maps Engineering Director To Microsoft
Jello wants to make your life fun with #FML
Computer Scientists Urge Court to Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v Google
Ah... that's interesting. Thanks for the info Kevin, I'll look into that (my poor WebGL coding notwithstanding!)
Slightly off topic but I built my own CNC 3 axis milling machine (X, Y and Z) some years ago which is mostly collecting dust :-) It's pretty high precision, solid, screw/stepper drives.

If I want to convert it into a 3d printer what would be my best/cheapest route? I.e. getting a printing head and software setup to drive it all?
> As much as I like and dislike my parents I'd sooner move to the otherside of the world than help them though old age.

This is a common mode of thinking, but I personally find it bizarre. The modern American generational structure is senselessly inefficient. We impose large taxes on workers so their parents don't have to live with them, and then those workers turn around and pay huge amounts for child care because their parents don't live with them.
Is there ever going to come a point where rather than hooking my Tesla up and charging it I just drive up to the station and swap out the battery for a new charged one? This seems to help mitigate one of the biggest problems which is how long charging takes and could, I imagine, be made to be a pretty speedy process if need be.
Great question. I'd like to know too considering I have experience with both SASS and LESS but not Stylus.
Because 10 photos in 10 days sounds like more? I dunno.
I opened the image in photoshop and used its counting tool to manually do it.
Indexing all columns and then reading the statistics about which indexes are being used is an interesting approach, but it is only able to give you simple single-column indexes. Postgres has multi-column (composite) indexes and can be very clever about using them; additionally, there are the functional and partial indexes.

A better approach, I think, would be a tool that takes an SQL log and figures out the optimal indexes based on those SQL statements. It could run "explain" statements on the recorded queries to determine which columns need indexes, including ones that are queried together, which would benefit from multi-column indexes. The "explain" output would also give some information about common filter values which could be used to generate partial indexes.

Another way would be to use genetic algorithms to create random indexes, run the queries on a dummy database, and then read the index usage stats to determine the most efficient combinations.

What would be lovely is a tool that you could run autonomously every week or month, and which would simply add/remove indexes as it sees fit.

The ultimate solution would be for Postgres itself to figure out and report potential plan improvements. After all, the planner knows best.
the `max` attribute only applies to using the native spinner controls, you can still select and type larger values.
Specifically: "in multicore multisocket machines, there is often a tradeoff between optimizing NUMA performance by clustering threads close to the memory nodes to increase the amount of local accesses and optimizing for cache performance by spreading threads to reduce the cache contention"

I.e. the performance benefit from socket-local memory accesses may not be worth having all the threads using that memory on that socket's CPUs, because they'll each get too little a share of the cache.
I love how this got downvoted and the guy calling me a liar didn't.
No, it does show multiple sample means. Each landing spot is the sum (scaled average) of the n - 1 bernoulli rvs, where n is the number of bins. The issue is that n is small.
Obama Foreshadows New Internet Surveillance Proposal During Speech
There has to be a line between acceptable risk and throwing good money after bad. I suspect Double Fine is on the right side of the line in this case, but if we let "it's $20 dude" excuse everything then we're opening ourselves up to outright fraud (as another poster said). So I think it'd good to question cases like these.
Did you happen to see the link to the Stylus Viewpoint? http://www.slant.co/topics/217/viewpoints/1/~best-css-prepro...
Firefox 21
Are you guys able to check that on a site by site basis internally? Like, did you just look up his site and there was a flag or something similar that only you can see that lets you know Penguin got him?
The only issue I ever have with getting a same day GP appointment is that I have to phone just as they're opening.

If you can never get a GP appointment then maybe try switching GP's?
Huh. I think what Mark is saying is: it's never going to happen, and we might as well get over it.
If you could show that either university is not meritocratic in their application process, you would have a point.
iPooh
Sweet.

"In the future backlift will support custom URLs using your own domain."
http://backlift.github.io/docs/all.html

also: https://github.com/backlift/docs/issues/6
Consider the fact that his degrees are in fields that can be learned for free on the Internet and at the library. $100k in debt for History and English? Ridiculous!
Some games on GOG are from EA. Example: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/clive_barkers_undying

More of those: http://www.gog.com/catalogue?search=Electronic+Arts
There's hardly a gender gap at all, actually; it's just that women choose jobs that pay less.

Bad wording at its best with a sprinkle of blame the victim - just imagine how a woman wakes up, looks at the mirror and says - today i choose to work as hard as any man, but I also choose to not move as high the career ladder as possible.
The spec without CDM does not do anything at all. This spec goes hand-in-hand with having a proprietary CDM. So ultimately, standardising this at the W3C means having all open web users install a proprietary CDM.

Again, if this whole debate was outside discussing open web standards, this would be valid. But what we're discussing here is inclusion or not in open web standards.
I still wonder if 3D printing is going to be a one in every home thing or something more akin to copiers (copy centers, businesses, and some individuals)? I get the feeling the current direction to go would be more Xerox than Apple.
brainfuck is a wonderful toy language. it is so simple - the entire language fits easily in your head, even though it is difficult to do anything useful with it.

more generally, compilers are fun to learn about. i found Jack Crenshaw's "Let's build a compiler" series a good starting reference and source of inspiration [1].

i built a brainfuck to GNU assembly compiler in brainfuck.
to be able to write that compiler, i first built a higher-level macro language that could target brainfuck, and wrote a compiler for that. the macro language was implemented as a horrible DSL in python [2].

later i built an implementation in haskell that could parse and compile the macro DSL to brainfuck, so things ended up entirely python-free [3]. Haskell's Parsec parser combinator library was fun to learn about too [4].

[1] http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

[2] https://github.com/fcostin/abfc

[3] https://github.com/fcostin/abfc_hs

[4] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec
they have a patent for dual batteries where you keep your main one but get another battery for long trips. there is also an ideal area in the back of the frunk for putting another battery. however there is no indication they are moving to that strategy.
I have to disagree with you. They might not express it in words, but they do know quality.
Ask HN: I was the victim of a targeted cybercrime and found the perpetrator
I'm a student at the University of Chicago. On May 29, 2013, a large number of people on campus (including faculty) received several unsolicited emails claiming to be from me, asking them to visit the website http://UChicagoAnon.com (now down.) At least one faculty member directly complained to me, claiming that she had encountered sexual content. These emails were sent through MailChimp, and signed with my name in an attempt to impersonate me. Thankfully MailChimp has shut down the account involved.

Through some sleuthing I was able to determine from WHOIS / DNS records who runs the server running UChicagoAnon.com. This person lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey. I was able to make contact with said person on Facebook, where he admitted to running the server but claimed that a friend of his with access to the server is responsible for the emails and the website. Of course, I am unable to verify any of these claims myself.

I've already filed a report with the local university police department (unable to follow up due to jurisdiction), and I've also tried to follow up with the East Brunswick PD, but they refuse to file reports over the phone. Finally, I've also reported the incident through http://ic3.gov.

What are my options at this point? Right now I've only been playing defense, and I'd like to go on the offensive and go after this guy to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there anyone else I can contact? Needless to say, this is very frustrating since I have a name, address, and phone number that can be investigated, but it seems that most agencies in the United States are reluctant to investigate cybercrimes.
Something that shows bids and offers converging to a market price. Not sure how you'd do it. In the Swensen/Yale finance lecture series on iTunes U they play a game with participants buying/selling items and a pattern emerges in the prices as if by magic.
Exactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.
Sell people what they want (not what they need)
right... so not everyone wants the same thing from a car.
Arthroscopic surgery has advanced significantly in the last 30 years.
I truly appreciate your attitude. As you can imagine, having my integrity questioned is quite hurtful. So before I address, your point, thank you. Your comment means a lot to me.

Moxie did provide a more detailed attack description. I had to correct an iptables command and modify sslstrip to alter the JS but otherwise his instructions were complete and correct. Per the original instructions, he should have had to configure the proxy but that's purely a function of who does that labor so I happily did the small amount of extra work.

Once I completed the attack, I learned as I suspected from reading about sslstrip, the SSL certificate was removed. I thanked Moxie for his efforts and praised his work but informed him that it didn't meet the initial requirements. He argued that it works in the wild and that I could acquire appspot.cc and a certificate for that. I replied that if he wanted to conduct a convincing enough demo that I would be fooled into clicking, I'd consider that sufficiently close to being valid. Alternatively, he could produce an SSL certificat e that the browser would accept as valid for that domain. I agreed that a user in the wild might not be as cautious but that in agreeing to route my traffic through a malicious proxy, I recognized I was giving an attacker a significant advantage and that's why I made a valid SSL certificate a requirement in the initial post.

He replied back that any LAN can be malicious so he disagrees with my assessment and that he didn't trust I wouldn't throw up more unreasonable objections and that I should pay.

I replied outlining exactly how I would evaluate any alterations to the MITM he's proposing. It was at this time he posted to twitter. I heard about that and emailed him and he denied he was accusing of of dishonesty but only noting that I had declined to pay the reward tptacek thought he was owed. I remained concerned that it wouldn't be taken that way and unfortunately tptacek has proven my fears correct.

In any event, I asked him if he believed his approach genuinely met the valid certificate requirement at this point because I wanted to assess whether he was he felt my rules were unfair or that I wasn't abiding by them. He declined to reply to that question.
You are correct.

Also, we will actually be breaking 30,000 cells. Just not with a single tape :).
Yeah, for a technology enthusiast, I'm something of a luddite when it comes to books. I mean, not totally, as I've purchased 3 Nooks over the years (the last one because I lost the first 2, but still...)

I've found that e-books occupy a certain niche for me, and they haven't replaced dead-tree books in general. I love my ebook reader when flying (I can carry hundreds or thousands of books on the plane with me! How awesome is that?), and when reading in bed at night (when I'm ready to go to sleep, I just close the cover and close my eyes. No need to fumble around with the lamp, etc.)

That said, most of my ebooks are pirated and are limited to specific niche topics - my collection of ebooks doesn't even begin to rival my physical library in breadth. Maybe eventually, but we'll see...
You can absolutely spend however you wish. The fact is we live in a pretty self indulgent society. Yes, if you spend thousands of dollars on shoes (per year, lets say) I'd consider that to be pretty self indulgent. But if you can afford it, why not right? I think where it gets a bit unreasonable is when you have to start living a lifestyle that you'd rather not live because of your self indulgence. Though I'm not sure that is the reality in this case.
Moral high ground -- closely related to the tu quoque fallacy.
> Why is a standardized API worse than the existing proprietary ones?

Because, as I've explained elsewhere on this thread, DRM is inimical to the stated goals of the W3C. They shouldn't be in the business of standardising DRM interfaces, they should be actively opposing DRM.

> widespread protection of content rights

Why do you suppose that the EME proposal will lead to that? Web DRM is already widespread. Are you suggesting that EME will lead to DRM plugins becoming available for non-mainstream OSs like Linux? There's no evidence to back you up there, and quite a bit of evidence to the contrary.

> Greater safety of IP leads to greater investment.

DRM does not provide that.
actually, the author got quite a few key facts wrong, so in this case, i think not owning the device does factor into the equation. for example, he complains about not being able to use them in direct sunlight. google provides a sunglass add-on to all explorers, which is a critical component for using glass in direct sunlight. sergey brin himself told me as much the day i picked them up. he got a few other things wrong as well. all-in-all, he has a lot of valid points i agree with, but with some false information mixed in, it could end up leading to a lot of folks further misunderstanding this device.
His self indulgence resulted in a debt burden his felt quite threatened by. I'm not saying it's so bad though.
"You don't feel any obligation to test it yourself first, to see whether it's really a good idea or whether you were mistaken? "

Well, no, I didn't say that.
Ancient Mars River 1-3 Feet Deep
That would be the movie/comic book hero "Daredevil"
You are missing the point. Face to face relationships are invaluable and are the most important part of a good education. In liberal arts, there aren't dozens of high-quality, responsible IRC chatrooms, say, devoted to the intricacies of Nietzsche like there are rooms devoted to a single programming framework.
If I'm reading that graph right, the red line is at 10kmsec, i.e. 10 seconds?

Incremental build times are near and dear to my heart; I spent a lot of time making the Chrome incremental build fast, resulting in this tool: http://martine.github.io/ninja/ . In developing Ninja I was surprised to discover that Linux stat() with a warm disk cache is very fast -- well under 100ms to stat the ~40k source files Chrome uses in its build (see the "node stat" lines here: https://github.com/martine/ninja/wiki/Timing-Numbers ). At its best point I think we got the one-file-changed build/compile/link cycle of Chrome (a ~70mb C++ binary) to around 5 seconds.

Of course, Facebook's problem is surely very different -- their scale could be many more files, and perhaps the programs their engineers run while developing cause their disk caches to flush more frequently. Just found it interesting to worry about the cost of stats.
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I remember trying out that same code back in highschool, say 5-6 years ago. My friend made fun of me so much for believing it would work. I was disappointed. Not to say it's not true, but it didn't work when I tried it!
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Officially Launched
What you are saying is completely untrue. Please, read the EME proposal. It is a specification for interop between Javascript and closed-source, proprietary CDMs.

If there is one thing I wish that HN would understand from this entire discussion: EME will not get you Netflix on Linux!
I am a traffic signal engineer. They don't.

They may have a detector (ir-red/mircowave/inductive loop) that detects your approach. At night, as they may be no conflicting demands - the side road will change Green ASAP.
For reference, the infamous KFC Double Down sandwich has only 540 calories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich)
Skout: a devastating privacy vulnerability
I wonder about this as well. The description of Stylus is very appropriate and it's well known that Stylus provides a more powerful feature set than both LESS and SASS as well as optional syntax that makes it easier to integrate into your workflow, IMO.

The community might not be as big as the SASS, but I love using Roots CSS for all my Node projects.
LiveJournal is still a website? Since when...?
Video of a binomial distribution [1] physically visualized using a Galton box [2] Pachinko [3]: http://youtu.be/AjI_LcQOOs4

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko
A Puffin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing may have a near-side detector, that will cancel the demand if you move way from the crossing. i.e. have crossed in the gap.
No, I'm not. Face to face relationships don't cost $30k+ a year. You don't have to go to school to meet people. If you're going into debt just to meet people then something is deeply flawed.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure.