skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked to get taken off the leaderboard! It's frankly embarrassing. Obviously, my karma score doesn't mean anything anymore; it's a function of name recognition, of the fact that I happen to post in a style (rambling paragraphs) that HN rewards, of the fact that I comment a lot, of the fact that I try to keep myself confined to topics where I have a lot of background knowledge, and of the fact that people follow my comments.

There's nothing to learn about me at all from my karma score. From my comment frequency, sure: you'd learn that I comment a lot. I don't IRC, I don't game, and I no longer blog; I treat HN like I used to treat Usenet. Also, we hire from HN, and so I have a Pavlovian thing going on with commenting.

Every once in awhile I consider switching to "tptacek_" or something, but that's just giving the embarrassing karma score more power over my life.

I liked Slashdot's approach to this, which was (when I was there) that above a threshold your score just became "Lots".
80% full
UDP will give you better performance. TCP will work better in pathologically bad network conditions (either some kind of firewall, or some specific kinds of network loss).

The issue is that "TCP in TCP" can lead to weird interactions where you delay one packet, wait for retransmit, etc., and essentially a single packet lost can eat up a second or two.

In general I'd always try UDP, and if it doesn't work, fall back to TCP.

They're equivalent security -- it's just network performance.
During the London Olympics my friend and I investigated doing something like this. We were thinking more about curling, though.
Everyone can communicate in words? That isn't true, unfortunately. I don't see why you even said that, only to negate it at the bottom.

More people can digest a photo than can read a specific language, by a radical margin.
As a blind developer I'd estimate that 90% of sites are accessible. I consider something accessible if I can use it even if it isn't intuitive. I could see how other people with disabilities who aren’t as comfortable with assistive technologies would have a harder time.
it's an understood economic principal:

"At the end of the 19th century, economist Vilfredo Pareto discovered that wealth among a population is not normally distributed. Rather, it seemed to have the form of a power law P(k) ∼ k−γ.

Figure 2a shows the distribution of wealth in 2011 among the richest people in the US in a log–log plot. The distribution is quite skewed and somewhat resembles a power law. It also illustrates that the richest man in the US, Bill Gates (rightmost data point), is about 30 times richer than the average of the next 400 fabulously rich Americans. It's natural to view such a skewed distribution of wealth as both unethical and unjust.

The difference between the normal distribution of length and the power-law distribution of wealth is precisely the skewness: If Bill Gates were a length, he would measure more than 300 miles from head to toe. How can the occurrence of that extraordinarily broad distribution be explained?

In the case of wealth, one can seek an explanation in terms of human economic actions and greed. That approach seems fine at first. But the same broad distribution was discovered early in the 20th century to represent town populations in a country (figure 2b). In the case of towns, population growth, commerce, and migration are among the factors likely to shape the distribution. Power-law distributions appear in other diverse settings and, as is the case with wealth and town size, have seemingly disparate causes.

Species among genera (figure 2c), which should have something to do with biological evolution.

Word frequency in a novel (figure 2d), which should have something to do with how you write a book or how the human language arose and developed.

Surnames in a country (figure 2e), which should have something to do with the country's society and history."

http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/points_of_view/jus...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/11/occupy-m...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_index
360 degree photograph
It was trying to be, and failing. I am currently serving up a ( antialiasing fixed ) png, and @2x png for hdpi displays. Do you think a canvas logo would provide any additional benefit above these two?
> So, the Supreme Court will let claims of 'secrecy' trash the Constitution?

They already have for decades, starting with United States v. Reynolds. That ship has well and truly sailed.
Unlikely. Or the effect might be minimal.

It's pretty common-sense that healthy people will already have a faster gait. I mean for lots of people who are about to die, their gait speed is probably zero because you can't even walk. Your average person doesn't even spend much time exercising, and this study is about average folks, so it's saying that average folks with a faster gait live longer. Most of them don't even exercise.
I think the authors point is that good content is more important than form and not that graphics and media should be forbidden. It just happens that HN is an excellent example for that - people come here for the content and not for fancy design, graphics and media.

A friend of mine has a special weakness for Venice (Italy) because it is one of the few place without any billboards, i.e. graphics everywhere.

It is not black and white but good food for thought.
> In the early 90s, Martin people hand-assembled Titan rocket guidance and control software

What the fuck?
That was probably true back in '53.

Since; the science of accident reconstruction and cause determination have improved vastly.

Back then the mafia (or whomever) might have thought, eh, cyanide, who's going to trace that? Nowadays tests would prove something untoward likely happened. It's how nowadays nurses are caught for 'easing terminally ill patients', back then, it would have seemed like, oh, that was the disease, "natural causes".

In other words, this option would be a desperate option, one where discovery of tampering would be revealed. Only someone really desperate and without other alternatives would be reduced to opting. Someone stupid.
I agree that this isn't a great comment but I'm not seeing the fallacious ad hominem.
Sure, but that's not Goodwill giving you straight cash - the point being that any given box typically does not contain $10+ worth of stuff.
The WWII Japanese situation was a black mark on the
history of the US. Apparently the Japanese
Americans were exceptionally loyal to the US.

The excuse was that we were at war, in particular
with Japan. The fear was that Japanese in the US
would work for Japan.

We knew that putting all Japanese, at least those
in the West, in camps was an ugly situation.
And, when the war was over, the camps were
emptied.

In the camps, life should have been as good
as possible with lots of food, good shelter,
good schooling, good medical care, etc.
I don't know if that was the case.
They were not criminals. But a lot of
Japanese in the US lost their homes,
belongings, businesses, etc. It was
ugly. Hopefully they didn't suffer
serious medical problems or lose their
lives.

What happens in war is different
from what happens in peace.
Indeed, one of the issues about
'the war on terror' is, is it
war or peace in the US? If
it is peace in the US, are the
terrorists in the US
just criminals in the
US legal system or enemy soldiers?
If the war on terror is war in the
US, are we going to suspend the
Constitution until all the terrorists,
many tens of millions of radical
Muslims, have been 'defeated'?

What will the US do about Muslims
in the US? Try to judge if they
are 'radical' Muslims?
Watch them in the mosques?
Follow them around?
Deport them? Put them in camps
as for the Japanese in WWII? Treat
them just as criminals in the
US criminal system?

E.g., what is going on in Gitmo
is not really the US criminal
legal system. It's a bad situation.
But 9/11 was a bad situation, and
so was the role of the camps in
Afghanistan and the
IED's in Afghanistan,
etc.
Office365 makes the cost pretty low. And Lync has got to be one of the better MS products. It blows other PBX/presence solutions out of the water.

Probably the main reason it hasn't completely dominated is because MS is taking a weird partner-oriented approach to VoIP with it. So getting setup with some numbers and outbound calling is tons more work than it should be.
Class about pendulum motion in space, live from space
Also LINPACK doesn't do IO, which a frequently sets the max speed.
I only read the bold words, so I guess style matters.
Samsung Reduces Parts Inventory for the First Time in Its Smartphone History
Use only the text editor ed for your next project. Oh, and no version control. Don't tell me that's impossible, either, because we both know it isn't.
Samsung unveils new Win8+Android Ativ Q convertible tablet. 3200×1800 screen
it's a little silly to believe that the high doses of colloidal silver that the crazies take (enough to make their faces literally blue) doesn't slough off silver(I). The high surface area of colloidal silver means that plenty of it is exposed to oxygen in a highly-reactive surface.
Government budgets don't go down, they'll just find a way to spend more at their predicted curve.
Pretty cool. Any thoughts on how to indicate to the user that they should press and hold to launch a menu? Doesn't seem like an interaction common the web.

Unrelated, but I think QR codes are nice when there are mobile demos:
http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
It'd be great if there was a nice infographic that people like me could use to point out the difference between what this paper talks about (real) and colloidal silver (harmful, with a lot of false information) so that when cranks use this paper to peddle lies I can give people simple to understand information.
Where are the VPN servers located geographically? It might be wise to include where your servers are located - and perhaps even a test IP address that users can use for latency / packet loss testing.
In defense of words, hypertext markup language has a lot of tags for words (more than I could count on two hands) vs two hands worth for images, pictures, video, etc combined. Throw in CSS (which makes words pretty) and you have a lot of stuff to do with words, and not that much to do with arrays of pixels or sine waves.
Sorry, bad grammar. I meant that sometimes they reboot automatically. The systems are designed to always reboot without physically crashing the jet, but sometimes the pilot has to command the reboot themselves.
The purpose of the PSRs is to help support and foster collaboration between members of the Framework Interoperability Group (the people who draft and publish the PSRs: consists of medium-to-large PHP projects including Symfony, Amazon, Drupal, Joomla, etc.). Having a common coding standard makes it much easier to publish code as part of other PSRs as questions like "tabs or spaces?" don't have to get rehashed every time a new PSR is drafted.

That's to say PSR-2 is not intended to a be a "best practices" type of thing: it's actually just the result of a survey of member projects at the time with each part chosen because that's what the majority of them did, even if it was just a simple majority or there were member projects were with the majority on, say, tabs vs. spaces but not, say, indentation size. Some of the FIG member projects have adopted it, but several haven't and don't intend to. It's useful if you don't have any other coding standard available, but easily ignored with no loss of interoperability with the other PSRs if you do.
Isn't that the real problem? You're a company that says "here's 15 seconds to convey some information". Yet, you aren't able to convey the information you wanted to (i.e the ad for your service) in 15 seconds. I think they missed a trick with this ad.
I'm curious if the dispersants used in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 may have been a contributing factor in addition to fertilizers and agricultural runoff? Or should I consider the Deepwater Horizon aftereffects water under the bridge by now?
In person cash trades are easier to bust. Especially if there's much in the way of volume or the transactions are sizeable.

They are also far more hassle and potentially dangerous.

Don't pretend that making electronic transfers harder wouldn't suppress the market to some extent.
Cheaper, faster, simpler, mobile web
This treats the symptoms, not the cause. The ultimate solution is buying less shit and buying what you do need local and used (usually on Craigslist). If you do this, you get these great benefits:

1. You prevent all the waste included in manufacturing new shit
2. You can usually sell it later for about what you paid for it
3. Since you usually have to shop quite a bit to find what you need, it eliminates the highly addictive, instant gratification feedback loop that comes from buying online or in a store and ultimately leads to less buying.

Mr. Money Mustache has a great post on getting started with the religion that is Craigslist: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/08/11/get-rich-with-crai...

A couple of choice quotes:

"You can also use it as a free way to “store” your unused goods. I didn’t hesitate to sell my papasan chairs today, because I know if I ever need them back, I can open up Craigslist and find plenty more just like them at any point in the future."

and

"So I view Craigslist not just as an Environment Saver – by preventing the unnecessary manufacturing of a bunch of new stuff – but also a Community Machine – connecting millions of people to do real activities together, as opposed to the soul sucking model of big corporations stamping out stores across the world, staffing them with minimum wage workers, connecting them to a stream of wasteful products flowing straight from China, and having us all drive into the big boxes every day to bring home SUV-loads of it which will soon end up buried in a landfill."
I built postagon.com under this dogma but nevertheless I think that it comes with an almost arrogant touch if you deliberately publish an article in a format as simple as this and expect everyone to extract the message from an otherwise horrible reading experience.
I wish there were more DNSSEC threads because I do not feel like I have run out of bad things to say about DNSSEC.
AIM. It's so old, the NSA forgot about it.
Last chance to help save 300,000 historic manuscripts from Timbuktu
How Nick Woodman bootstrapped GoPro
The notion of objective moral values is that the "right" moral values exist independent of humans and the human mind. (I think.) It is usually a position held by religious types like William Lane Craig.

See debate on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaHXKLRKzg
What is Horehound Herb – Marrubium Vulgare?
If the controversy were over copyrights (presumably JD holds a copyright on their label), where the book cover reproduces that copyrighted work, then I'd get it. The T-shirt would be subject to the same copyright concerns, and need to license the image.

But the referenced letter explicitly says it's a trademark issue. I can't see how consumers are potentially confused between a book bearing a particular product on its cover, and that product itself.
Have you actually read any of my comments? I'm pretty sure I'm not the leader of any kind of pack here.
I find quartz painful to interact with. I generally skip links once I realize they go to Quartz. The problem is that it tries so hard to be simple, but just isn't. It's actually just what the author of the article seems to have been thinking about.

For instance, the right-hand sidebar is totally pointless and serves no purpose other than to push the scroll bar into a weird position. The header at the top is just meaningless clutter. Why does the left side-bar need to exist? Why can't the links to other articles just scroll with the rest of the page (the '90s called, they want their frames back)?

Sure, Quartz is somewhat less cluttered than Huffpo, but Huffpo doesn't claim to be about simplicity, Quartz does, I find that infuriating.
reading this is kind of funny as I have a bed, sheets, 4 outfits, a towel, toothpaste, toothbrush, detergent, and deodorant all in my apartment (just moved out of parents home).
Http://www.Google.com/sorry
If you can read swedish: http://minfil.org/W1fccfbdb8/gottfrid.pdf
Or you could just walk over to your local thrift store every month and give them your shit. Or used book store. Or used clothing store. Or record store. Or...

It's really not that hard.
This page is a little conflicting to the main website has fancy mail in widgets and runs a powerful (arguably bloated) CMS.
In some of Michael's previous comments, he's said that there is a dedicated Perf Room at Google where managers go to come up with secret calibration scores that decide each employee's future. I and every other Googler I know have never heard of such a Perf Room - calibration happens quarterly in an ordinary conference room where the managers within a department get together and cross-check each others' scores to make sure that no manager is inappropriately favoring or hurting their own reports at promotion time. I can only assume that someone was pulling his leg with a sarcastic comment and he took it literally.
Not sure why people think this is about FB running ads.

I highly doubt FB would consider pre-rolling an ad on a 15 second clip. Youtube is the king of pre-rolls... they probably have a min length requirement before they will insert a pre-roll.

Ads don't make much sense on a 15 second clip.
When I'm sitting on the subway and bored, I love to flick through Instagram. Over the years, we got cinemagram and vine and they were fun but when zooming between stations they were so slow to load. Instagram, though, was pretty quick and offered me quite a bit to look at.

I worry that, with video, Instagram will now be slow to load. I can't set aside time for "Instagram surfing"; it was a fun distraction during otherwise boring times—check in with your friends while you are stuck somewhere else.

I always felt video wasn't ready for prime time.
Key message of the article:

Jobs in the hidden market are filled based on internal promotions, referrals and recommendations, with candidates being assessed on their past performance and future potential. For job-seekers who aren’t perfect matches on skills and experience this is great news, but to get the chance to be evaluated this way you need to be recommended by someone in your network.
not technology but tool. apple // was tool. It is obsolete. Netscape was a tool. Obsolete.
Is TCP/IP obsolete?

The trend of today is sticky headers. Tomorrow it will look rediculuous. Is it tech? No. It's the matter of fashion.
Has anyone else been getting redirected to this page after doing a search via the Chrome address bar?
I'll tell that to the CEO of Sears Roebuck. He probably doesn't read "the history of the XX-XXI century and the news.."
What tool is that guy using? Anyone know?
Health care is a basic human right.
I have never seen a still image that conveyed the horror of the Holocaust to me in the way that Elie Wiesel's Night did. I have seen a movie that did: Schindler's List, which was fiction, made with actors; and which was made at enormous expense because of the things people had said and written.

Beyond that, though, while images and movies are highly effective, if very expensive, ways of influencing people's feelings, they work just as well in the service of falsehood as in the service of truth. As such, they primarily work to amplify the influence of the powerful. Language allows you to share your thoughts instead of your feelings, and text in particular provides a much better way to gradually explore our way toward the truth. With language and text, mere power stands helpless before reason.
Actually, with sufficient BGP peering, you can probably reach most major destinations with far less than 50 (CDNs do), and you increase the likelihood that traffic never traverses a telco backbone.
My current community would be beyond offended if I joined the Army. Yuck.
That's true, but I'm unclear why you'd store USD for any length of time on mtgox anyway.
A sample size of 1 is not relevant.
All of your contributions seem to denote someone who doesn't really have anything worthwhile to convey in writing. Try to communicate "Hire me, I'm experienced." in a photo. Share that on Facebook.
> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out

Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin.

Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language.
> That's why 3/4 of all the posts on Reddit's home page are links to imgur

They still have titles. And many of those posts are memes that have words in them.
well, what do you think? Crowdhoster is made by Crowdtilt which is also a YC company, and PG never denied saying it was the "pivot of the century" so has YC been in on it from the beginning?
Heartbroken Microsoft Employee on Xbox One Policy Changes
Technology is tools.
Paul Degnan (Head of Marvel Web Development) Seminar
May be the same person that wrote this, or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876761
without reading the article, I guess it's communication.
PC History
Are you using tor?
It does nothing but ask for captchas over and over?
"There’s nothing wrong with flying before we buy. In fact, most of us test drive cars before we [buy]"

Except that if we custom-order a car, the manufacturer isn't legally prohibited from selling it to someone else if we end up refusing to buy it.
Insane? No. Just trite and tasteless.
The ultimate solution is buying less shit

Unfortunately some of us have relatives who insist on gifting us shit, regardless of how tactfully we try to ask them not to. I'd love to join a club like this. (Right now Goodwill suffices, but there's definitely non-cheap stuff we give away just because we don't have time to deal with it.)
US-West, US-Central, US-East, UK right now. Adding some more in Europe and Asia ASAP.

A (current and historical) performance monitor, uptime monitor is a great idea.
The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In
Google Has Started Hiring More People Who Didn't Go To College
This is why I'm an advocate for basic income. It would let the imaginative actually try to imagine rather than do grueling soulless work to eat.
Drinking colloidal silver killed my amoebic dysentery - a rather horrible strain from drinking Egyptian water - within a day. That was after a week of very expensive treatment had done nothing - if anything I was getting worse. Three or four glasses of 30ppm silver in water over the course of 24 hours and I quickly recovered. It is very effective in vivo for some things. Is there peer reviewed research behind this? Probably not. But after reading Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, I'm of the opinion that my anecdote carries as much weight as the industry's research.
Good call on the QR codes. I would either use like one of those half opacity overlays on load that have arrows and instructions, like when the linkedin app launched, or use joyride:
https://github.com/zurb/joyride

I definitely agree that there would need to be a prominent call to action on first visit (session) , that would indicate the functionality exists.
The beauty of the internet is that it was this unthinkably big project that was eventually thrown into the laps of the public. In my view this is government at its best: building infrastructure that lays the groundwork for huge wealth creation.

The only opportunity I can think of right now that might be similar in its capacity to fuel wealth creation as much as the internet has is perhaps a space elevator. I'm not sure how exactly it would be used, but similarly, nobody really knew how ARPANET would end up being used either.

I, like millions of engineers, would love to work in "truly innovative" industries beyond just software. However, innovation needs infrastructure to build upon. The amount of resources needed to work on the problems that Elon Musk takes on are prohibitive for the vast majority of entrepreneurs, investors, and engineers.
Kryptonite Is Crap