skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. Ok. I thought it was some kind of page validation thing.

I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason for it that's not insane.
How many twitter subscribers did you have at the time of Tweeting? How did you acquire them without a product to show?
The reason the major players haven't made a cheap console is because they (Nintendo excepted) are pushing the boundaries of what "cheap enough" hardware can do. That's necessary for the type of games they want to sell -- but it's not necessary for all games.

I fully expect an Ouya/Google/Apple/GameBerryPi/etc to really find a fun loving, large market at a $100 price tag.
When a company is forced to reorganize due to bankruptcy often a change of management is required. However, the "management" of Detroit is elected by the people, and they will likely choose to simply send the same folks or the same sorts of folks back into power after this happens.

How is this a reboot? To me it seems more like the typical infinite "just one more last chance" that enablers give to drug addicts.
I'm not sure it counts as a constructive alternative if it requires time travel.
> Soaring rents are forcing out those who make SF the desirable, culturally rich place that it is

If by culturally rich you mean burner babies, human freak shows, and unemployed artists who've depleted their trust-fund, then yes.
I switched to Linux after using OSX for 7 years. You do save a lot of time though not having to agree to EULAs and iTunes updates :)
Test HN: interested in finding partners to learn stuff?
Patients' self-reported memory slips may be early signs of Alzheimer's
Original discussion: http://firespotting.com/item?id=1976
"This could provide clues to future treatments. For example, when life took the momentous step from single cells to multicellular assemblages, Earth had low levels of oxygen. Sure enough, cancer reverts to an ancient form of metabolism called fermentation, which can supply energy with little need for oxygen, although it requires lots of sugar.

Davies and Lineweaver predict that if cancer cells are saturated with oxygen but deprived of sugar, they will become more stressed than healthy cells, slowing them down or even killing them. ASU’s Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, of which Davies is principal investigator, is planning a workshop in November to examine the clinical evidence for this."

This stood out at me as particularly interesting - especially as someone that tries to limit sugar and carbohydrate intake. I've heard other theories about sugar helping cancer spread - does anyone have more information or research on this?
Funded in the Alley– Vivek Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of Movable Ink
All the images are becoming rate limited by google.
I've tried that, but the officially blessed Mac way of doing package management, the App Store, has almost none of what I want in it. How am I supposed to switch if there is nothing to switch to? Say I want to stop using Audacity and switch to a proper Mac solution. What do I pull from the App Store?
Coffee shop wifi + Tor client + IRC? I wouldn't trust gtalk if you are worried about your conversation being monitored.
Make a game editor, with a decent 2d editor and a nice integrated IDE.
Good to know.

Very sorry again.
While reading this I was thinking of a late summer trip backpacking through Italy that my wife and I had. It was smoking hot and we were just south of Naples. Everyone was outside until really late and once you got used to the noise, people fires and rubbish, it was amazing. Eating pizza whilst watch local kids play football, old men playing cards and neighbours yelling at each other/ talking (I could never tell if they were fighting our catching up) and less desirably, a kid stealing a car. A guy next door was feeding his iguana named Eddy.
It was very very communal and great to visit. It felt just a little bit unsafe most the time, but we had nothing material worth talking. $30 US we spent per day each averaged over 6 weeks included everything except the plane ticket to get there. If only my job could be done remotely, I'd be back there very fast.
not very many at all, the tweets that drove traffic were not from me. They were from a couple other people that did have a following in the thousands. My follower count has grown since then.
Dedicated memcache now available on Google App Engine
As a New Yorker I'm always amazed as to how inconvenient of a city San Fran is. The BART has one track in the city, the Muni takes forever, walking is an absolute pain with all the hills, and there's so little mixed use development that you can really feel confined in many neighborhoods. Everywhere can't be New York, but cities like Boston and Chicago and D.C. have done a much better job of urban planning.
+1 on that reference.
Thanks for the response - So here's more questions if you wouldn't mind answering.

I know much less about DevOps (mostly because I don't manage large production servers) -- If you have 5 Apaches on one machine, where is the benefit vs one apache?

What I'm assuming is, 5 apaches on one machine mean you can load balance to the different apaches (assuming you have some system in place to handle replication of the site html/css/js/etc to all these instances) -- and you can have only sections go down? Or is it to just make the failure more predictable?

In the case of system failure, all the containers go down, so I don't know that I see the benefit there.

Also, if you have some literature on general devops things (I feel like this is stuff I should at least know already), feel free to drop some links, I'll click through.

EDIT - I DDG'd, have some stuff I am reading now, but feel free to answer whatever you feel like answering
Cold and foggy. Sunset used to be called "fog bank" and was renamed The Sunset to get people to move out there. Also very inconvenient with regards to transportation. Our dev ops guy claimed it was faster to drive into SoMa from Marin City than taking the N from ocean beach.
Texas seems much better managed than California, judging by the news. And it does it without an income tax. Sounds pretty good to me.

I'm not bothered by a governor with an accent, as long as he keeps the books balanced, the crime down, and the red tape light.
Some would say that is the meaning of being stagnant. If you want something that "just works" in that the environment is recognisable, use something like Redhat.

You caught Ubuntu (or Fedora or other distributions that moved to GNOME 3) were on GNOME 2 greater part of the last decade. A breaking UI change had to be done at some point, and it happened to be 2 years ago. Even on macs, there was a huge overhaul going from OS9 to OSX in 2001.

You can make a point saying that you don't like the new UI. That will be a much more sound argument than saying the environment is changing from one release to the next.
The Wine project has always impressed me and seeing all of these wonderful changes just keeps impressing me more. Take a look at that list of graphical and audio changes? Whoa. VMR-9 video rendering support, the slew of Direct3D additions and strengthening of the implementations of some of the features, better networking support including NTLM and negotiate authentication protocol support.

Refraining from going into full fanboy mode, but I hope the Wine project gets to the point where one day any Windows app can run with an almost guaranteed inside of the Linux operating system. The day I can run Adobe Creative Suite 6 from within Ubuntu basically bug free is the day I ditch Windows completely for Linux.
Just because it was correct doesn't mean it was appropriate.
Detroit, San Bernardino, Mammoth Lakes, Stockton, Harrisburg, Central Falls (RI). Cities all over the country are on the verge of bankruptcy. States can't go bankrupt, but Illinois has stopped paying many of its bills--as state support for municipalities dries up, that could case many municipalities to go into bankruptcy.
I bought in November for this reason. My home value estimate on Trulia and Zillow has increased by nearly 50% since I purchased. I thank my lucky stars every day that my wife and I were ready to buy at that time. I dread to think what we could afford in today's market.
Read 1984. I think the ending is very relevant to this question.
Eh, I can see where you get that, but the level of support for that conclusion does not rise to "effective argument."
Just letting a suspension sit on the laboratory bench does the same thing: gravity separates the components by density (not weight). That's why you stir paint before you use it: it has partially separated, and has done so without the without the use of a centrifuge.
PHP 5.5.1 Released
Indeed, and I'll repeat:

"It's rather clear you have no idea what criminals are treated like."
Are there a bunch of uplifting stories about Californian, and specifically SFran, governance I'm missing?
The demise of Microsoft’s monopoly and the PC market, by the numbers
If you want to be pedantic about it, yes, the continent of North America is made up of three countries.

But if a person says the phrase "I'm American", what's your first guess - that he is referring to the USA, to Canada or to Mexico?

Speaking as a Canadian, I do not call myself an 'American', even though my country is certainly part of North America.
The first one to add real encryption to their platform will have a hard time explaining to their users why their platform is secure and their competitors are not.
Density is kind of the opposite of sprawl.

The real problem is European density needs European public services. San Francisco is enormously less livable than London, unfortunately...
From zero to a Scala SBT project
Nobody in the tech scene thinks there's life west of Divisadero.

In my experience, if you grabbed ten tech people at random, you'd find at most one person who could tell you anything at all about neighborhoods outside of the Mission and SOMA. The Googlebus picks people up from their home in those neighborhoods in the morning, and drops them off again at night. There is nothing else.
I think it makes it even more relevant. Fast growth isn't easy on cities, but at least places like Austin have the luxury of being able to grow out and up. San Francisco has little opportunity to grow out, so the need to grow vertically is even more pressing.
The Pixel seems great, I think I would need a more powerful processor and more storage & RAM for it to work for me though.
Infographic: A Guide To Understanding Introverts
That's really not necessary to say.
Are you serious?

A video showing how the structural integrity of a building is severely compromised and it doesn't explain why the building collapsed?

Seems like a fairly myopic view to me.

I look at that video and to me it highlights the amazingly good structural engineering used in the design of the building.

For it to have taken such a massive hit and still manage to stay standing for as long as it did is a credit to the designers.

If only they had done a better job spacing the emergency exits many lives would have been saved.
Well, first of all, OS X is based on BSD and not Linux, which would affect even simple command line utilities. (I'm not even sure the kernel ABI is compatible.)

More to the point, there's the lack of Mac-specific frameworks (e.g. Cocoa) on which most Mac applications rely.
It's actually not that foggy in the fall and winter. It's mostly the spring and summer that suck, when the bay area air conditioning system is running full bore. But then...the rest of the city is pretty foggy in the summer, too.
I particularly like the idea of promising firefighters a too-good pension, make them run into burning buildings to save people, and then reneging on the promise now that they won't be running into buildings any more. Serves them right for trusting a promise, the fools.

I wonder what effect that will have on future muni workers?
This is absurd.

It's a human organization, not a school of fish. There are absolutely influential and directing personalities. That we don't know who they are doesn't mean they don't exist.
It's my experience with young silicon valley engineers that cultural liberalism is more important that taxes, regulatory burden, budget deficits, business climate, crime, education, and transportation put together.
That's what I thought. I'm not one of the cool kids, so my code is C# and my server is Windows 2012, so I'm pretty far off.
Fnord is also being a bit misleading...

Not to put too fine a point on it...

But the VAST majority of the money spent "honoring commitments made to retirees" is not made to "current residents of Detroit". Most of it was just a one-way funnel of money from Detroit out to the suburbs, other areas of Michigan and beyond.

It makes no sense for Detroit... to essentially be funding people in the suburbs... by taking on debt. That was just craziness.
It would be nice if there was a search box on HN itself. Why should I have to remember some other site to search?
How to integrate OpenStack and Ceph
Hum... the article does not talk about anything that could be placebo-controlled multicenter clinically trialled.

It's just about some dudes deriving conclusions from the relationship between embryo development and (what they call) cancer, with a couple of predictions thrown in to make their theory falsifiable. As a press release is not that bad.
Although they were forced to provide the data, were they also forced to not disclose that fact to their users/customers? If so, then that's another matter to discuss entirely.
but everyone knows that facebook "counsels out" for "poor cultural fit" if you don't meet expectations after six months, which is a far cry from "fire fast" with "little notice". They also pay well.
You still don't have control over the UI....

What evidence is there that google will ever stop supporting IMAP? What makes you think another provider is not going to stop supporting IMAP, or stop existing at all? What's so hard about switching providers if google does drop IMAP, particularly if you're using your own domain?
Is it just me, or was that article constantly confusing million and billion?
Glass is a perfectly fine way to get directions while driving. Just listen to the voice prompts and ignore the screen. Heck, one can push the prism up to the top of your head so there's no chance to see it.

(To be sure, one can also do this with a GPS app on a smart phone, but having left a phone behind in a rental car, I see value in using a device that's attached to me.)
There is. In the footer.
This is pretty "normal" I would guess. In my experience and the fact I have moved every three years since birth (gypsy grandmother) I have not had to many long term friendship/bonds. I do have a good friend that I use to build cars with but we went separate ways. He has a kid and is now a cop in a town in NC where I use to live in. People just grow up and find different interest. Everyone experiences life differently. I have been living in SF for 2 years and still have yet to find a close buddy/buddies. I am a little bit of an introvert for I assume moving around so much.
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File
Which programming language should I learn to make this? Thanks
No-go theorem
Surely that animation exaggerates how little net molecule displacement occurs. I'm not sure what would cause many of the molecules to reverse direction while in the low-pressure part of the wave.
Engineering is a bit of an art form in my opinion. It is about style and how you tackle a problem. I recommend reading Hacker and Painters.
wooster has a good comment looking at some numbers (his second comments is interesting): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6066612
The semantic mixins are fairly well done as well. I'm actually a bit torn between staying with Foundation and switching to Bourbon + Neat right now.
I am surprised that the majority of comments ridicule or scorn this idea. I found it to be at least an explorable link, even if it would yield no practical cure. It was nice to know which genes are involved, which still makes no claim on the trigger of cancer. It merely states that forms of stress could activate this, and this still would be in line with current theory of one-off mutations (that is, the tangible result after the event).
Why do this when the Wii with Homebrew is perfectly capable of running a myriad of emulators that are a pleasure to use, has a superior controller, and runs it all really well?
They also use dynamic breaking resistors to the convert kinetic energy of the trains into heat energy. Fans then blow across the resistors to cool them. In Park Street, this just ads to the inferno. It is at least 120F in there in the summer. I'll bring in a theromometer one of this summer afternoons.
Moved from MacBook Air/OSX to Ubuntu and super happy about it. The touchpad was tricky though. I had to deactivate the lower 20% (for clicking) and untrain me resting my thumb on the pad.
If you want something stable that doesn't change much from one release to the next, you could just not upgrade. Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for 5 years, and that support includes backporting hardware-enablement work.
Or an arrangement with one or two friendly newspapers that a specific control phrase be inserted in to any editorial covering his death.

Then all Snowden would need is one or two cloaked servers somewhere that crawl each newspaper's site daily and trip the switch if they find an article containing the phrase.
Contacted them about fixing the images. In the meantime here's a PDF version with them:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28/UnSexy-PricingforConv...
Regardless of it being public or not, fundamentally it still stands that more surveillance means the OP would have been vindicated. If you want to talk about abuse of the data, that's a whole other issue. The question is, if surveillance is benevolent, would it have helped the OP? Yes. It would have.
Why most Olympic records are broken in the afternoon: Your body's best time
Sharp to release 32-inch 4K touchscreen monitor in US this fall
The fact of the matter is that both Wikileaks and Snowden overestimate just how much damage their documents can do.

Look at the facts on the ground. The United States government is well-documented for atrocities ranging from torture to extrajudicial killing to political assassinations to mass surveillance, not to mention providing support to private American corporations involved in similarly disgusting behavior.

Has this impacted the power of the United States? Not really. France, Portugal, Spain, and Italy -- countries with tremendous "pride of place" and a sometimes sneering disdain for the US -- denied airspace to a foreign head of state on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden was on board. The US is still, by at least an order of magnitude, the most powerful country in the world.

The only challenge to US hegemony is the declining relevance of the US economy relative to other world economies like China, India, Russia, Brazil, and others. In the end, only money and guns talk. There is no "kill shot" leak as long as Bank of America has the right friends in Washington.
I see no evidence to the contrary, either. As long as we're drawing conclusions about the author's personality and intentions, why not be charitable?

Otherwise, we should just keep our commentary to the argument as written rather than what's going on in the author's head.
Thank you kindly, that clears it up. I think then the Supreme Court could define 'reasonableness' in a different manner than currently interpreted, but then I don't know much about how that would come about.
Why doesn't Skype have a phone number? They don't, and they're in the business of phone calling.
You've both missed his point, which is: why pirate SNES games but not Xbox 360 games?
Ask HN: How do I delete my Account, Comments, Submissions?
No, Sir. I did rtfm!
There is no mention of this basic thing in the FAQ.

I don't want to delete my account, but want to know how I could do that in case I want to leave.
Where is that option to delete my comments? Btw. even facebook which is quite intrusive allows you to delete old comments/submissions.
-- disclaimer: this is old info and I never got too deep into it, so take it with a (big) grain of salt :) and please, correct me if I'm wrong somewhere!

From what I can remember of some of Chrome's and Firefox's battles with this, one of the end-states was something like this, using punycode (example here[1] seems more useful than the wikipedia page[2]):

If system language matches domain name's language, display in localized characters. Otherwise, display punycode, to prevent homoglyph attacks.

"domain name's language" is of course a very vague definition. A better one might be "same UTF section". And it's all hairy and a bit problematic and I don't recall any conclusive, ideal solutions, and somewhat doubt it's possible. But handling the vast majority of legitimate uses in the best-possible way while preventing homoglyph attacks is pretty darned good.

And yeah, there will be sin/cosine/theta/pi.com attempts. But having an un-typable name is a choice made by the domain owner, just like any other. There's nothing preventing me from buying fdaocclasuro--ieja83q92e-jfksdl7a.com, which is at least as obtuse as any punycode URL, but that hasn't been a complaint in the past.

[1] http://mothereff.in/punycode [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
They are much colder and foggier, and are not particularly convenient locations to commute from, especially to jobs outside of downtown San Francisco. They also aren't "fun" neighborhoods that young people want to move to, so you don't get tons of roommates with one professional salary per bedroom.
> Isn't Mac these days a UNIX-like OS on x86?

Not exactly. Mac OS does include a BSD subsystem and behaves more like a Unix than it behaves like Windows. But it is still significantly it's own thing.

The Mac kernel is XNU. Nearly all Mac apps use Cocoa. The Mac filesystem is HFS+. Hardware is managed through IOKit. The list goes on but basically every major system service is written for Mac OS and does not have any direct compatibility with other OSes.
Music from Saharan Cellphones
The question then becomes, are the native tools as good or should developers reliant on things like Valgrind stay on Linux?
A Letter to Ed Snowden.
The Pit of Despair
Another cheap way to play SNES games; your computer and a $10 controller.
40k€ average pay in Europe for a senior ?
You don't know what you're talking about...

A junior engineer begins - at least - at 35k€, a senior will ask at least 50-60k€ + extras.
I think you may have found the one user experience issue that linux handles better.
> #23 Don’t hire specialists.

I hope his definition of specialist is wrong considering that he himself is a specialist. Perhaps what he means is "hire people who can learn and adapt." After all, you won't get anywhere without people who have deep knowledge in particular areas.
I suppose this is because it was written in haste, but you're an hour off on GMT times.
Sometimes your advisors, if they have grant funding, will cover you for an additional extension. (Source: I know someone who is a PhD student at ANU).
Problem is that you are trying to hit a middle ground between people who are gaming enthusiasts and want to play games on a dedicated device be it a console or PC with a fancy GPU. And a larger casual market; many of whom are probably looking to buy games for a system they already own like a laptop or tablet.
Netflix receives its first Emmy nominations