skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the point that these things do not have much kinetic energy at all? The whole scheme wouldn't make sense if you still had to invest the same amount of power as for a conventional train.
Isn't a good use of 2 factor authentication is that you log the machine that a user regularly logins in from and if they try to use a different machine, it asks for the one time code?
Ghosterly indicated the one you can't identify as being part of KissMetrics.
This looks great, good job! A couple of things:

1. I renamed the default FLOOBITS_README.md to teach.py, but the path at the top of the page still showed the README filename. teach.py showed up in the left nav, so I don't really know what was going on there.

2. When I was loading one of the workspaces under https://floobits.com/u/ggreer, clicking on the files in the left nav took really long to load, about 8-10 seconds. I almost thought that all the files were blank at first and were there just to show the nested directory structure.

Apart from that, I think this is really cool! I'm definitely going to be using it over the next few days.
I've only run APKs in USB debug mode, but the main "OK glass" screen is just an Android app, which I think is started via an Intent, so I suspect you could hook this and override it.
I think you have mistakenly assumed that sharing his work with the public was not Watterson's absolute least favorite aspect of being a creator. I have no doubt that he is still pursuing creative activities, but I'd be surprised if he decided to share any of it with the world anytime soon. (I figure it will come out either after his death, or once enough decades have passed for him to feel up to facing the public.)
I was referring to Al Awalki, not his son. The article makes a soup out of the situation, but his son was killed in a different drone strike a month later that took out an Al Qaeda official: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/middleeast/yemeni-se.... There was no indication that Al Awalki's son was the target.
Hopefully they will create a plugin for RubyMine. Not sure, but maybe if they create a plugin for IntelliJ, they'd cover the entire family of Jetbrains editors? (IntelliJ, Rubymine PyCharm, PhpStorm)?
You are completely right about the designer bit. Sadly enough, some of my colleagues are still very hooked up with SVN and are not really set on moving on to Git.

In cases like these, i think this could actually help.
Looks great, going to try it out. Some feedback: it seems I was able to do a private session on the free plan, but the error message indicates I've used 1 out of 0 private sessions.

I think it's important to be able to trial the private session. As I am doing work for my company, I don't want anyone else looking at the work, but I want to try out the product on something real.
Another good sign is to talk about how you took initiative to help solve problems at a company. Stepped up. Instead of complaining, like you did.
The trick is to have both reflective displays and responsiveness.
What if this code is called multiple times in quick succession? Based on the fact that I got a dozen separate emails over the span of 10 minutes, I'm guessing Twilio's overcharging happened in a series of transactions, not all at once.

This code -- while good for catching bad single calculations -- wouldn't catch that.
I suspect it's a reference to Osbourne probably wanting to make a weapon out of it.
PrivyTalks - Secure private chat with browser RSA encryption
Indeed, it occurs to me that one reason to keep watching the experiment is to see whether heavy pitch migrated to the bottom. If so, the rate should speed up in a few hundred years, assuming the hermetic seal is good and nothing is volatilizing off the top.

This is unlikely, however. Many suspensions have a critical pressure below which they simply will not settle. Homogenized milk, for a familiar example.
First customers site is down.

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We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.
I for one would kill to see an ESPN that has to court direct subscribers.

Getting people to pay to subscribe to you is a whole different beast from chasing ratings among an audience that pays for you either way.

ESPN may get ratings doing endless Tim Tebow stories, but I posit that the viewers that generate those ratings aren't the same people the network could successfully convert into subscribers. Fluff crap may get people to stop while flipping channels, but nobody is going to be directly subscribing to get it.

I'm a sports fan, yet like many other sports fans, I consider ESPN to be borderline unwatchable. The only thing I care to watch are actual game broadcasts. And what happens when wider direct distribution means that the sports world no longer needs ESPN's cable reach to get to viewers?
I found the same thing to be true. Rest assured, google news auto-suggest doesn't filter Glee actor Cory Monteith's name.
Well, there is an expensive plant in France that will be manufacturing helium from raw materials ;-)

http://www.iter.org/
Delaware Governor Jack Markell signs benefit corporation legislation into law
It's very common for upper management to have profiles on corporate websites. I also know one small-medium company off the top of my head where most of the technical leadership are on their website, too (most sans direct contact information, but that's hardly difficult to come by if you're looking to hire someone).

I don't recall the name, but I recently encountered another company (I believe a startup that showed up on HN) that appeared to have most of its staff displayed on their site. I remember not so much because it was unusual in itself, but because it was extremely prominent. This company was obviously very proud of the people working for them, and quite pleased to let the world know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11_at...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh
I agree that there might situations where it can be useful, but:

1) Mobiles have pretty good CPUs. I think uploading and waiting for response would be slower and less reliable.

2) If the mobile user doesn't have an internet connection, the app won't work.

3) As a developer, I would be dependant on an external service, that could stop working someday.
Most privately carried health care plans easily available to individuals cost between $70 and $140 dollars for one person.

Another vote for "You are incorrect and are very likely basing this on your sole experience of shopping for a young, single, no kids, healthy male's insurance."
Uh, no. The U.S. was militarily interventionist long before that. Spanish-American war anyone?
Can the hyperloop be combined with quantum levitation? To provide very low friction high speed travel?
http://www.ted.com/talks/boaz_almog_levitates_a_superconduct...
The Lost Art of Pickpocketing (2011)
Side effects:

- The journal has limitations, like what files it stores the journal in and the [default] size of the journal, which is only 10% of the filesystem size. Which sounds retarded to anyone who has ever created a /var partition for logs, but anyway. (Configuring multiple syslog files is an efficient hack to spread log data load across filesystems, which AFAIK systemd does not support)

- All applications that were developed specifically with syslog support (such as using the glibc syslog functions, or the command-line tools, or the flat log files) will break. The fix is to reinstall syslog and configure it to use a journal device that systemd exports [once you configure it to].

- Any devices that this host was collecting syslogs for, or any syslog collection servers this host was sending its logs to, will break. (Syslog is the only de-facto standard [enterprise or otherwise] for sending or collecting logs on a network, besides maybe snmp, but that's not really logging)

- Systemd's programming-oriented control over log journals means you can only do things it lets you do. For example, there is built-in log rotation based both time and disk space used, but no function (that I know of) to tell it to rotate on-demand, which is a common sysadmin task. You are removing all the previous flexibility of syslog logs by using these binary journals.

- If you support more than one operating system, or hell, more than one Linux distro, you have to install syslogd and configure systemd to use it, or you'll be doing twice the work just to support Fedora's mandatory new logging system along with every other system's syslogd. (Even if every distro switches overnight you have legacy systems and code to deal with)

Weird how Fedora already had a project to fix logging. I wonder what happened to that. https://fedorahosted.org/lumberjack/

The basic proposal seems to be: I have this new logging system, so remove your old system because mine is better. Which is no better an argument than: I have this old stable logging system that works great, so your new system needs to chill the fuck out until it supports all the legacy stuff.

It doesn't seem like there is any need to remove syslog. The guy just wants it to disappear.
You just made me realize I never questioned where the 20th-century iceman would have gotten his ice from in a world without condensers. That's a fascinating infrastructure to imagine – shipping ice long distances in the summer heat with no active cooling. I actually want to read more about this.
Some interesting tips.

One thing though - some of these will have a negative effect on some people. One of my dislikes is having to take time out of my day to baby-sit someone who's 'in the area' to talk about something that I think should have been done by email.

Point being: If you're going to manipulate someone, it has to be on their terms.

From an attack side this means make sure you know what kind of person you're dealing with. Get good at reading people, see what sort of pronouns and so on they use in messages... that sort of skillset.

From a defence side - i.e. being hard to take advantage of - this means that, if you want to avoid being manipulated, you probably shouldn't let many people know what you really enjoy and value. Give them something that they can believe you value instead and let them think that they're buying your favour/stopping you thinking clearly.
I haven't seen it in the discussion, but systemd's journal has horrible read performance. Apparently it's poorly indexed, or the disk layout has issues.
Great job. I just signed up. I think you should have requested my email address from github as well. So that, i would have my gravatar on Floobits.

I am not missing anything, am i ?
You know that 100k is not normal in the rest of the world.
40k€ is a senior pay (average) in Europe
I agree...however it is still an issue one might take into account when deciding which protocol to use.
You should definitely focus on solid side projects. You don't have any prior experience as a developer so the only way to prove to someone that you can code is to show them.
How Continuous Integration Helps the Development Process
>And what happens when wider direct distribution means that the sports world no longer needs ESPN's cable reach to get to viewers?

Its not the viewers the sports leagues value ESPN for. Its the money ESPN pays them for the right to broadcast to their viewers. That's why the NFL Network is a step-child network that can't maximize its value as the NFL can't make more from it that they can selling to ESPN, Fox, CBS and NBC
Maybe they make most sense for military missiles?
Does that article's title make anyone else's brain melt out their ears?
>Smells like an attempt to discredit MMR to me:

"We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine. "

It was a study of twelve (12!) children! To credit Wakefield with sole responsibility of the "MMR scare" over that simple statement is crazy. There is no way that Wakefield's paper single-handedly sparked and sustained this debacle for some fifteen years now.

What really smells in this affair is Brian Deer, a journalist in the employ of a director of GSK (James Murdoch), who himself made the initial report against Wakefield et al to the British GMC while simultaneously reporting on the scandal (while denying that he had anything to do with the initial report). As bad as Wakefield's paper was, it was nothing compared to the farce that followed in the form of the GMC hearings, BMJ's character assassination, and later retraction[2] The whole thing is a farce from one end to the other.

>The simple fact is vaccination works.

Of course it does. Stop with the straw man already. But, vaccines aren't flawless. They aren't perfectly safe, and in some cases the risks outweigh the benefits. Effort should be concentrated on perfecting vaccines, not denial of fallibility. Until then, a proper weighting of risks and benefits is required.

>People need to get over it and get vaccinated.

Shall we sign you up for Gardasil, and perhaps the new Acne vaccine? Have you had a Rotavirus booster? Of course you have. Better safe than sorry!

[2]http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1678.long
thanks for the heads up, I better look into it. Really appreciate it. Until it is fixed I am pulling the link.
I'd like to see him jump into it just to get the TV time. Zero real campaigning, no intention of trying to win (have to raise a billion dollars to do that). He should just declare, do the minimum necessary to stay in it as long as possible, run on a civil liberties platform, and leverage the publicity of it all to push a message against what's going on.
On the plus side, all of their health needs are somehow taken care of for $20/month.
<sarcasm off>
Paid Apps On The Decline: 90% Of iOS Apps Are Free, Up From 80-84%
Has One Laptop Per Child Totally Lost Its Way?
#MagnaCarta - Lessons on How to Launch
Thank you, I'm giving my art for free as an act of personal affirmation. I think the idea has the potential to scale.
I was just wondering if this is a norm to do websites at a cost of a nice apartment.
That is pretty accurate. Most interviewers won't spend too much time talking about themselves, but asking a question that gives them the opportunity to do so gives you an advantage over interviewees that do not.
I'm the exact mirror of you; I couldn't care less about Breaking Bad or Mad Men, the only thing I ever watch on cable TV is sports. This is how the bundled model works -- you pay a % of your bill for ESPN, I pay a % of my bill for AMC, and we get both. The %s are determined by the providers and networks playing chicken with each other over how many subscribers would leave if a network weren't included in a package.

A la carte proponents seem to have a particular bee in their bonnets for sports, but it seems to me that that's the kind of content most likely to survive a cablepocalypse -- it has the most value in being viewed live. In your iTunes model for AMC, producing high-quality shows like Breaking Bad or Mad Men suddenly takes on movie-like risk.
An hard left ones as well :-)
That's a start, but the single greatest boon to Reddit (and the Internet) would be removing /r/adviceanimals from the defaults front page. It's the most unintelligent, uninspiring, circle-jerking subreddit -- and its memes plague the Internet.

Also, they should put /r/programming in the defaults. Reddit used to be a tech community.
Yet surely California has more than twice as many escalators than it has Representatives.
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It was an excellent documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM
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Most closed questions are just closed, not deleted.

Yes, you absolutely can disagree with and even reverse actions taken by diamond moderators.
The reason Gmail's IMAP is built the way it is is not because it maps well the semantics of Gmail to IMAP, but because it provided a reasonable way to access the semantics of Gmail using the semantics of Outlook. IMAP supports labels on messages in the form of user-defined flags; Gmail is really a single massive mailbox (what Outlook represents as a folder) with tons of flags. Most IMAP clients, however, suck at indexing flags, barely even let the user see and edit flags, sometimes only supporting five flags... it would have been useless.
I'm sick of the same arguments about this stuff, so I'm just going to say this, "legal" and "constitutional" are not synonyms, so I wish that the government employees would stop using them hand in hand. Just because there is a law saying you can do it, does not make it Constitutional.
What are your thoughts on the Carter Doctrine? He effectively annexed the Middle East without all the benefits of being US territory.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine
There are exceptions. Here in the US, most career fairs consist primarily of larger and older companies with booths, and the attendees tend to be people who have been unemployed or unhappy for extended periods of time. If you find yourself going to career fairs a lot, it probably means you should start making better career decisions to stay marketable.
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you should just go away. HN is not a place for two-sided discussion!

You would make a great Stack Overflow moderator.
Medical, construction, engineering all provide a great opportunity for glass.
I think it even has potential for a desk job. Having your workflow preserved as what you actually see instead of what you happen to save would be a huge time saver for forgetful people like me.

Especially for artists, designers, and maybe even engineers. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to see what I was doing when I started to screw something up.
Very 1997.
Outside of Baseball, Basketball and College Football, ESPN's sports broadcasts can be difficult, especially if you follow a less-popular sport. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, NHL games aren't even broadcast on ESPN. Usually, the only soccer I see is the MLS Game of the Week (and Fox Soccer is a much better channel for soccer anyway).

Some leagues (MLB, NBA, NHL) are getting better, though, at providing direct access to the consumers.
I think the problem with that idea is you have to keep the superconductor very cold, which might be too expensive for large objects that need to levitate for 30 minutes.
Most privately carried health care plans easily available to individuals cost between $70 and $140 dollars for one person.

In a word: no.
Complication is not an issue. It would be pretty easy to have a one-per-profile option to specify "I'd like original aspect ratio whenever possible".

There's already a video quality preference; it could even piggy-back off that.
> I'm a sports fan, yet like many other sports fans, I consider ESPN to be borderline unwatchable. The only thing I care to watch are actual game broadcasts. And what happens when wider direct distribution means that the sports world no longer needs ESPN's cable reach to get to viewers?

I agree with you about the quality of non-game broadcasts on ESPN, but I think this is sort of exactly why it's not more profitable for leagues to sell directly to consumers. The major networks pay a price for broadcast rights that is greater than what they make in just advertising during those events because they use the NFL/MLB/etc to prop up the rest of their programming.
Depending on the train, you could level a downtown of a small city: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/two-more-bodies-recovered-from-...
Why LA-SF? It's the second busiest air route in the country, and also one of the shortest, so it's ripe to be disrupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_air_routes#U...
Off topic, I know: This site is driving me nuts because the up/down arrows don't scroll. Anyone else having this issue?
No problem, I first signed up for an account with SIP Centric[1], then once you've bought a phone number, you click on IVR menus in the sidebar and then it is point-and-click from there on; it really is surprisingly easy!

[1]: http://pbx.sipcentric.com/
The primary benefit is weight reduction:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre_howworks.html

This approach enables SABRE-powered vehicles to save carrying over 250 tons of on-board oxidant on their way to orbit, and removes the necessity for massive throw-away first stages that are jettisoned once the oxidant they contain has been used up, allowing the development of the first fully re-usable space access vehicles such as SKYLON.
I have experienced that many of the questions I am most interested in are closed as "Not Constructive", seemingly to fulfill some artistic vision of the moderators and how they would like to "architect" the community. Very frustrating.

I also had a situation where I found a bug in some Python code on an accepted SO answer, submitted an edit, and had my fix repeatedly rejected by moderators. I tracked down one of the moderators' email and asked him about it, found out that he does not know Python and that he rejected my edit because it was already an accepted answer so why should I edit it? ...? In the end, after I persuaded him that my fix was helpful by getting other developers to testify that the existing code was broken and the fix fixed it...he posted my edit as his own and took credit for it.
Well, there is Stylish add-on for Firefox and Chrome, try it with style that suits you. For instance: http://userstyles.org/styles/12503/hacker-news-skinnier
I should have remembered how Reddit this place has become.

No idea what you mean by 1. I, along with about 50% of the UK is not a socialist.

> The vast (vast) majority of people claiming benefits are hard working people who do 40 hour weeks but still don't earn enough to support their family, so they claim Working Tax Credits.

Somehow they still seem to manage to afford the big flat screen TV, iPhone, xBox etc though don't they. Funny that...
It's possible that any test of intelligence that the educational system isn't measuring and working on is going to be a better predictor of various kinds of success than those it is. There are a huge number of factors in success, and it's possible that they are correlated more with each other than they are with the managing to get good scores on those few traits that are tested and taught for. (I don't know whether the original papers address this possibility; I'm just going by the linked article.)

Which isn't to say that it's bad to take these things at face value and start testing things like this as they're found to be relevant - it seems better to test and teach more things than fewer.

On a tangent, I seem to remember a study found that Quake improves spatial skills more than Tetris.
Financial necessity pushed us towards what the NSA does -- it's an operational imperative to cut costs, and processing the world's communications definitely cuts costs quite a bit.

Maintaining listening posts and other intelligence infrastructure is a massive economic and political undertaking, and the vacuuming of everything reduces dependence of third-parties.