skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am, and my wife isn't helpless. If I am on a work trip, she makes preparations to entertain herself while I am busy. Being married doesn't mean that your spouse is attached at the hip or helpless in your absence, it's pretty wild that people in this thread seem to feel that this person's wife is incapable of autonomy. It's crazy that MS escorted her out, it's crazy that it came to that in the first place, it's even more crazy that he didn't walk out with her and sort things out and that people feel like an adult female is somehow incapable of spending a few hours without their husband, it's kind of sexist.
Can Microsoft change? Or should it split up?
Dear Linode: I fucking love you. I was a loyal Slicehost user until Rackspace bought and ruined them. I should have switched to Linode long before that. My dearest hope is that Rackspace doesn't buy them too.
great situation to be in but thats actually not that common
In the UK, my lowest rate is equivalent to $75 an hour. I can read and write code, but most of my work is documentation related. I, too, like to tinker around with my own projects, but tend to do that between gigs. I'd be delighted if I could work for 30 hours a week and spend the rest on my own projects.
Efficient Cooking: It’s All in the Pot
I've been paying $20/month since about 2009 and it just keeps getting better and better! And not to mention uptime and great support channel!
I think I just emailed you. Not sure if I got the right email.
I just spent some quality time with Google and couldn't find any such case.

The closest is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis... but in that case the facts as found by the court of original jurisdiction were that the farmer selected for Roundup Ready plants that had been accidentally cross-pollinated (in exactly the same way I did this sort of thing with E. Coli in some molecular genetics research long ago), saved the seeds from those plants, and used them to plant 1,000 acres (4 km^2).

Per the judge per Wikipedia, "'none of the suggested sources [proposed by Schmeiser] could reasonably explain the concentration or extent of Roundup Ready canola of a commercial quality' ultimately present in Schmeiser's 1998 crop." Wikipedia also says in the summary "Regarding his 1998 crop, Schmeiser did not put forward any defence of accidental contamination."

They approached him to sign a license, the two parties couldn't come to an agreement, they took it to court.

I don't see this as a valid example of the claim. I also don't see what Monsanto could possibly hope to accomplish at net by suing good faith cross-pollination instances (yeah, they might scare more farmers into buying their seeds, but they'd get slapped down by things like that class action suit others have mentioned with failed due to standing, that is, no examples of this).
Define "everyone that matters"
My Next Phone: Peak+ Firefox OS device
In this case data was corrupted ONLY by humans mistake, it's not Redis fault (even author of article wrote it).
In the US criminal system one is innocent until proven guilty in a court of peers, not accused in a kangaroo court of internet denizens.

This is completely backwards. The only one who got (unwarranted IMHO) attention from the criminal justice system was the Yelp user. In the USA, as well as in every other location where free speech is valued, the owner of the pizza dive is just going to have to put up with the accusations of internet denizens.
Robertson Says Google Built Better Culture Than Apple
I agree. I've been very critical of some LinkedIn tactics, but this service appears to deliver what it says it does: you pay a small fee to become slightly more visible to employers that haven't opted out. Depending on how the employer screens their applications they might pay more attention to you, or they might not. If it helps you get the job it's money well spent, if not it potentially costs you less than the value of time you spend writing an application anyway.

On the other hand, LinkedIn's targeting of job ads is embarrassingly poor in a way which is unlikely to benefit them financially. Generic job boards have an excuse for wasting my time with "Fluent German speaker required" jobs; a network that knows the languages I speak shouldn't.
Also note: Daala is [lossless](https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=blob;f=doc/design.tex;h=...)
> That VAT costs more than the service.

I suspect the error here is confusing the VAT inclusive cost with the cost of the VAT alone.
Also the airwaves belong to the public, but LinkedIn pages belong to LinkedIn.
1. This is part of the point. Maybe $20/month isn't the right model. Maybe there's a different model you can consider where you'd have fewer customers, but those customers would be at a much higher price point. Who knows. Point is, it's your call and it's all possible depending on how you approach it.

2. Importing the spreadsheet of customer names will likely be one of the first things we automate. It's less insightful than the other things on the list, but I still believe doing it manually is teaching us something right now.
This is their data center in Roubaix. The datacenter these new dedicated servers are available in is in their new datacenter, Graveline (Graveline France).

Probably similar spec, though.
I'm disappointed in Yelp for filtering out reviews that point out that the proprietor used a complaint to the police to intimidate a reviewer.

Filtering shill reviews is good for the quality of a review site, but none of the filtered reviews would fit that description.
Vivendi Could Force $3 Billion Special Dividend On Activision-Blizzard
Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth
It would look black to a light sensor. As he says, your brain does play tricks and fill-in-the-black more than you might think. If you have a blind-spot you don't always perceive the absence of light - you may perceive what your brain is expecting. There are also disorders where it does this too much. I knew a guy who used to do things like overfill his coffee mug all the time, because the mug kept looking empty and then suddenly it was overflowing - his brain just expected the mug to stay empty.
Thanks for your feedback. This is very interesting.

> Your two big competitors are Facebook (free for posting events)

Facebook is not exactly a competitor because it's a walled garden. So you have to be part of the right groups or be suscribed to official pages to get events.

It don't know about you, but all this facebook overhead is starting to bore me.
I love salsa, hip places and fancy. I want the best events for me NOW.
I love dive bars, cheap beer and sweaty rock. I want the best events NOW.

> - Chicken & egg:
If you can't populate your event base with pre existing data, you may have a chicken/egg problem.

Unless you have some magic crawler technology...

I'd love to have a access to a event central database that curates events for me matching my taste and previous choices.

I could pay a flat fee for a mobile app that could do that.
And I wouldn't mind it having ads for other places/events that could suit my taste.

I have a hard time imagining that events curating is not a real problem.
Finding new places and fun events to go to is actually a pain.

Is it a monetizable pain ?

The linked article implies that Paul Graham thinks that this is not worthy of a shot (or a second shot).
Is it not monetizable enough ?
Is it a nut too tough to crack ?

I wonder what the reasons are (I wish I have more research on the subject).

Well, this problem got me thinking.

If you want to keep talking about it, here's my email name.is.carl (@) gmail (you know what)
Using a phone app will probably require Hulu Plus. If you open up Hulu in chrome and cast it with the chrome extension, it might work until Hulu figures out a way to detect it.
From a server in the midlands I'm getting a consistent 8.3ms
Five Charged in Hacking of Financial Companies
This is very exciting, but appears to be UK only. The only country available on the selection is UK and it wants a UK address.
Not even 500 people made it out to support the July 4 protest of the NSA, in a country where tens of thousands of people will turn out to oppose gay marriage.

Depending on what polls you read, a majority of Americans think the NSA policy is acceptable: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-americans-suppor.... ("Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA’s accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders 'acceptable,' while 41 percent call the practice 'unacceptable.')

The real news here is that Congress reacted more strongly than the public!
While it wouldn't cover VPC clients you can get a max figure by looking at the number of ip addresses allocated to AWS. They list them all here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701

I think the last time I did the math it worked out to something like 2M addresses in US-EAST.
Also would love an API for an idea I had: a reverse-ad-platform where folks could promo campaigns where people need real help. Basically trying to help grass-roots medical campaigns to get more exposure across the "ad platform network".
What this is is another proprietary technology that Google has chosen to adopt over open standards such as WFD and Miracast. After tuning off support for jabber, deprioritizing rss, yet another step in that direction from a company that touts open standards for its own benefits. Shame!
And could also call non-local (faster-than-light) magical thinking.
Interesting article. I wonder how this works in Windows.
Most academic papers are useless: Elon Musk
iPad's CPU/GPU uses ~5W of power. These Atoms use ~8W of power.

Regardless of the 'ordering', the Atom line of processors are designed for the <10W form factor. True, Atoms existed before the iPad, but they are in fact designed to compete in that power-range. The analogy works very well: the iPad 4th generation A6x processor is just slightly slower than the newest Clovertrail Atoms. The older Atoms (like the 330) probably are a bit slower than an iPad.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6522/the-clover-trail-atom-z27...

So yes, perhaps I misspoke earlier. Nonetheless, I stand behind the analogy. Intel Atoms are Intel's version of the iPad A6x. They use roughly the same power and give roughly the same performance... but Atoms give you full x86 compatibility.

Perhaps a more appropriate way to say it... is that the Atom is designed to be a competitor to low-power ARM chips in general. Intel is making strides in making extremely slow, but power efficient chips. And in Performance/Watt, they're roughly on the same scale.
Actually, they're located in Graveline, France, which is about 100mi from London, near Calais.

Source: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6730
Chance - Your All-Purpose JavaScript Data Generator
No track record > Systematically failing to handle multiple breaches properly.
When I ran into this issue in EC2, it was mitigated by leaving cpu0 relatively idle.

All apache processes were marked as taskset -c 1-7, the cpu steal and system load went down massively once that was in place.
> Aware and concerned tech-heads are trying to protect a drunken fool (the public) from a hungry bear (whoever it is that actually runs the intelligence networks).

What self-important, self-aggrandizing bullshit.
I never said anyone was sued for having their crops cross-pollinate. However, let me pose these three points about Monsanto to you:

1. They are known to be aggressive in courts.

2. They are simply promising not to sue for cross-pollination.

3. They have been caught lying before.

This last one is regarding a herbicide called Roundup, where Monsanto lied to European farmers about its toxicity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)#Legal_cases). I used it and feel bad about it because I try to keep the surroundings healthy (I dont have any crops though). So if they say "Oh yeah its fine we're not gonna sue you don't worry" it makes me feel sceptical.
Anyone reading this has enough time and money to fund another person now:

https://watsi.org/fund-treatments

Do it.
Sure. There are multiple components, and I think it requires root (can't recall for sure):

* Force the phone to enable bluetooth tethering on every boot with Bluetooth Auto Tether: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.refluxa.and...

* Install Bluetooth Auto Connect on the tablet, which allows for the tablet to connect to the phone automatically: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.refluxa.and...

* Use an automation app (I prefer Llama https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.refluxa.and... ) to configure Bluetooth Auto Connect to happen when (e.g.) "screen on" and "wireless not connected", and configure it to disable Bluetooth Auto connect when "screen off" or "wireless connected." Add small delays here to avoid race conditions.

It all seems needlessly complicated, but the end result is that the device will tether if it is awake and cannot find wireless, and it will disconnect from the phone when it goes to sleep or when it does find wireless, which is exactly what I want.
That's perfect thanks! But I feel dumb asking this, where is the source code for their todo demo app?

I want to get a feel for what a simple app looks like.
Do people actually use "foodie" unironically? I thought that was something people invented to stereotype suburbanites who'd caught on to "gourmet" meaning absolutely nothing; I didn't know until now that people actually called themselves "foodies". Wow, it's a weird world out there.
If there was, we won't know for a long time, since gag clauses are extremely common in this kind of settlement.
I don't think it's "completely" plausible, e.g. look at how much bad press they're getting for unfounded claims of this.
I have been using the free version of Manic Time (http://www.manictime.com/) and it works quite well, as it's quite unobtrusive and doesn't need any input from me.

Lifehacker.com has a list of other alternatives too - http://lifehacker.com/5853163/the-best-time-tracking-app-for...
You can also use http://proof.ovh.net/ but the GRA datacenter, where these servers are located, does not have a speed/ping test available yet.
Ask Matt: Is Google a tech or ad company?
Are they using ECC or non-ECC RAM in the server? I'm guessing the latter, can't find evidence either way.
Wait so is the story basically along the lines of, "Light hits black paint. Absorbed, stops. Comes out later." ?
This is for every kimsufi offer, by default kimsufi.com redirects me to http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ but you have to add different coutry TLD to see prices in different currencies.
You might want to consume different sources of news media. The only times I've heard the name "Paula Deen" was in conversation with my parents and grandparents. I'm sure her travails (whatever they are or were) amount to a crisis for some people, but you don't have to pay attention to those people.
This is great news but I'm pretty sure this it is not a "first of its kind" occurrence as there are a number of vehicles (e.g. New Profit in Boston) that specialize in these types of strategic venture-like philanthropy investments.
Key sentence: "Your protection lasts just up until the point where protecting you becomes inconvenient."
I don't think this is what enduser means. Lisp is the only language i know of where you can run a function such as

(defun foo ()
(progn (format t "~a~%" (read-line))
(foo)))

and then, while it is recursing, change the function to

(defun foo ()
(progn (format t "~a and john~%" (read-line))
(foo)))

recompile it, and have the behavior of your program change, while it is running. This is part of what makes lisp excellent for rapid prototyping. I'd give more examples, but I'm lazy, and it's been properly described elsewhere.
http://davidjarvis.ca/entanglement/

I wrote a few pages explaining quantum entanglement in rudimentary terms... and without relying on math, which you'll find too much of on the Wikipedia pages.
You need to go to the appropriate OVH site for your country. OVH.es for Spain, OVH.pl for Poland, etc.
US University asked to shutdown
I get bad reviews of dubious quality on Amazon, but Amazon's "useful" scores are usually reliable at marking those reviews as poor indicators. Yelp appears to have categorically filtered out reviews referring to the proprietor's behavior in this case. Unless those reviews are actually inaccurate, I don't see a reason why they should be filtered.
It does....
Steampunk Stahp Or the Appropriation of Prada
Also, while reading these, take the time to watch "Kingdom of Men" again to get a feel for what the real issue actually looks like. Living organisms appear (IMO, and subtly in other research) to be able to detect code base tampering, and reject it. How do they reject it? Infertility.

I am a farmer and it is difficult as hell to create a non-GMO farm (non-GMO contaminated mulch and compost, non-GMO animal feeds, non-GMO source animals, non-GMO seed). The OP is correct in all points about Monsanto's power over seed production, but misses what SciAm (and almost everyone else) misses:

Genetic material is code being used in a production environment!

As such it needs to be protected. Code contamination (forks) need to be registered publicly and isolated with extreme prejudice from the production environment. We didn't write the code, and as far as I am concerned, I feel that Monsanto as a policy maker (by default or by lobbing) and any of the most advanced geneticists are script kiddies on a Galactic scale. We will get to adequate understanding it time, but that time is not now. Who gives a fk if you or your grandmother can live a longer or more pain-free life if the result is a global genetic seg-fault? I don't.

My answer is to set up my own isolated farm, as free of GM as I can make it. As I see it, existing organisms do have a genetic conversation (via viruses and other single cell organisms) and will resist and correct some amount of genetic contamination. Honestly I have my doubts that even this will work, but its the most I can do.

Food for thought.
What do you mean? Remember, that lisp isn't inherently a pure functional programming language. On the contrary, it's a very versatile multi-paradigm language.
Hey Patrick--as the person who (may have) introduced you to this, I should share what we're doing. We are just about to hire another full-time person to help us with this as we scale out our consulting-as-onboarding process. I promise to write a blog post once I have more data on how well this works, but I will say this: You can get a well-qualified person in the U.S. who's smart, technically savvy (not a programmer but knows his/her way around computers), and has a bachelor's degree in a related field for $40K/year in salary--and that's a step up from where many of these folks are today.

I'm really excited to have a FT person working on this, and I think in the future we'll see the "hacker/hustler/designer" trio that Dave McClure et.al. are so fond of speaking of expand into four people, with the fourth being a customer service/customer onboarding role. In fact, this is our fourth FT person on the team (other 3 are two savvy developers plus me, the business brain.) A designer will be our fifth hire.

More data: We plan to implement consulting-as-onboarding for any plan priced over $499/mo (which is our sweet spot right now), and, in fact, "do it for them" in terms of getting all their data into our system (which is where many of our customers are struggling now.) If it works and pays off in terms of customer acquisition and retention, I have full plans to do this for EVERY customer. I learned how to do this in the hosting industry--Rackspace was my example 10 years ago, and I did this with massive success with my hosting company as well. It was also one of my top tips for WP Engine when I consulted there.

P.S. Patrick, if you're still reading, we talked about doing a podcast, and this is what we should talk about. I'm game--I'll shoot you an email.
You don't. I'd much rather suffer through a captcha than have the tickets/reservations sell out in seconds.
How are the bot owners flipping these reservations? I imagine there must be some commercial value via secondary market (or direct to concierges, offline), as bot-writers probably aren't actually using all these reservations themselves (or their friends). The more sane solution is to require full name when booking and ask for ID at the door. A name change has to be manually handled by the restaurant or would require rebooking. That would stop transfers and any market for these bookings.
From New York on a major corporate network:
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 75.940/79.012/81.289/1.950 ms

That's similar to the ping times to my current VPS on the West Coast.
Thanks for pointing that out. It seems odd to me that a system that only supports single-channel DDR2 RAM would be 64-bit however. With so little RAM, the benefits of 64-bit computing are basically void.
That's commonly known as 'remarketing' - by co-operating a little, a website and an advertising network can communicate the pages and products you've been looking at, and then the ad network can show you the products (or related items) again when you visit other sites.

It's frequently annoying if you've already made the purchase / decided not to, but it's a marketing ROI 'hack' in that the users who are being shown these adverts have already previously expressed some interest in them.

Even if 50% of users aren't interested any more or bought the product, the remaining 50% are still 'well qualified' -- i.e. known relevant -- and so showing the content again to them is more likely to result in sales, and so is 'cheaper' for the advertiser than targeting otherwise-unknown users. It's better for the ad network as well since their customers (the advertisers) will get better results.

Intent mining is really more about analyzing what people are saying online (or, equally, the text they're entering via search engines) and working out what they are intending to do - are they looking to purchase a camera, or are they looking for information about a business?

The two aren't completely separate - remarketing combined with intent mining could presumably have some interesting results (we've seen you were investigating shoes yesterday, and you're travelling to a mall - I'll show you some adverts from shoe stores there), but they're slightly logically different.
We will definitely test in Opera going forward--thank you for reporting that it doesn't work.

We are trying to figure out how to best spread a message while still being privacy-conscious. One possible idea is to put the sharing functionality on a second page, thus allowing people who want to share to do so but not loading scripts for people just visiting for the first time. Another is to load sharing scripts on the same page asynchronously only if people click a 'Tweet my legislator!' button--that's how the current site would work if there were not the three social buttons at the bottom of the page.

We'll also be dropping Google Analytics for Piwik (which is self-hosted) soon.
After reading the long quote about rules, I bought it on Amazon. It sounds awesome, thanks for the recommendation. Link below for anyone else.

http://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/1846687...
> The situation might as well be reversed, you can't assume someones skill from their geographical location.

You most certainly can. I can tell you that the average developer hired from India will have a significantly reduced skillset than one hired in the US. If that's not polite in civilized company, well then, tough.

That said, it's largely irrelevant. What's truly relevant are culture differences and you do not want to deal with them. Hire locally. If you're in Croatia, hire in Croatia. If you're in India, hire in India. If you're in the US, hire in the US. The reduced amount of grief and clear communication is worth it. Never-mind that you're in the same timezone as well.
Adding Heroku Data Sources To JackDB With OAuth