skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home audio and lighting taken over by the Raspberry Pi
The purpose of life is to entertain God.

Go be a monk. Leave the world alone.

God says...
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I'm not a physicist and the paper is paywalled so I'm speculating, but the speed of light in this crystal is probably much lower than the speed of light in a vacuum, and it's the latter that puts an uppper limit on the rate at which information can propagate (excluding quantum entanglement).
Yandex was created a bit earlier than Google actually.
It doesn't have to have 100% efficiency, it only needs to be a significant improvement over existing battery technology.
If anyone's interested in learning more of how you can use the private key of a server to monitor all communications: see, for example, US Pat. 7,543,051

It describes a way to passively/non-intrusively ("invisible to the server") capture and analyze all network traffic using a cable-tap.

Bottom of column 8: "In order to accomplish decryption in a timely manner the secure traffic decryption unit needs the private key of the server. Usually providing the server's private key to another device would be considered a security flaw, since private keys are not meant to be communicated to any other party. But since it may be assumed that usually the server's owner or operator will use the present invention to monitor his/her own server, providing the server's private key to the secure traffic decryption unit does not pose significant security risks."
Not Reddit, but the user's of Reddit. The users that searched images for 'suspects' were doing vigilante work, or so they thought. It seems to me all they were doing was looking at every image and trying to spot the brown skin. They didn't look for any evidence or use any reasoning. So, again, the users that identified Sunil should be blamed.
People need to stop applying the terms "right" and "left" to politics as if they had objective meaning. There was a time that right wing meant monarchist and left wing meant democrat. Then there came a time when right wing meant imperialist-capitalist and left wing meant Marxist. The terms shift in meaning constantly and always simply refer to the two major factions in power at any time.
This is great.
- she is learning to code
- she works hard
- she is creative with her ideas - everyday
- and she is communicating very well - and getting better at it.
The first answer should be part of the official documentation.
I love how everyone else who fights for reservations is a filthy hipster, while the author is merely a humble gourmand.
Yeah, very good book, and I'm glad to hear they will publish an updated version. I wonder what recent counter-examples of good design he will take this time.
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Hackers Track Their Vital Signs. Sounds Cool, But TMI?
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Looks pretty cool. I really dig the design. I was a little annoyed that I seem to have 10 credits without noticing and used them up just messing around. (I can't really tell because clicking on the credits doesn't do anything). It would be nice to make this more obvious up front. Anyway, I can see this being a pretty useful tool in some scenarios.

Also note that "Locater" is spelled "Locator" (sidebar on the left)
I can think of at least one counterexample, namely the failure of the NSA-promoted key escrow system in 1990s (aka Clipper chip)
I happen to agree with this, and I have a question about it if you wouldn't mind answering.

Can you elaborate on some policies that a truly liberal party would promote (that we don't see in the US)? Numerous countries in Europe have what are often defined as highly liberal parties by American standards. What do they do, what policies do they champion, that the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in the US doesn't? And so on.

(and by liberal here, I'm speaking of what's considered a modern left wing party by European standards (or "socialist" in some circles); versus classic liberalism that would have defined the near laissez-faire capitalism of the 19th century)
Lasers even LEDs have terrible effecency vs battery's. What's worse is converting light back to electricity is also terribly inefficient so even if these worked as advertised you would be stuck with a terrible battery.
your site has a really bad user rating?
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/nerdydata.com?utm_source=a...
You could try putting something embarassing but not incriminating there (e.g., gay porn or whatever).
I think it's rather the other way. The historical record shows that they hardly ever do what I would have preferred. One problem is that the referents for "you" and "your" don't always match during the sentence:

"If you [1] are so unshakably convinced that a government full of people you [2] vote for every four years is never going to work in your [3] interests, you [4] have serious problems."

1. the person reading this

2. the majority of voters in your country, which the person reading this is only likely to be a part of about 50% of the time at best, in the US

3. the person reading this

4. the person reading this

Looking at just US presidential elections, people who vote straight Republican or Democrat will have been in the majority at least some of the time, but someone voting their conscience without regard to party has a fair chance of having been in the minority most of the time.

Another problem is that voting gives an individual neither control over nor responsibility for anything that the elect do. Look at all the Bush voters outraged about what happened during that administration (either Bush, actually), and all the Obama voters currently outraged about current administration activities.
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Maybe because speed of light in the crystal is slower than speed of light in the vacuum (the latter being the theoretical limit for speed of information transfer)?

AFAIR light traveling through material is not just flying through; it's constantly absorbed and reemited - thus "slowing down".
This is an MVP itself. 26|52 has announced their idea and are trying to find 26 people who will pay 26|52 $7500 plus give up equity to develop something. It's like a reverse YC program.
Is it looking likely that they will hit the target? They already had HN bump and most Ubuntu fans were made aware of the project already.
A case worth following. Any chance of a persistent link to details as they emerge?
I agree with your sentiment, but want to provide a slight correction about "Free Software": MIT/BSD licensed software while not free in FSF/GPL sense, is still open and widely used and solves the problem we have right now. To avoid confusion with FSF ideals, I'd talk simply about Open Source software.
A soundcloud music searcher and downloader made by a 14 year old
[http://www.soundcloud-dl.appspot.com] This website allows you to download music from http://www.soundcloud.com No need for harsh comments as it is made by a 14 year old from Pakistan in python using flask, soundcloud api and youtube-dl (a python script which allows you to download videos from various music websites. I am also one of the main contributor ). However i am open for helpful comments. I am soon going to open source its code on github.
Pictures and animated gifs don't save to camera roll, Messages or email properly (on iOS 7).

Pictures shared to Messages just sends the title.
I can confirm that I have lots of friends that 'just want to go somewhere' and base their decision on different whims. Anecdotal evidence, but still.
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He didn't quit his job. He even wrote a follow up about how HN had misinterpreted what he said.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st...

Separately, he also wrote a post that was critical of Google+ (he accidentally published publically what was supposed to be an internal post). He wrote a follow-up to that too saying nothing bad happened to him at Google.
Awesome! Always glad to hear from a happy customer :)

Is there something in particular that you would like more of or perhaps to stay the same? Humor is good, I suppose?

Obviously, a book lets me go in more detail, but I'm disinclined to take that too far. The entire beauty of Crypto 101 is that it doesn't go into detail. Right now I'm mostly just marking sections that you could skip if you want to.
In general I agree that you should err on the safe side and do HTTPS everywhere. But, until you profile your site with/without HTTPS how do you know performance reduction is minimal? Do you have evidence to support such a blanket argument?
Show HN: django-db-multitenant: multiple tenants in a single Django app server
I saw this yesterday: Rapidly Melting Arctic Could Release A "Giant Pulse" Of Methane

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/rapidly-melting-arctic-could-re...
I don't know how it works but I imagine they (press) can use celebrity images for stories because they aren't classified as ads. Just a guess.
> excluding quantum entanglement

IANAP either, but AFAIK (ah, acronyms :)) quantum entanglement can not transfer information FTL.
Vampire Hulk would be a great comic series.
Google Chromecast: Expectations Versus Reality
Show HN: Random Tweet Prediction, in Go
Due to the nature of SCI compartmentalization, I suspect that if this happens, they're going to end up in something like symlink hell, where some FDA inspector in Kansas has root on Facebook via 4 degrees of ssl certificates.
This of course demands that the information be on the web site in some form. I find that FAQs often approach information form another angle, and the answers to the questions are not on the site at all. Though supporting information or the like may well be.
So? there are hacking attempt from everywhere everyday.
That may have been some people's expectation, but as his public G+ page says[0], he still works at Google. Sergey called his piece a 'night-time aid'[1]. Also Steve's take on it [2].

That said, the OP was talking about his OSCON talk (check out from ~minute 13 onward): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8

[0]: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts

[1]: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/blogs/press-here/Sergey-Brin-Stev...

[2]: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...
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Oy. I've seen this now on two other social media. and twice on here. :( i am disappoint
At many acedemic conferences, it might be only speakers showing up. Anyways, increasing the number of papers you accept is a good way to boost attendance.
I'd like to hear more about how he used Mathematica for this.
Especially since he mentions Dynamic, which is more often used for creating interactive content. Maybe he used it as a listener…
People write comments when they feel that they have useful contributions to make. It is much easier to notice that you have nothing worthwhile to say about a vectorizing compiler than about, say, the NSA.

One way to get around this is to go meta, e.g. to discuss the commenting habits of others instead of the submission.
I'd like to agree with you, but I don't think HTML5 is going to change anything unless they get rid of the HTML part.

I don't every want to layout my UI by saying "div div div div div div div". I want to say "window menubar toolbar grid treeview datagrid statusbar" and then I want it to show me the native representation of those things.
Little more background for the HN Django crowd:

This was inspired from an older HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4270003

I wanted to take a Django app not designed for multitenancy and serve several tenants from a single Django gunicorn instance. Scaling to support more tenants beyond the server's capacity is just a matter of turning up a new appserver (from a baked AMI in my case).

It works with MySQL by issuing a new ``USE`` statement whenever the current request's resolved tenant (database) does not match the connection.

Tenant mapping is abstracted into a method that takes a request and returns the database name. In my case, that's a lookup against a Redis server using the request's hostname.

It's a bit devious (as noted in the README!) but works well for my limited application. Perhaps someone else will find it useful.
Well, only two typical use cases will lead to owning a hard drive filled with (pseudo-)random noise: secure deletion or encrypted data. If you used either, you've got something to hide and it's a well-known fact only terrorists and communists do.
Hunting down and killing Ransomware
Since I can't seem to edit my comment. I figured it would be useful to provide a link to the talk I'm referencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rmCGsCYJF8
Maybe it's just me but this seems like... fluff, a little bit. There are a lot of instances of police abusing their power, but this is really on the low-end of that (i.e. I don't really consider this news).

This just sounds like one of those situations where everyone involved is being kinda shitty.
>"Or have you had any success setting aside set time to work on side projects or just to learn something?"

Yes.

Several months ago I decided to get serious about re-aligning my career and the pursuit of a degree.

Creating a structured plan with a schedule and specific goals has been the most important part. Setting aside time is part of that.

I think treating my development more formally has been a huge help.
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Sorry. I mean (WIO).
If I were them I'd offer a 32 GB version for $600, for people who will only/mainly use it as a phone, and not a full-time computer. It's still plenty of space.

That price level seems to have been pretty popular, and at that price level they may be able to hit the target. I'm not sure why they absolutely need to sell only a 128 GB version.

Also, they'd be insane not to add 802.11ac Wi-fi.
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I think there's actually analytics available where their pitch is "use us on your website, and we can help identify users."

They'll track you around multiple sites until you finally drop an email address in or fill out a form. Then all of the other sites you visited get the same information (that's the incentive to use their tracking system).

Can't remember the name of the analytics company and my google-fu is failing me right now.
I don't think that GA is "hard" so much that it's "vast". The average HNer is fine with this complexity, but the average person with a GA account is not, so kudos to this team for taking a crack at it.

While custom dashboards in GA can be helpful, I've had more than my fair share of clients that want a place that they can see the "Top 3" things they should be paying attention to along with an explanation of why. Usually, this involves comparison of stats over the last period (whether month or year).

I think GA is a great tool, but they do a bad job of hiding things from people until they want to dig in. They present most of the information up front, but with no context.

Setting up goals and knowing why something is "bad" vs. "good" is an educational hurdle for (likely) the vast majority of GA users, not HNers. I wonder if there's a tool that let's someone annotate directly on the stats... and I'm not talking about notes in GA.
I wonder if Indiegogo takes their normal percentage for projects this large.
There's the documentary Sweet Misery, that goes into some first hand accounts and history of aspertaime's effects and shady approval... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtF2nt2VX4

I can say for myself I had felt the bad effects of diet soda and now keep clear of it. Maybe it varies based on different folk's physiology? I know people who chug the stuff at work and seem to do well. But it's good to be aware of the symptoms in case you start feeling sick.
It looks like a mod fixed the link. LiveScience itself seems to be a pop science site - nothing wrong with that - there are plenty of hard science links to answer your questions.
Think about the opposite - nuclear fission. The energy released when nuke goes off comes from the difference of mass between original atoms and products of the split. This difference is the energy stored in strong nuclear force, binding protons and neutrons together.
I don't understand your point. You could probably say the same about your family. The fact that something is not working as well as it should does not mean it's not essential. I mean, would you prefer feudal lords? Because that's what we had before central government, and that's what many corporations would like. Do you want to be ruled by Google? By Walmart?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for Startups
Cool projet.
In the modern, highly fractured media culture in the U.S., there are few commonly shared sources of information like the network news broadcasts, or the big papers like the NY Times, used to be.

Reddit fulfills that role for many people...but the problem is that there is zero editorial judgment involved in the "news" it reports. Information goes big based on emotional factors (OMG can you believe this), not rational or informative factors (I have definite proof this is true).

This is great for low-risk content like memes, jokes, personal anecdotes, interviews with celebrities or politicians, etc. But obviously it can be terrible for high-risk, or more serious subjects like cancer victim fundraisers (Reddit users have mistakenly crucified several) or in-progress news stories--where rumors, first impressions, and even eye-witness accounts are often wrong.

The entire "crowd sourced" online search for the Boston bombers was IMO really awful and embarrassing for Reddit, and for the young journalists who let themselves get sucked into the excitement.
He didn't quit. See his post:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st...

"Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge" which is about how everyone misinterpreted what he said.
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Various people are reporting that it's powered just via their HDMI out, though Google don't seem to be making much of that ability, possibly to save confusion as it'll be a rare TV that can do it. There's some confusion whether it's HDMI 1.4 or MHL that's required for this to work, or even just manufacturer differences.

But even if that's not possible for you, this is probably the more immediate fallback position for most people:

http://i.imgur.com/uZZpqFl.jpg
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Actually it could be a good idea to have MathML or TeX on HN; we tend to use math-like expressions here quite a lot.
I have to give Mark credit. Ubuntu changed Linux for the better. No matter what you think about Ubuntu now, Linux is far better off for Ubuntu.

My biggest question for Mark would be if he regrets not going his own way earlier. IMO, Ubuntu stuck with some dead-end upstream projects for far too long. Ubuntu should have gone the mobile/phone/tablet much sooner. Ubuntu SHOULD have been what Android is now.
> I'm not sure why they absolutely need to sell only a 128 GB version.

I'm just guessing here but it might be more expensive to make smaller batches with different models the to just make one.
I hope Snowden/Greenwald has evidence of the NSA spying on Congress.

That would change the tone of the debate overnight.

Remember how pissy the mainstream journalist got over the DOJ monitoring its phone lines.

It's easy to justify spying when it is on those terrorists. Not so easy when the lens is
pointed at you.
Until the corporate influence over federal politics makes them the master of their creators. In effect, they are the government, shaping law and jurisprudence to their necessity.
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Those things you speak of will be outlawed and you won't be allowed to use them.
And of course, you know this because you're one of Ilya's doctors. And also because you have diagnostic skills that the world has never experienced before.
Enough for them to come to work for you.

I really don't understand why this is a difficult concept to grasp.
'Tone' may have been the wrong word. Obviously he understands, he did explain it well. I was just trying to point out that he added a bunch of noise under the guise of being conversational. Cutting out the noise makes it concise will remaining accessible - I don't think my edits actually changed the tone.
You might want to edit the title from Depp to Deep.

Otherwise, it sounds like Johnny Depp decided on a new career.
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Rational perhaps, but not clear-headed. It assumes that people's dining behavior is a relatively linear, simple relationship heavily based on price, in a perfectly efficient market filled with perfectly efficient agents who have perfect information.

This is sort of like estimating the weight of a cow by assuming it's perfect sphere with a radius.

But this isn't entirely surprising. It's a common sentiment on Hacker News, where highly complex markets are reduced to incredibly simple single-variable, Econ-101-stye supply/demand curves. The poster usually then goes on to believe they've solved some major problem and wonders how everyone else can be so blind as to see such a simple solution.

But far be it to leave at just snarkiness. There are a whole slew of reasons why pricing as a lever cannot be used to fine-tune demand. Simply off the top of my head:

- Desirability of restaurants is heavily determined by their pricing context. That hole in the wall Thai place with the IKEA chairs is a great place to get $5 Pad Thai, and is always crowded. If they charged $15 the expectations for service, food, decor, location, etc, would be entirely different. Cannot simply pull the price lever.

- Desirability of restaurants is heavily determined by perceived authenticity. That Chinese restaurant where all the Chinese immigrants eat is popular with everyone because it communicates authenticity. It loses that authenticity if it prices itself out of reach of the people who lend it authenticity. Funnily enough, authenticity is frequently derived from the working-class everyman. Cannot simply pull the price lever.

- Restaurants are divided into price ranges, with not a lot of intermediate prices. This limits the "resolution" to which you can tune your pricing before you jump into the next range (which comes with expectations, authenticity, and other issues as above). There are demand cliffs moving from one range to the next - in other words restaurant pricing is not a continuous function and cannot be modeled as such. It's not even a "sorta kinda linear" curve.

- As price increases demand does not drop off linearly, or close to linearly. If you've got a line out the door for $5 burritos, a $6 burrito may cause only a small dropoff in customers, while a $7 burrito may cause your business to largely dry up. The holy grail of "that price where everyone who wants a burrito can get one without waiting very long" may not be achievable by simply pulling the price lever.

Pricing food is complex. Until the day where all food becomes standardized, commoditized, and we can treat our restaurants like we treat our nuts-and-bolts supplier, it will remain like this.
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I prefer mine Open.
Naps are like inbox zero for your brain
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I see. In that case, if you're in your 20s maybe you should try to get into politics and change government so that it would work better.
3D printers shown to emit potentially harmful nanosized particles
I think you might be a bit confused.

MIT/BSD are fully supported by the FSF and are GPL compliant. They are free software licenses in all aspects.
Ask HN: Why Ubuntu Edge?
The industry is so saturated at this point. What sets the Ubuntu Edge apart?
Again no proof - is it so hard to show me on Google Maps/Earth the fence that supposedly surrounds all of Russia?