skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine looks weird, to say the least:
https://identicons.github.com/ssilva.png
If this response by devindotcom was really "irrelevant nitpicking", then there is an easy solution to that: correct yourself immediately and be very explicit about it. The remainder of this branch could have been avoided completely.

300bps didn't do that though. So did he/she actually mean what was said? Well no, because 10 minutes later your criticisms will be dismissed as [strikethrough]pedantry[/strikethrough] silliness.
> Working on the wrong thing for a month is equivalent to not showing up to work for a month at all.
I cannot agree to this statement. Even though some venture turns out to be a flop, you did learn a lot while trying to conquer it. And additionally, it's only trying out something to find out that it was the wrong thing - also you learned this about your field of study.
I hear good things about http://www.discourse.org/

Heroku [1] and Twitch.tv [2] have recently started using it

[1] https://discussion.heroku.com/category/python
[2] http://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/
No, and that illustrates his point in a way. Boston has the second largest amount of VC funding, tons of startups, and more institutions of higher learning than pretty much any other metro area in the US [Citation Needed...last I saw it was 84]. But Boston's huge number of universities and hospitals is also one thing that makes it different from Silicon Valley. A lot more smart people can get into PhD programs, so there's a talent drain away from startups.
It's a great story. Mind if I ask how did you get the first programmers to sign up?
(1999) Doom as a tool for system administration
Mine is sad!

https://identicons.github.com/chasing.png
I like this! Now I'll use it for other things too.
I've spoken to Palantir folks about the libertarian angle, and their story went like this: by maximizing the utilization of available intelligence data, they could minimize the erosion of civil liberties that occurs in the pursuit of more data.

I'm not sure that story survives outside a vacuum, but there you have it.
Hacker spies on kid through baby monitor
On Soylent, and why engineers should not stick to their code
"Who Gave This Asshole $6.5 Million to Launch a Bro-Tastic Lady Site?"
Once, deep in a meditative trance, I channeled Perl. My friends took me to the hospital after I refused to stop speaking in regular expressions and hashes of hashes.
Holy crap does the site's landing page look like Simple.
Your absolutely right, this article sucks... No mention of mythical horselike one-horned creature whatsoever. :)
"Huge number of unique identicons"? Since they all seem to be symmetric, there's only N * 2^15 = N * 32768 of them (N = number of colors).
A hash of the bitcoin used?
As someone who doesn't know much about Bitcoins: Could he just say he mined a bunch of Bitcoins a few years ago and is now cashing out?
The charger can't distinguish a user who wants their car available as soon as reasonable from one who is done with their car for the night and is happy to wait an extra half hour for a tiny increase in battery life.
I got rid of TV completely while at college for my BS, and I was a lot more productive and happy without it. I have a small TV now (19" LCD), but only watch Netflix or downloads on it. After going without broadcast or cable TV, I just can't stand commercials at all.
Reminds me of Jared Tarbell's "Invader Fractal:"

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfrac...

(Jared also happens to be one of Etsy's co-founders...)
Is Elon Musk's Hyperloop really cheaper than high speed rail?
I can't tell if mine is also sad or just sporting a killer moustache https://identicons.github.com/thoradam.png
Don't forget "Krameresque brown curls", which is a little different than just the two.
This is just because people have more permissive public profiles than default. I view this as a privacy feature for people who may want to be on LinkedIn but only use the site to communicate with their connections - if they have a limited/empty public profile, then you won't see any additional information.

Yeah, I agree they should probably check and see if the public profiles are more permissive than just the top bit of information, but I imagine something about their architecture makes that difficult.

I also agree with the point about the NYT paywall; it's likely just a tiny additional monetization strategy.
Ooops, it is indeed. I feel so stupid. My apologies.
the DC-X was also designed to be bottom-heavy, which helps, a lot. Certainly, once the falcon has deployed its payload, it's got a better balance situation than before, but the geometry is very different from the DC-X.
The Maps app could use the JS library for rendering. It's possible the app could have a chrome with different features, but use Web Kit to render the actual map.
FTA:

> Traditionally, information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have assumed that the source files are perfectly uniform. In practice, they rarely are, but they’re close enough that it appeared that the standard mathematical analyses still held.

After reading your comment, I'm confused. Are they talking about the entropy of the key or of the plaintext?
Facebook Look-alike Audience: Use your old customers to find new ones
Common Rails Errors and How to Fix Them
What problem do these solve? Serious question.
We know he found a wallet bug so that immediately gives away what level of competency/expertise to look for on the bitcoin forums which he undoubtedly posts there too. How he discovered the site is relevant and will give away how long he has been on bitcointalk since the orig dpr advertised there. We know his book recommendations from the forum which he prob recommended on clearnet in the past, or attached to his FB profile. Theres dozens of other ID markers he's left which I don't think is misinfo, mainly his Libertarian arguments which again he prob repeated elsewhere. Stylometry analysis incoming.

#1 rule to stay out of jail by thegrugq: stop talking
Three, if I recall correctly.
16 points in 45 minutes! 22 points in 60 minutes! And only my one snarky comment.

I think the real story here is how good these guys are getting at avoiding the voting ring detector.
I think N is huge. I haven't seen many repeated colors yet.
But they have a "batphone", that let's their employees make anonymous to report ethical abuses. Haha, batphone, isn't that quirky and cool and something we can get onboard with?
It literally grew on users when they dropped the "Ultralight" from Helvetica Neue Ultralight (3rd beta).
In addition to being a crappy fighter the F-35 is also a crappy bomber and close air support aircraft. Not that it's a surprise that a plane designated fighter (or 'strike' or 'fighter/attack') isn't good at these things.

We've virtually abandoned A and B line planes because the testosterone blinded fighter mafia in the airforce would rather have fun toys than useful equipment, and the navy is right there with them because heavy planes can't take off from aircraft carriers. It doesn't help that the one bomber the air force begrudgingly agreed to acquire is an obscenely expensive hanger queen, designed for nuclear bombing runs deep into the Soviet Union.

If the army wasn't barred from operating fixed wing aircraft by the pernicious Key West agreement, maybe they would operate as a voice of reason.

We should be working on a replacement for the AC-130 (1968), the A-10 (1977), and B-52 (1955!). To the extent we actually need more air superiority fighters they can bring back the F-22 line.
I worked for them very briefly a few years ago, as part of a complex (but apparently normal for government stuff) scheme to have me do contract programming work for NIH. After experiencing their internal procedures and management, I don't see how this company can make a sandwich, let alone a fighter jet.

My experience started off with a two-hour meeting discussing retirement benefits and health insurance, when I was a temporary part-time employee who got neither, and went downhill from there.
Mine actually turns out quite well as a sort of evil bunny: https://identicons.github.com/micheljansen.png
I'd call it somewhere between sad and pissed off. Not an identicon you want to fuck around with, at any rate.
See what Amazon users are searching for
Yes, Gmail users have an expectation of privacy
Watch SpaceX's Grasshopper Fly Laterally
Things we learned from planning and building our office.
It makes it easier to recognize that two or more comments in a long thread came from the same user.
Here's a real photo of coach from 1966--it's a 707, not a 747, but it looks much closer to today's commercial flight experience than the mockup.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/cms/binary/7939683.jpg
Barclays severs account of Singapore based Brit due to North Korea work
I got an evil alien:

https://identicons.github.com/andrewf.png
Sure, but only up to a point. How are you going to explain how you mined a billion dollars worth of Bitcoins? What equipment did you use for that? Do you have receipts? How did you pay for /that/ equipment?

I agree with the previous reply that he might find a nation to shelter him but the US government is going to do anything they can to get at him there. Look at the success we've had in shutting down al Qaeda's financial arms and seizing their assets worldwide. If the US government can't get at his money directly, it will assert tremendous pressure on someone who can.
To expand on what themstheones said: upvotes and downvotes are for increasing the visibility of a comment in proportion to how it contributes to a good discussion. Downvotes aren't punishment.
Even the military isn't yet on board with the idea of allowing drones to autonomously choose when to kill.

In fact that's one of the big reasons the U.S. requires their pilots to be commissioned officers, is because they have to be cognizant of the laws of war, current Rules of Engagement that are in force, the effect of a given attack on the geopolitical framework, etc. and this has to happen in an environment where they are the only ones with an accurate (or semi-accurate) understanding of the actual picture on-the-ground.
Ya, Moustache Coffee Club will ship 12oz of Intelligentsia or Handsome coffee to to you for 16.99. They are regarded by a lot of people as some of the best roasters in the world. Why would I pay $15 for a 6oz bag?
Have loved following ooomf since about March of this year. Brilliant, simple service.
I make intros like that once or twice a month. I'm generally happy to do so, because I only accept LinkedIn connection requests from people I know well enough to recommend.
Hey Xntrk, I'm Sumant, one of the founders of Coffee Match.

The $15 is just a baseline for our Indiegogo campaign. Unlike Tonx/Toby's estate - with Coffee Match, your getting great Coffee or Tea from the a unique destination along with a ton of interesting content about the region, the people, the Coffee, & much more.

With more orders & relationships, we will continue to work on keeps cost down.
Interesting. I have had a theory that DPR is Satoshi (who invented Bitcoin): https://plus.google.com/100577178258662783679/posts/76UcUX4P...

But now DPR claims he inherited the site from someone else. DPR could be trying to disassociate himself from the "Satoshi" identity :)
>a modern FP language

Scala is many things, but that is not one of them. Scala is an OO language with some FP influence.
New headline game: if a headline suggests linkedin or facebook or google may be doing something a little bad, they're actually doing something five times worse.
Can it be that I saw a prototype at ICT Delta conference may 2007 in Utrecht, the Netherlands?
I'm having difficulty finding articles specific to the Leaf's motor, but there's a nice explanation for EV motors in general here:

http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php/why-do-e...

Basically, the motor controller limits the current below its maximum so the amount of torque output will remain constant until it drops below the current limit. There's an explanation of different current limiting methods here:

http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/current.html

The Leaf's controller likely uses an active current limiting method, and there's a lot of advances in this technology right now. That's where a lot of the motor efficiency improvements are coming from.

Surprisingly, I can't find much good info on Wikipedia, but I'm probably not using the right search terms.
Nic(or Josh),
You guys have an awesome service here! I have a question about your website, if you don't mind, what are you guys using for the 'feedback' tool in the bottom right corner? It's pretty friggen awesome.
Mine looks like an anchor:

https://identicons.github.com/aquageek.png
Even knowing the exact number of 1s and 0s buys you a few bits of information.

log(201 choose 100) / log(2) = 196.843

Order the 201 choose 100 strings on 201 bits with exactly 100 0s lexicographically, write down the index in that list of your particular message in 197 bits in a completely ordinary fashion ;P.

But to be clear, I don't disagree with what you mean at all.
I found an identicon onomatopoeia: https://identicons.github.com/mask.png
Packagist for WordPress
Is this just SIP trunking?
>You can't find people to work on it

If you felt that was a problem before, you will almost certainly still feel that way.

>Unbounded complexity, type-masturbation

No idea what you mean.

>Slow compilation

Still terrible.

>Might as well use Java, the tooling for Java is great

The tooling for java is better, but java the language is unbearable.
The relevent part of page 14:

"The implementation may assume that any thread will eventually do one of the following:
— terminate,
— make a call to a library I/O function,
— access or modify a volatile object, or
— perform a synchronization operation or an atomic operation.
[ Note: This is intended to allow compiler transformations such as removal of empty loops, even when
termination cannot be proven. — end note ]"
Reminds me of a Creeper.
I was expecting to be pretty underwhelmed by this app, but I have to say, I'm impressed.

My office has a pretty loud HVAC system, and it totally kills the low end when I listen with a pair of cheap Apple earbuds.

I took the little SoundFocus hearing test, turned on their EQ, and the difference was pretty pronounced. It killed a bit more high end than I would have liked (seemed to roll off after about 12k), but the lows were definitely spot-on.

I'll probably use this during my commute on the super loud city busses.

edit:

I don't actually suffer from hearing loss. I'm just picky about audio quality (former recording/mixing engineer) and have an unfortunate tendency to spend a lot of time in noisy places.
One note on complaints that I hear about Humble Bundles that consist of titles from big publishers (such as the recent THQ bundle).

There are multiple Humble Bundles. The Humble Indie Bundle is not the only Humble Bundle. There are ebooks, music, and big publisher bundles as well. Just because a Humble Bundle is not all indie titles does not mean it's not a Humble Bundle.
It's hard for me take this at face value given that I haven't heard that there is a scientific understanding of what the mind is. You seem to be asserting an unfalsifiable, almost axiomatic statement that the mind cannot produce empirical evidence. This flies in the face of common sense. To the extent that there is anything that can objectively be called the mind, as an agreed upon real thing there has to be empirical evidence produced by that thing. Otherwise the term has no descriptive power, and if I accept you assertion, I might as well reclassify things that I consider evidence of the mind (like utterances) to be evidence of something else. This something else is still there, in plain view by all (others behavior) and people present everyday at mental health clinics with very disturbing symptoms, every bit as real as a heart attack.
There are a bunch of comments here that say something along the lines of "F the clones, outperform them. Execution beats ideas, etc." While you should absolutely focus on creating the best product and best service, you are doing your business a disservice by not pursuing these routes and giving your business the best chance to succeed. Don't be shy about using the legal system - it's there for many reasons, including to protect rights and provide a just playing field for everyone.
C++ compiles pretty slow due to templates being in the header files, and the need to re-parse them in every compilation unit.

Also the language is quite complex and requires multiple analyses at parse time to decide what the developer is really trying to do.

C code can be compiled fast if not many optimizations are being made. For example the Tiny C compiler was compiling the Linux kernel around 15s in 2004, not sure about which modules were configured though.

Any proper compiler for a language with modules should anyway be able to beat C and C++ compilers hands down.
Bane:

https://identicons.github.com/zachrose.png
I Abolished Tipping at My Restaurant, and Our Service Got Better
sillysaurus apparently realized he had a chip on his should because he deleted all 9 replies he had in this thread.
True enough, I didn't install ios7 on my main phone until beta4/5 so any use prior was mostly on an old 4s just to see if things compiled/ran.
"So why are we complaining about making an air force that serves our needs rather then one that might be useful for some other task."

Because the JSF is a shitty bomb truck too. It doesn't have the range, capacity or loiter time of nearly any other option. And for CAS vs bomb hauling, the JSF simply doesn't have the gun (and again, lacks the loiter time).

"As a note he says this will be the 'new mainstay of the air force' however we still have the F-22 as our air superiority fighter which is still believed to be better then anything out there, and indeed in their simulation the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them."

We aren't dealing in hypotheticals where we can have any number of planes we want. That's the basic lesson of the RAND study: dollar for dollar you can have so many more SU-3 7 derivatives that even if the F-22's have a perfect kill probability, they quickly exhaust their magazines and have nothing else to do. And that's the outcome of the simulation: the F-22's live, most of the rest of the blue force dies, and red gains air superiority over the straight of Taiwan via the remaining flankers.

"It sure beats the Harrier and the F-18."

The FA-18 is more capable than the F-35 in both the A2A and A2G missions as a result of its superior capacity, range, and time on station. Comparing the FA-18 to the F-22 is more muddled, and IMHO comes down to an assesment of the relative performance of stealth vs EW. The prevailing attitude among the Russian military designers is that stealth is mitigated by state of the art communicating radars and passive emission detection (they claim detection of the F-22 at 50km on passive IR alone). And of course, as soon as the F-22 takes a shot stealth is no longer a consideration. Thankfully the F-22 is fast enough that it can turn and run. The F-35 can't, which is why they were decimated in the sim.
That 25k number was total transactions from which we take a 15 percent commission.
Two Stage to Orbit, with vertical rocket-thrust tail-landing for both stages, eschewing carbon fiber for aerospace aluminum and using friction stir welding, rejecting exotic engine designs for proven ones, and financing from dot-com tycoons:

I'm not affiliated, and the end is kinda corny, especially if you are a typical skeptic/rationalist Silicon Valley type. It's not exactly how it happened with SpaceX, but there are quite a few parallels:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rocket-Company-Library-Flight/dp/1...

EDIT: In case you are not sure, it's a fiction book. It's interesting because it presages some things SpaceX did later.
Thanks! So happy you enjoy it.
Whoa, RC7? Isn't that a bit much in terms of releases candidates? That's 7 releases over something, that should of been stable at RC1.
I could not have chosen a better one: https://identicons.github.com/jemfinch.png
>The Nissan Leaf is an atrocious electric vehicle

The Leaf has been received well.

Wikipedia: "The Leaf has received awards from multiple organizations. Notable awards include the inclusion by Time magazine as one of the 50 best inventions of 2009.[386] At the 2010 Washington Auto Show, the Leaf was given the 2010 Green Car Vision Award by the Green Car Journal (GCJ), who noted that the Leaf "will provide the features, the styling, and the driving experience that will meet the needs of a sophisticated and demanding market, while producing zero localized emissions and requiring no petroleum fuels."[387] Popular Mechanics, upon awarding the Leaf its 2010 Breakthrough Award, explained that the Nissan Leaf is "not the first pure EV, but [...] hits the mainstream like none of its predecessors." Popular Mechanics also alluded to the Leaf's 160 kilometres (100 mi) range, which is said to be "enough for most commuters for the price of an average vehicle – and with a much lower operating cost than gasoline-powered vehicles."[388]

Other awards received by the Leaf include the 2011 European Car of the Year,[389] EV.com’s 2011 EV of the Year,[390] 2011 Eco-Friendly Car of the Year by Cars.com,[391] 2011 Green Fleet Electric Vehicle of the Year,[392] it was listed among the 2011 Greenest Vehicles of the Year by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy,[393][394] also listed by Mother Earth News among its "Best Green Cars" of 2011,[395] and also was ranked first in Kelley Blue Book Top 10 Green Cars for 2011.[396] The Leaf won the 2011 World Car of the Year,[397] and was a finalist for the 2011 World Green Car.[398] Ward's Auto listed the Leaf's 80 kW electric motor in Ward's 10 Best Engines for 2011.[399] Until October 2011 the Leaf was ranked as the most efficient EPA certified vehicle for all fuels ever.[400][401] In December 2011 the Leaf was awarded with the 2011-2012 Car of the Year Japan at the Tokyo Motor Show.[402]"

>Nissan has to continue to slash the price to move them,

Nissan Leaf is the best selling electric car in history.
Can you explain out what you mean in your first paragraph a bit more? I'm not sure I follow 100%.
Thanks a lot. It's been a crazy ride so far.
So ember and angular are similar correct? Are there any other contenders in that same space we should look at if we are considering js on front-ends?
Mine is pretty unexciting: https://identicons.github.com/mwylde.png.

It would be nice if the algorithm took interest (probably defined as a ratio close to 50/50 white/black cells) into account to prevent mostly black or mostly white avatars.
I think it's interesting now that lease rates are getting into the neighborhood of being a financial win in certain situations. E.g. if you have a case where if you owned a SUV or truck as a gas vehicle getting say 15mpg, a electric lease is $200/mo, and gas were $3.90, the breakeven point on gas cost is around a one-way 20 mile daily commute (if my rough calcs are correct). So if you commute further than the breakeven point, an electric vehicle lease could be putting gas money in your pocket.
https://identicons.github.com/elephant.png
coffeebeandirect will sell you Indian Monsooned Malabar for $39.75 for five pounds of whole beans. I've bought this; it's tasty. At 7.95/lb, it's about the same price as random Colombian at the supermarket.
"these guys" === people who use Ember, see that there's a new release on the front page of Hacker News, and upvote it :)
https://identicons.github.com/mouse.png