skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But probably only for a short while, then we would see "damage being routed around."

But for a short while, it would probably appear a bit like those electrical outages back in 2003 and 1965, to name but a few. One failure/service overload leading to the next...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965
Maybe this sounds out here - given the history of the US government I don't think so - I fear for Wyden's safety. He keeps sticking his neck out there over and over again, pushing back against the intelligence system. It's an exceptionally powerful and threatening system, with a massive budget and influence (for example, lucrative CIA and NSA contracts can get very powerful and intelligent people, such as Larry Ellison, to talk completely insane gibberish about how Amex has tons of info on people and we should be more concerned about voluntary transactions than the NSA spying on us by force).
If you want things done slow and right, use Debian. Part of being a highly fragemented market (which the Linux desktop is) is that each distribution needs to find its own niche. Debian has the slow and stable niche pretty well covered. Ubuntu's distinguishing factor is that it is more cutting edge, and has more personality to it. Simmilarly, Fedora also states on its about page that its goal is to stay cutting edge at the cost of stability.
fish: the shell for people who want to use multi-line echo instead of here-docs.
I haven't tried it, but probably. Ubuntu is essentially Debian, especially at a low level. Also, the Steam license explicitly allows for third parties to repackage it to work on other platforms. In the event that their is an actual incompatibility, you can always have two versions of whatever dependency installed on the system.
1. Wasn't the Castle in the Sky tweet record from last year?
Edit: It turns out its the same film making records this year again.

2. I remembered the China WeiBo has a way higher TPS record then Twitter. I wonder what there stack are.

Now, 200-300 RPS were pretty low on RoR. But even with modern Ruby, reactive or event based, latest optimization and workaround etc. I dont think it can even scale to what they have achieved with JVM.
It's actually interesting how not secret most of those projects actually were.

President Johnson couldn't resist blabbing about the SR-71 in 1964, only one year after A-12 operations had begun and 2 years before SR-71 operations began.

The U-2 began operations in 1957 and was revealed to the world, along with the equally secret mission of overflying the Soviet Union, in the Gary Powers incident in 1962.

The F-117 was introduced in 1983 and was revealed in 1988.

It's possible that there are additional still secret projects that operated out of Groom Lake, but I find it interesting that most of the super secret projects there were only completely secret for a period of a few years.
I suggest to use ..= (or ...=) in place of the keywords 'wait for', and 'from'. Less words, and '...' traditionally means 'to be continued', or 'wait for a while'.

For this Kal code:

task getUserFriends (userName)
wait for user from db.users.findOne {name:userName}
wait for friends from db.friends.find {userId:user.id}
return friends

would become:

task getUserFriends (userName)
user ..= db.users.findOne {name:userName}
friends ..= db.friends.find {userId:user.id}
return friends
> Microsoft's mentioned that in their forums in replies to people complaining about lack of C99 -- "just use C++".

Yes, this is true. For Microsoft C is a legacy language that can well be replaced by C++ for what they care.

But I think I never saw them stating "... C++ is just C and ++ ...", even of the official communication done by Herb Sutter.

I am on the opposite field, I only touch C if really obliged to do so, which does not happen since 2001.

So I am a bit biased regarding Microsoft's decision, but I do understand some developers would rather stay on C land.
There is a relevant Black Mirror episode where the premise is a society where the majority of people have implants that record everything around them (and can then project and playback these moments) - like all Black Mirror episodes it has some interesting insights into how this affects society and people.

I definitely think we should hold some people to these standards (law enforcement, security guards, judges, politicians to name a few) - but for society as a whole? No thanks.
> It would remain secret in perpetuity, the owner(s) of the secret would use it to either drain the market of its capital or foment public doubt about market fairness...

If this 'secret' could only be applied in small amounts, then the owner couldn't drain the market. Why do you think Buffett believes large funds can't outperform?

You assume any such 'secret' is infinitely scaleable. That's an incorrect assumption.

Insider trading is an advantage that exists but doesn't fall into your #1. Has it 'drained the market' or stopped businesses from using the stock market?
Things I Love About You: San Francisco Edition
Linus Torvalds is far richer than Bill Gates
btw, the surface area of the moon is about the same as Africa's.
For awhile, http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ used to be the go-to place to find out when the best time is to post on HN.

I'm in Sydney Australia, and I've posted a couple of my projects (http://sideprojectors.com - the latest one) and I usually try to post around 12am my time (I think it's around morning time in US) and I do think it gets a better response.

Reddit has a few subreddits, sideprojects, startups, entrepreneurs are good ones.
Trsst: Proposed distributed secure blog platform for the open web
Found this particularly interesting as I was using "not feeling ready" as an excuse not to start. I feel like with most people, they never quite feel ready enough to even start. Though readiness in these cases is usually just an excuse to procrastinate change and things that might be hard. I feel that for myself anyway.
Try.

* I create a trello board and divide my ideas into a few categories (do-able, I really like, this-is-ridiculous, already-existsi-so-who-am-i-kidding etc)

Then... (maybe)...

* Create a landing page for each one of them (ok so maybe not for all of 118!!!) - launchrock

* Post on HN, Reddit

* Collect the email addresses & feedback (ask them questions or survey when they sign up)

* Email them back on each of your idea and ask for further feedback (but don't spam)

Above exercise might take you 2-3 weeks. But I find it a practical way of learning - and I think the often more interesting thing is that you learn to "change" your idea depending on the feedback.
I use vim most of the time and emacs only when I'm writing some Lisp. Do I have a risk of getting RSI if I press my ESC key(on a typical laptop keyboard) with the ring finger of my left hand?
What's up with everyone trying to re-invent coroutines?
I personally think people should upgrade JavaScript instead of inventing new languages all the time, since it creates fragmentation.
I was also more than happy to pay $19/month. Now my monthly bill goes to $0? I'm a bit worried what will happen to quality of service and support now.

And the fact Rackspace has purchased Mailgun doesn't mean a thing. Just look what Rackspace did to JungleDisk... I used to be also happy customer of JungleDisk so no wonder I'm a bit bitter regarding Rackspace.
Interesting article, but is it just me or did the narrative jump and loop several times?
I attempted to notify them of this, but their contact form validator rejects anything I put into it. The whole site is a mess.
Document from Einstein and Oppenheimer on Aliens and UFOs
You might be right about that. I still find though that the most daunting part about learning something new for me is grinding through writing the notes in on the sheet music then "sounding it out" going back and forth from my computer/ipod/ipad getting the timing right. This tool seems to wrap it all up into one neat learning process, perhaps one day after using it enough with "notes on" I could uncheck that box and go pure sight reading.
My speculation is their fancy SDN backbone. If that gets fubared, everything goes away.
I stopped caring since they're so exclusive.
Amen.

What better way to say "fuck you, your time is worthless" than to ask someone to print / scan / fax something.

OP has cool printer design though :)
> I didn't know UNIX won't allow kernel exception handling. Source?

My statement was based on ideology as I doubt typical UNIX kernel coders would ever allow for exceptions, given that C does not support them and is against the UNIX way.

> Of course exceptions are suboptimal; bad performance compared to "goto" can have unintended side effects depending upon the OS (scheduling work may be triggered off of the additional interrupt).

Exceptions at the kernel level are possible, Windows does it for certain classes of errors, for example.

Some other commercial or research kernels might do it as well.
I don't ever write code like this personally. The multiple levels make it more difficult to reason about, IMO.
Apple needs an iPhone Pro
Reverse engineering ZeuS's P2P botnet
This isn't a great analogy as way to explain this (I still have no idea what you're saying). The only company I have direct experience with is Target; I'm unfamiliar with the purchasing experience of local florists or BloomThat, and didn't even know Google Shopping Express was a thing. I'm not really unrepresentative.

You should use ~2 widely known things and a known relationship (senators are to the senate as morks are to morkdom), or 3-4 well known things to show a new relationship.
The first Svbtle layout was by far the best designed blog layout at the time - the sidebar with a description of the writer was very well built. This new layout is interesting - reminds me a lot of Medium.
Apple Begins Allowing 200 Test Devices Per Developer Account
Our ancestors in the African Savannah weren't going out of their way to acquire material goods.

Then how do you explain the necklaces, earrings, headpieces, etc etc etc found in the histories of tribes all around the world all through history?
Agreed. Why reinvent wheels?
I still have paper copies of important documents from the 1980s. I have no idea where the digital copies from that era disappeared to.

Paper has its place; it's a fantastic archival medium.

I also still print out contracts to review them. They're easier to mark up that way, and I can focus entirely on the paper -- including quickly leafing through it, while comparing multiple pages -- in a way that I can't as easily do on the desktop.

Paper isn't dead yet; it still has the best UX available for many common use cases.
A land value tax would go a long way towards fixing this. You could decrease income and sales taxes as a result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
This is RAD. I love mailgun's service, and now I have even more reason to never use the built-in mail server on my *nix boxes for processing or sending mail.
That example isn't an equal-area projection, it's just better on average at preserving size than Mercator. It does still have significant size distortions, such as making Sri Lanka look massive, when it's really slightly smaller in total area than Ireland.
So which Internet firm is pure evil in Dave Eggers’ new book The Circle?
Google goes down for 2 minutes worldwide.
Life is Fragile; Don't Postpone It
Callbacks are Pretty Okay
I like the idea of a non-SEO/CPA, non-crappy flower company. My problem is the only people I need to send flowers to are outside the Bay Area, and generally in second or third tier markets you'll probably never serve directly. I have no idea what I should be doing -- I use Calyx now, which is overpriced and kind of crappy in a lot of ways. I tried the "local florist" in "place where parents live" and that was too much of a hassle, too. Searching for the city name and florist brings me 4 "local florists", only one I vaguely recall (same town I lived when I was 8-14 and not really in the floral market). 2 are "teleflora network", one appears to be a real independent shop, another appears to be wedding focused. I generally don't care about this very much, so I use a known vendor who lets me avoid the worst case but doesn't really provide a good average or best case. I'd normally use Yelp or TripAdvisor or something to check reviews, but each vendor has 0 or 1 reviews -- not exactly SF.

For me, a local florist matters less to me (because I can just go to the Flower Mart, if I really want flowers, or really go anywhere and visually inspect them; the flowers at Whole Foods aren't amazing but they're fine sometimes) than one which is flowers-at-a-distance.
Very annoying how an arrow snaps into view a moment after I scroll every time. Yet another layout that fails at mobile.
"Between 15:51 and 15:52 PDT, 50% to 70% of requests to Google received errors; service was mostly restored one minute later, and entirely restored after 4 minutes."
Lessons From the Emergency Room
Quick fix to hide images- paste this into your console:
for(var i = 0; i < document.querySelectorAll('img').length;i++) { document.querySelectorAll('img')[i].style.display='none'; }
Thanks for the feedback, you bring up some valid points that we have definitely thought through.

First, the expense associated with the device is comparable to what is currently on the market (in some cases it is actually less expensive than the competition). We realize that not everyone will be able to afford devices like this, which is why we also want to explore ways to get this subsidized. We believe that a device like this can allow seniors to live independently for longer, thus allowing them to remain in their own homes longer, and saving them on the cost of retirement and nursing homes (not to mention studies show that 90%+ of seniors want to remain living in their own homes for as long as possible). Down the road we may even explore offering a less expensive version of this if that becomes possible on our end (we still need to cover manufacturing costs and overhead).

You bring up a few other examples, but none of them are exactly comparable. First, the Kindle makes its profits off the books you do buy (they may offer some for free, but the profit comes from the business model in which users do still pay for books on their device). Second, you bring up SPOT then add that it doesn't actually work the way we do. The added functionality does come at an additional cost on our end. We are also spending more on getting a smaller form factor (this means a lot more work on the hardware engineering side), and we are creating a custom dock so that the pendant can be easily recharged without needing to fidget with a micro USB.

In terms of ergonomics, the device will measure approximately 40mm x 40mm, which is comparable to current devices on the market with a limited set of features. We are continuously trying to engineer the device to be smaller, and over time we will be able to, but this does incur larger upfront costs and a longer period of time. So right now, we are focusing on making the best device possible, and will continue to iterate and improve on it as components get better and better :) As for the black - it tested rather well with males (although my preference, and that of a lot of the female seniors we showed the designs to, did prefer the lighter coloured device).
Thanks for posting your config. I've learned a lot from it. In return, here is my Fish config.
https://github.com/jramnani/dotfiles/tree/master/fish

As you'll see, I like the way Fish automatically loads functions from, "$HOME/.config/fish/functions/". It keeps my config.fish file pretty lean.
Software is eating capital markets & asset management. What we're seeing
Firefox 23.0.1 released
This is a common issue.

I guess people that state they are fine with it, never worked on the typical enterprise codebases, done by several consulting firms along the years.

When one works on their own code, or startup elite programmer style, everything is easy.
Reminds me of Vinge's "Rainbow's End", there was a device which shredded whole books, then sucked the confetti through a hose that had tiny cameras in the walls, and they stitched scans of the original books together in software.
I don't think NSA framed him. I'm saying NSA might have had a role to play in him being investigated/indited.

Similar to how intelligence services (allegedly) watch "targets" with the aim to use any illegal/questionable activity to leverage them into assets. The activity might be fully illegal -- but an intelligence service might not care about that -- just about having something to hold over a potential asset.

As I understand it -- the idea is that Qwest said no to implementing tapping in their NOCs, and that the investigation/charges of fraud/pump'n'dump etc were filed afterwards.
Neural networks with monolithically integrated memristors
In aggregate, it wouldn't much matter since randomness would cancel itself out. So broad index funds wouldn't see that volatility.

At shorter scales, however, randomness like that would add volatility to individual stocks, so you'd see more random results for returns among small portfolios -- thus creating quite a few genuinely lucky fund managers.
A recent publication from the same team talks about successfully simulating logic gates with memristors:

http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
The letter and people here do not get that most people simply want to be told what to do. This gives them main sense of work and accomplishment. This also lays down fundation for creating societies.
The insult here--"groupie-purchases"--suggests you understand Buffett's existence is a serious blow to your case. As you implicitly acknowledge with your hypothesis of the "announcement effect", the null hypothesis is that Buffett beat the market. It's time you hold yourself to the same standard you demand elsewhere in this thread and prove that "groupies" from 40 years ago maintaining their positions all these years account for Buffett's long term rate of return.
It's not just job search. One of the things I've discovered in the process of interviews + networking in the consulting and finance industries is that the graduates from the elite schools are their own tribe.

We all seek each other out when we're starting out and that provides an invaluable personal network to start off and grow with. I feel bad for the few people I see who aren't from the feeder private Ivy League tier schools because they have to start from nothing and even if they're successful they'll constantly face barriers.
Speed Camera Contractor Busted Photoshopping Evidence
It's hard to answer these question without seeing the actual stuff.
Clothes can be unique in many ways.

I buy a lot of clothes online. I mostly go to polyvore.com and find stuff.
But I do visit some websites of actual brands because I know they deliver a certain aesthetic that I like.
I like unique stuff, who doesn't?
But I prefer a simpler, elegant aesthetic.

The kind of stuff they have on nastygal is mostly just vulgar to me. As someone here mentioned they go for a thrift store look. But they do actually source it from vendors like anyone else. It's different from many brands, sure. But it's still internally consistent.
I did order 2 things from them though.

Your target demographic will be determined by the kind of aesthetic you have.
Check out http://vexflow.com It's got a lot of interesting features and the code is really usable... it has tab support for the guitarists (like me) who can't read music, it's open source, html/svg rendering, and it's got on a pretty interesting text based DSL for authoring music. I even wrote a plugin to integrate VexTab on Mediawiki but I haven't done much with it after the proof of concept. Too busy!
Bill Gates is retired.
I am slowly and slowly trying to go almost paperless, I hear you. And because We can now get rid of almost every boring administrative use of paper, the really intersting uses tend to stick out, and you start to print things you really wanted to.

Like printing papercraft parts, big photos of anything you like, personalized trump sets, kids stories you read at bedtime. Honestly there's a lot of uses I didn't care about until there was no need to print tax forms anymore.
Thanks for the feedback and input, you bring up some great points. We are currently working on a few ideas to make this device more senior friendly by adding features that would make it more than an alert pendant for them. We feel that the best way to get it right is to actually run a pilot program and get real user feedback. Right now we are focusing on solving a pain point, which for our target user is the fear of falling outside while alone. Once we have perfected this, we will be playing around with a few ideas during our pilot program. You can expect to see some new iterations and ideas emerge down the road that we are hoping will make this more than a simple help pendant.

As for selling to nursing homes, the stats might seem like a reassuring thing, but you might also be missing the underlying story. We have spoken with several retirement homes, and they have told us multiple stories about how staff (not necessarily at their home) have wanted to stop residents from leaving the grounds because they are worried that if something happens they won't be able to get help - and in some cases they do actually stop them from leaving. Point being, sometimes stats look good, because the rules and guidelines put in place to keep them looking good actually have a negative impact on a persons overall happiness and well being. So although the stats look nice, the bigger picture could still reveal that something is broken.

You are very right that this will be a marketing challenge, but I have hope. In my own case, my grandmother lives alone and my family wants her to continue doing so, but we also worry. Rather than having to ask her to move to a retirement home one day, it would be great if we could use a system like this to allow her to keep her freedom and independence while still having peace of mind that she will be ok. Our goal is to try to make a device like this feel empowering, rather than morbid, but we acknowledge that it will take some time. I have faith that something can be done in this space though because when you take a look at it, you can see how obviously broken it is ("I've fallen and I can't get up" is the perfect example of just how broken it is).

I actually read the article Slow Ideas last week and found it to be a great read. I agree that ads and pamphlets will not solve this problem, but doesn't mean we should shy away from trying to fix this broken industry. At YC we are constantly told to do things that do not scale at first, it's a strategy that has proven to work, and I'm all for trying it in this scenario.

Thanks again for your feedback, definitely some great food for thought :)
That would be a great solution here imho.
Some of Sibelius's core developers we let go recently. Steinberg hired them and they're writing a new music notation application from scratch. They're still in the very early stages of development. (see http://blog.steinberg.net/)
This is definitely cool, but it strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. Mobile printers that print out a sheet much faster than this are available at pretty low cost. I'm genuinely curious to hear why someone would buy this--any thoughts?
The EMH doesn't propose that participants have future knowledge. It says that current prices reflect current information and that in the long run, all participants regress to the mean.
I never thought of using nested functions like that. It does make the code much more readable, and using 100% JS is a big win. Not as pretty as yield/await, but much more debuggable and compatible.
Yes an underlying tag thesaurus would be good. Or tag synonyms as leepowers called (I think) the same idea above.

Just to state here a metric for what the end goal is, whatever method is used would ideally provide the same or a pretty similar hit list for any searches for different synonyms with the same meaning.