skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for my ignorance, but what's the general timeline for the IPO process? When could I start buying shares on the open market?
Hmm.. just random pondering, but it's basically like a really simplistic QR code for a unique value. I wonder if there's a use case for having some sort of a "sigil"/gravatar scanner app for mobiles.
And if you don't die?

Folks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Boukreev, who are certainly not dumb-asses, have what seems to be an arguably reasonable viewpoint on supplementary oxygen: It gives you a very false sense of security, and that false sense of security (because of oxygen or whatever) is what really kills people.
Probably the closest to organic wheels are organisms that form a wheel-like shape in order to roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLS2WXZQxU
> normal people use 2048bit RSA either directly (SSH keys, Website Certs, VPNs)

Any reason for that?

[Almost] all of my SSH and TLS (be it HTTPS or OpenVPN) keys are 4096 bits long.

I wasn't woried about TLAs with supercomputers snooping on my wires, just heard that 4096 bit RSA keys are considered more secure than 2048 while not sacrificing performance much, so I just didn't have the reason to specify lower size.
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
maybe self-healing? I am curious to know more
Huh, I guess that makes sense. If the objective there isn't to target a race, but rather a class or age group, then I guess that isn't terribly different from restaurants requiring sports jackets.
You're right, it is slower. But for my purposes, it's fast enough. YMMV, of course.
Given that over a thousand people have climbed Everest at this point, it seems to me that climbing Everest is about the most boring/pretentious thing I could imagine doing (compared to all the other interesting things you can do in this world)
Well, it is obvious that you guys will use any imaginable excuse to justify stealing services on the internet. You can create whatever mental construct you wish to create, the bottom line is that you are not paying for a service AND you are taking steps to deny the service provider from even having the potential to earn something by providing you with that service. It's pure hypocrisy. Plain and simple.

There are people who will justify just about anything, including gassing innocent children. That's the nature of the world we live in. I am not equating the two at all. Simply stating that human beings are pretty good about justifying bad things they choose to do.

As I have stated repeatedly, if you told me that you did not use any of these services that derive revenue from advertising I'd definitely hold you up as an example of taking the correct moral and ethical road. Saying that ads are annoying, look ugly or have potential security problems (bullshit) AND on top of it, still going to those sites to use their work product for free. Well, you are a thief.
> You can blame the patrons, not the owners. The owners are behaving rationally, sadly.

You can blame both, in fact. The owners don't get a free pass on having a racist door policy just because a few patrons are racist as well.

If you want to keep the club from being "ghetto", then have a dress code, and turn away anyone, white, black, Hispanic, or other, who doesn't meet the dress code, and let in anyone who meets the dress code and is not obviously disruptive (belligerent, drunk, etc). Be very clear with bouncers that it's not OK to apply such dress codes differently based on someone's race.

I'm sorry, but if a patron is going to leave because a black person is going to come in, they aren't a customer worth having. If they're worried about the customers just going to another club, they should get together with the other clubs and agree to universally adopt a "no racist bouncer" rule, spelling out what kinds of rules and dress codes are acceptable and what kind are not.
That's an interesting interpretation, but I assumed they were referring to the temperature difference.
I assume it's a well thought through and properly risk-assesed security/convenience tradeoff. Handling encrypted files is much less frequent than handling encrypted email - and putting an airgap between the internet and your email is likely to cause more grief than the security improvement it creates.

I've got the seeds of an idea which has been kicking round my head for a few weeks now - a rasbperrypi (or similar) with GPG installed on it, which is connected to my main computer as a usb device (possibly impersonating a usb keyboard). The 'pi could be sent encrypted data over the usb/serial connection, and send back the plaintext. The 'pi would have no network connection – reducing the attack surface for someone trying to extract my private key remotely to some exploit that'd work over a tightly constrained serial connection. Sort of like a RSA SecureID on steroids - here's a device with a "cryptographically secure secret", but instead of just displaying TOTP tokens, you can feed it encrypted data and have it send back cleartext (optionally with a keypad and PIN/passcode required, but it's not "secure" against physical access, so I'm probably not going to try and implement that...).
> Are the restaurants racist? Not really. They just happened to hire a nugget head. Probably, quite unknowingly.

> Are the blacks racist? Not really. They just don't want to eat food that is potentially contaminated with bodily fluids. Quite understandably.

Weird phrasing at best. Under no set of circumstances would it be valid to characterize the blacks you describe as "racist." Unless you've really, really internalized the Romney "corporations are people, my friend" thing, discriminating against a restaurant cannot be racist.
SQL Injection isn't fancy. That's why it's such a bad vulnerability.
Twitter going public
Either way would work from what I understand: it's a web app that you can access from another computer on the network or the Pi itself. Of course, you'll need a monitor and keyboard.
"Pass" being a pretty generous term, coming within 1.7 light-years, or over 500 times farther than its lifetime distance from Earth/Sol to today. It's like driving from New York to San Francisco and calling some spot in Kansas "passing the moon".

All of the Solar System outbound spacecraft aren't expected to pass within, say, the planetary disc range of any known stars at any calculable future time. Space is really freakin empty.
The Nefarious Ways Sprawl Begets Sprawl
E-mail verify is a GOOD THING. They're going to need your e-mail address anyway, for the inevitable password resets and such. And almost nothing drives me more nuts than sites that take down an e-mail address during registration/account creation and then DON'T verify it. Why? Because I've discovered that there are thousands of idiots out there who either don't know their own e-mail address and accidentally type in mine, have a personal vendetta against me (so they sign me up for crap sites using my e-mail address), or want to sign up but use a disposable e-mail address to do so (and again they use mine). Apparently I have a common-sounding-enough (err, you know what I mean) username on GMail that people are constantly signing up for crap and using [myusername]@gmail.com to do so, and I am SO TIRED of receiving it all.

If more websites would verify, then this wouldn't be a problem.
> All Dell laptops have a sticker with a "service tag"

That seems very old-fashioned to me. Why should I have to type in anything at all for the computer to know what its components are? Shouldn't it already know?

Apple’s Software Update/Mac App Store knows what computer I use. Even with the BTO Mac’s, the OS knows what components those computers have. The Mac App Store never presents me with software that's not suitable for my computer. I know x86 + Windows has way more possible configurations, but even there, it should be possible to create a report of all the components and send it to Windows Update (AFAIK, it already does that — why are you downloading drivers from DELL’s site?)
Guinness World Records 2014: Largest walking robot
Their estimated 2013 revenue is $600m (and was $350m in 2012) so they are making a little revenue at least.
Given rumor of NSA crypto breakthroughs and fact massive expenditures, it's not unreasonable to believe they've compromised a primary target.
I think this is the most likely reason.
From the above post:

> Are the restaurants racist? Not really. They just happened to hire a nugget head. Probably, quite unknowingly.

He seems to be implying that "restaurants" (I guess he means the cooks, and owners who don't stop the cooks) who spit in black people's burgers aren't racist.

Even if, as you say in trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, he's talking about third parties who aren't working there, the restaurant has a responsibility to not allow patrons to disrupt other patron's meal. If someone were to spit in my food, and the restaurant didn't kick them out, I'd sure as hell be pissed off at that restaurant.

Racism (and other forms of discrimination based on who you are rather than what you do) is insidious and evil, and needs to be stood up against, not just passively saying "well, that's what they do, what are you going to do." It is fundamentally wrong to treat a person as a category, rather than an individual.
No, I'm not talking about Cuervo gold, foo'... Now, get off my lawn!
Asynchronous ≠ multithreaded. TFA actually tried both ways, measured the difference, and found async to be much faster.
Fox Business: "The GitHub dictionary"
Since 1997, I've collected public keys from a grand total of 17 friends/colleagues/business-contacts.

(Note: FWIW, the email address in your profile doesn't provide a public key from pgp.mit.edu – I would have added you to my keychain and sent you a "Hi! Isn't it nice to introduce yourself without the NSA listening in!" email…)
Buttercoin (YC S13) is looking for 3 kinds of Hackers
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HOUSTON,CAR THIEVES SHOT DEAD
Use rethinkdb instead. Its not perfect but it mainly hits the same niche but does it right.
It doesn't really invalidate them, it says that if you eat the seeds while malnourished the ODAP can kill you. It doesn't mention anything about him dying in an unforeseen accident, he went into the Alaskan bush unprepared and died of malnutrition. If he brought a map he could've walked to safety when he started to realize his plight.
Sure, the computer knows the PCI-ID's of everything on the PCI-family of buses. Same for usb. But you presume that the person downloading the drivers is doing it from the same computer. If it needs a driver for its network interface, then that is going to be a problem.
Brace for monitization.
A major difference is the valuation these companies are getting. Compare Facebook's $80 billion to $100 billion to Apple's $4.8 billion IPO in today's inflation-adjusted dollars. I think that is a large part of where the cynicism is coming from.

Calculated using:
http://www.quora.com/What-was-Apples-valuation-at-IPO
and http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I tried the viewtext.org Chrome extension, but it hasn't worked in a while :( I really loved that one.
You make this sound like a sociological issue but it's really biological. Teenagers are idiots because their brains / hormones are going through rapid and dramatic changes that retard their ability to make good judgements about what is safe and what is not.
The fact is there are no obstacles that prevent self learning,
Young generation lacks
-passion
-creativity
-enthusiasm
-self motivation

Nowadays you can get any information in micro-seconds, so people don't know the value of information.

Don't ever expect anything happen overnight
Chrome supports a single process mode [1], and has in-process APIs [2] for manipulating the DOM via C++.

I would be surprised if it wasn't already possible to make use of these from the embedder side if you're in single-process mode. But if it's not, I wouldn't expect there to be pushback on changes to that effect.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/t...
They're at 50% the revenue of Bosch and Lomb. More than a little money.
Predictions and Data
Hi everyone, this is Andrew from Dropbox.

We do use LibreOffice to render previews of Office documents for viewing in a browser, and have permitted external resource loading to make those previews as accurate as possible. While this could theoretically be used for DDoS, we haven’t seen any such behavior. However, just to be extra cautious we’ve temporarily disabled external resource loading while we explore alternatives.
If you need a $250 PC, your time probably is worth less. If you're buying $60 console games instead of $5-$30 PC games, I hope you're saving a lot of highly valuable time.

Why would you want to waste your time with a retail PC anyway, loaded down with time-wasting adware and free trials?
Hey everyone, I'm the person who made the announcement on Reddit this morning. I can assure you that we did not go ask anyone to give us that question. But, did we know someone would? Of course. Every single blog post we've done for the last year has asked about it. If you look at our twitter account, it only took one minute yesterday after we announced the AMA session for someone to ask. We thought it would be a fun thing to do for the Reddit community.
A lot of people. Desktop PC's don't need to fit in your pocket.
No one has to be a banker, if they take you in it means you're smart enough to go elsewhere. It's no secret how hard it is.

Why do people feel the need to put down the jobs of others? Is it because they are different? Is it jealousy because they are not smart enough or don't themselves have the will power? I don't get it.
It was pulling in coupon payment data from Bloomberg for an array of securities (by CUSIP number) and aggregating them to create a payment schedule for the combined portfolio.
This. The hours I've spent tracking down random network drivers for OEM PC's....
An ATM eats your card while travelling: What happens next
Counterstrike map de_inferno's real-world inspiration
Improve your Product with AB Testing & Data Focus
On the one hand, entertainment products are difficult to capture by the current startup rhetoric because (1) the audience/market is broad, (2) the user doesn't have a problem (well, perhaps "boredom"), both of which put a damper on the customer development method.

Nonetheless, there's still a lot to apply. Identifying early adopter players and a channel to them, measuring retention and other analytics, iterating and releasing frequently, creating a viral loop -- these are all concepts that apply to game dev.

At some point, I think most games do try a "big launch" because ads and top 10 lists is how a majority of people find new games (even indie games now have the Humble Bundle as a consolidated channel). Another reason for big launches is the fake market dynamics of the app store: a one time boost when launching, and a positive feedback loop for downloads. But even with big launches, a lot of testing and tweaking is done internally (and it's standard practice on the app store to test the release in single markets, likes say Canada, because the app store stats are independent for each market)
Hopelessly optimistic. Spoken like someone who has never taken an experimental design course imho.

1) The search space is practically infinite dimensional. All methods suck when trying to extract a causative model from an infinite search space. There's a reason why in experimental design we change as little as possible.

2) SNP's are not the entire story. If it were this simple we would have progressed much further already. See dismal failure of all other high throughput sequencing and microarray technology. We still don't know how to analyse this stuff properly, if it will ever be possible.

3) The metabolome is adaptive! While we each have different enzyme kinetics due to slight differences in protein makeup, overall metabolic flux rates are amazingly consistent. See Oliver Feihn et al for more details.
For some reason the phrase comes to mind "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out".
You can use a plain Java main with JAX-RS, too (when using an embedded server like, say, Jetty – just like Spark). Dropwizard does exactly that.

Well, I don't know... I'm sure Spark is great, but dropping a widely accepted, well established and quite liked standard just for an arguably "bit easier" syntax (especially when there haven't been any major complaints about the standard syntax) seems like the wrong tradeoff. I would have loved a JAX-RS implementation with other compelling features like performance, monitoring etc. Another good JAX-RS implementation is always welcome.
Free & not limited by file size / total stored space seems to be the big point.
My Nexus 4 lasts about 4 hours of usage, about 10 hours of standby time. I really wish it had a replaceable battery. Phones these days just don't last very long.
True, and then it's a category.
Parallel Entrepreneurship
W3dt - World Wid Web Domain Tools
Lyin' Turd pleaded Not Guilty
If you aren't 100% sure of the providence of your usb stick, you can't really rely on it for _anything_ – have you seen Travis Goodspeed's "Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch" presentation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8
"There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO because of Jobs's presence." reads quite ironically too given how things panned out.
People give MSSQL shit for having row-level locks (if you don't use their MVCC option)

Just to clarify, are you talking about MSSQL's tendency to escalate locks (e.g. from row to page to extent to table)? They do that to make locks more manageable, and while in most cases it improves performance, in some high-concurrency situations it can be a gigantic PITA (especially given that the ways to strong-arm it into not escalating is not the most helpful).
> In the state of california, there is the Cal State system and the UC system, the UC system is considered to be the "top tier" system, and the CS system is widely considered to be "slightly less than".

The CSU system is designed to accept the top 1/3 of California high school students, the UC system the top 1/8, so, as a system, UC is by design more "elite". But that doesn't mean that all UC campuses are (or even are intended to be) superior to all CSU campuses in all programs, and certain CSU campuses are very well regarded for certain programs.

(This is particularly true, IIRC, of certain CSU campuses undergraduate engineering programs.)
Maybe on the off chance you need to download from another machine (no net connectivity, network drivers, clowns)?
Those companies are relevant to almost all of us because they're (at least partly) B2C. 42floors is B2B, they rely on lower quantities of customers that each pay more.

In other words, it's not that the majority of us are in the target audience of 42floors. But a large portion of the people they do want to target - people that want to or are starting a startup - do happen to be here. It's like precision vs. recall. That's why I believe HN is especially interesting to 42floors.
That's what I thought too, thanks for weighting in.
Marketing. They marketed the hell out of it. Most developers I know have MongoDB mug.

> Lately I haven't read any news about a company migrating to Mongo, but rather most were either departing from mongo

They had some strange defaults to start with (to give them serious advantage in small silly benchmarks) like un-acknowledged writes. Yes you read that correctly, for years their default configuration was to throw write requests over the fence and assume they succeeded.

There are some horror stories of people's databases becoming silently corrupted. Those corrupted databases were then backed up and back ups were corrupted.

Eventually they had fixed their defaults but their reputation as an engineering company went down the hill ( I speak for myself here mostly).

From my experience a lot of people using MongoDB don't know what they are using. To them 'unacknowledged writes' and 'database level locks' sounds like Latin. They see short examples, cool mugs, other cool kids talking about how easy MongoDB is and they start using it.
But that's assuming that intelligence fit the definition of a unique, christian like perfect god. Why would it have to be? Isn't it limiting the scope unecessarily?
Of course it's a marketing ploy, that's what r/iama is. it doesn't have to be a conspiracy as well. as the microsoft guy says, "it wouldn't be an ama without an IMAP question." if falconer hadn't asked it, somebody else would have.
Ask HN: Is there a non-tech community like HN?
When I send non-tech articles that surface on HN to my friends or mention in conversation that I had just recently read an article about some random topic, people always ask where I get all this information.

I usually send people that have an interest in technology straight to Hacker News. Unfortunately many of my friends won't care for most of what is posted here.

Is there any forum where other intelligent and curious people hang out and discuss articles that are similar to the non-tech ones that surface on HN? Could a single such a forum even exist with an audience that comes from a wide range of backgrounds?

In other news, the non-tech articles that surface on HN do give you a rather broad sampling of interesting things to read. I know that many people here would prefer to keep politics and "random" articles of the front page, but I'm personally very grateful for this education that I otherwise wouldn't get.
bigco websites are generally bad not due to technical incompetence, but because it is difficult to organize collaboration between hundreds of teams, each with their own incentives and requirements.
Users and tweets aren't nearly as impressive as hardware or software sales numbers. But since it's Hacker News commentary, I guess yes plenty of pessimism.
Also, having the modal boxes jump around is kind of annoying.
The bay trail tablet looks pretty nice so far as well.
Let's also not forget his work on the AMPEX Quadruplex, the first magnetic videotape recorder. He was 19 when he joined the team.

http://www.lionlamb.us/quad/theory.html#history
I just searched pgp.mit.edu and it looks like the first key I have on there is from 1998[1] (with several others from previous jobs, although I don't know why I had two keys when I worked at BBN).

I don't think I even have a key for my current email address.

[1] http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x867C6...
... are you a registered MTB?
Show HN: GeoNote - share quick messages with others nearby
Online software update in general (not just Apple's, but anybody's) makes it difficult to create offline installers or make a standalone backup of everything you need.

Also, you might need a specific version of a driver, not the latest version. Online software update always get the latest.

(Not to get off topic, but creating a standalone install of Mac OS X Lion is real challenge. Installing it assumes that you'll always have a fast and reliable Internet connection.)