skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats quite interesting. A somewhat potent piece of hardware with basic administration and on-call-service can cost you ~200$ a month (Thats an EC2 large instance with one hour of an reasonably competent sysadmin). Thats ~2400$ a year. In the light of those numbers, I find 100$/year for a tool that eases your work with those expensive beasts reasonable.
It amazes me that many people still think the US are somehow the "good guys" or "the leader of the free world". Americans believe themselves to be the chosen few favored by God. Their manifest destiny leaves no place for the rights of other peoples. With such an ideology, it is not surprising that they hold foreigners in contempt and show a severe lack of interest for the fates of others.

Americans are far more dangerous than any bearded fanatic.
Thanks. Will look at adding sorting to the tabs.
The logic of this seems to be that driving has certain properties, these properties are worthwhile to experience and hence everybody has to learn how to drive.

What a silly idea.

While it is certainly true that driving might have these properties – I can’t really comment, as I don’t own a license, much less a car – but assuming that the only way to experience ‘accidents happen’ is by driving a car is rather strange. This especially holds since the idea that ‘accidents happen’ is a good experience is only remotely sensible because accidents not only happen in car traffic but basically everywhere else in life, too!

The same holds for the rest of the paragraphs: You have to plan irrespective of your mode of transportation (and of course outside of transportation, too), you have to replace the items in your possession after a certain time, be they socks, jeans, notebooks, washing machines or cars and of course you need safeguards outside a car, too.

To me, this article reads as if the author was unsatisfied with the original assessment that a car provides independence (which, of course, is not true: a car actually decreases your independence as you always have to return to it after a hike, for example) and tried to prop it up with equally unsatisfying extras.
This repository is related to the final project of Stanford's Startup Engineering class held on Coursera[1].
The course is over today and two days ago the repository has been published.

BitStarter Leaderboard is built on MEAN stack (Mongo - Express - Angular - Node) and is a great source for analysis and learning about each of those technologies + seeing how completed project should look like.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/startup-001/class
I've been working with both books and Think Bayes is more accessible (and its also free). I recommend going through it before getting to PyMC.

One huge reason why is that the author has implemented everything you use in Python in a way that enables you to read his code to more fully understand what's happening. I'm on chapter 5 or 6 and he hasn't even touched on MCMC yet which is most welcome.
It's beyond retarded they make a subset of their stuff that (even in its entirety) relatively nobody will buy compatible with the devices everyone has been buying instead for the last few years. Mono isn't even a serious choice for games outside of Unity3d because Xamarin charge so much it's not worth it unless you have a mountain of existing stuff to port.

Sony had some other certification program previously as well and even made a nice little psp phone on top of Android but they just let the whole concept rot last time.

Edit: you can browse all ~60 games released under this new initiative here - http://us.playstation.com/ps-products/BrowseGames?&sortOrder...
Are you saying Sony is making a mistake by NOT polluting their platform with all the Android crapware?
The book looks awesome, thanks.
Siskel & Ebert for us old timers!
They deliberately ignored it because Android at the time would have been a horrible choice. The PS Vita was released in late 2011. About a month after ICS was unveiled. This means it would have ran either 2.3 or 3.2, either of which would have been terrible choices.

Not to mention the overhead of Android and maintenance burden of using an OS that has to support so many other devices and functions. This might be your reason for not liking the Vita but I doubt it applies to many others. There are countless Android console style devices and judging by their lack of mainstream success, I seriously doubt this would have caused the Vita to fare much better than it has.
Cool, I really was stumped by this. Thanks for your reply :)
For those who want a more solid take on machine learning, and who still remember their math and probability/statistics, (i.e. advanced undergrad or new grad student), the best texts seem to be:

The Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, available for free on line.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Chris Bishop. Very Bayesian.

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin Murphy. Also Bayesian, although not as Bayesian as Bishop. The most recent of the three, and therefore covers a few topics not covered elsewhere like deep learning and conditional random fields. The first few printings are full of errors and confusing passages, should be better before too long.

Did I miss any?
*was

He died on April 4, 2013.
I know this is simply about design and moving the concept of a content unit away from a container inside a page to a discreet unit, but I can't help but imagine that instead of saving bookmarks I had a collection of micro content. They could be static, or update, or be a feed, but they would be guaranteed to fall under a certain filesize, and have meta info about content type.

I guess formatting RSS and scraped sites / APIs can do all that, but perhaps we can start packaging our content to be more portable as well.

Could micro content have a unique hash? Is that how social sites track reccomendations or do they use the URL?
From my experience working with a major Indian outsourcing company at a previous employer this seems common practice across the board.

In fact the more tolerant managers experienced this transition very quickly and managers that stayed constantly vigilant managed to stave it off for a bit longer; but also not indefinitely.

From my perspective it seemed to be that this extended bait-and-switch was what their business model was built on.
Well, at least we can all understand the "war on terror". It was really about securing US dominance via a secret system of courts, government agencies and secret deals between US corporations.

All this due to the ending of the cold war.

Now, with the Arab Spring, the US has sought to twist events into a new war. Syria being just the beginning...
I had a very similar "epiphany" when I was looking choosing a CM tool (see http://www.selesy.com/news/14). I'd add one reason to your list (and it's a biggie for me) - You don't have to install a client on every machine. Since I'm already using public/private keys for access, I'm ready to provision new machines immediately.

Recently I've been pairing Vagrant and Ansible so that developers' workstations are provisioned by the same playbooks that build the production infrastructure. This is a huge win as there's no variation in how someone set up their machine.

My next step is to use Cobbler to actually manage booting new machines and adding them to specific profiles (the phase prior to Ansible's CM role). In essence, cobbler provides the hosts file for Ansible.

Nice article and please share tips and tricks as you go!
Absolutely, but it changes the economics substantially in your favour.
Eficiência Energética dos Edifícios em Setembro na Ordem dos Engenheiros
A comment on the article from the site:

Chris Thomas
September 9, 2013 at 5:44 am
A wonderful insight about some aspects of male African culture. Phew!

As someone whose parents & wife were born & raised in Lagos, Nigeria... I just want to say 419scams are not at all part of the the "male African culture"(whatever that means). They are just scammers, like scammers you'd find anywhere else.
'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better
Are they still gears if they are powered independently and the only connection between them is that they may come in contact without blocking each other's rotation?
Largest Homeless Camp In Mainland USA Is Right In The Heart Of Silicon Valley
And if you have GMail, you can patch it to do server-side search as well:

http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software/mutt-patche...

Still, I like Mail.app better, since it supports multiple accounts well and has excellent search.
Creating A Multi-step Form Made Easy via JQuery
B.F. Skinner on Online Education
>Remember, mobile devices are the heart and soul of the future of your business, no matter who you are and what you do.

No, they are almost totally irrelevant to my business, I'm a doctor/plumber/painter/...
Given that we're assuming some kind of correctness metric for the final image, could we not also use this metric to locate the start of the corruption?
Sony's been making android devices for a long time including this little gem back in the 2.x days:

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sony...
"Maybe because Brazil does not trust USA"

Gee, I wonder why...
I am absolutely amazed that these got anywhere near the stage. I'd always considered TechCruch to be about tech, not sexism.

Frankly, to the two arseholes from Sydney: you're not a larrikin pair. You're two arseholes. No love, a Sydneysider.
Sony is betting that there are a huge number of people out there that just want netflix + a few games. I think it's a smart bet.
So they did have a choice...? If the business goes bust, then why do you need another round of funding?
Guess programming language by „Hello, world“ snippet
I never could adapt to the shape of the Vita. I had to hold it in a very awkward position to avoid touching accidentally the touch sensitive back panel. This seems like a viable option for me to play games released in the console and with a good price since I already own a ps3 with controllers.

Very nice move from Sony, the low price makes their games available to those not wanting to spend the extra money in their 'big' consoles.
What to Expect in SEO in Coming Months from Google?
Google is relatively close to deploy in next generation of Penguin, internally called Penguin 2.0. Penguin is a webspam change dedicated to try to find black-hat webspam and tries to target and address that. This one is a little more comprehensive than Penguin 1.0 and it is expected to have it go a little bit deeper and have better impact than the original version of Penguin.
GPL3 - .5:

> 'A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works,
> which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are
> not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of
> a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the
> compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or
> legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works
> permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this
> License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.'

Doesn't that cover it pretty much?

You can distribute a GPL program, such as Ansible, and even bundle it with your playbooks, modules, etc, as those are explicitly NOT extensions of ansible, they are separate, you now have an "aggregate". And as long as you aren't modifying the original GPL program, then "Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate". So you could licence your modules and playbooks in whatever licence you want. To be honest though, you don't need to licence them at all, if they are just for internal company use. And if you're going to distribute them, it doens't matter what licence it is.

Next, you aren't actually in 90% of circumstances, actually distributing ansible, or your playbooks. You're running it yourself (either you, or your company). That's actually one nice thing about it, you aren't installing extraneous software on the machines you're managing.

GPL covers the distribution of software, and requires the source to also be distributed along side it. It does not cover the use of it.

Wordpress, et al, are a slightly different situation. There, you actually are distributing and installing it on multiple computers. You're also distributing parts of it, in that quite a bit of it (javascript, templates, etc) are going to and from client machines, and even running bits of it on client computers. It's a bit more complicated.
With a board like that they'll probably get a lot of VA /Medicare /Medicaid contracts and swim on cash. But then Labcorp etc will fight back, they already offer deeeeep discounts for Aetna and other major clients (seen $7 for them, $100+ for cash payers.) Also on top of my head, I can think of newborn screening, that is all done via heel prick, so the tech exists.

Unless the business plan call for a free first test for everyone in USA...sponsored by NSA ;)
Great notes - thanks for posting.

I do pretty much the same (literally!) but I don't set up unattended security updates after Ubuntu fucked up MySQL a couple of years back which took us down. We stage everything now using apt-offline.

http://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org/
This is a great achievement towards developing new methods of creating usable graphene, but they key word here is "usable". As the article says, not all created graphene follows the pattern required for usable transistors, and it's a process that's going to get exponentially harder to refine as you try to get closer perfection.

Until we get there, I'm tending to treat this as another graphene vaporware, since I haven't actually seen anyone use any form of graphene for building some kind of usable (and more efficient) piece of tech larger than a few microns. I truly believe graphene to be "the real next big thing", but we're not there just yet.
It's the thrill of creation. You see, many people are creators. They feel a need to pour their imagination into something that lasts, possibly something that outlasts themselves. There are quite a few routes for fulfilling this desire: arts, engineering, parenting, and, you guessed it, entrepreneurship.

And yes, this being a hacker forum, where everyone is the creator kind of person, the percentage of possible entrepreneurs here is bound to be high.
Demola network / Sanoma Accelerator
In fact I don't think there's a reason for the second player not to trust the "steal" guy. After all its a verbal contract with thousands of witnesses.
You're right. And he's right too.

Standalone IPsec is supposedly nearly non-existent, but there's a plenty of L2TP/IPsec traffic out there.
I don't use PhpMyAdmin a lot, only when there is no other option available (I prefer SQLyog). But lately I got very frustrated by the interface changes.

Then I discovered the option to enable the old theme again. A great tool!
Sorry, you had issues signing up. We patched that bug within 24 hours. You shouldn't have issues signing up anymore with the packaged chrome app.
If there is any project I'd be tempted to be snarky about, it's PhpMyAdmin (although last time I used it, it was 2006). From an administration perspective, it was often a hassle, especially in its beginnings. It is a very successful tool and for a while had the same reputation as wordpress: being a pretty remote shell.

But what PhpMyAdmin illustrates very well is how important tools can be to environments/communities. For a while, the presence of PhpMyAdmin was what gave PHP an edge over many other environments: here's a tool that gives you (and tech-savvy people in your company) insight into your database, allows you to do changes and some bit of backup visually instead of fighting with the command line. And, if you develop on PHP, you don't even have to install anything additional on your platform. It made running PHP hosting without shell access feasable.
Insertion sort. Easy to implement (easier than BubbleSort), very fast for small data sets. Can be used in merge sorts / quick sorts when the set size becomes small.
There's no way you could say a legally enforceable contract was formed in the context of a game show where they're expected to potentially lie to each other.
How to Design the Perfect Printed Circuit Board (part 1)
Glorify more?
"I think things will become much much worse for Microsoft before they get better. I'm afraid they will lose small and medium size enterprises and ISVs because their licensing structure has become so complex, overpriced and antiquated that a new generation of customers will refuse to deal with them."

They have cranked prices up, killed TechNet and other stupid things to try push the medium sized clients to Azure. Licenses cost are killing some of our smaller clients to the point they are asking us to find alternatives to Microsoft even if it is a SaaS that isn't Azure. When clients start talking about OSS alternatives instead of Microsoft, you can be damn sure Redmond has "jumped the shark" in their eyes. And even with BizSpark, you are fucked if you are an independent developer.
I also want to point out the amazing app to schedule in kids play dates, made by Alex Jordan who is 9!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352061
Also, this item from the Company Account bullet list:

> Requires additional verification through Symantec

Symantec owns Verisign, and what this means is that you need a Versign authenticode certificate for code signing. Verisign code-signing certs (not to be confused with SSL certs) run ~$500 / yr, and Microsoft does not accept programs signed with less expensive Comodo certs into the Windows Store. Seems like they're doing their damnedest to drive small indie developers away from their desktop platform.
Sexist Tech Startup Titstare
Norway Has More Money Than It Knows What To Do With
As dumb as it sounds this is because the site requires Javascript to load its static content.
I've been working on a PhpMyAdmin-like tool recently called Schema (http://github.com/timdavies/schema). It's a single-page app (Node.JS/Backbone) and I've had quite a bit of positive feedback from people testing it - much faster than PhpMyAdmin, nicer UI, etc. There's a lot left to do on it (missing critical features at the moment such as inserting rows..) however I'm unable to work on it for roughly a month as I've taken a new job and need to learn some new stuff for it. If anyone wants to help out, you'd be more than welcome (will give commit access after a few pull requests) :-)
There was actually a publication on this by Microsoft! Basically, the idea is to make the e-mail look as terrible as possible to:

>By sending an email that repels all but the most
gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to
self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

https://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pd...
If the Power supply he added is switch mode, I hope he checked that the modems' nominal current draw is enough for the switch modes minimum load...
Although if it already ran 3 months then it probably is...
I've tried most of the freelance marketplaces out there and IMHO there's a lot more that could be done.

That's why we're developing http://www.socialance.com
If you have any suggestions or want to help, let me know: guillermo@socialance.com
Why does this feel like Aaron Swartz all over again? In this case, I'm not even sure I see the crime, but in both cases the government chose to jump on "people they didn't like".
OpenSUSE Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi
I'm not defending the DC process. I don't like outsourcing basic government functions like tax collection. My point is that the article is very one sided. It can cost the District a lot of money to do these foreclosures themselves, because the foreclosure process is time consuming and extremely friendly to the homeowner. Those costs can outweigh the taxes owed. Should a taxpayer just be able to get away with not paying because its not worthwhile foreclosing on them? Maybe, but its not like there is no cost to that option. Its not like the DC government just decided to screw over old people one day.
What is sexist about CircleShake? It's not about women at all.
I prefer the extremely lightweight Adminer: http://www.adminer.org/en/

It works great for MySQL, SQLite and can be used for some basic PostgreSQL work too.
There's another free alternative called HeidiSQL which is pretty good. http://www.heidisql.com/
It is a very manly gesture that implies a mental image of the someone else being the subject of the gesture.

But first of all, it is very immature and tasteless and shouldn't be done on stage.
Any lien can be used to foreclose on property if the lien holder has no other way to force the owner to pay. Generally, the owner is entitled to whatever sales proceeds they have left after paying the lien.
> And saving a few bucks won't change your living standard. People are ordering for fun.

Great way to demonstrate first world myopia.

A large portion of the people in India live on no more than a few bucks per day. To them, this can be the difference between being well-fed and going hungry. Which is the biggest possible change in living standard.
Life of a Tech-nomad.
A New York VC Spotlight: Lawrence Lenihan
It may be just me, but I personally would not mention the lines of code as a success story metric.

I feel like lots of line of code usually means bloat.

That aside, I often use phpMyAdmin and it is a great tool for those quick little edits! And if you know already about SQL then it is really easy to use.
Your comment is incredibly hetero- and cis-normative, and also slut-shaming to boot. For shame!
MySQL Workbench trumps the other tools for managing MySQL, but for quick web access I prefer Adminer. It's easier to set up, appears less cluttered and fast.
Chemically modified graphene (CMG) nanostructures with their microscale area, sensitive electrical properties, and modifiable chemical functionality are excellent candidates for biodevices at both biocellular and biomolecular scale.
I use SequelPro (OS X, Free). It's fast and lightweight, it can tunnel through SSH.
Normalizing per total users or karma has also some side effects. The demographics of HN user base has most probably changed during the past years as well as number of interesting stuff produced also changed. Now there is more submissions more competition.
I think the BBC meant "Sir Mike Jackson prevented an altercation that risked starting World War III", but what do I know, I'm not a journalist or editor.
Frankly, TitStare was quite funny. In despite of being tits-related, i can't see how a woman could find it offensive (maybe because she has tits too? i can't see the correlation).

It's more about lonely developers staring at tits.

It's funny to see how the tech industry is passing thru its "feminist" age and just can't understand that THERE ARE differences between men and women, which doesn't mean anyhow that one is better than the other. They are just different. Liking tits is completely normal for a man, joking on it is too. Sexism is something different, a much bigger and subtle problem, against which (too often) women themselves do not react.
Always amazing images to look at.

Here's another good one: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star/pr2011016b/
I want the NBN
Agreed, I first thought the title said that Google was decreasing the key size of the crypto to speed up the traffic, and that the story was a negative one.

I work for TeliaSonera and I can tell you that it's very standard for us to use VPN connections between worldwide datacenters.
You're playing devil's advocate, right?
Also, things leak by other means, eg: Son-Of-Stuxnet escapes into the wild with the constants in its penetration code.
If you were to actually read the article, you'll note that the project began _before_ the Snowden revelations started coming out.