skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's probably much more water vapour in the air in South Florida, which means there's more thermal mass available - I wonder if it would be enough to have an effect?

I'm thinking that with more thermal mass in the way of the droplet, there's more chance to offload heat, and the difference in ambient temperatures is small compared to the difference to the melting point of lead (>300 deg C)
As I went walking down Broadway…
The point is that being in a situation where eating those seeds could be dangerous in the first place was the result of stupidity.

"After subsisting for three months on a marginal diet of squirrels, porcupines, small birds, mushrooms, roots, and berries, he’d run up a huge caloric deficit and was teetering on the brink. By adding potato seeds to the menu, he apparently made the mistake that took him down. After July 30th, his physical condition went to hell, and three weeks later he was dead."

Stupidly, he remained ignorant. That ignorance resulted in a weakened state, which allowed the seeds to be dangerous.
1. donate it to your local library -- they may not put it on the shelf, but they'll sell it in their "friends of the library" sales.

2. donate it to your local hackerspace
Glass half full: There might be another 5-7 good years, if it's similar to Google (2004 IPO).
Because they want to attract affluent blacks, not broke yoof troublemakers.
Why would they open the .doc and allow it to run whatever embedded macro which does the job of calling home?
Simple. There are some use cases for which MongoDB will be 5x faster than any other system. It is relatively unique among databases in that it is a document store as opposed to a relational system.

It is also very easy to use and manage.
At least we still have this Dolby: http://www.thomasdolby.com/
Australian Government Rejects 200k Petition to Continue FTTH Broadband
> driver for its network interface

To me, that sounds like a Windows problem, not a DELL problem. No matter what components your computer consists of, a basic Windows install should have a suitable driver for your network card, at least to get online to get better and more up-to-date drivers. In my experience, it always does. Maybe I've just been lucky?

As for downloading drivers from a different computer, I think that's mostly done by IT departments to manage numerous computers. Of them, it can be expected they know what they’re doing, and making the process easier could obviate their job, so I suspect they like the way it is now.
Why would LibreOffice allow the .doc to run whatever embedded macro within it which does the job of calling home?
Wow. I've been using those terms incorrectly all this time.
It'll run until the stack overflows.
>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.

Did you actually read the article? That's not what it says. It suggests he became paralyzed by a neurotoxin, an event which no one could have foreseen at the time. Having a map wouldn't have cured his paralysis. I'm not even convinced he was lost.
In this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc he explains the series itself doesn't work well in a pilot: He wanted long story lines, and multiple complex characters, both of which are impossible in a pilot.
From what I’ve read about Michael Dell over the years, I’d say he’s doing a great job at that (taking the company out.)

This is the company that came up with built-to-order from their online shop, fast deliveries while maintaining small inventory, and selling most computers directly. Their computers weren't innovative per se, but their business processes were. What have they done for us lately?
If you have to store encrypted credit card data, that's the recommended way of keeping it safe. Your Pi is analogous to hardware encryption devices that have been available for some time.
As a YC graduate don't you get to post here? :) https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Any comments/input would be greatly appreciated
AAPL IPO'd in 1980, when there were 1M personal computers in the world. Total.[1] The tech sector was just tiny compared to what it is today, and nobody predicted the WWW or the ubiquity of web-capable devices.

By contrast, when FB IPO'd it had 845M users[2], or 8.3% of the world's population. The two simply aren't comparable. AAPL made niche luxury products, and FB had something close to half the potential market engaged on a daily basis.

[1] http://www.corbinball.com/articles_technology/index.cfm?fuse...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Face...
I thought global lock is gone in v2.2
https://blog.serverdensity.com/goodbye-global-lock-mongodb-2...
>It’s been estimated that, in the twentieth century, more than a hundred thousand people worldwide were permanently paralyzed from eating grass pea.

Sounds like this issue isn't that superficial... it has affected a lot of people.
Advertising.

Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising. Is there no other way companies can use this data to generate revenue other than to sell ads?
I don't have anything against ads, but I'm just trying to understand how (if at all) this could change in the near future. What is the future of advertising? Will it continue to remain relevant 10 or 20 years down the line in its current form, allowing so many massive companies to be built on its back?
Yes, but there's a limit to the number of jobs posted there and it's currently full.
Ignoring any open vs. closed source arguments, this kind of thing would work much better as library than some third party service. There's no way I'd make an application that depended on a third party service over the internet for basic UI interaction.
We don't have state-by-state licenses since we're structured as a service provider. We partner with existing licensed institutions in various countries.
If you are Edmund Hillary, then knock yourself out. Climbing Everest today isn't pushing the limits of humanity. It is no more admirable than playing Russian Roulette.
Isn't it great that stuff like this isn't getting getting built in Flash anymore.
This article misses the wording of the coupon which says "Use towards the purchase of a Surface or other cool products at the Microsoft store", so you don't have to buy a surface, just anything that is sold at a Microsoft store.

I'm a bit disappointed this offer isn't available in Australia (no Microsoft stores I don't think), but I'm tempted to send my iPad to my brother and pick up a Nokia phone.
At Ask Ziggy, we are also 100% self-service.
There's a difference between the NSA being able to add a malicious circuit into a CPU that has access to "b" and being able to leak the value of "b" to systems they control. Thankfully, in the case of RDRAND they don't have to do the latter - they can just neutralize the effect of "b" on the result on the CPU itself.
https://sigil.cupcake.io/dustingetz

took me a very long time to realize that the thing that gets hashed is the URL's path.
At a previous gig we found the same basic factors. I wrote a quick script to iterate through all the available Weka[1] classifiers using our manually flagged data as a training set. Then I took the top 20 performing ones and used them on incoming orders in production. If more then half the classifiers agreed a transaction was fraud, we denied it. Though this seems a very blunt hammer (I'm not a machine learning expert by any stretch) it worked remarkably well.

[1] http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
The most inspiring video that makes you realize things aren't that bad
The most inspiring video that makes you realize things aren't that bad!!! MUST WATCH!!!! 4 minutes of your time!!!
Any reason for that?

OpenSSL's default keylength is 2048? ssh-keygen uses 2048 by default.
I remember trying to visit the maps on this thing way back in the day. It was always broke.
Yes, you can do that. If you login to your outlook.com account, go into settings then "Your email accounts". Here you can add send only accounts with custom SMTP just as with gmail this removes on behalf of. I've setup my desktop outlook client to use my Outlook.com address but when the message is sent by Outlook.com it uses my own domain and no "On Behalf Of".

Hope that helps..
Twitter's IPO tweet
reposotory.
Basically the higher you go on the pay scale in banking, the more sociopathic everything gets.
He would have survived. As other people have said he could have survived any number of ways (eating squirrels, porcupines) all while enjoying any number of comforts (sitting by the fire, sleeping, reading). You don't really know that he would not have survived.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376924
The neurotoxin killed him in his weaken state. A weakened state he found himself in because he was starving already, basically from rabbit-starvation. Because he was unprepared.

Yes, had he not eaten the seeds, he (possibly) would still be alive... but he still would have been an idiot.
Can you elaborate about AdWords vs Twitter Ads?
I'm giggling like a teenager at this https://sigil.cupcake.io/tests

Oddly appropriate.
New Twitter VIP feature
I played through a dummy game for about 20 minutes.

This seems like it will be a lot of fun. My suggestion: Make basic info (attack,movement, etc) about the brawlers viewable without clicking. There's too much clicking as a new player because I don't know what anything does.
Don't you need recursive decompression to make a zip bomb go off?
Well the thing is, not everyone can be fabulously wealthy and dazzlingly famous. What you're really talking about is a form of zero-sum social status. Think of how nearly everyone today is literate, whereas 150 years ago anyone who could read and write at our level belonged to the elite intelligentsia.

To which I say: fine! Why should we ever claim that a person has no right to call themselves successful unless they've managed to beat X% of other competitors in a zero-sum competition? The whole point of societies is positive-sum collaboration in the first place.

What's wrong with having a world-class standard of living (ie: upper-middle class First Worlder with social services available as back-up), a good relationship with your partner, a good job, and children? I personally could never stand the suburban white picket fence, but I don't get why being a reasonably successful professional with a family is failure.
Both sets are non-empty.
I know. I was supporting his point. Massive industry. Hoping to see more brand dollars shift toward online.
That definitely fits with the 'hacker ethos' and all, but why not just use a smartcard with a Class III reader (i.e. dedicated pinpad and display on the reader itself).

Support is already integrated with GnuPG, they are specifically designed to prevent key material leaking, and they have some other nice properties (like self-destruction after three incorrect admin PIN attempts).

Smartcards are cheap, anyway: http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?cPath=1_26&pr...
Culture of exclusion (2012)
Ah thanks for explaining :) good luck finding candidates.
But your argument can easily be used against Facebook. When you're IPOing at that late of a stage, all the gains have already gone to the private market investors. Facebook will have to come with drastic new revenue models to justify its valuation, and very few companies have reached a $100 billion valuation, let alone grown from there. And again, even if it does continue to grow financially, most of the gains have already been made. There are VCs who have made this point to lower Sarbox requirements so companies can go public earlier. I believe Ben Horowitz made a blog post on the topic, but I could not quickly find the link.
I'm not the OP but this might be more helpful if you have any subreddits to recommend? Reddit is big :)
SMS and Health: Broadcasting and Targeting – Part 2
...over tens of thousands of years.
I was initially thinking that this is just a SaaS2SaaS Wrapper around Google/Apple Speech recognition. Hey, tbh. wouldn't that be a clever way to market? hehe, that reminded me to SiriProxy.

But to give the authors their credit back, it's not what I guessed. It's much more a GUI around a complex toolset that would require you to dig deep into mudwater, bad docs etc. So, yes it makes life easier and sense to use this in your app. I have not evaluated the quality of their service yet, but it's a Startup, it's not going to stop improving (hopefully) :)

(Google/Apple are essentially powered by "Nuance", but with different qualities of training-data.)

More NLP/AI Startups and more colloboration on HN please!

2cents: I hope people don't sell to their first working protoype to the Google/Apple/Microsoft Empire, but try to get big on with friendly startup-colloboration and with the help of investors/angels.
"Your job as CEO is not to advise other entrepreneurs..."

Wow. What a sad comment to read. Being a CEO means being a leader, and not just of those that work for you, but to serve as a leader and thus guide others that are trying to trek the same path you've taken (and might re-take).
Why is the entirety of Columbia University labeled as 1901? Low Library was built in 1895 [1], and a number of the buildings on campus date from when the area was a mental asylum [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Memorial_Library
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomingdale_Insane_Asylum
I'm sure there's a bus large enough to take out all of AWS, but then again, AWS being down would be the least of our worries.
Pilots warp the content, you've got one shot to win or lose it all so there can't be any spacing. Works great for some stories, doesn't work for some others. By the same logic, you shouldn't start a company because 90% will fail, you should start 10 or 15 to try and have a winner or two in your portfolio, right? When your the guy running one of those, don't you want to give it your best and learn from mistakes and not assume that failure rate?

If Netflix can assess the content pre-pilot and then give the creators the money and space to tell their story, they don't need AMC or any of the old media, the creators will come to them. They're now selling DVDs of some of their content, they could potentially even syndicate it back... They have a lot of tools, they just need stories.
Clowns are way scary, I grant you.

As for the Internet connection, I think that’s kind of expected of a computing device nowadays.
or - mongo is great for some problems and not so great for other problems. if there is one thing you can figure out hanging out on HN long enough - it's cool to hate on mongodb
NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports
I do wonder what would happen if "profit margin fixing" was legal.
This way all the CPUs out there contain the information required to verify an update, but not the information required to create a verifiable update. If there was a secret key burned into the CPU, you can be sure that it would eventually be discovered.
What did you do for the Darién Gap? I've thought about making a similar trip a few times, but have never really gotten far into the planning stages.
Yes, and that's why my doctor friends have given me a bunch of times of week where they won't go to hospital unless they're literally about to die. Any amount of pain/worry/discomfort is, for them, better than seeing a colleague at the end of their shift if they want their problem fixed.
There is no relevancy here to be had, these are simply trivially interesting trends.
Well the longer they wait, the more the "all or nothing" strategy will never happen because their catalog is expanding. Basically they are simply refusing people who want to give them money. It's preposterous.
I met Bruce this last weekend at a conference, and every single business card I collected had the individual's PGP key on it.
Every time one of Apple's products sold it resulted in cash transferring over to Apple. They had a viable, proven business model selling computers to business, consumers, and educational institutions, were leaders of a new industry that everyone agreed had a huge amount of growth ahead of it. Nobody thought that PCs would continue to be a niche product throughout the 1980s.

Facebook owned, and owns, only a tiny slice of the advertising market, despite being so far along in developing their product. Remember, facebook's users and attention is their product. Their customer-base - companies who want to advertise is still underdeveloped.
Twitter Submits Confidential Plans for I.P.O.
How do people view Udacity's algorithms subject?
My Thinkpads all have an app that's readily available from their website that automatically updates all drivers and Lenovo apps. Not only that, but one updater works on all my different Thinkpads.

It's been this way for years.

I do a fresh install of each new laptop I get, and all I do is install the system updater, wait for it to d/l the files, wait through a few reboots, and done.
Sadly, I think they do. That is, Facebook's terms include browsing Facebook with an accepted browser. That's nuts but it's also natural.

Facebook basically would like to pretend the browser is something like a "trusted client" rather than an inherent unknown.

It's a thing that you do pretending it's for security but, of course, it doesn't work for security but does work reasonably well for the masses aiming to view their own data in the way they like it.

Facebook stands by banning Robert Scoble for downloading the emails of his friend from his account using a script. The difference between a "browser" and "script" is completely arbitrary in the world of bits and bytes but banning "upsupported browsers"
Show HN: Open source Support Center with powerful search and reporting
You should be skeptical about all IPO's. They have a below avg market returns.

The Intelligent investor mentions that many decades ago (maybe the 50's) IPO's were for accredited investors, because they were a known way for the saavy ones to profit from the ingenuity of the common investor.

IPO's are overhyped and hence many people buy it regardless of its underlying asset, and hence drives the price up.

As i mentioned before, IPO's in general have bad performances and the gain is more for the company and early stock investors that cash out, since getting into the market immediatelly gets you lots of fund/index and "silly" money.
> What is the future of advertising?

the same as the future of capitalism. advertising will exist as long as people sell shit.
It's more of a sign that the user is au fait with computers. The sort of person with a 4096-key probably looks at the advanced settings to find the option, or carefully reads the manual.
I like Reddit's /r/science (http://www.reddit.com/r/science). You'll find some of the same articles as Hacker News, plus some great discussion from smart people who aren't necessarily computer geeks.

For straight computer geekery, there's /r/technology (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology) -- but I like it less than Hacker News since the comments can be more immature. (There also seems to be a large population of gamers on that subreddit, and I'm not a gamer, so I have less in common with the people there than with many people here on HN.)

For marketing and some general startup business advice, I like http://www.inbound.org/ -- they are also starting to do AMAs ("Ask me anything") like Reddit does with well-known startup/marketing folks.

For intelligent interviews with successful entrepreneurs, you can't beat Mixergy (http://mixergy.com/). Disclaimer: I've done two interviews with Andrew. Here's one I did on finding the right business idea, which might be useful to your less-technical-but-still-entrepreneurial friends: http://mixergy.com/course-cheat-sheet-find-your-biz-idea/

I also like http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit when I'm just ready to zone out and enjoy some Internet strangeness after a long day running a startup.
related: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...
Why not use pilots like kickstarters? Produce a bunch of promising pilots, have consumers "vote" or even "fund" what pilots they want to see made into TV series?
> Installing [OS X] assumes that you'll always have a fast and reliable Internet connection.

Oh, I know all about that, it can be quite an ordeal. Earlier this summer, I spent a month in rural France for a film shoot. A few days after I arrived, my MacBook Air started acting up, all apps would crash immediately after launch. Ran Apple Hardware Test: bad RAM. I called Apple, they wouldn't send someone out to fix it, I had to bring it to an Apple reseller for repair. Which I did, and it was fixed in three days. However, even in that larger city (Poitiers), their Internet connection was bad. They wouldn't install the OS for me because they knew their Internet connection was unreliable. Afterwards, I tried installing the OS via a WiFi network at a local bar, it took 4 hours and then it failed. I tried a different bar, same story. Eventually, I went to a cyber cafe in an even larger city, where it took 1,5 hours and went through.

OS X’s web downloader should allow for partial downloads, download suspension, and redownloading of specific corrupted blocks. It's great that you don't need a disk or USB drive to install OS X from scratch, but the process still needs work.
Can INTJ's live exciting lives?
Let's be honest, INTJ's are one of the most intelligent personality types out there by definition. This is an amazing asset if you're a programmer, or involved in the sciences but socially we are borderline Aspergers.

I don't even know why I'm writing this, but I guess I'm looking for answers. I just got in from a fantastic lunch with an old friend, and after seeing the pictures from his Euro trip I feel like I'm missing out on life.

I can't help but think that our purpose as INTJ's is to create things - and let others have all the fun

Can INTJ's live an exciting and fulfilling life?
Sounds like a fun event for a hacker space.
Of course they can kick any Facebook user/group off for any reason, but I suspect they would have a hard time taking any sort of legal action against a plugin (or tinted glasses) that merely changes the way a user's browser interprets the resources loaded from Facebook.

Anyway, I think it's silly for Facebook to be going after tools that make users like Facebook more, as long as they don't somehow degrade the experience for others (spamming, etc)
I really wish companies would get SSL vs TLS vs STARTTLS right. I wrote about this on our blog a while back and ended up turning it into a help page because people still seem to get confused.

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technology_ssl_vs_tls_starttls....
yeah, hits too close to home for the hacker news demographic,
Google (or all search engines, i guess, but who are we kidding) is pretty much the only example of the situation you describe. All other advertising that exists, or has existed, doesn't work like that, yet is supposedly successful.
Ray Dolby has passed on.

Off-topic question for the native English speakers: what is the difference you see between passing away and passing on? It's the first time I come across the latter.

Sigh... I'll never grok phrasal verbs...
Lethargy: a cure for lazyness derived space leaks.
Good point. I guess you can't share data without trusting someone.
I would not even go that far either, and I am not saying Google is free of problems.
The song might have left the solar system, but it's not arrived in the UK yet:

"This video contains content from PEDL, SME, PRS CS, AdShare MG for a Third Party and Warner Chappell, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
STB SoCs move up to Cortex-A9, UltraHD, HEVC