skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So awesome.

Presumably this doesn't yet allow streaming, including scrubbing / resolution & bitrate switching / etc, since Media Source Extensions / MPEG-DASH aren't supported in anything but Chrome?

MSE: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/...

MPEG-DASH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...

Apparently Firefox is getting close, which is heartening: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/20/progress-towards-media-s...

If anyone from Kickstarter is here, love to hear if you're starting to play with MSE support for supported browsers, or if you're just doing download-and-play. Congrats either way - so glad to see more of this.
Modern Intel chips will automatically adjust their clocking if they detect that they're suffering thermal stress. Further, I'm not sure whether microcode has that level of control over dispatch. Especially given the trace cache design of Intel chips, it seems very unlikely that scheduling information would be encoded into the microcode instead of dynamically decided during the out of order execution.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it isn't possible to affect the chip's thermal profile in any way via a microcode update, I'm simply saying it's not the simplest way to do it and I doubt that Intel protects their microcode as fiercely as they do because of thermal concerns.
A lot of people network through socialising and, yes, drinking.
The IRS is just interpreting the law as they see it. At some point they have to draw the line between a tip and a wage, and they draw the line so that an "automatic tip" is a wage.

All the rest of the article is irrational garbage. The fair comparison is not between how the IRS treats waiters and how they treat billionaires, but rather how the IRS treats waiters of a certain yearly income, and how they treat other workers of the same income.
I have some issues with that WebMD article:

"They're just not aware of how sleepy they are," says Thomas Roth, Ph.D., sleep researcher at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

I don't mean to disparage the Dr, but how does he know that about those specific people? It seems exceedingly presumptuous to say, basically, that he knows these people whom he has probably never met in person better than they know themselves.

"Wakefulness for 18 hours makes you perform almost as though you're legally drunk," says Walsleben.

This is stated like it is a law of nature, true for all people in all circumstances. Is it though? If I well rested beforehand I know I can go at least 18 hours and still function nominally. "Well, your perception and evaluation of your own performance degrades as well. You just think you are performing nominally." I concede the possibility, but when I look back later (well-rested again) at my work I can only conclude that if the above statement is true then I must be a very high-functioning drunk. Driving particularly is hard to measure outside of a controlled environment--it is easy to over-estimate yourself unless something goes very wrong--but I would be very interested in doing some sort of before and after. Take me when I am well-rested and establish a baseline driving performance. Then take me when I am 18 hours out (after being well-rested, as stated above) and compare the same performance. I would expect to see a drop in performance, but I highly doubt it would be as exaggerated as this claims. I would not presume that I am indicative of the normal population, but I think I would stand as a counter-example to the absolute veracity of that statement.

I am not arguing against moderation in our sleeping patterns, and I am not contesting the results of the many studies published. I just find it hard to swallow when we draw these conclusions and state them like they are universal truths about all people in all circumstances when the reality is that people and circumstances vary far more than the studies account for, especially since we don't really understand the causal relation between sleep and performance.
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Yep! We try to localize the time.
Usability enhancement suggestion: When hovering, show the column the mouse is on. And if user clicks on anywhere on the board, put the new play mark on that column.
https://github.com/d5/node.native
Nah, it's a "when it's done" work in progress.

You can try pinging him on @pinboard or @baconmeteor.
Yay! We have now finally been able to add support for Hotmail in YippieMove[1]. It has been one of the most popular feature requests since we launched back in '08.

[1] http://www.yippiemove.com
No, he has not asserted that vim doesn't have modes and if you're seriously claiming that then it is clear that you have a serious cognitive problem
6. Creatures like this shake my faith in evolution.

Why? It's easy to imagine a couple of touching pieces in the ancestor of the issid that aided in synchronizing the jumping mechanics.

Over time, mutations in those touching pieces interlocked more firmly until they resembled what we think of as gears. There was pressure on those mutations to proceed toward gears since the gear mechanism is a potentially successful one for achieving the goal of survival through jumping very far, very quickly.

Evolution has yielded some astoundingly more impressive structures. Take a look at this video that explains your own muscle contractions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ309LfHQ3M

The fact that our brains can pattern match the semblance of gears in the issid with gears that we created is a much more impressive development than the gears of the issid themselves.
Thanks! One way to beat it is to play on mobile.
No it's not automated. Although it would be possible to mechanical turk if you train in the rules.

One thing I forgot to mention is that in edge cases what you do is send off an auto email to the registrant with a challenge question or requesting additional information from them. Or you say that the bank has declined the charge.

So for example if the person says they are "Bob Wagner" a business owner living in the US but replies to the email using broken english or doesn't understand the question you know something is wrong. Of course you try and do it in a way that doesn't tip them off that you suspect anything (other than in the case where you tell them that the credit card has been declined (when it hasn't) to see how they respond). Someone who has committed fraud will of course be paranoid. In fact a kid using his mothers credit card will be paranoid and respond in a unique way that says "shit" in some way shape or form.

Edit: Auto email must be formatted and appear to have been personally written by a person just to the recipient. Otherwise many cases won't be responded to at all.
While the video is amazing, the fact that statistical computer vision techniques aren't fooled in the least is astounding. It's not a purely visual trick, so much as a psychovisual one. Kind of like lossy compression of the surroundings.
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Just a small point of order, but if a judge issued a warrant for your cell phone records, then the NSA had nothing at all to do with it, and it went through due process.
> If a theory makes coherent, testable predictions, and if the predictions can be tested empirically, then there's a basis for falsification. Economics doesn't have this property.

The subject matter of economics certainly involves the kind of observable quantifiable results that admit of falsifiable hypotheses.

Its true that many of the interesting hypotheses offered in the field are falsfiable in principle but faced with significant pragmatic difficulties in conducting unambiguous tests which leads to the practical tests frequently providing ambiguous results, and that many of the practical-and-unambiguous falsification tests are unsatisfying (in that, while they could unambiguously falsify the hypotheses they are offered as tests for, they aren't differential tests wherein the result that fails to falsify one interesting hypothesis necessary does falsify a competing interesting hypothesis.)

This doesn't make economics "not a science". It makes it a difficult science.

(The fact that the questions in the domain are often important to public policy and other decisions in which lots of people with lots of resources have vested interest also results in a lot of things in the field being oversold to decision-makers, but that's equally true in similarly salient physical science fields that don't face the same kinds of testing difficulties, and is irrelevant to whether the field is a scientific one.)
42floors and others target HN because it's easy to pretend this is the target audience for virtually anything and watch those pageviews roll in.

There's a very simple way to tell if HN is really your target audience ... is writing startup bla bla that has nothing to do with your company the only way to get your company on the front page?
Ugh, no. This isn't an Apple vs Google or Apple against the world issue.

Wired is simply reporting the news and making people aware of potential pitfalls with using fingerprint ID on a device like this. Smartphones and tables are very popular now so what is in vogue is reporting on them.

Thanks to revelations of NSA surveillance of the last few months, these privacy-related topics are coming up more frequently now.

And, well, there's this...

1. http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/09/nsa-calls-iphone-users-zom...

2. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-...
There might be some motherboards with built-in WiFi chips that support PXE with configurable access point and security settings. Maybe try a Duck Duck Go search for wifi PXE.

There's no way for the BIOS to know your WPA key automatically, of course, and in general, you'll need wired Ethernet for PXE.
>Since the finger is not the evidence itself

only until it is an attached part of your body :) I can see how destroying the tip of your finger and cutting after that is ok, while in reverse would be a destruction of evidence.
Maybe a little cruel but I'd be interested in some sort of study where a large number of issus' are placed in an environment with a couple of predators.

Repeat this with young and adult versions and see if/how much the gear system (adults don't have it) improves the odds of surviving attacks.
> They need everything to be perfect and they need it done yesterday.

Nothing is ever perfect of course, but this is never a problem because these demanding clients always turn out to be capable of accepting reality after all. If you would make reality even harder and suddenly make it illegal for bankers to work at night, no one would be surprised to see deals still being done.

I find it hard to believe that working so much that your faculties are diminished brings something valuable to a job. It's more likely that this has something to do with social dynamics. It could be just a convention that was needed to please those who decide on your promotion, a way to signal your dedication, or a way to protect yourself against what others could do to you when you're not here. Finding a way to get rid of this would surely benefit all. This seems obvious now that one worker died of it.

> Deals are fragile creatures

So are we
Nice work -- that's a hard problem. I've felt some of this pain as I helped Cloudant customers make hot migrations from mongo to into Cloudant. Your first two figures make it clear just how challenging hot-replications are (especially master-master), not to mention handling failure scenarios. For all of the great things about Mongo, there's something very awesome to be said for CouchDB's MVCC replication model. Glad to see that you're open sourcing those tools. Maybe they could be extended to make a MongoDB <==> CouchDB replicator.
You just need 1 mole inside Intel. I've been to multiple large corps, there are no secrets once you are in.

Plus, NSA has the capability to reverse engineer chips at the physical level.
Kenya finds huge water reserve
You know what I think? I think wired just wanted to say the word iphone in an article today.
There are alternative reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456
It's just a good 'ol download-and-play. I don't expect we need streaming, but bitrate switching would be interesting.
Things To Know Before Refusing To Answer Questions At Passport Control (2010)
And Voyager 1 isn't expected to pass the star AC+79 3888 (in the 'Little Dipper') until 40,272 AD.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html
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The flaw with your thinking is you don't actually know what was important or worthwhile until after it happened, and it may take years for that to really play out. Some of the best employees and friends I've ever had came about through an unproductive hour or two, filled with argument. As much as we'd like to think we can judge interactions within a few minutes of them happening, we can't. The funny thing is, the same rule applies...to startups! When you try to compartmentalise and distill everything into a snap judgment you just end up making mistakes and missing opportunities.
I like reducing the number of annotations which is one reason I like the SparkJava approach.
Unobviously bad code and how to avoid it
Submitter here. HN'ers may be occasionally asked by non-technically-savvy people, "Why are we spending so much on science/technology/space when there are so many problems here on Earth?"

This article is a good answer to those kinds of questions.
I agree, but I would agreed with you at the end of Season 1.

The whole show one bad cry away from being a zombie chick flick. The writing and scenes are just bad, unrealistic(if that quality means anything here, which I feel it does) and just so stupidly emotional.

Ugh, don't people want anything makes them think anymore, this whole mass market shit is catered for those with not so much critical thinking ability. Maybe I'm lacking some emotional intelligence, but wasting my attention on petty and shallow relationships and trying to delay the plot from continuing was acceptable during the Dragonball Z days but not now.

Take an amazing show like Burn Notice and apply that methodology to creating action, drama or what have you. If you look at the plot over the 8 seasons, you will notice for sure that the story cannot really top the first few seasons, but it doesn't matter. The execution of the show is what really matters, and a certain level sophistication, acting and chemistry is important.

These shows lack any direction or purpose and that's important.
I agree with this, and (1) is kind of the warning I was trying to spread to other business owners, for whom this is NOT just a side project. I can get around this. Other people and businesses seem to be going "all in" on Facebook, without realizing what a huge risk they are taking.
I understood and understand the risk. That's part of the game I'm playing with them, but I also have the right to call them out when I don't like it, and to bring attention to this problem that others might have at some point.
"He don't tip? Whaddaya mean you don't tip?"
Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping! (2008)
it's a free to play game, so they need a way to talk you into spending money :)
This is why I just say pay people a livable wage and forget about all of this bullshit - the only people this helps are the business owners. And lets face it they are already getting way too many tax breaks. The waiters will get screwed and the customers always feel as though they should give more. If you paid people a decent salary, they wouldn't have to depend on the crumbs you leave them.
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Why do they say the gears "look nothing like what you'd find in your car"? They look very similar to me.
>> It is Damian. Go.

Agreed, it is well worth the risk of sanity loss. :-)
Hey guys we just redesigned our email marketing website from scratch with a big focus on simplicity. Interested in knowing what you guys think. Some questions that may come are, what's the difference between RedCappi and the other guys? Well for one, RedCappi is not as expensive as the other guys and the process of creating an email campaign is a lot more straightforward as well.
Really excited to get the ball rolling in America!
Sure, Greenwald moved to Brazil because of one US policy and now stays there because of another. But also, Snowden quite likely contacted Greenwald because he was a well known US journalist of high principles who wasn't located in the US. So there you are.
I still think you see me through some kind of tinted shades which makes you think I am saying things I am not saying.

However, I have run out of ideas on how to explain myself in yet other ways.

EDIT: I think now that we are having a word definition debate here. When you say that “many conferences aren't like that“, then I would call those themed parties, not conferences.
You didn't find racism, you found accusations of racism made on the internet. The difference is enough to make me think the title should be different.

A larger number of accusations of racism might indicate a problem, but there is no way to get there from just the data available on yelp.

Disclaimer: Live in Houston. Not super-attached, but figured we may as well get that out there.
Here's the clip of that monologue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HzHSeV9v8
Looking back and connecting the dots
I agree with you but the expectation always needs to match reality. Many civilization had fallen to this sort of ignorance.
Skins and Coupling were also big hits in the UK, but their US versions flopped.
I decided to uninstall flash on my work computer (pc win 7) a while ago.

I occasionally watch Youtube videos and it's getting better and better with time, I sometimes have to switch to chrome because some of the videos are not encoded for html5 but I would really recommend to ditch flash player and not be bothered by the constant updates anymore.
Nearly a year ago I posted a positive comment on HN about Windows 8, and was then accused (by TWO individuals) of astroturfing.

The anti-M$ hate & paranoia that HN seems to have inherited from /. seems so beyond antiquated in this day and age.

On topic: This is great news. Congratulations to MS.
"Dinner should be enough pizza for X people" will totally get pizza for the crowd if the system I am interacting with is sufficiently smart. Eventually, the system will say "Sorry, I don't see how to do that." If we're still smarter (in relevant respects) than the system, then we can instruct it further...

I think generally, a move to a declarative specification and operational constraints, plus some operational "here's how you do it" to fill in gaps, would be a good long-term move.
Actually they got the law exactly wrong. "If the police demand that you give them the key to a lockbox that happens to contain incriminating evidence" you don't have to turn the key over without a warrant. The police have to have good knowledge that the incriminating evidence in the lockbox. And passwords are just a key. This has already gone through the courts, the courts can impel you to turn over your password, if they have evidence to suggest your computer has incriminating evidence. This won't be any different, they can't take your fingerprint or dna without probable cause. I don't see how it is any different.
I dont understand how MongoDB can stay as a shiny tool given its long list of shortcomings. It is so elastic that I think it really has no true form (object cache, mq, relational??, key-value bucket).
Lately I haven't read any news about a company migrating to Mongo, but rather most were either departing from mongo because of some catastrophic outage or some mission impossible operation to handle the shortcomings, like this one.
In its current state it looks more like a prototyping tool that allows you to delay some tech decisions until your product matures, rather than a production tool. Or it is just me that wants at least 5 major versions on his production database.
Consent. You lack it.
It's not.

The button is there to temporarily (or not) enable a tracker, when it's necessary for function - apparently, Ghostery decided the text is behind a tracker. It's strange though, I'm using Ghostery too (latest version), nothing enabled, and I didn't get the play button.
Given that most restaurants fail rather quickly you would be hard pressed to make the claim that the owners are stealing all the money.
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Yes. But if the socialising and drinking activities are not organized to be conducive to networking, then it's a party with no benefit to the goals of the conference.

See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376546 where I already agreed that “a conference can (and perhaps should) have many elements of a party in it”.
I have a user account on the ubuntu forums that I haven't used in 6 or 7 years. Some weeks ago I posted a question about a specific software upgrade problem in the forums and realized I had never posted there. So there goes my one post for a ~9 years-old account.

Of course, as usual and as expected, I found out the answer 2 minutes after posting my question.

edit: it's 9 years-old account.
Uhhuh...
There IS homework in finland, on all degrees of school.
There are 17-20 students / teacher on average in elementary school, but some areas sport figures of 40+ (But true: almost all of the teachers have university degree on suitable field, quite often pedagogy.)
55% went to college (2010)
(References in Finnish:
http://www.minedu.fi/etusivu/arkisto/2012/1406/koulutus.html...
http://www.oph.fi/download/131532_Opettajat_Suomessa_2010.pd...)
Hmmm... so I the recipe for Befunge would be: 1. Pour a pint of beer 2. Pour a shot glass of vodka 3. Drop the glass into the beer 4. Drink quickly 5. Start flowing in all directions
If you show these investors a PC demo, they'll show you the door
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I'm gonna be pedantic and bring up this line:

> Don’t leave out the smiley. People dig smileys. :-)

Am I the only one that gets put off by that? I always see it as either disingenuous, passive aggressive, or creepy. I feel even weirder when people use ";-)" or something similar.
One question would be if you could upload the document once and then somehow trigger a very tiny edit that causes them to rescan it.

That does seem likely - dropbox tries to only upload diffs, when a file gets changed: https://www.dropbox.com/help/8/en
Over here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374955) you say, "I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors."

Why not? I'm afraid you haven't had anything good. There's no reason you shouldn't like "more refined" (good) products if you like the bad ones. Also, it's not just the quality of the product. For instance, Jaegermeister is a quality product, but the drink he makes with it is arbitrary. Would you like a tomato, peanut butter, and mustard sandwich?

The offer stands. Take me up. I'll buy you a drink.
Dropbox uses (used?) Crocodoc to do its document previews, which would be interesting now that Crocodoc has been acquired by Box (a Dropbox competitor). Crocodoc actually ran full Windows VMs to have Word interpret Word, unlike what was speculated elsewhere here (using LibreOffice) - it turns out pretty much everything else sucks pretty badly at rendering Word docs, largely because the format is a bloody nightmare of binary encoded blobs including OLE embeds, etc. My understanding was that these VMs were run on AWS Windows instances, which explains why the document was seen opened on an AWS cluster. I know they had a fun nightmare of a time getting the right licenses from Microsoft to do this.
Office 365 support has been ok to us so far (unlike partner support which is shit). Had a couple of hours here and there down but compared to the cost of self-hosting exchange, it's pretty damn good.
You sound an awful lot like a troll. I have more experience with postgresql than that, and it is literally the single least problematic major software project I've ever used.