skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because they want to make $$
I only ever saw retweeted or starred tweets from it (as I quit direct twitter a while back, deciding instead to view it only through Stellar).

I had assumed that what I saw was a tiny proportion of tweets — those that were funny and/or poetic. If I'd know they all were than I'm sure I would have never thought it was a bot.
Thanks for that. I read and very much enjoyed the essays collected in The Control of Nature and never thought to look for more by the same author.
User privacy?
> Unfortunately, the people who have to pass laws for non-FPTP voting, are the people it would displace

In many states, the only people needed to pass laws for non-FPTP voting are the people of the state -- at least for elections other than those for Presidential electors, because of initiative/referendum processes.

Sure, under the Constitution, the rules for electing Presidential electors are left to state legislatures, but once you've changed the election rules for those offices, it should be easier to get people in them that aren't attached to FPTP.
Definitely this. I manage a 20,000+ GApps domain and a lot of folks weren't affected at all, but some people (myself included) only received a trickle of messages all day, with a flood coming in late afternoon.
There are technologies today , for example teleconference rooms, which probably capture most verbal and non-verbal feedbackin meetings, to the points participants claim it's like being there.

It would be interesting to do an experiment:isolate someone for a period of time, but let him have full contact with family and friends via the best electronic means we have , and measure the impact of his mood and well-being.
The main problem is the data is stuck in a bitmap, because it's 1985? The citations are graphics, you can't click them, you can't copy the data out and make your own charts, etc etc.

Make some accessible html5 infographics, then we'll talk
They wouldn't collect the information at all if they cared about privacy.
What are the ramifications if this is what happened?

I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
My favorite mystery blog: http://moneyistheway.blogspot.com/

He's the world's foremost financial shaman. The blog ranges from the bizarre to the illucid.

Another awesome one along a slightly different genre line: http://www.johntitor.com/
We definitely need something like that in the Southeast. Our infrastructure is so awful. My dream would be high speed rail between all the major cities and SEC colleges, and Panama City.
Watergate was probably the turning point though, that destroyed trust in the establishment. Or was it World War I?
By the way, anyone who's sceptical of Linux gaming needs to get on Steam, and see what's available for Linux - right now. There are plenty of AAA quality titles already, with many more to come.

Or, for anyone with an Nvidia card and the Nvidia drivers, just download a Unigine demo...
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Hosting your own servers doesn't require foregoing virtualization and containers. All the tools listed in the article that aid deployment can be used on your own hardware, and should be! Also, if you suddenly need 10 or 100 new machines, EC2 is still there - you've not sworn it off forever.

Using the cloud, your own servers, or both should be a deliberate decision based on cost and your real business needs. Not thinking about this seriously is doing yourself a disservice.
Understanding Serialization-Deserialization Vulnerabilities
John Carmack and Michael Abrash.
Clearly the McKinsey infographic guys never took geometry. I'm surprised at the elementary mistakes like scaling bubble charts by radius rather than by area. Makes the Asia airmarket growth look like 37000% rather than the actual 600%.
Tribalism will always exist, though it may resolve around other things than religion, skin color or national allegiance.

Life happens on the boundaries between chaos and stasis (what rayiner says in another comment in different words). It's not a coincidence that life depends on liquid water, the boundary between chaotic water vapor and static ice. It's not a coincidence that either too low or too high a mutation rate would break evolution.

This same holds true for all other life-like complex systems such as human culture and society.
Kickstart Guernica
On the plus side, they only charged me an oversize fee ~$30 for my bicycle, versus the astounding $200 US Airways charges one-way.
My favorite tweet:

> Unfortunately, as you already know, people.

You might also just not get it. Everyone's tastes are different.
From what I've poked at, I'm not sure I agree with you. Animations are slower and frequently un-interruptable, where 6 was generally faster and better about that kind of thing. The UI is definitely more cohesive on 6, and definitely has better and more consistent affordance. There are new-system bugs to get patched (system-level and apps updating to handle the new behavior).

For now at the very least, 6 is faster, more consistent, more stable, and better supported by both devices and apps. Maybe they'll fix most of that soon - with an initial showing this bad, I'm less hopeful than I normally would be. Bigger changes will be harder to swallow until iOS 8.
Really good to know in few minutes what to know about a topic from social media perspective.
I will not miss things of these social media I don't read but I have to know what they are talking about, and you search engine aggreator is good for this sum up.
Group chat, photos, and phone number are all part of MMS too.

iMessage also uses your phone number, but can use an email address as well.
Looks like a sound application of the "make it as easy as possible for people to give you money" principle. Well done.
We think it's true for the same reason many people talk about Hacker News as though it's the only place that attracts talent, and as though talent universally flocks there.

It's $INGROUP bias, and sectionalism. On the one hand it's self-affirming ("I go to conferences, I keep current on Hacker News, these are things good developers do, I'm a good developer"), and on the other hand it's trendy and convenient ("I'm going to post my job ad on Hacker News because that's the trendy place to be for good developers").

I think it's ultimately an echo chamber effect. I'm guilty of associating Hacker News with talented developers, but I'm aware of this bias and it's because I pay attention and follow the posts of people who have more or less proven themselves.

I think it would be very difficult to validate these assumptions.
As others have noted, IPython itself works perfectly fine with Python 3.3 (I'm running it with 3.3.2 here). There must be something wrong with your configuration, or you might have some very old version of IPython (<0.11, released on 31 July 2011)
I must be the only one who loves it. It just feels so much nicer to use. There are the little annoyances, sure, but things like the Reminders app were in iOS 6 anyway.
Any links for this study?
Bigotry aren't institutions to themselves, though. They're traits of society, of the state, of culture. However, maybe cultures in of itself are being rejected alongside traits such as bigotry. The baby with the bathwater.
Please do a hard refresh (ctrl-r) and let me know if this doesn't fix it (email in profile and on site). I had to push some bug fixes recently and you might have some old cache files causing problems.
Got it and I understand your comment a bit better. I hadn't thought of the fingerprint lifted from the phone scenario.

You do have a very valid argument.
Dilma Rousseff's UN Speech: Brazilian President Calls U.S. Spying 'Meddling'
I'm still convinced it was an aberration, but yes, a lousy one :-) I've purchased 5 of the Dell Ultrasharp 24" models (and a handful of older Dell monitors) and been happy with all of them. In a way of bringing the convo back at least somewhat on-topic, supposedly the Dell panels are from the same manufacturer as the Apple display / iMac panels, so take that how you will.
Thanks, going immutable with all of our infrastructure made our system way more stable and productive
My photo sharing app isn't a "big" problem?! There are people running businesses that can actually kill people if mismanaged?!
True, but I don't think there is a way to get this data in session and be able to get detailed funnel progression by keyword. That also limits dynamic content based on keywords.
I haven't used straight SMS for many years now. I use Google Voice. But before I started using Google Voice, I used to use Handcent SMS which does all of that. Check it out if you are interested - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handcent.n...
Well this makes Google Analytics awfully pointless for what most people care about most of the time...
With all of these iOS7 bashing articles I've read, I really expected to be perturbed by the upgrade. So far I've found very little to complain about. To me, the call to actions are now clearer than they've ever been because so much of the interface is simplified. I simply don't have these problems of being thrown off by an "incorrectly" used color. There's just not a lot of detail to mentally parse when looking at the interface.

I wonder how many people that aren't looking at this with a UX hat on are actually experiencing these problems.
Having made deployment and devops my special interest, when Docker appeared it ticked a lot of the boxes that I was trying to solve the hard way (see https://github.com/gerhard/deliver/pull/38). It's an amazing utility, so happy that we can contribute to the ecosystem ; )
If you've used both you can tell that UIKit is the version 2 or 3 of AppKit, there are many things where UIKit is pleasant to use and AppKit is irritating for similar things.
This is why I deleted my LinkedIn account
I noticed just this morning that Comcast had switched cable modem to be IPV6 only. Last week it was IPV4. There have been a couple of outages lately so I've occasionally been pinging google.com to see if my connection is up. Last week it pinged an IPV4 address, today it's IPV6.

As a consumer of the internets, is there any 'tangible' benefit I can hope to see with IPV6 from my service provider?
Apple are pushing both iOS and Mac developers to use autolayout (especially on the iOS side), which is meant to solve some of these problems.

I say 'meant to' because autolayout is far from perfect, but there's a pretty clear shift on the iOS side from a "code to a fixed 320x480 window" to a "write a UI that can adapt to different sizes gracefully". For example, apps should in iOS 7 really now be able to handle varying text sizes (and thus layout) according to user preference.
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Yes it does ;)

Pivoting in the airline business is difficult, changing from planes to boats is cumbersome; scaling is the only option.

(And my planes scaled from toy size to 1:1)
Oh.

OK. So the websites cannot "analyze me" as properly.

I am OK with that.
I agree. But, the carriers love charging for text messaging bundles, so I can't imagine them pushing for something else, unless its equally as bad like MMS. So we are left with this crappy state of fragmented and proprietary messaging systems.

We even have standard messaging protocols (XMPP), so it is not a technical hurdle. Merely there is no business opportunity to commoditize messaging, so it hasn't happened.
Almost half the jobs Americans thought were safe will soon be done by robots
What I want to know is how people deal with innodb's dirty horrible secret - how ibdata can grow to infinite massive sizes and can never be reduced, ever. Regardless if you are using "file per table".

It is a ten year old bug [1] never addressed, no tools ever made to optimize it, and the larger your data, the sooner it will come to bite you. Doesn't matter if you are using mysql, percona or mariadb.

[1] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341
Making custom OSX controls is easy with PaintCode (http://www.paintcodeapp.com). It is a vector drawing app that generates Objective-C drawing code.
Are you using Chrome? I believe this is a known bug. I just hit back repeatedly until I'm free to go.
This indeed. A smart company will do a cost-benefit analysis, not blindly go to the cloud, or 'double-down'. There are great benefits to doing things (maybe even your entire environment) on 'The Cloud', but sometimes physical hardware (rented or purchased) will be a better investment in the long-run. Also, Hybrid Cloud is big at the moment (physical servers for day-to-day traffic and either dev tasks on the cloud, or expansion/failover).
Second Life's strange second life
Ditto! You can do it, just smart small, try it out and start with something that has almost no impact on your life if you fail. In fact, I like the saying "fail, and fail often" - it means you learn a lot!
Yep. Discovered this one today. Completely ridiculous.

If anyone wants evidence that iOS 7 was rushed, all they need to do is see things like that (and the parent post). All this is fixable though, rather than something endemic in the design of iOS 7, so I'm hopeful it'll get fixed soon enough.
Use your Galaxy S4 in the cold without special gloves
Ha! That's great, thanks! I had a feeling Jacob Harris was behind that, as he was also behind @nytimes_ebooks.
I absolutely agree, but oftentimes small cost optimisations are done by teams without thinking about how this impacts the speed with which they can build their business.

The cloud is not the definitive answer for all teams, but leaving all the power cloud computing gives for a little cheaper hosting at the beginning of a project seems wrong to me.
Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Laravel is "the PHP framework for web artisans." It's powerful, yet easy-to-use CLI makes development, testing, and deployment a breeze! Check it out at http://laravel.com
(needs citation)

You won't find one, given that it's not true.

Are you saying that's any better?

Are you actually asking if accidentally killing innocent people is better than routinely and intentionally killing innocent people, like this: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C01%5C11...?
Brilliant Minds
I love the honesty that always shines through your posts, thank you.
The thinking that gave rise to this article is a mess. It's not a hypothesis, but a FACT that someone can be 10x productive than other person.

You were likely once 10x less productive than you are now when you first touched a new language.

Citing a number of reasons why someone may want to create this myth, does not make it a myth. Pretty ridiculous.
In the series that shows present day earth going backwards, why when the ice age is shown only the ice sheet at the North pole is enlarged? Shouldn't the ice sheet at the South pole increase in size as well?
Frankly, I think it's just ugly. I didn't track the internet hype around it, so after updating and seeing it for first time yesterday I was shocked (What have you done to my phone?! I want the pretty iOS6 icons back!).
Your site isn't a startup.
Hosting your own servers doesn't require foregoing virtualization and containers.

This is a critical point. In every recent hardware project where we've deployed big, beefy servers to colocation, the first step was deciding on the virtualization platform and the automation tools to manage it, as the flexibility, scaling, and reliability concerns are principal now. I have to hope that no one thinks of in terms of a physical box that is the database server, etc, any more.

And worth noting that on a couple of medium-range Dell servers you literally can spin up and down hundreds of virtual machines, obviously depending upon size and scale.

Even on a recent low end OVH server I requisitioned, the first thing I did was configure libvirt. The base image becomes almost irrelevant.
The ThinkPad series has had, for as long as I can remember (including the ThinkPad I got last Christmas), a magnesium rollcage/inner frame [1]. Build quality is more than what you see with your eyes.

Sure, it's not pretty and isn't unibody, but that doesn't mean the build quality is uncomparable if you're looking at it from a "ruggedness" perspective.

Disclaimer: I owned and used a 13" unibody macbook pro for 3 years.

[1] http://www.lenovo.com/us/laptop/Thinkpad-notebooks/
Well, it seems thinking behind salaries at startups in London is simple - get a cheap workforce (ideally fresh uni graduates) and let them falsely believe that they can get rich by giving them a tiny slice of stock options. Ironically the people who are hiring them would very often badly struggle passing tech interview at another company - especially when sometimes you're interviewed by people who have no background in CS.
Loved this book. Bought a few copies for friends to hopefully inspire them about what a small, scrappy team of talented individuals can achieve (and the fun... and pitfalls along the way).
> WELCOME TO THE CRAPTOPOCLYPSE: From now on, every security discussion wastes 15 minutes on “but did the NSA DO IT?!?!’ no matter how absurd.

https://twitter.com/grahamvsworld/status/375793987992715264

I'd be more curious to see the actual report before speculating.
>A smart company will do a cost-benefit analysis, not blindly go to the cloud

But often times those cost-benefit analysis don't take into account how quickly you can improve and work on your infrastructure. The performance or cost improvements need to be a lot to slow down your team even a bit.

Especially for startups this can hit them very hard.
I understand that with the latest Apple TV update Airplay is now proprietary. Ie. wrapped in Apple's FairPlay DRM spec. So, any third party non-licensed Airplay services are now dead.

With the US' draconian DMCA law in place, it also now illegal to build any devices that Apple hasn't licensed to use Airplay on your Apple TV.
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Just curious, but how much would a list of 1-million targeted emails go for? High five figures? Low six figures?

I'm trying to put myself in perspective of his struggle -- was he potentially buying another year of runway? Another month?
Absolutely yes to "Pass the Hacker News test". Seneca's letter Epistle XI is one of my favorites and teaches this exact lesson.

It closes with "Cherish some man of high character, and keep him ever before your eyes, living as if he were watching you, and ordering all your actions as if he beheld them." http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_1.html#‘XI1

I've found it to be a great technique for making better decisions.
Trust is important!

see :"AbbVie representative says info on adverse effects of drugs should be considered commercially confidential"
( 6th September 2013 )

" On the other hand, there are other companies suing the European Medicines Agency to prevent release of clinical trial information. One of those companies, AbbVie, has just argued that information about adverse effects of drugs “is confidential commercial information because if released other companies could use it to help them get products approved.” Watch Neal Parker of AbbVie say this at a meeting hosted by EFPIA, the European pharmaceutical industry body, in Brussels:

The Head of the Dutch medicines evaluation board asked Parker in response “You think that adverse events are commercially sensitive information? … You are aware that you are working in the healthcare industry, with patients and human beings?”

Hans Georg Eichler, the EMA’s senior medical officer, said “I have been a regulator for many years and I am totally flabbergasted.”

AbbVie representative Neal Parker went on to say that AbbVie will release information on adverse events to researchers who request it and who promise not to share it with competitors, on a case by case basis. This is what other companies do too. Other companies are not claiming that this is commercially confidential information.

If the views of those like AbbVie prevail and information from drug trials is kept behind closed doors doctors won’t know it, researchers won’t know it and patients will suffer. Sign the petition calling for all clinical trials to be registered and results reported and help us by donating to the AllTrials campaign."

http://www.alltrials.net/2013/2338/
If that were the case why would gregkh say that "There will be a report later this year".
Still an improvement over the other consoles which are completely proprietary and locked down. I think it's great that Linux is gaining a wider audience regardless of whether it's due to commercial, technical or ideological reasons. Some people will never be happy...
I think what's important is looking at the tradeoffs - which shortcuts make sense and which ones don't?
Yep, this is the lesson of not burning bridges that you worked so hard to create, even if it makes your life harder in the short run, it will work out in the long run.

Recently a guy applied to the current place I am working, and unfortunately I had to explain to my superiors about his history of poor interpersonal skills at another job that we worked together at. This guy wont be getting a job now.

Work hard to make sure that when you leave, it will pay dividends in the future.
"mixing relevance and popularity is nothing short of impossible in Elasticsearch. Either you sort by relevance or by using a popularity attribute, you cannot mix both."

This is a false statement,

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/custo...

This combined with scripts give you unlimited possibilities to alter you score based on whatever you please. The syntax is a bit wonky in the current version perhaps but awesomeness is on the way:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/3423

"Unfortunately Elasticsearch fuzzy matching does not work out of the box, is complex to customize, and does not provide the ability to highlight prefixes."

There are more ways to catch typo's then fuzzy and levensteins, ngrams for instance. Elasticsearch allows you to do both but yes its true you have to know your way around analyzers/tokenizers and mapping a little bit to get the best results in elasticsearch. If you use the ngrams approach highlighting also works alot better.

"This sorting configuration might seem pretty explicit, but it is in fact quite dangerous as it conflicts with the boost on fields. To better understand the problem, let’s look at the query ‘the rains’:"

Its true sorting trumps boosting, but given the assumption you cannot alter _score this whole section seems contrived.

In the instant search section they use elasticsearch's querstring query to search for `world w*` this is indeed a very slow way since it will generate a wildcard query in the background they probably should have written the query using a phrase prefix query.
Observations from this year's NSA Open Source Industry Day
Do you have an extension blocking ads? I found the same problem and disabling the extension, stopped the problem occurring.
Now Exxon just needs to buy Boeing and then start and airline bringing the full powers of vertical integration to bear. That's probably the only way to make a dime consistently.
Coral Cache link.

http://blog.42floors.com.nyud.net/startups-die/#.UkHADudq0Qm
Apple iCloud: Broken by Design
What he/she really means is that it's not profitable. Wet leases are used to fill in gaps for airlines, you don't build an entire airline out of wet leases. If you did you're not doing much other than being a middle man doing bookings for other airlines, and you probably won't be able to compete on price.

Major commercial air travel is a commodity business. Where opportunity lies is perhaps in offering air travel solutions that bypass the hassle of airports. Shuttles between SF, LA or Houston and Dallas for example. These are heavily trafficked routes with mostly business travelers who would love to avoid long security lines and drive right up to a plane at a small airport.
Understood, but thats not really what I am asking. I want to know what is SUPPOSED to stop this kinda thing from happening in a well run market, regardless of whether the US is or isnt a well run market.