skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a discussion about this recently saying that it was highly unlikely. All the source was in Git and every git commit references the previous commit, making it highly challenging to modify an old commit without also modifying the commit id. More details: http://archive.is/Khq7R
Red Hat brings JBoss middleware to PaaS cloud
High barriers to entry are actually considered a positive for a business. If it's hard to enter, you won't have new competitors casually trying to encroach just because margins look attractive.

Of course the airlines have issues with barriers to exit too, which come with their own problems.

The interesting thing to me is how a vendor is trying to create demand by encouraging the creation of customers. And it's not a new world tech company that's doing this.
I would suggest that you might have misunderstood the level of complexity required to pull this off.

Its not a simple task to hook up an epaper display to an atmega328

also, PCB design is not trivial, especially with odd surfacemount connectors
Teenager's Anti-Flu Research Earns Top Honors at Google Science Fair
Gnome looks ready to remove middle-click paste
Cisco's Internet of Everything Router
Agreed, especially the part where he describes how he called up Boeing and asked how to buy a 747. Great book.
Nate Silver - Interview
Thank you. It's great to have sources and they seem very good.

I would never have guessed that the number of people taking antidepressant drugs would be so high.
Right I think this is a very valid point, but I don't think however the thought of the vast majority of stockholders was that the ideal was to sell to Microsoft after losing almost all of its value.

I think the fundamental issue most people are having is that it seems like the board decided that the company should be sold at penny's on the dollar while they felt it could have been sold at nickles on the dollar.
I don't like how the swiping changed. Swiping right on emails and SMS used to bring up the delete. Now it's swipe left :(
This sounds an awfully lot like: "To be rich all you have to do is make a ton of money and then you can buy whatever you want" -- yes... I absolutely agree, but there is an ocean sized gap of potentially company-crippling decisions between "heavily subsidize/give away" and "large enough install base, publishers will follow" :)
HN user dergachev mentioned this on yesterday's discussion moving away from AWS ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431126 )

> OVH actually supports running the Proxmox* virtualization distro on their servers

As noted in the response there, limiting this to one physical server does introduce a single point of failure.

* http://www.proxmox.com/
Besides the garish colors... I don't like that the user interface has lost definition. You don't know whether something on screen is actionable or not. Instead of buttons, there is just floating text. Icons in apps have gone or have been replaced with minimalistic line drawings that are hard to recognize. And finally, I thought they would do something clever with animations and blurring, but in the end it's mostly eye-candy.
Everything is the Same: Modeling Engineered Systems
I didn't expect it to be a spambot per se, but I did expect it to be some sort of automated scraping of the site. Because "human posts semi-random words" is more or less trivial, but "human teaches neural net to perform broken poetry while scraping an ebooks site" is much more exciting.

I wanted it to be something like http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/No,_We_Need_a_Neural_Network...
And even then, if you have one device with only one Thunderbolt port, you can always place it at the end of the chain.
The easiest way is to avoid running into the problem.

The main reason the central table space grows is due to rollback segments. To avoid collecting a lot of them there are two tips (in addition to file per table you mentioned):

1. Use multi-threaded purge.
2. Avoid very long running transactions (ie. 12+ hours)

Once we have done that, we don't really see this problem any longer.
When exactly did the government threaten Snowden? What did they threaten him with?

Assuming that they threatened him with prison time (I believe he was already out of the country), is the government not allowed to try and convict people based on the established law of the land if those people are following their personal moral compass? Is "I felt it was the right thing to do" an absolute defense against prosecution?

I am also curious as to how the government is responsible for Snowden fleeing to Moscow. Is Snowden responsible for his own actions or not?
Really, can you have direct access to things like photostream?
New Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Pact: Automating Direct Sales
There are 2 ways to handle strings:
1. All strings are prepended with a length variable
2. Use a NULL character to represent the end of the string

The Unix guys originally chose option 2. To them it made sense because it used fewer extra bits and it allowed you to do strings of any arbitrary length. Unfortunately, every single buffer overflow bug is because of that decision.
I totally agree that 6 years is way too much. It's absolutely absurd. Punishment definitely doesn't fit the crime.
In my UX design classes, we would use the phrase "You can't polish a turd" to describe this situation.
Indeed. You should never, ever just spin up a single physical box, put virtualization on it and go to work. Doing this is not only not engineering for failure, but is setting the company up for failure.
I really like this. I hope some younger people with more time on their hands push this farther.
Couple of relative posts:

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/4ac593aabcaf

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3015446/why-were-so-frustrated-abo...
For some people, once they've been introduced to something, it becomes burned in as the "correct" way of doing it, and any alteration to that procedure or arrangement will be a source of panic and confusion.

There are some people who are stuck in a state where everything is new, they can't make memories. For some it's the opposite, they can't alter what they already know without a whole lot of friction.
Some Thoughts On The Big AngelList Deal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
Not a bug, working as intended.

German region format obviously also emtails German day and month names. That's really quite obvious.
I can confirm this happened to me a year ago and it was extremely frustrating.

I had to call back and forth from Apple/AT&T over the period of two days before they figured out what was happening and disabled it. Missed tons of messages.
i'm not a fan of the whole flat thing. but besides the aesthetics, I can't figure out how to add a bookmark in mobile safari. oy
Yup, but have you actually tried to use 32 levels of gray with only 4k of RAM total?
What's supposed to hedge this for the market is competition. There's nothing anyone can do to stop a dedicated board from tanking a company (for whatever benefit they get from doing so). But what that does is open up an opportunity for a competitor to step up and take the marketshare of the company that is going down.
Yes, not everybody has a hardware keyboard, but at some point

(large install base) * ( lower probability of having a hardware keyboard) > (small install base) * (certainty of having a hardware keyboard)

I'm interested in getting some kind of OOM answer to that equation.

> what kind of apps... are you talking about?

Well for example, here I am, at this moment, typing a comment to you on an iPad with a hardware keyboard.

But to answer your question: heavy email, threaded discussion, bug reporting, data entry (e.g. invoices, grades, tracking numbers, door-to-door, consumer surveys, medical coding, pilot logbook, etc), inventory management, insurance adjusters, real estate listings, pro-grade eBay/Craigslist tools, non-casual games (e.g. Starcraft, Half-Life, etc.), Quicken, MSProject, TurboTax ...
My experience with Berlin startup scene is that Node.js took its niche and its popularity is not growing so rapidly now. There are more projects in Ruby and Python. I see there are couple more Scala jobs appeared and even saw 1-2 in Go.
Some design niggles, but mostly the fact that most things seem slower since upgrading to it.
Ask HN: App renaming dillima
Six months ago I created an Android app to control the Philips Hue smarthome lighting system with little thought given to the name at that time. Since then, the app has grown significantly, and I'm now considering supporting other home lighting systems. I'm about to launch a social color/animation sharing feature that will strongly commit me to the app name & app web domain, so it is time to decide the name for good. I tentatively announced a new name a few weeks ago, but have received negative user feedback, so I am hesitant to continue to the rebrand.

old name: HueMore
+established brand
-namespace conflict on iOS
-negative SEO since don't own domain
+have more users than iOS app
-name very specific to Philips Hue

new name: LampShade.io for Philips Hue
+/- coopt a common english word for familiarity
+ own domain
- .io is awkward in an app/product name
+ great SEO with .io
- user annoyance of rebrand

Edit: web SEO is important here because it ties into Google Play store SEO, and I have competitors
Thanks for your feedback, I am the author of the article.

1) You are right that it is possible to mix both popularity and relevance, but you need to use boost and store everything in the float _score. This is dangerous and has side effects (for example you have a big risk of obtaining at some point a hit with typos before an exact one). It is really difficult to control ranking with boosts.

2) The ngrams approach is indeed an alternative. But it also has major drawbacks in term of relevance, mainly for the proximity between terms.

3) Phrase query is a good way to improve performance but it breaks user experience if the terms are not close together (these hits are not in the search results). It's better to let the proximity do its job and impact the ranking.
I can confirm this exact thing happened to me. A year ago I switched back to Android and after a week of not receiving messages from most of my friends and numerous calls to AT&T/Apple I figured this out.

Really was one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with customer service.
Part of the question here is also, "What did you promise (implicitly or explicitly) when you got those email addresses?" That's really where it becomes an ethics issue. Our data gets sold every day.

Another question is, "Did everyone get paid?" He did the right thing and saw to it that everyone got made whole. If the business goes into bankruptcy and some creditors are not being made whole, it's much harder to not sell the email list if you can do so legally.

It's during tough times that you see what people's ethics really are. Great job by the OP addressing some of these.
Shattering a bullet proof glass in silicon valley (2010)
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
Elop's initial announcement made me wonder if he had not heard about the Osborne.
Yes, it's unlikely they modified the source in git.. But it's possible they were able to download a copy and modify it locally... Possibly adding comments to document certain blocks of code.. Or adding unofficial patches for zfs support... Or worse..
1.5% of messages may include 30% of users. Each affected user may have had some messages delivered quickly and others delayed. If 30% of users had 5% of their messages delayed, then about 1.5% of total messages would be delayed, not considering the difference in volume between users.
One thing that I found confusing about writing mac apps was the vestiges of the old memory models. When I started a new project I just clicked the checkbox for Automatic Reference Counting and assumed I was coding in something like Java. I didn't think about memory management anymore.

I remember having to add annotations to the auto generated getter/setters to inform old memory management systems how to treat things returned from the methods (I'm sure I stated that incorrectly but it has been a while). Bottom line is that it was hard to know what was no longer required when coding with the latest release. If I read tutorials that were a few years old they would confuse me with aspects of memory management.
When the plastic case breaks, can I just take it all off and safely/comfortably use the laptop with only its inner frame? No? Then it's not comparable.

When the plastic latches break off, will my laptop stay closed? No? Then it's not comparable.

When the slider for the latches breaks off, can I still easily and comfortably open my laptop? No? Then it's not comparable.
It appears to be a copy/paste of word salad from 423 days ago by the same user...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304832

...and 527 days ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842382

This user obviously believes this is something very important to communicate. Amazing that it hasn't been edited & improved in that time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697400

You're in for a treat.
Good to know, I'll migrate and spread the word, this is not acceptable.
This isn't in reaction to Valve's SteamOS announcement, is it?
My wife just got an iPhone 5C a few days ago, for all the hype that they are so easy to use, she had a hard time figuring things out. For example, how do you download a photo on facebook or other social networks? It's different for every app. On Android, you open the photo, then press the 'menu' button, and 'save photo'. It's the same in all apps. Apple seems to be missing on the developer documentation concerning common UI patterns. In one app, you have to press a small icon which looks like a box with an arrow pointing right (as if that's supposed to symbolize something like downloading?) and in another app, you have to hold down your finger on the photo for a second, and then use the menu to download. There's no consistency at all on this device. She chose 'Russian' as her language, and half the built-in apps are still in English.
YC S12 startup looking for second engineer. Help us revolutionize testing
We’re an early stage product- and engineering-focused startup looking for our second engineering hire. We know testing is broken – how is it that something so integral to developing great products is so damn time consuming? We are changing that by building a new way to do QA. There's an incredible demand for what we're building, and it's going to change how developers work forever. But we need your help.

Us:

- Reinventing how developers test software

- Seed stage company based in SF (SoMa)

- Backed by YC, A16Z, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, Emmett Shear, Aaron Iba, Geoff Ralston, 2 former Yahoo CTOs among others.

- Currently 3 hackers

- In Alpha with paying customers

Our stack:

- Rails

- Postgres

- Coffeescript

- Backbone

- Git

You:

- Experienced web-software hacker

- Care deeply about simplicity and elegance in interfaces and in code

- Opinionated and diplomatic

- Want to play a major role in shaping our direction

- Have significant experience with personal projects / your own startup

- Live in or ready to relocate to SF

What to expect:

- Work on complex, multi-faceted problems that have not been solved yet

- Freedom to choose what you work on

- Significant equity

- Competitive pay, paid health insurance

- Catered lunches

- Unlimited vacation policy

Email us at letsrevolutionizetesting@gmail.com with Github + LinkedIn + anything else that will convince us you are our 2nd hire.
whoosh :)
What happens in such a hyper-individualistic, post-System world when organized criminals approach the employees of data repositories and use the typical approaches of {payments, blackmail, threats} to directly retrieve, or install back-doors into, troves of user information?

It is certainly not very nice to suspect that there may be great powers watching and manipulating the world, but real harm and manipulation also exist, and that's why we (historically) have security agencies.

Now if they are not doing their job, or if the capabilities and funding they have far outweigh their accomplishments, then yes, we should curtail them. Or if they have become completely internally corrupt, and are providing no safety at all, then yes, perhaps they should be disbanded.

But we would still need an alternative which we do trust (collectively, if not individually) to provide the same services, or people will just be exploited worse by malignant players who don't have even the pretence of moral behaviour.

My line of thinking here might seem to be a conservative one of "don't rock the boat" - but I'm not necessarily proposing inaction/the status-quo; open source does a pretty good job of promoting trust in software where previously there was a large information disparity between developer and customer, for example, and I think that concept could (potentially) apply here too.
Not really. A new airline just started in my town and there is no need to build an airport or buy planes.

The total startup capital, if I remember was around $3 million and then they raised double that a year later on the stock market.

They are not profitable yet but they are pretty competitive with the old/only airline in the country.
They really have. When I look around the current batch of YC companies, I find that virtually every one has a built-in business model from the beginning.

I think the craze of 2007 was that you could make something that would become popular. Popular felt so much better than not popular. Max Levchin once called it blowing up a balloon. They get big fast, but they're just full of air.
Sadly, point 2 is really not new in the US. The amount of data might be but some pretty ugly examples can be found in every decade of the 1900s (maybe not so much in the first two but the 30's were fun).
Even still, when ~70% of the population do not have degrees, it seems insidious to say that programming is one of the few professions that do not require a degree.

I never once said that few professions do not require a degree. The article is about whether college is necessary and I said it was necessary for a number of professions due to the difficulty of getting instruction outside of a university.

You are getting hung up on the word "require". Yes, being a doctor requires a license which is vetted by degree. I'm saying that being a chemist (a US chemist, not the UK version of a pharmacist) doesn't require a degree per se, however, you are going to need to head to a university to be able to get the instruction and resources to be able to properly learn as they are both prohibitively unavailable externally.

Again, I struggle to think of more than a few professions that actually do require a degree, even if arbitrarily.

If you are able to think of very few that require a degree (both directly or indirectly), outside of IT, what are those? And please limit yourself to professions that are spawned from degrees. A carpenter, electrician, etc., are not taught at colleges.
I sure wouldn't mind hearing the other side of the story. I use DO for a few servers and recommend their services to people all the time.
I'm skeptical of those unemployment numbers. Germany, for example, has a worker retraining program for the unemployed. Which is great, as far as it goes. But you don't count as unemployed as long as you're retraining, so it hides the true number of people who don't have a job.
We use email communication for our help ticket systems and all our users were affected (~20k). At

9am it was ~10min delay.

10am about 21min

noon about 1h

3pm emails with ~3h delay arrived.

Then it got better. We werent' able to help our users and they of course blamed that we responded slowly. Actually a bounce message would've been preferable since then they could've used a phone or stopped by.

You don't really expect your company @example.org to take 3h. Either bounce withing ~3-4min or you expect it to be delivered by that time.
I believe NewSQL will deliver 100% ACID and high-availability on distributed systems. Not 100% availability, because CAP tells us that's theoretically impossible. But availability as good as any _real-world_ non-consistent database _implementation_.

The CAP conjecture has certainly been a major barrier to progress in this area ;-)
Good luck with that :-) Frequent travelers, i.e. the people who airlines massively depend on for their profits, hate to check luggage.
Very true, especially for parents. If I find an author that I like and trust and my kids will read, I'll buy everything they write before going through trial and error again.

Now we just need to see Bilingual Child in other languages and I'll be a buyer!
How to find the best creative candidate
Good thing grenades are on the short list of things that count if they're close!

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/frankrobin140160....
To be fair, the revolution was anti-establishment. It didn't really start as a quest for independence either.
What The Monopoly Properties Look Like In Real Life
Endorsed! I am also a SMACSS fan. And I say "Keep the specificity minimum" as a mechanic to write more maintainable and scalable CSS. I also have another mechanic - "Don't nest CSS", and here's my explanation for why: http://sriharisriraman.in/blog/2013/09/08/dont-nest-css/
This is my first iOS app release. There were a million features I wanted to get in, but I'm ecstatic about the feature set that made it in. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Financial transparency FTW. I've worked for two companies that were extremely transparent. It's made me feel like a) the company knows I am a big kid and can take the good & the bad news, and b) views me as a partner in the work, not a cog in the machine. And if declining finances leads some people to leave, that's infinitely easier than having to let them go.
Because this was a high profile breach and in light of the recent NSA revelations the reader is expected to connect the dots. Just my take on it.
Possible. But even then it would be good to know as much as possible on who actually broke in and what they did.
I also want to hear their story. But they are really not letting me know anything.
WWDC sessions: Searchable full-text transcripts
That Cloud -> Butt Chrome extension is doing a great job
I think there's a big need for an agreed upon standard for writing CSS. There's a lot of beginner stuff out there, but what sorely lacks is an idiomatic way to write proper CSS. You should write base styles and extend them, but to what extent? How should you group the properties? Heck, how should you structure the whole thing?

We need this. I've been thinking the same thing as the author for quite some time, I'm glad someone has at least put the idea out there.
I run my website on a DO VPS. I have been supremely satisfied with the service.

Did you find out what the breach of terms of service they spoke about was? Unless I missed it the article...
A New Frontier for Femgineer
I'm surprised that the criticism of the "Kenya" infographic is limited to deriding its visual style as childish (and its lack of message). This graphic is much worse for the fact that there is no relationship between the numeric and graphic quantities (other than monotonicity). For example, 39.5 million people is about twice as many as 35.8? Why be snarky about it looking like something a kindergartner would do when there is substantive criticism to be given?
That is the point isn't it. There is no other side being told.
Boeing Defense doesn't make a whole lot of surplus cash either.[1] They've eaten some large expenses in the last 2 years (KC-46 tanker cost overrun, Advanced Super Hornet development program) and probably others. I don't believe there is significant cash flow over to Boeing Commercial Aircraft. There is exceptions like the KC-46 and P-8, but most programs are Boeing Defense only with almost no crossover.

The Boeing 737NG line is probably their most profitable product overall. That is from Boeing Commercial Aircraft.

Some financials for your reference
[1] http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=20295&item=128736
Serbian president unveils Nikola Tesla monument in New York