skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about?

The video element already exists and is implemented in all major browsers. Have a good look over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

This has exactly nothing to do with reducing the attack surface of a browser.

What this is about is letting people like Audible and Netflix encrypt their content in a special way that means that only browsers that support the DRM api can decrypt it; by including the closed source binary blobs provided by those vendors.

Don't want to do that? Sorry, our website doesn't work on your browser.

...but to the main point:

This will in fact catastrophically increase the attack surface of browsers, as they are forced to bundle unmoderated, unreviewed binary code blocks (Content Decryption Module, from the spec) that can do whatever they like into the browser code.
Please help identify the Keyboard Model used on Google Web Designer
Here's the picture: https://www.google.com/webdesigner/images/multi-screen-background2.jpg taken from

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

I really like that keyboard and would like to buy it, if I knew the name. Any idea what model it is, or is that just a rendering?

The only keyboard that looks close to it is this:

http://rapoo.com/showdetails.aspx?P_No=E9270P
I take it when I travel across time zones to reset my internal clock. Works great! If I take if for more than 3-4 nights in a row it seems to lose its effectiveness.
Exchange of money and goods is not "communication" in the sense of "free speech" or "privacy". The state needs to protect my freedom to not be killed by a hitman, be threatened by guns etc.

I am all in for legalizing drugs, but don't pretend that all weapon trade, offering hacking services or other nasty stuff needs to be protected in a free society. Freedom of speech is about inconvenient opinions, not about "everything you can do by communicating with others".
Where's the glory in that?
It encourages you to imagine what these things can be good for, therefore get excited about even just this small progress.
More likely than not, some of the drugs sold on SR were produced by cartels. The SR sellers were probably so far down the supply chain that they could not have given the police any useful leads on the cartels.

In case people have forgotten, SR itself was a target. There was pressure from Congress to shut it down, and it was probably the only goal of this operation:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Schumer-Calls-on-Feds-t...
Actually they're removing AuFS because it has awkward kernel dependencies and prevents Docker from running across all Linux distros. The move to device-mapper layers means Docker no longer requires a 3.8 kernel or an AuFS patch.
It is probably cheaper to use a dedicated (physical) machine.
The result we get is that the executive of a government claims they have complete freedom of action regarding national security. National security becomes a magic word that unlocks unconstitutional actions when you mix domestic operations with national security.

Are you claiming that an international tribunal to try a case against an unlawful executive is worse? Or are you claiming that if the executive does it, it isn't unlawful?
Why Wall Street Heaps Love on Priceline and Disses Expedia
That's how I think too. Find the low-hanging fruit of real problems, instead of competing for a rounding error on constrained and slightly artificial problems.
The place under the ads and above the search results is just where they put stuff like the calculator, sports stats, and other easter eggs. Yes they make money off the Flights widget, but that doesn't automatically mean it's bad for the user. My point was that the Flights widget is great and more useful than the actual search results when you query for "flights to lax" just like the calculator widget is more useful than the search results when you query "sin(50)*1234". They are prioritizing useful widgets, and this one happens to make lots of money.
I agree the FBI shouldn't get access to everything. From the perspective of a Federal judge,however, there he cannot allow Lavabit to just not comply. So giving the FBI access and maintaining "safeguards" to prevent them from abusing it is an acceptable outcome. (Note, I don't trust those safeguards)

Now, why is that the outcome and not just forcing Lavabit to hand over select information via say the US Marshal's. Because Lavabit said that would take a while to implement and by this point the Feds think Lavabit is dicking around with them, the Feds decided this option won't work.

The feds obviously don't know the code base and can't implement the requested functionality themselves even if they somehow gained access to the service without taking it down. But they can ask for the SSL keys. That's a tangible piece of information the court can force Lavabit to hand over immediately. It makes sense that the government would request it. And it makes some sense that a federal judge would allow it after Lavabit itself rejected the option that preserved the privacy of the rest of it's users.
Can you point me to an article that explains why you would want JOINs in a NoSQL database to begin with? I thought the entire point was to denormalize your data. I keep seeing this point brought up, but it reads to me like a misguided complaint stemming from misunderstanding how to apply the tech.
I've had good luck using one similar to this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MUSE-AUDIO-X5-MINI-HIFI-USB-DAC-PCM2...

It's no frills, but the noise floor seems pretty low and it eliminates any popping sounds.
Fun fact: back in 2005, France had a law proposal to ban all free software and VLC was under threat. http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
Alright, so what do you propose robot researchers do?

Just sit around, somehow waiting for technology to magically improve?

I might be naive, but I like to think of things like this research as the way to get the technology to improve. It's not as if technology has a life of its own and will just improve regardless.
Thx for sharing.

I'd like to remind everyone that this graph covers only the financial cost associated with running a startup in different locations. Keep in mind that the "quality" of the engineers is not taken into account, as an engineer trained let's say, in Philippines, might not be as productive/ingenious as one educated in Germany.

At this end of the day, you get what you paid for.
The whole point of git is that it is distributed. There should be no critical dependency on any one hosting service.
I understand that absolutely CAN happen though in my experience it's fairly rare. However, it's akin to shutting down all public roads because a few may develop potholes we can't fix until funds are available. You are removing a critical resource from the hands of people that paid for it in the first place.
To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
I too am intrigued by the move to SF away from the Peninsula/Valley. I think though it's a subset of the "Software eating the World" thesis. You can now build much bigger companies with fewer people who are younger (no middle management) and get them significantly further along. So you don't need that campus to house 1000 employees to build a $100 million company as in the past. It'll also be interesting to see if startups begin to leave SF if they really get big. I hope not, but am curious.
I didn't say it was. I was making a point that the parent comment's evidence did not automatically support their claim.

But since you ask, IIRC these make such a claim (especially the latter):
http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
http://paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html
Encrypted online document storage
Hi Folks,

I have build up an online service with Clojure, lift, node.js, mariadb ... techniques to help people securely store website passwords, memos, etc. The documents are stored on server encrypted, but only the user knows the encryption password, so we on the server side can not read your documents' content. User need to download a java client (written in clojure, with source code available) to deal with user's documents. Please try and tell us your opinions.

Best Regards,
Jiawei
MKRRF IT LIMITED
Sure do. Works with Google Play well. And netflix works flawlessly.
Sourcetree? Tower?
"Intellectual property" is weasel words made up by those who most benefit from it. There is no such thing. There are exclusive rights, given by We the People, and not for any other reason than to advance science and the useful arts. Anything else is selfish egotistical aggrandizing.
Your first comment on your own petition was "Because every other browser supports cross-domain fonts except you" which is false. It looks like you filed this based on the blog post you linked to, which is three years out of date. (For example, it said S3 does not support CORS, which is no longer true.)
I would hope the long promised use of carbon in chips and synthetic diamonds would find a use for the carbon instead of burying it.

I was just wondering since it seems like we are not going to be able to reduce usage and undoing it seems like the only hope.
Why didn't you mention about the effects of a calcified pineal gland resulting from a Vitamin D and magnesium deficiency? Those are very common among the older folk, resulting in poor sleep quality, poor immune system, even increased chance of heart attacks.
I don't think they had duals, there interface was kinda clunky, and they didn't have the DP programs the Mac had.
Indeed. The problem Is that nutters vote nutters in.

A big chunk of the UK consists of nutters. Look at the EDL for example. I've lived places where idiots like that are worshipped.

Thoroughly depressing.
Can you even debug a web worker with Firebug? How about SourceMap support? The times when I've had to switch to FF devtools have been pretty painful. The profiling and tracing tools in chrome also seem lightyears better.
That's why it's called enterprise
Man, now I want to write that.
The OP makes valid points but its hard to hate on Github too much. Their users are the ones breaking the links. But its also hard to hate on the users too because the whole point is to develop software and that development is never done.
Please keep in mind that you are judging an entire spectrum of people based on your experience in one high school among many thousands of high schools, across thousands of counties, and across fifty states.

That's like saying I met someone from a foreign country once, didn't like him, and therefore I know all people from that country are jerks.
The objective function would need to include the measurement methodology, i.e. "reduce crime as measured by methodology X", where methodology X does not delete crime reports.

As for voting for tax cuts, you probably want taxes cut as low as possible while still providing certain vital services. (I'm assuming you aren't an anarchist.) In that case, you don't merely want maximize (-1 x tax rate), you instead want to maximize (-A x tax rate - B x # of murders). Lowering taxes may or may not be the best way to achieve that goal, but you are unlikely to be able to properly judge that (no offense intended - I can't either).

An objective function and it's unintended consequences may be hard to understand for the average voter but the results of policy are even harder to understand. For example, many voters are in favor of earning assistance for firefighters and soldiers (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3997/show). One unintended consequence of the "Earnings Assistance for Heroes" policy is a gigantic bank bailout.
A step, indeed; this is research, it need not be actually useful. The things you mention, I can see as "left as an exercise for the reader".

I am more worried about power efficiency. Corrections welcome, but I think accelerating and (rapidly, in many cases) decelerating a flywheel can't be that efficient. Also, I don't see how those flywheels could efficiently move a large assembly of these things. Let's say you have a 5x5x5 cube: how would they work together to move that? Fall apart and reassemble?
I can confirm the 1/3 size dose (the strips are 3 mg and I take one third of that, 1 mg), I take it from time to time when I get insomnia and that seems to be the sweet spot.
I was employee 40 at a startup that went to 400. I think Dick's advice is right. The hardest part is losing many of the early employees once you hit about 150. But the bigger problem would be trying to keep them. You need different skill sets and different people for different stages. It hurts though. (also agree that the Zappos piece was much more interesting to me - but Vegas?! It's tough to go outside 3 months of the year after 9am)
Clojure Cup Winners
The WC3 has sucked for ages. I can't wrap my mind around why anyone follows there lead anymore. Everything that comes out there is overly complicated and totally misses the larger picture. Sound like they've also sold out on top of that now. I say frail them.
Why do people even still use paypal?

Fucking infuriates me. It's safer to transfer your money in cash in a transparent bag with "steal me" on it.
Reddit for Music: How We Got 1,000 Users In A Weekend
Just because we hate flash doesn't mean we should accept something worse to get rid of it.

You think the DRM blob would be less slow, less buggy, less closed and less resource-hungry than flash is and has been? Think again.
No?

You don't need proof to say "this class of reaction might be possible at a different temperature; we're not sure yet"

The default assumption is that there are many many ways to accomplish any particular chemical or nuclear change.
If the fact that communication may be about an exchange of goods frowned on by politicians (even when they are right to frown) means the communication can't be anonymous, then no anonymous speech is possible.

The possibility that any speech may slide into commerce would mean any speech is open to observation.

Too high a price IMHO
Recently i have found that i am able to find better results on searching stackoverflow, duckduckgo, wikipedia than Google.

It looks like google is not even showing a correct results.
I have few queries also to compare which i will share on ycombinator itself.
Imagine what SUN could have built, if they had $1 billion in cash to spent on a Database. Stupid managers wouldn't let them, but they spent $1 billion on a hyped DB with questionable quality.
NSFW: Gizoogle for Gansta Search
It depends; users break some of the links, but GitHub's design for non-permanence is, to my mind, the biggest problem.
There exists an OS designed for similar things: http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/GettingStarted
I think I saw a wonderful quote around you're more productive on your own and more creative/innovate as a group. So as you say balance is the trick.
Do you know of any sites that give a good list of phones to buy? The 6" one you linked to is a little large for me, but I'd be interested to see what 4.3" phones they have... but without buying a clunker by mistake.
"I'm sure a plausible liar could persuade me that there was a reason not to give me facebook ("oh, hey, my mom is on there, and she'd ask me questions about all the guys I keep adding" would probably work on me) or other interactions."

Not to be too pedantic about a hypothetical, but that would give away his ulterior motive a whole lot sooner. I only quibble because there are a thousand ways that modest technology use could snag someone or raise red flags. What if someone had called him on his phone while he was hanging out with this guy? "Oh I'm at the corner of x and x hanging out with a new friend". What if he took a picture of that guy? What if the occasional GTA session and hooking up with dudes on hook-up sites sublimated a lot of the killer's darker urges? Or what if, in a more connected world a lot more accepting of gay people, he just moved to Maine and bought a house with a boyfriend?

I'm sure we can go back and forth about a lot of things like this, but the bottom line is that there has been a massive reduction in violent crime in the last decade or so; I think technology has been a major factor.
Of course it doesn't get less complex. If anything the opposite is true. And that's precisely the point, if I got his points right.

The sheer complexity of modern computing devices and infrastructure, couple with the abundance of broadband Internet access, have resulted in the proliferation of "appliance-like" devices and cloud-based services. After all most of the time consumers want to view photos on their smartphone and not to deal with the file system. In the same vein, IT would rather fire up an EC2 instance than having to manage a physical server in their data center.

In my view, that's the gist of the post-PC/post-server centric world -- what on the surface today are pushed down to the inner layers, hidden away from users.
...and how can this be fixed?
This happens to some people with Benadryl as well (though doubt its related, just anecdotal). Curious - have you tried multiple (reduced) doses?
The band is Pretty Lights, not Pretty Light's, for anyone else trying to look them up.
2013 Lewis meditation results
There are some problems with Melatonin (as supplied) - you don't really know how much (if any) you're getting. Investigators found that quality control was very poor and some brands contained very little melatonin. (I can't find it now, but it was something like Consumer Reports or similar?)

It's a prescription only med in some places (UK) so you might not be able to get it.

But it is "remarkably effective"[1] for jet lag.

You might want to consider sleep hygiene[2] as well as (or instead of) melatonin or other sleep meds. (I really like zopiclone.)

[1] (http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001520/melatonin-for-the-pre...)

[2] (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Insomnia/Pages/Treatment.aspx)
Why on Amazon? O'Reilly sells it drm-free. I bought it yesterday using a coupon(which are pretty easy to find).
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We would like to apologize for any confusion or concern any of this may have caused.
I think Theriac25's "bullshit" was reference to the fact that 86% of statistics are either made up on the spot, or fudged data from non-representative samples.
I'll tell you what they don't have in common.

I want to hear rap. I don't want to hear about your wedding.
> GitHub uses the branch name; you can replace it with a changeset ID and it’ll work, but you’ll need to find a changeset ID.

You can press 'y' to expand the URL to its canonical form.
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Take VitD + Fish Oil, then ZMA before bed.
Anyone have estimates what their revenue or run-rate is?
I'd imagine all the waste heat that air conditioners generate to cool a traditional data center is significantly larger.
I use melatonin regularly to regulate my sleep cycle. It's a very effective part of a regimen (sleep hygiene, f.lux, etc) that allows me to manage a nearly-decade long problem of insomnia.

However, from a psychological standpoint, it's a very good thing melatonin is so safe. Every single person I've ever recommended melatonin to, I've directed to this article and discussed it with them. Every single such person then went ahead to promptly forget the discussion, NOT read the article, and take mildly retarded doses. For example, "one (5mg) pill didn't work, so I took 8 more at 4am." Another uses it almost recreationally - large doses to intensify his dreams; pretty much zero attempt to use it to improve his sleep. I don't talk to people about melatonin anymore.

For a quicker idea of where melatonin sits vis-à-vis other sleep drugs (WARNING: Hilarious Ambien Walrus referenced):
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/28/sleep-now-by-prescripti...
you can do something similar using Tmux.
You mean safer?
In NY near the Flatiron, I have several thousand lunch options within a 5-10 minute walk/subway ride. Of course I tend to return to the ones I've had good experiences with, but unlike suburbs I get my fill of novelty in many ways other than just the food I select from some megastripmall.
I agree. Is there any work on capturing and using that heat?
I don't have personal experience with it; but my sleep schedule is horrible (I tend to stay up to 5am on alternate nights), so I may give it a try to enforce a normal bedtime, and kick the procrastination monster down a bit (if I don't have the option of doing the unpleasant work at 2am, it's far easier to force myself to do it during normal hours).

But: see here, this is very relevant: http://hpmor.com/notes/98/

Search MetaMed (a few screens down) for Eliezer Yudkowsky's experience with a sleep disorder (his normal day is 24.5 hours): after spending years trying a whole laundry list of solutions including melatonin, he finally paid MetaMed somewhere north of $5K for their analysis, and got a solution using melatonin that worked (but was not the normal approach to melatonin supplementation).

"their best suggestion, although it had little or no clinical backing, was that I should take my low-dose melatonin 5-7 hours before bedtime, instead of 1-2 hours, a recommendation which I’d never heard anywhere before.

And it worked.

I can’t #&$ing believe that #$%ing worked.

(EDIT in response to reader questions: ”Low-dose” melatonin is 200microgram (mcg) = 0.2 mg. Currently I’m taking 0.2mg 5.5hr in advance, and taking 1mg timed-release just before closing my eyes to sleep. However, I worked up to that over time – I started out just taking 0.3mg total, and I would recommend to anyone else that they start at 0.2mg.)"
I still wonder what was Tim Berners-Lee thinking, when supporting DRM? He should have known better.
Encrypt all the things: Crypto Acceleration on a BeagleBone Black
Why 5-Star ratings, likes and endorsements are broken, and how to fix them?
Oh, cool. I didn’t know that. It’s a pity they don’t make it more obvious. Post updated to include this tidbit of information. Thanks!
haha the thing in the top left hand corner if a gif, just some n00b
Any recommendations for a good MongoDB book or course?
I'm not sure if I'm doing things quite right, but I got a simply Postgres server script working.

https://gist.github.com/radiosilence/6826930

Could this be improved?
IzzyBike - cycling reinvented
That was true in earlier versions of Docker, but has been fixed. alexlarsson is correct :)
How did this get on the front page of HN? Following those steps if you want to go out of business before starting :)
ProjectLocker: Why We Removed Priority Support Tickets
The upside of being a prescription med is that you can expect it to have better quality control.
One month with a Chromebox - Why I'm not going back
If you're using Chrome I suggest installing HN Collapse:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
This is, actually, a real concern. So many companies that want to make a foray into enterprise sales don't think carefully about things that (on the surface) seem inconsequential but are actually hurting your business.
It doesn't really make me fall asleep. It improves the quality of my sleep, making me wake up in the morning much easier.
Google built one in Finland a couple of years back. They are using the sea water for cooling.

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ham...
Using hierarchical data structures takes care of the most common use case of JOIN (i.e. "SELECT * FROM a, b, c"). This is a win for MongoDB. However there are times when you want to JOIN multiple hierarchical data structures [1]. Or use a different type of JOIN.

[1] http://tebros.com/2011/07/using-mongodb-mapreduce-to-join-2-...