skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks nice, a friend of mine made a nice simple dashboard showing jenkins build status if anyone is interested https://github.com/jackbot/jenkins-dashboard#screenshot
What a feeble cop-out. Why do you feel it is important? After all if it is is important, you should be able to explain, in fact you are expected to do so.
Hmm.. that's nice, but I don't care, this NSA/GCHQ nonsense has burnt me for cloud computing, sorry.

What needs to happen is that the market heavily punish, and legal teams sue back into the stone age, those companies that collaborated. Then we need some legal structure in place that is a little more than "we promise we won't screw you".

It doesn't matter that this lot are based in Finland, because unless there is a heavy price for collaboration, the second they get big, the government of [insert jurisdiction here] will pressure them to turn data over and there will be little incentive to push back.
Using closed source tools is about trust. When the trust is broken, nothing can get it back. That's what happened with Adobe and Developpers , they totally lost that market.
I'm not sure who picks "essential" versus "non-essential" services, but IIRC that's the criteria for being funded versus not being funded during partial shutdown.
Sounds like a job for a Mindstorms robot!
> I can see why somebody from Bulgaria coming to the US from Brazil might seem a bit strange.

Sorry, I don't. What qualifies as "strange"? Is that an official term? There are loads of people who travel via countries they don't live in. There are also many people who were born in countries that don't exist anymore - how strange is that?
Makes sense. I can't really think of what could've exploded on the second-stage without also causing the entire vehicle to be obliterated. Whereas a bunch of globs of kerosene fuel would promptly freeze and be highly reflective.
This project is a fine example of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Top Vines from Japan distributed on map
All this wouldn't have happened without Finn (https://twitter.com/finnpauls) so big thanks to him!

For the growth hackers amongst you - the obligatory hockey stick curve is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8c15ks93mo519e/hockey-stick.png

Keep in mind that the visitors to https://starthq.com arrived via an interim Chrome extension page - that has been getting 3K uniques a day for two days, so just so you know what kind of traffic to expect on a slow Saturday with 40 odd points on HN.

Original submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462056

Also a bit of a technical detail, but the amount of traffic we've been getting as a result exposed a memory leak in our server running Node, which we're now patching up. Fun times.
>And at the border the majority of your rights are suspended anyway.

Isn't this a fairly recent phenomena, and predicated on dubious legal grounds? In any case, this sort of thing can only survive because people accept it (and perhaps because they may be careful not to harass influential people).
Interestingly, Linux is moving to win on several fronts. Economy and debt crisis, in addition to rising Ubuntu-like UI (easy to use, LibreOffice included, etc...) increase the benefits for governments and agencies. That's one front.

On another front, Linux clearly being the top platform for software development, it can naturally then be a top OS for game development, and become a top gaming platform itself, typically with SteamOS and Android.

At Ubuntu install parties, it's been a pleasure to see older French citizens coming in with already good information, knowledge and know-how of the Linux platform, for some because of their daily job at government agencies. And they want the OS at home! What else ;)
"by this point as a recruiter I would just not hire a person without a degree"

While the variability of self-taught is higher than those with a CS degree, there are plenty of self-taught (without CS degree) software engineers who rise to the top of hard core software engineering companies (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, VMware etc.), besides high-profile college drop-outs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

I suspect that your recruiter position expose you to lower than average quality candidates, as most good engineers never needed a recruiter -- they are simply referred by their friends and colleagues.
Another one:

http://www.space.com/20146-russian-satellite-space-junk-thre...
Immigration laws have stupid consequences? No surprise these.
It's really ironic that Microsoft's OS is being bailed out on its lack of apps by the web.

Embrace, extend, extingu..... Embraaaaaaaaaace!!!
On any recent distro the following command (or equivalent) will leave you with a fully functional jenkins on port 8080:

apt-get install jenkins

From there you open the web interface and click on 'New job'...

How you'd spend 'many hours' on that is beyond me.
Shutdown, Why the Government is staying home today.
I develop data management systems and one area of my job is to work with existing solutions and develop import/export routines, so I can assure you have I have a lot of experience across the entire spectrum of RDBMS's.

The MOST interesting thing I've found with the systems I've worked with is the insane use of SQL. Quite frankly, most developers have little to no real idea what they are doing when it comes to SQL, which is evident when you look at the rise of "NoSQL".

If you are a good software developer you will develop good software no matter the language. If you are a good DBA you will write good SQL no matter the underlying database system.
It is not the problem with people creating the ads that they don't want to create HTML5 banners. The problem lies with most media buying agencies that won't accept them for reasons like their system is not ready to handle this (HTML5) yet or the most heard reason that they want Flash banners even with old versions of Action Script because they seem harder to block by ad-blockers and thus think that more people will watch them. They forget the fact that most people are annoyed with them also ;-)

If you create a truly brilliant ad which is targeted to the right audience and let them do something with your brand inside the ad for example people are more willing to view them in my opinion in stead of just forcing them the same old banner over and over again only with a different brand in them..
That's a very big assumption at this point. There is no evidence whatsoever that an explosion occurred.

There were numerous reports of visual phenomenon consistent with the vehicle simply venting its fuel. The resulting gas cloud from such an event often results in inaccuracies in tracking.
The gas cloud could apparently be seen from the ground. Someone snapped a pic from Reunion island, near Madagascar: http://wikkit.tumblr.com/post/62684205892/tracking-a-new-spa...

EDIT: Here's more pics from South Africa http://uforsa.co.za/2013/09/mass-ufo-sighting-on-29-septembe...
That's a lovely straw man you're hacking to pieces there.

No-one has said anything of the sort except you.
You do have to make sure to tell people at some point when your birthday is. Even the bestest of best friends can't read minds :)
> There is nothing out of the ordinary here

Sure there is. An (apparently) peaceful person from a friendly country was banned simply because she led an Internet signature campaign against a clandestine and borderline-rogue surveillance agency. How many other HNers would have signed a similar petition?

> Prior criminal convictions, affiliation with unsuitable political parties or organizations or poor character are valid justifications for denying entry according to US law

I don't see any of those being applicable in this case, at least as per the article.

When intelligent, well-informed and progressive citizens reach the point that they don't see anything wrong in a government/regime trying to muzzle critics, simply because they can and they have done so in the past, we implicitly grant approval to the continuation of such tactics.

The first step towards solving a problem is acknowledging you have one.
"refresh that component". That's the way of thinking in windows where you reinstall random stuff until system works as expected.

In Linux, you will need to go through a lot of documentation and forum until you learn enough about the component to understand how to fix the issue.

This may seems a huge effort, but it is very rewarding: your problem is solved forever, you know what caused it, you have discovered many useful features of you OS that you did not know, you have learned how to analyse similar issues.

Linux is very stable: almost everything I have learned 20 years ago remain useful.
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I guess I should add them to the https://starthq.com SaaS directory now. Funny that both the StartHQ story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475451) and F-Secure announcement are on the front page at the same time.

Disclaimer: F-Secure sponsored HelsinkiJS which I run & I demoed StartHQ cloud search there a month ago - it's nice to have a tight community here in Finland.

PS. It's also nice to see something other than mobile games coming out of here.
This is pretty cool! However, I'm going to put on my Edward Tufte hat and point out that it's probably best to serve up this data in a static table. It always disappoints me to see sparse, categorical data visualized on a map since there's no additional context one achieves from the geospatial components. OP: maybe you could explore visualizing continuous fields, such as the Earth gravity field: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery/gravity/ggm01_asia_f...
How do you automatically scan for malware in AES-256 encrypted files?

I am asking because Deutsche Post is offering something they call "E-PostBrief", which is seemingly encrypted but features a mandatory man-in-the-middle attack which is called 'malware scanner'. It's a joke honestly.
I just compared it with Chrome using the example page mentioned in article:

In Firefox Nightly at the initial page load it uses around 250 MB memory and with scrolling it stays around that.

In Chrome (in Canary too) initial it uses around 300 MB but scrolling keeps filling the memory indefinitely (I stopped scrolling above 1.2GB)
I thought Hackers News had more people speaking more/other languages than english.

A lot of complaints, excluding the binary gender complaints, totaly forget about how languages like portuguese / french have male / female differences for nouns and other language constructs.

Let´s say I have to build a phrase where I have the user profession like engineer and I don't know upfront, for portuguese male would be "engenheiro" or " engenheira" for female.
It does have a lot of practical uses. And with a big enough training, the decision to use for that user is on your hands.
I think you mistake the intended audience of Flex. As a former Flex dev all of the apps I was involved with were for enterprise, building complex apps. None of the marketing or talks I attended from Adobe were around building your blog in Flex. People using Flex to make their "webpage" were indeed in the wrong.

Flex is still good for some $100-$120/hr consulting gigs on the side, mostly maintaining or changing something for a company who no longer employees a full time flex dev. Each year since Adobe "killed Flex" this hourly rate has gone up while the # of gigs has gone down. I would not, nor recommend, anyone start a Flex app today for a new project.

AngularJS is the closest thing to Flex that I've used, and only recently has tooling started to come close to what Flex had years ago.

JS/CSS is painful in comparison (esp when you consider large corps are still on IE6, 7, or 8), but still the right choice today for new RIAs. One can only hope the death of XP next year gets these corps to to do something...
Gah - and nearly 19,000 one-line 'notes' (comments) against the article pointing out that someone-or-other has reposted, reblogged or 'liked' it.

Did someone in the dim and distant past really really think this type of feedback mechanism was a good idea?
>> Speaking to the fluidity of human gender, "Other" is the majority of the spectrum

I agree 100% about the fluidity of human gender, but rather than lecture people via a form/api etc. it is probably simplest to have words that most people use like male and female and something ("other", "trans", "enlightened", whatever) for the 3rd option.

>> I just read your comment history and, if I'm not mistaken, you're already biased. Or would you care to elaborate what you wrote here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451454

First of all that was a joke in the spirit of the Hangover 2. Might not have been that funny, but was an attempt at humor based on what it was responding to.

Secondly, I believe you are "biased" :) because though it is chronologically juxtaposed to this comment that's probably a coincidence because if you go through my comment history it might be the only one touching on the subject (I think, no guarantees).

edit - I did make a prison rape joke a year+ ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148572) but I actually heard from people that it was hysterical* because of the play on "backbone".

* hysterical is a sexist word, I know.
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I ran the test with a payload of 32 bytes. Here are the results:

Non-Contented test:

* ptmalloc: alloc 39M/s, free 49M/s

* tcmalloc: alloc 42M/s, free 40M/s

* jemalloc: alloc 21M/s, free 21M/s

* t_stack: alloc 110M/s

Contended test:

* ptmalloc: alloc 6.1M/s, free 6.4M/s

* tcmalloc: alloc 25M/s, free 11M/s

* jemalloc: alloc 18M/s, free 6.5M/s

Note that the results are less accurate that those provided in the article since the number of allocations per batch is smaller (due to the limited amount of RAM available on my desktop).

That's said, the article does not pretend benching realistic patterns.
So if I get cancer, my $200k bill (just to start, cancer treatment can go on and on) is still a $60k bill. I'm still bankrupt.

The plans all have maximum annual out-of-pocket expense caps, above which you get 100% coverage, so it wouldn't be nearly as high as $60k. Checking the website, the out-of-pocket expense for the California Bronze plan is limited to $6,350/yr for an individual, or $12,700/yr for a family. This is precisely so that you can have a finite exposure that can be self-insured by keeping savings in an account.

So in your example, if you were on a family plan and hospitalized, you'd pay the first $5,000 entirely out of pocket (the Bronze-plan deductible). Then you'd pay 30% of the next ~$25,650 in expenses (~$7700), which would bring your out-of-pocket expenses for the year up to $12,700. At that point you've hit your out-of-pocket cap, so if there are still bills past $30,650, the plan would cover the entirety of the remainder.

The Bronze plan is essentially a high-deductible plan, but with the partial-coverage in between zone: you pay everything below $5,000, and nothing above $6,350/$12,700. The minor exception is that you get one deductible-free preventative-care visit per year.
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I imagine it's good for image heavy sites like Pinterest or Tumblr.
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You can still install Gnome just fine.
Seems curious to me that (at least by visual comparison) London looks to be about 30% larger than NYC, and NYC appears to be about the same as Paris. By population, you'd expect NYC = London > Paris. Is NYC really still that far behind in its tech scene? Does Paris have that large a tech scene? Or am I just reading the chart poorly?
> And apparently some Panda in a reserve wont be fed according to the news.

I think you misheard. The panda web camera feed will be shut down. Pretty sure they'll still feed the little critter...
http://jezebel.com/government-shutdown-might-kill-an-adorabl...
in denying visa from someone writes and works against the national interest of US.

The national interest of the US is congruent with the interests of the NSA?

An interesting point of view, but not one I think you'd find majority support for in the US or elsewhere.
I'd say it's the large form factor. Having something four metres wide that you can see from across the room can be quite handy.
I'm just guessing, but..

"Benedikt-SSON is definitely male
while Katrín Jakobs-DÓTIR is female"

(Hey, I swear it was before taking a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name)
Update: His own recollection of the events is available here:

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/ilija-...

So it was at the Brazilian airport and American Airlines had something pop up on the screen when checking his passport and after some disappearance told him that he isn't allowed to board.
Unfortunately, not for the moment.
Except that in the case of non-US companies NSA has to do the actual hacking. In case of US ones they simply need to "ask" a company to, say, handle them their master keys - much easier.
Battery technology is not simply a product of consumer demand. There's all sorts of reasons why battery life is currently hard to increase which won't be solved by throwing more money at the problem. There are definitely some improved battery technologies on the horizon (particularly ones which use air), but the reality is that improving battery life without making an explosive is actually a hard problem to solve. Most of the gains of the past decade have come from reducing computer power consumption and shrinking down the electronics in devices (leaving more battery space), not from increasing battery capacity.

There will be improvements, but they won't be easy or particularly fast.
"Strange" as in "a very small percentage of travelers"
A bit of trivia, which makes the title actually wrong: it's "Gendarmerie Nationale" (which is a military corps, handled by "Ministère de la Défense" ~ DoD), not "Police Nationale" (which is not a military corps, under "Ministère de l'Intérieur" ~ DoHS).

The USA relies (IIUC) on 2nd amendment to resist oppression, possibly from its own police forces and government, whereas in France guns are outright forbidden but there are by design those two distinct and independent entities, with an autonomous chain of command, hopefully guaranteeing one will defend the people rights should the other be subverted.
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Don't overdo it mate.
I don't think there's a globally superior OS out there in the market.

Each has its own pros and cons.

And yes, your comment sounds really condescending : "masses, ignorant".
At least they are using font very similar to Comic Sans.
Adobe's forgotten, unpromoted, and now discontinued fireworks is their actual svg art tool. Apparently illustrator isn't meant to illustrate.
Yes, but probably there are people in Iceland and Poland with foreign names. I know that you both wanted to explain that there is a rule in some language and it's nice to find out about that information, but as long as it doesn't apply to everybody, I don't consider this a solution.
Chrome doesn't like the certificate right now.
With the capbility being built, if there is a performance tradeoff (I didnt look through the bugs, but imagine it was already thought about), then its now possible to do 'hey you have a load of spare memory' pre decode all the things type optimisations
I was thinking more along the lines of upping their game against Siri.
Don't worry, my friend Rick[0] told me it was going to be okay.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Binzel
Most of the large amount of verbiage you've produced in these threads are flights of fancy involving sloppy logic you've concocted then tried to attribute to me, or are redundant expressions of ideas I've already stated which are also trying to masquerade as a "correction." This is not what I term good discourse.
If you’re refused by the pre-clearance facility you’re still screwed but you might get to pass thru immigration in the host country again. The CBP will just call the CBSA who will dispatch somebody to come and take you and re-scrutinize documents provided by the US officer.

TL;DR: don’t get screwed.
Hmm very strange! All I did was copy/paste, oh well. Thanks for the working link, hope people take advantage of it.
Easy. Store in your database (or whatever) as free text.

In UI, provide a form with "Male, Female, Other". If they click other, reveal an optional text field where they can enter what they wish. Store.

Normalize the synonyms of male and female to lower case "male" and "female" when doing analysis. You don't have to get 100% normalisation. But you'll probably get 80-90%.

Contemplate what you are actually using the data for, listen to users.

To be honest, if you manage to not put transgender as a sexual orientation, you'll be doing better than most people.
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They shut down Google Reader, because it is "....unuseful" ?!? And now they launch Google Baraza, because it is ... what ????
No. This is perfectly ordinary for US. If I had signed anti-apartheid petition, I might have been denied entry in the 80's.

>borderline-rogue surveillance agency

That's not the opinion of the government. It's the job of the people to change the policy of the government. NSA surveillance is government run activity and foreigners speaking against it can be denied visa.

As forefinger I find the naivety of US citizens towards their government disturbing. NSA is not borderline-rogue as long as the White House and the Congress are on the same boat.
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There's actually no excuse ... SSL is cheap today and by terminating it at a load balancer or proxy, you don't even have to think about its impact on web-server performance. I imagine that Google has racks of equipment dedicated to SSL termination already!
Was this known to happen? Somehow I didn't see this coming at all and it sounds greek.