skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the process of doing the same for my personal site with Jekyll.[0] It's so much more convenient to be able to structure and style my website the way I want without having to mess with Wordpress's PHP-based themes. And I find writing in Markdown with optional custom HTML snippets to be much more powerful than trying to wrestle the Wordpress browser-based editor into doing what I want.

[0] http://jekyllrb.com/
Show HN: A web-enabled storefront window you control with your smartphone
We have support chat on our website, if you can go there i can help you debug the problem. Thanks.
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NASA on shutdown: 'Sort it out, humans'
I remember reading about FindTheBest.com a couple of years ago. Is this using Drupal?
One of the odd misconceptions I've had to deal with, 1/3 of one of my teams is offsite, is the idea that Daily Stand Up has to be in the morning. We change the question from "What did I do yesterday?" to "What did I do in the last 24 hours?"

Easy.

The next mountain is to change what is said from status to communication, which is the point of the meeting in the first place.
Specifically to retainer cleaning, there is a huge difference between something that's in your mouth for 6 seconds daily and something that's in there for 16 hours. Retainers need constant cleaning to not smell like death. Your toothbrush does not, though it's in your mouth for longer than this one would be (seriously, go smell it. it's probably fine.).
At each iteration, the shape changes slightly, until eventually, the design stabilizes to a device that looks suspiciously like a turtle.
I emailed you as well. Given that you've mentioned DevOps and I do DevOps freelancing (yes, it's possible!), I thought I'd give it a go.

cheers,
--c
This is just a fluff article to tangentially promote their upcoming book, Remote. Why this is going to be upvoted is beyond me.
Yeah. I get that it's a problem that iOS7 safari crashes with a lot of inputs, but that's an insanely-huge number of inputs. This is kind of an edge-case and you should probably avoid doing that in your web-pages. A hundred-ish inputs per-page is probably a better idea.
Further information: one of the cubesat payloads separated into seven different bits (three payload spheres and four sabot pieces). Another is at least two pieces when deployed. Note that the cubesat launch system is spring-loaded, intentionally scattering the payloads.

So you'd expect at least 15-16 objects from the launch; 20 isn't all strange.
This is the wrong problem to try and solve. Toothbrushes are a solved problem.

If you want to disrupt at-home dentistry, solve flossing instead. That one's still a pain in the ass that comes back to bite (heh) a huge amount of people down their roads.
That's a good, general, factual article you've linked to.

Superficially I saw mostly general sector wide results in the article. However I have bought a lot more tee shirts and cafepress-type products and cheap identical non-designer shoes than $200 scottevest products.

My impression of the article is it was focusing solely on high end whereas I'm arguing the bigger action is probably at the low end.
Also, Bookmarklets dont work anymore in iOS7.
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Talk To Enough Successful People And Patterns Emerge
Somebody taped this on their door at work:

The door to which they were taped was in IL2 and belonged to Mike Engber. He says, "The version on my door now is nicely laminated."

The list itself was created be me some years prior when we worked on Newton, after a particularly frustrating DMA debug session.
right on. Please spend as much time reading the bug referenced above as you have this thread, and think about the obvious problems/hard solutions proposed, then make a better one! Just keeping a few million WinXP machines from a recycling barge in Bangladesh for another year would be worth the trouble. and hopefully smarter image handling by everybody's browser/phone/whatever will be a long term result.
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So basically, they got to the point where everyone knew that Friday after work was _the_ time, and it was your job as a user to avoid that timeframe? Not ideal, but I see it working well, especially for banks.
You're correct, and my comment isn't constructive. It's just that they added features for CLR2, and then it's stayed there. C#'s been even more stagnant; they haven't even gotten around to polishing the edges from the LINQ push.
Aah, rereading it, it looks like it is. The ouroboros section is an aside about how confusing combining arrays and references can be.
Yeah, I'm interested as well. Since they are "developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization", why should the position be limited to one particular country on one particular planet...
Except that House's process is basically equivalent to making a vague guess of the problem and then quickly hacking it into production and waiting to see if anything else breaks.
Not a fan of the use of "RTFA".
A love note from one valley to another
Car drivers in Istanbul, Mexico City and Moscow top the Stop-Start Index
The way non-biological (i.e. mathematical, engineering) analyses are conducted has a substantial degree of unification as well. A typical engineering text focused on signal processing will develop an analysis method and then show example applications to audio, to images, to bridge resonance, to electronic circuits, etc. Things do get more specific as you dig further into domain-specific features and heuristics, but there's a large common foundation.

The usefulness of the kinds of experiments in this post, imo, is to investigate whether some things developed as domain-specific features actually belong more in the common foundation part. Sometimes something will be developed initially in computer-music or computer-vision not because it's really music or vision specific, but just due to where a particular person happened to be working. Or where research funding was allocated, for that matter. A funding trick computer-music people like doing lately is to apply their algorithms to bioinformatics as a way of funding research in their real domain of interest.

The next step, of course, would be to try to determine if these image-processing techniques already do exist in audio processing, just under a different name, or in some kind of variant.
Do any designers want to comment on whether this is a good deal or not? On one hand: featured on ruby-lang.org, on the other hand, it doesn't pay.

While good for inexperienced designers, this seems a little unfair to try and get free work out of people, but I'd be interested to know if designers tend to feel this way or not.
Yes, I don’t understand what he means either.

ouroboros[0] === ouroboros

evaluates to `true`.
Nope, works just fine on Chrome 29.0.1547.76 for me.
While it hanged Safari on my iOS7 iPad 4th generation, Chrome kept on working without a problem. Could it have anything to do with Nitro?
It also won't make you go slower. And rolling at a constant low speed is much less frustrating than constant stop and go traffic. Especially for people driving standard.

It's also more fuel efficient.
I really wish people would call for a vote of no confidence and remove everyone who appears uncooperative.

Bonus points: Clean slate.
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I haven’t noticed anything of the sort. For instance, my Instapaper and 1Password bookmarklets work fine in Mobile Safari.

A quick search query also doesn’t turn up anyone else having problems. What exactly isn’t working for you?
Sorry about that. Can you let me know when you emailed? I'd like to dig into this further.
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This is the right amount of brevity, IMO. "Omit words" doesn't give you a hueristic about what to omit.

"Needless" gives a test you can apply to every word. "Omit words" sounds simpler, even obvious, but only because you know it's a shortened form of "omit needless words". We could shorten the advice to "simplify", but that doesn't give you the how.
"29.0.1547.76 m" works fine for me (must be the 'm'). Just takes a bit of time to load the view-source.
This always seems to come at the least convenient time for me, which is indicative of GitHub being a single point of failure in my workflow. Not good.
Yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Data Science is really a "horizontal", not a "vertical" in academia, to borrow business jargon. It's an interdisciplinary research skill set that students and scholars across academic disciplines should be trained in. As such, I'm not convinced it needs its own degree programs, though.
Ok, fair enough. But I still think that the choice of the default desktop strongly suggests what most people should use, at least with a distro like Ubuntu that is supposed to be newbie-friendly.
These are largely solved issues. Standups can be done over a web chat, and may actually be even better with todays screen sharing capabilities, where you can actually SHOW everyone what you are working on. Tools like tmux have had the remote pairing issue solved as well. Face to face is good here and there, but I see no reason why agile cannot be practiced just as effectively remotely.
Sorry to nitpick, but I believe the time difference code has an error of 1 millisecond 25% of the time:

int64_t delta = tv2->tv_sec - tv1->tv_sec;
return delta * 1000 + (tv2->tv_usec - tv1->tv_usec) / 1000;

One way to fix it is:

int64_t deltasec = tv2->tv_sec - tv1->tv_sec - 1;
int64_t deltausec = tv2->tv_usec - tv1->tv_usec + 1000000;
return deltasec * 1000 + deltausec / 1000;
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Thanks Danno, I think it's important.
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I don't know if you're doing this deliberately, but: your join form's modal is too large for my browser screen, and doesn't scroll.

Turning off position:fixed helps, but any resizes to the window just re-apply it. Thought you should know.
OP here. That's a really good point. I just think the original article overreached in saying that zipper merging is a "simple cure" for traffic jams, without taking into account that the road might at or near capacity (and you hit capacity in a hurry when you lose a lane).

My article doesn't account for variance in flow rates in congested traffic, but variance in car length (% of trucks on the road) might explain it. I'm not convinced that merging behavior is the culprit; the original article only speculates that that's the case. I'm putting forward a reasonable explanation for why that isn't the explanation, and a basis for evaluating whether it might be — in particular, whether a zipper merge results in higher flow rates after the bottleneck.
Floss picks. They mostly solved my flossing reluctance. That and my dentist threatening a more invasive cleaning process if my gum health didn't improve.

They seem like a waste (mine are recyclable) but I found for myself and kids they are 100 times easier than traditional floss.

/I do not own stock or a website selling floss picks
I wrote an article that covers some of this: http://www.found.no/foundation/elasticsearch-in-production/

It's a bit introductory on the memory-parts. One that goes in more detail on memory- and JVM-tuning is planned.

(Full disclosure: I work for Found)
Also, how well can you tell which search engine you prefer based solely on the results page itself without investigating how well the content of the individual URLs suggested in the results page satisfy your query on a one by one basis?
A rant about Mozilla, a non-profit FSF company and then corporate sycophantism for GitHub?
Unsure what unicorns have to do with anything here.
I don't know, 6 seconds of brushing sounds pretty good.
I'd love to know what the use-case is for a page with 6000 form items!
Why is NASA.gov shut down while CIA.gov is still open?
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Which version of jemalloc was used in the benchmark?
I hope everyone knows you're quoting "The Elements of Style" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
have you ever been to the denist and they ask you to focus on some area of the mouth? for perfect brushing, yes, this is a solved problem. however, I don't think everyone is a perfect brusher.
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Should I ask what form your company needs that actually has 5076 input fields?
From whois lavabit.com, ie, already public info:

Domain Name:LAVABIT.ORG
Created On:21-Jul-2005 21:45:20 UTC
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Registrant Organization:Lavabit LLC
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Registrant City:Dallas
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Mail him a check if you want to help and don't want to use electronic means. Sure, it could in theory be a scam or waste of money. But we KNOW the NSA is a scam, a waste of money, and a danger to our values.

Personally, I trust him. I received a hand-written note thanking me for a donation. Good luck Ladar!
That's great stuff - thanks. Just trying to collect tips from those that have been there, so that when I get there I have something to start from!
f(x) = x^2 + 11x

OR
f(x) = x

f(10) = 110

= 1 * 10^2 + 1 * 10^1
= 0 * 10^2 + 11 * 10^1

f(0) = 0
= 1 * 0^2 + 1 * 0^1
= 1 * 0^2 + 11 * 0^1
Sorry about that awful experience we caused there. We definitely had a period where we simply struggled to respond to everyone. We honestly get about 100 emails from this HN listing. When we were just a few people, it was hard to keep on top of. It's a poor excuse, and we're fixing it now (we genuinely get back to everyone now). We didn't handle this well for quite some time, though.
Agreed. At that point it becomes something I could actually see myself doing after every meal.
There's multiple things at play. Until the F# stdlib was ported, F# couldn't target WinRT. Then there's the ton of fanfare JS/HTML were given, and the fact that C#'s development has been moving at a snails pace (and the "face" of C# is now working on making JS suck less) -- eh, it makes people nervous. Plus, MS's messaging wasn't all that clear. Now I see WinRT as being for cutesy tablet apps and I'm not so concerned. But before Win8, there was a lot of confusion going on.
A dentist (unverified) offers an opinion on the product: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ni570/the_world...
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> Apple never actually does anything about their bugs.

Yeah, Apple never fixes bugs. Like iOS 7.0.1, 7.0.2 and the forthcoming 7.0.3, all within a couple of weeks of a major new release. Those contain no bug fixes.

Also Apple is the only company with bugs. They're really incompetent. Especially for not catching this simple form bug with 5,000 hidden fields.
Just a guess -- perhaps

ouroborous[0] = ouroboros;

creates a new reference to ouroboros and stores that in ouroboros[0], so comparing ouroboros and ouroboros[0] with === would claim they're the same type but not the same value.

Not an expert though, so I could be wrong, but that'd explain the behavior to me.
I value a contiguous 18 hours far more than I value 60 second chunks that total 18 hours over a year. They aren't worth the same because they cannot offer the same value.
It's called Human Nature. You buy a TV for $1000 and show it off to your neighbour who says he bought exactly the same TV for $400, you don't think that will effect you at all?

If you just say "oh well, I thought $1000 dollars was a fair price" and think no more of it - well you are a better person than I am!
His point is a little different: that someone exiting the highway might exit before reaching the traffic if the line were shorter. My point is that a line on an exit ramp which reaches back onto the highway will cause additional traffic for everyone on the highway. Since his model doesn't take traffic-causing-traffic into account, he never reaches my conclusion.

Exit lines are particularly costly because adjacent lanes of traffic generally only sustain a 10MPH difference in speed. Once the right lane is stopped, a 4 lane highway has a maximum safe speed of 30MPH in the left hand lane. This reduces the flow capacity of the highway and may cause the left lane to lock up because left lane drivers get frustrated at slow speeds and are the more likely to tailgate and cause traffic waves.

His model also is only concerned with the self: "can I reach my goal any faster", and he reaches the mostly correct conclusion that he basically cannot (even though avoiding traffic waves by driving in the rightmost non-exit lane would help him significantly). He does not appear to value his contribution to the delay of the people behind him, which is where all the really interesting conclusions are found, including the reason why traffic wave busting is beneficial.
i asked about this < 2 weeks ago, so here goes again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401411
One other item that I think is worth repeating, about the original presentation: the "click-through hell" commenter didn't choose the most tactful way to put it, but he had a point. :-) I know slideshows and videos are all the rage now, but a simple article or blog post has one big advantage over them: it's much higher bandwidth, at least for me, and I suspect for a large percentage of your target audience. I can read a lot faster than your video can run, or than your slideshow can go from slide to slide. If you don't give me a quick, high-bandwidth way to find out what you're doing, I'm not going to invest the time.

[Edit: I see from comments elsewhere in this thread that you were not the author of the original presentation; but I still think the above is a good general rule to follow.]