skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I get those spacetrack graphs? Do I have to be a .mil person?

Is there a DIY space tracking service out there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_and_freedom_...

It seems circumscribed, if that Wikipedia article is correct. Blasphemy laws are one worrying aspect.

On the other hand, I'd rather have even that constitutional guarantee instead of the complete lack of any guaranteed freedom of speech that is the situation in the UK.
Bandwith measures seems to be important, local infrastructure (lower ping), text-based access, ... many things to think of.
NASA will not warn us about asteroids over Twitter during the shutdown
Impact of the US government shutdown
Slow cycle time is not standard issue. Cycle-time is non-existent on my iPhone 5. Low-cycle time became a key selling point in DSLRs and P&S cameras 5+ years ago. It's jarring to experience it in 2013.
I always wondered what the odds were of such a collision occuring in space. I realized that the surface of the orbit area is way larger than the Earth's surface. So I imagined satellites and debris located on and moving around the Earth's surface, and wondered what the odds were of them colliding in such a situation. I imagined they'd be extremely low, making the odds of a space collision even much lower.

Not sure I explained it clearly, and it might be a wrong assumption, so feel free to enlighten me.
As a start-up founder my dream is to change the world. Here at @pastbook we deal with technology on a daily basis and yet there are millions of people who have never owned a photo in their life, not to mention such basic needs as having light after the sun goes down. Working with Watts of Love to create and spread this photo story seemed like the perfect match for us, and I hope it can make a difference. It is doing project like this that I feel moving a step forward in making my dream happen. Lights On!
Enjoy the story about love, joy, and hope on Ilin Island, Philippines. http://wattsoflove.pastbook.com
What?! All the digital printing agencies I've been to were using iMacs. I live in a country with a Per Capita of $3,500. That's more than an order of magnitude lower than the US.
What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-replies on for a month
The same goes for the following, a name used for both genders in Italy:

{"name":"maria","gender":"female","probability":"1.00","count":700}
Exactly. Here it is verbatim "We like what Dropbox and
SkyDrive do but where is the privacy and fun?". And I thought : "Are you kidding me?".

Like we're supposed to play with balloons and dance when uploading/downloading files and be all smiley. Fun ? Seriously ! I don't want it to be fun, I want it to be effectively done.

The promo video is really clumsy. Accusing a service of lacking privacy (how do you know?) and fun (really?) and furthermore, failing to tell how their service is more private (and fun?) just is clumsy.

Newbie marketing tactics, too: In my experience, the companies that accuse competitors' products of sucking, and fail to show how their own products are better aren't that great.

- How do they know Dropbox isn't fun ? I find Dropbox great for what I want it to do.

- How do they know Dropbox isn't secure? And claiming theirs is, how do we know it really is and not just a claim. In other words, if I were to ask folks at younited: What is Dropbox not doing that you are. Don't give me "not secure" answers, get technical. If they don't, it's just defamation.

How do you measure privacy and security? Is there really anything secure .. I always found that talking in absolutes really shady when it comes to security. I uninstalled McAffee ages ago after seeing a pop-up saying "total security" or something like that.

How can you guarantee privacy and security, when there are back-doors in the hardware itself. Then there's the user education (which you shouldn't count on), then there are the lines, then the ISP, and a whole bunch of routers and nodes and networks where the information passes.
Then tell him that specific bit? Your short-reply about his presentation polluting your browser history didn't add much, either. :P

IMHO, I think he chose reveal.js because it was so highly regarded on HN just a few days ago. I don't think he would've expect that people would comment on that rather than his actual efforts, a.k.a. the bookmark storage and search.

When someone makes a website, they always base their designs around certain assumptions; his was to assume that people usually open new links in tabs. (I do, too.) Over time and after feedback is when these decisions are either vindicated or proven wrong.

I apologize for the passive-aggressive nature of my comment. It's just that the HN hive-mind has been quite snobbish towards budding developers of late and it has left a bad taste in my mouth. Personally, I believe that every developer who does a "Show HN" deserves at least one positive comment for every criticism they receive. YMMV, of course.
Мобилно сърфиране с Z1
От вчера в смарт телефонът Sony Xperia Z1 е наличен за феновете на технологиите. Разбира се възможността за закупуване ще бъде възможен и на лизинг само срещу около 53 лв на месец.
US shut down... World crisis.
Us in a serious financial crisis. Here is webpage that follows the action.
Have you tested *all* of your code?
When it comes to insurance "profits" I think the public is less than concerned. This will be a problem for incumbents but I'm fairly sure some new upstarts (the other part of ACA was lowering the barrier to entry) will find a way to make money off that 20%.

And finally, you can always run your company as a non-profit, like Kaiser.
FirefoxOS, Internet of things (#IoT), the future 
Imaginе. The future, 20xx. Driving from city A to City B on the highway. Rock music. Loud. something beeps. Beep! Beep! The driver looks at the screen and there is a message
Logentries Raises $10M, Brings in Andrew Burton as President and CEO
I've been using MySQL for over 12 years. It's easy to set up, easy to get started with, and works very beautifully.

Zero benefit, really, do you have to be so insulting?
I'm curious as to bow you tell an iphone 4s apart from a 4 at a glance.
Buzz-words and graphic design is like alcohol and barbiturates. Soon, someone will coin the expression "cloud measuring contest" and you'll actually hear people say "My cloud's better than yours".
Actually all modern browsers and standalone interpreters like node.js have a JIT compiler for JavaScript; and while Java's bytecode is still not a machine code and is also JIT compiled by the Java "virtual machine", both languages are equally "scripting" or equally "non-scripting" (wherever you want to put the "scripting" line).
Co-founder here. In case you're curious how exactly it works:

How it Works

1) Create an anonymous profile to let employers know about your skills and what you're looking for in your next opportunity.

2) Choose a chat topic from our library that truly allows you to showcase your talent.

Topics are based on real world software development and won't be found on any interview checklists.

3) Record audio chats (no video) alone or invite a fellow developer to join the conversation.

Record as many takes as needed until you're confident you nailed your answer.

4) Compose a highlight reel of your best chats to showcase yourself to employers.

5) Review interview offers from employers that like what they've heard.

There's no obligation to accept an offer
Actually not my rights because I have not traveled to the US yet, but yes. Disclaimer (IANAL)

The answer is has many faces - until you have entered any country you are not subject to the full jurisdiction there - Snowden was not having full rights in Moscow for the months he spent at the terminal. He was also not having full obligations - in Russia you need to register with the police as a foreigner and generally help them keep track of you when you switch your residence. So even as a US citizen while on the border you are not in the US fully.

The second is that the Supreme Court has balanced the rights and obligations of the government (the right to refuse entry and the duty to protect the country) and has determined that it is greater than the rights given by the fourth amendment.
Commision Junction is a good alternative if you know your site's interests.
Building knodium.com with scheme
FOIA?
This Guy's eaten nothing but raw meat for five years
failed with my name, too.

{
"name": "kay",
"gender": "female",
"probability": "0.93",
"count": 57,
"country_id": "US",
"language_id": "en"
}
Yes, but the grandparent is talking about the hypocrisy of American freedom.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The US goes to war to bring 'democracy' to foreign lands, but at the same time it doesn't think it's appropriate to follow it's own principles with regard to it's treatment of foreigners (and their data) at home.
Obvious, but tricky. Take a look at the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223

It comes in ten parts, and there's lots of discussion about how to deal with viewports, when to load things in, etc.

The original bug (which discarded images that weren't visible) was even worse:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689623
maybe post on reddit too - e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/NeedAdvice
Sorry you didn't make an argument. You claimed to be impartial and then let the truth slip with your tirade about Obama and right wing talking points.

You don't need to watch CSPAN to know exactly what is happening here: one half of one branch of the government decided they wanted to take the US economy hostage and run it back into recession if their demands weren't met.
What's amazing to me is how apple has resisted the temptation to go for market share with the iphone. That said, apple got and sustained a dominant share of the music player business against everyone's expectations and without compromising on quality (although i don't see apple doing an iphone shuffle).

It might be that microsoft's success with windows was the aberration. After all DOS and then windows were inferior products that achieved critical mass and widespread success because IBM got them into the enterprise and apple was asleep at the wheel.
Nobody is saying a form can't have "other", etc. as an option. Just that someone's MVP that guesses gender is allowed to do that without political-correctness police.

I fail to see how this API needs to accommodate transpeople in its 0.1 release.
Show HN: PHP PaaS deployment demo
first, thank you for taking the time for such a detailed answer. I do appreciate it and it is a very interesting insight.

"I haven't been able to discern what's particularly exciting about this approach. What do you think is uniquely interesting about this solution?"

It remains to be seen if it's uniquely interesting. If it is uniquely interesting, it will be because of node.js's supposed ability to do well with distributed server type things.

It is my general opinion that node.JS gets overused for quite a lot of things that it has no business being used for. But one thing I would use it for is the high concurrency, small payload size stuff like instant messaging and MMORPG's.

Imagining a robotics scenario, you could enable a simulated version of a swarm of robots that runs in a webpage.

with distributed sensors, you could integrate it with a web server set up using the same language- the sensors look just like some extra nodes in the distributed network. That could be nice.

The nice thing about javascript of course is that, all though it is kind of dumb out of the box, it is expressive enough that you can build some useful abstractions- and manage the callback hell that people tend to run into with node.js coded naively.

On the other hand it may well be making a fish climb a tree. Low level hardware stuff was never javascript's strength. What could be interesting though is the higher level event driven stuff which is harder to achieve with things like c/java/arduino
Thanks for the reddit link, I hadn't seen this discussed anywhere other than on the SeeSat mailing list. Even on that list there isn't consensus on what this debris field means, if anything.

The zarya.info article is rather breathless and conspiratorial but was the best I could find at the time.
Nice try, russians.
"Bro-culture" is a descriptor of a subculture/subgroup.
I don't think the main thing with insider trading is what you knew and when you knew it. It's what you did with the information.
Good to see continuing improvements in the browser of the free and open net.
How the government shutdown hurts the people
This result is really saying that 1 out of 1 tested Marijns are female - since they have only tested one Marijn, you should consider the result in this light.

The numbers are honest enough to admit that the result is crap in this case - this type of statistical openness should be encouraged.
Yeah the original comment isn't all that wrong technically (though not very nice either). Firefox is my main browser but loading long and heavy pages takes noticeably longer than with Chrome or IE and causes laggy scrolling. Glad they fixed it with v26 though, hopefully should land in the beta channel soon.
Except, selectively targeting (bad) cells in a heavily complex system (physiology) that you didn't design and have limited access to makes it tough.

Implementing these fixes in FF is easy. They didn't even have to be geniuses to realize it, just keeping an eye on friends (/rivals) would have given them the idea a few years ago.

NB: Not criticizing FF devs. They do awesome work! And sometimes, such silly little optimizations can just stay hidden at the back of everyone's minds for ages until showing themselves through a veil of obviousness.

But, cancer vs these optimizations? No chance.
I hear you. Personally, I don't need "automatic virus inspection' of my files. I know what I'm uploading. I'm the first person I think about sharing my files with. Most of what I keep is thesis related (documentation, code, articles, etc...). I store files on Dropbox, and e-mail myself thoughts I have not to forget, links, etc.. I used to e-mail myself files, too, but Db took care of it.

Maybe I fail to see the benefit since I don't have an iPhone and I'm not on iTunes.. And even then, isn't there a Dropbox mobile app ?

I might be just not getting it.
It really doesn't though. The ease of consumption of the political topics is killing the depth of discussion on hackernews and forcing people elsewhere, especially when comments like "wow don't gitmo me bro" are now considered acceptable.
Bear in mind that in some languages this problem doesn't exist. In Polish for example, all female names end with an "a". There is not a single exception from that rule, so if you see a name ending with an "a" it is always a female name.
{
"name": "петя",
"gender": "female",
"probability": "1.00",
"count": 1
}

Yeah, how about no.
Steve Ballmer’s last company meeting was festered with emotions
StartHQ Capitalizes on Chrome's Change of the New Tab Page
Ubuntu on personal laptop. Windows 8 on office laptop.
If your Counselor is a psychiatrist or another provider with a license to prescribe I'd encourage you to talk to them about your problem sleeping. There are drugs that you can use for short periods of time without developing a physical dependency; sometimes sleep begets sleep (i.e.: being tired can keep you from sleeping, ask any parent w/ a very young child).

If your counselor isn't licensed to prescribe go to your Primary Care Provider (PCP; Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Physician's Assistant) to discuss treatment. Just because it's a "chemical" doesn't make it bad (remember: water is a chemical). Furthermore your primary care provider really does have your best interests in mind, and they love seeing patients who trust them. Don't waltz in demanding something in particular, chances are they've seen 4 other people today with similar problems and have a favored set of treatments and interventions. Also, always give your PCP time to solve something; a lot of medications and treatments like physical therapy and exercise take several weeks to start working.

Sources: my whole family are insomniacs, my wife is an NP.
Multi-indexing: index a single document by multiple values

So.. This is an inverted index. Not exactly a new concept, it certainly doesn't justify a new name. Unless, maybe, the people making RethinkDB didn't know.. no, that's impossible right?

Could a company commercially selling a database not realize they just reinvented a basic data structure?

Then again, the google query "site:rethinkdb.com inverted index" has no relevant results.

Maybe they think the name inverted index is more confusing than just inventing a new name?
It should be obvious that a lot of 8 byte mallocs will give bad performance and horrible memory use. This article and in particular the benchmarks in it would be a lot more informative if the test case was more realistic.

Please add at least 32 or 64 bytes of payload to the linked list structure and re-run the benchmarks. Even that is a very small allocation block, but is on the lower end of realistic allocation sizes although not a good practice.
Modded down for making accurate statements? Awesome.
How is that a "fail"? The probability is listed as 93%.
Is The Free Lunch Over
Learning a useful tool at home related to work pays off.

For a web front end task job that doesn't have JQuery 5-10 hours in it could save so many hours at work after introduction you may look like a hero and win you more paid at work research time.

Prove you are worth research time to your employer.
This is how you stop people from talking and discussing openly. Very effective.
This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
Facebook Censors Islam Testimony of Faith "The Shahada"
The idea of fixing them is easy, the practicalities are clearly not - take a look at the size of the bug reports and patches that go with them...
And apparently some Panda in a reserve wont be fed according to the news. It's pretty sick when people believe this is the only way to partially shut down the government.

Most of the NSA (85%), FBI (85%), CIA (85%), Congress (Fully), The Judicial Branch, The Senate (Fully) will be paid and working.

If the US government partially shuts down the government, but chooses to spend on defense but not National Parks and NASA, then it chooses to shut down in that way...
What a horrible pice of writing...

He was denied entry without explanation. That this has anything to do with some petition he signed at some point seems a bit far fetched.

Also: A positive ESTA application doesn't mean anything. For Germans on the visa waiver, ESTA is just a quick online transaction that is good for several years. It doesn't actually mean that there aren't "any problems with the visa or work permit".

If he doesn't have a German passport (came to Germany in 1971 with his parents from Bulgaria), I can see why somebody from Bulgaria coming to the US from Brazil might seem a bit strange.

So far, this is all speculation and really not worth the read.
A lesser evil might be to wake up every time an hour or two earlier than what would have been natural. This way you would be tired in the following evening. Almost guaranteed.
Hi Doug, I was in your presentation for Super Mondays at Newcastle University yesterday.
Just wanted to say thanks for coming,and congratulations for getting to the front page of HC again, interesting how you mentioned that yesterday and it happened today.
Argh There’s an asshole on my internet
The mobile Dropbox client doesn't sync AFAIK, it just gives you the ability to browse and download your files.
Government shutdown means no panda cub cam
There is nothing out of the ordinary here. Prior criminal convictions, affiliation with unsuitable political parties or organizations or poor character are valid justifications for denying entry according to US law.

It has been used against communists, peace activists, anti-apartheid activists, greens and homosexuals in previous decades. Now it's surveillance critics who don't get in.
Here is a place where it's helpful and guessing wrong is ok. Consider a movie information site, which for some reason knows your name (but nothing else).

Male homepage: Die Hard, Star Wars, Bridget Jones.

Female homepage: Bridget Jones, Twilight, Star Wars.

Both males and females are shown primarily movies they are more likely to be interested in and your bounce rate goes down.
Not really. It has a Debian/Ubuntu repository. A couple of commands and then it's literally "sudo apt-get install jenkins"
Nice one Stefano
Typed Clojure Campaign Stretch Goal - Self-Hosting Clojure Compiler
I can't tell you how many MySQL users I've worked with where 50% of their dev work was doing complex caching and denormalization to avoid joins.

Now, as a MySQL user, you're saying to yourself "joins are slow". Yes. In MySQL, joins are very, very slow.

I mean, you could write a book on all the things MySQL does in a fundamentally broken way. It's a very long list. Generally, MySQL fans have only ever used a single database system, MySQL, and they extrapolate that it's completely brain damaged behavior is somehow a characteristic of relational databases. This is not so.

To be blunt, if you think MySQL works beautifully, I mean, will you at least admit that at least 95% of your experience is with MySQL? Anyone who had ever used any of Oracle, Postgres or even SQLServer could ever say that with a straight face.
My main issue with Dropbox is that they aren't trustworthy.

How Dropbox lost my trust:

1) they flat-out lied in their promotional materials. They falsely claimed that data was kept encrypted and that they couldn't access it. They stopped claiming this only after a third-party revealed that it was a lie.

2) The CTO's reactions to major security flaws made crystal clear that he does not view loss exposures as a problem unless you suffer a loss.

3) The CTO's reactions to major security flaws made crystal clear that Dropbox prefers sweeping problems under the rug to transparency.

This has created a situation where a reasonable person can't ever really trust Dropbox.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/ -- nice summary of Dropbox's flagrant lies about encrypted data.
Is paywall the right way to monetize news online?
As for my personal tastes - and judging only by provided screenshots - I think the original looks better than redesign. Except for Courier New replacement to Consolas and console part, which, indeed, has to be white on black (or, better, light gray on black, white is for highlights), not the other way around. Probably that's the lack of primary navigation menu icons that I dislike the most.
> No one is even suggesting

No one except parent.
He's not a citizen so can't make a FOIA request. No-one else can make one on his behalf as it would be breach rules on data protection and personal information.

Probably.
Leanpub.com/nightowls somebody has taken time to summarize the experiences of nightowls from IT
Aarrrrggggggg, out of office replied are the BANE of the internet.

Its an asynchronous medium, like the postal service. Its not a conversation on the telephone. Replies are not expected to be instant. Anybody that calls you up 1 hour later to find out why you've not answered is clearly "doing it wrong"®. Use the correct tool for the job.

The guy could have stopped spamming people and just answered his emails once a month instead for the same effect.

People that claim email is a bind or that they are a slave to it should have it removed and see how they prefer life.
or https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/convertbot-amazing-unit-conv... (which does a billion other conversions as well)
And in Iceland you can reliably determine gender from a person's second name, ending in either -son or -dottir.