skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I accidentally found this way of creating a Sierpinski Gasket-like structure:

https://vimeo.com/7690310

Lines "flow" from left to right (horizontally) or bottom to top (vertically), and all lines start out white. When two lines cross, they might switch color depending on which color they come across, as follows:

* white (h) + white (v) = black (h) + black (v)

* black (h) + black (v) = black (h) + black (v)

* white (h) + black (v) = white (h) + white (v)

* black (h) + white (v) = white (h) + white (v)
I have zero problems remotely coding. Nothing beats a good Vim environment.
Ah, makes sense. I donated, anyway.
Really is a head scratcher: paying more money for worse coffee. Understand that convenience is a major factor, but kinda crazy it's enough to justify...
I think this is a great idea. The casual reader will type in the short url (giving the publisher tracking and control), but the expansion will be available long as the print issue survives. This still fails if only an article survives (by clipping, photocopy, etc), but that seems like an acceptable tradeoff.

And until it's a common idea it would be helpful to annotate such shortened links so that someone unfamiliar with the publisher will recognize them as having a printed expansion included. Superscript "*" usually refers to a note on that page, so perhaps a superscript ">>"?
I'm Europe-based, I feel your pain. Every time I read about some new potentially awesome payment service, but only for the US-audience it consistently manages to make me grumpy all day thinking about all the lost business possibilities.
Reminds me of what Discourse is doing with their editor - although none of the drag-upload image / instant youtube link preview stuff.
I think there are two ways to deal with being overweight (or being really skinny as I was growing up, which can be very detrimental socially for a guy), and that is either to accept your weight and love yourself as you are or do something about it and lose the weight (or in my case, build muscle). What I hate to hear is people making excuses for not choosing either one of those solutions. As soon as someone else who has the same afflictions you do conquers their weight issues, your excuses are rendered moot. Either learn to love yourself at your current weight or get to work.
I thought that this comment: https://www.facebook.com/groups/705664592796188/permalink/70... was most enlightening as to why this item was here.

Amusingly self-referential.
More obvious if you use a polygon rather than a path object:

<svg height=10 width=20>
<polygon fill=red stroke-width=0
points="0,10 20,10 10,0" />
</svg>

And you can put it in your CSS using a data URI:

.triangle {
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height='10' width='20' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><polygon fill='red' stroke-width='0' points='0,10 20,10 10,0' /></svg>") no-repeat left center;
width: 20px;
height: 10px;
}
Part of the waiting period is waiting to see if people return stuff. It's far easier to pay the correct amount 4 months later than to pay and then claw back payment (how?) when people return their purchases.
I recently deployed an open source project of mine called sumerian.io. sumerian.io empowers the JavaScript developer into creating structured MV* applications on both the server and client side with a no fuss connector between the two. It is stable, but still considered beta, so I appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
Also look at digital object identifiers (DOI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
I thought only browsing was HTTP, but as soon as a customer proceeded to checkout, it switched to HTTPS?
Not true, you can call the fire department.
You do realize he (allegedly) paid to have someone killed, right?
BitTorrent Mastermind Behind Controversial NSA Billboard Campaign
Hi, post author here.

> Also, is there a reason not to use large pages directly for the mmap'd sets if you know you're going to have them hot at all times? (I assume they read the entire file on start?)

We could use large pages directly. But, as I mentioned in the article, the performance gains would be negligible compared to the gains that come from having things in memory in the first place. These are not very large memory systems and the page table / TLB miss overhead doesn't seem to be biting us. We are just following the mantra 'pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil' :)
When I get recruiter spam to my work email, I always ask how the writer came across my address. Usually I don't get a response, but sometimes I've had them come clean about either using a service, or guessing.
To be fair it's probably only a matter of time before this post is killed, but that's alright. Let it ride the wave while it may.
I've seen it some other places too. Was Amazon Payments not open to everyone before? I just assumed it was.
I'm not sure that solves the sticky session problem, I think it may just be for broadcasting to channels. See the last line of this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9275798/113

"A potentially big drawback with this is that socket.io sessions are not shared between workers. This will probably mean problems if you use any of the long-polling transports."
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Pay with Loop: mobile payments for unmodified point-of-sale systems
I raise PHP and MySQL in a Tweet.

http://bit.ly/1hA9mZn
I totally agree with you to expect delays from estimates, but I also think many people either A) won't do the same or B) It's just hard to comprehend how different things might be in the market when you finally get it 6-12 months after you "ordered" it.
http://webcitation.org/
I accidentally discovered the time period by hovering over the open/close/payout bar.
This is honestly pretty heartwarming. Good for you to empower your dad with tech!
Landmines already make lethal decisions on their own. They just use far simpler heuristics.

There's not going to be some big red switch that is flipped and suddenly the machines decide what to shoot at. Instead there will just be a gradual extension of fire control mechanisms.
Miles Kane: Entrepreneur Great Yarmouth style
Been a solved problem for a while: http://webcitation.org/
Isn't it supposed to alert you that there's a fire? If your waving your arms around due to a fire, I think it's job is done.
There are no end-to-end secure systems.

So you're typing this on OpenBSD? Sure, because that's secure.

Your RPM's are signed, so you're pretty sure they're safe?

Or you're using Funtoo or Arch and compiling from source? Have you read all that source? Even if you did, did you UNDERSTAND it all?

Are you using an Intel Ivy-Bridge or later processor with RdRand?

Are you using a phone?

Do you log into your webmail from one or more locations? How about email?

Do you trust SSL certificates? which ones?

And now... are all of those one other person that you're writing to that actually also uses GPG exercising the same caution? :)

I'm just saying... if you want to know that you're not being sniffed, you have to simply make it impossibly expensive to do so, which probably means get on a plane, meet and hand the person a note, and then burn it, and then scatter the ashes to the seven winds.

Then worry about the metadata of your flight, time, license plate readers, traffic and surveillance cameras.

The basic problem is that allowing this continued, blatant destruction of the 4th Amendment threatens the entire Bill of Rights which ultimately threatens the very foundation of our government and the rule of law.

Legal power, jail, and bullets trump crypto.
Right?!?!
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Yeah there is more than a little bit of selection bias going on here.

What percentage of criminals are dumb enough to get noticed and/or caught? Well, we don't know how many don't get noticed, so let's call it zero. Bam, 100% get noticed/caught!
Yes, "upvote so other people can become aware of the group and join". Isn't having a place where people can coordinate rides, get to know each other before Startup School a useful thing for everybody?

I did not create the group but I really think that it can actually add value. If you think that is unfair that I get karma points because I posted this, feel free to create your own link to the group and I will upvote it. I am not interested in points, I am interested in creating value for the participants to Startup School.

Unfortunately HN ranking algorithm makes difficult to create a place like a group or a forum that stick otherwise the initial post here about Startup School would have been enough.
Presumably they'd lose a lot more business possibilities going to Europe (or more likely, a single European country) before the US.
I don't see how to fit in the word "expected" into what he is saying.

He says:

"Even if you do raise money and sell a company or take it public"

Given that statement "sell a company or take it public" it would appear that we are definitely talking about people that have gotten to a particular point (where the group narrows quite a bit). Not the chance of getting to that point after starting a company.

For sure the probability is low for getting to the point of taking your company public (or selling) but once you take your company public in no way could he be arguing that the economic benefit is only $300k. Something doesn't make sense here.
If you have jailbroken your iPhone, use any of the many Cydia packages that do just that. If you haven't... why not?!

On rooted Android, AdAway.
I'd wonder if any grad school in the country would let people in with a degree from Excelsior.
So is this just an few-click OAuth thing? Click the button on a 3rd party website, and if you're logged in to Amazon, they send over your details, charge you, and you're done?
That makes a lot of sense. I think you don't really totally know what you're looking for until you have one in some cases. I know I bought a Solidoodle because it was cheaper and readily available. Now that I've used it a bit, I see the value in paying for a more reliable printer with a larger build size that is at a higher price point. If I had bought a Kickstarter printer first, it would have taken much longer to get to that point simply due to the wait. And while some of the issues plague all printers, I meant to allude to the fact that those issues compound when you add in Kickstarter- specific problems.
What's the driving factor for local stars? I'd think that, as in many industries, big will get bigger. If you become a regional star, you'll probably go multi-regional. I'd be surprised if there'd be any major decline in huge pop stars. Even if they start off indie, one they gain enough traction, they'll be able to out-market others.

There's no reason e.g. YouTube couldn't have music competitions and new huge stars every year.
Not that simple. That would be fine for a client-side app, but not for a public-facing site:

1) no javascript = no images. crawlers/bots/archival services won't see them - google might even penalize you for broken image sources. one error in your main js file and all images are toast. needs other workarounds.

2) longer page load times unless you use inline scripts

4) extensions like readability, pinboard, weheartit, etc, might break
How do we get around the signup wall? The site looks pretty shady and I don't want to give it my personal information.
At the risk of arousing some people's ire, I really like these tidbits that try to squeeze maximum functionality (albeit a bit dangerous) into a minimum span of characters. It feels a bit like the underhanded C contest in a way since there are so many magnificent ways to self-destruct doing this, but at the same time it's a fun challenge.

A while ago, I put together a dirt-simple URL shortener https://twitter.com/eksith/statuses/275709375665037312

A bit of background: http://eksith.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/id-obfuscation
Purpose - New York, NY
Purpose.com
Care about changing the world through technology? Like to eat? Want to build something from the ground up? The Food Incubation Team at Purpose is looking for a rockstar lead developer to join our founding team. We have a concept and are looking for the perfect teammate to bring it to life.

Who you are?
* You have extensive experience in backend development, specifically supporting mobile applications
* You have 2+ years developing in Ruby
* You have built mobile APIs with image upload
* You have apps in the app store

Why join?
Finally use your skills to make a real difference in the world -- particularly through making better food accessible to all.

https://careers-purpose.icims.com/jobs/1065/lead-developer--...

Email rachna.govani@gmail.com with a little about yourself and your resume if you are interested.
Always left out of these graphs: there are more musicians than ever before, and vastly more recordings being released.

Earnings at the top are higher than ever, and the tail is longer and shallower.
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”

― Albert Einstein

ie. We are peaceful, they are not, so we must not rest lest they destroy us while we sleep, and we must destroy them while they are.
I think this comment should be much higher. I agree, this isn't just a fancy smoke/CO detector just like the Nest isn't just a thermostat with an iPhone app. It's a thermostat that will save you money by automatically adjusting to heat/cool your house as needed. This is not just a smoke/CO detector but rather a way to network all your detectors together, have them tell you (Actually talk to you) where the fire is, easy dismiss ability, night light, remote monitoring, and more.
Or one true line in APL:

+/ 1 2 3 4 5
In PHP

array_sum([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
It would make sense, as this is targeted towards developers and he knows his audience.
I agree with original comment about the hand wave to dismiss feature. It shouldn't be made easy to dismiss an alarm.

At first, it seems like an awesome feature when you know the source of fire. e.g your kitchen.

But consider CO alarm cases. Top 10 reviews in Amazon for a Smoke alarm + CO detector talk about how CO alarm saved their lives. Most of the reviewers at first thought it was a false alarm. If it was Nest they would have "easily" dismissed it and probably died.

But that said, other features like motion detector, night light, syncing with Nest thermostat to shutoff the heater, cool design, make it a good buy. As long as I don't dismiss all alarms by default.
Exaggeration was not the intent. We've updated our graphs to be more clear.
maybe shared state is the mistake. mutability is kind of a physical law.
just don't look at the expectation
Any particular reason why blogs.heroku.com would want to know my location? Isn't the IP generally enough?
I think so based off the comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=werner -
Here's what Obamacare looks like when it works
We incorporated this graph with the permission of the author.
I'm not sure about the mating display thing but you probably started learning the piano at age 6 because your parents thought it was a good idea.
you'll love APL:

x ← 1 2 3 4 5
+/ x

http://ngn.github.io/apl/web/index.html#code=x%20%u2190%201%...
I'm not sure that adding features to an already late project is the best idea.
(not provided) Global Report
It looks like the distinction for this new service is that you get an API and can keep them on your site (without redirecting to amazon.com), so I'm thinking this is closer to Stripe than to PayPal.

Apparently sellers get your name, email address, and postal code as soon as you log in.
For instance, the fear of fire?
Kickstarter US uses it as well. But before it was a pure payment processor, I assume this is now a more complete service.
array_sum_of_1_2_3_4_5();

(Added in PHP 6)
found the original page!

http://web.archive.org/web/20110414214749/http://ssnat.com/
Yes, in the docs they mention rates for non-US payments.
Really hard to calculate
I was thinking about Sierpinski triangles recently, and trying to relate it to the 3 4 5 triangle. The 3 side has a Sierpinski triangle, with 9 segments, equaling 3^2. The 4 side has an equivalent "Sierpinski square", with 16 segments, equaling 4^2 (basically four squares touching at the corners with an empty square space in the middle, forming a cross shape). Then I was going to show how the two shapes could be combined to equal 5^2, or come up with its own shape (a house seems best, as the regular pentagon tiles the plane so the line totals don't work out).

As of yet, fruitless. It's a cute little project that shades of the standard presentation of three squares forming a center 3 4 5 triangle, with an interesting twist.
I think the point is you probably don't have to move it very far. I doubt most would call it rewiring a home to move the alarm 2-5 feet.
we did that on folha de s.paulo newspaper in brazil in the late 90's

but mostly to link to the online version of the site the newspaper owned. it was a way to give out more data for a news piece that could not fit in the paper. Usually external urls were printed in the paper anyway.
Is it really that crazy?

That's like saying that I should expect to live to 120, because it's been done before. And, I should ignore the expected lifespan number.

Maybe healthy lifestyle choices will increase my lifespan. But, to expect that I should be a statistical outlier seems risky.
I have no idea, but I doubt it. Although, yes, it should really be standardized though, like the JVM debug protocol.

The Google Web Toolkit team was looking at this; instead of their historical approach of using a JVM to run/debug user code (because that was actually a really great idea in IE6), using the native JS debuggers in FF/Chrome/etc.

...except that there is all sorts of wonkiness, like only 1 debugger is supported at a time, so you can't use, say, Eclipse (whether for GWT or pure JS debugging) + FF dev tools for inspecting CSS/etc. at the same time. And you can only connect to 1 tab...something, something. I was not directly involved, but it didn't sound pleasant.

Anyway, I totally agree that native dev tools should be decoupled/play friendly with other tools.

AFAICT, so far the FF/Chrome engineers are going down the path of basically building IDEs from scratch, in the browser itself.

Which was great for Firebug, and inspecting elements, but for a debugger, I really want to stay in my IDE.
That's awesome. Is it the HN group http://letslunch.com/hackernews?
Upvoted for this critical insight:

>But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

This is a terrific insight and goes well with this writing by Bertrand Russell which I saw on HN earlier today: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Added to our TODO!
There really are some forms of music that are better suited for recordings, as opposed to stages. People insist on conflating them by saying "It's okay that it's harder to sell recorded music - just go on tour!" when that point really doesn't make a lot of sense.
Not nearly as comprehensive, but interactive w/ d3:

http://roadtolarissa.com/triangles

Only a couple of lines of codes too:

https://github.com/1wheel/BizarreSierpinskiTriangle/blob/mas...
HP Chromebook11: Made with Google
Oh? Got a link?
Did Open Source Software Bring Down Healthcare.gov?
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The Supreme Law of the Land is the Constitution, right?

The Fourth Amendment has a few things to say on this. I'd strongly advise you to actually read it -- it's only a few sentences -- and make your own determination on what you think it actually says.

The FISC, authorized under the FISA, goes back to the 70's and was in reaction to the crimes that Nixon committed. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Obama has taken that ball and run with it in a big way. Most transparent administration, ha.

And even then, the FISC was and is itself contradictory to the Bill of Rights, 14th Amendment, etc,....

Guess which law wins? Assuming the Supreme Court agrees (and there's no guarantee they would.)

So if you're ordered to do something awful, but you know that there is a higher law that trumps that law, you can simultaneously be disregarding "the law" whilst maintaining "regard" for the law.

The key is: which law?
Honestly I think it's neurochemistry.

Things cause stress. Stress hormones float around in your brain "motivating" you. This isn't real motivation, it's stress-based motivation.

Exercise in my experience is the best cure to this stress condition. Unfortunately exercise tends to leave you tired. The other things that can help it pass are pleasurable, simple things. Video games, TV, reading a book you've read before, socializing in a comfortable environment. The exercise seems to remove that stress, while the rest just helps you not accumulate it while you take your mind off of other things.

It's not until that stress has passed that you get the clear head that lets you want to do something creative.

In the future, maybe when you feel that you aren't being creative, instead of trying to do more, just try to exercise, have a glass of wine, play some video games, and see if it happens again. Maybe go to bed early.
Cool idea. Joined the que.
Scroll down and you'll see a geo-demo that is better off with your browsers reported location.
Yeah, ESL issues can contribute to this blurring as well.
A number? What are these exactly? I keep hearing people say this, but I can't think of any reasons where I would really need MS Office.

I haven't used Word since Word 97, and I have never come across a use case that Open/LibreOffice, Google docs or Latex couldn't solve for me. I would imagine that the same would apply for most people.

On the other hand, I remember collaborating on many reports using Google docs because that was the only application featuring decent real time multi user editing.
"Silly" was perhaps a strong word. My point was that there are a lot of heat maps of the US that have a similar distribution, and those similarities could very well be due to a spurious relationship.
I think HN recommends not using link shorteners. It's nice to know that people aren't tracking your clicks.
> since Google no longer has Apps for your Domain

should probably read as "since Google no longer has free Apps for your Domain"
I suppose it doesn't hurt that you can also then glean statistics over what your readers are checking out.
A couple of years back I set up a payments system for a web application offering a choice of Amazon Payments, PayPal, or Google Checkout. Amazon was by far the easiest, best-documented API to work with. I think it would be best for everybody else if they became the dominant player in this space.
After finding that my state (TX) has opted to use the not-so-user-friendly Healthcare.gov site for cost comparison & enrollment, it's nice to see some other states stepping-up with more user-friendly websites.

Cost comparisons without having to create an account... how novel.
Silicon Valley is the only relevant market for venture capital
Plus, you'll sleep right through the alarm!