skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in Canada for a year using my UK phone, so I only get Edge due to the different bands. Surprisingly, I have survived and I didn't think I would. Sure things take longer to load and I can't really stream YouTube but you learn to live with it and you can always pick up wifi in a lot of cafes and restaurants to send images and files. But, I can send/receive my emails, use Tango/WhatsUp/Skype to instant message, Facebook, browse the web etc. It's more than adequate, you can work around the limitations fairly easily. I'm also on a limited data plan (500MB month) so at faster speeds I would hit that limit very quickly!

I will be buying a Nexus 5 when it comes out though :)
It almost never matters in scientific computing. Doubles give us the equivalent of almost 16 digits of accuracy, and that's more precision than we know any physical constant to. You're right that the world isn't decimal, and switching to decimal encodings actually reduces the effective precision of any computation.
Can't even say how many times I really wanted data during our recent trip to Korea. It would have been profoundly useful on some occasions.
The planet radiates only in Infra-Red, so the frequencies have been surely mapped into our visible spectrum.
It is worth noting that Pascal was originally intended as an extremely portable language to teach structured programming. It was only later that people began actually using it for real stuff.

The key to its portability was that it shipped with an interpreter that would run under a simple bytecode machine. Implement that bytecode and you could run Pascal on virtually anything. Back in 1970, this was a pretty useful feature.
I need to spend as much time writing articles about the tech behind GridSpy as Boosted boards write about their tech.

Not only is it fascinating, it's great branding and marketing collateral. I wasn't sure I wanted a boosted board when they ran their KickStarter but I sure am ready to buy now.
I can verify that compliance requirement for older versions of PHP is still going strong. Last project for a charity completed with PHP 4.4 because "we have too much to rewrite" despite most of the platform being brand new.

Also sysadmins are unlikely to support platforms in which they cannot assert their dominance.
Privacy and Legal Concerns with Big Data
Or space stations...
In theory that sounds great, but as we've seen with make, the end result is that the users of make just didn't upgrade. If that's not a desirable outcome for you, then it's on you to prevent that. No else is going to.
What really went wrong with healthcare.gov?
> YouTube was worth way more than other video sharing sites

I believe YouTube was the first site that solved the fairly difficult problem of embedding video in your blog and sharing video by taking advantage of the then-new Flash media server and doing some clever transcoding of videos to Flash video format without having the servers melt down.

Prior to YouTube, you had to download proprietary ActiveX plugins to run video (RealPlayer). They were in the right place at the right time and had the right technology to use.
I feel most of what you said simply contradicts me. That you have not bothered to do basic research here is evident:

>No, it follows from straightforward reasoning about natural selection. How could intelligence be selected for if it does not have a fitness advantage? If it has a fitness advantage, why has it not reached fixation? And so on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence

This is why. It should be the first goddamn thing you look up. Or, you know, a systematic review of some sort. Not your intuition. If something doesn't serve the primary drivers of the evolution of intelligence --which by no means must select for general intelligence as measured by the Raven Progressive Matrices Test, then it need not be selected for! This isn't, of course something you should take from me. Read something. By someone who actually studies biology. u.u
I have the same experience on a daily basis. I get no service to a maximum of 1 bar standing next to a window at home and the same sitting at my desk at work (which happens to be next to a nice, big window). Couple that with dead zones on the commute to work, and I spend almost 100% of my day with little to no service. And no, I do not live in the middle of nowhere; I live a tad bit north of Chicago. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all have fantastic service here. I'm trying to get out of my legacy contract with T-Mobile over this, but they want to charge me $300 to terminate.

T-Mobile can throw in as many features as they want, but if I can't reliably make a call from home or work, then it's useless to me.
I can only speak for San Francisco, but that sounds like an issue with your phone, not t-mobile. Make sure your phone supports LTE and HSPA+ on the right spectrums. My experience with T-mobile in SF has been nothing short of superb, on an unlocked iPhone 5. Super-fast low-latency everywhere I go.
The article says that such planets have been observed previously, but only indirectly. I found an article about those previous discoveries:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/05/exoplanets-without-a-...
I wonder if this'll be available with their ridiculously amazing $30 per month pre-paid plan.

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/b8c4a2164434
Sorry for the technical glitches. I'm too cynical, I guess: my first thought was that someone took advantage of the traffic spike and unilaterally directed it to a worthy cause.
Some would even argue that on a daily timescale, the act of commuting is moving closer to work...
Gears are only required because human muscles only work efficiently at pedal RPM. In cars, they're only required because the engine is only efficient at certian RPM.

Electric motors have a far greater range of RPM at which they can deliver a sufficient power.

A motor that delivers 700W attached to any gearbox will deliver 700W after the gearbox (minus losses). The difference is that shaft will rotate at different speeds and with a different number of Newton / Metres. A slow shaft attached to a 700W motor (at full power) will have more torque than a fast one.
If Github is down, pull directly from each other's git repos. Works just fine. You may need to temporarily change build scripts, but better would be to have a local repo server that the build scripts pull from. In normal circumstances that local repo would just pull from Github, but when it is down you push changes to it instead.
Those "plenty of things" change dramatically from one news source to another. I stopped listening/reading to political news 3 years ago and I feel so happy.
There's a reason they're called the natural numbers. Nature doesn't have to be decimal for decimals to be useful (the question that started this debate), it just has to be rational. Many many many parts of nature are rational, and sometimes we need to deal with them in scientific computing. DNA sequence processing comes to mind.
Plans that are actually reasonably priced, explicitly calling out handset subsidies and making them optional

This has actually been the norm in UK for quite some years. Look on t-mobile.co.uk for example, they have a SIM Only plans. As an example:

> The Full Monty (SIM Only), £26/month on 12 month contract = unlimited talk, text + data

> iPhone 5c 16GB, £42/month on 24 month contract = unlimited talk, text + data, £30 for phone

So the same plan, the iPhone effectively costs you £414. That't not actually a bad price, esp if you consider it as finance. But not everyone wants a new phone, e.g. maybe your iPhone 5 is still "good" and you want to wait for the iPhone 6 to come out in a year...
> Sleep more – you'll be less sensitive to negative emotions

For individuals with depression that might not be the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Treatment_for...
This is not true. Since this optimization helps Java so much, it is already implemented in HotSpot itself without changing ABI.

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops
Just add points to arbitrary tasks and people will do them for free and with unexpected ability. Did you know there are amateur human protein folders and they pretty much outperform computational folders?
In fact, hasn't been true since the Pentium Pro. Agner Fog's excellent microarchitecture docs [1] indicate that the PPro (which was a 3-wide machine, and the first out-of-order x86) could find 3 instructions per cycle out of a 16-byte fetch chunk, and likely did so by speculatively starting decode at each byte in parallel.

[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
Notes on negotiation (lessons D.C. badly needs)
Seriously. If I actually wanted to look at designers masturbating, I'd go kick up tarps in Dumbo.
That was a big portion of the basis of my appeal; a carrier shouldn't allow charges to be compounded that high and that fast. There were alert SMS messages stating my data charges balance, but the $50, $100, and $200 alerts all arrived at the exact same time, literally all had the same timestamp. If I had been capped at $50 and then prompted in order to continue, I would have paid the fee and learned my lesson.
Sounds like a much better solution than many of the other proposals here, which would end up with the user having to enter their login credentials more often than they'd like.
I came here to take on the commuting point. Every time I read about how miserable long commutes are, I think of my dad. 45 minutes driving through traffic each way every day. Never hear him complain about it or get in a sour mood over it. He enjoys it.

It's all about attitude and making the best of your time. In traffic? Release your anger, it wont' get anywhere. Put on NPR (or whatever you like), take a refreshing tea or juice with you, don't rage at moronic drivers, etc.

Happiness is about attitude, especially your attitude towards stress. Nothing you can do will eliminate stress in your life. You may shorten your commute, but some other stressor will appear... smaller living quarters, more crime/noise in the city, etc.
Hello - iBeacon demo using Parse
No, how the world works is that you satisfy your users or your users go someplace else.

Microsoft gets this. Linus gets this. FSF and GNU, while I love their ideals, are apparently a bit too ivory tower to actually get it on things like this.
More importantly this is about as close to "mortgaging your future" as you can get. Take Chinese students, in a high-tech degree program which could equip them to earn 6-figure salaries...and waste their time forcing them to provide free-labor doing unpaid menial assembly jobs.

The Chinese optics on this are absurd.
The 50th anniversary is fine and everything, but this is going over the top for PR.

Also, in the new series Mondas is no longer where they come from anyway.
You're right, there are many people (including you) who benefit greatly from prizes. But I'm more concerned about the mindset of attendees (i.e. those that "play only to win"). It's also worth noting that prize-winners are definitely in the minority, numerically speaking. Nonetheless, good point and thanks for the feedback!
They've already sold a sizable quantity of very very very expensive boards. Thus: there exists a market for boards sold as high quality.
Why is this just happening now? Truecrypt clearly reached a "critical mass" of use a while ago. Considering the anonymous nature of the creators it should have been suspect from day one.

Not to imply there is anything wrong with it, but all crypto should be audited. Obviously priority to more popular packages, but this is popular and has been for a while.
Electric bikes have been using lifepo4 for years now.

My pack is nearly 5 years old.
are you kidding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev

ruled 1969-1987, 1993-2003, passed the throne to his son:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev

"In 2009, following his reelection as president, Aliyev passed a referendum which removed the presidential consecutive term limit, thereby allowing him to run for president as many times as he wishes. Opposition claimed this to be a violation of the Azerbaijani constitution and the European convention on human rights.[13] It is widely expected that Aliyev will win the 2013 presidential elections.[14]"

and i have no doubts he will win :)
First thing that came to mind after reading this was Redis. See "Using 32 bits instances" in http://redis.io/topics/memory-optimization.
Apparently, the estimated number of orphan planets is "100,000 per star in the galaxy!" [1].

The star equivalent to these orphan planets are called, well, orphan stars. They are not bound to a particular galaxy and roam about freely in the space between galaxies [2].

[1]: http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/galaxy-filled-with...

[2]: http://aninews.in/newsdetail14/story80862/-039-mysterious-03...
New Miniaturized Wide-Angle Lens Captures Images in High-Definition
Sometimes I wonder if competitors attempt to dig up dirt like this.
I was just thinking recently how good customer service is for McDonald's and fast food as a whole. McD's has 'served billions and billions' and scaled their workforce to an impressive extent while still retaining food safety and decent customer service. A philosophy of technology professor in college loved to use them as an example as the pinnacle of engineering, from supply chain down to point-of-sale. And while minimum wage might seem demeaning, they invest a lot more in people than many companies and (sadly) is one of a few good employers in many towns.
20 things to tell a celebrity you admire
JustUnfollow Hits 5 million users, acquhires JustMigrate and 3Crumbs
You are right about him contradicting himself, but I think first half (rather first 2/3) of his post are just philosophical beating around the bush. He nearly lost me half-way through.

But what he's actually trying to say is that if W3C won't standardize some form of DRM, publishers lobby will fill the gap.

And whatever comes out of that lobby will be thousand times worse for the users and implementers.
I don't necessarily agree with that, but this is the message of that blog post.

A lot of users want their internets work fast and without glitches on their PC from 2003, under WinXP and IE8.
In order to satisfy interests of those users we must stop introducing new CSS features and JS extensions.
That's just how sad the world we live in is.

I tend to think that publishers aren't as powerful as they used to be. Browser market is dominated but rather open Chrome and Mozilla still going strong.
Duopoly of iOS and Android is quite dangerous though - if these two reach any agreement, W3C opinion won't matter.
It wouldn't have to be a full time task but could be inserted into a game to provide a change to the flow. For example putting together an iphone from pieces found in an old cardboard box while zombies are trying to break in the door you just locked. This is kind of like the use of in game advertising in that when done well it doesn't actually detract from the game but adds to it.
Ask HN: Internship at Zynga or Hootesuite?
I have to make a choice between taking an internship at Zynga in San Francisco, or Hootesuite in Vancouver. Zynga is appealing to me because its an opportunity to relocate to SF temporarily, but a search on HN returns only negative things. Hootsuite on the other hand seems to be on the uprise.

Does anybody have anything to say about working at Zynga as an intern (or full-time employee) that could be reaffirming to a university student.
Persuasive power of eye contact may be a myth, study suggests
glad to see meditation on the list - adding it to may daily routine has had a subtle yet profound impact on the quality of my life.
... which is because it is leet speak for Elite in the first place.
A123 cells. 70A continuous, 120A burst, will stay at 3.4V until really tired. The bottom, with the array of holes, and the dead on power delivery numbers both give it away.

B456 now.
Any details on that posted somewhere?

The wackiest thing about that is... if there are multiple pointers to an object (kind of the point of reference counting) and the reference count is part of the pointer... well... I don't really see that working well at all. OTOH I could see there being some optimization that means some callers might not need to modify the global reference count, only the one in their reference.
But it is kernel code. Would you expect it to be trivial to port a device mapper kernel module from Linux to Darwin? Seems like a bit of a stretch
People joke a lot about American internships, but it seems the reality of internships in America depends heavily on major. I had three very relevant and very well paying internships as a CS student (working as an intern on the west coast, I got paid more than many people working fulltime on the east coast in entry level full time positions). A chemical engineer I know got stuck counting fish by hand on a 'fish ladder' webcam. Outside of STEM, unpaid internships seem semi-common, and are obvious scams / attempts to keep lower class people out of the industry (only rich kids can afford to work for free for several years).
design was not about how something looks, but how it works.

One of the worst things for me as a developer is having deal with "designers" who don't know this. They think they produce a flashy looking mockup and then they're done. I've dealt with design or marketing companies who literally produce a few PSDs and say, "This should do something cool when you click on it." Which then makes me the designer. Which, I mean, I'm flattered, but that's probably not the situation the client intended to be in.
I have this plan. Had to call customer service to get them to honor it. Bit of a hassle, but they did it. It's not available in their regular plan settings; clearly they'd rather people buy the more expensive plan with unlimited minutes instead. I won't be particularly surprised if they discontinue it at some point soon. For the time being, the plan meets my needs quite well though.
I laughed at this comment, but a real estate agent is a phone call away..
You want to also get this to your mavens.
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Airbnb Files Petition to Block NY Subpoena, Cites Burden to Compile Data
If I'm not mistaken, those extra bits are pulled from the "isa" pointer, present in all objects and similar to a C++ vtable pointer. That is, they're in the object itself, not the pointers to it.

Mike Ash wrote an excellent summary:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and...
results have normal distribution!
And I just spent 30 minutes playing.....
OK that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
Getting free users is not the hardest thing in the world.

Out of curiosity: have you done it, or are you just speculating that it isn't difficult?
I worked @ McDonalds for about 6 months many years ago. I learned that I wanted to really like my work and that customer's care about what they get; clean restaurants and food prepared according to spec is good business. I got cheap food, good pay for a teenager, and learned that you should always look at the health score wherever you eat... a low score doesn't mean you don't eat there... but you better really love the place if you do (my restaurant always scored well, and when you know what goes into a health score you know what to look out for).
Breed until they can't slaughter us all!
Am I the only one who thought this was about a travel guide with no rating?
Thanks for updating those docs! :-D
Does it matter if it's true?
Not only did Plan 9 have named pipes, it lacked any other sort. Pipes were implemented as a synthetic filesystem.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_2nd_ed/3/pipe
Ask HN: Why are POS systems all POSes?
For the last 10, maybe even 15 years, I have been hearing from small business owners about how much their Point-of-Sale system sucks. It seems like a preopsterous situation. How can such a fundamental piece of software--one that is so fundamentally simple in its construction--continue to be a pain point for people?

Is it because POS is not as easy as it seems? Surely someone in the last ten years would have figured it out, though.

Is it because the users don't understand how to use the systems properly? How then have we gone ten years without some startup pitching My First POS, and taken the owner/operator business segment by storm?

Is it because the companies currently in the market are good at getting themselves entrenched with limiting contract terms (my observation has been that most businesses buy POS as a service, not as a product)?

Is it because good developers aren't "wasting their time" with such trivial CRUD apps as POS?

It's just very perplexing. I first encountered the crappy POS meme in highschool, working food service and retail jobs between classes. I had further insight into the ecosystem in my first job out of college--no, we weren't in any way working on the subject, it was just that our favorite lunch spot could never keep their system running. And now, through the course of several interviews with local small business owners, it seems that nothing has changed.
A glimpse into the hearts of new york
How can the receiving party know the pastie URL?

If the sender can edit a previous paste, they can agree on a URL, but I didn't see how to do that.
Sounds like the 2000 US elections...
The companies who happily make use of suppliers who utilize this kind of labor are just as culpable.

They can take their business elsewhere, but obviously, capitalism being what it is, there's no incentive to do that.
I would do Hootesuite. Zynga is not all that, like you said there are not a lot of great things happening there at the moment and Hootesuite is headed up.

You should checkout SF, but don't get suckered into thinking its amazing either. There are some great companies but the city itself is expensive and probably not all that livable. Vancouver is a real nice place.
Good question, but I think the answer is in the question:

I want to __ask__ people what they __care__ about...
How do you open __small talk__ ...

I would make small talk about something small, like the weather (I'm British :), or about whatever common experience around us we're sharing (the music, how bumpy the bus is, how full the flight is). Taking a random walk through conversation-space should fairly quickly get to something that they care about, so long as they want to talk, and have their self-interest-heuristic turned on.

So I don't think you need to seek what they care about. You just need to make the conversation worth continuing and it will get their on its own.
Beauty channel 
Just made my first youtube video! stay tuned for more xox
Where do you live? It's odd to me that 90% of the products at your favorite supermarket are made in China. Like bananas, oranges, bread, beer, hamburger, celery, avacados, beans, cereal, milk, fish... these do not seem like things that are made in China if you live in the Western hemisphere. I know I have many things made in China, but they seem to be more physical long-term goods; toys, electronics (maybe?), physical things.
I just called in to activate this plan (I'm already on a prepaid TMO plan). I couldn't get it on the phone, but the CSR told me that I could order the activation kit from walmart.com, call in, and activate it using the code from the kit. The code can be applied to either a new line or an existing line. The kit sells for ~$30 but includes $30 of service.

Here's the kit: http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-SIM-Kit/24099996
"as we get older, particularly past middle age, we tend to grow happier naturally."
Sounds like literal survivorship bias.
I prefer

"Steve Jobs Tortures Chinese slaves from beyond the grave."
Will do. Thanks for the referral. I actually didn't know about the lifestyle side of the story.
Thanks for the link. Definitely will be reading that.