skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." - Earl Nightingale

That's the definition I have adopted. Have a worthy ideal? Yes. Making progress, even through setbacks? Yes. Therefore, I feel successful due to my belief. The feeling of success attracts more of it. Win.
> waitresses, cooks, cleaning staff, janitors, bus drivers... Where should they live? Why can't they live close to work?

Why should they? Of course they can commute, just like many highly-paid professionals choose to commute too. Nobody considers a short commute a fundamental human right.

> how far out can they get pushed before it's not worth it any more?

They won't, that's the magic of a free market. Wages/salaries will go up in the city so that it's always still "worth it".

> Do you really want them all [families] moving to the east bay instead of helping to grow the city?

I mean, why not? I live in NYC. Plenty of people I know leave NYC when they want to start a family. Or at a minimum, they leave Manhattan to move out to Brooklyn or Queens.

You can see how ridiculous the argument is, by the fact that its polar opposite sounds the same: "do you really want all the families who would be helping to grow the east bay, moving into downtown SF?"

Look, there are certainly coordination, transit, etc. problems with the Bay Area. And there are income-disparity problems nationwide. But people seem to confuse those with just being afraid of change/gentrification, and that doesn't help.
How would you hack this for growth?
Hi guys, I have recently developed a website which allows you to generate a responsive layout page containing all your web contacts.
The data available on this profile:
Can be sent in a single email to people,
Can be accessed via JSON, and
Can be displayed in a widget

How would you hack this for user growth?

Thanks for your view!
Foreign investors seem to be biased towards new-build property, I'm not sure why. "Elsewhere" could easily mean an entirely different country.
The startup I'm currently at leases space from a broadcast network in Chicago; they're using LoS microwave to throw their HD content from the plant at the building up to their broadcast antenna atop the Sears Tower.
i don't have a reference to compare it to aside from a heightmap i used for some rendering years ago, but 25mb for the *.asc seems pretty big for the quality it puts out
You're half-right - I clearly needed more coffee when I was making that post.

However, my claim that "the resource & labour cost in making and mining 1 Bitcoin with an ASIC mining is huge" is completely correct - because even it costs $8,000 of resources, to mine $10,000 of BTC, it would still be a profitable enterprise. (In the meantime, you just wasted $8,000 of resources, to make... Nothing that puts bread on the table, a roof over my head, etc.)

When printing paper money, your profit margins are orders of magnitude greater - if it weren't for the part where 'mining' it is illegal. Since the government has the sole monopoly on printing money, it is (Most of the time) far more valuable than the paper it's printed on.

BTC, on the other hand, is barely more valuable then the 'paper' it's printed on - or, the electricity that was used to produce it.

If producing BTC were anywhere nearly as resource-efficient as producing paper money, the margins for mining it would go up and everybody would be mining it, instead of doing productive work (Producing goods and services) to earn it.

The government's monopoly on printing currency is exactly what keeps it more valuable then the sum of its parts.

As such, if you think that there's value in preserving the integrity of monetary transactions, keeping track of wallets, etc, BTC is the wrong horse to bet on. It can be done a lot more cheaply and efficiently with traditional currencies.
I asked my local SSL expert, and he mentioned: the list the client sends is just a preference list; the server can choose what it wants.

For example, nginx by default[1] specifies an OpenSSL cipher list of HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5, which you can examine by running

$ openssl ciphers 'HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5'

You'll see neither RC4 nor MD5 in that list. (You will if you run a plain "openssl ciphers", so you can see openssl knows about them but the config turns them off.)

(I'm an SSL newbie, please correct any mistakes I've made in the above.)

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule#ssl_ciphers
Well, look on the bright side, at least you're not calculating

bucket = hash(x) % buckets

Unless you're stuck supporting non power of two number of shards in which case you need modulus. And shoving more randomness into the LSB is more important than the MSB.

I've thought about it some and I think anyone with a networking background is automatically going to "subnet" their data from MSB down out of pure raw habit. Of course you split top down, just like IP addrs.

I've also seen non-technical popular explanations of sharding which stereotypically use something like phone numbers and start at the most significant digit.

And a stereotypical test question is this does not work well with stuff like customer IDs or transaction IDs because they tend toward sequential-ish, unless you're talking about some kind of data mining thing not daily live transactions.

On the other hand it works well if you shard (sorta) by date if you use the right (usually non-native) format. So if you have dates like 2013-10-14 and shard by YYYYMM somehow, then it could be easy to wipe 201210 from the database because whichever shard its on, its probably not impacting the latency figures for 201310 today. Unless you wanted to speed up the delete by smoothing it across all shards in which case sharding by hash ends up being the smart idea.

Trying to do tricky things can turn into a mess when the tricky thing changes mid project, too.
IPhone 5S outsells 5C Two To One
Uncertain about the percentage, here’s the relevant quote from the SEC filing:

As part of the settlement, Overture will dismiss its
patent lawsuit against us and has granted us a fully-
paid, perpetual license to the patent that was the
subject of the lawsuit and several related patent
applications held by Overture. The parties also mutually
released any claims against each other concerning the
warrant dispute. In connection with the settlement of
these two disputes, we issued to Yahoo 2,700,000 shares
of Class A common stock."

From: http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.144az.htm via http://www.techuser.net/gcoverup.html
Weak cyphers should be disabled on the server entirely, not just re-ordered.
That is great because I have written less than 200 tweets, and so have most of my friends.

"Machete don't tweet"
I never did buy the "what's looks new is new" line of reasoning. Consumers simply aren't that vapid (on the whole) that they'll swallow such a shallow pitch: "Look, fun colors!"

The two most common questions I get about the 5S/5C are:

1) What's the difference in terms of features?

2) What's the difference in terms of cost?

I've received a tremendously positive response to the finger print reader. From the people I've explained it to, I get a real sense that they feel like this feature represents something futuristic. Yes, I know that finger print readers have been around for a long time, but this is a pretty typical Apple formula; wait for the technology to reach a mature, usable state, then roll a tightly integrated solution that "just works".

The price delta between comparable (storage) models is $99. It seems that this isn't enough incentive for consumers to discard the additional features.
I applaud the makers of this demo for adding a gif-based fallback on the error page for those of us who have no WebGL support. It shows:

"Your browser does not support this demo. Here is what you are missing:"

[https://www.mapbox.com/pointcloud/matterhorn/css/error.gif]
This is why you use debian / ubuntu.
Seattle's core desperately needs more apartments. My neighborhood, Capitol Hill, has seen an incredible spike in rent prices over the past couple years as (what I can best guess is) a huge influx of new Amazonians have gobbled up all of the inventory. We're seeing new buildings go up at a prodigious rate, and—supposedly—the housing crunch should settle down sometime next year.

But, in the mean time, all of the people I know who work in service jobs (cafes, restaurants, bars, etc.) are forced to double or triple up, fight over the incredibly rare sub-$1000/month rental, or move to another neighborhood. Lots are opting for the last option and it's changing the character of the neighborhood.
This has more to do with income inequality than housing. The middle-class has largely evaporated (tech workers are probably the closest thing to it now). And, even when there was a thriving middle-class in this country, they didn't really live in places like Manhattan anyway -- they commuted in from suburbs. Building low-income housing is fraught with difficulty. Even if you were to pour money into it, you'd still risk manufacturing slums anyway.
How ElectNext tenaciously listened to its users... and found the money
Eh, no. Maybe in SSLv2, but the first thing TLS encrypts is a hash of the entire handshake. Modifying the cipher list would change those hashes into something different.

Unless you have a client which will happily disable a cipher and try again when encountering an error. But if you do that, you don't deserve any security.
This beautifully illustrates the power of open source. One guy was worried enough about security to start checking the crypto source, and was able to alert the community. I hope this leads to a more secure platform.
That's because the increase in supply will be too small to undo the fact that the economy will still be heavily demand-driven. If you want to completely undo that, you need to saturate the demand. However, you can't get from here to there without that intermediate step.

Plus, on the margins, it will still increase supply and drop prices, as the price those can be rented out at are driven by supply and demand. Continue to reliably raise supply, and you'll also lower the value of those investments and cause them to sell out as they cease to be good investments.

The reason why that is an attractive strategy in the first place is that demand is grossly in excess of supply. Fix the root cause, the problem will go away.

San Francisco may not believe in market forces, but market forces believe in San Francisco.
wrong comparison Larry. Now a few entrenched players (not always the best choice or cheapest) can outbid you and hide your ads AND free listing. Not many people scroll down and on top is all ads. Small business is going broke thanks to Google, as Google's earnings keep going up.

Without having to spend money it ends up being confusing for consumers because it's like craigslist and inevitably results in people not being able to find what they want.

So Google without ads, when it first started, was worse than other search engines? Nope. The advertiser that bids the highest might not be the best option for the user at all
Does this only apply to SF, or should we also subsidize housing for poor people in Malibu? How can I get in on that? I'd love to live somewhere I cannot afford on other people's dime...
If any GitHubbers are listening, please require credentials to revoke a session. Imagine the scenario in which a bad actor gets one of my session cookies - he can then hit this page, invalidate all of my sessions, and then aggressively use this page to keep me logged out of any new sessions, effectively locking me out of my account and preventing me from kicking him out.

Requiring authentication to revoke a session would fix that handily (or just make new sessions immune to revocation for 5 minutes or something)

That said, :thumbsup: on this. I really like having this kind of information available.
Mining bitcoins produces proof of work, which has value. The only way (as far as I know) to have a decentralized trustless currency is to base it on proof of work. This is in no way analogous to digging ditches and filling them.
Yea, but they're making money BECAUSE THE PRICE OF BITCOINS ROSE. Not because they "created value". That would have made just as much, without all the hassle, just by buying bitcoins at the initial lower price.

Think of it absolutist terms, denominated only in BTC. If you buy a bitcoin miner, today, for 50btc, what do you think your odds are for mining 50btc + enough extra to pay for electricity before the device either fails or is obsolete, or returns at such a low rate you might as well of stuck your money in municipal bonds?
Here is what I found the most thorough yet concise resource on sleep.

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

You'll see that the sleep patterns can vary a lot, however it still holds true that the last phase is most important. I wouldn't pay much attention to slicing and dicing the sleep pattern but focus on what brain works on at a particular phase.

With regards to day cycle - the article on supermemo shows two main types - one that needs to shut down in the midday and one that doesn't. It should be easy to find out which group you belong to.
this is pretty cool! is there a length limit?
Love reading stories about how people failed, it helps to know that everyone has ups and downs. FailCon - a conference just focused on hearing failures stories from successful startup founders is Oct 21st in SF and there are still a few tickets: www.thefailcon.com - me and my co-producer, Cassie, started it because we wanted to make talking about failure less taboo. I think it's working. :)
I was wondering about this too. I don't quite get how this random assignment of connections between components correlated to software complexity. Software isn't randomly connected (I know, sometimes you see stuff which flies in the face of this statement). And the directions of the connections are very important. You can create something that has a single component at the top connected to 100 other components. threads/buttons = 100/101 and the biggest cluster = 100%. I'd wager it would probably be a simple program to reason about. I guess I'm confused about the leap from cluster size to complexity to reason about.
SF is doing just fine with regards to waitresses, cooks, cleaning staff, janitors, bus drivers, etc. Have you heard anything otherwise? Of course, many of these people do not choose to live in SF, or cannot afford to live in SF ,so they end up having long commutes. This does not seem to keep them from taking jobs in SF. If enough of them decide it is not worth it to commute, their employers will entice them to do so with higher wages. You know, the free market and all...
Height data derived from photogrammetry usually has lower vertical accuracy than that (even on fixed wing planes with better sensors).
Sensationalist headline, sensationalist tweet.

If you actually click through to the image - http://i.imgur.com/cxFFE3W.png - it's plainly clear that this is just yet another case of "hey, the browser upgrade nag code doesn't recognize my nightly build."
After Broadband, Then What? The Real Work Begins
If you're a dev, forking Ghost and replacing the DB with something else isn't an insurmountable task.

Your prep work in isolating the database work may even be something the Ghost people themselves would be interested in merging, as it's just good design to do so (if they hadn't already).
Hmm. I wonder why that is. Did you have a hard time with tones, do you think? Or do you think it's just harder to speak idiomatically? I could definitely see the latter.

My feeling — i.e. this is subjective — is that Mandarin pronunciation is far more regular. In Korean, it's not arbitrary, but there are more rules about pronunciation, and pronunciation is more subtle to my Western ears & tongue.

There are rules for consecutive consonants, where some of them disappear or change entirely (e.g. formal/deferential speech level endings, where p/b turns to m). Some sounds also just get dropped or emphasized based on where they are (e.g. words that end with ㅆ, depending on the next consonant). Then there's plain vs tense vs aspirated, diphthongs, etc. I'm still getting a handle on the various particles but there seem to be around a dozen, not including measure words.

Anyway there's one sort of irregular case in Mandarin, which is 3rd tone followed by 3rd tone. Other than that, if you learn how to say the "ie" as in "xiexie" or "bie", neither "x" nor "ie" or "b" really change depending on what they're paired with.

It may be that in practice, a Korean listener can figure out what sounds you're trying to make more easily than in Mandarin. Anecdotally Mandarin seems to have a lot of cognates because many basic words are one or so syllables + tone. Korean seems to me to have more syllables and more particles, which could help disambiguate. But this is just speculation from someone who is by no means an expert on either language.
Tired of startups? Consider a National Lab: The unofficial LLNL employee guide.
Ryan... this is just masturbation. There's nothing useful or even interesting here. What were you hoping to achieve with this?
Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
reminds me of a person I know. She will cross the street and never look. She almost got hit by a car one day. I stop her and tell her she needs to look before crossing. She says "I have the right-of-way, if they hit me it's their fault."

Yeah. I couldn't disagree. But I had to remind her that physics is the real law of the land. Doesn't matter much who is at fault, if you're dead.

Point being, academic theory never matches reality.
Show HN: QuiCol - You collaborative text-board to host on your own Webspace
IMHO, the main difference would be in the "marketing points," in the sense that they'll attract different kind of people. While technically it's possible for castAR to do what Oculus does, Carmack and Elsworth names alone should show the type of early adopters for each products.

Without a doubt, castAR will close the kickstarter funding. So both of them are facing the chicken and egg problem, I believe castAR will have a huge problem here. To your "game changer" point, castAR is trying to reach a higher sky than Oculus.

I mean, I can see myself having a small space near my bed for Oculus and attaching it to the Steam Machine within a year or two. CastAR? Maybe 5 years ahead of its time? The current implementation of the magic wand worries me. From the video, the awkward looking Jenga-like game seems slow and not 1-to-1 interaction. Although it could be a "beta" thing, Oculus didn't have HD to begin with.

As gamer, I think HD Oculus would be a better purchase, and wait for castAR v2 or v3, I have serious doubt they'll reach mass market.
"Unfortunately SipHash still is a bit too slow and forces an uncomfortable trade-off."

2.6x slower than DJB2 in my recent Rust trial. (SipHash is the hashing function in Rust's standard library.)
A few do, most don't. It's a big place.
no, tested and work up to 250 000 chars :)
I'd always go for the noisy flying machine of questionable safety myself. It sounds more fun and any accidents might just filter out some of the less quick-witted on campus, or at least those who fail to watch the skies. This is probably why I don't get to run a university.
Thanks for the recommendation :)
Virtual Kidnappings: Internet Used as Extortion Tool in Fear-Ridden Mexico
Solving Perceived Problems
I've tried Igor Pro before. I was impressed by its curve fitting abilities, but not much by its ease of use / speed of just getting things done. But perhaps it's time to revisit it. Thanks for the rec :)
Anyone know of something similar for Vim?
Or you can just use my Dockerfile[1]

1: https://github.com/keeb/Ghost/blob/add-dockerfile/Dockerfile
Do you think the amounts of EPA vs DHA are important? Do you worry about too many heavy metals?
How exercise boosts brain health
Okay here's what I got- anybody landing on the page for the first time, assuming they have a thousand other tabs open, is just going to quickly skim through the post and read the header/title of each point. I did that. I nodded my head at each point. And then I left.

You might get some value out of putting a clear actionable point at the end of each segment, because I found myself leaving at the end without feeling like I had anything new or interesting to think about, or act on.
CastAR versatile Augmented / Virtual Reality Glasses
My understanding was that the supply chain and infrastructure to produce the smart phone simply wasn't available in the US. America had decimated its manufacturing capabilities to the point that there was no other option beside bankrolling an entire industry from scratch.
Thank you for the response. I'm pretty much 100% sure I will work until I have enough money to start my own company. I already have it pretty much fully worked out with a friend, we are just working on building up capital and getting experience.

That being said, GE sounds like a place where I could gain some experience and pay off my student debt (which is really all I am interested in at the moment).

Thank you for your insight.
>CRC32 collisions

>codding collides with gnu

accident?
I know i'm comparing apples to oranges here, but seeing as some of the problems are of the same kind (gentrification, middle class getting pushed out), and both the cities as they are today were mostly built in the 19th century...

Paris is 40 sq.mi. and has a density of 55,000/sq. mi (even more if you count out the 2 vast wooden uninhabited areas that take up 10% of the city's surface). Meanwhile it's extremely friendly to pedestrians and still preserves quite a good standard of living for the inhabitants. And the city is mostly a big museum, meaning there are monuments all around town and most of the buildings in numerous parts of the city are protected and thus cannot be redeveloped. Oh and in most of the city you can't build above 25 meters.

In this regard it would seem from a purely outer point of view that there must still be a lot of room for new construction in San Francisco.
>>> They were all recalling stories about times when they'd been mugged like it was normal!

In high crime areas when you first experience it, you're pretty shocked. As time goes by, it just becomes part of the landscape and part of your life. You learn to live with it.

When I lived on the South Side of Chicago, it was the same way. When I moved in, I was constantly harassed for money by panhandlers and such. I saw people get shot, junkies lying in alleys, all kinds of stuff that make you numb to life in the "big city". I never had a friend who lived in Chicago who hadn't been robbed, mugged, beat up, raped, car broken into, apartment broken into or been in the middle of a drive-by. To a degree, most people felt it was a badge of honor living in such a dangerous place, experiencing these things and living to tell about it.

Glad I moved out after a year or so.
So what is the point of this..we all knew whose making money, this was nothing new to me.
Isn't the proof of work the same as bitcoin though?

(I shouldn't have said blockchain, proof of work would be what the ASIC's are relevant to.)
I got just the black screen on my office iMac with an AMD card, but it works fine on my much older Macbook with an nvidia card.
I think you only need coffeescript if you want to develop bokeh not if you want to use it.
Canadian Government May Force TV Providers To Offer À La Carte Channels
I suspect Jeri can pull this one off, what is interesting to me is the augmented reality aspect, since what I really want is a set of glasses that let me look around the room and high light with a blinking arrow where I left my RFID tagged keys.
I wonder when we will have the first dollar trillionaire. (Rockefeller doesn't count) It's likely that some people will own entire planets in the future.
Wow, I'm surprised I haven't heard of this. Looks like it could be a good competitor to the Sigmaplot/Origin/Igor pro audience?