skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually prefer the USB scopes. I paid a lot for a high resolution laptop display, and I'm going to have that with me anyway.

At work, I'm generally okay with a 400-500 MHz bandwidth for some of the more fiddly stuff. At home, 100 MHz is usually plenty, although I've occasionally had to take parts of my projects to the lab.

I'll concede that many hobbyists don't really need all of this capability (e.g. the Arduino + LED crowd), but I'd have a really hard time recommending a scope that doesn't do at least 100 MHz simply because you can already get 100 MHz hardware for dirt cheap.

It's gotten significantly easier for hobbyists to play with relatively high-end hardware that would have been out of reach a decade ago (FPGAs, fast memory, wired/wireless communication ICs, cameras, etc). A lot of this hardware requires relatively high bandwidth interconnects to work well (or to work at all), but today's hobbyists seem undeterred and are figuring out how to make it work.

But when the shit hits the fan, you don't want to be banging your head against the wall because of crappy test hardware.
I was worried about the same thing, and I thought a lot about switching. Ended up keeping it because I enjoyed my other classes more, and got lucky in that nobody cared.
I think I disagree. For energy density, gasoline is hard to beat. And I'm not convinced that catalytic wood stoves are that bad, without doing more research.
This is annoying. I really liked the WeAreHunted startup which was killed on acquisition. The Twitter app had different functionality, and wasn't able to hold a light to the WeAreHunted music recommendation service.

I feel for the WeAreHunted guys, they really had stuff going for them.

http://wearehunted.com/
This guy was definitely lucky to find a well paying job. I grew up here and haven't been able to find a proper paying job. No competition for salary over here, leaves me very underpaid. All the nice areas in Miami require a higher salary that most companies here aren't willing to pay.

A lot of assholes here also, get used to people staring at you in your car or on the street. The women are the hottest I've seen in any state. Most people here are so into fitness that its hard not to want to look good and take care of yourself.
I did not expect Magic: The Gathering
Cool use of httptest.
many providers also host "Looking glasess". Its a server hanging off their core network that allows you to run pings and traceroutes

http://lookingglass.level3.net/ (seems to be down currently)

a nice big list of looking glasses

http://www.lookinglass.org/
A video, showing it being used, would really sell this over other window managers. And, if it actually works, unlike TylerWM, it would be amazing.
Or how do you get more people to download Chrome? Break the #1 search engine in IE. It could go both ways you know...
You are completely correct. And I don't want to add fuel to the fire, but it gets even worse than that. Aside from backdoors and the security of these appliances/devices from a system perspective, what about network connectivity and the transport layer? Only recently, within the past few years [1], has SSL/443 become a requirement for some of the bigger organizations out there. Seems to me that security is often an afterthought. Smart Appliances/Devices run the same risks, and it stands to question; are they connecting securely? And if not, how long will it take them to secure their transport? Because even if that brand new IP-enabled Door Lock is secure from a system perspective, it wouldn't matter if someone can subvert the transport layer, take control, and open the Lock.

One of my Projects attempts to solve this problem for the new generation of IP-enabled Appliances/Devices. I plan to make the process painless and easy. Everyone wins, both customer/consumer and developers/providers. Does anyone want to build it with me?

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/14...
Oh please, tell us more about this fantastic opportunity...
Pff, you are the one who implied that it was an either or proposition by saying that you hope that people here would not be concerned with problems that are important to themselves. My original statement certainly didn't imply that people here are likely to only be concerned with problems that only affect themselves. So, remind me, what is it that you find objectionable?
I would have preferred to see a general solution addressing README as a special case, rather than a whole project dedicated only to README. Not interested in picking up a different tool for each kind of generated text/markup file
convertible note sounds like a possible option... but what if the asset owner needs to cash-it-in before the maturity date. Say the asset owner has to pay some bills after 6 months but this convertible note might not be encashable until the 12 month period is over, which is it's maturity period. At this juncture both parties are in trouble. Perhaps, the asset owner will vacate the startup for cash from new tenants next month.

This will be a complex financial model. I'll see if I can come up with some stable form of transaction agreeable by both sides. If you require any assistance on this, drop me a line at subhankar.sett which is in gmail. I'll try my best.
Open Data Portal - Louisville Metro Government
Wacko World With Kat Vecchione and Chuck Skull 10/19 by The Wacko Network
NFS, really? An attempt to abstract over network semantics using the same API as regular file systems, leading to random performance, a heap of locking issues, and all kinds of mayhem?

Sun indeed produced a lot of really great software, but I wouldn't count NFS amongst that.
This is really valuable - thanks for this.
Hangouts get Google Voice to call anywhere in US and Canada for free
Curious how you might simplify this to not mess up the cap table.
Minimum Viable Animation
Living in Denmark, I'd say 50% or so is fair. :) Half for my individualized personal needs, and half for the provision of general goods and services that everyone can use, including me (healthcare, parks, transit system, education, social safety net, police, etc.).
But then you can pull up another host and point to it. The original server is still DDoSed but clients can reach your website, which is what really matters.
The only link cited in that article seems to be an all-age study of walking habits, where the 18-25 year old habits gets a 1 sentence mention.

http://www.bupa.com/media-centre/press-releases/uk/17-oct-20...
Is a writing software that won't let you edit any good?
Been using Namecheap for a number of our client sites. Have been very happy. No BS, just gets the cert to me quickly.
I certainly agree, while there will be some bleed over I think the segment is slightly different. I just haven't figured out how to reach them yet.
Not sure for everybody, but for certain usages, commenting out code is better than deleting it altogether. And it is also a matter of taste--some people like to visually see the evolution. Like a music score. The creation path is interesting.
I agree, WeAreHunted provided superior service to the Music app. The ability to play the entirety of a song without a Twitter and Spotify account was awesome — it was a great new way of discovering music.
Analyze your child’s DNA: Which grandparents are most genetically related?
The article makes a mention of people not having friends to walk with because all their friends are 'virtual', which seems a little lazy.

In the US, a real problem is that our population is so distributed that even if you had people to hang out with in person at one point, it's pretty likely that none of them live within walking distance of you. So to meet up with friends or acquaintances, you have to drive (or use public transit, if you're lucky enough to live in a place where that's possible). Once you've driven somewhere to meet with someone, if you're going to go somewhere else you'll probably drive too, and then you'll drive home.

In my case I almost never had cause to walk for I guess what would be 'typical' reasons, despite not really growing up with a ton of technology or lots of 'virtual friends'. I just never had a reason to walk over to visit someone, so it was limited to walking to the grocery store or to the bus stop for college. Everyone I knew lived a 15+ minute drive away. Reaching college on public transit took over 3 hours, so I ended up getting a car pretty quick.

In someplace more dense like the UK, are people's friends all within walking distance?
well, i will read this later. for now, i'm just gonna say, awesome username!
One could imagine incorporating the component store into the app store, where developers could get a cut of app profits for providing components while the app store is responsible for all the bookkeeping. Think 5 cents/app sale micropayments, but that includes all apps on the store that want to use your component.
There's so much promise in Twitter #music. It would be a shame if they killed it rather than iterate on the product. I started using it the day it was released and was really hoping for something special.

I stopped using it regularly because it's leaderboard driven. Jay-Z was at the top of the hip-hop section for days on end. So discovering new hip-hop was nearly impossible, but they have that data.
Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan
I certainly could be wrong. As you say, you won't know without trying.

The geography is going to play a big part, too. The average landlord in SF is going to understand startup economics much more than, say, in Texas or Michigan.
Yes, I meant PaulHoule's comment. If the reason for studying "cancer" is that "cancer" is more widespread than better-defined illnesses, then the reasoning is misplaced; it's surely better to focus on something more widespread, like "illness".

I have seen it expressed, though not in these terms, that asking for a "cure for cancer" is equivalent to asking for bug-free software. Cancer isn't something that afflicts you from without; it's just a failure mode for cells. They can fail for all kinds of reasons (indeed, note that one of our best methods of causing cancer, radiation, works on the principle of "make random changes to the cell's genetic code, and it will eventually become cancerous").
If you can track the eye with low enough latency you only need to render high res in the tiny fovea region, low res everywhere else.
Review of the DSM-V as a piece of dystopian fiction
"Mean time to turing completeness" is a mental metric that I use to decide whether making a domain-specific language is warranted or it would be better to just use a general purpose language. If you can really limit the scope of the task to something non-turing complete, then a DSL might be a good idea. If you don't think you can keep the thing from becoming turing complete, you're going to fall prey to Greenspun's Tenth Rule [1] and you might as well skip all the nonsense and just use a Lisp in the first place (or another well-designed, fully powered language).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
Absent (effective)CO2 increases, you can't explain the warming trend.

I understand that that is the "official" view of climate science, but that doesn't mean it's right. I don't think we're going to resolve that sort of dispute here, but if your only argument is from authority--"climate science says so"--then that's not enough for me. I don't think climate science as a field has exercised sufficient care to be just taken at their word.

If you're going to say "well what if there's a long cycle" - then well, what is it exactly?

Nobody knows for sure; we don't understand how the climate works well enough for that. But the fact that we don't have a theory that explains the cycle doesn't mean there isn't one.

Where is all this additional heat retention in the atmosphere coming from?

Actually, the amount of heat being retained in the atmosphere is miniscule on a planetary scale. The significant heat sink is the oceans. You have to be careful distinguishing between heat and temperature.

As for where it's coming from, as above, we don't understand all the causal factors at work; the fact that we have studied one intensively (CO2) does not mean that one must be the only significant one. (The IPCC report itself lists a number of significant causal factors as having a "low" level of scientific understanding.)

The data for example, does not show a 1000 year cycle.

Whose data? I understand that the "Hockey Stick" does not show a 1000 year cycle, but the "Hockey Stick" is not data; it's a (questionable at best) reconstruction of temperatures from data. We do not have direct temperature data from 1000 years ago, and as far as indirect data, there is plenty to indicate that there was indeed a Medieval Warm Period and a Little Ice Age, as I said.
True, however we are talking about a $30 consumer router. Most people using something like that have alot of other security flaws to worry about (but usually dont) and arent that interesting as an attack target to hackers anyway.

Anyone with a "whole network" who remotely knows what hes doing wont be using a router like that one.
Ok. Interesting. You guys were YC W11, right? What happened between 2011 and April, and how have things been going since April?
If you want to host your own, ntf is a good open source option: http://code.shutterstock.com/ntf
Todd - Would love to help you out. I will send you my email.
The condescension was fully justified and the commenter in question was quite accurate. As yet another jaded expat who has lived in Thailand for ~8 years, and initially arrived as a naive, idealistic backpacker, I can only agree with his comments. On the "4 Stages of Competence" scale, the OP is at stage 1.
If I remember correctly, he was selling these screens at Maker Faire NYC last year. They are a lot of fun, and he is a really nice guy!
Your output might be 20 kHz audio, but in the real world you're surrounded by analog at much higher frequencies. I've worked on enough "low bandwidth" audio projects plagued by problems at higher frequencies that I can't really recommend the "Its good enough for audio" approach anymore. You can easily have a tiny DSP with a noisy clock signal in the tens of MHz. Or a wonky USB signal. Or an intermodulation product from some unrelated circuit.

If I can pay $100 for a super miniaturized audio only scope, or the same price for a bulkier 100 MHz scope, I'd go with the 100 MHz scope every time, so in that sense you're right.

That being said, it sure is nice that today's scopes are more like a lunchbox than a boat anchor. My lab at work easily has a million dollars worth of "full size" test and measurement equipment from Agilent and Tektronix, but there's no reason the entire budget has to go to them. We're happy to pay for stuff like this (http://www.triarchytech.com/) when it's a solid product that makes our lives easier.
you feel competent enough to make statements about how climatology isn't a real science.

I didn't say climatology wasn't a real science. I said it's not an accurate enough science to justify making policy decisions with huge consequences. Plenty of other real sciences are in the same state; that's to be expected, since it's a phase every real science has to go through in order to become accurate enough.
Easy automated Facebook stalking using Graph Search
This proposition is roughly as sophisticated as the OPs views on on the Utopian Kingdom of Thailand.
Students reaching for ADHD drugs to deal with academic stress
Warning: eBay Scam Targetting Used iPhone Sellers
In one sense, I'll defer to your far greater experience. In another, though, I'm increasingly of the impression that the effect, or lack thereof, of the DMCA upon one is more about the lawyers and money for lawyers that one has, than about "rights".

I also seem to recall ongoing efforts to (further) criminalize various forms of infringement (as opposed to leaving them matters of civil law), taking accusations to a whole new level of hurt.
best insurance policy is to eat proper food. thats not snark, its just true. get a spreadsheet built in excel, and actually model a decent diet for ~7 days. its a very eye-opening experience. you can track calories, fat, carbs, protein and whatever else quite readily with online tools. While resturant food will be excluded (you would need basic recipe or key ingedient lists), soon enough you will understand just how much nutrients are in "real food".
Maybe they're refocusing their team effort on things like EventParrot:

http://www.techhive.com/article/2053686/twitters-event-parro...

Another strange Twitter experiment on the surface. But maybe it's to test out some machine learning stuff they are building/acquiring.

Branching out into new territory trying to find meaning in the massive database they have. Music seems to have been a failure (or maybe just the UI/product was).

I work with a company doing NLP for book recommendations from Twitter feeds (http://bookvibe.com) and while it can be extremely challenging given the variety of Tweet slang/text, there is some value in the opt-in nature of peoples Twitter social networks. Much more than say Facebook, which from our testing completely fails at being a good source of recommended content, for ex recommending a movie because x liked it. Since on Facebook you friend a lot of people by proxy of knowing them in life (parents/old friends)... not following based on shared interests like with Twitter.

/tangential rant
that was just salt in the wound.. we were getting slammed by ddos and null routed on a regular basis before that happened.
You are being rude to people that you are asking a favor from. Stop blaming everyone else; isolate the common factor. They're not shaming you because of the asking itself.
It's worse than that. The 4 MSPS doesn't do a damn thing for you when your analog bandwidth is in the kHz. It doesn't matter how fast you sample if your signal can't get to the sampler.
Mississippi Plant Shows the Cost of 'Clean Coal'
That's actually very interesting. Do your stats tell you what portion are on Linux?
Y Combinator’s Startup School lecture notes .
An Invention That Marinated for 19 Years
Birth of conservative delusion: Roger Ailes takes his revenge
Maybe they were 256 megabit chips.
Memento may be hugely successful, but can you think of any other examples of cinematic success with anterograde amnesia? Or even attempts at depicting it?

Meanwhile, retrograde amnesia is a very popular trope.
It's JavaScript...

Seriously though; I had never heard of RubyWarrior; so thanks for that one too!
Well no one was gonna make the top comment snarky after he complained about how the top stories in Hacker News always have snarky comments. That's just letting him win.
His experience was not that Thailand is an expensive place to live, his experience was that Bangkok _can_ be an expensive place to live
I don't think the surprise was that there exists such a thing as "muscle memory". The surprising fact was that the mechanism of creating and storing muscle memory differs enough from the mechanism of creating and storing normal long-term (or even recent) memory that it ends up in a different part of the brain.
50 first dates

also Ghajini: the Bollywood remake. I know it shouldn't count but this movie BLEW UP in the box office.
No offense (seriously), but isn't making excuses a symptom of laziness?
Also:

* Little Big Planet [1]

* Scala's type system [2]

[1] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=57034#p2029587

[2] http://michid.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/scala-type-level-enco...
I am completely on board with pointing out where a blog post or comment went wrong. In this case, I'm even fine with saying that the post sounds idealistic. I just still think you can reply with a civil critique that at least tries to sound a little more objective and a little less vitriolic.

Reply with information, sources, or personal experiences, and try to put them out there with a little less venom. I get that it takes more time, and no one can expect that from everyone, but if the goal really is to educate and transfer wisdom, there has to be an understanding that it's not easy to do that and that couching the rhetoric with sarcasm is antithetical to the cause.

When I read the comments I want information and opinions. I don't want to have to contend with aggression and condescension.

I know that's all a bit starry eyed, and that there are few things that are absolute, this among them, but by and large that's how I feel about this sort of thing.
The LD50's for a 100kg person of salt (100g), sugar (1kg) or vitamin C (1.1 kg) are huge. Long-term exposure to sugar can affect your overall health, like causing insulin resistance or just being processed into fat. Salt isn't bad for you, unless you already have a heart or kidney problem. Vitamin C might have some side effects but the evidence is very thin so far.
Yeah; I think the CodeCombat app is actually pretty cool. As a father of 3 I immediately checked it out. I'm always interested in ways to get my kids interested in programming.

PG has already shown an interest in programming education; add to that these guys have a live product it is a bit of a no brainer to "incubate" it a little. Curious to see an actual profit model though; I'm not sold on the weak "recruiter" angle. From what I see it is more of a kid's educational app.

The brokerage business though; whether he gets accepted by YC or not, I expect he is going to make some serious bank on that.
Congrats. Immediately checked out your product too. My little 4th grader is going to be giving it a spin shortly.
> "On August 25, 1953, with a cheap jury-rigged hand drill, Scoville carved two holes in Molaison’s skull, one just above each of his eyes. Molaison was given only a local anesthetic, so that he could be awake to report on his sensations when different cerebral areas were stimulated. Scoville lifted up Molaison’s frontal lobes with a spatula and reached far into the center of his brain. Then, using a silver straw, Scoville sucked out fist-size chunks of the medial temporal lobes on both sides of Molaison’s brain. The excised tissue included most of the sea-horse-shaped structure called the hippocampus, as well as the parahippocampal gyrus, the uncus, the anterior temporal cortex, and the almond-shaped amygdala."

This is horrifying on an extremely deep and unsettling level. It's easy to forget how recently "medicine" was just another name for barbarism.
It wasn't so long ago when Louisville's response to being called out for having over 70,000 unserved warrants lost in their system...was to purge the system altogether. Out of sight and out of their minds.

http://leoweekly.com/newsfeatures/news/deadly-delay
It's always been there AFAIK. This is from their current policy document which you must agree to when you start applying for a free certificate:

> Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server
certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature

Class 1 is "StartSSL Free", and Class 2 is "StartSSL Verified" which costs $59.90.
i don't understand this. if we assume psychiatry is pretty much in its infancy, blundering around, then doesn't it make sense to give names to certain groups of symptoms? because then you can hope to identify patterns. for example: if 60% of people who do X and feel Y take drug Z then P, Q and R. isn't that how you start doing science?

i used to be more sympathetic to criticisms of DSM-V, but a couple of months back i went to see a psychiatrist. who told me he didn't believe in it. fair enough. but he then diagnosed me with something and prescribed me a drug. when i asked why, he said i should trust his intuition. without DSM-V or anything similar there was no structure - nothing i could understand or question. no logic. just "intuition".

maybe i am missing the point. i can see that "labels" are annoying. but surely there has to be some systematic approach to symptoms...

[edit: got psychiatry and psychology swapped...]
I wish people would stop using the word
"snark". I want to believe B.F Skinner wasn't completely
right.
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