skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought of that, you are right. In the current culture, inflation seems to make most people happy due to the inflated paycheck, even when they actually are at loss. But if we ever reach the point where people get paid in Bitcoin, maybe we will already have gone through a cultural shift, and people will finally understand money. Can you imagine a type I civilization still falling for the same lies? I can't.
Quantum dynamics comes to Minecraft in qCraft
everyone saying they can't hit certain sites(images on Wordpress/amazon/etc) is actually seeing the affect of their ISP's networks and the CDNs those sites use. Lotta Level3 issues right now. CDNs are often peered as close to the major ISP hubs as possible for speed reasons, but it can unfortunately result in these kind of chained outages. Since a lot of companies pump full site traffic through CDNs, it can appear as them being down.
Is it designed for a much larger screen than mine (1280x800 at the moment, the max on my laptop)? I have both horizontal and vertical scroll bars showing up, even when putting it to fullscreen, and some areas still overlap so I cannot see the content (that "sort monitors" section for example).

Otherwise I set up two monitors, look interesting, useful, and well done! Good job!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communications
Yes, because it's asked and posted here very often.
I agree. I'm so used to it from two finger scrolling on a trackpad that I get frustrated if I use a mouse with a simple scroll wheel.
While most of these services have now been rerouted via Above Net etc, some ISPs such as Time Warner (in NY at least) still seem to be routing via Level3 and unable to get to a lot of destinations.
not a bubble, just reversion to the mean exponential trend that has been consistent since genesis.
Having graduated in May of 2001, and seeing my CS classes go from full of people to a ghost town from March-May, I wouldn't be surprised.
So you're saying it has ponzi-ish properties? Or not?

If you're always incentivized to hold something and never incentivized to spend it, it becomes more of an asset than a currency. Gold is an asset, too, but it has much broader market participation in addition to being "special" as a value store due to 6,000 years of tradition.

If you've got an asset with a lot of hype that's supposed to always increase in value, so you better get on board now unless you want to be a sucker, that looks a lot like a ponzi scheme to me. You can still make money on it, don't let me stop you. You're probably not going to refactor capitalism with it.

Additionally, (I'm assuming you're a little young and naive here, apologies if that's not the case), additionally I'd really suggest decoupling your personal political beliefs from investment decisions with real money. It never ends well.
Yes. It was usually the last disk.
I am just 22 years old and I knew the answer. The first computer I used back in 98 came with floppy disks
NetBSD Is Soon Importing LLVM's Clang Compiler
Are businesses paying handsomely for data scientists?

If not, then they don't need data scientists.

Will they? Maybe, maybe not.

These ten-year industry forecast things are categorically ridiculous, whether they come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics or some private forecaster.
Handy for keeping those free Heroku workers spinning.
but what is this setting ? it doesn't look like an UA switcher.
Have been using http://copperegg.com probes for a while. I'd suggest them too. They have 15 second checks with various notifications.
It's an issue with Level 3. Details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399
This. False positives are terrible. We monitor google & amazon along with our services. If us, google & amazon all look down, it's a false positive. Not sure why pingdom doesn't do this for us, but whatever.

(fwiw, we're moving off of pingdom too).
No Client Work Before Lunch
So the piece on Miami started by saying that there is no income tax. It's true. And there's also very little of the things that get paid for by income taxes in other states. Like decent public education. Which might be fine for twenty-something web developers just looking for a life of self-gratification and night clubbing. But as a place to raise a family and/or attract qualified (educated) employees from other regions, maybe not so much.
I agree with Orlando. Half-agree with Gainesville. G'ville is fantastic if you have kids or are a kid. From 20-35 it's sort of a "Why am I here?" wasteland.

Unless you REALLY love the Gators.
That means you missed all the fun with k7 tapes?
Monitoring sucks (and what you can do about it)
I love Miami. Lots of great reasons to be there. But man I hate the pompous "and why you should too."
It's better to not use MtGox as a baseline price anymore, it's at about $20 higher then any other exchange due to the fact that you can't actually get your money out of it ATM. Check the btc-e graph for a better view:

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btce/btcusd

(They both show the same trend, I'm just being pedantic)
Here are a list of gateways that might be helpful for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways
Ask HN: Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?
There have been countless discussions about SaaS with tons of examples and success stories. It seems like a good way to structure new software businesses.

However, I wonder if there's anyone here who makes decent money selling software components or code "the old way".

Please share your stories.

(I'm also interested in hearing the buyer's side, so please mention useful code/software that you had bought).
Compatibility view essentially switches the entire rendering stack & user agent. It even looks like the older version when inspecting many JS functions and such.

I'd expect google.com to be fully standards compliant, but for some reason I believe IE was forcing itself back to IE8 mode for it. Never understood why. Even in IE8 mode though, this should have worked fine- so could be something worse (identify as IE8, execute as IE11?).
If you have something critical to monitor, my advice is to stay away from Uptime Robot. I've used them for a couple years along side my Pingdom checks. They often don't deliver notifications. My last notification is ".... resource is down. We'll notify you when it's back up." That was 10 days ago and it was down for a few minutes. I was never notified of it coming back up. This is just typical. It's also common that I never get a notification of a down resource, too.
To show you my agreement with this, I usually go to the beach in end of Sep/early October in the mid-Atlantic. I don't get lots of swimming or sun bathing in, but there's very few people and the early Autumn storms makes the Ocean magnificent (plus all the stores and tourist places want to move inventory out for the off season so lots of cheap activities and things to buy).
70 hours last week? You clearly have plenty of free time.
Seene Uses Computer Vision To Create Unique And Eerie 3D Images On iPhone
Yeah for the spy agencies ....
Show HN: Small Bitcoin value API and charts page I made this morning
Wow, I am soooooooooooo surprised.
I remember OS/2 Warp on 3.5" disks being even worse. They had al kind of supplemental disks and IIRC something that resembled Microsoft Works (BonusPak, maybe it was a demo).

To get an impression, I found this on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-OS-2-Warp-Version-3-with...
In my experience, people will throw money at "data scientists", if they can find them. It really is hard to find someone who is experienced in Physics (or Math, but they always seem to be physicists), has computational experience, but mostly who has the right frame of mind. A lot of people I've met who would be qualified for the role think it's beneath them: they don't want to use existing libraries, they want to progress the state of the art. And once you've done a PhD, I think it's hard for us to offer them a consistent level of challenging work.

Despite the 'science' part, I think there's a significant engineering component to the job: working within resource constraints and reusing existing tools. I've heard a lot of good explanations of how to approximate an integral, but the same people aren't really keen on working on a production recommendation system.
The idea that everything is a remix is a bit like moral relativism. The fact that things sit somewhere on a spectrum doesn't mean we should ignore the distribution of things on that spectrum.
They seem to be having some odd errors in the signup that prevent it from showing it actually processed. Did get an email asking to verify the account so it sounds like its only a client side problem... seeing an error from jquery validation.
My first mass storage was a PhiDeck, a tape cassette drive that stored data digitally and that had motors to load and unload the heads and seek. It had a file system, of sorts, that fit in about 6K of RAM. Effective data rate was about 9600 bits/second, and it usually took 20-30 seconds to launch a program.

Primitive and slow as it was, it was still a vast improvement over audio cassettes.

Later, I wrote a software UART and interfaced my Z-80 system to a single Atari 810 disk drive. 96K of storage and tons faster. I got a lot of work done on that system.
looks nice. but honestly i dont think it serves the purpose "resume"
Np :)
That's why you had a backup set of those disks.
>How many legitimate real world services and products currently accept Bitcoins? I understand it is only the Chinese search engine.

The hundreds (thousands now?) of (mostly) small businesses accepting bitcoin for goods and services include gift card vendors. [1]

You can spend your bitcoins on gift cards (a form of virtual currency in itself) which you can use at some of the world's largest retailers, for example Amazon[2] or Walmart [3].

It's a two-step process, but you can use your bitcoins at Amazon or Walmart, today.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Gift.2FDebit_Cards

[2] http://www.gyft.com/shop-for-gift-cards/

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1om2jm/egifter_now_...
may be it is a dumb question to ask. Isnt it easier to download the app directly to the device?
11 out of 37 routers down as of 11am EDT.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
No, I don't believe Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme at all. And I really don't think my age is relevant, you either have arguments or you don't.

But let's come back to that notion of yours

> If you're always incentivized to hold something and never incentivized to spend it, it becomes more of an asset than a currency."

Let's say all you got is 10btc and $0 in your bank account. And you need some food. You're probably gonna decide not to starve yourself to death because being alive tomorrow is more valuable to you than having more money and being dead. Thus you are going to spend your bitcoins (either directly or by exchanging them into fiat).

Now, what you probably wouldn't do is buy something you don't really need or want at the moment. And that's fine, in this case Bitcoin encourages responsible spending. Now, of course, you should understand why a deflationary currency grows long term - not speculation, but new products and services in the economy. If no one spends, then no new products and services appear, currency is not gaining in value. If it's not gaining in value anymore you have your incentives to spend back.

The major differences with a deflationary currency are this:
1. No one forces you to spend (like governments inflating your money), so you make decisions on your own.
2. Deflation is an ultimate tax that rich cannot avoid. If you make money, you will inevitably share it with the rest (their money gaining in value).
Windows RT 8.1 Update removed from Windows Store due to updating issues
If you're interested in learning to solve it, I highly recommend this talk: http://confreaks.com/videos/2670-gogaruco2013-solving-the-ru...

The accompanying Ruby Gem is pretty useful for learning the two-cycle solution (only requires memorizing 4 algorithms)

https://github.com/chrishunt/rubiks-cube
It's an internet backbone issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399
Even worse was illegal software. There were 720KB (Double Density) and 1440KB (High Density) 3.5" diskettes (amongst other sizes). The disk drive would detect the difference by an extra hole in the disk.

People would buy cheaper double density disks, drill a hole in it, so that the same diskette could be used as a 1440KB disk. Of course, they were of a far lower quality, and 'arj' (which was popular at the time) would often fail after the n-th disk.

Edit: heh, there is even a reference to drilling holes on the Apple website ;): http://support.apple.com/kb/TA39910
"They think of it in terms of safety nets, equality of outcomes, security, enforced politeness or political correctness, and government coerced egalitarianism..."

Nobody thinks of anything in those terms aside from dreadlocked college communists. Stop listening to talk radio -- we're right here, all around you in this country, you can ask any Obama voter (outnumbering Romney voters) what they think instead of taking Glenn Beck's word for it.
Reminds me of my favorite Tumblr lately, wtfviz (http://wtfviz.net/).
Map Tiling Algorithm – HTML5 and JavaScript RPG
which for those that don't speak French translates to "cassette" tapes (ka - sept)...
Kinda-sorta-related: 10 years ago this month, I quit my job to finish my first product: a server monitoring system that I ultimately never launched. I did a little writeup of it earlier this year: http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/esonar-resurrection

So every time I see a post, ad or anything about server monitoring systems, it makes me smile. It's one of those projects that everyone has: "One of these days, I'll work on it."
EDIT:

Having let the furore subside a little, and after reading some more of the numerous comments and articles, "lying/misleading" is the wrong choice of words.

Although I do not buy that the accusers DUI and destructive behaviour are solely caused by this incident, I do not think the author is malicious in their intent.

Extremely sexualised behaviour led to the alleged assaulter going too far. He lost his job as a result, but this was not a criminal offence: HR didn't file a police report, and neither did the alleged victim. No-one else did either.

Embarrassing? Yes. Uncomfortable? Yes. Criminal? No.
Time Warner always seems slow to re-route. T-Mobile is having the same issue.
I remember installing Borland C++ with stacks of floppies, it felt like 50 but probably more like 30 or so. It took half a day.
I really don't understand that. What is the relation between AdWords and not having keywords provided? Won't the search query report in adwords have actually less data than what you get for free with webmaster tools?

(With adwords you will only see the traffic from the keywords you decided to bid on, while webmaster tools will show all the organic traffic, including segments you didn't know about).
Agree, this comes down to trust. Trust trust trust. If you don't have infinite time for moderating, paul, open it up to others. In fact I'd love to see a system where people can also vote on titles. Most people (aside from the OP and submitters) hate sensationalized titles and would vote up a better one. I guess Reddit kind of does this by allowing multiple submissions of the same link, but you still get a lot of garbage titles voted up anyway, and by the time the submission makes it to the front page, the title is fixed.
How come all those cats are nearly 6ft tall?
When it comes to thinking "this time is different" and "I have an idea to refactor the world economy", your age is VERY relevant.

Everyone thinks they have a simple way to fix everything when they're 22. By the time you're 30-40 it's amazing how much smarter the rest of the world got. You can take my word for it as regards politics and investment, or not, it's your money.

On the argument, you're implicitly admitting that you wouldn't spend bitcoins until you were completely out of dollars, because bitcoins will 'always appreciate'. That's kinda conceding my point as far as asset vs currency. You can sell stock for dollars if you're short on cash as well.

It seems that we agree on the effects of deflationary currency incentivizing not spending money. There's a few examples of that phenomenon happening in the real world, and none of them were really great for GDP growth (severe understatement). You know that spending by a lot of people is what adds up to that 14T GDP number, right?
does sending compiled code inside of a missile count as distribution? seems like it would.
It's not that readable if you didn't realize I actually fixed your extra }. I expected you to nitpick about it! :P

PS: spaces obviously.
If that's how you judge a person's worth I'm guessing Miami's glad not to have you.
Speaking as someone for whom statistical software puts food on my table, one of my favorite statements about data science is (roughly speaking) "If you don't have data, are you really a scientist?"

I would completely agree with your point about technology supporting more advanced analysis: Current information processing capabilities allow us to ask new questions from higher volumes of data than was possible in the past.
Are they typically all up?
Why would they? Using adwords doesn't give you the data that used to be provided. The search query report does the same kind of aggregation as webmaster tools.
Probably because of the new release of their layout engine. IE11 comes with trident 7 while all the previous versions use 6 or below. It might be causing the trouble with google. Probably that's why Google works well in compatibility view.
You should add some request-rate settings to your robots.txt file to prevent robots from crawling your web site to often. Here is an example: http://www.sparkledb.net/robots.txt
"Hey, if we make Google uglier, maybe people will use Bing!"

"Probably not, but let's mess with 'em anyway."
For a site like Google, I see no reason why Microsoft should have put it into compatibility mode- I have to assume that Google does testing on IE and any bugs should have been addressed quickly by Google.

Furthermore, by using compat mode, the only way for google.com to use newer features in IE is to ask Microsoft to take it off the compat list then push an update to all IE browsers.

In general, this compat list should die and sites should be targeting standards-compliant behavior. If they identify as standards compliant and are not, bugs should happen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576521 seems to indicate this isn't caused by Google.
But the bug is that Google is broken in compatibility view and works properly when in standards view.
> The idea that everything is a remix is a bit like moral relativism. The fact that things sit somewhere on a spectrum doesn't mean we should ignore the distribution of things on that spectrum.

Tangential to your main point, but that analogy is pretty bad because that's actually nothing like moral relativism, as moral relativism doesn't hold that "everything is on a spectrum". The divide between moral relativism and absolutism isn't between morality being continuous valued and binary valued, but between it being subjective and objective. Anything about morality falling on a spectrum or not is orthogonal to relativism.
One of my favorites memories is my dad trying to copy a BBC Model B compact audio cassette without a cable ... speaker to microphone! He started it and crept out the room quietly closing the door behind him. It did not work.
Oh crap. I read it the other way. My bad. It was only a guess on my part, havent used IE ever.
Interesting quote:

I'll tell you more guys. I've updated to windows 8.1 on my tablet a month ago through MSND subscription and Google search worked just fine. Looks like this problem appeared after public availability of Windows 8.1. So I believe it's something that Google or Microsoft should figure out.

Not saying this is malicious. Maybe just Google is doing something silly. Maybe Microsoft have slipped up on their compatibility-list-thingie (which is a horrible invention IMO).

Sometimes adding too many special cases in your code instead of having one "good enough" version for everyone will cause you a million problems you never saw coming. I've had more bugs come from special casing than any general, "run everywhere" code I've written.

I can easily see how both ends could be responsible for this problem, even at the same time.
tl;dr cholesterol is not the problem, things that inflame the arteries, e.g. high processed carbs and over consumption of certain oils
This wasn't me - I didn't want to change the title per the HN policy. I don't have that kind of time either :).
Was able to post to tumblr blog from Blackberry but not able to see page (on Orange UK broadband) until just now. Supports routing hypothesis I suppose.
Last I checked (my Internet connection is wonky, so I can't verify right now), EWAH was based on WAH, so it's affected by the patent.
What would seal the deal would be if there was some external signal that revealed that the crash happened. This could be as easy to arrange as a confederate onboard with a powerful laser pointer.
Other submission with more comments and link to original bug-report:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576317
What Product Managers can learn from playing StarCraft
According to Internet Pulse, the Level 3 issues seem to be solved as of 11:03am. Still showing a slow connection between AT&T to Cogent and AT&T to SBC.
http://www.internetpulse.net/

I am still unable to reach any of the above sites/networks via my Time Warner Cable connection, though.
Nothing to do with the Piraha, I fear. Get some sleep.
> HR didn't file a police report, and neither did the alleged victim. No-one else did either.

That's a bizarre definition of a criminal offence.

Many people do not contact law enforcement after sexual assault. This is for a variety of reasons including shame, stigma, embarrassment, fear of the forensic procedures, fear of the criminal justice and trial procedures, etc etc.
Oh Microsoft, you so funny
Dwight C. Lundell, M.D. lost medical license in 2008. Since that time he has been promoting books that clash with established scientific knowledge of heart disease prevention and treatment. His book, The Great Cholesterol Lie, invites people to "forget about everything you have been told about low-fat diets, saturated fats, cholesterol and the causes of heart disease."

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
http://analytics.ncsu.edu/?page_id=248

it looks pretty good. i wonder how hard it is to get into these programs.
There's no way the London market supports that at volume.

It's sort of a dangerous thing to assume that one's view of the market is the totality of it. Not to say that you're wrong, because I have never sold a gig in London, but I have heard the same about geographies/specialities with which I'm intimately familiar, and usually the claim comes from someone who has sort of fallen into a particular style of customer/acquisition channel/work and is not aware that large parts of the market exist in such a way that they'd never hear of them.

For example, rather frequently on HN we'll have people quote the going rate on Craiglist or RentACodeMonkey.com quoted as the maximum available for (without loss of generality) Rails programmers in Chicago, despite it being at an 80%+ discount to rates routinely charged by people whose clients wouldn't be caught dead on Craigslist.