skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FrogDesign proposed cable gondolas to solve Austin's mass transit problem[1]. With the hills and lakes/rivers in the area, it's a plausible solution (cheaper than a subway, anyway). The only hitch I see is how to air-condition the cars -- I wouldn't want to be in an enclosed glass box on one of our 110F days without it.

[1] http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/11/forget-subw...
If currently produced code would keep on running for 59 years without major incidents (just a new coat of paint every decade or so), that would be amazing.
Once I failed at a google interview... I got 2 answers right but I couldn't answer a third math related question (because the time was over).

The recruiter asked me what was the maximum number of edges on a graph without cycles.

When I was on my way home (in a bus) I had this "a-ha" moment.

Well, they lost a great computer scientist in their team! :P
GraphChi: How a Mac Mini Outperformed a 1,636 Node Hadoop Cluster
Building APIs on Rails ebook
Interview With The Co-Founders Of BluFit Bottle
Fair enough - my experience with Neo is at this point shallow at best. I had seen it in the feature spec is all. Should they be claiming they are if they aren't however?
What Are The Hardest Languages To Learn?
Yup, it's a dis-stink-tive odor, quite different from human and dog. (Guess who empties the litter boxes in my household.)
> the US is by far the most benevolent.

This is debatable. Roman hegemony has created 400 years of peace whereas US has been involved in wars since WW2.

I am not a us citizen but I don't have a problem with US trying to improve the life condition of its own citizens first (everybody does it). However, believing that US is completely fair to the rest of the world is too naive. The article actually identify several unfair behaviors: [...] A double standard on torture, a near indifference to casualties among non-American civilians, the gross expansion of the surveillance [...].
This just seems like the worst of both worlds for Mozilla:

1. You can't guarantee the code will remain open.

2. You still can't build and distribute modified works even with the code you already have, because of patent constraints and licensing.

3. You're using binaries from Cisco which you can't verify (unless they're going for deterministic builds).

We already have mature, high quality, open source implementations of H.264. Why can't Cisco just build and license one of those?

I for one will not be installing the binaries.
Two Solitudes
Amazon Launches iTunes Match for Books
IMO the hardest thing with Angular is not knowing the way to do things. Hopefully our examples and recommended practices will help a lot with that.
Modern front-end development - how we should be building websites in 2013
small niggle. what is a verlet constraint? (rhetorical)

whilst its obvious that you have just discovered verlet integration and the relaxation method of applying constraints - because everyone goes off and writes a physics engine at this point - i only think i know what you mean because i have assumed this.

are these length constraints, angle constraints etc?

still... no matter how common and unexciting this is for me, its always cool to play with physics simulations for five minutes. thanks for sharing. :)
Man, I even had breakfast before coming to work!
I've got a cross origin error on talky.io

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://api.talky.io/socket.io/1/?t=1383140651742. Origin https://talky.io is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. talky.io/:1
What is missing the most for my usage is all the symbols related to aeronautical domain (VOR, DME, TACAN, airport, beacon, ...). Something like http://www.eei.cena.fr/products/fonts/glyphes/orly-symbol1.g... but in beautiful vector font.
Python crashes in osx 10.9
Hah! That's not a bad idea actually. Maybe extend it a bit so that it will only show you X# of posts until an item is checked off the todo. Get them all checked off and you can see everything on the front page again?

Personally, I can ignore a checkbox, but I have a very hard time lying to one.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover approaches 'Cooperstown'
Intel to Begin Manufacturing 64-Bit ARM Chips in 2014
Cisco already promised to permissively open source this implementation (though not the binary fees-paid bit), because people were complaining they'd need to pay for an H.264 implementation (as well as patent fees) in non-GPL projects (GPL would allow you to use x264), which was another good reason to not vote for this codec to be MTI in WebRTC.

Which Cisco was pushing for as it makes it easier to inter-operate with all their existing video-conferencing gear.

Also, it costs them nothing since the H.264 licences are designed to not annoy the big players too much, because they could shift the market if they wanted too, and so cap out at about $6 million a year which I assume Cisco already pays.
Yea, they would work just fine. They look best at 16px, 32px, 48px, 64px, etc. font size.
Not that kind of hackers (crackers)
> Why are HTC and Samsung doing so well in the phone market? Because they
> offer what clearly millions of people want: a 5" screen.

Not sure that's supported by the data. Do you have a specific reason for assuming that and not one of the countless other differences is the reason why people pick, say, an HTC or Samsung over an iPhone? (As in: preference for Android; availability; etc.)
I started testing out CircleCI a bit ago and this really doesn't help seal the deal for me. What am I supposed to do now? CircleCI was connected to my github account...are my SSH keys not safe now? If so, not clear on what I'm supposed to do.
The Real Lesson of NSA
Scientists shed light on brain computations
Best prototyping/UX tools - an in-depth review
If HN is such a distraction, activate the noprocrast option in your preferences.
someone that didn't get in yc.
In the west everything is more focused on the individual. I have to succeed at X. I deserve Y. I have to put my stamp on the world. etc. etc.

Not sure this is the best path to happiness.
According to Betteridge's law of headlines... no.

"devices right now won’t allow them to become much thinner"
I'm sorry, but who cares? My LG Optimus F3 is way to thin for me to hold in my normal human-sized hands. I had to get a case just to be able to hold it! Let's stop making things thinner and start making them "usable"!

Plus, I'd rather not have to buy new headphones/audio equipment. I've never had problems with my headphones, and I don't want to have to buy adapters just to use the things I already have.

I mean, I guess in the future we could remove this jack, but if I were shopping, I'd buy the device with the jack on it.
How To Build Multi-User Google Maps in a Day
I think those other things are just basic requirements of a job. If you included oxygen in your survey, I'm sure that would be the top pick.
Report them as spam. It's the only responsible thing to do. No excuse to not have an unsubscribe link for a commercial email. I don't care if they personally emailed you, if it's from a company, it needs an unsubscribe link.
Medium-Style Page Transition — with HTML, CSS & JS
Announcement to WebRTC list: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg09269...

The project website: http://www.openh264.org/
This isn't revolutionary, this is BitTorrent.
Adobe hack: At least 38 million accounts breached
Ask HN: Connection timed out
Just out of curiosity... Can anyone explain what happened here: Hacker News was down for me and it had some interesting information.

Connection timed out

the initial connection between CloudFlare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

(Then some other information such as IP and CloudFlare Location: Newark)

Did it go down for everyone? What is cloudflare doing? What is the benefit of having a "middle man" as it seems?
I hope not, I've been depending on this service for a while. I have it integrated via FUSE on my prod servers.

We did have some problems of blocking on large files, which is less than ideal for a /dev/null service.

After dealing with their customer support (which has been super helpful), we are looking to move to a named pipe / FIFO.. Which will non-block and cache lolcally, with a watcher service to push it to their site.

Happy Customer, A+++, would recommend.
How to Survive Your First 100 Days Of App Development
NY Startup Founders Reveal Issues They Faced Once The Press Died Down
What if I want to host an interactive server instead of a static document/file?
Show HN: NoteCoach - app for learning to read sheet music
Wrap that shit in spoiler tags! Next you'll be telling us how Titanic ends ...
It was a pun, referring to Ruby On Rails.
Well, one major incident, that killed 20 people. But still! A step up!
My 2000 Saab 9-5 Aero has the crayon smell in it, too. IIRC, it was the glue used to assemble the interior. They changed the process in 2003ish, so more recent Saabs don't have the crayon odor.

My wife has a 2002 9-3 SE has no crayon smell, but she used to have a 1999 Viggen with the crayon smell.

I love it.
No matter what codec will eventually be widely adopted, I hope native video support for browsers will lead to better video players. Right now, I have issues with YouTube (loading speed, quality switching back and forth between 480p, 720p and 240p), Vimeo (still can't jump to a desired position, loads incredibly slowly), various Flash embedded players (won't load, or will reset to 0:00 when trying to change the current position), auto-playing videos, lack of controls, usability issues...

I usually end up downloading the video with a Firefox add-on to watch it later. Or just stop bothering and close the tab.
Sounds like BitTorrent
Saudi Comic's Video Goes Viral But He's "Not a Social Activist"
Particularly when the iPad 2 is still a current model. I suspect that's the thing holding them back.
InnoDB adaptive flushing in MySQL 5.6: checkpoint age and io capacity
I have used you app and works great for me and my coworker. I was waiting for the realease of other plataform versions, that would be great. Think about linux and windows. Maybe now with the open source someone can do that.
Thanks great idea.
The idea that I am currently working on is very much to make the back end (i.e. the server part) do most of the heavy lifting (storage, security, searching etc.) and the UI to be completely decoupled in JavaScript.

Ideally what I would like is to have some kind of "standard" well documented interface between the UI and the server - so that different implementations of both could be possible.
That makes sense to me. This is a reasonable compromise for Mozilla, but it's still a compromise. What they want is a free (as in FOSS) codec. What they got is a single free of charge implementation of a patent encumbered codec.
General Fusion targeting commercializing nuclear fusion in about 2020
Awesome read. I feel like I struggle with that issue as well. As I'm approaching my birthday next week, I keep thinking about the 18 year olds that made multi-million dollar Apps, and those 20 year olds that revolutionized the tech industry with one idea or another.

It's taking a lot of effort on my side to sit down and relax and realize that everyone on the planet has some achievements to show. Not just the "young". The best case for that is just browsing through Kickstarter projects. Yeah, sure, we're used to seeing people in the early 20s "changing the way everything works" but we also see the veterans coming back to make yet another shift.
You're right. At a guess, as collisions appear to be perfectly elastic particles inside a clump are trying to move and instead of their shifting being dampened, it's causing the whole structure to begin to rotate which causes more in-clump collisions causing... until it spins apart. Sound reasonable?
"How can you pass judgement on anything you haven't experienced yourself?"

People do this all the time. Have you no opinions on rape, child abuse, or murder? I realize judging a physical device is different than moral, ethical and legal issues - but people will have varying levels of experience on almost everything in this world - and the person with the most experience isn't always the most-qualified to pass judgement.
I was thinking similar. :-) Productive mornings everywhere!
It's legit because Cisco are paying the license fees (mentioned in the article)
IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal
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You can use ffmpeg/libav's decoder in non-GPL or even proprietary projects, since it's LGPL.
Sebelius faces grilling by Congress while Healthcare.gov crashes again
I like that wisdom and patience mattered a lot to him.
Not everyone is complaining...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UREepszk7I&feature=player_em...
Ask HN: Where do you store your data?
We are a data analytics startup that is starting to greatly expand the amount of data we collect, analyze and produce.

So far our needs have been met by storing the data on disks attached to the VPS instances we use (Digital Ocean for us) but we are quickly outgrowing this. We use both MySQL as well as MongoDB and have looked into services like Amazon RDS and Cloudant.

If you're a startup of similar size, how and where do you store your data?
How to Discourage Open Source Contributions
How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain
Not a web guy, but my understanding of most attacks against IE is where it implemented the spec incorrectly, particularly with CSS. However, if they're being attacked because they don't implement something that's a different case.
35 seems like a nice round number for people to self-sort into two bins: people that decided yes, it's time to stop trying, there will be no more sunrises... and then the other set, who think this is just ridiculous and roll their eyes that age has anything to do with it. And even if the second set is wrong, and there is actually something about getting older that actually slows us down or makes us worth less, it's a terrible idea to believe in it. I see no value in thinking about it. How would anyone improve their life by deciding some threshold has been passed? Sounds like a good way to speed up decay.
Yeah, but that's like someone paying for an all-you-can-eat buffet and then smuggling in a few bus loads of hungry people. Just because you paid for it doesn't mean it's what the people you bought it from were intending.
Apple lied so badly in the UK they were forced to put an apology message on their homepage with specific wording dictated by a court.

So uh, yeah.
California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while driving
Seems to be working off and on but very slowly. Web UI appears to be offline with 500 skull and crossbones.
This is in the context of WebRTC, i.e. standardized video web chat, which needs an encoder as well.
Isolation levels describe the degree of compliance with the I in ACID. Full compliance is called serializable isolation. Are there valuable uses for lower degrees of isolation? Yes, and a good database should allow applications to selectively reduce isolation. But the inability to support serializable isolation greatly limits the power and composability of a system.

Galera looks like an extremely useful tool, and a big improvement on usual (and extremely dangerous) ad hoc failover. Besides the limited isolation level, though, it only really solves failover. Typical large scale database deployments will sacrifice even more ACID properties by sharding (which loses A, C, and I for shard-spanning transactions) and frequently by incoherent caching (which sacrifices isolation for reads that use the cache).
very productive morning.. but now an unproductive midmorning to catch up.
Fundamentally, the problem is that the IMAP standard does not support the concept of tagging, just folders. And GMail supports tagging but not folders.

GMail does a pretty good job of mapping tags to folders, but it ends up leaving edge cases that are hard to handle. Like how all emails will still be in the All Mail folder, even after you "move" them to another folder (tag).

I'm not sure there is any real solution, other than making mail via IMAP read-only.
Clearly he is trying to avoid being seen as a troublemaker by the Saudi regime, so of course he has to backtrack from the "social activist" identity.
How long has it been down?

edit: so it looks like it went down between 9:30 and 10 am EST.
CSS and the Golden Ratio
5 Facts You Didn’t Know About Photos & Copyright
I counter your example of anecdata with my piece of anecdata of Mail 7.0 working perfectly fine with 8 IMAP accounts.
I find it's easy to get over the million dollar teenager tech geniuses: Whether it's true or not, I just convince myself that more people have made more money by playing the lottery and winning. And then the lucky/smart/people-there-first that get their millions are just lottery winners and I forgive myself for being normal.
Here's the announcement from Eich himself:

https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/ciscos-h-264-good-news/

I wouldn't say that the reaction is lukewarm, but rather reserved. Mozilla's never been a fan of H.264, but supporting it has long since transformed from a philosophical choice to a political necessity. This move helps Mozilla, no question, but it doesn't advance their agenda of patent-unencumbered web standards. Let's hope that VP9 and Daala can do better on this front in the coming years.
Ask HN: Why is hacker news so slow all the time?
This is a technical question and a complaint but really looking for the reason to why the site cannot be faster.

It should be a cached page but always so slow! Please explain. Redit is much larger and has much more traffic. Never this slow.
>what would "data that explicitly shows this causation" have to look like for you to find it relevant?

I'm not sure, because I don't think anyone's found any. The american samoa link is interesting, and it certainly looks like employment took a hit for it. But how comparable is American Samoa's economy, to, say, Washington DC or Birmingham Alabama?
My most precious productivity tip:

# Productivity
127.0.0.1 mail.google.com
127.0.0.1 gmail.com
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
127.0.0.1 www.bbc.co.uk
127.0.0.1 netflix.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 boingboing.net
127.0.0.1 xkcd.com
...

I've been doing this for a while.

I didn't make an app to customize this list. Nor am I going to spend the next twenty minutes explaining why it works for me.

It works for me.

=)
@nly: You need both an encoder and a decoder to implement WebRTC, though.
>> I invited a family member to try Chipotle once. She complained of a soapy taste in the food.

I pick up a soapy taste in almost all mass-produced tortillas. Taco Bell, Qdoba, the packages of tortillas at Walmart.

Good thing I don't mind picking up freshly made ones at the local bakery, they're better in every way.
In both cases a diminution of ~30% (35 and 27, respectively).
That's interesting. However I've read that iOS doesn't have built in garbage collector, automatically forcing you to write apps that consume less memory.
The portion that appears to be unique to iOS (maybe it's not), is the default cache policy for 301 redirects.

Its in the HTTP spec:

> This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise.

- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...

I'm fairly certain without doing any research whatsoever, that most every browser on most every platform is vulnerable to this attack. It is literally a DNS cache poisoning and MITM. Nothing more. The difference with a mobile platform is you're dealing with apps that don't have a URL bar to tell you that you've actually on qwerty.info/paypal instead of paypal.com, which is an indicator of an attack.
svg with a alt tag of the TeX source...
GitHub Game Off II
Revoke the CircleCI key that you added to your repo on Github. In the worst case scenario, that key has been compromised and could be used to access your source code.
Documents Confirm Same Old Fears: NSA Collects First, Seeks Authorization Later
Density determines how heavy something feels.
Maybe, but it's the balance of what you can do rather than any individual item on a specification, particularly when you're comparing devices with other different hardware elements running different operating systems.

Plus developers have got the increased power of the 64-bit A7 and the features of the M7 chip to keep themselves entertained so it's not as if Apple are treading water.

Besides do we really want to recreate the "requires a minimum of X Gb RAM to run" small print world of Windows games?
I just noticed it about 10 min ago, when I tried to commit. Made other commits this morning so I would say anywhere from 10-30 min.
Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264
I've never seen any of those issues -- are you sure your Internet provider isn't throttling video packets with DPI or something?
I'm not a video codec enthusiast, but it seems natural to me that low latency/real-time constraints on the encoding process is going to mean you're not benefiting from H264s full potential anyway. High profile H264 encodes are incredibly slow, and there must be other codecs that fill the streaming niche.

This may benefit hardware and corporate conferencing gear manufacturers (aka Cisco?), but I don't see how the encoder specifically benefits Firefox users.
Every G4 Powerbook I've ran into has that smell. Eww.
Age is just a number. What you do with yourself each day is what counts.
These are the Amazon reviews I hate. 2 stars because they bought more product than they needed? Put that in the same category of the 1 star reviews from people who bought the wrong product and had no problem returning it to Amazon.
"Employers don’t do their own hiring, and that’s the #1 problem. Employers have outsourced their competitive edge — recruiting and hiring — to third parties whose heads are so far up The Database Butt that this little consortium should be investigated by Congress."

This. Personally, I completely and absolutely blame the employers for this mess that they have "talent shortage". I am amazed with the whole recruiting ecosystem if there is such thing here. People are the most important assets of a company and giving this responsibility to a third party (read vendors/recruiters/agencies) just does not work. But again, most companies do not really bother about this. Until we stop calling people as "resources" and "head counts", this broken recruiting model will never change.

These "vendor databases" that he is talking about is a major irritation. I still get emails from some random recruiting firm where I might have sent my Resume as a fresh desperate undergrad 10+ years ago. This needs to stop.
no reddit? You're lucky. Don't go there.
And – as a current example – Apple Mail (Mavericks) still show already read mails from yesterday as unread in the 'unread mail' smart folder. 'Synchronize' does not help.
"The most obvious "single" would be the iPhone 5C which, by all accounts, is underselling expectations significantly."

No one has proven this, it's just a rumour circling the internet. Anecdotally I've seen plenty 'in the wild', but potentially not as many as the 5S (hard to tell aside from the gold), so it's unclear whether it's been a sales disappointment.
Is that focused on the individual? Putting your stamp on the world, success - those seem to me like they might be very social measures.

By contrast, the only people I've found it worthwhile comparing myself with, on any sort of regular basis, are me yesterday, last week and last year. Am I stronger this year than I was last; do I know how to do more? And that, while being a highly individual focused way of doing things, seems to work fairly well. I don't get a crushing sense of not being as good as others or not measuring up to my potential; if I think I'm not as good as I should be at something, then I just get better at that for tomorrow.