skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction to the data model of cassandra db
Ring of Power ‘The Circle,’ by Dave Eggers (review)
I think the key thing isn't so much "built-in to Firefox" as "supported and promoted by Mozilla." Some kind of federated chat web app would be cool and, if you could use WebRTC to make the main functions of it peer-to-peer, might not require a huge amount of server infrastructure. If Mozilla could afford to offer that infrastructure to Firefox users for free, it would help with adoption.
I made this to scratch an (admittedly very mild) itch I've had for some time. But I'm betting some of you have had the same itch.

I posted some details about GlyphSearch here: http://thomaspark.me/2013/11/glyphsearch-improving-the-searc...
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Thanks for sharing your experiences. I had not considered having a VA at all but am now going to give it a try.
A friend was doing this in Philadelphia last year and has started doing it in SF http://tea.byankit.com/. Not sure if this idea was inspired by that or an independent discovery -- the design of the pages looks samey but I think basically all designs that have the same color palate from the same year look samey. It's just whatever's in that year.
Evidence that if you pile enough money up in one place the sociopaths will rush in like someone pulled a drain plug.
Step x: Get lucky. :)
I just let them know, FYI The pricing information for those servers is still available with in the control panel
Your pricing is insane, especially considering you provide vCPUs. I don't see why I would choose your servers over, let's say, Hetzner or Linode.
That's an aweseome idea!
Thanks for the heads up about Font Awesome More. Looking to add any other libraries that are in heavy use out there.
Thanks Ryan - I'm on it. Have you tried on Chrome? It also should be working on iPhone iOS 5+
I'm going to use this on my next hack day for sure.
Too late, Chrome OS and Android.
Article on spaceflightnow.com:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/pslv/c25/131105launch/#.UnkG4O...
You can make that argument, but there are two different positions to argue, and the former position is harder to justify than the latter.
I have previously thought about a similar idea, where we have a standard for a social media stream. People can pick lots of different social media hosting companies. You tap in your social media updates and your hosting company hosts that stream.

You tell your friends your social media URL and they add it to their social media client. If your browser had a client, then it would be responsible for merging all of those feeds into one news feed (just like Facebook's). The important thing here is that everything can be decentralized. It is a bit like merged RSS feeds.

Of course a majority of people would hand that responsibility over to a social media hosting company (such as Facebook), but if you really wanted to, you could write your own client, or hook it directly into your website.

Everything would be secure by default.
If the idea is to share conversation over a coffee (or presumably another beverage), isn't location important? (It is for me.) So why no option to search by location?
I'd love to hear peoples' feedback - what they want in a service that helps them connect with people they've never met before, but whose work is interesting to them. Features people would be interested in, things they wouldn't want to see, etc. Thanks!
Why new social networks are born from Teens.
Web Intents[1] would have helped with this, but they don't seem to have got much traction (Wikipedia says Google have stopped working on the idea).

1: http://webintents.org/
NY Police Department ignores Freedom-of-Information-Act without repercussions
All this was meant to fund Senior JAVA Dev jobs like this one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Enterprise-User-Agent.as...
Folks from companies I wanted to meet: Hobby electronics, robotics etc. Couldn't find any category related to those. Do they have any Denver/Boulder coffee shops in their database? Site seems pretty slow now.
It could be a default addon (as I think a lot of new features should be), then users that are concerned about bloat can remove it.
it's all about the gameplay.
Given that her personal knowledge extends more than twenty years, I would say that it's safe to assume that it's more than a handful.
Yes apologies. I copy and pasted the wrong bit from a badly written gruaniad article.

The point stands though. Whether it's billions or millions, it's still a ton of money which we shouldn't be giving them in aid.
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I recently moved from Long Island to Boston. Would love to get coffee with you sometime when I am down there visiting family. I moved as the commute from LI to NYC was brutal and I felt there were better job opportunities in Boston. I'd love to pick your brain sometime about the status of the island and NYC.
I love it - what a cool idea!
The best part is that since it's not in any fonts yet, if you use it in a document it's essentially a time bomb (or a time-f-bomb if you will).
Sounds good. I checked out your site and it looks good. You can reach me at peter (at) quill (dot) org
Google Reader was the best RSS viewer for me.
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Ask HN: Should there be a 'Dashboard of Human Progress in Formal Fields'?
I really appreciate the emphasis on collaboration, especially with new contributors. I might be replacing some of my cobbled-together monit setups.
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Definitely - we want to set the location by default based on where the user is. The plan is to let people change their current location, although now it is set based on where they are currently working (according to LinkedIn).
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The entire useful content of the article:

The application was populated with my movement data of the past week instantly. Instead of needing to use the application for a week to get sense if I like it, I could decide immediately.
I checked textmaster, and they seem to have fixed translation pricing. 1000 translated words is about $40. gengo is even more expensive. I can get 1000 translated words on some sites like Fiverr for $5, but its kind of a pain to search, buy a gig, send the content, get it back... and do that for 20 or so different languages, but it is the cheapest way I have found.
I've been doing something like this with a slightly different angle for a while now (see http://tea.byankit.com + http://tea.byankit.com/penn). Would love to learn more about your inspiration and see what some of your thinking was behind the initiative. We should talk.
Some good commentary (from syntacticians) is here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3809

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001192.h...

The first link is by one of the authors of CGOTEL, and comes out strongly against calling that were-form subjunctive; the second link is by another syntactician, and is a little more ambivalent.

What follows is a mixture of (a) my understanding of some terminology and facts, and (b) my interpretation of the arguments:

"Subjunctive" is a label for a type of sentence mood, where "mood" has to do with the relationship between the sentence and reality. Subjunctive mood is usually, like indicative and imperative moods, marked on the verb. (In my mind, interrogative is also a mood, but it is usually marked on the sentence, not on the verb.) Indicative and imperative moods have fairly narrow commonly-agreed semantics, but subjunctive is more of a catchall (my second link above will warn of the danger of confusing syntactic terminology with semantics, but while they don't correspond perfectly, they are related). We can quickly note that "if I were a rich man", a counterfactual clause, easily fits into area that can be covered by a "subjunctive" mood in various languages.

It's widely agreed that the following construction in English should be called "subjunctive":

I ask that you be polite to him.

The subjunctive form of "be" is so distinct from any other finite form that it makes for good examples. Any time a finite verb can be realized as "be", we're comfortable calling it subjunctive ("be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread").

That construction is productive today and nicely applies to any english verb:

I'm going to have to ask that your son return my necklace.

The argument against calling "if I were a rich man" subjunctive makes the following points:

- It doesn't use the subjunctive form.

- It is not obviously related to any construction that does use a subjunctive form.

- Though it is obviously a special form, it only applies to a single verb, and even there it's not required (Zwicky, my second link, talks about this some more). This can raise questions about how much it's a "real phenomenon", vs how much it's basically just an archaism.

- In the past, subjunctive forms could appear in English conditionals, but they no longer do.

Zwicky will tell you (and this is a point that follows my own inclinations well) that as long as you've described the rules correctly, the names that you give to the rules ("subjunctive") are irrelevant. So in that sense, you can call any form you want "subjunctive", as long as you're willing to extend the description to every instance of an analogous form, which is easy with "if I were a rich man", as it is the only form of its kind.

- However, as the generally-agreed subjunctive is a living and useful phenomenon, and is unrelated to the were-form, it might be nice to give the were-form a name that won't confuse people.
I signed up in the beta, mainly to learn how Google is approaching this. Observations:

+ High degree of curation and investment in quality
+ High investment of people to achieve the above

For example, I did a live video interview with a knowledgeable Google rep and she had several recommendations. About a week later, my submission was reviewed again, with even more (good) recommendations.
Awesome webpage. Love to know if you get any good connections
My first Facebook game: real-time multiplayer, HTML5 canvas, sockets, node.js.
I used to organize something similar in Munich, Germany called NerdLunch. Meetings like this are great to enlarge your network and to not lunch in front of your machine every day.

Great to see someone made a website like this, I'll give it a try.
I never understand how to have more than 10 open tabs, and even then only when searching for stuff.
This is a very smart thing to do. With it, they help servicemen in a difficult transition while creating/inflating demand for their own products in a way that cannot be condemned.
As stated elsewhere, foreign aid from the UK to india is £280m. But I'm glad that's such a miniscule amount to you.
Yeah. I mean he's just using a regular ol' <video> tag. So you would presumably have that same issue with any site using HTML5 media tags.
I prefer using pylint in a pre-commit hook so that I can catch problems before pushing them.
https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS - a self hosted URL shortener in PHP
I would like to read Brad Stone's life partner's response to MacKenzie Bezos' review.
Company Builds a Face-Scanning Emotion Detector, Seeks Important Uses for It
> it is not as battery efficient as they promised ... got better battery life running the same apps

The point of the article is that the M7 is always active (even if you aren't running apps), so the battery usage of the M7 is baked into the phone itself. This means you can't compare the M7 to non-M7 because you'll actually be comparing the 5S to earlier phones, which have different processors/batteries/etc.
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This. Not living in US, I'm used to be treated as an outsider by majority of services and startups showing up on HN, but this particular service would be painfully easy to make convenient for users around the world.
Google’s 8th Ranked Lobbying Machine Takes on Spy Debate
Enough With The Trolls
BitTorrent Sync API
Don't ORDER BY RAND()
I'm curious what would make people more willing to reach out to strangers through Treatings...what information would you want to know about them that you might not find on a standard resume or LinkedIn profile?
Crimes against facilitating human trafficking and terrorism disgust you?
My user agent is "Drakma/1.3.0 (SBCL 1.1.5; Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)". I like to keep webmasters on their toes.
It's a great idea, but the site is really tough to use and when I first signed up, the app crashed. It seems really focused on NYC-- I couldn't add any coffee shops here in Austin.

Also, how do I browse through people in my city? After I signed up, it showed me thumbnails of people in Austin, but I couldn't click on them for profile details or anything.
I don't think that's true at all. I think the majority of the UK see a space program as a fairly useless endeavour - big boys playing with their toys.

The UK does certainly see sending millions of pounds overseas in foreign aid, as a bad idea.

And sorry again for my original copy&paste gone wrong. I copied the wrong part of the article which mentioned remittances rather than foreign aid.
Show HN: SvgVerlet.js a SVG-based physics library
Money laundering is, indeed, as deluded of a new age crime as are most other nonviolent actions made into crimes under a heavily corporatist or domineering system. It's as deserving of punishment as is the harvest and trade of plants; or as is an entrepreneur who dares to create in a world where others, for a fee, can claim total national dominion over trade in prior intellectual "inventions" (patents: one of the most top-heavy, anti-small-business systems in US government); or as are the sexual actions of consenting people.

Societies that learn to solve problems -- what some people see as problems -- by using violence and the threat thereof (i.e. law) will, of course, be societies that have a propensity to engineer even the tritest of cultural aspects they want to change by using more violence.
You are 100% wrong. Stone interviewed Bezos many times over the years, just not expressly for this book. (Bezos refused.) Bezos did give permission for many of his friends and colleagues to speak to Stone, so he did cooperate in a fashion.

Reporting on a subject without interviewing them is so common, and so necessary, that journalists have a term to describe it. It's called a "write-around."

Full disclosure: I worked with Brad Stone for two years.
It's still needed in many cases.

For instance, I wrote an IndexedDB-heavy web app. It doesn't work in browsers that don't support IndexedDB. So I do feature detection and if IndexedDB is not supported, I show an error message telling the user that if they want to run the app, they have to use a more modern browser like Firefox, Chrome or IE10.

...except on iDevices, where it is literally impossible to install any browser that supports IndexedDB, despite the fact that it is possible to install something called "Google Chrome" that is not really Google Chrome. So I do user agent detection to display a different message to those users, so as to not give them false hope and confusion.
Something about the human instinct to pattern-match compels me to point out that this is the "reciprocity" principle of influence spelled out by Cialdini's 1984 book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", http://www.amazon.com/dp/006124189X .
Thanks, I copy and pasted the wrong bit. But the point stands.
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The use of the word "dumb" is extremely derogatory to people who are actually dumb (as per the original meaning of the word). You're being extremely childish and derogatory. Look up what "dumb" actually means before you use the word.

See how this works now?
Is there really a best practice list for cloud architecture?
I cringe every time I see a 21 year old call themselves a CTO. Please stop doing that. Just say "founder". You're not a CTO and you won't know what being a CTO entails for another 10 years.
But how do you keep the key from getting stolen, when you couldn't keep the password database from being stolen?
Actually, the Bank Secrecy Act was passed alongside RICO. The target was organized crime, not drugs. Nixon coined the term "War on Drugs" in 1971, but aggressive drug prohibition in the U.S. dated back long before that, and the explosion in imprisonment as a result of drug prosecutions didn't really kick in until a decade later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#Arrests_and_incarc....

While "financial crimes" are a key part of the drug war now, their primary use has been to attack the kind of organized crime that turned New York into Gotham City in the 1970's.

Watch the movie Donnie Brasco and also the various documentaries about the Mob Commission Trial. National Geographic has some good material here: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside-the-ame....
Github Repo: https://github.com/miketucker/svg-verlet.js

All pages are based on an SVG file, such as: http://mike-tucker.com/13/svg/hello.svg

After loading into the engine, optional plugins and effects are added: Gravity, wind, mouse attractors, etc.
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Could this happen in Canada?
That's a very conflicting message. You don't want "bloated code", but you use Firefox for its extensions. You think browsers should focus on 4 things, but one of the main factors keeping you away from Chrome is not in that list.
Seconded. These prices are ridiculous even by cloud-standards.

$2000/mo for a 60G box...

For that money you can buy an equivalent server every month.

And don't get me started on $4000/mo for 120G, that's almost two equivalent servers. Every month.
You forgot to include the bit about a bad citation:

> "[not in citation given]"

(Sounds like whoever wrote that "practically identical" bit may have had an agenda.)

The visuals were certainly drawn from Infiniminer. But that's about as far as the similarities go -- Minecraft is ultimately a very different game.
Totally understand and sorry about that. We're trying to open elsewhere as soon as possible. We thought it would help us to focus on New York and then open in other cities after we formed small bases of people there, ~100 people. Where are you golergka?
Shadowy VPN firm says they’ve got industry’s first transparency report
I think it's more clear in it's current form than it would be with your suggested change. With the placeholders it's seems obvious to me how to use the form.

It's interesting though to see that something I think is quite clear isn't clear and could be improved to someone else. Shows how important testing this kind of thing is (although maybe not in the case of a small site like this).
I think you're right that it's more complicated than just assuming every hour of your life is worth whatever your day job pays you per hour. The point in the article was that what you do in your non-work time still has an affect on your work, and that's where the opportunity cost comes in. If mowing the lawn is stressing you out, then you're going to perform worse at your job and potentially impact your career in the long term. Or if you could instead be researching or practicing something that would make you a little bit better at your job, then you're missing out on potential future earnings as well.

Of course, the question then is how do you value that time? I don't think there's any objective answer to that, but it's probably more than zero.

EDIT: Of course, I just re-read your comment and see this is basically what you just said. I'll admit I got distracted and misunderstood your point the first time I read it.
My father used to work for ISRO too, from '74 to '97. He started with Satish Dhawan, one of the founders of the Indian space program. They moved at the same time from IISc. I agree with everything deepGem has to say about ISRO. It is far from the 'third world space program' that many like to romanticize.

Few thoughts:

- There is a common myth, one about how Indians used bullock carts to test the antennas on a satellite. This, for example, wasn't because they couldn't anechoic chambers, but simply because bullock carts have few metallic parts to interfere with the actual measurements. Image here: https://lh3.ggpht.com/_1UepX3L4zzs/S6Fd5jUwoJI/AAAAAAAAAjU/i...

- Regarding the budget, the predominant political philosophy in India is what Americans would call 'tax-and-spend'. ISRO has essentially a limitless budget to spend on their projects. My father used to travel first class on international trips to meet suppliers in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The reason for low-brow tables and ceiling fans is more to do with cultural aspects. In fact, there are many top universities, and old corporations (based on anecdata) in the US where working conditions are 'ghetto' by Apple-Google-Facebook standards. The reason simply is that renovating workplace infrastructure is a pretty significant expense.

I can also tell you that there are absolutely no problems with technology infrastructure (including internet speeds) in ISRO. Some of their offices were wired for internet as early as early as 1992.

The one downside of working at ISRO, as with any government establishment is the bureaucracy that one has to deal with, and the general reverence for seniority (vs. reverence for pure merit, etc.)
Yes, business networking expenses can be written off.
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really?.... really?
I'm generally going to agree here.

I'm sick of seeing this heavy-handed language that produces this false dichotomy of "Tech Fetishism" versus "Getting Things Done".

Look, it's not this younger generation's fault that the previous generation abandoned Hypermedia. Stop throwing us under the bus because you started architecting TCP/IP without grokking your own ideas, that sat festoring, as regards what would get built on top.

> Eliminate those distractions. Focus on solving your problem at hand. Stick with what you know and stop lusting after shiny new things.

> Watch for unwanted features sneaking in, bogus justifications for unnecessarily complex architectures and signs of premature optimizations. Keep the product lean.

What problems? (Yes, 15 years ago it was easy to drop a form into a page. But also 15 years ago, Microsoft got sued for antitrust. Now look at where we are: India's going back to typewriters!) We just started figuring this business out. And the Web is a hard problem. And now these architectures are essentially an outgrowth of political questions like, "What is an open government, anyway?" "What is a 'semantic web' anyway?" It's not just aesthetic hooplah. This is condescending and misguided!

(Stop ridiculing us as gluttons. What does that have to do with anything? What good has religious reframing of any problem really done for any phase transition of a system?)

We're trying to get the Web done right. We've had enough of this grossly hierarchical system that you built because the government had an urgent need to keep secrets. Stop throwing us under the bus because we don't agree with an architecture or its substrate based on a war we obviously then, or even now, wouldn't want to fight anyway.

If you need to shoot a bullet, then yeah, HATEOAS, Polymer, Modularization, Open Standards, etc. will seem like a waste of time. But we're not fighting wars anymore; or at least now the way in which wars are fought presuppose a richer Web Architecture (and JavaScript cryptography: http://log.nadim.cc/?p=33).

I'm sorry for the pessimistic tone, but we're just getting to the point where we understand how to properly build these things. And this religious, terrestrial jazz is just not helping. (How do we get to the point where we're building space ships rather than silly hyper-point-of-sale-search-gadget-over-wifi-built-by-a-8-year-old-in-a-half-hour-because-it-figured-it-should-read-open-source-rather-than-Dr.-Seuss?)

It's talk about personality types in the midst of an effort to build a freaking spaceship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5pFv9NB9fs&feature=youtu.be&...