skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bletchley Park archive to go online
I'd be very surprised is this was actually the case. Otherwise we would have heard of Prius' and Insights catching fire a long time ago.

Besides, if Tesla went and crashed a few hundred cars and could not reproduce the fire I'd feel pretty good about their safety. They may have already done this as part of road/crash certification.
Related, I like to leave non-working code or tests at the end of a day so I can easily find where I left off. For some reason when I try to build / test and the errors pop up I'm able to immediately pick up where I left off. A combination of a bookmark and the Zeigarnik Effect I guess?
Better to have a "bad" long term strategy than no short term strategy at all.

Matt you know very well that small businesses that want to compete now HAVE to acquire some non-donated links, as NO ONE is donating dofollow links anymore, yet you still use them in your algorithm.

When and if you start to ignore links because you have enough usage and social signals, great! But this is a couple years off no? So other than them getting a penalty, which is a risk they just have to take, they have no choice but to acquire some non-donated links that look donated.
He didn't exclude the rest of the world. Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.
BREAKING: the internet is on fire
3D is getting very interesting. I guess a lot of researchers can play with these embeds from across the world.
I like it in this context. It's scattershot, it doesn't imply any rank of importance, nor any order you should be looking in.

They're just people in a crowd, you don't have to read their stories in order. You don't have to read all of them. Just look at whatever your eyes are drawn to and read those.

Oddly enough, I feel like the Pinterest/masonry layout is perfect for something like this.
Quote from the forums: >>police said that the tesla fire was caused by car running over a tow hitch.<<

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/23581-Ugh-Anot...
They actually do[1]:

git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#git-mirror
Here's the Google cache mirror since the site seems to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.tes...
Twitter opens at $45.10, 73% higher than IPO price of $26
This could actually lead to more Windows 8/8.1 and PC sales. Don't underestimate the stupidity of the public.
TWTR Now Worth More than TSLA
It's interesting that people on HN seem to take whatever Tesla says as the gospel truth. Where as if it had been an established manufacturer (IE runaway toyotas) there would be at least some skepticism until there was at least some objective and trusted third party analysis and reporting.
Would you mind to say why?
Do you know the name the subject boxed as? I was able to find the myspace with his real name, but cannot find anything on his boxing record.
I have a closet full of crap that you are welcome to mine for good stuff. There are probably some old PS/2 keyboards and non-working motherboards in there, as well as questionable power supplies. I don't have time to look at it.

People even call me a hoarder, luckily I've got it down to just one closet now because of repeated moves. I can promise I don't have savings in excess of the bitcoins I already mentioned, sadly.
Yes, it says Tesla talked to the driver. It doesn't say the driver says there was an accident. Why did tesla include the quote from the dispatcher if that wasn't part of what they were basing their conclusion on?

They have a confirmation from the driver, but instead of saying that, they include speculation from the dispatcher? I don't buy that.
And building Twitter [1], and big-data next-generation databases [2], and android apps, and desktop apps, and big data [3], and as a platform for new languages (Clojure, Scala, Frege), and many more applications.

Really, the JVM can be used for anything that _computers_ can be used for, and it does so in a way that the code is runnable across all major platforms and still maintains a top-5 language performance spot, even beating C/C++ in some specific cases.

Why do you feel that the JVM is limited in its applications as a development platform?

[1] http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/05/how_and_why_twitter_u...
[2] http://www.datomic.com/about.html
[3] http://hadoop.apache.org/
And in windows too http://llvm.org/builds/
Show HN: The Twelve-Factor App
In my experience, mongo doesn't even scale horizontally all that well...
Alternately: if there are no interesting numbers, that fact is itself interesting. But that fact can be encoded as a number (see Gödel), and the number must be interesting if the fact is interesting. Thus there is at least one interesting number.
First of all, J2EE web container lengthy restart is a huge overhead alone, and in case of iterating over a feature, I can easily see a 30-50% difference.

But second of all, from the article: "You didn’t write html, css or javascript – you wrote css in java, you wrote html in java and you wrote javascript in java." Can you imagine developing that?

A Google search reveals: "the only thing worse than XML/XSLT is a proprietary form of XML/XSLT -- which of course is what PayPal was built on (C++ on the backend)." (from http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-you-shoul...)

I've been involved with writing Javascript in Java using GWT and it has poor developer productivity, especially as the project gets to anything beyond a medium size. At a medium size, compilation times get well above 5 minutes, and I can't even imagine a large app the size of a PayPal.

Imagine having to figure out the right XML/XSLT to transform into the right Javascript.

So it's not at all ridiculously implausible. At previous jobs, I worked with some really arcane stacks and you can't imagine the number of unnecessary layers that get in the way of good old GSD.
We're not talking about drone strikes, we're talking about rummaging in google accounts. Which incidentally we know for a fact have been used in the past by terrorists to plan atrocities.

Now, it just so happens that I agree with Benjamin Frankin's assertion that those who trade freedom for security deserve neither. Nevertheless, going all "stick it to the man, they're all out to get us" puts no votes in the ballot box. These people can be fought and the laws they operate under can be changed. So lets work towards changing them.
I don't know if anybody else has ever witnessed a gasoline car fire but I for one find it quite impressive that these "fires" are so minor that first responders can just walk up and use suppressant.

With a gasoline vehicle fire that actually gets going you often see the road cleared so the thing can just burn into a giant fireball leaving behind nothing beyond a steel skeleton and 30 ft of charred ground.

Even at 100+ yds you can feel the heat from a gasoline vehicle inferno.
That would be a really dumb move, because apart from anything else, leaf sales will probably go down too.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
Are they covered by insurance at all?
I'd say it's better to be in a car that is more likely to save your life (e.g. a Model S), and is also less likely to burst into flames in an accident (e.g. any electric vehicle on the market).

In a major accident, gasoline cars are still statistically much more likely to catch fire than EVs, which is exactly why it doesn't make the news when a gas car catches fire.
Twitter shares jump to $45 as trading starts
You can insert and retrieve by ID just as fast with PostgreSQL.

Map/reduce? Isn't that slow in general? Can't PostgreSQL JOIN and aggregate functions do most of what map/reduce is for but faster?
When drawing something from scratch, I found Pycairo to be much more useful.

http://cairographics.org/pycairo/
So a database developer is saying that his database is faster then a competitors database. Shocking.....
Really? Plenty of apps run on the JVM (everything from enterprise apps to games to IDEs etc...). I'm no JVM evangelist (I use Haskell with the GHC), but this is just a false statement.
Why does that matter? The best SCM is the one your team is familiar with.

(The second-best is git, of course. :)
A $45 market price after a $26 IPO means Twitter left over $1B on the table, doesn't it? They would've had that money, instead of the first investors who can now immediately sell the shares at a huge profit, if the initial price was set closer to what the market would've paid.
An unnamed government official told me that the leaks resulted in the death of innocent kittens.
That reference is the best I've seen. Thanks for that.
At $300/coin, that's the equivalent of $60/hour.

I don't think even normal contractors are that expensive.
LISP is a dream language for the writer of unmaintainable code. Consider these baffling fragments:

(lambda (*<8-]= *<8-[= ) (or *<8-]= *<8-[= ))

(defun :-] (<) (= < 2))

(defun !(!)(if(and(funcall(lambda(!)(if(and '(< 0)(< ! 2))1 nil))(1+ !))
(not(null '(lambda(!)(if(< 1 !)t nil)))))1(* !(!(1- !)))))

https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
Where are you getting your numbers from? The volt sold more than the leaf in 2012 by almost double. At best the leaf sells about 1500 a month. The model S is well over 3k a month as well. so I would like to see your sources on the matter.
Bonus points for the ISO-8601 date format in the headline!
The govt confiscated 174k BTC, but he supposedly has another (encrypted) ~500k BTC wallet

If he does I'd be very surprised if he can ever spend it, even if he does somehow get to a copy. Torture is not the only or most effective avenue to thwart encryption or your plans to keep money from them, they could claim enough back-taxes to bankrupt you, repossess anything you buy etc, etc.
"hire ... as contractors, but to treat them like full-time employees"

In UK employment law at least this isn't legal, or rather the law simply treats them as employees.
PIL is dead. How did this get 14+ points?
It is specious to say that India has not invaded anyone in past 3000 years are so. The idea of India as a country is a fairly recent one. May be with some liberty we can consider 1857, year of Sepoy Mutiny as the starting point for idea of India as a single country. Prior to that the vast territory
was divided among kingdoms battling against each other (Cholas against Chalukyas, Vijayanagar Empire against Bahamni Kingdom, Tippu against Marathas and so on).
That's up an enormous amount now, looks like the problems which plagued the Facebook IPO launch were dealt with long in advance.
Mongo clusters distribute map reduce so it can be reasonably fast.
This is probably the best browser IDE I've seen for web dev. I really like the simple git integration - no extra fluff and it allows me to easily transition from normal command line git.
Well, if I make the same sacrifices I make to use Mongo I don't really have a reason to use PostgreSQL.

No, but I really like the recent enhancements in PostgreSQL. Failover is nearly as easy as in MongoDB, however all this doesn't play so nicely yet, if you are using stuff like extensions (PostGIS), your own functions and still isn't really an out-of-the box experience.

I agree, if you use it with the same limits and the performance gain is worth it, you can as well be using Postgres. However, a lot of this actually only changed in the recent releases. It's all still fairly new.

Also there are still a number of things that are basically missing, like out of the box upserts (we are using a function for this, but it more a hack) and if you are still somewhat in development a lot of little changes get really hard in PostgreSQL. Converting your data structure, even with stuff like CTE and surrounding functionality can become really challenging, especially when you think there must be an easier way.

Where it is easier to modify structures in MongoDB it is actually harder to aggregate it sometimes. Using stuff like Map Reduce (even the lightweight version called aggregate) frequently appears sort of an overkill.

I think however it really depends on the kind of data you are dealing with. That's why we are using a hybrid system right now. Both systems are actually evolving really quickly and if you have the joy of using their most recent versions one is always excited about new releases.
Yeah. Its meaningless to say "energy stored" without indicating the kind. Electrical potential? Chemical potential etc. I just looked it up. I'm going to have much fun the next time someone tells me that lithium batteries have a much lesser energy density than gas.

If you love something, set it on fire.
And I should say I doubt I'd write it well ;)
The Story Behind Why Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers
Completely remove app ops activity.
I can't do the numbers on what they missed out on, but it's definitely money Twitter won't see, yes.
You say "leaking" but it's not leaking. It's demurrage. If you leave it alone for a year, it _all_ goes away. That's not a slow leak, that's making a bad decision and failing hard in a preventable way.

My hat is two sharks, your argument is invalid[1]. Asserting confidently that bitcoin is a transaction network not a value store mechanism, and that "people like you" who have excess value are the ones who attack it, by keeping the bitcoins and speculating that they will be worth more later, rather than executing or transacting with them, just holding them as some kind of "savings."

Terracoin is "susceptible" to attack by ASIC just as Litecoin is "susceptible" to the "millions of GPU-toting gamers" attack vector. Mining is "investing" in the network, and if your only interest is to see yourself on top and the network in shambles, you could probably find a better way to invest.

Then again, some people are anarchists.
So it still has little specifically to do with Java vs. node.js. Just a ridiculously bad old process to a better new process.
When scanning the HN titles, I first thought you built a physical kayak that will be used by kayak-couriers (as in bike-couriers).
Is there anything equivalent for Windows? I heard of ProxyCap and Tunnelier, but I don't know the technical details of how those work - i.e. if they avoid TCP over TCP tunneling.
You can see car fire statistics here: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/vehicles.shtm

44% of car fires happen due to mechanical failure. Wire insulation is 28% of car fires. and fuel in the engine area was 18% of fires.
> But in these situations, you won't need a Red Bull.

It's pretty easy to attack a product with the argument that "you won't need" it. There are only a handful of things that humans truly need.
The real surprise is this comes with true multi-key ACID transaction.
Impala isn't technically Cloudera only, it's open source (https://github.com/cloudera/impala), and other people have gotten it to run on their Hadoop distribution, but since it's developed by Cloudera, it was developed to run on the CDH platform (Hadoop).

Parquet was a joint effort between Cloudera and Twitter, and now it's being developed by many other companies. You can use it with Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Cascading, Crunch and I think Apache Drill's first milestone has adopted it as a columnar format as well. Parquet also allows you to use your Avro or Thrift schema (soon Protobuffs) to write Parquet data, too.

It's a separate project in the ecosystem and has its own roadmap (https://github.com/Parquet/parquet-mr).
How Microsoft Made the Right Bets on Azure
Appboy raises $7.6M to help app developers build engagement + retention
any more details? - im about to scale a large mongo database horizontally and wondering what I should be watching out for
tangentially related to how much electric power it makes when doing its designed chemical reaction.

Yeah but how much electric power it makes when doing it designed chemical reaction is only tangentially related to how much energy(note no mention of electrical energy during normal operation just energy) it contains. Rather akin to saying "a gallon of gasoline doesn't contain that much energy because we are using it to turn a water wheel and a gallon of liquid falling a few feet doesn't contain that much energy."
I'm in this bummer of a situation where I can work remote from pretty much anywhere I like, but my wife is bound to her 9 to 5 that won't allow her to work remotely for more than a few days at a stretch. She does knowledge work as well, and if she had been with the company for a long time and was super essential to the business they might let her work remotely for the long term, but because she's somewhat replaceable if she goes anywhere too long, she loses the job.

Its a real problem because we need to be back on the other side of the country for family at the moment and she's trapped here by the company HR policy.

Really hoping that this stuff starts to break into mainstream corporate acceptance soon. These older companies are pretty sluggish to adopt remote worker policies, especially for jobs that they can just as easily fill with people on-site.
The only sore thumb in libstdc++ is the regex library. It doesn't work and the headers exist. There are no warnings while compiling the code too. So, it'll appear like everything is dandy and it blows up at run time and usually developers don't think the fault lies in the library code...

This has led to a few hours down the drain...
Tesla has done a very good job of providing post mortem reports on each of their car fires. I'm sure they will do the same for this one as well in the coming weeks.
I think they were referring to the liabilities from the perspective or running a company. Not, how it affects the individual employee/contractor.
My guess is that they're too embarrassed to just say "we think a terrorist might sew a grenade inside his scrotum."
This is incorrect for all but one (maybe two) of the questions. The one you specifically mentioned, about literacy, is totally wrong. The answers are just about evenly distributed between 40% and 60%, with far more choosing 20% over the correct answer: 80%.
Hey, I'd love to use a language named Moses. You'd have all sorts of great puns and iconography available for library names.
When map/reduce comes into play, speed isn't usually the main issue. It's a way to do work in parallel - which may be done to increase speed, but more often than not it's done because there's too much work to be done any other way.

Put another way, I see map/reduce as a background task - building indexes, reporting, etc. I don't think speed is as important there as it is for a foreground task like GET, PUT and DELETE.

For these operations, especially by key, Postgres has always been right up there - what's happening now is that Postgres is getting really good at NoSQL features - documents, key value pairs, deep querying etc - good enough that if you have Postgres you can do pretty much whatever you could have done with Mongo - while still making use of everything else it has to offer.
Twitter shares open up 73.5 percent at $45.10 in NYSE debut
Maybe I'm old, but I'm still struggling to figure out if Twitter is a short-term fad, or a serious here-to-stay concept (and thus a company) in our lives. I like to imagine say a 10-15 year time frame, and if I think the company will still be around then.

Netflix, for example, at least has a business model which I see becoming pervasive 15 years down the line (on-demand entertainment over the internet). Of course I don't know if Netflix will be the company to dominate that business model 15 years down the line.

With Twitter, I am not yet convinced this has long-term value here, but maybe I don't get the value it has in other's minds.
My guess is that some administrator somewhere thought that this would force compliance with the scanning machines.
because of all that magical tesla magicalness inside of each battery right! LOL
Is it me or has there been a big increase in the amount of things that are "secret" from public eyes?

I understand things like intelligence about locations of military personnel being sensitive. But policies for domestic security agencies, I don't get it. Why?

There always seems to be a strong correlation between immoral acts and secrecy. I'm curious if questionable morality is a greater influence these days for the application of state secret laws than actual security.
If you want to find more of the detail and background around this which came from a talk by the author of the blog post then you check out his slides at http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/hstore-dublin-2.... One of the key things not in the blog post but addressed in the slides is that there will be a new index type that really pushes the performance gains even further.
Azure has greatly improved over the past 12 mos. Only good news for us developers the more that AWS and Azure compete with each other.
first time i heard about this, i thought that it was a great feature, but it is not available in KitKat.
Google simply says "I'm god here"
Wow, this story has already been flagged into oblivion and disappeared from the front page in under one hour.
It's a sign that you're over-due for switching to Mercurial or Git for your version control.

Subversion is the equivalent of using paper tape to store your source code. It's centralized, bloody slow, and missing a number of features taken for granted in a system like Git.
Tesla sold 5.5k cars the last quarter. That's not 3k/month.

(http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/uni...)

The leaf sold 6375 during the same period (us only).

I think Teslas number was global sales. But still Leaf out sold teslas the last quarter in the US.

http://www.hybridcars.com/eight-us-sales-records-in-eight-mo...

Where did you get your numbers from?
no kidding. It's made money, and if we're still on the "people's data are valuable", usage habits and advertiser's stories suggest that Twitter's user data is a lot more useful for targeted advertising than things like FB are.
Postgres is quite scary, I feel that if I use it I'll miss 90% of the features @_@
Exactly. Most people find the opt-out procedure (the pat-down) to be more invasive than the nude body scanners. They say you have a choice and that nude body scanners are optional, but the "choice" is really whether they use a machine to look at every inch of your body or use their fingers to touch every inch of your body.

All this when explosive trace detection machines are not even 1/10th the cost of nude body scanners.
I agree with your point buy disagree regarding Iraq and Syria. Syria was about getting involved in an internal conflict whereas Iraq was about WMDs (albeit lies). Quite different IMHO.
> 34 terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK since the 7/7 London bombings. One or two were major plots aimed at mass casualties.

I see this type of argument often, and I wonder how people can take this type of logic seriously. If I say: "I had a cold 9 months ago. Immediately after, I ate an apple. I've been cold-free ever since, so it must be that this apple was effective at preventing colds". The logic flaw here is that I don't know what would have happened had I not eaten that apple. Maybe I would not have had a cold either so the causal conclusion is flawed.

If you transpose that example to the "terrorism" case, you get a similar type of logic flaw. I can believe that 34 plots where thwarted since the 7/7 bombings. But do we seriously believe that 0 plots would have been thwarted without the new security measures? Not really. Maybe 33 would have been thwarted. Maybe 34, which would mean that all the money poured in the system as well as the privacy sacrifices were made in vain. Who knows? Inferring causal relationships from this type of flawed reasoning is very misleading.
With all due respect, get lost. Flaged!
while this does look nice am I the only one that would really rather see IDE as desktop applications instead of web apps? Why do you want me to log in? Why do I need to have an account? I don't want this. I want to download this and be able to edit what I want without being tied to you. I don't want my code to be shared with you, I want it on my file system.

Serious question, what are the points in favour of having IDEs as web apps instead of standalones?