skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's such a sad sight to see companies pour billions into damaging each other (and themselves) rather than innovating and creating new things.
>> "Similarly, last month I searched for “coffee” while in the Embarcadero Center, one of the denser coffee hotspots in America, and was sent to a Starbucks more than two miles away."

My question would be why are you searching for coffee in 'one of the denser coffee hotspots in America'?
This article is precisely why I'm reticent to rely on any Google offering. A lot of their products have this air of abandonment.

It's not like their products, for the most part, aren't top-notch. Perhaps they feel like they can't improve perfection? Do the developers get bored and move on?
Airbnb is for people with more time than money.
Hotels are for people with more money than time (they do not want to spend time chatting to arraange a booking, or to set up social proof for themselves on yet another social network just so that people will consider them).

My one Airbnb experience was massively negative because I value my time.

Hotels are not remotely doomed. Demand for them may go down, though.
Let me guess, you work for The Google?

To add: being in a coffee dense area is precisely why you might want to search for a top-rated coffee shop.
i guess everyone wants to go sexy vs conventional lately.

is miley cyrus setting trends in computing now?
Imagine if Hell were a sort of financial market. Demons trade soul futures, essentially betting on the future price of souls, which of course they consume for food. Other demons (backed by investors) devise new schemes to tempt humans into mortal sin. Failure means the souls go to Heaven, not Hell.

If the demons bringing in souls should somehow create a bubble with a grand new scheme that's guaranteed to bring many souls, but then fail, the soul futures market would crash with catastrophic results.

You could make a hilarious book satirizing the mortgage crisis or the dot-com bubble this way. (Something like Good Omens, but financial.)

I have all sorts of notes on how this could work, but no idea how to write a novel with them.
Because you want to be directed to the best one (Blue Bottle isn't bad).
There are small outbreaks in lots of countries now and again. Combination of international travel and patchy vaccine coverage causes that.

The difference with Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan is that it is endemic at least in parts of the countries, meaning it is regularly found in the population and that it is self-sustained. Elsewhere the outbreaks are sporadic and isolated enough that they die back.
Sometimes I mistype, think I finished a word, and move on to the next word, effectively freezing me by three seconds. I don't think a typo should penalize me this much because I can generally recover from typos. Would be nice if the unit I'm currently attacking could glow or something.

I like the cuteness and simplicity of the game though. Finally something to make me feel good about all those years spent typing.
Wow. Slick graphcs. Fun. Impressive.
second that. make it harder, it gets a little boring after a little time for most of us (i guess). awesome and entertaining, nevertheless.
Caffeine Clean: Four months without coffee
a story about some jackass that stole my laptop from my apartment. when I track the laptop down he had upgraded the memory, larger hdd and upgraded from windows to linux. he also left a bunch of pics of him and my girlfriend having "fun". So i lost my girlfriend, but I got a kick ass laptop.
The Surface Pro 2 update is interesting and impressive. However, it seems the performance went from bad to OK. Far more impressive, to me, was the performance of the Sony Vaio Pro (from the article). It is seriously stunning[1]. I mean, it normalizes to the macbook air 2013 performance. To top it, it is 1080p touch compared to 1440x900 without touch for macbook air! How did they manage that?

Recently, lot of flak was given to Microsoft for not being able to optimize battery life[2]. Lot of the criticism seems unwarranted. As usual, the PC manufacturers need to get their act together and work with Microsoft to deliver. For far too long, they have been cruising along. Now with Dell going private and building kick-ass laptops (XPS 15, m3800 - jury still out) as well, looks like it is going to be an interesting next few years for the windows ecosystem.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7417/sony-vaio-pro-13-exceptio...

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-ha...
Could you load the images from the urls into memory and try out open source code[0] that detects porn (I'm sure there's probably something better out there, but this was just a quick find on github)?

I'm not sure how helpful it might be (false positives and what not), but it could help give you more numbers to quantify whats going on?

[0] https://github.com/FreebieStock/PHP-Image-Pornographic-Conte...
Apple mail “bug” turns out to be user script after all
October 29, 2013
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/29/apple-mail-bug-turns-out-...
I believe, personally, and know others who commit to open-source projects on a personal basis (and then those who I only read of on the internet), that many developers who work on these projects don't need monetary compensation in the normal sense.

Working on an OSS project is fulfilling in ways other than money, and some people really enjoy doing it in their spare time, etc. I know some of my friends from college who went off to do work at Facebook, Google, IBM, and they actually all enjoy submitting their code to open source projects for 0 dollars.

So while you're right there is some sort of "idealism" required, it's a common ideal in the culture of programming it seems. Supporting what one thinks is right, simply by nature of believing in it. Then you can go off to your day job at Google and make six figures.
Agreed, but at least this one acknowledges that his does, rather than continuing to deny it.
I remember this game, was the winner in a competition held by Mozilla (Mozilla Game On https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/ )

https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2011/02/z-type/
Depends which elements you want to recover. The main problem is the economic aspect of recovery - this is due to the fact that one has to collect the materials from a multitude of electronic devices and bring them through a chemical purification process.

Rising rare element prices might change this in the future.

Addendum: quick google search gave http://www.molycorp.com/ as a developer of recycling technology.
Alleged LA Airport Shooter Allegedly Wanted To 'Kill TSA'
Thank you, I misread this from the article as saying 64 bit cache lines:
"(assuming 32 bit pointers and 64 byte cache lines)"

So:

byte otherMembers[64];

is 512bits of addresses to other members, that will hold 16 32bit addresses.

From the article: "In the case of an array with pointers there may still be a cache miss when reading the ‘valid’
flag but there will be at most one additional
cache miss every 16 pointers"

so idList must use operator[] to sensibly iterate over otherMembers.

class idMyClass {

bool valid;
byte otherMembers[64]; // over a cache line worth of other members

};

idList< idMyClass * > myObjects;

for ( int i = 0; i < myObjects.Num(); i++ ) {

if (myObjects[i]>valid ) {
}

}
my score 1576, accuaracy 93% wpm 38.2
It's fun but it takes a while to get challenging.
When you lose it won't tell you what wave you got to but I think I got to about 23?

One thing I don't like is that it would lock on when you were typing something. So if a word was "hackers" and you didn't read it correctly and only typed "hacker" then you'd wonder why nothing was working until you noticed and finished the "s". This wouldn't be so bad if the words didn't overlap each other making it very hard to read them quickly. Also when small missiles are near you you may try to type "hackers" and instead have a missile fire at the letter "h" and then the rest of the work "ackers" is wasted.
(or worse the a in "ackers" matches another word, then you have to find the word you started typing accidentally so you can finish it.)
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I'm hoping you can give us an outside opinion.

Currently we have 125+ users. The problem is not a lot of users are posting. Please let us know what you think. http://BigBearChaseMe.com
A bunch of HN hackers collaborate in solving a heinous murder. Rather than writing it in "novel" form, just post it directly on HN in many parts. You could leave clues lying around in certain articles of your own, or even include real articles and incorporate it into the story.

Since it involves programmers, you might want to consider including some deliberate loopholes, or even make it highly obfuscated.
How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster
"Made with Impact" made me bounce before the page could fully load after waiting a full 10 seconds and it was still only halfway done. Maybe I would have stuck around if I had a clue what I was waiting for. From the other comments I'm guessing it's a game? I know, I could go back and do it now, but a typing game doesn't interest me personally too much.

Just my mood right now, I'm sure your game is fun. Hope you have success with it. Hope my criticism is constructive, don't mean to be a downer.
Did you try starting it in expert mode? If you did level 17 there, my respects to you :)
When USB 2 was about to be introduced, I added it to a printer for Kodak using beta versions of driver chips. There was a hardware bug connecting two unrelated bits. Took a month and a whole lot of intuition to figure that one out via software. Chip maker was very happy I found it.
> ... could get the key within 3 weeks (3DES being ~3 times the work of single DES).

Absolutely not! Trippling the key length does not just triple the strength... Against brute force every extra bit will force you to invest twice the time. Though 3DES only provides an effective security equivalent to 112 bits even with the strongest keying option due to an attack on it (instead of 168 bits). It's still probably infeasible to brute force currently: The factor between brute forcing DES and 3DES is about 2^56=7*10^16 (that's a big number!), not 3 as you seem to believe.
PHFComposeBarView: compose bar from iOS 7 Messages.app
Providing internet to the masses is one way of improving their chances of living to use it.

Doctors and nurses may have communications, but many countries do not have doctors and nurses even in every city, much less every little village.

It's clear we should be careful about not displacing funding for basic health care improvement with basic internet access, but they are not nearly always in opposition, and besides providing health care information, uses such as improving economic opportunities by giving access to market/pricing information also matters - for someone having to spend days getting their stuff to market, going to the right town to get the best price will also affect health: ability to afford sufficient food and shelter for starters.
As someone who's recently been back on the market for office space, I find it enlightening as to how much of the revenue and/or funding for a company has to go for rents in SF. $58/SF is massive. Imagine a small startup that needs 1k SQFT, pre-revenue paying nearly $5k a month on rent. Not to mention, that's probably pre-triple-net load...

I was balking at the $30/SF Class-A rents in my city, and even grumbling that perfect space for us was running $18/ft, because I had to get larger units (2500 SQFT+). Puts it all in perspective =)
This is a possible disincentive, but it doesn't currently exist. Calling public outrage against patent abuse a disincentive is the same as calling changes to the current patent system a disincentive: they don't currently exist.
It's not the performance of the Go compiler that's at issue here, it's the resulting run-time.
Off topic: I knew this domain looked familiar. It's home of Asaph, a great micro-blogging tool: http://phoboslab.org/projects/asaph

This was before I discovered Tumblr and GitHub (where it's currently hosted). I actually used it for a recent side project: http://impecrateur.fr
> The 8GB RAM model is $1,299 + $129 for type cover + $200 for dock.

I don't think battery life is the only thing keeping this from flying off shelves. I say this as somebody who's highly interested in the Surface Pro 2 in concept.

As a tablet with attachable keyboard, I can't help but think of the SP2 as what netbooks would have become eventually. Which psychologically makes me think they should be around netbook prices. But it feels like everything is overprices with the SP2, especially the type cover and dock. At the very least I could see paying comparable prices for those accessories as I would for other tablet equivalents: Samsung tablet dock is $35 and keyboard is <$40. Even with a separate cover or two you can't reach those insane prices, and let's be honest, everybody is going to buy a keyboard.

$1300 isn't bad if you compare it to a MBA, but the Air does come with a keyboard and folding it is the same as covering it so...

$1300 is bad if you compare it to a similarly equipped laptop/netbook

$1300 is insane if you compare it to any other tablet on the market, even though the specs are quite nice.

I think $800 for the tablet, keyboard and dock as a combo is what they need to hit on the high end.
A book about a security analyst/encryption specialist who finds messages deep inside natural sequences of numbers (like pi's decimals).
Good fun typing game, font could be better, can be made harder. Well implemented! :)
The classic: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

Look at 6.3.2 for software prefetching. Like the rest of the paper it's very x86 centric but most of the concepts apply to other architectures.
Yes. I was going to say that people should just get up earlier and quit work earlier to get the extra daylight, but practically speaking, I think doing that without changing the clocks is much harder for most.
Just to clarify to many people who find the game boring after some time: I found it among the Chrome GL experiments, so it probably wasn't meant as a fully featured game.

And, if you find it too easy at first, try starting in "expert mode"!
I think that people in Beijing and other Asian or American countries should stand up more often and force their governments to install filters on each fabric's smoke pipe and charge those who don't comply with a big fine. You can then open a petition that votes for using the money generated from that fine to for deploying fuel-less car alternatives… Come on, tell me you're helpless and dependent on your government and that your voice is not worth anything, that you can't change your country.. If you agree sir, I'm sorry. Sorry that you're not standing up for your rights. But then dear citizen, have the courage and inhale the smog in all it's glory and purity.

The DIY Filter idea is great to have a transitional solution and I applaud the startup for this idea. But a government, a country, a company, or a stakeholder, none of them can make profit and money, when there are no trees to cut, no clean air to breathe, no healthy citizen to employ, no educated class to teach, no unpolluted earth for the seed and no will for change. Then you've created the perfect environment for a colony of sheep that follows a butcher who sells himself as a shepard.
The minority that won't get hit by the next worm.

It's boring to see everything being reinvented again, just with more color and horrible mistakes.

A quick note to web.de and gmx.whatever who send mails as HTML-only: you suck
it is really cool, but extremely slow (unusble) on a macbook air 2012. It's a shame ;)
Minecraft partners with Twitch for built-in streaming
You can't critic something if you don't even try it. I've been reading this kind of messages really often at HN and I wish these people can't even enter HN to post, it should be forbidden.
The font got to me eventually. But I'll be back.

What I'd like to see is a report of keys I need to work on. Or the game could just emphasize them in challenge rounds. Even after twenty years of touch typing and a hacked keyboard [0], I still have trouble with the 'xcvb' cluster. So yeah, I guess I know my problem area.

Update, it was the 'j' that did me in. I couldn't decide if it was an 'i' or an 'l'. Impact culpa.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6287701
Semantics of an up-(or down)-vote is an issue (see here http://www.debiki.com/forum/-5rjf6-semantics-of-an-upvote for a short discussion on that). In short, I would love to have a place where I can easily filter things containing intellectual value, instead of popularity bar.
How the 'Internet Oldtimers' Saved an Ad-Tech Startup
That's opposite of my experience - my Windows machine (seriously, who'd have thought it) is more stable than my OS X machine these days. My Linux machine is currently running at 344 days of uptime, though, so there's that.
compare: https://www.gittip.com/
Hidden Bible verses and what they mean. Why King David was a sadistic mass murderer, the real story behind Paul and the "Super Apostles", why Jesus was likely learned in Buddhism and what His name I AM THAT I AM means... all supported by scripture.

For those interested in the surprising answers (and many more): if I hit 25 points by 9pm EST, I'll write the book.
3266 - 93.9% - 46.4.

It was easy, easy, easy, hmm, dead.

Fun concept though.
I spent a bit over a year working from home in my past. At first, I loved it. Then I found myself "at work" for longer every day. I reduced the amount I was getting out and socializing, until it got to the point I was plain miserable. Finally I made a change and got a job at an office, where I was MUCH happier (until the office was reduced to 2 people, myself included, and I found I missed the social interaction once again).

Now I work at a company of about 80, with some 30-35 working from the office, and I love it. The commute is very short (<10 minutes most days), and I bike in summer. The little conversations every day keep me sane and enjoying work far more than when I'm on my own.
The difficulty level increased in an unusually neat way for this type of game - at a pace which you could improve and keep up with.

HN readers advised to start on 'expert' level.
Look, I'm just saying that there is no information about what we're trying to wait for going into a long loading process. Perhaps there are more people who are bouncing, too. I'm just trying to provide a bit of information about my experience that might help the OP enhance their thing to help people understand it better.
Huge fan of what Gittip is doing, but they really should add bitcoin functionality. (They have some github issues about it.)
Got to 3,434 points
Tragedy hits a genius scientist when his family of(wife and two kids) is attacked by a gang of young men with high up political connections. His wife is killed on spot. His children later kidnapped and murdered from a location supposedly protected by the police. The entrenched corruption in the government has removed all hopes of justice. A life long pacifist, he won't succumb to violence still so he takes to the ultimate protest sit down of all time. Unknown to all the scientist had invented a super strong indestructible alloy. He creates a faceless armor out of the alloy and a very long chain. In the middle of the night He sneaks into the national monument campus with the help of his other scientist friends and drills down the chain miles into earth. And binds himself to the armor and the chain. The armor can keep him alive indefinitely but it can't be destroyed. The genius scientist is irremovable from his protest and the whole world is watching. GO!

P.S: I have been thinking about this one for a while, but don't have the courage to write it down right now.
I never thought I'd be pulled in by a product that essentially bills itself as "Clean your air CHEAP with this one cool trick discovered by a college kid", but they've executed well.

What they're offering is just an easy way to buy a fan and HEPA filter ($27USD, or 166RMB, as the FAQ freely admits). Even so, their website makes me like instantly their business model, and because of their approach and willingness to run workshops, I immediately trust goods from them more than than I trust buying the parts directly from the manufacturer.

It will be interesting to see what they do with their new, loyal customer base. I imagine they could easily start a filter-replacement subscription service, where they send you as many new filters as you need for XXrmb/year. If you're needing more than is profitable, they could add a phone call into the process "to diagnose why your home is needing filters than it should". This is the kind of honor system that only works if your customers already like you. Assuming their product actually works, I think they will easily achieve that.
I really like it, I saw this a long time ago but I didn't remember the ships shooting. The bad thing is that there is no real difficulty, I stopped playing because I was bored in the end. You should def. add another level of difficulty for people like me, and I wish this game was in french as well as I'm not used to typing in english that much.

ps : and when I say increase the difficulty, you can increase it a loooot. It's way too easy (and yes expert mode obviously).
Ask HN: What did you get up to when HN servers were down and out?
When HN was down I decided to learn javascript.
What did you guys do?
Not really. A username of 8 characters and a password of 8 characters ensures no more entropy than a password of 16 characters and not bothering with a username.

It might even provide less, given that the user is more likely to share their username with others than they are to share half their password.
thanks, it was very interesting information.
Curl-to-shell russian roulette
I quite like the cynical suggestion that they overclocked the devices to get decent benchmarks on release and are now dropping it back to get better battery life. Fits in with what I'd expect from Microsoft.
I've always been fascinated by (or scared of) the concepts of those moments before you die. What must it feel like being led up to the electric chair, or held at gunpoint? What would your thoughts be, knowing you'd soon stop existing (or go wherever you believe dead people go)?

I imagine a city where every day one person is selected at random who will die in 24 hours and is told so. (I got this particular idea from another story, but lots of story ideas are fundamentally the same.)
And the home of ImpactJS, one of the best HTML5 game frameworks. Dominic is an inspiration overall.
The market pays a premium to buy your independence away from you. So I think there's an equilibrium where a job has the highest expected value (very low variance), a startup lower expected pay but more variance and open source really base pay but reputational opportunities.
> - If Bitcoin nodes have native support for acting as WebSocket servers, this would make Dark Wallet completely server-less.

we are working on this with btcd - the wallet and gui are decoupled from the blockchain maintenance. all blockchain-related operations can be done via json/websockets.