skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly unrelated. As part of the Seinfeld method (don't break the chain), I've been focusing on 4 tasks for 20 minutes every day. Some of them are very technical (asymptotic theory in statistics), some are more relaxed (programming Arduino, as a hobby). I have noticed two things:

1) getting "in the zone" takes less and less time. It used to take me most of my 20 minutes to actually get focused. Now, 3 or 4 minutes suffice.

2) the level of focus I reach is unusually high, especially for technical subjects.

A final remark is that I realized that you can do a lot of things by spending only 20 minutes every single day. A lot of things indeed.
I would change hosting providers.
Users don't do security, all of this should happen automatically in the background.

When you hit send, a shared key should be negotiated with the recipient before your text leaves your box, without you really knowing it.

The key could silently be negotiated on top of the same protocol through automatically generated emails containing key setup information in headers (but empty "body" fields).

Specs for those key negotiation headers could easily go in an RFC, and systems that don't speak the language could then be shamed as noncompliant.
Chemical synthesis via 3D printing?
The J barely goes into Queens, only at the very end does it have half a dozen stops in Woodhaven and Jamaica. Someone below mentions the L which as far as I know has no Queens stops, and the the M which does actually serve Middle village directly from Brooklyn but otherwise requires a giant loop through Manhattan.

This issue is near and dear to my heart, I live in Woodside but I have close friends in Park Slope. By car it's a straight shot down the BQE -- 20 - 30 minutes depending on traffic. When all the subways are running, I can take the 7 to the G and it's an hour and fifteen minute trip. But both the 7 and the G have terrible weekend schedules so if I wanted to go right now, I'd have to take the 7 to the Q and go through all of Manhattan and it'd take more like an hour and a half. Or I could take three buses and hope that scheduled connections actually happen.

If the timing works out it can sometimes make sense to take commuter rail from Woodside-Jamaica-Atlantic Terminal though that's more expensive and you have to buy a ticket at the counter because the machines can't figure it out.

As an interim measure they should put a couple of express buses going north south -- one could go from the 74th Jackson Heights station down the BQE to the Lorimer stop on the L and then continue on to the Atlantic Terminal. Another could link the Middle village terminus of the M to the M (and R, F, E) at Queens Blvd with a second stop along the 7. The long term solution is more lines. We should be doing that instead of spending billions on silly prestige projects like the new Penn Station they want to build.
Language for me is the problem too. Would love to have this with words in my native language.
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the net to its knees
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I'm on day 55 of a github streak, and it's been really good for me. It has motivated me to take my main project [0] farther than I would have otherwise, and it has pushed me to improve my overall git workflow.

One thing that might affect my streak is the use of feature branches. I'm a hobbyist-getting-more-serious programmer, and I am just getting away from the lazy habit of pushing every commit to master. But branch commits don't count towards your contributions until you merge them, and I'm not sure how that affects streaks.

That said, if the point is to just make a commit each day and you're not measuring that with a github streak, there's no difficulty. I like these goals; I'm always curious to see if announcements of good intentions like this go anywhere.

[0] - http://introtopython.org

edit: s/commit/merge/
The overflow happens before the conversion to unsigned.
Show HN: Django Simple Publishing (my weekend project)
AWS has a lot of managed infrastructure components like RDS, EMR, S3.
Washington DC is running its own exchange. Apps like this that use data.healthcare.gov as their backing will only work for states that are on the Federal exchange.
* Google Research

* Microsoft Research

* Yahoo Research

* Google Scholar
Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/) is a pretty good place to scan headlines, and they link to the original sources if you wan to get to the nitty gritty.
There's an app for iPhone called Tech Briefcase that's good - especially to share stuff with colleagues.
They'll stand in a circle.
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Table based layouts (still being used on practically every forum I frequent) weren't so bad until mobile came into the picture. With fixed sizes, they just weren't flexible. Plus the added bandwidth of sending hundreds of <td>s were non-trivial for those of us who were on a shoestring budget and had sudden influx of visitors back in the day.

Of course, now we've replaced the hundreds of <td> with hundreds of JS files instead. Problem solved!
I don't think they want guns so they can shoot the people who complain about having to get patted down.
Arts and Letters Daily : http://www.aldaily.com/
I dunno, it could cut the other way too. In addition to the usual complaints about restricting freedom, if I were looking to build conservative opposition to the TSA I'd shout from the rooftops that they're a heavily unionized, heavily minority (45%) workforce.
you are left paying 650-900 for a developer version

The Nexus 5 is $350-$400. The Nexus 4 was even cheaper. I got mine for $200 when the sold off their remaining inventory.

Also most of us don't need Verizon.
Just maxing it to 8GB will make a vast difference. You don't have to buy RAM from Apple. http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=5A1D576...
Working for a guy like that can be the best career move you'll ever make. He's a bastard, sure, but he's a bastard that built a billion-dollar business. There are many paths to mastery, but learning directly from one is among the quicker ones.
If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run?
This makes sense when you keep in mind how the older clouds work (essentially VPS providers 101).

You have a server with some disks, some ram and some cpus. You aggregate the disks together, then split them to form the individual disks for the virtual machines. You then use kvm/xen to provide isolation as well as to split the ram/cpu between the virtual machines.

So to answer your question: Storage/ram/cpu is sold in lock step because otherwise there would be resources sitting on servers that are unable to be sold. Bandwidth isn't constrained like that because bandwidth isn't a thing tied to a machine.

There are some providers out there that don't lock ram/disk together. This is mostly because they use a distributed storage pool rather than local disks. This is significantly more complex and is a 'fairly' new addition to the scene (~2010?).

This is also why certain providers still charge you for ram even when your machine is turned off, and why backups/migra
tions/plan upgrades can be a bit of a pain in the neck at times.
The eternal claim of bubble-deniers is “This time it’s different!”

This does not prove or disprove anything, of course. But it does make “This time it’s different!” an insufficient proof of something not being a bubble.
Agreed. Your checkpoint after checkpoint statements reminded me of recursion :) Recursive Checkpoints check you all the way to home!
A lot of tram systems don't have dedicated rights-of-way.
And that is in turn the eternal claim of bubble believers, usually delivered as reflexively as above.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=%22this+t...

Is d4vlx mistaken? If so tell us how.
> The request object is context local.

The request object is a threadlocal (or, if greenlet is installed, a greenlet-local).

Which is exactly the same as a global variable in a single-threaded program.
Even well-trained police officers with decades of range practice screw up from time to time.

And those officers are basically mythical creatures. The average cop spends very little time at the range. For example, in Florida it is typically twice a year, averaging less than 15 hours annually.

http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Safety/articles/3738401-Pol...
Children aren't "consumers." They're not adults capable of properly evaluating things and making informed buying choices. Products marketed at children carry a special moral consideration that products marketed at adults do not.
French Startups to Look Out For
I have plenty, I like the idea of J.L. Borges: writing the summaries of books I would like to write but am too lazy to.

The end of Man - A Scifi book.

In the near future, some men start having fertility issue. The trouble is quickly diagnosed: it is a side-effect of Wi-Fi waves, and all male humans ever exposed to Wi-Fi are sterile, with no remedy. A few years later, the world changes as only a few aborigenees can procreate, and receive all the attention, and power. A new society begins, and the reaction of the female part of humanity is not the less comical of this book, whose author, understandably, took the penname of Wilfried Esperamus

When Kings Went to War and Prison - A history book.

A few French kings were man of arms, and their chivalry ethics would not let anyone attack the enemy before them. The authors, Edward Ledrew, narrates beautifully the few dramatic stories where the heroes became burden of nations, where a single missed tactical step ended in years and decennies of prison and ransom, and quite nearly resulted in the death of a country.
I first viewed the examples on my Macbook Air, and didn't see much difference (except what looked to me as marginally better kerning for the Font Combiner version).

Viewing them again on Chrome/Win7, the ones served by Font Combiner seem to have much better hinting.
Why not this: You book a flight. Then when the day of your departure comes, an armoured van with 3 paramedics, 15 SWAT officers, a dog unit and a team of anaesthesiologists come to your house, put you to sleep, load you in a crate, then you spend the entire trip to the airport asleep, along with your entire flight and you only wake up at your destination. Hopefully your luggage wasn't misplaced and neither were you. You're required to fast for at least 2 days before a long flight, since bedpans aren't provided. For short trips, only chloroform is administered. Waking up in the middle of flight is a federal crime.
How is it dumb that if an android application requests root I receive a prompt to enter a PIN followed by allowing or denying it privileges? It's the same behavior on my Arch laptop except I have to type a password.
Not used because it's cumbersome for the average user.
A better one, I think: Ember is like Django (full-featured, heavily opinionated, tightly coupled with its preferred tools), Angular is like Pyramid (powerful, but without a lot of established patterns; the Wild West with big guns), and Backbone is like Flask (micro-framework that does what it does very well and lets the user handle the rest).
On a meta level, I've always wondered why we take a paper about most findings being false as clearly correct.

This is a fair question. I think the reasons the Ioannidis paper was persuasive are that

1) Ioannidis replicated earlier results about the lack of replication of most research reports,

and

2) Ioannidis "showed the work" for how possible, and indeed likely, it is for an effect size that permits a false-positive finding to be published, under reasonable assumptions about the prevalence of false-positive findings and publishing practices. Most scientists were vaguely aware of lack of replication years before anyone heard of Ioannidis, but not many scientists were fully aware of how readily a false-positive finding can be published.
How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half
Is scribd the only way you are going to publish it?
How much money are you earning from your software products?
"...still has a much higher standard of freedom..."

It's interesting you used the phrase "higher standard", as opposed to "amount of". The NSA seemed to have tons of freedom.
It's more of a capability thing. If you're running, say, Piston cloud you're using ceph over ethernet to back your disks, so you can easily decouple disk usage and ram usage. If you're stuck using local disks (ie. rackspace/joyent/linode/amazon to a point/etc.), then it's a lot harder to provide that sort of product.

That being said there are providers out there that sell it, and have been for years.
Also, as a Blackberry 10 user this will come in very handy. It can be sometimes tough to find more obscure apps outside of the Play store, nevermind trying to keep them updated.
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That's not the point. Just having an armed guy in a uniform standing there will have the effect of intimidating passengers further, even if no guns are ever fired.
Yes, but you're less likely to lose a cow from a pasture if you close most of the gates instead of leaving all of them open.
So if its different from the .com boom, what does that mean? Does that mean it won't crash ... or that it will crash in a different way?
>It might fall short of the official specs, but its difficult to argue with their results.

For this one would need to know the exact measurement setup. For real world performance it is important to know the approximate exchange rate of air of the room. The throughput of the fan across the filter must be considerably higher than that.

>What kind of prefilter would one need? I'm thinking of DIYing this...

First of all, you would need a radial fan to overcome the required pressure drop. As for the prefilter, I am from Europe, which has probably different standards than the US, but some overview is provided here: http://www.filtration-engineering.co.uk/air_filter_testing.h... . For my clean room set up I had a EU5 prefilter combined with a EU9 main filter. Afair, laminar flow boxes for dirty environment (i.e. not supposed to be used within a clean room) have EU5 (or the equivalent) prefilters as well.
And you'd fall into a larger narrative between the parties that has nothing to do with TSA.

That's the beauty of the way this was set up: we got the TSA because it fits into the larger strategies both parties already have in place. You can't attack it directly without just diving into good old domestic politics, which in practice means that the agency is impervious to scrutiny.

So sure, take a shop-worn argument from the right and shout it from the rooftops. It'll just blend in with the rest of the clamor.
so is this
I've tried this technique, and I found it doesn't work... At least for me... I don't take too much time to get "in the zone" but when I am, I don't want to break that for a small break, I'd rather keep going until I lose focus or something.

Say if one day I'm extra unmotivated and it takes me 20 minutes to get into it and I start this timer, stare at my code, tinkering with small things, like indentation, or something that really doesn't matter, then I finally get into it and start doing something productive, 5 minutes passes and I need to "take a short break" which then causes me to lose focus... Then I'm right back at phase one... I prefer to either just force myself into the zone, or let myself get to the point on my own... Then stay there, not stop.

Like Thursday I had no motivation or anything, sat at my computer screwing around from 8AM until 2PM when I finally started being productive.... But then there's days like Friday and yesterday where I jumped out of bed and was productive until I had to force myself to bed at 2AM.
I do not claim to have some proof towards either “side” of bubblism or non-bubblism. I was merely trying to point out that d4vlx’s comment essentially only said “This time it’s different!”, and I wanted to explain that this does not prove it’s not a bubble, since every bubble is different than the last one.

My comment does not show that it is a bubble, nor was I trying to do so. The most that could be claimed is that I was trying to show that the possibility that it is a bubble still exists.
The author lost all credibility with. "Guess which way this line is likely to go next."

Past performance is not indicative of future results.
will be interesting to see whether the drive to get people to learn programming survives this bubble
"There's been no suggestion that the benchmarks game website was the primary cause of that server load. It's just the result of the default configuration they use to provide dynamic content for 1,000 projects."

If you wrote it, you'd have to get 999 other projects to bother to implement its results.

What I would like to see rewritten is a (obvious) JVM view. So that's all very interesting that a n-body simulator in Clojure takes 60 times the memory and 4 times the exec time of a C version or about half a meg of ram per body in the n-body problem (uh, what?) What would really interest me is at a Debian OS level what is the delta when I move an identical benchmark from a Debian box running -i386 to -amd64 or at least for the interpreted JVM family of languages what happens to speed and memory when I move from vers 6 to vers 7 or how about alternative JVMs or whatever. More of an OS tweaking focus than a language focus.

There is a startup lesson in this situation that anything shared can be a focus of pain, also any single point of failure can be a focus of pain. Not exactly new observations, but, still true. If instead of a benchmark site, this project was noobs trying to leverage the synergy of tweeting crowdsourced dog food delivery over the internet, they'd be dead meat once they disappear from search engines.
I think I'd actually like that... I've always found travelling to be the worst part of going on vacation. :)
Still they don't/can't break as abruptly as buses and the ride is a lot less bumpy in general. And buses are notoriously crammed, even when the next bus would supposedly be there in 2 minutes, people will squeeze into the one that's there now, with trams you can just attach another cart, and carts can be larger to begin with.
90% of people don't want root exploits on their phone either. Let's hope it's the same 90%!
Not only that, my mother starts every morning with a cup of Earl Grey. I never had a chance!

Given the title of the "world's most popular novel", I'd count on this spelling becoming normative over time.
You probably genuinely do believe that, but the tech industry is notorious for superficial judgements - consider that you would know exactly what I meant if I described someone as a "suit". Maybe he's just a guy who likes to dress well? Maybe he was born in a more conservative culture and that's just what people wear? But God help him if he shows up to the interview in it.
Is communication in Perzo really secure?
Cold calling via phone is a not an effective use of a smaller team's time in my experience-- you will rarely reach the right person within an organization, there are lots of 'gatekeepers' for high level executives, and voicemails just don't generate responses. You can only make so many dials per day, and it is exhausting getting rejected all day. Where I've seen it become more effective is for larger inside lead gen teams for products like credit card terminals, or energy efficiency services where a quick pitch can be made to almost any business person who picks up the phone.

Email however, when done correctly (and legally!! don't spam!!) can be very effective. Instead of focusing on making a sale via an email, try instead to focus on getting a referral. Consider it a "win" when you get a referral to someone in the organization with whom you can have a "warm" conversation.

If you are honestly looking for feedback on your product/service, the sales will come. Your cold email will get forwarded to the right person and you can get some conversations started. For us, these campaigns have been extremely low cost and have yielded some great partnerships and repeat business in our niche industry.

A couple rules we laid down:

1. No attachments, no pricing, no selling

2. Make no more than two attempts over 30 day campaign

3. No more than 5-6 sentences with 1 embedded link and a clear request for a referral

Some recommended tools and resources include:

http://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practices...

http://www1.toutapp.com/

http://www.data.com/
It's so crazy that people spend so much effort creating self-help books to increase productivity. If you have a problem with procrastination, it is a simple question of self-discipline or alternatively, knowing your own limitations. You can't just read your way out of this problem.

The technique described in this post is more or less the exact technique I naturally use myself in order to get things done. Sometimes, it doesn't work. Usually, this is because I am over my work capacity for the day. In this instance, the only thing which works is to either slog through and get terrible productivity per hour, or just take the rest of the day off. The latter is usually the best option, which results in better concentration the next day. But eventually, it really comes down to just sitting down and getting stuff done. If you are consistently unable to do this, maybe you should consider whether you are in the right line of work?
Perhaps that mechanism could work by waking up at a different time, instead of changing the time, which causes trouble for those who do not change with you.
If it's a bubble as a programmer is there anything I can do about it or do differently? I don't have any shares.
To be clear, getting root is a reasonable thing to want. But then buy a phone meant to be unlockable. Nobody wants an exploitable kernel.
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There's an excellent podcast episode of 99% Invisible which discusses the analogous thing that happened to the Red Car in Los Angeles.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-r...
You don't concur with his facts, you concur with his opinions.

And providing facts to back his opinions wouldn't be hard if he was serious about making good points.

"Given that a high percentage of business school classes funnel into Wall Street and multinational corporations, it’s also a given that any top-tier MBA has classmates are all making ridiculously high salaries and have extremely powerful jobs" --> Really, what's the percentage? Do most MBA grads get "ridiculously high salaries"? How about doing some actual research and backing these opinions with facts.

For example - http://poetsandquants.com/2013/08/15/mba-pay-hbs-vs-duke-tex...

Points out that the median salary for Harvard MBA grads is only $120k, hardly what I'd call "ridiculously high". Duke and Texas are even less. You see, my argument is now much better now that I've provided a fact, rather than throwing around a baseless opinion.
I'm talking about real possibilities not the choice of executing them or not. Most people is for all intents and purposes unable to execute his theoretical open source rights with android. The barrier is insurmountable.
In essence I was saying that I am not seeing as many or as sever warning signs. That is just my interpretation based on the very limited information that I have now and had then. I am not trying to make any predictions, I do believe in predicting the market.
> "I decided to bring a gun to a knife fight and add methods to String’s prototype."

Don't do this. Extending native prototypes in node is terrible practice since it ruins the thing node gets very right: code encapsulation. Not good advice at all.
Having a blog on "svbtle" is a negative signal for being worth reading. The "OMG slavery!!!" guy was from there too.