skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
completely agree with your statement. long term zero economic profit theory should state though as they move up the spectrum / take less risk (new entrants in their own space will enter to fill the space they can't fill anymore and they will have a new type of brand (e.g. fb was exclusive for college kids and now it's to connect everyone. so naturally college kids want something their age bracket want to use and fb is struggling to get those kids to continue to think it's cool. but for fb it works bc they created the industry they expand into). problem with incubators as they move up the spectrum is do they think they're as good as the guys that have been doing it for a long time / are they going to be perceived as threats and no longer synergistic alliances.
As an American, I feel like my country is actually putting me in long-term danger. The government is making America and Americans enemies of the entire world.

If and when I ultimately have to feel the country, will I even be accepted into anywhere else?

What if they are suspicious that I work for the NSA? Or what if they just decide to treat Americans the way the US treats would-be immigrants to the US now--no, you can't come in?
Nick's Marathon
Very interesting talk, thanks for sharing. I confess the cynical side of me thinks the majority of the hand waving about why it worked is summed in a single line of the last slide "ensure the best developers are on the initial work". That is, would Java truly be so bad if you were able to ensure that idea, as well?

Still, though, I am more interested in node having watched this.
Case in point: Supposedly the money from a lot of cases of major Bitcoin theft is still sitting in the same wallets. Implication: The thieves are having a hard time figuring out how to spend the money without outing themselves.
Sex by touching other human beings is a pretty risky enterprise when you get right down to it.
I'm always happy to see open work happening on Darwin. I wish I could easily install an open Darwin OS as viable as say, ArchLinux alongside OSX, so that it maintains the same benefits such as energy usage, and dtrace, and whatnot. My dream: a BSD/Darwin with a lightweight accelerated framebuffer compositor such as Wayland.
Second paragraph, "One", not "On". Not trying to be a jerk but that is a bit sloppy :)

EDITED: Also, unless I'm wrong equivalently comparably small errors in code are what allows for security loop holes cough cough original buffer overflow.
The problems this author lists with SSL/TLS are not in fact problems with SSL/TLS, but rather with the browser vendors.

The TLS standard itself is almost agnostic to how certificates are validated, and there is more than one strategy for doing so. For instance, Chromium doesn't trust the entire TLS CA system; it bakes into the browser "pinned" certificates, and not only won't honor a Google Mail cert from Komodo or China or Trustwave, but will also alert the (large, enthusiastic) security team at Google that a CA issued a rogue certificate.

There's no reason the same system couldn't work for your site too; key pinning just needs to be made dynamic. And there's a standard for that: Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin's TACK, at http://tack.io. If you want to "fix" TLS, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: you are vanishingly unlikely to do a better job of designing an encrypted channel than every cryptographer and protocol designer and software security person who has poured time into TLS. Instead, update the browser UX, which is the only thing leaving us hostages to the CA system.
For whatever it's worth, DNSSEC is a disaster too.
If you're paying $200 for an SSL certificate, you're doing it wrong. But I don't think any of the points of the article change for cost > $0.
Bcrypt eliminates the need for multiple columns and is very secure so this person is doing it right. Actually I get a little bit ancy when people still aren't using Bcrypt.
This device plus an Oculus Rift could be a winner.
And when DIN refuses to let you buy their proprietary standard for $100 because it would compete with their businesses interest, I wonder how high the cost is then.
That's actually the tricky bit, because often you're just thinking really hard that you're thinking really hard about the problem.
Over 1 million Xbox Ones sold on day one, matching Playstation 4
What we've invented here is a new channel for intimacy that falls somewhere between a webcam chat and being in the same room -- it's a big deal!
There's only so much time in a day, and there's a lot that one wants to throw at a kid to learn (everybody has a pet topic he or she thinks kids should study, whether it's chess, or music, or programming or personal finance or whatever..)
The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
I am seriously disappointed by this move. I've been hanging out in a great electro swing room called Boomswing Cabaret, and the music and the people have been awesome.

They only recently set up subscriptions, pay what you want, and made a lot of changes to the service, ie adding music only through soundcloud, which saved them tons on licensing fees.

I'm fairly certain that most of the user base has no intention of moving into the live events.

So, they spent all this time building a brand, gaining users who would be happy to pay a bit each month, and then just let them all go? Isn't the # users part of the product when getting funding and advertising their new live TT?

I guess the move goes on to plug.dj, but it's a pain to try to add all the songs built up in the tt playlists, I can't seem to find a way to import the csv to plug. or soundcloud for that matter.
Your behaviour in this thread is completely uncalled for.
I'm not sure how dismissing your post is meant to be- but many people in long distance relationships would love having such a product.
I built a Medium-like Arabic News Reader with Flask and Mongodb
For context, the first NoSQL interface for MySQL was:
http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.ca/2010/10/using-mysql-as...

(It's appeared on HN a few times).

The MySQL team decided to run with a more standard memcached interface, and MySQL actually embeds memcached to do this (with MySQL as backend storage).

Despite being read-only, the over 1M number highlights a lot work thats been done for multi-core scalability. This test was on a 48 score machine.. that was a distant dream a few years ago on MySQL 5.1.
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد والميريا
So memcache should be faster than 1M queries, since only thing that MySQL does here to add overhead?
We don't need the Snowden disclosures to know this; it has for 15 years been the worst kept secret in computer security. People from the various groups in NSA that do this work talk about having done it on Twitter. Some of the smartest people in vulnerability research came from stints in NSA.

Be outraged that we're spying on your country if that makes you feel better, I guess. I'd rather nobody spied on each other either. But it is intellectually dishonest to pretend that people are just now discovering that NSA was breaking into computers around the world. That is literally the charter of the NSA. It's why they exist at all. There isn't even a pretense of a different purpose for the organization.
Nice idea, but the project is pretty much dread. All the domains are squatted and up until a month or two ago you could steal anyone's domain and make it your own, it took a public full disclosure to rouse the developers enough to get it fixed.
All I can see at present is a cached home page, but it could be that the appliance has its own connection? Logically Internet over Power Line if they have that where this company operates. I'd want to keep their data stream separate from my own if I had such an appliance in my home.
Look at me, I have a girlfriend.
Ask HN: Is Network effect simplified version of success?
you know our life is full of abstractions...
You are correct assuming ,that in regular speech one uses racism as set of beliefs that people are divided into races.

However, in normal speech racism is defined as believing that human are separated into different races and that there is a hierarchy of superiority, usually with your own race being on top of it.

There is nothing wrong with helping usual target and/or victims of racial or other hate to offset the potential effects said hate. Unless you of course believe safe shelters for women are inherently sexist. In which case you are just old fashioned rasist slash chauvinist.
Comet of the century will be the one which is on a retrograde orbit and has a small chance of hitting Mars. If it hits Mars. Mostly because I'd love to see what a couple million tons of gas and water ice suddenly appearing on Mars would do.

<http://www.space.com/20060-comet-mars-2014-collision-explain...

Sadly it probably won't happen.
What would happen if NSA mistakenly targets a nuclear reactor, and a bug in the malicious software caused a meltdown.

Is that a declaration of war, similar to a US launching a nuke? Would US be liable, and under what jurisdiction? Could the US President be put under Interpool arrest warrant, charged as an terrorist?

Sabotage, especially when the target can not be fully verified, is a dangerous game. IP addresses are easily mistakenly taken as identity, even if proxying is the number one method to evade detection.
I agree with you.

"Don't collaborate well" was poor writing on my part - I'm talking about a specific type of poor collaboration, including undermining and attacking co-workers. I clarified in the post. There are other kinds of poor collaboration skills that have nothing to do with assholeness.

Pissing people off and conflict are fine in the course of honest and healthy debate to get to the right answers. Good companies encourage that.

Assholes actively undermine healthy conflict by 1) cutting off debate so that their ideas win, and 2) resorting to personal attacks. This leads to an "unsafe" environment where people don't want to speak up.

Unfortunately the boss is often the asshole, which creates an environment where people just keep their mouths shut since speaking up is not worth the trouble.
Thanks for explicit agreement. It's hard to keep my opinion because I am usually minority.
next up in HN , HTML5 game with 0 lines of html5...
THX1138, from 1971, depicting a dystopian future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njfm7HKNSmM

Note the machine! You can't see exactly what it's doing, but you can see the way it's moving :)
Sex over wire. this is brilliant. There are gonna be a lot of no-nodders, but trust me, this is going to be a thing in the future.
The hypocrisy of major copyright holders never ceases to amaze me. Getty would go after a business that redistributed Getty's photos for profit in a heartbeat.
Possibilities really open up with the telemetry translation api -- realizing that the telemetry is digital, and only has to be encoded once to be read for any purpose for any supported device is huge. We expect to be very busy for a long time fleshing out all the applications we have in mind. One that we're working on is using a users webcam to monitor heart rate (similar to the xbox one + kinect) and use that information to create a soft vibration that pulses in their partners device in time, so when one gets "excited" the other can feel the haptic feedback and vice versa simultaneously..

This is some real scifi stuff we're doing and it's very exciting
The problem with Kings and Queens is that even the best ones expire after a while (... but maybe not, if you believe the transhumanists) and the replacement tends to be even less accountable than the Presidents and Prime Ministers of today's governments are.

If you get Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius all in the same century, you're lucky. You could have just as easily gotten five Neros and five Caligulas in a row, or an alternating series of Catholics and Protestants who try to kill everyone who was loyal to the previous monarch.

With a democracy, you can't optimize the society to the same degree of perfection as you can with philosopher kings, but you also get to avoid the worst crashes. Do you want extreme performance or do you want reliability? Hint: human lives are supposed to be many times more important than records in your database.
I'm sure that the technology behind this can be used for something more useful.
Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are looking at this being .071428571 % of total cost. So ummmmm maybe minimize your costs elsewhere :p
Ohhhhhhhh I give up. If you think Bitcoin is the same as gold.... have a nice life.

I have a long comment history you can look through if you want to understand why I think it's a scheme. USD is strong as a currency because its stable. Bitcoin is a speculative trading platform, nothing more nothing less. There's real value in it today because a ton of people have just decided to invest in something they don't fully understand.

If you have invested in Bitcoin I understand your interest in making it seem viable.
Yes I did think that might be one application, though I'm not sure how sold I would be even then. To each their own, and perhaps it would be better than nothing, but it would kill the intimacy aspect for me.
This ruling seems like a good thing to me. Just because a photographer's work is easier to copy and use doesn't mean we should be able to use it without proper compensation. It'd be similar to someone taking code from a website's source file and using it (In this hypothetical scenario the code is usable and not minified).
Natural Sort Order with Zero Padding
Interesting. If they're doing it for Quartz, then that pretty much answers the overhead question. I suspect you are right that Apple feels very little motivation to improve support for languages and environments that don't lock you into their system. Or at least, they wouldn't have under Jobs.

But I don't think it is true that this strategy is actually more beneficial to Apple. Developers want to support multiple platforms, and the least expensive way to do that is often HTML5. That's why PhoneGap is popular, despite the poor JS performance. The extra cost of doing separate apps is ultimately paid not only by third party developers, but by Apple as well. To make a long story short, encouraging a cross platform environment would allow good developers to make higher quality apps.

Much as I dislike Apple these days, the difference between iOS and Android is such that I have trouble maintaining a straight face when I hear them compared. They don't need to compete on app availability.
They are RIDING the horse! http://i.imgur.com/dsDg8.gif (i suppose it's easier to see in the video if you go full screen)
This is fantastic news. I always thought that the best way to undermine the stupid copyright regime was to make sure it was applied fully to big businesses. If only all of the other thousands of small rights holders whose works have been used without permission could also get million dollar payoffs, I think we'd see reform post haste.
Am I missing something here? All I can find is a bunch of middleware and grunt. I'm starting to get sick of open source projects leading with a shiny marketing site...
It's true, but you only live once and what's life without risk?
You're 17 ? Boy, times sure are a' changin'.
Failure is not a four letter word
I guess that makes it ok then.
Intimacy is the name of the game, forget the dildos and fleshlights -- these robots "mirror" each other one to one in both motion and resistance. just using your hands you can push back and forth on each other and it's a very intimate feeling of being connected physically.
It worked for me with `[row column]`.
Mention of the database, no matter the popularity, are signals of its use and the activity of it's community. I guess it depends if you consider the definition of popularity as whether it's liked, or whether it's deployed and being used. They should make the raw data available if they want this to be believed. I'd like to know to which metrics most contribute to a specifics db's rank.

I have a problem, however, with the use of google as a source. Not sure how you can trust it to give you an unbiased result now that it produces personalized results using who knows what (ie incognito on chrome still exposes IP addresses)
It's pretty trivial. I wonder if they were actually seeking publicity.
LOL. Not right now, unfortunately, no.
Sovereign countries interact in the state of nature. Your country has a problem with the NSA? Pick up a SAT solver and build yourself some ROP shellcode and hit us back. Oh wait: your country's already doing that.

Do I like it? No. We don't work with the USG, and that's one of many reasons why.
Too bad the NSA will be collecting all the metadata.
I am glad to see this result. Getty and AFP seek to control their own material with an iron-clad hand but don't respect the rights of others.
Not quite fair to label someone a 'royalist' who self-describes as:

"I've settled on parvumianism (to coin a neologisim): in favor of small political units in which the appropriate political mechanism can be chosen and meaningfully consented to."
Using the word 'racist' is inflammatory and often seems to be an affront, so I can appreciate your disappointment with the author.

However, I don't see how many 'human biodiversity' (HBD) claims are not racist - that is, they make claims about individuals based on the social construct of race though they ostensibly mean to discuss 'biology.'
The problem is not knowing who won't do these things. The problem is that nobody gets punished, and the solution is what I said at the bottom of my post: vote third party. Deprive the major parties of votes, and do so in a way that clearly indicates why you did not vote for them.
The idea's been around for decades. I am impressed if you're actually going to bring it to market though, that will be novel. I think most exploration of this space has either been entirely hypothetical or just prototyped and then abandoned.

--edit-- wondering why the downvote? This is factual. If you want to downvote my negative opinions then go ahead, but this stuff has been showcased multiple times over the last 20/30 years and never delivered.
By that definition the "neo-reactionaries" or HBD advocates under discussion are not racist. The understanding that many differences in group outcomes and metrics in varied dimensions and directions are rooted in DNA, well that says nothing about superiority or inferiority. It can be without value judgment and is empirically falsifiable.

Really, I think your definition is in practice useless. The reality of the word is that when identity politics are involved and people hear something they don't like, they scream "racist".
Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction
Yes. If I can't get a million bucks out of my wallet so I can actually use it in the real world, then it is pretty useless to me.
Ask Github: Add file size or LOC
I'd be extremely useful if github displayed the file size or LOC in the folder's index.
Code doesn't come with a business model. A product does.
Code doesn't come with User Feedback and refinements based on real world testing. A Product does.
Is he running it in debug mode?
I'd really like to hear some non-enginners perspective on how this is working. Everything I've heard about GitHub is really positive from engineers but less so from its other members.
Okay, this is stupid. I currently work on a team where I do all the development. We have another developer that really shouldn't be a developer, by because of unions and such, we can't get rid of him. I try to work with him as much as possible, but in two years, he hasn't produced any code that could possibly go into production. But he has a great attitude, and can at the very least be the cover off I need for vacation.

So, maybe I am an asshole, but I find it hard to use the term "we developed this", or "we wrote this" when he's effectively written none of the code. So in order to conform to the criteria set out here, I would be lying, and I also wouldn't be a passionate developer who cares about my contribution. So sure, you don't get assholes. But I'd rather have an asshole than an liar.
I appreciate this may work for some folks, but it's never going to replace having limbs wrapped around each other and collapsing in a sweaty heap afterwards.

And sure, this is opening up a entirely new avenue on top of phone/cyber/webcam sex that wasn't available before, and marks a massive step forward in what's available when people are geographically separate.
They do in point of fact espouse scientific racism, a couple of steps down the euphemism treadmill (scientific racialism -> race realism -> human biodiversity)

That this makes them cross the moral event horizon for many people does not make it (a) unimportant or (b) untrue.
Can I upvote your first sentence and downvote your second?
It's the secret to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
If anyone is interested, the video is also out:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-evolution
This was just because of that single $147MM transaction yesterday. Of course it's great because this shows bitcoin can sustain a small number of high volume transactions.

Unfortunately one of the biggest challenges the bitcoin network is facing right now is getting smaller transactions confirmed faster. This issue will need to get solved and get solved sooner rather than later if bitcoin wants to be a competitor to VISA or MasterCard.

Maybe more HNers should take a look at the core:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
It's been so confusing that nobody has stepped up to make it happen. In reality, this area of haptics is a patent and licensing mine field and these tightly controlled properties have stifled innovation until now.

In choosing this problem to "solve" much of the effort has been put into overcoming these bureaucratic obstacles to be able to bring a useful platform to market that isn't just gimmicky vibrators. We're super proud of our accomplishments not just with the robots, but to be able to make this a marketable and useful platform that can democratize remote intimacy to the advantage of everyone.

The distopian conversation is an interesting one, and it's been a constant banter here -- but for now what we're doing is trying to bring people closer, not isolate them. This is a tool, a supplement -- not a replacement for real sex. Also, I love that we have to say REAL SEX now to differentiate.
This reminds me too much of one:
http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Krieger

John Carmack will really need to outdo himself to make the technology for this sort of thing actually viable and not just easy "what will those pervy nerds think of next" news fodder. We are many multiple decades out. I'm speaking strictly as a person who actually had sex mind you.
Can Google and Microsoft Force Transparency from the NSA?
They seriously talk about "African" as if it were a tight genetic grouping (like Icelanders or Ashkenazim) - Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity per distance of anywhere, as one would expect (diversity per distance is greatest near the point of origin).
Bitcoin mining dispute ends with $1M settlement
Nice, but needs help / clues
Nothing but respect for fellow robot sex pioneers ;)
One thing that makes me nervous about these kinds of "store your memories here" sites is that, to be frank, the site may disappear with all of my memories.

I would love to use this, but then host the resulting content myself. Maybe you could offer exporting a trip for a fee?