skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible for you to describe your rdiff process a bit more? Do you dump the database periodically and backup that data or do you run rdiff on the binary data directory of your DB? Also, where is the rdiff backup data stored? I am guessing you would need another server for this and cannot be just Amazon S3? Thanks!
That is a great illustration of WebGL. With that said, the site could really benefit from a basic loading animation.
>>"The talks failed because of politics" means roughly what it says, while "The talks failed because politics" means roughly "The talks failed because of politics, which is the kind of thing that always happens when politics are involved"

Well, no. It actually alludes to the fact that politics was the hand-wavy excuse used to describe why the talks failed.

It goes back to "X happened because aliens." As in, we can't explain why it happened, therefore we'll just say it was aliens that did it.
The problem is even high end ATI GPUs will only generate $.50 a day and that will only get lower as the network becomes after. Anything else generates less than $.05 a day which isn't worth it at all.

A network specifically for this could never be set up either as there is no incentive to pay for the GPU time except when it's directly performing something useful i.e. bitcoin mining.
1) I remember the original post. Word Lens lit up #1 on Hacker News for an impressive amount of time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555

2) Looks like jf did the original submission too, I wonder if he knows a Word Lens founder.

3) I like the forward-looking embrace of Google Glass. It's such a futuristic thing to have shades that translate for you. Your phone is essentially a babelfish already - how long before you can buy an auto-translating bluetooth headset?
EC2 spot instances can provide significant cost savings if your app can cope with them getting killed unexpectedly.

To help decide what to bid, I made a small app that continuously collects and graphs historical spot prices:

http://ec2price.com/
I find it appalling how quickly you turn to words like 'ignorant' and 'vilify' when all I've done is point out the obvious.
How would profit-sharing work in companies that don't and probably won't ever turn a profit? If I had been at Instagram, for instance, I think I would have been much happier with equity than with a profit-sharing scheme that may not even have survived the acquisition.
It depends entirely on how the analysis is carried out, and whether they can convincingly explain a causal link between the variable and the effect they are measuring. I'm guessing Google's engineers are smart enough to see through statistical BS, if that's what it is.
Your ideas are interesting. Unfortunately you've exhausted my interest in the topic. But, I still think you overstate the absolute certainty of your interpretation. I do agree that Elon is presenting the rosier interpretation of the data.
I used an adjustable-height standing/sitting desk, so I was standing maybe 40% of the time. I agree, I can't imagine doing it seated the whole time.
definitely inferior. No pressure sensitivity, which is odd because it does at least sense on/off pressure (to do palm rejection).
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My favorite word that's picked up a new meaning (for me, anyway) is trespass, as in "trespassers will be trespassed"[1].

Apparently, using the word trespass as a intransitive verb is correct (albeit archaic) and was used as such in the New Testament, as in forgive those who trespass against us.

[1]http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/trespassers-wil...
when the program is running, yes.
Btw this goes into numerical analysis, and O(-) is important but so is error convergence. I imagine these big-O figures are for a constant error, but I figure the asymptotic may change behavior as the other parameter changes.
This is trending on HN because Hacker News.
Absolutely Epic 1974 Letter From Cleveland Browns to a Fan
Wow, and this podcast was done by Bloomberg and Kestenbaum, two of their better reporters.

I mean, yeah, it's NPR. You're not going to get amazing voice talent reading the stories. I don't feel talked-down-to as much as I feel like I'm hearing a work done by second-year broadcasting students trying to finish a project. Listen to Chana Joffe-Walt or Zoe Chase sometime.

But if you think this podcast is annoying, best you skip the rest of them...
Did you use the site generator or did you implement in another language?
Again, this is declarative, not complementary. Or maybe you agree with me. This extreme brevity is very ambiguous.
You'll have to explain this. Most tests we write in Python are redundant with static typing.
This website has disabled scrolling and zooming and all keyboard shortcuts in chrome. This UX ...Real ...
Quick-ng-repeat
So what if jf is a founder of WordLens? Congratulations to them.
Nice idea, but needs more content. There is not a single non-US company in that list (which should be a filter, because NSA).
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That doesn't seem like a particularly strong example, especially considering the phrase you chose isn't concise. "H N Time Sink".

"I forgot to feed my kids because Warcraft."

"My server melted because Slashdot."

As for Hacker News being a time sink in your life, I don't know that there's a phrase short enough to fit.

"I sunk all my time into innernet forums because single."
I imagine it's sketchy enough to be illegal, but what specific laws were they accused of violating? I read the consent judgment to find out:

"3. Defendants' conduct constitutes deceptive and unconscionable commercial practices pursuant to the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. ("CFA") and unauthorized access pursuant to the New Jersey Computer Related Offenses Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:38A-1 et seq. ("CROA"). The Attorney General and Director (collectively, "Plaintiffs") submit this Complaint seeking equitable relief, to prevent any more consumers from being victimized by Defendants' practices, as well as penalties, restitution, investigative costs, and attorneys' fees."
- p.2 http://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_Consent-...

p.9 (item 38) lists the alleged "unconscionable business practices and deceptions".

Also: ESEA is a New York company (p.3 / item 6). The laws are New Jersey laws. "Venue is proper in Essex County [, New Jersey], pursuant to R. 4:3-2, because it is a county in which defendants have otherwise conducted business." (p.3 / item 5)
As another Digital Ocean user - I'll just say I'm happy to hear that other people running DDOS and/or dictionary attacks from the same IP pool I'm relying on get slapped down _hard_, and that excuses like "but I'm doing this for a Uni assignment!" don't give you a free run to be a bad actor in their (and "my") netblock.

Do you _really_ think you have a "right" to run a dictionary attack from someone else's network? _Seriously?_

Personally - from looking at my fail2ban logs, I wish Amazon - and even more usefully, large residential cable/adsl providers - would implement this sort of pro-active monitoring of user/customer behavior.
The "message compression" used in DNS messages is also quite unusual, compared to other protocols. It serves as a reminder that the DNS protocol was created at a time when it was desirable to minimize as much as possible the amount of bandwidth used (as opposed to today), e.g.:

a domain name represented as a sequence of labels, where
each label consists of a length octet followed by that
number of octets. The domain name terminates with the
zero length octet for the null label of the root. Note
that this field may be an odd number of octets; no
padding is used.
They were self-funded for about 3-4 years, then received a cash infusion from a private equity firm (the first trigger event), then were sold to a much larger VC a few years later. That's when the firings started taking place.
Literally!!

:-/
How does square make money(or not lose money) in this transaction?
See also: "welcome to adjective", or "where adjective happens" slogans.
This reads like something on erowid
Why can’t I start my car with my phone?
I don't have any data on network throughput or any other performance points, but in terms of ease-of-use, it's incredibly straightforward to create and manage your "droplets" (their name for instances). Lots of up-to-date community articles and guides. Definitely recommended for a beginner.
The source code is here:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/miner.cpp

Basically, the ScanHash_CryptoPP(..) function does the actual hashing, and is called by the BitcoinMiner(..) function, which checks if the returned hash has the appropriate number of 0 bits.
Well they have 22 minutes to fill and the situation with ACH is pretty simple. Antiquated system, no motivation to change, done.

Planet Money's original charter was to explain what was happening, literally day-by-day, as the 2007-2008 financial meltdown was happening. And those were pretty informative and well-written shows.
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The New Science of Disaster Prediction
What if wordlens is purchased by google and incorporated into glass. stop being so dev-pessimistic (we need a word for this).
Using the console:

I wrote a wrapper function around the site generator that took a callback so the next string to test would be called recursively. If a public key matched the public key I was aiming for, I dumped the response to the console, otherwise I just called the wrapper function again.

Then I wrote a function that iterated over a list of strings and output an array with all the possible permutations.

Then I just fed an array of the userids of the top 20 users into that function and fed that function into my wrapper.

I opened 5 browser windows and fed each of them 20 userids to take advantage of multiple cores, but I'm not entirely sure that makes sense to do.
Looks like the first one is already gone: https://blockchain.info/address/1JKb1617p68H5MPkoNaMtaJCqKDU...
Indeed, I've got failed login attempts from four different IP addresses (115.127.35.4, 183.96.115.54, 186.89.119.140, and 190.73.143.216) over the last two days.
Lol, I can actually, it's called ONSTAR
Yep - I'm also using Ansible and Vagrant, in conjunction with machines on my home network, reverse ssh tunnels, and API manageable DNS. I'm working towards having services able to be dynamically/automatically moved between various VPS providers (Digital Ocean/AWS/Hetzner/NineFold) without me worrying (or even being aware) which VPS provider is currently being used.
I live abroad and was considering pitching this as a low-cost alternative to satellite imagery and crowd-sourcing with the the government GIS teams and national computer research center ehre. Very, very cool to see it in action!
The grammatical class of prepositions changes considerably more slowly than other classes.

We need new nouns and new verbs all the time, because what occupies and what occurs in our environment changes so fast. Interestingly, despite that rapid change, the set of prepositions, the set of conceptual relationships we've chosen to concisely express, stays pretty steady.

It's fascinating to read about a new preposition entering into common usage, because it makes me wonder what new pressures we're collectively facing in describing conceptual relationships. Certainly it could just be Twitter's character limits causing people to drop the "of" in "because of", but maybe other forces caused this construction to have utility now.

My bet would be on an increased expectation that our conversational partners share our context, and our models for understanding why things happen the way they do, because internet.
My favorite example of this one: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnw17vhAgu1qhhhaco1_500.gi...
Slightly disappointing to see the anti-founder sentiment expressed here. To recap --

1. The founders started from zero with their own equity and worked for six years on the startup. They took funding during '99 and '00 when it was a very easy time to get funding. Completely unremarkable investment (risk-wise) for the investors.

2. The dot-com crash and 9/11 meant that many many businesses collapsed post 2000. So, it wasn't just founder incompetence. There are many startups that almost went under but slowly managed to get out and have exits during the late '00s.

3. Apparently the investors thought the company was good enough to continue investing under the same name with new management. If the idea was so useless why didn't they shut it down in 2000?

4. Most of the value of startups is created after the first several years. Many lessons are learned that give direction to future opportunities. Many of the startups that almost went under and came up, learned to pivot (same management).

The lesson to learn here is that the founder were not diligent about control over their company. It is not like the investors did some calculation of value demonstrated to come up with the numbers. They automatically started adding 8% of company shares every year based on the 2000 agreement.

To give a counter example to make things clear, Microsoft started in 1975 with Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Allen was diagnosed with Cancer and pretty much stopped working at Microsoft after 1982. After six years. How much audit-able value did Microsoft created post Paul Allen?. I would say about 99%. Does that mean he should be zeroed out? No. He kept his stake (worth tens of billions). That's how it should be.

Most of the value in a startup is latent during the early stages. Even things that don't work out teach you things. If you go by audit-able value, that pretty much guarantees early founders (who don't stay) will get wiped out. For people who are cheering on the investors, how many of you have bootstrapped a startup for six years?
A Double entendre if ever I saw one, leave it to the greatest salesman of the 21st century!
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (11)
I do tell them several times and apologies for 5 times. Also I provide my student id and assignment page.

They told me that my files are safe at first. However they still deleted my account with all my files in it
> Machines “can’t process infinity,” Spivack said. “Love, the experience of being in love, is one of those infinity kinds of things. It’s close to the experience of God, if there is such a thing. Or like chocolate. And I don’t think software or machines can do that. I don’t think they can ever do that.”

Groan. Dualism is stupid.
Yes but then you are out that much money, making it a form of negative compensation with respect to it's expected value.
And the password was 'petecoper'
This one stuck out for me:

* Time sharing is very slow today, so I'm mostly reading technical reports while
waiting three hours for compiler, editor, and loading routine.
* I'm not counting this as debugging time!
* (Came back in the evening.)

For reference, you can compile the Linux kernel in as few as eight minutes [1].

[1] http://askubuntu.com/a/244148
If you have interest, and the patience to excuse my long-windedness (still learning to write concisely), I give a pretty thorough counter-argument to this here: http://ill-logic-politik.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-fallacies-...

In short, that's begging the question. It's like saying "tulips are great because it lets me give people tulips".
> Anything that happens before your content gets to the browser is back-end by definition.

Huh? I didn't think that was in question.

> If you control the blogging software and/or the template, it would be trivial to replace the last space with &nbsp; when rendering the page.

No disagreements here.

> I wouldn't be surprised if somebody already wrote a WordPress plugin to do this

I'm sure there is too[1].

[1] http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-typography/
Benchmarking the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
It seems like the ensemble heats up. Could it get a little energy dissipation?
"I added bacon to my milkshake because bacon!"
After market solution - http://www.viper.com/SmartStart/

Built into Chevy Cruze - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9gOB9Tcus

Authenticating to the car is a different concept.
I added commas for you :)

Things I love

startups, memorable marketing, stunts, New York, Mets Kanye, West Rap, people who speak, their mind people who genuinely do what, they love Internet, Finding way, to make money, for myself, and others

Things I hate

Boring, corporations wasting, money on boring, expensive ads New York, Yankees, Small, talk Superficial, people College, and the fallacy, of a degree = only way to succeed “Impressing” people with embellished credentials Resumes

Now tell me what you love and what you hate. Then absorb what you wrote, assess your current situation, and MAKE IT BETTER. Do what you love, no matter what. Don’t build a business because it’s cool, but don’t not build a business because you’re afraid, or it takes too much work, or you don’t know what to do, or you’re not “qualified”. Fuck all of that. Just do what you want to do.
Call be a cynic, but isn't this why people should use parser generators instead of handrolling this stuff?

I mean, would you want to audit this file? -> http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/http/ngx_http_...
Yves Behar’s “Smart” Lock Startup August Raises $8 Million
Similar to mine. Nothing for years, then three attempts in last couple of days. I wonder if they got my email from the Adobe breach.
Stay tuned for the sequel -- "Some kids used a Raspberry Pi to steal my car!"
It's been quite suitable for my purposes, as well. :) (Hey Corey!)
I used to work for a mineral exploration company that purchased an Ebee in the spring, and used it heavily this summer in Northern Canada (mountainous, extremely remote terrain).
It's a pretty neat unit and only required about 1-2 hours of reading the manual and making a quick flight plan before we were ready to fly it. The software that ships with it is super duper easy to figure out. Though it may be too simple as some of the control we would have liked wasn't there.

That said, the gov't paperwork before we were able to fly it was a nightmare, but operating it in remote, helicopter access only areas (no humans/buildings/etc around for dozens and dozens of kilometres) did ease the requirements a tiny bit.

Generating DSMs from the geo-ref'd images within an hour or two of flying a flight plan was pretty awesome though. Being DSM (Rather than DTM/DEM) is kind of annoying with tree-cover, but in less treed areas is still better than the Government of Canada 30m DEM.
I first heard this construct in a Deep Thought by Jack Handey, from the mid-nineties I believe:

"After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going?'."

I still laugh about it, and the main reason it was funny to me was the odd (but humorously apropos) use of the word "because."
It depends, but 8 years is a very long time. The founders were present for about 1/3rd of the company's existence, according to the article.

I was going off the fact that the company raised VC money 7 times after the founders were gone (following 2 raises with the founders present).

Anyway, I agree there's not enough information.

As the article references Facebook quite a bit, it's ironic that in that case 2/4 co-founders got a lot more than they deserved .. they didn't even leave Harvard, but they reaped billions for a few months of part-time work.
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At first I read: "In Venture Capital Deals, Not Every Founder Will Be a Zoidberg"
I forgot that Google Glass existed.

I'm not saying that to be smart. I actually read the headline and caught myself in the middle of asking myself, What's Google Glass? Am I the only one, or what? I guess people just haven't been talking about it lately or something. Weird.
I've considered a Kickstarter, but I'm not sure exactly what I would use the money for. Perhaps some professional artwork or music. I am trying to get Aberoth Greenlit on Steam, however. You can see it at: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=930412...
Man I thought we were done with "Look at this 1998 era screen saver I made with webgl"
Discovering Type Providers in F# 3.0 [video]
Most of the company's products are keyboard cases for iPads. They designed the iPad keyboards to mesh well with Apple's design aesthetic. Now that that they are branching out, they are just trying to keep things consistent.
"I rationalize endlessly, because because."
jf does know the word lens founder, but then many people here in the bay area also know Octavio -- he's a super cool "always positive" person. You'd probably like him if you met him.
Ask HN: How does Dwolla's FiSync work?
Would anyone care to explain the technical details behind the technology and how they are able to execute real-time transfers.
You should help out on Skyline! github.com/etsy/skyline It's a real time anomaly detection system.
Well. I have paid for around a year. I would like to know what happened so I can avoid the same in the future. Like I said there was no communication and I worry that my sites will be shut down for no reason.
with the first 3 points of the cons, no doubt to use DO rather than other cloud service for small/personal stuffs
With SmartOS, you get the netbsd userland and package system rather than the Solaris one. For the most part, this means it is more likely to just have what you want and be easier to build for.
Reducing automotive energy use by a half or two thirds would have an extremely large impact, especially if you consider all of the new autos that will be coming online in India+China. Sure, we still need to switch power generation to cleaner tech as well, but this simplifies the solutions greatly, as power generation will then be concentrated. If we can stop focusing our national attention on trying to secure our oil supplies, we have a better chance at solving the problem as well.
It's already much stronger than the typical protection of gasoline tanks -- and it was claimed that it was a very exceptional circumstance that allowed that armor plate to be penetrated.
Plenty of people run Debian and Gentoo in chroots on top of other linux variants. That is done on Android devices by people who want a more familiar userland to work in and it is done by people for testing and development across distros.