skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite amusing, even though it probably won't fool anybody if you work among technically competent people.

This is a repost from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6742565
That's you've now explained and ruined.
The Secret of the Fashion Faux Pas
More ephemeral messaging on the way
I Googled around and came across a Google support page where someone (probably not a Googler) explained that they had to change their "allow 3rd-party cookies" settings because YouTube and the commenting system was loading shit form everywhere. Possible the everywhere was all Google property, but the idea that I had to turn off a privacy setting in order to comment on YouTube was just dumb.

Others on that page confirmed it. Sorry, I don't have a link. The explanation on the page sounded plausible enough that I said, "OK. Fuck it."

I just checked and this seems to only happen to me on Chrome, but not on Firefox. Firefox shows my G+ avatar; Chrome seems not to know who am for YouTube comments, but knows who I am for YouTube channel stuff. Nice.

Now I have to go see how insecure my Firefox settings are. :)
> I was just trying to explain how the initial claim itself was at least plausible.

If the author had wanted to be plausible, he would not have mentioned the required input power. That's a dead giveaway and show-stopper, because anything remotely real would not have that requirement.

If the units can deliver five times their input heat energy, then 1/5 of the output energy can be used to sustain the reaction. That's not difficult to grasp.
How much would it cost to scrape about 100,000 data points each month?
The Time poll for person of the year is notorious for being rigged. In 2009, 4chan got moot to the top, in addition spelling out "marblecake also the game" with the first initials of the 21 top nominees. [1]

In 2012, something similar was done [2].

2013? Yup. http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-c...

Anyway, my point is that the Time poll isn't even a reflection of popularity.

The 2013 article also covers these 2 topics.

1. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-lose...

2. http://www.dailydot.com/society/hackers-time-person-year-kju...
Bleak, nihilistic and true.

Would upvote again :)
Taxi War: Uber vs Hailo
I've seen most people declare humans are inherently selfish; if you're drawing a distinction between two, then yes, my apologies.

Capitalism came out of the industrial revolution and the process of enclosure by Britain, I'm not entirely sure that I buy it being a given, exactly, though it of course did happen.
The DoD did not buy one of these with my tax dollars -- tell me it isn't so. Because if they did, by now they would have exposed this scammer to justify the expenditure of public funds. It's a hoax -- the "fact sheet" has more holes than a Swiss cheese.
clink already works with ConEmu (enable it in settings/features). Look at chocolatey for integrating a functional Windows "package" manager.

Good luck with the project.
Shameful self promotion. However i have to say the SQL and your type system makes me gravitate towards your platform. Can Kill mongoCache for sure
I'm glad these guys are here for us. I honestly can't believe some of the comments on the times site.

My main issue is that this has not become a debate, it's still an order. And it's an order that violates our fourth amendment right. This right was part of handshake for a new system, and it cannot be violated save for some rare situation we could all agree is reasonable.

No one should think this is reasonable... security is lax, control of the data is lax ("corporate store"? Are you kidding me?). The situation is flipped here. Without leaks, we would actually be suffering more. Security clearance is not protecting us, it's using and abusing us. It's being used to hide things that would harm us more if they were never leaked. And FISA courts are used to give us some illusion that rules will be followed while having it waved in our face that we're lucky to have them. This is crazy.

Try to accommodate any warrantless surveillance in the fourth amendment's text without creating either a comical contradiction that violates its entire spirit or removes it entirely. We know that being ok with these citizen data programs amounts to being ok with not having this right, but we're still talking about it. I want to keep my right. And since the amendment was added in response to writs of assistance, unchecked delegation of authority so scarily similar to this reasonable articulable suspicion thing we are seeing today in both this and Stop and Frisk, i think we'd all be better suited to start with our right and add any exceptions as-needed, not have them added for us. I'm assigned a threat score even before i'm suspicious? To find out whether i'm suspicious? To then act on me because of this suspicion? All while making money off of me based on my actions? You want to buy my actions? Ok, name a price, i'll consider it.

I don't want to start this privacy war this gang wants me to. I'd rather we follow the law and consider those who don't criminal. Privacy is a buffer against abuse, not a place to hide dirty secrets. We can't predict or even see or notice all of the horrible loss of self control that might come about because of this collection. The chorus of "Nothing to Hide" in response rings eery in my ears.
Planetary Resources to host Asteroid Detection Software Contest for NASA
I find developers with a github account admirable, but I never did contribute to open source at a day job, and while I'd like nothing more than give everything I do for myself away for free, the goal is to sustain myself stand in the way of that.
When you try to run an executable on an architecture it wasn't designed for, it does not run. But this has nothing to do with docker or Linux.
the writing smacks of pseudoscience sadly... the idea of 'a mix of quantum and classical' implies a lack of understanding of what quantum mechanics is and specifically the correspondence principle.

when did these two things become separate in anything other than some categorisation of our theoretical understanding of things?

The entire article is coloured with it which makes it hard to glean any valuable information from. The analogy (?) about light bouncing around proteins, superpositions and collapses is especially confusing.

If you look at the paper it does seem genuine and without the hype and bad analogies. (although there is some quite bad grammar, and i am far enough from subjects i am comfortable with that this could be psuedoscience).

What I get from this is 'we have done work on a very specific example of quantum computing in nature - that work provides evidence that such approaches are viable'
Please clarify: Is your complaint that HN is too much like Reddit, or not enough?
Google+ really slacked off on the Real Name's policy after the public outrage. I think that if they had managed to enforce it , comments would be better, but it won't stop everyone or make any guarantee of quality, and a lot of the work to push higher quality comments could be done without enforcing/requesting real names anyways.
How to Run Akka on Google Compute Engine
This is a really cool article! I've never heard of plants doing something like this. However, the article is written kind of sloppily.

> Quantum states are highly fragile — sneeze and they disappear in a puff of smoke.

No, quantum states never disappear. They just evolve in time. However, it is hard to isolate a system that you are assigning a state vector from its surroundings.

> They say the processes behind light harvesting are a special blend of the quantum and the classical.

This kind of misleadingly suggests that reality has separate quantum and classical components. That's not the case; everything is quantum. It's just that some things that occur cannot be described accurately with classical physics.

> Because energy can exist in a superposition of states, it can travel a variety of routes around the network at the same time. And when it finds the correct destination, the superposition collapses, leaving the energy at the reaction centre.

Light travels. Energy is just a number that's conserved in non-relativistic QM. Also, while I suppose you could describe light as traveling through every path at once (and I know a lot of physicists like to describe it this way too), it sounds much more mysterious than it needs to be to me. I would just say: "as the wavefunction evolves in time, its probability amplitude spreads throughout space".

> Another is the quantum zeno effect, the paradoxical phenomenon in which an unstable state never changes if it is watched continuously.

This makes it sound like its conscious or something. There's no paradox here. "Watching" is just a series of measurements. Measurements collapse a state into an eigenstate. If you perform these frequently enough, the system doesn't have time to decohere, so it just keeps collapsing into the same eigenstate. It would be less like watching the pot and more like pulling it off the stove each time its about to boil.

Anyway, I sound nitpicky, but I remember that before I learned QM I was always bothered by the fact that people tried to make it sound mysterious and vague for some reason when its actually quite objective and concrete.
Reactor: a project to examine the performance of the R language
Email exchange between Satoshi and Dustin Trammell (2009)
Some people seem to think that the Internet is some magical medium that's somehow different from real life. It's not. If you wouldn't ask someone to do it in an offline setting, don't ask them to do it in an online setting.

Would you ask your employee to go door-to-door to all their friends houses and knock on the door and give them a sales pitch? No? Then you shouldn't ask them to shill for you on Facebook.

If you want to advertise on Facebook, there's already a way to do that.
This is an irrelevant comment but I love the name. I'm assuming it's a play on the Go-Go-Gadget line?
I doubt MVNO's would ever lease bandwidth from the big ones without taking into account their long term growth forecasts - I imagine they've got 5/10/20 year agreements in place with provisions for expansion at fixed rates - it's only if they begin to eat away at their quotas that they may change their fees / structure or and/or purchase more from the original network operator.
i didn't downvote but i really used to hate this attitude

"well why don't you learn to code and make it yourself" is the gut response to it...
Great pivot guys! If any of you guys are working on textual insights with scraping, please let me know. I do pdfs, text docs as well as more traditional html.

I think vertical specific ecommerce pricing data like what these guys are doing is a hard problem ( I have clients in this space as well) and it's great to specialize in something like this. I think the real value comes from an end to end service like what these guys are offering.

Current projects for clients include custom sentiment analysis engines, real time event streams, ad intel type projects, location data, and even menus.

Much of this is done with deep learning and more generalizable models that are likely to fit your domain.

I have a dashboard I'm working on with some customers now that will allow you to avoid having to contact a service provider.

Email is in profile if there's any requests. I hope to put up a good portfolio site soon. Only started this a few months after building out my own text analytics engine.

Also again: best of luck to priceonomics here. It's a lucrative market if done right.
Judges are elected in Texas, but I don't think that applies in the case of federal judges. The infamous T. John Ward retired a couple years back, but it seems like the tradition continues with whoever is hearing these cases now.

I think, in the end, there needs to be patent reform...which just got shot down before it ever really even got any traction. So, I don't know. Educating people about the harmful effects of software patent law and patent trolls might be a useful start. This is pretty obscure stuff to most people.
Where did you get that 20,000 Bitcoins are worth (even hypothetically) one billion? Even at $1,000 per BTC that's just $20M.
Just want to harp on your first point - MongoDB's storage problem is uniquely Mongo's and not indicative of NoSQL design. Compactions can be a pain and the lack of compression + the some design features (such as no symbolized keys) can lead to a very bloated database.

We ran a MongoDB cluster with 5 nodes on 1TB SSDs that were 80% full and growing (and we had no replica sets, a nightmare). We switch to Cassandra, and even set the replica factor to 3 and we only managed less than 30% disk usage.

Now when I think about MongoDB administration, I'm now also thinking cost. Pound-for-pound (same number of replicas and nodes, and not even counting wanting to keep your nodes under 50%) our MongoDB cluster cost would 5x more while delivering worse performance.

It really isn't an issue of MongoDB using a large amount of space, its an issue of MongoDB using an order of magnitude more of space leading to uneccesary higher production costs.
And people were worried about overpopulation.
Just an FYI, but accidental flagging happens to me all the time on my iphone, would be nice to have a flag-confirm on mobile (I'd bet mobile flagging correlates much worse with controversy if others are having that problem too)
I think Satoshi is the NSA. This is 99% because it would be the most entertaining result, and 1% actual reasoning ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6206086 ).
Isn't this supposed to be "I am Spartacus" or something like that?
Apple is "made in ______"

Complete the puzzle and here's the answer.
Double-entry bookkeeping
I just had a look at the website and the crowdfunding campaign. I really don't get the idea of a "middleman" between my phone and the cloud. I understand the concept of giving something physical to people, but wouldn't a simple card with the App info suffice? Perhaps with a list of features a person can access by downloading the App and submitting a code from the card.
First of all, 50 PB is less than 20K 3TB drives. Second, they don't buy a year's supply at once.
argh you beat me to it
RDS now supports Postgres. It supports both hot & cold swaps. Hopefully in future it will support read replicas.
Who thought that if a developer doesn't tweet that they are a bad developer?

People thought that? WTF.
has anyone tested this and compared it with other tools?

i seem to have a lot of free tools that do a very good job of this... especially when i add some thought to it. my own tests are basically inconclusive - its does the same job as my choice of tools up-to the point of being clever with colour depth and accepting a little loss, or things like knowing its a normal map so the blue channel can be binned...

/me waits for key to test thoroughly

hmm. looks like it is actually lossy. :/
I can't recommend Angular.js enough. I've been working with it for the past few months and find it to be really enjoyable. The docs aren't great (though getting better), but I found these tutorials pretty good for getting up and running: http://egghead.io
> What makes you think that it hasn't occurred to me?

Because it's a fatal error and you didn't mention it.

> Maybe I just don't think it's worth posting about until Rossi has a physical product we can test?

What, so uneducated people can be scammed out of their life savings? Where's your sense of public duty?

His claims are bogus. If he had achieved what he claims, he would not be calling for 200 KW of input power. And even given that absurd premise, assuming this fantasy requirement as a thought experiment, he could use one of his small units to power five small units of the same kind, then five to power 25, etc., resulting in a very small initial power input for a vast output power.

The reason the "fact sheet" isn't written that way is because this guy doesn't even know how to lie convincingly.

> Edit: ^ The moment that I realize I'm arguing about this with a legit scientist who I have major respect for and whose site I've read on occasion. :(

That shouldn't matter as you evaluate my claims, any more than it should matter in evaluating Rossi's claims. Evidence should be the only issue.

A guy once said, "In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. The greatest amount of scientific eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of scientific evidence."

Oh, wait, that guy was me. :)
I was about to argue with you about it not being very confusing, but then I read the "About" section on the front page:

"This site allows you to navigate the bitcoin blockchain (a database which holds information about all transactions)."

That really does make it sound like they are storing the centralized database for bitcoin.

Edit: changed "storing a" to "storing the" to clarify my point per gojomo's reply.
It wouldn't be the craziest thing people do with docker:

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/10/22/sync-hacks-deploy-bitt...

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-ov...

There has been discussion of taking the git analogy further. We actually experimented with a lot of that early on (https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets) and I can tell you it's definitely possible to take the scm analogy too far :)

I do think we can still borrow a few interesting things from git. Including, potentially, their packfile format and cryptographic signatures of each diff. We'll see!

Here's a relevant discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/docker-user/CWc5HB6kAN...
Show HN: Samri, Your Personal Fitness Assistant
This is just passively-aggressively implying that dark matter developers aren't bad because they're inferior at coding, they're bad because they're inferior at being social.

Maybe I don't need to go to every Django convention ever to be a good programmer. Maybe I measure myself by different standards.
Yes, Apple obviously got inspiration from Braun.
I suspect that we agree more than disagree. What I meant was that we implement capitalism to generally get abundance of things like food and medicine that we consider good for society (to the point of calling them "goods"), but that individuals need to constantly examine and take responsibility for the morality of their actions under the system.
I wish I knew more about quantum physics.

With most science-related articles, I know enough to be able to tell what's journalistic hype and what contains an element of truth. But with anything about quantum physics or quantum computing, I am completely at a loss as to whether the ideas presented are even real, never mind having a hope of understanding them.
Breaking bad had a lot to say about work in general. You have to fight for your income and to be free from enslavement by your fellow man. Also it shows the downside of being highly and uniquely skilled.
First third-party “Steam Machine” could already be a console-beater
My First Week with Xamarin.
This is a bit confusing. Am I right in asserting the following?...

Commercial PaaS hosting firm, nodejitsu, is asking for donations to pay (or help to pay) for the costs of running npm.

Nodejitsu plan on using said funds to purchase additional resources at Joyent, where npm is currently hosted.

Joyent own the trademark for Node.js
Articles with a lot of comments without a lot of upvotes are probably rightly labelled "controversial". I sometimes comment without upvoting the OP on something I don't like. So this behavior by the algorithm matches my use of the site.
My new metal band
It's against Facebook and G+ policies and thus may result in your personal account being nuked, but sure.
The dropbox model is not the only place for server farms.

How about render farms & their associated data stores. How about Google Maps & the associated scads of satellite imagery.

You could be right, of course, but I'm not sure we can say with certainty.
Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
I'm not sure it's significantly more likely that he'd deny it if it wasn't him than if it was, so I don't know how it could be bait.
I also hadn't heard the term, but after reading this I realised I was a dark matter developer. I've given talks at a couple of conferences, but I've only ever contributed back to open source projects by opening issues and writing a couple patches. I've tried to convince my employer to invest time in contributing back, but I've never made it a priority in my personal life.

I wouldn't say that I'm more risk averse than other developers, but I have a healthy does of perfectionism that tends to get in the way of ever releasing anything. On some level I feel like I'll be judged for anything I put in the public eye if it isn't 100% perfect.

I recently went to my first meetup though, and everyone there was super friendly, so maybe I'll come into the light. :)
I don't really understand why Satoshi wants to be hidden. Is it because of the legal issues or does he want be a hidden super character?
How buffer manages 1 million users with a team of 5
> This is how bad implementations look to users, consider something like Gmail as a counter example however...

Gmail isn't a counterexample to the "loading" message thing. It manages to be slow on hardware and network connections that are incredibly fast.
That seems to me actually further than just writing the GLSL shaders yourself. I suppose the MVP would be a library that simply eases getting data in and out of webgl.
My solution is Keepass on a shared drive with very a strong password.

For production stuff, I would suggest you use a key file on top of a password.

Key file tips :

1- Key file on Truecrypt encrypted USB key.

2- Use plugin OtpKeyProv in in conjunction with RSA SecurID or other Random key generator.

Also, automate backup of the password database everyday.
I would say this is something that should be brought to people's attention... but somehow I don't think the kind of people that do these things would care.
Ron and Shamir were very eager to see what they wanted to see.
Some people got stuck in looking for "ghost under the bed" well beyond their childhood years.
Does anyone have a recommendation for an authoritative guide to either Postgres or Mongodb? One that does more than show you where the levers are, that is.
I disagree. If you like something, vote for it. If you don't like something, comment on why and don't vote for it. If something just doesn't belong here, flag.
They would raise the fees (just testing HN, it won't let me post).
For what it's worth, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto either.
Being responsible for a company is categorically different from being an employee at a company, even if that employee is very hard-working.

Yes, it is the difference between being a parent and being a babysitter.

Both are responsible for the health and welfare of one or more children, but the babysitter eventually gets to go home and be "off the clock".

Problem is, many small companies seem to think that the equivalent of calling up the babysitter at 2am to deal with a vomiting child is acceptable.
>> why Rossi doesn't use 200 KW of the claimed 1 MW output power to remove the input power requirement?

> Because it's necessary to input the power to bootstrap the reaction.

Yes, but his megawatt unit consists of dozens of smaller units, each of which (if we accept the premise for the moment) requires a much smaller amount of bootstrap power. Therefore, logically, he would power one unit with a tiny bootstrap kick, that unit would use its generated power to sustain itself and bootstrap four additional units, four would bootstrap 16, all with surplus power. Logical, yes?

Anyone with the slightest familiarity with science and technology would see this is the logical arrangement, but it appears Rossi doesn't have the slightest familiarity with science and technology.
Being early is the same as being wrong, with one exception: if you're early it means the concept will indeed be correct later on. I think "Everything is moving online" was early, not wrong.
If they don't share revenue with their users, the ones that make the real app, it might kill itself imho.