skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the option visibly removed, or are the 'flags' silently ignored? When I post something I try go through a few pages of 'newest' and flag spam, but this makes me worry I'm wasting my time.
Raspberry Pi Emulates an Amiga 500 Floppy Drive
Just a caveat: we were using Highcharts for a prototype data analysis tool with sensitive data; unbeknownst to us, the export/print feature builtin to Highcharts actually ships the data back to highcharts.com to be rendered into the final output. Big no-no with the data we were dealing with, we ended up having to disable that feature.
Which 9am?
Wait, no, LU decomposition is not stable unless you're doing pivoting. And if you're doing pivoting, then it very much stops looking like an "exact formula", because it'll get filled up by ifs and variable renamings, etc.

There's plenty of cases in graphics and simulation where solving even a 4x4 matrix needs careful numeric consideration (see this paper about tetrahedral mesh simplification, section III.D, page 7: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~hvo/papers/tetstream.pdf)

If you care about accuracy at all, do not use the straightforward "exact formulas" like Cramer's rule. That's just asking for trouble.

And for numerical linear algebra, I'd go start with Strang and chapter 9: http://math.mit.edu/linearalgebra/
You're right, I'm not being charitable in my assumptions. I would edit it and trim it back a little, but I don't want to take away from your response.

To examine this more seriously:

Individually their requirements fit in the broader context of IT. However, taken as a whole the job post screams 'toxic environment', and 'setup for failure'. It's possible I'm entirely wrong, but the post throws off a lot of red flags. Such a long list of requirements and roles without one mention of decision making or authority. Not even one mention of responsibility. Most skilled IT people are comfortable meeting a high standard, but are wary of entering situations where they will be 24/7 solo on-call for variegated environments that they get no authority over.

The issue with the requirements isn't being oncall or managing projects, or travel, or attention to detail, or fexibility, or offensive environment. It's oncall AND projects AND travel AND details AND flexibility AND offensive environment WHILE cheap AND alone.

How would they fix it? How could this job post be better? Change the language to reflect more of a management position. Talk more about selecting and managing tech vendors, projects, strategies. Make it sound like they are looking for an IT Director for guidance who is not afraid to roll-up his sleeves. Right now it appears they are looking for a skilled slave to do it all.

Having been around many highly skilled IT teams, I can guarantee you that most senior IT people aren't filling multiple roles while being on-call for all of them.

EDIT:
"The wifi at PAX Prime 2012 was unusable the majority of the time. How do you mitigate that?"

I'd reach out to my network and find someone who's already solved the problem of large scale wi-fi and rent them. Or contact a large wi-fi equipment provider and see if we could make an arrangement for equipment support/manpower in exchange for PAX floor space. The last thing I would do is ask the IT generalist who's been on-call for three months straight and is in the middle of updating the website. "Hey can you figure out convention wifi?"
> are starting to gain in popularity in the US.

You know this is a joke, right?

they all have to lease band from the 2 big ones. The government does not allow them to build a network even if they had the money.

The only reason they exist is to scrap the bottom end of the market. the moment the market shifts to them, the 2 big ones will raise their network use prices to the point it is cheaper to use them than the small ones.
'Flame people with a throwaway and the discussion you don't like will disappear'?
This remind me initial war with Gmail on trying to change colors of links in your HTML email body.

Google was replacing #000000 with blue links to make sure some won't deceive users that underscored black text is or is not a link. So of course people start using #000001 color, then this one got blocked they went into #000002. Gmail quickly realized they wont win this one :) so they revert it back to replacing only 000000.
Majority is the msysgit not terminal emulator. If you do not want linux tools use the mini version. That has more resonable 7 MB.
Miley Cyrus has more votes than Edward Snowden. How can that be?
Since no one's actually answering your question, focusing on useless pedantics instead, I'll do it:

The reason Windows does not have a decent virtual console, like OSX and Linux do in the form if iTerm, xTerm, gnome-term etc has to do with the way the console works in Windows.

The Windows console is very tightly coupled with a win32 system library, both its functionality and the way it behaves graphically (to for example resizing) are defined in that single place.

This practically means that most attempts of making it better in some way proxy to a hidden view of the original console. I think ConEmu works like this.

To truly make a better console on Windows, the links to that system dll would have to be hijacked from the processes that are launched in your shell, and replaced with references to your better alternative. Obviously this could be a fragile thing, and for some reason I know of no project that's made any headway in this.

I have tried the latter route myself for a little while, but after uncovering how complicated it would really have to be I decided to go do something else.
thanks for that

I installed the plug-in too
Show HN: To Do app (Angular, .NET, MongoDB)
There's an Android binary, but is there a GUI for Android?
That's assuming you actually last in the company to collect on your investment, as may happen with vested equity.
I am awful at this. I have always been surprised and excited by population numbers though so I had fun. Thanks!
Google Releases Google Voice Search Hotword Chrome Extension
Have you looked at bokeh? http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/burtin_example.html

Note: I'm a core dev on bokeh.
Is Python really supplanting R for data work?
The truth of Dropbox's acquisition of dropbox.com is a little murkier than them just buying it - it appears that they initiated this by suing the previous owner, who had owned the domain since 1995:

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/californ...

However, the case was later dismissed, so I guess they came to some other agreement after all:

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/californ...

No details on whether the initial owner had to give up the domain or was fairly compensated.
BIG SHOUT TO BIGGIE RIP
Lots of the Kickstarter-backed projects have this problem. I'm not sure how you solve it except with experience.
I used to imagine that scores were positively influenced by commenting. If there are comments then people thought the post worth noting.

I typically comment without upvoting. Maybe now that needs to change if I want to see discussion continue on topics I'm involved in.
Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million requests per second
That introduces a new named type though, i.e., the "any" in your package is different from the "any" in mine, which is not what I want.

(Unless I'm mistaken here, which might very well be the case.)
VCs make $billion dollar companies. Billion dollar companies make bubbles. While I sort of agree with you that startups don't need a billion in capital, thats sort of beside the point. Bubbles need billions in capital, and bubbles need VCs. Or, at least thats another way to look at it. I dont think a single one of the ~40 billion dollar exits in the past decade has not had VC to goose the valuation prior to it going public (if not for absolute capital needs).
"Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better."

Don't ignore that second sentence. If you're interpreting this section as anything other than "shit pay", you're being wildly optimistic.
Show HN: A programming language with a JSON parsable syntax
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Nobody ever got fired for using PostgreSQL.
Bought one just to have as a spare/beater/toy-around phone, even though I just went from a N4 to an N5. This price point is what the US has been needing.
Thanks. As a Flask user myself, and sort-of interested in Go, I'm going to take a look at this. Thanks.
Ha! I think your law is basically a logical corollary of my law + SIWOTI syndrome.
Filtered Indexes vs. Table Partitioning
My flagging option one day just vanished.

Not really a big loss for me. One less distraction.
That's correct. rsyslog also supports TCP though.
The size of int on 64-bit systems was increased to 64 bits as of Go 1.1: http://golang.org/doc/go1.1#int
How is this To-Do app different from others? Is the source code available somewhere?

Tha landing page is non-descriptive and you could atleast introduce your app here in comments.
>even better, don't bother the original project, but just announce your fork over other channels

This is a rather bizarre interpretation of nice behavior: Make a very cool modification to a project, but don't even bother to tell the original maintainers/authors?

Github Issues is a perfectly reasonable place for this. Maybe the mailing list would be better, but, shrug. Issues != Bugs, by the way. There's a reason it's called Issues. And it's basically the only way to have a discussion on github about anything whether it's an issue or not.

Also, some maintainers get mad if you send a pull request without doing an issue first, so there's no right way.
Baby Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed in Canada
I believe, though, that flagging something that ends up popular can count against you.
I agree. There are also many more web users than there were then.

I worked at a couple different start-ups in the 90's, and a lot of the trouble we faced was the result of our core audience either not having internet access or not being willing to enter their credit card information online.
Imagine if somebody built a social networking site where you could have one group of contacts, but sandbox them into their separate circles of function/relation. Such a website would surely eat all others for breakfast. ;-)
10 years of growing up watching gocompare or "compare the market" adverts means when they do turn 17 they'll instinctively know where to go for their cheap car insurance without a second thought.
That would be conspicuous and easy to prevent/ignore.
Ah there's what i was missing. Thanks!
He missed the point where gold is an actual tangible item and has a massive market of jewellery.
On-call 24/7 is normal? I thought good IT departments had rotating on-call schedules.
Related question - how do you configure logrotate to honour size immediately? In my (limited) experience, logrotate runs once overnight. If you have a log file that expands by 1gb per hour, and you want to rotate it every 500mb, how do you instruct logrotate to handle it?

Do you just crontab logrotate for short intervals, and will that trigger "daily" rotations each time for other configurations?
Ask HN: would you try to improve your language skills via Skype/Hangout?
Offering a conversation (to improve) in your "first language" for someone who wants to learn it. Win-win if he offers a language you want to learn. Switch languages after some time. Is there an online marketplace/database/app you know?
Hey Tedivm! Yev from Backblaze here -> It's true that the data was removed from your account. After your trial lapsed and was not paid for, we removed the data after 7 days as is our standard practice. Unfortunately in your case the overview page did not update to show that you had no data associated with your computer, so when you purchased the license, there was no data on the machine that it attached too, so when you erased data from the machine while performing maintenance, you assumed the data was on Backblaze, when it was in fact purged from our system a few weeks prior.

We've since fixed that visual glitch (if you have a trial that expires and is not paid for, once the data has been deleted, that will be reflected on the overview page) AND we're currently working on some other notification systems to help people avoid losing data. As always, I apologize that you had this problem, but I'm happy to inform you that we've since fixed that visual bug on our end.
For stuff between and not including 480p and 1080p. Google changed something with how it streams 1080p and JDownloader no longer catches it.
"People care about gold specifically, and diamonds specifically, for weddings."

A brilliant piece of marketing by De Beers, that.
Or accidentally causes a fire which damages the building and the other tenants property. His insurance would definitely not cover anything like that.
You're right! This single, reasonable opinion from one of the thousands of informed people who happen to work on a wide variety of products from this particular company threw the discussion way off! I'm glad we have your reasoned opinion to put things in perspective. Now, how about we go burn down Mountain View?
Eclipse integration is soon to be rolled out! Check: http://feedback.codealike.com/forums/156227-general-ideas-an...
Is this service going to be very different (in final output) from what you would get with http://import.io? Import.io takes the stand that we will provide you with the tools to scrape a page so they are not really the one doing the scraping (legally speaking). They also provide an API so easy to consume the scraped data in your programs.

I guess with Import.io if something breaks, you will have to redo the scraping logic. Maybe PE will manage that on the users behalf and that's their value add? Looks like PE may be doing some intelligent scraping as well (not everyone is going to list Dell LCD Monitors $400 in their title but they will do the normalization for you -- just a guess).

I have used import.io and it works very well for most sites and it is fairly easy to create a scraper.
Might be fun to have a ranking for players as well to see how they did vs. everyone else. Like the old arcade video games did.
what's the frequency of crawling you guys support? e.g. hourly updates, daily updates, ..
I just asked three people near me if they knew who Snowden and Cyrus were. Guess who was recognized by all three and who was vaguely acknowledged by 1.

Not a scientific study, but I'd put money on it being repeatable outside the workplaces of hacker news readers.
> I don't regret the time I spent there, and I still help put out fires from time to time

What the...? Why would you do that?
Because, in this case, the Government agency and the laws they enforce are unconstitutional, and actually harm the people they're supposed to be protecting.
Still, it is a change that could dramatically affect the behavior of some programs. A program that takes many references to one string might consume a lot of memory when those references become copies.
I think just a little research on the company sponsoring the event would have been good enough for me to know better.
I think it is getting there, people are moving away from MongoDB, towards Riak, but RethinkDB is so much more then Riak and I would rather use it. It is very convenient, it has a panel for trying out queries and monitoring db's, it is fairly easy to setup sync.

I didn't try some big instalation, and I would expect at least some issues, but generally, so far, sun is shining each time I use RethinkDB
Try Google App Engine
Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education
While there is some overlap in terms of the mechanics, I would personally refrain from taking this analogy too far. The point behind capitalism is the assumption that people are motivated by money but that the profit motive can be channeled toward ultimately being good for the public. Walt and Jesse's meth empire caused tons of addictions, murders/deaths (both on and off-screen), broke up families, required dishonesty at multiple levels, and was ultimately motivated by ego more than money. Some characters (Gale) also tried to rationalize the damage their product was doing to the world with flimsy arguments about "consenting adults wanting what they want" when each contributor made the choice to get into a business with horrifying societal consequences.

Capitalism has holes in it, and it's up to everyone to make sure they are doing things that are good for the world.
I would submit that most of the social media startups consist primarily of the manifestly untalented.

The cream of that crop graduates to writing buggy and crashy IOS and Android apps.

The very elite (ya know the ones that passed calculus and linear algebra) of that esteemed crowd sits through a few Coursera and/or Udacity courses and proclaim themselves data scientists.

All of this has happened before and will happen again.

PS Absolutely loving what this is doing to total compensation though.
I thought I was having some sort of MBA-jargon-flavored stroke when I read this, but thankfully everything seems to be OK.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for giving it a try!
For those of us that use all 3 of those, your statement is in large part true. I'd also hazard that Mongodb isn't actually that popular outside the HN buzz bubble.
Looks good. Finally Windows get a real terminal?
>>If you're talking about streamlining the process at the cost of higher risk, then that's probably a nonstarter.<<

I hate to be that guy, but this is the fallacy of false dilemma, and directly ignores the example I gave above.

>>I (and most people) am not willing to increase my odds of being harmed on behalf of someone else's profit margin. You'd have to be crazy to accept that deal.<<

This isn't the deal. Do you feel that your odds of harm from taking a supplement are significantly too high, since of course supplements are not currently regulated by the FDA or any other government body? Are people who takes supplements crazy?

>>Expecting the market to 'just do your research' on drugs is crazy. It takes experts with PhDs a long time to verify a drug as safe, and they still make mistakes sometimes as you indicated... you're expecting me to do it? I haven't taken chemistry since high school.<<

Why is it crazy to expect the market to do research? This happens with literally every other product available. There are thousands of organizations dedicated to reviewing automobiles, blenders, mattresses, and literally every product you can buy. If people voluntarily want to purchase medicine that has not been evaluated by the FDA or some other testing organization (as is currently the case with thousands of medical supplements that are for sale) why must those people be stopped? Again, the choices aren't FDA approval or no access. There are all sorts of solutions that could be implemented to both increase availability of medicine while still offering consumer protection.

Yes, PhDs make mistakes, but that wasn’t the point of the Vioxx reference. Vioxx was a fantastic pain drug that worked for some people when nothing else would. And that drug was taken away because Vioxx might increase the risk of heart attack. While this may sound fine to you, it was devastating to many people who would have preferred even a large risk of heart attack rather than living with the pain eliminated by Vioxx. (Vioxx was thought to increase the incidence of heart attack a staggering 4 times in one study . . . from .1% to .4%)

Again, nobody is expecting you to do your own research. But that shouldn't limit our options to (1) FDA approval or (2) no drugs for you.
Indeed - for every random idea that flamed out in SV, there was at least one person that would pay for it.
My favorite is Simplpost: http://simplpost.com/blog/what-is-this-thing/

It's not a command line tool, but it makes nice responsive static sites. And it's easy enough for my girlfriend to use. That's why I built it.
That just broke my head. 8 of the last 2?
I'm kicking around the idea of forming a hardware startup after a successful proof of concept using off-the-shelf electronics that I assembled by hand. What's really holding me back is that I have no idea where to start with a custom design or talking to manufacturers. The only option I can think of is hiring someone with experience in making customer hardware products at scale, but that's pretty expensive to bootstrap.
well, the bust will as usually happen when everybody finally start to believe and act like there isn't an end to the ride. We seems to be getting there, though not just yet.

Huge up-and-coming developing regions - pretty much anything outside of US and Europe - will vacuum anything that tech can produce. The correction of tech industry from Western world to the rest of the world may be a little bit uncomfortable for those who miss it, i mean it is time to learn Chinese and Spanish this time not Java :)
"most programmers can come up with a much better solution to this problem if removed from google and forbidden access to gpu gems."
I doubt I could come up with such a solution even with access to google and gpu gems. I am not a particularly good programmer, but I know for certain that most programmers wouldn’t even know where to begin to implement something like this.
I agree! I'll look into adding this in eventually. Thanks for the feedback!
Charming, but blinding after a rather short time.
In default mode, sure. But modern syslog daemons also support TCP transports. And both rsyslog and syslog-ng have commercial versions that buffer logs to disk (though double-buffering isn't necessary here where the source is a log file already on disk).
> Meh. Everything is moving online.

Quote - "Almost everything is moving on-line."

Year - 1999

Author - Jay Conrad Levinson

Book name - Mastering Guerrilla Marketing: 100 Profit-producing Insights You Can Take to the Bank

Page # of quote - page 186

Publisher - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Google Books working(?) link - http://books.google.com/books?id=8f69VffjDJMC&lpg=PA186&dq=%...

I heard the same thing the last time around. Before the 2000 crash. Before the 2008 crash. It's different though this time, right?
The numbers are being modified. In the other thread, someone posted a screenshot of the then-current results for snowden: http://i.imgur.com/jv9t4X0.png
I think in Europe it's not clear that it would fit under the definition of Personal Data under the data protection act:

http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...

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Personal data means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified –

(a) from those data, or

(b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller

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... the big question is whether an IP address can be used to identify someone. It certainly can for ISPs, because they lease IP addresses. And IP addresses can certainly identify people down to neighbourhoods. But LG might be able to claim they have anonymised it sufficiently.

Of course, it's also possible that:

a) LG customers have registered their TV with LG, including identifying information, leading LG to be able to put two and two together.

or

b) There's data sharing between LG and a third party such as an ISP.
Matching service style? haven't heard of anything like but then I'm white and speak English. Sounds like a neat service. Good luck.