skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you uninstall so you can listen to your music in order vs. unsubscribe?

I upgraded long ago to get rid of the annoying ads. I don't know if the mobile service has just the shuffle portion, or shuffle plus ads, but that would make me upgrade even quicker if that is the case.

I used Spotify all the time at work, and premium is a big part so I can listen to it via my iPhone in my car also.
Too bad they never show the interesting stuff.

Modern clusters use a new fabric type called Jupiter, built with the Trident+ chips made by Broadcom, that can grow up to ten times bigger then the old Watchtower clusters (up to 150k servers per fabric)

Old racks have been replaced by the Ikea enclosures that provide DC at the rack level.

The new machines are also really powerful in terms of cpu power and I/O (flash storage, 20Gbit network) and are significantly faster then the previous generation. The public pictures presented in the past are of really old designs that are not longer in service.
That was my first thought when I read the story too.

I bet non casino hotels pay way less attention to security I suspect that the vegas hotels would have caught the perp on camera - and in these more enlightend times they might even have survived :-)
Yeah, me too. Everyone's asleep, everything is quiet, I feel a little drowsy. It's really easy to get 'in the zone'

Read this: http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/...

> Because being tired makes us better coders.
It freezes after like 5 seconds for me (buffer cannot be null) with Opera 19 (latest dev).
Survey-based approval ratings are pretty much meaningless, as they don't necessarily lead to change. Many people who claim to disapprove of the President would not vote for any other option were they given a chance today. This is called "tacit approval" as I mentioned. People might disagree, but it doesn't lead to any measurable difference in how they act politically. SNL had a great skit on this several weeks back when Kerry Washington hosted.
> if you have a security requirement, use full disk encryption

By this do you mean something along the lines of "if you have something worth protecting, do it the right way / all the way"? Interesting phrase.
Spotify premium subscriber here. What I've heard of LZ is good, but I don't think I've heard anything other than best-of albums. I'd love the chance to listen to their back catalogue.

I gave away / lost / threw away all of my CDs over the last few years. I don't own a stereo, so they just took up space. I think that the artists that refuse to appear on Spotify are very short sighted, they may as well be invisible to a whole generation.
The downside is that you and I will inevitably pick different subsets, leaving someone trying to combine our two projects with dangerously sharp edges in inconvenient places.
I disagree, at a certain point it does.

Imagine the roles were reversed and some jerks from the US went and killed 3000 middle easterners. As a response they invade america and over the course of 10 years kill nearly 20,000% as many people as died in that original attack. Still call the death toll from the original jerks to the middle easterners significant?
Thanks, we are trying to filter merging commits. I will fix it soon.
Those numbers are extremely generous.

I know a few nurses and none make $100k.
Exclusivities don't need to last forever. An exclusive of a few months may be enough to acquire additional subscribers while keeping the cost low enough to be justified as an acquisition cost.

Personally, I think exclusives will always be around.
Evenly is joining Square
Your functionality is unchanged. Free users who previously had no or limited mobile functionality have more functionality.
No they should be used. Just shouldn't be the way they are used now. Animal is sick - treat him, but first you must take every possible way to prevent disease in the first place. Like giving the animals space/grass and better fecal matter removal. Space the herd and you reduce drastically the chances of outbreak.
AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history
hey onion2k,

this insight is really appreciated as it will really help to improve tyto. How would you suggest maybe showing this information to the user? a modal or pop up? or something less intrusive just like a spinner when it saves? Or should there be some intro that asks the user if localStorage is ok to be used? Maybe a disappearing banner? then a button could easily be added to the header for removing said data maybe.

I guess I will really need to assess how many buttons make their way into the header really. What's you opinion on drop buttons or maybe some of the actions being icon buttons and some text plus icons? I'm just thinking of screen real estate and the responsive element.

on mobile I would like the traditional hidden menu I think when it comes to it.

Thanks for the insight and feedback again, it's really appreciated.
IMHO:
On Docker, I'd say, it will change the rhetorical everything for stateless tiers. Stateful tiers will resist this change. I'm not yet comfortable upgrading to a new version of MySQL on a database using Docker in application-container mode, that is, without some package management like scripts (e.g. upgrade the dataset). For stateful tiers, full LXC containers are changing everything, at least until full full-container support arrives in Docker (because, duh, it uses LXC).
I'm carfree in Portland Oregon and I LOVE biking in the icy mornings. What a great way to wake up.
If you use "Follow" on sufficient amount of artists, and Favorite some songs, the "Discover" option gives you some decent selection of more of what you might like (plus the alerts will tell you every time something new from one of your followed artists appears).

After year with Spotify, I can't imagine going back to the model of buying one album/song at a time now.
Optimizing code in Scala
"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives
Want to Hire Engineers? Better Get it Done in 16 Days Or Less.
And of course, there's someone posting about the US Postal Service in the comments.
The problem is getting the money to move when you have no job. A hypothetical future tax write off doesn't pay for the gas to get across the country today.

Even if I have a good job waiting for me, if it doesn't pay -- in advance -- for relocation, I'm stuck.
I still find it bizarre that the actual files still aren't synced in the google drive desktop app. Instead they are synced and stored in the browser. I'm assuming this means you have to go into the browser and get the latest versions before you go offline, rather than the desktop app keeping you in sync. The desktop app really feels neglected, like it's a checkbox feature to compete with Dropbox.
My guess is that will get better pretty soon. There was a massive mismatch between Spotify desktop and mobile paid for the longest time, but with every new update it gets better.
I am not sure if it's offensive or just funny
aliens. Btw, I find the movie horrible...
Not at all - I don't think I've ever seen XML-RPC used in a Django project or library. It's more common in the Twisted world though, and this project's default implementation uses Twisted.
Yes, it's kind of political. They also say at the end of the video: "we like all your products, but no single company should be trusted with so much of our data". By driving around as Google and telling others to "turn off their cameras", they remind people that Google is basically spying on them.

While not everybody might agree with the message, I think the project is no less manipulative than the Google branding ads from India, which try to positively change your impression of a large company by showing you something very emotional.
The people behind the reactive manifesto are typesafe.com

Unsurprisingly, they have products to sell that are manifesto-compliant.
Show HW: Text input using EEG headset 
I'm part of a group of students who developed a text input system that can be used without any kinetic motions. It uses an EEG headset to read signals and allow one to control a typing user interface.

Please check out our video and temp website,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPpvO64BfY

https://sites.google.com/site/rochciteammia/
Ha! You are right. I usually watch videos in 720p, because my connection isn't all that great to YouTube servers, so I never noticed. Just tried it with a 1080p clip, and sure enough, the content isn't running in retina resolution. I guess if I haven't noticed after this long, I am not switching, but good catch.
"Vote for me and I'll be sure to change the law that says 'survival' is a warm shack and three bowls of soup a day."

"My opponent must not be elected because he'll take your warm coat away and prevent me from providing for your 'right' to two bowls of soup a day."

"Vote for me and I'll put real chicken in your broth!"

"My opponent calls this 'surviving'?"
The acting, story, soundtrack and effects all seemed good to me. What didn't you like about it?
Spotify employee here - it's only for free tier. Your service doesn't change.
Yeah seriously, if the NSA sent a team of agents into WoW and Second Life it'd be absurd to think that they wouldn't monitor HN.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/nsa-spying-world-of-warcraf...
"little confused what would have changed about my top 3 competitors in a month?"

Seems like this service wouldn't benefit YOU, as you're a bit naive about competition, but I think it's a great idea. $40 seems like an OK price. What company wouldn't want info on a competitor ? Offer discounts for more than 3 monitored entities, etc.
That's funny because you kind of did the same thing here :)
The notion that an asteroid impact could launch life-bearing debris to escape velocity is not new. I remember it being mentioned in one of Lester Del Rey's juvenile science fiction books -- possibly "Outpost of Jupiter", which according to Wikipedia was first published in 1963.
It's just you get an updated report on them... So, what sort of milestones they reached, any new marketing stratehies they've undertakem, any new product changes or releases thet've done, and any sort of complaints they got from customers, and about what. It's a way to stay updated on your competitors.

Maybe bi-quarterly would work better?
It is convenient. But I am surprised so many people are willing to put their business's data into a spreadsheet where they can't even get the native files. If this takes off it's going to be lock in 100x worse than Excel ever was.
I wouldn't pay for it, but competitive research is a big and active market, so I don't doubt there's a demand for it. I suspect though that your audience would be mostly established businesses. Startups are usually too busy to worry about their competitor's every move.
Can I target their users with ad for https everywhere?
Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback
Hey Everyone,

To start, I'd like to say that it's my hobby to design and program websites and web applications. My ultimate objective is to make something really valuable such that it generates enough income that I can work on it full time. The problem is I usually make things that most people just don't want.

So, this time around, I thought it would be cool to propose the idea first using a landing page and judge the demand for the product based on how many emails I collect.

Please check out the following landing page I made that presents the idea in just a few slides. If you like the idea, please submit your email address to help me judge demand and to be informed if/when I release the product. Also, feel free to provide any feedback in this thread so that I may improve the idea before starting to implement it.

The idea is here:

http://www.trafomatch.com

Thanks so much everyone and I look forward to your feedback!
> lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

It doesn't work on typical cheap VPS servers from http://lowendbox.com/ because they use OpenVZ.
> I feel like Linux is a better contender now then it was in 2004. Or am I just in a "developers tech savvy world" and viewing linux as a viable contender now compared to the typical layman?

For the typical layman, what matters is mostly "can I get it and use it without thinking about it", which is, really, more about major vendor (both hardware and app developer) adoption than it is about substantive features. Insofar as Linux is a contender there, for the average individual user, its largely in the form of ChromeOS rather than traditional desktop linux distros, not because ChromeOS is more feature appropriate, but because of its backing.

There is a reason Microsoft is running negative ads about ChromeOS and not about, say, Ubuntu.

From a development perspective, Linux has been adequate as a main OS for a long-time, though better virtualization solutions make having to choose one OS full-time -- or use comparatively awkward dual-boot solutions -- less a reality.
For me: collaboration. For personal stuff, I can create small sheets and share with family. They will be updates instantly.

For work: we use google spreadsheet for a lot of different status reporting. Allowing multiple people to edit it at once (and view all the changes immediately) can be really nice for certain use cases.
While I do agree with you, how do you implement such features in fully pure ISO/ANSI C++ compliant compiler?
> maybe unemployment is no longer serving it's intended functions (as a stop-gap between jobs).

That's basically true. I'm of the opinion that we need a real basic/guaranteed income program, because what we have right now is a terrible hodgepodge of TANF + unemployment + SSDI (http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/) which only serve to paper over the fact that we have more people than there are jobs.

This problem will only get worse in the future as automation hollows out the middle of the labor market.
You could certainly model this with MySQL, but for more optimized results, other database systems could be better. You might look at Vertica. Read up on data warehousing, if you haven't already, and see what applies to what you're trying to do.
To be fair, if those recordings are time-stamped, it probably does leak information about user browsing habits.

Anonymizing data is hard.
I appreciate your post. However it's not at all difficult to separate the procedure from the machine used to perform it, whatever it may be. The latter is already coverable by a utility patent on the physical tools. The former is simply a description of steps, and in the case of robotic surgeries it will invariably be software.

But we're not just talking about software here. The U.S. is trying to make medical procedures patentable in all but the most manual cases. In other words, only if a procedure can be done completely by hand is it exempt; the moment you use any sort of "medical device" in the surgery then the steps themselves become protected intellectual property, in addition to the utility patents on the devices themselves.

Source: http://keionline.org/node/1825
Cool, ping me if you need help (byoogle everywhere).
How does bi-quarterly sound? It's risky business neglecting your competitors.
Strange justification with the "Be nice" part. Is it strange to believe one doesn't need to follow all random people who follow them and vice versa on any website? It creates needless noise on the incoming feeds which prevents one from being able to follow the commits, issues etc. one is actually interested in.
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It's been years and still Google only implements offline mode in docs for Chrome? This looks shameful, but perhaps there is some reason that Google people reading HN can explain?

From what I can tell this requires a Chrome app from the Chrome Web Store. So it is not standard HTML5 stuff. Does Google intend to fully support non-Chrome browsers? This behavior seems to show otherwise.
I was struck by that too, and came here to make the same comment.

Why do you suppose they went with XFS? Ext4 seems like the defacto file system these days, but I know a lot of people seem to prefer XFS for one reason or another. It's a surprise to me that RHEL decided to default too it.

Anybody care to shed some light?
There are many flaws with contemporary management practices, but its existence is not a flaw. You would do much better by not tying pay/promotion to management. When that happens, you explicitly create a whole level of organizational politics that is contrary to the organization's goals.
"most of them just never learned to fake it"

This brings out an important point. Maybe engineers are so used to being forced to face the cold, scientific truth everyday (especially in programming) that they despise a false face or show of excitement. Salesmen on the other hand...
The point of them registering as unemployed was the UI check. Many of them had already given up looking.
> When we talk about Linux as an OS

...we talk incorrectly. Linux isn't an OS. Linux is a kernel, around which many OS's (Ubuntu, Red Hat, ChromeOS, Android, for instance) are built.
Isn't that the way it is in the US already? +95 years if it's a corporate owned work. They just want to extend that to the rest of the world now.
Well, that depends on whether you want the exact eigenvalues.
I'm a little unclear on how you include,

"not nearly mature enough in terms of compiler/toolset/language in general (often, it's unclear whether the language will ever achieve that necessary maturity)"

in that list. One of my perennial complaints about C++ is that it seems to be a moving target[1], more so than I really want to expose serious work to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6888366
Sucks you have to use Chrome for it to work right. Reminds me of the bad old days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer."
Thank you for clarifying. Does the AeroFS Team Server also have upgrades that behave the same way?
I'm at my first company that uses Google apps and it's been a bad experience. There's so much about email and calendaring that Outlook/Exchange got right that it's hard to be without it after taking it for granted.

Using a native rich application is always going to be superior to building a web app on top of a browser. Once you're used to real applications, Gmail and the other apps aren't suitable for anything more than light usage. It's not just the features that are missing, it's UI responsiveness and usability. Hosting an application inside a browser is so awkward in ways that real applications aren't. I can't assume I can right click and get anything useful, I don't know if I'm going to get the browser's menu or the app's. The concept of a consistent menu bar you can access with hotkeys is gone. Online/offline will never be seamless and consistent across apps. And the input lag is intolerable.

Having all of my documents stored centrally is a real, but small, convenience to get in exchange for everything that's given up. And as far as cost goes, I'd prefer that any money my company might be saving be deducted from my paycheck if it would mean they'd get off of Google apps.
I wonder how many people have custom improved mining software and using it as a competitive advantage.
The only feature I want is to be able to queue specific songs and then have it resume playing a radio station.
Ask HN: How can you tell between an Adsense banner and a DFP banner at a glance?
I've always been wondering, what's a quick way to tell whether an ad is directly booked on a website via Google's DFP, or booked via Adsense?
Bacteria is needed for composting to happen. Milk with antibiotics in it would hurt that process.
Conditional Formatting is a huge win.

The lack of this feature kept me using Excel when my collaborators complained about stale status colors.

I'll have to give it a test drive again soon.
With the proper encoding, I can reduce any distribution you measure to one (sufficiently large) number!
IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING!!! Including orbits of small moons around planets we haven't discovered yet.
hey ish!

Thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated. This is my aim, I want people to be more in power and control of the tools they use. With tyto, you could make it completely your own and behave as you wish without worrying about the backend part of it. All I ask is that if people do come up with something cool or host their own version they just share the link in the README. This is purely because it's really interesting to me to see how people are using it or what ideas they have come up with.

Checklists? Do you mean checklists on the actual cards themselves? This would be a really easy change. You could change the template for items and have that up and running pretty quick I think. It might require some changes to how the email template works and how json is generated but I can't see it being too major.

Thanks again for the feedback it's really appreciated, I'll see if I can take a look at how checklists would work or if you happen to have a go, let me know, I'd be happy to help or hear about it.
`go run` compiles your app already. In the case that you have multiple files in your package you will need to run `go build`
Hopefully we will see some type of GUI to create containers and manage cgroups.

The GUI for libvirt is called virt-manager: http://virt-manager.org/
I love the way SQLAlchemy uses the magic methods SQL expressions.
I've used ApDex[1] before for giving a better measure of response times for user experience

1:http://apdex.org/
As if SalesForce is any better.
Yeah, I find this whole meme quite weird. There seem to be a fairly large group of people that are convinced that some or other drug will 'open up' the minds of the populace, we'll all somehow 'realise' that we're being screwed by the man, suddenly everything will be awesome and we'll all live in harmony.

It's about as convincing as "and they all lived happily ever after" at the end of a fairytale.
....or from the rock they're in burning up in reentry.
Reform Corporate Surveillance
Project Marilyn Part I: Non-Patented Cancer Pharmaceutical
I've tried rdio for a couple weeks (free trial), and have been very happy with it so far.
The way you hash passwords is wrong, and worst by someone involved in bitcoin.
var passwordDigest = Crypto.SHA256( $scope.password )
Well, I agree, I'm just saying in case the move is possible.

Maybe there's some sort of loan business opportunity using the future tax write off as collateral or means to help pay it off?
seriously recommend people who care their data on disk to use ext4. http://lwn.net/Articles/476263/ XFS behaves not so well on power failure case.
Reduce complexity? In the second week of the course they removed the submission limit and doubled the submission window. The forum was a mass head scratching.

Edit:

How can you down vote an observation? Feel free to comment instead. I enjoy Scala, which is why I joined the course, but I thought the above added weight to the argument that Scala is too complex/academic/etc.
My search history is now full of things like "tiny guns" "short guns" "small guns" "easy to conceal small guns" "mini weapons" etc.

I shouldn't care, but I am gently worried about it. 'They' win, I guess.
Larry Page: Why Moon Shots Matter (Written by Steven Levy)
Ask HN: Can anyone provide insight on apple App store categories
We are getting close to completing a iOS app and are trying to determine the correct categorization. I am currently going back and forth between social networking and lifestyle, here is my question.

- Lifestyle has significantly more apps than social networking, but social networking has a majority of the most popular, and highest net worth, apps. Can anyone provide some insight on choosing a category, or perhaps on the competitive vs. volume distinction.

Thanks,
I suspect it's designed that way to work with Chrome OS.
This is not the recommended way to run Go applications, including those using Martini. Use "go build" or "go install" to build a binary and then execute the binary.