skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I live in Japan, roughly 3000km from China, but we also have to deal with China's pollution.

Although not that common, we sometimes get an alert with the weather report that the levels of PM 2.5 particulate matter (overwhelmingly blown over from China) are exceeding government safety standards, and that we may want to consider keeping kids indoors.

I remember we had similar 'smog alerts' a few days a year when I was a little kid in Los Angeles in wthe 1980s, and we couldn't go out to recess. But I think that's like what we are getting here in Japan, at a great distance separated by ocean -- nothing compared to what the Chinese people in Shanghai and Beijing are suffering.
Normal people (none of who are on hacker news ofcourse :p) tend to be scared of change, because change is 'different'. Little do they know that there really is no such thing as 'different' when it comes to your personality because the moment people start classifying you as different then you've actually started acting upon and becoming the real you! You've stopped being what they want you to be. Sadly enough most people in the world live in denial,suppressing their capabilities thus most partnerships formed by a group of 'conformists'. I guess it explains why we're still light years behind any real WORLD development.
Weather wars: who should be allowed to engineer our climate?
If you are at all interested in constructing these timeline focused thought experiments I highly recommend "microscope" an RPG by Ben Robbins.

http://www.lamemage.com/microscope/
"Being able to write the procedural parts in a language that's less-terrible than typical SQL extensions would be really nice."

Postgres allows writing functions in many languages, including C, python, and javascript.
Plausibly. C++ confuddles things with reference syntax, but in straight C the notion that

int b, *a;

declares that

"b"

and

"*a"

are ints only really breaks down at casts. It does require point out that you are allocating space for the named things, not the terms...
Um, one thought is that HN users are more targeted than just people hanging out on /r/programming.

I've done a lot of PPC over the years and the one thing I learned over and over again is the best ROI always comes when you inject yourself into the end of the buying cycle. What I mean is, the closer to making a purchasing decision they are, the more likely they are to buy whatever product fits what they are looking for because they've already been educated about the problem, solution, etc.

In the affiliate marketing world, this is why review sites are so darn popular for making money. People go to them when they are making a buying decision and if they click on the product link after reading the review, it drops a cookie and in many cases they will buy that same session anyway.

Price comparison or deal sites are also kind of in the same end point of the buying cycle. The person has already decided to buy a particular item, so whoever can offer the best deal or whoever has the best bonus item/service/brand is going to probably make the sale.

By being on HN, there are probably a lot more people looking for your particular solution than just the average reddit reading programmer. There is some overlap, but I would imagine the average HN user is closer to a devops role than the average reddit programmer. If only cuz I'd imagine a lot of reddit programming readers are working on some enterprise software where they aren't allowed to touch the DNS anyway.

Also, good job on making a follow up post that did make it on HN. When life gives you lemons...
This is pretty much what hynek was on about (see my comment below) and what the guys at Parcel are doing (Iam a johnny come lately with pyholodeck) but we are trying to do the same thing - build once, package into apt/deb and deploy many times.

I think the argument above (boss runs different OS) is a fallacy - you want to deploy to the same target OS, probably in the cloud, so optimise for that first then fiddle with different OS. I guarantee people will prefer deploying a cloud server and logging in "just to see" and be happy with manually bringing things up with `setup.py develop` locally.
Same here, I wont be clicking "Riff Search"
This brings up a thought I've had repeatedly (an admittedly unscientific one) when considering human history.

Considering that it "only" took us several thousand years to transform ourselves from hunter-gatherers to our current technologies, it makes little sense that this is the first human culture to reach the point we've reached. Then I try to dissuade myself from such a notion, rationalizing that if that were the case, we'd know it from some sort of evidence by this point.

And yet, I still can't shake the notion that this "shouldn't" be the first time around. Weird, especially since I consider myself a hardcore skeptic.
If you're a power user do yourself a favour and install Alfred[1]. You can keep the dock hidden and launch/switch_to apps with a couple of keystrokes.

[1] http://www.alfredapp.com/
I'd be willing to try again on more dev and devops related subs, though the audience reach is a bit smaller there.
$3000 million is certainly a lot less than the cost of a military powerful enough to defend such a centralized system from government takeover. Also, I think the right comparison is not a hypothetical single server handling transactions, but the current bloated global financial industry. I'll bet $3000 million doesn't even cover the air conditioning bills for the offices of the financial institutions whose jobs would be better handled by Bitcoin.
The article mentioned one gap of 100,000 years between colonization attempts.
Fabulous Friday: It’s Infographics Once Again
We should probably note, like mathematicians do, that much like infinity, 'unlimited' isn't always the same as another 'unlimited' :) - in this case for example, Chinese banks can use cash but not bitcoins.
I like the idea and would've offer it for my company, but we have 200+ domains so your plans little off.
Last time I was back in April of this year, Lantau was a little better but realistically still not good enough to consider living there, much less bringing up kids. I ended up feeling out of breath crossing the road.

I haven't been back to Macau since I was a kid though, so it looks very different now (Thanks to Mr Ho.)

My grandfather grew up in HK too. He passed away last summer, struck down by a rather horrible respiratory based cancer. However, I'm wary of too much confirmation bias in attributing that to the pollution too. It'll be interesting to see what the respiratory disease numbers are like in the coming decades.
How to be a boss: a new manager’s guide to managing down
Contrary what reading the news might lead you to believe, the world is better off than it's ever been and continuing to get better. Why does the author believe technological progress will halt tomorrow?
I love the picture of Iceland.
You mean "vintage".
I'm currently (attempting to) use reddit advertising, and I'm quite confused by how it works. I purchased all of the available impressions for a given subreddit over the next 4 days, but I've yet to actually see my ad (or any other ad for that matter) displayed despite reddit indicating 800 impressions.
As in, other digital currencies or transactions? I think he was referring to the known supply produced by mining.
I actually did not know about this thread until you mentioned Docker in it.

And after reading it, I've realized I've been plain wrong in how I've been constructing my python related Docker containers.

Full disclosure: I love pip. I love virtualenv. I use them religiously.

I also work for the Docker team.
"There's nothing that I can think of in the theory or history of Bitcoin to suggest that it should, can, or will ever, overcome its volatility"

Well, yes: as trading volume and price grow, market depth will be bigger, hence reducing volatility.
It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't believe that is an accurate description:

>The law of the Second New Revised Book of Discipline that governs the lives of the avout at the time of the narration... bans the avout from owning anything but two pieces of clothing and a sphere with multiple uses, and bans them from using or even knowing how to use any technology but paper and pen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem

Unless you want to argue about whether those limited items are worth calling technology, at which time I will have to point out that we are not the only species to use tools.
I would like to point out that the article, despite it's leading title, states that there's little evidence to suggest the agent was working for the CIA at the time. He owned a security company and was hired by a South African government agency.

Title really should be: "The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From A Hired Private Security Contractor Who Happened To Have Worked For The CIA In The Past"
Show HN: Joomla Framework
Yeah. OP here: A poor attempt at humor. It just controls the amount of "slop" in the elastisearch query - being tasteless is just a bonus.
I think the author ignores several important facts. For one, humans are high on the food chain and in turn may not be as robust as say roaches, but we can construct pretty much everything. We will evolve and change, but the extinction of the human race would require several Unprecedented events. Even a large meteorite striking Earth would have trouble killing off humanity (obviously if it's big enough...). Furthr, algae reduce carbon much MUCH more efficiently than plants and can reproduce much faster. Even more we already have processes of turning algae to oil (although the oil is of poor quality). All that being said the more carbon dioxide is released the quicker/more algae will grow and the more oxygen and oil can be produced. In other words, obviously there are limits and I challenge you (the author or reader) to do research, but although humanity has problems. As a species we are doing alright.
vittore - ping us and maybe we can discuss? i'd like to hear more about your use case at least. You can hit us up at support at namecast dot net, or just log in, start your free trial and ping us via the support button.
No, it's just a sign that they rely heavily on unrefined coal for power.
Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – “Have I been pwned?”
lol, no - brute force crackers have long had the option to do the same thing.
Joyent looks better to me honestly.
I'm guessing it's in the Freudian psychoanalysis sense, rather than the more literal one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness

Frankly, I'm not sure which is worse.
Fact that intelligence is very expensive in terms of energy consumption. Brain is already very expensive, highly intelligent species would need to dedicate more energy. So unless evolution will evolve cheaper way of representing high intelligence (which might be possible, our brain chemical structures are artifacts of time we lived in the oceans), it is unlikely that a species would evolve substantially higher intelligence compared with humans.

So to evolve superior intelligence: need a lot of food at regular intervals with strong evolutionary pressure for being smarter, instead of faster, tougher, bigger, or more violent. Generally unlikely to happen in nature.
Ha, first thing I noticed too. Those corporate smartwatch bastards don't have the Rockin' 12 app or Rock Micro Tracker & App! What kind of an idiot do they think I am! They're essential!

I also like how only this watch has the Qi battery (and separate associated checkboxes for all the charging accessories as if you'd get one without the other), but all the others seem to have a "Qi battery life"
Works! Well done tech.
Get your marketing department to sanitize for prudes, if you care for the prude market.
It extends to deployment. Off top of my head, the script that you have to write to trivially deploy with virtualenv is something like:

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p$PYTHON $workdir
"$workdir/bin/activate"
(cd $my-package-dir && python setup.py)
"$workdir/bin/deactivate"
virtualenv --relocatable "$workdir"
fpm -s dir -t deb -n "$package" -p "$package.deb" -d <system dependencies> ...

And you have a deb that you can just scp anywhere and it'll just work.
It's a good guess but we probably won't see the impact for a a little while. Before Deng's reforms in the 80s industry was limited and the growth in the past 10 years has been incredible. My own grandfather's health was only really significantly affected by the pollution floating over to HK in the past 3-5 years.

I'd say wait another 10 years before the true consequences start to become apparent.
Interestingly, a few startups have been putting "Show HN" in their titles even when it's especially unwarranted (i.e. a product that's been on the market a long time) for that Hacker News SEO.
Don’t eat your heart out
Amazing how much you wedged into 995 bytes. I have to admit, I would have been willing to pay 997 or 988 bytes for it, but I'm a big spender ;-)
Cheap, easy to start. Expensive as hell and limiting when you need more flexiblity and custom tools on your server.
https://www.arangodb.org/quickstart works. There is also an online tutorial https://www.arangodb.org/tryitout
Can One Write Readable and Maintainable Perl?
If you're interested in the subject, here's another related study, which was published in 2010:

"And along came a spider: An attentional bias for the detection of spiders in young children and adults"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096510...

"Preschoolers and adults were asked to find the single spider picture among an array of eight mushrooms or cockroaches or the reverse. Both children and adults detected the presence of spiders more rapidly than both categories of distracter stimuli."
"Anal" on it's own isn't that bad, although you will be excluding everyone who doesn't know the Freudian term. Juxtaposing it with "sloppy" is going too far. Even if you're not offended by it, being slapped in the brain with that much graphic imagery when you're not expecting it stops you from engaging with the website.

Maybe "nonchalant" would be a fun replacement?
Without the ability to communicate or observe a physical technology, how do we measure the level of reasoning in an intelligent being?
"To measure how much of an effect Telepathwords has on your behavior, we also send and maintain a log of your mouse movements and the timings of when characters are added to or removed from your password."

That's interesting. Has anyone ever used mouse movement data? How is it collated, displayed, used?
Orchestrate.io opens early production-level service
Which social networks are people using to get breaking news?
Baidu no longer accepting Bitcoins
I like .NET pretty well, but I don't like working on Windows or being bound to it. (Maybe the Mono stuff has gotten better but when we used it at my company we had two problems: bugs in our code and bugs in the platform.)

Also, after doing lots of things in JS and Python over the last couple years, going back to .NET just feels too "heavy" somehow. The changes in C# and .NET over the years have been very nice so it's hard to justify this feeling. One definite downside of the .NET ecosystem, I would say, is that they take forever to do completely sensible things that everyone else is doing. Things like MVC, package management, deployment tools.

BTW, I have found that in interviews my extensive past .NET experience is viewed negatively. There are assumptions out there about .NET devs and in fact I would say there is some basis for those assumptions. At the same time, I was hoping that smart people would be able to see through that and acknowledge that not everyone who works with a technology is "like that", but alas. So it is a bit of a liability, unfortunately.
Module properties in Python
No the paper is saying the opposite -- that this situation can be the case -- what I was interested in was hearing their evidence that this is happening to them.
China uses the term "sea mist" to dupe tourists. It's not fooling anyone, though...
"PhoneHome retrieves Hoot’s logs from mischievous devices without asking anything from the user."

Sentry anyone?
so you mean "I love Taiwan"
Okay but stop thinking in extremes for a second.

Imagine I need a car and I hear there is a 30% off sale in January. Yes, I'll wait. Im considering the lost marginal value to me (keeping my shitty car in December) vs marginal gain (saving 30%). That's what deflation feels like.
They're human. There's male, female, good and bad ones :)
"And, in religion, debates turn into bloody warfare, ..."

Seriously?

You sure do know how to keep discussion polite.
I counted at least two sites and one twitter bot that automatically culled "Show HN" posts and gave us traffic. Nice bump.
RPKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Public_Key_Infrastruct...) is getting increasing use and looks to be the consensus solution among RIRs, ISPs, etc. Events like this, and there have been quite a few recently, will drive faster adoption.

HTTPS wasn't rolled out with 100% in a year or two either.

Disclaimer: I am an RPKI researcher.
I wonder what similar satellite imagery would have shown in early/mid 20th century europe.
Does anyone know if the laws that require tobacco companies, for instance, to place health warnings on cigarette boxes also specify the appearance of the label (e.g., font family or size). If not, this article seems to suggest that companies should seek out typography, such as comic sans, that would lessen the negative effects of such labels.
I hope this works as something of a second launch for them, because it seems like a great product.
Unleash your inner superhero. The first step to make your passion a business
2-3 years ago, and I don't remember, unfortunately. I just wanted to point out that it could be done through simple javascript if those viewing this thread are unhappy with any of the libraries mentioned.
"converts really well"

I don't understand- converts to what? Another language?
Great smog of 1952 estimated at 3000 ug/m^3 of PM10

Source: Open access journal article linked from the wikipedia page you cited ;) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241116/pdf/ehp0...
It really irks me whenever there's a talk about nuclear energy. Nuclear power may have its own set of challenges, but coming from the baseline of coal it's hard to do worse.
When/if Amazon notice significant churn heading Google's way, I expect one of the things they'll look at is their billing time granularity.
Weren't like 70K white people slaughtered while he was president?
Trse.im
Shorten some links!
The only piece of information that I take away from this is that BofAML has likely already entered a large short position in BC.
So you basically lack empathy.
I suppose what has happened to my HN account (artificially high latency, aka "slowbanning", and personal penalties in comment placement, aka "rankbanning") proves this. If you actually challenge VC-istan (as opposed to Graham-esque incremental improvements) on its moral fundamentals, you've gone too far.

More generally, creativity (in particular, I'll focus on social humor) has a status effect. Let's put social status on a scale from -1.0 to 1.0. Below 0.0, you're an at-risk member who may be expelled from the group. At 1.0, you're an unquestioned god-king of it (most groups' leaders are 0.5 to 0.7).

When you're above +0.4, you can't really use humor (which I'm taking to be a microcosm of creativity) except of a stunted kind, because most good humor is partisan or offensive, and not "presidential" or "leader-like". That, I would argue, applies to creative expression in general.

Below 0.0, you're a disliked member of the group and your ideas (or humor) will be rejected just because they come from you and are therefore taken to be unskilled displays and desperate attempts to improve status. Between 0.0 and +0.2, your jokes might be well-received, but it's not worth the risk, because you don't have much status capital to spend. This leaves a narrow range of the status spectrum-- 0.2 to 0.4-- in which humor (/creativity) can bring improvement. However, people at +0.3 to +0.4 aren't high enough to end up climbing corporate ladders-- you need +0.6 to +0.7 to play that game, and you need to achieve that status reliably (at each level of the executive hierarchy)-- and doubling down on humor typecasts you as "the funny guy", which isn't the image you want and limits you at the +0.4 ceiling.

The problem isn't really that people individually dislike creativity. It's that social groups become increasingly anti-intellectual and focused on self-preservation (which requires excluding the "different") as they get bigger.
Because we're all adults with functioning senses of humor, where 'all' is defined as a 'mostly' whose exceptions tend to be both immediately obvious and unbearable in social settings.
Oracle is appealing the 2012 ruling allowing Google to use Java APIs in Android
Yes, you just announce a bad BGP route with their AS. The blacklist idea assumes that BGP route announcements are attributable, which in many cases they are not.
The recently released X: Rebirth sure gives these games a run for their money. Unlike some of the games listed, dev time for X was around 7 years. We can't say that the game was re-arranged in the last hour (like that Superman game). The general consensus is that the publisher said "enough is enough" and forced a release.

X is a bit of a niche series (Hyper-detailed, hyper-complex 4X), but X: Rebirth was supposed to be a much more accessible re-invention. Instead, it is/was an unplayable mess that has been universally reviewed like this: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/02/x-rebirth-review

I'm not sure if it is buggy enough to be considered the buggiest game of all time, but it is definitely in the discussion for that distinction. Fortunately, the developers have spent years after release patching their previous X titles, so maybe some day Rebirth will be playable. In the meantime, stuff like flying around, loading saved games, the entire economy stopping randomly, the inability to complete storyline missions, friendly AI not working, random crashes, and a huge pile of other bugs make this game a mess of massive proportions.
Author apparently didn't read the article from Merril Lynch

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/885843-banks-researc...

What it actually says is that if BitCoin is to be viable it has to be used as Currency exchanged against the price of the local currency at the time of transaction.

This makes sense. You wouldn't want to buy gas based on the high or the low of the day. So you can't say that Gas costs 1/300th of a Coin, and leave that as the price all day because right now that could be Cheap at $900 a coin and Expensive at $1300 a coin.

It also says that there has to be enough people using it for it to not have huge price swings based on Volatility. This also makes sense. We don't buy things with gold often because knowing the value at a given moment is hard. And since we don't trade in raw gold we trade in coins, typically those coins each have values, a Krugerand and a Panda don't have quite the same value per ounce and the difference fluctuates per day. So unless we can get to a point that BTC is only changing fractional percentages per day, people are going to always be changing coins to local currency.

All of this summarized in one sentence:

BoA ML thinks that BitCoin will become a Merchant Services System that works on the instantaneous exchange rate with the local currency, and based on the market share they believe it could have and the total number of coins in circulation the cap will be $1300. (yeah it is a long compound sentence)
and on the cross-browser version, the forward and back buttons on the browser work as an undo/redo.. sick
I'm guessing public barbecues