skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second edit: d'oh, I meant where ever Google's main west coast datacenter is, maybe Oregon? The point being that it appears that all of the traffic goes through a single geographic location.
I just searched for this again this week. Finally in the console. I do prefer the api once I understand something but the console is great for a first walk through.
AVC/H.264, like many MPEG standards, has an official reference implementation: http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/
Are you sure about this? Just tested it out:

openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 -crlf

220 mx.google.com ESMTP u17sm2709629qeb.4 - gsmtp
helo
250 mx.google.com at your service
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
< BASE_64 USERNAME>
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
< BASE_64 PASSWORD>
235 2.7.0 Accepted
MAIL FROM: <my_email>
250 2.1.0 OK u17sm2709629qeb.4 - gsmtp
rcpt to: <my_email>
250 2.1.5 OK u17sm2709629qeb.4 - gsmtp
rcpt to: <emaildne39g39jd9j9jfsdk@gmail.com>
250 2.1.5 OK u17sm2709629qeb.4 - gsmtp

I get an OK with BS emails too...
Soylent is going to have a very, very hard time with new customer acquisition. Right now it's riding a wave of novelty, but as it solves a problem very few people have, and solves it in a way that leaves people craving the innate satisfaction of eating, it's not going to go far. But there are founders with more ambition than sense. In fact I suspect that's most of them.
Low sodium vegetable juice has 900mg per serving.
I'm ready to ditch my LCD at work and use this. I hope the higher resolution version is good enough to code on. I'm happy to see that there are already some window managers: http://hwahba.com/ibex/
Also, from the Enrollment Report:

"To date, 364,682 persons have selected a Marketplace plan during the first two months of the initial open enrollment period, including 227,478 in SBMs and 137,204 in the FFM (these numbers include those who have paid a premium and those who have not yet paid a premium)."

That parenthetical note is important and shouldn't be parenthetical. I wonder how many have actually completed the full selection -> payment process in the entire country...
Gaming "Objectives and Key Results" type evaluations is far older than Google. It's not remotely an objective measure unless you have an organization that has extensive knowledge of how to accurately assess effort based on set objectives.

From what I've seen, many organizations that try to formalize evaluations this way are easier to game, because the very idea that there are somewhat reliable metrics makes it easier to justify not following up as closely.

(I'm not saying it will happen, but I've seen it far more often than I care to; including once having a manager that didn't even inquire about what my team had done lately for three years - I didn't mind, I delivered what I should to other parts of the business, but he should have: he had no effective oversight over a team officially reporting to him that handled tens of millions in revenue; if I had messed up, his head would've been on the chopping block next to mine)
Thanks for the classification. I was not aware of those costs.
I saw a large hamster ball with oculus VR at IndieCade in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim
Jessica Lessin's startup courts broad audience for tech news
Presidential Task Force Recommends Overhaul of Surveillance Tactics of NSA
There's no story or punchline. What do I do with this?
Bitcoin market price app, 'Bitcoin Alarm,' is carefully cloaked malware
I assume people are upset with the idea because it epitomizes the worst parts of nothing but numbers reductionist tech ideology. They're upset with the product because it preys on such people, and is possibly a net negative. It's not a major concern of mine.
Because that is the premise in pdog's comment which you were refuting as misguided.

You are free to do whatever you want (and not what other people desire) if you are self sufficient enough to not need anything from others (highly unlikely).
Not in an age where people think twice about buying a 99c phone app.
That was my first computer. Unfortunately I didn't have any kind of persistent storage, so I while I dabbled in BASIC I didn't really get into programming until I owned an XT.
I wish schools had taught computer programming in my youth. Once a week we'd go to the "computer lab" and play "Oregon Trail " or something that at least provided exposure to computers, but little was done to educate us on how computers work.
The tragedy is that today, fewer kids are learning the how. Using a computer isn't a black art, it is now pedestrian like teaching typing. While it may be a very serviceable skill to learn, it doesn't prepare students for truly valuable skills like logic and basic problem solving.
I'm glad that there is renewed interest in exposing children to programming. While a programming language isn't a foreign language like Latin, it certainly has its own grammar and rules that can affect critical thinking in the same way. As long as the bill doesn't mandate that a particular programming language is the "Language of the Land," I believe that this could be a good measure.
I have a spreadsheet I use now and again to log in a similar way to what you do, but I additionally classify the time into work/personal/study/procrastination etc., and which charts the time breakdown.

Occasionally I will run it for a day, or even up to a week, check the breakdown, and pick goals to improve on, run it another week etc.

Running it all the time is too time consuming in itself, but occasional "checkpoints" help ensuring I maintain good habits etc.

Would never show it to my boss though - I feel confidentiality for those kinds of things are necessary to ensure you're absolutely honest with yourself. I'd happily recommend people working for me do the same, including withholding it from me.
So providing APIs designed for C and C++ (instead of gluing it to JavaScript APIs) makes PNaCl the same as either an unsandboxed, proprietary, closed-source, non-OS-portable, non-CPU-portable Microsoft technology from the 90s, or a proprietary, closed-source Adobe technlogy from the 2000s?

I think that may be a false dichotomy.
Ask HN: Bitcoin owners—how many of you have actually *bought* something with it?
I think there's little question that bitcoin is unsustainable unless an ecosystem emerges for spending it.

So how many of you actually transact in bitcoin? What for? And if you haven't, why not?
Most feminists I know don't hesitate to mention the wage gap between white people and black / hispanic people.
The higher resolution one is all I'm waiting for before I pull the trigger and buy one. I want to use this when I'm in bed. My girlfriend will be able to sleep without the light from the computer screen bothering her. I'll probably also be able to switch to using my Kinesis Advantage keyboard as well since I will no longer be married to the laptop because of the screen.
more and more companies seem to be doing this sort of search results now.
I haven't tried it with that game, but I heard some very positive comments on people using it with Euro Truck Simulator 2 (already pretty realistic by itself on a screen).

Occulus Rift is going to be awesome for all these games where you are supposed to be sitting in a cockpit. For FPS, not so much (unless you have a giant hamster ball and tons of sensors as someone else mentioned).
I just cannot believe this exists. It's both fascinating and absurd to me. All I think about is the food from Repo Man.

http://www.google.com/search?q=repo+man+food+labels

The future is here:
http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oy9fSDl0lIQ/TxK4mMDa0QI/AA...
Ruby and RoR jobs aggregator
Hehe, that lept out at me as well. I guess we're old.
Think & Grow Rich
What does "science" mean in this context anyway? An astronomer, say, can work with vast, vast swaths of data but that doesn't make the astronomer a "data scientist". Statistics has some fairly generic tools but it doesn't seem to me these add up to science in the sense that fields like chemistry, biology, geology and physics are sciences.

My modest exposure to machine learning at the professional level gives me impression that the "real experts" combine a strong mathematical understanding, long experience and some good rules of thumb to perform better than a grad student shooting in the dark, if they happen to perform better.

Oddly enough, all articles about how hard it is to become a "real data scientist" gives the impression that however much expertise is involved, that expertise isn't the codified understanding that is "real science" - even a physics undergraduate does real physics because scientists, physics codified their methods.

Maybe "data science" can become science. But suspect that what will become scientific is the understand of whatever entity is producing the data. Which isn't to discount the learning of experts here but simply to note that compendiums of rules-of-thumb and feelings indicate what Thomas Kuhn might a pre-scientific field.
Yes, mymodafinil.net

Basically, merchants who benefit from Bitcoin are those that VISA/PayPal don't want to touch.
At first I glanced over the "new" in there. Now I'm jealous.
On the scale from "totally fictional" to "totally non-fictional", Ivan Denisovich leans pretty far to the non-fiction side since much of it is directly based on the author's real experiences, so much so that it's often referred to as a "semi-autobiography".

As one of "them" who often prefers non-fiction, I enjoyed the book for that reason. Incidentally, I think it's stronger in this fictionalized form than as it would have been as a straight-up autobiography.
I really love all these articles about Data Science, but it's a lot more than statistics. It's programming, it's domain knowledge, and yes, it's a lot about thinking of the meaning, format, and pliability of the data.
Twitter's new block function poses a major privacy problem
CrunchBase Announces New Terms Of Service
At least that. And much more on the valuation. These are bets on teams, and with leading (bleeding?) edge technology, the CTO is the most important person in the room.
Build and debug a web service visually - new flow based programming environment
So if I like to go scuba diving, which doesn't pay me well at all, I must therefore not be making something people want?
Wow - thanks for creating this! I hope it has legs above and beyond the initial R tutorial.
The linear pay schedule is just an example. The point is that whatever pay schedule you happen to be on, you have to put it on hold to take care of a newborn child, so you will fall behind what you could have had. In economic terms, the opportunity cost of having a child is compounded over the rest of your wage-earning career.
Ask HN: CloudFlare error 520 when accessing Hacker News from Hong Kong 
For the last 2 days I have been receiving 520 errors from CloudFlare when trying to access http://news.ycombinator.com from Hong Kong:

Web server is returning an unknown error

There is an unknown connection issue between CloudFlare and the origin web server. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

Ray ID: dbffbbaeae7022b
Your IP address:
Error reference number: 520
CloudFlare Location: Hong Kong

If I VPN to somewhere else geographically (ie. America, France, etc) it works without issue.

I've opened a ticket with CloudFlare but they responded that it as an issue with the origin server which doesn't make sense to me since it only fails from Hong Kong.

Is anyone else having issues?
It will be fun to see his gums and teeth decay early on because he stopped chewing food.
Why don't they just buy .pirate and be set? Am I missing something?
That still doesn't make any sense. They're not forced to do anything with it - it's the "offended it exists" thing which I simply do not understand (well that, and all the people creating 5-star gourmet cuisine every night, who seem to show up).
Soylent really belongs on a late night infomercial for pseudo-scientific products.
The broken window fallacy is itself fallacious in that it is often used with an implicit assumption that all economic choices are zero-sum. Some times you can fix your windows and make shoes.

That isn't to say you should break your windows on purpose. That's just stupid.
Well, I came to this article half expecting to read that the pay gap had narrowed because both sexes were equally unemployed, and I guess I wasn't too far off.
That wave of novelty could just as easily gain them a critical mass of customers as well. Ultimately it will depend on their satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the product.
The parent comment is not saying that B is working just two hours per day. Rather that B finished the task in two hours (and then likely moved on to do something else).

I have by the way directly witnessed such a huge A vs. B difference in software development. It was in fact two months to two hours ratio. And yet, the A team or the management did not realize this, or even accept this after the fact.
Nonfiction still has the viewpoint of the writer. Even if the narrator is silent, their biases and worldviews infiltrate the work. At least in fiction this is explicit.
Bingo. This guy gets it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2658437-knife

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1324835.ece

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/19/danilo-kis-...
The more interesting part of his question was the objective criteria for determining success, not opaque opinions about one example that fits into the gray area.
While I don't hold out much hope for this, it's refreshing to see that it's actually being discussed seriously within the NSA. Here's hoping!
Phones Likely to Stay Silent on Planes Amid Backlash
I haven't used it with Drupal before; we're using it to cache a read-only JSON service in the event of failure, heavy load, etc. We've been pretty happy with them. You could always try their free or $20/month plan on a separate subdomain.
Gift Recommendations That I’ve Actually Used For At Least A Year
They've reverted the changes https://blog.twitter.com/2013/reverting-the-changes-to-block...
To get an idea of the raw power of the Oculus, check out this guy playing a horror game with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrANjgeYe0#t=3m55s

(Kind of loud. But be sure not to miss his awesome reaction at 4m20s.)

I have the original devkit, and it's amazing. You can even interface it with Google Street View. There's nothing like typing in "Eiffel Tower," tilting your head back, and staring up in awe.

In fact, I'd say no one here has experienced Street View until you've seen it with an Occulus. It simply cannot be described how incredible it is to look around with your head instead of dragging your mouse!

EDIT: Okay, if you're unhappy with that particular video, then this one might be more to your liking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl7fz__6B-4#t=15m30s

EDIT2: Wow, that Dreadhalls game is terrifying. You actually don't even need an Oculus to get the full effect, just headphones. https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=3... (Windows / Mac)
It sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder.
The FDA has different restrictions and requirements depending on if a product is labeled a food or a nutritional supplement. A nutritional supplement is limited to 100mg of potassium while something that is a food is free to have up to 1500mg. Soylent is a food and is thus able to have 3500mg of potassium.
You should try telnet to port 25 and don't login. If you're sending what could be an outgoing email, it is more likely to queue it.

MAIL FROM:<tedu@tedunangst.com>
250 2.1.0 OK g15si484689qej.92 - gsmtp
RCPT TO:<tedunangst1233141@gmail.com>
550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try
550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or
550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
550 5.1.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 g15si484689qej.92 - gsmtp
Maybe you know about this, but Plumpy-nut is pretty interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut

It's a ready-to-eat therapeutic food with an excellent shelf life. Aide workers give it out in famished areas.
Workout App Fitstar Gets An Overhaul As It Shows Promising Paid Sign-Up Metrics
RightScale was the first with this feature, before it was available via the api. I'm looking forward to seeing how each cloud provider handles the UI for all this data.
I really think we're moving into a VR/Augmented reality renaissance.

If you've got 10 minutes to thumb through this 20 minute video this shows off whats possible with augmented reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc_TCLoH2CA If we can get that into a pair of sunglasses in the next 10-20 years I'm pretty sure we'll be living in a wildly different world than we are today
You mean it's obvious that love is nothing like what you read in books. Right? The only books that depicted relationship in a "real light" were non-fiction books. The only example that comes to my mind is Bukowski right now and it's not pretty.
I thought it was an interesting exposition on physics. I think you guys need to lighten up a bit.
You're about a decade too late. Back when Party Poker and Neteller was around, playing weak tight ala "winning low limit holdem" by lee jones was like printing cash.
I like to blame Microsoft for everything as much as the next guy, but the admittedly obnoxious blurb on Bitcoin doesn't seem to have anything to do with Microsoft. The article is written by "John Lyons, chief executive, International Cyber Security Protection Alliance", and I don't see evidence that Microsoft is affiliated with this group. The next page in the document is a Microsoft ad, but doesn't have anything to do with bitcoins.
I hope that one day you can grow enough as a person to realize that authenticity is an important trait. I don't think I've very often heard "no, no you shouldn't" as a direct response to a claim that one should avoid being something you are not.
Personally here's a book that changed my life : The Game. But I think it's gonna be frowned upon here.

I don't see the world or even myself in the same way since.
There's no incentive to purchase something with BitCoin if the value continues to go up. Would you spend $5 on a sandwich knowing that by the end of the day if you don't spend you may have $10 instead? BitCoin is not a currency. It's a commodity or "virtual good". The speculation around BitCoin will be its undoing.
LLVM Itself Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten
Could just be skepticism about whether this is going to hurt its customers
Cambodia, not Malaysia.
Persecuted? Or prosecuted?

Because if we were to apply the laws, rules used at the Nuremburg trials, every US President from WWII onwards, Truman included, could be charged:

1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes
4. Crimes against humanity
No, you're describing a number of well-established scientific fields along with basic human instinct and intelligence.

Eat food. It has worked quite well for a very long time. There is nothing better to eat than food. No data analysis is required to eat food. Interestingly, any biological creature is capable of eating food. There are a variety of foods that you are capable of digesting, and it's likely that you were introduced to these foods as a young child. You will enjoy eating these foods and they'll manage to help you live out your natural lifespan. Maybe you'd also like to take a vitamin, but it's probably unnecessary and possibly harmful depending on your health status.

Food is fairly simple unless you pretend that it's not.
I absolutely love wings3d. It's the only 3d modeling app I've been able to create really cool shit with. I just love the vertex, line, polygon, polyhedron operations. It really lets you just kinda sculpt stuff and perform mathematical transformations effortlessly.
Right, because what constitutes a "dumb joke" can be universally agreed upon.
So what if he does?

It's a classic feminist shaming tactic to try to make men look "angry" when they dare disagree. How about we don't do that and debate actual points like adults? You know, instead of the "tone" of things.
It's a delivery receipt, not a read receipt. Delivery receipts already exist, in the sense that Google will tell (non-suspicious) senders if the message is deliverable.

Gmail is pre-fetching the image as part of the message.
If I had to guess, I would guess that sending an email with an image link is a rather obvious declaration of intent to share the image.
To be fair, that guy is pretty widely known as being an idiot.
Sounds good. I'll just make a closed source version of the Linux kernel now.

(Copyleft is based around intellectual property.)
We sent a newsletter out today with Mailchimp and didn't notice any difference in opens - I have image display off by default but I think most people don't care, or are using an mobile device and quite happy to see the images. I personally think making it harder to track opens is a good thing. Like Mailchimp says, make your content worth viewing.
All they did was divide earnings for the year over hours supposedly worked. So yes, it is a pay gap.
I have no doubt about Oculus - I just wonder how the startup landscape will look if your model proves successful and other large VCs begin implementing it, instead of their more traditional returns model. Being that only the largest, most successful funds can partake in this huge money game, this may significantly reduce the overall market capital available for Series A investment and create an even narrower funnel.
Imagine the success-failure spectrum.

On one end, there are the companies that fail; for every dollar put in, exactly $0 came out in the end.

The other ("success") end is more difficult to define because there is no end point; the company that is furtherest along that end of the spectrum might not hold that position forever if an even more successful company comes along.

I think the natural tipping point between failure and success is the break-even point, perhaps adjusted for inflation. A company that does just a bit better than breaking even for investors isn't going to overwhelm anyone, but it's the point at which most people won't feel too bad about having invested in the company. Top investors who are used to yielding massive gains will perhaps not feel the same way about that, though.
nickmcd at gmail
2 seconds? Not true at all, it's just tens of milliseconds. Didn't time it exactly, but it seems 'instant', so it's less than 100 ms.
You're right. Deleting the post.
The vast majority of people don't care at all about read receipts.

Marketers don't care who _isn't_ reading their mail, they care how to send mail that more people will read.

Who subscribes to a direct email campaign (and doesn't unsubscribe, and doesn't flag as spam), and is still offended by the thought of the sender knowing it was read?

Those people can flip the setting back to prompt-to-show-images.
A question for other startups running a small time stack on top of AWS - how are you managing your scale up/scale down/fault tolerance on top of EC2 ?
For a small startup, we are not really talking OpsWorks - so what tools allow you to do this.
I'm trying to do this in a really small way for a project - but there are way too many deployment/monitoring/management tools to wrap my head around.
ummm.... I thought violent criminals are kept in solitary confinement because they are dangerous to their fellow inmates. A hacker may be able to cause more harm to more people IF he is outside and has a computer. He can't exactly destroy the lives of other inmates while he is in prison...
True - but that doesn't take into account that the starting line is not the same...
But it's getting closer.