skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you and have often thought that this dynamic drives programmer psychology as well. It explains a lot about, e.g., programming language adoption, that is puzzling otherwise.
Looks like the scammers are already showing up: http://i.imgur.com/5vz9Kew.png

Edit: added a screenshot of the actual homepage
Honestly, I'm always surprised that games can even run on top of windows and all its accouterments: anti-virus, indexing, random services, etc. I'm assuming there's some API in windows that lets games tell Windows to chill while the game is running.
I had a similar story.
And de facto I've heard such advice, but from a group of people - it's nice to see it grouped. I would add one point: you DON'T need a _local_ representative of CIEE. I did it with a US-based one, http://culturalvistas.org/ (I guess there are more).
"I know that one condition of receiving unemployment benefits is to be looking for work, but I'd be surprised if that is hard to fulfill."

I was on unemployment for a little over a year. I had to apply to 2 jobs a week and every so often (only twice) I had to spend 3 hours (I felt a waste of time but I am sure there were people who did need the help) at employment services to some sort of meeting (called something like 'workforce re-entry evaluation') where they gave advice on how to fill out applications etc. They also had classes there that counted towards the job search requirements (learn to use web, word, excel, etc).

You had to bring your job search records for them to look over also. I know there are people who just sit on their ass but I really would have preferred to be earning some money. I felt bad enough but then to have people say 'just get a job' like I wasn't even trying. Half of them didn't believe that the gas station send a rejection letter (at least they had the courtesy).

One of the problems was that this area isn't a tech hub. The bigger cities are but just not paying the bills so you can move away and see if a job works isn't a good solution (driving 6 hours for an interview at your own expense is always fun though).

I got way less than $20K that year. At least it helped show how little I could live^H^H^H^H survive on.
I suppose I was thinking from the 'lazy throw up apache, mysql and wordpress' mindset. If example.com is in its own container with its own mysql database, I do not have to worry about www.test.com getting exploited and example.com's mysql data getting leaked into the wild. I'm also from the days when buffer overflows were on every daemon. Unauthorized remote shell access was always a threat back in those days.
Unlik say the Homebrew club, some similar hackers exploring viruses could accidentally release something unintentionally. All it takes is one oops. And looking at the early computer days security was never a primay or secondary issue, if at all. But yet amazing things were created. The difference is one is local while the other can spread with no control...
It is harder, from a criminal perspective you are taking too much risk whereas you can pop a jackpot with a running getaway vehicle beside you. That's why there is rampant CMB theft and not so much home theft. You could also jack a postie for their keys and clear out every box in the neighborhood quickly eapecially on welfare cheque day something they already do a lot of in Burnaby/Surrey from what I've heard from CPC hq
Honestly, it never occurred to me to do it any other way.
Maybe

But below a certain concentration some antibiotics won't have an effect hence, no evolutionary pressure

If at the concentration presented it kills/affects some bacteria, yes, what you mention happens, otherwise it doesn't.

Of course, I may be wrong
Probably referring to "adb monkey": http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html
100% of websites designed like this will be laughed at in 5 years...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7792123/strange-function-...

Not very well documented, but it is apparently a way to check if the current user is a automated tester.
NTSB: Inexperience, Korean culture contributed to Asiana SFO crash
Show HN: Jabbrr - a Chrome/Android app for finding HN/Reddit/etc discussions
Yeah, it was pretty bad. It's just a trend that will go away soon.

It wouldn't be so bad if the animation speed was constant. Sometimes it even stops, which is super unnerving if your used to pages moving when you scroll.
Well the average is 800$-sh if we assume even distribution of the classes.

So it is 240000$ - I think this is less than Valve's "Pay people to find new reasons not to do HL3" daily budget.
There isn't any reason preventing ("the") Ukraine as a E.U. member to have good relations with Russia.
Don't forget Aryabhata. His work in trigonometry and calendars was perhaps a wee bit more important Bramhagupta's acomplishments in practical terms.
Snapchat snags $50M in series C funding
Odds are, it's to avoid Cross Site Scripting attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)
Where are the ads? Are they just going to insert at the top of every webpage I load?
I think in Optimizely's case, the most important factor is making sure that there's no statistically significant correlation between higher response times and A/B testing. In other words, if the higher response times result an imbalanced impact on the test, the test is invalid.
Indeed--it's a lightweight alternative with a better deployment story IMO. A bunch of containers running on a set of hosts is easier to manage than a virtualization setup.

Here's a simplified version of the dockerfile template we use: https://gist.github.com/rgarcia/7917826. It basically outsources all of the work to a salt state.
> 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.

Sysadmin here. How much are you willing to pay? I'll need at least 2 domain servers, exchange server, backup server/device/nas/tapes, etc to give you a stable and recoverable environment. I'll need an air conditioned server room/closet as well and a decent UPS. We'll need to pay for offsite data storage as well. How many people? We'll need CALs for each user. Licensing even for a trivial environment is easily 5 figures. Not to mention my salary.

I guess you could go with some shitty MSP and small business server, but not if you actually value your company, uptimes, and data.

Cloud services aren't big because they're good. They're big because they're cheaper than guys like me and all the stuff we work with. Your boss understands this. He's expecting you to deal with it.
That's a stretch, but we can certainly argue that we mostly validate and refine ideas that have been around for a while. After all we have hundreds thousands years of human knowledge, most of it forever gone. It's not like we only started thinking after the Illuminism, or even ancient Greek.
Does the transaction have to be confirmed?

I bid .03BTC, and got on the queue in a few minutes. I added .011BTC, and the amount hasn't incremented in 15 minutes.
Security was sent up every time I have been locked out of a hotel room. They're always happy to open the door for me, but won't leave until I satisfactorily identify myself (with ID that is usually locked in the room).
Too annoying; didn't read. Made it to the bottom of the first page, then gave up. If anybody has time to arrange the text into paragraphs I could probably summon the will to read them, because I'd like to know the answer to the question if there is one.
Man doing sign language at Mandela memorial was a fake
It's kind of okay for me on my rMBP with maximum key repeat rate to just hold the down arrow.

That said this would be a lot better if there was a button you could just click to scroll through the screens one at a time.
Hmmm... I was planning on doing the research manually, but if you want to share any examples of sites that have gotten better at data extraction, I'm all ears. I will do research as well on that.

thanks!
It's a good question why the government agencies responsible are allowed to ignore regulations and laws governing their conduct. In this case the shelter is actually operated by the city.
Amazon is all about bringing the best value to the most customers, so even a deviation in mean to bring down the p99 is worth it for most customers. Especially when that correlates directly to sales.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 now Generally Available (adds Docker support) http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/11/26/rhel6-5-ga/
How artificial intelligence might monetize fan fiction
Reinventing the bicycle wheel
Regarding mean vs 99% etc. In this case all you care about is: did loading the script delay page rendering to an extent that it was perceptible to the user? It's basically a step function. 99% is appropriate in this case.

Want to do it yourself? This talk by Etsy a few weeks ago has some detail on how they did a similar thing:

http://www.slideshare.net/marcusbarczak/integrating-multiple...

Some links at the end of the talk. Infrastructure wise, I think you have to be prepared to pay for some expensive DNS before this kind of thing is viable.
"REST = HTTP + JSON" is absolute nonsense!
I like 90th percentile as the "one number" to choose. Mean is misleading, and median (50th percentile) is too low to capture what most of your users are experiencing.
> No. But I would rather see Docker double down on making the project great for those that have bought in than spend their resources building compatibility from people that have not.

I would rather see that too. So we agree there. If you read my comment, it was about making ridiculous statements about compatibility, not that I want or need more compatibility.

On a more general level it is about being dishonest and how ardent fans are enemies in disguise. They make ridiculous statements about the product that then creator of the product end up having to manage the PR.
Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know [video]
Actually max frame delay is a good metric for games too. AMD has had a driver defect for years that caused stutter. It wasn't until their rival, Nvidia, released a max frame delay test tool and rubbed AMD's nose in it that they realised there was a problem.
I'll investigate. what was your message?
So f'cking what?

Just because you can find an article from 12 years ago saying a small glass of red may be healthy (and I bet I can find 10 more articles saying it isn't in the 12 years since that was published), doesn't mean that alcohol isn't addictive and harmful to its users. Hell, few brits drink that way anyway and your article posits that the benefit doesn't come from the ethanol but something else. It doesn't support your position at all.

Oh look I can google too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23358078 - around 9000 people a year die directly from alcohol misuse in the UK.

Why do you have so much of a problem with this?
Why do you think the experts are liars?
Have you actually read any of Nutt's stuff? He doesn't actually advocate drug use, he's only interested in honesty and harm reduction.

--edit-- can I ask why you're so invested in this idea that alcohol must be less harmful than anything else?

I mean, the science is in. Booze is more addictive and more harmful (cancer, liver disease, alcoholism, alcohol related violence...) than lots of other drugs. Isn't an appropriate reaction to that news "oh, guess maybe those other things aren't as evil as I thought" rather than "but not really, because alcohol can't really be bad, we're only joking right lads? Booze is fine, right? I don't binge much, it's probably good for me eh? Not like those idiots taking pills"

They may well be idiots, but you're probably in denial too.
This sounds like it could have been an Onion headline, e.g.
"Simulations back up theory that Universe is a simulation"
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Monkey_Lives.txt
This is exactly what I thought when I saw read this story. Just combine this gigabit service with an Amazon EC2 reserve instance.
What is a meaningful life?
NounProject Introduces an API
Probably out of context (the video will be published later on) this can be surprising.

The point of the slide is that most REST APIs are provided via HTTP calls, and the data is JSON formatted.
The mouse wheel comes in very handy. I made it to the dumb question at the end. We've heard about the "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" before? Oh wait, he wrote a followup.

http://www.amazon.com/Decline-American-Programmer-Edward-You...

http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-American-Programmer-Yourd...
You are exactly right. The goal here isn't to optimally describe the entire distribution but to improve the end-user experience for higher-than-tolerable response times. The difference between 80ms and 100ms isn't noticeable. Between 100ms and 1000ms it certainly is.
http://btcbutton.com/messages/726

Thanks!
KeepTruckin Makes Trucking Fleet Management Easy And Compliant
Yeah.. that's a bummer. Trying to take money from a charity :/ I haven't seen any payments to that address yet.
Ask HN: What would you fix in Gmail UX/UI?
What would you fix in Gmail UX/UI?

I use Gmail(and apps for business) several hours every day. There are several features/fixes I would like to make. Such as:

1. Ability to move an attachment from one email thread to another without having to download it.

2. Show more complete name/email address while viewing an email. Make it easier to copy an email address so I can add that person to another email.

3. Better preview of attachments including the ability to zoom-in/pan.

What would you fix?
I think down syndrome may come close to the perfect genetic engineering of happiness IF its negative aspects like learning disability can be taken care of. (disclaimer: have one with it in family)
Looks like i'm over the rate limit for the blockchain api. working on a fix
This felt like a chore. Why did they waste their time with parallax scrolling?
"Will you be employable in the next 5 years?"

I hope not, especially if it's for an industry that thinks this form of presentation is elegant or useful.
In old east coast cities the low-pay workers will simply live farther away and endure shitty commutes.

In the Bay Area this isn't possible, since NIMBYs have fought against every and any transit project, and caused the neglect of existing mass transit. Housing is expensive from SF all the way south - where exactly would these people commute in from? You can't even get from downtown into the Outer Sunset in an hour during commute hours, where do you think your baristas are going to come from?

The SF Bay is one of the most thorough and complete failures of government and infrastructure I've witnessed first-hand.
Canada Post itself offers one for bills. It's called ePost.
This is incredibly awesome! I will be reading and re-reading this article hopefully many times in 2014 as I embark upon the startup internship journey this year. Thanks so much!
> have to distribute source or .o files for your application

Not if you dynamically link
Former Google executive to run U.S. patent office
Thanks for letting me know. Feel free to take like 3 hours to push out the fix. :-P
Instagram's Big Mystery Event: What to Expect
> 1.1. Is it possible to register a .cat domain right now?

Not yet. The launch period (Sunrise) starts on February 13th 2006, and ends on April 21st 2006. The registry will open for everybody on April 23rd 206, just after the Sunrise ends.
I certainly hope so. I've seen it done well, but this one isn't.
It's just like a video, except you have to constantly scroll the mouse wheel to make frames advance.

It's like we've gone back to using hand-crank projectors.
"many developers tend to forget that what makes C and C++ usable for systems programming are actually language extensions that are not part of the standard."

Excuse me but what??? Please give an example. Except for maybe setting up an isr vector table and the odd coprocessor command in assembler, all other peripheral functionality is usually memory mapped and perfectly accessible in C and C++.
Meh, sent a few extra while ago and the site stopped updating.

https://blockchain.info/address/1HxzuTBUD9iEqgiFB4Mkpbo6RLJQ...
Well, it would only work for downloads, not images. And it would require dynamic sites, so static sites couldn't take advantage of it. And it would require some coding ability as opposed to just knowing how to upload a file and point to it. So, it would mean expending additional resources programming-wise just to keep files moving instead of doing whatever actual service we're really working on, since we don't have money to throw at it. And it would increase the load on the website server, too, which would require additional resources, which means more money.

For images, the whole point of a CDN is to keep them in one place with a long expiry (a week or more) possibly downloaded from a nice geographically close edge node so that visitors load the images very quickly once and then cache them for the next pages and later visits of the site. The only current way CDNs implement of keeping folks from leeching/hotlinking images is to check referrals. The unique download link bit would negate the whole benefit of the CDN (you'd lose caching and the back and forth to generate the unique URL would slow it down), so that's out. Basically, lots of folks would ditch CDNs and host internally, possibly using server log checking to see if said IP recently hit a page. Otherwise they have to deal with lots of bandwidth leeches. The end result would be slowing down visitors' experience.

So, for both images and downloads, users wind up losing if referrals go away. It's far better to just leave it as is. Enable referrals by default. Let the privacy conscious disable them (sending blank ones). And build systems to take into account both userbases. Again, as a software developer, publisher, and host, I don't really care about referrals in terms of violating privacy, so I don't care if you disable them and send blank ones. I purposely set up my redirects and CDNs to allow for that. I care about them in terms of continuing to deliver services effectively to my users without competitors stealing my resources.
But a lot of servers and platforms out there don't run on this years' Linux kernel. That is a far cry from "virtually anywhere" which was my original issue with this blogpost.

I am not arguing that I need Docker to run on RHEL personally or I need it to run in Windows. The point was about making unsubstantiated claims about a product and in the meantime while seemingly trying to help "market" the product now putting the creators on the defense having to backpedal. "Well no, contrary to what some of your may have read from our zealous followers, we don't don't run virtually anywhere. Here is a list of Linux distros we run out of the box on. Here is a list where you'll need to installed a custom kernel."
That's my boy!
If you're interested in more, start with the first time people got concerned about this problem, nearly 40 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombin...
I have to admit that the source for the site isn't terrible, if you just want an idea of what it is doing.

Edit: To be clear, I should not have said "what it is doing." Rather, you can read the script of what the video would have been fairly well if you look at the source.
According to the eligibility page, I'm seeing:

"You are now one out of 421,843 eligible beta candidates."

It's been at that number since the registration ended, and I'm almost certain it's worldwide, since they didn't say U.S.-only until today.

I like my odds.
As an daily HN reader and Canadian from a very small town, you guys in San Fran live in a very strange bubble.
You are right that if one variation takes longer to load and is noticeable it is likely to cause a lower conversion rate. However with Optimizely the response time (on average and 99th percentile) is the same between control and test variations since our implementation is a single snippet of code regardless of what bucket you are put into.

What we are optimizing here for is end-user experience and minimizing the chance they have a higher-than-tolerable response time regardless of the variation they see.
Correct. And that end user would have to reload the page or clear cache. It's not as effective as just checking the referral. But without referrals, it would be what we'd have to resort to.
I had done exactly that. Oops! (I knew a major trigonometer came before Bramhagupta, but I forgot his name.)
hacking our bodies will likely be more powerful than hacking bits

on some level we've been doing this for thousands of years. it is a matter of time before we take it to next level. and there is lots of interest there.
There isn't. The page looks very much like an ad, probably for a book; I wouldn't bother.
Which means it probably works fairly well. Just having you scroll is actually a pretty slick way of engaging you.

So, yeah, it throws off some folks that are annoyed with the engagement. How many folks just let videos bounce off of them because they didn't engage at all?
You raise a good point that Canada Post doesn't pay a true market cost for the real estate its CMBs sit on. But this is the nature of a quasi-public monopoly. But that's the price we pay for you to be able to send a letter from anywhere, to anywhere.

You raise another good point that the cost of home delivery is inflated by the pay-by-distance union rules. But this issue is close to intractable. Given the political reality of this situation, do you think postal workers will give up these rules without a long, disruptive strike? Do you think the government wants to get within 10 miles of another postal strike?
It would be interesting to find out how they plan to implement the adds. If the adds are inserted into the web pages, I would think that content providers would have a good legal claim against AT&T for copyright infringement, if the adds replace the already existing adds, then copyright infringement and loss of profits.
The 'problem' with Indian math was the general aversion (or ignorance) of the importance of the method of proof. The more well known works of Greek mathematics were great in emphasizing the importance of the concept of mathematical proof. Yet, Greek mathematics, with the exception of Archimedes and Diophantus had an aversion for arithmetic (especially the concept of infinity and infinitesimals) and algebra and an over-reliance on geometry[1]. Engaging in a bit of counter-factuals, if either of the following had happened: (1) Indians picking up on the method of proof, (2) Greeks adopting more arithmetic and algebra, history of mathematics may have looked significantly different than today.

However, the OP link has a ton of apologist/revisionist history with insufficient archaeological evidence mixed in with a little bit of the good stuff. Example: references to vastu shastra, which is astrological woo.

[1] Eric Temple Bell, 'The Development of Mathematics,' Dover, 1992.
Kontagent merges with Playhaven
If I have a desktop app written using Qt libraries directly (i.e. no QML, .ui files, etc) will this new version allow it to run on iOS and Android?
I made a course and documentation management, and grading system for speech pathology students. Netted me >12k last year (before tax).
Sure, people, including myself, do find the familiar appealing. But you can't extrapolate that to assume that any/most preference for existing standards is based on that instead of an actual understanding of which standard one prefers.

It would be equally wrong and cynical for me to discount opinions for imagined reasons like, people who fit a younger or tech-friendly profile latch on to new technologies for the sake of being cutting edge, or that people in an industry that benefits from adoption of web apps would be biased towards Google apps. (Though the temptation exists.)
I've always been curious about how most sites like these are made because they've used it well.

Unfortunately, this was not one of them. It should have been a video because then it would of had more interesting transitions.