skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasonable? Probably not. You should have about a week of food and supplies in the house, in case of any kind of disaster (stocking up more is most likely useless). Depending on how the disease spreads, you could get some surgical masks and latex gloves to mitigate your chance of infection. In the end though, none of it is going to be really useful. If/when a pandemic sweeps the planet, by definition a large number of people are going to get ill, so chances are for all the preparation we're all still going to be sick at some point.
It's a great idea. I think that as time goes on, less and less mail will be sent.

I don't even open my mail anymore. They are just bills. I look at the sender, and then log onto their website. It's almost like a reminder, incase I forget to pay a bill.

Actually, now that I think of it, I only get bills from 1 or 2 companies. The other text/email me.
It can be tricky from the outside to distinguish someone who's nodding from someone who's sleeping, but from the inside the two states aren't all that similar.
One thing that isn't going away in twenty years (or probably ever)- the speed of light. There is a hard limit on how fast latency can get.
I've got a storage space with Extra Space Storage and if you leave a key with them they'll put your deliveries in your locker for you. It is really convenient! I've got just a small 5x5 room that costs me like $90/month... Along with deliveries I keep my winter gear, backpacking gear, and all sorts of other stuff that I don't really need sitting around me house.

Disclaimer: I don't work for these guys, have any investments, or anything to gain, I just like the service.
Play2 pulling it in via SBT resolution so I don't have it "installed" on my development machine.
Thanks, Sid Dabster
For scaling you probably want to use a Docker-based PaaS like Flynn or Deis. I would propose starting with vertical scaling by increasing cgroup limits on a single container and once the container can't grow any more you can scale horizontally by adding more containers on other machine.
Why would you want to use HTML-like text in titles anyways?
If the question has landed here, then it is definitely, most certainly a resounding "No!" I guess.
They would have to distinguish between my employers VPN traffic and other VPN traffic. If I cannot remote to work their service is a non-starter.
We used the same logic back when sites were IE4-only due to things like ActiveX, right?
Anybody know if they have the new C++ toolchain that will allow Chrome to start working again?
Thank you shykes.

I didn't know about the volume sharing. It sounds cool, but I'll need to think more about how such a workflow might work in production. My initial thought is that such a database upgrade would be considerably more difficult to coordinate than say a yum/apt package upgrade. This is unfortunate but it's not entirely a deal breaker (with proper DevOps, anyway).

The full container concept is only partially implemented it seems, per the issues linked below. Parity with LXC for a more full VM-like experience would definitely motivate me to adopt Docker quicker in more places (e.g. stateful tiers).

Any chance these issues could be given high priority?

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1960
https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/2276

Thanks,
Joshua
"I am a real person, maybe we have a bad connection"
How about Germany. I'm in Berlin, although I even thought about moving to USA in the past (I also had a few decent job offers in Vally). As a side note: I'm not German.

USA looks increasingly like a place that must exist and I'll need to visit from time to time, but I'd prefer for all the conferences and everything else to be somewhere else if possible...
You also don't need to sing in the shower. You can leave the shower earlier, hire a TaskRabbit to sing for you instead, and if you value your time correctly you should come out ahead.
If the Falcon Heavy can send 14,000 kilograms to Mars [1]. How much warmer could 14,000 kilograms of this gas make mars? Anyone able to calculate?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
Looks like a history lesson might be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock

We stopped operating on gold in 1971 and I doubt we could go back.
And has been getting worse. We've used them in Seattle for a couple years, and the prices keep going up and selection going down.
One guess, maybe the spot price is controlled by some sort of predictive algorithm, and the algorithm got totally confused by the recent load? It might not be the case that people are actually paying that price.
It's pretty simple. I generated a bunch of public/private keypairs. I kept the private keys offline and I hand out public addresses when people add a message.

Then I poll blockchain.info for payments.
Bitcoin an Almost Exact Fit to Gold’s Historical Chart
Show HN: inspect.py — a simple tool for a quick web page inspection
Thanks for the tip! That's faster than what I do. I still wish they add a dedicated shortcut for it though so that I can do it with one keystroke (like the Ctrl + Shift + "+" in Excel).
I have a 100 game library of games on Steam that I would love to play on my TV but the SteamBox will only play a tiny percentage of them due to being linux based. Seems great for those new to steam though...
Build Paper Airplanes for a Living
I'm not familiar with Martini, but it looks like DB() is mapping a connection to the "advent" db based on the idea I'm asking for a mgo.Database. It makes me wonder how I might have multiple databases used by my server - maybe if advent lists and user logins were in different databases or something?
The line of thought is, that there's always someone willing to contemplate an unpleasant act for shaky reasons, in decreasing numbers, down to a minuscule number of people who would commit the worst atrocity for no reason at all.

The risk comes from widening access to a given technology, and the amount of harm it could do. It's hard to calculate the risks, but bio weapons potentially have wide access and great harm.
Leveraging ibeacons for home automation
My girlfriend launched her own bitcoin site
Just read the app description in AppStore. Offline is for premium users only.
This area is just one that Bill Joy covers in http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, which is my favorite essay on lots of these ideas.
I'd rather pay the $29/mo more.
If you're Joe C. ComputerUser with Windows XP you're likely consuming services that are powered by Docker. That's the 'consumer benefit'

Docker isn't Excel or Word or Some 15 year old game. It's server-oriented software/technology and thus, from a usage standpoint, targeting that community.
>So, one hour spent Really Happy, outweighs a year spent Just Happy, because that Really Happy is all received by your present self.

I find making decisions that end up along lines of this really, really difficult. The rational part of my brain knows very well which one should I choose, but it has really, really hard time arguing with that more... I don't know, primal? part of me.

I think it's really fascinating, how relatively weak our conscious self is in arguments with our short term desires.
Anyone know what's up with the Mac extras overview page? It simply does not exist [1] whereas the Windows one does [2].

[1] http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qdoc/qtmacextras-overview...
[2] http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qdoc/qtwinextras-overview...
If your Dockerfile just calls Salt, is Docker then simply just a lightweight alternative to Vagrant + Virtualbox?

Does your Dockerfile do anything besides call Salt? If so, what's a good rule of thumb for what goes into the Dockerfile as opposed to Salt or any other config management tool?
GCHQ and NSA 'track Google cookies'
When documents are converted formats features, formatting etc will be lost. If you export everything as CSV you loose all your formulas etc. xlsx and ods are better, but not perfect.

If you could export all your documents in the native format and import them into LibreOffice you'd still lose features, but as LibreOffice improved it's import you'd lose less.

With convert at export data is permanently lost. With convert at import, no data lost permanently lost, it just may not be currently available.

Also if you could backup in native format you could import into a google account if your first account is blocked/lost, instead you have to go through the import/export conversion twice.

Also, with Excel, once you have a computer running Windows / Excel, you can't lose data if a feature is changed / dropped. Just don't upgrade. With Google Docs, you have no choice to upgrade to the latest version. It may not even be a dropped feature, you spreadsheets may accidentally rely on a buggy feature, and when it's fixed your spreadsheets behave differently with no warning.
Anytime :) This is what I do, so please don't hesitate.
Creating Apps with Native OS like performance using HTML5
Most Advice Is Useless
Ha, no you aren't. Has it always been called that? My first reaction to the submission title was "what in the world is google sheets?"

I almost always use the word processing part of Docs, and maybe 10% spreadsheets (and maybe like .5% presentations), but I guess I just always refer to "google docs", saying "make a spreadsheet in docs" if I have to be more specific (or "in drive", though I'm still resisting that for going less descriptive of what I actually do with it with the new name).
Docker sounds very interesting, but I have a ton of questions. I'm very familiar with Chef and Vagrant, and passingly familiar with FreeBSD jails, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around Docker. Here are some questions:

- Why use ENTRYPOINT rather than init.d scripts?

- When I'm building the Dockerfile, how do I do something like `vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-app`? In other words, how do I drop a whole config file onto the image, the way I'd use Chef files/templates?

- Is it possible to parameterize a Dockerfile, so people can use my image but adjust the nginx timeout time?

- Do Dockerfile commands need to be idempotent? For example will this cause problems?: `RUN echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main universe" > /etc/apt/sources.list`

- If I'm using docker to host Rails-on-unicorn, do I still use Capistrano to push a new deploy, or do I spin down the whole docker container then launch another with my latest code? If the latter, are there any existing tools for that?
They could have refused to take the case, non? That's how the US Supremes effectively avoid taking the decision.

Here they effectively nullified an existing decision saying that the legislature has to act to support the decision.

Assuming a hostile or deadlocked legislature, this is nothing short of striking down the lower court's decision.
Amazon launches grocery business in San Francisco
Long-term I expect cheap VPSes to be built on Docker itself because it's more upstream than OpenVZ.
Ok. So if you contribute to the project, you assign copyright of your code to Digia who then dual-license the project to end-users under the GPL/LGPL and for a fee, a commercial license to use it in proprietary applications. Makes sense.
Ok.

<$1.00 in BTC for Hacker News front page exposure.

Bit.
Dave Chinner's talk is great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw
I've been using conditional formatting for over a year. It was pretty buried in the options though.
Apparently the SteamOS can stream games, OnLive style, from your Windows computer to your TV.
This is a many-page plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Highly recommended to all interested in the colonization of Mars.

14,000 kg would be equal to 98,000 tonnes of CO2. Trivial amount of heating, esp. since atmospheric forcing is weaker on Mars since the Sun is further away.
Slides

http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/campoy/todo/talk/talk...

Github repo:

https://github.com/campoy/todo
It simultaneously explains why Quantum fluctuations [1] as described by Werner Heisenberg's famous "Uncertainty Principle" occur.

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
see our results, definitely (I'll be working on some software to get this to work, but our fallback is to just use mediawiki). Contribute intellectually - we should have some sort of commenting system.

9DS is probably synthetically tractable, but attachment of the sugar typically uses chemistry that destroys the imine on the other side, and vice versa. So that kicks any industrial processes in the knees.
Just because you've decided to call it a constitution doesn't make it so. Even the greeks could quit the EU at any time, but they cannot quit their debts which they entered into as a sovereign nation. Greece lied, for years, about their ability to repay loans, to get more loans than they could handle, and they even went so far as to ask big american financial companies to help them cook their books, which shows it wasn't just a lapse in judgment. Now, in the defense of greece, all the other EU countries knew they were lying from the beginning, and they pretended they didn't because they wanted to prove people like you wrong and show the EU could bring prosperity to all including the greece. In the line of bad ideas, that only comes second to the german notion that greece must repay their loans in full, even if it bankrupts them. So, yeah, everybody messed up gloriously.

That still doesn't change a thing to the fact that the EU process has brought peace to half a billion people for the first time since never, and with peace has come prosperity for most (sadly not all though). The current Europe is however still better for its people than any Europe in history, despite its many flaws.

I know europe-bashing is popular in many regions in europe right now because things are bad and it's an easy scape-goat for inept or incapable national governments and an easy target for jingoistic parties hoping to channel frustration and fear into votes ('populism'), but no rational analysis can say that europe is the cause of the current economic woes, except perhaps for the greeks. I see only two paths out of this situation: (1) less EU, nationalism and protectionism, and (2) more EU, moving democracy up to the EU level by giving true power to the EU parliament. The first path takes us back to the europe that was, a continent rife with war and poverty. I'll take option 2 thank you very much.

Btw, marxism, really? You're trolling, right?
FIPS 140-2, and Common Criteria (EAL) are the two most often checked in my area of work.
Feels like the first time I have seen a .cat domain in HN! Good TLD Francesc ;)
Mars One has ethical questions to answer about one-way trip to red planet
Hello. Thank you for your feedback! I understand your concerns that the contrast on the page is poor and makes the text unreadable. I'd be happy to merge a CSS patch with a fix for the contrast.

Here's the GitHub for the oath:
https://github.com/dionyziz/oath

As you seem to have a firmer background in design, you're more qualified than me to edit typography.css and I'd love to see what you come up with. Thank you for your time and criticism :)
One could argue that for any "on screen" navigation (that is: moving to any visible character), there's nothing faster than vim's EasyMotion stuff, which has been adapted in Emacs as "ace-jump-mode". The latest version allows to jump to any character in any window / frame. I hardly "other-window" (C-x o by default in Emacs) anymore because it already takes two keys while in two to three keys I can use ace-jump to jump directly to any character I want, anywhere (instead of first doing C-x o then moving where I want to).

For stuff that is not on-screen, then it's the good old ways.
How to Make all the PDFs in your Inbox Instantly Searchable
Nuclear annihilation didn't happen because a few countries showed some restraint. In the coming decades, the capability of manufacturing deadly agents will be shifted to individual people. In fact, one could argue this is already happening. So our future will most likely be impacted by the behavior of billions of people, most of which could take a serious stab at causing mass casualties if they actually wanted. To top it off, this shift of capabilities to the individual will have a probably small but considerable chance of ending our civilization outright. This is absolutely something to worry about.
I'm very curious where you see the ads. Is there some forced viewing before browsing? Do they replace ads found on sites you normally visit? Will AdBlock work on these AT&T-delivered ads?
Odd ... all big supermarket chains do this in all of the UK.

My Tesco delivery is arriving in the next 20 minutes ... plus no annual charge over here.
Generally speaking you don't.

This is research funding. He's trying to raise money to see if it's something or not. If he can raise the money this way, then he can release it without patent encumbrance, and it's for everyone - including the world's poor.

Most drugs fail. This one probably will too.

I gave because I want to see intellectual property not be the only viable funding path anymore.
Just tried to place a message. Selling Bitcoins... I figured that there's probably a market with the visitors. It's a pity that these messages will likely all be ads... (Like my own.)
"Sit in bed all day" maybe isn't the best way to describe the problem with such a drug. "Never change anything in your life" might be better. People don't like change, and they generally only make serious life changes when they're unhappy with the way their lives are going currently. If you're never unhappy, you'll never change anything.

The negative consequence there is that often times we don't learn about ourselves until we attempt to make such a change. If you hate debugging Java, and you can take a pill that makes you not mind it, you might never discover that you could actually be a much better Ruby programmer than you ever were a Java programmer -- or that you really were never cut out to be a programmer at all and should pursue something totally different. You'd just chug along debugging Java your whole life and never realizing your full potential.
lol:) I have almost the same story:) You've done it well.. Good article, but there is also option to go for J1 Trainee program and its duration is up-to 18 months.
Typically about 6 months, judging from the press releases announcing the public betas of 4, 5, and 6, and comparing to the GA release dates.

RHEL 4 beta: Sep 27, 2004 / GA: Feb 15, 2005

RHEL 5 beta: Sep 7, 2006 / GA: Mar 15, 2007

RHEL 6 beta: Apr 21, 2010 / GA: Nov 9, 2010
Interesting to see a new spin on this. Webvan was one of the biggest busts of the dot com era (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan) -- interesting that Amazon resurrected it..
>We now have the tools to create viruses in labs. What happens when someone creates a virus that spreads extremely easily, has greater than 50% mortality, and has an incubation period of several weeks? Something like this, released by a bad guy and without the world having time to prepare, could wipe out more than half the population in a matter of months. Misguided biotech could effectively end the world as we know it

Sam is a smart guy, so I really don't want to come off as sounding like a jerk here, but this grossly underestimates the technical feasibility of creating such a virus. Computer folks routinely overestimate how much biologists actually know about the systems we study. We know jack about how the vast majority of biology works. We have the most fleeting glimpses of understanding that are regularly crushed by the complexity of dynamic systems with nested feedback loops and multiple semi-overlapping redundancies. I won't say it's impossible, but we don't even know enough to know whether the three things: high mortality, long incubation, and ease of transmission are even possible. While we can imagine it, there might be biological and epidemiological factors that prevent such a thing from existing.

This also commits the logical fallacy of ascribing superpowers to the bad guys cooking up viruses while assuming the good guys are sitting on their duffs letting bad things happen. H5N1 was a pretty good example of international collaboration. There were academic competitors and industrial labs working around the clock collaboratively on it in the early days before much was known. Whole vaccine divisions at pharmas were all over it. If we're instead talking about a mythical time in the future when we do understand enough biology to engineer something like this, one would have to assume the good guys possess the knowledge to develop countermeasures.

I'm not arguing that pandemics aren't something we should worry about. Europeans were almost wiped out by the plague and in modern times Africa has been decimated by HIV. These are real problems that the human race has faced and will likely face again, irrespective of lab-created stuff. Biotechnology is the primary mechanism by which we're going to be able to survive when the next one comes, wherever it comes from.

EDIT: Fixed wrong word usage in 2nd sentence.
> The biz has thin margins and you need volume to achieve profitability.

Well, this is exactly what I was afraid of. Overselling of resources is my primary concern, that's why price usually isn't important to me. But thanks a lot for your insights! I'll definitely keep an eye on DO.
Except for Quebec, right?
> 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.

These are differences in the web UX paradigm, not differences in the capabilities of the technology. If Google wanted to build a web app "for people who were used to native apps," it could work and act exactly like this.

In fact, web apps built to work inside native-app containers (Adobe Air, node-webkit, etc.) frequently do do this, and it's quite hard to tell that the result is a web-app at all. See, for example, Light Table.
hey blehn!

I haven't had a good look at your app because it requires a sign up, although the home page looks good. However, as there is no demo of it in action without me poking around I can't truly make an opinion of it unless signing up etc.

That's where tyto differs and that's where its charm lies. It's intention is that there is no account necessary and that the UI is simple and maybe not completely polished to most peoples tastes. The source is completely open and it's aim is that it's easy to learn the codebase and what's going on so that people are free to take it and make it into whatever they want, however they want, wherever they want.

tyto is definitely going to be made mobile friendly in the future and that's a major goal to have it working responsive to device.

I hope that clears it up a little.

in early conception I had toyed with the idea of tyto being an acronym for 'tool you take over' for this reason.

Thanks for sharing!
Wow.. this looks awesome.. microlocation based home automation!!
sorry, it should work now. We redid the site and did a CNAME change; some people aren't getting the DNS-updated version yet =(
You have the option of "Attended Delivery" with Fresh, where they make sure to hand it over to you, or doorstep, where they leave it outside. In my current neighbourhood (South Bay) I have no trouble with unattended delivery and prefer not worrying about being home in time for my Google Shopping Express deliveries, but it would be totally different living in San Francisco.
Statistically, management is generally necessarry for anything but small organizations.
I assume you don't have some side yard that the delivery man can locate the goods out of sight?

I have had groceries stolen from my front porch before (usually that never happens), but never if I take the time to instruct the delivery person to leave it in the side yard (front part is closed but not locked). If you still feel the need to keep it locked, perhaps a simple (i.e., 4 digit) combo lock?