skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can they finally let me select groups of cells that are not adjacent to each other for charts?
Europeans were almost wiped out by the plague

Uh, nope. What does "almost wiped out" mean to you? 30% of population dead is "almost wiped out"? It's horrible, of course, but there were still 70% who stayed alive. Well, I could say that I can jump almost three meters high with that logic. :-)
A video or text page about how it works might be helpful.
>get at least $4k/mo to manage without savings

I'd love a $24/hr development position. Interns these days are getting paid too well. I interned for half as much and I'm not making much more.
> I made it to the dumb question at the end.

There was no question at the end, just a few links to his book.

Damn mitch, nice work! I expected the site to choke on mobile, but you have a very nice fallback.
Yep, you're both 100% right. Dairy cattle are basically a prison sentence.

We had regular cattle too, those amounted to looking at the pasture they're in and moving them around. Way less upkeep.
You are exactly right and this presentation is spot on.
They could be rational. A perfect virus that infects every animal on earth and then instantly kills them would decrease the suffering to zero. It's not hard to imagine utility functions where eliminating every human (or animal) is the best choice of action.

Unfortunately, in reality, such attacks are likely to cause huge amounts of suffering which muddies the water.

But if there was a magic button to press that'd instantly eliminate all life on earth, I think it'd only be fair to push it.
> 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.

Proof of evolution
The larger compartments are barely the size of a regular mailbox here in France though.

So, while I can understand the desire to reduce costs on the part of Canada Post, I thought they offered zero convenience to users.

And going out in the cold and the snow to fetch my mail in winter in a sidewalk-less neighbourhood was really not a pleasant experience (even if they were not very far from our house).
Instacart Launches Grocery-Delivery Service In Boston
We use excel with pivot tables to explore data. The previous google sheets had such low limits it was pointless. The new one helpfully says "Sorry, an error occurred when opening this file. Please try again." on trying to open a 40MB uploaded CSV. Back to Excel I guess. I also LibreOffice on my Linux machines, but it is slow, single threaded and harder to use with pivot tables.
Sure, if you're satisfied to look at everything in the world through the lens of Marxist economic theory, I suppose that makes sense.
Debunking Amazon Prime Air Drones
I don't think anyone would reasonably call 20k a year a have. In fact we've already seen a pretty good definition of the split in the 99% movement. Haves are the upper class, not the middle class and below.
WHY WHY WHY?

What's the point of this service?

What are you really selling? I see that it is a report but are you trying to help startups? In what way specifically?

WHY are you creating this service? If its simply because you think its a good idea or you will be good at it, it will be very difficult to sell it without a better reason.
Perhaps than they should give the masses their interface and give us a standards-based/compliant JSON interface. We're headed that way already.
Exactly. These days, I'm inclined to say, "Put not your faith in stock options."
And this is why HTTP 2.0 needs mandatory end-to-end encryption.
Generally a bad idea when the cows need the pond to drink.
Sure. And have it on by default with a correct content security policy. If it were off by default, it wouldn't be used by most folks and the bandwidth thieves would be content hotlinking images and direct linking binaries, just ignoring the small percentage of users who turned it on.

Of course, even if this was released today and referrers were phased out in June 2014. We'd still be able to use them for at least 5 years until you could safely assume that they were gone. Likely longer.
>In this sense, it's more accurate to compare it to jokes about how Polish people are stupid, how the British are always stuffy, how the French don't know how to shower, how Americans only care about money

Huh. I would have called those examples racism. Maybe "European racism" if I wanted to make a racist statement myself. The joke is that Europeans are just as racist as Americans; they are just more refined about it. The implication, if you tell the joke properly, is that the Americans aren't as educated or refined as the Europeans, and thus can only handle the five colors.

But certainly, from the time of the rise of nationalism onward there has certainly been discrimination and violence along ethnic lines. (and perhaps before? I'm actually really interested in racism before the advent of nationalism, and I don't have much any information.)

But is that proper? calling it racism even when it's not based on Blumenbach's white/black/red/yellow/brown categories? I mean, dividing people into the aryans/poles/slavs and treating them differently based on that classification looks like the same thing to me, save for the fact that the classification takes more effort than Blumenbach's method does.
Except when you need snapshotting, live-migration, or have a highly disparate set of underlying OS requirements.

The author of the article explicitly says, "This isn't to say that they're going to replace virtual machines." and I agree - there's no point in pretending like they're solving all of the same problems. I guess you could say that containers are an optimization of some use cases of VMs.
I did the J-1 trainee program for 18 months and went into an H1B from that. It was ideal for me because I came right out of school without work experience and it made the process very easy.

One downside was that I had to stay in the US between filing for H1B status and receiving it (you file in the spring, but get the status on October 1st) because the H1B is a dual intent visa (meaning you can state that you want to stay in the US permanently and it is not just a temporary visa) in case they questioned me at the border about the conflicting status of my J-1 and H1B petition.
Beautifully minimal card decks based on an iOS game
Google’s Road Map to Global Domination
These characterizations of a happiness drug contradict the forces of evolution.

If any such a drug were to be developed, it would indeed sap ambition from many people. Even assuming it accounts for all existing relevant genetic variation, it wouldn't prevent genetic mutation. So those born with mutations that make the drug less effective will procreate with relative ease, eventually correcting for the drugs adverse effect on the survival of the species.

Of course if cultural (political?) forces also established that any genetic variation was bad, then we would indeed be in trouble. Why? With no threat of pain, and the absence of pleasure replaced by unlimited pleasure, what goals would exist? What would motivate action? Or given a relativistic perspective, what would just motivate procreation?
People already have:

http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/

http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_mill...
Have you looked at Namecoin? [0] [1] Apart from being a cryptocurrency, it supports a decentralized DNS.

[0] http://namecoin.info/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
I'm donating some more to your message to knock off the scammer :)
>it is not something we can change.

On the contrary, deforestation has a huge effect on the water cycle. Most people don't realize that if you're more than ~200 km inland most of your precipitation comes from transpiration by plants upwind instead of evaporation.

How do we know? Oxygen isotopes. Basically, the differential fractionation of oxygen (and hydrogen) isotopes in water during evaporation vs. transpiration allows you to trace where your rainfall comes from. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7445/abs/nature11...

Also, don't cut down forests thinking it'll fix global warming. Overall they have a net cooling effect. What you'll do instead is create deserts downwind.
Others have already (rightly) made the point that we're not yet able to synthesize new viruses from scratch. And the "amateur bio-hacking" thing is completely overblown -- the most advanced amateur work I've seen is stuff like putting GFP into bacteria, which is just trivial. It requires little more than some commercially available kits and a warm water bath. Synthesizing new organisms is many orders of magnitude harder.

That's not to say that things won't change, but if I had to pick a serious biological threat that exists right now, it would be antibiotic resistance. Thanks to air travel and long incubation times, we're not that far away from a global pandemic of multi-drug-resistant TB, yet almost nobody is talking about it.
Incidentally the Mars Trilogy is some of the best hard sci-fi out there. Absolutely not to be missed.

I reread it a year or two back, and it's standing the test of time very well, in spite of the fact that Red Mars was first published almost 21 years ago and the story begins in the 2020s.
The OnDemand VPN hack is pretty cool -- I'm left wondering how/if this can be transferred to Android? Is it any harder because third party browsers are much more prevalent on Android?
This is one of those where the mods need to retitle it. The content has nothing to do with employability. It mentions a few big companies and some obscure startups, but not related to employability whatsoever without a stretch.
HTML5 Bomberman
Tutorial on HTML5 Bomberman using IIOEngine.
Infographic of PayPal Mafia
2 things that kill me all the time

- Fix Threads as if I forward an email to someone and they respond, it's not part of the original thread
- Have the edit subject line NOT require another click
Go Get 'em, Adam & Mike!
The Coolest Cubicles in the World
Nokia hit with $3.4 billion tax bill on Indian factory
Good god, I couldn't make it through more than one half-scroll of that. Gah!
The Noun Project, now with premium accounts and pricing
Having recently returned back to school after an 8mo internship in SF on a J1, your write-up sounds pretty much spot on! I'll make sure this gets added to our school's collection of documentation that gets sent out to co-ops going to SF/NY/etc. each term.

A couple of things worth mentioning, though:

- Rent at $1k/mo for rent is (now) hard to find unless you're living in a living room or a slum. Prices for my friends ranged from $1300(decent place w/ 2+ roomates) - $2000+(nice studio)

- We all had pretty decent experience staying in a student hotel/hostel upon immediately arriving in SF rather than relying on an airbnb or related. Places like the Herbert Hotel (http://theherberthotel.com/) are ~$1100/mo (can't confirm weekly/nightly rate) and are a great place to settle at first, but you shouldn't bank on staying there for long. Bonus: you've got a "hotel" booked once you arrive in SF (customs loves to hear this).

- As soon as you get to SF, join the ~"bay area interns group" on Facebook, invite the entire (2K+) group out for dinner wit hone post, and instantly meet 15+ new friends at once. It's definitely the best collection of smart, talented, cool kids I've ever come across and everyone is working on something cool (usually outside of work, too).

- Here's another great write up (targeted at UWaterloo co-ops, but still applicable): http://stephenholiday.com/Unofficial-Waterloo-USA-Intern-Gui...

Most importantly: someone PLEASE build a better product for visa sponsor companies (Intrax for me, CIEE/local rep for you) to streamline the J1 (and other visas, I'm sure) application process. I have never had a more frustrating experience going back and forth via email with so many different people at my sponsor company, having to upload identification and documents, print/fill out/scan/send forms, and bug them for the status of my visa application. The application fee was something my host company paid for without hesitation and would have paid more for to streamline. I've looked into this problem and would have built it myself if it weren't for the bureaucratic requirements req'd by the US gov't (which are fair, just hard to MVP) - ping me if you are interested in solving this problem :)
I would make it not take over my emacs key bindings: I want ctrl-k to kill to the end of the line.

Actually, what would be really neat is if they found a way to make an API that still included their ads, so that people could experiment with different stuff.
True, but Software Collections are now a nice half-way house for fast-moving things RH customers want support for. It may turn up there.
My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her
There's a slight positive aspect to this, which is that if consumers start to understand just how valuable this information is, they might start demanding their cut. In this case, in the form of cheaper service. That would cause a significant shift in the market as a whole; I wouldn't even try to do a full analysis but it seems to me likely to result in an improvement.

In addition to the moral and social implications of widespread privacy infringement that is the more typical line of HN argumentation, it's also offensive and corrosive that this value is being plucked from you without you having an opportunity to bargain like someone providing a valuable commodity, rather than as a degrading "eyeball". Some people may find $360 a year a worthy trade for their browser history.
Thats kinda true indeed. Containers people want to use are VMs that directly talks to the local kernel (i.e. it does not run another kernel on top, like virtualization does).

You can make process groups without making the container look like a VM ... BUT. That's hard and time consuming for little gain.
One UX strategy to improve moving attachments without downloading is to add a button in the bottom of the compose/reply window that responds with a list of recently viewed/downloaded attachments. The user could then click on any of them and they would be attached to the email without downloading and uploading.
I agree. Also, what about perishables? You can't have those sitting around all day so you'd still need to go to the grocery store for that
This is the main reason I roll my eyes whenever people say self-driving cars are the future of product delivery. After hundreds of years of history in mass delivery systems, we still haven't figured out how to interact with customers at a human level...no way in hell a robot is going to be better at it any time soon.
There is work that must be done to ensure a person's survival and well-being. If someone is so influenced by this drug that they wouldn't abstain from using it long enough to take care of themselves, then they would either need someone else to do this work for them or get sick and perish. This seems like a glaring downside, which violates the premise that our hypothetical drug has no downsides/deterrents from its use.
That Guy alert: parallax refers to a 3D effect achieved by scrolling background sprites slower than those up close (think strafing in first-person shooters).

Not sure if there's a word for what this is doing - scrollbar repurposing?
Then build a Windows box. What's the point of wanting SteamBox to be a Windows box?
Their betas are open, but you may not receive much in the way of updates (including security updates) if my experience with the RHEL 6 beta was anything to go by.

You should be able to flip into CentOS 7 fairly easily when they release, though.
EdgeJs: Run node.js and .net code in-process
That makes no sense. It is trivial to use HTML entities (&lt; and &gt;) here. In fact, I think this is already done for comments.

Test: <>

Edit:

<p>Test: &lt;&gt;</font></span>

Yep.
Payed for by your friendly NSA.
As of writing, I only see one listing in this category, and it's for mining software rather than currency itself.
Does Mars have an atmosphere to insert the gas into? How much mass does a planet need to support an atmosphere? A quick check on Wolfram suggests that Earth has 10 times the mass of Mars. Does a planet need to be Earth or Venus sized to hold onto the air?
A little late. GPU mining isn't even profitable anymore. ASICs have unseated GPUs and FPGAs to become the current king of bitcoin mining.
But delivery isn't free, and if you are a regular user you can pay £120 per year for all inclusive delivery with Tesco Delivery Saver.
Wow! Great review. Sadly, you loose points on ethics because you failed to mention that you are the developer of neutrondrive. Or is it just a coincidence that all your submissions are related to Neutrondrive?

I likely would have been supportive if you had just come out and said it. Why beat around the bush?
Leaner Fourier transforms
Assuming you find it more moral to "do something for society" with your life, than to lounge around on drugs, what if there were nothing for you to do? What if all social ills and problems were taken care of by technology? Or what if there was definitively no appreciation for what you do? This could take the form of zero demand for your skills, or cultural change in which mainstream society ostracizes those that try to do good for others (perhaps recasting them in a different moral light: "trying to meddle in others' affairs").

I guess you could still go off and live in the woods with those that do not ascribe to a drugged life, and build a separate society. But even that still means the original society is doomed.
node.js is already in the Software Collections repo for RHEL 6, so you can get a Red Hat supported, maintained node.js already.
A New Year's Wish List for Apple
If your Wireless USB stick is supported by FreeBSD, then it will be supported by Haiku since they use the same drivers.

Thanks to Gutenprint as well, Haiku now supports a wide range of printers too. It doesn't support scanners, but then again Linux doesn't really do a good job either (Anyone who has used SANE will know how unstable it is).

Decent 3D monitor support is something you won't find in FOSS, at least not yet.
You can use Steam today to see how much they have learned about how to run Steam. I don't see what this has to do with that.
Politely it's not bollocks but perhaps I should have used better wording and replaced "process" with "service". :)

I look at Docker as a lightweight way of modeling infrastructure and services. I can built a shipload/stack of containers that model/mock/replicate my application architecture or my SOA model or my three tier web application.

At the crudest level I can do this by modeling each host (web/app/db for example) with a container (hence single service) but it has the potential to scale up to large, clustered SOA applications too. Having that local model of my application means I am developing something that is a lot closer to reality than running a bunch of services on a shrunken set/consolidated set of hosts (or worse on my desktop) in a dev/test environment.

Apologies for confusing the situation.
But that's simply not true. 20 years ago you could live migrate processes around a VAXcluster with nary a VM in sight.
I think...well, I know...I just...

What?
It seems to me that google regularly adds more clicks to accomplish tasks all the time.

i.e.
Editing a subject

Opening calendar or any other app.
Less than 24h to go, please sign!
OS level virt can easily do the first two. The third is harder due to a common kernel. But FreeBSD for instance can run CentOS 6 with the Linuxulator. I believe Solaris has similar feature called "branded zones".
According to this: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25843 iOS is the only platform that does VPN OnDemand.

I have to look into making it work on Android, I'm sure there are ways to get it working, but it will probably be a different approach than iOS.
Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom opens at the Met
For what? Java SE? What else?
Isn't that $100? The mind boggles.
And I doubt the math would allow them to span galaxies.
Acid-Suppressing Drugs Linked to Vitamin B12 Deficiency
What kind of beef cattle do you raise? I'm trying to track down heritage breeds but having some trouble. If you have any leads please contact me through the email address in my profile.
I read it all and got the impression that the Internet is growing extremely rapidly worldwide, and I do not see how that will affect the ability to be employed in the next five years. The growth of people using the Internet is outpacing the growth of people who produce content and manage the Internet. In fact, the page showed how Kickstarter is actually encouraging the rise of new businesses and giving lots of money to the creative industries.
I bet the "Single, Undisclosed Investor" is Tencent
Let me put it another way: I think most people would rather do than be. What's meaningful obviously varies from person to person. What is much more constant is a dissatisfaction with a life devoid of impact on anything outside of oneself.
It's an interesting dilemma. As a woman, my co-founder (and team mates) are quite likely to be male. I am in love with my work and our mission; having a romantic relationship with someone who does NOT share these passions would be difficult. A person NOT involved in tech startups could never fully understand me. And a totally unattractive individual becomes significantly more so when we hit a rocking work stride and build beautiful things together, hit walls and win together. Fortunately, I need my future lover to summit mountains, too, so I'm somewhat shielded from this potential conflict! (ie - very few tech entrepreneur mountaineers) ;)
Given the right similar starting conditions in the DNA... It could be interesting.

What surprises me is that life can survive these trips. A rock ejected from the Earth would have to have tremendous heat during the escape velocity. Science is fascinating.
Based on my reading, I couldn't agree more with your post. Hence my note about Bhaskara II's work being "rough"; I was trying to write for a lay audience.

I too find myself wondering what the world would be like if there were more crossover between the early mathematical cultures. A few pages of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci pretty much transformed European math.

I saw a couple criticisms of the page's overall tone; I wanted to direct people to the stuff I knew was pretty good. I don't know enough about things like the vastu shastra, but I've studied my math history pretty extensively and am more than happy to comment on that.
California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
I agree. The service is also very vague. Competitor analysis in what? SEO (ala SEMRush?), Competitor analysis in PPC? Competitor analysis in website audience(ala Quantcast?) Competitor analysis in the form of consulting?
'Show your support with a ribbon' that breaks when the site goes responsive.
IMAP?
Terrorists attacks cost more than lives. The direct costs of 9/11 were between $40 to $100 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_arising_from_t...). The direct costs of another terrorist attack targeting something like nuclear power could cost $700 billion or more (http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/25/news/economy/nuclear_acciden...). None of these estimates take into account indirect costs, which are potentially even larger. Preventing terrorist attacks is about saving lives, but it's also about stopping events that could wipe out a quarter of our revenue for the year. Massive economic damage can cause a lot of pain and suffering.

When analyzing risk, it's important to estimate costs as accurately as you can. Unfortunately Sam missed the boat on this one.
You could make a Dropbox file public with little effort, or create a Scribd account and post it there. Thank you in advance.