skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that we learn of biology will help with the eventual terraforming. That is not the sort of thing that necessarily needs to be researched directly right now, researching things in general expands our knowledge base, giving something for terraforming research to stand and build on.
Did you guys see the top comment? TempleOS:

http://www.templeos.org/TempleOS.html

Some features:

64-bit ring-0-only single-address-map (identity) multitasking kernel

HolyC programming lanaguage interpreter

Praise God for binds using timer based random number generators

Create comics, hymns, poems as offerings to the Oracle
Researchers can now count individual atoms in large ensembles
This is very cool. Any notion of how the performance compares to real TSP solvers? Presumably they pull all sorts of dirty tricks to be as fast as possible.

It also strikes me that this is going to be great for comparing the performance of various solvers without having to rewrite all the code every time since you can use the same code across all backends.
Yeah, plateau of productivity is when 20-30% of people have adopted. Globally Facebook is probably at that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png
TL;DR: Core ingredient in most anti-bacterial soaps, triclosan, may or may not work. FDA asking manufacturers to prove it works.

Scientists say that these chemicals may act as hormone disruptors, pointing to a link between triclosan exposure and allergies.
Good point about the feedback loop. My experience in the educational software industry was that it was the worst of both worlds: the broken feedback loop, but slower because of yearly cycles, plus they don't want to pay as much as enterprises.
It's a Mans World and it Always Will Be
I've been unsuccessfully debating this with the author on LinkedIn... In case anyone is interested why I think this is wrong: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Use-PUT-Partial-Updates-in-29...

Am I wrong here? Maybe I'm just being too critical...
These Are The Most Water-Stressed Countries In The World
Private schools, that teach exactly what the market wants them to teach. This would not include Patriotic indoctrination though, for example.

Besides, how many percent of everything you're taught at school do you actually find interesting? -We all learn what we want to learn, and that's about it. In a free society, people would just get exactly the kind of education they actually want.
An even better option is to use emscripten to bundle custom HTML rendering engine that would draw styled text input using Wayland server running on <canvas>
Hot backup has been available since 1.7. You can learn more about how it works here: http://rethinkdb.com/docs/backup/

Enjoy!
$20 from me if that tier includes a shirt.
Here's the ruling:

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/obamansa.pdf
The open rate info in this page is misleading.

the graph titled "New Gmail, images auto-displayed" makes it seem like the user opening the email will cause the open count, but this is incorrect.

As soon as gmail receives the email, they will cache the image link. All images will always show an open count of 1, and only 1, regardless of whether or not a user ever actually opened the email.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896205

> They are constantly breaking backwards compatibility and committing to "stable" at this point seems unrealistic

>> the various node.js libraries that so many people depend upon are either weekend fads that get abandoned, or moving at the same speeds and likewise breaking compatibility

>>> The team claims to have turned the corner. relevant comment from @isaacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hJbjqbIt4#t=120
Just make it show alive/dead parrots, or spam, instead of goats. ;)

"Our table has spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, spam, and spam. You've chosen your dish, now let's see what else was on the table...."

;)
Thank you for having the integrity to not try to justify the time you spent and the money you made by enabling these madmen.

I admire your intellectual honesty, you don't see it very often when it comes to criticizing one's own actions.
To the many of you using Macbooks: be aware the that the caps lock key is deadened/delayed in order to prevent mistaken pressing, and that this is a hardware feature that can't be changed. This may be the case for Mac keyboards and other new systems as well.
Your experiences with high schools are different than the ones I've encountered. The social hierarchies aren't oriented around the sports team, but rather the standard hierarchy with the wealthy at the top and the poor at the bottom.

Granted, there's some variation, and being athletically talented or aesthetically pleasing can move you up the hierarchy, but being poor and having both of those traits will only raise you as high as the ugliest, clumsiest, wealthy student.

In four years of high school, I could only ever name one basketball player and that was only because he was my debate partner is speech class. I never knew who the quarterback on the football team was, despite hearing of some impressive victories. I was far more aware of the less popular sports (e.g. track, tennis, gymnastics), precisely because the team members in those sports came from higher income families and thus had more popular athletes.
I was using inflation as a simple proxy for this discussion.

My impression of the situation is that NASA directors are complaining that funding is in danger but at the same time increasing expenses on things which provide suboptimal returns. A kid falls for the bureaucratic script (a decrease in the rate of increase counts as a decrease in the budget) and sends what amounts to a significant portion of his personal net worth to help the floundering organization - which only has a _mere_ $18B this year (a revenue that would put it in the Fortune 150). In return, NASA has an astronaut call him (very cool), but taking the money from a kid is sleazy politics (imho).

Meanwhile, companies like SpaceX, are spending across 10 years what NASA spends in 3 weeks. Of course what they are doing is at a vastly smaller scope, but their impact (and public perception), seems to be disproportionate to the investment. (Interestingly, about half of SpaceX's money has come from NASA.)

I've signed the petition in my support of this young man who's trying to make a positive difference. That difference, however, doesn't come from budget increases, but from effective use of those resources.
Facebook used to be fun. Now it's a chore.
The contract is only voluntary if both sides have other reasonable options. This is very important point and the biggest hole in American Libertarian view of the world. There is a reason slavery contracts are illegal as well as there is a reason for worker rights (wouldn't be necessary and could be negotiated for every contract by logic of voluntary contract - workers just wouldn't agree to worse conditions).
Maybe it'll be that the concept of social networks is here to stay forevermore, but Facebook is just a brand. Social networks are becoming a dime a dozen, so using Facebook is a brand choice.

There's a social cost to be seen doing the things that everyone else is doing (the equivalent, say, of wearing a mainstream band t-shirt), so having a presence on Facebook is just meeting the bar. To be "cool" you need to find the social networks nobody else knows about, and hang out with your friends there. Bonus points for alluding, on Facebook, to conversations you had on the not-Facebook social network.

It may be amusing to find in 10 years that using Facebook becomes a new fad again and is seen as "retro". Certainly a possibility if Facebook does not innovate itself to non-recognizability.
Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project
I started 300dayweekend.com as a side project for myself and other travelers to share short travel stories. Friends and a few random visitors have given me great feedback on the content, but I'm struggling to drive traffic. I've had some success on Reddit, but submitting too many links to the same base URL gets posts hidden. I'm open to other thoughts?
Mind-blowing biotech to help nature recover from effects of climate change
Or the monkeys learn to live with what they have.
"Facebook is a public company now, which means it has to operate like a business."

Pretty sad indictment of the tech industry that operating like a business had to be qualified.
What's the message format you're using for RSA? I see RSA in the "pq" code of your Java client library; I see you asking Java for an "unpadded" instance of the RSA encryptor; I see you using RSA in its encrypting operation (not signing).

Great crypto software avoids RSA. Good crypto software uses OAEP when RSA is used to encrypt. Crappy crypto software (see: DNSSEC) uses PKCS1v1.5. What are you using?

I didn't look carefully; I have probably missed something. Please explain how you are using RSA in the handshake/authentication for your protocol. Like Moxie said: it's not the underlying algorithms you use; it's the constructions you use to to them together, and to the data you're protecting.

Incidentally, "I refuse to respond to comments from people who have only looked at my system for a couple minutes" is not a habit of highly effective cryptographers.
Decentralized social networks is the new thing.
Tutorial D is an example language spec, but the syntax itself isn't really the point.

D would overcome the object-relational mismatch by making the relational side much, much more powerful. It's really about unifying the ideas of "tables of data are relations" and "relations are logical propositions", so that one could have an über-powerful general purpose language that just happens to also be a natural interface for databases.

D is essentially a set of low level prescriptions that the authors felt would be required in order to achieve such a language.
YNO-phasic Sleep
It depends on what kind of product you're selling. Certain budgets in enterprise are seemingly unlimited, generally when it comes to improving sales. If you're selling security products (outside of the compliance-driven market), you won't find much appetite for large margins. If you're selling CRM products (which are a dime a dozen), you won't find large margins.

You have to find out where a business is willing to invest no matter what the price. I know it exists, unfortunately each industry (and each subset of each industry) is going to have a different area where price is no concern.
... but please don't, because you probably shouldn't. I wish my user agent wouldn't respect keyboard shortcuts except perhaps a whitelist of sites. Too often they replace actual browser interaction shortcuts, e.g. spacebar to pagedown (google is often guilty of this).
For starters, it's open source!

https://github.com/tryghost/Ghost
You seriously should to leave the computer, come back tomorrow, and then reread these posts. You are trying to stomp on someone's fond memory of a simple problem that they solved in a way that was novel to them. They clearly don't think that they are deserving of a Turing award, they were just young and felt some pride.
Care to share your findings? I've already stopped using Listerine (which ended up being the right decision) and I'm growing skeptical even of "hippie" toothpastes. Thinking about moving to just baking soda paste.
win - https://tdesktop.com/
> and then get individual warrants to go spelunking in it.

And that warrant is obtained whenever, in the future, that that person opposes the national interests. Then it's like you've been spying on them all along. Retroactive wiretapping!
Phusion Passenger: Meteor tutorial
This is actually a really good point, I've seen many sites take the approach of adding keyboard shortcuts but avoiding the main "default" actions, (eg. space bar, up, down).
Indeed. In practice it makes very little difference how wide the sprites are, provided they are some exact number of bytes. You end up multiplying the Y coordinate by the row stride but working from column to column will be controlled by some kind of counter so any value will be fine.
Agreed. Both approaches have their place, but I see SSE getting overlooked too often.
Blogger outreach atrocities
What's wrong with Listerine?
It is possible; however, it is a LOT easier with a CS degree (it is easier with a non-tech degree than without a degree at all :). Chances are a degree will also help later, when getting better jobs.

You will see many comments of people who've made it without a degree; they exist, but statistically it is much easier with one :)

If you can, get into a public university (at least if you're in the US or Mexico, where I have experience). It is usually affordable, and they provide a good education. It is usually easy to get a job in the field while in college.
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Walter: Am I wrong?
The Dude: No you're not wrong.
Walter: Am I wrong?
The Dude: You're not wrong Walter. You're just an asshole.
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Yup, that's a great tip. For those not familiar with OSCP stapling: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch04.htm...
> If your argument comes down to you arguing semantics, you've missed the point.

My argument doesn't come down to semantics. @lsaferite brought up definitions and so I responded to that.

Weird how you use words like "force" when talking about the workers' actions, but not Amazon's. Funny how it's "great economic sense" for Amazon to maximize their income, but not for the workers to maximize theirs.

Also:

> There isn't one universal morality you can judge the situation with

I have no idea what the fuck you could mean by this. Also pretty sure you're making moral judgments anyway after lecturing us all against it. There's a word for that.
The sculpture on the Moon
>In 2013 we launched Firefox OS , the first open Web devices based entirely in Web technologies

This early sentence really derailed me. There is so much going on:

-What is an "open web device", what qualifies? Maybe put a link here?

-Why is Firefox OS called an OS if it is actually devices?

-Is being based IN web technologies the same as being based ON web technologies?

-And there is a weird implication here that there have been open web devices NOT based on web technologies but now we have open web devices that actually ARE based on web technologies. That can't be right, can it?

From what I can tell the sentence should read something like, "In 2013 we launched Firefox OS, the first [mobile?] operating system based entirely on Web technologies."
Is it just me, or does this page skew down to the right? It bugged me and made the page harder to read.
Summary of Mars trilogy: go to Mars, become a hippie.

Ok, I know there's a lot more to the book, but the whole hippie-ish thing blew it for me. I stopped reading halfway through Green Mars when Hiroko shows up naked and the conference for the future of Mars becomes a huge pagan ritual/festival.
> Does Rethinkdb have any kind of transactional capabilities

You have full ACID on a single document, but not across multiple documents. In this way Rethink is similar to other NoSQL systems (except you can do almost any operation imaginable atomically on a single document in RethinkDB).
So long as our court system remains a strong protector of the innocent

No one is "innocent." It's just a question of which laws count, and who decides.
Think about your ideal visitor:
What would that be? Where do they hangout online, what do they read?

It seems to me you want to focus on travelers - Go through Alltop (http://travel.alltop.com/) as they already get traffic. Try to leverage that by outreaching and interacting.

Leverage Twitter by going through https://twitter.com/search?q=travel%20blogs&src=typd&f=realt... finding people who travel and favoriting a tweet from there. Put your URL in ur byline and slowly gaining traffic.

Just some thoughts :) Good Luck!
Crunched the numbers, I'm wrong. If the host shows a goat (when the host doesn't know where the car is), switch or stay doesn't matter as you have the same odds either way.

There are 4 outcomes to the selection phase of this game:

1/3 - both pick goats

1/3 - you pick the goat, host picks the car

1/3 - you pick the car, host picks the goat

0 - you pick the car, host picks the car

So given the host picks a goat, switching or staying doesn't matter it's 50/50.

EDIT: An aside - why we shouldn't trust our intuitions, but instead actually work out these problems.
"My great grandfather won the lottery, therefore anyone who tries can". And by implication, anyone who doesn't wasn't trying.

For every story of your great grandfather, how many people spent all their money to get to America but it was actually a con and the boat trip they bought wasn't real? How many arrived in New Orleans and couldn't toil as a worker because they couldn't get a job? How many bought into a different idea and went to France to seek a new start and got killed in the War? Or Russia? Or Japan? How many arrived in New Orleans, toiled as a grocery store worker for years before being fired and left unemployed? How many toiled for years before injury left them helpless? How many tried to learn a foreign language but didn't have the mental ability to do it? How many tried to start a store in another town but picked a shitty town and went bankrupt? Or picked an industry with a ruthless competitor who put them out of business with illegal means?

How many of the German population tried to do something like the above? And how many of those hit on good things to try and good ways to go about them? And how many of those were successful?

That fraction of a percent is your model for how everyone should live?

If you only consider that "successful people worked hard" and conclude "hard work leads to success" then you are misunderstanding the nature of the world.

Hard work leads towards success but success, however it's normally defined, is a filter that excludes most people trying for it.
Well I'm flattered that you think I'm cute, but I'm not sure where you pulled any of the other nonsense you wrote from (I have an idea). I never made any of the arguments that you claim I have.

If you read the parent, he doesn't buy the debunking of the industrial military complex because, in a theoretical world where war is not a common occurrence, the conclusion doesn't hold water. Well, that's nice, but in the real world, war happens. A lot. It always has and it still does.

The reason for this is irrelevant. You talk about war being manufactured for personal gain (with no proof I would add, but whatever). True or not, it's irrelevant. We're talking about human nature here. Do you really think a time will come in which everyone is moral and good and wars cease to occur?

If you do then you believe that we will somehow alter whatever it is that brings people like this into existence. I hope you're right, but for now you're living in a fairy tale. I prefer to deal with reality as it is, not what I wish it were.
Selenium is awesome. I'm using it in Java and PHP. I had a run in with it in its 1.x days and it was too unreliable to maintain the tests. Now it's fantastic.
Loaded question for sure :)

You're asking me if the US's geopolitical and military operations currently are increasing or decreasing total violence in the world. A tremendously complex question to answer accurately.

My answer (opinion) is this: On the whole I think the US has contributed to a decline in total violence in the world. Not to say there haven't been bad decisions along the way. Advances in military tactics and foreign aid policies have been aimed to decreased violence. As for an exact figure, that is impossible to know.

How many future wars were averted when the US won the nuclear arms race? How many civilian casualties are minimized with each advance in precision bombing over the last ~75 years of military aviation? How many wars have been averted through foreign political action (aid, coups, treaties, etc)?

Obviously those are unmeasurable in each discrete instance but the book I referenced above provides some aggregate statistics which, when correlated the US's rise as a world power, show a huge decline in worldwide violence (and not just in 1st world countries).
Not really arguments. Otherwise, I also do here "the same principle" as Platon and Aristotle as I discuss anything with you. And I'll have the fond memories of this. Don't stomp on them.

My claim is that anybody who thinks moving the text cursor is "the same principle" as Carmack's one pixel at the time smooth scrolling doesn't have elementary understanding of both. And I explained the difference.

I have nothing against morgawr writing about his discovering cursor positioning. I have against supporting him equating this with something completely different. If a five year old goes out of the go cart and says "ma I can ride the plane" nobody cares. If he's 20 something and claims the same after the same "feat" on the pilot forum, some pilot can try to correct him, even if it's the lost time. Even if he also knows that there's the famous "don't argue with .... People might not know the difference."

I still think it was worth writing these comments.
To a degree, I completely agree with you.

But then, on the other hand, we see that making something unique does often propel the "build it and they will come" mentality. Because it works.

What marketing have you seen from Snapchat (not directly related to the enterprise discussion though)?

I'm reminded of the words of the great Steve Martin: "Be so good they can't ignore you."

It this always the case? Absolutely not, which is where I do agree with you. But when an executive walks into a quarterly meeting and asks: "I keep hearing about xyz app/tool, are we using that?" you've won a huge part of the battle. Possibly with no marketing.

Make something unique, something a good majority of people will want to use and talk about, and your marketing/selling is half-way done for you.
I found this article really interesting. I started using Facebook in high school, back when high schoolers were to use hs.facebook.com to access Facebook and networks were heavily emphasized. I left Facebook about one year ago today.

One particular observation that the article makes that I want to flesh out a bit is the following: Facebook has grown and grown in terms of the size of the application itself, and it is clear that they have pushed very heavily for the 'platform' model. It seems like this is getting replaced by a series of more specialized, more mobile-centric social applications, like Snapchat and Tumblr. Of course FB owns Instagram so they have that going for them, but this does seem to hint at a bit of a growing trend in social networking.
My schedule isn't compatible with a university math class, which is what I think a lot of people who skip college are going to find out when they try to pick things back up. I can dedicate the requisite number of hours to a course, but not in the structure a course demands.

Regarding the importance of math to my career now: cryptanalysis, signal processing.
While the above parent tree of comments is mostly correct, I can't help but feel like the commenters are just regurgitating sound-bite memes. I wish there were less of an echo chamber around here.
I tried to find the restrictions/performance costs of storing and accessing medium to large blobs of text in rethinkdb store (say, for a simple web crawler), but couldn't find docs related to that. Is there a size restriction or some other insights from you rethinkdb users or developers out there?
It seems as though you think he's alone in voicing the least bit of concern for the fact that it might be valuable to hold up a second before steamrolling the (hypothetical) only extraterrestrial life we've discovered in the universe in the pursuit of a future which to me sounds, quite frankly, disgusting. Claiming that mankind shares your views en masse and furthermore making declarative statements about who "owns" the future is a monument to hubris and quite possibly a solid example of the projection you accuse others of.
The one workout tech CEOs love.