skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've listened to classical, and as long as it's slow it's not bad. I've listened to a lot of binaural beats, and for focusing it worked quite well. Thanks for sharing I will definitely check this out.

You should run a test comparing amount of code commits made listening as opposed to silence. Kind of like lovesdata did with coffee and universal analytic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27yMQOS8n0

I don't think you can cure it. Only suppress it, or harness it. Drugs can only do so much, but taking them while I was in school definitely helped. Believe it or not, medical marijuana helps more than one would think, but it's illegal in my state.
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Not only do they have lids but one of the main functions of buckets for contractors is to mix things. The non uniform bottom and non circular shape make this prohibitive. While this bucket is nice for pouring water it serves little purpose for most applications.
When I accidently hit the power button, it's usually followed by a flurry of furious key strokes to quickly wake the machine up.

It appears that before the machine actually goes to sleep, there is a brief period of about 5 seconds where it's stil on, but the screen powered off.
It's fake - it's CPA/CPL (cost per action/lead) fraud/spam.
It's better to be a solo founder than a co-founder who feels like a solo founder.
Nice, but here's an improvement: lose the 2-line section titles.

Make them slightly smaller so they fit in one line, and can be read in one fell swoop.
Show me an alternative that I can sell to a non-technically minded client with a small business who just wants to blog and put up a youtube feed and do e-commerce and maybe SEO. And oh, they can't ever even know what a terminal is, much less git.
This UI is pretty terrible on somewhat small screens. Here's what it looks like when sized to 1024x768:

http://i.imgur.com/X78sHxx.png

Note that the links behind the blue translucent rectangle are unclickable.
You could add a normalizing step before hashing in the extension, similarly to what's usually done to email addresses typed in by users:

- Remove duplicate spaces and punctuation
- lowercase entire query (just like DNS)
- Detect and normalize homographs (is this a impossible problem, or are there solutions out there already?)
My initial thought: This is terrible, because how would we ever know which sites we can trust? Something as tiny as an extra space would change the hash value.

But on second thought, the real problem is that we (the web technology community) have assumed domain names are even a remotely suitable proxy for trust. I don't think most common web users actually get this point. That's why phishing is so easy (except for the part about getting a phishing email past spam filters).

Do you think most people really know (or notice) the difference between webaccess.bankofamerica.com and webaccess.bankofamerica.x8.co? I doubt it.

So the real fix for this situation is creating a true trust system that most actual end users can understand and rely on.

Then, it seems only natural for something like this to be the future. UUIDs will act as the underlying addressing technology with "whatever you want" as your display name.

And as a bonus, it will really cut down on the cybersquatters' profitability.
All that means is that you're using their recursive DNS servers. They can configure these any way they choose. Stop using third party recursive DNS servers and you will not have problems with unwanted advertising and NXDOMAIN hijacking.

Run your own recurive DNS server (e.g. dnscache) on 127.0.0.1.

Alternatively, query authoritative servers directly. Use a port other than 53 if you really think your ISP is trying to filter your outgoing queries; I sincerely doubt they would bother.

192.5.6.30 is an authoritative .com server. Memorize that number.

dig +norecurse -b0.0.0.0#5353 news.ycombinator.com @192.5.6.30

The names on the right of the "NS" rows are the authoritative servers for ycombinator.com. (Cloudflare. No comment.)

192.5.6.30 has the IP addresses for those. You'll find them in the "ADDITIONAL SECTION". Let's say it lists 1.2.3.4 as an IP address.

dig +norecurse -b0.0.0.0#5353 news.ycombinator.com @1.2.3.4

And you should receive the IP address for news.ycombinator.com, or at least your next clue where to look (if the DNS admin has chosen to play games with CNAME).

This method can be automated.

Your ISP is not "intercept[ing] all DNS requests". You are sending your requests to your ISP's recursive DNS servers (why?), and those servers are feeding you whatever information the ISP chooses. Go figure, they are sending you bogus info to inject advertising. Solution: Stop sending your requests to your ISP's recursive DNS servers (or any third party recursive DNS servers). Send your requests to your own recursive DNS server running on 127.0.0.1, or send nonrecursive requests to authoritative DNS servers only.
This was a very uplifting article, as lately I've been somewhat preoccupied by the demons of Orwellian surveillance and propaganda, growing class inequities, overpopulation, pollution, mass extinction, the eroding usefulness of antibiotics, and the march of technology putting greater and greater destructive power at the hands of the desperate. I suppose my money is still on terribleness, but hope is at least a useful thought experiment.
The movie Hard to Kill should be remade about Windows XP and IE6 :)
In most startups, failure doesn't result in death.
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At a certain point I suppose taste is subjective, but Laphroig is definitely not the smokiest or peatiest of the Islay malts.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Skype
Great discovery. Surprised no tinfoil had been mentioned about being a possible NSA "diode."
I'm on my fourth or fifth mac notebook and all the others had the power button well away from the keyboard.

I also remember my uncle's Apple II with the reset key in the upper right next to backspace that he eventually pried off and put a bottle cap over the switch to keep from pressing it accidentally.
UCSD uses computer vision to identify social groups
Someone is trying to win the Ig Nobel prize.
I am also curious if anybody knows?

*update
I Didn't see yalls response until I refreshed the page
Launchpad is good for reviewing what you have installed. Every once in a while I'll go through it and find crap. Forgot about.
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On methods, quoting from the paper:

Alignment of the body (along the thoracic spine) in direction towards the head (heading) was measured in freely moving dogs (i.e., not on the leash) in “open field” (on meadows, fields, in the wood etc., i.e., unconstrained, and uninfluenced by linear structures, such as walls and fences) away from the road traffic, high voltage power lines, and conspicuous steel constructions during defecation and urination by a hand-held compass.

So it was not as simple as directional preference in sidewalks or roads.
I'm seeing more and more wildlife crossings out west.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trans-Canada-wildlife_over...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cerviduct.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOMcpUN5RY
Both the author of this post and the commenters here are correct for taking note of the privacy implications of Sqwiggle, but to completely dismiss the entire product seems to be both silly, and missing the point.

Proclaiming "I won't use Sqwiggle because then people could see me" is exactly the same as saying "I won't work at my desk because people can see me". Both traditional offices and Sqwiggle allow one to achieve privacy if they'd like. For an office, you go into a conference room or something similar. To achieve the same effect with Sqwiggle, you simply close the program or browser tab.

Sqwiggle's stated goal is to replicate the ease of determining colocated team members' status/activity when you are not colocated. No one is insisting you run it 24/7, just like no one insists you live your life at your desk at work.

A very strange and dismissive article overall. The paragraph starting with "I don’t think Sqwiggle will be around long though" seemed especially cynical.
Yeah I know, five eyes is alive and well, hence why all local stuff I have is encrypted, despite it being annoying to do so. Sad state of affairs.
I've enjoyed my Surface Pro 2. Windows 8 is quite nice on proper hardware. It's nice to have a full blown computer in something that is heavier and bigger than an ipad, but not terribly so much heavier.
This feels like a lot of post hoc rationalization to me.
Is the power button different on newer macs? Mine is flush with the metal and you have to push it much harder than a key press to effect anything.
That was a particular bit of brilliance from the article.

One of my friends from G+ (which is to say: someone I met through G+ and started following there) has made a practice of bulk-purging his account every so often.

My own response has been to greatly curtail my activities on the site (due to Google's ever-encroaching property linkages), even though I'm already participating pseudonymously. I've hand-deleted some content, but am holding out on a broader deletion given the prospect of recovering some of my comments (presently not included in the Data Liberation Front), with some third-party tools. Though I may just pull the trigger and do a full wipe.

The fact that Google offers this option is actually somewhat commendable.
Teachers won't be exempt.

Look at what's going on in US public education with the move to Core Curriculum. The focus is on reading and math, with outcomes measured via computer based testing. You think when cash-strapped state legislatures realize they could reduce the number of teachers down to a single proctor watching over self-paced computer based instruction that they won't go for it, especially when "the test" (since that's what we're doing here... teaching to the test) is computer-delivered?

This isn't to say that teachers will go away anymore than retail clerks, or buggy-whip makers or barrel makers before them, will go away, but their ranks will thin and where they are employed will change. There will still be people willing to pay for personal instruction and there will still be courses that are difficult to deliver via CBT alone.

I always thought online / computer-based education, especially for grade school, sounded terrible. But once I saw how little my kids are actually getting in public school, and especially with federal meddling ala No Child Left Behind and Core Curriculum, I would actually embrace it - at least it would be self-paced and allow more advanced students to move ahead rather than sitting bored waiting on their peers.

Look what's happening at the university level with MOOCs already. That's only going to accelerate, and university professors are teachers by another name - maybe calling it "automation" isn't exactly right, but we'll certainly see a thinning of the ranks.
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Ask HN: What algorithm for discovering sequence of similar urls?
I think it's a terrible, terrible design. I was working on a new Retina Powerbook last week, and I pushed the power key within my first ten minutes. It should not be trivially easy to bring your productivity to a screeching halt.

The soldered RAM is annoying - I'm OK with my computer being a complex tool, not an appliance. The excuse of the soldered RAM to up-sell if you want 16 GB of memory is insulting. The power button is idiotic. Apple wants me to pay three grand for a laptop that can be turned off instantaneously by an overly curious pet?

Really?

Really?
I couldn't decide whether or not to get the DVP8 or the Nexus 7, so I got both. Finding myself grabbing the DVP8 most of the time for for IE metro...yea...It has flash support and a much better mobile browsing. Better than any browser on Android anyway.
I don't know about Kara Swisher, but Mossberg was with the Journal for like 30 years, as a reporter in various capacities. So it's not like he just used them. His entire career was supported by that company, since long before Newscorp owned them.

This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened either. A bunch of reporters and editors left the Washington Post a few years ago to create a new digital news company called Politico.
Yes. On the newer Macbooks, it's a chiclet immediately north of "delete" and east of Volume Up.
The point of these ships is to be cheap.
http://images.apple.com/macbook-air/images/design_multitouch...
have a dog and can say for sure that it is definitely nor random nor "simple preference" (and magnetic alignment falls under "simple" category)
About a year ago I left a cable modem and internet service (Time Warner) at an apartment I was moving out of while my friend continued to stay there. I had configured the thing in a manner I thought to be fairly secure -- strong password, no broadcast, etc.. One day the internet goes down and my friend doesn't know what to do. She calls the ISP and asks them what's wrong. They say they can't release any information about the service to her without my permission, so I suddenly get a three-way call explaining that my friend and the ISP representative are on the line and I need to give my authorization to access the account information. Being the person I am, I attempt to troubleshoot things over the phone before giving out any sort of account credentials. Eventually, I ask her to log into the router configuration page. She doesn't know the password and the first one I gave her doesn't work. The representative chimes in "That's fine -- I can just change it from here."

"...What?"

I was furious. Time Warner had left a backdoor in all their modems that gives them administrative access to my private connection. And yes -- she did alter the password remotely. She didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this. I tried googling for relevant information, but wasn't able to find anything more than speculation at the time.
Thanks for finding this link.

This has been a technology under development for a long time. The typical technology for deep space communications is radio. There are a few missions coming up that will require this bandwidth.
Expect most employers to not care about your G.P.A.
For Windows style window switching (across all applications), use Control + F4.

You may also need to hold down the function key if you have your keyboard setup the default way, where things like brightness, volume, etc. are the primary uses of the function keys.
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NYC (remote okay).

Need help with QA and various small/medium feature implementations on a Django-based music information website. Good performance on short-term contracts will probably lead to longer contracts.

Primarily need expertise in Django (w/ postgres, gunicorn, gevent, nginx, celery). HTML/CSS/JS helpful. Hadoop/Cascading experience also helpful.
Yes. It's where your eject key is http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/macbook-pro-keybo...
John Doerr investing $200 million in green energy while simultaneously lobbying for California to cap carbon emissions? No conflict of interest there...
They don't want the sun in their eyes?
On the Macbook Air it is another normal key.
While I'd definitely suggest using hide instead of minimize, there is a way to unminimize windows from the application switcher (Command+Tab), it's just totally unintuitive. Here's what you do:

1. Minimize a window (Command+M).
2. Switch applications (Command+Tab).
3. Switch back to the application with the minimized window (Command+Tab). Before you release the Command key, hold down the Option key. Now release the command key.

Voila--your minimized window will return from the dock.
This is cute, but it kind of falls under the "Let's do this thing we've done, but with new social media technology!" category rather than something genuinely useful.

Not being attacked by a shark is a real-time scenario... A shark that is 0.75 miles away could easily be 0.5 miles away by the time you've checked your phone, got off your towel, and tip-toed into the water.

I'm not dismissing the program by making it keep promises that it hasn't made...it just highlights how technology needs to be a strategy...to have these signals out in a public API is very cool, but for it to serve its ostensible safety purpose, the beaches need to be equipped with a public-announcement system that keys off of that data (whether it be a Twitter feed or whatever the scientists were using before).
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Keep those. It would be funny to look back on in 20 years, if it lasts that long.
“The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes.”

I guess lithium doesn't decay very quickly. What's interesting is that we didn't really make batteries much better: we made things use less power. I am still looking forward to a wireless tea kettle, however.
I was just about to buy a hall effect sensor, but now I just need a dog! That's for saving me $20 OP.
seems like we are going around in circles. what is so new and great about Clojure? we have Lisp and various implementations of Scheme which are more functional,powerful and stable. Clojure runs on the JVM so what?? seems like we kind of reinvent the wheel when the wheel was not broken to begin with.....i have done some programming in Clojure and also scheme. scheme is the real deal simple but powerful and not restricted because the JVM will not allow it.
I really want something like Cmd+Tab, except one that lists all windows on current desktop (doesn't include minimized windows or other desktops).

When comparing two things on one small screen, I want to be able to rapidly switch between two windows. Depending on if it's within same app, I have to think to use either Cmd+Tab or Cmd+`. And all the minimized apps, as well as apps on other desktops get in the way.

Mission Control is unacceptable for rapid window switching because it requires me to move the mouse pointer and find the other window, when all I want to do is "select previous window".
In other words, you're underemployed and don't have small children--prime circumstances to foster Internet anxiety addiction.
It is a little subjective. I've always thought Ardbeg has a smokier taste than Laphroig, but a fellow whisky-enthusiast friend of mine thinks the complete opposite.

edit: on the post. Very curious to see your thoughts on Talisker and whether it fits the profile the results gave it.
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They actually have car whistlers that you can attach to your hood that are supposed to deter wildlife.
Like this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XNGLJU

These are very common in Michigan, where I live
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Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death
Not an expert on this in any way, but I did enough chemistry to know that galvanic corrosion is very well known, especially on ships.

I suspect that the protection system was cut from the ship in the understanding that the Navy would instead do ongoing maintenance to stop it (not exactly sure what that maintenance would look like - maybe sacrificial anodes instead of some kind of electrical system? - but stay with me...)

Doing that would cut the capital cost of the ships (ie, what is reported as "how much it cost") and move that cost to an ongoing operational budget.

I'm guessing the Navy was under pressure to squeeze the budget, so this looked like a good way to do it.

But it sounds like the Navy also had their operational budget cut to the point where they didn't do the ongoing maintenance? Or maybe they just forgot about it..

Anyway, I suspect that's what the real story would look like.
This is the third time I've seen someone say "xeon lights" making fun of anti-Apple snobs. (Maybe it was you all three times; I don't usually read usernames on HN.)

Is this just a misspelling of "xenon" ? If not, what does it mean?
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This, is the right question.
Maybe this is why, even on an 11 inch netbook, I generally surf the web with the browser window at about 3/5ths the overall screen width. I don't like columns that get too wide.
ScMM = SerComm, perhaps?

Many of Linksys' old DSL modems were manufactured by them, AFAIK.. and it seems many of the noted 'probably affected' models have a SerComm manuf'ed device for at least one revision of that model line

More probable SerComm manuf'ed devices are visible at the WD query link below..

http://wikidevi.com/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=[[Manu...
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I'm with you. I actually installed wordpress/buddypress on a 5 dollar droplet on digitalocean. It works great as a kinda Facebook replacement that I only allow my family to use. We can share photos and send private messages and even chat. No ads, no facebook.
The real reason they're collecting everything is not to fight terrorism, it's to provoke terrorism. More terrorism means more power to them.
That is the one thing that jumped out at me. Otherwise I agree with everything.
Just Google me! :)
The CR-48 (Google's test chromebook) had the same problem. The last function key was the power button, and it was right above backspace. One accidental move and it fell asleep. It was really the only problem I had with that computer.
Ask HN: Ever have a customer request a ROFR?
In negotiations with some new customers and have sent them all our standard Service Agreement. Some have asked for revisions but they have all been minor thus far.

One just came back and asked us to include additional language "giving them a Right of First Refusal (ROFR) to invest in all or a portion of the company, to ensure it is not sold to a competitor."

My primary customers right now are banks and they all seem to look at one another as a competitor regardless of how large or small they are.

The request initially seemed like a positive because I'm about to begin fundraising and I figured having a multi-billion dollar financial institution requesting the right to invest/purchase could be seen as plus to prospective investors. However, the more and more I think about i....I think it could potentially restrict growth and may be viewed as a negative by both customers and investors.

Has anyone else ever dealt with a scenario like this before?
Grey on grey is usually a bad usability move if you expect people to read your content.

(For FF use nosquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/ and Chrom* use high contrast: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/)

I don't know about others, but there's really no chance I'd be physically able to read those words without things like this. My eyes blur and I feel a physical strain on them - like I'm trying to do some type of eyeball aerobics.

I literally can't read more than about a sentence without having to look away a few moments and then return.
Talisker, to me, tastes like the "magic smoke" from burning microcontrollers. That's a good thing.
One of the videos they link to (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xl5qn...) highlights a lot of different concerns. Among the obvious were the shortcut keys (e.g., Ctrl-Z) and the reviewers losing the ability to switch their screen to full screen. I'm not seeing these problems address on the frogpad page.
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Apple fanboys like to copy each other's oh so clever putdowns.
Directly counteracted by amazing new crypto technologies, a rising standard of living for everyone, better farming and sustenance techniques, a (successful) push for more efficient technology in general, the fact that there actually really isn't much mass extinction going around (not sure what you're referring to here), rapid development in fields like nanomachinery and nanomedicine, and the fact that technological equalization of destructive power could very easily be seen as a good thing.
A little to few memes for my taste.