skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that depends how comfortable you are thinking in terms of machine code. It takes a completely different mindset because you're now literally dealing with blocks of memory -- even more so than C.

It also depends how steep of a learning curve you want to encounter. I, personally, have not yet played with x86 assembly because the documentation for them is so unfriendly for beginners. To that end, when I want to play around in Assembly and learn techniques for that level of programming, I usually play with the DCPU (http://dcpu.com/dcpu-16/). It's fake and was designed for a (sadly) not-to-be-made game. But it is an absolute joy to program in.

Play around with that until you're comfortable and THEN tackle x86.
I like Product Hunt, I've been visiting it several times a week since its launch.

Question for Ryan, how are the contributors chosen?
I think that there is probably some catch up that surveying needs to do to make this more practical, but it's probably more an effect of not having wanted to find magma before. A quick Google search turns up the following page about remote sensing for volcanic activity.

http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/matt/vol...

If there's money in finding magma, research will follow. 36 - 50 MW of non-carbon energy is good news. Geothermal is already competitive with coal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#U...) and with recent improvements in drilling technology, magma is within reach. The borehole mentioned above had a depth of 2,100 m. Deepwater Horizon drilled to more than 10,000 m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon).
Oops, I totally missed that part. It sounds more realistic now.
SO / SE is one of the posterchild of C# / .Net.

However at the beginning they were really Windows only while now there's really a lot of Linux in there. HAProxy running on Linux, for example.

There was a recent post about the various technologies using by the entire stack and there have also been SO/SE employees detailing the stack here on HN.

So it depends what you mean by "runs on Windows". Certainly the scalability issues are handled, at least in part, by Linux.
After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps
Also known as "defense in depth" in the security field.
Interesting how Scribd is focused on the needs of readers and publishers, but hardly a peep about authors, whose hard work is the foundation of Scribd's product offering. For instance:

building up the kind of catalog that draws in new users requires publisher support.

It requires the support of authors, too. And aside from the nice deal that Smashwords cut for its premium catalog (authors get 60% of list once 20% of the title is read [1]) it's not clear how much authors will be compensated. And it's not certain how long the Smashword terms can be sustained, if subscribers read too many books and the author payout>subscriber revenue.

As an author and small publisher, I'm very concerned that subscription plans like Scribd and Oyster will eventually be forced into a Spotify-like model (2) in which audiences get a great deal, platform owners and other middlemen take their cut, and the content creators get crumbs.

1. http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/12/smashwords-signs-distribu...

2. http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/09/26/161758720/how-...
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I may be talking out of my ass, but if I recall correctly back when I had a merchant account I may have been required to add that drop-down even if it was meaningless.
How about allowing someone else to post on that account, is that allowed? If not I imagine nearly all corp accounts are in breach of their rules.

They don't need to "sell" it legally to create the same practical result.

Seems it's pretty unenforceable for Twitter?
Yeah, that's basically what they did. They took the stem cells they created and put them in a blastocyst (a very early form of a fertilized egg) and a mouse developed.

It's actually a pretty impressive discovery. They took a spleen sample, separated out the lymphocytes and exposed them to a pH of 5.7 for 25 min out comes a stem cell!
"Mike, I miss you so much and wish you were still alive."

"Would you like to talk more about Mike I miss you so much and wish you were still alive?"
OP here. Really cool to see people enjoying the write up.

It started off as a list of misc AWS topics that I found myself repeatedly explaining to people. It seemed like a good idea to write them down.

I'm planning on listing out more in follow up posts.
The overkill is at the level of the US State Dept and how it implements sanctions on countries that it designates as "state sponsors of terrorism." In some ways it's better to offer education to 99% of the world instead of going to prison and offering it to no one.
Mint - offers a personal finance app for budgeting, planning, etc. -- and perhaps monetizes with affiliate links.

Hipmunk - meta searches multiple travel sites, provides ratings and reviews, assigns an overall experience metric, and supplies other actionable info for travelers.

Pinterest - allows discovery and sharing of content and other interaction (BTW, unless they recently restarted their affiliate-monetization scheme, they no longer are "just an affiliate". I have no idea though).

I'll grant you that at some level anything is "just" an x. I'll also grant you that the determination of value is frequently subjective (for instance, I never got the fanaticism around Pinterest).

But, there is some point at which the added functionality/feature set of a given thing is so thin that it is very difficult to see where any significant value is being added or that there is any uniqueness. Aggregating products from different retailers? That's been done in spades.

The other element, I think, is that HN has a different standard. Because its readership is very highly tech and startup oriented, people who show here generally have something that is at least somewhat more unique. So, I don't think it's overly harsh for a reader to comment that he/she doesn't see anything unique or particularly valuable in this offering. In fact, that's pretty good feedback. The affiliate world is brutal and if this is all they are bringing, then they are likely to find it extremely tough going.
Ask HN: Who Has Stopped Using RSA Since The Backdoors Were Revealed?
What are you using instead? I am about to deploy to Heroku for the first time and the instructions state to use RSA or DSA.
OSes are complicated and gigantic engineering projects.

Some of them are most definitely better than others in some respects. Saying that they are all absolutely equal is like declaring every CPU ever designed completely equal.

It's true that most users will be well served by most OSes but that's more a statement about users than about OSes.
This is mis-pitched in the sense that it shouldn't be pitched at you to have a conversation with your deceased dad... it should be pitched at you to enable your great-great-grandchildren to have a conversation with their long-deceased great-great-grandfather (or -mother).

Even with the limited technology today, with enough material you could create a passable replica of a person's writing style, stories, opinions, etc. Of course, that is a very shallow "solution" to death... but it is better than nothing.

How much would you pay to be able to have this shallow conversation with your great-great-grandfather?

Considering how much people pay for ancestry research stuff, I'd guess most people would pay a lot for that.
Already tons of discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532
That is a huge generalization. The developers that are closest to me all have English proficiency to some degree. But that's a biased sample, so I am inclined to agree with the statement.

As a brazilian, I am not sure why that is, but I can make some guesses:

- Public education sucks (at least before you get to the university level) so we can just disregard that.

- Top private schools are outstanding. There's a lot of competition to get in the public universities, so the competition is fierce, among students and schools. However, that doesn't apply to English at all. They'll teach the english text comprehension skills required to get into a university and nothing more. I am sure there are exceptions, but that seems to be the rule.

- Private English courses range from terrible to great. There are several reasons for that, but that difference is not always reflected in their cost and it is not trivial to tell them apart. It usually takes several years to get from zero to a level where the student can talk to a native speaker. It is entirely possible for someone to enroll in a Comp. Sci course and an English one at the same time, and finish Comp. Sci, while being halfway through the English one.

I am not sure how that compares to the rest of the world. But the perception is that learning English takes a lot of effort, and "I'm already employed, so why bother?". The issue here obviously is that it shouldn't take that much time - we are not interested in fluency here - but if it did, then the opportunity cost would be too high indeed.

People only start taking English seriously when they get outside offers (which they fail to qualify), or start working for a company with foreign clients. By then, it is too late.

The advice I give to everyone is to make English the number one priority, but don't bother too much with formal schools. Things like movies, CNN and online games (with VOIP) can teach you the basics much faster. And most importantly, train the ears to recognize English phonemes. After that, you can get a teacher/institution to fill in the gaps. That saves a lot of time, because you'll rank much higher in placement tests, shaving whole years of slow learning.

As for the new site, I believe it will become an island of people that are unwilling to learn English. I am not sure what that says about their willingness to learn anything else...
Thank you so much!

I am looking through Mozilla's mentored bugs. THIS IS AMAZING!

Thank you!!!
Paraphrasing: "Please don't torrent this. I'm not a big corporation, just some guy, you know?"

Well, I don't know about you being "just some guy" anymore, Louis, but I still bought the movie and will keep it away from my torrent client.
> It sounds like they didn't intend to drill into magma

Correct.

> intentionally find magma near the surface to exploit in this manner?

They're not at the exploiting point yet.
Practically, that's not really all that different from what the United States did, but instead of a drawn out process they did it in quickfire sales. The government forced the bankrupt banks to sell themselves to the non-bankrupt banks for virtually nothing. And it loaned and took stock (which is partial nationalization) in the non-bankrupt banks so those banks could pay the debts of the newly acquired failed banks.

The government basically forcibly reorganized the banking system in a matter of weeks.

The only difference is stockholders from the failed banks only lost 98-99% of their investment instead of 100%. A small price to pay for a quick solution to the largest financial crisis in 80 years.
I hope it does not turn out to be opposite of what they intended : people starting to use IE7 just to get a new computer. It is called the Cobra Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect)
Obama? Try Arafat or Kissinger.
I'm sorry, but I'm not quite the asshole you think I am.

If someone asked me to call them by a certain pronoun or salutation (names are different as they are completely arbitrary), I would do it, out of respect for them. But let's be clear about what's being asked: I am being asked to lie -- to misrepresent reality -- to that person, and possibly to other people for that person. That's a (small) favor being asked, and it is somewhat irritating to be asked a favor with the sort of sense of moral entitlement found in your last paragraph (especially when the favor being asked is a violation of my own morals).

Also, unfortunately, we don't have the right to define our own linguistic identities. I know it isn't fair, but this extends far beyond gender. I don't become "rich", "President", "Filipino", "Doctor", or "intelligent" just by willing it or even by asking other people to call me those adjectives. They are fuzzy categories, some people don't clearly fall inside or outside of them, but they do have non-arbitrary (i.e., outside your mind) meanings.
Except for the fact Digital Ocean doesn't take security seriously at all. It's good for testing small projects but to run a business on, no thanks. DO has a very small fraction of the features available that AWS does.
Since 1/9998 is a rational number, the result is a repeating decimal. The powers of 2 may sometime repeat its digits? According to according to WolframAlpha, 1/98 repeats after 42 digits. 1/998 repeats after 498 digits. And 1/9998 repeats each 357 digits.
For the fibonacci, add a 9 on both sides of the denomator

1/998999
1/99989999
1/9999899999

To get more 0 spacing and avoid overflow
Credit seems to matter.

When you see images on Google Image search you get an attribution - that seems the only difference legally between displaying the results of a db query for @HistoryPics twitter posts and displaying the results of a db query for "historic images" (say) on a search engines image search. Sure, the former has been more curated than the latter but having robots do your bidding doesn't appear in TRIPs agreements AFAIR.
How can I get that transparent inside-the-image attribution that is shown on the first photo in the post?
I like the style and my blog is using the similar style with text only with RWD (Responsive Web Design) I learned from other people. http://bit.ly/LRSdkJ

But that's not the only value there. I guess a lot of people like to post their blogs on Medium which gives a sort professional taste. But I think blog.com and wordpress.com are also very good sites.

I'm just curious about the evaluation from the investors point of view. A service website may not value that much because they don't have a real product. User base may change over night.
Social engineering is always a problem, and I think first-level support should NEVER have the ability to see any information or have the ability to make changes to accounts. This should get escalated to second level support.

But regardless, a single account may get compromised, but at least you can't feed partial data from one social engineering attempt into another company, which is what apparently is happening more and more because of impedance mismatches with what everyone uses.
OT, but I have sent you an email with michaelochurch on the CC list about meeting Larry and Sergey. I hope I can add Piaw Na to the list too.
Having worked in a large bank, I can maybe shed some light on it. It's all about balancing benefits, risk, cost and opportunity cost. Large corporates typically have budgets for projects/investments and for Business as Usual (BAU). BAU budgets aren't a good place for a big infrastructure change because of all the dependencies that may or may not exist - you simply don't know until you do the project to get it done.

As budgets are scarce and ideas for projects are typically plentiful, someone somewhere has got to come up with a business case for each project and unless the cost benefits of doing it are significantly great then it ain't going to get done - there are going to be better investments for that org. It ain't the techies who are in charge in corporates, they need to do the stuff that the business wants done.

The other lens of corporate IT is that they are typically risk averse and want changes to be controlled. IT folks do not change if they can help it - because sometime upgrading something broke something else or maybe they'd rather to do something more interesting.
This reminds me of Nathan Barley.
I think statements like this pay too much attention to implementation details. Their whole point of software is to serve the users, so when we (the users) are able to accomplish our tasks with it, it's good enough. And I don't see very many important tasks that one OS can accomplish better than another.
Follow https://twitter.com/PicPedant for lolz, and credits :)
The advice to use @gmail.com vs. a custom domain name seems kind of questionable if you use a reasonably secure registrar. Not GoDaddy.

Using an unusual/unknown address for account validation mails (maybe with forwarding of other communications) probably would make sense, though. And/or sites coming up with a better account-recovery procedure, perhaps outsourced to a startup.

There's probably a market for a super-secure email address for account login mails, but that isn't a free gmail account.
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> I guess large-scale geothermal power plants are an unproven concept

Depends on the definition of large-scale, the biggest plant in the world is the 300MWe Hellisheiði power station in Iceland, and the largest geothermal field (a single "location" hosting multiple plants) is The Geysers in California, with 1500MWe over 22 plants.
The problem is not so much building as it is cooling small engines. Scaling works against you here. You can download a good simulating tool for liquid fuel rocket engines - http://www.propulsion-analysis.com/ - it will show how, when you're decreasing engine size and fuel flow it becomes not enough fuel to cool of the engine.

Spike nozzle is particularly problematic around the throat, which has bigger area than for a regular bell-shaped nozzle.
When I recently asked my grandfather about his browser preference, he said Yahoo. I came to realize that he believes Yahoo IS the web; it's his start page on IE.
my bad. did not see this.
Oh man!!!! How will you sleep tonight ;-?
There are several codebases now, yes. The main Q&A and Careers sites are C#. We have other projects in Node and Go as well.

(We also rely on Redis, HAProxy and Elastic Search on non-MS platforms.)
It's not really that bad. I'm running a parallels VM running Windows 8. The major difference between that and running a straight Windows environment is that we switch off from Vagrant (running a VM within a VM is pretty rough)
Stellarium – free, open source planetarium software lets anyone be an astronmer
>In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery

I would expect the significance of queries on any free engine to adhere to a steep Pareto distribution. For what it's worth I, as an algebraic thinker, find Wolfram Alpha's symbolic manipulation and easy syntax refreshingly useful.
Which is true for every product?
I've been using this for a few weeks, and it's great.

It's the Square Cash equivalent of "billing" or requesting money. Just like it's easy to CC cash@square.com when sending money, it's been great to be able to just send my URL to people when I'm collecting money.
Shame you can't open the comments in a new tab - I usually use Hacker News that way. I realize javascript things popping up in odd strips down the side of the page are trendy but not very nice to use if you want to actually read stuff. Otherwise nice.
Out of curiosity, I ran your three examples on Google and Bing, and got:

1. factor the number 100: Bing intercepts it and gives you 2^2 x 5^2, while Google doesn't

2. I have two apples etc.: neither one handles this specially

3. I have a fever and a runny nose: Google intercepts it and suggests several ailments (see https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2364942?p=g_symp), while Bing doesn't
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You do have that option. Unfortunately, this is the best we can offer to people who have already died.
I think immortality of any kind is a poor description for what this actually offers. This seems like a chatbot with a deeper personal context to work with, which is cool and interesting in and of itself, but not something that would allow for that grandiose of a description.

A project claiming to offer digital immortality I think would need to offer at least one of two particular features to live up to that description. (A) It would have to directly augment the human body to extend its lifetime indefinitely or (B) it would need to emulate the target human in such a way as to provide extensional equality. Extensional equality [1] in this context I think would mean that for any given situation, the human and the emulator would need to behave equivalently. This automatically entails that it would need to have the same thoughts, contain the same memories, etc to provide the necessary context for its decision-making.

Neither (A) or (B) consider any ethical implications of course. I'm just musing off the top of my head. My point is that although I think eterni.me could still pan out to be a cool project, it falls short of achieving digital immortality.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensionality
That's really true. Even if the company has sufficient fund to run by itself, it still needs to go for VC and IPO in order to attract more users, more talent and have a secure exit.
For Fibonacci sequence,

x = 1x^1
x * g(x) = 1x^2 + 1x^3 + 2x^4 + 3x^5 + 5x^6 + ...
+ x^2 * g(x) = 1x^3 + 1x^4 + 2x^5 + 3x^6 + ...
------------------------------------------------------------
= g(x) = 1x^1 + 1x^2 + 2x^3 + 3x^4 + 5x^5 + 8x^6 + ...

Hence,

x = (1 - x - x^2) * g(x)
g(x) = x / (1 - x - x^2)
Better still would be to incorporate the expectations of people who interacted with the person; unfortunately even the conscious memories of living beings are currently rather hard to access.
Yep - it's incredibly performant. As I mentioned in the post, I was pleasantly surprised having been a die-hard python/mongo/os x/etc developer.
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That was my top question during my interview. I'm seriously amazed at how nice Parallels runs now a days (and on fast machines) though.
I'm right there with you when talking about web programming and the likes.

My main interests are system and games programming though so there might be a case of different points of views here.

I'm just imagining a situation where someone needs their OS to be realtime for example. They're not going to be swayed by the "All options are equal when seen from afar" argument.
I'd love it if instead of down-voting this, we could actually discuss where you disagree. I've been known to be wrong about things, so enlighten me.
In normal countries neighbourhoods have cafes where people go. In America they have McDonalds, and after sitting 20 minutes in there management calls the cops. There's an environment ripe for disruption. Disruption includes attitude of the locals, who will fight tooth and nail against any new establishment.
Except there was not prior art, the iPad patent was found valid through reexamination and at court
Thanks for the downvotes! You guys make HN the shining city on the hill of the internet!
Are you perhaps confusing the RSA algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29) with the products of RSA Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security)?
It's been awhile since I've sat in on geology, but I seem to recall that they can use short-range seismic signals (by firing a shotgun shell into the ground). I'm not sure as to the resolution -- one could imagine getting better resolution firing multiple shells simultaneously over a certain area. My $.02
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Porsche's first vehicle recovered, and it's an electric car from 1898
Sure it does. Many people view early termination fees as stupid, so many have moved to the carrier that is eliminating them, T-Mobile. But if you have no option in carriers then I am not sure what your point is
I second this, Never ever give up. Not today, tomorrow or ever. Its the moment you give up you lose. Keep on pushing.
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