skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more interesting result is that what was "worth" $1.00 in 1945 is "worth" $13.20 today. Of course a nice family car was $1,500 in 1945, which would be $19,800 today, except you can't buy a nice family car for $19,800 today. Its quite useful to compare things like "how many hours of labor bought you car?" or what percentage of your production went to feeding your family. That is when you start looking at whether or not people are better or worse off than they were in 1945.
like: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...
Let's say I believe that this data truly is anonymised (read: cannot be traced back to an individual in any way). I still have a problem that MY data is being sold by SOMEONE ELSE. The opt-out nature of this process stinks. It feels as though it's someone else's data by default unless I kick up a fuss.
Wiser, sure. More productive and efficient, sure. But raw cognitive power to learn wholly new ideas/languages, no way.
Also Splunk Storm https://www.splunkstorm.com/
commanded you_never_know Jesus spunky absolutely in_other_words
It's_nice_being_God my_precious caution not_in_kansas_anymore
hippy bickering epic_fail it's_hopeless run_away how_about_those_yankees
busybody rubbish debt hobnob outrageous wazz_up_with_that
walking gluttony but_of_course uh_huh economy charged
caution Wow illogical ho_ho_ho boss You_can_count_on_that
rocket_science stoked FBI nevada gosh have_fun angel Yawn
experts You_know hopefully industrious ahh_thats_much_better
you_talkin'_to_me failure_is_not_an_option Tomorrow I_planned_that
can_you_hear_me_now bickering meek I'm_busy yeah ordinarily
imports dance nut_job run_away in_a_perfect_world fer_sure
the_enquirer I'm_impressed check_this_out handyman watch_it_buddy
maybe_I_didn't_make_it_clear how's_the_weather Enough
I'll_be_back Give_me_praise thats_right Greek_to_me
Multiple Customer Subscription
Seems like there is a design project waiting to be done for dynamic infrastructure.
Coinbase Co-founder Fred Ehrsam speaking at New York Bitcoin Hearing
I googled 먹방 and now I am feeling very hungry late at night. Feels like Epic Meal Time but with Korean food.
Who invested in 2013 in Philippine Startups
Who were the key players making investments in Philippine based Startups?
FWIW, he is not on a Green Card. He has an O-1 visa for extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.

I'd be pretty surprised if the US took to ostracism in the original sense of the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
I'm confused, is this a circlejerk joke or is he actually serious?
i'd guess that the phenomenon of "mental fatigue" is a natural limiter on the amount of information you can retain and process. with easy-to-process things like light novels, you can read them all day, but try reading K&R C for more than 4 hours without your eyes glazing over.
I wasn't sure if Larry and Sergey would respond to such emails.
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It's still quite unlikely. You could look at the reasoning behind ZFS and git using SHA-256 hashes to de-dupe data.

With 256 bits in the sample space, you it takes an unimaginable amount of effort to find any collisions (unless the hash has a weakness).
My next (sort of) book idea is centered around using GitHub for teaching Solr.
The early hints are: https://twitter.com/arafalov/status/428273297126875137 and
https://twitter.com/arafalov/status/428242840096083968

The project is not really started, but if anybody wants to be on the bleeding alpha list, email me or comment on twitter.
I was expecting some kind of optical fiber storage with reflecting crystals and shit.

This was a bit disappointing.
Ha, yes... and support for not counting money transferred from savings to checking as income would be nice too.
Flash required, so it won't play here.

Really, Facebook? It's 2014.
someone should write a markov chain daringfireball bot. just need a whole bunch of positive adjectives and a list of apple products.
With Big Data Everything, we really need an Optical Storage System like Blu Ray but with 100x to 1000x the capacity.
Tips for HTML5 Video on Mobile Devices
Nintendo Boss: I’m Sorry, Let Me Halve My Salary
I like that they're still referred to as a "startup" even though they exited for $170m nearly 5 years ago.
Ask HN: Should developers be on call?
This is the current policy at my company. Nagios monitor a lot of our services and is plugged into pagerduty so that we receive automatic phone calls or SMS when something go wrong during the night or weekend.

Most alerts are due to operational issues like network failure, DB slowness or aws outage (at least for my team). Usually when I am paged I can't do anything myself because the solution is to restart a server or take other actions that required access to our production environment. In these cases I need to call someone from the Ops team to help me and 2 people are waken up.

In this context do you think it makes sense for developers to be in front of the on call process? What is the policy at your companies?
Lenovo already does laptop and desktop assembly in the USA, very similar to Motorola.
An interesting addition to that would be any tax revenues originating from such country would be earmarked/donated to go back directly to that country to improve environmental, labor or human rights standards. By donating it back to the country, it becomes less of a protectionist tariff and would potentially improve conditions there, but at the same time would make companies in the US who are subject to stricter regulation more competitive.
If I were king for a day, what would I do? Some people get really carried away with power trips.

God says...
look_on_the_brightside I'm_in_suspense make_my_day guilty
relax I_got_your_back threads umm_the_other_answer hi
population delightful air_head Jedi_mind_trick fake beam_me_up
ROFLMAO failure_is_not_an_option go_ahead_make_my_day
gluttony you're_nuts basket_case What laziness do_not_disturb
not bad everythings_a_okay ba_ha Obama This_is_confusing
how_could_you theres_no_place_like_home zoot soap_opera
Is_that_so what_planet_are_you_from have_fun I_could_be_wrong
perfect crazy jealousy don't_even_think_about_it how_about_that
funny experts big_fish do_you_get_a_cookie beam_me_up
nerd Ramsay driving gluttony is_it_just_me_or It's_nice_being_God
snap_out_of_it wishful_thinking well_obviously how_about_that
I_see_nothing I_was_just_thinking exorbitant choose_one
prosperity I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you I_quit why_didn'_you_tell_me
why_do_I_put_up_with_this God_is_not_mocked merry_christmas
lift Mission_Accomplished chump_change hobnob do_it it_was_nothing
battle yada_yada_yada outrageous soap_opera why_is_it
What_I_want now_you_tell_me
Why is it so much harder to drill a hole 10-20 km deep (where the mantle is predictable) than 2 km deep?
Physicists tend to be metaphysical sceptics on the whole, meaning that they arent really convinced that the implied objects (/particles/fields/etc.) of physical theories actually exist^. Merely that "something exists which makes the mathematics work". Seeing so many different kinds of math work for the same physical system tends to engender a kind of scepticism towards the "metaphysical power" of mathematics to imply anything ontologically particular about the world.

Now, when it comes to results like this, they are interesting because it doesnt really matter if there are magnetic monopoles if you "just wanted to use a magnetic monopole" - you could create some in supfl. He.

The point is that whatever system enables the math to work is irrelevant to what ever uses theories will have for this math.

Of course it is still practically relevant, because a simple monopole experiment might be extremely expensive/difficult in Supfl. He.

NB^: Pop physicists who wax philosophical on TV shows tend to be sceptics but appear "hardcore realists" for TV.
I see a couple issues with handling your "30 examples of 3000 calorie diet with no red meat" query. One is the complexity of finding a subset of all the food items in the Wolfram Alpha database that add up to around 3000, you could certainly make an algorithm to do this but all queries time out after a few seconds so it is likely to fail. The other is that it would have to understand which foods constitute red meat, which it doesn't (try searching "red meat food", the only red meat it knows is a movie by that name). Even if it did, you would need to categorize all foods so the query worked with "3000 calorie diet with no vegetables" and so on. Obviously if it can solve word problems about apples but can't solve the same problems about mangoes, computation like this is far beyond what they will accomplish in many years.
the .com domain is far too embedded into everybody's memory. So i dont see this going anywhere soon. The ONLY important domain that could challenge it or at least coexists in same importance would be .web

However due to stupid trademarks issues it is still not being used.
Japanese one Click Fraud Android Apps are still Alive
Germany worked fine for me.
http://trollemipsum.appspot.com/?type=gruber&length=screed
Snowden and Accomplices Should return Stolen information
It also seems rude to be wearing a headset while socializing. People take their headphones out of their ears. If you have a bluetooth headset, I feel like I'm not getting your full attention. Even if you're not on a call, I still feel like I come second. It would be the same with Glass. If I'm talking to someone and they're wearing Glass, it seems rude. If they glance to the screen, even more so.

Then, it's unnecessary at times like you said. I think this is what looks smug, you're walking around with something on your head, that you might not be actively using. Or with bluetooth, you have an earpiece, but you're not in a call. It looks like you're wearing it, just to show it off, and it seems like you're trying hard to impress. With headphones, we make the assumption you're listening to music when they're in your ear.

People enjoy their technology, but they like to pretend they're free from it. A friend posted on Facebook the other day how everyone is always on their tablet or laptop, and 'gah, can't people just put their phone or tablet down for one day and look up'. But... she was on Facebook writing that message. I get that feeling from a lot of people. They keep their phone close, but they don't want to look like they depend on it. They want instant e-mail notifications or texts, but, they don't want to give off that image. It's not an attractive quality to always be playing with your phone or attached at the hip with technology. It's anti-social. That's a negative. When you're wearing something like Glass, you give off that impression.

And lastly, with Glass, you're literally pointing a camera at my face, and could be taking photos, and recording audio or video without my knowledge. That's a little uncomfortable.

Personally, I think it's going to fail, and I wouldn't be surprised if I never see a single person wearing the device. However, I applaud them for taking the risk, since the technology and advances will be used in some way. Could it be used by doctors to stay hands free? Could it be used on motorcycles, so you can see your speed or a rearview image in the corner of your eye? Does it work well just for around the house, so I can do housework, and get notifications? Or can I cook with dirty hands, and see my recipe, or cooking time remaining? I think there are uses for it, I think others will see what they've accomplished and apply it in some way. However, as a device that everyone will be wearing while walking down the street, I just don't see it happening.
Github has 2-factor authentication BTW.
Just thought about it,
and I'd really like to share this detail, but I signed a
very ambiguous non-disclosure
agreement.
The Xerox Star did that before Apple. Interestingly enough, it had hardware keys for it [0] - no mnemonics required.

Raskin (Macintosh team) ended up really liking dedicated keys (cf. the Canon Cat and his book) after all.

I would have agreed a few months ago; but as someone who is slowly forcing himself to become a touch typist because I was getting irritated at how much my hands moved over the keyboard when there was no need for them to, I prefer chording keystrokes :)

[0]: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/keyboard/keyboar...
> The second aspect of the original Mac that stands out today as Apple-like is putting just enough whimsy into the experience. Most famously, the smiling Mac you saw as the system booted. Had anyone prior even considered a smiling computer?

Come on, man. Computing has been full of whimsy from the beginning. To imply that Apple has some kind of monopoly on cute jokes is absurd.
>Are you too young to know all the asthma kids that grew up in no and so cal in the 70s/80s? Pollution in California used to be bad, then the people got serious about it, and now California has clean air. Incremental my ass. I guess you would have settled for incrementally decreasing numbers of asthma kids?

Because of the Laws that we made:
OK kids the good news first... you don't have asthma. The bad news ... Millions of Chinese people through no fault of their own (but rather their government) are dead or dying and the planet is half dead too. Global climate change was accelerated significantly and will kill many of your great grandchildren and perhaps end the human race eventually... Feel better? Are you sure we really did the "Responsible" thing here?

We can push a problem off to a foreign country (who handles it a lot worse than we would) and wash our hands of it but eventually things will be a lot worse for everyone.

>Pollution in California used to be bad, then the people got serious about it, and now California has clean air

We do? Must be my eyes then that make the air look smoggy every day.

Look! If people want to fill their houses, garages, yards and public storage lockers with crap from China/Walmart, they should have to look outside and see the effects of it. Putting if off on the Chinese was one of the most irresponsible things that could have been done.

Since this big shift in environmental policy that drove all the factories out of the the country, coupled with free trade agreements - US consumption of manufactured goods per capita has more than tripled. Why do we need all this crap? It is ruining the environment and we cannot even see the effects of it around us yet.

If people could look around them and see gross pollution their over consumption was causing, only then would they really cut back on buying all the crap.
You obviously have no idea what COM is. Everything in windows is COM. It's not some one off enterprise thing that is obsolete.
What could go wrong? Done!
You're completely right that the media solution will be gone before ten years pass.

That said, I'd prefer to have as much headroom possible, if data is to be stored reliably.

5 years before migrating, with a 15-20 year window
vs
5 years before migrating, with a 50-100 year window

Probably a better recovery rate, at their scale.
Online destination to match, compare, and share what you're passionate about
A social network that uses brackets and real-time commenting to compare and debate the things you’re passionate about with friends.
You can create a chooszing profile via your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Once your profile is set up, you can start creating brackets to share with your friends within the chooszing community.

You can use chooszing to create two types of brackets. You can create brackets you fill out yourself (Completed Brackets) or you can create brackets for your friends to vote on in order to be filled out (Voting Brackets).<p>We truly believe chooszing’s interface creates the most meaningful situation social comparisons. There have been and currently are polling and list sites where users compare things. Having series of head to head comparisons brings about a different perspective!
That a serious accusation!
Joyriding Rails
That wouldn't really helped you in this case, would it? The attacker got the account reset simply by phoning the customer service and making them send a password reset link to a new email.

Also how do you manage said X number of emails? Do you log onto each one of them, or do you forward all emails to one "master email"? If so, the master email is still the single point of failure.
Wow. informative.
Defendants win the majority of patent cases in Texas.
These are high grade guaranteed for 30+ years. There's also 1000 year grade blu rays out there.
> eager and optimistic, but woefully ill-prepared for professional software development.

Mind elaborating on this? I'm currently going through one of these and am curious for when I am applying for my first post-bootcamp job.
Atm supplies
BitTorrent Sync might be useful for that:

http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
You say this is a bad thing?
This is probably her friend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s99Vt2KgeXY
They do? All the laptops and desktops that passed through our shop were originally shipping from Shenzen (or nearby), but then again I'm in the Canadian market.

Is it possible that the "assembly" in the US is just nominal?
> The Xerox Star did that before Apple. .. it had hardware keys for it

So Xerox did not do that what Mac did (Command-X keys).

Edit: Answer to your " xerox with dedicated keys ... was the first to have to solve that problem though" in the reply to this post:

Xerox was not the first to have the dedicated keys for common operations:

e.g. cca 1965:

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/big/17234/IBM-1052-Printe...

Whereas Xerox PARC was founded in 1970:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

And we should rewatch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Done in 1968, I wouldn't be surprised there's more to find! Engelbart was the real pioneer for different concepts "natural" to us today.
yeah right. have him send them back by email.
I dunno.. most of the spoken languages that I've learned I picked up in my 30s (bits of japanese, chinese, swedish, irish). I also took up piano at 38 and can play reasonably well, having never played an instrument before in my life.

I would agree with misterjangles about memory. My 6 year old daughter can beat me the odd time in various memory games. When I do beat her, I think it's probably because I'm relying on strategy as well as memorization. But is my memory getting weaker because I can use strategy instead, or is it just some kind of natural decline?
Wow. I've had for many years an idea I've called GoodBets to get people who argue on the web to put their money where their mouth is, with the money going to the winner's choice of charity, just as you have with Long Bets. GoodBets would integrate with comment systems, such as this one on HN, so if someone makes some unequivocal statement you think is baloney, you can challenge them with a GoodBet in your reply. They can accept or back down. The benefits are two-fold: discourse would improve[1] and charities would benefit.

The GoodBet website would have two leaderboards: users with most winning bets by dollar and users who donated the most by dollar. That way even the losers win, encouraging participation.

Any chance you could adopt my ideas, either into Long Bets or a fork of it?

[1] Partisan Bias Diminishes When Partisans Pay. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/554...
There are three things to note here:

1. Word problem solving is shoddy at best. There is a lot of functionality of Wolfram Alpha that exists for that minuscule chance that somebody will actually query it, so queries matching "[person has object]*, what is the total" is easily understood but it fails when the database doesn't have "mango" or the plural "mangoes" tagged as an object. This is largely due to poor database design decisions made in the past, but I know that this will improve in the future based on the project I worked on in improving the standard data format.

2. Some functionality is literally only for the sake of demonstration. I remember one time when Stephen was demonstrating a variety of cool queries into Wolfram Alpha during the yearly all-staff meeting, and when I got back to my desk I tried all the same queries with slight variations and almost all of them failed.

3. Mathematica has powerful string manipulation and regex matching functionality, to the point where lazy engineers are easily tempted to join the dark side. So it is very possible that this particular word problem only works because of a regex match. I know it sounds crazy, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some lazy engineer added in a literal match for "([subject] (have|has) [number] (apple|apples|orange|pear|peach|peaches))+", fed it into a simple extraction function, and output the result.
This is interesting.

These are things that I understand when pointed out to me, but off the top of my head, with no google, I'd have to think for a second. They are things that I implement most every day. For instance, the position fixed/absolute thing... I work with things like that pretty much every day, but usually it takes me 10 minutes of fiddling, or 50 seconds of googling if I've had to do it before, unless I get lucky and it just reveals itself as obvious.

Oh well, I suppose that's why I live in the sticks and freelance instead of working for Twitter or Stripe :D I mean, this stuff seems esoteric to me, even though I work with it every day... it's neat to know that there are a lot of folks who have this stuff wired well enough to do it with no reference material.
Definitely a quote. I still don't understand what you're calling pedantic.
Thanks for the comment. We've created a shorter "pitch" style presentation for the non-technical / too-busy, which summarizes the benefits etc. in a short several minute description.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JC2d1g9U6HaenGSn_Xvk...
You're correct about the larger cans. Personally, I dislike the weight of those type, and also how unwieldy they are and that they do not produce superior sound to smaller, more intelligently designed models (that usually don't cost more).
A 21st century adaptation of the Miller-Urey origin of life experiments
Google glass has its problems, but barring any major catastrophes I expect augmented reality eyeglasses to be very popular perhaps by the end of this decade or the beginning of the next.

I see Google glass as the ZX-80 of augmented reality.
I think you're assuming your conclusion a bit too strongly.
You're exactly right. Too often words like "alienating" are considered negative, as I did. As a tool that allows me to focus on my work, alienation is a good thing.

Note that I'm not bashing serendipitous meetings, those are often the best (I met my wife that way). But I'm semi-neurotic (there's probably a word for it that I don't know, maybe ADD?) and find it nearly impossible to get back to my work if I'm even distracted for a short while.
Docopt, a command line interface description language
So, were these ads actually appearing evening across the same sites or search results, and in the same locations? If rvmenu.com appeared more frequently in one location than the others, that would skew the entire results.

I'm not convinced with the data you posted. The sample is small, and there's a lot of unknowns in the testing parameters. I wouldn't advise anyone to take this approach when selecting a domain.
Wow! That's a snappy site. Major props to the frontend dev(s).
The important thing to note about SymPy Gamma is that it does only the mathematics part of WolframAlpha.

Please tell so clearly so you don't get bad credit for non-implemented features.
I heard about something like years ago, but in America. Does anyone else remember?

/edit Found her!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebri...