skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the weekend, I worked on a Chrome extension (Youtube.md: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtubemd/akjklake...) that lets you embed Youtube video image easily in markdown format. The allows you to generate markdown code for Youtube video image and links it to Youtube video, when Youtube video URL is given. Note that this will not actually embed the video. Instead it will display an image from the video.

I know Svbtle supports embedding Youtube videos, but I thought this would be a good thread to mention this extension in case some people use some other system.
Building a Hybrid Modern Data Architecture with Apache Hadoop and Microsoft
I don't know why this was a link to tosdr rather than Tumblr's own diffs. I am not even certain whether to trust it as the content doesn't seem to be the same as Tumblr's. (That, or maybe I am myself simply confused.) Regardless, here was a "shocking change".

https://github.com/tumblr/policy/compare/2cfe3c8668...adfff3...
Yes, the identity aspect is interesting. Medium seems to be focused on pleasing readers. The whole site is designed to read one article to the next. Often from different authors. This might make reading easier, but might not be best for writers.

Svbtle does have that aspect (it calls itself "a new kind of magazine"), but seems to put a lot of energy into pleasing the writers.
From career to startup, what I learned from 9 months failed startup
Or all of Asia
We are number one! USA! USA! Oh, hold on ... this is a bad thing.
Indeed - it probably isn't ideal.

I'd tested a number of sort algorithms (bubble, insertion, quick, merge, counting), so also testing the sort function from stdlib seemed like a logical continuation.
It was done rather quickly, so there wasn't time to properly investigate, merely look at the numbers and go "that's strange".
Your post reads like penny stock hype, which ultimately just hurts us in the alt coin community. Many smart people on both sides of the market have priced in future expectations and determined current coin prices. Certainly the hope is it will rise over time but to imply a free market is mispriced by orders of magnitude is disingenuous.
27 Dimensions - Physicists See Photons in New Light
UArm: A Miniature Industrial Robot Arm on Your Desk
The IIT example is probably misplaced. My dad went to the IIT at roughly the same time. Based on conversations I have had with him, the IITs had a 5 year program at that time because the students who got in had very different levels of some fundamental skills especially ones related to English and Communications.

My dad, for example, studied K-12* in a school where his medium of instruction wasn't English. He got into IIT because he placed first in his school district/state but he couldn't converse fluently in English and spent his first year basically learning English and "mapping" math/science concepts he had learned in our native language to English.

* - My recollection is weak on this, but I think India (or some parts of India at least) may have had a K-11 system at this time instead of a K-12 system.
I'm not sure. This was a fairly quick experiment on an Ivy Bridge processor where the actual results were of secondary concern at the time (it was proof-of-concepting a separate tool).

If you look on arXiv.org, there are publications looking more at alignment on Cortex and XCore architectures. There's probably work relating to x86, though the longer instruction pipeline makes it more complicated to reason about than the simpler architectures.
What's wrong with using double floats (2010)
I think this would be a much more interesting project if it was to put a great interface on top of the Freenet protocol. Encryption and anonymization on P2P is very hard, and building on Freenet as a basis for the plumbing would speed the time to a deliverable and build on existing technologies rather than reinvent the wheel.
EMACS responds to SIGTERM. Just sayin... :-)
Good point about the pull-ups. Forgot about that.
Show HN: How to watch only the highlights from online videos?
Unless you think that list will the same in 100 years, new services will continue to enter the space.
sure, there may only be 5,000 fluent English speakers who used Tor today (number seems low, btw), but you and the NSA have no idea (per NSA docs--away from Firefox users) who those people are.

Your logic may have found that needle in the haystack, but we don't even know which haystacks to look in.

And probably bad analogy, b/c not a heavy computer user, but if it took so long to find bin Laden, I'm sure many others (even heavy computer users) could hide for much, much longer.

The real risk, like others have said on this board, is one slip up can ruin you.
I guess random sampling really does matter
So, Loseit?[0]

This isn't a criticism, but rather an observation. Lots of startups trying to take standardize verticals of the world's largest websites (Reddit and Craigslist).

[0] - http://www.reddit.com/r/loseit
If we could just donate them back to the pool or opt out that would solve that problem.
Several thousand Japanese soldiers, the vast majority of which were not command staff, were tried for war crimes. About 1000 were sentenced to hang, and many more were sentenced to life in prison or long prison terms.
I think a lot of that is wanting to do it again. A lot of people who make huge amounts of one startup are just not at a point in their lives where, now knowing the costs, they want to try again.
Thanks for checking it out - I'll work on making the description clearer.

If you have more feedback after playing with it you can email me directly from the address on tanglelibrary.com/support
A nice surprise for me was the effectiveness of 1st-person, live-action, 3D recordings viewed through the Rift. With the Rift and decent headphones, it's truly a Being John Malkovich / Strange Days experience. VR goggles can convey that experience much better than a TV/movie screen ever could. Ex: Avatars in the Rift have personal space. If you get too close to someone in VR, it's uncomfortable just like going nose-to-nose in real space. No movie screen has ever made me feel like that.

Here's my list of favorite videos so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXaxVLNMIxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zaYrd0LvI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eByvt8he58U&t=1m10s

http://vimeo.com/64769947 NSFW

I have viewed 360 vids on the Rift. It's true they are not stereo, but they are still very effective. Simply being able to turn your head an look around is a significant aspect of presence. These two vids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7HtvXc-Bo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4iltd0wMlU played through http://vrplayer.codeplex.com/ are great examples.

Non-360 but wide-angle videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY (spy-movie violence) still work pretty well (you can look around, just don't bother turning 360 degrees) and could be stereo.
Google Glass adds prescription lenses
Northwestern football team moves to unionize
It seems my bookmark somehow changed to CNN.com by itself.
I think what 3rd3 was saying is that we can choose the morals we live by, but without being limited by societal norms the range of choice we have for defining our morals is too broad.

I'm not sure which of your comments that 3rd3 was picking up on, but that's what 3rd3's comment seemed to say.
how else would you expect them to be able to take photos / videos in app?
You're calculating as if these are independent.
@ColinWright - From what I understand, Square's verification exists to make sure the person signing up is who they say they are. So if I find someone's social security card on the ground, or guess the SSN (not that hard in some cases), I can't sign up for Square pretending to be that person. I don't think they are running credit checks. Their provider simply scrapes credit reports as an additional source for questions ("Which of these banks do you have an account at?" or "What's the street number of your first mortgage?")
Pretty happy Silvrback user here, but I do kind of miss the "quick idea" interface from svbtle (wp version in my case).

How well has Silvrback held up under heavy load?
360 degree video cameras exist. 360 degree light field video cameras with a capture range big enough to support stereo rendering do not exist (yet). The two are not comparable at all.
Evolution is not infinitely powerful. As we continue to develop our technology we will eventually reach a point where conventional (un-technology-assisted) evolution will be unable to compete with our directed attacks. This really starts getting close to that; this mechanism for gene silencing is not something that the organisms can afford to just "turn back off", for instance. This is extremely potent and going to be very difficult to evolve around. Not impossible, but very difficult; as soon as we identify something that has managed, we can probably find another sequence to throw at it. Since the organism is not unconstrained in what DNA sequences it can choose, since it is also the actual code the organism is running, it faces a lot more constraints than we do, which is a true reversal of the current situation.

Evolution qua evolution won't care, and will swiftly and smoothly move into the technology arena as much as ever, but it will be a different game at that point. Intelligences may spar at each other, but brute biology won't have a seat at the table anymore. And intelligences at least have a chance to compromise at something less that all out war, which is all brute biology has ever known and all it can ever know.
The best thing I did in my life was to move out of these kind of blogging services. I preffer the freedom of my hosting machine, and the beauty of Octopress.
I'll take it on my phone and upload it.
I hate blogs without dates. A good blog article is dated properly when it was created and revised. If you want to promote a new blog platform, better date your blogs properly.
Going to excerpt myself (http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/66095932519/more-questions...):

It bothers me on a pretty much daily basis that I see the world mostly through a 23” rectangular tube and feel at it with just my fingertips. That and the stories about the Oculus Rift consumer-grade VR goggles have got me thinking a lot about healthful life experiences in the digital age. What will prevent people from “going to Paris” in their Rifts and thinking they’ve got that checkbox filled? The Grand Canyon, Machu Pichu, what have you.

On the other hand, what’s the difference? Such a person who would accept the simulation in place of the real experience might not have the means or capacity to appreciate the real thing, and more significantly would have never bothered going there in the first place. Maybe exposure on even that small of a scale—though not as valuable as the real thing—comes at so much less of a cost that the net result is positive: a greater awareness of and sensitivity to the wild expanse of the world.
At some point every programming technology of any power will drive you nuts. If it was so simple a non-programmer could do it, we would all be flipping burgers.
The Paradigm Diary
Is it truly so? how does this process compare to carbon part manufacturing? (i understand it involves some press/heating).
Really interesting conversation.

The "one slip up" does appear to be the more common risk today, but I think the reason the NSA wants to archive everything for later analysis is precisely panarky's scenario.

You are right that today it remains a bit difficult, but as time goes on, sheer engineering effort will give us a better set of tools to do this kind of "show me TOR + Outlook + Kingston buyers + Mozilla user agent" queries.
I can understand your point here. I dropped out of college (Computer Science) back in my home country, Nepal. I only had a few semesters left and I would have completed my undergrad-- but I left. The reason? I really wanted to become a great programmer, and I understood, having or not having a degree had nothing to do with it. All I wanted to do was code and create things. It worked out pretty well for me but I still have a long way to go. I am sure you will be perfectly fine.
So, I guess as soon as the benefits outweigh the costs, just like any other business decision, retailers will be installing chip-and-pin readers here.
There are cases when reified generics are a giant pain in the butt and non-reified ones are the right solution. See Scala or F# and .NET interoperability.
I've demo'ed mine for numerous people of varying ages and backgrounds. I've heard one or two comments about the mask being heavy/uncomfortable, but it was never a deal breaker. The most telling thing for me is that everyone who tries the Oculus leaves impressed with it.
That's the whole point.

It's disruptive technology: not as good, way more accessible.
The 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours
Here's how I'd trace him:

1) get access to the request logs of third-party includes on his page

2) look for requests made just before the page is published publicly
> But I imagine that sports leagues may not be in a rush to virtualize their stadium seating and cannibalize their ticket/food/beverage sales.

Sports leagues will adapt, especially if they can sell VR seats for player POV, à la Motorball (http://battleangel.wikia.com/wiki/Motorball#Spectator_partic...)
Their mobile website is serviceable.
Team Management with Hubot
The first and second act are quite plausible, but Jonze complelety blew it in the third, by introducing her crush on the influental hippie buddhist philosopher ("The Way of Zen") Alan Watts.
Using AI to discuss jealousy and modern relations ships is too off.
Admit it! The Greek navy wants a carrier battle group. And one of those nifty titanium submarines for tapping into underwater fibers. Lust in the heart is just as great a sin!
Apple grew because they made products people wanted at opportune times, executing brilliantly. Indeed, though, Apple proves the point I was making: They executed well and made products people wanted, so every decision they made goes backwards into justifying itself as good design. Speaking of Dustin Curtis, that the iPhone was 3.5" was held as some holy number of smartphone size (rather than being the size that Apple cemented themselves into back when building a 3.5" LCD was actually fairly expensive). And then 4.0" became the ultimate in design. And, soon enough, larger sizes will become the pinnacle of design.

Were any other company responsible for making the new Mac Pro, it would have been met with devastating reviews. Correlation, however, and people somehow reach to find a way to make a case for why it is actually a good design.
Speaking as a filmmaker and entrepreneur here. Oculus is NOT the future of anything. It isn't going to replace movies or gaming or take the place of any already existing models of entertainment that we have in place. The opportunity always exists for new media and entertainment consumption (look no further than short form video content ala youtube...). We all said it wasn't going to go anywhere. We all said it would replace the way we watch movies.

Oculus is going to exist on it's own accord. A new breed of content producers is going to come in and capitalize on this new media and entertainment platform just like people always have. Movie theaters may go away, we may turn to instant film distribution via online platforms, but we will never simply REPLACE filmmaking by this new medium. They both will exist in their own accord. "360degree choose-your-own-adventure" storytelling will emerge as it's own thing - as will "360degree sporting and live spectacle events".
New team? Become a superstar fast by getting early wins and awesome allies.
Apply for a part time/evening job doing something like bar work, when they ask you why you're applying say you need the extra money from a second job. Once you're settled, quit your job in IT and look for more shifts at your newer job.
I'd focus Bugmunches on a very important piece of that is buried:
Send feedback reports directly to GitHub, Trello and others
I still can't figure out what their business is to be frank. I get the research part but not the monetization part. I guess acqui-hire by design.
I just signed up ad still don't get it? I think it has something to do with communicating via email? I know
one guy who spent 50 plus house setting up a "developers"
site--just shut it down because of Hackers.

I think I go pan for gold, but won't dredge because of fish
eggs. Or, apply to McDonalds? Or, boom? No, I'll go back
to my f--ng website.
The point is in the third paragraph. A lot of comments here conclude that the motives for doing this are sinister. One person even thinks it was removed because it would make users spend hours reading discussions when that time should really be spent shopping.

People should absolutely complain when a change impacts them negatively. People should also keep in mind that with a user base the size of Google's, every change is going to upset someone.

http://xkcd.com/1172/
Unless your name actually is Lewis A. Jackson
With all the questions about epoxy content/ratio, I wonder if it might be possible to take a page from the metal clay playbook and use a binder that evaporates as it cures. Or maybe use one that's foam-like or frothy.
Why The Linux Desktop Doesn't Matter Anymore
Why do we want to launch XMPP server in 2014?
Online Education Is Trying Very Hard To Make Itself More Respectable
Apparently Satoshi has around 1 million BTC [0] which is staggering plugging your numbers. That'd put him at $500 billion which is insane. Since you said 20 million BTC (less than the total there will ever be), we're talking within about 20 years right? It would be incredibly interesting to see what happens if somebody ends up with a theoretical worth exceeding the top 10 wealthiest people in the world, but I wonder whether the mystery of who he is could actually stop that happening. Also only 4 individuals are worth more than $50B so that's pretty incredible too. [1]

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/bitcoin-mints-its-first-bil...
[1] http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/
Medium raises $25 million
Vim Video Tutorials by Derek Wyatt
Thank you, always good to learn something new.
Obviously, not to be confused with your brilliant sarcasm. [downvote away, it's worth it]
The form field design is crazy distracting!
Several hundred years ago, V was both a consonant and a vowel. Over time it evolved into V being a consonant, U being the vowel, and the sound that was 'VV' became W, which is why it's pronounced 'Double U' but looks like two V's.

That might not be entirely right, but I believe I'm close. You'd have to look up the evolution of the latin alphabet I suppose.

Edit: So to answer your question, I believe it's pronounced 'subtle' :)
Investors and advisors: the crowd, the ringside, and your corner
dchuk - i did. Wasn't all that excited when I saw the title of the article. The word selfie was meant to infer that we have a special camera tool that helps people take self progress pictures, something that really motivates people to reach their goals bc they can visualize their smallest improvements. Progress pictures can be stored privately or shared publicly on the app.

More importantly, we want to build a safe and supportive mobile community to help people reach their goals. Just getting started but off to a pretty decent start - would love for you to check it out.
How about watching the play from the helmet of Manning or Adrian Peterson?

What would it be worth to have experienced some of the great plays in NFL history from this perspective?

eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catch_%28American_football%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Symboli...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Sub-sym...
> SOURCE CONTROL, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

So you're saying you're an Ember.js user, huh?
I'd also add many screenshots of what it does. Don't talk about what it does, show it. Check sites like mixpanel and intercom to see how they present stuff.

Also, make the video shorter and more entertaining (check crazyegg video)
This is a good thing to put in there. Crypto-currencies are prey to all the manipulations of exchanges 100 years ago. Ya, that's what happens when you create unregulated virtual gold. A trader explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787375
That question is beyond my level of expertise. However I do know that much of the information is gathered automatically from onboard electronics.
RIP Martin Schaedel: 1985–2009
Silvrback performs well under stress. It's setup to autoscale when a traffic surge is detected so the platform can easily handle articles making the front page of HN. Unicorn and memcached also really help.
Percentages is the best example of why it's so useful. For value A at 41.5% and value B at 58.5% their sum is equal to 100%. Rounding up would make them 42% and 59% respectively, thus 101% in total. Round half to even ensures the final values of 42% and 58% sum to 100% as intended.
If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr.

-Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books.

+Ask your parents for a Playstation 4, or try books.

Playstation 4 confirmed next-gen console winner by Yahoo. Is that good or bad?
Starlite: Astronaut Rescue – Developed in Collaboration with NASA
The personnel are impressive, and it's a great service, but what is their game plan?
There is also http://techendo.co/ now. [shameless plug]
mbesto, we love loseit! Met many of our best users there, and have reached reddit frontpage a couple times through posts on loseit - owe a lot to them.

In some sense, we're trying to create a more customized loseit for weight loss / fitness, with a better UX. Especially on mobile.
I am familiar with maybe half of the books you mention, and the selection seems quite solid. I would however recommend to spend less time reading and more time hacking. Also, try to approach this as a series of steps, not everything in one go:

1. Learn C, the Language: You should already know the basic components of structured programming (functions, loops, conditionals, etc). As PHP user you probably are somewhat familiar with C standard library (with PHP just puts a thin layer on top of), but you are a false beginner here because you need to learn to be much more careful with manual memory management, compiler erros vs warnings. Just pick some project whose specification is dead simple (a little console based game like sudoku might do) and build it from the bottom up.

2. Learn C, the Runtime: Get deeper into standard library functions. Pick something more sophisticated in terms of I/O. Learn the difference between static vs dynamic linking, and try to work around it just for the sake of it (make your own malloc is a classic).

3. Learn C, the Unix's companion. Figure out what a system call is and how it is unlike a regular function call. Learn Linux (I know you mentionen MINIX elsewhere, and it would be valuable in a 4th or 5th step, but for the sake of employability it is better to be a power user of a mainstream system than an expert in an academic one). Figure out stuff like virtual memory, how it works and how to affect it at the C level (which should be transparent, and mostly is but not 100%).
Maybe creating and selling temporary solutions is the problem that Monsanto chooses to solve.

As stated in TFA, BT corn deterred pests for a while, and now it apparently doesn't, but it seems to have been profitable in the interim. What is the ROI for this new thing?
Stripe CTF3 wrap-up
>People should absolutely complain when a change impacts them negatively. People should also keep in mind that with a user base the size of Google's, every change is going to upset someone.

We're in violent agreement !
In Latin they wrote V for what we today would pronounce U.

During the American Renaissance, architects used the old latin alphabet, which had no U. That's why you see things like PVBLIC LIBRARY in old cities. Eg: http://i.imgur.com/p4RS9My.jpg

So, "Svbtle" is "Subtle" and "Bvlgari" is "Bulgari" etc.

U and V have a long complicated history. If you'd like to learn more: http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/letters/historyuv....