skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read this blog post, it was like opening a Christmas present and getting socks.

I don't know much about the state of the art, the points in contention between the people in this argument, or quantum computing in general. An article that explained the competing standards for what constitutes a quantum computer and either made a case for why one standard is more useful or described how one participant's argument was inconsistent with their standard would have been genuinely helpful. Instead I read a link to a TED talk, epistemological meta-babble, and a promise that further experiments are incoming.

This company may be completely legitimate and its product may be the most revolutionary thing since sliced bread, but I didn't know before I read this post, I don't know now, and I now think their CTO sounds too Steorn-y for comfort.
"I give Microsoft ten years until their first quarterly loss."

Hahah - If i had a penny for every time I've heard that. I'm an apple user myself - but MS offers all of what you are describing your daughter to be using as well - in fact I know many companies are already rolling their staff onto Office360 and so on. As for google docs etc - if you ever had to really crunch data - nothing comes close to Excel even today. I'm not saying they should keep doing what they are doing - I do think it's foolish to assume that they dont know whats going on in the world outside and aren't capable to grow with it.
This is fantastically interesting.

I probably just missed it, but I hadn't seen such clear-cut, Snowden-style proof of parallel construction at other, non-intelligence agencies before.
Satya Nadella’s First Letter to Microsoft Employees
dash is great. Vim plugin for dash [1] is great too.

---------

[1]: https://github.com/rizzatti/dash.vim
That library looks pretty cool and is fairly popular , i will give it a try.
Yes, the only reasonable alternative is Scala but there is no IDE for it to match VS and there won't be.
Hacking complaints - blog post coming up.
Airlines in the US close boarding 10min before departure (assuming no delays). Once they close the gate door, they are not allowed to reopen it to allow a passenger through
Your list is a bit skewed.

C and C++ were created by a large corporation (AT&T). Have their features driven by standards bodies composed by employees of compiler vendors. The official version of the standards are only available for a fee.

Haskell and OCaml enjoy the sponsorships of Microsoft Research, Facebook, Galois among others.

Guido has been on the payroll of many corporations.
Crowd Funding Healing Campaigns for Sick Children
How did that work for the TOR browser? It didn't.
What I found most disturbing is how EPA works. They accept only research that passes a bar that was lobbied by the industry and that only industry can pay.

Even if they accepted negative research about a product then they do a risk assessment to see how many deformed babies are affordable given the dollars the industry would lose.
4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game
Jan-Keno Janssen decides to rent a bicycle to get around Las Vegas
Cloud gaming , chromecast and virtual reality(which better fits pc's due their power) will pose big challenges to the xbox .
I don't work at quite the same level--I'm quite dirts (as they say here), but I have done a bit of consulting even though, I'm swinging back through freelancing and considering going back to being an employee.

What I found most useful was the picture of a person working for an existing business who has knowledge of the entire pipeline from the sales process through development:

"Armed with the knowledge of the entire software pipeline-from sales, to development, to maintenance-I hit the ground running the very next day in search of my first contract."

I think that is a key among most of the really good consultants that I have met.
to add up on the other replies: sigma.js is plug-and-play, very easy to draw a force-directed graph with nice built-in features. d3.js requires more work to get to the same result.

Advantage of d3.js is that it is easier to customize the display you want.

other difference: sigma.js implements "force atlas 2 " algorithm - like the one found in Gephi, which may be more suitable for some graphs (when you want to highlight community structures)
Report: Internet Is Faster, More Susceptible to Attack
"Honey what are you doing with your hand down there?"
"It is a growth hack, dear"
Unfortunately, the poster already talked to them. This wasn't a question of how to proceed legally, nor was it a complaint about the company. It was an appeal to the startup community about the morals of suing, potentially successfully, a young startup.
in fact, it doesnt even "restart it". its applied whenever the user restart the browser. it only notifies the user if he never restart the browser, after a day or two..
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/01/company-behind-digital-pill-wit...

http://www.proteus.com/technology/digital-health-feedback-sy...
The fact that you can explain a doctrine does not render the criticism of that doctrine incorrect. Indecent attack on critique means that you use all means to defend a flawed doctrine, which implies you is a proponent of that flawed doctrine. The author obviously knows the reality, which stands behind the marvelous "free-market" fiction. He attacks this fiction. He says that self-correcting free-market fails to optimize itself since it kills itself by converging to monopoly.

In the ideal free-market theory, you do not need the anti-monopoly law. But you have to use it in reality to mantain the free-market from collapse. It is clear what author says. He attacks this childish free-market fundamentalism. He makes a right point. You attack him without the reason and defend the flawed ideology, support spreading the wrong beliefs. How can I believe that you is not a libertarian?
Minimal Node.js Web Frameworks
DARPA releases catalogue of all open source work
Google Ventures touts their 5 day design studio – I'd be curious to see how it compares to yours.
Sentinel 0-Day Attack Protection Tool for 32-bit Windows (GPL)
>>Here's a test for you: dry your hands, then take a pair of dry latex gloves, then dunk your hands in a soapy sink for three seconds. Take off the gloves.
Your hands will be at least a little damp and soapy. How did that happen, if latex is waterproof? It's because your hand doesn't make a perfect seal with the glove.

No, it's because your hands generate sweat, which cannot evaporate due to being completely sealed in by the latex.

Here's a test for you: fill a latex glove with water and see if it is leaking any. You will see that it is completely waterproof.
I agree. My trust in HN as a tech news source is shaken by this selective censorship.

Of course, this isn't my sandbox and I don't make the rules. Etc.
Don't see the latest version at http://nginx.org/packages, at least for Ubuntu. It's still showing up as 1.4.4.
You should suggest something a little more provocative: there is something broken at YC.

For some very strange reason, this reads exactly like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705, down to the PG retort about the guidelines.

Why do I say something is broken with YC? They should be inculcating certain values, including not leaving customers high and dry (which is what would happened here and in other cases had the posts not reached the front page). You may argue, correctly, that the customers in question were made whole, but that's only because HN worked as a forum for airing grievances about YC companies.
The problems I've been having in Firefox are with badly behaved apps - with memory leaks and stuff. Firefox manages memory better than Chrome, but when a tab leaks it can freeze the whole browser. Still, this happens rarely enough that it isn't an issue for me, plus Firefox is much better at keeping many tabs open. I did disable Flash and now I have to "click to play" - but I'm doing the same thing in Chrome too, because fuck Flash.

I feel like Chrome is better when rendering stuff - like we've got this plotted graph in our app's admin, rendered with Javascript and I believe HTML5 Canvas or something, with too many points on it and Firefox can't handle the rendering, it chokes, whereas Chrome can do it. On the other hand, I feel like Firefox is snappier in general.
Yes, it works with their official packages, at least. Just updated today.

Here is the basic config I'm using with it:

listen x.x.x.x:443 default_server deferred spdy;
listen [x:x:x:x::x]:443 default_server deferred spdy ipv6only=on;
spdy_headers_comp 7;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/private/x.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/x.key;
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/ssl/private/x.trust;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+RC4:EECDH:EDH+aRSA:RC4:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
resolver 8.8.8.8 x.x.x.x
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains";
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header Alternate-Protocol 443:npn-spdy/3;
Seen by somebody who got sick in his 20s, this post of yours is so uneducated to be offensive.
So people with non-sequential download would get the end first and have the higher share ratio on the tracker.

why enforce it though? Leechers will be leechers.
awesome backstory ... you remind me of Mel Gibson in Braveheart.
You might want to check for updated packages. Or upgrade your Mint install; if so, this might help: https://gist.github.com/hgomez/7074150
Yeah, the less runtime reflection you make it use, the better the speed gains (I'm glad type hints are optional though).
I don't think they expect Facebook to license the name; I think they don't want to dilute their name.

EDIT: Interestingly enough for me, I found it kind of repulsive that King.com trademarked "Candy" but I don't find this repulsive (I guess because either I am a hypocrite, or because "Paper" is their entire product name).
> They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.

You're tarring more than 100,000 people with that brush, many of whom were not at Microsoft back then.
I don't see why even the worst accused shouldn't be entitled to a defense. Why should anyone pay dues to an organization that would refuse to represent them? For it to be any other way, the union would have to hold its own hearing, and how would that work? Management would have to bring their complaint to the union for judgement? It's the prerogative of the employer to preside over disciplinary hearings and render judgement. The role of the union is to provide council to the accused member, not to judge him.
Really?

What I was told by various people who tried this is that Intel had no idea how people actually coded for the x86/weren't willing to make segment sizes larger than the original 64 KiB, and the penalty for loading a new segment register was "tens of cycles" per Wikipedia, I've heard on the order of 40 earlier.

So a lot of existing code bases, including a couple I worked on for PCs (Gosling Emacs and a write once filesystem) ran, or would run, fantastically slower in Protected Mode.

Yeah, sure, you could with no small amount of pain write more efficient code for OS/2 1.x, but why bother after Windows 3.x became a big hit?

Oh, yeah, now you're reminding me that the cost to develop for it was $6K for the SDK in 2013 dollars, plus of course a PC-AT with a lot of memory (at least 1.5 MiB, which wasn't cheap back then, nor was the AT).
After reading this I kind of regret buying Paper's (FiftyThree) digital pencils/brushes/etc. A drawing app wanting to kill the use of that word in other industry verticals... i think "trademark troll" is now a real thing
I believe the point is that he didn't spam people. He asked a friend to introduce him to one of their friends. I think that's called networking. Your terms are confused.
If the public knew what it was they might no longer 'approve' so best to keep it secret I guess? Interesting article and that they didn't redact the other 'methods' to be totally honest.

Also I love the "(So Far...)" in their presentation. Its as if they know what they are doing likely isn't acceptable but they haven't been called out on it (yet...) Awesome!
Best is yet to come, says Facebook's Zuckerberg
I'm not sure if this will satisfy you, but you can give this a shot:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect
I've had to check my bags and go to baggage claim lots of times because I was in a late boarding zone.
The lights on my OBD2 adaptor come on when I plug it in, no key in the ignition. I can only assume for how cheap and dumb the device is that it has the bluetooth on all the time.
See listed caveat. If 1% of your users are netting you 100k, your site is likely heavily trafficked.
What losers
Me too, but you need to get funded by them to participate :)

One important improvement is that it looks like they go the full product release cycle and incorporate the feedback into something testable with real users, so they go from idea generation to actually testing products or features by the end of the week.
As a brewer, not a true chemist: alcohol is fermented sugars.
JSON-LD Reaches W3C Recommendation Status
This is by no means how it commonly works.
Some planes will "gate check" your carryon, but most of the time that last-minute checked luggage gets checked through to your final destination.

And for the other comment above, the plane certainly WILL leave without you.

I travel 60-100K miles per year.
Just verified on my server and Spdy is enabled if you use the mainline package from:

http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline

You can check your Spdy connections in Chrome from this page:

chrome://net-internals/#spdy
Microsoft should spend the next 10 years running conduit and fiber to most homes in North America and building out the highest capacity network. No one else quite wants it badly enough, not even Google, and the incumbents are no threat at all. They have the money. They'll never win at software again in a big way. Micronet is the answer.
Any specific reason why you went for an STS timeout of 6 months?
So glad I am not the only one noticing the filter change. That additional click to display the filtering options that Chrome introduced really made me start using FF more and more for work.

I think this dumbing-down approach Google is doing with all their apps and websites will only alienate more and more professionals out of using their platform.
LinuxDevices Archive now has 15,000+ articles
It is humbling because you are elected by a group of your peers to lead. It also gives implicit credit to all the people that helped make him successful. Leadership is not zero sum and it doesn't follow specific rules. If anything the rules of promotion are codified by practice and not necessarily logical and prescribed but in general most people aspire to be fair and merit based.
We have a science capability crisis. It has little to do with formal education. It's an issue of leadership, especially in top organizational roles.

There is a lack of competent, available workers for low- and mid-level roles (if you've ever been on an interview loop, you've seen how uninspiring the general ability level is) but that's more an artifact of decades-long discouragement and organizational failure than an intrinsic problem of the people. Knowledge is spotty and hard to find. Formal education, on the other hand, is really easy to find in NYC or Silicon Valley or Boston. There are zillions of people with PhDs from prestigious schools (but many of those aren't any good).

All of this is dangerous in the long term, because after a decade of terrible leadership, competent people tend to leave for greener pastures, or burn out and lose motivation to do anything more than follow orders.

The fact that we fall short of where we should be in STEM is entirely an artifact of the (mostly terrible) organizations we build and the roles those define. It's not the teachers' fault at all, nor can it be fixed by throwing more resources at education without fixing the larger (and probably unfixable) society.
I agree with you. It seems they are trying to do what Windows developers had done for ages.
You should try Thunderbird. I switched from Outlook a few years ago and have never looked back.
On FF nightly in linux (lubuntu - no flash),
none of the graphs work.
Couldn't it get you in trouble? You'd have to check your bags under the standard ticket, but enter security under the premium one, and airport security might realize they have the same person on the flight twice.

I thought that was a classic red flag?
Podcast: Meet Skynet, an open source IM platform for the Internet of things
Ask Freelancers: How do you get new clients?
Show HN: Dealora – What we learned starting up
My experiences with how we just launched Dealora [1].

In June 2013, my wife and I decided to start a business together. We brought in 2 close friends of ours to help with sales and dev. The following month, launched a landing page [2] by sending out 2000 postcards to local businesses. We did see a small bump in traffic for the first few days but email sign ups for the pre-launch was disappointing. Cold-calling and Adwords - major disappointment. We met with a few local businesses in person but with little to show, we couldn't even get a handful to sign up for the launch.

The data showed little interest. We shouldn't move forward. Somewhat defeated, we pushed forward anyway. The opposite of what a start up should do.

Months later, we launch. No more cold-calling or reaching out by email. We're meeting face-to-face, sitting down with the business owners, being hands-on with on-boarding -- They appreciate the attentiveness. We're now getting sign ups daily but operating at a loss. Not a failure or success, but a slow start. The next few months will be the hardest in a crowded market.

My big takeaways learned:

- Not being able to validate your idea doesn't may not mean the idea isn't good, it could be you aren't conveying it in a meaningful way. We didn't.

- Know the language you need to use when pitching. We used technical terms to pitch something to potential customers who are normally not very technical.

- Cold-calling restaurants is bad idea.

- Building the product is not the hard part, its selling it.

- You can sell your product by listening first. Business owners love to talk about their business. If you listen closely, you can find ways for your product to solve their needs.

Would be really helpful to get feedback from the HN community on things we can improve and experiences others have had selling to SMB.

[1] https://dealora.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012998
What is "significant penetration" from your perspective? It is very young (as a 1.0, not even 2 years old). What language would you compare it to, and where was that language at 2 years old?

What was Java adoption in 1998? What was Scala adoption in 2006? What was Python adoption in 1996.

Unless the trend lines shift, Go is a IMHO something of a phenomenon. It seems to hit a lot of sweet spots in deployment, tooling and simplicity that is making a lot of groups happy. It is already being used to build tools people depend on (docker [just raised 15M], packer, nsq, juju, heka, coreOS), it is fast (http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) ... additionally, it seems to have decent penetration on both ends of the spectrum, large enterprises and tiny start-ups are choosing it (http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers), DevOps and Software Engineers are living together in rare harmony due to painless deploys and handoffs.

If you want to use GitHub as a barometer of language popularity ... http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa... --- Go is tracking darn close to Scala, despite being 8 years younger.
They're at http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/
Ok, I'll bite.

Rolling your own GUI should be done when the native OS GUI doesn't meet the expectation or needs of your application. A custom GUI may not play nicely with accessibility and may look increasingly alien with OS updates.

I don't see any advantage to using the iOS look, and it only added to my confusion when downloading. I wasn't sure if it was at first looking at the screen shot an app that required an iOS component.

1) No maximize dot, I wasn't sure if the window was resizable until I moved my mouse to the corner

2) No Resize in icon in upper right hand corner

3) Lack of menus (really, ever action must be found in the gui?)

4) clicking off the app window does not "grey" out the title bar letting me know its not the front window.

5) Close/minimize icons do not highlight on click

6) Settings fields cannot be tabbed between

7) Settings cannot use keyboard controls for the cancel / save like OS native dialogs

These are just the errors I noticed while writing this post. The app looks like it could be a nice MAMP alternative.
Ultima Ratio Clientis ~ Or why you bring grievances to HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178341
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004

In a nutshell, a doctor is considering suing drchrono, a HN funded company, for not providing service and breach of contract.

Minutes after bring said grievances to HN, pg killed those stories and turned them into [dead] stories. You can still see them if you click (ASK) at the top.
Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data
Clickable link: https://dealora.com/
Threejay, we met via Skype at one of the advisory sessions you had during TechStars (I was with one of the VC firms). Great job executing! Let me know if you need referrals to pharmacists or doctors for any reason (or pharm/med schools).
You are talking about Chrome right ? We have a memory intensive app which works perfectly on FF26 (and IE11), and crashes the tab on Chrome 32 with memory hitting 3GB+ and up. Their garbage collector must be leaking like crazy. (Works in Chrome 22).
In SFO, the Delta lounge is outside of security.
SuperShakes Bringing NZT from science fiction to science fact
It's here http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/

There are two branches: stable[1] and mainline[2]. The cool new stuff goes to mainline first.

[1] http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#stable

[2] http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline
Yeah. It's all about getting a trusted introduction. No direct messaging.
Are you American? I was wondering about this too. As a Frenchman, I had the same reaction as you, but I think Americans care a lot about this. I've been told for example that in the US it would be completely impossible for a president to be elected if he didn't had a solid marriage and family.

I find those cultural differences fascinating
Look at LightTable.
Adobe Issues Emergency Patch To Address Flash Player Zero-Day
He's only been on the Microsoft board since 2012, which is nearly 20 years after the release of OS/2 Warp. That is pretty a far-fetched scenario in this case.
Thanks for the code and helping with this. I have posted my queries to the gist itself.
> Slow update does not mean you have secure version.

This was not my claim. When there are security vulnerabilities I'm happy for the updates to be as quick as possible and as frequent as necessary. The problem is:

> (3) new features

Adding new features has a high chance of new security flaws, when you're operating at the speed of firefox on such an error-prone technology stack.

Different users want to meet this trade-off differently. I want fewer features, in fact I'm ok not to be bleeding-edge compatible with the latest poorly-designed HTML draft spec if it means a more secure browser. It's a question of how and where Mozilla (or other browser teams) organize their effort.
It's not Microsoft that was/is bad, it's having any single entity have too much power. In my opinion, right now, that is Google, and that's why we need a stronger someone - anyone. And Microsoft fit the bill.