skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Many ad companies fill less than 10% of ads outside of the US. Possible that's accounted for in their $1.50 CPM, but they also may be estimating quite optimistically, considering Snapchat would add a huge amount of volume to any advertising company, especially a small one.
Nobody's denigrating his faith, as much as his transparent attempt to leverage it for social credibility by advertising his piety on Hacker News while (evidently) doing nothing actually helpful.

If that's not worthy of denigration, take it up with Jesus himself, who said pretty much the same thing.
Why everybody seem to ruling out the idea that FB is not running click farms? Theory that professional likers are clicking Virtual Cats and Virtual Bagles just so they don't get noticed by FB policing seems ridiculous.
And in what respect taking out of the picture the central bank is a good thing? It's good for whom?
You didn't watch the video. More likes means a larger percentage of your "likers" AREN'T engaged which will actually show content to FEWER of the people who are actually interested. Having 2850/3000 of your likes being farmed means when FB does a "sampling" by only showing content to a few of your likers it has a lower chance of actually hitting a non-farm account.

And frankly, the whole thing is fucking ridiculous to even have to explain. FB does all sorts of shady/hacky shit to make money in a way that is totally incongruous with the needs and desires of both content consumers and content creators. Someone will come along with a simpler model that makes sense, and everyone will move away from facebook like they did from digg->reddit.
Why the raygun API now runs on Node.js
I know, but CoreOS won't be the only lightweight OS designed for cloud deployments. I'd be pretty jazzed for a Lua or Gambit Scheme based system. It will probably be node.js though, always bet on javascript.
"This is horrible, this idea" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlA9bNk3b5Q
The US and Canada have the primary language of English. But Canada also has French, and certain sections of the US have Spanish as a predominant language. Just one example: If I have a US company that also ships to Canada, it makes sense to have the US flag for English and the French (or Canadian?) flag for French Canadian. It also makes sense to have the Mexican flag for the Spanish option, because most of my Spanish speaking customers are likely to hail from Mexico, with a small number from other Central American countries.

What would not make sense is to have a UK flag for American customers, a Spanish flag for Mexican customers, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo flag for French, just to appease people who will never buy from my site. You might not have national borders in mind, but it pays to know what language your customers speak as well as what countries they are from.
Noted on New Haven Tweed, good point, thanks.

We're still working on upping our coverage of all routes at all times, but for now you'll only see something from NYC to Spain/Portugal if we find something really out of the ordinary - for us, usually means 8 cents per mile or less. For now, I'd recommend using Skyscanner.com and searching for flights from NYC to Spain or NYC to Portugal. Also, I'm jealous, I wish I were going to Spain/Portugal with you.
> Anonymity breeds meanness

Only if the users aren't invested in their identity. It has also been shown that positive anonymous communities can be built.
I don't have money to give but it pains me to see stories like this. I think there is more that can be done to prevent this type of suffering (though I don't know much about cancer per se). I have a different serious medical condition, as does my oldest son. We have figured out how to get well. What I can't seem to figure out is how to constructively share info on what we did. Any suggestions?

(Please consider emailing me. I am not trying to derail this discussion. It is just that I have spent years talking about this and I am usually pilloried. It is very frustrating.)
That car and cdr can be aliased easily by any Lisp programmer might lead a person to wonder why they survive and are even included in more modern Lisps such as Racket.

The reason is the expressive power of their extended versions - e.g. caadr or cdaar don't have easily derived equivalents from first and rest and those that can be derived are at best equally bad or worse...ffirest and reffst anyone?
Of course there's going to be exceptions. I was well aware of that when I made my post. But you're ignoring the fact that those exceptions are generally so old that they harp back to a time when England was conquered thus the invading parties brought their own language or at the time there wasn't an English equivalent description. These days it doesn't happen so often.

Take your examples: pastries is actually an English word that has evolved from a Normandy word 'pastaierie'. And 'croissants' is a very specific term to a specific type of French pastry. So it's not all that surprising that we're going to use the French word since it is a very specific French thing (it may as well be a proper noun it's that niche)
Hy, a Lisp that compiles to Python
What is the right model?
Bitcoin Ponzi
So seriously, you believe that any government or population would chose to hand over their economy on a currency which no one knows who controls (i.e. who holds vast amounts of BTC) instead of their government, whom they vote directly.

If there is such a stupid population, which I don't believe there is, but IF then they are really deserve what they are getting into.
Note that he didn't say "go to school".

Quoted for Emphasis.
Um, not really. If I act on my "faith" that I can fly off rooftops, I will die. That doesn't strictly prevent me from doing so, but that's probably not what you mean when you say "believe anything". If I say I believe I can fly but refuse to actually jump off a roof, you can pretty safely call me a liar.

Practically and biblically, faith is defined by action. Anything else is probably just smoke.
It's a mobile app that people, mostly teens, use to send pictures to friends. The user can choose how many seconds each picture will be viewable and after the timeout, it's gone.
Hey, I'd love to ask you some questions - mind dropping me a line at g@hitlistapp.com?
One thing, If you take a look at line 53 in my original code:
https://gist.github.com/shlomibabluki/5473521#file-summary_t...

You can change the code to run only -> for j in range(0, i)

* (instead of range(0, n))

and then store the same score both in values[i][j] and values[j[i]
Good way to word it.
Github, I use you for all my \LaTeX papers, programming assignments, masters projects, whatever else. It is really helpful.

But I don't like that I can only have 5 private repos. Making my work public could be an honor-code violation and a violation of the professors trust, that I won't make solutions available to their projects. On top of that, I'm usually working on more than 5 projects at any given time.

Now that I'm finishing graduate school, this pressure is especially high. If I work on something in github, the other grad students will undoubtedly see it, since we are all gitbuddies. Does github have any talk of raising the private repo ceiling on education accounts from 5 to >5, or should I just remove my work while it's done?
Wow. Just the other day I was looking at the clouds and wondering how it all works up there and not some three-hundred word blogpost; seriously, why are there different clouds? The sky is such a big part of my everyday life, yet I know nothing about it. I searched around but couldn't find any good books on clouds.

This seems like a good start though. Mad respect for Bill.
Its a bull reason, but the man stayed at the scene of the crime.

Generally speaking, when you are involved in a deadly pedestrian or bicyclist crash... but you stay at the scene, the Police generally do what they can to try to let you off easy (differs from district to district of course). A misdemeanor seems a bit too easy to me however.
Some terminals support ACS (with SCLD) but not unicode. It might be better to use ACS:

$ hr() { printf '\e(0'; printf 'q%.0s' $(seq $(tput cols)); printf '\e(B'; }

Same thing, but potentially more portable.

edit: Could also use tput instead of $COLUMNS. Sometimes the $COLUMNS may not always be updated (bash's checkwinsize option).
Confusing. How is gross margin a shift of goalposts in a thread about profits?
> In this fantasy

Fuck off then.
I forget the details, but practically speaking the database keeled over after some 200 or 500 files were open at the same time.
You can have a private repo called writing with a folder for each project. Not elegant but it works...
True, however there are examples of the latter, vide how Nixie Pixel was treated at OSCON 2012.
Mbox – A lightweight sandboxing mechanism
Your argument seems to be "reusing trading-card code for a currency exchange is stupid and would result in a terrible, bug-ridden product." Mt.Gox is terrible and bug-ridden. I'm not clear what you're disagreeing with.
Surviving technical challenges doesn't mean you didn't suffer them. Apple is an example that supports my point, not an argument against it. I didn't say Gox wouldn't survive the challenge. So you basically have no point.
Yeah it was. I left it for a bit and it got to 250MB, so I assumed it was uploading Library/Mail again.

I should clarify and say support did get me to send various log files, etc. so it wasn't a bad experience at all - it just ended with no solution.

Maybe I'll just take a loss, kill my Arq 3 backups and just re-do everything with the new version!

Am I right in assuming that upgrading/re-imaging an Mac OS X install normally shouldn't result in sync
Here at 1355 Market, the Twitter building, AboveNet is entirely down. They are claiming it's a main router issue. No ETOR.
Even worse, because the new owners probably don't have a clue about decisions that resulted in the original ifrastructure.
Apparently Snapchat's costs are incredibly low though. At the very least, their employee count is 2 digits, not 4.
It makes a pretty good RSS feed, even if I do skip the majority of them.
The probabilities in QM are determined by absolute, deterministic equations. I'd still say absolute logic is fundamental, at least in physics. When you start talking metaphysics, I don't think there's a good reason to assume logic works at all; all the logic we can observe is embedded "in" physics. Who knows what it's like "outside"?
If I have the option to, yes. Or rather I take much less care to actually read the code when I am installing a package out of the Debian repo's. Otherwise, I at least try to review what the heck that I am installing, especially on my own machine.
Bitcoin Exchange Struggles
FWIW, I have no idea who moot is, and lacking that context, it's much easier to interpret this as mere self-promotion.
Microsoft should take Windows and split it in two: Desktop and Tablet. Because it's just too weird right now.

Windows 7 is a great OS and they could refine it to be even better.

On the Tablet side they should just pick the good pieces of Windows 8 and go from there.

Do one thing at a time and do it well Microsoft!
IPython 1.2.0 has been released
We monitor outgoing smtp and http connections from anything that requires those services.

And the best general advice I have is split your alerts into "stuff that I need to know is broken" and "stuff that just helps me diagnose other problems". You don't want to be disturbing your on-call people for stuff that doesn't directly affect your service (or isn't even something you can fix).
Dear Foursquare — It’s Time to Bounce
Bitcoin plunges after marketplace indefinitely halts withdrawals
I hope this passes and gets swiftly struck down by the courts.

I hope it passes because I'm none too pleased with the NSA right now.

I hope it gets struck down because I'd hate for a precedent to be established where cutting off utilities to your political enemies becomes an accepted political tactic. It's 265 Kelvin outside right now and a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would love to cut off the heat at various LGBT advocacy groups.
Done - anyone else wondering, it's very easy, so please just do it if you can afford it and hopefully it will help him in big or small way.
I did something similar on Youtube, I've hidden all the side videos to help me focus on the video I was watching.
But on FB, I unfollowed 99% of the people, and only left things like 'March Against Monsanto', and 'Naturalnews', so so my feed only contains stuff that matters to me.
Thanks to Mt. Gox's attempt to blame BitCoin developers for a problem with their custom wallet, the entire mainstream media is reporting their private fiasco as a fundamental flaw in the BitCoin protocol.

Mt. Gox could have come through this injured but with their integrity in tact by taking responsibility. Instead they now they have managed to damage BitCoin itself by attempting to deflect blame.

They don't even have a continuous integration setup going and do all of their work on production? When you're dealing with (literally) billions of dollars of other people's wealth that is just inexcusable and irresponsible.
Hi all, works with ST3 now and is in Package Control. Only thing missing is Windows support (looking into it). Thanks for the comments and pull-requests :)
Yeah that does work. It is only frustrating when I have a lot of big projects at the same time. Sometime they can be public, but othertimes they cant.

I imagine it is worse for undergrads, where almost all their coursework will be private.
Can we pay him to get treatment in another country? I'd do that if I was in as bad of shape as this guy. At least there'd be some money left over for my heirs.
Yea, Eve online had me for a while. It also had the strange effect of making all other games un-enjoyable for me. Eve is a true min/max game, where 2% of something often makes a huge difference. The desire to maximize the efficiency of everything I did carried over to other games and even aspects of my life.

Most games stop being fun when you make a spreadsheet for them, Eve is one of those few exceptions. Right around the time I stopped playing Eve, I started finding it difficult to play games just for fun without trying to min/max every aspect to gain an advantage. I guess I was really addicted to the meta-game rather than the game itself.
My family is one of them (stressing about getting ends to meet).

My momma, 55, otherwise ridiculously healthy, has terminal brain cancer among other things. She was diagnosed five days before her 55th birthday (10/25) this year -- [seemingly] out of the blue.

While her and my father have insurance (through United Health Group), there's no smooth sailing because her treatments are so "specialized".

I, at 22, cleaned out my savings and checking just to make sure that her treatments will be paid for, and additionally hire a wicked-awesome in-home PCA to make sure that she's living comfortably when I'm not able to be there.

I won't get into the logistics of why my father / her husband won't pay for things.

Never been so proud to eat Ramen Noodles.

Edit: you guys make me tear up. Thanks for the support and kind words.
I'm not sure, beyond effort required. It would at least be slightly less actively harmful to advertisers, though.
kernel patches that directly benefit their own products, like making it easier to run virtual machines, etc. Not from the goodness and kindness of their wonderful, generous hearts.
Is the Loch Ness Monster Dead?
What did you read that gave you these ideas? It seems like a genuinely interesting hypothesis and I'd like to find out more.
at the time when WP was offered to Nokia it was a good option. first of all it came with a nice cash bonus, offered them customization options, offered them a possible new market and differentiation from the various android manufacturers and the promise of a huge marketing boost that they'd otherwise have to do on their own if they went with android. bottomline though WP didn't take off the way they would have hoped and the rest is history.
From idea to 300 users in 4 hours
> If there had been another properly licensed kernel before Linux, we would all be using GNU bolted on top of that.

BSD?
Comic book store owner scares off female comic writer
Curious question, how does version control (SCM) fit into this picture?
Thank you for the reply, really looking forward to being able to backup to DreamObjects (much cheaper than S3).
The Woman on the Other End of the Line
PhantomJS Data Mining and BASH Data Analysis
What's wrong with "second"?
I’m Not Great at Technical Interviews. How I Got Hired.
All the subject if full of conflicting information. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

> Assuming a normal distribution, the 95% confidence interval for average length is 0.889-1.005 for males and 0.913-1.017 for females.

> In Manning's words, "There's more difference between a Pole and a Finn, than a man and a woman."

> 2D:4D is being used alongside other methods to help sex Palaeolithic hand stencils found in European and Indonesian caves.
Postsecret is doing ok. Just remove doxing and other detrimental elements and it will be fine.
>"Doesn't the insurances cover with these expenses in USA?"

Insurance companies are like ISPs. You're fine until your usage pattern significantly exceeds the average.

At that point, the insurer will do any and everything in their power to drop your coverage and/or hasten your demise by denying or delaying treatment.

On a related note, this is why some of the people who are unable to keep their misleadingly cheap plans post-ACA should actually be happy. They would simply have been dropped anyway - when they actually needed that coverage.
Even worse than that because the new owners do not do robust engineering themselves; multiplying fragility by fragility.
Leading and leaving: Rackspace CEO steps down
A few weeks ago we started an organization called Capacity 2 Care (http://cap2care.org) for situations just like this -- it's in the early stages so we only have a few hundred members at this point, but I posted it to the Facebook group to see what we can do...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cap2care/
Doesn't seem to work in firefox? (The search bar keeps getting activated.) I think I have the "automatically search on typing" option selected though.
We would people try to do a ddos on them. A ddos is a temporary thing. Only time it is worth it do do a ddos is when there is some kind of event thing.

Like if some one wants to get a site down today so people can't vote.

And cloudflare does not really have anything like that. Their customers yes, them no.
Well, I have a hobby project for trading X, then I decide I want to have a project for trading Y; isn't this an obvious instinct to modify the one I'm already working on to fit a new purpose, instead of starting for scratch? If the author didn't know much about complexities of money trade, I'm pretty sure he did just that.

I've seen people retrofitting their CMSes to do everything. Hell, I even did this myself with my hobby game engine. It's common for programmers.
Some poor examples there:

o 'Automobile' is already short for 'self propelled moving machine,

o 'Mississippi' is a proper noun,

o 'hipster' isn't even a proper word (why don't we all just start posting derogatory slang?)

o and if you think of 'salty mass of food' when you eat pastas then you really are shopping in the wrong places / need to learn to cook better.

o As for your dislike of the use of the term 'engine', it's meaning has evolved somewhat, but in software it's common to refer to a complicated core group of routines which powers the software / service as an 'engine'. eg 'game engine' in computer games.
you're welcome, the more names, the more love
There are homeless people out there with cancer who will die alone and without a hope in the world.
Ask HN: How do you find good new ebooks?
I check Amazon Kindle deals, and even kind of peruse the listings on the kindle app, but there is so much, and so much of it seems like complete dreck, or just not up my alley. How do you find good recommendations? External apps, word of mouth, or just from looking really hard?

I love biographical stuff (but not everything interests me), Science and nitch stuff gets me occasionally (yes, even stuff like Malcom Gladwell), and I am a huge Science Fiction and Fantasy escapist, but (especially in SciFan) there is a huge influx of entry level(?, ish) authors, and most just don't seem worth the time let alone the 99 cents. Since there is no field for "real authors" how do I sort through the low end stuff; compound that with the fact that some of those are actually very good...
You must have missed the 'fix' part of 'find, fix, & finish'. They have real-time video feeds of the targets right up until pushing the button (aka 'finishing').

And, yes, I say it is generally not a good idea not to associate with terrorists or go into a room with them and throw your SIM card into a pile to be mixed. And, if you suddenly find out that your phone number has changed for no explicable reason, it's probably best to ditch the SIM card and buy a new one.
Silly question ahead: I feel like this is a SQL JOIN (and 10 lines of Ruby for the view) that any web developer could ship in an afternoon or so.

With the above in mind, I imagine Github would ship dozens of such little features a month; and yet they don't, and when they do it warrants a blog post about it.

What am I missing here? Can someone enlighten me?
The whole article is "Hey someone else might have a point". Balls.
Relevant verse:

"When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you…"

Matthew 6:5-6
I was expecting this to actually be some research. Disappointing. :(
Donated, hopefully it makes a difference to him and his family.
Ditto. I have benefited immensely from PHP and very much appreciate the contributions from people like Richard. Very sorry to hear this happened to him and hopefully donations help take some of the stress off his family in this very difficult time.
FlasciiBird – ncurses-based Flappy Bird port
This is even more cynical than I'm willing to be. Yes, a lot of what goes on on HN is just "hey look at me," but really? Someone says "I'll pray for you" to a guy dying of cancer and your reaction is that he's attempting to "leverage [his faith] for social credibility?"

Maybe you should get out more. Or perhaps just be even a little more generous in your assumptions. Many people do believe in... well, lots of things they pray to. You don't have to; I don't either. But that doesn't mean everyone else's motives are somehow always shallow and selfish.

Sorry, but your comment is a whole lot worse than his.
What is rape culture?
If you've got different language options then it's not aimed primarily at the US
"This kind" being the research we've been discussing, which is about socialisation and toy preference. Finger length and other easily-measured physical differences haven't been part of it.
We're seeing an increase in 'down' notifications in general here at NodePing.
I run Chrome with cookies (and local storage) disabled by default. When I visit the site, I only see the first two headings of a table of contents, and no actual tutorial content appears. Why does an information-only (non-interactive) web page require cookies and/or local storage to function?
Oh yeah, I totally agree the old sync wasn't friendly - but that's something totally different. It wasn't intuitive, and it was surprising in that it really was just a sync, not a backup. Nevertheless, it was still pretty easy to enable if you actually wanted to.

Easy can still be frustrating (as in why all these steps and which machine is which, and why do I even need to look up how to do this?), and it can still be user unfriendly (as in not allowing recovery).