skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really what happened. The majority of Bitcoin clients need to agree whether or not to accept a block. In 0.7, a limitation of the database library was causing a very large block to be rejected, whereas in 0.8 the block was correctly accepted. This caused a blockchain split, with the 0.7 clients going one way, and the 0.8 clients going the other.

This sort of problem doesn't really occur on the web, so trying to draw an analogy to HTTP isn't going to help people understand the issue.
It is surely an encrypted stack trace, encoded in base64, which is probably being spit out by the load balancer proxy. I would not be surprised if Youtube developers used their own Chrome extension for making that binary meat readable.

I have once set out to write a module for Nodejs for the same purpose, but never finished it. Can't really see a downside in this way of reporting errors.
Ask HN: Svbtle or Medium?
I am starting to blog and choosing between Svbtle or Medium, now that both are in GA. Which do you enjoy better and why? Does Medium's network distribution rival Svbtle's? Is Medium's platform advantages outweigh not having your own custom domain?
I like Ghost, I have been watching it closely and rooting for it. However, it just had a bunch of nasty issues that made it frustrating to put up with. I last checked a month or so back and these are the ones I remember off-hand:

- Undo/redo is badly broken. If you add an image via ![] there was no undoing beyond that point. Undo was broken in a few other ways too.

- Browser spellcheck didn't work. This was a big one for me and for anyone who writes a lot.

- The preview doesn't correctly sync with the markdown editor if you add a bunch of images. This got very frustrating because the auto-sync sometimes rendered the preview-pane useless. I can't fathom there isn't a manual override until this gets fixed. It forces the writers to contend with a bug (that still exists) each time they edit a post with images.

If you build your blogging platform on top of Markdown you should be ready to work within it's bounds (you can't align images) or let the community write MD extensions (leading to fragmentation and something that will eventually not be MD). Or the third alternative is to have a new flavour (ala GFM) that's maintained by the Ghost team itself with very minor modifications. In light of that, I would really propose the following amendments:

- Markdown doesn't align images. That's a severe limitation.

- Markdown still sucks at linked images. Try telling a novice to write:

[![]()]()

At least I think that's what it is. This is an issue with markdown but I think Ghost should take a few liberties as a favour to the rest of us.

- For image alignments, I would propose the following:

![ center aligned ](link)
![left aligned ](link)
![ right aligned](link)
![ right aligned squeezed](link)
![ right aligned squeezed more](link)
...

- And for linked images and images/links in general I would propose:

![](image-link)
![caption](image-link)(href-link)
![caption](image-link)[alt](href-link)
!(image-link)(href-link)
!(image-link)
The most widespread one at the moment is postmodern feminism, which is a complete joke.

I don't know what exactly do you mean by "gender-appropriate", but there are feminist movements which embrace traditional ideas of femininity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_feminism

I'm assuming by "super-rad" you're trying to say you're a super radical feminist. Good to see you're proud of your little ideology.
because I really don't need actual Photoshop or development tools that have been refined for many decades, I just need shitty little Android apps written in the last few years.

No, that is wrong.
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"I rather use C++ than being stuck in .NET 3.5, without any more modern C# goodies" - I use all modern C# features with XNA - what is the issue (except for async/await maybe)?

"I guess one has to decide if they want to make a game or a game engine" - exactly, but there should be a choice. XNA being a framework rather than engine provided such a choice in a high-level way.
Google was originally written in Python. The reason it was changed wasn't directly due to Python being a dynamic language, but that the new programmer was more familiar with C++ and that C++ would run faster.
Phones with 'Flappy Bird' app fetching big bids on eBay
I'm not taking any conclusions yet. The episode is unusual, accepting that "things just happened" is not my cup of tea. As a developer I'm interested in the dynamics of the app store rankings, if it's still possible for an indie dev to succeed without "help"; and as a former media student, how exactly a little crappy game clone went viral and made it to the top spot in a month.

If it turns out it was just a fluke, still more interesting it is.
This is a good example of the "Lemming Economy" that mobile phones have created, and which I cannot heap on enough derision.

The Lemming Economy follows a model where dozens upon dozens up near pointless applications are created in an attempt find just something that will get enough momentum to drive an ever increasing number of lemmings over the cliff (purchase). Upon succeeding more lemmings scramble to create copy-cats of the game to cash in on the stampede. There's no point except to try and generate cash out of they prevailing whims of the lemmings.

This model neither creates a viable business model (because you can't rely on quality equaling sales) nor useful software (because that doesn't drive the lemmings over the cliff).

Maybe Flappy Birds isn't horrible, I don't know. But the developer obviously didn't like getting caught in the stampede and all of a sudden getting exposed to the general population. I would have taken down the app, too.
My take on these numbers is producers versus consumers.

Tweets are production, however limited. Or for push/pull model, Talking Tom is all pull, Twitter has some push.
I'm a baby of the law 101. I learned French because my parents couldn't send to me English school. Living in Montreal, I can say there is a huge difference between where I work (right accross McGill University) and where I live (a few metro/subway stations east). Downtown Montreal is fully bilingual. The more you go East, the "francophone-er" it gets. The neighboors all have their distinct vibe and it's very impressive how walking half an hour will bring you into a culturally different part of the city.

I see Montreal in a completely different light than what is exposed in the article : the community is vibrant, everybody is very warm and welcoming. IMHO speaking French is a great perk if you want to discover Montreal (and the rest of Quebec :-) ), but the hatred is mostly an attitude thing : history classes are heavily skewed on the separation between "Haut Canada" and "Bas Canada" and the whole "speak white" period. Let's add that Harper doesn't really help bringing the Country together. If you try to speak French and struggle, you will most of the time be answered in English. The key word is "try" : language is a sensitive spot over here, so a little effort goes a very long way.

There was an indirect answer from the community to this article : http://wearemtltech.ca/ (and it's in both English and French)
Show HN: We just launched a kick-ass Media API for the Web
No, it worked perfectly.

If you have to explain a joke to someone, that means the joke is making fun of them!
There would be so many more interesting alternative rankings to make out of this data. I'm thinking about it!
In general, the productivity gap has dimnished signficantly.

Unless if we are discussing prototype/quick throwaway/very small web app. In that segment, Rails is still the king.
It's impossible for me to change my Comcast password ... let me explain. I have a "custom" email address for my Comcast account. I have never used the Comcast provided email or login (customer for 10+ years). Many years ago when I signed up I managed to setup my own email and have used it ever since.

Fast forward 5 years and I'm attempting to authenticate an iPad TV app with my Comcast account and I have a brain freeze on my password. I attempt a reset and it doesn't' work. I try again, and again, from differing machines and finally call. Long story short they have no record of my email and can't reset the password. My only option is to revert to the Comcast supplied email which I have never used and don't even know.

Luckily I remembered my password and was able to simply move on but was shocked that there was simply no official way for me to retrieve or reset my password yet I have an account that still works (even for billing)
I'm sorry but.. what should I do ? which key will work ? because I tried azerty, qwerty, space bar, up arrow key, nothing works..
Replacing callbacks with ES6 Generators
life is not all about business and money

I hear you. Believe me I do.

However that's the system we've got.

You've got at least three problems that I can see:

• Figure out what you want to replace it with.

• Figure out how to get there from here.

• Figure out how to sell it.

Many have tried.

Google founders should not really need more money than what they already have

We're not talking about the founders, we're talking about the company.

As of December 31, 2013, the company had $87,309 million in total equity -- value less liabilities. Its operating expenses for the three months ending December 31, 2013, were $12,936 million. Without income, Google would be broke in six quarters.

You can't run a company without income.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii&ei=...

And in the event you're thinking this is just money: money represents a lien on real resources. Those financial stocks and flows correspond to resources Google can access or must use on an ongoing basis. The additional projects it does engage in are possible because its revenues are that much higher above its expenses.

What you're talking about would require that Google find some other way of keeping the power on and encouraging people to show up to the office every day, without money changing hands, in a fashion which retains some semblance of economic efficiency.

What are you proposing, exactly?
99k ... sounds legit ... Flappy Birds is more fun than a new porsche 911
PID1 also comes with powers over capabilities and (in some cases) cgroups. You can do much of that with FSCaps, etc - but to control the bounding set, you have to be pid1. So - if you want init to be able to limit what processes can do, you will be pid1.
You might want to consider to add Ghost to the list of considerations as well. In terms of UX it's close to both Svbtle and Medium, but you get to keep your own data.
I use ST for a Cocoa/OpenGL app, and love it much more than xcode. When you actually know what you are doing, all that auto-voodoo stuff just gets in the way.
I find it interesting that I've had a physical 'Talking Tom' (as in, a 15 inch tall plastic cat in a pose on its hind legs with a keypad for a chest) for at least 2 years. And no idea it was an app.

It cost about $5 in a local market. Pressing #9 on the keypad allows lagged realtime speech playback (from whatever it hears) accentuated in tone and speed.

For the tactile touch, the physical one is great for young kids.
In Safari you can always press [Apple]-Z to undo the accidental closing of a tab.
I hear that HTML is becoming popular these days.
That's because in HTTP, only the client and server involved in the transaction need to agree on what's going on. But in bitcoin, every client in the network needs to be able to verify your transaction, so they all need to agree on what transactions are valid.
Expansion of Valve free games offer to Ubuntu developers
> ... a Clang monoculture when it comes to C(++) tools ...

There are plenty of other C and C++ vendors besides gcc, clang and Microsoft.

But yeah, clang seems to be the only pluggable compiler freely available.
Cute. But don't we all pretty much have friends with the same deal - suggest something interesting, they'll paint it? Because that's how artists work anyway.
But you're not making a good point. If the network goes down, anything which depends on it will also go down. That's a much stronger guarantee than "let's hope this application handles network failure graciously and will kindly start working again as soon as the network is restored".
Yeah; but the biggest problem you'll encounter in launching this is that you're not Microsoft. Microsoft has an extensive partner sales network and a lot of companies already using many of its infrastructure products. They write the SDKs and IDEs that developers use to develop Windows apps. They write the software that the system admins run on the servers. They write the security policy management systems that most companies use to manage their users, applications and hardware. And they also write the most popular desktop applications so they can show people how to really implement something like this.

I don't think anyone other than Microsoft can realistically do this. Which is exactly why Microsoft should; it's a product that nobody could copy and they would have a 90% market share on corporate BYOD management in under 5 years. Nadella is the right guy to actually push something like that forward; I just hope that the shiny consumer stuff doesn't remain a distraction. There's nothing fundamentally cannibalistic about someone running MS Outlook on their iPad: in order to do this, they still need a Windows user license, an Exchange license and an Outlook license, so MS is still getting paid three times for that user.
bitcoind is C++.
Maybe it will make them start getting Talking TomCat to do their video segments.
> This is just too much to take in. I just want to write stuff!

There we have it. It's you that they were trying to address when they wrote "Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing"[1]. But, I think they are badly failing because they chose to go with Node for a project that was supposed to attract the masses and being about "the future of the freedom of speech" (yes, they actually said that).

[1] https://ghost.org/about/
Well, that's just gay[1].

[1] Disclaimer: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Gay
Your comment seems to be answering some question other than the one I asked.
It was linked to by a major YouTuber.

It is a tiny simple free app. You do one thing, you get one number back.

A bit like nananca bike crash. These very simple games are great for the "just one more go" factor, and the bragging rights of "hey! I just beat your top score".

Over analysis could lead to incorrect conclusions so I'd be wary of any analysis that explained Flappy Bird without explaining the failure of all the other similar games.
Or you could just pick a language with the best IDE support. Which leaves us with Java and C#.
well if you have 5 porsches, 7 ferraries in your garage, then yes 99k for a game that you can't buy anymore is worth it!
Hold on --- the article says that the top questions were asked by people with a lot of reputation. Isn't it the case that the top questions bring the asker a lot of reputation points, which means it's not necessarily the case that their question is a "top" question because of their preexisting reputation?
First class CMake support?

Jetbrains, you're my favorite company. You actually pay attention to what people want when you release your software.
If you are using it on Linux, make sure to use sun java. I've noticed it performs and looks a lot better then open jdk.
The V looks like a U, but it is V. Feature, not a flaw?
Fallacy: having owned the user that writes logs, I cannot fuck with your logs if journaled.

Reality: if I owned the user writing logs, I can do anything I want with the logs, no matter how they're stored.
In the valley, python & ruby will probably have higher salaries.

Outside probably Java and C#.
Pick a job that will not get automated in 10 years.
Right, because Flappy Bird wasn't already punishingly difficult.
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> I use all modern C# features with XNA - what is the issue (except for async/await maybe)?

The libraries are also important and they are stuck on .NET 3.5 offerings.

Another problem is the old version of Mono they are using, which doesn't not have the JIT and GC improvements of more recent versions.

This is what I was able to gather from online sources, when wondering if it was worth the time and space to install it.
OK. I think I see where our signals are getting crossed. I look at your diagram and think, The green signal g is not what you get when you try to output the red signal r but the output stage clips it at the supply voltage (my V). Rather, the green signal g is what you get when you take the red signal r, amplify it by A = Infinity, and then try to output that new signal rA, which the output stage then clips.

For all A > 1, |rA| > |r|. Therefore, I have no problem agreeing that a clipped rA carries more energy than the original r. (In fact, this is just saying that bigger signals carry more energy, regardless of clipping.)

To me, your original statement read as though it made the following claim: If your amplifier tries to output a signal r but clips off the peaks, what you get out is a signal that carries more energy than r. (This is the claim I found hard to believe.)

But what you really meant (I think) was that, if you take a sine wave as input and, as a human controlling the volume knob, keep turning up the volume until the sine wave's maximum amplitude so far exceeds what the amplifier can reproduce that it comes out looking like a square wave, then that square wave carries more energy than the original, un-volume-adjusted sine wave. Is that what you meant?

If that's what you meant, I have no problem believing your claim. It's just that I wouldn't call turning up the volume knob to be part of the "clipping" process, but rather amplifying. When you turn up the volume knob, what you get out is always a "bigger" signal, even if it's clipped.
Why is this labeled "ordered by population"? It's not, because if it were, China would be at the top. Wouldn't "medals per capita" be more accurate?
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Please get your dates right. The outage happened on Friday the 7th of February, and only lasted until Saturday afternoon.

Of course, the link is now working fine again.
At best, your signal will improve linearly with the number of antennas (N), while the noise will be completely incoherent and scale like sqrt(N). Thus your signal-to-noise ratio will improve like N/sqrt(N)=sqrt(N). You're going to need an awful lot of radios...
This is precisely it. Linux is not unix. It only vaguely and superficially resembles unix. Those of us who like unix aren't using linux anyways. If you want to use unix, do so. But suggesting linux distros need to be a certain way because unix is that way makes no sense.
The End of Brand Loyalty
Ha, yeah I watch NBR before the PBS Newshour some days so unfortunately I've picked up on some of the terminology. I jokingly refer to NBR as PBS's dark little corner.
Hilarious, but oh my god impossible!
Show HN: Combine Multiple Internet Connections Into One
Deconvergence: the Move Back to Specialised Devices
And then they'd sublet to the highest bidder.
This is a Sales truism too. It's much easier to convince people who believe than people whose job it is to say "No". Early stage funding requires shared optimism between the funder and funded.
The job is building out the platform further. Maybe they have that figured out?
Honest question - how does that man keep getting work?

Even when you approach from a meta-comedy standpoint - something that his supporters claim is his main focus, he is just juvenile and idiotic. I think he's honestly just an idiot who has gotten lucky enough to be in comedy during the time in history that marijuana is very, very mainstream.
Bitcoin drops another 20% as Mt Gox highlights bug
Well it also implies that Android isn't popular with consumers so isn't much worth talking about, as consumers.
Apart from that in my case my 2 year old loves these apps so I've bought them in 3 app stores and installed on 5 devices.
1. Why would you assume they will be repaid fairly quickly?

2. $15,000 per working person in the US is a massive number of dollars per person. The medium US income is only about $50,000. Even if you spread the number out over 10 years (which would of course also increase the total interest paid), you are talking about $1,500 a year, which would be roughly 100% of people's discretionary income.

3. The number is growing and will continue to grow forever which means that the drag increases overtime, not that it gets paid off.

4. The student loans any individual borrows may individually benefit them relative to others, but there is no reason to believe that the total revenue (salary) grows at the same rate as the drag caused by the increase in debt service on a macro scale.

Its $1 trillion + interest that will drag on the economy for many, many, many years. You can't look at the trees in the forest to rationalize away the problem this huge debt load will have on the economy.
Someone else has fixed it :)

I was about to push my changes even though the command doesn't work for me.
I'm saying that the dependency on the network being up is bad for services. An example of a bad case: if the network interface is hotplugged or down and you're running Redis, do you want it to restart and have to drag the entire AOF file off disk just because you yanked the interface card because it was failed or failing? Your 20 second hotplug problem becomes a 15 minute block of IO coming off disk because you had to restart the process.

So many problems come from such a simple dependency.

Designing all services to handle and expect failures and just let init restart regardless of the state is the RIGHT solution.
I would like to advance the notion that this could be exactly what it looks like to a non-invested observer: this is the end stage of a massive fraud.

The one thing that makes me suspect otherwise is that they are holding a lot of BTC instead of a lot of cash.
It has been "Oracle java" for a few years now and that is a political problem for some people, myself included.
Perhaps they were banned based on their metadata.
Kids who are learning to type probably won't be able to read your font. They'll likely get frustrated and put it down rather quickly. Is it meant to be a typing tutor for kids?
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Mild autism.