skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aptiva series? My first computer at home was an Aptiva C6E, 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM (8MB for video) and Win95. Also had the Mwave card, which was IBM's interesting and novel combination modem/sound card. Got it in 1997 and only got rid of it last year. :P
Yeah, seconding this.

It's really really easy to make those calls from the relative security of a day job or college, to look over at struggling entrepreneurs and say "But all you had to do was X...why didn't you do X?"

It ain't that simple or striaghtforward or obvious when you're the one on the sharp end.
A defense of NJ's state government is... anti-government? You've got a few screws loose.
Googling "to whom it may concern" returns ~2050000 results, "to who it may concern" returns four time as less results (~479000).

You are not right.
In Berlin last year, you could win a Sony phone by diving into a tank of water and fetch one from the ground. If it was a real one, you could keep it :)
Donate actual cash to a lobbying group that puts experienced lobbying muscle and cash into changing current policy. Cash is a more effective than whining to a local representative over the phone. It's also what you're up against because you're essentially fighting the military contractors.
Push even harder during elections.
Is this the C++ accessible side of vm.createContext() and vm.runInContext()? Seems like it would help with sandboxing.
By doing so, you'll beat the post-fee, ex ante performance of actively managed mutual funds[0]. You're doing exactly the right thing--investing in broad-based indices rather than trying to beat the market. As your time horizons get shorter, you can move some money to bonds (treasuries, bond ETFs, etc.) to decrease your risk (and reward).

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1356021
Agreed. Even if the media gives "the day" plenty of coverage, their 24-hour news cycle will simply bury it, and CBSABCNBCCNNFNC viewers will have forgotten it by Friday, and likely not see it again.
Pickle doesn't really use eval, but there is still the potential for users to execute arbitrary code[1]. JSON, YAML, MessagePack, etc are safe in this respect (assuming a well-implemented parsing library) because all the parser does is convert the data into simple data structures.

[1] http://lincolnloop.com/blog/playing-pickle-security/
The far left and right sides are clickable to "turn the page", so to speak. It's an invisible area, though, so it's not very easy to deduce from just looking at the webpage.
It seems like David thinks that the keyboard itself is pretty lame ("By most objective measures, this keyboard sucks") but the fact that it is split makes it worth it.

Are there any keyboards that are 1) split, 2) good keyboards, and c) aren't ridiculously loud and can be used in public?

(I usually do my work in university libraries, and if the reactions to me using my Model M mechanical keyboard in an office told me anything, it's that a quiet keyboard is probably best.)
What does that buy us, when politicians ignore campaign promises and so much of this is secret enough that it takes more than 4 years to come out?
I am not particularly a gold bug or even a fan of this site, but I have found this chart interesting for a long time:

http://pricedingold.com/charts/DJIA-1900.pdf

The pattern is fairly well established at this point. I am not sure exactly what it means and I'm not sure the obvious interpretations that most people would have are correct, but it definitely argues for some sort of pulsing macro business cycle.

My own hypothesis is that gold's value vs. paper/stocks is a decent indicator of "fear" -- people flock to commodities like gold, silver, and real estate, as well as to bonds, etc. when they don't believe the market is sound. Thus gold's value rises during these times relative to paper currency, which depresses the value of the stock market when priced in gold. During times of hope/exuberance, the opposite occurs. People flee static investments for dynamic ones. Who wants to own a lump of metal when the markets are hot?

There hasn't been a really big macroeconomic "growth story" since 1999, thus this graph.

If the pattern continues, this graph argues the same thing. Given that this is a repeating and established pattern, it's a much stronger argument than the correlation in the original article up top. It argues that we have not yet "hit bottom" in the current macro cycle and that one more crash of some sort lies in the near future before the economy resets itself for the next growth cycle.

(Argues, but does not prove, of course.)
The Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done
It's great but as far as i can remember doesn't support P3. Also, it'd be nice to use it with Mongo instead of Redis.
Despite what DO said in their announcement, my experience says that Australian users are better served by servers in California than Singapore.
The big ones all turned to Cloudflare after last month's DDOS, IIRC. And what looks to be premium plans, too.
Hypothetically, of course...
Facebook LookBack video done in CSS3?
Scientists Solve Mystery of World-Traveling Plant
What happened after Paypal has frozen over $70,000 in our account
It looks like the page is hardcoded to 900 x 700 px slides right? That's weird.
Take a look at Nagios - What if they offer a packaging solution, or a Red-Hat style certification of packages, possibly support?

You can run Nagios/RHEL for free, but support/custom built/easy drop and go is where you get into serious money.
I too claim that there is MUCH MORE to this Flappy Bird story then his feelings were hurt so bad he left $50,000 a day.

I'm pretty sure that this whole saga was orchestrated between the reptiloids and the people who live in the hollow earth--by convincing the current surface-dwellers to spend all their time tapping on smart-phone screens, they've assured a constant source of low-frequency vibrations which can be used to prime the time cube, helping to ensure that four-dimensional time will finally be brought into the mainstream conciousness.

He quit because his Illuminati handler told him that sufficient work had been completed, and that they could return back to Majestic.
Small aviation pilot shortage could drive industry into the ground
Watch Apple Hilariously Predict What Computer Life Is Like In 1997
I can understand not wanting dishes lying around all the time and also not wanting staff around all the time.

I sort of see his job (what he chooses to make it anyway) as helping other people do good works by expanding their resources. I'm not sure that benefits from a 110% time commitment.
I think the suggestion in the presentation was that it's a tradeoff: C++'s slowness at compilation is what enables it to be both fast at runtime and fast to program (at least when it comes to generic methods; it obviously has other time-sinkholes).

I agree though, I believe it should be possible to get good compilation speed with generic methods, leveraging the simplified syntax etc of Go.
Is the long-term goal thread safety? Having a native threading mechanism in Node would definitely be helpful.
So, when the author reads this, we want:

Irix
Solaris + OpenWindows
Solaris + CDE
AIX
HP/UX
BeOS
PC/GEOS
VMS/DECWindows

;-)

Funny thing: I never saw a QNX desktop restarting in real life. The thing was always connected to some piece of big and dangerous machine and restarting would be terribly dangerous. It was the first time I saw machines with a 5-year uptime.
If you want some quick-and-dirty CSS to make that slightly cleaner:

http://pastebin.com/7sGiHBwF

... it's just a set of styles I slap on blank pages myself.

Consider it GPL v2 or better, BSD / MIT licensed, though honestly, I couldn't care less how it's used or by whom.
Philly is not exactly packed with grocery stores either. Without a car getting across the bridge is the easy part, you then need to get to one of the grocery stores and get back from it with your food. That will take a while, even on buses (which are rather poor in Philly), so in order to make it worth your time you will need to get a lot of food at once... which is difficult without a car, even on buses.
What Bitcoin Needs To Grow Up
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA vs Slow Query Log
"Playing Jeopardy the Right Way"

Well, he's winning. so he's obviously playing it the right way. The wrong way would be losing.
I have a lot of acquaintances - as I am sure you do too - who put a lot of time and energy into making these kind of sites off Facebook and they feel like they are hitting their first success - and upworthy of course went all the way - but there are a ton of smaller clones making $$$$ whose spigot could be turned off overnight.

the question is - do you forward this article to them? or avoid doing so.
your sentiment is insufficiently appreciated sadly.
Forgive my ignorance but what does 100% Precise GC means?
Watch "Cut" – An award winning short film made by 2 students in 2 days
Good point. The SOPA bill died a quick death on internet blackout day.
Netflix Content Costs – Visualized
I put in another comment. There is no Camden police force.

It is now Camden County which encompasses a lot more than just the city.

Camden schools were taken over. http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/06/05/camden-schools-t...

Not sure what you're talking about.
This is pretty far from what other frameworks and systems can even dream about. Not everyone needs this but when they do need it, I only know about Erlang that can handle it.
> but it definitely argues for some sort of pulsing macro business cycle.

Not really. Without an explanation, it's three bumps having no significance. If you watched a sequence of coin toss outcomes, some heads, some tails, and called the heads outcomes "market surges", you would see the same kind of pattern, but without any real meaning.

Remember that to a scientist, the default assumption is not that an observed pattern has significance, but that it doesn't -- it's called the "null hypothesis".

There's a world of difference between describing a pattern, and explaining a pattern.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/randomness
So "liblink" means that the compilers now generate native instructions, rather than pseudo-instructions. Seems like that would make it much tougher to implement generic methods. Anyone know if that's true?
The concierge approach is always overlooked by tech guys,

"We need to build a better wizard, the design of the wizard isn't good, we need to optimize the email onboarding, we need one of those tooltip walkthroughs on first sign-in...."

Just having a Skype call with each new signup is 100x quicker, less "expensive" and adds all the other benefits like building relationships with your users, getting extra insight into their problems...

Great post
From 0 to 100,000 Users in 4 Months: The Story Behind Momentum
How does it actually work? Does it compile to Go's intermediate language and then use the normal Go tool chain to compile it into native code, and then execute it? Or is it just an AST interpreter?
You'd be surprised how many language runtimes are complicated programs written in C....
You gotta love how some people can spin investments in the thousands of dollars as if it was millions.
Awareness isn't valueless, look at what pink and a ribbon did for cancer.

This is just another cynical internet blogger trying to make himself feel enlightened ;) nothing more.
Wouldn't this hurt your credit score if it went all the way to settling with a collections agency?
"Mass surveillance, if technically possible, is going to happen. Therefore make services where it isn't possible. If that screws with your business model you're part of the problem."

Let's just extrapolate this.

Mass surveillance is possible because of the connected style of world we live in. Anything that is created can be corrupted in some fashion by world governments or corporations looking for an advantage. Therefore, we shouldn't do anything, because it's hopeless, or we should make something that is so needlessly complicated that no one will use it.

For Christ's sake, does your sense of superiority feel better now that you've poo-pooed this entire thing? Do you know what makes mass surveillance and government abuse in general quite successful and allows it to keep happening? Apathy and arrogance. Either you're so smart that you see this will always happen, so you can beat it for yourself, but not anyone else; or there is no way to fix it for everyone, so why even try.

You're right, this isn't achievable. UNLESS YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE SYSTEM. Like it or not, dirty or not, the current political system is what we have, and you have to work within it. That means talking to people, calling, writing letters to the editor, donating money, forming local groups, doing all of the old-school things that our representatives respond to. It doesn't mean resigning yourself to defeat before even fighting.

You don't like the way this initiative is running? Then pull your head out of your own ass and get involved in the real world. Take your almighty skills and put them to use for everyone, not just yourself. You're just as much a part of the problem as those other people seek to disrupt.

Sorry. Much rant.
>Lets not forget that while Hitler and Stalin were playing their games, ordinary citizens of Germany and Russia did not vote for any war, hyperinflation, police state (neither imperial, nor soviet), collectivization etc. One regime was pushing people in the poverty, another one was using the faults of the predecessor to justify its own evildoing.

What? Lets not forget Hitler was very popular in Nazi Germany. A cult figure on a national level. Citizens of a democracy always share responsibility in such tragedies.
Customer surveys: leveraging your users to build the best company possible
I thought it to be really cool!

At my university, we do something similar with having a core CPU board, and then another main board with all the actual components, like dials, an LCD screen, temp sensors, a speaker and so on.

This also reminds me of the whole phone blocks thing, with pluggable components.
It all depends on the domain.

In defense applications, software development methodologies work excellently. For example, MIL-STD-498, which I've used extensively in the previous decade, has worked wonders.
Ask HN: Consulting the right way?
I partnered up with a friend to consult in web/mobile/creative. We have a bunch of clients and it's very unorganized and makes me nervous. I do this on the side along my current full-time job which I'm looking to quit once this takes off.

1) How do I prepare a proper contract for a simple freelance job
?

2) How do I handle payment and invoicing? I don't want to do it for just cash. We agreed to invoice it under my name for now, but how do I deal with the tax implications of this extra money (I'm in Ontario, Canada).

3) I remember reading about this 17 year old kids consultancy on HN once but I can't for the life of me remember the link.

Are there any good blogs HN recommends to follow in relation to consulting/freelancing? I only know of the close.io blogs which are great and patio11's work.

Thanks.
So, what would you have us do? Shouting slogans in the streets and throwing molotovs like a bunch of thugs? Democracies only work via citizens voicing their preference and then participating in the civil structure as such.

Admittedly, democracy itself has been on life support for quite some time now, but that's a separate issue.
SSDI is heavily means tested. Almost no one under the age of 55 is eligible. Almost no one with a university degree is covered. Making $750 in any calendar month disqualifies.
Yeah, it starts up fast. But there are still pauses and freezes when it does certain things. I don't find them to be particularly less significant than pauses in Jetbrains' products (which also startup pretty quick here).
I'm the guy making the games, thanks for mentioning my project!

Let me know if you have any questions.
This was the 70s so of course you can't exactly link a story. This wouldn't have been that big of a story back then - too much crime going on at once.
It's funny that OS shutdown time has seemed to be increasing over the years, despite Moore's law.

(I admit I sometimes just hold down the power switch rather than go through the agony of a proper reboot on my MacBook)
It takes a given Gisp program and then lexes/parses it into a Gisp AST. Then it translates that Gisp AST into a Go AST [1] and then just prints out [2] the Go program that would generate that specific Go AST.

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/go/ast/
[2] http://golang.org/pkg/go/printer/
The OP may be using it wrong, but I still think at this point, the last mile network is a natural monopoly. Where I live, city-owned power companies have built single fiber-to-the-building networks that are the open for ISP competition inside the network (I.e. the ISP you pick just delivers the bandwidth/peering). In my view this is the optimal compromise. This wasn't true just a few years ago when DSL and Cable tech was still competitive, but at this point it seems pretty clear that fiber infrastructure isn't going to be beat.
I love that movie, and will stick up for Phil Fish any time. It's really easy for nobodies to sit in obscurity and shit on the guy for doing some of the things he did, but I love him for it. I love that somebody in his position had the guts to tell jackasses to fuck off.
If it's anything like 1.2's c++ support, you have to write a wrapper in pure c, because that's what Go supports. So Go includes the C header files using Cgo, and you separately compile (and tell cgo to link) your c code which calls your objective c code.
Show HN:Converting simple easy-to-remember password to hard-to-crack passwords.
There is an aldi's in camden, albeit on the border. I go there sometimes after getting off the train.
MapR now supports YARN, puts HP Vertica on top of Hadoop
I missed the /r/gamedev discussion on this game, but I've always been impressed with that subreddit. This is depressing :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_...
:)
This is the marketing effort.

Getting out a message means bringing as many voices together at the same time. Getting press coverage. Making noise.

Diluting that influence over a longer period of time dilutes the call.

That said: yes, a longer-term call to action would be a damned good thing.
One of the best experiences of my engineering career was being on top of a 10-story sensor tower at midnight in a Seattle drizzle trying to get some custom sensor probes attached to a radar to work properly because we were chasing a very elusive but potentially catastrophic failure mode we didn't understand.

Yeah, I'm a little... different.
> Googling "to whom it may concern" returns ~2050000 results, "to who it may concern" returns four time as less results (~479000).

"Four times as less" -> "four times fewer" or "one-fourth" ??
One thing I'm a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the "scalenpm" crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...
Enterprise offerings (support levels, private repositories, etc.) seem to be the most obvious. I could see many companies being interesting in an npm-style infrastructure for their non-OSS modules. Overall, this is interesting and will set a precedent going forward.
Chromebooks and Android maybe although they're moving to 64-bit ARM.
10 Reasons Laravel is Better Than CI
I'm OK with this, mostly because it keeps idiots from doing idiotic things (ie, decreases spam) and is still easy enough to disable
Next time you do this, you should create a widget for calling Congressmen directly, the way Tumblr did it with SOPA last year I think. Calls are much more effective than signatures or emails and I barely even see a 2-step call to action for it. It should be the big immediate and obvious call to action right on the front.
Don't repeating patterns increase the likelihood that the pattern is non-random with each repetition?

If you saw a graph of coin flips that showed a clear sinusoidal pattern and that pattern continued over many cycles, wouldn't it be reasonable to at least suspect that the coin was not "fair"? One cycle, maybe not. Two, okay, I'm slightly suspicious. Three, four, five?

Of course the pattern says nothing about causation, just that something is biasing the output somehow.

I am not a statistician but I do have a fair amount of background in things like information theory, and I find it very hard to believe that regularity has zero significance. Plug that output into Shannon's equations and compare it with a random source. Or doing VBR mp3 compression on /dev/urandom vs. a piece of music.

The fooled by randomness argument can be taken too far. In a reductio ad absurdium you could argue that I do not exist because theoretically a random source could produce what I just typed. You would theoretically be correct. If you output digits of pi long enough, they will contain this text.
I was just using eval loosely. The eval I particularly meant is that an __init__ is run for classes with a .__getinitargs__ method defined [1]. And I guess json et al. is the reasonable answer I should have expected. I was hoping for something that mimicked the functionality of pickle but maybe signed the information so that it would be safe to use across a network.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html#object.__getini...
How about ex-coworker?
Ask HN: What was your first computer?
It's always neat to hear people's stories of their first computer running on some 4 or 8 bit processor.
Mac PreferencePane for Homebrew and launchd/launchctl
I would have loved to see an Occupy 2.0 like movement with marches or protests on the Mall, at NSA HQ, on the streets in front of their parking lot, at their freeway offramps, and at the AT&T building in San Francisco.

(Hey! There is an event at the AT&T building. Good! https://www.facebook.com/events/614121478661276/)

Protests in front of the White House.

Protests on the steps of Capitol Hill.

Protests wherever President Obama speaks for the next 30 days.

Local protests in front of Federal Courthouses.

Local protests at your Senator and Representative's office.

I sadly believe all these banners are mockable and worse than useless. The day we fight back? There wasn't even an intentional Internet blackout today!
To add to the cynicism, I'd say "look at what pink and a ribbon" did for the Susan G. Komen foundation, rather than what it did for cancer...
> Awareness isn't valueless, look at what pink and a ribbon did for cancer.

Was that sarcastic?
Five prong formula to increase your Valentine Love in 2014
Gimmicky - yes.

But the larger question is whether the water is actually potable, it being in vending machines after all!
They haven't said anything untrue. They're open about the fact they're working with a colo provider and using a common definition for "datacenter" appropriately.

While "datacenter" can refer to the physical building, it's also commonly used to refer to a set of server/storage/network resources physically cordoned off for your use in a colo.

Using this definition isn't just common with hundreds of other hosters, its well standardized in IT circles, and used as the official definition of the word "datacenter" by numerous industry groups, regulators, analysts, and the US Federal government.

For instance:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/definition/data-cente...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/ego...

The whitehouse.gov pdf above says: "under the FDCCI, a data center is now defined as a closet, room, floor, or building for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information. Such a repository houses computer systems and associated components...<snip>... housed in leased (including by cloud providers), owned, collocated, or stand-alone facilities."