skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Getting it to integrate with your IDE might be slightly more involved, but still no rocket science.

Which IDE do you use? Granted, most of my issues come from the IDE vendor's browser extension, which only triggers debugging when there's an 'R' in the month... which is highly frustrating.
Every little league player that strikes out has a parent that breaks their phone in anger? Would account for 2/3 of them..
Switzerland's Answer to Silicon Valley
Is minimalist publishing right for you?
Exactly. It's just a minor effect that Facebook can detect using their massive database and use to convince advertisers to pay a premium for, even though there is no evidence of how good a predictor it is. How many people that have a slight increase in their cross-posting actually get into a relationship? Using bad data science used to sell ads.
In my opinion, that is a joke on the apparent Doppler effect. The car in front of you is making a turn, and thus you are ( probably )moving towards it. The real difference is much lower.
I'm probably taking your comment far too seriously, but....

The Sun's reference frame is privileged compared to ours: it is far closer to being an inertial reference frame[0], deviating from wobble induced by Jupiter and its long orbit around the galactic core.

(This is from a purely Newtonian perspective: both would be considered inertial in GR.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_reference_frame
It's chance.

Even two cars of the same type never seem to match up. They will often sync for a while, but then gradually get out of synch until they are 180 degrees different.

I suppose it is down to minute differences in lighting circuits, bulbs and all sorts of other things.

Somewhere out there is a population of cars with the same exact turn signal frequency as yours. But the chances of you stopping behind it at a set of lights while you are both signalling to turn and noticing are very, very small.
Your own personal SkyNet
OTRv3 was released in 2012. Can a moderator please add [2012] to the title?
Yes it's for an MVP user with ID XYZ, submitter submitted the link with a referral.
Truthy, Falsy and Equal in JS – Everything you should know.
This is the first time I heard of DuckDuckGo. I am going to "try it for a week" on all my computers.

This might be just what I needed to start the much delayed escape from Google Search, GMail, and eventually Google Voice and Android. Chrome will probably be the hardest. That, though, I know is Chromium; maybe I can draw the line there.

Appreciated the comments that lead me to http://disconnect.me earlier today.
I don't thing that those are the right questions to ask. Most of then expects a 'simplified' answer, like the earth revolving the sun and the Big Bang being an 'explosion'.
Who OWNS data generated by 'connected cars'?
The device design not working for you is understandable. It does have some unexpected/unusual quirks owing to it's form.

But I still don't see the correlation between a single browser share and the fate of the client OS. With things such as the Browser Choice window for EU installs[1], it's understandable that the decoupling of IE from Windows would result in a market share decline for the browser. Even while declining, IE still has twice the browser share of Safari[2]. And although I can't find free aggregated stats that let you dice browser percentages by OS, my own analytics accounts show Chrome being roughly twice as popular on Macs than Safari. That doesn't mean OS X is doomed and everyone should move to Chromebooks...

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-is-the-brows...
[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
I hope this isn't true, because I like Valve... IANAL, but I can only imagine this is quite illegal in the EU. No terms or conditions could possibly waive your rights to this extent.

Maybe that's just my optimism speaking though. Every good company turns bad at some point.
Awesome. Just when I was finishing my D3 visualizations. Trying not to get too distracted... ;)

Any chance you could publish the heat map you had in the first demo? I'd love to get a head start in integrating 2D layers to this. Even if it were some less than functional code.

I presume OpenStreetMap sends map data as vectors, so it should not be too difficult to replace that with other geo sources. I immediately see a dozen use cases even with relatively static data.

Thank you :)
Try the Epic Privacy Browser -- a chromium based browser that rips out all google calls/services and protects your privacy -- it blocks ads and trackers and philosophically doesn't send your browsing through its servers nor collects any data unlike many of the other privacy addons mentioned.
I used to worked in a e-learning business where we used MailChimp with about 80,000 subscribers on about 3 lists.

The price range for this size of list is too high in my opinion - speaking as one of your target customers. If I were to suggest using your service to my boss he would have laughed in my face. If I recall correctly we were spending about $400/month on MailChimp, so we'd need to spend 50% of the original service for Mailion?

Just some feedback, you might want to revisit pricing scheme.
Review: Titanfall Beta
We had this contestant in "Who wants to be a millionaire" in France : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLwnSXNpFU

Facepalm with the audience results.
I didn't take it as a comment about character, more about eye strain!
I agree in that it is nothing wrong, and everything about every aspect of it has been said.

I am a great fan of using SO when I get those "W t f " (ha ha ha I discovered some word completion) moments. So, then I at least get some pointers in the right direction, and if the issue is something to learn more about, then I learn more about it.
I also heartily recommend the book that the author of this piece recommends. I'm currently about half-way through it, and the reaction to my drawings from my family has been: "Wow! I had no idea you could draw so well."
What I meant is, if you are staring 16 hours a day on the screen, It is wise to choose something that will be not as hard for your eyes.
Link to the actual note, if anyone is interested: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-for...
Probability 2/4 vs 3/6
The Paranoid Libertarian and His Enemy, the Angry Liberal
I have been using DDG for the better part of the last year and it has improved considerably, especially with technical/dev stuff. Searching for error messages works much better now than even half a year ago which is probably a smart move by DDG to focus on technical people.

The biggest problem I have is when I try to search for non-American resources or when using a language other than English. German language search results are often simply horrible.

Despite that, I'm never reverting to google as my main engine, as the bangs simply provide too many benefits: I want wikipedia content? w! Search Google Scholar for a paper? scholar! A product on amazon? a! One less click than when using Google.

Though bangs have the same issues with other languages or non-American resources. w! brings you to the English wikipedia, a! to the American Amazon. Internationalization should be their next step.

Update: I'm actually mistaken about internationalization of bangs (see https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html for the full list) - !wde searches on the German wikipedia, !wpl on polish etc. Great stuff. Even better, I could suggest a new bang here: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang, so I'm sorry for spreading any misinformation.
Personally I really enjoy reading the first entry on wikipedia for now famous sites. Especially I think facebooks first entry is charming.

Facebook: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&oldid=338...

Twitter: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twitter&oldid=1074...

Tumblr: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tumblr&oldid=27832...
Reminds me of this Usenet Oracle response from 1990: http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/bestof.cgi?N=101-125#102-0...
ipconfig /flushdns

The above will manually clear out the windows DNS cache. Note this doesn't block it, but rather simply limits what it can find out. I'm not sure it would be possible to block this functionality entirely without also breaking DNS, or otherwise causing the Anti-cheat tool to detect something odd.

By default, the Windows DNS cache doesn't flush itself, with entries lasting for 24 hours or so. As stated in the post, you can view currently cached domain names by entering

ipconfig /displaydns

Strangely, this doesn't seem to list some of the sites I've visited this morning within firefox
The problem with Puerto Rico is that there is often only one optimal move -- and sometimes that optimal move doesn't do anything for you, it only spoils someone else's strategy.
Yes, probably, but it's harder to play a musical instrument in the office in day time, although everybody loves that when you do that after work.
In the game this is exemplified by forcing you to progress through life on a preset course and force you to pay rents to the incumbents that you come across on that narrow path.

The dice roll of course represents that life is unpredictable. But I struggle to find the real world analogy where I go bankrupt because I randomly end up in a hotel in Park Avenue.
I don't really know, but I guess it's because they used to use mechanical switches with bimetallic strips, that vary their time with temperature. Nowadays computers probably control all those aspects, so I think new cars' frequencies will match, especially if they're the same model.
It looks like there is a fairly active IRC channel for modern boardgames called #boardgames on Freenode. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23boardgames

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ is the IMDB of boardgames.
It's funny, I was watching House of Cards last night and during one scene there are crickets in the background and I found it very relaxing so I was just thinking about adding this sound.

I'll have a hunt for some appropriate samples. I have to do some back-end tweaks before I can add more sounds, though, because there's a practical limit to how many samples the browser can stream at once.

Thanks very much for your suggestion!
Title was too long. Try to keep it short and sweet.
Seriously, lots of these questions are ambiguous to educated people:

> The center of the earth is very hot

Not it's not. Stars are way hotter.

> Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?

Yes. Both? Neither? Depends on which point of view is the most useful.

> The universe began with a huge explosion

No. It did not. The universe expanded. It is a huge difference.

> It is the father’s gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl

What is "this gene" you're talking about? Are you sure you now the difference between a gene and chromosome?

> Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals

This is way more ambiguous that you may think: from this statement, you could infer the theory evolution or something totally stupid.

Additionally, other questions are just made to be answered wrong for common people.

> The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move

The question is long, there must be a trick somewhere, I'll answer no just in case.

> All radioactivity is man-made

I have heard that bananas were radioactive too, but I guess that's not so important so this is not what this question is about, right?

> Electrons are smaller than atoms

Err… whatever, I'll just guess.

> Lasers work by focusing sound waves

Lasers is dangerous light. I don't know how they are made though and this explanation sounds sciency, why not?

And just as a bonus:

> Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria

You do know that viruses are not commonly considered as living beings, right? Using "kill" make it so that you don't know what the question is about anymore.

tl;dr: these questions were just selected to trick people into answering wrong, I would say they were other questions whose results shown opposite trends (due to randomness), but were not disruptive anough for the article
Until you compare to, say, a Nexus 4 backside.
Playing music is left and right brain activity.
Which hacker news article did the post refer to?
They are intentionally made to be different, even on the same kind of car. I think the circuits used to be made with high-tolerance (high-variability) capacitors to make sure they would come out differently. But now it's all computerized, and in fact I think they are programmed to drift a bit faster and a bit slower as they run!

Old hazard lights, like the ones in rows along construction sites, used to blink more-or-less in time despite not being manually synced. The lightbulb itself would act as a weak photo-diode, so when a neighboring light was on, it took a minutely smaller time to charge the circuit. Eventually they would sync up :)
I can't see any evidence that the hash is sent to any server. I think it is more likely the hash is used to look up the recent websites in a hash table or via a bloom filter.
I think you are actually exactly opposite on this.

There are actually two books that were written about this very topic, one called "The decline and fall of the American Programmer", which was essentially making your argument, that American quality going down meant we would get eclipsed, and "The Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer", written by the same author, saying "oops, I was wrong", because "good enough" is the winning strategy, not quality at all costs.

Note that at the time of those writings, the 'sloppy' guys were Microsoft, which is still way way more process than your typical RoR shop today has. In the days of shipping new software to websites three times a day, pragmatism rules all.

As the saying goes: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
How north ended up on top of the map
I always found this paper to be quite a good introduction to lock-free techniques:

http://www.grame.fr/ressources/publications/LockFree.pdf

In the music world, such issues have been solved repeatedly over the years - seems like a little cross-polination would be a good thing ..
Sadly, Adium trunk is still on libotr 3.2.1 (OTRv2) which gets so confused if either party is using multiple simultaneous logins that I just disabled it for most of my contacts who are on a mac.
JavaScript Promises: A Journey To The "Promise Land"
closed as not constructive by VLM Feb 17 '14 at 07:54 EST

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Linux had a much more friendly and welcoming community attitude. OpenBSD/NetBSD developers had a bit of an anal-retentive BOFH streak to them. Linus used strong language, but he was very easy-going. He invited folks in, and allowed code from immature developers in, so long as the interfaces were right. Turned out that build a much bigger developer community. It also turned out that ability to code today is not indicative of ability to code five years from now; many of the relatively immature folks who contributed to Linux early got really good over time.

Ultimately, the larger developer base allowed Linux quality to beat OpenBSD quality as well.

Good marketing is usually not a trick.
I presume you mean this? http://xkcd.com/378/
I believe it's by design. Differing indicator frequencies make the signals more noticeable.

Back in the old days, turn signals were actuated by bimetallic thermal relays - a simple and highly reliable device. They were constructed with a range of frequencies by manufacturers and sold mixed together, so cars might receive the same part number but with an essentially random on/off period. This part would also mechanically create the familiar clicking sound of a turn signal actuating.

These days indicators are controlled electronically and I assume the randomness is programmed in.
The medicine in our minds
Well, no. If you have a centralized git server (can be done), then you have the following workflow:

1. Make your changes, branch, do whatever you want to do.

2. Commit the changes to your repo.

3. Push your changes to the remote repo.

4. When you want to get other's changes, pull those changes. Heck, do a git pull -r if you want to rebase them.

That is really not that complicated. However, you get the benefits of a local copy. So not what I'd really call totally distributed, but I can't see any downsides to this.
But you are disliking what people consider a resource, not the word exploit.
> The knowledge obtained in most of them is not easily transferable to other technology stacks

That's not really a problem when you are interested in learning this specific technology stack.

This is complaining that learning Windows Server administration didn't prepare you for managing a Linux server. At some point in time, you learn specifics.
It's also good experience to immerse yourself in sulphuric acid, to better appreciate clear water.
I really don't understand why you believe it's more complicated. Why do you say that?
Thanks for pointing that out.

Apart from the pricing, what do you think of the value proposition?
> Storing your coins in a multisig address will mitigate this threat.

Assuming you mean a 2-of-3 address, where one key is on the laptop, one is a password-derived key, and one is... stored at home or with a friend, I suppose, in case the laptop is lost?

We must assume that (a) your laptop is never stolen while the wallet is decrypted, which implies making absolutely certain that end-users never leave their laptop unlocked, and (b) that nobody ever threatens violence in order to get the password, aka the rubber hose attack.

The only way to prevent this from happening in an irreversible payment system is to ensure that the end-user does not have access to all their money at one time, especially while on holiday. This is an absolute downside in comparison to credit cards.
cronjob to constantly clear the DNS cache. Problem solved.
average frequency
> That is really not that complicated.

It's still twice as many steps. Well, probably more if you count git add before every commit.

Also a big problem for me is the necessity of a git add * before a commit, which effectively requires a lot of management of .gitignore so you don't get things like the Makefile.old getting committed. Keep in mind, all of this is process overhead, an opportunity to make mistakes, and effort (including tracking/fixing the mistakes) that could be spent programming.

There are downsides. As I say, I do a fair bit with both and to be honest I am not that enthusiastic about git over svn. It's really good in some cases. However it isn't always better. Sometimes simpler tools are better.
I'm almost completely disconnected now. DDG is fine (usually ok, sometimes worse and very occasionally better), and there's always !i or !g if you start misssing google. FastMail costs money but is in my opinion better than GMail. I have SIP instead of google voice, although it doesn't provide free transcription which I would like. I have cyanogenmod on my android phone without the google apps, although I do miss some of them (plus a lot of the app library that depends on google play services). I actually really like firefox these days and use nightly on both android and my desktop, they sync nicely. I have a plugin (google disconnect) that stops other sites from telling google servers about my visit (blocks a massive number). This also causes youtube embeds not to work, but you can always click the icon and say unblock for now.

I use owncloud on a 60$ per year vps server for syncing calendar and contacts, dropbox functionality, rss reader etc. It's slow and not as good as google drive, but it's good enough and I have more space and full control.

So for me it costs about 110$ per year to disconnect from google, and not all of the replacements are as good, but some are better, and I definitely feel better about it.
I remember reading that the game was originally designed to be cities and knight, but was simplified for it's initial release.

It took us a while to work up to cities and knights, but I really have trouble playing the vanilla game anymore.
Thx, exactly what I was looking for
For me the main reason to use PHP rather than say Python is that there is a load of not too bad open source stuff out there that you can use and modify.
an increasing number of posts leading to a relationship and then a drop in messages as the couple is spending time together - OMG GENIUS I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED!!!!
With the submit button ofcourse
Don't stop what you're doing now to code full time if you don't know what you want to code. Hold on to that $25,000 or invest it until you've already started your business in your spare time, and it's growing so much you have to quit whatever you're doing to work on your new business.

If you don't have a business idea that you believed in 100%, I would suggest investing that $25,000 into a stock that you believed in 100% and keep living like you are now.
A Quick Hack to Rid yourself of Re: Re: Re Emails Once and For All
We don't have budget for marketing at http://www.cloquo.com so the only way we can do in order to promote our platform is by inviting bloggers, related with our service, to try out what we have develop so far, and we got some good feedback and reviews. Other way we are experimenting is to listen on twitter what kind of upcoming events people is interesting to not miss out and we add some value to them by sharing an alarm to easily activate it and being reminded when time comes. As a Google Mentor told me once, is better to reach first your primary audience instead going mad to be reviewed at big tech media.

Maybe our experience can help others...
But it has categories.

Homepage (the best stuff), New (all the stuff), Ask (hn-only discussions), Jobs (jobs).'

The ones you suggest are almost impossible to use as categories (Twilio goes in programming? startups? makers?), but could be implemented as tags though. But that has its own challenges.
Are We Managing Our To-Do Lists All Wrong?
That rule was followed. Given that we were playing with 3-4 experienced players, monopolies were rare (everyone bought essentially every available property landed on that was still potentially monopolized) and most targeted the sweet spot of three houses. Monopolied properties weren't traded often, but even then that's not a lot of liquidity to sacrifice with ~$800/board cycle going into the game via passing Go.

Once a few monopolies did crop up, it was the remaining unimproved properties that would be swapped most often for ludicrous amounts of money to allow, say, a cash-poor player to build a few houses in the path of the current leader.
There are downsides of stackoverflow like the high karma bullies who love to moderate & flag at the drop of a hat.

However, it's still an awesome community. Too bad it's not for you.
It's kind of a catch 22.

I was the tech guy so I would import the CSV files to MailChimp.

If it came to actually edit records, our secretary-type would open up Excel, edit, then send it to me as a CSV. I'd then just re-upload and tell MailChimp to update changed records, and ignore duplicates.

If you made the site show that it's Excel editing in real-time that would be more convincing and less intimidating to the Secretary-type.
Anti-cheat protections use exactly the same methods rootkits use to "monitor" your system, it's one of those things we grudgingly accept when playing multiplayer games.

It's not even what Valve and co are doing with the info, it's similar to the Sony rootkit case where the main worry would be that the rootkit could introduce security vulnerabilities.
All people really want to know is where the name came from. It would actually be kind of absurd to take a working MtG trading site and convert it to bitcoin trading.