skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While working at AWS and seeing outages being posted here, and the wildly inaccurate summaries (guesses) of what the problems were, and the wildly simplistic fixes that are assumed to easily be put in place I can say: systems like this are more complicated than you think they are.
* Navigation menu using GIF buttons. Often animated, including the rotating "@" symbol for sending mails

* Creating gradient text using one <font color="..."> for each letter. http://jsfiddle.net/A2VCE/

* Putting text in <noscript> and <noframes> tags to support old browsers

* Add "lowsrc" attribute to <img> because the larger image would take too long to load.

* List detailed hardware specs for the web server on the "about us" page.
Google Talk (/Hangouts) plugin. Silverlight plugin (Netflix, Amazon streaming) There are hundreds (if not thousands) of others. There are some we use to allow exploring 3d CAD models in the browser. HTML5/JS might be the way to go for future, but currently it seems a lot of plugin replacements (including shumway) are not up to the mark.
Sure you do. All index funds disclose their holdings, and index ETFs show their constituent equities, along with any tracking error from the index being tracked. A long time ago, "proprietary" traders would perform index arbitrage in this fashion.
gwern did not say you were done doing science when you observe the correlation, or that you can read in more meaning, just that there being a correlation does mean that there is a correlation.

If I look at a population, and find a perfect linear fit between net worth and height, I can say that in that population "wealthy people are taller" as a descriptive fact about that population without making any particular claim as to why.
Oops! Editing error. Above I mean "to work perfectly".
This is what an undisrupted industry sounds like. You hear it from train driver unions, banks, and doctors.

There is merit in what they say about safety, but they see it not as a set of problems that might be overcome, but as a way of shutting down the conversation. They don't want to think about how easily a significant part of what they do could be automated or eliminated.

The heuristic is not that they object, it is that they don't want to discuss, even as speculation.

It's interesting that one place these objections haven't come up is air travel. Because if you think about it, air travel should be a place we fear to automated, but we already did it. Autopilot sort of sneaked in before people realized what automation was, and pilots are comfortable that they still have a place alongside the machines, so they are happy to talk, and explain as slowly as necessary that automated landing might be a good idea one day, but automating a crash landing wouldn't work out well.

The way this usually seems to work out is, everyone says it's impossible, until someone does it, and eats the other players alive. The most interesting thing here is that the insurers are the barrier. When drone designs are up and running, there will be a niche for an insurer that will take the risk, and in these days of crowd funding, you wouldn't need to be an entrenched player to take it.
I've read some Marx, though I wouldn't say I'm an expert scholar. But I'm having trouble understanding how Brazil even remotely resembles something Marx would like. It has even larger income and wealth inequality than the USA! And large portions of the economy are controlled by finance capital, multinational companies like Banco do Brasil, Santander, Telefônica, Cosan, etc., often in an incestuous relationship with political elites. Where is the equal distribution of resources, the control of the economy by workers, or any of the rest of the Marxist programme? I mean, Sweden looks more communist than Brazil to me, and Sweden is not actually communist (it's a capitalist welfare state).
Best news I got all day. Downloading now. It worked pretty good in wine (atop Arch) for a while, then developed keyboard issues. Hoping to say goodbye to those.
In a cemetery? In a grave marked unknown? Is there Ennio Morricone music playing in the background? Is there a closeup of Blondie's cigar?
Interesting that this change from early December is being discussed now. A more recent commit (from @__apf__) in mid-December changes the text to, as the author puts it, "increase emphasis on what incognito doesn't provide".

https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=revision&revisio...
Blink tags were annoying even then.
Apparently the that lower case a in Comic Sans matches how most people write, makes it an easier font for people with poor literacy
Metcalfe's law is clearly wrong after a network get's overly large. I could in theory call a random person in China but if I have no way of communicating with them it's practically worthless to do so.
>> When one seen someone assume a correlation has a meaning not proven in the evidence, it's not condescension, it's charity.

> Where did I assume a meaning?

Apart from the correlation, when you began speaking as though an I.Q. test measures intelligence. Even the current test's designer denies that.

> you were trying to pretend the data doesn't exist ...

Citation needed. You're using words I never used to assert a claim I never made. I never claimed that data don't exist, I made the point that without evidence for a connection, the correlation has no meaning. And I proved it with multiple examples.

> Denying your fallacious original overreadings ...

I see that you still need to learn the role of evidence.
and yet despite its flaws it's become the most successful platform for content since moveable type.
Java failed to do that.
iOS, despite its financial success, is failing to do that.
android is failing to do that.
flash failed.

Aren't you the least bit curious why it succeeded despite not being to your taste? Do you think it's just accidental? That the laws of physics and rationality were suspended for one brief glorious moment in the 1990's? Are you a web creationist?

Or do you believe that there's an actual answer?
> The caveats are around the libraries, especially the standard libraries to choose from.

The old Tango/Phobos situation?

With the advent of D2, that's no longer a thing. Tango is now all but dead.
The Stories That Galaxies Tell
I hope there will be no concept of "not restartless" add-ons. ... Thanks :)
I agree that day trading is a terrible idea, but how do you feel about laymen investing with a buy-and-hold strategy? If you buy large cap stocks and avoid making trades there is not much risk.

This kind of strategy enables laymen like myself to do about as well as the market, without paying a middleman such as a mutual fund.
isn't the obvious graph to ask for cost per user / revenue per user? (i.e. "acquisition price" per earnings per user.)

After all, that's the main way that we can consider a per-user cost to be "high".
0. Mt. Gox was a publicly visible target. My laptop is much less visible. (Not that it matters, I sold off all my coins last August.)
OMG... Dynamic Drive was pretty much my go to JavaScript hack site. Oh the frustration when taking two little snippets and finding out they were not compatible with each other. And then the elation when you managed to rewrite them to make them work together.

EDIT: Holy crap... I still have the bookmark for DD (and JavaScript Kit at the old http://www.wsabstract.com domain) in an "Imported" bookmarks folder in Chrome. I'm not sure how many browsers those have been through over the years.
If you come up with a way to make sure no one ever gets offended again, let us know. =/

We had to pull a Konami code easter egg from our website when a customer complained.
I remember seeing a documentary that made the connection between the evolution of money and the human race's tendency to find inherent value in "collectibles". Stones, shells, jewelry, etc, were all the basis for a currency in various times, and its only because of our shared appreciation for collectibles that this worked.
Family story: Supposedly, some uncle or some such of mine owned land and at some point some large company wanted to buy the mineral rights. They offered him like $9/acre or whatever and he said "Make it $10 and you have a deal." His reason for wanting $10 was to simplify the math: X acres times 10 = just add a zero to the number of acres.

He wasn't comfortable with math, but supposedly he made quite good money.
They weren't short, they were long and had weird characters. You'd have to go to someone's page like http://personal.theisp.net/users/~customername/pg1.htm
They're an unusual size, and you want the run-flat version since there's no spare, so the cheapest option seems to be about $2000 / set. Anyway, I like the ridiculous acceleration (3.7 seconds 0-60 MPH quoted) you get with the very soft compound.
From Scott Aaronson:

> If one considers only the ~10% of instances on which the D-Wave machine does best, then the machine does do slightly better on those instances than simulated annealing does. (Conversely, simulated annealing does better than the D-Wave machine on the ~75% of instances on which it does best.) Unfortunately, no one seems to know how to characterize the instances on which the D-Wave machine will do best: one just has to try it and see what happens! And of course, it’s extremely rare that two heuristic algorithms will succeed or fail on exactly the same set of instances: it’s much more likely that their performances will be correlated, but imperfectly. So it’s unclear, at least to me, whether this finding represents anything other than the “noise” that would inevitably occur even if one classical algorithm were pitted against another one.

He continues:

> However, I neglected to mention that even the slight “speedup” on ~10% of instances, only appears when one looks at the “quantiles of ratio”: in other words, when one plots the probability distribution of [Simulated annealing time / D-Wave time] over all instances, and then looks at (say) the ~10% of the distribution that’s best for the D-Wave machine. The slight speedup disappears when one looks at the “ratio of quantiles”: that is, when one (say) divides the amount of time that simulated annealing needs to solve its best 10% of instances, by the amount of time that the D-Wave machine needs to solve its best 10%. And Rønnow et al. give arguments in their paper that ratio of quantiles is probably the more relevant performance comparison than quantiles of ratio. (Incidentally, the slight speedup on a few instances also only appears for certain values of the parameter r, which controls how many possible settings there are for each coupling. Apparently it appears for r=1, but disappears for r=3 and r=7—thereby heightening one’s suspicion that we’re dealing with an artifact of the minimum annealing time or something like that, rather than a genuine speedup.)
And getting paper books that listed interesting web sites.
Of course it can -- the company's real value could easily close that gap in three years. Also, equity pricing is as much about psychology as it is about real value. A stock's value is equal to what people are willing to pay for it.
Proof of concept exploit for Apple's SSL bug
Cat gifs are pretty universal.

But seriously: I've had people on conference calls when they couldn't understand the language, but someone wanted them to see slides. The fact they could join the call (in that case on Skype) definitely made the network more valuable.

You might argue that the fact you can't speak to some of them drops the value per user, and that is true to some extent. But the fact they are on there and attract other people (some of whom you can speak to) adds value for you, too.
Dress code could have made this list. Conference budget is something I considered, but that also costs out-of-pocket for the firm. I didn't mention benefits for the same cost reason.

I've actually had conference costs written into an offer letter a few times for new hires. That is something that benefits the employee and (sometimes) the company, particularly if the company rep is a speaker and represents well.

Internal hackathons and 20% (or less) time type programs would attract at least some others.
It didn't include my favorite thing ever, JavaScript widgets!

I wrote a little widget called FigmentSearch, which was about as cheesy as you could imagine for around 1996, it let you search through multiple search engines from one text input, back when there were so many choices (Excite, Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, YAHOO, etc.)

I was quite proud of myself, as JavaScript was really new. AT&T had a dialup internet service called WorldNet that was basically #2 or #3 in the US after AOL and probably CompuServe, and they licensed the JavaScript to use on their front page. I thought that was pretty neat, since I was a teenager.
Some of these happened on short bursts during the 20th century, the centuries before didn't experience life-changing technologies often. Also, things like genome sequencing or the fax haven't changed our day-to-day habits as much as the internet did.
Anytime someone says something like, " and I don't want to add to the hyperbole already out there, but," I write them off.

That is an admittance to using hyperbole, and therefore invalidates the argument, correct?
Broadcast.com's bar is incorrectly scaled down 1000x -- overlay shows cost per user is over $10k, but it lists at $10.
That's all in the last ~200 years. Go back 1,200 years. What was happening then
Helping entrepreneurs get more done with an accountability partner
The Ecstasy of Gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ one of my favorite movie soundtracks.
That often times gets responded to by a cargo ship
14 Sales Tools Tint Used to Reach $1M+ Revenue in 1 Year
De gustibus non est disputandum

No doubt there are components of the Tesla S which are nicer than the S Class. But taken holistically, they are not in the same class.

Wheelbase, length, interior volume, rear legroom & headroom, overall refinement are all quite different between the Tesla S and M-B S. Though they do weigh about the same...

But as I said, de gustibus non est disputandum.
Slavery exists, but is not culturally accepted the same way as it used to be. De Facto slaves exist, but a legitimate slave trade doesn't any more. You couldn't buy a slave at an above-board auction, bring it home the the US, and then exploit it.

However, women are exploited in lots of the moden world, and laws exist to maintain these practices. Women are kept ignorant by national and religious law. Marriage law often dictates a lower marriagable age for women than for men. There's many areas where women are restricted from education by law.

You couldn't bring a purchased slave back to the US with everyone's knowledge that you'd done so, and have them perform sexual favors and clean your house for you.

You can go to the Philippines and pay to marry a young uneducated woman and bring her home and introduce her to all of your friends. You can have her perform sexual favors and clean your house for you.

It's currently culturally acceptable to do the latter because she's your wife, and we have laws and rules that make that acceptable. If, on the other hand, you were to tell everyone about the new slave you purchased, you wouldn't get any pats on the back, instead you might get federal investigators at your house.

Forced labour still exists, but it exists typically as a criminal and immoral act. It exists in places where authority can't be exercised due to weak or corrupt government. Generally laws exist to prevent it, but those laws can't be upheld.

Discrimination against women exists in the open. Laws are in place which enforce it. It's not just that laws exist that aren't being followed, it's that laws exist that make it impossible to avoid. There are still places where a child bride can try and escape their much senior "husband" and will be caught and by law reunited. While a corrupt justice system might easily turn a blind eye to slavery, there are corrupted laws that say that 14 year old girls can legally be married. Not boys of course, they couldn't afford it at 14 anyways.

The issue isn't that forced labor still exists. Generally even where forced labor exists, it's still at least nominally considered wrong. Murder is generally considered wrong everywhere, it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. But there are still many many places that find the exploitation of women perfectly acceptable if not necessary to maintain a stable society. This is the category that slavery used to be in. Slavery still exists, but is now unacceptable. Discrimination against women exists and is still very much tolerated if not promoted and institutionalized.
FWIW, I did this for the combo update. The SHA1 checksum on the Apple page, c06a63982b522e43997a05cedc04b0bdb1a10207, matches the file, and pkgutil reports

Package "OSXUpdCombo10.9.2.pkg":

Status: signed Apple Software

Certificate Chain:
1. Software Update
SHA1 fingerprint: 1E 34 E3 91 C6 44 37 DD 24 BE 57 B1 66 7B 2F DA 09 76 E1 FD
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. Apple Software Update Certification Authority
SHA1 fingerprint: FA 02 79 0F CE 9D 93 00 89 C8 C2 51 0B BC 50 B4 85 8E 6F BF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. Apple Root CA
SHA1 fingerprint: 61 1E 5B 66 2C 59 3A 08 FF 58 D1 4A E2 24 52 D1 98 DF 6C 60
"In the book The Fountainhead..."

Really?
Falkvinge says he got most of his bitcoins off Mtgox before it blew: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...
Compelling evidence, but I'm not convinced yet. This could also be evidence for the sort of idiocy where people try to cover up for an accounting error though fraud.
Wow, tripod... no pokemon for me (I was a bit too old for that craze), but they are still hosting my site with screenshots for a Quake3 bsp renderer I wrote back then:

http://gmcbay.tripod.com/

And my OpenGL driver for the Genesis engine.. the download zip of source code even still works:

http://gmcbay.tripod.com/oldindex.html

Pretty funny trip down nostalgia lane, including a reference to my very old gfm@my-deja.com email address... I still miss you, Deja News. Google Groups is not the same.
Yeah, I remember that one kid in school who was 'collecting links'. He wrote them on a notebook and then told other kids about these cool links. Good times :)
Myth About Online Gambling’s Impact On Land Based Casinos Demolished
I have the habit to use it to separate a text from a image, form inputs etc.
I think you missed a zero...
3,200,000,000 / 1,100,000 = 2,909 dollars / user
Programming 101 – Day 0 to 24
I wrote an Atari 2600 cartridge auction/trading site in perl that was so popular, it caused my company's webserver - a large national ISP! - to slow to a crawl running all the CGI.

This was pre-ebay, about 1995. Wish I had stuck with it in retrospect: ebay started very similarly.
The one that started it for me was HTML 4 for the World Wide Web; the book's website is a quaint look back at an era of frames and tables for layout: http://www.elizabethcastro.com/html4_4e/

My pages from back then (it must have been 1996 or 1997) were hosted at the local ISP, and they've since disappeared into the mists of time, but I definitely had a <marquee> with other tags nested inside. More importantly, I was making my first forays into programming... in VBScript and JScript. I soon moved on to "real" languages, but now we've come full circle, and JavaScript in the browser is the place to be again.
Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And FB
Obligatory IBM Powers of Ten (1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
You're right. Firefox's "View Source" button doesn't do what I thought it did. Curl gives a page with a "Please wait" message and a pile of Javascript.

I learned something today.
BiteLabs
This is probably one of the better way to save your money from the bankrupt state.
I come from a similar background (automated trading) but have the opposite opinion. More people ought to understand how the markets work. One good way to learn is to trade a small account. Yes you will probably lose a little money (or fail to beat the indexes) but you will also come away with a much better grasp of markets and trading (and hopefully also risk management).

If you look at a typical discussion of trading here on HN you will see lots of totally uninformed hyperbolic assertions about what goes on in the market. How everything is rigged and how corrupt the players are. I think trying to scare people out of the markets only promotes that kind of thinking.
Show HN: AirBNB for Restrooms
Remember scrolling text in the title tag? Quite cool, back in the era before tabbed browsers.
Does it have a precedent with gaziilions of other bugs on all platforms?
It is really fun to watch how "hey I understand this one" turns into "the most dangerous and evil bug on any platform evah".
Depends on whether you are comparing everyone to each other or to something outside of the group of everyone. I could imagine we would say that everyone is important as compared to a typical stray photon with a duel-identity crisis.
What they saw was youtube.
This is quite interesting. I had just built a predictive rebalancing bot to trade on MtGox a few hours before it collapsed. I was rebalancing every 60 seconds and making lots of trades. I only got a couple of hours of run time before it stopped working :(

Here's the bot I built: https://github.com/pontifier/rebalancer

Quantopian looks interesting, and hopefully the exchanges it trades on won't disappear.
Heh. I wrote a JavaScript DHTML demo in 1999 that I locked to a browser window sized 640x480px because otherwise it made PCs grind to a halt and crashed Macs. Nowadays it runs on my phone just fine... Link for anyone who's interested: http://www.gilesthomas.com/old-javascript/stars/index.html
Assuming the goods aren't time-sensitive, then it's just a normal investment. You get a larger reward, but it happens further in the future. Perhaps investors could buy the goods (or make a loan) after they leave the shore, sell them when they get back, and pocket the difference.
> People are only pointing to the likely incompetence of someone who starts off writing a card exchange (unimportant) and switches to a currency exchange (important and hard), says 'PHP can do anything',

Mark Karpeles did not write Mtgox, Jed McCaleb (edonkey2000, Ripple) did. I've been emailing with McCaleb (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt.Gox#Possible_citogenes... ) and so far my best reconstruction of the early history of the mtgox.com domain name is as follows:

> In late 2006, programmer Jed McCaleb (eDonkey2000, Overnet, Ripple), thought of building a website for users of the _Magic The Gathering Online_ service to let them trade cards like stocks. In January 2007, he purchased the domain name 'mtgox.com', short for "'Magic The Gathering Online' eXchange"; sometime around late 2007, the service went live for around 3 months before McCaleb moved on to other projects. He reused the domain name in 2009 to advertise his card game _The Far Wilds_. In July 2010, he read about Bitcoin on Slashdot, and decided that the nascent Bitcoin community needed an exchange for trading Bitcoin & regular currencies; a week later, after writing an exchange website, he launched it while reusing the mtgox.com domain name. [etc etc]
I would suggest finding "pro" organizations to support as well, not just "anti" organizations. Pro-education is a good one. Pro birth control is another good one. At the moment, I don't recall the short list, but supporting certain things that benefit "women" tends to a great deal for society as a whole.
I own a Nissan LEAF. A new Nissan LEAF only costs $199 per month to lease after the federal rebate. It's cheaper in some states.

If you currently spend over $100 per month on gasoline and charge the LEAF offpeak, you could think of it as a less capable $10k Tesla after rebates and gas and maintenance savings.
Why good hackers make good citizens
Reparación de Maquinaria Agrícola en España