skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend in college -- really smart physics major -- drop acid one summer and lose the ability to do math. He needed to take a year off and finally finished his degree but was never on top of his game again.

I'm not saying that always or even usually happens. But, acid is no joke and I just wanted to make sure that the inexperience reading this know that trips can go really wrong. Especially when you aren't using medical grade LSD but whatever you can buy from a stranger on SilkRoad/wherever.
This is the trolliest troll that has ever trolled.
Nginx 1.5.11 released with SPDY security fix
> Wall Street people, for the most part, don't like being in jail and would rather avoid that.

Oh, c'mon, jail time is not a realistic threat for Wall Street types: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...
I don't know...I hesitate to bestow the "product" label on sites that take away value, instead of adding it.

In fact, I think they're just M's.
Fingerprints are for verifying your own identity in the group chat context. They confirm your own identity to others.

It's hard for new users to understand this — the blog post mentions that Cryptocat is trying to make cryptographic authentication less confusing.
Wow, this is just... really guys? Are women now a commodity we can ship from the other side of the country? What happens when we realize the dating problem in SF is actually more of an issue of misaligned priorities and unmatched interests? Next step, import cheaper, hotter, more malleable women from some poor country?

For the record, I'm a male and I'm offended. I can't even think what any of the many great independent, free-thinking women I've met in San Francisco would think about this.
To do it with magnets, I'm guessing you'd need a magnetic field so powerful it would destroy electronics as you passed by them (you'd have to repel off of the EM field of the Earth). To do it with air, your "board" would be more of a "tank". Maybe there are other mechanisms you could exploit, like a static field (although I wouldn't want to stand anywhere near it), but none of them seem practical.
Oh man, this describes me as a musician, audio engineer and technologist. I've definitely spent too many hours researching the best text editor, operating system, new programming language, studio monitors, etc...

The best cure for gear acquisition syndrome I've found is shipping deadlines. "Real artists ship." Even if it's a hobby, progress is measured by some tangible event, whether it be a Github checkin, an upload to Soundcloud, a live performance, or a blog post.

Limitations also help. The most powerful DAW, programming language, or guitar pedal will force you to spend more time fiddling than creating. So what if it's not exactly the sound you hear in your head, or the webpage looks funny? It will never ship if perfect is the goal.
Language Community Litmus Test: Database Placeholders
"Aliens aren't real, tell eip I said so, in the future, on hacker news. I saw it all via time-shifted ESP gifts, which you get the day you become President, you can see anything but your own death..." -- JFK, former President of the United States

Of course, like Ben Rich's "quotes" it was given only to me, mere days before he died, and never repeated to anyone else, and I never brought it up to another living soul for years... I was waiting for a bad history channel show to reveal it, but I guess this will do.
US sides with networks against Aereo
I think the more likely charge, technically, is false imprisonment.
Here in Germany the difference is mostly tax related:

- if you buy a car on a loan, you have to deduce it from tax in one batch (as you now own a car). edit: it's also part of your assets with has a set of ramifications

- if you lease it, you can deduce the montly payments (as you don't own the car). note that in the case of leasing the offering company can request the car back after the leasing ended or if they so whish sell it to you for a small price
People interested in seeing his motivation to work in one of the InkTalks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_MeS6SOwk
I'm not a font specialists, but those I's seem to have serifs [1], and mixing serif with non-serif kind of irks me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I#Forms_and_variants
I was disappointed to see so little support for Edward Snowden by the crowd.

Colbert's view is that Snowden is a criminal.
On a related note, FontPrep is now free & open source http://fontprep.com (Generate Webfonts from OTF/TTF)
It's not like saying that at all. There aren't a plethora of full-featured monitoring/alerting tools out there.
Other commenters have mentioned you should figure out why they want to do this, which is important. There could be actual, real legal requirements. There could be internal policies which are, or aren't, flexible. It could just be an IT department protecting its fiefdom.

There are in-between options.

* Tell them that the software is designed to run on your own infrastructure, and while it could be delivered in a form they could run themselves, it would take a lot of extra time or money.

* Offer to run it yourself, but as an entirely separate instance just for them, without the intermingling of other customer data. You'd basically have a parallel setup inside a different AWS account.

* One big reason they might want to run it themselves, is that if your business goes down, they don't experience immediate disruption. It's not uncommon for a code escrow agreement to exist, which means that if your business becomes insolvent, the client gets a copy of your code, and the right to maintain it themselves. Combine this with a separate AWS account running their instance, and give them administrative and billing access to that AWS instance, and you may address their continuity concerns.

* Tell them that you don't support the software on Windows, or Oracle, and that while they can run it on their own setup, they'll have to do it on top of Linux. (If the IT department just tries to routinely absorb everything, this may give them pause)

* Deliver the software as a virtual applicance. (Require a particular hypervisor - for instance, Github is delivered as a VM that only runs on top of VirtualBox or VMWare. The former isn't recommended for production use for performance reasons)
Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space
b here, well worth a look, buddies list seems to be crashy, but very well designed with minimal features. worth checking out.
And, to answer the other part of your parent's question (regarding how the Feds can seize bitcoin), it was always my presumption that the Feds merely used their legal authority to compel their targets to turn over their bitcoin (i.e. private keys, etc.).

EDIT: Now that I think of it, it seems like I read somewhere that, with Mt Gox in particular, the Feds seized their ~$5M in BTC a while back by having them transfer it to a wallet under their control. Can anyone corroborate this?
I'm not saying that it should be blanket outlawed or it should be fully legal, but if you're going to take a position, take it on the magnitude of abuse and not the age of the person involved.

Torture is torture. Abuse is abuse.
For everyone looking for a chatroom try "lobby".
I find it difficult to read @ size 14. My eyes don't like how thin/compressed the letters are, but maybe it's just too early on Oahu.
In the US, they regulate penny stocks, and those things are only worth a few pennies. The issue isn't the value of the commodity--it's the potential for avoidable loss due to market manipulation.
http://readytogroove.com/ looks like a nice app. I have to try that.
Quoting from the Wikipedia page:

Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to
express various states of unreality such as wish,
emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity,
or action that has not yet occurred.

The action has occurred, it is not an unreality. It seems to me that using the subjunctive would be inappropriate.

And yes, perhaps using the present tense would be more appropriate. Certainly I would have used something like:

The solar system plotted on a scale where the Moon is one pixel.

My comment still stands - the subjunctive is inappropriate. Saying it should be still something else does not make that less true.

<Shrug /> It's the interwebs, people will write what they like, and declare that nothing is right, and nothing is wrong, it's all OK. In that case telling someone to use the subjunctive seems doubly inappropriate.

https://xkcd.com/386/
Adopting the energy approach to personal productivity
Oh, did you mean PHP the language? The webserver? The FastCGI server? The runtime?

PHP starts as a fucking mess and gets worse. Maybe once the developers figure out what it is I'll take a look but yeah it's pretty much the developers taking standard features from other languages and fucking them up just like they did yesteryear.

Closures with a use block... even in C you don't have to do that... it's a joke and a mess... How is it that a 44 year old language has better features and less cruft than one 15 years old?

Does it have a ==== operator yet?
As I was scrolling through I started to notice a really nice, subtle star background pattern that wasn't moving. I thought that was a really nice touch.

And then I touched my monitor and, turns out, it was just dust.

There's a metaphor there but I have no idea what it is.
S/is from x/knows about x culture.

whether he is indian or he only knows about Indian culture, it is a stretch to say "so you must know about Japan!"
I am of the opinion that it's simpler to write a basic PHP file than it is to configure Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd. I'd think that the majority of people running WordPress (likely the most distributed PHP project) are doing so on shared hosting, and not likely to want to or know how to configure their own server. The type of person interested in the built-in web server (a decent feature in my opinion, and comparable to `rails s`) is knowledgeable enough to know that the built-in web-server will not cut it for production traffic.
Is anyone else skeptical of the government's ability to effectively tax bitcoin? The scale of doing so both technologically and physically seems far too complicated for such a minute market.
That's actually a great idea! :) Haven't actually thought of that. Two things in mind: rewrite links but provides copy-paste for the original link (think about XSS from clicking a link on tweet and people want to look at the link before clicking it) and (2) HN's rewrite/shortened link must do dynamic cache url retrieval; not static. I think Google's cache link is different as cache is updated.
There's a really good paper from 2011 which does quite a good job in image segmentation with very noisy background[1].
Their algorithm is biologically motivated and analyses contrast changes in different parts of the image as this is exactly how we separate interesting parts in images from uninteresting parts.

[1] http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/contrast_sal...
Ask HN: What do you use to find available domains?
I know gandi.net but that doesn't let me iterate quickly enough, many other sites are dubious, slow or bloated. whois is mostly ok on the terminal but I was wondering if there's a nice web-based solution anybody likes.
Just to get your numbers straight: EU => 507 million people.

Also, when you look graph ², you can wonder how much of that is due to recession.

(found at random via google search, so I don't know how trustable it is, but seems legit. : http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011_12_01_archive.html )

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

² http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gzzddTbQ7Mg/TtfoT07ehTI/AAAAAAAALe... (via ³)

³ http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

Nonetheless, your point is still valid, European buy less car per person.
Injecting Failure at Netflix (w/ video)
Corey Bertram, Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix recently spoke to a DevOps Meetup group at PagerDuty HQ about injecting failure at Netflix. For Corey, he wanted to show people what can go wrong, because anything can go wrong, will. Promoting chaos and injecting failure has been a great way to keep Netflix up and running for their 40+ million customers.
I don't think most people really care for snuff films either.
Performance isn't bad. You've been able to install an opcode cache for years, and there's one built into the runtime now. HHVM really boosts performance, and it's closing in on full compatibility with mainstream PHP.
Totally agree, but would also add this general concept applies to many non-bitcoin startups (especially those that deal in "real world" services as opposed to pure software) as well, eg. Airbnb, Uber, etc.

The natural path of these "disruptive" startups is to start small and lean, ignoring a lot of the complexity of whatever market they are disrupting, and then a slow and steady snowballing as they begin to re-accumulate a lot of the baggage of the industry they came in to disrupt. In the end if you're lucky you wind up with something that is still better than the old thing, but not nearly as much better as the original hype around the new thing would suggest.
It's because it's an additional layer of complexity with the end result of hopefully removing lines of code.
> and 401k -- remember, you've got to save for retirement too

Oh no! I don't have any money left after I'm done saving all my money!
Help me understand why I should rely on the privacy of this app, if the OS on which it's running is untrusted. Wouldn't it be trivial for Apple (or iOS malware) to record keystrokes?
Only in America is a tax increase equated (without any further investigation) to depressing the economy, and a tax break (once again without investigation) equated with letting the peacock that is the economy fly free.
Thanks for including Pluto (technically not a planet but still one in my mind).
it's pretty clear why competent, responsible developers are not participating in this space -- we're too frightened by possible government sanctions

Where's 'rayiner? He'll love this.

Writing bitcoin software is like writing crypto. You need to get it exactly right.

But instead of starting with a spec written down that the crypto community tears to pieces, instead the developers eat their own dogfood. No, change that: they build critical infrastructure out of their own dogfood. All before it's ever been vetted by the really smart people.

I'd say competent people don't write Bitcoin marketplaces that handle real money for the same reason competent people don't write their own home-grown crypto and then make it a single-point-of-failure for their entire business.
L-1B (Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge)

"Specialized knowledge means either special knowledge possessed by an individual of the petitioning organization’s product, service, research, equipment, techniques, management, or other interests and its application in international markets, or an advanced level of knowledge or expertise in the organization’s processes and procedures (See 8 CFR 214.2(l)(1)(ii)(D))."

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...

The definition of "Specialized knowledge" is very broad. Can somebody share their experience of getting L-1B visa?
Ask HN: Django or Flask for a little Scraper Admin
I'm a PHP developer, but the scraping tools I'll need probably call for Python. Basically, what I'm looking to do is scrape a couple search engine APIs (Google, Bing, DDG) to grab 10 to 20 results. I'll then crawl the results pulling page title, meta description, and snap a screenshot of a couple pages (home page for sure).

I'd like to use MySQL as a backend since that's what I'm familiar with (PHP and Perl days). With this data I'd then want to output text files to be processed via PHP to be imported into a PHP based website/app.

Basically, I'm thinking I should build this thing off of some framework and from what I've read Flask is a more lightweight framework than Django.

Basically, I want to jump in, but I want to know if one would be a better choice then the other, if they're both comparable for this type of job, or if I'm even on the right track.
Maybe they'll tax tires/tyres.
There is nothing innovative here. And with the kind of images that they are considering, you could simply use a Canny edge detector and take the outer-most contour to be the region of interest.
As the previous comments have said, this is a well tackled problem. They must have done some literature survey.
I thought I had things under control with weed. Gradually I realised I was using it to cope with chronic depression due to an earlier personal tragedy.

Weed probably is great when things are actually in order in your life, but you may be losing contact with reality precisely because it makes it possible to enjoy yourself the entire time. I think you have to be very mindful of that.

It's a painful processes, turning to face life directly, but I feel like I'm managing to do so day by day. Part of this processes involves speaking to a psychiatrist and starting an SNRI prescription.

I do plan to smoke weed again, cautiously, once things are "in order".

It's funny - when I used to smoke weed, I always felt like I needed to clear my daily todo list before hand. I would take out the trash I should have taken out, put clothes in the laundry, maybe respond to some lingering emails. It was quite productive.

Now I'm recapitulating that pattern at a higher level in life. At least, I hope that's what's happening...
Video Backgrounds for Health
You're just a startup so you're money strangled, but $24 million is pocket change for other companies - so what stops a bigger company that already have their own data-centers and enough talent, such as Microsoft, or Apple, or Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever, to create a better search-engine? I think that's simply because it's a very hard problem to solve.
San Francisco is one of the most, if not the most, gay-progressive cities in the world, but it's not like gays dominate the demographics, except possibly in Castro and adjacent neighborhoods. I thought I read that at best it's something like 10-15% of the population, whereas the average percentage is 3-5%.

My single female friends complain that although the male:female ratio is really high, the quality male: quality female ratio is very low. They complain that many of the available males have personality defects and all the quality males are snapped up relatively quickly.
Genuine question, does it matter? I, for one, am enjoying being able to distinguish a capital I from a lowercase l :)
Your Company’s Spring Training: Who’s On 1st? Where’s What?
I was hopping this would be a new monospace font considering it's on the front page.
It's okay, but there are much better open source fonts out there.
Zero-dimensional quantum dots
Here is another pretty cool solar system scale model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

Some photos here: http://io9.com/5882220/worlds-largest-scale-model-of-the-sol...
This web page uses a native OS scroll. Nothing to do with web standards.
Something about this just seems mean spirited to me. I guess it is authentic in terms of the kind of ridiculously emotional hype that start ups tend to do these days, but somehow that tone doesn't mix well with the dry viral con.

It's sort of a clash of marketing techniques. The inspirational "we finally live in the future" thing works because it gets people really psyched to have a product. The viral marketing scam thing works because people are good-natured about being tricked if the trick is executed well (the same reason people can enjoy magicians).

But I don't think you can mix those. People are going to be less good-natured about being promised hoverboards again and then finding out that there will be no hoverboards again.
I wonder when the Android version will land...
Nagios is pretty much a joke compared to most enterprise production monitoring tools, e.g. Wiley and Foglight. I always find it funny to read what people consider "monitoring" they're talking about a few disparate metrics and then complain that the alerting/paging sucks.

If the tool can't trace a transaction end-to-end. I.e if a user visits your page or uses your application you need the ability to trace it from Http to EJB across any webservices and queues and ESB's right down to which queries were used in the database, if you can't do that you're using a shit monitoring suite.

Knowing infrastructure metrics is useless without knowing if it's actually affecting end-users and in which use-cases.
Snowden to Speak at SXSW Interactive Via Videoconference
at least get your facts and terminology straight before saying things like this.
Phalcon is, in my opinion, the best thing to happen to PHP in years.
Fix Bugs, Get Paid
Thanks, you helped me a lot :) Does anyone know a similarly straightforward article on TCP/IP?
I have no idea whether this is just my problem or something that more people will notice, but I actually have trouble reading that. The letters seem to blur together more than most common fonts, and seem "fuzzy" in general.
> lose the ability to do math

What does that mean? (How did it play out and what did it look like?)
The Engineering Behind Making Robots Dance
Finally, the startup I've been waiting for.
He's not an official, he's a special adviser, there's a substantive difference.
I'm sure there is some practical reasons (company based in SF, suitable venues, flight schedules, etc) but would it not be better to fly women to SF and men to NY and in equal measure?
The Catholic Church teaches against persecution of gay people. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition
I like the ability to have different glyphs for lower case L, capital I and numeral 1. Many fonts achieve that with a tail on the lower case L, but this seems a valid alternative. By the way, I believe this is the default Firefox Android font.
I second the reference to Doors of Perception.
If you folks have the time, and you haven't already read about Sasha (Alexander Shulgin), give it a whirl.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

There's a movie on his life, isn't great but it's a decent watch, Dirty Pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA8ddx_iC_g
1. Look at 'Teach yourself C++ in 21 days'
(http://www.angelfire.com/art2/ebooks/teachyourselfcplusplusi...)

2. Follow it.

3. Write the exam. Who needs arrays, inheritance, or polymorphism?

But seriously, both ColinWright and Rantenki have pretty much hammered a nail there. You haven't given us any more details other than you're a 12th grade student.

- Until what part do you have to learn? What do you have to do?

- How much time do you have to concentrate each day?

- How desperate are you?

- Is your goal simply to pass, or to get a good grade?

- Following on the first point, is this an yearly exam? or end-of-term exam? Figuring out what the problem is the first step of solving one.
Here's all you really need to know with PHP, ask a PHP developer how to test for equality.

Maybe how you test for equality shouldn't depend on an ini file... just sayin...

Perhaps testing for equality doesn't need a 3 page answer... in most languages it's a pretty straightforward answer... primitive types use == and objects use either isEquals or operator overloading.
How to: An email subject line that gets opened every time
Ancient virus resurrected after 30,000 years
Thanks! I agree with both points; I'd even suggest adding a link to the Internet Archive's copy, but baby steps.
Yep it doesn't. So actually, on chrome, without an autoscroll extension, there is no way to scroll that page (apart from the with the right cursor button, which is way to slow to actually be valid) on a normal desktop pc. Happy new world.