skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when we bought our current house in 2007. It was the top of the market and for fun we looked at what we could buy in different parts of the country for the same money.

In NYC we found a listing for an empty lot. It was pretty bad looking. I think you might have been able to fit two compact cars side by side on it.

SF wasn't much better, but at least had a dwelling of some kind on it.

Detroid was...well you could have bought a street full of condemned houses.

So we decided to look outside of cities and came across a listing in Arkansas. At first we didn't understand it because it was just an aerial photo of some greenery and some houses. Finally we realized, that was the listing, it was 150 acres with 5 buildings, one of them was a 2700 sq ft home, there were two guest homes and a 5 car garage and some other kind of large barn structure. The listing assured the potential buyer that the property was zoned in such a way it could be subdivided into lots "as small as 5 acres".

The only way they could get a photo of it all was from the air.
Lots of things happening around the Black Sea these days. Sochi Olympics, Crimea and now Turkey.
OK, now you're just using semantics to change your argument.

Regardless, the stair-step incentives is just ONE of many examples I can provide.

The backlash against TrueCar's initial business model showed there were some dealers selling vehicles for below cost, in hopes of making up the difference with add-on sales. Whether these dealers made up the profit difference on the whole does not change the fact that at least some of those customers purchased vehicles at a profit loss to the dealer.
Any stats on how much of a load this puts on the existing app?

Could this send to redis or a delayed job and be eventually consistent to database for non-logged in users?
Apparently 8 or 9 of the trending topics are about the ban in Turkey too: http://imgur.com/9Etk4fd
It makes slightly more sense when you understand the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI
Thanks. Let me clarify that my main point (in mentioning what I had heard about China) was that there are potential alternate paradigms for paying doctors which do not directly incentivize dragging out illness. In the U.S., one of the best hospitals we have also has doctors on salary. They make the same amount regardless of how many tests they order. They credit this with helping make sure the focus is on giving the patient the best possible care without any conflict of interest subconsciously influencing the doctor's treatment plan.

Have an upvote.
Traditionally the technological singularity represents the point at which we develop AI which can improve upon itself, beginning a phase of exponential AI growth which occurs pretty much instantaneously from a human perspective. I was using the term somewhat hyperbolically to represent the start of a post-scarcity society, when production becomes so efficient that everyone can have clean water and shelter.
Other email providers do this as well.
> Why in the world would/should Fluke give away ~$800,000 worth of product

I've seen a lot more than that spent on marketing stunts, except in this case the consumers actually benefit by getting better equipment.
I don't think that makes any sense.

If I criticize someone for talking loudly during class, and I haven't talked at all, that wouldn't be hypocritical, even if we were both browsing Facebook or something.
Nice work. I made GIF Scrubber (http://goo.gl/8vRwr2) which does similar things in a Chrome extension and thought about something you could embed like this but memory and performance became an issue very quickly once I tried larger GIFs. I didn't look at the source but this starts to choke a bit and broke on a few hundred frames. I can tell you people will moan about it even though you're doing wonderful work for free. I would try to avoid some needless issues by putting up a big old disclaimer or something stating this is intended for shorter loops (at the moment). For that purpose which you demo, it looks really slick. Cheers
Is the protection still in effect if the email is handled by a third party? If the email goes to your ISP I would think it can be looked at there since it hasn't reached the Post Office yet.
Once the strategy is set, this feels like work. That's why I still like games like tetris. A game should have an element of surprise..
That's old. IP and URL based censorship methods (with TCP packet inspection) is in place already in Turkey. We have seen various individual URLs getting blocked related to the the bribery and corruption leaks of PM and other ministers in past few months. So don't be so hopeful. DNS is not a permanent solution, they can block it entirely just tomorrow.
Did/could Stanford claim any IP on Google?
Keeping sane building a startup
It's impossible to lose. Just hold down an arrow and watch your score go up.
"...but it takes place far away and the benefits are difficult to see..."

This worries me. It's like saying that because the people affected aren't here, in America, it's not worth doing.
Linux with SSD: Get One Already
I'm not really sure what your question here is; did you mean to ask dmix instead? In case it was directed at me, I'll try to sketch a response.

Generally, I think that Lessig's work in this area is laudable but misguided: that is, that the influence of money is a symptom and not the root cause he claims it to be. I really hope that he creates positive change as a result of this, but I don't have high expectations.

My belief of what the root cause is is that the citizenry is too used to keeping their heads down and don't have the mental framework to accept the offering of power that democracy is supposed to be. So, in a sense, you can limit the influence of money by decentralizing power to the extent that it is properly a democracy. I would loosely define a democracy, in this context, to be a society in which over 70% of the citizens are active participants in governance.

(That last paragraph was mostly a matter of preemptively responding to "you can't just leave us hanging" charges rather than a proper manifesto.)
Please guys, make it stop. I need to work. I need to sleep. I need to eat!! I have no idea wtf I was doing but this is by far the best! This dam game is worse than heroin....
Actually, censorship is nothing new for Turkey so some serious portion of the population knows how to overcome it. Probably these tweets are sent mostly by Turks in Turkey :)

However, this is not the whole story. The current ruling party has huge support from the uneducated and/or religious masses that may not be that informed about the technology. Since 3 months new corruption documents are leaked through twitter, which puts pressure on the PM. Just yesterday there was a phone conversation of one of the Ministers leaked and apparently the guy was mocking Islam when he was trying to look like as devoted muslim in front of the public.
A writeup like this makes me want to use them more.
So many companies are afraid of their mistakes.
It's not a patent.

It is a trademark, or trade dress registration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

If you make agricultural equipment and paint it a bright green and yellow; John Deere will come after you because at least some people might get the impression that you are at the least trying to take advantage of their reputation.
This is awesome. I've used WITH RECURSIVE in postgres to do graph traversals (even replaced neo4j with postgres), and now this is also available with sqlite. I can see running tests in development becoming a whole lot easier.
<two non-adjustable sturdy desks works out cheaper>

Yes this works for many people, but there's several issues with this:

1. You need more real estate to place 2 desks, not everyone has the space in their home or office.

2. Finding that perfect ergonomic height become a chore when you have to prop something under each leg of the desk - and that's - if the desk is too short. If the desk is too high, then may have to saw the leg or resort to any other labor intensive activity. With an automatic desk, you just press a button.

3. If you have monitor(s), keyboard, mouse, etc. When you transition from sitting to standing or vice versa then you have to move everything over one desk to the next. That becomes annoying after a while, unless you just use a laptop. The problem with a laptop, is you only have one screen and its horrible for your neck posture and may lead to shoulder and neck problems in the future.

That said, in the beginning use whatever works for you to stand, whether it be 2 desk setup or simply a cardboard box on top of your desk. The mail goal is to get off you duff and stand more. Use whatever tools you please
Good products and a good PR department as well. Most companies don't have either.
How Your Sensor Data and The Internet of Things Can Save You A Lot Of Money
Ride a 128-Degree Heated Snowboard
Culture Offset
If I were an employer (I'm not), I'd be extremely interested in some of the problems you've faced/overcome. Average "time of stay" (giggle), how you optimized for user behavior/patterns and such on a site that doesn't see the normal user patterns for somewhat bandwidth heavy content, etc. Let's be honest here, no one goes back to an adult site that isn't fast when the content is almost always on another site that will be.
this is just so cool :D
Alan Mulally (CEO of FORD) is a former Boeing engineer.
Hi, that's my book! It's currently a little out of date, still targeting pre-1.0 Elasticsearch. I'm working on bringing the examples up to speed soon however.

The main issue with it at the moment is that it doesn't take into account the new aggregations stuff.
Contractors are used all the time to truck/fly postal mail around. They need to be bonded probably.
Rather better than it is for the CIA, apparently.
"I have heard that in China, they put a doctor on retainer and only pay him when they are well. So doctors in China only make money if you are well."

Perhaps thousands of years ago, but this is not the case, even among the current crop of naturopaths.

Besides that you could not likely afford the retainer for any serious injury treatment, leaving you back where you started.
Ask HN: Why in the world hasn't this talk gone viral on YouTube?
Lawrence Lessig at SCALE 12x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3O1MC1AqvM
This is dumb, because its in large part a measure of where city boundaries are drawn, as demonstrated by the New York example. The equivalent of SF isn't NYC, it's Manhattan. The city boundaries are just drawn such that NYC includes Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and SF excludes the corresponding places in the Bay area (Oakland, etc). Looking at a city-wide average doesn't tell you much.

DC also seems off, again because of the boundaries. The average excludes places in Arlington and Maryland that are spatially and in terms of density part of the city. The fact that Arlington is part of Virginia is a historical accident (was part of DC, taken back during Civil War). It doesn't reflect any real property of the city. Many places in Arlington are much quicker on the Metro to downtown than many places in DC.
Turkey Blocked Access To Twitter
Hi, I'm the author. I actually just (soft) relaunched the book using a new backend, so the content's a little stale. Now that I've revamped all the formerly poor quality ebook generation I can focus on content once again.

Aside from not mentioning aggregations it should be fairly accurate, and is still a useful guide for a beginner.

I' hoping to revamp it to discuss aggregations over the next couple weeks.

I lost most of my disqus comments, unfortunately, when I relaunched the site last week as the URL structure changed. I revamped the book to have more content per page. It's probably a little less SEO friendly, but makes for a nicer reading experience.
AEAD modes were apparently still too new, and their implementations too untrustworthy

Also, using Encrypt-then-MAC allows you to discard inauthentic messages without ever decrypting anything, which protects you from side channels in your block cipher.
They've paid Stanford at least $337 Million in royalties for the original Google algorithm: https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/?p=19621
2048's all the way down
OK, but we're not talking about email here, we're talking about webmail in particular. I mean, it's rather foolish to think that you can trade MS's private IP over MS's free-as-in-beer webmail service when they explicitly tell you they're not willing to tolerate that in the TOS. Now if it were MS hacking into someone else's mailserver in pursuit of their stolen IP, I'd fully agree with you.
The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (ARPANET, 1972)
I'm bummed that his brother's Geocities website is no longer live.
And everything I said five years ago is still true! I'm proud of how well those recommendations have stood the test of time.
"This" on its own as a word indicating agreement is a fairly recent usage.

Notably, the very definition you posted makes no mention of that usage. From that definition there is no way to tell if "This" on its own means "This predeceeding comment is completely wrong" or "This predeceeding comment is completely right".

Also, "precisely" indicates degree rather than the generalist term "this". For example, "I'll meet you at this time tomorrow" and "I'll meet you at precisely this time tomorrow" have different connotations for how accurate you are expecting to be.
Would this benefit you if you ran a large Wordpress site for example?

For example if you already had nginx/varnish setup and optimised, would it be worth setting this up to squeeze some more performance out of it?
DockPlayer Is a Lightweight Controller for Spotify
Edison was not a genius.

He was good at sales and marketing, however.
1024 game on Pebble
> which is literally what a video is

People don't really want GIFs; what people want are filesize-limited, auto-playing-but-only-while-visible, auto-looping, and silent-by-default videos. Let's call these "animated images."

The problem is thus: you're designing a piece of forum software, and you're considering whether to allow people to embed various elements in their posts.

There's problems with allowing people to embed arbitrary videos: they can steal bandwidth, slow the browser to a crawl, make sudden noises, play to completion while the tab is in the background, etc.

But if you allow people to embed static images, then there's no additional consideration required in allowing them to embed animated images. Wherever a static image works, an animated one works.

Right now, there are two ways to allow people to embed animated images: either you allow .gif as an image upload format, and then display it without processing--or you allow videos, but do quite a bit of server-side processing (of the kind Vine and Facebook do) to make the result into an animated image.

If there was an adapter format -- some simple file format that:

1. referred to a video by URL (maybe it could be an HTML5 document whose root is a <video> element?), which would then be embedded in place of the metafile;

2. whose media type fell under the image/* hierarchy;

3. and for which the browser would automatically enforce "animated image" semantics,

then that format would be a perfect replacement for GIFs.
So - I helped build this with mikro. We have been bootstrapping our startup Fleck (www.getfleck.com) and wanted to take a shot at making something that had a price tag associated. We built DockPlayer in a few days, and with one email, we made it to LifeHacker!
Google Says We Can Take Action On Those Benefiting From The Guest Blog Network
Using python pip offline
If your choice is e.g. between using a not-safe-as-a-Fluke meter to help fix your vehicle that broke down in a remote area, or starve to death, would anyone really choose the latter?

Some very good examples of this principle:

http://mackys.livejournal.com/838591.html?nojs=1

http://www.afrigadget.com/2010/02/28/jua-kali-dressed-in-mit...
Fucking hell, why did you give them the idea‽
All the CEOs who worked their way up through the company they are CEO of. Eg. Tim Cook.
Do you know why HTML5 video is not as popular as gif?

Gif is easily copy-pastable, both by content and raw file URL. Thus help its viral spreading
Why deep belief matters
Given that Fluke multimeters cost about 10x what the destroyed ones are, sparkfun is still out $30k to replace the shipment + destruction fees, and now have probably 200 fluke units to try to recoup some costs with.
If you define "crumbling foundations" as "a dependency that is unreliable in the long term", then your conclusion is circular.

Not at all. I'm arguing that in computing, worthwhile results often take time to achieve, and therefore that foundations that are likely to be around for longer will improve the chances of achieving such results. Alternatively, from the opposite point of view, the odds of achieving something worthwhile go down significantly if you have only a short time time to achieve it, as inevitably you will if you are building on foundations that aren't themselves going to be around for long (whatever we choose to call them).
The problem comes from when you assign the rights of an individual to that of a corporation, whose sole purpose is to maximize profits. I don't think anyone would argue that individuals should have first amendment rights, however I'm not convinced that the bill of rights should be applicable to a company.
Very good list, out of experience on some fields where I'm considered a talent or natural talent/smart by my peers but I feel like I fail to deliver more than 50% of the times, the first thing you need to do is:

0. Pick up your targets CAREFULLY.

Which means value your energy and time. Be afraid of starting something, stop doing or believing you can do many things at the same time while history clearly shows otherwise is a killer mistake.

Lower the bar, start achieving small things and then, just MAYBE, you should think of adding more.
Silicon Valley doesn't do the productivity porn thing anymore, does it?
Wow.

I am completely torn between really wanting to work for the NSA because they have the ability to do really awesome analysis like that with huge amounts of data, and being deathly terrified. Nothing in that article should be a surprise to me, or anyone else who can half-guess the NSA's capabilities, but it is still shocking to read. For some reason, knowing that the NSA has information on literally everyone stored in some database isn't that frightening to me, but seeing specific details that they could have (and probably do have) is very scary.
Carol Vordaman is just brilliant.

To tie back full circle [1], if anyone hasn't seen it there's a great UK show called Only Connect. It may appeal to people on here as it's a fiendishly difficult pattern matching game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AB31ymF8zA

[1] The hostess (Victoria Coren) recently married David Mitchell - the co-creator of the numberwang sketch
If you're going to provide a TL;DR for others, it's best to read to the end first... telnet was used as an early example, but the writer went on to explain how to target ssh too.
I don't claim that manipulation is impossible without violence. How do you explain the Fed's tremendous influence in the US (and presumably world) economy?
You can lose, and it's worth it to see it happen!
From organizing past events, it's much easier to just do it and have it flop (nobody's going to notice it if it does) than try looking if there's interest or not. Ask your target venue if you can do it, make sure it has some visibility (ie. make sure it's in the program), setup a slide deck or two and do it. Good luck!
What freedom does BSD takes from users? Users are equally welcome to use BSD code.

BSD allow anyone to do anything to BSD code. GPL prevents developers from doing everything to GPL code. That says more about users being selfish and eilitst than the other way around.

Why? Just because they are end-users means they are better then me? That's exactly selfish right there.
Have you tried IntelliJ? I haven't used netbeans for years but for me IntelliJ is light years ahead of eclipse. I would be interested to hear from anybody who has tried both for a reasonable amount of time.
The BLACKHOLE storage engine supports all kinds of indexes.

Best part of that page.
It's a lot easier to go from zero to proficient with GCE than it is with AWS. This has no relation with the fact that AWS has a bigger "menu".
>Client-server application security: Distribute the server's public RSA key with the client code, and do not use SSL.

I don't understand this part - if I'm not using SSL, what am I doing at this point?
> I didn't say "push" I said "encourage to explore" and I didn't mention any kind of cut off age where educators would stop evaluating kids, this would have to be a continual process not the "GATTACA" style career predetermination you fear.

You would have to be more specific about what you are proposing, because it really sounds like testing for career predetermination.
That's my point, Sparkfun's trademark is red packaging and PCB's. Fluke makes a red meter Spark fun should ask them to stop selling that meter because people might confuse it with a Sparkfun product.
Well before it failed with an error about initializing graphics. When I tried a year later, that error no longer appeared but the FPS was in the single digits. I didn't dig around for special OpenGL drivers, no, I just let Intel and MS push certified drivers out via normal update mechanisms.
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I'll echo a lot of the sentiment here. The adult industry tech area is often well ahead of your mainstream counterparts. Anyone would be lucky to pull you in. I'm sure you'll face a little bit of animosity, but it will likely be minor in comparison to the extra interest you'll get at the interview table.

Good luck. As an employer, I'd strongly favor someone with your coding background.
No, it doesn't! I was doing well, and then it suddenly changed the color of one of my tiles. It was the largest tile I had (which I always keep in the lower left, so it was very distinctive), and it dropped by a factor of 8 (3 colors) or so. At least I'm pretty sure that's what happened...
Think like a startup scientist. How to run experiments
Musk describes himself as an engineer. I'd say his demonstrated ability to lead major engineering projects qualifies him to use that title.

http://elonmusk.com/

The term "engineer" does not imply chartered/professional status in current popular usage.
Why shouldn't Netflix be their own CDN if they think they can do it better? Why should any CDN have to pay ISPs to deliver bandwidth that the ISP's customers already paid for?
Remember when Netflix did the price hike and got a consumer backlash? Hey maybe if they could indirectly price hike through IPs, then no one would notice ;)
Plugging China's talent pool
"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page."

love it.
So the NSA targets the personal online accounts and personal computers of sysadmins who just happen to work at major network providers. These are people who have done absolutely nothing wrong, other than being in the way of an out of control agency.

I am so sickened, angry, and ashamed.
Just to poke a little fun at you, Most ERP softwares are not well-known for being exactly understandable by average developer, and is known to be consultant-based business so much that it is hardly possible to learn it without paying for consultant.

It's just another way of being proprietary by obscurity.