skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analysis is superficial and overcomplicated. Here's the answer: the article's that you find in the most-emailed list are what older less tech-savvy folks would share. The twitter-only list is the reverse.

I'd like to see an analysis that mines the articles and shows word frequencies for twitter-only vs email-only articles. Hmmm maybe I'll do this ;)
I don't understand the question. I am allergic to penicillin. I just tell the doctor when they are perscribing antibiotics. I can still take medication.

Some substances, due to their large adverse reactions in some, can and are restricted.
Remember when it used to be "Digg for X"?

I kinda thought subreddits took a lot of the wind out of those sails.
Getting Sh*t Done
Hiring average programmers worse than staying solo?
Ask HN: Mesh Networking for iOS and Android?
Wondering if there's a library that lets you do mesh networking across platforms through direct wifi or bluetooth. iOS 7 has it but not sure if Android has it and whether it's possible to get them to talk to each other.
It's a cool idea, but how do you head off the inevitable reveal of that information face-to-face? Or is it only for the earlier rounds (resume selection, etc).
If you'd end a friendship because your friend wasn't ambitious as you, who would want to be your friend anyway?
This problem doesn't exist on the client side, no? It's not like we provide client certificates when using HTTPS/TLS. You're authenticating (typically) with passwords which unfortunately were stolen when your (random service goes here) account got hacked.
Yeah agreed.

The brain is a phenomena that requires neurons to exist, but simply having neurons doesn't make a brain. It's structural like you've said. The arrangement (and connection) of the neurons is what makes one brain different from another much more so than anything else.

As long as you preserve that structure, you're preserving the "person" as they identify themselves so to speak.

What makes the me that wakes up every single morning after having slept the same me that went to bed every night? From a consciousness perspective, it's the memories. That's the only thing I can really track that make me, me. Boot my brain up sans memories and I'm not really me. With memories I am. At least as far as I can tell.
Not sure why all the complaints. Sure, on an iPhone 4 like some people seem to be using these are going to be slow; just running iOS7 is sluggish on that phone, but on my 5s the yahoo weather app was very impressive, indistinguishable from the highly rated native app.
Open in new incognito window works for me.
Hm, now that's interesting.

I think their tagging system is a little off, but that is quite useful. Thanks!
Game that makes you think and is entertaining at the same time. Addicting?
I realise I'm going to be in the 0.1% minority on this, but yep, I do. Three reasons.

First, I've been enough places where Internet connectivity is so poor that HTTPS effectively breaks the connection. I used to stay half the week somewhere where the only connectivity was a dire, over-saturated 3G link. I couldn't browse HTTPS sites unless I was very lucky.

Second, I'm uneasy with the implication that "HTTPS=secure", in that it absolves the user of taking any responsibility for their own security. A site can require a HTTPS connection and still store the password in cleartext, for example; so unless you have a unique password, this "secure" site can still screw you. Yeah, I know HN readers understand the difference, but IMX most people dimly understand a binary distinction between "secure site" and "not secure site" and that's it.

Third and related, the corollary of "HTTPS=secure" is that "sites that only use HTTP = insecure". This is leading to a requirement that any guy who builds a website with login functionality needs to implement HTTPS, and that saddens me. The web becomes less democratic, less meritocratic, the more technical hurdles we require.

But, like I say, I realise 99.9% of people disagree with me.
I wonder how Stripe is going to handle the tax implications of Bitcoins. It may not have an impact because they shouldn't be holding them, but it could be complicated.
The inertia the USB mini connector has in the electronics development arena has annoyed me for years. The connector was deprecated in 2007 and replaced by the rather superior and now very prevalent micro, yet builders just don't seem to want to switch.
In Vancouver BC it's well known that "the big one" is coming at some point, and I recall many earthquake drills as a child and a class field trip to UBC's earthquake research centre.

Even though the fact of the potential for a high magnitude earthquake is well known absolutely no one (including myself) is prepared for it at all. I've certainly been meaning to fashion myself a "bug out bag" in case of a disaster but haven't gotten around to it...

Vancouver also has a liquefaction concern. The false creek flats area is filled in estuary/marsh and though it's largely industrial there are plans to move Emily Carr School of Art to that area. I live pretty close to it so I have no idea how affected I am. Even worse is the entire nearby suburb of Richmond (pop 175k) is built on an island of silt in the Fraser River and is probably pretty much entirely a liquefaction zone.
Armiga Project
when we never found any WMD...so ongoing I guess.
Without going into extremes, can't we simply believe that the there's absolutely no reason for him to go to the US for deposition and that he's still guilty of losing all those money? He doesn't have to be the second coming of anyone to know it's dangerous for him to travel anywhere.
I am from India and I also am a regular user of homeopathy. In case it was all placebo and fools your brain in thinking that you are actually taking some real stuff in and not just sugar and water and you see the effect physically on your body then you would have found mention of this in Ayurveda and Yoga since both stress on meditation which is a way to control your own energy and mind state and by doing meditation you would have been able to cure your body of every disease.

And allopathy is a major money earner for a lot of corporations and they go to every effort to tell the people that any other medicine system be it unani, ayurveda, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, etc are false and bad.

In case you have not tried homeopathy then give it a go for small illness like fever, diarrhea, body pains, etc and test it for yourself. Also go to a doctor who is recommended by someone. Doctor's knowledge is the most important part in homeopathy as it is in all other non-allopathic systems.
For this kind of censorship, namecoin wouldn't have helped. Turkey could've just watched the namecoin blockchain and update their IP blacklist directly from it.
Quick note: This was during the great depression, a period where more people emigrated from the united states than into the country which kind of puts this in perspective.

I think the reason for this was also that most of the immigrants back then came from German speaking countries or countries affected by war, and since they didn't want to get associated with the former governments in Europe and first and second world war. Apparently they also earned more money with american sounding names which was even more of an incentive to change their names.
Spatial data structures are great, and heavily used in all kinds of mapping applications. Most of the systems I've worked with used the more constrained quadtree structure, where the map is divided into uniformly-sized tiles, and a level-of-detail hierarchy is built. This is good for raster data, where each tile is a picture and the whole world is covered by tiles. The R-tree has great advantages when the complexity is not uniformly distributed across the map, for example, vector road data, where vast areas on earth have no data, and most of the data is concentrated in small urban areas.

I believe PostGIS, which adds spatial operations to Postgres, uses an R-tree as its spatial index.

An improvement on the R-tree, the R(star)-tree, uses a different node splitting algorithm and includes re-insertions (similar to balancing a B-tree), reducing both coverage and overlap. The insertion complexity is greater, but in general, R(star)-tree query performance tends to be a bit better for mapping applications. Generally, maps don't change that often, so building the tree tends to happen far less often than querying it.

There are many more specialized spatial data structures available, for example, Kd-trees, which can be perfectly balanced and are useful for storing point data.

If you're really interested in this stuff, the holy bibles for spacial data structures (which I keep in a special place on my bookshelf) are a pair of books written by H. Samet: The Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures, and Applications of Spatial Data Structures: Computer Graphics, Image Processing, and GIS.

EDIT: Formatting, and apparently you can't write the asterisk character on HN

R-Tree paper (1984): http://postgis.org/support/rtree.pdf

R(star)-Tree (1990): http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4256/1/31.pdf

PostGIS: http://postgis.net

H.Samet textbooks: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/design.html
I am the one Indian who cannot code. I run www.fairobserver.com and, for full disclosure, you should know that Matt Owens once worked with me. I wish he could do this shit when we were working together. I am amazed at what Matt has done. As a non-tech guy, I like the clean design and its user-friendliness.
Because of hardware, and the fact that fixed point doesn't solve the core problems with floating point as it stands today. Its hard enough to get good stable/fast floating point hardware, much less adding the complexities of variable sized words, with variable sized mantissa/exponents.

Really, what your probably asking for is decimal floating point. Which, has its own set of limitations when implemented in hardware.

And if you happen to have an application where what you really need is more precision there are a number of bignum libraries like GMP (https://gmplib.org/) which provide that. But, throwing more precision at a problem doesn't alleviate the need to do error estimation.
Don't blame me: I voted for Kodos.
Yes. And by the way, I understand your comment. I really should have shared a more thoughtful response about this project before mentioning EN.
change their name after working there a while

The 300th time you have to say "spelled XYZABC", or the 300th time someone says "I'm sorry, what?" when you tell them your name, people tend to reach their breaking point.
It was forked from the monocle project https://github.com/maccman/monocle
The Rolodex
All four boxes should display the same pile of poo.
There are a number of reasons I'd question this line of reasoning, but the biggest one is that many of us did not have a choice - our names were changed without our consent.
And for those of us who had no idea there are substantial changes afoot to the simple act of posting comments to a discussion board: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
It seems like you would start with one less common service gauge public/international reaction then move up the chain.
Looks like we took down their iframes
The author suggests not allowing uploads of files with specific extensions. That's ignoring the root cause of the problem: allowing uploads into a folder that your web server knows about. Why would you do that? Save all your uploads into some isolated directory on disk that the web server knows nothing about. What am I missing here?
The Toyota Way is a philosophy that includes Kaizen, Lean, and like 12 other principles. http://icos.groups.si.umich.edu/Liker04.pdf. Most people latch on to one or two because the whole thing is too big to grasp at one sitting. It takes a long time (a century, for Toyota) to develop a company into it.
A Brief History Of The Internet Of Things [Infographic]
Yes, you've got the right answer. Forget material and point comparisons which don't really port between the games. The winning percentage conferred by the handicap is what matters.

Four stones in Go sounds like a lot less than four pawns in chess, but if that's what the math says by each resulting in the same winning percentage, then the equivalency is true.
I'm actually wondering where the 2.3x number he cites is coming from. I don't believe the Mill team is claiming 2.3x performance advantage over Haswell while using 2.3x less power, which is how I read that comment.

I watched the replay of the Execution talk here:

http://millcomputing.com/docs/execution/

I'd recommend watching all of the talks if you have the time.

In this talk, maybe 2/3-3/4 of the way through, Godard made a claim about performance relative to OOO, 'like a Haswell' or Haswell specifically - can't remember which, and I can't go through the video again right now. He said something to the effect that they would approach performance for {OOO|~Haswell|Haswell} using less power. It was a very general statement, which I took to mean that a Mill family member intended for GP PC desktop use could approach - not match or exceed - performance of a typical GP PC desktop processor while using less power. Which is certainly not something we've never heard before. And I think the statement is coming from theoretical calculation.

As far as difference with Itanium: I don't know anything about processor design, but I am pretty certain the belt concept central to the Mill is not applied in the Itanium/EPIC. I think it's likely that the Mill is intended to support more operations per instruction than Itanium. The other thing is that there is not 'The Mill Processor' - it's more of a design scheme and ISA.
Md. lawmakers OK ban on ticket-scalping software
I find it fascinating to watch how different 'scenes' of creators (books, comics, video games, paintings, etc) react to the flooding of their creative market caused by increased accessibility of participation through technology. As a musician, it's something I've dealt with for quite some time. It's interesting to compare and contrast different communities' reactions. Then to think about how those similarities and differences map to how people in different mediums think is a whole nother layer of fun.
The Internet was designed to withstand damage due to nuclear warfare and other external disruptions. It apparently was not designed to reliably withstand serious attacks of malicious third parties controlling some segments of it.

Time to adapt.
Decentralized (federated) video sharing alternative:

http://mediagoblin.org/
Turkey was blocking YouTube back in late 2000s as well
I've always disliked GIMP's floating windows (especially with a tiling window manager) but never knew of the single-window mode. That is a great tip!
The restriction is on purpose to prevent browsers from becoming botnets.
Stripe doesn't mess around with innovator's dilemma. Bitcoin was one of their weaknesses and now they could turn it into a strength overnight.
content management, built for developers
This reminds me of the "information wants to be free" and "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" slogans of yesteryear. The internet isn't magic. There is no natural law that means it will always emerge victorious.
You do realize that the surface of the ocean is moving around rather drastically? That part of the ocean, because of how wide open it is, has some of the largest swells of any ocean. I feel that this would make things rather difficult.
Two points.

1. Google fought then-giants such as AltaVista, Excite and Yahoo in the process of establishing itself as the leader in search space. The incumbents had economies of scale and (relatively) massive amounts of data to crunch through. Yet a Google happened!

2. ``Google's very existence makes it harder for similar services to exist." History has proved time and again that such a premise is false. When it does become false, it is usually because of `dissimilar' disruptions in the landscape.
"Over half of Russian migrants Americanised their names; only 4% of Irish migrants did so."

Americanised, or Anglicized?

I have a feeling this variation by nationality extends well beyond Russian/Irish divide, where I live many people are of German decent (42%, next closest is Irish at 11%)and German family names are the most common. When I bought my house I noticed every party involved had a German last name and that made me take more notice in general.
Bringing together the best of PaaS and IaaS
That's about the extent to which we do it at my workplace. Haven't used Browserify but I've been meaning to check it out.
This implies that they do:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Turkey/comments/21i3u1/turkish_forei...
Interesting development. Blip might be part of the reason. I can't see how Disney would pay such a large amount for a company that sits on top of YouTube. Margins are small, zero control, and they provide no real value.

If I were Disney or anyone else, I'd be looking at Rumble.com or Storyful. They are managing similar volumes and content like Maker, but on their own platforms (they distribute outside of the YouTube eco-system). That's where the future is. Like Centigonal mentioned, these companies are actually changing how news is reported.
1. If this is this a viral app? Nobody. Go get an account with one fo the site builders setup a low-cost landing page with a video and start working on marketing it. Get about 200-1000 email sign ups that buy into your site. 2. If this is an enterprise app, go close a 20k deal and you can pay someone. 3. If this a b2b website/app you need to find 5-20 potential customers that said they'll work with you. 4. marketplace do 2 and 3. Most developers don't want to do the sales/markeitng side so you actually have a true partnership there. Also, be prepared to cough up 50%
Hopefully it is a temporary thing but the iframe is not loading for me in any browser. "Server refused the connection"
Let me put it like this...

With a bunch of billion of people, there are certainly smart and competent people that believe in Santa Claus and can do a wonderful job in some subject areas, because they follow what Santa tells them...

Statistically, some of those guys can also be trusted with more general areas. How can you distinguish those? (Consider that Santa might tell them to lie to you when your hire/vote for them. Or Santa might change his mind.)
It's not just luck. But a big portion of it is luck.

Lots of people had made social networks in the past. Why did Facebook succeed? Partly because it was well designed. But also because it was in the right place at the right time to build momentum early on. That's the lucky part.

Success takes hard work. But hard work isn't enough.
If you find yourself doing big-time spatial queries, consider using the PostGIS extension for Postgres, which uses R-Trees-on-top-of-GiST indices: http://postgis.net/

In addition to ray-casting and R-Trees, there's another alternative for the "point in polygon test" not mentioned by the article: compute the Winding Number. Appropriate for a very low number of polygons where a full spatial index might be overkill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon#Winding_number...

I think seatgeek made the right choice in this case though with a client-side R-Tree.

Aside: does anyone know what browsers use for hit-testing polygons defined by the <map/> tag?
Thank you. I also learned ruby with the ruby koans and was lucky enough to meet him through our local ruby community and eventually end up working with him. His other free and open-source educational work was git immersion: http://gitimmersion.com/ which you might like.

Also, here's one of my favorite practices to watch Jim do & to practice as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ronr_CG8x0Y

Thanks for the bug report, I'm opening an issue. Can you email me a screenshot? email address in profile.
Yes and no.

On one side, the Visionect stack saves you insane amounts of money over trying to develop against vanilla Eink hardware. Which has to be worth something, right?

On the other side, VTablets are a lot more rugged than your vanilla ebook reader (which are cheap consumer devices).

On the third side, support and R&D. The devices and the ecoystem is constantly improving and evolving. This is not a consumer device with a single use case. Also try calling Amazon about getting some help from them regarding deploying your app to their device.

On the fourth side, economies of scale like you noticed yourself.

Disclaimer and shameless plug: I was part of the Visionect team and was involved with development of Geoffrey eMenu and Wemar Nautipad applications.
It also needs flash in order to run.
Have you been reading To Serve Man again?
Consistency and the power of small investments
All we need now is a Border Rules Agnostic Network, and the RAISN BRAN will be part of this healthy information breakfast.
I agree on some points, but for the non destructive photo adjustment there is an excellent open source alternative caleld darktable which you should check out if you haven't: http://www.darktable.org/

Arguably, they don't support none of the vector layers, but thats something you could do in Inkscape. Agreed that it might be more convenient to stay in one tool, though.
Anecdotally, I've never met a "Shavaun" (or "Chivonne", etc).

All the "Siobhans" I've met seemed proud of their Irish heritage and history. Making it easier and losing the Gaelic "bh" seems a bit more lower-class.
The embedded videos are still fetched by the browser from YouTube domains, so a DNS block should affect them as well.
I love it, especially the desktop interface. I love HN for the comments, and it is really nice to be able to see the comments on the same screen as the list of articles.

I'm not a big fan of the mobile version, but that's no critique. I haven't liked any of the mobile HN versions; I just use the regular site and zoom in anytime I want to vote on a submission or comment.

My only suggestion: I'd like to see the number of comments in the sidebar, so I know which articles already have active conversations going.

Nice work!
Just to get into a top tier PHD programs means you were pretty smart. Admission rates for even for 2nd tier schools are quite low.
Yeah, is it just me or are InkScape and GIMP both set up with rather unhelpful defaults? I didn't run into such problems with Huygen.
The concept that Stripe may be moving away from strictly supporting Credit Card payments (which are awful, but necessary for now) and into alternatives is so exciting to me that I am literally shaking. We're building infrastructure to make bank-to-bank transfers palatable to consumers and drive their cost toward zero, but it's only if thought leaders like the Collisons embrace the move away from CC's that the move will happen. This is such a huge step!
Ethiopian here....Very true!
It's a Multi-Screen World
also depends on how you define a utilitarian reason. If you are new somewhere for example, you will try to get to know people just so you are not alone, and first connections that served to just not be alone might develop into great friendships.
Aren't new connections and friendships always utilitarian in some shape or form in the beginning ?
Liver replica is first step to creating a lab 'microhuman'