skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noone here backed Mailpile on kickstarter then?

https://www.mailpile.is/
Why is Silicon Valley obsessed with top-tier schools?
New age of social and knowledge
Stringing this together with other libraries like http://github.com/warpech/jquery-handsontable and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls could lead to a better web spreadsheet.

EDIT: someone already thought about combining those libraries: http://SheetJS.github.io
Maintain true net neutrality to protect the freedom of information in the US
http://cloudatcost.com have vps starting at 35$ one time (yes, one time really)
2048+Don't step the white tile
I've never had adware/toolbars or such installed by chocolatey, can't speak for others though. I use when I want a quick way of getting for example the JRE without crap installed.
Superior is indeed difficult to define. I think most Haskell libraries define far more elegant abstractions than their Java counterparts.

However, as a user of both Haskell and the JVM, there are some things to be said for the Java library ecosystem. For instance, the most widely-used Java libraries are often more mature, maintained better (usually because its authors are paid to do so), and more API-stable (for most of my Haskell code, a dependency version bump usually implies updating my own code). Of course, this is all reasonable, since the Haskell ecosystem exploded far more recently than Java's. The older Haskell pages (bytestring, text, vector) tend to be very stable and predictable.

Another aspect where the JVM is currently ahead is VM monitoring. E.g. if there is a bottleneck, I can easily attach Visual VM or even my IDE to a running Tomcat and peek around. The JVM can do code hotswap (even more effectively with JRebel and LiveRebel).

Note: I posted this to provide some balance to the discussion. I believe Haskell is superior in many other respects, such as the type system, REPL-driven development, web frameworks with type-safe URLSs, etc.
That was a joke: seeing how a pidgin is a hybrid between two languages pidgeon is a hybrid between two words. Nevermind
Because it limits the impact of those with immense wealth to unduly impact the funding goals of those running for office.
"The proper solution is to make it very easy to strike down bad patents ..." isn't this exactly what the author is trying to do? The author states that he uses StackExchange to "respond to requests for prior art that invalidate an overly-broad patent." Sounds like you two agree.
JVM might have superior libraries (though I think that is debatable) but Haskell's performance is pretty top notch. If any compiler is approaching the sufficiently smart compiler, it's the GHC
A recent "Cosmos" episode recounted that it was Clair Patterson who used the worlds very first "ultra clean room" to count the parts per million of lead in a meteorite to determine the age of the earth. Wikipedia says this happened in 1953. This is 9 years before the ultra clean room patent in 1963.
Chameleon crystals could enable active camouflage (with video)
"This is not the bubble you're looking for..."

"Move along..."

The VC can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
That is much more accuracy than with which humans can crack recaptcha.

I'd estimate my own accuracy rate to be 90% or less.
I think we should be more worried about high inflation in the future, not deflation:

The lack of inflation despite the Fed's printing can be explained in the massive increase in excess reserves (and also the slowdown in the velocity of money.): https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS

This jump is a result of the Fed getting authorization from congress to pay interest on said reserves. By controlling this rate, the Fed can effectively control how much excess reserves they have, thus having a large impact on the rate of inflation. Having said that, it is a massive and unprecedented amount of excess reserves. If something goes terribly wrong in their exit strategy (and/or the velocity of money picks up unexpectedly) then the worry would be high inflation, not deflation.

EDIT: I believe you meant if inflation kicked in then the flood of free money would discontinue. That would be accurate as interest rates would rise and QE would most certainly be off the table. Deflation fears is what set QE into high-gear in the first place ;)
You are implying that the US patent office is a profit oriented organization. Even if this is practice, it should be possible to fix that, no?

Also I disagree with that it's a self perpetuating cycle. It is only self perpetuating if your reaction to more applications is being less rigorous. Almost every organization in the world, no matter if it is profit or non-profit, gets more rigorous the more * applications come in.

Somehow you are right but I think the root cause is something else.
It all depends on the package maintainer(s).

If you're not happy with exactly what they've provided, it gets a little more complicated; you'll need to edit the packages (written in Powershell) themselves.

Scott Hanselman has a nice write-up/example here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsTheWindowsUserReadyForAptget...

I really like the idea behind Chocolatey, but in the end the time that I spent fiddling with packages minimized any potential time savings.

However, if you're not picky about your software, just need a quick copy of something, or only want to test something out, I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
Just as for any finite string you chose you can chose a finite language L to trivially produce it, for any finite language L you chose, you can chose a finite string S that can't be trivially produced. If you chose L such that it trivially covers the structures of one universe (or a finite number of universes), there are infinite other universes in the same class of complexity which it doesn't cover.
Take a look here
http://www.longecity.org/forum/page/index.html/_/feature/res...

We (longecity members) founded this project out of our pockets a few months ago. I am sure Dr. Matthew 'Oki' O'Connor will love to discuss ideas with you.
How to 3D Print Synthetic Tissue Out of Water Droplets
Firefox has had a request open since 2006 regarding the blocking of data:image elements; not just for ad blocking but also for general image-free browsing.

Still no progress after seven years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331257
I'd love to have a workshop outfitted like that.

Our local hackerspace is amassing a nice collection old machine tools and recently acquired a hand-cranked forge.
Your connected home could one day save your life
Change/Add the/an RSS so that there is a feed with new items first, perhaps with an optional parameter for a minimum point count before it appears on the feed?
It could. But it hasn't been done yet. And as rcxdude stated, it would need to be done in such a way that you can't create a fake secure textarea using HTML.

Perhaps when focusing on one, all other script on the page stops, no events or timeouts are triggered, everything other than the secure textarea is ghosted out, and something big and obvious in the browsers chrome lights up to show you that you are actually focused on a "secure textarea" and not a normal one.
That effect isn't very strong in an already depressed economy (where people only buy the bare necessities anyway).
Bug can cause deadly failures when anesthesia device is connected to cell phones
That's a bit of an overstatement. Many purchases are time-sensitive to the extent that expected deflation would have to be very high.
Ask HN: What does the term Hacker mean to you?
My manager seems to think that a Hacker is someone who solely gains unauthorised access into a system and tries not to leave a trace. Causing some malice or ill effect. I think it's evolved much more to include developers and entrepreneurs. What are your views? Discus...
PaaS is a commodity now, what's next?
This is THE hardest problem to solve in a biotech start-up.

In the mitochondrial field, companies are going through orphan-drug designation and fast-track approval processes.

This is probably to only advantage researching for niche - rare - diseases: You can save lots of money/time to get the drug in the market. If you can then find some off-label use for you drug, much better.
Forster regarded personal friendship as being of supreme importance, famously saying:

'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'
My guess is that this comes from the math culture where single letter variables are the norm.
For those wondering, this is the picture by Ralf Dujmovits from May, 2012 mentioned in the article.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
Even JDK comes with some. I find the situation pretty hopeless.
Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?
There is another element within the story that I think people overlook.

Most people seem to focus on the Machine stopping, and that because of this, the humans dwelling within it perish.

More importantly, why did the Machine stop? It stopped because the people within it lost the science, engineering, materials, maths, and physics knowledge it took to build the Machine in the first place - the Machine appears to have bred that desire for such knowledge out of them. In effect, the Machine killed itself by removing the humanity from Humanity.
this is where marketplaces like fiverr.com really prove their value - you could pay a couple of people 20 bucks each to do a 90% job of typesetting and you could finish it up later.

YMMV - but you dont have a lot to lose. You could be surprised by the time you save.
Sorry moe but yes, just yes. It's rock solid, battle hardened, has a fantastic security record, is extremely resource efficient, has gobs of up to date and useful documentation, an active mailing list, a primary author who's stuck with it since conception (unlike DJB) and offers enough flexibility to reliably support virtually any mail setup you care to dream up.

I can't see why in the world anyone would advocate throwing all of that in the bin and adopting something new, flashy and unproven that happens to be written in go/rust/node/other language du jour? I mean why? So we can write configs in JSON and get a 'free batteries included' web management console for monitoring queue lengths?
Time is the only thing standing in the way of any attack (well, time and memory, I guess)
On ARM the tempo is considerably slower than on AMD64 and on SPARC it seems to play a lot more instruments at the same time.
Caller ID hacked onto the iPhone by Stockholm's Truecaller
Boost Your USB WiFi Signal Strength for Next to Nothing
There are also supplements that help prevent the negative side effects plus protect against some of the toxicity.. magnesium + gum for the jaw clenching, Vitamin C [1][2] + ALA [3] + Vitamin E [4] + others for antioxidants and preventing neurotoxicity and hepatoxicity.

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15212815
2: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1098-2396%2820010...
3: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619665
4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11931860
wampserver is good for windows server,
for linux maybe docker containers will have a good server

yeoman (+grunt) is sweet

sublime text demo is awesome

pixlr.com has a photo editor

for hosting u can use digital ocean or phpcloud (or other free cloud service, nodejitsu etc)

for source control u can use github/bitbucket

bootstrap and fontawesome for easy designs

themeforest.net for themes

iconfinder.net

laravel and php is great for web apps
To me it's about knowing how a system (of any kind) works and exploring how that system can be used based on what you know.

The important thing is the effect/intent is completely independent of the definition. People inject their intentions into the definition, but on it's own, hacking is all about curiosity.
AvGeek is the worst buzzword ever and is damaging aviation
And what is right job for whitespace?
Cheap money (or, low rates with "safe" bond markets) + high growth tech = sky high valuations - got it, Fred.

Just, one more thing... how did he go from the 10% yield ($100M / 10M = 10% yield) to "if interest rates are 5% instead of 10%, then you would pay $200mm for the business ($10mm/$200mm = 5%)." Is he simply interchanging the word "yield" with "interest rates" or actually talking about the central bank?
"At one residence, a businessman in his 40s opened the door, still dressed for the office in a suit and silk tie, still, by phone, issuing stern instructions to one of his colleagues"

Not very professional for a drug dealer, bringing a journalist to his customer's house (not to mention the customer accepting this fact without batting an eye). It reads like something Stephen Glass could have written.
You are not evil, and killing patents is fun.
Setting up your own mail server is a thorny problem. I've been setting up my (family's) own mail server, and despite having lots of experience, it has taken a month already. Even when encryption, authentication, spam and sieve filtering, IMAP and webmail work, there's still no SMTP backup or alternative server in case you accidentally end up being blacklisted somewhere. I'm not sure investing money and effort is really worth it for just a few people's mailboxes.

The whole process keeps getting more complicated as the internet grows more hostile and end-user requirements increase.

This project sounds interesting and much necessary, but the real problem to me is the economy of scale. If 10 Unix guys sit together and set up 2 servers for 20-30 personal mailboxes, the time and money might be worth it. Setting up all those services, filtering and redundancy by yourself for just yourself – and monitoring them continuously – is wasteful and painful, even if you like to tinker with Unix systems.

There used to be a few geek-oriented ISPs around that offered SMTP/DNS backup, spam filtering and similar services so you could off-load some effort, but I guess they've fallen prey to low-margin virtual server business.
Livestream with Kevin Rose (TNW conference)
Really great review! I signed up to DO at the weekend and really impressed with how quick it was to get everything up and running!
This is so awesome. Great Work.
Nothing like some well argued logic with supporting numbers and formulas to ease the anxiety. Ahhhhh.
Well, for a certain definition of rational. I think the operative definition in this subject amounts to roughly "not random," though. People (or nowadays trading bots) have reasons, they just aren't necessarily good reasons.
Since 2013 it doesn't even do that. It connects to your MSDN-account to check if you have the required licenses.

At least mine does..
good luck. Don't forget Sydney Brenner's warning about high-throughput (could also be said of bioinformatics):

[it's] low-input, high-throughput, no-output biology
Unionised labour and a $500 refundable deposit on those oxygen cylinders would solve a lot of problems on Everest.
That's true, but not particularly meaningful, since any statement from any person or company could be a lie regardless of how specific it is.

The company's claim that they will pursue legal action against false accusations should not discourage people from making true accusations, because the statement provides absolutely no information about what the company intends to do with true accusations. An analogy would be the statement "we will pursue legal action against anyone who trespasses on company property." That shouldn't discourage employees from going into their offices.
PowerPC and POWER are different architectures.
Thanks for the solid explanations Benjamin.

Docker will soon offer a better solution to service discovery. It will allow taking advantage of the various SD tools out there (zookeeper, etcd, synapse/haproxy, skynet, serf) while keeping your containers compatible with all of them. This will help keep all docker containers compatible with each other, instead of fragmenting them among mutually incompatible service discovery protocols.

Happy to chat about it more on irc - #docker and #docker-dev on Freenode.
Has anyone done something like this before?
Extremely poor performance for me at the moment. The update rate is so slow as to be virtually unusable.
I like to think about how the world would change if patenting was not generally done. Rather, anyone could copy and implement everyone's ideas. How would this look in the grand scale? I think it's possible to discover a way of coexisting in such a world. Anyways, I agree with the author, patent killing is fun.
It goes farther. Every single cable (USB, HDMI, ethernet... that kind of cable) you buy will come with the same label "this product contains lead, a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects etc etc etc". It might have more of an effect if there were any cables that didn't come with the warning.
This is EXACTLY what I need at the moment.

I get a big problem with various people sending me screenshots with stackdumps in. This is perfect for extracting them into the ticket bodies and it does it perfectly (I've just done 20 with it and manually checked them!)

This is the sort of stuff that really improves people's lives by making all data equal.
What licence is this under please? (MIT preferred!)
Look up "bcrypt" and "scrypt". Using salted hashes for storing passwords is still common, but only for legacy reasons. It's considered insecure nowadays. Machines have got very very good at hashing over the last few years.
Their next album will be in Javascript.

You'll just have to configure a NetCatProvider, providing the class name and instantiation arguments as parameters, from which you can then create a NetCatFactory. This can be used to create singleton instances of the NetCatService class, from which you can use arbitrary proxies to bind transactions and get access to the audio stream.
Wasn't trying to indict your point - just elaborating.

Agreed - the system appears pretty broken.
Myers briggs, this dcis thing, astrology, meh. All gobly gook. People dont fit in to easy clearly definable categories. People dont make decisions based off of clearly definable categories (even if they did exist, they're not relevant). So its all silly to even talk about.
You reminded me of the "Black Summer" of 1986 on K2, but I'm trying to find a decent article on it. IIRC at least two dozen climbers were killed during the period.

The story of Alison Hargreaves' life and death is especially chilling. She was blown off the peak by a hurricane force wind in 1995.

Her body has never been found, but her fellow climbers mentioned seeing her jacket, harness and boots in the snow. This reminds me of a certain aspect of plane crash investigations. When a plane explodes at high altitude and the occupants are thrown out, the force exerted by the atmosphere due to falling can be sufficient to rip off clothes, so sometimes the victims bodies can be found on the ground naked.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/k2-the-final-hours-1597003...
thx for reporting. im looking into that today. just have to get a device (or simulator) first ;)
Why did HobNob ban me for using it to date?
how's that going? You guys said you would deliver in april, but it looks like it's been pushed back to june. There are also very few lab-related blog posts, despite a promise by Mr. Drory in the reddit thread that all intermediate results, both good and bad would be disclosed. Also, he said a budget would be disclosed. I haven't seen one on the site yet.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e5rti/whats_wro...

>This will be totally transparent project - we will introduce a novel concept called "constant peer review" - In academia no one publish things that didn't work - we will publish everything.

>We take being a good Steward of our backers funds as #1 priority. Our budget will also be publish online and you can see where the money went.

Neither of these two things has happened yet.
>having 'only' 64 gigs of storage hasn't hurt me yet

If I only have 64GB (plus OS overhead, plus normal data, plus Android likes to report as being out of space when there is still some left), then once I put my music on, I'm almost out, not ideal when I want a few large apps, to download a large file temporarily, etc...
I've been training some of my non-technical staff to support some of our lower-level tickets, requiring them to read and modify some HTML files.

At the beginning for most of them, we open a simple nearly empty page with a few tags and their eyes gloss over.

"Coding" is an incredibly opaque wall to the non-initiated, and, while using a simulated command line to do math won't be surprising, if someone is going to go from 0 to initiated, do not underestimate the size of the baby steps needed.
Amazing Facebook Reaching Out To Help Small Businesses
Open source doesn't mean secure, it means we can audit the code.

OpenSSL is open source too for that matter.
> Well, for a certain definition of rational.

I wasn't going too far afield -- by "rational" I meant on the basis of P/E ratios and other conventional sources of information, rather than mass psychology or hunches.

As to trading bots, depending on how much capital they move, they can twist a small market until it cries uncle, and in a matter of minutes in the worst cases. That's rational by some definitions. :)
America in a nutshell: bunch of smart guys make an amazing system that changes the world; bunch of politicians cheerfully destroy it in return for a quick profit.

If Snowden's revelations weren't enough to ensure the rest of the world got busy on routing traffic around America, legislation like this will.

This move isn't just going to screw American consumers & startups. It's going to remove America from its status as the hub of the Internet.

And all thanks to a few profit-obsessed monopolists.

Yay capitalism.
Surviving Working From Home (Even With Kids)
You don't need another jet bridge to board through two doors. At my local airport, the passengers seated at the back of the plane walk out of the jet bridge and across the tarmac to board through the back door.
This is incredible thank you very much.
So naturally they've got into bed with Amazon who have an all-in-one pricing model as well as a history of screwing suppliers with their dominant position to enforce wafer thin margins.

Seems like a plan with no flaws there.
Absolutely. The thing with market trends is, no one can predict them. It's a guessing game, that no one can predict. Sometimes the bubble last very long, sometimes not.
Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to work from
HobNob is like Tinder, but only just. I think they're trying to be more of a topnotch professional community. Until recently, they were only open to the top 10-15 schools...

Their blog gives a better description of what the app is intending to do... I wonder what you did for them to "ban" you though... sounds like you might have pissed off a different community member?
http://www.hobnobapp.co/blog/
The way the article was written made it sound like Sherpas are paid for their time. So if the climb is called off and they are used for the rest of the season, then they don't earn pay for the weeks they are no longer employed. If a beach is closed you don't keep paying your lifeguards the rest of the season for work they aren't doing.

Seems fine to me. It's actually worse for them if they were paid the entire season even when a cancelation happens since then there's less reason to call it off.