skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png

A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background:

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...
Wow. I didn't think this would be possible, but Notch has managed to top Minecraft.

This is even duller than that borefest.
http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png

online g-code simulator.
http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/

and a pocketing toolpath generator
http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html
Apparently chemistry names are the new hot trend for startups. This is the third on HN within the last week. It's a pretty good idea though because the names sound like what they do; naptha makes sense as the name for an image extractor since naphtha is used for doing quick and dirty extractions while making drugs, iodine makes sense here because it's used to bring out more detail in samples when doing microscopy, etc.
Any advice on getting started with Unity? I've always tried to start a weekend project and get inevitably get bogged down in the details of Unity/Mono.
Find a supermicro reseller and build your own.

Back in the days when I ran my own servers (before virtual machines were so easy and cheap -- and I'm talking 10 years ago) all my servers were supermicro cases (and sometimes motherboards), and bought all the other components individually.

Definitely cheaper than a HP or whatever server.
Go's power is in emergent behavior
A company would benefit by getting more traffic to their site if a user clicks on their link. Right now it's very minimal, it doesn't have anything I agree, but I plan on making it so you can upload some type of banner or something. I figured nobody would take the time to create a banner and upload it so that's why I just have their logo and URL, it's easy to enter that basic information for a company. If the site gets enough traffic, the companies at the top of the list would get the most visibility ofcourse.
Learn to program, the fun way
I'm ok with used, and the current suggestions have been more than helpful, although I took your advice and changed the price range to $700-1000.
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My brother's fiancee has a pretty coveted fellowship with a 4 letter agency here in the US (full ride, lots of lab time, money goes with her, etc).Her hair color changes with the week, but no tats or piercings otherwise. She says that sitting down at dinners with the higher-up is just confusion. The older grey-beards just do not understand the gaps. Their generation was one of service and is mostly white men that did not go to Viet Nam and are now 60+ and have at least 3 ex wives. Her generation is mixed in race and gender, marital status (if ever), and age (22 to 35 year olds). The divide is cultural to her. These guys are always 'behind the fence' and have been for 40 years. Their resumes are basically classified, they could never quit as they could never be hired in another job.

So, when she dines with them and they complain that all their fellows just go off to Apple or Sun, she knows that she just has to bite her tongue. They just won't understand because they have been so sheltered for the last 4 decades. The 'silver tsunami'[0][1] as it is known, is starting to rock the boat of the Military Industrial Complex.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_in_the_American_workforc...
[1]http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/12/aerospace-worke...
One person's lack of context is another's space for imagination...
Rubidium clocks aren't magically perfect at all timescales. They're better than quartz at long timescales, but they still need periodic recalibration.
You do realize that Java has had like a 15 year head start right?
I have tried to configure a server on newegg, but the price with the lowest end AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon was too high, and if I go consumer-grade the mobo's quality goes down allot.
Can't wait to use this! Thanks for making it!
One's employment can be terminated for many things which are much less than a felony. The ability to treat others with respect and command the respect of others is critical for a productive workplace.
I'm curious - what exactly are you trying to prove by systematically foregoing capitalising your sentences?

It makes your post incredibly difficult to read (grammar and typographical rules weren't invented to annoy people, they mostly serve a purpose) and as such detrimental to the quality of the discussion. Therefore I've down voted you.
Looks pretty wonderful. I can see a lot more usecases if you had support for mouse-events. Being able to select objects will enable tons of games and such.
We need your help to stress our Open Source HTTP Server
In Monkey Project[0], we are looking for someone or company who would be able to provide us remote access to a server with no less than 32 CPU cores, we aim to use it for performance tests and general scalability.

It needs to be bare metal machine as we already have resources from Rackspace to use VMs for that purpose. Is there any one around able to help us to accomplish this ?, we only need SSH access and a machine without load to perform fair tests.

Your help is appreaciated.

[0] http://monkey-project.com
I've had really good experiences with Amadi Systems as a Supermicro reseller. http://amadisystems.com/

I've stopped buying Dell/HP entirely now, because the price of Supermicro's stuff is so much better and you don't get into warranty arguments like you do with HP about running non-approved OSes.
How to bypass microcontrollers' security using clock glitching
I'm trying to start a hosting startup, and feel it would be out of the question to use a provider for my use-case.
I wonder how this would vary between countries. Generally the cultural norm in the Nordic region isn't positive on striking up conversation with random people; it's seen as a bit of a violation of people's personal space (exceptions apply to bars). There's some kind of joke I don't fully remember about people who start conversations with strangers, which has the punchline: "he's either drunk, insane, or foreign".

The article says that those are "commuter norms" in Chicago also, but my own experience is that Americans are much more likely to strike up a conversation in public, even at places like a bus stop or in a grocery check-out line, which would be considered very weird in Denmark or (especially) Finland. When I lived in Santa Cruz, California, on the other hand, it was seen as a bit weird not to at least exchange a little small-talk in some of those situations.
I'll check them out, thanks.
> If I had a good SO reputation I would see it as a reasonable alternative to show to potential employers.

I get the sentiment, but it holds little value for me. (I'm in the potential employer category.) I find it pointless as a meter of competency.

> I am working on a side project at the moment mainly to get around the problem I described, but this is taking a whole lot more time than answering a some SO questions.

Think about this comment for a minute. A side project takes longer to complete and requires more discipline and concerted effort. SO questions are quick hits, small scope, and are basically lather-rinse-repeat (find a question, answer it.)

Care to hazard a guess which one of these choices of time I might find more appealing in a candidate?
http://www.great-art.de/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/...
Very cool! First song it served me under minimal was both new and awesome.
> This doesn't necessarily reflect the prospects for serious authors.

This is a good point. My father, who self-publishes a book about his childhood for his grandchildren, does not expect to make a living from it. This is vanity publishing, but without any sneering implied. (I have no idea what percentage of authors fall in this category, but I suspect that many authors in self-publishing do not expect to sell to the wider world.)
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But they do benefit from it in the form of higher sales -- publishers that do a bad job at this generate a reputation for publishing bad books, which can make booksellers less likely to carry them and consumers less likely to give an author the benefit of the doubt.
http://jasymchat.com

It is a computer algebra system (CAS) mobile web app with built in chat. Suitable for highschool,undergrad and grads school work.

basically it would be like if matlab had chat built in :)
You must keep in mind that all it takes is a another player attempting to enter the movie streaming market (e.g. Amazon) that is willing to pay the ISPs. This just creates a whole slew of issues that Netflix might not be willing to deal with.
Don’t worry, no article is perfect. I found this article interesting and maybe I’ll try some of these ideas in Racket.

Previous discussions (they have different submitters and a slightly different URL):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398393 (63 points, 221 days ago, 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448293 (33 points, 1918 days ago, 27 comments)
It seems number 3 is all about have solid libraries with a nice interface. If I need an API server that can handle a fair bit of traffic, having a solid, easy-to-use HTTP lib and database lib is going to go a long way. Nothing I see in Rust precludes them from delivering these things.
One of the local super markets sends containers full of new TVs, washing machines, and more, to the local scrap yard. They didn't sell them within the period that they expected, and instead of discounting them (which would drive away consumers from more expensive products), they 'recycle' them.
Except if your target customer isn't a chemist.
One pro argument is that if the quality of these goes down hill they will fail to make the front page anyway, so what's the down-side?
I may be alone in this but I don't want anyone to talk to me. I don't even want people to talk around me but that's probably not anything I can expect. I want to read my book. I want to be left alone. In Japan it's very much frowned upon to talk on the train, at least in Tokyo. I kind of like that system.

Why? I'm just not friendly. I don't enjoy talking. It's filled with social anxiety and if I want to stop talking I can't just stop. I can't just say "you know what I don't want to talk anymore" and then look away in the middle of a conversation. I don't want to spend 20 minutes or half the day wondering how I came across in the conversation. I definitely don't want my time dictated by others. I had a friend actually get mad at me when I said I would ignore someone who struck a conversation with me on BART, he felt I was obligated to respond to not make that person feel shitty, but maybe that person should just have noticed that my body language is all about being left the fuck alone.
It's possible these atypical experiences were like candy: a great treat if rare, but you'd prefer never having it to having it for every meal.
Somehow this is extremely profound. After playing this, I feel like I need to digest my feelings for a while.
I agree with much of the article, unfortunately, I don't think it applies to everybody. Not long ago I was discussing a creative architecture I had devised to make an api simpler, and the friend I was discussing with, who is also a long-time programmer, recognized how elated I was with my solution. He said he'd never felt that way about programming. He liked making things, and to that end, programming was a tool rather than a process.

I'm trying to think of a way to describe the difference. Is programming your craft? or your task?
17 of history's greatest concept cars will gather in Atlanta next month
"Stats" were a sports thing before there were video games, or even before integrated circuits.
I guess I can't argue with that, even though I personally find the subject more interesting than politics or talk about sexism in tech or bitcoin... everyone's mileage varies.

Though I would disagree with the premise that meta-discussion, necessarily, is a bad thing. At the very least given the nature of the site and its userbase, it's going to be inevitable.
I'm really not sure. It emerged from a few of my friends noticing that we often check each other's DOTABUFF pages, especially after a few of us moved to the opposite coast. I suppose it's basically just DOTA stalking at the moment.

That's also a potentially interesting title... DOTAstalker.
This story reminds me of the B-17s used in the 1963 Steve McQueen movie "The War Lover".

3 B-17's were procured, put in flying condition, and flown to England. With some clever photography and editing, the movie makes those 3 airplanes look like a fleet. After the movie, what was to be done with the planes?

The British government wanted some large import tax on them, but the movie production budget was exhausted. They couldn't even afford to buy the gas to fly them back to the US. The movie company tried to GIVE the airplanes to a British museum, but the government still wanted their import tax, and the museums couldn't pay the tax, either.

The solution was to pour gasoline on them and burn them to the ground.
For a hosting start up I would suggest getting a massive server and paying for it by an equipment lease. Personally I manage two racks full of servers and if I had a magic wand it would be awesome just to have one or two big servers. (64 gigs of ram, lots of 2.5 drives, 4 or 6 processors)

Right now co-location providers are desperate because Amazon and others are taking away a lot of their business so you can get a good price.

I have a friend (manages his own servers) who has a hosting business and he brings in enough to be happy, about $10k a month. He hosts ASP and .NET sites with no marketing budget he just posts to various forums and website hosting comparison sites.

I really like Supermicro servers and Dell Servers.... Supermicro makes some really big servers that you can add your own components to and I find them very reliable. For a friend some years ago I put together a $24k server and they paid for it with a business lease through Bank of America.

I used to own the domain ehosting.com and tried doing hosting but it just isn't my thing. Getting everything to work for a people was far more work then I expected. If I were to try again I would just offer virtualized servers and not have any hand in customers setups.

Having a specialty in hosting I believe is important. For example for $14.95 a month from GoDaddy I have an account with unlimited space and unlimited domains. I have hosted about 30 domains and 24 gigs of files all for $14.95. I also have a virtualized server from GoDaddy for $39.95 a month which I use a coupon code and save about 20% off a month.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020...

A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary)

The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

What I wanna do eventually:
- Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song)
- Speed up the core algorithm
- Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary
- Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look
- Explain the process visibly on the site
We started by hacking up the 2d platform sample game project that Unity bundles. Getting started was a bit rough, and the results from the first weekend were pretty buggy. Once we got to know Unity we were pretty happy with the decision though.

I'm sure that there are good resources for getting up to speed quickly, but unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for how to do it.

One suggestion that I can make is to stick to C#. Unity offers "Javascript", but Unityscript isn't really Javascript, and is more headaches than it is worth in my experience.
I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.
Quality vs. quantity.
Mathoid: Robust, Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia
I'm assuming you aren't referring to "succeed" in your first sentence. :)

It is amusing the amount of hubris our industry has. Seriously, you are talking about outsmarting two of the most successful companies out there.

I mean, could they do better? Probably. But it is hard to grok the amount of second guessing any of their decisions get.
Could you point out some of the issues you noticed in the talk? (Asking from the point of view of someone curious about monads.)
Thanks for pointing to the hilarious source!
I know about Kimsufi, don't know how reliable those are though.

http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
What would it take to add animations?
Missing the target orbit by a significant margin on all their 9 flights?

Or having their failsafe system activated after one of their engines blew up on a single mission, causing them to be in position to release the small secondary payload (which the customer did not particularly need in free flight apparently) slightly late, in a zone in which NASA had veto rights on due to proximity to the ISS. Rather than adjusting their orbit to deposit the secondary payload in the proper orbit, as is technologically feasible, NASA exercised their contractual veto and told them to drop it early.
Only traditional. My knowledge of simplified, and the debate in Chinese academia about their real value, actually stems from discussion with Chinese linguistic experts, but I have no personal experience with simplified Chinese myself, except casually.
Thanks! I'm not totally sure how far I'd like to take this. The original intent was to make some art with it, since I played a lot of Monument Valley [1] a few weeks ago. I'd like to learn a lot more about graphics and see how well I can optimize draw performance, then maybe I can focus on animations and input.

[1]: http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/
Legendary Atari Graveyard Discoverd in New Mexico Desert
Heh - I was playing around with this a few weeks ago to generate tree meshes for forest scenes:

https://vimeo.com/91155115

It's no SpeedTree (fiddly interface, random luck based on the random seed what shape branches and leave orientation you get), but it's pretty cool, and the meshes are quads as well, which is nice.
Show HN: Google now includes interactive episode guides in it's searches
I'm not sure this is what ESR meant with Linus's Law when he said "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law
I'll check yours out later, but have you tried Slacker? I got tired of Pandora because it tended to get too repetitive longer-term, but Slacker seems to have stations controlled by actual DJs that rotate new music in and out.
Here in the Netherlands it's not a popular thing to do either, though most people don't mind it, they just would rather not in case someone minds, but they usually don't.

I'm in luck that my commute - both to university and work - includes the train from the Amsterdam airport to the central station, so I'm among tourists all the time there. It generally does seem easier to strike up a conversation with them. But I wonder if that's because they're from a different culture, or just because they're on holiday rather than on their daily commute.
Also observe the physical resemblance of the Ice King to his creator, Pendleton Ward.
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This is some great work! As part of a school assignment a few years ago, we just barely scratched the surface of block chain analysis [1]. We stopped at loading the block chain into Neo4j, scraping public internet forums for donation accounts, and making simple visualizations. It's cool to see the idea taken so far.

[1] https://plus.google.com/109389788036578433900/posts/hvhwFcp3...
"One of the reasons I wrote that post a year ago was that I had to own up to the fact that we looked better than we actually were."

How very un-Internet-y of you. :)
There's currently no concept of a "scene" (you essentially add shapes which are immediately drawn to the canvas, never saved) so animating a given shape involves changing it slightly and redrawing everything manually.

As for a next step for the project, I'd like to keep track of the objects added to the scene, and draw them intelligently.
I'm from Boston. I saw spontaneous group conversations break out among strangers fairly often. Certainly, I would not think twice if it happened there. In eight years in Seattle, I have never seen it happen, not even once.
I suppose parent was trying to prove that ideas can be conveyed without stretching for the Shift key and inviting RSI.
I look forward to the day humans are forced to mine landfills to get previous goods.

It will be amazing when the cheapest (maybe only?) way to get <raw material> is to recycle old discarded stuff.
Thanks, but I prefer small, cheap 1U's because this first server is just a test run/demo, and also because it's easier to scale.
I don't have any trouble reading it, and I sure don't have a Newsweek subscription.
I like the article but I don't think it makes its point clearly.

What I took from it is that notions and mechanisms of defining leadership/influence are somewhat orthogonal to problem-solving.

In the example, it was Martha who came up with the solution, yet when asked who had been most 'influential' [1] it was Arne. Does that mean Arne was the 'leader'? According to the psychologists viewpoint/definition, yes, but does it really matter? When the question is re-framed and they watch the video again the author proposes that there was only one 'effective influencing action', which came from Martha. I find this viewpoint just as valid (and useful) as the former (i.e. not very).

[1] Note also that influence and influencing actions aren't defined in this post. It's difficult to discuss this with out further detail. It even seems like the definition changes partway through.
I wish I had seen this earlier! :) Thank you!
honestly this is exactly what i want out of my bitcoin movie
For Falcon 9 though, the first stage contributes so much of the dV that it is not particularly feasible to land it at the launch site - by the time it separates, it's moving at several kilometers per second away from the launch site towards the horizon. That opens up the question of where the launch/landing site pair is bound to be. A ship-based landing system, such as a semisubmersible oil drilling rig (only ~$1B used!) with a landing pad built onto it, would seem to be close to optimal for the F9 specifically.

The Falcon Heavy's 2 side boosters, on the other hand, will separate much earlier in the flight - they are likely to be much more practical to land at the launch site, particularly for direct geosynchronous payloads that allow a lot more vertical / near-vertical burn time in relation to horizontal.
Arrrgh! This is my pet peeve. There's no such thing as an "ongoing crisis". I wish people would stop misusing the word - "crisis" is rapidly becoming a meaningless jumble of syllables.