skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cached at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6c9OrzU...

It was deleted for lack of importance. The only secondary source is a 2013 talk[1], which doesn't establish importance.

The link now goes to GeoJSON#TopoJSON, which is much better.

[1] http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013...
I use either my coffee or dining table, both made of solid oak. If neither are available, I use the floor. Being a big music fan, I often drag a pair of portable speakers and a broken ipod around (currently hardcore, breakcore and Scott Joplin).

Although I use a laptop, I stick to a mouse, touchpads drive me up the wall. Generally speaking, I prefer my hardware ugly and robust, as opposed to sleek and fragile.
Fast, useful and easy to use.
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In main street interpretation of statistical findings, type II errors are often swept under the rug.

A good illustration of the danger in only telling the type I side of the story is [xkcd/1132](http://xkcd.com/1132/), the frequentist looks hilariously stupid, and we all hail the Bayesian smartness.

Yet a closer look from the frequentist view, the type II error of the test: H_0: the sun has gone nova is Pr[detector reports no|the sun has indeed exploded] = 1 - 1/36 > 95%; in other words the power of the test(1-Pr[type II error]) is extremely low (1/36). Even though the test has a reasonably low level alpha=0.05(type I error), it's still pretty useless as its power is also pathetic.

The comic made the frequentist look idiotic, however, he's just not a good frequentist with a sufficient grasp of type II error. In reality, many people are like the freqentist, easily satisfied with a low p-value without thinking about the fundamental usefulness of their tests (power), becoming victims of type II errors.

EDIT: I made a mistake, see eli_gottlieb's comment below for correction.
And my favorite: Type III Errors, wherein the very premise for the calculation is flawed. Always be wary of precisely answering the wrong question.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1957.105...
I think you are missing the point. Versioning and package management problems can largely go away when your entire code base is derived from a single repo. After all, library versioning and packaging are indirections to better solve common deployment and distribution requirements. These problems don't have to exist when you control all the endpoints. If you could build and distribute a 1 GB self-contained, statically linked binary, library versioning and packages become largely irrelevant.
No serious concerns. Just the typical overly debian knee-jerk reaction to bring someone down by bullying "because we can" and not for technical merits.
There was no argumentation why cacert should be removed.

Maybe Assange was right? (I still doubt it, debian politicians are just as stupid and like to abuse their powers as any other politicians are)
I mean that I went there to try out the officially approved solution, and quickly found that there weren't a lot of interesting questions being asked, or much discussion. Indeed a lot of the questions that were asked were there only because they were moved from the main site, and it wasn't clear to me that the people asking the questions actually saw the answers.
Rocket engines run at high temperatures, pressures and rotational speeds but it is not a fundamental problem that can't be engineered around.
Reliable engines with low maintenance requirements should be possible to create.
This is one of those fundamental things they should just make mandatory in grade school. I constantly find myself explaining this to people I work with - and even though it's kind of intuitive ("penny wise, pound foolish", "straining gnats to swallow camels"), it helps to have a formal concept like this to hang the concept on.
ImageShack had a problem with people directly linking images, since that doesn't allow them to show ads, so they changed things around and SA didn't like it, then they blocked each other, the SA admins attempted to make a local copy of any image that was hosted there, to preserve Photoshop Phriday and other threads...

A couple of people on SA ran WaffleImages for a while, where any user could donate a server to host images, but that didn't last for too long.
When a scientist says "an explanation for X could be Y" it shouldn't be interpreted as "here's a guess, I want it to be true and am undermining science", rather it's a sign they are being extraordinarily careful but they're reporting that they have observed some evidence which appears to agree with a given hypothesis.

Also I suggest reviewing high school biology, glycolysis isn't simple the breakdown of glucose into simpler molecules but involves many seemingly complex stages of isomerisation and reactions which are shepherded under specific conditions within various enzyme's active sites.

Consider reading the paper for more information: http://msb.embopress.org/content/10/4/725
I thought it was a great idea for strengthening the gpg/gpg web of trust. Outside of debian there is/was very little in the way of organized efforts to improve the web of trust. However I do not think it is a great idea for browser certificates. At least not until there are serious improvements to the CA configuration UI and user education.
I think that was waffleimages.
I was also talking about projects and porting in general. Incidentally, I've been paid to do exactly what we're discussing. (Porting a production program using automated translation.) It works.
They monetize the hell out of it now. A few times a day I click an imgur link and the page will show the image for a fraction of a second before forwarding to a full-page ad. It won't last much longer before someone else comes along with something less annoying and fewer ads.
Way to dump on autistic people, man. You really think they don't have enough problems, you gotta blame them for this too?

If you wanna make something better, call out specific behaviors - ideally, punctuated with specific examples - and explain why they're harmful. That way folks who care can learn something, and teach others. Yes, even if they do have autism.
No that was WaffleImages. It was built after Macbeth tried to monetize by spamming SA.
Comcast's CEO seemed to indicate that Netflix did this on purpose. Yeah, likely.
That's a very negative and demeaning view of humanity. I think we're way too ingenious and creative to let risk stop us from doing amazing things.

Perhaps if something is risky, then maybe it shouldn't succeed, ever thought of that? Perhaps risky things come with greater rewards precisely because they are more likely to fail?
Or one can always make a mother*ucking web site [^1], which works perfectly in every browser. Zero issues with font size, layout and scrolling. Just-works.

[1]: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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Anybody who gives up 25% to build an MVP clearly has no idea what she's doing. This probably tells a lot about the future success of the company. Not only it's a bad deal for them, it's also a bad deal for you.
I ask questions like this a lot, and that is not at all what it's about. The motivation for asking what somebody is trying to do is that I don't know a good answer to the question they asked, but I have a nagging feeling that their question might actually be reducible to a different question that I can answer easily. It would be presumptuous to just answer a completely different question, though, so I ask for clarification whether this is in fact the context that it looks like. To put it another way, they're asking "How do I hit glass with stone without breaking it?" but what they actually want to know is "How do I get the lid off a beer bottle?" The fact that they currently believe removing a beer lid involves striking the bottle with a rock doesn't necessarily mean that answers along those lines are the most helpful. But I can't be sure when I see that question whether they are thinking about a beer bottle.

For example, yesterday a guy asked a rather complicated question about hacking the Objective-C runtime to replace a class in the inheritance tree. But from his question, I was able to infer that what he actually wanted to do was globally change a class's behavior. So I answered the question that I read between the lines. His response was, "Oh, yeah, I don't know why I didn't do that to begin with." In that case I felt sure enough to answer without asking, but in other cases I'm not as confident whether this is actually a different question in disguise.
Yes, because it is self signed, and your OS/distro must have CACert.org's certs to be able to verify.
Reason why?
I personally only buy the frame, and build a table-top for it. You can get pre-glued boards like this, which are quite easy to finish:
http://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/lumber-boards...

If you're worried about the wood getting damaged by repeated disassembly-reassembly cycles, you can use insert nuts to screw a machine bolt into:
http://www.menards.com/main/tools-hardware/fasteners/nuts/mi...

The nice part is that an actual wood top not only looks and feels better, it's a bit cheaper than the particle board tops that IKEA makes.
There are two issues with this. There are also MASSIVE incentive issues with this (lobbying, etc) but in this comment I'll only discuss legal issues:

The first is that a legislature can't easily bind its future self - laws passed by a majority can be repealed by a majority or circumvented by a majority in the future. So even if we pass Law 2014-003 saying what you said, there's nothing stopping a 2015 (or 2020 or whenever) law from saying "Law 2014-003 is hereby repealed" or more narrowly "Law 2014-003 doesn't apply to this law". There are some edge cases where you can pull it off but by and large it'd take a state/federal constitutional amendment.

The second issue is that the federal government can only regulate "interstate commerce". While you'd think that anything involving the Internet would automatically apply there, you couldn't stop a state law that covered only a local business dealing with in-state customers. So such a law could be used as a shield for Verizon/Comcast/etc while state laws restricting ISPs would only apply to smaller in-state competitors. My parents and a number of my friends are served by a local Wireless ISP because that's the only alternative in their neck of the (literal) woods. Under your system, their ISP could be subject to innumerable regulations that Verizon/Comcast would be immune to.
Please do not post HN support questions to HN. As the guidelines say, you should send them to hn@ycombinator.com.
I've never seen a fullpage ad on imgur. They've got sidebar ads, and the occasional promoted image, but never an overlay or popup.

If you're getting the latter, you might want to scan for malware.
looking at the plot, i wonder what the heck is up with healthcare.gov... what on earth does the site do that really requires 5e8 loc?
Interesting, thanks. I originally got a 4 drive QNAP but it's way too limited in terms of CPU, it couldn't keep up with rsync+ssh transfers. I ended up replacing it with a HP microserver and am very happy with it. So far 4 drives in RAID6 have been enough but it would be nice to have versions with more drives. I guess I could fit a 5th drive in the optical drive slot.

Edit: I see that these Pro QNAP versions are actually high-specced and high-priced Intel machines. The HP microservers still hit a sweet spot of low price and ECC ram though. QNAP must be making a bundle by effectively differentiating themselves in their software. Nothing in the hardware seems to justify the pricing.
You do want to support a non-commercial and community driven CA cert authority, because you don't want to rely on commercial-only cert's which are not based on technical merits, just on friendship and common business interests.

You really want a free HTTPS connection to your favorite open source projects login page, and do not force them to pay yearly CA update fees to not trustworthy cert authorities for no reason.

Currently you need to add the cacert into your keychain on some distros manually.
See http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/ImportRootCert
I think stackoverflow is working just fine, it's just weird. For example a question I posted recently I got a great answer in minute or so, as well as grumpy comments and closed.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21889666/facial-recogniti...
The terms "false positive" and "false negative" are so much clear.
Go has a ton of things going for it! I suggest Googling for more info, but a couple of my favorite features:

* I can use go fmt to format my code and it'll look nice. So many people use go fmt that most code bases are very easy to dive into. They all follow the standard!

* No magic! You write what you want and the whole formality of the thing forces you to write better code. May be a placebo effect, but I find myself writing less buggy code in Go.

* Compile to static binary you can just drop and run -anywhere-. No rvm gemsets, no rbenv, no bla bla bla - you want your code running, period.
Does that work with physical papers and reports? Moving them physically to a different country?
Looks great-- where's the Raspberry Pi support? Or am I missing something?
A majority of the people who can pick ISPs (37% of the country) have only two choices. I'd bet in most cases those two choices are Comcast and Verizon. The odds you'll have a neutral ISP as an option are pretty tiny.
I agree that the concept of limited liability is critical to modern capitalism and entrepreneurship, but I think you may be mistaken about the history of companies.

The concept of corporations is based on a legal identity that is separate from any individual. Incorporation historically was a rare grant at the behest of the ruling monarch. This dates back to the Roman Emperors, who granted incorporation to municipalities, guilds, and religious groups. However, these corporations are distinct from what we would consider a company today. The typical business did not have access to incorporation.

Several of the oldest known companies, dating back to the 6th century, were Japanese companies that were family-owned, and were not legally limited in liability. The concept of joint-stock companies is based on transferable shares, and dates back to at least the 13th century. Limited liability was not really a legal concept (separate from royal charters) until the 19th century. The first joint-stock companies in England were unlimited liability, and the public was very much opposed to the concept of liability limitation. However, many joint-stock companies wrote liability limitation clauses in contracts with creditors, and these were considered legally enforceable. In the second half of the 19th century, most European and US states had adopted limited liability laws. Limited liability is a modern concept that has not existed for most of the history of companies.
Performance is only one of many factors in deciding on a language.

Here are some other reasons that occur to me (YMMV):

* A language that is great for performance might not lend itself equally well to experimentation or initial implementation (not saying this is the case for Golang, but in my opinion it probably is for other performance-focused languages like C++).

* You as a developer might have more expertise in a dynamic language.

* The initial development language might have superior OSS libraries which allow you to get to a working application quicker (later you can replace them with your own implementations when you do the rewrite)

* Things change. Golang might have been a terrible choice when Digital Ocean was starting up. Golang is definitely reaching a tipping point as a language, but it might have become a dead-end like many other promising languages and where would you be then?
Go provides performance headroom allowing you to develop low-latency applications without extraneous effort and premature optimization.
http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg

Mine is in one of the smaller rooms of my house that I work out of once in a while. I belive the table top is the Ikea Gerton (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/) that I bought a few years ago. Such a simple desk and loads of room. Pretty heavy too.
In reality of people just don't know how to program without generics. Go provides interfaces which can be used to write generic code. Think of everything that has been written in C without generics or Java pre 1.4.

I'm all of the day generics is finely added (and yes I missed it a lot when I was new to Go a couple years ago), but it is much less of a issue then some people make it out to be.
FYI, It is unplayable on my low-end Lumia 520. I'm getting about 1 fps.
Seems to be working very smoothly on my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1.1.
I am sorry but are we looking at the same website. I see two static pages and a logo. Compared to more than 2 months of work that has been put in the code base by what seems like a very talented team, the efforts they have made on the "PR" is minimal (a few hours, probably even less). I think you are being extremely unfair.
>that's very close to the size of the Whatsapp deal.

it's very close the MarketCap of LinkedIn
-- more reason why $19 billion for an App that generates $20million in revenue is/was ridiculous.
Never seen a fullpage ad either, although I finally had to add imgur to adblock when they started autoplaying video ads.
I see the Kagan quote as utterly rational.

If I attached a digital broadcast antennae to my TV, wouldn't it appear to me just as if I were watching cable? I turn on the TV, I select among channels, I watch stuff. Or I attache the local antennae to a local DVR and use that. Same experience as if I had cable going to my DVR.

Yet despite the same end result I'm not watching cable.

Am I missing something? Is the experience not the same?
The problem with a community driven CA is that there is no repercussions if it is infiltrated. If one of the commercial CAs got hacked then they would be removed as a trusted CA and their business would cease from that point on. They have a commercial interest in being secure and therefore invest lots of money in solutions to this (including expensive HSMs).

Certificates are not expensive - you can pick them up for $5.

I sell SSL certs for £35, every one of my customers could have got the exact same certificate for £5 - they pay the extra for a well designed, intuitive website that makes the process incredibly easy with great support.

Most of my customers hear about my site through word of mouth, I often give out free or cost-price certificates to Open Source software or charitable sites.

https://www.volcanicpixels.com/ssl/buy

https://github.com/volcanicpixels/volcanicpixels/
Fascinating work. Makes me wish I had gotten my PhD when I had the chance so I could work on stuff like this.
One wonders if having the parent company in, say, Switzerland would be better.
How does this differ from Tiger Tonic ( https://github.com/rcrowley/go-tigertonic )?
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Argument: (In order of how persuasive I found the argument)

1. "There was no argumentation why cacert should have been included
initially."
2. No audit of CACert's process and infrastructure.
3. Mozilla and FreeBSD have had previous discussions and decided CACert
was unacceptable. (reliance-on/agreement-with)
4. Questionable license.
I know some websites (like ESPN3) only allow you access if you're on a subscribing ISP.

Could Netflix take a play out of that book and charge a different rate for Comcast customers vs others, and in particular, make it enough of a PR issue that other ISPs would be more willing to cave?
I always get a window seat, then board asap, put in my headphones, and go to sleep.
Serving 1Gbps of traffic from Amazon S3 would cost $250,000 a year.

Maybe that's not a big deal to you, but it would be to me!
The CSS Virgin Quiz includes a question about Justin Timberlake and this True/False assertion: "The Big Lebowski is the perfect movie."

I suspect all the quizzes are jokes or proof-of-concept placeholders.
The problem is, it's easy to pull out specific examples that illustrate bad attitudes, mistakes, etc. Stack Overflow gets somewhere between 8 and 9 thousand questions every day - even with only a small % of those being closed, downvoted, dumped on, etc. that's still a lot of opportunity for error - in both directions (plenty of embarrassingly-bad and outright abusive/trolling posts stick around too long too).

So, there are checks and balances and venues for appeal and we try and provide opportunities for both automated systems and humans to review and appeal any decision. If you're patient, it works. If you're not... Well, it's probably not a good place for you to be.
From the article: "Longstanding U.S. law holds that the recipient of a subpoena must provide the information sought, no matter where it is held, he said."
Pathetic. Still waiting for one and a half year.
Certificates are not expensive, they can be picked up for $5.
That is the most irritating page layout I have come across yet. What is that red bar even there for?
Maybe a bit off-topic, but the Grand Comics Database (http://www.comics.org) is an fan non-profit effort to index all comic books worldwide. We don't have an API, although we'd like to - it's mostly that we have no clear requirements yet, and since all data is available as a DB dump under CC-BY, there's not much push for one.

The project is now in its 20th year and this shows in that the database schema isn't as canonicalized as could be (for example, creator credits and character fields are just text fields and not DB references. Yet slowly but surely improvements are being made, faster in the last couple of years.

We could use some help if anybody is interested - our code is GPL (https://github.com/GrandComicsDatabase/gcd-django) and since the dev team is limited and everything happens on our free time, all kinds of help are appreciated.

Further links:
our wiki: http://docs.comics.org/
our tech mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-tech
"The data are from Netflix."

Really, Washington Post?!
Unplayable on my Lumia 520. Very laggy. What could be causing this?
Incredible view for sure. I find that I'm most productive when I can see lots going on around me.
Fair point, examples should be correct even on the part that is not the primary focus of the example. I’ve added a RWMutex to the "users" example, other examples improvements will come soon. https://github.com/ant0ine/go-json-rest-examples/commit/6983...
The sharing economy has succeeded because the real economy has been struggling
Why should I pay a not-trustworthy company, when I can get one for free, from a widely respected and completely open sourced and community managed authority?