skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I think is missing here boarding times for the different carriers. I was reading somewhere (I can't find the link) that southwest has the best method right now. I did find a link to another site that seems to have similar content but doesn't mention Southwests boarding style (because it isn't random it is based on least resistance boarding). http://menkes76.com/projects/boarding/boarding.htm

Edit: Note Dewey found the right article below.
Lol ok, app.net is jabber hosting :)

The APIs are designed for web apps to be built on. It's not really a stand-alone service, it's more like data storage & identity management for you to make web apps on top of.
Hence why I called it "cheating" and I was "thankful" that the server never re-ordered fields (since proper JSON fields have absolutely no guarantee on order).
I'm not sure why the night-time feed isn't at least picking up lights from cities or oil refinery burns. (Granted, right now it's off the southern coast of Australia...)
Thanks for the tutorial. I appreciate that Git is complex and powerful, but I didn't need a tutorial for Subversion. Git is baffling. The error messages are cryptic and unhelpful. It deters the casual user. Can I suggest a list of the absolute, bare-bones minimum set of commands for a project where there will be no merging, just uploading by one person, and downloading by others?
Given the PDP-11 emulator is described as being "highly portable", it's probably easier to port the emulator than Unix.
Quit obsessing over Google rankings and worry more about getting traffic and eyeballs to your site. If you get the traffic and real visitors, then rankings will naturally follow.

Stop thinking of yourself as a "small-time blogger" and think of yourself as a journalist, a reporter, someone who has a story to tell. Write content that people want to read. Uncover something that people care about. Write something controversial. Use 'social' to get people to see what you write.

I've been in your shoes: I was a 'small-time blogger' and just kept uncovering stuff that people care about, articles that people want read, and after hundreds of posts I finally started getting traffic regularly. Then I uncovered something that lots of people cared about and that post of mine hit the home page of HN and Reddit all at the same time. I didn't think my server could keep up with all the traffic.

Sure, make sure your site is "optimized" based on SEO best practices. But don't obsess over rankings.
"causing real issues for carriers where they have to spend a lot of money upgrading networks, and pushing fiber deeper into their networks"

I've been reading over and over again how the ISPs should already have this upgrade money allocated and available to spend on network infrastructure upgrades.

You've Already Paid $2,000 For A Fiber Connection You'll Never Get - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060131/2021240.shtml
> But most of the people who has given the rating have not seen the movie

I'm sure it's possible, but no rating represents the "actual quality of the movie." A rating is based on a subjective amalgam measurement that encompasses a myriad biases, even when watched and with total scrutiny.
Don't know about "cake", but my "IDE" is a command line.
Unix on a msx computer (browser included!)

http://uzix.sourceforge.net/uzix2.0/index.php?page=scrsht&la...
Rotten Tomatoes does contain different information, and different statistics. For example, take Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

IMDb gives a 6.9/10 from 119,115 users. That's the only real statistic it gives us; there is no 'Metascore' for this movie. (Personally I think the Oscar nomination should be mentioned next to this score, but it's sort of buried further down the page)

Rotten Tomatoes, on the other hand, shows us several numbers. The Tomatometer is at 50% for "All Critics", with an average rating of 5.7/10 and 52 reviews. The "Top Critics" Tomatometer is at 36%, with an average rating of 5.9/10 and 14 reviews. The Audience rating, however, is 73%, with an average rating of 3.4/5 from 333,273 users.

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The above example shows how you can sometimes use IMDb's stats of general ratings as a median reference between the audience numbers and critics numbers. But this doesn't always paint the best picture. Let's take another example: the recent (and generally accepted as a flop) 47 Ronin.

Here, IMDb gives us a 6.3/10 rating from 60,849 users. But it also gives a Metascore of 29/100. Yet the number in a gold star in bigger font is just the '6.3'. So even though this movie has a dramatically lower Metascore, they only feature the general user rating from IMDb.

The story is much more dramatic on Rotten Tomatoes. It has a 13% 'All Critics' Tomatometer rating from 72 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The 'Top Critics' Tomatometer shows 0% with 13 reviews and an average rating of 2.9/10; not one single top critic liked this film, out of 13 critics! Yet the audience rating shows 51% with an average of 3.3/5 with 53,921 ratings.

We can see how IMDb got its '6.3' rating here: both seem to show a middle-of-the-road rating from general audience ratings. But Rotten Tomatoes' critics stats show this movie isn't worth wasting two hours of your life on. The gamble of whether you may like the movie or not becomes more certainly less likely when you take the critics' reviews into consideration.

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As we can see above, even within each website, sometimes they have not only greatly varying statistics, but sometimes missing or hidden information (Robin Hood not having a Metacritic rating and not prominently displaying the oscar nod). People weigh their options based on the data they have at hand, so the information you give people - along with its context - will change their minds greatly, regardless of the source.

This is why I think it's much more realistic to look at multiple different sites. You need as much information as you can get, and no one site gives you all the relevant data, as it varies from film to film and user community to user community. It would seem you can't just depend on 'the crowd' to give someone an accurate idea of whether they will like a film; a survey would probably be better, but nobody's going to survey every film they watch.
If the general public considers a movie boring, giving it a mediocre rating seems fair. Other members of the general public will then know to avoid it. They'll want to watch movies they like, not movies you like.

What you may want is a personalized rating based on people with the same tastes as you.
> So when will OpenCL provide the same support for integrated C++ and Fortran development, on the same source file, CUDA allows for?

Pretty much any language that has an llvm backend should be easy to port to OpenCL now that we have SPIR.
Advice from 30 year old me to 20 year old me
Ack is great, but watch out if you have any source files with unusual file name extensions. Ack will only search file types it knows about. Also if you have your whole source tree in your editor or IDE, then you may as well search there instead.
Mobile Virtual Desktops with Amazon WorkSpaces.. now available in Europe too
Landline phones certainly used to be metered for all but local calls.
The solution is recognizing that a 'honest' or 'good' metric is not possible. Thing is, to produce such a list you need to have some function f, which maps the complex opinions of each and every user of the site into an orderable set, usually integers smaller than 5 or 10.
I normally tell people to use ack because it's like grep but faster (owing to it's sensible defaults) ... if I use this I'm worried I might go too fast and travel backwards in time or something.
Very cool, maybe I will implement the simulator when I have a chance.
It would be nice to explain what it means. Try googling "octobox" :)
I seem to find things faster than my coworkers. The ability to quickly filter out non relevant files and do nested searches of the searches is the strong point. Unix as an IDE and all.
Will drone strikes eventually be followed up by semi-autonomous ship/ tank/ robot machine gunner invasions?

Probably.
Seems to me that this protest would have a far higher impact than the blackout - or at least a far higher annoyance factor.

The services it would impact most are high-bandwidth such as content streaming, but of course those may be reluctant to participate as it could realistically ruin their goodwill and quickly decimate their user base.
And St. Louis as well.
Why no stores in South America ? import restrictions?
I love how these "proposals to attract and retain highly skilled immigrants" do not cover O-1 holders, the "individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement".

(I'm guessing because O-1 visas are not dual-intent.)

In any case, certainly a step in the right direction.
I actually find that a bit surprising. I would expect with a larger form factor one could fit a bigger battery into the phone (like an iPad has much better battery life than an iPhone). A longer charge would be more motivation for me to upgrade my phone to a larger size than a bigger screen.
The only annoyance with ag is it does not have ack's quick filters e.g. ack --py versus ag -G '\.py$' (and ack's type flags can include multiple file extensions).
Is there a code repository somewhere? Can't seem to find one...
Very true. I did not consider that.
Give ag a shot, you'll be able to relive the emotions you felt when you switched to ack from grep, but this time you're switching to ag from ack.
The flip side, of course, is the non-technical CEO walking down to engineering and shouting, "We need more money! Double the number of lines of code you are producing!"
It's a bad analogy. If you buy a cell phone so you can talk to your grandma (who lives 1600 miles away) on the weekend, the phone company shouldn't be obligated to buy her a phone too. Not even if she only uses it for incoming calls.

If you're offering a service where you let other people interconnect their computer networks to each other, by definition you're only offering the service of connecting them to other people who (choose to) connect to the network.
Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8: Episode 1 – Authoring Experience Improvements
Artifactory, private npm registry and proxy for Node.js framework
I recently found out about git-grep. It's good and quite fast.
I've found that many organizations tend to have a 'dominant function', and CEOs tend to come from that function. So if engineering calls the shots in your company, or is the main driver of success, the CEO tends to come from engineering. If the company is driven by sales, the CEO tends to come from sales.

That's why you see so many oil company CEOs who are geologists or engineers, tech company CEOs who are developers, and CPG CEOs who are marketers.
>I don't understand why sites continue to do this.

The same reason they show advertisements. By installing these plugins they get a share of affiliate income or other louchy schemes.
It should be noted that "faster" is due to the fact that it limits itself to searching the subset of files that have code extensions.

I've tested grep against ack and ag for large text files and grep won handily, especially the latest version of grep.

Also note you can use GNU Parallel to run multiple greps
I switched to this after Ack 2 removed all options to search through binary files.

ag is less picky, and the increased speed is a nice bonus.
BBC documentary with ex PIRA bomb makers was the source for the RC planes.

actually I do know the difference between the different factions in Afghanistan 055 Brigade al Qaeda and the locally recruited fighters.

And forgive me if the spell checker I used doesn't have you preferred spellings.
A clear conversation is difficult in the absence of a clear, canonical definition of "bad". It would be very easy for me to get a few friends together and make a 90 minutes improvised movie filmed on my phone. That would be an absolutely terrible movie, but it wouldn't be a very satisfying answer to the question "What's the worst movie?" because it would be seen by very few people and it would be made with no ambition of quality. I could go further and make a movie that was 90 minutes of a black screen. That would be a worse movie but an even less satisfying answer.

Even if you limit the field to movies that have seen a theatrical release, the same principal applies. Some movies are shockingly bad, but are made with few little effort by people who know they are making a bad movie. These seem less interesting, less sad and less funny than very bad movies made by people trying very hard and spending lots of money.

Personally, when rating the badness of work, I judge it against my own assessment of the potential of the work. The potential isn't directly measurable or quantifiable, but it consists of things like the budget, the vision of the creator, the skill and effort of the artists involved in the creation, etc. etc.

So, for example, I think of Star Wars: Episode 1 as being a worse film than a lot of 50s low-budget sci-fi B-movies, even though I might choose to watch it more readily. The B-movies were pumped out without much effort. They're boring and poorly made on a technical level, but they never really had a chance to be any good. Episode 1 was made on a vast budget, drew on extremely rich source material, and was the culmination of unimaginable amounts of time and effort by a large number of hard-working people. For me, that makes the failure of Episode 1 more profound and more egregious.
One thing I miss a little is that ack has the super convenient:

ack --java "foo"

while with ag you write:

ag -G"\.java$" "foo"

But yes, ack and ag feel pretty identical except for the speed. Most of the time the speed improvement is irrelevant to me, except sometimes now I'll use ag in my home folder, and it's still fairly snappy.
I've often wondered about that. For me, the development environment is extremely minimalistic, by some types of standards. Linux itself, including tools like ack + vim. I use various vim tricks, not up to the point of it being my de-facto OS (as is possible to do!).

From what I can observe, I am generally faster than my co-workers. But it could be possible that with a great IDE, I could be faster yet. I don't feel any tug to leave, but could just mean I'm ignorant of that truly better way.
tl;dw - "Google Docs for 3D models", Web-based 3D modeling app/service with concurrent editing and lots of nice features. Uses Three.js internally but also good for producing assets for Three.js apps.

I hope this also advances Three.js for content production, and helps tilt the scale in the open web apps/libs direction (vs insulated Unity+emscripten and Unreal+emscripten blobs).
Is there really a reason that a crummy T1 still costs $400/month? Other than all the existing places that have a 10-year-old T1 where that used to be the fastest option, and the phone company doesn't want to drop prices.
It does have them now, update to the latest release :)
Check out http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

Also you can buy a license for access to more complete datasets.
I essentially do pay by-the-byte. I have Suddenlink cable in Texas, and I get a bandwidth cap of 350gb for $70, with each additional 50gb at $10.

I've heard similar about Comcast and the rest, but no one's put two and two together.
https://github.com/petdance/ack2

I'll send Andy a PR about putting the Github link on the site somewhere.
As the sibling said, I immensely value the single-handed usability. Even the 5/5S screen is approaching too big, because my thumb cannot reach to the far corner of the screen.

If the rumours of the iPhone 6 having a bigger screen are true, I really hope they don't gimp a smaller version to have less grunt. That's my main gripe with small-screen android phones - they're technically inferior to their physically larger counterparts and marketed as the midrange option.
This definitely to a surge of impulse domain buying
Is this a very bad joke?

Domain seems to be registered to a Paul Von Ribbeck with a gmail address, not a google address... makes me doubt its authenticity. A quick google search of Ribbeck brings up this: http://re-publica.de/user/1008/event/1

"Dr. Paul von Ribbeck considers himself both pro-tech and a digital protection evangelist. He is guided by his unwavering belief in the possibility of technology to solve the problems created by civilization. With a MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University in information security, he is now leading a team of 50 developers, mathematicians, lawyers and designers to build up the first global digital data insurance within the home of Google Nest."

THIS IS JUST WEIRD AND AWKWARD. DISCUSS.
>Perhaps the thought of trying to become a good/better dad when it's your turn might help reduce the anger?

This is very wise! My miserable childhood has been fully eclipsed by giving my own children a content and dignified childhood.

I no longer care about my past - it's just a source of learning for me now.
Nice summary. Thanks!

It does both 3D modeling and rendering.

Feature summary on landing page: http://Clara.io

Example scenes: http://Clara.io/library

User base: +50,000

Status: Pre-release, open beta started in November 2013

Funding: Self-funded with one angel (former Autodesk SVP in charge of Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage -- desktop equivalents.)
Simple iOS deeplinking 
I created a simple iOS deeplinking framework. The idea is to map a view in storyboard to a link, and then receive the parameters in a "viewPreload" method.
tenets

Although if your business happens to have tenants, you should understand those too.
That's true by default, but it's trivial to add your own filetypes with a .ackrc file.
There are similar laws in the US, but in this case the owner is arguing that the treaty in which the US acquired California from Mexico in the 1800's (requiring the US let the people who already owned land in California keep it) supersedes the California law requiring public access.
Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs. Imagine the internet telling specific users that they have to get off comcast or whatever in order to use their service for a particular day out of every month. Do it maddox style with a nice middle finger. Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
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I'd argue that being too detail-oriented may be a bad quality for the average CEO. The CEO's job is first and foremost to see the big picture, develop the grand vision and general roadmap and then hire the right people to delegate implementing the details to. There are people who can do both and those are the truly great CEOs. But unless your name is Jobs or Bezos, you probably shouldn't try to do it.
Exposure Launches Categories
This is extremely well done. It's almost believable.
My home NAS is also exposed to the internet.

up 298 days, 20:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

"zgrep ssh auth.log* | grep -i failed" has no traces of any intrusion attempts whatsoever, just me not being able to type.

The distinction is, though, that the SSHd on that box is running on a non-standard port (220)... so that certainly makes a difference.
I don't understand his point. In the video he says "We will get better at understanding what user is asking us.

Therefore backlinks will become less important as a measure of how important / trustworthy a website is."

But these are two separate issues. Namely when user goes to Google and asks something, Google has to perform two tasks:

1) Figure out exactly what the user is asking

2) Based on what was asked, provide a list of websites that answer the user's question (sorted by the order or relevance / authority)

I don't understand how getting better at (1) should change how Google does (2). They still have to have a way of sorting sites that offer answers - even if they can achieve a perfect understanding of user intent.
No idea. The Google Bye thing, in particular, seems to be farcical.
oh the feels
Its pretty simple. It took me a while to work it all out. You have one sheet per financial year with the following columns:

Description - text description of transaction.

Date - transaction date.

Ref - invoice ID/cheque number etc.

Amount - transaction amount.

Then there are columns, one for each account which are locked I.e. you can't type in them.

To make a transaction, you enter the transaction details in a new row and add the amount and set the source and destination account on the row (Ctrl+click) each in the correct order. Then run the macro which replaces the source with a formula (-amount) and the destination with (amount) from the row. Note that it uses the formula rather than the value to maintain integrity and allow the value to be retrospectively corrected. You could in theory do VAT accounting with it but I haven't bothered to do that yet.

There are columns for bank, petty cash, expenses, corp tax, PAYE, dividends, invoices etc.

The profit/loss statement is the sum of various columns for the year with some maths. This is updated on the fly by sheet references.

There are row summaries at the top and the first two rows are frozen so you can see the total for each account at any time.

All data is available up front so its pretty easy to do analytics on.

I might write it up properly at some point but that should give you a reasonable overview.

I wouldn't use this on mega high amounts of transactions. I top about 200 a year if I'm busy.

The system is portable between excel, libre office, numbers and Google sheets in theory although I haven't tried the latter yet.
I used this for a while, but got bitten by the fact that, by default, it does not search all file types. :-/
Yeah, I think it's important not to throw grep away. Ack is really for when you don't know or can't be bothered to explicitly mention the (several) specific files to search.
https://github.com/petdance/beyondgrep is the repo for the site.
Nice try to get my data
Not this time ...
Examples, please? If you have the time.
Yes, but it's not one that Google will probably take kindly to given there's no indication on the site other than it's ridiculous and the whois e-mail. Even the whois registrant information is fraudulently attributed to Google.
Bitcoin!

Maidsafe!
I would say that immigration is complex. Also there are clear differences in what different types of immigrants bring to the US. Clearly immigration helps some and hurts some. For some low wage workers clearly bringing in more low skilled and semi skilled works does hurt them. That being said grabbing the cream of the crop from around the world is mostly good for the US.
It's fake-- domain registered at eNom, hosted at namecheaphosting.com.
Absolutely no idea what this does or why should I bother clicking the sign in button.
Addressed in ack's FAQ [0], and in its own section of the manual [1].

The manual explains: "This is done with command line options that are best put into an .ackrc file - then you do not have to define your types over and over again." Then comprehensively describes options for both command line and .ackrc.

[0] http://beyondgrep.com/documentation/ack-2.12-man.html#faq

[1] http://beyondgrep.com/documentation/ack-2.12-man.html#defini...
Very cool. Anonymous types can be really handy in C#, especially when dealing with LINQ to objects code. This looks like it could be a similar fit.
Thanks! Feel free to use it and share any other comments or remarks!