skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not always an option.
Tesla Q1 earnings report [pdf]
Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
I have to pick just one? Windows, Android, Linux, iOS, Wii, Xbox 360, etcetera.

I don't consider Microsoft, Google, Debian, Apple, Nintendo et al to be complete strangers. I don't trust them unconditionally (hence all the rooted, modded, and jailbroken devices in my home), but I do trust that if I do discover malfeasance, that I have some well-established path to seek redress, and that they have the bank accounts, insurance policies, and reputations necessary to make me whole again.

I'm not nearly as trustless as RMS, but I am at least aware enough of the problem to be skeptical even of the software I have actually paid for, and downright paranoid towards everything else. Even the stuff I write myself could be subverted by a compromised compiler or OS. But like the two friends fleeing from the tiger, you don't have to run faster than the tiger to escape; you just have to run faster than your friend.

If someone is likely to be more damaged by breaching public trust and getting caught at it than you are likely to be damaged by trusting them when you should not, you're probably safe to trust them. But then again, even Sony can install a rootkit. You can trust, but remember to verify.
Yes! The design of MPTCP specifically takes that into considerations since most of hosts are behind a NAT. It basically initiates may normal TCP connections as subflows. All the middle-boxes would see normal TCP connections while the two MPTCP-aware endpoints split/aggregate traffic using multiple subflows.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6824#page-51
This is becoming an increasingly common and frustrating thing for products posted here to HN.

How did this product even get to the front page when it's almost impossible to actually tell what it is or the problems it solves?

I scrolled down past the screenshot expecting to read an introduction about it and now we're suddenly talking about StyleKits??? Huh?

E: Quite ironic that the URI path is /intro and the main header "Introducing PaintCode 2", when the page does everything except introduce the product.
Point taken on the semantics I suppose, but I do actually have a glider pilot's license and have been flying gliders (the soaring kind) in mountainous terrain for six years. Never bothered with the distinction since most pilots over here call their aircraft gliders, but I suppose there is a textbook definition somewhere that disagrees.
IMO it stems from the fact that managers up the ladder don't understand or have never been told that software that produces the expected results isn't necessarily finished work. There is a reason most of us have this gut feeling, this strive for elegance. We can only be at rest when we feel we master the creature we have built, and can live up to our clients expectation of maintaining it and making it evolve. Managers see it under a different light. TDD was made for them, for they are those who buy it. At the end, cut the costs as much as possible. The system (still) gives the expected results ? Alright, job done. There is no consideration for the hell of a ball of mud that often drives the whole thing behind the curtain. Yet, at the end they are those who pay for hiring the wrong persons or following the wrong cult. This is how you get overbudget or fail a project. TDD ? Separation of concerns ? Why not, but the same goal of working and flexible code can be met by developing and encouraging good craft in a team. Not by luring people in adhering to practices that constrain them to do a bad job unbeknownst to them. Testing and structure stem from good craft, not the other way around.
Well sure. People come to the conclusion that most homeless are crazy or addicts based on what they see. Of course they only ever see crazies and addicts. They're the loudest, the weirdest, the scariest, the least self-aware, and the least likely to have any kind of refuge.

The rest of the homeless are hiding from the myriad threads, difficulties and humiliations they're exposed to on a daily basis. The regular, sane, homeless people don't want to be sprawled across a sidewalk in the middle of the day. They want to watch over their stuff, or try to find food or medical assistance or clothing, or solicit donations, or try to contact estranged family/friends, or whatever else they can do to survive.
The New Yorker in the Forties
Hydrogen can make sense, but not really as the Shuttle used it. The second and third stages of the Saturn V used hydrogen, which was in part responsible for the much greater mass to TLI than the N-1 would have had (despite having a first stage with more thrust).
Mint.com for all your Bitcoin / Crypto Coins
What about a send text later app. Like Buffer for texting. I needed that feature today.
Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit_(scheme_implementation)
The abstract is:

Previous simulations of the growth of cosmic structures have broadly reproduced the ‘cosmic web’ of galaxies that we see in the Universe, but failed to create a mixed population of elliptical and spiral galaxies, because of numerical inaccuracies and incomplete physical models. Moreover, they were unable to track the small-scale evolution of gas and stars to the present epoch within a representative portion of the Universe. Here we report a simulation that starts 12 million years after the Big Bang, and traces 13 billion years of cosmic evolution with 12 billion resolution elements in a cube of 106.5 megaparsecs a side. It yields a reasonable population of ellipticals and spirals, reproduces the observed distribution of galaxies in clusters and characteristics of hydrogen on large scales, and at the same time matches the ‘metal’ and hydrogen content of galaxies on small scales.

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a preprint available yet (Wed May 7 21:14 UTC)
Well... that's what this fixes :)
why it is taking so long for you? What category you are in? And what country you are from?
Finding and Purging Big Files From Git History
True AI will dethrone IP of entire humanity. It will be interesting times when (human intelligence) << (machine intelligence) and you get machine intelligence for free.
HzO’s nanocoating process (mobile device), our hands-on from the inside out
As others have said, yes, it's big. But it's also crowded. And it's hard to be clearly better than the existing players. (Or at least, hard to be clearly better in the eyes of those looking for advice.)
I may have been a bit harsh, sorry for that.
> This tilt causes different parts of the Earth to be
> nearer or further away from the Sun at different parts
> of the orbit. It is this change of distance that causes
> our seasons.

This is nonsense - it's not how close - the variation is negligible. What's different is the projected surface area. That causes a change in the total radiation influx per unit area. When tilted towards the Sun you get more radiation per unit area than when "tilted away."
I'm sure the rest of it is reasonably accurate, but after a while I found myself thinking about other things, so I didn't check everything thoroughly.
Twitter has actually encouraged me to only watch certain shows "live" because the backchannel snark and commentary is more entertaining than the actual show (The Apprentice is a particular standout in this regard).
Tesla reports net loss of $50 million in Q1 [video]
You're contradicting yourself: first you said:

"The Space Shuttle was a political football whose design was dictated by the whims of Congress and the meddling of the military first...."

Then you note the military didn't want it, but wanted it to be useful if forced. I would add the Science article specifically addressed the single orbit polar mission, saying the Air Force didn't see a great need for that and would have been happy with gentler flight profiles. It explicitly said NASA insisted on it, and that's consistent with their post-Apollo institutional biases, much the same produced the hot-rod SSMEs.

"Meddling", when it wasn't, qualifies as bashing in my book, especially in the full context of your sentence.

As for my incredulity, maybe start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography

I was a History minor in college....
It's been 10 years since Upcoming was created, and the site is dead right now, so, obviously one answer is "nothing". However, let's timewarp to 2004-2007 or so.

Upcoming created the model for an events site tied to a social network, and since it was first, you could find almost any kind of event from a personal party to a stadium rock concert there.

Upcoming had very broad capabilities for tagging, geotagging, searching, following, and being notified about public events. It really shone for aficionados of particular music scenes in geographic areas, and for people who liked going to tech conferences. And knowing the events your friends are going to - or even thinking about going to - also helped catalyze attendance.

Lots of other products found niches that had special needs (for instance, Lanyrd or EventBrite), and Facebook completely owns casual events like barbecues and stuff. But nobody's done an events site that had quite the same mix of community and capability. Most of the sites who wanted to grab the Upcoming-esque market were focused on monetizing through profiling users, and then selling ads, or special offers for tickets. Seems like it should work, but it doesn't seem to have panned out. (Also, I know this may shock people, but Ticketmaster is really difficult to work with.)

However, it's not the tech capabilities that people really miss, it's the community. And probably most people are betting on Andy Baio. He is a well-trusted person who is a passionate fan of independent art and culture, and has a history of creating wonderful communities - like Upcoming, KickStarter, and XOXO.
waiting times having nothing to do with "good" lawyers.

it's dictated by the gov:
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy...
CataCRYPT
I'll use chrome devtools the day they add multiline console support. Really? In 2014, and you want me to shift-enter 200 lines of code?
Nation's Report Card Shows Stagnant Scores For Reading, Math
Very block-boxy ("and it does a whole bunch of math and voila!")
Unfortunately, it was not all the gradual, "smooth" downward progression of slowly coming to terms that one might imagine. Cancer is a cruel, cruel roller coaster ride. He responded to chemo + radiation really well and in the August before he died they went in to remove the tumor. I have a photo of him beaming ear to ear when we went out to dinner a few days before. He looked perfectly healthy and normal. We were all in high spirits that he'd be one of the few lucky ones that makes it through the death sentence that is pancreatic cancer. When the docs at Johns Hopkins opened him up to start removing the tumor, they realized what they thought was scar tissue left over from radiation was actually embedded inoperable tumor tissue embedded in the hepatic portal vein. So they closed him up and that was that. We went from an unbelievable high of thinking he'd beat this thing, to the very low reality that it was all over. They offered all sorts of exotic treatments, but he had lost the will to fight it anymore. He went home after recovery resigned to death.

So while it was certainly rapid, the highs and lows of it all made it much more emotionally wrecking than you might think from the timeline. But it was certainly quick. He was also fortunate to feel mostly fine for the vast majority of it.
Oh. That's sort of blindingly obvious, but fair enough.
Want a better way to waterproof a phone? Try nanocoating
Alibaba Chairman CEO Jack Ma’s Letter to Employees Before IPO
Ask HN: Does this flight discovery tool exist?
So I'm going to be at a particular Lat/Long, and I want to travel to another specific Lat/Long. What I'd like is a tool that finds the closest airports, and then a common airline to fly between them.

Recently I needed a flight from Montauban, France, to somewhere in the North-West of England. I've found a direct flight from Toulouse to Birmingham, but that took a considerable amount of searching.

I've written something similar for train journeys, and I can do it again, but I was wondering if this already exists.

Suggestions?

Edit: Both suggestions so far are pretty good. Significantly worse than the result I found by hand, but either would have saved me at least 50% of my time by suggesting initial candidates.

Thanks - I look forward to more suggestions.
Isn't that the point of tools like scikit-learn? You don't need to know how to code, optimize, etc. all the algorithms, just understand how to use them.
My first question is asking about your competitors. If I want a company to provide the service you offer, can I find an established one with a quick search on Google? Do you rank well on search engines?

If I'm a customer then I'm going to look for the best product to provide the service, some people will base it on cost depending on the service.

Keep in touch with your potential customers. Reach out and say that your site is new and you'd like to know what they think and maybe even be as bold as to ask why they did or didn't purchase from you and if they purchased from a competitor.
New one, please: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c...

I understand if your app is proprietary and you can't share the source, but even non-minimal test cases are much better than no test case :)

Thanks!
The examples are like a spaghetti code visualisation
We've thought about that but felt that the interest in non-live sports is probably a little less. Will experiment with it (and reality and casting shows), though.
I glanced over the website and missed that, now on mobile I'm only reading the comments and see that it is quite relevant for me. So thanks :)
That article just kind of... ended.
I can't believe they didn't even send out an email about this. Infuriating.
A really good article, and it has succeeded in inspiring me to read the book.
Yes, we're focussing on Netflix and HBO shows at the moment to circumvent that. Working on several approaches for automatic syncing. Thanks for trying it out!
Why you are forwarding? Why you don't retrieve your emails with IMAP/POP3/SMTP into Gmail? http://www.texelate.co.uk/img/blog/gmail.gif
This is something I've actually wanted for awhile! Watching movies and TV is nice but whenever I watch it with an IRC chat it suddenly gets SO MUCH better.
When Dropbox posted what is now usually called a "Show HN", someone did post a comment like that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Although to be fair, it was a good comment and it elicited a good response from Drew.
Working on this and several other approaches to sync up. It's a challenge and won't happen in this phase of the beta, but it's doable.
give the $ back to investors in the form of a dividend.
Google nest
Yeah, this is totally BS. I worked on a BlackBerry app that did "live" texting a few years ago.

This has been tried a few times before, but it turns out, no one really cares to read anything except the complete message.
Try Rome2Rio.
How science makes world more fascinating and wonderful
Why learn "big data" frameworks when you're just a regular hacker?
I had no idea getting a license plate for a vehicle in Shanghai was so expensive. Apparently they use an auction system: "Shanghai officials have put in place a complicated—and expensive—process to purchase the right to add a car to the often-gridlocked roads of this city of 23 million people. To register for the license auction, prospective car buyers must put down 2,000 yuan as good faith money. In exchange, they get a disc loaded with software they can use to bid online. After a couple of rounds of offers, the government figures out the highest price it can charge to completely sell out the year’s new allotment of licenses. Lottery participants who had bid at least that much then get to pay for their plates." [0]

0: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-25/in-china-the...
I don't like IKEA at all.

1. I don't like things that break.

Perhaps the price/performance ratio is not too bad but overall, the quality is lacking. Some have said their IKEA furniture has lasted for decades, well this is nothing special, really. Where I live it is normal to have furniture made of wood that is a hundred years old and it will be around for many more generations, if they decide to keep it. It always amazes me how many people are brainwashed with planned obsolescence.

2. Even if the quality was fine, I don't like the design.

Whenever I go to IKEA I feel some form of a culture shock. Everything looks so cold... so Scandinavian. I live in the Mediterranean and the furniture we are used to looks way different than what IKEA sell.
Scan your pages with this, at least your static HTML pages:
http://kangax.github.io/domlint/
That was me. Still up for fun and giggles at http://chox.co. Best of luck to these folks. I can't stand waiting for people to hit return before I can read what they're typing. It's not efficient.
Tesla shares are down 7% in afterhours trading on this report
Remember the days before PNG, before JPEG, when GIFs loaded several times over? That sure was fun, watching the image get slightly clearer and clearer and then just stop, leaving you wondering about that final level of detail.

Back then of course you'd be opening an image that big & detailed in a separate window, but now we've got some image-heavy websites with dozens of these things. Retina screens don't make things easier, either. Loading 12 pseduo-GIFS in serial would be the mind-killer. My imgur? Facebook?

Serious question: would it be evil for Google to push out an 'educational patch' to Chrome? Firefox probably wouldn't.
That's great input. We were not aware of that site and feature. We have come across a few similar concepts, which were either split-screen for online video (as I understand niconico works) or not conversations (if they were 2nd screen).
Sen. Franken spearheads a major campaign to save net neutrality
Very happy to see Copy as cURL. Just wrote a crappy script to make copy-pasted cookies from the request window into curl parameters two days ago.

I am sure I will use this quite frequently.
Well, I'm not sure if I mis-configured something, but I was not able to trigger MPTCP traffic from iOS 7. I was using a MPTCP enabled Linux box, serving video files over HTTP. But all I saw from iOS was traditional single-path TCP. If my tests were conducted correctly, Apple might have disabled MPTCP for third-party services.
Kosmos 1242 : 1.8 tonnes re-entering sometime this week
Ah, yes, I didn't catch that he explicitly mentions state in the Java program, as part of the comparison. That is indeed a straw man.
Perhaps, but I feel like if you are trying to use a statistical tool, it would be best to know how it works. Think about if every scientist claimed a discovery when they found a result with a 90% confidence interval. Machine learning (at least in this application) is different because often the consequences are testable, verifiable, but I still think that it's better to know how it works than treat it like a black box.
I guess group messages would make the most sense with this stat.
Alibaba Investors Will Buy a Risky Corporate Structure
You've managed to break the first two rules in the commenting guidelines [1]; it seems you're in no position to advise anyone on appropriate commenting on HN. Profanity, insults, and personal attacks simply don't belong here. Aside from your childish outbursts, we've had a productive conversation in this thread.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why a Fitness-Tracking App Is Selling Its Data to City Planners
Ask HN: What's With The Dropbox Link Fiasco?
Is anyone else affected by this?

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/05/web-vulnerability-affecting-shared-links/

They simply disabled all sharing of all links with no notice whatsoever - no emails - no nothing. I found out via customers emailing me telling me I have broken links everywhere.

This is a major issue that seems to be handled in a very cavalier fashion. Ridiculous.
1. Regardless, I believe the Occupy movement in NYC wasn't very disruptive. It was more of a peaceful protest. So I was going off that.

3. While I agree a large percentage of the homeless in Chicago are as you describe; it seems, at least from what I've read, SF contains a large enough percentage of homeless people that also seem to choose the lifestyle.

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/10/22/homeless-by-choice/

Read the comments for more insight into the mindset.
I was just discussing this with a coworker this week. We had run into it about 13 years ago on IE 5.5.
Pointers don't have to be the exception. I'm working on a programming language runtime where objects are stored as a 32-bit value, with 3/4 of the range representing an integer, and 1/4 of the range (30 bits) representing a pointer. Given the constraint that pointer objects are aligned to 8 bytes, the 30-bits multiplied by 8 results in an 8GB addressable memory space. Pages within that space can be allocated using mmap with MAP_FIXED flag. Smaller memory usage results in more things in cache, resulting in higher performance.
Google Maps can pretty much do this with its built-in flight search. See [1] for an example (Google automatically converted the destination lat/long to an address, but you can replace them with the coordinates of your choice).

1: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/%27%27/40.754515,+-73.979477...
SocketCluster – WebSockets that scale to 100K messages per second on 8 cores
A paid upgrade for store MAS ➜ non-MAS is forbidden by Apple. Omni already tried that [1].

[1] https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnikeymaster-upgrade-pricing...
I love the idea, but it takes so long to register and find friends. Way too long for an app that is supposed to cut down on the time it takes for me to communicate. I'd think about having people login through various services.
Looks good, particularly the support for host networking; this will be a boon (I think) for those of us using Docker to run lightweight VM style containers which we wish to have directly accessible on the network by other machines/devices, and resolved via an existing router's DHCP/DNS. Is there a way to assign a MAC address to a container under this mechanism so I can setup the corresponding DNS via my router (or dnsmasq)?

(comment copied from the other item about Docker today)
And they're really good at that, agreed. But they're not catering to the (at least) two thirds of people that don't watch live.

This number from some relatively recent Game of Thrones ratings that admitted on not counting a lot of on-demand (as well as pirating, of course)
Got apm working, but it's a little bit unstable for daily use.

For example: Every time I open the Settings Tab, it prompts a ENOENT message at the developer console, and I'm unable to install themes/packages via ATOM (I must do it via apm or git clone)

But by far, a great first experience, being unnoficial
"How Hip-Hop Failed Black America"
The Bible of Barbecue – Tramontina
I agree but it wouldn't surprise me if they did it all wrong and were just passing credentials.
I can't stand firebug, the UI is a complete turn off for me. The Chrome dev tools (any any webkit for that matter) just look and function better for what I spend 99% of my time in dev tools doing, tweaking CSS.
I look at the books in my library. The middling one's are more or less reference materials. But the good ones -- On Lisp, JavaScript Allonge, HtDP, or SICP? None are dumbed down. The author is trying to impart all the knowledge that they can impart coherently.

Knuth stands above them all of course. But its cautionary tale is that it's a book about compilers. I'm pretty sure I'll live to see chapter 12, but as it stands today, there are four more chapters to be released before it. Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming in 1962.
Thank you. I have a funny little anecdote how that came to be. Will save that for a stage appearance, though ;)
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