skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also sockjs (http://sockjs.org) which has some rather impressive benchmark results when using the python/tornado server with PyPy (http://mrjoes.github.io/2011/12/15/sockjs-bench.html). 155,000-195,000 messages per second on a single core.
"foobered" does not have a meaning. "FUBARed" has a meaning ( to a relatively small percentage of the population I would guess). I think given the context, if foobar is used, then we can assume the context (and lack of any alternate meaning) we can safely assume that the prose "foobared" is equivalent to "FUBARed". What else would you expect it to mean?
We were really surprised by what we found - especially just how prevalent middleboxes that are aware of and modify TCP packets actually are. The results are a couple of years old now, so things have probably got even worse. But that's mostly separate from the network neutrality debate. You don't need to modify packets to shape them - our methodology would not have revealed shaping.
Not sure it's a good idea to block all search engines but Google.
Facebook's new face recognition knows you from the side
Wow, so without knowing very much about my work, you are able to tell me where I should be spending the majority of my time.

And how does writing a test ensure that I understand a problem any more than not understanding it? If I don't understand it properly I will likely write the wrong test.
The "api userID" for facebook/twitter/etc. is numeric because it's always been numeric (and facebook explicitly doesn't guarantee anything about their lengths IIRC); that doesn't imply anything about what their real pkey is, just that it was numeric back in 2003. It's pretty easy to transform a UUID back and forth into a number.

I've used UUID-as-pkey and had it work well.
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EA Origin on the International Day Against DRM: http://desktopstories.tumblr.com/post/85057429973/internatio...
Dopamine bursts induced by information overload.

Google for those keywords. Here's a broad overview of the topic from a pop-psy site:

http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2009/11/07/100-things-you-shoul...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201209/why-we...

Might be worth googling for `procrastination` as well.
Can you comment on the dermoscope? I'm curious why something like this costs 500$ - it sounds like a plastic lens and some LEDs would fit the job description.
On Flask, MVC and design patterns
I don't find design patterns a good way to communicate about code or within a code base. I would like to get some feedback and some alternative perspectives on the issue.
Google Gobbles Up Restaurant Startup
Google Buys Stackdriver
TLS 1.3 Working Group Has Consensus to Deprectate RSA Key Transport
Ask HN: what are the VCs, angels and YC doing to protect net neutrality?
Surely it's in the interests of VCs, angels and YC to protect net neutrality? Surely they have the money to do something about it? What are they doing?
Network Admin Allegedly Hacked Navy–While on an Aircraft Carrier
Whatever the number of people, the device is still 99.8% B.S.-teller for $500.
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem about how to deal with Failure [video]
So they will lose god knows how much revenue, piss off their customers, and get a tiny fraction of people to 1) actually click the banner 2) read all those scary words 3) actually understand and get angry about the implications.
I think they point is that people would be surprised that you can relatively easily narrow down a vague picture to almost a floor / room number level.

I'm guessing some people may not be comfortable with that.
You don't have to return bogus data, you can return an HTTP error code: 402 payment required.
Ethical at least requires respecting robots.txt.
Unfortunately critical bugs can also be major security issues in many ways.
Assuming you're in the US, there are very strict federal laws about what an unpaid intern is allowed to do (from [1]):

1. Interns cannot displace regular employees.

2. Interns are not guaranteed a job at the end of the internship.

3. The employer and the intern(s) understand that the interns are not entitled to wages during the internship period.

4. Interns must receive training from the company, even if it somewhat impedes on the work of the organization.

5. Interns must get hands-on experience with equipment and processes used in the industry.

6. Interns' training must primarily benefit them, not the company.

If you were under the impression you'd be paid, they're already in violation of the law (#3). Most likely your internship violated a few other provisions as well; an unpaid internship basically has to be "science camp" to be legal, little productive work can be produced except by accident.

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

Edit: And, please do pursue legal action if you have the time and energy to do so, or refer the case to someone who does. Illegal unpaid internships are exploitative and industries reliant on them end up locking out everyone who can't afford to work for free (anyone but the children of the wealthy).
It must be a matter of preference, because I can't stand chrome dev tools' ui. Small buttons, cluttered, null use of breathing space in the design.
Augmented Flowbee Musical Interface
TrendMicro is recording every click for over 3 years
I created a ecommerce for a couple of clients.

Today i noticed unauthenticated requests from Japan (static ip registered by TrendMicro), with an ip range from 150.70.. . Weird, because all of our clients are from Belgium....

As i'd like to keep my error logs to zero, the following post popped up (another Belgium user though).

http://compxnonsense.blogspot.be/2011/04/trendmicro-is-recording-your-every.html , which was posted 3 years ago.

Why are they doing this? This is the same as what spyware does!
Why brands might end up marketing to algorithms
It's high, but seeing that they handle billing and that they own and created the platform, I think it's fair enough.
Code Monkey Island
NASA Ames Proposals Selected to Support Crew Health on Deep Space Missions
The race to build a true eSports stadium
This is a good article on homelessness in SF and the industry that has grown up to support them: http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless...

"Finally, the homelessness advocates pulled out their trump card: associating supporters of the Civil Sidewalks law with “business interests.” San Francisco “progressives” regard businessmen as aliens within the body politic whose main function is to provide an inexhaustible well of funds to transfer to the city’s social-services empire. If it weren’t for vigilant politicians, however, the interlopers would constantly seek to duck this ever-growing civic obligation. “If these corporations pay their fair share,” supervisor John Avalos explained in 2009 when introducing a new business tax, “we can generate millions that will go towards keeping health clinics, youth and senior services, and jobs safe for San Franciscans.” (The contradiction between raising business taxes and keeping jobs safe was lost on Avalos.)"
A great statistical point--but assuming they're marketing this to (local/small town) doctors rather than laypeople, is that worse than they'd do by "eyeballing" it?
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates ADAM Ground-Based Laser System Against Boats
qemu-> http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/
A very inspiring guy, RIP
There's not enough information to know what "85% accuracy" means. Is that false positive, or false negatives, or a combination of both, or misreporting?

I agree that presenting risks as percentages instead of real numbers is misleading.

But they say this device is better than primary care doctors so I'm not sure what that says about primary care.

Gerd Gigerenzer wrote a book in 2002 about clinicians inability to understand percentages and screening tests.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0140297863?pc_redir=13991465...

http://plus.maths.org/content/reckoning-risk

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140297863?pc_redir=1399339535...
I was gonna say 24 hours is short. I think a good time is about ~1 month. I know HP-UX suggests 2 weeks, and that OS has a history of 10-15 years up time, stupid y2K bug killing server up times.
They can't, computers do better. But excess use of computers has been against the rules in F1 for a while, in a variety of ways. A consequence of this is that what actually happens during a race is that the race team will read all the sensor readouts from the vehicle then they figure out what change needs to be made. But they can't just press a button and make the change remotely, that's against the rules, so instead they radio the driver and he makes the change. Whether this is actually a better way to go is a bit of an open question.
I wonder what caused it? I know he'd been battling MS for the last decade nearly. Can these things just happen randomly?
Building a Self-Destructing Message App for Android
LTO-4/5/6 media was always pricier for me whenever I was using it.

But most importantly, a tape robot costs orders of magnitude more. And if you don't have one, you either need multiple drives or fit the whole archive into one tape.

Now, if at home you can easily reach 2TB per-disk and have ~10TB easily, a nas with 8-16 disks in any work place will easily be too large for a single tape to be useful. A tape robot will be out of reach (in economical and logistical terms).

In these conditions, you really need a _huge_ system to make tape economically viable, but that's a very small market, whereas buying harddrives and cycling them will be the only logical choice.

Tape used to be different, where you could fit a week of incremental backups into one in the eighties. That made tape worthwhile. Then HD became more dense, while tape struggled.
Demystifying Context Awareness
GDC 2014 Procedural Animation Video
you might look into sFlow and/or IPFIX.
This is nice. I'm wondering how much our restricted thought environment (x can only be true or false) has hindered our development in the last thousands of years?
Submitting this because it's of interest to developers. The developer of the game Overgrowth explains how he made a very natural-looking procedurally generated animation system using only a few keyframes in this recording of his talk at GDC.
Analytics with Redis, Part 3
It's an endemic problem in Go community. The language itself was named Go despite the fact that another language named Go already existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29
I have a Lumia 920. Say what you want about Windows Phone, but its UI is among the best I've ever seen. Also the build quality makes the phone very resistant (I don't really take care of my phone). The only issues I had with it are the app marketplace (it's not really the lack of apps, but rather the quality/respect of WP UI of most of them), and the fact that's its quite heavy.
Using the reflections as additional information is very interesting. However, I’m not that surprised that views from windows can be relatively easily located. Andrew Sullivan has been running his View From Your Window contest for four years now and people have been guessing the locations of the photos with scary accuracy (as good as in the linked post).

Here is the archive: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/

Still, it’s probably more than 15 minutes work even in the best case scenario (and much, much longer in the worst case), can probably not be automated in any meaningful way (but that would be an interesting project, huh!) and is consequently only of interest to dedicated attackers, not general surveillance.
I was wondering about that. I guess picking the cities would be on a first come, first serve basis... which could get ugly if you find out you can't pick your favorite city -after- you've spent $1000.
Basically, natural DNA (can't believe I get to say that) comprises the nucleobases A/C/G/T (adenine/cytosine/guanine/thymine) which pair up A-T and C-G (via hydrogen interactions) and, along with some other junk (a sugar and phosphate group) make up nucleotides, which in turn are the monomers that DNA is composed of.

This team managed to a. insert wholly synthetic bases that b. bonded with each other (so the DNA now has A/C/G/T/x/y) and c. weren't easily susceptible to repair via normal mechanisms, thus the modifications "stick."

This opens up a lot of possibilities since it removes the artificial four "letter" constraint, theoretically allowing researchers to create DNA that could in turn manufacture previously impracticable and/or synthetic proteins. These would obviously have tremendous value in bioscience at least, and maybe in other fields e.g. materials science.

Incredibly exciting work, though at the moment it seems that the specimens must be artificially supplied with building blocks for the novel bases.
What is this M unit you are throwing around?
Basic/Primary Rate Interface
While I'd do the same, due to the monopolistic nature of ISPs in the US they wouldn't have much choice beyond moving to a new location. As much as I'd like to think everyone else is like me and able to relocate easily I know that isn't the case for the vast majority of people.
Hey nice post and cool website. Sorry you didn't get in YC. That said, I think that your "they didn't like me enough" theory is a mean to protect yourself against criticism. Their point about yelp is probably very well worth thinking about. Yes likability is an important factor to take into account in these sort of interviews. yet, had you had an amazingly revolutionary product, they would have rejected you with a "it's great but you're a bad person" email, not a "mmh you guys don't have anything more than a subset of yelp and don't really plan to do anything more". But keep in mind that these guys are after the big buck. Maybe your objective is not to make a ton of money, but rather make enough to have decent life in Thailand, while promoting the practice of yoga all over the world...
To be fair to them, they state they have never received funding and the site is profitable since the end of April. But it's very niche alright.
Here is a better translation: http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4119395.html
People keep saying how much better HN was, but I'm just not seeing it: https://web.archive.org/web/20071115044647/http://news.ycomb...
looks good, our servers stay up for years at a time with KSplice, but now oracle owns it and it's not available to new customers means I think we might have to find something new soon.
I'm not sure what your alternative user acquisition strategy is but not able to supplant Yelp in Google search results is a pretty valid observation. How do you respond to this?
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I believe that is only true when you consider certain types of integration. E.g. True for Lebesgue, false for Riemann
That's biased by the fact that many people who were upvoting back then have since left the site. If you want to see for yourself, the Wayback Machine is a better sample: https://web.archive.org/web/20071115044647/http://news.ycomb...
You state in the post that you're making some money at the moment - how ? Your FAQ page says you'll soon be adding ads and adding premium content - but that implies these strategies are not implemented yet.
It's based on the fact that particle energies follow a continuous distribution.

See, for example: http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/nnp/cr.html.
I think boolean logic was a skillful starting place for human society. Now that we have a good understanding of "conventional" logic, we can begin to explore a more sublime logical framework.
I've done low-level coding in the past, hung around on the osdev wiki, and paid a lot of attention to the topic even though I've no real desire to create an OS.

The single biggest piece of advice I'd give to people is _never_ try to write your own bootloader. People have written millions of them, but ultimately grub, etc, have this covered. Writing a boot loader is kinda/sorta fun, I get that, but really it's just a stepping stone which is required to get your _real_ code running.

Reinventing wheels is educational, but a boot loader? It's not really worth the time..
I don't know why you are in gray, but this is a valid argument.

If I am about to entrust some company with an access to the kernel on my live boxes, you bet I'd be looking very closely at who the hell they are and be expecting them to be a reputable and stable entity. These silly illustrations would've been OK if they were on RedHat's site, but if you are just starting up, I would strongly suggest to put (much) more effort into establishing your credibility.
Simulating the call stack to prevent stack overflow
Address bar tweak in early Chrome beta puts even savvy users at risk
Agreed. Although the policy implies that if that is the case, then a patch would be made available for those bugs.
My personal use-case is to write documentation / logs while I develop / configure a system and have it in a very flexible and interoperable format I can also use to present to customers. A md-solution makes a good fit, it would even be better without relying on any configuration and instead work out of defaults.
but the product and target market would have been known at the time of initial application - so to invite them to in-person interview suggests this niche and alternative product was suitable. This may give weight to some of the more "murky" reasons for rejection the author alludes to.
Hi, "YT Premium" has been live for a few months and is the main source of revenue (we've actually doubled revenue nearly every month since January). Ads are there too, but they just started and are making only a small dent in our budget :)
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Kickstarter Brought This App Back From Yahoo’s Corporate Hell
Study from close to 1,000 deployments: Java infrastructure popularity
And how is the average user to manager their meter? There are no intuitive controls.

How do you stop that prankster on unmetered service from pingflooding you so you're charged hundreds of dollars?

Now that ads cost me money, I have good reason to do adblock.

Does it cost as much to download that file from a congested line as it does from my ISP's cache?

And when there's still congestion do I pay for all the retransmissions from dropped packets?
It's named "Go!", though. Must be an imperative language. What we really need is a third programming language named "Go?", the query language.
If you are going to educate yourself broadly over the subject of software engineering it might be helpful to take a look at what a committee of professionals think the software engineering body of knowledge comprises:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok
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That's a good starting point.

I have a docker-cleanup script, which removes untagged images and containers: https://github.com/blueyed/dotfiles/blob/master/usr/bin/dock...
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Being accepted to Ycombinator is not a signal that your business will be successful in the long term. It might help in the short run being accepted as your instantly validated and have a higher chance of getting VC funding.

Entrepreneurs you shouldn't let getting rejected from Y combinator or any other accelerator bother you. You should consider the feedback they give and try to validate it and if what they are saying is true, try to correct what is wrong.

Consider one other point, while Y combinator partners are successful they are really not that successful. They haven't achieved as much as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page,Jack Ma etc. If Y combinator partners were really successful they would be running multi billion dollar companies, but they are using their skills to filter out applicants to Y combinator. So don't take their rejection as the law.
And compare that to, say, a WRC car [0], where the most visible piece of information is the current gear.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc9jA5hg6vc
Walk-through QuantConnect Algorithm Terminal
New algorithm development terminal from QuantConnect for designing quantitative trading strategies.
Trying to find the source of that image - Google lists it on a few tumblrs going back to 2010 (tumblr apparently started in 2007, who knew) - except when you go to the oldest of them it's only just been posted, today, not 2010. Google never seem to have been able to do dates reliably.
I think you should ask the question of why? Looking at this from a connected population perspective, you might change your mind about calling the residential connection in the US a joke. My two cent.
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I share the same feeling towards my LG G2. The reason I bought it is because it was the android phone with the longest battery life. And how bad could the software be?

While there are haters of the "pure android experience", I like it, because it is quite stable. What I cannot imagine is someone in LG/Samsung saying "We can do better android". Forget design, testing etc. How can the lack of design, tech understanding/expertise in the team go along with ambitious projects like this?

More importantly, If I were building a product that fits the above description, how would I know?
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The Heat is on with OpenStack Icehouse
So was this just a commissioned piece on Julia? Julia is a very interesting new development, and has a very sharp dev community - but I find it laughable that any article about de-throning FORTRAN barely even makes a passing reference to Python, which is currently sweeping across universities and scientific research labs across the world.

We won't solve tomorrow's problems with yesterday's perspective. Efficiency of compute is only one portion of the problem, and so much of the article fixates on things close to the machine, instead of recognizing that the real barrier to innovation in scientific computing is computational literacy among scientists.

IMHO, Haskell and Clojure are DOA in this regard. They may be great for software developers, but not so much for geneticists and astrophysicists and nuclear chemists. Python's language, libraries, and community ethos are a very compelling mix, and have already crossed the chasm into the "mainstream" of scientific computing, even if it's still early days.
> Our understanding is that Apple have currently only enabled MPTCP for Siri. This probably makes sense - Siri isn't mission critical, but is very delay sensitive.

I have to disagree that it makes sense to cripple APIs and give preferential treatment to certain software. If the support is there, give developers an API to use it!

Also, good job on MPTCP - it's awesome :)

EDIT: I'm being downvoted, but I'd really love to hear a justification for why it makes sense for apple to restrict features to use in apple-developed software only.
This... looks pretty fun actually. Visualizing each number by its factors is brilliant. You can simply add up the factors to get the product.
I appreciate the honesty and critical views expressed here. You don't see this too often with people discussing the YC interviewing process.