skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People no longer use domains. I've seen tons of people go to Google search and put "domain.com" there. With mobile, domains are even less useful. I think people still have ".com" in their mind and for sure "somethingapp.com" is easier to communicate than the future "something.app". It confuses people, they are used to ".com". It's like ".mobi" and ".tel", which were supposed to be killers. Yet, most companies just implemented "m.something.com" instead of ".mobi". These cryptic names only get hacker kudos, mere mortals don't really care and for most of those, you need to pay a premium and be stuck with a crappy registrar. Gandi is pretty good though and I hear much more hacker-friendly with not paying so much attention on take down notices like with the US registrars.
This isn't about an individual. Of course Really Good People can come from anywhere, but not with the same probability. And when you're recruiting, you want to hit schools with high
concentration of talents.

You'd be lying to yourself if you think schools like NCCU and Durham Tech have the same concentration of talents as MIT, Stanford, etc.
UTme, Uniqlo's Custom T-Shirt Design Application for Smartphones
Would it make sense to use CoreOS on just one machine or is it only useful with multiple machines?
Or perhaps all the commitment to "hiring the best" is just posturing and they really take whatever is available that happens to meet the arbitrary standard imposed on Tuesday afternoon
What you need to know about pundits’ stock recommendations.
Because they're the ones hiring agencies, deciding mood and content based on presented ideas, and then approving and revising design throughout the process.
Sure, I just wrote it up (partially) as a reply to another post:

> Entering Moldova is easy if you're a US citizen; the visa is granted upon entry, with no fee.

> Entering Transnistria is trickier...

> You need to fill out a customs form, either at the "border" (a buffer zone which includes Russian "peacekeepers") or in advance if you know someone who has a stack of empty forms.

> Then you'll submit the customs form to the guards at the border and be subjected to questioning and possibly a bribe demand. If you do everything right, you'll be allowed to enter. A portion of the customs form will be teared off, stamped, and given to you to hold.

> (In my case, I was traveling with someone affiliated with the local football (soccer) team. He convinced the border guards that I'm an American player being tried out for the local team, which got us through the border with relative ease. It helped that I was wearing aforementioned Adidas track pants and have the physical build of a football player. It did not help that I was not told about this plan ahead of time, but thankfully they only questioned him and not me.)

> The clock is now ticking, because this stamp is only good for 24 hours. If you intend to stay overnight (>24 hrs), you need to find the "Ministry of Interior" and go through another round of questioning and paperwork (and again, possible bribe demands) before receiving a multi-day stamp.
Oh, and this "Ministry of Interior" is actually just a police booth somewhere deep inside in Tiraspol (the capitol), next to several abandoned factories, crumbling homes, and roaming chickens. Good luck finding it.

> Getting out is just as, uh, fun.
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> No one turns down offer from Stanford for the opportunity to study at Fayetteville State. The most likely reason person ends up at non top 5 schools is because they couldn't get in those.

I am extremely skeptical of this line of reasoning because it assumes that only important criterion for choosing a school is whether it's good or not (or, alternatively, whether it has brand recognition, depending on one's perspective).

There are a vast swath of other reasons that could rank more highly then whether a school is good or not. Two reasons easily in reach are geography and financial resources. I certainly restricted my choice based on those criteria well before whether the school was any good, and I don't regret it at all.
Maybe the preservation of "delegated commits" is not as important as keeping the commit history accurate?
AWS is almost never cheaper than colocation; you're paying a premium to scale to infinity on a dime.

/DevOps Engineer who manages both AWS and colo'd infrastructure
Counter-point on surface-pro by another webcomic author:

http://www.pvponline.com/news/surface-pro-vs-the-cintiq-13hd

Basically, Scott Kurtz found that the stylus lag on every tablet was so bad that he ended up using his Wacom Cintiq, which requires a wall-outlet.
there was a posting about the blog article earlier, i think this looks to much like a repost.
I don't think this prevents that requirement from being met -- you can attach a signature to the commit, or keep a separate record of signatures for each commit.

Still would be nice to avoid the duplication though.
It would be great on one machine. First, it's a lightweight host for docker containers, like less than half the size, so you can do more with that single machine.

Second, if it ever turns out you _need_ a second machine, you have room to grow, other than just getting a bigger box.
Was that the case when the article was written though?
I'm hoping for a few things.

1. Public discussion. People talk about income equality a lot. This is in large part where it comes from: the way the cases arrive at the court's doorstep is incredibly skewed to start with. And once you're in court, the bias continues.

2. An injunction changing the rules. As much as I'd like it to be, I don't expect that PACER will be free, but it shouldn't be this expensive. And I shouldn't be forced to hire a lawyer if I don't want to.

3. Modernization of the courts. The courts are able to lag the rest of the economy in technology because no one ever pops their bubble; the judges think everything is fine. Everything is not fine--but it requires a precise articulation of why it's not fine to get their attention. I'm not sure I've achieved that, but I've at least tried.
Isn't Heroku technically AWS too? I know it was in 2012.
There are other modes that are more suitable for random access. For example, TrueCrypt uses XTS mode. Tarsnap uses CTR mode. Either would satisfy the requirement of allowing you to edit one block without rewriting all the blocks that follow.
> what's the security issue here?

I guess it's a UX issue rather than github security, but I could commit as person_X and include in my commit log a message to @person_Y requesting that they take some action (email account details, send bitcoin to an address, etc) which they would only take if they believed the real person_X had asked them to.

It does seem strange that the same visual user identity is associated with an action like creating an issue (requires authentication as user) and creating a commit "by" that user (does not require authentication as user).
When you are holding a camera, the intent is somewhat obvious. When you are holding a phone, not so much. That's the real separation.
Darpa Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
It's also convenient that highest frequencies a human ear can detect is about 20khz, so the sampling rate needs to be at least 40khz (see "Nyquist Rate")
Actually Google found that GPA is a weak indication of how a person performs. Apparently, according to Google, the GPA is only weakly correlated with job success in the first year or two.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013-...
Since showing what `git log` actually contains is the definition of 'accurate', I'm not sure what you mean. They aren't "delegated commits", it's the nature of distributed version control: Github's copy of the repo doesn't get to claim special authority over other copies.
The tag [Aaron Swartz], and Exhibit B, feel incompatible with the footer: "Please do not bulk download information from this web site without prior permission."
I think most people including the person who posted this and most posting in the thread have misunderstood what a panic attack is. First of all, a panic attack is not like ordinary anxiety. Getting nervous ahead of a meeting is not a panic attack. Sure sometimes people can get extremely nervous and have a panic attack at times like that, but people can also have a panic attack that seems to come out of the blue. So there are different causes and variations on panic attacks that people here seem to not be comprehending. There can be a number of completely physical rather than mental health issues that can cause panic attacks. Especially if you start getting panic attacks without a history of anxiety you need to carefully rule out those physical causes before you assume that you just need to meditate more or get CBT or something. And even if the cause is mental or psychological there are different types of panic attacks so CBT etc may not be effective and you or your friend may really need medication. Anyway just because you have gotten really nervous a few times don't assume that you understand someones condition well enough to give them medical advice especially if its to tell them to just meditate or somrthing.
Makerbot is now owned by Stratasys. Stratasys is now attacking Makerbot alternatives such as Afinia.

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/11/26/stratasys-throws-cu...
If the causation can't be proven, will it matter?
The citric acid and vitamin E in the ingredients list are serving the purpose as preservatives in liquid Dr Bronners.
There's a difference between government and private entities. The Foundation literally can't afford to allow the entire world to download 100GB of legal data each; we're already over our data center quota many months. The United States government has a bit more to work with in the way of resources.

The case is tagged Aaron Swartz because Aaron Swartz is mentioned in the complaint.
Not sure why the comment was deleted.. was genuinely interested.

Anyway, I think I found it:
http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7073044
As I posted above, Makerbot was bought by Stratasys. Now Stratasys is attacking Makerbot alternatives such as Afinia.

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/11/26/stratasys-throws-cu...
They did a nice job with the video, but the concept is unrealistic for a few more years. The drone can't navigate autonomously via GPS through all those obstacles.
I didn't say that I believe in GPA as a stack-ranking score. I just believe it has value when you're comparing someone who barely graduated with someone who graduated with honors. Even Google uses GPA for new grads (so says the article), probably for similar reasons.

Also, as long as we're being pedantic: "success at Google" is not clearly related to "success in a small company", or even "success in the world". We don't even know what they mean by "success".
> Of course, overtime a subreddit becomes a default or gets too many subscribers... but it's still a decent solution.

And then it spawns off one or more new subreddits, based on the desires of the users. I feel that's a pretty good way to handle the situation.
> The transforms aren't complex... They're inverted.

Again, It's not that simple. Most ANC headphones use a digital feed-forward control system using a variant of the LMS algorithm to provide coefficients to an adaptive FIR filter(s). Generally you also have to apply additional filters to model the loudspeaker / system response. Better systems will use a hybrid analog/digital approach, either way, there is a lot more to it than 'invert the mic signal and add'.

The reason that ANC headphones didn't really exist until recently is that sufficiently high performance yet low power DSPs were needed to perform the necessary computations.
After reading about AdBlock Plus's effect on memory usage in Firefox[1] I immediately disabled it. Seeing that this is also based on the ABP codebase, I wonder if it will run into the same issue.

1. https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
OVH is dedicated.
Having tried the new virginamerica.com site just now, I don't really see a big difference between their site and anyone else's. Having booked through a lot of different airline sites over the last 15 years, I want to say that the differences between airline sites were much greater in the early web years.

All the airline sites seemed to have converged to a common model. They all follow exactly the same flow: pick cities and dates, then pricing, then sign in, etc. There was far greater variation in the flow in the early years.

> but from a usability perspective it might just be the worst

Oh, I can cite major airline websites that are much worse from a usability perspective. Trying to book a flight on any Brazilian airline is impossible unless you're Brazilian. That's because every airline in Brazil has inexplicably decided that they want you to enter your Brazilian identity number -- explained in more detail here:

http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Booking_a_domestic_fl...

If you're not Brazilian, you don't have such a number of course. Note that this is not any sort of legal requirement; it's just thoughtlessness about usability by the airlines.

I expect a lot of indignation this summer when visitors try to arrange flights inside of Brazil during the World Cup.
"Y via X" would be preferable.

It's worth keeping in mind that what GitHub does now is what _every_ other git client does, and it's in GitHub's best interest not to confuse users (or to make it look like they're privileging a GitHub-based workflow over a standard git workflow).
I would define accurate as a combination of 'git log' and which account pushed to github. As it is, github seems to treat these commits differently (they aren't showing up on the other users' pages...at least as far as I can tell) so it seems like something that should be indicated in this UI as well.
Fighting PACER is god's work; requiring flash in order to display logos for the instant parties is the devil's.
my guess is it defaults to the closest city that they have flights from. I don't think virgin flies from connecticut.
AWS has certifications for health, financial, and government data (plus many more)
I would love to see an article like this for error handling in Rust. I was really interested in using conditions, but those were apparently backed out. Which leaves error handling through return values and macros. This seems like a step back from Exceptions to me. I want to be convinced otherwise, but I'm struggling to see how this is better than other mechanisms.
Show HN: QwickUp, open-source lookup tool.
I've never had success with passing a rebase around the team, only on a local branch. What's your workflow look like w.r.t. rebasing?
I've only had one kernel panic clearly linked to Parallels, but I still haven't made it to a month of uptime after over two years of using OS X, so it's quite possible that's it's causing non-obvious problems even with no VMs running.
I don't think skycatch is doing realtime 3d mapping. Most likely they're using photogrammetry that takes a couple hours to process after the flight.
Downvoted, huh.

For future reference: Hacker News is only for the Android fanboys.
There was no compelling reason to buy Surface RT besides office. That was the killer app that differentiated it from iOS and Android tablets that were either same price with better specs, or cheaper with similar specs. Office was the lynchpin and they flubbed it.
Good point, sometimes the dread can be worse than the encounter itself. The only way out is through.
>Since showing what `git log` actually contains is the definition of 'accurate',

That's a non-standard definition of the term.
I won't say it works for everyone but on my Lenovo y510p, I can change the settings for the ELAN pointing device to disable my trackpad when there is an external mouse attached. If I have to use the computer for more than a few minutes, I make sure I plug in my mouse. (It isn't made to be an ultraportable / on top of a lap laptop notebook computer as the air intake is at the bottom.)

The surface would, of course, need to work well without a mouse. Perhaps the pen could be used as a pointing device in desktop mode as well?
"Either things will get better, they will get worse, or they will remain the same" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Yes, Norikra uses Esper. That is great software.

Norikra provides:

1. schema-less processing: Esper requires schema for all events and queries, but Norikra query does not requires any schema

2. nested hash/array access by extended SQL(EPL)

3. standalone server software: applications in any languages can use stream processing over RPC

4. lightening deployment: only 3 minutes by jruby+gem install

And UDF over rubygems, connecting query output into other query inputs, and much more.
Can I track consistently worst stock pickers too?

Then I can fade their bets and become the top :)
It would be interesting to see this data broken down by geographical office for the larger tech companies. I would expect to see more students from northeastern schools at Google's NYC office than in the Mountain View office.
Reading other comments, the i7 version has better graphics, hopefully not laggy...and hopefully a software fix to disable home button when pen is in range...but...the i7 ain't cheap.
A Response to Michael Kinsley
> The Foundation literally can't afford to allow the entire world to download 100GB of legal data each; we're already over our data center quota many months.

I would gladly set aside some space and bandwidth for a torrent, if this can help you. My mail is in my profile.
It's still kind of a joke, since you can mute an iPhone very effectively by covering up the speaker holes.
Inverted sound waves can cancel each other in air, I've heard (or not heard) the effect with my own ears.
If that's what hooked you, go back to your cubicle.
Neither is latency.
One thing I found weird about this was all the UT Austin people going to Facebook, since as far as I know there's no geographical reason (does FB even have satellite offices?). Can anyone explain why that occurs?
Yeah, they fly from Boston and New York. But maybe this system doesn't have location services enabled, so it just picked something random.
There is strong evidence that indicates that recent fracking activity(2009 and onwards) in Oklahoma is solely responsible for the earthquake activity they are seeing -> http://www.decodedscience.com/increasing-earthquake-frequenc...

To indicate anything otherwise is disingenuous.
The author mentioned in the article (as one of his recommendations to his friend) that it may be helpful to read a non-technical book (among other things of course). One book that I have found very instrumental in helping me cope with stress and anxiety is "The Mind and the Brain" by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley. The reasons why are very specific I think:

1) Its vocabulary appeals to those who like me appreciate science.
2) It tackles concepts that are common in zen and Buddhism but with solid, perhaps even more grounded, explanations.
3) It helps the analytical minded to understand that there is a separation between what the brain experiences and the self. This can help others in understanding through logic and reasoning how to take control of stress and anxiety.

Just though I would share in case anyone needing help with anxiety wants to read something new and helpful.
Glassholes use Google to destroy restaurant's rating
> This will likely be unpopular here,

Whatever works for you. There's nothing wrong with religion or spirituality as long as it serves you well. Of course, this could be said about anything, but I don't see any legitimate reason for naysayers to single out religion as a crutch or something.

Your approach sounds like some kind of meditation, to me. Certainly that has proven to be beneficial to a lot of people. I'm not one to dismiss the spiritual side of meditation, either.
Related, useful concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

See in particular the Berkeley Gender Bias case if you don't want to hack the math apart.

The specific way you slice and dice data matters.
In terms of implementation, it's interesting that they chose ugly URLs which encode everything

/book/rt/a1c1i1/sfo_bos/20140524_20140528

Note the a1c1i1: that's "1 Adult 1 Child 1 Infant" and it changes as you adjust the widgets (without a page refresh).

Also, minor detail, but I'm interested to see that they use PUT as well as POST to update the server with the selections. So that's following modern "REST" guidelines (use verbs properly) but the URLs are anything but!

EDIT: I put "REST" in quotes to refer vaguely to modern API practices. I know REST is strictly something else, please let's not talk about that it's really boring.
Plus power. That means two cables! That's literally double the number of things I should need to plug in.

I hate to admit that this actually bothers me. It's true of all laptops, though.
Helping to establish prior art
With regard to helping the community establish prior art on patents. I think one "cog in the wheel" that probably should be in place is a queue-like system that would shuffle patent applications (as they become available on the USPTO website) to relevant newsgroups / user groups / mailing lists.

Thoughts?
Duh, you're right of course.
The currency exchanges seem to be the hardest part. I think Bitcoin needs to be established further as a spendable currency in it's own right.
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Maybe they encode everything in the URL to allow the back button to effectively function as an undo button.

EDIT: I take that back. Apparently, the back button does not undo something like adding a child to your booking.
This was 16 kernel panics, and was affecting myself and three coworkers who had upgraded to 10.9.3.

EDIT: ok, may be 16 panics of the same bug.
Well, some people still do. Examples include homeopathy, intercessory prayer, and those guys who make YouTube videos of themselves chanting at you to cure diseases somehow.

(Caveat: I assume those chanting videos are part of an age-old tradition, because the people in them say so, but they may not be the most reliable source of information.)
I'm running a DO box with node, mongo, and nginx. I'm able to get ~ 500rps
> people don't need to clean toilets for a living,

I swear to you, our janitor is the happiest, hardest working person in the building. Everyone looks up to him. But I can totally see where he couldn't work at McDonald's, let alone do QA runs on lab systems (a lab tech's job), or diagnose disease. And I think a genuine source of his happiness is having a job. Basic income doesn't solve the problem of feeling valued.
> but I'm appalled by the number of sites that require Javascript just to display static text.

I encounter these (a lot of them blogs -- a perfect example of static text, maybe images, that should be readable with just about any browser) when searching via Google, and the text-only cache option tends to be quite useful for getting the text that I want to read. If that doesn't show the content, then I go back --- there's plenty of other sites out there, if you don't make it easy to read your content I'll just go somewhere else where I can find the same thing.

At least with Google Groups it seems some of it is readable without JS now -- e.g. try this link with JS off: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/comp.lang.python
The market for apps is a vast wasteland where social is all that counts
It's gotten to the point that whenever I want to post a URL in an article or email a URL to someone, I need to sanitize it. I don't know what information I might be leaking.

If the URL looks like it might have some hidden information, what I usually do nowadays is to navigate to that location from a separate browser (in which I have no passwords, logins, cookies, history), and cut and paste the URL from there.
In a git repo, history is shown with `git log`, so when I ask GitHub to show me the history of the repo, it ought to match `git log`. That's not "non-standard".