skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ref. map #3 and why Norway was the first country to join ARPANET:

"Tracing the origins of the Internet in this country, it turns out that Norway was the first non-english speaking country on the net. It also turns out that the reason for getting Norway on to the net was a highly laudable cause. In 1971, NORSAR (NORwegian Seismic ARray) at Kjeller just outside Oslo was connected to the Seismic Data Analysis Center (SDAC) in Virginia with a fixed, 2.4Kbits line. NORSAR and SDAC were financed by DARPA (US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the purpose of monitoring the early nuclear test-ban treaties, the Norwegian array being ideally situated close to the Soviet test sites on Novaja Zemlja in the Arctic."

http://www.isoc-no.no/isoc-no/social/isoc-no-art.html
One example that sums up most: Twitter. I just want to see/display the feed, not have the UI decide which ones to deem 'important'. I'd like for the app to allow the power of CSS to let me choose a layout as opposed to just picking one that doesn't really work for me.

The overall problem is that what UI designers think 'a more suitable UI' is, probably won't be for many users. Think of it like the open-office plan. It's horrible for employees, most people absolutely hate it, it lowers productivity, and yet corporations have people on staff who are implementing it as fast as they possibly can because it's more "suitable".
Thanks. I can't thank you enough.
Actually, Unicode handling is broken on Python 2, and works just fine on Python 3. I'm also a Russian user :)

Your code doesn't make any sense. Care to comment on what it means?

Guido didn't do us any favors with his migration strategy, but Python 3.4 is a substantially better and more modern language, so I would suggest developing on it (it's supported out of the box on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, for example). It's true that app platform providers have not caught up yet, though.
OS X Yosemite public beta signup
I didn't give the article a super-close read, but it seems to assume that people eat proportionately to how much they walk/exercise. Looking around, that seems unlikely to be the case.
Yes, which is really what ethics is about isn't it?

There is the ethical thing...and then there is what allows you to get a greater reward for intentionally forcing the cost of the reward on to a 3rd party.
I have a "two generation" setup; nominally 4x1TB + 4x2TB (though one of the disks in the latter raidz is actually 4TB because I had to replace a failed 2TB disk). It's gone fairly well so far; 8 disks + 1 for the OS is about all I can fit in an ordinary PC, and I didn't feel too bad about throwing away 500GB disks to replace them with 2TB ones; replacing the 1TB disks with 4TB ones will be the same.
I did it because a new webapp deployment costs nothing, no extra work involved at all with DO, just add a snapshot and ssh key to a new droplet. If something needs to be consolidated, I just use DO api and paramiko to ssh into each droplet and run new commands. If it's updating the webapp across all customers, it's a matter of issuing restart command to all the droplets via API.
It is unreasonable to think that a system that is not well-suited to desktop use is therefore "going to waste". The features that make something good for supercomputers, appliances, network infrastructure, embedded devices, and so on, are all fairly distinct from what makes a system good on a desktop.

A system could, in theory, be both (although you end up with a least-common-denominator situation), but they are separate.
I think the hotel owner would be glad to know that this was going on. I've invested in this hotel front desk agent. If I come back to SF, I'll come back to the same hotel. Tip the same front desk agent. She'll get to know me. She'll help me out. I'll help her out. And in the end of the day 1.) I'm staying at the hotel. 2.) I'm booking through the hotel, not a discount site like hoteltonight or expedia
Consistently sleeping 8 hours a night will do more for your brain than these chemicals. What a waste.
South Bay (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto...etc) Full time/Contract/Part time.

Stack: QA, QA automation, Perl, Java, SQL, Selenium, File system testing, balck-box/white box testing, Linux scripting.

Resume link: http://goo.gl/Mlm494

Contact: Please see resume.

Posting for wife. Looking for a company where her skills will be enhanced and she can build here career. Any domain is fine. Looking for Junior to Mid level position.

[Originally posted in the other job thread doing rounds...)
Santa Barbara, California. Remote or Relocation (within California). Full time.

Stack: Full stack Web development: Python, JavaScript, Django, jQuery, Knockout, Bootstrap, SQL Query Optimization, Oracle, MySQL, OLAP, AWS.

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcmart . Will provide resume privately upon request.

Contact: dcmartin65 [at] gmail.com

Full stack Web developer with 5+ years of professional experience looking to relocate to the Bay area or Los Angeles/Santa Monica. Currently splitting my time 80/20 between writing code and managing junior devs on several new projects/features. I helped build software that has been used to manage and sell hundreds of thousands of homes. I also co-founded a startup to connect parents and teachers. Above all I'm looking to expand my technical knowledge and work on a close knit team (even if that's within a larger company).
I could browse the web or write documents without leaving my Plan9 system.

It's somewhat like, "What would peeing in the bathroom offer you that you can't already do elsewhere, e.g. the kitchen?"
>win a pointless popularity contest

Who said anything about winning a popularity contest? I just want to use a cool OS. Linux hasn't won any desktop popularity contests but it's still possible for average people to use it for day to day work.

>What would a word processor or web browser on Plan 9 enable you to do that you can't do already on Windows?

Do you even know what Plan 9 is? If you did, you wouldn't be asking this question.

Oh, I just read your HN profile. Sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to a troll.
Really like the new design, but I think the coolest new thing is HandOff. The new Spotlight search is cool, too.
Yes, it is fair to disclose exactly what you've achieved. They've made it run 28.5 mph on a treadmill with off board power and that is exactly what they disclosed. I guess you are reacting to the comparison to a human that has on board power. Or maybe it's just the fact that this comparison makes for a misleading headline. In any case this is probably the least interesting thing we could be discussing about their progress.
Forgetting critical nutrients like iron is definitely disruptive. http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298
Cancelling a service should ALWAYS be easy and painless. I make sure all apps/services I have are just as easy to cancel as they were to sign up.

I actually find that about 50% of people who cancel end up coming back. I also have NEVER had a user contact me about how to cancel their account. They just do it. No problem, no interaction, no bullshit 'let me talk to you first' run around.

If you are trying to keep people from cancelling by making it difficult to do so, YOU ARE BAD AT BUSINESS.
They might still trick us and that it's merely for desktop (and by the time I write that, it was indeed confirmed on desktop)
Seeing a site blatantly cop their style makes me distrust them, since they put very little time into their company. It doesn't convey seriousness.

I think there is room for a company that simplifies nootropics though, it's a wild world out there. It can be hard to find capsules.
Would strongly disagree with this. Not all parts of your entire stack are equal. It is far, far more likely that your application tier is likely to fall over or say suffer a full GC than your load balancer falling over. You've also eliminated the ability to do rolling restarts and many other redundancy activities.

Staying away from complexity is one thing. But only if you are running some toy site.
It'd be morally presumptuous!
I alternate between Plan 9 and Plan 9 from User Space. There's no getting around the browser issue, so when I'm on the go it's all the User Space version, sadly. When at my desk, it's easier to have a side-by-side setup, or VNC or whatever.
I think this doesn't take into account that most people have surplus calories that would otherwise turn into fat.
Agreed. The UI design isn't even worth mentioning if they really make it seamless to go from device to device. I'd love to leave my phone in another room and just use my tablet/computer while at home.
That's true, but irrelevant. If you're consistently getting enough sleep, these will still improve your cognition.
I stated this above, but because I have a policy of pain-free cancellations, I get about 50% of my cancelled users back WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ANYTHING.
Rijndael Cipher Animation: 128-bit size for data block and key
Skymind launches open-source deep learning with deeplearning4j.org
Skymind is providing commercial support and services for an open source project called deeplearning4j.org. It’s a collection of of approaches to deep learning that mimic those developed by leading researchers, but tuned for enterprise adoption.
This article's final point should probably be on top:
"Many people take this idea as a condemnation of cycling or exercise. It isn’t. Cycling is my favourite exercise. It is a condemnation of how much fossil fuel is used in agriculture."

People travel smaller distances in neighborhoods and cities designed around walking, biking, and mass transit (in the US, mostly pre-WWII neighborhoods) than in places designed around cars, because roads and parking lots require huge amounts of land, and high-speed automobile travel also enables people to live on larger plots of land. Don't let this kind of reasoning dissuade you from living in, and supporting the construction of, walkable neighborhoods.
This talk is about whether or not a UI tweak is worth doing a full system upgrade and why you should not be as excited as Apple is making you.
Python 3 is increasingly the better choice. The major exception is if you need a library which hasn't been ported yet but that list continues to shrink:

http://python3wos.appspot.com/

The good news is that it's increasingly easy to write programs which run on both using newer idioms via __future__ backports, which is often both future proof and a way to write better code using newer language features which many people miss out on due to habit and old tutorials.

Lennart Regebro has a wonderful guide covering the changes and how to deal with them as painlessly as possible:

http://python3porting.com/differences.html
Apple Introduces iOS 8
If people walk regularly they get health benefits. To be accurate this should take into account the energy savings from avoiding healthcare costs. E.g., how much gasoline goes into building an additional hospital, pills, etc?
At the place I chose for now as my 'central hub', there are also people living with kids. Money is not needed, the property is squatted in the seventies and later bought.

Some people earn money and are happy to provide for electricity. Also, guests are encouraged, but not obligated, to leave a donation if they visit the property for a longer time. It's in the middle of the woods, and recently we placed a second wind mill. For warmth and cooking we use the wood that the forest provides in abundance (this all in harmony with nature, only dead trees are used and also enough wood is left to rot to provide 'food' for the forest). Some people use gas bottles.

I have come to see that the concept of money is so deeply engraved (is that the right term?) in our minds, that it's almost impossible to think of the possibility to do without. With every concept that is thought of, money seems to be a mandatory part in the equation. There is a whole world out there where money takes no part in at all. And where even having a rich and healthy life is possible.
This is a great idea! You could apply genetic algorithms to the process. Pick the most popular and productive computers and re-image from these, eventually identifying the optimal configuration. Popularity of a shared resource could have nothing to do with location, hardware specs, or other external factors. Likewise, productivity is only going to have a miniscule correlation with the actual person behind the computer as opposed to the configuration of the operating system. Forget individualized tooling, single licensing, and security. We want to encourage cross-pollination of skills. If the accounting package is available to everyone, well, they might just learn some accounting. Win - Win for everyone.

Hell, you might as well leave some of the viruses on there. Haven't some viruses integrated with the human genome? We want the same concepts to apply to our IT and office layout. Perhaps one of those viruses is closing security vulnerabilities and keeping other viruses out.
In a strange way this makes me feel a bit better (so it's not just me). If there was no downside I'll publicly shame these companies.
Soylent is not innovative.
> So when you plan your next office, leave the kitchen
> open too - the scrape of chairs on the tiles, the
> sound of the dishwasher being unloaded, the happy
> PING of the microwave - not to mention the aromas of
> hot food - all these things will make employees feel
> right at home.

This is an accurate description of lunchtime at the digital shitshow where I work. An open plan kitchen really is the handiwork of the idiot. Sometimes I'm glad the toilets were prebuilt when we moved in, or else I fear we'd have open plan shitting as well.
In my anecdotal, (not technical) experience, here are the issues with RAID5 failing (from losing 4TBs of Data and 2TBs of backups)

- Consumer devices - The later Buffalo terastations (Consumer NAS) and other 'low' price devices for some stupid reason tied the RAID array to their own hardware (like firmware) if the unit fails, the array fails.

- The size and 'time' to rebuild places a great stress on disks, therefore causing a potential 2nd drive loss. Rebuilding HDs for 250GB-500GB took a 90 min or so, a 2TB rebuilt takes several hours, all HDs are grinding to recover data at the same time, for hours as well, and this is when you are likely to lose more than the 1 drive and your array.

- Consumer and SMB NAS devices tend to buy the hard drives from the same manufacturer, at the same time, so when one drive fails, the other drives are just as likely to fail in the same time period. I lost two 1TB backups when the HDs had a 'suicide pact' and when I opened the Hard drives, I saw they were literally made the same day. To be extra paranoid, I used to have 2 or 3 different brand of HDs when I had my NAS.
- I recommend Synology units and constantly monitor the health of your hard drives. Totally agreed that RAID1 should be the golden standard. I've used several brands and Synology was rock solid.
So basically it is catching up with Windows 8.
Sorry, I realized you were trying to be circumspect, I just was instantly visited with a vision of a guy trudging around a track with a car on his back.
Moreover, prove there is no harm from these chemicals. Good luck with that!
There are already 7 links to clinical studies on the FAQ page. https://nootrobox.com/faq
You might want to check with your hosting provider. I know with Linode I can "clone" my running server, do the upgrades on it, and then swap the IP addresses of the clone and the original (so now the clone is my main server). It's not the most convenient process, but it should work with minimal downtime.

You could do the same thing without the IP swap trick using DNS, it just take a bit longer to propagate. The real catch is what happens to data that was added or changed between when you clone the server to when you make the switch? Ideally you'd want to put your site in a readonly mode if possible.
256kbps is useless to me.

So you're the guy trying to hook a Roku or AppleTV to his in-room TV and watch Netflix all night while all I'm trying to do is get my email and perhaps send a photo to my wife and kids.

The $20 upcharge sounds good to me.
The submitter included a text description of the project, but those don't show up if the post has a URL. You need to post it as a comment in a thread.
This is really neat but my problem with the asset pipeline hasn't been managing library dependencies but the general slowness of the process.
Impressive timing for a response. Wonder if they had a little birdy that tipped them off beforehand?
You're welcome :)

I watch the keynotes at work (on Windows) so I always spend the first 5-10 minutes scrambling around looking for a live stream that actually works.

This is probably the best one I've found. No stuttering, no commentary, etc.
The dark UI option is a nice touch.
1. I'd rather drink coffee than take a capsule with caffein
2. How does this compare with Alpha Brain (https://www.onnit.com/alphabrain/)?
The capital investment to produce the car uses energy--so no, I highly doubt this math. The cow is a capital investment like the car (ie, and energy sink that makes other things happen with less energy). If the cow alows you to not buy a car, you are doing better off perhaps?

The appropriate analysis is to look at the entire investment in the car-infrasctucture-industrial complex:

Roads

Gas Stations

Auto supply stores

Tool makers

Auto Companies

Auto Parts Suppliers

Shipping Industry that transports the cars

etc.
Chasing mass appeal has a point because what is popular is not as useful as it could be. I see people adapting themselves to the computer instead of adapting the computer to themselves or to their task. For example, a teenager who crashes the car because his or her eyes and fingers were attending to his or her "smart" phone.
There are multiple studies that show a link between caffeine with improved cognitive or physical performance. This has been proven.
Probably just quick typists. Alfred (of which I'm a user) was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a screenshot of the new Spotlight.
I'd imagine these users will have to go through a process that proves they don't just have the link but can also access the email account in question. Just like email subscription confirmations work.
Three miles of walking does not burn an extra 220 calories.
"Not breaking the web" has a couple sides:

1. Users have to be able to find and read interesting content.

2. Content publishers have to be able to make enough money so that they continue to find it economical to produce content.

"First click free" was the compromise solution for this. Google's incentives actually run both ways - if they couldn't use paywalls, most content sites would probably use AdSense or DoubleClick, both Google products. But it's unlikely that a site like The Economist or The New York Times could continue to produce quality articles off AdSense revenue alone.
Clearly there are two parts to this equation.

One aspect is how far research has gone - it's gone a long ways and achieved a lot, yes.

The other aspect is how there is to go - there's a long to go before you get anything useful here.

The thing you have to consider with these criticisms is that many technologies have gone a long, long way in their research but still hit a wall before they wound-up being practical. Walking robots seem like they're just very hard. Compared to wheeled vehicules, "walkers" touch on a very large number of "frames" (in the sense of Minsky etc). There's no reason for a walker if they just use to the safe, level zone of a road and if a walker moves in less structured areas, they need a lot of intelligence to move in a way that's useful for people (I've seen a video of BigDog moving through the woods with one soldier guiding via joy but the useful of thing that needs constant attention but can't be ridden would be strictly less than that of a horse and that's being optimistic it can guided effectively, etc).
Unfortunately not ;)
I already feel like I've hijacked this thread, while this was not my intention at all. Feel free to message me for info's. My username can be contacted at a big e-mail provider as well as three popular social networks.
Did you get those backwards? Or are you saying that only getting 50 mg will make your body react funny because it's only getting 1/2- 1/4 of what your coffee has?
HandOff is the kind of thing I'm surprised took so long. Honestly, I was expecting MS to get something like it first. After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right?
> Has this site just flat out not worked for anyone since the public comment period began May 15th?

The site is up and shows 45,647 comments on Proceeding 14-28 "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet" in the period since comments opened on it (which is more than 30 times the activity of the next-heaviest over the past 30 days), so it clearly has worked for some people. I suspect any errors you are encountering (the only error I see is if you attempt to click through the link to the existing public comments) are because of an unanticipated activity level resulting from the fact that the comment link is being broadcast with many opinion articles/broadcasts on the issue accompanied by calls to flood the system.
Even air and water can harm you, so that's an impossible bar to reach. If the costs and risks of a particular dose are worth it for someone, you can't say it's a waste.
...but if I have a friendship with you that I want to remain private for some reason, and you make it public, you are going against my wishes, you are a bad person, and you shouldn't do that.

This can often result in injury or death to the person who typically has a good reason for keeping their relationship secret.
That particular example is from Dan Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational".

All of the cognitive biases are described on Wikipedia. The links are in the articles.
The reasoning isn't dissuading me, it's the cost of living in urban cores (for property) while facing a high probability of my wife or child getting raped or mugged that does.

That, combined with tax incentives for owning property, means I have finally given up my walkable neighborhoods and have embraced the carbon powered lifestyle. A few years ago I'd be the last person who would say that, I protested against highway expansion and pushed for bicycle infrastructure. Now I've given it all up, have moved out into the weeds, and pay the carbon lords prodigious amounts of cash.

If you want walkable, you have to give up nearly everything else and you better love spending all your time in that walkable little neighborhood. I couldn't do it, there's nowhere in a dirty city I want to be badly enough to give up everything else for.
I think the iOS 7 design looks like a joke, but I'm nonetheless happy they're changing OS X, it needed a renovation.
A better title didn't really present itself, so I just used what was there.

The article is anyway more about considering the energy use of agriculture than it is about trying to win the comparison.
Google+ Auto Awesome has a feature that does this for you. If you take multiple pictures of a subject with your phone it will automatically give you a photo with all the moving people/cars/etc from the scene removed.

The second feature listed on this page: http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2013/10/auto-awesome-action-...