skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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These aren't guys dabbling in sports betting, they are betting $50k+ per game and often time it's multiple games a day. Having dealt with many of such people I can tell you that the ROC can be ridiculous. Not only that, it doesn't have to scale well because there are only so many sporting matches each day. Universities already do this with recruiters (sending individuals all over to get info on every kid in some assigned area)
The bigger issue was that (IIRC) the source for Steam, which wasn't yet launched, was also leaked.
IBeacon: Apple's Latest Offering Explores the Great Indoors
Yikes,

An email only dialup account in Palau is $15/month. Unlimited dialup is $99.95.

64kbps DSL is $199.95 per month, going up to $759.95 for 320kbps...

I just wish they would give high-speeds at the last mile and ship in multi-TB drives for local access, while rate-limiting international (satellite uplink) access based on how much one pays.

edit: Palau internet access rate card: http://www.palaunet.com/view_pdf_file.aspx?field1=Palaunet%2...
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You've got an off by one error in your link!

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063....
The Mythical Story Point
It's a feature and could be tuned via preferences: http://superuser.com/questions/509354/putting-opera-tab-mana...
I was going to mention that. I could recognize Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson, but I have never heard of Lorinda Cherry [1]. Apparently, I should have, because she essentially inspired gnu plot utils, which must have had some influence on future plot utilities(?)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry

edit: made a correction, oops
What I've resolved to do when having to choose between a title and subtitle, or potentially creating my own title, is to include a rationale comment after I make the submission. dang seems pretty reasonable, but also has a lot of work between moderation and community outreach here as well as other responsibilities. Short of opening up more moderator/admin slots it seems reasonable (to me) to take some of that burden on ourselves to make dang's job easier and ensure that post titles end up somewhere nearer what we want for attracting readers and for clarity on the subject they point to.
Charming Photos of Iconic Tech Relics, From Brick Phones to Zip Drives
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." --W. Somerset Maugham
Very true, and licking the toads can also deliver cardiotoxins (people who really, really want to harvest the 5-MeO-DMT from them apparently "milk" their glands and then smoke it, which sounds like more trouble than it's worth). Sorry for the mistake on my part - I should have looked into that one more.
We have plans to charge users. - Chirag, CloudMagic
As that one dude said at the beginning (after the guy who looks like Carl Sagan a little bit), the women in this video are not necessarily developers, but can program. At the time, I believe programming was largely done by women...the women would program the computers, while the men would design and build them. But that programming wasn't really "development", per se, it was more like grunt work. At least, this is the impression I get from conversations with my grandfather, who worked with Dr. John Mauchley on the ENIAC computer and helped found the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, one of the (if not THE) first corporations dedicated to producing computers.

Although ENIAC and such were the official start of the computing industry, the way you interacted with early computers was much different from the way you interact with the UNIX system, and thus, practically everything that's come afterward. So in many ways, this is the real start of the computing industry, to me anyways.
Any chance you'll be opening a Silicon Valley office?
> teach your kids to be happy first.

And to this point, the parents must learn to be happy themselves. This is a great challenge for most people, who are often torn between social norms and their own internal forces, and never fully resolve these tensions. A parent with a clear understanding of their own nature can do a lot for a kid.

The great barrier to happiness for a parent of a gifted child is ego and vanity. Some parents become afflicted with inordinate pride in their progeny. "Look at how smart my son is!" they exclaim. The parents' peers, friends, teachers, family, tire of hearing about it. This can alienate the kid from these adults, and even worse the kid's ego can also become inflated. In the end, the parents' pride amplifies what is already a terrible alienating, lonely, and depressing existence when no-one really seems to "get" you.

A corollary to this sin of pride is focusing too much on academic performance and ignoring entirely the importance of social learning. Parents in general, and smart kids in particular, might make the mistake of believing that kids are in school to absorb academic knowledge alone. Yes, it is good to encourage native curiosity and satisfy the demands of a budding intellect. But even more important, I think, is for the child to understand his relationship to his peers. He must discover, essentially, what he wants from other kids and what they want from him, and (importantly) what they want from each other. This process of discovery, I think, should be done quietly, deliberately, and consciously. There is nothing more harmful than telling a kid, "You shouldn't care what other people think." Humans are born caring what other people think, and to deny that is just crazy. A smart kid starting with the right premise will be able to accomplish quite a lot - a smart kid given the wrong initial conditions will end up dejected, miserable, and a failure, all because he got bum information from parents who were just plain wrong.

It may seem counter-intuitive, but I believe that a critical element for happiness in intelligent kids is silence. Silence serves (at least) two purposes - first, and most importantly, it can better connect them to what they really enjoy. Sports, for example, can be enjoyed without words. So can music, and art, and even just the simple act of being around other kids. It frees up the kid to just be, and not to think, to not have to try and justify their value, often agonizingly, to a social group. In a similar way, it shows them that even without a brain, they are an intrinsically important, valuable human being - which not only takes a lot of pressure off, but helps them empathize with those that aren't as smart.

Anyway, just some random thoughts. Thanks for the post. :)
Seconds Count, Not Keystrokes
"The only way to move the window is to move the cursor to a space where you don't have a tab"

This may be true in whatever window manager you're using, but it's not true for all of them, including the one I use (dwm). Better window managers let you move and resize windows without having to click on special places that may or may not be provided by the programs that draw the windows.
Fascinating; aren't fires like these typically extinguished by starving them of oxygen, for instance with an explosive charge? Wikipedia doesn't even say if it's been attempted, and the panaorma makes the site look like it would be small enough to be feasible.. (IANA natural gas fire fighter.)
You can remove each disk and replace with a bigger one (wait for rebuild each time), and if you set autoexpand, the pool will resize afterwards.
This guy doesn't belong in the same category as Manning and Aaron Swartz.
Perhaps most likely is that the Constitutional Convention, in eyes of some anti-Federalists, did not have the legal authority to convene and propose a new Constitution.

As the National Archives describes: “Some continued to argue that the delegates in Philadelphia had exceeded their congressional authority by replacing the Articles of Confederation with an illegal new document.” [1]

Because (i)the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote to alter it, (ii) the Constitutional Convention was only empowered to propose alterations to the Articles and (iii) the Constitution, as adopted, broke the “unanimous vote required for alterations” rule, these anti-Federalists, and perhaps Gödel, felt the US Constitution was not established on firm legal footing. [2, 3, 4]

The obvious answer — that the government derives its just consent from the governed, and should they choose to alter it, accept it in democratic votes in each of the states, and abide by it, it becomes both de jury and de facto law — is the superior one, IMHO.

[1] http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/r...

[2] http://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_q91.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratifi...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalism
Skype 4.2? Released 2013. Have been running for a year. Works well, no crashes.
You could replace all the 3TB drives with 4TB drives.

You could add another 4x3TB vdev to the pool to add more storage to the pool, but once you did you couldn't remove it.
I just started a job I found on wfh.io. Granted, I discovered it through the email, not here, but still, just wanted to say thanks.
And that is the reason why all coal burning plants are being required to retrofit with equipment to capture mercury and other toxic metals (along with retrofits for SOx and NOx). But that is not good enough.
'05/20/2013': Why is this #1 on HN?
Show HN: Qute Hack Ideas (Part 3)
I'm curious as to how making the presidential election decided by popular national vote has an effect of "eroding State's sovereignty"? As I see it, a national election decided by a national vote is the most natural thing in the world. The only effect of arcane (and frankly, absurd) electoral college system is to put disproportionate power in the hand of some of the states at the expense of other states.
Publish or be damned (2013)
Pg said it better than I can:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
There is also no requirement for consistency in the constitution. Of course, we could amend it to add one.
Being downvoted for this comment so many times is a small example of PG's essay, "What You Can't Say."

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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Maybe it was a typo. I also noticed that the article says "...the number of possible unique chess positions [is] roughly 1043," which is a typo. 1043 should be 10^43.
Not to mention their error in claiming that NP problems were unsolvable.
German villagers build own broadband network
I don't know. Ask gaben.
fully agree! seen and still see it every day!
It's not clear to me whether that includes the evaluation engine or whether he's communicating with an external process. If it's the latter then I agree that it seems like a lot.
it was used as an excuse, the real reason is that Valve is REALLY slow at developing games.
I think I should stress I'm speaking about young people.

Peer recognition is critical when starting at that age. Also careful consideration is not exactly common.

I'm in no way alleging that it is a reasonable way to go for a mature professional, but I acknowledge the charm it has for the young high-schooler that is being "taught" Excel at school and being told not to fiddle with that weird black terminal.

These boys and girls should not have their lives destroyed by a harsh punishment for their curiosity, that in a different setting would have been highly rewarded. I can totally picture myself doing the same errors in different conditions.

Btw, management software is a legitimate programming job of zero interest to security people. Just different curiosity fields.
Look at Germany and Canada (specifically Ontario). Not so good.
> Derweze's large crater with a diameter of 70 metres (230 ft).
This wraps up my feelings about CM tools very well. They all seem to follow this "language agnostic" / "it's not really programming!" model, whether it's chef's ruby DSL or ansible's YAML. I don't understand what's so special about this field that it requires a totally different paradigm.

In chef's case, I would rather write simple classes & functions in plain ruby than use the DSL and write "Lightweight Resource Providers".

In ansible's case, I even did a little experiment to show what it would look like to use & call ansible modules as normal python code:

https://github.com/lost-theory/ansible/blob/module_experimen...

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/Zv3Veo77gP...

I would love to see a CM tool that embraced plain python or plain ruby and not try to go the pseudo-"declarative" route, which ends up being IMO too constraining for not much benefit and needlessly reinventing a bunch of wheels (e.g. looping & conditionals, as the article mentions).
Tiananmen Square 25 years on
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome
Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.
We've hired SEVEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works! We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)
* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app, with a tiny mobile team)
* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!
* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!).
Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions.

We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

We recently launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it.
Read more here: http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz
More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at gabriel at scribd.com.
Scotty from startrek explains that if it is 1 hour work you have to say it is 2 hours or else they will never see you as a miracle worker.
"Have you any idea how lucky you are that we got to you before you got on that plane?"

The difference in the way he was treated by police and the justice system (and how different it is than what we've come to expect in America) is what struck me the most about this story.
The past is the past. You shouldn't have to run around apologizing for the rest of your life. And I hope you feel welcome in communities like HN. You have a lot of talent.

What have you been up to over the years? It'd be cool to hear about your career and life in general.
Charlie Chaplin Today
Build tools also had a similar evolution. Ant's XML syntax first started out as all declarative, but then later on had to add more control structures (ant-contrib, IIRC). The currently popular build tools - Gradle, Rake, Grunt etc - all use a dynamically typed full-blown programing language for specifying tasks and their dependencies.
I remember reading this article a few years ago. It was a very divisive article for me. Early 20s me would have felt bad for Gembe. Early 30s me felt bad for Valve.

I don't know where the cycle goes from here. Maybe the real wisdom is feeling bad for both?
Windows 8.1 passes Windows 8 in market share, Windows 7 climbs back over 50%
"That doesn't sound right at all does it?"

No, it doesn't, but you're shifting the burden of proof. Antibiotics have been demonstrated to improve health. Someone who claims that some new stuff called an "antibiotic" improves health is expected to prove it, just as the burden of proof falls on the OP here to show that the "new stuff" of living in a city is actually healthier.

Urban life brings stress, high crime, bad education, pollution, traffic accidents, and many other factors that demonstrably either reduce the quality of life or endanger it outright. It's fun to live in the city if you're a young single, but not particularly "healthy". It's not at all good for children.

If you have some evidence that urban life is actually "healthy" in a psychological sense, let's see it. Do you have any?
Interesting that it was lit on purpose by Russian petro-chemists in 1971, and has been burning ever since. The fire was originally supposed to last a couple of weeks...
Unfortunately, I've never found an in-depth discussion about the part about where they attempt to lure him to the United States so that he can be arrested. It always strikes me as a bit excessive.

That Valve worked with the FBI to get him sufficient permission to enter the US with the false pretense of getting a job seems to make this feel like much more personal than anything else.

And I'm left scratching my head as to what it really would have accomplished...
How To Avoid Leaving Clues
That plant broke ground before Fukushima. How many permits have been issued since then: 0. Perfectly good nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee have been shut down (decided not to renew operating license) due to "concerned citizens. We were headed to a nuclear power renascence until that accident happened and took the wind out of the sails.
The article is talking about Windows 8. I'm pretty sure most people use the default window manager on Windows. :)
It works okay. One shortcoming, as mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7831680, is that there is no clear model for state transitions. Let's say that on day 1, you want to use Apache:

- apt: name=apache2 state=present

Then, on day 2, you realize that Apache isn't hip, so you switch to nginx instead:

- apt: name=apache2 state=absent
- apt: name=nginx state=present

It works, but you're stuck with entries in your playbook that are there for purely historical reasons.
This is a good point, and illustrates (1) the magnitude of what we are stealing from future generations and (2) that it would be economically disastrous to try to make that difference up overnight via a 200% carbon tax. However, there is no need to make up the difference overnight, or really even to make up the entire difference.

If coal power costs $0.1/kWh, and solar/wind/whatever costs $0.15/kWh, then you would only need a $0.05/kWh equivalent carbon tax to shift investment in research and infrastructure. Or really even just the promise of such a tax in five years. And it is fine for the tax to gradually approach $0.2/kWh equivalent, because by that point the only applications using coal would be specialized and could afford it without wrecking the economy.
I will note that until quite recently (maybe the last century) cities actually exhibited negative internal population growth. They didn't even replace their own populations internally...people died faster than they were being born. The only thing that kept the pestilential cities from being completely depopulated was a constant influx of population from the countryside.

Those people came there for jobs (i.e., survival). Now we don't have to do that, and the population is flowing the other way.
Seneca Rocks Part 2