skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recycling is not desirable unless the battery casing is valuable. The alumina is nearly worthless, especially in small chunks (and to an aluminum plant 200kg is tiny).

Instead I'd like to see some continuous process, granulated aluminum perhaps, and the alumina simply ejected as granules. Its present everywhere already, so not an un-green thing to do.
Oh nice, themebeacon seems much more comprehensive than themefinder.

For the speed issue; I was playing around with an idea of preloading the iframe previews to speedup loading; it worked but the browser would crash due to high CPU/memory usage eventually. Maybe you'll have better luck?
Not sure why this is downvoted, because it has a valid point.

Downloading illegally-distributed files is illegal in some jurisdictions (but not too many, mostly only uploading - i.e. distribution - is illegal). That's true. So, use of Popcorn Time (or clones) for illegal things could be, indeed, illegal.

Also, in some jurisdictions linking to illegally-distributed content is illegal. Now, that's exactly what Popcorn Time does. So the point is valid - the very software (and its distribution) could be ruled to be illegal as well. Just as, say, Napster. It's just that Napster could be shut down for good and Popcorn Time couldn't - due to decentralized nature - but that's not a legality issue anymore.

However, what's very likely to be not illegal here is a development of the said software. There's very unlikely to be such a meta-law that forbids the very development of software that may result in linking to illegally-distributed materials. Sometimes there are attempts to apply a anti-malware laws, but that's quite a big stretch that works only in corrupt and/or ignorant courts (like some in Russia).
Domino's Pizza held to ransom by hacker group Rex Mundi
Canada's top court bolsters Internet privacy protection
Michael Schumacher out of coma and released from hospital
Google Thinking to Buy Virgin Galactic Stake for Tourism Business
Lurker here; I just created an account solely to upvote this.
I would be more suspicious if they didn't use socket.io, its incredibly common and useful. I'm happy to see competition here as this shows that the ideas behind Popcorn Time really stand a chance of growing and improving.
Which would be very fitting for a moon named after a ferryman of the Underworld.
An OBE (and MBE) are basically a nice bit of paper and a day out. They confer no privilege or powers, it's just a recognition that's given.
So reading the headline I thought this honor was going to Mr Upton, but instead it's someone else from the RPi foundation? The article seems to infer his fame comes more from Elite than from his educational work on Raspberry Pi.

For that matter, where are all the success stories about RPI in the educational arena? For every ten 'here's a cat food dispenser/FM Transmitter/drone tracking system' made from an RPi" stories, there should be at least one decent educational story. I've seen very little.
Some people prefer seasonal variations in weather; this whole discussion of 'sunny year round' preference is something that people hitched themselves on about 3-4 hierarchies up.

> There's definitely an unhealthy obsession for some with nulling out variable weather and replacing it with whatever they deem as "good weather". Exactly as a mentally ill person might go to their doctor and say "I don't want to feel any emotions any more".

That's a bad comparison. Some people have one kind of preference - sunny. Others both like to go skiing and to go water-skiing.
Drop xmonad, what you want is no-longer the virtual desktops, but the virtual rooms! (As a bonus it has been proved humans memory interact with entering and leaving rooms.) We will be hanging applications on the walls like pictures.
If someone hacked GitHub they'd just get the _public_ keys, same as the ones listed in the link. You can't login on a server with the public key.

What he has done is that by adding github ids, he gets the public keys of all the users and adds them to his servers. Now all the users' public keys are already in the system. Now they can login with their private keys and this private key remains _only_ on their own system. Not on GitHub or server.
IOS 8 – What’s New and Good?
Actually, both links point at a very serious debate among journalists, and at a very responsible handling of delicate issues. No one says journalism is about telling all the truth someone does not want told as soon as you know it.
Abortion clinics, drug clinics, psychiatrists, cancer specialists...

Now Manhattan may be dense enough it might not leak too much personal information but the same granularity of location data in a suburban or rural area may be very intrusive.
Wait, I know movie services might be expensive but music seems really cheap. Ever tried http://grooveshark.com/?
MockServer, Effortless API Mocking Library in Node Js
Obviously preparation is important in extreme weather. That was kind of my point. In moderate weather largely deflected by a parasoled sheet of plastic it isn't the end of societal existence
>>> So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy. And?

This. While in general privacy is definitely a concern, I see "don't give your information" way too often and it's becoming sort of a cliche.

How might the fact that I like some certain artists affect me in the future? No one is going to blackmail me for the fact that I liked Wu Tang Clan. I won't get denied some visa or whatever because I liked Donnie Darko movie.

Privacy is important but let's stop from making it a cliche or some 'easy win'.
order of precedence, titles, heraldic supporters.
I really prefer the way Lisa hid the applications and used an office supplies metaphor to create documents rather than opening an application, generating the document and then saving it.
What is so bad about Pascal? I never used it too much, but it seemed like a neat language.
If someone hacked github, they could substitute their own evil key for one of the developers' keys and the automation would add that key to appropriate places, giving access to whomever has the evil private key.

On the other hand, OP probably trusts the contents of source repositories stored on github (few people use commit and tag signing); if so he already trusts github with everything.
Is your position "I'll break the law because I probably won't face consequences"? Would you go to jail for your principles? I'm honestly just curious.
> No you weren't. You created a straw man and then set it on fire.

I just quoted your exact words and you said exactly what I summarized. You're being a bit ridiculous.

It's actually a pretty simple explanation. The market can remain irrational for a long time, and Japan has never had a monetary policy as insane as its current one.

They are going to DOUBLE their money supply in TWO years. I'm not sure that you understand that massively monetizing your debt has consequences.

It's a massive experiment that is going to end badly.
The team section lists 3 "development" staff: there's a CTO and two developers. There are 6 people on the team doing design, videography, and marketing, including the CEO who does list himself as a "telecom and electronics engineer", and so might be involved in design.

A startup building hardware - not to mention advanced image-tracking, autonomous navigation, (hopefully) hazard avoidance, which are hard problems - would in my estimation have more staff doing engineering and manufacturing, rather than design and sales.

Is this a reasonable team arrangement? Am I underestimating the skills of their technical staff, are they outsourcing engineering, or are they using a preexisting plaform? Or am I underestimating the importance of design and sales (which have certainly produced and brought to my attention a gorgeous Kickstarter page)?
I agree. I am not convinced that such a system is better. But I don't think the opinion expressed is infantile. Angry yes, difficult to convincingly argue, sure. But wrong? Who knows...
I lived in London for three years as a student. I can't comment on the tech/startup scene but I can confirm that quality of living isn't great. Coming from Vienna, supposedly the city with the best quality of life, I am spoiled though.
Microsoft Catapults geriatic Moores Law from certain death
> Journalism is publishing the truth that someone does not want told; all else is stenography and marketing.

Well, it's certainly that, too. But journalism can also be about uncovering truths that hardly anyone knows about, or telling stories that help us understand the world.

> We're going back to word of mouth, moderated by cryptographically attested pseudonymous identities because that will work so much better...

You're probably being sarcastic, but even if word of mouth never passed straight out lies and total myths, journalism isn't just about reporting facts, but putting them in perspective. Perspective is necessary because there are simply too many facts for you to digest. A professional journalist hopefully keeps track of all pertinent facts of her beat, and reports the most important stories in context.

Word of mouth can, at most, be a data collection mechanism. In fact, word of mouth is one of the inputs a journalist works with; it certainly can't substitute the final product.
Based on what? It has been a few years since I've followed the rankings, but Ohio State and Texas were always battling for first in enrollment numbers.
I don't think it is a bad comparison at all. You could say people have a preference for being happy. But being happy every day would be pretty unwise. After a while it would stop being happy and it'd be relentlessly normal. Then you'd need something to make you "super happy"!

Variation in all aspects of life is what keeps us grounded and gives us reference points.

But end of off-topic hijacking for me...
I have moved over the last 15 years from Germany to Hawaii to California to Tokyo and now to Singapore.
If you want to meet people you need to get out. Join activities. In Japan I was cooking for the homeless (http://www.foodbank.asia/our-program), in California I was studying Muay Thai at Stanford, in Singapore I am playing In Shadows. There is always something to do you can enjoy. And yes, when I originally moved I was introvert and awkward, too.
My personal anecdote will disagree with this:
I bike 6x2 miles to work and back every day whether it is +25C or -25C (snow, rain etc.). Median value is probably +10C.

I really really loathe the days when I have to take the car.

Also I am over 40 and only started biking when I was over 35 and quit smoking. I just figured, this was easier than joining a gym. Traffic in my city is not bike friendly either.

On the other hand I do not see myself running this distance daily, that would kill my knees so quick.
> Obviously preparation is important in extreme weather.

None of what I described was extreme, really.
I disagree that with social security comes social responsibility.

If a person wants to get as much from the state as they can and put nothing back in then big deal I say.

Why?

1) Because there are very few people like that anyway. This group of people, so-called welfare scroungers, are always trotted out in these arguments. I've never met one of them in all my days, I'd like to see actual proper percentages regarding this. I'm betting these people are < 1% of the population.

2) Besides there are all sorts of consumption taxes and what have you that funnel the money back into the state anyway.

3) Most people want meaningful work. What you find meaningful may not be what I find meaningful of course. And failing being able to find meaningful work most people choose to work at _anything_ at all rather than be idle. The one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how many people work at jobs they don't like because that's the only work they could get.

4) Society didn't wake up one morning and decide to take care of me. Social security has been and continues to be a continual struggle to redistribute the wealth from the have-a-lots to the have-very-littles and it's a struggle I identify with. Vigilance is needed as we have seen because all the gains are slowly rolled back when we're not paying attention.

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This is all beside the original bone of contention I had with you. It was with your questionable statement "If fewer people got philosophy degrees or other majors of questionable utility in the work force and instead focused on getting an education in marketable skills with job openings maybe the story might be different." Did you ever stop to think why someone would want to study philosophy before you came out with that? You're full of what people ought to do, may I suggest you ought not think like that.

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This incident should serve as a very good lesson to those in the Firefox community who often claim that memory and performance problems don't exist, even after numerous users report experiencing such problems.

Such memory and CPU consumption problems are often blamed on vague "third-party extensions", even when they happen with fresh installations on systems that have never before had Firefox installed. Or they're otherwise blamed on the user somehow, even when the user is engaging in a perfectly reasonable workflow.

And even if the problems don't happen on one system, they very well could be happening on another system, as this very incident shows quite well.

This part of the article is particularly relevant: "Shortly after that, while on a plane I tried pdf.js on my Mac laptop. I was horrified to find that memory usage was much higher than on the Linux desktop machine on which I had done my optimizations. The first document I measured made Firefox’s RSS (resident set size, a.k.a. physical memory usage) peak at over 1,000 MiB. The corresponding number on my Linux desktop had been 400 MiB!"

This matches very well with what so many Firefox users describe as happening to them. The memory consumption ends up skyrocketing to well above what it reasonably should be. Gigabytes of memory are unjustifiably consumed.

Perhaps now instead of ridiculing or ignoring people who report such issues, those in the Firefox community will perhaps do the responsible thing and take them seriously. It should be very obvious now that memory consumption problems can happen on one system, while not happening on another.
I'm planning on doing exactly that in London in a few months. I've done it once before (although in Toronto - which is much further away from me). As a freelancer I was able to scrape by in Toronto and I plan on doing the same in London until I can find a job. I've had offers in the past from companies in London so hopefully it won't be too hard to find something. As for meeting people I'm planning on sharing a flat with strangers. In Toronto I got a 1 bedroom apartment and it was the worst decision I made. I feel like if I'm living with 3 or 4 other people (at least for the first little while) I have a much better chance of meeting people and assembling a group of friends.
I like your solution too - it 'gets you to the goods' much faster :) At the moment I feel like mine sort of overpromises and underdelivers, e.g. the style and features functionality doesn't work particularly well yet.

About the pre-loading, I'm actually already doing that... But only the next one in the queue. How many were you trying to load at once? I did notice that even only pre loading one is enough to slow it down considerably on my nexus 4 though...
Docker, chef, ansible webinars and meetups
I buy music because I now have legal avenues to do so. It's much harder to get movies. I don't live in the USA or Europe and have sporadic bandwidth with frequent cuts. Streaming solutions are almost impossible. I want a service where I can buy a movie, download its file, and view it repeatedly, back it up, transfer it from my NAS to an external hard drive and ack again, etc. I don't know of any service that permits this. I don't share my files, don't intend to reshare my bought media, I just want a service where I can "own" the films I buy. No one provides this (except the Pirate Bay, etc.).
CloudFlare is not working
It's gone forever, but it was forked:

https://github.com/ajf-/hiphop.git
I don't think so. Looks like the DMCA was passed in 1998 [1], well before YouTube was created in 2005 [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Having loads of money is neither necessary or sufficient for belonging to the UK Upper Class, traditionally at least:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_...

[NB I'm really not defending this state of affairs - just pointing out that "Upper Class" traditionally meant "aristocracy" not "rich" in the UK].
Some people are both happy going skiing, and going swimming at the beach (maybe even in the span of one day). Since both of these two conditions, made possible by climate/weather, elicit positive emotions, it doesn't really have any analogy to what you are describing.
It would be a uniform, cold, high entropy universe. The highest entropy possible. Once all the black holes had eaten through all matter and subsequently all radiated away (via Hawking radiation).
I am going to say something totally non-PC, and I apologize for that. Find a bunch of people you would consider not very bright (from your POV) and do your best to hang out with them at all cost.
I can't totally put words on it, but it seems to me the more "brainy" your daily thoughts, your social circles are, the more you are at risk of losing your instinct for social relationships... and the cure is to be realeased in the "wild".
@migstopheles I wasn't talking about being born into OBE, but about being born into British aristocracy. I admit that OBE is just a small part of the whole system of honors, but by using titles and heraldry it still helps to keep the caste system alive in the GB.
I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure some years ago FB had a rule that you weren't allowed to force people to like your page to enter a competition. Last time I had to set up a competition for a client (a couple of years ago) that rule didn't seem to exist so either the rule has changed, or I dreamed it.

Either way I'm glad I have nothing to do with that sort of work anymore. Having quite a few friends in agencies I see the X likes Y posts all the time because they have to like a load of brands for their jobs. What a miserable waste of time.
Go was developed to replace C++
Instead of How to win Friends and Influence People, I would recommend Robert Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice. Instead of just having advice and heuristics most nerds really interested in the problem can often figure out themselves, it describes a lot of experiments and builds a general model for why certain actions work. I think a lot of tricks can be discovered on one's own (sometimes through chance), after all sales people have had a bag of tricks they know to improve sales by x% long before enough experiments were performed to suggest an underlying theory. Having a theory though helps one discover new tricks and predict their effects. You'll also learn some defensive techniques.
The argument is that you shouldn't unthinkingly assume they don't have a good reason for it.
That be tried. Was advertised HN maybe last year.

I paid (and got money back no asking) one attempts. Cannot remember name.

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Am I missing something? I just see a whole load of "online".
So you could amost say that they are winning at journalism and failing at getting their journalism to readers.

The entire article is about how that's not true, but the conclusion was that's true and the way to fix it is for NYT to make a Flipgboard clone. That's actually a great idea, and maybe they already do that I don't know. I use HN to aggregate my news.
A few observations:

1) I'm fairly introverted, and I've been successful finding new friends when I've found interest-based clubs/groups; for me this would be gaming or making-things groups; it could also be a local sports league, tech meetup, or book club or something. These are great ways to meet people. With a little bit of luck you'll meet cool people with similar interests in no time.

2) You seem far too nervous about your accent. I have worked and developed friendships with a few people with really strong accents, and have always found that people are willing to work through it as long as you are. I really doubt people mind yours; you just have to laugh off miscommunications and keep smiling.

3) Most people are really friendly most of the time if you engage them in a positive way and are simply pleasant to be around. I strongly suggest that when you meet some people you like at one of the aforementioned interest-based clubs, you simply be honest with them and tell them straight up that you're trying to make more friends in the area. You aren't going to get laughed at; most people have been there and will be totally sympathetic and will invite you along to something. In the case that someone seems mean, they're probably an asshole anyway. Just make sure you smile and are pleasant to be around and people will be friendly back to you.

Overall, it sounds to me like you're stuck in a sort of negative-self-image-feedback-loop. Stay positive and smile a lot and I promise people will like you.
One last one--

Be a friend to yourself. Not in a sappy, metaphorical way, but in a game-theoretical way. One of the mistakes I made for the longest period of time was that I waited for other people to make the first move. If someone didn't regularly go out of their way to interact with me -- come over and talk to me, invite me to do things -- I assumed they didn't want to and didn't go over and talk to them or invite them places.

This was a terrible strategy: if I met myself, I would never become friends with myself because neither of me would make the first move. Fortunately, I encountered enough forward people that I still ended up meeting some folks, but there are a lot of people I could have been friends with but am not, just because both of us were too shy.

So make the first move. Talk to someone a couple of times, and if it seems appropriate see if they want to grab a burger or see the new Hobbit movie at midnight when it first comes out. And then don't be pushy; if you make a couple of advances and they don't reciprocate, back off. Be polite and friendly, say hi in the elevators, and make small talk if they seem to like small talk. Not everyone is meant to be friends with everyone else.
> I'm an American living in New Zealand. I'm sure my language issues pale in comparison, but I am constantly second-guessing myself. It's not that I'm worried that people won't understand me, it's that I'd rather communicate in a way that's natural to the people who are listening to me -- I'm sure you can relate.

Interesting. I have faced these exact same issues while interacting socially in the United States. I am a native speaker but have an accent that makes people ask me to repeat myself on occasion in bars. This makes me second-guess myself and breaks the patter.
Why a 'done' list beats a to-do list
A Probability Question
There are B buckets, each can have at max D balls.

You pick up a ball, and randomly select a non-full bucket to throw it in.

What is the probability that F buckets got full at Y-th throw.

Isn't this too simple to be here? :P
From endless ladder to downward ramp
A response: Signing up for Twitter shows why the company is struggling to grow
What happens if you request something and get something different in response? The client has no idea about the buffering so it's just a case of whether it's smart enough to handle a misbehaving server.