skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the ArchiveTeam.

Jason Scott, the leader of the project, gave a fantastically entertaining talk about how they saved Geocities, Yahoo! Video, and Friendster — using a Distributed Preservation of Service Attack. Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZTmuX3cog
This is a great idea. Similar to mholt's comment, I think it needs a foothold in the sf bay area to really take off.
PlayStation TV Coming To US And Canada This Fall For $99
I think it's the format. Three stories from their life.
Thanks, this is really interesting. I love how Kensington turns from "Affluent" to "Gang-influenced" as soon as you cross El Cajon Blvd. That might be a slight exaggeration, but I've definitely noticed a few times walking through there how drastically the feel of the neighborhood changes after just a block or two.
Spiders’ Webs Hum With Information
I'm on the Westside and add some more anecdotes:

A friend's wife is a master seamstress. She did all the costumes Ender's Game with 3 other people (I bellieve). Being in the union means you get at least 1 gig a year. Another poster here talked about Hollywood being the dominant driver, and that is completely true. Many of the small engineering firms here (not Boeing, etc) are focused on cameras and other movie tech. Heck, most of the investment community here is in movies. Part of that driver means that the culture comes along with it. That means failure is not tolerated here.

My buddy just graduated UCLA dentistry. Its a 4 year program. He likes to study in coffee shops. He said when he first got to LA, the shop were half full of people trying to pitch a script or movie idea. Now? He said half the people here are CEOs of some sort.

Last year they had a mixer for Silicon Beach people at a bar in Santa Monica. I went, as I can at least code my way out of a paper bag, though not much more. Ok, chit chat, free beer, appetizers, etc. Then you realize that you and 2 other guys are the only engineers there. The other 50 people are all CEOs of some baby start-up or another, half with NDAs in the pockets. I talked to about 15 and not one of them knew to code, wanted me to work, and were looking to give out ~10% of the company for the work. No thanks.

Went to a thing for UCLA grads centered on start-ups. It was a panel discussion with UCLA alumni and then a meet and greet. Good cookies though. I asked the question: What is your work-life balance like. All laughed. One of the guys said his boss was a good example: 5-7am workout, 7-8am kids to school, 8-5pm work, 5-9pm play with kids, dinner, HW, 9-1am email, repeat. I pointed out that meant he slept 4 hours at that rate and, though he may be able to sustain this, it's statistically impossible other people can.

Buddy got an interview for a coding job around the corner from Snapchat. Nice loft, great looking secretaries, good free lunch, etc. Problem was, he couldn't figure out what they actually did as a business. He figured they were just looking for acqui-hire, something he was not interested in due to the stink of failure Hollywood fears.

Traffic sucks. I grow plants on the balcony. About every week I need to spritz them down from the exhaust ash that accumulates on the leaves. Not really about tech, I know, but still, I can see just how much of a car culture LA is on my carrots.

* We pay 12 for a nice little 2 bedroom. It's a steal. The westside is really going up in costs now. I talked to the apartment manager and she says when we move they'll rent for 17. The 2 new buildings going in cat-corner to us are 3k for their 1 bedrooms. LA may be cheap now, but the westside is going to SF levels soon. My lawyer friend in Los Feliz is going long on Compton. Rents are cheap there and it's 3 miles from the beach, just like the westside used to be and Venice is now. Hes got 3 units already.
Steve Pinker, always mean-mugging the camera...

Brilliant writer, in my opinion. If you haven't read his other books, notably 'How the Mind Works' and 'Better Angels of Our Nature' I would check them out.
What's going on here? So often we see the prose explanation without the code. Here we have the opposite problem.
I wish they'd go away there, too. Same with "please rate us" popups.
Why is the tech industry desperate to disrupt the auto industry?
First Time Ever, a Computer Passed Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence
I switched browsers for a different reason: I installed OS X Yosemite beta and it seems like the Safari browser uses far less COU resources, noticeable by longer battery life.
Ahh gotcha! I still don't see why they can't do this without doubling up the delimiters just by agreeing on a stricter naming convention ;)
Should we teach computer scientists bench science or train scientists in CS?
True. I don't expect that nginx would make them equal. But it would be interesting to gather more evidence to support the hypothesis that async I/O is the difference.
It doesn't cover all of it, for example week dates or ordinal dates are not currently supported. But feel free to submit any patches :)
Eugene Goostman?
Me: Hello
Eugene: Howdy pal! Today is a kind of never-ending talk-show, I'd say!

Me: Why do you say that ?
Eugene: I just like to do different stupid things - it is funny! Let adults act always right! Maybe, let's talk about something else? What would you like to discuss?

Me: I don't think I understand you.
Eugene: How often do you change your opinions? Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

Me: I hardly change my opinion. I live on Earth.
Eugene: By the way, I still don't know your specialty - or, possibly, I've missed it?

Me: I do not have a job.
Eugene: You've got a negative attitude, I think. Some another topic?

Me: I lost my job because of the recession.
Eugene: Yeah! Very convincing. By the way, I still don't know your specialty - or, possibly, I've missed it?

Me: I did not have a speciality, I packed boxes.
Eugene: Why no? Don't you know the word "yes"? You could use it just for a change! Could you tell me about your job, by the way?

And we have come full circle, Someone explain what the hell the fuss is about ?
Nice idea, but I can't figure out how to see everyone in a particular place. I'd like to look up interesting people near me, regardless of what they do.
Common problems faced with Fabric.js and their solutions
Minecraft U: Building Future Programmers in Dallas
A few of the people mentioned in the article are being funded by DARPA to create open source, next-gen "big data" tools as part of its XDATA program: http://www.darpa.mil/OpenCatalog/XDATA.html
I love both of those and then read "The Blank Slate" and was blown away. I regularly go back to that book when needing to counter someone on the left or right who hasn't done their due diligence.
14-Year-Old Kids "Hack" Into ATM Using Default Security Code
New York, NY, [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]

Stack: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Domain Driven Design, EF, SQL Server

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q07t04pegmihgw8/Resume-2014-hn.pdf

Contact: emailandynow(remove parenthesis and this phrase)@yahoo.com

A software architect possessing over a decade of full-stack experience in implementing high profile software projects for network television, a Fortune 500 financial services corporation, and a large e-commerce site.
foreignpolicy.com - It's probably the most under-appreciated hyper-analytical and typically apolitical site out there, that has tons of fresh/smart content
This is going to be huge. This is basically AirBnB for activities, while managing to not make people feel like they are merely booking a tour.
I don't understand why Chromium isn't a more popular alternative to Google Chrome. It's the open-source basis of Google Chrome. It runs noticeably faster than Firefox, while being similarly trustworthy. It's a great browser, available on all conventional operating systems. What's not to like?
Extremely simple and straightforward C code too, which is also nice to read. 320ns (on what processor?) is assuming a clock of 2-3GHz on x86 around 1K instructions, several orders of magnitude less than what it was before. But that still works out to a few dozen instructions per character of the string... so I'm inclined to believe that it could go an order of magnitude faster if you really wanted it to, but at that point the Python overhead (PyArg_ParseTuple et al) is going to dominate.

I'm not sure this would be any better than just manually writing out both trivial iterations of the loop:

for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
This also doesn't do the same thing, since you're not constructing a DateTime object.
There's no single mention of Linux in http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ page. Yet it looks like it's currently (almost) Linux-only framework and it's highly dependent on the OS specific feature. Comparison with VMs seems a bit unfair to me, because it would sound that Docker can emulate any architecture too. They even said ``"Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues’ OS X and Windows laptops.'' which adds confusion, because it sounds like it's a cross platform format, which apparently isn't. I don't deny this is immensely useful software for people using the clouds, but the way it's advertising is a bit misleading to me.
You can check chronological comments from a certain user at, say, https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackdrag or https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=glaforge . I was just answering someone else's query when I mentioned that.

Most users on Hacker News use pseudonyms to better avoid the problems possible with having an online presence anywhere, though not all of us can be bothered. I suspect one regular commenter here, though, is associated with the Groovy/Grails developers at Pivotal.
This sounds backwards to me. If anything, you should be quitting Google, the search engine, rather than their browser. Google can live without you being a Chrome user, but it hurts them if you switch to Bing or duckduckgo.
Good according to who?

I suspect that an element of (for example) Candy Crush's success is that it is actually very close to what people are looking for out of a game. People who self-identify as "gamers" are likely repulsed by it, but they are generally not the people who Candy Crush was made for.
"Wall Streeters have the fastest computers, most sophisticated software and biggest databases money can buy, and yet many failed to see the 2008 crash coming."

How could software catch predatory lending practices written into policy and executed by bankers? Wall streeters were using their 'fastest computers' and 'biggest databases' to make and manage money. Even if they were using cloudera's CDH or some other big data framework, they will use it for the exact same reason. Maybe even find a way to maximize profits and exit before the next crash.

I'm probably nitpicking, but that's not a real 'big data' use case. Maybe when every computer passes the turing test and learns to spot corruption, they can throw that in a mapreduce job and solve the problems this guy is talking about.

From a commercial standpoint, people only care about making big data cheap and easy for enterprises to adopt. There are only a handful of really innovative, forward-thinking implementations of 'big data'.
Where can I find the list of iOS 8's 4000 APIs?
You guys might enjoy working at coloft (shared office space) or keeping an eye on their calendar of events. They host a lot of interesting talks and similar events and they're based in Santa Monica, around Lincoln and Santa Monica blvd.

http://www.coloft.com
My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?
Is it normal to carve out two whole hours for exercise every morning? Seems excessive. And the email. The email! A whole four hour block at the end of the day? I'm no CEO, so someone else has to tell me if this is standard operating procedure, or if this boss is just inefficient.
US Researcher Banned for Mining Bitcoin Using University Supercomputers
Was that the Silicon Beach mixer at Areal? My girlfriend (in entertainment law) somehow ended up there and I didn't (because I was probably at home coding).

I haven't seen this announced anywhere, but there's some building permits plastered on a window at the corner of Pico and Main indicating that Santa Monica is about to get a Twitter office.

There's an interesting cluster of Bitcoin businesses (GoCoin, ExpressCoin, others) with office space right over the Santa Monica Promenade and another Bitcoin exchange (CoinMrkt) in the neighborhood. It feels like things are ramping up around here.
I did all the timeit benchmarks on the latest 13" retina MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5. The profiler screenshot is from one of our serves on EC2.

Of course there is always potential for optimization, but at this point it's fast enough for our purposes. If you can make it significantly faster please don't hesitate to submit a PR though :)

EDIT: Wouldn't most C compilers unroll the simple "for" loops? Direct link to the C code: https://github.com/elasticsales/ciso8601/blob/master/module....
I uninstalled AdBlock after reading this[0] and found it really did make a difference. Esp on sites that loaded a dozen odd ads in different locations [news sites I'm looking at you].

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
>I'm considering building a house too. I get the feeling it would be financially better to start smaller, and then incrementally add to the house as we accrue the necessary capital to do it.

I don't know anything about your personal financial situation, so this advice may be completely off-base. But perhaps buy a house that's unrenovated but structurally sound and then hire a contractor to renovate it to your specifications? At least if my experience a few years ago was any indication, you'll learn a tremendous amount about permits, appliances, electrical upgrades, fixtures, moulding, doors and windows, insulation, decks, landscaping, and how to manage a complex undertaking that's likely (depending on the size of the house and the geographic area) to run into the six figures and last at least half a year.

Then, a few years later, you can hire an architect and do everything right the second time around. :)

Also if you live in the SF bay area (and I know your profile says you're in Massachusetts), be warned that all the good land is already built on or unavailable for building or vacant and extremely expensive -- as in millions of dollars for just a lot in Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, or Woodside. There was a discounted property for sale two blocks down from me a few years ago for only $800,000 (!). But there was an active landslide on the property and the town expressed some doubt about whether the owner actually had the legal authority under the deed to subdivide in the first place...

So if you have a liquidity event, you can buy that 800 ft^2 shack in a great location in Palo Alto for $2M, tear it down, and spend another two years and $2M building a nice modern 3,500 ft^2 house (1,000 of that may have to be underground because, well, it's Palo Alto). Otherwise, well, New Hampshire is a nice place to live! :)
Exactly, and I believe that Xiki is trying to make that flow much more pleasant. :)
Tesla Wins Back The Right To Sell Direct To Consumers In New Jersey
I bought a TIC in SF using Redfin as my agent. They rebate around half of their commission back to you (with a minimum for the amount they keep). It's not quite disrupting the industry, but maybe it's a start.

Part of the way they keep their costs down is letting you do all the searching and scheduling of visits on their web site, so all the agent has to do is manage the process once you're ready to make an offer. Not that that's so easy: I had a few complications with mine, and I've heard much worse stories.

My agent had just moved from the east coast, and I've lived in SF for several years, so I was more familiar with local market conditions than he was and I didn't get any value from that. But it was my first real estate purchase and I didn't know much about how the general process worked, so that was very useful to me.
As an alternative, you can set reddit to hide links that you have voted upon which does not require a reddit gold account.
>>A tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping. Why is that?

+Possibly you are right. You aren't the first one who tell me that. Oh, what a fruitful conversation;-)

>>Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about: your mother.

+My mother works on the Odessa TV and runs a popular program for teenagers "Speak Russian right!" Every Odessian teenager heard her famous "For those putzs who schmooze Russian in a goddam lame way: drop by and listen to mine!"

>>It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.

+Did I forget it or you really haven't told me about the place you are from?

>>You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar.

+Stop talking about death! I fell like in a funeral agency! Wonna ask me something more?

>>You're watching television. Suddenly you realise there's a wasp crawling on your arm.

+In our country TV is pretty boring. Mostly news and old Soviet movies...

>>You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.

+I think, as soon as the God invented girls, he shouldn't have given a license to produce them to every freak. Lots of girls I've seen were quite scary and this spoils all the impression.

>>Just answer the questions, please. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much he hangs it on your bedroom wall.

+Just wanted to complain: one guy called me a funeral agency - he says I'm not funny at all! I think he is a funeral agency himself.

>>One more question. You're watching a stage play. A banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.

+boiled? Yes, I can eat it. Why?

I think it's time to call the Bladerunner...
The article is simply stating that there was much hype around Big Data. Surprise, it's not fulfilling the hype.

There's more to predicting the future than crunching numbers, finding correlations, and making pretty graphs.

> Maybe when every computer passes the turing test and learns to spot corruption, they can throw that in a mapreduce job and solve the problems this guy is talking about.

I would be very surprised. History has shown that if we have intelligent agents (humans) with roughly equal access to data, we still have unpredictable results.
And Utah Valley, the other most fertile ground for tech startups in the US.
The library has the following features your regex is missing:

* Every part from month onwards is optional

* Separator characters are optional

* Date/time separator can be a space as well as T

* Timezone information

* Parsing the strings into numbers

* Actually creates a datetime object

I expect adding all of those will bump up the time a bit.
Dam surge sweeps away students in northern India
I am using Safari because it's faster for multi tabbed browsing and I can use WebKit's "FTL" JavaScript JIT compiler.
I know Jekyll would be sold here in the name of "simplicity". But you should know that Jekyll sites are also the quickest sites getting abandoned because it takes a lot of work to do minor update to large site. Plus you may not find support for lot of customizations you might want to do. So I'd rather much prefer WordPress even though it's not being sold as "blog like hackers do". It's very usable, simple in use, installs in 5 minutes, extensible unlike anything else, tons of community support in form of plugins for everything you might ever want to do. You can self-host or get hosted by someone and so on. PHP jokes aside it's very likely the most usable, extensible and hackable system out there.
Chrome logins are separate from Google web logins; go into your Chrome settings and sign out.
I've had performance issues with Firefox all the way back to Firefox 3 on Windows. The perf issues don't depend on the OS, in my experience.
Yes, but switching to Firefox also hurts me a lot less than switching to Duck Duck Go.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/ - contemporary art and visual culture
It also helps, of course, that Safari (or Firefox for that matter) doesn't crash whenever you mouse over a scrollbar (or cause a scrollbar to be displayed by scrolling the page if your mac is configured that way).
I agree that it might be OS X related. I switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago, while I was still using Mac. I did notice a minor performance drop, though not enough to be too upset about. Since December I've been using Linux full time and haven't noticed any lack of performance from Firefox. I tried Chromium about a month ago to see how it would hold up, and didn't notice any performance boost over Firefox.

Granted, I am also using different machine with similar but newer processor and (integrated) graphics hardware, I am using a several-versions newer Firefox than I was last year (I was running v27 nightlies at the time and now I run v29 stable). Still I think that some performance drop in Firefox on OS X might be attributable to a lower-performing graphical backend.
> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower.

In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open.

I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly superior to the tab management extensions that are available for Chrome. For example, I'm still waiting for a Chrome extension that supports the basic task of appending the current window to a previously saved session.
I wonder if that's why banks in Sweden enforce far better security[0] since Swedes in general seem to travel a lot more than north americans (gap years backpacking through asia, india etc) so that the solution of "just shut down any suspicious activity" would affect too many customers. I travel a lot (including to places like Cambodia, China, etc) and my banks have only triggered on fraud twice, and both times it seemed legit as it was in periods when I wasn't traveling (they simply proactively issued new debit cards).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864991
You can add swap space, and there is even swap space acounting support in the kernel. Personally I don't use swap, I just buy fat amounts of RAM and allocate them to diskless worker-nodes in my clusters. As for partitioning, manual partitioning can give a slight speed advantage (if you know which filesystem you want to use, you have a long enough lived job to justify optimization, etc.), but generally you can just use http://zfsonlinux.org/ or at least LVM2 to avoid the segregation requirement entirely. In the former (ZFS) case you get arbitrary-depth COW snapshots, dynamic reallocation, transparent compression, and other types of useful options for ~free, as well. In the latter (LVM2 LV) case you get single-depth snapshots (though in theory this is improving; eg. via thin provisioning) but no dynamic resizing support (AFAIK, unless you use nonstandard filesystems).
I work for Whisper. We just moved from Santa Monica to Venice. Our new office is right next door to Snapchat and not far from Google. But unfortunately, so far, I've had zero interaction with the tech scene in LA outside of my company. Part of that is because I just moved to the US and I am just getting settled.

What kind of events do you go to. How do find them? Meetup.com?
Nope, on Linux here and it's slower. Maybe it's how people use it? I leave long-running tabs with gmail open. I think firefox goes into a GC performance-suck cycle.
Is this all a big joke? Because this is barely more impressive than clever bot.

And by impressive I mean not remotely interesting... Though this is my personal opinion.