skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem that simple:

> This release of the IE Developer Channel uses a combination of code changes and App-V Client to virtualize and run alongside IE11. This virtualization creates a small performance hit, so we don’t recommend you use this version to measure your site’s performance.
This is an interesting announcement. I wonder how far away the IE team is from open-sourcing the browser on top of all this.

There's been a sea change under at Microsoft over the last few years: support for web standards (WebGL!) and less of the "old Microsoft" anti-OSS messaging. I could easily see them taking this next plunge. There's still a lot of work they need to do to win me back to the platform, but I like what I've seen over the last few years.

Now if only we could get a proper unix subsystem on Windows....
There is a saying in improv, "if you are in your head, you are dead". I am an introvert and spent my 20s in a mis-guided ways, trying to compensate for my introversion with self-pity, joining the pick-up community etc. Its crazy but in all fairness, first and foremost is that stop looking yourself as damaged goods and trust me, you would need experience but "better alone than in bad company". This is what I did to overcome my nagging short-comings,

1. Work-out/Recharge - get into shape, not above average but the best possible shape you can get into.
2. Read, as an introvert this should not be a big problem, but read classics, psychology, philosophy etc. stuff that is not technical and computer science. You will pick language, knowledge and wisdom from these books
3. Mediate - we live in a hyper world, and most of the loneliness and shyness comes from social anxiety, you need to relax - respond to the situation but not react.

Listen.. Listen.. Listen. Talk to those people whom you are willing to listen. Its much easy to engage when you can are willing to listen - most people think they should have something interesting to talk, but often it is that they are not interested to listen to the other person.

These are the things that helped me improve - am I an extrovert now? absolutely not, but I am content with whom I have become.
A few shy/introverted friends of mine like to go to board game playing events. One nice thing about these kinds of events is that there's a lot of structured interaction through the games, and there's an obvious thing to talk about. In my experience, this takes a lot of conversational pressure off and you can be yourself a bit more. And go easy on yourself! Try to enjoy the company of other people without pressuring yourself to "make friends", whatever that means exactly.

Looking on meetup, here's a couple over your way (I'm in NYC, so I can't vouch for these)

http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-tabletop-games/

http://www.meetup.com/Peninsula-Board-Games-and-Drinks-20s-a...
What’s exactly is wrong with Twitter?
I wish I was your friend, and on that email list.
Your idea of "math by mail" sounds great, I am interested to be included on your list, please contact me if it is acceptable. Email in profile, thank you in advance!
Yea, I never said that. I was saying that Myrvhold's quite interesting information is publicly available even if he doesn't want it to be.

Vive la content revolucion
I love Blue Laws and States that dictate what can be sold in State run liquor stores.

No no, really, I have exactly the same taste as some random guy in the state capital.
To think everyone was phased when YouTube was bought for 1.65 billion...
My first thought was that dysgraphia was a breakdown in the linguistic construction of a sentence, etc., but then I remembered the word "aphasia", so I had to look them up:

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

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

I wonder why the keyboard solution to dysgraphia is easier than handwriting, when both seem to require fine motor skills?
They have reinvented "certification"?

MCSE and Cisco might want a word with them about their "new kind" of credential.
yeah, the trick is that you probably can't get out of bed without being caught.
Content roller coaster – inside look at the NY Times
pingdom reports a 99.98% uptime for my DO box (8min of downtime in the last month). To a commercial user that may be unacceptable, but it's great for a $5 box for me :)
Because if you are not developing in node, and don't have any other node based software, yet another runtime, its package manager(s), and dependencies are unwanted additions to a system.
It made sense until he advocated home-distilling.
I didn't know this one. I had only seen this one, a RTS where armies are controlled with cards : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQexhBQvWjs which indeed looks pretty appealing.
100 days for India's Mars spacecraft's tryst with red planet
Want to have lunch? I work in RWC too. My treat. bdamm at dammfine . com, it's best if you email me there and then reply here and say you did.
So, we are just calling certifications by different names now?

I opened the iOS nanodegree page:

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The core courses will bring you from zero to hero in developing industry-quality iOS apps using Apple's innovative programming language, Swift

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* 7-8 months if you can commit 10 hours per week
* 3-4 months if you can commit 20 hours per week

--

So assuming one spends 40 hours a week (normal work week) in 1.5-2.0 months you will be a 'accredited' iOS developer.

Sorry, I wouldn't hire you, and I can't remember a place I worked at that would.

They will just be like the MCTS or whatever from Microsoft, but without at least a 'governing' body that issues the requirements. Just something to add to your resume to work at a place that doesn't know how to do hiring.
isn't that pretty much the same "company" as far as data sharing is concerned? :)
No - letting his reputation limit your freedom to this information would be the real problem - no?
The worst part is that it's not the article, but the template that's killing it.

I love the visualizations, but I think the author needs to reconsider including the parallax trickery on inner pages. There is enough to look at, and, when it's not busy crashing your browser, this kind of eye candy is a distraction.
If you can share a common experience with a small group of people, it can be very easy to make friends.

In this light, a language barrier can also be an asset. I'm sure there are a lot of people in your area that are not fluent in English.

Reach out to a local university and volunteer to show new students around town.
A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
Then it's a bit disingenuous to headline this honorary award as being from the success of the Raspberry Pi in the educational arena.

If the Brits want to give an award to Braben for his work in video games that's cool. It's a step forward in the acknowledgement that video games are a part of modern culture. But by that token, I'm nominating Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar for the Presidental Medal of Freedom for their work on Defender, Stargate, and Robotron:2084.
What if we find the point where the Big Bang happened?

You're already there. Since all of space expanded from one point, by definition the Big Bang actually happened right here (and also over there) [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem
There is no such point (or it is everywhere if you like, as someone else had said).

The best analogy I've seen is that of ants on a balloon. They live in what appears to them to be a two dimensional universe. As you inflate the balloon, they observe their own universe getting bigger. But the "point where the Big Bang happened" to them is not a point that even exists in their universe any more. They cannot get back there, since the higher third dimension does not exist in their universe.
Web Developer at Fuzzco
Been a linode user since 2009, they have definitely not offered a plan less than $20 in that time.
I have just submitted a ticket to ask Linode about downgrading from my current $20 plan, since I host PHP websites only, and I use Ubuntu 32bit, and I don't want to take risks to switch the kernel to 64bit in order to take advantage of their recent free hardware upgrades:https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-...

I don't see any reasons they'll not let me downgrade, since there is no reason to pay $20 and use the $10 spec, right? I'll keep you posted about it.
Gist Design Update
Why should Family Guy viewers be required to pay higher loan rates?

Public interest is probably best served by making sure that lending markets are healthy enough that making meaningless distinctions based on silly data is not a viable practice (rather than fretting over exactly what data is allowed to be considered).
Unpacking the Grocery Stack
"Service Temporarily Unavailable."

Now where is that copy of the "Server Hacker's Handbook?"
US government wants to regulate Google Maps and all other car navigation apps
Show HN: Cronnit – The private bookmark search engine
http://perks.coderin90.com (we wanna join in on the fun!!!!) learn to code and get some perks
I agree with you (I'm old fashioned too), but revenue/user is a common benchmark used by Wall Street to judge a social network's performance. It's just another way of slicing the data. Overall revenue growth is still very important.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230442800...
and failed? Mozilla’s ESR releases are definitely a thing.
I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)
Clever how you do task management using email rather than an app or chrome extension. Any reason why you chose email over the other approaches?
Why? Legalistically, "Hotel" just means "complies with short-term stay laws". Can be "bed and breakfast" or "extended stay" or whatever.
Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:au9GY9v...
Regarding the antique places; it's worth mentioning that vast swathes of London, in fact most of the medieval city, were obliterated by fire in 1666, with large parts bombed in the 1940's.
Oh I see, well from that perspective quite a lot of things will go away, like I probably won't be able to emulate Gmail, $ing, all kinds of stuff, probably in 50 years. That doesn't seem to be a particularly Android specific issue.
Of a particularly relevant note here is agnosticism [1], or the viewpoint that there are certain things that are simply unknowable to humans. The implication being that humans can neither confirm NOR deny the truth value of the statements. Metaphysical statements often fall into this category. And hence, you can also have agnostic theists [2] and agnostic atheists [3], who both recognize that they are taking a stance on an unknowable truth value. Some would then define this as the very essence of the word faith, but I would like to at least point out that both sides are subject to the same definition.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_theism

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
While my initial reaction is similar to yours, keep in mind that what's being proposed by the article is the concept that no one sets goals well enough that they should be used the way they are right now. This is a premise I don't agree with, mostly because I think their data is really shallow, but the point is that they are proposing a reality in which you cannot find a decent dataset of people setting goals well within their company.
The penalty is 0 in practice.
Hiring in the Age of Big Data
I agree, LispyScript is very neat, closer to a full-fledged language than ki. On the other hand, ki is focused on ClojureScript's immutable data structures and related idioms - in fact it's just a thin layer around those.
Quite sure. If I had a dime for every time someone asked on the forums for a <$20/month plan and caker replied "not gonna happen"...
At a guess I'd say ubiquity and path of least resistance.

Many places I've worked email has been the defacto ad-hoc task distribution system for years.
I'm not sure if it was the visual aids (which were outstanding), or simply how the subject was approached and written about, but that article finally gave me an intuitive understanding of "complex numbers" that i've never quite gotten before. Sure, they were nice for some types of coordinate/vector math, but why they were nice always seemed to be something I missed. The warping of the coordinate system that you get when squaring is probably the key. It totally explained Julia sets for me.

Now if only I could get the same understanding for the incredible complexity of the Mandelbrot. After seeing[1] what happens down around 1/ 2^1116 (~3E353) - and remember that the set is supposed to be simply-connected - I'm not sure how to begin any kind of real understanding. There is simply too much detail there...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwaFQ2r2c4 (the entire video is great, but the true insanity starts about halfway through)
Looking forward to using it as a text book at http://coderin90.com

Would you be interested in offering some discount coupons or coupons for students enrolled with us?
I call in an NPD: No people day. Need one after being with people all week.
"This is an ecological problem, because our individual choices worsen the condition of the group as a whole. The service companies' interest, but not ours, is to hide this view of the problem, and concentrate on getting individual consent. From a legal perspective, the essence of transacting is consent. If privacy is transactional, your consent to surveillance is all the commercial spy needs. But if privacy is correctly understood, consent is usually irrelevant, and focusing on it is fundamentally inappropriate.

We do not, with respect to clean air and clean water, set the limits of tolerable pollution by consent. We have socially established standard of cleanliness, which everybody has to meet.

Environmental law is not law about consent. But with respect to privacy we have been allowed to fool ourselves.

What is actually a subject of environmental regulation has been sold to us as a mere matter of bilateral bargaining. The facts show this is completely untrue" -- Eben Moglen
Eris: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization Framework
Thanks! We wanted to remove all barriers of collaboration. It's friction-less using Planleaf, you need nothing other then an email to get going :)
Of course, they would highlight the complexities of the process wouldn't they? (cough - antitrust - cough)
It seems that one still has to enter credit card details and preload at least 5$.
Alternatives for .COM : Think .GLOBAL (Part 2)
Les noms de domaine .GLOBAL : l’alternative aux .COM – JDN Média
Sorry MS astroturfers, I thought this was a thing for developers!
Why the obsession with "they don't pay enough taxes" without any consideration of the socioeconomic good they provide? Starbucks employs about 150,000 people (that's some $2.25B the gov't doesn't have to spend on welfare etc), contributes 0.1% to the GDP (for one company, that's impressive), and (a seriously under-discussed point) contributes increased velocity of money (people being willing to spend cumulatively lots of money frequently on a whim). Starbucks also is noted for pushing a lot of other society-benefiting factors, which now includes free education to their employees. That all of this is flat-out ignored by so many with "but they don't pay [enough] taxes" belies an intent of greed over altruism.
What's wrong with that? I'd love to make some rum or whiskey at home.
I wish it did. I'd also like file API and directoryReader support, and the web audio API. The truth of it though is I don't care anymore if someone's browser doesn't have WebRTC. If you don't have it my site won't work for you, tough luck. WebRTC capable browsers are available on every platform. IE and Safari (on a mac) are like the shitty bundled browser you have to use to download a real browser at this point. Firefox, Chrome and Opera have all this stuff, except Firefox doesn't have directory uploads :(
Do what every other socially awkward introvert does on the weekends... play World of Warcraft.
What's the problem with home-distilling?
This is a response to the USD$100,000 bounty to create a software-based platform to replace the Bitcoin Foundation as initially announced on http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25sf4f/100000_bount...
"Set them too low, you're considered lazy, fail to meet one and you're considered unreliable."

Ah, yes. "You must be able to handle ambiguity, because we can't."
This week in #Scala (16/06/2014)
This week in #Scala (16/06/2014)
A roundup of Scala content from the past week.
The critical point is displayed on the phase diagrams on the triple point page. I linked to the Triple Point page because it might be more familiar, not to suggest it is the same thing as a critical point. Your link is probably better, though.
Yes it would. I'll post here once I get a link to the original upload (which as I understand wont be bittorrent)
If you read the paragraph below on the paper, he said "they did not appear to whirl or spin." That in combination with the saucer term strongly implied to me that he meant they were disc shaped.

Incidentally, if you go through UFO casebooks, you can find reports of UFOs that look like every item on your list :-)
I highly recommend FireFox, Opera or Chrome instead of IE. IE is perennially around 2 years behind (or more) every other browser (overall - in places they are on a par - and very occasionally ahead).
Completely ignoring everything else Starbucks does to the benefit of the country (employment, raised standards, contribution to GDP, etc), now including free education to some 150,000 employees.
Entangled is a very kind word, almost sounds accidental, when the anti-trust stuff found it was all very much on purpose.
"society" != "the government". Government is unique in that it reserves for itself the "right" to use force to compel people to cooperate with it's directives. "Society" can accomplish many things without needing force, and one of the mechanisms "society" uses to accomplish things is voluntary exchange in a free market environment.

I would agree that it is not "the government"'s job to provide education, since there is no valid reason to use force / aggression as part of educating people.
HTML and XML Sitemaps on WordPress
WordPress websites are extremely friendly in front of search engines natively, however there are some other great things you can do to improve your rankings.

HTML and XML sitemaps are such things and here is how to use them to leverage search engines.
Hey, guy. I feel you -- I've totally been there. Feel free to hit me up, I'd love to grave coffee with you and show you around the city. Email's in profile.
Signing of the repo contents (commits/tags) doesn't help anyhow with user ssh keys. If the automation gets the keys from github it effectively trusts github completely, irrespective of the situation with repos.
IE 11 is evergreen, I believe. It's auto-update. So hopefully in the future, IE 6 won't happen again, except for those enterprise customers who turn off the auto-update.
[R/XKCD] A new way to create a summary of your life
I've made the majority of friends I've got from sitting in pubs and being happy to talk to people, there's just a fine line between drunken best friends for a night and life time buddies but it's doable.
Sounds like there is a market niche starting to develop for FPGA in server applications. I'm not saying rush out and make PCIe powered and communicating FPGA's I'm just saying there maybe a market developing for it.

Especially with good open source dev tools.
You mean the alumina ejection will be a manual procedure performed by the car's owner or mechanic, right? When I first read this I pictured a spray of dust out the tailpipe. I'm sure there would be complaints...
Ah. But "The way to roll over..." was not meant as an insult, rather to express frustration at the fact that the person/company in the right was going to left the offender get away with it. Mentioning that many readers would read only the current story was to show how they could get the wrong impression about this company and I tried to keep it constructive by offering suggestion on minimal actions the company could take that could produce positive results.
Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad
What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.
Thank you guys for the replies, this is the stuff I was looking for :)
I think you're correct about the motivation for the cosmological constant. By adjusting the sign of the sign of the constant, you could produce a universe which was expanding, contracting, or steady-state. When Hubble's constant got nailed down, that definitively meant that the universe was expanding, and Einstein was happy to accept that. The problem was that if you tweak the constant to produce that result, then it also says that the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating. Which didn't seem to make the slightest bit of sense, so Einstein dropped it, and Stapledon didn't.

(Standard disclaimer: I'm not a cosmologist, and probably have no idea what I'm talking about.)
I have a VPS with DigitalOcean and for some reason, logging in over SSH takes disturbingly long. I may decide to switch over to Linode with these new prices.
Seems like I read about Google doing this almost 10 years ago. I know that IBM has the Netezza product which also uses FPGAs for accelerating queries.
Which LBJ tax cuts would those be?

JFK's supply side tax cuts are well known by Republican policy wonks, after all they were a concrete inspiration and justification for Reagan's.

Again, wonks know Jimmy Carter set trucking (and railroad???) and airline deregulation in motion (there's a cute picture of Teddy Kennedy in the background of the signing of one of those laws), but infamously didn't deregulate energy (initially, as I recall, part of Nixon's wage and price controls, but not ended like other sectors). It's one of the biggest things that wrecked his presidency.
It's even worse than that... I live in Illinois, a state where there are not statewide quotas... however:

The cities have the ability to add extra licensure requirements, so quotas can and do exist at the city level. Further, there are strange rules about entry to taverns - for example age of entry need not be legal drinking age which differ by city. There are also city or even smaller administrative district rule over what can be sold, pricing rules (e.g. near the college campus there is a rule about the minimum price of a drink special that doesn't apply to a lot of other parts of town) and so on.
Google's SSD price is $0.325/GB/mo with 30 IOPS (flat rate).
AWS's EBS with provisioned IOPS are SSD backed, and cost $0.125/GB/mo, with $0.10 per IOPS.

To get 30 IOPS on AWS would cost $3.125 - almost 10 times as much as at Google. If you're doing more than 2 IOPS, you're better off with GCP.
As a (western) European, these laws strike me as completely unnecessary and obviously damaging. The union's ad (page 2) makes no sense at all. Kids here aren't dying by the bunch, and I'm pretty sure I can buy all kinds of booze (from mixed fizzy drinks to beer and wine to hard liquor to everclear) in any arbitrary convenience store...
Boro taxis have a restricted number of licenses too, they're not any different. We'll see for how much they'll sell.