skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ebb and flow doesn't necessarily mean dead time. Gravity had plenty of changes in pace, yet I don't think it had a single pee break in it.
Digital remembrance:The colour purple
Not reproducible for me either. Have you seen it happening on more than one machine?
Hmm, much speedier. Nice!
Is it possible to "liberate" women of Saudi Arabia, Sudanese refugees in Kenya or political prisoners in Russia? The answer is generally "No". Unprepared society will not maintain the necessary institutions and any political changes enforced by foreign military will receive proportional resistance. There's no "silver bullet" ideology or religious prophet who can turn entire population of a country to the different path. This means that for liberating the world you need to do some boring work by educating the ruling class and directing it to the reforms that drive the economic growth to the point, when growing educated middle class will demand the liberties inside the country. Definitely, it's a political and organizational challenge, not the scientific one.
"require('./user/auth')(User);" is a simple call to the "./user/auth" module with User as a parameter. Check https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/user/auth.j...
>The 'hard' sciences in the US are developing as much of a credibility problem as its 'soft' sciences. Institutional science may not be working out for us as well as has been hoped. It's a recent establishment and may not survive without a reversal in the decay of standards.

Key words: in the US. You can't generalize from one institution in one country to all institutions on the planet.
off topic: I missed this kind of talk at the last two google io's
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Doesn't say anything so! Moreover, confirms it's off-topic and it's a TV news too.
I believe this one also shows you an approximation of the thunder, so if you are close enough to a strike you can actually tell when you will hear the thunder. We were playing with it over the weekend and it was surprisingly accurate!
Are there any issues with other noises using this approach? And what's the level of preciseness if you remember.
Keep Calm and Test the Hypothesis. 2 Minutes to See Why
Right there in the article... Moz signed up with CloudFlare "but Mr. Skinner said the attacker has found new ways to attack their systems."

Does anyone know what that might be? There are quite a few people on HN who have zero sympathy for DDoS victims who don't pony up for Cloudflare etc., but I'm curious about situations when that isn't going to help or other attack vectors that will get you regardless.
You should care about them. They facilitate movement in between companies. If you're a "manager" at a major organization but are actually doing VP level work and are getting paid like a VP, it will be very difficult for you to convince another company that they should hire you as a VP. You'll also get lots of cold calls from recruiters about jobs that you are severely overqualified for.
Back in 2008 I submitted a similar idea to Google for their 10^100 idea fest. It goes a step farther in that not only do you get directions from your phone, but the buses are re-routed dynamically, in real time, to optimize travel times. Think of your phone as a fancy elevator call button—you use it to summon a bus but furthermore the central routing computer knows where you are and where you want to go. The buses (er, bus drivers—for now) also get directions from the routing computer.

The 10^100 deal seemed to just quietly fizzle. I never heard back anything, and I'm not sure they ever picked any projects to run with. FWIW, here's the submission.

10. What one sentence best describes your idea? (maximum 150 characters)

Bring the bus system into the new millennium.

11. Describe your idea in more depth. (maximum 300 words)

The goal is to revamp the municipal bus system by using a little technology. The key ideas are:

a. Riders use their cell phones as a kind of "elevator call button." Using an Android app, they tell a central computer where they are (possibly automatic with GPS) and where they want to go.
b. There are no fixed routes. A central computer is continuously processing requests and sending routing information to the bus fleet in real time.
c. Riders are given instructions, via their phone, as to where to go to catch which bus, and where to get off.
d. Integration with Google Maps is an obvious win!

12. What problem or issue does your idea address? (maximum 150 words)

Current bus systems are underutilized because of long wait times and because most riders don't know the routes well enough to feel comfortable.

13. If your idea were to become a reality, who would benefit the most and how? (maximum 150 words)

The biggest beneficiary would be those who want to ride the but but don't now because of route unfamiliarity and long wait times. All commuters would benefit from the decrease in traffic and pollution.

14. What are the initial steps required to get this idea off the ground? (maximum 150 words)

At first, a simulation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new model. Then, a pilot city to give it a real spin.

15. Describe the optimal outcome should your idea be selected and successfully implemented. How would you measure it? (maximum 150 words)

The desired outcome is an increase in ridership and fewer cars on the road. A straightforward metric is a simple rider count.

18. If you'd like to recommend a specific organization, or the ideal type of organization, to execute your plan, please do so here. (maximum 50 words)

I think Google would be an ideal implementer.
I had a decent experience at a recent hackathon. I sat down started coding, fell asleep about 0400, woke up, pointed at things like I had a clue what was going on. Sure the code was not anything to brag about, for me it was the socialization. Being able to talk development with others; hell I even learned a couple of things.
Built this 5 years ago. You will get an expired SSL error as the acquirer has since abandoned it.

https://plerts.com

It was free to use with friends and family, or you could have paid a small fee for 24x7 S&R and medi-vac backed by Lloyds of London.

One of the biggest issues is "top of mind". During times of severe distress – most people forget they have these services available. They are so distraught and in fear of their life, they are not thinking clearly. 911 is an exception because it's been engrained in us (Americans) since we were born.
"Unity 8 uses QML for the shell itself but the applications will still be in GTK."

I think GTK will be just for legacy/3rd party applications and new stuff by Canonical will be Qt based.
We were lucky enough to get hacked
It's been good for me, with the biggest differences (much like Google vs Bing) being just that: differences. It's not worse, it's just slightly different.

If the author included some reasons why he thought HERE was worse, maybe it could be properly refuted. As it is, it's just my word against his.
Joins the club of Netscape, AOL and Yahoo! Search
Useful resource; would be great to find a general CDN performance measurement tool from each country.

When entering a new continent / country it would be good to know just how close the nearest Pop is (or more importantly what the latency is) for my chosen provider.
I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and see him perform (his poetry) on his "Did I mention the free wine?" tours. He had a team and sommelier travel around the country by coach and he flew in and home by helicopter for every performance. The wine cost more than the ticket price and the proceeds went to his charity.

He was a wonderful eccentric who achieved so much (and got into a lot of trouble). As a number in this thread have said "How to get rich" is a marvellous book that's definitely worth a read. His poetry is fantastic (look on his website!) as well. Definitely a sad day.
According to develop.ubuntu.com, Ubuntu SDK allows two types of apps. Native (QML) and HTML5. I don't see GTK+ written anywhere.
> Two-factor authentication is a second basket.

Two-factor authentication is a second basket is a better carrying strap but it's still on a single basket.
Have you done it wit the latest version of Skype?
Sounds like a great idea. However, I would expect an example/demo to see what the visualization would look like before I give you my email address.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem there's a lot of work being put into a new generation of PHP forums. VanillaForums looks interesting though.
Why didn't _you_ examine it more deeply before you posted wild conjectures about what was happening? Surely you could try it on another machine - or ask a friend or two to test it.
There is a demo on the site itself.
Is there a public demo available? This sounds like an interesting tool, but I do not want to signup and add an unknown snippet into production just to get a better understanding of this.

I suspect the actual site is supposed to be a demo in itself, but after 20 seconds my CPU spikes to 100% and browser becomes almost unresponsive (Chrome on Macbook Air).

Edit: In case this helps, I ran a JS CPU profiler on the page and the spike looks to be cause by the sockets http://i.imgur.com/oYr3mYG.png
This might be a good thing to install on my kids' phones?
UI / UX Design Interviews, Maxime Chillemi
I don't disagree that we need more bike lanes. I'm a big supporter of more bike lanes because it usually comes attached to other efforts that make environments more livable for everybody.

But I've yet to see a discussion that talks about the "rest of the ride." Even with bike lanes, biking isn't feasible for most people for a wide variety of reasons. I've attempted to provide those reasons here, and I'm fortunate enough to have buckets of karma to shed because as you can see, nobody wants to concern themselves with prerequisite issues that are probably more important to biking (i.e. if they aren't solved, no amount of bike lanes will make a substantial difference).

The HN community suffers from a religious myopia at times that the living conditions and lifestyle of a single 20-something males in Silicon Valley represents the accumulated averages for the rest of the world and should be the model for everybody else. The community is shocked and disgusted when dissenting voices try to provide insight as to why most people are not single 20-something males in Silicon Valley. TBH, I don't think a discussion about bike lanes belongs on HN except that it brings up this demographic discussion. As you can see, the HN hive-mind is not receptive to people of different demographic groups, even if those groups might be better representative of the rest of the country or world.
Frank : What is, among the existing digital services, the one you wanted to do?

Maxime : Spotify, Quora or Twitter. I would have loved to come up with such ideas and have the opportunity to work on the design of these services.
This post is brilliant and correct. The best part is where he closes with the acknowledgement that the system works... to a limited degree. He's not just slamming it. It is actually an ok way to minimize risk at the cost of upside in the short term.

But it is unscalable for a couple key reasons. (1) Lack of diversity is lack of ideas and experiences, you may fail to find the "next big thing" simply because your echo chamber doesn't include that experience. (2) raw scale. There are only so many Stanford grads et al out there. When you need your 25th, 100th or 150th technical person you will need to have achieved either Google's cachet or start expending your parameters quite a lot.

Finding people's value is a very important management skill that seems to have been eschewed in this "cultural fit" culture. It's true there are some people that will be poison, but if the majority of people with the right skills are bad for your organization rather than the majority being able to be a positive, you should ask yourself if your organization is adequately healthy and robust, or is it an infant in an incubator, only surviving as long as you obsessively manage every input.
I have the same issue on Chrome as well.
Dockercon keynote: Eric Brewer (Google)
I don't need to show you data. That is ludicrous. Use your imagination. There are a million reasons and situations that make bicycles not in any way a suitable replacement for cars. You are generalizing wildly while demanding data to contradict you. Daily life is all the data you need.
I have to ask: why is this an app and not a web site?
As I suspected. Node / JS / Angular / NoSQL, hispter faddy stuff = cool and modern. Solid mature, tested stuff like LAMP = old fashion, screw that.

(You are aware that all LAMP stuff is also FOSS)
I switched from gmail to fastmail about six months ago and I'm very happy. It's fast, relatively cheap ($40 a year for 15 gigs of storage) and they aren't scanning my email to serve up advertisements. The addition of calendar is just another bonus that I'm immediately adopting.

Another great feature is the ability to use as many domains and email aliases as you want. I have all of my custom domains set up with both send a receive service, including DKIM. Also, if I ever need a throwaway email address, I just set it up, send an email, and then delete the address.
Firefox on Ubuntu: 100% CPU usage and need to kill the browser.
s/drivers/cyclists/
For the record, here's the blog post: https://tech.bellycard.com/blog/static-all-the-things/
Same issue on Windows 7 + Firefox 30.

I would not want that on my live sites, heh.

EDIT: I would suspect, the site does not last long from the HN hug.
Or just have tunnels at intersections, but yes, probably still very expensive. And flooding could be an issue.
The bank, most likely, or their insurance provider. Deoending on US law (which protects people less than the UK AFAICT) the customer may have some liability. But basically the bank OK'd the transactions so it's on them.

Of course if it's that frickin' obvious what's going on then the merchant will find themselves under review and saddled with much higher fees after a while.
Crashed latest firefox on OSX Mavericks.
I don't know why you got downvoted. It's a fair question.

https://subsite.kk.dk/sitecore/content/Subsites/CityOfCopenh...

How fast can you travel through town by bike and car?
The average travelling speed in Copenhagen is 15.5 km/h for cyclists and 27 km/hour for cars. In places with green wave for cyclist the average speed is 20.72 km/h.
Caused my browser to completely freeze shortly after loading the page and seeing what looked like some interaction heatmaps appear.

I'm using Firefox 31.0 x64 on Debian 7 (Wheezy) with kernel 3.15.0-rc4. All plugins are click to play on my browser. Intel i7-4770K. 32GB RAM. NVidia GTX 770 with 337.19 proprietary drivers.

I had to press back and wait for a minute until my browser processed the event and got me away from the page.
The best line comes at the end: "The AI will chase us there pretty quickly."
What you should know about Breakpoints, but probably don't
Maybe your origin has been discovered already.
Demo worked for a second there then i had to kill the browser to stop the damn thing.
Just some thoughts...

Dementia - Not a real solution but we force people to move often thereby erasing their associative memories. Houses could stay in the family so that one can grow up and grow old there, surrounded by objects triggering memories. (think of them like checksums)[0]

Water - Use offshore wind turbines to throw water up in the air. Some vaporises into clouds, the rest goes back with the salt. [1][2] (there is some academic work on this that I cant find, it used a vertical axle turbine shaped like an egg beater, the water was carried up the arms by the centrifugal force)

Flight - Use air evacuated maglev tubes.[3]

Antibiotics - vibrate the body on the resonant frequency of the disease. If something has a fixed shape it has a resonant frequency. When matched it makes life unbearable for any single cell creature or virus. It cant dampen it's vibrations anymore.[4][5] (10 cents per patient kind of profits)

Paralysis - I'm clueless about this one.

Food - Permaculture includes A self-maintained agricultural systems modeled like natural ecosystems.[6][7]

[0] - http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2005/02/suzuki.aspx

[1] - http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/12/every-silver-lining-ha...

[2] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251721/Pictured-The...

[3] - http://www.et3.com/

[4] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1658030/

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXqXIG_WVM

[6] - http://www.cultureofpermaculture.org/blog/

[7] - http://vimeo.com/19661805
>Why should it be good for me to work with somebody who only cares about Java? And what would you take about during lunch - Java development?

Knowledge depth, for one. The time you spend reading about new trends and languages is time not spent getting deeper knowledge about the skills you already have.

Maybe you spend just as much time as he does gaining knowledge depth in your chosen language and spend some of your free time reading about trends and languages, whereas he might spend time with his family instead.

You're still basing this decision on an arbitrary signal like "Reading about trends and languages makes you a better programmer", which is a very difficult thing to prove, the least of all reasons being that there are no hard lines drawn in the sand regarding programmer skill levels and the positions that they qualify for.

But then someone with this same attitude comes along and reads about trends, languages, and computer science developments. That guy won't hire you because you don't read about computer science developments because he thinks those three sources of knowledge makes you an even better programmer. He spends the same amount of time gaining knowledge depth as you do, but spends even more time reading about trends, languages, and CS developments, regularly sacrificing an hour of sleep.

And then someone comes along and reads about trends, languages, CS developments, and hardware hacking[, and social engineering][, and UI/UX theory][, and mathematics developments].

You can see how this can quickly fill someone's entire waking hours in a rat race to be the guy casting down judgment.

>Back to Joel: it seems more likely that somebody who knows Joel is a good programmer than somebody who doesn't know Joel.

You can hang around forums and parrot whatever other people are talking about and blend in without ever having to elaborate or think about Joel's blog (not to mention actually practice any of it). This is the same sort of signalling that SV is using according to the article.

I know about Jeff Atwood and his famous Fizzbuzz post. If you do a bit more reading, you know that it's not actually meant for the technical aspects: http://blog.codinghorror.com/fizzbuzz-the-programmers-stairw...

Having that bit of knowledge quickly skyrockets my perceived skill level above "the crowd". I'm an insider now, someone to get a little excited about hiring, and for no more work than it took to read a blog.

Then I start rattling off other things I've seen on here, reddit, and other places that make me seem intelligent and well-read. Now they're tittering to give me an offer.

Then they get a nice dose of reality when they learn I'm still pretty new with regards to actual skill.

If I wanted to be an SV insider, I'd follow the same procedure: read about what signals they are looking for, mimic those signals, and play it by ear the rest of the way. I guess if I had to code actual projects to make it then I can't be as deceptive because I'll actually know how to do something. (To save some of my dignity, I actually have done that!)

This is job hiring through obscurity.
www.panicguard.com
sasha@panicguard.com

Was built in 2011 and serves giant security companies.

Old news.
https://subsite.kk.dk/sitecore/content/Subsites/CityOfCopenh...

"How fast can you travel through town by bike and car?
The average travelling speed in Copenhagen is 15.5 km/h for cyclists and 27 km/hour for cars. In places with green wave for cyclist the average speed is 20.72 km/h."

It seems like Copenhagen is an especially unfriendly car environment.
This latest round of updates for Apple certainly is interesting, but when's the last time they got photos right? For me it was the first iPhoto version, and since then every "exciting" development has been a bust. Main reason we're super positive at Picturelife.
Php Frameworks Benchmarking results [pdf]
Borked my browser. :( I imagine it's keeping track of too many things at too many short intervals? Nice idea though, I would like to use this but if my users have this problem I would be insta-gibbed.
> That is blatantly false. Correlation implies at very minimum a causal link trough a third effect.

No, it doesn't.

Correlation can be coincidence; while a particular correlation may be unlikely on its own to be coincidence, there are lots of combinations of things in the universe that might be compared side-by-side, and so unlikely coincidental correlations are everywhere, and so if you troll through the universe looking for correlations, you are going to find a bunch that don't mean anything causally.
Show HN: A tool that let's you freeze your browser in realtime
> Bulletin board system gains nothing from "single page application" style architecture, it is a collection of documents, stick with it.

Real-time updates, differential updates, cacheable partials, free distributed rendering, to name a few.

Specifically in the realm of cacheable partials, every single site out there that repeats elements between pages could benefit as a well-architected SPA. It's analagous to h.264 vs GIF: you can compress/cache the similar chunks and only update the deltas and save bandwidth, making your platform more scalable. Sure, GIF can compress each individual frame, but h.264 improves on that dramatically by compressing in another dimension. The essence, in my mind, of the SPA is keeping your HTTP requests DRY.
There's been quite a bit of research into group composition and dynamics and their effect on problem solving. In short, the main body of research seems to suggest that diverse groups show a higher group intelligence than homogeneous groups (have a search on google scholar). This is likely to do with a diverse group having a wider range of experiences, and more view points, to draw on in solving a problem. Ultimately, it's not about who you work better with, but how the group as a whole performs.

Secondly, if you can only work with people you would be close friends with, you are massively reducing the talent pool available to you. If multiple companies are behaving the same way then you will be paying more for less skilled staff.

Meanwhile it's hard to see what the benefit of hiring from such a limited pool is? They're your work colleagues, not your party buddies, so who cares if you don't want to go to the same clubs? Just hire good professional people, surely? If they're pros, then any intra-group conflicts are manageable.
Discourse in general loads a lot faster than traditional bbs when you click links or try to view a specific post. So what's being gained is better user experience. I'm not sure I see the relevance of the underlying data structure... isn't email just a collection of documents too? Why is gmail a SPA?
I'd love to take a helicopter to work. Do you have one for sale that's as cheap and safe to operate as an automobile?
Framework that are tested:

Phalcon 1.3.0
Symfony 2.5.0
Laravel 4.2.0
Codeigniter 2.2.0
Cakephp 2.5.2
Yii 1.1.14
Kohana 3.3.2

URL: http://piyushchauhan.com/php-frameworks-performance-benchmar...