skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an icon or graphics expert but in my layman's opinion Apple always have such beautiful icons. One of my little hates about Windows is how Microsoft are lazy at things such as icons. We have a mixture of new and old icons all through the system and it makes things look ugly. Shame really as it really cannot be that difficult to spend some time making things look consistent and nice. Oh well maybe in Windows 9 ;)
Growth without revenue is like having a hot girlfriend without sex
and VC money is like getting 1 month brazzers subscription.
Pective shows the actual size of things
Retina Macbook Pro. You can run it at a variety of resolutions that all look very sharp - 1920 x 1200 is very usable, but you can bump it way up to stupid high resolutions if you want screen space.

I've found it's awesome because I can effectively go from web browsing on a 1440 x 900 laptop to working on the equivalent of an iMac (2560 x 1440) or even higher (2880 x 1800) without losing sharpness.

If you then want extra space, you can plugin in an external monitor, but to be honest, I ended up selling the two externals I used to use (they were 1080p, and seemed small and blurry in comparison).

Using OSX, you also get the benefits that it's very unixy/linuxy, so you get bash, ssh, openssl, grep, sed, ruby, python, php, apache etc as part of the system. With Xcode you get other tools like git. Configuring an acceptable dev environment for web dev can be done without downloading anything extra. (Of course, to get an awesome dev environment does require a bit more work, but arguably much less than the equivalent on Windows).
On the receiving side, yes, but iirc xchat will break up messages on send.
This presentation works better, as it looks like a feature, not a "hack". Also, I don't really agree that winning players are neccesarily happy players. We took special care for bots to match very closely player's skill level so it leads to intense games, instead of wins.
I'm building small application using Node.js and MongoDB and I'm planning to host it on Openshift or Heroku. All that hate that MongoDB takes here on HN makes me reconsider technologies I am using.

I will not have many relations in my database (model User, model Document, User owns Document... and that's all) so I thought that NoSQL databases will do. Plus, MongoDB lets me use GridFS - I'm planning to store pdf presentations in it.

If I should drop MongoDB, what other technology should I use? Or should I fall back to Postgres + ORM and manage my files in filesystem manually?

I don't want to start a flame, I am looking for an advice. I have considered MongoDB to be "good enough" as GridFS lets me store my files without a hassle, but after all that I read on the Internet, now I am not so sure.
I feel a growing sense that it's not so much a property of a 'normal democratic system' that minorities are protected, but rather that other processes enshrined these values (including democracy) in institutions.

And while democracy does quite likely facilitate the institutionalization of these processes, it's 'causal' role in this is perhaps weaker than we think.

This is the reason why I often worry about the growing xenophobia and populism in political activity. It seems much more the case that politicians sway popular opinion than the other way around, creating tempest in teapots, some of which become 'societal issues' that really aren't.

It's also a reason why I've become curious (but still quite skeptical, I must admit) about these 'alternative' democratic approaches that don't assume voting (and by extension majority rule) to be the basis of democracy.

That said, I might be saying colossally silly things here. I'm in an armchair.

Please correct me, or point me to interesting resources, as I am very invested in this topic.
I don't want to start a Trek debate on HN :) Alliances wrt Janeway are certainly questionable, but for both where they did deviate from the book it was always as you say for noble reasons. Breaking an unjust law is not morally wrong. Snowden broke laws for noble reasons. Is he a moral character? I think so.
Very cool.

I am interested to see how this progresses. It seems to me there is lots of optimisation possible to alleviate the cost of contention with greater number of threads.
Single thread performance will always have to suffer somewhat but their cheap read barriers have done wonders already to bring that down to an acceptable level. It will reach a point however where the only way to speed it up further will be for the programmer to be able to specify STM hints for variables.

I would like to see this in Java or C# where there is more room for extended optimisation.

Kudos to the PyPy guys for sticking to their guns on this.
I like how this guy explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrYl9krZksk
I don't really agree. The greatest structure in most of my Haskell programs is some kind of ErrorT or something. That requires me to structure the way I handle IO and the way that Errorable things happen, but beyond that, `a` is just as generic as any Python type. Sure, a lot of libraries do require you to accept certain premises, which may be a problem, but most of them provide ways to break out of their abstractions: ErrorT provides `runErrorT :: (Monad m, Error e) => ErrorT e m a -> m (Either e a)` which allows me to break out very easily, and due to the composable nature of Haskell, even if the library does not provide a function, it is often far from hard to write one yourself.
Mind-wandering software knows when you've zoned out
It almost collects all the packages I've ever used. Nice list!
Thank you so much for contributing this. I wish you the best!
Making communities, breaking communities
Nope, try harder ;)
Also, The Curse of the Gifted

http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221756
It was nothing to do with security screening, it was a philosophical attack. The hijackers knew that SOP in the event of a hijacking was everyone sit tight and let the negotiators deal with it. Everyone thought that the only reason to hijack a plane was to take hostages. The "weapons" they used were blades less than an inch long. The passengers that did react, overpowered them quickly (tho' by the time it was too late).
indeed, better looking cars sell much better

me, being poor, if I could use xfce on mac, I would. I use icons only if it's more compact than text. I love small icons.

Nice to see apple take the minimalist road.
PostgreSQL actually works quite well as a noSQl/document store :) I believe the best answer though is "it depends". I'm not sure this is the best place but if you gathered your requirements and listed them I'm sure a dstabse that will keep your data safe can be recommended.
Twitter and all of these other commercial services lack the sheer resiliency of IRC.

Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult.

Twitter doesn't fail-whale as often but it's still centralised and not overly reliable or robust in comparison.
Great! Thanks for the info, and sorry for the dump question without doing any research myself first - that idea occurred to me but I've never had the time to investigate into it :P
Here's the formal report from the EBA.

http://www.eba.europa.eu/documents/10180/657547/EBA-Op-2014-...

The risk table submitted is on page 22 of this report.
Is it GrantTree venue confirmed? could you update on Evenbrite. Many thanks for organizing
that persistent use shortens your attention span?
Ecma approves the 1st edition of the Dart language specification
I like the old icons better.

The new ones just look washed out to me.

And everything to the right of the Gamecenter icon (seriously, wtf happened to the gamecenter icon?) looks like someone ran out of deadline...
I for one greatly enjoyed the honesty of "How to get rich" - which, for once, was not written by someone who got rich teaching people how to get rich, but simply be someone who did get rich.

I can't say I espouse all of Felix's approach to wealth-building, but it certainly was an interesting read. I recommend it to any entrepreneur.
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At least I linked some numbers. Your statement "usually Python is only a few hundred times slower than C++" is so vague it is completely useless. The Python code was sped up by replacing idiomatic Python with non-idiomatic code (not your "usual" Python) and also replacing a large part of it with calls to optimized code written in C. If your claim had been "Python is only a few hundred times slower if you outsource most of your work to C libraries" I would have had no objection. But that's not what you wrote.
Well, depending on how you define violent - we had tanks pointing at the building where the government was, but they surrendered pretty quickly, without any real confrontations - I believe our revolution 40 years ago would classify: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
Scientific research on successful vs unsuccessful long term relationships has already been done by the Gottmann Institution. You can get a good presentation of the findings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXX8wzvT7c

My warning from bitter personal experience: Don't go into a long term relationship without learning from Gottman first!
>>comparing your wealth to the wealth of others.

It might be from an economic standpoint if we understand capital as the ability to command labor.
My dad's Stasi files stated that he read a certain church related newspaper in public. There also were photographs of me at a very young age in the files. I guess they found them when they were routinely opened up personal letters.

I'm pretty sure NSA can access the same information about what I read and how my child looks like and I'm really worried about that. And when I post something NSA related on Twitter and the next moment my web browser crashes, I really feel the mental stress you're talking about.

Stasi was different though, because their IMs would be your best friends and neighbors. Our weakness is the technology we use to talk to each other.
Why would you take it off the front page? At the very least this is useful information about how the WOS works.
Currently we are working on improving our security by encrypting user data like config files. Then we would store the password for decrypting these data on the client. We would only decrypt these things when required (e.g. when deploying). Note that this is currently only a concept and not implemented yet.

Otherwise the same applies to GitHub: If GitHub gets hacked, your application details will also be compromised.

> Aside from all that, congrats on shipping! It's an important milestone.
Thanks :)
One of the USPs of FORTRAN for a long time was the easy, native handling of complex numbers. Faced with that problem, I would have shrugged and said, use FORTRAN for that bit and bind it to C, easy.
Dennis publishing computer magazines helped me, and many others become "advanced users" at a young age. Pretty sure they pointed me in the direction of the BASIC programming part of the Windows 95 CD. Didn't know anything about the man til reading the article.

It seems like he had no great interest in computers, like Branson, enabling the talents of others to do the work for him brought success.

His personality seems to have informed the style of PC Zone - one of the many places Charlie Brooker cut his teeth.
I don't think it's hate - it's a call for users to understand and examine the implications of assumptions that the developers of the tools have made.

Don't take the advertising taglines and slogans as a panacea - there are still a ton of things to understand about how mongodb might or might not work for your circumstances. The advertising buzzwords are just that - advertising. You need to examine each and every technology that you chose as part of your project.

And I totally recommend the entire Jepsen series from that site http://aphyr.com/tags/Jepsen - it's an eyeopener!

In my opinion, if you are starting some experiments, etc, just use postgres! It removes a lot of doubt and new learning/confusion from your development.
Awesome! But would still love to have a location in Amsterdam directly on the AMS-IX.
> And yes, left-wing libertarians are not often encountered on tech boards in my experience.

This fascinates me. It seems both very American and very 'techy' to be a right-wing libertarian (or is that the wrong term?). In many ways both views are very opposed, but there are striking similarities too (especially on a 'social' level, which interests me as a social scientist).

It's like we're siblings: entirely different personalities that often clash, but a strong mutual understanding and similar 'values' through similar background/upbringing.

With the disclaimer that I'm still very much investigating and that I might very well be wrong, it seems to me that the left wing tends to be more on the 'social' side of things, and more burdened/informed by the European past, and perhaps too theoretical and big in scope.

The right wing seems to focus more on the individual side of things, is perhaps a little too uninformed by Europe's past (and the role of property in that), and sometimes seems a little too much like 'let's change everything without questioning our basic assumptions'.

I find that the techier, more entrepreneurial side of myself is more attracted to the right-wing libertarian views that seems more optimistic, but that the social scientist side of me combined with a very communal, religious upbringing (in a 'socialist' country) is more attracted to the left-wing libertarian views that feel a little more pessimistic/cranky at times.

Perhaps that is why HN seems to have more right-wing libertarians, whereas my intellectual and often decidedly anti-technology circles ar almost entirely left-wing libertarians (if they're libertarians to begin with).

Some thoughts from my armchair...
I suspect in some dark, obscure corners, ghastly scenarios far worse have been conceived and considered for contingency purposes. But given supposed reasonable assumptions, many such scenarios are filed somewhere between the circular bin, and long term storage in an nondescript, largely forgotten warehouse, much to the same affect.

The most unfortunate thing about this whole mess is that doubt about otherwise reasonable assumptions has been magnified. It is akin to running continuous integration tests for things such as disk space and basic standard output ... things that normally should be allowed to be taken for granted and should not require such extensive devotion of resources to largely unproductive activities.
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Thanks for asking this, it's a valid question. We differ from dploy.io in the following points:

- we provide true line-by-line diffs between the remote server and the deployed code, other deployment platforms only provide diffs by running `git diff`. This will help you to see if some files got edited on the remote server, e.g. for applying a hot fix.

- we only deploy files that have really changed, therefore we save traffic if you have big project

- we are faster (see http://t.co/IQM85FTa1D)

- our deployment process uses symlinks to avoid any downtime. Therefore we can also rollback very very fast. Other deployment providers don't use symlinks and upload files one by one, therefore leading your application to an unstable state because file A got already updated but file B is not yet on the newest version.

- we are very stable. If something goes wrong during the deployment your users won't be affected because we only update the symlink at the end of our process, and only if everything before exited without errors (exit code == 0)
i cried my heart out, it was that beautiful
>> "It seems like he had no great interest in computers, like Branson, enabling the talents of others to do the work for him brought success."

I wouldn't characterise Branson in that way. A lot of his ventures seem like passion projects, in particular Records and Galactic.
Wow. I wonder what low-life downvoted this entirely innocent comment. Now continue with this one, surely you'll manage -60, especially if you have a voting ring.

Quick, it will likely be the only accomplishment you'll achieve today, if not for the rest of your life.
Video decoding is very branchy and not easily decomposable. e.g. each frame depends on decoding the previous frame. They are however relatively easy to implement in custom hardware (part of the design goals of the standard committee) so in most cases the GPU accelerated decompression does not actually use the standard shaders/pipeline etc... but a separate section of silicon.
Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult.

Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsplits was a favorite pastime of bored teenagers around the world.
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I fear you're exaggerating the success-rate of your algorithm. Have you tried to test it, if so: How did you measure a successful extract?

The reason for my skepticism is Arc90's readability extension [1]. At the surface it looks more complex. I could of course be wrong!

[1] https://github.com/Kerrick/readability-js/blob/develop/reada...
Branson has passion and interest in his ventures unlike Dennis who did not care for the subject material.

Branson's management style is supposed to be quite hands off, you'd have to think Dennis was also hands off.
Finally! Microsoft has realised that real developers use OS X/Linux for development and don't have or care to test on Windows machines. This is a good thing for Microsoft and a good thing for the web!
Uhhh... not to throw mud on your cake, but Apple has been following a trend with iOS for a while now and tend to merge more and more of it into OSX, hence these developments. When Apple was still lingering in a skeuomorphic pseudo-3D la-la-land, the world made a few turns and turned out to be flat after all. Whether it was Google following Microsoft or the other way around, both presented a 'fresh new look' which was mostly marked by flatness and abstraction. Apple followed suit in iOS7/8 and now in OSX 10.10.
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I highly doubt the engineers responsible for Dtrace are designing icons.
The script [1] that computes the statistics on the in-memory data actually does use numpy, and perhaps could benefit from using pandas. Sadly I haven't had time to look into it though!

[1] https://github.com/moyix/panda/blob/wip/recondemo/scripts/fi...
GoPro taught to shoot 3D.
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Java and C# don't have a GIL though, and have good support for threading right?
I was in a similar situation to you when MongoDB was a lot less mature. Postgres was my "go to" store and I was a very skeptical of the Mongo hype.

My view would be to use Mongo if it's just a small project. It's a good time to learn exactly how Mongo is different and get a first hand experience of what the trade-offs are.
That's a great recommendation, actually.

I'm still shocked and embarrassed at how I once lumped all forms of libertarianism into the 'primitivist anarchism' pile, only to discover that a lot of thought and practice has gone into the various libertarian systems.

I assumed, for the longest time, that they were all basically people who couldn't make life work or were lazy, and decided to rationalize this as a choice. The weed-smoking, squatting type who badly needs a shower and a haircut, and secretly relies on others for money and a safety-net (mind, all of these things don't necessarily go together!).

Ironically, I spent much of my life as a Christian battling stereotypes that were based on American right-wing evangelical extremism. I should've known better.

Experiencing some of these 'libertarian' environments and reading some of the literature painted a much more nuanced picture, and enriched my views tremendously, even if just because the views were so radically different from what I was familiar with.

At some point in my life I decided that it would be good to spend significant effort to learn about views that are alien to me. Because even if they don't make a convincing argument in the end, they make me question whatever system I have in my head, and I feel that that's always a good thing.
Yes, absolutely confirmed!
Small correction: the magic of record-replay is that you don't have to record every piece of data read/written, only the non-deterministic events (interrupts, accesses to devices, and a couple instructions like `rdtsc`). This lets the overhead during recording stay low, while still getting all the benefits of a full execution trace. This is why we're able to store the Spotify trace [1] in only 263.1 MB.

[1] http://www.rrshare.org/detail/28/
Maybe most laws are not justified in light of libertianism(s) specifically, but I do find that a common theme in the justifications is that without these laws there will inevitably be chaos and humanity will implode. It's the basic 'think of the children' argument.
> The consistency and pattern behind the new icons is well thought out, and the use of subtle lighting effects (the blue and orange undertones) is great art direction

Made me think they copied the current "hot" of colors, just like going flat after everyone else

http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...

It's not that I super dislike it, more than I always thought of apple as a leader instead of follower when it came to design and perhaps I didn't realize how much they lost talent wise.

The only thing I truly don't like is notepad lost its full on yellow 'notepad paper' look. The difference between notepad and pages was very obvious prior, now it is subtle
I concur. Great post.

About the "curse of smart people", which also applies to those who are better at sports, or something else, one cannot forget the Rocky 3 effect - sometimes, external circumstances will allow you took relax and stop progressing in your skills (and thus, not much effort) while still being successful. When a big problem/challenge arises, it will "hurt" more to leave the comfort zone, and then it depends on oneself...
Not long ago I started a similar project, https://github.com/mvasilkov/readability2

Works as a SAX consumer, pretty fast, not sure how accurate.
So how do you handle the problem of someone acquiring so much land that this person can effectively control anyone who lives on his land (and basically form his own dictatorship, because he owns the best land)? Honest question.
1 year and that is all they have (and not very diverse) says a lot about the Foundation market.
Patch tag is shugging down August 4 2014
What high IQ?
According to Wikipedia: "[...] the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) [...] and (as an adherent to the Vienna Convention) the host country may not enter the premises of the mission without permission of the represented country"

I'm not a lawyer so that's as far as I know :) Seems applicable to this situation.
You may also be interested to see the originally intended album cover for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music that was planned for release in september 2001.
Or show a shrinked-down screenshot of the application. At least there would be a correlation between the application and it's icon.

Responsive design all the way to the icon.
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I read the article more like: IF you want to be successful, here is this great advice. Like you point out, being "successful" is not everything, nor necessarily related to being happy. That doesn't make the point in the article any less valid though.