skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Google Authenticator already open source?

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse...
Is it no longer a valid concept that 'cold' universes are just another part of a cyclical 'era' in our universe, awaiting the quantum interactions to start the 'Big Bang' anew?

With expansion, and the fact that there are objects in space without a practical gravitational bounds, does that imply a form of finality which may inhibit the QM interactions that took place during the initial 'Big Bang'? I've been of the understanding for some time now that the 'Big Bang' could not have happened without the vacuous void which was to exist preceding it, is my understanding incorrect?
The fact that Google has destroyed user trust is what gives Baidu an opening.
Understanding Timeouts in CRuby
'The Position' Feat. Ice Cube, Mac Shawn 100, Murder Mansin
I've written a solver that does exactly that here, it prunes positions whose blocks are too far outside the bounding rectangle:

https://gist.github.com/Zimmux/c0fdb3ddad654b6b0ae2
RedHat requests Russian partners to suspend projects under U.S. sanctions
Why are people doing this? There must be a reason.
It seems awesome, congratulations
Show HN: Sorting 50,000-element array in web browser using HTML5 web worker
There are at least 5 brands of coconut water at my local Walgreens in San Francisco. One of them is half the price of all others, but it's overall a premium drink. Having tasted just about all of them, I prefer Zico. It seems they did sell too early.
Can anyone explain what they mean by this?

"It’s invented and then built a nearly $5 billion cloud computing business catering to fickle software developers"
In my opinion the only thing .bash_profile should do is source .bashrc, that way the environment is consistent regardless of invocation.
One can argue it isn't "no instructions". The symbols have colors and arrows. How much more do you want? Someone that can't figure out how it works from that won't get very far anyway.
I don't think this is the next Flappy Birds or 2048. It's just not casual enough.
Show HN: Download all threads of an Orkut community
With Python's evaluation/assignment order, both parts of a complex assignment happen at once--which is the source of the weird behavior in the article (A[0] is assigned to before the subscript of A[A[0] - 1] is evaluated).
I'm not saying you're wrong but it seems incredibly difficult. The problem is, how do you choose who to fund to go and do maths, how on earth you'd track their progress if any, and how do you achieve a return on your investment - even if 'you' means a sovereign nation and you have very general and long-term goals. If you can come up with something distinct from a university mathematics department to achieve this, it would be an achievement. I think we should count ourselves lucky that these departments have come to exist, and they provide such unreasonably useful output.

It might well be possible to use modern communications to distribute the work, improve efficiency and reduce overheads, basically turn all the world's maths departments into one big one - but I bet you still need something like the PhD thesis and viva.
Why don't they just divert some of the 32,000 visas from Infosys to Startups?

I can't help but notice the inverse relationship between the number of H1-B's sponsored and the average salary by company.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2014-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
Have rank and file developers ever tried to form any sort of association to advocate for their own interests, which seem adverse to those of founder types? It would seem like there are a couple hundred thousand tech types in California alone who would prefer not to have compete with a new flood of H1B and other visa holders. I support the type of candidates that this story is about but my fear would be that it's a back end run by the entrenched interests to turn a small pathway into a large one, and a couple years later we awake to find thousands of ''exceptional'' cubical dwellers in Infosys' new offices.
So this is my first attempt at an Android game. I'd love your feed back.

I studied some of the BF Skinner works (of Skinner Box fame) as well as Angry Birds and a few other "casual" games to understand what makes them compelling.

I've borrowed a lot from Angry Birds and used the same "design pattern" which you might find familiar, but I hope the game play is different enough not to raise any ire!

The privacy policy includes some details about tracking - I am using Google Analytics to track some anonymous game play stats like the average score, number of games, and the crash location. If I get enough users (perhaps 5000+) I'll use the stats to report back on the findings about the "average" player like how many games they played, average scores, and crash locations which I hope HN finds interesting!

Thanks!
I would think that even if logging used a non-negligible amount of battery power to take measurements the data are still valid because such a load was applied consistently throughout the sample period. So, the measurements are valid within the set (you can accurately compare one day to another) but perhaps not transferable/generalizable (could not compare them to other laptops with differing monitoring periods).
Any chance you could shoot me an email? I'm about to go through the same process - chintan@pennywhale.com
The book "The Mathematical Universe" is an interesting read. The author theorizes that there are 4 types of infinite universes. The one we're in contains an infinite number of "universes" that are so far away from each other, that light hasn't had the chance to reach others. These universes all abide by the same physics.

the other "universes" are in a kind of different dimension, where each one has different laws of physics.

This theory is basically the end-all of just how insignificant we are, starting from the theory that earth was the center of the universe. Not only are we not the center of the universe, but our universe itself is an insignificant part of the whole.
PlusberryPi – RPi case with Integrated USB hub and HDD bay
You can pick up the syntax of JSON, INI and YAML in a couple of minutes - which is how it should be. Because all you should be doing with a config file is assigning values to variables or defining the attributes of a structure - and preferably, those values should be primitives. To me, "Turing complete configuration" is a contradiction in terms, or at least it should be considered such. Almost everything the author lists as an advantage of using a programming language shouldn't be done with configuration anyway.

One of the reasons I like PHP is that INI and JSON parsing come out of the box, so no need to worry about whether or not a packaged parser is compliant. This is also one of the reasons why I avoid YAML even though it's more flexible - if a configuration format isn't supported natively by the language you're using then I would agree it's probably an unnecessary layer of abstraction. But I don't see how the c example provided is much better than the .conf file, although it does possibly demonstrate that the config file format itself should be a bit less opaque. At least I can expect that a simple config file couldn't eventually explode in algorithmic complexity into its own bloated universe of code.

Keep it simple. Keep it stupid. You'll be thankful a few years down the road when the inevitable feature creep hasn't caused your config workflow to explode into its own self-contained application with its own dependencies and peculiarities.
But what does Baidu offer that DuckDuckGo or Bing do not?
It really depends of the project, but here are two examples, complete and simple: https://gist.github.com/bpierre/da5283f34a03b26e2833
I was once a PhD student of math at UIUC - after some pains with job searching, I eventually landed in software engineering after teaching myself a lot. Graduate school fulfilled a special challenge for me, proving to myself that I had one of the brightest minds out there.

It turned out there were plenty of others smarter than me, but I held my own, which was enough for me. From what I can tell, smart PhD holders and/or dropouts (which I fall under the latter) can fall in many fields. My brother (a PhD graduate from Johns Hopkins in Chemistry) has been recruited for HR and data scientist positions. I have also been recruited for data scientist positions, especially once I proved my excellence in software engineering. I have also been recruited for sales positions in the past.

There are still some organizations/companies out there that recognize the value of pure intelligence over specialty. In some ways, I also look more favorably if someone shows great indicators of this when I am hiring.
That completely depends on the type of building. I'm in a NYC high rise that is poured concrete. I can't hear a damn thing. Once in a blue moon the people upstairs drop something and I hear a thud, that's about it.

I have previously lived in some hilariously thin walled places before. I actually think the 2-3 story apartment rows in suburbia are the worst offenders. If you are building a 20+ story building, you have to make it a bit thicker and use steel or concrete.
Apple iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data, researcher finds
Backing by the Chinese government.
Chainsaws, Gunshots and Coughs: Our Smartphones Are Listening
I do believe talking about H1Bs for employees (non-founders) and its effect of driving down prevailing wages is somewhat off-topic.

I myself am an Indian citizen. I studied in Boston, moved to California with an upperclassman and started a company during my OPT. The company is fairly well-rooted while bootstrapped, but doesn't have massive funding in place yet. Towards the end of my OPT, I tried to apply for the H1B just because I wanted to continue working on the company I started, and because I'd come to call California home.

Are you suggesting my team find an American engineer of equal skill take my place in the tiny company I started for the no-salary I was earning, as cofounder? I'm confused.

As it stands I didn't get through the H1B lottery two years in a row, and am now pursuing this O1A visa, although this being my first startup (and job) out of college my track record is a bit sparse.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090814.
Amazon built AWS. AWS does $5 billion in business. AWS has the variety and depth of services that software engineers expect.
People can have a bad experience anywhere. There is nothing specific to Paris.

If you showed up in NYC and started randomly accosting people in French you'd definitely have a bad experience. Yet Americans do the same in Paris and wonder why people are rude to them...
Yelp Trends Answers the Age Old Question: Chicken or the Egg?
Ask HN: We redesigned our teaser page, what do you think about it now?
The link is:
http://teaser.waevio.com/<p>Please post your opinion and let me know what do you think about it - don't hold back with the criticism too!
> Not to mention they're a 20 year old, unprofitable business.

But they've only been unprofitable the last hand few of years. Before that they were quite profitable. Amazon's pursuit of businesses with high R&D costs is the reason for their current lack of profitability.
To clarify: that sphere is not a 'standard' in a sense that it is going to definite a kilogram. It is a tool which is going to be used to measure the correct numbers to define the kilogram in terms of universal constants. In this sense it is very different from the 'bells' you refer to, and I think the way you stated the link was misleading.
I think streets are the cheap part anywhere. I would imagine buildings are more expensive to construct with the limited access. If for some reason you were tasked with building a 40' skyscraper in the middle of a farm field, it would be massively less expensive than putting it up in the middle of Manhattan. The logistics complicate everything.

My brother is currently managing the construction of a 60 story tower in NYC, and they have a staging area that is able to fit the base of the crane and a single truck at a time. You often see them unloading pallets of supplies into freight elevators by hand. It's unbelievably complicated to do the simplest maneuvers due to the limited space.
Ask HN: Which tools would you use to plan a roadtrip?
I think that my whole problem is described in the title but: I'm using OpenStreetMap based navigation on my phone (OsmAnd) and each time I need to plan a route in advance, I'm having the same problem.

Does anybody know any good tool which I can use, having the features from below:

* collaboration with friends while editing the route
* easy way of adding / removing waypoints in the route
* being able to see nearby POIs, ideally filtering those by categories
* export of GPX files for your GPS)
Your understanding is indeed incorrect. According to the big bang theory, there is no vacuous void preceding the big bang. I know that it's hard to wrap your head around that, but there is nothing before the big bang. Not even time. Time itself begins with the big bang. The idea of "before the big bang" has no meaning in the big bang theory as we understand it.

Yes, cosmology is hard.
I don't know what it's trying to tell me. It feels rather slow and the color of the image doesn't match the background of the body/page.
That's not correct. If your property is seized, you can make a claim to get your property back regardless of whether or not the government ever files charges against you.
Yes, they are going to have to raise their margins at some point and there is no guarantee it can be done without costing them more business than they can afford.

AWS is already pricey for what it offers.
Raising the margin on Amazon.com's sales requires squeezing suppliers more and raising prices and I'm not sure that outcome will be profitable either.
The method he's using might influence the statistics negatively a bit too much, as there's periodical data that needs to be flushed to disk, plus an useless fork going on every minute.

This popped up on HN last year, uses a much cleaner implementation:

http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/hacks/bcmon/
> The overhead,

Vague

> the poor job prospects

Relative to whom?

> the cost

If you're paying a dime to do a PhD you're doing it wrong — I get paid an ok amount and my fees are covered.

> the obsession with prestige

Not sure what you mean by this.
From what I've gathered, this has been the job outlook for academic positions for some time across most areas (not strictly STEM), hasn't it? The prospects for STEM phds in industry appears better (or at least as someone pursuing a math phd with plans to go into industry, I must tell myself that). I'm interested in what decision you made.
Don't Get Norteled – InfoSec + Bloodlettng
Not different. But they can't freeze my cash.
It's not an American company, that's more than enough reason for a lot of people.
Ask HN: Is it smart to cold mail a CEO? (Real Estate)
Dear HN

I would like to get your thoughts/experiences on cold-mailing a CEO of a major real estate company

I have a great opportunity that I am quite certain the CEO's company will be interested in, is it a good idea to email him and offer to sell the property to him (over $150m)

Regards
Is that hyperbole or would Google actually do that?

I'm not familiar with the Play Store or Android in general but it seems like a lot of clones and cheap ripoffs are available.
"Holiday booking" (tour booking, <insert stuff here> booking...) is a pretty common need. You can trawl sites like peopleperhour.com and such to sell it to people looking for this type of site; and/or adapt it to people with similar needs.
Ruby gotcha with equal sign in method name
iOS Backdoor Services Proof of Concept
Which country runs almost entirely on renewables?
I am assuming nuclear is not a renewable in this case?
Without exception, my experience of hiring in small companies has been that there isn't a "list" of plausible candidates, there's a series of interviews that go on for months, rejecting hundreds of candidates, until you finally find a good one. So I don't really buy into the "sort a list" idea. Maybe the companies I've worked for have all been unusually picky about hiring, it's hard to tell, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work for a company that wasn't rejecting at this rate.
Looks awesome, guys! I've been wanting something like this for a long time.

One question: can I deploy to my own server (for free) or only through your hosted service? It wasn't clear from the documentation I read online.
From the standard[0], "In the form (rotatef place1 place2 ... placen), the values in place1 through placen are read and written. Values 2 through n and value 1 are then stored into place1 through placen. It is as if all the places form an end-around shift register that is rotated one place to the left, with the value of place1 being shifted around the end to placen." The key word being place Once (elt A 0) and (elt A (1- (elt A 0))) are evaluated rotatef keeps track of the places and the values at those locations. It then assigns the values to the places; it does not reevaluate the expressions.

There is also setf and psetf which in the examples I'm giving evaluate from lowest suffix to highest (same as todd8).

(setf expr2 expr1
expr4 expr3)

(psetf expr3 expr1
expr4 expr2)

[0] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_rotate.htm
You might want to check that again. There is no x64 olly available to anyone other than the author. It's been a "work in progress" for a decade or so.
The APGL license caught my eyes. Does anyone take this license into account (deciding between an Apache/MIT/BSD DB vs APGL DB) when they use it in their service / software stack.

For example, this openstack thread always keeps me alert using APGL when I am developing a solution.
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-Marc...

and here is MongoDB's FAQ explaining APGL in plain English: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/103832439/the-agpl
I was going for a PhD in Math and dropped out for pretty much the same reason. The field was so specialized that nobody really understands anyone else's research, which makes it mostly not-merit-based (politics) who gets hired where. Also, it really wasn't fun. I figured it would be easier to work as programmer and study Math (or other things) in my spare time.

It seems like a waste to spend 5+ years on a PhD and 3-5 years on postdocs just to get a tenured position at the #200 ranked university or to be a permanent-adjunct.
If amazon charges 10 $ for 10 Ghz, and by mores law the price to deliver 10 Gz is reduced by half, then Amazon should be able to do more computing for less. Without competition and with Moore's law, Amazon can can offer lower prices AND increase its bottom line due.
Can you outline the app a bit more? I'm struggling to understand the target market.

What can the app do exactly?

Where was it sourcing its hotels / flights / hire car data etc?
My team decided to just forget about Windows, and only use Linux or OSX. It is so much more convenient when you can rely on Bash, Make, and Unix conventions. (It is interesting discovering the slight incompatibilities between GNU core utils and OSX core utils, though, but usually the GNU versions just have extra features.)

Make plays nicely with npm once you set the PATH to include ./node_modules/.bin . Watching is the only thing Make can't do, so I usually set up a very simple Gruntfile that watches the source files, launches a livereload server, and just calls `make` when anything changes.
Lock nerds can also open your lock in less than 30 seconds using lockpicks or door shims or any number of other techniques. Locks are not a very robust technology.
If you want the joy of owning a physical book, which looks nice, advertises its presence to you every time you walk past and shows off how educated you are, then a physical book is actually the optimum solution to the problem. Like vinyl records, they offer a different experience of media consumption that some people consider superior, as well as showing off that you're a connoisseur and filling your shelves with nice artwork. So paper books will always have a niche, even if it's a fairly small one when it comes to novels.

What you're proposing though is like inventing a particularly-complex-to-manufacture CD... after the iPod.
If you want the convenience of something that not only has resizeable, searchable text but also weighs very little, then any current generation reader offers the exact experience you're looking to replicate, except you only have to buy and carry around one of them.

Even if and when we get to the point where e-ink screens can be manufactured for a dollar, I don't see much of a market for one-book readers.
Python is designed for it, and it makes it cleaner, so why not?

EAFP: Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

That being said, just a blanket except is a bad idea.
I don't understand how.

If I'm a developer, I've got the problem I mentioned. If I'm a user, I only have the problem if I build from source.

Either way, with a standardised build tool like leiningen, I don't have the problem because, as a developer, I only need leiningen. As a user building from source, I only need leiningen. Both use cases are much simpler.

However, having said that, I was only referring to the developer experience in my comment. I'm not really too sure what you read it as, but like I say above, I don't think it really matters: its a problem either way and both go away with a standard build tool.
Was it ever a criminal offense? I mean downloading, as a user?

I don't recall any government arrests of simple downloaders.
I was far from a model employee at Google - I continued to post on HN, I would challenge executives as to whether their actions were really in the best interests of users, and I would raise complaints I heard about elsewhere internally - and I don't feel like it hurt my career progression at all. I was promoted during my time there, and I largely got my pick of projects. When my old manager left the department, he told me that one of the things he and his superiors had really valued about me was my willingness to call things out that weren't working.

I do think that there's a right way and a wrong way to criticize your organization. As Ben Horowitz says, "Come from the right place." When I would say something negative about Google it's because I want it to be the best company it could be, and I'd often raise complaints internally rather than externally because that's where the decision-makers are. And if you want to be taken seriously, you also need to buckle down and contribute, and listen to considerations you may not have thought of. My manager said once that the folks who get fired are those who "Complain too much and contribute too little", and I can think of some prominent personalities on Hacker News who fit that description. Complain and contribute and you do fine.
If their web spider is any indication of how fit they are, they really need to shape up.

The Baidu spider is the IE6 of web bots, it hammers sites, fumbles around breaking everything with its crap JavaScript compiler and causing so many errors that it's easier to just block it. The same with Yandex.

I really hope they fix it, but a search for the Baidu user agent will show a lot of results just wanting to block it. They need to fix that.
My strategy with the harder levels was to divide it into 2 parts:

1) Ignore the colors and just figure out how to get the pieces on the goal squares (working backwards helps a lot).

2) Find a cyclical part of the puzzle that lets you swap the order of tiles.

Then you just look for any color-agnostic states in Part 2 that overlap with Part 1.
What does Baidu offer to its users / customers that DuckDuckGo or Bing do not?
"I am not trusting Google with my data, because it's in bed with US government too much.

Instead, I will trust BaiDu, that's even more in bed with far more oppresive goverment."

I don't know about that.