skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that the domain was only registered on 6/30/2014, your Beta List page was created on 7/3/2014, and you have only 126 followers on Twitter. It is a bit hard to believe that you got 130k signups for your beta with such a limited time frame with very little actual content to show. Perhaps this is a test of the "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd" theory? Or maybe your referral deal (5 friends using your code = 12 months free) is causing fake signups?
I'm also using it and it works perfectly for me: http://blog.flaviocaetano.com (no spam intended)
Even if you're unfamiliar with the modulus operator, it's not that hard to test divisibility.

C and sufficiently similar: x == k*(int)(x/k)
Churches, like people, are better understood in concrete instances than in abstract declarations.
The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls (2008)
News is a fashion industry. One big "dog mauls child" story will be followed by other "dog mauls child" stories that would otherwise not have been reported. The difference is that they are "news" now when they weren't news before....
Doubling is an underestimate. It's more like a factor of 10.

Still, multiplying the cost of charging an iPhone by 10 isn't bad. And in fact you can buy a lot of solutions that enable this, because you're right, it's not a big deal for a lot of people, and the convenience is worth the cost.

For an electric car, increasing the charging cost by a factor of 10, or even a factor of 2, is a much tougher proposition.
Really slick! I want to get in on the development of this!!
Three reasons for Founder/CEOs to step back early
Just three other nuclear merchant ships were built - the German oil transporter Otto Hahn; Japan's freighter Mutsu; and the Russian ice-breaking container vessel Sevmorput. Like the Savannah, they are no longer in service.

Umm, so the first nuclear ice-breaker was built by the Soviet Union in the 50s and was in service since 1959, 3 years before Savannah made its maiden voyage. Unlike Savannah, Lenin was in use for 30 years until it was decommissioned in 1989. Also in contrast to Savannah, its success led to 8 more Soviet nuclear ice-breakers built between 1975 and 1990. In fact, the most recent nuclear ice-breaker was built by Russia and entered service in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
you sir, you have my respect :)
They'll be held to the same standard as average companies when they get an average CEO. As long as they have a far-seeing genius at the helm I suspect the market will continue to cut them slack.
For anyone interested, I got my downvote ability at 500 karma.
Vatican City the 18th wealthiest nation in the world per capita.
XMonad is supposed to have OS X support but I've heard it only works for X11 apps. It'd be great to have XMonad for OS X fully supported because once you get a good config built up it's hard to beat. And if you know Haskell it's even better.
Omnisense – Experience
Or possibly one accident. We don't know what happened to MH370....
I guess "cash them" means "turn the speculative good into money".

The "What is money" section seems to agree (when leaving out the word "only"):

"The real difference between Bitcoin and a national currency is that national currencies are backed by governments, whereas Bitcoins aren’t really backed by anyone other than the miners."

So, the thing that is backed by governments is money, the other thing is not.
The secret world of Jump Trading
Discussion from a few weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7982514
I appreciated this quick analysis. Do you have any book recommendations that describe your method/calculations/thought process in more detail? Thanks in advance
What deep experience with hardware? Yes, there was a company called IBM that had a lot of hardware experience, and there is currently a company called IBM. But most of the parts of IBM that have deep experience with hardware got sold off to Lenovo.
why the move from ansible to chef?
> Seems a bit silly looking in from the outside that you'd spend seven years building something that's clearly worth selling, then refuse to sell it.

Building something that fits your needs and releasing it to others as open source rather than setting up a business to sell it is, if "silly", a common form of silliness without which there wouldn't be much open source software at all.
Satoshi most likely has a stash of several thousand Bitcoin that were mined using a standard miner without their tell-tale finger print. (Something about the odd nonce distribution with Satoshi's coins gives away his main set.)

Also when Satoshi left the development team in 2010 he could've been mining normally like everyone else, and he could have easily amassed 10,000+ Bitcoin in that time without it ever being linked to his early 1,000,000 coins.

I think it's likely Satoshi has cashed out millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, just not from the pile of coins everyone is watching.
I agree! That was an easy-to-read explanation of Poisson Distribution.
You can totally write XMonad as a Hydra config or extension. Honestly I expect someone to do it any day now, considering how fun it sounds.

If anyone tackles this, please submit it to https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra-ext

EDIT: I forgot that this would require the events feature, which is planned for the 1.1 release. So not all of XMonad is possible in Hydra yet, although most of it is.
He may possibly be referring to just getting familiar with C, since there is a lot of stuff you must worry about with C that you may not be used to with higher level languages (such as having to manually manage your memory allocates, etc).
Yes, but Drunkenmiller "Broke the Bank of England"

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

When he speaks, he's probably worth listening to.
"Biased" isn't the opposite of "objective", unless the bias has to do with the observer.
How To Send Cold Emails, including an actual example
Ask HN: What changed with HN that it now uses page numbers?
I noticed that URLs on HN now use page-number querystrings instead of the fnid identifier (or whatever it was called).

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask?p=2

What changed?
I'm not saying it's not working. I'm making descriptive statements, not normative ones.
My recollection of the punched card days is the tyranny of the Data Processing Manager - the keeper of the gateway to the computer.
Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect tasks
Two Approaches for Bootstrapping Scalable Products
"Why are you not charging money for this?"

Just because we're posting in a temple of Mammon doesn't mean everybody has to bow at that altar.
You messed with your third link.

I've read it and I'd say that Steve Yeggie is making generalizations about static type systems using greatest common divisor of them all: Java.

He attributes the need for patterns to OCaml type system, where they aren't needed, for example. Or assumes that you need all interfaces up front.

Both those assumptions are not true!

I think SY is good at jealous humor like his post about "academy found an software engineer who cares about Haskell". That's his natural domain. I believe everything he writes is homorous and jealous, that way I don't have to think he is just plain stupid.
I see one can also edit the page number in URL to jump around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=12
I don't think mass shootings can be considered to be random events, although they probably occur in clusters - I think that's due to the extensive media coverage.

"Why does a psychiatric expert on these phenomena personally advise mainstream media outlets about how to handle these situations - and they do exactly the opposite time and again?" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stc42j4Nz2w
I think full numpads only make sense on 17" and above. There's no reason not to have home/end/pgup|down though, all of my 15" thinkpads have had that.
Looks like a beautiful app. Quarterly though? That doesn't seem to jibe with typical content consumption. I would likely forget I had this app every 3 months.
This just makes me embarrassed to be English. What were the Tories thinking of? They claim to be trying to save public money by cutting down on arguably essential services and then they have MPs trying to get the government to spend public money on complete rubbish.

We even publically fund homoeopathy which is a complete joke. It's just awful and then they have the audacity to reduce funding for things like mental health care.

Words can not describe how stupid this all is.
Looking Backward (10 years of Rails)
Open Source Responsible Disclosure Framework
This is most excellent! I've been very curious about this stuff, but never had the time to research it. Thank you!
Great example, I like that. I started realizing that many instructors don't necessarily have an intuition for the topic they're teaching, and it's often up to the individual student to seek it out. I'm hoping to do more stats concepts down the line, this is a nice analogy for why standard deviation is defined as it is.
Is this project open-source, under some open-source license? Back when we saw it a few weeks ago, it looked like it was an open-source project, but now it looks like you're charging money for it... but the source is on GitHub?

Could you clarify the license / money situation?
If person A buys a share for $1, then another person must sell a share for $1.

A year later, if person A sells a share for $10, then another person must buy a share for $10.

At all times, someone is always holding the money created by the Fed. The money never "went in" to stocks. Sure, the valuation of the stocks changed, but the aggregate money supply and the aggregate stock ownership never changed.
FYI not everyone wants to run this in "the cloud". I have a LOT of bare metal and want to deploy something like this on bare metal. Please don't forget us users who buy our own hardware!
Don't forget that FedEx and UPS are heavily reliant on using USPS's infrastructure all over the country.
I think this is a common misconception. While I am sure there are outliers as with any normalized distribution, the mean salary for clergy is about $45k/yr (according to the US BLS).
Yep. At the time it was still in beta though.
Is this only for websites? I'm assuming it just executes the dockerfile, and uses the run command. I have set up a hacky bash script myself to do this, but also use it for daemons which don't need to expose any ports.

The theory of operation page hints that if no ports are exposed, then the container isn't launched. It would be great if the following would be possible:

1) No ports exposed. Just run some software and that's it.

2) Expose one or multiple http ports with different domains for each.

3) Expose one or multiple tcp/udp ports, which get mapped directly to a host port.

I also can't see if there's any support for volumes, but if not, that also seems fairly important.

For what it's worth, here[1] is how I handled it, but the project is very sloppy and I do not recommend it's use to anyone since I'm looking to switch ;)

[1] https://github.com/r04r/dockah/blob/master/dockah.sh#L35 (reads a config file like https://gist.github.com/r04r/d5d0ea6506824e2cf6d9)
Krugman: Left Coast Rising (High housing costs caused by land use restrictions)
I agree. A few years after doing articles, I started seeing the power of historical context.

For example, the Fourier Transform was originally _rejected_ as implausible when presented to the mathematicians of the time. They needed a decade of debate to verify its truth, and yet we teach it to students in a week and expect them to internalize it without issue. We need to acknowledge the difficulty/counter-intuitive nature of the idea up front.
Perhaps, but if you've been at IBM for 10 years, 6 months of doing nothing but collecting your pay check probably sounds really good.
I interpret gchp as asking for suggestions as to projects of the appropriate scope.
Perhaps they are including Hong Kong which has a huge number of cable landings.
The Disadvantages Of An Elite Education
Dialog element: shipped in Chrome 37 Beta
Quick question: have you thought about porting this to sandstorm.io? Having a one-click "app-like" install would help out many less-technical church folks.
I think the FCC should get involved and ask the simple question of why can't ISP's use Netflix open connect .. as it seems that would fix a ton of problems the ISP are having with netflix incoming traffic.
slides here http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Gezira
MySQL Cluster 101
Portraits of America’s New Nomads
What exactly makes it specific to churches and not organizations in general?
Thanks so much, and for originally submitting the cheatsheet to HN. (I hope it helps people untangle concepts that confused me for literally a decade.)

I really appreciate the encouragement and hope to keep cranking as long as I can.
No, because if a crash occurs on both Day 1 and Day 2, then the next crash was on Day 1. The probability of a crash occurring on each day is the same, but the probability of the next crash occurring is higher for earlier days.
My first C class had Gameboy programming. There were no libraries to include, and most of the data manipulation was around scores and drawing pixels.

My second C class went into mutexes and things (producers & consumers of some data)

My third class that used C had kernel modules. Our kernel module project was to write a model of a parking lot. There was some user code that called our module saying whether it was a normal vehicle, a handicap vehicle, or an emergency vehicle. The parking lot also had 2 states, emergency or normal. In an emergency, only emergency vehicles could come in, everything else was rejected. The code ran with M floors and N parking spaces per floor, and returned the lowest floor in which you could park.

We also wrote an identical piece of userspace code, and compared how fast each performed.
It is a myth.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...
> you'd have to be a complete idiot to yield to someone who got there after you.

You'd be surprised. Or else the vast majority of drivers around here are complete idiots. They basically treat traffic circles like a confusing 4-way stop sign. It's infuriating.
People who choose to host via Airbnb should really research the laws in their area. This seems like a lack of foresight on the host in this case.
> I saw the "Install in the Cloud" option
> ...
> Unfortunately any church that wants to use this is going to need
> someone technical enough to handle the installation themselves.

I thought it would be awesome if that button would actually (eventually) result in setting up a droplet and installing the software for me. I think sandstorm[0] is going into that direction.

I guess one tricky part of such infrastructure would be maintenance. Optimally, a user could spin up a "church.io"-drop (or e.g. "smtp/imap stack + $antispam + mailpile"-drop) and never have to care about any updates. providers can offer subscriptions for regular (curated) updates of each "drop".

With such infrastructure in place, the curch-community could click said button, follow through some dialogs, enter a CC and 5 minutes later have their own instance + domain. timmorgan gets paid per install by the infrastructure provider (who profits on the long run through subscription-fees).

I think the concepts of unikernels and clive[1] fit well into this picture, by exposing a more concise resource/environment API to the developer and easing deployment (which would be a nice thing, even without the picture painted above).

[0] https://sandstorm.io/

[1] http://lsub.org/ls/clive.html
"they can't"

Yes they can. I already gave you the Italy->China example. I already said Bitcoin ATMs have fees lower than the worldwide remittance average of 8.5%. You initially said if the Bitcoin infrastructure and services are available that it "would not" make remittances cheaper. I am showing you it does. I gave you hard evidence. You gave me footnotes about a hypothetical service on a slide deck.

"are the same people"

No they are not. Do you not understand the market dynamics? A WU competitor who installs a network of Bitcoin ATMs has lower operational costs and overhead than WU (who has offices + employees staffing offices all day), therefore they have an incentive to compete and beat WU's costs.

Overstock: no you still have to wait longer before concluding anything. Bitcoin sales are somewhat detached. For example we know there was a spike of Bitcoin sales in Q1 because this is when they started accepting it, so a initial surge of Bitcoin enthusiasts purchased stuff in Q1 (I bought a $150 kitchen bin from them, haha).
MSFT does not have cubicles by the way. They try to give each employee an office.
Great work! Love the fast iteration; been using it since I found it on HN, and can't live without it.

Question: what does the license buy you? Are there limitations on usage or functionality without al license? Apologies if it's explained, but I couldn't find details on the site or github.
Original release post http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...
Wow, that looks really interesting. I've only taken a brief look, but I'll be sure to take a more in depth look at it this afternoon/evening when I get a chance.

I've been very surprised and pleased by the accessibility of graphics programming and the helpfulness of a lot of the communities built around it. It's been a lot of fun to learn and play around with. (Plus I get to use C and C++, which the masochist in me really enjoys for some perverse reason).

Edit: I actually couldn't help myself and ended up taking a look anyways. That project is incredible at least from the small amount I've seen so far. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say the project you linked to is the coolest web-app I've seen.
Gamasutra salary survey 2014 results [pdf]
If the left lane is going an average speed of 10 km/h, then I believe the right lane should drive at 10 km/h. Doing otherwise is being selfish and unsafe, with no global benefit. It feels weird, but it makes the most sense as far as I can reason.
Furthermore, Any reduction in the efficiency of electrical systems for (slight) convenience gains seems like a Bad Idea right now. If we were awash in clean energy (and weren't worried about thermal pollution) then ... maybe.
As one of those contractors myself, it's not just about defending economic interests.

For one thing, technical volunteers are one of the most infamous types: They arrive with a bunch of technical experience, the client goes "OH MY GOODNESS" and pretty soon the volunteers are cracking their knuckles, getting ready to start.

At this point, one of two things tends to happen: 1) The volunteer has underestimated their need for constant high-level stimulation and runs out of interest, or 2) the volunteer completes a solution that is a poor fit for any existing problems.

I once had a volunteer come onto a project and immediately suggest a variety of changes to the work I was performing. He told me how he had gone over my work to date (a funny thing that citizens like to do, and that's fine) and decided that he had identified problems A, B, and C in the system, so it needed to be changed to do X, Y, and Z, where X, Y and Z were all fairly obvious beginner mistakes in the ecosystem in which this was happening. I called the client and told her I would need her agreement in writing that these mistakes would be implemented, and I never heard from the volunteer again. What the client really needed was to make a high-level decision to do things the right way. Instead they had a "we can't do that" mentality and each decision was basically a small patch on some part of the system.

From my perspective, one of the wisest things a volunteer could do is identify and contact a current contractor for said government organization and ask them what kind of volunteer work would be helpful. By doing this they pair up with someone who has a deep insight into existing systems. Then the volunteer can go back to the government and say, "hey, we talked to the contractor and here's what we as volunteers think we can help with." Since you have to educate the client anyway, you might as well do it with the help of existing contractors. Of course, if the contractor is really a jerk about it, you've just saved yourself the headache of working with them.

I could easily come up with a range of non-technical to technical issues that affect my government clients and need help, and I'm busy enough that even a case where I lose work isn't actually that critical to me if the client is gaining an advantage. From working with a lot of volunteers though, I really question whether the follow-through on their side would be substantial.
MH370 is not among the three being discussed.
I started learning Ruby for fun roughly 6 months before the first release of Rails. Although I rarely use Rails today (more because I rarely work on full-stack projects), it paved the way for a lot of the Ruby community today. That was a lucky coincidence, but I can draw a pretty direct line between Rails and me making a living off Ruby, running two conferences in the space and having met a lot of awesome people in the community.

Most people don't realize how ground-breaking Rails was back then. It basically went against the common assumption that long up-front setup is just part of the project. I seriously had people complaining that they couldn't bill as much on small projects if that became standard. The 15-minute blog might be a joke today, but back then, it was an awesome way of showing that Rails focused on making things quick to start (I don't like to say easy, it never was).

I am also surprised on how much of the general concepts from the 0.x versions survived. Sure, things have gotten bigger and parts got replaced, but the general structure is still the same.

Thanks for all the effort and love!
Show HN: Rainbowstream – Twitter the geek way
Soylent has a specified volume of all the ingredients. It is meant to be sufficient, whereas food stamps being applied to snack foods in large quantities, because they are cheaper, is what contributes to obesity.
I wanted to copy the referral link to write my own tweet, but highlighting the link doesn't show up as highlighted (even though it really is). FF 30.
The Hewitt Actor Model and the Labyrinth of Metaphysics
No, I mean within the readme. It only served to confuse things.
Would it not have been more efficient to build a plugin for, say, BuddyPress?
Ask HN: Taking some time off to refocus my career, how should I spend the time?
I feel like it’s a fairly common situation among developers, but I’ve made it through my years since school being able to land good jobs without having to put a whole lot of thought into what I want to do or the big picture of my career. I’m lucky enough to be in a situation where I’m not living paycheck to paycheck, so I’ve decided to leave my current position in a couple of weeks and take a few months off to decide what I’d like to do next.

I’m wondering if anyone has tried something similar, or if anyone has any tips on making the most of that time.
"A survey found that three-quarters of doctors inaccurately estimated the rates of death and major complications associated with common medical procedures, even in their own specialty areas."

Is that necessarily an indictment of their math, or could it be want of attention?
Just check out the Original at http://speedspot.org and download the iOS or Android App. There you can find hotels, cafes, restaurants, etc. Bigger Database too. Still pretty crazy how the bad copy goes viral but not the original even if it's used by hundred thousands of people each month ... but hey such is life.
GENIUS' MABOO ON BITCOIN