skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I participated in a user study for terminal, although it was a modified version marketed toward a specific use case. We came away quite disappointed in the product, primarily because it didn't include most of the community-provided features/functionality provided here on their full site.

Needless to say, we all walked away from the meeting, hit terminal.com and were puzzled as to why they didn't show us this version of the site. Our opinions/feedback would have been drastically different.

I'm looking forward to giving this version of terminal a proper run through. The overall concept I found very interesting.
There's always a winner but many many more losers for active portfolios in general.

The research shows that the passive index tracking approach very convincingly beats actively managed portfolios net of taxes and fees.
The 100-year old underground electric wires running under the street where I work have caught on fire three times in the past year. Something tells me our archaic infrastructure has quite a backlog of existing chaos monkeys to deal with already.
A big steel box full of batteries and solar panels kept mothballed in the basement sounds like it might be a good idea.
At my day job we generally will bundle small procedures/scripts into a simple webapp with either flask or express.js. For our backend systems, we're looking into rundeck to allow non sudoers the ability to restart a system service. That might be potentially useful.

It seems like there might be a niche for a "Delphi for the web" stack of reusable components and standard backend systems.
A day in the life
What does your average day in the life consist of? Whether it be: Work, side projects, sports etc.
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It seems much more likely that the grids around critical infrastructure would be taken offline, but major metropolitan areas would be left connected. In a TEOWAWKI scenario, we would expect a government to prioritize its military capacity ahead of the comfort of the civilian population. Also, the riot and crime risk would heavily weigh against any actions to take cities offline, not to mention the PR nightmare of being wrong.
Overdrive is great when they have something I actually want to read.

Sometimes I can get a book I want from my local library and I'm willing to wait, but their selection isn't always the greatest beyond the new bestsellers.

Kindle Unlimited sucks too because they don't have titles from the top publishers that actually put out interesting books.

So yeah, my only option most of the time is to purchase.
Why we should validate ideas? Why being lean is difficult? Our story
Why not just shortcut the shaded panels dynamically, reducing the overall resistance?
If a program is only doing a simple calculation and it's still running an hour later, you should probably suspect an infinite loop and not wait for it to stop.
I think he/she meant that now the bitcoin addresses can be tied to an individual, as this app is running on mobile.
Yeah, OSX is good but it still has problems.

. chooses 2.4 over 5
. not automatically connecting to my mobile wifi even though I use it all the time
. simply tries and fails to connect over and over and over .. I have to stop wifi and start it, and then it just works.

My 2013 Air has had three updates including firmware that mention wifi fixes but it still has problems.

OTOH, my Fedora 20 install has been behaving beautifully (though to be said in far less challenging environments)
So can Planet Labs tell us where MH370 has gone?
This seems to be pretty close to what Popcorn Time does, and apparently does it very well. Their site says they already select individual files, so I imagine a 'sanctioned' Netflix style offering would be technically trivial to implement. This whole thing is just a reflection of the open internet/what went wrong debacle where all of this money that could be going to the content producers is instead spent on several layers of network, hardware and technical service providers that a small group from Buenos Aries has demonstrated is unnecessary if we could only, actually use, the network. But we can't.
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I guess "destroyed life as we know it" is awfully literal. It means that "life as we know it" is "electricty costs 22 cents a kilowatt hour and GPS exists".

Yes, the power grid could have blown up. We would have then paid more for electricity. (It's unclear to me if the effect is global, or Earth shields the nighttime side from the impact.)

Satellites would probably stop working. So air traffic would have to use VOR/NDB/DME instead of GPS. Ships would use LORAN. Weather forecasters would use radar instead of satellite (a problem during hurricane season).

This headline makes me angry. It's not like we would have been instantly vaporized. Some stuff would be less convenient until we rebuilt it. That's it.
Show HN: BitStore (iOS Bitcoin Wallet App)
Well, the problem is really that the network isn't even connected properly in the first place. I agree that it shouldn't behave badly while actually on the network. It's just odd that madly hitting refresh while wifi is reconnecting actually gives me a sooner and faster page load than letting the machine load by itself. That means there is something can be automated but unfortunately isn't being automated.
Hey guys! We made this bitcoin wallet app, since we were unhappy with the current options. I would love to hear your feedback!

Some key features:
- No Account setup (start using immediately with generated wallet)
- Secure (keys stored on Apple’s Secure Keychain, we don't see them)
- Fast (native, data cached)
- Send / Receive coins
- Push notifications on transactions
- Multiple currency support
- Offline use
- Contacts
- Passcode (plus finger print authentication in iOS 8)
- Frequent updates (iterating everyday)

Coming soon
- buy/sell coins
- beautiful new design
- merchant integration

We are also looking for seed funding, so any tips/referrals would be much appreciated :)
Bad title jamessun.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.
It's an interesting tool.

The Google NGram Viewer can do much the same thing, and it's nice to see that the graphs do match up.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Great+War%2CWo...
Rant: Why no commas?
I have been using computers for many years and I always assumed output would become easier to read. But I still see numbers like 69882139 everywhere. How am I supposed to know if it is approximately 7e6, 7e7, or 7e8? What is wrong with showing 69,882,139 or 69.882.139? And why don't all languages allow this syntax in constants? It is just as hard to type it in correctly as it is to read it.
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GHSSWA, KAİNAT VE YAŞAMAK
All apps should be native. Who needs browsers and JavaScript?
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Yes, the power grid could have blown up. We would have then paid more for electricity.

Many people wouldn't be able to get electricity at all. Sure, you can buy portable generators, so having the power grid collapse isn't automatically a problem -- but there aren't enough portable generators in the world to power everything, even if we had the necessary quantities of fuel on hand.

So air traffic would have to use VOR/NDB/DME instead of GPS

Assuming VOR/NDB/DME stations had power and hadn't been set on fire by induced currents during the magnetic storm, sure...
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The links for up voting and down voting are notoriously too small for mobile. For this post, I made sure to zoom to max so I could make 100% sure to upvote rather than risk the alternative.

"Life as we know it" is a valuable idiomatic phrase and we should protect it as such.
Still, a full "remediation" suit (for dealing with old remodels or crawlspaces) including very fine vapor mask, very thick gloves and a full-body coverall can be had from 3M for ... $80 or so ?

I cleaned out a hayloft of our barn recently with far more protection (hanta virus) than what is being described here.

Who can I mail some 10-packs of 3M protective gear to ?
How we feel once we got our first backer on kickstarter
I've immersed myself in abstraction for the past several months leading me to believe that when you gaze long enough into abstraction, abstraction gazes back. It's been mostly visual abstraction on canvas (acrylic, enamel, oil), and fiction, both collective prose and spontaneous prose (stream-of-consciousness-type).
Lockheed Martin Will Use 3D-Printing to Keep Up With SpaceX
Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory mapped register and you were set (sort of).
Wow, that's a new type of hipster startup cred. "We're post-web". All joking aside, I'm guessing startups like this play in a space where people (gov. contractors) aren't really impressed by a website.
I think you might have gotten it wrong?

I think it (Swift's internal/default) is more like "package-private" in Java.

It looks almost exactly like C#'s internal:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173121.aspx
Actually they are hopin a lot of it will be eliminated - you set a series of limits and vendors can be selected automatically.

Seems dubious I agree
Fusion does not have the same problems as fission does, they are very different. A fission plant produces radioactive waste that needs to be transported to a safe site and then stored for thousands of years. In the case of fusion only the reactor becomes radioactive and is harmless after about 50-100 years.

It's also a lot safer if an accident should happen. For the fusion reaction to work you have to keep the plasma hot. So hot that if it touches the wall of your reactor fusion will stop due to cooling.

One of the reasons people are looking to get fusion going is to replace fission, gas, coal and oil based power plants. So when promoting renewable energy sources we have to look at replacing all of those with solar, wind, tidal, etc.

Today about 6-7% of the total energy need is covered by renewable sources so it would require a substantial investment to do that. The investment needed to research fusion isn't as large and promises a much better solution that has the added benefit of not requiring a certain kind of terrain or weather.
>>no mention of potential mitigation strategies

The biggest risk is if you think of it on the very long term, staying on earth is like risking it all on staying on one rock. There are far too many risks, and there is little you can do mitigate them on the long term.

The long term solution is to invest money to build technologies to develop inter stellar travel and related technologies to settle humans outside earth. And that really wasn't that difficult to achieve. The problem is we haven't made serious attempts beyond the moon and mars missions. The funding is too limited, and there is no political consensus around the world to work towards these goals. We have become far too busy with wars, conflicts and other pointless spending on earth. While we could have used the money to do something like this.

>>Can you imagine how disastrous this would be?....

It can be far more disastrous than you imagine. Loss of electricity and water are just primary effects. There are many secondary effects of these scenarios. No electricity means you can't pump out fuel. Bulk of your critical production[Food/Medicine/Sanitation etc] Will come to grinding halt because of inter dependencies. Expect mass starvation, riots, loss of law and order kind of scenarios. There will likely be powerful groups controlling critical resources required to survive.

I wouldn't say its a extinction scenario. But it will come pretty close.
For me, it's meant getting into bangkok is no longer a game of "will the protestors block road X today" and "oh hey it looks like the police can actually enforce a few laws when the army tells them to".

I wouldn't tell people not to come (for a holiday or work) but I am also aware that western media loves to sensationalise things so many people would reconsider coming.

My parents sometimes get freaked out by their local news with stuff like "army coup in Thailand!" Followed by no other news about it.

I was a bit nervous the day it happened, as I had read about very violent clashes after the previous coup and had no idea what to expect but it's largely just life as usual for us.
Communist leaders face political discipline - ie. dissatisfied people may strike/riot/rebel, and your competitors within the political establishment will take advantage of your failures.
Very clean and effective. I personally don't mind having a system store my information but the whole json download and upload to open the file again is very creative. Currently I'm using canvanizer.com for their lean canvass (it allows me to share read-only versions with others). I'm also thinking of getting something like leanlaunchlab.com or leanmonitor.com to help in keeping track of my hypothesis testing. Any plans to expand on what you've made so far?
So... technically a kernel bug was fixed and revealed a bug in Docker.
> We would have then paid more for electricity

With the current power grid structure in most developed countries, this would not be an option: some components (such as large transformers) in the current grid would be destroyed by a large CME event and it would take years to replace enough of them to restore the grid.

> Ships would use LORAN.

That would be difficult since LORAN doesn't exist any more; it was taken off line years ago when GPS became widely available.

> Some stuff would be less convenient until we rebuilt it.

As things stand currently, some stuff would not exist until we rebuilt it.

I certainly think we could get to a point where a large CME event would only be an inconvenience. But doing that will require redesigning significant parts of our infrastructure to be much more decentralized, and having plans in place to replace key components quickly. We are not at that point now.
No power grid = lots of difficulty getting fuel into vehicles = much less transport availability = very, very serious problems for modern societies. Reduced transport capacity isn't just reduced ability for people to get to work - it's also reduced ability to distribute food.

You'd also have people panic-buying at supermarkets and hardware stores - but without the ability to electronically transfer money... you've got a lot of public panic to contend with. Food riots, crime skyrocketing. Lots of ugly stuff would happen before you would be able to do much manufacturing to recover (and most manufacturing these days needs a lot of power...)
> as I mature as a programmer I continually see JavaScript as a pretty awful language for real programming

Not sure what the author means by "real programming". Is this opposed to "fake programming"?

The more I mature as a programmer, the more I appreciate JavaScript's flexibility & readability. This allows for some useful idioms to manage complexity on large & intricate codebases. I like these dynamic idiomatic architectures as they tend to be flexible, evolvable, & under complete control of the programmer.

A module system (like commonjs) helps as well.

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Meta note: Both this article and http://www.thehackerati.com/blog/2014/07/22/in-defense-of-br... seem like simple conversation starters.
China-based developer allegedly steals, publishes Indonesian games
I agree. Although reading some of the comments on WaPo makes me happy to be on HN.
I bought a Netgear wifi-to-ethernet adapter when I switched to Linux. For desktops, it's an ideal solution: zero-maintenance, the computer just knows eth0 has a connection from somewhere. It has a web interface to set up connections. The only downside - and this doesn't matter for most desktop users - no monitor mode, no reaver, nothing related to wireless at all, because as far as the OS is concerned, it's wired.

For laptops, there are always plenty micro-sized USB adapters with known compatibility if your built-in wifi has bad or no drivers.
If you have line of sight and can use fixed beacons whose position is known apriori, ultrasound is a good bet. However, if you need to track multiple objects within a defined space, things get tricky with ultrasound. Also, if 100hz is a strict requirement, ultrasound is not a great option due to issues such as signal attenuation in the environment.
Sense, a New Sleep Tracker with a Kickstarter Campaign, Has Raised $10.5M+
There's a big difference between someone's pet project language, or even an industry leader's new language in the ether, vs. the next crowned prince of an existing ecosystem.

Despite being backed by Google, regardless of how finished or unfinished Go was upon release, there was no impending pressure that you would someday more or less be forced to rewrite all your existing code in it. Thus the early adopter pros and cons were pretty clear.

This is not the case with Swift. At least if you take Apple at face value, Swift is the future of the ecosystem, which creates kind of a confusing landscape. Whether or not you should be writing your new app in Swift is a hard question. Whether you should just stand in the sidelines and not bother until Swift is more settled is a hard question. Swift is simultaneously in early adopter phase and industry requirement. As such, it is more than a little strange (arguably bordering on irresponsible) to make such a huge announcement when most of your own framework teams had never even seen or tried the language. I don't think there would have been any harm in getting internal feedback from your primary consumers before drawing a line in the sand to the general public.
Avengers 2 : le film de super-héros fait parler de lui en Angleterre
China to require real-name registration for app developers
The author of this completely neglects that the browser is not just an app runtime -- it was also originally (and still is) a knowledge source to download information. Where do I go when I want to find out the Seahawks' 2014-15 schedule? Research information about my car to make a DIY repair? The browser as an app runtime is a relatively new development IMO and webpages are still very important.
Contact MSF or the CDC and ask them what would help.

Don't make assumptions on what would help most from what you have seen in a press photo.

They may well have dressed down for the photo to encourage people to go along to the screening.
"If there were a period of about a week where no symptoms arose, then the virus would become significantly more deadly."

This is precisely the problem with the new Ebola Zaire strain: the incubation period varies from ~3-21 days, during which the patient may show no symptoms yet can spread the virus. And since Ebola Zaire's mortality rate is 60-90% (early estimates were on the high end) this is an epidemiologist's nightmare.
Approve!

I don't understand why Average Joe thinks he can beat investment firms long term with staff dedicated to tracking each and every tradeable asset. Who do you think you're trading with?

If you want to gamble on a company or a market shift then fine, but for the most part that's just what it is - gambling.
To think of primary scenarios is a wrong way to think about it. We may not get blown to ash. But production of much of critical stuff[Food/Medicine/Sanitation] requires electricity these days. There is absolutely no way you are going mass produce and sustain food production for the level of population we have on earth, by using old stone age techniques. And this is first secondary effect. Food needs to transported, processed etc. How will all this happen without electricity?

Image what would happen if there is no electricity in the military. Which is such critical functions like that will get bulk of the available supply, leaving very little for everything else.

We may not go extinct, but given general shortage of food, struggle for resources and break down of law and order. The world will be a very different place.
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On one end you have google trying to popularize Chromebooks and on the other you have this guy trolling his office with the notion that we don't need a decoupling between the personal OS and the interweb OS anymore.
I remember buying that for our Atari 2600 as a kid and being very confused that it was different than Super Mario Bros.
> If any one country developed such technology could they keep it to themselves?

I sure hope not because they shouldn't. Fusion has the potential to solve many environmental problems and since those problems typically don't give a shit about borders keeping it to yourself would be stupid.
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FWIW, someone for whom the Gervais hierarchy is interesting or novel is almost certainly in the Clueless category. The Sociopath reaction to hearing about it is "Goddamn, this is going to result in some hassles when getting people to do what I want. I better discredit or minimize it." The Loser reaction is "Well duh, I'm surprised this is news to anyone. I'm going to go over to my friend's house now."
The spirit of the idea is good, but it would not work well for hardware. With software, if something breaks, you restart the servers. With hardware, if something breaks, you have to buy a new one. Throwing chaos monkeys to see which transformers blow up would end up quite expensive. :)
They did find the treasure in the end though. :)
Alex later admitted to some exaggerations and mistakes after being scolded by Eddy.

See the response:
http://www.thehackerati.com/blog/2014/07/22/in-defense-of-br...
>> (although probably not C)

C has good survival characteristics. The other language that I expect to last 1000 years is Javascript.
“Truefilm photo app for iPhone throws a variety of specialty edits into the mix”
The phrase 'life as we know it' usually means "humanlike intellects made of meat", not 'comfortable Western lifestyle'.
The relevant department within NOAA is the space weather prediction center, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov (beta site: http://origin-www.swpc.noaa.gov).

I toured their facilities in Boulder, CO a few years ago (I develop a satellite data product, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11207-014-0529-3, that is used in forecasting). The forecasting is done partly with numerical models, partly with observational data, and partly with old school intuition and experience. It partly involves a small group of grizzled experts sitting in front of a bunch of monitors displaying images and time series.

They are trying to automate it as much as possible and bring in new data sources, especially near real time data sources, from NASA and NOAA satellites. It's too much to go into in the scope of a comment, but suffice it to say that, with as many photons as the Sun puts out, you can gather a lot of information about the entire 3D solar atmosphere and magnetic environment. One day, these measurements would feed a forward model of the same type used in terrestrial weather prediction.
So, you don't like the Javascript language, therefore web sucks? I'm no big fan of Javascript myself (so I'm gradually switching to Dart), but really, that's a lousy argument. Web is essential. Some apps are better be implemented natively, true. But most don't need that. And it's a great win for developers too, so you don't have to re-implement stuff for different platforms.

I'm not even sure the author is being serious at this point.
The rise of "apps" on the smartphone is a validation of this idea. Why is there a Facebook app, when it can provide no information without an internet connection - for example.

The real message seems to be that we still have very poor default security models for desktop OS's.
What kind of small business fits that profile? I'm having trouble imagining a business requirement that calls for filling an entire hard drive every month, only to destroy it. Is this for something like banks (mentioned on your website) where 30-day record keeping of sensitive data is necessary? What aspect of the data disallows them from simply reusing disks?
OK. Can you make android apps run on my Windows laptop?
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