skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to find your Uber passenger rating
I was told by staffers at Fermilab that it was once not uncommon for experimenters to stand in the experiment blockhouses and manually position detectors in the beam. Sometimes maybe even traversing the beam in front of the beam-dump. Not the main ring beamline of course, that would probably be fatal, but the at the Meson Test Beam line. Nowadays those areas are locked out such that breaching the area would shut off the beam before you could reach it. Of course, it was probably locked-out then as well, but now you'll be thrown off the premises if you break the lock.
Tartaric acid supplier in China
What's the difference between this and Fancy Hands(https://www.fancyhands.com/)?
Shanhong Chemical Co,Ltd was founded in 2007. We specialize in the production of fine chemicals and food additives which can be widely used in food, medical, chemical and construction industries. Our major products include DL-tartaric acid, L-(+)- tartaric acid, D (-)- tartaric acid, potassium sodium tartrate and many other tartaric salts. With years of development, we have been one of the major suppliers of tartaric acid in China.
SpaceX President Says Company Will Dominate The Solar System In 2100
Hmm yes you are right. I should be more careful with the tone. Yes, I was merely suggesting if all possible, try outdoor instead of indoor.

The point of sit ups and push ups is so you can stretch your body after you wake up. I have back problem and it helps if I stretch a little every day. For many of us here on HN, sitting down on a chair for several hours straight is typical and thus any body stretching is very effective. Both are pretty exhaust exercise.

For elders, one of their priority is to ensure bones are strong. They can drink milk, but in addition, outdoor (sunlight) and careful body stretching are necessary.
Well that's not necessarily true in the sense that we have no idea what was before the big bang. Time as we know it did not exist before the big bang, however there could've been almost anything before and it doesn't affect our universe. (Except in certain theories where brane collisions could possibly have driven the big bang, in which case the specific type of collision does matter etc.)
got this fixed. thanks for the heads up.
It may not surprise you to learn that I don't spend all that much time worrying over my "career path", or "earning potential", or lose any sleep whatsoever over what some hiring manager or recruiter makes of me. Despite this, money and employment has never even remotely been a problem. My broader point is that obsessing over these career metrics subscribes to a very narrow worldview of what constitutes success, and there are a great many people in this world who exist outside this paradigm who lead rich and fulfilling lives. You certainly don't get any such notions from articles like this one.
> Because I picked the units myself, these data points end up nicely aligned.

You're cheating a bit by using a logarithmic scale for both axes, and you're especially cheating when you go from 10^6 to 10^9 in one tick on the x-axis.
Someone has, actually [1]. Dozens of people also seem to have at least partial implementations.

[1] http://imessageonandroid.com/
Ask HN: Startup Weekend, is it worth it?
I'm curious, what was your experience attending startup weekends.

I've attended one in Italy a while back (when I was pretty new to startups, and didn't know any better) and frankly my whole experience was a bit underwhelming. I've met some interesting people, but overall it consisted mostly of entrepreneur-wannabe-i-heard-cool-kids-do-that audience. Also, it was quite poorly organised (so much to the stereotype about Italians).

Anyone had better luck?
Wikileaks was engaged in a violation of that democratic country's democratically created laws against the distribution of classified information.

The rule of law goes both ways.
Ask HN: Where are you hosting images and what are you paying monthly?
Given the offerings from Microsoft and Google, curious which devs are still using S3 for image hosting. Costs will obviously vary based on usage but just curious about the range (for both total and per image).
What conventional wisdom is that? The standard for warm up is 5 minutes isn't it? And a standard work out is 20-25 minutes as far as I'm aware. You can do a whole work out in 30 minutes.

My runs are 5 minutes warm up, I spend those 5 minutes walking to get from my house to a park, then 20-25 minutes running around the park (c25k plan) and then 5 minutes of walking back. You can fit that into almost any part of your day.
My post is not the conventional wisdom, hence I expect the downvotes. But hear me out.

I said investors, not an individual. There are a lot of professional investors who full time investigate a company, in fact Wall Street is full of them. Do I really believe that you (or I) am better informed about a company's future prospects? Why do you believe you are smarter than they are?

Consider (again) Amazon. Why does it have such a high P/E? That is hardly evidence of short term thinking. Why did Microsoft, for the last 10 years, have increasing profits and a shrinking P/E? I submit that investors were pricing the stock based on their estimation of the long term value of the stock.

A CEO once told me he was organizing his company around short term results, because "that's what Wall Street wants". The stock cratered shortly afterwards. He fooled nobody but himself.

Let's put it this way. Give us a list of stocks you believe are overvalued because foolish investors have bid the price up because of long term sacrifice for short term results. Eventually, the chickens must come to roost and the stock must collapse. So I must ask, have you shorted those stocks? Are you willing to bet your own money on being smarter than Wall Street?
The "McMaster Studies" showed similar, that short sprint/rest interval training (30 second sprint, 4 minute rest, 250% of VO2 max) was equally effective as moderate long distance (90-120 minutes of 65% of VO2 max).

http://jp.physoc.org/content/575/3/901.full#sec-19
Can someone name a single time something like this has happened?
This implies that private use of a system like Stingray should be legal and completely fair game. I somehow doubt the government would agree with that.
Someone is probably playing fast and loose with terminology. There are apparently a number of optional capabilities.

https://info.publicintelligence.net/Harris-SurveillancePrice...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/meet-the-machines...
This is more or less how the Royal Society started.

Academia should now be considered a conglomerate of business corporations, dedicated primarily to increasing profits and income and cutting costs.

Like other corps there's a trend towards increasing perceptions of value by marketing mediocre products and experiences to death, rather than providing actual social value with products and relationships that are truly inspiringly awesome.

So I don't think the current model is sustainable. It won't collapse next week, but I'd be surprised if we're still here twenty years from now.

As for PhDs - in my own area of interest the tenured people are pretty mediocre (believe me - I've worked through their papers) and most of the innovation and invention happens in industry.

So, there's no obvious benefit to spending the money. As it happens I earn enough to do research part time - no special resources needed in this field - and I'm getting a lot of satisfaction from making my own way for my own reasons.
Insertion sort is faster for already-sorted data.

(Note: I am not advocating to use insertion sort!)
added this to the article in the "Todo" section. thanks for the feedback.
The same way there can be unlimited bandwidth?
It just gets real slow if you turn out to be an "abuser"-:)
Yes. Widespread deployment of nearly-free power would save a lot of households a lot of dollars on heating, cooling, and electric costs. It would save web hosting companies a lot of money. After a few years of additional electric-car development, it'd save them fuel costs too. It would go a long way to solving the California drought (desalinization becomes much more attractive).

All that money could be spent on something else that's actually meaningful instead of on oil-extraction infrastructure and the fortunes and lifestyles of Saudi Arabian oil princes.
Definitely. The goal of the graph was to provide a visual metaphor, not to be accurate in any way.
Jarvis, spend 14 minutes coding this project. And take good notes, I may need you on this again later.
I also don't think that law enforcement should be permitted to lie to get private information.
I'm using s3. Curious to hear what others say about the competition as well. Thanks.
Funny, I been working on a very similar concept
SSH with two factor authentication
This game is fun, and cute, I like it.

One problem with puzzles of this type though, the structure of the problem leads to the solution. If you simply play with the mechanism for re-ordering boxes, you can 'brute force' the solution fairly easily.
If someone modified the database and deployed it publicly (or as part of a webapp that was deployed publicly), they'd need to share the modified source, yes. AGPL is roughly GPL but where the traditional definition of "shipping software" is expanded to include deploying on a network.

My guess is that they have two motivations, both of which are fairly traditional GPL motivations: 1) sell AGPL exceptions to commercial licensees; and 2) prevent a competitor from making a private commercial fork, where the competitor improve the DB and licenses their version to clients, without sharing the source to their improvements.
This could be a step in that process, but in the grand scheme of things required to compile one language to another, the mere front-end parser is not generally all that significant a portion of the effort. The vast majority of the effort would be the bug-for-bug compatible implementation of PHP semantics and base libraries and functionality.

("Bug-for-bug" here does not mean that PHP has a lot of bugs per se. What it is is the highest level of compatibility. An emulator of a game console strives to be "bug-for-bug" compatible, for instance. Programming and programming languages being what they are, anything less often turns out to be surprisingly non-linearly less useful, i.e., "80% compatible" isn't anywhere near "80% useful".)
And therein lies the problem with the whole lean movement. You can never truly invalidate an idea. You can only invalidate your 'lean' implementation of an idea which may or may not have been the actual minimal viable product. It's quite possible the implementation you executed is too minimal. In this case, I think that's exactly the case. The founders have an interesting idea that would appeal to a good chunk of HN readers but we're all put off by just how minimal the implementation is. Unless the founders are reading this thread, they'd easily be duped into believing they invalidated their idea based on their low conversion rate.
Somewhat similar: during the early nuclear bomb design work, people would sometimes perform criticality experiments by hand on plutonium cores. There were, naturally, accidents, with two people dying immediately and several others dying years later likely due to the radiation exposure.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Reminds me of this article about hosting a CDN on digitalocean for the dash documentation software.

http://blog.kapeli.com/a-poor-mans-cdn
Predicting where you're from by how you write
> Stylus is great. Compared to Sass, I think it’s easier, more or equally powerful

In what ways is Stylus more powerful than Sass?
> They're fair game at that point. Though the 11th Circuit disagrees (another example of judges not understanding technology?).

While I respect the fact that you have a different opinion of a lot of those here on HN, I think that perhaps the 11th Circuit disagreeing isn't a case of them not understand technology, but understand the implications of the technology and the law surrounding it. The 4th amendment as written probably doesn't cover things like phone-calls, and I agree that the internet as it stands isn't particularly conducive to keeping your private information private. However, with the fact that our entire lives are lived online at this point in 2014, I think it's a good thing that the 11th Circuit is looking at this holistically, as frankly I'd rather the spirit of privacy is kept. I'm also a big believer in building technology so that privacy isn't even a question, but merely a consequence of using it -- but as it stands today, everyone in the country is leaking their information everywhere and don't have much of a choice in the matter unless they're willing to leave society entirely, or join the Amish.
Even the domain's WHOIS has Enom's Whois privacy service instead of an actual company contact listed.
It's a cultural difference I have noticed across a lot of copy evaluations. But you chaps sure seem sensitive about it.
More advanced transformers even handle direct transformation of library calls to "native" library calls in the target language. I think it's mostly things that try to take advantage of syntax that is already pretty similar - Processing.js transforming from Java to JavaScript, for example, that decide it would be easier to do a relatively simple syntax transformation and then implement some sort of wrapper for function calls (as you describe) than to do a potentially more in depth and complicated transformation.
what about a Go compiler written in Go? is it bootstraped already?
Terror Prosecutions and Muslim-Americans
Apple Featured My Game, Here's Why I Changed It
Funny that Facebook is citing the time when they used to have more privacy options. A bit late now. Business model changes would have a better chance of regaining lost trust.
Fast Food Everywhere (music video)
Marc Andreessen, Serial Entrepreneur
I must admit to being ignorant of the specifics. My brother in law is a pastor, and he mentioned that he tithes/donates by CC because it is tax deductible. He used to teach accounting, so I am sure that he understands the system.
Another option, at least in the United States if you're a citizen, is to do contract work for the Department of Defense.

Step 1: Acquire STEM Ph.D.

Step 2: Get a job with a DoD contractor.

Step 3: Profit!

A short look at job options in academia disabused me of pursuing that option. Working twice as hard for half the pay? No thanks.
Unfortunately, there are thousands of sites for booking out there, although honestly, most of them just use Expedia's rebadging API. I don't think the software is worth anything. If the site has any level of traffic, though, selling the site can bring something in (although by someone who will just throw out the software and drop Expedia in to take advantage of the traffic) and there are sites for selling sites/projects/businesses.
or you know, if your concern is cost, go with cdn.net and pay as you go for a kickass global cdn network

full disclosure, I have no business or personal connection to them
Unless your fusion technology is able to work directly in transport vehicles there will still be a need for petroleum based fuels for a good while. EV battery technology isn't there yet for people who need to use cars for more than commuting and running a few errands around town and isn't likely to ever be viable for uses such as long haul trucking, rail, sea, and air transport.

Even if you completely replaced all electical generation with fusion sources (something that would take decades even if fusion were a viable replacement today), we'd still need a lot of petroleum.
When does this magical tipping point arrive?
Flippa is probably his best bet, but you'll usually only get a couple hundred, depending on the site's ranking and traffic. Better than letting the domain just expire though.
That was the first thing that popped into my head. I have been thinking of rejoining fancyhands as I get busier.
Jarvis is the long-time butler of the Avengers mansion. That's where they took the name for the movie.
I seem to recall neo4j (could be it was another nosql db/company) had some strange ideas about the agpl. Of course if the drivers are covered by agpl and linked into your application, then you might have to create a new api "border" (eg:HTTP REST) between whatever code you want to license differently and the agpl server. I don't think the agpl should be a problem in most cases - at any rate you don't have to contribute patches up-stream, only to those of your users that ask for the code (if any). Unless upstream is also using your service, that is.

A perhaps more interesting question is how they manage contributions and pull requests - if i'm using the server under agpl, it seems natural to contribute code under agpl. But now that code can't be used in the commercially licensed upstream "fork" unless that fork is sold under the agpl... So either contributors will have to donate code, or sell code to upstream for use in the "closed" project.

I could see that get a bit hairy with user-contributed bug fixes?
Dude, I don't think the Target comparison is apt.

People say the enterprise cloud market is a Trillion dollar opportunity world wide in the next decade.

A Trillion dollars up for grabs, and Amazon has a healthy lead in the segment.

When you go to an AWS event the thing that stands out is the number of consulting and service companies that offer integration/application services to enterprises based wholly on AWS. I've been to Google Cloud events and its not even in the same ballpark as AWS. The Amazon lead is huge.

I think Amazon is still a good buy.
Are you AUTOMATING MOUSE CLICKS? I really like it, but I'm seeing some bugs here I can't even describe.
Would you consider supporting OpenAnnotation or similar efforts from W3C?

Cold-start: convince a site with an existing audience to promote it.
Facebook thinks "Privacy" is controlling what your friends see.

Controlling what my friends see is the least of my concerns on Facebook.
Tried it. After 3 requests, all of which would have taken less than the prescribed 15 minutes, was told it wasn't the right service for me. Great idea, poor execution on MVP unfortunately.
Why do Americans stick at Math?
this is dope, got a 4.8
Another vote for Amy & Brian brand, FWIW.
String Theory is only more popular because there are ted talks on it and thus people who shouldn't hold an opinion on the matter do.
Nice hack. I imagine using it to see if a driver gave me a good rating or not based on the delta between my new score and old score.
I'd like to hear / learn more either as a future customer or if you need help with tech or bd, or just to throw around learnings.
See, I need to hire a personal assistant to deal with email, but I'm afraid of doing the remote PA thing because I don't trust them with my email (and that's a whole other issue since that's the job I need help with) and this idea is appealing, except, as others have noted, I have no idea who this company is. What their business model is. How they make sure my personal details and payment stuff is secure. That this won't just wind up being an easy way to phish into my life.

Nope.
"Meet Jarvis, Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps"

Then when I click on Live chat:

"We're not around, but we'd love to chat another time."

Well that's a bit concerning.
Go isn't bootstrapped, but there are parsers for go written in go in the stdlib. http://golang.org/pkg/go/ast/
it seems like 2 years is the average time that founders stick around after acquisition.
Got all 35 - I did brute forcing with a few rules:

1) Don't worry about the colors at all, because you can usually shuffle them around to get the right order.

2) If there's a particularly cute combo, it's probably part of the solution.

3) Work out the most likely last few moves, going backwards from a winning position.
Obviously Facebook wants people to feel comfortable so that people will share as much as possible, even if it's within a closer circle. (Facebook is still recording everything about you, and might tap into more intimate info this way.)

What might be less apparent is that this is a great way to make a news feed more relevant to people. By having posters self-select who sees what, it reduces noise and make's Facebook job easier for determining what content is displayed in the feed.
5.0 (I've never used the service - so it looks like it's all downhill from here...)
What was the nature of your requests?
This isn't really the lean process though. Lean implies you've done proper research prior to releasing a product. If people are umcomfortable with signing up then this isn't an MVP and not indicative of how the lean process works.
As would be China, Russia, the UK, and Australia. I'm a proponent of splitting a business up in to parts like Sharman/Kazaa did. Getting out of the current DNS system using something like Namecoin would be even better.
> It's in the HN title, but it's not on the site

We took it out of the title for that reason.
Hey - even Jarvis needs a Jarvis!
Yeah, I'm also on r/math. The saddest thing to see is the periodic repost of jobs for math degrees. It really is sad to see, and it reminds me of why I was often depressed as an undergrad. It's hard enough that the courses are challenging, but wondering what all this hard work would lead made it even more depressing.
Nice. For tutorials like this it would be nice to see more details on the "how" of each step. For example:

"We setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..."

That's great, but it would be nice to see:

"Using the geodns web-based configuration tool, we setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..."

or

"Running <insert full command line here including tool and all options used here> on <insert environment here>, we setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..."

or

"By editing /etc/<file> on the <some environment>, we setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..."

In other words specifics are always really great to include.

But still this was a really great writeup, not just for the overview it gives of one lightweight approach but for the comments it has kicked off.
That's interesting, thank you. In practical terms, what does ACID provide that compare and set does not?
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Ah yes, because FreeBSD hasn't offered their help already.
First I've heard of OpenAnnotation. I'll look into it. Thanks.

As far as overcoming the cold start, I'm looking not so much for marketing ideas, but for product or feature enhancements that would be valuable to users immediately, without a huge number of other users.

Google search - useful for 1 user
Facebook - theoretically useful for a handful of friends
Twitter - useful for a slightly larger network

Words doesn't have friend/follower mechanisms -- it's just not the nature of the product. The intention is for users to interact with each other as they happen upon the same content. It's a dynamically-changing social graph. Unfortunately, this means the critical mass of users is definitely north of 100k, probably higher.
Woah, I'm pretty stoked to see someone link to my ruby implementation (neé Grubby).

It seems like the authors of Golang believe that a lot of problems with languages (refactoring, updating code to work with new libraries / versions, etc) can be solved as parsing problems. Hence, Golang has a lot of good tools for parsing text.

They even ported yacc to Go (via Plan9). http://golang.org/cmd/yacc/
lol, that's a great idea.