skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a registered voter for 20 years and only called to jury duty once, and that one I missed because I didn't open the envelope.

My only hope is that I could keep my goddamn mouth shut long enough to actually get on one.
I was hoping this would be an article on how movies always lose money even with record box office.
Nvidia quadruples display resolution by stacking two cheap LCD panels
Dejanews was a mistake. Searchability is a mistake. Social stuff should be a message-space, not an archive. It should be ephemeral; if you want persistence, build a webpage or store the messages off locally.

I've only used Netscape/Seamonkey, and it was much faster on Usenet than any Web interface.

Usenet was a vast improvement over everything that followed.
Certainly, the "just buy the cheapest MGPI rye" meme that is springing up around this story seems like the wrong take-away. Angel's Envy != Templeton.
AngularJS vs. EmberJS – A collation of all the resources
Awesome Unity: A curated list of awesome Unity assets and resources
There are so many issues raised here that it hard to know where to respond.

1. Once area we could stop is useless data-mined correlation studies that show statistical significance (assuming you ignore that data-mining has occurred) between action X and outcome Y - the sort where a retrospective study of 500,000 nurses finds that eating candied peanuts reduces prostate cancer by 15%. The rule of thumb in any of these studies is that unless the effect is 300% or greater (smoking and lung cancer is 1500%) then the result is certain to be garbage.

2. We need less “novel” research and more replication of past results. The whole scientific system is set up to reward novelty over accuracy. It is so bad that unless I have seen two independent groups repeat something I doubt it is real no matter how famous the group.

3. We need to reward being right over being first. Right now groups rush papers out so they don’t get scooped and so don’t check their results as well as they should. I would personally like to remove the date off all scientific papers to stop these silly games - after all if something is true does it become less true just because it was published last year rather than last week.

4. We need to reward people who put the effort into replicating work. A simple proposal would be to give publication right to every group that replicated (or could not replicate) a study in the same journal. If some study is published in Nature and you go to the effort of replicating it then you should get an automatic Nature publication.

5. Stop scientist from holding on to raw data. In theory scientist are supposed to share their data, but in practice this doesn’t happen very often. It should be possible to report groups that don’t share data to the funding bodies and if they are found to not be not sharing (or only sharing some of the data) then the group is banned from getting any new funding. It would only take a few banning to stop this immoral data hoarding.
Yes. Because secret court orders and censorship strengthen trust in the proper administration of justice.
Is Pinboard still maintained by just one person?*

(*)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474
Can honestly say I was nt expecting that at all. Thanks!
People also started downloading binaries in earnest, which made ISPs want to get rid of the NNTP server.
I'll elaborate further on the "just abolish it" idea: let each airline manage its own security. They have every incentive to balance customer experience with meaningful security.

Especially if you leave them open to civil liability in case they are negligent and bad things happen with one of their airplanes.
Why I Left Indie Development
From my understanding, that code is just a verification that the password you entered to decrypt your wallet was correct. It works by testing one of the addresses in the wallet (verifying that the secret key matches the pubkey address).

If one works, they should all work. If they don't then the wallet file is probably corrupted. So it'd be a nice check for corruption but doesn't seem to have much of a security implication.
Yes. Sometimes not even one!
It seems likely that the individuals named in the order are likely to be brought up in the case.

If - as a totally fictional example - allegations were made that the RBA's Note Printing division attempted to bribe the head of some fictional nation, that would almost certainly damage Australia's international reputation, especially if people within Australia later attempted to cover that up.

Does the public's right-to-know outweigh that damage? Clearly the court thinks not.

I'll just leave these links here:

http://www.afr.com/p/national/probe_sought_on_new_rba_bribe_... (Note that the Saddam/Iraqi link is a separate case)

http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/sena... - look at page 370
Just a decision tree with a probability of transitioning to a branch?
You missed the main holy grail requirement: open source.

Nothing closed source can be trusted.
It's a cool thing, but why does it keep turning up? The Copenhagen Wheel was invented in 2009 and refreshed at the end of last year in a crowdfunding project. And just today an editor pitched me on the idea that e-bikes using this or other methods were about to blow up. E-bike makers have been telling me that for years...
My commute is 12 miles by road (8 straight-line); it takes about an hour on public transportation, or about 45 minutes by car.

Every so often I think about a Segway or an electric bicycle or Acme rocket-skates or what-have-you. But nothing is ever cheap enough to let me try it out and not be extremely unhappy at wasting money if it doesn't work out. If they came with a 30 day no-questions return, or could be rented for a month, I might find something I like enough to buy.
Big Picture: Conflict continues in Gaza
It is due to the fact that all the Australia states were once sovereign nations and each state’s “supreme” courts existed before Australian federation. The same exists in the USA with the state supreme courts.
That too :) Either is nicely snappy.
It's by far the best "corporate" Twitter account I've ever encountered.
Depending on your application I can see where you might still want to clamp the result. However, I think you're right in this case since the clamped range doesn't make much sense here.
Really – Sarah Palin has her own Internet channel
I am convinced that most weight-loss diets that succeed (even if only for a time) work because they limit you to a subset of foodstuffs.

The diets substitute "have willpower to eat less of everything you already eat" (which doesn't work for most people) with "limit yourself to this palette of food that you will get bored of very quickly", which people seem to do better at.
Might it be that the new crop of greedy MBAs and investors on the Street are colluding, trying to find new and quick ways to extract lots of capital and make themselves wealthy by pumping up tech stocks?
If it is the sort of thing that attracts eyeballs, especially eyeballs of a niche market, then Sponsorship / advertising is probably a good way to cover costs. I've seen other suggestions for using adsense. You can make some money from it, but approaching one or two big advertisers directly is way easier. You will make more money and offering exclusive coverage on your site for the cost of your servers a month is a true bargain for them.

Also, there's a saying that I think is appropriate to mention here: "If you aren't paying, then you're probably the product". Facebook is a very good example of that.

I also agree with other comments that you can probably reduce your server costs if you hunt around.
+1, and also uses zrtp
Welcome to the new suburbia.
I have heard good things about the "Bad Data Handbook", though I can't vouch for it personally. Recommended by a co-worker I will get to read it eventually

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024422.do
I of course didn't say anything about their obviously outsized valuation, but I have to play devils advocate on the profit levels. I fail to see how tracking at a likely $5 billion in net income for fiscal 2015 is not immense. Just the $3.2 billion they'll likely do this year is immense.

That puts them in the top 200 global corporations in terms of profitability. That is truly immense - especially for a 10 year old business (that has only been a functional business for maybe five years).

Take for example McDonald's, they do $5.5 billion in profit. Who wouldn't consider MCD an immense business? Facebook will catch them in two years.

They're tracking a similar profit level as: Aflac, Metlife, Traveler's, Deere, Rio Tinto, Caterpillar, Inditex, Lockheed, Gilead etc. These are incredibly massive businesses.

HP did $1.2 billion last quarter. Facebook will catch that basis within four or five quarters at the rate they're going. HP is a 75 year old company.
"Engineered random". Sam still gets a better deal flow than most of angel investors are out there, so even "meh" companies with high risk have passed some initial filter.

Any angel investor without the name or brand recognition gets much worse deal flow plus the companies subject to negative selection bias, as they've been rejected by sama, SV Angel, YC, etc.
Ask HN: Favorite talks [video] on software development?
I'm (re)designing a course on software project management which has morphed into a survey of agile approaches, scrum, version control, DevOps, testing, and other pieces of the modern software development business. I'm looking for recommendations of videos (TED talks, conference presentations, lectures, whatever) that I can add to my syllabus as recommended viewing on each of these topics. Can y'all help me out with some recommendations?
I've glanced over your paper just quickly, so I'm not sure whether I missed something: Did you analyze why your 24 threaded CPU version did so much worse in a few cases than the single threaded version? Did you use OpenMP without a defined thread affinity on a multi socket system?
> The same exists in the USA with the state supreme courts.

OTOH, a real violation of expected semantics occurs in the New York State court system where the ultimate appellate court is the "Court of Appeals", the trial court of general jurisdiction is the "Supreme Court", and the intermediate appellate court between the two is the "Supreme Court, Appellate Division".
To say this is a rival is a bit overstated. It costs $299 versus the Pi's $35. Sure, it has more features (1GB RAM, QC CPU, etc.) but the price tag immediately puts it in another class.
Cute that you say that we have one of the strongest separations between courts and the government, given what Queensland's government has been doing to the court system here. There's been a fair bit of press [1],[2] about the friction between the current government and the court system, due to the state government trying to bend the courts to suit their political desires (examples include the election of an allegedly biased chief justice, the VLAD laws).

I'd agree with you normally, but it seems that the federal government is following the Queensland state government's lead in trying to manipulate the courts to their favour. I dearly hope we see some stronger push-back against that though because the separation of courts and government is one of the best things about this country.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-21/queensland-premier-cam...

[2]: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/barrister-quits-o...
A random buy is likely to be smallcap-biased, as there's simply more of them.

Smallcaps performed quite well over the past decade. Same strategy would not backtest with the same levels of success during any period.
Help Us See Grandma Soon
> Whereas there's no upper limits on Sam's investments.

There's no public company with a valuation above $1 trillion, so there's an implied upper limit in practical terms.
Okay... but actual animals do way better:

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_the_secrets_of_nature_s...

As a rule of thumb, any walking robot that uses servos can't approach the performance of its animal colleagues. The leg impedance is way too high.
If you have ever had the “pleasure” of being called up for jury duty then you will quickly see that anyone thought to have more than half a brain still functioning is excluded. I have been called up several times and been thrown off as soon as my title was noted (not that having a Ph.D means you have half a functioning brain).
SAVE Act Would Chill Online Speech and Innovation
Don't confuse Pinboard with Pinterest, which is thousands times bigger.

Pinterest active monthly users: 60 million

Pinboard active monthly users: 24 thousand
You Might Be Inspiring Someone Without Noticing It
Two national courts actually, there's the Federal Court too.

Then you have all the specialised courts, like the Family Courts, the Environmental Courts, the Court of Disputed Returns and many others that I can't remember off the top of my head.

And before the 1980's, you could technically appeal a high court decision to the Privy Council in the UK in certain circumstances, although I don't think that was ever used.
It was a stupid thing to add to the release - it not only attempts to smear Abbot, it is also borderline racist.

However, I'm not sure you can characterise this as a left vs right issue. Assange attempted to sue (former Labor PM) Gillard over some of her comments too.

While I'd probably agree with your implied view that Assange is "of the left", his political views don't align completely with many of the principles that right-wingers think the left holds. For example, his well-known suspicions of the role of government are more closely aligned with the libertarian viewpoint (which is often seen as right-wing).

I'd be more comfortable saying he is socially progressive, libertarian on government, with unknown economic views.
While it's true that courts have held that open source licenses are enforceable (or at least not held to the contrary), I presume this is because of the specific way that each license is crafted.

Since the license wants to be enforceable, it goes out of its way to create a contract. Are you saying that the simple statement "Use this as you see fit" would also be held to be a contract, even in the absence of consideration? If so, why all the convolutions and verbiage in the current licenses?

And getting back to disclaimer of warranties, what about the absence of any stated license? Do you feel that a disclaimer of warranty is no more or less necessary with a license than without?
The "ground contact" parameter while walking sounds functionally very close to the "proprioception + pain" parameters for animals in a hobbling situation. An animal (me, specifically) quickly discovers a hobbling strategy by experimentation and a continuous sense of pain levels.

I think that pain will become a major part of the design in learning robots of the future.
Ask HN: How do I sell my business?
I've got a friend (no, really) who owns an office equipment business. He has about 5 employees and has a recurring income of about $30-40k per month. If he sells more, he can make more, but that $30-40 comes from existing contracts.

Problem is: he wants to retire, but doesn't know how to sell the business. If he puts an ad in the paper, three things will happen:

1) his competitors will start hounding his customers and slowly eat away at them, and

2) his customers will probably get spooked, realizing he's closing and eventually move to competitors on their own

3) his employees will probably leave

The company is worth something. He's got a long history, with many original customers and a solid recurring revenue. How can he put the business up for sale without disclosing what the business is and scaring away his existing customers?
you could pick any of these options if they met the legal requirements. That seems to be the hard part.
Yet another reason for my home country of Malaysia to be in the news, and not in a positive way.

Malaysia, what happened to you?
From what I understand, he is such a lovely guy.

"I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated, maybe that's because I'm a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won't be."

“Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.”

“Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.”

“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”

“Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.”
Interesting. Are colo prices generally that high in the US? May I ask what's included at 600$ for 2(-3?)U of rack-real estate there?

* What level of support do you have (can you call someone at the
DC at 4am and have him hot-swap a failed HD for you)?
* How many shared or own gigabit or 100mbit uplinks are included?
(if >1: can do bonding on your interfaces?)
* With how many other servers do you share the same circuit-breaker?
* I guess you have at least 1 UPS + 1 non-UPS power supplies?
* exceptionally good peering?
* network/power SLA?
* 24/7 access to your server?

I worked for a DC in europe some years ago and i'm genuinely intrigued how the price in your spreadsheet for colo-hosting is so much more than what i was used to (~100-150$/U).
About how much were the AWS expenses before moving to your own servers?
On the backend:
Linux | Node.js | Bogart | Postgres/MySQL/Couch | Redis/Riak | Ansible

Frontend: Various JS libs | LESS | Bootstrap | Bower | Gulp
Your points have NO relevance to this attempted association to high-level international corruption.

Can you provide any relevant information/arguments?
> It was a stupid thing to add to the release - it not only attempts to smear Abbot, it is also borderline racist.

Exactly my sentiments. Adding in commentary like this immediately weakens the broader points, which is unfortunate.
You are lucky. The whole process is incredible inefficient and wasteful of the potential jurors time - call in 100 people and make them sit around all day in the court house just so you can dismiss them all because the defence lawyer wants to play games. Shakespeare was on to something I think.
Exactly. The latches on a briefcase. This is atextbook patent for 'a common real world thing, "But on a computer"'
This is pretty cool, thanks for putting it out there.
Yeah, I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I should trust all my bookmarks with a guy who seems to have a knack for disappearing alone into strange corners of the world. Even if he is occasionally protected by a company of tanks and a Hind helicopter :)
Of course, by creating multiple mutable references to the same object by unsafe transmutation (which must be explicit, naturally), you have violated Rust’s invariants. But in safe code you cannot do that, and even doing it in unsafe code is not trivial, though it’s not excessively difficult either.
I think I just mean that a testable unit is a good heuristic for when a piece of code should be pulled out into a separate module. Put another way: when there's enough functionality/complexity in a given function that it needs to be tested independent of the public methods that use it, it's modularizable.

This probably isn't categorically true, but it's served me pretty well.
Do you have numbers to prove it? Because... to many of us, it seems that by far the largest indicator on whether you will make it to the 80th percentile, is if you started there.
Excellent points all around! As an indie developer myself I've had to learn these lessons the hard way.

I'd also like to throw in one additional point: Selling apps up front for $0.99 is a bad idea. It makes it look and feel cheap. The average user doesn't see any difference between $0.99 and $1.99 or even $2.99 anyways, it's all under the "impulse buy" threshold. Scale up the price to something respectable, you won't lose any sales[1], which means more money in the end.

Oh and here's one additional data point, if anyone is curious: we made a mobile game called Big Action Mega Fight![2] It came out earlier last year, initially as a free-to-play game. We worked hard at it, iterating on gameplay and pushing several content updates. In the end we got plenty of downloads but no revenue. The F2P model had never really sat well with us anyways so we ended up pushing one last big update and switching the business model back to premium and making more money in the process :) [3]. In my humble if biased opinion, the only reason we got any money at all is because the game stood out visually. Anyways I could go on... I'm happy to share more if anyone is interested.

[1] http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/12/stats-99-cent-apps-arent-sell...

[2] http://bigactionmegafight.com/

[3] http://toucharcade.com/2014/07/25/big-action-mega-fight-succ...
it's always reminded me of an apt door chain lock.
Silent circle
I have set up a number of silent circle accounts to only use within the circle, but have had a few problems getting them to work properly, SC have said they should run fine on any network when used on iPhones but we are having problems, they also say they should work without wifi! Is this true, because although ours do from time to time, its very rare they work without wifi, and even with wifi we still have some problems, especially with 3 and ee network.... Any ideas anyone ??
Exactly what is it that you think Palantir's products do?
Hardly. Even if you are worried about personal privacy, why on earth would less accurate spying ever be preferable to more accurate spying?
Free Alternative that exists since since 1996!!! It's much faster and browser independent. Based on "Proxy Auto-Config". It blocks most ads really well. Having a referrer- ,cookie- and ua-srting blocker also comes handy. Ad-Block Plus or anything else won't hide your personal details that your browser submits.

http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/
In the case of FTL, the Kickstarter campaign was a marketing campaign and a very effective one.
Show HN: Purge – A disk cleanup utility
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I never ran the site on AWS. Here's a spreadsheet from 2011, when I was running the site on leased servers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au7yiR802qQmdHU...

I had to change providers numerous times that year for various reasons, hence the confusing number of services.
I'm not 100% on the art/polish, but I really like the idea; I think it's good enough to warrant a bit more attention on the design side.

Very cool concept and I can imagine kids and adults alike being able to get something from it. Going to download it now. Best of luck with it!

Update: Downloaded and played it. Definitely needs polish but the basic mechanics are good. With a bit more gamification of the progress through levels, I could see this being an excellent little game for a kid especially.

Red and green making yellow might confuse children though whose mixing experience with paints would have them expect brown?
Hexiled looks great! The graphics definitely stand out (especially the space theme). I'll play it tonight. Best of luck.

I do think the OP's apps look a little too much like Letterpress. If I had seen them in the App Store, I would have dismissed them as a ripoff and have never given them a chance...

Also, the font in the Letters app doesn't look as professional as Hexiled, Letterpress, or SpellTower. Even in the app icon, the letter L's font weight varies, and the 2 feels italicized in a weird way. See: http://i.imgur.com/MV2SAQK.jpg
I'd be interested in this as well. Is it D3?
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