skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be a lot more interesting with data about private bus locations interlaced with coordinated time.
You can always contribute to the GNU project.
Docker Sells dotCloud to cloudControl To Focus On Core Container Business
I would also like a torch formfactor with android. The closest I have come was my old experia pro.
No, the new IE6 :) like back when IE6 was king. Meaning that web developers make their site work only in webkit and screw the rest of us.
Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python
The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Helps Power Apple
Or, say, Befunge...
fyi - had to delete previous post due to link issue
In light of some of the lawyer-equals-adversarial comments above, I should clarify: definitely don't tackle your partners with a lawyer. What I'm suggesting is hire a lawyer you like / you get through a trusted recommendation to read things from your point of view, then give you advice at the present time.

A good lawyer will present things as they stand, but also let you know where the line exists between asking for what is fair and pressing your case more strongly / becoming more adversarial. They will leave the choices to you, but they will inform you well of the spectrum of choices that you have.
I do think there is a lot more work to make this practical, but one could deploy a TCP stack that "learns" the right congestion strategy, much as was done by the experiment. While it'd burn more processing power, that is comparatively "affordable" to make an efficient TCP stack.
They do. http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/10/silicon-valleys-real-estate...

From a broad climate change perspective, is it really so good that SF and New York are contributing to faster population growth in the South/Southwest, where water resources are more scarce? And cities are less dense, facilitating more driving and consumption of gas?
Reminds me of how deaf people can "listen" to music with a sheet of paper or a balloon in their hands.
Fish live in a totally different environment than we do. We create an artificial environment for them to live in. If we're too cold in the house, we can readily imagine that the dog is also too cold. If we have insufficient oxygen, then the dog may well have insufficient oxygen. If our air is filled with toxins, then of course the dog's air is filled with toxins.

We have little or no direct concept of what the environment is like for the fish, and, without studying it, we don't inherently know what their environment ought to be. Superficially, fish live in water, so it's easy to assume that we can toss them into any body of water and it's fine. But of course that's not true. And the details vary amongst different fish.

EDIT: I think also, people tend to view fish as decorations. Or more to the point, aquariums with fish are decorations. You have to maintain them similar to how you have to water houseplants. The fact that they are animals and not plants might be seen as a minor detail.
Very interesting project, with curious stories and results that can be used by all of us. Very well done!
Agreed, I wasn't suggesting a serious theory, just that it would be an impressive social hack that could be pulled off.

I think a lot of these "Internet Vigilantes" would probably fall for it.
*deaf people ;)
This is neat. For others interested in this sort of thing, https://challenge.synacor.com/ specifies a virtual machine, and comes with a binary that performs a self-test -- it is perhaps a neat way to get started.
This article seems to side-step the Bioethics questions. It seems as though giving the treatment may have been unethical, and probably was only performed because it was in Liberia, as opposed to on American soil. I am concerned with the article's early statement, that the treatment"can work effectively," because that does not seem like an appropriate thing to say at such an early point in trials.
Facts, fallacies, fears, and frustrations with human pheromones (2004)
Yes. It feels philosophically unfair to complain about, but I want a Windows Phone emulator for OS X. Of course, Windows users don't get an emulator for iOS either, but Apple has popularity on their side.
I've tried to work out of a coffee shops in my hood from time to time and find that, at least on weekends, you have to wake up really early to score a spot in any of the several within reasonable distance. If I ever find my "secret spot" it wouldn't make sense to tell everyone about it, but then again maybe this kind of system could help dissipate that kind of congestion?
Man, I feel like I'm going to be really negative, I hope not, but here goes: OKC is undergoing an oil boom, the secondary effects of which are being reported in this article (IMO). My advice: come live in Oklahoma or Kansas if you actually like it here and want to be here for a long time, because when the boom dies, you'll find it harder to leave. Opportunities abound on the coasts. Texas, well, Texas is always a great place to live and work... they are almost always the exception.
One has mixed feelings about linking that piece, because the series was already such a hit on HN. But you have to -- some may not have read them.

At some level, the truth or falsity of the proposition, "the betta feels trapped", is irrelevant, because we find what we need in the piece.

The most relevant part is the section titled "My betta", and here's a teaser:

"I had taken to lying on my bed and watching my betta for an hour or longer. The betta was the sole occupant of the tank in my bedroom. I had filled the tank with plants and copious natural light, so the effect was calming and serene. At times I almost envied the betta for the nice home I'd made for him.

"One day, after the betta had been in his new home for several weeks, I found him exploring. It was a most unusual exploration, and one that I will never forget.

...
Where exactly is the difference between "knowing your place in a hierarchy" and "knowing who is stronger and who is weaker"? Seems to me like two different ways of expressing the exact same thing.
Yeah, exactly. We think of them as merely "decoration" not living creatures. That's why when I saw them die due to a mistake it really affected me. Sure I knew those fish in the living room that were swimming around were live animals but until they were prematurely killed it didn't completely kick in. Then it made me question societal perception. People get fish and kill fish probably just as much as they get fish and keep them alive...

I think it was also the fact that I noticed they were dead before she did. If she just said "oh crap the fish are dead" to me I wouldn't have the same reaction.
This talk was submitted to a conference which literally requires exclamation points to be in the title. So that's where they come from.
Either way it's a superpower.
Some papers of Per Martin-Löf
the Female chart is interesting. I guess companies are actively seeking more females (and bees).
Hi Michael, you wrote a whole post about varnish cache management without mentioning hit-rates! How effective was all this? How many of that 23K req/s did origin have to handle?
Looks like HN traffic overwhelms once again - I'm getting a 503. The cached copy isn't particularly helpful since many of the main site images don't display.
I misread "shut down" instead: thank you for correcting me. Still: people respond to incentives and turning down an idea like that and letting the employees know that… this is an incentive and it may have lead to some results. So the question still stands.
My GRANDMA, THE BEE KILLER (Boom Boom)
Why Manage the Good, When You Can Coach the Best?
They do. For example, UBS is moving 1,000 jobs to Nashville.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2013/08/ubs-to-bri...

However, These things take time. It's a big risk to move your company to a different place. It's a even bigger risk if you can't hire people in that new place.
damn it! lol
It seems kind of like a last ditch effort. According to CNN, the speculation is that the death rate is so high that there wasn't much to lose. It sounds like the doctor was conscious and involved in the discussion to administer the drug to himself and the other victim. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
This is ridiculous.

1) please find a better way to inform the app developer security vuln

2) please don't stereotype or discriminate designers. There are designers that are way more conscious and way more knowledgeable about general web security best practice than many of the HN readers here. Professional sites like Google can have XSS. Don't be one of those ignorant thinking XSS is easy to solve. I bet you just created a new account so you can tell the world how much you think designers are incompetent regarding web security best practice. I bet you are also incompetent showing your true identity.
I had the exact same idea.
Postgres Upsert (Update or Insert) in GER using Knex.js
Typhoon Haiyan's eBay Donation Visualization
There's nothing wrong with the app per se. However, there is something clearly wrong with it being as popular and valued as high as it is. A concept piece should not be worth millions of dollars and be surrounded with as much hype as Yo appears to be.

And while you're right about metacontextual information being a thing - that problem is not one that Yo actually solves. I don't see anyone saying yos are completely useless, but people have already been exchanging these kinds of messages for decades (they're known as emoticons and emoji.) In that regard the only thing Yo has going for it is it's UI.

Which, granted, may be a draw - but it's still not worth the coverage it's getting.

Also it's worth pointing out that "stupid" and "fun" can be overlapping sets. Case in point: Angry Birds. Clearly fun, also clearly kind of stupid.
As everyone else has already said, the design needs some work - the landing page, the sign up process, and the actual app. You should definitely check out some of the landing page templates and app templates at themeforest.net. At a minimum you can use these for inspiration/examples of attractive landing pages and apps.

I only played with the actual app for a couple of minutes, but it feels pretty solid...and fast. What did you use to build it?
Recovering speech from vibrations in simple objects
OK, refusing a visa because of your last sentences makes sense - i.e. to prevent you from "stealing" blue collar jobs from US citizens.

But in your first sentences, you describe quite self-sufficient/sustained person - who "steals" nothing from US people. He/she even contributes to US economy by living there - paying rent, eating food, etc... plus not using US social system. So why such person is not welcome then?
Mostly its the fault of us web developers. We started building mobile-optimized sites, and that messed everything up. Now every mobile-"friendly" site has bloated retina graphics and uses very specific and carefully developed layout mechanisms that abandon zooming, fluid layouts and graceful degradation, because, you know, it's mobile, so that stuff doesn't make sense there. If we'd all just done nothing, the mobile web would be in a lot better state than it is.

(My personal pet peeve is onswipe, the most horrible mobile experience ever imagined, always worse than the desktop site on the same device, and yet ubiquitous.)
So many explanations of the trust model involve examples of interpersonal trust, which doesn't help me understand what I presume is the common case: trusting depositary institutions to hold balances for you.

Let's say I have $10,000 in a Wells Fargo checking account. Tomorrow, they add support for Stellar. How does that play out in the protocol? Should I trust them for the full $10k in my Stellar client? Some intermediate value? Why?

Let's say that I want to cash out some bitcoins using Stellar. I'd find a Stellar gateway that supports Bitcoin, deposit the bitcoins there and trust them for the deposit amount. I'd need a USD gateway to send the funds to. Do I trust the USD gateway for the expected USD value of the bitcoins plus a buffer for variance in the price?

If I trust two gateways for the same currency, the network reserves the right to move balances between those gateways. Do these moves only happen if they increase my balance? Otherwise, why would I trust multiple gateways for longer than it takes for me to complete my transactions?

Conceptually, it seems like decentralized exchanges should already be winning over the Bitstamps of the world, but Ripple and Stellar have been so hard to understand and use as an exchange that it's easy to see why they're not. I'm excited to see what people build to solve that problem.
Maybe since the number of bees is going down, the demand and number of jobs available for the "worker" bees has gone up.
Yeah I saw the cancellation policy too. Crazy.

Interesting, I hadn't heard of the Amy's bakery thing...
That is what a hierarchy is; a way of storing data about which fishes are stronger and weaker.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131785
It's interesting that there's no mention of the role of the Internet and telecommuting in this trend. The housing market's changes are certainly dramatic. But it's also worth noting that there's been a substantial cultural and technology change each year making working remotely more achievable for a growing % of people. And many of those are higher paying jobs. And remote work isn't just johnny developer in his home office. Constant improvements in technology make it more and more viable to start your financial services company in a smaller location vs the North East. Of your health care focused company. Or of course your high tech startup. All this needs to do is account for an incremental 1% of the working jobs in your city each year and you can see what happens after 5 or 10 years. That's the tipping point of disposable income for your kayaking instructor to make a business out of.
This is a great question, thanks for asking.

For crashes, definitely submitting the crash report found in about:crashes helps a ton.

Checking the browser console for an error message + stack and pasting that in a bug + description of bad behavior can be useful.

Finally, in extreme cases you can enable all the devtools logging[0] and then run firefox while piping stdout into a log file. This is a firehose of information, but it should hopefully point to the part of the code base that is misbehaving.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Hacking#Enabling_DevTools_...
I second using ihackernews.com on mobile. It's got the UI nailed for this site.
Ask HN: I'm building a forum engine with Django, any advice?
To brush up my Python/Django skills (and given the sorry state of python forum software), I've set out to build a modern forum engine. Would love to hear any suggestions/advice on what to bring to the table.
You missed the part where the video's frames per second has to be higher than the audio frequency.
Eventually you will run out of available, qualified local talent and you will need to hire someone from a coastal tech hub. Only most Californians/New Yorkers don't want to move to Salt Lake City, or Oklahoma, or Houston, or anywhere else in the middle. The flag is the same but the culture is drastically different.
Yeah that's true, never mind.
No, this is not "beautiful, elegant, and simple". It's ugly, the login page makes me think of 2003, and it's completely unintuitive. I hate it when people call their program "beautiful", but usually they at least have put a modicum of design work into it.
I have been at least keeping my eyes open for almost two years. I have worked here for almost two years. I recognized almost immediately that this was a dead end for me, so I just turned the resume burner down to simmer.

I already have a job, and it pays well enough, so even considering the poor working conditions, I haven't seen any offers that would entice me to leave it. I don't really want to work with professional 3rd-party recruiters, and more than once I have walked away from a company that wanted to start negotiating salary before even inviting me to interview.

If this were San Francisco or Silicon Valley, I would probably be gone by now. But quieter markets seem somewhat less eager to hire anyone with less than exactly five years of experience, and are very reticent about paying anything extra for older prospective employees.

Aside from the job itself, I am getting so, so sick of modern software industry hiring practices. It seems like every person in every HR department is constantly keeping secrets and monitoring possible lines of sight from any hidden lawsuit snipers.
The opening offer reveals that the other parties are either naive or trying to take the OP for a ride. Either way, they've probably already forfeited any benefit of the doubt they might otherwise have deserved in negotiations.

That's not righteous indignation, it's just knowing who is sitting on the other side of the table when you're negotiating, and hopefully ensuring that you protect yourself accordingly in any final deal you agree on.
Agreed this was super OKC focused (almost felt like OKC planted story if it wasn't the NY Times!) but the data supports the fact this is a broader trend.
Why doesn't Microsoft just adopt or fork WebKit?

The world doesn't need Trident. The case for IE being mandatory in the OS died years ago, and the new direction Microsoft talks about taking embraces open source.

A Microsoft backed browser that ran WebKit (or even Gecko) would give their team a much stronger platform to stand on when discussing standards. It would also close the door on one of Microsoft's biggest black eyes; the stagnation of the web in the early 2000's because of IE.
Interesting. They don't show Android screenshots for comparison. Not the built-in browser, not Chrome.
Austin is big on that.
I agree, but it's useless at the beginning or end of routes as drivers don't depart on time.
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This might be interesting to people who are into this library. I've been working on a JS library that allows for manipulation of CSS properties on a character by character or a word by word basis. You can even use math functions for interesting effects (like applying a Cos function to font size character by character). The library is finished (and there is even a simple GUI) though I'm still working on documentation and examples. You can check it out here: https://github.com/emluque/generativeText
Although I'm curious to wonder where the profits go, they seem to be quite unclear about that:

http://hyperallergic.com/135700/homeless-fonts-are-a-feel-go...
Nice collection.

FWIW, the terse title made me wonder if it was a collection of not-used-anywhere (as far as anyone knows) fonts, for times you're looking for a really unique font (say, lest there be an unfortunate association-by-typeface).
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Hehe, that guy was my physics professor. He is a genious. Had a majestic beard as well. His stories and teaching methods reminded me of Carl Sagans style.

But his bot is quite annoying yes.
I know Google, Facebook, Apple, and others have been visibly increasing their presence in Austin. Apple was putting up offices across the street from my old apartment complex, and the scuttlebutt was they were adding 4,000-some-odd-employees here over the next few years.
The world might not need Trident, but it does need multiple browser engines.
An introductory guide to operating a draconian regime
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Well, maybe they made this rule in days when COBOL was in hype? ;)
>full water change

That's most likely the reason. You should have a filter and a bio-filter. You never change them both at the same time. The bio-filter harbors bacteria which neutralizes the fish urine. Yes, it will not seem 'clean' but it doesn't matter.
Anyway, you should change out the water a bit at a time. Imagine that the water is water in a glass. If you let it evaporate halfway, and add more water, then eventually that water will get cloudy as the concentration of minerals increases. Minerals don't evaporate, so that water gets more and more concentrated minerals. You have to remove about 10% of the water a week and replace it, to keep the water normal. You could also use distilled water, which I've had success in starting a new tank, but if you do clean out a tank, don't clean the bio filter and you need to let the new water sit for about 24 hours to let the chlorine dissipate.

>Change in chlorine?

Uh, there shouldn't be any chlorine in a fish tank. You and your roommate should probably look up fish care in google or something. The first link is to ASPCA and they do have good advice. I had an aquarium for several years, and if you don't know what you are doing, mollies or perhaps a plecostomus is a good choice. The pleco can survive pretty nasty water. However, they can grow pretty large and they would need a huge tank. They live about 10 years or more, so it's a big commitment. On the plus side, they will clean the sides of the tank.
Ebola outbreak: 1603 cases, 887 deaths and rising
Even in Texas, you have to be careful when the boom ends. I was in Midland/Odessa about 10-12 years ago (before the current oil boom) and it was a tough place to live - lots of closed businesses. The drilling firms had stacks of pipe in their yards, instead of out in the oil fields being put to use.

The folks who lived there were really down on their city, something you don't see all that often in Texas (how do you know someone's a Texan? Don't worry, they'll tell you). That was hard to deal with in conversation with them - they still had lots of advantages, but they wouldn't see them.
I don't get it. 0777 is already the broadest permission you can give. So what is this minimum required permission?

I haven't done much FTP or shared hosts since, maybe, 7-8 years, but I remember Wordpress has the same 0777 is bad practice for many years and hasn't changed.

777 is never a good option.

[1]: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Shared_...

Anyway, these days, for a couple dollars you can have a really really good cloud hosting service.
Actually, not that much from Susning could be migrated due to license, rights issues.

The creator of Susning, Lars Aronsson is very active on Swedish Wikipedia. As far as I understood him, the content he knew the rights to (his own) could be migrated. But since the wiki is a collaborated effort and Susning had such licensing terms most stuff could not be attributed and is stuck in Susning.
This substance should be identified, used to create a vaccine, and given to all who are threatened or might be, by ebola, at no cost to them. Just the human thing to do.
Yeah, those features are very new. IIRC, they were introduced in the snapshots for 1.8, so they haven't even reached the stable version yet. (Minecraft 1.8 is nearing completion, after ~8 months of development).

Once 1.8 is officially released, someone could create educational adventure maps. I have played some 1.8 maps, and the new features can essentially make Minecraft into a game engine for voxel-based adventure games.

Here's an example from earlier in the 1.8 dev cycle -- there are even more features now.
http://www.minecraftmaps.com/adventure-maps/mystery-of-the-t...
Security remains part of the IT organization
From their about page:

"The funds collected through Homelessfonts.org will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona." http://www.arrelsfundacio.org

And the director of the foundation responded in a comment on that article:

"All people who are joining the project with their handwriting were homeless people and now fortunately they have accommodation and receive the support of Arrels Foundation to go forward in their lifes." http://hyperallergic.com/135700/homeless-fonts-are-a-feel-go...
You missed the part where they proved that this is not required.