skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It says 14% of americans smoke pot. I think that sounds accurate. That is 44 MILLION people in case you were wondering.
>Some saw Exceptions as the advance in error handling we need while Go reverts back to error codes.

Just a note that Go generally uses strings for error handling, not error codes. This avoids the need to look up the meaning of each error codes in a table somewhere.
As a bootstrapped startup I was a bit skeptical of their pricetag but once I dedicated a full time person to train and exclusively work on it I've been incredibly impressed. Huge ROI and a strong increase in inbound leads requiring us to ramp up sales. Integrates well with Salesforce and they have a very rigorous onboarding program that must be contributing to that high burn rate. Glad to see a SaaS IPO in Boston stick around- they could well have been acquired years ago.
Foursquare was the only social-networking-y app I used. It provided a valuable service to me, namely 'remembering where I've been' which my brain is bad at. Then they decided to change everything and now I don't use it anymore.

Is there some alternative that lets me check in places (that isn't Facebook)?
Does ssh make sense for this sort of thing?
I'm hoping a resident atmospheric scientist and/or geologist will show up with answers. There's probably a very good explanation for the (electrical?) bolt of light that he saw at first and the green color of the night sky, and I'd bet almost anything that both have to do with submarine volcanic eruptions.
I'd love to see some Clickbait filters similar to Bayesian spam filters. My initial guess is that any headline with the word "this," second-person pronouns, and future tense (e.g. "you won't believe this blah blah blah") would rank highly.
There after any number of algo trading opportunities in bitcoin. In fact, Algo prop shops may be uniquely positioned to trade bitcoin as more established entities can't or won't.
An Overview of Kernel Lock Improvements [pdf]
wow such a good idea i am so glad this service exists to make my day a little better!
Yes and maybe not.

One optimization we perform now is to have a slow-path replay that does book keeping: logging updates, tracing dependencies, and performing dynamic type checks. But during this slow-path, a fast-path replay is generated that just re-executes the code while keeping book keeping constant (so no book keeping overhead), which is applicable if values just change slightly (e.g. in a physics simulation). See the paper for more details.
Choosing One from Many Items in Oculus Rift UI
I loved this bit from the TechCrunch article:

"The stock market has shown something akin to reticence in recent quarters when it comes to companies looking to go public that have large, sustaining losses."

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/with-money-tight-hubspot-lo...
Also notice the entire screen shot. Netscape on Windows XP in, best we can tell, sometime after March 2006.

Netscape. With an AIM launcher in the status bar. Accessing TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN resources.
How are currencies not commodities?
> Is Square not doing well?

Square reached too high a valuation off of low value business with merchants. They have burned through staggering amounts of cash, canceled high profiled products, and purchased payment-unrelated startups and made other changes. The high valuation they've had in funding rounds makes them an unattractive purchase because the business they have isn't worth what it would cost. To get new money they'd have to do something like foursquare did to raise money, which dilutes everyone's current equity to very little.

They probably can turn it into some kind of business but the growth has stalled, the equity employees have is at risk and they've all but lost the sparkle that excites the press when they talk about the company. They could gain momentum back, it's not impossible, and they have really, really good engineers and designers so that's a plus.
What do you dislike about EDGAR? I find EDGAR to be pretty good. It's easy to search and completely free.
does anyone wanna grab food tonight? city or west bay local plz not driving across any bridges. #plzstawp
The red/orange might of been the effects of a volcano. Just speculating though, since it wouldn't explain the lack of ash.
I'm not aware of many people using VirtualBox for server virtualization. That's where VMWare makes (almost all) of their money.

VirtualBox isn't better in anyway then VMWare - except it is cheaper. That isn't really enough on its own (and there are plenty of more viable competitor of zero cost is all that matters: Xen, KVM, etc etc).

OTOH, Docker is cheaper, faster, much less resource intensive, and less secure. That's disruptive, and much more difficult for VMWare to fight than another conventional virtualization competitor.
Considering lava cools and darkens almost immediately under water, I'd imagine it would have to be an incredibly epic underwater eruption (and thus, detectible) for that much light to make its way through that much water and project itself onto the clouds above that location. Also, the light should diffuse as it makes its way through water, air, and onto the clouds above, so the seemingly neat circles of light don't seem to match up with a sea floor-based light source either.
is beyonce feminist enough?
This bear surprises a crew on a photo shoot. You’ll NEVER guess what happens next!!
wouldn't we rather have more efficient tools like this than hacky-sketchy tools that can go too far?
It isn't talking about operating system compatibility.

It's talking about being able to use the same container technology on a "choice of deployment from laptops to bare metal to VMs to private and public clouds."
Wow, with a quarterly loss of $17MM, and having raised only $100MM, they really NEED this IPO to sustain operations at their current level.
I always wondered why Amazon never launched a search engine. The only thing I could think of was a fear of invoking regulation.
Definitely it applies to all kinds of writing, where a feedback loop is desirable, in order to establish a communication channel. In this class, the only thing specific to business writing, is that you try to establish a communication channel with a view to building a business relationship. Nevertheless, I believe there are types of writing where feedback is not desirable. When I write poetry for example, I would rather not hear from anyone who has read something I wrote.
And don't carry a card in your wallet that says "I have contraband," and don't tell the police, "I'll show you where the contraband is, kind and friendly officer" when he asks you about it.
I don't get the bit about "privatization." PACER is run by the judiciary.
Fungus Turns Ants into Zombie Booby-Traps
Docker has professional sales and marketing staff. Most open source projects don't because they aren't really businesses. ElasticSearch is a billion-dollar company; then there's Pivotal, Basho, Github, Mozilla etc., all organizations that have managed not just to become popular open-source projects, but profitable companies. Docker themselves raised $15m recently.
Wonder what a $207K racing simulator setup looks like?
In India, an App for Chats and for Keeping Secrets
Here's an aerial picture of fishing boats near Thailand: http://i.imgur.com/kvOF9nL.jpg

The pattern seems similar.
> I'd like to see serious engagement with the subject
rather than dismissal of the current state

It's not my realm of expertise, but from what I've gather the way capitalism works to maximize profit (price-cost). You achieve that by, maximizing the price or minimizing the cost or any combination of the two.

If you think closely about it, replacing humans with cheaper, tireless, less error prone systems (be that robots or robot-like humans), you score a double whammy. You maximize production AND reduce the costs.

> It's also interesting that circa the '30s, the
capitalist/democratic system was also being tossed into the
popular junkheap in favor of centralised/dictatorish systems

You mean that after Great Depression (circa 1929.), people would considered an alternative system to the one that left them in crushing poverty? That doesn't strike me as interesting or surprising.

It's like a man in debt going to a loan-shark out of desperation.

What is interesting that around ~81 years after that episode, we have another.
I see it more as a cross between reality TV and documentaries rather than a source of news.
How a Mental Disorder Can Disappear from the World Overnight
Please review our startup (Forever Fluffy)
China shows off surveillance prowess of new satellite
I think the answers about it being an underwater lava formation sound reasonable. If it were in/around a cloud, and maybe a bit more transient, I'd be tempted to say it was a red sprite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

Sprites/elves are my favorite atmospheric effect :)
Now that Amazon's competing in that space as well (http://localregister.amazon.com/) I wonder how Square will leverage their userbase...
The reasons are actually not any different than when running on a dedicated machine; running containers is a good idea, regardless of whether it's a VM. Containerization is a smaller, granular unit of isolation than a VM, and it's complementary to virtualization, not a replacement/competitor.
I am blown away by both the picks and the justifications given. I've programmed in all of these languages; it's hard for me to see that assembly language ought to be a top pick or that the reason to start with Python is to learn proper indentation. Picking the right language to program in deserves a more thoughtful article than this.

Simplicity (of the language and its application), usefulness, and pedagogical value are to me the factors one should consider.

Python isn't the simplest language (Pascal is simpler by far) but it is simple enough and is so useful and supports modern programming method that it would be my first recommendation.

Javascript is so useful for web related programming and is simple enough (despite a lot of ugly features) that it is my second choice.

C is a flexible, useful language and educational language. It's a bit old school so it would be my third choice.

Pascal is beautifully simple but is not that useful to learn. Java is a very useful important language, but has too much boilerplate and too big an ecosystem for beginners. C++ is the Formula One of programming languages and is better learned after getting past the learner's permit level. Assembly language is not very useful to most programmers and takes too much work and would likely be discouraging.
I don't think it remained "under the radar" like some are commenting. There's mention of it in Snowden's disclosures and if you search around, lots of government recruiting related info, e.g., http://www.socnet.com/archive/index.php/t-108034.html
It sounds more official and serious and makes people feel more important so they title themselves that way.
The Story of Fortran
Panamax Template: Monitoring with CAdvisor, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and Grafana
You can short the stock if you disagree with its valuation.
They do have the world's best search engine for products.
Ask HN: Founders: How do you keep going?
Startups are tough, but as PG says in his essays: "don't give up." I'm wondering how other founders keep going when things fall apart.
Investigating theft takes up police time, which expends taxpayer resources. The market wouldn't take this into account.

Also, "doesn't California have bigger issues to worry about" is just silly, as if the government of an enormous state can only do one thing at a time.
not via prime, but you can buy them as they come out.
although I was a bit unclear on if this was referring to URL level or domain level time on site

It's simply time away from Facebook, since that's what they can measure.
The benefit of telnet is its ability to operate without authentication, or thin application based authentication. This project doesn't appear to be concerned with a secure remote connection, rather it's a useful toy with low barrier to entry.
Elements of the idea were in Church's work, but I think it wasn't until the 1960s that anyone thought of closing a lambda by using the lexical environment to bind its free variables. And it wasn't until the 1970s that Sussman and Steele really drove the idea home with Scheme.

Before then even LISP didn't have closures. It was based on Church's ideas, and it did need to deal with figuring out how to bind a lambda's variables in order to evaluate it. But it was a dynamically scoped language, so capturing free variables from an anonymous function's lexical scope (which is what a closure does) didn't really make sense for it. Instead it just used the execution context to bind variables.
Oak Ridge and Carnegie Mellon scientists make stable catalytic gold nanoclusters
That is impossible and does not even pass a basic math.

317,493,212 is the current population. If you discard people under 15 and over 70 you are left with the you have (219685604) that means 20% of the US smoke pot.

Pot people always like to over inflate the usage number, but 14% too funny. Even in states where its legal, it would not reach 20%.
They did launch a meta-search site, a9.com, in 2004 and discontinued it in 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
From Wikipedia —

"Earthquake light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon
that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of
tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions."

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

Considering there were reports of seismic activity in the area around the approximate time of the event, it's possible that ionized air promoted formation of sprites and/or ball lightning.
In practice, such variance in the law is rarely of relevance to an interstate traveler. And the advantages federalism provides more than make it worth it.
> There are tons of companies out there still making a decent living from developing and maintaining software in curiously tenacious tech like Delphi, FileMaker and MUMPS.

Right, those are the very definition of legacy software... so where is your disagreement with me?
I'm sorry, what? The two look nothing alike: http://m1.i.pbase.com/g9/23/582523/2/157113241.BeCtINyg.jpg
Amazon already does digital distribution for video games and probably some other PC software, in addition to their significantly more high profile Android offering.
ISIS as Startup: Explosive Growth, Highly Disruptive, Super-Evil
Does the e-mail containing this link make any reference to the recipient's HN username?
It says "Hello rl3."
Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
I guess it's always cool to learn about top secret stuff that spies do, but I don't get why the specifics of how their search engine works is significant. Am I just missing something?
That's only within the last year. The percentage of American adults who have ever smoked weed is just under 90%. The former statistic isn't especially informative or useful for anything.
OK, interesting article and all, but what in the world did that have at all to do with Pac-Man?

I mean, the article even comes straight out and says the frog doesn't move a lot. Pac-Man literally cannot willfully stop moving.

It's like if they did an experiment about canine jaw strength with the researcher's dog named Jabberwock, and the article's title was "This dog is a real-life Jabberwock!"
Is it just me or do those hypotheses sound like the mechanics of a cartoon villain's evil plan?
Not if you are looking for something outside the typical scope.

I buy tons of wierd automotive parts that are not 'well known' and usually end up using Google to find products on Amazon.

Their search engine is actually pretty limiting in some ways.
Love this. The installed app looks just as good as the screenshots.

One question, what does "powered by Symantec" mean?

Is this just a sexy UI on top of a Symantec engine?
About Project Honey Pot
You'd be surprised.

(But to be more actual, it's probably those numbers are not for "smoke pot" but mostly for "have smoked pot at some point").

Btw -- you said "That is impossible and does not even pass a basic math", but you proved it neither impossible, nor that it does not pass some math test. Just that you find the number too big.
Text/transcript?
I think its just for domain ssl certificate - http://www.symantec.com/ssl-certificates
My first reaction: creating a website already is as easy as creating a Word doc.

How is this different (or how will it be different) from creating a Google Doc and sharing it with the public? Or using Google Sites for that matter?

(Not trying to jam you up -- genuinely interested in this and your answer.)
Marijuana is illegal federally, and federal laws supersede state laws.

Until the federal law changes, possession is risky even in states that have 'legalized' it. Things seem to exist in a sort of grey area where the federal government doesn't seem to be doing (many?) raids of medical marijuana or what's going on in Denver; but that doesn't mean you're in the clear.

I'm surprised people aren't more careful about this kind of stuff. Then again the TSA likes to show pictures of the large knives that people either forgot about or (somehow) didn't realize were illegal on planes.
Second your Little Snitch recommendation. Invaluable.
Considering the photog cranked up the iso and ran a 30sec exposure, i'd imagine the variability could produce some strange effects. This is also shot through clouds.
Even if the cop sees the card, is it probable cause for a search?

Comparing it to gun laws and interstate travel, a gun permit seen in a wallet probably wouldn't lead to a search if the driver simply said there is no gun in the vehicle.

Pot seems like it would be under more scrutiny in a red state than guns sadly.
Glenn Greenwald got a treasure trove and it's time to cash in.
Why Android First Is a Myth
At some places developers do everything including support and IT now that the cloud has replaced a lot of what IT did. Hence the term devops. Instead of other people dealing with developer mistakes, developers now have to pay with their time. IT people and sysadmins now work on cloud services instead of maintaining things for specific systems.
Then go and tell Apple.
If you're young and fit just forgo it. It's very unlikely a basement dwelling neck beard would get hurt writing javascript and refreshing the browser a million times.
I'll never understand the logic behind this. How come cancer patients or people recovering from surgery with powerful opiates aren't thrown in prison? Why is possessing a chemical used medically a crime? (This is mostly rhetorical, but still sad.)
California Senator Votes Against Uber, Then Arrested for DUI
> It was only later that the Bering land bridge migration occurred

This is interesting. Kennewick man's bones were radiocarbon dated to 8900 years before present, or around 6900 BCE.

I have never heard before that the "Bering land bridge migration" occurred after 6900BCE. That is much more recent than most estimates.
Those were two separate, unrelated points (though a lot of people would disagree that Delphi and MUMPS are legacy software, though FileMaker surely is).
Can you get in trouble for lying to a police officer?
I believe the idea is that you can't just reinstall the OS to circumvent it.

Apple currently does this with their activation - if the phone gets remotely locked by the user, it can't be unlocked without knowing the password, and no amount of reinstalling, wiping, or praying to your deity will be enough to unlock it.

As far as I'm aware, there aren't any known vulnerabilities with Apple's scheme - I don't know how long this will remain true.

I'm curious how this will be implemented on the Android side (also considering that Google is headquartered in CA - but I don't know if that changes anything). Android phones are known for their open-ness, and on many models, unlocked boot loaders. I wonder how you'd securely lock it down so you couldn't wipe it, like you describe.
People under 15 and over 70 smoke pot.

According to this 38% of those surveyed and 17% of those over 65 admit to trying pot.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/163835/tried-marijuana-little-cha... Though only 7% of those surveyed where willing to say they currently smoked.

As a sanity check if you where 15 in 1960 your ~69.

PS: Though, in an informal survey's my 14-15 year old classmates in the 1990's over 90% said they had used pot in the last year. So their numbers might be off.
Pediatricians Say School Should Start Later For Teens' Health
The nature of the federal government's obligation to the Indian tribes goes beyond just honoring treaties and laws. Its more in the nature of a guardianship/trustee relationship: http://www.nihb.org/tribal_resources/indian_health_101.php. The government is not obligated to believe the Indian version of facts, but federal agencies responsible for Indian affairs are not and cannot be neutral parties when others make claims that affect Indian interests.
I came here for a bit of expert commentary on the article. I can only assume it must be pretty water-tight if we're sitting around arguing about this...
Most industry's training materials are written by academics. Those academics who take the time to write textbooks probably do it because they want to use a good textbook that teaches what they want taught, the way they want it taught. In most cases there isn't really any other very good reason to write the book. Writing textbooks takes time away from something your tenure committee cares about, articles. And most textbooks sink into obscurity, pretty much without trace. It's lucrative if you get a blockbuster but that's not something to be terribly confident about.

Training materials for less academically demanding occupations are correspondingly less demanding to write. Step by step instructions aren't that hard. Instructional videos are expensive to make but YouTube has shown that people are even willing to do those for (next to) nothing. People really enjoy sharing their expertise on things they're passionate about.
It's a cute idea, and nicely implemented, but I'm not quite sure you're solving a problem that people have. Who do you see using this? Why do you think they would pay you for the service?
Ahhh....ok.

Thanks!
It must be a generational thing. I've never been interested in being "mayor" of anywhere. Plus it could be creepy. The following video [1] comes to mind. This hot psycho chick is "mayor of Brad's closet".

Shhh. I still use email. Oh, and get off my lawn!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpV7DyM4Zk0
Because the federal government hasn't approved it for medical use but isn't enforcing it either, so it's up to the states which have inconsistent laws.
Ayn Rand would love the questions near the end.

Although most markets have historically had a high concentration of output from the top percentile, so its not exactly a far fetched proposition to say that 5% of the workforce led development during the IR.
All those words, and not one mention of the fact that psychologists show no curiosity about the causes of Asperger Syndrome or Autism, but seem satisfied to attach names to its symptoms -- and sometimes take the names away again.

But I shouldn't be surprised. The article's author is a "cognitive scientist" -- the new name for psychologist. Speaking of giving old things new names.
There'd be much more incentive to spend Bitcoin if it were not deflationary by design.
My guess is a lack of understanding.
I know that's what I'd do if I were evil and a genius. Which I'm not.
That's why I'm doing this — I think it's crazy that our best solution for creating a simple, one-off site is to use a collaborative document service and share the link. Google Docs is built for documents, and you can tell—hopefully this can evolve into a better solution to the use case where you want to create a really simple web page.
Thanks for the feedback!