skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As founder of cloudHQ, I have to jump into this.
Software products will have bugs. And people will make mistakes. We are all human.

So even if you store data in Dropbox - it is smart to have one extra copy in some other cloud storage. Like Google Drive. Or Box. Or Egnyte. So if data is deleted in Dropbox (accidentally, maliciously, or due to a bug) you can restore it from other cloud.

Of course, cloudHQ is the system which can do that: http://chq.io/hnsc
https://apt-captain.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Here's my solution to this. Love using .debs for distribution.
Good idea!

And a small feedback;

- Please fix your scrolling on the page. It is not a pleasing scrolling experience.

- Slider interval is quick, kind of disturbs while reading, do not auto-slide at all maybe.

Edit: Sorry for not going into detail about scrolling.

I am using Chrome on Mac OS, and when i try to scroll on the main page, whoops!, I am at the end of the page, it feels like scrolling sensitivity is too high and i need to tap it once more to stop scrolling. It may give different experience with a mouse maybe but using touchpad gave me this experience.
Room of requirement.
The takeaway message seems to be that there's another safe helmet technology that exists. Regular helmets help but MIPS[1] helmets maintain protection against brute-force impacts and improve protection against concussions and brain injuries.

This MIPS style helmet is a large step forward in helmets. The standard helmet test is a just a straight drop from 6 feet with the helmet perfectly vertical. This is not how crashes happen.

Crashes happen while moving. There's some rotational stuff going on there, and that's what MIPS tries to focus on. Their tests[2] focus on this. An aspect of brain injury is diffuse axonal injury or when your brain undergoes unreasonable acceleration. The MIPS helmet has two shells so the outer one moves while your brain doesn't.

> President Barack Obama said that if he had a son, he might not let him play football; even some former NFL athletes agree.

This was refreshing to hear. Malcolm Gladwell compares football to dogfighting because football players can experience remarkable head trauma[3]. For me, a severe traumatic brain injury survivor, it's hard to see someone willingly put themselves through a brain injury and even harder to see the public glorifying a sport I see as dogfighting.

[1]:http://www.mipshelmet.com/home/

[2]:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8W5X0s2AhU @ 0:29

[3]:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/19/offensive-play
PKD's short stories are amazing, get the collection of 5 editions. He often started with short stories, then expanded them into full novels.

Greg Egan is amazing as well, and has fantastic short stories too.
Lots of data, graphs, and interesting thinking, but what sticks out the most:

881 words about "What makes for a stable marriage" and not one of them is "love".

This piece demonstrates two of the most common memes that continue to perpetuate hn:

1. correlation != causation

2. academia != real life

I wonder if OP is married and how the joys and challenges of maintaining a stable marriage for many years would have affected this post.
An skynet-free registration option would be nice.
I really don't think you can go wrong, so long as you're building something. If you're not building something, then nothing will get built.

If nothing gets built, then nothing will be sold (or enjoyed or utilized, if you prefer not to consider the monetary aspect).

I realize we seek inspiration, but this can become its own source of diversion and brain-juice addiction, resulting in lost years spent idly.

When I see successful people, it seems that they've charted their own courses, heads-down and "laser focused."
Cool! This would be really interesting if immutability were the default to support time travel in queries and whatnot.
The web has its own equivalent of the gtk bindings issue. For a new programmer, gluing together a load of different languages and libraries is a nightmare. For experienced programmers too.

http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/
For the sake of the OP can you go into more detail about the bad scrolling experience? The scrolling is fine for me - so I'm guessing it is fine for him/her as well.

In general I hate when sites modify default scrolling behavior - and that absolutely is not pleasant, but I didn't notice that here.
More notably to me they are all western.

There's a lot more diversity missed out on due to not having say Lem and the Strugasky brothers than on old and male imo.

Eastern European sci-fi is well worth spending some time on.
> Nothing instills confidence in cryptographic code like the constants "bananas" and "seems legit...".

And a class called "SlightySecurePreferences". One gets the feeling that the programmer responsible knew exactly what he was doing, but had been told to do it anyways.
My only language that I know the average amount of is php :(
But I might soon start java
Ok, thanks for that. I think I'm done with wikipedia.
You can find the FAQ on the bottom left corner (a button).
http://manyland.com/info
I used to make games with javascript, but now I almost forgot everything
Paintings that will make you question everything wrong in this world
PSA: for contemporary, entertaining, thought-provoking novels relating to sci-fi, my short list of must-reads includes these gems:

* The Gone-Away World (Harkaway) [1]

* Ready Player One (Cline) [2] and

* The Martian (Weir) [3]

each of which is impossible to put down. Actually Harkaway's entire oevre is terrific. The steampunk Angelmaker [4] was a ton of fun.

Also, many of Iain M Banks' Culture novels (The Player of Games [5] is at the top of my personal list; they can be read in any order) and The Wind-up Girl (Bacigalupi) [6] are must-reads too.

This is not meant as criticism of the OP, rather as fodder for commenters referencing other longer and more contemporary lists.

Oh and a final, related tangent: if, like me, you really enjoy G.R.R. Martin but generally avoid straight-up fantasy [it seems to me the genre is awash in mediocre Tolkien rip-offs] please give The Name of the Wind (Rothfuss) [7] a chance. You'll be glad you did. :)

[1] http://smile.amazon.com/Gone-Away-World-Nick-Harkaway-ebook/...

[2] http://smile.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/...

[3] http://smile.amazon.com/Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00...

[4] http://smile.amazon.com/Angelmaker-Nick-Harkaway-ebook/dp/B0...

[5] http://smile.amazon.com/Player-Games-Culture-Novel-Book-eboo...

[6] http://smile.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi-ebook/d...

[7] http://smile.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Day-e...
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Great idea and worthy cause.
The JS SDK just downloads microcode (definitions) to "implement" e.g. the "Dropbox API" in your client. If Dropbox supports ssl encryption between you and their server, data is encrypted. This should just express, that your data is not decrypted in a third party middleware to make the conversion. The description is misleading, already changed it.
aptly can do more much more than just S3 publishing: for example snapshotting, combining packages from different sources.
Not thread-parent, but it has somehow drastically modified my scrolling speed. I immediately and jarringly ended up at the bottom of the page. Two-finger scrolling on a Macbook Pro, this is.
Thanks. A lot people mentioned that today. We'll fix that soon.
Thanks, looks really interesting!

At the moment working on REST API for aptly which should allow similar simple publishing scenarios.
> "comprehensible" is a relative thing

I agree and I hope my pragmatic side will be disproved soon :)
This article just came out last night, suggesting that road diets are great bang for the buck when it comes to decreasing crashes. http://bikeportland.org/2014/10/10/less-500000-three-road-di...
I'm not a traffic engineer, but if "traffic calming" is to reduce speed and increase safety, then I have very rarely seen it work or be used that way.

Instead, it strikes me as both a tool for non-drivers that are "driver hating", as well as those local NIMBYs/etc that don't want those "crazy speeders" through the town ("think of the children").

Next time that folks discuss putting traffic calming bumps in your community, ask whether you want the emergency vehicles to be slowed down when you or your loved ones are waiting for an ambulance. Consider the extra pollution created by all the slowing down and speeding up.

I have spoken to folks familiar with Cambridge, MA government structures, where they have told me that it has been actively refused to re-time/synchronize stop lights to have a green wave because they want the traffic slowed down. New York City has real green waves (e.g. going up 1st ave). So next time you are driving down Massachusetts Ave in the evening and you hit random red lights for no reason, know that someone has explicitly decided to do this to you.
Asp.net web forms, my favourite web framework. It's bundled with visual studio.
Nope, haven't run into any issues. I scrape Craigslist from RSS and the others from the HTML. I only hit the sites once an hour, and leave a unique browser string so they can filter me out of their analytics.

My e-mail is in my profile and I'll be happy to send over the code.
Ready Player One was awesome. Highly recommend the Wil Wheaton audio book!
No doubt the parent point was about personal safety as well. After all the device only protects the rider.
I know, right? He's like a modern Tom Sawyer.

EDIT: It occurs to me this might not be taken as a compliment. I meant it as one, though: Chuck's always got some cool story to add, and I suspect his biography would be a heckuva ride.
When you consider the cash gifts and donations that come along with having a wedding (in the culture I'm exposed to, at least), it's not all that difficult to do in terms of net cost. The article suggests the problem is with the financial burden that comes with that kind of spending, which would not apply if the guests and the community are the ones who end up paying for it.
Really cool!

Just a small suggestion: could the sound of forbidden actions be replaced by something smoother?
Funny thing, I agree that Accelerando is his least good book, but still it is the book that should be on such a list. It is just a lot more influential than Halting State or the Laundry series.
another hyperion devotee here. my favorite since reading the hyperion and olympos books was Anathem by N. Stephenson, if you haven't read that one I bet you'll like it too!
There are a lot of non-spiritual reasons being serious about religion could strengthen a relationship (in this era, being a "regular attender" is a signal of seriousness; in the 50s, maybe not.) It's a shared interest/passion that both people are investing time into, both can participate in, and both can discuss. It gives the couple a lot of friends in common, and a circle of social support. It connects younger folks with older mentors and positive role models -- if your primary childhood example of marriage was a crumbling parental relationship, but you joined my grandparents' church and got to see them interact on a weekly basis, you might develop healthier relationship habits. And yes, it places a stigma on divorce -- and places a huge emphasis on the importance of marriage, so in a way it's like attending a marriage seminar on a regular basis.

Even a religion without any "supernatural" or "unseen" value would still very likely have these effects.
Not true, I am a young programmer and I learned vb6 as my first language. It ran perfectly well on windows xp.
Solution has been posted :)
Good idea. Where is the pricing information? For some reason if you cannot create a sustainable business will you open source it? Good luck with your endeavor.
Scalable tensor factorization: Ext-RESCAL 0.7 is out
"Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read."

Yes, just like a certain goat-URLed website that used to feature a man "stretching his boundary" farther than seemed possible...
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Warren Buffett once expressed his opinion on this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9Lx9J8uSs#t=2147

It's actually really good advice for many other things too.
The Name of the Wind really is good. The second book of the series (The Wise Man's Fear) is also excellent.

Actually, just reading through the list, I was a little disappointed. Yes, there are some great classics, but Timeline" by Michael Crichton as the "time travel" sci-fi novel of reference. No, just no.

For time travel based sci-fi, Timescape by Gregory Benford is my pick of the lot. Bedford is actually an astrophysicist, so his version of time travel actually make sense. Plus, the characters in the books are scientists. It's a very thought provoking book. He has a second book along those lines, Cosm, which I loved as well, for it's portrayal of the lives of scientists.
I second Karl Schroeder as a worthwhile SF author! His novels can be challenging but his ideas are unique and worth the price of admission:

* Ventus, his first novel, is about a world that turns accidentally alive (think Gaia) via nanotechnology.

* Lady of Mazes turns around how we could use (very advanced) technology to preserve cultures instead of undermining them.

* Permanence is about a star-faring civilization so advanced it doesn't need technology, it is technology, having perfectly evolved itself to its niche.

* The Virga series is set in a wonderfully imaginative zero-gee bubble-of-gas world, heated by an artificial sun --think of it as space with air!

Besides being an SF author, Schroeder is also a professional futurist. I recommend his OSCON 2009 talk,The Rewilding: A Metaphor, as a good introduction to his thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE
While it gets weirder towards the end of the six books, I found the philosophy and generally strange quotes and philosophy to be more interesting and worthwhile, even if the plot got exceptionally less so. To me, I think the gap in readability was in books two and three - maybe.
Here you go:

http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/55-mph-study.pdf (references inside the PDF to the source data)
After reading Ringworld as a kid, Halo was a bit of a let down. For all those who grew up with Halo, I wonder if Ringworld stands up. I'd add the new Young Miles omnibus by Lois McMaster Bujold. Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones (read it again recently and the quantum computer is interesting). Moon of Three Rings and Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton.
All transportation is subsidized. Except maybe my morning trot from my bed to the bathroom.

The argument for eliminating fares is that the revenue more or less covers the cost of administration.

Also, for future, distinguish between capital and operating expenses.
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Is it possible to have too many friends on Facebook?
I think we're very stand-offish people. We tend to not engage in conversation with strangers. I think sarcasm is sort of a way to probe another person for where you stand with them, given a functionally retarded mindset towards personal interactions. You can say something, and if the person laughs, you know they are net-positive towards you, and if they don't, you can apologize and claim you were just being sarcastic.
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I was half expecting you'd suggest some Far East sci-fi, which I'd love to get acquainted with.

On the GP's call for female authors, I'd add Joan Slonczewski, who's also a microbiology book author and professor, and draws on that knowledge for her classic A Door Into Ocean which is also feminist sci-fi.
It looks like that a lot of russian sci-fi is hard to get english translations of. For example a search for "Kir Bulychov" on amazon.co.uk doesnt return anything of the childrens sci-fi he wrote, which you would expect to still sell well.
> would those two people have discovered their incompatibility if they'd dated for more than a couple years?

Of course they would. But we were discussing arranged and religiously motivated marriages, where that opportunity might not be afforded. Is there still "no such thing as a bad marriage" even when you "marry strangers"?
> or accept the inevitable fact that data that can be accessed is data that can be copied.

I think this is something that is orders of magnitude easier for technophiles to accept than the average person.

Because to the average person it so so easy to delete data - they press the delete key and its gone! So they look at the problem and think the computer programmers just need to do a better job.

Whereas you or I realize that it virtually is impossible to prevent access of data - at least on a systemic level, and the problem (though in some cases it is the programmer's fault) isn't something that better programmers could fix.
Absolutely. I played and read Halo related material before Ringworld, and it's the reason I even bothered reading Ringworld in the first place. Definitely enjoyed both, though I felt the first Halo book trilogy was weak the first time I read it too, and I fear it won't hold up well at all.
The argument against eliminating fares (at least in Sydney) is that the added costs would vastly outweigh any benefits of a small number of people getting free transport.

That's also ignoring the different ways people would use public transport (and non-public transport) if it were free.
Not to be a jerk, but if you never worry about yourself being selfish, there's a good chance you're missing something about yourself. I haven't met a human in all my days who has no unnecessary self-centeredness! Going into a marriage completely confident of your own dedication while questioning your partner's won't end well in my opinion.

That being said, I've never met you and have no idea who you are, so don't take this too seriously, just some random advice
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You might be surprised, but it happens pretty regularly. Sure, there are some parts of American culture where you're expected to throw a huge fancy ceremony with a $15,000 dress and a limo and a 7-course meal. But there are parts of American culture where the expected wedding reception is cake and punch, buying a dress on clearance is a mark of pride, and you either drive your own car or borrow a friend's car if yours is well below median crapitude.

Our total wedding expenses weren't quite that low -- 200+ people came in at around $4k, including brunch (it was a mid-morning wedding,) a dress hand-made by the mother of the bride, and rental of a horse-drawn Amish buggy from the farmer next door to the church.

Of course, both "lots of people at the wedding" and "spend little money" signify something -- lots of people signifies a lot of social support, and friends and family who think this is a good idea; spending little money is an indicator that the important part is the life you're making together, without too much emphasis on the initial celebration. (I have read studies to this effect, though it's been a long time and I couldn't now tell you where they were published.)
Definitely good stuff. In terms of Orc-free pseudo-fantasy stuff, for those that liked Rothfuss and somewhat weird stuff (i.e. Ready Player One - though writing wasn't as good in that IMHO), Lev Grossman's Magicians series is possibly worth checking out. Anyway, I really liked it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Magicians-Novel-Trilogy/dp/0670020...
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I don't know much about the Android environment, and I get that regardless you're storing keys in a hostile environment, but would using the Android KeyChain to store the passwords instead work?

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/security/Key...
The particular mistake:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/51784845258024550...

> So this reads as 'allow PHP files to be read from any IP', 'anything else is limited to 62.75.246.20'.

I don't get why Krebs hasn't updated his article. There's enough misinformation about this case floating around already.
> why isn't the NSA actively disseminating knowledge to Americans on how to secure themselves?

In fact, the NSA is disseminating such knowledge. You can find guides to secure operating systems (Windows, Linux, and OS X) and commonly used applications (Chrome, Adobe Reader). To what I assume is the chagrin of the FBI, you can even find guidance on full-disk encryption.

https://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/index.shtml
Really good job guys. How many hours have you spent on this?

Is this an open-source project?
That would have been brilliant. Just reached the ten year mark on marriage. Our wedding involved a JP and a local park. Food involved some grilling and various sides we made ourselves. We asked for no presents (donations to charity in our names if they insisted). We had a great time prepping everything, but a pot luck...
The interesting thing though: Once you reach the highest point in terms of micro ability, THEN macro comes heavily into play. Seeing players at the highest level be creative with strategy is great. But yeah, at lower levels the learning curve/necessary baseline mechanical skill is definitely an impediment to strategical play.
A common complaint, but I don't think it's true: Web applications are _much_ more flexible as far as screen size and device types are concerned and they are multi-user, networked by default. If you would want to achieve both of these with a VB-like approach, it would be just as complex.

I think the most important issues with the web that are not already being addressed (and winning) are a statically typed Javascript replacement and a way to locally isolate the effect of CSS in large applications with many modules (web components don't solve this correctly).
I really loved Name of the Wind, but actually felt a little let down by Wise Man's Fear. Dunno whether I was just expecting too much after an excellent first book, but I thought it should have been sub-titled "Kvothe gets laid and the plot goes nowhere".
We're targeting a pretty specific market that I don't want to mention, but it is an industry that uses alot of forms.

For us, there wasn't a very high barrier to MVP. We went from initial concept to MVP in about 2 weeks using some of the ideas around superfast development I outlined in this talk [0].

Where the rabbithole came in is once we put out the MVP, we were bombarded with feature requests for things that were beyond simply an easier way to fill out forms (this is where alot of the CRM functionality came in).

We haven't reached out to anyone in government or K-12. We'd like to build our forms framework and keep it in this little niche market we've discovered and then start reaching out to other markets.

Our forms application has been very hard to build as well, but I think we are one major re-factor away from having a good platform. I'm thinking at the end of the day we are going to get something that looks like a cross between Redmine's CRM functionality and Drupal's modularity/observer pattern-ness/business logic in the database-ness.

What are you guys writing FormBig in? I'd be interested in collaborating on a set of open-source HTML5 form controls with you guys if that's something that you're finding a need for. It could address some of the things that I've found lacking in the standard HTML forms (such as the support for an other field and dynamic switching of sub-forms). I'm probably going to end up writing this library anyway, but it would be good PR for both of us :)

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/LeeGillentine/superfast-developmen...
The Vorkosigan Saga is pretty run-of-the-mill space opera stuff, as far as I've seen. It's got a sort of an interesting premise, but it definitely smells of your early 1900s central European cultural setup (at least initially). In space. I don't regret reading it.