skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops. Can you please click this link? It points to green mountain center: http://manyland.com/3 (once you log in you can also make snapshots to later teleport to, or teleport with the map)
Turbocharge your site this weekend. Nginx, SSL, php5-fpm on Debian Wheezy HOWTO
ISIS: A CIA Creation to Justify War Abroad and Repression at Home
Except for BMX helmets.

They look sturdy. Lots of people ride with them in Bogotá. I use a motorcycle helmet as it helps a lot against the usual rains.

No silly social issues against helmets. Everyone minds their own business here.
Code-Pointer Integrity [pdf]
PKD's short stories are excellent. Beyond Lies the Wub, We can remember it for you wholesale, Adjustment Team, Perky Pat, etc...

I would also like to add Greg Egan - Diaspora. I love it for how it takes post/transhumanism (among other things) to the extreme.
Soundbites like "Stop charging for mass transit" unfairly ignore the complexity of the issue at hand.

In Sydney, IPART (Independant Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal) recently reported that revenue from Sydney's public transport captures about 30% of the cost associated with running it.

The determined that it doesn't make sense to make PT free (fully subsidised by tax) because public transport is doesn't provide significantly enough value for all tax payers.
http://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/Home/Industries/Transport/Review...
Worth to notice that Napoleon lost most of the army in August and September. He expected plenty of food during harvest season, not the scorched-earth tactics.
> Because some random guys implement their own language in C? Why do we have Python, Ruby, Rebol? There was already PERL or AWK or ... Somebody decided to write their own scripting language. So what?

When a Python advocate wants to do some data processing, do they first write their own Python implementation in C? No. When a Ruby advocate wants to make a Rails website, do they first write their own implementation of Ruby in C? No.

Several fine implementations of lisp already exist that compile down to machine code and, if the lisp community is to believed, have performance "close to C". So why does a lisp advocate feel the need to re-write lisp in C for a project that didn't actually need it? The lisp community would have us all believe that lisp is the "programmable programming language", and all the other rhetoric about how every other language has just stolen ideas from lisp, etc., etc.. They all truly seem to believe that lisp is something special. That's why I find it laughable that someone like Kaz Kylheku, a 15 year veteran of comp.lang.lisp, decided not to implement TXR by using a pre-existing lisp implementation.
So, basically Nexus/Artifactory for deb. Cool.
> I wish someone would build a robust OS & GUI toolkit and ship it with developer tools...

I think that's the web. The development that used to happen in VB6 & Delphi simply has migrated there, desktop apps from that segment are dead.
This is a manifest about how Arnol'd views mathematics, and it's meaning becomes more clear if you read some of his books and see how he does actual math. It doesn't mean his is the only view possible, but it is the view of an absolute giant of mathematics and physics, developed after a lifetime of practice in both research and education, so you would better spent some time thinking more deeply about why he says what he says, instead of brushing it off with what frankly are platitudes for anyone interested in the subject.

For a start, you might want to think about the intertwined history of the two subjects, about how mathematical ideas might at all arise in human cognition, about what are the available criteria for choosing mathematical theories in the huge space of theories that are possible and true, and finally about what are the productive ways of searching for theories that have any value. Then you might want to ask yourself if school pupils are really best served by immediately being presented with the most abstract presentation of each subject, while the abstractions themselves were often a result of a whole sequence of generalizations from some first very intuitive basis. Those are complicated questions, and there are no clear answers, but Arnolds view was likely rather more sophisticated than you think. This lecture of his might help to interpret the article in a more productive way:

https://www.msri.org/workshops/390/schedules/2714
Half of the posts in this thread are about the author's English. I know that clear communication and constructive feedback on one's command of a language is good, but... come on.
Microsoft Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and VB
Memo, Note taking software with hack value
To clarify my context: For a given effort, the body always uses anaerobic and aerobic systems. The higher the fraction of the energy from the anaerobic system, the higher the lactate production rate. The lower the lactate production rate, the more energy comes from burning fat.

Lactate can be further used to create ATP, but this process needs oxygen as well. Hence, a good VO2max helps to get rid of lactate, which was created in the anaerobic process. When measuring the lactate threshold by solely the lactate concentration, it's difficult to distinct between high production / high reduction and low production rates. Good VO2max can conceal weak fat burning abilities. Therefore often the lactate production rate by a given effort (typically maximum effort) is used as indicator for the fat burning capability.

(Hope that makes sense, English is not my native language :-) ...)
I suspect that is a big part why he didn't get the prize and probably won't in the future. If I remember correctly, the Nobel prize commitee was already kind of annoyed that Elfriede Jellinek did not come in person to receive her prize, and Pynchon most likely would not even send a video message.

That, and the fact that there are, of course, lots and lots and lots of breathtakingly great writers out there. I've had the feeling over the past couple of years that the Nobel for literature was often given to authors the commitee felt deserved more attention.
OT, but it seems that in Canada all of the Foundation series is available as ebooks (on Amazon, Google, etc) except for the very first one... very annoying.
Last night I fell. I use a motorcycle helmet. I think I was sliding on the ground for about 4 or 5 meters.

The helmet did not touch the ground, but if it had, it would have prevent countless scrapes in my face or scalp. Not deadly fractures, but something painful and probably disfiguring.

My point is: a proper helmet (think BMX) prevents a lot more than fractures.

The gloves surely had a lot of work to do as well, and saved my left hand from any scratches.
The space elevator hasn't been built, but it's already getting a documentary
Because DRM does not work.
A veteran teacher turned coach shadows two students for two days
Jobs by Gender: “Help Wanted Male” and “Help Wanted Female” in NYTimes 100 Yrs Ago
Show HN: Feedio – Aggregate your feeds from all your blogs + guest posts
It seems you've decided that US hegemony is a "good thing" regardless of the moral implications for ourselves and the world. However, some find actions like the following to be dangerous, immoral, unnecessary:

* "the US and Israel had the director assassinated"

* "we won offshore drilling"

* the blase assertion that a nuclear Iran is any worse than the existing nuclear powers (especially Israel!!!)

"Energy security" is oil company nonsense, hilarious considering their tireless efforts to block any kind of clean alternative. The OPEC crisis saved us from gas guzzlers, and now we're back to having SUV's everywhere. We could use some "energy insecurity" but with fracking we're now an exporter. Oil forever!! Climate be damned.

I disagree also with attempts to close off the discussion by saying "geopolitics are important." The US does not have to subvert governments, install dictators across the globe, prop up Saudi Arabia, blindly support Israel, be the muscle for Big Oil (and assassinate and imprison folks at home, too).

The moral hazards that have created this situation are to blame, but it doesn't help that our leaders are as a group paranoid and uncreative, all too willing to let militaristic fascists (accurate, not name-calling here) drive their decision-making.

Edward Snowden is a hero, full stop. You can't do enough damage to the NSA, these types must be resisted at all times.
The real problem is that snapchat promises something it can not technically deliver. Once a photo leaves your phone and is delivered to somebody else, you lost control over that photo.

It's precisely the same problem with DRM. You either lock down everyone's devices against their owners (a massive "do not want" situation) - and then you could still copy the data via the old-fashioned analogue hole (I'm not including the truly disturbing idea of adding implants to people's brains that force them to "delete" something they've seen) - or accept the inevitable fact that data that can be accessed is data that can be copied.

Quite frankly, Snapchat is a form of DRM, except it's marketed toward users in a way that makes it appear desirable.
> Dropbox does LAN sync. If a machine has to download a large file and another machine on the network has the same file, chunks are provided peer to peer. This makes using large files on multiple machines or in a team much faster.

Doesn't the file have to exist on Dropbox's servers before it can be synced to another computer on the same LAN? The last time I looked into it, this was the case.
Eric Meijer's MOOC -Introduction to Functional Programming – Starts Wednesday
Ebola: What needs to be done right now
I can't find any article titled "Chinese and German Saboteurs in America". Why?
Good list, though it is missing The Culture series of Iain M Banks.
where is the pricing?
Mainstream academic fluff like this is what is truly homogenized. Academic articles are a marketplace like any other, and this market tends to promote in a vehement manner a rather limited worldview.
Microsoft seems to be a crumbling empire. They seem not even able to maintain their websites. Here is a message I got today from Microsoft Azure: "NO ACTION REQUIRED: We want to notify you of an upcoming maintenance operation to your Virtual Machines in West Europe, starting at 23:00 Saturday, October 18th UTC. Single instance virtual machine deployments that are not in availability sets will reboot once during this maintenance operation. We expect the update to finish within six to eight hours of the start time. Please note that Cloud Services using Web or Worker roles aren't impacted by this maintenance operation. This link contains additional information: http://aka.ms/vax58". The link they give leads to a 404 error.
Bruce Schneier mentioned his notion that there is a second whistleblower back in July:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/nsa_targets_p...
We're in free Beta. But cloud storage will be free forever.
I would add "The End of Eternity". The ending of that book was by far the best I've ever read. Everything in the book is brought together and everything that matters to the main character is put on the line in one decision which is resolved in a fun and unexpected way.
"comprehensible" is a relative thing - the traditional functional style you've written was quite mysterious to many developers for some time. I suspect as people try out, understand, and communicate the benefits of transducers benefits - they too will become "comprehensible" :)

With regards to perf, transduce is often just applying the transducer stack in a for loop - I suspect in far more cases you can now stick with the declarative functional style without sacrificing perf if you adopt transducers.
Minneapolis has this pretty much (it get's REALLY cold there in winter) It's actually pretty great.
It is actually available: https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly-dev.github.io/tree/trunk

In trunk branch, the markdown under content/ folder.
I think you're right, and it's a huge indictment. The web, as an application platform, is worse than VB ever was.

Think about that for a moment: We've regressed from VB.

The usual tradeoff is: easy to write, hard to extend and maintain. But the web is hard to write and hard to extend/maintain.

We have some of the smartest people in the world in our industry, and evidently we're all idiots.
... data graphics were mainly devices for showing the obvious to the ignorant,
which led to two fruitless paths.
The graphics had to be alive, communicatively dynamic, overdecorated and
exaggerated (otherwise, the dullards would fall asleep)
The main task of graphical analysis was to detect and denounce deception
(because the dullards could not protect themselves)

Well, they hit the first one.
DEB packages are very complicated

Not really, it's just a tar file with some metadata. Using fpm¹, making packages from a directory is extremely simple. I've been building internal packages from our different components, and the build script only has three or four lines. And besides, even Dockerfiles often use apt/yum.

¹ https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Kaya: Declarative Reactive
Dune was an amazing read. I'd recommend reading it if you haven't. The setting is unique and mindblowing in scale.

However, if you're planning on going through the entire series I'd suggest stopping at God Emperor. The books afterwards seem to lose their direction, the plot starts to feel a bit contrived. The focus shifts from action to endless discussions between characters that could've been used to develop character and story, but seem to tread the same ground. At the same time details that were mentioned in a sentence suddenly balloon into massive plot points, and bizarre deus ex machinae pop up all over the place.

YMMV, of course. I stopped after finishing the original series, and read the Wikipedia synopses of the rest of the books in order to get some sort of closure.
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That would be 38C... apparently my brain hasn't fully caught up yet.
The Homeland Generation
I don't remember seeing anyone recommend Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger[1] in these kinds of list. Not sure if it counts as sci-fi, and it's at least 25 years since I read it, but I recall it being worth reading.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3186/3186-h/3186-h.htm
Yes, they sent out one broken link, and therefore they're a crumbling empire.
Skip to 25:00 for the demo
HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring a DevOps Engineer Who Loves Puppet and ELK
Great idea.

We (JotForm) spend so much time implementing and maintaining integration with these services.

You definitely need pricing information. If you want to keep it free at the beginning you can say something like "we are free until 2016", but many people might avoid using you because there is no information on how much it will cost when you go out of beta.
The Heroes of Java: Dan Allen
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Damn that's nice, what is behind it?? It's quite impressive.
The irony is that the present day version of delphi is the best it has ever been, and competitive feature wise with other platforms, but because it has a non-trivial price tag everyone pretends it's defunct. The reality is that the only programming languages which remain are either open source, or the default solution for a mass market OS, and all of them are free. You can't build an entry level dev solution like classic vb or Delphi and sell it to hobbyists these days, so unless some open source developers make it happen for free, it won't happen.
Ask HN: What am I supposed to do when a good submission is [dead]?
I mean - should I upvote it, or, conversely, flag it to draw attention of moderators?
Let me preface this with my background: mathematician, software engineer, and statistical programmer. Doing this way before the data science hype.

Regarding your friend, it's possible, but - right now - data science is more closely related to implementation than interpretation of results.

Maybe your friend is looking for something more similar to a Quantitative Analysis position?

It would probably be easier to extend stats and science knowledge into a statistical analysis domain, rather than practical programming, neural networks, database algebras, computational complexity, etc.

Good luck though!
Cool looking service. Do you support all RSS readers or only those listed on profile pages?
I'm currently working on transitioning to a Docker-based infrastructure. My existing system builds .debs and pushes them to an internal repository (reprepro rather than aptly because aptly was in its infancy when I built it).

I'm not going to be building .debs for installation inside Docker containers (turtles all the way down) but I would still consider something like aptly for storing and managing any obscure dependencies that my applications might require, and for maintaining a mirror on the local network to speed up image builds.
Please do not mess around with my scrolling when I visit your website. It means my first experience is horrible.
And aside from the health benefits, it's also better for both the environment and your wallet (and it's fun).
Props to smira + other contributors to aptly, it looks like it has come a long way in a short time.
vigilantcitizen. On HN? Really?
Great! It's html5/ canvas/ JavaScript/ ImpactJS/ websockets, on server nodejs and mongodb.
Backpage Free Craigslist Posting Using Coupons
I'm a little confused - it's an auto-updating JS library with a price tag? Is the end-to-end encryption done in JS? Is it OSS, or is the source minified and obfuscated?
Dynamic consensus filters
Show HN: Beacon, a pretty cool theme for the Atom editor, optimized for Yosemite
I'll second the recommendation for The Culture series, and add "A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vinge.
Thanks for the feedback. I already added some basic pricing information on the product page. We'll update it after the end of beta.
Pull Request: Barbra Streisand
Very cool. How is input sent to the server? Is it one packet when you press the button down and one packet when you release or constinuously sending packets while you hold the button down?
How to Blow Up Your Kitchen With Hydrogen Peroxide.

A few years ago, upon returning home after work, my my wife told me that her mother had blown blown up her kitchen but that she was OK. (My late mother-in-law was a wonderful person BTW.)

I can be prone to inattention when my wife speaks to me but this, this got my attention. :-)

My mother in law was an antique dealer. To restore/bleach old china, she would put some (hair dresser grade) hydrogen peroxide in in/on the china in question and let it warm in the oven.

One day she did this, but for some reason, this time she used her kitchen microwave instead of the oven. While it was warming she stepped out of her kitchen (to put something in the recycle I think) and luckily escaped the blast that blew out her kitchen window and sent her microwave into the Great Beyond.

When the fire department came she, I guess, feigned ignorance of what could have caused it. She was after all, a sweet old lady.

After my wife finished telling me the story, I mentioned something to the effect that "You realize they used hydrogen peroxide in the German V2 rockets?"

A picture of the remains of the destroyed microwave was displayed at her funeral.

R.I.P. ma
I bet you are on mobile? Yes, the experience is horrible on small screens so far. We will work on that. Thanks for the feedback.
Looks interesting, but it's laggy as hell. Running latest Firefox on a beefy hardware. Got booted off twice already with "you have performance issues" and a suggestion to switch to Chrome (haha). Just FYI.
A friend of mine is on the team for Kloudless (https://developers.kloudless.com/). I haven't actually used it, but the marketing material tells of the same value prop as your project. Have any quick summary of the differences?
It is still fairly early in the morning for me on a Saturday, so please excuse me if I missed that your comment was sarcasm. I still have an MCSD in VB6 and programmed millions of lines of code in it but honestly I haven't used it in about a decade and would never consider using it again.

ASP.NET WinForms are just as obsolete in my book. I programmed dozens of applications using it but I would never consider using it today for modern web development.

I still use Microsoft development tools. C# and ASP.NET MVC are great, modern technologies that allow me to make stable and scalable web applications very rapidly. The modern versions of Visual Studio fulfill all the things you said you liked about VB6 and are otherwise incomparably superior.
There is a Macintosh in the background of the picture "JUST KIDS Gates and former C.E.O. Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s offices in Bellevue, 1985."

Not unexpected given the date and the relationship between Apple and Microsoft at the time, but interesting that it shares the desk (albeit off in a corner) with the IBM-PC.
We provide a self hosted sync offering for businesses. It is currently used by close to 1000 businesses. It took us almost 18 months from our launch to get the sync right. There are simply too many edge cases and the development team needs to closely work with the customers to identify and fix it. Even then our complexity is much less than dropbox. The largest customer of ours have 10000 users.

Short story: if you plan to develop a sync product from scratch, be prepared to spend at least 2 years or hire core developers from Dropbox sync team. Eve now dropbox has issues with handling large number of small files. Try to stuff 200000 to 300000 files and see how it works.
Here's another list sorted by decade. http://blog.fogus.me/2012/09/21/the-amazing-colossal-science...

Been following it for a few years now.
My favorites: Hyperion series, Robotech series
I've been reading more science fiction from "classic" authors lately - everyone knows that Jules Verne wrote science fiction but what about Edgar Allan Poe? I'm currently reading "The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin English Library)" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140431063/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...)
Thirding The Culture series (I've only read Matter, but I loved the setting) and adding Embassytown by China Miéville.
Just my two cents, but if I were to make a sci-fi novel list of length 1, the only entry would be Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's the Canterbury Tales in space, but the thing they're pilgrimaging towards is a nightmarish god of death.

http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Cantos-Dan-Simmons/dp/0553283...
It's a JS SDK which can be included in your software. This SDK can download special definitions to adapt to e.g. the Dropbox API. E2E encryption depends on the provider. It should just express, that we have no middleware in between. So data flows P2P between you and the e.g. Dropbox and can be easily encrypted.
hmm I would rate Accelerando as the least good book Stross have written. I would say that all his other books are much much better written and have better structure but that is of cause my own opinion.
Sorry for that! Can you please try this area and see if it's better? http://manyland.com/7 There's also some arrow signs leading you to further portals
But we'll try to make that clear in the description.