skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used bootchart and had the same problem. You really need to generate the display dynamically to make the zooming work. Some other things my viewer does that don't work with static SVG:

- Show labels at a readable size, whatever the zoom.

- Keep labels within the screen bounds where possible rather than letting them scroll off.

- Fade out large-scale features (e.g. arrows spanning long time frames) when you get close, so they don't blot out everything in between.

- Project y values through tanh so you can see everything at once, but focus on the bit you're interested in.

Of course, there are other opportunities for adding interaction too.
I recall reading that in (medieval?) Europe, some nobles who ran out of money would rather become highwaymen and rob travelers than actually work for a living, as this was deemed beneath them.

I have absolutely no recollection where I read this, so it could easily be false.
Read about how many wild animals an outdoor cat kills in a typical year...
They think that because they don't logic well. :)

I thought the same thing. I hate that any comment on a HN post adds to it's score. I would like this comment counted as a negative. This article is terrible.
Aeon is overtly anti-scientific in all the articles from it I've read. The trend tends to be to take something scientific, like cognitive biases or the Milgram experiments, use some postmodernist device like Freudian literary criticism or political theory to critique the science, and then conclude that the factual reality is not in favor of the scientific evidence.

I think it's just generic post-modernism.
Having lived in both the U.S. and the U.K. it's interesting to see the two different attitudes to cats. In the UK, letting your cat outside is the norm. The shelter I adopted from wouldn't give you a cat unless you were able to let it out (or the cat had feline AIDS and needed to be kept indoors for protection).

But it's the complete opposite in the U.S, and although that makes sense in some places (a lot more predators in the countryside), in a city like San Francisco the risks seem identical to those of London. It's very strange. Of course, in the UK cat owners aren't legally liable for their cat's actions (cats, unlike dogs, are deemed by the law to be free agents), maybe that's not the case in the states.
Red Hat CEO on the death of version 2.0
Wow, that was easy and actually worked flawlessly.

Could you provide us with a little info on the technologies behind it?
Intrigued, Care to share more? A link?
This guy knows: http://www.tmcm.com/tmcm/
Ah, I obviously haven't tried it yet. I sure hope they have an update to the Netflix app soon.
Otherwise normal cats who go outside of their litter box are usually upset about something in their environment. Are the boxes near something noisy or surprising? Are they in a private spot where he's not going to get approached while he's using them?

If there's a regular spot where he goes, maybe try putting a box on that exact spot. We had a similar problem a few months ago, where our cat was peeing in the basement on a stack of paper he found. We moved everything away from that spot and put a box there and now he's happy as a clam.
Here's one, not sure if it has more details than you already know: http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/2240223024/Code-Spaces-...
Trivial scientific information increases trust in products
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This seems to be more about subjective-but-quantifiable questions [like this](https://approachio.com/question/7/a), whereas WA only does objective questions.
Windows 7 SP1 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 directly
An Open-Source Cancer Pitch, Deconstructed
One extreme is confident idiot. The other is the ever doubting fool. I keep thinking there is a happier middle ground - I know some things and I can't know some others. I will do my best with what I know.

From personal experience #1 obviously leads to certain failures (unfortunate one if you are even a little wise and honest - you saw this coming and still decided to be a cocky idiot). #2 you lose out on motivation, don't get the credit you deserve and get more stressed than necessary.

The happier middle ground works for me - actually look at everything, find out what you know, what you need to know and equally importantly what you are just not going to know. Then work a plan on the strengths of what you know.

That's work though - heh! The extremes are just easier to acquire :)
In the UK we really only have neighbour's dogs. Foxes tend to run from cats.
That caffeine intake was daily.

My poison of choice was Rockstar Pure Zero - Mango Orange Passion Fruit. They originally launched with 160 mg per can, but bumped it to 240 mg. http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/rockstar-pu...

Like I said, not one of my brighter moments - I was just willing to do whatever it took to launch. In hindsight, not worth it at all.
Apologies if this submission comes across as overly negative, but I value Lowe's opinion, and can see these sorts of questions being asked of the campaign.
Millennials Haven’t Written Off Homeownership
>Domestic cats have been domesticated for a long time.

That sounds like lamarckism. Or do you suggest that cats were selectively bred for their social behaviour? I find it dubious.
Your cat might have a bladder or kidney stone which is causing extreme pain when pooping. Please take your cat to the vet and have that checked out.

I ran into the same thing: Cat pooped in exotic, awkward places, but never the litter box. Never looked like she was in pain -- just being stubborn, I figured. Turned out to be a bladder stone brought on by the ingredients in modern cat food (put in place to help other feline health issues, but which causes stones in a small subset of cats). After the stones were cleared up, all litter box issues disappeared.
In Australia, cats have killed a lot of wildlife.
The First Known Case of Virus-Attacks-Virus (2009)
Google shows off self-driving car
The security of Bitcoin itself/the blockchain won't change at all if the functionality for sidechains is implemented.

However, the sidechains themselves (and the Bitcoins pegged to them) will only be as secure or vulnerable as their implementation and usage is. The security of a sidechain, is as far as I'm aware, the exact same as it would be if the sidechain was an independent altcoin.
Yeah for Hipmunk, Capitaine Train and others. They are providing a very efficient, no fuss, travel booking experience.
Historic players like Amadeus or DBahn (not to mention SNCF...), beware, these guys are rocking your world even more than you may be suspecting...
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The problem is that American people still don't realize they are living under a regime that, although a lot more sophisticated than most, is really not dissimilar to any other authoritarian regime. We simply use ruse, facade, illusion, etc. to placate and pacify. There is really very little different between our propaganda, a la, "Greatest nation on earth", "rule of law", "one nation", etc. that isn't any less bullshit than all the other bullshit other regimes propagandize their population with.

The very closed in nature of our country is even evidence of that character. We do not want to open our culture and society, because if we realized how other countries lived and how they have solved problems we claim to be working on and how better others have it, we would not be all that pleased. So our regime tries it's darndest to shield the mid to lower classes' eyes with paroles of American exceptionalism.
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I wrote an article a while back about how to safely use powdered caffeine: http://diysupplements.com/add-caffeine-to-everything/

It's a great way to inexpensively measure exactly how much you're consuming.
If you haven't seen this before, I highly recommend the 8 minutes of video involved as a group of Australian comedians pretend to be the Canadian motorcade (carrying a special guest) during the 2007 APEC forum in Sydney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb8QSpKhog

[Edit: I had misremembered and thought that Canada didn't have a delegation at APEC...Turns out they just didn't have a delegation that was taxiing bin Laden.]
> Should Eric Schmidt be in jail for his role in the employee wage suppression collusion?

Er, why shouldn't he be? I can think of three main likely arguments why he shouldn't:

i) what he did breached civil but not criminal law: if so then obviously he shouldn't be in jail. I don't know whether that's the case though. I also don't know if he is personally liable for civil damages, and if so why he hasn't been chased for those. (And that's not going into the question of whether his actions should have been made criminal offences by law, and why they haven't been.)

ii) the higher standard of evidence in criminal prosecutions, the first issue you raised. This is of course a real issue in criminal cases, but—speaking as a non-lawyer, non-expert who hasn't been following the story very closely—the evidence on this matter doesn't look at all lacking to me. AFAICS, if Eric Schmidt had been discussing a murder rather than salary collusion in the communications discussed by http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-recruitment-emai... no-one would be likely to suggest that the evidence was too weak for a criminal prosecution.

iii) Eric Schmidt is a nice person like us, and jail isn't really for nice people like us. I hope the egregiousness and total unacceptability of this argument is clear to everyone without any need for explanation.

So, yes, why shouldn't Eric Schmidt be in jail?

As to the financial sector, while it is obviously difficult to prosecute many financial crimes, I am not convinced that this is the primary explanation for the shortage of convictions lately. I am reasonably convinced by the argument http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/10/liars-loans-aint-... that similarly complex cases were successfully prosecuted in the S&L scandal in the '80s, and that the primary difference between then and now is lack of resources and political will.
but in the end you are not punishing the bank, it merely is an entity with no physical means of being punished. To punish it you need to throw their boards into jail.

Fines are paid by share holders if any, hence is the bank punished? Not unless depositors leave in droves. You cannot fine a bank for its holdings as those are the funds and properties of other people, the bank is merely managing money for others.

if you attempt to dissolve a bank, who takes over the loans, how do you get the depositor funds back. You cannot confiscate them in the names of the state, the distress to the economy would be drastic.

In the end its back to the people running the show, put them in jail, or force them out, or fine them, or all of the above. However like politicians there are so many levels here than they are nearly immune to their actions

TL;DR

Monetary fines are irrelevant, punishing the people who run it is the only means to correct future behavior
I'm likely a fuddy-duddy, but I agree with mijndert. I detest the idea of using Site A to authenticate with Site B.

For only the tiniest benefit to me (I guess it's marginally faster to sign up, maybe?) and no real benefit to you, your service is now beholden to another. What if Twitter bans a user that is valuable member of your site? What if Twitter goes under? What if Twitter is outlawed in some countries? What if I have a moral obligation to signing up for Twitter in the first place?
That is your solution to the problem. I like physical remotes, and the fact that they also allow for a phone based remote as well seems like it's a decent solution from my perspective, and shouldn't really affect those that don't want to use a remote.
Cloud HPC Solutions Architect here. In this use case, cloud computing wouldn't really suffice. For a company who needs 24x7 access to compute power of that scale, they really will benefit from buying a standalone system like this.

While some cloud providers now have very high-speed, low-latency interconnects, they only scale so wide in a virtual environment. This is due to limitations in the physical datacenter space and the way node provisioning works on the back-end. If you truly need extremely wide, low-latency, high bandwidth interconnect for a large period of time, on-prem is still (probably) your best option.
I'm confused why they spent so much time on the idiom of "flowing" time. It doesn't literally feel like it's "flowing", that's just a figure of speech, a metaphor for the fact that in daily life we don't have control over its direction.

While the implications and meaning of time in a cosmological sense are certainly interesting, the piece's angle of debunking naive common-sense views of time is a bit too aggressive. In daily life, the common-sense view of time is perfectly rational.

Perhaps the audience is physics grad students, I dunno.
why would i pay for an ad free version when i can use adblock?
This article is very worth a thorough top-to-bottom read. I especially like a paragraph from farther down in the article where the author brings up an issue that often comes up here on Hacker News: "According to Pauline Kim, a professor at Washington University Law School, people tend to make inferences about the law based on what they know about more informal social norms. This frequently leads them to misunderstand their rights—and in areas like employment law, to wildly overestimate them. In 1997, Kim presented roughly 300 residents of Buffalo, New York, with a series of morally abhorrent workplace scenarios—for example, an employee is fired for reporting that a co-worker has been stealing from the company—that were nonetheless legal under the state’s 'at-will' employment regime. Eighty to 90 percent of the Buffalonians incorrectly identified each of these distasteful scenarios as illegal, revealing how little they understood about how much freedom employers actually enjoy to fire employees." I have seen this misconception here on Hacker News many times. (To be sure, here on Hacker News we have participants from many countries, not all of which have the same laws about employment, but I have seen plenty of Americans proclaim "facts" about rights of employees here in the United States that simply are not facts.) Basically, in our thoughtful discussions here, we all have to take care to check our facts. That's why I'm especially glad to upvote comments that ask earlier commenters to explain where they got their information, or to suggest further reading on a topic. I'll link a book here about employment law (mostly related to hiring procedures) as an example of the information I like to see in comments. I need to check my understanding of all issues, all the time, according to the article kindly submitted here, and I appreciate it when other HN participants help me find more information.

http://www.amazon.com/Safe-Hiring-Manual-Employment-Backgrou...
Show HN: Monitor your PHP application performance
I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great.

It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed.

I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection and prices. Usually Hipmunk is great but in this case it wasn't even close. That's definitely made me slightly wary of it for the future.

All things said it's great. Can't wait to see where it is in a few more years.
It's very hard to know whether sidechains will help or hurt ethereum... You could put an ethereum clone in a sidechain, although there'd be downsides to this... It's hard to know how mining would work for such a chain, it would have to work differently than either bitcoin or ethereum mining ("merge mining" alone won't work due to the fact that ethereum has 50x the block rate as bitcoin) and sidechains have extra mining costs that need to be obtained somehow (such as through a "wealth tax" on unused accounts).

On the other side, ethereum itself could host bitcoin sidechains as contracts, adding value to the ethereum network.

My own best guess is that sidechains will be a net positive for ethereum adoption, but a net negative for the ethereum currency market cap.
You download and install the source locally. The import statement shows github.com because that is the local path into the local src directory. Using github.com in the local path is the suggested naming convention.

You have the code so worse case you update it yourself.
The Secret Life of an ISIS Warlord
This is really a story about money to be made. Unfortunately, from a behavioural economics perspective neither the car manufacturers nor dealers have any incentive to make it difficult to steal a car.

Why do we focus on keys at all; why can't we just use thumbprints, or heck retina scans to unlock the cars? That technology exists today, we can keep everything local, a crappy thumbprint scanner is $4 on ebay right now.

Combine that with the in-dash electronics we have, and it would be simple to handle 'access management' or authorized thumbprints... much like my rubbish car can handle bluetooth devices.

The problem is that at $429 (CAD) per lost key, my car dealer couldn't care less about this. It's literally not in their interest to give up this revenue stream. Until they have an economic incentive to do it, it won't happen.
Ahh, so much quiter without all those birds and other critters :P

On a serious note: cats usually integrate well with their ecosystem and if they would really pose such a big threat, smaller mammals and brids would just migrate away.
edit: I'm speaking of balanced ecosystems where cats have natural enemies, foxes and whatnot.
Is the $200 HP Windows Stream Laptop a Chromebook Killer?
> Why the hell is a rate set in London allowed to influence the American dollar so greatly?!

Because banks are not independent from each other, and they frequently borrow from each other if they lack a certain quantity of a certain currency.

The problem with the Libor scandal is that the bankers conspired to set interest rates by gaming the blind process they have for coming up with those rates in a fair way (all vote, top 4 and bottom 4 bids are removed, rest is averaged).

This is true, undeniable banking conspiracy at work. And governments still trust them with our money.
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>I find it dubious.

You should check your detector.
How to Treat Your Cat (or Manager)

1. Any cat > any thing, no matter how expensive. I wish my carpets and furniture weren't all scratched up, but I really don't care that much.

Corollary: Any manager > any project. The project may fail, but the manager may do another.

2. Let the cat initiate all action. They will let you know when they want to eat/sleep/play/cuddle/hang out. Respond predictably to their action.

Corollary: Keep coding until interrupted by your manager. Smile, listen, pretend to care, agree. Then continue coding.

3. Every time you return (even from the mailbox), greet the cat as if you hadn't seen each other for years. I don't know how cats perceive the passage time, but what difference does that really make?

Corollary: Document everything discussed with your manager and share the notes during your next meeting to remind them of what they probably won't remember.

4. Listen to the cat. They do have words, just not in the same language. Tonality and body language leave very important clues.

Corollary: Learn the definition of terms like: bandwidth, key results, deep dive, follow-up, subject matter expert, and ROI so you know what the hell your manager is talking about.

5. Include the cat in your plans when applicable. They may surprise you by enjoying watching football on TV, relaxing in the yard, or even eating together.

Corollary: Give your manager a status report so they know what's going on. Otherwise, they'll just interrupt you when you're right in the middle of coding a difficult algorithm.

6. If the cat gets scared, growls, scratches, or bites, you probably did something wrong. Identify and correct the problem.

Corollary: If the project fails, it's your fault because it can't be your manager's fault.

7. Even though it's not human, the cat is a member of your family and should be treated accordingly.

Corollary: Even though they can't code and have never built anything, your manager deserves as much respect as anyone else.
Safari is available for OS X and Windows.
Something I've learned over the years ( and five cats) is: Never touch a cat when he/she is taking a sunbath. It's a trap!
Interesting, since Dart wasn't really on my radar. Does anyone know if it can be embedded easily in other things? EG: If I'm building a server side Go app, could I embed the Dart Virtual Machine in it to run some code? (say I want to allow runtime execution of untrusted code from a client.)

Started digging in on the dart website, but since Browsers are such a difficult, complicated thing, I'm not sure the VM meant for browsers will be appropriate for my application (e.g.: many assumptions are made during runtime might be a problem if there is no webpage.)
No, that's still the early days stuff.

The thing that I'm really curious about is if they ever managed to positively rule out the inside job angle and what if anything came out of law enforcement involvement. I assume they filed a criminal case and let law enforcement + amazon take over and what came out of that investigation would make for some very interesting reading.
At least in the US the outdoors are no place for cats. I see dead cats on the side of the road far too often. People leave out antifreeze to poison cats so they won't poop in their yard or attack birds. Sometimes they shoot them for fun. And sometimes they saw off their back legs for kicks [1].

I've also seen way too many FIV+ cats come through the shelter system, transferred when they're attacked by FIV+ strays. If you ever need to give up your pet, FIV+ status is an immediate death sentence in many shelters. In no-kill shelters, it means a longer stay because some people are weirded out about "cat AIDS".

[1] http://planetbratfink.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-story-of-ange...
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Canada is part of APEC.

Canada hosted the APEC meeting in 1997. The highlight of the meeting was the RCMP pepper-spraying students who were protesting Indonesia's government:

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/civil-unrest/...
Hey one of the developers here. This project started as a side project six month ago, however several of our customers quickly demanded we make it a product. We are excited to release it to open beta today.

Our main focus with this product is generating deep insights into PHP applications. Much of our experience with different frameworks, shops systems and libraries is automated here to help developers fix performance problems quickly.

I would appreciate all kinds of feedback and will answer all your questions.
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Wow, Swift comes in at #19. Pretty spectacular for a language that's only a few months old.