skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer and blogger I still use RSS quite a lot, but I suspect I'm on the very edge of edge cases these days.

- I use Feedly multiple times a day to see what's happening in the world. My account is subscribed to many different sites and a few aggregate sources (like Hacker News, various subreddits, planets, etc)

- I publish a RSS feed [on my blog](https://thepcspy.com). While the site traffic has held fairly steady (with a few popular articles recently), the number of RSS subscribers has died off. This could just be the ilk of Feedly killing off stats because they cache so hard.

- My blog is syndicated on Planet Ubuntu through a full-content RSS feed. Many planets only know how to deal with RSS.

- I have several bots that consume remote, live data through RSS... Although the format could be anything. People seem to be moving to JSON because it is much easier to handle in native languages (and client side).

- Several client sites also make RSS feeds available through services that also allow email subscription.
When apathy-caused laziness cannot manifest in sitting on the couch, it manifests in electoral ignorance.

If a voter in one country can't be bothered to vote, yet a voter is compelled to vote in another country, the laziness is just shuffled across to the act of voting.

Choosing a candidate that has opinions similar to your own is hard, doubly so when it's just as hard coming up with (and then justifying) those opinions.
The International Space Station, orbiting at around 420km is dragged down by atmosphere[1], so I'm going to call that 150km limit an arbitrary one. Also, the Wikipedia article on the subject[2] doesn't appear to consider it worthy of even mentioning.

You are, of course, entitled to define "space" however you want in your own book, but be adviced that a lot of people will disagree with your definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Glider_mode
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth
Didn't SunOS have pretty much exactly this in 1985?

It's sad to see things like this being touted as "new".
This is great, thanks for sharing! What I think I like most about this is project's emphasis on testing, something I've always missed in Hubot scripts.
It's also a way to push their OneDrive team to make a better product in true Gates competitive spirit.
You hit the nail on the head. For as brilliant as Google may be in many ways, visual/UX design is not one of them. Google Apps for Business is nearly impenetrable, and AdWords and Analytics are not far behind.

Come to think of it, this material manifesto sounds a bit like a company of engineers trying to force their will onto visual design.

No thanks.
My Thoughts on AngularJS 1.3 and 2.0
Clojure Survey 2014 – Tag Clouds
Imagining the next generation of surveys (1/6 – Google Forms)
ExpanDrive works across many cloud providers and mounts them as a volume (which makes it compatible with nearly any Windows or Mac app):

http://www.expandrive.com/
Weird parental-control workaround to track reading stats on the Kindle
They do. I think this is a fair question because it's not very well popularized. But it works great.
That is precisely his point, you can't, but all the reviews do.
My bad, I updated it with APSLv2. If that's no good then send me an email (my address is in the page) and we can figure something out. Happy hacking!
I seem to remember them rejecting Google too so I highly doubt it.
I believe you may have the implication going the wrong way.

If the Copenhagen model and the pilot-wave model make the same predictions, which I believe they do since I believe they're mathematically equivalent, then you can't say one is better than the other on the basis of their predictions alone. But there are other evaluation criteria.

The pilot-wave model has a (ideally, complete) simple physical analogue that can act as an aid to intuition; the Copenhagen model, IIUC, asserts that there can be no analogue---all you have is the wave function. In which case, the pilot wave model has an advantage.

Further, if it were possible to experimentally separate the particle from the pilot-wave, the two models would not be equivalent. But you would never look for that kind of experimental evidence if you are only using the Copenhagen model.

On the other hand, from the article:

"Quantum physicists tend to consider the findings less significant. After all, the fluid research does not provide direct evidence that pilot waves propel particles at the quantum scale. And a surprising analogy between electrons and oil droplets does not yield new and better calculations. “Personally, I think it has little to do with quantum mechanics,” said Gerard ’t Hooft, a Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He believes quantum theory is incomplete but dislikes pilot-wave theory."

I'm thinking he is saying the same thing you are.
Also relevant since the way the clients compare keys is sha-1:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/when_will_we_...
"211 * 28.4 = 219.4 ~ $700K by 2015"

The cost of brute forcing the answer is greater than the prize for the contest.

"This can happen if a security check is failed, or in the case that the first 128 bits of the SHA-1 of the newly created encryption key don‘t match on both parties’ clients when this stage is completed (this corresponds to Paul and Nick comparing the key visualizations for the Secret Chat in their Telegram apps)."
Yii2 is AWESOME and here is why
I love it. coffee / js icons in sidebar are very useful. :D
Why do some people have better choices than others in life? In particular for people that only have bad choices do we, as a society, bare some of the responsibility for that? Is it a sign that we've done something wrong?

To be clear, I don't have all the answers to these questions, but they are the questions that I ask myself when issues like this come up.
The opposite is true. The screen should match the ambient lighting of the room. Eye strain is caused by constant iris resizing. Looking at the screen, and the wall next to the screen shouldn't require you eye to adjust.
Agreed. I thought everyone knew by now to do this. I'm somewhat surprised Mozilla decided to write a blog post on it. I guess it's always news to someone.
British Intel Official Says U.S. Tech Cos Offer Terrorists ‘Networks of Choice’
A good move of Amazon to aggregate more value to his Amazon Prime, but when I think in storage I think in Dropbox. I know that is no the cheaper, not the faster, but it works incredible well and it's the main focus of the company.

I can hardly wait for whed Dropbox come cheap and Unlimited.

PS: today, my several TBs of backups are in Amazon Glacier (USD 0,01/GB)
> * In fact, referring to these devices as just “Beacons” is a bit funny, considering no one was talking about Beacons before iBeacons existed.*

Well...I recall unpaired advertising events in the Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Spec back in 2010 - way before Apple ever got involved.
There is no need to reiterate how difficult it is to build a successful startup. My point was that even after controlling for this difficulty, for the average developer it's going to be "easier" to make $1mm by starting their own startup. The vast majority of finance professionals with target backgrounds won't break 200k in income per year. There are outliers in every profession and sure there are some hotshot salespeople and quants that make 1mm+/yr, but: when I look closely, and from talking with friends who work at namebrand banks and PE groups, it seems they're no more prevalent in finance than successful startup founders are in tech (i'd still like to see hard data on this because there are so many ways to compensate people and most have no incentive to report this, in both industries).

Now on to compensation: comparing apples to oranges, a Goldman Sachs VP's total compensation is about 240k, or roughly what a senior software engineer at Google makes. If I were a brilliant developer, I would rather work at Google and make the same amount than going through the meat grinder than is your IB to become a GS VP.
I find this perplexing. Obviously few of us would get to see a feather drop due to the lack of a huge vacuum chamber, but you can derive almost as much experimental entertainment by dropping, say, a ping-pong ball and a similarly sized marble or ball bearing.

Really, I think the slow-motion camera has much more educational value than the vacuum chamber (cool as that is). When I was in school and we'd debate such things, I liked to do experiments but dropping things of different weight off the roof only takes you so far, as people might object that they hit the ground a fraction of a second apart but too little of an interval to notice given the relatively low height etc. If I was doing it now I'd just use my camera to tighten things up, and although it's slo-mo capabilities are limited several current consumer models deliver that functionality at affordable prices.
EC2 becomes more competitive when you do reserved instances. You're mostly paying for redundancy, which is something you lose with bare metal servers.
I wish there was a base16 (https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) theme that fully skinned sublime like this does.
It's the DRAM.

Mostek MK4027 (1 Chip, 4096x1 bits each), needs +5V, -5V and +12V.

https://www.google.de/search?q=Mostek+MK4027
> ...the apathy and boasting about not voting going on here is the exact reason our politicians such idiots.

Or, alternatively, that our politicians are such idiots is the exact reason that there's apathy and boasting about not voting.

> People complain that the baby boomers control politics but that's because they are the only ones that show up to vote so their interests are met.

Close to half of the voters in 2008 and 2012 were under the age of 45. It still resulted in one of the most useless Congresses in history, a pointless budget deadlock that damaged the US credit rating, increased powers of federal surveillance, continued insane drug policy ... the only issue that might be considered a win by the liberals of that age group is health care, and that came at a very steep political price and arrived at the door step a jumbled, broken mess.

Do you really believe that if the voter turnout by those under 45 had been 10% or 20% higher that it would have had much of an impact on the political process?

> By not voting you are just giving a louder voice to those that do.

That's not how it works. The loudest of voices do not belong to voters; they belong to blowhards career politicians and media personalities and people with enough money to buy politicians of any party.

> Not voting as a form of protest does not exclude you from the laws that are passed by the people voted in by those that did.

Maybe not, but it removes any claim to the wishes of the majority by those that write and enforce the laws.

And by the way, except for two elections, voter turnout in the U.S. has hovered between 70% and 80% since the 60s.
How do your job's benefits stack up?
I still don't understand what the "task abstraction" is or what it provides. It seems to me that it's simply a Clojure function with a corresponding command line interface. Is that fair? Does it do something else too?

If it's just a function, I don't know why command-line support is valuable. For interactive use, the Clojure REPL is just fine. For automated use, you only need a single shell utility like perl or awk to evaluate an expression or run a script.
This comment made me curious. When I went to check the actual terms of service, I found this line:

"Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."

which is suddenly followed up by:

"When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps)."

So while you own your intellectual property, Google does take a copy of all rights pertinent to the work. It's hard for me to say why Google would do this; alienating what I'd imagine to be a significant userbase of content generators.

Source: http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
> "The AES competition was a tournament designed to select the best candidate from a collection of ciphers submitted by the world's best cryptographers."

Fair enough. And the focus is exclusively on the algorithm (which is good).

> "The Twofish bounty was a bounty that guaranteed payment to the best technical critique of a very specific, well-defined cryptographic primitive"

"the best technical critique" is still subjective.
Ask HN: A way to switch from job to leisure apps on Mac instantly
Hey Ask HN,

so i have an interesting question - i need an app to switch off/on some predefined app list (something in lines of this). I have a Macbook Air which i use for work and for leisure at home, and i have an annoying repetitive task to do - kill all apps that i mostly don't need at home (IDE, Browser with work related tabs, GIT client, etc.) and then reopen them in the morning at work. I could leave them on, but my Mac starts to act a little crazy when i try to game a little (Yeah, on an Air) or do something else (4GB of RAM was not the best choice). It could probably be done with AppleScript (or something like that), but maybe there's an app for that?

TL;DR:

Need an app to close/open apps from predefined list.

Thanks!
I never tried these guys as their pricing seemed too good to be true.

https://hubic.com/

Maybe someone can comment if they've used them in anger.
I think you know what happens.
I always thought the boundary of space was placed at 100km. From the Wiki[0],

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has established the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) as a working definition for the boundary between aeronautics and astronautics. This is used because at an altitude of about 100 km (62 mi), as Theodore von Kármán calculated, a vehicle would have to travel faster than orbital velocity in order to derive sufficient aerodynamic lift from the atmosphere to support itself.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space#Boundary
If you are handing out (long lived) references to your elements, then yes, you cannot relocate them. In that case, you need an array of pointers, rather than an array of inline values. In this case, your memory use will become even more fragmented, though.

Either way, make sure you have swap space, and you should be all right, especially if the swap is usually just holding idle slop. 2 GB (2^31 bytes) is still a pretty big address space for many purposes. It will hold about 500 4 MB buffers (512, less overhead).
A sense of proportion is important here.

So far as I've been able to determine data total sales of Model S cars seem hard to come by. You'd think Tesla would be a bit more open. I'll go ahead and throw in my own estimate of about 30K to 40K Model S cars sold since the beginning of time. I could be wrong, but I doubt I am wrong by an order of magnitude.

In sharp contrast to this, once you are selling millions of cars per year ([1]Ford, 2013, 2.5MM; [2]Others) this idea of making twenty changes per week that actually make it out to the production line is simply impossible.

At volume supply pipelines have huge inertia. You can't make changes on a whim. Doing very simplistic math and assuming a JIT process, Ford receives 50,000 parts per week. Tesla, assuming 20K cars per year, receives 370. I am not trying to be dismissive, but that's the difference between a garage operation and a real industrial operation at scale. A constant flow of 50,000 parts per week needs to be planned months in advance with all sorts of tests and controls during the process. Changes require the same planning and effort. Imagine making a change that does not work well (for whatever reasons) and you have 50,000 parts per week descending on you. By the time you make a change tons (literally) of raw materials are being processed at some factory, container cargo ships are in the middle of the ocean on their way to your port and trucks are en-route to deliver your parts for the coming wees.

At a few hundred parts per week you can pretty much afford to experiment and throw out whole shipments if something goes wrong. Your supply pipeline is much shorter. You don't have dealers to feed and contractual obligations in terms of delivery. You don't have the same kind of output pipeline. Add to this perhaps having a lot of the small-scale manufacturing done in-house and, yes, it's a garage operation, an expensive one, but the scale simply doesn't compare to that of a high volume manufacturer.

I am not saying any of this to diminish Tesla. It's a neat company. Their cars are not for the masses. And that's OK. However, I really don't subscribe to the idea of Musk walking on water. Is he a great CEO? It sure looks that way. Nobody could dispute that for a minute. I am simply proposing that we do not ascribe supernatural powers to an organization that operates at a scale and within a framework that allows it to behave in a manner very different from that of larger volume producers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company
[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/here-are-december-2013-big-eight-us-a...
Just to play devil's advocate, there is also the type of person who tends to get stuck down rabbit holes more than they should. There's a skill not just to solving problems but avoiding them in the first place. Usually this requires not just engineering talent but the ability to see the bigger picture, in terms of product and business goals. If someone is banging their head against the wall, it may be because they are trying to solve a necessary difficult problem and are discovering valuable knowledge, or it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place.

In your race condition example, it would be the difference between an engineer debugging a race condition in mission critical code, and debugging one that is incidental complexity in a unit test or ancillary tool that could be refactored to be single threaded, or just omitted altogether. Heck, even in the mission critical code case, it's worth considering how many users it effects, how it effects them, and at every moment considering if the time spent so far on the problem (and its associated opportunity cost) is still justified. (Taking into account the fixed costs of switching context into the problem again.) It's very easy to get wrapped up in an interesting problem and forget about the eject button.
Show HN: Slackdone – Track daily progress, in Slack (barren launch page)
Yelp: Reflections from Grace Hopper (Part 1)
Oh man, I love those icons! Great stuff!
Do you know (can you share) if the WiFi and BLE networks at Levi Stadium were designed with each other in mind. I am wondering if it is truly as easy as using "a network that the venue probably already has" considering that all of the Beacons would need to be in BLE range of a WiFi device. I don't know enough about the ranges of each different technology or how their signals interact with all the various material that would exist in a football stadium. However I imagine that if you were designing these two networks in isolation, there is a decent chance that the required placements for full Bluetooth coverage and full WiFi coverage would leave some Beacons that aren't reachable.
Major challenge here (at a guess) is activation. The majority of the advertising/activation will come in-situ at the stadium. But 100,000 people trying to download an app over a cell network in that kind of proximity is going to be trouble. I can't even access Twitter at Stamford Bridge in London (40,000 people).
Agreed, it's an excellent resource. One of the best PL tutorials I've ever read.

But if you use the OCaml version with a recent version of OCaml, you'll run into a few issues. I sent in a patch with a few simple updates to the path mailing list earlier this year, but last I checked it wasn't merged.

Patch is here (it's a text file, despite the "bin" extension):

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs/183...

I also pasted the patch here:

http://pastebin.com/YvzB71nJ
I wish they'd use them to find an exit from the stadium that doesn't take two hours.. I know all new things have growing pains but all of the tech and logistics at Levi's has left me very disappointed thus far.
From the comments: If only they'd use these to find the damn endzone.
Yes, just because something is conceptually the same doesn't mean it is functionally the same.

A lot of reductionist like to state 'This was done before', and ignore the subtle differences that make the implementation better and actually very different in application.

For example, animations were no where near as smooth in the Apple Lisa days, nor shadows able to show such subtle differences as to communicate 8+ layers. Even just these two things combine to make a very different experience in the real world.
Can anyone with a little more knowledge about either iBeacons or WiFi MAC Address triangulation explain how active or passive one needs to be in order to participate or opt-out of such activities? From what I understand, the iBeacons can only interact with your phone if you have a specific app installed, e.g., if you have the 49ers app installed on your phone and you have Bluetooth enabled, it listens in the background for iBeacon broadcasts and might show you the corresponding push notification that it has downloaded when you get within range of iBeacon x. At the same time, the venue can determine your location accurately down to the spacing of the beacons. What happens if you have Bluetooth enabled (but not visible) but not a venue sponsored app? Are iBeacons (or similar Bluetooth beacons) capable of mapping these users? I presume that no push notifications could occur in this case.

As for WiFi triangulation, my limited understanding is that it relies on users walking around with WiFi kept on. Can push notifications occur even if the user doesn't connect to the venue's WiFi but has a sponsored app? Is a phone's active search for familiar SSIDs enough for venue hotspots to observe the movement of MAC addresses/phones? What about a phone without a sponsored app and WiFi enabled but not connected? (I think this is the 'sunsetted' tech mentioned in the article.)

Thanks.
They are run by what is arguably the largest hosting provider[1]. It's definitely going to "work" mind you, but outside of EU the speeds may be a tad abysmal.

It's standard OpenStack storage and it's possible to mount FUSE drive, so no terrible client. I use it and have no complaints, just don't expect 1 ms read times as a mounted drive, etc.

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-... (ctrl+f ovh)
Very nice, reminds me of the old Borland Turbo Pascal and Turbo C colors.