skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
King Williams college quiz 2014
Apparently you can't edit a url if you accidentally post a bad one.

http://www.kwc.im/uploads/gkp-questions-2014-15.pdf
I am almost sure initial implementations will fail for Turkish. "sorting": probably, "Upper-lower casing" most likely, "pluralization" definitely will fail.
I'm confused. How does this work without inserting any code on your site?
I've been playing with Gobot, really happy with it. Hybrid Group is VERY much behind it, lots of support. For all of you who got drones for Xmas, give it a go with Gobot.
I was going to say that a $300 one-time cost plus under $1 per glass is totally within reason for someone who has many bottles of good wine. But $10 for 120 bottles is shockingly cheaper.

On the other hand, unsurprisingly, the length of preservation varies. Private Preserve keeps it for a few days; Coravin seems to work for a month or more.
This model assumes that interstellar travel is profitable. There is no evidence that this is the case, even if we had Star Trek technology.

If it isn't profitable, then it turns into a drain on the home planet. That isn't sustainable.
I don't know about running cost but there's already a commercial system intended for restaurants etc. called Enomatic. It differs in being continuously attached to open bottles, but it has multiple taps per device. Comparison here: http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2014/05/is-coravins-new-win...
I contributed a small patch earlier this month, but used their bug tracker to submit patch, turn around time was ~24 hours I think. See bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10551

So I think all of their patches need to go through the bug tracker.
Apparently you can't edit a url if you accidentally post a bad one.

http://www.kwc.im/uploads/gkp-questions-2014-15.pdf

I do this with my friends each year. The rules for us are simple. No internet, you can use any books you have access to and people you know.
http://welldone.org - building a remote monitoring platform to improve the reliability and accountability of rural water infrastructure (for starters). Disclaimer: I'm the Executive Director of WellDone.
Kindle for Mac/ PC has a pretty good highlight feature and note feature for Epubs. Haven't run into anything else decent.
It definitely increases the risk but whether or not that is acceptable or not is up to the users of the service. Hence my insistence that such a grace period should be an up-front thing. A service provider that starts out with 'we'll update this canary once per week, maybe, and if not maybe once per month' would not be deserving of my trust. One that says 'we'll update it once per week +- 12 hours on monday at noon' would be much more credible. It's just as much about confidence and competence as it is about the canary principle to begin with. If you're going to dilute that principle then err on the side of caution but recognize that humans are fallible. Better still, overdeliver and update it every 6 days if you promise 7, it's not that hard to make an agenda item out of it and do some automated alerts around the process of the update (not the update itself, obviously).
Curious: What would make interstellar travel not possible? Do you mean for humans or machines as well?
They could simply disable the warning. It's android giving the warning, not the app.
Depends where you live. Here in Australia twist top is king. Most bottles you buy that are <$40 from 2011 onwards are twist tops (excluding carbonated, people like to pop the cork even if it's a synthetic one). In recent trips to the US I've noticed that it isn't as popular. People there seem to think twist top is cheap or tacky.
You can delete the post and submit the correct one. If there is no current discussion and you don't abuse this to spam, the moderators will not be unhappy.
(Not an important point, but it's kind of an unfortunate title. As someone who knew about the practice and its supposed origin in Naples, I thought the article was saying the practice does not (did not) ever actually exist in Naples. (In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seen), i.e. despite the myth that it's common there.

It would be unambiguous if changed to "In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Unseen Strangers.")
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/blob/master/src/U... What is the Point of abstracting away "empty?"
Swift support merged into CocoaPods
Europeans are by definition not subject to American laws

This isn't true.

"Richard O'Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country."

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jan/13/piracy-student-lo...
Right. This goes back to the coercion issue, which I don't personally believe is valid. If one can be coerced to update a canary, then all bets are off. If they can't, there's no need to institute a grace period, as a canary won't ever be completely invalidated.

Obviously, the longer a canary stays outdated, the better the explanation should be, and I wouldn't trust a daily canary that started getting updated after six months, but I think missing one or two updates isn't that farfetched.

In Silent Circle's case, specifically, I don't think a NSL would have much utility, since we retain almost no customer data at all (only username/password, and optional email/name). I like the idea of automating the canary check message, though, and will write a script to do that right now, thanks.
That is a good point. I agree with you. And people do have suggestions as to how life can be more probable than naively expected. But this answers the question why there is life at all as opposed to why we don't see more of it.

My bias is that life is highly improbable and that we will not find any other life in our universe. But I also think it is no miracle that we exist, as I will describe. Given that I am trying to say this in one paragraph, it may not sound well justified, but it is how I view the problem. I'll start with Schrodinger's cat. A cat is in a box with some radioactive source that can decay and kill the cat. You can ask if the cat is alive or dead - and the answer is both. I will ignore the next part (Schrodinger's whole point) about what happens when the human observes it. There are different interpretations about why the human thinks the cat is definitely in one of the two states as opposed to both. This has to do with the human's observation and is not important for now. The point is that the cat is in both states. The universe can be in multiple states, some with life on earth and some without. Every possible state that can exist, does. So no matter how improbable we are, we will exist in some version of the universe. And there would be lots of other life too, just maybe not in our version of the universe. So the probability of life existing doesn't impact whether or not we should exist, but it does impact whether or not we see other life. I don't think we will. But as correctly pointed out, we don't know the answer to this right now.
I have the same problem, switching spaces will get stuck or glitch. Often times skipping the space i was trying to get to. didnt have this problem on mavericks. I wiped my system and reinstalled and its still there. Im not sure what the point of yosemite is, considering all these phone features google supports via chrome plugins why apple has to bake it into the OS perplexes me.
Hacker Gang 'Lizard Squad' Took Down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live
That's a great tradition! From an economics perspective, I would gain way more than $2 worth of utility from discovering that someone had randomly paid for my coffee, it would really make my morning.

I wonder if the benefit would decrease if the practice became more common though. Would I start expecting my coffee to be free, and become disappointed when I had to pay for it?
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 57
I'll make a pull request in a few days then!
The NY Times is known for their characteristic headline style: http://observer.com/2014/02/for-the-new-york-times-headlines...
I have problem installing on ubuntu 12.04 : https://gist.github.com/paneq/fee5477fb7ab1ede0104 . Did any of you experienced that as well?
I suspect you got downvoted more because of the tone than because of your intended message. But don't sweat it, I got downvoted more than once in this thread too. What matters is that silentcircle realizes that missing such self-imposed deadlines is something that matters and that everybody is on the same page. Shouting 'you don't have a clue' and 'resign' doesn't help at all, when clearly it is mostly a matter of interpretation.
Congrats on shipping! This project looks very interesting already and will hopefully pick up more contributors.

Is there already support for configuration files? Because for me the performance isn't the most important issue, in fact the main reason I'm using nginx over Apache is that I don't want to deal with .htaccess any more.

I think if you would consider adding support for the nginx config file format to H2O, thus making it a drop-in replacement for it (if all the used features are actually supported), you could give the project a huge boost.
U.S. unemployment is ~3x higher now than in 2007. A more important statistic is underemployment, and that's still high. And this includes part-time workers who can't find full time employment. While job growth is slightly positive overall it's extremely misleading for two reasons: a.) wages are flat to negative, b.) the grow is geographically disproportionate with more than 1/2 of U.S. states seeing negative job growth. Most of the gains have come in oil fracking boom states. That's a bubble about to pop due to downward pressure in oil prices, and New York state is just one of the first likely to ban the practice. So the state of employment in the U.S. is actually dismal.
Not open source, but a popular piece of software for converting 3d models to paper:

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
Profitable. Not possible.
Arguably, this only applies to the degree that the UK allows, but that is a good point.
Has copy/paste support dropped? I'd love to use my flame as my daily driver, but I use Lastpass (and rely on) which is rendered useless without copy/paste.

Either way this is super exciting!! Well done to the FFOS/Mozilla team!
> Obviously, the longer a canary stays outdated, the better the explanation should be, and I wouldn't trust a daily canary that started getting updated after six months, but I think missing one or two updates isn't that farfetched.

I don't see any factual difference between the two but I realize that humans are fallible. Note that you are still assuming that the only way a canary could be updated is by coercion, a keylogger installed at the right moment would allow one to update the canary absent the original updater just as well and as such I think canaries are of limited use.

But if you do have one it should simply work as advertised.

Isn't the real value for such monitoring in the future traffic and traffic analysis rather than the content or the customer data?
Kindle uses MOBI/KF8, not epub.
Dot Coms Gone – The Story of the Dot-com Bubble
Lizard Squad seems to be just a bunch of attention seeking jerks. Taking down a system for the sake of gaining Twitter followers and retweets is not cool, and much less productive than what their potential has to offer
Learning and the state of the web
For what it's worth, Firefox has been somewhat more stable for me than Chrome on Linux lately (there are other reasons to want the sandboxing, but stability is one of them). Now that Flash is so much less common than it was a few years ago, the instances where my browser dies due to a misbehaving plugin have dropped to almost none. Also, the only reason I ever start Chrome is to watch Netflix or other sites that won't work in Firefox (I still had to tweak the user agent to claim to be something different to convince Netflix to work); so it's possibly not surprising that it crashes more than Firefox.

And, of course, it's anecdotal.
related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579218
The sequence "sometimes behave so strangely" exhibits syncopated notes on a diatonic scale, 2/4 type meter, and a progression that adheres to chords of a melody. It seems unlikely that something this musical would often appear in normal speech, never before noticed.
Looking at the tangentially linked qrintf project that H2O uses ( https://github.com/h2o/qrintf ), replacing generic sprintf calls with specialised versions for a 10x speed boost - that seems like a brilliant idea, I wonder why it took so long for somebody to think of it?
Having read Disciplined Minds a while ago, I thought the link at the bottom of page, which leads to the story of Schmidt's legal case against his employer, was more interesting than the review itself:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/schmidt/

See also Schmidt's own site, http://disciplinedminds.com.
If you changed that to using the Hawaitha config format it would be perfect ;)
That'sa some nice code you've got there! You should share this over at http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev They might appreciate it more than the HN crowd.
That assumes that it would have to happen more often than %50 of the time, which I think is impossible.
I haven't seen anything good, either. There's some code hanging around in the Readium repo, but it doesn't seem to be getting much love (understandably... they've got bigger fish to fry, what with trying to implement the impossibly overengineered and baroque EPUB3 standard).

Conceptually it shouldn't be hard to do such a thing, as long as the EPUB isn't DRM. An EPUB is just a ZIP under another name, and is basically a collection of web pages along with some XML metadata. You should be able to unpack the EPUB and read it/annotate it with a web browser and any existing web annotation tool. If you saved the annotations to the same file tree, you could pack it all back up and ship the annotations with the file (you'd need to add any new files to the manifest to ensure that the file still validated).

That would be clumsy, but portable.
My new rule of thumb is that a startup doesn't exist unless it works outside of San francisco.
what about support for other architecture than x86. I saw some support node-webkit for armv7. Anyone have experience with desktop app running on arm based os such as ubuntu arm.
Ona http://company.ona.io solves data collection problems for development organizations. Current clients are the WHO, UNDP, HNEC - Libya, World Bank, and UNICEF.
The universe may / be as great as they say / but it wouldn't be missed / if it didn't exist.

- Piet Hein
Obviously it's great software. Does Kazuho work alone on this ? If it's meant to replace nginx, it needs a lot of other options/functions/extensions/modules/...

Is it getting commercial support/funds ?
It is still impressive to me by itself that Mozilla was able to enter the mobile OS market. That said, I wonder if and when Firefox OS will turn into a platform that it would be rational for you to target as a for-profit developer. Has anyone here on HN made any money off FxOS apps yet?
http://getmobilewise.com/
Mobile Wise is establishing a corps of Tech college graduates and young professionals who commit 6-12 months to empower citizens in developing countries on Digital Capability and we then provide employment opportunities to our fellows. We're currently running a pilot in Ivory Coast with the backing of Microsoft, promising so far!
This is basically just a satire of this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781768
People have thought of it -- there's probably just not that many applications where sprintf is a bottleneck. Especially enough of a bottleneck to justify a code gen tool.

The OCaml community, and probably others, have noted that printf is an embedded DSL and treat it as something to be compiled rather than interpreted.

http://okmij.org/ftp/typed-formatting/

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Printf.htm... (I have a memory of this being type safe and doing stuff at compile time but I don't see it now)

Rust borrows heavily from OCaml, and uses compile time macros for printf and regex, i.e. format! and regex! (the trailing ! means it's a macro that can be further compiled by the compiler).

http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/

http://doc.rust-lang.org/regex/regex/index.html
For those who wonder, it's a dependency needed for the userspace parts that import docker images into "native" systemd-nspawn containers.

It's not actually used in pid 1, but in the userspace tooling.
At scale it would not only have to be technologically possible but also economically feasible. If you can't afford it you can't do it even if you have the tech.
Create tabular PDF reports with Python, xtopdf and tablib
The book itself is excellent, one of my favorite books. It reads like Foucault if Foucault were a physicist.
Thank you! Just submitted it at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10652

Hope it helps!
Private Reserve works for this as well - but really, the most important thing when it comes to whisky is how you store it. The less air that's in the bottle, the longer it will last - also keeping it out of light. If your bottle is down to 1/3rd or 1/4th remaining it will change sooner than a full bottle. Changing isn't spoiling though - it's somewhat the same as the wine oxidation issue, but it has a different chemical reaction to the oxidation. It's still OK to drink, and some whiskys actually improve this way.
Because if the events move at 0.9c the light still moves at 'c', so the furthest stars (of which there are more than nearby ones) will be the first to show you that something is up. The light from the older events will reach us before the events or the light from later events will reach us.

Unless of course the whole thing originates in one of the stars nearby but the chances of that are smaller than that it will happen in a system further away.
Looks very promising!

I am not so much into web-servers (yet), but I found this in the feature list:

reverse proxy
HTTP/1 only (no HTTPS)

Are there any plans to add also HTTPS-support for reverse proxy? Since I have to include a secondary (Tornado) web-server unto my stack for dynamic pages.

It also puzzled me, that https is not supported, but in the benchmarks I found a part: "HTTPS/2 (reverse-proxy)". As I said, I am not so much in Web-servers and https/2, but that was a little confusing.
There's a place here in Philly that sells $1 slices of pizza and for an additional $1 you can buy a Post-It note to stick on the wall that someone in need can then redeem for a slice.

http://articles.philly.com/2014-06-03/news/50275817_1_pizza-...
I was thinking truncation to prop. I am sure it doesn't actually take HoTT, but I'm indoctrinated there right now mostly due to the accessibility of the HoTT book. Homotopy feels like a sensible place to do this sort of thing due to the emphasis on higher equality types, but I'm again sure you don't need that much to talk about this.

The type guards are what ruin the original example, but you could get more sophisticated types where sum is more useful than union if it's challenging to distinguish between the two types. You could always build your own tags, but that might not belong on the values.
Saw it pronounced 'squeal' in an article once. Have used that ever since.
That is one example of guided meditation. How is that contamination for a meditation study?
>Followed by 3 memorization questions.

Did you mean memoization, the optimization technique where you cache intermediate results? Or were they literally asking you to memorize and recite minutiae over the phone?

I always get these two words mixed up, and it doesn't help that Firefox doesn't think "memoization" is actually word.
Sony’ PlayStation, Xbox Live Taken Offline, Lizard Squad Claims Responsibility
Am I the only one that finds this highly suspicious? Bringing down XBL used to be a holy grail for DDOS script kiddies, and supposedly the new Xbox One uses a fully distributed version of XBL that's behind a global CDN (correct me if I'm wrong here). Beyond that, I'm not hearing reports of any attacks of larger-than-normal magnitude, which I would assume would be needed to take down the world's largest gaming platform.

Sounds like someone found an exploit in the Sony hack and figured out it applied to XBL as well, if you ask me. But I'm 100% not a security specialist so I wouldn't take my word for it.
> My bias is that life is highly improbable and that we will not find any other life in our universe.

It's probable enough for you to be writing this. The only options are 0, one and many. We can rule out '0'. That leaves us to decide whether the chances of us being the only one are larger than the chances that we are one of many. Obviously the second one has more chance of being true the one where there is only one. But we like to consider ourselves to be special so most people will believe the 'one'. Just like the sun used to revolve around the earth, now we're essentially seeing the universe as revolving around us. The alternative, that we're not special is not compatible with a lot of our collective culture.
As someone who spent the majority of this year living in Kenya I have to say that this was one of the weirdest things I had to adjust to. I was maybe living 10 minutes drive from the centre of Nairobi and no one could agree on what my actual address was. Directions were always given as references and as for receiving mail well good luck
Show HN: Vidcast, pandora for music videos
This is my first Nodejs app written in 11 hours using Sailsjs. Maybe some of you can find it useful, working on some new features like video reporting, thumbs ups and downs, and playlists.

Feedback welcome
Maybe it would be too expensive for Marriott to buy outright, but not for some equipment manufacture that can make up the money in licensing fees. That's what I was referring to -- someone like Cisco could acquire a chunk of spectrum, license it out for free for client side chipsets (call it 802.11x or something), and charge venues like Marriott for the base stations (and of course geographically control them so there is no overlap / interferience). Kind of like how Motorola owns the frequencies for some of their 2-way radios.
I wish more sites would use this (even with a fallback). Twitter right now is showing me timestamps in Pacific time because they trust their geolocation too much.
The words in the meditation primed particpants specifically for what they were measuring. They should have used a guided meditation that didn't mention judgement. Or alternatively, give an audio which mentioned these concepts without the meditation bit.
The Problem with Twitter Maps
> Angry employees are not good here.

On the contrary they're good for everybody.
Naples' "suspended coffee" keeps coming up in the news every few months, especially since Italy as a whole is in the grip of a long-running economic crisis that will likely continue for a very long time.

The hard truth is that this sort of individual charity doesn't make anything better in the long run. It's little more than grandstanding, as most charity is.
The high levels of ethanol in spirits slow the oxidation down tremendously. Unless you're taking over a year to go through a bottle I wouldn't sweat it. If you're worried about it, you could always transfer the spirits to smaller bottles after opening to minimize the air space.
In a nutshell: might makes right.
I actually moved to Kenya to help a friend setup a business there this year and had the good fortune of becoming involved with a number of NGOs of various sizes. One of the smaller startup style ones I was working with was http://www.earthenable.org where they are directly trying to bring down the child mortality rate dramatically by finding a really cheap and affordable way to ensure that families in Rwanda no longer have to live on a dirt floor (super prone to a lot of horrible diseases). They have some of the most impressive people I've ever met working on that project I seriously couldn't recommend them enough.
I guess because you're asking a question of the object - "is this empty?"