skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When my kids and I play with Legos, I think back to then I was a kid, and all the things we could build with our big box of maybe 20 different kinds of block. They were very compositional.

Today, we have a million different pieces from various sets, and it is difficult to put them together in ways that conform to what we imagine, so they aren't as much fun.

Is this the same idea?
Virtual Databases
What Is Bitshares
I'd have gone with more ram just to have it, but 8gb hasn't proven to be a problem yet.

Storage space has never been a problem; my work is always on some server somewhere (dropbox, time capsule, a server, gmail, etc...) same reason i never get iPhones bigger then 16gb - most of my data, music, images are usually an app / website away
But the trip time is only 2 additional months - which sure beats waiting over two years for the next launch window!
Regardless if North Korea's existence is a product of errors in US foreign policy of the era, I fail to see how that warrants defending North Korea, much less arguing that the US is somehow just as bad.

As far as Guantanamo Bay, I don't agree with torture in any form and believe the detention facility there should not exist.

That said, something like Yodok isn't really on the same plane of existence. I would class it as somewhere in between the Nazi concentration camps of WW2 and Unit 731's atrocities. Guantanamo Bay may as well be Club Med compared to that level of sadism and suffering.
Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype
Very good point. I've mainly run into "everyone says we have to have a Twitter account, so we have one" which correlates to an unknown ROI. Makes sense.

I hadn't seen Beatrix. I'll check that out. Is it similar to curata and other "content curation" tools?
Could you not just use an expressive programming language and limit yourself to its more readable components?
Why Is Math Different Now
I suspect it does, given that the likelihood of conceiving a child (from protected or unprotected sex), as well as the likelihood of a female knowing who the father of her child is, increase as relationships become longer and more exclusive.
Can you add at least one row worth of empty items? They'll spill into an extra row and get stretched, but you won't see them.
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley on Steve Jobs: 'We Were Meant to Be a Team'
How about the case insensitivity on the passwords? How does that fit with DES encryption, or any kind of encryption at all?
Oh no. Anonymous is going to launch a DDoS Attack! Everyone run and be scared.
Blocking ilovevitaly.com, darodar.com, econom.co Referer Spam
If we consider the entire world, the percentage of city dwellers drops to roughly 50%

I'm genuinely interested in the benefits of forgoing safety equipment that is readily available, easy to use, and proven to save lives.

Perhaps my experience is skewed because I almost exclusively do mountain biking. You couldn't pay me enough to ride on urban streets contending with cars.
Internet Outage in North Korea, Network Researcher Says
Graphic Showing Links from Many Different Location
Also, if you go with prosody you can install https://github.com/dgoulet/prosody-otr to enforce OTR on chats.
Apples: To peel or not to peel?
Did the mouse have to be the perfect pointing device that simulated the desktop perfectly?

Every time the goalposts move, the playing fields gets bigger.
This, quality work is going to be brokered through an agency, not an eBay for freelancers.
It's not just tech companies doing this. At Volvo we did it as part of our continuous integration process. It was great fun, it really helped you to understand the business better.
Building and Test Driving a Clojure Webapp
Why is Appointment Reminder on a .org top-level domain?
The latest version is a work in progress - for example, near the start of chapter VI we find "The rest of this chapter is under development. Use HtDP/1e in the meantime.". I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a PDF version until it was finished.
Is this possible with CSS grid layout? Flexbox and grid were supposed to be complementary but Flexbox seems to have a major head start on actual implementations.
Hey HackerNews: I'm looking for technical people to Beta test SuperTCP
Noted it down. Thanks for your feedback.
Instead of charging tuition, I wonder if employers would be willing to pay Flatiron $15K per hire as a finder/training fee.

That might be a good test of demand for junior Ruby/Rails/Javascript developers, in addition to how good Flatiron is at preparing them.
Selecting an incremental encoder
S6-2.0.0.0 is out
I take it that most of the people commenting on the issue in the submitted article, and most of the people commenting on the issue here on Hacker News, have visited the United States. All of us can read and write English. But how many of those people have ever been to north Korea, or even to south Korea? How many can read Korean and regularly follow the Korean-language press from both sides of the demilitarized zone, or regularly have conversations with Korean friends? Applying critical thinking to a complicated issue usually requires domain-specific knowledge. One part of the domain-specific knowledge here is knowledge of methods of unauthorized access to computer networks and computer security measures, which many Hacker News participants have. But another part of the domain-specific knowledge needed to size up the disputed issues in this case is knowledge of Korean internal politics, and I think that very few Hacker News participants have that knowledge or even attempt to gain it.

AFTER EDIT: Someone's silent disagreement with my comment is evidence as I type in this edit. On my part, I'd be glad to hear from people who have all of the relevant forms of information about what happened recently to Sony and about how various governments have responded to that before making up my mind. So please join in the thoughtful discussion here if you have knowledge of the geopolitics involved or of other issues I didn't even bring up above. What's most persuasive in any discussion is actual evidence, and thoughtful discussion of evidence from reliable sources is what I like best about Hacker News.
You're correct, but that doesn't fix the first activation, which is what I wrote the post about. The real problem is that I thought I had two factor activated for months when I didn't.
SEO. It's a an exact match for the search term he was gunning for, and the .com wasn't available but the .org was. Exact-match domains get hit with the +15 wand of visibility in search results, and the whole .com vs .org distinction isn't as black/white as it used to be.
That's low-speed sorting. This is high-speed sorting:

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

That's a high-speed computer-vision optical pea sorter. Yes, each and every pea in that huge flow of peas is examined by a computer vision system. Tiny high-speed air jets are kicking out the rejects during the brief period the peas are in free flight.

Here's a blueberry sorting machine, throwing out anything that doesn't look like a round blue blueberry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CyWvnh4YtE

That machine could sort M&Ms by color, easily.

The food industry has lots of machines like that. The technology was first applied to large fruit like tomatoes. It's now so cheap it's applied to rice and grains.
Knowing absolutely nothing about oil and the industry, I don't view paying $3 a gallon now vs $4.29 a couple months ago as a "crisis."
The modern government standard for classified systems is 15 characters minimum.
Yes, I could take some time and write it myself. Take a look at hdf5[1] and the features they have around meta information, data chunking, page level compression for efficient reading of sub areas of data spaces. It is a non-trivial amount of functionality but allows some pretty amazing performance, for example see what pytables [2] has built on top of it. Now if they had just made it easier to attach it to a wire as well as a file.

[1] http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
[2] http://www.pytables.org/moin
The utility of Ockham's Razor in an argument is simple: if the best argument you've got to distinguish two or more propositions based on the evidence is Ockham's Razor, you don't have an argument and you aren't using the evidence.

This is because Ockham's Razor says nothing but: "The proposition with the highest prior plausibility has the highest posterior plausibility after updating based on evidence that increases the plausibility of all propositions about equally."

"When you hear hoofbeats think horse not zebra" simply reflects the fact that horses are--all else being equal--more likely than zebras, and hoofbeats are just as good evidence for zebras as horses. They do nothing to differentiate between the possible explanations of the hoofbeats, so you go with the prior.

The "simplest" explanation in Ockhamian terms--if it means anything at all--is just the proposition with the highest Bayesian prior. This doesn't mean it's wrong to use Ockham's Razor, but it also isn't right, and if it's the best argument you've got then you need a better argument.

Your reduction of the Ockhamian "simplest explanation" to "someone really wanted to hurt Sony" is a lovely example of this principle, and makes explicit that the evidence fails to differentiate between the minions of the twit in charge of North Korea and the minions of various other malicious organizations around the world. I was disappointed with the Ockhamian post-script to the article, as the actual analysis is making precisely this point.
It may be much worse than you think. Another large brokerage company I know of has similar password requirements. They also have a phone banking system, to use it you have to touch tone in your password. On a whim I tried entering the keypad version of my password on the website and surprise! it worked. Luckily for me there is zero customer liability for fraud on their retirement accounts.
Been dealing with this all morning, finally got all of my zones migrated to Route53, but with the amount of time it takes for DNS changes to propagate we are going to be feeling this all day.

Any advice for the future on how to add redundancy to my DNS setup? Is it as simple as maintaining Nameservers on two different providers and pointing to them both on my domain?
Patrick answers this in his post:

It wasn’t the world’s most inspired naming choice, but the $8.95 I paid for the domain name is probably the best ROI of anything I’ve ever bought. (AR is virtually guaranteed to be a mortal lock on the query [appointment reminder] due to the combination of the exact match domain bonus and the fact that most links to it naturally cite the name of the company. The fact that it is a .org is irrelevant, except in that the .org was $8.95 and the company which owned the .com wanted $30,000 for it.)
>You can read hundred different programming books but none of the theory books will teach you more than just the syntax of the language/ programming paradigm.

Huh? That's not true. I wouldn't call a book that teaches you a programming language a programming book. Art of Computer Programming is a programming book, and I guarantee that you'll learn more than just a programming language from it. Or Introduction to Algorithms. Or books about operating systems, or computer graphics. These are all programming books.
oh the glue, the glue! M&M sorters are great projects though. I am impressed that the bluetooth link has the frequency response to actually get to the blue ones before they have fallen what appears to be a few inches.
Sweet. This is way useful.
Ask HN: YouTube channel(s) for different websites or not
Hello HN Community,
I'm wondering... I have a couple of websites that I want to have youtube videos e.g (site 1: cooking, site 2: code tutorials, site 3: interviews.) -Would you recommend to have each site on their own youtube/gmail account or have different channels on one youtube/gmail account?
I'm asking because I had one account banned from the Adsense/Monetization feature on youtube for no real reason -- and worry if I create other channels on that account those videos/new channels are going to have the same treatment and get disabled.
Any thoughts on this and suggestions on other methods for monetization are appreciated.
Thank you!
"Like probably millions of people I have a Schwab brokerage account, and that account holds a good portion of my savings for retirement."

OpSec 101: replace that sentence with "Like probably millions of people I have a Schwab brokerage account, and that account holds just a few bucks of play money to try out trading strategies."
Same here ! I really like how it suits all of my needs out-of-the-box.
How we've duplicated a native app using Ember.js
> do you really believe that there should exist any agreement that can never be annulled, no matter what?

Definitely. I believe that most everyday transactions, like when I buy a loaf of bread from a store, should be like that. In general, most simple transactions that occurs within a very short time period without any stipulations for future action from any present party need not be annullable. My claim is that code licensing is an example of this of course any given license only applies to the state of the code when it was released with that license.
One important concept that I came across was Opportunity Cost -- the notion of quantifying what you give up when you chose one option over another. I asked myself: Why am I rushing to pay off loans with 3% to 6% interest rates when the S&P has historically returned 11%?

This isn't quite the most sage advice. The opportunity cost of student loans is actually the interest that compounds over long periods of time. Making high student loan payments (as a large percent of your income) early on, and taking advantage of the maximum deductible portion of student loan interest can be smart. (http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc456.html) But again, depends on how you "play" in the S&P.
I know exactly how you feel. I just made my Github this semester, I am not a great coder and most of my code isn't that great. But I am so happy I put it up, it pushes me to improve both my code and my programming skills. Mostly because i know people will see it, but I do not care about that anymore. I just enjoy doing it.

Don't be afraid, everyone starts somewhere. Today you might not be the best, or tomorrow, but you will improve.
RAX has a 6.3 billion market cap. If an org this size -- specialising in hosting -- cannot field a DDOS-resistant DNS server, who can?

I'd like to migrate or even perhaps add a secondary DNS but RS DNS doesn't seem to even offer zone transfers (the best you can do, I guess, is to use the API to get your records out).
Enjoying deflation is un-American! I don't get it either.
Why doesn't NASA grow up from the government's training wheels and becomes a for-profit offering its satellite placing services like everyone else is doing to turn up a buck? Why do I have to subsidize this when they could be making their own money?

If 3% of the defense budget is very little then give it to my industry so I can work without having to deliver any tangible product just like the folks at NASA. If they can deliver they can sell it. If no one wants to buy it then we should not be funding an enterprise that produces goods and services that no one wants.

I do think turning the disabled into cyborgs would be a much better investment of money than placing a glorified remote-controller toy car in a rock far away from Earth. Talk about inconsequential!

But yes you're right, NASA goofing off with our money might pay off 100 years from now. That's much better than being able to replace my limbs today if I get into an accident. /SARCASM
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Perhaps you should use www.reddit.com
Indeed, the zero-administration of ejabberd over many years and a few hosts makes it a sort of peace haven in-between grappling with the many tentacles of the email system...
+1 for Prosody. I run it from my server at home. Easy to install. Don't remember the last time I had to do any maintenance. My XMPP details are in my profile if anyone wants to test federation.
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I think you mean DES based crypt and not DES encryption.
Because what people charge is based on what their costs are. If you have to provide staff, location, etc. for a longer period of time it drives up your costs which in turn drives up your prices.
I was a huge fan, and paying customer, of Evernote for years. I gave it up and have a system that fits my personal tastes/requirements a little bit better.

When I worked at Google last year I got used to using Google Drive heavily. The search working inside Google's network basically accesses most of your working environment - really nice. I am (mostly) retired now, and using Google services like GDrive as an external user is not as nice, but getting there: GDrive search indexes all of your documents, documents shared with you, and (I think this may be a recent addition) all of Google+ (surprisingly useful since I mostly have tech people in my circles).

My current "memory offload system" uses fine grained folders in Dropbox for different things like business ideas, server notes, ideas for writing, and my leanpub book manuscripts. For everything else I toss everything into GDrive and rely on search. As other people have commented, it really clears the mind to reliably store ideas for future use.

Note: earlier this year I tried the 30 day trial of Office 365. I found the OneDrive storage and notes app to be pretty good. The support on my MacBook Air, Android phone, and iPad was surprisingly good. I might convert over to Office 365 someday.
Coin, Wocket, Plastc: The all-in-one cards trying to sprint ahead of Apple Pay
I live in an oil rich province and many of my friends are worried about their jobs.
The experts usually brief their soldiers about the tactical plan...
Tigase supports mongodb now, which removes a single point of failure. Nice feature.
Qudos.io – Product Hunt for Dev Tools
good to know that things are progressing over there. it would be nice if the packaging ecosystem was more canonical like rubygems and bundler but if it works well then that's awesome.
That's the value you get at the largest scale. There are several smaller scales at which education delivers value. There's the individual course, and there are the individual skills you learn.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that the flatiron school is not teaching much in the way of linear algebra or discrete mathematics, for example. That may not be a hindrance in many software jobs, probably most, but both are absolutely essential to the things I do day-to-day. I have met precious few developers who majored in something other than CS and can really grok a lot of the stuff I work on, simply because they don't have the education.

The exception is people who've taken the time to flesh out their knowledge with online classes from sources like Coursera. This gave them nothing comparable to a degree or completion of an educational program. They just took one class, and it wasn't even 12 weeks long. But that one class still provided enormous value.

The other exception is people who did attend a college-level CS program, but didn't complete it for whatever reason - dropped out, switched majors, whatever. They didn't get that BS in CS, but they still got a lot of value and were able to do something with it.
I really liked some of the old-school command line stuff like reverse history search and Snoopy swearing (!$). However, I still prefer Fish to Bash and Zsh, even though those two things are not included. It gets the really important stuff just right and makes the rest configurable.

Btw, is it just my imagination or is using Ctrl-c with Fish much faster?
Rather than spawn a whole bunch of different submissions on this same story, I am replying to this submission, the first I have seen on this breaking news story, with some links to other reporting. The Washington Post blog report is titled "North Korea’s Internet is going suspiciously haywire" and links to some other online sources. Verge reports "North Korea's internet is having serious problems"[2] linking to one of the same sources, a site called North Korea Tech.[3] The New York Times reports, "Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses."[4] Most of the usual news outlets are confirming this story now.

I suppose once the breaking news aspect of this story is followed up some more, there will be the usual rounds of speculation and claims and counterclaims about what is going on and who is causing the apparent country-wide Internet outage. I'll refrain from speculating here until I have gathered more news.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/22...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/22/7434201/north-korea-inter...

[3] "North Korea's Internet link is flaky today"

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/12/22/north-koreas-intern...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspe...
Something I do not understand:

- barrel price went from $100 to $60. That's $40 drop.

- Price went from $3.60 to $2.80 a gallon in my city. That's $0.80 only

I don't get it.
They won't be prosecuted, of course. I ostracized those in my life who supported it. That may be the best anyone can do against it, given our 2-party oligopoly.
Going to improve the web-site of my parents non-profit. Also going to try to come up with a algorithm/ or just try to figure out their target market for donations.
You have $200 to spend. Should you buy a Chromebook or a Windows laptop?
Any guess on the how? Part of me is just betting they flip on the Priority Flag (if that hack still even works today).
Some decent suggestions brought up from a few weeks ago here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716662

Seems namecheap and DNsimple have suffered from these attacks lately. I had some sites affected by namecheaps DDOS.
2014 Technology Predictions Series: Xplenty on Big Data
> What makes these assertions true? Research/data/polls etc would be helpful. It is hard to accept such wide-ranging claims without some proof.

Well, the article gave 10 or 20 examples. That's not proof, but it is data...
The Medieval Origins of Modern Logos
I think an interesting place to start would be trying to break the UCC down into a numbers/data based system.

Similarly, it would be interesting to try and take a relatively conventional transaction (incorporation documents, convertible notes, Series A) and place the key economic terms in a spreadsheet, and then incorporate the other legal boilerplate (indemnification, securities exemptions, etc.) by reference to a standard T&Cs-type document - I know some incubators already do this by having the key terms as a "fill-in-the-blank field (I think AngelPad does this..). The agreement would then just be a spreadsheet-like form, with the other terms incorporated by reference.
I bet it must be an amazing relief to be able to talk specifics of AR, after so long of having to be quiet about the details. Congrats on your success, Patrick.
Ha, came here to post this as well. High speed is relative :] I've done similar hardware things in the past and my initial ideas when I read the orignal article were:

- what kind of sensor are they using that they need 2 seconds to scan?

- in comparision with 2 seconds, a phone camera with results sent over bluetooth is indeed fast. Not my branch at all, but I wonder what latencies he's looking at? Should surely be tens if not hundreds of mSec?
Taking the afternoon off for an interview, and taking a week off to write code that may or may not turn out into a job offer are two very different things.