skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any time, multiple code and data launches per day. With redundant hardware it's assumed that you can always take one server out for, e.g. a kernel update. The extra capital investment is tiny compared to engineer salaries. The approach of having a huge test suite and test servers lucky started when the company was founded 10 years.

I think management values engineer's time (well happyness) over the (very rare) event of a rollback. In fact the strictest maintenance window is for upgrading the office, e.g. new router or VPN: after work hours.
I still have trouble seeing it – it still looks very much like a classic strawman attack to me. I’ll believe you when you say that this is not what you intended, and that this is not what you see when you read it, but it is not what I saw or see. I think we can respectfully agree to disagree here.

> > […] that you are free to set it anywhere you feel like […]

I didn’t really mean you personally; I probably should have written “one” instead of “you”. The reason I didn’t is that it flows much worse, and “you” is also often used in that sense.
New York City to Start Its Own ID Card Program
I thought we just called them "people".
I really hope that this is a joke. I figured that clicking "Buy Now" would go to a page admitting that this was a joke, but it did not.

We knew that this was a bad idea in 2002, so I don't know why anyone would think that we'd change our mind now.
Do MapReduce with Docker containers in pfs v0.3
How do you search HN with Google? My Google-fu is lacking.
I'd love to see the cryptographic code that people get from elance for $100. I'd especiallu like to see a quick audit of that code.
I'm a 6'6"/198cm man with broad shoulders and a very deep voice. And yet I constantly get talked over by people, so I know what it's like. If you plough on, you're considered the interrupting arsehole. I've had times when I've been halfway through my second or third sentence and people just start talking over me, and when I plough on to finish my thought, I get the looks like I'm the problem. I've had the same thing happen when I've tried to recover an idea that I introduced but someone else took and ran with.

You call it 'being mousey', but it's not about being timid - there are social effects in play here, and it's often not worth the social cost to 'power through'.

Edit: thinking further, I think a part of it is upbringing. I was raised to believe that interrupting people while they're speaking is rude. The people who talk over others are generally the same people; they seem to have had upbringings where conversations were more free-for-all, fight to make yourself heard. I'm not sure, just seems to fit.
Thank you for the detailed feedback; we'll work on that!
Cursor size can change, but it's a non-interesting idea that people thought was cool in 1998 and learned otherwise.
inurl:news.ycombinator.com
Yes, I guess to put a finer point on it, lex and yacc were available in 1975, and the first version of TeX was started in 1977, with a 1982 rewrite.

(OT, I just learned that that Eric Schmidt was a co-author of the 1975 version of lex.)
Looks like "install new smileys" malware all over again.
Quote from the article:

"Very few researchers study or even teach sulphur chemistry anymore," said Nazar. "It's ironic we had to look so far back in the literature to understand something that may so radically change our future."

I wonder if is there a structured database of scientific material to address such research?
Sorry, I meant to make that more as a broader point, not about that phrase specifically.
Are you sure there have been no attempts that were disrupted because the communication was intercepted? those that haven't been disclosed to the public?

Also, just because the suspects in the cases you mentioned were well known to the authority doesn't mean their communication was monitored 24/7. We simply don't know.
Lavaboom Winter Update: we're ready
T-Mobile is German. And yes, same company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile).
Your use of "overcompensate" seems to suggest unequal treatment is necessary for equality. That's a head scratcher.

For your example to be relevant, shouldn't the programmer reserve her superb documentation skills for members of repressed groups?
Earth has a very big magnetic field, but not a very strong one.
As I mention in my profile, anonymous argumentative people get less leeway. And you in particular seem to be looking for things to argue with, not trying to understand my point. So this is the last reply unless yours make a substantial jump in quality.

I am saying that what you claim as a clear bright line is in fact a wide blurry line that zigzags all over the place. The majority of Americans screw with their metabolisms and brain chemistry every day without the involvement of a doctor. And they do it based on nothing more than, "Well, that seems ok."

That Modafinil currently requires a prescription while caffeine and alcohol don't is mainly historical accident. That tells us very little about their relative safety. So again, your conflation of "legal" with 'safe" so you can call people insane doesn't really work.
Very good observation. It's unfortunate that this topic seems to allow for zero debate. There are quite a few reasons that someone wouldn't want genders treated different, but even stating that is an invitation to massive down voting.

I'm still sad we lost meritocracy. I come from a poor background and am a minority but today I'm a successful developer. I fought my way up the chain with hard work, self-study and being good at what I do. It's sad that now a lot of the same people who didn't like that I was advancing are now espousing the urgent need to eliminate meritocracy (which is really the only thing I can call the ladder I climbed up) in favor of identity politics.
I am definitely new to HN. A friend suggested I share my 7-part guide here. So, here I am :)
As a motorcyclist I am split about these things. I don't want to share the road, to put my life in the hands of robots. On the other hand these things will make for great fun on a mountain highway such as, my favorite, BC's sea-to-sky between Vancouver and Whistler.

What will it take to "brick" this car? An orange cone place in front? Would a piece of chewing gum stuck over a laser emitter require a trip back to the dealership? How close to the front bumper does one need to be to trigger automatic panic braking? Would pulling alongside the car at speed cause it to voluntarily pull over? These experiments will be fun, at least for those not-old not-rich people outside the car.
actually like this better, and works better and less buggy for me for some reason
Apple's small MIT office has room for about 65, docs show
It's not vimeo. Downloading the video and playing it locally with VLC yields the same problems.
I live in Alberta (south of Yukon) and it's the law here that all new vehicles be sold with a block heater. I imagine it's the same there. We don't see -60 usually, but -40 once or twice a year is normal.
I wish someone would bring these back into production. All the patents should be long expired. They are going for close to $1000 on eBay, which is too much for me.
I'd rather have a hacker have 100% of my info than the NSA.

A hacker can steal my identity and drain my bank account.I can survive that, and I can defend myself by being careful.

The NSA can arrange to have me blackmailed, my reputation destroyed, or even killed, and they are confirmed to do this to people in an industrial fashion.
This is fascinating from a startup funding point of view, especially the rather bracing bluntness in the last paragraph ("Are they going to fuck things up?").
It's big but it isn't all that strong at the surface of the planet.
Gave me cancer
I am new to SEO and thought that I could just pick my keywords out of thin air and then everything would be alright. Come to find out there is a science to it, and Nick's course has the formula. It worked great for me and I was even able to find lower competitive keywords that are easier to rank for and will be bringing me in extra cash flow. Thanks again Nick.
OEMs don't customize windows. Google isn't actually capable of shoving proper OS updates to all android phones. It's the manufacturers and service providers that want you to throw out your phone every year and drag their feet on updating anything.
Hi Everyone,

1/2 of founding team here. We'll be following this thread all day to chat about the release. Excited to hear from all of you.
I work in this sector, and what you say is correct, however it is important to note that in TMS the fields are pulsed over millisecond time intervals. In doing so they can induce an electric field which can cause neurons to fire. The time varience is crucial. A 3T static field from the magnet of an MR scanner is far less dangerous than a 1T field pulsed in the vicinity of your brain. That is providing that there aren't any ferromagnetic objects close to the MR scanner!
Yes it is, Community[0] is actually the same as Professional just with a different license, the offer does also include DreamSpark[1] so you can get a bunch of other tools, which you could always get free as a student.

Looks like GitHub/Microsoft are doing some cross marketing as DreamSpark now includes the GitHub Student Developer Pack[2].

[0] http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...

[1] https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Software-Catalog.aspx

[2] https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=92
they really should have been set by each software

Yes, and it seems to me that distros (at least those intended for "enterprise") should be hardened by default also. If I install RHEL or OEL and then have to run a Chef or Puppet config to "harden" it, something is wrong.
Spies should be able to monitor all online messaging, says David Cameron
What Does 2015 Have in Store for App Marketing and Promotion
That doesn't sit well with Postgres' MVCC system, since between updates and VACUUMs you'd either need a secondary heap or the heap would need row-adjacent space reserved for the updates.

FWIW MS SQL Server has this problem with snapshot isolation. An inserted or updated row lives in TempDB until the DB finds time to push the rows back to the cluster (I can't recall exactly when), so the more insert/update heavy your workload is the more tempdb space you'll need. This also makes selects slower since it has to check the row map for ones that are current in tempdb.

Could work well for infrequently changing tables though.
Upvote for Harrison Bergeron reference. Would be on my list of 10 things everyone should read and most people haven't.
Car makers do actually purchase (complete, in many cases) subsystems from suppliers. Features like dashboards, multimedia systems, LCD screens, the vehicle speed projection on screen, line hold, braking assistance, injection systems including the control unit and many others from 3rd party suppliers like Bosch, Continental, Delphi, Autoliv etc. Many patents behind innovations and inventions in modern cars are not held by automakers themselves, but by their suppliers (including software).

Of course, automakers do have a SW department of their own and their involvement varies from project to project.
Dyson's Latest Feat of Over-Engineering: A Filterless Vacuum
I'm not sure there are any disagreements here beyond language.

How about: "Try for equality, and understand that due to your own biases this might just feel like overcompensating."
As they say: you can't have your cake and eat it too.

If Google takes credit for those phones and stamps its logo of approval on the phone, they need to take the blame for the consequences.
Nashville Software School instructor here. AK was definitely green coming in, but was one of the hardest working people I have seen come through the program. She networked, asked questions, extended herself with every project, and ultimately took ownership and made the most of every opportunity she had during her time here.

Takeaway: Bootcamps can only do so much. What you do while your there is what makes the difference.
HN is unable to identify jokes.
Wow thank you for pointing this out. I couldn't figure out why once in a while AFT would completely screw my Macbook. You're my hero of the day.
> The extra overhead that supporting an additional language implies with hybrid websites (even if you disregard JS completely, external code like advertisements would introduce it). People can claim that the overhead is negligible with today's hardware, but this is not always the case, especially when you are trying to get as much performance as possible for a web-based game engine.

If you're worried about performance, why are you advocating asm.js? That's always going to be less performant than direct browser support for a language.

> We should be working hard to kill Flash and Java completely from the web, substituting them with modern and standard web technologies.

The JVM (on which Java is only the most prominent of many languages) is standard and modern. So was Dart. So is Lua.
http://www.pier24.org

Great Photography collection in SF that meets this criteria it seems. Definitely worth a visit.
UK is just getting worse for internet freedom each year. The country has already curtailed free speech with its libel laws [1,2], internet censorship [3], and newspaper targeting [4].

I wonder if people of UK are like frog in boiling water? Do they not realize that their rights are being removed with each passing law? I hope at least tech companies will move out of UK, prompting the UK government to ponder over its actions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Associatio...

[2] No one can make fun of Her Royal Majesty, and UK prime minister was on the parade showing solidarity with dead French satirists

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-targets-g...
Get top cash for cars and free car remoal in Auckland
US military Twitter account 'hacked by Isil'
I think maybe the important question is people having a lack of faith in these stuff.You can't have faith when all you see is everytime the same thing repeating one way or the another.
Ask HN: How do you live in the moment?
It's often said that it's psychologically healthy to "live in the moment". I had never given this much thought, but have recently noticed how much time and mental effort I spend on worrying about the future and regretting previous bad decisions. This is seems to be a waste of brainpower and often distracts from the task at hand. However, I don't find it easy to stop. Can any HNers describe how they learned to live in the moment? Any suggested reading on the subject would also be appreciated.
Notepad++ Site Evidently Hacked
Seems bad that it disables IPv6 "for security".
In the "just graduated from college and finding sober life a little difficult" sense, I would imagine ...
> grep /usr/share/dict/words -e "^pars[^']<star>[^s]$"

(I changed a literal asterisk to <star> to avoid formatting.) You get a few more options if you remove the anchor at the beginning:

grep /usr/share/dict/words -e "pars[^']<star>[^s]$"

For example, 'sparse' seems like a good name for a lightweight parser library.
Resume Signal vs. Resume Noise
Node.js Tools RC2 for Visual Studio: improved stability, TypeScript support
It's a free market, and the vendor has all the incentives to maximize the money-in minus the money-out. If reducing the money-out means selling cheap junk that anyone could crack with a $7 microcontroller, so be it.

The invisible hand, fumbling as usual.
US Central Command's YouTube, Twitter Accounts Hacked by IS Group
> Are you sure there have been no attempts that were disrupted because the communication was intercepted? those that haven't been disclosed to the public?

You think politicians would stay quiet about them if there were?
You're entirely right, it is the entire point of his proposals.

Why else would he be floating proposals he knows can never pass, except to be winning cheap gains from the suckers who don't see it for what it is? A president proposing a huge program like free college for everyone without controlling Congress is basically talking to a wall.

Obama is trying to help the Democratic party with its stagnant voter base problem. The people who would regularly vote Democrat have moved far to the left of the Democratic mainline and are tired of seeing nothing come out of the Democratic party, meaning that they no longer have any motivation to vote for Democrats-- not to say they are voting for Republicans either.

Sure, you're going to say Obamacare came out of the Democracts-- but the left leaning segment of the Democratic base didn't want Obamacare, they wanted single payer, and Obamacare fell horrendously short of that. This election was a wakeup call for the Democrats, and indicated to them that they have lost their base to the more radical members of their party like Elizabeth Warren.

Thus, we see the Democrats attempt to show people that they still have big ideas, because they are incapable of showing people that they have big actions.
> As a motorcyclist I am split about these things. I don't want to share the road, to put my life in the hands of robots.

The vast majority of car/motorcycle accidents are due to inattention on the part of one of the drivers. If the car is driven by a computer, it will be _far_ less likely to do something that would endanger you. Its 'vision' will be better, and its decisions more consistent (and conservative).
Gitcolony – New tool for improving code quality – Code Reviews and QA
Heatmap shows which SF neighborhoods undergoing most (and least) construction
If you're hell bent on wrecking havoc on people-movers on the road you could easily do the same experiments today with lightrail cars, buses that use electric power lines, etc etc. What would it take to stop or derail a lightrail car? 2x4s along the track? Placing orange cones in front? Getting sent to jail for putting people's lives at risk?
The Chicken and Egg Problem with iBeacons
It is not laggy at all on my HP Probook 6545b, which is pretty crap compared to MBPs.
How These Delivery Startups Attract Their Pack
How to raise successful children
Do a Fermi estimate on the cost of that service.
as a side note, you can put the battery back in your pocket with a hand warmer, and it comes back to life. I tend to do this on cold days with my phone also, so that the batteries stay warm in case I need to use them.
jrells made my point for me.

I put "overcompensate" in quotes because our brains are poorly equipped to judge equity objectively. We have to use hacks like "You cut the cake, and I'll choose which half is mine" for that reason.
I was actually going to reply something along the same lines. These sorts of services exist on both iOS and Android (can't speak to Windows Phone). Not for the provided example, but for Android, the Intents like you mentioned, and iOS has a similar concept for things like "Apps that are capable of routing/mapping" and possibly other things. Neither of these are done through the example "standard prefix," but both are through by adding some standard permission or key to your app.
Relax, it's just a figure of speech.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you have 3 people writing code right now according to your Team page on the website.

Isn't it way more confusing to have a bunch of different code repos that only a single person owns? Sounds to me like you'll be locking up too much code in a single individual's head. Not to mention if they're using different frameworks and libraries you're only going to add to the headache.

For smaller teams, it usually is best to stick with one or two codebases/languages for your backend. Sure there are often "better" tools for specific applications but at the end of the day there's usually a way to handle them with your existing codebase that will let you scale for now.

As an example, we needed a robust messaging framework to support our chatrooms and private messaging features. We originally built it out in Tornado, then switched to NodeJS with a rabbitMQ backend, and finally realized it was easier for us to just use PubNub and fire off the pushes from our main Django app. It'll scale with us for probably 10x our current size and by that time we'd have a team of 4-5 people dedicated just to this feature anyways.
Agile Development and Goals
Beyond some low value, the IRS expects you to get an independent evaluation of fair market value for tax deduction. I'm sure you would get audited otherwise.
It makes perfect sense that they would go to their department head. They knew him and most likely had a reasonable relationship with him given that they were comfortable discussing this over dinner/drinks; as opposed to a university administrator that they had no prior relationship with.
Relatively weak MFs could kill as an indirect result of the injury:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/18405/mri-magnet-madness
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544233

The effect depends on field signal characteristics (frequency, amplitude, wave shape), duration of exposure, genetics and metabolism. Some bacteria can be negatively affected even by 10 mT.
In clinical trials people were "safely" exposed to up to 3 T.
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Twitter: Goodbye, I Quit
Anandtech already did a review..

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8147/the-intel-ssd-dc-p3700-re...
>> people here regularly consume frozen meat

>Unless they eat it while it's still frozen, why is this noteworthy?

eating frozen meat is a lifestyle detail there. Note - it is high fat meat (or fatty fish) which doesn't become firm hard brick like lean meat would. Also there is no mentioning of vodka(diluted ethanol) which goes very well (and i'd suspect - just from my gut (i mean real gut :) feeling helps to digest) with those fat meat/fish slices.
Cool (sic). We don't have them mandatory in new cars - presumably because it would be a trade barrier within EU to require them only here, and we're too small to force the Mediterranians have them.

[edit] BTW there is a legend here that in Siberia people actually keep a fire under engines to warm it up. I even found a photograph of lorries to support this:
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/workers...

Not sure if I would do it with gasoline engines. With diesel engines it's quite understandable, particularly if you have summer-grade diesel fuel that starts to congeal in -15C.
@ddorian43 I agree but I'm also wondering if perhaps I missed something?

From the article:

"SQL means different things to different people. Depending on the context, it could mean transactional workloads, short reads/writes"

Really?

I thought SQL was just the query language on top of a database. All the transactional safety has nothing to do with SQL but more of a database technology topic like is the database ACID compliant.

TLDR but from the first few lines of the article, it seems like the author is confusing SQL or expecting it to do something it was never intended.
I've done a 50/50 (well 49.9%/50.1%) unpaid deal once with a non-technical co-founder on a side-project. The product (website) was a key piece of course but while I started coding I gave my co-worker tasks, too. E.g. logo design, project plan, research.

Worked great for two months. He was waiting for a finished product but I still gave him tasks: write complete help pages, full FAQ, marketing plan, list of bloggers to contact after launch. I waited 6-8 weeks and got various excuses. At that point it was better to end the deal early.

What I'm saying is: make sure the co-founder is actually putting in time. He/she can't just wait for a (almost) finished product to sell. Basically make him/her work hard (with goals and deadlines and everything) for your engineering time. If he/she doesn't doesn't put in time then you might see the same low time commitment when it comes to fund raising, marketing or PR later.