skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crosswalk comes to Ionic - 10x performance boost on Android 4.0-4.3 devices
Stability in the sense that, if you wrote something against TeX and find bugs, the bugs are yours, not TeX's. There are plenty of programs which "have not changed" but retain bugs.

I did not say that the life of TeX was bug free. Just that its current status is essentially bug free. Now, I do grant that a large class of bugs, namely regressions, are renderred impossible by the development style. But, I personally think there may be lessons in that.

For your speed claim, you need more than "it doesn't work how I think it should." Numbers, or you are just pipe dreaming. Clojure is relevant here, because it is a recent attempt to modernize TeX. It is slower, by the author's admission. Any examples that aren't slow?

I mean, yes, I understand your point about I/O being somewhat of a red flag for speedups. I'm curious why it has never panned out that this low hanging fruit has dropped.

For d), I just have to disagree. As someone that doesn't even know Pascal, I found it approachable. Are there parts that are tough? Sure, it is a full product. Try reading parts of git's source. (Granted, the parts that get heavy math in reasoning about are particularly tough, but I consider that my failing.)
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Ask HN: Do you have business insurance?
I am sitting on a potential client that requires our company to have insurance. My group is small and all of my staff is contracted and work remotely.

I looked into Hiscox and it sort of seemed straight forward in terms of policies and what we do but, I would rather hear what is used (and the expense) from actual customers vs an insurance salesman. I was told Professional Liability is what would best fit me since it encompasses data loss, business to business services and software usage.

We have been in business for 9 years now and this is the first time this has come up, so whether you are a freelancer or business owner I would like to know:

1) Who you use for business insurance
2) What does your policy cover
3) Your expense (not necessary if you are not comfortable sharing)
4) How long have you had insurance

I almost feel silly for not having this before but, I have also read elsewhere that it is not something entirely mandatory.
An example of preparatory refactoring
Zulu: Open source builds of OpenJDK for all platforms
Don't get caught.

And make sure there's no one above you when you do.
Is this really forward path tracing as in "follow the photons from a light source"?

I'm very interested in forward rendering but it has always been slow as hell because it's very hard to predict which ray of light will end up in the camera.

But this is looking very good. Nice work!
Driver booster happens to be very useful for what it does. It's the only driver updater that ever worked for me.

Most are useless, and try to charge money, but not Driver Booster. (And you can find a pro key for free if you look around, but even non pro is still pretty good.)

And that stuff in the linked article about drivers updating from Windows Update: many driver updates take a long time to make it there, if at all. I've seen many times that a driver has an update from the manufacturer but it doesn't update automatically.
2015: HipChat vs. Slack, and the winner is
Exactly. I would think very, very, very hard about building something on top of any AWS technologies for which there are no good open substitutes of.
Ask HN: Where to host a static website (with SSL)
I'm currently hosting my static website on a VM. I'd like to avoid being personally responsible for keeping the system secure, so I'm looking for a service that will host my static website; ideally on a CDN. Here are my requirements:

1) Content must be transmitted via https end-to-end.

2) Content must be served from custom domain

3) Support for directory indexes (show contents of index.html when an URL with trailing slash is accessed)

I thought this would be easy, but all services I've found seem to have some kind of drawback.

Amazon S3 + Cloudfront:
If I use Cloudfront with S3 buckets directly, there is no support for directory indexes. If I use Cloudfront with S3 website endpoints, the content is transferred only via http between S3 and cloudfront edge servers.

Rackspace cloudfiles:
If I understand their docs correctly, they don't support custom domains with SSL

DreamObjects + DreamSpeed:
Apparently doesn't support apex domains, and also doesn't support custom domains with SSL

Anybody know any other options?

Does this mean I need to continue to run my own VM just to serve a static website over SSL?
Sounds about right, since the vast majority of code is unreliable crap.
Isn't it kind of hard to prove a negative?

It's kind of like trying to assure yourself that complex software has zero bugs by black-box testing it.
Yes, i saw that one as well - but the 17FPS update-rate was very small. I'm looking for more like 5-6" panel with faster updates.
ninite.com does bundle anything with another application.
Some time ago, I saw a paper when some scientists find that people often tends to have place of live and job which is somehow connected with their names eg. there's more Denises who works as dentists or Louises in Louisiane. I also noticed that in my country (Poland) there's quite more people working in IT with names or surnames which begins on K (Polish word for computer is "komputer"), I'm the case.
How about a chording keyboard? Having one strapped to your thigh would be the wearables pioneer approach. The Twiddler3 is a modern one-handed keyboard product. There are also projected laser keyboards with a traditional layout; the projected keyboard takes up a fair amount of space and really needs a flat stable surface (not good for use on public transportation or while queueing) but the hardware is quite small.

http://twiddler.tekgear.com

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1631/
When I used a Mac as my primary device, I relied on Office for Mac and it always ran well. I never had problems with it. The only issue was the lack of Visio, which I replaced with Omnigraffle.

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft, though this experience was at a previous employer.
New calculations support dark-matter discovery by DAMA, say physicists
The article is wrong:

> Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), any substance that is intentionally added to food is a food additive, that is subject to premarket review and approval by FDA, unless the substance is generally recognized, among qualified experts, as having been adequately shown to be safe under the conditions of its intended use, or unless the use of the substance is otherwise excluded from the definition of a food additive.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/de...

The point is, GRAS does not automatically apply.

Further:

> (d) Substances that under conditions of good manufacturing practice may be safely used as components of articles that contact food include the following, subject to any prescribed limitations:

> (1) Substances generally recognized as safe in or on food.

> (2) Substances generally recognized as safe for their intended use in food packaging.

> (3) Substances used in accordance with a prior sanction or approval.

> (4) Substances permitted for use by regulations in this part and parts 175, 176, 177, 178 and § 179.45 of this chapter.

> (5) Food contact substances used in accordance with an effective premarket notification for a food contact substance (FCN) submitted under section 409(h) of the act.
[42 FR 14534, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 67 FR 35731, May 21, 2002]

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/174.5

Again, being GRAS is not automatic.
Prisons Are Built with Bricks of Law but That Doesn't Prove Causal Relationship
Startup Excitement on Display at WebInno
https://news.ycombinator.com

https://www.syndk8.com/forum/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/
“Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators” [pdf]
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World”, Adam Zagajewski
news.ycombinator.com
dribbble.com
Gitrob – OSINT gathering tool for GitHub
Node-os
Frogpad used to make a nice (i never used it) one handed keyboard.

There have been some chording devices - "The Twiddler" is one. https://youtube.com/watch?v=QG3SPSzWUv4

Sadly there are a bunch of patents that hamper innovation and experimentation.
I just got a beep through the regular speakers doing that on Windows 8.1 x64.
Nice, if you look at my profile, you'd see there's a reason I still stick on my hacker handle form the 90's. Sorry for the ranty nature of my comment. I saw your comment and was and was about to breeze past until I saw your handle. I can appreciate your view on Kemal Ataturk. But I humbly differ in my views of him.

What I was saying weren't just some anecdotes. May I humbly suggest you read up on the subject a little more before making such pronouncements. I don't care if some random person says something. But I think hope in the future rests in someone like you being informed and balanced in your views.

The internet is an amazing thing. It can help melt away prejudices and connect people who think from around the world. People who have the power to shape the future. We must be more sensible and informed. (It may sound elitist, but lets face it, this place in some way is a cafe that anyone from the US or Afghanistan can join in and discuss).

I'd argue that Ataturk was the wrong kind of leader. What the Muslim world needs is a Gandhi. Someone who doesn't force them to be this way or that way. All freedom need not look the same. I may be naive in thinking this, but maybe the world just needs better internet. There are people who destroy and people who build. If we could get the builders in the same community globally and get them communicating, there may be hope for a better yet.

(Advance apologies for the second rant)
People disliked them because the founders acted like obnoxious fratbros, but the specific claims of wrongdoing were over blackhat SEO ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658 ) which ended up getting them penalised by Google.
It doesn't appear incorrect to me. The blurb on the graph says "For example, a higher percentage of Elwoods are farmers than of most any other name."

As I read it, it means that, say, 1% of Elwoods become farmers, while only .1% of Steves are farmers. That is, if your name is Elwood, you are much more likely to be a farmer than if your name is anything else.
Ask HN: As a tech cofounder, when do you start to spend less time on coding?
As a tech cofounder of a startup, as the team expands, I suddenly realize that I now spend less than half day on coding. And more time on recruiting, writing guidelines and documents, having 1-1 with developers, participating in business meeting, figuring out technology strategies, etc.

So, how large is your team when you find yourself spending less than half day on coding?
> Well, you're not right.

I think I am, but I might be wrong on that one too.

Given a pool of 10 people to hire from where 6 people are named Arnold and 4 are named shawn Shawn, wouldn't you expect that same relation to show in a specific profession? You can, of course, go ahead and compare those relations. So, if there only were 5 race car drivers in the world and 4 of them were named Arnold that would be noteworthy (as opposed to 60% of them, which is what you'd expect). Please let me know if I got something wrong.

---

Somebody just posted an article stating the numbers where actually correlated with the frequency they are used. I'm not sure how they did it though given that those numbers change over time.
Costco and Global Wine (2007)
Was it Sleepless In America?

If it was, I think it aired again recently. I didn't realize it wasn't new.

Highly recommend watching it. Not only does sleep help your brain flush the toxins that are produced as a byproduct of your brain, but cancer can grow twice as fast in tired mice compared to well rested mice. Do yourself a favor and check it out if you haven't seen it.
As I wrote below, I think that increasing machine intelligence will hit all classes both on in personal and economic terms. As soon as robots outperform many people in currently middle to upper middle class service sector, enough people will be affected to make something like a basic income a necessity.
Can you name an attack on the Western world in the last 30 years that didn't involve the Wahabist / Salafi extremist sect of Muslim?

There's one sect kinda-sorta preaching violence. And that is the Wahhabi Islam that followed Osama Bin Laden. Beyond that, your mainstream Shiite / Shia Muslims are rather peaceful folk within the Western World.

Frances 7%+ Muslim Population is a testament to that. Its pretty much those who get converted to the extremist violent sect that we have to worry about.

And as I stated in another thread: geo-political issues prevent the US from calling out the sect specifically. Saudi Arabia has a relatively large number of Salafists.

Even then... Wahhabi / Salafi aren't the same. But since they're more closely related (same geo-political area and a shared history)... I'll keep the terms close to each other. But honestly, these sorts of things are important to see.

You can't just paint Islam with a broad brush and make generalizations. At best, I'd say the attacks (Sept. 11, Anwar Al Awalki, Bin Laden, etc. etc.) are all derived from Wahhabi Islam at best.

The most accurate is probably "Violently Motivated Extremist Wahhabi Islam"... which is a rather small subset of Muslims. (Basically just ISIS and Al Qaeda)
I liked the author's comment about using canonical URLs (with a link to another of his articles on this subject). This is something that I have been intending on doing for a while - I just pushed changes supporting canonical URLs to my main 3 web portals.
> Is Islam more violent than Christianity? (WTF kind of a question is that)

> Are American blacks more criminal than whites?

Aren't these questions fundamentally different? One is about a belief system, the other is about someone's physical appearance caused by their genes. Given a belief system is at least partly made by choice (assuming you have that choice), you could ask this question without being "racist".

"Are communists more violent in their pursuit of ideals than socialists?" -- a similar and valid question. Perhaps communism requires a strangehold on the state that socialism doesn't, so more violence has occurred in the name of communism. Maybe not. But it's a valid question.
Pricing still looks pretty far out there.

Their CPU has a passmark score of 16k[1] and they ask $1300 USD/mo for it.

Hetzner will rent you one with passmark 10k[2] for $60/mo...

[1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2680+v...

[2] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4770+%...
The browser version is built on EMscripten and is pretty CPU-centric; I'm not at all surprised it wouldn't run on an Android phone.
I wonder however if Eugene were a Football Coach if he Edwin would then be called Ed for short. Perhaps Dan into Daniel and Mike into Michael for Electrical Engineer.
I should have added that prisons are physically different. Most of the structures recognizable in the OP are prisons, multiple buildings separated by open yards. Jails are more likely to be a single converted building, with the roof open for exercise. They cannot be spotted on google maps.

Take a look at this infamous jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Towers_Correctional_Facili...
Specifically you can't use paypal. As they say on the BBC, other payment processors are available and you have to get one that will handle the VAT for you.
You may be able to get prints of these photos via his contact page http://fineart.laforetvisuals.com/Contact/1/caption
Everything related to Pandora has seemed sketchy as hell from day one. For instance, right now, both of the resellers on that site that service the USA don't appear to actually sell the damned thing. I also recall stores of pre-orders not being served for upwards of a year with little to no contact by the seller.
Missing from the headline: the article is specifically about iOS dev using Swift.
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The 'football coach' names you list there are all contractions of a name that would be at least 2 syllables long, though.

edit: (or yeah, what MichaelTieso said :) )
Is this new news? Environmental degradation on Easter Island is pretty well covered in Jared Diamond's "Collapse"
You're right, but ultimately this is a band-aid over the fact that OSes have terrible permission separation and application isolation. If OSes were better architected from a security point of view, it would be substantially less of a problem.
Linux ACL's [video]
Indeed, the time period in which someone was born seems to have a significant effect on the likelihood of certain names. Here's one study that documents that effect in the US:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-someones-age...
No, he's right that Islam never experienced the Enlightenment. Nor was it in any way directly responsible for that.

Credit belongs to the Islamic world for keeping classical knowledge alive and reintroducing it to Europe at the beginning of the Renaissance. However the Enlightenment refers to a later period in European history where people came to terms with the result of decades of very nasty civil wars over Protestant vs Catholic, and came up with principles which allowed people of different beliefs to peacefully coexist within society.

That is the source of Western ideas like "freedom of religion" and "freedom of speech". Which very importantly say that while you can take offense at another's words or beliefs, you can't actually do anything about it. Like go over and kill them. And they have to reciprocate by not killing you in turn.

The Muslim world has nothing like this. Sure, they say that you're free to follow another religion of the book. But their teachings are very explicit that this only works so long as you don't do anything offensive to muslims. Like mock the prophet, convert muslims to your faith, and so on. Do that, and you die. Unless the Muslim world internalizes the Western version of that idea, we're going to continue having problems reconciling Islam and Western civilization.

Incidentally the golden age of Islam that you refer to traditionally ended with the sack of Baghdad in 1258. However contemporary scholars point to evidence that relative enlightenment continued until the great economic decline that resulted from Western countries establishing direct trade routes with the East, which reduced commerce along the Silk Road.
The accusation has been around for a while and is not true.[1] Amazing how the story has morphed from "Optional Update" to "Critical" in 1 year's time. And it just sounds untrue. Why would you believe that?

[1] http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/bing-desktop-won-t-be
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As a scoop user it should be noted that scoop is much more oriented towards developers. Scoop runs in the Powershell environment and tends to mostly offer posix tools or SDKs as available packages, although git repositories can be added to scoop to provide more packages (there aren't that many of these right now).
Ask HN: Stock options, Help
Hi all,

I'm starting a new job and this new position has stock options. I've never had stock options before, so I'm looking for some quick advice.

The logistics of the stock options are fairly standard. 1 year vest @ 25% then ~2% each month after the first year.

Here's where it gets tricky. I'm planning to move away in 6 months - nothing I can control. However, I'm not 100% certain I can keep the job when I move, though I think it's not out of the question (as is why I took the position).

So, the question is... should I even consider stock? If I leave within the 1st year, I lose everything. But if I buy stock and then get to keep my job after moving, it'd probably be worth it. This company is also a private company with a possible IPO this year.

Thanks for any advice in advance!
I don't know, but I'm guessing that the comment solved the PR problem, so there was no need to do any investigation, or to act on the results of one.

EDIT: pg's response was basically "suck it": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
And you think that Islam promotes this "bodily harm/threats" ? You sure are a delusional one. I leave you at that, I should have known that you are not here to listen to opinions, or engage in a fair debate.
True. Those are better if you want to grab a server and sit on it for a long time as a dedicated box at a data center. It's more like old school rack hosting but you don't have to actually screw with hardware. They'd be awful if you want elasticity, which I suppose is why "elastic" is in Amazon's name. Duh. :)

I have some stuff at Kimsufi (BHS data center). The performance and stability are really excellent but I'd have to wait for availability to add more, which sucks.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pd... - it's the paper.

http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/ - short summary.
This looks like it probably belongs more in the monthly whoishiring posts than in its own thread.
Nice chart. It would be interesting if hovering over a name also highlights the same name in other professions.
Facebook launches Amber Alerts to help find missing children
This is really handy.

As I do more management (yuck) I find myself having to put together reams of commented screenshots all the time. My process for this is piecemeal - but this would definitely help. Thanks!

A few suggestions:

1. HTML, Google Docs, or PDF output would be faaaar more useful than Word. I'm actually surprised you used Word here. We must have very different work environments. :)

2. I feel like there are usability/UX recommendations other than Nielsen that might be more useful for some audiences. His advice is a bit mundane and abstract for my tastes. Perhaps the https://userium.com/ list could be of use for some. Having options here (which I agree stinks of bloatware) could be interesting.

Oh.. and extra points for using a .CO :)
WhatsApp sails past SMS, but where does messaging go next?
Not sure I trust the results. For guitarists they list: Mick, Richie, Trey, Sonny, Buddy, Eddie. That correlates strongly with famous musician names (Mick Jagger, Lionel Richie, Trey Anastasio, Sonny Rollins, Buddy Guy, Eddie Van Halen). Maybe kids are named after these legends and are pushed toward music, but maybe their software just counted a lot of duplicate mentions?
How I Built the Developer's Dream Keybooard (with Code)
Is the Enhanced Networking on a C4 instance a Virtual Function (ixgbev driver) or a full Physical Function (ixgbe driver)?

The docs say that it is a VF but I wonder since they are offering the full 10G of bandwidth.

We could relocate our Snabb Lab to AWS if we got PFs. https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki/Snabb-Lab
Deep Freeze was a huge help at my school as well.
I went to Harvard, and 100k seemed like a pretty typical salary for my recent grad friends, although commonly accompanied by stock and/or signing bonuses. I knew one guy making about 200k per year at an established company once you prorated out the stock awards over the vesting period.
> "Oh, that's just a computation."

He expected something else?
Go to website and select Firefox->Web Developer->Web Console. Errors ?
Most of the servers on that page aren't even running ECC RAM. The only one listing ECC RAM is the E5504 which dates back to 2009 whereas C4 is running the fastest Xeon model available today. The rest of the list is Intel Atom and i5 and i7 desktop chips. 60% of the server types on that page are also currently out of stock.
Why is "ParseInt" OK, and "Println" or "strconv" not? ("strconv" has to be single-case because it's a package name). Both kinds of names are abbreviated. "Int" for "integer" is approximately as intuitive to developers as "str" is for "string".

The other examples you've provided mirror the Unix API; it would be more confusing to rename them, despite their unfortunate terseness.