skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interactive version of this by Santiago Ortiz

http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/histomap/
I've been using their smart-private-npm package to run our private npm since early last year. They did leave out a couple key components, but it has been completely solid since I set it up.

The only issue is keeping up with npm's API changes as its focus is not this kind of application.

Feel free to contact me if you're looking to set up such a package. It really deserves a blog post soon.
I'm Brianna Wu, and I'm Risking My Life Standing Up to Gamergate
Hi, guepe. Can you reply me your email?
+1 for Casetext, it's designed for this.
I certainly would hope so. However I'm not sure who is going to survive the longest: an organization focused on that specific goal, or a company that might change focus or go bankrupt altogether. Even though AWS is a pretty big part of Amazon (I'm guesstimating here, might be wrong), I would hope the IA would last for longer or have specific strategies to address different catastrophic scenarios that would overall make it more efficient/safe than AWS.
Yeah, this is why I didn't bother constructing a more robust argument showing the clear trend. Consider that you may be unwilling to entertain the possibility that this phenomenon actually exists.
I've never encountered this but agree, that can lead to a real hell of branching. Do you dead-end your releases and then backport certain things from your mainline to previous release branches?

Sounds like a headache but probably the best way in certain domains.
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As far as I know, that is an artifact of the hardware. The network compatibility of early (all?) iPhone 5s was divided across three models. Some can work on other networks, but not in other networks' LTE bands. Depends on your particular model and which network you're trying to move to.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4150856/bringing-your-ipho...

Edit: better explanation at this link: http://www.wired.com/2012/09/iphone5-lte-model/
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Motorcyclists provide an interesting example of this principle. The extreme windchill experienced by motorcyclists makes it very difficult to keep warm - a rider travelling at 70mph at 0°C experiences a windchill of -18°C.

Many riders in northern climates use electrically heated underclothing, which, in conjunction with an insulated outer layer, can keep a rider warm with just a few watts. Better battery technology could make such garments commonplace.
> Don't you understand that we all inherently have blind spots based on where we come from?

I sure do. You might have them, too.

> philosophers for centuries have suggested that wage labor is better described as wage slavery.

I'm sure they have. That doesn't make it "a legitimate idea and one worth considering". Philosophers have said lots of other things over the years, too, many of them patently absurd. You need a better proof than "(some) philosophers have said it".

Can we make work better than it is? Probably yes. Does over-the-top rhetoric make it more likely to happen? No, it makes it less likely. It just gets you classified as a Marxist shill, and regarded as already discredited. If you want anything to actually change, screaming out absurd overheated rhetoric isn't a path likely to succeed. Instead, it gets you ignored.
A head-mounted three dimensional display (Sutherland 1968) [pdf]
Heh maybe not need, but want? I definitely want.

Looks like a 40 GbE NIC is just $500:
http://www.amazon.com/MELLANOX-CONNECTX-3-56GBE-1PORT-MCX313...

Just need an SSD RAID to feed it...
Most conversations fall down to people stating what they believe. Your post reads like it's deliberately obfuscated, to insinuate an insult in a way that won't get you modded down; if you're sincere then please say what you mean more clearly.
Really? Impressive! Where do you get the public keys? Most projects hosted on Maven Central don't publish them on their website.
"... has me wondering where the Hollywood drama about Patrick Tillman is. ..."

10 years on and this story still resonates ~ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/20/10-year...

his legacy in providing scholarships for vets & spouses http://pattillmanfoundation.org/about-us is a big FU to those in Government and the Military who tried to cover up the how he died.
There should be a public list of cool stuff on RapidShare. That way, people can sift through all the pr0n/Disney movies and start archiving this stuff in a distributed sense. That way, the artifacts aren't lost forever.
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This is generally taken care of using checksums, assuming you trust the source. Of course, trusting the source is the hard part. CyanogenMod, for example, has a chain of trust for their releases; though they host their own binaries.
"and even the content of unencrypted communications"

hmmmm
Yeah it can. The firewall is standard iptables, so you can do whatever you want. It's also got DNS, http cache, SOCKS proxy and approximately 1 trillion other things that you may find handy as an all-in-one home/small business network device. Needless to say, it's maybe not the best idea security-wise to run all that stuff on one device, but I'm not terribly concerned.

I've heard people say it's not really powerful enough CPU wise to cope with a ton of rules (>hundreds), but I have a fairly involved firewall config on mine and it's no trouble.

Funny story, we use a firewall rule to punish roommates for not doing their share of the chores. If they get too far overdue on chores, we have an iptables rule to randomly drop a certain percentage of packets to their machine.
The limit is only when you use the query param generate_visualization=true (which is the default :)), since you dont show the visualization, e.g. you dont use our Tradeoff Analytics client side code, you should go with generate_visualization=false. If you do choose to use the visualization, please note that the the actual limit is feature* "top data points" < 2000. Your data points size might be 5000 and still our analytics will find that the optimal data points are just 100...
Will.i.am's Puls Smartwatch: So Bad I'm Actually Kind of Impressed
Did we work together at OneLogin?
If he couldn't spend the time to examine it, he should have just said that instead of taking the time to blather about journalistic vs. academic review processes. Clearly he did have the time; he just used it poorly.
RadioShack is closing a lot of stores, many of which sell Arduino things. I got two ~$60 MSRP GSM shields for $24 a piece. Pair that with the minimal T-Mobile $3/month sim ... that's a pretty good deal.
We will say that a video segment loops well when its first and last video frames are very similar.

It's a reasonable approximation. However really perfect loops have not only matching positions of the objects but perfect speeds too. I would calculate optical flows and compare them at the first and the last frames too and somehow put it into the distance function.

One example: this algorithm would find the half period of a pendulum perfectly loop. Taking optical flows into account would fix this.
http://onie.org/

For example:

http://www.edge-core.com/ProdDtl.asp?sno=425&AS4600-54T

or

http://www.edge-core.com/ProdDtl.asp?sno=423&AS5600-52X
According to Airline Reporter[1], per 100 million miles there are 1.33 deaths by auto, and .0077 deaths by commercial plane. Though it's over a limited amount of time...

[1]http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/09/flying-is-safe-and-i-...
The 'uni-typed' argument is interesting, but seems to fall down under further examination. This is a comment from some guys at the University of Indiana, who are neither Python or Haskellers, but are working on advanced type systems:

... however Sam Tobin-Hochstadt argues the uni-typed classification is not very informative in practice.

The uni-typed theory reveals little about the nature of programming in a dynamically typed language; it's mainly useful for justifying the existence of "dynamic" types in type theory.

Projects like Typed Racket were invented precisely to discover and model the implicit type information utilised by programmers in such languages. Often types are quite accurate, and shows there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23286279/15441
Lawyers didn't really ruin this, RapidShare banking on piracy to sustain their business model ruined their business.
Debian Wheezy at home (I learned Linux on Debian, so I guess it's kind of habit when I pick a distro); CentOS 6.6 at work. After hearing a few things about Arch, though, I will give that a try. :)
I would say in RISC OS Pi.
Well a file sharing platform got popular due to file sharing taking place, sort of obvious isn't it. Then those who built an industry out of controlling distribution who are threatened by these new ways use their acquired power to shut down the threat by claiming copyright infringement, stuttering history (see 17th century french button makers, 19th century theatrophone, and so on).

Thing is sharing is a human trait, a trait required to live in a social group. The internet is about sharing and either the copyright industry will adapt/disappear or the internet will disappear (probable eaten alive by fecesbookians and politicians).
"IT companies" like Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud are the ones driving technical conversations and advancing the state of the art. Banks, insurance companies, and retail outfits aren't, and haven't been for a decade or more.
There are some good cheap managed switches out there. I have a Linksys SFE2000-something 24 port PoE switch for my PoE devices (security cams, IP phone, other stuff) and a TP-Link [something] 16 port switch. Both support basic VLANs, SNMP, etc.

I have 1 2port VLAN that connects my cable modem to my router on the TP-Link. From that switch I have 1 port cables to a machine with wireshark, and I can configure that port to monitor various VLANs for whatever reason.

I run MRTG for several things, including basic traffic graphing. I display the graphs from the router uplink port and a couple of other key ports in a window on the VMS that also has security cameras on it. From that monitor I can keep on eye on key things (cameras, Internet I/O, some home automation stuff).

Anyway, I haven't found an affordable "perfect" switch for home stuff, but there are a lot of cheap, decent managed switches that give you a lot more flexibility beyond "everything on 1 network".

My home net is essentially segmented into Primary LAN, Security Devices, Guest LAN (mostly just a wifi bridge) and LAB LAN.
Apple's $700B market cap is nothing compared to Dutch East India Company
That's great to know! I'll share this info with the team. Opens up the API a lot more :).
From the article, "Patronizing those outside the faith".
I completely agree with you. Our primary education system is in no small part based on the Prussian system, which was developed after losing a battle to French, with the purpose of raising children into troops that would hold the line even in the face of certain death. This autocratic system of education is sometimes cited as enabling the rise to power of the Nazi party.
I recall some article that said that AWS was about 3% of Amazons income, but it was basically pure profit.
Conflict creation for profit is something inherent to humans, not the West alone. We are predators, we eat bunnies, and because bunnies don't kill us in return, we think that it is ok.

For example, Spanish conquered South and Central America, but the people that lived there were not conflict free. In fact, if you compare Spanish with Mayans that will extract the heart out of their alive enemies, or their skin, Spanish were saints in comparison.

Spanish used the help of subordinates Indians to remove the people in power.

Let's not talk about China's History: it is probably as violent or more violent than the West's. For certain intrigues were way more sophisticated as central planning was way bigger.

We can mention Shaka Zulu, or Muslims in Africa.

The main difference was technology advancing so fast as to make non west people bunnies in comparison. Arrows against repetition rifles, or tanks and planes against horses.
I have fond memories of Rapidshare. Even the cats.
All of these things are based on the Broadcom Trident II chip. If you want it cheap, don't go to juniper - get one from Quanta. You can have a 32x40G switch for $6,000.
Ask HN: Why is liquidation preference acceptable and prevalent?
It seems commonly accepted that all VC investment comes with (at least) a 1x liquidation preference. Is there logic as to why this is commonly accepted and prevalent? Clearly investors always want the best possible deal for themselves, but why/how did this become the standard deal term? On the surface, it seems wrong that employees get "worse" equity, i.e. common equity, than the investors and founders.

Why shouldn't investors and founders share the same equity as other employees? Investors can presumably adjust their valuation model accordingly.
Less than $500 actually, you can get them for about $350.
> This is an enormous straw man. No fan of strongly typed languages claims that they solve all correctness problems.

I have read the claim "If it compiles, it works" (or minor wording variations), on this board, more than once (in reference to Haskell). Fans of strongly typed languages do in fact make claims that sure sound like they are saying that.
Stale zero party regime...

There's always worse. US became a shadow of waht it should and could have been.
Linux has this create feature of being able to include the operating system in the initrd. Put this with a nice PXE infrastructure where you pxe the OS and download the initrd with the OS in it. Then you simply kexec to upgrade or downgrade the entire operating system in ~30 seconds. I used to manage a production environment that worked exactly this way for several thousand nodes.

Not sure I'd call it niche, but yes, somewhat specialized.
I have a personal rule never to throw MCSD at opposing's draft, but this is a form, so I'm down. Ken Adams has a posse. We should make t-shirts.

On the other hand, from a practical point of view, all the nits you pick add up to a certain kind of camouflage over the agreement. If the point is not what the contract says, but that YC said it, now it's "standard", and you can not think about it, then enlightened style is at odds with (facilitated indifference to) substance. For a first sale in particular, the immediate benefit of the fact of a sale probably outweighs probability times cost of any conceivable drafting flaw that doesn't produce uncapped liability, a cloud on IP, or some other existential threat.

When I look for a ray of hope, it's the number of blanks. If this thing has to go back and forth, and nobody is going to sign it as presented, then by all means make it as modern as possible. If it's going to be read and handled, it ought to read and handle well.
It is a shame really. Kunming could have been the SF of China.
You might be right, I don't know much about the sandboxing. After a quick Google search, it seems like the details are sparse.
That NIC seems quite overpriced for 4x1G...
Would you mind if I shot you an e-mail? It sounds like you took the exact jump that I worry about taking, and it'd be great to ask you a few questions.
Except that Banks, insurance companies, and retail outfits is where the real money is.

Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud are for engineeers living in Silicon Valey.
Your joke was a bit deadpan. But I'm laughing now ;-)
I think you're misunderstanding davidgrenier's comment, specifically the line you quoted. It appears to me that you are actually agreeing with him.
Great point. Once you start to sell to companies past a certain size, all the rules go out the window.
thanks, good to know!
The following quote says a lot more about Sam Altman, the people he hangs out with, and his lack of exposure to mainstream media and political discourse than it says about objective reality:

As a related sidenote, “exceptionalism” in the US has become almost a bad word—it’s bad to talk about an individual being exceptionally good, and certainly bad to talk about the country as a whole being exceptional.
A $80k/yr secure government job with a guaranteed retirement. For someone without a formal education (yet), that's not the easiest thing to come across outside of development.
Show HN: Underline.js – pushing the boundary of web typography
It worked for YouTube. They got their start with pirated content and pivoted quite successfully.
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I'd imagine folks like Quanta or Hyve Solutions will be selling something like this soon.
Yeah, each release might be, e.g, firmware version x.y.z.patchlevel, and then you backport fixes and release on patchlevel.

Some customers demand the absolute minimum amount of change - their interface is essentially fixed, all they want is fixes, no more improvements.

Besides firmware, I think this also get applicable when doing larger whitelabel software, each major customer might want to have a particular version they are focused on using.
And the founder/chairman/chief development officer of Arista, Andy Bechtolsheim, is a board member and founder of the Open Compute Project.
Hence the need to separate the concepts of culture and race, rather than using them interchangeably the way we do now.
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I am using Fedora20. I have unusual reasons - my 2009 Macbook Pro os broken such that booting OSX or the MacOS install disc will cause hard reboot very quickly.

The efi boot-install of Fedora also crashes the machine; the bios boot uses a different graphics card and doesn't crash the machine. (The Plymouth boot logo is garbled and boot takes an age but it works).

(I only think it's a broken graphics adaptor. I'd happily try any fault-finding that people suggest. )

I have strongly negative opinions of Fedora and I will never ever install it on any other system. I'm preparing to move over to Arch.
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Reasonable assertions followed by breathless hype for the Apple watch.
> Geeks always seem to worship autocrats and dictators for whatever reason.

That's not entirely true, there are also plenty of libertarian geeks (including here on HN).
Anyone remember those hard to figure out capchas Rapidshare had? specially the cats.
I'm planning on making an open source 3D printable robot arm in the next year or so. I've made a good 3D printed remote control car that uses few external parts (no screws). Working on custom printable motors now and then I'll probably do an arm. Nothing to share yet, but if you want you can google my company (Flutter Wireless) and join our mailing list. I have a bunch of circuit board to deliver first but I will be focusing a lot on robotics as time permits.
etcd is designed to store app settings, data for service discovery, feature flags, distributed locks, that type of thing. It's not a general purpose data store and it isn't designed to store data in the same way you would use Cassandra.
I'm missing something. I don't really understand the first part of what you said...
Yes, you're right—I thought that you had made the post that was actually made by T-hawk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022743 )—but I think that it doesn't change my point.
We often can't see the uses of new innovations, but that rarely means they have no use. What I noticed that was interesting was that the machine can print structures in mid air. Though they're only demonstrating the basic capabilities right now, I'd be surprised if we didn't see something very useful come out of their lab in the next few months.
They also refused to change their name. The founder wouldn't rebrand. They had a decent chance, if you think about it: storage know-how, a bunch of servers, some good techies, and - which could have been the killer - a Swiss location with Swiss data privacy laws, right in the Snowden era. Forget Dropbox and google drive and amazon with the NSA tapping into them here and wherever. Could have been a great selling point. But the owner couldn't face 'swissshare' or 'swissbox' or something else... had to keep Rapidshare with all that implied.
To be fair, the type community makes a distinction between types (static entities) and tags (dynamic entities). From their perspective, Python is definitely "tagged" in the sense that tags are checked dynamically, and memory safety is preserved.

On the types mailing list, I think Bob Harper conceded the point that maybe it is more useful to use "type" to refer to dynamic tags when talking to practicing programmers; it is just that in the types community, type has a well defined specific meaning (I can't find a link right now since I'm behind the GFW, but can dig it up later if you are interested).
Believe it or not, some of us can't get enough of this stuff.
Big Data on the Keyboard
It's pretty common around here (Copenhagen) for people to set their radiators to around 5-8 C (40-45 F) in rooms that they aren't using, or the whole house/apartment to that temperature if they're gone for more than a day or so, to save money on heating. Most radiators have a specific "frost protection" setting, indicated by a little snowflake icon, which is set by the manufacturer or building to whatever temperature they think is suitable for frost protection (mine are at 5 C / 41 F). I haven't heard of anyone having trouble with burst pipes from this setup.

Could be an issue with hollow-wall wood-frame construction and forced-air duct heating? With brick/stone construction and regularly spaced radiators, things typically won't freeze anywhere, even if you have the temperature set down to 5 C. It's also relatively uncommon for pipes here to be in outer walls; all of mine are run along or in the interior walls.
Ask HN: What startup idea would you create if you were in 20 years ago?
I live in a country where internet penetration is low on a desktop, but growing in mobile. We have plenty of internet services for social, amusement, classifieds. We have almost any alternative to western services.

But most of them are failing. facebook? yes we have, but with 10-20K users probably, not active, most of the users are using russian social networks. google? yes we have, very small audience (probably 3-5K/day). groupon? yes we had, all of them shut down.

Only amusement services like local-youtube, local-4chan has some audience (60-80K users/day) and only one monopolistic classified service which has 80-100K users/day with >1M views.

If you were in my place and you have experience which you have gained in your country or in tech bubble somewhere in 2000s, what kind of service would you create?

Info. population >25M, internet penetration is growing, but trust to internet services are very low.
Weird that I was given the completely opposite advise by my bank about never paying off completely any debt straight away, to build up my credit rating ....
It is at the moment, but it provides the right config ;) Plus, I'm planning to expand it to provide more general document layouts, so you can create "print" documents of different kinds in HTML and simply export it.

I just needed this for myself and wanted to share it with people :)
Would be more interesting if copyright on anything created after Mickey Mouse would ever expire -- and unfortunately it doesn't look like it ever will.
Elon Musk: “Primary mission on target”
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All of that also seems true of the US. Everyone wants a "leadership" role, either in government or in the private sector as CEOs or management in general, and even schools nurture students into "leadership" more than "science". Even in Silicon Valley, engineers and scientists don't enjoy the highest status (founders are above them, and VCs above that).

Arguably, the only place in the US where scientists are on the top of the food chain (or close to) is academia.
Because the size of somebody else's bank account is of very little concern to me?
I didn't get that at all. In fact he seems to be suggesting what Apple's thinking may be in terms of the Apple Watch fitting into their strategy.