skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider for a moment the "binary opposition" between electricity's value-creating potential that can never be quantified in advance, and electricity as a quantity that can be sold for a price. A kWhr that goes into a supercomputer to calculate the optimal shape of a machine part creates value of a kind and in amounts that is utterly unlike a kWhr that goes into driving a washing machine at a laundromat.

In fact, that's true of everything in a market economy. Everything I buy has more value to me than its market price (otherwise I wouldn't buy it).
Tim Cook rumored to travel to Israel for opening of new Apple R&D office
An Interview with Gallium Nine Project Developer Axel Davy
It's like I'm talking to a child when I talk to you. I wouldn't bother if you didn't constantly pop up to derail conversations about crypto with your "crypto should stay hard" attitude. I suspect you want crypto to remain impossible to get right just so you can continue to stay relevant.

The rest of my comment frankly wasn't for you, it's for the folks reading what you write and blindly accepting it. At least now they can see how petulant you can be when facing differing points of view.
How did they get those numbers for browser support? For example, for CSS3 animations they say that 53.91% can view that feature and they source caniuse.com, but if you actually go to the feature page on caniuse.com it says there's over 88% support.[1]

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation
Big fan of Sails and the team behind it, very cool to see this.
Seriously! I don't think we will ever have a perfect Utopia.

Besides, I love the freedom to drive wherever I want to without someone telling me otherwise.
It's Debian knocking on the door, they want their RNG back!
I implemented the VC++ options - they work in C.

I have no experience with the others, I've just briefly read about them and assume they are similar. If they don't work in C and you would find the dumps useful, try compiling as C++.
The admins released a bunch of anonymize voting data once. And several people have distributed datasets of scraped comments. Sorry I don't have links handy. Check through /r/redditdev
I would suggest forcing the SSL across the board. I know, I know, I can type it in BUT it is just nice to have the little things work all on their own, even when I am logging in.
For what it is worth I enjoyed your parent post.
Libvirt has serious issues with this https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2014-November/...
2015 Marketing Plan for Success – Feb 23, 2015
Search On Math
Blogspam: Original: https://blog.bufferapp.com/improve-my-body-language-secrets
"whether or not we call it a planet is pretty much the least interesting thing about Pluto" https://twitter.com/PlanetDr/status/568091457866719232
Something people forget is that we have a finite learning capacity and learning just for the sake of learning can wreck your mental health.

I can read hundreds of pages a day but if I do this on a sustained basis it overcharges my brain and I have problems with anxiety and can't sleep. A modest dose of video games helps me chill out since I am working with the same patterns over and over again and not needing to sort through a lot of stuff.

In the book "Have Fun at Work" it says that people can read about 60 pages of technical stuff a day.

I have standardized on Java for a programming language. I've put a huge effort into making peace with Maven, Spring, and my IDE. I have a framework that deals with a lot of the BS when you do command line apps so that I can bang out little apps almost as fast as a Python programmer can.

A lot of my getting there has been getting in the habit of reading the same stuff over and over again until I know it like the back of my hand. For instance I went through a year of hell with Maven and Spring because I was working on systems where whenever somebody had a problem they looked it up on StackOverflow. Nothing was ever done the same way twice and builds and configuration was a continuous source of frustration.

After reading the manuals for those products cover to cover multiple times I understand them in a holistic way, I use them right, and I can understand what is happening when people do strange things.

There are certain areas where I am pushing the start of the art and learning a lot and frankly that means I am working on certain things and I think as little as I can about Javascript frameworks and the like. For instance I think Clojure and Ruby are both cool languages but I don't have time to look up how to find the length of a String and stuff like that so I only write Ruby to configure Vagrant.
Show HN: BixiCon – remote control and intervalometer for DSLR and copact cameras
Eat Well on $4/day – Machine Readable Recipe System
Do people still read blogs?
I agree that is's annoying when journalists do it to demonstrate that a topic is important/controversial/etc. But I'm not sure there's anything wrong with it when the point being made it literally (and only) about the number of times a specific piece of text appears on the Internet.
Thanks for the tip, I found the link you're referring to:

https://github.com/umbrae/reddit-top-2.5-million
https://xkcd.com/1138/ Alt-text: There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.
For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins (DPR February Auction)
> Amusingly, there is in fact cryptographic stuff wrong in that article.

Oh yeah? That it wasn't personally endorsed by you?
It seems like it's just a "published" google doc.

I've made one that describes the process, if you are interested: http://goo.gl/Ykq88g
Show HN: Vendor prefix your inline styles in react
Very surprised to see this. Hope it gets sorted out quickly... this is really quite appalling.
> Do Actor hierarchies imply a global registration mechanism?

No, all registration is done locally underneath the parent actor - i.e. if one parent creates three children, the only place where that state is registered is the parent itself. The root actor on each node can quickly figure out by traversing the tree whether or not a child at a given path exists or not.

The only exception to this convention are remote-deployed actors - if ActorSystem A deploys an actor remotely onto ActorSystem B, the RemoteDaemon (a system-level actor) keeps a record of who has actors deployed onto each other. That way if ActorSystem B dies (crash, network goes down, etc...) ActorSystem A can notify all of the local actors who depended on remote-deployed actors that those actors are effectively dead.
Cheap in only the most puerile sense - the complexity and availability foists a particular cost on HBase that is just too high for most people.
RE2/J: Linear time regular expression matching in Java
And Project Orleans (http://www.github.com/dotnet/orleans) from Microsoft Research. Used by the Halo 4 team, it's a unique take using Virtual Actors.
A good usecase for pushing rebased work is at the end of a feature branch. For example, you've been working on a feature branch with a team for a time and now the feature is done and the branch can be merged back into master. However, the history of the feature branch might have been polluted with merge commits. To prevent merging these merge commits back into master, you can rebase the total feature branch on to master. It should be clear to the team that at this point, nobody is to work on that branch anymore and go back to master, or create a new branch (from master).
A visual history of the future (city) [pdf]
It would be fun to see it write in your own handwriting.
Also, I was thinking something like this [0]! :)

[0]: https://wessonblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/hitchhikers.j...
I did get a note back in response to my inquiry that they do not intend to reduce the conversions so dramatically, and indicated if I needed 150K (which I don't) they would allow that. Personally, the usual 3x or 4x more conversions than uploads seems fair.
The dictionary is just a JSON blob[0], but yeah, a readme would be nice

0: https://github.com/serverdensity/Fluffify/blob/master/fluffi...
Links to the products themselves?
Mighty Wallet shows amazon results for actual wallets even using 'mighty pay wallet android' as the search term and I cant find Superchat or MightyMerchant either.
The Mighty Wallet app might be best shown with the companion site as well, to show how you've dealt with cross platform products.
Newly discovered Dr. Seuss book
The secret world of government debt collection
Is there any legal precedent that a court will accept this stamp as evidence of ownership?
This reminds me of a "plotclock" that I built almost a year ago.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:248009
The mnemonic would become even more tortured than "My very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas"?
>As a manager, it's your job to do that BEFORE you have to can them.

Absolutely. And I did so in every case. The problem is the sort of person who's clueless enough to actually get fired is the sort of person who going to ignore what you're saying, either because they think your real problem with them is that their a woman/black/gay/old/whatever or they have a big ego that won't allow them to consider they might be doing something wrong or because they figure they have a lot more slack than they really do between "you need to shape up" and "here's a box for your stuff".

If you're actually going to fire someone for cause you need to need to have a paper trail, which would make that all official. But. If you establish a paper trail and then try to pretend you're getting rid of them because there's no money you're going to get sued. So companies usually don't go the "for cause" route at all.
“State of the Quirky” Town meeting – $100m loss, outlines Quirky 2.0 quirky
Model of a zombie outbreak in Sweden, Norway and Finland (Denmark is fine)
well, this site was published in 2011. I think it is still fun though.
Don’t blame yourself for ignoring HTTP/2, the biggest HTTP update in years
Is it still considered 'full disk' when its only used with a container file? I've never used TCs full-disk mode, but I've used it to quickly and easily create mountable disk images (even without encryption this would be handy). To my ear, 'full disk encryption' is something a hard drives firmware should be involved in.
I am interested in "big data" sorts of things and I have to admit SaaS pricing schemes have me scratching my head all the time.

There is certain things where the cost of provisioning the service is high enough where the pricing really has to be cost-driven to some extent but on the other hand, the general principle is that your pricing should be value driven.

I think for instance of the dime-a-dozen machine learning services out there that have a "free tier" which won't let you run a large enough training set to get non-embarassing results, for instance.
This helped.
Show HN: GAME:REF – the world's first hardware anti-cheat solution
True - I had heard of Yik Yak, but not Fade.
Linux Kernel Development Speeds Up, Attracts Newbies
This website looks very very suspicious. It is accepting credit card without ssl.
Click on the buy now on home page, then sign up, now you should see the payment form, but there is no ssl.

http://i.imgur.com/S1neNQN.png
If only "actionable lead" was in the database.

(Right now this is the next story in the feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068828)
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I get what you're saying, and I agree it's possible. But I think the position you're taking is too strong, in that you seemed to have accepted that it must be true. I think that what you're saying is reasonable, possible, and could be the case. But I don't think you have enough information to claim so strongly that it is certainly true.
PhoneGap has some debugging tools available that offer a similar approach: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki/Debugging-in-Phone...

They've saved me a ton of time. Especially when you're using something like PhoneGap, where you're coding in JS, it's nice to have your old familiar web-based debugging console available.
Of all the styli for the iPad, the Jot Touch 4 seems to be the best as far as accuracy. It is the only one I'd put in the "usable" category." Surprisingly the newer Jot Touch Pixelpoint is horrible compared to this (missing strokes, not keeping straight lines, not being able to detect near the edges of the screen) and I wish I could return mine.

The Cintiq is a nearly natural pen and paper experience, but if I'm on the go, the Jot Touch 4 + AstroPad has worked out well.
Hackers Shutdown Saudi Bank Website against human rights violations
A kit would be nice for those without the necessary expertise or access to a 3D printer.
The piece is well written and informative. Lesser minds such as mine even consider it useful.

The content of the article is more or less evergreen. Raymond's celebrity in a constellation of small worlds [deserved or not] makes it more likely to get treated so.

The joke is funny. If Knuth and Ritchie we're the domain for panels one and two though, panel three would get a much larger range. John Skeet, even maybe?
I was going to write a rebuttal saying that it's unlikely that any of this specific Software [Stetho] is covered by patent claims, so it wouldn't matter if you lost the license to Facebook's patents.

But then I saw this: http://stks.freshpatents.com/Facebook-Inc-nm1.php

314 patents in 2014, 69 just since the start of 2015. That's... just absurd.
I do not understand why so much noise with people believes. I am open to work with everyone as long as their intimate convictions doesn't harm our work.

Are you anti-gay marriage (or just anti-gay)? Nice, I am not but I respect. We can talk about it in our spare time. Anti-abortist? Liberal? Conservative? Communist? Anti-white people? The same.
First, I know its NPR, but really, there's a lot of "Get off my lawn you pesky kids!" going on in that comment section.

Second, cash is becoming increasingly nonviable, at least in the US. Prices are so high on most consumer goods and services that the amount of cash that you would have to carry around is ridiculous. $50 for a tank of gas, $150 for a week's groceries, $40 for a pair of movie tickets and a popcorn. Worse, banks often don't even have enough cash on hand to cover more than one or two non-trivial withdrawals per day. My father recently paid off his mortgage. To do so, he had to pay cash at one bank with monies withdrawn from an account at a second bank. The total amount was about $5000 dollars. The second bank had to give him every $100 and $50 bill they had in stock, plus a large number of $20s, to cover the withdrawal. One withdrawal wiped out nearly the entire stock of cash at that branch for the day.

Third, it is ridiculous how long it takes "direct deposits" to clear. About half the time, my employer will do payroll on a Tuesday, sending out the electronic deposits. If I am lucky, the monies will become available by end-of-day friday. If there is any kind of holiday, or the bank is just slow, it will roll over the weekend and into Monday or the next Tuesday.
the states
Apparently Google's toying with the idea of using "use asm" as a signal to opt into TurboFan[1]. While not the AOT compilation envisioned by the asm.js creators, it speaks to the importance asm.js has already gained.

That said, personally I'd rather see time spend optimising the new ES6 features so they can be used without a big performance hit.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2599#c77
Virginia Governor Signs Law Allowing Uber, Lyft to Operate
K2 Raises $100M to Make It Easy to Build Business Apps
What's the unique sauce that makes this work?

How do you keep arbitrary Mac apps in sync with the iPad display?
It's a bit of a paradox, but I think the more a blog is a "niche" blog, the less likely it is to lose readers, while blogs covering more general topics are being (and will be even more) cannibalised by news aggregators indeed
This sounds like the tech equivalent of FOMO, "fear of missing out": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out

> If I am going to build this in React.js (which I totally should do) then I’ll spend less time in Visual Studio and more time in Sublime Text. Before I can start, I should first verify that my Sublime color scheme is up to par.

The problem is the leap from "I'm going to be spending time in Sublime Text" to "my Sublime Text environment must be perfect before I can get started." I used to have the same problem, constantly fiddling with my tools to try and get them Just So. It was an enormous time sink.

Eventually what helped me get past it is learning to be OK with the idea that your tools are sub-optimal, because they will always be sub-optimal, no matter how much time you spend bikeshedding them. There's always one more font, one more plugin, one more color scheme. You're always one step away from perfection, no matter how many steps you take.

(If you want to get philosophical about it, we humans are all imperfect creations too, right? So it makes sense that our works, the things we make, would be flawed as well. Perfection is not a quality of things made by human hands, no matter how skilled those hands are.)

So the only way to be productive is to take a sort of Zen attitude and learn to be OK with imperfection. Accept your tools as you accept yourself, flaws and all.

It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, from Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao te Ching (http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...):

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
I think it's safe for you to use the word "ironic" here. (There's such a backlash on the word these days that everyone is afraid to use it.)
How do you prevent people from submitting content they don't own?
Disclaimer: I work there. Not going to answer any 'business' questions as yet apart from: yes, this is a strong position and I'm ridiculously confident in my employer.
How to concentrate?
I'm a professional developer for two years now, going into my third year. What I noticed since week one, and i never had an issue with at school or university, is that I can't really work (i.e. program) for 5 days a week, 8 hours a day.

My maximum productive time is about 4 hours a day. This is more than enough to keep up with my colleagues. If I have to do more work, let's say for a bugfix or a critical feature, I almost immediately get headaches which can last for a week or more.

Obviously I'm very unhappy about it. I used to read books in the evenings, learn stuff, now can't even listen to music some days.

Do you have any advice on this? Colleagues and friends i consulted either can't relate to it, or just in a very general sense ("Some days are though"). I'm serious enough to cancel my software developer career if I can't find a remedy some time soon, even though I love to program.

: I actually keep track of my time with RescueTime, trying to limit my "productive time".
Indeed.

Automate and scale it up with ML / NLP to filter and prioritise who to respond to. Hell why not have the bot throw up potential responses.

Just make sure there's a human at the end of the process and really engage.
In my dev team, we eschew WebSockets as it somewhat bastardises the HTTP/REST architecture. (F)RP is clearly a great UX model, but it can't be done properly without state being pushed to the client (faking it with polling doesn't really cut it)... That said, as a Haskell convert, I really like the look of Elm, but can it do backend communication via traditional XMLHTTPRequest?

EDIT I guess this[1] answers my question. Gonna have to get into this...

[1] http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/1.1.0/Htt...
Seems to be British vocabulary and spelling, but spoken with an Americanized accent (due to pop culture).
BMW reportedly buying 57,000 Windows Phones for employees
There is TrueCrypt,the binary application and TrueCrypt,the on-disk format.

TrueCrypt,the binary application is the one that is dead but its on-disk format will probably live on as a cross platform on-disk format as there are other projects out there that are supporting it and more projects will probably follow.

tcplay[1] is one of the projects that have full support for TrueCrypt,the on-disk format.

If you already have a TrueCrypt volume and you dont want to use TrueCrypt,the binary application,then you can search for these alternatives and start using them.

[1] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
Ask HN: Would you hire me as a junior programmer?
Hello everybody, this is a rephrased version of an earlier posting I ended up editing I hope this doesn't constitute spamming. I'm finishing up my A.S. degree at a CC in the US. I have all A's in my computer related classes (Basic Java, Advanced Java, Basic C++, Database Administration, Systems Analysis and Design) and a few B's in other non-computer classes. I have also learned AS3 and Haxe. I am creating a social media site in Ruby that will demonstrate knowledge of Rails[0], and have created a few games (some used XML and JSON) using said Haxe and AS3.

The above examples show that I am a capable learner. However, I'm not quite sure how to best approach putting together a portfolio and contact potential employers. I'm in NY right now but will most likely be moving to SC for a year at least.

I understand that this is a bit of an open ended question, but I would love advice what to do at this point (I graduate in the spring and will be moving out to SC in late July).

[0]I'm currently using a private repo on bitbucket and developing on Arch Linux.
You've gotta see him in action; he gives great talks. Here's a recording of his SETI talk on the discovery of Styx and Kerberos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6t51YPOuSA (I worked on Uranus' moon Mab, which is mentioned at the start of the talk).

If you get the chance to see him live, I'd definitely recommend it. Unfortunately, he's very busy, so even during my PhD I haven't had many chances to sit down with him.

The coolest thing to me is that Mark is a dynamicist actually, but has such a deep understanding of instrumentation and image processing that he can attack new discoveries from both sides. Good example of why it serves to have many tools in your toolbox.
Linux has nearly 2000 new developers in past 15 months
This is sort of a confused article.

It sounds like it's referring to Same Day ACH, but it starts out by mentioning non relevant things (unless the consumer in question is paying with ACH at a grocery store ...).

Same Day ACH is exciting, but well over a year off. Also, it comes with a limit of $25,000 per transaction, which makes it useless for certain types of transactions, and it also has an added fee of about $0.08 per transaction. For something like payroll or bill payment, this really adds up, and I'm guessing it will see less use because of the fee.
Pen and paper. It's the most flexible, and least intrusive way to take notes while still participating in the meeting. Sure, I spend 5-10 minutes afterwards or that night copying the notes into my CRM or task manager, but the benefits far outweigh the extra time for me.
For what category of tools? There are many SaaS companies out there, clients may need more than one.
Ah and I had just finally coughed up 50 dollars for my Charles license. Charles is a nice tool, but this seems so much nicer as I don't see anywhere that the user is required to setup a proxy manually on the phone.

This does make me wonder how their HTTP debugging works? I am assuming that data is passed over USB. Are they using ADB underneath this all?