skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People copy success, not ideas from random people they meet at parties. It's really that simple. Once your idea turns into a success (that's a lot of work), then people will start wanting to copy you.

I can assure you no one wanted to copy Pinterest when it was just an idea. Most people think your idea is bad, they are just too polite to tell you.
Do you have more info on this?

My understand has been that it's likely that problems from "excess" sodium actually stem from an excess in relation to potassium levels, and so ensuring that you've got sufficient potassium is the way to avoid the kinds of things that have been classically associated with high-sodium diets.

So my strategy has been primarily to keep my potassium level up, mostly by ensuring that I'm getting K in addition to just Na when I'm sweating alot. Has this been a bad strategy?
Ehhhh sort of but not really. There's weird back-and-forth on fat as in "the food you eat contains fat" often in the context of fad diets and over-enthusiastic newspapers drawing unrealistic conclusions from medical journals. But I don't think there's any ambiguity that being fat is not healthy.
Before MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene
Washington Post Clearly Rips Off Designer's Game of Thrones Infographic Site
Original: http://www.wherehaveallthewildlingsgone.com/

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/game-of-thrones/
This is a private database. The article speculates that it's owned by Vigilant Solutions.
Crazy Bad Advice
Never understimate the noise of a laptop, that can be really annoying in the long run. We switch to Lenovo T series for the customization/warranty/perfomance/silence combo and we're happy about it.
Do Not Park Near This Building
Log review guided by tests
The Internet of Kafkaesque Things
Any system that ranks popularity undoubtedly can and will be gamed, it's as simple as that. This is how news outlets end up reporting ridiculous statistics or outrageously skewed public opinion polls. In 2013 it was estimated that between 5.5% and 11.5% of facebook's users were fake accounts, but their likes and votes are real. I'd hazard the guess, based on the shear volume of global propaganda perpetrated lately, that number is substantially larger today.
Experienced people don't keep their ideas to themselves. They don't tweet about them or write blog posts about them, but they definitely do discuss them with their peers, networks and mentors. That's the critical point. You should tell people whose opinions you trust and value because without their input your idea is worth much less, and the chance of them stealing the idea and executing it better is absolutely tiny. If you genuinely trust someone there's no need for an NDA.

Plus, the number of times anyone has been burned by not having an NDA in place is probably a million times fewer than a person has been helped by someone they shared their idea with. Sharing is helpful far more than it hurts anyone.
If I woke up in 5 years to find out we're still talking about JavaScript I'd go back to sleep...
Seems like that would open up the attack surface a whole heck of a lot since ill-doers wouldn't need physical access.
Practical Home Improvements (Foresight Not Required)
I think the point is that a good developer is happy to start using a language/framework because it is the best tool for the job (regardless of their experience using it), rather than just sticking to what they know.

I think that's probably more useful in a start up. But I go more for the 'get shit working and see what happens' approach to developing. I mean, making it look pretty is what iterations are for.

maybe. or whatever.
Google have done a lot of studies to try and reduce the number of click-throughs of TLS warnings, especially when it comes down to the wording of the message.
In addition to email, could you provide an RSS feed as well?
It's like not anyone is saying we should do this RIGHT NOW WITH NO GOING BACK!

Your quip just inspired a wonderfully bad story idea: North Korean agents steal a DNA sample from Elon Musk, and infuse their leader with his DNA. In a short time, changing him into Kim Jong Elon. North Korea becomes a futuristic place with Hyperloops and self driving cars. But is this shiny new wonderland all that it's cracked up to be? (Finally, a story so implausible, even Seth Rogen wouldn't open the script!)
> 16. I still don't know any real investors

What is this supposed to mean?
CV Dazzle looks interesting. I suspect what we're looking at in those pictures is common everyday fashion of the future. As our governments start implementing automatic face/license plate/whatever detection people are going to implement measures to evade them which will make their way into general society as benign fashion statements.
Also, if the failure is with the GPS network, you've now got every flight trying to occupy the same airspace at the same time.
0 and O look the same, at least in Maine...#hack
Super Keen!
Side note. johnberardsucks.com is avail.
Production level Node.js RabbitMQ client based on amqlib
> Doing a large rebrand is difficult, costly and time-consuming

And also a nice problem to have. Most 'startups' won't get to this stage, so spending time on a logo _is_ a waste.
See also: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice
> replacing all car with driverless cars

Actually replacing all cars with driverless cars is a much safer bet , but the key is that they would all have to be replaced simultaneously.
agreed. it's really about lifecycle.

near the beginning of your startup, you need multi-hat-wearing-swiss-army-knives for developers. once you get traction and growth, you need to bring in vertical expertise.
This is indeed an annoying problem. Please either decrease the font size or use 2 or 4 space indentation (without mixing tabs and spaces) or just steal some space from the sides.
So cool to have a way to support the majority of musicians that just aren't making any money with the current system. With streaming the top 1% of artists get most of the pie...
Bookmarked. The comment about a lack of reading material for this type of thing rings very true. I would say most will probably want to custom tailor their tags a bit at some point but this is a great guide nonetheless.
That's why we need a privacy amendment to the constitution.
qz.com is good for business news including tech (and has very nice design), but not so much for the nuts and bolts of programming stuff.
Seems like an odd caveat. Why would you pick something nobody on the team is good at? Who made that silly decision to begin with. I'd expect at least one person is good/familiar with the language chosen.
Great! Let's us know if you have any feedback, we're building Huzza for you!
I know people in Illinois used to avoid the toll booth license plate cameras by bending their motorcycle license plates upwards since it only looks for flat rectangles.

Another option would be opt out completely and ride a bike.
It would probably be ISO-ANSI-CMMI-ECMA-Script-20.0 by then ;)

I don't mind Javascript because I only use it in small chunks and even then, follow the practices out-lined in "Javascript the Good Parts". If I've got a project with a moderate amount of Javascript I'll compile it from Coffeescript and if I'm making a significant single-page application I move on to Errai/GWT.
Hypercapitalism: Information Theory and Bayes
Anyone with the resources and gumption to outperform you at your own idea is someone who has their own ideas. They aren't looking for ideas to steal, because ideas frankly aren't that hard. They're looking for progress on the ideas they have.
This might sound strange...but an imperfect ratings system might actually be a good thing.

I'm already drowning in information overload. HN feeds me several good stories a day. If it got any better I would probably stop reading because it would take too much time and work.

Not to say I like cheaters...but short of adding the equivelant of subreddits...I'm fine with only enjoying a few top page stories a day.
Clip space is in 3d. You have a depth buffer and three coordinates. There's no way around that: it's 3d.

What you're saying is "3d" is just utility functions to transform something into clip space. The reason they got rid of those in OpenGL ES (and WebGL is based on ES) is that most of it was useless outside of demos. pushMatrix/popMatrix/translate/rotate/scale are simple to use, but as soon as you need to do something like interpolate a camera between two rotations you end up doing your own vector math and using glLoadMatrix anyway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331512

Was on the frontpage today
Independent activists who want to use the suffix and pledge to blog can pay as little as $10 a year. But what if someone wants to claim another individual's name? Berard says the registry will police for cyberbullying. But if a person wants to preemptively block their name, that will cost $200 a year.

It appears that it is cheaper to use the .sucks TLD for activism than for preventative purposes. Given the name of the TLD, however, "activism" could be conflated with denigration. Because of this, individuals likely to be targeted by such sites are claiming extortion.

Does anyone know of any other cases in which the price of buying a domain is dependent on who the buyer is?
CCTV Selfies: I Turned City Surveillance into My Personal Photographer
I think its more because those who know technology, know the shortcomings of it. Sure, AI might be better in the future, but you can't design today's systems around tomorrows technology.
They're all on http://quant.stackexchange.com. :-)
I have seen all the tricks, O,0 I,1, WMN, and such, but likely the OCR process will be less fooled than the cop.
Every mention of the policy in this article states that it applies to the hiring process. The fact that eliminating all salary negotiation would be an even bigger headline leads me to assume the reporter didn't just miss this detail.
Did you mean coeliac not crohns?
On the other hand, there are a lot of problems that are highly valuable because they aren't sexy and you can't fall in love with them.
Design and How it works are detailed at http://glitchi.me/
Your idea is interesting feedback. There is a legacy associated with this pattern, though: Going back to at least 1989 (Amiga Protracker family), people have been using this layout because it allows two simultaneous octaves, one at qwertyuipo and one at zxcvbnm,./
>But when you have sufficiently capable and competent actors in government I would lean on the side of trusting and giving the leash.

The elected and appointed members of government change. Their terms expire, they retire, they're voted out.

The law doesn't suddenly change when a bad actor is elected or appointed.

And laws don't generally have expiry dates. The now nearly 100 year old Espionage Act of 1917 is being applied to Edward Snowden, imagine how out of touch laws will become, and how misapplied they will be?

tl;dr: the government changes and the length of the leash doesn't adapt to suit it.
Yeah, but so does Italian.
Hi. I set up a site called https://www.totalitarian.info

It's an invite only anonymous link aggregator
>Independent activists who want to use the suffix and pledge to blog can pay as little as $10 a year.

>But if a person wants to preemptively block their name, that will cost $200 a year.

So you can buy a domain name on which to be critical about yourself for $10 per year, or fork out $200 to prevent others from doing so?

Do I have to be critical of myself in that case? Or could I have borgia.sucks and have it listing my accomplishments and how great a person I am?
While on the flip side of that, investing a lot of time and money to get a logo done when there's a 50/50 chance the company might not make it another six months seems a waste of both.

This is the problem with startups, you just never know. Should I work on growing my brand and banking sales, or stop and spend a bunch of time deciding on a logo? The branding will come if the product and the business model are there. Also, some of the most famous brands have the simplest logos:

The Red Cross

Apple

Subway

Ralph Lauren

Zippo

Adidas

Nike

Google

Ikea

Dyson

Coca-Cola

Pixar
That's hilarious. How did that get past the ICANN process?
I agree. I've seen an experienced new hire "pick up" a new language, and the result was them writing non-idiomatic, difficult-to-understand code. They know they want to do Z, but they don't know the language's way of doing it, so they do X and Y to get to Z, making it difficult to understand their actual intentions.
That is good to hear. I used Arch and loved it until that upgrade thing you mentioned a few years ago. It basically made a machine I had unusable so I stopped using Arch altogether. Maybe it is time to go back.
The filesystem package changes have caused no end of issues to people who did't read the news and just Syu'd :)
I have Ubuntu on one machine, Mint on my work desktop and Manjaro on another.

Manjaro is by far the most stable and problem free. It required a bit of tweaking to set up, and there have been a couple of times when I needed to run a command to reset the package manager to a usable state though.

(To be fair I push the Mint box hardest in terms of installing stuff and tweaking things. Its only been good since I went to XFCE as Cinnamon tended to hog the CPU randomly).
I think there's an RSS feed at caniuse.com so that should probably be the primary source. But it's been requested a couple of times so I'll write it on a list and get it up at some point.
wonder how longer before that database is broken into.
I've seen a few attempts using IR LEDs to wash out cameras, but none that are very convincing. There may be some merit to this approach though, if implemented with more luminous LEDs at higher power, etc.

Something like this

http://blog.workingsi.com/2011/06/improved-high-power-ir-led...

http://www.sunflexzone.com/product/stealth-anti-tracking-ir-...
This is something that has been missing in the music scene. Hope it takes off!
This is pretty close - now imagine if both OOo and LO both had legitimate claims to the OOo trademark, and both tried to use them - leaving both versions named OOo with merely competing versioning.

Nothing good can come of this. (Especially for a project such as Arduino, which really really doesn't compete on technology, but survives on their community userbase. Bringing this tit-for-tat public risks alienating the only feature they have.)
It's a lot like http://www.photon-project.com/ from what I can see, although different data storage.

I loved the idea of Photon. Never actually tried it, but it is a really nice idea.
Carp is delicious. As is eel. As is Catfish. It's all in the prep. The thing is, food items move in and out of acceptable fashion according cultural & historical context - it's not always to do with taste.

Read up on the history of Atlantic Cod or Maine Lobster and you'll see that at one time these delicacies were also once considered vermin, fit for the dogs and not for the table.

What we have to do is secure a better understanding of what we are doing when we categorise animals. Simply calling them 'pests' removes invasive animals from the very viable option of hunting and eating them.
Why stop at license plates? Partner with Facebook and do face recognition already.
"The cockpit was so busy that after we landed my voice was hoarse."

Sounds like lots of points of potential human error.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2xy9pc/x250_repor...

8 GiB is the official limit, 16 needs after-market modules; and you're still limited to single-channel speed.

So no, I don't think the X250 is an adequate replacement for the X230. The X230's 35W CPU is still faster than the X250's 17W one (except in [GP]GPU-heavy benchmarks) and the X230's dual-channel RAM eats the X250's single-channel setup for breakfast, even with the new modules.

Advantages of the X250 are the nicer display (FullHD IPS at 400 nits), and lower power consumption per pound (the X230 still has a higher total battery run time, but only with 9-cell+slice batteries, which double its thickness and weight…).
Samsung attacks Galaxy S6 Edge bend-and-break tests
Posts like these assume that HN needs or wants to display all the good articles submitted on their front page . This is not the case. HN just needs to insure that all the articles on the front page are good, that is to say a representative sample of all the good articles that were submitted.

I lump these types of posts in with those that decry how unfair Google's hiring process it and how they reject highly qualified engineers. Again true, but there goal is not to hire every qualified engineer. There goal is to make sure every engineer that they do hire is highly qualified.
I've lived in Canada and the US. Canada's providers made me like Comcast. The service is very bad, with caps on cable (80G when I left), high cost, collusion among the two service providers, a regulator in their pocket, and publicity campaigns to stoke nationalism to block foreign (i.e. US) providers from coming in.

Just like the US, but so much worse.
I believe that the incentive to optimize votes/Karma has very little to do with the actual Karma count. I believe it is mostly about driving a narrative or page-views for income.

Focusing on Karma as the outcome is vastly underselling the power of sites like HN (and especially reddit). Those who want to warp the system don't just want numbers on this site. They want power over crowds or money for their business.
I'm in the same boat and actively looking at the XPS-13 (have one in cart as of writing). Dell Tech support suggested this limit was due to the motherboard. I would imagine another refresh will be coming -- either with Windows 10 (Sep/Oct) or Skylake (Aug).
Show HN: Secure photo sharing app
It was no.3 that eventually killed Gentoo for me. Took a three week holiday and it must've been a busy release period or something, because when I came back I had an unholy hell of packages needing updating.

The worst part was there were multiple dependencies that just wouldn't compile. I fixed the first couple, but when you have a 3hr+ OpenOffice compile fail on you inexplicably... I just want my computer to work without worrying about all that! It used to be that people would say "Then why are you using Linux? go back to Win/Mac", but nowadays a perfectly stable, maintainable and fast Linux is easily achievable. I think this is the major reason behind Gentoo's declining popularity recently.

Having said that, I learnt a huge amount about Linux just by unbreaking all the bizarre things that risky Gentoo emerges did to my system :)

Ultimately, it all comes down to how I'd rather spend my time. Hours and hours every month running a big emerge on Gentoo, or a few seconds in pacman on Arch? I have work to do on my computer and eventually the process of just running the Gentoo updates was occupying too much time that I could be spending on actual work.
This deserves to be a visible comment. The arch documentation is pretty phenomenal, and may be some of the best distro-specific documentation I've ever come across.

That said, I've just moved back to mint after about a year with arch. At the end of the day, arch required a little too much of my time and attention. Still a great distro, though.
There are already a variety of covers, lens, lights, and reflective paint for obscuring your license plate (to avoid speed camera tickets and paying tolls). And of course, doing so is already illegal in many places. See e.g. https://www.phantomplate.com/
There was a problem with tip4commit where people could send money to people without first getting their permission and potentially causing them trouble:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969

At a first glance at the FAQ this looks similar:

http://www.huzza.io/faq

Has this been taken into consideration? Am I wrong at drawing the comparison?
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> Ive seen the same on most .deb based distros Ive tried - failure to update/upgrade a package or collection of packages - breaks the entire system.

Which means you didn't try Debian stable. deb based or not doesn't matter, all that matters is distribution policies on packaging, migrations and releases.
The links from here are great, and I also recommend the better-designed http://pinpopular.in/
From the FAQ:

> Will artists have to sign up before I can tip them?

> No! You can tip any band, artist or individual in the world, no matter whether they are registered on Huzza or not. Once tipped, it's our job to get them signed up and transfer the tip to them.

Taking money in someone else's name without them agreeing to it always leaves a bad taste with me... Especially if they claim "Tips go directly to musicians."
This isn't a terrible idea if we can attach some wisdom of the crowds and human intelligence to reduce the randomness. It is what I'm trying to do at http://hypercapital.info
Congratulations! Beep.js works well enough to be added to my list of Great Online Music Tools:

http://www.diydsp.com/index.php?title=Great_online_music_thi...
Arduino IDE Forked
> so ORM seems kind of dubious

Maybe it stands for "Object-Redis mapping"
Git is fantastic for dealing with text and code. Of course this sort of collaborative work would be very powerful with papers, with far reaching implications for our society. (Like the democratization of science.) Someone needs to do analogous things with sound and video, probably using a centralized repository. (I don't know if Soundcloud has that sort of thing now.)
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>What's impressive is the raw math performance of asm.js

I continue to be staggered at how well asm.js performs, and really glad Chrome has taken on optimising for it as well as Firefox.
Don't forget to leave it open for mega-business to track whatever the f*ck they want. Government is evil, but Google and Facebook are saints of commerce that do no evil :/
Real 9/11 with airplanes happened. Were airplane manufacturers sanctioned?
JIT-compilation using GCC 5
Hey afandian,
It's a similar concept, although tip4commit was causing issues with gaming/controller what gets works on, where as Huzza is for tipping songs and musicians that already exist, so we don't see the same problem happening. Happy to chat ping me at justin at huzza.io if you want to chat more.
thats kind of what he admits he did in the article "I did a bunch of research and the common consensus came down to one of three major approaches"
I recommend https://www.techmeme.com/
Its available on the non-dev product page if you configure it.
Monitoring Microservices via Graphite with Sensu
http://devnews.today
Rectangular bumper stickers on either side that resemble a plate? Add some numbers on the side to resemble a plate? There are already a number of solutions for obscuring them from cameras, probably going to be hard to find something legal that works well and can't be coded against.
>I find it fairly offensive to compare that culture of intellectual dishonesty and boastfulness

Someone will always be offended no matter what you do but the proof is in the pudding. Capital needing to flow to where it is most useful should not make you take personal offense.
Experienced founders feel a company’s pain. New founders feel only their own
I'd be really curious to see stats on how often/if the type of avionics that software like this rely on fails in the real world. I don't have any concept of the reliability. I think we could get the software working reliably, especially with parallel systems (3 different flight models where 2/3 must agree, for instance). I'm more skeptical of the sensors.