skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I read it as an abbreviated 'no question'

A twist on this is the Irish vernacular I grew up with where one repeats yes/no on a sharp intake of breath. Where I think breathing is some form of social cue for agreement.

Pat: Shure didn't O'Duffy make a right clown of himself in the pub last night

Mick: (breathing in) ehhYeah Yeah yeah, (nod head to one side and wink knowingly) no, he shure did.
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> Two actual recipient lists with a secret internal one?

How else do you propose handling BCC and mailing lists?
Accommodation and Co-Working Startup Hub in the Silicon Valley
Interested in feedback from startups as to idea to have in the SV startup pad that provides accommodation facilities (beds, kitchen, showers, pool, bar) and co-working area (tables, projector, meeting rooms) for international and US startup teams to live and work on a budget. This pad would serves as a bridge for startups to come to the SV for a week, couple months or even more and have their basic living/working/commuting needs covered.

It could be one big building with living area on the first floor and co-working on the ground floor or group of buildings. In the long run it could be small startup village or park with many startup teams and everything provided for them just delivering results.

Does this idea sound appealing? Would you be interested in living/working in such a place while travelling to the SV?
I always thought a hypervisor on top of Windows didn't make much sense.

But this, this makes a lot of sense. Looking forward to it.
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MGXC2L... is $2500. The ASUS has a higher resolution screen and a newer graphics card.
yay. another yardstick I can use to demonstrate my own ineptitude. solid level 1.5 of fail here.
Where a 90s tourist guide will take you in 2015 NYC
Baqend: Announcing the world's fastest back end
> But can you understand just how utterly unremarkable and unimpressive it is having kids? From this side of the mirror?

Absolutely. This is exactly how I and a whole lot of people remember feeling before having kids. This is part of the thing that makes it so remarkable: before having kids, I couldn't imagine myself being so enamored with it, and yet here I am, victim of some kind of strange brainwashing that turns out to make the incredible, incredible pain in the ass of it all worth it. And not merely worth it in a "this is tolerable" way, but worth it in a "omg I have to tell other people about this" way. It's ridiculous, I know. But it happens. I'm of the opinion that this delusion is inextricably linked to the survival of our species, because in your worst moments, it's what keeps you from letting the screaming little bastards die.
I'm finding the graphic novel explaining federated consensus to be really entertaining: https://www.stellar.org/stories/adventures-in-galactic-conse...
"Apple seemingly tries to enter markets at, or just after, that tipping point — when Moore’s Law and Apple’s ever-increasing engineering and manufacturing prowess allow them to produce a gadget-y computer that the computer-y gadgets from the established market leaders cannot compete with."

A recurring event in the advance of technology. I saw it hit hard when Smith Corona's computer-y typewriters couldn't keep up with gadget-y word processing software, and the typewriter died. Likewise when computer-y photography (lots of image processing introduced into developing photos) lost favor with consumers vs gadget-y digital cameras.

"the established market — watches — is not despised. They not only don’t suck, they are beloved. And the best and most-beloved watches aren’t even electronic. They’re purely mechanical — all gadget, no computer."

Yet...all they do is tell time. Elegantly, yes, or cheaply, if you like...but time and little else. Attempts to add computer-y function failed for a decade, succumbing to horrible interfaces and anemic UIs; the author completely overlooks the computer-y phases which watches have gone thru (and failed miserably). That a $5 POS watch tells time more accurately, and with less maintenance, than my elegant $500 Movado or the improbable $500,000 watches seen on http://uncrate.com et al, was setting off warnings that the market was ripe for...something.
Nethack with Emscripten in the browser
There is a faster way to get pi in bc:

echo '4*a(1)' | bc -l

(That is, 4×arctan(1)=4×π/4=π.) But your way is truly an awesome use of Unix!
If our brains are kludges hacked together by evolution, it is very difficult to understand. If God is a mathematician, and he created humans in his own image, though, then it makes perfect sense.
Possibly this: http://www.space.com/12400-universe-biggest-oldest-cloud-wat...
I was joking about the bathroom example.
iOS 8.2 Bypass iCloud Activation for Your iPhone, iPad, Ipod and Apple Watch
Are you Jon Skeet?

A) Yes: You are already perfect in every way.

B) No: Look at something you wrote a year previously, would you implement the solution the same way today?

B1) Yes: Fail.

B2) No: You Win!
No. At least for the moment, the proofs are English language only.
Domo Reveals Its Business Software, Raises $200M at $2B Valuation
Linus played with Monotone before he started git (and it shows)

He is even credited in the changelog: http://lwn.net/Articles/131744/
Minimalist java web applications
PYUR- the world's first smart filter
This will be what takes containers into the mainstream businesses. Companies may adopt docker or other instead of this, but Microsoft creating their own version of it means its a viable technology. Im more interested in the new frameworks and technologies that get adopted because of this than the fact that its in use. Traditional Java web projects that are hosted on Tomcat/JBoss don't run well inside containers but there are technologies like Node.js that lend themselves to containerization. Open source .NET is now a viable option for linux deployments, and Microsoft's new containers. It will be an interesting couple of years as this shakes out.
Verdict reached in Boston bombing trial
If it occurs to them at all that the benefits may be greater than costs. I'm extrapolating here a lot from human condition, but we humans have a tendency to first do something and only then begin to understand its potential. It's not that we carefully considered all the benefits of artificial satellite network before inventing the first rocket capable of reaching orbit. So a hypothetical civilization living at the bottom of a deeper gravity well might not even consider spaceflight, and be forever stuck on their world.

Kerbals have it easy though. They can tour their entire solar system with the same amount of delta-v we need to reach Low Earth Orbit :/.
Great simple concept. This + react is how all frameworks need to think.
The whole "debt / insurance derivatives" issue was never fixed from 2008.

Whether businesses making use of emerging technologies and the internet are worth one million vs twenty billion seems to pale in comparison in the realm of economic balance and bubbles.

Visual chart for reference: http://xkcd.com/980/huge/
You can see EFF PrivacyBadger code getting injected in the source tab in dev tools, not positive about network requests. It wouldn't be hard to test though, just make a simple extension that does XHR to example.com and load it up locally. Chrome extensions are surprisingly easy to write, and there are some simple tutorials if you google around a bit :)

EDIT: here's how to inspect extensions you're curious about: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_debugging
I'd be interested to hear more details of what this actually is. At the OpenStack summit a few years ago we were discussing how everything done in containers via cgroups today could also be done via KVM, for greater security. This sounds like it could be a step in that direction (?)
My quasi-educated guess is that Apple figures they have the best shot at wide acceptance -- particularly with the first model -- if it doesn't feel "weird" compared to other watches, and that that's informed a lot of design decisions.

I think a curved display could be pretty challenging. You write "the contour of our wrist," but the contour of your wrist and of mine probably aren't the same, right? So is the display flexible? Is it the same size for everyone? Will someone with a smaller wrist find the display "wrapping around" more than someone with a larger wrist? What interactions will be made better by such a curved display, and what interactions will be made worse by one? And is the tradeoff appropriate?
Should say "Google does a lousy job purging bad extensions from Chrome". A: Because all of the malware I reported is still there. And B: Because actually policing your store for malware for once shouldn't be a news item.
Yeah, all this stuff in skit is my personal preference .. as you can tell from the post, I am not big on brevity. Agree that this stuff could be more elegant, though.
Looks interesting, how does it actually work? I'm quite surprised to see the --INSERT-- in the bottom left all the time.

Also, ctrl-x-e
I've never heard of Jiddu Krishnamurthi before today. Can you recommend a book of his?
Look and Feel and Feel
Advanced Marketing Strategies for Your ECommerce Business from Mailbird CEO
I read somewhere in the last two days their last quarter sales were somewhere around 10,500 units. So 55,000 would in line with that quarterly production rate.
Sex Education in Europe Turns to Urging More Births
I work at a large company and have been surprised at all the different communication tools used across teams. This is a super helpful tool to help fix that because I think its hopeless to think that everyone will get on the same tool.
The aREST library is now available for the ESP8266 WiFi chip
The attackers' 100 nodes might of course diverge if they are so configured, but nobody will care.

The person who is being attacked cares, right? Is there a way for a Stellar node to realize that it has been partitioned from the real network?
It's cute, five minutes to read, and easy to pass around, like an infographic.
And, like an infographic, it's a kind of mental junk food.
I just charge my wrist devices at the office desk. It's usually fast enough for me and I'm not in a rush to leave anytime soon.
Lots of folks upgrade phones every year or every other year.

I question whether this is the bubble that geeks live in. Plenty of people don't know there are new phones to get until their old one breaks. In the case that someone's upgrading when their contract gives them a new phone, I can see more of a strain, but they rarely think of themselves paying $600 for a phone.

To an extent, Apple is producing the Watch to offset the slowing growth of smartphone sales, which tells me that people aren't buying them as often as you think.
Grafana, Graphite, StatsD, Skyline.
It's enormously frustrating to me that the Windows platform is so far behind.

I've been researching for a rebuild of our ecommerce site with the idea of a modern microservice architecture. Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.

Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there's precious little to compare to.

One bright spot is the news story also on HN today [1] about MS announcing Docker-related Hyper-V technology - but in the next version of Windows server.

It might be that to satisfy those .Net compatibility wishes, we just go to Mono and do everything else in Linux.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342369
There are loads of them. https://xmpp.net/directory.php has a (not-so-up-to-date) list.
Hey Justin, is this what you are looking for: https://github.com/Microsoft/docker.

This is where the Windows team is doing the work to add Windows Server support to the Docker engine. We are working with Docker Inc. to plan the PR up, once it is ready for primetime.

Note, I am an engineer in the Azure team...
Apple Watch Woes
Pardon the skepticism, but do "Hyper-V Containers" with "enhanced isolation powered by Hyper-V virtualization" sound suspiciously like, err, Hyper-V virtual machines? And "Server Nano" has a description rather reminiscent of 2008's "Server Core".

Is this just about management tools? Because that's cool, too, but why the spin?
Hi, ceequof, the original author here. I agree with you completely in concept; it was a stupid thing to include and I should have cut it.

But as I wrote in the FAQ, I fired off that email in under an hour in reply to a fast-moving thread on an email list where people knew me by reputation and wouldn't question my skills; the totality of my "research" was trying to reproduce the original numbers from memory ("500 miles" stuck in my head, but the distances to the places I remembered pinging did not); and I didn't ask anyone else to edit it for me.

All of that would have been ridiculously unprofessional of me as a writer for something intended for as wide an audience as it went to. But I had no idea it would be forwarded so much and so often (nor so many years later, now decades after the original event!).

And that's why I really prefer it when people link to the canonical version I maintain at http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html with a link to the FAQ.
Because humor is dead.
I'm guessing this is going to be very similar to what Microsoft has in mind for the Raspberry-Pi?
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Why? Because it is, every day, a direct reminder of how important you are to the world. Without you, that little face doesn't get wiped, it doesn't get warm clean dry clothes to wear, it doesn't understand much beyond the reach of its own two hands. And then, feet. And eventually, when it gets big enough to be going everywhere with you, it learns more and more and takes on more of the world, itself, until its the one taking you for walks and making sure you're the one with clean, dry, warm clothes to wear. This is really one of the ways that life can kick your ass, hard: you learn empathy and humility and trust, love and respect, by doing the one thing that isn't special, because essentially everyone/anyone else can do it: raise a kid to survive in the world. Its bigger than any startup, its more revolutionary than any religion, and it makes so much more sense than getting the next iDevice upgrade - yet everyone does it, its perfectly normal and standard practice, and if nobody had been doing it none of us would be here at all.

Call your parents, folks. Go check on the kids too, if you've got them. There's pretty much no higher human activity than either of those two things. As long as they keep happening, everything will be alright. The rest is just icing on the cake ..
Well snap. I just wonder what happens when some TLA comes knocking...
Apple can't patent digital crowns because they didn't invent them. They probably have patented their specific implementation. The Timex Data Link USB smartwatch was using a digital crown back in 2002. It was used to scroll through entries, with tactile and audio feedback. There was a exponential speed curve to the scrolling; you could scroll slowly, one item at a time, or use a quick spin to advance dozens of entries in a second. Pulling the crown into the "set" position would allow you to edit the current item, and returning the crown to the home position would save the changes. Pushing the crown in from the home position would activate the light.

It was a huge improvement over the older Data Link watches from the 90s, which only had a few buttons. Scrolling through items involved holding down a next/previous button, waiting for the auto repeat to kick in, and waiting until you got near what you wanted, then pressing the next/previous button a couple extra times to find what you wanted.
Created a throwaway to say this since I don't want to give away my medical history..

Basically I struggled with these problems for most of my 20's. Then a year ago I started going into therapy with a psychologist, got tested for ADHD and was diagnosed. Meds changed everything when it came to procrastination. It used to be the cause of so much anguish in my life and today it's almost a non-issue.

Therapy really helped me decouple from the narcissism that had warped me into a compulsive fixation with benchmarking myself against other people. Humbling yourself is important. Spending time on non-code hobbies, with family, away from work and tech industry noise is important.

Not everyone can or should be running a software product, and that's ok. Not everyone is successful in their career at age 26. When your life is surrounded by these skewed values, all this survivor bias, it seems like not being on the frontpage of Product Hunt is a mark of failure. If you head out of the tech bubble, go somewhere with friends or family that have no association with this world, you'll realize that this value system isn't normal.

Also, keep in mind that the people who do run successful projects are often unhappy. Running a product is a lot of work and can be extremely stressful and exhausting. Success is a double-edged sword.

Edit: replaced a rant about wanting to be a successful entrepreneur. This guy just wants to be a good coder, I missed that.
For me I had to do science on myself. Keep a journal throughout the day on what you are actually doing, minute by minute. If hacker news is in there too much. Block it (I did this for years=). If you spend too much time polishing and not enough doing, then set alarms for yourself that say "get it working first. Do the core of it." You will find what's slowing you down and then you can take action to fix it.

Also, exercise. Put aside 3 hours a week and run/bike/do anything. It will give you energy in ways you won't expect! You probably are 100% there already, but for me it wasn't obvious and so I wanted to include it.
If you read 'Characteristics of Games'[1] or watch some talks[2] by Richard Garfield he elaborates quite a bit on this topic. He uses the example of rando-chess, which is very similar to your example.

Quoting #2 below:

"The toy game example of rando chess is an elegant means of constructing a game with customizable levels of chance. Garfield uses it here to illustrate how skill and chance are not opposites. Rando chess is exactly the same as chess, except that, after play has finished, the winner is reversed with probability 1/6. Rando chess, with any probability (<0.5) of reversal, would universally be agreed upon to involve more chance than chess, but would involve the exact same strategic considerations as regular chess and hence the exact same amount of skill. Every skill and every strategic concept in chess applies equally to rando chess, and, perhaps modulo tilt control, the best chess players in the world will also be the best rando chess players in the world... it just might take a longer period of play to determine this ranking. If, somehow, chess could only be played as rando chess, what would society think of it? What probability of reversal would make rando chess a game where neither skill nor chance predominates over the other?"

1: http://www.amazon.com/Characteristics-Games-George-Skaff-Eli...

2: http://www.quantitativepoker.com/2012/09/20-thoughts-on-skil...
For me personally this age-misconception is not what annoys me about this submit - I'm suffering from feeling-to-old since I'm 20 - I guess that's a modern issue.

I just am detested by this weird combination of bragging about where he worked, how much money and opportunities he has and everything - and still thinking he deserves warm words on HN ... and even worse - this is something the OP is (most likely not responsible for) that actually people upvote this yada yada
Why is it not held in high regard?
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Bitshares is more democratic than decentralized. Basically people vote their stakes to elect 100 nodes that ensure consensus, but everyone knows who the 100 nodes are. By contrast, the FBA trust model is completely independent of coin holdings, and just depends on pairwise relationships between the validator nodes. The resulting quorum structure is unlikely to look like a single fully-connected group.
That's amazing news ..... YEARS after it should have happened
GrandCentral / Google Voice used to be able to do this, along with tons of other awesome stuff for VoIP nerds. You could bring whatever DIDs you had (IIRC they also sold them for a reasonable fee) and set up routing however you wanted, and you could trunk to your own SIP server if you wanted to e.g. Set up a phone menu to drive your home automation.

Not sure if any of that still works with GVoice, but if not, I'd look into doing it with Twilio possibly.
It will be interesting to see how online poker dovetails with the big up-and-coming daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry. DFS is essentially online gambling on fantasy sports, but it has been classified as a "game of skill" and is exempt from the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Disney (owner of ESPN) just this month invested $250M in one of the two industry leaders (DraftKings) so I don't think DFS is going away.

If online poker could get enough groundswell (and, lets be honest, political backing) to receive a similar exemption, that opens to doors for a return of legalized online poker in the US.
I have the same setup, as well as a 15" retina MBP. Each one is optimized for different use cases, but it's amusing that a machine that ran me ~$400 is better for a lot of things than my $2500+ top of the line Apple.

Biggest drawback of the X230 is the AWFUL trackpad and the low res screen. Highly recommend getting the extended battery.
Thanks for the link - I checked out the master branch and it didn't have any real diffs on it. Which branch should I be looking at?
it doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do now. there is NOTHING you can do about the past. zero. it is impossible to change the past. You can do things today. find the sweet spot of bliss. where what you do is fun, and you are interested in doing for it's own sake, and where it is valued by other people.

talent management and business success are different problems. talent management is about pursuing what gives you juice. business is about connecting your labor to other people, in a one to many type network so your labor can be remunerative. both tasks require continuously figuring out how to do a better job.

You will stop procrastinating when you believe and when you spontaneously feel what you are doing is more important, and more fun, than your distractions. procrastination is evidence of competing values, competing interests. you'll have more success by orthogonally including these competing values in your labors than by trying to shut them out and criticizing yourself because what you think you should be interested in is different than what you are interested in. you can align your values and desires towards your goals, but only so much. you will be much more successful if you align your efforts towards your values and interests. As you want business success and have a curious mind (hence the distractions) you have to thread your own curious solution.
>>It took several more years before mathematicians succeeded in even constructing the monster group, but they had a good excuse: The monster has more than 10^53 elements, which is more than the number of atoms in a thousand Earths.

Did they create a set of numbers the size of 10^53 ? That seems impossible since you need more capacity then all atoms of 1000 Earths!
Magento Management After Migration: Currencies Setup and Product Bundling
The Dick-pic Test for surveillance
Switzerland is special in this regard. They did not had the ambition to profit from the all thing because well, they benefit from the very idea of impersonating a party that won't take advantage of one's finance in such a callous manner! In other words, they had a condition that would not go well with the quantitative easing thing, they had to choose between keeping a long maintained image/tradition or profit in short term, and they made their choice.