skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to say,,, either this is a flawed study, or the title does not speak to all of the content of the study, or I'm sending my kids to boarding school.
Great, so can we repeal the laws that restrict what plumbing fixtures I can have in my house?
Over the last month, I've moved many of our 25 customer service team from crappy, ~$200 Dell laptops to Asus Chromeboxes ($160 with 2 GB of RAM). The feedback has been universally positive, because the Chromeboxes are so much more responsive than Chrome on a low-end Windows machine.

A few caveats:

+ We've found Chrome more responsive with 4 GB of RAM, especially when you keep open many tabs, such as large spreadsheets in Google Docs. We didn't see any improvement moving to 8 GB.

+ We have struggled with editing PDFs. Dochub has the rotate and delete page functions we need, but can't save in place to Google Drive (it only edits). NoteablePDF is supposed to add rotate and delete soon.

+ We had to buy a new scanner that can save directly to Google Drive. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKW6JZ4 worked well, after the Epson required being tethered to a PC.

+ We found Google Cloud Print to be unreliable, so we bought a hardware print server that works great: http://www.amazon.com/Lantronix-XPS1002CP-01-S-xPrintServer-...

We're not the market for $149 Chromebooks, but I'm glad to see Google investing to expand the market for ChromeOS.
Those dominate much of the thinking of a player in the 1200-1800 range, but become second nature after that point.
Correct, and it's fair to say that the application pretty much is the image - if the application exits, the VM shuts down. Configuration can be kept out of the image with cloud-init, and I basically treat all images as immutable.

The majority of my experience has been using OSv, running Akka, and it's yielding excellent results. Image sizes are small (<200MB), easy enough to upload to AWS and create a new AMI in a few minutes. Boot time to a running application is a few seconds. The only possibly downside is that OSv (as yet) doesn't support paravirtualisation, only HVM.
James Donkey 007 Gaming Mouse Offers Detachable Parts, 54 Unique Configurations
100 miles is 160 km. Tour du Mont Blanc is a 170 km trail around Mont Blanc and surrounding mountains, crossing from France to Italy and then Switzerland before returning to France.

Ultra-marathon runners can do it in 20-45 hours. They carry little but gel packs/etc.

My brother and I hiked it a few years ago, carrying a tent, cooking gear, food, etc. It's a lot of up and down and even if the down doesn't exhaust you, it grinds your knees. Elevation gain is 9,600m (so 31,000 feet). We did it in 9 days, from memory. Could've done it more quickly or walked longer each day but we generally allowed time to select a secretive but flat camping spot (camping wild on the Italian side is somewhat illegal), cook, wash clothes in the river, etc.

The up hill bits definitely slow you down.

Afterwards, we said "Never again!" but I haven't stop thinking about it since and would go back for sure. Highly recommended. Stunning scenery and a great challenge.
Oddly enough, though, there's currently no Chromebooks in Thailand aside from greymarket imports. HP, Acer, none of the Chromebook partners officially sell them here. It'd be interesting to have any Chromebooks for sale in Thailand—and at this price point, even more so.
Samsung Drivers Free Download – Update Drivers for Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP
Congrats, you caught a transposed character in an HN comment. Sometimes, I don't care enough about these comments to exhaustivley spell check them. I guess I don't have the time. Maybe you should chekc your privilege.
I took a look at Meteor pre-1.0 and definitely plan to revisit. I just checked to see if "Mongo package fails to report closure of inactive cursors." [1] is marked resolved. I may be misremembering the issue, but it seemed like a bug with a smell. The sort of subtle bug that might measure the water level, one that could be hard to debug for a beginner if encountered in the wild and one that is essential to have fixed for production apps.

1. https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/2792
Show HN: Mintr – Simple unix monitoring tool
The difference is that animals drinking water is part of the natural cycle, showers are not. There's essentially no difference between the water usage of cattle on unirrigated native prairie and the water usage of the bison that preceded them.

Of course, cattle in California isn't raised on unirrigated native prairie, like they are in Texas or Montana.
Yes, the conditional part is always an expression or a spliced list.
seeing old tombraiders with rose colored spectacles are we? The game gave us fresh memorable and fairly satisfying and reliable movement mechanics and trying to traverse a complex landscape could be fun, music was amazing and some areas were for the time quite striking, but finding the hidden switch is often just a pain and to me cheapens the game with arbitrary challenges. Everyone raves about revelations but it was really bad for getting lost and requiring lengthy runs to find what the heck is around. I get to the point where I didn't even trust the level design to be fun anymore.
Not phrased that way but phrasedmore like: why can't I run skype on this? Or why can't I use this while on plane and so on
I'd argue in your favor that the water coming out of your showerhead or toilet gets used a lot more efficiently than the water going into cattle. In the case of residential water, most of it pretty efficiently goes to treatment facilities which then reuse it again for municipal landscape watering or non-potable purposes.

In the cattle case, most of it goes to the superficial surface of the ground, and since so much of the beef and cattle operations in California don't have the luxury of grass or anything green on the ground, it just evaporates away.
A google cloud print enabled printer solves the printing issue.
> Printing money doesn’t make people think that there are more goods and services.

It makes people think they are wealthier, which amounts to the same thing. I'm not saying people are logical in this respect; I'm just saying that it happens, or at least that Keynes claimed that it happens. (I actually don't really disagree with him in principle; I'm not sure the effect in practical terms is as significant as he appeared to think it was.)

> Money is a real thing, is a medium of exchange and there is a demand for it.

These are actually two different things, not one. The use of money as a medium of exchange is different from the use of money to store value over time.

Demand for money as a medium of exchange can become arbitrarily small by allowing prices to fall as economic efficiency improves. Keynes appeared to think this was a Bad Thing, but AFAIK he never actually demonstrated why, he just asserted it without proof and everyone believed him. Certainly there are examples where the price of a given quantity of some good (such as a given amount of computing power) has dropped by many, many orders of magnitude, without any discernible negative impact. So an obvious alternative to printing more money so there's enough medium of exchange is to require less of the medium of exchange for each transaction.

The use of money to store value over time is what really creates significant demand for money. However, printing money in order to satisfy this demand defeats the purpose, because it reduces the value of money.

> the preferred Keynesian way of stimulating the economy is by fiscal policies (investing from the government), and not by “printing” money, but that is not possible in Europe or the States because politics

This is a good point, yes. However, I would add that the reason why the fiscal policy "solution" is not politically acceptable in Europe or the US is that was tried (in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and again to an extent after World War II) and didn't work, because governments are atrociously bad at picking the right investments. So now governments prefer to print money and hand it to private investors, who, while they are still bad at picking good investments, are at least less bad at it than governments. (But there are still other bad side effects, such as an economic meltdown once in a while.)
Water used on your lawn is returned through the grey-water system. Toilet water has to be treated.

Not to mention the fact that you don't live in one of the few places with abundant fresh water, even during a drought.
Just off the top of my head:

1. We will probably eventually need SQL

2. It might not make sense to be so JS heavy, especially since we are enterprise focused and may have to support older browsers for extended periods

3. General performance issues at scale that I would have with any new framework

Planning on solving these problems when we hit them - for now, fast is best.
> Has there never, ever been a better time to be alive as a human? Self evidently, yes. It's the best time to be alive right now.

Can we stop saying this as though it's some kind of argument. It's not.

Many people are diagnosed with a fatal disease in the prime of their lives. The fact that they were doing well before they received the diagnosis doesn't mean they aren't sick.
Classic fun Asimov story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_My_Name_with_an_S
C'mon, you're being a little obtuse. You're not dumb, surely you recognize that there is some difference in efficiency of water use? Or that the water doesn't turn up in the places where we need it, or in the volumes we need?
How a Gentle Electrical Jolt Can Focus a Sluggish Mind
Speaking of chess, I strongly recommend this youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/MatoJelic

I have no affiliation with him, but he is a brilliant trainer and he is a very lovely game narrator.
I feel it is appropriate to talk about this channel, because I have not played serious chess in decades but just watching this guy go through these famous games, gave me such insight that reading this article (the on from OP) sounded rather naive.
Just don't put it where your kids can reach it.
I don't think most of the entrants expected to succeed, so that's not too big a surprise. Even in a "runnable" 100 mile ultra marathon, only about 50-70% usually finish the race. You can see some stats here:

http://run100s.com/ultra.htm

The same race director puts on a much more finishable race - 314 miles, typically self supported, in the middle of summer, across the entire state of Tennessee:

http://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=29688

It's on my list of runs to do.
I have my clients wordpress sites hosted as follows:

$Owner (owns directory, has rwx)
$Owner-cgi (in group of $Owner, which has r-x, and only rwx in uploads)
Everyone (can read files in upload, but cannot even read wp-config.php, or other similar files).

nginx runs as nobody, and so can read the static files, uploads, etc. But if nginx is hacked, it still can't read database configuration, etc.

Each $Owner-cgi user is what php-fpm (or HHVM, probably in the future) runs as. logged in users can upload new media content, but cannot install new plugins, edit php files, etc.

To upload new plugins, wordpress has a pretty cool 'use ftp' feature, which lets logged in users type in a ftp user on the server, which lets them install new plugins. The username/password they use is the $Owner one. The FTP daemon only allows localhost access, and the $Owner user doesn't have shell access.

nginx is set up to block a whole bunch of standard things (such as any request with wp-config in it...)

This setup automatically blocks most of the exploits that are around, and is pretty easy to use. It also means that even if a plugin does get exploited, there's very little that can be done, without knowing the FTP username & password (which is long, and random).

All of this enforced and configured by ansible. Setting up a new client site takes about 2 minutes. (Answer a few questions from my 'make a new client' script, and then run the ansible site.yml)
Hmm... If you can port VLC to Chrome OS with ARC, I wonder what happens if you try to shove Firefox for Android into it. Are there fundamental roadblocks that would prevent it from working, or would you just end up with a slow and buggy waltzing bear?
Ask HN: Who do you go with for security audits?
As title suggests, when it comes to doing an overall audit of your digital ecosystem, finding vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses, who do you go to?

Finding myself in unfamiliar territory and I would cherish some recommendations. Serious budgets.

Thanks
I would add https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess/videos and https://www.youtube.com/user/Chessexplained/videos to that list.
The only thing that could restore Detroit is a restoration of American capitalism, with drastic reductions in taxes and social welfare spending, and elimination of regulations designed to protect labour. In essence, Detroit would have start again from the bottom, from the same place that countries like China are at now. Low wage, low skilled labour, gradually building the capital and skillset of the residents.

This is unlikely to happen, due to ideological resistance to free market economics, so the people will remain trapped in a state of being unemployable due to labour laws instituted by the government with the intention to protect them, and dependent on welfare programs that reward the sort of low-income lifestyle that will generate the next generation of unskilled, government dependents.
> it's always wrong

Until it isn't.

Presumably you haven't read 'collapse' by Jared Diamond. Even if you disagree with his argument, you can't disagree with his facts - which are that all prior human civilizations have failed catastrophically, typically with environmental collapse.

Why should we believe that ingenuity will prevail this time, when it has never done before?
At least people are starting to discuss this, which is an important improvement over the past situation. These are the first articles I've seen coming across my news feeds which are daring to bruise the sacred cow of California agriculture -- and I've bumped into a couple of people now who unprompted mentioned the 80% statistic for statewide agricultural water use. So word's getting around.
I don't think that it's officially recognized as such, but it can't be anything else. No one can seriously believe this measure would save any significant amount of water. Not when up to 30% of water is lost in the distribution system [1] due to leaks in decades past their useful life delivery pipes.

If the utilities simply stopped the leakage that would have an enormous impact --but stopping leaks is not visible and it doesn't "mobilize" and it doesn't internalize.

[1] http://growingblue.com/case-studies/leakages-in-water-distri...
You do realize that this attitude will lead to ignoring the one time when there is real danger. Is that what you want?
nacl is not exactly "standard"
I'm also interested in knowing how one can really put a price on a bug, and user dsacco seems credible enough to answer that. For example, Facebook's bounty program paid $12,500[1] for the bug that could delete any photo album. This bug seems like it could have a much worse effect since some videos are a source of income for their owner.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/12/8026159/facebook-photo-alb...
Ask HN: What's the best way to compete with same names in Google search
I'll be brief; I'm trying to get my Github, Portfolio website, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc to the first page when you Google my name. Unfortunately for me, I happen to share my name with quite a few other individuals, of varying professions, but many seem to be quite successful. I've researched quite a bit about SEO; it seems backlinks help a lot. What are some other ways that I can improve my ranking in Google search? What is the timeline on how quickly it can be accomplished? https://markewaldron.com
I don't know of human games that do this (except for practice), but this is done in computer games. See the Thoresen Chess Engine Competition (TCEC) where the first 8 moves for both sides are played by the book and then the engines take over. This is good as it ensures the engines are tested over a wide variety of positions.
It's the littlest bugs that do the most harm. Bieber got lucky this time.
> permaculture fantasy agriculture

Umm, permaculture takes a systemic approach utilizing science & natural laws. It's working with nature not against nature.

What is a fantasy is monoculture & trucking in fertilizer to squeeze the blood from the turnip of the devastated ecosystem & expecting it to grow forever.

Calling a practical lens, that requires a different set of values & thought, a fantasy is a bit pessimistic & ignorant of humanity's ability to adapt. The transition is happening right now. You may not notice the transition if you are abstracted away from the communities that are changing how how we live & how food is grown. But don't let ignorance & assumptions be your guide on this one.

Many third world countries are adopting small scale, systemic methods because they work. Gardeners produce way more efficiently than large monoculture farms.

When we move into a low energy economy, those who adapt will prosper, those who don't will perish.
https://www.appliedtrust.com/

The great thing here, they don't have any sales people only engineers so when you call up, you get someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
"People always ask if you could build a time machine and kill Hitler would you do it? Well, it looks like your answer was no, cuz those Bieber videos are still up." - Best Commenter
Meteor is great i used it to prototype the live section of www.sportskeeda.com. Then i had to switch to jquery polling to make it faster. Meteor was fast except for the initial load that used to take a couple of extra seconds. This was reduced to large extent on Modulus.

So my suggestion to anyone considering Meteor in production is to deploy on Modulus.
You're probably right, but replacing them would be many hours of work, and there doesn't seem much point. I was mainly interested in seeing what I'd left on the hard drive :-)

My 486 machine was also dead, but I pulled out the drive and managed to find an old IDE interface on a 10 year old computer that would read it (after trying several), and copied it. (Turns out there was nothing interesting there.) The old disk drive was the only piece of old equipment I could get to work.
>Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh

Oh the irony. So basically what I gather is Zappos is trying to find a way to drive down the salary of all employees by removing their titles. Except for the executives... because you HAVE to have executives, even with fuedalism... er... "holacracies".

>Hsieh's memo says they will keep their salaries through the end of 2015 and will get guidance for reinventing themselves into new roles at the company.

Yup... "We want to gut all the high paying jobs from our organization by giving the rest of you the job your managers had before. Hope you enjoy the additional job titles, we won't be increasing your salaries".
actually there are 60000ft of ascent and 60000ft of descent in that race. With steep and or bad condition of descents (check the photos from the links others posted), you need to apply the rule (at least partially) to descents too. Thus we come almost all the way to 90hrs.
Is it because Elon Musk made all SpaceX media Public Domain?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150322/07190730399/elon-...
If you did want to deface a website and get away with it for as long as possible, why not today?
Show HN: HTTP Proxy for OS X that lets you share
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
It redirects to a site with a valid certificate belonging to "The Linux Foundation." To a domain with a whois record belonging to The Linux Foundation. With DNS servers belonging to the Linux Foundation.

Come on.
Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders
I'll concede that the iPad line is weird, but I just don't agree with the pattern you are trying to make for the rest of them.

I don't agree that 2 sizes of iPhone is any different from 2 sizes of laptop or two sizes of iPad.
Philantro's Experimenting with YC Alum – Lob
Because that sort of "consulting economy" is the open source business model de jure.
Not trolling, just a little paranoid that I'm being left behind... :) but thanks for the complements!
The Outside magazine story of the Barkley is pretty good if you are looking for some background: http://www.outsideonline.com/1924491/60-hours-hell-story-bar...

It's be interesting to see Jornet try it sometime.
Gmail launched on April 1st 10 years ago ... people also thought it was a joke due to the huge 1GB storage.
Sorry, but what a fucking surprise.
Reminds me of my odds-on favorite candidate for name of the year: Dr. Electron Kebebew

"His father, an Ethiopean electrical engineer, worried that his children would not follow in his footsteps as people of science. To make their career paths clear from birth, he named them after subatomic particles"

I thought this idea of parents using one of their earliest parental acts to influence the destiny of a child to be a fascinating facet of human nature.

http://www.nameoftheyear.com/2015/03/we-need-to-talkabout-dr...
That's the point. He says "worryingly", I'm saying you probably don't have to worry. There's probably no risk of internal damage at "warm/hot to the touch" temps
The Other Side of Lee Kuan Yew
How much of the stack will be open source? In the week after FoundationDB ceased to exist, there's still that nagging question of what happens when you guys get acquired. If the UI and deployment piece was open source and could be self-hosted it would make your own free and paid hosting + CDN more attractive by removing this concern, as well as open up revenue streams for supporting on-site enterprise installs.
One of the joys of putting on your own race is making up your own rules. This race is decidedly unlike a marathon by design.
I like the first TR because it doesnt hand hold, but its still fluid and fun.
I like the latest TR because graphics are good, its fluid and fun. The hand-holding and cut scenes were still annoying, but bearable for once. Obviously didnt follow tutorials or gathered trinkets, i just ignored it, as in every single game these days.

Its quite hard to be stuck in the games these days even without the hoarding. The games are rather easy most of the time.
No. Atom is a text-editor with plugins. It's no more a competitor for IntelliJ than UltraEdit was a competitor to Visual Studio.NET. (IMO)

But I was actually talking about in-browser environments like CodeAnywhere.
Show HN: Crockford Facts
I've learned that it's very easy to overstimate the sophistication of the average person's views. "When people support protectionism, it's because of slogans, not understanding the literature on optimal tariffs" and all that.

How about this: can you give me an example of a conservation promotion card that's more consistent with "it's symbolic" than "this actually helps"?
What are you getting hung up on the most?
Its not, the timing is marketing genius apparently .. literal one-click ordering.
The best part of that documentary (I'm guessing it's the same one) is that the official starting signal for the race is when Cantrell lights a cigarette.

Also, the license plate is part of the entry fee. You have to bring him a plate to enter in the race.

Also, there are no trails, no markers, and the only aid station is the starting line which you pass 4 times during the race. You do have to stop and check in at various stations to verify that you actually did the course. IIRC, you had to pick up some kind of memento from the station. As someone mentioned, you're frequently going through brambles.

The entire idea of the race was based on James' Earl Ray's attempted escape. Cantrell was fascinated that a man on foot could make it only 8 miles in almost 60 hours, and that led to him starting the race.
Avast blocked this site for having malware. Is this false detection or is there actually malware on the site?