skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the fonts in the linked-to document are Type 1. Looks great on my system (I use Acrobat Reader under Linux).
Precisely. The only thing this study tells us is that no galactic-scale civilization in the 100 or so closest galaxies fits the pattern imagined by the America of the 1950s. I find that strangely reassuring.
Must be running Windows 10 on it.
I'm not seeing the velvet in this.
KDB bindings for Lua
Wrong SCO.

Caldera renamed themselves The SCO Group after acquiring the name and trademark from The Santa Cruz Operation in 2001.

Later, things went south and the new SCO(G) turned litigious. The original SCO was not responsible for the later shenanigans, and it was painful to see their name dragged through the mud.

See also: Cingular -> AT&T
In practice, for active human posters, as account age goes to infinity, the probability of being banned approaches one.

I look forward to an age when all comment posting and all moderation is performed by competing AIs.
"Faccio il tifo per te" instead of "Sto tifo per te".

Anyhow, thanks for sharing it, I will rewrite my resume based on this approach.
Do you have any pix of it or at least model ?
You are right! It's temporary option. We are testing new installer, located on our domain! HTTPS will be on next week. It's the first update for next week!
For some reason this reminded me of female primates using violence to get male interest and sex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GUjPConiE

The Bonobo society also exhibits female alphas and uses extensive sexual activities (including hetero/homo and "group") to maintain social bonds.

However, even despite the apparent "similarities" I question our anthropomorphic instinct to assign to or infer too much meaning from the behaviour of our primate genetic relatives.

One reason contributing to that choice is because how humans behave in societies is shaped by centuries of social, cultural and political discourse on the ways in which we behave.
HN is full of people talking about how they work, what tools they use, what their processes are. Your hardware setup is a component of that, so it seems valid to ask about it. I don't feel it is fair to act like you are superior to people who "still fetishize" it.

Of course people are more proud of their results. And we see plenty of that on here every day. This was a simple question to see people's systems, not an implication that it was more important than other aspects of the work people do.

(And BTW, the guys who I know who do carpentry and masonry work absolutely have some tools they like to show off.)
I tend to stop looking when I see one like this:
https://i.imgur.com/EzWOJvI.jpg
Terence Mckenna who I generally think is kind of, really, nuts - criticized the way of thinking which anthropomorphized the idea of alien life, In this particular case I think it is a highly valid criticism: our conception of extra-terrestrial life is perhaps akin to the ancient greek's conception of gods.

There is really no basis to assume that another life-form should in anyway resemble a human, a mammal, or some funny green dude. This should go for assumptions about an alien-life forms energy-use/requirements as well.
OK I'm wrong. I use a Mac every day and thought they didn't do double click. Apparently it's a somewhat subconscious action.
Hadn't occurred to me actually (although I normally opt for openwrt when playing around with consumer routers).

Think I'll leave the probe as is.
Half the Wikipedia page on the Templeton Foundation is about controversies. It's not near as clear-cut as you make it seem.
Very cool setup, thanks for sharing.
To begin with, you'll have to explain to the physicists that there are other disciplines besides physics.
Here is a crazy thought what if dark matter/energy is the result of advanced civilizations? The researchers looked for decrease in visible but increase of infrared radiation, what if highly advanced civilizations can actually make use of all the energy of a star with this unexplained and unknown dark mater or energy being the result.
You can also try "Untangle" on it, but its more resource hungry.
You need to increase the volume just on your centre channel. That's where the dialog is.
Thank you, that helped.
Hmm, are you able to point us to any of these "benchmarks" with unsafe settings?

AFAIK, until recently (i.e. the last month), there weren't any such benchmarks released by MongoDB - and then, only for 3.x.

I'd be very surprised if any such benchmarks exist, as you claim.

Disclaimer - I work for MongoDB Inc.
A bunch of old PL/I programs that run once very pay period is not very exciting.
It's unlikely that print statements are the only thing that won't work in older Python 2 code, the standard lib has changed (for the better) and there are lots of other smaller changes that could stop a script from running.
Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?
This could be developing a piece of software, creating a website or webapp, writing a book, founding a company, obtaining a credential, or whatever else you're most proud of.

Tell us about it! Inquiring minds want to know... =)
The great majority of the space is documentation, source, and fonts; see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119763/339 .

At the 2014 TeX conference one speaker gave out a MacTeX distributions (that's based on TeX Live) on a 8GB USB stick. Personally I wonder whether putting a lot of effort into creating stripped-down versions is worthwhile.
Please start a new thread "Ask HN: What do you eat for dinner ?" instead :-)
Perhaps you jest, but if not, what you've described here the general function of an audio compressor. Compressors are repsonsible for a lot of the lack of dynamics in modern recorded (and some live) music.

A compressor has a setpoint above which it will only allow volume to increase at a set ratio (1 dB for every X dB over the threshold), effectively curving off the peaks. It also usually has a setting for "makeup" gain to raise the volume floor. There's a lot more to it (knee, attack, release, etc.), but that's the general gist - they're designed to manage the dynamic range of a given channel.
Your last paragraph makes sense indeed.
Unfortunately, I have to stop reading at this point.

At the university department I worked at, the Templeton Foundation funded a pile of quantum computation research. They fund a lot of pure research projects by cutting edge researchers that wouldn’t otherwise get funding & the results are published in major peer-reviewed journals. It’s hard to see the bias there frankly.
Well Pizzahut makes the most delicious pizzas and is the best managed fast food company around. So they pay tribute to their past website, that's nice.
and the third type is the people who "fetishize" both :-) In hacker world I think they are called "Grey Hat" ;-)
Netflix Data Pipeline with Kafka
It seems to me that as a professional, I am rewarded for maintaining the smallest differentiation in my rig from bone stock hardware and software configurations. The more that is different about my setup, the more time I spend debugging and symlinking includes when something doesn't compile etc.

Maybe this is a sign that I'm not doing enough "cutting edge" work.
The first realistic attempt to analyze extra-terrestrial civilizations from the point of view of the laws of physics and the laws of thermodynamics was by Russian astrophysicist Nicolai Kardashev. He based his ranking of possible civilizations on the basis of total energy output which could be quantified and used as a guide to explore the dynamics of advanced civilizations:

Type I: this civilization harnesses the energy output of an entire planet.

Type II: this civilization harnesses the energy output of a star, and generates about 10 billion times the energy output of a Type I civilization.

Type III: this civilization harnesses the energy output of a galaxy, or about 10 billion time the energy output of a Type II civilization.

A Type I civilization would be able to manipulate truly planetary energies. They might, for example, control or modify their weather. They would have the power to manipulate planetary phenomena, such as hurricanes, which can release the energy of hundreds of hydrogen bombs. Perhaps volcanoes or even earthquakes may be altered by such a civilization.

A Type II civilization may resemble the Federation of Planets seen on the TV program Star Trek (which is capable of igniting stars and has colonized a tiny fraction of the near-by stars in the galaxy). A Type II civilization might be able to manipulate the power of solar flares.

A Type III civilization may resemble the Borg, or perhaps the Empire found in the Star Wars saga. They have colonized the galaxy itself, extracting energy from hundreds of billions of stars.

By contrast, we are a Type 0 civilization, which extracts its energy from dead plants (oil and coal). Growing at the average rate of about 3% per year, however, one may calculate that our own civilization may attain Type I status in about 100-200 years, Type II status in a few thousand years, and Type III status in about 100,000 to a million years. These time scales are insignificant when compared with the universe itself.

On this scale, one may now rank the different propulsion systems available to different types of civilizations:

Type 0

Chemical rockets,
Ionic engines,
Fission power,
EM propulsion (rail guns)

Type I

Ram-jet fusion engines,
Photonic drive

Type II

Antimatter drive,
Von Neumann nano probes

Type III

Planck energy propulsion
> In practice, for active human posters, as account age goes to infinity, the probability of being banned approaches one.

Not necessarily?

Every man carves in history an everlasting description of who he is
That's the result of a 5.1 mix improperly downmixed to stereo.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SeanMcBeth/posts/24Sf5t1YUU6?pi...

The tower is a home-built deal that is getting a tad old. At the time I built it, the Intel i5-2550k was a good processor, and 8GB or RAM was on the excessive end of the scale. The GPU is a GeForce GTX 570, which was also top of the line at the time. So yeah, it's getting a weeee long in the tooth for some of the stuff I'm doing (I'm sure you can see the Oculus strap on top of the tower).

Ancient Microsoft natural keyboard. They flattened the wave design in future iterations so I never bought another one. I switch between this and a Unicomp.

The display is the Acer T232HL, which is a really nice, 1080p, 10-point-touch LCD that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Also has integral speakers, which is nice, because otherwise I only have headphones connected to the thing.

Yep, this is my livingroom. I'm a freelance software developer. This is my office. I also rent space from http://cove.is. If you're in the DC area, check them out, they are cool.
I've added a (very) brief article, as a starting point. Would be great if others can add additional information!

I guess there is a higher chance of it not getting deleted if there are a bunch of edits/additions made by different people/accounts. So please, add to it :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB
We had this all figured out here in the Netherlands, a law prevented this behavior (which in turn prevents muting during commercial so why the hell they kept raising the volume no one knows) and it seemed to work. But now we have made the switch to digital and we are back where we started (I really wonder why)... Back to hands on the mute button as soon as the logo disappears (which signals incoming commercial break.)
The old (original?) ones are even smaller. https://imgur.com/mKBqksU
(Standard business card included for reference)

Unfortunately, mine stopped working a few weeks ago. Originally started using it in July 2011.
This must imply that every poster will, sooner or later, utter much stupidity or any moderation system is deeply flawed?
I hope they fail.
Alpha Males
I agree... to a point. It reminds me a bit about this quote by Ricky Grevais:

"The other thing about it is:
Comedy comes from a good or a bad place.
And I think that the funniest people always
comes from a good place. Two people can say
the same thing, and one person can be so
nasty and vitriolic -- and therefore not funny.
And the other can be, you know, a celebration.
You know, you can be in on the joke."

--Ricky Gervais

http://www.howardschatz.com/film.php?ID=3814

Corny as it might sound -- I think brutal honesty is more constructive when it comes from a place of love. I'm not sure what the practical take-away from that is. Maybe build trust first, and then be direct? Or be honest, but avoid being mean?

OTOH I think everyone deserves/needs a good bit of BOFH bootcamp to slap them into reality before they are let lose writing code that talks to the Internet... ;-)
He who controls the topic filters...controls the universe!
In the valley of vanity, viciousness,
Full schedules and empty containers.
We’re kissing the coshes that cripple us.
Enjoying the Beigeness.
Why would caring about the product preclude anyone from also appreciating the hardware used to create it?
Guns, probably.
Case Study: Using Bitcoin Derivatives in Global Trade
http://i.imgur.com/n1aP1Dw.jpg (home)

Nothing exotic, i5-2500K, 32GB RAM, ATI HD69502GB, 120GB SSD, 1TB spinning rust, runs Xubuntu 14.04.

Screens are 2xX23LED and the ubiquitous Dell 2412M

Laptop is a Dell Vostro 3750 upgraded to 16Gb RAM.

i5-2430 (I think I forget) running Xubuntu 14.04

http://i.imgur.com/WbSUsxK.jpg (work)

i5-3570K, 32GB RAM, ATIHD7something I forget, 120GB SSD, 1TB spinning rust, runs Xubuntu 14.04

Screens are 3xDell 2412M

Keyboards are the truly exceptional Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
At least this says 1993:

$ whois pizzahut.com | grep Creation
Creation Date: 07-dec-1993
Creation Date: 1993-12-07T05:00:00Z
What is docker, when to use it
Nice! Was that also a re-branded TP-LINK device? Any idea what model?
Founder and CEO of Boxfuse here. I would be glad to answer any questions.
How are we served letting the sun radiate energy without being used?
My current desktop build is a fast i7[0] with a GTX 970, but I can't hear it at all right now. You can have great performance without fans or with large diameter fans that turn slowly and quietly under normal load. This is especially true with newer, more efficient hardware that draws less power and produces less heat.

[0] http://encosia.com/i/overclocked-4th-generation-i7-4790k/
Cool idea, but http://io9.com/5797597/are-we-surrounded-by-dyson-spheres
Very nice, thanks for including the specs. I prefer using 3-LCDs too, just perfect for my development needs.
Easily display different formats of your logo in Swift
New York City Restaurant stats. Which borough has most a grades?
Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie (1911)
Impressive.Can it play skyrim?
Why do so many people on forums like this expect intelligent life in space?
+1 for the keyboard choice, the 4000's kick ass!.

http://i.imgur.com/WbSUsxK.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/n1aP1Dw.jpg
Every man carves in history an everlasting description of what he has carved in history
my 4 year old desktop is near silent, I bought the biggest cooler I could and didn't overclock it plus used high quality 120mm fans.

Other than dusting it once every few months it's requires no hassle.
Ha thanks, good read! i suppose with 7 billion people on this planet and internet full of conspiracy its hard to come up with original theories anymore :)
Considering that Numpy and Scipy are now Py3 compatible, and that there's no actual time constraint, I don't think the idea that it's rosier for others is particularly convincing.
And, though neither are perfect, both 2to3 and Six exist to smooth the transition (particularly for smaller scripts and libraries).
“Barclays closed down my bank account after Bitcoin trade”
It's 85% pagespeed score and 92% YSlow [0].

It's not valid, but it's responsive.

It has no jQuery dependency, but it uses Google Analytics.

It's insecure HTTP but a "trusted" hostname.

It's low contrast and navigable (inasmuch as there are no links).

Plus ca change...

[0] http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.pizzahut.com/7MCdOcHp
One of the teams I work remote for has regular F2F meetings too. We don't rent out a house together (I wouldn't like that, one reason I remote is I like my personal space) but we'll spend the days at a co-working space, and go out together during the evenings for dinner.

We also flew in several of our clients for a dinner we organized, so that the clients could meet all of the team including remote crew as well. That was a brilliant idea.
This is definitely true at the office, but at home, a very quiet Hack Pro in a Fractal Design case with a GTX970 provides a very solid box that I just can't complain about.
Because if it's possible once, it makes more sense for it to be possible more than once.
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
External GPUs can't come soon enough...

Frankly, most current generation laptops are more than powerful enough for most of the things I do. Adding a GTX 750 TI level GPU would probably be enough to cover the rest of my use cases (light 1080p gaming).
Down voted by fans I see.
Wanted: Easy to use autobackup for files&DB on Linux VPS for non-sysadmins
I've totally messed up trying to find such solution.

Data-in:
- I'm a full-time project manager in a small company, spending my spare time on validating various ideas for products and working as a freelancer.
- On validating ideas, I mean coding & public launching MVP to test whether somebody else need it.
- I'm running a small Linux VPS server with Ubuntu 14.04

Problem:
- I have permanent pain in the ass because of absolute absence of backups.
- I have GitHub for my code but nothing for DB and UGC files.
- Snapshot solutions (which are provided by provider) do not fit my needs.
- As mentioned above, I have some coding skills but I'm an absolute dummy in server administration, configuring remote backups, etc. All I know is just how to run several ssh commands and how to restart my server =)

Ask:
- Do you know any solutions that are really easy to use for Linux servers?
Small demands: solution for Linux, easy, very easy to use, remote backup (to Amazon, Azure, nearline or elsewhere), storage is included or easy to connect (e.g. I just have to provide my credentials for as s3), SSL, support for MySQL.

I've totally messed up trying to find such solution.
Already tried:
- Acronis backup to cloud (too complicated and expensive for me)
- snapshots provided by hosting
- Rsync (just syncs deletion all missed files and is not easy for me :)
- bacula (did not understand how to use it on a server)
- searchув open source scripts on GitHub but stuck due to lack of knowledge and inability to understand the code

Hope you'll help. If you know or just heard something about the backup solution, that you think will fit my needs I will appreciate if you post it here in comments.

Thanks in advance!
Down votes don't make me wrong.
what is this nonsense? if a civilization were to emit the energy of a whole galaxy in a single planet they would blow up. Advanced civilizations won't be oriented towards spending their resources in the same way we do either. Why would a supercivilization even want or need to use that much power? Considering they are really advanced, they would orient their technology not to destroy the planet like we do here, but to emit the least amount of energy possible and focus on happiness and well being instead of expanding and destroying like primitive creatures we are.
Actually, that makes sense. This and waking you up so you focus your attention on the ads.
I knew that question was coming.

It's a Lantronix XPort Pro: http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-s...

RIPE Atlas also has some code on github: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community
This.

If your actual resume consists mostly or exclusively of theoretical future accomplishments, employers will be justified in wondering whether you've actually successfully done anything. If your cover letter consists mostly of rehashing what you've done in the past rather than what you can do in the specific role, employers will be justified in being sceptical about whether you've actually considered whether you're actually the candidate they need.
You are right. That is the reason why it's done this way.

TV advertising is about hammering a memory into your brain through repetition. A significant portion of their audience does exactly what you say (go to the fridge or bathroom). Making the ads as loud as possible helps to compensate for some of that.

The general idea is that next time you're in the shop and forced to choose between 30 detergent brands you will intuitively pick the one brand that you've at least heard of.
Flagged for sexism.
When I ordered pizza, I was usually getting drunk, and just got a late call from someone who wanted to drop by.

I knew we needed some grub for the upcoming night of debauchery.(Yea, I was quite the charmer?)

Even now, I would rather have the original website, over the flashy current one. Sometimes less is more? Do I want to make more than a few decisions when ordering a pie--under the influence? I kind of liked calling--order--cash--bye bye.
The loudness issue with movie dialog/action is a common annoying problem. Some home hi-fi amps have compression and dynamic effects to deal with the problem. VLC for PC has an audio compression feature which helps a lot. Or.. sit there with remote in hand the whole movie.
"Please make us create an useful tool for us - Developers."

could be

Please help us create a useful tool for developers.
Use to have dedicated servers (at Hetzner and Webair), but switched to digitalocean. Have an old thin server laying around, pentium 4, was thinking about doing something with it, but it makes so much damn noise. For day to day use, I'm using a MacBook Air (2012 model), still very happy with it.
Yes, please do look at them, because Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and eBay use MySQL pretty heavily for many of their core storage needs (look at the contributor list for WebScaleSQL). Spotify uses Postgres for the same. All of them also use other things as well, but only for cases where they are willing to make performance or reliability trade-offs like for colder or analytical data. Of course they also use things like Sherpa, Cassandra, HBase, etc... but they lose consistent low latency or consistency or availability when they do so.

The point is, if you are going to bet your business on a technology, it helps if it has been tested with production workloads in many different conditions and scales. You want to know about as many shortcomings as you can. For many of the use cases that people use things like Cassandra for, they will be tolerant of 30ms++ reads and potential read inversions. Redis is used pretty heavily, but it is relatively simple code and you can trace through the entire writepath pretty easily and get a sense of its limitations (being single threaded is a blessing and a curse, you really need to be careful about bad tenants because a single slow query will cause an availability event for everyone). HBase is used in a few places, but usually only for cold data after they expect it to be read only occasionally and they don't want to use up space on their MySQL pci flash devices for it anymore. There are a bunch more, but they all have some latency, consistency, or availability downsides compared to a traditional sharded B+ tree backed transactional store.
These diagrams make no sense.
Why not cut to the chase and put all accounts outside the US?

Yes, the NSA will still get the data, possibly even easier since there's no fig-leaf of asking for or nsl-ing data outside the US. But at least the NSA would have to live and work in a slow moving scandal.
Unrelated to the rendering technicalities, I agree that Computer Modern (the default) is not a beautiful font. It's the Times New Roman of the LaTex world, saying "I don't give a shit about typography".

But throw on something like Sabon with a proper microtype config, use some nice large chapter/section headings, and LaTeX will give you the paper equivalent of world class latte art.