skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread on V8 inlining was buried at the bottom of the blog post linked in this thread, but it was super valuable and is changing the way I write functions in Node this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10108672
I agree that there isn't anybody offering completely indiscriminate mobile data for unlimited devices and unlimited users for $80 a month. But the fact that I want a Tesla Model S for $300 and nobody in the market is offering such a thing doesn't mean I can force an existing vendor to provide me with a $100,000 car for $300.

Like, if these people want to pay for the data, they can actually use their devices however they want — T-Mobile isn't telling them they can't. T-Mobile is just saying that they aren't offering unlimited data for unlimited devices and unlimited users for $80 a month.
I picked those numbers to be a bit ridiculous. That said, even as a long term buy and hold participant there is some number where you don't think your investment choice makes sense.

If you encode that value into your order you are protected from flashes and guaranteed to get your order for up to that price (assuming the liquidity exists to support your order).
Aren't the "worthless" (market-wise) degrees (humanities, social "sciences", etc.) mostly women? Also, many men pursued CS even back when it's wasn't such a lucrative career. I'm not convinced that people choose their professions particularly rationally...
What I learned about selfishness after using the “prisoner’s dilemma” in class
No; real routers use ssh and snmp.
Related: The NSF did provide funding which I used to support SageMathCloud during the last two years. When I applied for the funding, I hadn't started SMC, so the NSF grants weren't actually for SMC.
Interestingly the only "news" outlets covering this are Buzzfeed, Russia Today, and David "lizards-run-the-world" Icke. I guess the court order / D-notice must be pretty draconian.
Usually it doesn't matter what it's written in, because unless a company wants their site to look like a template, everything will be overwritten. And the value of the base idioms will still be retained for the dev team.

Since this looks like it's to help create a consistent look & feel for Office UI, I'm not sure why they chose LESS. :) Most likely that's what they were familiar with, and maybe they wanted to keep dependencies low. But there's always Stylus [1], and it's at least as powerful as SASS. Plus it has better macro integration, which is very convenient when you forget to call @mixin.

Sytlus "border-radius: 5px;" vs SASS "@include border-radius(5px);"

The main reason LESS isn't desirable is it's very restricting & has no lexical scoping, which makes writing plugins such as spriting very awkward to write.

[1] https://learnboost.github.io/stylus/
You've written the same comment several times now, so I'd like to point out a few things:

1) The Fritz!Box seems to be much more focused on telephony, rather than home automation.

2) Many of us do not like modem functionality integrated with our router (I have a Docsis 3 cable modem).

3) Fritz!Box doesn't have a Zigbee transceiver, which seems to be the technology ideally suited to home automation(replacing de facto standards that have been around for years, i.e. zwave).

Just so we're clear, I have no interest in Onhub, and would never consider letting Google have access to my router firewall.
Seems to be the problem when you lie to yourself. Sooner or later cognitive dissonance will catch up. Whether it takes a terminal diagnosis to be the catalyst or not is up to us.
s/module/XML/ is another favorite
An analogy:

In a fictional world, an envelope costs $1, a piece of paper costs $0.50, and a stamp costs $0.50. In total, a full letter costs $2. You know that anyone on the street would be willing to buy each of those items at the component price. Would you not agree that seeing all 3 sold as a bundle for $1 would be irrational?
I noticed that when I hit my tethering cap, and start seeing an upsell page, my Linux vms can still access content like normal. Seems that they do all of their fancy tracking via user agent strings and consider Linux browsers as being smart phones.

If true, it means that Linux users might end up getting accused of being ToS breaking "hackers." Beware.
You Are Missing the Point:On-Demand Economy Debate
My first piece of advice is to think about your goals. What do you want to optimize for (# of users, short-term liquidity, long term profits, customer churn, etc).

My next piece is to be wary of discounts. Consumers will become accustomed to them and eventually come to demand their continued use (see J. C. Penney is a great example of a company that got burned by this).

One more tip is to think in terms of value. Don't just think about the functionality you provide - think about intangibles too. Do you reduce risk? You can charge for that!

I could probably write a book about this topic. Oh wait, I did! http://taprun.com/pricing
India says Google may have rigged search results
It definitely helps as a cyclist if you live in a place where all the drivers on the road are also cyclists. They respect you more. In many cities here in the Netherlands, many roads do not even allow cars; only bikes can cross the car barriers, so you only have pedestrians and bikes on the street.

There are actually more bicycles in Holland than there are people!
Try WebVR. I gave a talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oroAoCuCc74
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100322141436A...
All benefits of sending less data over the wire aside, my understanding was that a significant portion of time during page load is spent actually parsing the js, and that one of the primary benefits of minification is that it reduces this overhead for sufficiently large pages. I notice that nobody has mentioned this, am I wrong?
Why Utah Is the Only State Trying to Track and Limit SWAT-Style Tactics
The case for Uber's deceptive data
Seriously, that's asking for unpredictable behavior. Maybe if it printed the suggestion to the logs and then failed it would be ok.
Why Uber does have problems in China
Babel is working on minification[1] /dead code elimination [2] as well now

[1]: https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/1828
[2]: https://github.com/babel-plugins/babel-plugin-dead-code-elim...
Arabella, a beta reporting automation on top of Google Analytics
http://beta.arabella.me

Howdy,

We've spent time over the last year or two building an analytics reporting automation system - allowing people to use multiple analytics accounts under one umbrella to generate reports for their clients. I'm trying to gauge if anyone in this group would have a use for something like this.

Would you kindly look at the beta site and give your feedback?
If someone is so annoyed to have to come up with a price that makes their order invalid, I'd argue they should put off the transaction.
It isn't exactly literal, but it happens to children (young adults) as well. Drink beer at a moderate rate for a great long awhile and the drinky bird action of the elbow learns its own cadence. I actually think booze neurons migrate down into the arm, somewhat like octopus appendage intelligence. When the delivery medium changes, the cyclic rate of consumption takes awhile to update, it is especially hard since there is a positive feedback loop that is only dampened by incapacitation.

With that in mind, I am training my children on hard liquor from a young age.
Interesting that the article fails to call this form of travel for what it is: overlanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlanding

> Overlanding is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal.
There is definitely something amiss with your setup if you had a Closure compile take ten minutes. That is absolutely not the norm. On an old laptop processing thousands of lines of JS, I've never had it take more than a minute.
Nah. Systemd started out as "just an init system". It has grown and grown since those days, ages ago.

One day, systemd will eat udev:

Kay Sievers on Tue, 3 Apr 2012:

"After udev is merged into the systemd tree you can still build it for usage outside of systemd systems, and we will support these builds officially. In fact, we will be supporting this for a long time since it is a necessity to make initrds (which lack systemd) work properly." [0]

(Emphasis mine.)

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/490413/
Judges will sometimes look skeptically on contracts of adhesion because of the power imbalance, but in this case, this term is not particularly unreasonable or surprising. If you want Internet for an unlimited number of devices and an unlimited number of users, everybody is going to want you to pay more because that will be more of a burden on the provider on average than just offering data for one mobile phone. I don't know what judge would look at that and say, "Wow, nobody would have ever agreed to this contract if they'd realized that was in there."
Northern Liberties is the place to hang out. Lots of craft beer, restaurants, etc...
Tons of new real estate popping up (some cheaply constructed ), but rentals are widely available for all budgets.
Extremely bike friendly. But be aware because Jersey drivers.
Avoid walking around shady areas. Stick to the burger (between Girard and South St). Avoid parts of Temple and SW Philly.
Start-up community is taking off. Beware of job postings that list Philadelphia. Conshohocken is NOT Philadelphia, nor is Norristown.
The NYSE is only one of 11 registered US equity exchanges. There are other exchanges that open earlier and close later (for example the NYSE owned Arca exchange trades from 4am to 8pm Eastern).
Stop giving them ideas.
At ShareLaTeX (https://www.sharelatex.com), our hosting costs are around $1500/month (can probably be doubled once you add in backups and other supporting services). This is for a similar service (LaTeX is just subset of what SageMathCloud does, but a resource heavy subset). However, ShareLaTeX handles orders of magnitude more traffic as far as I can tell. One of the big factors in a service like this is being able to get the cost-per-user down low enough that it's a viable business model given that a student/academic is not going to pay more than about $10/month and most won't pay at all.

One of the big wins for us has been using Docker to isolate projects. Sure, each project is resource heavy when run/compiled/executed, but if you have lots of users, they're probably not all resource heavy at the same time. The more lightweight the virtualisation/containers, the more they can share resources. It sounds like maybe each user is getting to hold on to too many resources that they aren't using, and so it's costing an order of magnitude more than if they could share all the resources perfectly?

I'd be happy to chat more about this stuff (almost all of the ShareLaTeX code is open source as well, except for the enterprisy stuff). We've also got a new project called DataJoy for Python and R (https://www.getdatajoy.com) which has similar scaling challenges that we've been working on.
Yes, but now you have to see that in some countries, like Germany, the standard router you get from your ISP is the Fritz!Box 7490 – if you already have that, the OnHub is literally a waste of money, because it does everything slightly worse.

One thing the Fritz! System does to retrofit existing devices with "smart" capabilities is that it also allows you to use socket adapters [2] to old stuff, so you can automatically turn on / off devices like your sprinkler, etc.

In general, it uses DECT (or WiFi) for home automation, which also allows you to connect normal phones, babyphones, wireless cameras, etc to it.

[1] http://en.avm.de/products/fritzpowerline/fritzpowerline-546e...
They're functional and usually better looking than the default interface, but that's a pretty low bar. I still wouldn't classify them as looking "good".
How to apply the psychology of consumer behavior to your startup
T-Mobile offers apps with up-to-the-minute accounting of your usage, and at least with me, they were quite explicit about how everything is priced. It doesn't seem that hard or scary to me, and I've never gotten "shock" bills from them.
They actually do say "unlimited phone, and 7GB tethering". It's very explicit, and limited tethering is a specific part of the "unlimited phone" plans. And as the article says, if you want more tethering, you are able to add and pay for that separately. The issue is people bypassing the tethering limitations.
HN discussion, for your convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002597
Ask HN: What is an SAP consultant good for?
Hello,

I have worked for the past 10 years as an SAP consultant and I pretty much I have had enough. I did not find it challenging, corporate culture is not something I value in high regard and I am more of a maker inside.

Almost a year ago I started with Android and have brought myself up to speed with it, at least I would say for a junior position. At the moment working on publishing my first app.

Do you think I am taking aright direction, how else could I maybe use my previous experience except for Project management and Product management positions? Mind you, I am 40 so a lot of people look at me like I did something very wrong by deciding to change my career. Your thoughts are welcome and encouragement also :)

Cheers!
I think you might like something like TheFuck?
EDIT: This bash commandline completion has been updated to by default wait for the user to verify the replacement command is what they wanted; this pretty much turns this from a terminal Russian Roulette into a kinda handy autosuggestion!

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

(Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396116 )
What Two Religions Say About the Modern Dating Crisis
> I don't think Intel has marketed a single core processor since the Core 2 era.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/celeron/ce...

Specifically: http://ark.intel.com/products/74390/Intel-Celeron-Processor-... (a "hyperthreaded single-core processor", as I was describing) or even http://ark.intel.com/products/58667/Intel-Celeron-Processor-..., which is single-core and not even hyperthreaded. These are being marketed unironically under some "Experience Brilliant PC Performance" marketing blurb.

> You may want to look at Windows laptops again: it's now possible to buy a 1920x1080 13.3", 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD for $600 without any bloatware.

And I have a garden that grows unicorns on a vine. Got a link to this mythical creature?
A link to the actual essay by the ad exec, Linds Redding - A Short Lesson In Perspective[0]

[0] http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-p...
If true, an excellent example of why we need better oversight into government operations and into information classification.
Virtualization in openbsd, first announcement
How much of that 15 to 60 fps speed up can be obtained simply by setting the variable thisIsDev to false without eliding the code?
> If you combine the two together they compensate for the vulnerabilities of the other.

Do you have a reference for this? I don't mean to keep sounding like a skeptic, but these are pretty big claims. I'm also genuinely curious about this claim and would really like to look into it further.
Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses
Here is one paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7214v2.pdf

Look at Figures 8 and 9. They show the p-value (at whatever level of data was collected when the paper was written) over the parameter space that is being searched. You can see that the values observed have a clear separation -- most are close to 1 (null-hypothesis holds) with just one significant dip towards 0 (null-hypothesis doesn't hold). If you were to animate this graph with the p-values over time (as more observations are made), you would see the trend towards 0 or 1 much clearer.

The Boson experimenters would expect a (1 - p) reproduction rate for the next observation made (if the null-hypothesis holds). That is, the next observation has a p probability of fitting within the parameters of the null-hypothesis and (1-p) probability that it is inconsistent with the null-hypothesis. Why would they expect that? Because the math involved in telling you whether or not that is what you should expect is exactly what p-value calculates (again, assuming a well-formed experiement -- which the Higgs experiments probably are).

But again, when the null-hypothesis doesn't hold, p-value tells you very little (it's actually undefined in the math).
>India has reduced cases to less than one per 1,000 live births, which the W.H.O. considers “elimination as a public health problem."

One in one thousand of over a billion is still a rather large number. Shouldn't the WHO use proportional statistics for populations over, say, 100 million?
Swiftify: Objective-C to Swift Converter
Random repository, bro
Agreed. But if retail investors are allowed to plow money into the stock market, then regulators need to understand it. Which I'm not sure is the case/is entirely possible with the complexity of modern finance.

The average consumer doesn't need to know anything about the drugs she takes. She just needs to know that the drugs are FDA approved and that she can trust the FDA.

I guess it comes down to how much you trust the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, etc. to stabilize and support markets. I have no idea if they're doing a good job or not. Any thoughts?
Both posters are me, and I was clarifying my original statement since people were downvoting me and not commenting, they must have thought I was a troll.

I am not trolling, but I am suggesting that governments do cause part of the problem by alcohol being legal while other drugs are illegal.

Further I do suspect that there's a fair amount of misery that the government does cause (irrespective of if you think it's morally right or not) and that one way people alleviate their misery is to drink. I'm not suggesting that it's an effective strategy, but merely that it is one that people choose. If governments looked at policies not just from a "how can we make people do what we want" perspective but also from a "how can we make compliance simple and straightforward" perspective they could quite literally move the needle on misery.

It's not that any one particular thing that a human being has to do to stay alive and legal is an impossible burden, it's just that there's no "department of if this is reasonable" and "the total cost of compliance on society department" or "how many hours a year does a person have to spend on forms bureau" and so you end up with a death-by-a-thousand-papercuts kind of situation.

Going to the DMV is irritating but tolerable, so is registering your car, so is paying your taxes, so are X, Y and Z. But by the time you add it all up you're probably working an extra week or two every year unpaid, and you don't get time off from work to make it happen during the government's business hours which decidedly aren't before 9am nor after 5pm.

Because the choice of what government you "patronize" has very high switching costs and the barriers to entry are insurmountably high (except for the most dedicated of revolutionaries) we get very little choice and a lot of things that could be better -- if only someone somewhere would bother to care -- don't happen because there's very little real pressure to improve them. I'm libertarian because I think governments are shitty and uncaring, not because I'm a true anarchist. I want ways to apply pressure to the government to be responsible and give a shit instead of abusing people just because they can.
A native hypervisor is coming to OpenBSD
Has nothing at all to do with either NAT or the Firewall rules; it has to do with routing. Assuming your modem/router has this capability, all you should need to do is set up a static route pointing to the network/subnet that the devices behind the other router. You should not need a corresponding route on the other router because since it's on both networks, it already has a route to the other network. Even if it didn't, the default gateway on the router is the modem which can take care of routing the packets correctly. This is all assuming that the modem/router combo is assigning an IP on a private network/subnet to the additional router.
I don't think it is the same odds. The number of startups in which employee 500 gets rich is vanishingly small. The number in which employee 3 gets rich is higher. On the other hand, you'd need 500/3 such startups to counter the first kind. I don't know what the actual numbers are.
Especially for a ui library.
My experience with the FDA:

I'm "congenitally limb deficient" below the elbow. Grew up in the 90s using horrible myo electric prosthetic limbs that had 2 hour battery life and were in all practicality a glorified claw machine. I ditched that as soon as I realized they were actually a hindrance.

In 2006, there was a TED talk with Dean Kamen about a prosthetic arm developed by DARPA. It blew my mind and got me finally interested in wearing a prosthetic again. So much promise in a field that had been in a coma for the last 20 years.

That arm never happened. Why? Because it took the FDA 7 years to approve it. The project now is dead in water and the group responsible for building it is trying to literally give away their designs. Why did the FDA have to approve a prosthetic limb? Well, because it touches your skin. Yes, the silicon on the back had to be tested because of skin contact.

I'm now the lucky recipient of BeBionic 3 arm, which is great. Worst part about it? It uses radio frequency to control the hand and has a tendency to go haywire. I asked why they didn't just use Bluetooth and he said that would require another 2 years to get FAA approval. Ugh.

Anecdotal, I know.
Anita, scared and broke, puts down the name of a long-ago boyfriend and a phony address. When Boyfriend doesn’t show up in court (because how could he? He was never notified) an automatic default judgment is entered and he is on the hook for 18 years of child support.

Woah, this happens??? This doesn't sound logical or sensible in any shape or form. How can there be a "automatic default judgement" if he wasn't even notified? What is stopping the girl from giving some/any guy's name and address in this case?
In the PostgreSQL world, there are extensions (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/extend-extensions....). Since extensions are self-contained groups of database objects (i.e., code), are versioned and have some (basic) form of dependency management, they can be used for simple deployment mechanisms. They also support "SQL diffs" as "migration scripts" from version to version, and the extension mechanism applies them as needed. With all this, ot is not difficult to build a simple infrastructure for code packaging and deployment. That's what we do in our company.
I really hope you don't get down voted for this. The world needs more interop. Period. So tired of vendor lock in for almost everything.
What a technology geek sees when traveling abroad
Hi, William;
Couple-few things:
* I've been using the SMC a decent amount, and it occurs to me that I've never seen an 'ask' for contributions or a subscription.

* On that note, I just went to sign up for a subscription because it's ghastly that I haven't. The 'upgrades' tab just says that I should 'Sign up for a subscription in the billing tab', and the billing tab only asks for a credit card number. The subscription page should probably pitch a few benefits of subscription, with an easy click from a given subscription to the billing page.

* I've used SMC for writing a couple collaborative papers, and have found it fantastic for that. Checkpointed latex with easy access to Sage code is great for collaboration, far better than subversion or (shudder) dropbox. I wonder if there might be good ways to build that userbase a bit: Perhaps some interesting collaboration with the arxiv? Transparent checks for arxiv compatibility as you're building your document? Link 'public code' and data sets in an SMC project on the arxiv side?