skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite so. It seems that a lot of assumptions were made, and I can see why it seems that way, but it was totally the wrong responses I was expecting.

I'm doing precisely what you did with the cabin, except I need to be out of the country to avoid calls from my clients even when they know I'm on vacation. The only calls I plan are taking are from Hong Kong itself in case an emergency happens (A recent relative had a stroke and is in a Hong Kong hospital).

Going to Hong Kong enables me to take trips to China, which is a lot of fun and doesn't require staying longer than a day to enjoy.

I'm also choosing Hong Kong because I can borrow the vacant house for free (courtesy of my parents). Going to Canada is around 1k round trip for me, whereas Hong Kong is 1.1k round trip. I'd rather go to Hong Kong in terms of that preference. The remaining $900 involves around $200-300 for china (paying the visa to visit there, transportation, etc) and the rest is for food.

I've considered going somewhere closer for a week, but I'll definitely burn out if I don't even have anything like China to look forward to. 2 weeks of coding non stop is fine but not 3 weeks( I've done 2 and barely managed to keep motivated towards the end).
They they wouldn't be ballers. Just people with a job.

But seriously, they should have some kind of program.
Letting individual classes get settings from NSUserDefaults (which itself effectively presents a singleton) directly seems to work pretty well for me.

One advantage is that the classes are then reusable in other projects because they aren't coupled to an application specific settings provider.
Tracking lost phone
Random question...but im not quite sure where else to turn!...Does anyone know how to hack into a lost iphone 3gs in order to find it? Not sure if it is stolen, but keeps going straight to answerphone...so is dead. Thanks!
I don't think it's a good plan. Not only because it'll cost you a lot of money but also because it'll help you accelerate the development of your project but the distraction problem will be there afterwards. Try to understand what is beneath that distraction: anxiety, lack of passion, I don't know, but try to work on solving that issue in a more permanent way.
That is a good idea. However there would have to be some way that they could prevent players from signing away their rights to that income.
Doesn't sound too cool (was going to say gangsta) and I doubt young players would go for it. The majority want it all right away.
The NBA has a pension system for its players. It more or less does what you talk about. If you play for 13 years or so, I believe you get 50k a year if you retire or something to that effect. The longer you play, the higher the pension payout is.
In theory Amazon cannot access your AWS instances. Everything is encrypted - communications, the virtual disk itself. How well this holds up in practice, I don't know, because the only key they don't have saved for you on their websites (in case you should lose it of course) is your SSH private key.
I wouldn't be surprised if more users were on devices that ran linux than devices that ran windows nowadays.
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woah this looks really useful. Is there a gem for ruby that does this? I've just been doing the first 'String Similarity' step using levenshtein distance
Establishing a penalty for having a cobra appear on your property adds the property 'natural enemy of Cobras' to the existing population of humans which can be undone without having to hunt down and kill off yet another element of the system :-)
The NHL has a financial education program for new players. iirc it's a required "course" to be an nhl player now.
If you're using NSUserDefaults, why bother with a SettingsManager? If the SettingsManager is an NSUserDefaults replacement for whatever reason, then it's probably fine for it to be a singleton.
Aha, and what’s your evidence for that?

Soyuz 1 (1967) and Soyuz 11 (1971) both ended with fatalities. Four cosmonauts died. The Soviet Union did not hide those fatalities. Here is what best illustrates that: All their names are on the Fallen Astronaut memorial on the Moon, put there during Apollo 15, only a month after Soyuz 11 ended in disaster.

There have been no fatalities on Soyuz flights since Soyuz 11, all fatalities occurred early on. That’s forty years without fatalities, and that’s mostly why Soyuz is so safe and reliable.

Sure, more astronauts died during Space Shuttle missions but the Space Shuttle also brought many more astronauts into space than Soyuz. If you look at the percentage of fatalities Soyuz is only doing marginally better – one more dead cosmonaut and the percentages would be about the same. It’s not so much the raw numbers, it’s the forty years. Soyuz is a mature spacecraft, all the kinks have been worked out, the Space Shuttle was always too complicated to ever really work out the kinks, to ever really be considered safe.
Congrats to Ameet and the team at five!
Drivel. All of it.

Right off the bat, try these on for size: Do What You Can Tolerate, And You'll Get By; Do Something You Hate If You Have To, Otherwise You'll Starve; Do Something You're Indifferent To But Pays The Bills, Or You Won't Be Able To Afford Anything; or, Do Whatever Comes Along And Have Fun In Your Free Time. Those are your writing assignments. 1000 words or less. Due tomorrow.

A healthy dose of realism would help the author along, as would taking the attention-whoring down a notch or two.

I spun into a soulless depression--working by day, working by night

And now the author is in his manic phase, which will also pass. Seriously, if you're in "soulless depression," don't change careers, get mental help.

Cognitive behavior therapists would call what the author is doing "awfulizing." He's making the consequences of a course of action out to be far worse than they really are, and working himself up over it. "Oh, it would be absolutely awful if I had to do X for a living!" Well, no. You could develop coping skills instead of insisting that everything has to be perfect in order for your life not to be awful.

Oh, well. It takes all kinds, I guess.
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html
A job with an amazing severance.
Kind of what I'm proposing, except that they would get a lot more money on retirement and hopefully learn the value of investing along the way.
Today we’re previewing five new dynamic templates in Blogger that you’ll soon be able to customize and use for your blog.

Looks like the /view is just to preview them
Perhaps the thinking was, "if we release them they will reinstate the bounty"? Alternatively, you could be correct and the story could apocryphal.
Read Google Singularity detector. Was disappointed.
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Medicine is a game of probability. If you have malaria symptoms in a malaria area, the chance of you having malaria are around 99%. Every other disease with similar symptoms (e.g Typhoid) is pretty rare.

When it comes to peoples lives, people very quickly reach the optimal solution. It's what humans do best. This android solution is a theoretical solution from people who have never experienced malaria and don't even live in an area where malaria exists.

Yes, I have practical experience with malaria. I also have practical experience with android phones. I am actually qualified to make experience-based judgments on the feasibility of that tool, and quoting theoretical papers may win you arguments on the internet, but it will have little practical usage.

When there is a disease in an area that has existed for so long that people have built genetic resistance to it, at the cost of having occasionally sickly children, then trust me, modern methods that work will quickly be selected.

Modern methods that don't work (bed mosquito nets), will be selected away.

Armchair solutions for problems you only partially understand are pointless.
I don't think this is meant to replace the x86 ISA, but rather SIMD units like MMX/SSE and traditional GPU shaders. The article was a bit muddled -- I'm waiting for the Anandtech version.

Successful adoption will be dependent on good tooling. Auto-vectorizing is really hard in compilers, mostly because current languages aren't really built for it. But if AMD were to introduce something purpose-built (eg, with a Matlab-like syntax), then that might compel devs who aren't assembly or GPU gurus to develop against this.
any method that has 'shared' or 'current' in front.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

It is almost everwhere.

[MyClass sharedMyclass] is the Objective-C equivalent of getInstance()

Also, singletons make good sense in mobile apps, as it is a very different type of a beast than a server side app.
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The company says "NO" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/punchd/status/89450652601819136
What are the advantages of instantiating the Singleton object in multiple different locations rather than, for example, using the Singleton class itself as an object with various static attributes and methods?
You seem to be someone who does not feel a need to post your photos, videos, and daily statuses to share with others in your social circle. This is actually a good thing, especially when the endtime comes and all of these companies exploit the information that the rest of us are willingly putting on their servers.
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Why not get a research position at a university, that seems much more suited to what you want to work on ?
Re 2: Why not? If your disk is encrypted, anyone stealing it might as well not have any files at all.
Foursquare APIv2: Woulda, coulda, shoulda
Is that just pure user numbers, or percentage increase over a period of time?. Considering LinkedIn has a few years head start over Twitter I wouldn't be surprised at the user count. But if we are talking current growth, that is kind of shocking really.
These are old basic ideas[1] on pursuing happiness, in a slightly rehashed way, with the ask culture (how does that work in Japan?) thrown in with some randian self determinism.

[1] Schopenhauer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10741
You don't write M$ or G$ to general public at all.
See: http://gigaom.com/apple/iphone-dev-sessions-using-singletons...
> if you need some settings that can be accessed/changed from many different classes then the design of your app is severely lacking.

If he's making a game, this is completely acceptable design. Games programming is wildly different from application or server programming. Also, strict TDD is much, much less useful in games programming than anywhere else. Writing unit tests for central data structures and algorithms is useful, of course, but the majority of modules/classes/objects are so small, uncritical, and change completely so often that it's not worth bothering.
Only downside with LuaAPR is you're back to writing Apache style servers, with an OS thread for every connection instead of using non-blocking sockets where possible (Didn't find any support for nonblocking sockets or a select\poll variant in the linked docs)

For my Lua server [1] I currently use the nixio library from the LuCI project and polling instead[2]

Although the downside of both nixio and Lua/APR library is the use of compiled C bindings to manually interact with the virtual machine.

The exciting development with LuaJIT is the high performance FFI that allows you to make system calls and create structs directly from in Lua[3], so I am currently considering switching from nixio to ljsyscall when I do a new version [4]

[1]https://github.com/davidhollander/ox

[2]http://neopallium.github.com/nixio/

[3]http://luajit.org/ext_ffi_tutorial.html

[4]https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
Breaking GSM with Rainbow Tables
Strictly speaking, you're proving the positive assertion that you were born after the assassination, which is incompatible with your having been the assassin. You can only prove or disprove a positive assertion. "Proving a negative" is done by proving a positive assertion that's contrary to, or incompatible with the thing you're trying to "disprove".
Misko Hevery - one of the developers of the GSD - has a blog were he talks about testing, dependency injection, and global state. He hasn't posted a lot recently, but there is a lot of interesting stuff if you dig through his archive.

http://misko.hevery.com/
Don't fall the trap of the cargo culture thinking. Google has a completely different problem than you do. Their code spans hundreds of thousands (or millions), of code, in distributed systems, etc..

This is probably the single most useful quote in this entire discussion. Singletons are not inherently bad -- they were created for a reason, but because people abuse them, they have a bad rep.
I've managed a couple passing conversations while she was staying in SoHo NYC and she definitely has an idea of what she wants out of things but I can't say there wasn't an amount of fakeness to the whole situation (recalling the defamation lawsuit in this case). To her credit, she explains things very well and certainly doesn't give in lightly to things. I guess it takes an extremely determined personality to live her life.

I'm convinced that she knows the record label situation well but it was probably after having the same conversation many times with many other folks in the industry. Still, none of that is necessarily a bad thing nor does it make this a poor piece of writing (regardless of any editors).
That's very interesting, but I can't say I've heard of Glenn Beck touting Tellurium Exchange. Nor has anyone told my why now may be the best time ever to own tellurium, although your post is giving me a pretty good idea.

I suspect rarity has less to do with the issues surrounding gold than its ancient desirability, its role throughout history, and the cultural baggage it's picked up in consequence. You probably carry as much rare as gold material in your mobile phone as you'll find in one of those solar cells, and if not, the platinum in your car's catalytic converter may more than make up the difference.

Don't let one minor inconvenience get in your way. ;)
And the follow up post: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306948009.html
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Quartzy (YC S11) Brings Order To Science Lab Supply Cabinets
Soulmate: Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting - extracted from SeatGeek
I wouldn't recommend a payment system that's still in beta. There's lots of things you can screw up that won't seriously damage your startup, payment isn't one of them.

I'd recommend starting out with one of the major "easy-to-get-started" providers like Paypal or 2co and then switch to a merchant account once the volume of sales make it worthwhile.
Depends on your definition of singleton.

In java, singletons are enforced by the type system - i.e. There's no public way to make more of the object. Usually that's what people mean by 'singleton' in java. If you don't have the source and you outgrow the single instance, there's nothing you can do except stop using the class.

In Objective-C, people do occasionally simulate that by mungng init and alloc, but that is definitely a bad idea. More often a singleton class will have a conventional init and alloc, but have a class method like +sharedInstance which lazily instantiates and dispenses a single instance of the object during the lifetime of the application. That's what people most often mean by 'singleton' in objective-c. It's basically a global variable, but when you outgrow it, it's often not hard to switch to allocating more than one.

Also, partly due to what many would see as a deficiency - the fact that it's much harder to produce architecture independent libraries in objective-c than java, the source is available more of the time, so evolving past a singleton is more often straightforward.
That's what happens when you spend more on the atmosphere than their equipment :) Hope that wasn't what their first round funding went to.
I was genuinely expecting a hack that parsed google+ profiles to figure out who's single... doh!
A moment's reflection refutes this. In the world's most advanced economies most people work in and for large companies because they have outcompeted the small companies that weren't as good.

Seriously, how many 100 person companies does it take to be as capable as IBM?
I was looking for the web site, but a couple I know who sing typically folk songs put out a Christmas Album on CD and it cost them less than $5K for a production master and a bunch of copies of the CD.
It's not a bad idea, but the implementation will never happen. I can see the politics of the suggestion going bad very fast with accusations of racism. Not fair, but the spin would make some money so it will happen.

Incidentally, the government tried this with the Native American land profits and it has all turned bad with ongoing lawsuits and some serious settlements.
Here's the polite exit route: say "let me give you my card" and once you exchange your cards say "it was good meeting you" and walk away.
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POST to /add to create a resource? Strange, redundant, and the sort of thing I thought died with old versions of Rails. Riak/Webmachine and CouchDB get this right. Because knowledge is power, here is the section on methods in the HTTP 1.1 spec http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1... . Sorry to inject facts into an otherwise opinion-based situation. If I've bummed you out, I apologize. Here's a laughing penguin to cheer you up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fbt1fVfi-g .

Worshipping at the altar of HATEOAS,

Lil' B
Finally A Music Company That Cares About Musicians
Thanks for taking a look! My intuition for the dy/dx relations are "amount of growth" and "time needed to grow to the next increment". So for me, e is the amount you have after growing continuously for exactly 1 unit of time (integrate 1/x until it is 1).

I'll have to examine that link while I have time to study (vacationing now) and agree the wiki explanation wouldn't be the most enlightening :).
That is a good point that I failed to make in my excitement. Thanks for bringing that up.
They need education most of all; there's a number of articles out there detailing the predatory businesses and people milking money off professional athletes. It's not just that they buy extravagant goods, but they pay for them with horrible loan terms, and the debt runs away on them. Here's an example:

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201104/tpg-exclusive-cas...

I wouldn't be surprised if the player's associations already sponsor financial training seminars; can't force them to learn, though.
Isn't a "mingleton" the same as a named constructor, or am I missing something?
Don't worry, she basically plagiarized it from Steve Albini. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79162

(I still find it really satisfying when I google for something I know is true and find myself as the #1 advocate of it on Google -- in this case the search "steve albini courtney love plagiarism")
I thought it was a col, targeted idea to make it appear only for the people who get all the way to the bottom of the article (took me a second to figure that out) . It is a little unwieldy though once it appears, covering text etc. Maybe if it comes in from the side?

P.S. great post- here's some dopamine for you -----> o
CellScope, based in Berkeley, came up with a way to attach a smartphone to a microscope a few years ago in order to test for TB in remote places and have doctors elsewhere analyze results [ BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8161775.stm ].

Their next device is an otoscope that attaches to the iPhone so you can take pictures of ear infections [ see the CellScope profile on LAUNCH: http://lnch.is/qTqQK0 ].

Whether the malaria app works or not, I have no doubt we'll see more health-related hardware and apps for mobile phones.
If you enjoy reading about regular expressions, Cameron's paper is fascinating. His writing is concise, thorough, and very detailed. He's not simply showing you how to construct the REX regular expression but also an approach for constructing any complex regex.

I've been using the REX regular expression on and off for 10 years to solve the sort of problem the initial poster on Stack Overflow asked about (how do I match this particular tag but not some other very similar tag?). I've found the regex he developed to be completely reliable.
YC S11
I fail to see the point of posts such as these. If you are using someone else's services and communicating without e2e encryption, you either do not care about being spied upon, or are willfully ignoring it. The problem isn't that G+ adds a small amount more detail on your life that you've already mostly surrendered to Google; it's that you (i.e., citizens and elected representatives) passed the Patriot Act, condone wiretapping, and are allowing corporations to mine your data in return for "free" services.

As an immigrant, I have little choice but to surrender much of this information anyway to stay "legal", but I don't think it's very different even for a citizen. Until most of the country is ready to act against the bigger invasions of privacy, staying away from Google+ citing "privacy reasons" sounds somewhat pointless.
It’s the page you go to to create new blogs. It is supposed to have a button like that. The most important button on the respective pages looks like that. On that particular page it’s most certainly the button to create a new blog.
Nice to see Blogger getting some love. They seemed pretty stagnant for awhile.
nice article on the MLB pension plan with mentions of various other leagues: http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-nhl-nba-mlb-retirement-pe...

[add link] http://www.thestreet.com/story/10983698/1/even-pro-athletes-...
Fair enough. If you're vigilant about it, this is safe.

I guess my only worry would be that the laptop is swiped while open, but i'd admit this is an unlikely scenario.

As a development practice, it's good to be able to build up a dummy db, but yeah, security isn't the big win here.
What people can do and what they do do are a little different. I can't think of anyone who stopped building their rig at $3k, but it's possible to produce demo-quality records with a $600 computer, a nice A/D/A converter and software like Reason, or Ableton. All of which can be purchased with $3k. I personally own about $10k of recording gear and instruments, and I've never made a penny off any of it and don't regret the purchase.

That aside, the guy who recorded the "Owl City" records started out by releasing tracks from his parent's basement while working at Coca-Cola. Imogen Heap I think started off on home recording gear and recorded her entire first album herself. Also check out YouTube for Ronald Jenkies, that will give you an idea of what you can accomplish with a modern workstation, which will run you $3k new, decently equipped.

Edit: It has also occurred to me that if you're a band, and you can perform your music well (everything in 1 take), you can probably buy enough studio time to get a good sounding album for under $3k. I can't think of any specific music this applies to, but a great deal of grunge music in the 90s was recorded in this kind of a scenario.
didn't read the article but I like the headline
Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops
I would recommend joining the SVForum if possible - They offer, among many other things, 'office hours' with technology/startup law firms;

http://www.svforum.org/
Leaving work with a process in the foreground
One can only imagine the amount of fornicating that went on in that pool room.