skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because someone was in a hurry.

In places I've worked, this is easily the direct cause of 75% or more of operational errors (including my own), and an indirect cause (e.g. via outdated or inadequate documentation, poor labeling, etc.) of most of the rest.

I've heard of occasional case studies along these lines, but I'm wondering what direct research is out there about the psychological factors that lead to bypassing normal processes and procedures.
Robots may soon get Touch Sensitive Skin
They have privacy filters, a separate covering that reduces the viewing angle of any screen to almost zero. You can buy one yourself, if you want.
Oh come on, you can't even hear audio through the headphones over the horrendous din of cars.

It's not like driver's don't cocoon themselves, listening to very loud stereos.

I've also seen many chatting on their phones.
You assume, without evidence, that his kids are troublesome. You overlook that they could be perfect angels, but that he still feels they are a larger timesink than he would have liked. You validate the taboo: he dissents, so your immediate kneejerk reaction is that he must be a bad parent with unbehaving kids.

Here's a thought: one can be a model parent with model kids and still feel that life without kids would have been better. You can even enjoy your life and your kids while still feeling that way.
Here's the 1960 paper describing the original Lisp: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/recursive.html
Just because the answer to the question is logical and unsurprising doesn't mean it's not the answer to the question.
I've heard people say this about browserling, and I can kinda see the point, but I thought testling's landing page was kinda pretty. Maybe I'm just weird.
Microsoft Now Collecting Protection Money on Half of All Android Devices
Yeah, i'm still waiting on a source too other than twitter
I am assuming these features are being worked on for Android as well. Any time frame as to when they will be added to the Android API?
THC SSL DOS Tool Released
All modern planes are fly by wire. There is a very high level of redundancy for flight computer.

The kind of damages to take down all systems will probably structurally impair flyability.
$30K is not very much when you consider that a parking space in a dense urban area can charge $300-$400 a month, even while competing with free street parking. At $300, that's $3600 a year, or about a 12% return on your investment just from the cash flow alone (and the value of the space will rise over time as well.)

Double digit returns on a relatively low-risk investment aren't exactly bad.
We don't disagree at all.

The only thing I would add is that for every system of control there should be a counterbalancing system of inspection and audit. Congress surely isn't up to the job, there is no IG that I'm aware of that works at the National Security cross-agency level, and even if there was the results couldn't be made public anyway.

For all of those needs that we agree on, you can't leave the government an open-ended blank check. It just doesn't work. FOIA is supposed to be part of the control process, but if we can't even learn what the policies are for documents that we then are asking about, FOIA is not working.

Constitutionally, there are supposed to be hard limits to the amount of control the government has. If, for instance, J. Edgar Hoover was keeping files on Elvis Presley, sooner or later we'd get access to them and institute laws constraining the application of domestic counterintelligence operations. Laws and rule changes that prevent this "sooner or later" process from happening are bad. Really bad. At the very least there should be a firm time limit on whether or not to admit documents exist -- perhaps 10 or 20 years. That's not optimal, but it would at least allow for the system to self-inspect and adapt and evolve ever so slowly. (I still remain _very_ concerned that the theory we are talking about and the actual application are two completely different things, but I guess the point of this rule change is that we'll never know.)
Open source software for an e-wallet service?
Matt Cutts answers the question: "Does Google consider SEO to be spam?"
Lisp creator passed away
Yes, there isn't any news about this.

This might be a good way to make people read about this kind of person.
McCarthy's wife died in 1977 in a climbing accident

http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Vera.h...
Sure. I was just pointing out that that is a stricter constraint than required for the optimization in question. Doing loop hoisting and CSE wants "pure" functions, because pure "means" a function without side effects.

The "meaning" of const is that the function depends on nothing but its arguments, and can therefore have its value computed at compile time, or be part of a global CSE pass. That's a different optimization.
Yep - coming in the next few weeks!
Agreed. I did a quick Google News search and turned up nothing. Could be legit, or vandalism, but there's really no way to know until we have confirmation.

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--EDIT-- Since I wrote this, I've seen one source appear, in Portuguese[1]. It's still unclear whether this story is legitimate, or if they simply copied wikipedia / the buzz surrounding the story.

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--EDIT 2-- Globo is apparently the largest media conglomerate in South America[2] and thus unlikely to publish unsourced stories, so this looks (sadly) to be true.

[1] http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizações_Globo
Looking at her linked webpage from Twitter, she's a freelance journalist who has written on tech topics, including articles about McCarthy.

http://www.pelicancrossing.net/credits.htm
> No. As soon as you need to read more than <cache line bytes>, it no longer matters that that the the fields are near each other. So, e.g., if your record is 128 bytes but your cache line is 32 bytes, you have 4 cache misses per record. If you use only 4 fields from the record, you have 4 cache misses per record -- so, we're on parity.
As M increases beyond the cache line size, the advantage (compared to column major) no longer increases. So it is at most a constant in practice.

Huh? Why would you have 4 cache misses for a 128-byte record? If you need to access 4 fields and they all fall onto the same cache line, you get only one cache miss. If your fields are spread far apart, you might have 4 cache misses, but that isn't a given. With parallel arrays, the fields will be in separate arrays and necessitate 4 cache misses.

> That's true for almost all programs, almost all of the time, actually -- which is why I was willing to be the other side of your original wager.

I didn't make the original wager. :)
I didn't appreciate that the edit link expires.

So the problem I have with Assange is, ultimately, that he's a terrible journalist. He's not even a good gonzo journalist.

He made the epic mistake of letting the story become about him, and worse yet, making sure that Wikileaks's fortunes (both literally and figuratively) were directly tied to his. He did that in that Wikileaks is paying directly for his legal defenses, and also in that he quite literally ransomed the wikileaks diplomatic data dump, and said, more or less, if anything happens to me, all of this data will be released publicly.

Worse yet, they've been so lax and incompetent with their data security policies that they let the password for the data dump leak out!

So, not only is he so difficult to work with that he has been abandoned even by people who have defended him previously, and agree with the major thrust of his work, but he's proven himself unable to even credibly maintain a threat as supposed leverage. He's still in legal trouble, and the worst case data release scenario has come to pass.

The problem we find ourselves in now, is that wikileaks is now proven to be incompetent, unable to manage their data, entirely occupied with Assange's legal defense, and clearly developed into a cult of martyred celebrity.

What wikileaks is clearly not, is a clearing house for future whistleblower data. Wikileaks had a chance to act as a trusted broker and exist as a non-state actor. But the key component to that was putting trust ahead of personal gain, recognition or vendetta. Instead now we're going to see a host of successors to wikileaks which will all have questionable pedigrees and histories of trustworthiness, and leakers are going to have to navigate those tenuous waters alone, as they've always done.

In short, Assange blew it. Sad times.
Hey, sometimes you need a juvenile laugh to keep you going in the 11th hour. I like "Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity" myself.
I've been searching for a good one as well.
Have a couple of leads filed away, I'll get back to you
Poisson distribution? I wish I knew more probability and statistics to understand why this happens.
This comment really puts thing into perspective for me. Getting onto sites like TechCrunch and the like is useful for getting initial exposure, but it's no replacement for building a consistent user base.
Good Life Philosophies Aren’t Simple
> They basically did an end-run around the $10k SQL Server license.

Could you elaborate on that? I have utterly no idea what it means based on that post, and Microsoft's semi-functional site is not enlightening me, either.
There seem to be two issues at stake here. The first is whether mathematical models are appropriate and adequate to explain human behaviour. Here I have a lot of sympathy with Austrian arguments, but it's quite clear they overstate the case. Sure, economic models, like meteorological models, are rather looser and more speculative than Newtonian classical mechanics, but there are multimillion dollar industries that have grown up based on mathematical models of human behaviour; denying the obvious predictive power of at least some models of human behaviour seems akin to denying that one can make assumptions about natural selection because actions of lifeforms appear to be indeterminate. It's not like physical sciences are devoid of controversies over models either.

Hayek alluded to the problem of inferring a relationship between inflation and full employment from too small a sample, but Milton Friedman got a Nobel prize for predicting the breakdown of the relationship with an economic model. In the long run, economists might all be wrong about something, but at least most conventional ones they have the intellectual honesty to admit to the possibility theirtheories might be demonstrably false.

The second question is whether Austrian economists have something more compelling to offer than mathematical models. The answer, so far as I can tell, is no. They have A number of interesting ideas, many of which neoclassical authors have tried to develop as models rather than simply assert them as a priori truths. But praxaeology comes across as pure sophistry of the worst kind; Rothbard's "Praxaeology" paper might claim that it's intended to be a set of axioms where A implies B but he then goes on to provide an example which consists of rather elementary and mostly uncontroversial statements most of which simply dont imply each other at all
Sample: "that a man acts implies that he will make a difference...action therefore implies that man does not have omniscient knowledge of the future"
http://mises.org/rothbard/praxeology.pdf

Obviously, when it comes to more controversial statements it's necessary to stretch the definition of "imply" a little further in order to paint your pet theory as a priori truth. But even while discussing something as indisputably empirically true as human nonomniscience, that sort of woolly argument is enough to make even the most superficial mathematical model a lot more compelling.

In defence of bad application of math, it's less of a dead end than bad application of philosophy
Ok. Got it.

An example for you: "libtelldus no symbols" gives me three absolutely unrelated results for my top hits, confusing me enough not to register the following five related hits.
We need better source.
I felt exactly this way as well. For a long time. Even while my wife was pregnant, I couldn't imagine having a child, taking care of a spitty, whiny, crying mass of flesh - that will eventually give me attitude shortly after it starts talking.

And you know what, my son is almost 8 weeks old now, and sometimes I still hold him at 4AM while he's screaming and I can't imagine what I got myself into. But you know what? It's truly the most amazing, "fucking terrifying" thing you'll ever do. Emphasis on the amazing. And terrifying.

I couldn't imagine doing it, and now I can't imagine my life without him. I don't think it can be explained.

I never found babies cute, objectively. Newborns are, frankly, ugly. And I'm sure mine was no different - objectively. But I didn't see it. He was heartbrakingly beautiful. And even when he screams and I want to tear my hair out and I just want him to sleep - sleep damnit, it's 4AM and I have work tomorrow! - he's amazing and beautiful and he's pure, unbridled LIFE.

I think, ultimately, that's what it is. You hold your child - your wrinkled, red-faced newborn - and you realize you're holding on to pulsating, breathing, unadulterated vitality.

And that can't be replaced by anything in the world.
I am assuming he means the BizSpark program:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/stack-overflow-and-biz...

That's not so much an end-run as a delay, though, IMO.
Death date removed from Wikipedia.

Latest edit shows:

"(Protected John McCarthy (computer scientist): Violations of the biographies of living persons policy: Rumors of his death added to page. May be true, but better to wait than edit war."
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Here is another link (via google translate) with the news although with no source listed, they may have just been going off wendyg's tweet.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
How is this more extreme than asking friends to upvote stories? It is simply posting from a different account. I have 15 email accounts for various projects and companies; does that mean I'm a spammer?

Posting from a different account and up voting from multiple accounts are two completely different issues. We have never used fake accounts to artificially upvote anything. Period. Nothing provided suggests otherwise. On the subject of data, if the above is an attempt to justify the original decision it is insufficient.

* How were you able to infer that both accounts were in-fact represented by a single individual?

* When one considers it objectively, two accounts with the same IP Address posting comments to HN on the same thread from different accounts is not necessarily malicious. It simply could be two different computers on the same home or work network. Point in fact, Marak and I were roommates during the early days of Nodejitsu. How would you be able to infer the difference?

Full logs of all relevant messages / comments with dates and IP Addresses included are really the only thing that will be satisfactory, feel free to email me: charlie@nodejitsu.com.

I still do not see a pattern of malicious behavior or any malicious behavior at all. As I mentioned before, I am very happy to make this water under the bridge, but please stop making false claims in public without providing more than conjecture.
OK, co-investing makes sense. And by "risky" I meant more of losing time and nerve cells rather than money (which is an inherent risk), but I guess these are connected.
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The archives to the mailing list are private, so I can't link. You can see in the wikipedia history that who ever made the edit claims to have received word from McCarthy's sister.
Wikipedia has removed this claim now.
You can take any arbitrary, long running sequence and partition it into threes. Also: selection bias.
Following Quora question has great responses
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-seminal-papers-in-distribu...

More readings
http://bytepawn.com/readings-in-distributed-systems/

Recommended text book
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th Edition) by George Coulouris http://amzn.com/0132143011
How to diet | how to be on a diet
Dieting isn’t just about losing weight. If a person wants to lose weight , then there are several ways such as fasting, taking inadequate food, medications etc. But all these methods might affect other body parts. For dieting you have to find out the ideal weight and shape for yourself.
Well not necessarily. A lot of people are completely passive. They write checks and never look back. I'm way more high touch and like to be involved, and so the time constraints are more significant.
Fasting Bloodtest
Photo specific themes for Wordpress lack a lot of functions that are important including organization and archiving tools.

OpenPhoto lets you organize your photos using tags and archive them using services like Amazon S3 and Dropbox.

Being a photo platform means you can use the iPhone and Android apps to take photos. The list goes on but it also includes image rendering APIs, tagging, meta data extraction, etc.
He or she also stated their opinion: "and IMO, correctly pointed out". The statement that it is widely claimed was sort of the point of the comment.
Brazilian source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
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Huh? If you're going to claim two things are the same, it's good form to refer to them by their proper names before arguing similarity. And, if you're going to attribute a position to someone, you might want to have some evidence that they actually hold that position. (The fact that Hitler was bad does not imply that he killed puppies.)

I'm against payments to farmers other than by folks voluntarily buying said farmer's output. That's a special case of a more general rule that applies to every work product.

So I'm against "pays farmers to grow one thing" if it isn't money paid by folks who want and get said thing in exchange for said payment.
Bikes damage the road orders of magnitude less than cars. Without having run the numbers, I'd wager that the city could actually save some money in the long run if more bike lanes would decrease car traffic.
That's part of the beauty.
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As a guy on the internet I am pretty sure she didn't make it up.

I think we will have to wait for confirmation, but not long.
Airbnb + Springstar: A new model for international expansion
I disagree, unless you are totally socially maladjusted and / or can't get a clue how to behave in social situations.

Practice makes perfect. If someone has seen you 9 times that typically means you met a LOT of people, and therefore have had a lot of practice in talking to people. Most likely by that point you won't be "annoying and creepy" anymore, and if you still are you'll definitely be much less so.

In addition, if you talk to someone for a 9th time then by that point you practically know each other and probably share some interests. They won't talk to you for a 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th time, let alone a 9th time, if you are annoying.
Ask HN: redis and python video tutorials
Does anyone know of any awesome videos for an introduction into redis with flask, I appreciate this is probably quite specific so redis with python is just a good...

It seems there is lots of documentation, which is a great sign, but very in the way of visual instruction.
The Linux kernel is a typical poster boy for a successful community project.

But LibreOffice demonstrates a huge win for a community-led project too: if the current maintainers try to move the code to a closed-source pay model, the project just forks.

I agree that LibreOffice hasn't achieved fit and finish, and I'm trying to be patient with that. I'm just happy it has survived. I think a huge downside to any closed-source project is when they end-of-life it. That could be simply because a new version is a ground-up scratch rewrite. Once the code is thrown away, all the effort to build it is lost.
Tippr's Martin Tobias: Groupon Clones Done, 'Arms Dealer' Approach Paying Off
If this is true may have to get CL or Racket set up tonight and do some coding in memory. Ungh what a crappy month for Computer Science.
I think many times we (and especially governments) mistakenly believe that their intervention in a market is going to bring that market to an equilibrium with a higher social optimum. Governing bodies are drawn to intervene because they get to extend their power, and even those with good intentions are often overly optimistic about their abilities to predict the outcomes of their intervention.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring Interns
Hi HN! Who's hiring interns?

Please include:

* Company

* Location

* Are you willing to relocate potential interns?

* What does your company do?

* What technologies are involved?

* Length of internship and period (Summer, Fall, etc.)

* Paid/Unpaid

If anyone is looking for a developer with C, Python, Javascript, and Haskell experience, my email is in my profile.

Thanks HN
If I was Amit, I would've included other sufferers in the campaign, instead of hoarding the attention all to myself. Many others could have benefited from this massive amount of exposure.
The blog is still up, and has some great stories:

http://childsownstudio.blogspot.com/
Facebook authentication is so tiring. I wish people would knock it off. I have to avoid registering at sites now because they insist on using Facebook.

I realize this isn't mandatory at this time though.
> - Externalities (pollution, business impact, etc)

There are quite a lot of externalities in the quality of living. Compare living in the bike-friendly Netherlands to car-friendly US cities. I know where I'd rather hang out.
I've done this with the two MBP's we have at our house. It was very simple (around 8 screws). Just make sure you have a tiny screwdriver set (like those used for glasses). You can usually search for macbook screwdriver and find ones that work for <$10
The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I think the fact that they're so honest and willing to do so bodes well for their likelihood of fixing whatever error caused this to happen.
US trying to sign more secret treaties (on drugs this time)
The Best Sales I Made Came From Saying, “No.”
I confess that when the news about Dennis Ritchie was posted, I immediately flashed to the thought, "who's number three?"

Thing is, so did a lot of other people, and tagging John McCarthy's WP page in this way would be just the sort of prank/hoax that would inspire. So the "deaths come in threes" aphorism makes me more suspicious of this, not less.
Yeh; unfortunately that's not a strong enough source, particularly for this sort of edit :)

Thanks anyway - I am sure it will appear in time.

Usually stuff like this is legit; but sometimes it isn't. So the policy is to have a reliable source or nothing.
> Using static type information in Dart doesn't help with the runtime code for several reasons. One is: the types the developer specifieѕ have no impact on the semantics at all

I wonder if string concatenation, set union and integer addition are not totally distinct cases worth optimizing.

> and, as a matter of fact, they can be totally incorrect.

And this is where Dart starts to feel really wrong.
This news site supports the claim (if you translate it):
http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...
WikiLeaks Temporarily Stopped Publishing Due to Lack of Funds
John McCarthy on Elephant 2000, Lisp, Ruby and the Computer Industry
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