skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, bad wording on my end. But social events are not mandatory was what I was after.
We don't guarantee an order just yet but its currently ordered by last updated timestamp. We're working on making this a guarantee ordered. Wil updated the docs once we do.
We didn't implement for V1 but if there's enough demand for it - we'll implement....
It would be helpful to see at what age you will run out of money for a given withdrawal rate. Without that it's difficult to know what rate of withdrawal to enter.
I recently got a very nice motorized standing desk. It definitely helps to be able to lower it and sit when I get fatigued, though after having it for more than a month, I find I spend most of my time standing now.

I have polished concrete floors in my apartment. Concrete is VERY hard and very fatiguing to stand on for long periods. I got a large cork mat (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QGYIDW/) to stand on which makes a big difference -- I think standing on something too spongy is just as bad as standing on something too hard. Many of the commercial standing mats looked too soft.

I'm also in very good physical shape (I routinely squat more than my body weight of 180), but there is an adjustment period when you go from sitting all day to standing. Taking frequent breaks is key -- every hour or two, sit or walk around for 10 or 20 minutes.
Starting vs. Building a Company
Now this is going nuclear against Google.
OS X does not use LLVM JIT.
I worked for a management consulting company and produced such a system based on aggregating data from across a global corporate network and producing dashboards in SharePoint.

Telerik?
> The equal sign does mean equals.

Yes. This is why using it with Big-O notation is formally wrong when we're being pedantic.
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Unlike Subversion, Git has cheap branching and excellent merging which make branches an easy way to avoid 50 odd developers stamping on each others changes when they commit to master. I recommend checking out Git Flow which is a workflow for managing git branches.

See http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Using a CI server to test merging branches back to master and running the tests make it a lot easier to know when its safe to merge back to master (I left a comment in the comments earlier about how this can be done).
can't even get to the site, but the idea sounds good, will definately check back in a day or two, once the load on the servers goes back to normal.
I bought mine through Allied. Coincidentally, it shipped about 10 hours after I posted that comment.
Last time I was looking for a job, it consisted of posting an update on Facebook saying that I was back on the job market. I got six promising leads to follow up from friends in about 12 hours. And in most cases, it's from someone who works there, or even the person trying to hire.

(Sadly, the same trick doesn't work for boyfriends.)
I don't really care about the referral money, but would like to share specific products I love with other people. Tools to track how many people buy based on my rec is my main interest in refer.ly, although what I'd really like is a way to see which of my actual friends are buying what.

IMO, Steam does this better than anyone. I wish there were Steam for real world products, including sharing post purchase use and satisfaction.
So disappointed - the only question which matters - http://wwpgd.com/?q=daddy+or+chips http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daddy+or+chips&#...
Flickr seems to be doing well.
Personality Value
Saw that you guys changed your pricing to per file (specifically, it says per FPURL created). Does that mean if I have a user upload a file, and then convert that file by cropping/resizing it, each time I convert it that also counts as a "file" toward my monthly quota? Or are conversions of uploaded files "free"?
Yea, for me standing desk feels like a must. If I am living in computer land for long periods I'll get lethargic and unproductive sitting. I don't do cardio, only strength training. Got my deadlift at 340 lb now but probably can't run 5 minutes.

So if you feel fine with your level of exercise and sitting don't sweat it.
Love the creativity!
Congressman warns FTC: Leave Google alone
Wasn't that due to Nobel girlfriend leaving him for an economist? Read something about that but can't find the surce at the moment (bad connectivity)

And I don't see that in the first 2 pages. Or was that about the math nobel prize ?
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I don't. I don't give a damn about karma. This is like my 3rd HN account. Not that I had any reason to create new accounts, besides logged out for some reason and didn't remember credentials.

Now watch everyone else in horror down-vote this, and for someone to post the link to the HN change your password page.
As I see it, though, the issue is that I can walk up to your house, notice that you're using a XYZ-brand lock as I knock on the door, give you a standard door-to-door spiel, you turn me away and you forget about me before you're back on your couch.

Half an hour later I have a master key to your house because I Googled "XYZ master key" and filed the appropriate key blank to match. How do you combat that?

That's the security-by-obscurity argument - once the information on "XYZ master key" is available, your house is compromised and you can't fix it by rekeying, only by replacing all XYZ-brand locks with a different brand.
"For the last few months, iPhone users have enjoyed an unusual environment..."

Am I the only one who finds that humourous? An "unusual" environment? What exactly is "normal" about tracking people's movements in the name of convincing advertisers to pay you?

This briefly enjoyed environment should not be unusual. It is the one we've lived in for hundreds of years. It should be the norm. iAd should be _opt-in_ not opt-out. There are no valid arguments to the contrary that are not motivated out of just a tad bit too much greed, the unhealthy kind.

(Why do I say the greed is excessive and unhealthy? Because Apple has already sold a highly marked up device composed of cheap electronics and booked that revenue. But this is apparently not enough. The casualty of this greed is the consumer's basic notions of privacy. That price is arguably far too high for anyone to pay to any company in return for "helpful suggestions" of products and services they _might_ want, based on seller guesswork. Apple made a fortune selling iPods. They didn't need to track users' listening preferences to do it. There are limits to what is reasonable.)
Yes, i'm sorry. It's HN effect.

jsPlumb is cool, but the API is terrible. I don't like. I will rewrite all the connections.
Note, it's unblock-us.com -- and it's a vpn service, not a registration provider if I'm mistaken. Just because an entity exists selling something at $x doesn't necessarily mean it's financially viable. Companies go out of business all the time because they don't charge enough. My company used to sell services at $6 a month and we had 2x the client-base that we have now at 1/10th of the revenue.

If dropbox worked on a usage-based billing model they'd never net nearly as much income as they do offering ~100 gigs to users who would barely use ~10 gigabytes of space a piece on average.
From the link:

> Mac OS X 10.4: Uses the LLVM JIT for optimizing many parts of the OpenGL pipeline, including emulating vertex/pixel shaders when hardware support is missing, performing texture format conversion before uploading to the GPU, efficiently packing GPU buffers for vertex submission, and many others.

> Mac OS X 10.6: The OpenCL GPGPU implementation is built on Clang and LLVM compiler technology. This requires parsing an extended dialect of C at runtime and JIT compiling it to run on the CPU, GPU, or both at the same time.

http://llvm.org/Users.html
Because there's no easy fix, only massive trade-offs between different values.

Does the USA have an exceptionally bad system of government and of political economy right now? Yes, undeniably. The problem is, any talk of improvement brings up fairly deep-running conflicts between Americans about what they actually want from the systems that run their lives.
Xbox Music - free music for window 8
From the documentation it appears that you can write to any file if you have filepicker.picked it. Is this true even if the file was outside the browser file system sandbox? For example I select /home/me/myfile.txt ? Assume the file has write permissions for anyone. Can you write directly to myfile.txt? Or is a push to S3 + download involved.
Thanks, I did not anticipate this.
New Internet Explorer zero-day, Can trigger malware automatically
How to design for the ears
CloudFlare wins Wall Street Journal Innovation Award
A lot of my friends are music fans (Shameless plug - that's why I built http://beathound.com), and across the board the ones with large libraries are the ones who both pirate and buy the most.

For example, in the last couple weeks Mother Mother released a new album - the friends who get all their music legitimately were saying "Oh, Mother Mother has a new album out - I'm going to check it out soon", but the pirating friends were saying "Mother Mother put out a new album; did you buy it yet?".

In my experience - the friends who pirate the most are the ones who are the most excited about their music, and they do whatever is easiest when it comes to getting it. If that's buying it - they do that (or at least, that's how it seems based on my limited sample size).
we don't charge on conversions of uploaded files. Let me know if you have more questions at adass at filepicker.io and I'd be happy to help.

EDIT Ah. I misunderstood. While we don't charge on conversions, we do create a new filelink for each conversion which is counted under your quota.

If you're on the free plan and think this will hurt you ability to test us out, let me know. If you're on the pro plan and it's hindering your ability to use us, also let us know. We'll work something out.
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Seems like a game changer -- every Windows 8 or Windows RT tablet, PC, Windows Phone 8, and Xbox 360 will get free streaming music. I don't know if this will necessarily drive people to the windows platform, but I can definitely see it causing people not to want to leave. Leave windows, lose you music collection.
You are correct, Nobel prizes are not awarded to the dead, unless they die just after announcing the prize and before the ceremony (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/03/nobel-prize-aw...). Gandhi was denied the prize for this reason.

In this case, it is simply the post title being misleading, as it's not the Nobel prize these folks won, but the Nobel memorial prize in economics, which is a relatively new prize which is not part of the 5 Nobel prizes which had been given by Nobel's estate for more than a century.

Edit: oh I see they didn't reward a dead in this case, misread your comment..
19th Century French Artists Predicted The World Of The Future
New from OpenDNS: Security for nomadic workers
Email from OpenDNS as follows:

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We know that the way people work has changed. We work from home, coffee shops, and on the road — over Wi-Fi, cellular networks, and from all sorts of different devices. Yet security companies have failed to adequately address the threats that come in today's work-everywhere era.

I’d like to personally invite you to be among the first to discover a new service from OpenDNS called Umbrella, launching next month. Our mission remains the same: To help people connect with confidence. But we're stepping up our game in a big way. You can sign-up on Umbrella.com to find out when we launch and get early access to our beta program.

OpenDNS has always been a company squarely focused on addressing the needs of an increasingly-connected world and we are deeply appreciative of your support over the years. I can't wait to share more with you over the coming weeks, and hear your feedback when you start using Umbrella.

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Thanks,
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Founder and CEO, OpenDNS
It's my understanding that the horse left the barn before Big-Theta was ever invented; Big-O was widely used even in formal papers more loosely and Big-Theta was only in dusty obscure text books until Knuth came along.
No. But a few of our clients did use their web parts for dashboard.

What I build was an assortment of plugins to products (Project Server, Excel for SharePoint, SharePoint) as well as some simple scrapers (HTML, XML and CSV from web sites and windows shares). These were either event triggered or attached to timers.

Data was extracted from all of the backend systems and then deposited in a local database, and the local databases (usually office or department specific) were then rolled up nightly to produce the HQ view of all of this data.

Finally, that data was dumped into OLAP cubes and surfaced through reporting web parts into SharePoint so that people could slice and dice however they wanted.

And now think of what IFTTT and Yahoo Pipes can do.

Right, so they're just missing a reporting layer to act on the output of all of that, potentially a database if they want to add trending.
except of course now you have an account that can be easily identified by dropbox as "referal abuse"
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=58068#post-436831
Woah woah woah. Slow down there, you're trying to take a flying leap across a giant statistical chasm.

The logic here is so bad I'm not sure where to start.

There's a very bad assumption here, which is that the "other foreigners" category contains only the 13 groups listed, and that membership in none of the others implies membership in the Somalis group.

In other words, what you're saying is, in government statistics re: rape, everyone in the "other nationality" category is Somali unless they can be attributed to 12 other ethnic groups. This seems specious at best, horrifying twisting of fact at worst.

Do you have any evidence that this is what the data says? Or are you reading this out of the data due to your own preexisting prejudices? I'm starting to see what _delirium is describing re: European racism.

In other news, there are 100 cars in the parking lot outside. There are 2 Toyotas, 3 Hondas, and 95 "other" cars. Clearly these 95 cars are Fords.

[edit] Also need to address this:

> "Let's be "generous" and assume they account for 3 rapes each, much like Russians and Swedes, even though they're much smaller minorities so the numbers are probably much lower."

You can't do this with stats and still claim to remain impartial, or correct. You're trying to use numbers to give legitimacy to your claims, yet right in the middle of the argument you inject huge assumptions with no attempt at even making an educated guess.

The moment the words "probably" and "let's be generous" come out of your mouth re: statistics, your numbers have lost almost all meaning. When you're trying to justify incredibly racist views, back of the napkin calculations do not cut it.

Let me be frank: GP was skeptical of your claims and asked for substantiation, you have provided numbers that in no way substantiates your claims, and are incredibly vague and full of bad assumptions made in bad faith.

I rarely accuse people directly on these forums. You sir, are racist. For the sake of all of us, please re-evaluate your views.

Understanding and tolerating them my ass.
What about the notion that switching from Electoral College to popular vote just changes the focus of power from a few key states to another few key states, specifically the states with the highest populations and/or voter turnout?
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> The equal sign does mean equals.

In the particular case of big-O notation, the equals sign does not mean equals. Trying to parse the equal sign literally leads to confusing and contradictory interpretations (which is why their explanation is confusion).

You're misunderstanding the 3=5 example. Let f(n)=3n, let g(n)=5n. Using big-O notation, f(n)=O(n), g(n)=O(n). Were the equal sign behaving normally, then O(n) would be a single well-defined object, and one could use transitivity to conclude that 3n=5n. But of course this is false, because O(n) isn't a single function, nor really something that other functions can equal. It's a class of functions, not a function itself.

It would be more appropriate to say that "f(n) belongs to O(n)," or more compactly, "f(n) ∈ O(n)." This is much closer to the real definition, and behaves appropriately when taken literally.
Thanks! In real life I run a startup which came about as a result of similar righteous indignation in a different field.
Total distance in free-fall is a better record, then, than total time.
Of course that scheme was unfair, which is one of the reasons they did it differently for World War I and World War II. Also, it arguably violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, but that wasn't in place until after the Civil War.

US law actually designates most adult male citizens under the age of 45 as members of the "unorganized militia", and the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the power to call up the militia for active military service. Defending your country when called upon is also generally seen as one of the duties of citizenship. It occurs to me, offhandedly, that universal conscription would both satisfy the equal protection clause and reinforce the notion that military service was one of the duties of citizenship.
Apple actually messed up the IDFA for users that update from iOS 5 to 6 (over wifi). All these users are assigned an IDFA number of 0000000. Users that are on the new iPhone 5 or updated from iOS 5 to 6 via a network connection have a valid IDFA number.
If the market opportunity here is defragmentation of social networking, then Yahoo should acquire Buffer[1], and get themselves a dead simple product that "just works." IFTTT and Yahoo Pipes are awesome for technically savvy folks, but it's a non-solution for the vast majority of the market.

[1] http://bufferapp.com
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How To Log Into Multiple Accounts On the Same Website At Once - How-To Geek
You're experience is certainly common but might be changing. When did you graduate?

Yes, Maybe, Yes. Great Engineers tend to be focused on solving interesting problems with great people over warm-weather that they'll rarely enjoy.

Thanks - they're actually long socks :P
Heh, even a local gelato place is currently inviting people to choose between "Mint" Romney and "Ba-Rocky" Road.
Working on a new trading platform and need your advice
Our team is trying to offer a new and different service for young designers and those smaller businesses who might need their designs. Do you have any advice how to improve it? Would you consider joining it and if so, why? sillytrader.com
Planet discovered with 4 suns
The comments of the article provided a needed counterpoint. The article focuses on econometricians and right wingers, but neglects the cases where the prize was awarded to development economists, and liberals. If you add it up, the "Nobel Memorial Prize" has been awarded across the political spectrum.
They did, in 1918: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Draft_Law_Cases
Yup, that's the key:

You aren't asking for a job, you're asking a _person_ to talk. Not listen to a pitch. Not give you anything. Just talk about their experience and what they see going on at the company.

Kai's Rule #1: People love to talk. They love to talk about their jobs, their struggles, and their opinions on the company.

Encourage them to talk. They'll tell you where the gold is buried.
The few times I've attempted to rip one of my DVDs, I was discourage by the 2 Hour + wait (using Handbrake on reasonably beefy Windows 7 Box) - I've been tempted (though, never actually followed through) to just repurchase some of my more popular DVDs on iTunes just to avoid having to go through that pain.

How long did it take you to rip those 74 shiny discs?
noticed this myself yesterday. we'll fix this as soon as Rails Rumble is over.
GCC Approves AArch64, ARM 64-bit Compiler Port
Flickr is in a holding pattern, and has been for years.
Wow - he is also the designer brains behind the Spotify brand, which has always been impressive to me.
I didn't know you write for the Onion.

Dude seriously put down the crack pipe. Dropbox accounts were accessible using any password for three hours. Shit happens - it's not good but shit happens. You can guarantee someone is getting fired and that it won't ever happen again.

"Dropbox is no longer interested in catering to anyone but businesses"

What are you talking about? Because they introduced a "team" feature means their not interested in personal consumers? Ya right, the >700k android phones that ship daily pre-installed with Dropbox and a complimentary 50G's of space would prove otherwise.

"Dropbox really doesn't give a damn about your privacy"

This has to be a joke, the company has probably one of the best pedigrees in the valley. But yes I understand your impulse to deduce a programmer's error to a room full of bad guys or "dicks".

Your whole blog is ragtime man and HN isn't the place for it. Here's a novel idea if you really think these guys are "dicks" then maybe you should have some "balls" and stop using their product.
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We created the app as part of RailsRumble and are not using it for monetization, we are also doing some spikes to see if it'll be possible for people to upload their Certificates and we generate the Passes on their behalf?

Probably we'll be generating the CSR's and having the users use the generated CSR to get signed certs from Apple and upload them back to us.

Again, we haven't yet launched this officially.
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The entire version 1.0 API will be turned off March 5, 2013. Version 1.1 only has JSON, and more importantly requires authentication on every endpoint.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview

So yeah, Twitter really doesn't want your data to leave their network.
The calculator assumes you never want to draw down your nest egg -- ie your savings will only grow larger. It also assumes you will spend the same amount in retirement that you spend now. Your rate of withdrawal is pretty much a wild guess as it depends on your rate of return, taxes in the future and inflation in the future. Historically 4% has been a good bet. See this article for a summary of this topic:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...

and this article for more in depth writing:

http://financialmentor.com/free-articles/retirement-planning...
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So filesharers aren't, on average, I'm-not-giving-them-a-penny sorts. But that's not the really key question, is it? If filesharing wasn't so easy, would they pay more for services like Spotify as alternate music discovery mechanisms? Or maybe just buy more directly? Or, to account for all options, maybe they'd buy less?