skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I made or implied any such connection... The link in question is that testosterone (both in males or females) greatly increases the propension to violence in individuals (although it's not NECESSARY that violent individuals have high levels of testosterone or that anyone with high levels of it is automatically the Incredible Hulk)
I want to pay a fair price for a service I am using. Then I feel like we have a business relationship and my needs will be catered for.

I feel this is the whole point of commerce. Maybe you can wangle things for free, good for you, but it usually means that someone, somewhere is paying your way, and you are beholden to that someone in unpredictable ways.
You're referring to https://gumroad.com/, which is as simple as you describe but much more elegant than you suggest.
I wrote this as a comment there, but I'll repaste it here since it's not showing up.

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One other thing I'd like to add, when considering asymptotic analysis, one needs to take into account both the cost model (i.e. what is assumed about the cost of operations) and the input size (i.e. what the variables mean).

So for instance, if I tell you that the following program to find a number's divisors is O(n) operations, I wouldn't necessarily be wrong:

for(i = 1; i <= n; ++i) if(n % i == 0) printf("%d\n", i);

After all, this is doing a single loop, and it will loop exactly n times. So why isn't factoring a solved problem? We can factor numbers "in polynomial time!", I'll just check this list!

Factoring, as a problem, is measured using bit complexity. That is, the input size is the number of bits needed to store the number I want to factor. So my program is actually O(2^m) operations, where m is the input size. And so this isn't factoring "in linear time", I just misunderstood what the input size was.

Likewise, one can do analyses where the operation cost (also called computational model) is different from the uniform model. If I am doing crypto, using GMP, it would not be smart to say that adding any two GMP integers is O(1) operations, like we assume with our standard model of costs, where adding integers is O(1). We can certainly assume that, and call that a basic operation, but we will see the number of operations and time it takes to be wildly different, so one should use an analysis where the cost of adding, say, the numbers n and m, is O(log n + log m) operations for instance, if one wants operation-counting analyses to give a hint at runtime.
It is important to remember that it is the analyst who defines what operations are basic, and one can do analysis of the same algorithm in different cost models, to get different information about it.

So asymptotic analyses of algorithms depend on both the input size, and the cost model. My divisors finding algorithm, for instance, is best measured using the logarithmic model of computation, and logarithmic input size.

As a trick, it's fun to try to construct two functions f:N -> N, g:N -> N, such that neither f is O(g), nor g is O(f). Bonus points if they're both monotonically increasing. :) It's useful to dispel the notion that functions are given a total order by big-O notation.
My friends were like that too. Netflix, Grooveshark, Spotify etc but still relied on remembering to bring a USB stick around. Once i showed them the usefulness of Dropbox (and the fact that you can store ebooks on your account and then transfer them to iBooks), they began to adopt it. A few months down the line, i have more friends with Dropbox than without, and we've also set up shared folders with our ebook collections and regularly talk about what we read this week. I could never imagine hooking my friends on to books, but i guess they all had the hunger for it, but not the means.
TSL Week 2 - My first Rails Application
As this is a positive article about git, if the OP reads this, I'd suggest using the word "inexpensive" next time. Cheap often has a negative connotation that something is low-cost at the expense of quality.

Just a pet peeve. Git is most certainly not cheaply made.
The alternative would be some sort of tree. The obvious choice, some sort of balanced binary search tree, also has two pointers per item, though half of them don't point to anything.
That's great, reducing the barrier to entry for new projects allows for more experimentation. More experimentation increases the likelihood you'll stumble upon something you really like!

What I meant to say more clearly is that I probably iterated through the creation of that web application so quickly because in five days I committed to git 75 times. In my time at Microsoft I don't know that I would have made 75 commits in a year, and creating new branches was very costly.

I got numbers on my git repository by using GitStats: http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/
ThoughtWorks is the only place I've seen go on record as having one. It doesn't seem to have hurt them, though: http://www.cio.com.au/article/437603/creating_more_gender_ba...
Apple Turns on iPhone Tracking in iOS6
Cheap alternative to motorized sit-stand desk: standing desk + tall chair, like one you get in pubs. I wish I had tried that before investing into motorized one - it would be more hip.

For about month after I moved I've used a ghetto standing desk (https://plus.google.com/115482397571066363629/posts/1gvjDnfJ...). I would stand for most of the working day with a two hours sitting break in a nearby cafe.

I'm using sit-stand desk for two years and it's the only reason I'm renting an office again after moving and not using co-working places.

I'm switching every hour or two and never sit-down until I'm ready to focus on code (no sitting while doing email, procra^H^H^Hresearch. Then I switching the desk to sitting position, turning off IM and email, start pomodoro timer, put on a headset and play some music and switch terminal with Vim to full-screen.

In a startup I'd probably get one or two spare standing desks so that people could move there with their laptops for a while (besides mandatory couch).
I'm really interested that MIT is now top of the board considering it's a relatively small university. It makes me wonder if this is going to become a situation like when Slashdot attempted to poll for best graduate cs department and it was botted to hell and back.
Dext: Dimensional Text, via small JS niche effect library.
How U.S. Removed Half a Ton of Uranium From Kazakhstan
Look into capped or TTL collections on Mongo, those are generally best for handling data churn. You can also check out the new usePowerOf2Sizes option on collections to see if that will help (TTL collections use these implicitly): http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/commands/#usePowerO...
Do you have a philosophical objection to using symlinks? As of the last time I checked, you also need a symlink for Google drive.
"Asked PG: fish or chicken for dinner?
No results found! "

This does not help with my dinner plans tonight.
The problem for Dropbox is that they use S3. It's really easy to bypass Dropbox entirely and save money, even if you're non-technical. I use Arq on OSX, and pay only for the amount of data I have on S3 (about $10 per month right now). Dropbox's pricing is a race to the bottom.
Geometric, lectures 3 and 4; helps (at least for me) to have a picture of the problem as a guide
The main point I think is that services with web APIs are taking the place of individually managed servers. Which is a good point and a trend because it does make sense a lot of the time.

From the title I thought he was going to go farther towards the peer-based content-centric ideas, where the network nodes being addressed are actually data nodes rather than server nodes, and the data is distributed by peers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking

Many dismiss that type of peer-based networking as something that will 'never' work for the mainstream internet, but I think you just need sophisticated encryption (bitcoin level) and good upstream bandwidth.
Foursquare launches local search engine for everyone
Thank you for the information. Very interesting article and different than how I had imagined the chain of command regarding nukes. I had always assumed it was US (or UK or France, depending on who owned the bombs) only.
While .NET 4.5 makes a lot of things easier, there's nothing new. Sweeping generalization: it's all been syntactic sugar since generics arrived in 2.0. (This was especially evidenced by all the magic done by the Rx people as the only MS team interested in supporting 'legacy' framework versions.)

For example, the 'official' WebSocket support (SignalR):

https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/96

> Please support .NET 3.5 Please
> ...
> Of course it's technically possible, but it's not a goal.
I don't want to come across as a comment crapper, but I've been recommending FreeNAS for years now. ZFS is perfect for home NAS purposes.
Local [language-of-choice] meetups
suggestion: show some examples. I honestly have no clue what should I input on the search field.
New Dropbox TOS lets you boss access your whole dropbox
Accompanying email:

We’re working to make it easier for your Dropbox for Teams administrators to
manage all the stuff you and your teammates have in your Teams account. Soon,
we’ll be releasing new features for admins to manage the security of your
team’s stuff and make it easier for them to help when things go wrong.

In some cases, your admin may need the flexibility to take some actions on
your Teams account, such as helping to manage shared folders or restoring
access if you get locked out of your account. In order to clarify that admins
may have access to team member accounts when managing the team, we're updating
our Dropbox for Teams Agreement and Privacy Policy.

You might have some personal files in your Teams account that you’d like to
move to a personal account. For example, if you want to keep vacation pictures
in a different account from your latest Excel spreadsheet, you can use this
online guide to move your files:

View the new agreement and get started here

Keep in mind that you can only link one Dropbox account to a computer at a time.
If you need to access your other account, you can log in to the Dropbox website.
The US is under no obligation to accept immigrants from anywhere. We're under no obligation to be "fair". And yes, I'm telling you we should be keeping a list of countries with significant anti-US terrorist movements and not allowing immigration from those countries. If you're from KSA or Yemen or Pakistan I would not have allowed you to immigrate.
Branch widens focus with redesign
> we may either regard children who do well at studies as good kids, or we may instead idolize cool kids who bunk classes and have fun all the time. So early in our life, what makes us fall into one group and not the other?

Another conundrum: Some people like to create false dichotomies, and others (who fell into both of the above groups) see them for what they are.

How do you explain that?
This is really cool. I was just thinking I needed something like this the other day.

One thing that's not clear to me is how to use the Chrome extension? Is there anything for it to "do" or is it just a background thing that injects info into pages?
whoa. you can read and write on their urls? pretty slick as it actually looks like a js file system.

It's super interesting; javascript is okay, but any shortcomings seem to be solved by other people.

Inconsistencies and ease of use- Jquery
Filesystem- Filepicker
Code organization - Backbone
etc.
Agreed. My first attempt was http://wwpgd.com/?q=how+do+you+cook+steak%3F, and nothing came up. I guess I don't know who Paul Graham is yet.
> Maybe I'm an ignoramus, but what's wrong with storing your credit card number in a cookie, as long as it's encrypted? This is how session management is typically done, right? Your session information is stored encrypted in a cookie so that on subsequent page requests, the server still knows who you are, but the session information is encrypted and decrypted on the server, so that the client can't forge the session information.

No, that's not how session tracking works. The server uses a cookie to assign you a temporary ID, and then creates a corresponding storage area "server side" which can contain data like credit card numbers.
that's what google is for, site:
This is kind of creepy. The online equivalent of building a shrine.
My point here is that universe is definitely not deterministic on a macro, human level. It may not be random at most fundamental level, but the number of variables there are, on a macro level it the universe does not seem to be deterministic.
As you just said, it's to prevent the whack-a-mole game of impotently banning an endless stream of new accounts. Being a jerk is strongly correlated with not respecting bans — if they cared about your wishes in the first place, they wouldn't have acted so inconsiderate. If you ban a jerk, they make a new account and keep at it. If you hellban them, they tend to stay that way for a good long while.

I do think there should be a lesser level of punishment for people who aren't that incorrigible, but hellbanning jerks definitely has its place. It is the most effective countermeasure available.
I would suggest not attributing the phrase "What would x do?" to anyone or anything in particular, as it is in no way a directly deifying phrase.

There is a possibility that the other comments gesture towards the same thing (if read to), but the language in no way implies deification, and that's about all I'd like to point out. It was a phrase made by people to ask a question with an acronym.
Note that this doesn't differentiate colocation and something like EC2 though - both benefit from these kind of good sysadmins.
This is the kind of photo they use for getting a "photo-finish" shot - they have the vertical spacial dimension, and time running sideways.

I have a similar idea for one of the representations of where I'll be speaking:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TalksInSpaceTime.html
> The states were established so that U.S. citizens could move to the state with the laws that best suited them.

Citation needed.
Not sure if this counts as empirical evidence but I was a Dev Bootcamp graduate. Working full time now. I recognize the deficiencies in my knowledge and experience before anyone else does, and there are many, but I am stil learning and loving what I do.
There's a difference between making information available and making it unavoidable.
Why does this extension require access to my data on all websites, and not just HN?
Universities ranked by bit-torrent usage
Hypervoice - The Fundamental Flaw In The Proposal
The five stages of hosting is priceless! I'd really like to go with #5, but I'll stick to #3 for now. :)
I don't think that this is point of Dropbox way of managing things. They just want to spread the word. Why should they pay big bucks for advertising when they can use their own product to promote the service?

I still pay for things that I need and use. Advertising a link on a site isn't free either.
Apple sued over alleged misuse of photo in MacBook Pro promotion
Being able to write files to a filepicker url - which ends up in a users cloud account - is very powerful stuff. We're using it to automatically sync zip files that take a long time for us to process. Having a very easy to use layer of abstraction for all these cloud APIs is brilliant.
Well, what if I don't need the "cloud" to run virtual machines? What if I have many "machines" running on my computer, isolated kernels in userspsace? What if I have all the computing power I need at my fingertips, literally? Is that sort of control and transparency not useful? How many more security breaches do we need to see before we acknowledge that delegating our storage and computing needs may not be the wisest option in all cases?

The only thing I expect from the "cloud" is proper routing.

All the rest of the storage and computing can be done at the endpoints. This isn't some revolutionary idea. It's how the internet was originally imagined by Paul Baran.

Endpoints will vary. They will have different needs and capacities to meet them. Some may be even be "services" to which other subscribe. But there's no requirement for ubiquitous middlemen. Everything is not a service that requires a third party.

What's next, TaaS? Thinking as a Service?

The future of software is one of empowerment with less third party involvement.
Kaspersky claims Flame variant for highly-focused data theft
The so-called "nobel" prize in economics does not come from the estate of Alfred Nobel. It comes from the central bank. Thus it is not surprising to see it given to people that central banks would favor (often people whose theories try to justify inflationary policies.)

This one seems to be given for work that could be said to claim that central planning really can work after all.
No static typing means more headache down the road. Have fun guys.
As a person living and working in Waterloo for a startup, I wouldn't be so quick to generalize. I quite like it here.
They recommend creating a private dropbox account for your private files, but my work and private computer are the same (as I imagine is the same for a lot of people on HN), so that really would break the smooth way in which everything works with Dropbox.
I was also gonna come in here and mention the middle ground. Amazon is great either if you don't want to commit to anything, or if you have very spiky load and sometimes need to spin up a lot of servers.

Building your own servers is dirt cheap, but there's always the risk of hardware breaking, and you can't exactly scale up very quickly.

But the middle ground, rented dedicated servers, can be a perfect compromise for a lot of companies. Scaling up and adding servers might take a day instead of instantly, and it costs more than owning servers, but you get all the benefits of managed hosting, broken hardware simply isn't something you need to worry about anymore. If a server goes wonky, just scrap it and rent a new one.
Ward Cunningham and I built something similar with an old Mac mini and an external firewire iSight camera when we both worked at AboutUs a few years back. We pointed it at the train tracks behind the office and got some cool images of trains as they passed by. I don't think we saved any of the images, though -- it was just a quick after-hour hack project.

On a related note, the new Panorama function in iOS 6 seems to turn the iPhone's camera into a slit scanner using the phone's accelerometer for the rotation rate to stitch together a pretty good panorama on the fly.
Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns
I'm not sure I got your point. Can you elaborate?
I got comfy with standing at 5'9" 160 pounds. My squat was 150 x 12 reps, deadlift around the same. I use only the coffee table, no DIY keyboard add on. I have a laptop at the far end of the table from me, hands stretched out, leaning on desk. I stand on hard wood floor in slippers or sneakers. I change posture and foot position often. Don't need to think about it. And I don't stand all the time, maybe 6 hours a day.

Some people get a special mat to stand on, say you really need it.
Would be nice to see more of this for different persons and to compare different people writings on the same subjects.
I don't want to sound like a dick but aren't you admitting I am right?

Yes, you are getting dropbox credits by performing marketing for them, in whichever way is good for you. This might be advantageous to you but it is wrong to call it "free", at best you are paying with some kind of barter.
That'd be great. I'm always a little sad when I can't upvote a good hellbanned comment.
I think Bungie deciding to no longer make Marathon games killed the Marathon series. By the time they were bought by MS they already moved on to other genres with games like Myth, Myth 2, and Oni. Plus, Halo was in development for years before they got bought.
I registered with RS 4.5 months ago (ordered ~4 months ago) and just received the 512MB upgrade and shipping email today.
The phrase “serverless” doesn’t mean servers are no longer involved. It simply means that developers no longer have to think that much about them. Computing resources get used as services without having to manage around physical capacities or limits.

Every application has to deal with capacities and limits. If they didn't, they'd break.

Say your app just stores a couple hundred megabytes every second, because you imagine there's no such thing as a storage limit. Let's imagine disk storage could be expanded fast enough to support this and costs zero money. We still live in a universe bound by physics, and storage only goes so fast: you will eventually have too much data to process.

We can't assume CPU or RAM capacity is limitless. If your app is cracking crypto passwords, depending on the password and method, all of AWS's collective compute cycles still might not be enough to crack one password in a reasonable amount of time. Ask the people trying to make flight price comparison engines about resource starvation.

It's not even difficult to learn how servers work and affect your application. There's really no point to this crap.
I assume the author was just trying to set up the premise before getting to the meat of the article but the opening paragraph claim that Americans are more sensitive about discrimination than anybody else is probably false and more than a little ironic.
I've been sent the referral link about fifteen different times in the past hour from distinct people. It's been sent out on most mailing lists, shared like crazy on facebook and in facebook groups, etc.