skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Babymakers 2012 is a comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, and starring Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn and Kevin Heffernan.

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-babymakers-2012-720p-...
The truly paranoid use multiple backups. The encryption ensures that without the keys, nobody else could make use of the data anyway.
So what are some four and five star books?
Here's a CSS example of a board: http://socketgaming.com/singularity-chess-css/
This selection bias is evident when the performance of first generation Asian Americans immigrants is compared with the performance of second and third generation Asian Americans. The drive that pushes poor (by middle-class American standards) immigrants to succeed causes them to push their children to succeed in school. But this drive appears to be diluted over subsequent generations.

http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/09/immigrants
> It's depressing to see all the match questions on OKCupid that say "Do you strongly want your mate to be of the same race as you: Yes", but that's the way it goes.

Yep, you should never rely on online dating as an Asian guy in the West. It's a complete waste of time.

> I've also found that there are many white women who say they're not interested in Asian guys, but when the right guy comes along, they suddenly change their mind.

The key is to meet women in real life and deemphasize your race as much as possible. Of course, you will still have to be that much better than a white guy in other categories (be personable/funny, be in shape, be wealthy, dress nicely) to make up for your race, but meeting women face-to-face makes it much more difficult for them to just outright dismiss you.

This is because that latent racism feels much more acceptable to women when they're sitting alone, in private, in front of their computer. On the other hand, when they're in a public social setting, they (just like everyone else) feel judged by society. For an Asian guy who wants to date white women, that social pressure is the best weapon for combating racism. After breaking past that initial barrier, the rest is up to the individual.
s/cassette/floppy disk/
> nothing softens the blow of hearing women (both Asian and non-Asian) saying they'd never date an Asian guy or saying Asian guys aren't attractive

This complaint is common, but I also find it a little bizarre. Do ugly women get super offended when guys all want to date attractive women?
I find this as interesting as Katy Perry voting for Obama. There are about 4.2 billion (60%) people living in Asia. If they weren't affecting the U.S. — something would be very odd. I am not surprised that they're doing well as they are not forced to emigrate.

EDIT: 'Katy', apparently.
IFunny :)
Splunk is good for log processing of all sorts, including event logs. We log app events in a custom format, drain to syslog, and ingest into Splunk. It works great with the exception that some Splunk queries (through the API) can be quite slow for use in online user-facing analytic dashboards, and it's not particularly cheap.
That happens with my lame credit union all the time.
we use google analytics, mixpanel, calltrackingmetrics, and newrelic.
Fake tool: I write everything down on whatever paper is nearby, but the act of me doing that somehow tricks me into remembering it.

Actual tools: Evernote (on all my devices, plus the email address that I send them to), the iPhone reminder app, Google Tasks.
a lot of the design ideas are pulled from some great research http://justtesting.org/repa-3-more-control-over-array-repres... (that paper is the most current relevant one, though theres a few others).

chatted with stephen about Repa and hpc code engineering the evening before the talk, its all haskell ideas ported to python land under the covers :)

(as the slide deck admits!)
We've gotten a lot of mileage out of fnordmetric: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric
Because the cords are ridiculously fat, more than other manufacturers'. They shouldn't block anything, just turn them upside down if needed.
> Most entrepreneurs have similar beginnings: They do well in grade school, go to a great college in which they do well, get a great job, quit that job, and try to start something on their own. When they start something, it’s the first time in their lives that they stray from the beaten path.

Really? I'm kind of surprised to find this in an article supposedly about bootstrapping. I mean, if you live in SV and you worked at Google and saved up for a few years and now you're "bootstrapping" a start-up, you actually already have an angel investor: yourself.

I did horribly in grade school (spent all my time on the internet instead of studying), went to a crappy college, dropped out (spent all my time dicking around with coding projects instead of studying), got a string of horrible jobs (the majority of which were minimum-wage and didn't even marginally involve technology -- O, to live in the US, let alone SV), and now I'm trying to start a start-up because it's the only thing I feel any sense of engagement toward.

I'm "bootstrapping" in the sense that I highly doubt anyone would ever invest in me. No cofounders, no "workspace", just me, my laptop, an EC2 micro instance, and some combination of {Erlang, HTML5, Objective-C, Stripe}. Wish me luck.
The standard https check has it built-in with the right flags. Use -h or --help to figure it out. (They provide different output)
Respectable CAs (perhaps that's an oxymoron) will email the contact email address ahead of time warning about the expiration.
I am not, it just seemed like an immature comparison to make.
Relevant data from OKCupid: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-...
While I believe the author's approach is the correct one, I am very curious to see a proof that an arithmetic encoding will always fall within the 1MB limit. The pigeonhole principle guarantees an average of slightly less than seven bits per number, but it doesn't follow that a particular encoding will always consume nearly the same number of bits--especially for the worst case input. Prefix codes are useful, but not that efficient when the probability density function is uniform and there are a lot of potential numbers to encode. Golomb coding works well on an exponential distribution, not a flat one. Does an adaptive encoding save the day here?
> The conversation you have is "Boss, I can crank this out quickly but the faster its written the more likely it will have some future problem in it."

Not entirely sure if this is satire or not but it's a genuine conversation that I've had with a few clients.

I call it "the spectrum of quality" conversation. I can write beautiful unit tested code that will not explode unexpectedly at 3am on a Sunday several years later...but it won't be (relatively) quick to get there.

Alternatively, I can rush through something that will have to be rewritten later and it'll only take me a few hours. Part of me dies writing that type of code but there's a time and a place for it.

You want to hit the afterburner? No problem, but there are consequences.
Your comment is dripping with insecurity and braggartry. I'm sure your problem is your race, yep, that's it.
I find this situation hilarious. Most of the time you get attacked for being a Microsoft evangelist since you're a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server as well as being an MCM for SQL Server 2008. Now you're being attacked for being a Microsoft hater. That's irony.
You're correct that lowering amplitude ~= reducing bit depth. I'm not sure that lowering amplitude digitally keeps S/N constant but I'm a bit out of my depth (excuse the pun) at this point.

To further muddy the waters, in most cases using software volume control won't noticeably reduce audio quality. The main point I was trying to make is that on most computer setups 100% volume should be the least noisy, most accurate signal that it's capable of.
I know the warnings are in place for a reason, but why don't the affected people just bypass the warning. There is no reason to think that just because the date changed that Comcast's certificate is now compromised. If the certificate was issued with an expiry date of five years or more, I'd understand not taking the chance; especially considering how long Comcast is taking to review their certificate - if their certificate did become compromised their customers would likely never find out.
Stop complaining.

As a card-carrying member of Asian-American yuppie stereotype, I live in the rapidly gentrifying area of East Cambridge, MA. Most of the inner-city kids who live nearby don't have a slightest clue about SAT, much less career-ambitions like BigLaw, med school or engineering school. Guess who else is lowest on the sexual hierarchy? Inner-city black women. But we all fixate on the attractive Asian and Caucasian chicks in downtown clubz or the Stanford/MIT types who lead "interesting" lifestyle (and with of course lucrative career-paths). What about all the Chinese/Indian migrant workers who are working in the coastal cities, scaling the sexual hierarchies and self-actualization aren't even in their consciousness.

Yea, I guess if we are talking about a 6ft+, good looking WASP guy who graduated from HYPS working in the Left Coast in finance/law/finance/management. Shit, if I was an Asian girl or gay, I'd get on that gravy train too! But maybe I shouldn't announce it for fear of being coming off too crass in public?

Get over it, human nature is crass - human beings are the most predictable robots.
Having a meta discussion about this community doesn't seem very productive. The community is what it is and asking people to be civil is a waste of yet more bytes on a server.

As is evident by the comment threads on the tablet releases, people have strong opinions, supressing these with calls for 'civility' are nothing more than asking for people to only post comments that you approve of, which seems extremely bourgeois to me. I enjoy seeing the comments where people express strong opinions because I am able to learn for example what kind of person is going to like the Surface and who won't. There's signal in the noise and in a public forum it's not about what you want to read. If I could down vote your thread I would because I find it extremely distasteful to see someone wanting to read just what they enjoy. It's really no different to me posting an ASK requesting that we focus more on Python or jquery plugins. Please, less of the high horse rhetoric.
There's only one chess variant that's more interesting than the original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
Well "merit" just means something that justifies a reward. So it is a bit of a circular definition and thus anyone can inject their own interpretation of it.

What I think think "meritocracy" means is that someone gets promoted because they deserve it based on some objective performance metric. I don't think it differentiates specifically whether this is a long streak of good performance or an immediate recent, single, success. You seem to argue between these two. While I think the most common interpretation is not immediate vs long term merit but the type of performance and degree of objectivity. If performance is just "being in the system for X numbers of years" then most would argue it is not meritocracy, which is what General Franks had. You argue that he was a holder of "merit", I say not. He was just one of the many similar available candidates in the bureaucratic system and one had to be promoted. So he was promoted. Often that also came as a function of number of years in the service or number of years in "action". So that is not "meritocracy".

> But people like meritocracy, because, for some, "merit" isn't hard to achieve.

People like meritocracy because it is inherently has a fuzzy definition and the term itself has a positive vibe as, by default, it stands against bureaucracy, nepotism, mediocrity, and corruption.

For example my beef with "meritocracy" is that it is actually a negative term, because metrics and "objectivity" criteria are defined by the current power systems. So their judgement and metrics are implicitly now "objective" and purely "performance based" just by being associated together in the phrase that also has the word "meritocracy" in it. (Say, "college admissions are purely merit based", stuff like that). Or, like the classic issue with IQ tests that used to test heavily culture-dependent things such that any non-(Western, white, middle class) would be disadvantaged. But this particular arguments is perhaps better saved for another discussion thread.
Do not let those that you cannot be with, blind you from those that you can.
"Responsible disclosure" is like the expression "digital rights": something that makes the opposite meaning so ridiculous that you sound like a looney if you dare disagree with it. ("Why would anyone want irresponsible disclosure? Why would anyone not want rights?")

In this case, the original blogger did not follow "responsible disclosure" practices (which means "don't tell anyone about this, we want our PR team to spin the news first") but what he did was not irresponsible. He told the users whose data has been compromised that they should be careful with Facebook until the investigation is complete and details are disclosed. Now the user has the ability to make a rational and data-driven decision rather than hope Facebook will make the right one for them.

I'm not saying one way is right or wrong, but coverups rarely cover up good news.
Honestly, and sadly, MS Word.

I have a template for startup ideas that is many questions long. It is still easiest to fire up that document and go, where everything is set up with well-laid formatting and bullet points. I am probably biased from many years spent in word processing programs coming from a writing heavy non-technical background originally, but that template gets everything out of the way for me so I can just write. Maybe eventually I'll write a Rails app for myself but I don't think I'd gain much over the current process except version control.

Nothing else works as well locally, which is a lot of the problem. Gmail is getting closer to being able to serve purpose as a general idea store for me, but I am not always online, and the migration cost at this point is not worth switching for, even if Gmail worked flawlessly offline.
All my best ideas are on paper. I find a pencils far more effective than any digital tools for sketching out ideas.
Thanks for having the link go directly to examples.
Books don't cost $C/book to produce, they additionally cost $X to research, write, market, etc. And $X is much much larger than $C.

So to take your example, assuming X=12 and C=1, if I sell my books for $6 and $9, respectively, I make $1 profit, but if I'm forced to sell them both at $6 I lose $2.

Price discrimination is often a Good Thing, on balance. The takeaway from allowing price discrimination isn't (mainly) that Americans get gouged, it's that Thai students get access to textbooks they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
It could be worse, you could be a black woman.
They can link with your cloud DB, mysql or other data sources. Useful for making dashboards.
You usually can't, for several reasons.

Self-signed certs won't fly for public-facing websites.

CAs simply won't issue for more than 3 years, typically. They want to make money, and the easiest way to make more money is to make certificate lifetimes short.

There's an arguable security concern. If a site's cert gets compromised and it's not detected, having a shorter cert lifetime might in some situations prevent the compromise from persisting more than the certificate lifetime. True, if the server is compromised, you can replace certs every year and they'll all be compromised, but if it's a server farm with frequent reinstalls from trusted base media, server compromises won't necessarily persist, and compromised 5+ year website certificates might turn into the weakest link.

If the site must pass periodic scans (for example, by one of those PCI compliance outfits), most of those scanners consider more than 3 years to be "too long" for a cert to be valid. Whether they'd fail the site for that, I don't know.
CSS Specificity Hack
I'm not sure I agree with "don't write classes". This is Python: classes are the state container. That's the structure Python provides for grouping related pieces of information together, and that's the structure all other Python libraries and programmers expect you to use.

Now if you don't want to type the code every time, that's fine: use collections.namedtuple.
Facebook leak: Citi pays $2M fine, fires analyst
Yes. Older women also get offended when men want to date younger (looking) women.
I am perfectly happy if someone tells me that I am wrong on a matter of fact, especially if when I ask there is some argument to back it up. One of my IRL "catch-phrases" is, in fact, "touche, you win this round, my good man ;P".

However, that's not the kind of statement you made. To demonstrate this with a concrete contextualized example, instead of writing this response, I could have instead said the following: "well, people are entitled to their misunderstandings about discourse; I mean, I actually used to have the same wrong opinion you currently do, so none of us are beyond reproach".

Of course, that statement would add nothing: by your own criteria (We need to ask ourselves, "What understanding would my comment add?") I would have made a comment whose sole purpose is to throw in a bit of rhetoric for which the only realistic goals would be 1) to play towards audience members who agree with me and 2) to fluster you by belittling your opinion in a highly flippant manner.

In the case of your comment, it was even weirder, hence the response to the person pointing out "irony": you seriously took an article you posted about how people were making pointless comments over something you claimed wasn't important and used that as an opportunity to make an equally pointless comment about the exact same topic.

This, in one fell swoop, both demonstrated that you actually felt someone can be "wrong" on this specific topic (which is exactly what the people in these flame wars believe and is why they bother to spend so much time arguing with each other instead of just saying "that is your opinion, I have mine; opinions are awesome!"), while at the same time making it clear that you felt that a specific one of the two parties you were arguing about was on that "wrong" side.

I will then go so far as to say: how much more "ironic" can one man get?

(Note: I am pretty certain I have not participated in a single iPad Mini or Surface discussion; looking through my history, the last comment I made on a similar overall topic was in regards to the iPhone 5's larger screen almost a month ago, and I was commenting on a specific sub-argument, taking no overall stance on the high-level war people like to wage. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609243 I say this to disclaim quickly that I am not "in the middle of one of these arguments" and thereby emotionally flustered at being called out by your overall article topic.)
We measure web traffic with Google Analytics. Free, industry standard, works.

We measure app metrics and server/service health with Librato Metrics. A local statsd instance collects UDP packets from all over our infrastructure then consolidates and dumps them out to Librato every 60 seconds. We track thousands of data points every minute and it keeps up without issue. Librato offers great and flexible visualization of your data without breaking the bank - highly recommended.
"I have a template for startup ideas that is many questions long."

Just curious, can you share that?
> The common sentiment was that white americans didn't want to compete with people willing to work 16 hour days.

Upon Federation in Australia, the first Act of Parliament that passed was the Immigration Act.

Its key objective? Keeping out asian, particularly Chinese, workers.

Why? Because they would work harder. "Asiatics" were naturally better suited to the North than the white man, you see.
> Abstract, introduction, paper.

Which makes it hilarious when people rail against "The TL;DR Mindset" as something brand-new and created by the Internet.
I imagine the Go style guide would also largely boil down to 'use `go fmt`'.
I must say, I've been flagging most election-related threads unless they're clearly hacker-related (statistical anaylis, integrity of voter data etc.).

This is one of the most bilious elections that I remember and although I'm interested to hear the spectrum of views on HN as a general matter I'm depressed by the likelihood that the discussion would just degenerate into a flamefest. I'd rather not see friends and fellow HNers slinging mud at each other, because heaven knows there's enough of it on the rest of the internet. Website comments on political matters make me question the whole premise of democracy :-(
You can search with the search charm
I don't think this is an exclusively American problem. There's an eye-opening book called 'On the psychology of military incompetence' which ought to be required reading for anyone in a leadership position.
> what is the purpose of a cotton swab?

If you answer "cleaning my ear", you're risking serious damage.

That's both a specific warning (DO NOT PUT COTTON SWABS IN YOUR EAR) and a more general question: How do you plan to deal with misuse of your product? "Not dealing with it" is a form of dealing with it; it's not really possible to duck this question. With cotton swabs, the answer seems to be "education and a lot of damaged eardrums".
Sorry, I don't buy this line of reasoning. The President's (and, by extension, the whole Executive branch's) duty is to 'faithfully execute' the laws.

I can't see how a rational person would read this clause as pushing some sort of obligation on the Executive to defend laws against challenges in the judicial system. That moves beyond 'execution' by several steps.

(That said, I appreciate the pointer and can see how people could interpret the clause in that way. I disagree that it is a correct interpretation, but there's plenty of room for different opinions.)
Not everyone.

http://www.bluelounge.com/products/minidock/

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Lifestyle-Outfitters-DLA49002-...

http://store.griffintechnology.com/iphone/powerblock-2011
Great points about how groupthink can limit creativity, but I suspect it can also impede execution which may be even more important. As good as lean startup is, it certainly causes many to groupthink the best execution strategy. This may increase competition for ideas well suited for it, and prematurely kill (or pivot away from) ideas best pursued with a different approach.
jQuery is not 1.2k.

And this library doesn't have a strong reason to tie itself to jQuery. It doesn't need jQuery's DOM operation or AJAX. It's like making a program depending on third party library without actually using any of the feature.
Thank you!

Yeah, it's a bit short - was made quite a while ago. The video is the only one that I have up in it's final form, but here's one of it before I made some pretty major improvements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfpAWJ23OA4 - As for what I mean by that, this article has some info on its original form and how it got to be quite a bit better: http://www.jcopro.net/2010/12/08/pegleg-the-six-legged-hexap...
According to one online dating study [1], asian men can compensate with income to appeal to a white woman. An asian guy must make $247,000 more than a white guy for them to have the same appeal to a white woman.

[1] page 49, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=895442
That would be

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http --ssl -C 30 -H contracts.comcast.com

CRITICAL - Certificate expired on 05/08/2012 23:59.
A couple other ideas: don't hack the pawn moves, just change the promotion rules to allow for promotion on either side of the board. Or, don't hack the pawn moves and don't change the promotion rules. If a pawn gets stuck on its own side of the board, the pawn acts as a blockade but runs out of moves. This means the only way to promote is to capture an opponent's piece.