skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not another way to describe the same situation; it's an entirely different situation. Was this a honest mistake or deliberate sophistry?
Yeah cool, can you work for me for FREE ?

But nice troll.
No, the grandparent was right. He's talking about how big a cube could contain 6000L, but you're calculating the volume of 6000L.

Simple way to visualize this: Think about the difference between a 4-foot square and 4 square feet. The former is a much bigger area.
I just removed the module from loading. I dont have any firewire stuff anyways, so it's just some useless 4 pin port at the bottom left of my thinkpad.

No driver, no workey.
Every time this issue comes up everyone talks around in circles, statistics are thrown around, disputed, refuted, it's all discussed at length, and then everyone gets frustrated and gives up until the next article gets posted. You know what's going to fix this? Complete transparency and a nearly omniscient source of available speaker data.

So we create some kind of online universal tech speaker rolodex. Sortable, filterable, searchable, anyone and everyone that's brave enough to get in front of more than a dozen people are on there along with a list of subjects they're comfortable speaking about. Steal the subject tags right off StackOverflow, I don't know.

Then it's got a list of tech events. Every event in the world, if it's public and related to technology. It's got a full list of subjects the event covers and who's speaking on it, and more importantly who they invited. Maybe 50% of the speakers they invited were unavailable; couldn't afford the flight, scheduling conflict, don't speak the native language, whatever.

Actually, maybe the site wouldn't even need to list who was invited. After all, the site would have a comprehensive listing of subject matter experts, right? So Super Big Tech Conference San Francisco 2013 gets announced and currently has 10 out of 10 male speakers on Subject A, we do a search and find out those are indeed the only available speakers. Or there is a female speaker on the subject available and she writes to the conference organizer and offers to speak, or posts a blog post about her disappointment at not being invited to speak, at which point people are (potentially) justifiably upset.

You know what, I'd sign up on that site in a heartbeat. Not as a speaker, of course, but I'd love to see a comprehensive list of subject matter experts whose blogs and articles I can follow, find out when I might be able to catch them speaking, or even find out when any event at all related to a subject I'm interested in might happen near me. That sounds too obvious not to exist already, maybe I'm just missing something there, maybe it'd just be ridiculously hard to monetize, or maybe one of you has the skills and dedication to make it happen.
I second biot's idea. I'll buy it right now though since I want to see it go further and you need money for that. Might I suggest for the time being adding in a right click and "open in browser" that leads to the comment page for the article? That ways it's at least a quick one step to get where you need to be in order to comment and upvote.
But why wouldn't you just read the talk description and title to decide whether or not to go? This reaction: "I won't go because I think that some women were specifically recruited!" doesn't make any sense.
Events and Delegates in .NET Framework
Thing is, stackoverflow information is generally more accurate and less stale.
Open-Source Art and the Rise of 'Creative Coding'
Using the default .NET dialog boxes
As a tip, I was doing some international travel and knew I had to reduce my caffeine intake or else be forced into caffeine withdrawal.

I was drinking 10-12 cups of tea per day. If I stopped, the headaches would be incredible.

So three months before the trip, I just reduced my caffeine intake by 1 cup per week. The day I left for the trip, I could easily manage on 1 cup per day and the days I never had a cup of tea were fine.

Quitting anything cold turkey is tough, it's easy to reduce the dose at a rate that it's practically unnoticeable. Easier to stay abstinent if you don't have withdrawal symptoms pushing you back to your old habits.
"Internal Server Error" :(
Well... 3 months is possible, but unlikely. 6-9 is more likely. 12 months is unlikely, but more likely than 3.
Would you do something with it, if it was open source? I can't understand people begging to have everything open sourced, but unwilling to dedicate time to write a single line of code (or patches, or testing, or documentation).

Yes, it's okay for developers to invest their own time to develop something, and try to recover their costs by selling it. And it's also ok if they decide to keep it closed source, because probably no one would bother to help. Just vote with your money.

(posted using news:yc on iOS, that I paid $2.99. And it's open source btw).
I've been without caffeine for almost two years now. I too was a complete addict, I would drink a two liter bottle of Mountain Dew upon waking up.

Since I have been without caffeine I have actually found it easier to stay awake, stay up longer working on problems and I don't have the same downs where I am craving caffeine or the shakes. I'm calmer, more collected and my colleagues have to deal with less "abuse" from me.

So far being with caffeine has been a huge win for me personally.
It appears to be wrong that there's anything that reads /dev/random, yes. It is still correct that there are reports of latency reductions across the board. Whether or not they are real or placebo, or if they are real but have other causes (such as reboots) is another matter.

But it's too easy to just dismiss this. I tried it on one of my tablets too, and din't reboot, and subjectively it feels substantially snappier - previously the UI would often freeze up long enough for me to get ANR dialogues, and the recommended solution for that tablet model is a full factory reset when it start being persistently slow.

That does not mean that I'm sure the effect is real. Nor does it mean that it has to have anything to do with /dev/random.
This! I'm so glad to hear this straight from one of the maintainers. Python 3.3 is the first version of Python 3 that has made me stop and say, "Wow, this really makes my life easier/better". The sooner we as an ecosystem get moving on, the better.
Can a $1 trillion coin end debt ceiling crisis?
This is interesting, but is certainly not novel. I did a talk (in one of my grad school courses) in 2008 summarizing the Princeton research regarding attacks on encryption keys stored in memory (https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/). DMA and Firewire were both attack vectors mentioned in that paper.

Physical Access == Game Over
I figured we were taking it as a given, since no one refuted it when it was implied in gte910h's post. I'll try to support the idea anyway.

There was a study performed on young students, concerning their perception of STEM fields. Most respondents indicated that "techie" people are all white males in lab coats, and that the respondent wouldn't fit in well with that group. (Sorry, I don't have a link to the study. But I know I saw it in the last 8-12 months)

If more women are publicly visible in tech fields, then young people's perception of techie people will swing away from "homogenous white male group" towards a heterogeneous group that is necessarily less discriminatory. This should cause a corresponding increase in enrollment by non-white non-males who would otherwise have been dissuaded from joining.
Look, I don't think I personally have any 'attitude' here. Girls like to be doctors or biologists, rather than staring at the screen for 8 hours a day. Perhaps boys have higher frequency of introvert temperament traits. I don't know.
It's not like that. I'm saying use Angular, Ember, Knockout, whatever - just not Backbone. Unless you know Backbone is what's needed for your project, or you yourself really love Backbone. What I'm discouraging here is its popularity as the de-facto client MV*. I'm under the impression that most people today, when thinking about their next JS project, will use Backbone because it's the most popularly-touted framework where It shouldn't be. It's a great framework, and die-hards & specific projects should indeed use it. But the majority should use one of the other frameworks.
Everybody privately bitches, and some publicly, about scala compile times -- it's slow! Even incremental builds can be painfully slow when you change a file that then triggers the recompilation of a host of other dependent files. Scala is both completely & utterly awesome and not at the same time, impressive, I realize this truth daily ;-)
Reports of improvements? Like with numbers?

From what I can tell, this is the technological-age incarnation of superstition.
Good suggestions, will experiment a bit and see what we can do to improve it!
I agree, it's a problem of a larger scope. But do you think it has to be like that because of biology or any such reason, or do you think it's a result of historical and social factors?

Some people think it might be worth to sacrifice a little so things might get a bit better in the long run, and that every small step counts to be welcoming to anyone.

Edit: Note that I ask for either or in the first paragraph because I believe the latter would be a more easily fixable scenario than the former.
Scalac 500-1000 lines per second according to the link, with a startup time of about 4-8 seconds. Startup time can be worked around with zinc/fsc/nailgun
>Academia is already facing difficulties in computer science because much of the state-of-the-art research is being done by private companies...As a consequence, there are a number of areas in computer science where the leading academic papers are literally a good half decade behind the state-of-the-art that is buried in NDAs.

Can you elaborate on which areas of CS academia you think are more sophisticated in the corporate wilds? Other than systems work at Google, I haven't encountered any subtopics which aren't dominated by ideas from traditional research centers (either university labs or academic research units at MSR, IBM, etc...)
I wonder if anyone who develops for Android could shed some light on the difficulties they encounter when developing for a fragmented platform?
When I hire people, I am looking for the best overall improvement in the existing group. I do not hire for the benefit of the person being hired; I hire for the benefit of "the company" which really just means for the benefit of everyone already hired; hire whoever, once added to the group, will cause the most improvement in the group.

To give a specific example, I have seen a group of men in their twenties significantly improved by the addition of a woman in her thirties. Put simply, they grew up a bit and started acting more like professional adults; the output of the group was improved more by the addition of the woman in her thirties, I believe, than it would have been had I added an individually more talented male very similar to the existing members of the group.

Maybe what I'm saying here is that the hiring criteria included "what effect will this person have on the group" and, if one accepts that race/gender/religion has an effect on the group, then it seems sensible to consider those things when hiring.

I believe the problems are in _excluding_ people on grounds of race/religion/gender and not in simply allowing those factors to be part of the selection process.
"You can't patent obvious shit" is actually patent law, so that's not a suggestion at all... it's just not enforced very well, is it, and that's the whole "mystery".
Right, we should presume that it's being replenished at the same rate it's decaying unless the measurement happened to be taken right after a big dump or something.
The author of the tool commented in this thread on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/15ydem/inception_is_...
Great idea! We are rolling out an update today, but will be sure to wrap in all of these suggestions in a follow-up update soon!
I can't give a real argument. It would be more out of respect to the content which originates from other people and quite often deals in topic which are open/free. But 1.49 is not much and if it helps the dev...
How Twitter Gets In The Way Of Research
I didn't have pushback. I didn't like the "Wall of Shame" name.
angular code is a joy to write and read!
Derby looks interesting, but their sample apps (chat and todo) crash and hang safari on my iPhone. Are folks sure its acceptable for mobile focused web apps? Is this a known problem or something unique to me?
Why not ask a web developer instead? Android is a lot less fragmented than the world wide web.
I'm actually doing the opposite. Up until a year ago I didn't drink coffee or any other caffeinated beverages. In fact, I really didn't understand why people liked coffee as the taste never appealed to me. Nonetheless I started off trying mochas from Starbucks in the afternoon at work and noticed a huge boost in productivity. I felt energized and started to cruise through projects. Before I started drinking coffee I would get so tired that I would have to take naps during the day (and this is on 8-9 hours of sleep). Now it's a reason to get up in the morning.

I've switched over to normal coffee and I'm still a pretty moderate drinker (5-6 cups a week). I don't drink soda either, so it's my only source of caffeine generally. I think it's fine in moderation and there are definitely some health benefits as well.
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I experienced the same thing with Ember Data/REST.
What can private insurance do for me if I am killed?

What if I can't afford private insurance? What if I am not allowed private insurance?

Seems like decrying a 'monopoly of violence' and replacing it with a 'vibrant violence marketplace' is quite a few steps in the wrong direction.
The adoption rate of the latest version of Android may not be that high but does anyone know how MANY devices are running 4.0 or higher?

I routinely tout the high adoption rate of iOS devices and how it justifies increasing the minimum iOS versions for apps because you still have a massive potential userbase. But because Android has more phones in the marketplace than iOS is it possibly now for developers to make Android 4.0 the minimum and still get a respected number of users?
Ah. Serves me right for skimming.
> If it was actually Open Source, XDA developers would actuall have real, original development, and features like lock screen widgets, officially added in JB 4.2 this year, would have been completed by the community in 2009.

I agree in general that if AOSP was an actual open source project things would be better but I don't think XDA would be any different. It's been full of end users for years now and most of them are easily fooled by stuff like this. CyanogenMod is developed in the open and they do have quite a few contributors, but it's not terribly ground breaking (although some of their features do get reimplemented in AOSP eventually). The fact is that the Android project is really a gigantic codebase and it takes a lot of time to get started (and even on a really fast machine, 20-40 minutes to build), and a lot of the work CyanogenMod developers do is porting to hardware that's unsupported by AOSP, not feature development.
If 1 cup of coffee contains 150 milligrams of caffeine (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+much+caffeine+in+1+...) that would take 3.3 million liters (not 6000).
Simplicity, really. It's easier to find stable IRC clients, and IRC servers tend to be better than Jabber servers.

The only complaint about IRC that I've heard in the past was SSL, however we added SSL to the connection without problems.
> Without coffee, Washington state would be uninhabitable.

What do you mean by this? I rather like Seattle and the Cascades.
> when competitors were out executing them

Missing a hyphen. I hope.
Ember, Knockout, Angular, Batman, all have data-binding in their core. Backbone doesn't. If you like writing client code where you have control over rendering and DOM manipulation, Backbone is the best choice short of building your own framework.
We use Ember + Rails at work and if we didn't start with an Ember expert contractor we'd have been sunk. Ember is definitely a winding maze of stuff and until there's a "Agile Web Development with Ember 1.0" book, it's still very difficult to just jump in from scratch.

Still, once we've learned Ember we're very happy with it. Backbone is just too small to start any medium/large app, and Ember has a decent community behind it and lots of integrations with Rails.
I get the feeling that using the error of not going to a licensed doctor is equivalent to traffic lawyers getting you off the hook of a ticket because the cop didn't attend his yearly radar gun training. Meaning if they couldn't get them on this technicality, they would have just found another one.
At an old MacHack, someone was going around with a powerbook. They'd plug a cable into your mac, and start drawing things on your screen.

More than a few organizations shove hot glue into USB ports to secure the machine.

It's hard enough to get machines secure from drive-by web browsing attacks. Getting them safe from physical access is substantially, substantially harder.
Not sure I agree — its standard for OS X documents to show their hierarchy when their title bar is command-clicked; cmd-up arrow is much less broadly used.
As a blog post, I think it's just fine. After all, a blog is supposed to be somewhat personal, and such a drastic lifestyle change will surely affect the author's posts over the next year.

Perhaps it's not necessarily enough for Hacker News, but it does seem to have sparked some interesting discussion on the subject, which I think makes it worthwhile.
> I have yet to understand how an emissions trading system is superior to a simple tax paid on all emissions.

They're more similar than you seem to think. Both internalize cost to the production of pollution. In a tax, the cost is fixed and the total amount of pollution is market-determined. With a cap it is the reverse. However, at the point where the prices agree, they are, in principle, equivalent.

> Trading schemes add a lot of unnecessary complexity and potential for abuse, and enshrine the idea that if you have polluted more in the past, you deserve to keep polluting more in the future.

Allocating pollution licenses to past polluters is only one possible way of distributing them. A cap-and-trade system could also to hold yearly auctions for each year's permits. The former is used many times in part because incumbents are less likely to oppose regulation. They may even be able to achieve efficiencies and sell their allocated permits at a profit because of cap-and-trade. But note that even though the incumbents are receiving the permits for free, they still have an incentive to reduce pollution when the cost of the efficiency is less than the cost of the permit.

> Instead just quantify the total harm caused by emissions the best you can, divide by total emissions amounts, and levy that as a tax per pound of emission.

Two problems is that the harm may be difficult to quantify in a price and more importantly the harm may not be linear in the amount of pollution. You could argue that the optimal solution would be for the government to estimate the harm as a function of the amount of pollution and hold some sort of complicated auction where the price depended on the quantity of pollution permits sold. However, I think this is too impractical for any real-world regulation.
It should not be that way, though. Physical access should not equal compromise.

There's no good reason why this vulnerability still exists after 10 years except a failed design, laziness on the part of OS developers and that security professionals in general meet the problem with the above statement that "physical access equals compromise".

I think end users deserve (and expect) secure devices, even when physical access is lost. I realize that it's harder to protect a physical device, but it's not impossible.
>And it still somewhat applies to Nexus phones - the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is 3 OS updates behind due to Verizon's approval process.

It really is fairly straightforward to unlock the bootloader and update the ROM yourself, though. It would certainly be nicer if you didn't have to, but it's definitely an advantage of the Nexus devices that there's always good community support for this.

It also lets me use 4G wireless tethering on my unlimited data Verizon plan -- for that reason alone I'm not even a little tempted to switch to an iPhone. Really, the huge difference in camera quality is the only thing I'm jealous of.

Sent from a Starbucks where the internet is down. :)
I don't lose things, have good impulse control, can pay attention for long periods of time when something is interesting, and I don't job-hop ... but I sure as hell have ADD and take Aderall for it.

It has solved so many problems for me. I can focus on menial tasks that I used to dislike with a passion, I can work for hours on end without getting distracted in the open plan office, I no longer have issues with not finishing projects (although one problem I do have is working on too many at once ...) and because of the aderall I no longer feel the obsessive need to speed while driving (which is actually a sign of ADD).

Just because you don't have the ones that most people consider to be associated with ADD doesn't mean you don't have ADD. I used to use caffeine as well to be able to work and focus, when I stopped that my work suffered but I was sick and tired of the side effects from caffeine. Aderall gave me my sanity back, and work ethic. I am having a much easier time getting stuff done and not procrastinating.
Here is the notice on Federal Register.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/01/03/2012-315...

USPTO should go abolish itself, for the benefit of mankind.
Well, dang, I stand corrected.

As a Django user, I've always understood Django 1.x to follow the Apple convention with OS X numbering. To the credit of the core team, every minor release has felt like a major improvement to me.
That's that public-face failure bit I pointed out in my post. My own Derby app https://habitrpg.com is smooth-sailing, but people's first impression Derby's home-page examples. For a lot of people, the buck stops there - unbeknownst to them, it's quite stable at HEAD
> But physical access remains one of the hardest barriers to overcome.

Basically it's the same problem as DRM that actually works.
This assertion:

> and every scientific mechanism shows it can't possibly speed anything up.

Does not follow from this:

> nothing is opening and using /dev/random continuously, as shown by using inotify to watch it.

The finding that nothing is opening and using /dev/random rules out the explanation the author of the app gave. It does not in any way prove that the app has no effect, even if it might be for totally different reasons.

Several people appear to be looking at ways of doing some proper tests to determine if there is a real measurable effect, so we'll presumably find out soon enough.
Backbone I understand, but why not angular? It seems quite similar to knockout to me? Whats your backend platform?