skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those rates are voluntarily self-reported by rental property managers - there's a fairly clear conflict of interest.

According to the following Melbourne has a 5.9% vacancy rate. They use water usage data from the water companies for their analysis. (<50L/day = vacant property)

http://www.earthsharing.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Philip_Soo...
Nashorn, the JavaScript Implementation in Java 8
I don't think what you've said is precisely true...

a b(c x);

can be syntactically correct even if c is not a type. Trivially, any of the four tokens could be preprocessor definitions. Even if we are talking about preprocessed c++, the following statement is syntactically correct:

new bool(new int);
I requested the adjustable donation feature yesterday, thanks! Here is an example of it in action: https://chatsecure.org

One thing I noticed is that very rarely the button image doesn't load and is replaced by a default Bootstrap navigation bar inside the button frame instead. Might be something to investigate.
Yes. And if you engage in suspicious behavior like connecting to a botnet and then spewing spam, SONAR likely figures out that something is wrong.

But remote command and control through a covert channel can be done in ways that do not look particularly suspicious. And a sophisticated attacker should be assumed to know what behaviors SONAR is looking for.
I don't mind clarified headlines, but editorialized headlines bug the heck out of me and they can color the discussion. Today I complained when the title was "Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills? Or Something worse? instead of the original "Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?" because it added innuendo.
Maybe funds support the RubyGems maintainers and the gem authors?
This is just a great project. Thank you!
I submitted my own proposal.

I was going to use kickstarter, but it simply did not match very well with what I plan to launch. This however, fits just right.

Also, great landing page. I don't know what is your conversion rate, but from experience I can tell that it just works.
To answer your question I don't immediately think someone who claims to have a degree is full of shit about their degree. It takes a special kind of person to blatantly lie about an easily verifiable fact. I assume that any capable HR department is going to call the college registrar when conducting the background check. In the Yahoo CEO case, I don't think he started listing computer science until after getting the job.

Fizzbuzz failures happen because people don't code every day and can lose their edge in just a few weeks or someone did a degree that has very little practical material. Obviously, having a degree doesn't mean someone is a great programmer. Its just another tool to form a basis of trust.

Obviously a lot of people do lie their way in and do nothing or do negative work. That's why a lot of companies are so awful to work at if one is serious about their profession and actually trying to move things forward.
Nokia 103 Light without Ic Display Keypad Led 100% tested.
How would you implement Lua's long-string syntax in a context-free grammar?

str = [==[foo]bar]=]baz]==]

Been trying to puzzle this one out.
The exact same thing could be said for Windows 8 on tablets.
So there's no fee when a customer buys something from a merchant with bitcoin using the coinbase API?
> It's not obvious that they are wrong in that assessment.

Any entity with the reach of the United States is naturally going to have connections with all kinds of actors. While the idea of Americans/Zionists/Illuminati/Nibiru pulling the strings behind every major event is no doubt very exciting for conspiracy theorists (eg. I'm getting 2.28 million google hits for ["dalai lama * a cia agent"]), and simpler (ignoring the agency of the citizens of those countries), that doesn't mean sane people should believe extraordinary claims without extraordinary evidence. It's not in anyone's interest to topple the PRC, even if it were possible, which it is not.
Ah, the old Bell system and Carterfone, though to be honest people still used these later on for things like payphones.
Transparency at the Office: Psst...This Is What Your Co-Worker Is Paid
It's more important to understand that there's not one monolithic "Chinese perspective" at any level.
Don’t sell the Swiss Army knife
The giant honeycomb is (supposedly) tucked away inside the Great Firewall.
I wrote a JSON editor widget a while ago that's open source as well: https://github.com/cantino/jsoneditor
When I'm reading through a list of titles on HN deciding which to click on, I'm more interested in why the submitter thinks it's relevant to HN and why they think I should click it. If I do click through, I will read the title.
Actually, I made this work:

1) Inject JQuery as described on this website: http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/04/better-stronger-safer-...

2) Then open your JS console and copy and paste this in:

$("textarea").keyup(function(){
try {
formatter.set(editor.get())
} catch (a) {
notify.showError(a)
}
});

And viola! It will change in real time from the left side to the right. Doing the opposite should be trivial.

Enjoy.

PS: This is a total hack obviously. Not production stuff.
Fresh Is Not Just for Milk; Filling Rails Potholes
The thing is, I want to get away from chemistry for now. What I learned after 3 years was, I hate being in the lab.

I don't see any future with chemistry that doesn't involve working in a lab.

My goggles and spectacles fog up constantly, I'm starving but too paranoid to eat around all these carcinogens/toxic chemicals. All the solvents are seemingly neurotoxic/carcinogenic/mutagenic/etc. and they smell awful. Imagine a lifetime of exposure.

The only thing I really love, love, love about chemistry was the theoretical side of organic synthesis.
I hate analytical chem and all the repetitive spectra, instrumentations work and lab reports.

The salary for a typical bachelor degree holder is too low. I don't need a lot of money to live comfortably, but I have no hope of supporting a family if the typical salary is 40k before tax (ignoring the PhD pyramid scheme for now).

At least with freelance programming work, there is an option of doing work offsite and living part of the year out of country (and with much much better life quality than in the US.)

I'm trying to think ahead now because when I was younger, I was far too naive and thought that I would dedicate my whole life to science and disregard everything else.
This Is How Much Facebook Made Per User Last Month: 2 Pennies
How to Cancel and Delete Your RebelMouse Account After Signin/Signup
Here in Belize I pay $200/mo for 4Mbit cable that is usually closer to 1Mbit.
Nice. Do you have it running somewhere?
> I think we can safely say it is most certainly all within the brain.

Occam's razor says you're probably right, but personally I'm holding out the slim hope that there's something much cooler going on, call it primitive telepathy or whatever. The next few decades will hopefully tell.

> But you shouldn't need to go to Brazil for that and drink sewerage tasting cocktails of God-knows what and vomit your guts up. That is nothing more than conscientious stupidity (IMHO).

This is less stupid than popping a pill whose side effects take longer to list than the rest of its commercial. I mean, just look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venlafaxine#Adverse_effects. That's stupid, and it was a good point made in the post.
Projects: especially difficult/interesting/field-relevant ones.

Honesty: if I can't immediately tell that you are over-stating your experience, I will find out in the phone screen.

Fit: something that helps me think that you'll be a good fit with my team from a personality stand-point. This may be represented by listing hobbies (though be careful with this) and the types of projects you work on.

Attention to detail: Your resume should look like something that's professionally crafted. If it doesn't, I am going to assume your code looks the same way.

Back when I was applying for jobs several years ago, I would tailor my resume for the job that I was applying for. The more your experiences matches the listing, the better. In my case, being somewhat of a generalist, I have some experience developing web, desktop, cli/server and embedded code, so I would rewrite my highlights at each job where appropriate to best address the skills being looked for.
(I'm currently re-writing it in CoffeeScript and adding some fixes.)
I'm saddened to see that they didn't A/B test to discover the optimal customer satisfaction solution. A few ideas leap to mind:

* Toilets every n cars (from 0 to 3)

* Asymmetrical vs symmetrical ordering of toilet enabled cars.

* Helvetica vs Times for signage.

etc.
Dark fiber tends not to be running to homes. The costly part is connecting a cable to each building. Equipment isn't cheap either, but that will probably change over time (and/or same cost expensive equipment will become more capable).
After watching the presentation, I understand that Alicia's job is to help people in the entertainment industry take advantage of the BlackBerry platform. I guess she can play that role.

She probably should find herself a more descriptive job title though.
I've found that's the case with any hack... for all we know it could be a competing newspaper routing through China.

But nationalism/xenophobia trumps reason.
Office is a $20 Billion business with a 60% profit margin (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/technology/business-comput...).

There is no excuse for leaving these vectors uncovered for so long.

Though I'm pretty sure they're caught up in a painful conversion to WinRT right now.
Can we replace IQ/GPA with Curiosity?
Higher curiosity seems to imply broader interests and broader interests seem to imply broader imagination..

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
- Albert E.
I worked on a columnar database engine deployed on commodity Linux clusters in 2001, initial release 2002. This was at Sensage. We built a very fast DB engine that could store log data with 40x compression over traditional RDBMSs and ran log queries much more quickly than commercial DBs could at the time. I think we were too early.

Current Sensage company blurb about the event-data warehouse: http://sensage.com/content/clustered-columnar-database and http://sensage.com/content/why-columnar%E2%80%A6not-row-base...

Patent work: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7024414.html

The core engineering team was CTO + 3 engineers. Best engineering experience of my life. I wasn't involved at the lowest DB storage level, the guys who did that did a great job.

Michael Stonebraker, technical advisor to Sensage, learned from the Sensage mistakes and built Vertica.
Wikipedia Article Edited to Fight Spammers
When there's a chance of serious competition they will act.

Years ago in our spot in rural California Sierra Nevada foothills we were patiently waiting for DSL... Every time we called AT&T they said DSL was a year or two away. According to rumor it took a fire for it to finally happen.

Around 2001 we had a major wildland fire that burned off a lot of trees and such which cleared off line of sight for satellite reception for TV and internet to a lot of folks. According to some, that possibility prompted Comcast to stretch out their cable access to beat the satellite service to the punch, and at the same time they started working on digital cable service here-which meant high speed internet, and lo and behold DSL was available in mere months!

Not to say it was a total roll out - there are still some areas beyond the 5000 meters from the CO and too far from the cable routes that have to suffer with satellite - and its really lousy, just above dial up - unless cable or DSL moves in I'm sure Hughes/WildBlue wont bother on improving that.
> verifying bios and firmware signatures (and indeed detecting changes when they happen), and reinstalling them at scale is not a major challenge with a well managed IT infrastructure.

Can you back up that claim with reference to a system that does that?

EVERY single management system I can think of trusts the system to report its status. You can't trust a compromised system to report its status.

Assume you have 5,000 desktop computers. How do you set them up so you can verify bios and firmware signatures without forcing a good bios reflash in the first place? (An action that does require soldering or jumper setting on modern motherboards!)

> I can accept however that the Times may well have been running 10 year old PCs

If you're running your business properly, 3-4 years is the oldest any PC should ever get. If you know a business running 10 year old PCs, tell them to get a new accountant. Today's $300 ATOM netbook (with your 10 year old screen and keyboard) will have positive ROI compared to maintaining a 10 year old machine (The best 2002 Pentium 4 is comparable to a modern ATOM, but needs 5-10 times as much power). You'll be saving money just with energy/cooling costs.
Yup: http://iterationprojects.com/jsoneditor/example.html
> Whether or not you believe the Arab Spring actually resulted in good outcomes, the salient fact is that US funded groups started the revolutions

Wait, what? Do you have any evidence to support that?
If the CIO asks, then Symantec will probably comment, under condition that it doesn't get reprinted.

If a reporter is fishing for a quote, they won't get anything special.
In "FFF" rounds, should you only raise capital from accredited investors?
Pale Blue Blobs Invade, Freeze, Then Vanish
> I made no such claim, but verifying bios and firmware signatures (and indeed detecting changes when they happen), and reinstalling them at scale is not a major challenge with a well managed IT infrastructure.

It is? How do you do it?
Pretty freakin awesome! Kudos!
A lot more than statutory law is at play here in the US: Court cases, regulations and states' implementations of the law matter greatly.

Basically, there's often a tacit (or even explicit) understanding that the winner of a bid to supply cable or Internet services to a municipal area will have the exclusive right to do so (mainly, the service providers argue, to make the capital investment involved in supply said services worth it).

There has been a long-running debate over whether or not last-mile networks and local cable are natural monopolies - i.e., whether or not it is most efficient for the industry to have a monopoly. If such services are public utilities with high capital costs, service providers might argue, they should have the exclusive rights to sales in an area.

In fact, it got so bad that the Supreme Court said that municipalities could be guilty of antitrust violations if they explicitly gave monopoly power to such providers (see Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder).

So municipalities and service providers moved to implicit guarantees of monopoly - RFP processes that are hard for less-well-resourced companies to win, for example. [1] What I'd like to know is whether or not these implicit guarantees are still a problem.

Some states (like North Carolina) set up a 'franchising' process for service providers to get the right to serve an area. So it's not always just about permission from the municipality. It might be about whether or not your state's equivalent of a franchising process is exclusive on the local level. For cable, North Carolina's is supposedly non-exclusive, though I wonder how many times Time Warner runs into trouble getting approve to serve an area, and whether they end up developing small natural monopolies in some locations. But regardless of whether or not those monopolies develop, you have to think about who gets to run lines on whose land.

The fact is that the big companies have an easier time running lines for any data/media service (cable, Internet, etc) through easements and public areas. (This is the part some people refuse to believe. 'Oh, but anybody can purchase land!' Sure, but do you have the capital to do that, or does Time Warner?)

A truly competitive market would involve setting up the infrastructure and having the public own that, instead of owning or operating actual ISPs, which, to any rational observer, constitutes unfair competition, even in light of the desperate need for competition in some markets.

States and municipalities would hand out licenses to the infrastructure, not to the land. That'd be really cool, and possibly really efficient.

[1] - http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa034.html (Good summary of the debate; pretty fair)
It's the freaking title of the article!
Unix 'find command' helper
"Psychic spies from china tries to hack your mind elation"
I'd be interested to hear anyone's experiences doing a "FFF" (friends, fools, family) round, especially if they involved any non-accredited investors. I'm thinking of trying the 3F route, but I know most (if not all) of my family and friends are not accredited investors. I'm not "from money" and don't pal around with doctors, lawyers, etc. to a substantial degree.
Sent you an email as well.
The MO is that they are a state attacker, not a one trick pony.

Until proven otherwise, you should assume that in addition to what you know they did, they did everything you can think of that is within their known capabilities. Super fancy BIOS rootkits are not outside their known capabilities.

Also monitoring egress traffic is easier said than done. For example you could have a special gmail account that you connect to over https while the user is actively using the computer. This account receives and sends commands as email messages. Since it is normal for that computer to connect to gmail, and the connection is normally encrypted, that communications channel could be rather hard to detect.
Seems good and hopefully I am getting it right. But you could also use the dev tools - http://i.imgur.com/gyaDIc7.png
China pushes an alternative world view[0] to the US, it doesn't involve individual rights, and free markets. It seems the majority in the west (primarily the U.S) view this as a 'menace' or a 'threat' to their way of life... hence the constant propaganda.

EDIT: Just in response to the down votes, I thought maybe it was due to no citation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy
I joined the ACE some years ago for the same reason - because it seemed like a good idea to be a member of a professional organisation.

I also didn't renew after I realised what a joke the ACS really was.
If you need to use buttons to duplicate nodes of json or delete nodes, collapse code, or change data types, you need to learn you text editor better. I mean also, CMD+Z is a little better than having to click an undo button.
This is also open source: https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditoronline
Definitely. But should be part of a code editor offering all other functionalities! :) Else this should be a plugin for existing editors.
Silicon Valley Before the Startup
I've been there. I spent 6 months last year.

What you might not understand is that the Chinese government has its hands in every corporation, organization, competitor, etc.

You might have false assumptions coming from the US system, where corporations and government are separate entities. They even sue one another at times.

In China, large corporations are overseen by the government. The government funds them, decides what they can and cannot do, and decides which corporations will succeed. You cannot build a search engine or social network right now, unless you pull a political coup, because the government controls which companies succeed. Baidu and Tencent are the "blessed children" for the time being.

Within the government, China is run by various clans, continually vying for power in the Communist Party. It's easiest to build a large company by having a family member in the upper echelon of the party, to push things through.

Everything is connected to the government in China. It's in your company's interest to keep the party in power, because the corrupt politicians keep you in business. It's in your wealthy family's interest to keep the government in power, because they keep you wealthy. It's a giant corrupt system, keeping itself in place.

Most likely, these attacks were actually executed by some low-level hackers somewhere. But most certainly, someone in the government has something to do with their funding, organization, or guidance.
Shipping WinRT support for all of Office within a year sounds aggressive if it was only OneNote at the end of Office 2013!
How likely do you think a Chinese spring would be?

It's unfortunate that we don't get more foreign perspective on HN and Reddit - I hope you comment more.
The RailsApps Tutorials site is here: https://tutorials.railsapps.org/
China's complicated history with video games: when a ban isn't really a ban
C# tools and libraries have been inspired by Java since the inception.

I'll give C# a +1 for lambda/functional feature but the rest does not equal +1.

MSBuild -> Ant

NuGET -> Ivy

DoesNotExist -> Maven (don't forget to count maven plugins).

NHibernate, Log4Net, etc -> inspired by its Java counterpart.

How about sane deployment/packaging system? WAR, JAR, EAR push to App Server (tomcat, glassfish, etc). Not so easy with IIS.

I argue that Java open source library is far richer than .NET (no hadoop, no hbase, no cassandra, nor GWT)
Bad use of language on my part, it would probably be more accurate to say that they won't, because of the politics involved.
It makes this sound more like a casualty of war, and less like an embarrassing mistake.
Google's Dremel[0] also belong in this category.

[0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
Fuck that drug. I'm currently on 37.5mg every 4 days in an effort to taper down to nothing. I feel nothing but sympathy for those who have been taking 150mg+ daily doses, I was only on 75mg a day for a couple weeks before I thought it prudent to read stories of the drug online, which terrified me and pointed out some of the same effects I had been having but had assumed was coincidental. I took cold medicine with DXM in it, for example, and it made me feel worse than I felt just being sick. I didn't immediately realize DXM is on the lengthy list of contraindications, and found out that explained a terrible "trip" I had a week before during the night on a single normal dose of Vicodin.

One of the remedies I've been using to help with the side effects of kicking this, interestingly enough, is medicinal cannabis edibles, which has also helped with a gastroenterological problem I have.
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24468350.jpg

Sorry! I had to :)

But seriously, nice work.
"...employees are each assigned to one of nine fixed salaries..."

Reminds me of a less-complicated general schedule salary table: http://archive.opm.gov/oca/12tables/html/gs.asp
As a faraway observer with no need to review all the sites, short summaries of the entries would be much appreciated.
I imagine he gets a bit more attention than usual because he's considered a flight risk. Also, unlike (I presume) other wanted individuals, they do know exactly where he is; they just can't get to him.
I would imagine it would say something like "Click to play Silverlight", and people would click it, and it would work.