skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>For US intervention in the Libyan revolution, after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rice said "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."

A change of subject, but... Why have this been forgotten today?! Syria seems worse than Libya. It reminds me of the civil war in ex-Jugoslavia with the rape camps and atrocities.

(I mostly read discussions about China to see if I can spot the members of the "50 cent army" :-) )
indeed, or perf record -e cache-misses using the hardware performance counters
Another aspect of depression is dependent on BDNF levels (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21749907
Most CPUs have performance counters that let you determine when performance impacting events occur (e.g. pipeline flushes, reduced dispatch width, cache misses, etc.). In their simplest form they are a simple count, but there is usually some way to trigger an interrupt every N events rather than simply incrementing a counter, so that you can store the offending program counter somewhere for later aggregation. This functionality isn't always exposed very well by the OS, though. If you're using Linux then perf and oprofile are the standard ways to access performance counters.

Alternatively you can execute your code in a simulator with a cache model. Of course, this model won't actually match your hardware (unless you're using a serious cycle-accurate simulator), but it might be more insightful than performance counters alone. I don't know if any of the standard x86 emulators include a good cache model.
Actually, Moore's law guarantees that the hardware will become useless much sooner than the Bitcoin mining rewards run out.
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I don't see it. I was adding to the argument that you are using the word "theory" with a negative connotation, which makes absolutely no sense. And that mistake is very common in America, since you have religious folks spreading misinformation all over the country, including schools. On the other hand, I can see an ad hominem here:

> the idea of Americans/Zionists/Illuminati/Nibiru pulling the strings behind every major event is no doubt very exciting for conspiracy theorists

Someone is a "conspiracy theorist", so whatever he finds exciting must be wrong.
No, but BASIC would make a better gateway drug to more powerful languages if it allowed kids to get exposed to those things.
Upvote for the title and for not making a "cache me if you can" joke.
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You can now use cloudbase.io to host the data of your Windows 8 Applications.
There are a bunch of existing tools that use the underlying architecture's performance measuring capabilities to give you things like cache hits/misses and branch prediction performance; I really like oprofile (but it only runs on linux).

If you're using multiple threads, then you might have issues with false sharing, which is a bitch. Valgrind can help you there.
This is great to see. I'm working on something similar which has a few more features is focused on integrating into other brands websites or social networks.

I think this is going to be an exciting arena with a lot of market potential. The current marketplaces support a small percentage of the audience and free form platforms can let anyone crowdfund.
I don't think anyone's disputing the quality of the products, Idea's ItelliJ, Microsoft's Visual Studio, ST2 - they're all quality software.

I just wanted to pick a bone with something you said though:

>> Some times there are benefits to having a small closed source, private paid team of professionals writing software

This is a comment about development methodology - the Cathedral and the Bazaar. Take out the words "closed source" (e.g. think Chromium browser) which have no baring on your statement, and then i agree.
I works, but I guess that some tweaks would make it better, like add Behave (http://jakiestfu.github.com/Behave.js/) to make easier to indent the code and a real time error console.
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Very interesting. From the specs it seems like a hefty step up from the cheap dealextreme DVB stick.
I guess that, according to the efficient market hypothesis[1], you can expect the price of bitcoins in other currencies to be the same as the price in dollars adjusted by that currency exchange rate. Otherwise easy profit would be possible through arbitrage, and after some people took advantage of the price difference to make some money the prices would stabilize
at a point where profitable arbitrage would not be possible anymore.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
I really disagree with the classification of depression as a mental illness... it's such a crude way to talk about what is really a spiritual and intellectual problem.
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Please read this, then come back and tell me that Australia's visa system is sane: http://gyrovague.com/2012/08/10/notarizing-your-fingerprints...
Tax dept. employee creates online game to vent his frustration with taxpayers
here is harold-prokop's oldish thesis on the subject: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/Prokop99.pdf

edit: also, i guess, it never hurts to plug drepper's most excellent paper: "What every programmer should know about memory ?"
What's stopping you from using VS with PTVS?
http://pytools.codeplex.com/

I am a heavy-duty user of both PyCharm/PhpStorm and VS myself.
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We're getting into the speculation game again. I don't think this is healthy for Bitcoin. Let Bitcoin grow at its own pace instead of promoting articles that say Bitcoin is now at $18..and now at $20..and now at $24.

If you keep doing that, it will crash again, at least down to $15.
This essay is making a logical fallacy. The implicit assumption is that if a person is in a state which falls under the category "illness" they deserve sympathy, while they might otherwise not.

Unfortunately, the essay does not define it's terms, nor does address why depression specifically deserves sympathy. Near as I can tell, it's just an application of the noncentral fallacy.

Overall, a pretty terrible essay.

More on the noncentral fallacy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world

Noncentral fallacy specifically applied to medical conditions: http://lesswrong.com/domain/lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_th...
JVM ecosystem may be ahead of .net, but on the language front Java doesn't hold a candle against C#.
The main problems with working in IT in NZ are that there aren't many jobs, and the pay is much lower than in Australia. And since Kiwis and Aussies have reciprocal working rights, there are a whole lot of Kiwi IT people who've moved to Australia.
I think if you go along that line of argumentation, it would be nice to link to actual articles and studies, rather than the homepage of some organization. Otherwise it is just a "call to authority", and we know those were never wrong in the course of history, right?

For starters, what do they even measure to estimate effectiveness? Suicide rates? Happyness induced from a questionaire? Brainwaves? Hormone levels?

What does effective even mean? Does it mean the patient did not induce further costs for the health industry? It could mean all sorts of things. For example chaining a patient to a bed could also be very effective in preventing suicide. So if you measure "suicides prevented", perhaps chaining people to beds is the best course of action?
Reviewing the account's comment history, funny to see "teflonhook" has been chattering away for a year without noticing the hellban.
Who knows.) In addition to taking a few Psychology courses, including one of Drugs and brain, I happen to be from a Russian working class, which means I saw so much shit you probably never seen even in movies.) Uninformed, come on.
Also you can run Weka from the command line http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
For most people, it doesn't solve a pain point they have. This type of social network, for most people, is simply just nice to have, but not worth paying for.

For some people, it's exactly what they need and solves their pain (or at least would if there are sufficient number of other users). But there's not enough of them, and the low number of such users isn't enough to sustain a commercial company or a social community.
I find this one more useful: http://mtgoxlive.com/orders
Depression has many aspects but one of the most important is a chemical imbalance in the brain.

If this is the case, there should be a chemical test to determine whether a person suffers from it. Does such a test exist? I'm unaware of it, but I'd love to read more.

(I'm not asking if it's clinically usable, but merely whether the specific chemicals and levels are known. If they are not known, then "chemical imbalance" is merely a hypothesis.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9189192...

google is useful for this kind of thing: https://www.google.cl/search?q=anonymous+target+china
They used to have a "White Australia" policy until late 60s. (Basically yes, we want immigration in order to populate our country, but we only want white people). Since then they have stopped having racist immigration policies, so they have just reduced all immigration.

It's all about keeping one type of immigrants out.
Property values in Australia declined by 4.5% last year. Forecasts are for around 5% growth this year in my city (Brisbane), but continued declining prices in Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide.

Huge real estate boom fizzled at the end of '09 / early 2010.
Netflix, along with Google and Microsoft, are working on a specification to enable playback of encrypted and protected content. I'd imagine this is what they're hoping will come about to work around the anti-flash/silverlight/java technologies: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
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It's document-generation versus API writing, as I see it.
it may not be a big problem at present, as there is a huge real estate boom in Australia

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! A property boom has wrecked several countries. Australia could be hit by that.
> the method for reliably fooling a good sniffer dog has yet to be devised

It is indeed surprisingly hard to make an airtight container. A ziploc bag doesn't work. Even setting your drugs in a block of concrete does not work. What does work is enclosing that block with a layer of melted lead and letting that cool down. Of course that might be suspicious in other ways (and expensive).
Each to their own, and Graham's writing style kind of rubs me the wrong way, but Ayahuasca changed everything for me. Inexpressible gratitude. 'Nuff said.
Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For IE
Just wait till the property market collapses, like in other countries. Prices for skilled tradespeople will fall.
There's 22 million people in Australia, don't assume a few idiots reflect the entire country. Neither my wife nor I were born here, but as parents with a mixed-race kid and experience of living on four continents, we haven't found a better place to bring him up yet.
Yea it make sense to get feedback/ideas from user first. Thanks. Sorry, what you mean with "only scratch the surface about the marketplace"?
What about security? How do you authenticate users?
I live in the states, though admittedly not in a major city. (Tucson, AZ) It's $56/month + taxes for comparable and $42+taxes minimum, both with softcaps. I imagine that for many parts of the country outside of top 50 cities, the price of internet is the same.
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That guy has

- moved all over the world
- applied for a visa while inside the country in question
- some expectation that having an employer vouch for him means anything
- most of his trouble with getting a COC out of Singapore

Oz basically want to know you have skills, education and no criminal record. They ask you to go to some length to prove this. I really don't see a problem with this. As I say, they are in the unusual situation that they are swamped with applicants from all over the world, they can afford to be picky, and in fact need to be.
Can you not see that there is a huge difference between "questioning the effectiveness of psychiatry" and "blaming psychiatry for the holocaust"?

I'm more than happy to ignore people who use the propaganda from a cult where anything from psychiatry is ignored.
Speculation is a part of the free market :)
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Wow, did they give him no media training!?!
>no matter what it says there are many people who love you

I hear this platitude all the time and I don't think that it's constructive. Disconnectedness and depression go hand in hand, in my experience. You may be blessed to have many people who love you, but a decent portion of the human population objectively doesn't, and can recognize it. So saying such a thing to a depressed person seems to run a high risk of rubbing their loneliness in their face.
Yup, this is the best option if you can swing it -- the problem is that you need to find an employer to sponsor you, which is a significant hassle and expense for them.
Comp Sci becomes 'fourth science' in English Baccalaureate
Yes, that policy from 50 years ago sure is good evidence that they have a racist immigration policy today!
About modern.IE
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Crypto collisions cause denial of service in major hashes
A $277 million navigational error
> Sorry for getting so personal, but I simply can't take any of the comments that say "just get over it." Depression is as real and as disabling as being paralyzed; it may not happen to everyone, but to say things like, "You need to be stronger" are no more appropriate to the depressed than they are to the paralyzed.

The difference is that it is not always possible to talk someone out of paralysis, but I'd like to think it is possible to talk some people out of depression. So I'd prefer to think of calls to "be stronger" as an attempt at remedying someone's health problems, and not a judgement on their character.

I'll back right off claiming that "be stronger" is an effective remedy, of course.

In terms of arguing for a more sensitive language, there is a call (citation needed) to avoid the phrase "commit suicide" which implies that suicide is still a crime that one "commits."
There is also point, cross-cultural. Most Asian cultures which are build around communities, instead of individualistic competition have orders of magnitude less such "deceases", which means it is learned behavior, reaction to the environment, which means it could be altered by changing the habits. And environment, is, of course, a product of actions of each individual member.
And gets fired: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5144419
Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? (Video)
It does: I transitioned from 457 to permanent residence (ENS 856) without paying ACS a cent.
The Most Coddled Automotive Battery Ever?
So, their plan is to obliterate all other retailers (I guess online and otherwise) and then to jack up prices?

Probably not. Historically, this has rarely worked. Once they jack up their prices, it isn't that hard for competitors to sprout up.

Amazon will have to follow the walmart model - obliterate all other retailers and keep prices low forever.
I prefer FUSE[0], the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator.

Not to be confused with FUSE, Filesystem in USErspace. The author of FUSE knew the author of FUSE and is the creator of Spectemu[1].

[0] http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/

[1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=F....
How so? When you have an LLC and you buy a laptop for work -- isn't that investing money in yourself?
[US Navy Rear Adm. Jonathan] White's message states, "initial review of navigation data indicates an error in the location of Tubbataha Reef" on the digital map.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=71553
> it would be nice to link to actual articles and studies, rather than the homepage of some organization.

These organisations link to their papers, and to the original studies.

> What does effective even mean? Does it mean the patient did not induce further costs for the health industry? It could mean all sorts of things. For example chaining a patient to a bed could also be very effective in preventing suicide. So if you measure "suicides prevented", perhaps chaining people to beds is the best course of action?

I knew many questions would be asked, but I didn't know what those questions would be. Rather than try to predict which questions would be asked I just link to the home pages so that you can do your own research.

After all, if you're sceptical (not a bad thing) of me you should assume that I'll cherry pick the research that I show you.
This is undoubtedly true. For complex documents, and those specifically for print publication, MSOffice is light years ahead of GDocs, and probably always will be.

However, my feeling is that this is a relatively small proportion of the MSOffice market (I'd love to see figures on how many word docs have embedded spreadsheets in, for example). For straightforward business docs, GDocs is almost as good, and has a couple of absolutely killer features. Firstly, collaborative real-time editing (e.g. during a conf call) is fantastic.

Secondly, and most importantly, no files to copy, backup, lose, mis-version, etc - just an URL. This is a totally killer feature: once non-techies grok that they never have to mess around with files, just point their browser at an URL, they (IME) love it, and don't want to go back.
IPad mini WIFI issue continued
Tor Metrics estimates around 5000 users within Australia, which means that there's probably a very good chance that he is not the only Tor user in his area.

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...
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These are all great points. If you do go this route, I'd spend a bit of time on figuring out the proper way to handle the actual exchange of money from escrow to product holder to avoid scam artists.
Direct link for the UK (not sure it's accessible elsewhere): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014f43k

--

My embarrassment at this humiliating performance is only mitigated by a slight pride in the BBC presenters not letting him off with it.
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Breaking into someone's network is quite a nasty offence in itself. In Australia (where the story is from), that's hundreds of thousands in fines and jail time.
There isn't a central clearing house at the moment. But the conventions is to use a tool called "rebar" and you simply add a dependency in your rebar.conf like

{cowboy, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/extend/cowboy.git", "master"}}

and then it will use cowboy's rebar.conf to download what it requires, in this case ranch. So, you can just link to the top level library you care about it most cases and let rebar deal with it.
What a great news for our free civilization.

Drug free society ruled by iron fist!
Good point - but in practise, don't people usually pass references or pointers?

[I have no idea - its been 17+ years since I last did much C++]
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I didn't downvote you.

> Go for CBT and you'll find it largely amounts to filling out forms on your mental state with tickboxes that don't really apply to you, while somebody tries to find out ways that your thinking is twisted.

This is a poor version of CBT. Any practitioner providing CBT like this is doing it wrong.

CBT is not about telling you that you are wrong or that your thinking is twisted. CBT is about exploring with you what your thinking is; what's happening to you with those thoughts; how strongly you feel those thoughts and emotions. CBT is about helping you understand why you feel the things that you feel, and why you think the things you think.

There can be a bit of writing when you begin - some people find it useful to have the process down in a concrete form. There doesn't have to be writing. And checking boxes is not a good approach.

Medication works for some people. But the serotonin hypothesis is controversial.

> Do you want to medicate the hell out of the high-functioning, positive guy that wants to change the world

(I didn't view the YouTube)

Medication can have side effects, and sometimes they're not very nice. But most SSRIs don't have the kind of effects that people would describe as "medicate the hell out of".
Why does site speed affect SEO?
I'm always annoyed if a pdf link is served as "Content-Disposition: attachment" and Evince launches. The launch of the separate pdf reader app interrupts the normal flow of navigation, otherwise Chrome's PDF reader or Firefox pdfjs would handle it just like any other webpage. Those don't cause any perceptible pauses either.

As for the Adobe Reader, I can't imagine why anyone would even want to have that installed...?
Or Darwin.
I listened to this, and watched him on BBC Breakfast. It was as painful as the article implies, and it is clear that he had barely even prepared for his interview outside of preparing a few lines of bullshit to spout about "the Blackberry experience". He was torn to spreads by several interviewers in a fairly casual setting, and although I'm sure he's fairly competent at his job he offered no optimism ahead of their product launch.

EDIT: Shreds, not spreads. Never comment on an empty stomach.
Wow, this is a new low. Even for BlackBerry.
I wouldn't warn people. As long as, when the marketplace, arrives it is something your existing userbase can "ignore" (if they wish) then they shouldn't need a warning.

I guess it depends on if the marketplace is a "value-add" to your existing userbase or a detriment.
Broadcasting their state to what? All the other nodes? So each "microserver" would still need to handle thousands of connections and data for every player?
Sure, but it shows the UK government has no problem jailing UK parliamentarians.

The British government would hardly protest British laws being applied to British citizens!

(Maybe you're thinking about some sort of separation of powers? Google suggests this isn't the case: British MPs can can be arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison, all while still in office. Apparently if the conviction is longer than 12 months, they are automatically (?) expelled from parliament.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8355298/Nick-Clegg-voters-sh...
Thank goodness for that. Countless hours have been lost debating how best to implement this pointless law, and the amount of business lost due to unsightly and confusing consent banners must have been huge.
I avoid the term "commit suicide" because of the link to sins and crime. People attempt suicide, or they complete suicide.

> but I'd like to think it is possible to talk some people out of depression.

Here's the thing: It is possible to talk someone out of depression. But that talk is a carefully crafted therapeutic talk, applied by an experienced trained therapist.

Talking to someone without knowing what you're doing probably isn't going to be a long term help. And it might even be harmful.
Well at least they realised they were being a bit thick; they could have just kept on blindly enforcing it. I think it really hit home when they lost a serious percentage of their analytics data.