skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for educational purposes, you should know that this flush in no way resembles allergic reaction. It's an important distinction because drug toxicity can often be worked around by changing the dose, etc, while true allergy is highly dangerous as it can lead to anaphylaxis.
Ailing f/x sector spotlights creaky tentpole foundation
"And the auto industry didn't fail because of the recession."

Never said it did.

"Why did we bail out General Motors but not any of the companies that used to make all the Walmart inventory that now comes from China?"

I already explained because the auto collapse came as we were staring down the barrel of a huge depression. It would have been a devastating shock to the economy to have an industry of that size collapsing suddenly added to the other problems.
So is the article just picking out a few isolated incidents and painting a completely unrealistic picture of driving in Russia?
Google should use all these dash-cam clips to train their self-driving cars how not to drive;)

One thing that escapes my understanding: people do not affraid to beat somebody to death, but they can't figure out how to break a dash-cam and destroy the evidence?
Having worked on a similar project for clojurescript (1), I've found that the main challenge to using this "array spoofing" technique widely is interop with other libraries. For example, angular.js internally has inconsistent ways of validating an object is an array, sometimes bottoming out in Object.toString and other times instanceof Array. Many libraries behave similarly, and so array.js objects will not behave as expected if handed off.

On the other hand, interop with D3.js has been ideal as it generally assumes that any non function parameter is an array, so there I"ve had more success and would expect array.js to similarly work well.

(1) https://github.com/dribnet/strokes
(disclosure, I work on Underscore)

I think this is a pretty neat approach. It would be fun to play around with a version of Underscore that implemented a version of the idea. I make take a crack at it...
One might charitably speculate that these are organizational challenges related to growing and being part of Salesforce.com. Things that were simple for a small, dynamic company can become shockingly complicated as the number of interests and priorities increases.

We might also consider the potential for a clash of cultures: Heroku has been relatively open about implementation details. Salesforce, on the other hand, has shown an extreme reluctance to share this kind of information.

I confess I can't help but wonder if the new willingness to make this kind of surreptitious change might in any way be connected to Byron Sebastian's sudden resignation last September. Is that nutty of me?

http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/heroku-loses-a-star-as-ceo-and-...
Yeah, you're right, we don't necessarily know the details, but if I were the gym owner and I felt like I was in the right, I'd stand up for myself rather than cower, close down all my Facebook pages to not face criticism, and tell everyone my site was hacked. That's really the single biggest reason I think the gym is most likely in the wrong.
With the greatest respect, unfortunately needs flash negates the 'not as useful as...' comment.
Passing it in as a string just feels dirty to me for some reason.
> That must be why there are so many homicides with other weapons in Western Europe and most of Asia.

I could never find a good response when my rational argument is met with an off-hand snark. And yet something should be said to avoid the perception that it was a valid counterpoint.

One option would be to point out that there are multiple factors at play, other differences between those countries than just gun ownership. That study after study linked in the post before show no correlation, no meaningful impact of gun ownership. That there are causes of crime that explain reality much better, like family structure.

Other would be to mock. "Sure, let's ban all the guns, jail all the blacks, and live in a crime-free utopia. Oh, and maybe nuke Detroit or New Orleans while we're at it. After all, nothing gives a better picture than a cursory glance."

I'm never satisfied with either.
In anyway this test won't tell you much, just how different systems behave to bigger load.

The local setup was quite usual: PostgreSQL 9.2, Mint 13, default conf in VirtualBox in iMac i5 12GB. (read: home computer, no tuning)

For me the result is that mostly RedShift is on par with local PostgreSQL, sometimes even winning for <5M rows. So with better PostgreSQL tuning you can probably stretch it, but not for as much as RedShift can do for REALLY big data.

Also the big deal was that RedShift scaled linearly.
It gives me a 404. Damn!
> Obviously you need to translate some of these question for modern times - it's hard to know who used most tea before WW2, but it's a fairly common statistic nowadays.

I was not aware that Edison survived past WW2... Maybe you need to review the facts a little more. FYI, generally, in the time period that this article was written, the war referred to the great war, aka WW1
Emscripten doesn't treat LLVM bitcode as a first-class target, it treats it as an intermediate target to be translated into JavaScript.

[high level language] -> [low level representation] -> [high level language] -> [low level representation] -> [execution]

This is ridiculous to aim for as your first-order target.
Big changes in Office 2013 and Office 365 test Microsoft customers' loyalty
Can you name the projects White anglo-saxon males have destroyed?
But you are three, right?

http://www.makeplans.net/about/
On David Brin's sci-fi novel "Earth" (1990) most tourists wear googles just like the google ones.
Not really no. They offered to help you solve your problem. You received a response from the CTO. One that is favorable to your position. How many other CTOs would have done that? What more did you expect from them?
But any reasonable person should be able to answer the speed of sound question. After all, the rule of thumb for estimating lightning distance is that every 5 seconds is 1 mile. Reciting a definition is no better than reciting a string of digits.
One. The rest of the Windows team virtualizes on a Mac.
Redline Campaign closing
Next up on HN : "A recent study proved that breathing will eventually kill you!".
Java is that prevalent to make it a good target, or it is full of holes making it a easy target?

Also this must be (more) very negative pr to Oracle
They also have the crucial directory ability that WebRTC doesn't describe.

"Hopefully they intend to make it federated though, rather than keeping it Facebook-only."

What part of Facebook's history suggests that they wouldn't make it tied to a Facebook account?
Suicides by other means tend to be less immediately deadly.
If something is labeled "do not drink this - poisonous" then whose fault is it that you drink it?
It feels dirty to me too, because of the possible "filter injections", similar to the SQL-injection flaws.
It's a combination of both. Java is on nearly every platform out there at this point in one form or another... and the 'Oracle' version of it is full of enough holes to drive the asteroid that just passed by earth... through.
www.dealma.com.br, a tool for being a better friend, but it is in portuguese, as I am in Brazil.
We call them “1-man startups” internally. Hence the title. =) Actual 1-person startups are an interesting topic too, for a future post.
Hardware Startups in Rust-Belt Youngstown?
You're probably right that a true free market health care system is not politically palatable, just like a true free market in any aspect of the economy is not politically palatable. That doesn't mean free markets don't work; it means they're not tried.

free markets are not meant to create a solution for problems whose success is not defined by finding the "fair price" for something

Your definition of a free market is too narrow. Free markets are applicable in any situation where there are scarce resources that need to be allocated. There may not be a "fair" price for health care, but it is certainly a scarce resource that needs to be allocated. There isn't a "fair" price for groceries, computers, etc., but the free market allocates them.
Psst, younglings. He's referring to this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice_...
'Privacy tax' creator makes his case, warns 'software is eating the world'
Right, that's the idea of FunctionBlob. It wraps a browser-internal representation of the optimized compiled code. The web code can instruct the browser to store that offline, without exposing its implementation-specific details to the web code. The web code can then, in a later session, retrieve that optimized code from storage as another FunctionBlob, which it can then convert into a Function. This is no different from just storing the asm.js source code in offline storage, except it avoids redoing the work of compiling and optimizing the source. (It'd still have to be stored in position-independent format and there might be some back-patching necessary when reloading it.)
Any ideas on which "waterhole" website was compromised?
Waiting for that post! ;)
I've heard "that's a good way to get shot" used to describe just about every activity in just about every part of every large city. Either it's not true, or I'm doing it wrong because nobody ever shoots me.
I understand the logic of my parent's statement. To rephrase my question: We have a two-party system, and we do not have a national majority vote. Therefore, in absence of other evidence, I must assume there is a low upper bound to the importance of a majority vote on our two-party system.
The only reason I still have Java installed on my OSX machine is to use a SQL Server management tool. If I were to run that in a virtualized environment by installing Parallels and running a separate instance of OSX in that virtual environment, would that completely isolate Java to that one "box" and protect the rest of my environment?
Keep that sexist crap contained on Reddit, don't spread it around here, sexist.
just pre-ordered one. I love the gal holding the phone 3 inches from her face. I see people doing that all the time and wonder how that's any more legal than just holding the phone against your face.
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This surprised me too, I would not have expected that Githubbers develop on OS X and deploy to Linux.

I would be interested to hear more about why they made that choice.
Russian highway police actually tells cops further down the road that you paid up, so you rarely get charged twice on the same stretch.
After getting denied by KickStarter, AirFrame made use of Lockitron's Selfstarter framework to launch their own crowdfunding page. Kudos to Lockitron and well done Kenu.
Microsoft really stepped up their game in the last 5-10 years, particularly with being aggressive about pushing security updates. So basically attackers are moving to other ubiquitous software with holes, e.g. Java. That's apparently also why you saw an increase of using Adobe Reader as a vector.
Unmanned Flight: The Drones Come Home
I've had similar ideas back when BlackBerry was popular with its Java-only SDK in order to port our huge C++ app, and also when Windows Phone was C#-only.

Eventually it's worked itself out, as C++ has become available everywhere.

Nevertheless, if they succeed, the same thing can be easily made for Java and C#, so we can make our C++ app ultra-portable.

It will be an absurd toolchain though.

People are so unable to communicate and adopt standards as if they were retarded.

Sophisticated solutions atop idiotic problems.

It's actually the slogan of the overall field.
They still bribe principals and teachers. It's expected you give gifts.
It would help tremendously, but I believe there have been cases of exploits allowing attackers to jump from a guest VM to a host machine.
Report: Facebook paid no income tax last year
Though there is a tradeoff in resources vs. other human concerns, I think the math is a bit more complicated. We're not only trying to guard individual human lives but the health of civilization. Just the knowledge that a major asteroid impact was imminent, with no way to address it in time, would be severely destabilizing to global society.
Pretty much, at least as long as you didn't share any folders between the host and the VM.
"The attack was injected into the site's HTML, so any engineer who visited the site and had Java enabled in their browser would have been affected," Sullivan told Ars, "regardless of how patched their machine was."

It's criminal how Oracle can release production code with so many security holes. It seems like every week there is a new new Java based exploit.
900-MPH Supersonic Ping-Pong Bazooka
That would make sense, if Heroku didn't know which were ruby requests and which weren't. But it seems like they did. If only as a set of VIPs (virtual IPs) landing on the router being tagged as 'for ruby' or 'not ruby' which could pick the appropriate routing algorithm.

Understand that keeping millisecond accurate state on 10 machines is doable, on 100 machines its hard, and on a few thousand machines? It really starts to break down. One way I've seen that done is that on ingress a request is wrapped in a message for server X which is taken out of the 'free' pool, and then when server X returns the answer back through the router it gets added back into the free pool. But the next order effect is that list insertion / removal has different sorts of behaviors, if you shift frees into the end of the list and pop them from the front (a round robin approach) you get good distribution but sometimes send things 'far' away when they could be served locally. If you push/pop things from the front you get some really hot servers and some really cold servers. Early on Google played some games which were designed to maximize the use of available network backbone bandwidth (its always oversubscribed from the server to the 'net'). Like any of the more interesting problems it starts off easy and then gets harder and harder.
Don't miss the impressive video.
But they're reported to have ~$1 million in debt right now (plus perhaps that much or more cash still in the bank). And it's possible they had another $1 million or more in debt around the time of the financing, in vendor AP or bridge loans, which the financing paid-down. And there are other expenses beyond employee overhead in growing an ecommerce brand.

They were apparently burning cash too fast but a simple ($4.7M / 28 people / 0.5 year) isn't going to give a fair estimate ("paying $300K/year") of what they were burning it on.
As a said to another commenter, this is selective bias.

Do you think a systems/application developer, who believes in those ideas, would choose to work at, or be a part of, Mozilla, given Eich's clear and verbose positions that stand entirely apart from decades of success shipping consumer applications for desktop and now mobile devices?

As someone who writes consumer applications, I want a common application platform, but I'm not going to sacrifice my tooling, work quality, or user experience to contribute to a fundamentally flawed approach, just because it's "open".
Could someone explain to me how this is a vaccine? In school we were taught inoculations boost immunity and a vaccine is a form of inoculation which works by introducing enough of a bacteria or virus to make a person build antibodies.
Honestly I don't know. Do you think it would be better? Could you explain why?
So will there be code to turn LLVM IR into asm.js stuff? That would be pretty awesome (and a nice way to make Emscripten more accessible to other languages?).
Who am I to argue with genius? Tips for Elon Musk
Does the management tool run as Java web page plugin, or as a standalone Java application? If it's the latter, just disable the Java plugin in all of your browsers and you should be safe.
Fluid UI - Mobile Prototypes for iOS, Android and Windows Apps
"Soviet Union" is hardly an answer

Sure it is. Consider: it took the Soviet Union more than 70 years to collapse. Someone who looked at the economic numbers of the Soviet Union in the 1920's, or even in the 1930's, might well have thought they were doing great. But they were trying to centrally manage something that's too complex and diverse to be centrally managed, and it caught up with them. Other countries are trying to do the same thing, and it's going to catch up with them as well. Or perhaps I should say "us" since I live in one of the countries (the US) that's doing this.
Is there always exactly one developer who has the answer to each of your questions?
this is f'n awesome
Startup Employees: Understand Your Offer
Protecting people on Facebook
It would certainly be interesting to see what Redshift returns when you do that.
The article was pretty normal for its slightly crappy coverage of science/engineering. But the potential for extreme low cost of the mono-SLAM approach is actually the news here. It's almost all software.

1) You seem to be missing the important point - the approach they are using uses ordinary cameras and a computer. This really, truly can be very, very cheap to implement, once we have the (very expensive to develop but near-free-to-deploy) software. They are trying to see how much of the driving problem can be solved without using expensive laser rangefinders, etc. Your cellphone has all the hardware needed, but is not yet fast enough to do it in real time. OK, it needs more RAM too.

2) You have the prototype vs. production cost exactly inverted. For example, the iPad is much more expensive than the component cost of a dedicated touch display, which your new car already has installed for the GPS map anyway.

3) Your car's electronic traction control system is mission critical and uses very cheap electronics and near-zero-marginal-cost software. It did not add $5000 to either the build cost or purchase price of your car.

4) When an engineer talks about cost, she is not thinking about retail price.
hi ! i am a designer .. and i really really appreciate it ! very useful ! (and better than the other tools i know !!
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Care would have to be taken to ensure that these blobs cannot be mutated via other means, or that a non-function blob can be converted to a function blob with passing through validation, otherwise it might be an attack vector, for someone to figure out the internal representation, and manipulate storage to forge one that trips up some fast-path code which makes assumptions about the input being correct.
Creating a new datatype would pretty seriously go against Underscore's implicit philosophy of being a set of functions you bring to bear on ordinary data structures. In other words, you can try, but I suspect your pull request be voted down fairly decisively.

EDIT: apparently you are the creator of Underscore. Which makes me feel sort of silly for saying at least the second part. I think the first part stands, however.
"Full employment" is a term used by economists. Usually around 5%. You're so brilliant you don't even know that. Maybe US needs more of you.
Murder or suicide?
Complete the meta description. Get an H1 tag on there that relates to the theme of the homepage. 486 links on the homepage! Yikes. Instead of putting all of those links on the homepage, link to the different categories where you can then include more links.

Also, I highly recommend the Copy Hackers books. Your main headline is too wordy and falls into the telling not showing. Learn How To Fix Any Car is an alternative option that would communicate the same message.
> In reality, that goal was achieved ;-)

This ... has not been my experience. And I write a lot of high-performance native and Java code.

> For dynamic languages, if you want decent performance, all the known techniques require JIT techniques.

Then adopt a bytecode standard so that it can be JIT'd. I don't believe that NaCL is the end of the conversation, just that Mozilla has consistently prevented the conversation from starting, and refused to participate in it unless it involves Eich's JavaScript as the baseline implementation language.
Land OdinMonkey (asm.js optimizing compiler)
This is a pretty interesting. I wonder how query performance differs between Redshift and local PostgreSQL for other types of benchmarks as well, say TPC-H queries. (And I guess how Redshift scales out as the dataset size increases in TPC-H.)
Good Customer Service Reduces Client Churn
General question...

What kind of level of drinking or drugs do you think constitutes a real problem?

I know it varies, but what is the average. I assume that one drink a month is not a problem, but where is the middle amount of alcohol do you see an issue?
I find it kind of amusing that Hacker News is better designed than Designer News.
This is great. My favorite part is that you have internal "support services" to help with design/refactoring, etc.
Are you sure you're using JSONP properly?
I would not say "Porn makes me happy"... although the wife and I do enjoy watching a bit of porn from time to time.

I would say "A world that bans porn makes me sad."
Would love to chat and help out if I can. I helped found Hack Reactor(www.hackreactor.com) and have a bunch of take-aways from the experience. Either way good luck in your learning!
What you're saying is reasonable, but I'm amused by the fact that the standard template for this discussion is NOT "it's the year of the Linux desktop, I just know it!" but rather:

"Is this the year of the Linux desktop now?"

"No, that's a cliche. But Linux is getting better and Windows is bad as ever."

"Next year will be the year of the Linux desktop!"
In Russia it's hard to say, but in the U.S. I recommend that if you operate a commercial vehicle that you install one. If you operate a business and have people driving for you, you can review the footage and get rid of the problem employees before they cost you a million in insurance losses. After installing a system for a transportation company reviews of the tapes showed that 75% of the drivers were talking on their cell phones. They had a company meeting and showed a compilation video of all the phone video, even though it was now against federal law to do so. After that point drivers stopped using the phone while driving.

As the driver the camera is a mixed blessing, if you cause the accident, you've created your own evidence against yourself. If you the owner, it makes it harder for the employee to lie about what occurred if they were in the wrong.
Exactly. It's easy to "copy" the backlink profile of a site using gimmicks such as blog comments and mass article submissions. But when a site is doing SEO right, when you look at their backlink profile you'll go "How the hell did they manage to get that link?!"

It's hard. You have to not just make amazing content, you have to know how to promote it and get the right eyeballs to see it.
Blame doesn't rest in one location only, does it?

Obviously the people drinking alcohol in liquids not meant for consumption aren't in normal rational states of mind; but yes, they're doing something really stupid. But suppose when you're "denaturing" the alcohol in your product, you have the choice to use a substance that will make it taste very bad and cause vomiting; or a substance that will make people die, or at least go blind. Which should you choose?

Next, suppose that the alcohol was stolen and resold by a bootlegger and thus has no warning (beyond the government's warnings that buying illegal alcohol is dangerous, which had already been going on for some time).
When I loaded the page, the video link wasn't working. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I...
Posterous will turn off on April 30
> Could someone explain to me how this is a vaccine?

It's a metaphor; an analogy. It might not be a very good one.