skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your Python program is incomprehensible to me, probably due to the lack of meaningful variable names and double modulo:

for a in range(2,22):
total = 0
for b in range(2,25):
for c in range(1,1000):
cc = c + start_value
if(a % ((cc % b)+1) == 0):
total += 1

In any case, my point was about the specific simulation on the web page you linked to. See above for my suggestion about how to change the starting offset in the original simulation, which clearly shows that the effect is reversed for different offsets.

Response to this edit:

> Wait, hold on. The problem is not with the theory, it's with your code. You're requiring a match between two values n and n+1 at once. That undermines the basic idea. To make your code work and imitate nature, you would need to take separate sums for n and n+1, not together as in your example, just as though there were two organisms, each trying to match up with the cicada's reproductive cycle. BTW my Python program sums values with an arbitrary change of starting point, but separately. Your code above has an obvious bug.

I am just setting the starting offset (not the starting year as I think you are doing in the Python program) between the cicada and the predators to something other than zero. Lets assume as an example that the cicada cycle is 4 years and the predator cycle is 3 years. At simulation year 0, there can be a variety of situations: at this year the cicada are mating, the next year the cicada are mating, in 2 years the cicada are mating, or in 3 years the cicada are mating. The same goes for the predators: at simulation year 0, the predators are coming, or the next year the predators are coming, or in 2 years the predators are coming. A proper simulation would consider all these possibilities. Your simulation arbitrarily assumes that at simulation year 0 both the cicada are mating and the predators are coming, i.e. the offset between the cicada mating year and the predator arrival year is 0 at the start of the simulation. By increasing the cicada cycle year by a fixed number, I am changing this arbitrary assumption to a different number of years to show that this assumption has a large effect on the outcome of the simulation. So while the change is minimal and perhaps not the most readable way to introduce this offset, the change I made does not introduce a bug.

> Well, I certainly got that wrong. I assumed without evidence that you were one of those who bridles at the thought of someone criticizing psychology.

No, I even think the problem is more widespread than psychology alone (though in psychology it is particularly severe), having seen first hand and heard second hand how science is conducted in other areas (especially those close to psychology).
Sharing something beautiful you did will always be a need. I am talking about serial, massive sharing. Every share is the same. All the food pictures on Instagram, all the places at the beach on Foursquare are shared mostly to brag.

When there were no smartphones, people went to concerts and enjoyed them, now everyone is pointing up their phones taking videos or pictures. How much time will it take before people realize it's better to enjoy the concert instead of streaming their lives constantly?
Yep thats also already on our roadmap!
Announcing the Ubuntu App Design Guides
Glad I am not the only one with a dirty mind. I like the technique described though we've all hit these issues making favicons.
Patent trolling is exactly that - protection racket. It's a shame that the judicial / legal system is so broken that it can't apply the existing laws to smash these racketeers for good.
While the economy improves, try not to bring yourself down
Does the Knight Foundation not make a habit of giving its speakers such staggering sums? If not, this is mysterious, and it would lead me to suspect he was being paid for something besides the speech. Were any decision-makers at Knight involved with any of Lehrer's discredited work?

If the Knight Foundation does regularly pay speakers this much, then I agree with those who say that the bulk of this fee should go to some agreeable charity.
Here's a neat trick to help you find ANY email address contact in 2 minutes.
Thanks! Would love to talk to you about this further. Can you drop us a line at hello@cloud66.com please?
The Knight foundation paid him $20k to give that speech.
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Fun with AngularJS & Cornice
So earlier I said that making another rendering engine would be a 5-7+ project. How about taking WebKit, forking it and making it highly parallelizable, piece by piece? Is that even possible, or is a big rewrite from scratch with parallelism in mind the only way to go?
As a thought experiment: In a world with a marginally better safety net, would we really see cures for cancer or would we just see more Pinterest for X or Facebook for X start-ups?

Probably cures for cancer. The thing is, Pinterest for X is a quicker path to money than becoming a biomedical engineer and making Yet Another Incremental Contribution Towards Treating and Curing Cancer. So a culture that focuses more on acquiring money over other values will have more crappy start-ups and less scientific advancement. A culture that diverts some effort away from financial gain towards humane safety nets or research is going to see more research and more risk-taking.

Without the fear of failure, whats to stop one from making improperly weighed decisions?

Why do you think you know the proper weights for decisions a priori? Ha, and I bet you're American, too. Founded on opportunity and experimentation, now one of the countries where everything has to follow a Grand Plan for Success.

Real life is an experiment-in-progress, not a Grand Plan. Attempting to instill fear in the populace so as to encourage Grand Planning doesn't actually help anything.
If you want to stay competitive, you'll probably need to drop your fee down to 1% to match https://spacebox.io/ (which is powered by Stripe)
It seems unlikely that a Chromebook would have a gigabit link within Google's datacenters.
wow, you know you are killing tens of thousands of designers right? HOW DO U SLEEP AT NIGHT??

Good Job Btw
Free DDoS protection is not a part of CloudFlare's business model -- plans [0]. A free CDN comes with caveats, like not receiving fast support, an SLA, etc... to name a few things the OP expected. There's no doubt CloudFlare lost a potential customer, but we just as well may not have all the details and shouldn't try running CloudFlare from our armchairs.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
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While this is a valid point. I assume you are probably violating the ToS laid out by your ISP. In general a "home" or "personal" account is not allowed to run a webserver. There is usually strict language in the ToS regarding this.

Can anybody comment on whether or not this any different with Google Fiber? Are they fine with you running whatever you want on that connection?
Omega Sells Apple Stake, Buys Facebook, SandRidge Energy Shares
Great job, the UI looks really slick, Ubuntu is working on something similar (deploying development stacks to any cloud):

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/11/16/deploying-your-rails-a...

Do you guys have any plans to support OpenStack clouds?
Sounds great. The problem with dropping in via shell is that, launching servers become much problematic. I think if you can run custom chef/puppet scripts, that will solve this issue.
How to report allegations of scientific misconduct
I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.
I could not even get as far to wonder what he was apologizing for. The type face is just too horrible to read.
I stand to this quote, Joe Armstrong has no documented OO experience (OO development for some years, development of an OO language etc.) and is quoted as an expert on the topic of classes. None of the people who have voted down all my comments have shown any experience in OO/classes development of Joe Armstrong. Joe Armstrong admitted to bash OO in a blog post ("silly" see quote above) to stir up people.

[Edit] It's the same when people quote Linus on GUIs. He might be an excellent kernel hacker, with a great understanding of large scale open source development, but his opinion on GUI is as good as everyone else. Or how people quote Wozniak on everything. This is not science but a guru cult. I'm proposing that we move our industry to facts and experiments and end the pop culture and guru cults. I'm not with Raganwald that we should embrace this pop culture. This is the reason that I vehemently disagree when people cite Joe Armstrong as an expert on classes or when Joe Armstrong tries to stir up people my bashing OO.
Ahh, thanks. :)
They claim that other customers were affected, so they stopped handling requests.

The process would have been automatic if he was a paying customer. Because he wasn't, the company felt justified in not trying harder to bring their resources back up.
Yep, Windows can tell if it's running inside a VM. In Windows 8 you can see this in the Task Manager (Performance -> CPU). In the lower right it'll say something along the lines of:

Virtual processors: 2

Virtual machine: Yes
Hearts developer here, if anyone has any discussion.
This kind of stuff will go on, all the way down the slippery slope of craziness, until Congress acts and does the only logical thing - ban software/methodology/business process patents in their entirety. Meanwhile the patent trolls will continue to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars. (Around $20B in 2012 by the way - that last comment isn't hyperbole).
Skimming over the Wikipedia article on siestas, I get the distinct impression that napping is a global practice except in the Anglosphere. Anglo-American economic dominance, coupled with the fashionableness of caffeine drinks, have resulted in a disturbing decline in naps.
I will also plan to move some client apps to this if you support digital ocean. Would love notification on that.
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The argument was not written as "10 resumes come in, any women in those 10 are guaranteed an interview." It was "Women get interviewed no matter what."

Even if the intent means well, these types of threads are cluttered with resentment of these practices. If I knew that I was being interviewed because it was company policy to do so even if my skillset would have landed me there anyway, I'd feel weird about it.
You mean Google Docs?
Actually, I agree. I live somewhere with some (albeit kinda crappy) safety nets, and it's true: people are more likely to strike out on their own, start a political party, start a business, or just do what they freaking want with their lives in Israel than in the United States, where employment power is so concentrated that offending corporate America is a death sentence.

It's not dramatic, it's just that normal for Israelis is far more open and assertive than for Americans. Partially a cultural difference, but largely an effect of not actually being screwed for life by one bad decision.
Thanks for the comments. Juju is really cool. We are adding Rackspace support very soon. OpenStack is slightly later.
Ship first, ask questions later
I was thinking the same thing while reading. I like the overall idea put forth of giving hackers/entrepreneurs a free place to live and work on their projects, that's obviously a very generous offering and should be appreciated. It's also great that it is around other people who are doing similar things, as being in an entrepreneurial environment with lots of other entrepreneurs around can make all the difference.

However, I don't see why making it in KC and having Google Fiber makes any difference? Will I be able to do anything I previously couldn't with my 50/25 FiOS connection?
I don't know much about Mexico or China, I was merely trying to point out that Anderson has a history of sensational controversial headlines, in Wired, and now post Wired.

Mexico and China are both curious countries to study. I have not been to Mexico, but China is developing extremely quickly.
True. So do you offer lower prices for clients with higher volumes? I mean, you don't want to loose clients just as their business takes off...

In any case, I like to see competition in the this market so good luck :-)
The word "forge" seems to me an odd choice for a company that deals in finance. Three of us here independently saw negative connotations when it comes to money, security, trust, etc. but nobody else has brought it up yet so perhaps it's just us. Best of luck to them.
Very interesting article, thanks!

At 100TB/mo., pure file delivery, you'd need to be an Enterprise customer. Let me know if this works within your budget.

An interesting proposition - If we take it at face value, $3000 for 100TB works out to be $0.03 per GB. That's pretty high these days. If you are buying downmarket (which is cloudfare like traffic quality) you can get a cdn deal for maybe $0.01 on a 6 month term with these kind of levels, and somewhere around $0.005 for an xc in the us or eu no commitment. Cloudfare should be buying at substantially better rates than these (or at least, they seem to imply it - calling bandwidth free) so it's it seems they have a similar problem as many freemium models - when most of your customers aren't paying you have to really hit the ones that do.
My first request also and got the paper after an hour !
Who said, good people are rare to find :)
R3DD3V1L on Hacking Spree. Hundreds of Websites Defaced
Looks interesting.

The idea seems to be that Firebase is all the server back-end you need. I can see how that could work for many applications.

On the other hand, as applications grow I can also see how you might arrive at a point where you do want to run code on a server. Is it possible to access a Firebase database from the server-end of things?
Thanks! It's regular JS with CSS3
I think you're overstating things - the population density of the US may be 34 people per square km, but most of it is nearly uninhabited - Americans cluster into major metro areas just like their European counterparts. The density argument only makes sense if the mean is representative, which it isn't.

Much more typically you're looking at suburban feeders into urban centers. Even (in)famously suburban place like metro LA clock in at around ~200 people per square km[1], which isn't quite like the UK, but isn't far off.

The problem with American cities isn't how much space we use, it's how we use it. Meandering, twisting, turning streets present enormous transportation obstacles to anything that isn't a car, where grid-based layouts facilitate cycling and walking.

There is this curious, and somewhat crazy, notion that Europeans live all stacked up on each other in some imagined urban paradise (or hell, depending on who you ask), and Americans live in some sparsely-populated wilderness. Neither impression are true.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area
This looks awesome! I can hardly wait for Vagrant 1.1 to be released.
yup! http://vimeo.com/54524424
Wow.

Imagine the origin server would have been Amazon S3. The webmaster would have incurred an Amazon bill of $400 USD per day after the switch.
Ask HN: Is it just me or is HN slow when we're logged in?
When I'm not authenticated with HN, its properties load fast. When I'm authenticated, its properties take 3 to 5 seconds to load. Does anyone else experience this?

edit: this only occurs when using https
That in a nutshell is what we want to fix. Clothing retail online and offline isn't built with the majority of guys in mind. I think there's a large, silent majority of guys who would buy clothes more often with better guidance and curation.
It's been that way for 30+ years now: Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc.
How to Work an On Call Job and Keep Your Sanity
The key is to draw bright lines between your "on" and "off" times, and manage your coworkers expectations for when you're supposed to be available.
Fair point. What can we do to make it easier for you?
Stripe is going to be a tough organization to compete with. I wish you the best of luck.
Isn't APC being integrated into PHP6? Also, now that they can see the source, the APC authors should be able to see where they can further optimise their code.

Bit of a stretch to consider it doomed, imo.
How to build a simple door system for a co-working space
Austin-based developer evangelist here..

If your wife needs a hand, don't hesitate to drop me a note. I'm happy to do a grocery run, make introductions, or whatever.
I don't understand this, Markdown is meant for writing.

Why don't you just output real markdown with something like Jekyll, Markdown Server (node) or Showdown?
Git Squash-merge Is Bad
I posted a funny even though to the point response to an interesting comment here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203967. It got 20 upvotes. So I would say it could work
We couldn't be more excited to support this here at Mobileworks. We use Premier ourselves to write a bunch of our content.

As far as I know, this is one of the first times a crowd has been embedded in a software application for the general public.
Absolutely. Our Node.JS Library[1] and REST endpoints[2] are for exactly that. So you can still keep all the benefits of Firebase (real-time data synchronization between all clients of your app) while augmenting it with server-side code specific to your needs.

[1] https://www.firebase.com/docs/nodejs-quickstart.html

[2] https://www.firebase.com/docs/rest-api.html
I didn't say they were Chrome packaged apps, but that they were like them. He even says as much:

"That's how the seeds of the webapps on the Chromium desktop, albeit originally written in HTML and running on Firefox, were planted."
Here's a rough threaded comments example made with Firebase and Knockout. I'm sure there are better ways to do this.

https://github.com/reproveme/firebase-comments
Man. I bet we're about to see a competitive battle never known in the gadget blogs before. Engadget vs Gizmodo was crazy, now Engadget / aol vs The Verge / vox is about to get insane.

The good news? Publishing should evolve faster because all the people at both sites are intensely great people.
There's a difference between theoretical and practical security, though. On Windows everyone targets Adobe's products, because everyone uses them, thus they present the biggest attack surface. So while e.g. Acrobat may be more secure in theory, in practice it's the least secure of all.

If OS X ships with a built-in PDF viewer then it probably presents the bigger attack surface, thus could be less secure than Adobe's products in that case. But as an individual (non-enterprise) user, statistically you'd still be better off with some niche third-party offering.
We do send multiple items per month on user request. Just email us at bombsquad[at]bombfell[dot]com after you sign up.
The title suggested to me that Chase had handed over the writer's assets to the writer... reading the article, it's exactly the opposite of a happy ending.

Not surprising, but alarming. More alarming, I think, is that it's not surprising.
People on comp.lang.javascript (which has its problems, and I've been away for a while) have been noting this for a while. jQuery chews far more cycles than comparable libraries with its function overloading, extra $(this) invocations and such.
Relevant: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/...
This is Tim's secret to finding anybody/everybody in the valley. What do you think, spammy, or effective?
That doesn't really address any of the articles points. You just re-worded the article.

The article was mostly moaning about communication (or lack of it). So can you talk about how these actions were communicated to the site/client?
You should always have assets at multiple banks and have lots of cash stored outside of the banking system (in a safety deposit box, at home, in car, etc).

*note: be careful about how you accumulate said cash. CTRs are generated if you withdraw too quickly.
That's certainly a valid point. We're trying to convey that you're forging a lasting online business and doing the hard work to be independent from a corporate job.

If the name turns out to be losing us business, then we'll have to address it.
Okay, so your metric is the total number of roads vs. canals? I thought we were discussing if "Venice is clogged with boats." Clogged is a density. Fewer people, more streets => not as clogged.

I pulled up a section of Harrisonburg's Main street, at some arbitrary time during the day:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=S+Main+St&daddr=N+Main...

I counted 54 cars in use in that 1.5 miles/2.4km stretch.

The main road through town is US-19. In the section where it meets S-Main to N-Main I counted another 31 cars, though I think a few of them are parked. Almost all of these are private vehicles, and I presume with 1-2 people in the car.

That's about 85 cars per 1.5 miles, and probably around 100 people using the roads.

In Venice, I started with Ponte Scalzi, by the train station. There were 45 boats in use by the Ponte de Rialto and about 81 boats in total by the time I got to the end of 1.5 miles (by Ai Leoncini). This puts the traffic density at about the same. Boats are both bigger, slower, and don't have brakes, so this isn't a great comparison, but we're using your metric.

Of these 81 boats, at least 10 were vaporetti. There's easily 4 times as many people on the Grand Canal as there are on Main St. and US-19 combined. If they each used a 1-2 person boat then the boat traffic and corresponding need to dock a boat would be that much higher.

Take a look at Harrisonburg's downtown. See how much of it is dedicated to parking? I reckon it's over 1/2 of the city center! Now, look at Venice. There's places for boats to park, but nowhere near as much space dedicated for that. That's because many people in Venice walk to work or ride the vaporetti.

I contend that the boat traffic in Venice is high. The damage from ship wakes and propellers is well known. The problem is that it's so convenient to be able to go more than 5kt, and hard to say no to the 2 million cruise ship tourists who come in ships whose wake and pollution affect the lagoon and air, when the damage is slow to become apparent.
Vibrating bracelets is an excellent idea, but I wonder if they would work for a really deep sleeper.

Back when I had a pager and was on call, I'd set it on top of a shallow pile of coins. The racket it would make and the sound of coins falling onto the (hardwood) floor was enough to wake the dead.
Ha, I just looked and it came out immediately after the last time I set up git/github on a windows machine the old-fashioned way. So it looks like my comment is probably invalid now. The next time I use git for a project I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks.
Well, there's yet another good reason to stick with local credit unions whenever possible. If they have no presence in another jurisdiction, they're unlikely to comply with any of that nonsense.
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Most Lisps do this as well.
Some people haven't even gotten that far. Ira Glass got right in front of credibility issues on his watch and it served him very well. Dan Rather, in comparison, was still sticking to the "I wasn't proven false in a court of law" defense as of last week.
I don't have that problem. Maybe you're slowbanned?
Reading this again I can see that I was ambiguous. Instead of, "How about your own motivation or performance?" I should have written "How about on your own motivation or performance?" I refuse to repeat the entire "Do you find..." clause of the immediately preceding sentence, however.

If you feel that your position is in no way different from tokenadult's, how many students have left your class for another class or another school because parents felt your teaching was in some way inadequate?
I wish they'd offer an avatar service.