skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only pay 32€ every other month, and I have more bandwidth than I need.
It seems that I/O differs on which type you buy: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

Maybe you would have better luck finding a dedicated server/servers in Brazil.
Risk analysis isn't just about probability. It's about the cost of prevention relative to the probability of a bad outcome multiplied by the cost of a bad outcome. Parents worry about children because the cost of losing a child is ruinously high to a parent. Meanwhile, little preventative measures like not leaving them outside are cheaper than putting them in little baby Faraday cages on cloudy days. Hence why parents worry about child abduction and not lightning strikes.
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 2)
I have definitely noticed my attention span reduced over the years. I first noticed ...

<pause>

what were we talking about?
Thanks for the pull request! On it.

edit: aaand fixed. also, had to switch to google; code.jquery.com doesn't provide https :(
Note that their sub-zero is Centigrade. Without wind, -5C or 23F is generally considered a nice winter day in most snowy places.

From experience, I'd like to add that the myth of "once it's below -X it doesn't really matter" is just not true. -50F feels WAYYYY colder than -25F for example.
The discussion's been useful, though.
I register today just to say this
TL;DR: it sucks being here on visa. Even if I want to be a US-citizen and I contribute like a US-citizen, they still make sure I'm just a second-class in here.

I am a F-1 Visa Vietnamese student that recently got a pretty good offer in a big corp. I am really tired of being treated like half-resident person. While I do all of my duty (paying taxes), I never receive the benefits of being an resident.
First there was a out-of-state tuition for every public university in the US. For over 5 years in school, I've seen many of my friends run out of money because of this "premium" price we pay.

Now, some of us try to work to support our premium tuition, but we are not permitted to work outside of school. As a result, most of us would have to work illegally in some Asian restaurant, usually with under-minimal wage and no tips. I understand they stop us from getting a job to protect American. However, from what I observe, those minimal-wage jobs which could not be taken by international students will be taken by illegal immigrant anyway. So it puts the US government in a lose-lose situation: those jobs won't return to American citizen, and they lose some of the taxes. Maybe they should look at others country, such as UK (allowed to work up to 20h), or Australia(allowed to work in controlled manner)... and rethink.

The only way you can work, is to get a job in your college with minimal wage or to get an OPT. I've had a job on campus in which I design a website for dorm using bottle.py and backbone.js for... $9.5/hour. Before tax. An OPT is a program where you can work outside of your college for one year, but the job has to fit your major. I got my internship with EMC by OPT.

Now, although we do not have the benefits of being residents, we still have to do our duty while we are in here. I have to pay taxes like everyone else. I just finish doing my tax for last year. With one internship and an on-campus job, I fall in the second braket of tax, although I did pay a lot more for my education. We also do not have credit cards as no-one trusts us. I just got my frist creditcard after 6 years being here :).

Now, after 6 years of suffering, it finally pays off for me to have a offer for a big corp and be an h1-b visa. I can asure you that they pay me very competitively. However, it is still pretty damn hard to become a US-citizen from here. The process is lengthy, and sometime depends on luck. Not to mention if I want to bring my wife to the US, my wife will not be able to work at any form, not even on college campus.
>I remember the first time I interviewed for a front-end programming position and got asked how to do something in JavaScript on a white board

>how little it had to do with the actual job.

That doesn't make any sense. How is solving a problem with javascript irrelevant to the job of a front end developer? That's what they do.
I end up using F# more, as it is way easier to introduce in Windows based environments than OCaml is.
In this case, however, I don't want to use something like `git add -p` to pick the sledgehammer's good effects from the bad. That there are bad effects means the original sledgehammer was wrong. I want to fix the sledgehammer.

Yes, I could accept the good effects and then create a new sledgehammer to attempt to fix the bad effects (without affecting any good effects or any original code that just happens to look like a bad effect), but it's easier and more reliable to just roll back all of the effects, fix the original sledgehammer (tweak the regex), and reapply it to the original clean slate.
I'm no longer sure what we're arguing about. ;)
Research Questions About MOOCs
I do not mean specifically the US.

And Sweden is NOT diverse as US, Sweden has as the "biggest minority" the Finnish (that are not that different from Swedes), any other population is very small except on some specific cities.

US has a great population of people from several backgrounds.

Also the same is in my country (Brazil).

Here, I see people being much more lax with their security when everyone near them are of the same ethnic background, be it white, black, native american, whatever.

It is just that everyone is born to not trust strangers, foreigners, etc... And "race" is a very quick way to assess that.

Not that I think we should go hating each other or anything like that, but it is how it works, and it is very visible, the more mixed a place is, the less people trust each other, with some specific exceptions (ie: places that are truly cosmopolitan like Universities or some workplace cities).
Thats a much better idea than a railway no one cares about to birmingham
The point is that laws are such that they encourage you to leave the country after you've been educated and gotten good work experience. Which is crazy. You'd imagine there should be an easier way to become a permanent resident after you worked in a country for a while.
The way is Scheme -> Common Lisp -> Arc.

Scheme comes first because it is more refined and there are excellent courses and books.

CS61A probably the best introductory course. After that it is good to watch original SICP lectures by the two magicians and read the book. Then it is necessary to take a look at what HtDP team is teaching.

After this there will be no trouble with Common Lisp. Classic books are these by pg and Norvig. CLtL is just a reference.

Then, with all the knowledge so far one could understand arc.arc and appreciate what have been done there.)

With this background you will understand what Clojure really is and why, or what is Haskell, and why there is nothing special in it.

btw, there is a brilliant course by Dan Grossman on coursera covering FP. He is very clever and consistent. After this you will smile at Haskell guys.)

Update:

I forgot Emacs Lisp. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp is an excellent book that covers all the basic principles and gives a perspective how to use lisp in a real-world project.)
I have never understood the focus on speed as a selling point for Node. It may well be very fast, but it seems to me that the primary selling points would be the ability to share code between client and server and that you can start coding server side without learning a new language if all you know is JavaScript.
To clarify, you don't need to implement a hashing algorithm for this question. (Using hashCode() suffices). And you don't even have to implement a hash table. As I mentioned, a working linked list of key/values would probably be an above average answer, if it came with the understanding of the big-O performance characteristics.
Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible
Can most of this be accomplished more easily by using OpenDNS?
I just wish they were up to date and all worked. goatse.cx hasn't been a shock site for ages.
This is great. My whole life landing on Mars has been perpetually in the closer and closer future.

The Russians talked about 20-25 year plans in the 50s and 60s.

When I was a kid, in the 80s, they talked about Mars in 15-20 year plans.

199x: 10-15.

200x: 5-10.

Now: 5.

The ambitious goals gradually decrease in time estimates and then one day, it actually happens.

Do I expect Mars in 2018? no. By 2030? sure. That's fine by me.

Imagine: Living humans landing on Another Planet; one that is but a dot in the sky to the human eye.

They'll get out of a space craft and set foot upon the /Surface of Mars/. We will be The Aliens.

On that day, we will assume the next step of being the intelligent life that we always hoped for; coming in from outer space, out of the sky, like a Greek God descending from Mount Olympus.

We'll need to dream a new future; this one will be in the past.

Be patient. Be part of it.
> A programming puzzle is simply the intersection of a work-sample test and an IQ test.

No: a programming puzzle is the intersection of a work-sample test with one question from an IQ test. IQ tests get a good handle on your intelligence by testing you over a wide range of near-trivial questions, each known to similarly measure intelligence, and then adding the scores up. By giving you so many opportunities to succeed or fail, they don't fall victim to the "I just couldn't figure this one out" problem. Whereas programming puzzles do that all the time.

Now, if your interview consisted of 200 programming puzzles, each of which should take roughly 20 seconds to solve, then you could say it's getting a fair handle on someone's IQ as measured through the lens of programming. But throwing two 10-minute puzzles into the interview does nothing to help you measure anything. The "scores" you get are black-and-white threshold filters on a set of numbers (IQ) that are almost totally middle-grey.
Google Glass and the Segway Paradox
Yes, that is definitely an issue. On the flip side having Wordpress run on Postgres and a Read only filesystem mitigates some security issues.
Author here. Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues.

This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests from some really talented developers; rpflorence, phuu, and everyone else with issues and pull requests. This is what makes open source so cool. https://github.com/ajacksified/song-of-github/contributors

Also, Midi.js is really fun to play with. http://mudcu.be/midi-js/

Obligatory song link: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ajacksified
You could use a little copter as the snitch.
Fair enough. It's OK I asked only out of general curiosity and to compare my own experience with yours.
>goatse.cx

It's actually an email service now. hello.jpg is gone.
The scale of the market is so huge that you would have to believe that the entire finance industry is composed of idiots for that to be true. These securities are not rocket science. They were sub prime mortgages that had a certain historical default rate. People ignored those rates all over the place and levered up. That is not fraud. That is greed.

Did fraud make it worse? Probably, but you can debate how much since people were willingly taking these risks anyway. We all knew it would end, and that it might end dramatically. But we didn't know how or when that would happen, or how bad it could get.
MLbase: Scalable Machine-learning made accessible
Routing to 127.0.0.1 is dumb for this reason, especially since you may be running something on port 80.
I suspect you haven't worked out the feasibility of large-scale desalinization for food crops in the US. It doesn't seem economically reasonable, at least not until food is an order of magnitude more expensive than now.

We pull out ~30 cubic km of water from the Ogallala Aquifer per year. Let's estimate how much power is needed to replace this with seawater.

At 2780 J/liter, this requires about 3 gigawatts, assuming perfect efficiency. Realistically it's more like 15 GW. Okay, that's doable. The US generates about 1TW of electric power, so 1% would go to desalinization.

Next, you need to pump it to the midwest. The second Los Angeles Aqueduct cost $90 million in 1965 dollars to carry water 137 miles. That's about $500 million in 2013 dollars. The entire Aqueduct transports about 0.4 cubic kilometers of water per year. You'll need about 10x the length to get from the Gulf to the aquifer, and 8x the volume. You'll also need a distribution network, which is likely another 4x to the cost, and you'll need to pump it uphill, which means there's more expensive upkeep.

This sets a low estimate of 300*$5 billion = $1.50 trillion in construction costs, and that's deliberately low-balling the estimate. The Ogallala produces about $20 billion in agriculture each year. I don't think it's financially reasonable.

Also, where do you dump the brine with all of the salt that you've extracted? Back into the Gulf? That's going to seriously affect the marine life. Or do you fully dry out the salt and use it in place of salt mining? I calculate this as 1 gigaton of salt/year, or about 5x the current world production of salt.

Even with free power, it doesn't seem that desalinization could replace the supply that we currently get from the Ogallala Aquifer. At least, not without having much higher food prices.

Instead, you'll have to relocate farming to some place closer to the sea which is also water restricted. In the US, this is ... where? More of the Central Valley? Where is the Nebraska-sized chunk of land by the coast that lacks only water in order to flourish?

Or we import more food from Australia, which seems the prime candidate for this approach.
Given that the vast majority of people on Federal charges don't commit suicide, including persons facing much stricter punishments than Aaron Swartz, I'd be interested in hearing why a mental illness of some sort would not be the primary suspect.

The motel owner fighting against Ortiz to keep his property out of the hands of the Feds didn't kill himself. Did Ortiz just screw up her methods when she failed to drive him to suicide?
> I think this is due to the go runtime allocating an OS thread for each goro as it goes through the socket close() blocking call. I think it has to do this to maintain concurrency

I highly doubt that it is creating a thread per goro on client disconnect. If you have a minimalish example of this, the golang mailing list would be very interested in working with you to identify what went wrong and create a patch if it is an issue with the Go implementation.
They play the political game ...

Unfortunately, this happens far too often. However, I have completely bombed on "difficult interview questions" and "code to be written" - merely due to the pressures felt in the interview(s).

As said elsewhere, identifying the "fakers" is extremely difficult - perhaps that's why people who were referred tend[0] to be more successful? (But how do people outside get in?)

[0] Merely a guesstimate based on casual observations.
If you use the hosts file, your browser doesn't need to wait to make the DNS request to OpenDNS, since it already has the loopback/null route in hosts.
>I saw it too, and thought it was decent. It failed because of the title.

It failed because it was "decent" rather than "great" and it cost too much to make to not be great and attract enormous numbers of theater goers. That's half the problem: They place these huge bets on single films and then if one of them doesn't work out they're in big trouble and you see everyone whining and crying about it. They need to learn to make a larger number of smaller bets that each have a higher risk individually but a lower risk collectively, because then a single failure doesn't cost you a hundred million dollars.
It seems so.

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4056

An interesting point raised there is that if they instead used a limited thread pool for all goroutines to share when making OS calls you could produce deadlocks.
Do you have some stats to back that up? What is the non white population in Norway? The cia worldbook seems to say it is over 94%: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
When you say there is nothing special in it, do you mean Clojure or Haskell?
Why would you want to block search engines and other crawlers?
Google goes all 'Logan's Run' on Motorola brainiacs
Little ones with a small amount of thermite could fly into the gun barrels of main battle tanks.
Apple's Innovation Problem
If they actually, honestly didn't want their inane spam posted on HN, they could easily achieve that simply by returning a non-response or redirect or error for any requests with a HN referer header. They do not do that because they actually do want to continue getting traffic from the inexplicable portion of HN that insists on posting their crap all the time.
>Some fractions of web pages are all sort of ridiculous Javascript and seriously slow down my machine.

Yes there are exceptions, but not enough to plausibly make use of more than eight cores. The returns are usually diminishing at even four cores.

>And I, personally, do flip pages at a significant rate.

More than two or three times per second? Because that's what it would take.
While this looks great, isn't there a fundamental issue that the test tablets were running different OSes? For instance, Microsoft's x86 code might have a decade more tuning done to it versus their ARM code.
Eliminate those other choices. Using only black Helvetica Neue font, design a menu bar.
Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent
It seems like there are two issues. The first, addressed by BBS's was small communities have self enforced norms. This went away when forums were open to the internet. How do we recapture small communities?

The second is the idea of a long form discussion. I don't think BBS's and forums were ever about this. Actually, have we ever had a solution to this? Where can someone write a long, thoughtful piece of prose and have long thoughtful answers delivered back in the same place? Even blog comments tend to be disorganized, devolve, and get side tracked.
The modern decimal numbering system was invented in India. Without it we'd be using Roman numerals. What we call "Arabic numerals" is called "Indian numerals" in Arabic countries because that's where the Arabs got it from!
If I were to bet, I'd place my money on Clojure as the 100 year language. It is as unbound by hardware in regard to cross platform development as any other likely candidate, it has good access to libraries meeting contemporary expectations, and is likely to continue to have access to new libraries written to meet future expectations - all due to its interaction with the JVM (and .NET).

Of course I am adopting PG's premise that the 100 year language is a LISP while ignoring his premise that it is not a bit kludged up by practical considerations (i.e. the ugliness of its dependence on the JVM).

(/edit) Clojure also has an evangelist in Rich Hickey whom people seem to respect independently of Clojure.
Does anyone ever wonder if evolutionists are like people that want websites like Amazon for $1000 [1]?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222581
On the front page just yesterday,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256808

(submitted with the canonical URL that time, which is preferred).
The mainstream always lags behind significantly in every aspect of life. If everyone's using it, then you have little competitive advantage using the technology.

Go would be one of the first things I'd reach for if there's any chance server-side concurrency would be involved. The language is minimalistic and unsurprising to the extreme. A joy to program in and use.
Ask the duck (2012)
Markets work quite well but markets without any rules are often not optimal.

1) Percentage of GDP in social expenditures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Social-expenditures-2001-O... . This correlates with inequality.

2) Corporations in countries like France, Germany, Canada etc. have less relative power than in the US.

3) I don't know, I don't live in the US. But zero regulation of these industries is without question not the best amount of regulation.

As for the last sentence – I think it should be illegal to sell food that causes serious problems.
Yes, it needs constant refueling, but the rate is something like a milligram per second. A year's supply of fuel would weigh a few kilograms.
Mathematics in motion is a beautiful thing.
dawn is all you need
What a cool idea, awesome!
A Danish mother did that in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/nyregion/toddler-left-outs...
Nope.

> A 1 GW fusion plant will need about 100 Kg of deuterium and 3 tons of natural lithium to operate for a whole year, generating about 7 billion kWh.

http://fusionforenergy.europa.eu/faq/

If it's possible to proportionally scale down that plant for the sub, then it would produce 50 MW for two decades on the same fuel. A nuclear sub weighs in the neighborhood of 10,000 tons, so 4 tons for fuel seems pretty easy to manage.

Obviously, all these numbers are very rough, but it's probably within an order of magnitude.
> I don't even know the last time anybody around me ever had a problem or a show stopper problem anything to do with Big-O or an algorithm.

Either your team does horrifically easy work, or no one has told you about their abstract work. I am sorry, but even writing CRUD apps I have to think about the informatics of the system to make it work reasonably well.
"His organization's new idea is to get to Mars and back in 501 days"

Does it involve landing? Is a free return flight similar to Apollo 8 what they have in mind?
Can Nashville be the next big Tech City?
This is sweet. Good looking out.
Probably imposing the usual Google age discrimination policies on Motorola as well.
In my area, Agents charge landlords 1/2 a month's rent. Of that 1/2, (or one quarter of one months rent) goes to another agent if they bring a qualified tenant into the unit. I think 20% recurring every month is way too much, however I don't know the sources Boxyroom used. They are, however, in the business of listing rentals - so there's that.
3. But tis true I got rid of that funny sounding accent pretty fast.
If companies are hiring workers who can't do the job just because they're cheaper, they're only hurting themselves. I'd imagine it's an unsustainable strategy.

If companies are hiring workers who can do the job and are willing to do it for less than domestic workers, why is that wrong?
The best trick I learned while skiing is to do large arm circles when your fingers start getting cold. This forces blood back to your fingertips and instantly warms them back up.

Or, as you suggested, mittens.
One reading of the proposed law is that students cannot be graded on their beliefs but they can be graded on their critical thinking skills. Does that mean that a student, presented with the body of evidence supporting evolution, who fails to be convinced, thus demonstrating a lack of critical thinking skills, can be failed?
>Anything and everything can be offensive — it’s purely subjective.

Right, and Apple is exercising their right to find the app offensive. Why is this a story?
Here's a quick paste from a server of mine:

ps aux | grep api
ubuntu 15720 0.0 0.1 107024 6136 pts/0 Sl 15:13 0:00 bin/api_server
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I believe that ocean water has plenty of deuterium.