skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not for the reason you think.

Actuaries happen to be quite good an quantifying risk. If the price is right, someone will be willing to insure it. An insurer with a specialist background in systems and security could do well.

The actual problem is the implications of underwriting a fiat currency with a "real" currency.
I actually own the reverse of that domain (socialoptimal.com) which I registered a few years back for a startup that never launched. If you guys would be interested in that domain feel free to ping me.
You'd first have to offer this as a cloud service to consumers.

Once de-duplicating storage is something that is legitimately used by arms-length parties, then you can credibly make the argument that you're using "widely available technologies for data storage minimization" and have a prayer that it would get upheld.
If I understood correctly from the last time I read about "fair use", the problem is that with pleading fair use you are admitting to infringing copyright but hope it's covered by fair use and a judge agrees. I guess that would be weakening your position from the onset.
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Distance to a T station, not to downtown. Cambridge and Somerville are considerably more expensive than Roxbury generally. Within any of the neighborhoods you listed, you'll find that rent goes up as you get closer to a T station.
Good point. I prefer good original content over anything else and can live with Wikipedia design all my life.
Er, yes, I can read:

Why are Germany repatriating their gold? Why do they want it in their own hands? Why go through all that trouble instead of just selling? Why would they want to keep holding onto a "piss poor investment"?

Regarding China, the article's author believes that China has been accumulating gold. The last known official figure is from 2009 and since then imports continue to rise, which in the authors opinion, have been destined for the Central Bank.

As for Russia, they have been accumulating gold for a few years now, and it's right there in the article. "It owned 400 tonnes of gold at end of 2006... At the end of last year, the central bank held nearly 950 tonnes of gold".

If you want to dismiss gold as a "piss poor investment" that's fine, but not everyone shares your view or your investment objectives.
> That said, the entire claim which precipitated this discussion - that ADHD is somehow related to sleep deprivation - is completely preposterous.

There's quite a bit of research on the subject, and researchers don't generally consider a relationship preposterous. It's reasonably well established that sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation can at least exacerbate the symptoms of ADHD. Some research suggests that they may also be a risk factor for developing the condition in some cases, or alternately (depending on unresolved questions about etiology) that a differential diagnosis is needed to distinguish non-sleep-related ADHD from symptoms related to sleep disorders. The diagnoses do empirically seem to co-occur quite frequently, which is one factor driving the research, but the mechanisms aren't well understood.

Nature published a short review of the (very large) literature on the subject last year: J. Cassof et al., Sleep patterns and the risk for ADHD: a review, Nature 2012(4): 73-80.
Very well done and finally. WoW! God does plays dice!
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of TDD
I've known people who have had it, and were in their twenties and in excellent physical shape.
http://i.imgur.com/0PPF7Ws.png
I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision and for someone with poor mouse skills is even more difficult.
Note that DBL_DIG is the number of decimal digits that can be a 9. If the max integral value storable in a double is 4,000,000, DBL_DIG would only be 6. It is a conservative limit.
I would be more concerned about someone being able to reverse engineer the patch somehow and this leaking to those other users that way(seems unlikely).

I will be curious to know who identified the problem initially.
The premise of your objection is that copyright law is anything but a game of "i win" played by content owners (ref Adam Sandler's film Big Daddy - http://youtu.be/8HUvTp8ZcJs?t=8s)
Never mind RSS, when is PagerDuty going to support sending notifications via a truly open messaging protocol: RFC1149 datagrams?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Currently the product depends far too heavily on every engineer having some kind of electronic communication device, which is clearly unrealistic for some companies.
There's a lot worse than just your phone number. A lot of people, enough to have some twitter handles dedicated to it, post their new credit card, or their dad's credit card on their Twitter account, because they're excited about getting a credit card, or getting to use their dad's credit card.
What I learnt by talking to customers
Probably because he was able to do it extremely quickly and have something more visual to use. People sometimes like that ya know.
I don't get it. What do people mean nowdays when they talk about being a "coder"?

It seems everybody want's to build stuff before understanding the fundamentals of computing. I don't see how jumping right away to trying to build stuff for the web can make it easier for someone to learn to program. No talk about algorithms, datastructures, and so on.

I'm not dimissing this approach, I just feel like it is not the most productive in the long run. It may lead to the development of bad habits, cargo cult, and stuff like that, derived from misunderstandings of how computing works.

EDIT: as an example.. i had a friend that learned to program the way you suggested, though he lacked knowledge of basic stuff like recursion, ordering and search algorithms, and so on. He sure could get things done, but not rarely the approach used had extremely bad performance or did things like modifying data shared between threads in an unsafe maner.
Thank you submitting your review, I enjoyed it! Also it is nice to see you responding to conflicting viewpoints.
That's the "use it to buy things" which isn't utility. The laptop I'm typing on will not be worth more later. Ever. This very second is as much as it'll be worth, which is perhaps half of what I bought it for a year and a half ago. But I bought it, because I need a laptop. I fully expect it to be continually worth less, just like the couch I'm sitting on, the watch I'm wearing, the table I keep the laptop on, etc. But I put up with that because I'm using them. Bitcoins are useful for these things, but that's not utility - you don't buy a bitcoin and (supposing they dropped heavily in value year after year) shrugged and said "Oh well, I need this bitcoin for this so I'm keeping it even if I get very little in return for it in five years when I craigslist it as '1 used bitcoin, still in pretty good shape'".
SEEKING WORK - Remote, NYC, Boston

iOS developer with Ruby on Rails backend skills

Extensive experience designing and implementing APIs for mobile and web apps.

Cocos2d game dev experience.

http://dogboystudios.com
Patrick at dogboystudios dot com
The Facebook Phone and The Triumph Of Native Apps Over HTML5
Wow ... I glanced at that link, not expecting the sort of information I just saw. I feel really awkward seeing those random people's Facebook posts.

That's really uncomfortable.

With great power comes great responsibility.
I am someone who has stayed behind, and works at a startup. As a full-stack web (Rails+JS) developer I certainly haven't seen any shortage of demand. Although I would say that about 25% of the recruiting messages I receive are from US companies - often acknowledging me being Canadian and in some cases even playing off of it with message subjects like "Hate the winter? Come south" or what have you.

There are some distinct advantages to staying up here though. First, at least in Toronto, the cost of living is substantially less than that in San Francisco. To maintain my standard of living, I estimate that I would need to earn 35 - 40% more in Cali, which would be at the upper end of most salaries I've seen. Second, "standing out" career-wise is much easier when there aren't 100,000 people with a duplicate skill set.
It looks very sharp and works very well for me. Enjoying some nice tunes while I work: http://www.youfm.org/#/search/zabiela
haha I knew who you were as soon as you started plugging NYC and Palantir :)
>I became blind with nerd-rage and headed over here to cleanse myself... Ironic that it should deface Unix

Agree with him or not, all he's saying is that the code sharing involved in creating Unix was no more than regular academic sharing of ideas, and that retroactively claiming it for "open source" is spin. The article takes no issue with Unix, maybe you should read in more detail before becoming enraged?
And I didn't disagree that we dont need interfaces, more that the action (opening the fridge door) becomes the event trigger in itself.
Turning a macro defined in probably hundreds of header files into a keyword would be a very bad idea for backward compatibility. It would have been nice if C had reserved it for use as a pointer and C++ had been coded from the beginning to allow NULL to be defined to any pointer type, but that wasn't how it ended up.

But what library vendors can do now is to simply

#ifdef __cplusplus
#if /* version check for C++11 */
#undef NULL
#define NULL nullptr
#endif
#endif

And that way there's less stuff to memorize, but still requires that the code itself has to opt-in, instead of the language having to figure out what insanity NULL may have been defined to.
Oakland resident here. Why shouldn't they live in Oakland? Don't get that at all. I VASTLY prefer it to MTV, Palo Alto, San Jose, SF, etc.
If the "real you" is a douchebag nobody wants to deal with, then, yes, it is probably for the best that it is clearly laid out for the entire community that nobody wants to deal with it and you need to act better.
The Ritual of Making Coffee
This has been done before: https://github.com/madrobby/vapor.js
You are right, it would destroy your business

Uhm, in your quote, he clearly says the claim of business destruction is "without any evidence".
Washington, DC (full-time)
Senior Rails & Front-end Developer
ReelGenie www.reelgenie.com

At ReelGenie, we are revolutionizing the way stories are told and shared. We make it easy for anyone to create high-quality movies online to capture life’s most important memories. Our company is growing rapidly. We’ve been named one of DC’s hottest startups and were finalists in the prestigious SXSW Accelerator.

Our technical team strives to build the best User Experience, which combines stunning UIs and a robust backend. We have come a long way in a short period of time, but to keep up the pace we are looking for the best and brightest technical talent to join our team. If you can tackle the responsibilities below, and are open to dive in as new opportunities emerge, this role is for you.

The primary responsibilities of this role include:
* Quickly learn the architecture of the application from UI to video processing.
* Design and develop various components of the system either independently or as part of small internal groups.
* Work on distributed processing and video processing components that may require understanding tools and APIs we use.
* Prioritize the development effort and organize functionality across multiple builds. We value shipping features rapidly with varying degree of complexity.
* Bring expertise in Ruby and Rails, and be open to mentoring junior developers.
* Help team members embrace automated unit testing and continuous integration.
* Collaborate with other developers, QA team and business stakeholders to build the right thing the right way as efficiently as possible.
* Participate in Scrum meetings to keep product priorities moving forward in a planned fashion. We need people who can estimate their work and lay out different possible scenarios upfront if technical challenges are expected.
Desired Skills & Experience

We are looking for someone who:
* Has 5-10 years of experience in web technologies, with at least 3-4 years in Rails. Numbers are flexible for exceptional candidates.
* Has solid understanding of MVC pattern.
* Has experience using git, nix, heroku, postgresql, ruby gems, cloud platforms such as AWS, UJS, Javascript frameworks such as JQuery, Third party Javascript plugins, AJAX, API integration via REST or other protocols.
* Has a proven track-record of success in working in fast paced environments and delivering defect free code.
* Gets things done. If you’re not a doer, don’t apply
* Can prioritize a long list of to-dos and thrives in the unpredictable startup world.
* Is personable, outgoing, energetic, and works well with others.
* Appreciates a good story (and a good laugh).
* Is located in the Washington, DC area.

The position can be a contract-to-hire or a full-time position based on what you bring to the table. We are happy to share the URL to our private Beta site, which was launched at RootsTech and is currently open to a select community.

Apply by emailing your resume to jobs@reelgeniefilms.com
I saw Schneier debate Jonathan Zittrain and Mike McConnell on the topic of cyberwar. He was authoritative, calm, and pragmatic as he described the security and recovery systems of the Internet, and why it's unlikely that terrorists (for example) could take the whole thing down or permanently damage our banks with cyber attacks.

But as he strays more toward topics of motivation, power, and influence in his personal writing, I feel like he is getting more alarmist and shrill. It's not enough to talk about the mechanics of Internet security; now he wants to assign motivations and discuss the secret agendas of the poweful. I just feel like he is on shakier ground with respect to his technical expertise or personal experience. He's a great writer, but I'm not convinced I should privilege his vision of the future over anyone else's.
There ARE express trains, they're just not scheduled in advance (for example the b line goes express from bu east to Washington to make up for delays quite frequently).
Organization Mining using Online Social Networks
Have a landing page or someplace to signup for more info later?
Sorry, that whole bit about paying instructors is just for DevelopMentor's paid content. We review all our content and instructors to ensure high quality. We are obsessed with this problem of retention and completion.

Our partners can put whatever they want in our system. So far our partners are providing free classes to train their customers on new products and features. If a customer learns all the features in your product, it becomes stickier (hopefully).
Stop being a bully. Okay?
How would you suggest Scribophile allow their prices to fluctuate with a bitcoin's value? How should they measure the value of a bitcoin?

Setting a target price in USD is the obvious answer, but then bitcoin becomes merely a way of exchanging dollars, not a currency in its own right.
No we didn't make it as at the time they wouldn't let UK residents apply to Kickstarter.

We didn't spend money on the prototype in the end, we just couldn't get the backing, it would probably be a lot easier these days tho (it was 3/4 years ago)
The best I've found so far for low (<10,000) unit injection mold runs is Protomold.
Is that site for real?

There's only one sentence on that page and, unless there's a new term with which I'm not familiar, it has one heck of a credibility-destroying typo:

"Get our converison [sic] tips newsletter starting now:"
Ask HN: best outsourced QA testing service / practice?
Had an frustrating experience with a vendor's web site and would like to point them toward outsourced load-testing and QA testing services.

Seems to me there should be a service that lets you create test scripts to run against your website, then run them in numerous available browser platforms, then run n simultaneous requests with those scripts as a load test, and report back.

Like LoadRunner as a service for web sites.

Anything like that exist? Or what's best practice to avoid giving cranky clients like me aneurysms with a non-functional web site?
Don't bite off more than you can chew. Goes for a lot of things. I used to write lots of short stories, then I started working on a longer, novella length piece. After ten chapters or so I got sick of it, but didn't want to start anything else with that unfinished. Pretty much stopped writing after that.
"A safety net is important to me because I have a wife and daughter to feed. If something were to happen to my ability to make money, they'd end up on the street."

Take the cash. Your situation demands it. Stock Options can always come later when it is time for next bonus.
Hillmap.com is a very cool project. Thanks for sharing.
Well, maybe, but not if the antennas need to be functional. To be functional there are physical laws that must be obeyed.
Not just humans. See this clip for a hilarious study into fairness done on monkeys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
That depends entirely on whether the investments are producing genuine value or, say, new ways to hide the risk in mortgages.

Yes, sometimes saying "no" in the aggregate is the right call.
It's different because FDIC.
Large investment banks don't really exist anymore :-)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/22/wallstreet.mo...

"Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the last two investment banks left standing, will become traditional bank holding companies, marking the end of an era for Wall Street.

The Federal Reserve's surprise announcement, which came at 2.30am London time, places the banks under the supervision the bank regulators and gives them easier access to credit to help them ride out the financial crisis."
ZURB moves into television production with LOL & ORDER: CSS — a new crime drama
> “If you think it is easy to build, feel free to replicate it yourself.”

>We were super inspired by Jeff’s “teach a man to fish” attitude...

This left me with tears in my eyes. :)
It would be nice if lines didn't end with prepositions or determiners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_determiners). Those words depend on whatever follows, so it causes an awkward split. It shouldn't be hard to add such a check.
The Phoenix Project ebook is free until midnight Wednesday.
Dragonflies, Nature's Deadly Drone
No mention of the "oh, you're a contractor, so we don't have to withhold taxes" scam? Then the article is seriously incomplete.
Python scripts to create captions for videos automatically, using YouTube
You are correct. This is totally standard nowadays. Source: I've been to about a billion recruiting fairs lately and have a bunch of knowledge of competing offers made to my intern candidates and yes, this is correct, and not just for Google interns anymore.
"The fact that the internet is free from geographical restrictions doesn't mean that copyright holders don't get to impose whatever terms they want on your right to view the content they create."

In fact, copyright holders cannot impose restrictions on my right to view their work. The only difference here is that the viewing involves the Internet and the outdated assumptions about copying and media distribution upon which copyright is based. A very long time ago, geographic restrictions made sense, but those days are decades past.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the law is handed down from the heavens. Laws can be out of date, and laws that were once good at promoting progress can wind up impeding it.

"With red flag laws, the obsolete industry was just getting between the transactional relationship between car manufacturers and drivers"

No, with red flag laws an obsolete industry was trying to impose restrictions on the use of a new technology to the point of making it impractical. It had nothing to do with car manufacturers, it was a law that targeted the users of automobiles. That is exactly what is happening in this case: the broadcasters and media conglomerates are trying to impose enough restrictions on Aereo's technology that it becomes impractical.

The problem with your view of this is that you are connecting the production of entertainment to a specific business model. Broadcast TV killed Vaudeville, and the Internet is killing broadcast TV. We had entertainment before copyright, we have had it with copyright, and we will continue to have it in the hypothetical post-copyright world (if we are lucky enough to see such a day).

"Indeed, it's internet companies like Youtube, etc, trying to profit by getting in-between the content producers and the content consumers..."

You are ignoring the history of those companies. Youtube would never have existed had the RIAA and MPAA not conspired, lobbied, and abused the justice system for the purpose of killing peer to peer filesharing. A promising, decentralized technology that allowed anyone to broadcast entertainment on a global scale was destroyed and companies like Youtube took its place.
He gave you a reference. Google "statistical sample size". There are several calculators in the results that you can play around.

Everybody should take a college level course in statistics, even poets and painters.
That's a pretty roundabout way of saying "It's a pity they won't die a painful death".
Good analysis.

One comment though - if the intention is to get the game onto the shelf in retail stores, there's not enough margin in it at the current cost/pricing.

A store is going to require most (or all) of that margin - in most "dice game" type stores, if you want to put a product on the shelf at $20, you're going to need to sell it to the store for somewhere around $14 or they're not going to be interested.

Seems to me that at least an investigation into whether getting a run of 3,000 or 30,000 sets made up (and outsourcing the 80 or 800hrs of packaging work) would be a worthwhile exercise rather than being premature optimisation.
If nobody goes to Canada, it does not cost them anything.
In the case of ADHD there happens to be sufficiently good evidence of real cases, along with brain scans showing what is happening inside of the brain, that we can be very confident that the disorder is real.

However if a random person claims to have it, we may not be confident that they were correctly labeled.