skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do comcast users come from a recognisable range of addresses? If so I might have to add a warning to everything I output along the lines of:

"Your ISP (Comcast) adds terrible Javascript to the code of this page without our knowledge or permission, therefore if you have any problems with this application please contact their support line in the first instance and not us. While your ISP is modifying our code, especially while they are modifying it by adding such terrible code of their own, we simply cannot support you, sorry."
Sorry, I don't think your information is useful. Admission is data relating to divorce rates of people that were married in their mid teens. The yearly marriage and divorces tallies you're offering include quite a bit of "churn" from the subset of serially married. Particularly since the overall number of marriages per year has decreased significantly despite population growth.
http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spa...

Here Elon speaks at TED. Somewhere in the talk he explains the reasoning behind the more expensive vehicles at this moment. (spoiler: He plans on getting less expensive, less elegant versions on the market, with the help of these more expensive versions.)
Can You Crack a Code? Try Your Hand at Cryptanalysis
> - I thought this was obvious: Chrome and normal Firefox are so much slower because they do not explicitly optimize the Asm.js code path.

Not everything is obvious here, actually.

If we are talking about vertex skinning benchmark where the difference between asm.js performance and Chrome's performance looks most "impressive" then a lot of that difference is caused by various bugs and limitations in V8's optimizing compiler: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2223

The same issues can easily affect other JavaScript code.

I personally strongly believe that one does not need to "explicitly optimize Asm.js code path" in the meaning "have a separate compilation pipeline for Asm.js code" to make asm.js code faster. All that one needs is to fix things that were neglected during JS VMs evolution.
Google pays Mozilla to push Google Search, not to develop a browser (which Google can do just fine on their own). It doesn't really mean much that they're teaming with Samsung for Servo, other than Samsung's taken an interest in using Servo for their own products.

Note it's not mentioned exactly which division of Samsung they're working with; they may want Servo for Tizen, their Smart TVs, to ensure it plays nice with Exynos, or none of the above.

[EDIT: the post explicitly mentions porting Rust and Servo to Android and ARM; which rather strongly suggests the mobile group. Interesting, as FirefoxOS and Tizen are more or less aimed at the same markets]
Crowdfunding for Consumer Products
https://circleup.com/jobs
I'm not so sure about not seeing it in the same light. It's more likely that they either don't know or worse, don't care.
I wouldn't own Libyan dinars unless I lived in Libya. Since I don't live on the Internet, I won't own Bitcoins.
When developing Java, Sun figured out a way around this.... which is how we ended up with the name Swing: https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...
The trap of the performance sweet spot (2011)
Fantasy Sport Games meet the Stock Market in "Sportvestors"
Why?

I'd think you'd generally rather not have all that much inflation or deflation... (Obviously particular parties would have interests to the contrary is specific circumstances, but outside of the short term single party advantage...)
Very well put, I agree with every word.
Yes, it is definitely intended, including the following:

'And it’s no excuse to say that the vast majority of these cases will never be prosecuted. As the Ninth Circuit explained, “Ubiquitous, seldom-prosecuted crimes invite arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Instead of pursuing only suspects of actual crimes, it opens the door for prosecutors to go after people because the government doesn’t like them.'

People lobbying for these laws and the legislators passing them are not stupid. They are as well aware of the above effect as the Ninth Circuit or anyone else. You really have to question their intentions before it is too late.
Yes it does, because it would refactor partially or brokenly, which is worse in my mind than not refactoring at all.
Would you stand by that statement if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer tomorrow? Your spouse? Child? The point isn't to keep sick people alive longer, it's to make them not sick.
Actually I think its much more explicit that self is ALWAYS passed as a parameter, or it doesn't exist.
>Those strengths are also weaknesses. No one wants to risk losing millions of dollars worth of currency overnight, just because they were outsmarted by some computer hacker.

Why do people keep repeating this crap as a reason for the impending failure of Bitcoin? People didn't abandon cash or even banks because of John Dillinger.
Growth hacking is not searching for a market. You described "customer development" - which is what I am doing right now - not growth hacking.
Why fuck me? I mean, I'm just curious. If you're going to tell a stranger on the Internet "fuck you", it might be illuminating to find out why.

And it's Josh. Josh Ellis. Since you sort-of asked.
Like a lot of philosophical debates, this comes down to semantics. I don't think there's any useful way in which Euler's identity is a 'metaphor' for anything.

Metaphor has a fairly specific definition; it is a type of analogy. An analogy is a type of association.

As mentioned, I think it's fair to say that all thought is based on associations. But it isn't true that all thought is analogies or metaphors.

There are simply other types of associations. I would call this case a "generalization", an extremely common thought process in mathematics, and an example of a kind of analogy (not a metaphor) where the original domain is a proper subset the new one.

In other words, applying an idea from one domain to another is an analogy, not necessarily a metaphor. To claim otherwise is just being loose with words in a way that has no meaning.
I work on an enterprise platform where I have client side access, but no server side access. My only options for injecting HTML are:

1) cross domain AJAX via CORS

2) Injecting HTML strings constructed in JS

For small amounts of HTML, I'd much rather go with option #2.

ps. Its unfortunately very common for developers to have little or no server side access to the applications they're building.
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Creating a new language that handles concurrency and pointer bugs in a systematic way that is also fast is amazing. Writing a new browser engine in said language is very ambitious and important.
Hipchat for Linux
The problem: debt currencies from nation-states are slowly going obsolete. Very slowly, so don't jump the gun on a bad idea.

Material wealth, before 1800, was usually a metal. It had legible value anywhere so you could use it to defend or attack the means of production: land. People say land was wealth before industry, but "owning" it just means having the means to defend it (which could, in modern times, be a legal claim; no one wants most land enough to take it by force) so what you really needed was the metal to fund an army. You were rich if you had gold and could defend the land you had and get more if needed.

Between 1800 and ~2075, wealth is debt from an establishment like a nation state or corporation. Being rich means that you can call in favors. You use this debt to build an industrial or business process that gives you a good return on investment. You don't need to own the gold; you just need a certificate saying you had the legal right to it or that someone owes it to you.

In 2025, wealth is going to be access to talent. I'm writing a monstrously large blog series and the penultimate post (21 of 22) is going to hint at the economics of that. I'm afraid to get too specific; that might compromise a startup idea that's been percolating in my mind for a few years and might be ripe in the mid-late 2010s. But we're now in a world (convexity) where capital is scarce in comparison to the talent that can do something with it. The new currency (post-2075, I'd guess, because people are conservative when it comes to money; metal and debt currencies aren't going out of business any time soon) will be some proof-of-work model related to technical talent but I've got no idea what it will look like.

How to define money in that world is an open question. That said, I don't think we need to get rid of fiat currencies just yet; I don't know what would replace them.

With BitCoin, there's no intrinsic value. Someone else could create a ZitCoin with similar structure but not that stupid enforced deflation designed to enrich the first entrants. Now it's a red-ocean with a zillion copycats, so we have ZitCoin and FitCoin (for gym memberships) and PitCoin (for dog breeders) and LitCoin (for getting drunk) and a couple of other *itCoins too crude to mention. Now it's just about branding; most of these alternative currencies (which are too volatile to be real currencies) fail.

There's this idea that BitCoin is going to become the next Black Lotus (a $1000 Magic card) but the vast majority of Magic cards have lost value (and all of the cards from the copycat TCGs that flooded the market in '90s). I remember when Shivan Dragons were $25 because a 5/5 flying creature for 6 mana was badass. Last I checked, they were about $2. The thing about a Black Lotus is that (a) it's extremely scarce and indivisible unlike BTC, and (b) there's actually something you can do with it, which is play a powerful Magic card legally.

Until you can get 3 mana of any color out of a BitCoin, or drop it from at least 12 inches and destroy permanents based on table position, I'm going to be skeptical.
"Hi, my name is...Slim Shady. No, really, my name is Slim Shady."

lol'd
Microsoft updates IE testing site, gives away Parallels Desktop
This! A million times. KFL did actually did outsmart the system and not start with the ridiculous premise of first "becoming a youtube superstar". Plus labels had been using the remix approach for ages. After all each good old single cd release had the same song in 3-5 versions on it.
Columbia English Majors, Ashton Kutcher Wants YOU for His New ‘Consumer’ Startup
Vice Magazine's Bad-Boy, Online Empire
Berkshire Hathaway BRK-A doesn't seem to have been harmed by not being watered-down.
There you go, I am not making shit up as I go, but read articles in other places on the Internet too:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus...

The abuse carries harm. The images however,do not. If they did, how would it be legal(as it is) for me to download a video of two guys killing another one, stabbing him in the eyes and the throat with a screwdriver? This is also a video of a crime, yet one is legal and the other is not. I tend to agree with the article I linked here - it's because we(as a society) would rather make the very existence of information illegal, because it does not go well with our morals, and not because it's a logical thing to do. Ban on cp is actively(as in - right now) stopping predators and criminals from being caught.
And also, anticipated by Satoshi, was that the long tail of smaller botnets that would be unable to double spend would take to bitcoin mining because it would be more profitable, so increasing security and making it much harder for a single large botnet to take over.
Would be better titled "URL Design for Web Services"
I believe Travatan is some kind of the best in its field
Travatan (travoprost) is a new medication used for the glaucoma treatment, Travatan lowers intraocular pressure by increasing the outflow of aqueous humor.It is used for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in open-angle glaucoma and increased intraocular pressure.
The article makes a decent case that it is not. Care to elaborate?
NYPD | Stop-and-frisk
The protocol is malleable (the majority of miners need to agree on changes) and can be migrated to use sub-Satoshi units if necessary.
Show HN: kolab, Social Collaboration platform for students beta for first 15k
New Clues to the Mystery of Dark Matter
DevOps on Wednesday, Ruby on Thursday and Friday.
I'd go with the .com. and if you don't like the .com name, try to figure out another one there's plenty of ways to mix/match words and spelling to find something suitable..

Mainly because web browsers and search engines look for .com first.

Only exception is if you are a non-profit, then definitely get a ".org". My former employer could only get .net for their desired name, didn't do well in the community convincing folks they were a non-profit with a .net email address.
Salaries in the life sciences are no where near where you think they are. Lots of people with biology degrees are making less than theatre majors.

Even if you have the more elaborate title of "biochemist", salaries are around $45k, not the $125k you are expecting to earn.

http://www1.salary.com/Biochemist-I-Salary.html

Starting salaries are around $35k. If you are working for a non-profit foundation (ie: cancer research), expect to earn $25k.

http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId=166364
I'm part of a project to try and solve this exact issue. How do you compare in the marketplace with your skills, salary, experience? We haven't launched yet but if you'd like to be in the beta testing group, that would be great.

http://engage.gild.com/
This is very similar to the hashing trick used in vowpal wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/). I haven't used this python module, but vw is absolutely incredible to use.
Neat idea. I was looking for book recommendations here on HN just yesterday.
Why did that require a loading screen and 'widgets'?

http://i.imgur.com/1eok5yj.png
Hi Dan, good suggestion. You will be able to add more metadata to the stories down the line (dates, maps, etc). That will open up a lot of cool visualizations (timeline, map, etc). It could also be fun to pull in related data from that time period, for example newspaper headlines or archival photos.

The reason I haven't added this yet is that I've focused on the writing experience. Because most of the stories are written via email, there isn't a structured way to add metadata, so it has to come as a secondary step (either automatically extracted, or annotated by family members)
Gaming: All the for the Sake of a Good Story
What's sad is that the only entity throwing any lobbying weight against COPPA is Facebook, and that plays in the media pretty much universally as a big evil corporation trying to get permission to prey on children. Not that that would stop it from happening in Congress, but the public support isn't there.
This is what first came to mind for me as well.

Flickr pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flydime/4671890953/
Data export is coming for the site. For user.. yea, good idea, we can do it but it's not on our roadmap yet.
Apple patent to adjust the center of mass for a falling phone
Bitcoin’s Rise: What If It Is Not A Bubble?
That's interesting: for me, the homepage just says "R version 3.0.0 (Masked Marvel) has been released on 2013-04-03." without any links. There's a What's New link in the sidebar, but it just takes me to mailing list archives.
You mean someone could put JS into the comment box and inject it into the page somehow?
This is the first I've heard of Portable Native Client (PNaCl), which sounds very interesting.

I think ASM is a great idea for "hacking", but the thing that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, is that you're usually only going to bother compiling to ASM for things which need the performance. The idea that they'll "still work" in non-optimized browsers doesn't seem too convincing -- games would probably be unplayable, and you'd see messages saying "This game only supports Firefox" etc.

And I don't see there being that many things written in C, etc., that one would want to port to the web, that aren't particularly processor-intensive.

Presumably PNaCl would be close to native code speed, a big improvement over ASM. And it seems like what's needed is cross-platform fast execution -- not backwards compatibility with JavaScript that will still run, but run much more slowly.

But nevertheless, it's super-interesting watching what's going on with ASM.
Just to pick some other dates:
100 ounces of gold in 2000 was worth ~$28k which wouldn't buy much house anywhere.

Also, comparing gold @ ~$20/oz in 1913 to a dollar stuffed under a mattress in the same year is a bit of a false comparison. The Compounding the same $20 in 10year Tbonds (a decent 'risk free rate' starting in 1928 (the first year I could find data) would yield ~$679 in 2000 (outperforming gold by over 2x) and ~$1385 in 2012 (underperforming slightly, but with almost no volatility).
You can drop the "likely". Retrofitting pervasive concurrency onto a sizable existing codebase is to a first approximation impossible. It makes merely trying to retrofit pervasive unit testing (hard, but "merely" a long mechanical slog) or correctness with string encoding a cake walk. "Impossible" here can be taken to read as "would require as much effort to do the retrofit as the rewrite would take".
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer confirms unexplained excess of high-energy positrons
The service looks very similar to our Build-your-own- Dropbox service Tonido Cloud (http://www.tonido.com/cloud/).

We have evaluated Java for the client side like AeroFS. But decided against it and went with a native client.
>(and thus, the intent element of the criminal statute cannot be satisfied).
>Source: I am a former criminal defense lawyer.

You should know that statutory rape and child pornography criminal charges are unique in criminal law, in that they are strict liability crimes, and they do not require criminal intent.

In other words it is not enough that for a Defendant to claim lack of intent and prove the minor produced a ID showing they were 18 before having sex and/or before being photographed/filmed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_%28criminal%29
> I think an economy that builds on people buying loads of crap they don't need is at least comparatively bad. We certainly seem to have a problem with using more than we need from the planet.

It's an issue with macro economics, not the individual. Sure, having people buy less useless stuff is great, but they all still need to agree on a medium for exchange, else doing anything with currency becomes impossible. Individuals buying and selling goods and services don't make currency markets, money flowing through the exchanges does. Market prices are set mostly based on leading indicators from these transactions. When a currency starts deflating, these numbers start looking bad. This is when things start to snowball. Currency worth more tomorrow than today? Stop exchanging BTC for USD(or any other currency). Investments going south and BTC doing well due to scarcity? Then pull out of the markets and hoard BTCs. Market crashed? Get all your BTC out of the bank. At a certain point it all falls apart and everyone is left holding worthless digital currency. This happened before with the great depression and has been studied in great detail. Hence the movement away from the gold standard. Again, very little of this has anything to do with buying TVs and stereos(micro vs macro economics). People don't really need currency to do that anyways. Currency is needed for the exchange of derivatives(specifically debt, AKA loans).
Wait, are you rolling up all client templating libraries into 2) or something?
As a node developer, I'm curious to know what if anything asm.js can do for node? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't asm.js allow basically all of node's core to be written in JavaScript itself, rather than in C/++? I think that would be a tremendous advantage, but maybe I'm missing part of the picture...
I read somewhere that possession of CP is like possession of cocaine - both are crimes purely because you have them, regardless of intent:

"possession of child pornography is a strict liability offense, like possession of cocaine, at least in the entire United States, as well as several other countries. Intent, mens rea, is irrelevant: if you have it and know you have it, no matter why, you're guilty."

But then, you are a lawyer,not me.
Child porn is illegal because the desire for possession creates a market demand, and that demand gives reason for people to commit the abuse crime in the future. If nobody consumed child porn, there would be no reason to produce it – at least that is the theory. I'm not sure how we got to the point that possession is demonized more than the act though, as you are right, mere possession cannot really hurt anyone, though there is probably an argument to be made about the embarrassment one feels from being watched by strangers.
Please proceed. Explain how a discussion of performance by someone who didn't actually perform the test is somehow trolling or evil. I'd say the same thing if Resig used Google or Microsoft marketing material rather than running the tests.
This is awesome. How are you able to offer it for free?
So bitcoin miners as a whole become a de-facto central bank based on majority adoption?

That's actually a very interesting possibility.
This change improves consistency between implementations and modules. `impl MyType { … }` is now just like `mod my_module { … }`, except that you can define methods inside `impl` declarations by including a self parameter.

For example:

struct MyType { … }
impl MyType { pub fn foo() { … } }
mod my_module { pub fn foo() { … } }
fn main() {
MyType::foo(); // works
my_module::foo(); // works too
}
While I agree with the gist of your post, I don't think it's correct to say there are no "unintended consequences". For some, most likely including those who originally introduced or lobbied for the law, the consequences may be entirely intended. Even so, there were many people that had to examine (to a large or small extent, depending) the law before it was ratified, and I think it's likely not all of considered or wanted all the consequences.

I think that's an important distinction to make (it's not every legislator that's a corporate shill or working to repress an aspect of free choice based on their own perceived moral superiority).