skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, round-trip time is still important, too. I suspect, almost doubling the DNS request time may cause problems in some cases.
This sort of journey leads to true invention. In seeking to build something you don't understand as a whole, you must explore the underlying components. And when you find the bit you need that hasn't been built yet, boom! Invention!

I think building a (successful) start-up is a lot like getting a PhD. You make a bump on the circle at some point: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
It's fine as long as people take it for what it is.
I still find the fruit salad interesting :-)
As others have noted, a lot of their efforts have been going into developing new (or new forks of existing) tools and applications, with much attention to implementing a simple "do one thing and do it right" solution for each item, and making all of them cohesive. You can still quite easily replace their file browser, their dock, their terminal, etc. with ones you prefer quite easily (this is becoming difficult within Unity), but I've found myself not wanting to. The OS is very cohesive and kind of a joy to use, I've found.
haha snap!
Scientific Linux 6.4 Released
The difference is that an algorithms patent is a patent on a mathematics; a patent on a drug is not a patent on a law of nature. That is why software patents try to make clever end-runs around the restrictions on patents by saying things like, "...on a computer."
Talk about setting a low bar.
LinkedIn Endorsements == Facebook Likes
http://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide

"Once we have the breakdown, parallelization can fall out and correctness is easy."

Joe is saying this too. And he's saying that because Erlang is a concurrent language, parallelism (he's thinking MIMD not SIMD) is easy. He says:

> Now Erlang is (in case you missed it) a concurrent language, so Erlang programs should in principle go a lot faster when run on parallel computers, the only thing that stops this is if the Erlang programs have sequential bottlenecks.

I don't think he - nor the Go chaps - conflate concurrency and parallelism.
Identify co-workers who also feel overwhelmed and lack confidence in the current 'mission impossible.' Begin or initiate the next meeting by gently but firmly pointing out that the current trajectory is unsustainable and self-destructive. Don't assign blame, but collectively demand a realignment, pointing out where 'just one more push' won't solve the problem.

Obviously there's not way to tell from this post, but a persistent problem I've seen in software organizations is that the sales staff are not accountable to clients or co-workers for inflated or over-optimistic promises of features or release dates. When targets are not met, client meetings often end up with an implicit passing of blame to the (absent) developers. This is a poisonous cycle that needs to be broken. One firm I knew off addressed this by bringing disappointed clients to the firm's HQ to explain to developers which features/use cases had priority. Clients felt mollified and valued, developers got valuable feedback without feeling forced into a commitment or marketing role, and sales staff took greater ownership of the relationship instead of seeing their sales as one-off zero-sum transactions. Obviously, this was politically challenging and a difficult step to take for most parties within the firm, but it increased productivity and good will considerably. It was a small firm and for many cases this approach is not easily mappable, but with the right leadership it can pay rich dividends.
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Radiation contamination makes an excellent deterrent, not only can you not see it, you can't know even if you don't feel any ill effects if you're going to die coughing up a lung in a few weeks (and no, nowhere except inside the containment buildings is that contaminated)

That said, it was an opportunity for Google to take radiation readings everywhere (perhaps they did but didn't release that information). Looking at the map this town must have been in the north east plume [1] mentioned in the reports.

Sadly since the first survey I can't find links to follow up surveys, the last being done around the end of 2011. Presumably with a wet season behind us there would be movement of ground contamination and I would think that every month they would do another survey if only to create better models about how a contaminated environment evolves. Is rain significant? wind? How much is is encapsulated by plants? Lots of questions.

[1] http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/New-Japan-R...
I like the line... "building penises out of dirt right now". Someone should put that on a T-shirt.
> By my count Javascript is around 5 years older than amd64. If we had gone with native client back then we'd be stuck with pre-SSE x86 or maybe they'd have been forward-looking and gone with Alpha or Itanium with emulation for "legacy" systems.

That's not really how NaCL works. Any instruction that can't break out of the jail can be whitelisted; this includes all versions of SSE.

Additionally, PNaCL can be retargeted at as-of-yet unknown architectures.

The result is that binaries would have been either shipped as PNaCL-only, or optimized for i386+SSE1 with fallback to PNaCL. As new hardware was shipped, new binaries could be targeted appropriately.

This seems reasonable to me; default to portability, provide an option for best-case performance.
Right. It can be dangerous if reckless crowdinvesting platforms become prominent. There are already shady platforms out there today, but there are a few forces and barriers to entry that I hope will shape the space into a healthy one:

There's a lot of regulation around being a platform where folks exchange securities (e.g. equity and debt). Someone can't, for example, whip together a website with Stripe over the weekend. The SEC takes this pretty seriously, and because of all the money transfer regulations, it's very hard to move large amounts of money around without playing by the rules. (Heh, I wonder how long before someone tries a bitcoin-based crowdinvesting site. [Don't try this at home!]) This should help limit most of the potentially shady and dangerous platforms.

I think this will also be a space where a few established brands dominate the space, and strong brands and networks will draw strong startups. Without good deal flow, it's going to be real hard to break into the space. Even if you allow anyone to create company profiles and raise money, you still need to draw in investors. I'm sure some people will be suckered in, but I'm skeptical this sort of site will become large enough to create systemic problems. (/knocks on wood)

But that doesn't mean a platform can't establish itself and branch out to allow "wild west" crowdinvesting. Wefunder has plans to expand who can raise money, but we care a ton about doing it responsibly and safely and it'll look somewhat different than what we have today. I won't go into much detail here because some things aren't public yet, and I'm sure every other platform has it's own thoughts and plans about "going mainstream".

Over the next few years I believe people will become more mature about crowd funding thanks to Kickstarter, and I think the skepticism about crowdinvesting and memories from the startup bubble(s?) will be a negative force against too much hype. But there is a danger around a crowdinvested company becoming "the next Facebook" and everyone going bananas about investing in more. There's no sure-fire protection against that. We do our best to educate folks about ways to approach startup investing and the risks involved, and hopefully other platforms will do the same.

I think there'll at least be a lot of visibility into crowdinvesting as a whole. So if things start to get fishy people will talk about it, and the more it's talked about the more folks will (hopefully) be cautious. (Maybe what we need is a crowdsourced SEC to help protect investors ;))

And finally, I think the space will evolve past "Kickstarter with an Invest Button" and the crowd will get better at doing diligence. There will be cases of things getting lots of funding that shouldn't, but that'll happen every now and again.

But who really knows, these are just my personal thoughts and speculations. I'm an optimist and want to believe in a happy crowdinvesting future. :)
If it were being used to create a measuring implement, perhaps. But yes, you've got the gist of it.
what does your job ad wording look like?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_badge_dosimeter

If I am understanding that article correctly, it is used not as an alert but as a record of how much cumulative exposure a person has received while in a hazardous area.
We've now posted a general announcement about the availability of packages on April 4, 2013: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAN1EF+x0dmwMFuJGWuXMiR... and http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1454/

As stated in the announcement and Tom's email to -hackers, the reasons for advanced notifications are as follows:

* People watching for vulnerabilities and contributors are going to notice that we've stopped automatic updates -- it's better for our project to just tell them all why

* Upgrading relational databases is often not trivial -- we want to give our users time to schedule an upgrade rather than just dropping an important update suddenly
I do research with professor Brockmann at Northwestern University, not on human mobility, but investment networks.

If you want a quick overview of the idea behind this mapping of the US and the algorithms used, you should watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn32vavZqvg
That is an awesome quote. Probably not Twain though :-)

And while you really can't necessarily achieve anything this way, you can make progress. So if you decide to say mine minerals on the moon, you can start making progress toward that but it may be that you never do find a ride up and back.
There is no equal footing here. Going head to head in a discussion forum will do nothing, as long as money trades hands in the back via lobbyists or in writing bills for politicians.

Piracy, in one way, is getting shit for free. Another way, it IS the balancing factor mass media must consider. We multitudes do retain the power, but are told that we are small and cannot effect much change. Except, we have allied and defeated the voting of some pretty horrific laws regarding the Internet and technology.

Do I believe that the major studios would have a honest to goodness discussion regarding copyright and piracy antagonism? No. The studios would rather pay for laws like the Sonny Bono copyright extension act, or slip the US a SOPA.
Or just have a Geek Code[1] block on the badge...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
All points correct except c). Egress filtering happens on the ISP side, there's nothing the DNS server can do once it gets a request with a spoofed source IP.

But since operators of authoritative name servers are more likely to be sophisticated they could notice an ongoing attack and throttle down the replies without negatively affect anything else. In fact, that protection could be built into the server code. Simply throttle consecutive replies to the same requester to a sane amount. There is no legitimate use-case where the same person would make a humongous amount of consecutive requests from an authoritative server as responses are usually cached. If that's done, an attacker wouldn't be able to coerce authoritative servers into flooding a target, they would just send replies at a slow rate(after an initial speedy response) and no significant amplification would occur.

As you state in d) there are a lot of open recursive servers out there that are unlikely to be updated or managed by someone sophisticated enough to respond to attacks like this. Whereas this is less likely with authoritative servers.
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late reply, HN thought I was replying too fast so it stopped me.. ;)

For the matching part you are absolutely right, it's not necessary to create an account for that. However, our overall goal is to connect talented people with matching companies and people with similar career paths. It's much easier to take advantage of this networking effect with active accounts. Maybe we can manage to let you create your profile at a later point of the path, I'll bring this to discussion tomorrow!
Is there a reason you both use the same Amazon account? I'm interested because we see this problem crop up every now and then. Apple ID's are another place it's been problematic. With Apple I can understand sharing the ID so you can listen to each others music collection but what are the benefits of sharing an Amazon account? Prime?
Mysterious fairy circles demystified: it's termites
Thanks for the very informative write up!

I have to smile when people are praising you for the plaintext writeup whose purpose was to link from facebook. It's like saying you finally got your house fully off-grid using your hand made windmill that generates power so you can watch the Kardashians. ;)
Depends if you start with a technical question.

Though that might be a good strategy to discourage "booth babes", just keep asking shit they can't answer.
My partner in life used to be a booth babe, wearing sexy clothes etc. (for energy drink stuff and all) because she preferred that to earn money than flipping burgers (not that there's anything wrong with flipping burgers). Nobody forced her to do such jobs and I can tell you one thing: beautiful slim women typically know the power they have on men. I can also tell you that not a single customer of any of the product she demo'ed / promoted did ever manage to get her out for a drink (I wasn't with her yet and she told about her exs, so I don't see why she would lie on that). Seriously: how many of you did you ever pick up a booth babe? Or even saw someone getting a booth babe's phone number?

It's not as innocent as you think: they're not "food" or "dogs" or anything like that. They know they're good looking and they're using it as an advantage. It's not as if they were forced to have sex or something like that.

I can also tell you that some women just like to dress sexy: you can be classy and sexy. Slim dress, Louboutin high heels, etc.

Some women simply like to take time to put make-up on and dress well and do look beautiful and they know the power they have on men.

And the hard truth is: most men don't stand a single chance with these women.

So if you're a women and get mistaken for a booth babe, it's quite simple: simply tell gross guys coming at you that a) you're not a booth babe and they don't stand a chance and b) they don't stand a chance with the booth babes either ; )

Back to technical stuff instead of this crazy gender thing: what's next, women who want to dress sexy can't, like in some crazy countries applying the sharia!?
This is not art appreciation nor is it dating, it isn't even clothes modelling, it's product promotion. Have a little professionalism.
I'm not sure "I'm tired of this shit" puts you quite in the clear, but the general direction is commendable :)
The Knuth quote regarding premature optimization is rarely so apt.
Peerkit's caching layer hacks around the HTML5 localStorage limit by opening iFrames to multiple top-level domains. Agreed that it's a messy solution that introduces some overhead (loading iFrames), but it seems to work.
> I once tried to sell charity on the street for a single day.

This sentence intrigues me. Were you working for a specific charitable organization or were you out there trying to sell one of the cardinal virtues as an abstract concept?

> in most cases you're actually selling 'having an attractive person be very friendly to me for a while.'

This is true, and it has been rediscovered over and over again in many industries in many ways. Some industries are really that and nothing else, and they have long, honored, and storied traditions in some cultures (so denigrating them means you're an ethnocentric swine, in case you missed my hint).
You're missing the point. Look up, horndog, the face, and the product pitch is up here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the hypothetical techniques needed to enable something like "asm.js without the compiler hint" also come rather close to solving the halting problem?
If you're wondering what some of the discrepancies are, I wrote up a bunch here: http://john-sheehan.com/post/41653656681/the-good-and-the-ba...
Ignorance is bliss. I think by not knowing (and intentionally ignoring) how difficult something appears to be, it's easier and manageable to tackle it step-by-step. With that frame of mind, small steps are accomplishments, and you're motivated to continue as opposed to continually thinking about the overall goal and how many steps are required to get there.
I am not sick of gender issues. I have recently been enlightened (mostly by Bob Martin's recent blog post) about language that I use at work (eg military analogies) that could be alienating to anyone (eg females) who didn't grow up idealizing warfare. This is an incredibly important point in history, and you are at the epicenter. Thanks for sharing your experience.
This is awesome! I hope someone out there will help you make this a reality!
At least it's not reddit.
| literally pictures of vaginas?

Evony Online?
A Cryptanalysis of HummingBird-2: The Differential Sequence Analysis
A patch has been applied - link should expire in 48 hrs now - please check it out and let us know
I have been using this for a while but I don't care for it much. I feel like they've reinvented Desqview.
is there a mailing list or something that I can join, besides the mlist for their far-from-now MMO release so that I can keep up on development?

Even more internets for open sourced on github perhaps?
We need a project similar to TodoMVC [1] for benchmarking different languages and frameworks.

http://todomvc.com/
Considering Amazon already has a review section for each book it sells, this seems like it was already a missed opportunity. It's great they're probably not going to kill the service, but it seems like it'd have made sense to have more tightly integrated their own reviews a long time ago.
So in other words, the movement of dollar bills is caused mainly by the federal reserve district banks redistributing them, and not by traveling individuals? That sure makes this map useless. I thought that dark line between New York and New England was fishy...
At every place i've worked, people in marketing/sales are significantly better looking than in engineering jobs (by that I mean a significant number of people are significantly more attractive). The easy way to explain this is that being attractive is enough to get your foot in the door for a sales position. It also is worth noting that they are, on average, making much less money than the engineers, so it would be a resonable hypothesis that they are less driven to learn because they are good looking, thus end up in an easier job.
Automotive infotainment systems: Open source drives innovation
He didn't say it had to be, he said it was.

"The RPython compiler is written in RPython". "The RPython compiler had to be written in RPython". See the difference? Fucking retard.
So could some right thinking person scan the internet for open DNS resolvers and perform DDoS attacks against them using other open resolvers?
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The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface
Show HN: SuperS3t, a Vert.x-ready, asynchronous S3 library
100% agree.

PS: 2.5% off every hard earned sale? Ouchhh....
Do you have any sort of permission or support from Mojang? It might not be a good idea to invest a substantial amount of time in "A Minecraft MMO" without this...
Moreover, this is how most 'puzzle' based interviews are done.

I've said this before, and I don't think it's any big secret, but the silly questions you hear in interviews almost never care about getting the right answer, but test to see if you can work a process to at least get to a plausibly believable answer. Or at least that's what I've always looked for when interviewing.

I remember asking a guy "How many jellybeans can you fit into a school bus?", and he started working the problem out. He guessed at the dimensions of a jelly bean, then asked me something about how many cubic feet are in the interior of a school bus, then began working out the problem mathematically.

This was exactly the right process, at least by my estimation, though there were other really interesting ways people approached the problem. A surprisingly large number of people just said "I don't know", without bothering to go any further, and one guy even got mad at us being one of those "stupid puzzle shops" and left in a hurry.

The reason I remember the one guy though, was because at the end, he asked me something like "I think the answer is such and such, with an approximate margin of error of 10% or so. How close am I?" When I confessed that I had no idea what the answer was, and that I was really just looking to see how he came up with the process, he laughed louder than I've ever heard anyone laugh ever before. I told him his guess was likely closer than anything I might have come up with on my own, and we eventually hired him and he proved to be great.

The skills necessary for good problem solving are myriad, but at least to me (and apparently Justin Kan), it starts with breaking problems down into bite-sized chunks. Another big thing for me (that I didn't see in the article) is in asking questions for things you don't know. Nobody knows everything, and I've found that the best engineers I've worked with have always been pretty systematic about clarifying things they weren't clear on. That's huge too. If you need to know whether we're talking short bus, field trip bus or regular old school bus, ask. An answer for one is probably not the answer for another.
Cool, a distributed minecraft server. But where's the source, or something more technically meaty? "I made a distributed X and here's some screenshots" isn't that interesting alone.
Thank you very much! We'll look into that!
After Google's announcement, Feedly announced they received 500,000 signups in two days, so apparently there were plenty of Google Reader users left.

I'm also willing to bet that if there was a decline in Google Reader users, it had something to do with the web app being neglected for so long and Google having taken away several useful features in the last couple of years.

Anyways, “usage was declining” was their argument for pulling the plug, but not an explanation of why they never tried to capitalize on the service.
Now I'm utterly confused.
no, the application would be the actual app. i would comply with copyright law if i simply wrote another app, whereas i will still violate the patent.

the problem i have with algorithmic parents is that computer algorithms trend tend to be quite composable. other patents in other field aren't, e.g. pharma parents. when one algorithm could be such fundamental to a large amount of different apps, a patent on it gives the patent holder way to much than they deserve.
Learning to code with vim is much easier than learning to code without vim once you've learned vim.
I think he acknowledges it, but that's just the way he was raised. I try to empower him and he gets it for the most part but I think there will always be an element of cynicism within him. That's just who he is. It's great when gets excited and driven, but the negativity is overwhelming at times and needless to say, counter intuitive to our goals.
How a frozen current account in Cyprus Laiki Bank looks like
Capital controls affecting business in Cyprus.

Note this is not a deposit, it's a current account used to operate an IT business.

Also in http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b6v1u/my_bank_accounts_got_robbed_by_european/