skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nowhere like Stripe's tokenization because all tokens are not equal. Their tokens have inherent patterns which aid frequency analysis. That is exactly the point of the SE discussion which got the DMCA notice.
Why Word Cloud Doesn’t Make It Rain
I came here to ride the fence. medium's articles are typically thoughtful and well-written, but generally are not topics that appeal to me very much when I'm looking for tech news or other more mainstream HN topics. I usually skip medium.com links when posted here, but I read them from other sources when I have time to read something a little more general.
Everyone sending email status updates to everyone else daily is an alternative to stand-up meetings?

I mean, I guess it is.... it's in particular, an alternative that was very common before stand-ups were invented and became popular, which was judged ineffective and inefficient by those who invented stand up meetings. But, sure.

In other news, planning everything out in advance is an alternative to agile development.
I recently had a card used at Walmart.com. The transaction processed through an old account there [Yes, I shop at Walmart] using a current card from one of the large credit card companies.

The thief purchased an online gift card and an electric razor sent shipped to our address.

Because it took several hours for the charges to work their way through Walmart's and the bank's systems to reconciliation, I suspect that the gift card was resold before it was canceled. Razor arrived a few days later and was returned.

My honey was upset. I didn't take it personally. She learned that Walmart is a common target. We had a new card in our hands by 8am the next business day.
have you tried this?

http://dmx.sourceforge.net/

I've used it to combine macs and pc's as one big display and it worked pretty good.
GrabCAD Leads Surge in Boston-Area Hardware Design Startups
> The only gain here is facebook's bandwidth costs, at the expense (and inconvenience) of its users.

Users love faster websites. If you make your website faster, people will use it more. If you're selling something, they will buy more if your site is fast.

This has been A/B tested by countless companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, Shopzilla, and so forth. Front-end performance is amazingly important.
That is the AER's usual policy [1]; R&R's paper was published in the May issue (Papers and proceedings) which is for all intents and purposes a completely different and almost non-peer-reviewed journal [2]. I suspect (without any knowledge) that there will some pressure to distinguish the AER and the papers and proceedings more after this episode.

[1] http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data.php
[2] http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/pandp_faq.php
Heh, no kidding.

Edit: Looks like this "conversation" idea may have jumped the shark too. Management consultants are already trying to horn in on this technique (http://www.amazon.ca/The-Art-Conversation-Neglected-Pleasure...). Pretty soon we'll need "conversation masters" and some sort of certification process.
I haven't done profession PCB printing yet, but the one that catches my eye for cost and finishing is http://oshpark.com/
Ahh, good to know. I figured doing another retail transaction would be against the TOS. Thanks for clarifying.
Unfortunately the problem with my collection of dead laptops is that the majority of them have dead screens.
great feedback, thanks. admittedly, my data alone does not do much. Just wanted to spark some discussion on the topic, and I thought I should eat my own dog food.
I hear a lot about cutting caffeine after 3pm to have it not affect your sleep, but I generally assume people are talking about coffee when they mention this time. I care more about when I should stop drinking tea, which apparently contains less caffeine.

Can I just halve the time required if tea has half the caffeine (let's say)?
Wt was suggested before, and we'd love to include it. Care to submit a pull request?

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/92
Any clues if the iPad Mini Display using the MiniDP interface?
That doesn't mean it's a good idea.
:-) It's been corrected now.
Is this North Dakota after all the fracking?
> And Mozilla is interested in advancing the open web, not building a closed ecosystem.

This is definitely the problem with Chrome browser - I've seen a lot of enhancements to that product that seem of very little use for a browser sitting on a functional mobile/desktop OS but critical if it happens to be the only native app (ie, ChromeOS).

Meanwhile, FF quietly just works for all of my needs and has gotten a lot better in the past several releases.
I suppose it depends on whether your application depends on ephemeral disk random or sequential I/O, EBS I/O, I/O to the internet at large, cpu cache, ram bandwidth, support for AVX instructions and so on.

To be fair it's understandable why Amazon doesn't promise these features will or won't be present - it would make their already-complicated product offering even more complicated. And for a great many applications, customers won't be sensitive to details like CPU cache and disk performance.
In defense of AngularJS's declarative markup
Been there, did (some of) that, it really is an amazing hike.
Consistency is key, I've heard time and again and my own experience seems to support (FWIW).

However, perfect consistency is hard to maintain. Even if one avoids the late parties and whatnot, eventually emergencies get in the way or illness comes along and increases the amount of sleep required.

My question is, when consistency must falter, what piece is most important? Going to bed at the same time, getting up at the same time, getting the same amount of sleep, or getting at least some particular amount of sleep? The article here claims it is not the last.
It's rare that we get such a clean natural experiment like this in economics; maybe future economists will thank R&R for cleverly introducing this negative exogenous policy shock (sarcasm).
Domestic cats are somewhat unique in that they don't exhibit contra-freeloading. That is they prefer not to work to working. I guess they consider catching mice "play". :-)
This can only be a troll... 'all the open source image tools'? That seems like an intractable set to me. They shouldn't need to. I see there's an imlib2 webp loader. It is BSD licensed. I don't see that it came from Google.

So what's your point? We're supposed to be hating Facebook anyway, not Google in this article.
ext3 does suck for certain workloads, one of them being large scale db's. And by suck, I mean dangerous. Unless you really want to set barrier on the fs and watch your IO plummet to 45 record player speeds.
Surprise! You're in 615 Dilbert comics!
I think that if this was done, there'd be a surge of blog posts not long after telling people to just use the original verbs, because everything about them - caching, idempotence, safeness, etc. - is a known quantity and doesn't change based on different interpretations of the same verb. Not to mention ridiculously confusing APIs.

TWEET /
GOOGLE /internet/?query=...
LIKE /friend/jimmy
GETPUTPOSTDELETE /i-am-too-lazy-to-use-separate-verbs
The more features which are added to a laptop, the more it tends to cost.
True, but BI is actually really good for econ news.
Kinda sucks that Google makes type 1 errors occasionally. OTOH, you keep sensitive data from your users in your personal gmail account and you're not paying for support? You crazy.
PHP can be as verbose as you want it to be.

If you're using something like Symfony2, there'll be more abstractions and layers than using something like Silex - but they still don't come close to what Java looks like.
Lifelong Kings fan here. Nice work!
Reiser4 is in a weird place...

...and so is Hans. :-) (Sorry, I couldn't resist :-))
I've always seen constraints as a way of propelling creativity. Constraints basically stop us from wondering about "what if I had.." or "if only I had.." and make us think in "with my current resources how can I achieve something?". This post proves it in the world of cooking but this translates perfect in any software related solution or any business.
How to Design Programs is a great text in general, but I think it holds particular power for researchers. I still write some janky code, but particularly when I'm doing R, I find myself falling easily into the HTDP mindset.

Not to dredge up a functional vs imperative battle, but I feel FP has a lower impedance mismatch with mathematical concepts generally.
The Nike+ gamification platform delivers valuable big data insights
Ici - Wikipedia Articles Here
Displays Wikipedia articles about your current location, highlighting articles that need an image.
On the other hand, he's unilaterally refused to disclose actual audited returns for the funds that he's been involved with. This is very convenient for marketing his books and views, but creates an inaccurate impression of how profitable his approach really is: http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/nassims-selective-ret... .
"Google does weekly emails"
Practices at Google vary widely between teams. Nothing as trivial as this is going to standardized across the company...
It's not about sensitive data. It's about email, calendar, drive and other google services you use and rely on for your daily work.
"But if you offer too much compensation, management and employees may begin to feel fat and happy and lose the motivation to maximize long-term value for shareholders."

God forbid if your employees are happy.

In all seriousness, I don't even remotely understand this mindset. Why would paying your employees less than they deserve or less than is optimal encourage them to "stay hungry." If anything, this is going to deter them from working inordinately hard or may drive them from the company altogether. If a company pays well, the employees have more to lose and are likely have a greater appreciation for their employer.

I just can't fathom how they expect that, by paying less than they ought to or less than their employees deserve, the employees will be more inclined to work hard.

This speaks to a fundament misinterpretation of employee motivation and is incredibly disquieting.
Cassandra and HBase Shard, they just shard differently since the shard is baked into the system while in MySQL its not. If you get right down do it, When you Shard on Toku, it will simply be more efficient at a storage level.
Of course you can pull the DP connections out, that's not the problem. The problem is that when you put that display on a windows machine, you end up with a bunch of legacy windows software and web graphics content that looks unreadably small, followed unhappy users who return those fancy DP panels to your retailers.

Of course, the same thing is true of iOS and OS X software, which is precisely the reason "Retina" (as distinguished from arbitrary 200+ DPI hardware) displays are always shipped in resolutions that exactly double those of pre-existing devices. So even though the legacy software doesn't handle it Apple, by controlling the framework, is able to make it work more or less seamlessly.

Dell and HP don't have that freedom, they need help from Microsoft, and Microsoft, well... At least Windows 8 does high DPI natively, though the MS decision was basically to jettison legacy visuals and hope no one runs the old software anymore.
The argument against this, and I make this as a jaded and struggling graduate student so accept that bias, is that there is no acceptable outlet for negative results. There is also no acceptable outlet for those who consistently produce negative results and so, as I'm sure everyone understands, there is tremendous pressure to produce positive and interesting results. We hear about the times that this is forced due to manipulation and falsification and this is never okay, but there are a great many times where it falls into a nebulous gray area. We double and triple check our code, verify simulation results, and run down the checklists but that never guarantees that we do not have such "excel column errors".

If data and code are open this is fantastic for science and progress because errors do not replicate and permute but it can be terrible for individual scientists and graduate students. As always, it comes down to money. If we are forced to correct or even worse retract a scientific publication, the community (both local and worldwide) bares down on you like a knife. The stakes are so high that not only is falsification lethal, in many cases honest mistakes can be lethal as well. Conversely one cannot take eternity flipping every stone to bulletproof every possible single problem and it can be very hard to identify which stones to check!

This is not a defense of closed work and closed data, but it's a realization that opening data and code is not a simple and straightforward process. There are severe and deeply embedded cultural problems that make post-publication sharing difficult.
The Setup - Adrian Bowyer
I seriously thought that this was going to be about the unbreathable air and destroyed environment in and around Norilsk...
These guys are selling new Apple II software, too -- Apple II DMS Drummer Software:

http://www.8bitweapon.com/store.htm

It is a sample-based music sequencer, which is fairly amazing considering the audio hardware in the Apple II was only capable of producing a "click" when a bit of memory got poked. (Getting that clicker to play back waveforms is all a matter of clicking at the right times.)
As a parent of an autistic child obviously I am happy to see the increased recognition of where people on the autism spectrum can find ways to be autonomous in happy productive lives.

It's no fun waking up every morning knowing one day you'll be gone and won't be there to take care of them and if you haven't got them to a place where they can be either fully autonomous or well takn care if with sufficient resources left behind for that, then they will suffer the consequences. It's hard. But we are not without hope nowadays.

My one concern reading the article was of exploitation - does that 3x 98% accurate employee understand his/her value and how to negotiate appropriate compensation for it? That being said it is still a big step forward to have opportunities with the potential for under-compensation than to have no opportunities at all.
> You want a crime that's got "mass destruction" in the title, you need to demonstrate to the common man that this involves mass destruction. I don't believe that's too much to ask from the system.

Since when did blowing up two bombs that cause 3 fatalities and 150+ persons to sustain often-horrific injuries not count as as mass event? It is not the prosecutor's fault that American servicemembers have caused the medical field to innovate for the past ten years on how to save lives in response to these attacks.
You should not rely on services you're not paying for and don't own for your daily work. :-/

My point isn't about the nature of the data that was stored, my point was the economic reliability of the tool being used to store it. In other words, you want the provider to have some significant incentive not to screw you if your livelihood depends on it.
Currently doing Coursera's Dan Ariely's behavioural economics course... A couple of thoughts:

- You want the relationship with your employees not to be based solely on money. If the only reason they work for you is the salary then you have a problem already.

- It has been shown experimentally that larger incentives can negatively impact performance. This is more important for bonuses but salary probably shows some similar behaviour. In general when you worry about the money and the stakes you become less effective.

- What people are paid relative to their peers is important. People feel better when they're paid better relative to their peers. The actual amount is less important. This supports the "pay fairly" approach.

EDIT: An interesting observation that has been made is that requiring public companies to publish their CEOs salaries has not caused those salaries to decline. If anything it caused them to keep going up. A similar effect should be expected in VC backed companies if they publish similar data as prospective CEOs would always want to be paid better than said data.
"but I think this is an example of a very common problem on HN"

In the true spirit of HN let me 2nd what you are saying and wonder why the parent was so quick to back off what he said.

Although the OP has said he will provide links he also said this:

"I walked into the office on January 9th and suddenly had access to some of the most knowledgeable people on sleep out there."

So who are these people and what makes them so knowledgeable about sleep exactly?

I guess the real question is how do you say this "nicer":

'This post seems like one big, long unsubstantiated bunch of app spam for "zeo"'

maybe:

'I'd like some of the claims here substantiated. On the surface it appears to me that this well written post is simply app spam for "zeo"'
This is pretty sweet.

I have a small website related to NBA[1] as well that I built on my free time (many moons ago). Haven't updated the site yet but will definitely update it again for the next season.

[1] www.nbaschedulesapp.com
In Chrome, it looks like we're going to register as the default handler for webp images, so they're viewable post-download, similar to what's done with PDFs:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=234275
I've tried (generic) wax and foam earplugs, and have settled on cheap foam ones. They don't cost more than about $2 for a whole load of them (6 pairs or something like that), and are both reusable and washable.
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If I'm reading http://www.ifixit.com/iPad-Parts/iPad-Retina-Display/IF116-0... correctly then all Retina iPads use the same screen i.e. 3rd gen (dock connector) and 4th gen (lightning connector) should both be compatible with this.

Assuming you're brave/handy enough to cut the necessary holes to expose the connector
The Moon would need to be 41x closer to Earth to become rings
The Roche limit is the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.

For the Moon, it's 9,496 km.
Figure out what you suck at. Damnit.
Binding functions to HTML elements using HTML5 data- attributes
How am I supposed to hear my alarm in the morning if I'm wearing earbuds/earplugs?
How Much Your Time in College is Worth
Well, I think that qualifies as a valid response when you're playing as a dystopian bureaucrat :)
I totally know!
I'm thinking of starting this up myself. Lifting weights has definite health benefits.

Do you go to a gym or have a home gym? What kind of program are you following?

I'm thinking of half hour max early morning, rotating between major body parts.
Does the headband really work? Detecting "brainwaves" and eye movements sounds fairly dubious to me. Does it cover your eyes?
Tired of these self promoting articles.

"An alternative to stand-up meetings" -> We use our product. Oh, shameless plug, try it.

What's even more frustrating is how they game the upvote to reach front-page. So, not only it's a disguised article, but it also hide more interesting ones.

</end-of-grumpy-rant>
Rm: command not found
I think that was a typo and what he really meant was that the future has arrived! I'm never wondering around Trader Joe's looking for shit again. Instacart rules.
I'm really glad I don't work with you.
This isn't a wacky terrorism law though, it was enacted in like 1994. It's more useful for things like the Atlantic Olympic Park bombing where there were comparatively few injuries but it's on the books and just as applicable for this.
I am surprised the article doesn't mention anything about alcohol and its effect on sleep. Does anyone want to chime in on this?
The North Korean spy who blew up a plane
Of course it makes sense, because you're not writing C code - you're writing PHP.

A framework is simply a pre-packaged organization of your code. In the case of the mini php frameworks, they provide little more than a router.

I have worked on many projects - those with and without frameworks. I will choose code on a framework any day of the week.
Thanks! That was super helpful! I'll be sure to check them out.
I always question benchmarks on ec2 because of "noisy neighbor" effects - maybe that's in the noise, but someone trying to replicate your results would perhaps see significantly different results depending whether their VM landed on a busy node or not... Tag this one #ymmv

+1 on testing uncompressed ZFS

I did see a blog post about MySQL with similar results (at least compression was a significant win) some time ago - disks are so slow compared to what throughput modern CPUs are capable of on these sorts of compression algorithms.
What are you referring to? The Miranda thing or what Senators Graham and McCain are going on about?

The Miranda exception is not at all designed for warfare, and as far as I know there is no one within the current Administration even suggesting they might accede to what Graham/McCain suggest doing with regard to treating Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant.
It doesn't really create a race to the bottom. What it does do is basically let the most profitable firms set the salary scale. When they raise salaries, everyone matches for fear of being seen as a cut below. Nobody cuts salaries because doing so is very conspicuous in a market where most firms pay the exact same salary. So I think in that sense, transparency has the effect of pulling up the median salary and is good for employees, though not necessarily employers. On the other hand, it takes pressure off the top firms. The most profitable firms don't raise salaries unless they really have to, because they know that if they do it'll move the whole market upward and any recruiting advantage will be short-lived. So in that sense it's probably a bit worse for people at the top who might make more otherwise.

I think using salaries as incentive systems is mostly hokum except for situations where performance can be very easily quantified (e.g. sales people). I think transparency combined with lockstep (pay is strictly by seniority) is a great model, at least for organizations where everyone is mostly doing the same kind of job.
I am glad to read this because it validates so much of the trends I've been seeing over the last two years. More and more people are starting to realize that there's a need for an alternative to the Facebook Platform. This article is just the latest of many realizing that there's a big demand for developer-friendly platforms that get it right.

In my opinion, it can be done way better completely outside of facebook, and you get to own your own users. I am going to write an article actually about this, and post it here.

For now: http://myownstream.com/blog#2011-05-21
You mean time travel? This definition has been on the books since before 9/11...
Everyone knows a janitor won't clean the floor properly if he doesn't feel motivated to maximize long-term value for shareholders.
I think it's probably the title. When you look just at the title and domain name, it looks like it doesn't belong here (thus people downvote on the "New" page without reading). If the title was different, perhaps people would read it before downvoting. Just idle speculation though!
Microsoft's Surface Pro has a 10" 1920x1080 IPS LCD panel (208 DPI), running on Ivy Bridge. There's no reason anyone else couldn't do the same.

Edit: Guess what Toshiba just announced? 2560x1440 touchscreen panel in an ultrabook: http://us.toshiba.com/kira
There's nothing wrong with lifting daily as long as you take at least one day between working the same body part(s).
Can you pick a decaf herbal tea for afternoon drinks?