skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to that:

For many applications, pure power consumption isn't even the best metric anymore. Due to advances in on-chip power and clock distribution, the energy x delay product and overall silicon efficiency have gained more importance in past years.

Obviously, dataflow processors excel in these metrics. And VLIW processors fall behind, which IMHO is the primary reason for their demise.

I agree with you that a practical dataflow architecture needs to be hierarchical. Not just for cache locality, but to reduce wiring overhead and debugging complexity, too.
US Airways uses SABRE as well, but let's just say your completely rational idea were to be adopted. The simple fact is they cannot execute. See my other comments.
We do! You can see it in the rates calls, and then select it with MediaMail for service

https://geteasypost.com/docs
It's only a gamble to a certain extent, for instance, even if her company fails, it's likely to happen in the next 2 or three years, that leaves another 7 or 8 years where she will require employment in order survive.

Judging by her character and drive to succeed (she emailed 1000+ angel investors, is starting her own business, etc) I could see her occupying a fairly high wage job, in the $50,000 - $80,000 range, if we take a mid point, that's about $65,000 per year for 7 - 8 years.

$65,000 * 7.5 = $497,500 / 10 = ~$50,000.

Assuming that's true, they only stand to lose half - if her idea succeeds however, they could make millions.

I would assume the investor isn't hard up of cash, so losing $75,000 would be a drop of water in the ocean, but making a few million would probably be a nice bonus.
Colleges take a flat fee. If they worked for a percentage, then (a) they would probably try harder to increase the lifetime earnings of their students, and (b) tuition would be de facto subsidized by the students who go on to earn the most money.
The US spends 6% of the budget for interest on the debt, and 2% on education. Doesn't that say we are already deep into the problem, are already too deep in debt, and need to reprioritize? The bigger the debt is, the more legitimate spending will get squeezed. The longer we wait to address debt, the harder it will be to get out of the hole.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
Good luck everybody.
I wish these things had just a bit more memory. Most of the interesting algorithms I work with (bioinformatics) really want 4G of memory. A lot of them you can squeeze down to 2G but 1G is just out of the question.
I had a total of 11 views but only 5 are from CA. Good God this is an anxious moment.
>but we don't need empirical evidence to know that at some point interest payments will require highter tax revenues

When interest rates on bonds remain at or below the rate of GDP growth, this is not an issue. For the U.S. (and other countries which issue floating-rate non-convertible currencies) interest rates on bonds are a policy variable of the central bank.

http://www.cfeps.org/pubs/wp-pdf/WP53-Fullwiler.pdf
I wish economists made better plots
In your research, are you using a new programming language to take advantage of dataflow scheduling techniques, or are you working with one or more existing languages? If the latter, do you have any data or opinions on which languages or language features are most amenable to an effective dataflow-based architecture?
"I have four attractive writing tables, all made from Canadian wood and of considerable length."

But if I must be stupidly German:

"I have four attractive long Canadian-wood writing tables." Or maybe they're not made of Canadian wood, they're just bought in Canada: "I have four attractive Canadian long wooden writing tables".

Putting more than three qualifiers before a noun makes you an asshat. I can't remember more than three adjectives in a row, get to the damn noun already.
This is an unsatisfying response. It doesn't answer the question of why Reinhart and Rogoff chose to exclude certain high-debt years for certain countries or why they chose the particular weighting mechanism that the critics found problematic.
The point is to take legal scenarios like this and see how far they can be pushed. What if her parents were the ones auctioning her potential earnings off and using the money to pay of a mortgage. What if the following year they did it again for another 10%? Things get really sketchy when you draw up these kinds of contracts that revolve solely around an individual.
Totally agree, within Ebay-world.

My point was just that novice buyers have no conception that 'bad' doesn't mean what it means in the rest of the world. Maybe eBay need another level -- "Vindictive", say? ;-)
Tips for using a git pre-commit hook
Unfortunately I don't think there's an easy component x which you could test for.

How about weight though? I imagine most bombs are considerably heavier than normal refuse. Could we add scales to bins and notify authorities that it should be examined if the weight suddenly increases by 2+ standard deviations, say.

I suppose this could be worked around by dropping explosive material piecemeal into the bin so this would have to be paired with an effective surveillance system to pick up on this behaviour.
I used the word "charitable" because the "N" in this measurement is a hypothetical measurement of how much more secure 1Password could have been. But if that's a valid analysis, it's just as valid to say they should have been using scrypt. Which, sure, but who cares?
Amazing how many other similar services are out there.
I built http://amazd.com last year which is almost an exact replica of this service and offers much more. It uses browser extensions for a more seamless integration (FF, Chrome, safari and IE). It also lets you import books highlights. Plus you can sign up without facebook. Check out my profile for a taste: http://amazd.com/ahmad
I wrote a post about creating a Chip-8 emulator in JavaScript, if JS is your thing.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-eight-emula...
I ran into this too. It was annoying enough that I ended up just using bitbucket.
Show HN: BandFu, an experimental audio playground
Hey there, author of the article here. Just wanted to thank you for your help in closing the issue that I opened about adding GOW support on Windows. It's nice to know that Vagrant has an active and supportive community.
There's always the risk of voluntary default; either the Republicans are bluffing on not raising debt-ceiling, or they aren't.
Ironically you're using 'a work of art' in your defense while attacking a statement made in an artistic style.
could be worse, you could live in England.
Since N is generally measured in bits, I'd say it's reduced to N-1.
Or run the webapp itself inside a docker container? :)
Did you even read that first article?

Mike Daisey made up things. Big time. He invented things. His report was half fabrication, half stretching the truth. The New York Times, for all their credibility, did really go out of their way to paint a dramatic picture. Such is what happens when you want awards, and not the truth.

In any case, all this did spur Apple to crack down hard on Foxconn, but the infractions they've found so far are pretty minor. A handful of under-aged workers that submitted fraudulent paperwork. Some industrial accidents that, while unfortunate, do happen at a plant with 800,000 workers.

The deeper down in the supply chain, the more problems you'll find, but at least some are doing the right thing.

While working at Foxconn isn't as nice as working at, say, an American automotive plant, it's actually not a bad career for someone who's in their twenties, with no academic accreditation and looking to make a living.

If I had a choice between working in a toilet factory, a forge, or a Foxconn factory, I would go with Foxconn every single time.

All your rage seems misdirected. What about the people who built the American Embassy in Iraq and had to live in containers in the middle of the desert, who had their passports taken away, and who might never have been paid at all once "living expenses" were deducted from their pay?

Ah, but there's no "Apple" in the headline there, so it won't get any traction.
Pycon this year -> outreach and encouragement -> 20% of attendees were women: http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-...
>Not sure why they boarded us just to have us sit here for another hour (or more - no clue how long this will end up taking).

Every airline seems to have been doing this for decades now, and it boggles my mind why they do this. Do they think that getting people "on board" is demonstrating "progress! breakthroughs! we're moving forward folks!" or something and it's supposed to make us suddenly happy?

I'd so much rather spend the extra 2 hours at the gate than crammed into a 737 for the same amount of time, especially when they decide that they can't turn on the AC (when I was little, we were stuck in a fully packed 747 for 4 hours with no AC. They opened the front and back doors b/c it was so unbearable in there...)
Ah yes, of course. Thanks, completely forgot about the YouTube analytics.
Intel addressing broader markets, but smartphone chips not moving the needle
I would love to hire a designer/developer. Can you get in touch with me via my profile.
> All of them?

Hmm, don't agree here. East Bay cities I don't find particularly family-friendly: Berkeley (except for the hills $$$), Oakland (except for the hills $$$), Emeryville, Richmond, Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, basically the whole north 4 corridor.
first name, birthdate, country/region code to allow for regional variations.

Would make a nice exercise in fuzzy decision processes, but I suspect it isn't a great idea: you'd be better off leaving that field as "unknown" by default and writing "Dear Sir/Madam" if it is unknown.
An email address is not part of a painless signup as we don't know what type and quantity of emails we will receive. As a result, I will sign up with a disposable email and never return. As it happens, I went there on an android phone and found lots of problems with the layout. On that note though, HN is pretty bad for browsing on a phone too.
Funny because I was doing the math on this exact question the other week. I was thinking zero coupon bonds but conceptually they are similar. Basically computing the discount rate for a STEM degree in terms of forward earnings potential. Consider a technical degree with a starting salary of 75K going to 150K in year 10. With a linear progression that is basically about $1.0875M in salary over 10 years. 10% of that would be $108,750. Lets make the face value $100K, The question being what discount rate would you need to offer a bond at that matured in 10 years? 10 year treasuries [1] are currently at not quite 2%, junk bonds might be 6 - 7%. So at the low end we sell our bonds for $85K, pay them off in 10 years at $100K for an approximate 2% annual yield. But at 7% you have to sell them at $50K for an annual yield of 7%. So depending on how risky investors in this persons bonds considered them, would affect the discount rate for them. Then you could bundle these bonds into tranches and sell off the high end as treasury equivalent and the low end as a more speculative investment :-)

[1] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...
You can also SEE the internal state of the program, in its entirety, right in front of your face on the display. That's one of the best features of spreadsheets.
When you say things like "updated his profile" in your app, you're talking about individuals, often times to them. Those people have feelings, regardless of how "professional" the context is.

So don't assume anything unless you want to exclude people who don't fit in that binary box. It's not about being pedantic, it's about being considerate.
I hope you're right about the future trend; the cost of raising a family in NYC / SF is a big roadblock for moving out there even considering the opportunities available. Or the alternative solution is the promotion of telecommuting.
WhatsApp: Bigger Than Twitter
Small businesses help each other
Doesn't the FBI always ask for people to submit relevant info? The only difference I see here is that a lot more people were filming because of the race and the use of a buzzword.
Increasing participation of women in Free and Open Source Software
"Startup employees don’t make as much cash as I thought it would be. And that shouldn’t be the persp­ective." True. There are few reasons to work at a startup that won't pay and playing the lottery seems to be the all-time favorite.

Gold Rush indeed. Now if only the 49'ers could win a Super Bowl. No one else is winning in these conditions.
More impressive (and useful) would be an auction of time. Percent of salary can always be gamed.

I'm considering offering 5 years of a one-Saturday-per-month (12-hour day) consulting commitment for somewhere around ~400-800k. Taken as an hourly rate, it seems very high, but:

(a) I'll code, make introductions, advise, or whatever else is needed.

(b) smart people can add high value in small amounts of time ("fresh pair of eyes" effect). I'm sure there's someone out there who could extract that much value from me.

(c) if I became wildly successful, the person would be able to "pimp" my consulting services out to a client at a higher rate and pocket the difference, and

(d) with the 5-year commitment there's a huge call option involved that's probably worth more than the underlying.
Link to Google project page: http://code.google.com/p/virgil/
"The Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker shows that this is the least violent time in history.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/014312...
A hyphen also helps...

A Chinese vegetarian lawyer= a lawyer, who is both ethnic Chinese and vegetarian, where the set of vegetarian lawyers is more generally recognized than the set of Chinese lawyers

A Chinese vegetarian-lawyer= ethnic Chinese who practises law of vegetarian issues ("vegetarian" is a compound word, i.e. spoken quicker, at higher pitch, and with less gap before the following word)

A Chinese, vegetarian, lawyer= an ethnic Chinese who just happens to also be a vegetarian, ("vegetarian" is a non-restrictive phrase, i.e. spoken at lower pitch, with a longer gap both before and after)
Having just registered this account (and subsequently reading the news guidelines[1]), I feel like the title you posted clearly goes against this: "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."."

However, this didn't stop me from reading the article, which honestly felt a bit condescending (this line stuck out: "And don't kid yourself that it will ever look pretty. Without a designer's input, charts have a funny way of just not going well together."). As a young developer who is constantly looking for new (or new to me) and exciting tools, this is the sort of thing that turns me away from an otherwise handy or useful tool.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are other systems that work fine. Sabres real competive advantage is the existing customer base.
This is why it's silly for people to go into debt to pay for college.
Allegations of unnecessary procedures at hospital
Yeah, this is a crazy investment given the likely return. Presumably an anomalous result due to the novelty of the stunt. In a world in which such a thing were common and had no novelty value, we would expect the amount of money raised by such a deal to be probably under $50,000.
> 3^48/(3M attempts/s) ~= 3 years

But that's just with 2 GPU's! Any larger bitcoin miner has a few hundred (up to many more) of these graphics cards running. 100 GPUs would require only 20 days! Any larger entity could easily setup 1000 GPUs which cuts it down to 2 days, etc.

Probably there will be password cracking pools, similar to altcoin mining pools, which pay for your GPU resources in bitcoins.
Ask HN: Why is file sharing software not a cure for the RIAA disease?
"A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Something is broken when Sony and Universal are suing children. Actually, at least two things are broken: the software that file sharers use, and the record labels' business model." [1]

1) Why is file sharing software not a cure for the RIAA disease?
2) How is Grooveshark, Spotify, Pandora, etc any better than p2p? I can still listen for free.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
I would have taken 10% of her company + 10% of her salary so that in all cases my interests would be aligned with hers.

If her company is successful then she might just stay on with nominal CEO salary (<200k) so not much upside from the salary component.

10% of her salary would be my hedge (and hers) if the company failed.
Air Alaska is very innovative with using Satellite guidance for landings. It also has high margins compared with other airlines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/business/alaska-airlines-f...
I hope he publishes his results in the Journal of Irreproducible Results [1]

[1] http://www.jir.com/
Thanks for the detailed comment. It's interesting to hear from someone who worked on the OkTrends team. I'm still unconvinced that the reason they didn't start OKT back up is because they can't find some people like Chris Rudder or Chris Coyne to help. I found this excerpt interesting from a Quora article:

We had Christian Rudder writing the blog. Yes, he studied math at Harvard, but the math on OkTrends was high school level. And with a lot of statistical hand-waving and over-simplification. His posts were great because he's such an amazing writer, not because he's awesome at math. (He's certainly the best writer I know.)

Many startups stop innovating after they're acquired - OkCupid is definitely not one of them.

Can you elaborate on this? What innovation have they done since they were acquired by IAC, discounting Crazy Blind Date? I've used better mobile apps for dating than CBD, that app didn't work for me.
>It's called an opinion.

Which are like noses. Everybody has one.

>And his opinion is that merging Nibs is a nightmare. Does he need to document how he did it, when, where, and what the room temp was at the time to "justify" an opinion?

Does he needs to elaborate more in order to justify it?

Of course.
Can you get probabilities out ?
Relationships are more important than ambition
Ask HN: Best Programming Language For a Text-Graphics Game
My 13-year-old daughter wants to program. Specifically, she wants to create a text/graphics video game where all the graphics is done by text characters -- you know, like in the old games. She has a Win8 box.

So -- Is it C#? I gotta install that monster IDE and battleship of MS just for this?

I was wondering if anybody had any other ideas. Back in the days of dinosaurs, you'd just poke your graphics to the screen. Guess they don't do that anymore, huh?

The way she described it to me, she wanted to make her own game. (Cue exasperated sigh from father). But all she wants is to be able to press the arrow keys and have a little ASCII character move around on the screen. Hit the spacebar and have it shoot at some other ASCII characters representing the bad guys.

This seems like a very simple request, but dang if I can figure out how to simply set up a system to do it in.
In my experience they are pretty awesome at customer service. I emailed them a few months ago after someone published a weakness during the BlackHat Conference (https://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Belenko/bh-eu-12-Belenko...)

Jeffrey got back to me with a way-more-reasonable-than-expected answer:

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Hi Bernardo,

I'm sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I think I answered your question elsewhere, and so failed to get to the email followup.

The Belenko and Sklyorov analysis of a large number of password managers found that many of them (including 1Password) were vulnerable to a "padding oracle" attack.

We discussed the problem the day that the report came out, and released an update to 1Password for iOS (Mac and Windows versions were not affected) within a few weeks.

The specific vulnerability (that pretty much affected everyone who used the standard cryptographic libraries) is fascinating, and I'm hoping to write more about it some day. But for the moment, please see

http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/11/08/dont-trust-a-password-m...

which includes some links to the issue and what we did about it. The key paragraph is

"The [New York Times] article cites some of the research behind Elcomsoft’s scathing review (PDF) of password managers on mobile devices, which we wrote about last March. That report did included some issues in 1Password on iOS (which we quickly addressed), but it also shows that there is enormous variation in the quality of password managers. 1Password is clearly among the best."

It is hard to stay ahead of potential threats, and we slipped up in that case so had to play "catch up" instead. Although there was never a practical threat to people's data, as developing a practical tool to exploit the vulnerability would take some time. But the design flaw certainly opened the door for people to create such tools, so we did need to get this fixed quickly.

Still we try to look toward the future in our design and defend against potential threats that don't yet exist. We should have defended against all potential chosen ciphertext attacks (CCAs) no matter how "theoretical" before the padding oracle (a type of CCA attack) was actually discovered.

I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers,

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg
Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts @ AgileBits

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Hanlon's razor.
I'm a little annoyed at the name, because of Virgil, the Java-like language for embedded programming: http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/virgil/
@rorrr: You've been hellbanned for almost a month.

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His comment:

> It's nearly identical.

> There are around 170,000 english words (including all the obscure ones you've never heard and have no idea how to spell).

> Number of 4-word combinations:

170,000^4 = 8.35 * 10^20

> Lowercase (26) + uppercase (26) + digits (10) + special characters (36) = 98 characters

98^10 = 8.17 * 10^19

> An order of magnitude difference.

> And if they start bruteforcing with the simpler words (which you used in the example), there are only 5,000 - 10,000 of them, the number of your combinations drops dramatically:

5,000^4 = 6.25 * 10^14

10,000^4 = 10^16

> So unless you use very obscure words in your password, you are doing much worse than you think.