skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well walking is way more dangerous per mile than driving, this was touched on by Steve Levitt in Super Freakonomics, it looks like in Britain the mortality rate is about 10 times higher per vehicle mile http://road.cc/content/news/68212-dft-casualty-statistics-ra....

Of course, that is general foot transportation. Marathons have different risk factors, you aren't going to get hit by a car (if it's a well organized marathon with a set path and stuff) but I bet there are a lot of medical issues that arise from marathons and overexertion. If I were a betting man, I'd think the marathon was probably more dangerous.
It won't even by necessary to completely remove them. They could just turn down the cursors' opacity proportional to how off they are.
Remember when the Linode customer service portal was compromised which exposed everyone's VPS?:
http://julianyap.com/2012/03/01/compromised-linode-vps.html

In that case, specific Bitcoin users were targeted.

It's pretty much why I don't trust Linode.

You can't trust a company which puts random AMI BIOS files on the main index directory on the main web site. You can't trust a company that can't even lock down their own Linode customer service portal (which could lead to a breach of each and every customer's VPS).

Perhaps history is fuzzy for people when new announcements come out or low prices are around.
Problem is, who's going to pay?
Unemployed, especially long term unemployed don't have any money since they can't blow their monthly food budget on a 15 minute consultation.
Secondary explosions ( and/or fires ) reported (on MSNBC shortly before Chris Jansing took over coverage at 4PM EST) at the JFK Library and another undisclosed location.

Footage of black fumes from (allegedly) the JFK Library has been briefly shown before cutting back to the coverage of the main explosion at the Boston marathon.

The fire at the library has been initially reported to have been controlled. No casualties or injuries have been reported.

A curious mention of "manuscripts" (not being damaged) has been reported (on MSNBC) as well.

CNN is yet to report any such secondary explosions as of the current time (4:10 PM EST).

CNN has also not shown any footage of black fumes from a different location.

The fumes at the Boston marathon explosions were distinctly white in color.
Mozilla is apparently using this in their AMO/Marketplace codebase:

http://firefox-marketplace-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/top...
I received an Amber Alert for a girl from Philadelphia a few months ago on this system (or a similar one). It was surreal being in a restaurant and hearing over a dozen phones go off almost simultaneously.
The Cigital-recommended way to hash your passwords is to use an HMAC/scrypt combo, with the HMAC key stored on the app server (not the database).

What Linode did may, or may not, be dumb. They are being tight-lipped so we can only guess.
As much as I respect your spirit, you are missing out on so much of the world.

I was you once. I worked, alone, in my little bubble for four of my teenage years. It was great, I learned a large chunk of what makes me a good developer, but a lesson - there are times where productivity should be secondary.

People are the spice of life, they color the world, they give it flavor and texture and reason. The right people make those crushing moments bearable, and gently mock you when you achieve greatness because they knew you when you were nothing more than a laptop and bundles wide-eyed optimism.

There is nothing more liberating than the feeling of having someone know you, really know you, and know them back. It gives you this intuitive ability to look into them and know what they are thinking as if it were a sense, like touch or smell or taste.

People hurt, they snarl and they wound, but the right people are so impossibly worth it. It's just a matter of finding the right people, and that's something a lifetime of happiness, pain, disappointment and kindness will give you.

Don't change, but don't resign yourself to a life of solitude. I'm just a preachy comment on a preachy website you could click a little x on to close in a second, but try to embrace the silly things the world throws at you, set some time aside to stop working and just be.

J
"A confirmed explosion at the JFK library, we're going to need to deploy resources there" on the EMS scanner just now - that's a third?
Listening to BFD radio, you hear a lot of chatter about additional "secondary devices" and "suspicious packages" even now. Apparently they have a large group of bomb-sniffing dogs they are moving around to check these things out.
I really really really hope the biz+tech combo validates... because then I could occasionally stop and think "holy fuck, I'm bootstrapping my fantasy job / company, the likes of which I imagined / dreamed of as way back as middle school and high school!"

Realistically theres 3 different outcomes:

the tech doesnt validate (and thus the biz doesnt either) --- then i'm looking for a day job ... (and I'm pretty darn egomaniacal and loud, finding a good fitting dayjob would take a bit of work!)

the tech works yet the business doesnt --- Not sure how that would happen esp since no investors means enough income to support myself would still be a successful business, though I guess i'd have some compelling portfolio work if I went job hunting

the tech and biz both validate, and earning enough to move out of my parents --- magic pony fantasy land of awesome. what more could anyone want? MORE AWESOME PROBLEM DOMAINS THAT NEED BETTER TOOLS (i mean, that would really be sort of the ideal, but remains to be seen if that can happen.)
Agreed. I used to run a test lab for a company that made electrical cables and interconnects. We'd create fixtures all the time for specialized mate / demate tests. Most of the fixtures were created by technicians who had built up experience over time and got good at rigging them up quickly. You do need to have a tinkerer / puzzle solver type of mentality, though.
None of those are binding credit agreements, which was OP's complaint
I am interested in what this was as it sounds cool, but it is down at the moment. Could you tell us a bit more about it?
The aim of the WTC attack was to make a very symbolic action: the goal was to destroy three symbols of American power, its military, economic, and political might, though the last ended up physically unscathed. Obviously a huge number of deaths associated with it, but the symbolism was key. You knew exactly where the attackers stood--American power is evil--once you heard a description of the attacks.

This, in contrast, is incomprehensible violence. I can think of a dozen different viewpoints that could have driven it, but we'll have to wait for some idiotic statement from the criminals who did it before we have a clue "why" they did it.
The behavioral studies basically bear out a combination of what she's saying and what you're saying.

Essentially: the quality of a team's output tends to approach the lowest common denominator within the team, which, by definition, is lower quality than the output of the team's best member. Conversely, the individual contributor's output is improved by consideration of outside perspectives -- be they provided by team members, bosses, consultants, etc.

In essence, the most functional structure is a team in which each member has a clearly defined role to contribute. You're not forcing each decision to be group-thunk; rather, you're allowing each member to excel at what he or she excels in, then coming together to integrate and discuss.

Design by consensus is almost always a recipe for failure. It's important to distinguish between consensus-seeking (bad) and input-seeking (good). A productive group helps the individual refine and improve his work. An unproductive group debates every piece of work until it finally settles on something that nobody's too unhappy with (and often, that nobody's too thrilled with).
Site is down cause it's built on rails
Yup, I use this all the time. They even, recently, added support to multi-use cards with bigger expire dates.

I wonder how hard would it be to make a startup like this.
Think how exactly the alerts happen is up to the OEM, beyond 'loud noise'. The iPhone uses something similar to the EBS tone in 1s bursts (it was 1AM when mine fired, so I can't say with certainty if it was the same tone or not). I've heard similar from other Android users, but I've shut off the alerts on all my phones since.
I upvoted this because it was hilarious. I can only hope it was intentionally so.

"Hodgson Gestation Services, LLC"
I posted a new We the People petition about this issue:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/close-guantanamo-b... .
MRI is more of a nickname. The software is actually called "Ruby", but thats confising nowadays.
I can guess as to why you're being downvoted.

Capitalization. Nonsensical reference to corporations that has nothing to do with this event. Lack of domain knowledge regarding already existing FCC notification systems. Random mention of New York, which is neither geographically proximal to Boston nor affected by this event.

EDIT: I know there's a statement regarding NY being "on alert" but there is no indication they have any reason to do so, or are doing so in reaction to anything.
When you look only at the % of speakers who have a particular attribute, you're looking at the output of a very long process spanning years.

Before the schedule was announced.. did the organizers get the speakers they wanted or did some decline?

Before that.. when CfP responses were rated, did the submitters provide relevant supporting material like a resume of previous speaking appearances (to demonstrate speaking skill) and blog posts, articles, etc (to demonstrate expertise in the topic).

Before that.. did the submitters have writing and speaking skills that made them comfortable to submit?

Before that.. was the CfP well-publicized to relevant groups, companies, etc?

Before that.. was the CfP entirely open? Was it invite only? Was it a blend of the two with only some of the slots open to the CfP?

Before that.. did the person believe they had the skills and expertise to submit?

Before that.. did the person actually have the skills and expertise to submit?

Before that.. did the person have a job or interests to give them the opportunity to learn those skills?

Before that.. did they get encouragement and support along the way?

Before that.. did they receive the education to get the job or choose those interests?

Before that.. did they believe they could learn and work in the industry?

Before that.. did the person have the aptitude for those skills?

If the number at the beginning of this process is small and every one of those steps chips away at the entire group - let alone those with particular genders, ethnicities, etc - of course the output is going to be low.
How exactly to you propose affordable consumer hardware is going to accommodate hundreds of radios covering the entire range of useful spectrum?
Boston Marathon Explosion Photos
We treat old people the same...
> I mean, why pay hundreds of dollars for HD TVs, period.

Because you can't find HD TVs that cost under "hundreds of dollars"? :D

I don't watch TV that much, and bought a cheap 32" LCD for some videogaming + developing interactive applications for which I need a large screen, and had to pay ~$350 for it.
The police think it is explosives. Or at least that is exclusively what is being discussed via scanners.
Whitehouse.gov petition to close Gitmo
Your First Pull Request
this is why i always use my "virtual credit card" on web sites that store CCs.
This is the concept of affirmative action at it's core. Do we base admission partly on demographics instead of merit? On one hand it may help promote the minority, though there are downsides as well.
Gold suffers biggest one-day drop since 1980s
Sorry for my potential utter ignorance, but this sounds a lot like woowoo.

Do you have any source that refers to such a thing as "synchronization of brain sectors" that leads to "refined, less fuzzy thinking"?
The fire at the JFK Library has just been reported as mechanical and non-suspicious or 'affiliated' with the explosions.

Source: http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive/
7-news live broadcast

Update:

https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/323886879453892609

It was an intentional and controlled detonation of a 'device'.
Yes, probably.

The bell tolls for thee and all that, but unless you're directly involved somehow or are in a position to do something about it, there is very little point to focusing your attention on it. This goes double if you have tendencies to obsess or get depressed about bad news like this.
I think that's intentional. Imagine the impact of your "How to work with women" list with similar satirical pseudo-rationalization of bad behaviors.

The existence of the list seems as much an example of what not to do as are its contents.
Via reddit -> Update 25: Scanner: Confirmed explosion at JFK Library.
broadcastify seems to not handle the pike in traffic.
Here is a working link for the boston police scanner
http://www.broadcastify.com/scripts/playlists/1/6254/-546422...
I think he missed one of the most obvious rent-seeking behaviors - fees. And reducing price transparency in general

Whether you are flying across the country, visiting the doctor, or trying to get Internet installed at your house, a large portion of the actual cost will probably be hidden from you. The travel industry, in particular, lives and dies by how well it hides the true cost from you.

Finding ways to make people pay more for the same things is a large and ever growing component of the economy that is fundamentally non-productive.
Risk per hour is what I am personally more interested in.
Oh, no. If anything, it's the opposite.

"Post-technological" was terrible word choice on my part. I meant "post-technological transition" but there is no way anyone could have known that based on what I actually said.

The last transitions were 10000 BC (into agrarian) and about 1750 (into the industrial era). The technological transition is underway. We're probably 10-20% technological at this point.
>I mean, we are invariably worse singers so it surely makes it sound worse and this is besides the fact that signing ourselves drowns out much of the original sound anyway!

I like Chesterton's quote on the issue: "Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest".

See, this "I make the song worse" is a total cultural distortion, a byproduct of the rise of "specialists" (singers, artists, athletes) which other people passively admire.

In past human culture, for example, singing is a shared community experience that belongs to everyone, and all participate in. It doesn't matter if you do it better or worse than somebody else, because the joy is in doing it, and in the participation.
Following the traditional responsibility/accountability dichotomy: They are responsible for storing the cc number securely but you are accountable when something goes wrong (because you gave them that task)

Much like Linode are responsible for hosting my clients site but I sigh am accountable when something goes wrong.
And for the record, that doesn't mean I like the result. I just think we need to look at this as a systemic problem and address it as such.. not blame the people at the end.

For example, my undergradate engineering school adopted a bunch of Girl Scout troops to encourage and grow interest in STEM. It has taken years but female enrolment has increased by 50%.. and they're not just shuffling from other schools. They're growing the pool of qualified candidates.
The worst part for me (and I really am feeling bad about this) is that I should be concerned about the victims right now, but I can't stop thinking about what freedoms I'll be losing as a result of this.
Kavuq: Make your AJAX/JavaScript content crawlable by search engines
Another explosion just happened at the JFK library according the police scanner. Or a fire. Could be unrelated.

There was another bomb they found downtown and set off in a bomb squad van in a controlled way (heard it on the scanner and another friend living down there confirmed hearing that).

I'm impressed at the police response- very organized.
Thanks. I thought I was just dumb.
If you know someone who was running the marathon and haven’t heard from them, you can see if they logged times here:
http://raceday.baa.org/individual.html
JUST FYI: This is camping on a simple dev server, so I'm sorry it keeps going down. I'm doing my best to keep it online. Thanks!
Haha.

I agree. It has some great and inspiring ideas but definitely not a blueprint for anyone. For example, I have no desire to live abroad so I completely disregarded the travel parts of the book, which is at least half of the book's content. I mean I did listen to those parts (via audiobook), but I focused my attention elsewhere.

Whenever reading or listening to something, whether a book, podcast, or blog post, I look for at least one idea that I can apply to my own life. If I find something, then it was a worthwhile read/listen.
> Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name?

It's because there are a ton of Ruby implementations. MRI is the name for the official one that Matz works on.

If he said "Ruby's method caches," he would be wrong, this is about details of MRI specifically, and not, say, JRuby or Rubinius.

Given how much hackers love TLAs, and that there are what, 2600 of them, it's inevitable that there will be some amount of namespace clash. Ruby people reading a Ruby blog post aren't going to be confused about it, and while others may have momentary confusion, a few seconds later it's pretty clear what's being discussed.

Terms of Art are hard.
I'm in the same situation...
i've looked at how it compiles to llvm, and it basically punts any optimization to the llvm side, aside from the most basic tracing jit method monomorphization/specialization.

(as in, I spent part of an afternoon end of last week skimming the entire code base).

This is troubling, because when you don't design your language to make it "manageable" to do static analysis / optimization on, it be becomes DIFFICULT to add that capability later. Julia is about as dynamic as JS or Scheme or Lua, plus it has all those runtime type tag cases in code... but whereas JS has relatively unbounded manpower (relatively!) to make a fast JIT, whereas lua is a small enough language that we have the amazing impressive LuaJIT, whereas Scheme is designed with very thoughtful semantics / specifications in mind, Julia lacks.

more succintly, Julia lacks a clear enough thoughtful choice in static/dynamic semantics for the pre LLVM side to have an easy optimization story given a small sized core team, such optimization engineering will either take a long time to develop, or will require some commercial entity to sink serious capital into writing a good JIT / optimizer. LLVM is a good backend, but it can't leverage the semantics of the input language, just the semantics of the LLVM bitcode you provide. You really really can't punt on optimization on the before LLVM side.

also: Julia doesn't have a type system, it has a dynamic check system. (Show me the code for static type check in the julia code base as it exists on github and I'll owe you a beer :) )

Let me repeat: Julia doesn't have clear static semantics / phase distinction, and doesn't really seem to do anything beyond method specialization before passing code on to LLVM. This means it can't get compelling performance compared with any other LLVM backed language.

LLVM is amazing, and i use ghc -fllvm exclusively, and while theres some really really awesome optimizations that LLVM does for haskell code (for example), a HUGE amount of high level code performance is really depending on the language (any language!) doing optimizations before passing things onto the LLVM.
Well, TSA will start checking marathonists anytime soon.

Ban me or whatever you need to do but the reality is that one bomb and Americans cry, while at the same time incentivate thousands of bombs and deads in Mexico for their useless "war on drugs" and also creating pointless wars around the world (eg. Iraq)
bloomberg reporting two more devices have been found
It depends. The interest portion is very high in the beginning of the mortgage and very low at the end.

In a typical 30yr mortgage, you will make 360 monthly (roughly equal) payments. If your mortgage payment is $1000/mo, payment #1 will be approximately $950 interest and $50 principal. Payment #360 will be ~ $50 interest and $950 principal.

Most people move every five or six years (historical, might not be true with current RE market), so they complete about 20% of their total mortgage schedule. However, because of this ramped apportionment, most people still owe the lender much more than 80% of their initial purchase price.

The first time I did the math on this, I thought I had discovered a huge consumer-hostile scam. But actually it's quite reasonable -- mortgages are designed to keep payments equal over the term of the loan, so there's really no other way to do it.
You're right, I ignored the depreciation on the remainder of the mortgage and assumed that when you sold the house, there would be no loss on that.

Incredibly stupid example. Embarrassing really. Objection withdrawn
The issue with Gitmo is that we're no treating others as we'd want to be treated. 10+ years with no proof/trial, simply because we've made up a new word "enemy combatant" to circumvent the Geneva Conventions... not exactly cool.
Bloomberg quoting AP: 2 additional devices found and being dismantled in Boston right now.

(3:24p CST)
"because it'll be easier to just spend half an hour doing this instead of spending hours upon hours disputing specific transactions."

I live on the internet. Put my credit card out on many services. Over the last 5 to 8 years I've had my credit card numbers taken I believe 4 times.

Never had to dispute it once. These Credit Card companies and Banks have a stake in not allowing your account to be drained.

I think it would be a waste of time to go out and cancel our CC until hearing from Linode that yes, CC information was taken.
>I'm sure to other people perhaps taking time off is seen as some sort of weakness, but you don't want to work for those people anyways.

Ideally. But for anyone outside of tech and possibly financial, it's a buyers market. If you have bills to pay, and a family to support, you may not afford to be so picky.
That's one of the reasons I use Republic Wireless (I'm just a customer and not affilated in any way) - my cell phone can route calls over any open WiFi hotspot it can find.
So here's what Linode support is actually saying when asked about the breach:

Thank you for contacting us. We have no evidence at this time that any payment information was compromised.
http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive/
Just confirmed that the fire at JFK library was unrelated and mechanical?

Source?
The Play Store does not offer to install it on my Nexus 4, which is on AT&T via Straight Talk. All choices are greyed-out.
Should be up now
Added the fine print. Better?
Ask HN: Eastern European startups where did you find your investors?
Also how much did you receive in seed funding? How much % did you give for the initial finding?
Seriously? Because you had so much more freedom in 1999?
25%

However, blindly following advice on renter-ship is as bad as blindly following advices on homeownership. Every situation is different, and you should do your math per your specific situation.
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Linode might not actually release a response
I agree that home ownership is not a good investment. Between mortgage interest, property taxes, home owners insurance, and maintenance, the ROI will be negative. Not to mention most homes barely appreciate beyond inflation. People say that with rent, all your money is going out the window. The same can be said for owning a home.