skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Expand the basement? Sure! Get a bunch of dogs? Why not! Commit to getting to know the neighbors? Sounds great. All while not having to worry about a landlord doing whatever they want at the end of a lease.

It's funny that two out of the three things you said are additional expenses that the house enables.

Of course, we aren't disputing the emotional value of owning a home. We're just saying that it's a poor financial decision most of the time.
It was mentioned before to help cut back on spam / sudden rushes of accounts. You must click "reply" on a comment for the prompt.
This is my login screen: http://imgur.com/w8gLXmY
Upvotes on this story suggest that others are seeing the same thing too.
Too many anti-dentites around :)
"You can't arrest me, I pay you" is facile in the legal context of individual rights vs. the common good. This is, in fact, the opposite - suppressing the common good (loosely, freedom of the press) for individual gain. I don't see how it's "essentially the same argument" at all.
You have to click submit to find the account creation page. I'm thinking that it's a subtle way by pg to slow down new signups.
Same for me. Even in Incognito Mode I can't see any way to sign up.
Sorry, I should have said "fees". I've recently had to deal with this process, and I've found a few vendors who charge a penalty if the attempt to charge my card doesn't go through for any reason.
True. However, in the majority of cases the math is overwhelmingly on the side of renters. Whereas conventional wisdom goes the other way. This is one of the reasons we had the housing crash. The house of cards can only stand for so long.
Disproportionate to how many people died. And calm down please.
So, how does that make it ok?
Aah, interesting approach.
So because his particular tool (or use of a tool) adds inconvenience or overhead means the entire concept is bunk?
Don't confuse the thing with the concept.

Tests are double checking your work. ("Yup. That condition I said would be true still is!"). The tighter and more lightweight we can get that feedback loop going the better out output and the more confident in our work we'll be.
They call it Motor City because it's where they used to make cars, not because it's pedestrian-unfriendly.
Can you expand a little bit for those of us who aren't as familiar with advanced pomodoro techniques?
Hue 2.3, an open source UI for making it easier to use Apache Hadoop
iOS, Metro, and probably Chrome OS are not going to allow a new plugin.
I was just discussing this with my co-worker.

How is a new dictionary supposed to source definitions without using current dictionaries? Aren't existing dictionaries essentially the "canon"?
In particular for spammers.

A few months ago we really cracked down on spammers. Anyone who looks at /newest with showdead turned on has probably noticed the difference.
Unless said ATM has been compromised :s
Wow, the amount of circlejerking in here about Microsoft by people who apparently know very little about the company is extremely depressing.
Markus 'Notch' Persson Currently Second Most Influential Person
I would say it's surprise factor combined with sensitivity to terrorist attacks.
Same for me. I've got topics 12+yrs old still open on Disqus (the topics started before disqus and comments were imported when I switched). I get very little spam (knock on wood)

I dislike closed comments though sometimes I have to remind people to look at the date of the post :-p
Taking the pain out of debugging with live programming
I have read that also (multiple times actually) and the statement never made sense to me - of course in hindsight you would start with something like Flask because you ran into all of the scaling problems with Django, but there would be no way to fix these problems before they occurred - and if you did try to fix them before they would occurred, it would be premature optimization. It seems like a example of what Taleb's calls the "Narrative Fallacy"

http://cij.inspiriting.com/?p=364#
You can say it any way you want, but Apple devices will only support FairPlay (which will not be available on any non-Apple platform) and I would expect Chrome OS to only support Widevine. There will not be interoperability.
What is the difference between currying and partial application
Google Glass to start shipping in waves
Email from Google regarding Glass:

Dear Explorers,

It’s been a little under a year now since Google I/O — you came to the keynote, we jumped out of an airship, and when we landed, we asked you to join us on this unpredictable yet exciting journey. Back then, we had no idea how Glass would be received. In just two and a half days, we went from 0 to around 2000 Explorers: people who believe in the project, who are ready for a challenge and who will (most importantly) help shape the future of Glass.

Ever since then, we’ve been working hard on the Glass Explorer Edition and we have great news: the hardware and software are now ready for you. We’re seeing the first few devices come off the production line right now.

We know you’ve been standing by patiently to get Glass. So, instead of waiting for all of the devices to be ready, we want to start delivering them to you now. We’re producing enough for everyone, but only a portion of them are ready today. Therefore, we’ll be notifying you in waves, and as soon as we’re ready to invite you, we’ll let you know. When the time comes, you’ll receive an email with all the details.

Thanks for believing in us from the start. We’re very lucky to have you all as our first pioneers, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you once you’ve all received your Glass.

Here’s to the next step.

The Glass Team
I am not sure that "gospel truth" is a fair characterization.

Anonymous IRC person has provided verifiable details that strongly suggest he or she had access to Linode administrative systems. Fyodor's post to nmap-dev supports the notion that customer nodes were accessed as well.

Linode has provided no details or evidence of anything.

I don't think one has to take that IRC log as gospel truth to be reasonably concerned about the security of their data stored by Linode.
My second thought is how weird it is that for the next couple of days the attention and focus of a 100s of millions of people's will be directed at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of perhaps 20 people of no particular notability. It's as if these are the only 20 people that died lately. The attention and focus of the public in this modern era of global communications is a strange thing.
cool @datadiver. LMK if you need any help. FWIW, I implemented the infinite scrolling when I was at LinkedIn ;)
That's a scarier prospect than the opposite.
"Another 10% of people between the age of 18-64 in the United States have a disability."

According to the CDC, 27.1% of Americans between the ages of 18-64 have at least one disability. Anyone know why the census numbers are different?
I just bought a home and 40% of my payments are principal from day 1. That's at 3.5% interest. If you get a conventional loan instead of a jumbo, you can do even better than that. Mortgage interest deductions make the calculus even better. Plus tax-free capital gains.

It was quite the slam-dunk easy decision to make where I live (San Francisco), considering how hot the rental market is. My house rents for $1k more than the monthly mortgage!
They need DRM due to the reality of their relationship with Hollywood. There's nothing to debate. Either they get DRM support in HTML5 and switch to it, or they continue to use plugins and apps.
Do you know how many people die in hospice care each day? Do you expect heavy coverage of them?
But they talk about the "how" (the EME) as a done deal, when they don't seem to be, given Mozilla's opposition; more people will have to be convinced for this to actually work. Besides, everyone knows their proposed "how" already. A blog post that just says want to move to HTML5 delivery using this set of extensions they've already publicly supported for this purpose doesn't add much to the discussion.
> did they believe they could learn and work in the industry?

> did they get encouragement and support along the way?

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

> did the person believe they had the skills and expertise to submit?

These reasons are exactly why quota systems are used.

If there isn't anyone from your particular group at a highly demanding conference panel, or visible in your industry, you're much less likely to become a part of it... even though you're more than capable of performing at that level if you put the time in.
> How is a new dictionary supposed to source definitions without using current dictionaries? Aren't existing dictionaries essentially the "canon"?

No, because that isn't how dictionaries work. Dictionaries, and this goes back to the very first dictionaries, have always paid people to look at current usage and write definitions based on that. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive; they reflect usage, not control it.

The OED is well-known for its citations backing up its definitions, and they have a very strong bias towards actual usage as opposed to other dictionaries.

Edited to add: Some dictionaries are prescriptive to an extent. Those are the ones that define terms used in a controlled vocabulary, such as technical terms used in a specific field. When the CRC handbook says that this is what 'butyl' means, for example, it is pretty well taken to be prescriptive among chemists.
It's easy to end up with a test that is not about correctness, but "did line 1 get called, did line 2 get called, etc.".

Yes, it's easy to write bad tests. But that does not reduce the value of good tests!
I think its because the threads are getting too much traffic. It seems like reddit first will make a thread read only then will remove it from the front page, this all seems temporary. This is all from observation though Im not sure the actual algorithms involved here.
this isn't about encrypting it to prevent others from seeing it. It's about encrypting it so the viewer can't control it.
Here is the article that Slashdot is referring to:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/459054/taking_pain_debug...

A more original discussion on LtU:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4715

The actual paper being discussed (warning, PDF!):

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/189802/mcdirmid13.pdf
Further, American Exceptionalism manifests itself entirely differently than other countries'. America sees its own as a right or even mandate to "spread liberty and freedom" to the world. The parent states the following:

>But those other countries do not claim moral high ground in the same way the US does on so many other issues, or claim to lead the world with respect to values such as freedom and democracy

This is effectively the definition of America's brand of Exceptionalism and it is that to which I was referring.

It is a far cry from simple nationalism or "thinking one's country is the best".
My first reaction was that pg's original tweet was really tasteless, but after mulling it over, I went and donated anyway. Perhaps at least a tiny bit of good can come from this.
That mathematical error corrects itself over time. I now own my house. Rent is forever.
Pentagon scraps medal for drone pilots after uproar
>>Of course there are risks. That's why we carry insurance.

Which also has a cost... You are not negating risk by buying insurance. You are simply offloading it to another party and paying them money on a regular basis. At the end of the day, it's still an expense.
I did not get an amber alert, and I am in Boston. Maybe due to the cell signal jamming to stop any additional detonations. I had to call family from Google Voice on my laptop to get in touch. Pretty crazy
It may be a fan usage thing in American English, but I've never heard any British person talk about LEGOs.
I can't get it to move past this... http://puu.sh/2ATlK

I have a computer with a touch screen, but I'm not using it. It happens in Firefox and Chrome.
He only called attention to those who were not directly involved with the event. Nobody injured or within range to have a traumatic experience from the event was reading pg's twitter feed and getting offended. Only you were.
You just summed this whole thing up in a nutshell.
I'm the guy that built it: During the tests, I had to guess the current count based on the estimate that one full iteration was about 10 seconds. This was not a good estimate and it made me overshot the actual number. When the test was finally over I was able to see on the SD-card the final 'real' total of 37,112. I'm making a new video explaining some of this.
It is pragmatic to be dogmatic in a context where there is a a temptation to cut corners which will result in non-obvious, severe negative consequences.
Or how HTTP 404 is served with content.... (e.g. http://github.com/xyzzyeieio - there's a good 134KB text/html with your 404 error code)
"We wrote the first scoring algorithm at Goalee based on the red-green light. Within a couple of weeks we made our first algorithmic change, and made several quick fix releases to update the scoring methods in the following weeks. By the end of the month, a whole section of our testing suite was almost completely worthless. In a world where cash is king, I wouldn’t mind having those dollars back."

What I don't understand about comments like this is that a whole section of your code, both runtime / deliverable code and test code had become worthless. But, you only seem to view the discarded test code as wasted effort. Either the tests have value or they don't. And, if you write tests, and then discard the code they test, you'll likely also discard the tests. But, that doesn't change whether or not the tests had value, nor whether the new tests that you'll write for the new code have value.
The wikipedia article doesn't say, but I'm curious if "esquivalience" or "dord" (another example) have been used in error to support their fictitious definitions, thus becoming suitable for inclusion in newer dictionaries.
Agree, integration test is cost-effective.
And I would like to rephrase "integration test" as "test from outside as much as possible".
I completely disagree, and I'd be interested in hearing a defense of your beliefs.

People are suffering the world over. Some suffering is less shocking and unique than other suffering (and therefore less newsworthy), but suffering is suffering just the same. Widely-covered events such as this one should serve as a reminder to us all of the constant suffering going on the world over that is not covered. For any moral person, the thought of living in a world in which less than 1% of human suffering garners more than 99% of the attention should be unbearable.

I have no idea how you can say that helping people in one area "has nothing to do with" helping people in another.
Maybe they really hate exercise.
Mapmakers have been doing this for a long time.
Lots of interesting startups in the Bay Area doing things more than just a typical CRUD apps. Square, Parse are two to name a few.

If you secure a job there, I'm sure you'll be able to pay the rent.
What I do is not follow news of any sort. Then a few years later I realize I am still alive...must not have been important!
Would you like Federal Information Security Amendments Act, Cybersecurity Enhancement Act or Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)?
>>Mobility. When you need to exit a house and relocate, you can do so without waiting for a lease to expire.

Yeah, instead you need to find a buyer, which in most places is not an easy task, especially in a housing market flooded with cheap foreclosed homes. In addition, you have to hope that the house has not depreciated in value during your ownership - which can happen due to factors totally outside your control (such as foreclosures in your neighborhood).

In other words: if you need to move, don't count on having the ability to sell your house quickly and without loss.
Encryption != DRM. All of that stuff you can do now with SSL. No one cares about video streams over SSL. It's what happens after the SSL layer that matters.
There have always been "market-makers" why do you care if they are algorithmic or human ?
Male executives obviously gave us a much higher acceptance rate (lol anything over 0% acceptance would be higher). But we also had a larger pool of guys to invite/recruit (more males and more visibility of these guys).
It seems to me that you have a few options to create a new account.

1) Click add comment while viewing a comment thread.
2) Try to up-vote anything from anywhere
3) Click Submit from anywhere
Ask HN: What ecommerce platform do you use?
I've been setting up shopify today. But it seems overly complicated. I was wondering if there are better solutions out there.
A great many people simply cannot fathom the idea of mature, responsible adults choosing not to procreate.
No, I don't think so. I'm not really sure how historic buildings could cause blight.

I know a big "urban renewal (read: slum-clearing) project in Newburgh demolished the historic waterfront in the 60s/70s. Then they never built anything to replace it.

Here's an good overview of the boom/bust: http://www.newburghrevealed.org/historymigration.htm

"One long time resident remarked, "Newburgh was a nice, solid town. Then everything changed. Just like that""
Unfortunately, HR departments do not have the time or resources to take into account differences in individuals. When looking at two resumes, they have to evaluate them based on certain criteria, and they have to assume that all other things are equal. (They rarely are, but life is unfair like that.)
You disagree that this is a systemic problem, while finding people to blame throughout the system...?
Thanks for the update Carter. I'll root for you.

one point to make. The interface and the performance don't have to appear at once. The interface will be the longer lived portion. So sort that out, and you can focus on performance as problems crop up.

I know it's horribly boring to say, but getting those
first few customers gets you into a virtuous cycle. Given that you're bootstrapped, even a few customers will get you in a very good place, where you can spend on development.

I remember us (or rather I) talking about Mathematica. When it first came out it was horrible for numerics. Truly terrible. But it was easy to transfer technical papers to. You simply wrote down what was on the paper, and you were done.

So people used it, and eventually performance got better over time as they invested in it.
1) Test your APIs. A public API, especially one that is key to your business, should be near 100% coverage. And attacked to look for security/usability/load problems.

2) Test enough during development to support later regression tests, and to make sure that the design is testable. This can usually be achieved with less than 20% coverage. But if you write production code that's so screwy it can't be regression tested, then you've got big problems.

3) Test any parts that scare you or confuse you or make you nervous. Use "test until you're more bored than scared" here.
It varies a lot; in California the legal maximum is two months' rent, and it's fairly common for landlords to demand the maximum. That can be a significant hit unless you stay in the same place for years.
I built a site on shopify. It's actually quite easy but the trade off is cost and some flexibility in how checkout is handled.
We Need a Culture of Feature Killing
Detroit's urban planners made a lot of big mistakes. When the freeways were built in the fifties they cut entire neighborhoods in half. When Reneissance Center was built on the river in the words of one critic they pulled people off the streets and installed them in a fortress cut off from the rest of downtown.

But other cities made equally dumb mistakes but they recovered. The riots in 1967 scared people and began the destruction. I went downtown with my grandfather two weeks later and it looked like a war zone with buildings still smoldering.

Dan Gilbert is wagering a billion dollars of his fortune to turn things around and so far imho is doing very well indeed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/business/dan-gilberts-ques...

The NYT sees what Gilbert is doing as a philanthropic effort but Detroiter's see him more as a Billy Beane type.

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/4496/the_new_york_ti...
Devastating. Horrific.
(I'm the guy that built it): Totally true, I build a lot of stuff and the goal of this build was to make it work fast. In doing so I realized that I underestimated the strength needed to assemble and disassemble LEGO bricks. I actually planed to build a much better one using linear motion instead of rotation motion.
There are some apps that let you block sites effectively for a block of time (like selfcontrol for mac), but I didn't see any that monitor your daily usage and then block the sites. (Though various extensions do that.)
The urban rot problem is intrinsic to real estate. People don't sell when the value goes down. The fuckers hoard for decades (keeping prices artificially high) while the poor suffer and everything goes to hell.

Then, after something more like 30 or 40 years, real estate is affordable again (sometimes dirt cheap) and people can buy, but not most of the people who live there.
IE6?
Hey, this is very close to something I've been needing recently (and in Go, nonetheless).

Is there any way to get a similar thing for a sliding window of a stream? For example, to be able to report (estimated) 90th percentile latencies for server requests in the last 5 minutes, hour, and day.
It's a well-written post and impressive coding, but what else do you want people to say? "Look at those caches caching?"
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You should try xbmcbuntu on a htpc sometime.
What if Apple decides to ban Netflix from the store due to a perceived slight, or because Apple decides to compete directly?
Because people forget about the horrors occurring every day all around the world. People don't realize what is happening else where until it's in their own backyard, and even then, they will go back to sipping their lattes and living their lives in no time.

I find the fact that there is is an argument over this far more tasteless and rude.
Sorry about that, I should have given you some point of contact here.

I've sent you an email (found on your GH).
Whenever the world is shaken by some awful tragedy, the event is followed by an outpouring of kindness. I remember a trip to NYC right after 9/11; the good will was palpable from our cabbies to our friends. Sandy Hook had a similar affect...

In every case I can think of, the cumulative good will so vastly outweighed the malice behind the incident that it felt like the worlds Karma account was being made whole again and then some. From what I've seen, most everybody pitches in with some kind gesture.

Regarding @paulg's Tweet, the volume of RTs/Favorites so vastly outweighed the few negative comments, I'm led to believe that most people empathized with the reaction to do something kind.

As for the few who reacted negatively: It seems that any comment that is heard by a sufficiently large audience will be misinterpreted by some. I tend to doubt that they willfully misinterpreted the intent... but that's just a hunch.
The behaviour of the people in the ad is exactly the type of behaviour that facebook can thrive off. Glance around in public occasionally and note that half the people looking at their phones are looking at facebook. I think this is the first time that facebook has so blatantly approved of that behaviour, though.

Side-note: Was the adversary in the recent Doctor Who episode (Bells of Saint John) a metaphor for this type of facebook behaviour?