skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who make that suggestion don`t know that there are tools like ResolverONE. It is a spreadsheet that your finance people can use as usual. But when it comes time to validate assumptions and check the calculations, a professional developer can take the generated Python code, write unit tests and other kind of tests to make sure that it does what is intended. Creating spreadsheets could become a collaboration between professionals in finance and professionals in software development. The tools exist to allow this, but where is the will?
> What is the tool that allows me to attract anyone to the chat room, without them installing new software?

I think web based, non IRC, solutions have that covered really well.
I have just upgraded from AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ to AMD FX 8350 Eight-Core 4GHz, the Handbrake video compression FPS went from 10 to 120-300. This makes for almost linear boost for GHz and number of cores.
Correct. The problem is that a simple system like that is similar to car insurance, it only helps you pay for catastrophe. The reason US health insurance is so expensive is because we tried to institute a health plan via insurance that tries to do things like address chronic conditions and preventative care. There are many problems with that, but the point is that India has only solved the easy problem. We are in the midst of solving the hard problem: How do we equitably manage the healthcare of the entire nation that gives the rich and poor alike quality health care.

That said, we aren't doing it right at the moment since it's taking us about 16% GDP to do it when other countries have managed to do much better financially with better overall outcomes.

Price consciousness is a marginally good thing in health care. If people are going to get treated for the sniffles, they can easily price discriminate. The real problem is that price transparency, for all the expensive things in health care, doesn't actually help. You can only price discriminate when you understand what you're buying. When you don't understand, price becomes a signal of quality, and people don't compromise with their health like they would with cars. They also are paying with other people's money. In fact, some case studies have found that price transparency causes the lower price guys to simply raise their prices to compete with the higher price guys regardless of quality because patients don't care about price except to the degree it signals quality.
I stopped using ack because it opens the same files several times (strace it to see for yourself - I've seen version 1.94 open the same file 17 times) and has problematic performance on our a little higher latency setup (Xen + FC storage). ag does everything I need and has no such issues...
Nitpick but:

'Maternal' instinct -> motherly instinct

Isn't the linked article describing this as a behavior that is common to parents of either gender? We merely assume that it is a maternal instinct.

"The factor that best predicted which parents were best at identifying their child’s cries was the amount of time the parent spent with their babies, regardless of if they were the mother or father."

This does not describe a maternal instinct that happens to be approximated by fathers, to me. It describes a parental instinct that is not gender-related.
Not to thread-crash, but in case you missed it, we posted the results of Round 3 of our web frameworks and platforms benchmarking last week [1]. Seems relevant given your comment about hosting costs.

This round includes many more community contributions including more Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Python, Java, PHP, etc. And Go 1.1.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r3
I am since a while omitting dears and wishes and being very terse in my replies. Most people seem to get the message, relax and simply reply to me with similar tone, making the whole exchange much more pleasant and less prone to misinterpretation.

Perhaps instead of adding an acronym out of the blue — that very much no-one outside HN will ever bother figuring out — we could train ourselves and our correspondants to understand that there is no need for excessive form under the majority of circumstances. The medium is very flexible, but our attitude is stuck. And maybe the reason for the stuckedness is that email, unlike less pervasive media, is used by people of every age, every degree of computer literacy, every background, etc. There: one more reason why VSRE or any variation is unlikely to make it further than a couple of days from today.
Ask HN: What's the deal with CISPA?
There was a lot of discussion on Hacker News regarding SOPA. I was expecting to see a lot of coverage regarding CISPA, but it looks like people aren't that interested: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sopa%2C%20cispa%2C%20pipa&geo=US&cmpt=q

Do you think Americans will care enough to stop it? Are people sidetracked, or is internet about to change?
You mean paternal instinct?

Or do you imply that recognizing a cry is a "mother" thing, even if a father does it?
Thanks for the 44con invite. It looks like fun, but I'm nowhere near
there. Also, your BlackHat presentation was excellent, and surprisingly,
I'm actually planing on watching it again to lift the details.

I'm curious if you've touched any of the Verizon "MiFi" devices?

I've started mildly poking at a MiFi4620LE (4G LTE "jetpack") recently,
but not very seriously --It's not mine personally and its on a corporate
account so I've been promised (read: threatened) to not mess with it too
much. ;-)

It's extremely fast but the double (p)NAT'ing is annoying i.e. it
provides access to client devices via NAT to priv address space, but
it's upstream interface is also NAT'ed by the carrier and in priv
address space.

So far I've figured out how to talk to it over USB, but I want to get it
into "stupid" mode and talk directly to its internal modem. I want it to
just be a dumb modem with a public address(es). I'm fairly sure there's
a way to do it, but I just need to figure out how to do it. If I can get
at the serial port, then it's game over.
Yes, but disqus isn't easily accessible from the dashboard, and most of my followers seem to just see my posts from the dashboard...and of course, if someone reblogs the post, disqus (from my end) won't caper any feedback,

It's a pretty stilted system for feedback...but maybe it's by design, that tumblr is more about just sharing and disseminating content. At least that's been my perspective
Codea rules and is pretty popular. As far as I know, Crabitron is just their side project.
> Oh, it's not wrong, just embarrassing as a human being. ;)

Care to explain why?

I buy Tylenol branded acetaminophen. Granted, I only buy one bottle every three years or so, but I'm perfectly fine spending a few dollars more. While acetaminophen is acetaminophen, when I buy Tylenol, I'm buying into their quality control and the experience that has come with that company, over many years. It's worth a few dollars to me to make sure that I'm getting what I'm buying and nothing more.

Do explain how brand loyalty is "embarrassing" to humanity.
Playing on Easy Mode
In other news, if a live-in infant caregiver (male or female) that you have hired spends more time with the baby than the natural parents do, he/she will recognize the baby's cries better than the natural parents. Also, parents who adopt an infant child. Or hospital workers in children's ICU.

It's simple pattern recognition, just as how an experienced musician might be able to tell when someone else is playing their cowbell ("It has this very particular clonk when hit on the side") better than their non-musical spouse could.
Facebook's Next Data Center Will Be in Iowa
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Well, the grandparent's comment isn't asking if your scheme cures cancer and ensures world peace. Instead they're asking if your scheme is at least as secure as other current cryptographic voting protocols out there, the answer to which is "no."

If this problem were so trivial, then I think some of the big names in crypto would not have wasted their time on studying solutions. As it is, though, I don't think there are any convincing arguments for why this problem is "trivial." Instead, there's a laundry list of properties you want a good voting protocol to have, and developing a cryptographically secure protocol that satisfies those properties is highly nontrivial.
Oh, I had no idea about it, but it's great to hear that it's doing well. One would definitely hope for such a project to gain traction.
Biographical information on Google's Eric Schmidt
The Tragedy of Perfectionism
The tragedy of perfectionism — parallelisms between the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi", and the entrepreneurial philosophy.
The Product Apple doesn't know it needs?
I did enjoy Pownce back in the day. It worked and I loved the ease of connecting files with certain people. But I think my bias was greatly attributed to adoring their funky layout design: http://www.bomega.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/pownce.png
Here's a good list of technical questions with answers: http://krish.codeworth.com/development/ios-development-2/ios...

After that, the typical "Why do you want to work here?" type of questions will most likely pop up somewhere.

Also, I've learned that appearing as if you already have the job (to a specific extent) is a powerful way to stand out from the rest of the interviewees. For example, if the company already has an existing product, make a list of EVERYTHING that you think can be improved, and always provide a solution.

"This transition might appear to be a bit awkward for a new user, but if you had the subview pop up from the bottom here..."

If it's a smaller company, then make making a simple prototype might help. I would be a bit more cautious with this route, but it could prove to be beneficial in the right scenario.

Anyway, best of luck to you!
He's right, yet to anyone who's seen the movie Idiocracy the problem is obvious. The "hicks, vatos, and homeboyz" aren't going to stop breeding.
> I was hoping Google Wave would take off an neatly combine the two.

This is the best thing about Facebook messages: they’re hafway between chat and email and a conversation can seamlessly morph from one form to the other and back.
Do you still beat your wife? -VSRE
Conjcraft: A Minecraft Mod implemented in Clojure (2012)
It wasn't a lockdown, it was 'shelter in place'.
I'm not aware of any automatic code scanners for Linux; usually the easiest thing to do is try it and see what breaks. You can use a HE.net or SixXS tunnel to get connectivity if your ISP isn't ready.

Beej's Guide shows how to use the C socket APIs in a dual-stack manner:
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html...

For testing your own network and browser, http://test-ipv6.com/ is quite good.
It gets suspicious if you write this and you don't have an iPhone ;)
Typically you pay the average monthly cost of people with similar risk profile to yourself. Suppose the average monthly cost for nonsmoking men aged 30-35, BMI 25-27, not currently sick, is 2000 rs. Then I'll pay maybe 2100 rs (so insurance company makes a profit).

I.e., I pay my average cost, not the average over the whole pool.

If you are a smoking man aged 50-55, BMI 32-35, with diabetes, you'll pay more. You'll pay the insurance companies best estimate of your average cost, not our average cost.
I really enjoyed these exercises. One bug I found: for the "Find the Largest" dare the solution only allows 10 lines of code- but the test code takes up 9 lines! Since I was unable to solve the problem by creating and implementing a function (not enough line allowance) I found that was able to complete the dare by simply printing out the test answers. Only bug I found, though!
Yeah, here we had an "IPv6 Task Force" in 2004, showing how ready the Portuguese ISPs were. The site hasn't been updated since, and my ISP tells me there's no planned schedule for introducing it:|
Cool, looking forward to seeing it!
Sorry to add the the negativity, but no screenshots is not very good. How can we expect to take your UX critique seriously if you don't provide good UX for your own users? Screenshots are an essential part of any UX analysis.

Use the screenshots to show what Tumblr does well or not so well. Use them to show how other sites do it well and what Tumblr should copy/implement.
Pardon the paranoia, but who else gets to see the little black book^H^H^H list of people who are skilled at practical crypto exploits?
Why wasn't I aware of this guide last week when I had to write a kernel driver for my OS class?!

One thing that's surprised me with Linux development is how nice the APIs are to work with. Things like the file_operations struct, and the linked list stuff are very well thought out and easy to use (as easy as they could be for C programming).

My only complaint is that a lot of the written documentation is out of date about a number of topics. As the kernel has evolved it's gained and lost a number of APIs and depending on when resources were published they may say a number of conflicting things about how to carry out a task (registering a character device and getting it in /dev is the big one that comes to mind).
The tone is unnecessarily alarmist. IPv4 address exhaustion might limit internet growth, but it will not cause the internet as it already exists to break suddenly. Adjustments have been made and will continue to be made, such as corporate use of non-routable subnets for internal machines and a market for unused addresses. While address exhaustion is a serious issue that still must be dealt with in the next few years, the sky is not falling.
http://www.luadns.com/ is doing this as well.
"Sent from my Samsung"

"Sent from my Windows Phone"

"Sent from my $OEM"

They all follow the same pattern these days.
Definitely the theming is a huge aspect to why I use tumblr. The site also has a tremendous userbase, very creative people from all walks of life. And many users will run more than 1 blog focused on different topics. Follow enough people and you can build an incredible dashboard which updates every 5-10 minutes with new content.

Or some more professional users have the ability to stick with a basic design, keep a low follower count, and publish resources/important news updates. It's a great system for anybody getting into blogging or just interested in trying a new method of social media sharing.
Command line helpers for NVAlt
The impossible task of fixing Apple
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While not straightforward or easy (for an average chap), it's quite possible, and very useful. Although I wouldn't call it most people's programming language of choice, knowing, and being able to grapple with how C pushes memory management to user-code will definitely change the way you think about programming.

TLDR : Pick up any of the hundreds of books on it and start learning! If you're having trouble motivating yourself, try solving Competition Programming problems in it - it's usually a good way to learn a new language.
Too slow for what? Certainly not all classes of problems. Heavy mathematical work (every number in Ruby is an object! That's going to be much, much slower than a C primitive!), sure, but there are lots of folks using it quite happily to solve a wide range of problems.
You say efficient, we say awkward.
Memory management (ARC vs retain/release cycle)
Notification Center vs Delegates, what they are, when to use which
Some basic UI stuff
Obviously some basic objective-c syntax

How would I prepare? I would look at the type of apps they create, or I might be working on and start trying to duplicate at least one of them. For instance, if they have a popular barcode reading app, create one yourself, maybe even add an extra feature. Show it to them. They'll see it and know two things a) you're capable of creating it b) worst case scenario you can add features to one of their products. aka, you'll never be completely worthless.
While funny, it completely fail in identifying the underlying causes of this consumer behavior.

I do not consider it strange that people feel threaten by a $3 app purchase, but not a $400 phone. To me, its consistent with consumers when they buy a product they trust vs a product they don't. In psychology, economics, and finance, its call Risk aversion and is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.

People expect software to fail. To a degree, Microsoft is to blame with blue screen of death, but thats only part of the culture regarding software. If I buy that $3 app, it might not solve the problem I got, it might be buggy, and it might not even start. If it end up in either of those cases, the social blame is normally put on the consumer for not knowing better on which software to buy, adding additional feeling of uncertainty.

On products like phones or computer hardware, the risk feels less. If the phone don't start, we expect to get it replaced and fixed. The blame will be on the seller/producer, and not on the consumer. Add on top the positive reinforcing through marketing in TV and movies, and a physical sale person, and the $300 or even $1000 can feel much safer for the consumer than clicking yes on a $3 app purchase.
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For something a little lighter, "The Last-but-One Question" by Sam Hughes. http://qntm.org/question
Maybe like a $1 equivalent worth of btc minimum? Not sure I'd mind some spam if I was getting some value for each piece.
How about CURT - condensed unfussy reply tolerable
> Only customers with VOIP or ISDN are getting ipv6.

I think you got that the wrong way around. Old analog and ISDN connections are specifically mentioned to never get v6 (which makes sense, I guess). Only new contracts with a fixed IP will definitely get it.
Or rather, the sky is falling, but it's still high enough up, and descending slowly enough, that we have plenty of time for a gradual and orderly transition to .. uh, I guess this is where the metaphor breaks down.
If you read your email on a desktop, or from the the gmail website I would definitely recommend learning the keyboard shortcuts so you don't have to click. In just a few seconds I can star all the ones in my inbox that I plan to read, and archive the rest including the EOM short mails. I do end up archiving a lot of unread mail this way but that rarely bothers me when searching for old mail.
The most viral/popular acronyms are easily pronounceable, I think. Acronyms like lol, rofl, afaik, imho etc. Not that you go around saying them all the time, but you can easily pronounce them in your own head so I think they tend to stick there and flow into your text easily. Maybe something along the lines of "sro" (short reply ok) would be better ...
It may feel like it's safer, but personally, I doubt it. You're paying mostly for a feeling, and that's somewhat irrational.

Medicine is a relatively good place for paranoia though, and for feeling safe. Most brand loyalty is even sillier. Don't get me started about designer clothing.
Awkward would be to just go ahead and start replying in one word without trying to establish a netiquette protocol.
I fail to see how "vis-ree" is any harder to pronounce thatn "roff-ull", "af-ack", or "em-ho"
Hotmail syndrome. I'm going to change mine to say "Sent from Google Glass" just for kicks. "This message transcribed from an awkwardly public soundbite"
In a way you actually do fix the garbage collection problems by dropping down to C. One of the main performance hit in tight loops in Ruby is usually object allocation and GC. If you drop down to C you can handle the memory manually and avoid most of the allocations.
Data Privacy Breaches Are Not Just About The Data
"Efficiently" and "politely" are often opposites.
> when he really should have blamed the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Going a layer deeper, blame the competitions themselves. They very rarely have good data sets to actually weed out algorithmically poor solutions, so you can often get away with brute force or mostly brute force solutions -- if you use a low-level programming language.

For instance many times a O(N^2/100) will pass the test data just because it's written in C++ instead of something slower. That's a failure of the test data.
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Isn't this a copyright violation, or has the story entered the public domain?
How poetic that this story be the one to be reposted and retold, again and again, until-
They left out the bit about begging hardware manufacturers to release specifications.
How do we equitably manage the healthcare of the entire nation that gives the rich and poor alike quality health care.

(Assuming "we" means India, though I don't live there anymore.) Fix corruption, the licensing system, the protectionism, etc, so that they become wealthier. Make the rest of the economy as capitalistic as the medical system. It's hard to fix anything with a GDP/capita < 1 lac/year.

The real problem is that price transparency, for all the expensive things in health care, doesn't actually help. You can only price discriminate when you understand what you're buying.

(I think now you are talking about the US.) Strangely, when Indians pay out of their own pocket (in whole or in part), they routinely price shop. Is price shopping a weird skill that Indians have but Americans don't? I suspect not, given that my uninsured mother routinely does it.
No, you've got it all wrong! Geeks aren't socially awkward, they're socially "efficient"

Social conventions aren't established by protocol drafts, they're organic.

Also, people write long replies for a reason. Wording indicates emotional state. If you have trouble reading emotional state, you don't care. If, like most people, you do care, then this proposal is ridiculous.

An example:

"How about we schedule lunch next week? VSRP"

VSRP: "Can't make it, extremely busy. Maybe next month?"

FULL: "Sorry to say, I can't make it. I'd really like to but we're in a crunch right now, and I've got a booked calendar. Perhaps next month when things have died down? I'd really like to catch up but this month is already overwhelming"

I might take the VSRP as a bit of an affront. The full explanation however is quite understandable.
Absolutely. Ebay's policy has been to steadily increase fees until they reach a point where too many sellers quit.

The net effect on sellers will be zero in the long term. They will either pay a sales tax or they will pay Ebay's increased fees.
I try to be aware of biases, but the OTC EFAs were prescribed by my physician, and there have been some studies backing DHA in particular as effective for depression.
There are cryptographic voting protocols that don't use combinatorial approaches like the one you describe.
This is somewhat related. I remember watching an episode of "Stan Lee's Super humans" on the Discovery channel. They were with a man who was also able to do lightning fast calculations, not of the complexity as described in the article, but he could easily recall dates, multiply 5 digit numbers faster than someone with a calculator etc.

They put this man under an MRI scanner while giving him problems to solve. What they noticed was an unusually high activity in a part of the brain that is responsible for eye movement. So – perhaps not very scientifically responsible – the neurologist offered the explanation that he was using a part of his brain that is normally used to solve complex mathematics subconsciously in order to position our eyes properly throughout the day. Apparently this motor movement is very complex and he was leveraging the ability of this area to solve these arithmetic problems and engage in pattern matching in order to recollect past dates.
I prefer "Sent from my rotary phone". No need for free advertisement or misplaced smugness about a disposable gizmo.
NTSF:SD:SUV Parody of the 'enhance' trope in cop drama setting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCWYm7B_B4&t=58s