skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second - never do more then 35% of the work you are capable of doing in a day.

I'm a big fan of three-hour-per-day planning. "Metered work" (what your boss expects of you) should be limited to a 3-hour block, preferably a contiguous one. After that, find a way to sneak time into things that build your career. Don't mix the two. (You'll either cut the self-directed stuff and burn out, or give your job responsibilities the shaft and at zero, you might actually get fired.) When you need to spike, turn that 3-hour dedication to 4 or 5 or 6 for a little while. The nice thing about the 3-hour plan is that it accounts for slack, because things always take longer than they should.

It takes your boss 15 minutes per week (on average) to tell you what to do. If you do 15 hours of metered work, you're giving him 60:1 leverage. That's enough not to get you fired.

The trick to becoming awesome, I think, is to take that 25 hours of "working time" per week that most people spend on Reddit or Farmville or non-work IMing and turn it into Coursera or open source time (don't ever use it to write code you'll need for a side project; legal issues make it not worth it). It's not easy, though, because it's much harder to hide it when you're studying machine learning at 2:30 in the afternoon.
At least _why makes life a little more interesting...

And why not.
Only problem here is that people take the police scanner as gospel, even though the police may be as confused as anyone else. And because it's not a news source, no one feels the need to explicitly correct things that are wrong.
Perhaps they could split the money, and half of it could help Sunil hide from his family more effectively? :/
The difference is, 24 hours news media covers news 24 hours a day. There's a lot of that time when there really just is no news to speak of. Social media might cover an event in real time with people glued to the screen, but we only see this type of occurrence when there's actually a significant event going on. This story might be covered by social news for days or hours, but when it's done everyone shuts it off and goes on with their lives until the next story. Meanwhile the 24 hour news media continues rolling, irrelevant as always.

Real time news isn't bad. Real time, 24 hour "news" is bad. That's how you get manufactured news stories, or media outlets creating/becoming the news.
I grew up in a less rural area, edge of Joplin, MO, across a significant road there was a working farm, turn left 90 degrees the local college, and while I've heard utility gun fire (often ours), don't think I've ever heard a shot in anger. Which would also include the dozen years I spent in and around MIT and then another dozen in the D.C. area.
I liked most of the FBI's press conference yesterday, but I also wish, in addition to "do not try to apprehend, leave that to the cops", they had also said "if you know their names, tell the FBI, and for God's sake don't post it on the Internet."

Maybe the FBI should give out karma to tipsters. (This last sentence is sarcasm.)
What IE debacle? Trident is now widely considered to have the most correct HTML5 implementation in a major browser. It might not have all of the draft stuff that Webkit has, but it also doesn't require all of the webkit css hacks.
Am I the only one that now wants to change careers and be an astronaut? This was wicked cool! I was definitely not expecting this result.
Memory usage is considerably down, in most cases as well (up in some, however)
This is an awesome idea! As a university student I'm trying to get involved in code club.
We need to get kids hooked on programming early; make them realise that it can be a fun, creative activity and a way to express themselves.
I don't think it's appropriate to use the DDoS acronym when not referring to an "attack". It's non-standard and will only create confusion. Every "source" online describing a DDoS uses it explicitly to refer to an attack.
Of course Symbian was worse in every respect

Except less hardware requirements and better battery runtime :-)
I sympathize with some of their concerns (not that there's anything we can do about it without massively hindering progress), but the anti-transhumanist name really bugs me.
It's pretty easy to impose a house rule against this, but once it gets into public spaces it will be impossible to contain except by always staying at home.
I've noticed in several videos that the crew member appears sweaty or shiny. Is this due to the temperature/humidity in the ISS or because the moisture doesn't evaporate the same way? I'd be interested to know if anyone has an answer.
How is a Christian biologist different from a biologist? Is "Christian biologist" code for something?
At my work (big data analytics for banks) we still have major customers using IE 6. We had to support 5.5 a few years back!

If you think about it, there is no real reason not to support old browsers, unless you are in online gaming, of course.
Games involve constantly experiencing failure. So why are they fun?
It's a matter of human beings being treated like cogs in a machine (which is in fact what they are in today's world). The potential of highly intelligent people is wasted by those who are better at extracting value than creating it. This leads to ever growing frustration which eventually explodes leading to the destruction of peoples lives.

These are seen as individual problems but if these trends continue I believe they will lead to the failure of human civilization and possibly of the human species itself.

hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.
Wow. This has been going on for an hour now. It's such a simple fix, especially since one would assume that they already have a valid cert somewhere (or that Akamai does). Yet they've had an hour of SSL downtime.

Does anyone know if Bing has any SSL-only clients? Like do any of their toolbars or built-in search widgets in Windows use SSL by default?
Efficient implementation and operation of infrastructure does not happen by fiat, and is not improved by throwing more money & personnel at the problem - especially when individuals involved benefit from prolonging and expanding the problem, assuring job security and expanding their bureaucratic fiefdom by extracting ever more funds from taxpayers. It's not a consequence of "small government", it's that the project will fail (or, worse, just not die already) regardless of funding. Such projects are better run by those with an incentive to succeed at low cost, who can afford to find & hire people good at making such projects succeed, and who will soon suffer significant consequences if they don't.

Of course the infrastructure gets scooped up with peanuts. Insofar as it exists, those running it are unable to complete it or operate it, much less break even. Best to consider it "sunk costs" needed to jump-start private completion & operation thereof where the startup cost was prohibitive. Google had no incentive to put an awesome network in that particular town until the municipality basically gave Google $39M to make it happen.

This notion of "we don't know anything about the subject, but we can do it faster, better, and cheaper than somebody who gets paid very well to do it" must be eradicated from governmental thinking, both because it's stupid for obvious reasons, and subject to abuse by those who see great profit therein. Don't confuse legitimate opportunistic taking over a failing project with illegitimate opportunistic creation of the problem: I doubt Google was pulling strings behind the scenes in Provo Utah just so they could get $39M of infrastructure for a buck; far more likely the town discovered the hard way they didn't know squat about implementing and operating a broadband WAN at any price, and realized the best way to salvage their failing investment was to sell it to someone who does know for $1.

It's kinda like the old joke about home repair pricing of "$100/hr to do the job, $200/hr if you tried to do it yourself first".
I get refunds (i.e. negative fees) when I buy something on my credit card. I'm not aware of any debit card that offers that.
Bing is normally not served over https, so this probably only affects a tiny percentage of the users, even though it looks bad here.
You can use chrome's incognito mode.
Nice, but... the entire first paragraph is unfair. If he's going to be setting something up, it doesn't matter if it's a traditional scanner or a raspberry pi.
Boston is a start-up hub, 'pg is from there, a lot of users are from there. So there will be a lot of interest here, just like if the bombing were in Silicon Valley.

(I'm trying hard not to say what HN policy should be with this comment. Just explaining human behavior.)
That argument would be based on the policies that the paper served to justify.
> In the same vain he speaks of GIL as something that is good enough and need not be removed.

If you want to remove the GIL and come up with a way to make the thousands of 3rd-party modules still work, please do it. Beazley has investigated it, but if you think you can do better, please do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yngve_Raustein
Totally agree that HN should not be a place for local news. I come here for interesting _technical_ stories, topics and discussions and I would go to cnn.com, nytimes.com etc. if I'm interested in USA news instead.
Bing's birds-eye view maps are great. Google is trying to add the same isometric views but their coverage isn't nearly as good.
The invitations are to create exclusivity and drive demand.
we have an energy backed currency, its called the (petro)dollar.
The problem is that some of these big companies outsource their IT. They don't want to upgrade from, say, IE6 because they know it's going to cost them a FORTUNE.

I know of at least 2 big blue chip companies with this problem.

In fact, I once had a requirement that the software we write have it's own independant auth mechanism and NOT be linked to Active Directory, "because it costs us thousands every time we ask to add a user or change a role".
Well it DOES send a message to these countries for the future. Wouldn't be surprised if the ECB --supranational and quite independent from day-to-day voter-pleasing politics-- had a longer range view.

They do demonstrate to the world now two things:

(A) the core tenets / stability principles backing the original EUR currency idea and philosophy are not sacrificied to the current temporary economic mismanagement of one individual nation state that chose to participate in the currency, knowing fully well broad / long-range philosophy of ECB. No quick fixes, no "reckless printing" (at least not without limit or getting the country to change its ways).

(B) Big savers are encouraged to rediscover "the old ways" of saving, preserving or investing wealth -- not to hold it in "the US(D) way" of a self-feeding ever-expanding intransparent web of future promises, counterobligations, speculation. Aka "your bank account" these days.

A small country such as Cyprus is ideal to send such a strong and lasting message. People in "bigger" countries get a strong signal to "rethink their ways". Everyone learns that EUR ways are different from the USD ways in some (important) respects. And should the world ever lose confidence in the USD and/or in markets driven largely by currency debasement, deficits, debts -- the world may well remember those "early stories of the young EUR".
The Boston police ask that your friend not tweet street addresses.
You may want to look at www.cloudsuites.com
This can instantly develop complete stack web applications based on your inputs and host it in the cloud.
Very useful. It's not a super hard problem to solve, but I did think it provided enough value that companies would be willing to pay for it. SSL is used on the most important pieces of a business' infrastructure, I thought it'd be a simple sell.

I also can't tell if certalert.me checks for hostname mismatches. That was another part of my service, because a misconfiguration is just as fatal as an expired certificate.
Well, it is not really a flub of this year. Or even something specific to Bing (try https://www.nba.com/ or https://www.jetstar.com/)

Basically Akamai is using the same ssl certifate on (most?) of its edge servers. The reason for that is that traditionally it is difficult to decide for a server that is serving multiple domains, which SSL certificate to show for a client -- the HTTP header, which contains the hostname is sent way after the certificate information has been exchanged.

A certificate can contain several hostnames (in the SubjectAlternativeName extension) - but that does not scale if you have a big number of sites for a number of reasons (re-signing the certificate all the time is a nuisance, browser behavior with certificates containing several thousand hostnames is kind of fun, etc.).

Nowadays there are solutions to that problem (using the Server Name Indication TLS extension -- which basically sends the desired hostname in the TLS exchange before the certificate is exchanged). However, the number of sites actively using SNI is very low - google is the only site known to me that is doing it (try accessing google.com with/without SNI and you will get completely different certificates).

The reason why SNI is not yet that much used is that client support is still a bit flaky. Afaik it is supported by all recent desktop browsers. However, I think the XP TLS stack does not support it (and there are still enough users on that), android only supports it starting with version 3.0, etc.

So - at the moment you basically still need a separate IP for each site (or at least one IP for sites that can share one certificate).

I don't know if akamai also supports custom SSL certificates. Facebook seems to use kind of an interesting mix between akamai and self-hosting - facebook.com itself seems to be hosted by facebook. However, if you use facebook over ssl and check the url of served profile pictures, you will see that they go to https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net (or similar) -- hence to one of the hostnames that is mentioned in the akamai edge certificates.
Short Microsoft.

25000 more employees can't fix this kind of incompetence.
Java 8 release pushed to Q1 2014 to focus on security
rad, learned a new trick. thanks!
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I would say that's completely wrong. I've never had a bad support experience with them.
Not defending, but if you cannot degrade your functionality to make it work in old IE then you doing something wrong. Please, give me a use-case that is not too niche but absolutely requires the latest generation of browsers.
I wonder if it's to deter keyword stuffing in domains.
All "Computer Professionals" are exempt, so that would cover many of the people on this site. The other exemptions are rather broad and would probably cover most of the rest.
I am in FL also and am well networked in the development community, if you would like to contact me, I may be able to point you in the right direction. My contact info is in my profile here in HN. It's worth a chat to network at the least.
Say what you want about the "enlightened liberal sensibilities" of the northeast, the Massachusetts death penalty sure is swift and efficient.
count++
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raise(alarm)
end

That'll be eight thousand dollars in consulting fees, thanks.
> Monetize it? Default on it?

Not that there is a difference in real terms...
I was thinking the other day about Bitcoin using proof of work (which uses energy), which makes it an energy proxy. It therefore seems to make little sense that one would pay for energy to be used with energy that has been used. Or is time arbitrage of energy something really useful?
I agree that you SHOULD normalize/scale data before running neural networks and autoencoders.... and this resolves the units issue in most cases (unless measurements in some units are non-linear functions of measurements in others).

But this scaling also resolves the issue for PCA. So, I don't see much difference between autoencoders and PCA with regards to original post's "dimensional invalidity" concern.

If anything, the scaling options you mention suggest "dimensional invalidity" isn't a big deal in practice for either method.
" throwing shitty old IE under the bus to help push the modern web forward."

probably instead throwing the vendors that don't want to support old IE...
The aspect I enjoy, almost as much as his writing craft, is his presentation craft, any insights into how the 'book' was produced?

I'd love to understand better how things like the overbled text were created. A photocopy of laser printed text, then scanned perhaps?

The font faces and spacing seem to have been chosen with care, can anyone names the various faces used? guess at the layout software?

Then the PCL is some kind of concatenation of page (bitmapped) images I guess?
I find this manhunt absolutely riveting for some reason, but I don't think there's any 'intellectual curiosity' about it.

BTW, Freenode #boston channel is not a bad place to follow it.
Who's talking about America? I'm talking about "third world". That's poor. Fat people in America are wealthy.
You do realize that jQuery is not going to change any of that?
Sorry, but I really dislike these "From the guidelines" snarky comments. We have a voting system that lets users decide if a submission should be here.
Police In Japan Are Asking ISPs To Start Blocking Tor
Nitpicking here and not taking anything away from Why's mighty contributions, but "first to create art around and about software" is not really accurate.

Look at the contributions of the design patterns community for inspiration, people who have long strived to understand what Christopher Alexander's QWAN ("quality without a name") means to software. A good example is Patterns of Software [1], but also a lot of the C2 wiki has this spirit. Less off-the-wall than Why, but still trying to get at the soul of software.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Software-Tales-Community/dp/0...

2. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
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The Keynesians were never wrong. The issue is that the rich countries, especially the US, have never followed a Keynesian policy of minimal to no deficit during periods of private sector growth, They only follow Keynesian philosophy when they are in recession and they want to run high deficits then. Rather than acknowledge this, the austerity people scream out that Keynes is flawed, when in reality its the democratic tendency towards giving people low taxes and lots of services that is the problem.
That explains it's currency nature. But, does it have any intrinsic value of a commodity like gold?
Sounds great for the wearer to choose where they want to upload their data, but everyone else will still be subjected to continuous surveillance. At least currently this is a rare, unacceptable thing to do, reserved for sting operations and the like.

You want EyeTap. I don't want your surveillance. We can't both have what we want.
Easier said, then done.
Why do you have to "drop IE support"? How about degrading your design?
It would be nice if the proof of work could do something like SETI at home did, or work on some other big problem like analyzing data from particle accelerators. It seems like such a waste to do work for works sake, just to generate money, but I guess there is some kind of commentary in the whole thing that reflects the true value of money. i.e we waste a lot of time chasing something that at it's core is immaterial.

To me that would be an amazing currency, one that is generated by fueling progress, the more we contribute to solving problems the more the money supply grows. I am no economist but that sounds like a win/win. I wonder how hard it would be for Bitcoin to retrofit something like that for the proof of work. Another cool idea would be to allow people to choose which project they wanted their cycles to work for. It would be pretty cool to be able to choose "analyze cancer genomes" or "search for new matter" and be paid for contributing.
You learn well, grasshopper.

Indeed, whatever your occupation you will balance imperfect choices of what you will do, who you will work with, and the outcome of your efforts. Humility and acceptance of your limits go far in preserving sanity, whether you lead a multibillion dollar corporation, write software with a team, or sweep the floors alone after hours. You don't have total control, but that doesn't mean you don't have some control; do what you can (sometimes that means doing your job well, and sometimes that means leaving your job for another).
I disagree. Greed and sustainability cannot exist simultaneously. Greed will only lead to the disaster, infinite growth in the world of finite resources will lead to disaster. Greed even hampers progress. Example, the current trend is towards applied research in nearly all fields because greedy corporations need practical results as fast as possible. The basic research (the vehicle for discovery) is practically abandoned. This alone hampers development. And I do not even go to what greed based society does to creativity.
FBI identifies suspects in Boston Marathon bombing
Unfortunately, after seeing Ed's previous breakdown on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361056), I have to see comments like this in a new light.
Don't Tweets have gps location meta data?
I know about funny word differences, but we have no problems learning russian, why russians would have problems learning polish?

this is my favorite http://translate.google.com/#ru/pl/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%... (in polish it sounds like 'caviar in a can')
The post does not explain why Akamai's cert is being used. If bing over SSL were working correctly in the past---which I believe to be true---and given that Bing were using Akamai in the past, why the problem now?
and then there's Iceland. They did it right and told the banks to go pound sand.
So are you really going to tell your users to "back off" and upgrade?
Yes. The feeling is so common, it even has a name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
Successor is probably the wrong word - it's more accurate to say that it grew out of some parts of that project along with Sailfish's sibling, Tizen.
Thanks for the encouraging word. Yes, you're absolutely right, initial data were generated by data mining several other websites, but our goal is to build this database as a wiki such that anyone can correct errors, add more profiles, add more connections, etc.
It didn't the student's name was mentioned by a friend of his on Twitter who after looking at the photos released by police said that they thought there was a resemblance between the suspect in the white hat and her friend who had been missing for a month after dropping out of school and becoming depressed. There were several articles about the individual already on the web predating the bombing because the FBI had been contacted by the guy's family to help find him. The name mentioned on Police scanners was a different person also incorrect.