skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money quote is this:

"Google's recent announcement encouraged us to deploy our network more aggressively now. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we’re ready to compete."

Which sounds nice except, if you were ready to compete, why weren't you competing the whole time? It sounds rather more like you were sitting on good profit margins and now you're being forced to compete.

It's becoming clearer what Google's strategy is with Google Fiber: they don't care if it makes a ton of money, what they really care is that it makes Internet access speeds in the US better, whether by providing the service directly, or pushing other providers to compete harder than they have been.

Faster Internet access means more Google services consumed, more time spent, more ads clicked. That's what Google wants.
Hmm, I want to try it out now, but checking out the repo gives me a bunch of files. Why do I need Vagrant/VirtualBox for this? I thought the whole point was that I would use it to replace VBox?
As someone in a similar situation: I don't like tie ins with huge companies. My experience with the Facebook API has been horrible in the past (constantly changing, poor documentation).

In short, I don't want FB/Goog/Apple/etc. to keep buying up the independent operators that I know and love. In a similar way, I prefer to frequent my local coffee shack over a Starbucks. Nothing Starbucks could do would really change my mind.

There's not really anything facebook could do other than not being facebook. Sorry.
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If they're really into reducing bugs, they should embed a complete proof system into the language, rather than try to guarantee something as simple as correct memory references - which isn't much of a problem to ensure for anyone serious about the correctness of their code.

Add that if a proof system (that is powerful enough) was available, and people actually used it, the language could do away with the unsafe overrides. It could also be of great help to the compiler to optimize the code, like removing array bounds checks where the programmer has supplied a proof that the index is in range.
My answer would be No for now because yes, traction is great but as a programmer(who loves hacking to find solutions to different pains/demands in market), my challenges will go lower with time because there are very few other features that we can build for this app, hence I don't see it motivating enough to focus all my attention on this. I may hire someone full time to take care of daily work at Pinwoot to give myself ample time to keep trying better ideas that I can see myself working on for next few years atleast.
What part of rising population densities do you not get? We will become more urbanized, you just can't support 4 or 500 million Americans rurally. As we live more closely together, issues that would otherwise be benign or insignificant become significant. Couple that with globalization, and what are otherwise local problems have become global ones.

From the libertarian perspective, we've been going downhill ever since the first city state kings appeared. People during the 30s were probably bitching about how it was much better in the 1870s, and so on.
I think he is worried, thinking facebook may kill Parse, and he will have no support.
Wouldn't it be preferable to perform all of these optimizations once before page load to reduce the work that nginx has to do?
And reposts its content the following month. SCANDAL.
Models and Services in Angular
Dude, get a pack of baby spinach and throw it in with the meat.
> I would argue that popularity is actually a great indicator of the quality of an OS

Windows is tons better than OS X then?
If it were coming back "tweaked" to address the flaws of the bill, then sure, that'd be how the system is supposed to work. Except that's not what's happening and things aren't working.

The issue is that CISPA is fundamentally flawed; I have no doubt that there are well-meaning people who believe we need something to address the problems CISPA allegedly addresses. But any solution which consists of "first, we stop caring about the Fourth Amendment" is a non-starter and must always be.
That's why an online-rights law should be passed, so the offensive things that these bills try do are shut down as a matter of law.
FWIW, I just ran it through Clang 4.1 (the standard on XCode these days), and got roughly identical performance. I'm still compiling gcc 4.8 just to be sure, but it seems unlikely to make much of a difference.
Parse Isn’t An OS, But It Is Facebook’s Answer To Android And iOS
For a layman, Can you please explain why FPGA skills are good to have? Some years, I could understand that processors were not fast enough so FPGA parallelism was useful...I think modern processors have caught up.
JP will be in reaction to increased demand (usage).
> Even the most alarming certificate errors are usually innocuous, in my experience - someone forgets to renew a certificate, or fails to get a new one for a domain change. That doesn't mean it's OK to ignore them, but we really need systems that don't cry wolf unless there's a really good chance that there's a wolf.

How do you propose to algorithmically determine if a certificate not matching a domain change is innocuous? This is a bit like suggesting having a "check engine" light that only comes on when there's an immediate risk of an engine fire.
Interesting how JS still doesn't live up to AS3. Everyone always discredits Flash... but if you're trying to make a Physics-based browser game, it still seems appropriate!
The work only has to be done once either way; all the file-based optimizations get cached, they're not run again on every page view.
No. Incandecents. I tried CFLs, they didn't last, the lighting was inferior, and disposal involves HAZMAT concerns.

If I were to replace all the bulbs in my house at $13/per I would be looking at about $1,000. And the energy savings would be noise in my budget. I mean it would literally be dwarfed by one extra dinner in a restaurant per month. It's not worth any mental energy at all. I like incandescents, and that's what I use.
That deflated quickly.
...she made far too many generalizations.
One offer is $150k salary, plus stock (somehow, the company still has its own stock, despite having already been acquired for $300 million). This person is finishing a 5th-year Master's though.

The other offer is $110k salary, plus $40k annually in stock. Since the company is Google, it's pretty fair to treat that as $150k.
Java is unwieldy as a configuration language. Python (or a restricted subset) is a lot cleaner.

But to replace Java by XML (as ANT/Maven does) doesn't help.
Confident, funny, charming women don't elicit positive reactions from sane, well-adjusted males?
I found your 5-minute video at docker.io much easier to understand—great presentation!
Ugh. This makes me really sad. I originally believed the "reports" and even reposted, but within a minute I slapped myself upside the head and deleted that post. I'm glad I did... I would feel even worse if I hadn't. Of course, I don't know whether the reddit witchunt has contributed to his death: he had been missing for two weeks prior.

I don't feel anywhere near as terrible as his parents will however.

:(
Maven has its own idiolect and documentation is only in the form of cryptic parameter descriptions

If they just right some apporachable documentation, it would be so much better.
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While I see your point, I think mentality required for this field is...be a go getter and do whatever it takes to beat even the best guys...I believe general software engineering and other fields are a little more forgiving than that.
He isn't pushing it as a product

Everything has been pivoting into a kickstarter campaign. He is trying to turn this into a business.

Which is all very weird. There are a number of "nutritionally complete" meal supplements on the market. I do not understand why this particular one, with rather quackish supporting claims, gets attention here.
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Experience in programming or experience in Finance?
Cofounder of Asana on how he helped make Dropbox a $4 Billion dollar company
I'm really sorry you've had bad experiences with the API. :/ I'm not sure how much consolation it will be to you, but we've gotten a lot better about this, even in the last year, increasing platform stability, improving our documentation, adding guides and Developers Live, giving 90+ day heads ups for breaking changes that you can opt-in to.

Facebook's definitely not going to stop changing and sit on its laurels; our Platform is going to evolve as well. I know this means work for developers but we'd like to do so hand-in-hand with our community, working together to build a better future. We're learning how to do that. We've made mistakes. But we're here for you and are trying every day to give you more.

Email me at dew@fb.com if you prefer to rant in a private forum, or here and I'll respond.
"This is a recurring story that does not go away."

Same with any of the urban legends on Snopes.
[nod] But we did not buy Parse to kill it!
Many people say its too late to enter HFT..Is it true for developed world or is it true for ALL countries? (India/China/etc). For example, I am not sure if Indian stock markets have so much of HFT.
What do you mean "if" a certain percentage of the population are authoritarians? You just described authoritarianism as (as I interpret you) basic human nature. However, I think it's cultural, so there is more to do than to throw ones hands up in powerlessness, and it has to do with the assumptions people make about the legal system (as I described). Stigma is not an innate attribute like a freckle.

Regardless, we could have shortened this thread considerably if you'd just said "eh, whaddya gonna do?" up front.
There's also Vivonex, which is a Nestle product and used in feeding tubes for Crohns patients quite often.
No one seemed to worry about me when I lived on burritos and ramen and actually was deficient of many known essential nutrients.

This sort of nonsensical dichotomy seems to infect discussions of this. Yesterday I had a Burger KingTM Whopper (it was, after all, Whopper Wednesday). The day before I had a spring-mix salad with added tomatoes, green onions, and cucumber, and a cucumber dressing, in a day that I also had a peanut butter sandwich...

...and on, and on. Such is any normal diet where people tend to eat lots of varied things, any of which, if the singular source of nutrients, would cause concern for anyone.

The nonsense argument that it is either this or fast food, or ramen noodles, or whatever, just highlights how utterly ridiculous this is.
Parse was an interesting, exciting service; now it's not.

And, I have a hunch that all that stuff on their blog about how nothing's gonna change is even more bullshit than it usually is when a cool startup gets acquired by a walmart. Because since it's Facebook buying them, Parse isn't going to get most of the future customers they might have gotten.

Most developers probably understand at a visceral level that using Facebook as the opaque backend provider for your customers' private information would be like using Oracle as your open-source community relations manager, or using McDonald's as your nutritional consultant.
People who are optimistic at the only people that matter. A company with only 1% of the world population as customers is one of the greatest companies in history.
"Its not the truth I question rather its the extreme subjectivity."

How do you solve this problem? It's endemic to user-generated content. Of course reviews of everything aren't objective fact. They're inherently skewed by opinion by even the most professional paid reviewer.
Who pays variable rates in a residential setting? I pay a flat $0.095/kWH regardless of time of day, demand, etc.
Another thing to consider is that radiation outside of the visible light spectrum may have positive effects. For instance, halogens radiate a lot of infrared radiation, which is used in various therapies and is a big part of why being out in the sun feels so good.
Music on Reddit is completely broken
FPGA cards are the easiest/cheapest way to get programs into the chip level. You can bypass OS level operations, memory/cache operations etc.

That said, you probably could build bespoke machines out of modern processors that perform better (and someone might be doing this), but it would be very expensive. FPGA's offer a middle ground between that and software.
Sane advice isn't platitude.
First off, Parse is awesome and I love it!

I have the same concerns (although I already have apps using Parse in the wild!):
• Will FB kill off Parse? Seems quite unlikely in the short term, but in the long term?
• Are they going to try and force any integrations with FB?
• Will Parse continue to improve (they've done a lot of this recently!) or will it dwindle as others move faster?
• Data / Privacy - what's going to happen with those going forward? These always are a concern in people's minds when FB comes up.
• Facebook's APIs / Developer Support is SHIT... will this happen to Parse too?
"surely we can make food that is tastier, cheaper, and more nutritious than anything that exists naturally."

You're not convincing me. The idea of consuming a nutrient shake on a daily basis doesn't appeal in the least. I like chewing my food; texture is important to me. There's a reason that we have teeth and powerful jaw muscles. If we had evolved to consume our nutrients as a puree then we'd have mouth parts, like flies who squirt digestive juices onto their food and then suck up the partially-digested goop.
He was young and fit in the seventies. He's just stayed around in that business long after his expiration date.
Well, cosx summed it up nicely [1].

I would add, in all seriousness, that it can make dealing with women a problem.

I think it's widely accepted that some men are apt do all kinds of foolish, prideful things in response to working with a woman they find attractive.

Some women are hardly different.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610378
What are the downsides of these compared to Soylent? I mean, what's the motivation for Soylent if these already exist?

I swear that this Soylent thing is all, as some others have opined, a long troll.

But yes, there are a number of "meal replacement" drinks, some of them (like Ensure), very widely known and heavily advertised.
While sales tax is usually a state issue and our disconnect may be the result of working in different states (I am in NY), you can see from the American Bar website that it's clear that sales tax is not usually levied on lawyer fees: http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative...

That link shows the American Bar saying 'Don't start charging sales tax on legal fees' which implies that they don't currently charge them.

"Currently, only three states have a tax on legal services – Hawaii, New Mexico and South Dakota"

So where do you work?

I think the myopia here is you assuming that VCs don't normally pay legal fees because it's a sales tax problem and they don't want to waste money.
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The average went up because it seems that, like a reasonable professor, this professor is a hard grader who doesn't grade on a curve. Grading on a curve is lazy: it says I didn't know what I wanted you to get out of this course, so I'm going to assume that a certain % failed, a certain % got a C, etc. For this professor, success in the class is thinking like a behavorial ecologist. If the students internalize what that means, and can prove to the professor that they did, then they earn good grades. If every student in the class shows a much higher-than-desired level of thinking like a behavorial ecologist, then everyone earned an A. It sounds like the professor is a hard grader, not because he uses a curve, but because he sets high expectations.

Edit: This is far more adversarial than I intended, and realize it's not a direct response to my parent post (which I thought was saying that this test shouldn't really affect the curve at all, as everyone scored the same, besides the wolves). That being said, I'm always happy to rant against using a strict curve for grading.
The Navy has an SBIR solicitation out for this topic, but it does not necessarily mean that it is going to put up $1MM. Phase I funding is small (less than $100k per award) and sometimes no Phase II contracts are awarded for a topic. Of course, the Navy could also spend much more than $1MM if they decide to fund multiple Phase IIs (also not uncommon). It really depends on the results they see during Phase I and the importance of the topic compared to other funding opportunities.
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Why only one?
VAT is not sales tax. http://taxtalk.co/sales-tax/sales-tax-vs-vat/
Good question; I am launching a kickstarter campaign next week to fund my next book, which will answer precisely that question :)
If that was the case, why wouldn't they all have micopenises?
Why we killed 2/3rds of the features on our site before launch.
Yes, and they got sent right back home before they could spell the name of their employer.

And the supreme court just trashed Mastercard for denying service to Wikileaks and its payment provider, DataCell. The verdict includes daily fines that would amount to 2.5 million dollars a year if they choose to continue denying services. (800k ISK daily fines = 292 million ISK yearly ~ 2.54 million USD)

I have high hopes for my country, and I know I'll be the first to go protest if they try to shut it down. Also, The Pirate Bay and file sharing in general has HUGE public support and the response in icelandic media has been nothing but positive, with responses from SMAIS (the icelandic version of RIAA/MPAA) being ridiculed and mocked.
Seeing as how the internet's original purpose was to facilitate Star Trek debates, I think it's relevant to the contrived title of this article to point towards what the semi-canon materials have to say about Kirk's Kobayashi Maru:

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from Memory Beta (non-canon Star Trek wiki -- eg, novels and comics):

> Before his third attempt, Kirk reprogrammed the scenario, eliminating the parts of the program that made it impossible to win, thus creating a level playing field where success was not guaranteed, but at least possible. He then told the simulation's Klingon, Kozor, that he was "Captain Kirk". When they heard this, the attacking fleet instantly assisted Kirk in locating Kobayashi Maru. Kirk then tricked the Klingon ships into warping away, giving him time to evacuate the Maru. The whole thing took eighteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Admirals Jublik and Zheng gave Kirk a commendation for original thinking, as well as ninety-nine demerits, just short of the expulsion limit. (TOS novel: The Kobayashi Maru, TOS comic: "Star Crossed", TOS short story: "A Test of Character")

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#23...

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from Memory Alpha ((mostly) canon Star Trek wiki):

> Julia Ecklar's The Kobayashi Maru tells how Kirk, Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott and Sulu each faced the problem. In the novel, Kirk won the scenario by reprogramming the simulation so that the Klingons believed he was a famous starship captain, though he was only a cadet at the time. Chekov self-destructed his ship, taking the Klingons with him; to his humiliation, his instructor pointed out that ejecting his crew in lifepods did not save them, due to the explosions of the four warp-drive vessels and the attending radiation. Scott tricked the simulation into overestimating the effectiveness of a theoretical attack against the Klingon ships' overlapping shielding. Faced with proof that such attacks, although quite valid in theory, would not work in reality and that Scott knew this, Academy staff reassigned Scott from command school to Engineering (his true love - he had used this "solution" precisely because of these consequences). Sulu, given the consequences of entry into the Zone versus the slim chance of recovering the crew of the freighter, elected not to conduct a rescue operation.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#Apoc...
I would be most concerned about overdosing some vitamin or mineral powder, taken in miligram range.

Just one pinch can cause serious and painful injury.

Will it always be mixed evenly?
And this is why information security will always be lightyears behind any threat in the real world. If you introduce to a classroom of people a task intended to make them cheat, and then you're required to follow up with the information that they're supposed to cheat, well... Let's just say that the people they're supposed to be defending networks and systems against don't need to be told when and where to cheat a system.
I don't know about anyone else, but I still go looking for an expert when I need any of my Windows machines fixed: whereas when any of my Ubuntu machines have issues, I'm comfortable and motivated to look up the answers myself. Partly that's an issue with documentation quality - you're a lot less likely to catch a drive-by download or follow maliciously bad advice on Linux forums - but I also find the workings of Linux much easier to understand.
Front end developer needed for funded music app
Looks sweet, thanks for the recommendation. Whenever I get a box I'll look into using this for Push services.
I was thinking the same thing. Twitter, Facebook, Google all allow you to make edits and/or delete.

At the very least, StackExchange-like revisions would be nice. So if something really needs to be rolled back, that's an option.
CISPA will come back under a different name. Here is some historic context: http://blog.ted.com/2012/01/18/defend-our-freedom-to-share-o...

tl;dr
"Time Warner called, they want you back on the couch!"
Like the concept.
"why do you equate accessing the system to simply holding a door open, as if there were no login security?"

They were using a valid login; one of the coconspirators had given his credentials to them.

"the example of documents being held in a safe as a proxy for the fact that you need to log into"

No, that is what the door in my example is. The door was held open by a coconspirator.

To put it another way, nothing had to be broken; they accessed the computer in the normal fashion and downloaded the files in the normal fashion. They did not sneak in, they were allowed in by someone with legitimate, authorized access.
Ditto for gcc-4.8. Roughly the same (ever so slightly worse) performance.
That's not broken scrolling. Broken scrolling is when you can't scroll the page correctly. That's shitty graphics :P
Funny that Yahoo! News is sourcing from Reuters.