skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is support. If DoD actually do a source update to a supported software package, such as Windows XP, MS is not required to support that update. From what I understood, if its a security flaw, or major operational impact, they work with MS to fix it and that doesn't cause support problems to the same extent.
yes, that struck me as odd actually. What about those submarines make them a good fit with android technology?
if you're paying the women, but taking the mens' money, who exactly is being exploited here?
Why do I feel like this is thinly veiled way of saying "Twitter should acquire me / hire me"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609898

Parse is hands down the best of the bunch, though.
I've found the exact opposite. I've found that there are many more "cooler" (~5600K color) CFLs with a high CRI than warmer (~2700K color) CFLs with a high CRI. The cooler 5600K lights are daylight balanced and used a lot with digital filmmaking and as indoor grow lights, whereas the warmer lights are used in home light fixtures to approximate the color temps of incandescents.
This is a completely idiotic way of testing people. I could have come into class not knowing anything, waited till the end of the test and then offered 100 dollars to anyone to be allowed to copy their whole test. And I would have passed the class?

It kinda reminds me of CS-whores. The one or two CS girls in each graduation class that regularly used sex-appeal/flirtation to get CS guys to do their homework (very successfully too!).

At some point your no longer testing people's knowledge and creative thinking, but their social skills and ability to manipulate others (and maybe their breast size/size of their 6 pack).

I feel like the professor treated this like a sick little game and enjoyed himself while doing it.

At the end of the day you are competing against your peers either through a curve, or through your raw grades because you're all going into the same fields and are competing for the same jobs with your GPAs. Making a system where cut-throat behavior is encouraged and putting down your pays off is really sad.
Thoughts on Instapaper's Acquisition
Saying that it's tough being beautiful is one of those formulations along the lines of, "Oh, it's such a burden having all this wealth. How I envy the simple, carefree lives of the poor."
I'm curious whether the performance varies if you used a C compiler from the last five years -- GCC 4.2.1 was released in July 2007. (I'm not claimed the author of the post is unfairly biasing the results, I'm just honestly curious.)
Interesting that Ilya doesn't seem to apprehend why so many people are uneasy about this.
Google+ Comments for Wordpress
Most of these issues have been fixed with Gradle. Gradle still has some immaturity issues, but its overall a better system that takes the good parts of maven like dependency management and build environment conventions.
it's not because you're an asian, it's because you're good looking.

the same thing happens to good looking white guys and good looking women (around other women) too.

you've never heard the term 'prettyboy'? it's used all the time to put down good looking men.
Also totally disagree. Sounds like the average Hacker News comment that has no bearing on real users. I keep up with all of my college friends (recently left), high school friends, and almost all new San Francisco friends through Facebook.

- I get its messages delivered to my phone.

- Most every party I go to has a Facebook event associated with it.

- Pretty much every picture taken with my friends goes to it (or Instagram).

I'd say that's pretty normal for most people I interact with.
Parse is a great service. I can only assume the team is as awesome as their product. Fingers crossed some of the Parse approach to product and developer service rubs off on facebook. Well I guess buying the company they want some of the developer love Parse has.
What phone browser are you using? It seems ok on my Nexus 4 and mobile Safari, but I may need to fix the viewport or some such thing.
no, to combat this, you need to wear a nicer suit.

if you are in a room full of suits and you are wearing casual clothes, you better own the fucking company or nobody is going to listen to a damn thing you're saying. the suit makes others, and yourself more authoritative, even to yourself.

this is a highly social activity/phenomenon you're describing, you can't just power through and ignore it because you know how computers work.
1. https://gist.github.com/taliesinb/5464092 . Hopefully we can build this in.

2. Custom Graphics. We don't (yet) support doing anything interesting with graph weights, which this relies heavily on. I think this is a good candidate for M10 -- name would probably be ChordPlot. I came up with a "GraphForm" construct that allows you to patch various graph properties into various visual parameters (size, color, edge weight, etc). That turns out to be quite useful.

3. Tally[list, IsomorphicGraphQ] . Isn't that cool?

4. Awesome! Nice code. We plan to create ImageCloud and WordCloud functions for M10. WordCloud will be specialized for representing word frequencies and so on. ImageCloud will be the general case: accept a list of images [potentially with transparency], and then find a nice layout given desired sizes. So much cool dataviz will be possible with this! Like country flags...
Tube feeding in hospital need "high quality" products and I'm sure it's FDA certified...
http://abbottnutrition.com/categories/adult/adult-tube-feedi...
If you value your time, and hair, the best answer is to just
buy a good network tap.

http://www.networktaps.com/
Download the ubuntu server image instead, and after install just run `sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-terminal` to get a fast and clean desktop experience.
I don't believe this is news ... https://github.com/KnpLabs/Gaufrette (lib for php). only if they manage to buy their way in to the consumer will they have something of value.
Android is going to be the low cost field deployable random gadget, and this is an investment in bringing a minimum level of security to the platform.

For actual classified applications, the NSA (which provides solutions downstream to DoD and other groups) is already trying to standardize on a highly customized version of Windows CE built by General Dynamics that runs on XScale processors with NSA specific modifications. Some publicly visible applications of this stack are the Sectera Edge (the phone that replaced Obamas Blackberry) and the DTD2000.

Windows CE will become the very dominant winner in the mobile platform space because of this. :)
Generating sprites using Sass and Compass
Would you be willing to talk to us? Would be interested to hear more about your use case. Hit me up on twitter and I'll DM you my email address.
Can I use this on arch without rebuilding a new kernel yet?
I apears that Algorithm trading Firms are slowly moving to SF/Silicon Valley. I see some postings for SF-jobs in this domain. May be they want to use the software talent in this area.
> The lesson I learned was that every time you step into a medical facility you're increasing your risk for disease.

Sort of the antithesis to "primum non nocere."

On the other hand, people like me are afraid to go to the doctor for anything at all; even yearly checkups are taboo. I'm completely insured, but still hate trips to the doctors.
It means what it says. It's not going to change. This is about product as much as talent and is an important piece that we want mobile developers to have access to.

disclaimer: I work at Facebook.
In a misguided effort to deter the users of piracy systems run for profit by entities that are not easily reached by copyright law. What's your point?
There's very little space on board a submarine. If the Navy was willing/interested in putting paper-based workflows onto Android devices, it could save a good amount of physical space on board.
Even the survivors come away bleeding
> Yahoo Inc Chairman Fred Amoroso is resigning effective immediately, the struggling Internet company [my emphasis] announced on Thursday.

Ouch. I know the article comes from Reuters, but that phrase looks extra bad on news.yahoo.com.
There should be measures put in place preventing lawmakers from sneaking in questionable (or any) legislation. It is a wanton subversion of democracy to employ underhanded methods to pass unpopular laws.
Not a startup, but I'm usually around Mountain View if you want to grab coffee or a drink. Maybe we can even get some other HN people to join?
A bit off topic perhaps, but where I work at "big corp" there are so many people who have worked at the company for 15-20-30 years, it's really incredible. They've built their whole lives around big corp, they've bought a house nearby, live somewhere where there aren't many alternative jobs. They've worked on the same thing for at least a decade, and they only ever "changed jobs" within the company itself.

I have a very bad feeling that these people will be tasting the result of the faster global world very soon. People in my generation will never be relaxed and content with their job (for better or worse), because we know it might not exist in a year or two.
A full head of hair until 22? Man, you had it made. As an 18 year old with a severely receded hairline, I'd kill to be you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barreled_question

I do think rape and death threats are, at least, extremist behavior.
Some people oppose CISPA because of fixable issues regarding privacy or overly broad scope, some oppose it because they they think that it'll let the government spy on every URL they visit or allow the MPAA to take down all of Facebook for copyright infringement. According to the latter, CISPA isn't just a bad idea, it's pure malicious evil - the people supporting it need to be defeated so soundly that they never even try to bring it up again.

Unfortunately, that latter group is quite well-represented here on HN.
The problem with that is that fortification is already rampant in premade foods, and so most first-worlders are already eating these refined ingredients in every meal. Moreover, many people take one-a-day multivitamins which in a single dose, contain the same amount (and sometimes more) of the same refined ingredients in a day's worth of soylent.

Extensive studies have been done on the safety and efficacy of multivitamins, and while their utility for healthy people with balanced diets is a matter of debate, their safety (when taken at the recommended dose) is well established.
The person who wrote "That's incorrect" is a Parse founder (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive).
I actually signed up for Kippt when initially searching for a Pocket alternative and there's a lot to like about it.

I didn't stick with it or sign up for pro for a couple of reasons.

Namely, lack of an app and what I find to be a "cluttered" experience.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if I want to save the page I'm on (I know I can save a link directly with a right-click) to Kippt I hit the extension icon which prompts me for tags, a destination and requires an extra click to actually save. Contrast that with Pocket and historious where it's one click, done. Pocket actually does it best by temporarily presenting me with the option to add tags or go the list without insisting.

Now, if I want to search what I've saved on Kippt I head on over to kippt.com and I'm presented with something that (to me) resembles Outlook. I click into a little search field, type my search and hit enter. I wait, get results then click a link.

If the link came from Pocket, I get a largely empty page with yet another link to click to reach the actual content. (Links added directly to Kippt for later reading have a summary here, that's fine.)

Contrast that with historious. When I want to search what I've saved or imported from Pocket I head to historio.us and instantly it's Google for my stuff. I start typing and hit enter. My results appear immediately, if I want to go straight to source I hit the main link, if I want a reader view I hit mobilize below it, if I want to publish it on the public Google for my stuff at user.historio.us I hit publish.

As you can see, relative to that experience, Kippt requires "extra" steps for every common action I use.
I hope nothing happens to Instapaper. I love this app; after Chrome and Mail, it's my #3 app on iOS.
Learn to embrace writing maven plugins.

I've written a few maven plugins that are just jython wrappers that import a few flags into the jython script (like the build directory) and then execute them. I've even written a generic python plugin that executes a script at a given path and imports any declared maven variables into it.

Sometimes it feels wrong, I know, but it's worth it.

I also wrote a new site plugin for myself that diffs between versions and throws all that up on a site for a auto changelog thing. It's useful for those rare "What the fuck did you do to the code in this release" occasions.
Living with Google Glass, Day One: the reveal
Same here, still at university and Facebook takes up far too much of my time. I and my classmates are on it before, during and after class.
Is it an image? You can serve the image data with a language like PHP and add the user's IP and browser to a database each time the image is loaded.
I also use the Thinkpads - great with Linux, and I love the way the keyboard feels. I haven't noticed the stares, though.
Anyone taking a look at the Senate bill S.2102? http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2102is/pdf/BILLS-112s...
I completely disagree. I found this to be an excellent example of real world training. I worked through college in IT and from that job on, working in the real world was exactly like this. We worked on projects with teams of people. We looked for the best possible solutions to every problem we faced. Even when working alone on something, you had your peers as resources. You weren't locked in a closet coding on a computer, offline, without access to books or other tools. That's what test taking was like for me.

Some people, like me, are experiential learners. Others find their best thoughts through discussion and the evolution of ideas. I would have loved to have taken many classes like this. Fortunately, that's what the real world has been like for me - being a member or leading a team to produce the best product we can, either as a team, department or company. As you called it my "pay off" is education. I found mine through methods like this. Not through memorizing facts and methods just to pass a test.
Fucking Navy. First they waste tons of money on NMCI and then tons more on Navy ERP. I'm amazed anything works.
"Stop being fat, it's easy, look at me how fit I am"

Which is very, very, very true. I was 240 pounds, went down to 155 - and hell yah, I will repeat it back to you - "Stop being fat, it's easy, look at me how fit I am". Gym, sweat and cry as I did. The first thing you'll notice too is how much less self-pity you have. And that's manly too.
Disregard that, I contacted Developer relations and apparently they may be holding tickets for all those in my situation.
To be fair, that's a Java issue and not an Ubuntu issue. It came up for me with xmonad on another distribution entirely.
Why learn C++? It's used because of A) history or B) it's speed is useful in HFT that isn't UHFT yet with microwave links and ASICs.

I work in python. I'm staggered by the range and quality of the libraries. Numpy/Scipy + Pandas + ipython = instant productivity.
What exactly is "underhanded" about CISPA? They've got a coalation favoring it that includes companies like Google and Facebook. It's not an unpopular law, except among a small demographic of civil libertarians (and not even really among traditional civil libertarians, just the internet-focused ones). Average people don't care.

An unpopular law would be something like cutting Social Security benefits. That's something people would actually care about.
Not being fat also involves lifestyle choices that are easier to make when you are rich. E.g. want to go workout but you live in a sucky climate? No problem, just drive on over to the gym! Want to live in a better climate where you can bike to work every day? Sure, just move to the bay area. Want to work out before lunch? You have a high value job, your employer will be flexible.

Then sometimes its just a matter of context. I've totally gained weight since the gym in my apartment complex suddenly shutdown, and the pollution has been so bad this winter (700+ 2.5PM) that my options for doing much anything active have been severely limited.
nope, that's a peracid, it's how you eat metals. Refluxing aqua regia happens, too.
There is one simple thing that prevents me from using Pocket: pagination. It does’t work, it’s fiddly, it’s unclear how to turn it on, when you manage to activate it it switches off with the tiniest gesture. Pagination is the big Instapaper feature for me.
But conversely, pancreatic cancer that won't kill you is probably never caught because it is symptomless. Thus, you "survive" it and you don't even realize it. Improved pancreatic-cancer detection might well increase the amount of early pancreatic-cancers caught and the survival rate of pancreatic cancer without saving a single life!
We heart them and their services. They aren't going anywhere.
Fulltime, around 6 weeks. Breakdown is hard to say.

I wasted a lot of time trying to do things the "traditional" way by loading into SQL, querying, etc, but it was actually much faster to process things in memory (I have a 16 gig machine). Intensive stuff was parallelized in Go and used ordinary filesystem with directory prefix tries for performance.

Writeup was mostly SW. He's worked on it maybe an afternoon a week for the last month.

I really enjoy visualizations and can iterate extremely fast (e.g. ChordPlot took half an hour). Don't know why M is not the defacto standard for dataviz people. Tweaking takes a long time, and design iterated with me on getting things looking really nice.

All in all, most of my time was spent building tools to easily create multidimensional histograms. The nice thing is that those tools are clearly useful enough we'll integrate them into Mathematica, so the cost is somewhat amortized.

NLP took a few weeks of Etienne's time... once again, amortized. Most of that is wrangling, really, and building tools to understand the deficiencies of your training set. Naive Bayes works surprisingly well, the magic is in the tooling and "human intelligence" you iterate with.
Buddy would be a better acquisition target for Azure - their BaaS platform is more aligned with Azure's tech and Microsoft is an investor in Buddy (although, Google was an investor in Parse).
Explain the third amendment bit: "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

Who exactly is suggesting we house soldiers in peoples' houses?
I recently realized that this is embedded in our language. My 4-year was confused by the phrase "good-looking". She assumed that it meant people who look like they're good.

By four, she's already internalized that attractive people are good and unattractive (by local standards) are bad. Scary.
Thanks! What do you know? Shalizi!
What the Future of Wearable Technology Will Look Like
Is it me or does it seem like everything is now a giant lead into a Kickstarter marketing push? Is Kickstarter the new Internet marketing?
Why? Seems like the perfect time to promote an alternative.
+1 for Gradle.
Yes, it is still quite new, but in return the documentation is pretty good and when you want to do something, that is not available out of the box, extending is quite easy.
And yes, groovy rocks!
Well, actually Facebook choose them. And lots of money were involved. So we can all be cynical to the "culture compatibility" thing.
Well, you have two options:

1) Get them to point the image URL to your server instead of them hosting it so that you can log each access.

2) Don't worry about it, just measure actual results like conversions and revenue.

If you spend $100 and earn $50, it doesn't matter so much if it's because they underserved the ad or that their audience isn't a good match for your product -- either way, it wasn't a successful campaign so you don't renew.
Time Warner offers free wifi to Austin customers in response to Google
We have always been at war with <enemy>. I kid, but I honestly wasn't aware of that, was the constitution written to exclude wartime or did somebody have to amend it because some condition was untenable during wartime?
Why wouldn't they have just passed it now? I mean, it might be re-introduced, but surely the idea is to deal with these concerns before doing so, or it'll just be dropped again?
http://monosnap.com/image/uHrTKSc7dUyOmuT1Oc5BmtxOV
Buddy.com; StackMob; Kinvey; Appcelerator Cloud, etc...

There's a bunch out there. Buddy has advanced analytics, Kinvey charges by the user (vs. by APIs), StackMob basically runs an affiliate model upselling companion services.
Yeah, we tried a couple. Those heatmaps I think are quite hard to read.. because it is natural to want to take marginals, but you can't easily do that visually.

I think this whole "octile plot" thing turned out quite nicely. It's in a sense a way of 'slicing' the CDF into 8 even strips and projecting them onto a single axis. It's quite intuitive to read, too. Facebook seems to use it too for some of their papers.
Who said it wasn't?

I just think it's not healthy to only look at one side of the equation.
> Exactly. The switches buffer packets.

In most cases, you're right. The vast majority of switches use a sore-and-forward
design (buffering), but when you get into latency-critical applications, another
type of switch design is used, typically called a cross-bar switch.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/220055485_A_low-late...

http://www.google.com/patents/US5339396

I think opinions vary on whether or not crossbar designs "buffer" but it
mostly depends on how you define buffering. None the less, the low-latency
crossbar designs try to eliminate the latency caused by buffering in the
older but more common store-and-forward designs.
Speaking of stereotyping, the idea of taking fashion advice from <i>reddit</i> cracks me up. I'm sure it's probably fine and has some good things, but... you know, reddit.
To answer my own question, I got:

gcc 4.6.3: 3.554688 +/- 4.786550
clang trunk: 3.593750 +/- 4.798172
Chrome: 41.03515625 +/- 9.331709130062185

Which puts Chrome at about 11x these native compilers, consistent with the blog post.
>They don't want to become a de-facto mirror for the content, they want to provide it only to people who are actually their users.

Surely there's a way that could be prevented while retaining the benefit of exposing potential new users to the service?

The current sharing feature sends 800 character URLs pointing to email.getpocket.com. I'd think something could be put into and parsed out of that monster string to prevent the mirror scenario.

Send the first X clicks to a reflowed version with with a non-invasive sign-up option, send the rest to a sign-up page sans reflow.
No, we can tell when someone's privacy settings have given them a zero friend count, and they're not included in that aggregation.
Isn't that almost always the case with startups?

Very few care deeply for the original product -- just as much as needed for the eventual payoff. If they did they wouldn't let it dissolve into the hands of some humongous company like Google/Facebook et al (especially since 9 out of 10 of such acquisitions end with the product being halted).

Sometimes the original thing isn't even a product. It's a bunch of free stuff offered to get as many users as possible that could never stand of it's own (no monetization options) and only a acquire could save it (the buying company can then use it as a acqui-hire, to get some press and street cred, to build something else, as part of a larger, different offering, etc).