skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Floh's website is at http://www.flohofwoe.com/ and he's got links to demos of using Emscripten there as well as some other interesting stuff.
> but the truth is that we really do need some improvements and clarifications of certain laws to help companies improve their security.

Oh, well, since you put together such a persuasive argument.
I was very thin at 20 and completely bald by 22 (29 now and nothing has changed). I'd prefer to have hair, but it has never been an issue in my personal or business life. I was never turned down by a girl I seriously pursued. My wife thinks I look fine bald and she knew me before. She actually was interested in me originally because she said I had "cool" hair when she first saw me.

As my hair got thinner I began cutting it shorter and now buzz it as low as possible a couple times a week. I also grew a curly mustache a couple years ago so I had a little something to work with. I get compliments nearly everyday on it now.

Being bald young might have actually worked in my favor professionally as it made me look older than I was. I was young (early 20's) meeting with manufacturers in Europe to get contracts to import their products to the US. I think they would have been a bit worried if they knew they were dealing with a 21 year old. I looked like I was young 30's and I seemed like I knew what I was talking about so they didn't question it.
Omelette.js - Simple, template based CLI autocompletion tool.
Mistake #11: assuming that an online survey equates to discussions with your users. This is not a knock on survata, but rather talking about what it means to engage with a company's userbase.

Survata is one tool, but nothing beats direct, 1-1 customer interaction. Can't remember where I read it, but one CEO of a startup made it his job to handle a decent amount of customer support email. Of course, that only scales so far, but out of the gate -- that's priceless interaction.
I believe this is the programming language you are looking for: http://www.ats-lang.org/
The article is endorsing cheating as a learning methodology. Cheating helps to drive innovation. However, I agree that the article is not endorsing cheating from an ethical standpoint.
Does that make his statement more or less likely to be accurate?
Agreed. I wish Twitter would change "favorite" to "like" or "star" so that people could essentially +1 other tweets with out the severity that "favorite" implies.
The post discusses assets and creating asset modules for constructing their virtual worlds. It would be interesting if they discussed hardware constraints, and how lifting those constraints effects the creative process. The release status of an unreleased console is inconsequential to the information. It has been announced that the new playstation console has 8gb's of ram. In my experience playing Bethesda's games on console and PC, consoles take a significantly longer time to load. Even if a current-generation console is more powerful than a PC, it will be much slower than a PC at loading assets. This has nothing to do with hard-disk speed, as running the game off of equally slow HDD's of a console and a PC, the PC will still significantly quicker. Someone voted me down for my comment. I was not expecting them to cover this in a post about an already-released game. I just said it would be interesting (in future).

We all have to be really careful when commenting on the internet, especially Hacker News, that we are clear. For that I apologise, even if I am quite a bit annoyed, though I realise it is my fault. I have been toying with the idea of building an online community, but I think I will pass on that idea as I don't like excluding people. What did I offer this discussion? = nothing. What did most other people? = nothing. Why are we even discussing this?
Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO
+1 for (2).

The other issue is, great mentors aren't usually plainly available on a website; the very act of finding their contact info/introduction and making a convincing pitch for "I'm worth meeting with" is a great filter for experts who (unlike YC, for example) don't have the bandwidth for an open application process.
A border?
From the subject post: "I made a rather significant change to the formula... I've replaced half of the maltodextrin carbohydrates with oat powder, which ... dramatically increases the fiber content ... I underestimated the importance of fiber in a diet, and went from consuming 1.2g / day to 40g / day."
And is not part of the problem here trying to determine the "cyber equivalent" of such things as plain sight and hot pursuit? A lot of what goes on online is the equivalent of high noon in the public square, even if people don't quite understand that.
The meta-cheat is asking why you should be shilling for grades in the first place.
Can you mark one of the node as untrusted and keep the data encrypted for them?
Summary of scaling memcache at Facebook
I'm guessing that Pocket means to be acquired eventually.

And those acquisitions work out so well for the product, especially smaller, more niche products.

If they've taken that much money, they are going to have to provide a strategy to monetize. If they are doing it for free, it means they are selling analytics about what you are reading to somebody else.

For myself, I'll pay for the app.
> My team has a diehard Eclipse user who has added a bunch of random configuration plugins to Eclipse basically to make Eclipse work with Maven.

You realize that the 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' comes with official support for Maven out of the box, right? I'm not a fan of Maven, but my Eclipse-related issues have been minimal.
Rationalizing having children on the ground that the children of a smart person will be smart and therefore an advantage to the world ... isn't very smart.

First, there's regression to the mean, which says the children of an above-average smart person won't be likely to be measurably above average (true also for a person less intelligent than average).

Second, as the planet becomes more crowded, the intelligence, wittiness or saintliness of the offspring stops mattering when they're all starving.
Actually I saw a bunch of these in-store today. The Cree "60W replacement" was ~$10.

FWIW, I picked up 'Philips 9.5-Watt BR30 Indoor Flood Soft White (2700K) LED Light Bulb (4-Pack)' for $60 online from Home Depot, thought it was a pretty decent deal at the time.
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It might be because it was the first thing he noticed, not the most important thing.
Democratic Nations Asking Google to Censor Content Hits All Time High
Dammit...was just about to start using Parse on two major projects after a fair bit of testing. Back to square one it is.
Hmmm. I don't really know C++ well enough to do this myself. Oh well.

Seems like it would be super useful to have a command line version of this so I could take an html file, pipe it in and get out an optimized file, and then diff them so I can learn to make my pages better.

I suppose as a hack I could set up nginx with the plugin and then load each page through curl or something and diff them that way...
EE work is usually done with traditional, well-characterized materials. Treating drift velocity as anything other than part of a constant or a temperature variance equation is pretty rare.

It's more common if you're doing novel research.
A few years ago it was really bad, now it's super easy, file -> import maven project.
C (gcc 4.2.1)	2.62 +/- 0.24	1.0x
NaCl (x86-32)	3.39 +/- 0.25	1.3x
asm.js (Firefox Nightly)	5.12 +/- 0.59	1.9x

NaCl is 30% slower, asm.js is 90% slower.
Well I don't think he would just lie so maybe he's really short and flabby?
China sea freight|China ocean freight containers
I don't understand why people care so much about the "longevity" of an app that at most saves their data for a week, like Pocket, or something like Google's Keep, a notes app.

Who cares if it dies in 2 years? You might be switching through 3 other alternatives by then anyway. And you can still save your week worth of data if they announce the shut down anyway.

It's not like say an e-mail service, where you might actually want to keep your years worth of data.
Crowdsourcing & Quality
http://imgur.com/rX2MVzP
Really good piece. This is probably the most lauded a Something Awful member will ever be (other than perhaps Jon Stewart).
The analysis on his part had to be simple. He has two products right now, one of which generates $2.40 one time and then people use it for years. His second product pays him $1.40 per customer every month. The second product is far more stable long term.
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your data. 5.12 is not 90% slower than 2.62, it's 51% slower.
Can you provide a definition of either that excludes the other?
I think he's leaving because when he started in May 2012, he said, "I'm going to step down in May, 2013".
Street lights that emit narrow spectral lines are not a problem at all for spectroscopy, except of course at the line wavelengths. I have a bit of experience here -- a few more than 400 nights observing spectroscopically at Lick Observatory, where we have just a wee bit of light pollution!

All lights, narrow or broad band, present problems for optical broad band imaging.

If we could get all cities to go with low pressure sodium lamps (that only emit at a few wavelengths), astronomers would be very happy. The only problem is that city residents tend to not like the monochromatic look you get from not having a broadband light source. So San Diego, for example, switched to low pressure sodium in the 80's to try to protect the skies for Mt. Palomar. But residents started screaming (it's leading to more crime!) so the city went back to high pressure sodium.
Most of the time there are contractors, and lots of the art gets outsourced to other companies, so you won't have all the people there. Was QA present?

Here are the credits (Xbox 360) - http://www.mobygames.com/game/xbox360/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim...
I agree. If you weren't aware of this book, followed that link, liked what you saw, and then purchased it, why shouldn't the person who linked you to it in the first place have some kind of reward? (particularly since Amazon pays it, not the purchaser)

I think some people get all up in arms about it when larger publications do it, since it throws into question the validity of what they've written if they're trying to make money from referral links. However, the above is clearly someone's personal opinion , and I don't think that it should be scrutinised as if it were deceitful.
> It's like arguing that we should trash art or literature, or that we should stop using cutlery and just use our hands.
Something wrong with eating with your hands?
Did anyone else notice the picture of the course text? It was Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother". I would love to hear what an officer training course has to say in a discussion of that book. Wow.
> Actually I saw a bunch of these in-store today. The Cree "60W replacement" was ~$10.

Why not say where? I don't think anyone will object that you're flogging a particular source. Your quoted price is lower than anywhere else by a substantial margin.
Malicious intent can be algorithmically determined by checking for packets with the "evil" bit set to 1, as specified in RFC 3514 [1].

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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I'm confused. Is this a flash cart? I can't seem to find much information on it.
That article is infuriating.

I searched for an alternative. The second Google result for 'add user ubuntu' is: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddUsersHowto

There are problems:

* The article has a pants title - no novice in their right mind is going to click the link over the first result with the better title

* It begins with a tag saying it's out of date

* It's marked as immutable so those who care can't make it better.

What can we do to make these terrible articles go away?
Even paying apps go for for a sale, less often though. For me Pocket is so seamlessly integrated with my online presence that it will of course to see it go(considering acquisition will kill it or somehow make it unusable - ad etc) but the ease/swiftness makes to very hard to switch to any other service paying or non-paying.

One example is their Android focus which, sometimes I funnily think, developers like Marco despise(no, read ignore :P ).
Can you explain what you mean? I don't understand.
I have never played EVE Online, but I absolutely adore the stories it enables its players to tell, and the human interactions that result.

On that front, I think that EVE Online is the only true "MMORPG"– i.e. one where the players directly affect the economy, the wars, the alliances, the supply and demand, and so on.

I'm disappointed that we don't see more games taking from EVE, but confident that that's where the future of online entertainment is headed.
I'm not sure that's how RTM works. As I understand it, RTM is talking about the distribution of an uncorrelated variable and says that they'll trend towards the average on the second measurement. It doesn't seem to say that they'll be average with respect to a given correlate. Some schools are persistently better over time, for instance even if on the second measurement they trend closer to the average and then subsequently further away and then... that's just saying that it's not a perfect correlate and you've got noise in your data.

In this case the assumption seems to be that, measured by the intelligence of the first person as an outlier, IQ's going to be average on the second measurement - their kid. However, IQ doesn't necessarily trend that way in family lines over time. If IQ really does have a heritable genetic component, then, while people might trend up and down, over time the aggregate is going to be persistently higher for some than for others.
While in principle I agree that hard graders are better, I think any professor that can engage the class and have them learn the content is still the gold standard regardless of the final grade given.

My Physics 101 course was taught by a boy-genius that had never taught at university level before. He was very smart and brilliant researcher I will grant but was a lousy teacher. He was very principled and a no curve policy in the syllabus and the first test given had an average score of around 30 out of 100 or so and all but 3 failed (I was #3 and had the equivalent of a D-). The test had no material that was covered in lecture or homework but was derivable from either the textbook or related concepts that the lecture covered indirectly.

He had no intention of changing his stance on that test and we had probably 15% of the class dropout but a week or so after he reversed that and skewed it so the average was a D and lowered its overall weight to final grade. Speculation was he was forced as it was very likely he would have failed 70+% of the class otherwise. It was very instructive to us and I think was a very good lesson as I took things much more seriously from then on and so did most of the class. So I thought that curve was not so bad but will tend to agree a strict curve is a bad thing especially if its not due to an unusual event like this.
I think he's poking fun that the mp3 file won't play. It isn't for me anyway..
Well, I'm very impressed with the asm.js numbers - its lead over the JVM is really unexpected (to me, at least). I've not been a JS fan, but if asm.js can pull out this kind of performance at this early stage then perhaps this really could work as an 'bytecode for the web'. That would be nice because it would allow a common compilation target for people to output to from whatever their favourite language - which is clearly a better situation that 'whatever language you like so long as it's JavaScript' :o)
I cannot believe this is legal.
Point of speculation: bombs trigger a bit of a different response, at least in my head. For starters, you don't get to flee from a bomb, and a bomb doesn't need to be held by a human. It can be hiding anywhere.

Wasn't it just recently that a study found that the stress on our troops in the Middle East due to traveling around risking IED's was at least as great, if not greater than regular combat?
Gotta start somewhere ;). I'l see how it goes, have two LCD's ordered and on the way now.
I didn't hear a thing.

From Android phone
Wow, that was pretty Business Insider-worthy reporting then :(
Analyzing Radioactive Glass from the Trinity Test
I'm really surprised by people who act like this is some kind of new or novel idea. Meal replacements have been around for a very, very long time. There are some really common ones you can buy at any grocery store, such as Ensure.

Want to replace a meal with something similar? Throw some milk, oats, protein powder and peanut butter in a blender. Drink it down with a multi-vitamin and a fish oil capsule or two.
I think the thought process is simple - you run a paid service and it's good, liked by people and you see another service, free, being acquired(acquihired most likely) and you feel bad about it(not jealousy necessarily) and you give your opinion and how that's bad for app ecysystem and of course for the users who depend on them. But when an opportunity comes to selling the app you just sell it if the price is good and that's a known thing.

OF course in the blog post after sell you mention how you'll still be influential and all.

Though not al sell/buys are bad. Evernote bought Skitch and now I like it more.
That's a good point, and it's often quoted to explain the fact that Ph.D. graduates often make less money (or have higher unemployment rates) than professional degree holders in the same field. The assumption is that the Ph.D. holder will jump ship at the first offer of a job at his educational level, so he's less reliable as a long term employee.
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Can you live off of nothing but Ensure for weeks on end?
You just described authoritarianism as (as I interpret you) basic human nature.

I said 'a lot of people are authoritarians,' not that it was inherent. It varies from country to country, eg I think Swedes are somewhat less authoritarian than Americans in the aggregate.
Neither does cold-blooded logic. Nobody can understand obesity unless they've had to ask themselves "wait, why did I eat all that?" Willpower seems to be finite and its relationship to blood sugar may be genetic. I've had pretty good luck losing weight using protein/fiber shakes between small meals to reduce blood sugar spikes and blunt cravings that were hard to control otherwise.
It's awesome that you have such insight into his private life, it would be even more awesome if you could source this type of defamation.
A Quote: "Kenneth Bainbridge, director of the Manhattan Project, was not amused with Fermi scaring all the guards."

Correction. Leslie R. Groves, Jr. was director of the Manhattan Project.
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On Mauna Kea (big island of Hawaii) the biggest sources of light pollution are the airports and harbors.

For the telescopes near big cities, I'm not sure if anybody has worked out the relative contributions of street lights to say billboards or car dealerships or backyard flood lighting. But from standing on the summit of Mt. Hamilton and looking down into the valley it would seem to be mostly street lights
Make it repeat more. Then it looks like a comic strip, where you're actually seeing the mentoring happen, or where the 2 people are frozen in stasis.
As a sound engineer, listening to this brought a tear to my eye.
Various discussions here (by militant anti-prescriptivists):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27

and approval here:

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/dept-min/pub/legis/n41.html

For the plural second person, try out my ancestral dialect's "y'all".
I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, their entire purpose is to make it light outside. A neighborhood without street lights is noticeably much darker.

The only other likely sources are building lights and cars, and I'd think street lights far outnumber either of those in their ubiquity.
I can't wait for the time when we will use C++ in the browser and JS on the backend. Oh the irony.
Personally, I'm really excited to see what the end product will look like. Given he does enough trials beforehand, hopefully the purchase would look something like this:

1. Visit website. On the webpage, login and click "order 1-week supply."

2. If you're a new customer, then put in some basic metrics (height, sex, age, current weight, activity level, exceptional family diseases/allergies). Then, a "standard" supply will be shipped to you, optimizing the ingredients generally for what they think you'll need, with an ingredient list (how much of each ingredient is in one serving).

3. When logging in again, you're asked "Are you experiencing any symptoms?" Then, you can list anything that feels off, such as aching joints, cravings, etc. Then, the site would list common deficiencies/overdoses that would cause those symptoms, and give you the option to purchase, for instance, a temporary magnesium supplement, or recommend that, prior to receiving your next shipment, you consume one less serving per day. After using the supplement, you'd input whether the symptom improved, and the ingredient's quantity would be adjusted in your next shipment.

The tricky bit about this system would be personalizing everyone's orders, at scale. But it should be pretty possible (says the developer without an understanding of manufacturing), and for far less than it would cost to order a full meal.
I don't think you understand who's asking the government to do this.
Did you try downloading it? It works for me. (http://media.smithsonianmag.com/audio/alexander-graham-bell....)
Link to mp3: http://media.smithsonianmag.com/audio/alexander-graham-bell....
Whether Marissa Mayer was a good choice for CEO or not, the stock market has spoken, with YHOO more than doubled from the low point.
Aside from the native compilation bit, could Elixir be the language that you're really looking for?

http://elixir-lang.org/

Speaking personally for a moment here, I'm a Python/Javascript/PHP dev by day, and the reason that I'm interested in Rust is precisely because of all the new concepts that it's forced me to learn. I could never get into C because I enjoy having two feet, and I could never get into C++ because I know that there's no escape from that stygian pit. For me, Rust is precisely the right balance of low-level/safety/coherence, semicolons be damned.
A passable CISPA is one that wouldn't allow companies to share information specific to its users (except it's not that simple, if I'm a hacker do I get some kind of special immunity if I register on the website I hacked? What if part of the hack required me to register, is that information suddenly invalid because I have a username and a password?).

I should be able to share the md5s of malware I found on my system with my direct competitor without being hit in the face by the Sherman Antitrust Act. I should also be able to disclose to my users/the public that I was hacked in the first place, without fear of being sued.

Are you seriously saying these aren't problems?