skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mice float. All the forced swimming test does is measure the time it takes for them to stop paddling.

As far as "torturing" goes, in the US academic studies require submission of protocols to an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee with proof that any harm caused to an animal is necessary for the study and meets federal guidelines for animal care (and because funding tends to come from federal sources, there is good incentive to meet these requirements). For studies involving pain, nerve regrowth after an insult, or other similar lines of research, injury may be unavoidable in asking the research question, but how the injury is applied must be approved by these committees. Protocols that involve harming an animal tend to be the most stringently regulated by these bodies, even more so than protocols requiring euthanasia. Furthermore, it is usually in the interest of the scientists performing the research to treat their animals consistently well, lest they find themselves with some inexplicable variables to account for.

Now, whether all or any of that merely constitutes "permitted" torture for our own benefit is a different question, but we do try to ensure that animals are treated as well as possible in a given research context.
What about Chicago?

Or it's an invitation to work at some startup with shitty cargo-cult culture that'll fire you at 4 months with no severance if you don't go to the strip club with the other brogrammers.

Chicago is ok but be aware that it's bro central if that's something you are trying to avoid.
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Personal experience, I'd agree. If I stay up all night and then do not go to sleep, I'm more likely to enter a manic mode and continue to get little sleep for the next few days. But things usually crash not too long after.
That Twitter paper has been torn to shreds over the last couple of years. Here is me snarking: http://blog.someben.com/2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-wh...
Ajax requests are what you're after. Store your data in JSON or plain text files and use your favourite JavaScript framework to retrieve them client-side.
Is each request a unique IP or do you see frequent and recurring requests from a chunk of IPs?
> They only seemed to teach you defence against someone else who punches like a karateka.

Good thing the lower-level students show very little technique during sparring.
the hardcore atheist position would seem to be that we do know what happens: nothing, the total cessation of experience.

Why do you think so?
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I was just going to say that I thought that there were implications for mapping the "www" subdomain like this, because S3 didn't support root domains, but that's been changed in the last few months:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosti...

(and plus, there's redirection)

edit: There are consequences relating to mx records, such as if you want mail service on the domain. From a comment:

> Just be careful here with doing CNAMEs on root domains. Things like email will break because the MX records are no longer visible behind the CNAME. Gmail for example won't send emails to domains with a CNAME as root.

Related article: NPR's apps team had a nice post about how most of their projects are S3 hosted flat files:
http://blog.apps.npr.org/2013/02/14/app-template-redux.html
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You should be able to use JSONP regardless of the data source to accomplish that.
If you are really good at what you do, and if you understand how real startups work, it becomes clear that location is the most irrelevant factor to success. I second Jason's views. If someone isn't going to work with you because you refuse to move to South End, Mountain View, or Brooklyn, then they can go fuck themselves. I travel to these places quite a bit though, and I love having a career that brings me to both coasts often.

The Midwest is the perfect place for a startup. Now that being said, Chicago has an entertaining startup scene. Entertaining in that I feel like they are trying too hard to be like San Franscisco.
But he was replying to my comment regarding Samsung phones
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Probably before that happens with satellites, it will happen with solar powered high altitude remote control planes, and mounted cameras. Consumer level not military spy drone level.

There's already a driver for this technology - flying the plane while wearing a head mounted display - a currently expensive niche hobby.
I covered it very briefly in the post, but could/should have gone into more detail. You can store all of your static HTML/CSS/JS on an S3 instance, then have a separate EC2 (or whatever) to do the database stuff.

Create it as an API that's reachable through JSONP or (better) CORS. It won't stop you having scaling issues, but it'll help to reduce the number of requests hammering your database. I've recently spent an unhealthy amount of time setting up Varnish to cache dynamic content, so a post on that topic will be coming down the pipeline soon.
I think Seattle has the best balance right now. It's expensive, yeah, but nowhere near fuxpensive. Single family homes average $400k. Rental market is a little crazy right now but you can still rent a 2-bedroom apartment for under $1,500/mo, whereas that won't even get you a studio in NYC. And you don't really need a car here if you live in the city or reasonably close to work, the bus system is decent.

There are tech startups and VCs here. If you're a good programmer and need a big software company job for the (pretty high) salary and benefits, then Microsoft and Amazon are headquartered here, Google is expanding their presence here (although you've obviously burned that bridge), and there are lots of other software and internet companies like Expedia, Adobe, Real, Redfin, Zillow, and even I Can Has Cheezburger? that employ a lot of programmers and are suffering from a talent shortage because UW can't crank out CS grads fast enough.

It also doesn't even rain as much here as it does on the East Coast.

So, basically, Seattle:

-has programming talent

-has a lot of jobs for programmers

-has VC capital

-has startups and startup incubators

-is not fuxpensive

-has ok weather if you don't mind it just being 50 degrees and cloudy 8 months out of the year.
Nice idea. Can I use MangoPay for a betting platform?
He's been saying things like this for years, mostly because we don't know enough about consciousness yet and that he spent too many years hanging out with Buddhists.
Logistic regression and other parametric, non-regularized linear learners tend to do poorly with NLP forecasting -type modeling. (They usually overfit.)
Exactly. Reminds me of this:

http://michaelgr.com/2008/10/29/duplicating-keys-from-photos...

"UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key."
She shouldn't feel bad. I've never seen more than a few minutes of Star Wars or Star Trek. Never seen Dr. Who or any of the Monty Python stuff. I've never seen a single Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter movie (or read the books).

But I keep telling myself that one day I'll binge through them all online.
I was listening to Robson Moura (BJJ black belt) talk about why he loves the art so much. He said something like: when you walk out of a karate class, after a lot of sparring, you feel like a tough-guy who's ready to kick some ass, but when you walk out of a BJJ class, where people smaller than you have just repeatedly demonstrated that they could kill you with their bare hands, you feel very humbled.

The effects on ego tend to weed out a lot of assholes, and between this and the mental challenges of the sport, it is one of the reasons I've come to love it. (Ryron & Rener also do a pretty good job of distinguishing between self-defense and sport jiu jitsu, at least in the videos I've seen from them.)
Even if I could take a bite out of his arm or stick my thumb in his eye, he would probably still kick the shit out of me.
From what I understand, most known exoplanets are gas giants, and almost all orbit their sun at about the distance of Mercury, because those are easier to detect. That leaves a lot of harder-to-see exoplanets we can only guess at. There are about 20 stars within a dozen light years, so I wish we could send probes to them and take a closer look. It would be a gift to our grandchildren. The risk is that in the time they would take to get there, our detection capabilities may have improved so much they'd wind up being useless, but I sort of doubt it. Being 7-12 light years closer has got to make a difference.

EDIT: Here is an amazing video showing all known exoplanets orbiting one star, so you can see their relative sizes, distances, etc.:

http://vimeo.com/47408739
You should definitely use a scriptable ML library. The process is very iterative and not suited to a compiled language like C++. I use skilearn alot, but also the matlab toolboxes or R are great. At its heart ML is alot of stats, so use something built for maths, not C++. It doesn't really make sense to break out C++ until you know exactly what algorithm and settings you need and your application is real time.
I've seen this in the US, too. It's on the labels, typically listed in price per ounce/fluid ounce for smaller items. Maybe it's a local law (Los Angeles) because it's that way at every super market I go to.
Your "hardcore" atheism is more correctly known as gnostic atheism. You will be hard pressed to find philosophically educated gnostic atheists.
Depends, I would say half of them are returning every once in a while and others only do a single request and never come back. No clear pattern here.
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For starters, there are a whole load of conditions that are no less secure than a standard http connection, such as self-signed certificates. But in those cases, the browser throws up a huge and misleading warning about it being insecure. Insecure is the default on the web: we should focus on positive signs that a site is secure.

Secondly, the system should make it harder for the administrator to make mistakes. For instance, the web server could refuse to serve https on a domain that it didn't have a certificate for. Or when a certificate nears its expiry date, the administrator should be getting plenty of reminders about it.

Thinking bigger, what if we tied it closer to the sensitive UI? What if only pages loaded securely could show a password field? What if rather than typing credit card numbers into boxes on a webpage, we were used to using a special browser interface that would only light up on secure pages?
Understood. No offense, just being goofy.
The man practices chocking other people to the brink of death in some sort of pseudo-BDSM tournament. What sort of sanity comes from a hallucination induced by oxygen deprivation?
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Look into Firebase, https://www.firebase.com/ .They have a js api to work straight from the browser.
I wish I was surprised. Frankly, I've come to expect that type of reaction to anything that challenges the establishment.
Several years ago I was linked to a thesis (Master's I think) discussing this exact topic. That they're a silent signal to others who might have similar interests to you. Especially obscure ones which look 'normal' to people who don't know the reference. I seem to remember that it was a little more in-depth than that but I can't find it now.
In his defense, he only does it 3 times a week.
It's worth noting that if you want to fully leverage the scalability of S3, using your domain registrar's HTTP 302 service (using a "URL Redirect" feature at your domain registrar) is likely a bad idea.

ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com resolves to	192.31.186.144, which is some unknown HTTP server at Namecheap, meanwhile www.ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com resolves to a CNAME that causes the browser to directly hit Amazon.

As mentioned by another commenter, the "proper" solution to this which doesn't depend on Namecheap's unknown quality HTTP server serving up redirects, is to use Amazon's DNS hosting and their proprietary aliasing solution: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosti...
God says...

Jonathan was taken.

14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the
end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt
surely die, Jonathan.

14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD
liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for
he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,
that he died not.

14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to their own place.

14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his
enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against
the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

-----

Can you pick locks with honey on a toof pick?

----

God is perfectly just, doctors. I'm laughing at you.

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Reminds me of a story about the MTA and their master keys being exposed:

http://www.renderlab.net/advisories/mta-key/
You immediately associate Brazilian ju-jitsu with BDSM and he's the crazy one!?
People whose work depends on keys doesn't know their basics working...

If there was a computer and a password printed on those booklets it would have spurred new silly internet laws.
If the OP was thinking of writing his own algorithms, and this is a linkable library with that heavy math already implemented, couldn't he write bindings for Python/Lua/Tcl/Ruby and have everything he needs for script-ability, or am I missing something?
Are we putting too much pressure on ourselves to keep up-to-date?
I really like Amazon's S3 and similar, I just wish Amazon allowed me to set a cap on my account.

I'm aware of billing alerts, and they're quite useful. But I am really paranoid one of my properties is going to get linked to on Reddit, Digg, or similar and then I'll wake up to a $5K bill which I can ill afford.
I still disagree. Just because something isn't business viable doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You should pretty much always do it - then decide if there's a market/think about how to market for it.

A business for the sake of just making a business feels wrong. A business for the sake of making an awesome product feels right.
This seems more like a macroeconomic-leading-indicator strategy. The algorithm worked against the Dow Jones Industrials, not against individual stocks.
The only requirement to be an atheist is to not believe in a deity. There's no such thing as a "hardcore atheist", because there's no central dogma to be hardcore about. Many atheists do follow some sort of non-theistic belief system, such as Buddhism or Daoism.

You're thinking of the people who are what I'd call "anti-theistic", that is, explicitly opposed to the concept of deities, religion, or mysticism in general.
I remember there was some graduate study done at UCSD where they took a picture of a key from afar, and using a computer, be able to create the exact key that accounted for the angle the picture was shot out. Does anyone remember an article like that?
Someone I knew once explained how their lab had a machine to give mice precisely calibrated amounts of brain damage through impact. The control group had their skull fractured without causing any direct injury to the brain.

This has always struck me as the ickiest thing I've heard, but I'm sure there's much worse out there.
This article made me realize that the whole concept of keys is something that needs to be looked into quite a bit with the rise in 3D printing technology. With an excellent 3D printer, one would hypothetically be able to take a picture of keys and be able to print a copy of them.
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My original, unedited post title (grumble grumble) sort of covered that- I served content to 100k users, but it cost me less than a dollar. S3 is amazingly cheap.
> I figured it out. They're a uniform.

I think it's just a way of showing off. Case in point:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12532552/what-part-of-mil...

The guy has no idea what the notation means by still wants to wear the t-shirt.
The thing is, overly-aggressive marketing tactics that you wouldn't want to be subjected to yourself have downsides that aren't readily detectable by your stats and dashboard.

There was someone who's articles and videos I'd share on reddit because they contain (and still do!) really, really great content. The trouble is, they're now wrapped up in overly-aggressive marketing tactics. The videos now have a YouTube ad and a 15 second intro lead-in that reminds me of the THX intro clip [1]. This is followed by an advertisement for other products, followed by the actual content, followed by the spammiest looking "click subscribe!" clip. If you visit his website for the first time, you're now immediately greeted with a popup asking to subscribe to their email list. Again, really great content wrapped up in unempathetic marketing tactics. Last time I shared something he'd created on a targeted subreddit, everyone immediately bitched it was spam and it was downvoted; they missed the content because of yucky marketing.

Every time I'd post a link, pre-unempathetic marketing, it would (apparently) net him a lot of traffic and reach a previously untapped audience. (I'd get a thank-you email for the huge spike in traffic!) Social media traffic is harder to convert but can be done quite effectively when done properly. What this person can't measure is my current unwillingness to continue to share his best content because of these overly aggressive, unempathetic tactics. I put up with them and still consume his content because I know it's good and it appeals to my interests, but it seems to make newbies bounce very quickly.

There are marketing tactics that "work" and will result in a positive bump in metrics but have an ick-factor to them and hidden cost. Same deal with on-boarding emails, nagging emails, jQuery popups begging for an email address, etc. They have tangible results and appear to be working, but the undetectable damage is still present.

My general rule of thumb is that if you wouldn't want someone to subject you to the tactic, don't subject others.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfg9DVwOd9w
Does anyone know if exoplanets can find a stable orbit around binary stars? I read recently that 50-80% of stars are multi-star systems. It seems like it'd be hard for planets even to form with such a varying magnetic field.
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That could work for 2007+ documents, but probably not the older .doc files that were in the obscure binary format.
If you wear it, I can choke you with it. Also, don't confuse the sport with the art - the old vale tudo fights allowed everything but eye gouging and biting, but even those would not make much of a difference to a skilled practitioner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkmgQQhVSw
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What makes you say that? I think he seems like the most rational and intellectually honest of the 4 horsemen.
I've been afraid to use S3 like this because S3 requests sometimes fail and the client needs to retry after a short delay. S3 libraries do retries under the hood, but web browsers don't - instead the user sees an error message or a broken page. This probably wouldn't happen much on a low-traffic site, but a site getting as many hits as this guy's probably has problems for a non-trivial number of users.
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This is how the video game service Steam does it, as far as I remember.
The author isn't the one who put them together, Christopher Hitchens did. They get lumped together all the time, just google for the phrase "Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse" and you'll see quite a few references and videos pop up- including this video, published by The Richard Dawkins Foundation, of the four of them having a nice chat ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqVNz7kdvd8 ).

To claim that they aren't in the same league is pretty bold, especially when Dawkins himself seems to disagree.
there certainly has to be a method that could be devised to prevent this type of fraud. Visually a lot could be done that should foil someone looking to attach a skimmer.

From continuous images, seamless faces to make it obvious something is added on, to screen based keyboards. I am sure a lot of thought is put into it. I would hazard that the losses are not sufficient to fix it.
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Concurrency in Lua's core language is co-operative (coroutines explicitly yield to each other). This is because the language designers don't want to impose any particular threading architecture -- Lua is intentded to be as portable and non-opinionated about that sort of thing as possible. Its coroutines are intended for the same sort of issues as generators/callbacks/continuations, not for explicit parallelism. They won't do multi-core mapreduce, but they'll let you cleanly factor code that has multiple main loops.

You can get multi-threaded/multi-process concurrency by messaging between separate Lua VMs, using libraries such as Lua Lanes (http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/bin/lanes/). The Lua VM is implemented without static state, so several VMs can run in the same process without a GIL.

There is LuaPi (https://github.com/LuaDist/luapi), an implementation of the Pi calculus (a variant of CSP), but I don't really know much about it. I'm more familiar with Erlang-flavored concurrency models (and there's also ConcurrentLua, https://github.com/lefcha/concurrentlua).
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Yes.

And that has no relation with what we are talking about. If the Swiss government doesn't follow the written rules of the agreement, it is in violation of them. Saying so doesn't make one a lier.
I don't know what request throttling solutions are available for nginx. But, for apache there are modules and scripts/code that can rate limit traffic and requests from specific IPs. Depending on the size of the botnet attacking, rate limiting requests by IP or network may have been a way to mitigate the DDoS effects. Again, depending on the specifics, you should be able to use iptables (if you're running Linux) to limit requests per source IP or IP range. The type of actions you can take with iptables are really quite robust.

I've had to deploy request rate limiting solutions in the past because of well meaning federated search mash-ups that included content from servers that I run.

Filtering by useragent seems to be a temporary solution. I think that's especially true since you've disclosed publicly that's what you're doing.
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> Who else might be so motivated to attack an awesome software project like VLC?

Anyone who wants to show off a proof-of-concept attack to potential customers, without stepping on any huge toes. (e.g., it's relatively safe to DDoS VLC, not so much a U.S. government agency or a huge multi-national company.)