skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AutoNanoFarm For Sale
Too bad no one tried to sabotage the consensus answers. You could get responsibility for writing one of the group answers, write it wrong, then turn in your own test with it correct. Inject false data into discussions, etc.. It isn't really game theory without some interesting gains and loses due to cooperation or deception.
Comprehensive Study on Real World Concurrency Bug Characteristics
Context in Twitter Local
How nice of you to share! Thank you Mr. latch (:
> I especially find Maven unreliable in combination with eclipse.

Well there's your problem right there. Use Maven with Netbeans, and the integration between the two is so slick you'll wonder why you didn't use it to begin with. My biggest complaint in Netbeans now is that it doesn't have equally slick support for SBT and Gradle, but that's just because I've been spoiled.
>Pocket, although having its own benefits, is free. Any service with ongoing costs (parsing servers) that charges nothing for their app has me questioning their longevity.

Prior to the name change, Pocket offered a $3 "Pro" version.

I'm guessing that Pocket means to be acquired eventually.

Pulse runs a free app parsing/serving from App Engine and took in $9.8M in funding before being acquired by LinkedIn for $90M.

Pocket runs a free app parsing/serving from EC2 and has taken in $7.5M in funding.

I was able to see who would be interested in Pulse and why pretty early on. I'm not sure about the same for Pocket.
The title should say "Student falsely IDed by Reddit and 4chan"...
You could get even better performance if you directly coded against the alchemy VM instructions or used alchemy directly. This would be comparable to asm.js or coding Java against the unsafe memory operators.
He's stated before he likes the employee-free lifestyle. And there is a huge gap to bridge between "I can do this myself" and "There's enough work to hire a full-time employee".
I was going to post that nobody who has actually been through it will tell you that it's easy. I guess I was wrong. I think you're probably missing the point.

I weighed slightly less than you (something like 105kg / 230lbs), dropped down to around 70kg (155lbs) mostly on diet changes, and am currently hovering around 75kg (165lbs) having been doing weight training for the last four months. Not done yet obviously (still some more body fat to get rid of), but I'm getting there.

It feels easy from here, certainly, because I'm used to it. Getting here required a lot of hard work (in my case, over a period of a couple of years), and a lot of persistence.

The problem is getting started - knowing what you need to do, getting on with it, and sticking to it. It's intimidating, and it requires quite a lot of commitment. The trick is that, once you've got going, it actually gets much easier. You just need to get going first.

I'll completely agree on this though: DO IT. Seriously, just do it. It's all going to be worth it in the end, because you'll feel so much better for it.
Ask HN: What is the next industry to be disrupted?
There's a lot of talk about what industry start ups and new technology will disrupt. I usually hear legal and medical, but I haven't seen much head way yet. What do you think the next one will be and why?
(FB tool here) How can we make our documentation & communication not awful?
I subscribe to Instapaper but I switched to Pocket because I prefer their UI. I keep begging them to take my money.
Design Tip: Never Use Black
http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
A transistor is nowhere near the complexity of a neuron, but networks of them do computational mathematics faster then any human in existence can.

We don't eat cells - we consume relatively simple nutrients from them. Our bodies carry around a strong acid hydrolysis system for the exact purpose of obliterating all that "sophisticated" internal structure.

For that matter, we have no idea what our ancestors were adapted to. The human body has spanned the range and breadth of ecosystems on this planet, and the survivors of that have passed down what they think is safe to eat by tradition, not science.
No ... there were rational voices here trying to stop the speculation. It's amazing to me that a community that prides itself on acting logically and based on data (A/B testing, metrics-based action, continuous everything including learning), didn't apply the same rigor to the speculation around the bombings. Shouldn't we be MORE careful with people's lives than our temporary (in the vast scheme of things) business interests?
Sometimes caring deeply for the product means you need help to get it where it needs to be, and sometimes getting it where it needs to be means being acquired by another company to help get it there.
Good looks during young age remove the incentive to communicate well, so when the looks inevitably expire one might end up not as well-adjusted as their average-looking peers.
That's a lot of address books to steal.
Actually it should have been "by 4chan and agreed by some redditors". There were many redditors who questioned whether it was the same guy or not.
No, the title should say, "Brown University student, missing since 15th of March, found dead."
You don't need virtualbox or vagrant, but you do need a Linux machine. So if you are running a Mac or Windows machine, Virtualbox/vagrant is a convenient way to get a linux machine up and running.

Docker itself is just one binary. Here are instructions to get started: http://docker.io/gettingstarted
It must be because:

a. Somebody bothered to post the initial announcement of this guy

b. He describes his process in detail

c. He's a Software Engineer; it would be disingenuous to think that the fact that he's a peer for the members of this audience isn't a factor
The estimated closest distance is 110,000 km. As a comparison, that's about a third of the distance from the earth to the moon. That's pretty close.
I haven't tried personally, but here are the latest instructions: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/
Well, the asm.js version of the benchmark is JS, and it outperformed AS3. Although as cpleppert said, perhaps an alchemy version for Flash would be faster than AS3, that would be interesting to see.

But, I'm not aware of an alchemy version of Box2D for Flash that is convenient to use from normal Flash (what presumably the rest of the game is written in), while for asm.js there is such a version (that is easily usable from normal JS), here's a demo

http://kripken.github.io/box2d.js/webgl_demo/box2d.html

So comparing currently usable versions of Box2D, the fastest JS one (the asm.js one) is faster than the fastest Flash one.
>>A DRM API in HTML5 harms users by legitimizing and enabling restrictive technology under the banner of the free and open web, with all the practical harm (lack of control, reduced bargaining power, security issues) that loss of freedom entails.

In whose eyes does it legitimize it? Are you saying someone will be convinced that DRM is ok because it is in a web browser?

>>If the framework is no different from existing frameworks, why do we need it?

Because it is different. Native solutions are more likely to be faster and more secure than external plugins.
Thanks, I realized that later (I just cded into the dir and built it). I got some errors after downloading the image, however. I assume it's because I'm on the 3.5 kernel rather than 3.8.
Does this mean anything? I doubt that he had much influence on Yahoo's future. I think the responsibility falls squarely on Marissa. Maybe they didn't get along? Another boardroom drama to surface soon?
Or, more accurately, "Student falsely IDed by some users on massive popular sites Reddit and 4chan."

I will never understand why it's acceptable to talk about the actions of a small percentage of a user base as if they represent the entire group.
What kind of errors? On kernel < 3.8 docker will print a warning because of a known kernel bug. You may or may not hit the bug on 3.5 depending on your hardware configuration. If you do, you'll know: the kernel will panic ;)
yes, but the OP thinks he should have been barred on the grounds of cannibalising twitter's ad revenue, not on the grounds of spamming people's favourite notifications.
Great - I'm happy we got that out of the way. Now the detectives over at 4chan will feel much better.
Yes, I agree that there is a serious problem with mass entertainment. I was making an example and wanted to include something from the arts. I have some experience with music entertainment and concede that the best are not necessarily represented among the most successful.
Not really. Lakhbir Hayre's Guide to Mortgage-Backed Securities isn't bad. Fabozzi's MBS book is okay, but a bit of a cut-and-paste job. I don't know of anything that deals with the post-2007 environment. Otherwise, just a combination of statistics (GLM, GAM, NLS, etc.) books, time series books (e.g. Durbin & Koopman, and econometrics books (Greene, etc.)
Holy smokes! As a dev that last blurb about being willing to outsource a little bit is hard to take in. But at this point it's either code forever, or release something.

Thanks Ruben. Time to outsource.
I am in a similar position. Was about a week away from pulling the trigger on parse after a lot of research into the backend service providers. Now I will definitely look elsewhere. One problem is that FB APIs have a tendency to be constantly changing, and the documentation is not good. This shifting sands is not a good place to build a service.

However, the biggest reason is that FB is NOT a back end service provider. Facebook's customer is the advertisers. Before getting bought, Parse's customer were the companies that used their service. Now Parse is part of FB so future directions will all be in service of FB's main customer, the advertisers. I have no problem with this from a business standpoint, I am sure it is a good move for FB, but as a customer of back end cloud services I want to be purchasing that service from a company that puts me first. FB will not do that.

TL;DR: I was Parse's customer, I am not Facebook's customer.
Linux-enabled HDMI stick promises universal AirPlay
Is it just me, or do all of these crowdfunding portals look like clones of each other?
>>The ability to download audio/video already exists in computers.

Thank you for clarifying. I wasn't sure what you meant.

>> It's a convenient way for EME supporters to ignore the real issues, but it's valid to talk about a technology's real world uses when discussing its validity.

To be clear, I am not a supporter. I don't want it in the browser either. However, I don't understand how it is a red herring. Everything that is being proposed in EME is already possible in Flash and Silverlight, and those features only exist in those plugins for the same reason. Neither of them need file encryption in order to work as a platform - it is a feature so that people that want to have encrypted/licensed material on the internet can do so. You can write applications without them. But yet no one seems to care about it. I am wondering why that is
World Thinkers 2013
128 year old recording of Alexander Graham Bell
Oh, it wasn't a kernel panic, thankfully :) I closed the window now, but, after downloading the image, I got some errors like "improper file permissions" and "bsdtar exiting".

Sorry I can't provide the exact errors, but if I run it it has to download the entire thing again.
My issues:

- I don't trust Facebook to not convert the user system into a Facebook connect monster and force it on me
- I don't trust Facebook to not data mine my data and violate me and my user's privacy
- I don't trust Facebook to let me export my data once I want to move on
- I don't trust Facebook to actually delete data once I tell them to do so
- I don't trust Facebook to not to attempt to monetize my users beyond the account fee that I pay
> what you're hoping to pounce on

I'm just trying to untangle the different things you might be talking about - whether you're talking about development tools or run-time monitoring tools?
Why are people in Silicon Valley so against suits? I like dressing up. I look damn good in a suit and I want to wear one every day.
>Evolution wise, this is because people like in others, what they wish they had for themselves.

That's doubtful. This is actually a far more general effect than the association between attractiveness and other positive attributes, known as the "affect heuristic". This is a shortcut that people automatically use to make judgments about things based on their overall impression of those things. It is responsible for a ton of glitches in people's perception.

For example, if you tell people that a nuclear reactor is particularly safe (in terms of meltdowns), they will tend to assume that it also generates less waste.
I hope one of our orbiters or landers will be positioned to take some amazing photographs.
A PhD gives you a specialty, not a well-rounded education. That's why it exists.

CS PhD students are not electrical engineering PhD students.
Looking at Ensure, it's $42.50 for 24 bottles with 350 calories each. At ~2000/calories per day (6 bottles), it looks to be something that would cost ~$320/month to replace most meals with.

I'd imagine that Soylent's sales success will lie with its price point reaching around ~120-150/month price point. Going much higher than that, and the financial incentive would be lost.
That's probably true for fluorescent bulbs. It's not true of incandescents where efficiency is a pure function of the filament temperature. For LEDs, it depends. LED efficiency scales down with current, so if your 100w bulb (as seems likely, because space efficiency is a concern with this kind of bulb) is made up of less than 1.66x as many elements as the 60W version being driven at a higher current it will be less efficient.
Hey everyone, as usual thanks for the great feedback. If you want to keep talking I encourage you to drop by our IRC channel - #docker@freenode.
>I will never understand why it's acceptable to talk about the actions of a small percentage of a user base as if they represent the entire group.

Because if the group tolerates it, and is known to do that kind of thing frequently, they DO represent it.
That would not make story interesting/relevant enough to be the tech news.
The gun rack that is EME is absolutely falling under category 2. There is no native encryption, but there will be soon. The W3C doesn't want to create an encryption scheme, but it wants to allow other people to supply it.

In my mind, having a way to stream hulu/netflix (sorry, I'm not sure if there is an aussie version of either service...) that doesn't require a plugin that gives the computer access to my harddrive is a pretty good thing. Not as good as plain old mp4/ogvs, but better than a plugin player.
There's no Clang 4.1, though. You probably mean "the Clang that comes with version 4.1 of XCode"?

Clang 3.3 will be released soon.
It pisses me off that so many people are shaking their finger at the Reddit community over grief caused by falsely identifying this kid as the bomber... The real issue is that much of the media decided to do their reporting by going to what amounts to a message board of speculation and reporting it as if it were news. Yes, some users did get out of hand by posting on the family's website, but in reality, that can be summed up more easily by saying "assholes on the internet were assholes." Stop blaming the Reddit community for the entire debacle. It was only a small percentage of the users as well.
>>It isn't, that's why plugins are being killed off too.
Could you explain? Also, what is the 'too' referring to? What is the original thing being killed off?
Apple should have just acquired Parse. iCloud is a mess, it's a next step for them to provide some sort of back end API for iOS developers. They're sitting on a huge pile of cash and all Tim could come up with is stock buyback.
I thought that was interesting too. I think perhaps it's something to do with the nature of the averaging process, where a bunch of faces averaged look better than the individual faces up to the point of being "good" looking, but exceptionally good looking faces have more to lose than gain.

For example, I've read that for women, the more contrast the better (which is why makeup works) and it's likely you lose a lot of that in the averaging process.
"I'm willing to trust that Gradle (Groovy), Leiningen (Clojure), and SBT (Scala), are all also superior to Maven while integrating well with Maven's dependency system."

Except that they don't. They can consume it, but they can't produce it. Or do they make pom files now? Or do you not care about pom files because you'll never publish your source?
Their code won't have all of the power of flash and silverlight (ie my full user account on the computer). The worst case scenario is their algo's suck and I can decrypt their videos easier.
Reddit did not "cause them pain", the people who harassed them did.
I see all those people here in Silicon Valley too. I know a guy who worked for IBM optical storage systems (ones with robotic hand/mounter). He was a director in his team. All of sudden their team got shot down and he got laid off. Now he works as a developer in Cisco. All he knows is C and Assembly. He don't even know what Git is.
It's amazing how people in past had one job and relied on it so much...
I've definitely noticed this. If at all anything it's really just provided a framework for thinking about the nutrition that we typically lack on a daily basis.
Asian American student at an Ivy League school currently here, if you'd like anecdotal evidence.

Ask away!
The same way we talk about the actions of a small percentage of the employees of a company as if they represent the entire company.
ah! thanks for the clarification.
That I don't know. But if you're going for anonymity you probably shouldn't use torrents anyway, especially not public ones.

There are lots of interesting anonymous P2P protocols, although I don't think people care about it enough for any of them to have gained traction.
..."Blood on our hands" is a pretty bad term to use when the kid was literally dead before any of these communities knew who he was...
Good point. Apple helpfully reports the rather confusing version string "Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)" :P
What would worry me is that I don't understand what Facebook really wants out of this acquisition, and why this will motivate it to do right by Parse users. It looks to me like a number of other people in this thread don't understand either and are coming up with their own theories, few of which are good news for the developer.
>Sorry but descriptive names are clarifying what the code is doing

Generally speaking this is true. However, when you are debugging, this no longer is true. When variables say what they are supposed to be, then it is more difficult to see that they are something else.
If calling it what it is makes you feel uncomfortable, you should probably think about why that is.
I fail to see the connection... please explain.
If I have a static directory of files is there any way to leverage this same code to just perform the optimizations on my html so I don't have to have the webserver do it (or so I don't have to run my own webserver)?
Once someone supports EME, they would support anything written for EME. I don't believe there will be a way to 'grandfather' any old systems. That would require either a complete rewrite of the plugin in the browser, or a rewrite in an EME compatible code, in which case it will run anywhere EME exists.

secondly, isn't the situation you describe exactly the situation we have now with flash/silverlight? I can't play WMAs on my Mac, Flash on my Droid, or any other number of combinations.
Yes, for blogs like these: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/
Can you do JavaScript development with just an iPad at hand?
I went on vacation recently and while I devoted 99% of my time to actually being on vacation, there was time to do an experiment I wanted to do. Which was part of my vacation too, because I don't know when I'd get the chance during a regular week. I wanted to see if you can do meaningful software development in JavaScript using only an iPad and a Bluetooth keyboard. Here's the results of my experiment...
What Makes Us Happy, Revisited
I'd like people to post ideas and stories from the book (paraphrased, not copy-pasted). You can also add a link to each story, giving it more context.

I got started on this for two reasons.

First, I retain way more of a book when I'm forced to actively think about it while reading. Just using the site as a beta-tester I've found myself getting more deeply immersed then usual.

Second, I always crave more context when I read. I want to see what others think about an idea. I also would love to see a video, webpage or slidedeck about a single idea to dig deeper.
Elon Musk hates 405 Freeway traffic, offers money to speed widening
Agreed, twitter should shut you down.
Raspberry Ketone Warning
Strong smartphone sales boost Samsung to $7.9 billion profit in Q1 2013
PizzaHut Security Fail
The 4th amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, not all of them.
So the Parse platform allowed me to get and implement my iOS app in under a month, getting my MVP out there. If you want to really assure users that they can be comfortable, and to not flee, make it so we have access to our user's password hashes.

Before, the Parse team said they were thinking of implementing it, but now there's no contest. Either you guys allow me to take my user data, or we're done, and I'm completely separating from you guys, and wouldn't recommend anyone building on the platform.

So, let me have ALL access to my user's data, and we can keep hanging. Otherwise, we're done.

As it is, I'm making plans already to move, on the assumption you guys won't let me get my user's data.
I was wrong on the dates. The conference is the week of the 10th, not the 4th.
HN comment thread discussing Tripathi being one of the bombers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575392
Sort of unrelated, but do you know what tool they use to create that little animation on their home page (the cursor and screens popping up)?
A guy on reddit who said he was a medical student (and sounded like he really was) said that the nutrients may be fine, but the digestive system needs solid food. Patients stuck on liquid diets tend not to do well long-term, and they try to get them on solid food as fast as they can. He had a technical explanation I don't remember well enough to repeat.

I asked how the Soylent guy would do if he converted the stuff into some kind of solid food bar, and the med student said "Probably much better!"
With regard to the theory that attractive workers make other workers more productive, I do not know if that is true and I am not arguing it. And I also would not argue that sitting in front of a computer all day requires you to have acne or be less than 5'2".

If you had to hire one of two people, both equally qualified except that one was much more physically attractive, which would you hire ( in a vacuum where there is no legal oversight )?

We are encouraged to accommodate differences to such a degree that I am concerned that we reflexively penalize representatives of the ideal, in favor of representatives of ever greater divergence from the ideal, and to what purpose? If we cannot help being born who we are then some will just be more attractive than others. Rather than letting them coast through life on their looks, we should be encouraging them to develop their other abilities. Perfect facial symmetry for example may indicate a beautiful mind.
This is a major concern for me as well and one I haven't found out how to mitigate at all outside of just testing most of the components to find out which suppliers are good and which aren't.
Ubuntu has no control over the Skype project. They aren't obligated to support every third-party product when it is impossible to do this.

I don't think this is the problem with recent Ubuntu releases.