skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, you’re saying that filtering people == having a call to action.

No, I'm saying that the personal information that the advertisers get is what they deduce from the response to the call to action. Filtering who sees the ad (among other functions, this isn't actually the most important) serves a mechanism to attempt to shape the pool of people who respond to the call to action, but its not really different (in terms of the advertiser being able to derive personal information) from the use of the actual content of the ad to influence which people who are exposed to it will respond.

> I’m also not sure if you are attempting to attack me for only discussing Google.

Pointing out errors in your argument isn't attacking you. And, to be sure, the errors in your argument have nothing to do with the fact that it references Google, but with the fact that it posits a false equivalency between selling personal information and selling target advertising placement based on the fact that advertisers can derive personal information from the active responses of advertising viewers to the calls to action in targetted ads.
What's your differentiator? I mean for competitors you have instagram, facebook, google+, drop box, imgur, photobucket, and flickr to name a few. This is a space with a lot of noise, so I think you really need something special if you're going to enter it.
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Thanks for the feedback! All good points. I definitely need to add some sharing capabilities in there. In the future I'll give users the option to switch between grid and list views, but for now I just want the site out there for people to use and give me feedback on.

Anti-repost functionality is another thing I'm working on and will add in a future release.
Please add Phusion Passenger (https://www.phusionpassenger.com/) to the benchmark for Ruby apps. Right now Unicorn is the only server in that benchmark for Ruby but it's far from the only available server.
Skype? Assuming, for a moment, that that is an entirely serious suggestion; you should perhaps look at an article I found as the top hit from a relatively simple Google search: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14915
Why is the overhead of all the PHP frameworks so high? Is it because they have to evaluate all the framework code per request? The difference between raw PHP and symfony2 is massive!
Sure, if a big company works with git/hg/svn/bzr I can work with that.
I find logistics and packing problems to be fascinating. However, while there are inherent advantages to the standardization that containers provide, this comment also shows that for some of the work (here loading and packing), the container just moves to the burden to a different entity (here the manufacturer instead of the longshoremen).

Also, smaller packet size (ship vs container) means there is less theoretical efficiency (more wasted space, plus the space and weight of the containers themselves). However, since ships weren't didn't have homogeneous cargo, the practical efficiency is much better for containers.
I completely forgot about this, but in high school I did IT for my small school district, and I definitely remember having to replace a huge number of motherboards due to failed capacitors around that time. I think they were all HP computers, and at the time I just assumed it was one bad run from HP's factories, but it must have been this.
People who have good managers aren't as loud about it.

I've had 7 managers. 6 of them were good and 2 of those I'd even classify as stellar. Only one was a bad manager. As a result, I simply don't talk about management very much. I suspect that a lot of people are in the same situation.
No metion of Yii? Too bad, it's the best PHP Framework I've ever used. Fast but complete at the same time, and fully OO.
I normally use Scalatra for Scala stuff, but interesting to see Spray's inclusion and results.
France Bitcoin
If Blizzard can give keyfobs to gamers for auth, why cant banks include that in tech for ATMs?

Well, banks here in Portugal do offer one-time authorization codes, either by SMS (default) or keyfob, but only for online operations, not in ATMs.

That said, a Chip and PIN solution prevents (in theory) this problem, since it can actually authenticate the transaction by providing a cryptographic signature, without ever exposing the private key to either the ATM or any skimmer.
I think it's because raw PHP doesn't do anything. You're literally benchmarking how fast you can do nothing. As soon as you add any kind of logic the number goes way down. It's like saying the performance of adding 4 numbers is a massive difference from the performance of adding 2 numbers.
Hehe :)

It actually took more time to clone and open the code in VS than to make the changes.
Excerpt:

"However, you, women, do[...]please don’t get all periods on us when we reply with the same. Or better yet, before you call us a dick, look in the mirror.

Shut the fuck up,"

I'm flagging this submission, the article is utterly content-free and vicious.
Spammer transcripts are priceless.

Another way to fight spammers, would be to quietly shut off sending for their account, while still providing simulated email data to their dashboard, reporting successful sends, opens etc... That way, they would think they are still sending out spam and it would take them a while to realize that they had been cut off, slowing the cycle of them doubling their efforts.
Wave has been great for us. They don't let you export your reports to PDF anymore, which is super annoying, but I guess you get what you pay for. For automated bookkeeping, it's worth a look.
Injury prevention technology at the combine
because you did not pay attention to the results , at all...
It may be qualifying "she's on her ass" as inappropriate.
This is basically sandboxing by hand.
Just putting the uranium back where it came from
The "bug" is the accelerated rate at which it failed, not that it failed.
It was just an example, Sal Khan seems like a reasonable guy, so I wouldn't have expected him to take a hard-line, but they were the first 'online only'-type education startup I could think of.
That doesn't mean it's equally easy for the user to be careless on all of those systems, and I think that's important.
Well, I'm not that interested in the theology of an interventionist God because it's not a very exciting fairy tale to me. But as I understand it God is omnipresent and omnipotent and either those things mean a physical presence that is everywhere at once or they mean nothing at all. That is precisely the thing proscribed by relativity.

I'm sure one could define God down into some kind of good-vibes field that could logically exist in our universe, and that's all good with me. But it's not what most Americans profess to believe. In any event, discard it if it offends you; it's completely irrelevant to the topic, which is super-cool physics.
Thank you so much for finally including the ASP.NET/IIS/Windows stack. I understand that it was a user contribution. This finally gives me something to compare the other stacks against. I realize that Windows/IIS and Linux/Apache|nginx is apples and oranges but it's still nice!
As far as I know, you can't skim the chip. In the EMV system, the private key is only accessible to the internal "CPU", not the reader.
There are some strange things I noticed about this benchmark's organization:

- JRuby is a Ruby implementation. Why is it listed under Platform? It should be listed under Language.

- Why are Unicorn and Gunicorn listed under front-end web servers? Unicorn and Gunicorn are explicitly not front-end web servers, but are meant to be put behind a reverse proxy, by design. The Unicorn author tells users very clearly not to put it directly on the Internet because bad things will happen: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PHILOSOPHY.html section "Application Concurrency != Network Concurrency". It would be more suitable to put both of them in the Platform category.
You know, they probably need a couple people part time for every language that has a wikipedia version.
Round 1 used Passenger, but the feedback we got was that Unicorn performed better so we switched to that. Currently, we're aiming to show each framework in the best possible production configuration. In the future we plan to show multiple web/app servers per framework so that you could compare Ruby on Passenger vs. Ruby on Unicorn.
Sorry to hear we have not lived up to our promise to you. But I can promise you that we are completely focused on providing an amazing customer experience. It seems we have fallen short with you. Could you please email any relevant details to help@rackspace.com so we can investigate?
I still miss the async sinatra there. I've done some work on that but don't have enough time to finish it. - https://github.com/mikz/FrameworkBenchmarks/commit/2140775e1...

the one thread issue is main problem of all ruby benchmarks there
Interesting, but it's looks like you're under too high of a load right now for me to select my friends.
An excellent demonstration of why Bitcoin is awesome: complete transparency on the block-chain.
I always use this incident as an example whenever corporate espionage comes up. When you talk about security procedures, there can be a lot of eye rolling about how serious it is, but it can be pretty damn serious.
I sort of meant "given experimental observations it all seems quite intuitive", not "you can derive it all a priori". No offense intended to the hard work of Einstein and others :)
My favorite play was the card "It's a pity that kids these days are all getting involved with _____" and I played "taking a mans eyes and balls out and putting his eyes where his balls go and his balls in his eye holes".
Thanks to the both of you for taking the time to answer! Makes a lot more sense!

I feel relatively smarter now
Passenger has some config options to spawn more processes and help the load. But the results will not be much different from unicorn/thin/whatever. Maybe in units of %.
Note that I submitted a pull request to have JSON.net and ServiceStack.Text as serializers as well.

http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/
Excellent and maniacally twisted idea. Nonetheless, a couple suggestions: Don't use full names, and limit to the most prominent FB details, especially shared ones. The cards I generated sounded pretty formal and referenced all sorts of socially mined data I knew nothing about.
I wonder what the best way is to illustrate to those people that that coin example is ridiculous. It's so intuitive to us that the coin has no "memory". However, I could see why someone would think that 3 heads in a row mean the 4th will be more likely to be heads. If you didn't think about it much, it is a reasonable gut reaction to a layperson.

What if you told the person this: "What if you flipped a coin and it had come up 3 heads in a row. Is it more likely that it'll come up heads again? Well, what if you waited a minute before you flipped it again? What about an hour? 20 years? Would the odds go back to 50/50 then? At what point does the coin 'forget' its previous flips?"

I think putting it that way would help illustrate the absurdity of that way of thinking.

As an aside, I think if I flipped a coin 100 times and it was heads all 100 times, I would be willing to make a big bet on the 101st flip being heads. The odds of getting 100 heads in a row is so much smaller than the odds that something is wrong with the system (the coin is weighted, there's some sleight of hand going on, etc).
We just closed an enterprise account with Walmart. Would you like to do more?
One of the things that amazed me while I was working at Amazon is how obsessed every employee is with customer service. From the junior developers to the executive staff. To this day, I am still surprised that a company that big could be so focused on the success of every customer. When I started Interviewstreet, I unconsciously followed this pattern and it has become the cornerstone of our culture.

Interviewstreet is growing fast and is looking to hire a Customer Success Manager to maintain, and exceed, the bar that has been set with it’s customers. The expectations are frighteningly high. Are you up for the challenge?

We're funded, growing, dynamic company with a startup culture. Founded in 2011, Interviewstreet's SaaS platform is used by Facebook, Evernote, Amazon, WalMart and many more for their technical recruiting.

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As a Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for:

>Ensuring that every customer has an amazing experience with the company's products

>Providing engaging demonstrations

>Responding to inbound sales and support requests via telephone and email

>Engaging in outbound lead generation (blogs, twitter, facebook, etc)

>Pushing the limits

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Who you are:

You are energetic

You know the customer is always right - it's always your UX that's at fault.

You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills

If you have previous experience working at a SaaS company that's a big plus

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Who we are:

We're a team of 16 split between California & India. This role is in Mountain View. You'll be working with a great team full of people who are fired up & inspired to get things done no matter what. We can guarantee that this will be a place where you'll realize your full potential.

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Benefits:

Healthcare/Dental/Vision

Competitive salary

Stock options

Your choice of gear

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Interested?

[1] If this sounds like you, come find us. Send us an email with:
The biggest hack you've done (can be anything you did to get around something)

[2] The biggest failure you've faced till now

[3] A simple program that prints "Hello world" 100 times in Go

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Let's talk: sales@interviewstreet.com
> Wait. When did this morph into an argument of the existence of God?

You sort of brought it up yourself when you said "God created the universe." like it's a fact, didn't you? Maybe you could explain what that's supposed to mean here?
I think you have misinterpreted what this guy is about. Aiming to have a good social and cultural mix in the office (and indeed in life) isn't just a 'progressive...feel-good story'; lots of people think it's essential to doing a good job and to being a better person. With a wider range of people you get a wider range of ideas and inputs and people learn to broaden their horizons and experiences.

It's a much bigger issue than just 'we need more women in tech'. But the lack of women in tech is especially noticeable and worth fighting against.
Good addition: utilize the Bang with Friends bug and make fun of people using the app. Or relentlessly rag on certain friends of mine who are playing too much Candy Crush.
> the repeated "there is nothing like this being developed"

Maybe it's meant to include themselves?
FDE has been supported out of the box since Mint 14.
There is a simple explanation for that. Phusion Passenger always proxies data from the web server to another process, for stability and security reasons. If you benchmark Unicorn directly, without putting it behind a reverse proxy, Unicorn will look faster simply because you're avoiding another kernel socket operation.

However as I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727232, Unicorn is always supposed to be put behind a reverse proxy. If you do that you should find different results.

Also, there's a lot of tuning in Phusion Passenger that can help performance. The default is optimized for usability and stability. For example if you don't prespawn processes, and let Phusion Passenger spawn them on the first request, you'll be adding tens of seconds to the benchmark time, which would greatly disadvantage Phusion Passenger in an unfair manner. You should set at least:

passenger_min_instances

passenger_max_pool_size

passenger_pre_start
Ask HN: Killer idea, no cash to build an MVP, what to do?
Besides the obvious "ask friends, ask family" what would you do?

I'm asking in part because I have a killer idea for a subscription-based model in a multi-billion dollar industry. It would be the only player in this industry, and the model has proven itself over and over across dozens of different industries.

I've had my share of success from an early age as an entrepreneur, but they have all been software or web plays. This is different, and my network of people aren't interested in this sort of thing.

I'm out of ideas.
This effect explains most of the vitriolic anti-google commenters on HN.
Bret Victor hits another homerun with this video.
Yep, makes sense, also interesting that you confront them with the questionable details (bad domains, bad IP match) -- does this help bring things to a conclusion faster?
That was the first thing I considered. Another commenter here pointed out that it would not be very possible due to the relatively low resolution of the display on the Oculus. Maybe on the next model, though.
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Virtual objects occluding real objects is in fact nearly impossible. The way you're thinking about it with the extra LCD layer isn't actually a viable solution for this sort of display (or any sort of display my mind can come up with right now). The way glasses such as these work is a lcd screen hidden in the side of the glasses is viewed through a beamsplitter that combines the image of the screen with the real world. The screen appears to be "at infinity" from the viewers perspective. Unfortunately to do occlusion on glasses like this the light would have to be blocked between the source of the light (outside world) and the viewers eyes. The light blocking layer would always appear blurry from the users perspective since it would be so close to the eyes. You would also have problems aligning the light blocking layer with the screen as the apparent position of the screen in the glasses is dependent on the position of the glasses on your head.
Yes, but I want to display a full screen app on each monitor, which is the only sane way to use that behavior.
This is crazy, are there any comprehensive lists of devices that were affected by this? I am a little curious to see what devices, of many that have failed, may have been affected by this. Not that it would really change anything at this point.
Couple more details on the points you brought up:

1) I think they buy used (not decommissioned) containers for the reasons you specified. So it is more like an alternative building material rather than true recycling. The biggest advantage is standardization and speed to launch so they can replicate in many places that don't have local materials available (i.e. Haiti) or where a local construction project from scratch would be nearly impossible to get off the ground.

2) The kitchens actually resell their food for very cheap to local ministries and non profits and is run by locals. (Volume/standardization = much cheaper food). So, self sustainability is built into their model. The South African kitchen is run and supported 100% by the community at this point.
Hi everyone. I made some updates today based on your awesome feedback:

1.) You can now change the length of the workout
2.) Sounds now work (as well as they can) in IOS
3.) Changed duration of the breaks to 10 seconds no matter how long the workout
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5.) Made some UI tweaks to improve the look

Thanks for making my week.
It would be nice to add Beego [1], as I'm currently learning Go from an ebook written by the author of the framework [2][3], and it would be nice to see how it performs. Thanks for your hard work!

[1] https://github.com/astaxie/beego

[2] https://github.com/Unknwon/build-web-application-with-golang... English translation

[3] https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang Original version in Chinese
New York Times Attacked By "Hackers"
Because there's so much technical information about this project on the campaign page... There's just no way you are probably throwing your money into a hole by backing it.
crowd-founding is your friend.
The Packed Memory Array, or Insertion Sort is O(n log n)
So you tell them to always make sure to steal the whole formula?
Is this software? Can you build it yourself? What kind of investment would be needed? Is your credit good enough that you can get a personal loan? Would it require more money than that?

Your other option, of course, is to seek angel investors and VCs. You may have some success there if you have some knowledge of the industry or product that they can't immediately duplicate. If you choose this route, be careful how you word this:

"It would be the only player in this industry"

That's usually a big red flag that the start-up doesn't know who their competition is. Adding "subscription-based" to the front doesn't instantly mean you are the only one in your industry.
Fish currently does not support executing shell functions or commands in the background with &, only external programs. This is a known omission, but the best way to fix it is to make the shell interpreter code thread safe so we can actually write multithreaded shell code. Currently fish only uses threads for potentially blocking i/o operations. But implementing this is quite a bit of work and has not been done yet.

Having said that, `enc &` erroring is indeed a bug, expected behavior would be to run the `begin ... end &` block in the foreground anyway.
I probably used to have a stack of devices just in my house that would qualify for these, from desktop mobo's, graphic cards and routers. I've probably lost $5k personally over the last 10 years to this, of course almost always out of warranty period.
If I am not mistaken, Java servlet version use prepared statement

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Which is kinda faster than other full ORM and smaller network round trips.
I had not heard of Beego, but we'd love to accept a pull request with a Beego implementation of the tests. Perhaps you could put one together as an exercise while learning the language and framework? :) Sorry, I can't resist playing the "pull request" card.
How was Aaronson was 100% wrong before -

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/05/aaronson-intuition-about-wh...

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=306

"Even if D-Wave managed to build (say) a coherent 1,024-qubit machine satisfying all of its design specs, it’s not obvious it would outperform a classical computer on any problem of practical interest. This is true both because of the inherent limitations of the adiabatic algorithm, and because of specific concerns about the Ising spin graph problem. On the other hand, it’s also not obvious that such a machine wouldn’t outperform a classical computer on some practical problems. The experiment would be an interesting one! Of course, this uncertainty — combined with the more immediate uncertainties about whether D-Wave can build such a machine at all, and indeed, about whether they can even produce two-qubit entanglement — also means that any talk of “lining up customers” is comically premature."

* Dwave built the machines
* Aaronson concedes that Dwave has achieved entanglement with a quantum annealing system for its full 512 qubits.
* there were two big sales (Lockheed, Google)

My own prediction from 2006
http://longbets.org/266/

There will be a quantum computer with over 100 qubits of processing capability sold either as a hardware system or whose use is made available as a commercial service by Dec 31, 2010.

128 qubit system was sold in 2010.
Quantum entangled annealing is proven in the USC paper of the 128 qubit system that was sold.
Don’t Let Your Company’s Scale Tip Your Bathroom Scale
Definitely cool... processing also looks interesting for dataviz.
Yes, it does. Additionally, several of the ORMs leverage prepared statements.
It would be even more (much more?) effective to use preconfigured https://github.com/chaoslawful/drizzle-nginx-module location and 'ngx.location.capture' I suppose

And http://leafo.net/lapis/ is missing again.