skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding testing, aren't there any possibilities of testing just parts of the software, possibly via simulation, or is everything so inter-dependent that a live physical test is the only way to go? It's pretty impressive to get something so complex right in the first try! Props!
I really enjoy wine. But - yes it is bullsht. It's just a higher class of bullsht...

Roman Weil (an accounting professor who decided he was more interested in wine than FASB rules) did some empirical analysis on the topic. Here's a paper where he finds that most people can't tell a good year from a bad year on similar wines.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/roman.weil/research/Parker-P...

It isn't just that prefer the wrong one, it's that they can't tell the difference. He's done similar studies on "Reserve" wines versus regular, and again most people can't tell the difference, and the ones who do don't necessarily like the better one. He also demonstrated that people can't identify wine based on the tasting notes.

Does this mean wine's not worth drinking? Certainly not. But it encourages a little humility.
Google's enterprise value surpasses Apple's
27 with kids! 2x! Man...
I see no difference at all. Nixon did something illegal and Obama wrote "this is legal" on a piece of paper that few people get to see. Hell, how do you know Nixon didn't scribble something in his private bathroom that said what he was doing was legal?
I object to spending large quantities of my tax money on useless things.
He wouldn't really be interested in shutting down secret courts that authorize *the behavior he is interested in perusing". It wasn't Dubya who brought back assassination, it was Obama.
I'm not sure why this topic is relevant on HN. 7 points in 15 minutes. For some reason, it's really important to a bunch of people here. Is there more than what's in the article?
What is this, some Ayn Rand fanfic in reverse?

Seriously, it's the kind of book that she had one of her strawmen write within Atlas Shrugged.

Please let's not encourage the randroids.
I like rbenv, it's pretty lightweight.

The only reason to stick with RVM was gem-sets but everybody users bundler these days anyway,.
> Microsoft's arguments against feeding arbitrary machine code to buggy graphics cards

That would indeed be a bad idea. This is not how WebGL works. There's a translation layer that gets the WebGL calls and relays them to the graphics drivers after determining the calls are safe.

This layer can have bugs of course, like other sandboxes
(javascript, flash, etc).
Whatever one's thoughts on the article in its entirety, the initial implication that the thinkers listed could not account for Herzen's fish is disingenuous.

Helvetius (one of the listed):

"The free man is the man who is not in irons, nor imprisoned in a gaol, nor terrorized like a slave by the fear of punishment ... it is not lack of freedom, not to fly like an eagle or swim like a whale."

If freedom refers not to the biological limitations and fundamental nature of man, as the author repeatedly asserts during the construction of their straw opponent, but refers to whether man is in chains, then it becomes possible to generate empirical measures demonstrating "progress" in terms of freedom:

At the beginning of the 19th century, serfs and slaves made up 3/4s of the world's population.
How about medication management for senior citizens/those with chronic diseases using call centers to remind them to take their medications?

How about disrupting corporate computer training for older office workers with short videos/tips on an advertising supported platform.

How about a furniture leasing agency targeting international workers in the US on a temp visa.

Or disrupt scheduling doctor's appointments. Please.

advertising supported forum with sub forums for different rare disease sufferers, and either automatically generated or curated postings about drug trails, research papers, etc.
Browserify is wonderful. I had trouble with browserify-middleware on nodejs, because it took so long to load -- several seconds, compared with under 1 second using the browserify "binary" tool. So I paired the browserify binary with livereload and grunt-contrib-watch, and it's now a very quick process every time I change the code.

However, it doesn't at all address the issue of losing JavaScript state upon reload, which is one of the main problems this post is emphasizing.
Histogram of Poll standings at the moment:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/C=45,C++=71,C-Sharp=64,Cobol=0,C...
My bias is towards there being a lack of connection between ones marketability and their skill based on my biased and limited observing of people performing roles they are believed (by people who put them there) to be better at than it is revealed that they are.

I have also observed people keeping these roles through the relationships they manage with the people they are accountable to. Relationships in these circumstances are about marketing one individual to another.

I'd be surprised if these observations are limited to my own experience. Somewhere in amongst all the biases of our individual experiences we must determine something to be fact. For if I read and agree with a scientific paper which outlines something I regard as fact, it is still subject to my experience and hence we must ground ourselves on the basis of our collective experiences aligning.
Old guy tells Marissa she is attractive, feminist writes article about sexism. Nothing to see here, move on.
A lack of inevitable success is no argument against a moral or cultural ideal. If it was, then the only available ideal would be Entropy.
The way to predict the future is look at the past. If we start at the first WTC bombing until today there are around 100 terrorism deaths per year. Utterly irrelevant.

You seem to imply we should trust the government to tell us the probability but they've never been right in the past and are completely opaque in their methods. There's literally no reason to believe them at all.
Criticize Your Dentist? That's a Jailin'
This is really great, Wendy's a total hero, it's inspiring to see democracy producing some good results right now. But surely filibusters generally are a really terrible system. Had it been the other way round and another politician had tried to filibuster a bill to protect womens rights, that would have been terrible.

I'm not from the US so I'm not really sure about what the situation is with filibusters but it seems to me to be a loophole that needs fixing, or a symptom of some underlying system which needs fixing. Is anyone pushing for reform right now? It's great that this time it was used to a positive end but couldn't it just as easily be abused to cut in the other direction?
Could you share a short list of the books that led to your transformation?
This is happening and Google & Mozilla have both been dealing out bug bounties for vulnerabilities found this way.

You can search for them in eg chrome bug db: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Acode.goog...

(this shows just the subset they've remembered to make public, some time after fixes were shipping in stable)
superseded, ousted, supplanted or usurped?
Auto-Updates for iOS 7 Suck
> The BBC did an edit of the first series of myth busters, they chopped it down to 25 minutes, just by getting rid of the stupid recaps.

Now there's a service I'd pay for! It wouldn't even have to sell the edited content, just an edit decision list that given the original video skips over all the dross on playback.
Sexism is waved away with euphemisms, which is exciting and stimulating.

Also, if you're not a feminist by 2013, what are you? This stuff was a no-brainer the second it was came up with.
I think having a family is very cool and I'm looking forward to that!
As for being more tired - try physical activity (running, gym, whatever), for me it does miracles.
Nice 1! :)
>Terrorism is not a big problem because we work so hard to fight against it.

Citation needed. The government has yet to stop a single terrorist plot. The only ones they claim they've stopped are very clear entrapment cases that never would have amounted to anything without the government supplying the motivations and the supplies.

Every time a terrorist has actually tried an attack they've either succeed or screwed up all by themselves. The reason terrorism is not a big problem for the US is because terrorists nearly never attack the US.
Semi-retiring from parenting won't happen until those kiddos are 30. Just a heads up. ;)
Edward Snowden: history will be kind to him
Strepr v1
You can of course test subsystems, how they play with each other, I/O, etc. But the main job of actually sending the rocket straight up is not testable. You could build simulations, but they wouldn't help much since there are so many parameters, unknowns, etc. that building an accurate simulation would probably be as expensive as a test.

Besides, tests are much more fun!
A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap
I just had a quick look onto it myself and can official say its a complete joke of a ranking system.

Apparently some of my friends from the news industry (where I used to work), being minor local celebs/TV personalities... with thousands of follows they interact with daily... friends with proper international celebs... are scoring lower than some of my friends that just rant bullocks.

I wouldn't bother about this service being very indicative of anything in the real world.
Online learners starting to resemble campus learners
Just don't lose the key... As I'm sure I don't have to tell you.

What book would you use? That's how "they" used to do it.
1) You don't need to pay your kids college tuition

2) Without a mortgage or debt, even 25k goes a very long way. Add up all of your non-housing bills, it shouldn't come anywhere close to 25k, I just did a sample budget and it still leaves 500 in savings per month.
Your point is valid. I was told by a high school admissions counselor, back when such topics were interesting enough to consider counter-terrorism and terrorism research interesting (thank God I saw the light and chose different interests over time) that the graduate of my high school who went to one of the most prestigious schools in that field (St. Andrews in Scotland, if you can believe; lots of weirdos in the CT scene graduated from there because professors are field policy guys with more war stories and connections than common sense) had interesting experiences.

He ended up doing CT for the state of Illinois. His greatest concern, as told to me, was water systems. There is terribly security at water reservoirs and water utility systems, worse than nuclear powerplants and other sensitive infrastructure. The simulations they did with predicting terrorists poisoning water supplies made him lose sleep, regularly, and he was one guy in one of fifty states who was paid to focus on such things, because he, not others felt it was a priority.

At the end of the day physical and digital security are similar: no network can be 100% secure and everything is mitigation, so is living in the real world. Terrorism can be stopped and not mitigated. People who believe the opposite are the assholes who sold out and are selling out what little is left.
A compass tells you where north is. A pair of compasses is used to draw circles.
>and has stopped other terrorist plots since then.

No it hasn't, not a single one. Every single case they've "stopped" was simple entrapment of mentally unstable people. If they'd left those people alone nothing would have ever happened.
No. Wikipedia itself does not grant you any special right to delete your own article page. You may have (IANAL) certain legal rights that would allow you force them to delete the entire page or parts of it, but this rarely happens.
Wearable tech: why Intel thinks we should own our data
Wait. Take the time to write some python?
The font on my site shouldn't be bold (apart from the title). Mind if I ask which browser you're using?
If you deliver, it doesn't matter what creed the company is. Delivery is the most important thing on a proyect, if someone is too good at work than in 2hs a week he/she delivers and then they use their time on other things out of the office, then it shouldn't be a problem. In fact, it would be a miracle.

If they see this as a problem, then their problem isn't productivity, its a devotion problem. For devotion, you can work for Jesus and the high lord and spend 24hs of your life on that kind of… creed.
So, is it true that there is a pay disparity between immigrant/temporary workers in the tech sector, and american workers competing for the same jobs?
A year from now, you wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

Don't let this be true next year again bro.
Maybe this one, related to SMM: http://arstechnica.com/security/2009/03/storm-over-intel-cpu...
Or even simply the array module.
Be the friction - Our Response to the New Lords of the Ring
This is the funniest thing about the US. Some places experience actual terrorism and they don't let it control their lives. The US has one successful attack of 3k people (to be fair, that's pretty big for a terrorist attack) one time and go literally insane.
I just figured he had a fail-safe somewhere that he has to check into every x days. If he doesn't for a while the password gets e-mailed to a bunch of people.
Yes, I would like to have the entire page deleted. Do you know what the procedure is?
you can fork it on github. https://github.com/hdragomir/facetogif

640x480 produces huge gifs (20+MB for 10s) since dithering is not yet implemented. You can use any online gif optimiser, though.
the point is to prevent a tyranny of the majority. I personally wouldn't want to do away with it.
one thing i could tell,survilencing the people in USA is bearable(non-american). but other countries aren't
If it was happening every day it might be worth considering. But a one-off of 10k wouldn't be worth my time either. The proper response to 9/11 was what Norway showed us: "this is terrible and we're going to grieve but we're not going to change anything".
Don’t Waste Time Here’s How To Create Captivating Marketing Emails
Why exactly should I learn how git works? Other DVCS (yes, they do exist!) do not require me to learn their guts to be used effectively — only read man pages. Which, in case of git, are "one big almighty “fuck you”" (© Steve Bennett) — useless for end user (not git developer).
There are so many potential jokes about the 3%, I can't even think where to start
Pike: That's a technicality.

Spock: I am Vulcan, sir. We embrace technicalities.
I guess we interpreted this differently:

> Spurred by such concerns over unfair competition and lost revenue, Congress enacted the UBIT. It taxed any trade or business regularly carried on by Section 501(c) organizations if the activity is not related—aside from the need for funding—to the organization’s exempt purpose.
> we can send unique message content to each recipient of an email while still having recipients believe they are receiving the same message

So you know that people don't like receiving personalized messages that are tracked and yet you are proud that you have devised a way to shovel them down their throats anyways. Good stuff.

(edit) I would've not minded if this were purely technical post on how you set things up, but the way its edited at the moment just reeks of disrespect towards those on a receiving end of your emails.
US prosecution of Snowden and Manning exceeds international norms
The Startup Enduro
27yo kids worried about growing old. This is the funniest thing I've ever read on HN. Some sort of parody, right?
36 here, and it still keeps getting better. Hell, I might even be looking forward to 40. Teensomething me was all about hacking and girls. 20something me was pleased with his fast cars and suits and career advancement; 30something me thinks those things are dumb, and is pleased with boating with his wife, paying the bills, and saying 'no' to the invitations. You just keep changing and redefining what's important to you. Sure my joints creak after a hard day outdoors, and the wife OMG's over every new grey hair she finds on me. But I honestly do not care, getting older is fun. Every day above ground is an amazing gift.
If the scientific method applied to everyone's personal social problems and stances, why would anyone need this book?
Op does not have kids yet.
Did you click the gray bar? It's not automatic.
What scares me is how far the US has fallen, how little regard the have for privacy and even human rights (e.g. Gitmo, Pakistan, etc.) but people like you still take offense that someone might imagine that the government might be out of control. Of course they're fucking out of control, get your head out of your goddamn ass.
"I can party until 10am and drink all night"

If that makes the list of important things in his life, he hasn't really grown up much at all. This is the kind of thing you'd expect from an 18 year old.
Greenwald wasn't in Rio, his colleague was.
I would still consider that more of a freak occurrence than dishonest journalists, and much more than spooks being dumb.
I turn 42 in about a week and things are generally pretty awesome except for the occasional reminders that I'm out of warranty.
I don't understand why asking for a favorite football team is a "gender based question". Women clearly watch football, and TBH, calling that a gender based question is more demeaning to women than the actual question.
Though when it comes to the hair falling out it might not be something that you can do anything about.
This entire article is an exercise in idiocy, full of loaded comments. This is what actually happens:

Man tells woman she is attractive ... Another woman interprets this as sexism

It might be an inappropriate time to say it, but this is rudeness, not sexism. How often is it that you are talking to someone, anyone, they comment on how attractive you are and you are sorely offended? Never? Because I know from my personal experiences (as a highly privileged cis male of course) that I love being complimented.

If we are to interpret every single unrequested compliment as sexism that feminists will soon find that they are unable to find a boyfriend.

If you want an example of sexism, then here is one, from the very fingers of the feminist news reporter herself: "that she looks like a woman but acts like a man." Why should any woman need to act like a man? In this day and age do we still believe in these traditional gender roles, that only a man can be effective in a leadership position?

And then some victim blaming: "Mayer didn't [...] [goad] the "dirty old man" with some low-cut top or skimpy outfit [...] But, of course, you weren't even wondering that, were you?" No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't. That comment was an unnecessary attempt to read the mind of the reader. At no point did I assume that this respected member of her community would be sat in her shareholders meeting wearing a bikini or a v-neck down to her stomach.

Propaganda, the lot of it.
I'll be 40 next year and I'm in better shape than ever; I'm as slim as when I was 16 but I can lift 3x as much weight. I'm sure that my hair will start turning grey and falling off any decade now, but so far I have no age-related complaints.
I managed to do Circle Pack 7 in one fewer than the minimum: http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.0L1.1L5.5A1.5L8.0L4.5...
You should go, say, six months, in which you never use “suppose” in the passive voice. Whenever you feel the inclination to say “it is supposed...” or “you're supposed to...”, force yourself to rephrase your sentence in the active voice. This requires, of course, that you find a supposer, and name him. At that point you will discover what it is you're really trying to say.
The popular weather aggregating websites generally do a poor job outside of the US. Presumably because they rely on a global weather data source rather than the country-specific agencies.

When travelling, I typically reference the World Meteorological Organization's site to find the official forecasts:

http://worldweather.wmo.int/

They list official observations, forecasts, and climate data for ~1700 cities worldwide in numerous languages and provide the link to the respective official local national weather service for each country.

And if you live in a typhoon/hurricane susceptible region as I do, their severe weather website aggregates official tracking estimates and forecasts from a multitude of weather services:

http://severe.worldweather.org/
If it's the kind of party where drunk people sit around a table and pretend they're having a good time -- very! Try being the only sober person at such a party. It's usually cringe-worthy. Alcohol just makes you think you're having a good time. Being high on life is much better and more healthy.
I really envy you guys. I'm somewhat of a weather enthusiast and here in Germany the (tax funded) Wetterdienst [0] makes only out-of-date low resolution weather data freely available.

There are better systems like webKonrad [1] (live radar data down to city level, etc) available but as a common citizen you can't even get paid access. Access is reserved to the fire department, etc.

Funnily though there was a little f*ck up in the webKonrad app and they had hard coded credentials to a developer test account in the app. With a little reverse engineering we had free access to this pretty cool tool for a few months.

IMHO it's pretty sad that they fund the whole German Wetterdienst operation with taxes and citizens have no access to the full data.

[0] - http://www.dwd.de

[1] - http://webkonrad.dwd.de
Ask HN Recruiters: What if someone doesn't want to phone interview?
Those of you that are hiring, or have hired in the past, how would you react if someone would ask to change the phone interview to something else, say a project of sorts, or other methods of interviewing? I just get extremely nervous in phone interviews, and usually perform horribly. I'd much rather some other form of interviewing.
Goodbye node-forever, Hello PM2
Did you see the joke comparing your achievement to the resekort situation[1]?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151666565407048&se...
Meh. 2000 shares would be about... $50k or 1.8e-4%. Somehow I doubt that's enough to really matter.
I am 26, will be 27 imminently.

I gave myself stomach problems when I was at Uni, partly from alcohol (although not much) and partly from not reading the label on an ibuprofen bottle.

Now I can't drink more than 2 or 3 units (a pint, a large glass of wine) without feeling pretty rough soon afterwards, and the whole of the next day.

Luckily, I've realised that there are more fun things in life than getting wasted and making a fool of yourself trying to climb things (not people, for clarity.)

I don't disagree with the post, but thinking of the ability to drink copiously as an advantage seems upside down to me. Being unable to drink a lot has made life more fun, as I am present in the moment more, and will probably make it last longer too.
Nerve cells 're-grown' in rats after spinal injury
A friend of mine has a mother who recently turned 101. She was still driving until she was 98.

Today 30 is still young, and 40 isn't middle age any longer. Middle age doesn't really start till you're 50.

You're still a kid, get over it.
Why, at the adult age of 27, would you want to party and drink until 10am? What a waste of money and life, do something productive with your time! Partying until 10am is sad if you're older than 21, and I certainly don't see being able to do that as a gauge of how good life is at a certain age.
Yes the example gives a much better idea of what's going on. Although I did have to create an account to look at it...

Would be nice to have that accessible from the main page.
This story was nearly a year old the day it was posted.

I want to hear about if the dirty old men have shut the hell up or not since then.
That seems a better way to spell that word anyway. Let's start a campaign to eliminate unpronounced characters from the English language. Who's with me?!