skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also a bit of a self-reinforcing system in play. Good access to mass transit makes an area more desirable and more expensive, so rich people end up living there. Bad access to mass transit makes an area less desirable and less expensive, so poor people end up living there. But then there is less incentive to expand service into those areas, because it's just a bunch of poor people...
Sorry but every one of the comments on that blog post seems fake or astro-turfed.

I dropped the avatar of 'Mandy' into google image search and a fiveer.com post popped up.

http://fiverr.com/teenytinypress/write-3-quality-comments-on...

I think you are doing yourself a disservice with bad comments rather than no comments.
Easy fix. Leave some busses standing around for homeless people to inhabit. Way cheaper because they don't need gas and maintenance beyond cleaning.
As a UK citizen I vigorously object that Heathrow is the "best" airport.
Spark project itself: http://spark-project.org/
Yes, Henry Ford did it in the 1950's to recoup the losses after the Allies bombed his tank making factories in Nazi Germany and Axis controlled territory.

There are certain laws in place to keep people from willy-nilly suing the government, but there are situations where it is possible to sue them and sometimes even win. (not sure about this case in particular, anyone want to weigh in?)
I used GDG for a while and there is one feature that it doesn't have that Google has that makes it very hard to convert. I can google "soap" and the first result is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP. If I GDG "soap" the results are all about bars of soap.

Nothing I have tried even comes close to competing with Google Search trained fror me when it comes to search relevance.
By "to the JVM", you mean "to the Oracle JDK".

The implication that the Oracle JDK is the JVM equivalent of Oracle/DB2 is rather unfair. The Oracle JDK is really OpenJDK, which is, as the name suggests, open source.

It is true that there is one behemoth corporation behind OpenJDK, but that still makes it the equivalent of Chrome or Eclipse, not Oracle or DB2.
"If students could only get loans based on parental credit, tuitions at places like NYU would collapse."

Perhaps there could be another way of doing it - perhaps only allowing a threshold for the loan? If you cap the subsidy to average in-state tuition plus expenses, you will go a long way to solving the problem too.
here is the full, uncut, interview for sale => http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film-int...
Ask HN: Startup Engineering study group in Seattle looking for meetup space
So I have been looking for a spot for the folks taking the Startup Engineering class through Coursera to meet and discuss the class, do homework,etc.

If anybody has a meeting room or something they can lend us after 6pm, at least once a week, and big enough for 20+ people that would be awesome!
> I think the way to go would be to have all transit be funded by a combination of user fees and tax increment districts in the areas served by transit. After all, it's not just the subway rider that benefits from the existence of a subway line, but all the businesses and residential developments near a subway stop too.

At least in Bay Area, being able to walk to public transportation (usually Bart of Caltrain: stuffwhitepeoplelike #147, "public transportation that is not a bus") has a huge rent and property value premium (with property usually being valued as a rental property). Effectively this means people who would benefit most from public transit (e.g., someone who has to commute to downtown SF -- as it's the only place hiring someone with their qualifications -- but can only afford to live in East or South Bay) can't afford to live near it.

I wonder if a progressively priced tax on rent as a way to fund public transport (designed with incentives to make renting at a lower price to families attractive) would help: it would create incentives for apartment complexes to provide more affordable family units (vs. large units designed by to be shared by roommates) and have the effect of automatically providing more funds for public transportation to dense areas with many rentals (i.e., where it's most needed).

I'd also add having states and localities fund interstates would be fair as well: there's no reason for me to force someone living in New York to fund my commute on the US-101 (the national security reason for having interstates is pretty much dead at this point; nor does allowing a missile truck to travel require widening 280 -- a local loop from I-80 -- to six lanes) and it takes away the ability of federal government to bully states into passing questionable laws with a moralistic basis (e.g., raising drinking age to 21) by threatening to withhold highway funds.
Also in C#: | var a = 1; | vs | dynamic a = 1; | I think there should be a version number next to language name to avoid false impression.
For those who are not familiar with the topic: retracting a news and views was like giving the journal a (quite deserved) middle finger.
discrimination? hasn't tech always been dominated by young people on the bleeding edge?
Can someone explain why the in-memory caching is such a big win? Does Hadoop MapReduce not do caching as well? I'd expect at least filesystem caching when the computation is running on the same machine as the data block...
As far as I know there currently is no way to accomplish this, but I am working on a solution for it.
Unfortunately the project just started and will take its time
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Interesting piece. Can a kid with pretty much no experience actually add any real value to a VC though?
What is psychometrics?
The point isn't that you can't have private railroads or highways. The point is that the free market creates less than an efficient amount of transit if you put the burden of paying for that infrastructure entirely on people who travel instead of all the people who benefit thereby.
It's not pedantic if it goes to the very heart of the concept.

> Also worth noting is that scientific research is heavily controlled in the world of 1984 for the reason that it brings novelty, advancement, and change of thought patterns.

It was heavily controlled in the USSR, too, but that didn't prevent the Gulag Archipelago novels from being written, for example.
If I'm reading that right, there's an extra $50k if you accompany the platform bypass with a technique that can be used to defend against it.
This is a great idea. Much needing this. I wonder if there's service that would let you find video-shooters in locations where your customers live. If you're across the globe, it'd be hard to travel to their office for a testimonial. Finding somebody locally to do this for you is the way to go. Any ideas?
Avian is a very impressive piece of work. I'm not sure i'll ever switch to it, but hopefully, its very existence will drive the OpenJDK to improve itself to compete (eg adding tail call optimisation). A bit like how Scala forced Java's hand in adding lambdas.
Fair point, I guess the question is what the causes are for local maxima. If the reason for them are things such as difficulties in microtransactions, or counterproductive government regulations, those might be where we should be devoting our efforts to improve public transportation.
Good quality optics aren't getting any smaller as far as I can tell. So a good surveillance drone is always going to have to be a certain size to carry that payload. I can see them getting cheaper than helicopters but not cheap.
Safer for the officer, definitely.

Curiously though, not for the person being tased.
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It was one of the most memorable parts for me, too, and I don't remember interpreting it that way.

I just pulled out my copy of 1984 to check the article's interpretation. Through most of the appendix, the tense is a bit ambiguous, but there's a line that seems to indicate Ingsoc didn't prevail in the book's world: "It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050."
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If it wasn't illegal, there would be no illegal drug trade. Most drug related offenses are during nonviolent events. Drugs are popular in low income areas which is also where there's a lot of other crime. Decriminalizing drugs won't change this, but it will allow the system (legislators, police, & judges) to focus on the crimes that do harm society. Take that to it's logicial conclusion and it's not hard to arrive at the decision that the war on drugs is bad for society.
oh, I miss Steve...

Love the metaphor of sediments to make the mountain so much higher.
It would definitely limit the loan size. Someone with $50,000 in debt will default at the drop of a hat, and so they will never be extended $50,000 worth of debt, and so schools will need to charge less for their service.

Someone with $4,000 worth of debt probably will not default, because the hit to their credit isn't worth it.
Much easier to tax gasoline as a proxy for driving on roads, and that has the added benefit of further incentivizing efficiency. Of course, that was the original intent of gas taxes, but they are far too low. Good luck trying to raise them.
Fed Keeps $85 Billion Pace of Bond Buying, Sees Risks Waning
With any luck, all the languages we know today will get there too one day, as they are rendered obsolete by further decades of experience with programming languages.

Well, except LISP, obviously.
I believe in rewarding your earliest supporters.

Case in point, we sell our product for $99/year with a $20/month add-on. Some people got this for $39-$79 for life, and I'll never change that because I wouldn't have a product if not for their early support.

I'll also never ask our current customers to pay more, provided they stay active.

The overhead of keeping early adopters alive at initial prices is not significant, so there is very little risk in grandfathering them in. However, raising the price risks driving brand advocates (like those commenting here) away, or at best, making them disgruntled.

I guess I just don't see the upside.
netcat is listening on your machine. the python script is connecting to your machine and giving you a shell.

dup2 will take one file descriptor and change it into another.

0 is STDIN's file descriptor by default in *nix (I believe this is standard POSIX, but i could be wrong).
1 is STDOUT,
2 is STDERR.

os.dup2 in this case is taking the file descriptor for the socket and placing it into STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.

At this point all the code that does anything with these will end up writing to the TCP socket instead.

When subprocess.call is used, it will inherit the parent's STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR handles, in this case the TCP socket.

So when the shell tries to output anything it'll go to the TCP socket, when it tries to read it'll go to the TCP socket and get the information.

This is the same way that things like nohup work, by putting all the sockets to a file, the process doesn't get killed when the tty goes away, since it doesn't have one. It also grabs some of the signals from the child first also so the shell doesn't kill it directly.
Because it's not. The interpretations of Ms. Frost are wrong. The narrator talks to the reader reading it in 1949, using the language from 1949 but talking about the future as if he had a vision of it. That's it. He never claims that Oldspeak won or anything. He had a vision of future in some particular moment, 1984 and explains the plans of the ruling party regarding the Newspeak as of 1984.
These days, America has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site..

Correction:

These days, the world has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site...
"Edit: not saying a 1984esque future is impossible, just that the book being written doesn't make it any more or less possible."

The book is hyperbolically over-referenced in pop culture, in internet arguments, in OpEd pages, and so forth. I'll grant you that. Chances are, PRISM is not the beginning of a steady march toward a fascist police state. Far from it.

But that's not the point of this article. The author isn't claiming "a 1984esque future" is in the cards. Rather, she's drawing comparisons between a particular aspect of Orwell's concept -- that of linguistic manipulation for political ends -- and the tactics being used in actual politics today. The playbooks are similar.

The fact is, we've sacrificed quite a few of our freedoms in recent decades in service of a vaguely defined "War on Terror," and it's highly disconcerting. It doesn't mean we're ready to put Big Brother in office, and drastic hyperbole to that effect is indeed silly. But it does testify to the power of language to bend a population toward an agenda.
Emulated vs. Real Device Mobile App Testing
But still lower congestion in the city and improves workers mobility wich is the main benefit of free public transportation.
(Shrug) If someone's thinking is that broken, I don't want them to have power over me.
That would basically just be a relocatable homeless shelter. Homeless people apparently don't like homeless shelters because even they don't like being around lots of other homeless people.
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Haskell Game Object Design - Or How Functions Can Get You Apples
Great story. Did the increase in tax revenue offset the loss of fare revenue?
Why is this surprising...the nature of a capitalist system is to have one winner.
Incognito and AdBlock might not protect against Prism, but they protect me from other sites. Logging out is an option as well, which is something I'm considering, though I doubt it matters much since they know me by IP and I use Gmail.
And not only is it 5 lines to 1 line, the remaining 1 line is basically just underscores!
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re [ADDED]: Why is it a deal breaker to share common ground with a group that some people stereotype as undesirable? I mean, prohibition of drugs is one of the main drivers of the huge prison population.

NORML, the Marijuana Policy Project, and LEAP Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, are the groups that I am most aware of doing advocacy in this respect.
can't give cash because of drugs. Addicts will spend money on meth instead of their kids shoes. If you have a better solution, fire away.
ddg is quite a lot better when you're actually looking for something out there. Google is much better for the 'canonical' stuff.
Those externalities are themselves a consequence of the War on Drugs, not the drug dealer. I have lots of drug dealers in my state who run great businesses and contribute to the local economy because the drugs they deal are now legal.
I think the program is legal and there is no reason it needs to be kept secret.

Do you think it is legal only in the pedantic sense that "congress passed a law approving this" or do you consider it legal in the constitutional sense (would likely pass a 4A challenge in the SCOTUS ), or even in the broader sense where something might be allowed by the SCOTUS, but is still not "ok"?

And to dig a little deeper, how do you feel about the argument that non-targeted, unspecific data collection approval by the FISA court amounts to a "general warrant" as opposed to a warrant that describes "the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"?
My understanding of hadoop and hdfs is that both input and ourput are to/from disk. Your MR jobs are spun up and pointed to hdfs urls to read input from and they write to hdfs when done. This means that when there is an error, the intermediate computations don't necessarily have to be redone. However there is a trade off.

Additionally, I believe that HDFS keeps 3 copies of the data around on 3 different nodes for redundancy. So there is the overhead of that network traffic.
This is true. I join AAAS in order to get access to Science and some of the related journals and have become quite disillusioned at their practice of either hiding, or outright omitting, papers or studies that contrast something that appeared 'first' in their pages. I was always taught that a scientist should never fear being wrong, they should only fear being not right. The discourse and disagreements, the questions and reproduction things. make things more real.
I empathize, but the Mac Pro hasn't really been an option for anyone not looking to break the bank. If you're in to building your own systems, there are always other options:

OS X system guides - http://www.tonymacx86.com/
Good question. That's where longer-term measurement comes in. Overcoming ad blindness is a transitory thing that goes away after a period of time while engagement tends to stick (as measured by CTR, say).
Alex is the real deal! Never have I talked with someone and been so inspired! He has influence to source deals and has heard thousands of stories from entrepreneurs. I trust his expertise.
John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee [video]
DDG launched in 2008, so data from 6 months ago doesn't really speak to whether privacy was a part of the original purpose.
Are Books Obsolete? Thoughts on the Printed Word
There has been a change in the industry. Actually the change happened much earlier, Microsoft just couldn't remain in denial anymore and were often criticized for ingesting so much free research while giving nothing back.

Basically if you had a Microsoft vulnerability and you decided that you wanted to disclose it, you would just go through a broker (such as ZDI) who would deal with Microsoft, but also pay you. The other options were full disclosure, or selling it on the grey market.

There are major vendors who are far worse than Microsoft, such as Oracle and Adobe, but they are just so bad that nobody expects anything of them.

tl;dr Google has been making them look bad.
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and imjohn.com are popular names hard to find those.
An option for a manual update is there for all users. Automatic updates can only be scheduled for PS+ members.

http://uk.playstation.com/psn/support/ps3/detail/linked28507...
You can use smartshoot.com for that. (I own zero stock in that Company)
That timeline begins 1.5 - 2 years after DDG launched.
I'm pretty sure it is because of two reasons:

1. More people have read 1984 than have read Brave New World.

2. Brave New World is so ridiculously accurate that most people are too afraid to think about what this means.

We fear 1984 while living (for the most part, the only real difference is that we don't have, or need, a direct controlling force) Brave New World.
I'm from Seattle looking to get into programming my self. Signed up for this course.
I don't know. I still feel like a VC is taking a big risk on a hot-shot young hustler like this.
It's a perfectly correct and generally understood use of the word "free": no cost to the end user. Ultimately, somebody paid for your free beer, too, but that doesn't mean it wasn't free to you.
This is absolutely right and to the point.
Plus, who said it will remain about "surveillance" only? How about taking down people?
I saw a phenomenal talk in grad school about why genetic algorithms are generally not as good as stochastic hill climbing. Unfortunately, I can't track down any references to it.

The punch line was that they mathematically proved that genetic algorithms produce less optimal solutions than hill-climbing.

So why are "genetic algorithms" so common in nature? Well, it turned out that genetic algorithms were better at producing solutions that were resilient to changing environmental conditions. They produced a less sharp peak at the solution they did find, so when a change occurred in the underlying conditions, the still had a reasonable chance of being at least ok.
Meh, every single new car I've owned has had a recall on it.
I stand corrected. Mine downloaded the update but required permission to install it.
I don't see the difference. I don't trust either of them to do their jobs properly if their mental model of reality is based on religion.

If my doctor doesn't accept evolutionary theory, I have to wonder what else he doesn't accept. Can I trust him to advise on my childrens' vaccinations? Will he give me wife good advice on birth control? Did he just prescribe a homeopathic remedy for my high blood pressure?

I prefer dealing with professionals who use the best available evidence to make decisions in both their professional and personal lives. That way I don't have to wonder who he/she answers to at the end of the day. And that rules out MDs who don't accept the basic tenets of modern biology.
You could easily encourage more affordable housing without tax incentives, but by simply repealing zoning restrictions. Let developers build denser structures with less space per person, it would be cheaper. Also remove requirements like offsite parking minimums which also make new construction expensive.
Wallaby 2.0 for iOS adds Foursquare integration
So not zero day and not an exploit. A terrible idea for a feature though, PHP seems to be rich with those.
the institution should bear the cost

That assumes they really feel it. If a school charges you $500,000 per year for tuition and then gives you financial aid of $480,000 per year, they aren't really giving you that money.

If a school extends you $150,000 in credit, and then in 20 years you've only paid $40,000 of it back, they haven't really lost $110,000. They are just practicing perfect price discrimination, getting the most money from the people most willing to pay, backed up by the government who is doing the work of auditing people's tax records to ensure compliance.
FreeBSD Turns 20 Years Old
Facebook just added images in comments.
It's actually hard for a browser to utilize multiple cores, because Javascript and DOM designed for one thread: While javascript runs the layout shall not be recalculated. When you click and an onclick handler fires and JS runs, the browser cannot run other JS of the same tab in parallel. While HTML is parsed any time a inline script could come and block processing the rest of the document.

Chrome and other browsers of course work hard against that: There is a second fast parser which heuristically finds ressources to preload and Chrome just switched to blink in order to do the parsing and something else in parallel and now they want to do CSS calculations in threads, too, which is hard.
There was a story here about it recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5895729
Try http://domai.nr/
It'll try to find possible domain names and such that you could use.
Were you using your own test data or a provided XML file?

Sports shots in our case don't get a great hit rate. Adjusting the `minNeighbors` parameter can help out with that depending on how many false positives you can accept. Musical artist misses are in the single digit percentages although shadows and strange backgrounds can give some additional faces that we don't really care for.

When collecting images we are now searching for those with more direct faces visible to make the detection easier. After that though we just try to get the face in the direct center and fall back to hoping the face is in that spot if we can't detect any.

At some point I want to try checking for partial face matches as well which should help in major sports since we tend not to use headshots.
You build a nuclear bunker once. Maybe every 30 to 50 years. The tiny inconveniences of a helmet are daily. It all adds up, and is likely quite a bit more inconvenience over a lifetime.