skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Google, a .0001% reduction in user overhead may translate to millions of dollars of resource savings. Google is willing to do crazy things like run their own modified Linux kernel that most companies wouldn't bother with.

What is the end-user benefit in performance using HTTP 2.0? The only analysis of SPDY I saw indicated low single digit percentage benefit vs HTTPS. Whoop-dee-do. http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/
This is most of what the proposed software is. A local, lower-res index of the huge files you have deep archived.
Great job to DDG!

Remember to change your default search engine:

http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216440-chrome

http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-firefo...

Let's make protecting privacy a good business decision.
Unless you're eating WHILE you're working.
Is it standard operating procedure for SWAT teams to always kill the dogs of the homes they enter? It seems like every story I read about a police raid usually ends with the household dogs getting killed. That is the most enraging part of this story. My dog is like family to me and if someone killed him I would be absolutely devastated.
It'll come, they already said it would. I suspect the thing is that Linux users are generally more testing types. Mac users, like windows want an already finished/polished product.
> I can't continue reading, I might have a stroke.

I suggest you skip reading anything about the Dept. of Interior and payments for grazing, etc. to American Indians who have trust land. The DoI makes the DoD look like accounting wizards.
Nothing to see here. Get back to work.
I found that talk riveting. I tried to tell that to people in real life, but stopped that after a couple of tries... Noone really believes that...
"Sub-segments of the population don't viscerally hate each other in Frankfurt or London the way they do in L.A. or Detroit."

Belfast still has road barriers that are raised at night blocking roads between the Shankill Road and Falls Road areas - not to mention huge walls:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines

Edit: To be fair, I agree with your point, but there are some very noticeable dividing lines in European cities.

[NB. This is not intended as a criticism of Belfast, please go and visit - we went recently and had a great few days and I want to go back.]
Do you think that's NLP-complete, or something we can actually do?
I suppose there's a lot we wouldn't do if we apply cold hearted logical reasons. Sometimes it's nice to not apply cold hearted logical reasons (even though I do see your point).

That said, one 'cold' reason could be being able to write a post about it that puts the writer and 37 signals in a good light. Another could be for the author to just want to feel better about herself, because she helped someone else and/or because she constructed a nice story (and we humans like stories)...
Good points.

Interesting anecdotal data: here in Italy you have to call the fire department to get a fire truck out, whereas they're part of the standard package described above in the US. Fires aren't that common here because of construction materials, so while you see plenty of ambulances and police cars whizzing around, fire trucks are a far rarer sight than in the US.
I am curious what InstaCart could do better at, since you said you are a former patron.
I think we're addressing different points in the article, especially in that 'readability' and 'complexity' are distinct. Also, I think the author does make valid points, which is why I qualified that we can all choose our preferred places on that continuum of abstraction.

My point is that it is sometimes (or from my perspective, often) worth it to deal with more complex (as in higher-level) technologies via tools that allow us to de-abstract those technologies than to focus on using only technologies for which we can understand every detail of their implementation. Trying to understand assembly written by a human vs assembly spat out by a compiler (with its optimizations, etc.) is a very different beast, but thanks to the tools of higher-level programming languages and compilers we rarely need to fiddle around with machine-generated assembly.

Similarly, with reliable tools, we would not need to fiddle around with raw HTTP 2.0 workings, and thus rarely would the concern of immediate human-readability be an issue.
OVH is not bad, most people that they cut out are people who are new, they rent 10 servers or more, start spam, then they get cut and they go on forums to complains. Since OVH is a lower cost provider, they attrack more customer like this.

On the other end, Softlayer is very reliable, I have 4 servers with them and I had nearly no problems, they have the best network as well (I got fewer network outage with Softlayer then Rackspace).

Rackspace is better if you need something managed, but they are expensive.
What you can do is try to educate other people.

A key solution is to end the War on Drugs, which is the fodder for this madness. That can only happen when the population realizes that it is a failure and that a different approach is needed.

Otherwise reasonable people will say "but these drugs are dangerous and we must protect people from their harm" -- help them understand that is a fallacy and you will have made a difference.
Arrested suspect denies that DEA-seized bitcoins are his
I (unfortunately) think you'll find that this was due to it being in beta. Hopefully I'm wrong and the community stays relatively decent, but I'm not confident in it yet.
Why do we build software that sucks?
Cops are cowards and are terrified of dogs, especially in high stress environments. Sometimes they kill them just to remove the possibility of a threat from them. As many people consider their pets part of their family (myself included), I'm surprise there haven't been any revenge killings of the cops involved yet. I suspect it's only a matter of time before they do it to the wrong person.

Edit: Cops kill dogs so often there's a website that tracks (some) of the stories. http://dogmurders.wordpress.com/
It's not so much endearing and cute as it is just confusing and weird; it makes the project sound like it must be kind of a joke, not a serious attempt at building a high quality search engine. I don't understand what they were going for.
Was expecting to find comment by tptacek explaining how WP's Craig Timberg has no journalistic integrity because "direct access" clearly doesn't mean the NSA gets whatever data it wants by whatever means necessary. Rather, "direct access" can only imply the NSA administers the credentials of each and every server and database existent, which clearly couldn't be true.

Maybe he's busy.

I'll check back.
I still wouldn't shoot in anything but RAW, because that's like throwing away the negative. Not that this means I would dismiss anything else someone says who doesn't shoot in RAW, but that'd be my number #1 tip for them: get a good workflow set up and keep the negatives. Not even a 5D can guess as nicely as you can adjust the sliders.

Which is Better: a 10MP camera dialed down to 3MP, or a 3MP camera?

Depends on the lens. 10MP vs 3MP is one thing, 10MP vs 1000MP another... at some point you're just blowing up a fixed amount of signal, and with most lenses that point comes much earlier than one would think.

But even then, doing things like straightening or color adjustments before scaling it down looks better than doing it afterwards. That's what the camera does when you shoot in JPEG, but once that's done, it's done, no going back.

Would you buy CD, transcode it to MP3, and then throw the CD away? Maybe not all photos are that important, but sometimes you only find out where a particular one falls after some time passed.
Switch '#foobar' to '[data-mycompany-id="foobar"]'. A nice byproduct is your selectors now work against detached fragments. A negative is your selectors are no longer o(1) but this has not been a problem for my team in practice
I play dota2 and im pretty nice and always try to be friendly to people in game, ive not really ran into "horrible" people. Depends what level you play at but once you get into the "know your bad but can play the game" level then most people are fine.
Palo Alto Web master answers every question under the sun [1999]
> I suspect the thing is that Linux users are generally more testing types

That may be the reason, but I think it's the upcoming Steam console/PC that is driving all these linux releases.
There is very good evidence that the reduction in crime is related to the levels of lead in blood. The correlation between crime and lead levels is found on the international, national, state, city and even block by block level.

Stop and frisk can be legally done, but the way the NYPD implements it is clearly discriminatory. There is no better way to create a criminal than to treat someone like one from adolescence.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
Get Along With Your Colleagues
Eh... a few years ago I would have agreed with you but based on their recent releases and the kinds of statements their designers make I get the distinct impression that whatever magic Blizzard had that allowed them to make games like Warcraft 1/2/3/Frozen Throne, WoW (Vanilla and BC), Broodwar, and Diablo 1/2 has faded. Most of the original key people responsible for those games are no longer there and Blizz seems to be favoring a blander mass market approach.
I wish the executive branch would have an actual CFO and some common functions (e.g. payroll) were centralized. I get the feeling some new President spending 4 years reducing the waste in the executive branch would be quite a bit more useful than other budget fixes.
Incanter's default Matrix implementation is now Catrix as well - which is a Clojure friendli(er) wrapper over jBLAS matrices. https://github.com/tel/clatrix Check out the source.
Perl's strength is manipulating text. Search engines manipulate text...
The computer with the USB devices connected is the "Plug" itself. It's just a tiny embedded server w/ a USB device port on one end and wired Ethernet on the other.
Disappointing, but not unexpected, because I was the only person I knew using latitude. My wife and I used it to know when each other were coming home from work, so we weren't providing much value to google.
I also wondered that and also wonder if perhaps, for the book, raids were cherry picked which contained dog killings.

Despite this, the stories which were picked are absolutely disheartening and frightening.
Having gone to University of Maryland, I have to say that I am not at all surprised that this occurred in PG County. Every time I had to deal with county police or government for any reason, it was a miserable experience that showed severe incompetence, if not corruption. Also, they have a tank that they deploy (along with SWAT officers with shields and tear gas/rubber bullets) if students party in the streets after sporting events.
You must maintain a 0.4 ratio of pushes to pulls on github to use this repository.
Resumes suffer the same problem, which is why something like the product I'm working on GeekRez at least takes a bit of that effect away. References are also one part, but again it's easy for most people to get someone to say they are good.

On a resume you can say you are the best in the world. You control your self-assessment on a resume, but have no control over what someone thinks of your code or what someone thinks of your answers on Stack Overflow (reflected in your reputation).
How can you say "all metadata wouldn't work"? Thanks to Snowden, here's the full single FISC order which says "give the all metadata you have":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/veri...

Moreover the language it was written implies that the same order was made to the other providers, changing just the recipient.

(If you are on the network which blocks access to Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/us-army-blocks-g... you're missing a lot! Visit some friends, surf from their computer.)
Did you guys look at the core.matrix API?

https://github.com/mikera/matrix-api
Welp, I had to stop reading that halfway through ...

... but then I came back to the tab and finished it.

So, do we know why SWAT teams are being used for regular police work like serving warrants?

Is it basically because cops get to feel more like Batman when they wear costumes?
thanks for the links. i gotta say though, your indentation style on chihaya is crackodactyl.
Google recently bought Waze:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/its-official-google-buys-wa...
Ha, very good point. That made me sound a bit daft, didn't it?
Are we all victims of Affluenza?”
Two kids. Two chromebooks, plus a web proxy server I can centrally whitelist (squid). Great combination.
I feel as though the people in this thread against (well-designed) binary protocols have never tried implementing a binary protocol.

Length-prefixed fields and direct encoding of binary data go a long way to simplifying implementing a protocol.

The ease of implementation of a simple binary protocol should not be underrated.
Not my product. But I have downloaded it and played around with it and it looks like it's doing everything right so far.

I really like the idea of public key material in a QR code as a way to do physical verification.
It does seem to be SOP and not just in SWAT raids, and answering codyb this has to my knowledge held true for years, Balko doesn't have to do much cherry picking to cite a lot of puppycide incidents. Hmmm, they might be particularly prominent because they're tangible unlike "police terrified my family and me" but didn't kill or seriously injure humans.
You've triggered a flashback. I now sorta recall using different colored highlighter pens to denote different kinds of things: loops, jumps, data, etc.
IMO, neither really are as great as they should be yet. That being said, I'm using Stripe. Switching over from Paypal, this is what I have to say:

-The process to make charges from a sellers account seems to need an unnecessary amount of requests

-Why can't we pay out to multiple sellers at once like Paypal can?

-At least in Stripe, it seems kind of silly I have to refresh a credit card token each time I want to make a new charge
The MQ-9 doesn't cost $154MM; more like 1/10th of that, list.
Given the extent of the populations falling under these (in some cases, prospective) diagnoses, the term "disorder" should probably be substituted with the term "difference".

Nothing like prejudicing your science from the outset.
The question is whether exam material should seem substantially different from the course material.

Looking at your first question, I am hemming and hawing whether it is correct to say zero is positive or negative or both. I would say both, thus f''(x)=0 leads us towards a legitimate solution. Having not attended your course, it is possible the issue came up multiple times and this would cause no confusion. But it might confuse someone who has an otherwise excellent command of calculus.

But given the homework problem shown later, it is rather likely that those paying attention found your exam question perfectly fair.

"Was this exam question harder than my homework problem sets? Absolutely not! It's just different." The kind of differences matter. I do not see why the exam questions need to seem different in any non-trivial way. (I speak of a general principle. I do not hold an opinion about your particular questions.)
Why we get "tip of the tongue" moments
Simple steps to overcome stress.
I wish they changed their name to just Duck. Much more clear. Ironically, Google owns duck.com.
But directions are searches.

If I know what directions you're searching for, that's more than enough information to build a profile of you that includes everything from what you eat, to what hobbies you have, or whether you're having an affair.

It's all the same thing. There's no point in going half / half on search engines if your goal is privacy.
God centralising that is the worst thing you could do.

Give every Colonel an extra clerk and pay what the clerk says to pay, he fills in the forms. Decentralise it.

Heavens above the US military has what, a million people?
And a 12,000 strong department cannot correctly pay them - that's a hundred salaries per person in the department. They could write checks by hand !

I remember a quote from Microsoft - they put a hiring freeze on in late eighties, (shrimps v wieners memo) and explained it with "we needed control more than anything. We had enough money we could recruit our way into a huge beureaucratic mess and would not know before it was too late"

Looks like a continental power might not have learnt that lesson
I would like to point, that several US SWAT teams are trained by a brazillian company, that is world famous for training the best SWAT teams.

The thing is: that company is THAT famous, because it has literal urban warfare veterans, here in Brazil our SWAT teams (with other names) are used to fight heavily armed (ie: bazookas, grenade launchers, armour piercing auto-cannons) drug lords.

Our teams here routinely kills lots of people, out of necessity, and they consider their job war, also our most elite and violent teams, sent into the worst places, are part of the military police (that here is a "normal" police but is actually part of the army, they follow normal army rules and hierarchy, and in case of foreign war, can be sent to the other country and keep their current hierarchy level there).

Here in Brazil most of it is necessity, but it is not surprise that training US SWAT here would result into something weird...

Here in Brazil SWAT need to use APCs (like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cPqcotWunXw/UBRoaofiekI/AAAAAAAABK...) to invade enemy territory, fight some seriously bloody fights with enemies armed with military weapons (like this one that a cop is displaying after capture in Rio de Janeiro: http://i1.r7.com/data/files/2C92/94A4/2C9A/D947/012C/A28F/03... )

Sending people trained to face this, to do regulamentation checks, or raid a party, or a amateur gambling ring, is beyond absurd and silly.

Oh, the website of the company that train some US SWAT teams: http://www.cati.com.br/site/pt/?target=curso_interno&cid=27 the US version is broken for some weird reason, also yes, the site is very cheesy... but I know it is true because a friend of mine that works for GOE (Special Operations Group, of the São Paulo civil police) gave me the link and explained some stuff (and back then, invited me to be a volunteer fake hostage for their training)
I reject every time I think the meeting is not a good use of my time. I always give a reason why I'm rejecting and sometimes that will be challenged but more often and not I don't attend the meeting and people don't get to upset.

A lot of the time people who are booking meetings will request attendance from anyone and everyone who may have a remote link to the agenda, they don't put any thought into whether the meeting will actually be useful to everyone they invite. Another problem is that people, usually project managers, will book meetings at the drop of a hat when a quick two minute chat at someone's desk would suffice - a lot of middle-managers have nothing to do other than attend meetings and they suck everyone else in with them.
Asking my local police department about anything like that is a good way to get harassed and ticketed.
German troll and free speech heaven
Do you like/tolerate teaching people? You could probably make a decent amount of money teaching people to code while not actually doing much of it yourself. If that's out of the question, you should ask yourself how physical you want your new career to be. If you're not afraid of manual labor, self employed plumbers and electricians make a killing and are always in demand (no sarcasm intended btw).
Ask HN: Building a responsive single-page app using Zurb +?
I'm building a responsive web application, and I want to use Zurb Foundation to manage the CSS grid and provide some default widgets. Given that this is a single page web application I would like to use something like Backbone or Angular to manage the data-binding between the view and model. Does someone have familiarity with this stack?

Thanks!
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It was "the fodder for this madness", but it is now so beyond just the Drug War ending the latter wouldn't change this problem.

The actual result would be way worse for those of us who aren't part of the drug culture as the police-judicial complex would struggle to avoid layoffs. Which is also part of our problem, real crime is way down (certain parts of the country excepted), yet the authorities haven't downsized in response.
I'm looking around the internet, and seeing prices all over the place actually. $60 is the lowest I've seen, NASDAQ.com says $120, some farming websites are saying $1000-$2000, etc.
It looks they're also releasing Dota 2 for Mac:
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96877
Almost everything you do is a political statement. If you don't accept that, that's a political statement in itself. Feeling that someone's beliefs are irrelevant to their work is certainly a political statement. I mean, let's take it to the extreme: suppose an artist brutally murdered your entire family. Would you still be able to enjoy his work? Would you think that his actions are irrelevant? If you think that someone's beliefs and political views are irrelevant to their work, it simply means that they simply don't mean so much to you. That is a political statement.

Also, Roald Dahl is dead, and was, in his life, a quirky writer. Card, according to Wikipedia, is a political activist. An action against him would be quite effective, and meaningful.
Different strokes for different folks, but the gameplay always seems exciting to me because it's always human teams vs human teams. The number of hero combinations and play style variance keep things interesting, IMO.
Compliance is the main reason to purchase Dedicated Instances -- maybe the only reason at all. Amazon could always silently introduce better physical hardware, at which point they could put 2+ cc2.8xlarge instances on a physical server. I'm sure there are more m1.smalls on each 2013-era box than there were in 2007.
I've never understood the argument that somehow gang crime isn't crime that should make it to the statistics books.
similar: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/05/22/introducing-bitbucket-c...
Javascriptception
Omnipresent surveillance, more prisons, secret courts and the militarization of the police - Obama's presidency looks like a reign of terror.
Tesla Model S is from the future
It's not inherently the nature of the game. It's the nature of matchmaking.

I played HoN before matchmmaking, and it was quite interesting: you created a lobby, people would join, and you as leader could vet your teammates and kick the ones you didn't want to play with. Then the game proceeded once both sides were happy.

It took about ~10mins to get a game going, but the games were far higher quality.
> I meant virtually every linux server.

It isn't installed on virtually every linux server. It remains somewhat common, and if you're using a shared host you may not easily be able to use an alternative. In that situation, which I suspect to have been a minority situation for some years, it still makes sense to use mysql. For most of us, it makes sense to type the single line it takes for our package manager to install our database of choice.