skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

I tell everyone competition benefits us all. I find people railing at iOS or Android or anything else ridiculous.

Yet people persist in that. Oh well.
`frequencies` is surprisingly useful, enough to justify its inclusion into core. I once pondered why.

Consider that in Clojure, a common act transforming one datastructure into another. Typically only a few kinds: maps, sets, and some kind of sequence.

What is a highly common generic transformation of a sequence to a map? `frequencies`. Particularly since you'd only be doing this with pretty finite sequences, given the finite nature of the built-in maps. Finite here means countable. What generic, domain-independent thing would you be counting? Often, the items themselves.
Will these things be good for anything else once faster/better miners are introduced?
I'm just not seeing it. My 5-year old gaming PC, which has to use legacy video drivers, can play brand-new games which were just released at maximum settings.

I don't believe advancements in videogame technology are being held back by processor technology anymore.
On the other hand, store things on a 3rd party cloud storage provider that will happily hand everything over to the NSA whenever they ask... If it's in your home they don't have an easy interface to it, they have to physically infiltrate your residence, which costs a lot more and, presumably, will require more than a passing interest in you to happen.
Hey I have been considering the same thing, which was move to part-time work and focus on products. Right now I do full time work (mix of telecommute) with a focus on products (www.bandwave.fm) but obviously time is an issue. The other option is to freelance like you are doing, and I've run into the same kind of roadblock that you are seeing and that is... what do I really wish to offer and what is marketable at a good rate? Anyway, I'm actually leaving for Paris at the end of July if you want to meet up for a coffee that would be cool. I added you on twitter. Good luck!
rap genius is not derivative. its transformative, and therefore falls under fair use. Its also UGC, which as noted is specifically granted safe harbor under the DMCA.
I have this (http://www.amzn.com/B006W8U2WU) flash drive and love it. It's much sturdier than the typical plastic drives and has a great simple design. Unfortunately it is only USB 2.0, so I wouldn't recommend it if you use computers that support USB 3.0.
I didn't know about split(None). Thanks!
you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.
For a sys-admin job:

tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sed 's/[^A-Z][^A-Z]*/\
/g' | grep -v '^$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nrk1 | head -10

edit: I don't know enough about HN,there should be a newline after the backslash in the sed command.
If this is true then SkyDrive and Azure are toast. Perhaps all cloud storage as well.
Nokia, Please Keep Going
Given a reasonable implementation, I would expect a rise in consumption. It would of course be one time (but sustained). So industries and jobs that serviced that consumption should be able to grow, which usually brings higher pay.

Also, if inflation stayed in hand, the basic income itself would look an awful lot like a raise.
"Money" (or any currency) is just a means of trading one good for another, if there are no goods being transferred via the currency it cannot be considered a currency. That being said, if you simply hand out 3 trillion a year then you would be effectively taxing everyone by (3T/total wealth) then redistributing it does nothing because you've also taxed EVERYONE by that same amount.

To follow up my argument:

3T/16T is 25% that would be the inflation rate per year, of course each year it would increase as follows:

(3 * 1.25)/(16 * 1.25)
(3 * 1.25 * 1.25)/(16 * 1.25 * 1.25)
etc.

Of course this doesn't take into consideration the approximate 1% growth or what ever it currently is. The point remains that the redistribution of wealth will decrease the amount the currency is worth. Currency that is handed out WITHOUT something being traded for it does not apply to "currency circulation." Instead what you have is a situation where every person is taxed at about 25% and receives slightly less than that tax in return (which was used to disburse the collected taxes).

This is why NO COUNTRY ON EARTH gives out tax money to all of its citizens. It may on the other hand provide welfare checks to its needy, which again deflates the wealth of others (by inflating the currency), but keeps those poor from starving.

Hopefully my explanation is somewhat sufficient...
Hell is Other People is an experiment in anti-social media
Exactly, there is no longer a way to ignore designing your website in a responsive way. Luckily however, there are also more and more tools to design responsive websites. Check out froont.com for example.
You are welcome to congratulate yourself on your own delusions of your debate methodology.

But you've already proven to me that you're willing to throw out the baby with the bath water. You are unable to see "Feds" as anything different than an homogenous collective beast, ala the Borg. You think they all think the same, you think they are all equal. You think they're all part of some collective conspiracy out to get you.

At which point, why should I bother debating with you? Arguing against bigots never produces results. At bare minimum, you need to prove to me that your brain can handle the fact that not every person inside of an ill-defined group is identical.

Why do federal infosec security members want to go to Defcon? The same reason as any other defensive infosec professional. To learn how to defend against the latest and greatest attacks. Whether or not they are "feds" doesn't change their mission.

Until you can understand this point, you're welcome to pretend that you've refuted my point. But I'll be blunt in my thoughts about you.
IRS Exposes SSNs in Database of Public Tax Filings
Sure, I'm not saying never ever ever use Singletons, just try to limit them. Most games and apps I've seen, even well-written ones, still have a little static state floating around. The idea is just to constrain it, know what problems it causes, and be deliberate about it.
Good Design vs. Good Web Copy - Who wins?
There's also Owncloud: http://dischord.org/blog/2013/07/10/docker-and-owncloud/
I will throw out R just because it should be thrown out... there, out there, I mean.

I know, it's a terrible language, but it is a great collection of capabilities. Quintessential example of love/hate.
In this particular instance? I would have had them be less misleading about what ways Skype is and is not secure in the first place.
Hi,

I used to work for a BigPharma designing their in-house clinical trial tracking software. The problem is not so much the platform, but system integration. We had a nice system with d3.js charts plotting Pk trials after results. A scheduling system with nice Ajax calendar component to schedule daily animal dosing. A in-life component that linked up with RFID scanners to track patient vitals/conditions. A nice drag-and-drop web GUI for setting up samples for mass spec analysis. All under a phase-by-phase, wizard step-by-step platform, from study design all the way to compliance reporting. Designing the system from the ground up wasn't difficult, system integration wasn't. We even had gadgetized all of the components so that PIs/lab associates could customize their daily dashboard.

Research groups are across the globe and use different stat packages. No one is willing to give up years of work in Excel spreadsheets, Phoenix, STATA whatever. So have to build tons of import/export tools to accommodate all of the tools.

Different research groups wanted different things. We had stakeholders, e.g., PIs from different research groups come in during all of the design/review meetings. One team wanted their scheduling calendar on 'MS Project' linear style layout, another team wanted it to be on the Outlook style. We ended up building both.

Different research groups had different hardware spec's as well. Throughout the pipeline, we had a nice tool that set up samples to be analyzed for mass spec analysis. Integrating with various hardware formats and different layout's, well-templates with existing in-house assay library database/web-services took a long time.

tl,dr; BigPharma has tons of proprietary assay, compounds database/web-service, third-party statistical packages and mass spec hardware spec's that a external vendor needs to integrate with; good luck.
It is somewhat the same as raising pay, except is it not true that the average worker's pay has been flat for many years now (even those employed by corporations" while executive pay has drastically increased?

And I personally don't think the harm is in what percentage of the profits is paid to them per se, I think the more harmful aspect is the perverse incentives that are created when executive compensation is tied to short term corporate performance.
Aiming to do a lot of things and being mediocre at all of them isn't that inspiring. It basically sums up Microsoft in the past couple of years.

What they need is real focus, and it seems they still haven't learned.
what kind of faster miners are you referring to? ASIC is the best available technology
"but multiple signals can be combined" This sort of thing always worries me. With remarkably few disparate data sets you can get any result you want.
I guess mid-July and the mention of July 15th would imply the same date.

Agreed, careful wording.
A similar technique is also used in IBM's Rational ClearCase suite. It uses a proprietary networked filesystem to provide a dynamic view to users. It was an interesting attempt at a solution for version control and I'm sure that its in use today.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcase
They will keep making money, just slower.
Yes, it was extremely complex and I consider myself quite ingenious for accomplishing this breathtaking feat of ingenuity, but here's the trick;

If you disapprove of anything about a business, it turns out that you can actually choose not to support them economically. When you make this choice they lack the ability to send thugs in costume around to kidnap/torture/murder you.

Further, if enough people in a free market agree with your evaluation of that business, it will actually stop existing rather than grow larger and larger fuelled by continuously increasing external security threats and various other negative externalities provoked by the kinds of things that aggravated you about it in the first place.

Fascinating stuff. These incentives for behaviour are responsible for some amazing feats throughout history, too. When you can't just kill people for refusing to support you, you often end up needing to provide actual value.

Not always mind you, some particularly unscrupulous businesses can become joined at the hip with the state and feed from the same larcenous trough, but at that stage it's hard to actually distinguish where they end and the state begins, thus your normal actions to avoid support to the state hit this particular shambling hybrid just as hard.

That's actually the difference between state and non state actors typically speaking, one you don't get to tell you're not interested in without risk of death. Mindblowingly complex stuff I know.
He mentions one: Julia. It's still young, so not as many libraries available. But it's a very fast language designed for scientific computing.
Oooops

Non native, and even worse, self teached. Sorry (and fixed in my local gitolite).
First line says "I'm currently working as a junior physician in a university hospital"
Too bad it does not work with Leopard...so it becomes useless to me. Otherwise looked like a nice idea!
We moved from RedisToGo to Redis Cloud (Garantia Data)
RedisToGo provides Redis 2.4.x and 2.6.x only to their paid customers. Whereas, RedisCloud provides 2.6.x for both free and paid customers.
YouTube video of the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRzk08NMNo
IFTTT for iOS
It's true. While the basic income is a superior system to welfare in theory, political reality assures it wouldn't be handled in the way Friedman would prefer. It would just lay the foundation for all sorts of political redistribution, which would be very destabilizing.
Agree 100%. Humility is especially a hard lesson to learn.
Awesome. I was going to post my two line javascript version, but instead I'm going to study this. There are three commands I've never heard of there. And it's definitely time to take a first crack at awk.
Not only that, but in some countries, 14 is the age of consent.
Thanks for your hard work and for setting that up. Sounds like an awesome program. If I had more time right now, I'd love to check it out more.

I think we're on the same page here, but coming at it from different perspectives. I often have to find ways to secure as best as possible insecure systems that are already built. And I'm trying to find ways to incrementally improve systems over time so they get more and more secure.

I can't wait to deploy code until its 100% secure, or the startups I've worked for would just find someone else to do the job who wouldn't be a 'blocker'.
I'm in a similar boat... Been programming python for ages, and now working on a huge, shared "hyper-agile" (yes they really call it that) code base. It's constantly breaking, even with unit tests!

Personally, I'd love to be doing multi person large project stuff in Haskell... I can dream :-)
Everybody should be able to fly a plane, too. Think of how awesome that would be! A rebirth of the American general aviation industry; new airplane designs; solutions to congested airports.

It does not follow from that sentiment that anyone should be able to jump into the cockpit of a Cessna and just figure things out for themselves.
It is two 'champions of FOSS' but only one clear winner for us privacy-conscious users.

Long-term Ubuntu user here looking forward to retiring my Android phone for a Firefox model. I just got a Nexus 4 for my wife and for the first time ever didn't replace my phone at the same time.

If Firefox releases something a bit higher-end in the next 6-9 months I am very likely to switch.
I work for a small ISP and pretty much "run the show". Since joining the company, I've been successful in getting approval from the owners on what I feel are appropriate retention policies and such. There's still a lot to be done but my hope is to someday be running our operation very similar to how Mr. Ashdown is running his.

I think I'll sign up w/ Xmission for a hosting account for a few months (even though I have no need for it) as a show of support.
Why do you think that would be more valuable than something like Nacl?
I agree. In fact, I'm still using a Symbian phone, and the maps still work. (Offline maps are essentially the only smartphone-esque feature that I make use of on a regular basis, so I feel no need to upgrade.)
OpenStack on Ales Announced & CFP Open
Maybe. But others will be created (or made simpler), to wit: a teenager can now rent a google car (since he isn't driving it won't cost much more than an adult) which will enable him to do things like wash peoples windows (which is neither technically difficult nor especially dangerous) thus driving down the cost per window washing, enabling more people to enjoy this luxury.

Or, assuming you are right and delivery men are unemployed in great numbers which I agree is likely, then (as transportation prices plummet) there will be more jobs for packaging. Imagine that instead of having to collect your kids in day care, go shopping and the go home and cook you can instead preorder your groceries, have your Google Car pick up your kids, spend the time talking with them in the car, go to the shop and pick up your package (which will take 10 minutes at most, since you have likely already been charged when you made the order) and then home to cook, which kids you actually get to talk to and who are now a lot less stressed.

Even then self-driving cars will also create other oppertunities, because there is no reason the car has to stay in the lot until you get home. It might as well drive to the nearby car cleaner (which can be out-of the way since the time is essentially free, although the gas used is not) for a cleaning. That is more business (and it is low skilled) and better, nicer cars.
As a Microsoft contractor, I'm confused about how to feel and how to move forward. Sometimes I feel like I'll be enabling some of these practices by continuing be a contracted worker, and that this community will in part be blaming me for this situation.
bsaul, are you on windows by any chance? we're looking for some good large scale test cases for our python static analysis engine. would love to see how PTVS (pytools.codeplex.com) does on your project. thx.
Puppet vs. Chef Infographic
Blowfish is not an excellent symmetric encryption algorithm. For instance, it has a 64 bit block size, which makes it riskier to use in CTR mode and makes some ciphertext malleability problems easier to exploit.
Because SL had a far better workflow. 10.8 may have a cleaner, flatter, better-looking UI and some nice kernel features underneath, but Mission Control is a disaster compared to Spaces + Exposé.

I still dual-boot 10.6 and 10.8. I find myself in 10.8 more often now, but 10.6 is still a better user experience.
You don't need to follow people to find content - you can follow Pages, Communities, and #topics. That makes it very similar to sub-Reddits.

I can scroll through my stream pretty quickly. j/k keys work great.

Reddit isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. It augments them. Google+ is the same, it augments the things I already use.

A unique attraction for me is that when I +1 something, and later Google Search, I can find my own +1'd things very, very quickly. That's a completely unique feature.

Try to find anything you ever saw on Facebook or Reddit, for comparison.
Personally I agree, although I have had many friends who enjoyed the books romantic style, they also like Jane Eyre, Wuthering heights, Frankenstein, etc. Its just a style that I (and most) do not find enjoyable I guess.

I do however enjoy her non-fiction. Her arguments are much more concise (12 page explain her entirely philosophy as opposed to 1025 or w.e Atlas Shrugged was).
Oh, is soy a villain this week?

I'm sorry, but it's so hard to keep up with which wacked out unscientific belief about food I'm supposed to believe from day to day.
No, they are specifically built for mining bitcoin.
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Skype, which was bought by Microsoft in October 2011, worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video of conversations as well as audio

This is pretty scary. When you talk about emails, it's sort of "impersonal". But collecting audio and video data from your casual chats on Skype is a fucking break in.
Historically speaking, automation in various fields greatly increased number of jobs, productivity and quality of life.
E.U. Investigates Telecom Firms Over Internet Access
I'm curious what amazing products Microsoft is working on.
I agree that the anger should be directed at the laws, but the problem is that we are so woefully uninformed about those laws. And not just that we're not paying enough attention - these laws are being formed and executed in secret! How can you take action against something you don't know exists?
The point is that volunteer work is not going to grow dramatically and fill the void left by paid work.
5 MB only? Wow. My 12 megapixel Canon D30 used to take raw photos that were 20-24 MB in size.

The 32 GB will get reduced by the OS, I am sure.
"it's simply that is that the" wat
Congratulations to the Meteor Summer Hackathon 2013 teams
Well, did you expect "privacy" to imply that your data would not be released to the government following legal requests for it? I always assumed it meant that they wouldn't share it with other businesses, but maybe that's just me.

Analogously, if one of the major phone providers started selling information to marketers, including what times of day I made phone calls, would it be inappropriate for a competitor to create a marketing campaign around "privacy" highlighting that they don't do similar things? Would you complain that since the government can still get a wiretap and listen to private conversations, there really isn't a meaningful privacy difference?
> Every item can be valued by seeing what people would pay for it

"What people would pay for it" is a controversial quantity that can only be speculatively and uncertainly answered unless you are actually selling it in an open, unrestricted auction (even actual sale under real-world conditions often doesn't answer this, since its possible that both buyer and seller have non-financial interests which motivate the sale decision such that the purchase price does not represent the market value.) For pure interchangeable commodities with robust markets, this is less of a problem, but for many real world assets (including real estate) this is not the case.

Note that while real estate is already subject to ad valorem taxes (and other value-based policies, such as eminent domain), valuation is not at all free from contention even with those taxes as just one piece of the overall tax picture; if wealth-based taxes were the primary tax system, that problem would be magnified.

> How do you determine income objectively?

If you can value wealth objectively, you can value income objectively, since income is just a subset of the changes in wealth. The problems in income valuation are problems in wealth valuation (which is why, e.g., capital assets are valued at sale for income purposes, which becomes less viable of a solution to the problem of valuation if you aren't taxing the change in wealth but taxing the wealth in each year it was held.)
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> If anything, taxing corporations is regressive -- the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices, regardless of their income levels.

This has never seemed like a strong argument or an accurate description of what actually happens to me.

If it's true that businesses just pass along taxes, then:

1) I'd think businesses wouldn't be so concerned with minimizing/fighting taxes. What we seem to see instead is that businesses seem to be concerned they will be carrying the cost and investors seem to be worried it will cut into profits.

2) I assume that's true for me, too, of course -- presumably, I don't pay income/payroll taxes either, I just pass along the cost of those taxes to my employer. My employer, as given, just passes those costs along to consumers. Consumer just figures in the costs of goods/services and calculates their asking price for their market offerings accordingly...

So nobody pays taxes?

It seems more likely to me that rather than people "just" passing costs along whole is that everybody pays the tax by finding some economic balance between what they can/must pass on and what they can/must absorb. How much is passed along probably depends on how competitive the market for each exchange is along every cascade and how price sensitive buyers are.

> Taxing corporations doesn't produce magic money

I don't think anybody really thinks it does. The idea is to distribute the load, which taxes (passed along or not) do.