skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never come across this. I'm able to kill my server (the one with the REP sockets), submit a form on the web page, have the HTTP request in the browser hang (that under the hood proxies to ZeroMQ), start up the server, and have the request in the browser get replied to almost immediately. But I've only been running ZeroMQ in topologies with two nodes at most, no advanced routing etc.
> I'm not one to put folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from

You are definitely putting folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from.

This was probably not ethical, but he sure could have been anyone in the world.

The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
If you're 15, then you have already received free government funded latvian language courses for 9 years in school. It's part of the curriculum. You'd have to be especially lazy to not be able to pass the citizenship exams.
There are the obvious big contenders Java and .Net which will exist in some capacity for a long time due to the volume of code running on them.

But will the web based UIs based on today's standards even work in 20 years? And will data exchange formats like XML and JSON necessary for their operation still be common enough to make the applications that use them useful?

Will the use of cutting edge web based UIs, using CSS and and JavaScript libraries like JQuery damn our users to a world of legacy browsers like what happened with IE6?
"Switzerland would never survive a modern war with a country that had these things and a trained, professional infantry."

...which is strange, because both the Afghanis and the Iraqis seemed to have made out just fine against Uncle Sam.

I'd posit that, while very flashy, your advanced weapons don't really do much for taking and holding territory. Indeed, in the modern age of commerce, those weapons so useful in an absolute war become a liability when deployed against an opponent whose riches you seek to seize.

When our country is so rich that it is economically non-viable to wage war on us using these weapons, we then ought shift back away from the military-industrial complex, because we have no need of them.
I was generalizing too much when I said they don't get any ideas from science fiction.

I really just thought the original statement, that he "gets his ideas" for "a warp drive" from Star Trek, was kind of ridiculous. The author of the article actually edited it, so I guess they felt similarly.
And how sudden the stop is.
Uniiverse releases Direct Payments so anyone can sell tickets to anything
I hope I'm not the only one missing the point of HFT.

Yes, you can make a lot of money buying and selling stocks, but what is HFT actually contributing to the economy other than paying HR costs for its employees?
Doh, some of these options seem horrible: eg, allowing the data to be extracted automatically using standard tools. If you can automatically detect hidden data, it's only hidden from people who aren't looking. If your data is worth hiding, it's worth hiding from people who know how to use "find -exec" (or had someone else set up an automated sweep program for them).
a tad on the defensive there dude
If I complied with every request like this, I wouldn't have made a single successful website. You shouldn't be so afraid to stand up for yourself. Entrepreneurs need to have thick skin and not buckle under every little bit of pressure.
I haven't enough information about the ethics of this situation so I won't comment on that. However, you exactly sound like person who "puts folks into stereotypes" in your last two sentences. Come on, even Apple's servers get compromised as what all this fuss is about, are you trying to be ironic when you judge a whole industry in a country by a security breach in one of its ISPs? If he's not a security researcher but rather a "security researcher", following your steps, what kind of position does this put Apple and the American IT Industry?
Nice read, thanks for reflecting on the process!

Did you try anything creative with the fund terms or was it pretty standard VC fund structuring? I've heard that there's often LP pushback against changing standard terms, even if the changed terms might better align LP and VC incentives. I'm also curious if LPs view investment in a micro-fund the same as they would a larger, traditional VC fund.
On the data journalism mailing list, we've had a small discussion about how Nate could be replaced by any of the other data-minded journalists...it's not because his work was simple, but Silver himself has said that his analysis is straightforward and the math is accessible...the difference is that Silver gives a damn about context and analysis In a methodological way.

He definitely brings in good writing talents and a possibly unmatched inquisitiveness...but his methods and predictive analysis aren't irreplaceable. And yes, part of the draw is the brand that he's worked tirelessly to build...but this is a brand built on verifying results...I.e. being conclusively right....if the Times were to bring in another blogger who predicts the 2014 Congressional race to a T, and explains his/her methods and shows a real love for it, I'll subscribe to that blog and not give a whit about how many years of blogging they've done.

Contrast this with the irreplaceable Roger Ebert. He was incomparable as a writer, but his brand was built on something very subjective...and thus, once he's gone, it's hard to justify going back to RogerEbert.com, no matter how great of critics there are to replace him. Roger's brand is based more on long-built loyalty...Silver's brand is more based on making verifiable hypotheses and being correct...time and time again.
It's not a great way of describing it though.

The biggest issue is that the interchange between speed and time is not linear. So that graph doesn't make sense as displayed.

At a minimum you have to understand that the time scale on the side of the graph is not linear, but rather exponential. And graphs with exponential scales are not easy to understand.

Making it worse is that there are other things that can slow down time - namely acceleration.
> Sports has traditionally been extremely negative on "stats geeks"

On the flip side, bookies have always been taken seriously.

The average sports fan might find the commentators more amusing or moving but if you ask them who has a better handle on what's really going to happen, a professional bookie or a commentator, I bet you'll get the right answer.
NASA is worth it just for the pics. Please give them more money.
More trivia than stats. That is a distinction Silver was big on in his first incarnation as sports statistician, and he got huge pushback from it. Nobody in traditional baseball commentary wanted to talk about VORP, say, and they certainly didn't want to root their commentary in solid statistical analysis. Traditional baseball use of statistics (I mainly follow baseball) has been very much of the trivia variety: this is the first time a right-handed batter has has two hits in the same inning against a left-handed pitcher while the wind is between 12mph and 15mph on a Tuesday. Not so much about backing up your opinions with solid predictive statistics.
You've got two choices as far as bootloader design goes. You can put the bootloader in a well-known location (such as in the first 512 bytes of a drive), or you can tell the firmware where to look. UEFI actually supports both, but the problem with using a well-defined location is that you inevitably have conflicts between different OSes wanting to use the same location. Boot variables are well-defined and work just fine, except in the small number of cases of vendors who have implemented something that's not actually UEFI.
Well, I don't know for sure, but in theory (as all the GSM chips are proprietary) when turned-off (but still powered by the battery), the processor can wake up periodically, check for a secret signal, then activate (send a small ACK to the tower or even turn on the microphone) once it's recieved. Technically it's very much possible.
Clone yourself a million dollar idea this year
I'm so happy Canonical is pushing this innovation. As soon as I heard about their initial attempt in mobile OS on a Atrix, I knew this is where computing had to be going.

That phone's design looks so slick too!
Hopefully lots someday. Nothing today. :-(

The Leap Motion Controller works with computers running Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8, or Windows 7 or 8. It requires a minimum Intel Core™ i3 or AMD Phenom™ II processor, 2 GB RAM and a USB 2.0 port.
They told me I'm free to distibute apps outside their store. They are some things in the sdk that are not redistibutable but I am fairly certain core libs required to run a program are allowed.
Oh look, spam
Let them clear out the dullards that wrecked it first.
Not (easily) if you can sync to your own remote location and the data is (properly) encrypted with your own private key.
That's a good question.

I haven't personally run into that problem, although I'm not sure if that's just because I don't have any duplicates or if Everpix just fixes it automatically.
Not necessarily. Yes (AFAIK) receptors become downregulated when frequently exposed to drugs, but there are some drugs (LSD is usually cited) seem to be non-addictive, people don't typically use them chronically, and as a result damage is unlikely.

Addiction and habituation are not just down to this effect either. I know a variety of people who have been both daily pot smokers and daily tobacco users. The tobacco use was far harder to stop. (I'm not going to pretend pot doesn't have some addiction potential, and in fact it does seem to have minor withdrawals, just not anywhere near the level of tobacco, opiates etc). Receptors also recover after varying amounts of time.

So I don't see why we couldn't research things that are fun, don't compel people to chronic use, have minimal impact with occasional use, etc etc. It may not be possible to make the 'perfect' drug, but it may be possible to eliminate many of the harms. Particularly where some drugs are toxic over and above their primary effect, have toxic metabolic products etc
Your third complaint can be resolved by placing the device lower than your elbow. Most people use it on the desk, which is the problem. It's not the ideal height for the Leap.

When it's higher than your elbow, your shoulder must be engaged and power all your movements. There are also many apps that map directly from x/y/z space. These can be hard to navigate. All your joints move in arcs, not straight lines.

You get to use the Leap however you want, so figure out what's comfortable for yourself.

Leap is quite sensitive. You could look for tiny flicks of the finger, for instance to create a virtual DataHand. These kinds of interfaces should be much gentler on the body than apps which require large sweeping motions, punches, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datahand
Lets not talk about that. Ycombinator is about rich people funding startups. Rich people of course like the status quo. Criticizing it, won't get you funding, but a hell ban ;-)
Really? You've never seen a pornographic pop-up advert? I'm not supporting this proposal, I just find your statement hard to believe.
That's a good point. I was thinking more about sports commentary, rather than what happens in the teams themselves, but it's true that teams have been all over statistics for years. I do think commentators, perhaps conscious of their role as public faces of an entertainment product, have been more resistant to statistics-driven commentary, and have instead played up horse-race type narratives.
Oh, absolutely. I want to carry my data around with me, and access it via whatever the best interface at the moment is -- when I'm driving, when I'm walking around, when I'm at my desk. This phone isn't for me, but I can definitely see the appeal.
So this is a rewrite of a Washington Post article? Why not just link to the original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-gr...
They stated they're working on handling pets in the comments on indiegogo.
Pointing the camera above their height works pretty well for me (I have small dogs). Creating motion detection "zones" in areas they can't go also works.
At the time it was a win for him. It gave him credibility, a steady paycheck and guaranteed lasting exposure at a time when he could have easily faded into obscurity after the 08 elections were over.

Back then he was just a novelty with a website it looked like his 15 year old cousin built for him one weekend. And one who was going to find it very challenging to remain relevant until the next election cycle.

Now he's arguably outgrown them, having become a household name to anybody who follows politics closely, become a TV personality etc - but lets not rewrite history. He definitely stood on their shoulders to get where he is today, at least for the first year or two.

And this is all coming from a pretty huge fan.
Pulse of the Alley – Eben Upton, Executive Director of Raspberry Pi
> The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

To nitpick offtopic: Is there any proof of this? That "personality charasteristics" are completely independent of any other such charasteristics? I would believe that there's some correlation between various personality charasteristics, as a hypotethical example consider "ethical" people to be more likely to be helpful/nice and "unethical" be less helpful/nice.

Not that this has anything to do with... anything but... :( Sorry!
Memory Foam Earbuds = Clouds in your ears... with a mic
Beautiful, but where does it store the sound files, and will it soon be possible to delete recordings?
Surely you can see the irony is your expression of the hope that the user is banned.
What, pray, is "SHA3 key generation"
> The permanent defense establishment is not the result of the Federal Reserve, it's the result of technology.

The permanent defense establishment is the result of Money, as is technology. The control of the issuing of currency and credit in the US is held in the hands of privately held banks. Those same banks also own the Federal Reserve and so in turn, own the US government and its spying apparatus.

Those same banks are also who all of us have to go to, be we an individual or a corporation, to get our loans. Defense contractors, farmers, students, families and the US government are all ultimately in debt to the same coterie of financial interests.

Justice Brandeis said in 1928:

"Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there are private interests, are not departments of the government. They are private corporations in which the government has an interest."

> http://openjurist.org/275/us/415

As you brought up Washington, he also said:

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

When we allowed private interests to take government, we become servants to the master. The NSA and other such outrages are just those private interests' way of keeping tabs on their inventory.

A small piece of anecdotal history re: George W.Bush's grandfather during WWI:

"In the spring of 1918, banker Bernard Baruch was asked to reorganize the War Industries Board as the U.S. prepared to enter World War I, and placed several prominent businessmen to key posts. Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies.

Bush served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (as well as of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus). In 1931, he was appointed to Herbert Hoover's President's Committee for Unemployment Relief, chaired by Walter S. Gifford, then-President of AT&T. He was once recommended to serve on the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but Hoover did not feel he was sufficiently known nationally."

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Bush#Political_promin...

When we allow private interests to take the reins of government at our expense, and allow it for generations, we end up with things like the Bush family.
Thunder Bay and Waterloo have pretty much the same population (~100K). That said, both are giant cities compared to Zeballos (population of 125): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeballos,_British_Columbia
ESPN has a ton of money (about $4.69/month from every cable subscriber in the country whether they watch sports or not, $10b total revenue), a big audience, and they could put him on ABC. They made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Sounds like the NYT did everything they could to keep him, but against money and mass audience, prestige only takes you so far, especially when a stodgy old guard is fighting a rear guard action against you.

http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/07/whyd_n...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/11/09/why-e...
Are you sure the blocking stuff has no numerical solution or reasonable analysis?

I would not be surprised if the "how to block" mini-game could be productively analyzed in a game theoretic fashion in terms of a few discrete tactics and empirical success probabilities given the tactics choices. From that data, you can compute equilibrium mixed strategies for both the offensive and defensive positions. This was kind of analysis was by economists for the determining equilibrium strategies for making/defending penalty kicks.
http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/courses/game-theor...

Of course, the blocking in American football situation is much harder to analyze/collect data for, because it's not just a 1 on 1 successfully blocked or not, but rather the outcome of the play that matters.
nagios + few licences of new relics
The New York Times Public Editor position was explicitly referred to by the New York Times as an ombudsman[1][2], and it was created in response to a massive ethics scandal. The role has nothing to do with giving the public "context".

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/business/media/31PAPE.html

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/us/the-times-chooses-veter...
How I got $50k in sponsorship money before I sold my first ticket
I think real analysis, with real data, goes a long way. It's ideology that messes it up.
Just tried mine out and am pretty disappointed. Mouse and keyboard seem pretty revolutionary after 15 minutes with the Leap.
Usually ng-app and ng-controller are written in html and body tags, so forms (at least mine) looks like <form ng-submit="submit()">

Maybe Angular is too verbose sometimes in html, but it removes hundreds lines of boilerplate code from js part.
Ibrahim Balic: I have over 100K Apple developers's user details
Silver will work for ESPN who own ventures like Grantland.

ESPN is owned by Disney who own ABC, on which Silver will sometimes appear to do some political commentary.

It's much more of a package deal than the vertical venture a lot of people make it sound like.
XNA is also dead as of Windows 8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
OVH Down. Completely.
You can survive pretty much indefinitely off of rice and beans and more than eat your fill of them for about $1 or so a day if you buy in bulk.
The files are stored in S3 so you don't have to worry about running out of space while recording.

Delete is in the works :)
Thanks. Would also love to know what you use for controlling process lifecycle.
You've limited yourself too much.

You could have a non-missionary religion (like Judaism). You could have a missionary-religion that considers humans unsuitable for conversion. You could have a missionary-religion that puts some kind of restriction that says they have to wait for some trigger event before contacting humans.

As for God why do you assume God is inside this universe? God could be causing the universe. (Like God would be the computer and the program, and we the results of running the program.)
The journey of an Adobe Air app developer
Clickable:

monit: http://mmonit.com/monit

supervisord: http://supervisord.org

daemonize: http://bmc.github.com/daemonize

runit: http://smarden.org/runit/

perp: http://b0llix.net/perp/

DJB's daemontools: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

systemd: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd

god: http://godrb.com

upstart: http://upstart.ubuntu.com
> I’m using my relatively dinky 2012 MacBook Air - it has a Core i5 chip, an SSD, and 8GB of memory.

Slightly OT, but since when is 8gb of ram plus an SSD plus a quad core machine "dinky"?
To me it looks like a ZeroMQ client can be written in many languages so you don't need to know Clojure to use it. Therefore the article has an extra barrier to entry for understanding the content because more people understand OOP languages like Java than Clojure.

I guess my point is, don't skim the article and think it's not for you because you don't know Clojure. Here's a list of languages it supports ( http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Ask-and-Ye-Shall-Receive ):

C++ | C# | Clojure | CL | Delphi | Erlang | F# | Felix | Go | Haskell | Haxe | Java | Lua | Node.js | Objective-C | Perl | PHP | Python | Q | Racket | Ruby | Scala | Tcl | Ada | Basic | ooc
You should read Silver's book; "The Signal and the Noise". There he reveals that he was a poker and baseball geek long before and much more than a political analyst. In the book he actually shows respects for both views.
I'd say traffickers are not victim of porn but victims of their producers.

It would be the same case for Nike shoes made by underage children, harvested donor parts masqueraded as ethical donations, fur mantles made with illegally hunted animals, black tuna fished from illegal waters etc. The product is not the problem, the process is to be condemned.

I understand there are some product more prone to abusive behaviors than others, and porn is not the industry with the cleanest image. But assigning the abuses on the products/industry itself is not looking at the root issues (the scumbags doing illegal/immoral things for money. They'd just do other scumbaggy things if porn wasn't worth it).

PS: for clarity, I think less stigma around porn would make it a healthier industry, and I believe there should be more checks to minimize the abuses we see today. It's unfortunate there's so many of them, and I wish porn could become a simple subset of entertainment contents in every way. For now game and anime porn would be the closest to this ideal, with people just doing their jobs in a professional matter with lesser social stigma.
It is beautiful, isn't it?
"Our impact on the universe is nil"
Absolutely correct. I used to work in this industry, and one of the 1st questions asked when we were thinking about testing a drug to treat a disease was "Does someone else 'own' this drug or do we?"

If someone else 'owned' the drug, then there was no point in pursuing it because the true "owner" would crush us if the drug ultimately proved useful in treating disease.

Interestingly, the people writing the drug patents use the same types of techniques mentioned by Joel...especially making claims as broad as possible.

The chemists that I worked with considered it an art form to be able to make broad claims that did not intersect with those of competing pharma companies.

There's a lot of bullshit that can go on w/ pharma patents, too, but the VCs would never fund a biotech startup if we couldn't defend "our" drugs.
He's been given the authority to do a lot of hiring, so I would honestly be surprised, if he didn't go on to hire some d3.js boffins.