skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the buy-to-own policy at PeepCode, too, and have had the annual unlimited subscription there for several years. I just looked up the individual plan at PluralSight and it's horrible. For 3 times what it costs at PeepCode you get much less access:

"Offline viewing allows you to cache up to 30 course modules on your mobile device. Simply choose the modules you want to watch offline and our app will cache them on your device. It's super simple. Each module will automatically be deleted after 30 days (or when you no longer have a Plus subscription) and you can always choose to delete them manually to make room for more."

They reach into your device to pull stuff off! Ugh.

No single purchases either, because they don't actually sell anything.

Here's hoping that the OSS, no-DRM, buy-to-own ideas from PeepCode take hold at PluralSight.
I've seen it worded poorly where it is stated that contestant picks door 2 and then the host opens door 1 revealing an empty stage.

The problem becomes to 50/50 if you change the rules that the host always opens the left most door not picked by the contestant.
Does DataRank use any kind of machine learning techniques or is it purely a hand coded heuristic algorithm?
What exactly was Bradley Manning trying to whistleblow about? It seems more like he just released a huge amount of classified data arbitrarily. Its hard to say that that is not treason.
he doesn't have much of a choice if he want to have his ham radio license.
I could imagine falling for the OP's landline hangup ruse, but I can't imagine falling for somebody on the street telling me to type my PIN into their phone, regardless of how they were dressed.
That seems like a severe security flaw in the phone system.
What isn't novel about this post?!
Demonstration of a monad comprehension macro in Sibilant
The problem with the software one is you need a way to modify it when you can't access the instance. With AWS you do it from the admin console or APIs. If it's on the machine itself you'd have to know the IP to open up in advance or have someone at home base do it.
I agree. A large portion of the population barely makes between 5-15k per month that is not sufficient for 3 meals a day + housing + school education. Forget surgery, they can't afford routine doctor consultation, diagnostic tests and medication. And yes, diagnostic tests are almost always done whether needed or not.
Yeah, but in the article author's case, you can't even rely on being able to do that (at least with a landline), due to the severe landline security hole regarding ending of phone calls.
Why your organization is intractably political, and how to fix it
Disclaimer: I don't have as much experience with phantomjs and the many more traditional services mentioned due to sticking mainly to jvm languages for my backends.

That being said:

I've run in to a lot of problems scraping sites with heavy javascript.
I personally use selenium with a headless google chrome for it.
http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/03/05/running-selenium-he...

Granted, there's a bit of custom logic involved at times, but it's by far the most reliable compared to the alternatives I've seen like HTMLUnit.

It's allowed me to just focus on worrying about page content rather than worrying about if something will work or not.
I think it does Snowden a disservice. He was very careful about exactly what information he leaked, and who he leaked it to.

Manning just seemed to bulk download info and release it directly to an organisation he knew would widely disseminate it without examining it. In theory what he did was better than Snowden, but in practise he endangered a lot of lives.
> Hang up, dial the customer care number on the back of the card, then dial the digits supplied by the support rep.

Except apparently to prevent this form of fraud you need to hang up, then call from your mobile, so that the "support rep" can't just stay on the line and do what the guys in this story did (fake a dial tone, make it seem like you've called the customer care number).
Yes, this is true: SIP is in Android but unless you have CPU-based AEC AGC, etc., which is for the OEM to license, and nobody worked this out with LG for the Nexus 4, it will sound like crap.

I'm still waiting for 4.3 so I can't say if this has been improved.
Wouldn't have worked in this case of UK landlines.
I like how you accuse me of hyperbole and hysteria, but at the same time use both the arguments "cars should be immobilised if there's no other way" (ie: should not be used) and "there are no real-world examples of chaos resulting from disclosures of automobile security vulnerabilities". Even theoretically, why immobilise so many cars if chaos won't result? You want to have your cake and eat it, too.

Regarding 'wholesale', in context the term just means 'non-selective' and didn't mean every brand on the road. This being said, the arrogance of "Alternatives exist" has got to be pointed out: what alternatives? If you immobilise all the VWs, how will those commuters now proceed? Rent another car? Buy another car? Some might be able to catch public transport, but hardly all.

This links back to what I said about ideal vs real world - you think that it's tenable to just take one brand of vehicles off the road, which is clearly nonsense. Even if there were no temporary fix, the real-world response to fixing the issue would be to leave the cars available to the owners. The idea that you'd even contemplate booting as a considered option is just farcical.
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I think it is arguable that the Manning verdict will only be relevant to other people who leak data indiscriminately. I know there is a giant slippery slope in all of this, but the "aid and comfort" would be very difficult to pin on, oh, let's say Snowden. He carefully picked what to leak, and who to leak to.
These can't be added "in the aftermarket." They have to be baked into the build and provided by the OEM.
Not quite. There are other uses for the law, too. Like, just setting defaults and clarifying rights.
Test-driven design
The source [1] seems to indicate that this is a tax on services, not on the software itself. But IANAL either.

[1] http://www.mass.gov/dor/businesses/help-and-resources/legal-...
It's a hand-coded heuristic algorithm with machine learning! =)
We're thinking about putting together a team from Halifax. Hopefully worth the drive!
This is bothering me, but first image is inaccurate. They were asked to memorize a two-digit number (like 17) or a seven-digit number (like 8675309). The image shows 2 two-digit numbers and 7 two-digit numbers. This is important as our working memory capacity has been shown to be about seven digits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...

It's a minor detail, but an important one.

EDIT: It looks like the image has been updated. Thanks Kathy!
Got any links\talks\papers on this as a dev group at my work just started using it.
No love for the grad students (who should probably be working on their thesis anyways). And for those of you out there...thesis while working full time is not an easy task.

Very cool though, might stop by. Is there someone who might work as a press contact?
Silk Road Trade has doubled since 2012
> easy to think of people on the internet as abstract things,

Right. You mean it then becomes easier to be a major sarcastic dick to someone who voiced an opinion quite contrary to yours?
He has not been exiled by the US government, he is in a self-imposed exile. In fact the US government has been doing everything in their power to get him back to this country, so that he can be thrown in prison as punishment for being a whistleblower.
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> What exactly was Bradley Manning trying to whistleblow about?

Seen collateral murder [1]?

> Its hard to say that that is not treason.

Really? It's so easy to kill the messenger. Not to bring in the emotional aspect of this typical power structure vs. single human issue here, but then treason would be the last word I'd want to use for the guy who uncovered killing of innocents and wrong doings of some (I think most soldiers are not trigger-happy rather good people who love peace) stupid crazy soldiers in our army (who should be behind bars instead!).

Let's not forget that we pay the bills for all this.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
From the title:

>...(like Twitter).

I think that's just an easy example the author used of a popular site that uses a lot of front-end AJAX calls to show content.
Reading inputs without using pointers is pretty complicated in C...
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Well, no. Lets apply that test to two other famous Whistleblower .

Snowden: Did he leak information he was supposed to protect ? Yes. Did he do so indiscriminately, no. He knew exactly what he was leaking and believed it would not cause damage.

How about Daniel Elsberg? Leak info he was supposed to protect. Most certainly. Did he do so indiscriminately?An even more resounding no.

Manning, on the other hand literally leaked stuff he never read and which he had no way of knowing couldn't do damage. Is that an absurd standard to apply to a random person, to a journalist even, sure. Not to people under obligations to protect classified information. Certainly not someone subject to the UCMJ.

If he had just leaked the "collateral murder" video or anything else that he had read and found damning, it would be a hell of a lot harder to argue he was reckless. But he leaked everything and is lucky that there wasn't anything in there that would have gotten someone killed.
Is anyone else wondering how a rag tag group of individuals goes from being funded by the DoD to becoming its public enemy #1? At least we know what to expect to come from syria and the horn of africa in the next decade…
Stop Phubbing
> Added cognitive load has been shown to result in reduced willpower.

Has it, though ? What has been shown is that added cognitive load correlates with reduced will power within these experimental conditions.(Edit: Response to comment below, this is wrong)

>You're making assumptions here that you have not justified: That it requires willpower to work hard and meet a deadline, as opposed to that it can be a total failure of willpower to allow things to wait that long in the first place and be motivated by stress

You are saying that it is possible for someone to do quality work in a fit of anxiety and in the absence of will power. This is unfortunately not obvious to me :(
The US hasn't executed a single person for treason since 1942. You know that, right?

I bet he's going to get off easy. 30 years with no parole. So, he can consider himself being lucky.
You're partially correct. I'd say that we tend to adopt the successful cultural adaptations of our ancestors and discard the others.

In other words, when comparing an ancient society to one descended from it, I'd expect the "successful" adaptations of the ancestor culture to be disproportionately present in the descendant. The converse need not be true.

In Taleb's example Taleb of the builder, those ancient heuristics became our tort law (and will be a part of our reputation networks in the future). He doesn't mention all the cultural adaptations we've since dropped...

So it's obvious at best, and an appeal to authority at worst.
Now I know why my dog stopped working on his Kong... he's spoiled!
Who sets a career goal of "making CTO"? Why would anyone want to do that? CTO is what they call you right before they take your commit privileges away.

The "journeyman" coders I meet all want to start their own companies. I've never met one that wanted to be a "CTO".

In NYC, I have no trouble believing there are lots of devs who want to make MD before they buy a house or start a family or whatnot. But that's something very different than "CTO".
Part of automating deployment is automating key management. Ignoring host key checks is the worst possible solution.

You're actually better off just baking a shared key into your image. So long as it's a key you generated yourself (not like this Digital Ocean scenario, where the key came from the cloud host), only someone who has already rooted one server can successfully MITM your SSH connections.

Whereas if you ignore host key checks entirely, anyone who gains control of one network hop between you and your servers can own you.
Roughly: a GC has to look at the pointers in use to see what objects are still reachable. But it doesn't have to look at the contents of strings, byte slices, int arrays, etc., because, by definition, those don't contain pointers.

For dl.google.com, the first user of groupcache, it sounds like the Go runtime was working with relatively few, relatively large chunks of memory (think 2MB chunks of a Chrome binary). Since that doesn't have so many pointer-containing objects, just big chunks of inert data that don't need scanned, it's easyish. On the other hand, something like throwaway2424's case could be a GC stress test--many gigs of RAM holding a network of small, pointer-filled objects.

Really, the tl;dr may be to prototype/measure if you need to know how a GC will do. Assumptions are easy; data is hard.
Have you considered merging efforts with Flynn?
Thomson Reuters Twitter Account Is Hacked by Syrian Activists
That sucks so much. I read her Design Patterns book when I was doing my undergrad in Electronics. The lessons in that book are somewhat of a 'commandment set' for me. Its terrible what she has gone through. Feels like hearing about a good teacher who went through a bad time.

Glad she's back. Hope she continues. Very thoughtful and excellent article.
I personally prefer to call those "pseudonymous" rather than "anonymous". A track record is effectively an uncompressed name: the salient part of anonymity is precisely that it has no useful metadata for the expected audience.

That gets highly academic about what we really mean by anonymity and what purposes we want it to serve, though, which we can get into if you want.
deym, that's messed up.

correct me.
your thought is that surveillance state enriches the pockets of those who run it by finding people to imprison?
I'm working on a comprehensive scraping tool for this. See:
http://agibsonccc.github.io/blog/apidocs.html

for the baseline functionality.

The service will work as follows:
Select some urls
Pick what you want: (People,Organizations,Locations,Books,Intervals,Dates,Emails ,phone numbers, among lots of other ones)

Hit go and download the data to a spreadsheet (each column is based on the types you specify).

The system is fairly accurate not only due to Machine Learning, backed by a huge type mapped search index based on dbpedia/freebase (other data sources are added later)

The core right now is to focus on making web based information retrieval simple (export to a spreadsheet)

I'm open to other parts of the system as well.

For example, I did experiments with the API to do sentiment analysis based on a comment thread or picking out reviews.

Note: backend is done. I'm mainly working on refinements and a bit of tuning of the NER engine (web pages suck compared to normal articles)

Get at me if you're interested, I'd love to get some feedback. Email is in my profile.
i see. do you think the people in the government are pulling the strings or is it the corporations?
It was a paper I was shown by a professor over 20 years ago. Said professor is now long-retired and I do not have the paper.

As he described it to me then, the paper presented an exact solution with an infinite bar, and then heuristic arguments that a very long but finite bar would demonstrate the same effects. The underlying mechanism is, of course, the result of a form of frame dragging.

The professor who showed it to me said that he was convinced that the math in the infinite model was correct, and was still deciding if he was convinced by the heuristic argument.

Googling quickly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett describes a similar scheme, which might even be the same one. Whether or not it is the same, the 1992 paper from Hawking that was discussed would show that the heuristic argument is wrong. However since I was shown this paper while I was in undergrad, Hawking's paper would not have come out yet, and the professor who showed it to me can not be faulted for not having found the necessary flaw.
Ya that person needs a permanent stay in a rubber padded room. If they're not there already.
Equality of Opportunity
How do I create an array?
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So then, what, in your opinion, is "the actual nature of the invention"?

There is no invention. Bounce back and pinch to zoom are creative interaction designs, not inventions at all. They are not processes, machines, or compositions of matter. It's purely harmful to the industry and innovation to assign monopolies on them.

Not that that will stop the PTO.

In the entire show, the word "claims" appeared not once!

From the transcript[1]:

"prove that he has this idea and here's how the idea works and to draw the figures for the patent and to come up with the claims."

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/t...
That's pretty neat. I understand why so many folks reject the claims here, but the observation itself is very interesting.

It certainly seems that highly successful, highly visible people (creatives, executives, politicians) tend, disproportionally, to exhibit behavioral problems (addiction, suicide, etc.) I don't know if it really is disproportionate, but if so, is it related to their exertion, or depletion, as the author puts is? Is it the visibility and the accompanying scrutiny? Maybe it's the other way around, and the underlying psychological makeup propels short-term performance.

Very interesting stuff, especially in context of burn-out.
Not to be too cynical but this really seems like a dangerous insight for people optimizing conversions. Hmm, everyone wants my product but it is wasteful/bad for me/a luxury/etc? Just deplete their ability to resist first. Ooops, someone trying to cancel their subscription? How about a nice maze of forms to get through first?

Anyway, the super cool insight of this article is the relationship between cognitive load and will power. We all knew "try harder" didn't work. Simplify everything else is a way more powerful way to manage your motivation and it makes it super clear that you can really only do a certain number of things. When your motivation turns to procrastination, it isn't some "problem" you are having, it is you simply hitting your cognitive limit for the day/week/month. Awesome.
#import <stdio.h> -> #include <stdio.h>
I am using app called Everest on the iPhone. You can set due date for the goal(dream) and break it down into smaller tasks. Its awesome.
This is not unique to Google, GPS is widely used as a time source for telecommunications and as an input to NTP daemons.
Ask HN: why is the signup form behind the submit button?
i read hacker news daily. i found an interesting article and wanted to comment on it, but didn't have an account. after a few minutes of looking for a signup form, i eventually gave up and had to google how to sign up.

i don't think this is stupidity on my part either. i assumed the "submit" button would require me to log in, so i skipped it. after all, i thought, every website has a dedicated signup form. it's gotta be somewhere.

from a UX perspective, it's silly to put the signup form behind a button that people will assume is unusable without an account.

yeah, this is a totally inconsequential thing, but it's a 5-minute fix, too. why not just make the login button a login/signup button? am i missing something?
When wars happen there is collateral damage and innocent people will be in the crossfire. We all knew this. We also already know we are fighting wars on behalf of oil companies like we always have. A lot of America's power has come from the exploitation of other countries, this is how America has functioned for at least 100 years. None of this is really unconstitutional but it is immoral.

When you join the military you are pretty much agreeing to proactively aid in this whether you are aware of the reality of America or not. Lots of information about how the US behaves is readily available.

He just released tons of classified information with very vague intent because he didn't like what the US does. This was not really a whistle blower situation because we basically already knew this stuff was happening and it isn't unconstitutional. We voted for the Iraq war because the populace is not really very smart. It is what it is though.
The name for c), assuming you harden the box a bit is a bastion host

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_host
Was it honestly more difficult to say "Reaganomics happened" than it was to say "The '80s happened"?
That's being facetious since you're now using morally questionable examples and rohypnol wouldn't fit the example of buying something that relies on willpower to stop you.

A better example would be, an exam revision/study website that affiliates themselves with energy drinks/bars. There isn't a requirement to buy the energy drinks to continue to use the app, but would be interesting to see if people are more inclined to buy the energy foods.

Alternatively a bakery/cake website, whether they can increase conversions.
It seems like there are overlapping conventions.

"null" means null but
=> is the separator instead of :
As others said, groupcache isn't useful for session storage. memcache was used for a lot of things other than caching, because it was a very versatile hammer and a lot of things looked like nails. groupcache is for when your data's immutable and bandwidth used for the most popular keys might exhaust a single memcache server's pipe.
Ok, so he doesn't like how the US operates. So what?

What exactly is unconstitutional that he is whistleblowing about here? Where are the American people being lied to?

Most, if not all of these cables have nothing to do with unconstitutional actions taking place behind the backs of the American people.
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Would you be interested in carpooling? I can obviously chip in for gas, but I've also got my G-class license, I could take a few legs of the trip. Get in touch if you're interested, it'd just be cool to meet more Ottawa devs as well :)
From what I remember it was just one person who was very persistent, but she found it troubling enough to stop.
It's not exactly a stand-alone app, but Org-mode in Emacs is pretty excellent for this. I like it because I can take text files with me anywhere (even onto a smartphone if I'm using a syncing app like SpiderOak).

Here's a link to get you started: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.html
Ooo, that's a really good idea. Presumably all the middle-ware people would already be familiar with the Bootstrap way of doing things that they could just jump right on.

I'd love to see an example of what the graphic designer was able to do with Bootstrapped HTML. Kind of like a 2013 CSS Zen Garden.
>And first dates do not usually result in land wars in Afghanistan.

Keyword: usually.
He's basically the least-sympathetic test case possible, but... the tech community is trying to set him free. For our own good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093468
I think the tension might be that looking back, we see many big (money making) operations that ran on far less than 64GB(1), but looking forward we can all think of fun hacks we can do on cheap and common 64GB machines.

It's another way of saying that yeah, that's old-world pricing.

(1 - I remember when friends told me they were real-time tracking all the telephone calling cards in a moderate sized country, with a Sun and 1G of memory.)
Do you mind if I ask where you went for such a cheap arthroscopy? I'm possibly in the market for this procedure myself, trying to weigh all the options.