skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at eBay customer service back in the day, and this was exactly how it worked. In fact, they had automated call statistics not surprisingly. If you had calls within the average handle time (AHT), and high satisfaction and resolution scores you were mostly ignored. Managers pick a random call or two from the team, screen it, and move on. If you're struggling they're likely to listen to your calls and give you advice. If you're doing well, they tend to pull a call and analyze it in a group meeting for others to pick up your tricks. The managers at eBay at least (and Apple I suspect) are only concerned about their overall team statistics.

Many managers think fear works to improve stats.
> The government is currently trying to push a bill forcing ISPs to provide opt-out pornography filtering, however this is an issue that fails to address any real problems.

My writing is lousy. It would have been nice if someone had grammar checked this before it was set up.

> even though the filters are easily (even trivially) circumvented.

Petitions of this type force a debate in parliament. The above line will be answered by Cameron (or similar) saying "We are confident that the filters can not be got around"; he has already said that.

As well as signing this petition please write a short letter to your MP and ask them to oppose this stupid filter, with short clear examples of why it's stupid. If you only chose one thing to do write to your MP instead of signing this petition.
Sometimes I think that obviously ridiculous patents like this are a good thing. They're so absurd that they're nearly satire, and satire is often an excellent critical weapon. How out-of-control does the system get before judges and lawmakers clearly see that it's not operating as intended? Not much further.
what about python?
If you're going to summarize, don't leave out the entire section on the tool chain. Jeeze.
Then it seems, we're basically on the same page.

Watering down is unacceptable. No argument here. What I do appreciate though is that advanced topics can be made reachable with a step stool, at least at first, before the full rung up the ladder.

That "being okay" with not fully understanding a concept grates me to no end too.

It's honestly incredibly condescending. That said, there are ways to be more clear without being condescending and without accepting that "okay" is good enough.

Take that math, for example. I've lost count of how many people I've run into who hate Calculus and the like because "it's so hard!" This tells me that the approach to teaching it was all wrong. I hated math too, cause it was big and scary, until I came across and awesome teacher who actually sat down with me and went over the basics with very careful attention to the language she used. There are approaches to teaching like this online I'm sure, but they're very few and far between.
If there was a 0% tax in Monaco, there would be no way to fund public healthcare. In reality, employers are required to contribute to the CSM (Caisses Sociales de Monaco) for each employee. That's a tax.
Luvit – Node.js-like Asynchronous I/O for Lua
Some of k's magical powers come from mmap

> That's something which should be marginally faster when it's faster,

No. If used properly, it is crazy faster.

Let's say what you need from the data is element no. 1821942 in the stream.

Hadoop standard: read & deserialize & discard 1821941 items (just so you can get to the 1821942nd item). read & deserialize and use one item.

K standard: (equivalent to): seek directly to element 1821942, read it and use it.

except .. K does it slightly faster than that, using mmap: It just accesses the location for this element in memory. If it is not in memory, then the operating system will arrange for it to appear in memory in a way that's usually more efficient than read. If it is already in memory, then it is exactly one memory read.

Now, if Hadoop & friends stored their data in such a way that you could do a random access read (and used a read syscall) then mmap would _still_ be about 1000 times faster than a read() call for access if the datum is already in the o/s buffers.

The magic is not that K can read stuff faster -- e.g., it can't read a hadoop stream faster than hadoop can. The magic is that K makes it easiest to just store your data in a random-access mmapable way, so that mapping the data back in takes ~10ms, and from then on, you only pay for the data you actually use without having to explicitly read it -- and usually, you pay less than you would have paid if you explicitly read it.
Warmer air holds more vapour than colder air, so there's less condensation to be had. I can't say what the extent of that is, but there is a form of feedback there.
The title's of patents are often misleading. Also, prior art allows this patent to be easily (and cheaply) fought in a lawsuit
I do have too many to maintain but there is such a thing as them being "done". Projects don't have to be active to be useful, plus it's open-source, I'd rather keep them around for other people to fork/leverage/maintain than delete them to make way for new projects. The real problem are the subjective ones like Jade/Stylus where the scope is limitless and everyone has a different idea of what they should have.
http://code.google.com/p/june-language/ (java+python)
http://code.google.com/p/j-rest/ (meta: api creator)
https://code.google.com/p/szl/ (google data project)
http://luvit.io/ (nodejs for lua)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sisal/

http://zenlang.sourceforge.net/index.html (in dev)
http://ufo.wikispaces.com/ (in dev)

Ok, the last one is a joke, but worth sharing, haha really funnny how people spent their time

http://code.google.com/p/penor-programming-language/ (a joke?)
"Mental illness" can be induced by outside pressure. There are circumstances under which anybody would crack.
For those unaware, the German President is the baby-kissing, ship-christening figurehead, with largely ceremonial duties. His or her job is to sympathize with the people, save for a few real "reserve powers" in case of emergency. The German president is the one that gets to say all sorts of things that career politicians cannot say, and because of this its essentially a end-of-career political position.

The chancellor, currently Angela Merkel, is the position comparable to the United States president.
Contemporary money is certainly equivalent debt, but in the long run historically, debt has been private debt. Keeping in mind that for much of modern history, any form of lending was considered "usury" and generally relegated to corners of society.

There is a difference between money that is based on savings and money that is based on debt. Money that is based on savings is net, an exchange for services that have already been rendered. Money that is net based on debt is net, an exchange for services that are expected to be rendered. One of these paradigms is subject to painful corrections as a result of counterparty risk; the other paradigm treats unexpected failures as a sunk cost.
I would guess the expenses are charged to the private party in the meetings you care about. This measure would probably only make some spicy meetings more frugal :-)
For what it's worth, we did the free premium trial in June. Over 14 days, we received 11 emails from the folks at StatusPage--some about getting started, some (too many) just their regular email blasts, some to say our trial was ending. Eight of these offered an unsubscribe link, which is appreciated, but the default should not be to spam the shit out of potential customers.

I know I've seen other threads on HN and elsewhere about finding the "right" number of emails to inundate your trial users with, so I hope you guys are experimenting with this and tracking what works and what's turning people off.

Still, seems like a solid product that does what it says, and overall we didn't convert because we already had a solution in place that we're comfortable with. Good luck.
What scientific claims does the article make that you think we believe?
My guess is the headline used to be a question. Either that, or the parent accidentally clicked the wrong reply link, or (unlikely) the comment got assigned to the wrong parent by the HN software.
And I'll hold your money. Bitcoin, anyone?
Ask HN: What is Hyperion "3-d dust continuum radiative transfer code"?
Here's the project: http://www.hyperion-rt.org/

I really want to understand what it is, but honestly it happens rarely that I understand nothing, I mean like really nothing.. this stuff raised my interest!

Can someone knowing physics please explain it?
> You do realize that the "symptothermal method" is simply "don't have sex during the part of the menstrual cycle that results in babies"?

Yep. Did you read the post?

> Apps exist to track the menstrual cycle already.

Of course. But they don't actually implement algorithms to automatically determine the fertile window (what we're doing).

> Plus using hormones to modify the menstrual cycle has other known positive side effects (such as, avoiding a week or more of severe cramping in some women).

But do these benefits outweigh the costs of increased rates of cancer, blood clots, and stroke? Clearly there are pros and cons—and individual women should make the choices best for themselves—but science shows NOT using hormones to be emphatically safer.
I've recently started reading Applied Cryptography. Should I give it up in favour of some other alternative? For example "You Bright And Risen Angels" does not look like the one.
K answers quite a few of these (multiple args, multithreading, network built into the language, and automatic SSE/AVX use to name a few).

K4 is a much simpler and smaller language than APL - and yet the programs come out simpler and shorter, and usually much faster. Unlike APL, it can be tokenized and parsed in advance -- meaning that, at least theoretically, a compiler can be written. Arthur's implementation is a bytecode virtual machine, but AFAIK there is no type inference there.

e.g. there are only 3 conceptual data types in K4: atom, list=array=vector, and dict. A matrix is a vector of vectors (what APL would call a nested vector), vastly simplifying APLs nested and axis operators.
Bollocks! Ok, if one has to defend against this patent, how to go about it?
I agree with what you said, just wanted to add an aside about privileges:

You can set up a situation where a team has shared access to a particular folder, and install the necessary programming tools there.

ie, set PREFIX to /projects/MYPROJECT or similar, and then grant access to that directory to everyone on the project team.
Hate to break it to you, but that sounds more than adequate. I would choose differently if given the choice, but it's not a valid excuse for pausing 3 minutes to generate a job number by quite a long shot.
Building a high-efficiency brushless motor isn't particularly hard - especially if you're happy to consider "reusing/repurposing components from readily available 'junk'", or buying kits like this:

http://www.customcdr.com/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?usr=51H817...

(I've built both kit versions and "from scratch" motors built with parts ratted from cd rom drive motors with a few bucks worth of rare-earth magnets.)

Building your own controller for it is somewhat more challenging…
Haha yeah we used to send waaaay to many emails. We're now down to 6 over 20 days. Sorry for being overbearing the first time around. When we personally reach out, there isn't an unsubscribe link but as far as I know, all of our automated emails have them.

Email is something we definitely need to experiment with more. It can be an amazing tool when used for good.

Thanks for the feedback.
The introduction here might give you an idea:

http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/~kw25/research/montecarlo/book....
The purpose of the GPL is to bring freedom to the users and to discourage the use of proprietary software. The whole article postulates that proprietary software is acceptable, which is why it has no context. The GPL was never relevant to proprietary software developers because their goal is to restrict their users.
It would have been more honest to talk about how they increased their conversion rate from N% to M%, this we increased our good rate by Y% or decreased our error rate X% is the oldest trick in the book for academic papers (one that is likely to earn one a well deserved beat down by the PC).
Have you seen better discussion than the link provided by the OP? http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperlo...
Also for flash http://www.enounce.com/myspeed
Do you have a way to download my entire iMessage history including content? I don't care about who I chatted with (I already know the answer to that) but what I would like is a text-format archive of the content of all the texts, for sentimental reasons. My own texts, so no privacy issue here. That would be a really great app in fact, if you are open to pivoting...

Also does this work in cases where the backups have been pretty spotty?
It seems odd to criticise this article for not being intellectually rigorous enough, when there is so much dross posted every hour.

The article gives plenty of caveats.

Is there anything factually wrong in the article? Or is it that you disagree with his hypothesis? Or is it simply the lack of cites?
Tailing someone on a public road is a very old principle as well, but that didn't matter Alito and the other three justices who joined with him in the Jones concurrence. He found that 24/7 monitoring for 28 days on public roads only with a GPS device constituted a search. I don't think the FBI did anything wrong here, but you're drastically oversimplifying what surely is an un-litigated issue. The fact that a GPS device was so much cheaper than 24 hour surveillance via a tail car is what Alito's concurrence hinged on, despite the fact that the monitoring was exactly the same.
I'm going to read about BOOM later, but can you give an executive summary about why that is?

People who subscribe to the Relational Database dogma often claim that sets are superior to vectors, and yet despite asking a lot of them I never received an example -- whereas I have numerous real life examples in which vectors are superior.
We indeed have a similar list. Habit had slipped from my memory. I really wish Cyclone gets resurrected. There was quite a bit of discussion on HN when its closure(no pun intended) was announced. You may like digging into Felix.

Apart from this family the other I have been window-shopping on is the high performance/productivity family, consisting of the likes X10, Chapel and Fortress. Thanks to Oracle, Fortress is now abandonware.

Off late I have been quite disappointed by this trend in HN to be very hostile to things that I would consider to be the very distinguishing traits of a Hacker. Now it seems some people here compete to jump over the other to complain against things that encourage/facilitate or are meant for tweaking, learning, exploring and breaking: all things that I consider the very essence of hacking. Case in point, recent discussion on Gentoo.

The behavior reminds me of a bunch of desperate and wannabe Pink Floyd fans we had in college, who would jump to rally the crowd to disco to the opening strains of Another Brick in the Wall, much to our bewilderment but apparently to look cool.

There is always Java, if you are happy with it, stay happy with it.
If you're upset about Tsarnev then you either didn't read that article or get the point. The photo they used was a real one, it wasn't doctored, the point of which was to ask the question of how this seemingly intelligent, non-extreme, all-American looking boy could become radicalized and become involved in a terror plot. That article was an example of the kind of real journalism that's lacking in this country.

Rolling Stone has for years now been a great source for good journalism. It's not just a music magazine and hasn't been for a long time. They've been doing a lot of good investigative reporting for at least the past ten years that I know of and maybe more.

You may not like what you read but the fact that it came from Rolling Stone is totally irrelevant. You want sources? Read the article. They're in there. You want citations? Read an academic journal. What magazine or newspaper that you know of puts citations for every little thing in their articles? None. Because they're not publishing academic papers. If no source is valid without the citations you require then no magazine is a valid source by your logic - logic that's flawed.
Yeah, just take them with a grain of salt until you actually read the issues/pulls. Often it's silly things like "support coffeescript" etc haha, but otherwise that's a decent way to gauge a project
A little known fact is that Haskell's motto was to "Avoid Success At All Costs", i.e. that a long development cycle was incredibly valuable for a language. It takes a long time and much experimental use for features to settle into a good configuration. Rust will suffer from poor adoption for a long time if they wait on that. Rust will also be a better language for it.
>'tsapp me

rolls off the tongue better for me...
Dark Snow Project
Ubuntu Edge Chart
https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona is an open source implementation of K3.2

(Though note that the most recent version of K, K4, is a much cleaner and simpler language - I'm not aware of an open source version of that)
It is a good idea neh? There is plenty of affordable labor to soak up in our own backyard.
Moai: The mobile platform for pro game developers
He can still veto any law though right? Does that happen?
There is no other way to do this, in this case they're maintaining information about the quantum properties of the beam (entanglement, etc.), which get destroyed if you convert it to electricity. When talking about quantum cryptography or, in general, quantum computing (as in "computations that are performed using the fundamental quantum interactions between particles"), the particular photons are indeed very important :)
Because the limitations on power apply to everyone. If neither you or I have power, then neither of us have control over the other. We both stand on the same ground.
They should start using that against patent trolls.
> I think you're right, which of course makes the entire statement a tautology. "The NSA has assured me it's not legal to do anything that's not legal." Thanks for sharing.

That's true for the vast majority of law enforcement though.

The police have the technical ability to pepper spray you, or arrest you, or shoot you. It is compliance with policy and legal requirements that (generally...) prevent them from not shooting you, not a technical safeguard. It's policy/legal safeguards that prevent the local health inspector from arbitrarily shutting down your restaurant. NSA analysts get held to policy as well; there have been analysts caught looking up information on ex-wives, for example, and fired for cause, so while an analyst may have the technical ability to task PRISM inappropriately, it's not an unlimited ability.

Do I think that PRISM should have better technical safeguards on it? Absolutely, if only because it's easy enough to do, and the system is way more powerful than what a random county sheriff might have available to them. But I wouldn't read any more sinister connotation into the current level of safeguards; even nuclear weapons can be disabled by only 2 compromised missile techs, so this level of protection seems pretty ordinary for government work.
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It choked my Mac mini. Tens of thousands of CPU's around the world are roaring to this web page, causing enough global warming to melt buckets of ice. BUCKETS, I TELL YOU!!
And Chinese are the other half.
"Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated."

http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastpolicy/a/bush-war-on...

The War on Terror is a perpetual war by design.
Expect a lot more: the banana for example that had it's reportedly most tasty variant (Gros Michel) gone extinct in the last century. The variant you are buying today (Cavendish) is under great strain and is likely to go down the same route.

Species have been disappearing long before humans existed, there is nothing new here. We have always developed close cultural ties to what we eat, this made changes expensive. Hard to imagine a world without orange juice, bananas, plum fruit or a tasty tomato. Our ancestors lacked the tools to prevent losses. We have it and this only makes the loss more painful.
It models light (and other radiation) interaction with dust clouds for astronomy modeling. Think of a pool table with some balls on it, then shine a laser on one of the balls and move it about a bit. You would expect reflections and if you moved the laser around enough you would eventually be able to figure out the positions of the balls from observing the reflections. Now imagine it in 3 dimensions instead of 2, with tiny specks of dust instead of large smooth sphere - like the dust clouds that drift through space, affected by light and other sorts of radiation from stars. This provides a means of simulating those clouds and the results of such simulations are useful to compare with observations from telescopes and satellites and help astronomers to guess what they are looking at.
Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction (2010)
It's not a reaction. It's a well-planned mission to make hundreds of billions of dollars by scaring the population with relatively trivial terrorists acts into spending said billions without much resistance on the weapons and programs nobody really needs.
The discipline involved with writing safe C++ code is somewhat different from the discipline involved with writing safe code in some dynamic language.

In C++, it's mostly just a matter of understanding the language features you're using, and then avoiding ones that can be harmful in some cases, often in favor of much safer alternative approaches.

The C++ compiler will still catch many other types of problems at compile time that wouldn't necessarily be noticed (assuming they even are noticed by the developer(s)) until runtime when using a dynamic language. The safety net offered by the C++ compiler may not be cast as wide as that of Rust or Haskell, but it's still there, and it does catch many common issues.

And I think it's wrong to say that Rust and Haskell don't require discipline; they do. It's still easy to write inefficient or unmaintainable code in those languages, for example. You still need to know what you're doing, and how to use the functionality that they offer, in order to avoid problems like that.

Now, the discipline needed when using a dynamic language not only includes the discipline needed when using C++ (that is, "don't do stupid stuff"), but it also includes not making trivial mistakes like typos, or missing some changes when refactoring, and so on. Much, much more discipline is needed when writing code in dynamic languages.

That is the kind of discipline that can be automated away to a very large extent, however. Personally, I do think it's silly and wasteful to willingly take on responsibility for ensuring that sort of discipline for anything but the smallest scripts. So, yes, I will speak out against it and those who suggest it's acceptable, especially in larger systems.