skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help noticing that the article lacked a study of the sort where they parked an open convertible with a MacBook in the back seat in several high-class neighborhoods and in several federal housing projects and measured mean time until theft. How might those numbers look, and might they be plausibly interpreted as saying something about ethics or greed?

Or maybe a professor could divide his undergrads randomly into two groups and send them one at a time for a 10pm stroll through either a high-class neighborhood or a housing project, keeping careful statistics of how many in each group have their money taken from them by violent means. Could differences in willingness to violently rob others be construed as saying something about differences in ethics or greed?

Of course the second study would never pass the research ethics board, but that's okay because, as it turns out, the police keep mountains of such statistics from the natural laboratory social scientists are supposed to be studying. Data on per capita "theft from vehicle" by neighborhood, per capita robbery, and so on, are easily available and could be incorporated into the study, except that...they wouldn't support the desired conclusion, making the study less helpful for promoting other agendas.
it has a terrible interface and basically one mantra (you should index invest) but http://www.bogleheads.org/ has a very active investor userbase.
In the negative sense of the word, 'populist' is often used to suggest that 'the people' have been manipulated into promoting something that is actually not in their best interest.
The policy is probably just a justification for canceling accounts after they get the first complaint; if you never generate a complaint they'll probably never notice.
Because they would have to get student status and undertake a two year residency, and then take the US medical board exams, and then come over on a H1B and work in a regular hospital (once they'd found one to sponsor them) and then get a greencard so they could work on their own and by then, maybe 10 years after they left India, they would probably be perfectly happy to continue living at the same wages instead of massively cutting their prices.
The way I understand it is that my internet traffic is like a little dog that wants to get from my yard to Netflix's yard to play. To do that, the poor pup has to cross 6 other yards to get there. Some of the yards are nice and friendly with pretty flowers to sniff along the way.

Other yards are owned by mean people that don't want to let the dog through unless it's owner (your ISP) pays them more money. If the owner doesn't pay more money, the mean yard owners will make the pup sit there and wait for a long time until they say it's okay to go (LAG).

And sometimes, the mean owner have so many dogs waiting in his yard, he decides to throw them into the street, where they are never seen nor heard from again (packet loss).

Most people could definitely change ISPs and avoid the troublesome vendors their ISP is currently peered with but I live in a town (low population) and unfortunately Comcast is about as good as it gets.

One way to get around it is to route my traffic through a proxy to bypass the troublesome vendors but that would degrade my bitrate which is frustrating since what I really want is to just get what I am paying for 50/mb and wish the internet providers would just work it out.
That's not a particularly critical analysis. He's not arguing that the experiments were bad, but that their findings should be interpreted carefully and in the light of the literature as a whole.
Most of the value of testing comes from giving yourself a use case for the APIs you're building, forcing you to think about what the interface should be in a real way. The actual testing of behaviour is almost a side effect.

(It's certainly not a tooling deficiency as there are tools that allow testing private methods in Java. IME the best developers make an explicit choice not to use them)
Of course, but these are ends on the spectrum, it's important to find the happy medium.

One of the biggest downsides of taking on a lot of technical debt is that the cost tends to be indirect and diffuse. And that's the sort of thing that organizations find it easiest to ignore. It's only when the pain becomes acute and obvious that it tends to be addressed, but by then the cost of addressing it is often several orders of magnitude higher than it would have been if it was addressed at a more appropriate time. This can cause a severe stoppage of development velocity and has doomed a sizable number of major projects and products over the years.
Indeed. They will leave unless you can identify talent and ambition for decision making and move them to such a position.

I also think companies of today must have a "ycombinator" division that encourages entrepreneurship. Like google ventures but for employees. It should be trivial to get into without having to get into insane amount of documents and proposals. Something like:
- people that have been for 3 years can apply for "ventures" with an idea
- give people real funding
- they get to use all resources of parent company
- absolutely no interference from the parent company for like 1 year or something. I think you will find that if people don't have interest in their idea, they will just come back to join parent company and do normal jobs.
This website aggregate all the free videos courses aimed at developers
The 2014 BMW i3 electric car makes its worldwide debut
The problem with that being that you redefine the unpack function every time a tuple is created. The this._NAME = VALUE; may look awful but it's more efficient.

You are just relying on your users to not abuse _ prefixed variables. It's far from ideal.
I had always looked to the OSI model as a _frame_ thought which a communition channel can be analysed. If I intercept my internet cable, I assume I can idealy measure the signal and fit it on the 7 layers of the OSI model. I fail (honestly) to see how that is a failure, as seems to be the starting point. Isn't the OSI model _one_ way to look at a medium?
IOS 7 beta points to fingerprint sensor in iPhone 5S
think about Google Analytics tracking script
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Especially receiving bitcoin would be hard to detect. You can receive bitcoins without owning a computer. Wallet on pendrive or in encoded attachment to some email on your email account is enough.
Ask HN: I can't think straight, my life is in limbo, and I want to end it now
I have absolutely no idea why I am still posting this right now.

Maybe I am just less resilient than most people. Maybe I am sick mentally. Maybe I just don't belong.

For the past 20 years, my life has been a joke. I live in B.C, Canada. A few years ago, I traveled 21 hours by plane to see what my father looked like. He didn't want me, didn't even call me his son. My 9 cousins and 3 aunts/uncles don't know I exist. My grandmother died without knowing I existed. My mother and I have moved 30 times, and I've been doing my best to help provide for our lives.

I made the first big mistake of my life and gave up a full scholarship to law school because I wouldn't be able to provide for my mother. I dropped out of college after 1 year so she (being at such an old age) could have a decent standard of living, and see her happy for once in her life.

Then the second big mistake. I took a massive mortgage and dumped all my savings into this apartment, simply because I knew it was my mother's lifelong dream to have a place of her own and move no longer.

29 days ago, I made a third big mistake. I quit my full-time web development job, because the PM (who had authority because of the messed up hierarchy of the company) decided I was not 100% committed to the job because I was not pulling 80 hours a week (like nobody else in the company) and did not bother to update my LinkedIn profile while I was there. It was impossible to reason/discuss these things with him, and so I quit. I quit with a massive mortgage and a mother to feed despite knowing full well it would be a bad idea. I quit a job without having another one lined up. I quit because my ego couldn't take being taken advantage of.

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I think I'm in the minority, but I'm happy to see C++ in a college course. I thought it was all Python and Java these days.
So, invent new things, just don't get anyone else to use them. Got it. Please surrender your lightbulbs immediately.
You can trademark using a round M for burgers, but that doesn't get you the trademark for banks. Witness Apple Records and Apple Computers.

In this case, the products/ideas are straight-up competitors.
Right, either they sell you the required item, or the gameplay becomes so difficult that the paid powerup is the only way to feasibly win. I don't know about "drawing money from the rest of the eco-system", but a lot of games use this structure now, so it is changing how games are made and sold.
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yeas, A/B test price brackets.
The root of the confusion here is that iphones are a lot smaller than most android phones. I'm holding a blackberry bold right now, and pinch with two fingers while holding the phone with three works just fine and is plenty secure.
There is a lot of research in the Computer Vision literature on this topic and its generalization. One particularly prolific researcher on the subject is Jan Koenderink[1].

Or search for "Shape from Shading" or "shape from occluding contours"

[1]http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/readings/koenderink-perce...
If your language allows you to encapsulate state properly even within an inheritance hierarchy then that makes it a lot more possible to let users upgrade safely. Anyone who's had to upgrade a large codebase using Rails or Django knows how much trouble it can be; contrast that with upgrading Wicket which is a wonderfully smooth experience.
Sitting is the new smoking - Even for runners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmunity

This is simply an unusually explicit example of how the current copyright system harms everyone, including its own advocators.
I've been voting against her every chance I have because of her 2a views.
Maybe we're using different terms or definitions here --- but for me "volume rendering" is a clearly separate domain from "extract spatial information from 2D imagery"..
IOS Common Terms in 12 Languages Glossary
This multilingual glossary has 300 entries of the most common buttons and texts of any iPhone app, translated into 12 languages for easy copy and pasting into your app.
A note: corps is a military term for a group of multiple divisions of troops. That's how I read it initially. Before I realized you meant "corp's".

Be careful with your abbreviations.
I'm at risk of losing out if I have to go through 20 pages of documentation and compare line-for-line against Bootstrap rather than the creator going "we decided not to just re-skin Bootstrap primarily for reasons A, B, and C".
Thank, I will check it out.
Common Lisp also has an interesting history with regard to copyright, which resulted in the HyperSpec. I can't find the history here, but someone (KMP maybe?) wrote about the discussion when it came time to transfer the copyright to ISO.
Thank you, I had never heard of bogleheads.
The pricing model is a bit confusing. Does the $99 fee cover just one issue or does it cover the cost to publish the app itself?

What about issues after the first one? Do they cost an additional $99 per issue?
It came from the 4chan side.
assuming somekind of google glass attached to a giant world wide data storage. Could it be compressed? (which got me to thinking about compression and the larger the size of the data stored the more likely the chance of larger and larger streams being duplicate. How many parts of the image do I have to store of my desk. Also, could we limit it to interesting moments(how many times do I have to record me eating cheerios in the morning.)
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A friend of mine has a colleague that deliberately uses C++ in an introductory CS class to "thin the herd" of students he has to teach.
Introducing iWork for iCloud
Just received this email from apple:

Dear Developer,

We’ll soon be introducing a new and exciting feature to iCloud. It’s called iWork for iCloud and it’s a suite of apps — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote — that make it easy for anyone with an iCloud account to create and edit great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right on the web.

We’d like to invite you to be one of the first to try it, so we’re giving you early access to the iWork for iCloud beta. All you have to do is sign in to iCloud on a Mac or a PC using the current version of Safari, Chrome, or Internet Explorer. Then just click on Pages, Numbers, or Keynote and you’re off.

We’re really proud of these apps and we’d appreciate your help in making them as great as they can possibly be. So we’d love to hear your feedback as you use them.

Sign in to iCloud.com to get started with iWork for iCloud today.

Sincerely,

The iWork Team
When trying to create a secure network, you're constantly going to be dealing with tradeoffs between enabling communication, and ensuring you can actually talk with people.

You're right that iOS isn't a completely secure OS.. But using a secure app on iOS is better than using regular SMS going through AT&T.

Perfect is very difficult to achieve here- Most PCs have nonfree a BIOS, and even then, many CPUs can be updated by encrypted updates from the manufacturer.

It very well might be possible to ensure that your machine isn't vulnerable... But you're not going to have many people to talk to.

I think the tradeoff for having an iOS app is worth it. It puts the users of the iOS app (and those talking to them) a bit more at risk, but doesn't compromise the whole network.

Let them make that tradeoff. It's better than talking to an empty room.
Going against the grain of most advice to boot-strappers of course!
Actually, good js implementations (like v8, for example) will only create one code object shared by all the unpack functions, with separate closures assigned to each. And since closures can (usually) be statically determined, they can use an offset lookup for the closured variable in place of a hashtable. So it's not quite as inefficient as it looks :).
Thanks for replying to a strawman version of what I said.
While this incident is entertaining, as the article points out, more often it is damaging to the "offender" of an errant takedown. DMCA takedowns are filed under the condition of perjury, I don't understand how a. you can meet the review standard for perjury in an automated fashion or b. how there isn't any punishment for those who file errant DMCA takedowns especially in an automated fashion.
Truly spoken like someone who has never written iOS programs. Some iOS programs are actually truly inspiring and I know of many people who haven't gotten into that market because it's too competitive (programming wise).

FWIW, I know my x86 assembly and am not an iOS programmer. But I have huge respect for good iOS programmers. Some of those apps are phenomenal.
High court bans publication of car-hacking paper
Love this approach - reminds me of how buffer did it - http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

Are you planning to do any spend as I didn't see any pixel's on the page as you should be cookie pooling users just in case you do want to retarget them :0
For a second I thought you guys were going to compete with Shopify and Fab, etc!!! :D
That it will do.
Here's a related link just 5 days ago.

Server host OVH warns of 'multi-stage' hacking attack.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/23/top_server_host_ovh_...
I attend Texas A&M University, and maybe it' just because Stroustrup works here, but all of my programming classes are C++ based. I have to learn Haskell this upcoming semester, I'm slightly worried about that!
I moved onto the digg reader (digg.com/reader) before TOR crashed when they were just really really sluggish. The digg reader is close to as fast as Google Reader was.
The lab's website has some interesting information. Looks like they are researching ways to add integrity to the civilian signals.

http://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/
Also, this is the same judge who claimed "Samsung is not as cool as Apple".
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The answer is right in the article: they just simply don't want to. They don't want to be entrepreneurs. They don't want to build a company and hire people and run a service that has hundreds of thousands or millions of users.

You may disagree with that, but, well... that's their call to make, not yours.
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File for unemployment. Find another job. If you are a developer, you will find a new job in a snap.
Let me know if you're ever in utah and want to play a round.
The mechanism by which patents work, though, is by (temporarily) banning competition.
What I'm feeling is that the large majority of students don't even know it's an option.

Honestly, at that level it kind of isn't. If you don't agree, you probably also think that high schoolers would benefit from starting businesses, which suggests more that you're a businessman among engineers than that engineers should be learning to run businesses. There are two sides to a successful startup, business and technical, and post-bubble you probably don't have the technical side fulfilled as an undergrad. Failing because you have a half baked implementation looks a lot like failing because you didn't find the right customers, so now you learned the wrong lesson.

The second time around, you'll make damn sure there are customers before you build.

This means your first startup was wasted because you weren't even thinking about the most basic aspects. You didn't learn anything other than that you started off clueless, which a mentor would have saved you from.

I'd argue it's a very valuable experience, and you even if/when you fail with that first startup, you come out with a tonne of skills and valuable insight.

You'll learn a lot from a failed startup, but I don't think that you'll learn as much as if you worked for a startup instead. Learning by direct experiment is less efficient than learning from someone else's mistakes, which is the whole reason you're at a university to begin with.

You would probably be better served by a weekly study of actual startups - how they began, what they created, how they ended, and invite local founders (business and technical) to speak. Combine that with a non-profit technical project that delivers a product and tracks adoption but avoids the requirements of profitable business and you'll impress the community while building a résumé that will help you raise VC when the time comes.

Anyone can throw pasta at the wall; Tech can do better than that.
I was thinking about this the other day, in that since the photovoltaic effect is a probabilistic thing (you need your photon to be absorbed so that you can spit off an exciton), if you had transparent cells you might be able to boost your efficiency by creating a light trap with mirrors to bounce them through the cells 10 - 20 times and thus increase the chance that they generate an exciton by that much.
IIRC, it's supposed to be set exactly equal to pi upon Knuth's death.
This. And if you want to extend, encapsulate.
Hazelcast is incredibly buggy. Avoid at all costs.
Another good paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awf/turntable/...
Create a spiral straw from two trips, like a candy cane. One strip turns one color in the presence of Alcohol and turns darker the more it detects - and the other strip turns a different color in the presence of anything else that you want to detect for.
OVH used to be one of the top host provider.
Last year they removed the unmetered bandwidth and now TOR, VPN too ? (it's unclear to me).
What's next ? no HTTPS, European traffic only ?
seriously this sadden me, lucky for us Online.net is a good challenger.
Will Uninkd offer any sort of marketing capabilities?

I can see problems arising since Uninkd essentially owns the app but is licensing use of the publishing platform. This leaves the author out of the various sales details and metadata that iTunes Connect offers.

edit:
I would also update your revenue calculator to factor in the various fees.
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Makes sense. Tor's nature (and its many dodgy uses) will eventually lead to its demise, alas.
>on the basis that people are more likely to keep things going if you're paying for them.

That could also make people feel obligated to keep things running when they really don't want to. Imagine the feeling of still needing to shut down a service people have paid for because it was still not making enough money to be worth it. Now you have paid customers you have an actual obligation to. I can imagine that would be very stressful.
IE7 was last updated over 3 years ago and doesn't even pass Acid2. Only 1.5% of internet users use IE7, and most of those are probably stuck there due to corporate governance rather than choice.
They've not been Tor friendly for a while - and indeed have forbidden Tor for some time, at least according to Tors Good Bad ISPs wiki page - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...
My school teaches an intro course in python and then switches to c++ for the data structures and beyond.

It's gotta be easier to just start with c++ and run with it.
My next hack: what should I make today?
Why Labor Unions And Silicon Valley Aren’t Friends, In 2 Charts
I enjoyed the author's Beijing/Chinatown metaphor in point 10.
I'd start with just using a cookie to prevent repeat voting.
It's the difficulty level of the challenge that matters. It can't be too easy, it can't be too hard. Read the flow book if you need to understand the road to happiness.
They just removed their traffic limits a few days ago.
You would probably benefit from working all of this through with a shrink. And no, I'm not part of those who believe shrinks are for crazy people.

EDIT: We think we make "mistakes". In reality, they are not mistakes - they are simply the things we logically had to do, given our initial genetic equipment combined with the environment we were born into (everything else is just a logical consequence of these 2). So there's no shame to be had or judgment to be made (judgment is something only uneducated people use).

EDIT 2: If you're feeling depressed, you may also benefit from adequate medication (but you need a shrink to evaluate this point). It can lift you onto a whole new level you may have forgotten it exists.

EDIT 3: And don't forget that every human being has an inherent value which is the same for everyone. You are worth exactly as much as Bill Gates or the slum kid. All the other judgments we make regarding ourselves are just artificial constructs.

EDIT 4: "You would probably benefit" was an error: You will definitely benefit!
That paper is great. I see people are thinking my thoughts before I was even born. I am going to have to spend a weekend reading through all this new material.
Why drag closure into this? Closure is just the ability for code executing in a function to see variables above its immediate scope (interesting/non-intuitive effects when combined with asynchronous logic notwithstanding). The thrust of the article is really about hiding data from access by external code. Closure just happens to be a mechanism JS devs typically exploit to accomplish that.
I agree with that too. People don't need to evangelize their latest productivity system.
Thanks for the feedback.

The $99 release fee is a ONE TIME FEE. You pay it once you have a magazine online and want to release it to the app store. You can release as many issues as you wish after that.
How do they detect the use of a proxy though? That's what I don't understand. Tor's exit nodes are not broadcast, or are they?