skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why you can hire a homeless to do it for you. At Disney World, rich families are actually hiring officially disabled people to get them line skip passes so that they can jump the lines.
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To be fair, he did say "three years." But on the whole I agree with you. :)
How is this even surprising to anyone? Unless they are clones then every creature is slightly different and you would expect their vocalization to be unique as well, for example how often do you meet people who have the exact same voice? Only issue is our hearing probably isn't sharp enough, or optimized to the same frequencies/ranges, to pick up the differences in the sounds generated by most animals.
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In the olden days, you didn't need to be "officially" disabled, you could just have your brother sit in a wheelchair.
If you think the stock is overpriced, does that mean you're already shorting it to the extent that your risk aversion has kicked in? Otherwise people might think you don't believe what you say.
How many hours per day would you have to work to charge a daily rate? 2? 4? 8?
It's kind of funny that their description of IE11-DP and IE10 further down the page are exactly the same:

> "Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview is fast and fluid, and lets your websites shine and perform just like native applications on your PC."

> "Internet Explorer 10 is fast and fluid, and lets your websites shine and perform just like native apps on your PC."

Just like native apps? I didn't realize MS had already leap-frogged things like NaCl and ASM.js in IE10... :P

Aside from the hyperbole on that page, what is actually new in IE11?
What are your thoughts on Apple's current security issues/hack?
Someone could already be constantly stopping and resuming time. There'd be no way of knowing.
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From https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/welcome_bigcouch via http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/

THURSDAY JUL 25, 2013
Welcome BigCouch

Good news! Cloudant has announced the completion of the BigCouch merge. This is a huge step forward for CouchDB. So thank you to Cloudant, and thank you to the committers (particularly Robert Newson and Paul Davis) who slogged (and travelled the world to pair with each other) to make this happen.

What does this mean? Well, right now, the code is merged, but not released. So hold your clicks just a moment! Once the code has been tested, we will include it in one of our regular releases. (If you want to help us test, hop on to the dev@ mailing list!)

What’s new? The key accomplishment of the merged code is that BigCouch’s clustering capability, along with the rest of Cloudant’s other enhancements to CouchDB’s code base, will now be available in Apache CouchDB. This also includes improvements in compaction and replication speed, as well as boosts for high-concurrency access performance.

Painless replication has always been CouchDB's biggest feature. Now we get to take advantage of Cloudant’s experience running large distributed clusters in production for four years. With BigCouch merged in, CouchDB will be able to replicate data at a much larger scale.

But wait! That’s not all! Cloudant has decided to terminate their BigCouch fork of CouchDB, and instead focus future development on Apache CouchDB. This is excellent news for CouchDB, even more excellent news for the CouchDB community.

Here’s the original press release:

Cloudant Contributes Database Scalability and Fault-Tolerance Framework to Apache CouchDB™

And here are some highlights from the press:

Sofa, so good ... BigCouch relaxes into comfy Apache CouchDB (The Register)

Cloudant pitches one CouchDB for all (GigaOM)

Cloudant Merges BigCouch Into Apache CouchDB (eWeek)

Cloudant Breathes Life Into CouchDB - Merges BigCouch into Apache Project (CMSwire)

CouchDB Gets Cloudant's 'Super-Size Me' Scaling (InformationWeek)

Cloudant Merges BigCouch Code into Apache Open Source Database (The WHIR)

Cloudant Merges BigCouch Database into Open Source Apache CouchDB (The VAR Guy)

Cloudant merges distributed BigCouch code with Apache CouchDB (JAXenter)

Cloudant contributes database scalability and fault-tolerance framework to Apache CouchDB (SD Times)

P.S. Cloudant is also hosting a party at OSCON on July 25 to celebrate the news. (They’re booth #305 if you’re at the show.) And if all that wasn’t enough, stay tuned for news about a CouchDB conference that we should be announcing shortly…

Posted at 06:26PM Jul 25, 2013 by Noah in News | Comments[0] |
Until our fears of GM are blown out of proportion, only a few giga corporations can afford the effort of developing new GM products. That considerable investment ends up being defended by an army of suits. I hope this will eventually change and the current players will suffer the fate IBM had 30 years ago. There are already students breeding new aquarium pets for example at much lower cost.
Have you considered or tested using either closed hashing or linear array lookups as a replacement for you linked list open hashing implementation. Years ago I significantly improved the speed of a color quantization operation that several other engineers had already optimized by replacing it with a simpler closed hashing algorithm straight out of Knuth. More recently I've had success for small collections using arrays and performing linear search. This technique is used in Redis (see http://redis.io/topics/memory-optimization)
I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while.

It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays.

It would be pretty slick if you could get a simple http proxy to support screen mirroring like this, because then it wouldn't matter what combination of set top box / phone / tablet you have... you could mirror anything.
I've seen this story (NASDAQ being hacked) reported in a couple of places, but it isn't clear to me what damage was done. It's not really possible for them to have messed with the actual trading without anyone noticing. Everyone connecting to an exchange is reconciling the orders they send in against the trade confirmations they receive. You basically design your technology assuming the exchange is going to fuck something up eventually. I'd really like to hear more details about what was going on here.
>I continue to be shocked that bankers and investors get away with fines and a slap on the wrist. I'm not aware of any that have served prison time since the recession started.

Have you stopped to think that maybe, possibly, it's because there very little provable, criminal wrong-doing? And that perhaps it's not a good idea, for the country and its economy, to throw capitalists in jail when a business goes south, simply because the populace demands heads? That's not a good precedent.

Not everything is a conspiracy. The population currently detests Wall Street. If there was rampant criminal action associated with the recession, some politician would have latched on and run with it, and would have been a hero.

Should we also throw in jail all those mortgage applicants who lied about their job or income on the application? That was also fraud that led to the crisis.
This is not a good analogy given what happened according to the article.
Why would you want to host your stuff on a company who's CEO isn't developer-friendly?
You should pay more attention to polls - it's not quite the landslide you're implying it is. Many people are okay with being spied on.
From the linked US DOJ press release:

>It is not alleged that the NASDAQ hack affected its trading platform.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/July/13-crm-842.html
A CA outside the reach of the NSA would be really valuable right now. A free CA outside the reach of the NSA would save the world.
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As soon as pools are used (see my other comment here) chaining is much faster than storing all elements in the table behind the hash -- you can use simpler hash function and have better performance even when the table is relatively full.
What are the advantages/disadvantages of either?
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This is incredible, question for you guys, do you avoid having to pay the PayPal fees if I pay with funds from my bank account? If so, everyone should try to do that to save the small percentage charge.
Perhaps they should take a page from Twilio's book
All forms of public key encryption require proof that Alice or Bob are who they say they are or you can setup a man in the middle attack. Without a public key athority to Safely provide the correct public key your stuck with manual key exchanges which can work, but does not scale. If the government has the public key authority's private key they can spoof them and setup man in the middle attacks easily.
There's nothing better that can be objectively measured. It's possible that everyone agrees a company's shares trading at $19 are worth ~$19 +/- a few cents, and there would be no holdouts at all if you offered $20. You'll never know until you try to buy them all. You never really know the price of anything until a purchase is agreed to.

A vast field of study exists to seek answers to the generalized form of the question you just asked: "What is the value of X?"

I don't know anybody who is entirely satisfied with any of the "answers" the field of economics has given us to that question, so I doubt any answer you get here will really satisfy you, either.
I think it would be interesting to shift the focus of OpenHacker to platform where companies can post challenges and offer prizes.

For example, Netflix hosted a competition for a $1M prize for the "best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films." Another example was the Ansari X Prize, which "offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize

Contact big companies and startups to see if there is a challenge they want to put out there to the global community. The value proposition is that they gain access to the global talent pool at a relatively cheap price.
Here is the abstract (all I could find) of this paper:

Memories can be unreliable. We created a false memory in mice by optogenetically manipulating memory engram–bearing cells in the hippocampus. Dentate gyrus (DG) or CA1 neurons activated by exposure to a particular context were labeled with channelrhodopsin-2. These neurons were later optically reactivated during fear conditioning in a different context. The DG experimental group showed increased freezing in the original context, in which a foot shock was never delivered. The recall of this false memory was context-specific, activated similar downstream regions engaged during natural fear memory recall, and was also capable of driving an active fear response. Our data demonstrate that it is possible to generate an internally represented and behaviorally expressed fear memory via artificial means.

- from https://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/387

The Ars article also has a good link to a backgrounder on optogenetics: http://f1000.com/prime/reports/b/3/11/
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Über raising round at a $3.5b valuation
I would be interested in your take on Dan Pallota's perspective (below, several times); he seems to have a lot of exposure with his claim that nonprofit isn't working as well as it could, primarily because of the focus on "overhead".

--

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about... (20 min video)

> nonprofits [...] are rewarded for how little they spend
> -- not for what they get done

Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/dan_pallotta/ (1 hr EconTalk podcast)

> The use of overhead as a measure of effectiveness makes it difficult for
> charities to attract the best talent, advertise, and invest for the future

Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential

http://amzn.com/B003BLY740 ($15 340 pg. Kindle book)

> double-standards place the nonprofit sector at extreme disadvantage to
> the for profit sector on every level
Yeah, I would love to have time to develop this thesis as well. Let me think about it a bit, and I'll try to post a five sentence postulate.

As concerns nature, my observation is that (if I can personify nature, and grant it intention for the argument), it does not mind eliminating large groups of children if some (at least one, I guess) viable children remain. As a matter of fact, eliminating a lot of less viable children in favor of few more viable children is kind of the rule for selection.

So we take a group of strongly viable lines, contaminate them, and (in nature's much longer perspective) make them less viable. Marked for elimination.

We usually think this elimination comes from direct competition, and I would agree that in our experience so far this is the observed case. But what is observable in much GM research is that after three or so generations, animals consuming the GM product stop reproducing. The "why" here is still being researched and is at best poorly understood.

So, I argue that nature in this case is taking the robust path. Eliminating contamination.
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Why did you use gprof instead of perf? In my experience gprof gives very distorted information because of the instrumenting code it adds to your program. Perf is much more accurate.
It's certainly pretty common in the UK. Seems much less linguistically dubious than "gastropub".

(Why do "suburbanites" seem to get so much stick nowadays?)
wow, thank you for that video, It's amazing... In tears in some segments.
You are right, same goes for the Netherlands and Germany.
Set up VPN...
Sorry, I miscommunicated. I was saying that the person you responded to was being an idiot by calling the general public drunken fools (true or not) and that it's a bad thing to lower to that level of discourse by retaliating in such a content-free manner because you won't change anybody's mind that way. I.e. your position is good, but it's only through expressing ourselves well that we can have an influence on others.

Of course if it was just to feel good about calling out idiocy then it's not necessary to put in much effort countering it.
Was most of this done by SQL injection?
Ebooks over email: the best platform for writing is (still) your inbox
I read the book Practical Typography yesterday and this quote stands out: "Attention is the read­er’s gift to you." http://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.ht...
The issue here is exactly bots. The problem is people who have bots are gaining an unfair advantage over those who do not have bots. But raising prices, all you're doing is shifting that unfair advantage from people with IT skills to people with a higher disposable income. Thus you're not solving anything.
Yes. Why are you thinking it might not be valuable?
This is complete and utter nonsense.

I was a Linode customer during their first security incident (Bitcoins stolen). I found out about it through Reddit. It was communicated to customers weeks after through a post to their status page. At no stage were customers informed via email and nobody knows to this day what exactly happened and what exactly has been done about it.
I can't speak for freehunter, but know a lot of us have moved to DigitalOcean.
On the german site the prices are shown including taxes, on the others excluding taxes. It's minor differences from rounding to "nice" numbers.
They still have that option, but you're limited to an additional 12GB (at least on the 2GB plan). Costs $1/mo per GB that you add on.
"Ubuntu rarely develops for larger community"

I work for Canonical so I'm not un-biased. But seriously, what does this even mean? All the people in Canonical, each individual, spends all day trying to spread free software (in the form of Ubuntu) more widely. By definition every bit of Free Software developed has the opportunity to benefit the "community". I think what you mean is that sometimes a person or a company does some things that some other people (perhaps you) disagree with.

It's a total strawman the idea of some singular defined "open-source-community-project" - it's not a tyranny of opinion. Every individual and company has their own goals - the beauty of Free Software is we can collaborate around our own goals but benefit the commons. Free software is about freedom, and the ability to share those freedoms - what I do doesn't impinge on your freedoms.
Seems pretty simple to me in Ruby.

$ irb
>> def go
> puts "what"
> debugger
> go
> end
>> go
"what"
# stops on debugger line
>> Object.module_eval "def go; puts 'wat'; end"
>> continue
"wat"

There are of course other ways to do that, I just picked a simple one. You can break at lines / statements in files, so you don't need to include that "debugger" line. You can do something other than Object.module_eval. You can use something like Pry that would make this simpler and give you in-line source code, even after editing (IIRC). You can use something like Hijack to modify any running Ruby process - when you disconnect, your modified code will still be running.

Lisp is not special in what it is capable of. Period. It's special because a) it's very old, and b) it's tuned for these features, in its own unique, minimalistic way.

Yes, not all languages can do this (though you can do crazy things with GDB / debuggers in general, including using it as a REPL for compiled languages (really! it's not hard!)). But Lisp / the Lisp family are not even remotely the only ones which can.
How many of these guys will actually end up behind bars?
Not to me. Perhaps a sign of a dodgy Chrome extension inserting content into the DOM.
Not that I have any complaints (the opposite is true), but why is the cover art an illustration of the Toronto skyline?
This is great and helps getting started with Angular, one thing I would change is a easy way to replace "myApp" with your app name if needed but I guess a `sed` replace would work.
Glad they finally gave the Dev tools an update in IE11.

It's a welcome thing for those that still need to support users running IE.
Wow, what a circlejerk. Doesn't reflect well on Microsoft at all. Comes off as if they still think they're above reproach ... my way or the highway.
No.

Next? Oh, all the other questions are equally rhetorical? I think we can safely answer no to them as well, since Canonical is emphatically not the FSF and doesn't share many of its goals. It aims to be commercially viable and yet as open as possible, which precludes being fundamentalist.

I'm not really interested in Android or replicant (the real reason for this press release it seems), and am really keen to see what canonical come up with in this space. It's high time we saw some innovation in hardware and phone software again, as we've settled into a comfortable duopoly.
> SQL-injection

> NASDAQ
Their actions might have been illegal but they for sure are good at breaking things and their skills should be used instead of throwing them in jail for 20 years. Counsel them and give them a change to reform themselves.
You would think that a way to stop these kinds of attacks for pennies on the dollar would be to have the security companies, banks, retail stores and others involved on the receiving side of these attacks fund hackathons or startup accelerators in every country, like a startup weekend, to give these "kids" a chance at legal startups and to get paid for finding bugs.
I'm in the process of moving my gmail account to fastmail. Trying to move 250k mail (7 gb) from one provider to another is painful. I'm using the imapcopy.pl script which works by reading one mail from the source account and then uploading it to the target. Apparently it's a pretty expensive process as I'm getting my access throttled both by gmail and fastmail. Gmail even shuts of imap access entirely if you hammer their servers hard enough. Well if they didn't want me to flood them, they should have made it possible to download your mail archive in a single tarball...

So far, after running imapcopy.pl for almost a whole week, only 100k mails have been successfully copied.
Well, looks like they do actually respond to the contact form, got an e-mail from them a few moments ago saying they were "aware of the situation". Although, looks like this blog has been picked up by some mainstream news outlets, who have been getting comments from Urbanspoon:

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2013/07/25/are-automate...
Isotope is a jQuery plugin, so it stands to reason that you'll need it. Angular will use jQuery over jqlite as long as you include it first.

I use isotope with angular and have written directives to support it. I haven't written it up, but If you're interested, I can share some of that with you.
OVH is much less expensive than Amazon EC2... Someone said in a HN discussion earlier this week that he was not able to find providers significantly cheaper than Amazon. Well OVH proves this is possible.

This OVH dedicated server is comparable to an Amazon EC2 Standard small (m1.small) instance. Taking an Amazon reserved instance, "heavy utilization" (to minimize cost), and in their less expensive region, with a 1-year term, the upfront payment is $169 plus $0.014 per hour, which amounts to $24.30 per month.

Compare this to OVH is only 3€, that is $4.00 per month... 1/6th the price! And OVH has 500GB storage vs 160GB for Amazon!
The author is a scientist working in the domain and not in employ of Monsanto or any other major GM market player today. She wrote 3 books on the subject, with extensive footnotes and references.

If anything this a summary treating the subject at the level of depth that can be expected of a short article. Not reporting but a summary, please read her books & papers if you are actually open to those details you request.
Yeah, not surprising in the least. I think in many cases we have the physical ability to destinguish these things we just dont care to pay attention. It isnt exactly the same, but there are people who can tell what other animals are saying with some detail. For example birds saying what kind of predators are around and how far away they are.
Engineer can’t get decent dinner reservations, creates Urbanspoon-dominating bot
Adding to this that there's a bit of regulatory implication of open sourced cellular RF stack as well.

Essentially, whenever you connect to a cellular network, you are not a "licensee" of the "station" rather, mobile carriers are. (Basically you are the remote controlled station -- as mobile carrier is a control operator for your RF interface)

So like you said, radio firmware and opensource doesn't mix...
I agree, not quite as extreme, but for a CSS tutorial site over the last year from 735,000 uniques 3.4% used IE. Over the last month it's 3.1%. Chrome sits at around 60%, Firefox 25%, Safari 10%.