skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely that's the point of how endorsements should work? Do you know that this person is skilled in Fooing Bars? Then endorse them. Otherwise, don't.

It is easy to say that, yet the site is designed in such a way (and one has to assume this is purposefully so) that it is very easy to endorse people for random things by way of the 4-person grid in which one of the options is "endorse all".

Based on my own experience with being endorsed for random things, it seems to be pretty common for people to just keep banging that button to 'help' out their friends with a bent towards just giving them the benefit of the doubt that they must know whatever the topic is if linkedin is suggesting they do in the first place (and it is tangentially related to their industry).
Bayesian-belief-networks
Encouraging people to crack it themselves instead of downloading a cracked version is an interesting educational move.
To me LinkedIn is useful as a self-updating list of contacts. I actually got a job this way: spotted a decent low-buzzword job ad, banged the company name into LI, a friend popped up who I didn't know worked there.

I got the job, he got the referral bonus. Double win. Maybe we'd still get it without LinkedIn but one sure thing is that LI made it very fast and convenient.
Of course governments and current social elites from all parts of the world want us overworked and underpaid!

"STEM workers" can be the base of the new "over-middle" class - educated, well-off and with good social mobility plus political mobility and geographical mobility (this is fucking dangerous for governments and elites!).

You wouldn't want the class underneath you to have "well rested minds" and time to think about the world and their proper place in it (at the very top that is, because same as in old military societies warriors were the "natural rulers", in the new info-tech society techies will be the new "natural rulers"). Let's overwork them and stress them with unemployment so they don't get any funny ideas in their heads...

Though to be honest, all this sounds good for us STEM workers outside US in lots of indirect ways... I'll bet US will have a nice civil war / revolution soon, and more immigrants moving in any directions will only mean that the enlightening ideas from such a conflict will be easily exported worldwide.
I bet this comment read differently in your head.
But there are also apps that are pretty slick and that's more and more common. It's quite easy to make sure your app will have 60 FPS most of the time on modern devices.
Well, the other side of this research is that you can help people with malnutrition. See this article for example.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23127-abnormal-gut-bac...
Word on the street has it that Android and Chrome are two highly separate fiefdoms within Google which are somewhat antagonistic (fighting over company priority). There is unlikely to be a high level of cooperation between the two teams without significant internal restructuring. As far as I remember, chrome isn't even Android's default browser.
That appears like a pretty first hand account, seems more legit than the usual speculation.
In the technical sciences Germany has arguably very competitive universities, but there is no University fetishism like in the US. Nobody really cares in Germany about what University you went to. So basically, thats where the American / UK system will be headed as well.
There's always such a comment when a LinkedIn story bubbles up and I'm always baffled. Here's a crazy idea: don't publicize your email, let alone phone number.
If you're posting an article that's almost a year old, chances are it's not news!

That was awesome when it happened though. Watched a video of a beekeeper complaining that the colour will affect sales negatively. I couldn't understand why, sure the clarity of regular honey can affect purchasing, but this is novelty, people would snap it up!
> That's absolutely ridiculous. Plenty of CEOs carve out a little time to jump into the trenches and work on things they really care about, or work on fun things to relax and get away from the big stuff for a little bit.

Come on, read through the lines :-).

My post isn't to be read in terms of "Marissa Mayer is an arrogant, career-oriented boss"; it's my own experience there, and should be read in terms of "I've seen people do what she did, and they were arrogant, career-oriented bosses". Correlation doesn't imply causation; for all we know, it could be that she's a talented graphic designer with exceptional leadership skills, but I have my doubts on it.

That being said, Yahoo's logo change was a big move. It's the visual spearhead of their rebranding. That's hardly a fun thing you do to relax and get away from the big stuff, so that leaves important.

Leaving management principles aside, the polite thing to do when something is really important is generally to leave it to people who are good at it and not put unneeded pressure on them. The whole stream of action reeked of manipulation -- which, as it always happens, may not have been intentional, but that doesn't make it stink any less.

I am not being intentionally thick or judgmental based on nothing but a blog post. I am relating it to my previous experience, and definitely hope I am wrong (for the sake of Yahoo's employees, if anything).
Yep. Exactly the same here. And just like in America there will be 'believers in the system' who will tell you the major parties differ on several key issues (until they get elected, and then they do exactly what the real power brokers want).
I think of Go as being a language and runtime as opposed to a "development framework", but why wouldn't you have it as a mobile OS language, particularly when compared to Java?

I'd love to see Go on Android. I doubt it will happen anytime soon though because it would require an entirely new runtime library environment to really be Go-like, just bridging Go to the existing Android Java APIs via Java<->JNI<->CGO<->Go would result in something very horrible.
there are actually multiple points to consider here:

1) most people use embedded devices as "plug in, it works and forget it until it breaks" (aka, never open the maintenance window which could display an update)

2) tech-savy people will not like fully automatic updates of embedded systems, after all you have to trust the manufacturer not being hacked (and a camera vendor selling millions of cameras IS a target for everyone!)

3) even IF embedded system vendors are required to reach customers via mail/phone, this won't catch all customers by far, and 99% of users won't have an idea what an "update" is, let alone how to do it.
Sorry, I was being obtuse. I meant that Google's code is not OSS, where as Summingbird and Samza are. So while MillWheel might be great in theory, in practice I'm not going to use it and I'm not motivated enough to attempt to reimplement it.
I am a voracious reader and I read pretty fast(never measured it though), and this really sped up my reading a lot. That was impressive.
But "patent pending" ? Like someone has already pointed out here, patents like this are destructive and I too hope that it is rejected.
There are several languages that intersect most of those traits. Clojure is possibly the closest and it also has many other things Dart can never hope to get.
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Thanks. That's kind of funny. He's been speculating for like 15 years about what the NSA has, so this must be like his favorite christmas.
It's terrible on a desktop as well, even with an SSD. It fsyncs, which blocks the entire page.
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This is not exactly my area of speciality, but could you use iptables to limit incoming connections to your Node.js port?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-limit-linux-syn-attacks....
"If a different gut flora makes a substantial difference in obesity levels, is it then not reasonable to consider obesity at least partially a treatable medical condition?"

Because it can very easily be treated by simple life style changes. Buy people simply chose not to citing ever excuse under the sun.

"It is also not very helpful to anyone who struggles with obesity to be told the "proper solution is in the psyche of the afflicted" unless you also have a way of fixing that (if you you do have a way of fixing that, market a diet and you'll become a billionaire). Absent a way of giving everyone willpower to stick to strict enough diets, we should welcome other alternatives too."

Really? So, don't tell depressed people it is psychological? Pop a pill?

Market a diet? Psychology is not a diet.

I really don't care if obese people want to be obese, and give ti the I am what I am thing, but please, quit these absurd excuses. All the vast majority have to do is eat well and exercise. Just minor adjustment will gradually help. They don't have to become health food freaks and Olympic athletes, just make gradual adjustments. But no, they prefer sit an watch TV, while stuffing their faces with crap food and drink.

Sorry, but this drives me nuts. I know many obese people, and its the fault of every single one. And, its no shock to them. They know. They make their excuses, and know they are excuses. They all know the solution is simple life style changes, but the chose to remain following their current life style. In that, I support their choice.
I think @timclicks was replying to a deleted OT comment of mine asking why there was an automatically generated [scribd] in the submission title when the document isn't hosted on scribd. I deleted the comment when I realised that its not part of the title but is actually a (useful?) link to view the doc in scribd. I didn't want to add noise to the discussion, but it seems I failed...
Second this. There can be many layers of understanding to things like this and it is all too easy to think you were an eyewitness to a real life event when in fact you were just watching a well-choreographed ballet.
> How can you possibly quantify the future benefits of the NBN?

If this can't be done, even to an order of magnitude, then is the project worth pursuing?

If we allow spending decisions to be guided by Pascal's Wager, why aren't we spending infinite dollars on it? Why aren't we investing all our taxes into fusion reactors, flying cars and the fountain of youth?

> Or why not just say it will cost $50 billion but result in $500 trillion worth of benefits.

Because infrastructure decisions shouldn't be made by Dr Evil.
Correction: 256-bit security is provided by 15360-bit RSA keys and 512-bit ECC keys. 3072-bit RSA key provides 128 bits of security.
Because the system powering Hacker News is horrible legacy software with a horrible architecture language-wise. Unless they are mission critical - don't expect to see improvements, new features or major updates any time soon.
You raise a point that I am not sure you meant to: Do people prefer participating in anonymous communities? Wanting to be anonymous and wanted to be with other anonymous people are pretty different things.
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Every publicly known cipher is compromised then? The ciphers that the NSA primarily uses (internally) are classified.
This analogy assumes that there is a linear relationship between speed and new applications. But streaming video is about as hard as it gets, and that can be done pretty well with either FTTP or FTTN. Better with FTTP, certainly.

The problem is: what's after video? There doesn't seem to have been a rash of such game-changing applications of faster networks coming out of Japan or South Korea. They've had very fast internet for around a decade; where are the step-function changes in what can be done and what are they?
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Author of core.typed here.

I will challenge that schemas are "significantly" better for documentation than core.typed types.

With unions, intersections, heterogeneous maps, parameterised classes, recursive types we can be very expressive.

Here's some examples of the syntax for types: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/wiki/Types

And some declarative types in action: https://github.com/frenchy64/core.typed-example/blob/master/...

I think core.typed is restrictive enough to allow annotations like the one above, while being opinionated enough to guide the programmer to write clear, comprehensible types.
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1. The Fountainhead

2. The Power of Habit

3. Think and Grow Rich

4. The 4-Hour Workweek

5. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
What do you think the likelihood is of NSA doing (active) SSL MITM attacks using NSL'd CA keys?

Users running extensions that use things like EFF's SSL Observatory (SSL Everywhere has an option to report to that) will cause those NSA-generated certs to show up, and someone will get suspicious eventually. The only reports I've seen recently on that front were things like middle eastern users sending in samples of MITM certs. I'm not saying the NSA can't do it, but what evidence is there that the NSA has done MITM on SSL traffic? For all we know, couldn't the MITM ssl certs in the mideast be an NSA false flag op?
Prices have been annoying, yes. We ended up geoip-ing to guess the applicable tax and pray that Wallet made the same guess.

There are also some (temporary) limitations with the NaCl runtime (no, it's not PNaCl, at least not yet).

For example, fullscreen on OS X is quite broken. Keys that shouldn't get captured, in particular the one to cancel fullscreen. That (and other small issues) is likely why packaged apps with NaCl aren't yet officially supported there.
post 6.4 means > or >=? Will it run on my ec2 rhel 6.4 out-of-the-box?
So, for humans, you would need to eat slim peoples poo and then refrain from eating fat peoples poo?
Does NIST actually publish standard DL groups? All I have seen is instructions on how to generate them, i.e., SP800-56A.

NIST publishes standard curves because the instruction list to generate them would require describing Schoof's algorithm to count points, among other things.
It's not an automatic backup system... and it's not a copy of all photos/videos on our computers.

The pictures/videos we want to keep (would not want to lose in a fire) we upload to our MediaGoblin instance. MediaGoblin saves them in a folder on the server (the original media files and the processed ones). If something happens to our home, we'll be able to easily fetch the most precious images from the server.

The only thing I'd have to work around is that every media file is stored in a separate folder along with the processed files so I would have to write a script to "go into each folder and fetch the file that doesn't end with medium.[ext] and thumbnail.[ext]". Come to think of it, it might be worth it to just write a "Download all originals" plugin since MediaGoblin already knows the originals... but since our apartment hasn't been destroyed I'm not in a hurry.
For the services they provide, most notably payments (priced apps and/or in-app payments) and notifications.
Meta: from the comments here it looks like many HNers share reddit's smug attitude towards obesity. I wonder how many of the people looking down on the fat are only slim because that's simply what their body is predisposed to. I and pretty much every slim person I know certainly aren't making a slightest effort to stay slim and I seriously doubt that I'd have will power to eat less and exercise frequently if I was less lucky.
It doesn't have to make money. Sometimes people do things for the benefit of others :)

edit: although in this case, they have a patent pending and apps in development, and are offering licensing agreements.
I believe PNaCl isn't supported (yet), apps are JS but are allowed to embed NaCl.
I just want to point out that eating less and exercises can be a very poor combination. I agree the solution is in conquering the psyche, but you have to respect that process and open up to new ideas like different bacteria. Think of your body like a computer that is always processing through the world, input/eat crap, output crap, input/eat healthy, and your output will be better. But that does not necessarily mean eating less, just eating real foods rather than processed stuff.
I can't believe it but it is faster and more enjoyable to read with the gradients. I can't get the bookmark to work with firefox. Extension would be great!
Ask HN: Why would I see [dead] before my submission titles?
I joined about 2 months ago and I've only submitted a few stories so far (3 or 4) and on my last submission I see that there's [dead] before the title.

Any insight on what's happening?
You mean that US and european android phone makers don't cut deals with app makers to preinstall their fabulous app on the user devices ?

Edit: cut out unneeded part
Then someone needs to build something like RES for HN.
PS This post does not have the [dead] in front of it.
"It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise --- especially since Bull Mountain is documented to use AES as a whitener. Hence, the output of an evil, trojan-horse version of RDRAND is statistically indistinguishable from an RDRAND implemented to the specifications claimed by Intel. Short of using a tunnelling electronic microscope to reverse engineer an Ivy Bridge chip and disassembling and analyzing the CPU microcode, there's no way for us to tell for sure."

---

"The NSA's codeword for its decryption program, Bullrun, is taken from a major battle of the American civil war. Its British counterpart, Edgehill"

"N.S.A. spends more than $250 million a year on its Sigint Enabling Project, which “actively engages the U.S. and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products’ designs” to make them “exploitable.”"

-- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryp...

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Bull Mountain, is Intel's code name for both the RdRand instruction and the underlying random number generator (RNG) hardware implementation.

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bull [mountain|hill] [intel|processor]

http://www.googlewhack.com/
https://xkcd.com/936/
http://subrabbit.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/how-much-entropy-i...
If in the first place Labor had said "20 years, 100 billion", I for one would have found that plausible and -- yes! -- affordable.

When they promised it for 40 billion in 3 years ... well. No. That was never going to happen. Imagine how many streets there are in your suburb. How many suburbs are there in your city? How many in the country?

Somehow in just 750 working days they were going to source thousands of contractors, open hundreds of thousands of pits or dig thousands of new ditches, feed millions of kilometres of new cable, wire in millions of homes, install tens of thousands of new racks in exchanges without expanding the exchanges ... and somehow nothing would go wrong and nobody would fuck up and there'd be no asbestos or blocked tubes or inaccurate records or particularly tough ground or shonky contractors or labour shortages or bad weather or delayed deliveries.

3 years.

This is what makes me mad. We were promised an amazing thing and so many of my friends and colleagues took absolute leave of their senses over it. It's embarrassing. We bitch about salesmen promising impossible bullshit to close a sale ... and then we bought impossible bullshit hook, line and sinker.
He only has the license for a trial version.
I did it. I took some organizing and willpower. And a mirror near the place where you spend most of your day really helps to not ignore the situation.
core.typed will have to be extended to understand schemas. core.typed already plays nicely with assertions and branches (via occurrence typing), so we just need information on what type a schema "casts" to. This will not be difficult, it might not even have to live in core.typed's implementation and be extended via multimethods.

One of the problems with gradually annotating an untyped namespace with core.typed is we immediately have to be very accurate with our type annotations.

However if the namespace is completely "schema'ed", we can assume functions simply take `Any` as arguments and rely on Schema to regain type information.

This could be a very nice way to work.
Just a heads up, http://designmodo.com/flat/ crashes safari on iPad (ios6).
But they won't, because Mozilla hates NaCl and loves asm.js
Wow why don't they use this idea in printed books as well?!
I don't want perfection. I just want public money to be spent effectively. Infrastructure is important, but we should try to build the right infrastructure, at the right time, in the right way.

In the long run FTTP is the correct solution. In Turnbull's place I would have pushed for a slowdown on the rollout. No matter who does it, the NBN will probably not be finished in this decade.
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If you're curious, this is what the end result looks like: http://i.imgur.com/NURV2N3.png, and if you use calibre, here's the CSS: https://gist.github.com/osuushi/6461324

You can change the font size and line height by a little bit without needing to adjust anything (since the color gradient is continuous vertically, it is a bit tolerand), but if you make a dramatic change, you'll need to adjust the background height from 72px to the height of three text lines.
I don't see the [DEAD]. Screen Shot?
Wow, what a revelation!
Also, a new survey finds that most human beings like to breathe air daily!
Once, Irish-Americans could be considered even lower than African-Americans people in the racial hierarchy. They were not white; nor I recall were Italian-Americans. I vaguely recall reading Irish-descended critics pointing out how they were backstabbing others to gain white privilege.

There's a book, "How the Irish Became White". I haven't read it and therefore can't offer a recommendation, but there's definitely literature out there. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev)

The racial system is a form of warfare and social conditioning. Various alliances shift for political ends.
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We all have predispositions for all kinds of stuff. Doesn't mean we have to give up and just say "hey, that's how I am even if it kills me!".

Of course, I'm not ignoring some people are obese because of a disease and can't really help it. I have a lot of empathy for them. I doubt they're the majority of the obese population however.

I admit I do feel a bit smug towards those who just lack the willpower to try and eat better/less and exercise a bit. They don't respect themselves, why should I?
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I do like code which has comments which describe the level of confidence the author has in some sections (I feel a happier refactoring code which is marked as being suboptimal).

But in my experience those comments are usually found above cases where it's possible to make a fix in one line rather than one hundred. (sleeping a thread for 0ms rather than re-architecting a gigantic callback structure).