skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really common, unfortunately. People who are raised being abused, or being excluded, are taught that those in power should abuse or exclude those not in power.
Internet commenting is a cesspool of idiocy. Hivemind, kneejerk reactions, things taken out of context like this.

It's an absolute waste of time commenting on anything online, because there is an absolutely inexhaustible supply of people who are wrong.

(Yes I realise the irony).
IOS 7 Adoption as High as 35%, after one day
I spent a lot of time before launching the Kickstarter figuring out a process that would not get more expensive with volume! In short, I'm using a commercial manufacturer who can handle very large quantities, and Amazon for shipping.
HIPAA is more about policy than it is about any specific technology or standard. And most of it is good practice for many applications, from a privacy and security perspective, not just healthcare.

Start here: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/covereden...

Then this: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summary/i... and this: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/srsummary...
The only valid definition of "hipster" is "someone who cares whether people are 'hipster' or not."

With that firmly in mind: fuck hipsters.
>If you asked any developer who has actually had an office at a previous job, and I'm 100% sure they'd be in favor.

After having a private office, I've discovered that I now view it as non-negotiable.

I'll consider different salary levels, benefits, but I simply would not consider working somewhere that I'm not provided a private office, to the point that it's become my third or fourth question on phone screens.
That's a really informative and well-done mid-mortem. Thanks for writing that up.
Someone asked me to compare the two:

http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/running_applications_on_the...

tl;dr amount of code rewritten vs. reused
Great slides. Very interesting because implementing immutable data structures is not obvious.

I'm having a hard time figuring out a use case for some of these purely functional structures.

For instance, the queue: if you dequeue concurrently, you end up dequeuing the same element twice:

q Queue
// thread A
q, elem = q.dequeue()
// thread B
q, elem = q.dequeue()
// elem can be the same in both A and B

If you enqueue concurrently, only one element will end up being enqueued:

q Queue
// thread A
q = q.enqueue(elemA)
// thread B
q = q.enqueue(elemB)
// only one of elemA or elemB is queued

So if the structure is useless for concurrency (without external synchronization), what's his purpose?
I don't know if I see a reason they should spend the resources to ship it for PS4 and XB1. They've obviously sold a few copies of the game already. I just can't imagine the market of people who want to buy it again or are holding out is big enough to justify the costs.

Edit: I'm a dunce. See the comment by adventured.
I've often wondered what the software development world would be like if we used prototypes. Experimental hacking seems like a cut-down version of this concept.

But what if we actually built things that we already agree in advance to throw away? Maybe even start from two or three different plausible designs, and push on each one for a while until one seems to be winning? Then rewrite it, learning from the other contenders and from the prototype itself, all before shipping.

The obvious answer is that it would take too long. But I'm not so sure. They say designing software takes too long, also, but when I spend a few weeks designing, the implementation ends up going smoothly and hitting the target. Usually the features that are designed thoroughly at the start of the release hit the target, and other "quick" features that are added in later, sans design, take longer than the designed features and end up pushing the release out. Any overruns or missteps in the implementation of the well-designed features seem insignificant in comparison to things that skimped on design work.
Why do we have to give 2 weeks notice? our boss fire us right on the spot?
why do we have to give 2 weeks notice? but employer can fire us right on the spot?

i have been working as programmer in the valley forever (starting out as programmer for Digital Unix back in 95). Never quit a job, always got fired after few years of good works, and mostly due to company not doing well.

Recently trying to quit a job, but was told that if i quit then i am burning bridge with him. He is a well to do vc (rich guy $100m+). Then was told to give me 30 days, but feels like earlier talk a threat, so i just quit right away.

any idea what should i do differently?
Conduit is malware. They go out of their way to make their software difficult to remove. If the only way to get something off your computer is malwarebytes, it's malware.
Code as Craft
The pivotal moment of my entire day is the first half hour when I sit down at my desk. I have a rule that I won't touch anything less than my first priority for a half hour once I've begun the day. Absolutely nothing.

Like most things, sometimes I get the bear and sometimes the bear gets me. I do a pretty good job of it, but it's stunning the difference that first half hour makes when I get it right (or wrong).
It makes a difference because people assume that it's been a constant improvement ever since hunter-gatherer times, and it probably wasn't. I'm saying that the quality of life for most people probably went downhill ever since the Agricultural Revolution, and what humanity has been doing ever since was trying improve it using medicine, science, sanitization, and more.

I'm not saying that the hunter-gatherers were healthier than we are today (note my use of "might've" in the original post), but evidence shows that the lives of people in post-hunter-gatherer societies was worse.

Life expectancy went up considerably only in the very recent past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy... [Note the reduction of life expectancy in the Neolithic (agricultural revolution).]

Anyways, I'm not an expert on the subject and I don't have the energy to start going through papers and digging up more rigorous data.
As much as I sometime dislike Apple's walled garden App Store it does prevent things like this from happening (on iOS, at least).

Sandboxing of Mac App Store apps is also another good step, but we still need ways to install system components like codecs without giving away the keys to the castle.

As an aside, I've been trying to figure out how to use dtrace to get a log of all files touched by an application or installer (including sub-processes). If anyone has a good solution I'd love to hear it.
Thank you for the feedback!
True is I took all of the worst examples.
We might not be there yet, but just wanted to warn ourselves...
The whole situation would have been completely different if people waited for some context and explanation. Unfortunately pre-judging people based on quick first impressions is something pretty much everyone does. Some are just more vocal about it.

I quit browsing Reddit because of the comment sections.
The other funny thing is that there's a violent dislike of mainstream media on websites such as Reddit, and constant criticism when news stations take things out of context.

Then they do things like this themselves on a daily basis!
No, the goal is for the current user experience to remain the same. By default docker will create a sparse file, loop-mount it, and use that for all containers. There is some magic in thin provisioning which allows for dynamically resizing when needed. We will add more details in the docs and mailing list in the coming weeks.

The best place to follow progress on this is to track docker-dev (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/docker-dev) and the #docker-dev irc channel.
I disagree with your characterization of the iPad mini as something from the bottom tier.

My point is that the iPad mini is neither premium nor junk, but somewhere in the middle. It expands Apple's user base and makes them a tidy per-unit profit. Like a lot of people, I was hoping the iPhone 5C would be a similarly mid-tier priced device that would open up new markets for them but unfortunately (IMO) a premium-priced phone.
The website she referred to had a series of essays they dubbed “It Happened To Me” that they sprinkled in amongst feminist-leaning news and features. “I want to talk about how all of this makes me feel. You, all over the Internet, right after you dumped me.”

Does that seem bizarrely self absorbed to anyone else?
>and yet people get no training in HIPAA,

WHAT!?! I'm a physician, and to my lament I have to do HIPAA training over and over and over and over... Just like everyone else everywhere I've ever worked. Yes, we get plenty of HIPAA training. There are still breaches, of course, but your statement is just plain wrong.
The revolution isn't in the technology. You're right; Docker is just a standardization of the use of these other components, for people to rally around. But the rallying-around is the revolutionary part. If everyone builds their own Docker, we can't interoperate at a "container" level. If everyone settles on one container format, we can.

In my opinion, Docker-the-implementation is only interesting insofar as it increases the network-effect of Docker-the-container-format. :)
I could be wrong, but doesn't each piped command wait for the previous one to finish (not multi-core)?
I would not at all worry about what reddit users think and say about you... Especially since it's mostly just mid-twenty to 30 years olds. [1]

IMO - reddit comments have gotten worst over time. While not youtube comments, bad. It's getting there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Demographics
you don't have to; giving 2 weeks notice is a professional courtesy that contributes to you getting a positive reference at some point in the future
I'd like to see some facsimile of this as well. Googling a bit unearthed this description of what it might look like:

"Eagles and hawks are neither near sighted nor far-sighted. Since long focal length lenses have a narrow angle of view, they have poor peripheral vision. Hawks and eagles have to turn their heads to see more of their surroundings. They can turn their heads 180 degrees, not quite as much as the owls, which can turn their heads 270 degrees. In contrast, human eyes have a short focal length, so we have a wider angle of view, nearly 180 degrees horizontally, so we don't have to turn our heads unless we need to look behind us, but we don't see as much detail as hawks can when something is far away..." Source: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2011011108374...

So it would be a representation of a much longer focal length with a much narrower field of vision.

Related fun fact: Owl's don't have eyballs they have eyetubes. They can't rotate their eyes in their sockets at all, which is why they can turn their head ~270 degrees, and why they have such an incredibly long focal length.
Ok, found it. You are correct. The increase was in construction activity not in total units. Sorry about the confusion.
Random attacks against people/personalities in a mob-style from people on the internet is disgusting. Why do people get the idea that others' lifestyle choices (that don't affect them at all) are okay as targets of ridicule?
Two years ago I had a conversation with a recruiter who was working with a company trying to build out a games-testing shop in Portland. They were offering people with 7-10 years experience $35/hr, and seemed shocked when I told them how low that was compared to previous non-games testing jobs I had held previously.

It's a good point that the proportion of employees who are engineers is probably lower than in the past. I wonder how engineering vs art/music salaries compare.
Hack Apple' Touch ID Authentication, Claim a Crowdfunded Bounty
You're either loved, hated, or ignored

I'm curious what you'd suggest as an alternative. To have strong, passionate, but neutral, feelings about people?
Was covered quite a bit last year after the election. Do a search for "Orca" (google: site:ycombinator.com romney orca)
On top of it, geek culture is a hipster culture. Oh you listen to obscure geeky bands and wear comic/anime t-shirts all the time? You purposely disengage from mainstream society? You're overly critical of the status quo and only socialize with people exactly like you? Gee, that sounds like the guy you're criticizing.
Best of both worlds! Stock 4.3 running on something that feels like the 5S.
Jeff, this is awesome. Thank you.
Hmm... from the title I thought they were literally going to give a billion messages away to nonprofits, but it's just a discount into their (presumably) huge margins.

Most companies give non-profits a break if they ask, and many have policies about it. I don't see why this is news.
i see wut u did thur
This is a interesting take and why I love machine learning and its intersection with HPC.

First the seemingly blind decision to implement an SVM for improved performance. An SVM isn't magical in fact an SVM and neural network are equivalent with the SVM being the general case. SVMs suffer from the the same problems as neural networks in that your # Hidden Nodes/Activation function is the same as trying to choose your kernel function. When looking at your problem you have to ask yourself.

1) Is the model time varying? -> NN

2) Very large N dimensional search space -> SVM

Secondly even without changing algorithms you can get a significant accuracy improvement by examining your features. Features are the most important part of machine learning (garbage-in/garbage-out). Even simple classifiers such as Naive Bayes can do well if given the right feature set. There are multiple methods to examine your features such as ReliefF another is ANOVA. If you find your features are not good enough try unsupervised feature detection and learn more about the problem domain and coming up with your own features.

The final issue specifically with HPC and machine learning is even given 100 cores your algorithms may not speedup. Many machine learning algorithms are built to be iterative in nature and do not lend themselves to the becoming parallel. This means that MapReduce must be invoked at each iteration. As you scale up the number of available cores the overhead of startup and shutdown of your cluster at each iteration overrides your gain in performance, as many nodes will finish faster than others and just sit and wait.

The solution to all of this is simple

1) Get your features correct

2) Try new algorithms

- Try online learning algorithm first like vowpal wabbit
here https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/

3) HPC

- Apache Spark http://spark.incubator.apache.org/
or
GraphLab http://graphlab.org/
or (if personal computer only)
GraphChi http://graphlab.org/graphchi/

- Both support HPC with graph centric framework

- Orders of magnitude faster than Hadoop

- Both built on top of Hadoop HDFS so connect and go

Hope this helps Everyone out there.

Have fun and try to solve some cool problems.
Public, Market Moving Data From the Fed Given Early to Private Investors
WEll, the apple app store comes with a lot of negatives, but disallowing stuff like this is one of the best things they have done.
To be honest, I probably don't have a better argument than what was already presented because I don't think LGPLv3 with the exception already given is a real practical problem, it is just a problem of companies not wanting to deal with uncertainty. I've run into this quite a bit in the real world, particularly with companies burned by using LGPL on iOS.

Go presents a similar issue to the iOS one in that dynamic linking of Go code to Go code is not an option (at least not without using gccgo), but it is easy to explain this away when using CGO linked code like Qt itself which lives in its own .so/.DLLs because they already understand that the dynamic link barrier shields them from the LGPL issues. But getting them to use Go code with LGPLv3 with exception that will statically link with their own Go code requires some direct involvement from legal/IP to "okay" it. Which could range from being a minor annoyance to a showstopper depending upon the company, in my experience.
I can't find a reference online, but one of the tape decks used for Miles Davis' Kind of Blue ran too slow for one track resulting in decades of people wondering how they tuned flat, including pianos

First hit has 1/2 sentence on this

https://www.google.com/search?q=miles+davis+kind+of+blue+out...
I have to admit that these are plausible scenarios. However, most regular citizens (I know, lots of horrible arguments start out with that phrase) would be harmed more by the spooks turning communications about legal gray areas over to prosecutors than to anyone in the government knowing about their gout or depression or whatever. (Sure some people are worried about "Obama's Death Panels" but if such ever appear I'm pretty sure they'll have access to your health records anyway.)

In your last scenario, the "bad" agents only win if they can sell the service, but keep secret the inputs to that service. I'm sure they can do that in the short term, but it's quite likely that eventually a salesweasel will speak a bit too freely in a semi-public forum and the whole scheme will unravel. After all, other government agents would be pissed off, if only out of jealousy.
front page of hacker news too now. congrats to him! kind of hard luck about the sign text not being in the picture, though. would have helped his business
how are you using Amazon for shipping? i know they fulfill for people selling via them, do they handle fulfillment for others?
How To Go Public Without Middlemen: Top 2 Options
I think the PostgreSQL community gets this right. The only deadlines are if you want your feature in the upcoming release, or if you can wait another year.

Seems to be paying off quite well. What other database can ship reliably every year with major new features and all kinds of improvements on many axes? And people still say the code is readable and the reliability is solid.
"Use by" dates mislead us
It depends on where you are, and if your hospital has ever been sued before. There are still pockets that don't have adequate training. I also assume that a lot of private practices don't get a lot of good data-handling training on the subject.
You're right actually, my fault. I was overreacting to other comments on the thread that were all butthurt about being picked on as a kid.
Thanks! Yes and yes. Not necessarily a trend, but to think about how you're going to get the word out from the beginning. Speaking in the abstract, I would rather have a great marketing idea and develop the product from that then vice versa.
I like Google's crush-tools, which works on delimited data (e.g. tab-delimited), a somewhat simpler and faster format than CSV. Lots of the built-in Unix tools also work on delimited data (cut, join, sort, etc.), but crush-tools fills in some gaps, like being able to do a 'uniq' on specific fields, do outer joins, sum columns, etc.:

https://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/
There is a Radiolab that discusses Toxoplasmosis:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91689-parasites/
This one is by design.

'Piracy' was defined as copyright violation by the copyright holders, not by general usage.

Therefore, we should fight that usage, just to compensate the balance.
>The findings are to be published in the Journal of Cosmology.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology
To me, the Tumblr is pointing out an overall lack of attention to detail. Some of these obvious bugs should have never made it past QA/testing, but somehow they did - and that's sloppy UI, regardless of whether it was an intentional "do that" directive.

I understand what you're saying, and perhaps the name of the Tumblr should change to "Issues with iOS7", but that sounds pretty boring to me. Instead, we can all agree that sloppy/bad decision-making, sloppy QA practices, etcetera can be learned from, and that there is value in identifying (and avoiding) these mistakes both in the works of others and in our own work.
Tangentially related, things like this are why I have not stopped wearing my fedora (in appropriate situations, with appropriate outfits).

Dear Internet Fashionistas: You've decided that fedoras and suspenders are the mark of a horrible person. Your opinions have no connection to reality. Over here in the real world, I look good. When I come back to the bar the next day to pick up my credit card, and the bouncer remembers me well enough to compliment my outfit from the previous night, that means I'm doing it right.
Security Researchers Claim Apple Technically Capable Of Intercepting iMessages
A Look at the Judge in the Barret Brown Case
Bullshit. Contamination (human error) seems far more likely than extra-terrestrial origins. The best comment from that page:

WHAT ARE THE MACROMOLECULAR COMPOSITION & THEIR GENETIC MATERIALS OF THE SUPPOSEDLY EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL MICRO-ORGANISMS?

Are the 'ET organism' genetic materials also based a polymer of nucleotides (like those on earth), whereby each nucleotide composed of one of the 4 nucleobase (with base adenine, thymine, guanine or cytosine), a 5-carbon sugar (either ribose or 2-deoxyribose) & one or more phosphate groups. DNA profiles are made up of various combinations of the 4 forms (polymers) of nucleotides.

For earth organisms (i.e. viruses, microorganisms, plants, animals), each codon (comprises of 3 nucleobase) code one of the specific 20 amino-acids (AA) of living organisms. A chain of codon in DNA would therefore specify UNIQUE AA chain – i.e. PROTEIN (like protein like enzymes, hormone, co-factors, etc), hence its unique form & function.

Although if Earth life originated from the same extra-terrestrial source, this wouldn't be able to rule out that scenario.
Of course it is, but I don't think it's possible to write about yourself without being self-absorbed. Personally, I think it's an interesting story idea from a perspective that I never would have thought about before.
This was the best line for me during the argument between two Redditors:

"you do realize things have value even if they're not digitized, right"

Brilliant point and something that is sadly being lost in our evolving digital community. As a former Anthropologist, we are leaving less and less artifacts for those future civilizations to discover us by.

At times, it's incredibly depressing to me this is the case. How will people know about the human race if our entire culture is wrapped up in bits and bytes and discarded without a thought to their permanence? It will as though we never existed.
10 Steps to Being an Ex-CEO
How sure are you about the negative impact of "early-bird". The purpose of it is to create a sense of urgency in the first group of people who visit the page, to make sure that the campaign takes off right away. Doesn't this outweigh the "you're being ripped off" thing?
How Atari box art turned 8-bit games into virtual wonderlands
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Especially when day to day tasks are used to procrastinate. Hmm, doing x is hard, why don't I check my email instead...
Some pretty high-EQ insights here, I'd say, from a founder passing the buck onto a hired pro.