skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be useful for more trivial actions, the consequences of which would be pretty minor for the user.

On the other hand for irreversible actions, as the authors put it (and ones more drastic than those mentioned here), a dialog, modal or otherwise, is perfectly warranted.

One more click hardly makes any difference in time, and it brings up a brief little moment for reconsideration in case the user doesn't immediately realize they're doing something potentially unwanted.
Most look like Android apps to me, whats not showing here is that most of these have shifted to using left side pull out menus, just like Android.

More cross platform design consistency is a good thing in my opinion.
I agree with your experience, but I disagree with your conclusions re: cause and effect. Specifically:

* Penalizing players for dying for longer and longer periods of time

* Penalizing players for playing in groups

I suspect these were simply misguided design decisions aimed at making the game "challenging". Difficulty was entirely out of whack at launch across the entire game (yes, partly because the developers vastly underestimated the effect of the AH), and I suspect this was simply part of it.

* Limiting in-game communication systems severely

I have no way to prove it, but I'm almost certain this was a result of some bizarre political battle inside Blizzard. Battle.net 2.0 came out with Starcraft 2 with the same boneheaded decisions - no chat rooms, the RealID fiasco, etc. - and Diablo 3 simply inherited that mess. There HAVE to be people inside Blizzard who understand why players might find chat rooms valuable, but for some reason they never made themselves heard. I don't think this has much to do with the AH.
There are many factors besides contemplation of future punishment that influences whether people become more or less likely to commit a crime, so I would focus on tackling the whole host of them, rather than moving that one lever. Mental health, poverty, education, urban planning, etc. all influence crime rates. For example, one factor contributing to the U.S.'s high drunk-driving rates is that the state of late-night public transit, combined with urban design, means that people routinely drive to bars, which sets up an obviously problematic situation.

Plus, the empirical data on sentence lengths as a deterrent is fairly weak. People do seem to respond to likelihood of being caught: a 6-month sentence you are virtually sure to get is more of a deterrent than a 6-month sentence that you have maybe a 5% chance of being caught and sentenced to. But especially at the high end, there is little to no evidence that having prison sentences of 30 years is more of a disincentive than prison sentences of 10 years.
For me the biggest change was 'structured programming', Niklaus Wirth and K&R changed the way I looked at code completely. Pascal was never my favorite language but after 'Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs' I became a much better programmer pretty much overnight.
So what if it was inside the official kernel repo but defaulted to building as a module, and anyone distributing binaries left it on the default? Would that actually satisfy the licenses or are there clauses that would get in the way?
Does anybody know of a good VPS provider - overseas is fine, perhaps even preferable - that accepts Bitcoin, which I could run an exit node on?

This lists Good/Bad ISPs, but a CMD+F for 'bitcoin' has 0 results:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...
Well yeah, i get that, but they shouldn't have to be anonymous about the fact they're getting trolled. this should be all out in the open.
Meet Cate : a mobile app concept that aims to make communication human again.
I am inclined to believe the reason for the lack of any meaningful protests and quite strange vanishment of OWS is in great part due to these new tools by the people in power. Meaningful protests would be against the using of taxpayer money to gift to private industries and the sellout ones digital life and rights to foreign countries.
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I was just saying that your 19,230:1 ratio was arbitrary. You could just as easily have made it 192,300:1 by choosing 10x billionaires (of which there appear to be 41) instead of just billionaires. Or you could have made it 1,923:1 by choosing 100x millionaires (dunno how many of those there are I'm gonna guess 10k or so).

On the other side of the line that 52k $ is arbitrary. Why is "average income in the US" the relevant #? I bet the average income in Detroit is lower. Or what about average african american income which is surely lower than that? I bet there are people in Detroit who earn essentially no money? Surely that number is relevant when talking about a wealth disparity ratio.

I was just saying that there are much much much better measures of wealth disparity than the #s you came up with.
To me, that means more than "what you did to get thrown in prison". In the US, many people see prisoners as fundamentally failed human beings, they are in prison because they are "Bad", not so much because they broke law X or law Y. You see this when right-wing pundits talk about "thugs" as in the recent Trayvon Martin incident. Often, but not always, there is a racial element. The transgressions that many believe merit such harsh punishment are not the same as the crimes for which a person was convicted, in fact, many people are against letting people out of prison even once they have been cleared!
Pieces of Startup Advice You Never Thought Of
The Hipmunk app got really confusing. 4square also looks not as good as the pre-7 version IMHO.
There's another important dimension: the fan-out factor when a person with many followers tweets.
In California at least the prison-guard union does have a significant role, which is a kind of profit motive. They successfully campaigned for the three-strikes law, for example, and have been a strong influence on politicians for decades.

I agree the war on drugs is a much bigger factor.
I remember the endless complaints about how hard Diablo 3 was at launch. I therefore find it hard to believe you were able to accumulate enough ingame gold to buy gear 'within a few days' that allowed you to handle 'most everything', except by buying gold. In games like Diablo, buying ingame items or currency is roughly analogous to shooting yourself in the foot with a cannon, because you effectively remove the end-game for yourself.

I wish people like you would stop judging the game by its version 1.0.0, rather than the 1.0.8 we're at now. People are no longer penalized longer and longer for dying and playing in groups is now actively rewarded.

I would quite seriously invite you to give the game a second try. Diablo 3 is by no means a perfect game (for example, public game discovery is still abysmal, and ingame communication is practically non-existent), but it has improved a lot since it came out, in many small but significant ways. I fully expect that the expansion will further improve the game, as indeed it did for Diablo 2.
Libertarians Are The New Communist
A Fair Intelligence Test (see the "about" link).
CCM is short for "Counter with CBC-MAC". I does also MAC the encrypted data and is equally slow as using a cipher and HMAC on top of it. A real speed improvement would be the Galois Counter Mode.
> I get that building a pool makes your house worth more

Not necessarily. Many folks see a pool as an extra expense and will immediately disregard a potential purchase because the property has a pool. This is especially true for above-ground ones that aren't as durable as in-ground designs.
does your grid scheduler checkpoint intermediate work automatically, so that node failures have small impact?
Nonces and IVs aren't the same thing. IV is not a shorter way to write "nonce".
Is Apple About to Become the Dominant Game Console Maker?
I think they're squarely aiming it as a high-end gift, which is smart. I'd never pay $50 for a dozen links of Kreuz sausage, but I'd flip out with joy if someone sent them to me unexpectedly.
Bytemark in the UK might accept it for this if you have a chat with them. They are ORG sponsors and generally seem to be on side over privacy and free speech issues.
>Selecting Hadoop before you have a specific and concrete need for it--or see that need approaching rapidly on the horizon

the great achievement of Hadoop isn't performance, throughput, etc... (and in many cases it can actually be worse than alternatives).

The great achievement is that it is an easy (i.e. on the orders of magnitude) accessible (i.e. easy installable, configurable, scalable, supportable, programmable) cluster for "mere mortal" enterprise. Before Hadoop, any clusterable software (where even laughable by Hadoop standards 2 nodes were already priced at the cluster level) would cost arm and leg and 4 or 8 nodes would be considered a huge cluster. Hadoop gives a chance to an enterprise (not to CERN :) to taste an unconstrained (loose use of term) distributed computing, and the next generation of software is already coming - Impala, etc...

And obligatory - "nobody gets fired for using Hadoop".
Can anyone more familiar with the education system in India shed light on why she might not have been able to get a loan or grant?

It seems like she would be a pretty low risk given her past performance and from what I have found through Google so far is that education loans in India have many of the same tax benefits as ones in the US.

Do education loans in India require collateral?
Actually no; when they made the auction house they reduced the quality of items that dropped. This is evident in the console versions, which have vastly different "loot tables" and no auction house. So they didn't just make it convenient for players, they tailored the items that drop around the fact that anyone could sell and buy items.

For the small group of players that always did trading that's probably a good thing, but for the vast majority that want the game to be Diablo and not the auction house it was a pretty bad change to the core game.
Since I'm nowhere near the valley and the start-up community in my community might as well be non-existent, I was wondering how I might go about meeting and getting introductions to investors.

In that case, it's probably good to think of ways to move to the valley.

It sounds like the only investors in your area are probably individuals who happen to be wealthy, i.e. potential angel investors. But outside of the valley, angels tend to be family or people you're already acquainted with. And even if you can get them to invest in you, they're going to be less experienced than valley angels, meaning they may be dangerous to you. E.g. they'll probably rely heavily on their lawyer to structure the deal, and since you're not in the valley, that lawyer probably isn't a startup specialist, so you'll need to be extra careful they're structuring the deal properly (and structuring your company properly, if they're incorporating you).

Investment can be had in places other than the valley, of course. But the reason you want to be in the valley is because (a) that's where the top investors are, and (b) there are a lot of them. Raising investment anywhere else therefore increases the risk of having bad terms forced on you by clueless angels or predatory VCs.

Choosing to seek investment in the valley is like choosing the high ground in a battle: it's naturally suited to protect you from dying. And since avoiding death is every startup's most important goal, the valley is therefore the most important place to be.

http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html

http://paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
Which is why the Tor legal FAQ suggests that you shouldn't run an exit node from your home:

https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en
Can you repost the neighborhoods or recite them from memory? Original comment got deleted.
I feel like the befores are significantly better. The gradients and heavier weights divide up the space better, and let you easily find the natural boundaries. In the afters almost everything blends together.
There have been public complaints from Blizzard employees about Battle.net. Community managers and developers both have stated that improvements to Battle.net are far harder to push through than changes to the games proper. Why exactly this is, I'm not sure. My guess would be that it's either seriously understaffed or drowning in bureaucracy.
But under the pile of this manure, real content is still there, real people with knowledge still answer real questions.

No, not really, not in a density that makes it worth it from anyone. I mean I looked hard at several points for question answerers as well as attempting to be one. You yourself admit the place broken by the end of your post.

The obvious thing is that good answers that involve effort on the part of the answerer generally don't get you anything like the appropriate Karma.

Even more, SO actually reduced the amount of Karma you could get by asking questions so there's nothing to distinguish good questions from crap questions.
The colon's a legal character in Unix filenames, so it's possible someone could send you a file named somehostname:foo.tar and convince you to run tar on it. Of course, if you quote the filename or escape the \:, as bash autocompletion would do, it wouldn't be an issue, but I could imagine some possible scenario.
Best news ever. I wrote extensively on the spanish forums about how bad the game was with the RMAH and the AH itself. They claimed many things like "good economy" and nice balance between real money and virtual, but it was all a lie. In fact, the same became dull really fast.

This is a wonderful news for the Diablo fans, who really love to trade char by char, using items. Diablo is that, an itemfinder game, trade items for items, not for realmoney. But well, you can sell them outside the game anyways, people did it even with the current AH.
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The typical rationales are 1) the society as a whole is more well-ordered and better off when people do not benefit from evil acts; 2) such punishments act as a deterrent. One can reasonably disagree with either or both of those. I suppose I took issue with dismissing them off-hand as 'juvenile'

But it's only fair then to ask you how you can be so presumptuous to think you can, or even should 'rehabilitate'?
The article reads like it was translated into English. So many bizarre word choices. Anybody else notice? Self-ruled cars. Features owned by other cars. Sovereign driving. Systems (that) have congregate functional safety. I stopped reading after enough little phrase bombs like those.
I updated to the GM last week. I like it. I think it is a great first step.
This preference could also depend on the font and what's rendering it; on my Thunderbolt Display, while "18pt" Consolas renders at less than 7 points wide using OS X defaults, Windows 8, using defaults for the same display, renders the same font at around 8.5 points wide by default, and Myriad Pro's "M" at nearly 13 points wide. Since 13/7 is approximately 18/10, your respective preferences may not be as different as you think.
Yes definitely. I was a different person back then but that experience in particular helped change me. I fear going to jail now more than before I ever went in. The sheer boredom of it all is enough to drive you mad. Concrete walls, hard metal beds, lights never go off, constant yelling, just enough food to make sure you don't starve, and of course the other inmates that are all criminals and a lot are willing to commit violence to get their way. You've haven't seen the true depths of human depravity until you see two grown men try to kill each other because one wanted to watch a different soap opera or sought revenge for some supposed sleight. And I had it easy compared to prison or the penitentiary.
Some of us have backgrounds in MPI, BSP and other distributed computing paradigms. I switched to high throughput computing and I can tell you that I would never go back to MPI. People who use MPI almost always use it as a crutch to avoid solving the hard problem that would make their computation a lot easier.

As an example I used to write MPI code for molecular dynamics simulators. The goal was to use a large supercomputer to scale the computation up to longer trajectories. But then, with cheap linux boxes it made more sense to just run many simulations in parallel, because low latency MPI class networks cost much more than the machines. We and others made the switch to other approaches which didn't need MPI- we ran many sims in parallel and did only loosely coupled exchanges of data. In fact the coupling was so loose we would run for weeks, dumping output in a large storage system and processing the data with MapReduce.

When I look back at the people who still do the MPI simulations- they are doing dinky stuff and can't even process the data they generate because they spend all their time scaling a code using MPI that didn't need to be scaled with MPI.
I played for a bit, not as much as you. Couldn't they have made items "bind on equip" and/or "bind on pickup" similar to WoW instead of dropping the AH all together? Seems like dropping the AH will just create 3rd party marketplaces and trading instead.
I heard Italians would have preferred the Concordia to be converted in a restaurant with Schettino as a waiter.
Any comments or suggestions from HN would be much appreciated!
Well put. What does this say about a condo buildings? Ratio of livable structural sqft to land sqft is much higher in condos than SFH and yet there is still crazy appreciation.
Hi! What version of Keccak do you use? Sha3 isn't standardized yet and it seems like they will be changing some details of the original proposition.
She is a genius. Why isn't the government providing any financial aid? I bet when this news come out famous schools like Harvard, MIT would probably send recruiter to get her into the shcool.
I lasted 37 hours on Android
I think it just took long enough and once started they couldn't just pause it overnight.
I hear you on the house inspection. As a naive first-time buyer, I was told over and over again to get an inspection and I did. And, all-in-all, it was a waste of $300. The roof was more damaged than I was led to believe, and there were several huge "code" violations with the plumbing and electrical. Luckily, I have family handy-men who taught me how to correct these problems myself and on the cheap. If you decide to pay for a home inspection in the future, make sure you don't use one that is recommended by your realtor (facepalm).

The "maintenance" issue is often misunderstood and the costs are different depending on if you live in the home or are renting it out to someone else. Case in point, my furnace started failing a few years ago. I could have fixed it on a Saturday afternoon for a hundred or so (it was made in 1986 -- they were not particularly sophisticated devices back then). If I wasn't living in the house, I would have gone this route. Instead, due to the $250/month heating bill to keep my house at a cool 65 in the winter coupled with the availability of generous tax credits, I upgraded the A/C and furnace. I now keep my home at 75 degrees and pay $80 in the coldest months of the winter.

Most of the problems I've run into have a similar theme. I could have gotten another few years out of my roof with patch work ($~100), but I replaced it because I wanted a better looking (and functioning) roof ($3000). I had a water tank problem that, I discovered, wasn't even failing -- the temp was just set too high. ($0) Due to tax credits and a desire to run more than one device that consumes hot water, I replaced it. ($800) People who are afraid of the unpredictability of these costs can purchase insurance (read the fine print and no, it's usually not a good deal). And a lot of the really expensive repairs that you hear about have more to do with people failing to inspect their home regularly, themselves (get in the attic, watch the way the water drains when it rains, etc). It's a lot cheaper to fix a downspout/gutter that's imperfect than it is to solve a foundation issue that creeps up as a result of water affecting the stability of the ground around a basement.

The article doesn't really apply to where I live. If you're renting out here, it's at a set of suburban-ish apartment complexes (900sq. ft. 2br, 1ba $800) or extremely low-end houses usually in undesirable neighborhoods vs a dearth of single family homes around 1400 sq. ft, 3br, 1.1 or 2 ba with basement space not included in the square footage. While there are homes in the million plus range, they're huge or have something that's highly unique about them (like a million dollar light house[1], supposedly the only one in Michigan that can be privately owned -- and even that's been sitting on the block for two years with the offering price dropped from 1.5 million).

[1] http://www.oldhousedreams.com/2012/04/20/1886-lighthouse-por...
The USA is significantly larger than Sweden in both geography and sheer numbers of people. This has an obvious effect on the absolute size of economic engine. If you take population into account then Sweden actually has a larger economy[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...
Tastes Like Chicken
they already sucked the money out of it (what little there was). And hoping making this change will get users back. Too late, Blizzard.
I made an intelligence test. Will you guys help me calibrate it? It was built with the idea of being immune to practice effects, background, and stereotype threat, because you can practice it as much as you like without spoiling it.

As far as I can tell after trying it out on various friends it seems to be a mathematician / programmer detector.

If people would like to leave comments about their backgrounds that would really help! (What was your last year of formal schooling, do you have an IQ test result, formal exam results, etc)
Why we're doing it: a first person narrative on changing the World
I don't see it as black and white. I still use it and even answer things from time to time. But I recognize there's a problem.
Stanford has a group called "VAIL" which is an acronym for the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab. [1] As you probably know, Audi is a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Auto Group. AFAIK, this group was borne out of the DARPA Autonomous Car challenge, where the Stanford team partnered with VW to win the challenge. [2]

They've produced several different VAG-based models including several Audis that mainly focus on self-driving and similar AI. One of their more high profile recent examples was an Audi TT that climbed Pikes Peak without any human input. [3]

Some pretty cool stuff, and likely the cars you saw.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/group/vail/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y88...
White Paper for scalable sites from Facebook, Ericsson and Qualcomm [pdf]
I can see it being more difficult to modify, since it powers all Blizzard games. That also raises another option - it's a technical mess that no one wants to touch...
Instacart starts same-day grocery delivery service in Chicago
Even if all jobs take less than 14GB data as input, but the sum total of your data is far greater, it is easier to use Hadoop as a unified single filesystem for storing data rather than relying on multiple different machines that you manage by hand. Even if you treat Hadoop simply as a multi-machine filesystem, it automates the job of managing which files are where, that you inevitably have to manage by hand if you go with storing your data on multiple machines sans some kind of filesystem interface.
Reminds me of a scene from Jurassic Park.
CV on its way!
Based-upon-nothing trolling nonsense, by yet another Grand Vision pontificator. Nothing to see here.