skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to not like Mossberg because he doesn't understand technology, and because he gave low ratings to the products I worked on, which were challengers rather than market leaders.

Over time I've come to realize that he did a pretty good job of understanding and speaking to his audience of non-techie businesspeople, whose priority is to find something that "just works," regardless of hardware specs or technical elegance.

Mossberg readers don't tend to be HN readers, but they do represent a much larger market.
Can Conscious Intention Affect Quantum Events?
Helium: Modern extraction and distribution
Our minds are made to feel good doing the right thing, because it brings social benefits, and hence evolutionary benefits. But logically we know when to choose otherwise. So I don't think your son is a sociopath.
There's a problem with language productivity comparisons that Armstrong mentions: it's impossible to write the same program in two different languages. If you have the same team write it, their second try will benefit from everything they learned the first time, and that is so huge a part of programming that it is sure to distort the outcome and may even dwarf any language effects. But if you use different teams instead, you've traded one confounding variable for another—the effect of switching teams—which is also hugely influential. Thus it's impossible to do an apples-to-apples comparison, and most such experiments deserve high skepticism. It's too easy to consciously or unconsicously engineer the outcome you expect, which is presumably why we nearly always hear that the experimenter's pet language won the day. Has the experimenter's pet language ever not won the day?

That makes me think of a more modest way to do these experiments that might return more reliable results: use the same team twice, but have them solve the problem in their favorite language first. That is, if A is the pet language and you want to compare A to B, write the program first in A and then in B. This biases the test in B's favour, because A will get penalized for all the time it took to learn about the problem while B will get all that benefit for free. Since there's already a major bias in favor of A, this levels the playing field some.

Here's why I think this might be more reliable. If you run the experiment this way and A comes out much better, you now have an answer to the charge that the second time was easier: all that benefit went to B and B still lost. Conversely, if A doesn't come out much better, you now have evidence that the language effect isn't so great once you account for the learning effect.
Taking a C library and compiling it as C++ will negate the well-tested bit, since a totally different compiler is now interpreting the code.
France Pushes EU to Regulate U.S. Internet Companies
I'm saying that your advice is pointless, because nobody who could benefit from your advice chases a metric because they don't realize the things you say in the article. The things you say are obvious, and anyone who doesn't find them obvious is so profoundly stupid that there are thousands of basic skills they lack besides the one your advice corrects.

They chase metrics because they are in a situation where moving those numbers does something. In the case of the startup you mention, they could use the user count graph to raise money, which is probably what they were trying to do.

I go on to say that doing things like moving a metric for its own sake is really an example of deceptive signaling, which is pervasive in human affairs. On the way I point out the fact that deceptive signaling is often performed by a team of people, and many of the team members or employees actively work on such things despite having to grapple with moral reservations, and I talk about that for a bit, and point out they are not really innocent, but are acting primarily out of self interest.

Next, I talk about how many or most of the major problems in the world are due to resources being wasted because someone calculates that they can benefit more by using those resources to engage in deceptive signaling than by helping people, and they have many accomplices that recognize what is happening but assist anyway.

Finally, I point out that this is likely a dominant strategy, so there is almost no way to become powerful or remain in power except by engaging in such activities (using available resources in the way that maximizes power rather than any other consideration, such as preventing starvation), and I close by expressing my regret that this is so.
Which campus is that? Any chance you'd like to help make sure other students at your school know when/where to catch a bus to the rally?
While I agree that the usage is unclear, "killing it" as "doing really well" is very mainstream.

It still means "destroy it", but "it"="the competition/obstacles".
Does this require using Mozilla's servers on the backend? I've played with ShareJS and a commercial hosted OT service, but they all required talking to the server.

So, I assume this does too, but I haven't seen where I could install it on my server.
If you crop out the clues that its performance art, then it's more likely to be misunderstood.
If you RSVP on the site and put in a Boston zip code, you'll get information on how to link up with other people heading down from Boston. I know Restore the Fourth Boston is having a meetup in the next week or so for folks interested in the rally.
Found a reference, in this WSJ editorial: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732382300457859...

and Daily Caller piece:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/26/consumer-financial-protect...

To be fair the CFPB claims the data is anonymized, even though there are account level rows in the datasets they are pulling in from the credit card companies they regulate.
I was thinking the same thing, and it's funny you mentioned the SNES since some of the more advanced games for that platform used a second processor on the cartridge to assist.
The author is on this thread, so maybe he'll answer you. Of course you can do these things in C++, but does anyone really want to when there are languages better suited to it?

> That conclusion on squandering the power of new hardware is being backed by absolutely zero data

I believe that the C++ language and its philosophy are in direct conflict with the requirements of parallel programming. This conflict is responsible for the very slow uptake of parallel programming in mainstream software development. The power of multicore processors, vector units, and GPUs is being squandered by the industry because of an obsolete programming paradigm.

It's his opinion.

> and is obviously false

That's your opinion.
No doubt you can induce the same effect in far objects by exaggerating the difference between what each eyes can see. If you didn't have the size to compare, you would actually think they are nearer.

However, this is not very realistic - this is why sometimes the 3D effect in a movie vanishes or looks gimmicky. Until today, the most convincing 3D scene I ever saw were the recording in Avatar, which were recorded using a 3D camera very near to the face of the actor.
Not really. While I'm sure you could grab the brakes hard enough to launch yourself over the bars, there is a LOT of braking power to be had before that point.

I ride close to 6000 miles/year, most road cycling, racing criteriums and road races. Going over the bars because I simply grabbed the front too hard isn't even the top-20 things I worry about.
It may have been edited after you posted, but the comment he replied to did mention reddit.
All true. But I was wondering where the closing line to "Adam lay ybounden". I can translate it literally, but don't understand the cultural context.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but I don't think it is an expression of individuality, either. Going against the grain is still buying into the grain. Individuality is more about being orthogonal.
Google likes to suggest alternatives to words, he does mean verse as in verse of a song or poem, but (I never saw this particular one) had some searches where google was trying to turn verse into versus or vs. What I saw, and I've either gotten used to it or it's changed, was around 2009 when my searches stopped working one day. I'd use 3-5 keywords and Google's first page would only display pages using 1-2 of them. Invariably it was not the results I wanted. Quoting sections stopped meaning anything to Google searches so searching for phrases became dicy, as the words in the phrase would get split up. So if I was searching for "phrases became dicy" and new that was a line from the page I wanted, Google would return pages with maybe all three words but they'd be scattered about the page.
So, basically, you want someone else to do all the legwork and give you access to their data for free. Cool, we'll get right on that.
I don't really think that's a valid argument any more.
I've used only evasi0n on iOS 6.
I can't argue with your conclusion... But that misses the point that their (Mossberg and Swisher) brand is called "All Things Digital". It's trying to be tech press, when it's really just journalism for non-techies about tech.

I probably dislike the pair for the same reason my wife who is a physician dislikes the "medical corespondents" on the major news networks.

In any case, I see their coverage as cheesy and irrelevant to actual technophiles.
I know you mentioned that he's part scummy, used car salesman, but when does that part go away? You really shouldn't open a book that you actually want people to finish with 50 pages of boasting about how naturally awesome you are at literally everything, and how your life is a perpetual cycle of falling ass-backwards into giant piles of money and women. There are actually a ton of books that start like this and most of them don't contain anything of value, so I assumed that this one was the same.

Seriously though, does it get any better?
Having biked there (once) it's simple. I apply the brakes on downhills. If you're riding on a bike trail with excellent visibility, you can go flat out. If you're riding on a 2 lane road with no bike lane, poor visibility, and no shoulder, you slow down.
There's no ambiguity here. He didn't.
Jeffrey Zeldman Interview - Why Designers Need to Craft Words Not Pixels
It doesn't make sure the nodes along the route do not drop the packets. Nodes along the route would see those packets as normal TCP packets (which is by design because in this way routers in between don't have to change). But both end are aware of MPTCP and they may use multiple path.

In this case, iOS is connecting to Siri server using both 4G and WiFi. They apparently go through different routers. This helps improve reliability when the device is at border of a WiFi coverage and is switching between 4G and WiFi back-and-forth. Using two path simultaneously would allow Siri to switch to the other route when one of them is showing significant packet loss.
> When two gangs fight and people get injured but don't want the police to know about the location of the fight (an illegal clubhouse?),

Gangs tend to use social networks to organise fights. People in the UK tend to get wounds treated.

(http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/07/05130225/3)

> 89. Another innovative idea being taken forward is the sharing of 'anonymised' information collected at Accident and Emergency (A & E) departments in hospitals concerning the incidence of violence and use of weapons at particular geographical 'hotspots' so that police can track violence trends and take preventative measures. Many victims of violence do not report the crime to the police but do attend at A & E with their injuries. The National Violence Surveillance Network established by the Cardiff University Violence Research Group in England and Wales found that such measures led to decreased numbers of wounded victims attending A & E as a result of violence and a decrease in serious assaults reported to the police. A pilot study is underway in Lanarkshire hospitals along the same lines.

Here's what the Royal College of Nursing says about reporting crime: (http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/287793/03....). This mentions the Cardiff Model.

2006: (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-streets-of-sc...)

> But doctors have admitted that the vast majority of stab wounds treated in the city's hospitals go unreported to the authorities. The scale of the violence is feared to be much greater than officially acknowledged.

[...]

> Last September the United Nation's crime research institute said Scotland was the most violent country in the developed world. Scots were nearly three-times more likely to be the victims of violent assaults than people living in the United States. More than 50 per cent of knives found by the police in Scotland are seized in Glasgow. Stabbings account for half of all murders.

2011: (http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/shocking-rise-i...)

> According to the newly-published annual Global Study on Homicide, the homicide rate in Glasgow stood at 3.3 per 100,000, compared to 1.6 in the English capital.

> The report also shows Scotland’s homicide rate remains higher than in many other European countries, including England and Wales, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Figures for France were not available.

2013: (http://www.scotsman.com/news/glasgow-knife-crime-falls-by-a-...)

> There were 903 assaults involving blades in the period 2012-2013, compared with 1,439 the year before, a fall of 37 per cent. The rate is down 57 per cent since 2006-2007, when 2,138 knife attacks were recorded in the city.

> Officers have attributed the fall in knife crime to an increase in stop and search procedures across Glasgow. In November, 2007 the number of such searches carried out in the city was 4,356. Five years on, this figure has risen to 26,669.
Haha, thanks! Want to help write a real compiler? ;)
im moving to wp8
If iOS is exposing the API, I believe it should at least provide a parameter whether it should be a MPTCP or a classic TCP. Sometimes you don't need that reliable trasmission; using MPTCP would cause unnecessary cellular data usage.
One Washington city accuses another of cybersquatting
Rise of Ignition
Its production is verboten.
I tried the same - opening a google doc, it "tried" to open that as a pdf, but displayed a blank instead. I waited, and quit the app.

Even if they don't support a format, they could at least display a proper message. "Format not supported". That's purely an overlook.
You seriously think you can't type on a typewriter?

As to doing it electronicly, he deals with that issue, a electronic story email would have little value to most people.
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My favorite exchange was between “I_thrive_on_apathy” and “dlins”:

i_thrive_on_apathy: What the fuck is he going to do with that typed page? Scan it?

Dlins: you do realize things have value even if they're not digitized, right?

i_thrive_on_apathy: Huh?
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There is one fairly big difference. People who drive cars have to be licensed, with the legal liability that goes with that, and the potential to completely lose that privilege, which is a constraint.

When I hear people here saying that they can go right up to the speed limit on a bike in poor visibility without any concerns, it makes me think cyclists should go through the same process.

I'm a cyclist, and I rode that same stretch, and my bike computer told me I never went above 25 mph. Because I value my life.
I suspect very few in here have experience with that stretch of road, and fewer yet have that experience as a cyclist. I've ridden past that intersection probably close to 200 times (used to do repeats of OLH and coming down 84 is safer and more fun); as far as Skyline goes, it's a very safe stretch of road.

How does the fact that she previously traveled that stretch at a reasonable 36mph contribute to the discussion? If the point is to determine her guilt, it misses the mark. It does, however, come off as insensitive to the deceased.

In any case, I've seen a lot of analysis on braking times/distance vs speed. To this I will just add that I have a number of friends who have been taken out by vehicles suddenly turning in front of them -- it is one of the great dangers of riding. As to why that happens, it's typically either: the driver failed to account for the cyclist's speed, or failed to notice the cyclist.

And as for Skyline, there are a number of factors that make it a dangerous road to be on. One is the large number of car and motorcycle enthusiasts who drive its length at reckless speeds (doesn't seem a factor here, but motorist deaths are extremely common on Skyline). Another is the high contrast lighting conditions the trees paint on the road -- something I always worry about when I ride that road for any sizeable stretch.

To be honest, speed is your friend up there. The closer your speed matches the passing traffic, the safer you are. At least until someone turns into you, and then the only safe speed would be no speed at all.
Reversing a string in Python is not obvious nor consistent:

str[::-1]

While it is in C++:

std::reverse(str.begin(), str.end());

And Ruby is even more obvious and consistent:

str.reverse()

Most people who rag on C++ have never seriously used it. It's not that bad. Really, it isn't.
France could produce it, given time.

This is is a situation that has been discused for some time: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/nepa_documents/Re...

See the end of that document for discussion of Pu-238 from the UK and France. Notably it was thought in 1993 that France could have Pu-238 production going in a period of a few years ("late 90s" from 1993). To my knowledge the Pu-238 situation in France has not changed one way or the other since then. If the situation is either no more Pu-238, or Pu-238 in several years from France, then I would say that going to the French isn't a terrible idea. We didn't pursue getting Pu-238 from the French at the time because we thought that Russia was going to have us covered.
I agree, I need to work on a better side by side example. I just pasted them into vim side by side and called it a day so I could ship it.
I'm confused by this.

Pinterest content is fairly similar to ads. I recall something where the founder described it as digital magazine clippings--I figure that actual magazine clippings were more than likely originally promoting a product.

The way I'm imagining it, the ads could fit in very well. You say you're already using it as your cookbook. If a chicken pays to promote recipes involving chicken, this hasn't really effected your usage in a negative way.

If the execution is good, I'm not sure where the objection is coming from. Of course, the execution could be bad; but you seem to be implying that ads would be very negative either way.
Maybe they'll just have to switch to Sulfur Hexafluoride.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XbjFn3aqE
I really don't understand why in the world they would consolidate their menu into an "app launcher" for every single view. This is the opposite of responsive design.

Here's some free web design advice, Google: I'm not on my iPhone or iPad all the time. Show me some links if I have the room - it doesn't have to even be all of them.
Bob Parsons is that you? This is good for consumers?
"Party gas" is partly nitrogen and partly helium. Nitrogen by itself doesn't have lift.
Does the phone actually send the TCP packets multiple times? Then it would certainly put more stress on the network. Does anybody know how fairness compared to non-multipath TCP stacks is achieved?
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Do you think anything in that link is relevant to this article or did you just want to get in on the C++ bashing and had nothing to contribute of your own?
Yea I definitely need to get a better side by side separation. When I originally released it there was little interest and I became too busy with other jobs to continue putting time into it. Maybe next week though!
Keyword being "should".
Multipath TCP could be used for smoothly handing over from the slower, more expensive, less-reliable cellular system, to the faster, cheaper, more reliable WiFi.

Without multipath TCP, you have to drop and restart each connection, which in some applications can cause hiccups, latency, or even complete loss of state.

Of course, all of this depends on server-side MPTCP support as well, which most systems don't ship with out of the box.
Is the developed world so clean that its making us sick
Sure, glad if I helped. To complete my suggestion—you can also change landing page layout to make logo more prominent (something like http://docker.io/), in which case it doesn't need to be simplified.
Look here: https://togetherjs.com/docs/contributing.html#hosting-the-hu...
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I think this is what you want: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/wiki/Hosting-the-Hub-S...
They discuss the fairness attributes in their NSDI '11 paper:
http://static.usenix.org/event/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Wisch...

It's an interesting read, and it will explain it better than I can.
Hacker News needs a filter for all bike related stories. Comments like yours are the intellectual equivalent of High Fructose Corn Syrup.

I am so tired of the snobby biker community/high tech overlap in the venn diagram of the startup world.

There is no value in this discussion and nothing but troll bait.
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Assuming facts not in evidence, etc., I don't see any indication that Afternic is "the domain market." Looking at the author's Tweets, on the other hand, illustrates their depth of knowledge quite effectively.
Great! Can you prove it?

There's a benchmark:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=wi...

Go-lang is roughly 10 times faster than ASP.NET (implemented as recommended by Microsoft). Skipping the ORM doubles the speed, but then you lose most of the components, so I'm not sure that's a realistic optimization.

Can you do better?
~$1600 gross per month doesn't really seem like a living wage for Bayarea; in Seattle you could probably get by. I think even startups up here usually pay north of $20/hr. I've heard of Google/FB paying north of $30/hr for interns.

$10/hr may dodge a lawsuit, but I think you'll have your interns bought out from under you by someone less cheap.
I agree to the point I wish police were banned from owning drones of any type, but fire and search and rescue should be encouraged to add drones to their set of tools. If something that needs police attention comes up, they can be told.
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First? OpenBSD and the Linux kernel have had this integrated for years.
What's obnoxious about her?

Anything she writes about melissa meyer...

Google it. er, no pun intended.
My success has alienated me from my friend group and I don't know what to do
To put it frankly, I've been making a lot of money recently and I feel distanced from my core group of friends, who are all great people that I share many genuinely fond memories with. Most of them are humanities and art grads from my old school so I've known them for 6+ years but I've feel as though I'm being stigmatized for having a great job (only a few years out of school, mid six-figures) in the sense that I am called "the millionaire" and there are a lot of references, snide and otherwise, to my income. It's just strange because we've been friends for so long. I love these people and I don't know what to do.
Multipath TCP sends packets over multiple paths; multiple different connections, such as cellular and WiFi. It doesn't repeat the packets, unless one of them is dropped. It can be used for several purposes; aggregating bandwidth between the paths, taking advantage of the bandwidth of both connections. It can be used for reliability. And it can be used for transparent handover of connections, where you may walk out of your house and switch over from WiFi to cellular seamlessly.

LWN has a good article on it: https://lwn.net/Articles/544399/