skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Six figures a year, going for seven (long way away) and compete head on with the industry leaders (they do eight figures). Long time bootstrapped/passive.
If you want a bug fixed, you need to file it at bugreport.apple.com. Complaining in the forums won't get it tasked to an engineer.
We set up hubot with a github status message. I just wish GH could push the information out, instead of us having to go get it.
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$8.99 is too high for this to be worth while for most readers, IMO. I'm a pretty regular reader and I'm lucky to get through 1 and half books a month. Most books I buy are under this price (around $5)... I can sample from Amazon before I buy, so I don't see the benefit here unless you're a power reader and most people are not.
> national duty

It's difficult to "appreciat[e] the opportunity for debate" without also acknowledging that there is a legitimate argument to be made that secret mass surveillance is wrong, in which case a legitimate argument can also be made that one's national duty to disclose a program of mass surveillance trumps any professional duty to respect its secrecy.

Indeed, any reasonable legal framework for state secrets will include the notion than an overwhelming public interest should overrule the expectation of privacy. See, for example, the Canadian Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), which includes an obligation to disclose private information to the public if there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is an overriding public interest in disclosing it.

Again, the problem with Edward Snowden's disclosures is not that he breached some ethic or etiquette, but rather that such programs as he disclosed should never have existed in secret in the first place.
Thompson's original paper used used the example espression:

a(b|c)*d

without any description of what it meant, so I take it that at the very least, that much was borrowed from Kleene. I am having a hard time reading it, to see if anything else was implemented, as I am unfamiliar with Algol-60 or IBM 7094 assembly.

He cites Kleene's paper, saying that he assumes the reader is familiar with regular expressions; I'd look at that paper and see what Kleene described, but I can't find a copy of that.

Thompson also site a paper by Brzozowski. The abstract for that paper includes: "Kleene's regular expressions, which can be used for describing sequential circuits, were defined using three operators (union, concatenation and iterate)"

Which I take to mean that Kleene only came up with the syntax expressed in the example expression at the beginning.
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this is not interesting news
I'm not sure who actually thought that "smoothing the wave" did make you actually go faster though, since a moment's thought shows that "going faster" would necessarily involve going through the bumper of the car in front of you. I think it's about a "laminar" traffic flow being a lot less annoying and dangerous to drive in, if you are going to go slow.

I think he fell down on his own argument when he claims that doing that causes a "big traffic jam" downstream of you; how can it, if you're only 10 or 20 seconds max further behind than you otherwise would be? You can only cause that much additional "traffic jam" in the back, and it may well be worth it to create a more laminar flow.
Agreed a million percent. I hated flossing and I still do, but these are so easy to use, that it's absolutely overcome my reluctance.

Most nights are like "But I don't wanna floss, enh, it's like a couple seconds, whatever."
I was originally going call this 'pretty good for amateur hour stuff' but I clicked around the site a little bit and dude's got an EE, which raises the bar of what's acceptable, and the mistakes are more damming.

For example, you gotta window your FFTs in the spectrogram, kid.
The article claims that the maximum theoretical throughput for traffic per lane is 2,400 vehicles per hour.

What if every vehicle is separated by 2 seconds of stopping time, but all vehicles are moving at the exact same speed of 200 Miles per hour?

It would take one vehicle 0.005 hours to cover a mile (5,280 feet).

Assuming each car had a length of 10 feet, it would take 0.005/528 = 0.0000095 hours for a vehicle to cover it's own length at 200 mph.

2 seconds is the equivalent of 0.0006 hours. So each vehicle would take approximately 0.0006095 hours to cross any given point.

Providing a number of 1/0.0006095 = 1,640 cars per lane per hour according to my calculations.

I expected the number of cars per lane per hour to increase with speed, which is why I did the calculations, but apparently it does not!

If you could actually drive 200 mph on your way to or from work however, you would get there sooner than you typically do in traffic. It's an odd problem to think about.
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Will Keccak = SHA-3?
Have you looked into using Elasticsearch's date histograms as sources for Graphite-functions?

Jordan Sissel wrote a short note about it over here: https://gist.github.com/jordansissel/3760225

That'll obviously be very expensive when the resolution is very high, though.
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You can read a bit more about DroneDeploy here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/angelpad-backed-dronedeploy...

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/24/managing-multiple-drones-is-har...
Swedish here. I just hate the way things are set up, so that in the winter you practically don't get any sunlight at all. You go to work in the dark, work inside (not necessarily by a window) and then you go home in the dark. I would much rather shift the day so that the sun is up when I'm not at work. No wonder people get depressed.
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I wonder if they'd allow the "name at the bottom of the site" to be a link, given that the grand prize here is personal exposure (as well as a warm fuzzy feeling for helping the project I guess).
Longer writing on the topic, linked to in the above post: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409-nist-sha-...
jaw drop
Odd, it works fine on my kindle web browser...
Question: why don't benchmark sites then install a third-party android distro and benchmark with that?
Quirky Brings Innovation Expert Doreen Lorenzo on as President
I rarely use those. And there is also Firebug.
See Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Last I checked, he wasn't a know-nothing engineer.
Github Nginx 405 on Logout
Donations to the EFF are always an appropriate way to thank someone for making their work free:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

That being said, a more "personal" thanks can always be made by sending PayPal directly to reg@braythwayt.com. Thanks either way!
Crappy emails make me sad
What's your hubot script for this? Can you share a link to the GitHub rep-oh wait. That's not gonna work.

But seriously, I want this for my HipChat.
I've always tried to smooth the wave on the fuel efficiency argument. I figure that maintaining a constant low speed has got to use less gas and be easier on my car than all the stopping and starting.
Agree 100%.

From the article:

>Suppose you’re on a 2-lane (each way) highway and one lane is closed up ahead due to construction. Now the flow rate of your lane is cut in half (or there are twice as many cars in line in front of you, depending on how you want to look at it).

What I observe is that the speed is reduced to one twentieth of the speed, not just half. This is because people are merging very slowly while jostling resulting in needless braking. If everyone could agree upon a proper zipper merge, the speed for everyone would go up many times.

Or imagine a traffic signal at the merge point that only lets one lane go through for a minute each. The overall flow rate would be much higher than what it is without such a signal.

Discounting this based on theoretical flow rate (as if removing one lane reduces real traffic flow by only 50%) shows that the author totally ignores real traffic scenarios completely at odds with the title of the article.
Using the available lane-age/real-estate to attempt negotiating a merge at speed and minimize the problems caused by inertia is a good thing. This works in at least two ways:
1) The backup is less likely to extend past an off-ramp as pointed out.
2) Human-nature. If everyone in the backed up lane were paying attention and trying to get off the road as soon as possible, this benefit wouldn't exist. However, some people use the opportunity afforded by the congestion to check their email or a map or adjust their hair/makeup or turn around to yell at the kids or just day-dream. When the car in front of them moves, it takes them several seconds to snap out of whatever is distracting them. In these cases, it's possible to slip in front of them without adding to the number of inert vehicles.

This is true of unstopped vehicles as well. Not everyone is comfortable driving at the maximum safe speed. In fact, where I live, fines are enforced on all state roads from 6 to 13 MPH below engineering guidelines. Even so, many people choose to travel even slower than allowed by graceless statute. While these patient souls approach the bottleneck, several of the swift may de-queue themselves to the benefit of everyone who would otherwise wait behind them.

Oftentimes, the road hasn't actually reached saturation--it's just a compound case of live-lock and if people use the full measure of available lanes (instead of stopping at the first sign that says "Road Work Five Miles Ahead"), they have a greater opportunity of resolving the contention without promoting a cascaded slow down.

Of course, all of this is an edge-case. As the OP alludes, when the road is actually saturated, the real solution involves either decreasing demand for or increasing the supply of throughput at the chokepoint. Mere bickering and maneuvering will not avail anyone.
I have been told by a dentist that the reason for "you must brush your teeth for 2 minutes" is mostly because the tooth paste should have time to work on the teeth. I.e. Not to remove physical "dirt". In which case you should keep the paste on for two minutes even with this device.

Disclaimer: I never checked on the 2 min fact, but do think a dentist would know.
Are those for the 2014 calendar year? Everything changes then. As of last night, I was seeing 'good deals' on insurance from multiple places, but it was all 2013 numbers.

My understanding is that you need to have an 'ACA-compatible' plan, and in my state (NC) there are precious few, and effectively only one provider. HSAs are effectively gone (at least for me in NC - it looks like for others in NC as well) and my premium doubled for 2014.
I could easily see it coming up in survey-software or massive legal forms where paging is implemented via hide/show. This is a bit of an abuse of the hide/show mechanic, but I've written abominations like that myself.

Yes, books of paper forms with over 6000 fields can happen. Especially common if you've got a lot of "only fill the one out of these 10 forms that are relevant to you" kind of layout, or cases where you're using forms in a tabular layout - 6000 fields is a 20x300 (dunno why I said 80 a moment ago) grid. Large, but not unthinkable. 300 lines of a personnel directory with 20 fields on each?

Imagine you've got a scrollable list of something and have 20 visible textbox elements in each list entry?

This kind of stuff was super-common back before AJAX. I could see supporting an internal application and having this problem, for example.
Forgot to mention it--I use it, but it isn't enough. For Android there is Twilight. The amber glasses are < $8 and are essential, in my experience.
I missed that, but that looks pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing!
FTA:

>According to the company, By simply biting and grinding, Blizzident automatically cleans all teeth perfectly within six seconds, and you can even floss and clean your tongue at the same time.
The future of Microsoft Office add-in development
That's not what I was questioning - see my other answer for why WinRT was not "reassuring". Now it makes sense, and I can safely not care about WinRT.

As far as Longhorn failing, certainly that was both a disaster in management and not just technology. After all, MS Corp felt generics were and impractical academic and theoretical idea that couldn't be properly implemented in a language like C# or the CLR.
But if you can spread the jam over a longer area with higher speeds then you should be able to prevent any part of the jam hitting that catastrophic threshold.
Using Text Analysis To Predict H-1B Wages
Designers do get all bent out of shape on spec work for commercial clients, with many considering it immoral (really).

http://www.nospec.com/
http://www.aiga.org/position-spec-work/

A free job for a non-profit is a little less bad, as presumably the motivation is to help the non-profit, rather than to make money. That said, a free contest is going to waste a lot of effort.
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You are correct, I was mostly talking about wholesale designer brands which are mid-to-high end (priced at the cost of someone like J. Crew or Gap or above).

It's actually interesting though, at the mid-to-low end similar disruption is happening in a different way. There are 'designer' brands that exist at these price points, but they are being disrupted by the department stores that previously purchased them shifting to private label production (brands the stores produce themselves and label with their own brand), and shifting fast. In 1970, 25% of department store retail was private-label brands, in 2005, 50%, in 2010, 60%. [1]

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Do you have a question or an opinion to share in more objective terms? I have difficulty understanding what idea you are trying to convey.
1.5 books a month is probably higher than the national average, but you'd be surprised how voracious a lot of readers are. I probably read 2 books a week, and I'm by no means a power reader by the standards of those who really are. I know quite a few people who regularly plow through 5 a week. Especially fiction readers and readers of "snackable" nonfiction (Jon Krakauer, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, etc.).

Power readers are probably a small niche, but they're also a profitable niche. Younger readers (13-16), especially female, tend to consume YA novels like we consume HN posts. Vast fortunes have been made catering to that segment.
Parent suggested an example with hundred inputs. You made one with several hundred inputs, and even that one didn’t crash Safari.

It would’ve been better to simply concede that it’s an edge case. Putting thousands of inputs on a form is
bad web development.
Valve files trademark for Half Life 3 in Europe.
Show HN: Email backup made easy
What happens when everyone loses the app store race to the bottom?
Not the case at all. Writing blog posts, writing stories, writing emails, all share the same principle: use only the words necessary to convey the message.

Just because story-writing has a lot more description does not mean that those words aren't necessary. For example, for Hamlet to simply say "I am conflicted about my current situation and am contemplating suicide", does not nearly give the same nuance or insight into what his thought process is as "To be, or not to be, that is the question:/Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer/The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,/Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep".

tl;dr the goal of most forms of writing is to convey a message with just the right amount of words
SpaceX Says Some Parts Fell Off Rocket But It Didn't Explode
The initial point about rate of vehicles through a specific point per lane per hour couldn't be more simple and valid.
This does sound very useful. I'd strongly consider open sourcing it. The failure has caught me right in the middle of switching gears from one project to another, and I'm basically twiddling my thumbs in the company IRC waiting for it to come back up so I can pull down the requirements.
If a word is needed, obviously you won't omit it.

It's a tongue in cheek response to the EoS quote ("Omit needless words"), not - devoid context - serious style guidance.
figured something like this would happen. Docs is not meant for this purpose. It's a cool hack and all but I'd expect issues at some point
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> Progress is necessarily contingent upon hypocrisy.

I'm more inclined to the notion that progress is contingent on noticing and reducing hypocrisy. Ethical principles established in one domain tend to cross over to others over time, and long-unquestioned practices come under the scrutiny of the new ethical perspective.
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Using github as your oauth provider for logins is turning out to be a really bad idea for me.
> One of the great advantages of 3D Printing is the ability to design and create customized versions of everyday objects.

This is not a customized version of an everyday object. This is a completely new object nobody has ever made before. Calling it a toothbrush is like calling an automobile a "horseless carriage".
I'll bite: what are you using to ship logs?

EDIT: or I can read it in the post...
Curious to know how many engineering teams are still using IP blocking and rate limiting as their primary vector for mitigating this type of activity?