skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the source and I have some tips for you:
Avoid the UInt32 Arrays and the >>> operator.
They could be transformed by the JIT compiler into doubles and slow everything down. This does not happen with the Int32 Arrays and the >> operator.
There is a plug-in called JIT-Inspector which give you this information. Unfortunately it does no longer work in Firefox 24. Firefox 22 was the last working version.
Additionally worker threads gave me an incredible speed boost in Firefox. The whole GUI stuff is then separated. Especially the costly canvas update.
CrashPlan supports this, although it is not the default.
I'm also seeing Dropbox, uTorrent and PunkbusterB in %appdata% according to fekberg's command.
Setting up an inbound VPN connection is pretty trivial on Windows XP/7 Professional.
That happens after most wars. At least it wasn't deliberate policy as with the world wars. The real crime was that that war even happened. I remember how laughable the propaganda leading up to it was. GWB couldn't go two sentences without saying "weapons of mass destruction" or "Al-quada". Right down the memory hole. Pretty sad.
Thanks, it's under the error tab:

ReferenceError: requestAnimationFrame is not defined
http://copy.sh/v24/v86_all.js Line: 239
You wrote a lot of words but none of them made any sense to me, let alone address the question.
Well, Western responsibility for the slaughter is less direct than Saddam's killings (although that doesn't help the victims much).

Yes, Iraq seemed to have been selected as a military target for reasons not disclosed to the public.
One can argue that science will always have a hard time constructing an accurate model for predicting weather, because of its inherent humongous complexity and nonlinear behavior:

> [...] we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:CLIM.0000037493.8...
OpenStack Havana: Open-source cloud for the enterprise
aka "Ransomware"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_(malware)

> The first known ransomware was the 1989 "PC Cyborg" trojan written by Joseph Popp
You want to write an emulator, but you probably don't want to write one for x86. A nice architecture would be 8 bit AVR microprocessors, for example.
Called it in July. Read more...

http://blog.kinnaird.us/the-coming-age-of-ransomware-cloud-s...
I thought it was so you didn't need admin to install it?
There's list of a some backup solutions relevant to personal backup (as opposed to enterprise level solutions) here, costs for most providers given too and a brief overview of differentiating features - http://alicious.com/cloud-backup-solutions/.

I quite like duplicati. Slightly opaque to set-up but I'm using it with SkyDrive for some files as at the time of set-up SkyDrive gave me the most free storage with the lowest level of pain [for me] setting up.
Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul
It's incorrect to say the evidence on WMD was flimsy, it was very solid. That is to say that it was almost certain that Iraq had no usable WMD. The "evidence" to the contrary were fabrications, obvious at the time, without the benefit of hindsight. As was widely pointed out then.
Here's a video of a continuous upgrade from ms-dos through every windows version all up to windows 7 (a timespan of ~20 years) that proves it's possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
hells yeah.
Yes. Like everyone else here, I use clippers ($8 in Wal-Mart) and have for now about 7 years. Wife does the edge by neck, or I can try in a mirror. Key point: take them seriously when they tell you to oil after every use, or they will rust/lock up.

I'm up to about 7 * $15 * 5x/yr = ~$500 savings. Look out, world!
It is correct. Homo is a genus of great apes. It emerged around 2.4 million years ago. And it does include modern humans (Homo Sapiens).

I'm not sure which part you're taking issue with?

> Normally one doesn't refer to one genus as being part of another genus.

That's right. Australopithecus and Homo are different genera.

> between apes and humans

Not sure what you're saying here. Humans and Australopithecines are both apes.
what, Iraq wants to join chemical arms ban organization? can't have that

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/world/to-ousted-boss-arms-...
Transparent and instantaneous is my experience using grunt to watch and compile CS. It will only compile the changed file, not the entire codebase. It seems to happen instantaneously for me on file save, or at least within the time it takes for me to switch from my editor to my browser.
The problem is: The TSA and its equivalents around the world have made air travel less secure. Those agencies are mere security theatre designed to serve the political agendas of conservative agitators.

Nude scanners convey messages such as 'We're doing something.' and 'The state is looking out for you.' while they're much more prone to errors and missing actual threats than 'good old-fashioned' airport security.

Defunding and dismantling out-of-control agencies such as the TSA and - while we're at it - the NSA would not only make the world a better but also a safer place.

Moreover, while the US - like most other industrialized countries - struggle with their budget at the same time they have no qualms about spending enormous amounts of money on government agencies that clearly provide no value other than furthering an utterly sinister political agenda.
Sales For Startups: Plans, Processes, and Methods
Fred from Coinbase here - this isn't true. Would be interested to hear why you'd think this though!
15 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
My mother was a drug addict. My earliest memory of her was being alone all day at the age of 4 with my 4 siblings, with no food and my 8 year old sister (she was the oldest) trying to find something for us to eat. After dark, my mom came home and tossed a bag containing one serving of McDonald's french fries and a hamburger wrapper (minus the hamburger) on the floor, yelled "dinner's here" and walked into her room and locked the door.

She had been awarded sole custody of us in my parent's separation, by default, and was subsequently given full custody, despite a well known history of public fits of violence against my father. Out of five kids, none of us talk to my mother. She is dying of emphysema induced heart failure, and will die alone. My sisters are old enough to remember her letting my twin brother and I starve in our crib all day. They hate her.

The state only gave my father custody after the neighbors called the police 3 separate times. The 3rd time, because my sisters were locked out of the house in the snow after returning home on the school bus to a locked house with only my brother and me inside.

So fuck you for making light of a situation that, on a daily basis, negatively affects children's lives by awarding custody to the lesser of two parents.
I'm pretty certain work/life balance is codified in law, such as, "You pay me X, you get 40 hours a week of my time."
Study Finds U.S. Invasion of Iraq killed about 460,000 People
Alexis is more concerned with crafting and selling his own brand than anything else. Its become really obvious lately.
As hackers advance it is easy for them to lose sense of what is difficult, useful or plain stupid. I think this is because hackers usually set themselves on a quest to conquer ...xyz and once that is in sight all the hacking fun seems gone. Here is what I do:

1. I already know who would use my product before I build.
They are not asking, "Do I need that?" but they are asking "When do I get that?".

2. As I develop, I am more likely to leave things out than to add anything to it.

Always remember:

"Perfection is not the absence of what can be added but of what can be taken away"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)
Cold emailing / cold calling definitely works. But it's a Good Idea to do your homework first. Here's a little tip I learned some time ago, and have been working on implementing lately:

Say you want to sell something to Foobar, Incorporated. But you have no warm contacts there. OK, you can go to Hoovers.com, or use LinkedIn, Jigsaw, etc. and get names, contact info, etc. BUT... and here's the "tip" part... on LinkedIn you can also find people who used to work for Foobar, Inc. and contact them first. Why? Because there is a good chance they'll offer to talk to you (people like to be helpful and it makes them feel important) and they have little to lose (they don't work there anymore), but yet they can still give you TONS of valuable inside information (depending on how long they've been gone) to help you establish credibility when you do call.

Example: The info on LinkedIn, Hoovers, etc. can be outdated. So let's say you have a list of 15 names of people at Foobar, Inc. Some of those people probably aren't there anymore, or have changed titles, etc. When you talk to an ex employee, you can run through the list with them and find out what's going on.

You also get a chance to ask things like:

"Who is the real power broker over there?"

or

"Are there any big landmines I should know to avoid walking into"?

or

"What are the main strategic issues management is grappling with there"?

etc.

Of course, not all ex employees will want to talk to you, but for any reasonably sized company, you should be able to find a few. And, you do have to be aware that they, in turn, have their biases and misconceptions, etc., and so you can't take everything they say as Gospel truth. But go through the exercise with a couple of people and you should be able to get pretty clear picture.

Now when you call somebody at Foobar, you can start off sounding very credible:

"I know companies like yours often deal with issue X, and may have tried solutions like Z that didn't work... I'd like to talk to you about another way of solving that problem..."

Where you learned about "X" and "Z" from those "ex employee talks".
FYI, animations are there to hide the lag between click and response. They do not slow the computer, they are there to hide the perception of slowness. (The computer does something immediately, but it may not have all data needed to finish it, because it is waiting for i/o to complete).

Also, just because the animation is 60 fps, it does not mean that the computer or device are fast. It just means that the animation is smooth and the systems has certain time (0.5 - 2 sec, depending on animation) to do, whatever it is supposed to do.
IsoHunt Shuts Down After $110 Million Settlement With The MPAA
As a country, it would appear that we lost our minds in the wake of 9/11.

Widespread government surveillance. Armed drones. Massive bills passing through Congress without being completely read. Amazingly intrusive security at airports, now filtering down to train and bus stations. Indefinite suspension of prisoners of war.

Yes, we have gone astray. For those of you old enough, could you imagine such things happening in the 70s, 80s or even the 90s?
that's spot on.

the command "inotifywait -m -r . -e {some events}" recursively watches all inodes in the current directory (the "-r" and "." parts) for events in the {some events} list, and every time something happens (you save a file, create a new one, open a file, etc etc), inotifywait prints a line.

The "-m" flag makes it print a line and keep watching. Without that, it's a one-shot (which can work like [0] but all the setting up and tearing down of inotify watches is expensive on a large project).

[0]

$ while inotifywait -e some,events -r . ; do make; done
It probably is, but that doesn't make it any better as an idea. There is a good reason why every decent operating system's security model in the past few years has segmented this kind of functionality so only people with elevated privileges can do it.
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The Hottest Candidate Skill Sets: Supply and Demand Revealed
Why would it matter when people place the orders if there is no extra information to be gained during that time? If the orders placed are only revealed after they have taken effect, why bother waiting for the last moment?
I used to with a clipper, but because there was no real way to even out the cut it meant I'd cut off all the hair till my head shinned in the sun. My girlfriend didn't like the look so I stopped....:)
He's right.

When there is no real threat, it doesn't matter how incompetent they are. As long as nothing bad happens you can't tell the difference between effective security and incompetence. You can tell on the micro-scale like those test weapons, but not on the macro scale where budgeting and oversight decisions are made.
I tried implementing this solution and it has a lot of difficult side effects. Shortcuts on the task bar could not run (with the exception of Chrome oddly enough). If you select run in IE it fails because it saves to temp and some installers failed as well, again because of the use of temp.
Unless the end user is very saavy or has an onsite IT this seems that the better solution is rotating backups.
Alternating days to external hard drives that are then disconnected is the best mitigation.
And having already had one client effected by this is does scare me. Interesting enough he paid and had his files decrypted in about 48 hours.
Indeed - there's very little money to be made from the Intelligent Designer, so there's little to no appeal. Climate change raises the specter of regulation.
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/4732/emulate-an-...
Do you think huge risk is always insanely stupid?

Depends on the risk. Looking at the history of Tesla the huge risk was that it would bankrupt Elon. For pretty much everyone else it was a non-event (they would lose their jobs, some creditors wouldn't get paid). So if I were Elon's financial advisor and he was saying "I want to retire in 10 years." I'm going to suggest that putting your entire net worth at risk over maybe being able to build a car, is not a good idea. I'm happy to watch him do it, and hope for the best.

Perhaps 'stupid' carries too much of a pejorative tone here, how about 'ill advised' ? or 'very unlikely to pay off' ? That distinguishes it from 'stupid' which means 'likely to take out innocent bystanders' such as say creating a financial instrument out of CDOs. Also stupid but the risk there is wider.
Maybe that's the solution...have so much memory that you only need to GC once every 24 hours...for 8 hours :)
This is why a RAID setup is not a backup.
Fully Customizable iOS Controller for App Introductions
WHO declares that outdoor air pollution is a cancer-causing substance
Does Dart compile that for loop down to a regular for loop instead of the JS for..in loop? Or are there any safeguards against someone adding a property to an array (not that they should)?

a = [1,2,3];
a.prop = "oops";
for(el in a)
console.log(el);
// > 0
// > 1
// > 2
// > oops
I hear Usenet (Astraweb, for example) with SABnzbd/Sick Beard/nzbsearch.net works really well.
Show HN: Quill, an interactive grammar tool. 
We're a nonprofit building an interactive grammar tool. Quill provides students students with passages that have grammatical problems placed within them. Students proofread the passage, and then they receive a personalized lesson based on their results. http://www.quill.org.

Quill is an open source project built in Rails, and we're looking to connect with developers that are interested in contributing to an open source project. https://github.com/empirical-org/quill
Rights protect people from those who have a monopoly on them from abusing the intrinsic power of that position. This problem simply doesn't exist if people do not have employers. Free agents entering supply contracts willingly do not need protection, they just need to read the T&C's before they sign. Should a $600/hr freelance consultant have these protections? It'a the same thing.

Those fired cabbies got bad reviews - the idea that uber should be required to burden that fault just doesn't make sense. Who would that serve? Not the customers, not uber, and not the cabbie who maybe needs to know he shouldn't be a cabbie so he can get on with life and find something he is good at!
Well they have been pretty prolific in the patent area [1]. So some of the 'following' will either generate licensing revenues or require some engineering investment (aka time)

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Technically your brain is using cerebrospinal fluid not water, but the scientist was talking to a reporter, who was writing for the general public. So, something might have been lost in the translation.
I'm a SCUBA instructor (trained and living in Vancouver BC), from Seattle.. and I can definitely attest to the character of pacific northwest divers as being very pro-environment, "protect the wildlife", to the point of craziness. Oh man, I can only imagine the aggressive and passive-aggressive reactions this kid got when he pulled that thing out of the water...

Sure, they're nice creatures. If I had a choice, more often than not I would say let the thing be. But I also own a speargun and hunt on occasion. I like the sport, and it feels good to put your own skills on the table once in a awhile. What irritates me is how irrationally angry people get... it's an act of selfishness, a chance for a relatively passive person to stand up for something. It's not really about the octopus, it's about their beliefs. People have to stand for something... whether that's Obama or an Octopus, it doesn't really matter.

The cool thing about running a company, as I'm sure a lot of people here do, is how quickly you get to see the big picture on the world, and sit in the shoes of everyone else's perspective. Wearing a lot of hats and working on hard things really trains you to only give a shit about things that matter, things you can have an influence on, where the goal is not to change people's opinion subjectively, but to prove, objectively, that you can add value and earn a place on this planet.
Here's a link to the kickstarter for the CastAR:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/casta...
Hoped to find such a comment here, this is basically about mechanism design - how can we design an exchange that removes the additional profits such microscopically low latency generates, when the low latency itself isn't providing value, i.e. the low latency => profit phenomenon is an artifact of the rules of the exchange.

I appreciate your thoughts, but regarding your suggestion: random isn't well-defined. It can be random as in "randomly pick a participant, let it buy/sell as much of the stock as it asked, then pick another participant etc.". This encourages Sybil attacks - participants have an incentive to create other identities for themselves, and hope one of the identities will be picked "randomly". Another definition of "random" may be "randomly pick an order to buy/sell a single stock, execute it, repeat-until". This, I was told on an earlier HN thread, strongly encourages placing more orders than one wants, again in the hope of fooling the "random" part of the exchange. I was told this is actually what's happening currently in exchanges built this way.

I had a suggestion I tried to analyze (even as a possible idea for a mechanism design paper): What happens if "random" is defined as "your chance of getting picked (to be able to sell the stock) is proportional to the amount of this stock you own"? At least, we got rid of the incentive for Sybil attacks (and didn't create the opposite incentive, for conglomerates - separate entities don't have an incentive to present themselves as a single entity, then do the bookkeeping internally). But it's unclear what to do when there are more willing buyers than sellers. Any thoughts, anyone?

I have also wondered whether this whole thing is an artifact of quantization - what would happen if the price granularity was allowed to be as small as one wants?

(In case anyone's wondering, a friend I consulted told me this probably wouldn't fly as a paper - useful economic policy if I can solve that "more buyers" problem, but nothing scientifically novel).

p.s. Sorry for the long comment.
Why do we go to sleep?
There are a few, but they tend to keep pretty quite. HN tolerates creationism/evolution denialism far less than it tolerates climate change denialism.
Befunge - a cross between Forth and Lemmings
> By "autocomplete" you mean [...]

All the fields and methods are known. If I write "someObject.", then I'll get a calltip which lists all fields/methods from this particular class and I can auto complete them. You can conveniently browse around like this to find the right method.

If I write "foo.bar" and "foo" as no "bar" field, I'll get a squiggly line (and of course I also wouldn't have been able to auto-complete "bar").

It's similar to writing C#, AS3, or Java with a good IDE. If you have never experience any of that, maybe you should give it a try.

> It's possible to build scalable systems in JS/CS without what TS/Dart offers.

Sure. It just requires more time and money.

You can, for example, also chop down a tree by using an axe instead of a chainsaw. There is always a more difficult more time consuming way to do something.
Argumentum ad verecundiam.
Of course I knew that the original article title (which is not the same as the submission title here) had to refer to both the actual invasion (a rather brief military operation) and the badly mismanaged occupation of Iraq. I think it's a fair point to blame most of the deaths in Iraq caused by violence during the occupation on the occupation having occurred as it did. But that causation is less direct than battle deaths of civilians during the invasion. I by no means have anything good to say about how the occupation was planned and carried out--it badly hurt Iraq, and reflected very poorly on the United States compared to the postwar occupations of German or Japan. But on the other hand, for all I know if Saddam Hussein had died peacefully of natural causes in the same time frame, perhaps the country would have been every bit as internally violent.
Totally agree. I read that even was going to call it "reditt" and then his friend Melissa said "reddit" made more sense. Lucky chump.
xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.

http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...

Some additional discussion about why xz is not as widely used: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...
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At least the government is open again so they can see the rally.
I think it would be really cool to link this up with some of the Chrome App API's (TCP/UDP networking, serial). Then you could distribute lightweight programs without bothering with Emscripten or Native Client.
I agree, although I feel like it gives a slightly better feel of the uncertainties to look where that figure came from:

> The wartime crude death rate in Iraq was 4.55 per 1,000 PY (95% UI 3.74–5.27), more than 0.5 times higher than the 2.89 ((95% UI 1.56–4.04) death rate during the 26-mo period preceding the war. By multiplying those rates by the annual Iraq population [43], we estimate total excess Iraqi deaths attributable to the war through mid-2011 as about 405,000 (95% UI 48,000–751,000).