skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love these comments about a bubble in one of the most coveted cities in the world when interest rates have been at their lowest ever. What is causing this bubble that prices would decline so much that they would match Barcelona, a great city but not one desired by people all over the world in the center of the financial capital of Europe.
Incorporating mass makes sense in considering whether the intelligence type would be useful for an organism.

For example, a little sea creature with the capability of an Apple II (not the programs, but the capacity to process data and respond to stimuli) might be competitive if the neural tissue were compact and light, but not if it had to be the mass of an Apple II. So its capacity to process 10^5 bits per second per kg of weight is not that useful. Though apparently more efficient than plants' processing methods.
I specifically used the example of Heroin as Bayer marketed it as a non-addictive alternative to morphine, proclaiming it safe.
I hear working at Amazon requires being available on call and working long hours. If this is the future I'm worried.
Definitely - but then, McDonalds Big Macs are more popular than hamburgers with beetroot and pineapple on them, and my tastes are again at odds with the mainstream. I can't help it - I'm a geek hipster (and a burger snob).
A smart alternative to PHP’s “var_dump” function
Well, some people are trying to save money even on free soda for developers - there were articles on HN.
Inspiring Interview with Neil Patel The MasterMind
Out of curiosity, are you a native English speaker? I had no problems at all reading the article. A couple of the sentences are a little awkwardly phrased, but things like "The vast vast majority of products Amazon sells it makes a profit on." are both grammatically fine and reasonably idiomatic.
You don't blindly believe axioms, it is just that certain sets of axioms happen to allow us to make useful predictions about the world. While you could have philosophical discussions about weather certain axioms are true (whatever that means), and what their exact relationship with the world is, you don't need to do this to see that axioms are useful to arrive at mathematical conclusions, which then can be used to make predictions about the world.

Why do we believe that if we take 1111 apples and then add 2222 more we will get 3333? Because we have seen from experience that a certain way of applying mathematics to the real world gives great results. The same for conclusions following known axioms, they seem to generally work well for describing our world.
There are beliefs which are useful for acquiring new knowledge via scientific method. Like that the laws of physics are universal (the same everywhere in the universe).
Bezos doesn't take any stock-based compensation and takes only a minimal salary (less than 90K/year).

He makes money by increasing the value of his existing stock.
I'm working on a proxy / community-run fork[1] of Healthcare.gov. After all the histrionics about the site's performance and bugs, and upon seeing that it was a Backbone.js app (which I develop full-time), and with unminified/commented source, I thought it might be worthwhile to pull as many files from the repo as I could so that bugs could be reported and fixed in the open.

As the product sits today, it is close to being a functional clone of the site. Healthcare.gov relies on some very complicated and antiquated auth systems, from multiple agencies. It is not enough to simply proxy a few endpoints back to healthcare.gov, some requests need to be spoofed, state saved, etc., in order to make it work properly. They often use absolute URLs in their responses as well, which need to be rewritten. I can imagine this application was an absolute bear to test properly.

I've been working through the login mechanism [2] and it's almost done. I'm excited about the future of the project and it could really use some coders to help out and find / fix bugs. If the project gets some real attention, I think it would be a big help to the folks at QSSI and the nation in general - I really want to help the project succeed because I very strongly believe in universal health care and this is the only way I feel I can personally help out.

[1] https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace
[2] https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace/issues/1...
Its not fast if you consider its 10‰ of previous dose. As you approach zero dosage reductions get smaller. Rule of thumb I've seen is 30‰ every 4 days. Close enough.
Let's see what will come out the current development of Ubuntu. Currently it kind of feels like the Windows Vista of Linux Distros. Slow and clumsy but usable if you don't know anything else. Will 14.04 be the Windows 8 of Linux Distros?
"Despite being the youngest, he hated learning a new system and preferred Windows" which does not mean he was wrong, he just made his choice.
That isn't a belief with a quality of religiousness; it's exactly the same as saying you religiously believe 2 is greater than 1.
The Army Is Testing Cutting Edge, Halo-Like Helmets
You don't blindly believe axioms, it is just that certain sets of axioms happen to allow us to make useful predictions about the world. While you could have philosophical discussions about weather certain axioms are true (whatever that means), and what their exact relationship with the world is, you don't need to do this to see that axioms are useful to arrive at mathematical conclusions, which then can be used to make predictions about the world.

Why do we believe that if we take 1111 apples and then add 2222 more we will get 3333 of them? Because we have seen from experience that a certain way of applying mathematics to the real world gives great results. The same for conclusions following known axioms, they seem to generally work well for describing our world.
The correct way of using LastPass (or, actually, your computer) is to lock it if you leave it on the table or hand it to a friend.

All hell break loose if you hand a logged-in computer to a friend, the security model of all operating systems don't account for that.

If you follow this basic security principle, you can keep your LastPass vault logged-in, with a decent timeout (eg: 1 day).
Mobile is on the way! Right now Turtl is two guys working part time, unfunded. We're going to be doing a fundraising round soon and if all goes well we'll be able to work on it unfettered for a while, including mobile apps.
Great write up, thanks - wish I'd had this when I got started with pandas because the thing I found tricky was converting the SQL I knew into its pandas equivalent.

One thing I would point out for new users is the .loc and .iloc functions which I think make selecting data more intuitive because they are a bit more explicit.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/
When future arrived we just did not miss it. GUIs are more natural, it's much better then learning each tools crappy mini console DSL.
The way I see it you don't blindly believe axioms, it is just that certain sets of axioms happen to allow us to make useful predictions about the world. While you could have philosophical discussions about weather certain axioms are true (whatever that means), and what their exact relationship with the world is, you don't need to to see that axioms are useful to arrive at mathematical conclusions, which then can be used to make predictions about the world.

Why do we believe that if we take 1111 apples and then add 2222 more we will get 3333 of them? My explanation is that we have seen from experience that a certain way of applying mathematics to the real world gives great results. The same is true for conclusions following known axioms, they seem to generally work well for describing our world.
> That is what scientists like Newton were using it for.

Sounds to me like you're saying that mathematics is the Javascript to science's HTML.
The UKUSA intelligence aparatus has been long used as a justification to increase powers of spy agencies in other countries. For allies it's the perceived political returns when they deliver more intelligence and get in exchange get on the good side of USA's foreign policy, and for others it's the perceived need to keep up in the arms race.
Agreed. On the other hand, I've used it to share passwords with non-geeks, and I wouldn't expect them to be able to retrieve it just with the Chrome inspector. That is the surprising part of the article, at least to me.

I would like to see at least that part fixed, anything else is fine by me at least (if you want their browser to login, the password has to go through the network at some point, so there's really no news here).
> Looking out my living room window I see trees. In winter, I have views of Caterham valley. It's quiet and peaceful. This morning just the rustle of leaves and my clock ticking away. I'm surrounded by green, rarely hear traffic, a rumble of a train every now and again down the East Grinstead line. It's everything that London is not.

This right here is the reason I'm moving from Brixton (short tube commute) to Caterham/Warlingham/Whyteleafe next year (longer commute, better quality of life, cheaper rent).
I moved to ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
from Console2 at work. I find that to be even more feature rich than Terminator for Linux which I use at home.
To be fair, those appear to be pages which list existing packages, which is not what I was commenting on in my OP. However, I would suggest one of the closest equivalents would be nuget[1]. I think that the history of the languages should be mentioned: Ruby 1.0 was released in 1996[2], while the beta of .Net was only released in 2000, and 1.0 only in 2002[3]. Thus one could perhaps say (maybe unfairly, but nevertheless) that Ruby has had more time for OSS projects to develop. I"m not saying that that is the reason for the abundance of Ruby projects on Github, but I don't believe that the relative lack of .Net projects on Github implies that the needs of a .Net developer is not met by the current OSS offerings.

[1]: http://www.nuget.org/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework
"To work with a set of axioms, we must believe that that set is both logically consistent ... The first question cannot be answered for the interesting sets of axioms"

Consistency of a theory may be proven or disproven in a different set of axioms. For instance, peano or presburger arithmetic are consistent in ZF.

In the field of program verification for instance, people use all kinds of theories that they prove to be consistent.

But I agree that at some point, one has to believe in an axiomatic system.
Node.js is just JS running on server. I would rather invest in learning some strong functional language. The more different high-level _paradigms_ you learn in your twenties - the better.
This sort of thing is also studied as part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology and it may be of interest that it is studied also as part of computer science for example as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_revision which is in turn closely related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_maintenance which used to be the basis for general problem solvers. By the way, view maintenance in relational databases could be seen as a subset of reason maintenance.

Note that belief revision and various kinds of paraconsistent logics in a way allow to work around the classical requirements for consistency.

Another really interesting related area is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic which allows you to reason about statements such as "I know that you know that I know that the sky is blue." and that can be used to analyze the coordinated attack problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem) which is very much related to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance of distributed systems.
This service is even more useful to merchants and manufacturers. Amazon handles :fulfillment, customer service, offering you a global supply chain using simple tools, good financing options for some sellers and options to sell on amazon and outside of it. And from what I read it's priced quite well.
Yeah, I'm a native English speaker.

The sentence you quoted is not impossible to read, but it is more difficult to comprehend than it should be. A simple rewrite will make it more clear.

Many of the sentences in the article are much worse.
Agreed, it's always about three components: being healthy, being social and doing your main job/studies. If you suddenly have a lot of free time, then probably one of those three is missing.
As a cautionary note, a few of the claims in this document don’t stand up well in light of more recent research. If you’re interested in the technical aspects of typography and how humans really read text, you might like to try these more up-to-date starting points:

Alex Poole’s “Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?”:

http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...

Kevin Larson’s “The Science of Word Recognition”:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition....

In particular, if you’re about to comment on how serifs or sans-serifs are better for X, or to explain how we read by following the serifs along a line or by recognising word shapes, I strongly encourage you to study the above first.

There are unfortunately a lot of urban legends in typography that simply aren’t supported by the evidence. Some of them came about because of studies that have since been shown to be flawed in methodology or even based on outright falsified data. We help no-one by perpetuating the myths.
Family-First Startups
What will be the state and essence of C programming language in the forseeable future? Will it be as useful as it is today? Most importantly, will people use it for major projects?
Looks great!

One comment though, I would try to avoid building a whole JSON structure in the URL of GET, as in:

http://extensionizr.com/!#{"modules":["hidden-mode","with-bg",
"with-persistent-bg","with-custom-options","no-override","inject-css",
"inject-js","omnibox","jquerymin","angular"],"boolean_perms":
["bookmarks","chrome://favicon/","clipboardRead","clipboardWrite",
"contentSettings","contextMenus","cookies","fileBrowserHandler",
"tts","ttsEngine","history","idle","management","notifications",
"tabs","geolocation"],"match_ptrns":[]}

Rather, let one setup choices, and save it to a hash, which can be bookmark-able and retrieved later.

Also, when sending in post body, converting it to Base64 before sending on the wire, e.g.:

btoa(JSON.stringify($Object))
Yet the patent possession/success correlation is hard
to doubt.

How do you tell apart correlation and causality in studies like this?

I mean, it seems to me patents are at their most useful when you have to make large upfront research investments, which is mandatory to get your foot in the door in some parts of the tech industry (IC fabrication) - but in other parts of the tech industry people would prefer to test the market with an MVP, and may be able to avoid a large upfront investment at all, so investors would tolerate higher risks of failure (iphone apps).

So it's believable there could be confounding factors - how do studies control for them?
Wow, you really don't understand what tiles and metro design are about? Have you considered the power fonts have? Have you thought of making content a first class citizen in GUI?
The water used to farm isn't critial enough to anyone's daily life to be fought over. Specific areas might suffer from drought but not the entire country.

I'm not trying to suggest that if normal sources of water magically disappeared then things would be okay. I'm just saying that under possible circumstances there won't be any reason to fight to the death over water. Because of the desalination option, water shortages wouldn't be able to threaten anyone's life, only force businesses to adapt or move.

Also according to http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/Animal-products even without any efficiency improvements caused by high water costs, pig would be $3 a pound more expensive and cow would be $7 a pound more. Easily afforded.
OS X is actually compliant with the UNIX spec. http://blog.opengroup.org/2012/07/25/apple-registers-mac-os-...

That's one of two reasons that I like using it. The other is that it will always run the Adobe CS painlessly. Can't really find that combination anywhere else.
Ask HN: Securing a server - Balance between being paranoid and wasting time?
So.. I'm currently working in a two person startup and I was lucky to get the sysadmin hat. I set up our linux server about two years ago when I had more time on hands, so I was a little over-thinking the whole stuff.

It runs:

- Apache with phpMyAdmin
- MySQL
- Glassfish

To secure this stuff, I installed a squid proxy which routes requests from the outside to localhost. In addition, all the services (MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Glassfish admin console) are only bound to localhost, so that you cannot access them from the outside (only throug the password secured squid). The only thing exposed is the application running on the Glassfish.

As we plan to move from dedicated server to Amazon hosting (for scaling etc), I was wondering if that stuff was a good idea in the first place. What are your experiences on this, was I wasting time?

Thanks!
But that is just your Start menu expanded to take the whole screen... Were you removing all the items from Start menu on older versions of Windows as well?
Even though my last boss was an alcoholic, he wasn't the cause of the stress I had to endure, he and his brother (who worked as the finance manager) merely exacerbated it. They must have been smoking crack not to notice I had to put up with having "Ah fuck off" shouted at me three or four times a day, along with threats of being punched.
Today there's plenty of competition in the cloud space. But amazon had a pretty long run without serious competition and had managed to create pretty strong ecosystem, and probably lockup on its platform.
She did speak out for German citizens, get your facts right. You are just repeating what others have told you, start thinking.
Where're all these pseudo-scientific posts coming from these days?
He teaches OS design, right? :P
There's at least one published study with a very large sampling base. I know because I was as skeptical as you are, then I saw the study mentioned in some design book, looked it up and it did in fact exist. I'll try and find the name, but I'm not sure if I still got the book where it was mentioned.
It means I have seen people who were smarter than themselves :).
It's not Brothers fault. Consumer demand decides what gets supported. Don't they typically support MacOS as well?
I'm just going to throw this out there, but no matter how shitty the seating is. I am at my peak productivity on planes. I don't quite understand it, but it seems to be true for me.

So that said, this would probably increase my own personal productivity.
+1 for living in Croydon. It's cheap, there's excellent transport links to the centre and it's easy to get out of the city and find some countryside.

Also to add to @brackin's comment, the Croydon tech scene has been gaining momentum for a few years and is at a really exciting stage. There's a real opportunity for Croydon to rival Shoreditch as a UK centre of technology.

More info: http://thecroydoncitizen.com/croydon-tech-city-2/
That is just amazing. Keep it up.
Interestingly, your graph shows x86, but on amd64, this is very different [1]. I wonder why is that.

[1]: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Neither did I. It just works.
+1 for Transmission. I'd also like to add that their OS X GUI[0] is _stellar_, far cry from any other BitTorrent clients I've used. Coupled with its low resource usage and the aforementioned web interface, I've found it hard to beat.

[0]: http://www.transmissionbt.com/images/screenshots/Mac-Large.p...
> When future arrived we just did not miss it.

This might hold water were it not for the fact that pretty much all console unix tool users started off on Windows or Mac.

> GUIs are more natural, it's much better then learning each tools crappy mini console DSL.

Yes, GUIs are more natural. But for most of us, the time spent learning how to use common unix tools pays for itself very quickly by increasing productivity: it's an investment.
You are absolutely right - thanks for pointing this out, I probably would have gone on making the same mistake for years otherwise.
generally I find the libraries are good and the GUIs suck in open source, but I totally agree with you that in the torrent space its reversed. weird.
Apple would rather you write a book in iBooks Author than anything else.

Pages and MS Word have never really been products for the professional author: they are consumer-class apps for the mass-market. Apple recognises this to a greater extent than Microsoft, and by cutting functionality, they can vastly improve usability for the core market. Whether they will bother to fill the void left with their own professional writing software or not is up for debate; they will, IMO, just leave that to Adobe.

I think you should still tell everyone you know to buy a Mac. Just tell those who are professional-class writers that the latest version of Pages might not fulfil their needs and point out the alternatives.
Awesome! The social network analysis course taught by Lada Adamic on Coursera used your site as a case study.
> it would be trivial to acquire a small company or even create one from scratch that actually does something

It's clear they are optimizing for fun.
Completeness is overrated. Why does it matter that a system can't prove every possible statement you can write in it? It's not going to give you a wrong answer, it's just going to fail. Why is that particular lack of capability more important than the millions of statements you can't formalize in the first place? Take consistency and build something with it.

P.S. Using a theory to prove its own consistency would be way more suspicious than using a more powerful theory to prove it. "The Bible is true because the Bible says so."
It has to do with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial measures. Because the way Apple was reporting its revenues, it was forced to charge for iPod touch software upgrades while it didn’t have to do so for iPhones software upgrades. That situation has since changed[1][2] and apparently, Apple has now found a way to make OS X upgrades free while adhering to accountancy rules.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/09/14/accounting-rule-chang...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apple-earnings-a-heads-up-on-a...
the windows console sucks, but there are a couple of tools that keep you from throwing your workstation out of the window:

readline completion à la bash:
http://code.google.com/p/clink/

nice console emulator with tabs:
http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

gnu tools on windows without cygwin:
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

not perfect, but actually usable...