skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about someones weight really offends people. Or weight loss in general. People mentally shut down about this bad habit vs many other habits, especially women. If people weren't overly sensitive about fatness, that behavior effect you linked about would probably NOT happen.

It's extremely frustrating, because you understand people's eating habits just regress to the mean, and if the 'mean' set by a countries food culture to be absolute shit with huge portions, then a country will get predictably fat.

When I go to a gas station in the USA, every single food is basically candy, high calorie nuts or expensive beef jerky. In south east asia, there are healthier options in the gas station, and often there is some person in a food cart selling home cooked healthy small portion food cheaper than McDonalds will ever be in that country. That is just one example.
Wow.. 160 connections per second sounds really slow.. is a dyno such a small unit? Never worked with Heruko..
That is left as an exercise for the attentive reader.
The article mentions sales/VAT/IVA tax. Perversely I think the US actually does this right:

In the EU, VAT tax is included in the displayed price while in the US, sales tax is not. As the article mentions this is convenient for EU consumers who clearly know the price of their purchase in advance.

But I think it has a bad side effect: consumers do not notice the size of the vat/sales tax as strongly and as a result, I conjecture, there is less resistance to hikes in that tax (which is roughly 20% now). Being a regressive tax, it is quite uncharacteristic of the EU. So I conjecture it may have gotten that high partially because it is not annoying consumers at every purchase.
I "lived" in Europe for three months and have spent time in almost all the western European countries. Would you guys be interested in my anecdotal stereotypical sweeping generalizations?
As a moderate libertarian, I think most things should be handled by the free market and the government should play a smaller role in our lives, but some important things like basic scientific research are undersupplied by the market and government intervention is a reasonably effective way to solve this problem. Asteroid defense would seem to be a textbook example.
Variation can be deliberately increased, not just decreased. And PGD creates an incentive for the former: the greater the difference between your own and your partner's DNA, the greater the expected benefit from informed selection.
I'd guess MarkMonitor and/or something equivalent.
Gaaah! My eyes! You assumed that P = NP, therefore you cannot divide by P - NP = P - P = 0.

I think that mistake shows that even finding a mock proof for the fact that P != NP is hard.
Author of the post here.

> The reason is that a lot of the time you need to technically validate an idea. You have a great idea for a product but you have no idea if it's even possible.

I agree that things are rarely black and white, but because hackers tend to default to their comfort zone - code - and because (in my experience) technical risk is usually a non-issue, the biggest risks are finding a large enough market, a set of customers willing to pay, and a way to profitable reach them. Since they're usually the biggest risks, it makes sense to tackle them first.
it's also useful on local hash joins because it's faster than a regular hash table lookup. so you can use it to eliminate some stuff before going to the big hash table.
How is this any less secure than "here, download and run this executable"?
Not that my opinion matters at all, but I do think that it looks like garbage. That said, I agree that whether it looks like garbage or gold, all of that is secondary to whether or not it works correctly, and it seems to (not first-hand knowledge, nor am I a Kentucky resident.)
> Indeed, if P is natural for polynomial size circuits, and it applies to too many functions, then it can be used to violate another well known conjecture in cryptography, a conjecture on the existence of a certain kind of secure pseudorandom number generator

Has this completely stopped the search for a natural proof that P!=NP, or are there (real--not crackpot) researchers who now simply think "Cool...now I've got a shot at both proving that P!=NP and disproving a widely believed conjecture that is vital to modern cryptography! That gets me tenure and a Field's medal for sure!"
So it looks like the keys to which fish is trying to bind the mappings are not available on your system. I have opened an issue for you at https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1068 , we will be following up on that. I would appreciate more inputs about your setup. For e.g. version of OS X, your terminal, keyboard type etc.
"reference the Interface" requires that the interface files exist, and that they (plus the implementation) gets built into your project. That is what Repobuild covers.

The actual mechanics of the .net runtime would stay the same.
"Growth slackers", perhaps. You know, because rhyming :)
Why I didn't apply 10 pull requests into lettuce
Internet Explorer SUCKS™[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMOBKHqqc8
Let's hope it happens this time around.
Also, see Speed Demos Archive (http://speeddemosarchive.com/), one of the best places to watch existing runs on a variety of games. The forums are still a good community, although as vinkelhake mentions most people use twitch to stream practices and runs.
Ionic: The next generation HTML5 native app development framework
Exactly - this is advice for entrepreneurial-focused 'hackers'
You are correct that there is currently not an API to populate the menu bar.

Regarding app scaling, It's up to each app developer to do the required work to have a responsive design, using existing web techniques.
Well now I just feel cheated. How do I un-vote up a story?
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Cool idea. Unfortunate that they limit things to the first 11 responses.
I'm surprised there's no mention of macports...by the way, did anyone else download mavericks to see that macports is broken?
You mean like nyud.net?

Above link as an example:

http://www.fluentin3months.com.nyud.net/no-usa-for-me/
> "Human Free Will makes everything unpredictable!"

Well in practice it currently does. That's not to say that in principle we won't eventually develop a real quantitative science of human behavior -- but it's going to require some major advances in neurobiology.

> And then they go ahead and make predictions anyway, out of sheer ideology.

Yes, but the Austrian response is that all other economists are doing the same, while deceiving themselves that they have no ideology at all. So most economists' axioms and deductions remain unexamined and unchallenged.
i don't know. Living to see another day? And long before the threat of impact - feeling good about contributing to something positive for the Earth? I don't understand this obsession with the neoliberal idea that money is the sole driving motivation for everyone in the world - and I'm worried that it's going to be a self-fulfilling model.

Just FYI, there already is a private foundation that is trying to do this very thing:

http://b612foundation.org/
I thought the WSGI support for passenger was neat, and I'm glad there's at least one option for Python deployment with little server configuration required, but I don't use it because I don't want to bugger around recompiling nginx :)
While Python as a high-level language cannot control the hardware like C and assembly do, I think Guido is urging Pythonists to learn C as a second language to prepare for the software-hardware interaction world?
How about a $2000 product with a known defect?

The known fix for the early 2011 MBP's with the discrete GPU glitch is to stick in a fresh version of the same motherboard with the same glitch.

I replaced my board under Applecare for free a few months ago, so I'm a lot less pissed that the issue came back than I would had I paid the non-Applecare repair price of $500. Now I'm debating whether I want to replace my logic board yet again only to have the issue come back a few months later.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/14/apples-2011-macboo...
If we see it coming in time, deflecting an asteroid requires a nuclear bomb mounted on a rocket of the kind we use for launching space probes; not petty cash, but nowhere near hundreds of billions of dollars either.

The "if we see it coming in time" part is the key.
What happens if I wrap it in tinfoil before I cut the cable?
Some people on this thread liken hackers to children/babies. Doing things out of fun and compulsion without thinking too much about the net result. That is hardly true (as you say)
Robots for children to program
@jawns. We have updated the blog post to clarify. I encourage you to try out the new tools and I hope the perf testing is worth the pizza+.
I'm the author. This is demonstrably not true.
Well they could perhaps filter out 127.0.0.1 and the rest of the local network from the port scanner.

https://w3dt.net/tools/portscan#&query=127.0.0.1

That alone makes me wonder at the sanitization they are carrying out upon the input - there be dragons out there.
why don't you, personally, fund the things you want to see funded?
Africa is much, much bigger than you think
"IE11 for Windows 8.1 is our fastest browser yet – 9% faster than IE10 and nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser."

30% then what competitive browser?
May I ask about your reasons for using steroids and HGH? Are there any other benefits aside from getting ripped and muscle growth? I did research into them a while back and even located a supplier but I really don't like the needles.
We definitely intend to provide the secure vault component as something you can host internally (exactly like GitHub Enterprise).
> He recommended a light and I got myself a Philips Energy Light

I had to look that one up and felt reminded of my internship in a psychiatric hospital where I was mostly stationed in the psychotherapy center. By far the most common problem the patients had was depression. We had a huge light panel in a dedicated room and would recommend patients just sit in front of it. I thought it was amazing how much of a difference half an our of light bath made. The staff were using it, too! This was of course in Germany where, except for a few short summer months, it's always dark and gloomy.

> Asia in January

When I first started traveling for business, this is what cured me as well. I always try to get in a few days extra in the Philippines when it's winter in the EU :)
Another great Bloom Filter library not mentioned in this article is Bitly's implementation on GitHub[0]. It has the best of both worlds: a C implementation and higher-level wrappers (Golang, PHP, Python, and Common Lisp). If you don't want to play around with a fancier DBMS and really just want the damn filters, I would look here.

[0] https://github.com/bitly/dablooms
> 3.794 million square miles (9.827 million km²)

That's only area of USA. He was talking about the cities which have terrible conditions for transport by feet.

Or maybe should I give a counter-example of Russia (17 million km²) which is comparably fine albeit not being designed for cars?
Did you see the video and pictures of the printer in the video? It wasn't full scale, but it wasn't far off either.
The problem is that they want to hack, rather than doing the scary business stuff. You won't have this problem if you're not a hacker by nature.
Doesn't make up for the fact that I spent most of my time writing workaround for the stupid rendering bugs their "30% faster" browser introduces. Even just basic CSS layouts and constantly wrong in IE.
Scaled-up electric toothbrush technology could wirelessly charge EVs, says Volvo
Any comments on the dual core processors of the 13" rMBP/Air compared to the 15" rMBP four core processor for Obj C etc development?

(I am ambivalent if I want to do that kind of work. I love my iPad and want to develop for it, but the frameworks are a little too close to Java with the 30++ chars long names everywhere. :-( )
Show HN: Interactive rap lyric analysis
Definitely agree that most technically-focused people fall into the trap of writing too much code too early.

There's the other end too, though: you get so wrapped up into an idea and sell it too hard and end up not delivering because you were detached from the technical reality.

I think you just need to be smart about switching contexts, especially early on in the game. Using a little bit of code here and there to stay well-grounded, while focusing on customers to validate the idea. Early on you definitely should be spending most of your time engaging future customers.
Looks like it was built with ASP.NET MVC 4, which has minification and bundling built in. Should be easy for them to take advantage of it... maybe they just ran out of time or don't care.
Aren't those bitwise operators doing the same as dividing?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5284898/implement-divisio...
I think you're missing a key ingredient which SF, Austin, Boston, etc have: established technical universities bringing and growing talent in from across the globe.

University towns can be a hotbed of startup talent if they are combined with a wealthy populace that continually injects capital into young companies starting out of school projects and/or research. While companies that start out that way don't encompass all startup growth, they continuously seed it through up and down markets to make the local startup ecosystems more resilient through economic downturns.

Without the universities, the best you can do is have market-fueled startup boom/bust cycles like the ones in Dallas, LA, NYC, and San Diego. NYC is trying to break out of this cycle with more economic investment in education and they may pull it off.

That being said, I think asking yourself why there isn't a startup culture has a lot more to do with education/talent than it does with what technology du jour is currently popular a city.
It's possible that encryption would have caused problems with their deduplication code since a single file is deduped across multiple accounts.
It's astounding how rudely he's being treated in his own comments section.
> Short of a government issued ID there is absolutely no way for you to make an accurate assessment of someone's age.

Worse yet, people from the British Isles look _really_ young to most Americans. The opposite is true, as well. I've seen friends who I think are obviously underage have no trouble ordering drinks in London. Most places have policies about carding people who look under 30, because it is so hard to tell amongst such diversity.

Doesn't make much sense to be happy about our diversity and then criticize the consequences.
As a test I sent it to a non-technical friend. She said, "I don't understand". In other words, this only makes sense if you're a programmer. I feel the cartoon's pain, but I can't send this to a manager to help them understand.
The flash crash was one major one. Some of the HFT firms bailed out, some (the market makers) were required by their contracts with the exchanges to stay in.

One reference: http://www.advfn.com/nasdaq/StockNews.asp?stocknews=CME&arti...

I've looked, Where did you look? That is kind of a big one to miss.
You can now tweet the gift of a coffee thanks to Starbucks
I had this issue pop up in late 2012/early 2013 on my 2011 MBP. It was just visual at first but after a few months, it turned into system crippling hangs.

I replaced my mobo this past summer under Applecare ($500 if you don't have coverage). Guess what they replaced it with? A logic board that exhibited the same issues two months later.

A friend of mine just started experiencing the glitches on his 2011 MBP.

My current workaround is to make sure that I unplug all external monitors, and shut down with the setting that no app windows get reopen. If you have an application that forces the discrete GPU to be used (Coda, for example), it can cause startup hangs.
Microsoft now gets to continue to reap what they've sown after spending a solid decade pissing off web developers...
Google Amends Proposal to Settle EU Antitrust Investigation
Ah, ok, thanks. I see now why there would be a harsh reaction. I will re-title my forthcoming post from "Why only stupid dummies do 'x'" to something more nuanced. :-)
"nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser." - Micro$oft. Absolute crap as can be seen here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413632,00.asp

I'm not loyal at all to any browser. I swop and change (used to use IE, then went to Opera, then Firefox and now to Chrome), but when I hear obvious lies such as IE is 30% faster than any other browser I all of a sudden want to permanently leave IE alone
It’s everywhere The day Hadoop took over the cloud
Thanks for the article. It seems unlikely that you could scale the first step: harvesting the iPhone profiles in the first place. I was under the impression this is a one-time download. Is there any realistic way to get a significant number of these?
Kind of a dumb comment considering that Namecheap is appreciably less expensive than Gandi for nearly every other TLD.
These must be really cheap pizzas because last time I checked you couldn't get 11 pizzas at Costco for $120.
It's very similar. Here are a few other similar ones:

https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild/wiki/Similar-Build-Sy...

A few differences:

* Buck requires installation (meaning clients need to have it installed), whereas Repobuild generates a Makefile.

* Buck has a spiffy build daemon to make things faster.

* Repobuild auto-install files from git.

* Buck covers java better, but not other languages.

* Buck went with a turning complete language, Repobuild intentionally went with only a config langauge (hotly debated religious difference)
Now if only we could install hardware upgrades...
There’s more than one way to mockup a website.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant sharing history between multiple shells open on the same machine. I often have two or three terminal windows open with several tabs each. I use them somewhat haphazardly and would like the history between them to be shared.
One reason why it might _not_ happen - lack of demand. Clearly I have a very small sample so it's merely an anecdote, but I haven't met anybody that wants this for themselves, even if they think other people will want it.

I know some people will want it, but it would need to be near universal for something like Gattaca to become reality.
At least for the first few seconds while you're in "turbo boost" before the throttling starts. And of course if you actually use this bandwidth for any length of time, you'll run over your quota and they'll extort you or cancel your service anyway.

More than anything, I blame the poor ISP market in the US on this exact attitude that nothing besides cable is sufficient. Infrastructure is just not at the point where we have the class of connection you're trying to take for granted, and continually choosing only the absolute fastest provider while whining about their policies and prices is being willfully out of touch with the realities of current technology.

$55/mo will get you 12M/1M ADSL2+ from an ISP like Sonic.net, which is owned by a real person who even makes crazy statements like "We delete user logs after two weeks. Your Internet provider should, too". You can double that by easily bonding two lines, and/or enable Annex M for increased upload bandwidth. And they aren't particularly concerned with how much traffic you generate, either.

While these nameplate speeds are a bit slower than what you're used to seeing in cable companies' large print, keep in mind that 12Mb/sec will let you download 100GB/day, and 5Mb/sec (dual Annex M) will let you upload 42GB/day. When you compare these numbers to the usage caps and expectations of cable companies, you can see they're mostly selling an illusion.
It's standard to have at least two hashing functions. You can then simulate having x hash functions simply by combining those two.[1]

But, your question is entirely valid and I'm not really sure why you couldn't do that. It might simply be that the kinds of hash functions used in bloom filters (non-cryptographic) are not well distributed.

[1]: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=4060...
> This is why you don't ask engineers for business advice.

Too funny! And true.

"Show HN" is brutal.
A year ago a similar challenge did the rounds on Twitter but just restricting the modulo operator (not division). My solution was essentially based around b = i * 8 / 5 & 7 and (i + 2) * 6 / 9 & 1 == 1: https://gist.github.com/peterc/2060adac0f9cf5fb9cf3
Obama loves deportation so much he's even started deporting U.S. citizens
Decentralization: Key to Bitcoin’s Success
Why did they use JPEG at all? It's a perfect image for PNG.

Pure incompetence.
Namecheap is appreciably less expensive than Gandi for nearly all other TLDs.

For example, .COM: $10.69 vs $15.50.
The often overlooked part of Gattaca is that the unmeasured qualities of the hero allowed him to overcome the restrictions of the society.

It starts off with a picture of hell, and then shows him overcoming it.
Heterosis just means there are twice as many factors to worry over. If it becomes too faddish to pick the exact same two genetic codings for a particular gene or select away every gene not on a preferred list, we still lose and immense amount of variability within a generation.

The ultimate end is not even to simply pick the contents of the 46 chromosomes. It is medically plausible to purposefully create human chimeras -- basically it when fraternal twins happen to combine to become one fetus. ("We have selected these 46 chromosomes for the neural material, and these other 46 for the skeletal-muscular system. Looks like we have a few fetuses where the combination took to the right locations. We destroyed many eggs, but it is all worth it so your son can be the best, right?")
In the video, he proposes that the printer would have a second pick and place type arm that would be able to install plumbing and electrical systems. He claims that it could be used to do finishing work too, but there are no animations to suggest how that might work.
macports 2.2.1 with support for Mavericks is now available. I'm reinstalling my ports as I type.
Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying to Stop the NSA
Apple Discussions moderators have been deleting dozens of messages from the iWork threads too (I had a similar email :). Nothing new, though.
I like watching http://www.twitch.tv/crumps2 He runs a tournament where two people speed run The Binding of Isaac to see who can beat it first.
Interesting read, particularly the section on vanity metrics and process.
FYI, every single Vitamin D supplement I've seen is just olive oil in gel capsules. You can even see it in the imaged on the amazon product page he linked. I just cook with olive oil all the time -- stir frys, eggs, meats, etc....
> Early on you definitely should be spending most of your time engaging future customers.

100% agree. Though my approach is less about selling and more about learning: are we solving a valuable problem? Are people willing to pay for it? Do we have some ideas about how to scalably reach those folks? Etc
2 projects:
1) Easily save jobs - http://bucketjobs.com/ (live)
2) SAAS Dashboard - http://helicopter.io/ (closed beta)
What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?
This is simply the ignorance of academics. What they SHOULD be recommending for these languages is Vim or EMACS with EVIL (got to keep sane keybindings somehow).

The problem is that many programmers and academics today are unwilling to take the time to learn the right tools for the job.
I agree with this 100%.

And here's to all replies that say it's as secure as a package: it's only partly about security.

The other part is version control. I can install a specific version of an RPM relatively easily, but wget|sh approach makes it much more inconvenient. One day it does one thing, the next day it may do something completely different. Even if I install on 2 machines, there's no guaranty that the repo owner won't push changes in the meantime.