skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many users do you have for $700 a month on GAE?. My game Neptune's Pride that also makes about $2500 a month and has about 1000 - 1500 DAU only costs around $100 a month.
The real security fail here is letting company devices run java applets.
I don't know the ins and outs completely (tried to be up front about that), but I do think it's very possible to win a week in FF and have all your players be on losing teams in real life.

Depending on the league and how points are your specific rules, your players get points for things like passing yards, touchdowns, interceptions, rushing yards, etc.

These things are all well and good, but having one good player that does a lot of them doesn't mean that their whole NFL team is going to put those things together and beat their real world opponents. And vice versa, you can have several players on a winning team that each get 0 points because they happened to be injured or were benched.

Cost is a completely different can of worms.... sounds more interesting, but everything I've done is first come first serve. You draft in order and you can pick up as many free agents as you have space for.
This is awesome. Cool to see high school students working on such inspirational concepts. I'm excited to see where this goes.
U.S. intelligence agencies have their own Twitter. It’s called eChirp
Some tips for "hacking" fantasy football...

* Don't draft a kicker before the 16th round

There is very little difference between the #1 and the #10 kicker and predicting future performance from past performance is a crapshot. Plus if you draft a kicker early, you will be exposed as a fraud :) Every year there are no-name players that have breakout seasons, so use your late round picks trying to hit the lottery.

* Try out Value Based Drafting

This is a more advanced metric for optimizing your drafting strategy. The basic idea is to not pick players based on the raw number of points they are projected to get, but rather how much better than a "baseline" replacement. It's very nerdy but something that the traditional "office jock" isn't going to bother with. If you want to dig a little deeper, read this: http://sports.espn.go.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=nf...

* Set aside time to manage your roster every week

You only need 20 min to do the minimum each week: set your lineup based on expert rankings and add waivers/free agents to replace injured/non-performing/bye-week players. If you do this every week, I can almost guarantee you won't come in the last place (the ultimate objective!). Pick a single source of rankings (ESPN is fine) and don't worry about reading 50 different blogs.

* Remember to have fun and don't talk shit

If you don't follow sports at all, now you can get a taste. It's pretty fun! If you normally follow the hometown team, congrats - you will now find yourself caring about 8-12 other NFL teams every week - if only for your one fantasy player. And don't be an asshole. No one likes playing fantasy with jerks.

PS Be careful, you've just stepped into the most addictive hobby I've experienced since World of Warcraft :)
"Whatever you call it, most programming problems you’re likely to encounter have been solved in some form already... In the form of libraries on GitHub, blog posts on the Internet, or just getting in touch with experienced individuals, good programmers know to do the research before they try to solve a problem."

This depends a lot on the domain you're programming in. For example, if you're working on a proprietary application like high frequency trading or code for an embedded device, it's not likely that you'll find an open source library to do whatever you need, or get a lot of help from Google or Stack Overflow.

Also, a lot of open source libraries are not robust enough for commercial applications that have requirements like support of legacy East Asian character encodings (pre-Unicode). Not all programmers work on web apps where you get to control the environment (hardware, operating system, database, languages, etc.) you run on. Lots of software has to be built to run in the customer's existing environment.
And if you get good at it, you can start to win some serious money from the Daily Fantasy variety of it at sites like http://www.frafty.com

Disclaimer: I built the site
TY Updated my post
While I've only been playing the game for 35 years, I didn't see anything to argue against.
Fair enough. You do, at least, get the added security of the downloading app having been reviewed by google before inclusion in the play store so that it is less likely the app you backup with it has a rootkit. Given the articles that have been floating around on HN about how easy it is to fake the security on apps, I would say it still has its use.
There is a point of view that says that computer science conferences exist for the purpose of gaming the tenure system. The name of the game is plausible deniability: you're not supposed to submit papers that contain known false claims, but everything else is fair game. And this has become such an integral part of the culture that technical correctness is no longer a necessary condition for accepting a paper [1]. I think in this light it's quite clear why many scientists are happy to leave their papers hidden behind the ACM paywall.

[1] http://agtb.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/should-technical-errors...
Also he seems to lay at the feet of Petrofsky the failure of any further progess in the area and even seems to insinuate Petrofsky misled people intentionally. I don't follow him on point one, it seems a non-sequitur. As for the second, I'm going to quote a section from one of the articles he linked to:

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“That was just for that event,” Davis, now Nan Huckeriede, said of her brief, but famous walk at graduation. “It was the computer-controlled electric stimulation, not me.”
Davis had met Petrofsky while she was in college. “I was attending the WSU Lake Campus, and went to a spinal cord society conference there,” she says from her St. Marys home. “Jerry (Petrofsky) was a presenter, and afterwards, I introduced myself and told him I was interested in his research.
“For about a month, I drove back and forth to Dayton to work with him, and then I transferred to the Dayton campus.”
Following her graduation walk, Davis returned to her wheelchair, stayed in Dayton a few years, married, and then returned to St. Marys.
“Jerry moved to California and stopped his research — I think he felt that he had gone as far as he could,” said Huckeriede. “But I still use the equipment he developed to get my exercise.”
Last summer she traveled to Beijing for a procedure to strengthen her back and stomach muscles. “It didn’t work, but I knew it was experimental. It was worth a try.”

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Given all this, my take away is that John Horgan has axe to grind for almost 20 years now and it's still not sharp.
So the TLDR is if you invest a lot of effort, you could win a game that doesn't matter, that you don't care about, all to impress people you don't care about?

Its a good article in that if you've already decided to do something like it, FF is a sort of interesting, unusual choice.

One minor failing of the article is failing to deal with the issue of FF being extremely slow paced. Like playing pac man by submitting punch card jobs on an ancient mainframe.
Inspired by Real Life Events™.
Troll, yes. Deceive? Eh, everyone knows I'm clueless, but I can now maintain a conversation.
Yes. Also, when a company knows it needs to design a 100% driverless car, safety will necessarily be the primary concern when designing the firmware. While that's theoretically the case regardless, recent Toyota fallout[1] shows that car companies perhaps aren't paying enough attention to this given that they have a human driver ultimately making the decisions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6636811
You're forgetting the part were you have fun doing it.
This is dead on. Another developer and my self reluctantly joined our office's league this year, despite knowing nothing about football. We're both dominating. He's 7-1 and I'm 6-2. I'd be 7-1 too if I'd have known what a 'bye' week was and paid closer attention to my team.
Of lion manes and human beards
In that case why do HPC users prefer the Intel compilers then.

and arguably CISCO's IOS is a key component of the stack you are of course talking about full stack layer 1 thru 7?
One human 'captain' for a convoy might make sense.
>Work often gets cited without being either replicated or invalidated.

I'm not sure why you're bringing up this fact, which is not at all inconsistent with my comment. What's your implication?

>Do you do any kind of research? You seem to have an unrealistically rosy perception of the scientific process as it happens concretely.

In the past decade, I've spent probably 70% of my time on scientific research. At this moment I'm procrastinating from writing a letter of support on a grant. What, in particular, do you think I'm unrealistically rosy about?
FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment.
No, there is nothing one indentation level deeper than 1, so it should have no parens according to the rule.
This is all good except the part about not talking shit.

Talking shit makes fantasy sports even better. There is, however, one rule to this: only do it in leagues with your friends. Yes, you're an asshole if you're in a league with 11 other random internet people. With your friends it's just fun.
Should technical errors disqualify conference papers?
> Compared to driverless cars, driverless trucking is technically way simpler

This person has never driven a truck or a bus[1]. The amount of stuff that can go wrong in a truck or bus, plus the amount of damage an error would cause is well above a car.

I think the whole driverless car should have started with smaller-than-car vehicles. I wish they had started with simple package delivery vehicles[2] and learned from them.

1) I did have a bus license in my poorly spent youth

2) something like http://badgerlandminitrucks.com/specs.htm but smaller. Vehicle drives to A, texts, accepts cargo and payment, leaves for B, texts person at B, B verifies ID, door opens, vehicles goes to next site - probably work OK in a city
you still need to write callbacks,wether they are named or not, that's the problem. Go deals with concurrency a much nicer way. 10 asyncs operations in a row are still 10 functions you'll need to write in javascript.
Hi,

I think I give a pretty fair argument about this towards the end in comparison to broadcast.com

In short, yes- Back then the bubble was based on the hype that people were coming. The hype now is that the people are here. Again, compare the 500k (thousand, not million) users of broadcast.com (and 5.7b sale) to snapchat and it becomes less frothy.

Like the stock market, valuations are set on what others are willing to pay. You may not use snapchat (I dont either) but you cannot deny the fact of its massive usage. Yes, Its unmonetized- But people are valuing it where it is because another large company is very likely to pay that much to acquire it.

Valuation = how much something is worth to another buyer. Everything in this world has a fluid cost to it, so everything goes through ups and downs. But there is no static valuation, only a constant ride of ups and downs.
Especially since many Westerners have similar family histories, if you count the previous generation. My Greek grandfather survived a bout of ethnic cleansing [1], a civil war in the first country he fled to [2], a Nazi occupation in the 2nd place he fled [3], and a civil war between the leftist anti-Nazi partisans and the Western-backed government in exile [4]. So he had sort of an, "eh, I've seen worse" attitude.

Lots of American Jews, Armenians, Lebanese, etc. are not in the U.S. purely for reasons of voluntary relocation, either.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War
With Mavericks, you can't sync via USB anymore. But you can still sync with your own server through CalDAV, ActiveSync, etc. You're not forced to use iCloud.
I don't know which commercial truck drivers you've observed, but anecdotally, I've seen some pretty distracted / inattentive behavior from truck drivers myself.

Are you suggesting that truck drivers are somehow ubermensch who can stare at highway for 16 hours without getting drowsy or losing focus? Automated trucks can drive with perfect attention 24/7.

That being said, I disagree with the article -- trucks take longer to stop, are harder to navigate in constrained spaces, and have higher stakes than personal cars. I wonder how difficult it would be to rob automated trucks by simply slowing down to a stop in front of them, for example.
Honestly, I would rather this situation occur to a "defenseless" driverless truck than to one with a driver who might be injured or killed in the process. I highly doubt the rate of people stepping out in front of semis to rob them would increase drastically in any case.
Sure - with friends it's fine. With strangers and coworkers, I'd just be careful :) The OP was about office leagues so I erred on the side of caution!
Australia is also, like Canada and the U.S. itself, an immigrant nation, making the importance of population replacement rates less important (the U.S. is around 1.9 right now, but second-generation and later fertility rates are below the replacement rate; immigrant and first-generation fertility rates are above the replacement rate, averaging out but resulting in the demographic shift that is disturbing certain folks among red states right now).
DC Police Department monitors gunshots with acoustic rooftop sensors
I even got punished with bad karma for that :D
Thats a pretty blind way to look at this. A shopping site launching in 2000 had a fixed potential audience of X and a MAXIMUM revenue of Y.

A shopping site launching today has more than 10x the audience. If you want to discount that, go ahead.
Wisp: Small-but-featureful embeddable Lisp interpreter written in Haskell
Really? A few days without heating and now you think understand the poor??
Great library! I wrote something similar once [1] and thought two special cases might be useful to optimize for: a predecoration that modifies the arguments to a function and a postdecoration that modifies the return value.

1. https://github.com/anfedorov/decorations
It's 200mb absolutely free, if you want more you're welcome to pay them, or anyone else, to get more.
Exactly right. Anyone telling you it is or is not going one way is crazy. Im simply refuting that "its just like 2000" and showing some strength points.
a bit off topic but does anyone here knows what Scott Forstall has become ?
Maybe it is easier to keep the maximum amount of virtual machines running on your hardware when you only offering fixed sizes? You can plan your physical hardware so that there is always certain amount of vms on one host and all CPU/mem/disk is allocated to them.

With more flexible allocation of resources the pool would start to fragment. Without local disk the defragmentation process would be fairly easy as you could just restart the vm's in another host, but local disk makes this more difficult (or more annoying for the customer).
How Google is beating Apple in the fight for emotions
The deal is strictly for tablets for now, I was inspecting the announcement.
Enjoyable post, made me laugh throughout.

I'm a Fantasy Football (not egghand) player myself and a big football fan in general.

Funny enough, Fantasy Football is what taught me how to code, I wanted to enhance the crappy official website ( http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ ) with nice tools so I went from knowing html to deploying my own rails apps ( http://www.insidefpl.com ) in a year. I'm still learning everyday and new tools ideas are what make me push myself to learn more.
I've had this exact thought. I could create an api for ESPN with Nokogiri or Capybara or whatever and get the relevant stats for everyone. If it's really just points, then it would be an incredibly simple thing to write.

Will probably do exactly this next year, just for fun and the opportunity to wreck my coworkers.
It seemed right to try to offer transparent comparisons for screenshots rather than cherry pick. Linux font rendering can vary a lot depending on how things are set up.
I get where you are coming from, but its very incorrect.

There is no additional cost for supporting 1k customers a month vs 100k customers a month. However, your revenue will be 100x more.

Sure, there might be more incremental costs (bandwidth/storage) but it is NOT statically in line with profit.
Seems like the short version is "apply principles of 'Moneyball' to American fantasy football, and win".

American football still holds no interest to me, and I'm still the guy at the office who would rather discuss F1, rugby, and proper football with Brits and Aussies in the building.

As an aside - if anyone has a good "cricket for dummies" recommendation, I'm open to suggestions. As much as I try, the rules still don't really make sense to me. Perhaps I'm permanently damaged having grown up on baseball.
Just the other day I was thinking how this, (I am Lithuanian) might have thickened my skin.

The parent comment does make sense, but even the young generation had to survive thru 1998 Russian financial crisis and many, witnessed the start of a new, young democracy. Heck, many of us were born in Soviet Union.

Talking about IT workers, we are often self praising as being as cheap as far-east workers, but delivering superior quality. Not sure how true it is, but there are quite few tech startups in Vilnius.
Care to explain why my virus scanners says your exe installer contains a virus and why https://lekensteyn.nl/apk-downloader/ says you package spyware?
Alternatively, instead of trying for heavier vehicles with longer hauls, what about something like citywide pizza/package delivery? You've no need for passenger safety, so the size and weight of the vehicle can be brought way down. Speed could also remain relatively low, mitigated by the fact that deliveries could be dispatched immediately rather than aggregating trips. Not that a person getting hit by a 400lb vehicle at 20mph is a laughing experience, but accident damages would be mitigated and an emergency stop-everything would actually be feasible.
The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
Thank you for saying this. I live in Long Island City, Queens and I visit friends in Williamsburg, Brooklyn all the time. It's easy to take the G train and get there within 20 some minutes.
Another tying game
Of course there's a bubble. Of course it's not the same as the 2000 bubble.

Today online businesses are very different than in 2000, the sheer size of the market and the industry is vastly different. The cost tradeoffs are also very different. And, as always, bubbles are about psychology, and the psychology is different. But the idea that there aren't many vastly overvalued companies out there is difficult to swallow. There are many over hyped corners of the market (like social) and many valuations that only make sense if the companies are run by clairvoyant business ninjas (which, inevitably, few are).

Over the next 5 to 10 years we'll see plenty of highly valued companies crumble and be revealed as mostly hollow shells. And we'll see a few companies that don't seem to make sense succeed even so. All of which is fine. Nobody's forcing anyone to invest in any of these companies. And the good news is that the dot-com industry is big enough and diverse enough that, unlike 2000, it can survive plenty of big failures and still keep going.
You can also have a convoy of 1 manned truck with n driverless truck that play follow the leader. You end up with a train model on the road infrastructure.
Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To One Of Them, Watch What Happens Next
> I think it's really important to talk about what Science is. It gets bandied about like it's this abstract idea when, in fact, it is a real process that is taking place.

But science isn't defined by its process, it's defined by its philosophical axioms, its foundational rules. The first and most important rule is that a scientific theory must be potentially falsifiable in practical tests -- if there's no empirical testability, there's no basis for falsification, therefore there is no science. The second rule is that scientific ideas cannot ever be proven true, only false. The third rule is that an idea without supporting evidence is assumed to be false, not true (this is known as the "null hypothesis"). The remaining rules are comparatively unimportant -- these are the big three, without which any discussion of science is pointless.

Science's process can change, and from field to field, it certainly does. But the rules stay the same.

> Science is like the stock market. It's lots of people spit-balling about what's happening in the market ...

That is not science. To call that science is like confusing a spacecraft with a conversation in a bar about a spacecraft.

> It is possible to criticize the current way we have set up the Scientific endeavor without criticizing the abstract notion that human beings will generally discover new things over the long term.

Again, that is not science. Science's goal is not discoveries, its goal is to reliably refute ideas that are false, primarily by comparing them to reality. This is why science journalism articles that trumpet breakthroughs, with rare exception do a disservice to both science and journalism.
How does one control this using linux?
When I moved to Seattle, I was very fortunate in that CondoInternet served my apartment building. They offered gigabit internet for $120 a month and 100mbps for $60. All after taxes, too. Coming from years of dealing with Comcast, this was a welcome change.

Increased availability for this level of quality would be great to see.
Well, it doesn't, but you can find out.
Your are right.

Once ES6 is here(when? i dont know), things are going to get better i think,

but Go way of dealing with concurrency in general is a lot better than javascript's for now.
This is much more useful and more explicit than Sour's. I would rather use this old one.
So the head of IT sec uses unpatched browser, un-updated Java and allows applets from sites he sees first time in his life? Well, good enough for government work, I guess.
In England, £15 unlimited data with lots of calls and texts, prepaid. Loved it.
For this post, I'm going to make a couple of simple, reasonable assumptions.
1) there exists only two types of people in this world: jocks and nerds
2) you're the latter

Assumption 1) is not reasonable, these two groups are not mutually exclusive. I am definitely in both groups, although I might use different terminology.
whereas a manned truck in the same situation would just run over the guy? And what about locks, cameras, burglar alarms etc?

Surely a manned truck of today is easier to rob. You don't even need to move the goods, just steal the whole truck and be done with it.
has anyone looked into what effect the driveless car revolution will have on the labor market?

i'm not a luddite. i'm just curious how many people will be affected professionally.
Well, I am a Westerner myself, and the war generation were young too, when it happened (and then, happened again). If this were an article about our Millenials, it would be very different, was my point.
All your games look awesome. In general I saw your (well I didn't know they were "yours") games many times as they are the type of projects I am (falsely) imagining I would try to make some day. I think it's much harder to survive from gamedev than more boring SaaS projects. Besides being much more hit-driven and unpredictable you also usually need to pay for art and other resources. (I signed up to 2 of them)
Yes, but they weren't through-sung (were they?), which is what the Florentines seem to have decided they were (hence opera).