skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A website can be an interactive app, but email?

Fortunately, most e-mail clients support a "show this e-mail in text only" view mode. This means that you can have it your way, and others can have it theirs!
A shop vac removes them from a mattress.
Well, we need to stop trying to solve homelessness per se. We need to work on taking better care of people generally. That will shrink the numbers of homeless.
It could be a lot cleaner and calmer
Haven't had the chance to play around, but it looks clean and it's a nice concept.

Have you checked out https://www.hackerrank.com/ ? They initially started out with bot challenges as well.
Hackathons / Hack weeks
Certainly not a requirement.

Look back into the reddit dark ages at the /r/marijuana /r/trees schism, for instance.
Shorter HN:

Googlrola abuses patent system: no big deal

Apple abuses patent system: they are now the enemy
Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century
Was about to write a comment along the lines of:

"Beautiful site, looks awesome, but at an initial glance it doesn't tell me why I'd choose it over something like OpenStreetMap."

Is there any reason for the split in name/branding between the two?
AR::Base#find still throws an exception if a malformed uuid is passed in. Looks like my dirty hack is going to hang around a bit longer

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/11902?source=cc
> The government has shown that it, too, cannot be relied upon to solve it.

You might want to provide evidence to support this claim. Also, if that is the case, then to whom or what group does this problem fall into?

Or do you simply say it's unsolvable and go home to your comfortable bed at night?
To really run a CPU hot, you need to manually create a workload that utilizes all of the computation units (ALU, FPU, SIMD) interleaving assembler commands. This is nontrivial, and will not happen "by accident" when doing aggressive optimization. Have a look at the cpuburn program for one example.
SEO is the largest feeder of traffic for Twicsy. People get there by searching for a very long tail of things. But there are quite a few that return just to browse around it seems, or check out the top photos.

Agreed, the UX/UI is terrible. One big problem is that I am a terrible web developer, I am really just a back end data guy that knows enough to be dangerous on the front end.

But that's part of the reason why I think it has much more potential. The site gets a ton of traffic despite its obvious flaws. If I had the funds to do a redesign and even execute well on the basics who knows what could happen?
I just checked.. the deductibles are high plus partial coverage and the subsidies are not as much as I had hoped.. still paying around $480.
> High-frequency transmission requires that you have elements capable of transmitting externally at very high frequencies and elements capable of receiving at very high frequencies.

You only need to transmit the carrier at the high (inaudible) frequency, you can receive at any sub harmonic frequency as long as the transmission protocol is designed with this in mind.

So a carrier signal broadcast at 20KHz (within the range of the speakers) but inaudible to most humans can be picked up by sampling at 10KHz (within the range of laptop microphones). The protocol just needs to send each bit twice (or any multiple of two) at 20KHz.
T.S.A. Officer Is Killed at Los Angeles Airport
"Banana republic" means something. Look it up.
Brandon - what methods are you using to run untrusted Python code in a secure sandbox?
Absolutely - well said.
Why should I use tmux over screen?
That blows my mind. I would have expected at least zip codes to be maintained within a state!
Hopefully this draws enough attention for amazon to want to fix the problem.
> he made it immediately clear that he didn’t call to ask me to take down the post – “Linkedin isn’t that kind of company”.

I'm very glad to hear this.

Disappointed (in general) that this even needs to be noted, but glad to hear it. Unfortunately, this is not something that can be taken for granted.
That's Best Practices for Designing an HTTP API. Of 22 points, the author deals with HTTP implementation details in 14, and REST is supposed to be protocol agnostic and leverage on the standard. In 6 points he goes directly against the REST principles, and in 2 other points he directly contradicts them.

Sorry, but if you follow his guide, you won't have a RESTful API at all. I don't understand how can someone sell that as a "best practices" manual.
for very short stints,

Well, yes. Look at the last sentence:

As many as 3.5 million people experience homelessness in a given year (1% of the entire U.S. population or 10% of its poor), and about 842,000 people in any given week.[36][37] Most were homeless temporarily. The chronically homeless population (those with repeated episodes or who have been homeless for long periods) fell from 175,914 in 2005 to 123,833 in 2007.[38]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Stat...

The people who put these statistics together seem to have an interest in bucking up the numbers. I'm guessing "homeless" could include all manner of things like switching jobs and so being without an apartment for a few days.
That is not an example of what the author is talking about. Core agents are not implemented at different levels in the system vs bios sense. Impact doesn't have anything at all similar to what badbios is claimed to be doing.
I have very little ability to change the UI because I am a bad web developer and every change I make seems to make things worse. But thanks for the placement suggestion, maybe that is worth a try.

I contacted BuySellAds a while back and they passed on the opportunity. They said their target audience doesn't line up well with Twicsy. Or some crap like that :)
Iirc, they backed off on that. WinPhone isn't as open as Android, but it's not iOS either. There's still a heavy bias towards the 1st-party store just like there is on Android and I doubt the phones are as easy to root/flash/whatever, but they do let you download and install applications outside of the store.

Maybe we'll see a Humble Windows Phone Bundle some day.
No, there is no chance it will happen, since it's more of a runtime/language problem.
No, their complaints aren't strictly about the missing tax revenue. There are other regulations that would need to be addressed (health, safety, etc...). Hotels are a heavily regulated industry with good reason. Regulations are a protection mechanism to protect the city/neighborhood and the consumer.

I think that there is a clear difference between renting out a room or occasionally renting your entire place, versus keeping a separate apartment strictly for renting out on AirBnB.
UW may not be private but the pricing is based on supply/demand not costs. For example, a first year student enrolled in Math pays half as much as a first year student enrolled in CS. They both take exactly the same courses in the same rooms at the same times with the same professors.

Engineering and CS students subsidize the rest of the school in order to improve the university's rankings. We're just cash cows to them.
Since having been bought by Rupert WSJ been leaning more to the right

The WSJ is far more liberal than it was a generation ago.[1] The WSJ is sort of Bloombergian in its outlook. Also, Murdoch is not American. Most people consider the UK Conservatives left of center of even US democrats (eg, signle payer healthcare), so again even if Murdoch was pushing the US toward the EU right, it would be moving the the US left. (Another reason why these words are sort of ill-advised). Of course, he's actually Australian. So YMMV.

[1] And frankly the NYT link is arguablly an opinion piece.
But by using moderation to avoid the "least common denominator," you're dealing with content that is less satisfying to users. Of course, this is only true is you judge "satisfying" by upvotes and downvotes, or perhaps other metrics like number of comments.
"ludicrous design patent lawsuit against Samsung"

You mean the one Google's lawyers told Samsung infringed on Apple's design? Right, ludicrous.
Why do you think they suck? Not "why is that your impression", but granted they suck, why?
Honeslty, Windows Phone's UI is a neat concept and very modern and stylish, but I've been using a WP7 phone for over two years now and I have to say - the silhouette icon approach sucks.

Merging icons and widgets? Brillian, Google should've though of that. Simple, modern, flat styling? Fantastic. Monochrome 2-color icons? Do not want.
I agree this idea has potential, and I have thought about it, but I am a bad web developer, and an even worse app developer. I have been looking for a partner to possibly do it with a rev share and I have contacted numerous people, but no takers...
𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTse5Elq8s ❝Screen vs. tmux faceoff❞ (Jon Jensen, 2012 UTOSC)

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀:

• http://tmux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/tmux/FAQ (Notably, the section entitled ❝How is tmux different from GNU screen?❞ at the top.)

• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...

• http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Screen_vs_tmux (Incomplete and lacking, but leaving this link here anyway.)
I put it down to the poor state of our mathematical education. The naive understanding of economic systems libertarians display is actually fairly similar to what you see in introductory dynamical-systems courses. You can, with great care, construct some "well-behaved" systems where you present a set of rules, and the expected thing happens: you push lever X and Y happens. Raise the minimum wage and unemployment rises!

But of course, most systems are not so well-behaved, so that is only a lead-in to the real examples, where you change the setup slightly and suddenly analysis grows more complex. Now what happens when you push lever X depends on what region of the state-space you're in! And sometimes pushing lever X can change the region of the state-space you're in, too! There is feedback and internal dynamics. I see very little libertarian economics that displays even a 101-level understanding of any of that.
Do potential AirBnb customers care about the opinions of neighbors? Also, does government regulation/zoning let neighbors file reviews?
someone's bad at being greedy
It's probably an insurance coverage issue, so ignoring it wouldn't be a good idea. Especially if the insurance company feels that you should have known about it.
The Guardian, roughly every other day. Recently it's been daily though.
And the neighbors may not. Licensing isn't just about the man screwing you over.
I don't think it's a reasonable assumption.
Btw, email is: jeremy@superplussed.com
That drawing is priceless.
You just deferred the problem to the definition of "sole."
> Also, does government regulation/zoning let neighbors file reviews?

Yes, that's part of the point of it. I live in an apartment building. My neighbor, who lives the next door down from me, lives in another residential apartment. We get along fine. However, we would get along considerably less fine if he were to open a dance club, a restaurant, or a hotel in his apartment. It is zoned residential, so this is not an issue. But I would be very interested if there were a proposal to change this zoning, because the situation of sharing a thin wall with a household, versus sharing one with a techno club or a hotel or a cinema, differs considerably. And indeed, there is a mandatory public notice and comment period if there were a proposal to change the zoning. If it were allowed at all, they would likely be required to upgrade the noise insulation, in the case of a hotel to have regular inspections for bedbugs, etc.

I am not aware of AirBnB running a similar consultation process where they give me public notice that my neighbor plans to turn his place into a full-time hotel room, and allows me to file objections. I also suspect the rigor of their health oversight is lacking.
It would be better to provide support that makes the family successful rather than tearing it apart as our default approach.
Government as a data model
How Not To Burnout In Development
Right now what I'm doing is:

1. search code for double underscores (to block magic methods)

2. replace `__builtins__` with a whitelisted version

3. hook `__import__` to only allow a whitelist

4. hook `getattr` to reject any key containing double underscores
Using an iPhone 5 Internationally: Sim Card fun
I triple boot XP, Windows Seven and Ubuntu Saucy.

Some things (some games I like, ripping disks) are better done in XP.
Yeah, I do that every time!
Google made changes to how the JNI returns references to Java objects in Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) so that native code can work with a moving GC.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/11/jni-local-ref...

Doesn't answer your question, just some supporting evidence.
Agreed with mobile optimization, I have over 35% mobile traffic and I am doing a terrible job of taking advantage of this. But I don't know the first thing about how to do this. I have done some research and experiments but honestly couldn't make sense of it.

Yes, I am banned from Adsense, and just about every top tier ad network. There is a certain amount of porn on Twicsy (maybe 10% of overall traffic, nothing earth shattering) that makes it unsavory to many advertisers. Despite aggressive filtering in place to stop serving top tier ads on anything that might possibly be objectionable, and removing 10's of millions of pictures, it seems like every top provider has blacklisted Twicsy.
I'd love to do a free redesign for Twicsy. Email me (inlith@gmail.com) if you're interested.

My portfolio is at madebyargon.com
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> This episode exposes a weakness in Reddit's overall structure

Except this was a good decision.

If anything it exposes the fail of Reddit's voting system such that theses emotive magazines that directly tap the human brain for uplinks needed to be banned rather than not voted up.

Although it all depends, is Reddit just a money making machine? So allowing people to constantly reinforce bad behaviours might be seen as good from a company level?
So both sides have different approaches, and are known malevolent actors, but one is better in your book because of their PR?... :(
I have tried at least 50 ad networks and what I am using now seems to work the best. But I am always willing to try something new...
Actually I just found this: http://nearbytweets.com/ - seems someone has already done it (for free). You can change the location to anywhere in the world (not just 'near' you)
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unless it can just decode raw bits and somehow shuffle them to the network layer of one of the existing adapters you're going to need quite a bit of code to handle that part of it as well.

I think he claimed that packet counts increased with the network hardware pulled from the system - maybe it knows how to stuff them into the loopback interface's queues.

The other option is that you don't have to do full tcp/ip over the "audio link" since it would only be used for specific types of traffic. If you control how the sender transmits you can ditch a ton of the tcp/ip logic and just hardcode to a minimalist subset of functionality.
If LinkedIn sent me this box of self-aggrandising cruft I'd be geniunely pissed at them for imposing onto me the responsibility for its disposal.
Very cool. How robust is the english parsing? For example, would it understand something like "The first wednesday of every month"? Either way I will definitely check it out.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have heard a lot of good things about Facebook before - and my totally opposite experience was one of the reason for exaggerated reaction.

I agree that there are jobs where I would love to spend days, weeks and months of free coding and other efforts - all just to get them. But I have very different expectations of pre-interview process - when I saw it was 'do all this and mb we ll talk to you' thing.

Again - and I think post's update should explain it - what happened to me was an exception. I would just never expect to get such an exception from Facebook.
Where does the traffic come from? I think I may know.

TRAFFIC

A brief glance at alexa (I know, I know...) shows the source breakdown of his traffic:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/twicsy.com
USA (17.5%), India (13.4%), Indonesia (11.3%), Japan (4.1%)

More interestingly, it lists some feeder pages, and there's one interesting one:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090722010355AA...

Which contains this answer:

"Bonus - This is an easy way to include pictures you have uploaded to Twitter in an easy and automated fashion. Go to http://twicsy.com and type in your twitter username. You will see all of the pictures you have uploaded through twitter. Now scroll to the right and click on the 'RSS' button. Now you can use this automatically updated link of your tiwtter pictures."

RSS FEEDS

So... since people can use twicsy to find all pictures on a certain hashtag topic ( http://twicsy.com/?search=%23cinderella ) or from a certain user ( http://twicsy.com/u/onedirection ), they can include these in their own sites as RSS feeds, thus contributing to his overall server traffic, but perhaps not actual visitors.

BANDWIDTH

He does not actually seem to host (all/any?) pictures himself (i.e. little bandwidth), but wraps twimg.com files in his own RSS tags, adding links to his site.

TRAFFIC 2

By the way, his assertion of 6MM visits a month is reflected in the quantcast numbers:

https://www.quantcast.com/twicsy.com#!traffic

DEMOGRAPHIC

Also, pretty interesting affinity sites and demographic (younger males, no kids, not wealthy, college educated, more than avg african american and hispanic visitors) with a strong affinity for O'Reilly Automotive (perhaps not very similar to the audience of this site, hence virtually unknown)

https://www.quantcast.com/twicsy.com#!demo

GEO

Geo findings of Alexa seem to agree with Alexa, though strangely enough, India is missing from the top countries. Quantcast claims only 56k unique cookies from India. Perhaps someone one is using his site and responsible for a lot of the Alexa 13.5% ?

https://www.quantcast.com/twicsy.com#!geo

MONEY MONEY MONEY

If my theory of above average RSS traffic is right, only he can tell, think he could make more money if he inserted some adverts into his RSS feed. Not sure how well this would go over with Twitter, since he's not doing (most of?) the image hosting.

I also get the feeling something is amiss. The Alexa and Quantcast numbers are significantly out of whack (13.4% of all traffic from India, yet only 56k unique visitors) strikes me as odd. He may be spending a bunch of money on servers whilst others save money on using them as a tool.

On a personal level I find the design very unattractive and out-of-date, which may prevent the site from becoming much of a destination and could be linked to the 60+% bounce rate. If I were him I would figure out what competitors do ( like twitpic, which according to compete is an actual competitor: https://siteanalytics.compete.com/twicsy.com/ ) and take it from there.

Access to actual analytics could provide more ideas for money-making (or -saving).
Post Halloween sugar coma can be very interesting and could be one BAD day
It's certainly your prerogative, but realize that you are effectively saying you prefer to be lied to, at least in this instance.
I am well aware of how Android's dexer tools work and that non-Java languages work on Dalvik; I use Scala on Android regularly. groovyc builds legal Java bytecode and (as of 2012, at least--since the advent of dexmaker this may have changed) fails when you try to run the dexed output on Android (RTCG). Rhino will work as an embedded runtime on Android with optimizations disabled--in which case it runs in fully interpreted mode--but fails when you enable optimizations or when you attempt to use LiveConnect (runtime class construction).

And this is because Dalvik doesn't understand Java bytecode. It's not conformant to either J2SE or J2ME and these are examples of libraries that puke because of its nonconformance. That's all I'm saying.
Based on world smartphone sales it looks like it could be just as easily taking market share from Apple:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/31/strategy-analytics-q3-201...

Anyway, I love my Lumia 928. After having 3 iPhones it's the best phone I've ever had.
Bootkits have nothing to do with what is described by this article and badbios. They reside on the filesystem.

The thread you linked to doesn't contain any findings, but it does contain an analysis of Dragos' UEFI showing it to be completely clean, with the code matching the original factory image.
My theory is that (over)population might have something to do with it. The population of the US was around 150 million, it's more than double that now. Maybe there was the same amount of "opportunity" back then as now, but now more people compete over it (and over the same resources). The total population of the world was 2.5 billion back then, now it's almost triple that. The world hasn't grown 3 times since then, it's the same size.
A Tale of Frankenstein and Binding to Service Values in Angular.js
He obviously meant the indefinite, generic and epicene, non-referring anaphor "their" and not the definite, plural, referring pronoun "their".
Is this not exactly what Intellectual Ventures offers?
PR, despite the bad rap it gets as bullshit, is not worthless. Apple, Microsoft and their cohorts proudly try to create a public perception that software patents are essential and deserved. Google has done the opposite by trying to get the public to understand the damage software patents can create. Given that patents are government controlled system, public perception is important. I find that PR distinction enough to not tar everyone with the same brush.

To clarify, I do believe Google is fundamentally doing their best to improve the current patent situation. Perhaps naïvely. I just wrote about the situation with the assumption that Google are evil liars to approach Gruber on his level.
One thing that may be different is I'm not sure how many people use this bus, while I regularly took the blue line when I had a red-eye into O'Hare.
Too bad it's now just Microsoft and they'll drop the Nokia name too. Microsoft has Lumia and Asha brands and they can use Nokia brand just for dumb phones. Quite intriguing is that neither Nokia or Microsoft has the right to use Nokia name in smartphones until 2016, when Nokia is freed again to release phones with it's own brand.
This is great! Obviously if it had a different, whizbang name, it may have caught on, right? :)
Wish it worked with http://instantwatcher.com
What is the best hardware for a home router? Soekris was very popular in the past but I'm wondering that maybe there's cool hardware out there.

I also wonder if carpd is usable with a DHCP connection.
Being an Android user doesn't imply being a Gmail user.