skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't it's randomness but that it's very, very minute portion of the population.

99% of would-be professional athletes fail to make a living at it. Professional athletics isn't a factor affecting where the vast majority of people go to work after they finish school, except for the way it might take away from the time they spend preparing for what they wind-up doing.
Many papers and many people make things seem far more complicated than they are

cough wikipedia cough
Sentry on Riak
Ubuntu shouldn't abuse trademark law to silence critics of its privacy decisions
Read the editorial: the NY Times is endorsing an agreement that the public can't read.

I did. It isn't.
Interesting link.

I know my questions are not captious, but I can tell they come across that way: the questionee thinks all things are fine and dandy, and can't understand why I'm asking so many (to them) irrelevant questions.
Many professors love making their students feel dumb for some reason.
So then Google could still revoke the certificates of any ad blocking software.
Generational GC in Python and Ruby
NYT protected Bush by sitting on their knowledge of AT&T-facilitated domestic wiretapping. Pretty big story they could have broke. The NYT's usefulness is due to their pretence of being proponents of transparency and democracy.
Here is an article I created and authored with no undue interference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Island_(Namibia)

Sure, the topic is obscure and even sort of shitty, but you need to dig deep these days if you want to start a brand new page, simply because most topics are already covered.
A Bitcoin for Your Thoughts? Digital Currency Gets Physical with First ATM
Here's an idea. How about we use common sense and moderation rather than worry with a game of hat the cat. Just an idea. :)
Telling my my AmEx is invalid. Last time I checked it was a real CC...
> It can be accomplished today, using tools with graphical interfaces that are available on all mainstream platforms.

Aww. Don't leave us hanging :) Does Linux count as mainstream? What are these interfaces? Do they cost money (I don't mind paying money - I pay money for snail mail). Can I roll my own? Does this mean Dark Mail is a more or less pointless endeavour in your opinion regardless of your opinions of the initiators? Enquiring minds would like to know.
It may be better to look for quality projects in basic research into fundamental science. Understanding more about biology and physics helps cure cancer and could devoir almost any budgets (see cern).
You'd be surprised at how much weight some companies put on GPA...decades after you went to school.
Being constantly signed in also gives you a lot of advantages. Not everybody has a huge distain for being signed in. There are plenty of people who PREFER a simpler OS with a simpler UI that doesn't get viruses or trojans, running on hardware cheaper than an iPad.
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I agree. I am actually not a Java hater :-) In fact I have built 4 distinct Java/JSP frameworks since 1996.

You can really create some very nice frameworks with Java using some of what you say below. The Java framework at PayPal made a few mistakes (in my opinion) that made the environment harder to work in than it should have been.

But I started with needed to rapidly iterate, move between prototype & production easily, take advantage of asynchronous nature of node for our web apps to scale better, simplify the engineering team makeup (not have multiple types of engineers). These all led to deciding to move forward with node.

Oh, and let's face it, recruiting is a little easier with nodejs.
PBKDF2 is straightforward to accelerate in commercial off the shelf hardware, and bcrypt isn't. But both are fine. Neither are "salted hashes".
Coming at this from another angle...

>"His net impact on the meeting is generally negative, and he makes it 15 minutes longer than it needs to be."

Perhaps I'm making the meeting 15 minutes longer by asked pointed questions because I want the meeting to produce something more than plans for yet another meeting.

I would rather spend 45 minutes to produce 15 minutes of value than spend 30 for nothing.

That said, I'm only going to do this a few times. If the group or organizer is intent on holding meetings that don't generate anything of value I'll just stop attending and interfering with the status quo.

>"And I suspect that no right-minded person wants meetings to be longer than necessary."

Only in the case of the kind of worthless adherence to convention, meet for the sake of meeting style meeting I described above.

At their core, I think many people want to cooperate and produce, they hate the typical meeting and want to end it as soon as possible because it accomplishes neither of those things.

>"Of course, sometimes people roll their eyes to what are in fact smart objections, but I think most of the time most people (not That Guy) know which objections are trivial and which actually matter."

Too often, the things that "actually matter" to the folks holding/attending a meeting are frankly toxic.

* Wringing implied consent from an audience who has been guilted out of raising objections for fear of being "that guy". When the poor ideas presented or details omitted come back to bite the blame is ready "You were there. Why didn't you bring this up earlier?"

* Simply having an audience. There are a lot of people who just love to hear themselves talk, to gesticulate in front of a whiteboard and love to see their underlings nod in approval even more.

* Maintaining the status quo. Objections are likely to make work or at least require effort from people who are happily complacent and "busy" with a schedule chock full of meetings every day.

Sure, in a great environment with well-run, universally productive meetings and discussions these situations don't exist and "that guy" would be genuinely captious.

Thing is, most of us don't work in an ideal environment and I'd expect nearly of us have worked at some point in a place that was far from it.
The XBox One is an x86 architecture as well. Pretty much everything that you said about the PS4 also applies to XBox One. Now, there are differences between the consoles, but fundamentally both of the next-gen consoles are x86 CPUs tied to memory architectures that are designed to stream HD content to the screen as fast as possible.
I'm going to contact Margaret Sullivan, the Times' Public Editor, and ask her to write about why the paper is endorsing something they haven't seen. If enough folks join me, she might weigh in. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/

public@nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/opinion/a-pacific-trade-de...
There is currently zero chance of this happening, if you believe otherwise you are misinformed.
To Buy Or Not To Buy? The Twitter Question
If you're on Ubuntu, running "apt-get build-dep python-imaging" should fix those problems (or it did for me in the past).
one aspect to see with hungarian notation is also the general quality of compilers and development tools such as IDEs or editors. Its just way easier nowadays to jump to the declaration of a variable.
Good approachable breakdown. I wonder if any of the "bigger problems" he mentions are fundamental to the bitcoin protocol.
Try checking out -- they're are still plenty of bumps in their checkout process...
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Bump this n times. As I said before, it's a new world -- we know about MUSCULAR. More relevantly, but less recently, we also know about what took out the uranium enrichment facility at Na'antz (sp?): the virus Israel and the U.S. have more or less admitted to creating, with a wink and a nod, that we have seen evidence of elsewhere in the world. I confess I don't have the links anymore, nor the time to go hunting them down again, but Google does.

Remember: There are already documented cases of virii making themselves almost entirely undetectable, crossing air gaps on USB sticks, and then blowing up, e.g., specific brands of peripherals (such as industrial centrifuges) by altering their firmware.

Is it really a stretch to imagine a variant that (a) is bios-based and (b) uses the tech behind every modem since 300 baud -- the modulation of digital data into sound? That breaks itself up into undetectable pieces? We've seen these techniques before.
That's exactly what I was going to say. Even the terminology, "publishable first playable" echoes the "minimum viable product" terminology that's in vogue with lean startup practitioners.
So you won't love the idea of access to knowledge for millions of people unless you can be able to contribute to that knowledge? (assuming it's as hard as you say). Either you didn't not phrase it correctly or this is a remarkably insensitive thing to say.
Scientific method is not "Believe anyone who says anything", otherwise I have a whole gaggle of homeopathic remedies and time cubes to sell you (prove that they don't work, to my standards, of course).

Article then claims professional researchers are saying:

> "Because I personally can’t verify this issue is true, the issue must be false. QED."

whereas I read it more as:

> "This is a really crazy, far out idea, and all of my professional experience leads me to be highly skeptical of the idea unless I see some more reliable evidence".

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, as always.
I'm assuming this wasn't a big hit as little as been mentioned about it since its release in 2009?
But that's shoulda woulda coulda. How about the other people around that person not throwing the baby out with the bath water because they should be smart enough to understand the wise old sage may have a point but be less than stellar at convincing you of it. Which sin is worse?
A List of New iOS 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
We already read that article.
A good agreement would lower duties and trade barriers on most products and services, strengthen labor and environmental protections, limit the ability of governments to tilt the playing field in favor of state-owned firms and balance the interests of consumers and creators of intellectual property. Such a deal will not only help individual countries but set an example for global trade talks.

from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/opinion/a-pacific-trade-de...
pooriaazimi: "Update to the second GM (aka the public release, 13A603) and you'll be fine."

Check those numbers. In my book, 017 < 603 (in both decimal and octal :-))
> I think you need to rethink your definition of what constitutes a free market; at present it seems to be 'one where all participants are free to do anything.'

My definition would be, "one without violence and coercion, enabling decisions to be made based on voluntary choices."

> Healthcare in Europe, where I'm from, is in many ways far less competitive and far more heavily regulated, yet Europeans seem to have better outcomes despite lower public expenditure on healthcare.

"Competitive" ?

I know a doctor in Alaska who was aghast at the high prices charged by the monopoly hospital in his region. He decided to open a surgery center, so as to offer better service at lower prices.

Unfortunately he discovered that competition is illegal. You cannot open operating rooms, you see, without first obtaining a "certificate of need" from the State, certifying that your community "needs" more operating rooms. And of course, such certificates are never actually handed out, since the state boards are always manned by hospital flunkies.

Does that sound like a free market to you? There is no competition in American health care.

I'm also surprised at your characterization of European health care as being "far more heavily regulated" in contrast to American health care. You must not realize just how heavily regulated American health care is.

The American health care system is a combination of socialism and fascism, and has been for quite some time. It features all manner of central planning, forced subsidies, regional monopolies, welfare programs, hospitals and insurance "companies" protected from any competition by legislation, unfunded mandates, price charts, and tax authorities.

The problems of health care in America are the problems of socialism and fascism, because that is what we practice. We do not have the benefits of the free market because we do not have a free market.

> yet Europeans seem to have better outcomes

Saying that Europeans have "better outcomes" than Americans (with regards to health care) is like saying that Cubans have "better food" than North Koreans. You are comparing two authoritarian systems, neither of which have any semblance of a free market.

Coercion does not innovate -- it does not lower prices, nor does it improve service. Even in Europe:

"While Sweden is a first world country, its health care system - at least in regards to access - is closer to the third world. Because the health care system is heavily-funded and operated by the government, the system is plagued with waiting lists for surgery. Those waiting lists increase patients' anxiety, pain and risk of death."

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA555_Sweden_Health_Care.html
It is common to include dependencies like MySQL and Apache in the container of your application. Usually people use supervisord with a configuration file to start all the different daemons needed.
Management: A Rant
This is basically just advocating bullying.

Some guy who's manner of communicating that makes us feel uncomfortable should be named and shamed, just for the sake of it, with no attempt at resolution or mutual understanding.

Yes, I've experienced the annoyance, and yes, I've also been "that guy". Labeling, ridiculing and humiliating people is not the way to deal with that.

With very, very rare exceptions, there's always a very real underlying issue here, and "that guy" behavior is more often than not a symptom of a systemic issue.
Yes, I wonder whether you could use this as an extra emphasis effect for certain buttons on a page, have the important buttons (sign up, buy, etc.) with depth, and the less important - but still necessary - just flat. Would be interesting to A/B test.

Having thought about it, a fair few websites already do this with certain confirmation dialogues. eg. They have the primary button with a prominant graphical style and the cancellation option as just a small standard html link.
One thing that needs to be taken into account is that terrorism is responsible for very few deaths at all. Guns and cars both cause more deaths. I'd love the US to do something about guns, but are you guys having a crisis about cars?

The response is utterly disproportionate to the risk.
>I don't get what the hype is about.

It's a video game console. Genuine question: what's confusing here?
Not all of us can be l33t hax--er, security researchers. But we can do some basic meta-analysis. Aside from some of the transmission vectors like ultrasound audio stretching plausibility (even in ideal environments, acoustic data transmission is a royal, error-prone bitch), there is the simple issue that a non-POC piece of malware this insidious should have arisen in multiple sites with multiple analysts looking at it. Instead, it's just Dragos. The other researchers with an interest in badbios are all saying "listen to Dragos and pay attention because he's awesome." What they should be saying, if the badbios claims hold up, is "holy shit, I've got it too, everybody seal your computers in concrete until we figure this out!"

I'm not doubting Dragos's awesomeness; I'm doubting how much bearing his awesomeness has on the truth value of the badbios narrative. The press getting wind of this and turning it into a sensational story didn't help.
Incidentally, I've just updated https://github.com/rcarmo/HJKLPlugin with the new build UUIDs. You still need to self-sign it, but I'll eventually publish a binary.
Great! I am the "Definitely Not A Malware Author" certificate authority and I have signed this "Definitely Not Malware" extension.
Sometimes these so-called "inconsequential details" are what will ultimately sink a project

Yes, and overwhelmingly more often they are better let go of, or allowed to morph through contact with others.

Telling the difference requires good judgment, which captious people lack. That is one reason why they are so tedious.
Having gone through the process recently, this is rubbish.

If you've got 10 years experience 3 pages is perfectly normal and when I tried with a single page cv, kept getting asked if this was just the covering page & can I send my whole CV.

Also as soon as I added a whole load of detail like 'did this, wrote this program, used this tech' to every job, the interview offers started coming like crazy.
Yeah, this story is the netsec version of cold fusion. It's probably not true. It seems impossible. But, what if...?
I've found ProPublica to be great. I also really like Frontline, and often appreciate NPR though they could have handled a few situations better. I really do miss having Neal Conan doing his show.
> Isn't a newspaper a number of different journalists, all with different opinions?

Not really, no. It's the editor who sets the agenda; often at the bidding of the owners.
ohhh fancy. been years since i've run slack but i think it's about time to give it another go.
You're right - I'd be shocked to learn that were true. I've never seen that, but I tend to work with smaller shops and startups that haven't seemed to care.
Episode VII gets an official release date: December 18, 2015
It will need to go to the House, too: Trade agreements these days are typically implemented as congressional-executive agreements rather than as treaties[1].

The underlying legal theory is that modern trade agreements require extensive changes to domestic law and thus must involve the regular legislative process. And so long as the Congress passes a law that implements all of the U.S. obligations under the trade agreement, and the executive agrees to enforce those obligations, our trading partners don't care that there isn't a Constitutionally-defined "treaty".

Politically, in addition to avoiding the potentially damaging effects of bypassing the House, passing trade agreements this way give the executive a more credible (and thus powerful) negotiating position, since he doesn't need to be sure of pulling 67 Senators on board.

[1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-896.pdf
(..where by 'undetectable' I mean, 'undetectable as a virus' -- the technique is to bypass AV scans by distributing modules of code that are themselves innocent but combine in dangerous ways; the interview I read with one of the guys at Kaspersky described it in detail.)
Anyone brave enough to bring a semblance of sanity to the world of HTML emails deserves major kudos. For kids like me who did not grow up making table layouts, coding emails is a nightmare. Oh the <td>'s. I am so glad Zurb is lending their knowledge building of excellent frameworks to this widely underserved market.
IBM: Developing mobile apps with Node.js and MongoDB
Did you get the 10.9 update? The newest version works with Mavericks.
i can't believe no one has mentioned mailmate[1] yet. it's not quite mutt for osx, but it's pretty damn close. while it's nowhere near as pretty as airmail, it's more performant in my opinion. the newest version has a switch for scripting support.

I'd recommend both though, airmail recently added gmail hotkeys. Although I feel that there are some missing. Like the ability to switch folders with keys

[1] http://freron.com
I've been a fan of Bitcoin for a while but this latest brouhaha got me to start thinking seriously about how to help out the ecosystem. Think what I've started designing and building is promising, and doesn't really exist yet. But is badly needed.
Ultravisual - Beautiful visual publishing
To say that all recent stock price increases, much less the one-day price of twitter's stock specifically, are caused by QE alone is an extreme claim and it is not my burden to disprove it.

The simpler and more plausible explanation for stock market growth is coinciding GDP and earnings growth. QE should lead to a mild preference against (UST) bonds by lowering yields, but it is dubious that this alone could explain stock market indexes doubling over the same period. Twitter's one-day stock price specifically is idiosyncratic investor behavior and blaming that on QE is absurd nonsense.
3 pages isn't some unforgivable sin by any means, but that is the range where people start to wonder about your ability to prioritize your background. 1-2 pages are always safe, assuming you can say what you need to say.

For 10 years of experience, most resumes I see are probably a full 2 pages, but rarely more. The number of jobs you've had (and choose to list) also is a factor, which is particularly challenging for contractors with multiple gigs.
Can they make money? Sure. Can they make money with ads? Sure. Can they make money with massive vertical media funnels? Well...what will make them more successful than Apple, Google, Microsoft and TimeWarner who have all been trying to do the same exact thing for many years?

Err.. I'm not sure about Apple or TimeWarner, but Google and Microsoft have been very successful at making display advertising work well.

Check out the IAB 2013 Half Yearly report[1]. Some key quotes:

Display-related advertising accounted for $3.1 billion or 30% of total revenues during Q2 2013, up 8% from the $2.9 billion (33% of total) reported in Q2 2012. Q2 2013 Display-related advertising includes Display/Banner Ads (19% of revenues, or $1.9 billion), Rich Media (3% or $329 million), Digital Video (7% or $676 million), and Sponsorship (2% or $181 million).

Note that they aren't counting mobile advertising as display advertising (even though much of it effectively is).

Mobile revenues continued to quickly gain share, representing 15% of total revenues in HY 2013, as compared with 9% reported in FY 2012 and 5% in FY 2011. First half 2013 Mobile revenues represent 90% of total 2012 Mobile revenues.

Note that Twitter has particularly strong mobile usage.

Many people don't realize that people still pay a lot for "eyeballs":

At 65% of advertising revenues through half-year 2013, performance-based pricing appears to have leveled off, even experiencing a slight decline from its high of 66% for the full year 2012. As a result, CPM/impression-based pricing gained slightly, up to 33% for the half-year, its highest point since 2010.

[1] http://www.iab.net/media/file/IABInternetAdvertisingRevenueR...
Over many years, people just tend to end up in positions of increasing responsibility unless they're really fouling up regularly or have some other limiting factor. It doesn't mean path-to-CEO, but a steady path from jr. dev to sr. dev or VP of engineering or some such is good.

There's exceptions of course, people from academic backgrounds don't progress the same way for example.

But spending 15 years in exactly the same position doing exactly the same job does not encourage me that they're the kind of creative, forward thinking, ambitious person I'd like on my team. Especially engineering types, who should be internally driven to improve things, from code to their jobs to their salary. Business requirements change over time, and a person who can't keep up with that and just wants to do the same job forever ends up becoming dead weight.

Looking at it another way, I always try to hire somebody good enough that they could be my replacement.
I tried it. Unfortunately, it is very slow.
Honestly, even for someone that started his career making table HTML layouts with inline styling it's a major PITA to code up emails that look respectable on all clients. I can't wait to try this out.
Agreed, I was just replying to the OP that, even on desktop using scalar ops, there are advantages to single vs. double precision ops.
Never read that one, thanks for the share.
Thanks for reporting. I think this should be fixed, if you want to try again.
Who what, make 200k a piece?
It's rather dumb though when the person last went to school 15 years before.

It's actually the startups that I was referring to though that put unnecessary weight on ancient school credentials.