skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a lot of people with TS clearances. When I was in the military, I and everybody I worked with had one. Just as how more information gets classified than is really necessary due to CYA, more personnel than strictly necessary gets processed for TS clearances simply due to the ubiquity of TS-classified information. You're talking tens of thousands of personnel. I doubt you could monitor them all any more closely than the rest of them.
Wiki conceptual framework is about how stuff should be kept/edited in a community, but it's not saying anything about if that ability should be granted only to 'blessed contributors' any or random visitors; i.e., if you are considered part of that editor community.
On questions like this I find it easier to not think about 2013 but to think about 1913 and 2113.

Compared to 1913 this situation is fantastic. All you have but you get to live.

Compared to what we should aspire to for 2113, I agree that it is barbaric.
If you're expecting research-level detail in a blog post from someone who is admittedly not an economist, your expectations are too high. The post was meant to present a simple Monte Carlo simulation in Python using a current topic as its subject. He isn't writing a NYT Op-Ed citing his results as evidence that BJ > BI based on sophisticated modeling techniques.
I am impressed, congrats. Next time some C++head jokes about JS I'll show them this (and some linux emulators)
I can't tell if you're really dense, or being sarcastic...
I too would be very interested in learning more about how to break in to this type of work. I am a few years out of school with a CS and Math degree, and no clue where to start. I didn't see any contact info in your profile.
So you require a cert for personal projects. That doesn't mean a cert that chains to a public trust. You could easily cut your own cert and trust it on whatever device you wish to access the site on
No, but I don't see any flaw in that design. Indeed, it seems like the case of Hoare's "obviously no deficiencies" in a system design.

I believe that the GreenArrays people, setting aside the $450 dev board, also had some notes on making cheap breadboards with their chips or something like that. I don't have a link handy, though. ;/
The second half of the article is all about refactoring. Very similar to the refactor functionality provided by Eclipse & IntelliJ.
How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
HN has a real problem with people who self identify as good programmers ... there is always a bunch of "no you're not" and "you only think you are" and "people who say they are good usually suck" type of responses. It's pretty weird reaction for a tech site where many good programmers hang out.
>shut the fuck up and write some fucking code [links to argument that simply writing code is the best way to learn programming]

Way to confirm stereotypes that programmers are abrasive and narrow minded. Writing code may be a good way to learn programming; that doesn't mean it's ideal for discussing economics. For one thing, even for an expert the code takes longer to read than a baldly stated list of assumptions. And not everyone is a Python expert.

> if I’m wrong, either Python is computing the wrong answer, I got really unlucky [...] or one of my assumptions is wrong.

Umm no. This is a false alternative. How about a lot of assumptions being left out altogether. E.g. it's pretty clearly assumed that this doesn't affect economic growth, any benefits resulting from changed income inequality [1] are left out, inflationary effects do not exist etc. Any half serious student of economic modeling would have a field day picking out all the details routinely discussed in macroeconomics that this analysis is ignorant of.

And anyway who are these financial results even calculated for? If it's the government, then the expenses are fully incurred, but the "JK Rowling factor" is taxed at less than 100% to compensate. If it's the average person, you need to somehow factor in the benefit of reading Harry Potter!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_index
> My guess is that the detriment is at least an n^2 term, with less sharing of ideas, interaction and encouragement to pursue risk.

Absolutely. That's part of the reason for the lower level of risk-taking and innovation here. It boils down to having a small population.

> As a student, I increasingly see people pursuing the entrepreneurship and more risky careers, rather than "selling out".

Yes, this is definitely a trend, and a good one. I was talking more about the past. The pressure to go for fancy careers is still high, though - except that banking and consulting have supplanted medicine and law to some extent.

> It just so happens that it's more common in other countries because of larger populations

You seem to be arguing that it's not our fault that we have less risk-taking and innovation here, it's just our small population that's the problem. Well, I don't entirely disagree - I think our size is half the problem, and the other half is our society's historical evolution (and cultural roots). It doesn't change the fact that our market size limits our entrepreneurial prospects - unless we learn to sell to big, lucrative markets like Israeli startups did.

> we had Creative and Sembcorp/KeppelCorp

Creative was our sole shining star, and now it's essentially gone, massively outcompeted by Apple. SembCorp, PSA, Surbana and the like are ex-national corporations (IIRC) that I don't consider examples of entrepreneurship - they were built in the mould of efficiently-run government departments from the start. I do like the fact that Charles & Keith, Hyflux, BreadTalk, et al are seeing some success overseas. Still, we don't have a Sony or Samsung.

> Our research institutions ASTAR focus on the commercialization of technology

They didn't use to, and now they're driving the real scientists and big names away with their renewed focus on commercialisation. Honestly they should never have focused on basic research in the first place, but instead on commercialising technologies from around the world.

I like your optimism that things are changing - that's the spirit we need to take more adventurous paths. The more people who want to achieve big things and don't want to settle for the usual routes, the better.

To our foreign friends, our young generation is pretty alright.
> The company has simply decided it wants a quick revenue bump as these domains have likely hit their peak in value.

This is a ridiculous observation given that Yahoo has revenue in billions of USD, and no, selling domains for thousands of dollars will not be any kind of meaningful "quick revenue bump." Tech reporting at its finest right here.
It's not illegal to own, but it can be used as supporting evidence that your intent was to distribute drugs vs. use them yourself.
The most full featured OS JS spreadsheet I know of is ethercalc, check it out. It's even got a rest api..
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That's still a step up. Now you need to be an active attacker, and not just a passive one.

The perfect is the enemy of the better.
Why No High Level Executives Been Prosecuted Regarding The Financial Crisis?
That was exactly my thought. Well is there anything left of the old altavista?
Wow, this is sort of like the Lumia 520 of the Android world. Awesome.
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The few that go for $1M might have some material impact.
As I understand it, ReThink Robotics' main selling point is to do with co-working (having a robot sensitive enough to work side-by-side with a human safely). The trainability is another point (but there are a lot more issues to deal with than poses : In particular, their robot must identify the position of the thing to be picked up by sight).

But the thing that is really disruptive (in the actual Christensen sense) is their price-point ($22k) - waaay below that of most industrial robots.

OTOH, while the Baxter is very cheap and flexible, at the moment it isn't very capable. But that will change, I'm sure. And that's the essence of a genuine disruptive technology.
spending money making current customers happy with a better experience is never wasted

if their current UI sucked you'd be complaining about having trouble finding a movie -- which you kind of are doing already. IMO one of Netflix's major problems is the UI, when i'm on my PS3 and looking for something to watch, there are 75 movies from different subsets (most of which are unrated by me - promoting me to watch something i haven't seen) - the problem with this is i often like to watch things i have already seen (hence the reason i buy a dvd). That content isn't readily available or easy to search unless i remember or already know what i want.
I really hope the producers of Arrested Development buy finalcountdown.com
I think the main problem for the author is that singapore is to clean and to un-exciting for him, because everyone just works and is in line. But my point is to have a good working environment (evidently one can work quite well in SG) but look around for the non-working time.
Share your email address?
So the same NSA that we believe to monitor all private, public and encrypted communications on the internet, and expect to render the privacy features Tor ineffective, does not have the competence to keep an eye on its own employees?
You are correct, perhaps spying on allies was a poor choice of word.

Evaluating allies would probably fit better.
Worth a line of code to add return key to move down a cell?
I appreciate the constructive criticism, and I agree with your points.

Your comments, along with a ton of others, are definitely helping. To answer your questions this is both a newsletter and I will be selling independently owned salsa brands, both as a monthly subscription and through an e-commerce section. The landing page is very basic, probably too basic, but it’s serving as a way to keep in touch with other salsa enthusiasts until I can get everything up and running.

Again, I appreciate your comments. All feedback is important!
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It's not exactly the same. But if the life is so harsh that it's not worth living, more people would commit suicide, at least those with no families.

I'm happy to consider that going through the act of suicide has some additional emotional overhead that could account for a lower rate than we might expect. But, will you consider the possibility that maybe life in a 3rd world country isn't actually so bad that it isn't worth living?
hombresalsa@gmail.com

Looking forward to hearing from you!
I guess they're still holding on to broadcast.com. $5 billion for a 301 to yahoo.com, maybe they're waiting for the right buyer.
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OTOH, it is definitely the kind of tactic a division head uses to goose their numbers.
Here are some that caught my eye:

• webserver.com (250k-500k)
• finalcountdown.com (10k-25k)
• sandwich.com (50k-100k)
• airtrafficcontrol.com (10k-25k)

I imagine sandwich.com might be a good asset for a chain sandwich restaurant (subway or quiznos, perhaps).
The salaries of all your employees? Doesn't that violate their own rights to privacy? Or does this only extend to the board of directors?
You can create your built-in functions as this:

var DATA={
SUM: function(a,b) { return a+b; }
}

Nice demonstration of language features, like 'with', that we usually take as 'bad practices'.
My point exactly. That's a human resources and engineering level tradeoff. It's not a tradeoff on the level of pure computer science.
A reminder of why HN is awesome. Ya ya i know it is a clever little JS hack and hardly an excel replacement but love the creativity of this.
Trade deal could be bitter medicine
@hellopat In case you want know more about using browerify for client side development, do check this: http://dontkry.com/posts/code/using-npm-on-the-client-side.h... http://dontkry.com/posts/code/browserify-and-the-universal-m...
Hacking Lego Mindstorms EV3 with JavaScript
Actually usually it doesn't. They'll say as an incentive to pay it that it won't go on your credit report.

You can only report past due payments, and outstanding debt. But if you take the offer the debt is not past due. And most non-credit agencies (i.e. those without a regular payment schedule) never report past due in the first place (only unpaid).
jumpcut was an amazing tool. I wish they didn't deadpool it.
Haha, indeed I did. Not sure how I managed to quote it but then hit the wrong reply link. I'd suspect a bug but that seems quite unlikely.
My CS education at South Dakota State University included a class on digital systems design. I had to build a circuit to control a pop machine as part of it.

Said education also included a class on macro- and microeconomics, incidentally.
What's the difference between a pin and a password?

I think the solution is public key cryptography. See my other reply. However, I don't want my private keys stored on a computer or phone, since they can be stolen. I want to store they keys on a frob (USB key, wireless doodad, whatever) that signs messages with private keys but can't be accessed directly. This frob would be protected with a password or PIN of some kind. The frob should display the requested confirmation (Log into Hacker News as cottonseed? Yes/No) and require direct confirmation. This is, for example, the architecture people using for bitcoin hardware wallets, where the potential cost of failed security is very high.
Very nice, we (Floobits YC S13) are also planning to integrate our web based editor with Visual Studio, with real time collaboration and the ability to connect to other types of native editors.

Our editor is based on the awesome ace editor and comes with unparalleled collaboration tools including webrtc video chat (and Google Hangout support), terminal sharing (flootty), automatic deployment tools (floomatic) and the ability to connect with your native editor with our editor plugins for Sublime Text, emacs and vim (intellij/webstorm/pycharm, etc in the works!). Git integration is also in the works.
Maybe in 1999...but who actually types [thing I'm interest in].com into a web address bar these days? Even my grandma knows better than that by now.
Oh it's there: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/11/13/visual-.... The editor is called “Monaco”.
From Objects To Functions: Service Closures
Price of riding the Moscow subway? 30 squats
It seems that now we have the opposite, an incentive for people to go directly to debt collectors. I had a radiology office in Charlotte give me a needless CT scan and bill me directly (instead of my insurance), so I owed them hundreds, and they went to collections after I paid part of it in a month, and never let me view the balance online.

The problem is that people just go to collections without trying to collect the debt.
In the UK, access to "free" health care is controlled via consultations via your local NHS doctor, and I'm in the UK, so that's how I think :-)
And 80% of perceived functionality is what most users — even people who rely on spreadsheets for their work — need.

I'm not saying including the other 20% of functionality isn't a good thing to do, but when you're creating a new product or open source project, you can get by (and thrive) building only the 20% of functionality that's used 80% of the time.

Why? Because 1% of functionality is still better than 0% (never shipping).

You're not Microsoft. You don't have to keep your dominance in the spreadsheet software market like Microsoft has to.
> If this results in a useable, performant (e.g. NOT mono) C#/CLR implementation on *nix, that makes a lot of things very interesting.

I'm not sure what yiou mean by this.

Do you mean you want a new implementation that inst' mono?
or that you don't believe that mono is fast?

if its the later then I'd have to disagree with you. We use mono for a real time trading system and find it to be more than capable of handling our needs.
Good for Xamarin (I hope). I am a fan of Miguel de Icaza. I asked him a question about Gnome programming and he sent me a book on it. Nice guy.
Sigils are what make Perl standout, in syntax and behaviour, to (most) other languages so it would be silly to get rid of them!

i.e. it's a differentiator to what is or isn't Perl.
And the last Blockbuster movie ever rented is...
Would you mind posting your company salary information here? I've always been interested to see how a real-life startup salary structure looks.

Or is it only transparent if you're in the club?
Nokia has been making great windows phones for cheap like the 521 that routinely available for as little as 70 bucks. The hardware is lower spec as compared to this one but windows phone is known to run well on slower hardware. It will be interesting to see how well Android runs on this.
They don't enable access outside the sandbox and should be pretty safe.

PPB_Testing_Dev is a set of helpers for writing tests: querying status of the plugin; running nested message loop to wait for results of async operations; simulate input events which are received only by the plugin itself.

PPB_Ext_Events_Dev is for registering/unregistering events provided by Chrome apps apis (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/api_index.html). It will only be accessible when the NaCl module is included in a Chrome app. This interface hasn't been implemented yet.
scss (the CSS syntax of SASS used in the article) is also a superset of css. http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
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>Visual Studio Online - a set of development services running on Windows Azure that focus on agile team collaboration, Application Lifecycle Management and support for Windows Azure.

I don't see any online code editor here.
Am I the only one to notice this[1]? Looks pretty okay aside from that.

[1] http://uploads.woutervdb.com/files/5283a1c42f8bc.png
A lot of them are good old (noun).com. Those seem valuable at first, but is that still the case? It used to be that people would build a brand around something like pets.com, but now it seems much more popular to create a brand name that is more identifiable and trademarkable.
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"All day battery" - that really is the top selling point! Imagine that, a phone that works all day, no babysitting needed! People will flock in vast hordes to buy this baby, and just for this one feature.

'web' rather than 'mobile' version of page:

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-moto...
Nothing in this press release points towards such an implementation. Mono and Linux aren't even mentioned in the entire article. This is all about C# -> Android/iOS. In fact, it weakens the future of Mono by making Xamarin stronger in MS's ecosystem with the whole VS 2013 integration and MSDN subscriptions.
Like, for instance, that the Japanese diplomatic codes had been broken and that the administration had prior knowledge of an imminent attack on Pearl Harbor, yet chose to do nothing, because the public response would finally allow the U.S. to enter the war?

Absolutely, it would have been heroic. It might have led to real justice instead of ruinous warmongering.
The site is down. Is this an example of using Azure to scale?
Isn't the solution just to put funding into reproducing results? It's fine to have a wide-filter for exploratory research, but a big problem is that it can be decades before anybody goes back to reproduce.

Let's assume that 90% of results are false positives. Using a higher power experiment with even the same standard of p=0.05 would result in rejecting most of those, while hopefully keeping the majority of the true positives (due to the higher power of the new test). This would result in going from 90% false positives to less than half false positives, a considerable improvement.

It just seems that nobody ever advanced their career by trying to reproduce even a landmark result in their field.
You forgot drugs, drugs are bad.
Mono's performance has improved quite a bit in 3.x with the introduction of SGEN and the LLVM backend.
Ctrl-F "editor"

I didn't see it either, but it's there.
You're right in a way, but I was surprised by how even the worst algorithms you learn in school have some properties that are better than the ones considered the best (e.g. bubble vs quicksort, quicksort isn't stable). This website makes it pretty clear: http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

To the larger point: everything is a tradeoff once we refuse to consider the "stupid solutions." Yea, bogosort is absolutely stupid, but we don't really think about it when seriously designing software. Instead, we're left with the smart solutions, none of which can be considered optimal for all applications.

Everything is a tradeoff is a tautology. Because if one algorithm was proven to completely dominate another algorithm, we would no longer seriously consider the weak algorithm.
Please read the whole article.

>The other feature in private beta is codenamed “Monaco.” It’s a cloud-based code editor that enables lightweight editing for Windows Azure websites.
I can only assume you grepped the article for Less, then came here to complain. The article explicitly mentions SCSS and points out that it is a superset of CSS. SASS' original (and still available) indented syntax isn't shown.
What's wrong with Mono? My software (c# app) is used by thousands of users on Mac and Ubuntu without any issues. I'm very happy with Mono.
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You have to remember that Chrome an OS aswell.
"Everyone’s life has equal value"

That's a very idealistic premise, but not very realistic. Surely he values the life of his children higher than that of some random hideous criminal.
Yep, it's buried. I got smart and tried Ctrl-F "editor" :)
Remember, folks, there are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and computer models.
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I'm I the only one that is a little weirded out by this?