skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malheur — Automatic Analysis of Malware Behavior
To be honest, I like my bathroom light to wake up alongside me in the morning.
Featured app gets video trailer on the App Store
Both Octave/Matlab and R are more "convenient" or elegant in certain precise cases, like linear algebra, but Python provides a much more coherent experience due to syntax and the type system.

Julia... well... has its merits, but the ecosystem isn't comparable. Julia does not have Django, Guido or PyCon.
It's form the Amazon fb page, so no, I don't make any money in any case.

EDIT: to be precise, Amazon uk facebook page
There is what looks like A-B testing code built into the page (but now configged off) - you can still see it in action in Google's cache of the blog posts or if you view source.

Option A: photoa.jpg Lee Carp is one of the two cofounders of BayesianWitch. He graduated from the University of Chicago with an AB in Sociology - specializing in understanding how technology shapes culture. He is fascinated by how marketing, technology and data intersect. He likes to swim and bake in his spare time.
http://www.bayesianwitch.com/media/img/photob.jpg

Option B: photob.jpg Shana Carp is the two cofounders of BayesianWitch. She graduated from the University of Chicago with an AB in Visual Art - specializing in understanding how technology shapes culture. She is fascinated by how marketing, technology and data intersect. She likes to swim and bake in her spare time.
http://www.bayesianwitch.com/media/img/photob.jpg

However, the domain is registered to Chris Stucchio, the HTTP metadata shows the S3 account name stucchio, the user making this HN post links to Chris Stucchio's weblog, and in that blog he isn't averse to spicing things up with an occasional picture of a scantily clad lady [1]

Whether bayesianwitch is a company with one, two, three or more employees we can only speculate!

[1] http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/human_checksum.html
> What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?

Then buy CFLs? They help keep toxic mercury out of the air from burning coal.

Do you seriously believe CFLs emit any mercury, or are you trolling?
So, I'm not terribly familiar with the idea of commodity fetishism, but for the sake of argument, I'll buy that it's domain terminology that has value. If you could explain how it helps describe the situation in the FOSS community, that would be helpful.

I am familiar with the notion of hegemony, and the assertion that Richard Stallman has hegemonic control over anything is laughable. Yes, he does have a certain amount of power based on his personal social capital, but it could not be described as any sort of hegemonic control over anything. Hegemonic control implies that you have implied force or economic powers that allow you to have indirect control over many people; his only "control" is people's respect for him and the strength of his opinions (as well as some direct power at the Free Software Foundation and GNU project, but that's fairly marginal in the wider world of FOSS; there's far more software and people working outside of the FSF and GNU structure than within it). Describing him as having hegemonic power is like describing any influential academic as having hegemonic power; I suppose I can see the analogy, but there's a huge difference between a nation-state using its force and economic power indirectly to shape the actions of other nations and someone being intellectually influential. Using the notion of "hegemonic power" for a person who is merely intellectually influential merely waters down the idea.

And I further take issue with the concluding paragraph that the lack of diversity in FOSS should not be seen as a bug, bur rather as a feature. Yes, I see where she's going with the notion that there are people who use their existing power as members of various privileged classes to be able to exert more leverage and derive economic benefits from their contribution to FOSS. But that just means that it's a feature for certain people; like DRM, something that is a feature for a few is a bug for many more. Likewise, just because some people take advantage of their privileges in the FOSS community, doesn't mean that allowing such privileges to be leveraged actually is a feature.
I can see the accessibility to non engineers being slightly better. At the same time HipChat does horrible things with XMPP support, so unless you are using their client, you are in trouble. Also, if I remember correctly their client does not support other chat protocols, which means I'd have to run two separate chat clients, which is increasing the number of applications I normally run by 33% (chat, terminal, browser). I can see its value, but I cannot recommend it over IRC or just your own jabber server.
My Five Finalists Would Have Been

Salesforce did a really smart job of hiding all other entries apart from the winning ones. I have done a few hackathons on Challenge Post earlier and this is the only one where they are not showing all submissions but only the winning submission in the gallery. While that is food for thought, I feel terrible for myself and some of the other awesome apps that folks built for this hackathon.

So, here are the top 5 apps that would have made the finals if I were judging this solely based on the videos I found on YouTube (and I've been doing software development for over 25 years). Just to be unbiased, this does not even include my own submission

* Smart
* Chatter Complete
* zip.ly
* Incoming
* Matt Lacey's app (Can't remember the name)

If I were to pick the top two, it would be Matt Lacey's app and Chatter Complete. I can't believe how those folks missed out.

Discussion at - http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/Salesforce-1-Million-Hac...
greed-monger!

Currency is something relatively stable, it's not a trading platform. I spoke about it in this way the other day --

One should not have to consult an exchange rate to figure out how much their currency is worth. They should know what it's worth by how much it costs for a dozen eggs. If that number changes rapidly (dozen eggs costs 1 BTC Monday, 3 on Friday, .5 next month, 100 in the future, .002 after that) well.... you don't have a currency, you have a speculative commodity.

The only reason Bitcoin users don't complain is because they're mostly hoarders/traders & the general trend is up.
How to Install VMware Workstation on Linux and Create Virtual Machine
Why Java still rulez
I didn't realize adblock would block pre-rolls. That damn web development company with the animated little guy and the tiles of site examples has really gotten annoying.

Installed adblock a few minutes ago.

Bliss.
How can they have legal standing for such a claim, unless one of the authors had privileged access to Wolfram Research knowledge to misappropriate a trade secret? Seems to me that the principle of trade secrets should have a clear defense for independent rediscovery, although law often fails to reflect common sense.
Hm. I went to the store and compared CFLs and LEDs for the same lumen rating. Their electrical power was about the same.

Flicker - I actually have an Ikea LED lamp that has two active elements inside (2 LEDs). The supply is a simple 12 V AC transformer. I suspect the two elements are connected in a push-pull (anti-parallel) circuit, because they've started to flicker recently - if mounted push-pull and not equal in terms of brightness, that would explain it.

I thought CFLs produce more of a weird green hue - at least that's how both my eye and my cameras see it. At any rate, the main emission line of Hg is smack down the middle of the green part of the spectrum.
Maybe one way to look at it is to compare it to owning some land.
Some people are rich because their ancestors claimed a large piece a long long time ago. One could argue that they pulled out a lot of money out of thin air.
Thanks, I did not know that. But there's little reason to believe that whatever encryption that bitcoin uses (presumably EC?) won't be vulnerable at some point in the future.
MyResumeJS template in AngularJS
>There is nothing whatsoever preventing a person of any sort from creating a code portfolio.

When I was hired by a former employer as a term of my employment I had to sign a contract saying all the code I wrote why employed for them, they owned. Even if I wrote it on my own time.
"ignoring all the amazing work"
"just to whine"

That is just how you put it. No where did i whine nor ignore the work the Redis Team did. Cluster being the one features that Redis will truly take off. As it currently isn't as popular as it should be.
Eh I don't want to program Silverlight though....... I'd rather just use html/css/js for UI.
He's making a point that candidates who are of a particular class are often screened out of employment based on that class. He's not saying he does that, he's using hyperbole to illustrate a point. The very usage of the incorrect pronoun likely emphasizes the hyperbole even more.
I bought a huge box of big CFLs when a nearby store went out of business, for something like less than $1 a pop. Not quite a lifetime supply, but I am definitely not going to be an early LED adopter.
A little googling suggests that the author does not have a Github profile.
> Rust fully supports concurrent data structures with shared mutable state, and there are several in the libraries.

Are they lock-free? If so, how do you do it without a GC?

> Java HotSpot, which features the best widely used GC, is routinely outperformed by low-level C++

This is true mostly in single-threaded computations. Also, as another commenter points out, Java's main problem is the lack of arrays of structs which makes locality difficult. This is being worked on (and almost completely orthogonal to the issue of GC), and will hopefully be at least partially resolved in Java 9[1].

My point is that while we need new languages now, we also need to prepare them for a many-core future. Once you have over 100 cores, many locking schemes stop scaling[2]. I'm not saying Rust specifically should think ahead, but I think a new systems programming language should, especially if it's goal is to replace C for the next 40 years. Unless, that is, what I said turns out to be true, and low-level programming will give us good control over resources, but not the best performance; or if the many-core CPU future isn't coming (I say CPU because we're already in the many-core SIMD present with modern GPUs).

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169

[2]: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/click_non_blocking
+1 for Bridge.

Bridge is a game of short-term and long-term memory, strategy (in long matches), tactics, deduction, induction, risk assessment, hidden information, and finally a strong test of character, and your judgment of the characters of others. Unlike chess it does not seem to have a "limit" where you stop getting smarter and start merely learning more about chess. There's a reason it's the favorite game of some of the world's smartest and richest men.
True on proprietary. I don's know of any impactful use cases for ObjC. However there are some good things about this. The spec can move fast, focus on success in use cases, and also make it easy to conform to 'nice' HIG. In many cases it's nice to not have to worry about these things and just focus on the end app use case. In the end when it comes to iOS and OSX its still Steve Jobs word were just playing in it.
I understand it isn't saved, I meant you could connect to the network and listen in on transactions.

And what percentage of bitcoin nodes use Tor? With NSA-like global passive logging, I think even Tor could be vulnerable.
They also currently take much more energy to manufacture then an incandescent bulb.
I've heard good things about the anaconda distribution as far as setup and everything goes for scientific computation purposes. Comes with most packages you'd need: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

I don't actually have it myself, but it does seem to be trying to solve the problem you point out.
Yea but you have to roll them up yourself in those paper sleeves.

To quote George Costanza while rolling coins: "You want me to roll six thousand of these?! What, should I quit my job?!"
My usual trick for getting around this is in rails vs django is to add tutorial to the search, so "emberjs tutorial" and "angularjs tutorial." Unfortunately it looks like we're still too early to have enough data using those terms, which tells me that the google search data should be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
Context Managers in Go? Don't be ridiculous...
Pretty sure it's the one shot that missed. The red lines would be the 2 shots that hit the President.
Likewise. I wasn't saying that :)
I'm from ruby community where people, that made a gem, often feel like rockstar.
I have known Antirez few months ago, he's a top hacker and great person
The science "stack" is something that, I think, most people agree exists. Just as it exists in technology. But I always read the comic as making fun of the feeling of superiority in being deeper down the stack.
Websites are expensive and other than charging users money, ads are an easy way to generate revenue. I like using free services and I'd like to support the owner. As such, I don't use AdBlock.

However, YouTube forced me to. Back when YouTube used a small ad in the top-right, it was fine. Banner overlays were a bit more annoying, but still tolerable. Pre-rolls? No way, they stop me from getting to the content I want.

I wish I could switch to Vimeo but there's not a lot of content there.
I'm almost finished with this book. GREAT read, I recommend it to anyone that wants to learn about North Korea.
Given this topic, I would have gone for the alternate spelling in 'don't bury the lead'...
Understood - so I should clearly state that crawlers can't usually see AJAX content and that this will allow them to see and index it, leading to more search engine traffic. I was cautious of spelling out the obvious, I didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence :D
What a bullshit dataless fearmongering article. If your lamp and enclosure are UL rated then the on-die temperature is well within operating parameters for the 6000 hr+ lifespan. If you go with a CREE or Philips lamp then their thermal design was built for the cooking the L-Prize and Energy Star demands of them. The DOE took their and customer experiences with CFL's to heart when designing goals for Energy Star LED lamps.

Source: I was a lighting engineer at a major Independent Testing Laboratory for 5 years before going to software full time.
What's particularly funny about the Atwood example is that it's used in an article complaining about heterosexual (among other adjectives) men. I'm about 75% sure I remember Atwood writing about having a boyfriend.
I agree, it was a bit tough to find good docs and references. If anyone has other good references I would love to check it out.
What a load of asinine drivel. Posts like this never fail to upset me.

What's my excuse you ask?

I write highly proprietary software for algorithmic trading 10 hours a day and have zero time and inclination to work on an open source project in whatever little free time I have. I'd rather spend that time on hanging out with my buddies or girlfriend, hobbies, travel etc. Life is too short to waste solely on work and work related activities.

> You can come up with excuses all day about why you can’t show me your code. I’m going to hire the person who doesn’t make excuses and gets the job done.

Well good luck to you then, judging by the way you talk, it seems that you likely run a sweatshop and are screening for submissive people who are willing to work for free and bend over backwards. I wouldn't work for you even if my livelihood depended on it and I'm sure there are a lot of other self respecting developers out there who feel the same. Though we'd probably never meet because there is likely zero overlap between our respective fields of work. I'd never apply for a job with some Rails sweatshop run by a bunch of clueless hipsters. What a joke.
Knob and tube is safe if enclosed (in a wall, ceiling, etc.). Surprisingly it's actually more safe than new wires!

But if exposed and someone can touch it, then it's dangerous.
Posted 4 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532080
That's great! If this can match RStudio as an IDE, then Python is heading in the right direction. Thanks for showing me this.
This relatively new "show me your github or I'm not interested" fad is getting old. If you are so narrow minded to judge development proficiency based on having an open source portfolio, then sorry I'm not even interested in working for you. You are more than likely going to lose some talented developers with this approach. I get the fact you want to see some code, there are other ways though than taking this hardliner approach. Not two days ago I ran across a job posting on SE that was very clear that if you did not maintain a public github profile they weren't interested at all, just shocking to me.

My Excuse? My previous employment I coded in .net and php for nearly 5 years as the only developer at the company. Personally wrote thousands of lines of proprietary business code I simply can't show you. Routinely put in a lot of time in and outside of work. I was coding and committing code before GitHub was cool, hell, before it was even founded. I work on my own now getting a few ideas off the ground and doing freelancing. I just checked my local SVN repo, I have about 25 projects in there over a few years (some massive). I routinely work 12 hours a day for clients and moving my projects forward. None of this code is public.

1. I don't use github, nothing again git or github at all. SVN works well for me, fits my use case and I know it well. I know how to use git, I have a github account with a few small contribs to javascript libraries I've help extend, but that is all. It is simply .01% of a reflection of the code I've written.

2. I would love to contribute to open source more, but I have priorities, life, family, my own goals. There simply isn't enough hours in the day.

3. I could talk ALL DAY LONG about my experiences coding various projects using whatever framework you want to talk about. I can show you code for my personal projects, although it isn't public. However, if you want to judge me on my lack of github/bitbucket, then so be it.
About a week before Dreamforce, Salesforce had a call with their "premiere partners", and were very unsure about their own rules. They ended up saying "You can submit an existing app or product, but you'll only be judged on your contributions for the hackathon", which was a huge red flag of BS. In light of all of the news, I almost feel like they knew the winner at that point and were trying to cover their tracks a little bit.
I think Hive is the best chess "alternative". It feels lighter, but plays deeply and is never boring. It has an interesting geometric component. And there are annual championships.

(Get the Hive Carbon edition, it's much nicer looking)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive_(game)
Do you play on BBO? Always looking for good partners, especially those interested in playing weird stuff, which I have a feeling you might...
Invading the DPRK seems like a nightmare and I don't support it. But if the NATO powers were going to do it, I suspect they'd employ an overwhelming first strike, probably from the air/missiles, to knock out DPRK artillery, air power, and rail/logistical targets in the first few minutes of the war. Then they scramble enough planes-and-missiles in DPRK airspace to block out the sun, and any live-fire target or Southward troop movement is immediately deluged with firepower.

The American military apparatus still subscribes, rightly or wrongly, to the notion that air superiority equals dominance; they've also learned the hard way to avoid boots on the ground if at all possible. This would probably be coupled with massive aerial food aid and propaganda drops to suppress the sort of popular insurrection that bedevils the Americans in Iraq. Then they hope the infantry can saunter in and meet the lightest possible resistance. Of course, no plan ever survives contact with the enemy, so things might not shake out that way.
No way, they have awesome fast coin counting machines at banks. You dump it in and it counts in real-time, like 15 seconds and you're done.
Amazon affiliate links have a URL component (in the path or GET variables) that match the glob "tag=*-20" (supposedly it could end with numbers other than 20 but I've never seen anything other than 20).
Pixel Cookies: Link from Zelda
Is Microsoft finally about to close the Windows Phone app gap?
In America, no.

Then again, Obama seems to think he has the authority to override the law with EOs, but they would likely be struck down by a court if challenged.
The government has more than one control over the current money supply, fractional reserve lending allows the money supply to grow and shrink as demand requires while the fed attempts to maintain an overall small inflation rate to avoid the ill effects of deflation.

> Who cares if prices stay stable or not?

Everyone who understand economics even a little bit.

> The value represented by whatever price is attached to those things won't change

People aren't paid in value and they don't spend value, they're paid in currency and they spend currency and they all care that prices are stable because their paychecks aren't going to suddenly change.
Honest Question : So now Chess will be more fashionable game?
I find it amusing that many people (seemingly Hackers) concentrate on Wolfram's ego rather than on the actual thing at hand. I don't care about egos, lipstick color, or the pants the language creator wears. I care about the language, so let's talk about it now:

From a long-time Mathematica user: this is not a language I like. I use it, but there is little to no fun. Many things aren't immediately clear or become problematic if you stop using the language for a while. As an example, quick, what is the difference between Module[], Block[] and With[]? Even if you remember that With[] is a lexical scoping construct, Module[] and Block[] can be confusing.

It doesn't help that Mathematica is absolutely horrible for debugging code. I don't know why they put so little emphasis on their REPL, but it's way behind the times. Even mismatched parentheses can cause serious pain (and I hate the fact that things move around when I edit parentheses).

That said, I have a lot of respect for Mathematica as a complete system. It is incredibly useful, most mathematical tools you will ever need are there. It is also a great tool for explorative data analysis. Have a pile of data you'd like to see patterns in? Load it up, mash it into shape with high-level functions, then quickly produce great-looking graphics. Nothing even comes close to the flexibility of Mathematica here.
Does adding PayPal to a checkout increase conversion rate?
Thanks, that's great.

And yes, I have considered it. Actually, I've had that suggested before - a number of developers have said they would have liked it for their last client.
Aren't we hobbled by the legacy interfaces for light bulbs, in much the same way that SATA isn't necessarily the best interface for flash SSDs? LEDs are a different thing. It seems like lamps that use them should have thermal management built into them. The increase in surface area would make thermal management much easier.
New service lets you create a website by editing Markdown files in your Dropbox
I don't recall Doom being an HTML5 game.
Or, for that matter, C and C++
I've gone through the whole hiring rigamarole, done the coding test, etc, and been rejected at the last minute due to a lack of culture fit. (And justifiably so.)

The point is that I'd rather have that happen after a 20 minute phone interview than after a 2 hour code test.