skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just set something like this up for a project I'm working on, using jenkins and (of course) docker. The level of project integration required makes me wonder how easy it is to offer it as a service, but I guess if you can solve that problem you'll get customers.
That -OnegativeInfinity is a pun. With many compiler chains, -O0 (hyphen-oh-zero) does 'no' optimization, -O1 does a bit more, -O2 some more, -O3 even more. That 'no' is on quotes because there is no such thing as 'no optimization'. For example, given enough locals, a compiler must do register allocation.

The hypothetical -OnegativeInfinity would truly do no optimization.
Soon, biomedical sensors to keep astronauts fit in space
If you're going to pursue that argument, you'll have to point to construction, gloss, precedent, stare decisis, etc.

You don't just get to make crap up.

Edit: The parallel comment here actually does note that unenumerated rights can and do exist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6842667
"Meanwhile, companies in a range of sectors — manufacturing, construction, healthcare and other STEM fields — report severe skilled labor shortages."

Construction and manufacturing have severe labor shortages? I'd love to see a source for that claim. In my neck of the woods, they still haven't recovered from the recession.
By that, do you mean that bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value?
I've run into something similiar on a different benchmark where inserting some 'nops' to the preamble for a function actually sped it up as much as 14% because it made the function align better with a memory boundary so the CPU could access it faster. Benchmarks, especially ones that don't control for the cases where 'luck'/alignment/register use/etc can influence the outcome, are terrible testcases to explore behaviour.
Grrr. Why won't Microsoft open the CLR? It's so fast and has such amazing codegen! I don't want performance to degrade moving from Windows to some platform that requires I run mono!
But then that's even worse.
"The mass-media era that is now coming to an end was a historical anomaly"
> 2. Artist’s Spotify streams divided by total Spotify streams

this is quite surprising. does this mean that hypothetically, if there is only 1 band in the spotify universe, it will receive half the revenues it once did if another band joins the service?
It's an iterative process, and the guy made a gamble. "Let's just do it the best way possible!" is a great place to start for any project. Only after you hit obstacles should compromise be made.

That's all he did. It's awesome, though. Awesome things usually can be described in simple terms.
I've seen your project some time ago. Well done, although in harsh competition with Bitcoinity and BitcoinWisdom now. Good luck with it.
For most buyers of bitcoin currently, yes. In the future that might change.
Why not just do the copying conditionally?

If it's at least half the size of the parent, reference the parent. Otherwise just make a copy...
On one hand that's certainly true. On the other: Do you care how $LIB does some work for you? Does it matter to you whether $LIB uses $OTHERLIB in version 0.1 or 0.2? Does it matter to you whether $LIB bundles $OTHERLIB as a package or whether it just includes the source code of $OTHERLIB?

Yes. I see the security implications of running an outdated $OTHERLIB, but that's $LIB's responsibility, no matter whether they include a copy of $OTHERLIB as its own package in a subdirectory or whether they just copy $OTHERLIB into their own code base.

Once you bundle dependencies, you're responsible for security holes in them.

The other issue of course is RAM usage once you start running multiple identical copies of $OTHERLIB, but that's only if they use identical versions. If it's different versions, you will have to run multiple copies at once or you risk breaking your dependencies. Or you don't run at all (Bundler's "solution")
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I am usually sucker for these things, but man, oh man :), polyphasic really! I thought this was busted long time ago as a myth.

Steve Pavlina was trying to do it and in the end had to admit it is just a way to be constantly sleepy.

Mask looks really nice, I would prefer it was a brain entrainment device of sorts. However, to end on more positive note, Kickstarter is great because they have a chance to show us their idea and gauge how much we are interested or not in it. So yay for Kickstarter!
The boomers made it a big deal, I do web development with my BA and wish every day I had all that money back. I even tried to major in CS but couldn't follow my classes because the school had brought in Russian grad students who couldn't understand questions that were asked in class.
I haven't played with segment before, does anyone else have any experience with it? However, I am a huge believer in using one library/system to track events and use one system to ingest them.

One quick note, I've found that it's helpful to build a simple wrapper in my own system for the call to the external library - this means that I have just one place to go if I change who I use to send events to.

I do think this oversimplifies lead scoring a bit, that's an area for a whole blog post to or two - and this seems like a good starting point. This is just to say that being too quick to settle on a lead scoring method can cause a lot of incorrect assumptions later.
I think the real key here is have a product people want. After that you have a lot more room to take chances in marketing without it blowing up. They even conclude that they don't believe people even cared when purchasing from amazon that day.
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took me a week to get my bitcoin.
I think a government needs to back the currency before it becomes a fiat currency.
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Perhaps, but what's definitely not working is the guaranteed loans from governments, which gives universities access to virtually unlimited funds. If the government wouldn't give loans for college, US tuitions would probably be 10x less, just like they are even in the most expensive universities in Europe or elsewhere.
The guy found and brought to their attention a simple exploit that could have seen valuable source code released into the wild and the guys at Prezi are debating about paying him a bounty?

Does this mean that Prezi do not value their code and don't believe there would have been any significant loss if that code became public?

Are they saying that the next person that discovers serious flaws in their security should just keep quiet - or sell it on to some hacker, where at least they can make some money from it?

Just what message are the Prezi people trying to send by nit-picking over $500?
I suspect in my case (I don't do FB or Twitter, both of which Klout depends on heavily) it had more to do with my being persistent in calling out issues, and working constructively to address them. Took a while to pound that message through but it eventually happened.
> Are you really disregarding, with scare quotes and a smiley, an entire field of study to which many thousands have contributed papers, books, and research?

Hey, people do the same with psychology and religion all the time.
I'm now reading about a systemized approach to this idea in a book called "Inside The Box".

It details ways to innovate and create original products/services by narrowing or constraining ones options for solving a problem.

I think we are all capable of this type of "genius" and the book's authors describe a simple process for achieving it.

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Box-Creativity-Breakthrough-Res...
He mentioned in the comments that he ensured everything is aligned to 64-bit boundaries
Are you aware that the US social security system will become insolvent in the future?

It is literally the case that the later taxpayers are paying for earlier taxpayers' social security.

It's not formally a Ponzi scheme, because it's not entered to involuntarily, it is forced.
> why do you think he went with Dart?

I'd guess because it offers more structure than JavaScript. You have classes, packages, and you can just `import` things. You also get proper tooling. You can also overload operators, which is kinda nice for games (vector math).

He wrote a lot of Java and AS3. Dart is very similar. Just a bit terser and a bit "scriptier".
The ProPublica report referenced by the This American Life episode is one of the best longform pieces I've read all year [1]. It contains stories related to your question. One memorable example was from parents that inadvertently lethally overdosed their son over a period of a week via Tylenol Sore Throat. The parents testified that they never exceeded the maximum daily dose during the time period where the toxicity built up enough to kill their son.

[1]http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-use-onl...
I recommend http://www.amazon.com/Math-Primer-Graphics-Development-Editi... when you're ready
A discussion on an EconTalk podcast about trends in college education resonated with me. They discussed college as being an extended adolescence for many students: today many students treat it as an expensive way to find one's way in the world and learn about oneself whereas going back 20 or 30 years it was more about improving your employment prospects. They cited as evidence the doubling of psychology undergraduate degrees (nice for learning about oneself, but lacking a corresponding increase in jobs available) granted over a period where STEM degrees remained flat. A similar doubling in performing and visual arts degrees was another trend they contrasted to STEM degree popularity stagnation. The podcast is at http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/12/tabarrok_on_inn.htm...
> just a minor nitpick, but bitcoin is also fiat currency.

Bitcoin is not "fiat currency" by the most common definition(currency whose value is supported by the mandate -- or "fiat" -- of a government for its use in certain domains, but which is neither a directly-useful commodity on its own nor backed by a promise of exchange for a commodity.)

Bitcoin is "fiat currency" by another broader definition ("currency that is neither a generally-useful commodity on its own nor backed by a promise of exchange for a commodity"), which has historically largely been equivalent to the more common definition, because prior to Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, no one was using unbacked currency that weren't supported by government fiat.

Its probably better to use a different term for the broader definition, since there is no fiat necessarily involved, there are meaningful differences between unbacked currencies supported by government fiat and those that aren't, and there are now meaningful examples of unbacked currencies without the support of a government fiat.
We continue to have internal discussions about whether we should give this guy the $500 reward.

My advice would be to add up the hours of the people who have contributed internally to this discussion and then multiply it by their hourly rate, then try and add in the rough cost of the delay from these people not spending time on their current projects, add a 30% fudge factor for organisational overhead, add on the $500 that you owe anyway, then double the result and pay that, just so you don't feel like doing this again.
I never said the copyright cabal was secretive but they absolutely want control over our computers' playback mechanisms.

There was a proposal, I think in the HDDVD spec maybe, wherein the dvd drive itself would be remotely disabled and prevented from playing future content based on the sole discretion of some nebulous 3rd party.

There's the Sony BMG rootkit thing that Mark Russinovich uncovered.

Yes, they absolutely want to cram your computer with DRM and you're a fool for thinking they don't.
I think the idea the parent was trying to express is there is different risk appetites for various things/companies. If it would cost more than your profits to secure something 100%, obviously you need to look at other ways to go about it. Mitigation is a major force in information security. Mitigation isn't solving the risk, it's just making sure that the impact of the risk is low if it does get exploited. Likewise, while PCI data needs to be as locked down as possible, other data doesn't need that level of security because the tradeoffs are too massive to be cost effective or business effective.

What you should realize is that "security teams" are generally not responsible for the level of security at organizations. The information security team will generally present the risk to the business owner of that process, that data, that application, etc and let the business owner decide if they want to accept the risk, mitigate the risk, or avoid the risk. If I went to the CEO of Dropbox and told him the biggest security flaw in Dropbox is that users can share files with each other, he's going to tell me to jump in a lake because that's their entire business.

Nothing is 100% secure, and nothing can be 100% secure. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with what Prezi is doing, but your notions of all-or-nothing security seem a little out of touch with the reality of business.
https://github.com/blog/1707-soft-wrapping-on-prose-diffs

In your honor, I used an example from the cryptoparty handbook. Cheers!
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Is there any way for you to act as a proxy for users, and pick up their packages from the will-call window at the local UPS warehouse for same-night redelivery? It would be an easier sell at $7+ if you can save your customers a drive across town and a wait in the UPS line. Folks also wouldn't have to plan ahead to delivery to Luna.

Ideal user interaction would be: open the Luna app and scan the InfoNotice.

Perhaps you could hack/co-opt/use carrier services like UPS' MyChoice service, which allows customers to electronically sign for pacakges, and give special delivery instructions.
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lol - I love that someone downvoted me for suggesting someone else's post was off-topic/tangential. Oh, HN...

I didn't flag the guy - I'm just positing why someone else did. And you're right - you can't "flag" comments. The correct word is "downvote" - sorry.
Mono is generally slower, with a few exceptions. It's not "slow" though - maybe half the performance of the CLR? I'm not sure where it stands after v3, which includes a proper GC. Mono also has an LLVM option which increases startup times, but provides a ~30% bonus at runtime.
1. Contact the manufacturer of a product you're interested in

2. Ask if they are willing to dropship their products

3. If not, ask for a list of distributors

4. Contact distributors

5. Ask if they are willing to dropship

Rinse, repeat.
Why I invested $250,000 in Swell
Nice recent interview on NPR with their sports reporter Mike Pesca and a former teacher of his:

"Remembering when a teacher had his back"

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/24/246984890/remembering-when-a-t...

"I always thought — I never questioned it — I always thought you had my back," Pesca tells Sheehan.

"Back then, I would say that school was enjoyment for you, and maybe not necessarily the classes," Sheehan recalls, laughing. "For a lot of teachers you were problematic, so part of my job was really to keep you from being thrown out of that school. That passion is kind of what drove you in school."

It was the same passion that drove Pesca to push the boundaries, he says. Sheehan remembers a problem-solving program in nearby Katonah, in which gifted students were given a problem to solve and then present in a skit. Pesca's skit: "The Top 10 Things We Hate About Katonah" — a sort of David Letterman-esque spoof.

"The guy running that program practically wanted to have you arrested," Sheehan says. "That night, I did have your back."
Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released
> Why won't Microsoft open the CLR? It's so fast and has such amazing codegen!

Watch how you are about to answer your own question.

> I don't want performance to degrade moving from Windows to some platform that requires I run mono!

Yes, but Microsoft, who sells Windows licenses, does want performance to degrade when you move from Windows to some other platform.
Predictions About the Web From 1995
Containers: The new Hypervisors
Benchmarking Honesty
When in doubt, use brute force? Oh, no, that's only with UNIX.
Remembering When A Teacher Had His Back
Github: Soft-wrapping on prose diffs
They have skilled labor shortages at the prices they're willing to pay. Every time you hear an employer claim they can't find someone for a position, inquire about the salary they're offering.
would love to see a follow up with details about revenue from ads and if it was able to offset any of your lost revenue from sales.
Only if the listeners started listening to the new band as often as the existing band. Number of "streams" == number of plays.
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Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 released containing security fixes
Except that it's not $150 million of seized assets, it's a bunch of electronic money that could or would at one point potentially sell for approximately $150 million if there were enough buyers for the offered digital product.

What does the FBI or other agencies do with intercepted drug money and criminal possessions? Drugs get destroyed, that much I know, but not sure about the other stuff.
"Because they tried" doesn't get a B. You're not graded on effort. What you're graded on - when it comes to defense as opposed to recovery, though both are a part of this - is how likely a breach is. Unfortunately, you don't always learn your grade (and when you do, it's bad).

"Gambling with security will always be a losing bet in the long run. Rather just make it secure. Going off some strange 'expected resources' is just asking for the time when your data somehow becomes valuable and those resources get brought (or more likely, one of your employees annoys the wrong person with too much free time)."

So, every site you deploy is going to indefinitely withstand armed assault by government forces?
How I read it is only if that other band take half of Spotify's streams. If no one likes them and they get no plays, the original band still receives all of the revenue.
Exactly. If only I could upvote you a million times.
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, though between creating a throwaway for the purposes this comment, the aptly selected name and failure to cite anything of value I am likely wasting time.

Children and Parents have a 14th Amendment (Constitutional) right to Due Process and Equal Protection vis-a-vis Free and Appropriate Education.

Case Law:

"Children of this nation are entitled to a free, appropriate education." Forest Grove School District v. T. A. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/08-305)

Legal Article:

"The due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment protect the educational rights of children with disabilities. State law cannot override this constitutional protection." -The Legislative and Litigation History of Special Education (http://wwfinductionmodules-resources.wiki.educ.msu.edu/file/...)

It should be noted that special education is not limited to children with disabilities but includes exception students as well. It should also be noted that not a single State does not take Federal money for children with disabilities.
Consider a draconian zero-tolerance drug policy in an office place, where they can demand a piss test at will.

Does "zero tolerance" imply that they will disregard all standard laboratory procedures, disregard the margin of error on the tests, and fire you even if the lab tech points out that the test technically returned a negative since the result was below the margin of error? No, "zero tolerance" isn't, literally interpreted, a statement about how the test will be executed. It is a statement about what happens after the test returns a positive.

Of course in practice "zero tolerance" means "we are going to do whatever the hell we want, and then wash our hands of responsibility". That is how "zero tolerance for guns" can turn into "nail this kid to the wall for eating a poptart".
> easily get the content you need in JSON format or similar

When user stylesheets were conceived this is what HTML was.
It's a joke among engineers that you need to graduate from college so that you can start learning. My college experience (non-technical bachelors) was just a joke, period - high school 2.0. Still, I wouldn't have the good job I do now if I hadn't completed my degree.

We keep running into this problem where employers think college degrees are more valuable than they probably are. Part of that is impressed culturally, but more than anything we lack better methods of certification in most jobs. We need certification that matters, is widely accepted, and that employers actually trust. It has to be marketed well, and it has to actually produce graduates with up-to-date skills. It's not easy, especially in fields where curriculum must change yearly.

Underlying all of this is a larger, unavoidable change taking place: the disappearance of unskilled work. Computers and machines are slowly taking over every unskilled job, starting at the least skilled and moving upwards to things we used to think of as skilled labor. Taxi drivers and factory workers will hardly exist in 10 years. Construction workers will only supervise machines in our lifetimes. Unless you want to work in a low-paying retail job for the rest of your life, you need to get a degree so you can work your way up some corporate ladder - or so the thinking goes.
Ask HN: Create speech based conversation from any website
I am building an SDK that helps create speech based conversation from any website. A demo of this is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaCg3F_qww.

This could be integrated into site search, mobile apps or even Google Glass. Just wanted check if anyone would be interested in integrating my SDK.

Sorry, in advance, for the video quality!
This has been a problem here in California for a while now. Schools push kids into a college track, even though they are not going to be successful. This has caused the state universities and community colleges to take in larger amounts of students which stretches budgets and also has caused the graduation rates to decline. Many of these students would be better served by a vocational school, but it seems that there has been a stigma placed on students who don't want to go to a university.
Yes, good point. Though I see this technology being used like KERS was used to preload the suspension and improve cornering. Mini boost spikes would be a possibility. In fact, an extra bit of power at the right moment can preload the suspension, too. I'm not saying they will cheat with it, but they will find a way to bend the rules a little bit. After all, you are only racing if you are cheating. :)
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Do you expect junior colleges to deny admission? You pay the fees and get degrees.

They should not be giving out these student loans so easily.
The article needs to make that much clearer than it is - because most people reading that article are going to be confused about the number.
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Defense in depth is an important principle, and compromise of some but not all layers could be said to form something of a continuum, but I think a stronger case is that odds of a breach forms a continuum.