skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that how enterprise sales work? I don't have any experience there but given how highly paid sales sharks seem to be inextricably linked to ES as opposed to social sharing buttons, I'd say no.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
"especially if you're transecting with an unknown merchant."

misspelled transacting
I excavated 10 tons of concrete from the front yard that was buried there for some reason, and it stopped trees growing.

It was probably a root barrier which was put there for the sole purpose of stopping the trees from growing and destroying your house.
"Regulatory capture" means the regulators are working with the regulated organization instead of controlling it.
Try this:
http://ecommerce.shopify.com/guides/dropshipping

It was published about 9 months ago.
My understanding as not a lawyer, is that there exist constitutional rights that are not listed in the constitution

I've noted that in an amended edit to one of my ancestor posts above.

I'd still maintain that well-formed rights should be based on precedent and/or law and/or intent. Though situations such as education (equal protection, commerce, copyright?), abortion / right to life (two opposed "rights"), etc., push the boundaries more than a bit.
Prediction - Google Glass will be banned from many businesses...
I feel like this is a good place to mention a similar project which aims to circumvent deep-packet inspection with some cool encoding techniques. It can even be used as a Tor plugin!

https://github.com/kpdyer/fteproxy
https://fteproxy.org/
The pricing section now mentions this

"Deliveries can include one or more packages."

Idk if I missed that before or if they just added it.
How Virgin America Got 6 Million People To Watch A Flight Safety Video
Really? Plenty of sub-standard products do huge business despite higher quality competitors. Microsoft is only the most obvious example in the software world.
You're confusing two things. It's not suggested to go from, say, CentOS 5 to 6 in place. However, going from 6.4 to 6.5 is expected.

Edited to add: per the release notes, emphasis mine: "Similar to the practice of the upstream vendor, there is no supported path to 'upgrade' an installation of a prior major CentOS release (presently CentOS 5) to a new major release."
Interesting... source?
Founder here ... there's plenty of reasons why.

> I don't understand why you would ever pay for this?

One big one is ease of use and convenience. If you're using a cloud database (Heroku Postgres, Amazon RDS, etc) then JackDB is the fastest and easiest way to start running queries. With Heroku in particular we have OAuth integration so you can list your data sources and connect in just a couple mouse clicks.

Add to that additional features like never losing your work (close the browser, reopen it, and keep scrolling your query), sharing SQL among your team, and a full audit trail of all activity and you have a product that people will (and do) pay for.

> If you need a web based database gui, what's wrong with the hundreds of free versions?

Obviously I might be a bit biased but I think JackDB is the best database GUI there is. We've been using it ourselves to develop JackDB for quite a while now (i.e. dog fooding).

> And it comes free with the non scary part of giving someone else your database access.

Security is a big deal and there is definitely a trust factor involved in using something like this (or more generally any other cloud data service). We try to be as open as possible about how we handle security and crypto on our site.

Still though, when you consider that the vast majority of people using it are already outsourcing the maintenance of their database to a cloud provider the leap of faith to using JackDB isn't as large as you think it is.
No, anyone with an email address can be on a ZeroMailer list. For now, we're requiring a Google sign-in to create lists, in large part to curtail spam.
Demo of NETtalk artificial neural network during training [mp3 audio file]
I love how you ignored the Atlanta crime rate one that proves my point using hard data. Other cities all over the US have the same problems. Blacks make up a tiny percent of the population and yet a huge percent of criminals. And they have this magic touch wherever they go. From the USA, to the UK, to Europe, even in their own homeland of Africa.

Meanwhile Native Americans, who are truly victims, even greater minorities, aren't pushed into every single commercial, don't have their own history month, barbie, or tv channel, don't seem to sleep with everything that moves and cause so much trouble.

Even when the president and first lady talk about the real problems facing blacks, you spew more of your excuses. How come other minorities like Native Americans (who are also socially disadvantaged) don't have the same problems with regard to multiple baby daddies.

My sources were black blogs that simply regurgitated the information and talked about it. And yet you don't like what they found. Maybe white people should start excusing themselves for every wrong they've ever committed.

You're just an endless victim aren't you? Endless excuses. It's always someone else's fault. 500 years from now when Blacks are still behind folks like you will still be out preaching "it's not our fault, we're victims". 5,000 years from now you'll still be victims, unable to get back up. Despite all the hard ships other races went through they got back up. Europe was decimated numerous times by wars, famine, plagues, 2 world wars, and still it recovered. Jews were expelled and prayed upon for 2,000 years and went through a holocaust and a massive exodus from Europe and still got back up. While blacks were found, enslaved, and freed in a few hundred years and can't get back up on their own 2 feet.

You're right, blacks need help. They need all the help in the world. Blacks need other races to help them because they can't seem get up on their own.
I was just listening to let's talk bitcoin and it was mentioned that gold has intrinsic value whereas bitcoin doesn't and how people viewed it. Ultimately nothing was resolved and to the outsider listening in it seems that a conversation about intrinsic value is a conversation about semantics at best and philosophical rhetoric at worst. Ultimately, the whole idea of intrinsic value is a waste of time and adds nothing to the conversation for bitcoin or gold.

Maybe the only things that have intrinsic values are the atoms that make up our world and us as without them we have nothing and don't exist. So I guess on that point gold... fuck.
I find it fascinating that elsewhere on this thread somebody expressed the opinion that "overengineering ... kills more projects than anything else" and here you express the opinion that a much worse problem is engineers bailing out after running up technical debt. To be honest, I really can't say which is worse, I've had to cope with both of them from other people. All I can say is that my tendency is to overengineer.
Windows 8 a certifiable flop
I love the design even if it's just a template but is there enough request for a community like this?
You only need them long enough milk a few billion dollars out of some other sucker.
Looking at the comments here, most of them would be nullified if the article wasn't "the only way to grow huge", but instead "one way to grow huge". So far it's looking like this item will soon incur the controversy penalty. I enjoyed the post; simply making something good is the growth strategy that is most applicable to a random kid reading this, but it's not the only way.
> In short, OOO cores are weird and horribly complicated and completely untrustworthy where performance is concerned.

Yep. There's a great talk about this by Cliff Click, called A Crash Course in Modern Hardware[1] that I would recommend to everyone. I am no hardware expert, so that talk really enlightened me.

Regarding the issue at hand, I remember Doug Lea saying[2] that some new Intel processors may recognize a loop as the OSs idle loop and power down the core. That's why he computes random numbers in busy-wait loops.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-modern...

[2] http://emergingtech.chariotsolutions.com/2013/04/phillyete-s...
I double-checked the URL to see if it was from the Onion and wasn't sure if I should be surprised or worried that it wasn't. I get the feeling that there's more to the story - probably the dad created a fuss, probably he was being a nuisance and had to be removed by security. Or something like that.

When the headlines in the mainstream media start to appear like they could be from the Onion, I know it is time to pack my bags and wait for reality to collapse on to itself.
You can ship to USPS PO Boxes now by putting down the post office's address. Not sure if this service is available at all post offices. Technically its not really even a service...
It's just a basic feature of the protocol from day one, the website provides a nice interface to it— provides arb introductions, etc.
I talked to my cousin, a hedge fund partner, about this over thanksgiving. He said that he thinks that it has a chance, and it's something that people and governments have been looking for. If governments just keep printing money with no limits and no end in sight, why should people continue to keep solid faith in those currencies?

He did say that most of his co-workers don't necessarily agree, but some are hedging their bets
12 was released a year ago, thats their model (and version number, 12 == 2012, 13 == 2013, etc)
Agreed. A programmer maintaining a new project is going to feel frustrated when the application cannot be easily extended in a way that they expect, but the original author should be forgiven for not predicting every possible future permutation of their existing code base. The best design decision might seem obvious from the maintainer's perspective, but given 100 different maintainers, you'll end up with 200 different solutions, half of which will make the original application seem ridiculous when framed in the context of a massive rewrite that takes into account every business decision that time and experience has yielded since the start of the project.

Further, there are times when a good programmer must deliberately exclude forward thinking solutions because a non-functioning product precludes a successful business. Yes, it should still be a secure solution. Yes, a TODO label may be warranted, but a surefire way to get yourself labeled as a bad programmer is to spend weeks working out "future proof" solutions while the competition is shipping an application that can be successfully executed.
I didn't say that you had to achieve massive wealth or fame. I said being that "idolizing someone for writing great code" isn't a worthwhile goal. Dennis Ritchie created two important products that are still used today: C and Unix. I think you'd find plenty of people would have a lot of bad things to say about C, for example, but it did solve a problem and help move the world forward.

By the way, why wouldn't you mention Bertrand Meyer or Niklaus Wirth?
Here is one interesting discussion:

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/399352954060144640

The author has cited terrorists training manuals elsewhere on his blog, that are apparently available publicly online, dated from as early as 2003 with security guidelines to not use email or talk on cellphones.

TLDR: The adversary can easily stop using email/cellphones to discuss plans. Do they still use email/cellphones for other reasons? Sure most likely, as was shown in Zero Dark Thirty, but not in any meaningful way that can be usefully gleaned from a mass-surveillance approach. Therefore the large investment and privacy trade-offs to the greater society isn't worth it.
Judging by the claims and the code, this is a tool created by someone who hasn't read any prior research about steganography. If you trust this, don't be surprised when law enforcement detects that you're using it.

I'm surprised to see someone of Bram Cohen's caliber releasing something like this. No one has any business coding security tools unless they've taken time to read forensics whitepapers to look for reasons why their tool won't work. And this tool certainly won't work.

The goal of steganography is to hide the fact that you've transmitted messages. The longer the message, the harder that becomes. This may be suitable for hiding a few bytes, but no useful message is going to be a few bytes, unless it's something like a decryption key (and hiding a decryption key using stego would be crazy). This doesn't solve the problem of "law enforcement wants to know what your decryption keys are, because they've detected you're encrypting data." The whole point of stego is to avoid that scenario.

Anyone who's interested in steganography should start here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/jsac98-limsteg.pdf ... No one who reads that whitepaper and understands its implications would take this tool seriously.

EDIT: To clarify: a message as short as ~50 bytes can often be detected, depending on the stego implementation, because even that is enough to cause statistical anomalies in the covertext which indicates that an encrypted message is hidden in the covertext. So I'm not talking about detecting images or videos sent via stego; just encrypted plaintext messages.
We don't pay attention because we've seem one before, it is the same all around.

now i will be extremely annoyed as well. to hell with this.
humble suggestion: you should go through the arbitrator's list every so often and clear out the test and dummy accounts
Check out the "Mindfold" for a no-gimmick sleeping mask: http://www.mindfold.com/. It's really comfortable to wear and 100% pitch black dark. I actually found it via HN some time ago and I like it a lot.
Embarrassing story. What is the background of that policy?
At over 4000mg in humans in a 24 hour period and you overload the first two metabolic pathways in the liver for Acetaminophen, forcing it to go through another pathway where a toxic by-product is made by the body.

Ingestion of alcohol can drop this approximate 4000mg before toxicity is experienced down to about 2000mg.

I know this because I've been skating awfully close to that 4000mg ceiling for about one week now. I had my tonsils removed last Wednesday and need at least 20mg of oxycodone per 4-6 hour people to handle the pain. Unfortunately every 10mg of oxycodone is bundled with 325mg of acetaminaphen.

I really hope lobbying by Tylenol is eventually reversed and oxycodone and other opiates can be pressed into pills without acetaminaphen. It's ridiculous that I and others get close to poisoning our livers because of unnecessary bundling of drugs.

(FWIW I weight ~240 lbs)
Yes, we are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Can we be done now? This really is a waste of time.
I bet you're just in the pocket of Big Sleep.

Regardless of whether polyphasic is best, it looks like it also supports biphasic and a variety of other sleep modes.
One of the possible exceptions is number crunching. .NET has no equivalent to Mono.SIMD, so for numerical tasks it's conceivable that code written for Mono could end up being far faster.

Depending on what you're doing, the performance difference might not matter in practice. Mono's (historically, at least) done worse with super OO-y code because of its poorer GC performance, but oftentimes that kind of code also ends up appearing in applications where overall performance is dominated by I/O and CPU efficiency ends up being negligible.
Design is not about the pixels - or why the lean approach rocks
Perhaps the reason for creating this?
Facebook is not the first company in internet media heading towards acquisition of mobile analytics or optimization companies. Twitter, Google and Apple have also acquired various analytics related IT companies to improve their applications. http://goo.gl/HSxh64
Actually in the enterprise market Sam's point is even more true. The greater power of incumbents means that you can't get customers unless your product is better by a large margin.
If your explanation were true, we should expect tuition to immediately shift to students when federal loans and grants became available in 1965.

But in fact, the data shows that state tuition subsidies for public 4-year colleges have declined slowly, except in the years following recessions when states cut their budgets. These years show much more dramatic declines. This is consistent with my hypothesis that state budget cuts are the primary driver of tuition increases.

It's possible that your point still holds, that the availability of federal loans made it easier for states to cut tuition subsidies. But that's a change in the politics of the issue, not a market distortion. Without federal aid, politicians would be more vulnerable to the charge that they're making college less accessible.

Federal loans have obviously not created a tuition bubble, for the simple reason that the cost of a public 4-year education (the price charged to states + students) is essentially unchanged over the last 25 years.

The story may be different for for-profit colleges. If you want to argue that there's a market distortion there, essentially that for-profit colleges are gouging students and the government, I could easily be persuaded. But since only 10% of students are enrolled in these schools, they're unlikely to be the main source of increasing student debt.
I have to say this is pretty awesome. I currently pay $8/mo for my USPS PO Box, but I'm wary to send expensive packages there since they have a tendency to misplace packages. So far, they've only lost one package, but there are many times where I'll go there and they can't locate a package. If I return several weeks later, they managed to find it.

I'm not a big fan of one time fees, but I can definitely see myself paying for a monthly subscription plan, similar to Amazon prime. Any thoughts of this in the near future?
Show HN: Why we need yet another bookmarking app.
But is it rude for someone to not monetarily reward you for doing something good? That's what I was replying to up-thread. To feel you deserve compensation for a good deed when there was no prior agreement as such is indeed entitlement.

This thread hasn't really been about the article for a while. It's been about someone feeling that people that don't reward for good deeds are greedy assholes, which I think sets a bad precedent. If you want to incentivize fine, but let's not confuse that with what the right thing to do is.

How about a moral obligation? Honestly, it sounds like if a taxi driver returns a bag full of cash to the owner, it is perfectlly alright if they just say "Thank you" and walk him to the road. Legally: nothing wrong, morally: being a greedy asshole.

Edit: Fixed truncated second paragraph.
I honestly don't understand why printing the LD50 isn't mandatory on all warning labels.
Here we go again! I hope it happens this time!
We are releasing a public version of Been this week, and would love for you to try us out. Been bookmarking is functionally novel in two ways: (i) it's designed for quick, real-time collaboration among small, private groups of friends and family. And, (ii) its graphical UI (very much like a "heads-up display”) enables uninterrupted organization and review of pages while users surf.

We introduce a twist. We want users to own their own tracking cookie alternative (which is what Been user data can become). We will not share user data with third parties. Instead, Been will facilitate the voluntary exchange of data between users and companies. We think this is a better way, and bookmarking is a good place to start.

Been is fully functional regardless of whether people ever choose to share their data with companies. Our alternative to cookies is “merely” a byproduct but an important option that is available whenever users become comfortable with this new approach and companies prepare for a different way to get their message to customers.

One more thing, for the month of December, we are conducting 3 weekly drawings for new iPad Mini Retinas for users (“Magic Been Hunt”). Directions are posted @beenpod. To play, you just need to add a designated URL (to be tweeted) to your Been collections by the weekly deadline using our add-on.

Thanks!

—Dave
Decompilation of executable C files is much less accurate and usable than decompilation of Java class files, which usually produce verbatim Java source code. I don't know if source was or wasn't directly disclosed here, but if they leaked vanilla Java class files, that's basically equivalent to their source code.
> Nothing has intrinsic value.

I think what you are actually saying is that "intrinsic value" is actually meaningless.

If "intrinsic value" is actually a meaningful statement about something (even if you believe that nothing has that quality), then I think we can indeed find things that have it, which disproves your statement in the first place.

The first definition of "value" that I found is "the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something." Note that this is by definition subjective - i.e. "value" is a perceived quality. More specifically, it is a quality perceived by humans.

Therefore I propose a definition of "intrinsic value": something that all entities to whom "value" has meaning universally believe has that quality. For example, oxygen.

One could argue that there are entities to whom "value" is meaningful but that do not value either of those things, such as aliens who do not need either substance. However, since we are not aware of any such entities, it doesn't prove this wrong.

On the other hand, I suppose a person who is deliberately trying to asphyxiate themselves may not value oxygen after all. Perhaps this disproves my own point...

Either way, it's an interesting debate.
Message Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic App
House approves 10-year extension on plastic gun ban
Horrible barcharts
Landing page looks nice. Should probably change your "Tell me more!" button as I expected to find out more information upon clicking on it, but instead it felt more like a "I'm interested, sign me up!" Also I noticed the middle of the page is an image, which is noticeably blurred when stretched out on my monitor so you may want to change that. Good luck!
Well, I'm certainly not an expert in the field, but from that same wikipedia article it seems as though a large number of human societies have practiced biphasic sleep cycles, but there's no historical reference to having more phases than that. If it were that advantageous, why haven't there been entire societies practicing it?
NSA Sent Home Holiday Talking Points for Employees
Stealing $100 Million in Bitcoins
It is much, much easier to sell something that the buyer has already heard about from industry peers and generally sees the value of than to cold-call prospects and push products on them that they're indifferent to.

Companies can limp along for a few years with the latter strategy (I worked at one once), but they don't grow, and eventually they get sick of selling stuff that nobody wants to buy and close up shop. For the examples given (Cisco, Oracle), everybody who's in a purchasing position in the industries they serve has heard of them, and they go into a sales cycle "warm". The salesperson's job is to iron out the details and explain how to integrate the product into a customer's existing workflows to make them more efficient.
Nuisance is in the eye of the beholder. He knew what his rights are and he was asking for them to be respected. The SRO didn't care what the law said, he thought that the school rules superseded it. They do not.
actually this is the first i've heard of it and its not too far from my natural sleeping pattern tbh.

if left unchecked i usually end up with a couple of 2-3 hour naps in a 24hr period instead of a big sleep.

although i'm sure its not good for me. :)
IMO, Android Studio is still far behind IDEA 12. There are some new features in AS, but IDEA is far more stable.