skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel free to ask an AdWords advertiser about their experiences before parroting this bit about Internet wisdom.

I'm told by contacts inside the Borg that things have gotten better in the last few years -- for example, now you can find a phone number to reach a call center that will /dev/null your ticket for you rather than having to /dev/null it yourself -- but the last few times I needed it having a $X0,000 a year account didn't rate a reply. I'm reliably told that $Y00,000 a month accounts didn't have a transformatively better experience, although, quote, "At least they'll lie to me. It's better than silence. If you collect enough lies you can triangulate off of them."
"Poking and prodding" can get them in legal hot water. I understand (and please correct me if I am wrong) Only NSA legally, are allowed to "poke and prod sites". Well, and I guess by legally you can interpret that as "they are legally allowed to" or "nobody is really prepared to tell them no".

Anyway, a lot of anti-hacking laws are written that "poking and prodding is not benign" admitting to too many details of that on national media might be a case of bad judgement.
Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
One major problem that I see -- all of my outlets (and all the ones that I've seen in any recent construction) are horizontal, not vertical. So this would definitely not work for quite a number of people. Unless they also have a horizontal version, but I didn't see that on their page (except for their European versions).
Note that on Linux, the performance difference between processes and threads is an awful lot smaller than it was when threads first came into the world. This is another case where someone invented a better idea for performance reasons, and the people in charge of the old idea (processes) realized that they could do a lot better. So they did. And nowadays few people have a real need to squeeze every bit of performance out of a server. For most of us it is a question of buying one or two more servers. Only the Googles of the world really need to deal with this kind of performance tweaking, and if you look at what they are doing, it does not include Javascript.
Another one is http://brython.info/
I think Boost has something like this.
Amazon Prime Air?
On which OS is crossing the process boundary expensive?

And how expensive is expensive?
As a broke college student I flew Paris->Glasgow on RyanAir for €0, only paying the €10 of tax...I was very excited until I spent more money and time riding busses to and from the airports than on the flight itself.

Also, the Beauvais airport (at the time, I don't know if they've expanded) was less an 'airport' and more a doublewide that they parked some planes next to.
Drone/autonomous vehicle impact on supply chain discussed here on Saturday, ahead of 60 Mins piece.

http://www.ccjdigital.com/self-driving-planes-trains-trucks-...

Got the Reddit treatment here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1rrvxb/selfdrivi...

Conclusion: Gobolinks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klecksography#History
> That way lies the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

What's wrong with it? I'm not familiar with it, but Wikipedia says "Current researchers such as Lera Boroditsky, John A. Lucy and Stephen C. Levinson believe that language influences thought, but in more limited ways than the broadest early claims".

> The value isn't about (slightly) unique ways of thinking/talking about things, but (slightly) unique ways of expressing those thoughts.

How is talking not expressing thoughts? Anyway.. Then you go on to make good points, but I don't see what makes you think they're in contradiction to anything I said. I was not talking about "the value", someone else claimed that everybody who cares about language diversity must be a nationalist, and that being a "globalist" means welcoming putting all eggs in one basket. I completely disagree with that, but for my nilly-willy reasons. If you have other reasons that's fine, they're good reasons, but to say that my view is vaguely wrong, because there lies madness for reasons you don't care to go into, well.

I personally do not care as much about what is accessible to "us" as about what is accessible to itself, wether I am aware of it or not. If there was a button to exterminate all parts of the universe we will never have access to and then forget that happened, I wouldn't press it, even if you bribed me, I hope. And again, remember this is in response to someone saying the only reason someone would care is X; I'm not saying my opinion is correct or perfect in any way, I'm just saying it's not X, cuz it's not :P
You're right, it's also about deterrence, incapacitation, and reparation to the victim, in addition to punishment.
The one possible exception to the rule outlined in this piece is probably Xiaomi. They have successfully cornered a really meaningful market, specifically middle class Chinese that is responsible for a big push in revenue. I believe their phones currently run on Android, but with a very strong revenue stream and probably government support where they need it, in time I wouldn't be surprised if they round out their own platform.
> Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

Because regenerating the whole site all the time and manually uploading is annoying?
And the 'bad guys' are likely exploiting anything they've found so far
This is what happens when you build a website with contractors from several different places. Things slip through the cracks, in this case security was one of those things.
As a restaurateur I've been watching with fascination as this debate rages in our industry. The payments side is the most beneficial part of it, all the rest of the processes still require a human touch.

I've been cheering this innovation, but have yet to see it done well, even by e la carte and its other top competitors. People will always be the most powerful differentiator in foodservice, and tablets aren't there yet.

This speaks volumes to me of how Applebee's thinks of it's guests.
Fair enough.

My wife suffers from migraines, so I don't mean to trivialize. Nor do I mean to demean by suggesting that it is the placebo effect. If it brings you relief, I am in no position to judge.
Oh, yeah. I could easily see them renting time on unused drones.
No, they both had 24 FPS minimum at medium settings.

Minimum really isn't all that interesting, though. A single low spike won't ruin a gameplay session. The average FPS was 42, the low spikes were few and far between. It's absolutely playable - that's the entire basis for which the settings were picked btw.
I've been actively investing for about seven years now. I pick my own stocks, and my time frame is generally six months to two years. I consistently win using a simple strategy that is essentially a mix of Peter Lynch's 'buy what you know,' Warren Buffett's value investing, and my own preference for under-the-radar or turnaround plays. I never buy hot stocks, and I almost always take a contrarian macro approach. This works well for me. I've averaged about 15% a year since 2006, vs the market's roughly 6%. I used to think that perhaps I was just being 'fooled by randomness,' and I still suspect that my luck will run out on every new pick, but it never does, or hasn't yet. Occasionally I'll make the wrong decision, but that's the exception, and I have rules in place to minimize the effect of bad decisions when they occur.

Probably the most difficult thing about learning how to invest was mastering my emotions. Investing was incredibly stressful in the beginning, and to say that I waged a war against my own emotions in order to subjugate them so that I could invest properly sounds melodramatic, but that's essentially what happened. Now that I've distilled what I know into a fairly simple system, I don't stress nearly as much over my investments. I have simple rules that I follow, and I've found that as long as I follow them, I stay pretty stress-free, and my picks do pretty well. As soon as I deviate from those rules, however, I begin feeling uncomfortable, my emotions begin swelling up, and that affects my decision-making process. I have a rule for when that happens as well: sell, retreat and regroup.

I keep reading that it's practically impossible to beat the market, but I've done it every year since I began investing. Maybe that's just luck, or maybe I'm just the exception, I don't know, but it honestly isn't even that difficult to do any more. After I put the initial time in to learn the ins and outs of the game (hours perhaps in the thousands) and learned the discipline necessary to invest without letting my emotions and biases get the best of me, it all seems pretty simple. That said, I don't think most people are willing to put in this level of effort into learning the game, and I think that's what separates those who should buy index funds and those who successfully pick individual stocks. It's not impossible to beat the market, but it takes a LOT of effort to get to the point at which it can be done regularly without hastening one towards an early death due to heart failure. Most people's only foray into the marketplace is a purchase of some penny stock that their brother's friend's sister's cousin's broker may have recommended. They lose, and decide to let the professionals handle it. Others put in the time to learn about DCF, the relevant ratios, various investing strategies, etc, but they never learn to master their emotions, and they usually end up doing almost as good as the market, but with much higher levels of stress. Those people end up adopting an ETF strategy. A few expend the effort to cultivate both the knowledge and the discipline to use it effectively, and are able to pick successfully as a result.

My two cents.
40 million? Thats just for one core of the database! Oops, we forgot to tell you about that? Gee, I'm really sorry. Have I told you about our Spatial Extensions?
I'm very surprised this was so heavily backed, given the limited number of physical spaces it can occupy.

What percentage of the outlets in your home are accessible?

What percentage of those outlets would you want to keep all of your devices on?
Get who in hot water? The botnets that continually, around the clock 365 days a year "poke and prod" nearly every IP address that responds to port 80 or 443?
I think the majority of the 6000 languages are spoken by very few people. Look at the number of languages spoken in India, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_...

Is there a benefit to having all those languages where less than 100,000 people speak the language?
Twenty Reasons to Believe Oswald Acted Alone
Live App Stats
This isn't a huge problem for Southwest though, as checked baggage for domestic flights do not have to be pulled (and rarely ever are) in the United States. It'll be stored at the final destination printed on the tag until you pick it up, or you file a baggage claim to have it sent back.
This sounds like grandstanding horseshit. Fewer than 1 in 10 companies we work with even attempts to "build security in from the start", and far fewer come close to succeeding. Any consultant that told a client to "start over from scratch" after finding little more than open redirects and username enumeration† would be laughed out of the room. Actually, scratch that: you can expect to be laughed out of the room for suggesting a rewrite after finding remote code execution.

Like every other piece of software put on the Internet by the government, banks, health care consortiums, arms manufacturers, cat sharing startups or network equipment vendors, Healthcare.gov will achieve some semblance of security over the long term by having the crap beat out of it in production. Hopefully by good people first. They won't get there by starting over on the advice like this.

This story is an embarrassment for my field.

† I found the "report" to Congress; documented vulnerabilities include "undisclosed", open redirects, attacker control over the XML output of a search endpoint, a "test" subdomain on the Internet (no additional findings), Google search results with the token "test" in them (no additional findings), publicly indexed profiles on DATA.HEALTHCARE.GOV (the public dataset site), username enumeration via "this name taken" errors, the fact that they use Experian, the presence of jquery.fileupload.js, and CORS. I'm not sure any of these would even be sev:medium in a Matasano report; many would be sev:info, and a few, like Experian, wouldn't be documented at all.
This should be more specifically in America. The title seems overly generic.
Fantastic tool, kudos!!!!
Give me a break, "retarded" is beyond the realm of just being a phrase that I just don't like.
You are talking about something different (investing). Traders take a smaller amount of capital and earn a wage from it. So a talented trader might take $50k and over the course of a year working more than 40 hours per week, making thousands of trades over the course of the year, make a net profit of $60k. That $60k is not compounded. It pays for rent, food, beer.

Think of it this way:

How much can a trader make on a capital of $50k? Answer: $60k

How much can a trader make on a capital of $500k? Answer: $60k

Not literally, but hopefully that paints the picture.
I think the lesson to take from this whole fiasco is not that anything the government does is bound to fail, but that the redundancy offered by multiple competing entities trying to do the same thing is valuable. Everyone here knows software projects have a high failure rate, especially those with complicated specifications. Trusting something as important as a national health care system to the success of one project seems insane to me.
Unigine is not a game and it does not in any way reflect real world game performance. The Heaven benchmark has proven time and time again to be entirely irrelevant, due in no small part to it's insane usage of tessellation.
David Kennedy's Bio: https://www.trustedsec.com/about-us/leadership/
DCF ?
You'd think by now someone would have done a weekend project open-source version of this site. I wonder if the specs are available (I have no idea how involved the site actually is, but surely it's not 500M LOC worth.).
Give it to a dying start-up. They'll certainly pull it off with cutting edge technology & tools with great eye for UX, which usually giants fail to do.

This will give them a runway till take-off.
The story reads like "Area Consultant Advises Government To Pay Exorbitant Fees For His Services".
Drug detectives: scientists want to crowdsource the discovery of new antibiotics
Crazy mic feedback :(
Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (1988) [pdf]
The NSA wrote turkey-day talking points, because of course it did
If it's such a formulaic process, the control should just be completely taken away from the end customer.

Other reasons that tipping should exist: it only serves to perpetuate racism [1] and sexism [2]. A lot of waiters have preconceived notions about what kind of people tip more, who tip less, etc.: they're expecting business people in suits to pay more, and African Americans to pay less. So what happens when the two enter a restaurant? Servers fight among themselves on who should get who... because it's an issue of money for them. Trust me, I once worked at a restaurant -- it got ugly.

The sooner we can get rid of this strange and hate-inspiring custom, the better. Better for customers, better for restaurant owners, cooks, dishwashers, everyone.

See TED talk by Bruce McAdams for more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2C4n4eMQ

[1]: http://tippingresearch.com/uploads/Business_Considerations_T...

[2]: http://tippingresearch.com/uploads/ServerAppearance1-3-08.pd...
I know what I am getting the wife but I don't know about the girlfriend yet:)
Tumor Composition And Kernel Density Estimators
> Of course not, but understanding what that means is key to using it.

Not at all. A user could think it's a hash table and they'd still be likely to maximize the potential utility of the type in their application. They could understand that it's implemented with a balanced search tree without knowing about the details of the balancing algorithm and that's pretty much the maximum utility right there. (In fact it's a good mnemonic for understanding almost all the performance and iterator guarantees of a std::map's functions.)

And you're not going to find that it's implemented as a red black tree in "the docs". You generally don't know that. All you know and all you'll see documented is the performance requirements and iterator invalidation behavior of various functions. I mean look at the docs. That's what's there.

The real benefit of being comfortable with trees and graphs is so that you're comfortable with actually using trees and graphs yourself, directly, when they'd be useful to manipulate. If you want to look at a commit log, well, that's a graph, and I guess you can't work with that if you claim that graphs are weird obscure stuff and cringe at the word "acyclic". Want to use a filesystem? Apparently that's a hard thing for some people, sadly enough because it's a tree (or graph, depending on your attitude about soft and hard links). That's where you're writing code that manipulates the actual data structure, instead of just using some lookup-table interface.
You are not rebutting that claim, you are being obtuse.

>You can prove mathematical theorems with programs that have no side effects

No, of course you can not. How do you see the result? That requires a side effect of some kind.

>A good example of this is the execution of the main action in a Haskell program.

That is a terrible example, as executing main precisely is a side effect.
I was also thinking possibly using this data and other streams to possibly give Siri the ability to answer more accurately questions like "Siri, what is going on in the United States today?" (Or where I live, work, etc).

Just in case Siri was already really good I gave it a check but it was mostly lame USA facts on twitter, and a news reel of links to a somewhat better representation of an answer to the question but mostly foreign relations and bigger picture stories where the USA is mentioned explicitly. I have a feeling things like "A catastrophic tornado in Tennessee…" which only mentions that state probably wouldn't come up as readily yet.

And that is definitely an incredibly hard question to tackle too.
Link to the page/list in question: http://www.doorkeeperhq.com/responsible_disclosure
Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance
> Orla’s forehead was sealed with a dab of skin glue for $1,696.

On Reddit, where this stuff is discussed more, I just urge people if they can get away with it (they are conscious and can hide their wallet, for ex), to just give them a fake name. Almost $2k for a dab of skin glue? No! I don't care what complicated politico-economical factor lead to that. Free market, over-regulated market,expensive doctor's education loans, health insurance lobbyists, politicians, aliens, terrorists, gnomes. Doesn't matter. Putting that on the bill and sending to a parent is criminal. Fuck everything about it. Lie and cheat them and run away without feeling bad. They can say "oh but because people cheat it is so expensive", doesn't matter. They are stealing and screwing over the sick and disadvantaged, if you can turn right back and screw them, do it. Everybody for themselves.
Weekend project of integrating with ancient healthcare mainframes? OK.
Airmail FTW
They still make the best reasonably-priced studio headphones in the business, the MDR-7506. It's a fairly old design at this point, though.
If China's Airspace Grab Turns Violent, Here's How the Dogfight Could Go Down
Pyjamas is much more that a py-js translator. And their demos seem broken here and there.
There is such an easy "American" solution to this: published pricing - http://kfor.com/2013/07/08/okc-hospital-posting-surgery-pric...

When you organize your startup, just give me 10% for the idea... ;)
> which prevents the computer from becoming obsoleted by changing network affiliations or protocols.

Which would never be the case... Right now no Macs come with any mobile data and I somehow still manage to find them useful. If my MacBook had come with 3G it wouldn't be obsolete now that LTE is the rage, the worst thing that could happen is I would tether with another device like I do now.

I also have a Chromebook and I have to say it's nice not to even think about it--you're just online.
Do I need really to discuss earthquakes with someone who believes they are God's punishment on gay people?
I'm honestly not sure why a better health exchange couldn't be built by practically any team. I've kept hearing on NPR that one of the big problems is that they 'needed to make it talk to X number of other government/insurance service'. Have these people never heard of REST or JSON? The problems that the health exchange is facing seem to be largely solved problems and not ourside the realm of reasonable scalability. I'm good, but not amazing at development, and I think I could make Postgres do that is needed for this within a week or two.
Make helping the needy go viral.
Hello Friends.
Imagine that you make a purchase this holiday season and your purchase does not benefit the seller but a total stranger - rather, your purchase benefits a needy person somewhere in this world.

That's the idea behind www.borue.org. We sell shirts and raise funds and awareness about world causes. We donate 100% of the net profits generated from the sale of our shirts towards a cause.

We need your help. We launched the project but the success of the project depends on our collective efforts. We need your help in getting the word out.

For our first organization we have partnered up with Watsi.org. Many of your might be familiar with Watsi, as some of their funds came from Y combinator.

Let's see how much positivity we can bring in the lives of those who are less fortunate.

Always remember that not everyone in this world can experience the joy of making a new purchase. But we can bring positivity and happiness in their lives through the sale of our shirts. We can raise funds and help the needy!!

Thank you for reading this and your help.
This is a wonderful community.
www.Borue.org
www.facebook.com/borue.org
www.twitter.com/borueusa

-Lastly, a lot of irrelevant stuff goes viral, let's make helping the needy go viral.
Spot on. I didn't have the patience to write all what you've laid out, but exactly correct.
This would also solve the "That nice flat spot in my backyard is where I installed a swimming pool a few months ago" problem.
I don't buy it. This contractor got paid. I don't see how a business would pay a contractor for not delivering, and if they did deliver and the product was crap, they would directly suffer as a result.

The only reason the government has to change healthcare.gov is because it's an issue that republicans have put on TV to use against democrats. That's it. If it sucked, but wasn't in the news cycle (like everything else), then the government wouldn't do a damn thing about it.
> Have these people never heard of REST or JSON?

I think the difficulty is really in schema matching/mapping.
If you aren't paying or updating your list of contributors, then I will just email Full-Disclosure, which also doesn't pay but functions as a permanent record of those who meaningfully contribute to security.
The way I see it is that that parties contracted to build these systems are not invested in its success whatsoever. Payment is guaranteed and you can keep on billing. It's not a trivial software system but it's a lot different when the livelihood of your company depends on it. It's a valuable lesson for the states and government but I'm skeptical as to whether anything would change.
How's the headphone jack on those devices? I've had terrible experiences with Android devices in that respect, including the Galaxy Nexus. Unusable in a matter of weeks, whereas my iPods have always had rock solid connections even after years of abuse.