skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pet peeve of mine with modern applications: So many of them just throw their metaphorical hands in the air and give up.

Prior to swap and excessive abuse of virtual memory this was not an option: If you gave up on running out of memory, your users gave up on your application. On the Amiga, for example, being told an operation failed due to lack of memory and given the chance to correct it by closing down something else was always the expected behaviour.

But try having allocations fail today, and watch the mayhem as any number of applications just fall over. So we rely on swap, which leaves systems prone to death spirals when the swap slows things down instead.

If embedded systems programmers wrote code the same way modern desktop applications developers did, we'd all be dead.
She's a beaut, nice work. I'm sure the NSA will greatly appreciate this also.
I could stomach the $299 per year if the prices were cheap, however - cheapest avacado I could find was for $1.29 per avacado.... that's a lot more expensive then the 48c special at sprouts.... especially when you factor in the cost of membership.
Metals in your smartphone have no substitutes
While your "benchmark" (if we should call it that way) obviously make no sense, I would suggest you guys look into how concurrency and parallelism are different concepts.
How can you agree with method and find it "amusingly conservative"?
Ask HN: Where do startups crawl off to die?
After a careful analysis of opportunities in fast-growing business areas, a few months ago I spotted a promising market gap. I developed a B2B SaaS, including a single-page app and a web API. The code works like a charm, it is easy to deploy, easy to scale, the user interface is fast and slick and it satisfies a real business need. I have some very experienced and successful businesspeople in the team helping me out for equity only and I keep on getting encouragements and compliments for the good idea and the great implementation. Unfortunately, I'm paying the toll of the long days and nights spent working. I'm tired, stressed, demoralized and depressed. On top of that, the B2B sale cycle is much longer than expected: I have the first clients in test phase, but still no revenues. My only wish is to get a 8-to-5 job and forget about starting up companies. Now, how should I proceed? Should I sell my code? How can I do that in the best way? I'd like at least to recoup some of the time and money I spent in the development. Any suggestion?
I hope this theory helps, but I prefer breakthrough-reports with the reversed sense:

"New superconductor may revolutionize theories"
Why it's time to lay the selfish gene to rest
If you disable syncing it's as secure as your device is ... which is to say probably not that secure. =(
Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
As an engineer I really hate the idea that it should fall to me to quit as basically my only option if my boss wants me to do something that I think is unethical. I understand where the authors of the Guardian article are coming from. But I also think it's shitty to suggest that because of someone else's poor morals I have to find a new job.

I say this as a guy who's successfully avoided working at companies where I might be put in the position to have to make that choice. So I'm not bitter that I've already had to quit a job as a result. But it does kinda bum me out that there are a lot of jobs I can't take because of the possibility of my work getting abused.

What bugs me is that the implicit assumption here is that management is corrupt and can't be trusted to be ethical themselves, and thus it falls to the engineers to boycott actually doing what they pay us to do. Why shouldn't the blame go to the people who are holding the reins?
I think it is a little more complicated than "he was peaceful" or "he was non-peaceful".

Some great listening on the subject:

http://mandelahistory.com/
-a 5-part radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through rare sound recordings, the voice of Nelson Mandela himself, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.
Maybe Lisp and Forth are in the other extreme? The designer thought "I shall let my users be as powerful as myself".
Do you recommend the Lower Queen Anne one?

And I prefer TJ's frozen food (I am an absolute sucker for the Mac and Cheese) and produce. I agree that the quality of staples are more or less equivalent.
Fast rails tests with factories
BufferBox is in Toronto as well.
Ultimately, they are competing with brick and mortar grocery shopping.
The mobile app Bitcoin Paranoid lets you set up to get alarms based on certain percentage swings. Quite handy.
Keep in mind the date it was written -- this was before SSDs and in the days of tiny heaps. Any improvement upon seek times of what were then commodity disks (SCSI/SAS being insanely expensive and out of bradfitz' reach, afaik) would easily dominate the cost of Perl's runtime (which, in retrospect, isn't horribly bad -- the GC and VM are more mature and less trouble-prone than most common scripting languages, although nowhere near LuaJit or any modern Scheme/Common Lisp implementation).
Why make an app?  The $74billion answer
How do you know? Was it in click-through agreement when signing up?
We would all like to believe people care about being spied on and all, but the truth is everyone is just busy preparing their christmas shopping.
I believe the car bombing you are referring to was the Church Street bombing, which took place in 1983 while Nelson Mandela was in jail and Oliver Tambo was leading the ANC. I'm not sure you can really say that he bore responsibility for that attack.

Before Mandela was jailed, when he was actively leading the ANC, he was careful to target only infrastructure and economic damage, not civilians. When Nelson Mandela was arrested, they were in the process of moving from that type of sabotage toward actual guerrilla action against the military, but were still not targeting civilians. Hmm. Escalating from boycotts and economic attacks to guerrilla warfare against the military; not too different than what Sam Adams did. What the ANC did after while he was jailed did escalate beyond that, but as far as I can tell, what he did and advocated never went much beyond what the American Revolutionaries did.

From the Truth and Reconciliation report http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/Volume%202.... volume 2 page 326-7:

In the course of the armed struggle, a number of military
actions took place which resulted in the death or injury of
civilians, and where gross violations of human rights can
be said to have been committed, despite ANC policy to avoid
unnecessary loss of life. Police statistics indicate that,
in the period 1976 to 1986, approximately 130 people were
killed by ‘terrorists’. Of these, about thirty were members
of various security forces and one hundred were civilians.
Of the civilians, forty were white and sixty black.

A total of 130 civilian deaths is quite low for a violent conflict over that long of a period. That's far lower than the number of civilian casualties caused by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heck, per year the US has killed more civilians in Afghanistan than the ANC killed in that entire period.

I don't endorse attacks like the Church Street bombing at all; I find them quite abhorrent. But you need to keep some perspective on this. "Terrorist", in many cases, is just a convenient label for particular people who we want to judge more harshly than we judge ourselves.
Mandela: An Audio History, A 5-part radio series [2004?]
Scroll down and look at the 'Various Health Plans Cost Curve' which shows cost versus age for 7 different plans this employer was considering.

They key takeaway is the all have the exact curve, the only difference being a scalar dollar offset per plan. I knew that pricing insurance plans was actually startlingly easy, I knew ACA limits the maximum rate adjustment due to age at 3x, but I was surprised the entire age-vs-cost curves are actually identical across plans. Apparently it's not just the 3x overall delta, but the exact rating adjustment year-by-year which is mandated by law for all federally run exchanges.

That means to exactly accurately price a family's insurance policy on Healthcare.gov, you need one array of 46 values (< 20, and 20 - 64), a 'base cost' per plan per zipcode, and a tobacco adjustment. That is all, system ready for launch, thank you.

So then you have to ask, why doesn't the calculator which lets you browse plan pricing let you enter ages for members of the family, and instead make you pick an age range and then give the lowest price within that age rate? When they could have given exactly accurate pre-subsidy pricing by asking for ages and looking up the multiplier in a global array.

Now I'm really happy Paul Downs dug enough to uncover this, but I think he does make one false assumption. While the 2014 per-age rating factor curve is consistent across all plans, that does not mean that you can use 2014 rates to predict 2015 rates. The base prices for plans can change from year-to-year, and perhaps even the age rating factor curve itself will change in 2015. Just because the array is static/global, doesn't mean it will be constant over time.

Paul does correctly conclude however that this pricing structure means you can take a single number for each policy and multiply times the employee count to immediately see the total price difference across plans. Of course, if you provide employees any choice in their own plan, it's not that simple, but being able to boil down "Plan A costs $X more than Plan B per person" is cute.

However, it's extremely hard to enumerate, let alone appreciate all the implications, trade-offs, benefits and hidden costs that come with imposing such strict and perhaps over-simplified pricing controls on a market.
Isn't Greg involved with this?
It's not necessarily done with explicit 'virtual' calls in C++, but speed of dispatch is very important to interpreters for dynamic languages. Here's an improvement to Python where the same general type of fixes make a significant difference: http://bugs.python.org/issue4753
it was funny you felt the need to post your wisdom both here and under the actual post.
Just in case you're confused -- as I was, until I started digging through the details:

Amazon Fresh is the store.

Amazon Prime Fresh is the subscription service, a $220 add-on to Amazon Prime (so, basically, you're paying $300 for both Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime Fresh).

Your subscription allows you to shop at the store (Amazon Fresh), and orders over $35 qualify for free shipping.
Much of this terminology is muddled, particularly in America, which makes this difficult to talk about in a clear manner, but my understanding is that some leftists believe that liberals stand in the way of the true reform that leftist's want, and often take credit for the achievements of leftists to boot.

(Perhaps it is easier to consider that right wingers and conservatives are not necessarily the same thing, and can very easily be in conflict with each other. I'm not entirely sure if that helps..)

In this instance, it seems to me that mathieuh is very much a leftist, and likely considers Mandela to be the same. Certainly he seems to approve of what Mandela did (I think several people here are misinterpreting what mathieuh has said as criticism of Mandela). He thinks that liberals are attempting to co-opt Mandela as one of their own and apply ideologies associated with liberalism (nonviolence as an ends of its own) to Mandela, even if those associations are not grounded in history. In doing this, they obscure Mandela's true leftist ideologies, which were exceedingly successful. By rewriting leftist victories as liberal victories, diminishing the perceived value of leftist techniques, they present a threat to leftists.
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things that don't matter. or rather, attempt to do more that do make a difference.
I've been thinking about putting together an "easy" to follow lesson on computing the fermi surface of metals in either Mathematica or python as a learning experience over the winter break. I'm by no means an expert but if you're interested in something like that let me know.
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

Just some inspiration for everyone here. RIP Madiba.
I would think that the Sortfolio sale represents a nice middle-road that could be taken more often.
What's funny is that he seems to think that weakening the patent system is an unintended consequence of the bill of which its proponents are unaware.
Integers are untyped too.

Another idea was to store the type information in the name of the variable, like in the Hungarian notation. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
Typically larger startups are sold as an acquire for peanuts and their failure is spun as a success. Often the employees get better jobs than they had, so they're not out on the street. If you have any contacts at larger companies, use them now.
It is definitely a small number. Visa is capable of handling 80 million+ per hour, for example. However, transactions are prioritized by transaction fee so you would have to pay a fee higher than all other transactions to block them out. Currently this would cost you something like $100k per day, but if you started to do this you would rapidly increase the cost of transactions, so the cost to perform this attack would grow much more expensive.
The Future of Dieting is Mobile Technology
Terrorism is a term used to describe almost exclusively violence conducted at the intersection of non-state endorsement and non-Western. A definition of terrorism which is derived from the impact and motivations of the violence would be impossible: state-sanctioned and non-sanctioned violence are separated by very blurry lines in those dimensions.

Therefore to say Margeret Thatcher is not a terrorist is like saying "blue things are not yellow." Duh. The term exists specifically to describe violence conducted by people who are not Thatchers.
bitcoin can't really stagnate, inflation is still over 10%. $4.3+ million USD equivalent demand must enter the system each day to maintain a steady price. Maybe after 2016 when inflation hits 4%. Right now it's either up or down.
> the reason why HN is good

I don't get this.

I would chose reddit over HN any given day technically / ergonomically speaking.

Actually if https://news.ycombinator.com was returning a 301 to https://reddit.com/r/hackernews I would be very happy.
I experimented with a few options here in SF for groceries. I tried Instacart; it works out to be slightly more expensive than be taking an uber back and forth to the closest TJs and buying stuff. The best of the bunch now appears to Walmart to go[1]. They have a minimum delivery of $35 but stuff appears to be reasonable (assuming you don't have personal objections to walmart). The site is kind of shitty though.

I would probably go the Amazon route if they released fresh here and made it cheaper to get a membership. I use Amazon for almost everything else.

[1] http://delivery.walmart.com/
The culture of "napping = weakness / laziness" is still so prevalent in the US workforce.

Perhaps I've just been extremely lucky not to have seen this, but I don't think it's a justified generalization. I've only worked at length in two states, MN and FL, but I have never seen anything overt to suggest this is some sort of vastly applied cultural judgment.
A (female) instructor in charge of the tutorial of the Foundations of Computer Science lecture (forprospective Computer Scientists) was also responsible for the tutorials for prospective media scholars of Foundations of Computer Science (they had to hear the same lecture, but had easier tutorials and an easier exam about it).

When in the tutorial by accident she called a woman by "he", she told that in doubt in the tutorial for Computer Scientists she calls people by "he" and in the tutorial for media scholars by "she", since because of the gender ratios of these courses of studies this behaviour maximizes her likelihood to be correct.
To those trying to somehow link Guantanamo to labor camps in NK, please, stop. You are only making yourself look foolish. Such comparisons don't help your cause at all.

500 or so prisoners in Guantanamo versus 200,000+ in NKorean camps. The NKorean prisoners don't get medical help, freedom to worship religion of choice.

The 500 are NOT there along with their wife, kids, grandkids, on both sides of the family. In NK, once a person is taken to one of the camps, it usually means 3 generations of his family is taken there. Think about it, 10+ or more people (including little kids) are dragged away to labor camps because of actions (or perceived actions) of 1 person in the family.

Please, stop comparing Guantanamo with NKorean labor camps.
I think you mean, they've spent years compensating for assuming that everyone would implement the RFCs similarly.

I'm not aware of RFC breakage, do you have any pointers?
Why is it free? I would've paid for this. Does advertising net you more profit in the long run?
I'm a body builder and competitive powerlifter. Why did you decide to stop training to failure?

Don't give us a loose tl;dr of the books you read, give us the books!
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Chrome and CSS3 experiment with animations
We're going to be a freemium product. Advertising would be a terrible business model given how sensitive the data we're going to have is.
It's not "inane" but reflects the views of many people in the engineering community outside this particular bubble.

Ironically, he's one of those engineers that Reddit/HN say that there aren't enough of in Congress:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie ("Thomas Massie was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He grew up in Vanceburg, Kentucky and met his future wife, Rhonda. He earned a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1993, at MIT, he and his wife started a successful company, called SensAble Devices Inc. Massie was the winner in 1995 of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventors. The company was re-incorporated as SensAble Technologies, Inc. in 1996 after partner Bill Aulet joined the company. They raised $32 million of venture capital, had 24 different patents, and 70 other employees.
After Massie sold the company, he and his wife moved back to their hometown in Lewis County. They raised their children on a farm, where he built his own off-the-grid timberframe house.").

I know a couple of founder-engineers who would probably share Massie's view. The patent system has lots of problems, but it does allow for something very valuable: arms-length transactions in the products of R&D efforts.
.... its an intelligence agency. Nothing they say should be taken at face value.
Why did you spend 2 years of your life on this to give it away for free? It sounds like you don't want to benefit from this in any way, monetarily, which is interesting.

Much respect. I'm only curious...

EDIT: Whoops, I misunderstood the meaning of freemium.
"RESOUCES".... really? I know it might seem picky but having an error that glaring on a site is a good way to get people to not take you seriously.
Real quacks present do this all the time and no one stops them, and they are far more dangerous. People are making money selling anti-vax books and videos after all, but we can't regulate those, but we can shown that millions of children have potentially been harmed by these claims far far more than 23andme.

Basically what you're saying is, consumers are idiots, so they don't have the rights to judge such information.

Really, if a consumer is found to have BRCA, and shown links to academic research that have a statistical correlation between BRCA and breast cancer, what do you think they're going to do, go cut off their breasts themselves? No, they're going to go visit a real doctor and say "look what 23andme said about me, what do you think doc?" And the doctor is going to order more thorough tests.

In almost every scenario you can imagine, someone reading a 23andme report about themselves, even one loaded with false positives, is going to generate a visit to a medical professional for interpretation and advice. 23andme is not telling anyone to self-treat based on such information.

The only scenario anyone can claim would be truly dangerous would be someone getting a false negative clean profile and going "welp, I'm perfectly healthy, no need to bother with my regular checkup". Now really, do you believe someone who paid $99 to 23andme and is actively seeking personal medical information is the kind of person who avoids doctors?

We have lots of problems in this society, and the problems of people avoiding doctors can be boiled down to either a lack of health insurance, or issues surrounding personality that have little to do with 23andme. The FDA is preemptively regulating a new industry based on relatively weak theories of harm, and my point is, they simply have better things to do.

At least let 23andme get off the ground and you have actual data on people's response to it before you start hammering them and triggering stupid class action lawsuits from people who haven't even been harmed. The FDA is potentially killing a startup over administrivia.
or #!/usr/bin/rdmd
meh. I'll be sticking with google all-access.
The only reference is the Australian Advertiser in 1995. It is followed by this:

"While this first mention may be obscure from a United States point of view, the Bojinka planes as weapons plot will be mentioned in other media outlets in the years to come."

And a claim by the CNN correspondent that "We've done stories on it..."

All without citations to back up those claims. Every other reference to this detail at historycommons and everywhere I looked 11 years ago is post-9/11.

Here's what Bush said: "Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale."

Notice the "massive" out there. They could envision 10 airliners being blown up over the Pacific, but... Condi couldn't even foresee:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that ... they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile..."

So apprently they were as ignorant as I was?

These groups were already well known to return to old methods (Bojinka itself was inspired by a mid-air bomb planted on a Tokyo flight earlier in the 90s, planned by KSM himself). My view, if your not going to do anything to mitigate against these techniques, the least you could do is publically warn us, IMO.

A few black kids beat a few white folks, a blond disappears from a cruise ship, and it's non-stop news coverage. Maybe folks would think a little bit after hearing more about Bojinka and a congressman or the FAA would wonder about cockpit intrusion and hijack policies. At least no one would be able to say "nobody could have foreseen"
This is incredibly true. I worked in a robotics research lab in 2008. I remember hours and hours of solving both dynamics equations and spending time messing with rotors trying to get a silly quadrator to move a few feet above the ground. If at that time you had told me that it would be efficient to productionize it today, I would have pointed out battery issues as well as a myriad of other reasons. However, the kind of progress we have had in robotics especially if you look at what companies like Bigdog are doing shows me how non-linear progress really is.
Well I supposed that was my underlying question. I understand that Google has taken the position where they're effectively holding the patents in good faith, but my question is if it would be beneficial for them to open license them so smaller companies could find them cheaply in a discovery for a patent infringement case so nonsense troll cases like the new law seems to be trying to fight could be more effective or whether it would be better to let google safeguard them just in case. (Possibly my longest run-on sentence ever)