skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little off topic, but will Heap release an export API?
I realize this might sound like a First World Problem, but I typically donate to my charities and organizations early in the year. Then things like this pop up and I have to weigh the opportunity cost of not donating while my power will be doubled against the feeling that I've already given a chunk of change.

I guess in the end, I'll probably cave and donate again because I think the EFF is very important, but I wonder what thoughts others have on this situation?
Oh yes, we will surely get there eventually. But it probably won't be the giant sky-laser in Alaska that does it. Honestly I don't even understand how people came up with that one. I mean, what is the link between "sky-laser" and "earthquakes", other than "God is mad because we're shining the laser in His eye".
So, do they have to refund the billions they gotten illicitly from trolling?
SuSE Linux support added for cdist 3.0.0
Thanks a lot to the work of Daniel Hueule, cdist learned a lot about SuSE Linux. cdist gained support for __zypper_repo and __zypper_service and additionally a bug in __package_zypper was fixed.

You can read more about the versatile configuration management system cdist at http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/

By the way, cdist 3.0.0 will be awesome - it contains the new messaging framework!
7th Circuit Excoriates Judges and Lawyers for fear of Science
The Importance of Customer Lifetime Value for E-Commerce in 2014
E-Commerce tough. Here are my thoughts on improving Customer Lifetime Value in order to survive the rising Costs of Customer Acquisition in 2014.
Fair point, but you can design a neighborhood to be friendly to walking without being hostile to drivers (ie, putting in sidewalks and designing the layout in more of a grid fashion to put more destinations within walking distances).
We already have one. It's part of our enterprise tier.
Great info! Thanks! Are you a solo? Are you able to make enough to pay your own?
All I can say is "ouch."

Link to the opinion: http://www.ims-expertservices.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/ja...
Historically, elm-lined streets made neighborhoods comprised of smaller homes more attractive:

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/news/images/amelmstreet.jpg

Todays municipalities are shunning urban forestry for miserly xeroscape landscaping. "Native landscaping" is often anything but, and has turned entire neighborhoods and towns into gravel strewn deserts. Obsession over costs has reduced much of America into a series of soulless strip malls and gated communities. Historic districts are today largely devoted to tourists while the rest of America lives in chicken wire and stucco tract homes made by economic refugees rather than craftsman. America is ugly because its people will not pay for beauty.

Regarding smaller yards, a return to < 1000 sq. ft. Sears-Catalog style architecture may be a more aesthetic alternative than heaping up duplexes or townhouses, or heaven forbid, closely packed trailer parks. Also, building codes should be loosened. Nothing kills the spirit of a neighborhood like "military review" uniformity in home construction.
if you mean trivial yet still useful commits, then hopefully it will be harder to abuse when all the simple things are improved
Saying:

"Don't use A to prove B"

Doesn't say:

"Don't use A to disprove B"

I do not understand your dilemma. I never said, don't use penguins as examples to counter people calling homosexuality unnatural. I said don't use penguins as examples to prove it "natural".

My response was to noticed trend that few homosexuals and their supporters use statements like the above to justify their rights and even worse, their right to exist. I was truly shocked! I do understand what it is to live in a conservative environment, and get hammered in that certain group X is bad, and that it shouldn't exist, but at no point should you justify your existence (wtf?! you have every right to exist if you don't invade other people's liberties) with bad examples that are easily countered. It's like watching someone self straw-man themselves.
So, Bitcoins isn't about anonymity. I don't know why people keep being enamored about this. There are far better things to do with Bitcoins than anonymity.

I'm glad someone wrote this and open-sourced it though. There are a lot of interesting things you can do with this web app when you throw away the notion of anonymity. Thanks for writing it.
What platform? On XP, I leave a firefox session running for weeks and it only gets up towards 1 gigabyte (seems even less with some recent updates, but I don't keep a close eye on it).

I leave gmail and lots of other tabs open all the time.

(Mostly I suspect they are better able to find the leaks on Windows, no idea why that would be)
FreeBSD to stop using hardware RNGs
Learn to code switch before you learn to code
This is silly. Just assume that your allocation will not improve. If you're in a position to improve your grant later in your tenure, you'll either (a) know it, and secure it through negotiation, or (b) not know it and probably not get it.

Having the cap table --- which you won't get anyways --- does not actually help you here. A feeling of entitlement isn't what gets you improved compensation. An understanding of your value on the market and a willingness to stand up for yourself is what does that.

Put differently: so what if the cap table suggests you're unlikely to get an improved allocation? If you're worth an improved allocation, you'll get one or the company will lose you.
Newly discovered greenhouse gas '7,000 times more powerful than CO2'
I have lead loads of these physics theory of universe things and I am none the wiser about anything in the field. Might as well say "Physics have shown we are an electronc's imagination in 7.5D space like a windy coral on an orange Tuesday"
It's not completely free. They need to pay to store it, insure it, run it. They need to have staff (diverted from their other tasks) to maintain it and operate it and bureaucrat it.

There's a hit to their public image too. When your home or car is burgled you don't want to see a tank.

And, as toomuchtodo hints at, heavily arming a police force leads to those guns being used. Ignoring "bad guys" for a moment, shooting innocent dogs of innocent people is probably a bad thing. Shooting innocent bystanders is probably a bad thing.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/12/05/nypd-baby-you-know-we-love...

Obvious Popehat bias, but still, it's pretty alarming.
If you give shares, employees have to pay taxes on those shares. In the case of an 83b, employees pay all tax upfront which is good because that is supposedly the lowest value the shares will be worth so the taxes will be low too. However it is possible that the tax burden is still high depending on the value of the shares and number of shares. Options are generally better for employees because they are not forced into paying more tax. The exception is in the very early stage where shares are basically worth nothing so the tax is basically zero. Also remember that employees cannot sell shares at will if it is a private company, they need board approval.

For the company, there isn't much difference either way as far as I am aware.
I would think BBC would do some fact checking. I posted this comment in another blogger's article. [1]

"The author's entire premise is off. The recent filing is a continuation of an application filed on Feb 3, 2000 (see patent 6,609,113). So, Chase wasnt taking a 'swipe' at Bitcoin because the original application was filed 13 years ago."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6878442
Plans on releasing it for your other tiers?
(NCer here) The big thing in a lot of rural North Carolina is that there was a huge textile processing and paper processing industry that's slowly been losing ground to overseas manufacturing.

The end result is that many of these counties have extremely large power and water production capabilities built up and no one to sell to. The datacenters are attractive because they will actually buy these utilities at much higher capacities than the community would otherwise. This is worth much more than any small number of jobs created.
Is it odd that almost every startup I or my friends have interviewed with refuse to answer the "number of outstanding shares" question? Have others had similar experiences?
At this point for a lot of cities, it would require a large amount of infrastructure change. Mass transit in most cities sucks today, so people use cars. To do this right, the city needs to do a massive up-front investment in public transit. And there is no guarantee that this investment will ever pay off.
I disagree, though I see where you're coming from.

The trick with mass transit - particularly permanent infrastructure like rail transit, is that you're not really building it for right now, you're building it to shape the future.

My go-to example for this is Toronto, Canada. They built the subway in the 50s and put stations in extremely low-density neighborhoods. Nonsensical at the time naturally, but if you take a gander on Google Maps today, nearly all of these subway stations have evolved mini-cities around themselves, and the surrounding suburbs have realigned to maximize accessibility to the subway station.

Rail transit is always betting on the future rather than today. The question is if Bellevue is willing to redevelop around the infrastructure - or if the disproportionate power held by Kemper Freeman et al will put a stop to it. The natural evolution of neighborhoods around transit infrastructure is not subject to the curation of taste and wealth than has been emblematic of the development of Bellevue until now.
Agreed. I stopped eating mammals 20+ yrs ago due to this, am down ~50% on dairy, have a local egg guy where I can see the hens running freely at least, try to get cage free poultry and only occasionally, and go light and as eco as I can on fish. Also fair trade chocolate only now (slavery). It's far from perfect, but I feel like I have a tasty and healthful diet, and I'm willing to pay some more for it despite being a cheapo.
Interesting. With regards to the unit of pricing, our thinking was quite the opposite. There's a high variance in value across your userbase, but our previous (per-user) model would price them the same. This was an issue.

We tried to match a user's value as closely as possible by pricing per visit (instead of per user). This assumes, of course, that the frequency of a user's visits correlates closely with their overall value, which is certainly imperfect in some cases.
Commute to/from work: 50 minutes. Walking in lunch hour: 50 minutes. Walking in the evening to relax: 20 minutes.

Not to mention the trips to the washroom/photocopier/kitchen/whatever. It's not hard to do, especially if you avoid driving when you can. There are lots of people who spend 2 hours a day driving, yet oddly that doesn't seem as crazy to you?
A more stable value would increase the utility of bitcoin.

For instance, arbitration transactions would be great, except they carry something like 20% currency risk over periods as short as a day.
That's a good point. Someone unavoidably had to lay out the streets but walkable cities and towns are quite a bit more organic than designed.
I have felt we have too many laws and over zealous cops for
some time now. I guess I'm old--I was born in 1972, but
I can assure you; things were not like it has been
in the last twenty years. I started noticing a change in the late 80's and it's(a over regulated society, cops who
abuse the system) just gotten worse. If Jesus Christ reappeared he would most likely be arrested for indecency.
Ticketed for fishing without license. Arrested for loitering. Arrested for holding an event without a permit.
Ticketed for sleeping in someone manger, without written consent. It's really not funny when you get an expensive
ticket for no reason. I have thought about this and a solution; tie all fines to income, and require all Cruisers to be wired with 24/7 cams. This is a good website, but I
sometimes wonder if I just blowing smoke, and racking up
clicks for a already Rich Dude? Some of these topics are
so important they deserve their own webpage?
Foucault is SmallTalk.
Tangentially inspirational, but mostly useless in modern practice.

Deleuze's postscript... "metastable states coexisting in one and the same, like a universal system of deformation."

That's your counter-argument?
Courses would benefit from "quick-reference guides like the end of Dror Bar Natan's paper on Khovanov homology http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0201043 He says "It can fit inside your wallet."

See: http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/Talks/HUJI-011104/cube.gi...
And matrix mult ~= function composition. I had a long ahaa moment reading this.
Here's the short version. Sell. Sell it all. As soon as you are legally allowed to, sell. Sell all of it. Taxes and maxes blah blah blah just sell it, take the cash, and be thankful.
I don't know whether Intel the corporation has said anything, but the responsible hardware engineer has personally stated there is no backdoor. http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septe...

If I had an application where it mattered, I would pick RDRAND over a software system that was not reviewed, built, verified, and continuously monitored by someone I trust. It's implausible that RDRAND on my hardware is implemented differently from the hundreds of thousands of other copies of the core, or differently from the way it was yesterday. I have no such confidence in /dev/random. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with FreeBSD's RNG;
it only means that it's harder to be sure I'm actually using it.
World's highest quantum efficiency UV photodetectors developed
I had the same reaction.

So they did some calculations on a black hole with and without gravity and their calculations match and now the entire universe is a hologram?
> 2. To ensure that anyone who builds and releases it always uses the exact same version of Go.

Please don't do this! It's attempting to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

As I mentioned above, Go does not have compatibility issues with different version of the compiler. This is a huge strength of Go, and spreading the idea that using the same version of Go is somehow beneficial creates misunderstanding for new developers.

I challenge anyone to find an example of Go 1.x code in which using the most recent version of the compiler will build an incorrect binary. Seriously, if you find one, please let me (or better yet, the Go mailing list) know, because the Go team has made a dedicated effort to make sure that this doesn't happen. (Such cases exist, but I am fairly certain without even looking that this program doesn't run into any, whereas it's clear (below) that the Makefile for this project doesn't handle cases that the standard build tools do.)

I didn't understand this when I started using Go over a year ago - at the time, I also used Makefiles over Go's built-in build tools, and did a number of other non-idiomatic things surrounding the build process. More experienced Go programmers told me I was wrong, and I didn't listen at first. In the end, I finally realized that they were right: it added complexity for literally zero value. Please don't make the same mistakes that I did.
It would be nice to see some follow up on the items "Need to run this test longer..." or "It's too early to tell..." items. You have a LOT of those, and for a growth hack to be valuable, you need to see some results.

Since you post the hack without the results, it's harder for people to learn from your actions here. Can you do some updates for the earlier rounds?
Probably not. But that's not what I was arguing. Right?

For every example we care to provide there's probably a deviant group more than willing to discriminate against that population and even want to kill them. I think the history of genocides more than proves that point.

Please don't be offended. Jews don't really have a monopoly on being hated or being murdered en-masse. Many argue --quite convincingly-- that the Jewish genocide was modeled after the Armenian genocide of 1914/15 (the Nazi's copied some of the methods the Turks used on their Armenian population).

In the US, at least, in non-deviant circles, I believe you can be a person and not someone "born into an <X> family". In that context whatever you push in front of people as what defines you is up to you. Believe it or not, as an atheist I have a number of good friends who are Born Again Christians. Every single one of them is a great person. Each one of them chooses to define themselves by their religion differently. One in particular will smash you in the face with it every chance he gets. Not surprisingly he has suffered greatly with employment because, well, this isn't something you wear on your forehead and pester people with at work. The other guys are just guys who happen to privately be BAC's. He is a militant BAC. Choice.
Apparently I've triggered some deep seated angst... Let me try to clarify what I meant, and maybe you'll feel better?

This post didn't present any new 'facts' for me. I was already aware of all the details he explained (and most, but not all, of the implications of those details). My point was simply that by framing shares as currency presented them in a way that I had never considered before, and that comparison caused a number of other things to 'click.'

My apologies if my learning offended you...
I see what you are saying, but I don't agree.

For the majority of the poor (and everyone else) who want to work and move up in life, don't put up any barriers to action and economic activity.

For the tiny minority who don't want to work and move up in life (usually, because they don't really care that much), who cares? Don't sacrifice the virtuous and capable majority for their sake.

You may say, "What about a country like India or (less extreme Eastern Europe), where the poor genuinely can't move up?" Well, the only way to change that is to free up the economy and let people pursue sustainable economic action. If you put up barriers to economic activity, the people who want to move up will never be able to; they will be permanently poor.

For example, ith an expanding economy, you can eventually make it so a person making $10/hour is able to live nicely, as productivity rises and prices fall.

But if you instead put minimum wage at $20/hour, people who only actually produce $10/hour of value won't have jobs, and the economy won't be able to expand to the point where if they had a $10/hour job, they could live decently on it.

Minimum wage and other regulations are why America no longer manufactures. We could be making all the things now made in China, with a commensurate decrease in expenses. Our factory workers wouldn't be rich, but they'd be able to afford the kinds of things they themselves make in the factories. Meanwhile, China would also be doing fine, it just would have grown at a more measured and sustainable pace, which isn't a bad thing.
Wait, I don't understand.

So there's the "flatland" where strings "live" and interact without gravity, and when these strings interact in this flatland the side-effects of those interactions are the 10-dimensional space we observe?
Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated
This post is a rant backed up with only anecdotal evidence and an enraged author with a penchant for catchy headlines.

No solutions are offered because no problem is properly presented.
"Hologram" in the sense of "it looks like it has a different number of dimensions than it does", not in the sense of "rendering of something that isn't real".
You didn't mention the difference between nonqualified (NQSO) and incentive (ISO) stock options. The difference is key.
I fond our cities profoundly ugly, but cars serve an essential service. I need a flexible, quick means of secure transport. I need to move a variable number of people from 1-4. I often need to bring tens of kilograms of stuff with me. What else can fill the bill around a large metro area (~3 million people)?

I would love an alternative, to live in beautiful cities, to walk around the way I can overseas.
I swear I've read this somewhere else before..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
I guess it reduces the risk of offload some of the ownership of the company to someone that could leave the next day.
I never claimed they'd get rid of the ability to change the Gatekeeper settings. Merely that they'd switch the default again. Just like before when it went from unsigned being permitted to unsigned not being permitted. Sure, there's an option to change it. But, as it is now, the vast majority of users will never do it. So, yes, you'll have the option to change it as you can now. But with it off by default, it becomes onerous to distribute an app for Mac but not via the app store. Which is as Apple wants it. With all the apps in the Mac app store, Apple can collect their 30% and exclude competition to their own properties like they do on iOS.

FCPX and it's still less-than-previous-version-abilities and the abandonment of the Power Mac for so long are perfect examples of 'power users' being de-emphasized across Apple. Power users and media professionals were a much larger part of Apple's business in the past. They're an extremely tiny part of their business today and, as evidenced by Apple's own decisions and behavior, worth paying a little bit of attention to eventually, but not much.

The main reason for Apple to continue to build laptops and desktops is in service to their iOS and media businesses. Folks still need tools to build apps and put together media.

And as for open source projects having their code signed, LibreOffice, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, my own PortableApps.com, etc would politely disagree with you. Being open source doesn't preclude paying to sign or having a business model. But the app store's onerous licensing agreement does preclude some of my apps from ever being able to be offered.
Cap table isn't the same thing as salary. It's the (future, in case of options) ownership of the company.

Cap table transparency would go a long way in making VC-istan honest because the equities in salary tend to be small while those in equity are massive. If engineers in a typical VC-istan startup found out that the non-tech VPs and "product people" working 10-to-4 were making $140k while they make $110k, nothing would happen. That's not enough of a difference to set most people off. If they found out that those people had 1% while they had 0.05%, it'd be epic. (That's why VC-istan hides cap tables. It doesn't want to have to admit that engineers are commodities to it.)
Fair enough, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that pointers are going away. Sure, for higher level stuff I don't want to mess with manual memory management, but what about the massive mountain of software that all of these high level programs rely upon?

We are always going to need this stuff for certain tasks. For example, I'd love to see a simply 3x3 filter operation on an image without using indices. I am also a bit biased; I'm a systems programmer, I don't write UI's and web apps. I tend to work more in the trenches, where abstraction gets in your way almost as often as it helps you get things done more quickly.
You're right. Authors should price their works according to how sobby the sobbiest sob story is per consumer. At least with my approach they would get the book plus bonus material.
Not currently. But we're eager to learn more about your use case to see if we can figure something out! Care to email team@heapanalytics.com?