skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..

Care to provide details?
Not just Perl. This is basically inetd re-invented.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd
It doesn't put your data on everyone's computer. The data goes onto the computers that are sharing the folder. If you have two computers, the data is on two computers.
Hm... Do you mean to allow the merger to specify the value of the commit? E. g. by default it could be 1%, but merger can make it smaller if commit is not very valuable. Sounds like a good idea, thanks!
I've been using AeroFS for awhile on Linux(Mint & Debian).
I have to say it's pretty nice. I don't actually know what makes it better than dropbox and all the other choices; never looked into any advanced features. A buddy just sent me an invite & I started using it and now it's part of my workflow since it works reliably between my work & home machine.
How a cybersecurity expert protects his smartphone
The hope is that we can make this work for content sites case-by-case with the enterprise tier.

Agreed that this is still not ideal for medium-sized content sites, though a lot better than the old pricing model, which charged by the user (as opposed to the visit) and thus was a total nonstarter for them. We usually don't suggest sampling, because we do think there's value in using Heap for analysis at the top of the funnel.
Ask HN: Swag delivered to your door?
Hi HN,

Would anyone here be interested in a service that delivers swag (promotional items) straight to your company, on a monthly basis. For example, one month you may get shirts with your logo on it. The next you may get pens, then towels, mugs, etc. Lets say you had to pay $20/month to do so for the smallest possible quantity (5 shirts, 50 pens, 10 towels, 10 mugs, etc)

Thanks!
I like Atlanta. I lived there for 7-8 years. People in Atlanta drive because the urban planning is a disaster. It's a place where you can live in the city proper right next to retail and still have to trek across a giant parking lot in order to go to the store. The giant parking lots everywhere in the city utterly destroy the street life. As the article notes, Atlantic Station is actually much better in that regard. Because the parking lot is underground, you can actually walk around window shopping and pretend it's not there.

The article absolutely hits the nail on the head with the point about parking lots. When my wife and I go to Philadelphia, we'll walk several miles from the federal plaza to U Penn campus, window shopping, having lunch, etc. When we go to the mall in Newark, DE, we'll drive from the Costco to the Panera because we literally can't figure out how to cross the road on foot.

The cities built in the 1960's need to be razed and redeveloped with Westchester, NY as a model. There's nothing wrong with having suburbs where you can have a back yard, etc, but structure those suburbs like small towns with retail of their own and rail service into the core city. Actually let people live right next to the rail and retail, instead of surrounding it all with enormous, pedestrian unfriendly parking lots.
Ha! Interestingly, I just sent you guys a long mail about your pricing.

I think per unique visitor is relatively easier than per visit because an additional visit does not even tie to additional value.

The fact that you capture a lot of data from so many people (which costs you) does not mean that it brings value to me.

It is also important to remember that you are not prison in isolation but in comparison to your competitors. In your case, it is KISSmetrics and Mixpanel.

It is not something you can get perfect at one go. It has to keep evolving. You have a great product.
I'm not sure Julia is the most appropriate for this application. It's nominally general-purpose, sure, and you can run a web server from it, but you can do that with any language with a socket library and strings.

Would you make a website with MATLAB?
How about watching a re-run of the X-files? Apart from the little green men and the reoccurring monster, it seems rather tame in this day and age.

Secret courts, secret prisons, bit of wiretapping, all part of everyday life.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
Couldn't you say the same thing about any unit of measure? "Less miles" (Queue LSU Football joke.)
The police used to be brave. Now they are mostly cowards.
Teaching someone to learn should damn well include exposure to a lot of different things to help them see the use of learning. It should include a "sandbox" wherein they can learn skills without consequences of simple mistakes and other learning related "failure" instilling a fear of living life.

It should include a bunch of basic skills as well - because seriously, I'd rather be taught "here's the common, most successful way of doing X" rather than having to go out and discover it on my own for thousands of random skills. Does that mean one day I may have to give up my notion of "checkbook register" that is comfortable and I've known forever in favor of "proper double entry book keeping" - absolutely, and you know what, I'll take a class on that too. But in the mean time, I won't be figuring out how to track my dollars on my own, and in the future I won't rediscover double entry for myself. Why?

I'm too busy focusing on software stuff in depth. That's where I'm focusing my "learn for myself" talents and limited time.
The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It
>It's working for whom? Presumably these laws require a little bit less privacy for a more secure country.

The fisa court is an example of laws working in our favor. Before the fisa court, the executive could basically do what it wanted wrt "terrorist/spy" suspects. It's only after Congress intervened that we got something that tries to strike a balance between the need to investigate sensitive subjects and the need to have somebody check executive privelege.

>I didn't see Boston bombings avoided.
A patient at a hospital goes in for surgery and dies on the operating table. Is medicine useless?

You have absolutely no way of measuring how much security a set of laws has given us, short of going back in time and replaying the same universe without the laws. And even then, these events are so dependent on singular events that it's hard to say what would work.

A related argument is how only X people died in Boston, while 100X people died in car crashes in the past week. Except that the Boston bombings are a singular event, and it only takes one/two arrests to stop X people from dying. 100X car deaths is probably 50X different accidents, each due to varying causes. Of course we'll want to go after the "small big wins". It seems easier to tackle.

If you think that, as a society, we can stop a somewhat constant N bad things from happening, then it's only normal for us to run after the biggest bad things and try to stop that, even if there's X tiny problems, with X much larger than N, that are easier to deal with.
Hate to share the link again (mentioned above) and seem spammish, but this seems like Avia's primary use case.
Don't know his, but I've got the best one 127.123.234.345!
mhoye points to the notes from the FreeBSD summit on his Twitter feed. The notes from the security sessions are here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/201309DevSummit/Security

Key quote: "rdrand in ivbridge not implemented by Intel."
I humbly suggest that you back AIRTAME on IndieGoGo[0] - the tagline is, "Wireless HDMI for everyone". It allows you to mirror a computer screen, or use it as a second desktop. $89 to back, plus $15 for shipping if you live outside of Denmark. The project is fully funded, so although there are no guarantees given the crowdfunding model, this is a reasonable horse to back.

EDIT: Just want to add that I am not affiliated with this project. I have backed them, so I suppose I have an interest in it being very successful to make it more likely that I will receive a product.

[0]: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-...
A lot of the best known success cases did get lucky. For example, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, but Microsoft was a tiny, obscure company (they wrote BASIC compilers and such) until they got the contract to supply the operating system for IBM's PC. This happened, in part, due to the missteps of their competitors (like Digital Research). IBM's ineptitude also helped make Microsoft successful: IBM let Microsoft keep the rights to the software because they couldn't imagine how valuable it could be; they were still in the mainframe mindset where the software was ancillary to the huge, expensive hardware. Also, Microsoft didn't write MSDOS themselves; they bought an OS called QDOS from some other company for $50K (who also didn't know what it was really worth). So, yes, Gates got very, very lucky.

The vast majority of new businesses fail, even the ones that get VC funding (VCs have about a 10% success rate; a handful of big successes pay for all the failures). So your most probable startup outcome is failure, in which case you'll need to make a living by working for somebody else. A lack of a college degree or a poor GPA would make that path much harder.
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355063
Cars Kill Cities
Are Bitcoins the New Pogs? (No, really)
I need to get out my atlas, I coulda swore Kansas City was not on the coast.
On iOS, even AeroFS kind of sucks, due to some horrible decisions Apple made. Basically every app has to adopt every storage provider's API, and right now, only Dropbox and maybe Box have any takeup. (and iCloud, of course, but iCloud sucks a lot, isn't self-hostable or even enterprise hostable, and is horrible.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_vector_spaces
In my experience, even the most rural farmland of Germany is more walkable than most American suburbs. Houses are quite far apart, but there's still decent bus service, and you can walk into town in maybe 20 minutes without crossing a highway.

Most suburbs are just bad design through and through. They're not really optimal at achieving their goals, and they have countless terrible side effects.
I like thinking about shares as a virtual currency.
Shareholders are speculating on that currency, and
the company is trying to increase its value. Companies
can inflate or deflate this currency depending on
their performance, perceived potential or by issuing
new shares.

I consider myself a fairly smart person, who had a reasonable grasp on the basics of financial markets, currencies, etc. That simple paragraph just triggered a huge light bulb moment for me. It's suddenly a lot easier to reason about stocks, etc, than it was 5 minutes ago...
I can chown them, but isn't that bad in general? If something breaks out from the browser, it can overwrite the binary with malicious code or whatever. Is it a real concern? Regular Linux packages aren't accessible for writing for the ordniary user offering some security barrier.
Police does not listen to federal or state officials. Each city has it's own police comprised usually of it's own residents. I doubt they will all side with the corrupt officials.
I can see why the story about Atlanta was contrived to run in the winter. I spent some time in the South in my youth and you'd have to be ... overly acclimatized to intentionally set foot outside air conditioning from June to September or so. Its not just sauna-like, it fits the temp and humidity of a sauna exactly. So you're going to need to own a car with AC, and you're going to pay the extensive monthly bills if you use it or not, so may as well use it. I never really did anything outside in the south intentionally all summer long. I went out a couple times at night when it got down to the upper 70s as a low, sometimes, but the mosquitos were the size of hummingbirds. Aside from the summer weather its beautiful land and nice people.
Yes, that would be a great place to find more like this. CoffeeScript has added support for literate programming, so that might be a good place to go for modern, web-oriented code samples.
”Atlanta, like all cities, used to be walkable and people actually lived IN the city instead of commuting 50 miles every day.“

This article highlights the parts of the city which are 100% dedicated to parking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6883589

tl;dr: Cars take up too much space, inflating a city artificially.
So they can build tools that test for those vulnerabilities, or detect attempts to exploit them and block them on the network.
Think of Windows. You and I both know that not all machines running windows are up-to-date with their security patches. Reverse engineering a patch for a 0-day exploit could give an attacker an idea on how to compromise un-patched machines. With all the un-patched windows xp machines in the world, you could probably build your own bot net if you're smart enough :)
This is very helpful, thanks. I was very surprised when I first learned that AMT will cause you to owe tax on your gains when exercising options, even if they are only on paper. (If the company is public or there is a private market, fine, but it is incredibly inconvenient to be taxed on something for which there is currently no market). This is an area where it can really pay to plan ahead.
In Midtown, I walk to Publix (I don't Marta to the grocery and avoid it at after the 7pm switch.

The most likely people to use Marta for groceries are the poor (and assumably carless) particularly from the South of the city (West End). And, I feel like my Publix is the only one located on the line.

I'd add that I ride Marta to get to Lenox, Buckhead, and Braves/Falcons games most often. Friends that live near stations and ride Marta also ride to GT.
I'm fine with both, as long as both parties are bearing the costs of their chosen option.
There is downvoting for comments. You just cannot see it without high enough karma.

Regarding Satoshi being always worth something - yes, in theory that should be the case. Unless some huge changes take place. Major exchanges disappearing, issues with the protocol, introduction of blacklists, lots of other things we cannot predict at the moment. It doesn't even have to be a penny - if it was headed too quickly towards that line, I would expect everyone to panic because they could never recover the theoretical amount in local currency.
People Didn't Trust the Internet Before There Even Was One
Because they're fucking awesome. War movies, that is. Sure, I'm probably playing into some sort of social conditioning, but it doesn't change that I enjoyed watching John Wayne movies growing up.
how would these women feel about paying men a little more to enter their fields?
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
Another solution would be for these services to use something with a greater work factor than MD5. When a typical user can brute force MD5s at a rate of 8.5 billion per second with AMD HD7970 graphics card then it's time to use a different hashing algorithm. Something like scrypt or bcrypt with a larger work factor would make these attacks much harder and more expensive, while leaving the fundamentals of the system the same.

http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/
https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
So you're lying right now? :)
I don't buy it. Cul-de-sacs experience less crime, fewer traffic accidents and are very conducive to taking safe leisurely walks. The problem is that some neighborhoods don't provide efficient pathways for practical pedestrian traffic between major destinations, which isn't caused by cul-de-sacs, but poor planning. Communities that provide pathways between cul-de-sacs away from traffic that connect such points have the best of both worlds. I envy them, because I live in a cul-de-sac that is about a mile from our schools as the crow flies, but the only available route adds 2 miles, driving or walking.
`ups` and `downs` are whole numbers, so `abs(s)` will usually be >= 1, like 2654 or something. The log is there to reduce the influence of additional votes after a certain level of popularity. See footnote ^2: http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-e...
> but the protocol can be changed to have more significant digits

As I wrote: "... unless the protocol is updated.". There are still reserved bits available. But then everyone would have to update their software. And if we're talking about a global, usable currency, that means updating millions of hardware devices to support it.
Particularly the reddit dev comments here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1si31j/reddits_...
>Your post started by excluding trafficked workers!

Yes, to focus on people with choices, because it's obvious that trafficked workers are bad in any type of work.

>You can't come back comparing trafficked workers to non-trafficked workers and say that the rest are voluntary.

I can and do claim that a large amount of non-trafficked workers are voluntary. Sure, not 100%, but I never argued 100%.

>There are criminal gangs that specialise in coercing girls into providing sexual services, and who take money from punters for those services. See recent UK cases about child grooming gangs.

That's certainly a bad thing, but it's unrelated to a discussion of typical work, which involves consent-capable adults.

>That's coercion, not trafficking.

Well great, if that's accurate then it makes my point even better: <4.5M trafficked, <4.5M coerced, 35M voluntary.

> I have no idea what definition they're using for coercion, or trafficking, or even prostitution.

Well I didn't link the blog for its own text, but for having the sources in a convenient form. It cites 21 million trafficked, your link says 30 million slaves, either number works fine.

>Can a 14 year old be a prostitute, or is that always rape of a child?

I would say that it can be both, but the answer doesn't matter when you're comparing 5 million to 40 million.

>Here's a better article

These articles are informative but I'm afraid I don't see the connection to my argument, which is that there are a large number of non-slave non-coerced sex workers, whether they particularly like their job or not.
So was tinco.
Can you provide your reasoning for saying this is the "normal" point of view?

A cursory search tells me nothing of much use.

Apropos of nothing, I found a Pew poll[0] that says... 21% of atheists believe in a god? Huh?

[0] - http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape... ("Conception of God")
Final 36 hours for ECPA reform petition
BitTitan is having an Open House & Coding Challenge 12/12/13 in Seattle. Win cool prizes and have fun - we're hiring too! Details & registration here: http://bit.ly/1gTmLxb
See the other posts. Someone had a good one "Treat options like confetti".

I own a few options in companies I was at. One went under and the other did a "tech deal" and then divested it's assets. Both cases my options are worth about $0 :)
No, it's the price that the slave animals pay for us.

I am not a vegan nor vegitarian, however I personally think we as species passed the border of decency long time ago with this.

I do eat less meat nowadays and certainly none from supermarkets and other cheap sources.
This is what bothers me about most of America's large tech companies' recent opposition to various NSA programs. They pioneered many of the techniques (albeit independently...usually) yet now point their fingers at the government.
I likely wouldn't be a developer today if not for elementary school.

I thought Logo was dumb and could never get into it, but one day after school in grade 6 I saw my friend had used Logo to open a command prompt on a school computer. He had gone into QBASIC and made a rocket ship fly using just print commands.

I was hooked instantly. I spent most of my non-school waking hours for the next few months coding in BASIC, entering programs from books I found buried in the library, and pouring through the help system to learn how to do new things.

Programming then really taught me to dig deep and figure things out on my own using resources available to me, and gave me a source of pride and confidence that I didn't get from other avenues. Eventually earning a great sense of accomplishment as I'd teach friends how to use various game engines that I'd develop at home.

Without that first experience in elementary school -- ultimately enabled through a feature of Logo -- I'd never have begun that journey.
History indicates to me that they're one and the same and will work together for the common goal of fleecing the masses.
I wrote the post, you make an excellent point that it's good to have experience in order to gain confidence. I do believe we need to address the current holes in our education system before we start adding new course work, and that we need to work hard to help students to learn to overcome challenges and to have the confidence to attack all kinds of problems.

Programming is only one skill that people are afraid to learn, there are thousands of others and we can't have elementary school classes for them all.
Andersonville in Chicago is wonderful. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Andersonville,+Chicago,+IL&hl...

That's just blocks away from this:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Andersonville,+Chicago,+IL&hl...
The technical requirement of the rule is that the stock is (a) subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, and (b) not transferable. Some stock option plans have an early exercise provision, which, if used, has the effect of converting the option to stock, but subject to restrictions that meet the requirements of Sec. 83(b). Stock options that are subject to an early exercise provision would no longer qualify for ISO treatment.
Or maybe Reddit do have something like A/B testing for ranking algorithms, but every other algorithm they tried was found less successful?
KryptoKit lets you pay in Bitcoin instantly on almost any webpage
tl;dr

Connectivity counts: More intersections mean more walking, and more disconnected cul-de-sacs mean more driving. People who live in neighborhoods with latticeworklike streets actually drive 26 percent fewer miles than people in the cul-de-sac forest.
If you were going to do it from a pure accounting perspective, you'd take the expected value of the options + salary and compare directly. You should probably also figure in high value benefits like 401(k) match.

The problem there is, the expected value is more or less the current market value of the options (if you believe in anything approaching an efficient market), which is more or less the strike price times the number of shares. So, often these are in the neighborhood of $10k over 4 years or $2500/yr.

In other words, don't try to talk yourself into it from an accounting perspective.
Really interesting take on software engineering, good read.
If you like dystopian near-future scifi, try the Deus Ex series. Though FPS in basic concept, they do not need to be played in pure twitching mode, and you should have no trouble identifying with the protagonist.
Less energy, fewer calories. My understanding is that it's not continuousness or discreteness that determines whether "less" or "fewer" is appropriate, but whether the noun the word describes is a "count" noun or a "mass" noun. Mass nouns are just nouns you can't pluralize, but can refer to a multitude of something (you can't own "furnitures"), and count nouns are nouns that only refer to a multitude of things when plural.
My memory of Alice was that it was more of an excuse for them to show off interesting visuals and didn't actually have much in the way of game play mechanics to it, but I never got very far. Maybe I should look it up again and see.
Holy animated gif batman! Maybe link to a video instead?
> Poor treatment of prisoners of war

They are not prisoners of war. Treatment of POWs is covered by all sorts of international treaties. Guess what? Waterboarding is not exactly sanctioned by any of those.

Nope, our government has defined them as "unlawful enemy combatants," whatever the fuck those are. Basically, it means that we can hold them without trial until the "Global War on Terror" is over. I will ask again, how are these not political prisoners?