skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried using online IDEs and came across two big pain points:

- required connectivity is a pain that manifests itself in lots of different ways from being useless when disconnected if you need to compile etc to just being plain slow when you expand folders and it has to fetch that data

- resource restrictions limit you to pretty small projects or ones with light or no compilation

Plusses are:

- not having to install mountains of shit and keep track of versions and accumulate all that junk on our computers

- browser tab feels quite natural alongside documentation and stuff

- isolating one project's requirements from others including freezing dependencies

- easily turning off a project and all its dependencies

For now I'm using headless virtual machines in VirtualBox running the Cloud9 IDE : https://c9.io/. I'm doing this for Haxe/OpenFL mobile development and NodeJS projects.
The Easiest Data Analysis Mistake to Make
Fedora ships a whole bunch of different spins, including desktop flavors.

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
There are companies that provide hosting services for Exchange, so there is no need for a local installation.
San Francisco Techie Says "Lower Part of Society" Should Be Segregated
Please watch this 15min TEDx Video by Sean Caroll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y350oOiunf4
This article curiously fails to mention Linux VServer http://linux-vserver.org/ which has done this since 2003 and unlike Virtuozzo has always been completely open source. We've used it with great success in a hosting product.
>it is the reason for your traffic to begin with

No, people searching for "photo quilts" are the reason for the traffic. Most of those people happen to be using Google, but if Google disappeared, they would switch to another search engine. The site owner has a legitimate interest in Google doing its job better, and so do we as Google users. The point of this post is that Google isn't serving anyone's interests properly here (except, perhaps, its own). As a Google user, I want to know that.
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Now all we need are The Beatles.
Next time you get a package from UPS just don't answer the door.

1) Call/Email UPS and request a commercial invoice and the depot the parcel is being held at. If it's not being held at a depot tell them you want to self-clear and for them to hold it. You may have to argue with them for a while to convince them this is a possibility.

2) Go to a CBSA office with the original receipt, commercial invoice and depot location, and pay taxes to get your B15 form. You shouldn't pay taxes on shipping.

3) Call UPS and ask them where you can send the B15 form.

4) Send them the B15 form with your tracking number on it and ask them to release your package.
You're talking out of your ass and it's really infuriating to hear people disregard real, tangible problems you are facing.

Google makes software, and no software is perfect. I've been bitten by shitty google services before. My most recent sting was Google Webmaster Tools not showing any Googlebot crawls to me website. My website is very niche and literally 1 of 4 competitors in the same arena.

5 month. 5 MONTHS. and google has yet to crawl my website, even though google analytics shows me stats day in day out.

Why? Google breaks sometimes, and it's incredibly crappy that you can't even reach out to someone to ask what's up.
- Well Done. I like this
Google just plain hates exact match now in my experience. You have to build up solid reputation to get out of the exact match sort of penalty. I think they think exact match is generally spammy and elevates the spam filter. Some other factors in an algo update probably got more weight that the site was affected by and pushed the site over the edge. I tend not to change anything right away when this happens. Wait a bit and see if it corrects. Then make small iterative SEO changes and throw some youtube videos on your site that you produced. Another good strategy, and I've seen a bunch, is to change the domain name. Only do that in last resort. Watch how often googlebot accesses your site and try to increase frequency too.
this is crazy, i'm getting pinged every 5 seconds as a Zynga employee :)
So apparently founder liquidity is something investors do with hyper growth companies to prevent them from selling too early. It is suppose to take the risk out away from the founders and align their incentives towards the higher expected return IPO/gigantic acquisition outcome.
In one sense you are correct that Google is "free" because one does not pay cash directly to Google to be listed in its results or to preform a search.

But in another sense, Google is not free at all. The fact is, Google lives and thrives off of the data generated by the public. Yes, Google employees smart people. But its real value is derived from the underlying public data that Google gets- for free.

Google search works because the world allows Google's bots to traverse their websites freely and index their content. Google translate works because the EU and other governments translated their documents into many languages and then gave them away to the world. Google Maps works because of GIS information gathered on the public's dime. Gmail is able to operate because users allow it to mine their personal messages to better tailor advertisements.

Google is built on top of and depends on the public- both to be its customers and to be the source of its products. It has taken the market in search, email, browser, and mobile. And, for the most part, it has created some great tools for people to use. But there is a minority of people whose lives are affected by Google for the worse. Its important not to marginalize these people.

This is a non-democratically elected institution whose policies and actions have more effect on people's lives than the governments of many nations. Those policies and actions ought to be looked upon critically by the people.
The Dangers of Hype in Biosecurity
> Eric Schmidt said he was sorry but he couldn’t help.

> Now I’m angry.

I would be more angry if Eric Schmid had helped. Because not everyone whose website gets de-indexed knows someone who knows a buddy of Eric Schmidt.

So at least it stays equally shit for everyone and there's no two-tier society of website owners divided by Silicon Valley real life contacts.
The Birth of Unix Standard Error
Much better put than just saying 'diminishing returns'
Make it behave like an idiomatic web site:

- I already have a window manager, it doesn't need a window manager.

- Middle click to open in new tab has somehow been broken.

- It sometimes logs itself out (fine, security is good), but when I log back in it has forgotten what I was looking at.

- When I scroll down the page, some elements at the top of the page do not scroll, reducing utilization of my screen.

- Parts of the email sending form appear and disappear, counter-intuitively. For example, I often need to set what email address I am sending as, and the way to make this box appear isn't obvious.

- There's something about it that feels heavy, like everything I ask it to do is some titanic social-media eruption. It's a web page with a table and some other text, not war and peace, guys.
for example, in a test case scientists have gone from flu sequence to midscale production (i.e. enough for first responders) of flu vaccine within something like 4 days. The backstory is great - the lead researcher arranged for FedEx to pick up the finished DNA sequences at his home at midnight (I don't remember why it couldn't be picked up at the lab but there was a reason) and he was worried that his neighbors would think that he was a drug dealer.. This means one could go to large scale production (enough for a population) within weeks to months.

Unlike the seasonal flu shot, this vaccine is tailored to the emergent strain.
The reason is that J-1s are very easy to obtain if you have a willing sponsor. There are companies that are setup to grant J-1s as a business.

You can easily do everything without a lawyer too. I paid for my initial 4 month work-travel visa for ~$400 USD.

H1B is a whole other story...
Very clever. It's Amazon-style checkout for any retail site.
Dude, that site is riddled with out-dated and now black-hat seo tricks. It was just asking to be blacklisted.

Get that cheater off my SERPs, I wanna go with the honest portrait quilt providers.
I'll install it on an external hard drive and have a play. Thanks.
I agree that it could be due to limited lunar exploration.
Having said that, my concern or thoughts is that, why we limited our exploration mission to moon? I have been looking for answers for a long time.
Which could be made to work until someone wants to run an alternative OS (ie, not Linux) or use features that are only available in newer kernel versions. Or until someone realizes that a shared kernel with a security policy is a larger attack surface than a tiny hypervisor with no concept of sharing.
"This is how she makes her living, selling on the web and through photo stores."

"She founded PC Data, the largest PC market research firm, now part of the NPD Group."

She founded the largest PC market research firm and now she has to make a living making quilts? How did that happen? Wouldn't the bigger story be how she lost all her money (which I'm assuming) running a PC market research firm?
Database support has always been an Ultimate Edition only feature. However, nothing prevents someone from building their own plugin. For example, there's a third party one for MySQL that's fairly popular.
Many people already give up enough information (by carrying a smartphone) to allow for a simulated world, where their avatar's actions match their real world actions in realtime: phone calls, transactions, inventory, location, physical condition inferred from always-on sensors, connected databases, and natural language processing.

Then a controller could issue useful queries for parallel construction, like "select all avatars who have X in their inventory and who are currently driving in location Y", or how about a bar sting: "select all avatars who purchased more than X drinks at location Y and are driving, but are more than Z distance from their likely destination". Are we to presume that this is not being done? How will society react to the idea of such deep reaching surveillance?
This is the greatest music news I've heard in a while. I'm currently doing spotify's 2 month free trial and the only con I've come across was not having Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and some other artists. Hopefully this could possibly be a catalyst for other artists to come to spotify.
I get a 404, and the cached version [1] doesn’t have images.

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Yes. I just searched this comment thread for "Taleb" and am distressed to find the first reference this far down. The Black Swan especially is amazing; I just read it (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/life-the-readers-ed...) and now can't stop recommending it. Though it seems like the sort of book whose central idea can be understood through reviews, it is full of subtle and unexpected comments. Altman wrote this:

But maybe there are some tail risks we should really worry about.

and indeed that's what much of Taleb's body of work is about. I am partway through Antifragile and do not find it as compelling as The Black Swan, however.
> Did she not actually update the content for the last 5 years (including Copyright notice) so it doesn't appear to be a dead site.

That's a function of inaction however.

Moral: don't base your income on something as volatile as your Google ranking
Seriously?

While I don't think the name is great, who cares.
I did a small test on iOS with the RC2 and the widgets were shown, although the theme was similar to some Linux distro rather than iOS native.
Would it be fair to assume that you keep JavaScript disabled in your browser?
But since history does not necessarily flow in one direction, today you need a hypervisor (or experiment with CRIU) to do live migration.
Do iOS guidelines allow dynamic linking?
Thank you josefresco!
Many large cities have their data available on the internet. I used this http://web6.seattle.gov/mnm/statistics.aspx?tabId=3 when looking for a place to move in Seattle.
What do you suppose is displayed when there are no spot instances available, because all resources are being used for on demand instances or there's some problem with the spot market system?
If you can't find it in GMail, then how on Earth do you find things by Googling them?

Ten minutes spent learning how operators works will save you hours of time. Google was right when they said 'archive everything' and that folders were a terrible idea.
I am one of those people. The worst part of eating out at restaurants is finding out at the last moment that they put cilantro on everything, making it inedible. It might as well be called tryratpoison.com.

The site is not as unpleasant as cilantro so I will overlook it for now.
that's ridiculous.
Sadly is hard to say anything without any value on axis. Difference between mean and 99% is 5s or 20ms?
As someone said here, threshold for "slow loading" should be used before picking metric for measuring it.
Pick graphic one and draw a line where users whine about slow loading, check how many are under and above. If the number of users below threshold value is "greater" then above threshold you shouldn't be so worried. How much greater can be picked from standard error from threshold measure from users.
> "There's a long un-known, part of the population..."

Shouldn't matter much if they are unknown, right? :)
The H3 visa is a visa granted to "temporary trainees" for a government approved trainee program. You are expected to return back to your home country after it is finished and the program can be no more than 2 years. However you can parlay this into an H1B.

An L visa also works if the company has an office in the country you are from.
Yeah, it seems pretty pathetic to get upset that you can't get preferential treatment through personal connections.
Let's say I own a single store and it happens to be in a space in a mall. Also, the mall is letting me do business there for free. I get exposure, electricity, easy access, all kinds of good stuff, for free. (The mall is Google)

Suddenly the mall wants to extort me by charging me money to use their space, electricity, water, etc. Those jerks!
I wonder if this is the result of Google trying to deduplicate results that both show up organically and in Adwords.
Yes, there is a serious conflict of interest at the heart of Google's business - they are in the business of selling links to advertisers, and of curating links for readers.
More or less, yes. The founders sell some of their stake for cash so that they are left free to focus on the company rather than worrying if they are going to make rent.
I'm from India and it pisses me off a bit as well, but you've got to admit there are people all over the world who're stuck in the past, where they're from etc. and on the other hand, ones who'd rather worry about where they're headed :)
Ook.
And this perfectly highlights the problem with having the two tiered economy we have now. Just because you are rich doesn't mean you get to get rid of people you don't like from public spaces. If you don't like how they smell or act, give them a place to live and bathe, and educate them. Give them the ability to work toward an income. This guy makes me sick. He is exactly what is wrong with this current situation. He thinks he is better than other people. He thinks he is entitled to more.
The percentage of traffic provided by google is largely outwith the control of websites - the users of the search engine decide how much traffic they send through google.
Did they always? I remember it usually being as simple as installing the RPMs, and running the switchdesk utility. I always had to do that (or generally something more involved because of my choice) to run FVWM2.
ADB monkey is a testing tool which randomly mashes on interface elements.

Sensor manager also includes a constant for the gravity of the first death star

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sens...
It's unclear from the post whether or not it's anonymous. I'd be more comfortable asking (and answering!) if I knew it was anon. Otherwise, it might be awkward, especially at a smaller company.
James, you are correct but I think JunkDNA's point is still being made effectively. In fact this was likely an intentional statement meant to illustrate the difficulty involved in intentionally creating a thing--if an error could be easily introduced in a handful of words, how likely is it that a malicious DNA creator will get their supervirus working exactly right?
| But that's the price we pay for you to be able to send a letter from anywhere, to anywhere.

Except now, it's not anywhere, it's somewhat adjacent to anywhere.
the difficulty rises with time
Graphics and HPC are mostly floating point but SHA and scrypt are all integer, so it's kind of an accident that any GPU does well on them. AMD GPUs have a a rotate instruction that's worth a lot in SHA and tend to have better integer performance in general.
Australia Post has had 3 consecutive years of growth with a group profit of $312 million after tax last year. They offset their regulated business (eg mail delivery) which loses $218 million a year with things like parcel delivery that are very profitable and growing. In a country where everything generally costs far more than other places stamps are 60c. I wonder how long that is sustainable.

Perhaps increased competition in the Canadian market makes it harder for them to make the profits needed to subsidise their mail delivery.
Sorry guys server just crashed! we're adding more dynos now.
The problem it tries to solve is preventing UIs from being defined in C++ (or Python, etc) when the Designer doesn't cut it any more.

Sure, QML is still a type of code, but it's much cleaner and easier to read & write.
Redis as AP system, reloaded
For starters Google could of kept compatibility with the activesync protocol instead of making calender sync with outlook the horrific monster it is today. Actions like this are just one of the multiple reasons I tell people to not invest invest Google business products.
one of devs here...it's totally anonymous there's no login anywhere. Thanks for the feedback! please try it out and let us know :)
That's a pretty unrealistic moral in the face of the reality of how the consumer web works.

I mean, I get the whole "don't depend on another company for your revenue" (e.g. apps in the Apple app store), but you're saying "don't count on Google sending traffic to your site".

Plus, her ranking didn't change -- her site vanished out of the index.

EDIT: Unless you mean "don't depend entirely on organic traffic"? I can sorta see that... but, again, if I've only now thought about putting a photo on a quilt (which is a new idea to me), around 70% of the US thinks putting [photo quilts] into Google is the way to get the site you want. What else would you suggest?

EDIT #2: Maybe "vanished" is too strong a word, since it does show up on string matches. But it was deindexed for search terms it used to rank for.
AFAICT, it's a result of their internal architectural decisions vs. the structure of some of these crypto operations. The simplest example is that AMD offers a hardware bit rotate instruction and NVidia doesn't. (The newer compute_35 devices have a funnel shifter that gets halfway there, but it requires using a 64 bit op, which is still slower).

But beyond that, for scrypt, AMD has an internal architecture that encourages using a internal 4-wide vector ops (the key being that threads in a stream can diverge and the scheduler handles them, but the vector ops are strictly locked). This seems to give them an advantage in several "stupidly parallel" workloads that consist of basic operations in huge parallel, whereas Nvidia's architecture regains ground when the control flow/etc., becomes a bit more complicated. But calculating 64k SHA-2 or scrypt hashes in parallel doesn't stress the thread scheduler or divergence handling at all. Also, scrypt internally does well when you parallelize it into groups of 4 uint32's - that's actually the key optimization I added to my version of the miner. Which, again, maps quite nicely to AMD's preferred optimization path.
It is terrifying, but it is the nature of Google. If your customers found you through Google it's important to keep them through other means.

Furthermore, as more people are involved with online businesses they need to understand the ebb and flow of Google traffic. It can be turned off overnight. I don't think people realize that until it's too late.
I wouldn't hotlink the logos.
Regarding the "what-if" section: Could have been quite interesting if the early ancient Indian Universities around 1000 AD in Nalanda, Vikramasila etc. had actually persisted (that is without obliterating Islam and the Muslim conquest) and instead connected with the Europeans (or Byzanz for that matter) directly. Indian logic seems to have been quite developed at an early stage as well, Dignaga is an interesting character.
The melting point of Fluorinert is -50 C. The average temperature on Mars is, if I recall correctly, -50 to -60 C. The material would tend to precipitate out over the poles and stay there. Another source of warming would be required for it to produce any long-term effects.
She has to make her living != She makes her living. Maybe she just likes making photo quilts and found a niche market that allowed for a sustainable business that was now ruined. Isn't that what we'd all like to do: Earn enough money so that we can work in a job we like, even if that doesn't pay as much as we'd need to live?
it would mostly growth-related data-- you will get how the company has grown over the quarter in terms of users and revenue, what new marketing strategies they have undertaken, new products or features they have released, complaints current users are giving to them, and their overall strengths and weaknesses, as observed objectively by me. The point is to allow you "to keep an eye on your competitors" because most startups don't have the time to do so.
Fidelity now allows clients to put bitcoins in IRAs
Groupon Unveils Their Answer To Amazon's Drone Delivery: Catapults
The J1 trainee program sounds really interesting (as I'm currently out of education for > 12 months and therefore ineligible for the J1 intern program).

According to the j1visa.state.gov site one of the requirements for the J1 trainee program is:

"Has five years of work experience outside the United States in the occupational field in which they are seeking training"

Did you meet this criteria or manage to circumvent it?
No offense but I don't see how that matters at all in this context.
I just use an external virtual machine hosted by http://digitalocean.com/. Then you can get as beefy as a box as you want. However, I usually keep it small because I deploy to small virtual machines on heroku or EC2. Plus it gets expensive, but $5/month for a small VM is nothing.
How can you possibly hate cilantro? It's smells so incredibly fresh and amazing, plus you can get more than you can eat before it goes bad for like 49 cents at any grocery store.
AFAIK it's not allowed, so Qt commercial is actually the only option for non-OSS on iOS.