skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, yes it can be connected. You have a graph that looks like /\_/-\_ of bandwidth differential on one machine and you have the graph that looks like /\_/-\_ of bandwidth used on the targeted machine. Case closed. The occasional connection to Facebook isn't going to obfuscate that.
>Covey studied the law and found an even bigger loophole. “The change that was made to stop what they thought was the abuse, made the matter worse,” he says.

>Covey, 84, a Missouri native and former U.S. Marine Corps basketball player who earned a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1955, uses the words “romantic” and “beautiful” to describe the most elegant tax maneuvers.

This guy is a hacker.
I hadn't seen this before, but it does a great job of explaining how compression works in a way that the less technically minded can understand. I think I finally have an understanding how compression works, rather than treating it as a semi-magical process as I've done previously.
Dart is emphatically not statically-typed.

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-dart-types/

Under the heading, "Background: Dart is a dynamically typed language, and proud of it":

"Dart is dynamically typed, in the tradition of LISP, Smalltalk, Python, and JavaScript. Users of dynamically typed languages, and in particular users of JavaScript for web programming, will understand why we chose this. If you are more of a static typing person, you may not be convinced—but let’s save this for another discussion. For now, let’s take this as a starting point: Dart is dynamically typed."
Scrolling is backwards on my Mac. I'm using the default ("natural") scrolling, where swiping up scrolls down, but this page is set to scroll down with a swipe down.

Probably has to do with the fact that they're rendering the images in a canvas element rather than plain old HTML.

It's also broken on iPads. You can't see the bottom nav in portrait and the site is slightly too large for the viewport when viewed in landscape.
> I assure you that it was NOT accidental.

Based on what?

If you read the link I posted, these particular tax shelters are the result of large spreads between the interest rates used in certain IRS calculations, which are at historical lows for reasons unrelated to tax policy, and the actual achievable investment returns.
4 types of flash storage : Which is right for you?
Github could really do with treating PDF files differently so I can view them in my browser.
How many arvix papers have been rejected for publication because of this? Does it happen often?
Allowing the government to charge businesses that paid into an unemployment trust for the administrative failure of that trust is dangerous.

I can't find a link right now but it was on CBS nightly news yesterday. The New York State government is suing thousands of small-business owners because they failed to recognize early that one of the legal, state-sanctioned trusts that was in charge of collecting and paying into the state's unemployment fund was (committing fraud and) failing, went belly up.
Reggie Watts pretty much said it all back in 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Hard to imagine how anyone could follow up after this.
Google plans on integrating Dart into Chrome soon
Multivitamins a ‘waste’ of money for general population, reports suggest
Snowden's open letter offers to help Brazil look into NSA surveillance
I think they still want people to come on the hope that they can hold them for ransom and make even more money.
For European HNers (or travelers) I plea for you to use the night trains, keep them alive.

One example: Between Amsterdam & Bern - Skybus flies for €86 (1.5 hours) and the CityNightLine train is €80 for a bed (11.5 hours). Other routes are comparable, you can pay a bit more for your own (non-shared) compartment.

Economically it seems crazy to take these night trains, and I never even bothered until a recent business trip from Amsterdam to Munich.

It was great for many of the reasons mentioned in the article and other comments here: leave and arrive in the city center, no security, no gate closing time, no baggage restrictions/pick-up/lost luggage, have a beer or dinner on board at a real bar or table, use your laptop/phone/ereader whenever you like, lie down, take a shower, whatever. Basically it's like flying the night before with a free (albeit basic) hotel stay thrown in.

I'm worried that too many people dismiss the night trains too easily (like I did), and that these will be relegated to the history books. In my opinion that would really be a tragedy.

Plane travel has turned into a elementary school bus trip. The train is still a grown-up alternative.
Why is this being downvoted?

This is an excellent point. Petty substitutions like verbal expressions might be useful if you're just getting started, but ultimately it's a crutch and it's best just to learn pure regular expressions. They're not that difficult.

Same with bundling a ton of dependencies. Lots of people (especially contemporary programmers, primarily web developers) seem to be deathly afraid of writing custom code to handle a job. It's not "reinventing the wheel", it's implementing logic easily extensible within your application without the hassle of upstream, especially if you're only using a small portion of a library or framework. Using 15 libraries for a 600-line script isn't best practice, it's cowardice.
"developed an encoding technique from DNA to human letters"

Should have used UTF-8. Also human letters does not equal greco-roman capital letters. Wake me when they embed some kanji.
Travel makes us all richer, more of it is a good thing

Sure, this world can now afford constantly to have about one million of its people sitting in a chair in the sky.
Both Microsoft and IBM put Google to shame when it comes to pure research labs. Hell companies like Boeing are probably closer to Bell labs than Google
An open letter to the people of Brazil, from Edward Snowden
The Republican party has become the party of the rich. They really want to get rid of the estate tax so they can build wealth across generations. $5 million is excluded from the estate tax, but they don't think that is enough to pass on when they die.
It's easy to look at this as a critique of TED, and it is, but what's interesting here is that this is a TED Talk. He was invited by TedxSD to talk about the problems of Ted. And he delivered those problems in the language and culture of TED. And whether you agree with him or not, I think it's commendable that he was invited by the TED organizers to give this talk, and that he gave it.
I don't know what experience you have with modern Java EE, but it's incredibly modular these days and is no more than a collection of components that can operate independent of each other.
> I'm extremely psyched to try his mayo

Why. The only (vaguely) scientific argument the paleo diet has against legumes falls apart when you're just extracting the oils (which is not where the "toxins" are). Apart from that it'd just be an organic no-preservatives mayonnaise, and that's already widely available.

It's just another example that this guy will swallow anything you tell him with sufficient amount of authority.
Security Vulnerabilities of Legacy Code
A great article. I wonder if there are similarly thorough descriptions of the compression part of gzip, and how to write that well?

The uncompression is perhaps the easy part of the process, and while you can understand the principles of compression from it, you can easily miss the massive complexity involved. A naive search for backpointers is O(n^2) or worse, so a usable gzip implementation has to do cunning tricks to find repeating data efficiently.
The boingboing article has already been posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6911944
I think the point is sometimes architects eschew local traditions or materials to make a building to their aesthetic standards, often to the detriment of the buildings inhabitants.

These houses might not be "the best" (how would you even classify that?) but they are "evolved" to be comfortable and efficient in the areas in which you'd find them.

Read A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan for an exploration of this very topic.
<rant>

How much fucking money does someone need? Seriously. What is the difference between 7.9 billion (what he wants to leave) and 5.1 billion (less the existing estate tax of 2.8 billion)? Clearly, his ego is huge given that he watches the ranks of richest people closely. Honestly, what the fuck? Congratulations man, you got really fucking loaded. Good work. Now, please play fair.

</rant>
Are there any drawbacks? The implementation linked by agl does not seem too complicated, but at a first glance it almost sounds too good to be true.
there is a pay-wall if you click directly on the link. If you google "Estate tax and the founding fathers You can't take it with you" it'll be the first link and it will bypass the paywall.
As a designer and client-side dev, I've been using CSS and HTML for about 9 years. A lot of the weird edge cases and nuances are second nature to me now. However, if you step back and look at it all, it's pretty goofy, but then again, so is English. But I'm going to keep using it, because there isn't anything else. At this point, I'm really good at it anyway and this stuff doesn't really bother me too much.
So if he inspires people to abandon TED talks because TED talks don't work, all through a TED talk, then it appears that TED has worked.
I see what you're saying and I agree it would be great to be simpler. My perspective is that the complexity is actually in the flexibility in CSS and the number of options provided to you. I'm not sure how I'd make it simpler without removing some of the control.
Lovely site for visual inspiration
The big reason why Japanese high speed trains are so good and why they haven't cannibalized anything, is that they've built new tracks for them everywhere. Shinkansen aren't even compatible with normal tracks, they are wider (another reason why they're so spacious and offer such a smooth ride). There's simply nothing in the world that even comes close to the Japanese train system. As an indicator, here's a list of the 50 most frequented train stations in the world: http://www.japantoday.com/category/travel/view/the-51-busies....
You can write shitty unmaintainable code in a statically typed language, and maintainable elegant code in a dynamically typed language.
We all know that you (Javin Paul) want to promote your blogspot blog and get some good traffic from Hacker News.

Your article is totally shallow and shows no research what so ever, supported by an equally distracting infographics from 'Perception Systems'. Did a carbon dating test on the infographics and it turned out to be more than 3 years old.

You didn't even cared to mention the versions on which the test is done .... is it Python 1,2,3 or java 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Python is slower than Java... on which platform and for what type of codes.

I suggest you to read
http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/van-rossu...
My wife and I together make $150k in the DC suburbs. I'm trying to convince her that we need to move so we could afford to live on one income and maybe have kids some day.

For sure, we aren't hurting. The only debt we have is the one-bedroom condo next to a highway and in the flight path of an airport we live in (well, and a car, but we could pay it off in cash tomorrow if need be, which would be stupid because the APR on the loan is less than 1%). But it's extremely frustrating that this condo would translate to a 5 bedroom house with an acre of land where I grew up a mere 3 hours from here.

And that's really only because, for the first 15 years of our careers we've lived within our means and have not had children. $150k is not what it's cracked up to be. If one of us lost our jobs, we would definitely have to move. Unfortunately, hers is tied to this area, so if it were me to lose the job, we'd be royally screwed.
This press release from two months ago resulted in BBC reporting that was extensively discussed here on HN back then.[1] (I remember this because I had a good night's sleep last night.) As usual for news stories about science discoveries, this is a report of a preliminary primary research finding that may or may not be replicated and extended into the framework of an overall theory of human sleep. The science news cycle gives a crucial role to press releases like the release kindly submitted here,[2] so all of us who sleep will look forward to further research studies to confirm or disconfirm this preliminary finding and help us understand how this mouse study relates to human behavior.

The obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a preliminary research result is the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"[3] by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research. Considering carefully how the current research was done (after a good night's sleep, of course) may help suggest further research that will advance our understanding of what sleep is good for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6567966

[2] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174

[3] http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
See also science crowdfunding like Microryza https://www.microryza.com/ current headline of the first research proposal shown: "How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?" I guess it's a good time to be a researcher who is working on something where you can fit trendy internet words like "zombie" in the title.
And I only slept 3 hours tonight. However, I've came to master my sleep cycles. Had I slept 3.5 or 5 hours, I would be dead tired right now. I wonder if it's long enough for the brain to clears itself. I tend to sleep only a few hours all month, then I get tired once a month and sleep for around 12 to 14 hours and feel good for the next 30 days or so.

I'm probably killing myself. Or perhaps I've found the perfect sleep schedule for me.
It's actually "Top 100 [Trending] Searches." They could have been more clear about that.

http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013
Eastwood - a clojure lint tool
Adaptive radix tree (https://github.com/armon/libart) is also an impressive data structure. It also supports ordered iterations while showing similar random read/write performance to hash tables. Crit-bit tree is memory efficient, but it suffers for cache misses with many keys (> 1M).
South Korean politicians put online gaming on par with drug addiction
There are syslog daemons that can provide cryptographic security as well. Alternatively, they can also log directly to an SQL database, use SSL client certificates, etc. Modern syslog daemons are quite powerful.
13-year-old schools MIT grads in Arduino skills
"Networking is for losers." but the final point is to put down your business cards and ...network?

I get it, he's saying not be soulless, personality-lacking networking stooge. But the advice is to simply network ... better. Instead of force-feeding your business card, actually talk to someone.

Not sure about anyone else but this was advice that seemed pretty obvious to me and most I network with.
While I read almost every HN post I saw about Snowden, I don't think I searched his name at all. In fact, I can't remember searching anything news related this year. I'm sure I have, but its really not necessary anymore. I wonder if others are starting to get into similar patterns.
Judging by the other responses, I'm probably a bit of a contrarian, but all in all: "meh". I honestly don't care.

Wealth is not a zero sum game, and all talk about the horrors of wealth inequality are completely ignorant of that fact. I think gift taxes are bullshit. If I earned and paid taxes on income/capital gains, I should be able to give the balance to whom ever I wish. Double taxation is bullshit.
Sergey Brin's TED talk on Google Glass is the worst TED talk I've ever seen. Wondering how much he paid to be there.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass.html
Merry Menopausal Candles cartoon
An updated firefox should include pdf.js and there are plugins for at least chromium. Github could do it, but you could also do it yourself.
The article mentions replacing the python hash-backed dict with a crit-bit tree… Sounds like a good opportunity to try it out with pypy. If it has no drawbacks then it should show up up as a speed improvement in their benchmarks.
I think it might be intentional. I don't use natural scrolling and it's broken for me as well.
A Developer's First Landing Page
DJB, if you are reading this, your site is such a treasure, could you please set up an rsync server so people can create online and offline mirrors?
> The ability to tax retroactively is the ability to jail anyone and confiscate everything they have for any or no reason.

Any arguments why?
FairTax is totally unfair.

The rich pay less because they spend less as a proportion of their income than the middle classes.

The poor pay less because they are given exemptions, or a pay boost equivalent to the tax they pay.

The government needs the same amount of money and can you guess who gets to bear the brunt of that? That's right, the middle classes get to shoulder even more of the tax burden.

No thanks!
There shouldn't be an estate tax. You're taxed on your income when you earn it. Why should there be a special tax just because you died? If anything those who inherit it should just have to file it as income and pay income / cap gains tax on it.
What I can't figure out is: If rail is so efficient and road travel so inefficient, why is it that rail travel costs more than road travel, even when the government subsidises rail companies and heavily taxes fuel and parking?
Interesting article, but idiotic title. Tight jeans "almost ruined" money because instead of harvesting jeans for used cotton, they had to go buy new cotton. Since new cotton is neither expensive nor difficult to obtain, it's hardly "almost ruined".
yeah, it's very non-Google somehow..
I think that when they do this, I will delete my Facebook account. Or at the very least, not log into it.
UT.6.01x: Embedded Systems - Shape The World
Complaining that a 5 minute TED talk isn't "meaningful" is like complaining that popcorn isn't nutritious. This isn't worth writing about; you just have the wrong expectations.

As for " middlebrow megachurch infotainment." – just trolling for eyeballs.
At least for some of their journals (e.g. Global Environmental Change), I understand the position is that they will allow you to post the exact final published content, but (a) not as formatted by the journal and (b) not in any kind of organised institutional repository.

In case of (a), I actually prefer to post my own PDFs, because one of the tasks publishers-as-middlemen generally perform is screwing up captions, misapplying 'style guides' and so on.

Regarding (b), they are clearly trying to make it more difficult to find these posted articles, and to reduce the number posted by ensuring that individual authors have to take the initiative (rather than it being a matter of institutional policies).

(Edit: reading your comment again, I see that I'm wholly agreeing with you).
Making Map Operations Implicit in Programming
Not boring or uneventful at all! An amazing way of transmitting information across eons or under in regimes of restricted communication!

If I can infect a common fly with my stenographed, encrypted message, then I can communicate with people in China! I can translate our major books in every language and hide that data in cockroaches! If we ever nuke ourselves so badly that we only have people living in bunkers, then maybe one day they will discover that we hid all of our knowledge in life! Maybe this has already happened! Maybe aliens did so with mathematical proofs when they discovered our world an eternity ago!

I reject your claim of boring! THIS IS AMAZING!
Not if the tax bracket gets lower at 20-50x the median income. Tax brackets should be monotonically increasing.
Elastic Transcoder doesn't support this natively, we ran into this issue so ended up rolling our own solution as the commercial versions were incredibly expensive for a non-profit.
Not what I expected. I expected health issues with people's circulation being cut off.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/skinny-jeans-cause-nerve-damage-doc...
C is a highly famous language, so it's actually really easy. Biggest problem might be to get irrelevant results for C++, in that case you just use search operators and wrap "C" in quotation marks.
You came up with all of these points by yourself?

I'm quoting m8urn's post from upthread:

> m8urn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6911796

> It all seems so sincere. Except when you see how closely this matches the talking points the NSA sent home with employees https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8445...

I don't disbelieve you came up with all those points yourself, btw. Maybe you've never even seen that PDF hand-out. However, you couldn't have reworded this obvious piece of propaganda any better, if you did.
The problem is Github triggers a download action, regardless of whether you have a PDF plugin.
If you slept "a few hours per month" you'd be dead.
That wasn't really necessary.

I'm glad you get to work in UI-world all day long that CSS' idiosyncrasies are something you can memorize inside and out. Personally, I'm required to know a lot more about mathematics and databases. My clients can deal with not-very-pretty UI, they can't deal with lost or incorrect data.

But if you want to make analogies about tools, one should always use the right tool for the job and not employ hacks. To me, "margin:auto" is a hack. It doesn't express that the object in question is being put in the middle of something else. It hides the intent of the action behind insider jargon. Or, to continue your analogy, it's using the handle of a screw driver to hammer in a nail.
No it doesn't work like that, mutation isn't uniformly high, some sectors are very stable.
It works: Hello World for Dropbox
Great defense of TED. It's not a MOOC, and it's not a book, and it's not a documentary.

The one caveat is that by extending their brand, they are giving fuel to their detractors. If you say, "Well anyone can get a TEDx license," then you are admitting to brand dilution. (The same way high end car companies dilute their brands with low end models)
"But like the girl who wears a padded bra, there’s some serious misleading going on there."

Was this really necessary?
>perhaps I've found the perfect sleep schedule for me.

I think that's the point we miss as a structured society: different sleep schedules for everyone. Personally I can't live without a 20 minute siesta every day, which remote work allows. I go crazy having to go to an office.
I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what you're objecting to now. Let me lay out my claims in a simple fashion:

1. Most if not all Abrahamic religions hold that you can effectively pray in silence and without doing anything besides thinking your prayer.

2. Prayer is communicating with God and communicating by pure thought is telepathy.

3. God is expected to reply in some way, and you're encouraged to look for and interpret the reply.

Can you elaborate exactly which one(s) you have trouble with, and why?
Despite the advice to stop counting (and start stopwatch timing) it seems to boil down to everyone's an equal commodity and you should boost your numbers.

If someone's boring or not relevant, they're getting the "poorly designed piece of cardstock" and maybe a psuedo-sales pitch.

WRT to being one of those people, there is intense selection bias going on, and if the majority of the subset at a meatspace networking event are focused specifically on being one of those people, then no one at that event will be interested in not being one of those people. I'm just saying bars are great, and AA meetings are great, therefore a double-great idea would be an AA meeting at a bar. Hmm.
I would prefer a .txt file list over this, I can't even tell the order without individual clicks.
Appropriate title "How A Company that makes paper, changed its raw materials".