skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because one involves all manufacturers, regardless of origin. The other doesn't.

One involves devices destined for certain people, the other doesn't.
The cynical side of me says that the ISP is just going to redirect the author's traffic to the "pure" DNS server in the future (even when he or she directs traffic to the main one) unless they get in serious enough trouble with one of the companies this first time.

If anyone wants to do this in the future, I'd recommend just sending affiliate abuse emails with no notice to the ISP. Also, the future person may want to revise the [2] script to scan in a more surreptitious manner (change the order, add delays, simulate legit web traffic, etc).
Could you code a solution for the Boggle problem in 45 minutes?
Over the holiday I did usual, fix/clean my grandmother's computer. She's been using chrome because I explained to her how much safer it is.

I did a google search and realized something wasn't right. Uninstalled all the crapware apps that wormed their way in. And then I looked at the chrome extensions and low and behold there it was, more crapware.

I removed them and they re-added themselves. I had to run spybox s&d to remove it completely.

Moral of the story: chrome extensions are in some ways worse than toolbars.
Interestingly, you might have benefitted more from keeping quiet about this. While the original retailers are losing money through this, you aren't really affected negatively by them doing it. In fact, with this additional revenue source, they might be able to support thinner margins on their broadband charges, saving you some money. You did the morally correct thing, but perhaps at a potential personal cost.
Except that the consumer lines will have moved on by then.
I'm wondering how many consumers globally know how to pay with Bitcoin vs currently have a piece of plastic.
There's a positive correlation between those data series.

If you use the original data, instead of subtracting the columns (arbitrarily), the correlation is stronger. For both columns.

But hey, you keep arguing with facts. I have better things to do.
Yes but you don't have the incredible safety net of using a bank. Bitcoin seems really unsafe and I keep hearing of people stealing wallets and large sums from Mt.Gox
I think the OP agrees with you and was being sarcastic with his comment.

It made me chuckle regardless.
Doesn't solve the aggression problem.
Scoble says Google Glass is doomed
The sources are out there, but you might not want to look. What is seen is not easily unseen:

http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/start-here/

http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/

http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/

And although the common insult for people interested in human biodiversity is "KKK", much of the research is not being done by white people. For example, the Chinese are investing huge sums of money into unraveling the genetic basis of intelligence. See: http://edge.org/response-detail/23838

I suppose this is all "filth that isn't worth the bytes its served through" though...
DNSSEC is great in theory, but after three years I still haven't deployed a live instance.

It is cumbersome to implement and maintain, requiring co-operation of registrars and frequent key regeneration.

It is also very, very chatty and imposes a considerable processing burden on the first-hop DNS resolver.

We need a signed DNS solution that isn't DNSSEC.
I think it's a glaring example of blinders-via-self-selection of the "tech" industry and "tech" press.

For EE and integrated circuit design it was arguably a very GOOD year with Bluetooth LE coming out, and new silicon like the Apple A7, FinFets coming to TSMC and Samsung, etc. In the neuro area there are all sorts of nifty prototypes with wireless electrocorticography probes, etc. Even Google's various gizmos - while none are shipping products (Glass is a beta preview, right?) they're still pretty impressive.

Tesla and SpaceX had its ups and downs, but you can't argue they've had some spectacular accomplishments.

Biotech: U Penn's HIV-derived lentiviral vector for leukemia, among others.

But these aren't websites that sell ads so I guess they don't count as "tech"
? Appears to be a cheap solution. Just a few sheets of clear acrylic or am I missing something?
This is one of the most annoying part of stack overflow,instead of closing the discussion,they should have a provision to move to more opinionated discussion list.
When you see the price of the dual GPUs, the ECC RAM, PCIe SSD, and the small design, you will see why they didn't toss in the warranty for free. You do get 1 year free warranty though and that's something. It's only $249 for the extra two years which is worth it in my opinion.
A) It is possible that members of Congress wanted to grant the FCC the authority to advance network neutrality regulations without subjecting ISPs to the full gamut of regulations they would be subject to if classified as a telecommunications service.

B) You are presupposing that all members of Congress act rationally and have an expert knowledge of the existing state of the law.
Right! I did that solution in response to a Byte magazine contest years ago. It ran in 20 minutes in Basic on an HP2000.

The tricky part is permuting the array. I used a recursive swap routine, swapping to the right and testing if the array were valid to the left of i then recursing i+1. If it fails you don't have to recurse, you can pop, trimming the search tree drastically. There were 8 or 9 solutions if I remember right, less if you eliminate rotations and mirrors.
{edit: 12 solutions}
The one strange assumption that most Mac Pro reviews start with is a baseline of two compute cards -- that the Mac Pro is competitive when compared with other machines with two high-end compute cards.

But I don't want two high-end compute cards, and I suspect that many who are trying to convince themselves that they'll benefit from it will gain no value from it.

For many, many workloads, modern compute still represents an iffy proposition (at the price levels being talked about, the Xeon Phi would almost certainly represent a better proposition). With unified memory things might get more workable, but as is it remains a relatively fringe benefit, and it seems odd that the entire value proposition of the machine relies upon it.
There is a time and a place for everything. For opinion-based questions about programming, that place is http://www.slant.co/ (not affiliated with Stack Exchange).
hmmm, sounds like HN voting problems.

Seriously, anything that allows a non-vetted group of opinionated people to vote is going to have flaws. just take a look at our last two presidential elections.
Its one step above fizz-buzz. And it requires algorithmic thinking. So not hard, just a gateway problem.
For a limited time.
http://slant.co is pretty much that.
That's an interesting point, but it's orthogonal to whether PG was being disingenuous in "What I Didn't Say".

And I'm not campaigning to push money in any direction. That's a separate issue.

I agree that it's not obviously a bad thing if all these people who didn't become hackers (female or male) became something else that is socially valuable and makes them happy. But I'm also willing to consider the possibility that some women would have been happier and contributed more to society if they had become hackers, but didn't because they felt out of place or unwelcome when they tried to. And that if that's the case, then I'm at least willing to consider that maybe we as a society should do something about it.
Making Python 2.8 just seems like a bad idea. It will fracture the userbase even more than it already is, diluting everyone's development efforts. This kind of reminds me of what happened with Unity and Gnome 2. I think making a fork will leave the language in a more confused and messy position; which could kill off the language. This would be terribly unfortunate, considering Python is my favorite language.
2013 AppStore Year in Review
so you think 2 compute cards is bad. but what about the mac pro approach 2 gfx cards? good or bad? not sure what position you're taking and curious.
Works are automatically copyrighted upon creation for a limited time.
What if I've never heard of Madonna? Does the law actually encode some sort of pop-knowledge into itself?

A reasonable* person would have heard of Madonna and would respond to such evidence of infringement in a timely fashion.

* The definition of 'a reasonable person' is a vexed one. While it's popularly understood to mean something like 'a regular Joe/Jill,' and that's good enough for many purposes, it might be more helpful to think of it as 'someone whose behavior could be reasoned ahead of time by a third party.' So if you're running a site dedicated to music, and given that Madonna is one of the most famous music performers in the world, it's logical (reasonable) to assume you would know who she is. OTOH if you were running some antiquarian maps hosting site and someone uploaded a Madonna video there, you might be excused for not appreciating the significance of same in any action for damages.

/NAL
I'm sure that quick judgement against the hypothetical drunk driver will result in you soon receiving the hypothetical hundreds of thousands of dollars he has in his hypothetical savings account.
Fascinating stuff.

I guess non-mainstream methodologies/frameworks like NLP, chakras and yoga were on to something when they said that emotions have locations in the body.
How Everyone Missed Gold's Big 2013 Plunge
Why Clojure instead of F# or more advanced C#?
What bugs have you found? Have you reported them to Apple?

I haven't found any since the 10.9.1 update. They fixed the quicklook slowness bug which was my only complaint. Mavericks is one of the most polished OS X release I have used, behind Snow Leopard.
Understanding Travel Behavior In Avalanche Terrain: A Crowd Sourced Approach
If you compare interchange with rewards rates, they seem comparable, but most merchants pay much more than interchange. Direct relationships with issuers isn't feasible, even for the largest merchants. There are network fees and usually other middleman processors involved.

Visa and First Data each make >$10B/year revenue, which is already 0.2% of US GDP, and none of that money goes toward cardholder rewards.
Bitcoin Is a High-Tech Dinosaur Soon to Be Extinct
There a single persistent bug blocking its release. Don't remember the exact details but I think wycats was looking for someone with Cocoa experience to help out with that.
I always attributed this to the anti-Apple-ism of the "enthusiast" crowd that like their machines big, over clocked, and running hot.

Anandtech fawns over a lot of products, but I suspect perhaps this is due to them reviewing products they are interested in, and not wasting time on stuff they aren't. I'd start to worry if people can't reproduce their lab numbers but at the moment, they're considered the most detailed and accurate of the lot.
Maybe like the final draft, overlayed with a heatmap of how much editing was done, then on clicking, provide a tree like comment history of each branching edit. This could show the anatomy of how different people form thoughts in written word. T his is an insight we could learn much from at a massive scale.

I would imagine Facebook or another hosted blogging platform could get this data with relative ease.
Lots of programming problems are puzzles. They just have so much context, you can't describe them quickly in an interview situation. So you use simple games instead. Its fair, its a reasonable way to get at algorithm, you can tell if the interviewee is used to thinking about the fundamental problem instead of lost in the APIs.
> It's somewhat ironic (and telling about SF) that as a suburban commuter I've made better use of public transit than you have in the city

Who said I don't take transit? My wife and I both take trains to work, and ride transit whenever possible. The primary factor in choosing our home was to be within walking distance of transit.

It's just Caltrain that I've found totally useless.
Just a suggestion: I would choose a shorter domain name for the service if the purpose is to create shortened urls. Every character is precious on Twitter et al.
30C3 video: "X Security: it's worse than it looks"
Ansible itself is Python, and the docs all use Python examples. I've yet to come across a Ruby one...
For the Mac Pro target market, 2xGPU combined with massive memory bandwidth is a blessing. Final Cut, Photoshop, and other creative software are GPU accelerated.

The Xeon Phi is significantly more expensive, draws significantly more power, and is significantly less useful for creative software loads.
I didn't see a big problem with it.

They compared it's price to a few workstations to show that the price isn't unreasonable for similar hardware (i.e. Apple isn't adding a $1200 workstation tax).

For the rest of the review they compared it to other Macs, because chances are that's what buyers are going to compare it with. If you want a Mac, those are your choices. I really doubt too many people who are in the market for an HP or Dell workstation are going to consider a Mac Pro.

Plus there is the problem of benchmarks. The OS can make a big difference, so you'd either have to run every benchmark twice on each system (once on OS X, once on Windows or Linux), and then the non-Macs can't run OS X. It would be a ton of extra work, but I'm not sure how much gain it would give.

Again, I think the number of workstation shoppers who will consider this machine is small. I expect the vast majority of it's sales will be to Mac users who want something more powerful than an iMac or a MacBook Pro.
There are other ways of being proactive. I bet if you asked teachers and parents, they'd say 13 year old girls lack female hacker role models to look up to. They'd note how bro-y the hacker culture appears to be.

So perhaps our industry could make a greater effort to spotlight and support our very best examples of female hackers, and put them in closer touch with 13 year old girls. And to dial down the bro-iness of events and startup office cultures.

Those are examples of being proactive that have nothing to do with lowering standards. Pointing fingers elsewhere in the system is not that different from defending the status quo, because it's an interdependent system.
I think many of the design/art fields that they cater to has a need for this sort of MP-capable machine. That and it's also probably a neat exercise for technology development - I'm sure there's some nice engineering data and expertise that came out of this that might "trickle down" somehow.
Readers who are complained about far more often than they are actually seen.
As with the Greek gods in the Martian Chronicles: the answer to your question is indubitably no, since you, at least, still have interest in it and since the source is available on github. However it is apparently comatose. All you need do is start working on the code and it will magically spring back to life.

One of the many advantages of open source.

However: why did you ask on HN and not ask the lead developer directly?
I am seeing that url as "expert sex change." That said, the word therapist also can be read in multiple ways.
I can agree with your point that nobody quite reaches the scale of the US.

I mean, I am not suggesting Uganda has huge data warehousing and analysis compounds or anything absurd like that.

But I do suggest that every country is doing what they are capable. And countries like Japan, China, UK, Israel, Germany, Russia etc. are capable of quite a lot.
Are you sure? It feels more like edits are being played back at a constant rate, without consideration of human delays.

But still super interesting
It still blows my mind that people claim this is true. Almost all CS papers are on the author's website, eprint, arxiv, etc. Google scholar even links to them.

Don't get be wrong, closed publications are a travesty. But they are a travesty because institutions pay out of government grant money (indirectly via overhead) to pay for subscriptions and because it's government funded research. They are not, at least in anything approaching the average case, a travesty because researchers cannot access results.
Hm. And maybe that's why Haskell isn't catching on. That looks little better than terminal scripting languages. Its concise, sure. But maybe that's not as helpful as you might think, in communicating a problem solution.
I don't disagree with you. You bring up very good clarifications. When I say "mild" I mean relative to what it could be without faith in the US and the status of the dollar as the reserve currency.
Why are you replying if you can't be bothered to read?
I generally am not one to recommend specific books, but I read one a while back that I think would be relevant here. It's called Mastery by George Leonard. I'm very much the same way as you, characterized as being a "dabbler" in the book. I would definitely recommend giving it a read. Or two. Here's a scribd link, though its legality seems dubious: http://www.scribd.com/doc/257928/-Mastery-by-George-Leonard
But that's not apples to apples.
I think you missed the reference. They were referring to a company from the TV show Parks & Recreation. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX0ZF8f8G0A
Thanks for this recommendation. I was looking at Los Angeles to do something like this because I wanted to see some stand-up comics on the side at places like the Laugh Factory.
> You can always fork the code, put the GPL on it and distribute it under those terms if you want.

They can GPL their changes, but your original copyright and license stands[1]. If it was any other way, the GPL would be no protection.

1) unless you go public domain or grant the ability to change the license which the BSD does not.
This is fantastic. I've been an addict of http://reddit.com/r/artisanvideos for quite a while, because there's something fascinating and enlightening about watching artisans perform their work (for example, Alexis Ohanian designing the Hipmunk bellhop logo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEQpwduyPU).

It's especially interesting to note that there are few, if any, words in the entire essay that he didn't edit multiple times. A lot of times when you read something as well-written as PGs essays you get the feeling that the person writing them just sits down and hammers out brilliance. But in reality, at least in the case of PG - and I would venture a guess that most great authors are similar - greatness comes through sweat and repetition more than raw talent, until eventually that thing becomes second nature - or does it ever? I would kill to watch some of the great authors of all-time (a la Shakespeare, Hugo, Dickens etc.) write in real-time - it would be fascinating to know what their process was like.
This confirms my suspicion that GPL does not cater to proprietary products and that the root issue comes from ideology.

Is it possible that GNU ideology was necessary just for booting? Can we bootstrap from GPL into something that does not care as much about the user's freedoms?
What an odd comment. Where do you draw the line on what to believe on the internet, random stranger?
"is to write more efficient software. Think about that carefully. It will define success in this next decade."

But optimization is the root of all evil... or something.
Why aren't you happy with Mint.com?
Hey, you're the one bringing up quotas, not me. I think I said that aiming for a specific number isn't the goal.

Football has a lot of numbers associated with it so I'd guess it's pretty fair, especially since Moneyball was published. (Assuming football coaches learned from it; I don't actually follow football.) I was actually more interested in your other example of entertainment industry executives.

I am pro-analytics: I think you should measure all the things you can because the numbers can be interesting. But just as you wouldn't judge programmers by lines of code, raw numbers about hiring are only a suggestive data point. To figure out if there's a real issue, we would need to go deeper and look for other things to measure. (But obviously we're not going to do that here in a chat room discussion.)
I need at least one more /buzzword in the title before I use it.
> Where to start: We are forever barred from knowing the composition of stars - stated around 1850, I believe. The sun couldn't possibly have sustained combustion for more than 10 million years, hence no time for evolution og geology. Parent poster is referencing Arthur C. Clarke, not Niven, btw.

ifix: You're probably right about Arthur C. Clarke. I think it was an SF author, but I couldn't remember who.
I agree that the survey is poor, but it is not bunk.

It should have had more questions attempting to discover why those who don't adopt Python3 don't. Then, if a major problem turns out to be misinformation, it could be addressed with evangelism. If a problem is a shortcoming of Python3, that shortcoming could be addressed. Etc.
If <two> c-level execs are fully aware of this and making excuses for it, you're facing a serious problem. They are either scared (ie, not confident) that their own positions are at stake (ie, BOD will fire them), or they are displaying their true selves in a way which is unflattering (to say the least). I agree with mode0, you have to make a decision and develop a strategy in light of that.
I think the video editing market is growing fairly rapidly, as it gets easier to take and share high quality video. Of course, most of that growth is entry level youtube-channel stuff, but as those barriers fall so will those to the professional level.
The value proposition of a Chromebook Pixel is excellent battery life, a free Terabyte of Google Drive space (4 yrs), very nice touchscreen display, quality craftsmanship, secure and fast OS, lightweight design, and great microphones even.

BTW, if personal Internet ever went down, there's a model that has a cellular modem or you can tether from your smartphone with mobile hotspot.

If you need to use traditional Windows applications frequently then maybe a native Wkndows device would be more useful. Although I gather that it's technically possible to install Windows 8 on a Chromebook.
Better page: http://dnscrypt.org
Elsevier increases takedown notices against academic institutions and websites
I just checked and steam lets me re-install it if I want to.
Here's some consolation for you.

An admin came in, downvoted all the nested comments of mine in this thread, and then slowbanned me. Or at least, the slowban and the jump down in karma (due to someone downvoting all my posts here) happened at around the same time, so it seems a fair inference.
For the Mac Pro target market

Which is what? It's just anecdotal but most of the people I know with Pros got it as a high end development workstation, building iOS apps, etc. Final Cut Pro is pretty much the only app that benefits from the dual GPUs, and even then the gain is relatively marginal over a machine four years old. And that's paying for very high priced "workstation" GPUs (I called them compute cards because that is what they are geared for, though as with all compute cards they are derivatives of GPUs. They're really price ineffective as GPUs), when you can get almost all of the same advantages on a basic ATI card for a couple hundred dollars.

Virtually every review of the Pro seems to be giving it a very soft glove approach for some reason. It is an enormously expensive monument to the dual compute GPU, for marginal gains in most apps.
Just a small caveat: There is some evidence that best paper awards do not really correlate with great influence of those papers, as measured by the number of citations a paper receives afterwards [1].

[1] http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2009/scientometricAnalys...
Thanks a lot! I'll definitely check some of these out!
Does using crouton have any impact on battery life?
That would be http://slant.co.

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with slant.co, but I am a Stack Overflow moderator. I like slant.co a lot.