skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but who determines the quality issues? The government could easily fall into the same issue that some of our clients do.

Yes, that competitor provided you a solution for 10% less, however it's horribly bloated and inefficient and will have double the on-going hardware costs, and the solution itself is a fucking mess that is going to increase the cost of any changes or maintenance ten-fold.

Problem is, they don't know the difference. The people who will best know the difference are going to be the people who work with/in the same area - the supplier's competitors. Far from impartial.

So maybe we set up some sort of oversight agency, but then we either have them make snap judgements without the appropriate understanding and penalizing what may be more difficult/complicated projects (meaning no one will want to bid on them), or we create such a huge overhead in documentation that we're pretty much back where we are now - no one but the largest of players can even afford the overhead to participate.
In absolute terms, it's down. Assault is up, though, which is weird. Shootings are way down, obviously.
That's a fantastic question. Is there a "long tail" of valuable contributions, or do most of the really-valuable and highly upvoted comments/posts come from a small group?

If pg could shed any light on this, it would be very interesting to see.
I do not think it is possible to knight posthumously.
I would love to meet someone who has been schooled in the rules of engagement and ask them what they think about operations like these, https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanista...

The asymmetry and the distance, it feels like a hit.

On an equally morbid but more realistic note, why did they have to accept prisoners? Couldn't they just have "dead checked" everyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_checking
What, it copied a single-class, multiple-interface statically typed OO language? Since the lead architect on C# designed one of those that predated Java, I think it is pretty clear what he was copying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
> If the big companies were allowed to fail, that would develop a market for others to enter who could succeed.

If the big companies were allowed to fail, maybe they'd stop underbidding on contracts to get them based on their reputation and smallest bid (knowing that there's no risk), and instead bid actual costing.
I aimed for clarity and some extra features in mine (e.g. __repr__ and __str__) instead of code golfing it. I also used the actual Binet formula instead of just approximation.

The only big Haskell feature here is a default implementation of binary exponentiation, but this is a library feature, not an innate feature of the language. It would be easy enough to augment existing standard Python libraries with such a corresponding feature.
I also see a strong future for bitcoin in this scenario. Virtual minds are going to have a hard time paying for things with cash. They'll probably want some form of currency to pay for their Amazon EC2 instances to offload various components of their sentience, essentially slowing down their perception of the passage of time so they can get more accomplished faster.
A language should have been an asynchronous library? How does that even make sense?
Got their attention. Looks like they are changing their tune.

@jasonjm75 @randfish feel stupid in retrospect - gonna stop - but I hope google revisits how ALL lyrics sites do SEO! our competition is... doing some ULTRA shady stuff! I have no doubt in my mind that they pay for links

https://twitter.com/RapGenius/status/415297097072537601
https://twitter.com/RapGenius/status/415297158896553985
“The status quo is just not going to work,” said draper. “The existing breadth of industry and various interests in California is untenable.”

Are there specific examples of problems that splitting CA would fix? It seems that a split would make many of these new states more extreme than the average of old CA, but perhaps that is a good thing.
I've always thought of computer science as a branch of mathematics. To me coding or programming is applied (or engineering) computer science, it's an engineering field (hence the term software engineer). Just like there is theoretical physics (a basic science), and also applied/engineering physics (e.g. mechanical engineering). They are related fields, but specializing in one does not mean you will be good at the other (it certainly helps).

The terms coding and computer science do get used interchangeably by a lot of people though, since most may not understand the difference. I've learned to live with it (occasionally I point out the difference, if I think the person misusing the terms actually cared to know).
> Basic phone stuff such as calling, texting work pretty well. These are common things that all phones do well right now.

While this is true of the OS, this doesn't hold true for the ZTE phone itself, hardware wise. The touchscreen doesn't register every touch, and performance is slow all around.

Still, when I run the Firefox OS emulator on my computer, it's blazing fast. Much faster than the Android emulator, which has had years of developments / optimizations.

I'm really looking forward to Firefox OS on decent hardware. :)

Perhaps support installation on the Samsung S4 & HTC One, which are both popular developer phones due to their Google Play editions.
I watched an exclusive live broadcast with a world-famous artist recently in his studio. It was free but I would happily have paid. I see a massive future in virtual concerts, where by limiting access you give exclusivity, and with twitter etc you have immediate access to your audience to feel connected. It was quite special and I hope to see more of it - less touring but more income for musicians is a good, good thing.
Humm I take it back, looks like he was pardoned
I only own band t-shirts, no regular ones. Growing up a punk fan kinda made sure of that. Converge, my favourite band of all time make a lot of money solely from merch (and being a label, now).
How do you sync them across those platforms? How does it compare to LastPass. LastPass Chrome extension is really great.
Surge pricing lures more drivers to the road because of the extra profit. More passengers are moved with surge pricing than without it. You're saying that it's more "fair" for fewer people to get the rides they want?

Laws against price gouging are almost always against the public interest.
Not so much. The main selling points for me:

* no money exchange in the car
* tip is decided and built-in
* cleaner more comfortable cars
* polite and professional-acting drivers

I get none of these from 99% of cabs. And even UberX is superior to the average cab experience.

The app is nice, but if the service sucked it wouldn't be enough to convince me to use Uber.
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Sorry, but the semantics of "this" in JavaScript are crazy — and I think that's being generous. There are a few common use cases that trip people up, e.g., situations where "this" becomes bound to another object like the global window object, and I'd expect an experienced JavaScript programmer to know those.

It depends on what you mean by "down cold," obviously, but if your standard is "either they have the semantics of the 'this' keyword down cold or they're incompetent" then virtually all JavaScript programmers I know (including myself) are incompetent.
At this point I don't care! I'm rooting for Mozilla as they are most definitely the company I trust more than any other in the world. They are really transparent and it has the community support Google wishes it had.

I really hope it catches on with the years. I'm still bitter that I can only use Objective-C to make iPhone apps. I mean, objective-c!?
Autocorrect is pretty great at turning a typo into an alternate word.
>I think you're looking at it backwards: App consumers aren't interested in well-crafted apps. Consumers treat mobile apps like "gladware": they want cheap and disposable/replaceable.

No they don't. They might like them cheap, but they also want them good. Good apps sell more.

Treating your customers like they want cheapo bs is not a business model.
In all fairness, rapgenius does have some of the best content and it really is the best information for lyrics. It sucks they have to resort to this to get good information above spammy lyrics sites.

I actually thought rapgenius was a good idea solely because the alternative was spammy almost like before stackoverflow. So yes it is wrong in every way to manipulate the system but how can you get noticed if others are doing it. If anything they shined a light on the problem and the better information should win in google which is fair.
At some point they do it because they are doing it. In other words they learned to regurgitate some basic "War On Terror" lines when asked about they are doing it, but really they do it because there are jobs, resources, servers, infrastructure, support, billable hours, resumes, training, sunk into doing it. And stopping it is just not profitable.

They can never make that as the official reason (although, for example, the private prison lobbyists are not shy about why they advocate for maintaining War on Drugs, it is simply bottom lines for their clients). Here it might one layer lower, on top wrapped in some idealistic War On Terror / Keeping Americans Safe rhetoric. But almost everyone in the chain knows it is about just keep going.
I didn't know Albini's favourite band was the Jesus Lizard. I like him even more now. Great post btw
How does reverse engineering binaries like this work? Did geohot really go through the entire disassemble during the time of a plane ride?
> “The status quo is just not going to work,” said draper. “The existing breadth of industry and various interests in California is untenable.”

If true, that makes the proposed state of North California a problem, since, while much smaller, it includes much of the breadth of industry and interests of the whole existing State -- the whole Urban-suburban-rural spread, the whole coastal-interior spread, etc.

I don't agree with his assessment of the problem, but if I pretend for a moment that I did, I can't see how his proposal solves it.
I'm confused as to why Uber's justification matters. If surge pricing seems unjust to you, don't pay surge prices. Use a competitor, like taxis or your bike.
Well, defense is simply killing your enemy when they're the ones who are attacking. It's hard to imagine using land mines to attack, while you nicely described how effective they can be to defend.
Give him an Oscar then.
I think this is a little bit handwavey regarding the historical background. My understanding is that NGWS, and then .NET 1.0, grew out of J++ and the Microsoft JVM extensions being a problem. Most of C#'s semantics, especially with regards to C# 1.0, very closely parallel Java's (right down to stuff like missing generics in the first release), as does large parts of the .NET class library. I don't think it's unfair to characterize it as C# taking a lot of notes from Java, nor do I think it's unfair to characterize Java doing the same thing here.

This isn't to say Anders and company didn't significantly improve it, to be clear, but I tend to think they were looking much more at Java than at Object Pascal.
Make a DVD photo slideshow on Mac
It shows how to simply make beautiful slideshow using photos and songs, and burn it to DVD on Mac.
The Obfuscated V contest (2004)
I'm likely missing your point. "Only musicians are asked?" Several fields are having their creation, promotion and distribution status quo challenged. I work for an outfit who made their money in traditional print publishing. No one's asked them, but the expectation is there's more forfiture of previous benefits to come.

To sustain a business, we'll need to figure out new services and revenue streams to take place of at least some of what's been going away for some time.
If it makes you feel better, the Earth missions are not shown. There are a lot.

Also, they seem to have left out missions that end in the Lagrange points. L1 is about 1% of the way to the Sun, and SoHO (for one) went there in 1996 and is still operating there. L2 is 1% in the opposite direction, and WMAP and Planck are/were there in 2009 when that map was made.

Finally, I think Stereo A and B may not be not there either; they trail/lead the Earth in its orbit; now they are almost on the opposite side of the Sun compared to Earth (http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml).
It's pretty clear that AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases spread just as well from almost any kind sexual activity, and many of them -- including AIDS -- spread from any transfer of bodily fluids at all.

It's clear that HIV can spread via a wide range of sexual activities, but some are much higher risk than others. At the extremes, receptive anal intercourse has a transmission risk roughly 50 times higher than insertive vaginal intercourse, while the risk of oral sex is believed to be non-zero but too low to be accurately measurable.
This isn't a UK bill. This is a pardon in the form of letters patent coming from the Queen. The form, "To all whom these Presents come, Greetings!" is pretty common in letters patent. There may not be a normal court in Sandringham, but this isn't coming from a normal court. It's coming from the Royal Court, which takes on the name of wherever the Sovereign is in residence. In this, the Queen is staying at Sandringham, so that's where the Royal Court is.
How to Hack the Developer Console to be Needlessly Interactive
> assume it was publicly documented at the time that BSAFE defaulted to Dual EC

Was it? Before it was revealed to be the BSAFE default I was going around saying that no one would have chosen to use it anyways, so it was probably a pretty ineffectual backdoor except if it ever was option for a downgrading attack.
5 words, right?
That's actually a lot less than I thought would be in the iOS filesystem.

It doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to remove those symlinks. Although Apple would probably favor fixing the bugs that allow malicious symlinks rather than remove symlinks from their file system driver (the horror!)
How do you make sure the correctness of the implementations? Shouldn't there be tests?
Well, much depends on exactly what sort of car you're buying and when you're buying it, too.

I bought my first car in 2006. It was a GM product, about a year old, and with about 12,000 miles on it. I paid just over half of what it would have cost to buy it new. That was a good deal.

I bought a new car this past summer from Toyota. I would have saved a couple of thousand dollars going used, which just wasn't worth it to me compared to getting something with a known provenance. The price difference wasn't very big, in any case.

Between the brand (GMs depreciate like mad, Toyotas not so much) and the economic climate (I get the impression that Cash for Clunkers took a lot of used cars off the road, and demand for used cars is higher in a weaker economy anyway), the difference between the two cases was massive.
Speaking from experience, this is true. You also don't really know when true CS is useful until you run into it.

I graduated with the equivalent of a minor in CS. When I started coding for an web-based gaming start-up in 2007, it was mostly irrelevant. You don't need a CS degree to learn Ruby on Rails, nor is it necessarily useful (beyond your basic intro courses) to have taken CS courses.

Flash-forward a year, after we raised our seed round. Our online game had grown in complexity quite a bit, and we found ourselves having to deal with things like complex image rendering, AI, and pathfinding. While it's possible to get a decent grasp of these topics through Google and O'Reilly books, it's definitely an order of magnitude more difficult than figuring out a new web framework. As mentioned before, I only have a minor in CS so my exposure to these topics was minimal, and there were definitely nights where I found myself wishing I had taken another AI or advanced algorithms course.
I don't think you can play 20 questions and also say that you are respecting the NDA.
You know, I was just reading a WSJ special on how returning PTSD-afflicted veterans were lobotomized...

Reading back on what happened to Turing and countless other homosexuals gives me those same chills.

What a simple pleasure it is to live in the era we do now. No, not everything is perfect, but so much has improved, and it's up to all of us to improve things even further, and to keep the momentum going.
JQuery Mobile 1.4.0 Released
Finally: Finger Trees – Good Math, Bad Math [2009]
I didn't read OP's comment as saying Feinstein wasn't serving any industry's interests -- but that she was being actively and passively hostile to the tech sector which comprises a significant part of her constituency.

I'm happy to say I've voted for her opponent in every election where the option was available to me. I suggest everyone living in California do the same, barring her running against a truly ghastly opponent. (But isn't that always the issue...)
By 'save' do you mean locally, or do they also disallow email, dropbox, etc? (I think it's great what you're doing regardless; I ask only to more clearly assess their intentionality in all this...)
Fips certifications cost some money and openssl relies upon sponsors to do that. As I understood their explanation it was one of the fips sponsors.

It had a bug anyways, nobody ever used dual ec with openssl.
The new version of AstroPerfume released
AstroPerfume is a tool that recommends perfumes with birthday and liked rank.

The initial idea is from my girlfriend because she likes perfumes and astrology, so one day she hand me in a recipe of how to select perfumes based on her birthday, and ask me to "cook" an website based on it.

Make a long story short, I "cooked" the website (only one page), my gf like it, and also, a lot of her friends start use it to select perfumes for themselves and their gf/bf.

So I release it and shared on reddit,facebook and other social sites, finally there a lot of feedbacks and good ideas returned to me. So, I updated it and wanna collect more feedbacks from you!

The new features added:

1. Added the scent notes info for each perfume.
2. Added the collected shopping links for each perfume

Yes, I will get some dollars if you buy perfumes via the shopping links. And I will be very happy! :-)

Website: http://astroperfume.com

Merry Christmas!
Never expect Iron Maiden article here in HN, this is absolutely ROCKS!!!
Does somebody know of a self-hosted version of LastPass? I like being able to login anywhere and have my passwords available.
Doesn't Ray own a business that sells supplements?
Glances - An eye on your system
One problem with the ride-sharing apps (Lyft and Uber) is insurance companies are now wise to them.

I just got my renewal, and they specifically exclude coverage for vehicle damage, occupant injuries, pedestrian injuries, and pretty much everything else, should your vehicle be used in a ride-sharing program.
Santa's Village Interactive Christmas Calendar
I have a sneaking suspicion that this would have been built with Google's recently released Web Designer toolkit [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
What a fascinating turn of events. I may now actually like Catholicism
no, the problem is "encouragement".

When they passed Sarbane-Oxley they gave corporate executives just a few years to implement it. Don't implement it and we DELIST your stock. Implement it WRONG and go to jail. Needless to say, public traded companies worked VERY QUICKLY to get it done and fired people at will if they were in the way.

when the military needed to PAY people.... they got the job done well. that system celebrated 50 years of service getting checks out. So it's just a matter of getting all those disparate systems in line with the check writing system. Just nobody has the political will to accomplish it.

This is where the commander in chief not being able to summarily execute people in the military has it's drawbacks.. cause that's how Sun Tzu got the palace maids to properly military drill... do it right or get killed. Oldie but goodie.
I did an undergrad in CS (Columbia) - in retrospect I should only have minored in CS.

I'm not sure it's worth the workload!

You will have _no_ free time and get reamed in GPA

Very math-heavy and the project based classes were brutal.
Campaigns won't work, be it email or phone. A lot of Californians (and US citizens in general) have been trained to automatically vote for someone with a D (or R) next to the person's name. They've also been trained to apologize for their politicians, buy into whatever they say, and ignore serious issues. Skepticism and criticism only apply to people from the other side, and even then, it's only the easily marketable rhetoric people will repeat.

In California, Feinstein will be re-elected into her grave because of that D next to her name. She could support almost everything George W Bush stood for, just say otherwise, and that D will keep her in office. Want proof? Look at Obama.
Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
What makes you think the NSA's ineffectual dragnet would suddenly have been super effective if they had done "profiling"? And why are you including Richard Reid, whose plan failed miserably, in your list?

Furthermore, given your examples, "profiling" only appears to work because "terrorism" is informally defined partly based on the religion/ethnicity of the attackers. Aside from those aspects, James Holmes, Aaron Alexis, and Adam Lanza would be perfectly at home on your list, but they don't count as "terror attacks" because our definition of the word is idiotic. And the fact that "profiling" would completely miss attackers like these is ignored, because we don't consider them to be important.
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gotcha. understood.
Customers of any product rarely care what the people involved with the arts and sciences behind those product's creations do.

That observation is not restricted to coding or comp sci.
Jac Holzman
computer science != a CS degree
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/BloodBloodProducts...

FDA is pretty clear on why they don't want blood donations from men who had sex with other men.
I imagine that entertainers enjoy touring/performing vs. viewing it as a chore/work.
Wow, very creative! I know it's not the cheapest way to do it, but MooCards.com makes it really easy to print sets of unique business cards (like each card in the stack has a different design) - that might be a fun way to 'make it real' with cards he can play with his friends if he manages to get a league going at his school or something!

Great work Gregpilling Jr, keep it up!
Q: Does he test a null hypothesis.

How much money goes toward <promoting> climate change? That would actually be a far more intersting paper. Count all of the receipts and distribution of cash-flows down to the nickel on expensed taxis and expensive hotel-rooms, promotions, papers, professorships and other "self-interested" uses of what is almost always tax-payer money. There is nothing wrong at having a two-sided debate, I think the FISA courts are excellent examples on that front. People asking questions and taking opposing views is not, in the general sense any form of "conspiracy". Especially when what they are arguing over is just a proxy-war over other political topics that polite company doesn't always discuss in public--because it basically comes down to peoples sources of salary and their pay grade.
Mass surveillance of foreigners vs. citizens is a red herring anyway, since the national agencies can easily get around such restrictions by swapping data, or by declaring data "foreign" when it travels over international networks. And those are just the workarounds we've heard about.
Lies on surveillance is one if many issues Senator Feinstein is an embarrassment to me. It started with her own self serving nature even as mayor of San Francisco.

Google her stance on gun ownership and the steps she took for her own private interests.