skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's "common knowledge" at all, that Python/Ruby are "best" for this. They might arguably be "most popular" but "most popular" does not necessarily mean "best". It's entirely possible that there isn't even any such thing as "the best" language platform for this. There are a lot of variables.

Anyway, if you already know Java and have some familiarity with that world, I can't recommend Groovy and Grails highly enough. Grails has been a tremendously productive environment for me, FWIW.
"Our direct-selling division has recorded seven consecutive months of year-over-year growth, and new sales force hires are up 25% over last year as well. And, thanks to our loyal retail customers, we recorded the largest ever sales month in the history of that division in October—and we did it without Amazon!"

Huh? The direct sales division and retail division each increased sales after they stopped selling via Amazon. That's what you'd expect, as long as _some_ of your would-be Amazon sales turn into direct/retail sales.

It would be more interesting to know if their overall sales have gone up.
Emotion and robots?
when robots, drones, machines, etc. become deeper learners will we begin to be emotionally invested in them?
While not a Catholic, I think Francis's accomplishments in this area are both overrated and underrated. They are overrated because he isn't saying anything that the last four popes did not say in terms of the actual issues.

But they are also underrated because what Francis has done is to put the pieces together differently. He's essentially pointed out that the Church's teachings on economics (again going back more than a century) are central because the modern capitalist structure leads to everything the Church deplores in the modern world. It leads to independent retirement (throwing old people away, in Francis's words), and that to abortion. In essence, what he's done is to step back from the fights of the 1960's and return to the fights of the 1930's, and for this the Progressives seem to love him.....

What the Catholic Church can accomplish is the further development of Distributist thought, as an alternative to Capitalism. But Distributism is no longer just a Catholic thing. I was introduced to the concept by a Russian Orthodox priest, and I find many of the most Distributist folks I know are Neopagans (particularly Asatru).
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What's the Earned Income Tax Credit if not a negative income tax?
I don't see how that's the case at all. What I do see is that when banks and government are so convolved as to be indistinguishable, there is necessarily harmful monopolization of markets and finance.
> I don't think it's ASIX since they don't have the single 25MHz clock source; more willing to bet on Microchip or SMSC.

Note that it identifies itself to the system as ASIX, though. Of course, it could be that other companies actually have a license to make ASIX things...
Actually lots of people observed this. I am not sure who you are referring to. Keynes? Marx? Minsky?

Of these, I think the most damning condemnation actually came from Minsky (who was an American economist).
It's extremely unlikely you'll get prison for marijuana possession. Stop spreading propaganda.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/top-10-marijuana-m...
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You're spot on about the PLL stage, a few people on Reddit pointed the same thing out when I first posted it. Makes sense, although I still think it's interesting they added it internally to an otherwise (apparently) cloned design.

You're also right that USB CDC does provide the option for a generic USB Ethernet device, however this silicon is ASIX-specific (not just the USB IDs.) ASIX's Windows drivers include their own system driver binaries, and the ASIX Linux driver has a lot of ASIX-specific stuff in it.

I think it's kind of possible ASIX made this themselves as some kind of no-name branded unadvertised market segmentation effort. I can't understand what their rationale would be exactly but hardware companies do unusual things sometimes...
Package management, kernel modifications, the ability to know whether or not your machine is back-doored, among other things. The ability to run an OS that will actually run on other hardware. The fact that it's open source also has a lot of indirect value to many of us as well.
'I'm going to delete an email because it has a CV in an editable format it in'

'Ask me to telnet into your CV or solve an algorithm that prints your CV...'

--

If everyone had the ability to read minds and know how a given employer wants to see their resume/CV, then a 'standard format' wouldn't be necessary. But because the powers of long-range telepathy have evaded us so far, we end up agreeing as a society that certain formats are acceptable. It's not that we personally like them, but it's 'safe'. It's considered normal and there is kind of an unspoken agreement between everyone that a .doc or .docx file is acceptable.

If you ask 99% of employers to telnet into your CV, they are probably going to tell you to kindly fuck off, and so you don't.

--

'They’re going to complain about overtime'

The idea that you don't want to hire people who are motivated strictly by a paycheck is fine, but this attitude right here breeds the shitty culture in software development we have today, where 60, 70, 80+ work weeks are considered normal and 'if you don't like it, leave'. It's poisonous to an entire industry. People have lives -- I like to volunteer at my local zoo and write music in my free time. If I had a job that just expected dozens of overtime hours every week because 'reasons', then I'm not taking it.

--

In the real world, people do want jobs. People do want jobs they love, and they are willing to give up a lot for jobs they love, and you might be providing them with one, but you need to come down to earth and realize that this isn't the only job they will ever apply for and expecting to be super impressed by the way they apply for the job is unrealistic, unfair, and I dare say, 'out of touch'. These people also have lives outside of work. Hobbies, family, friends and such take time and if you are hiring people that are willing to give up all of that in the name of work, I'd be really concerned for them.
My favourite link for the current Fukushima 'news' is
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiat...
"Bing exists than it is that it is equal to or better than Google in every way"

How is Bing better than Google (Search) in every way? With worse relevance and smaller index? Although, IIRC, Bing used to train their neural net based on Google search results to match the Google search quality (remember the 'torsoraphy' incident)?
This part pretty clearly isn't a knockoff, though; it's a version made cheap almost to the limits of practicality (or maybe beyond, if you care about producing radio interference) through design changes.
In terms of stealing the idea - how can you forget Xerox? Although there was no acquisition involved.
It looks as brand related searches were not that significant until the Google penalty happened.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rapgenius%2C%20rap%20...

According to Compete.com about 5% of their searches were brand-related queries
https://app.compete.com/website/rapgenius.com/

SimilarWeb also shows most their top queries were unbranded
http://www.similarweb.com/website/rapgenius.com

Alexa puts the branded-traffic number closer to 2%
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rapgenius.com

(All these tools have errors, but sites like Amazon.com or eBay are more like 15% to 25%+ on the branded traffic front http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/amazon.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ebay.com ).
From the post:

"When I ran a TCP throughput test with iperf, they both performed well. The Apple adapter measured throughput of 94.3Mbps. The cheap adapter measured 87.4Mbps. By comparison, the builtin ethernet on my laptop measured 94.8Mbps (after being set from gigabit to 100Mbps.)"

So, there is a difference, but it's relatively small (and possibly acceptable for the things people use ultra-cheap ethernet adaptors for).
You are implying that homelessness is a calculated choice, and that if it becomes unpleasant enough, an individual will decide to stop being homeless.

This is absurd because it fails to recognize that homelessness is not a choice, it is the default when no choice is available. It is literally the bottom of the list, lower even than jail (many homeless people try to get in jail on purpose, especially during the winter).

Making life more difficult (and dangerous) for homeless people won't stop them from being homeless. It might, however, get them to go be homeless in someone else's town - which is the real motivation for inhumane policies. Make human suffering someone else's problem, not in my back yard.
Terribly. But in those days you could barely target at all, and YC is a pretty niche product.
You misread that sentence.

> it is more important that Bing exists than OTHER CONDITION

Where OTHER CONDITION is what you've quoted. He isn't calming that OTHER CONDITION is true, merely that it isn't the most important thing.
First of all, if a developer is applying for a job with me and he sends me a Word Doc CV, I’m going to delete his email. Why? Because a word doc is an editable format. But I don’t need to edit his CV. If you really need to send a traditional CV, make it a PDF. It’s basic IT competence.

He sounds like a horribly picky (for no good reason) boss to work for. Only Rockstars need apply.
As someone that writes a lot of code, both commercial product, contracts and FOSS, the two responses that make sense are: better copy protection or copy encouragement. One side boosts revenue while the other makes customer acquisition easier. Usually the later is used first and later on gradually shift to the former.

Rife theft is a huge opportunity to convert unpaid to paid users.
Agree completely. I think that contemporary CS education is really responsible for this "more complexity is better" mentality, by encouraging overly general and abstracted solutions, and that abstraction should really be applied only when it's necessary and not as a "just because we can" thing.

Aspiring programmers could learn a lot from the demoscene, where astonishingly impressive things are done with very little code and complexity.
Why not switch as soon as you believe the other search engine is even an epsilon better?

It's not like you need to buy an entirely new computer and learn to use a new operating system to switch between Bing and Google.
I stopped getting spinning beachballs when I upgraded to an SSD. OS X, especially pre-Mavericks is a real RAM hog. Java GUI apps have a reputation of being even worse RAM hogs. I wouldn't be surprised to find your spinning beach balls are from swapping to disk.

The only Java app I use is BucketExplorer though, which isn't very heavy.
I guess both of these were related to nested interrupts somehow?
This may be the tipping point regarding federal policy. With marijuana laws already effectively off the books in California, Washington, Colorado, and more, there just isn't anything the federal government can do to make up for it. The average state prosecutes more marijuana possession cases than the federal government, and now states are deciding not to do this.

I think there's a point now where it makes sense writing to Congress and asking exactly what Congress thinks they can accomplish in this area without lifting the federal ban.
As do I.

Being as she is a physical geographer and given that the majority of scare articles have related to the spread of radionuclides and the so-called imminent danger to the west coast of the US (and countless doomsday-style scenarios that have been appearing since the events at Fukushima et al), having someone whose research has focused more or less on precisely the subject at hand is certainly relieving as well as enlightening

I think that's the point of this entire article, though. The scaremongering is being perpetrated by people who generally have no background in either oceanography or nuclear physics [1]. So in my mind, whether she's qualified to talk about the materials released is largely moot. The concern among conspiracists is how this material is going to spread (and purportedly kill us all), and she's more than qualified to explain how such theories are an expression of Chicken Littlisms.

[1] Granted, neither myself nor many of us here have such backgrounds, but I choose to lend greater credence to the arguments of someone who does have such a background.
I don't see any real difference between public or private as neither is more noble in motives. Neither has been given the correct incentives, so I figure experiment with those we can fire (private) until we find the right incentive list. Paying for capacity is one way to incentivize a desire for fewer prisoners and won't work in a public setting.
Something must be done? By people & politicians? This is the best way to fight poverty?

I agree that it isn't "magical fairy dust" that increases wages. What do you think it generally is?
I don't think it's at all pretentious, it's just an exploration of a bunch of fun things that occurred to Hofstadter, some of which probably occurred to you too if you were musing on one or other of G, E and/or B. H. has the time to expand on them, so it's fun to read.

It's only pretentious if you consider, say, Neal Stephenson pretentious. I generally find that the people who say kind of thing that don't understand the topics, but are intimidated to say so.

And G, E & B are all dead, yet their work is still relevent, which makes them by definition timeless.

I remember when it came out: it swept through my high school like wildfire. I think every student had read it by the end of that year.
> won't be able to outspend the NSA

You don't need to outspend the NSA to have good security. You just need to spend more than you used to. One example, for instance, is Google now has to encrypt all traffic on its own internal lines.
The "stop!" girl is more likely referring to this gif: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-girl which was recorded from a college football game.
Lolmythesis Tumblr: College students summarize their thesis in one sentence
This is a great old school tag line.
Currently, it is very easy for websites to provide better search results (but still not good) compared to Google and other search engines like DDG due to the limited crawling, except perhaps for the top few 1000 websites with small enough number of pages/URLs so that at least Google can keep them fully indexed.

This is also where dedicated "site search" providers can beat these search engines easily: they can offer a full crawl and depending on the size of the resulting index, they can bill the website owner (e.g. by storage used in GB or number of URLs).
So unimpressed with this arrogant, insecure behavior. See someone learning something, slap them down.
I can't really imagine that an average Zynga customer would want to use bitcoin.

How about once Zynga ramps up the slot machine stuff? Now there's a way to cash in and out.
Software piracy, no matter where I or anyone stands on it, is part of the economy. It's a forced sale price of zero just as FOSS. The interesting bit is there may be support costs, server costs and other indirect costs associated with pirated software. This hampers a shop's ability to release more versions and keep quality up. (Although it seems like there's always another version of VMware Fusion every time I turn around despite there being barely any investment into its development.)

And also there are interesting situations like DoD and BestBuy. Obviously the profit motive prevails after they've paid their fines and cut POs for maintenance agreements on X thousand seats.

Hypothetically, it would make financial sense for some high value products with a small market to intentionally "leak" to warez groups. It's easier to discover and monetize such obligated customers than fight year long sales cycles and/or pilot deployments.
When I read it in high school, I thought it was great. I read it twice, though I skipped most of the poetry parts and discussion of Bach.

A year or so back, I mentioned my admiration to a friend, who had a copy but hadn't yet read it. My friend (a CS person with a degree in Physics) tried reading it, and found it very hard going. So I looked through my own copy (signed by the author, I'll have you know).

Yes, it's all of what you listed. It looks like I mostly skipped the pretentious parts, and read the parts with whimsical humor. It was also at a time in my life where I didn't know much about recursion or self-referential statements, which made the book's ideas all the more engaging.

My suggestion is to give it a go, skim when it gets turgid, and admire some of the lengths the author went through to explore an idea. (Eg, an exploration of the three different ways to translate the abbreviated letter of a street name from Russian into English.
If he can't edit a pdf with a binary editor, or log into a dial-up connection by screeching into his telephone (no modem) then no true hacker will work for him. Other than that, he has a point.
Maybe, but it seems easier to just pull up somewhere and wait. Even if meter parking is expensive, you won't get a ticket for waiting in a meter spot if you are in the car (and can therefore move on at any time).
Misreporting like this for me always drives home the idea that historical veracity is laughable. We can't even get stuff happening now right!
Great writeup.

So I guess the question is, is the one with the fruit on it worth $25 more? It seems like the cheap one is more "Wozniak" in approach.
Ah! Mea culpa. I completely misunderstood your initial comment then. You're absolutely right.
Yes. Read it.

Read it again in 5-10 years.
I choose to stick with google because given the choice, I'd rather see them succeed than microsoft.

We're in the predictable phase where everyone hates google now because they're no longer the next big thing, but I'm not a hipster and I don't think microsoft is now the underdog so I don't get the google animosity and I don't get the sudden warmth towards microsoft.

Quite frankly I fucking hate windows, and I wish it would just go away entirely. To that end I avoid giving microsoft money at every opportunity.
If so, why don't they make an exact clone of the Apple one at $6 cost and sell it at $15, or even $10? The identical thing but at much better price. Win-win.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like they are just applying a simple Bayesian model to classify change requests? That doesn't seem to have much to do with gamification. Can anyone explain what I'm missing?
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> Triclosan is not used to control bacteria in the medical setting

Well, it actually is. The debate about whether using Triclosan-containing soap while caring for patients is appropriate is occurring in the medical field. I saw at least one paper out there discussing it in that context (sorry, no url) but I assumed the soap they're using has a higher concentration of triclosan than what you'd pickup in the grocery store. In retrospect I'm not certain that's true.
You're not only wrong, but incapable of knowing that.
Wish I could, but I don't see the edit button. :(
As someone who has worked with Win32 for a long time, I think the problem is quite simple; in the message loop body someone put something like

if(dataAvailable())
fetchData();

and assumed regular window messages to drive execution of this process. If you don't move the mouse or do anything else with the window, no messages are sent to it (unless a timer or something else does) and the message loop just waits for the next message, so that code doesn't get run. If you move the mouse around in the window a constant stream of WM_MOUSEMOVE will drive the loop. Polling really shouldn't be done in the main message loop; one way to fix this is to move to a completely event-driven system where dataAvailable() sends a message that causes the main loop to run fetchData().
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"Negated" is certainly overstating things, traffic deaths have been going down for decades in the US and European countries, so the combination of safety features in roads and cars, driver education work well enough to offset any worsening of driver culture (alleged increase of speeding, more cell phone use, etc.)
Moves to Curb Spying Help Drive the Clemency Argument for Snowden
Re: strings, I was referring to what I said already and you quoted only part of it:

> It's odd to me that they were willing to break so much code with 3.0 (by "fixing" strings and Unicode) but a couple decorators held this one back.
Is there a better word for using non-free software without a license?
more:

== 1 ==

"Nuclear Fallout Map

Claim: Message details effects of nuclear fallout from

Japan across the western United States." FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fallout.asp

== 2 ==

"Claim: Giant mutant killer hornets created by exposure

to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant have killed

several people in Nebraska. " FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/hornets.asp
The GEB was instrumental in making me a self-conscious and cynical fan of post-modernism and deconstruction, and an avid reader of tales about failure.

I recommend with a side of Neon Genesis Evangelion, David Foster Wallace and Radiohead.
Comparison of Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents
" … because while we can probably safely assume that NSA has better security than you or I … "

This is the same NSA that has no idea what or how many documents Snowden exfiltrated as a contractor sysadmin?

Would you bet your company's confidential data (and possibly future existence) on the assertion that Snowden didn't have access to that private key? Or that other less politically motivated NSA contractors didn't have access to that private key, and which they could have sold for profit instead of publicly whisteblowing for ethical reasons?
> > I've always considered it bad to use the RH provided python for development.

> May I ask why?

A great deal of the Red Hat management tools use that Python, so it's not something I advocate altering beyond the python packages provided by RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux.

Yes I can use virtualenv, but by the time I'm going that far, especially in the event of deploying 100's to 1000's of hosts, having a separate installation just isn't so difficult.
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Zappos says goodbye to bosses
Could medical marijuana be coming to a dispensary near you?
I'm not disputing the statement, I'm pondering the authors choice of words, it's almost like an apology. You don't usually admit to something you didn't do/cause, you just state it.
Yay, someone who also realizes that concurrency is somehow easier in assembly. Last time I heard that from anyone else was from Erik McClure.

It's sad it's taken this long for some things to be so simple in Java.

Also up-voted this, because it's good programming, something that comes around only every once and a while.
Money wins every time.
It does appear the Canadian conservatives have been learning from their brethren to the south: Karl Rove started the worst of such election abuses in the primaries against McCain in 2000.
How much code did the new strings break, exactly? What code it may have broken most likely benefits from the new unicode treatment, it was the worst thing about Python strings.

Removing self would be a far more massive change - it wouldn't just impact certain strings, it would impact every Python class.
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USB descriptors are programmed in the EEPROM, so they could've made it identify itself as anything they wanted. If you can dump the EEPROM, that can provide more clues - the configuration format does differ between manufacturers.
Whereas the 12-year-old me loved the Bach as well as the whimsy, appreciating the connection between maths and real structures. too young to parse he technical parts though. Time to look again.
"Method" hand soap has no triclosan in it.