skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes,

The article says that "club fed" is a myth but presents really no evidence and even someone quoted "you're doing easy time now, why run?" and some supervisor mentions basketball courts and say "you can't have them rot", unlike a medium or higher level prison, where rotting is exactly what's on the agenda. The Federal Prison System discard rehabilitation as even one of it's ostensible goals and so basically has punishment only as it's default aim.

"Club Fed"? In relative terms, it still looks like that.
Awesome site! You could easily monetize with just placing even a single AdSense ad on the site. An app might also be useful in monetizing. Is this a custom site? Curious what you used to make it.
"traffic" is a really ambiguous word. If I take it at face value, it's really easy to drive traffic to a site:
- recruit a bunch of affiliates to post pages with links back to your site (be discriminating on quality and frequency)
- use paid ads
- connect with a reputable backlink service that doesn't trip Google's radar.
- distribute a javascript widget that is hosted on your servers
- run a big promo with the promise of free gadets

However, I'm assuming what you really want is users/conversions. In that case, you need to think about your project/site/business as a relationship between 2 parties with the internet simply being a more scalable medium for communication between you.

To get people interested in a product/service, it has to fix a pain point, be really interesting, or you have to be the best. You can "be the best" by showcasing your knowledge of the problem with blog posts, interviews, helping people out on forums, and becoming involved in communities that would be in your target demographic (forums, meet ups, irc groups, etc).

Fixing a pain point or being really interesting is a product /market fit problem so if you've shown your site/product/service to a lot of people and it's not sticking, you need to do in-person interviews to figure out what's not good enough.

In general, if you're trying to build up traffic, that's really building up a community of people (who are the source of good traffic) so you need to approach that in the same way you'd build up a community offline: be interesting, be a good community citizen, and give without asking much in return.
You can go through the generated code examples at https://github.com/alpaca-api.

I tried to make them a lot more readable. :)
> oh yeah right, the government actually want to block these topics!! Of course they don't. Britain has one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in Europe and successive govs have spent a huge amount of time and money trying to correct.

Yes, but depending on the side of the political fence they're on, they have done so in vastly different manners. Hardline conservatives would see the solution to that in measures like banning abortion, minimizing social assistance and various other things which, in their view, strengthen the traditional family and scare or marginalize those members of the society that don't adhere to it.

This is, of course, the more extreme case; most conservative MPs aren't that hardline, but restricting access to those topics has a remarkable quenching effect on the social unrest of an increasingly cosmopolite Britain. Remember that it's not just websites about how to have anal sex with men that fall under the "LGBT" tag -- it's also websites, Twitter and Facebook pages of LGBT communities or activists. The last five years or so have shown that the Internet is a most effective rallying medium; the response times against abusive legislation has dramatically decreased as of lately.

It's also worth noting that the definitions are broad enough that they can be excuses for pretty much anything. A reporter has gained possession of documents that attest the corruption of someone big? Cool -- find an article about abortion or pornography and poof! their website is conveniently blocked. Before calling me paranoid, do remember that checks and balances are a part of every democracy. The Habeas Corpus Act is a fair example of that. It requires that the courts examine the legality of a prisoner's detention, in case abusive detention occurs, either as a mistake or as a political or economical mechanism (which it actually was, several times, before the law was adopted, and the precedents indirectly contributed to its adoption). What exactly is there to guard against abusive filtering?
Bite Sized Python Screencasts.
Though, the NFL already has 3D reconstruction technology called FreeD. Cowboys Stadium installed 12 4k cameras around each endzone. Using those points of view, they can construct a point-cloud and render a replay with arbitrary camera movement in 30 seconds.

There is a video here, demonstrating the technology with baseball: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/aug/13/free...
Down syndrome changed my life
In just 5 minutes I try to show how my daughter with Down syndrome changed my world...Hopefully it also inspires you to look at life a wee bit differently...
(p[1] - p[0]) / (40 * (c[0] - c[1])) < H

price of the closer apartment minus price of the cheaper apartment divided by the the longer commute minus the shorter commute (aggregated over a month).

If that's greater than your hourly rate, then you're paying "more" to live closer ... if it's less, then you're saving money.

(more or less, anyway)
I'm not - I think the objectively privileged situation of the SF techie is a great argument to make. But satire doesn't just describe things that are correct, or that are made on behalf of the underdog.
It may not be the best place to learn current idioms, but it is still worthwhile if you want to really understand the tools you are using.
> Google uses not Docker (that I know of) but containers for a lot of their development.

https://github.com/google/lmctfy

Interest in it seems to have died down.
Well, they did smash a Google Bus window!
I wonder, what do they consider very painful regarding to having this functionality on iOS < 6. Sure it's not just setting a single property, but [UIView endEditing:] and UIScrollViewDelegate protocol was available since iOS 2.
> At present you should not view Docker as a significant security enhancement. It makes processes less visible to each other, and you can use it as part of a strategy to isolate network traffic, but the kernel attack surface is unchanged

How is process isolation not a significant security enhancement?
Andresson didn't say anything close to "you'll be a millionaire soon [and] so will everybody else." He just said the technology market isn't going to implode again. There's a difference. I think his basic point is valid: that computer technology provides a real and highly valuable service, unlike, say, tulip bulbs. Therefore, while it may be overvalued, there is nevertheless something solid there. Unless you think people are going to stop using the internet soon.
I was shocked by MySQL-python not supporting Python 3 as well, but then I discovered that there are several better alternatives to MySQL-python that do support it, such as pymysql. AFAIK it's 99% compatible with MySQL-python.
Interesting problem!

> It’s also possible to compress “updates” to the bloom filter. The server just needs to calculate the XOR of the version the client has and the updated version, then run that through LZMA (the input will be mostly zeros), and transmit the compressed diff to the client.

> Unfortunately, for a reasonably large user base, this strategy doesn’t work because the bloom filters themselves are too large to transmit to mobile clients. For 10 million TextSecure users, a bloom filter like this would be ~40MB, requested from the server 116 times a second if every client refreshes it once a day.

Wait, the LZMA-compressed daily diffs would be still be ~40MB? If the 40MB is just the initial bloom filter download, that's not so bad. If 40MB is the daily diff, I'd be interested in seeing the calculation for that.
What repels me is the kind of approach taken by this Rozanski & Woods book. It's like a 500 pages of authors philosophy of software, and whether all that is of any use is completely uncertain. There is not much of a widely established corpus of knowledge on software engineering/architecture, another book would treat an almost completely different set of concepts, and whatever is commonly agreed upon is trivial and most people invent in on their own when they need it. You can publish completely anything about "Software architecture" in this spirit thats sounds smart enough and it won't ever be put to any test. I personally, from experience, don't believe any practical high-level theory of software engineering of this kind exists at all, the more "philosophical" or "theoretical" it gets the less useful it becomes. It is much better to spend this time studying established disciplines where things actually get tested out one way or another, mathematics, algorithms, operating systems, ... If there is anything specific to be taught under "software architecture", it's those ideas ("patterns") that made certain programs so much better than the alternatives, but you only really learn them by digging deep in, not by studying some very abstract models.
I'd like to see some fairness in the matter. I will sign all the non-disparagement clauses you guys like, if you do the same. In other words, the company cannot make any negative comments about me.

In general, I think fairness should be pushed way up front. Want me to give you two weeks notice? Okay. You give me two weeks notice before you "terminate" me.

It's all a contract, and there are two sides to it. I don't see any reason why one side gets all the royal treatment, whereas the other always gets the short end of the stick.
I agree.

Also, a lot of people with positive reaction just upvote an article. If you consider upvotes as positive comments, the ratio is way different.
I have to second this, if you use Ruby at all, Rubinius is quite fascinating to read, even if you still use MRI on a day to day basis.
Hacking the CES iBeacon scavenger hunt
the error is in sloppy induction. The inductive step attempts to assume the lesser n condition by mapping it onto itself (which is a fallacious situation).
I'm trying to understand why people pushing using of docker in the cloud instead of dedicated server. In the cloud it adds additional unnecessary level of abstraction.
Wow, you definitely sound a bit too defensive. A bit like my sister, in fact. She also followed the ketogenic diet for four months and was very, very adamant about how it was healthy because she was finally losing weight. But then reality hit her hard. She had her blood samples taken before she started the diet and after the four month period. What the lab results showed clearly was dangerously elevated levels of LDL (from all the fried pig skins and bacon jerky she was munching on, no doubt). She finally realized that, despite what you read on the Internet, nothing beats the hard results you see on a lab report. She returned to a normal diet afterward.
Jenkins CI with Rails projects • has_many :codes
Apples and oranges comparison: this is not a watch in the traditional sense. It's more analogous to a timer. In any case, it's a completely new product which means there probably aren't many efficiencies of manufacturing like there would be with watches.
I meant it in the "What is this shit?" or "What is this, 2004?" sense. There's no reason to use PDFs, especially when we're talking about developers and development. I'm not going to install a program just to view your document.
For internet surveillance, sure. For a while. But when the internet is a network of wireless devices, not all of which you own or even know exist, it becomes a swim against a waterfall.
Severance payments are not legally required in most U.S. states. The company might usually make a severance payment (because ex-employees usually sign whatever the company asks them to), but if you don't sign their agreement, they won't give you a severance payment. So the cost of not signing is whatever the severance was worth.
Manuel Diaz is the head of Toshiba Sales & Marketing for Latin America: https://plus.google.com/105717227635873644097/about http://www.linkedin.com/pub/manuel-diaz/4/862/644

Make a nice polite blog post with all of your documentation (including your sales receipt) and then send the link to him.
I think the appropriate term is caricature.
[Show:HN] Get your Android and iOS apps translated from Microsoft
They're on their second iteration right now, but I would point out that they've given free upgrades to all of their current explorers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same thing going forward
If I interpret that post correctly (and I'm not sure I do, because it sure reads like it was written by someone who doesn't really know what they're doing and has an axe to grind), they submitted a request for both IPv4 space and IPv6 space at the same time, and ARIN wanted to go through the approval process for IPv4 first. This is understandable and not surprising.

At the end of the post it even says "Nothing stopping us from paying 1250 a year for our own IPv6 space though.".

This is an angry, confused individual upset about costs who decided to go rant semi-coherently on a forum full of people I wouldn't trust to administer a network anyway. It is not a reliable source of information.

Any notion that you require an IPv4 allocation to get an IPv6 allocation is wrong, was wrong in April 2012 when that post was written, and as far as I know, has always been wrong. You have never required an IPv4 assignment to get an IPv6 assignment, such a policy would be absurd and utterly counter-productive.

This is the ARIN policy document in place in April 2012: https://www.arin.net/policy/archive/nrpm_20120210.pdf

I can find no requirement that new IPv6 allocations require an IPv4 allocation. See sections 6.5.2.2 and 6.5.8.1, which correspond to the pages I linked to earlier.
One Week Experience of the Jolla Phone
Yeah, ARIN is $500/yr for ISPs using a /22 or smaller of IPv4 space (i.e. 1022 addresses), $1000 for up to a /20 (4094 addresses): https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html

RIPE is a lot pricier for small members because it isn't tiered. Everyone pays €3800 the first year and then €1800/year thereafter: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/become-a-mem...
The Decoy Effect
One way to boost stock price: Hire a hot CEO
I really like this.

The data on sunshine seems off to me. Surely San Antonio, TX has more sunshine than Lexington, KY.
You can have a private bubble - it's just a smaller market.

There's certainly a trend, that software companies add value. There may also be a bubble atop that - it's hard to tell.

But I do hesitate over all these social startups; they seem close to fads to me. But this may just be my personal preference for tangible concrete usefulness, as opposed to communications (which admittedly has a history of success).

Note: amazon has never made a profit (partly because they reinvest). No profit from glorified mail-order doesn't surprise me - though AWS is a perfect online business.
Quick question how do you like jqPlot? Did you try anything like d3js? If so, any pros or cons of each?

I'm currently messing with d3js for some data I have on my F150 for the past year. (Fuel, mpg, odometer, fuel price, etc).

EDIT: I would recommend a "browse/explore" feature. I don't know audio equipment so I don't know what to search for. Your initial hint helps but doesn't keep a non audio expert around very long.
Parent makes this very clear statement:

> The statement will have no effect when the number of blue-eyed people is 3 or more

This is wrong, and is known to be wrong. Again, if you cannot understand a problem yourself, you might at least look into it before assuming you can.
4 points and the site is down
Part of the reason I use linux is that I want control. I like games too, but Steam doesn't give me control. I would prefer Steam didn't manage my games, I want everything separate from each other. Until I can do that, I won't use Steam (I've tried)

It wouldn't surprise me if there's a fundamental difference in thinking between linux vs other users.
It's great that Steam's been providing Linux games, but that's just not enough for me.
What was the price? They sold out of them and have apparently taken it down now.
Don't create more work for yourself. If the site is running well on WP-Engine and the cost is bearable, it sounds like time is the limiting factor.

You have been doing this because it is something you love, I think it might be time to find a small community of other people who also love the topic area and get them to contributors! A friend of mine runs a news/blog type site (The New Artemis) and she accepts submissions, reviews for gear, etc. She currently does most of the work but has a plan for bringing in new folks who are also obsessed EDC/survivalist fans to create and edit content.
With the same money you can buy a Pebble, and I'm sure that someone could easily write a Pebble app that vibrates every 5 minutes.
Site is down due to "excessive usage", couldn't find this in the Google cache either.
Could a Puerto Rico Default Hammer the US Bond Market?
From TFA:
> Oh, and no, it's not waterproof, so don't shower with it.

Water resistance just seems to be a requirement these days - even my Pebble which I'd never wear in the shower is water resistant so when I am forced to react to a bath incident, I don't worry about the watch, and my kids instead.

Sounds like a pet project - maybe they should hire a real watch designer who can get them from hobby to actual product at some point.
Israeli study of foreign fighters in Syria suggests Shiites may outnumber Sunnis
Yep that's the plan!
RTFA. He addresses that in the first few paragraphs. Because there are 10^10 possible phone numbers (approximately), it is very easy to build a rainbow table of all hashed phone numbers and back-track a hash to it's phone number.
I could do it for free with the alarm snooze feature on my 5 year old blackberry.
So don't do it. I know I'm probably in the minority here but I've never given another app permission to use my facebook or twitter account to "Find Friends" and I personally find the whole practice offensive. Just have an option to invite people by their email address/number/whatever, but not in bulk.
I had to look it up because I could not understand the reference, but for anyone else, a Dalit is a member of the untouchables caste in India.

http://www.dalitnetwork.org/go?/dfn/who_are_the_dalit/C64
Model-Slash-Coder Shatters a Dozen Tired Stereotypes
Looking for Hacker to Code 2 New Social Media Ideas
I need someone who can turn 2 social media ideas into working code. They must be self sufficient and able to think creatively. This is a great idea but is in its genesis.
The D3.js google group is chock-full of excellent advice, especially around reusability etc. NVD3 is a great way to put D3 in play with less hand-coding, too.

Check out Flask! I am no Python expert, but Flask is an excellent micro framework that makes (especially simple web) app building a simple(r) process. It's also fun.
By exercising one gains muscle mass, that consumes energy 24/7.
Slightly off topic here. I'm a bit baffled by that app. It's a fugly - it seems like a pre ios 7 app that was resurrected in a few days and isn't very Appley at all. I wouldn't call is skeuomorphic, but it isn't the new(ish) flat look. The main screen's background just looks like someone forgot to include the artwork. Its a flat grey though, so must have been chosen. The clunky FAQ page isn't nice either, and a straight link to a web page would have been nicer IMHO.
I can't take credit for bench-micro, but I was also really excited when I found it. And yes I'll add grape to the list.
"Silence is for the weak"
Haha Wired was crazy. There were a handful of other ones which were just as bad (Fast Company is another one that comes to mind).

It's also not just tech bubbles. The recent US housing bubble (when housing prices would never go down, because shut up that's why), and China's real estate bubble are great examples.
Does Snapchat's CEO Need to Go?
You are absolutely, positively wrong on this front. The new bill detectors use PCA and SVM to analyze notes. They're so good the treasury department buys them because they're better than the best systems out there.

Generally, however, the vending business is quite cheap. They buy the low end machine because there's not really a reason to bother buying the more expensive ones. However, go to a casino, or a foreign country that uses large bills, and you'll find the story is totally different. The machines are incredibly good.

* Source: I worked in this industry for years.
The Crypto Wars:  Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
You are wrong. The traveler's words are necessary, and you can easily see that by considering the case where the blue-eyed group consists of one person. Even when the entire island population is collected into a meeting, there is no reason for the unique blue-eyed person to suddenly intuit that he has blue eyes.
Yep, I did. I'm sure they are some fiddly bits that could have driven it a little higher, but if you look at the tech empower latest bench, the torqbox json rack test is within spitting distance of golang, so I don't think my results are that far off.
"Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise."

A personal attack? Can we save the ad hominems for somewhere else? I fail to see how being an informed consumer is a problem. I care how/where my dollars are spent.
If you're serious enough to want to target 5.1, you'd get a device that supports it. They're pretty trivial to come by at bargain prices.
I don't think this matters as much when dealing with a professional negotiator. He has less feeling involved.

With a private party, I agree with you.
That is the exact same argument that KK was making in that Wired piece.
Quote:

How many times in the history of mankind have we wired the planet to create a single marketplace? How often have entirely new channels of commerce been created by digital technology? When has money itself been transformed into thousands of instruments of investment? It may be that at this particular moment in our history, the convergence of a demographic peak, a new global marketplace, vast technological opportunities, and financial revolution will unleash two uninterrupted decades of growth.
I just tried it and it's a very cool app. Are you going to monetize it in any way?

I read a lot on this topic (SEO) at the moment but never heard about your spp. So you probably should reach out to top SEO blogs and post on forums. I'm sure they will be thrilled :)
Oh fun, I'll have to add that to the list.
that's absolutely true, however in this case I don't think a bro who went to a $35,000/year high school and $60,000/year college has ever worked very hard at much beyond keg stands and being narcissistic.
Incorrect. The magnetic detectors haven't been manufactured or sold since the early 80s.

The simplest machines do use 2 narrow optical detectors, but as their algorithms are considered good enough that you have to basically destroy a bill to use them, what's the point.

See my other post about SVM/PCA in this thread.
Is the name meaning "to crawl" in dutch intentional?
Love the copy. "Wait what". Totally hip.

Interesting concept. Though I'm sure there's an app for that... or will be.