skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a naked emperor on the server is a diplomatic concession to the fact that there is also a naked emperor on the client. There's nothing anybody can do to put clothes on the Emperor of the Client, while you can dress your Emperor of the server any way you want.
It only works for certain kinds of sites, but if it's a site you can host on third-party hosting (as opposed to needing DDOS protection of your own network or VPS), Nearlyfreespeech.net has a pretty good track record with mitigating DDOS on sites they host. They also have a strong ethos of not blaming the customer for "provoking" the attack, or terminating them for the inconvenience.
The 2014 Mercedes E- and S-klasses that I've tested also do active intervention if you try to change lanes towards a car in your blindspot. Via braking on the opposite side.
well then how would you compare Redhat Enterprise with the Gentoo distribution and other more custom type distros? what exactly is the 'enterprise standard? It seems like Redhat enterprise is used in corporations because it has become a so called 'standard rather then being superior to other Linux choices. it took a long time to even get Linux into the corporate world because other Unix's were 'standards.
I suspect the OP has USD, and that the RaboDirect account will be in AUD. Investing in AUD would be a bold investment approach, and certainly not risk free.
Probably. On the other hand if chips get as optimized as they can get aside from further advance of Moore's Law, and they're produced in mass quantities, maybe people will start using them as heating elements in home water heaters.

A lot of the emerging currencies are focusing on memory-constrained hashing algorithms. RAM has price/energy ratios similar to what I mentioned for ASICs, and is already in mass production and about as optimized as major industry is able to make it.
Good advice!

On top of start small I'd add: just finish it first. Maybe consider giving yourself a deadline. I got my first tabletop RPG supplement out last year because I signed up for (and got accepted into, horror of horrors) a table at a games/comics/arts festival. I had to go from idea to printed product in three months and worked my ass off in between my day job and taking care of my family to pull it off. But I did it and I am glad: finishing something has opened up my eyes to what's possible.

That being said I also took some time off of work last year to explore making games. There's a flourishing, inclusive indie developer community in my city and that was a real boon. However I'm still not sure how/if any of them make a living from their games.

Is it actually possible to aim your sights on a career in indie game development with all the responsibilities of a mortgage and family?

I want to do more games stuff but I foresee it being a hobby more than anything.
Interesting idea.

I'm curious as to how accurately sexual attraction can be measured by looking at a picture of a person. I don't have a better proposal, barring actually filling a resort with cameras, inviting a bunch of single people to it, and tracking what happens. You could send in some actors who do shame, pride, etc and see how they do, but you'd need to control for their relative physical attractiveness. So I guess you do lots of groups, and the actors change their role every time. Or get identical twins. You'd have to be careful with ethics, though.
http://fxdata.net

A foreign exchange data platform.

Check it out on a tablet or desktop for the full experience.
I see no reason to anticipate Bitcoin moving to a new hashing algo, given the investment in existing hardware, and that the hardware owners are the ones who vote with their gigahashes on how the network functions.

However, even if it were to change, there are several altcoins that use the same hashing algorithm (PeerCoin being the biggest), and/or someone will invent a new blockchain service to take advantage of the existing hardware. While I think there is great merit to ASIC-resistant hashing algorithms of ProtoShares/PrimeCoin/etc, that ASICs would ever become useless seems highly unlikely.
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Where's the cable company exec who's willing to admit their industry blows? I think it's refreshing to hear him acknowledge how crappy telecoms are. I think it's even better that they're shaking things up.
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First, I agree that libertarians are intellectually embarassing, and I am sad to see them arguing poorly for so many things I agree with.

Second, addressing deflation.

From the point of view of production: deflation would get priced into the value of the currency so that it wouldn't at all be clear that holding onto deflationary currency will net you more than actually investing it in productive activity.

From the point of view of consumption: Arguing that people will hold onto currency to eek out a little more value is like arguing that people in an inflationary economy will withohold selling goods and services to eek out a little more value. It just doesn't happen that way.

In an inflationary society, consumption can't and won't be deferred indefinitely (the rich would rather have their new boat now and the poor don't have an option to wait and buy food later). Same goes for production in an inflationary society.
Luckily there are solutions to both. For example, at least two currencies are coming out using zero-knowledge proofs to break the links between transactions, and the "finite blockchain" idea would reduce the long-term blockchain storage to a constant few bytes per block, regardless of transactions per block.
A perfect example of the K.I.S.S. Principle.
Looks interesting. Please change the red background though. I couldn't look at your site for more than 5 seconds. It's just a little too bright IMO.
"Being a sci-fi author is about being open to possibilities. When a writer loses that ability to see what might be, maybe it’s time for him to step aside and make way for a new generation of authors who still can."

What an insulting way to conclude an article.

"If you lack the vision to agree with me about Bitcoin, maybe you're old and terrible at your job."
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Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to?
My son is writing moble apps using Objective-C and is around 11. My question is if arithmetic is 1 and advanced calculus is 10 at about what cognitive level is bog standard, journeymen, CRUD programming in Objective-C?

(Please remember that voting does not up vote the poll.)
Pre Algebra
Algebra 2
Pre Calculus
Advanced Calculus
Very curious about how this has been working for you. How has it improved your experience developing node apps? Any tips you have for setting it up?
I've had similar thoughts.

My current plan is to move towards contracting work. Therefore, if there is time between contracts, instead of dwelling on loss of income, it essentially gives you time to work on your hobbies.

In your situation you'd need to ensure you are well ahead of your mortgage.
Tl;dr

It's a "good enough" gun that the Soviets and licensees made over 100m of. Guns, parts and ammo are available anywhere.
> But the only assumption required is that someone uses your product instead of the free alternative. He might have higher quality software, but he does have less software freedom.

No, he has the same software freedom -- he has the freedom to choose to use and/or modify the free version and any free derivatives people have chosen to make, and the freedom to choose to use the non-free derivative, with perhaps less freedom to modify it.

If anything, he has less freedom when the creation of non-free derivatives is prohibited.
That's a bit circular. You care because you've decided that it's important and believe others should believe the same. But, it doesn't materially have anything to do with anything.

A candidate is not inherently less capable of doing the job simply because of their language unless, of course, their job is to please people who care about language.

Personally, I appreciate a person who says what he thinks, and I think we see painfully little of this in the business world.
as a control, I'd be interest to see how people do drawing the same map when they can see a reference map as they're drawing. perhaps people just suck at drawing? That is obviously true to some extent, but how much so?
Almost forgot: in Go, classes aren't "closed". While you cannot "monkey patch" and change existing methods, you can define new functions, such as my_set_comparator, that accept each given type as "this". You would then make a new interface, such as my_set_element, which defines method my_set_comparator, and any data types for which you had defined my_set_comparator would automagically meet the new interface.
>> there's this undercurrent of hatred for baller/rap/black (so-called "douchebag") culture

Sorry, but the hatred for RapGenius doesn't come from programmers hating black culture. It's from the founders being fake, and as you said, douchebags. They're three white Yale graduates trying way too hard and ultimately being inauthentic. That's what's off-putting -- saying things like "baller-sourced" [1] just is an obvious ploy, appropriating words to give themselves fake credentials and personalities as rap aficionados.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo (~1:30)
SNMP is already being abused for this
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Probably only true in some countries/cities. In latin america, for example, is a low pay job.

The joke here is that we do it for the love, because the day we want money then is better to sell "empanadas" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empanada).

Even if is a very good developer. Also, here we become "full-stack" just because that is what is need to survive..

BTW: http://giveupinternet.com/2009/01/09/look-im-a-programmer-i-...
Better advice: Pick another industry, no field is nearly as competitive and difficult to make a profit in as indie-games. Most industries you have a handful of relevant competitors. In indie games you have thousands, most of which are some combination of better funded, better connected, and more experienced. Combined with the fact that it's a hits based market, where only a few games make a majority of the wealth.... Most indie game devs would do much better salary wise working a 9-5.

/gamedev cynicism
Great quote that (IMO) demonstrates Nintendo's philosophy towards new technology:

----- [2003]

Each time Satoru Iwata did an interview with the press, the subject of online gaming would rear its head. As you can imagine, Iwata became increasingly annoyed with answering the same question over and over. He slammed critics who claimed that Nintendo couldn’t survive as a business unless they embraced online gaming as the future.

“All the talk in the industry regarding online gaming has been misleading. Network swindlers have made it seem like companies can’t survive in this business without network compatibility,” said Iwata. “That’s the same type of rhetoric people have been saying about the newspaper business, that the paper-based periodical business will be dead in three years. In reality, the number of users willing to pay a monthly fee for online games is small. Many of the American companies who were focusing almost exclusively on network games last year now view network capabilities as an advertising tool. The fact of the matter is, network games can’t provide a stable source of profit for a company of Nintendo’s scale.”
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OkCupid had already figured this out back in Jan 2010 [1]:

> For women, a smile isn’t strictly better: she actually gets the most messages by flirting directly into the camera

> Men’s photos are most effective when they look away from the camera and don’t smile. Maybe women want a little mystery. What is he looking at? Slashdot? Or Engadget?

> We were sure [MySpace angle] pictures were lame. But we were so wrong. In terms of getting new messages, the MySpace shot is the single most effective photo type for women.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile...
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Intuitively agreed at first. But then I imagined the main alternative of clustered columns/bars and now tend to think that line graphs can be grasped more quickly.

Any other alternative graph formats? Maybe just show the deviations from the neutral control?
5GB is hard to hit if you're only using them on your phone. Even then, YT videos and podcasts can easily get you to that number.

But if you add in a laptop, things get real ugly, real fast...
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World Post? Gosh, what an awful name. Are all the good ones gone?
Ask HN: Will "news.ycombinator.com" return?
> What ways would those be?

In the case of GPLv3, the development of software for hardware devices that are tamperproofed -- unless those devices are intended for "business" rather than "consumer" markets. [1]

The GPLv3 restricts the features of products made with software licensed under it based on how the products are intended to be used.

[1] "business" and "consumer" are rough descriptions, the actual definitions are more complicated and are contained in the GPLv3.
Do the waitstaff dress up like characters from popular manga/anime series? If so, this is nothing new.
A nitpick - addictive is the adjective you're searching for.

If the word "addicting" exists at all, which is debatable, it would be a transitive verb - eg. the pimp's strategy is addicting girls to heroin, then exploiting them
Agreed, and happily sweet.js is very consciously modeled after Racket.
It's a massively multiplayer bombmerman, so a clone with a lot of cool stuff added to it. My writing tends to have a lot of fluff, so sorry for the extra bulk :)

The point I was trying to make is Bombermine is somewhat of a mix between a website and a game, and it works well for it.
> With both "free" and "permissive" licenses

"Permissive" licenses are a subset of "free" licenses; the contrast you probably intend is between "copyleft" and "permissive" licenses.
I'm not a Python user so I can't really compare. I still don't agree with it since it forces longer paths to get to your project, and I wouldn't really call it isolated.
because it's profitable? there are providers that allow this because it gets them a lot of sales.
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Seems like this research could benefit from a complementary studies and shouldn't stand on one test alone.
Indeed, the GA autopilot systems are pretty simple: keep wings level, altitude hold, vertical speed hold, etc. On the other hand; you can take a lot more risks in your plane that will cost the insurance company a lot of money -- tailstrikes, flying into IMC, flying while sleepy, etc. If you total your Piper Cub, that's going to cost the insurance company a lot of money. If you total your Prius, that's cheaper.

On the other hand, it's a lot hard to get a pilot's license compared to a driver's license. (What are the requirements for a driver's license these days? Having a pulse? No, I don't think they check for that...)
> the paper-based periodical business will be dead in three years.

That quote was apprently from 2003. Many (formerly) paper-based periodicals may be dying, but some, like the Financial Times and the New Yorker, seem to have a reason to live.
Yes, these are good insights. If consumers hoard currency in a deflationary economy, we should expect producers to hoard in an inflationary one.

(I’d also argue that there is nothing special about “zero”, that slight inflation or deflation are not different in kind.)

Further, the tech industry fits every definition of deflationary – your dollars will buy more next year, and consumers hold expectations of same. But it has grown in wages, revenues, consumer benefit, persistently.
no major providers that I'm aware of support flowspec. it's also juniper only currently
> I don't know these people personally but I've deep respect for those that understand inequality, and wish to pay it more than just lip service.

That is how I found it. I started reading it because of a catchy title, then go into it and learned a bit more about the Valley culture. Personally I don't know much and am not usually interested in start-ups, but after being here for years, feels like I should know more so once in a while I would read stuff about it.

Also this kind of reminded me of an older satirical post about the Valley and start-up culture -- "We'll Be Circling Back" by Harj Taggar http://paulgraham.com/circling.html
"All"? I thought it was just AT&T. Verizon is the only network in the US that's compelling, but they don't have unlimited plans, so T-Mobile is the only reasonable carrier for people that don't want to count every bit they transfer.
And those features can be rolled in to BTC without breaking existing wallets?
It's not really fair to call the 3DS a failure. While the launch was rough, the 3DS has definitely recovered. Hopefully, they will be able to pull off a similar turnaround with the Wii U.

However, I'm not totally optimistic. The Wii U has been an absurd marketing disaster.
Keep in mind that this appears to be a Dell "Professional" series monitor and not one of their UltraSharp lineups. So something somewhere has been sacrificed in order not to be included in the US class, and it shows in the price.

I also believe this specific monitor only does 30Hz refresh at 4K, so...that's a big part of it.
What type of programming, what paradigm, at what scale, and dozens of other questions... I can think of numerous areas where each of these is not only "analogous", but directly used.

- Want to even think of committing to scalaz/haskell? Category theory
and lambda calculus.

- Want to develop a physics engine for a modern 3d shooter?
Geometry, trig, single/mutli-variable calc, algebra, and differential equations.

- Want to do some NLP? Discrete math, automata theory,
not to mention a strong background in linguistics.

- Want to do some ML? Bayes statistics.

- And so on..

I've always been amazed by how little is needed to squeak by in some scenarios and also how much is needed to do truly amazing things. The more you learn and push, the more you realize you don't know.

Edit: This was prior to OP clarification. :)
I think the question of whether or not mental states cause the collapse of the wavefunction is open to interpretation[0]. All observers consistute an ontologically distinct mental reality[1], which by postulation is describable in terms of matter, and so a fortiori describable by quantum mechanics. Generally speaking, this means that the notion of "subjectivity" at the fundamental level of this supposed (quantum) ontology is statistically insignificant.

The idea here is indeed that for formal consistency, all entities, mental or otherwise, must be described in quantum mechanical terms such that the description of mental states structurally composes Hilbert space as Hilbertian subspaces.

Essentially, as per my diagram mentioned earlier, mental states occupy a position in the table such that if all mental states are accounted for in the description of Hilbert space, a pre-theoretical "rhythm" of statistically described decoherence is established.

Nowhere do I presuppose that mental states are necessarily human, but only that the structure of consciousness is amenable to the structure of material reality. Biological reality itself is an implementation, or supervenes on, a fundamental material reality. There is no ontological commitment here to hominids as such in that hominids alone experience consciousness.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_causes_collapse#...

[1]: "The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things." E2P7. Ethica. Baruch Spinoza.
Let's look at DSLs that which they were DSLs. To be kind we'll limit ourselves to javascript.

On the building side we have Grunt and the less popular but still useful Jake.

Ember's property system is a DSL.

Angular's DI syntax is a DSL and as much as I love Angular there's really nothing to like about the horrible mix of ([{ that one has to use here.

Actually Ember and Angular and just about every meaningful javascript framework defines several small DSLs.

Pencil Code is an excellent learn-to-program DSL built on Iced Coffeescript.

Coffeescript's crazy syntax makes DSLs slightly more approachable than Javascript but only for a while.

Express and most server frameworks define a DSL.

Anytime you find yourself passing a non trivial config struct you're really playing with a DSL.

This is by no means a complete list.
Tech Managers are:

1. Out for themselves

2. Trying to manipulate credit and blame

3. Trying to manipulate hiring

4. Trying to manipulate compensation and promotion

5. Trying to get between makers and customers to leech money from both

6. Creating artificial problems to 'manage'

7. Roadblocking and gatekeeping

If someone said that in order to be allowed to produce products for a customer you have to pay ten levels of management millions of dollars to oversee things that don't need to be overseen, you would call that racketeering.
I imagine line graphs are the default in whatever LaTeX graphing library was used.
It should be noted that Charles Stross wrote a book, Neptune's Brood, where a bitcoin-like currency is used to finance interstellar colonization, so a lack of vision is not really a problem.
"Ethically permitted" means "can do while being moral". It's a synonym for "moral".

And yes, people should be able to force you to provide your information in order to access their private property.
> It added the tivoization clause which prevents companies from selling hardware to you with GPLv3 code and not allow you to run your own modified version of the code on said hardware.

That depends on who "you" are. In the FSF's view some users are permitted to want to purchase hardware that can't be tampered with, and others are not.
Rap is music, hip-hop is culture.
>Inheritance is overrated, and the factory pattern is often overused. Both of those happen with generics.

No, both of those have absolutely nothing to do with "generics".
No, for us it wasn't that much of a problem at all - but we'd made similar trips using Verizon as our carrier, so we were expecting a similar area of coverage. Since this wasn't really advertised to us up front, it gave us the perception that the service was sub-par in comparison to other offerings.

That said, if I needed a month of stop-gap coverage on the cheap, I'd definitely use the service again.

Edit: Oh, and we've just moved to Christchurch. I think it's a similar story here w/ coverage between cities, but obviously the distances involved are much, much smaller.
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I suspect it’s more that image macros and memes appeal to a wider audience than does the kind of carefully curated news, analysis, and longform content that the NYT produces. I guess I’m not really sure where to begin comparing audience metrics between reddit and NYT as if their offerings were similar at all? Is this a real comparison that real people are making?
Betabrand REALLY needs a new UX/UI person
Notch had really similar advice in the Minecraft movie. The interview asks him for advice for aspiring game devs, and he responds in a wonderful deadpan: "don't follow any advice" (paraphrased)

Although, interestingly, the creation and growth of mine craft fit the author's advice pretty closely (untraditional marketing, huge idea, just release it)

Edit:
Here's the link to Notch's advice -
http://youtu.be/ySRgVo1X_18?t=1h20m36s
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"The best advice I can give anyone is 'don't listen to advice'"