skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What collusion are you talking about?
Does this strike anyone else as a bit careless and/or reckless?

Considering the people doing this are supposedly all DPRK defectors, they probably have a much better idea of the risks & consequences than you or I, so I won't pretend to know better than them.
It's pretty homegrown right now, we did the intro video ourselves on our laptops
I may be too cynical, but I see democracy as something the DoD implements these days.
Looks like the server already melted. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sPYunfa...

On a side note: I want to build a server that actually melts upon receiving too much traffic. Make it an art project.
Before steam sales and the humble bundles came along, I wasn't a paying customer.

The author's ideas about games rising in price is slightly ridiculous when placed in the perspective of an always-growing choice of games. I'm currently in the middle of a video game that was written 15 years ago. His game has to compete with that >and< everything that has been created since.
I guess burn some VC cash for a while and then get acquihired.
May be better idea would be to use some indirect, steganography like methods. Imagine the book which looks like official Kim Jong-il biography but starting with some page has his real biography and other information. Imagine the book which looks like official school physics book, but with additional paragraphs about rationality methods (are korean translations of lesswrong sequences exist?).
Silicone Negative ION bracelets contain unsafe amounts of radioactive material
They've been doing this for years. This particular launch was stopped, many others have succeeded. Whether they're making a perceptible impact is, of course, a question mark, but given the extent to which the DPRK fulminates against them, at least they're viewed as a threat.

http://www.seoulusa.org/balloons/
It's not even that. It's that good developers don't need to bid on outsourcing sites.
If you really try, for a long time, you can be that rational. Please note, however, that 99% of people are not that rational, and if you haven't realized it, you're also not that rational. (Neither am I! But at least I realize I have a problem... b^)

If none of this makes sense, take a look at the LessWrong site.
This collusion was frankly beyond obscene and should be totally illegal. Like non compete clauses, they're put in place so corporations are basically given a way to work together to oppress their employees. It's just as bad as Unions, but for corporations.
A lot of people will say they're married to someone as a joke. I was in a relationship with "My Right Hand" for a while.
> Please use a noun. What "That" did you mean?

If a hypothetical bytecode were designed, a compiler from this bytecode to asm.js would be just as fast in browsers without support for this bytecode (or for that matter asm.js) as asm.js is currently.

One would compile C/C++ to this bytecode and either ship it directly (to browsers that support it) or compile to asm.js and ship that (to browsers that don't support it).

This process I described is precisely how Dart works and while I don't particularly like Dart itself, I think its compilation/distribution mechanism is nice.

It's possible to do this later, after (and if) asm.js becomes popular. And it would even possible to eventually compile JS itself to this bytecode.

> But as the blog post shows, AOT in Firefox is even faster at startup (and see the link on "throughput" for other wins).

I am not immediately concerned with the merits of asm.js as implemented in Firefox at the moment.

> Missing features are not being added to JS for the sake of asm.js. I clearly wrote we are adding SIMD, int64, etc. for hand-coded JS users. Ecma TC39 is not only concerned with "compile to JS" use-cases, we look at apps, libraries, and compilers.

Sure, I guess. These features just seemed to me more important for asm.js than generic application JS (as opposed to, say, macros).
Given the push to 4K on TVs and other video viewing devices, it seems like they'll catch up fast enough. 4K at the typical viewing distances is pretty close to retina in terms of the number of degrees of your vision each pixel covers.
Oh, fuck.
No. Without knowing a priori what the writer was trying to say, his use of the word 'ruthless' /was/ confusing, because he used it in an uncommon (and possibly incorrect) way.
> That's a bummer. It seems doable, but maybe it is too complex.

In general, eliminating runtime bounds checking is solving the halting problem.

let v = [1, 2, 3];
if halts(some_program) { v[1000] } else { v[0] }

Of course, this doesn't meant that it's impossible in a subset of cases, e.g. people are doing work on fast range analysis for LLVM, which would be able to remove some of the bounds checks sometimes: http://code.google.com/p/range-analysis/ (that analysis also applies to the arithmetic, and apparently only makes things single-digit percent slower (3% iirc).)
It is easy to revert to the previous behaviour: uncheck "Displays have separate Spaces" in Mission Control under System Preferences.

Mavericks treats multiple displays as unique desktops now, to enable for example separate Full Screen modes for each display.
Honestly, I was afraid I was going to hear that. In Europe you usually see the doctor for something as minor as a cold that persists for more than a few days. It might look as a waste, but they will catch that percentage of non-cold cold cases and prevent serious infection.
Mental Summarize:

Impermium is Joining Google!

January 15, 2014

When we founded Impermium three years ago, our mission was to help rid the web of spam, fraud, and abuse. By joining Google, our team will extend a special thank you to Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Data Collective, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Morado Ventures, and the Social+Capital Partnership.
Why does this not make sense? Please explain.

Because of the central limit theorem, many distributions encountered in science are approximately Gaussian, which is parameterized by its mean and standard deviation. According to Wikipedia: "Height is sexually dimorphic and statistically it is more or less normally distributed, but with heavy tails."

On top of that, we have well-understood and easy to compute estimators for standard deviation. Using the sample variance is not a bad estimator at all, the only real disagreement is whether you divide by N or N-1.
If the goal is to capture Carbon, I think one should compare on a "per square meter" basis.

I know nothing of that, but let's speculate and do some loose dimensional analysis (corrections welcome)

Energy input from the sun scales with area. So, if energy intake is the major growth limiter of a forest, size shouldn't matter, as far as CO2 intake per square meter per year goes.

If, on the other hand, a forest can capture plenty of sunlight, but is CO2 limited, having more leaf area per square meter might help. Similarly, deeper roots that can go with larger trees can help a tree grow faster if the limiting factor is mineral intake or reliability of water availability in summer.
Interfacing Lua with templates in C++
BoldR
http://demo.iceable.com/boldr/
Nothing remotely as peer-reviewed and time-tested and open-source.
Are there any good resources on the legal and tax issues related to being a US based startup having remote workers overseas (say, the UK or Japan?). I've heard this can be a pain.
Has the author considered that Facebook might not be releasing stats on teens for multiple reasons? It might not be a drop but unreleased information that is causing the numbers to change. That, and people frequently lie about their age on Facebook so you cannot trust someone's profile age to be their actual age or date of birth (nor should you be trying to work out how old someone is from their public profile but that is another matter).
I was not aware pinning memory in the CPU cache was even possible. Is this done via some Linux interface? Or directly by using some hardware feature of the CPU?

In any case, it sounds like a very interesting way of maintaining greater protection for secrets.
To me, the favicon merely looks like a sumo wrestler’s head with a short ponytail and scowling/serious eyebrows. I can’t tell what NSFW thing you see it as.
Why? It looks like an onion with angry eyebrows.

Do you have something against vegetables?
The Core and the Why
Sed 102: Replace In-Place
I think this misses a few key points:

1. Steam is digital, there is almost no cost associated with "selling" a game, almost everything you sell is profit. Thus, it is somewhat disconnected from standard sales where dropping price too much can hurt you.

2. Steam does not allow you to buy physical games, you can't take a game out of steam. What you are paying for is for game to be added to your digital collection. Collection is a key term here, that what steam sales are all about. In modern times nobody has enough time to play all the good games, but we still want to buy them. I know a bunch of people with huge digital collections on steam.

3. Author seems to be divorced from realities of economies of scale. As things get cheaper, the audience gets wider. Essentially this means putting game into hands of more people.

4. More players is good, steam trading cards means that more players = more sustained profit.
Not that I'm disagreeing with this outcome at all...

But if agreeing not to poach is collusion and conspiracy...

Then how is it that it's legal for workers to form unions and strike? Isn't that just as much "collusion and conspiracy" from the other side?

I mean heck, consumers organizing to boycott a product is a kind of "collusion" and "conspiracy" as well that is just as arguably "anti-market".

Is there anyone who can explain how the law differentiates between them? I have zero legal background/knowledge of these things...

Edit: To be clear, I think unions can be great things, and think the anti-poaching agreements are bad... I'm just trying to figure out a way to reconcile these in my mind! :)
Some more information here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/after-only-15-months-marissa-...
I think there's a huge problem trying to have someone non-technical take charge of a technical task without a proper engineering team behind him. The automatic buying of ads seems like a difficult task.

I don't think a CEO like MM can buy big execs to solve this problem for Yahoo. They need teams of intelligent engineers in addition to experienced execs.

Taking this into account with all the talent acquisitions Yahoo has been doing, it's becoming clear that Yahoo will not be able to create any kind of technical infrastructure. At best, they can hold onto their current revenue model and try to reduce their costs as much as possible.
Once they add a option to skip/autoplay the predictable-outcome fighting sequences I would buy any sequel. Seriously if you're over 30 you shouldn't have to prove to anyone anymore that you can beat scripted hoards and boss fights.

Some goes for Spec Ops: The Line after playing the first two levels I preferred watching the play-through on youtube over having to kill the equivalent of whole population Staten Island one by one just to follow better than average plot.

Also what Dara Ó Briain says:

"I love video games for this reason over all other art form. They do a thing that no other art form does, right. No other art form does.
You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album. But you can be bad at playing a video game, and the video game will punish you, and deny you access to the rest of the video game.
No other art form does this. You’ve never read a book and 3 chapters in, the book has gone, “What are the major themes of the book so far?”
You go “I, I, I don’t know, I wasn’t paying close enough att…”
And the book goes THOOMP."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLi7HlAB_CI

http://rhinospike.com/script_requests/enlasnubes/854/
NNT, at least, doesn't give finance a pass. He excoriates them at every opportunity.
hacker news has probably been scraped too many times. that's why it's not working. it didn't work for me, but other sites worked easily.

...i will comment that the user experience for first adding elements is not what i expected. once u understand it's great overall, but i'd have some popup tooltip type guide thing going on for the first time a user uses it explaining that you should choose one element first, and then check a matching element. ...Then explain the number bubbles next to the property field. You don't get what those numbers are at first. ..Then for the property field, somehow make it more obvious that you should fill it out.

Basically you have the interface setup so any action can be done at any time, but it should be presented as a forced sequential set of steps to the end user, at least at first.
Well one way you could do it is require a three month minimum which limits how many "blockbuster" games you can play but has staged/unlimited access to the rest of the catalogue. Bigger packages/loyal customers get access to more games.

The trick here is to get the customer on the subscription for long enough to even out the volatility of financing new games, especially for more original games that aren't baggaged by the success and creative choices of prequels. I'm not sure if this can be done for games unless a platform like Steam does it at scale, or someone big like EA does it with predatory tactics (difficult to cancel subscriptions, auto-renew with all plans, etc.)

Netflix is doing this to some degree so we'll see how much success they have. Valve is in perhaps a similar position with its usage data on PC gamers.
Mediocre founders try to hire people for the parts that they don't like. Great founders just do whatever they think is in the best interest of the company, even if they're not "passionate" about that part of the business.

I don't often like to follow people, but when I do, this attribute matters to me. I'm not sure, but I suspect that it's a signal that someone wants to build something great more than accumulate accolades. In the latter case, I help someone get rich and famous (which is fine!). But in the former, I'm a part of something awesome.

I find it a little difficult to articulate why this affects me so deeply, but it resonates with me, and talented people I know.

In general, I suspect these attributes are important if for no other reason than talented people you might be recruiting will be on the lookout for them.
Swanondette: Your posts this last month have been absolutely top-notch, thank you for getting so many JS developers interested in Clojure and CLJS, least of all me! Your post on Om is the reason I'm spending 5 hours a day sweating in Light Table, in hopes that I find a better way to structure my apps.
BCG launches BCG Digital Ventures
Yahoo's No. 2 is ousted - WSJ
fwiw, with linux md, you can (and should) scrub the array periodically.

for raid in /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action; do
echo "check" >> ${raid}
done

which will check and fix errors (or fail). i run this weekly as a cron job.

of course, it doesn't help with any data that are corrupted and read before it runs.
I believe you misread the article, it talks of a 'current' activity which was successful "after our previous launch attempt was thwarted by South Korean police forces."

They did indeed get their balloons off.

It is entirely unclear to me how far north though you can expect such a balloon to go given the prevailing air currents.
Great service to the public . Kudos to the designer
As I get older I tend to be more selective of who I would like to share my time with. I'd rather make connections with my family and friends than my co-workers. For me it's just a job. It's not summer camp.

I'm certain creativity and collaboration don't require any phantom energy in a room of people to happen. The majority of people who build open source software have never met. And in projects like Apache, OpenStack, Mozilla and what-not there are thousands of contributors at every level.

I contribute to projects with people whom I've only talked with on IRC and through commit logs and code reviews. It hasn't stopped any of us.

I think you're mistaken that there is some evolutionary heritage that requires us to be in person in order to effectively collaborate.
We often have to compress the data down to a single decision or statistic: yes/no should I accept the job offer, how much money should I save before buying a house, or what's the probability that I'll die in the next 10 years.

I hate to quote XKCD, but it's like saying your favorite map projection is a globe (http://xkcd.com/977/). Yes, you've preserved all the data, but even with computers, your beloved graph will not make it all the way to the end.
Why does the perception exist that working longer hours equates to good forward progress? That unless you aren't willing to devote your every waking moment to an idea, you aren't a "doer?" This is such a ridiculous idea...
If there are way more games than you have the time to play, then there's little justification for higher pricing for video games.

Whether you buy them or not, time is the premium, the only difference is whether the money involved in >your< sale goes to lots of developers or just a few.

But there's a twist: games are hit or miss. Since time is the premium, and there is no guarantee that a game will satisfy you, it makes sense that you can buy a large number of them, try them out, and only complete the ones you liked enough to commit time to.

It's hard to see how a system with fewer, more higher priced games would benefit the end user better than the current set up.
Given that hard disks already do a CRC check when reading data (as far as I am aware), I don't see how this adds anything. The author is assuming that there is no hardware-level checksum or CRC, which I believe is incorrect.
MAD can also refer to Mutually Assured Destruction, which seems fitting given this thread.
I'm wondering how many people near the border have access to computers that can read those DVDs and USB drives?

The article did mention that “DVDs, USBs, and even laptops are making their way over the Chinese border into the hands of North Koreans”, but there wasn't any estimation of how many people actually have access to those, and of those who do, how many belong to the ruling class?
Thanks for the suggestions on tool tips... We can also expand the tutorials section to make this more clear.
This has been done before, and it's not pretty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda
4.5% of 15-19 year olds are married. Teens lying about their age to get on Facebook could also factor into 5.6%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_marriage
The view is that forking of specs leads to a multitude of specs, thereby making interoperability harder, and ultimately making the system less open.
The Tricky Problem Of Making Smart Fridges Smart
Real-Life Inception: Using Your Imagination to Learn Anything
All I can think about reading the comments (and the article, for whatever reason) is pg's advice to sama and how it didn't seem to help at all here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843726
Ugh. This operating system is almost old enough to vote. Can't they just let it die?
You should never store a password. If absolutely needed you could store a derivation of that password from a KDF like scrypt, and then see if the user's password derives to that same value. This is how checking for login passwords is done on Unix and Unix-like systems with shadow passwords (which never store the user's password).

And even with all that I probably screwed something up, but that advice is still better than storing plain passwords.
The real problem, if you ask me, is that we've all gone through elementary and secondary school working with all kinds of mathematical objects without learning their proper names. Every kid ought to be told what semigroups, monoids, groups and rings are shortly after learning addition and multiplication.
In nerd speak, the luck function is not pure. It's subject to global state and has side effects. :)
I wouldn't have bought 90% of the games I have if I hadn't been introduced to them in some kind of sale or bundle.
I've been thinking about this exact idea. Shocked that someone actually went out and did it. My idea was drones releasing paper helicopters with short messages, using the design of maple tree seeds. In my version of the idea it was immediately prior to a military strike to topple the regime with minimal casualties. Messages like: "Stay away from military bases / groups of people". "Don't fire on invading troops." "Fake illness/injury to avoid service." and most importantly "Don't take up arms".
A bit of a shame it doesn't look like there is going to be a follow up. The evidence seems to suggest that encouraging domestic dissident movements doesn't usually effectuate short term political change.
DataTau- HN for data science
IANAL, but unions are highly visible, while this "agreement not to poach" was not.
so what do you do that import.io doesn't?
There was an extremely popular business book back in the 80s called In Search of Excellence which chronicled a set of characteristics of large successful companies. "Stick to your knitting" and the like. The problem was that there were loads of counterexamples including 1.) Successful companies that DIDN'T stick to their knitting and 2.) Failed companies that did.
In the US at least, anti-trust laws seek to limit business practices considered anti-competitive. Sure, a "union" could seek to reduce competition/harm businesses, and that is a common accusation, but similar laws for unions are mostly a thing of a past, legacies of a time when state militias did combat with those despicable striking coal miners.

Do you believe that businesses should have the same legal status as individuals? There's been a tiff over that for the last decade or so.
"Tonight at 9, a damning report on the impact of Mexican hackers on American jobs" - Fox News
A Twist on the Modern Messaging App - Messenger Redux
Shattering the myths of Windows security
Or, more simply, a good indirect indicator of how desirable a common vm for the web really is.
Where does he say anything about working long hours?

The most successful entrepreneurs I know work a lot, not because they think more hours=more output. It's just that they are so passionate about their product that they live and breathe it. If you aren't a founder, you simply don't understand.
I've considered Reducable, but I'm not sure that makes much sense either (such as when using a -> a as a monoid, you're not really reducing them). Combinable doesn't work because you're not necessarilly combining the values (Max and 0 for example doesn't really combine, it selects). So it is my conclusion that Monoid is a perfectly good name because that's exactly what a monoid is: something with an associative operator and a value which is the identity for the operator:

(&&), True
(||), False
(+), 0 -- addition
(*), 1 -- multiplication
(++), [] -- concatenation of lists
max, minBound -- maximum
(.), id -- function composition and the identity function id x = x

there are all monoids, it's such a simple concept that high school students could understand it within 10 minutes, and yet people whinge for calling it what it is. Good programmers are not people who are turned away by terms they don't know this easily.
Leaflet dropping is actually fairly standard practice and has been so for decades. The US invasion of Iraq did the same thing: http://www.psywar.org/apdsearch.php
I think I agree with most of this, but now aren't we supposed to say that the drop in crime is due more to reduced childhood lead exposures than to abortion? Not just because it's a feel-good, humanistic explanation rather than a horrific racist eugenics explanation, but also because recent studies show a pretty strong lagged correlation...