skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this may be veering off-topic, but why would an employer-- especially a big one with lots of individual consumers as customers-- be willing to make it publicly known that that occurred?

doesn't it undermine consumer confidence in their business?
But the sales in 2013 declined in 11% .
The calculator provided by Amazon does have the option of factoring in the Reserve Pricing and will give you the monthly and annual charges as separate line items.

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Don't know where you live, but the Dutch government publishes spreadsheets with testdata. It contains names, middle names, addresses, domestic and foreign names, etc. No need to generate your own. I haven't had to use it yet and I didn't have a very good look, but I'd think it contains all sorts of exceptional cases which your system needs to handle. If it successfully processes that spreadsheet, it probably handles anything.
Yale acknowledges you're effort: "Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale’s appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us. What we now see is that we need to review our policies and practices." --Dean Mary Miller's response (Jan. 20)
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/open-letter-yale-communi...?
Exactly. For someone like me who likes building websites for fun (and by myself), but sucks at design and CSS, Bootstrap is a godsend. Because of it, I can concentrate on the stuff that's fun for me while having a pretty reasonable-looking website.
Yeah I think that trying the bunch all Hispanic names under the same category is part of the problem. There is 400 million native speakers and they are spread over multiple continents, countries and cultures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Hispanophone_World.png

No surprise that names will widely vary from one place to the other.
IOwe iOS App for flatmates.
I honestly don't see the 2.4Ghz standards going away any time soon.

Sure, 2.4Ghz is hilariously congested, buy as 5Ghz devices are sold, it will be less so and what I half expect is when people start trying to beam 5Ghz through three office walls (and fail), they'll want to know why and eventually find themselves back on a 2.4Ghz solution, simply because it's not so sensitive to solid objects.
Maybe an economic system that doesn't require redistribution of economic gains due to political pressure. And I'm not talking about political pressure from the poor. We all know who's been fighting the "class war" and only one side has all the tanks, jets and bombs.
I see a pretty clear distinction between publishing documents that are clearly in the public interest and publishing credit card numbers in an effort to trouble and shame people whose politics don't comport with my own.
Neither you should buy an SSD.
A nice example of the growing startup community in the Midwest.
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I've been using the app for about a year and a half by now and it's been really great as an alarm (it detects and wakes you during light sleep). Plus it calculates sleep duration, which you could use in your app. I believe that the data are accessible as a .csv in the phone's SD card so it shouldn't be too difficult.
Whats a good pay alternative that isn't LogMeIn? I find this 7 day notice disgusting and simply a tactic to make the existing user pay without giving them much time to find an alternative.
I couldn't image getting this text: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

Puts a bit more focus on the reach available to anyone via my reliance on tech to "always be reachable". Good when my friends/family/customers need me but horrible when in the hands of bad actors.
Indeed, it's also only true if NSA isn't concealing the existence of the Groom Lake aliens who have taken over the USG.
I may have posted about this before, but http://askjud.com, a simple trick that you can play on your friends makes around $300/mo.

Its hosted on github, and costs $8/yr for the domain name.
I'm not sure if its a typical "HN Startup" but the existing CC system is on its last legs.

If you think of a CC number as a computer system password, its somewhat comical that it takes significant 3rd party effort to get a new one, you have to use the same "password" everywhere you shop, the only auth required or possible is simply knowing a string, etc.

The "new" system, perhaps via a startup, would probably be issuing people a stack of one time use tokens vaguely resembling cash in size and shape. Pay with a stack of paper money or one of your tokens linked to your account. Put a bar code at the bottom to keep it compatible with the existing system. Or skip the whole money form factor and stick with a gift card-ish system.

You could also play games with denominations. Sure, steal my wallet, its only got two neo-cc or supergiftcards or whatever they'd be called and they're only worth $30.

One transaction and toss. Or send back to collection point to be reprogrammed and reissued.

One thing is certain, existing IT procedures and wanna-be enterprise grade (LOL) operating systems aren't good enough. Something will replace them soon enough.
> "Two pillars of our economic system - scarcity and endless growth"

Clearly "endless" is not possible, that's like saying "give me infinite apples" ... Most people aren't concerned with endless, but with "practically endless"

The limits of endless growth come from physical limits, which we're no where close to hitting. Expansion across the universe could give us something on the order of 10^29 times expansion (universe ~10^53kg, Earth ~10^24 kg)... In my human scale that's practically "endless".

Also, digital goods consumption have nearly no marginal physical cost, so they can expand without much change in the physical consumption.
Come to Paris !

Just kidding, but it's very refreshing to hear that things in London look just as bad as in Paris.
I spent 10 minutes creating this coffee mug and I've made about $80 selling them over the past year on Zazzle. I plan to add more soon. http://www.zazzle.com/go_away_im_coding_coffee_mug-168224001...
Ask HN: What data science blogs do you follow?
Yale students write Yale course reviews in order to see their grade. You get an email saying "a new grade has been posted," then you fill out the review form, then you see your grade.
The Egyptian hoist from his site is great. I've thought for a while that this is how the blocks were raised. In his demonstration it's quite simple to see that this is an extremely effective way to utilize manpower to raise weights.
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Locking down data and requiring that students get approval before working with it fundamentally violates the freedom of intellectual inquiry that any healthy university requires to function.
The tools that define us - Building a tool culture
Mos Def is also a great example of someone who 'didn't go all gangsta' to make it. The statement that 'going all gangsta when thats how people made money' is really illustrative of a certain ignorance about hip hop and sadly one that is widely held. It was one route yes but many artists did not follow it.

Edit: Removed part of comment that may have sounded overly negative.
This is really impressive work and thank you for making it open source. I played with it, I get it is early, so I was plesantly suprised with how many things worked. I obviously miss folding, but no biggie :).
Fitbit has a reasonably good sleep API - as does Jawbone.
To give my interpretation, I assumed it was free text, and that if I put a unit at the end it would pick it up. This could be quite neat if it set that unit as my default unit for recording in?

Also thanks for releasing this, I've been building something similar but not making much progress.
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I get your point, but at the same time your argument is an odd one to make.

At least the SASS-port of Bootstrap declares it's variables as defaults - meaning they would not be set if they were set earlier (in your configuration). This makes upgrading the gem (or plain source files) rather simple. But sure, you might have to check if anything was renamed or added.

But with overriding you do not only create redundant, unnecessary styles (and bytes), but if you now upgrade your bootstrap files as you suggest, you also have to change your overrides - which depending on the amount of changes you did will be significantly more work (and 'mental gymnastics') - if changes were introduced.

So you gain very little (less setup effort) but lose quite a lot.
From my (albeit limited) experience in two large state universities, one of which with a direct focus on research, and two much smaller local colleges, your statement is a bit inflammatory, and isn't 100% accurate.

All grants are allowed to charge indirect costs to the grant fund. These indirect costs are used to cover the cost of facilities, maintenance and all the little bits that no one ever thinks about. No one buys a piece of equipment expecting there to be no maintenance whatsoever. These indirect costs are always governed by an agreed-upon rate set between the host institution and the funding entity. The federal government in particular has very clearly spelled out rules regarding this. For example - the grant that funds my work right now has a very clearly legislated indirect cost rate of 8%. If our indirect costs exceed that 8% monthly, we can lose our funding.

Now where we get into the part where you're not 100% accurate, and I believe being a bit inflammatory is the triple dipping. Institutions can get a grant to purchase equipment, and then charge the same grant for the use of the equipment. The institution can charge for the personnel hours that run the equipment on related projects, they can charge that indirect cost that we discussed earlier, but that's about it. It's not as if they can just make up a number and charge the government that much to use the equipment for related projects. There are circulars from the Office of Management and Budget that dictate what you can and can't do with your money - for example, colleges and universities have to adhere to the cost principles outlined in OMB A-21, available here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a021_2004 if you want some light reading.

On top of the basic OMB circulars, all federal grants have additional legislation that add further stipulations to how money can be spent, but come from any number of 1000 sources, so I'm not going to cite them. Anyway, the institution cannot just charge the government for use of the equipment.

Secondly - they are not paid 'overhead' for making the equipment available. They are paid an indirect cost rate to maintain, store and generally keep the facility running for grants. This rate is very clearly spelled out in any grant documents. I've not seen 60+% in any grant I've ever worked with. In smaller institutions they tend to be around 10-20%. On the larger campuses, the average indirect rate was 32%.

Anyone familiar with the finances know that there are legislation and regulation in place to dictate all of this, and while it may be convoluted, it's really not as predatory as you make it out to be.
Their billing dashboard provides a nice breakdown https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/ and compares to your previous month

You are in a dynamic environment, a relatively static environment, or a mix of the two.

For static environments you should be buying reserved instances in year long blocks to save yourself the premium of on-demand pricing.

For dynamic environments are you really using services by the month? We scale with load and wouldn't care about monthly costs shown on their pricing page.

In our situation, a mix, we have year long reserved instances (some 3 years) and our scalability is on-demand or spot instances which changes, and is never monthly. Some months we have only a couple of days of on-demand use, other months it could be a week or 2. If we are getting to the point where there is a lot of dynamic use we add another reserved instance to the base cluster.

So I understand your frustration about monthly pricing for a quick glance, however the real world use of 'monthly' hosting is the least applicable in Amazon's eyes.

Bandwidth costs I hear you. Would love to not charge clients bandwidth, and we typically don't charge unless its over, coincidentally, 1 TB

For my personal DO servers for side projects/moonlighting, I wish they offered reserved year long pricing like Amazon.
Well, this only proves how technologically backward the Ukraine is comparing to the US or the UK. Over here protesters can be tracked through cellphones before they even know they are going to become protesters.
The banks have nothing to do with the cost of commercial rent around old street roundabout and the shoreditch triangle. It's expensive because all the silly startups now think they need to be here to sound credible / look cool / etc etc so landlords can charge these prices and people will pay. Infrastructure wise, the area is a mess. Fibre coverage is spotty at best. ADSL seems to be pretty crap. Most buildings are poorly converted from storage/etc into office space.
On the plus side we have nice places to eat, drink and get coffee so it's not all bad I suppose. Also the commute is pretty good for east london folk.

Also side rant. To all non-londerners, Tech City / Silicon Roundabout is an abstract concept that doesn't actually exist in any concrete form. Unless someone told you, you wouldn't even notice you were passing through it. Infact the only remotely "tech looking" building is satellite company Immarsat's HQ office, and IIRC they were around long before "tech city" had been dreamed up.
Nope. Hardware that ran Linux fine was insufficient for Windows. So Microsoft made requirements for larger screens, bigger memory or they'd take away the windows discount. So manufacturers stopped making 7" and 9" netbooks. And the 11" that they did make we're not as appealing to the people who liked netbooks at the time - the price/performance/weight/size difference was not reasonable compared to a bona fide laptop.

Which probably was microsoft's intention in the first place.
Actual link is http://ask.metafilter.com/255675/Decoding-cancer-addled-ramb...
Nice overview, excited to finally get my hands on this!
I recently started a jobs site that makes about 10 dollars a day in affiliate revenue and adsense. Rolling out a network of them.

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Visualizing every taxi cab in Boston
I remember a different version history, nt4 to 2000 to xp, each version adding a ton of bloat without expanding the functionality (2000 added usb, but xp added nothing to 2000 except bloat and a dumber ui).
The interface was a complete mystery to me. I clicked and dragged and hit enter and gave up. I read the manual and discovered the insert key (although I don't have one on my mac laptop) and then used tab. But I need to use my mouse to click on a node and then tab and then back to mouse and tab... seems awkward. Could you make it so i can just click and drag from a node to "pull out" a new node and have that default to have focus so i can just start typing?

With any of these sorts of programs, I think it's good to keep the pen and paper interface in the back of your mind. If it's easier/faster/more intuitive to use pen and paper, I think there's still some work that needs to be done on the interface ;)
This is also excellent PR and attention acquisition. I've referred backblaze as a possible option to look into for friends looking for backup solutions on more than one occasion just due to being reminded about their existence from posts like this (and I've never used them personally).
You expect to be better off after the exchange (which is precisely it happens). You can however regret your decision so ex ante and ex post have to be differentiated.
That dude's story yesterday concluded with switching from one $5/mo/unlimited provider to another. I'm guessing we'll see a post from him in another year bitching about Crashplan and then maybe he'll realize that $5/mo is too low a price to pay for an unlimited amount of data to backup reliably.
well, it happens, I'm a pretty senior sysadmin and I'm on 45k and only one of my colleagues earns the same as me.

the other dev earns 30k- they're both very, very good.

I don't know who qualifies for rockstar status, but both the dev's here have small companies brewing (a games one and a heroku style deployment system one).

I think perhaps you're better at negotiating salary?
What do alternative file formats for code have to do with readability?
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Yeah, great to hear someone else mention the logging circles - will definitely talk to the team about that.

Fitbit is definitely on our list of integrations and we are trying to integrate as quickly as we can. Once you sign up we can keep you posted with upcoming releases.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!
For a very rigorous yet still accessible understanding try Debreu's Theory of Value: http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cm/m17/m17-all.pdf
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It might not set on France either, but I am not sure.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Outre-mer...
That link doesn't actually show what it does to determine whether to use SSE or SSE2 (much less SSE3 and beyond). That it derives a boolean value is not the same as feature detection.

Further the bulk of that entry was from 2004, which is pertinent given that at the time the new Pentium 4 was the first Intel processor with SSE2, and the SSE implementation on the Pentium III was somewhat of a disaster -- both single-precision width (it simulated 128-bits through two 64-bit operations, and for the P3 compilers could optimize for its specific handicap), and sharing resources with the floating point unit. So the feature flag, coupled with "GenuineIntel", was all they needed to know for the two possible Intel variants with support.

Since then the dispatcher and options have grown dramatically more complex as the number of architectures and permutations have exploded.
'lyrical motherfuckin wordsmith motherfuckin genius' you mean!
Very much this. By wrapping your mind around the new possibilities the whole 'seperate style from content' becomes much more trivial (and so much more maintainable) that the discussion mostly ends at this point.
The Russians and Saudis and so on generally (not exclusively) invest far more in football clubs and property than they do in software. When you make your money by the means they did maybe software is too intangible.
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Thanks! They were indeed built with bootstrap. I'll submit them right away. :)
I don't have cancer, but for me, video games (esp. Minecraft) provide an escape from the psychological ravages of just being a person among people.
In fairness, for the spec, they are pretty reasonably priced. Compare them to the equivalents from say HP, the Z420 and they are in fact cheaper.

Obviously if you're building your own then you'll save a hell of a lot, but if you're looking for a prebuilt machine you could do worse.
what a dumb bitch
I'd be interested in what you think of that paper - I was fascinated by it as it seemed rather odd coming from an engineering perspective.
Method A is not really a weak check, it's bound to catch tons of cheating students, it's just tedious for staff to perform.

Sounds like your friend's school is misusing the tool. Seeing that students are all using the same references is pretty interesting information, as long as you don't leap to conclusions. Likewise, seeing that someone is not citing references properly may not be evidence of plagiarism but nevertheless it's good for students to adhere to reference standards. When I used Turnitin I had to keep below a certain percentge of 'quoted' text. I found this slightly annoying but I could easily avoid it by replacing a quotation with my own summary + a citation. It's just a stylistic choice that is being enforced through the system.

Also, no % of plagiarism should be acceptable - beyond the residual/accidental amount you get from coincidental phrasings.
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This is a pretty textbook perfect application of survival/time-to-event analysis. Any chance the data behind it could be made available for teaching purposes?
Any offering from any company can easily disappear without notice (except for contracts but even then bankruptcy, hacking events, natural disasters, etc). An offering disappearing without warning is much more likely in case of a free product. Any vendor's 'free for life' offering is likely just marketing material and won't be free for life (change of contract, company merger/buyout, bankruptcy, etc).
Han Solo: I must have hit her pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?

Yale is going to end up on the wrong side of history in this one. And the irony is that the dean is a professor of history.
I own/operate a luxury resale business that specializes in high end womens fashion, art, cars, and collectibles. My only time expense is picking up the items... everything else I have automated. On a good month I can clear $10K+ and on a bad month $2-3K. I do all this without any advertising and the primary selling point of my business is thats its discreet and anonymous.
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Chrome Remote Desktop for family - gonna finish setting up VNC for the personal stuff (already have it running locally on my Win box, just didn't finish the setup and boot LogMeIn cause it was so easy).
I maintain a fork, sometimes a PITA but never a surprise!
Of course it doesn't. There's normally a direct tradeoff, with redundancy giving higher reliability at the cost of throughput. He's advocating higher reliability over higher speed.
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"Unless you know Kanye personally, you don't really know what they're like."
I tried the generator with gender:random; nameSet:England+Wales; country:UK.

All but one of the names is a forename of someone I know - that name is Scarlet and it appeared twice in my sample of 20. Only one of the names was 'foreign' though. In my area there would be several Asian names in that sample.
Great post. A point worth highlighting even more than it is in the post is this: "A tool is ready when others can use it."
> Don't we have computers that can run simulations and provide answers?

It's the old "garbage in / garbage out" problem. If you don't have a good model, you can only simulate a bad one. Also:

> We don't have to be accurate, just directionally correct.

If the model is not accurate, you can't ever falsify it, thus you can't improve it. That's one of the biggest flaws of current economics, their models are not accurate.
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I can think of several good reason, but the two main ones are: Testing and to use at registration-burden websites that collects personal information as their business model.
This is a nice idea, something like "watch me think".
Thanks. By markdown-aware you mean realtime, say, html-rendering?
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I'm angling to write the script for the next Bourne movie. ;-)
How do you model free will?
Can say the same thing about people with disabilities or deformities that make people treat them differently. Even if people treat them better or more formal they often just want to be treated like everyone else.
Not enough to measure, it turns out once you get their case off they are mostly the same. The real difference is "enterprise" grade vs "consumer" grade dries.
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It may be less pretty but it works...

The primary goal of the `...` feature was to make example code compile safely. (I implemented the feature in Perl 5.)