skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly the person who wrote this didn't even do the most basic of research. The human genome project pretty clearly defined that while the classic classification of racial groups was wrong, it wasn't far from the mark in terms of genetic diversity.

http://i.imgur.com/LBaKdf6.jpg
I think most people would like speed limits enforced with some sensible discretion. To give an extreme example, you shouldn't receive a $150 fine for going 1 km/h over the limit. Before photo radar, there were a limited number of police officers to enforce speed limits, so most limits weren't enforced most of the time. Police focused on catching the worst offenders, so going, say, 60 km/h in 50 km/h zone or 110 km/h in a 100 km/h zone was unlikely to be prosecuted. With photo radar thresholds set in many places as low as 3 km/h over the limit, the dynamic is totally different, especially since many speed limits are set comically low, and often times photo radar is placed in locations where the limit decreases for a short distance, or at the bottom of a big hill.

To my mind, the goal of speed limits is to promote road safety by encouraging drivers to proceed at a safe speed that is suitable for road conditions. This is undermined when authorities build an expressway-style road that you'd find rated for 80+ km/h in a traffic engineering handbook and then set a much lower limit and have it enforced with radar traps. This is about collecting revenue, not promoting safety.

I visited Norway, which has photo radar, but also warns you that you're approaching it. The intention seems to be to get you to slow down rather than to stick you with a ticket. It works and I agree with photo radar when it is used this way.
Yes, if you believe that you can reduce any use of a word down to its most abstract concept giving you the ability to equate anything to anything else. By those standards collusion is also a tomato, a pair of shoes, and my left ear. Very Zen.

But, given nobody else thinks this way, then no, unions are not a conspiracy. A conspiracy is pretty much defined as such when everyone involved constantly tells each other "don't tell anyone" which is what these jackasses did (go read the emails). Unions are very public about going on strike and have big votes on it, thus not a conspiracy. Same with consumers organizing a strike, or just about everything you came up with.

Collusion is also not bad unless it's illegal, and what we've decided in the US is that gigantic billion dollar companies are not allowed to get together and screw over poor work slobs who make maybe $100k/year with their collective MegaCorp trillion dollar might. In fact, any decent human being would be enraged at a giant corporation using its power to smash a little guy to make a few thousand more per employee a year.
Cool. This allows you to use ASGs too.

I am hearing more people using Docker on AWS, even though the Docker guys don't recommend production use yet.

By not supporting fast, incremental build and deploy, just how do you deploy new application code?
> This waiting game is likely decimating your player base and critical mass at launch by spreading new players out over time. And your fans, who are silly enough to buy the game at launch and waste money, get to participate in a weaker, smaller player community.

It seems like part of the problem is that some of his games (MMOs?) need a player base to realize their potential. In which case I wouldn't consider these multiplayer games the same products as other single player video games which don't require a player base.

If your game requires a player base, consider a freemium model that allows you to get players in the game contributing to the community/network effect, but also allows you to generate a profit from the inevitable ~10% (of a much larger player base) that will buy extra content in your game.
His task wasn't technical, he was hired as COO (not CTO) and tasked with bringing in ad revenue from big brands for Yahoo. They would presumably hire a people-friendly salesperson to do that.

But the article has quotes about his "difficult personality". He's been called charming but also "kind of an asshole" who was disliked by clients and employees.
Virtualization software protects the host against software running in the virtual machine. It's completely useless for protecting the virtual machine from the host (as you'd want on the cloud).
Unfortunately while the CPUs themselves are quite reasonable, motherboards tend to be far more expensive and less available. I wonder how much of a markup Intel has on the server chipsets vs. desktop ones; it'd be interesting to know whether Intel or motherboard manufacturers are making bank on the boards.
You should move to Australia. Steam lists it for $79.99 USD for us. http://www.steamprices.com/au/app/8870/bioshock-infinite
Nice work! In order to balance my project and school I ended up taking 2 hour naps around 6pm (right after school) to refresh my brain for coding between 8pm and 4am, then napping again till 8am for the 9am till 5pm cycle. The good news was that the project I was building allowed me to post all of my side projects for others to be able to contribute to and see all cool projects done around me ( http://doerhub.com ) , so now that both helps me jump back on the bandwagon faster and energizes my new cycle of work.
The fact that it's variable isn't a valid criticism on its own: there is uncertainty in every standard we use, and the objective is to minimize that uncertainty. It's quite possible that the practically achievable error bars from this method would be thinner than the practical error bars of another method. Besides, the fact that you can arbitrarily increase the precision of this method without hitting any hard physical limitations is a solid selling point.
>(which may be due to English is not his first language)

Douchiness knows no language barrier. There's a lot of nonverbal communication that conveys compassion - or lack thereof.

>Dos Equis commercials

Doesn't this feel a bit degrading?
I thought the same thing. I won't be using Adsense and there are many, many ways to verify your Webmaster Tools account, but am curious at taking a look at the code.
Most of the startup community is aimed towards web-centric ideas for obvious reasons

Yes, and that's pretty much part of the problem.

I've commented before on how Kleiner Perkins' failure in cleantech is really sobering:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6997397

Actually, there was a whole post on the topic I seam to have missed "The Rent-Seeking Economy"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5548730

Source article: "Great Problems: The Rent-seeking Economy" http://intellectual-detox.com/2013/04/14/rent-seeking-econom... (Devin Finbarr)

I see financialization, increasing advertising focus (much of which is supported by ... wait for it ... the FIRE industries[1], and "software eats everything", all as elements of catabolic collapse[2]. They're extracting financial value from the economy and transferring that financial wealth, which changes who holds real physical wealth, but doesn't much increase it.

Finbarr's blog piece explores this in much greater detail.

The focus of Silicon Valley over the past decade and more on ephemera and trivialities is very much part of the problem. The fact that the only remunerative opportunities for talent are in the FIRE and social / advertising / gaming industries is not a good thing. And the fact that even VC with long track records of success in technological application fail when trying to operate in the Greentech / alternative space is should be read as exceptionally cautionary.

Yes, there's good news out there. Elon Musk is doing fascinating things with Tesla. Solar is absolutely exploding -- in the past two years, solar generation in the US hasn't merely increased, hasn't doubled, but is up seven times[3]. That's a rate of growth which, if sustained, would have solar being half of all electric generation within a decade. I'm skeptical that the rate of growth can continue, but even if it moderates significantly, doubling times of a year or two can grow a small base hugely, and we need all the help here we can get.

But I really wish that the hacker community would pull its collective head out of its collective ass on occasion and look around at what problems should be solved. And a choking off of the backbone for new trivial ventures really could be a powerful refocusing mechanism, all snark aside.

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Notes:

1. "What Are The 20 Most Expensive Keyword Categories In Google AdWords?"
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/most-expensive-google-adwor...

2. "How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse"
http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/colloquia/materials/papers/...

3. EIA: "Table 7.2a Electricity Net Generation: Total (All Sectors)"
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf
How would the red-light camera affect you as a cyclist, anyway? Bicycles don't have license details affixed to them, and also shouldn't trigger the camera for exactly the same reason they won't trigger the light-change cycle.
The reason is that the law attempts to balance power; when there is an imbalance of power, it helps the weaker side. A workers union in itself does not exploit employers. Its purpose is to force a fair distribution of wealth. A collusion of businesses is different, as its goal is to force an unfair distribution of wealth, as workers generally have fewer options than corporations. It's much easier for a corporation to find workers elsewhere than for a worker to move, hence this practice exploits workers' limited choice, and the law tries to defend against this kind of exploitation.
True, but as someone who considers myself a safe and considerate driver, my opposition to strict enforcement of speed limits comes from this: when the police can easily enforce something numerical, they optimize for maximum revenue and devote nearly 100% of their traffic enforcement resources to speed traps.

This leaves all manner of unsafe drivers free to proceed with making illegal and unsafe maneuvers on the road without a snowball's chance in hell of ever being prosecuted for it. In most North American jurisdictions, what do you think the ratio of speeding tickets to tickets for all other traffic offenses is? Do you think someone doing 55 km/h in a 50 km/h zone is more dangerous that the person who always plays chicken with left-turn traffic by blazing through the tail end of yellow lights at intersections? The person who stops traffic to make an illegal left turn in the same place every day? The person who doesn't turn on their lights on the freeway driving 100 km/h at night when it snows?
So you really need some sort of statistical study. (Which is hard/expensive/time-consuming in a context like this.) Otherwise you're arguing by anecdote. Which isn't necessarily bad. Most arguments of this sort are. But they're vulnerable to this counterargument.
The top 5 Startups to Watch from CES 2014
All that money on apps?

Yahoo offered this guy $64 million for a 4 year contract. He's leaving after a bit longer than a year, and keeping almost all of it.
If I remember correctly, I got around the jitter by pipelining the HTTP requests - ie. shove several HTTP requests down a TCP connection without waiting for the responses. This made it far more likely that the server would execute your requests contiguously without anyone else's being serviced in-between.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=rails&locat...
Even assuming that Linux cannot compete with XP (what does linux have to do with this discussion anyway?), it is still ridiculous to think that we need XP. We have OSX, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8....
I see this option in my bios switched every time I open my computer. I never thought it might be a security feature, just an flag that must be set for someone with mild OCD.

I'm still not sure how my motherboard detects if my case is open...
XP was released in Fall of 2001. At best, it's going through puberty and is about to have its bar mitzvah.
>It's just anti-malware signatures, nothing else :-( I really hope the new Microsoft CEO decides to extend XP support until Windows 9 is out so I won't have a tough choice come April.

Out of curiosity, if the PC is chugging along just fine on a 13 year old OS, what non-antimalware update were you expecting to come along in the next 18 months that wouldn't force your hand in to moving to either Mac or Linux?
It is probably no coincidence this match the date of the end of support of Server 2003.
looks promising!

to be fully usable for me, there are some features missing:

- it lacks manual editing/correcting possibilities: i've tried to create an api for http://akas.imdb.com/calendar/?region=us with "date", "movie", "year". unfortunately, it failed to group the date (title) with the movies (list entries) but rather created two separate, unrelated collections (one for the dates, one for the movies).

- it lacks the ability to edit an api, the recommended way is to delete and recreate.

small bugreport: there was a problem saving the api, or at least i was told saving failed - it nevertheless seems to be stored stored in my account
What is worth the effort to you?

I have found his books more stimulating than Hacker News for example...
L'Chaim!
I would get a refurb late 2011 17", upgrade the ram to 16gb and put a SSD in it.
Can attest to this. You're gonna have to buy an iPhone or iPod touch anyway, so don't bother with retina.
> The STD is far more easy to analyze in a mathematical way. That is the huge value it brings

This is also what I have read (I have essentially no experience with statistics).

> squaring is an operation you can take the derivative of, but absolute value you cannot

We can talk without wild, obviously false hyperbole. It's trivial to take the derivative of the absolute value function. Working with it is more difficult, but taking the derivative is as easy as anything in math:

f'(x) = -1 (when x < 0); 1 (when x > 0)
The antitrust laws in the US were revised to largely carve out activities of labor unions. See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/17
40 years of programming experience here. As far as I am concerned, if a potential employer wants to hire me for an hour or a day or a week to try me out before making a hiring decision, that is a fair exchange. In fact, where I live, an employer can fire you without notice and with no reason at all during the first 3 months of the job. That's the law, and this blog is really just about a more sensible way to pick people for the 3 month trial that are more likely to stay the course.

This is certainly preferably to wierd programming quizzes and coding on a whiteboard in front of silent people who give no clue as to what basis they are judging you. At least this guy gives you requirements and you know that you must provide a working application within an hour. Very clear targetted goal to aim for.
> I have never quite understood the problem with speed traffic cameras.

Here are reasons that (if true) make a lot of sense. It sounds like where you live, the laws around them are very reasonable; for many people that's not the case.

I don't have sources for these claims, I'm only repeating what I've heard/read, since you asked. I don't have real feelings about them either way, as we don't have them where I live.

- Red-light cameras actually increase accidents and injuries. More people slam on the breaks to avoid tripping them, instead of being slightly past the stop bar or entering when the light is yellow.

- When they are hidden (as many are), they do not effectively slow people down; they don't make the roads safer.

- As conditioning for future behavior, they are ineffective; studies show that when the punishment is after the misbehavior, the mind doesn't link the two together as well.
They Called Her “The World’s Ugliest Girl”
I enjoyed the most recent one so much that I went back and did the first one and enjoyed it even more. They have images available for it here[0] if you're interested!

0: https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-wrap-up
This is exactly what I'm talking about, but because people already have a basic understanding of context and so on, they don't appreciate the significance of Chomsky's work. I don't know how anyone can even argue with me about category theory, I just want to put it off on them being disingenuous instead of thinking about it further or trying to argue with them.

When I see that replies about Chomsky Hierarchy being "extremely useful" and "not very useful" in the same sentence, while I'm downvoted for suggesting otherwise.. Obviously, other commentators need to get their opinion straight before trying to impress their opinion upon mine.
I know Ty. Both him and my friend Peter (his roommate then, not sure if they are still living together) moved there more than a year ago, and they both are from the LA area. Mikal Cronin, who started playing with Ty a while back, was also from there.

Some of it was money related, but most musicians I know live in Oakland anyway. Ty is so busy he's not really home that often anyways. I do think a garage is probably a step up. I know they couldn't play loud in their apartment in the inner richmond.
Great link, that's about what I'm getting at. MJD states it more clearly than I could.
I'd like to see these pro democracy leaflets if possible, Im interested to see what aspects of society/culture are displayed.
I wonder why Target needed full connectivity between their public web servers and in-store POS devices?
Google is on a shopping spree, Eh?!
So your argument is that if large groups of scientists are misunderstanding and misusing a scientific tool nobody should try to assert or argue that this is happening without providing exceptional proof since otherwise it might insult their credibility?

Alright...
I think it is not difficult to buy machines preinstalled with Win7. OEM Win8 Pro also lets you downgrade to Win7 Pro or Vista Business.
Don't you find it interesting that all your supposed alternatives are paid software? (never mind the fact that Vista, 7 and 8 are almost identical OSes)
I wonder if it'd be instructive to have a Ruby or Python benchmark too, just to show how much you gain by using a lower-level language.
Is the Flash installer running as a different user? Menu bar translucency can be set per-user and translucent is the default, so if, e.g., you run an OS X GUI app as root using sudo, and haven't disabled translucency for root, you'll see this behavior.
See this thread on the Cap'n Proto mailing list for some idea of how well Python does on this benchmark:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/capnproto/BDpV6WEG5B...
I'm fine with Haskell using a different convention if there actually is one.

And your other explanation proves my point: If an "IO" instance is best described as an "IO Action", then why is the type not called "IOAction"?
Anything to do with gentrification?

edit: I couldn't figure out why I was a little confused reading this, but it's because there is no one coherent answer in this article.

edit: I asked because the article doesn't answer that, aside from a small sampling. And the phase before this seems to be from only a couple of years ago ("Aaron Leitko wrote a 2011 Pitchfork feature about it called 'Positive Destruction'.") I don't know SF, but I've seen gentrification up close a few times in larger US cities, it usually takes longer. Hence my question.
I don't want to connect an unpatched computer to the internet. It could be pwned or worse.
Can confirm. They had code to lock the server to you and guarantee you got consecutive ports, but SSL handshake time on your HTTPS requests meant you wouldn't keep the lock for very long.

I started brute forcing before the jitter was very bad but only got one chunk in with my Python script.

I rewrote my solution in Go (which does http pipelining) and I could solve a whole password in about 4 minutes even during the peak time during the day when everyone was trying.

My Go solution could reliably get 10-20 valid port numbers in a row during peak times, and only jittered for 3 port numbers or so.

(I started my last block at about the same time as Eevee, but it ended up being 8044 so I had to settle for 21st place)
They've been tested to last 1000 years

With what? A time machine?
Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
I really hope the new Microsoft CEO decides to extend XP support until Windows 9 is out so I won't have a tough choice come April.

They allow only a minimum of two years after a new version release before the previous version goes into extended support, which lasts for another five years. Rounded up to the nearest quarter, this makes the end of mainstream support for XP April 2009 and the end of extended support the now infamous April 2014 date. This is despite the fact that Vista RTM had plenty of problems and by the time XP entered extended support which was around the time Vista SP2 released, Win7 was just around the corner.
The Collateral Damage of a Teenager
More users is not always a good thing. Support costs increase linearly for a while with the user base, and then I'd suppose superlinearly.

Apple has departments of people dedicated only to taking phone calls.

I would rather have 10 users at $10,000 each than 100,000 users at $1 each.
There is mention here of Windows 9 out in April 2015 http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/1/11/5298798/windows-9-relea...
So having slow compiles on NTFS is worse than having silent corruption on HFS?
The key question is how you determine the difference between skill and luck. Is that difference statistically significant and is their a different set of inputs that lead to this output?

For instance, Taleb's example of fund managers that beat the market for five years in a row. You start with a cohort of 10,000 and a 50% chance of beating the market each year. There will be a group of 300 or so fund managers that consistently beat the market 5 years in a row. This does not differentiate the lucky from the skillful. 1) Analyzing other cohorts that had higher success rates and 2) their investment strategies and decisions would be necessary to make the determination.

Well, a broken clock is right twice a day. Someone who always calls for a market correction will eventually be right. The real question is how will the investment strategy fair over decades or longer.

We may have different takeaways from the book. My takeaway was that one should invest in becoming skilled (learn strategies that work in the long run) rather than seeking or worshiping those who may just be lucky.
They don't have to know what those words mean. Most versions of Linux have everything that the average user needs right out of the box, and if most PCs were shipped with a popular user-friendly distro, 99% of people wouldn't even notice or care.

Admittedly if you want to run native Windows programs that aren't available for Linux then you're kind of screwed. Wine usually does a pretty good job but it isn't usable by the average layman at all. But it's getting better. The only programs that aren't usable on Linux nowadays are basically games, MS Excel and Photoshop.
I hacked the bus to get to work this morning.

2014: The year of everything being "hacked"
Ask HN: Remote companies
Looking for a list, directory or some other resource that has companies that work 100% remotely or partially remote (some team members).

Any ideas?
I was wondering the same thing.

But its probably for an "is it in stock in a store near me", which might by tied into the inventory/ pos system.
Try reading the article for once, and you just might be able to answer your own question.