skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one hits home close. Again. The first one was reading a quote from Ira Glass:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
...between 120 km/h and 240 km/h wind drag is going to quadruple...

Your figures here are an idealization. Real results are not going to match this because air resistance and fuel consumption are not a smooth process. (Some versions of the Tesla S even have active suspension, which really makes things interesting.) I expect you'd need some pretty serious finite element modeling, and engine modeling, to really understand the linkage.
I've been in business since 1982 (minus a few gaps), and I am informed every year that I'm going to fail.
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New Java Security kills lots of online games and emulators
With the new Java Security update, lots of online games and emulators that use the platform just stopped working. Only projects that are still alive with new versions of the software to include full support for the new protocols will still work.

javatari.org is an example. It is a multiplayer Atari 2600 Emulator, and is the only Java based Atari emulator that we found working as of today...
I thought the idea of a static site competition was pretty cool, so I'm happy that we (I work at Swiftype) are sponsoring it.

It'll be cool to see what the teams come up with.
Interactive graph showing startups by state over time
That's an interesting service, it makes me wonder what other indulgence-style businesses could exist for wealthy people ...

+--------------------------+------+--------+
| Name | Qty. | Price |
+--------------------------+------+--------+
| Littering | 1 | $6.95 |
+--------------------------+------+--------+
| Water lawn in drought | 1 | $34.95 |
+--------------------------+------+--------+
| Let's do this mega-trip | 1 | $19.95 |
| in a sports car! And | | |
| drive really fast too! | | |
+--------------------------+------+--------+

Guilt is so 2006.
On the other hand, in Lisp/Scheme/... language family you have a Turing complete language for macro language, Lisp/Scheme/... respectively. In those languages, macros are powerful and must be used with care. The advantage is that complex macros are easy to write.
Trustwave demonstrates malware that logs touchscreen swipe to record your pin
This is exactly what we had going on with our CS reading group in LA - csrg.org

It worked a little too well, all of us got new and better jobs, and we're no longer close enough geographically to continue at the same rate as before.

The perils of success!
I was specifically referring to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=American%20Dr...
No, actually. We only know the number of documents, not the number of users affected. The numbers we get to see are nearly meaningless.
I'm working on another project that more or less does that to create feeds from metadata but it might be worth tweaking.
"Tiny datacenter in a box."

That's been built into [Open]Solaris for years. You can define the network topology too.
Depends on the location. In New York City, cabs are required to carry $100k per person/$300k per event liability insurance, versus the $25k/$50k state minimum, which is all you can expect Uber drivers to have. So more cost is passed back to the cab company in the form of insurance premiums, and less is externalized onto the public.

Moreover, in return for indulging the fiction that cab drivers are independent contractors, the public extracts certain concessions in return for taking on the externalized costs of accidents. Cab companies have to accept regulated rates (that are lower than what Uber charges), and have to agree to serve the whole city.
I was wondering about the technology you used to fetch the site thumbnails?
From the platform provider's point of view, it doesn't make business sense to offer features like this to an OS or to other apps. Someone like Facebook wants you to have to come to the experience (app, website) that they control, and that they monetize. Want to know if someone is online? Come to our app and find out. And maybe while you're here you'll browse your feed and see an ad or 2 (probably more like 10).
It's a sad but accurate reflection of reality, goes well with the TDD / Dynamic programming articles earlier today.
I'm very sad.
I Remember the Future – Official Trailer
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So, something I'd personally want to know anyway, since laws often vary between countries, is if your professional and cultural experience in the UK specifically?
'Only' a record 51 million.
RON PAUL CALLS FALSE FLAG + WHERE'S MADDIE McCANN
The expected value of an entry is something like ten cents assuming you know a lot about basketball.

This is like saying, "let's all work together to hack ten cents into eleven cents" (except we're doing something secret to do the hacking, which we won't tell you, but trust us. ps we love Nate Silver)

Edit: Actually, Now that I think about it more, the people who made this are probably concerned with too many teams using the same statistical techniques, and choosing the same bracket. Assuming several teams find this "highly likely" bracket, and it wins, those teams would all share the prize. This way, the organizers can choose their favorite bracket, and help ensure that other brackets aren't going to share the prize with them.
Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation
I've had good luck booting Fedora (at least 19 and 20, and I think 18) on Macs.

Other distros don't seem to work with Apple's EFI implementation. To boot other distros, I've had good luck with the refind[1] bootloader. Granted, I have only been booting live USBs, not installing on the internal drive.

1: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Bill To Allow Use Of Drones For Certain Purposes Proposed In New York
The person is not hard to find:
https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/358
At first I did lots of SEO, good page titles, meta tags, links from other sites. It brought modest traffic. Since then I haven't done much but the traffic keeps growing.

Part of the explanation is that is has a pretty long tail.
You can raise a point without an ad hominem attack, mturmon. Happily standing-by my comment.
What tools is Python missing? (Quora)
I'm bearish on Apple. I just don't see the leadership or focus I once saw when Jobs was still at the helm. I think they still might have a few tricks up their sleeve, but I think we're going to see less innovation as the years go on.
It all goes back to childhood.
Penflip: GitHub for non-developers
>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

>No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation

>In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

>Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
> "It would also prevent unmanned aircraft from being improperly used by creating two new crimes: the illegal use of an unmanned aircraft to capture images and the offense of possessing or distributing the image."

Terrible.
Has that ever actually happened? Person did X, X later became illegal, and Person was prosecuted for doing X because of a digital footprint left behind while doing X?
lol, that's like saying "i dont get why gays wanna marry, marriage is awful and taxes are crazy", or "blacks shouldn't want to vote, our government is crooked"
If You Can Tie Your Shoes, You Can Teach an Online Course
Bringing the Dead Back to Life
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Great for catching moments like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FxI3aVBOs
I've only recently been playing around with Solaris derivatives, and am pretty impressed at how far it is with some of this stuff. My recent favorite is discovering 'ppriv', which lets you drop processes' privileges on a process-by-process basis without even starting up a new container/zone to encapsulate them. E.g. you can run a process with no network access or with no ability to fork, or with no ability to read/write files (or all of the above). Super-handy for running untrusted code as a stdin->stdout filter without worrying about it causing other mischief, and not having to encapsulate it in a zone/jail/container just to run one process.

FreeBSD's 'capsicum' [1] also looks promising at the OS API level as a similar initiative to write code with minimal privileges, but afaict you can't use it on the command line to run unmodified code with restricted privileges, at least not yet.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
Something interesting that Apple has been able to do the last few years is find one new technology, or push the notch up on an existing one, such that people feel they're significant enough upgrades that they end up buying whatever it is. What will Apple throw out next? I have no idea, but I'm expecting to be mildly surprised when it happens.
That's a good emulator!
It is a pity to know that many good projects will just die.
Ask HN: Third-party reputation/trust platform for an online marketplace
Would an early-stage online marketplace/peer-to-peer service consider using a third-party reputation/trust platform?

I have built a prototype (algorithm+APIs) that is based on my PhD research at Stanford, where I developed a mathematical model for quantifying trust between any two nodes (people) in a social network (i.e., not just those that are friends with each other).

If you have some use for my prototype, I would love to meet with you (email me at: ppd@stanford), buy you a coffee/donut, understand your usecase and describe/demo my prototype.
I am very far from alarmed. Though I can think of all of the 'scary' doom scenarios that go along with this, I figured out a long time ago that even my normal barely-running vehicles could be broken into or worse. Any doom beyond that has chances that are more rare than hurting myself while getting into the same car. So I'm not going to worry about it.

I'll continue to take reasonable precautions (don't keep valuables in the vehicle, have insurance, look into the car at night since I rarely lock it, etc). And yes, I rarely lock the car. I figure that a broken window (what I figure is the most common entry) will hurt me more financially and cause more inconvenience than anything in the car.

Technically speaking, if people can get my credit card numbers, it is unsurprising that the door lock technology can be manipulated. Locks never keep the determined out, it merely forces them to work more creatively.
Mobile A/B testing at LinkedIn
People don't actually have natural rights, if you're using the common definition of "natural".

The only thing that's natural are the laws of nature, otherwise known as physics, and there is no law of physics that prevents me from torturing someone.
I would love to see the paperwork they use to attempt to prevent defection by the winner if any.
Here is a good explanation why corporations are taxable:

Corporations are participants of the economy and their profits depend on tax-financed public goods: healthy and educated workforces; good infrastructure; publicly enforced respect for contracts and property rights, and so on. When corporations avoid or evade tax, legally or illegally, they free ride on the backs of the rest of us. Stop taxing them, and you savagely undermine political community.
I don't think we're quite there yet with tablets. Maybe another 3-4 years. They are relatively inexpensive and they have a strong hand-me-down life cycle. A lot of people buying new iPads every 1-2 years are doing so to give their old model to kids/family/etc. They are very personal devices no one really wants to share a tablet. There is also going to be more churn in the market because they are very mobile devices more prone to being broken or lost. Being very mobile devices they are more likely to be replaced/upgraded simply due to fashion/social pressure. Best parallel to that is car sales. A lot of people buy new cars simply because they don't want to drive an old/unfashionable car anymore.

SmartPhones are much closer to that 'good enough' point though I think subsidized devices are still very much in impulse buy territory for a lot of people. Given the cost of your cellular contract there's questionable value in saving $100-$200 every two years skipping an upgrade. You have to pay for the service either way it's in your best interest to have a device that can make the most of it. For unsubsidized devices (non-Apple devices at least) there is a healthy low-mid range market developing where the same trends should play out.
Apparently in American English it can either be pronounced 'key', 'kay' or 'kway'.
The very first thing that comes to mind when I read this - why on earth would anybody honor their agreement with $500mm on the line? I'm a pretty honorable person, but I'll admit - I'd be highly tempted to just take the money and ignore the pool.
>"The AUMF was a declaration of war. "

I'm not really disputing that. I'm saying that using the AUMF to draw comparisons to WW2 is not helpful.

>"The comparison to WW2 is simple: during WW2, scores of German-Americans traveled to Europe to fight on behalf of the Nazis."

Yes, in uniforms, on the battlefield. We didn't, as far as I know, bomb a dude writing anti-american propaganda in a city far from the battlefield. This whole WW2 analogy of yours is really tortured, and I feel foolish even arguing about it.

>"The President does not have a blanket authorization to use the military against "terrorists". He has authorization only to strike against al Qaeda and those persons and organizations who assisted in the attacks on 9/11."

Not according to the current president. I'll let Eric Holder speak here:

It is entirely lawful – under both United States law and applicable law of war principles – to target specific senior operational leaders of al Qaeda and associated forces.

This is from his speech at Northwestern, wherein he uses the phrase "al Qaeda and associated forces" five times.

Guess who gets to decide what "associated" and "operational leader" mean.

I'm frustrated that I have to spell it out like this. This administration has made it perfectly clear that if you're an American citizen abroad, the president can have you killed based on an evaluation that he alone can make. The customary checks of the judicial branch can be waved at will if the president can link you to AQ in some way. Apparently, moving to Yemen and claiming to be a leader in AQ in some shitty youtube videos counts. The bar will possibly be lower in future administrations. Or not. The point is that the process is completely opaque and unchecked.
Well, my activities are not people or document centric. Most of my icons are games, or various other apps.
In this case, the document would be a shared "group". Skype would be the backend application that handles any interaction within the group, but it's the shared conversation and simultaneous voice/video chat within that group that the users care about.
You'd have to go to the effort of adding your friends' "people" objects to the group at first, of course.
I agree. After reading in the article that:

> The main argument against Turing completeness was that my implementation did not support unbounded recursion.

I’m almost sure they are Primitive recursive function, but I didn’t have time to write the complete proof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_function#Li...
The "highly likely" bracket is still only going to have astronomically small odds.
Fractional reserve banking guarantees that banks always have a shortfall of cash! ;-)
Did you consider not doing that, then? Plenty of code-bases don't and the sky doesn't fall in.
They experimented with something along these lines in the early days of the Soviet Union, trying to create games where people felt so engaged that the lack of pay didn't matter. I wrote something about that: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/soviet_gamification.html
GP's point is that it also hasn't noticeably decreased uptime. So especially if there's a speed benefit, why switch?
I wouldn't pay for it, because if I were actually looking for something like that, I'd require it to be open sourced, and I'd have to be the one building it.
Well,

A phone could have a list of people and clicking could activate the preferred communication method. It might have smart algorithms that even choose the people you'd be most likely to communicate with in the context you're in. So the aim of this UI idea, saving keystrokes, gaining flexibility could be gotten even in your context.

The problem is that even if the aim is achieved, if the keystrokes could be saved and the flexibility increased, it would not benefit someone that much. Most people aren't speed typing, most people already can remember all the people they want to communicate with already, etc.

UIs have stayed at the point they're at based on the "good enough" principle. UIs may not be optimal altogether but optimality only matters when you're on the "critical path" and with a UI, thinking may be the critical path and keystrokes, associations and etc may come a distant second.
I find everything about Nazis to be fascinating. As someone who has Jewish ethnicity, I certainly don't endorse them (my grandfather's family actually fled Europe), but fascinating nonetheless.
> winter season (ie, near 0 deg F)

It gets into the negatives for a lot of the winter. As I type this, it is -4F in Sioux Falls (just off I-90) with a mild 5-10mph wind with an expected low of -8F tonight.

There are a lot of windmills near I-90 since you can pretty much guarantee a constant wind.
Well, the medium is of course the message — but that doesn't mean that we can't encourage users to think of the medium of electronic communication as a single thing. We know it's all just some structured data being bounced around, why not make that clear?

I think that would be a great thing, and would be the main benefit of pursuing the approach the author is arguing for.
Bootstrapping is thinking long, not small
Rove.io – generate vagrant configurations
If Cambly is WebRTC-based and are looking for a solution for measuring the media quality, drop us a note and look at our measurement API http://staging.callstats.io/api
In personal income tax situation it would be an equivalent of paying a fee (bribe) to some 80 year old guy to sign him on as a dependent to claim a deduction your our income tax.
What are you seeking to clarify? Hard to tell if you are inquiring as to how that happened, quibbling with the word choices, or disagreeing completely.
so uncool, much dogecoin to invest
> Of course you can, though on a modern system it's no longer possible to get code into the system by toggling electrical switches, which was the way computers were bootstrapped way back in the day.

Challenge accepted.
> But I admit it's not immediately obvious, and we should probably put it front-and-center somewhere.

No, the authors should fix automatic recompilation. It's difficult for me to imagine how this bug even exists. The fact that it does coupled with the excuses and blaming the messenger surrounding it tells me that the authors don't know what they're doing and that I should steer clear for fear of running into similar flaws.

Good luck!
Gliffy is bootstrapped http://www.zdnet.com/gliffy-bootstrapped-in-san-francisco-70... We're funded entirely by our customers and we're also hiring! :) http://www.gliffy.com/index-h.php
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I agree. I think the original perception is rooted in a context-free understanding of the present. That is, they lack mature awareness of the period during which women were driven out, only perceiving the status quo after that period.
How in the world anyone should rely on analysts’ expectations?
These analysts were just guessing and almost all of them were guessing wrong in the past.
It is akin to predicting to the scores for NFL Football game.
> From all the reports I've seen, they seem to be equating the selling of BTC with money laundering.

You've seen poor reports, then; specifically, you haven't seen either the actual Justice department press release or the criminal complain, both of which have been both linked and excerpted in this thread.

> No other activity related to money laundering is being reported.

Actually, the money laundering activity being reported is the official of the exchange responsible for AML compliance advising a user who -- by that officials own description -- he had reason to suspect was engaging in criminal activity on how to structure transactions to avoid anti-money-laundering flagging, and that user actually so structuring transactions.

Selling bitcoins wasn't money laundering -- it was the basis of the separate charge of operating an unlicensed money transmission business.
The Monkeysphere/Dunbar’s Number: How Many You Should Follow on Twitter
Are you sure you can't just serve up a 400x400px base64 image and put it in an image element with a height and width of 200?
Assuming you are a US citizen, you're taxed on your worldwide income. So, you have to figure a way to make that trip abroad not a vacation (personally taxable fringe benefit).

It would be perfectly legal for your Irish company to hold a board meeting in Ireland and compensate the ordinary and reasonable expenses for attending. Clearly, that would not be a vacation. ;)
A prime example of 'code rot'.