skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the start location and end location for a user are reddit, why go through the trouble to capture some portion of the middle traffic as well? That's the beauty of an aggregator, you prosper through other people's content by providing additional value, not by competing with it. Also, I don't think there's an expectation from reddit users to be able to store images on reddit so you wouldn't be adding much perceived value in the first place.
Are interference effects between speakers that are in separate rooms a problem for sound quality? Does beep try to add delays to signals to compensate for this? I imagine it is a pretty hard problem for N > 2 assuming. I'd love a technical blog post about that.
Inside the Educational Data Revolution
The best part of this article is that the company was formed from Japanese university researchers to compete in the DARPA DRC. This is a great result for the DARPA DRC that commercial entities are being created just for the competition.
I am not sure. There seems to be evidence that they do not respond to a few petitions, even when they meet the 100K signatures (at least immediately)[1]. Since [1]'s release, it appears that they have responded to a few of the petitions mentioned, and if you look at the site itself[2] (assuming "popular" is actually sorting by the number of signatures) there are only 15 unanswered petitions that meet the 100K requirement (though they changed the limit a few times and some may have met the original requirement). I suspect that they only respond to petitions that are in the mutual interest of the public and the politicians themselves but I have no evidence to support it.

[1] http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2014/01/white-house-owe...
[2] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions/popular/0/2/0
I love Candy Japan!

I subscribed as a small perk for my team, now twice a month, we get a delicious surprise in the mail.

Always brightens the day.
I did miss that. Thanks.

The discussion meandered, but there are also interesting comments to be found on the thread. Still, that was nearly 300 days ago, and it's full steam-ahead. That is, people are still supporting it, even as its divergence from the initial intent accelerates.

I haven't really seen engaged dialogue among Bitcoin adherents to the extent that there's effort to resolve some of these questions as a condition of continuing to lend their support.

As evidenced by that thread, when asked at all, people tend to treat these questions as more of an interesting thought exercise; this, versus approaching them with the serious consideration that such a "revolution" would seem to merit.

In short, I would say that Bitcoin is anything but what it was initially purported to be. Yet, people seem to ignore this fact and support it anyway. When you think about it, it's really kind of strange.
To be consistent between allocation and reallocation (like malloc() and realloc()).

And you still want to access the old value if reallocation failed.
If you're writing games or rich animated consumer facing solutions, by all mean scratch out that marginal perf boost.

In reality, it hasn't been an issue. Trivial to profile and optimize where required/needed vs standardizing on verbose, up front, YAGNI performance gains.

Lodash benchmarks must faster than underscore in a lot of areas, and addresses at least some of the perf issues while keeping the tasty sugar.
Doesn't that introduce the reverse problem though?

That makes someone else's content depend on the availability of your content - in the example of comments, the context and any intermediate replies can be lost if you stop hosting them. Leaving not a record of a conversation behind, but only indecipherable fragments.

A quick scan through the page at the link posted also seems to indicate the protocol depends a lot on content providers being well behaved. I'm assuming that somewhere in there there is handling for when content simply goes away with notification?
Not much more than different currencies or different goods devalue others as stores of value in general.
so, trackbacks?
I feel the opposite. Whenever I'm using a computer without a touch screen and the screen is close enough to touch (or in a convenient location to touch), I have to fight instinct to touch the screen. Sometimes it's just easier (for me at least) to jab your finger at the thing you want to click on than it is to move the mouse to it.
The first time that I clicked it, I was redirected. The second time I wasn't.
It's another way of accomplishing the same thing! What does it matter? I don't head down to the Deep South (United States) and make fun of people for their Southern accents, asking them why my own habitual way of speaking isn't "good enough" for them. It's the way they talk, and it works.

Talk about pretentious.
Smartphone surprise success Flappy Bird earns $50K per day | Mobile – CNET News
Sony sells off VAIO PC business amid prolonged industry slump
seriously great info in the free chapters. can't wait to read the rest.
I was one of the subscribers who joined in 2013 and about 5-6 months later unsubscribed.

Honestly I think it's a great service! I joined because after moving to the south from New York City, I didn't have great access to Japanese candy anymore. I got a lot of cool goodies that I wasn't familiar with before. I ended up canceling because of both cost and unreliable shipping (not bemmu's fault). I only ever missed I think one shipment but my local USPS would really badly mangle them and deliver many weeks late.

I think boxes would be a great value and I would seriously reconsider subscribing with those, not just because of less risk of damage but the ability to send crisps. Japanese crisps are of "high value" to me and I was kind of hoping bemmu would start an alternate service just for those. Some of the candies that would ship I'm not too fond of (like the rice cake panda thing that has to be made that was shipped twice) and my favorite candies I can get on Amazon (evaporated milk candies are OMG AMAZING).

Also, a quick welcome package is a great idea. I ended up waiting almost 2 months in the mail for my first shipment..the longest wait out of all of them. Such anticipation!

Anyway, highly recommend anyone interested to try this.
Canción para una Chinita – Song for a chinese girl
A song a wrote to my girlfriend. Its in spanish, for all that want to learn the language (or speak spanish natively)
I don't get the logic that starts with "Technology is moving fast but email doesn't change" and leads to the solution being papering over email's faults with some slick UI. It's like the whole city's water pressure is failing and everyone is complaining about faucet design instead of that we're using two thousand year old aqueducts. We need more out of online communication than email can give us at a really fundamental level. Suffice to say, my thoughts on this are longer than an HN comment: http://structur.al/articles/after-email/
Correct. The writer doesn't really know what he is talking about or is oversimplifying. Litecoin clones are scrypt based. Bitcoin clones are sha-256 based.
If you believe in technological plateaus ... it's possible that ReactOS has all the time in the world.
> Part of the difficulty of bringing this about is making p2p easy for users.

As a general concept, P2P is easy for users - using bittorrent clients, TPB, etc. is essentially mainstream.

The one thing that would be nice is browser support - I would love it if Chrome had the option to download .torrent files using the Chrome download manager.

Thanks to web seeds[0], this would allow providers to convert any download to a torrent instead, both increasing use of P2P and decreasing their own server load.

Users wouldn't even need to know that they're using Bittorrent to download files - all they'd see are faster download speeds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding
Skinny Puppy demands compensation for music used for Guantanamo Bay torture
Bing search for ".org" brings up suggestion for Google.org
By not hosting the images reddit gets double special safe harbor status wrt copyright and dmca complaints.

Reddit gets the traffic, imgur pays for the bandwidth and compliance.
What does this have to do with desktops?

This article is saying that as people apparently migrate to larger phones they will then find tablets unnecessary.

I think there is room in the world for people to have both a small one-hand useable phone coupled with a larger multipurpose tablet. There is also room for people to buy devices like the Sony 6" phablet that works both as a phone and a "tablet."
I had points taken off from a C programming assignment in college once because I used goto for cleanup, and the grader blindly took off points for using goto. It took me quite a few back & forths with him to convince him that my usage was fine. His words were: "the use of goto is rather dangerous and usually leads to spaghetti code and reduction in performance (because of prediction + cache reasons), wherever you used goto you could've used functions".
I feel like this post opens more questions than it tries to answer:

* Ultimately, why he didn't like SV?

* Was there a specific reason for choosing Tel Aviv, over say Berlin or Sydney? (Girlfriend? Is he an Israeli citizen?)

Some quotes are correct only if you frame them, for example: if you’ re passionate enough about your project, you can make it happen anywhere - Care to try in Greece, Nigeria, Syria?

Also, I didn't understand too much about his profile: In the beginning seems like he was a very successful entrepreneur who turned into a VC, insinuating that he made lots of money (== success). Then it gives me the impression that he didn't had a great run.

Anyway, wish him all the best.
Amidst the stories about Steve Jobs trying to get Sony to run MacOS on the Vaio we now get this note that Sony is exiting the PC business. Its too bad, I've owned a number of Vaio laptops over the years and have really liked most of them.
Autobahn + Tesla car = pure dream – dead inexperienced high-speed driver that caused a 10 mile traffic jam and killed 4 people.
As someone who does not have a lot of money, this article's title intrigued me. However, I was disappointed to discover that the article did not actually provide ways to get money for nothing. Overall, I was overall not very satisfied with the experience of reading this article, mostly because it did not provide me with ways of obtaining money for nothing, even though the title suggested it would. I would not recommend the article to anybody who is seeking to find ways to obtain money for nothing, as the article does not contain such information, and it would be a disappointment for them as well.
Notes on a responsive Guardian redesign
Same thing happened for me (Windows, FireFox 26).
Hello! Just a quick feedback on the website: I didn't realize I had to scroll to see the rest of the content at first. I tried clicking on several parts of the image but that didn't work. Eventually I pressed the spacebar and was very surprised to see the page scroll.

Root cause: your title graphics is beautiful and well centered, so it looks like a splash screen, not like something with more content below (and scroll bars don't show on OS X).

Suggested fix: just add an onclick handler so that you smoothly scroll down to the next screen of content when the user clicks the image. That should be enough to teach the user that they have to scroll to see more content.

Other than that, game looks gorgeous, congrats!
Mobile Performance Testing Across the Transaction Lifecycle
weren't they targeting winxp?
I think windows 7 would require a lot more work.
Sad to realize the studio behind Messiah [0] and Earthworm Jim [1] has ended up specializing in shoveling out licensed trash [2][3].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(video_game)

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm_jim

2: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/battleship

3: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/gi-joe-the-rise-of-c...
Quite. I am puzzled by the article. As even the author points out, binary search is tail-recursive, and therefore trivially transformed to an iterative form. So why on earth profile a recursive implementation?
Yeah, I've had bad experience with the Ideapads.

Dell's new Latitudes can easily compete with the MBP when it comes to design, price, performance and features.
My Note II (and now Note III) completely killed my tablet use... or more properly put, replaced it. With the stylus and multitasking, feels more like a small tablet with phone capabilities.

My various tablets are now nearly permanently attached to my computers. I need them for writing / testing software, but that is mostly all they do these days, don't carry them around the house much, never carry them out of the house.
The key to success is essentially, word of mouth (or the internet equivalent). And addicting gameplay.

Every single person I know in the real world (ie. not on the internet) is playing this game. I know more people playing this game, right now, than Angry Birds in its heyday, or Candy Crush right now.

It's funny how such a simple game can capture people's attention - I'm addicted, my high score (from yesterday) is 90 :-0
Other than text self-posts, Reddit submission titles are all links to external URLs. There's no special case for imgur. They're links, not embeds.
Checkout:

http://www.meetup.com/HelPy-meetups/

http://python.fi/

https://twitter.com/pythonfinland

https://www.facebook.com/python.fi

And because this is Finland come to #python.fi at IRCNet.

We have had 100-150 PyCon attendees during the last two years. Meetups in Helsinki have 20-30 attendees.

Disclaimer: I am one of the organizers.
Startup Hustle is a Battle Against Yourself
My experiences don't bear that out. A few years ago I quit my job and spent six months traveling across the USA, camping at national parks. It was a dream I'd had for a while, and I loved it. At the same time, I was very glad when my trip had finished, and I could get back to working.

What I noticed was that my subconscious had a need to make plans, to have a goal to work towards. I was living my dream; there was nothing I wanted to achieve, because I had achieved it. As a result, I started daydreaming, with my daydreams steadily becoming more fantastical and involved. By the end, I was ready to find a new goal to work towards; that ended up being professional/career development and continuing education.

I agree absolutely that it's important to be able to be happy while doing the dishes, but that's a different sensation. There's the pleasure of being in the moment, of acknowledging the sensations that surround you, of being alive. Then there's the satisfaction of achievement. Both are important, but they are distinct.
Get your Backbone.js straight
Web app to create flippable magazines. What do you guys think?
Am I the only one who uses it mostly in the toilet?
Se debe utilizar un servicio de Pronosticos Deportivos?
The secret of the non-game app that had the biggest sales in 2013?
It's not the large tech companies that poach employees from small startups, it's other startups. Small startups pose more of a threat to the large, established companies. Some tech giants successfully obtain people by dumping several money trucks on certain sorts of tech talent, precisely because it is so hard to keep them from starting or joining some small venture, which will provide them with autonomy, large impact, and a chance to become fabulously wealthy. The rather cartoonish notions of startup glory also appeal to many.

There's a reason that every company in tech is trying to b.s. people that they either are _really_ a startup (when they are not), or that they are _like_ a startup (yeah, right).
> very unlikely to be random.

Speaking of word replacements, "random" does not mean "uniformly distributed". An unfair coin toss is still random.
Wow. It's kind of sad how Sony seems to be just wasting away. I don't know what PS4 sales numbers are like relative to XBox or even the older systems, but it just feels like if XBox hadn't so royally screwed up with their nonsense about not being able to lend out games, I feel like PS4 would be grasping for air right about now.
True facts that sound false
How One Small Code Change to Percona Tools Helped Prevent Downtime
Reddit's New Ad Sales Pitch Deck
and chicks for free.
This will be much more difficult and you'll have to give up much of your social life, but you can also conceivably keep your job and work on an MVP during nights and weekends. This might actually help you keep focused only on the essential aspects of your application rather than trying to release a massive version 1.0.
How so?

For the rare books, I expect the price would be limited both by value and by how much time it would take to find another copy somewhere (say, a university library two towns away) and how much the buyer's time is worth.

Domain squatting I thought tends to be more about trademarks and trying to confuse people.
It's all a matter of style, but I removed the border on the iframe that holds the video player and I liked it better because the video started to blend with the rest of the page. I felt it made it more immersive.

Cool music and the 8bit style gave me flashbacks of some games I played in the 80s.

Good luck, it looks great! (though I, too, didn't really get the gameplay or the type of game it is)
My worry, regarding resources, is not that any are burned, but that it's an arms race where effort to attack is O(effort to defend), which means we always need to collectively burning more resources than attackers could and we don't even get the tremendous discount afforded us by crypto in other spheres (brute forcing encryption takes effort of O(2^effort to defend), for example). If we get more efficient algorithms or processes or technology in traditional finance, the resources we spend can shrink - not so, with proof-of-work.

Of course, with physical attack there is always an arms race, but bitcoin is still vulnerable to physical attack.
this MIT study for ~100 years supply at present rates of consumption

P. 12 of that study says "most commentators conclude that a half century of unimpeded growth is possible", and the study appears to agree with that assessment. "Unimpeded growth" means a large increase in consumption rate over the present.

Also, that assessment is based on a once-through fuel cycle and mining as the only uranium source. Over a half century to a century time scale the first assumption is almost certainly invalid (breeder technology is advancing) and the second may be shaky as well. (Note, btw, that a key reason why the MIT study assumed a once-through fuel cycle was not that breeders were not available, but that they were uneconomic at current uranium prices; but obviously if uranium gets scarcer, uranium prices go up and breeders become economically viable.)

Finally, a half century is not 25 years. If we have a half century to a century of nuclear power even with a once-through fuel cycle, we have an obvious alternative to fossil fuels for that time frame. Your claim that we will hit an energy crisis in 25 years assumes that there is no such alternative.

Tell me how much algae fuel you want and what conversion pathways (biodiesel, ethanol, synthesis, solids) you're referring to. Then give me acreages and water estimates. Oh, and how you're going to fertilize all that goop and keep pests out of it.

All of which are issues that are going to be solved, if they're not solved already, probably well within your 25 years, certainly within a half century. Google turns up plenty of hits on "algae fuel" or "algae fuel study" that show plenty of progress in this area.

the foundation for your optimism

Human ingenuity plus profit motive plus an obvious market for cleaner forms of energy. What I noted above with regard to the assessment of breeders being viable is true more generally: a key limitation of most assessments of available energy resources is that they only look at what's economical given current prices, not what's possible. But the economics will change.

That's not to say that there are no obstacles; but as I said before, the main obstacles I see are political, not technical.
>the "true" origin or purpose of Bitcoin will never be known unless someone leaks it

Well, that's really my question. Why don't people seem to care?

>speculation is pointless IMO

And, that's the thinking that boggles my mind and prompted this post. Why is it that people don't think it matters? There are actually two things here: 1.) It appears to not at all be what attracted people to it, which also means that it is not conveying the presumed benefits to its adopters. and 2.) That implies that it's something else and is conveying some benefit to someone else.

So, with respect to those points, 1.) why do people continue to support it when their reasons have dissolved? and 2.) why don't they care that they have possibly been misled, wonder who misled them, and why?

I mean, it would be one thing if they just said "screw it" and walked away. But, they just seem to blindly continue supporting it.

>people are trying to apply their mainstream values to Bitcoin

Exactly. The mainstream swooped in quickly and swept all of those hopes away. But, it seems to not have deterred those early adopters that their dreams have been crushed. Perhaps with the gold rush, their support no longer matters as much. But, you'd think they'd almost revolt against their hopes being crushed. Yet, there's barely a grumble.

>It's easier for people to change their payment system than to change their values

Well said.
ah, sorry didn't notice the relay bit.

we don't do anything explicitly to relays.

we get the tor ips from tor itself, and filter out hosts that have a connection policy that would result in them not being able to connect.

we do however source and combine multiple proxy lists, which I suspect you ended up on.

I seem to remember you were chatting to me, and I said something along the lines of 'try again tomorrow and if it's still broken I'll sort it out manually', and you didn't come back!
Then let yourself be fired as that situation comes up. Or better yet, proactively talk with your manager saying "I can't give you 80 hour weeks. Here's what I can give you, and here's what I bring to the table. Is that acceptable?"

I live in Silicon Valley, and I work for a company that's somewhat famous for getting its employees to stay on campus all the time. I usually work 6-8 hour days, and occasionally put in some time on the weekends but usually go have a life instead. I'm leading a very high-priority company project, and I get paid...generously. I don't expect my team members to work any particular hours; hell, I'm terrible at keeping set hours myself. I do expect them (and myself) to make solid progress toward the goal every day, to seek out information and make smart decisions, and to focus their efforts on areas that other people are not already covering.

There's often a lot of leeway between what people say they want and what they actually want. Discovering that leeway is the art of negotiation, which is a useful skill in its own right. If the culture says it wants 80 hour weeks, it does not necessarily mean your employer wants 80 hour weeks. Most likely it wants rapid, dependable progress toward a goal, which is usually better obtained with solid 40-50 hour weeks.
It's been awhile for me (5 years) - but have you looked at SportsML? http://www.sportsstandards.org/ss

Feeds are expensive if you want realtime, but if you are happy with daily stats then you can easily scrape every 6 or so hours from each site you need, and fall under the scraping radar.
Slashdot boycott
Slashdot users are revolting against a redesign of the site. Most comments on current stories are now protests against said redesign.
Pretty much all of the shuttle's engineering stupidity was due to DoD requirements.
Wait. What? Is this an ad in HN?