skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love it if you discussed Omegle/ChatRoulette in your post. (Disclaimer: I made Omegle, and obviously I have an interest in you pimping my site. But I also think it would be interesting to see you analyze how anonymity applies to it, since you probably have more perspective on it than I do.)
I'm supporting this calling of the BS. I have a some reliable data points pointing in the opposite direction of this link-baity volksciencemeinschaft.

Get this off the front page.
I tech various programming technologies. One lecture on web session handling I showed a big red button app running on a local intranet server. The problem was it had a leaderboad in it. I completely lost the class after they got the URL. One pair even went so far as to figure out how to share their session so they could combine their clicks.
yeah goldman sachs was also named after a children's game
I hope one day Nokia will release Windows Phone Bootcamp for those Nokia Android phone. Similar to how one bootcamp to Windows from Mac OS X. If MS has its own Android stores/platform, its a win-win.
This rules - I used to use visual slick edit years and years ago, glad to see jetbrains stepping up to the plate to provide a cross platform IDE for c++.
your point here?
This is exactly why software engineering needs to professionalize.

I don't see developers always having more leverage than their business counterparts. Really, I'd love to see developers wholly accountable to their peers, along with some sort of entrance exam. I think the world at large would take developers a bit more seriously.
I haven't used it, but from what I understand it's an app where people tell secrets about something or someone. So that may be the first reason you may not like it, especially if it's about you. It doesn't have much to do with anonymity, but with the fact that it's supposed to be a community around divulging people's secrets. So even though it's "anonymous", it's actually anti-privacy.

Second, I'm anonymous on HN and I'm anonymous on Reddit. This should prove that what you need is not to ban anonymity, but to have good enough voting and filtering mechanisms, and a decent culture inside the community.

I'm also not entirely sure Twitter is getting better. If it is, it's only because you chose to follow certain people. But I imagine with Twitter growing its audience, a lot more of the "normal people", who may not be as educated, join Twitter and say a lot of nasty stuff online, much like they would offline.

As for Facebook, again, it may have gotten "better" for you because of its filtering mechanism, and because in time it learned to show you only certain types of posts.

So from your point of view, I think the main problems are with the type of community this is in the first place, and the "etiquette" for that community, and with Secret.ly being a new app and the founders not having enough time to polish things up.
Extensive process might raise the below average toward the average, but it can also lower the above average toward the average

The way that I see it is that at best, rigid processes can set set both a ceiling and a floor. It's sort of like going to (a real) Starbucks. 99 times out of a hundred it's not going to be terrible, nor is it going to be great. It's going to be just OK.

If you're the kind of organization that looks at software as a necessary evil instead of a strategic advantage, "just OK" is an appealing thing to strive for.
So, despite what everyone has been saying, girls are different from boys?!
Honest question, why are people so afraid of there being inherent differences between boys and girls?
What's The Future For Virtual Reality Movies?
Swap rate (as opposed to space consumed) is probably the #1 metric that monitoring agents fail to report.

One thing that drives me nuts is how frequently monitoring agents/dashboards report and graph only free memory on Linux, which gives misleading results. It's fine to report it, but to make sense of it, you have to stack free memory along with cached and buffered memory, if you care about what's actually available for applications to use.

Another often-overlooked metric that's important for web services in particular is the TCP accept queue depth, per listening port. Once the accept queue is drained, remote clients will get ECONNREFUSED, which is a bad place to be. This value is somewhat difficult to attain, though, because AFAIK Linux doesn't expose it.
The summary is good :-)

Two details. First, cloning a complete page and calling remap_file_pages() only occurs once on a given page, so if a number of transactions repeatedly modify the same objects, they will already be in un-shared pages (the page are tentatively shared again during major collection only).

And second, about the exact time at which "read-write" conflicts are found: when we commit, we know which objects we modified, so we can check if someone else has read them and abort that other thread instead. We never need to walk the list of all read objects: it is enough to check if some (smaller number of) objects were read or not by another thread. So the "list" of all read objects is implemented as a byte mask over all objects.
So given that, to see significant ROI you need to find genuine experts in how to use each form of media.

So, even if it is technically possible to do well in a given media, if it is really hard to identify who is a genuine expert in that media due to it being new and full of snake-oil merchants, then you are likely to do better in a more established field.
CoreOS is of course systemd based...
I've run many profitable campaigns on Facebook -- by not buying likes or advertising a Facebook Page. You can advertise normal links on Facebook and that operates like any other online ad -- some text and a picture, linked to a landing page for your own site.

There's no "likes" to count or "engagement" to measure other than the normal conversion metrics -- how many of the clickthroughs completed whatever action you wanted them to complete on the landing page, how many eventually convert to paying customers, and is their LTV higher than their CPA.

Facebook's also a great channel for retargeting. I run a campaign for Improvely there and the ads only appear to people that have already hit the signup page within the past few days.
Now, where is Hunter Moore when he is needed the most?

Oh right, grounded in his parents' basement.
It's interesting watching the conversation over sex differences take shape. On the one hand, we have a group of people that say even though males and females are biologically different there are NO differences in the way we think or perform. At the other extreme you have the "girls are nurturing, males are war-like" argument. What it really is is a combination of both nature and nurture. The effects of testosterone and estrogen are well known. Brain plasticity is a marvelous thing. Add to that 'developmental windows' where certain behaviors and predilections become our (as in each individual person's) baseline behavior and you have a fantastic spectrum of humanity. Average people will tend more toward stereotypical behavior, because the stereotypes define average. Those at either end of the spectrum may be a hyper stereotype or a stereotype defying unique one-of-a-kind individual. Don't hate it, embrace it.

I found the below links a week ago, just browsing for 'sex differences':

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-diff...

http://sugarandslugs.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sex-difference...

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/sexdifferences.aspx
I like the Kafkaesque idea of inventing new best practices specifically so you can avoid using them.
What are these studies? The metadata studies I've heard about say otherwise. That is, some studies say one thing, other studies say the opposite, and so it's impossible to really conclude anything by choosing a subset of the literature.

For a recent lay presentation on this topic, see http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2014/02/03/ftbcon2-e... . At the top is a link to a Google document ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slJbQpPTlg_m6cKgsarzGLqY... ) with full citations.
And when you're evaluating science, the paper itself, in the literature, is the only real way to evaluate it's quality.

This is incredibly short-sighted. Overvaluation of the literature is exactly why people pollute the literature with fraudulent results. It's why paper reviewing process and citations are polluted with political machinations. Ultimately, science is the entire corpus, from experimental design, through data collection, and presentation of work as papers. Reification of the publication process quietly enables researchers who keep everything up to publication a black box.

Moreover because some NIH grants fund clinical trials doesn't mean that all (or even the average) NIH grants have that level of scrutiny
I can't give you an exact cost and time, but what I can do is give you relative cost and time. "This is easy, this is easy but will take a while (low variance), this is hard (relatively long time, high variance.) -- so that's giving you your estimate and your tolerances.

Further, I can work with you to figure out what portion of each project will give you the biggest bang for your buck. So you can say, "I want to spend x00,000 dollars." -- and I come back and give you a demo each week that you can play around with. At any point, you can say, "This is enough to generate value for me, let's move to the next thing for a while."

Further still, I can build it with enough test coverages and good design practices that it will be possible to extend upon the design at a later point without scrapping everything.

On the other hand, you can spend half of that x00,000 developing a specification. If detailed enough, I can give you a very low variance estimate of how long it will take. However, you won't know if it will actually meet your needs until you see it. You won't know about problems in what you really need until it's too late, and you'll end up spending more money in the end.

That's the message that should go out.
I've not tried the latest ones, but the earlier ones just had a distinctly unfinished and rushed vibe to them. Kind of neat, but hacked together.

It doesn't help that I'm in the Canadian market, and for a while Kobo existed simply as an e-reader to take advantage of the fact it was more easily available here than the Kindle, so I think we were exposed to rougher versions of the initial product than elsewhere.
Cute game! Took me a while to realize I had to type in the word at the top of the screen though. I banged on my keyboard for a good long while before accidentally hitting the right letter and noticing that it had turned red. Perhaps a little hint or tip could help n00bs like me.
In day to day life, the most attractive faces tend to be rare. They're memorable simply for being attractive, meaning the face itself doesn't have to be memorized.
Please please make it support Microsoft's C++ compiler under Windows. Otherwise it's a deal breaker for me.
Which part?

I know you're the creator of 4chan, and are necessarily going to see it "at its best", but surely even you must agree that many parts of it (especially /b/) behave badly?
How Snapchat is Missing Out on $1.5M in Revenue Each Day
Literally 2 days after I registered on Mt Gox (2011), I got this email: "[Mt.Gox] Account database compromised". I'm glad if they're going away. I've never trusted them since.
Well, ad based revenue is not broken for Facebook or Google. They employ thousands of engineers and have made billions in revenue.
Didn't think I'd need to explicitly write this one, but...

7. Is this stupid thing supposed to improve my typing? No.
these are examples of real need for anonymity, but something like secret would be a bad platform for it.
If it keeps unwiting people from dumping more money in either USD,EUR,JPY, or BTC into that exchange then I'd say it's the right thing to do.
which is a huge let down.

Quite to the contrary. Nokia has been making some of the best smartphone hardware for a while now - I considered switching to WP just so that I could use the 1520 (or whatever the one with the great camera was). I didn't in the end - if it supported Android I wouldn't hesitate.

Unfortunately, this sounds like something quite different.
Less meinschaft, more mineshaft and minecraft.
> Do you think it is an acceptable answer if the builders reply, "I have no idea how much it will cost, I don't know how long it will take, and I don't know what you will have at the end of the process."

If that's the actual answer, then anything else is just obfuscating the truth.

Why should we encourage lying to try to cover for the fundamental lack of knowledge? If you don't know, trying to make up numbers never makes things better.
As I understand it, which may be wrong, this is a PyPy level innovation, used by the VM, and among the intentions is simply speeding up Python to work effectively with multiple threads and no GIL. It is unclear how to directly offer it to end-users without making what the end-users are using something fundamentally Not Python.
For all those who dream of running emacs on their phone, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
> drones-as-faux-cell-towers are widely available

I'm pretty sure you could find a VoIP-backhaul femtocell light enough to mount on a drone with enough battery to power it right now. They are used to provide cell service aboard ships.
Already happened with Skype.
6) Free inodes (as distinct from space) per filesystem.
i write SQL in all caps...
>and charge whatever you want when they're all gone.

Where does Walmart do this? I've never been to a Walmart where pricing was out of line. Moreover, predatory pricing is litigious at best and illegal at worst.
Thanks arstra! Lots of good leads there. I'm still wondering where the forecasts come from, like UNEP's "no fish in the ocean in 2050". I can't find any academic paper detailing these kinds of forecasts. The UNEP's published report is not so extreme and seems at odds with continued production rates.

http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/3....
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I'm curious how much of this is due to mobile devices. For as long as I can remember, I have had IPv6 addresses on both Verizon and T-Mobile (though only T-mobile allows IPv6 traffic as of last year: http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/145765-ipv6-makes-mobile-n...)
The move from labor-intensive, big-bang, monolithic deployments to fully automated, tested, non-event deployments has been a bigger positive change for me than any defined methodology or specific technology.
Does anyone know why Ness sold for so cheap?
Thanks for the Allegro thoughts; I'll just drop that one off my list. It was close to the edge anyway, since it seems to have only recent (beta-quality, untested) Android support.

I'm using Dub for my C++/Lua bindings, which provides exceptional C++ interop. Dub also is easily modified, and with my modifications I can have C++ objects referenced by smart pointers that are wrapped in Lua objects, and those objects can have additional Lua "tags" added to them that persist for the lifespan of the C++ object (even if all Lua instances of the object are collected).

You just can't beat LuaJIT for speed; speed isn't that important for scripting on desktops, but can be relevant on mobile. And it's hard to beat Lua syntax to enable non-programmer scripting options.
My son likes dolls, and my son likes trucks. Is he a secret hermaphrodite?
I didn't strictly say it was bad. Sure, I believe it is, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. The points I'm trying to make are that the internet isn't just another version of the "bad stuff" that has always been around and that because of how different the internet is, it's unreasonable to suggest it doesn't affect us or our kids. I'd also like to make the point that there is a middle ground between letting a 10-year old have unrestricted internet access and monitoring your child's every action.

A sample of comments from this thread that I'm trying to argue against:

> That stuff was there during the BBS days as well.... You wrap your kids in cotton and stifle them throughout their childhoods with your helicopter parenting...

> Sure the internet is a HUGE medium, and it's a lot easier to get access to that material using the internet, but that content's been around for almost as long as we've had photography.

> When will people understand that people online is no different from people you meet in real life. Some are shady, some will cause trouble if you talk to them, and violence exist everywhere?... 24/7 supervising is not healthy.

> Is it okay for you to force your child to wear a wire to school? Is it healthy to use the tapes to intervene in her conflicts?

Whereas I say that the internet is not just the same old stuff we've always had, it does affect us, and not wanting your 10-year old to watch porn or beheadings is not the same as wanting to watch them 24/7 and force them to wear a wire to school.
> IMO Intel's on-chip RNG would probably be a good source to use

Only if NSA contractors don't play online poker in their spare time.
About reboot monitoring, I suggest to use kdump to dump the oops information and save it for later debugging and understanding of the issue. It may even be an uncorrectable memory or pcie error you are seeing and the info is logged in the oops but is hard to figure otherwise. Also, if you consistently hit a single kernel bug you may want to fix it or workaround it.
Can you show me some of these studies? I just pointed out the problematic lack of citations in the article and your dismissive comment alone isn't going to change my mind. If there's solid evidence one way or the other, I'd be genuinely interested to see it.

And even if they do happen to agree with actual good science, the few studies presented here still don't "explain" anything and this Live Science post is decidedly shonky science reporting (and calling it that is frankly generous).
Cool rebrand
Enterprise ready.
The candlestick charts are not telling a pretty story about trust right now. Bitbugs keep the faith and talk about buying with blood in the streets since it always bounces back, but every flash crash comes with a worse story.

The headline is "Largest Bitcoin Exchange Doesn't Understand Bitcoin"

What hope do retailers and any but the very-technical have in managing the risk implicit in digital currencies?

Not to mention, seeing supporting forum posts where people are discussing the parts of fractions of coin being sent around... do people really think 8-10 digits past the decimal can hope to be manageable for consumers? It's bad enough to deal with Yen conversions.

Please tip your server .00343874938239487 bitcoin. When 15% of the value can evaporate while business is happening... when do you bill the customer for lunch? When they order?
And this is what /r/lisp thought about it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1vtueu/cl21_common_lis...
Oh, well, if that's the case then I'll happily side with the op without reservation.
This might be beside the point, but combinatorics, set theory and algebra are prime examples of discrete mathematics, not continuous.
"Turning on ads" is not a magic monetization panacea for an established startup because you will lose users in protest. And there are more than enough replacements for Snapchat for those users to go to.
Will This Go Faster Than Light?
You sorta made my point for me. My argument is that the market wants quarter to quarter growth over stability. There are many industries that are stable, generate lots of revenue, are profitable, but do not generate high stock prices because of no growth, like:

Truck Stops
Utilities
Tire Companies
Banks
Insurance

My argument is before the mid 80's - the focus was on the dividend not on the stock price itself, IMO, buying and selling based on stock price, rather than earning disbursed to shareholders, is merely speculation, rather than investing.
Not gonna lie - seeing an interaction between David Hewlett and Bill Gates on a reddit AMA pretty much made my day.
With same pressure of water and air around you
Fun fact. The founders of Outfit7 went from nothing to richest Slovenians in about two years! I always like to use them as an example when people from my home country say that the only way to get rich is by being a crock.
Fundamentally I agree, but I question why we do not teach computer science/coding the same way we teach music?

There are many reasons. One is that the fundamentals of classical music-- the notation, the instruments, the techniques-- have not changed substantially for hundreds of years. Compare the evolution of the keyboard from 1700-present to the evolution of computers during the same timeframe.

Another is that while programming is an activity, it is not a performance. Musical training is designed to impart specific technical skills for use in performance of music. Programming is more akin to composition.
10 years ago today at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference, Flickr was announced.
My favorite part about baby psych studies is how the researcher gets to pick whether "prolonged staring at an object" means "natural affinity for the object" or "surprise at the unexpected object"
I will say just from a user standpoint, ipv6 is amazing. I recently made the switch to ipv6 on as many of my devices as possible purely because I can then access all of them directly, no network finangling.

Since all my devices have publicly visible ipv6 addresses, I can access them e.g.

laptop.lelandbatey.com
homedesktop.lelandbatey.com
phone.lelandbatey.com

because I use tunnel brokers, sometimes the speeds not amazing, but the fact that I can connect at all makes it awesome. Also, those example hostnames are fake : )
> I only point this out because in North America, fired and laid off have two very different connotations.

... to almost no one who does not work at a state unemployment office. I kid. More accurate snark would be to say "to everyone except the person just fired/laid off."

A friend who was just laid off mentioned the way certain people feel the need to correct her when she mentions she was fired, and how hugely annoying that is. I experienced a similar thing years ago amongst my former coworkers after a large firing-I-mean-lay off. It all seems to have something to do with making everyone except the person just fired/laid off maintain a certain level of comfort, even though everyone understands that the effect of the thing is exactly the same.

(back in the day it was probably all about whether the factory was going to call you back in eventually or not)
A business should clearly handle this problem by maintaining the delusion that they control all these factors, and firing underlings if they interfere with the maintenance of the delusion.
Trying to find an European alternative. Suggestions next to https://localbitcoins.com or http://www.coinnext.com/ ?
This is a sensitive topic, like global warming, because it degenerates into politics rather than science. A study value is based on how well it supports preconceived political views.
Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)
At least two reasons:

1. It's been the default answer for millenium, and there has only been pushback on this for the last 50-ish years.

2. Because individual variation is often larger than the group variance?

3. (Related to 2.) Because it's often not a useful answer. E.g. Suppose it were proven that women were worse at math than men. Would that change how we taught boys and girls? It almost certainly would, and it almost certainly would be detrimental for the little girls. [note: There is a lot more that could be said here, that I won't say because it would take too long]

These aren't reasons to not do the research, but they are reasons that we should be deeply suspicious of research that satisfies our cultural biases.