skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true. It does not handle malleability in one case. See http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xm49o/due_to_activ...

This is why many sites are having issues. It is in fact a problem with the reference client.
I'm able to SSH into my internal servers. Configuring OpenStack now to provision the addresses for instances as well.

I have an Asus RT-AC66U. Tried to flash with OpenWRT and a few others and failed a few months ago. It would appear it DOES NOT have a firewall enabled, so I'm wide open, so to speak.
Emotions and Empathy
true ... but often (as in the case of this article) the results are presented as if they are a surprise... which implies a null hypothesis

anyway I agree with you, one doesn't need a null hypothesis to measure things

on the other hand to advance theories, in other words to test and reject (or fail to reject) hypotheses, one does need ... hypotheses[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
There are all sorts of valid reasons for skipping a grade. They can even be social! After fourth grade in the Virginia suburbs of DC, my father was high on stock options from Litton and Teledyne (not quite FU money) and got a wild hair to move our family to St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands (license plate motto: "Vacation Adventure"). The pubic schools were a disaster, so I ended up in a Lutheran school, where I was the only white kid in the class. I guess I was doing too well on the tests, because I was getting beat up everyday at lunch. Suddenly I'm in sixth grade, where the class had a handful of other white children, and generally a more enlightened, or at least less violent, outlook.
Response to Greg Jorgensen: Why Don't Software Methodologies Work
Thanks for the offer. Got Rackspace going again and tested. Wide open. O_o
It doesn't matter. Even if they posted traceroutes, they'd only be from one direction which is near useless anyways.
Let's all add an external javascript file to our site, that will sure stop the tracking.
Its a bit less of an impulse purchase buying it at an electronics store than a place you'd be motivated to want to use it.
My comment is less ironic than you might discern.

History is rife with far wilder inventions than the comment-curating 'contraption' that I describe, that have been conceived and crafted, drawing from a far smaller source of inspiration than the clumsy comment made by joe_the_user.

In all probability, the sort of thing, I describe, would never materialize in the foreseeable future. It could just be a figment of my imagination.

The leaps and bounds that are required for such comment-comprehension - especially the two step thing needed for the software to assimilate the contents of the video and then contextually-observe that joe_the_user has not viewed the video, just by reading his comment - are probably far too great for the current state of Deep Learning and AI (someone well versed in these areas could chime in).

Or perhaps such advents in content curation - unbeknownst to us - are already afoot.

Surely then your quick dismissing of my "value-less" comment could be the butt of jokes for posterity.

Time will decide.
This ignores the fact that "feminism" is not a coherent movement.

To be a feminist, one must advocate for women's rights at a bare minimum.

Everything else is completely up to the individual, and the fact is there exist lots of schools with contradictory opinions on major social issues. Sex-positive/sex-negative, pro-traditional femininity (lipstick feminist)/anti-traditional femininity, pro-trans/transphobic (TERF), political lesbian, separatist, postmodernist (the prevailing type of feminism in mainstream journalism and academia today), pro-life/pro-choice, complementarian and so on.

Bottom line is, let's stop treating feminism like some omnibenevolent movement for equal rights, and as if radicals are just "fringes who don't make a difference". This is not true anymore. Feminism got derailed decades ago. Go read any large feminist publication like Feministing or Jezebel, and it embraces the toxicity of postmodern feminism.
You are talking past his point, perhaps willfully...

They are saying that in hard science it is often useful to start with a null hypothesis, and report anything that diverges from that as potentially significant (assuming statistical significance of the divergence).
Safari can't verify the identity of the website "blog.easydns.org".

The certificate for this website is invalid. You might be connecting to a website that is pretending to be "blog.easydns.org", which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the website anyway?
Using React components as Backbone Views
"if regulation works so well there should not be any bad banks"

Straw man alert; no one claims bank regulation is perfect or will stop all bank failures.
Wow. Bias much? FUD much? It hadn't occurred to me that competing Big Financial interests could be behind the coordinated attacks today until I took in the smarmy, gloating intonations of this article.
It depends. There's a small issue with the reference client that is also causing chains of double spent transactions in merchant wallets: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xm49o/due_to_activ...

I would be more inclined to believe that the majority of sites use the reference client and this is why issues are appearing.
No brainer take the interview.
Doubtful... it looks very different (nicer) on mac with chrome
More like 4th, given that Ripples can't be mined, is controlled by a single entity, most of the existing coins are not freely circulating, and the transaction volume is consistently so tiny that it looks very much like the price is intentionally manipulated to make the coin look desirable.
That article says the opposite of what you claimed. That is, they acknowledge that some people made the accusations, but they explicitly state they found no evidence:

The game's sheer success has led some critics to accuse Nguyen of using shady practices — including buying traffic or paying for fake reviews — in order to help Flappy Bird ascend the app charts. After looking at the data that corresponds to when Flappy Bird started to build word-of-mouth buzz, however, we can't find any signs of impropriety, or manipulation of reviews or ratings.
Pivot or Fail
Or; a build system is harder than it seems.

Makefiles work fine in the trivial case, the problem is that things quickly become complex. Automating that complexity seems like it should be easy but, as it turns out, it isn't.
s/Some/All/

I hate using autotools, but every time I touch a project that uses something else (and that is too complex for a ten-line Makefile), I inevitably end up wishing that it used autotools. I suppose it shows that sometimes a few decades of polishing a turd does sort of work.
Old version: http://imgur.com/CSFw8Yv.png
Unless you sue Facebook first.
> ""The best health care system in the world" is a pretty common refrain among American right wingers"

In my experience, the right wing perspective is more like "some of the best health care procedures, embedded in a payment/distribution/insurance system that sucks". One of the biggest fears is that the few things American healthcare does well will be sacrificed, and the things that are wrong with the system won't actually be fixed, the costs will just be shuffled around and hidden a bit better.
Fell in love with coding
I'm a graduating senior who majors in Business at a top school. Recently, I've branched out of my comfort zone and have taken some courses in C++. I I've done really well in the intro courses and I regret not doing a dual major in BBA/CS!

I have a job lined up at a top consulting firm after graduation however I still want to code. Any advice on the best plan of attack? My goal is to build an iOS app. Should I just pick up a book on Objective-C? I can't imagine learning coding by reading a book…I appreciate any tips!
Thanks for the offer, but the mongorestore times (against MongoDB) being over a week makes this too risky.

The code making changes was insert (mostly) with a few upserts, but the latter was by _id. My hypothesis as to the cause is that tokumx adds implicit transactions and then there are some arbitrary restrictions around those transactions (eg how many outstanding at once, timeouts in lock acquisition) and after a few hours one of those was hit. The error message was something about being unable to start a transaction.

> Not all mongodb code will optimally use tokumx without any changes

The goal wasn't to be optimal or anything like that. It was initially about space consumption (where you did really well) and verifying the same client code ran correctly. We have two setups so one would run toku and one mongodb and data processing results compared.
Hashtags and banners are only helpful for raising awareness. Phone calls to congresspeople actually can have an impact. Congresspeople keep track of issues that generate a lot of phone calls, and it influences how they vote and what they spend their time on.
Cool. Well, if you'd like to help out, let us know.
This reminds me very strongly of the Opera web browser...
If they are working in your office and they don't have their own laptop, then yes.

Otherwise, it's up to you. It's a nice thing to do, but not necessary.
This is great! Thank you. I'm a big fan.

Can't wait for the CC feature. Awesome!
It's also a tiny and unpopular subsection of the feminist movement. They're outnumbered a hundred to one by dudes who like to use them as strawmen.

Hardly.

Virtually every feminist scandal that attracts any attention whatsoever is about postmodern feminists and their oversensitive antics.

The most popular feminist media, including Feministing and Jezebel, as well as articles on HuffPost and Slate, deal with postmodern radical ideologies.

Academia has also long been dominated by them.

Either they're not some "tiny and unpopular subsection" and actually a majority, or the logically vast majority of "reasonable" (depending on your views) feminists are doing precisely jack shit.
It is really annoying me that biology papers so rarely use SD as opposed to SEM. As a researcher I know the pain involved in making your hard fought data look any less significant, but please include some SD values because otherwise we have no clue about individual variation in the sample.

I'm just looking at all these comments saying "there is a spectrum of individual variation" and it is infuriating that the paper offers no way to confirm or deny this assertion, despite its importance to the conclusions.
You know that it was up above 800 before this started on last Friday, right?
It's not difficult to see that government should not exist ... Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound? No one should take you seriously; I don't see what espousing that ideology is going to get you.
Big Nerd Ranch has a great book on iOS programming. If you're in Austin, I'm doing a intro to iOS class in the next month.
This gets back to the problem that the "mission" when we talk about software startups generally involves making a lot of money as well. If you want a software mission without promise of wealth for the work, you do open source (I actually briefly considered open sourcing this project, and I wouldn't say it is absolutely ruled out. But that's a one-way hash function, so there's no need to commit now).

This past weekend, I gave up most of the time I'd normally spend working on my startup on something else instead - playing in two different bands in a jug band competition! We're talking about people who actively opposed to paying anybody anything for the work, who fight tooth and nail to win temporary possession of a freaking waffle iron! And I'd be really damned proud if one of my bands won that waffle iron, too - it's been a prize for over 30 years.

What did I get out of it? My closest musical partner and I put together something of a dream band of some of our musician friends, and we jammed out Stairway to Heaven in under five minutes in front of 300 people. Financially, that's worth less than nothing. Emotionally, I'll always remember that moment.

Playing good music is a mission for me. Supporting the musical community and cultural history of Minneapolis is a mission. But those aren't missions that pay my mortgage.

This is what squicks me out a little about all the people marketing themselves on the internet who claim to have a "passion" to do <something boring>. They might find the work interesting and rewarding, but passionate? It sounds dishonest and self-serving.

I'd like to build something that is valuable, something that lasts, something that is truly hard to build in a multi-year way. Is that a mission? Maybe. Is that a passion? NO. The desire to create something big and powerful, that's passion. But the thing I'm actually creating? That's the map, not the territory.
Congressional staffers answer the phones and keep a tally of issues that have generated phone calls from constituents.
Ooh, that's not good. I would suggest you put up a firewall directly on as many devices as you can. Then, try to get a router upgrade, or a router that can handle an IPv6 firewall. I think I know the router you have and I believe TomatoUSB can run on it, which has ip6tables installed.
I don't follow. We've had TextWrangler, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, and Smultron alongside rapidly improving IDEs like Coda, XCode, VS, LightTable, and a host of web-based environments like JSfiddle, Cloud9IDE, and Codepen. Text editors don't just attract attention, they attract a lot of attention, and I'm glad for it.
This seems like a massive amount of hypocrisy on the part of Mozilla. "We don't want you to ever have to see ads in your browser -- except our ads!"

I had an angry knee-jerk reaction to this, and while in practice it probably won't be annoying, it's a step in the complete wrong direction.
Great question. So, in this example, City Downstream is the one interested in clean water and City Upstream couldn't care less.

What happens without a government? City Downstream chips in for a bunch of guys to go up there and beat the shit out of the owners of that factory. Let's assume a scenario in which all citizens of City Upstream work for that factory, so they all want to keep their jobs and so they all chip in for a bunch of guys to protect them (or a company hires those guys on their behalf). Now, those guys meet up. Are they going to fight? Highly unlikely, because it is in their personal self interest to resolve this conflict peacefully AND collect the money from the people who hired them. What are they gonna do? They're gonna compare the balance of power. If it's equal then they're gonna settle for the solution that satisfies both equally. If City Downstream, which obviously is concerned with its health more than City Upstream workers are concerned with keeping their job, hires more tough guys, the balance of power would be in its favor and thus you can expect more drastic measures to be agreed upon. Then remember, we talked about an edge case, when all citizens of City Upstream work at a factory. However, that is very unlikely. Thus it may turn out to be that one factory would be up against the whole city.

Of course in reality, no one would actually hire tough guys, but rather such conflicts would be resolved through more civilized private protection agencies and courts. The central question is who outbids whom and to what degree. And the answer is that if the majority of people want something enough to pay for it, it will always outbid the minority, however rich this minority is.

You don't need no government to solve externality problems. All you need is to stop thinking that some magical entity, simply because you can vote for it, is able to resolve issues that are truly complicated.
The menu on the left in the link I posted shows the thread. I saw no way to see that in the original link.
> Joe GNU/Linux User has just downloaded and untared this package.

Regular users are not supposed to install software like this. The only sane way to administer a distribution is to make sure everything passes through the official package manager. This leaves the developers and package maintainers to deal with autotools and I don't hear them complaining (very loud[1]).

Autotools is simply good enough for the job and instead of being some sort of hated legacy it's being sometimes preferred for new projects (cough [2] cough).

[1]: https://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/autotoolsmythbuster/

[2]: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/vala-skeleton-autotools
No, I don't think they have to, I'm just saying they could benefit. All a govt really has to do is outlaw it like Russia just did recently I believe.
That the most likely scenario is there are predispositions for many traits we consider social. That evolution favors biological variation but also that humans are unique in their ability to adapt to their environment. That anyone trying to pick a side is doing so for political or ideological reasons and is selling you horse shit.
The comment "Put the blame where it belongs: Automake" below the original article sums it up pretty succinctly. Quoting:

All the complaints in the article are PRECISELY the kinds of complaints that autoconf programmers worked very hard to avoid. For example, it's IMPOSSIBLE to have version skew with autoconf because the configure script is completely pre-generated before being shipped. As far as the user is concerned it's a simple sh script.

ALL of these problems stem from the "automake" monstrosity that creates many more problems than it ever solved. Unfortunately people now tar autoconf with the same brush as automake and libtool whenever they run into problems with these. Sigh.
How to not waste time or get stuck with third party app integrations
It's also kind of funny that Meteor.JS by contrast got $11.2m in funding. And NPM the underpinning technology which has further reaching economic benefits only receives $2.6m. I know it's a bit apple and oranges, but four times the value? The valuation of software is surrealism.

All that said, I love them both dearly.
Facebook Fixes INSTAGRAM CSRF Vulnerability To Keep Private Profiles Private
Primaries are mostly about gay marriage, abortion, and conspiracy theories.
No designer walks out on Apple lightly. But sometimes things are bad enough that you can tell you arent in the right place.
Hopefully iceweasel will not be so stupid as to follow this decision in the first place.
1X dev dynos are free. If you need to go up to 2 dynos or scale vertically to a 2X dyno then you start paying. You shouldn't really need to use 2 dynos until you actually have to launch. You're going to be spending a lot of time configuring/writing Chef cookbooks and refining your deployment process. This is time that you could be spending developing features and making your application more reliable. That's where the savings come in. It's not more expensive; it's less.
No, someone intentionally or accidentally used gox's poor handling of mutant transactions to extract double-payment from their customer support team. Gox blamed the bitcoin protocol for their own stupidity. Then after the press release, someone started a massive DoS attack against the bitcoin network. What happened to gox over the last couple of months is totally different from what what is going on right now.
The Best Byte Is The One You Doesn't Load
I'm worried about DigitalOcean. I think their priority should be to try to approach feature parity with Amazon or Rackspace. As of now, there are many features that are missing, such as private networking (only available in NYC2), CDN, elastic IP, load balancing, etc.

How about the ability to support attaching metadata to any instance?[0] How difficult is this to implement? More importantly, how would a devops person manage many instances without this feature? Isn't ex-EC2/Rackspace/<others> the target market for DigitalOcean?

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[0]: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...
Yes, I'm sure the TechCrunch article you read makes you better qualified to judge than someone who was involved in the actual situation.
I would point out that there are cases where sync callbacks do make sense (granted, this does not look like one of them).

1. You want to add optional results. See underscore's each function that returns an object for the current iteration, then an optional iterator value in addition, which you sometimes need.

2. There are many functional patterns that utilize callbacks where you want to pass functions in as parameters (which could do anything, including accessing the file system or waiting on an external call). Underscore also has loads of examples where this is the case, despite being a sync library.

3. This is probably the least valid reason, but sometimes you do not know going in whether or not a function you are writing will be async. If you create a sync interface, it will need to be changed if the function needs to be async in the future, or if it needs to pass additional results. In my experience the latter is not terribly uncommon. The former is pretty unlikely in library code, but I could see it happening in application code regularly. Breaking apis is not fun for anyone.
He again does the typical thing and runs "./configure --prefix=/opt". The configure script runs for a while, then exits with an error which basically translates to "You have an autoconf version which is three weeks old; please upgrade", but this is displayed in the most cryptic manner possible.

This is simply incorrect. If you already have a configure script, then you don't need autoconf installed at all, let alone a particular version of it. autoconf is used for generating the configure script, not running it.
Here's an example of the kinds of features Github's staff is working on that takes a significant amount of time and coordination, and it's why we don't see 100 new "who of your friends also starred this repo?" features each week.
Here's an experiment you can try yourself if you're male: attempt to enter a typical* church or school while wearing a dress and makeup. Compare to the reactions you get entering the same establishment wearing "normal" clothes.

*I'm sure you can cherry-pick unusually liberal examples of either, but you know what I'm talking about.
Google pays FF to have it in the list of search engines, not sure if they pay to have the default spot anymore or if they ever did for that specifically

I don't see anything wrong with it, its just setting defaults, not exactly ads, most browser companies get paid some money for adding in default bookmarks
Start hacking yet always look for and apply (most current) best practices along the way as much as you can or where applicable. Constant refactoring your old code and learn functional programming (in addition to the classic imperative style). For Objective-C, master stuff like Block, Category (can be evil but very neat when applied properly), GCD, KVO, and ARC (as well as autorelease pool).
Wherein Mozilla starts to look like Canonical.
I switched to SRWare Iron (https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php) a long time ago and never looked back.

EDIT: guess I shouldn't be surprised that proposing a browser that actually cares about privacy and security would be downvoted
The breadth of this list is helped by including currencies that aren't being used by anyone. For example both EEK (Estonian Kroon) and LVL (Latvian Lats) aren't in use, as both countries are actually in the eurozone and use EUR.
They even support the Venezuelan Bolivar, which is under a very strict currency exchange restriction (venezuelans can only spend $300 online per year).

I'm guessing that this will still be charged in dollars, but still its very impressive!