skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are an infinite number of things that can cause a startup to fail. After eliminating one of them there are still an infinite number of ways for a start to fail.
Happy to give a free sign-up (it's a buck otherwise) to anyone who'd like one
Moment of 'aha' as I suddenly realise that thing I do which I assumed I was alone on is actually a common/real 'thing' :)
I assume you consider charging for your own time "scamming" then?
Measuring sleep - Lots of apps for that.

What foods and health supplements do you take to get that good hormone profile?

What foods have you found correlate to gym performance?
Edit: parent poster suggested I should join Dell for scamming but the cowardly sod deleted his/her post to preserve karma decay

No that's my minimum charge for 30 minutes of time. For that you get 30 minutes of my attention, a VAT invoice and warrantied work.

It's a bargain.

It's up to you to get value for money out of that time. If you want Firefox installed, that's up to you but I'm not going to turn down the work.
People in discussions like this often assume that it's easy to make test scores go up without teaching the material.

Here are specific tests from some large states (the first I found via google):

http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/Mathematics/20100505book1...

http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/EnglishLanguageArts/04261...

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqmath7.pdf

How do you make scores on these specific tests go up to any significant degree without making students learn the material? Please explain the techniques in detail.
Scala's type system computations themselves are expensive, even if you ignore dependency recompilation. Typers is doing lots of heavy lifting if you've ever looked at the code.

Definitely type inference also leads to volatile member signatures, but if the compiler could reach the 1 million lines/second level, then it wouldn't be such a big deal.
How can the universe expand faster than the speed of light?
This comment is wonderful...
Honestly, no. libjpeg would show similar slowdown (interestingly, PNG decoding is slower than JPEG for the same size), and it make sense anyway.

The problem is that even if the bug would be fixed in recent FF versions, libjpeg is basically used in all other browsers as well.
Ask HN: 25% Russian, is Kazakhstan next
Is that page meant to be satire? Either way it's completely hilarious. A recommended read. I began to smell a rat when he started talking about wet sacks, but when he starts dropping the jam on the floor it becomes pretty clear. I love the ideas. I shall be sending it to all my most pretentious friends as soon as possible.

Good to see that the french are still putting the work in.

EDIT: it's from the 60s and written by an englishman. now it all makes sense. oh well. and I've just realised what "jean-marie ventre" is about. now I feel a fool.
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"WordSkeet"
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> those who were worried about privacy were probably not broadcasting their SSID publicly to begin with

Though it seems unintuitive Not broadcasting your SSID is actually less secure than broadcasting it.

Those truly worried about privacy never use wireless transmission directly, instead using a VPN (only allowing the VPN wrapped traffic go out over the air) and set their own APs to block any traffic that isn't to/from the VPN end-point(s).
But what about "Fair Use"? Just owning a trademark doesn't give you the right to forbid other people using it. It's pretty clear from the wording that Dell is offering to install third party software. I'm pretty sure this doesn't violate the trademark, and I don't think Mozilla's policies apply in this case.

A violation of the trademark would be if Dell installed a custom fork of Firefox and called it "Firefox".
Animated PNGs should be killed. Just embed a video with an alpha channel. It compresses way better.

http://simpl.info/videoalpha/
I get this all the time from Ocado. I stopped using them to be honest because they're expensive and the quality of items is no better than ASDA who are a 5 min walk down the road from me. Plus I don't smash my own eggs EVERY FRIKKING DELIVERY.

However, I get an email at least once every two days offering free this and that despite opting out. Obviously they've cottoned onto the fact I'm shopping elsewhere and keep sending begging emails and free delivery subscriptions to get me to come back.

If a company needs a procmail filter line, they can go to hell.
Didn't you mean to say that she was the one who happened to be available, when the position needed to be filled?

If it's "her turn to be promoted" I find that they just invent an appropriate title.
> group theory right now to help with my understanding of crypto

Im also trying to understand crypto better, from a mathematical perspective. Apart from group theory, what else should I have an understanding of before going further? Do you have any resources that you would recommend?
> JavaScript really isn't hard, trying to avoid writing it by writing a more complex language which gives you more JavaScript than you would have had anyway really can't ever be a win surely?

I've had massive business value from writing code in a more type safe language and then transpiling it into a number of other languages, including javascript.
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I happened to have written a blog post a year ago, that's still valid I think: https://www.bionicspirit.com/blog/2013/05/13/getting-started...

Two takeaways from my article:

1. start reading a book on it

2. subscribe to the scala-user mailing list and ask any questions you may have - some developers there are very advanced, so don't get intimidated by the topics, as beginners' questions are very welcome

I got started with "Scala for the Impatient" and I like its style. You can still get about one third of the book from TypeSafe's website, which is enough to get the ball rolling. It's written for Scala 2.9 so it doesn't have Futures in it, plus you should ignore the stuff about actors in later chapters (actors from the standard library are deprecated, Akka actors have been the norm for some time - and at first you should ignore actors completely, since that's a big topic). But that's OK. In case you'd prefer another book, make sure to not read anything published before 2010 as (IMHO) everything published before 2010 is awful.

Since I wrote that article a couple of newer books happened, that I haven't read, like "Scala in Action" or "Atomic Scala" and thus cannot recommend, but I've heard good things about, so ask others or read reviews, etc...

There's also an advanced book called "Functional Programming in Scala", by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason, I've read about 8 chapters from it and it's a really, really good book on FP design & concepts. However it's a hard read, because while the language is approachable and doesn't assume much Scala knowledge, it's the kind of book that's designed around mind-bending (SICP-style) exercises - it takes me about 1 week to get through a chapter and right now I don't have time for the rest, but with each chapter my knowledge expands :-)

If you like an IDE, IntelliJ IDEA 13 for Scala is everything you'd expect out of an IDE, but as I've said in my blog post, when I'm learning a new language I don't want to bother with learning a new toolset too, so I start with a comfortable plain-text editor and work from there.

When you get stuck, I must emphasize on nr.2 - ask questions on scala-user - beginners are always welcome.
From a sales perspective, this is something that companies will always try. After all, if you weren't going to buy there again, so the supermarket has nothing to lose. If, on the other hand, they were able to turn a single one-time buyer into a regularly returning customer, then that's excellent business. Of course they are not catering to you in 99% of cases, but 1% return rate will be enough with this kind of sales.

(I am always amazed by the analogies between sales and dating.)
>£87,500 per person per night

Could I not buy my own submarine for that?
Love the part on "Sassigassity": A word that appears Dickens' short story "A Christmas Tree", and it seems that no one knows what it means.
> the $190 billion per year that merchants lose due to fraud doesn't come from thin air, it comes from your pocket as higher prices.

And how much has been lost to fraud in the Bitcoin system? How do those numbers compare as a proportion of transactions? CCs are not perfect, but the costs of Bitcoin's irreversible transactions are bigger, and rather than everyone paying a small percentage fee, Bitcoin fraud wipes out businesses and even individuals.
..to project it in an environmental hologram. It's not the end of the world that's near, it is Starship Enterprise's holodeck.
> why anyone would flag that article

Zhe Russians! ;-)
You might see shitty design, I see brilliant one.
This site looks like mail order Catalogues from the nineties. Kid in me cant stop screaming "I want that, and that!"
Information density is phenomenal.
Sorry, I downvoted you by mistake.

As a developer and amateur sysadmin, I'm moving our own whole system to native packages. Dealing with ad-hoc installation mechanisms is just too painful.
Of course it is not a science, we don't have the technology yet to probable verify it. But Dario Nardi has made some interesting studies with eeg that maps the functions to areas in the brain.

It is a theory that many people are finding works and confirms their real life experience, short story if it quacks like a duck and if it looks like a duck. But you are ofcause allowed to continue thinking the earth it flat until you are shown prober proof for something else.
Actual profound thought (to me) would be a meaningful realisation about yourself or the universe around you. LSD can make you feel this moment of profound realisation about things which are absolute nonsense.

This cheese is my brother, we'd all be at peace if everyone wore purple, god is a piece of bread with butter on both sides. When on acid these sorts of things can feel (subjectively) like the most awesome discovery, like the opening up of a whole new world of knowledge. Examined objectively afterwards they don't make a lot of sense, but subjectively, at the time, they felt extremely important.

That's all I meant.
Learning to 'zen out at a social gathering', without feeling anxiety, is a super power in my book
There seem to be a lot of attacks lately is this a coordinated attack or are these exchanges just coming clean now?

Regardless since everybody's instinctive reaction is to sell/get out now It's the best time to build a proper exchange with all the best coding practices applied.

Best thing is you don't have to pay anybody for a security review since the bitcoins are a prime target just don't keep too many in the hot wallet.

Then again paying a few security professionals to hack you may be the cheaper option but how many exchanges do you think actually do that?
Lurker, just made an account to answer this one.

>Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, and ease-of-use for programmers isn't a goal.

IMO, ease of use for the programmers using the API is not the goal. Ease of maintenance is the goal. Basically RPC is bad because it is an extreme tight coupling between client and server. Change one single parameter in one single SOAP method? Get ready for every single client to have to recompile. Even the ones that never used that particular method (there are techniques to minimize this, but with REST you don't have to think about this problem).

REST is about loose coupling. If you follow HATEOAS properly the clients won't even need to recompile if you do a massive refactoring of where your resources are. So long as you're not doing direct serialization of the XML resources, you also won't have to recompile for every tiny schema tweak. If a field you use changes, obviously you have to change the client. If a field you don't use changes you probably don't even need to restart your client.

This is what it buys you. If you don't get any benefit from the loose coupling then you don't need REST. But if that's the case then I wonder if you need a three tiered system at all.
>its a Google problem and not much Mozilla can do about it.

What they can do about it is complain loudly and publicly to try and force Google to stop their shitty behaviour. The same way they engaged in PR campaigns about Firefox not being allowed on iOS or H264 requiring patent licences, or dozens of other topics.

>Why in the hell would mozilla be pushing this as PR?

Because that seems to be the only solution left open to them to try and stop millions of users of their software being infected with malware. Are you saying that Mozilla should only talk to the media when it is about ideological political things like software patents, and not about real world threats to their users?
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It's a fantastic site. My favourite is the office Web cam page

http://www.lingscars.com/webcams.php#models

complete with 'press button to annoy staff'
You will not end fired. I suspect he's doing only that so you can resign. So follow people advice and start looking proactively. It's better to leave now, in my opinion, even if they want you still and they never wanted you to resign.
No, you are an introvert.
Wouldn't it be better to make your own RPMs from their installer, using something like CheckInstall? Or is it too unreliable?
This is irrelevant.

It's fine if you use Science as long as you sell me something of real value, so the transaction is win-win for both of us. It's not fine if you trick me into buying things that have little or no value for me. Also, if you had something valuable to sell, you wouldn't need manipulation tricks.
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> So something changes once he's in power

But my point is, he's not actually "in power" as far as I can tell. What power is he in? What can he do? And why?

Ilya Somin likes to point out that the government suffers when shark attacks occur, no matter that there is generally no conceivable relationship between them. Is respect for the office of the president backed by anything more substantial?
Suspicions Surround Water-Fueled Car and The Death of its Inventor(1998)
this article was written specifically to piss of bitcoiners
> Doeth what I say, not'th what I do...

Just by the way, in the period of English with the -eth ending (Early Modern English), the correct grammar would be (wait for it) "Do what I say, not what I do".
When I say I don't trust bitcoin, I mean the whole infrastructure. No government backing. I don't trust the system as a whole. I guess people blaming bitcoin are taking a bit more generally than bitcoin itself.
REST is one of the stupidest ideas to have ever come out of HTML.

When you write a class do you only have 4 methods on it? Create, Read, Update, Delete?

Case shut & closed.

But, but, but, I hear you say? It's not about the verbs, it's about the intention behind the verb?

Any GET you do to the system inherently changes it. I log you accessed the system, it often changes the way the object behaves (for example, you viewed it, it is now more popular, it now appears higher in results).

I could go on for hours about how virtually every concept in REST is obviously flawed if you are an experienced programmer and simply sit down and think about it.

It doesn't work!

So the concept was flawed from the beginning.

RESTful APIs died a long time ago, but somehow some people are hanging on to the archaic meaning of REST without really realizing that 'REST' now simply means 'API over HTTP'. The best APIs simply dropped supporting RESTful interfaces a long time ago and those crazy people who stick to it, like Google, have to contort their APIs into utter messes just to facilitate it.

Worse, people are still building entire systems based off its flawed nature. Microsoft just released WebAPI which tries to force you into a RESTful model. But then again, they never really have understood the web.
>"The devoted dog of Montargis avenges the death of his
master, foully murdered in the Forest of Bondy; and a humorous
Peasant with a red nose and a very little hat, whom I take from this
hour forth to my bosom as a friend (I think he was a Waiter or an
Hostler at a village Inn, but many years have passed since he and I
have met), remarks that the sassigassity of that dog is indeed
surprising; and evermore this jocular conceit will live in my
remembrance fresh and unfading, overtopping all possible jokes,
unto the end of time."

Surely the joke is the peasant's mispronunciation of "sagacity"? Also an odd Baader-Meinhoff, that story about the dog was on the front of reddit last week.
25% < 50%
I'm using jpegoptim extensively and haven't noticed such behavior.

All jpegoptim does is rewrite JPEG with optimized Huffman tables, so it shouldn't have any impact on decoding performance. In the process it also changes progressive to baseline, which is even slightly faster to decode.

If you can reproduce the problem with libjpeg-turbo (which is the library that browsers use) you should definitely file a bug.
Looks pretty good. Except I assume it's only for US customers? We're based in Germany, where bank payments are more common than credit cards (because only relatively few people actually have credit cards).
Flipboard buys Zite news app from CNN
So Googlewhacks are hapax legomena of the open internet corpus. I cannot wait to utter that phrase at a party.

[Edit: Seems the plural is hapax legomena, not hapaxes legomenon.]
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Yeah that came to mind as well as this http://xkcd.com/602/.
You mean like http://card.io/?
If a browser doesn't support SNI, it doesn't prevent them from accessing the site. It just means the wrong cert is returned, so they get a cert warning. Depending on the type of your site and type of users, this may or may not be a problem.
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Works perfectly fine on Linux (scanning with SANE, editing with Gimp and printing with HPLIP).
I probably should have added that I don't think US democracy is held in high regard here in Europe - I am in the UK and I suspect most people here feel that the Scandinavian countries, Germany and Switzerland probably have better functioning democracies than we do. When people talk about our political system in the UK becoming more like the US model it isn't regarded as a good thing!
checkinstall has worked okay for me in the past.

However, "Enterprise Software Vendors" often stipulate that if you do not install their software, using their method, on their approved platforms, you will get no support whatsoever.
I'm sorry, but if you come back from a trip convinced of many of the things I've seen and heard people decide when on trips... well let me just say that some of these great and profound realisations are just nonsense when looked at in the cold light of day later.

I'm absolutely not criticising anyone's experience of LSD, but I'm not sure either why you refuse to contemplate that there could an inebriant and hallucinogenic component to acid that can result in just as much drivel as you get from a drunk.

If every experience you've ever had was a deep shamanic awakening that taught you about yourself and the universe then that's aweseom for you. 99% of the use of acid I've ever seen was more about giggling, talking bullshit and staring at the pretty colours.
Mozilla already uses patched libpng (with APNG support).
It may not be news to experts in the field, but I think it's news to most of us.
Awesome.

Now, how does that change anything?
I've been on both sides of that (or all three sides if you count the vendor, too).

Boss: use it to leverage either a better deal, or extra support hours, or make them package it. (Unless it is Oracle. Then you just bend over).

Tech: Tell the boss exactly how much it sucks, and how you wonder if this vendor actually knows what "operate at scale" means. Take the extra support hours and get them to write an installation package.

Vendor: Oh, shit. Another thing to add to my list of 1000 things to do. Is this or feature X more likely to be useful? Damn, let's just offer extra support hours.
If this is a phenomenon, could it used to generate electricity? What the lower layer of ships were filled with a flour like substance? Would that produce anything useful as the ship rolled? Or what if we float tubs of this stuff on waves?
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A couple of years back I was working on a solution to track these kinds of things, and what you said is pretty much what I realized while at it. Tracking my sleep actually made me sleep worse because it placed more stress on sleeping. The less I think about it the better I sleep.

What I find more important is tracking what you did in terms of achieving the bigger goals you have. But tracking might not be important here if you have a good system that makes you do work on regular basis to achieve those goals.
It's interesting to look at wealth distribution of Bitcoin:
http://imgur.com/Vt7PvbW (source: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.h...).
4% of users own 95.09% of currently available Bitcoins. I think that as the number of users increases so will value of Bitcoin in USD, wealth distribution will only get worse while making top even richer.
Even if wealth distribution doesn’t bother you, consider that part of these users(4%) mined/gathered it in questionable ways(mining via compromised systems). Early adopters gaining large part of Bitcoin for little effort seems silly too. I personally consider this unacceptable.
> What makes “The Mask” special is the complexity of the toolset used by the attackers. This includes an extremely sophisticated malware, a rootkit, a bootkit, 32- and 64-bit Windows versions, Mac OS X and Linux versions and possibly versions for Android and iPad/iPhone (Apple iOS).

> When active in a victim system, The Mask can intercept network traffic, keystrokes, Skype conversations, PGP keys, analyse WiFi traffic, fetch all information from Nokia devices, screen captures and monitor all file operations.

> The malware collects a large list of documents from the infected system, including encryption keys, VPN configurations, SSH keys and RDP files. There are also several extensions being monitored that we have not been able to identify and could be related to custom military/government-level encryption tools.

Edit:

> We have detected traces of Linux versions, and possibly versions for iPad/iPhone and Android, however we have not been able to retrieve the samples.
Dalton Caldwell was right - Twitter frustrates devs trying to create an app.
Russian Defence Export Hacked, 500+MB Data Leaked By Rucyborg
Third cryptocurrency exchange becomes hacking victim, loses Bitcoin
'this' meant the story about Dell 'selling' Firefox, which will probably end up as a bit of a shitty thing to do but likely within their rights. You seem to have reached a confusing conclusion that this is out the the Mozilla PR machine.
A german example (from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon) is "Knabenmorgenblütenträume" from Goethe's "Prometheus". It is a wonderful example for how you can create new words in German by concatenating existing words:

Knabe = Boy
Morgen = Morning
Blüte = Blossom
Träume = Dreams

The literal translation of this word is somthing like "A boy's morning dreams about blossoms", but the true meaning (according to some internet discussions: http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-sind-knabenmorgenbluetent... ) seems to be something unfinished: Every part of the word depicts something unfinished / young.

Sometimes I really love my mother tongue :)
Trying to answer the question asked and I get down-voted? Is it because I admit I don't trust the bitcoin infrastructure and lack of government backing.
I'd say TypeScript and Dart are contenders as well.