skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems kind of pointless. I don't think anybody believed Whatsapp wasn't storing phonebooks/location/etc before the Facebook merger, and I'm pretty sure nobody really believes Facebook won't in the future. Comes across as desperate to stop... something? Did I miss the outcry against this merger somewhere?
I don't think so, as far as receiving financial assistance for mental health conditions in the US. In fact except for developmental disorders and conditions involving psychoses (schizophrenia), I've heard that it is quite difficult to get any sort of assistance, regardless of how severely your life has been affected, without a good lawyer at least.
So where is MH370?
WOuldn't this not take into account 12 seeds winning? Since you do team1.seed > team2.seed before checking if team2.seed is 12.

Also, this would mean 12 seeds would go all the way anyway, you're not limiting it to the first round only.
FYI CNN just discussed this theory on-air, of course didn't discuss any technical details, just called it "outlandish" and didn't give any credit to OP.
Is it just me or was this removed from the homepage?
Was going to sign up (because why not?), but then I didn't like some of the questions they're asking me.

https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbrack...
Won't stop them from doing a chargeback with the bank.
same here, what also fascinates me is the close interaction between empirical folks and the theoretical ones. there's this understanding that they work in tandem, and the theory guys are eagerly awaiting what the empirical folks have to tell them and vice versa. its rarer than you think.
Who said that it's because of user friendliness? But they are intentionally made uncustomizable and not for tinkerers hardware-wise, that 1/10 repairability score (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Di...) isn't an accident.
> It might be better to say that the current definition of ADHD is grossly inadequate.

Isn't that why the qualifier ', as currently defined,' is in the title?

EDIT: watwut pointed out to me elsewhere that the qualifier is only on HN and not in the original title.
Talk is still covered in the SLA, Hangouts is not.

Don't ask me to explain what PHB came up with that logic.
Yeah but "information" generally requires software to view it. The only reason that web page still works in modern browsers is because they've gone to all the effort to account for quirks in ancient HTML. Apple clearly didn't think it was worth the effort in this case.

Also worth pointing out it's much easier to display old formats than it is to make them editable.
Your acting like the read/write time to the hardware/FPGA is negligible which it isn't.

When you access hardware on say a PCI bus (which you would in this scenario). Your call to the PCI bus does not take place WHEN you call for it to take place. You call the Kernel, which calls the scheduler, which calls the hardware manager, which calls the driver, which finally processes your request.

Now your request is processed all this is dumped and something else runs while the processor waits to hear back from the PCI bus with the response because this takes ages in processor time.

Finally an interrupt arrives, is made sense of, the appropriate driver is called, then it gives your information back to your process and you back on your merry little way.

:.:.:

The problem is when you called OS to start this long chain of events the real world didn't stop. Your real time module is still counting the 32,600,000 pulses per second.

This is where you'll get errors. Because often its easy to think things in a computer happen instantly, or so blindingly fast you don't care what happens, order or speed.

The situation you described is what originally gave me 0.1% error. Eventually I switched to a more aggressive tact of polling asynchronously in a separate thread and when a process called for the time responding with the latest received time.

This got me down to 0.07% error. Still not acceptable.

:.:.:

Its nice to be starry eyed and think there is no reason to give up security. But sometimes secure software can't do what you need it to do. The more crap you put between you and the metal the more time it'll take to execute.

This is logically provable.

If you take process A and B. Both are the optimal way to do something. There is no faster way to do this task. Therefore one can assume A and B's execution time are equal.

Yet B operates in a secure sand-boxed environment with a time sharing OS. Therefore B's true execution is B+C+D.

We know A = B, but for A = (B+C+D) C and D must be Zero, which they can never be in the real world.
This feature is built into the standard check_http with the right flags.

Specifically: `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H <ip/hostname> -C 60`
No, e.g. I use this rule in my .htaccess on my blog:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html

Which means you can access:

http://tycho.ws/music or
http://tycho.ws/music.html
Isn't your post slightly hypocritical? And isn't talking about it better than just ignoring it anyway? You did decide to say something after all.
There are - I get spam from more than one of them. However, at least the ones I get are not from "brand names", but rather no-name resellers.
I'm not typically a gambling man, but 1:1000 for $1000 is pretty good odds if you ask me, particularly considering there is no buy in (I think).
Right. It's amazing how much more responsive Maps was on iOS 3, even only with EDGE bandwidth!
Many SSL providers have sales staff that try to contact their own customers prior to expiration.
Yes, according to the chart on the page you linked. The satellite that it used to communicate its last info only gets information from that arc of the globe. So it must have been in there somewhere when it sent its last broadcast. That doesn't mean it was travelling along that path the whole time though. It could have turned after that transmission.
For the purposes of TC (and most likely FOBO's PR), the run-rate does make this a "million dollar business in 2 months" - yes that's what most people will think after reading this.

For anyone curious about some of the terminology here:

1) A run-rate is typically determined by using some financial figure and extrapolating it over a year. Typically this is used in seasonal businesses, where a Q4 might be strong (take Apple for example) and you can thereby project what the revenues will be for the next 4 quarters. Trying to establish a run-rate after 2 months of business is not only extremely rare, it's deceptive and almost downright lying. No respected financial person would ever use this terminology in this context.

2) It's not clear (purposefully so) what figure is being measured to calculate a run-rate. Gross sales? Revenue? Profit? Most likely it's gross sales. Again, an extremely rare case for using the term run-rate, as it's mostly used for the annualized revenue amount.

Lastly, awesome job by FOBO and can't wait to see how a whole year pans out for them! Unfortunately this is a case of appalling journalism by TC (no surprise). Subsequently it means we'll have a whole lot less educated entrepreneurs who think they can fumble around with telling investors that their app that is doing $5,000 in revenue in it's first month, is now all of a sudden the next million dollar success. (EDIT - I'm not saying that FOBO is one of them, in fact quite the opposite)
> Of course developing software is a highly abstract, intellectually demanding activity

I don't mean to sound harsh, but "of course" and "it's absurd" aren't much of an argument.

My advice is to dig into this a bit deeper. What do you think makes software "a highly abstract, intellectually demanding activity"? What would the world look like if that were NOT the case, what would it look like if it WERE the case?

How does this claim coexist with that, which has been bandied about for decades, that software programming is on the brink of being automated away?

How does this claim square with sites like the Daily WTF, which provide evidence that many gainfully employed programmers do not, in fact, use their brains very much? With the more or less weekly announcements of "security breaches" caused by people ignoring basic best practice, for instance storing passwords in plain text?

How much mathematical(ish) ability is actually needed to put together a Web page, a bunch of CRUD fields, and some backend database template?

Why is it so easy to get a job writing software even if you have no formal credentials at all? How is it that some people can get these jobs even if all they can do is write a Web page, and that badly?

It's possible that our experiences differ: that for you software has been abstract and demanding. (I can see people who write kernels for a living getting the "of course" reaction.) Whereas I've often rubbed shoulders with the world of "IT programming", with self-taught games programmers and Web programmers and people who turned a half-baked idea and their gift for the gab into multimillion dollar businesses.

Whenever I did my homework and dug into the facts, I found that things that "of course" held true weren't all that obvious. I'm trying to encourage people in the profession to get into that habit.

> as absurd as claiming women are somehow incapable of doing exactly that

Yes, I too see that as a false claim. Do you deny that there are people out there who are in fact making that claim?
It's amazing how many people here are skipping the qualifier in the title, taking it as "ADHD does not exist".
To be honest, prior to the Horvath incident, I had always thought of HR as somewhat useless and outdated. Seeing what happened at Github makes me appreciate the need for a strong HR department (especially seeing the wife's influence- had there been competent HR, I can't see that ever happening).
Wow that was the most lucid piece I've read about the incident - also good to have found somewhere to point my crazy conspiracy theory family to :)
can you get this to work together with popcorn time ?
Anything that makes a system unusable is downtime...

"Technically our site was up, just the database was down..."
Don't feel bad. I only got to play with it for a couple hours. Maybe one day I'll be able to own one.
We have this at our website monitoring and recovery service https://t1mr.com and it's free.
How to Start a Startup in College [Infographic]
Thanks AUmrysh! If you use `this.getEnemies()` it will return an array of enemy objects, and each one of these objects has a `type` property.
If you do it with exclusivity, high fees, and the trappings of alpha male power, you can make money like Gartner.
The claim is that ADHD __as currently defined__ does not exist. That's very different from "no one is suffering from these clusters of symptoms".
jeez, HN is so damn humorless.
Heh. I wrote 3 calendar reminders 60, 30 and 15 days out for our engineering team on Friday reminding us to do this when the time comes. Now, I will reserve the right to feel smug.
Have you actually used Felix? I agree it's a neat language but it felt to me like I'd really have to come up to speed on C++ to make much use of it. It's "FFI" is basically embedded strings of C++ source.
All sign ups were recorded, and this error has now been fixed! Sorry about that.
Oh there are. Most seem to just be trolls, though.
My favorite is when Passport.com expired, taking down Hotmail, and a good samaritan renewed it for Microsoft.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-234907.html
What about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
FYI - this isn't a good pitch to get me to sign up.

At least have a TOS saying you'll distribute the winnings.
HTML5 Games: A Land of Broken Hopes and Dreams
The arcs are from a single 'ping' from a single satellite. The satellite knows where it is, and with the 'ping' it was able to determine the distance from the satellite to the aircraft. The satellite is the distance of this arc, the radius is the known distance between the satellite and aircraft. By having the last known radar location near Malaysia, approximate flight speed, and time between radar contact and satellite contact, an approximate distance is predicted along the circle defined by the centre (satellite) and radius/arc.
Ugh. Should be fixed now. Sorry to anyone that experienced disruptions due to this stupid error.
It's a poignant story that the author has such personal reasons for his interest in privacy, but the bottom line is that WhatsApp has an absolutely horrible track record of security.

Security is one area in which I generally don't give people the benefit of the doubt (the burden of proof is on them), and so far, WhatsApp has not done much to prove their trustworthiness[0] in this regard.

[0] Trust encompasses both intent and ability/execution - if either one is lacking, the trust fails.
Right, but if their uptime monitor is internal, and they are resolving from an internal address, nothing is wrong.
#1 is probably require Journals to agree and publish research before the results are known based on the experimental design and require scientists to include there raw data. Preferably as they collect it. This is to counter: http://xkcd.com/882/

Require Journals to Publish the first 2 studies that try and reproduce a given result. Note: Publish need not mean include in the paper copy's just indexed and searchable online. This let's you create a reproducibility index which might not mean much until they have done a fair bit of research but still something there going to keep in mind.

Funding agency's would need to set aside a large amount to validate any study. However, as there is a lot of null results that the percentage is probably not all that high. More importantly as not doing so means the results are practically worthless in the first place it's still a good idea even if it takes 1/2 the overall budget.
> advantages

NO. NO. NO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpEBE9VDWw
Yet another Markdown variant, Strictdown
Newsweek is not guilty of libel or defamation because those are torts for which criminal "guilt" is meaningless. Newsweek would not be liable for libel or defamation because being labeled the creator of Bitcoin is generally not something that would harm one's reputation.

Libel or defamation claims are generally applicable where one person claims another person did some heinous act, like rape, or a felony, and told other people about it. Some statements, like accusing another person of rape are considered so "heinous" that to win, all the plaintiff has to do is prove the statement was made, in which case the burden of proof shifts to the defendant, who must now prove the accuracy of the statement. Depending on the nature of what was actually said, the defendant's burden may range from simply proving that their statement was reasonable based on the facts to proving that what they said is verifiably true. (And note: not a criminal case, so: proof on either side simply means more likely than not.)
Ask HN: Least evil cell phone provider?
I'm looking to bring an iPhone 5 to a new network. I'm currently on Aio, but they're having serious issues this past weekend. Additionally, their merger with Cricket is not something I'm looking forward to.

I'm based outside of Austin, TX for reference. Small carriers are OK.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Grantland
You're asking a startup board if you should take a bigcorp job or (what sounds like) a startup job, and the startup job is even more lucrative.

I would jump at the startup job (and, having essentially been where you are now, perhaps with more dev experience, I did and absolutely don't regret it).

One potential advantage I can see in the bigcorp job is health insurance. If the startup is giving you health insurance, go for it. You can learn as you go; that's what they're betting on if they've already sent you the offer.

The other one is working with a team. Working from home every day isn't for everyone.

You say in your profile that object-oriented PHP confuses you; how so? It is common in the PHP world to have to check the docs on a fairly regular basis... you get used to it. That is one of the legitimate complaints about the language, the syntax is not very standardized between the built-in functions.

Also, I don't think coders are "born". (Most) coders learn their craft over many years.
Where are all the SREs now? Cowering in fear.
This might be a stupid question, but would you know where the the source for the statistics module can be found? I would be quite interested in submitting a patch, but I can't seem to find the source.
Hmm, I've almost never had issues with PDFjs, and the handful of times it's been a problem Evince has worked fine. It is the default PDF viewer in Firefox now so I assume it works well enough for them to do that. I think the PDFs that can't be opened correctly may be blamed on the creation tool screwing up rather than the reader. Though I guess I don't know if those handful of PDFs were up to spec or not.
Most of the world doesn't want to deal with Vim's normal vs insert modes. Nor do they want to engage in a philosophical battle about proprietary formats vs plain text. Most people just want to get stuff done, and in this case, send their work to other writers in a recognizable form that they can easily read, edit, make comments on, etc. Word and other programs offer that to them. Plain text and Vim do not.
Thank god they published or he may never have found out why.
I've had enough flakers and hagglers that I now post warnings in all ads:

1 - I refuse to hold anything (first person to show up with cash takes it)

2 - no haggling on the spot; I'll turn you down on principle

It's a fucking hassle. I buy a new macbook every 12-18 months and craigslist the old one (and the same with phones). I take good care of my hardware and carefully point out any scratches or nicks in the craigslist listing. People still try to knock you down 10% or 20% when they come.
In my research, ADHD seems to be basically inflammation[1] of the brain. Think: bacteria, free radicals, active immune response, underactive detox and circulation, etc.

Some approaches which are most useful seem to be: Magnesium, Green Tea &/OR L-Theanine, GABA, SAMe, Milk Thistle, Fish Oil, Cholesterol, Vitamin D (Sunlight), etc.

I would say there is no silver bullet. But I would say unambiguously that vitamins and minerals and occasionally herbs are low hanging fruit compared to a pharmaceutical approach. Drugs aren't used as "building blocks" in cells or biochemistry. Drugs modulate various activity in our body which can help but typically is not without some kind of side effect or not as affective as providing enough of the "raw materials" our body needs.

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder definitely exists although the way it's predominately treated really doesn't help solve the deeper causes of the disorder.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24240495
QUOTE "For my second group of patients, who have severe attention issues, I make them undergo a full evaluation to find the source of the problem. Usually, once the original condition is found and treated, the ADHD symptoms go away."

And, when the original condition is the required 14 or so traits of ADHD, which using your "over 20" treatments do not solve, do you decide this is non-ADHD with ADHD Symptoms ?

asshole.
> I've heard of doctors prescribing drug holidays to
> minimize tolerance (and also heard this was no longer current
> practice from an expert in the field).

When you say "drug holiday" do you mean temporarily reducing your dosage, or temporarily stopping the medication entirely?

I can't speak for current practice in general, but I've had a couple of doctors and a nurse practitioner recommend tapering down my dose a bit on days when it's possible (ie, days off from work, etc) in the last few years.

I don't know if everybody would respond this way, but a lot of feel doing that helps stop tolerance/dosage creep, which was definitely a thing I experienced in the beginning. After some experimentation it seems like the way to go for me. I've been steady at a prescription of 15mg/day for a few years. Some days I take ~10mg and some days I take ~20mg.
Awesometalk announces AwesomeHours
I don't recall, other than it was a big one.
The sooner the better. My first internship was the summer I turned 18, prior to me starting uni. It absolutely set me apart and allowed me to pick and choose opportunities moving forward.

When sending resumes, I'd say it depends on the companies you are applying to. If you can seek out direct lines of communication with people involved in the hiring process (i.e. career service dept) then do so without delay.

If you are applying cold then do your best to find out when they start hiring their interns and apply at the beginning of that window. If you can't find out, then apply immediately and follow up routinely.

Show some initiative. Be the squeaky wheel. You will be better off.
Wit.ai (YC W14) Wants To Be The Twilio For Natural Language
Blast. It's only available for people living in the United States (or overseas military bases).
>How does this claim square with sites like the Daily WTF, which provide evidence that many gainfully employed programmers do not, in fact, use their brains very much? With the more or less weekly announcements of "security breaches" caused by people ignoring basic best practice, for instance storing passwords in plain text?

I take many people being bad at programming as evidence that programming is hard, not that it's easy. Maybe it's evidence that getting a programing job is easy, but that's not the same thing.
BMW has legendarily terrible cup holders, by the way.
Well you're giving your details to Quicken Loans and presumably yahoo. That includes name, address, DOB. While those details don't have a monetary value to you, they certainly have value to the companies you're giving them to.
Just built 0x800; find it here: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sohn/0x800/.

Source: https://github.com/jaredsohn/0x800.

(I was already working on a binary derivative at the time, but figuring out the font sizes is a little tedious.)
Why Veronica Mars embraced UltaViolet and angered fans
For some reason having those hashtags at the bottom of the article makes me feel dumb, as though the author thought I'd need Cliff Notes for the article. I know that's not the point of hashtags. Maybe it's #fail that flipped my switch.

#Apple #iWork #fail #proprietary #OpenOffice
Let's all just start spamming the fuck out of Australia.

Australian citizens should be equipped with tools to just spam the fuck out of their own ISPs, with absurd useless requests, as a form of civil disobedience.

Did I say the words "spam-the-fuck-out-of-it" enough in this post? No? SPAM THE FUCK OUT OF THAT SHIT.

Doesn't matter if they've performed analysis on the total possible consumible bandwidth, per subscriber, per ISP, and budgeted storage allocations times a hundred.

JUST SPAM THE FUCK OUT OF EVERYTHING AT ALL TIMES. FUCK THIS BULLSHIT. DON'T BEHAVE.
I would love to hear all sides of this story. her side, hr side, colleague side and management side.
Let's reduce the fox's many points of knowledge down to a single principle, to make him more symmetrical with the hedgehog. Ok, why?
> when paired with

No. The other traits are themselves beneficial. Do not confuse their success in spite of their ADHD with success because of their ADHD.
Your comparison is unhelpful. The expectations for broad-market consumer software and obscure narrow-market scientific software are entirely different.

Apple leads users to expect an easy experience, and not to need to worry about technical details. The cost of that strategy is that Apple should expect criticism when those expectations aren't met.
iPhone 4 was pretty terrible at being a cell phone.