skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I see why the person trading a bunch of shares on different exchanges all at once is unhappy about this, but this is BETTER for literally everyone else who now benefits from more accurate pricing.

3) You're aware that HFTs simply replaced slower and more expensive humans right? These computers are a lot cheaper than the humans were and, as you said, are getting cheaper by the day. Automation FTW!
Google launches Andromeda, a software defined network underlying its cloud
That was caused by an actual physical short (in space, conductive bits, usually soldier balls, floating around and shorting things was a big problem), which happened somewhat commonly. I think Apollo 12 nearly aborted the launch because the display was showing all 8s briefly, also caused by a short.

However there truly was never an unknown software bug discovered in flight. Lots of known software bugs had workarounds, partially because there was a hard deadline of about 4 months where the software couldn't be changed before the launch. Pretty amazing.
This describes perfectly what a Winsock reset performs and it doesn't exactly correlate with your FUD: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357

So there is no real distinction here between a Winsock reset and the equivalent operations in the other 2 big OSes. The difference is that whilst Windows holds its network configuration in the Registry (ugh), the other two do not. The operations being performed is otherwise pretty much identical.
Shouldn't we be expecting a rock that has just been heated to plasma stage by atmospheric friction only seconds earlier to be glowing, steaming or leaving little molten fragments of itself behind?

Update: maybe not. The last stage of flight is "dark and cold" according to this: http://www.meteorite-recon.com/en/Meteorite_fusion_crust_1.h...
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It's not simply a question of what the consumer wants. Look at it from the other side.

The merchant may be very strongly incentivized to use Bitcoin because it cuts payment fraud to zero. This saves the merchant the direct cost of payment fraud, which averages 1-2% of revenue in the US (therefore up to 50% of profit margin in some industries). Note that 1-2% is an average -- some industries have higher rates of payment fraud, and they will therefore have greater savings.

As Bitcoin payments require no fraud prevention, they also save the merchant the cost of lost business from customers deterred by cumbersome fraud prevention methods, and losses due to legitimate customers who are rejected when fraud prevention gives a false positive.

Therefore, merchants will have the option of reducing prices for items purchased with Bitcoin.

This leads to a simple question: do there exist any industries where the merchant's savings could be big enough that they could reduce prices sufficiently to encourage a significant number of customers to pay with Bitcoin, while still earning a higher margin than they would from other payment methods? I think there probably are, but we're a long way from seeing this question answered by the market. Relatively few merchants accept Bitcoin, and many of them offer no special discounts.

Relevant news: http://gigaom.com/2014/04/02/paystand-takes-on-paypal-with-a...
Looks very promising, I'll give it a try!
GraphTV: IMDB ratings trendlines, using Flask, Highcharts, and Heroku
dividend shares are different from voting shares.

Apple juice is different from milk.

No one is getting screwed, they can buy what they want, or not.
and an overview... https://vividcortex.com/blog/2014/04/03/vividcortex-quick-to...
Internet infrastructure actually does require a somewhat large number of people and it is quite fragile.

I never would have though a fiber cut (which seems to happen almost weekly) would have such a large impact, but it does. I figured BGP would reroute around that and to some extent it does, but there's still a lot of manual route handling.
This is super cool. Tools that capture errors on the user's end are invaluable. In an ideal world, the user would never experience errors, but I haven't lived in that world yet. Can't wait to see how this evolves.
I've seen the Sylacauga meteorite (2nd from the last) in person. It currently resides in Smith Hall, the museum of natural history, at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
THIS. One hundred times this. For these results to be in any way meaningful you need to conduct the experiment three times (and, three times with one person isn't actually enough to actually pull statistically meanigful results from, but one step at a time).

1) At t=0
2) At t=x [no transplant]
3) At t=x2 [after transplant]

The thing you actually need to compare is the variation between the difference of 1 and 2 and 1 and 3. The variation between 1 and 2 measures the general variation in your gut biome. So now you have a baseline of what to expect under "normal" variation. So, how does this compare to what you see after the transplant?

Beyond this, how do you control for literally everything in your life around both samples? Maybe you were sick? Maybe you'd been to the gym? Maybe you ate a banana? How do these things affect the microbiome? Without this kind of information its very difficult to draw any kinds of conclusions regarding the impact of a transplant.

As an analogy - lets say I don't know anything about night and day.

I look at my window at some time (say in the morning). It's light. I then write the sentence "LET THERE MY NIGHT" on my wall in marker pen at around 8pm and look at my window. Behold - it's night! So, from this I might conclude writing on my wall brought about the night.

ALL that being said, being curious and engaged in this type of thing is only good. The important thing to bear in mind is that without some thought to experimental design the conclusions drawn cannot really be described as conclusions. This is a great first post, but the determination of natural variation in the gut mirobiome is needed before the impact of the transplant can even be considered.
Things will be different. For example, Britain will have absolutely zero say in any regulations or currency policies in the European Union. Which sounds great, from a british perspective, until you consider that the UK will be forced to swallow any EU regulation anyway. That's what the Swiss and Norway do by essentially importing labor and trade goods without checks or customs. If you want import controls and customs however, you have to sacrifice a percentage point or two of your GDP...
I felt this way as well, though it'd be interesting to figure out the information that went into the "normal" range for bacteriodete/firmicute proportions to see how what kind of stability comes from that range is as well.
This is a great example of marketing vs. technology. Cloudflare is amazingly good at marketing.

This technology is not new, revolutionary or different in any way from what a bunch of other providers do (including AWS, who they even mention in the blog post as what they are a solution for).

But yet they write it like they have solved a major problem in a new way.

Super props to the Cloudflare team! (I'm being sincere here, they did a great job with the marketing part of this product)
Your history is just as flawed as your understanding of work, value and progress (in other words, you've been brainwashed). "Hard work" has always been a domain reserved exclusively for the slaves. The "virtue" of hard work is just a shallow manipulation tactic devised by those in power. None of this has changed today. What IS changing, however, is that as knowledge becomes more readily available, fewer and fewer people are willing to buy into this crap. And that's good. Now, you may begin to worry about who is going to do all the work that slaves are doing today so you may continue to live comfortably. The correct answer, of course, is: machines.

(And btw., no, we're not where we are because of your grandparents' hard work. If your grandparents had anything to do with humanity's progress, it was ONLY through insight, not through hard work.)
Do we know specific pro-biotic species that have been found to be significantly more beneficial than the rest? How do we know?

Does "pro-biotic" refer only to beneficial prokaryotic organisms or are there known beneficial "pro-biotic" foreign eukaryotes?
U.S. airports are 'awful.' Here's the problem
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Oh god, that is much worse than I was imagining. I was picturing something like swishing your finger around in some poop and sticking it up your butt, which is still gross but probably tolerable. Once you said the word "blender", I'm out.
While struggling to build companies, founders quietly battle depression
You only have to take a picture of yourself using FaceBlock. It will automatically discover Google Glass users near you and share the algorithmic representation (which is also automatically generated) with them.

It is a first step towards protecting personal privacy in public settings. We hope more projects will follow up soon.
I generally receive constructive feedback via email and I am always happy to receive more. The source for YumHacker is on GitHub.
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I think you misunderstood the GP. In the cases you described, hard work is clearly valuable. The problem is that there's a lot of emphasis on hard work for its own sake, not hard work as a means to producing something valuable.
I went ahead and booked a hotel with a reasonable cancellation policy, which is probably a good idea if you want to end up close to the event.
Sidekiq 3 released #ruby
If you must do uncontrolled 'experiments' with your gut microbiome try food before feces

http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.co.uk/
Gawker bans ‘Internet slang’
Right now surgery robots like the Da Vinci aren't automated. They have to be controlled by someone at the moment.
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The data are interesting on their own if you start with the idea that meteor strikes are random across centuries, but the information collection and preservation isn't. For instance, with two data points you might claim there were more monks than princes in Renaissance Italy, but they were both surrounded by literate people who kept records compared to the even more numerous peasants. However, I suppose interpreting small datasets so that they fit preconceived notions isn't very productive.

It does seem strange that there are ten 19th century events and eight in the 20th century. Not so much because the numbers are different, but because there was twice the population, and literacy and communication were so vastly improved.
One of the most annoying things about translation is that the length of the string may change which can mess up designs and layouts. For example German strings tend to be longer than their English equivalents. Or dealing with languages which orientation is right to left (eg. Hebrew).
If Reddit banned imgur, that would be very bad for it. They banned Quickmeme, which decimated its traffic.
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You don't actually need to focus on this. As a retail investor your going to get filled at NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer). The people writing things that make you think otherwise are selling irrational fear.

It's no different than how local news makes people think that crime in the US is at an all time high by reporting on it all the time when, in fact, crime has been dropping for decades.

Don't buy what the fear-mongers are selling.
That's incredibly dangerous. There is no such thing as an unbiased fact - by choosing what data to present and how to present it, they've already taken significant steps to influence how you make up your mind. Having a point of view is inevitable, but telling people you don't is insidious.
Chrome Slips By Firefox in the War of the Browsers
Yep, that's the way. Fight sexism with more sexism! Go girls!
This is super interesting. My debugging workflow for "weird" problems typically involves some combination of those tools already, so it's really cool to see this. Definitely going to try it out.
If by "target audience" you mean "young people", Girls and Game of Thrones (which are also HBO) both seem to be doing just fine. If instead you mean techies... well, I don't think the target audience of this show is purely people in Silicon Valley. HBO is doing just fine, even with the advent of the internet.
'No one has done cloud ERP' – Not so fast
Is it just me who likes Eclipse? I originally used Netbeans, then swapped to Visual Studio for awhile while doing Windows dev, then moved to Eclipse. I tried using IntelliJ for awhile as well, but the javadoc popups are pretty awful and it's missing some of the nice plugins you can get for Eclipse.

Eclipse has just always worked really well for me and I like it the most. Plus I really don't like the 'open core' method and Eclipse is just plain free software.

EDIT: I'm running Java8 on my Eclipse right now including maven builds etc, and everything is working really well.
KantanMT – Customisable Machine Translation
How is Soylent, which actually has ingredients, anything like homeopathy, which is just water?
If you are an amateur experimenter, and require a human test subject, self-experimentation may be your only remotely ethical option.

There is also the added advantage that you also know whether the test subject is complying with the experimental protocols. The disadvantage is that the person running the experiment on you is an amateur that may not necessarily be aware if the experiment is harmful.

Given that many physicians can't be certain of the results when they prescribe treatments and medications, I figure that if they can roll the dice like that without even having a stake in the outcome, people who take greater risks for greater payouts are not crazy. They are just less risk-averse.
I wish there were more people like you in the world.

Fighting sexism with more sexism is not the answer.
I see the Neo-luddism argument thrown out a lot when discussions pop up around basic income.

It's bullshit. Basic Income does not in any way support or suggest opposition to technology. In general, technology has made life better for everyone. It's not an issue that basic income is trying to solve.

The problem is that technology within a capitalist system allows automation to concentrate wealth. It's very easy for the owner of the machines to become increasingly wealthy, and very hard for anyone else to get a foot in the door.

The answer to this problem is not to get rid of the machines. This is not neo-luddism. The answer is to change social policy to spread the benefit of the automation to a wider group. That's what basic income tries to solve.
Dumping Facebook, and boy it feels great
Isn't a lot of that productivity exactly because of all those technologies (and more)? Then how does it make sense to stop using all of those things in order to work less? The Internet helps a knowledge worker to be productive (also enables some procrastination, but oh well). Is canceling your Internet subscription and consulting your 20 volume, 10 year old encyclopedia a benefit? Same goes for cell phones and cars.

And when you have all those things, also using them at home makes sense.
Anyone know the tax implications of this? I have seen splits before but supposedly this was equivalent to a special dividend as the stock's value halves.
"Since when do we judge compensation based on value added to society, and if that's what we do, why don't we apply that approach beyond finance?"

We apply it in finance for a couple reasons. Securities exchanges are high regulated entities, at least since the Great Depression brought our country to its knees. Ever heard of the SEC, which exists to protect investors? There is no reason for HFT to be allowed at all unless it is creating a net benefit for society. Or said another way, if HFT provides a benefit only for the people doing HFT, and has a negative effect on others, then there's no reason to allow it. (An aside: My understanding is that studies have shown markets to have plenty of liquidity without HFT.)
So, um, what have you been up to? Text doesn't convey inflection so please know that I'm not being a twit about it. I can't find an "About Me" page anywhere, though your list of Seattle stereotypes is rather funny. Maybe I'm being too nosy; I just like to read other folks' successes.
List of bodies accessing NHS patient data released
Yeah, I haven't read this article yet. I got whisked away on an article referenced at the beginning of this one and my world view imploded.

http://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gra...
The first guy's chute was open. The rock flew past the first guy. Then a second guy (with his chute not yet open) flew past the first guy. When the rock flew past the first guy, the second guy was above him, and whatever aircraft the second guy jumped from must have also been above him.
> A small rock would have a lot less air resistance than a person, and those suits are designed to increase air resistance. So it might end up with a higher terminal velocity and fall slightly faster.

This is a bit more complicated than it appears at first glance. Other things being equal, a 3D object's mass increases as the cube of a single dimension's increase, but its surface area increases only as the square. Therefore a smaller object's atmospheric terminal velocity can be expected to less than that for a large one. This is why many kinds of small animals can fall great distances through the atmosphere and land unharmed.

(Until objects approach terminal velocity, they all fall with the same profile. Only when approaching terminal velocity do their speeds change.)

On the other hand, a typical rock (non-metallic) has 3.5 times the density of a human, so that argues in favor of a greater terminal velocity.

A full analysis would need to take into account the human's flight suit, which turns vertical kinetic energy into horizontal kinetic energy, and the rock's size, shape and composition.

But without any of this and a priori, the idea of a rock flying past a human, as in the video, is perfectly reasonable.

One more thing. The picture of the rock passing by the human is actually most likely a person flying horizontally past a rock that's dropping vertically.
This doesn't mean anything yet ... the EU states still have to agree on this and this will take many more months before a final decision is made.
This is aweesome! I've played around with the idea of building something like this in the past, and have always shied away because of the complexity. Well done - it looks super useful.

One minor critique: Can you refer to yourself as "track.js" or "TrackJS" instead of {Track.js}? You're going to drive me nuts if I have to type curly braces every time I mention you somewhere.
Misleading indeed but is not like realeasing the latest kernel patch, where the code date is important.
That is only one use case for two-way data binding. A better example is that choosing an option in a select list instantly modifies your model, which triggers changes in some other computed properties on your model, which instantly binds back to the UI to populate that second drop down list with the filtered options.
I really like the idea of a telemetry timeline to show exactly what was going on when the error happened - like a well informed stack trace.
Sam, you don't have time to wait - reach out to the businesses you want to see
sysdig something is up with your character encoding:

than it should be â€” especially in distributed,

I have never seen the first three comments all come from accounts that have never posted a comment before. To make things even more spectacular 2 of 3 accounts were created two days ago. It is strange that all three accounts were able to notice the story, click the link, read/absorb the information and post a response that ends with an exclamation point within three minutes of submission being posted. What are the odds?
I contend a core persistent failing of FOSS is proof that premise is not true. There is somewhere around 5% of any project which must be done, but which nobody wants to do because it's hard/dirty work which produces little (but not zero or negative) benefit, is not interesting, few if any will appreciate (or even notice) it, but without which there will be a persistent stumbling block.

Sure, writers & doctors & farmers & firemen might do their stereotypical work for free because that's just what they do. But what about street cleaners & trash haulers? janitors for public housing? high-risk divers for floating oil rigs? Are you going to regularly clean, for free, elevators that low-end public-housing occupants piss in daily? pick up trash on the street, dumped there faster than you can clean up by bored teens who know they'll never have to do anything because their GBI cards will always get them food & pay the rent, and who are amused by your frustration at their persistent destructiveness?
I can't get iTunes movies on my Roku. If I could, that would be the holy grail.
Ask HN: Faith eroding in Bitcoin and Coinbase security?
All investments have risk. For example the US Government might make bitcoin taxable, Iceland might make bitcoin illegal, and the valuation might plummet at any point.

But one of the most unsettling parts of bitcoins is that if stolen they are not just lost, but they actually go to bad guys. For example Mt Gox didn't just "lose" half a billion dollars, but criminals acquired said amount. THat money could be used for human trafficking, terrorism, or even just more servers/hackers for more exploit discovery.

Now we have smaller issues with Coinbase. But considering that they are the flagship company with top-tier investors (YC, USV, A16Z), it's almost more unsettling that they mark security bug reports as a won't-fix and even ignore homakov's* emails. And often only respond to issues once they hit reddit.

So I'm curious, how has the last week affected your approach to bitcoins?

* imagine the Coinbase equivalent of "how come I commit in master"
As an alternative, Sentry also has a JS client [1], but is not limited to it, so you can centralize all error reporting in one tool.

https://www.getsentry.com/for/javascript/
Thanks for the information. So it looks like it's a specific application of an algorithm to vectors of bigrams? The most relevant part of the wikipedia page (I think): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#n-grams_for_approximate_...

It also appears that the algorithm I linked is actually the Sørensen–Dice index. They have the exact same formula on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rensen%E2%80%93Dice_coef...

Appreciate the heads up. Gave me much better terms to search for. Going to add them to the notes of my gist. I'm on vacation now, so I'll have to do more reading on it over the next few days

Also made a public gist for whoever is interested:

https://gist.github.com/doorhammer/9957864
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But there's little to no positive connection between who does the hard work and who gets rewarded for it.

Nobody in China nor other country is working their ass off to make cheap stuff for developed countries. They're working their asses off to feed themselves and their families. The effort: very high. The value: not so much for them.

I get what you're saying, but covering the effort in valor and moral superiority as opposed to the value realized from that effort just seems to be a way to separate the worker from the fruits of their labor.
If the meteorite strikes are evenly distributed, and if the planes aren't actually stacked (i.e., flying directly above one another) very much, then I don't think the plane positions matter for this calculation.
Immensely popular iOS app FireChat brings Internet-less chat to Android
It doesn't look like it works on Cosmos Space-Time. Other than that, really cool.
>money wasted in translating every document into every language

How do you think google trains their translation algorithms?

(They also use the UN equivalents.)
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