skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how do you know it is effective or cost efficient for that matter.

The implementation of the Data Retention Directive in Sweden pushed the cost onto the ISPs. According to their industry group, the estimates for NRE as well as operational costs as stated by the government was at least a factor 10x to low. We are talking 100MSEK range instead of 10MSEK range. This also worked as a barrier to the market since the initial costs of establishing retention makes it costly to start a new ISP.

I have not seen any analysis on the cost and work done by the govenment to enforce as well as use the data collected. But alternatives such as directed surveillance (not wholesale) should be considerd and not just flatly ignored.

Finally, if NSA when pressed for details can not really come up with more than possibly one case where wholesale surveillance was instrumental, I'm not sure the EU DRD and its implementations are that much more efficient.

But thats me guessing.
I don't think it's irrational. Schools don't nurture creativity. They destroy it. Rather effectively. However I might be wrong, can you name the traits impair the general populace?

If people can't compete in the workplace, maybe we need a better workplace.
This is the function using ret x19:

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/fedora-ocaml.git/tree/asmr...

What do you think? Looks like a return to me, albeit using an unusual register. Note that this code is especially speed critical because every time OCaml calls a C function that could allocate GC'd memory, it has to go through this function.
Maps were fubar, but when antenagate came around I checked the three android phones I had and they all have zones that killed the signal if you covered them with your hand.
Zebra Technologies Is Buying Motorola Solutions Handheld Unit For $3.45B
This is important to understand: the internet was already the largest computer network in the world -- and very engaging and worthwhile for a smart person -- before the private sector of the economy started to influence it significantly.

For at least a year after I started on the internet in Dec 1991, any use of the internet for "commercial activity" was disallowed (and did not happen enough for a person to notice it). Spam had not been invented yet; the entire marketing profession seemed unaware of the existence of the internet; the main form of promotion I can remember is announcements of academic and technical conferences; it was OK to make a "work wanted" post on Usenet only if you wanted to become an employee ("W-2") -- contractors ("1099") and one-man consulting shops were prohibited from using the internet to look for clients.

Although a few private-sector companies (UUNET for example although started as a non-profit in 1987 became a for-profit in 1989) were influencing the internet at this time, the influence was minor compared to the influence of governments, governmental contractors (notably BBN and Mitre) and universities.

And again, the internet was already very valuable and very able to enrich people's lives -- provided that those people were willing to use command-line interfaces.
Cinefi : Popcorn Time in Browser
It's called GNOME 2 and it feels exactly like you're using Linux, which is a great feeling. Kudos to the devs.

Edit: apparently I was mistaken. GNOME 2 is the default desktop, but there is an XP skin. See comments below.
Important quote from that article:

“Increasing the supply is not going to increase the number of affordable units; that is a complete and utter fallacy,” said Jaimie Ross, the president of the Florida Housing Coalition.

As the article explains, the reason is that builders are going to prefer to build "luxury" units to "affordable" ones. So having a whole bunch of construction is not necessarily going to lead to anything affordable. A construction boom may bring the high end rents down a little bit, but they'll still be out of reach of most people.
That's a really nice one, thanks for sharing :) and I really like your philosophy too.

I agree that a physical artifact is good:) and easily customizable (no code needed, cross-browser and everything :P ).

I wonder if some sort of screen could be a replacement (a screen showing a Trello board?).

I remember seeing some guys having a physical gauge showing server requests, and saying it was really satisfying and much better than having it on a screen (can't find the link).

Edit: I found a similar one, but the original was better an in the context of measuring a startup. http://makezine.com/2008/11/18/net-data-meter/
The Truth About Google X
Against domain parking
Interesting. I guess I do not use it often enough to encounter those issues.

Thanks for the link, it's really useful to know this.
One of my favourite algorithms....I am writing my dissertation on A* implementation in CUDA at the moment, so I've got to work with different approaches to it, it's fascinating really.
I suspect, given the email gave no details, they had no knowledge of whether it was the same bug or not.
It's not only the difference (or none) between 16 or 24-bit, but it's mostly about the quality of the DAC that is being used - in this case a very high-end one.

Then again, it's been proven time and time again that the average person can't even hear the difference between mp3 or FLAC.

Considering you'd also need proper high-end monitor headphones, i believe this is more about marketing, the brand and the pitch than it is about what you actually get or can actually use.

+ it can only hold about 2000 FLAC files even with expansion card.
Just because. I did like a little bit of work for $50 (basically just a "rails new" with a theme the project owner purchased), which doesn't move the needle, so thought I'd take a few to supposedly boost my credibility. The fact that they're a waste of time doesn't change the fact that they're pushing a borderline-scammy and low-quality product within their offering.
It is not clear what they mean by "Mobile Development Ready". Does that mean I can use it with a 3G radio? If so how?
"We are all drastically more wealthy than our parents and grandparents."
I doubt that is true based on inflation adjusted income. True, due to progress in science and technology, you have better medical care, faster computers, cars with more horsepower and Flatscreen TV panels.

But on inflation adjusted income, job opportunities, and retirement age and social security benefits the baby boomer generation was likely the peak. Trust me, the likelihood that we are just going downhill from now is quite high.

>They despise "inequality" and wealth.
Maybe. I despise Kim Il Song. He is wealthy and his country has inequality.
Yes, and I am worried they did not get that notification
UX Developers Aren't a Thing
SF for one week, see the next generation of the NFC Ring
I will have free lunch/evening slots for food/tea/beer and happy to get feedback on our dev work.

Dates available: 24th -> 30th Apr

Drop me through an email john@mclear.co.uk
Seems like you need to create a binary and then fire a bunch of earths into the habitable zone. I've done this but can't seem to get the crowdedness bonus up to the levels of winning systems.
You may want to look at sites with curated projects, like LetsWorkshop.com or Gun.io.
Who can we blame for the Heartbleed bug?
this was no a cop out on Time's part. Francis does have/will have a more far reaching effect than Edward Snodwen. The value of Snowden's revelation is that people can no longer just laugh about being spied on, all countries have simply been proven to do so.

The danger here is that far too many will again just laugh it off as they justify to themselves they cannot do anything about it and worse really just don't care to expend the effort.
Different playback speeds can even make planets spin out while replaying high-scoring systems. Bit disappointing!
Scroll Effect Using Jquery
The problem with forums and websites like these is that it attracts a very strong groupthink. Look at http://www.inboung.org or http://growthhackers.com/ - they both have a very strong element of groupthink. I think that the best places would be somewhere like Reddit (where subscribers are more heterogeneous because they subscribe to other forums too) or a Google Plus community.

Can't recommend any off-hand though.
What I found most delightful about knoppix was that with zero configuration on the first boot every single one of my hardware devices was recognized correctly.
Depression, Burn Out, and Writing Code
Hey Gabemart, original author here.

I understand your objection.

The term 'freeloader' was used because they're taking stuff for free with no expectation to pay anything in the future.

Also, an article that attracts discussion is a good thing, right? :)

[edited]
It's probably not a good idea to reply to people giving you useful feedback by telling them they are "dramatizing".
Hey Seth, original author here.

Thanks for the deeper explanation into the history or Urchin, and also, that when it was a paid product you were still happy to recommend it. Thats exactly what we're hoping to get at Trak.io - yeah it's a paid product, but it brings a damn load more value to your business than the couple of bucks we're asking for a month.

Thanks for the good wishes too, I love how supportive HN can be!
without the big name attached I doubt it would have had much traction. Its merely a very good marketing exercise. Snake oil for the 21st century. No better than all the joke techies used to make about HDMI cables.

I always like Alan Parson's quote, audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment
Because the landlords did their building in 1970 or earlier when building costs were cheaper, or bought the property rent-controls considered. The article also points out the drastic cut to property taxes a while back, from which savings generally didn't get passed on to tenants.
Surely the test is slightly invalidated by converting an MP3 to wav? surely you would take a master/studio recording and convert that to wav/whatever
Well no - this shows a lack of understanding of emergent properties. There are clearly billions upon billions of "solar systems" that get created but not surviving for over 500 years never really get considered to be "solar systems", certainly don't have a chance to develop life in that time and don't have inhabitants to say "aren't we unlucky we live on an unstable system?".
Just wanted to note that I also disliked that term.

And believe me, I couldn't agree with the article more, I was nodding my head vigorously throughout my reading, I bookmarked the article to Evernote as a reference for anyone I talk to about this in the future (and I talk about this with a lot of people, making exactly your arguments).

So I couldn't be more "pro", but I also immediately thought "freeloader is not a nice term". It could just be my "the internets will hate this" spidey-sense, but in this case I think the internets are right - it really is an offensive term in more places.
> It's scary how they can use a combination of charisma, drive and self delusion to relieve others (including their co-workers) of their contributions, line their pockets with cash and move on before the crash.

They are also very good at discrediting those who try to expose their fraud. I've dealt with people like Cheiky (albeit on a much smaller scale than him). As soon as I expressed skepticism in their idea, they knew how to respond to prevent that skepticism from spreading to other people. They immediately moved to discredit the person trying to discredit them.

And even after the house of cards does fall down, those who believed in them continue to believe that it wasn't the charismatic person's fault that it all failed.
Learn Version Control with Git
This should be brought up early in schooling. Being in the habit of committing actual knowledge to memory vs relying on the ability to look something up seems to be one of the factors that can differentiate those who seem like experts. And it seems like being able to convince others of your expertise is almost more important than actually being an expert much of the time...
Raising a moral child
> does this imply that most solar system arrangements are unstable and we are lucky in ours?

No, not really.

Even without knowing the masses of the planets and the sun here, the scale of this game is tiny compared to the real solar system. In realistic scales, it is a lot easier to come up with stable configurations.

Planetary systems form slowly from a gas and dust disk surrounding a new born star. The early protoplanets will collide with each other and form bigger bodies and the system will slowly reach a stable configuration. Planets may be thrown out of the system or flung into the star too.

The best current understanding of exoplanet systems is that there are planetary systems orbiting the majority of stars out there. Our solar system is neither an extremely lucky coincidence or a rarity among other stars.
-> 'If the implementation is easy to explain, it's a good idea.' - Well, the zen says that it may be a good idea, but i considered it. It gave e a wrong answer.

-> 'squares = [i2 for i in xrange(10000)]'
&
'squares = (i2 for i in xrange(10000))'
- Although they are similar, they are not the same, as one returns a list and the other a generator. I can index, pop, insert, etc in the list but can't in the generator.

(I cheated on the 5th one. I wasn't sure what (2) * 3 would return. My hunch was correct though)

- '(2 or 3) * (5 and 7)' - I don't feel this is very pythonic. It's a language trick, and python code shouldn't rely on that.

Got 4/6, failed the 1st and messed up the 5th.

I don't think it's a very good test. To chck for 'pythonism' you should probably try to see if the applicant knows what the zen means. You should also chack for intermediate/advanced features. List/dict comprehensions and generator expressions. The data structures, their characteristics and pitfalls. Properties, magic methods, etc.

I mean, method lookup order in multiple inheritance. Multiple inheritance is usually a big 'no-no', so I don't feel that it is a worthy question.

I also couldn't see who this test was for. For begginers, pros? What do you want to see? If they know python? If it's an experienced programmer, he may not know python, but can master it fast.

Just my 5 cents...

[EDIT] Submitted too early
Duped: Can brain scans uncover lies? (2007)
hehe you won the internet for spotting that! :D

I originally found the free audio on a royalty free site. The video is very outdated now compared to the product, but at the time all we had were photoshop mockups of the UI and a vision! :D

Anyone who has used a mac before will spot that it's made from a ton of panning around images in iMove. Guilty as charged... :-P
Currently available for Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit.
You're right... I sort of contradicted myself there by calling an implementation using Objective-C objects 'idiomatic', since nobody in their right mind would implement that example using NSArrays and boxed values.

My point was really that Objective-C isn't always faster than the equivalent Java (a function call, hash lookup and jump is fast in most contexts, but it's still infinitely slower than nothing, which is the overhead of a JIT-inlined method call), but that being a superset of either C or C++ means that it can be faster when it needs to be. Which is ultimately what matters.
Unstable arrangements naturally collapse into stable ones. Eventually everything gets stable.

We are lucky that our stable arrangement happens to have a planet with surviving water within the habitable zone and with a few elements in the system that make collisions less likely. (Both the Jupiter and the Moon "sweep" space so that collisions with earth are much less common than they would be without them.)

Of course, the anthropic principle is in full force. The earth had to be lucky for you to stand on it wondering about how lucky it was -- so, if it hadn't been lucky, you would not do so and maybe some green-skinned alien halfway accross the galaxy would spend time wondering how lucky his planet was.
Did you mean

> NaCl aims to provide a simple, clean interface ...
Noted, yeah was a bit 'keyboard warrior' on my part actually. No offense intended.

But yeah I didn't want to have a "meta" discussion and miss the point of the article
How I have hacked Facebook again and would have stolen a valid access token)
http://intothesymmetry.blogspot.ch/2014/04/oauth-2-how-i-have-hacked-facebook.html
OpenBSD Journal[1] points out "To clarify, not all of the cryptographic engines were removed; the padlock and aesni engines are still in place."

1) http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140415093252
Which country are you in? If you're in the UK, Contractor Weekly has some IR35-friendly ones: http://contractorweekly.com/free-resources
Arquillian and JBehave, together at last
Does a unicorn lose it's rainbow if I just go ahead and edit the original article? Never too sure once something has been discussed whether it's cool to revise the original source...
Somebody needs to make an elance, odesk, freelance competitor that is private - contractors or companies need to apply and be pre-vetted to be on the site for design/dev and projects posted are above a minimum budget threshold.
Writing interfaces with Fay using fay-builder
Techies are the new middle class? You've got to be kidding me.
Whether or not you should have a free plan really depends on your product.

In the case of trak.io, it's clear that the costs per user are too high for them to do it. Google Analytics can do it because it's backed by a big business and they can fund it. Many startups don't have this choice.

I'd just be wary of ditching a free plan. It's a great way to reach a lot of people with relatively little effort, just be careful you can support them with your business model.
So true. But they should be. One of the camps will have to cross sides--either designers learn how to code in half a dozen languages (unlikely) developers learn to appreciate beauty, layout, design and other UX elements that matter (likely). So, pick one! :-D
Thanks for sharing your thought process and guidelines, we appreciate the transparency.
Sweet Reason Lands On Its Face
Hey! I also wrote my thesis in CUDA, but I implemented the interval newton algorithm. Could you send me an email when it's done? I'm very interested in it.
... You still didn't mention a single API.

And yes, python was in complete disuse that only obscure academics used it (Which is what google was founded by). I mentioned in my comment it only gained traction after google and django before then it was niche Zope and CGI. All your citations don't actually refute it, they in fact strengthen it...

So show me an API that existed in 1998... all you showed me was that SOAP was 'designed' in 1998...

Are you really citing "Netscape Enterprise Server" as proof python was in wide usage?

Paul Graham sold a business to yahoo, wasn't it in lisp? Did it have an API? does it actually prove any of the points you made, or is it just a statement about "There was business on the internet" which I never refuted.

You were really scrounging to come up with pretty much nothing, so thanks for further illustrating my point :)
I like you using the term freeloader ... I get it, you're pushing people to think in a different way. Ignore this stick in the MUDs :) great article.
The set of angularjs resources
That's exactly where I ended up!

His wisdom is clear from his quotes, but it's something else to read those essays in their entirety. Great stuff.
A New Specatator Sport – OpenBSD vs. OpenSSL
Funny you should say that - I was just re-reading this: http://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu7.html#Sec7Part5
Google now spends more on lobbying than almost every other corporation
Too young for COBOL? Think again
One thing that is alluded to but perhaps not explored fully is the use of noise-shaping dither techniques which rely on pushing the noise out into the ultrasonic region. Xiph mentions it in the context of 16 bit resolution, but I believe it interacts with the discussion of 192 kHz sampling.

Significant noise power at ultrasonic frequencies (or even a skewing towards higher audible frequencies) represents a problem for tweeters & amplifiers both in terms of the intermodulation distortion mentioned in Xiph's article and in terms of power dissipation at the business end. IIRC Dell and VLC are having a falling-out because VLC's soft clipping is damaging the speakers in certain Dell laptops.
Newborns can hear a SNR of about 120dB which is around 21-bit. So 24-bit seems useless for playing back audio.

But I always wonder how much of the sound we hear by feeling (skin, hair vibrations). Because maybe I can't hear 1Hz, but I can very well feel it.
Your question probably has an answer in the form of many companies past and present attempting to do exactly what you say "disrupt". As pgt mentions, the gamification is 1 of the biggest factors in play here. Buyers will go by ratings based on other buyers and sellers with massive amounts of positive ratings have little incentive to build rep again.
I once joined Freelancer.com. Oh boy, what an experience it was. First off, there is a free plan for freelancers, but you should be paying ~$24 to get things going.

The second is charging money for tests, charging money for showing up as featured, and various other tactics to get money out of freelancers. I moved out as soon as I could.
A country specific version of freelancer was an idea after I couldn't get a gig against every other third world country bidding on what seemed to be the same project with multiple accounts. Since it seems there were few and far American accounts bidding compared to other countries, "American only" struck me as something that would be useful as a developer. Though, I'm pretty sure people go there to pay insanely cheap prices. If they want to pay $100+ hour for experience and high quality, they would find a local company and meet with them. It's not like Angie's list where you're going to pay more or less the same price and you can filter out who you want to chose.
Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
yeah, we have this possibility in France, and I wouldn't feel confortable. I guess most of the times people asks for money and leave instead of asking to be (re-)integrated.
Wasn't it called the Breadth-First Search algorithm (as opposed to the Depth First Search)? I never noticed this name before.
Read here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57804
Of course, in simplifying it this far, you run the risk of losing some subtleties of the situation.

Users can be valuable without offering net revenue on their own, this is how Github stays afloat, it's at the core of their business model.
Hand-holding Guide to SSH Keys setup to connect from Windows to Linux Machines
Not me, sorry. I'm still on the contractor side of the life so far :)

You can also find bunch of Rails jobs at WeWorkRemotely. I'm for C++/core engineering jobs, which are quite rare in REMOTE space.
Does anyone have any good pointers on why Ubuntu is adding a little-endian PPC port? I thought they had dropped the regular PPC port a while ago.

Googling around it seems the use for little-endian PPC is to be more easily compatible with GPUs. Is there really a market for running GPU computing with PPC64 CPUs?
Is there any way to delete the first planet? It seems like there's a motivation to keep refreshing until it spawns somewhere convenient.
Those are two different algorithms for searching in a graph (they are in fact very similar, one uses a queue, and the other uses a stack). Check your Cormen.
The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness