skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's been talked about extensively even in the public for over a decade at least. In blogs and comment fields and columns the "but it's just the urban heat island" is a common myth that pops up all the time and has to be debunked constantly.

Some GISS temperature data for example excludes urban stations. Classification by night lights in satellite images. These rural stations also show similar trends.

More at the ever resourceful myth-collecting Skeptical Science site. http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm
i'm guessing its a mind trick based on how our eyes perceive motion relative to some point in the image?
This strikes me as 100% backwards, isn't the entire point of the IETF RFC process to memorialize existing practice, not be a design studio for new protocols? Wasn't it followed here (RFC6520 existing to document the OpenSSL implementation of heartbeat)?

If the IETF is the only thing standing between us and any jackass introducing vulnerabilities into everyone's network stack we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
The Leidenfrost Effect Can Make Water Flow Uphill
Elementary phrasing does not cut through language and linguistics - it makes it worse. As the Freemen essay emphasizes, terms like "elite" are used like "pinko", in my understanding, to delegitimize certain people even when the terms themselves are so ill-defined as to be meaningless.

That's why Freemen proposed a specific definition of "elite", before continuing with the essay.

I don't know what you're talking about when you say "problems knowable in advance ... can be solved through technology." There are many classes of problem which are impossible - travel to Andromeda within my lifetime, for one.

Otherwise, since humans have used technology since our species first started, it seems pretty self-evidence that all solutions will at least in part use technology.

All essays concerning the real world struggle to conceptualize and evaluate real problems. No essay can ever be a perfect reflection. So I believe you expressed a tautology.

I think it's fair to say that "Tyranny of Structureless" is a much better attempt at trying to describe reality than critique. You can approach your analysis using any method you like, but if you can't judge the reasonableness or correctness of the underlying data then your model will suffer from "Garbage In, Garbage Out." The critique you pointed out is, in my opinion, mostly garbage.
packages which employers can purchase

Have you validated the employer demand? Seems like that would be the tougher part of the equation.

Sure, employers need part-time, remote workers, but are they willing to pay a premium for entrepreneurs? I'm skeptical.
Owning a truck can be a blessing and a curse. I was never the driver when car pooling with my friends, but I had tons of requests to help move things--usually at the end/beginning of the academic years.

I wish this service was around when I owned a truck.
Cross Site Scripting(XSS) and Meteor
Thanks! I think that's a problem every logistics/moving company has to face!

Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke: "I love my FedEx guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it...and he's always on time."
Google selling Glass to anyone in the US on April 15 for a limited time
Im a lucky owner of a Boosted Board and i can tell that with my 220lb frame the board can go much faster than I would feel comfortable and its torque is scary good.
Whether its 3 times better than this board, I wouldnt know untill i try the E-GO if ever.

One thing that jumped at me right away from the E-Go pics is that the singular compartment that probably holds the battery and the controller is placed across almost entire length of the bottom of the board. And when somebody flexes it by moving around, the whole compartment flexes. [1]

I think that makes the plastic more prone to cracking than that of a Boosted Board where controller is placed on one side and the batteries are placed on another with nothing in between them.[2]

[1] http://youtu.be/_MqTg2bGv3E?t=41s

[2] http://boosted.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
Thats right you would be the 3PL and you would be dealing with 1PL(consignee) and 2PL(carrier). So likely dealing with 3PL regulation. You probably already have to worry about licensing, and insurance.

This isn't a bad market to get into. You should educate yourself though more in it.
APL is far from dead, there is a lot of living legacy code and old timers with APL skills still actively using it commercially.

Prolog on the other hand...I'm not aware of any commercial projects actively using it, but it is still alive as a hobbyist/learning language.
The real test for this site would be September 1st, Boston.
Can I suggest another company dealing with large amounts of data at a similar scale:

http://automattic.com/work-with-us/data-wrangler/

Yes this is a shameless plug for the company I love working for, but I think it addresses Skywing's point. We are one of the few companies at this scale that are completely location agnostic, and we hire by trial (can you do the job), not by credentials.
If you increase the level of rigorousness enough, you can't say anything about the world based on any data.
Definitely agree! We're working on adding user generated reviews right now and would love to eventually verify drivers with their license/insurance info. Appreciate your input!
Relies on the app running in a browser? what about native apps?
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Awesome! Feel free to email us anytime at hi@truckplease.com to let us know how it goes!
That's not a bug, it's a feature! ;)

Check out https://app.io/safari if you want to have appception
Left my job to do (current) startup. Spent 14 months w/o salary before we got funding. The total sounds like a lot but if I had to do it again I would.

I'm a big proponent of being open about finances and the financial struggle of doing startups - especially when you have kids and one stay at home parent in my case.

Loss of salary for 1 year, 2 months
Does not include loss of 401k match or ESPP
-$140,000

Successful Kickstarter @ $25k
+$20,000

8 week contracting project @ 20hrs / week
+$16,000

Living expenses for 14 months (savings/stocks)
-$70,000

Post funding difference in salary from market rate
-$50,000 (year 1)
-$40,000 (year 2)

Total ≈ -$264,000

My wife randomly reminds me what started off as a 3 month experiment has turned into a 3 year "adventure". She's not adventurous though :).
I downloaded the Comixology app just to try. And I don't think the Comixology way of thinking for their app works for non american comics. Japanese comics can't be viewed bubble by bubble, that would be just a horrible experience, and there doesn't seem to be two-pages side by side display handling, or right to left page order option either. The Kindle handles this kind of things gracefully.

BTW they really should have something free in their store or directly in the app, even an illustrated guide of how to use the app, just to give an idea of the experience. No one asks their users to buy 5~10$ content just to see if the app is comfortable to use.
Pol Pot?
I'm also from LA - and I'd never use it in that context. I'd never say I'm looking for a gig, I might describe my existing job as a gig.
Thanks, man! Will definitely fix that!
Might be a miscommunication on our site! We run native iOS apps in the simulator environment - if you have a simulator build of your native app, we can use it as an ad.

Our previous/existing product enables apps to run inside any browser, and we have a lot of people using this platform for QA, customer support, etc.
You don't need fast — you need predictable latency, that's all. Once you have predictable latency, you can work out compute time. And latency can become predictable through a large number of samples.

Brumley and Boneh's 2003 paper ("Remote timing attacks are practical") on this is the typical reference: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf
You probably want to read this: http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/

Particularly the section titled "You can’t possibly measure that, can you?"
It'd be useful to deal with moving moving, like city to city or region to region, this looks like something for in the city.
Doesn't work when Vimium extension is enabled...though this project makes we want to disable it.
Hmm. Why does it say Dual-Licensed in the description?
Thanks, Kluny! Appreciate it!
sweet. never heard of macminicolo... that's awesome.
Are Hackathons the Future of Medical Innovation?
I've also found that it is smoother as relates to scrolling etc. Chrome will sometimes lock the screen during memory intensive stuff, Firefox will do it a little, and Safari is buttery smooth.
Facebook may see more potential profit from advertisers than from consumers.

If Facebook can come up with a way to dramatically increase an advertiser's provable ROI, advertisers will kill each other to get to the front of the line. "You mean we can suck even more money out of Facebook users by knowing even more about them, thereby influencing them even more effectively?" In fact "advertisers" can probably make a good ROI from their Facebook spending without ever showing you an ad in Facebook, just by data mining and tailoring their non-Facebook ads. Just because you don't see an ad doesn't mean you haven't been sold.

If Facebook were $25/year for a no advertising account, would Facebook consumers elbow each other out of the way to pay $50/year for more effective ways to see what their friends ate for breakfast? Probably not. And besides, you'd probably still be sold to advertisers as data per the previous paragraph.

I pay for email and I pay for bookmarks (and I don't have a Facebook account). I have a low grade chronic fear over what will happen when my email and bookmark providers can no longer increase their profit to their satisfaction, or to their investors' or acquierers' satisfaction.
Totally! Our goal right now is to focus on local moves but the site can definitely be used for long-haul moves as well!
Call the CEO at Cretex, the parent company. Ask them why they fire employees that come up with ideas (the point of the incentive program, after all, was to offer ideas). You have nothing to lose at this point.
Using OpenCV to track faces on a Raspberry Pi
Makes sense to me. Could even potentially save money in the long run, since employees would be leaving at an anticipated time, instead of a random 2 weeks notice.
3 SSL vulnerability discovered in 3 months, anything wrong? 
-Apple's Goto Fail
-GnuTLS certificate issue
- OpenSSL Heartbleed

It may be a coincidence but they all have something in common:

- affects SSL.
- 'simple' coding error.
- had been there for a long time.
- flaw affects the fundamental feature of SSL. Affects certificates specifically while not needing anything at all in the third.

It may just be paranoia but there are very disturbing flaws.

OR

Maybe people have a very bad coding and 'auditing' habit.

At an age where there are so many privacy and surveillance issues, it gets worrisome.
I agree with you. I think grellas argument is so flawed that the only reason to make it and upvote is as distraction and current best defense while the dropbox team works on something more believable. The backlash against Rice is over her actions, not her beliefs, and has a tangible connection to matter of great concern with cloud hosting - which is government sanctioned data collection.
Super A = a(a), a=a, super B=c(c), b=c and c=0

"Network" hiring, in a nutshell.

I feel comforted that I compete with companies that think this is the way to hire, and also feel like the comprehensive rebuttal to this PDF would be doing my competitors a favor.
$85 a year is basically what Netflix costs, i.e. nothing. You get the key, forget about the tiny amount of money it costs, and can now bike whenever you want, regardless of whether or not you have your bike or feel like finding somewhere to lock it up.
Interesting... I'm from the UK and wouldn't generally refer to a 'gig' as anything but musical.

E.g. Fiverr 'gig's caused me a lot of misunderstanding the first time I browsed the site

I think it's generally a term to avoid that has been popularised by quasi-hipster tech.

Most probably, the word 'job' or even 'move' would be much less prone to confusion here.
Sure if there were 2 or 3 journals, but if there were 10,000, listing the top 200 journals is just way too much.
A lot of fancy tech for only 805MB per user (based on estimate of 500 million users). What if we had a pure p2p web app using webrtc & local storage to replace Facebook? Think everyone could spare 805MB?

Calculation: https://www.google.com/search?q=(300PB)%2F(400000000)
Because you can also pay them for a commercial license.
Valid point. I guess what I meant by legitimate target was "do something they want to specifically know about enough to relatively targeted attack" (ie: analyst wants to know something) as opposed to everyone else who they just want to scoop us as much data about but is currently of less interest.
Explicitly manipulating events as a stream has performance problems; mainly time leaks. Another issue is that it makes debugging really difficult, as you've now converted much of your control flow (that you could step through) into data flow (that you cannot), while there is very little progress on building good data flow debuggers.

Finally, events are often manipulated in very tricky ways. Take the problem of implementing a drag adapter: you have to remember to capture the mouse on the down event and release your capture on the up event, but then you also need to capture widget and mouse positions on the down event so you can compute deltas that avoid sampling resolution problems on the move events. Rx always gets these two points wrong, which is very annoying, but they have to fudge it otherwise event stream processing can't win in elegance.
Zappos has been doing this forever and is now owned by Amazon:

http://blogs.hbr.org/2008/05/why-zappos-pays-new-employees/
> What kind of connection is fast enough to detect the difference of a single loop iteration inside memcmp()?

Any, really, if you hit it with enough copies of each potential input so that you can get enough results to separate the timing difference from the noise. Though the faster, the more samples you can do per unit time, and the closer in network topology, the less sources of variability in latency that make it take more samples you'll have. At least, that's my understanding.
> they're not at the scale of FB (where "traditional" solutions break down)

I'm not so sure about that. Bloomberg processes an incredible amount of data, and they have strict latency requirements. In many cases, traditional solutions would in fact break down under those requirements.
New Cancer and diabetes 3D molecular animations
My bad, skimmed it a lot. Thats interesting, why am I making android versions?
"An interesting side effect of writing side project code every day is that your current task is frequently running in the back of your mind. Thus when I go for a walk, or take a shower, or any of the other non-brain-using activities I participate in, I’m thinking about what I’m going to be coding later and finding a good way to solve that problem."

Is that not a negative? I find it hard to stop thinking about what I'm working on, and it negatively impacts my life. I leave the office after 8 hours, but the next 2 hours are spent turning over problems in my head, and the 2 hours before I sleep are spent on it too. The days that I work on a problem at the office for a few hours and can't unblock myself before leaving are hell. My brain won't turn off until I can get into work the next day and begin on the problem. Some days I will even wake up in the morning or night with answers to the problem. Why is the AWS instance in my head turned on all night long when I'm not even getting paid for it?
Doesn't matter. If you have no leverage you don't capture any of the upside regardless of whether the overall system is growing.
At this point with btc volatility being what it is today, you could save or lose 10% just by standing in line.
According to the credits (https://github.com/SublimeText-Markdown/MarkdownEditing#cred...), MarkdownEditing was created by Brett Terpstra and is maintained by Ali Ayas.
Robotic Hair Transplant Is a Better Hair Transplant?
A Better Way To Do Saas Integrations
Compile-Time Error for Incorrectly Cased #import in ObjC
Aren't websockets ping/pong messages similar?
Looks like they've added a twist by doing it yearly with increasing offers each year. Pretty interesting idea.
I like the idea. The problem I see with this is, actually matching to employers. I would be willing to give this a try.

Also, put this description at the top thread.
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Thanks! :) Yeah, once the site has all the features we want we'll definitely start working on an app. Tracking is something we're really interested in doing with that.
Contrasts with this image of Amazon workers

BBC News: "Amazon workers face increased risk of mental illness"

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598
And that still leaves the question of why spec a payload (much less 64k "for flexibility") in a TCP heartbeat exchange.
Ask HN: What does Y Combinator mean?
How did it get its name?
The Marvel Unlimited webapp is even worse.
Can you give me a few more details - I just checked it on Chrome and its working.
Boosted co-founder here. Our battery costs more than theirs. Range/capacity is one measure of performance, alongside cycle lifetime, safety, power output, and other factors. Did a technical post about batteries a while ago.

http://boostedboards.com/technical-progress-part-iii-lithium...
Ask HN: Should I switch companies?
I am currently working with a self-funded startup. There are three of us. I am not helping fund it at all. They are paying me $60k/year, but I am working as a self-employed freelancer.

As far as my experience goes. I went to college at 16, landed my first job at 17, stopped college after 2 years and pursued more work. I've been working in the field since then and I am now 23. So I have roughly 7 years experience, with the majority of that work being done the last 4 years.

For the past 6 years I have developed mainly with PHP/MySQL, Javascript, and HTML/CSS. And using numerous frameworks and libraries.

Lately my stack looks something like: Laravel for my backend PHP Framework, MySQL as my Database, Angular as my frontend Framework, with bits of jQuery in there. I have been using Nginx as my server and know my way around Amazon Web Services and have everything on Amazon EC2. I've been building mobile applications with Titanium and Alloy as the MVC Framework. I am proficient with Photoshop.

Here is my predicament. A local software development company has been talking with me a bit, they know my skill level, they are looking for a full-stack developer with a skill set similar to mine that they can also train. They are small with around 10 of them, but they are well established offer a competitive salary and full benefits. After talking with the owner, he said he I am worth more than the $60k/yr I am being paid. Now with the $60k/yr I am being paid I also will be getting a percentage of the profits. Starts at 10% the first year, 15% the second, and stops at 20% the third year. But they aren't making any money yet.

My decision: to take the risk of staying with the current startup with the potential to make lots of money if its successful or pursue this other position and get paid a better salary with full benefits, a better working environment, the opportunity to work with other developers.
Comunities in Unexpected Places
Thanks for the link. They claim that they can measure differences as small as 100ns, which is pretty impressive. A single iteration in memcmp is still a lot faster: about 1ns. I have a hard time to see how there is a realistic remote attack in this case.
Why does a heartbeat acknowledgement need a variable sized payload embedded in the reply? Can someone explain this in a way that is accessible to a programmer without much security experience.

Thanks!
I think you're right that the timing will be important. For example, by providing employees an incentive to stay through the holiday season and leave before the seasonal lows that follow it.
Well, he has good reason to be enraged. The bug is a horrendous one and on his operating system was due to the developers deliberately the operating system provided security protections.
Meanwhile his slightly buggy one liner failed in such a way that it did nothing, before being fixed 3 hours later.
The reason we tell people not to implement their own crypto is that no matter how skilled someone is, no matter what language they program in, it is nearly certain that self-rolled crypto code will have security flaws. Cryptographic security hinges on key, subtle assumptions that are very easy to screw up. World famous cryptographers do not roll their own crypto (except for research code).

When people do implement cryptography they rely on having large numbers of other people review it. That is not a model that scales to having a large number (more than a couple dozen) of competing implementations.
The tech scenes pitchfork mobs are wildly inconsistent.

THIS.
Smug Messenger invite algorithm 
We are giving real cash, bitcoin and Dogecoin for successful invites and don't want to pay for people that signup with email since 1 person can make > 50 email accounts. How can we tie 1 email to 1 person so we can reward invites for more than just phone number signups?

http://bit.ly/1n9UtB6
Bitcoin Falls Below $400
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_%28company%29
Reddit starts listing trending subreddits to drive users to smaller communities
if you add "max-width: 275px;" to #sidebar it solves the problem. you probably won't see the issue unless you have a wide screen
RISING FROM THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN, LOANTEK COMES OUT ON TOP.
Hey, can I have some of that nice coffee you're having? I live in Russia. I can send you some of Art. Lebedev's (don't know if it's any good, but they roast their own mix, so you can compare) I can PayPal you the money and you'll ship me the coffee. You can ship to my US-based P.O. box.

I run Ubuntu on my laptop and CentOS on KVM CentOS VM on a server.

Please drop me a line via email (in profile) or any other means (Facebook et el.) http://about.com/nleschov
That is theory but not practically correct. http://0xdata.com/blog/2013/08/tcp-is-not-reliable/

What is not necessary for a TCP heartbeat is a payload that would address out of order request/reply sequence (as would be necessary in UDP).
So you put USD on Starbucks gift cards, sell the code to be used for a drink and receive the money in BTC. You're amassing BTC from disparate sources but it seems you'd be paying a slight premium, however you wouldn't need to register with any exchange.

You do get a pre-loading bonus of bitcoins to play with and you can use those to generate profits - like 1000 people put $10 worth of BTC on the app, spend $5 on a coffee then you have $5000 in BTC to "play" with, eg to sell on.

This does all look pretty suspect.
Facebook does something which on its face seems trivial and unimportant, but due to scale, has some really amazing engineering and infrastructure challenges

Is this really true? Seems to me that these challenges are completely due to collecting a whole bunch of information that people would rather they didn't, and routinely rebuke them for. It's like working on drone targeting problems that are made more difficult because children move more unpredictably (or more quickly, etc.) than adults. "Yeah, but the math is insane!"

You may dislike my analogy, but it only appears "trivial and unimportant" because it's the most mundane aspect of a larger unsavory project.
First experiment of its kind I've seen without an overwhelmingly negative response from the Reddit community [1]

Well done. Now, how close are they from targeted ads?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/trendingsubreddits/comments/22pwe7/t...
The current version of Android also uses it.
On a side note... neat skin... what is that?