skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing. If this service is implemented properly, you want users to game the system for profit. It'd have to be so airtight that the only way to "game" the system would be to go out and try to think of something intelligent to contribute. Another commenter discussed the possibility of astroturfing -- The astroturfing would have to be so well concealed that it'd be content users would actually like. So, it's still corporate-supported advertising, but it's smart corporate-supported advertising. Which is still awesome. Reminds me of this : https://xkcd.com/810/.

What you said about a system of experts and trained users determining whether your comment is worth exposing to the public ... eh. It sounds like it'd take a shit-ton of time and debating, especially as the service expands to handle a lot of content.

Also, isn't that just modern journalism? As a journalist, you apply to write an article for, or get a job at writing articles for, a well-established high-quality media company like the NY times or the New Yorker. A system of trained experts review your application and approve or deny it accordingly. Then you write articles and they get shown to the public after you've been approved.

I'm not saying it's a bad process, I'm saying it already exists. The problem is, it's slow and it takes a shit ton of time to determine who's a great writer and who gets limited participation and who doesn't. And when you allow the process to get faster, you have to give up the expert-authority, and well, you get something like Reddit.

This service would have to find a way to keep submissions and distribution extremely fast, like Reddit, but also keep the quality of discourse high, like NY Times.

The proposed solution is : money. People who submit stupid cat pictures to Reddit aren't dumb themselves, they've just been exposed to a forum for discourse that allows dumb content. Meaning, if you asked them : "Do you really think that cat picture is going to allow for quality discourse?", they'd definitely say "No."

So I'm willing to trust ilovekatpictures1998 on his judgment of discourse, if not his ability to create such discourse. So if we can trust the users to have good judgment, all we have to do is create a system that forces them to use their judgment, which Reddit doesn't do. And telling them to put their money where their mouth is by making them pay is the best way to force them to use their judgment.

The only reason it wouldn't get as big as Reddit is, people don't want to put their money where their mouth is. Well, most people. But then again, there are a lot of niches ...
Great analogy, this can't be said enough.

Although there has to be a distinction made between using the latest technology and how you choose to architect and design a product with that technology.

I've seen super complicated web architectures with something as widely used as PHP. So it's not so much about what tools you use but rather how you use them. Choose the right tool for the job while keeping the business constraints in mind.
The Heartbleed Aftermath: all CloudFlare certificates revoked and reissued
Is this /r/wtf?
I wonder how much knowledge is lost because the research isn't "popular". What is the opportunity cost of so many researchers doing string theory research, not necessarily because they believe they'll find a breakthrough (obviously, this doesn't describe most), but because they won't be able to get published or find a research position if they aren't doing the "in" thing.

This doesn't just apply to physics, but the history of physics makes it easy to find case studies in this.
Don't almost all web servers/browsers use SNI now? I don't see why you'd need multiple IPs for running multiple SSL sites nowadays. I have done multiple SSL sites on one IP for years.
In short: more people die of cancer and heart disease now that communicable diseases are more under control in first world countries. The AIDS death epidemic was the rare exception.

Graphs like this are misleading and it's often difficult to collect all the raw data to do the datacube aggregations across multiple dimensions to visualize the data and understand these sorts of details.
Nice - voice will be everywhere soon! Here' a way to load Dropbox files by voice: http://bit.ly/1maggeP
I agree that the philosophies seem to match up, but I believe most practical people try to look for machine guarantees from somewhere to contain the complexity.

Someone who is comfortable with strong guarantees in the database may be more willing to use a dynamically-typed language for the application, and (less commonly) vice-versa.
Graphene speakers can already outperform regular ones
Meet the Bees: Félix Belzunce by Hannah Inman, CloudBees
At CloudBees, we have a lot of seriously talented developers. They work hard behind the scenes to keep the CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) and our on-premise Jenkins solutions up-to-date with all the latest and greatest technologies, gizmos and overall stuff that makes it easy for you to develop amazing software.
Félix’s main role at CloudBees is to improve the user experience on the CloudBees platform.
It's not a weakness. If the condition triggers, nothing bad really happens.

The justification given in the patch is that the private key might be given to a pluggable random number generator, which may presumably be controlled by an attacker or otherwise leak the key somehow. In that case, this bit of code is the least of your problems, since every other entropy is also being equally leaked.
The astroturfing would have to be so well concealing that it'd be content users would actually like. So, it's still corporate-supported advertising, but it's smart corporate-supported advertising.

Reminds me of this : https://xkcd.com/810/.
I wish Linode (or anyone else other than Amazon) provides a reasonable Plan[1] with GPUs on them.

[1]: Amazon charges $2 an hour thats about $1500 a month.
RunKeeper Breeze tracks fitness with context using iPhone 5s’ M7
Seeing Steve Blank today reminded me this hotspot in Palo Alto
Marissa Mayer is about to face her toughest test as Yahoo’s CEO
Here is the patch:

http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/e5136d69ece4682e6167c8f4a...
I don't know about cash for clunkers but america's car fleet turnover is 14 years. So from the invention of a new safety measure, to its broad introduction across all new cars, to cars with the feature being predominant, is ~20 years.
Is Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' the End of Startup Mania?
Not with the tiny amounts of memory offered at that price. 2GB is very easy to burn through in short order. Anything less than 8 feels really claustrophobic.

I've always needed memory more than disk. Really wish I could pay some of these providers just for a one off increase of a few extra gigs of memory without tiering up which includes an entirely higher level of storage that I will not ever use.
For all you SoundCloud and 8tracks users, here's a way to load tracks by voice: http://bit.ly/1l8r5yf
In the source article in the New England Journal of Medicine[1] to this summary article there this statement, "After 25 years of follow-up, it found that 106 of 484 screen-detected cancers (21.9%) were overdiagnosed." I don't understand how the recommendation ends up being, "don't bother with mammography," instead of something like, the protocol after a mammography returns a result needs to be adjusted. Prostate cancer seems to get into the exact same bind.

Blinding yourself to additional information because we don't know how to act correctly on the information seems like a non-solution. I know the flip-side argument might be that the test isn't uncovering relevant information. As long as what the test is detecting can be further filtered, why isn't that filtering the focus? e.g. why wouldn't there be some sort of protocol step of longer wait-and-see intervals with added monitoring to see if it would cut out the overdiagnosis after an initial detection event.

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1401875#t=article
Wait, so the patch just IGNORES the case where the CSPRNG isn't initialized?
I liked this article, but, to use journalist lingo, he "buries the lede" a little.

"It’s also tough because since breaking the news to our current set of 3 customers, I’ve received very positive feedback..."

A grand total of three customers. This isn't like Google Wave going away. Or, then again, maybe it is. After all, he had three more customers than they did.
That is the code that was removed. It was removed entirely. No error handling was added to replace it. I would hope it will error or pause elsewhere if there is not enough random data though.
I would be shocked if they weren't involved in outing Silk Road, in some sort of multiagency effort. It's not clear NSA couldn't de-anonymize specific TOR services if they wanted to even before we knew about Heartbleed though.
Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)
Wouldn't the fourth theory only make sense if companies routinely hired executives internally? In the old model of "assembly-line worker eventually works his way up to Ford CEO" I could see high compensation at the top being used as a kind of carrot to keep people motivated about climbing the internal career ladder, instead of jumping elsewhere. But afaict most companies nowadays don't hire execs from internal candidates. The COO in question here, for example, was not a Yahoo employee prior to being brought in as COO (he was hired away from Google, not promoted from within Yahoo).
Q is an even more complete framework and is way way faster due to its architecture: http://github.com/EGreg/Q

But not released yet, no vibrant community, it is like sensio's internal framework before symfony was released.
That's bad. The condition should remain, but the RAND_ call should be replaced with an abort(). I doubt crappy randomness is much of an issue for RSA blinding, but it's a dealbreaker for other crypto operations.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: The Good, the Bad and the Awesome
This is a real shame. Python 3.4 and bundled pip support was high on my list of reasons of why I should upgrade to 14.04 sooner rather than later. I think I'll wait now until this is smoothed out.
Apparently moderate alcohol consumption only increases life expectancy for people who are generally unhealthy (by reducing risk of heart attack) http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alcohol-risks-vs-benefits/
I am involved in an ongoing discussion at work. The guys implementing the project want to go with a NoSQL / Angular / Node solution. I see a relational database as being a better fit.

"Its so fast, even running on my laptop"
"you only have 3Gb of data just now"
"Its so quick to develop, just plug Angular straight into elsaticsearch, no schema,..."

The thing is, I just see lots of problems stored up for the future. Sure you have to define a schema up front if you go for a relational database, but changing it isn't such a big deal, not until you are in production with live data. Sure you might save time up front, but you are essentially cutting corners to achieve this, and storing work for the future.
This starts in 1999, and I remember (but don't miss) the good old days circa 95 and 96...when gaming a search engine was all about cramming as many keywords as possible at the bottom of the document, and going berzerk on your meta description tag.
This implies that atoms behave like little billiard balls, but nearly a century of quantum physics has shown us very clearly that belief is false. Unless you are looking at it, atoms exist as their wave function (and recent experiments have shown that a collapse won't occur while you are watching so e.g. a radioactive isotope will not decay while being observed), so any description of behavior needs to use their wave function to describe it.
Ugh, the comments on that article are terrible. Of course it's entirely possible the comments on every major news article everywhere are terrible.
Free to learn bootcamp
The article and comments are intense. The most likely scenario is that this 19 year old tested the Heartbleed vulnerability on the CRA and obtained SSN throught the exploit. I doubt the intention was to "steal" them or use them for criminal motive.
Native geo hashing support for Redis
Linguistic Fingerprints May Have Identified the Real Bitcoin Creator
How are [0] and [1] non-issues? I like my libraries "SOLID" and "Clean" (look em up). I have worked with Marionette's source, and it's neither.

Point [2] means, to use a different renderer you need to replace Marionette's internal renderer completely like it's a global (globals are bad).
A mathematician sees a frog by the side of the road. He stops and the frog says, "Kiss me and i will turn into a beautiful princess and fall in love with you." The mathematician puts the frog in his pocket. The frog asks "Why don't you kiss me?" Replies the mathematician, "I don't have any use for a princess. But a talking frog, that's cool..."
Just ran this on my 1GB droplet at Digital Ocean:

$ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.83509 s, 184 MB/s
It doesn't seem that shocking to me. It seems fairly logical.

And I've never seen a study posted to /r/wtf.
"If I place an epidural in Medicaid pt, I get paid something like $36 for the placement, and I don't get a penny for watching this pt for next 18 hours."

Wuh? I'm not a physician. But I do work for an ambulance service. And my day job has involved working with insurance reimbursement algorithms for Hospital and Insurance Administrators.

But "$36 for epidural and not a penny for the next 18 hours?"

You might want to look into that. Medicaid allows a Maximum Fee of $1.16/minute for an anesthesiologist's time.

"Essentially, hospitals will be reimbursed at $669.90 for the epidural procedure performed in the hospital setting; whereas, in office setting, after removing the portion designated for the physician professional fee, office practice expense will be reimbursed at $30.28 to $34.36 a whopping 2,315% to 2,668% with SGR cut and 1931% to 2312% without SGR cut more in the hospital setting."

Yes, epidurals are cut - but under what circumstances are you monitoring a patient bedside for 18 hours in a non-hospital setting?

And for every one of these examples, there's a flip-side:

Wisdom teeth under general anesthesia.

"Hi, I'm Mr X and I'll be your anesthesiologist today. How you doing? Now, to confirm, no allergies, right? And it says you weigh 180lb? Great, see you in theater!"

Bill:

"Pre-operative anesthesiologist consultation: $662"

For about 90 seconds. Now, I know the principles of anesthesia, though I'd never claim my knowledge was within orders of magnitude of that of a specialist, but I routinely perform RSI for ET intubation, and I know all about "the charge isn't for the time, it's the knowledge", but nonetheless.
I'd be looking forward to that.
I love how New York Times has the coolest devs. Anyone here who works there? What's it like?
I actually think that this is slightly less detailed than the Bing Maps Preview, where I could see my friend's car parked in front of his research institute - I'm impressed that it's running in a browser though.

http://www.bing.com/dev/en-us/maps-preview-app
Plane Speaking and Other Twitter Growing Pains
And here's a run I did on a shared host at A Small Orange for fun:

1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 62.9023 s, 17.1 MB/s
> Say I have hot coffee and lukewarm coffee. The lukewarm coffee will equilibrate faster.

It won't (all else being equal). :) Because of Newton's law of cooling, hot coffee will cool down faster (precisely, the rate of change of temperature of a solid body is proportional to the difference in temperature between the body and the environment).
Making an animated radial menu with CSS3 and JavaScript
Google Fiber picks KC to test business service
I'm sorry that you don't see much fault with it. I've tried my best to explain.
I would point out the recent fun little study showing that the class we are (those who work for a salary) have less say in policy outcomes than the rich (those who do not require a salary).

They bill it as "The US is more of an oligarchy than democracy" because those very few >0.1% of Americans have a greater political say than the rest of us.
openbsd is switching openssl to be entirely reliant on its system CSPRNG (/dev/random and/or arc4random (which amusingly enough now uses chacha20 not rc4), which as you frequently recommend, cannot block and functions relying on it cannot fail), all internal RNG functionality is beening ripped out.

There will be no CSPRNG to initalize.

API/ABI compat will be maintained by NOOPing the functionality.
Isn't that exactly what the paper this article references is stating a proof of: that the reforming is physically impossible?
For those jumping straight to the comments: It's an allergic reaction to semen of a nut eater, not Sexually Transmitted Allergies.
Some commits from OpenBSD's OpenSSL rampage
Could someone please provide the lazy with a link to how to remove all of the spyware if you're upgrading from the last LTS?
Title (of the article) likely to be misleading:

The allergic reaction is not itself sexually transmitted.
The brazil nut allergen is sexually transmitted (via semen) causing an allergic reaction in someone known to be allergic
In case you're playing the Acquisition Post Drinking Game:

"It’s been a long road and we feel that we have come a long way in solving this problem. We are elated to announce the next step in this journey"

"It’s been an immensely exciting journey and we are humbled by the support we received along the way."

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
I keep trying to read the 2014 item, but the page keeps refreshing to the 2011 item full-frame.

This on Firefox.

Seems to be OK on Chrome.

Is this a "requires Chrome" site, like Google+ Photos? I think such sites should show little logos, like back in the good old days of IE. /s
Leaked iPhone 6 Front Panel Photo Fits a 5.1-Inch 16:9 Display
RAND_status() can never return 0 in the new OpenBSD code. All of the OpenSSL PRNG has been removed, and arc4random_buf() is used instead.

This means that this particular piece of code could NEVER be hit because there is never a time that RAND_status() is going to return 0! i.e. This is unreachable code.

On top of that RAND_add() is a no-op that won't do anything, since there is no way to add "seed" to the PRNG ...

See this commit: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/58777eed1cff7c5b34cbc0262...
I wouldn't say "blame", because blame carries a whiff of malfeasance that just isn't there.

But "cause"? I do see a different cause, mainly because of scale. Dental Hygienists earn about as much as software developers in SF (about 106k vs 110k a year, according to use news best jobs). But do Dental Hygienists displace people to the same extent? Of course not. Dental practices, which draw most of their business from the local population, just can't create enough six figure DH jobs to displace the population they serve.

Tech, on the other hand, sells outside the region. Not sure what Facebook's SF-based revenue is as a percentage of total, but it's got to be minuscule compared to a dental practice.

Tech workers may not earn much more (median) than nurses or DH's, but they can exist in vastly, vastly larger numbers in a particular region. This can cause large scale displacement that other low six figure jobs can't cause.
Sparse is fine if they are more-or-less randomly distributed.
Take me, for example. ;-)
Not a scientific benchmark, but I have a linode that has 8 cores before and after that just finished its upgrade. Previously it was consistently using just under 5/8 CPUs and is now using a ~2/8 CPUs with the same in/out traffic.
This was covered on qi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ktn7YXoJQ
Not surprising at all. It seems like when we hear about a misconduct scandal in the military or intelligence apparatus the truth is often worse than initially thought. Abu Ghraib was worse than we thought, all of the dirty stuff the NSA is doing is worse than we thought, and now confirmation that the CIA's interrogation program was worse than initially thought.

I hope this wakes people up to gow big of a threat unaccountable intelligence agencies are. Even in the face of clear evidence that these guys deliberately deceived those who oversee them, I doubt anyone is going to be punished over this. If there are no repercussions, there's absolutely nothing to stop even more egregious abuses of power in the future (or potentially happening even now).

Then there's the fact that the CIA penetrated Congressional staffer computers to try to find some of the evidence against them.
What If Google Is Actually *Weak* In Search?
What makes us Happy?
Exclusive: Dropbox acquires SF-based photo startup Loom
So totally how much of space are we gonna get now ?
I wish more abandoned projects were open-sourced instead of merely shut down.

Like Google Wave, which became Apache Wave after Google lost interest in the product...
You can run a mostly static site on 64.
Know any labs in the US that are looking for help and would hire an MS? I'm really excited about HLI but their openings filled quickly!
I agree. Devops is just management speak for doing two jobs on one salary. Plus they find it hard to convince ops guys to wake up every night responding to alarms so calling everyone devops they can spread that pain among more people.
The commonly cited studies supporting the 'substitution' hypothesis are based on data right up to the point when Australia's rate began to decline and tend to be short on demographic analysis. The correlation was found at a time of increasing male suicides where most of the increase was by hanging.

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin23/bulletin23-3...

Note also that the substitution hypothesis is not consistent with the overall decline in female suicides during the same period.

This more recent Harvard study indicates that reducing the lethality of suicide means correlates with a decline in deaths. Interestingly, it postulates that the age demographic which saw an increase in hanging deaths was the same younger population more likely to be familiar with sexual asphyxia and thus the mechanics of hanging while older males did not see a significant decline in firearm suicides.

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10579072/3434145....
If the call to BN_BLINDING_create_param() after that code fails, it will throw an error immediately after. I haven't checked the code for that function, but it probably returns error when it tries to use the CSPRNG.
Here is a list with five other companies:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-cloud-computing-services.ht...
How I Clawed My Way to the #1 Spot in the US App Store
Dear Devs, Time to Hug Your QEs and DevOps
And Putin says no, of course not, that would be strictly illegal and would be unsupported by our society.

Which is, of course, B.S., at least insofar as it's possible to trust government in general with this kind of thing. Remember just a year ago when people were saying we couldn't compare what NSA does to what FSB does, because they're Russia and obviously would spy on their own people?

But the question wouldn't have come up (it appeared on live TV but was pre-recorded) if the answer Putin was going to give wasn't already teed up.... what is Snowden trying to play here with the softball? Surely he can't be meaning to be the fiddle for Putin to play (a similar Reuters article claims Snowden is trying to press on surveillance in other countries, but that makes zero sense whatsoever, pushing too hard on that could only get his asylum revoked...).