skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious how you see Chapp compared to Reddit. Is Chapp meant for real-time discussions as opposed to the more message-board pace of Reddit? Is it aiming to solve a different problem? For example, you mention discussing Game of Thrones or the Stanley Cup playoffs. What advantage would Chapp have over following the discussions on r/GameOfThrones or r/NHL?
Garbage in, garbage out.

I don't trust that site's analysis, and I don't trust them to accurately report the underlying data without cherry-picking or selecting dubious studies.

Given your comment history, you seem like somebody with an ideological axe to grind on the subject of racial and gender diversity, and I don't believe you selected this article from such an obscure source solely for its topicality.
Most people don't know the difference. I ran a relay from my home for a while until I started getting blocked from video streaming sites and the websites of things like the Olympics.
>Why does her supportive mother suddenly undermine her at such a critical juncture?

I had the same reaction as you. Assuming that the mother has the best intentions for Vanessa, and that she know less of the ways of UT than Vanessa (and probably you or I), I'd hazard at the following meanings:

Maybe you just weren’t meant to be there = You have not failed (at something you were supposed to succeed). The failure was in walking down a path that does not lead to the (pre-ordained) future.

Maybe we should have sent you to a junior college first = It was my mistake to lead you down that path.

No matter how you spin it, it's not what Vanessa needed to hear. But putting your self in the shoes of someone who is trying to comfort their child, and who knows little of the university system, it seems like a natural enough reaction.
Survivorship in the Digital Age (2013)
It IS a form of nationalistic protection. That is the whole point.
The most important part of the article:

> It is one thing to decode a “start” and “stop” signal from scalp electrodes. It is quite another to tease out the subtle neural signals that encode the 17 degrees of freedom necessary for the exoskeleton’s full range of motion.

The Nicolelis group has a long history of performing stunts that have little scientific substance, such as sending their control signal over the internet. If they can make an exoskeleton work for real that is fantastic, but be skeptical.
fwiw, my results were very wrong
Where have you gone, Peter Norton?
Why learn basic addition when you can learn calculus?
Uploaded all of the images in the highest quality to imgur: http://imgur.com/a/zlGL8

Also added descriptions that I found in http://www.nzaht.org//content/plugins/gallery6/xml/gallery_2...
Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
StackOverflow also provides job-finding/head-hunting services, and yes, they could probably successfully argue that they have ownership of "the Stack name" with regards to the space of job placement, given they've exercised that name into many variants of Stack*.
That's what I was thinking too. Here's a prettified list of the sites used: https://gist.github.com/amjd/acc5e108bfb2f29f050c
Is anyone enrolling in this that has a friend spot they're not using? I don't have $100 :(
From Parallel to Concurrent [video]
Pretty inaccurate for me. It game minimum value to books and writing, and i love them both. I just dont open enough links about them (i read the books! Not their sites!)
In the case of the JS solution, it runs horribly and is highly inefficient.[0]

For non-hot code, it is perfectly fine, but in this case, inside of a main loop like this it is a waste of cpu cyles. Compare the amount of forests here:

$ node orig-magicForest.js 117 155 106
total forests: 1522899
{ goats: 0, wolves: 0, lions: 223 }
total time: 816ms

$ node new-magicForest.js 117 155 106
total forests: 428
{ goats: 0, wolves: 0, lions: 223 }
total time: 6ms

[0] https://gist.github.com/chapel/1c038b2bf64b3037aaea
OpenSSL Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack and Several Other Bugs
Highest res images I could put together: http://imgur.com/a/zlGL8
This can be done without any user interaction (and most likely has done to you without you knowing it). Check this link for 101: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1584850/is-it-possible-t...
The worst one--which to be fair, is specifically warned against on the site--is that you can't really use local variables.

The technique is useful to a point. I used a similar technique for a project and the inability to use locals threw off new hires (who usually created a bug before understanding why).

The bigger problem than educating new users though was that as the number of threads scales up (or grows in hierarchy) you burn more and more CPU time stacking/unstacking your calls just to get to the check that "whoops, this thread should still have been blocked." Between that and implementing preemption, at some point you just have to buckle down and pay for stacks.
In case you've missed Apple WWDC 14, here's the management summary
Hahaha. I was giving it the benefit of the doubt before viewing source, and so I was wondering what happens when I push gray instead of red. :P That is probably why I got some weird interests in my results.
Lyft vs. Uber, Coke vs. Pepsi: Visual Content is Ammo of Choice in Brand Wars
"The M.L.A. report estimates that only sixty per cent of newly-minted Ph.D.s will find tenure-track jobs after graduation"

It's even worse for sciences.

But I think there are some insights in common; worth a read.
First? What, the Star Chamber never existed?
And that comparison would be valid for what? Are you suggesting Mobile games are more sophisticated ?
OTOH, in the sciences, there's probably a greater likelihood that newly-minted Ph.D.s aren't wanting tenure-track jobs. There's not a lot of work specifically for English Ph.D.s in industry...
I've noticed that too mainly because I see lot's of stargazers for https://github.com/fatih/vim-go to be Chinese people.
Note that is from 5 years ago. Modern browsers have put up defenses. Others have linked to sources throughout the thread/
As I understand it, phishing is when you obtain sensitive information from a user while impersonating a site the user trusts. I don't suppose there's any exchange of sensitive information taking place here (nor is it possible if I am not mistaken, unless the website creator has any bad intent).
Not necessarily. What if the un-visited box was set to display:none? That would leave you with just the visited boxes showing.

Now make it even less obvious: create a false box with the proper :visited color. That's your bottom layer, your fallthrough if the user hasn't visited any of them. Now position all of the :visited boxes as exactly the same size and position over that bottom layer. Now, when the user clicks the button to continue, they're guaranteed to click either your fallthrough ("user has none of my sites") or one of those you are monitoring for.

The end result of all this is a page that says "Click the box to continue."
It would be interesting how LuaJIT, PyPy and HHVM (PHP JIT) score against JS v8 and Java 8 on that test environment.

Also, the clang C++ compiler is (a lot) slower than gnu C++ compiler. (we had a benchmark on HN that showed that clang C++ is 5% slower and asm.js is 10% slower than gnu gpp) The comparision should be executed on Linux or Windows as OS X is known for shipping with older versions of Unix tools/applications.
> But inertia is hard to fight. How do you convince a multi-billion-dollar industry to change practices that prioritize short-term profit over long-term morale

How does it compare to smaller studios, for example those which use crowdfunding (inXile, Larian etc.), or even bigger ones but self sustained, not relying on external publishers such as CD Projekt Red for example? Are their practices better than those of the big and nasty companies like EA and Co.?
> Ironically isn't streaming-only perhaps a violation of net neutrality?

No, not at all.
Yes, my linode servers got hacked and were part of a DDoS attack so I took them offline. I need to boot up a new server and soon (-:
It's a shame I had only 4 red blocks. I should diversify :)

Fun experiment !
Big data vs. small data
Has LogMeIn's Database Been Compromised?
CoFoundersDating
Layoffs aren't a problem. There will be a new generation of young freshman whom greatest desire is to be a video game developer. The non unionized guys will work 140 hours a week. Have a great salary for someone so young. And get their layoff when they get older and can't stand more this.
It's a neat little hack to predict your interests among various categories.

The hundreds of grey boxes that you see are actually links to sites belonging to different categories like programming, science etc. and the red ones are those that you have visited (based on your browser history). The basic idea here is of using the CSS selector a:visited to highlight visited links in red, and by clicking the red boxes the users themselves reveal the sites they have visited. The website then uses this information to draw a pretty pie chart showing which categories the user is interested in.
Are there unions in game dev? In my country, IT professionals are very hostile to unions, but then our labour laws are less imbalanced between employer and employee (IMO) than America's.
Please state with what you dont agree with in the article instead of crying out propaganda words like islamophobia.
Are there factual errors in it?
If the good developer has good management and business skills then yes they can.
Midnight Commander lives on :)

For those unfamiliar, it's a remake of the Norton Commander for Linux / Unix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
Game developers does not have great salary for someone young, they still could get more elsewhere. You take pay cut to develop games.
> Reëducation

While this is completely unrelated to the subject matter, I admire the New Yorker's insistence on keeping the diaeresis alive.
That number is entirely false by the way. They divide the total number of open positions by number of new students for that year only. The denominator, of course, should include everyone looking for a tenure-track job: The entirety of post-grad pool for a few years, part-time faculty in adjunct / teaching jobs, foreign grad students delaying graduation (thus can stay in the country) due to lack of jobs, etc.
Think about the different use cases for logs. I've spent an insane number of hours thinking about it, unfortunately. Live data is useful for graphing or alerting on things. Prehistoric data which is made to be searchable is useful for troubleshooting, or doing forensics work. These use cases require widely varying types of technology to make them scalable, reliable and useful, where 'useful' is defined as saving me time and money.

I LOVE the idea of turning the idea of logging on it's head!
Very nice talk. I too sometimes get confused in what true concurrency means. Also, I think people are not looking at this because of the "msdn" :P
I think it's a bad idea for a restaurant. Auctions generally involve "winner's curse" where the top bidder almost always overpays vs. fair value. Restaurants want to give customers a good experience to keep them coming back. Feeling like a sucker leads to buyer's remorse. Getting a "difficult" reservation feels like a prize.

Sure Next tickets may be underpriced at times. I imagine the Trio menu will be a very hot ticket when it first comes out, but pricing so customers get a good value for the duration of the menu is a better long-term play. The guy who scores "underpriced" tickets will feel great about the experience, brag to his friends, and likely return.

Are people who paid $800 for a PS4 happy about their decision today?
A Vincent van Gogh image stylizer
From a sample size of one: there exists a very famous developer-CEO: Bill Gates
The Curt Schilling story has always fascinated me (the video game part, not the baseball one).

I live in Ontario and like a lot of other place, Ontario gives pretty large tax incentives to video game companies. I've interacted a bit with some small video game companies here who basically seem to only exist because of the various tax incentives (both federal and provincial). I've pretty much decided these aren't a good idea, but politicians think video games are cool.
This post seems to focus heavily on using map/filter type commands, and Golang does not have functional programming features like this. The Go way of solving this problem would not look like the other solutions here.
I know a professor who worked on HotSpot Java VM in early 2000s. He is a smart man, but he always makes these false claims how Java will be as fast as C++ the next years. He was the boss of a local Oracle Labs company, though he left that company recently and is now an C# advocate and make similar claims in favor of MS.

Such persons are quite annoying as they try to influence a lot of students.
Spoken like a person who has never so much as sniffed what the world is like in "AAA Game Development".

Imagine what a product like Facebook or Mac OS would look like, if after every major release, 2/3rds or the entire team were laid off, and a fresh batch of bright eager young talent was put in the chairs at a cheaper wage than the last crop, unaware of the doom riding on the horizon.

Do you know why every EA franchise seems to tank over time, until it's eventually killed? Because the people who made it originally are gone, replaced by a bunch of guys who are told "Make it work like the last one, but the market says it needs to be more action-y, so do that too." The people on the new team weren't there the first time around, and so they wind up making a faded copy of a game trying to imitate the predecessor. Eventually the game loses all of the heart, passion, and competency that made it a great game in the first place.

In the software world, we know the benefit of building a strong team. People learn to work with each other, and people learn to work with the product, knowing it inside and out. They're able to make the product the best it can be. That doesn't seem to matter in the world of games to publishers. They see the people who build the games as disposable fodder, because as you say there will always be a new generation whose greatest desire is to be a game developer.

Sure. Publishers don't see layoffs as a problem. It's become part of their business model by now. But from where I sit, you can only disenfranchise so many people, until you've killed your golden goose who makes building the product for you possible in the first place.

And this is directly why we've seen the rise of indie games. Every time they piss one of us off, we slowly start to realize we don't need them anymore.

-- A laid of game developer, with a foreclosed home.
> I think the idea is that you don't have access to the other timeline, because none of the characters should. All that's left of the dark timeline is in Wolverines's head, which is accounted for!

The Professor was in Wolverine's head back in the day and might have learned a few things that needed to to be done.
This cannot be overstated. You really do get the shaft to live out your dream.

The only people making the real money are the ones deciding who gets laid off.
Last I tried, you can't use it for anything with a serial number - including the AppleTV units that are sitting out on the shelf.

But yes, I know the feeling.
If Your Startup Fails In Australia The Landing Is Much Harder
I have not encountered any.

With all of the Hollywood Accounting that goes on at the publisher level to ensure a development team gets fucked out of as many royalties as possible, there is a lot the games industry could learn from the Unionization of Hollywood.
You can get at most of the data via Socrata's API, it's just not necessarily clear how. This new documentation from Socrata helps, though: http://dev.socrata.com/
Reminds me of learning to code on an early IBM-PC. I coded because I wanted it to do something different. Now 'different' is learning how to install a bazillion libraries and dependencies and hoping I can change that one config file just right to get it to do what I want.
There is Ruby China
https://ruby-china.org/
The licensee says it was "very amicable" in his tweet on the matter, cited elsewhere in this discussion.
Display Number Of Occurrences For Every Character In An Input String
The landing page is pretty, but can't try without signup, walking away...
He did a similar talk in 2012 titled 'Concurrency is not Parallelism'

Link: http://vimeo.com/49718712
Framework agnostic, zero-downtime JavaScript app deployment
No, I was suggesting that it might be better to learn one thing before learning another.
Demo account: demo@example.com / Pass: torchpad
I remember when I first herd about him and his company. As an Australian I didn't know who Curt Schilling was so in my mind it was a guy who got a lot of tax benefits and money to build an MMO.
I'm not sure parents are supposed to be encouraging no matter what. You are not supposed to encourage kids to waste years and get into debt if the kid can not finish.

That being said, neither mother probably can evaluate Vanessas chances correctly, one failed course is not a catastrophe. Her high school apparently suxed: "she never had to study for math tests; she aced them all without really trying." - that could not be good school. Learning how to study for math at 18 is hard if you never had to do it before. She really might need more structured support at this point.
Sorry, we are developing the demo editor.

But you can see the example wiki site here:

http://markdown.torchpad.com/
Check out Groovy's popularity on bintray maven in China. Visit https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics then click country.

700,000 downloads in the last month, with 646,000 of them from China and only 21,000 from the US and 3000 from Germany, the 3 largest downloading countries.

Of course the point I'm making is web-based queries aren't enough to ascertain a programming language's adoption.
A lot of people at that age are working in a call center for like $300/week. Game development pays really poorly by tech standards and is grueling work, but it can sound like a lot of money when you're 21.
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wow, thank you so much :)
You mean like this: http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
> Also I've gotta laugh at "lions den".

And are you going to laugh all the way over to r/programming? There is some criticism on HN. Where there are no holds barred it's really brutal. I don't blame you as a Go developer for avoiding those forums.

> incorrect statements about the development timeline of go (dsymonds corrected you there).

Go authors retconned their decision making process in talks, lists, and on the web, which in terms of feeling defensive about it now is the same thing.
Script to Download all WWDC 2014 Videos and Slides
I think you might have misunderstood neves' post. You seem to largely agree with it.
Risk reward ratio is entirely different when you are poor and when you are rich. If you are from super rich family, failure to finish university is no big deal. If you are poor, had to take ton of debt, failure to finish makes your life sux for years to come.
Wow, CPU centuries, petabytes
This sounds like like one of the few problems that can really be solved by unionizing workers and moving to long term work contracts... but good luck selling this "socialist" mentality to game developers :)
She is really not all that smart, nursing is something you would learn at a vocational school in other countries and I can't imagine the statistics they had to learn in the first year were harder than what you usually would learn in an advanced high school class. Being smart would mean that you are able to absorb new material quickly, which she obviously failed to do.
i loved pbwiki until it became pbworks. man that was great. now pbworks is like a $1500 minimum commitment...

i understand that they had to pivot, but bleh.. i hate confluence, the most credible alternative.

can't use you guys because

1) no data export

2) no pricing information (I don't want a "free" product, I want to pay.)

3) no privacy policy / terms

4) no social proof of credibility (this is probably more important than any of the above)
It is also about opinions on college utility. Do parents think college is a waste of time? If parents think it is waste of time, you are more likely to think the same and drop out.
Ask HN: What's a good source of quality RSS feeds?
I'd like to find high quality RSS feeds for a variety of topics, does anybody know of a good resource? I have been manually searching for them on Google, and there must be a better resource. Where are everybody getting their feeds from?

Thanks!
If the user has signed up explicitly for the purpose of receiving the newsletter, that's an opt-in and you're fine. if you want to use that list to send emails outside the scope of what the users initially signed up for, you're getting into grey area.
I'm curious, do they tend to submit pull requests and issues?
My personal interpretation is that a lot of this effect is driven by the fact that income (which I think we tend to think about as a proxy for standard of living, including quality of school system and safety of neighborhood, and not just what their family can buy) is often difficult to measure, and parental education might actually offer a much better measure of "standard of living" children experience (which is why it may show up as significant, while income may not, in those analyses).
I read somewhere that relative standing against your classmates is better predictor of success then SAT.
Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA
Re: logstash too heavy

That's what logstash-forwarder[1] (formerly lumberjack) is for. It's in Go, not Java.

[1] https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder
Yeah I sort of realised that as I said it. Hmm.
>I guess that sucks for those characters.

Wolverine's return to the new future essentially kills off the one that had been living in that timeline since 1973 and nobody cares.
Torchpad is based on Git, so it will support git clone in the future.

Torchpad is free, but for some advanced features (like custom domain) need to upgrade to premium member.

We are working on 3 and 4 now.

Thanks for your feedback!
Peter Norton was my hero way back in the late 80's to early 90's.

I remember the first time I used Unerase to recover a deleted file and was fascinated by it. Then I discovered DiskEdit and began poking around in the FAT system and found out more about how DOS actually deletes a file. It actually marks the first character with a ?. Thus started my hacking days.

Then I used DiskEdit to bypass copy protection hacking the byte codes.

DiskEdit rescued me again when I switch to DR-DOS, set passwords on my files and forgot the passwords (fwiw, it was just setting the next dozen or so bytes after the file name in the FAT to zero)

Such memomories, DiskEdit and SideKick were my two must have utilities in the days of DOS
Let's say society prospers when there's more stuff and withers when there's less stuff. The traditional way to measure the amount of "stuff" is by looking at GDP (on a societal level) or GDP per capita (on an individual level). None of this has any obvious effect on the population of the country, so they're the same thing.

I'll also make the assumption that your lifetime earnings are a multiple of your entry-level salary, just to have an anchor for the numbers. Equivalently, assume that whenever you get a raise, it's defined as a percentage of your current salary.

With that assumption and the GDP definition of value-to-society, we can immediately see that it's 50% better to, by intervention, raise someone's starting salary from $50K to $80K than to raise a different person's starting salary from $10K to $30K. But it might be cheaper and easier to produce a 60% improvement in the $50K guy than a 200% improvement in the $10K guy.
You do know that there lived people in northern America before the US was created and even before Islam or even Christianity existed?