skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Can you clarify the math on your compensation? For example, you're working 18-hour days, 6 days/week during at $30/hour in Step 2, yet this results in $17k income.
People wonder what happened to great nations of the past. When you have men(you'll understand my assumption,) whining about cosmetic products instead of plotting courses to the moon, there's your answer.

Oh but the two aren't mutually exclusive you say? I beg to differ.
Some HP Employees Were Busted For Attack Against Competitor
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As a hacker who codes all day and likes to understand how things work, I don't find this particularly enticing. I'm not particularly interested in paying for something when I don't even know what I'm going to get, how it works, what it's track record is, etc. Furthermore, you're going to have a tough time competing with all the stuff I can get for free or the much more well known things that I can pay for.
I hate Facebook status update anxiety. Some days I never leave my house.
Between 2009 and 2012 I had a 450 sqft 1 bed at 25th and K for $1550. nice building, laundry, bike room, courtyard, rooftop, etc.

They are out there, but I definitely got lucky.
Ehh this isnt really rocket science. If you take someone who is specifically focused on their own benefit over that of the company, and you have that person run your company... they are going to make choices that benefit them more than your company...

I wouldnt say CEOs arent worth it, but the incentives are completely perverse.
This is something we do intend to address since we hear it a lot. In the meantime if you click on the screenshots in the README it will take you to the corresponding pages.
ByteBuffer has methods for reading primitive values of all sizes -- ints, floats, etc. -- from arbitrary offsets within the buffer. So you just need a wrapper object with nice generated methods for each field which in turn call the ByteBuffer getters.

None that the C++ code works this way too. We don't cleverly generate a struct that just happens to have the right layout; we generate a class that wraps a pointer and provides inline accessors that read/write values from the correct offset relative to that pointer. After inlining, it's just as fast.
Oh, I didn't mean that I thought they were lousy before, but now my perception is overwhelmingly positive.
Very nice! What is the unit of the numbers? K hits?
Just like Snapchat's pictures were temporary?
I'm not sure what lesson one can draw that could be replicated. I guess, nothing succeeds like success?
jgrahamc, thanks for that. I'll look at changing the tagline.

HackerBody videos are 100% free. The TOS have stuff regarding refunds incase I launch some premium features down the road. I could see how that would be confusing. I'll work on adjusting that.

I'm requiring people to create accounts for some additional features I'm rolling out. Great point on having a demo workout that doesn't require some to login. I'll make that happen.
Or download your stupid fucking app in the first place.
Codepen makes it easy to write about code
It's not about nutrition, it's about taste and variety. I can put together a fridge full of zero-prep foods that's nutritionally sufficient, but I'll probably want to shoot myself after 2 weeks.

Also, one of the "things" about NYC is that going out to eat doesn't take much more time. Having food prepared for you is not an event, and you don't need to drive a few miles to get to a restaurant. From my apartment I can be ass-in-seat at 4-5 different eateries in the amount of time it'd take for you to start the car and pull out of the driveway. There's a reason so many of us complain about our small apartments but wouldn't trade them in for anything.

NYC has nearly perfected the craft of preparing food for you cheaply, quickly, and tastily. You can eat cuisines from the world over, a new one each day, without breaking the bank and without traveling more than 10 minutes from your home.

The sheer density of restaurants also helps quality. The are so many restaurants offering similar cuisines in any given area that they compete fiercely on price and quality. The result is that you can get an amazing quality of food at sub-suburban prices.

Even if you prepare your own food, in NYC the grocery is so close by you can buy in small volume and wide variety. You can practice an incredibly varied menu in your own kitchen because you don't have to buy in anything resembling bulk. You can buy just enough of some ingredient for one meal, and switch to something entirely different the next day, with little logistical impact. Swinging by the bakery for a fresh loaf of bread is a matter of course - you don't have to pull into a parking lot, park the car, or anything - it's just on your way from wherever you were going.

The "sell" for NYC food is a combination of variety, quality, and price.
Not updating a website people use regularly is not a bad thing - people are used to the UI, and changing shit only ruins the experience when people need to re-learn how to use the damn thing.

Also, it's not like MAL is "not updated", since it constantly has new content added - much of it user contributed, but those contributions get locked up behind a server, and we don't have access to it except through the website itself.

I don't suppose you would be offering the ability to query data, which will inevitably be user-contributed?
Out of curiosity, where in Michigan are you based?
As the article says, the Orange Box is not about specs or price. It's a cluster in a box to demo MaaS.
Currently, there are worker/client implementations in Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. New languages can be added in response to demand -- is there a language you'd be interested in using on the client-side in particular?

Also, because it uses JSON over websockets, it's fairly easy to implement a new worker/client that follows the Switchboard interface -- here's the Python implementation in 132 LOC: https://github.com/jtmoulia/switchboard-python/blob/master/s...
Like "HD" (1080) vs "HD Ready" (720) I think we've already lost that battle, and yet again it's "buyer beware" where people will get sold inferior goods as if they're the good stuff by having the same or similar terms for different quality. (Although in this case it's not as large a difference as HD vs HD ready was)
I think it's more indicative of the way applications are being used these days.

Create a gimmick -> gain incredible popularity -> try to monetize your product -> users switch to the next gimmick -> create a new gimmick.
Here are direct links to the pages from the readme:

User profile:
http://www.hummingbird.me/users/josh

Anime page:
http://www.hummingbird.me/anime/attack-on-titan
"At this level of sensitivity it would take the detector about 20 hours to determine whether radon was present at levels recommended as actionable by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with about 10 percent accuracy."

What does 10 percent accuracy mean? Doesn't that mean it's usually completely wrong?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/ looks like a great site, I can't wait to build some of these things!
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Return of the Soldier of Fortune (2013)
This kind of reasoning after-the-fact is easy.

If it was the opposite, it would also not really be rocket science: "Good CEO's have immense values for companies. So of course companies would pay a lot more for those CEOs that do a good job -- it is worth so much to the company."

You can't really make useful predictions with that kind of reasoning.
The best I remember is that a Danish bank (I think it was "Nordea" or "Danske Bank", but I'm not sure and my search-karma seems to have gone for the day) had a CEO who got a huge bonus for meeting his goals in making a profit back in 2009 or 2010.

The way he did that, though, was to fire 30% of the staff (and branches) and living off the profit from the hard work those 30% did the previous years - the next years they had bigger and bigger deficits, because they couldn't keep living off previous years loans.
Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS
IRS Loses E-mails from Six More Employees
I wouldn't try to minimize this issue - it's terrible that the Chinese are trying to fit spyware into unbranded phones like this. Perhaps the bright side here is that when the Chinese do try to commit electronic espionage, they're pretty clumsy about it.

BUT...

Given the way smartphones everywhere are made - China and elsewhere - it's impossible for even technical users to know that their phones aren't spying on them. While most of the software running on your smartphone's application processor is now open-source (if you're in the Android majority), the software running on the baseband processor is 100% closed source and secret. We don't know anything about the horrible agreements that have been made between shady government agencies and the baseband manufacturers like Qualcom.
This is really, really impressive. Cool range of sounds. Have you thought about attaching a user-friendly, knobby interface to the modules? I could see it as a really easy way for non-programming musicians to learn how to use this and other music generation systems like it.
As a diehard Mac user, I still wouldn't want a 24" retina monitor because it has a lot less space than a 34" superwide non-retina.
>>I actually lost an investment because the investor thought I should not pay myself at all while trying to build the business.

That is absurd, they don't deserve to be investors. You receive money in exchange for equity. The money is used to run the company and build value for the investors. Providing salary to everyone who is engaged in building value must be part of the equation. Otherwise if you think about it, in extreme case you will give away your entire company to build value for investors and you will get nothing in the end.
Surprisingly, these are not "random" six employees, but "six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups"
No, of course not. You're obviously just fine as you are.

That said, your atheist parents may have done a particularly good job teaching you common sense, empathy, and civility, or you may be naturally inclined towards common sense, empathy, and civility in a way that not every person is.

For those individuals who aren't inclined to common sense, empathy, or civility, and for those individuals with parents who aren't so good at teaching common sense, empathy, and civility, religious organizations can play a very useful role. The god-talk isn't the important part, it's belonging to a broader community that specializes in teaching moral lessons. The decline in religious institutions really doesn't affect smart well-off people with good parents, but it's been terrible for the rest of society, because no secular community has replaced it.

As an aside, the void that so many of these cults fill isn't an absence of moral precepts, it's that sense of community and belonging.
HackerBody workouts are 100% free. We require people to make an account because we're launching some really cool stuff soon that requires one.
On your registration form, you are sending passwords over plain http.

http://my.hackerbody.com/membership-account/membership-check...
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In Holland, MI (30 min from Grand Rapids).
This is a terribly flawed argument because we do not in fact accept "many potential vulnerabilities to SSL". On the contrary, we declare vulnerabilities in SSL that require gigabytes worth of observations for a single target to be "hair on fire" emergencies.

On the flip side, we accept staggeringly obvious flaws in the security model of "server-proof" Javascript crypto --- flaws like, "despite what the server operators claim, they can at any time steal secrets from their users --- flaws that have in the past been exploited by law enforcement. Not only we do accept them, but people like you get pissy when people like the "Ptacek fan club" on this thread point them out.
Technically Lebron personally makes over 10% of the revenue of the Miami Heat (in 2014, 188M) [3]. There are 68 Heat employees [2] not counting the other players, and definitely not counting the arena workers. During the 2011 lockout, after they signed Lebron, Wade and Bosh, the Heat cut staff salaries by 25%.[1] Of course, not everyone's salaries were cut... like the people with lucrative contracts.

The word 'Reasonable' means "appropriate, fair, moderate, of sound judgment, and sensible". To me, cutting people's salaries so they have to go find second or third jobs, and giving someone who isn't even working over 10% of the revenue of your company, is not reasonable.

By artificially inflating the salaries of players you create multiple problems.[4] Teams with wealthier owners can buy up all the best players and trounce all the other teams. Costs for the teams skyrocket, requiring that salaries then be cut to be able to pay the players more, and requiring more complex ways of making enough money to pay the players. It puts an unfair advantage on the players in terms of determining how the company deals with them. And it creates a disproportionate leverage that de-emphasizes the game, and focuses more on the pain threshold of the market that's paying them. It affects the entire national economy as cities are affected by the touring of the games, building of stadiums, etc.

I don't think anybody's salary should be directly proportionate to the amount of money they make for an employer. While it's one of the favorite tenets of people like Gordon Gekko, it doesn't make for a fair, sensible, or moderate decision, whether you're thinking about the fate of the company, the welfare of the majority of the employees who work for it, or the economy it serves.

[1] http://heatzone.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2011/10/04/as-lockout... [2] http://www.nba.com/heat/contact/directory_list.html [3] http://www.forbes.com/teams/miami-heat/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_cap
Is there actually a significant user base for them though?

I know Messenger was pretty much forced onto users, but other than that I don't know anyone who uses Paper, nor do I think any of my friends will start using Slingshot - especially when there are well established alternatives such as Snapchat.

I'm doubtful many of them have even heard of these new apps, and this is coming from someone relatively young (20 y/o).
Well, if prisons were busy handing out guns, shovels, and grappling hooks to every prisoner, even begging the prisoners to take them, and the prisoners just ignored them, then I think your analogy would fit.

I went to a public school in a poor neighborhood, and very well-meaning teachers were trying to give students the tools to break out of poverty. Except for the Asians (who do routinely break out), the kids of most cultural groups were more likely to laugh in the teachers' faces! It was pretty disgusting to watch, really.

In my experience, those who were smart, grabbed every break-out tool that was offered to them, and were lucky enough to stay in decent health throughout their youth, all managed to escape the poverty.

It's true that getting crippled or bedridden in your teens or 20s can make it harder to escape both from prison and from poverty, and that's totally out of your control, but there is plenty that you can actually do to improve your chances, and 99% of young people (that I've seen) did none of it.
If you or anyone else has any insights: why not airgap energy grid electronics? Companies should two networks, and never let them talk to each other, except perhaps under very controlled and secure conditions. It seems like that would alleviate huge chunks of the security concerns. Now obviously people with physical access could get around that, but if you have physical access, you mostly own computers anyway.
So here is a question :

What is the difference between a cult and an established religion ?

Is it the size of the following ?

Is it the time of origin, i.e. recent vs long ago ?

Is it the number of followers ?

Or is it some combination of the above, or something else altogether ?
Thanks! That's a good idea, I have it planned for a next milestone as it is not one of the immediate priorities.
Garry said "on its way to being", not "has become"
If AT&T used modern FTTP equipment instead of legacy FTTN equipment, there wouldn't be so many ugly, expensive, unreliable and vandalism-prone cabinets.

Don't get fooled by the phone company, FTTP is the least cost solution in the long term in EVERY situation.

Also this is only a problem in a few big cites; if you go to any normal community in any of the flyover states, Democrat or Republican, they want good broadband so bad they will bend over backwards to get it.
So Switchboard will basically take the IMAP pain away so I can focus on the business logic? Great!

I'll play with it .. hope you won't mind if I contact you in a week or so in case I have questions or maybe even to give you feedback/demo of what I've come up with in the meantime..
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What makes a fitness program hacker friendly? That's basically reinforcing some stereotype that all coders belong to this fraternity of brothers. We don't. We are professionally programmers, but once I step outside of my job I am no longer a programmer. Fitness shouldn't be targeted at a specific profession, instead it should be targeted at people who work in similar conditions. Office jobs vs programmers, which makes more sense to target? There's way more people working office jobs with health issues from sitting, but the converse isn't necessarily true about programmers. A programmer might not work in an office, they might work at some hip startup with exercise equipment everywhere. My employer has it's own gym with personal trainers, but I doubt most small non-engineering offices do. You're going to hurt the bottom line by using a "hacker" tagline to sell this service.
agree, this device looks like it can detect any alpha radioactivity regardless of what is emitting it.

edit: re-reading I found this "In order to make it more sensitive, I added an electrostatic concentrator to capture one of radon’s alpha-particle-emitting daughter products"
I already watched that video the other day! Didn't quite get to the end of it but I thought the general idea was interesting.

My use case is a little different, and one that OT seems to suit.

I have multiple users working on the same documents but they don't want/need to see each other's changes straight away. They perform a number of operations and then eventually save. When they save I'd like to propagate that that history to the other user(s) that haven't saved yet. It feels like OT works there - you have two threads of history and you need to rebase the uncommitted one on top of committed one.

Maybe I'm coming at the problem wrong, but it feels like something that could work quite well as a pattern in general.
The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
Amazon launches SSD in response to Google?
We can do better, how about having marketing be based on

a) Number of pixels in scientific notation

b) Alternatively log base 10 of number of pixels
The test is still relevant: most people (especially those with smaller TV's) sit closer than 9ft away, in my experience.
Sharing photos and videos is an activity that brings meaning to billions of lives, and it's not unreasonable to try to improve upon it.

Facebook is a large company with a number of revenue streams. Every single feature they undertake does not need to individually earn its keep. (And I'm not sure why that aspect would concern you in any case.)
Ok, so I do believe that CEO's are usually overpaid with regard to their performance. That being said, I am not convinced by the methodology used in the study, specifically the period used for measuring the performance: 3 years. It sounds like a lot of time, but actually, I would expect a truly great CEO to undertake projects with a 5 years or more horizon. There's this great interview of Bezos discussing the point of focusing on quarterly results vs long term. So an alternative explanation for the findings could be: the highest paid CEOs invest in 5-10 years projects, so their results after 3 years are below average.

Again, I repeat that even before reading the study, I intuitively agreed with their conclusion, but I'm not so sure about their argument to prove it
"I think religiosity and cults rise when secular society fails at something."

I think it's more useful to think of it as a psychology hack that can strike almost anyone. Not any person at any time, but any person at one of their vulnerable moments.
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Jumping on the acconrad bandwagon. I was completely inactive, weighed 240 when I should be around 150. But I took up heavy lifting, specifically Stronglifts 5x5 in February, then switched to Ice Cream Fitness in May.

Nothing against bodyweight stuff either. I do a light bodyweight routine two days a week to help deal with some back/posture issues ICF is not addressing well enough.

I'm down to 195, and stronger than I've been since I was in my 20s.

I tried one of those "vary your workout every day" programs last year, and quit. Not being consistent, as a newbie, made it hard to see progress, which demotivates. On ICF, while reaping noob gains, I see the weight I lift go up every session.

For me, value would be in putting in my exact workout, down to lift tempos, pauses, rest between sets, etc., and having an app run my workout for me, so I only have to think about proper form and pushing out that last rep.
Hummingbird already offers an API through Mashape, which is infinitely more thorough than any competitor's.

Additionally, MAL has lots of minor bugs, and how can you trust a site that hasn't been maintained in 5 years to store your password correctly? 2009 was a scary place.

This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if MAL is storing passwords as MD5+salt. They do just email it to you in plaintext when you register.

And recovery is a 6 digit pin, which is totally plenty of entropy.
The ones with the "P" flags are prefail indicators that the controller manufacturer thinks will indicate failure. When value goes below threshold, it sets a SMART prefail status indicator that the host controller can poll. Unfortunately for SATA there is no way for SSD to interrupt the host controller to give such a warning so you need some kind of monitoring software to periodically poll the SMART status.

Your drive looks in good shape in my opinion but thinks can always change suddenly so always backup.
I've also travelled pretty extensively, both here and abroad. I've been to nine of the places you listed. I guess I must not have been to the right parts.

I DID almost move to Chicago once...
I can't tell if you're being serious but medically certified psychologists are the most qualified to answer that question. Therapy is a medical science, but every layperson seems to think they have enough knowledge to comment on what it is or whether it's needed.
Mana == Prana (yoga) == Chi (I dunno, karate or something) (== attention, maybe). People have been talking about this stuff forever.

Generalized cosmic power.

People scoff, but I think that modern people are just different. A shift in sensitivities happened. We're all about ideas now.

Consider the classic case of the geek who can't get laid. It's like he's blind to something.
We debated this for a while and decided not to do channels for now.

Feeds are great because you can use them to integrate with other pieces of the infrastructure like RabbitMQ or ElasticSearch, or write reactive apps where clients instantaneously react to changes in other clients. Incidentally, you can use them to easily get pubsub, but it wasn't the original intention.

There are much better pub/sub services out there, so we decided to stick to having a really good feed API and avoid implementing channels for the time being.