skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks has the advantage of being flip when explaining anything, so none of his explanations really need to hold much water. If you "need to ask a Mind" it just elevates the question to the next level (and the whole idea of Culture percentage, or however it's put, indicating almost any Mind is really only partially conformant to the mainstream, is a huge loophole -- what stops the Culture from becoming the hegemonizing swarm from Hell? It comes down to an argument about what sentient beings will do with unlimited power).

Banks at least has put enough thought into it to give flip answers, though. Star Trek is a mindless mess.
i dont have sick time. i just stay home when im sick and need a doctors notice if its above 3 days. but thats pretty much german standard
Which phones have this memory architecture vs. dma?
Gmail is definitely not next. But google+ users should take notice.
Doesn't appear so. It has one 802.11 interface - so it could receive from upstream, or send downstream, but not both.
santa monica, ca doesn't exist in their database.

and looks like "los angeles" is too large to have accurate numbers.
This could have been something. First social network I joined was Orkut in 2004. Back in 2006, it was all rage not only in Brazil, but also in lots of other countries where facebook was virtually unknown (iirc the MAU was over 100 million). In fact, facebook didn't overtake orkut in India and Brazil until 2010 and 2011 respectively.

If google had nurtured this social network instead of ignoring it for years, it might have become credible rival to facebook in markets outside US/EU. Instead, years of negligence and atrocious design decisions turned it into a ghost town since around 2011 or so. One has only to blame oneself.
A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.
The effect isn't referring to popular technologies remaining popular; the effect is that, when we make decisions in a group, we unconsciously tend to agree with other people more than we otherwise would.

For example, lets say you're asked to submit a survey of the suitability of a bunch of languages for a new project; say Python, Java, PHP, C# and Ruby. You may give Python 8/10, Java 7/10, PHP 6/10, C# 7/10 and Ruby 8/10.

Now, imagine that instead of that survey, you were invited to a meeting where the chief architect informs everyone that the they haven't decided whether to use Java or C# yet, and since the CEO suggested PHP they decided to open it up for comments. Would you still give the same scores?

The classic experiment for this used a social music website, where people could vote for what they liked. Unknown to the users, they were internally separated into groups, so that people in group A only saw scores based on other voters in group A, and so on. In each group, there were a couple of really high-scoring songs, with the rest scoring very badly; but the each group had chosen different songs as their favourites! Those which were regarded highly in group A were seen as terrible by group B, and vice versa. As a control, one of the groups was never shown any scores at all, so their votes were less biased. That group showed much less extreme results, with some songs scoring better than others, but not massively so.
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I believe Go is "popular" because of Google, it might solve a particular internal problem for them, but for the rest of the world, they're better languages.
To its credit, it makes Java look advanced, and that's no small feat!
Haskell is one example; Clojure, Rust, Erlang, Scala are mainly the ones we think about in this category but even in Modern C++ code const is used quite a lot. Go is not yet very widely known or popular outside the HN bubble; I think it is a bit early for "daily driver" argument.
I used to buy the paper copy of 2600 every quarter until Borders in the UK vanished and I couldn't find it anywhere. A Kindle version fixes all of my problems though.

Does anyone know if the publisher gets any money off me for buying previous editions of 2600 off the Kindle store? I've obviously subscribed now but I'd like to read some of the issues I missed.
Is this the start of the end of the age of warrentless government spying?
Did Google start Orkut themselves or was this acquired?

Second, wouldn't they rather put it up for sale?
If you're interested in concurrency, you owe it to yourself to spend some time working through this guide on ZeroMQ[1]. It could change the way you think about software architecture forever, because it makes it so straightforward to change your app into a multi-node, multi-language fabric of machines. It's also a fun way to get your feet wet with a new language, because every language under the sun is supported, and you can easily integrate the code in your new language with systems written in your old language.

Which is another reason it might change how you think about architecture. ZeroMQ makes it practical to bring in other new languages and libraries into your ecosystem.

[1] http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
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Bullshit. Every company runs experiments on their users.
Brazil isn't exactly Luxembourg. Surely a population of 200 million isn't to be sniffed at.
Just check this out.

http://www.techonsolution.com/which-is-the-best-operating-sy...
Meteor is shamelessly buying stars on GitHub
For the past few weeks I've gotten 10 emails from Meteor asking me to star their repo on GitHub in exchange for donating money to charity.

(https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/06/23/meteor-challenge-2014)

I'm all in favor of the charity they are supporting, but clearly this is a case of them pumping their GitHub numbers using cash.

As a frequent GitHub user this bothers me. In making decisions about which products to use, the # of stars is one of the keys things I look at.

Meteor is manipulating that by buying votes.

They have publicly announced raising over $10M. If they truly cared about raising money for charity, they could donate $25k directly out of that $10M, which would amount to half of half of one percent of the amount raised.
If they aren't actually hiring, it's definitely unethical.
Happy Birthday, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act 2.0
That's not Firefox throwing a warning. That's bitly having blacklisted a link.
OpenWRT has a pretty decent developer base and in general has always been very stable for me (I've been using many WRT54GLs and Foneras over the years). That said it seems off that they wouldn't have fixed heartbleed by now, it would be significant for the web administration interface - especially for people who make it accessible externally via the Internet.

If anybody wishes to contribute to OpenWRT, this talk from 30c3 should give you a good overview on the "current" state of the project (hint: apart from system programmers, web developers are also very much welcome/needed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OlUxeS57E
Take notice of what, exactly? That social networks have a single point of failure?

What makes Google any different in that respect? How are Facebook users any safer than G+ users?
I am the co-founder of www.propser.com and the Panopticon was central to our early thinking about P2P lending.

The original idea was simply that if everyone could see everyone's lending activity it would yield improved loan default rates across the board thus leading to lower lending rates.

The thinking was somewhat more optimistic than an unattended prison and reflected a personal belief that, as the saying goes, sunshine is the best disinfectant. Meaning, it's harder to publicly default on people that you know than it is to default on a multi-national corporation.

The other touchstone was "It's a wonderful life" -- specifically the scenes in the movie around banking. In fact we originally wanted to name the company "Bedford Falls".

FWIW.
Absolutely - alas, my 'privilege' is the first world democracy kind, as I was not fated to be born the son of a Russian oligarch on the cusp of the collapsing Soviet Union.

Which is for the best, because then I likely would have ended up supporting Chelsea in the English Premier League.

[Edit] Further to pessimizer's reply below, but responding here so the thread doesn't disintegrate. Note that the only reason I raised "first world democracy" was because Alex raised how "privileged" I am. My "privilege" is where I was born, and that was in a first world democracy.

I think I completely agree with your point that being born where I was doesn't of necessity deliver me $15M or $30M, which is why I keep putting "privilege" in air quotes.
I don't think the headline really captures the optimization in play and the blog doesn't cover the why it works either.

TLS is just part of the implementation details, the real thing that is being exploited is that cache lines that are in a shared state are basically free to read from multiple threads. Cache lines that are in the exclusive state are basically free to write or even CAS from a single thread.

That means that if you have a pointer to an immutable piece of data that is read more often than it is written you can exploit the cache coherence subsystem to avoid communicating across cores, at least until the next write.

The cleanup step sounds similar to hazard pointers. I am guessing that since the memtable is a skiplist the contention there (such as in the allocator) is managed some other way and that the global version is just pointers to memtables and sstables.
> As a data point, here are links to the Haskell and Go implementations of the TechEmpower benchmarks:

You can see from the messages in the code that these 2 programs do completely different things.
"It's a sophisticated, well-oiled system that rarely requires crude subterfuge. Though U.S. authorities track all transfers over $10,000, a wire into a real-estate lawyer’s escrow account should look perfectly routine. 'A lot of times, I don’t even know where my clients are from,' says the lawyer Bruce Cohen. 'But I know that certain countries are very careful about the money that leaves their country.'

"There is nothing illegal—at least from the destination nation’s perspective—about sending money from an anonymous offshore bank account to purchase property in America. On the contrary, it’s an everyday occurrence. That is precisely why experts say that property investment is a favored route for money laundering, a crime that depends on the outward appearance of legitimacy. The laundering process typically happens in stages: Illegal cash enters the world financial system somewhere and is funneled into a maze of accounts and shell companies, a process called 'layering.' Finally, at the other end, funds are integrated into a seemingly respectable investment—like a luxury condo."

(TFA)
I hate being this guy, but the euphemism is to "jibe" with, not "jive".
Very good write-up, thank you!

I've seen the trend in these monthly food items (I believe it started with the beef jerky guy) and for the most part it seems super gimmicky. I think you found a great niche that provides some real value (who doesn't love crazy exotic candy?) and something I may actually try out.

Have you tried selling to any startups/businesses? Office candy is a treat everyone loves and could boost your sales quite a bit compared to just selling to normal consumers.
Love the sarcasm.
I've always thought xx-graphs would be better served with h264, with gif as a fallback. Each frame is almost the same, seems a bit of a waste.
I think we will get there, but on a much longer timeframe.
We were having a sweepstake at work to see how quickly this comment would appear. I had '20 minutes' down and lost by a whisker.

I'm hoping to win my money back the next time someone mentions an ORM.
Historical data! We want historical inflation data!
I ended up doing this, after being tired of having to switch providers every six months from working on startups.

Usually the company will let you receive the healthcare amount as part of your salary, which allows you to purchase your own plan. As a single person with no dependants, I can usually find a cheaper plan individually and end up getting a little more pay. I don't know how this is normally, but it's worked for me so far.

I'm clumping this into "yet another reason there should be universal single payer healthcare".
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Building json.org as a java library
I lost my flagging privileges sometime around Snowden's seat's flight to Cuba, but what's the "hacker" angle here that wouldn't be covered by the metric ton of articles in mainstream sources that will report on this decision?

Isn't this just "news"? Or were there a host of YC startups planning on not covering some forms of birth control for their employees? Seems unlikely.
How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto?
So I can allow Hep-C vaccines for my straight employees only now?
Is there even any general moral imperativ, that every or at least most cultures agree with, which says that we should not contaminate other planets?

No.

Or is there any entity on this planet, that could claim it has legitimate interests (or even ownership) in keeping the atmosphere of Mars clean, which should prevent India from sending people to Mars in a way that we don't like?

Again, im my opinion the answer is no. Why? Because there are enough planets that every human being on earth could have its own.

We could also look at it from the benefits vs risks perspective.

Here I also reach the same conclusion. The risk of having contaminated one planet with organisms is almost non-existent compared to the potential benefits of making another step towards the colonisation of other planets.

Once our technology gets better, and we can reach to more distant places, you can have any amount of pristine and untouched planets you could ever want.

But first we've got to improve our capabilities by actually trying it.
but to google, 200M means their possible market size is really a fraction of that. Imagine 30M MAX users, assuming super high penetration. Google wants to focus on BILLIONS of users, not tens of millions.
I'm sorry to bust the fun on this, but I would never rebuild this device (or anything other with radio capability)... simply because of the costs of certification which is mandatory for any RF transmitter.
Unfortunately this does have some livability implications for those of us trying to live side by side by other people's piggy banks. I'm not sure what the answer is, other than to zone very heavily for new construction.
A prosecutor isn't supposed to toss cases at a jury to "see what happens." The prosecution is supposed to believe 1) that the person actually did the crime, and 2) that a jury can be convinced of it. You can debate the specific thresholds of doubt for each of those prongs, but "I dunno, let the jury sort it out" is a very bad system.
The site says Miami is 5% more expensive than San Jose. That's a horrible lie.
Didn't you know? Paying taxes is for Americans.
This sound like companies imposing their religious beliefs on their employees to me.

If they as a company are against it fine however they should still have to pay for it if their employee is OK with it.
I think it was one of their engineer's 20% time project. I haven't logged into orkut in 6 years so I don't recall. I'm sure wikipedia has info on it.
This seems pretty sound.

It should provide benefit of publishing inside regardless of the inside crowd (to a point of course).

Another example like yours - soundcloud.
StarTrek economics does not have to make sense for post-scarcity society to make sense.

For that to happen a number of things will certainly have to be in place, but in truth none of us know how the world will look like when most production is automated.
From what I understand, although Conal Elliot coined the term FRP first in a relatively narrow sense, today the term FRP is used much more freely to describe reactive programming using functional building blocks (especially combinators like map, filter etc.).

There are some nice papers that give an overview of the FRP landscape.

“A Survey on Reactive Programming”: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.416...

“Towards Reactive Programming for Object-oriented Applications”: http://www.guidosalvaneschi.com/attachments/papers/2014_Towa...
You do get some strange differences. For example I compared Cincinnati to Savannah Georgia. It says a TV costs 2x as much in Savannah and that a $129 microwave in Cincinnati costs $500 in Savannah. Odd numbers like this throw off the total.
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Excellent. I'm now 😀.

edit: Oh, for shame, HN doesn't unicode that quite right.
They're migrating to facebook. Social networks don't make sense if they're nation limited, be it de facto or by design. People will migrate to the biggest most popular one eventually. I suspect facebook is just the best (by some people's standards) social network and social networking eventually falls into a natural monopoly.
yes, my bad. realized it later.
Not anymore. Even in Brazil, Orkut in dying and almost nobody use it anymore. Nowadays Facebook is the main social network in Brazil.
What's the story with the hack? It's a shame because the original was so much fun!
> In my opinion the way around this is to deliberately stop and do an estimation exercise. First think about how long the refactor will take, and be extremely generous (e.g. double your first estimate)

That isn't estimation. That is pulling a number out of your ass. Try something for me. For each of these data points, write down a low estimate and a high estimate that give you a 90% probability of being within that range.

Surface Temperature of the Sun: Low [___] -- High [__]
Latitude of Shanghai: Low [___] -- High [__]
Area of the Asian continent: Low [___] -- High [__]
The year of Alexander the Great's birth: Low [___] -- High [__]
Total value of U.S. currency in circulation in 2004: Low [___] -- High [__]
Total volume of the Great Lakes: Low [___] -- High [__]
Worldwide box office receipts for the movie Titanic: Low [___] -- High [__]
Total length of the coastline of the Pacific Ocean: Low [___] -- High [__]
Number of Book titles published in the US since 1776: Low [___] -- High [__]
Heaviest blue whale ever recorded: Low [___] -- High [__]

Now, you might think this is a silly exercise because you don't have experience with the scale of these things, but how often do you estimate the time it takes you to build a product you aren't yet familiar with something using a tool you're not yet familiar with or people you aren't familiar with?

The answers are here:
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-an...

(This quiz is taken from Software Estimation by Steve McConnel (Microsoft Press, 2006) and is copyright 2006 Steve McConnel. All rights Reserved. Permission to copy this quiz is granted provided that this copyright notice is included.)
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From the ruling:

This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance-coverage mandates, e.g., for vaccinations or blood transfusions, must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer’s religious beliefs. Nor does it provide a shield for employers who might cloak illegal discrimination as a religious practice.
Sales taxes shouldn't be too hard to include, but I noticed the exact same problem in the comparison.
The "first-world democracy" part has very little to do with being the 15 million dollar kind of privileged. The 15-millionaires-to-population ratio is probably similar in Britain and Kazakhstan (but probably higher in Kazakhstan.)

result of random google: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/12/countries-with-most-...

reply to edit: I'm trying to say that the privilege that makes you 15-30 million is something other than simply where you were born, not that it doesn't exist. That's why I'm not putting scare quotes around it. Being born in a kleptocracy if anything makes you more likely to have 15 million, rather than less.
Maybe it works because there is no english word written 'ba', and in fact no english word that's 'b' followed by vowel(s) and nothing else, except for 'bay'. So there's no other word it could be.

But yeah, the extreme form of gregg shorthand definitely seems, from the OP, to rely on lots of contextual knowledge for it's concision. That seems to be it's strategy, eliminate letters where contextual knowledge will suffice to reconstruct them.
I'm with you there. I still fondly remember Google Buzz and haven't really found an alternative that has the same feel to it yet.

I hope there is some post facto analysis a few months from now. IMO Google is risking that this shutdown effectively causes the migration of a few hundred thousand Brazilian Google users to Facebook.
The board has an ethernet switch built in, with all the pins for it broken out. You're going to have to supply your own magnetics and jacks for it though. The chip in it [1] is very much built around routing lots and lots of packets. I kinda wish they'd have released a board based on its bigger sibling with PCIe, though.

[1] http://www.anz.ru/files/mediatek/MT7620_Datasheet.pdf
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The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. Alito (who wrote for the majority) especially emphasizes it has no effect on insurance mandate.

That info is just from the SCOTUSblog live coverage: http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June...

They'll deliver the details in "In Plain English" soon if you don't want to scroll through.
Kind of a colliding name, huh?
That's hardly fair to use the term "any decent language". Is the author really saying that SmallTalk is not a decent language?

Of course Python actually does have blocks (lambda), they're just very limited, so it's a strange article none-the-less and to a non-Python user come across as a bit of a hack so that you aren't constantly passing method pointers around. But maybe that's just me.
> I really kind of find this odd. I'm sure that other services have popped up to take it's place and that it's popularity is dropping, but I really find it hard to believe that they are Youtube (completely different service), Blogger (Which up until now I was under the impression that Google had forgotten that it even owned) and Google+ (More recent and less established than Orkut, and still a small amount of active users).

Google didn't say that YouTube, Blogger, or Google+ have taken Orkut's place. Google said that YouTube, Blogger, and Google+ have outpaced Orkut's growth and are, largely as a result of that, more appropriate focuses of Google's resources.

> I'm thinking more that non-Google services are the real threats

This isn't about "threats", its about opportunities -- more specifically, its about where Google effort has the best returns for Google.
While somewhat specific to GAWK, the GNU Awk User's Guide is excellent.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
Started as 20% project from a Google employee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kte...

Perhaps it depends on too much of the internal infrastructure they wouldn't want to sell?
I never noticed Google+ took off...
This should be called Emonli.
Emojli: the emoji-only network
I know the stream based RX and several continuous/events based FRP implementations and their associated problems.

Are there other interesting approaches?
What are the costs exactly? Wifi operates in the 2.4Ghz band which is license free worldwide.

(As I understand in some countries you need to get a license to sell wifi devices - some Arduino's have issues with this - but not to use or build them).
Yeah, this is just politics and news. I try to leave an explanation whenever I flag an article as to why I'm doing it, but you just kind of gave the best explanation possible.