skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in fast food eons ago.

Pretty much every fast food place has a counter on the drive thru that starts when a car pulls up and ends when the car pulls away from the food window. It displays the average time for the shift when no car is ordering. Here's the really stupid thing about it - it is supposed to be a useful metric and is taken really seriously but it measures almost nothing useful. Often (most of the time?) a car pulls up and just sits at the menu board because they aren't ready to order yet. The best "hold on, we've never been here before." If you haven't been here before WHY ARE YOU GOING THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU! Drive thru is not for that! They can take up the entire "goal" time just sitting at the menu board. People pull up on their phones and act annoyed I am disturbing their phone call when I try to take their order. I actually had someone sit at the menu board for like 10 minutes on their phone having a real serious fight with their girlfriend and I'm pretty sure they broke up on at the menu board. He started crying and then pulled away without ordering anything. Then when they get to the window they can take a long time to get their money out and after they get their food they often sit at the window for another minute to put their wallets away or root through the bag or whatever. You also can't control what a drive thru person will order, if it takes 30 seconds to pack or if it takes 2 minutes to pack. I've had people come through the drive thru with $50-$100 orders. I don't care who you are - you aren't taking and packing that order in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Or people who want 3 separate orders which takes a much longer time. Then if you have a slow day and only have like 10 drive through customers and one takes like 10 minutes it will screw up your average considerably even if you are the best at drive thru ever. The best are "pull-aways" - people who pull up, change their mind, and pull away without ordering anything. This happen more than you'd think. Their "order" is clocked in at like 50 seconds and brings your average down especially on slow days. On really slow days employees have been known (I did it) to go outside and just drive around the drive thru several times to get the average down. At the same time I've been yelled at when the counter is reading 7 minutes and I've working on their order. "What's taking so long in the drive thru!!?" Um... well this guy has 100 questions about the menu and took 5 of those minutes to order, but just go ahead and yell at me. That accomplishes something.

I notice a sign now in some drive thrus that says "please have your money out when you get to the window." Yeah, ok, because I'm supposed to locate my wallet, get my money out and count it all while operating a motor vehicle... sounds realistic. I know, I know, it it meant for when there is someone sitting at the window in front of you but still...
The first step in any gamification effort is feedback. The second step is offering "what to do next".

This can be achieved with or without PBL (points, badges, leaderboards). If the PBL stuff doesn't connect to feedback, if the feedback is overwhelming or the calls to action are too cumbersome, unattractive or obscure, "Gamification" fails.
It'd be cool if Panic could clarify a point made in this article which states that delay of detecting whether or not the device has left a region is around 10-15 minutes. Seems like a sizable chunk of time for a clock-in-out app.
It's a remake of the original Abe's Oddysee.
> what if hacking CCs weren't a crime in Russia (or whatever other wild 3rd world country), or if it were just say a minor infraction there

The crime that really pissed off the US wasn't "hacking CCs", but "hacking CCs owned by american banks". If he had been robbing russian banks from russia, then likely we would never have cared.

> would it be normal to catch these people, bring into US and execute them

There is no need to turn this hypothetical into a parody. Nobody is talking about execution. But people who commit crimes against americans (or especially against american corporations) probably already fear the US legal system. That's why you won't see a lot of colombian drug lords travelling to the US.

And as the article points out, this isn't even the first time we've done this to a russian citizen. It's almost routine.
Apple hires a pair of key Nike FuelBand engineers
Including the Tor project in this lawsuit is obviously out of ignorance, and won't succeed.

Having said that, personally, I would just attack the hidden service directly. It's not particularly difficult to censor a node by DoS. More sophisticated attacks include setting up your own hidden service directory server and just return 404 for requests to PinkMeth. Researchers have shown it's possible and doesn't require much resources: Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf
Scikit-learn webpages blocked on sourceforge
All of the scikit docs and pages appear to be blocked with a message from SourceForge:

This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth threshold

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Seems like a good dude who's using his brain and his money to advance important fields.
In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner
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Simple bite sized sysadmin screencasts
It's good writing style in a persuasive essay, but this blog post hardly provides enough support for the first sentence to be called an essay. The only distinguishing fact about the font presented as support is that it's legible while being thin. The other distinguishing feature, narrow lines, is actually a disadvantage on lower resolution screens.
Even with Steam Greenlight, indie developers still get a lot of exposure and have a lot of incentive from working with publshers.
I built one too that I think has a better interface than yo?

https://postperfect.co
Apple’s “Secret” eBay Store Returns
Anyone with the link could also share the link publicly. I think if your document contains sensitive information you should be restricting the access anyway.
Because Docker just makes more sense. Why should I run multiple versions of the whole OS for near-to-identical setups? That is just a waste of resources. Docker makes much more sense when you have multiple applications you want in separate instances on the same stack. There benefits far outweigh the disadvantages in my experience.
You pretty much nailed it right there.

Before I ever ask this question (I do a lot of tech interviews sadly) I always ask the candidate about object mutability vs immutability. Almost everyone knows the textbook answer, and only a few know the actual implications of it. This tests which they know :)

Default kwargs of a function are defined at function definition. However, they are only in scope, for the scope of said function. It is a weird but important subtle difference.
can it help game developers ?
Google doesn't really need to throttle attempts at guessing Drive URLs - they are long enough that it is totally infeasible for anyone to guess them. The guessability of these links is not the weakest link in finding these documents - it's that they can easily be shared around and you don't know who has the link and who doesn't. This may be okay for your usage - it's a tradeoff between usability (it's easy to share such a link with your friends instead of granting each one permission individually) and security (your friends could forward the link to others without you knowing, which they couldn't do if you'd only granted them the permission).
Papers coming out of China and Taiwan need to be regarded skeptically; this reminds me a lot of the fairly recent "China's academic scandal: call toll-free hotlines to get your name published" http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/02/china-academi...
Right, it just seemed like they didn't make any connection whatsoever between this particular research and a concrete naval/engineering problem. Kind of like saying "look this is math, engineering is important to Taiwan, engineers use math".
The only thing I disagree with is "use nested comprehensions" thing. In my mind:
x = [letter for word in words
for letter in word]

is inside-out or backwards or backwards. I want the nested for being the less specific case:

x = [letter for letter in word for word in words]

makes more sense in my mind.

(It's also my first answer to the "what're some warts in the your language of choice).
So I have some experience in this, having researched gamification quite heavily as part of my PhD thesis [1]. Note that I am going to talk about gamification as described by Zichermann and as used in this article, not about "gameful interfaces" as used by Jane McGonigal et al. after the "gamification" term was so thoroughly poisoned by gamification companies as mentioned in the OP.

The OP hits on two key points. The first is that employees know bullshit when they see it. The second is that the wrong metrics were often chosen, and that anything that didn't have a easy metric was thrown out.

These two points are symptomatic of the root issue at the heart of this: enterprise gamification companies don't, and never did, care about employee well-being. This was true of every gamification salesperson and author (Zichermann in particular) that I ever came across. They were all snake-oil salesmen selling stuff to CEOs who read about gamification in an airplane magazine. And to be fair to them, they were very good at it, and I guess the smartest ones also took the money and ran.

Gamification used buzzwords and metrics to provide feedback about employee productivity, but never provided any meaning because no deeper motivation was ever attempted to be tapped. Zichermann was infamous at misrepresenting or ignoring the psychological literature that ran counter to the nonsense he was spouting [2]. He particularly rejected intrinsic motivation, which is pretty much everything anyone ever wants out of their employees, in favor of the extrinsic motivators, which creates this arms race known as the hedonic treadmill [3], where employers would have to offer more and more motivators in order to keep interest. Note that paying people more is a classic extrinsic motivator.

So you have a whole bunch of points and badges and such, but to what end? What do they represent? What do they mean to those that hold them? The value of an Xbox 360 achievement, of a Boy Scout badge, of a Weight Watchers token, was never about the thing at the end, but about the meaningful trip they represented and reminded holders of. Gamification never bothered with that, and enterprise gamification, in particular, couldn't have cared any less. Making employees more productive was never the goal, it was selling stuff while the buzzwords were hot.

Gameful ideas can and do work when employed in a thoughtful, meaningful way that supports the intrinsic motivators of the given task. However, that's very tricky, as it's way too easy to misalign incentives (e.g. giving a badge for archiving email quickly, what's the result going to be?) which is why actual game designs take years to perfect before they are released. There are often simpler, quicker wins for improving employee motivation.

[1] More easily digested book - http://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Apps-Motivational-Web-bas...

Free dissertation - http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~ejw/dissertations/Christopher-Lewis...

[2] http://gamification-research.org/2011/09/a-quick-buck-by-cop...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
I've always wondered what percentage of people understood what "anyone with the link" meant as a security setting.
Fair enough, good luck!
Also you have a typo on this page:
https://www.txto.io/apps

synchronize is spelled incorrectly.
"If 1/2 are planning to go back at a later date,"

I still see no evidence of this. The statements provided do not indicate a plan to return.

"But in any case, "keep your options open" is not exactly the message touted by the Thiel et al PR campaign surrounding the fellowship program."

Fair enough.
Ask HN: Is NJ12bot a well-known rogue spider?
Since a few days they are causing easily 80% of my (usually really really low) traffic. hitting my myths-about-urandom article every three seconds.

Their reply: Oh, with this entry in robots.txt you can slow it down to five seconds.

Yeah, right. "Disallow: /" it is.

Are people really putting up with this?
Lance Armstrong in Purgatory: The After-Life
> There are more papers than anyone can read. So how do you tell which ones are important?

Let the researcher decide. When an academic applies for a job he/she can attach his/her two or three most relevant papers.

> And how do you objectively tell which professors are better than others at doing research?

You can't, that's my point, the question makes no sense.

> Whatever method you use, someone will try to game it.

Then don't. Don't use a method. Evaluate a researcher by actually looking at her/his research.

Yes, it takes longer to read a paper than to read a number. But the number makes no sense and who decided that we have to be in a hurry when deciding how to spend mostly-public money on research and researchers?

That's actually a good question. What legitimacy have privately held journals, owned by publishers who sell back the results of research to the researchers who gave it to them for free (in the bast case scenario, sometimes you get to pay them to give it to them), to get this much influence on how to spend public money on research? Because that's pretty much what bibliometrics amounts to.
Only M+ 1m, 1mn, 2m have those features author mentioned.
"At this time, it’s not 100 percent certain that this is a real Apple-run store, though eBay’s refusal to comment could be interpreted as a confirmation of sorts"

Gotta be Apple
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This just moves the problem down one level and doesn't change anything. If you're a host you only have an incentive to choose a trustworthy CA if by choosing a lesser CA you're risking a significant problems for their users (who will switch hosts when they have a really bad experience and suddenly can't take credit cards anymore).
I'm using Docker as different than most people intended: To grade student programming assignments on different physical machines. And I can distribute the docker images to students, so they stop complaining "But it works on my machine". So it is a different usage of packaging and shipping code.
You are dead wrong if you think any skilled writer can make $30 per hour. Only copywriters and technical writers can do that, and those are not easy jobs to get. Journalism, as an example, is one of the lowest paying professions. Writing jobs on Craigslist are almost always unpaid internships.
Winslow,
would you send me an email?
Thanks,
Jim
Yeah, I have some guesses but if anyone here can clear that up, I'd appreciate it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008432
Hi, lifeiststillgood. Yes I am Anne and I don't mind grumpy people so much. We all have our days! :-)

If quantum entanglement is used - in the way we understand now - a subluminal/luminal carrier is required. Sending these signals is power intensive, so it is likely to be the case that modulating an existing source might be cheaper. Not so much a parameter that helps us much further though.

Of course, it is important to take sparsity into account. It is very unlikely that a fixed signal originating from one point in the sky is the most efficient manner of communication. Sparsity is becoming quite an important concept in machine learning and I think SETI research might benefit from it. But, I've to say, I don't have experience with advances made in SETI research, so maybe they have advanced beyond the standard machine learning methods. :-) I'm just an ordinary roboticist.
I found it through some extra searching starting from your link- "Kopf um Kopf" ... Is that the precursor you were thinking of?

Here is a video on youtube that shows the awesomeness of this show (don't need to know German to appreciate it- On the start of the show, putting your finger under the device makes it spin in the opposite direction... why? The audience member with the right answer would get a reward.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObdE9n3UF4

Take a quick peek at a few other random spots of the show in the video and marvel at the awesome scientific experiments on live TV: I think that was one of the most bad ass shows ever, especially since it didn't have that pejorative "science shows are only for kids" thing happening.
One of those cases where using integrals rather than geometry is much simpler.

\pi \int_-3^3 (R^2 - x^2) dx = \pi (6 R^2 - 18)

is the volume of the rotational solid without removing the cylinder. While the volume of the cylinder is given by:

\pi \int_-3^3 (R^2 - 3^2) dx = \pi 6 (R^2 - 9)

As you can see the difference between the two volumes is 36 \pi.

You can actually show the solution does not depend on \pi without evaluating the integral, and then compute the 'cheat' case, which would not be a cheat once you've made this observation.
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To Swift Or Not To Swift, Yet
Even clearer:

x = [for word in words: for letter in word: letter]

This also has the advantage of being readable left to right without encountering any unbound identifiers like all other constructs in Python.
Ask HN: Is there a quarterly journal for the Internet community?
Ask HN: Is there a quarterly journal similar to N+1, Kill Screen, or Lapham's Quarterly for the web and app design and programming community?
Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python [video]
This is something that we take seriously. We use SSL and data encryption for the storage, and everyone can delete his data in one click at any time. We do read the content of the texts. The printing part is automated and externalized. (it is like printing photos).

However, your are right we do not have the explicit permission of the other recipient. It's kind of tricky to ask for this permission. Any thoughts?
Google Adds Android Smartphone And Tablet Screen Mirroring To Chromecast
Sure but those are also highly variable. I built a test installation in a retail environment using about 15 beacons setting up four different types of zones. One of which was an attempt to do a 'tap your phone here interaction' (CLProximityImmediate trigger). The Beacon for that interaction was behind a piece of foamcore.

Now I'm not a radio engineer, it may be that it was too many beacons for the area or the general wireless soup was high but it could sometimes take 20-30 seconds to see that beacon as immediate with your phone sitting smack dab on it. Sometimes 1sec. (iOS7.0 on both ipod touch 5thgen and iphone 5 devices) . Perhaps the filtering they use just needs to be tweaked a bit.
I don't see a big problem with each branch doing their own unis. They certainly are large enough. And the design costs are negligible in the scheme of things. Sure, they could share some best practices. Clearly they have different needs.
I'm sorry, I don't see clearly what a tuple should be. What would be different about Python tuples if they were true tuples?
Whom do MBA types consider as equals?
OCaml-TLS: building the nocrypto library core
You don't have to, but it would probably be best to keep it consistent. You could run your live server on barebones OS as you normally would, then create a docker image to mirror that. However, as we all know, mirrors often get out of sync fairly quick. But if you use the same image and only update using a Fabric or Ansible script, then you can be pretty certain that all your environments are identical. Not to mention that any newly created environments will brought up to the same point in no time at all.
"The publisher pays production cost in advance" - The publisher is paying the salaries of the developers while the develop. Digital downloads don't help change that equation. Crowdfunding could.
I've been in AA for years, and I agree with this - not just because of the establishment clause (which is reason enough), but because on the AA side we specifically state in our preamble that 'AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution.' Making it a government-sanctioned and non-voluntary program violates one of the core organizing principles of AA that has allowed it to last this long. The judicial system should concentrate on medical/behavioral/psychological research and let the leave the twelve-step groups alone.
Psilocybin is the most effective treatment for cluster headaches, and is known to be effective at treating depression as well. LSD has been shown to have significant potential for curing alcoholism.
netsend and other apps used in that comparison were not rate limited. Surely that test only measures system's overheads, but i put that disclaimer very clearly in all papers and talks (btw "which it isn't" suggests that you have different numbers so please let us know). Surely, sometimes these per-packet savings are irrelevant, but there are a number of use cases where this kind of savings matter a lot. This is true for netmap, dpdk, DNA and all other network-stack-bypass frameworks.

On passing, people typically use the term 'os-bypass' but netmap relies on the OS for protection, synchronization, memory management etc -- all things that the OS does well and i find no reason to reinvent.
Python doesn't seem to agree with you :^)

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It is highly unlikely that a MAGTF would be in-theater without a CVBG in the area. However, the CVBG may not be tasked with supporting the MAGTF, or other tasking may take priority. The MAGTF's squadrons are tasked with direct support of the TF's ground forces before, during, and after the landing. Relying on the CVBG for this either forces the CAG to split its resources and attention (reducing is efficiency) or leaves the Marines with no air cover.