skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a detailed blog post about that. Some highlights:

• Running Django on Heroku
• Coffeescript, jQuery
• SASS
• A lot of webkit transitions & some animations
• A souped up version of pjax for loading pages
• Getting the data from APIs from Moves, Runkeeper, Withings, Foursquare, Github, Instagram, etc.
• The run maps are a set of coordinates passed to Mapbox to make the map tiles & Leaflet for creating the SVG line.
• D3 has really nice geo stuff, I use their mercator projection to convert lat/longs to points on the map of the world
Sure is. Not a direct clone or anything, I just use a similar style of gameplay/store mechanics. The TI calculator was my first adventure in programming...
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I thought it was common knowledge the American involvement in the Middle East had nothing to do with "freedom".
UDP might be a rather poor-choice security-wise, especially if you rely on this monitoring to alert you if something goes down.

It's much easier to spoof a UDP packet from an arbitrary source-IP address than it is with TCP.

It gives a fairly easy opportunity for attackers to fake all your service metrics, make it look like everything is Up/Down etc...
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There's no way that I know of besides blood tests. It's a bit painful but not too expensive and in my opinion well worth it.

The blood levels are coming from a standard blood test, available at any doctor's office. I've been getting them about once a month.

You need to fast for at least 8 hours prior to get accurate results, and it takes about 2 vials of blood. I'm waiting for some sort of device to give you realtime values with just a prick of blood or constant monitoring.
Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment
This is a very clever hack. Great use of anonymous functions and toString.
>Pesticides are not automatically bad - in fact some of them are almost unbelievably benign to humans and/or to the environment.

I'm curious to know which pesticides fit this description.
i'm genuinely curious what people liked about relateiq... when i looked into it, it seemed like a much less functional salesforce with the addition of automatically showing you the last contact you had with a customer (or potential customer).

what made it interesting/differentiated as a product?
17 things that change forever when you live abroad
It is not an israeli plan. Basically hamas have chosen the wrong side in the syrian conflict, so it lost the support of iran and syria(and maybe saudi-arabia). He also lost the support of egypt due to the regime change. And he is in bad relations with fatah on the west bank.

All this put the hamas with very little political and monetary support and with inability to pay operatives. They are near collapse.

So how do hamas wants to get the support of the people of gaza? By creating a common enemy.

So they shoot missiles at israel, israel has no choice but to respond, political support of hamas increases and the cycle continues.
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I take it you haven't listened to anyone pro-organic speak? Just a few short sentences with them and you would have been aware that they make outrageous claims regarding the health benefits of organic food. And it's precisely because of that that the onus is on them to prove it. And you can't just say "we don't have to prove it because we've always eaten organic and that's natural", err or whatever argument they use. That's a prime example fallacious logic.
I have enjoyed lifting weights for years, but in October 2013, I took the plunge, bought a bench, some bars and some plates, and started seriously lifting.

When I started seriously lifting, I collected some bench marks. I collected my one rep max, six rep max and ten rep max in four different exercises. Then, I collected data on my pulse rate after doing a ten rep set in various exercises.

When I work out, I collect what exercises I performed, how many sets/reps, and what kinds of weight I lifted. And, I intended to check my benchmarks once a month, but in practice it has worked out to be closer to every six weeks.

Roughly nine months later and collecting that data has proven very beneficial. For example, with strength training it is too easy to get into a routine and then keep banging out that same routine every day. I always know what I did the last time I worked a muscle group, so I feel intense pressure from myself to either move a few more pounds, bang out another set, or add a few more reps to a set. And, I get to track how various lifestyle changes interact with strengh training.

For example, in December, I broke my right thumb cross country skiing and had to take some time off lifting. Weirdly, the time off actually increased my bench and shoulder presses because I was using my left (non-dominant) side significantly more often. Balancing my right and left sides made me significantly stronger.

Or, in May, the snow was gone so I started jogging again. Jogging improved some aspects of my lifting - for example, my heart rate after a set has dropped since I added in jogging. But, it has also hurt other aspects - for example, my gains in strength are actually slowing. Incidentally, monitoring my jogging showed me that my tendency to settle into a routine carries across into other forms of exercise. I realized that I was running the same route every single time in roughly the exact same amount of time. My body got used to a level of effort and then stopped getting better.

Just because the 'people you have met' use this as a distraction does not mean that everyone will. And, just because all the people you know eat well and exercise regularly, it doesn't mean that everyone does. Some people find that the simple act of tracking their performance keeps them motivated to continuously improve. Others have goals beyond 'be healthy' and need to monitor their progress if they have any hope of reaching their goals.
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pkill -USR1 dd

You'll need to use ps to get the pid if you've got multiple dd instances running, and you'll of course need to run that as root if your dd instance is running as root.
I'll just go ahead and leave this here for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
I looked at it as a numbers game. I think you should invest the most time in the next week just applying to more than 10 places. It's not glamorous, but if you apply to every single startup out there, you'll at least end up with some options.

for more information: http://web.livefyre.com/jobs
Balancing long- and short-term benefits is part of what markets can do as well. The problem is that the further into the future you look, the wider the possibilities, but the lower the confidence you can have both that your present plan will persist and that your present plan will yield the results you intend.

The interest rate (if it was determined by a market) is essentially the price of renting money, or in other words, the market's description of the value of using capital now versus using that capital in the future. The interest rate is one major way that markets can balance long- and short-term benefits. It is a fundamental and vital part of an economy, and it (along with issuing money itself) is arguably the part of the economy most interfered with by governments.
Post this as a Shown HN when you do!
This is sort of surprising to me, since I thought organic has only been marketed as more nutritious when in fact it isn't necessarily.

The rise of organic food was more about sustainability than nutrition from what I've read (quite a few books). Reducing the use of pesticides, crop rotation, careful ways to not strip the soil of nutrition, etc...

I've always worked under the presumption that the "it's healthier" argument wasn't the case (despite the clever wording of marketing when big food got their hands on Organic).
The idea that free market advocates seek to maximize private shareholder value is a fallacy. Friedman developed the Negative Income Tax, precursor to EITC which is a successful anti-poverty program.
I'm not convinced that they are equally healthy. Its just that up to now, the vast majority of studies found no major nutritional difference.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729103728.ht...

Stanford study (others referenced this): http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/little-evidenc...

Those aren't conclusive and I'm open to being wrong, but this recent UK study seems to be the among the first to find significant differences. I bring up the organic definition in the US vs UK as a possible explanation for the results.
Thats what cocaine does to you kids....
I would do almost anything to have this data for the past few years.

What I really like about Moves is how comprehensive it is — it has every single place you went to rather than just ones that you thought were worth checking into, etc. What turns out to be relevant or helpful data to have is hard to know except in hindsight.
That was a generous and fascinating answer. You're a force to be reckoned with. What are you doing now? Have you finished your studies?
"Still, -Wunused is helpful to find errors elsewhere in the code, so in these cases you might do something like
unused_param = unused_param;"

It is better to comment out the name of the argument in the function header:

void foo( int x, int /* unused */)
{
…
}

C compilers know not to complain about that second argument (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486904/how-do-i-best-sil...)
This is worth clarifying because all multi-nationals operate that way.

Say Starbucks-France makes 10 billion in profit in a year.

Then that year Starbucks-Luxembourg will send it an invoice saying "You owe us 10 billion for a license to use the name Starbucks".

That way SB-France, on paper, made no profit and pays no income tax.
I have not seen evidence of any significant negative health effects from either tea of coffee. The positives would appear to be fairly high. Juice I avoid.
Maybe before long we'll start seeing subatomic transistors, along these lines: http://gizmodo.com/5793926/researchers-build-a-transistor-ou...

Or some more possibilities: "In the long term, new switches might be based on magnetic, quantum or even nanomechanical switching principles. One possibility would be to use changes in the spin of an individual electron to represent a 1 or a 0."[1]

[1] After the Transistor, a Leap Into the Microcosm (2009) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/science/01trans.html?pagew...
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That's the type of attack I was thinkining of, but if your not calling it a double spend what's the terminology?
"Unfortunately I never really spent too much time working on side projects"

This tells me as someone who graduated cs 10+ years ago that you have no real interest in computers and took it just for the job/to be trendy. Personally I would not hire you.

That said he's some actual advice. Now that your a recent graduate a company can hire you full time and get subsidized a large chunk of your pay. This will only last 6m-1yr, so make it count (do a good job, meet people which is usually how you get jobs at other companies, work overtime (boo!) and at least pretend to care about whatever time wasting project they put you on).

Theres a lot more advice I can give, but meh.
It is fairly easy to do such animations (if you talk about the animations) with jquery alone.
A lot of simple fades in/out and background color changes compose the website as far as I have seen.

The site is slightly unresponsive, but this is probably due to all the traffic HN is generating. OP should consider adding loading animations, it would make the transitions more fluid in such a busy time.
Sir, It seems you misread my first reply itself.

>...But still gathering all this data religiously is good ( I haven't yet ) as sooner or later....

Also, Physicians do not accurately take the data. They ultimately diagnose/analyse the data they get from tests/devices/you.

You should read my earlier replies keep in mind that nobody here said that the data could be used to STOP going to doctors, it would rather help us skip a few visits but ultimately of course if something tells you, you are going to be sick ( gadget or sixth sense ) you'll need to go to your medical practitioner. Doctors and hospitals can never be replaced.

Keeping yourself healthy is different from falling sick.
In addition to publication bias, it's also very easy to pick a selection criteria that produces the result you're trying to get, and justify that criteria after the fact.
If need to be in the MIT/Central Square/Cambridgeport area, You can park near the border in Somerville between Cambridge and Somerville past Inman Square and walk about 15 minutes to MIT or Central Square.

If need to be in Harvard Square, you can park near the Harvard stadium in Allston and walk 10 minutes to Harvard Square.

Do you guys have any other parking secrets to share in the Boston area?
This isn't surprising. If you tune your Genetic Rearranger 3000 to spit out blueberries that are really friggin' blue, and don't develop rough surfaces, and are resistant to certain molds, and don't track other metrics like nutrition content, then there is a greater than zero chance that whatever you're not tracking will be diminished.
We can do it. It's just data. Of course long waves carry very scarce amounts of traffic. DVB-T or even better approach would be using satellite. There are digital satellite technologies like DVB-S which could carry that kind of data. It's only a financial issue.
If you do multi line strings you could probably do it in a smarter way. Examples:

appendChild instead of innerHTML
.html file instead of html inside a .js file.
.css file instead of css inside a .js file.

It can get very messy if you store "data" inside JS. Especially if you store markup or styling in the JS.
You should look up i2psnark in particular, that was the first big one I'm aware of, but there are plenty of others too.

Tor has a large critical mass - which makes it safer in general, through pure volume - but I2P is more suited to this for a bunch of technical reasons I'm not going to go into in detail right now, but they involve garlic routing vs onion routing, end-to-end correlation, single-ended vs double-ended tunnels/circuits... basically, Tor hidden services are okay, but I2P is actually designed for more generalised use like this.

I may or may not be biased. :)
Well, over the river in Brookline they're issuing around 32,000 tickets every quarter[1], but have around half the population. Once you account for that it's still a little less than Cambridge, but then you would also expect Cambridge to issue more tickets - being a tourist destination there is more parking pressure, and more people unfamiliar with the area.

[1]: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/brookline/2014/01/brookl...
I think we're having a rural/city dweller divide. I wouldn't consider anyone even a small grower unless they make their main living doing it but lots of people sell a few things to make ends meet.
Would love to see the paper as well. Everything you said about antioxidants is true and I have equity in a company that has spent millions on researching antioxidants at multiple universities, on two continents. Most benefits that companies make claims on are only seen after ingesting impossible to eat"natural" quantities of the antioxidants.

Even more interesting, the heavy metal claims. Heavy metals are generally leeched from the soil and to conduct a test such as this you need two very different plots of land. If the heavy metals were in the solutions applied to the conventionally grown crops, then it would be pretty easy to know where they came from and alert the governing agencies. Therefore, they came from the soil.

Although there are no real enforced standards for organic in US, most private companies that set the standards have some specifications for the soil. If you were to convert a field from conventional to organic, the general rules state that the field needs to become farrow and tested for at least 7 years. In theory this does gets rid of chemical pesticides, but there are no major studies to prove it and there is no impact on residual heavy metals.

And as someone that grew up in the produce, food and beverage business I will say that just because something is labeled organic, it does not mean it is organic. It certainly does not mean that the private company they chose to "inspect" there farms followed through with all of their privately chosen standards. My family's company has caught more than a few competitors and business partners cheating the system, selling organic product in quantities that the industry knows the company cannot meet in terms of production.

General rule of thumb for buying organic: is it smaller and more "meh" looking than the conventional fruit or vegetable... it's probably organic. If it's processed and packaged... it's anyone's guess. There certainly is no governing body trying to enforce standards. After all, regulations would only cut the profit margins for the already established major organic players.
In addition to what other posters have noted... there are rumors that future AMD APUs are going to support both DDR4 and GDDR5 RAM.

http://hardware-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/0159210/amd...

AMD has had sub-par (compared to Intel) memory controllers recently. So maybe the improved memory is for naught. Nonetheless, they're working on it...
Why would you expect the administration to 'push or campaign' for States to change their rules like this?

I would expect them to, iff they thought it was a Good Idea. IOW, if they actually agree with the idea behind the petition, even if they aren't legally empowered to make the change, they could do more than hand-wave and issue vague aphorisms and plug themselves on tangential issues.

That could be a party policy, but not an administration one.

The administration is associated with a party, how is this distinction even relevant?

I am at a loss to imagine what legal basis you think the federal government would have to seek such a policy change.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. I don't think the Federal government has any authority to compel anyone to make such a change - but they don't need any special authority speak out verbally in favor of that change, and to encourage the respective State leaders to go along. The respective state leaders, of course, being totally free to ignore that.

Anyway, this whole petition thing is just a waste of time. They don't accomplish anything, and even if they did, it would be like putting a band-aid on a guy who's been decapitated. Our government - at all levels - is far too large, invasive, corrupt and meddlesome. We'd be better off talking about how to get rid of 90% of all "government" than worrying about the details of how Tesla's are sold. shrug
> a centralized industrial one. This was the true benefit of the war: taking the nation into the modern age

This is another can of worms. Once the federal government concentrated its power and became more centralized, one of its first acts was subsidizing the railroads, passing the high distribution costs of large, centralized industrial firms on to taxpayers.

This effectively crowded out more decentralized methods of production that could have been more effective, using networks of small rails or canals to more cheaply distribute local goods, for example. The concentration of capital of centralized industries continued to increase under this regime, with the state being used as a blunt force instrument to distribute external costs of large industrial firms to the public.

This relationship between the state and industry continued to mutate into the corporatism we have today, with the corporate form now being massively privileged and protected by the state through subsidizing infrastructure (transportation, communications, etc.), limiting legal liability, tariffs, patents, copyrights, etc. The state acts as a blunt force instrument for concentrating capital in the hands of a few, on behalf of legal fictions called corporations.

This is the modern age, and in many ways it seems like there are more slaves today than there were before, despite the so-called efficiencies of centralized industry.

If you're interested, Kevin Carson puts forth a critical survey of orthodox views on economies of scale in Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, refuting proponents of centralized industry such as Joseph Schumpeter, JK Galbraith, and Alfred Chandler. He provides a strong argument for decentralizing industry as a way to truly lower real distribution costs, by stripping away the many privileges afforded to corporate forms by the state, in preference of freed markets and bringing more wealth into local economies.
What about false alarm rate? Do we know what it is? Can we adjust it? Since Watchy is for distributed systems, can it do well detecting problems that have 'distributed' causes?
It may be false, but I don't see why would it be "obviously dumb". 2005 was nine years and a few governments ago; enough time for policies to change. After all, just eight years before that, the current PM, who was also the PM back then, presented a plan that included annexation of most settlements.

I'm not saying the theory is correct, again, I have no idea, but that argument seems weak.
You don't need lot's of having power a new transaction with a higher transaction fee can get you there ~10-20% of the time. For small anonimus transactions like a vending machine that's not a problem. Add a slick UI and an suddenly lot's of people are going for random "Free" soda.
It "feels" so compelling; a thought provoking read nonetheless. You are right though, just finished the Kon-Tiki works and dove into some of the other related stuff like this and no one seems to bother much with Hyperdiffusion. Of course, that was skepticism was pretty much how Heyerdahl was received before he made the Kon-Tiki voyages, no?
Consciously or unconsciously everybody starts to map points, abstract numbers or words back into time anyway, which is why I prefer time as opposed to arbitrary numbers or words.

This guy (http://barbarianprogrammer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-mythic...) explains it well.
Immediately what I thought of as well, I use Google Keep for everything notetaking / todo etc and would really have a hard time adopting this.
In the pilot we are just forwarding the transactions as they come. But in future we may send extra information if we receive a transaction trying to reuse already used transaction. That will help in the race condition you described: 1. wait for a transaction 2: wait some seconds if there comes an alert about other transactions trying to consume the same inputs.

That might help, but this is an issue which can be addressed after the pilot starts.
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> Ballmer of course doesn't look bad for his age.

Bill Gates does not look bad either.

Gates lost his wait, so his skin looks a little bit more wrinkled than Ballmer's, but that does not mean Gates' health is any worse.

I think Gates would outlive Ballmer, considering that Gates's farther is still alive.