skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
someone needs to craft a Bechdel test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test) for sci-fi.

1. has to have at least two established theories (cosmological or otherwise) in it
2. they must combine to create a dramatic plot issue
3. in a fashion which doesn't involve a time-loop paradox

that or some generic metric; "Firefly is delightful, but only scores 2.7 Asimovs"

...or not
I've never heard about mercury before! Great to see more virtual DOM development.

I hope the new framework gets animation right, I'd love to see it as flexible as in D3, in my opinion this is something currently React currently lacks (the transitions are there but they are too simplistic to cover complex web app cases).
Go on "sabbatical" - it's basically a holiday, but people will think you are being productive and not just relaxing.

You should argue that the sabbatical is a years off unpaid holiday. Take a break, but still have connections and commitments to the company.
That depends entirely on what sort of lifestyle you're trying to sustain.

There shouldn't be much difference between the level of savings needed to retire at (say) 35 and (say) 45. In either case, you want enough that with low-end-of-plausible stock market growth, you're taking out less than growth is putting back.

There's some research around what level of growth it's safe to assume; how much you trust it depends on whether you think the past behaviour of the US stock market is a good predictor of the future behaviour of whatever you invest in. I suggest (but this is Not Financial Advice and I am Not a Financial Advisor) working on the basis that you can probably get ~2.5% of your investment out per year pretty safely. (Usually it'll grow more than that, even after inflation. That cushions you a bit against cases where bad things happen. I assume you are willing to trim your lifestyle back a bit in bad times.)

That means you need about 40 years' worth of spending in your savings. That would be $5M if you are spending $125k/year. In my opinion (about which you need not care), if you are spending $125k/year then either you are earning so much that saying $5M isn't going to be a big challenge for you, or else something is amiss with your priorities.
You need root privileges to gain access to a block device.

You need root privileges to gain access to kernel cryto and other kernel managed resources.

For a project to be usable to normal users,it need to be assessable to normal users and hence it need to walk a fine line between being privileged and being not privileged as it need to exist on both side of the fence.

As far as TrueCrypt is concerned,any person who sets up TrueCrypt for somebody else to use end up setting up passwordless sudo for it and this opens up the discussed problem.It is a security issue in a sense that TrueCrypt does not take into account its privileged position when it interfaces with mount command.You can nitpick on the passwordless sudo part but one way or the other,TrueCrypt expect to be run privileged and sudo is the easiest path but pick any other method you prefer.

FUSE will give you a workaround as far as mounting is concerned but you will still need root privileges when invoking kernel crypto or other kernel managed infrastructure. FUSE also solves a mounting problem but a different one.

There are 3 different "techniques" that can be used to allow a normal user to do mounting operations and i discussed them here[1] as the first FAQ entry.

This will be a security issue if it happened to udisks or anybody else i know.Maybe linux users of TrueCrypt are a completely different audience when it comes to this kind of privilege separation issues.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/wiki/FAQ
Sounds sensible to me. Is he missing anything?
I agree that Dr. Who is most certainly science fiction, but I've __noticed__ a lot more instances of script-writer-protection of the heroes in the 2005+ Dr. Who. So many times that the bad guys decide to do something other than Just Kill Them.

I don't mind that the Sonic Screwdriver is a psychic Scotty in a stick ( ;) ), but the fact that the Doctor and friends don't get shot in the face (especially once he reveals who he is) more often is getting almost absurd.

Star Trek certainly has it's share of that kind of writer-armor for characters, but many more of them are less overt. As in, the Romulans/Klingons aren't going to just kill Kirk or Picard for $Reasons, or $Treaty.
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If this technique is much more performant (batching diffs of the DOM), why don't browsers perform this "back-buffering" natively?
Sharing a ride or renting a property is a high risk proposition and humans have traditionally relied on trust networks and connections like families and friends to find good customers and providers.

I think the true innovation of the sharing economy is using technology to scale up these trust networks with rating and reviews to the level required by a modern city. These mechanisms have of course been known for a long time in the internet, but sharing economy realized its full value for renting and sharing rather recently.
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
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Accented character menus on long-press are on by default in 10.7 and later, at least for the default U.S. English settings. Two caveats:

(1) Long-press menus appear in most places, but not everywhere. For example, they don't appear in Terminal windows.

(2) While enabled by default, long-press menus can be disabled by setting the "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled" default to false. To make sure they're not disabled globally, enter

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

at a shell prompt (they could still potentially be disabled at the individual application defaults level, via mandatory managed defaults, etc.).
For more-less exactly the same reason you accept general relativity over aristotelian motion - it is derived from first principles using maths, can be shown to match experience even if somewhat intuitive to people, and works pretty well in practice.
Not really a mention of whether these 'chained' methods should be returning a new collection, mutating an existing collection, or returning something completely different.

Would expect to at least see some kind of discussion on this here - otherwise every method call is a "pipeline"
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Thanks! I was looking for a new show to binge-watch on Netflix.

I wanted to point out that (after just now checking) Netflix isn't consistent with their two-part show listings as they relate to Netflix's episode number. For example, the two-parter of S01E01-02 and S04E01-02 are listed as one episode on Netflix. S02E20-21 are listed as two separate episodes. It gets out of sync with the guide. Not a huge deal, just need to make sure to pay attention to episode title as opposed to episode number.
They don't mention it in the post but they did in the talk: their firmware will allow easy bandwidth usage capping & throttling on the guest network.
Makes me wonder why smaller website teams need dozens of engineers to keep their infinitesimally smaller app running.
Fine, but who says that can't be done as group :)
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Five seasons and a number of TV movies:

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html

The "P5 rating" for each episode tends to be a very reliable indicator of its quality. That said, B5 cannot be watched out of sequence, and there are very few episodes which one can skip, due to the nature of the story arc.
Are you willing to sacrifice the tailwind in your career that comes from leveraging your business skills?
"One problem is not many tests. Tests aren’t needed because there’s a great community... If users find any problems with it they report the bugs that they’ve found."

I'm often surprised at the paucity of test-coverage in relatively large companies.

http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/
What is memory safety?
A good NIC won't require much CPU power to drive, but in order to have reasonable real-world performance with the networking equipment that actually exists, you need every packet to be handled by the QoS and AQM systems running on the CPU. Doing that at near-gigabit speeds really does require a beefy CPU, though not a full desktop-class wattage.
Actually it's a great premise, but it is overshadowed by the "cool teen" factor which plagues other shows on the CW (though Arrow has mostly been able to escape that..for now).

The Vampire Diaries is a good example of what being on the CW does to a show. It started out in the first two seasons as a dark, violent, mostly serious take on the "teenage vampire" trope, and could be enjoyed by both teens and GenX/GenY fans of the vampire genre. It has a pretty good cast (Nina Dobrev's "Katie Holmes v2" notwithstanding). After those first seasons, however, it devolved into the stereotypical teen drama + nonsensical mysticism. Eventually, after seeing a school dance or town festival as the main plot device every two episodes, I had to stop watching it. My wife still watches, but she tends to enjoy the occasional plotless teen drama.
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I read textbooks on my computer actually. Not by choice though, textbooks are difficult to find and too expensive.

I used to hate lectures when I was in school but now I sort of prefer them. It's easier for some reason. It's more passive; you just sit there and listen rather than actively read. It doesn't seem to be slower like others complain, and may even be faster. I read difficult texts very slowly and methodically, and often have to reread stuff.
How has the recent coup affected life there? Would you discourage people from immigrating, with the country in its current state?
Now you can access moment through rome.moment, there you can do whatever you want, i18n-wise
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Having done some benchmarks with TodoMVC before, I knew something was off about these results.

They play to the strengths of the virtual dom approach by manipulating the benchmark via dom instead of what ever interface was implemented within each TodoMVC implementation.

So I forked the benchmark and changed both the Backbone and Mercury implementations to work through their respective apis.

Here it is: https://github.com/smelnikov/todomvc-perf-comparison

as you can see the giant gap between Backbone and mercury is now gone while both tests perform the exact same tasks. (feel free to step through it in the debugger to see for yourself)

Here's my commit log: https://github.com/smelnikov/todomvc-perf-comparison/commit/...

Note: I've added a new method to the Backbone implementation for toggling completed state as the old one was horribly in-efficient. This is not something inherit in Backbone but rather is specific to this TodoMVC implementation. See my comments in the commit log.

Note 2: Exoskeleton, which is basically backbone without the jQuery dependency is roughly 2-3x faster than vanilla backbone, I'm going to predict that it will actually be significantly faster than mercury.

Note 3: I think the virtual dom is great and seemingly has many benefits but I feel as though the speed benefit has been greatly exaggerated.
I work at the sister company, so things are pretty similar. We have lunch together and everyone participates (although it's not mandatory) simply because we all have our own offices, if we didn't have lunch together I wouldn't get a chance to talk to my coworkers face to face at all in a day.

It's a huge contrast from when I worked in an open-floor environment and thought of lunch as my "alone time".
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Internet service providers are in a unique position of providing a service that many people are beginning to regard as a basic human right. We give them the right to build and maintain networks in our communities - they have a responsibility to us too.
The first three clients:

- I contacted the first trough oDesk and we work together for 1+ year
- A client saw my personal website when searching for Django developers in my region
- Another client via LinkedIn
To art and math, I would add sport: whitewater kayaking and surfing are two sports in which participants directly engage and experience transitions between smooth and turbulent flows in water.

I doubt they will lead anyone to mathematical breakthroughs. But they are both a lot of fun, and can go beyond physical exertion to inspire deep emotion and thought, even spiritual experiences.

Edit to add: A fun book along these lines is "The Wave", which is a pop-science book that contrasts big wave surfers with oceanographers studying rogue waves.
Have you tried to not be a good business man, giving mediocre advice and make business mistakes to disaualify yourself from that part?
While it might be "secure" in terms of recovering plain text, it certainly reads as suspicious spam.

"Why hello there hacker news" gets converted to "hulkier theretofore. simplistically earls swinishly hosepipe disallowances"
No necessarily; from Wikipedia on Armstrong:

"He earned a student flight certificate on his 16th birthday, then soloed later in August; all before he had a driver's license."

And he got his MS 15 years after his Bachelors, although it was in aeronautical engineering. As for Aldrin:

"Buzz Aldrin graduated third in his class at West Point in 1951, with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force...."

He got his Sc.D. in astronautics a dozen years later.

I think they had to be both serious pilots and engineers to succeed in the Apollo program, e.g. note Armstrong's diversion from a boulder strewn field during the descent.
> Giving someone else 20% for finding work is not in your best interests, especially for repeat clients.

And especially since these sites do not tend to attract the very best paying customers.
> Additionally, all fellows will have 1:1 pair programming sessions with their mentors. Fog Creek currently has a 0.4% acceptance rate for full-time developers; The fellows will be working with the best in the industry.

I understand what fogcreek was tryiing to communicate here but I chuckled at this as it flies in the face of something joel said about how everyone thinks they are hiring the top 1%

> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html

On a more serious note....Congratulations to FogCreek, atleast they are trying to do something here rather than just complaining about it on internet forums:)
It's achingly beautiful to the pocket protector set (me!).

This source code, for example, contains the very first Kalman filter ever used - Kalman was invited over to Moffett field to give talks about his paper, which led to his theory was used in LM code. But I think everyone is very aware of the state of the art at the time, and things have advanced a lot since then. It is impressive to see them cramming that into such a limited processor. But, 'whatever' as to that aspect of it. This is a historical artifact of an amazing feat based on cutting edge research in mathematics/control theory.
Best line:

"respondents rated branded content as more trustworthy than Fox News"
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I'm not familiar with ampersand-collection, so I don't exactly understand your questions, but I think you're also farther along than I am researching this. I can't give a good answer yet as I'm just starting to play around with integrating mori.

I don't know what you mean by "derived attributes", or why it would be difficult to do data transformations on the models that deal with mori data structures. It'd be great to discuss this somewhere, maybe on #reactjs IRC? I'm jlongster there.
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I would have trouble doing that as well; fortunately, you should not accept the points above because they are either non-issues or seriously misrepresenting what Eliezer believes and ever wrote.

It's fair to evaluate and criticize opinions, but as maaku said upthread, one should play fair.
>And yet most people are fooled into believing that we can somehow chase happiness ...

Well it has a long history going back before Christ eg.
http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddhistteachings/a/The-Bu...

And more recently has become established as a fairly respectable field of study kicked off with "Positive psychology began as a new area of psychology in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association" amongst other things. (from Wikipedia)

Personally I'd rather be happy than depressed and as an atheist would rather turn to science than religion for how to advice. Dunno if that's foolish.
Was it essential for this project to use PHP to compete with Wordpress? In other words, does cheap, cheap hosting still imply PHP?
A female developer I once employed was from Singapore. She told me that in Singapore there is no noticeable gender discrepancy in IT.

How accurate was she? I don't know. If she was correct, then it suggests that the enormous over-representation in IT in the US and some other countries may be due solely to cultural reasons.
From the article:

> ...returns a collection of only those articles for which the lambda resolves as true.

> Like select it returns a new collection so I can continue the pipeline...

> ...return a collection of records.

> Each operation takes a collection as an input and emits another collection (expect the last operation, which may be a terminal that emits a single value).
Not everything needs to be built-in. There are significant trade-offs for baking things into the browser, and it's actually far better to keep things as libraries. You don't have to worry as much about backwards compatibility, it's far easier to roll out updates, etc.

Also, the fact is that the web is stuck in a Web Components-driven approach to building apps which is pretty orthogonal to how this works.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Qb-wZLeA4&list=UUgXNsn5yeK...
> With their SQL Servers loaded with 384 GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD, AWS would cost a fortune.

I have next to zero experience with server administration, but 384GB seems like a lot to me. Is that common for production servers for popular web services? Do you need a customized OS to address that much memory? Seems like you'd really need to beef up the cache hierarchy make 0.38TB of RAM fast.
I just wish they hadn't ruined the entire concept by going with one-based indexing.
If you think about it, this is a good answer to one of those bullshit interview questions "What is your biggest weakness?". I have a similar one which i've been working on a lot which is trying to have a better work/life balance. I used to have a lot of trouble saying no...and I worked a lot more than I do now. I _still_ work probably too much; however, my team now knows I will not be bothered from 6 to 8 pm as that's when my kid is home, lucid, and we're having some family time. Trying to find that balance is a constant battle.

Do you think you can _and_ should improve on this? Awesome. Introspection and room for improvement for the win!
I used to think taxis and hotels needed to be regulated to ensure quality and safety of the services. I don't anymore. It's pretty obvious by now that users have more trust in the sharing economy services like Uber than they do in the old taxi service.

Yet another case where technology has improved on an older solution built by legal means alone.
No they don't. You can create your own ISP if you don't like it. And internet is not a basic human right.
Dapper is great - I promptly dumped NHibernate and Entity Framework for it. It's the only ORM I've found that makes it trivially easy (as it should be) to use stored procedures and views in queries.
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yep ... agree with this. The best teams I've been on (ie. best culture/fit/whatever) have always ventured out for lunch. Making sure we get away for at least an hour in the middle of the day made us more productive.
Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1rs1s1/what_are_som...

Which I find to be more streamlined and focused on game development.
Cix, it is possible, but keep in mind in order for the NFC to transmit you literally have to be on top of the device and positioned just right. NFC is the most secure and convenient way to transmit information without an application. A good example of NFC in real world point-of-sale applications is Mastercard/Visa Paypass solutions.
Have you ever wondered if Kickstarter or Indiegogo is better for crowdfunding?
I don't think trjordan said anything like that.
Settlement free peering only happens if the traffic is balanced. In the case of Level3 and Verizon, it's not, hence Verizon's point (and apparently it was Level3's point when dealing with Cogent) is that the settlement free peering is not appropriate for such lop sided traffic and Level 3 needs to pay via alternative arrangement with Verizon.
Anecdotally. Mine is the opposite. I've noticed the more someone tends to delegate and / or say no, the more they end up becoming respected in the organizations I've worked in. It's not that they say "That's not my job". It's more that they say "I can not take that on with my current responsibilities and perform it at a level that it deserves."
Unfortunately, this is the high end of security for the future "internet of things". Everything else will be worse.

Something I wonder about, given network access (over the wifi?) could you upload a valid unprocessed raw fingerprint using the unvalidated "restore backup" function to trick the software into logging some valid user's fingerprint was present, gaining access to the facility?

Also I note the complete lack of other biometrics, so a photocopy of any of the recorded "fingers" taped to my finger would seem to validate me.

I would imagine that messing with the machine could be logged, but luckily it appears pretty easy to overwrite local logs with this machine.

Its highly unusual to find a biometric device that is not on a Hollywood set that is not snake oil. It would have been surprising if this device had been legit.
Have you considered whether an ownership stake in the company would change your point of view? If you really are valued for your insights on the business side, but you are supposed to give 100% to development as well, why not bump up the stakes? See whether they are just giving their monkeys to you (as in http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/068...) ? You could always ask for a raise (if shares are too much to ask for). There's an equilibrium in front of you waiting to be discovered.

Are the ones dragging you to late meetings shareholders? Or maybe they work on commission? Or perhaps there's a big bonus waiting for them but not for you ? Find out whether money is the problem or not, it's easier to find the solution once you understand others' motivations.

I'm guessing you're more of a generalist than a specialist in one field and that's partially why you see things the way business would like "tech" to see. It's actually a good thing and helps you build better software. In the worst case just change job one more time, sometimes it takes longer than one or two switches to find the right place. Good luck!