skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had been using wicd on my old laptop for a few years. Then, when configuring a new computer, wicd failed to work on it. I tried, probably, everything, even the most low level CLI tools, but still connection kept failing, and frustratingly, it was providing almost no information about what was going wrong..
Then, I installed XFCE to had some temporary GUI, and its NM connected to WiFi. Now, I'm using NM, and still have no idea, why other tools did not work for me.
Precisely. Statistics were used in showing that LZ and Huffman Encoding were good from an entropy point of view.

There were dozens of compression schemes proposed. How are you to tell which ones are better than other ones? Well... you experiment, and then measure with statistics.
I dunno now... I used to play more when the fortress always started on a cliff face.

But back then people considered "winning" if you triggered the end-game demon... that despite that making you lose too, it was really hard to do... (and defeating said demon with a adventurer later even harder).
> Fast JVM startup is possible with a preloader like Nailgun.

This has never worked for me with Clojure. I'd enjoy a more specific example.

> A Leiningen daemon is very easy to create.

Could you explain more? I specifically want 1 Lein daemon for all projects, not 1 per project. I want to be able to create new projects on the fly. I only want this feature because the ClojureScript build process is too slow to do on demand.
Wait for Google with their subsidized Android One phones in India and China to see more than 1/7th...
Name is too similar to Tempo (tempoplugin.com)
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That's probably the wrong way to interpret that number.

Many people have multiple devices (phones/tablets) and people have multiple accounts as well.

Still an impressive number nonetheless, even if it was 1/10th of the world's population...
On by default? I know they want me to turn a filter on every time I log into the account management page, as well as some macaffe filter deely.
I would think it's fair assumption that a significant percentage of those users are being counted multiple times if they have duplicate accounts.

EDIT: I don't see how the above statement beckons downvotes. Yes. It was an assumption, but not absurd one at that. Here's one such article that talks about fake accounts -- http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/tech/social-media/facebook-fak...

EDIT2: Last year Facebook said 4.8% of their MAU was duplicate, misclassified, or spam accounts. That's 51+ million today assuming the percentage has remained constant.
Wireshark is a good tool for inspecting 802.11 frames, but it's still a pain. If you do go down this path, I highly recommend adding a capture filter for your adapters MAC, so you don't get flooded with management frames. Filter string: wlan addr 00:00:00:00:00:00.
My partner is a microbiologist in Scotland and she is on high alert for the disease
I think you are misunderstanding. People have shown in this thread that they have a slightly different workflow from each other, but my point was that Clojure(Script) points you towards a particular type of workflow, one that I do not like. What I essentially want is 1 of three things:

1) Fast builds so I can set up an auto-build script.

2) A Leinengen daemon so I don't have to worry about building at all.

3) ClojureScript so I can just refresh the browser.

As far as I can tell none of these are possible. If I am wrong please correct me.
Educated people question your unsourced and unfounded assertion: "The Ebola virus's spread is completely unnatural (it jumps entire regions where there are no major travel patterns)."

Perhaps your brand of "educated people" should stop begging questions to arrive at their points.
If you want to help from your PC at home: http://tasks.hotosm.org/
The author of the essay linked seemed to be asserting that freedom from constraints will produce more wonderful solutions.

My interpretation of Brooks' observation on second systems is that they're what happens when the first system has been enough of a success to give people a relatively free hand to solve problems with it - so they try to solve all the things and wind up with an over-ambitious and unusable system, from which a pared-back third system emerges.
The name alone is not a sufficient identifier to raise any kind of flag.
And yet increasing their revenue 7x still wouldn't let them match Google financially.

What they've achieved is no doubt impressive but there is still a lot to figure out in the model to extract as much as possible from all those users.
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I am not a doctor, but I do know viruses do not jump countries where there are no transportation links. I do question the Ebola magically appearing in random places "theory"

Silly? I am not trying to make this an argument. I am saying when Avion bird flu arrived in Canada they were able to track down the source. It's called the patient zero; that's not a conspiracy, it's due diligence in epidemiology.

My point was it is important to find patient zero when a disease pops out of nowhere with no history in the area.

If you have some experience which contradicts this reasoning from your knowledge of biology or West Africa, please share. cheers.
I think it's a shame that Balanced Payments didn't wind up their PR machine when their CEO was talking about this same stuff last January:
https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin/podcast_01_18_14

They're not doing the best job at demonstrating it, but I think they've been looking at Bitcoin in a clever way for much longer than Stripe :/
5 Reasons why Real Names aren’t a big deal for Google anymore
Or the author's description: 'The published the “User Data manifesto” and is a regular speaker at conferences.'
"Indispensably useful" has positive connotations, yet most people I speak to (even outside the HN/tech crowd) do not speak of Facebook in positive terms.

Some use it simply because it's addictive. They don't want to use it, they don't enjoy using it, but they're eventually drawn back in after trying to quit. In this sense, it's "indispensably useful" in the way crack cocaine is indispensably useful.
This stuff can be tricky.

For years I was using a D-Link USB dongle with a Ralink chip to connect to my home network. At first I had to use a non-mainline driver but eventually mainline caught up. Anyway, either way, it worked pretty well without much fuss.

Then I moved to an apartment building with dozens of repeaters in it for a large university network, and my connection became unbearably slow (even though my laptop running Linux and my Android phone and tablet all worked fine) despite working OK on Windows.

So I ordered another dongle by a different manufacturer with a different chipset, which had many reviews exclaiming how well it worked on Linux. It had the same problems.

Eventually I got a PCIE Intel card and it worked splendidly, with no fiddling whatsoever.

The moral of the story is that there are a huge number of different hardware and software configurations and environments to use them in. And what's more, a configuration that works without issue in one environment can fail spectacularly in another.
Yeah, its very precious too :-) hand picked from west coast of India.
Quoting Donald Knuth from MMIX 2009 [1] (the revision of the MIX architecture):

"And ouch, the standard subroutine calling convention of MIX is irrevocably based on self-modifying instructions! Decimal arithmetic and self-modifying code were popular in 1962, but they sure have disappeared quickly as machines have gotten bigger and faster."

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/mmix.html
You know what's more alarming? Sweeping nazism under the rug because Godwin's law.
I created HUSL as an alternative to HSL, particularly for programmatic palette generation.

http://www.boronine.com/husl/
I guess you aren't just filling in pictures from a list, are you? you have to find a picture that fits the space you have? If this is the case, it might be best to change the "row height" to justify the images, and ignore the "best fit" image.

Then it is just taking a list of images, and moving the "view" forward or backward on that list, right?
Are we looking at the same website, or have they changed it since you made your comment? "ONS currently uses namecoin as a key-value store but the system is blockchain-agnostic" is on the first screen after the fold for me.
Thirded. I suspect part of it is some people go into GAE thinking they can get away with the front-end instances only, which are limited in what they can do (can't open any sockets/files, limited third party libs as a result, a few other things which irked me that don't spring to mind), versus the compute instances (which in my understanding are more like a traditional VM offering, but that's credit card territory, no prototyping there afaik).

One example is the authentication API being awkward, it seemed like you had to choose [1] either Google's authentication, Google App's authentication or OpenID (you can roll your own auth, its just not obvious from the scrappy admin console - I got the distinct impression they were rushing to bolt things in there w/o putting too much thought into it).

An app written for GAE is going to be pretty painful to port elsewhere as a result of the APIs you have to code to as a result of those limitations (well, now you can port to AppScale pretty easily I guess). The whole thing did feel like a lock-in attempt to me.

I also had to try and estimate the costs a client would face based on requests/minute and some other metrics, and it was tough; basically boils down to 'suck it and see' for a realistic estimate.

For prototypes/pure frontend apps/wikis/static content I'd probably still use it (with some defensive coding to make moving it easier if needed), but I found it pretty frustrating all around when you need to move outside their box.

1. https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/auth
Yea, I didn't do that just to make it clearer: if you aren't used to ML, I Imagine that this would be very confusing.
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https://bookofbadarguments.com/

What you're doing is called equivocation, and it's bad. He was talking about efficiency relative to a theoretical maximum where everything is as efficient as absolutely possible. You're either not reading the article or you're consciously trying to alter the meaning of the words in the debate so that you're right. Please stop.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. My bad. :)
That worked for me very well ... until the USB gizmo fell out. :(

Ironically, I quit OS-X because my macbook was even worse.
I'm pretty sure the Orchard link wasn't there when I first read the article. I distinctly remember searching through the page for Fig and Orchard. The way I actually found Orchard was through the linked blog post near the bottom of the article, then cut out the blog part of the URL to go to their main domain.
F2P games took market segmentation and price elasticity testing to somewhat questionable places, with large financial returns, http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949...

Ben Thompson wrote an analysis of "Digital Whales", http://stratechery.com/2014/dependent-digital-whales/

---

"So to recount, Facebook is going gangbusters because of ads for free-to-play games, developers are excited about the chance to cash in via Facebook ads, Google and Twitter are trying to mimic Facebook’s success, and Google and especially Apple are hanging their app store hats on the amount of revenue generated by in-app purchases.

In other words, billions of dollars in cold hard cash, and 20x that in valuations are ultimately dependent on a relatively small number of people who just can’t stop playing Candy Crush Saga.

... Answered my own question: Re/code reports that a new study from app-testing firm Swrve claims that half of all in-app purchases are made by just 0.15% of mobile gamers, which is pretty stunning considering how lucrative in-app purchases have become for mobile game developers."

---
Very cool idea - will be playing around with this.

A couple of questions:

1) I see you offer Options and equities - do you have fixed income products like treasuries or munis?

2) Based on the example for the option chains, it looks like you have historic option data. How far back does your option history go? I realize it may vary based on ticker.
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> How about ISO standards? 2014/07/08 is completely unambiguous to everyone.

Agreed; however, ISO 8601 is actually YYYY-MM-DD, not YYYY/MM/DD. So, 2014-07-08.
No, the original was correct. That's 1.07B distinct people.

Crazier, IMO, is the DAU. 829 million log in EVERY DAY.
The reason appears to be that Intel wants Android to work well on their hardware, and the new BlueDroid stack doesn't support any Intel-specific features. Instead of fixing the sketchy (details in article) BlueDroid code, they decided to make BlueZ a drop-in replacement for BlueDroid:

http://lwn.net/Articles/597293/
I feel dirty for having read such blasphemy.

:P
> You seem to be assuming that if [...] an agency is officially subject to law, it will never act contrary to law.

Well, of course. If we instead assume that agencies will simply ignore the law, then of course any process is meaningless. But if that is your assumption, we might as well give up now. Of course bad things could happen if agencies start breaking the law, but if there is no evidence of systemic law-breaking, it's not really useful to bring up. It should be pretty evident that even the NSA attempts to ensure that everything it does is legal, and in fact goes out of its way to do things in a convoluted and obfuscated fashion to ensure the legality of some of its actions.
No Facebook in China. Facebook mostly faces political growth limits right now...
FYI it's "ternary".
Not the first one, either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lukwiya#Death
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Science wouldn't be OK at all. Not only because he's forgetting all those other scientific discoveries that aren't Newton's or Einstein's, and not only because he's forgetting that there's a world of difference between a scientific result and the work done to get there, but also because we'd have no way to distinguish between a good scientific discovery and http://www.timecube.com/ re-stated in numbers.

In a world similar to our own but without statistics, probably the first thing we'd do would be to invent statistics.
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I realize why you are complaining about people not doing a "cursory reading", but the fact is, a cursory reading can support as many false statements as just reading the article.

Kind of makes you wonder what value the The Intercept is adding, doesn't it?
On HN people will usually expect you to cite some sources when making claims like this.
https://github.com/puniverse/quasar looks pretty nice, assuming you can't use erlang for whatever reason.
I know: http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300072551/microsofts-enterpris...
The primary positive is that the disease has a very quick run from infection to visibly symptomatic to death. While long distance spread is still possible, most outbreaks have been somewhat geographically contained because of this. The worst case scenario for deadly diseases is asymptomatic carriers, and I don't know if there is such a thing with ebola (except for the first few days of infection). It's why diseases like HIV have ultimately had greater impact. It can spread for years before anyone becomes symptomatic.
Good article. It might be worth considering doing git bisect ignore if a build fails. I suspect (not sure it might just halt) at the moment it would result in a git bisect bad so might give you a wrong change commit.
Go/Weiqi Artificial Intelligence 
Hello does anyone here play Go / Weiqi? (Its a strategic board game invented in China 5000 years ago, much more complex than chess.) Been playing for about 20 years now, am about 5 to 6 Dan and am starting to take an interest in programming and artificial intelligence systems that play Go. My goal is to build a computing system / program that can defeat a top professional Go player in a real-life 8 hour long tournament on an even handicap level (no handicap).
Interesting read but I was hoping for a bit more insight. I would have liked to see a few low-level examples of their file structure, how they build certain components, or how they utilise certain Sass features.

I was also hoping he would talk more about his thoughts on CSS methodologies, like BEM or OOCSS. The methodology itself is more interesting than the application of it.
I could be way off here, but why are you still using jquery for the ajax if you're using angular?
Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, please live. We need people like you.

And for whoever is reading, you can find donate buttons for MSF's ebola emergency appeal and MSF in general, if you follow the links below.

http://www.msf.org.uk/ebola

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/race-control-eb...

edit - I have no association with MSF, they just seem to be the right people to be giving money to if you want to help with this. If anyone knows of others, please suggest them.

Also, and I appreciate this is pretty rude, but I know that there are some extremely rich people who hang out on here. To those people, see if you can try and arrive at a monetary value on how scared you are of ebola arriving in your backyard, and then donate that.
Is the data on your phone worth $400?
Is there a universally agreed metric of what a mobile MAU constitutes?

Is there a generally agreed unit of time spent per instance of log in activity, to qualify as a MAU?

Or just the very act of stumbling into the FB app (somehow), through the myriad ways possible out there, still constitute a MAU?

I understand that this does not count (?) API calls (justifiably).

All these years in, I just want to assure myself that we are still not in the era of sketchy metrics and non-standard parameters.

For example this Nielsen graphic is from 2012 and shows time spent, on social networking broadly, in HH:MM

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/files/2012/12/nielsen-...

Note: Asked in the other duplicate post, as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077054
That statement alone is enough to dismiss the entire article.

Perhaps if you include every half-hearted attempt to throw code in the open as a "failed effort", and ignore such half-hearted attempts for proprietary software (because they are hidden), then perhaps you could reach such a conclusion.

But I doubt the author even bothered to look for any data; instead he just printed it because it made sense to him at the time.

I guess that's also how he reached the conclusion that "it’s time to admit that this idea didn’t work out" despite the wild growth, unimaginable reach, ubiquitous use, and general acceptance of open source.
Since it's not entirely obvious:

Click on the purple squares for radar animations and photos of the events.
To paraphrase Jurassic Park: "lisp finds a way"
Show HN: Para – an open source back-end framework
Twitter is mostly a white male company
Or you could just use Mint
Could you have done it without the band though?
I like the concept (though I'm not sure what the value is to businesses embedding the widget?).

Is this something you'd consider open sourcing?
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It's all about having a common hardware profile.

Add any external sound hardware, use a optical or SPDIF port instead, add some speakers. It'll break sooner-or-later, and in my own experiences it tends to be whenever my personal computer gets away from the 'typical' desktop profile.
As someone who used to bill in six minute increments, I can tell you that the smaller your billing increment is, the more life sucks.

Tracking by the hour (or less) introduces a whole new level of mental overhead. Most people are pretty good at recalling the major items they worked on in a day -- and if they can't, they can usually reconstruct what happened by examining e-mail history, commit logs, work product, etc. It's a lot harder to recall how many hours you spent on something though. Based on personal experience at least, if I'm not actively using a timer or using some kind of software that records what I'm doing in real time, my personal recollection tends to be way off. Even when I am using a timer, I often run into issues like forgetting to turn off the timer when I take a gym or coffee break.

There's also all sorts of performance anxiety when it comes to hourly tracking. Not all hours are equal. I'm personally way more productive in the morning than I am right after lunch. But as far as invoicing goes, an hour's an hour. So I can either feel guilty about billing two hours for something that should have taken only one or I can write an hour off, which introduces even more overhead. With daily or weekly billing, a lot of that gets smoothed out.
Bob Harper's _Practical Foundations for Programming Languages_ is a good starting point and from there I would go on to Benjamin Pierce's _Types and Programming Languages_.
I'm sorry, but you generalized about the same billion people and even offered a completely imaginary 90% statistic to boot. And I'm not an outsider, not to the industry, not to web services, not to social networks, not to FB itself. I've been a user and an employee and a consultant for all of those things.
This seems like a really bad idea - a link to download a potentially malicious .exe from a group of malware researchers. Or is this a test to see if anyone is crazy enough to run it?
Minecraft was started as a clone of Infiniminer.
Look into dkms[0] so the driver is compiled automatically on each kernel upgrade.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
Microsoft's Enterprise Price Hikes Paying Off As SQL Server Hits $5 Billion Mark
Nobody is going that route partly because the freedom-loving DFSG has declared it to be not free.
There are not a lot of equivalent spec'd ICE vehicles.
The instructions say to run it in a virtual machine because some of the challenges may be malicious.
I'd say it's an example of the opposite, the partly closed-source Puppet Enterprise is where the primary focus is now, support and training are still available but more of a sideshow. Also Puppet Labs got their initial funding almost 10 years ago now, back when investors believed in open source, as the parent comment observes. They've received around $85m to date, half of that since their pivot to Puppet Enterprise.