skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, all languages are "a bit quirky". It gets worse when you start including things that are in the PHP stdlib but aren't in other languages by default. [e.g. When they basically re-implement how php-fpm handles requests and thread safety]
> Net neutrality is less of a hot topic in the wireless world compared to wired.

Really? Unless you can participate in the multi-billion dollar spectrum auction, you can't use any of those towers or disparate device providers. The right to use a large block of spectrum in a given geographic area is a monopoly of sorts for that carrier. Given the capital and scale needed to enter the market, it's no wonder we have so few wireless carriers to choose from.
I know some bigger companies like HP make sure every department bills every other department in order to make sure that you don't get problems like you would in any centrally planned economy without a price mechanism.
Is this essentially gamification of getting (and selling) users private information?

Mental performance information is as private as it gets.

While this post is from years ago, it is very relevant today; Lumosity has been incessantly advertising through NPR and I was actually thinking looking into them.

I had hopes that perhaps this is for pay app and was considering how to handle app privacy. Clearly not going to happen.
It's using GraphLab 2.0, not 2.3 (no idea why), and they also forced synchronous mode on GraphLab, hence the less than stellar scaling.

On at least the problems I use GraphLab for, synchronous mode is not only a lot slower, it converges WAY more slowly as well.

It's important when doing comparisons to not rig the game, and it's not clear to me that the authors took pains to keep things fair.
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Has anyone tried using T-Mobile's $10 unlimited data plan + a Google Voice number + RedPhone + TextSecure? Does it work as good as normal phone service? (obviously there are areas of the country where it wouldn't work while traveling, mainly concerned about an area that has good Tmobile coverage.)

http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/mobile-internet.htm...

It would have only 1 GB of 4G, unlimited 3G, but I personally don't use much data anyways, 3 GB would be $10 extra per month.

I'd also like to add a VPN to that package, I've used PrivateTunnel in the past, does anyone have a better recommendation for a VPN service?

https://www.privatetunnel.com $12 for 50 GB, which would last me a long time on a mobile phone since I use WiFi most of the time.

Basically $11 per month for unlimited everything and it would be encrypted through multiple services.

Back on topic: I don't see anything wrong with Sprint offering this package. Nobody is forced to purchase it since there is sufficient alternatives from both Sprint and other service providers. I personally wouldn't use it and am not sure what people would do if they needed to Google something, but if people want it, let them buy it.

Unrelated again: Why was Twitter (TWTR) up 20% today?
I had no idea Lumosity was that old. I assumed it was a recent fad in the past year or so... at least that's when I first heard of it because of all the ads.
Actually, that's Uniform Function Call Syntax
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/uniform-function-call-syntax/2327...

And it doesn't make a language 'dynamic'. The language I found with UFCS is both static and compiled.
My god. They must be stopped.
> Net neutrality is less of a hot topic in the wireless world compared to wired.

That's actually not all that true. While both the 2010 Open Internet Order and the more recent NPRM for a new version have provided looser rules for mobile broadband, (fixed wireless has the same rules as fixed wired broadband), its been on the FCC radar, and a number of big players pushing for more full neutrality than the current NPRM offers for fixed broadband have also been advocating for the same treatment for mobile broadband as fixed rather than two separate models.

> In wired world, the carriers were granted monopoly to dig the trenches, and the fact that they now abuse that monopoly without giving access to other players is what riles people.

In the wireless world, companies rely on exclusive monopoly licenses to spectrum, so its an ongoing -- not merely historical -- monopoly on which they rely.
Tower space yes, frequency no.
This is no longer the case. I was using a self-signed cert temporarily.
> It's changed a lot since I first used it.

Have any good examples? I haven't used the language in years, would love to see what "modern" PHP looks like. (Seriously, not trolling at all)
FYI: No longer using a self-signed cert.
I think the fake browser can visit arbitrary websites.

The Spyware popup moves when you attempt to mouseover the Close button.

Has anybody downloaded `404simulator.exe` or `todo.txt`? (Seen in FileZilla in the left panel.)
There are 6,436 homeless people living in SF
As far as I know, the application connections for Facebook and Twitter are done via HTTPS APIs.
> I imagine the founder you're quoting has never had a close friend or family member that suffers from the latter.

I would imagine the same, except for the description s/he gives for depression where s/he describes it as being a numbness that can be addictive to fall back into. It is such a spot-on description that he either read it someplace or went through it personally.
> Software engineering is not yet plumbing — or Legos — because our standards are incomplete, our libraries incompatible, scaling is still not free and our software still buggy.

I think it's more that plumbing has been with us for thousands of years. Imagine if we had computers 5000 years ago - software surely would have been plug-and-play by now as Sam writes about.
Can you give some examples of what was taken from the garage and house? This would help paint a picture of what the robbers were interested in.

That activity could always be a decoy, of course, to throw you off the scent; or it could simply be that the thieves really were interested in those items that they took and not your computers and electronics.

There are good reasons not to take large electronics: they are not that easy to turn into cash, and they are bulky items: poor dollar to volume/weight ratio. It's much better to steal actual cash. Or traditional valuables like gold.

What's better: a computer monitor you can hawk for 50 bucks at most? Or 4 grams of gold from an 18K ring, worth some 100 bucks? Or an actual $100 bill? This is why thieves went through drawers and cabinets: they want small things that are dense with value, and cash.

As far as electronics goes, small stuff like smartphones and tables packs more value.

I wouldn't get all paranoid. One thing to do, though, is to monitor your network traffic, especially outbound, to look for any suspicious activity.
Wouldn't it have been better to use the original source [e.g. http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/virgin-mobile-usa-l... ] if you were going to moderate the URL choice?

I'd rank the urls as :

1) Original Source

2) Droid Life

3) WSJ

Personally.
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My guess is it would be some thinking Americans. Just a guess though.
> And the vast majority of Mental Healthcare professionals require a referral from your PCP or they won't take you as a patient. The scenario typically goes like this: I go see my Primary Care Physician and complain about depression or some other mental health issue. He listens for a couple of minutes then wants to prescribe zoloft (or celexa or whatever). I ask about seeing a Psychiatrist and get something like "well, he's just going to have his intern ask you a bunch of questions then prescribe the same drug I would..." I ask about seeing a Psychologist, and after some pushing he grudgingly gives me a referral. The psychologist is a really bad fit with me, and isn't helping so now I've got a open-ended prescription for zoloft and no fucking help.

Holy shit. That is so fucked up dude. I'm sorry.

For what it's worth the vast majority of therapists do not require referrals, but not having a referral can make it impossible to get reimbursed via your insurance, which I know can make it a nonstarter for some.

> There's also the issue that most insurance plans have pretty crappy coverage for this stuff. And since I can't get an in-network referral to an in-network doctor, I'll be paying for most of this out of pocket.

Yeah, it really sucks.

> My advice, for the little it's worth, is first... Don't Give Up. It's a fucking absurd pain in the ass, but it is possible to overcome. Think about finding a doctor the same way you would about hiring an employee, that's basically what you're doing.

I agree 100000%. It's so worth it. I also love using our existing startup skills as a platform for addressing these issues, nice.
This post was killed by user flags.

Religious flamewars of any kind are off topic here.
Two answers: scaling through structured distributed systems abstractions is a key aim in Mirage. We deliberately want each VM to be predictable, single vCPU and scale via multiple VMs. It's far more efficient to scale via lots of small VMs that are scheduled independently than having a few big multicpu VMs (which have a lot of overhead since the CPU sync also needs to be virtualised). See our ASPLOS 2013 paper for some simple workloads on this topic.

We are building this library to simplify this style of distributed programming: http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin

Other answer: we will be talking about our multicore ocaml implementation at ICFP in September. I still don't want to see it in Mirage though :-)
That would be true for any properly annotated JS fed to Google Closure Compiler, right?

I definitely need to learn more about it, as dead code elimination for JavaScript seems very, very hard due to its dynamic nature and I'm curious how they do it. Does anyone know about other JS compilers which try to perform dead code elimination?
> 5 is a moving target, and the island of stability (Perl 6) seems to be just around the corner forever.

The idea of 6 as an island of stability and 5 as a moving target is exactly backwards.

And Perl 5 has had fewer breaking changes than any of its popular scripting siblings... Ruby (1.8 -> 1.9 anyone?), Python (oh, yes, let's talk about 2 vs 3, shall we?), or PHP (in which build flags introduce breaking changes, let alone stuff that's come with some 5.x dot release).

> So what are the metrics to port Perl 5 to 6? I have no idea, nobody really does. What does it cost to move 2 million lines of Perl 5 to Perl 6?

It doesn't matter what it'd cost at this point because there's no reason to do it, nor is there any visible time on the horizon at which you'd need to do it. Like the GP said, 5 is production, 6 is where people experiment with language features, and 5 has shown that it has plenty of future through regular stable releases and feature enhancements since 5.10 (released 7 years ago!).

> Every technical decision maker ruminating on Perl has gone through this, and they've decided to not go with Perl for these kinds of reasons.

Every technical decision maker worried about the Perl 5->6 transition over the last few years is someone who didn't actually do the kind of diligence a good technical decision maker should do, and hopefully that's a one-off mistake rather than indicative of the general quality of their judgment.
It is pretty much open secret amongst the bitcoin crowd. They didn't announce it of course. But next time you meet someone from bitpay, explicitly ask them how that $100m is calculated.
The Muddled Case of Argentine Bonds
Which is why I made it. Five years ago. As a warning.

Yet here we are with this having been in the WCIT leaks if people didn't have enough of a warning: http://i.imgur.com/roimIHy.jpg

The stuff on the right was created by a regulatory agency acting as part of the ITU. The I. T. U. And yet it took John Oliver for the average person to start at least mildly caring.
> Most condo and apartment rooms have the same 8' ceilings, the same muted palette, and virtually identical construction.

condos and apartment complexes built in the last 40 years all look pretty much alike, yes. older ones are more likely to be beautiful / "unique".
Median of medians algorithm
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I think VR could be one of these bottom-up forces of transformation. There is no fundamental limit on virtual lands and goods. In VR, every person could have his/her own virtual palace without imposing burdens on other humans (except for maybe on the sysadmins running the VR servers). Even if your physical surroundings are modest, your virtual surroundings could be breathtaking.

With more of our lives occurring in the inexpensive digital world, perhaps we'll be less concerned with the expensive physical one and thus less concerned with working for money.
7 years is too short a period in modern times, as even digital projects tend to benefit a lot from the old data and it's even more true for ambitious projects like rail or space.
Even an average mortgage in western societies is 20+ years so you have to remember for that long at least.
And 'forgetting' after 20 or 30 years isn't going to help, like it didn't in the case of the original Spaniard who caused the ruling.
And delete everyone's wikipedia article? And all the blogs and pictures?
I don't think it's a good idea. I want more than Facebook and Twitter.
Interesting idea. How would you define "user data"? For example would it include a Wikipedia article you wrote, a news article mentioning you, an email you received...

If you define user data in a more limited sense, I don't think it would satisfy the proponents of the right to be forgotten.
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I'm not sure you understand the issue here because on the face of it you suggest that we burn our historical record (newspapers and obliterate website) every 7 years.

The issue here isn't that Google has some information on you that leaks and if Google doesn't have this information then it won't leak.

The issue is that there is a web page, Google indexes that web page (because that's the purpose of a web search engine), someone doesn't like what that page says about him and now they have a way to ask Google to remove that page from Google's index.

It's basically decentralized censorship with frighteningly low standards for removal of information, nonexistent oversight and apparently no penalty for trying to abuse the system.

There is no solution to the "problem" that doesn't involve heavy-handed censorship.
No. That is what ISPs are without networks like Level3.

The internet, on a B2B level, would work fine without these ISPs. The problem is these ISPs + natural monopolies on spectrum + governments + barriers to entry create national networks are abusing that power in the B2C space.

Please don't claim "The Internet" is purely a B2C entity.

EDIT:
I'm amused by the downvote. Given I know this is true [e.g. My day job B2B work purely transits non-B2C ISPs like Sprint or Verizon]. ;)
> Films have a lot in common with startups

^ This. The overlap is extremely high, and most of the time, the budget (read: VC) is much, much higher and the timeline is way faster for realizing the bulk of the return on investment. Shark tank my ass, try film. :)
The Lords are a repository for common sense more often than you'd think, partly because they don't have to be accountable to the newspapers.
Why? What is wrong with offering this service to people who like it?

The only thing worse than comcast determining what kind of internet you have is letting the FCC determine what kind of internet you have.
"America is in the Heart", by Carlos Bulosan, an excellent book on the early days of Filipino immigrant experience
I may have written about this before, so apologies if this is repetitive. In 2010ish, I had gotten fairly sick due to a metal poisoning. The biggest issue was that it was messing with my cognitive abilities and that made me fearful of not being able to work and earn an income at the standard of living I had become accustomed to.

I quickly recovered, but became obsessed with finding a way to live - indefinitely - off of the savings that I had accumulated in my 20 year software career at that point. I had chosen a path around increasing responsibilities of management as opposed to startup founder (though I am one now). And I had diligently saved money, but didn't have not-work-anymore money.

I looked for a way to generate 20% returns reliably on my money, requiring little effort, manageable risk, and - mostly - passive. The stock market proved to be an answer. I ended up developing a couple of theories about how markets behave, generated some derivative trading algorithms and have been investing 100% of my spare cash since. The mini hedge fund requires activity once / week (generally) towards the end of the week, and also has two nice benefits of mostly getting taxed at long term cap gain rates along with being in all cash (fully liquid) with more core funds every weekend.

For this year, the algorithms have produced a return of 14.11% YTD. Since beginning the algorithms, they have averaged a yearly return of 24% compounded. I have traded these algorithms in a normal trading account and in an IRA, though the IRA returns are a bit lower around 20%. When the market has a flat year, vs. an up year, the algorithm is likely to perform closer to 30%. Down years that drop less than 10% will return closer to 30% as well. Up markets return lower.

I publish a white paper on this, and happy to share with anyone interested. It's a few quarters out of date, but the essence is all there. You can email me tylerjewell [at] gmail dot com for the paper.

For those that are curious, the algorithms depend upon a few assumptions:
- The market has never crashed "up" - they only crash down.
- As a result, the market climbs upward very orderly, but moves down very disorderly.
- Time is infinite.
- There is always volatility.

When you start with those assumptions, and then you apply maximum leverage (with safety nets for blue moon crashes with a max 35% loss), then you can start to derive algorithms that achieve the results expected, by using your money as an insurance provider to others in the market place by selling derivatives.

FWIW - when I started playing with the concept of the algorithms, I did not think it would be possible to achieve these results. So am quite pleased that it's possible to do so. Also, it's very easy to down dial the algorithms to be 1/2 the risk and get about 1/2 of the returns as well.
There's a clear moral difference between four bad options reached voluntarily, and one good option reached by forcing people. Who really believes that the way to achieve the best outcome, in society, is to forcefully tell people what they have to do?

Forcing people to do things against their will can never result in a better outcome than respecting people's rights. And in this age, anyone can educate themselves about why.
Can't wait for CSTUY SHIP Demo day tomorrow
My local hackers group has also built a 3DR/Pixhawk-based model. Just got an upgraded chassis for it. We're working on an Arduino kit to collect micro-climate data and do some modeling of that. (But also FPV -- everyone wants FPV.)
I'd say that the defining aspect of the original 'moonshot' technology was there was (sadly) no opportunity for commercial gain. Contrast with here, where, for a myriad of reasons, people could easily be convinced to pay substantially more for a driverless car (once safety is well-established).
2) as colinsidoti says, our ISP has the hardware from Netflix (& others). We plug it in, tell them the public IP address and forget about it from there.

1) Remember their argument is not logical. And it's a secret that we have local caches in our network, so nobody is allowed to know that anyway.
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> At my age, I would question the motives of any Therapist who felt they needed to get the PhD?

As someone who doesn't have a degree believe me I am sympathetic to that view, but the PsyD (PhD) who helped me was pretty great. I don't think it's the degree alone that did that, but it's certainly not worth treating a degree as a negative signal.
> There duration is highly estimated at 50 years. Every half century then our country becomes a tablua rasa, whereon we have to set out anew, as in the first moment of seating it.

Maybe this was rhetoric (? who was that letter addressed to, and what was his purpose in writing it?), but I can't fathom the thinking that the entire country's buildings would simultaneously fail, in lockstep, every 50 years.
That's actually a pretty clever workaround for some of the issues, but there are others that it does not address.

My main argument against the ""right" to be forgotten" has always been web forums. Think of a European version of HN. Think of a really prolific and insightful contributor to that site. They invoke this law, and EUHN is forced to kill all the posts they ever made.

Context of entire discussion threads will be obliterated.
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Car firms sued over CD-copying entertainment systems
Alright. I'll buy up all the land surrounding where you live and deny you access to the world. It'll be purely a voluntary transaction between me, your neighbors, and the city. You weren't consulted but based on your moral belief structure you believe that is acceptable so you shouldn't complain when I wall you in and don't let you leave.

No? You don't like that? Well, it was a purely voluntary transaction on par with what you suggested.

Natural monopolies exist in the real world. Pretend they don't at your peril.
Hi maga. Belgium is ideal for what you're asking.

If you incorporate your company there, you can get instant residency via the “Professional Card”.

Once you are a legal resident there, they don't count the days you're there, so you don't need to be there full-time. You should plan to hire at least one local Belgian employee.

Then, after 5 years of residency, assuming you've learned conversational French or Dutch, depending on where in the country you reside, you're very eligible for Belgian citizenship.

Email me if you want details or a referral.
Ouch. That sucks!!
fantastic work that's long overdue. any commitment from the zend team to implement it? if not it's a specification for HHVM, not PHP.
Your wanting a 100mbit connection doesn't obligate someone to offer it to you. "Choice" doesn't mean choosing among anything imaginable, that may or may not exist. Choice only applies to what exists.

So yes, in the context of what's available (without forcing people to make what you want), both parties are choosing from among what exists.
The payloads are encrypted, but the DNS lookups aren't encrypted, and neither are the IP headers with the IPs of Facebook and Twitter servers in them. That's how Sprint can distinguish Facebook and Twitter traffic from other traffic, and that's what a VPN would fix.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/the-new-php.html

I just came back to PHP myself after 4 years away and have been pleasantly surprised. A lot of it has been community driven with things like the PHP-PSR standards and Composer, in additional to all the language features that have hit since 5.3
They can still block non FB/Twitter IP ranges. IP headers aren't encrypted unless you are going over a VPN.
Maybe we should instead not have ancient (and modern) prejudices.
Science, politics, and policy-making
I appreciated the comment because I do not want to bother navigating to a paywall'd page. And I'd be happy if these publications didn't stay in business.
Why it doesn't have Unicode in its fonts?
I want to print Central European characters in this...

Or can you recommend some "retro" fonts with unicode?
I find it very interesting that they put a significant amount of work into the BSOD stuff. There are multiple paths there... The dump can fail, it can "reboot" and display something that looks like the Windows boot sequence, etc. Well, I am basing these conclusions on a quick skim of the windows7.js file.