skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see what you mean now. This was deliberate--I want simulation time to be a precious resource that bots have to spend wisely. You can burn 4 seconds on one simulation that is more likely to give you valuable information, but then it's the only one you're going to get. Or you can do lots of small simulations that are less likely to return an answer. I agree that it's not very safe, which is somewhat unfortunate, but also serves to discourage bots that use precise timing as part of a strategy. Also, since timing out results in a defection rather than in some additional penalty, the risk isn't too large.
That would require modifications to the spec.
by the way, there is a Bootstrap Example here:
https://apexea.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=11175:1

Some of the table data is missing.

Here is an example of exposing table data via the RESTFul API (out of the box)
Example:
https://apexea.oracle.com/pls/apex/apexlims52/hr/employees/
The man did not do anything wrong, left a wife and two children, there was nothing there that helped 'put his life in a more dignified context' because he may have profited from his fathers fraud indirectly but there is no evidence that he knew about it.

I think you may be confusing the son with the father.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2011/10/25/mark-mad...
I recently launched a Twitter app designed to filter out the noise by measuring the velocity of all tweets from all people I follow. It only shows me 5 things at any given moment that are most likely "interesting".

Check it out, it's free, and it only wants read-only auth permissions via Twitter: http://skim.io/

Still tweaking the algorithm.
I like the t-shirt (http://bit.ly/pagerdutyshirt) you get with a free trial :-)
I carefully measured everything in my household. Nothing come close to a space heater. Most small electronics use negligible amount of power. We should not need to pay any attention to them.

http://tungwaiyip.info/blog/2011/12/24/home_power_usage

There are probably a separate category of problematic electronics that really sucks power. I was offended to find my set-top box suck 18W. I am doubly offended by your array of Tivo boxes. For 40W, my laptop will be doing computation intensive task with the fan running loudly. My mac mini consume only 11W when idle. A big huge TV would use power. I only have a 32" TV and I use it only a few hours a day at most anyway.
I was in Mumbai a few years ago to give a workshop. The fares to get too and from my hotel would vary greatly and some of the participants strongly suggested that I use tabcab (http://www.tabcab.in/index.html). It was a bit pricier, but very reliable. I wonder how this service compares...In some US cities like Denver, I've tried Taxi Magic, which has been hit or miss.
That Figure 2 is log-scale is most impressive.

I had the opportunity to meet David Mazières at SOSP 2005 in Brighton. Clearly a sharp fellow, and the funkiest dresser at the conference.
This trope definitely didn't begin in 2009, as "the hikikomori anime", NHKにようこそ, was written in 2002 and adapted to anime in 2006. Maybe it's been more popular recently, but most anime are adaptations of some other format that have already been successful over the course of years. Something to keep in mind is that anime/manga satisfies a niche market and the hikikomori are actually a demographic for sales; making content that appeals to your demographics is good for business.
I disagree. They underspecified the language, so it still technically represents the current state of the Zend implementation of PHP.

(I take no position on RAII being useful or not, I don't write PHP for a living).
Thanks for responding, Patrick. I appreciate you engaging in discussion on this matter.

I'm not sure that this actually answers my questions, though. You seem to have more or less restated what I said without specifically addressing anything.

For instance, I said, "Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence." Then you said that "the board is composed of Jed, Keith Rabois, and me".

I'm not sure how that allays any concerns that Jed, who was specifically criticized in a number of Ripple-related efforts, is now on a similar organization. All it does is restate what I earlier said -- that Jed is on a small board, and apparently has an equal vote, and apparently wields a lot of influence.

In any case, I'm more interested in hearing about how Stellar is or isn't like Ripple. Is it essentially the same technology with a different governance structure on top of it? If not, in what way(s) is it different?
I heard it described like someone a hundred years from now found a high school handbook and decided that all high school students must be orderly, not chew gum, speak politely, respect their teachers, etc...
Ask HN: Totally depressed with my situation
Hii guys,i belong from india and i am totally depressed by my current situation.Brief way of how i think : I am totally fascinated by technology and how much it contributes to our daily life. The problem here is that everything here is about "rote learning" and marks and nothing much else . I feel totally depressed by this and i am not able to motivate myself to do anything because i hate this thing.Learning is about enjoying and having fun with it and building stuff.Due to this mentality i have just about wasted my B.tech engineering in Computer Science and can't seem to do anything at all.Future looks quite bleak with no jobs.

What can i do now?
The fact that you're giving it to users isn't what raises questions, it's that you're first issuing it to yourself so that you control who gets it.
That would be cool. I know Harvard has a huge endowment. That would be a great way to use it. Any data on whether that's true?
More about K combinator in JavaScript: https://github.com/raganwald/Katy

Raganwald has a few books and many articles about functional JS and combinatorial logic (in JS), go check these out if you're curious what can it be useful for.
The speaker list actually looks pretty good.
We hope that it'll end up being considerably more even than Bitcoin distribution. One note is that of the 5%, 2% is currently held by Stripe. We're going to auction off most of our Stellars, and return the proceeds to the Foundation.

The Foundation is also being transparent about where the remaining stellars are going, namely: 2.5% to existing employees (https://www.stellar.org/about/governance/#Employee_Compensat...), and over time it'll distribute more stellars in order to raise funds (https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Continued_funding_of_...).

But, yes, solving the distribution question is a hard problem :-).
Gentri-flyer Sets Off Social Media Storm in Boyle Heights
The idea of a speed limit is sound. But there are organizations that work to game the system. A great example is the multitude of sleepy towns right next to highways. They have a police force that is exclusively utilized on the five miles (or less) of highway that officially fall within the town limits, writing tickets to people who pass through. For example, Lindale, Ohio has a population of about 170 people and collects about $800,000 a year from speeding tickets.

My mother got snagged in one of these in Virginia a while back - they have a hill where the speed limit drops from 65 to 45 at the bottom of it, with a specially planted copse of trees where the police sit with their detectors. A quarter mile down the road, they have a specially built parking lot for people to get their tickets. They even provide envelopes and stamps for people to send their checks! Nice people.
I don't think I even work with very large Excel sheets, but our massive master sheet of 1mil+ rows (with about 15 columns) regularly causes Excel to sputter and die.

I'd rather not use it, but anything to make it work better would be awesome.
"Mr. Shige says his approach to stopping suicides is quite simple: when he finds a likely person, he walks up and gently begins a conversation. The person, usually a man, quickly breaks down in tears, happy to find someone to listen to his problems."

Genuine empathy can be both powerful and shocking.
Passive does not equal no work. I think the passive comes in after you put in that initial work, creating ebook, adsense sites, etc. and then only needing to devote a minimum of time to maintain that income.
cool. You should add the algorithm you use to our library ! :). I have some examples already implementing twitter4j.
Web2Py is a python-based website, like django, but it's a bit different. Since you say you are passing an authentication header, I don't see how it could work with Sandstorm, since it wouldn't really be used as a one-user app anyway.
Japan: Still one of the world's most innovative nations
You could have a randomized number of rounds
Still isn't working for me.
> Unless summer+part time work is a lot more lucrative than I am aware of, the only way this would be true is if the students (or their parents) were financially well-endowed.

Or if, as is often the case at wealthy private colleges, Harvard has extensive school-provied need-based financial aid in grant, rather than loan, form (as well as any academic scholarships) which assure that the full cost is only paid by (some of) those who are financially well-endowed, while those who aren't financially well-endowed (as well as some who are, due to academic scholarships) are paying much less out of pocket (including loans as "out of pocket" for this purpose.)
Darin L. Hammond on Kindness and Regret
Russian soldier caught in Ukrainian territory by Instagram geo-tagging
Audi Tests Self-Driving Cars On Florida’s Roads
Except it's premined and centralized. It's "stable" until its creator decides to dump, like they did with Ripple.
Yes, by the creator of Ripple who was forced out. This is the continuation of Ripple towards what it was supposed to be.
Hungarian culture also looks more positively on suicide than others. I learned this from Freakanomics, which did a very interesting episode on suicide: http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new-freakonomics-radio-po...
That's an interesting idea, will check out your docs.
Patrick,
nice effort, and I wish you and your team all the best. I am writing a book on Bitcoin and I'd like to have a chance to discuss your initiative in person. My email is easy to find.
> I'd really like to see more transparency

I agree. From the random weighting down of certain articles, to title changes, to just flat-out removing/flaging some posts... it seems HN is becoming a "whatever the Mod who happens to be on today feels like" site -- which really detracts from the awesomeness of HN -- I'm not looking for a gatekeeper news site - if I wanted that, I'd go to CNN or something.
Is the conversation pricing based on monthly conversations or "forever"?
Use a laptop tray to create a standing desk at home with (almost) no effort
Hi from Stellar. I know FB isn't the ideal login method. But our goals were to provide easy access to people and to have a method to detect spam accounts. Today is our first day out. We will be releasing other ways to claim soon so I hope you check back. Thanks.
> A lot of it comes down to getting a reliable messaging infrastructure in place (trivial).

Can you expand on this with some examples? We're currently spending a ton of time getting a RabbitMQ-based message infrastructure to work reliably in EC2 and I wouldn't really call it trivial.
Once again, Excel users on the Mac are unable to get all of the cool toys.
A perfect simulation is recursive so you need to add a resource limit. In which case a bot can either lie by detecting it's being simulated or just waste time and give out zero information.
Almost everything posted here about the Mill CPU has been in video form. I'm very interested in reading more about it, but don't have the patience for videos. I like to be able to skim, and to choose my own pace. As a result of this personal preference/failing, I know very little about the CPU or the company.

Clearly the Mill team likes the video format, but are there written expositions for people like me? I have to think I'm not the only one who is video-averse. The very sparse FAQ on the website (http://millcomputing.com/category/faq/general/) says that there are a few white papers in process. Are any of these available yet?
If you do a lot of rentals VRBO is much cheaper. AirBnb charges you 10% per booking vs VRBO's $1,000 upfront and then 2.5% credit card transaction fees. This makes our place much more expensive for a renter for us to get the same amount of money. VRBO also has great phone customer support and it just feels more setup to support your rental as a business rather than your rental as a thing you do casually.

Our place in on Maui near Kaanapali beach. Hawaii is nice because it isn't too seasonal.
Sent you 1000. My user name: benly
Here's how I hacked my way to $100,000
Having the sitting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee speak out is pretty much the ideal person. I don't know if she has more or less credibility based on having been so pro NSA spying in the past.

Ideally you'd get the ranking members of the same committees in both houses of congress to do it; it's a powerful position so it tends to go to more partisan people, and thus each will be hated by approximately half of the voters, but you'll have 2 and 2 each hated by different halves.
It's in direct conflict with the PHP manual:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php#language.oo...

"PHP 5 introduces a destructor concept similar to that of other object-oriented languages, such as C++. The destructor method will be called as soon as there are no other references to a particular object, or in any order during the shutdown sequence."

It's very common to rely on this behavior to do cleanup as PHP did not have a finally clause (like C++) until recently.
This is beautiful in its simplicity. Kudos!
As I mentioned on the thread on your medium post, we believe like you in the need for simplicity around support.

Check out http://supportkit.io - we're building it to be a completely free solution for support of mobile apps.

Happy to talk about how Helpful might fit into this.
>Streaming has not only changed the way our members interact with the service, but also the type of data available to use in our algorithms. For DVDs our goal is to help people fill their queue with titles to receive in the mail over the coming days and weeks; selection is distant in time from viewing, people select carefully because exchanging a DVD for another takes more than a day, and we get no feedback during viewing. For streaming members are looking for something great to watch right now; they can sample a few videos before settling on one, they can consume several in one session, and we can observe viewing statistics such as whether a video was watched fully or only partially.

I wouldn't say that this makes you wrong, but I'd say you are partially right.
This is really the most important aspect of MOOCs. For me it's not about the students who would be going to college anyways, it's all the students(not just 1st world) that wouldn't be able to attend these colleges/universities still having the opportunity for a good education.
I can't speak for all women who use OKC but here's my general method:

1. Generic one-liners get rejected out of hand. Especially generic one-liners with no icon.

2. Message + picture. Did the message amuse me? What's the massively parallel snarkbeast in the back of my brain tell me about you based on your picture? Or preferably, what's she tell me about you based on the multiple pictures you've uploaded? If you only have one you're probably winnowed out here unless it is one hell of a good picture.

3. Skim profile, consider OKC's match estimate, then I start reading the questions you've answered. Some answer conflicts are instant dealbreakers, some are not - someone who's aggressively monogamous has no chance with my poly self, for instance.

4. Consider my current workload: does this candidate feel worth a couple hours at a coffee shop, or more, to experiment with? This is the hardest filter to pass: are you more interesting than "working on my comic" or "getting other art out of the way so I can work on my comic".

Note that a reply is no guarantee of me actually having a desire to do anything; when I checked OKC after this essay reminded me I have an account there, I found a message from a 60% match who turned out to give me a much more conservative vibe than I like, so I did a probe for my own amusement: he said I seemed adventurous and like someone who has 'a whole lot of soul', so I replied with 'Actually I don't have a soul; one dark night in Los Angeles I went to a certain crossroads and traded it to the Devil for serious drawing skills.'. Which is at once a joke, an ironic metaphor about what it was like to work in the animation industry, and a test to see if the conservative vibe I got was correct.
Thanks for reminding me about these.
We've tried "document modes" before, and it was terrible. And it's even worse for JS and CSS.

> Is it really worth breaking all legacy websites?

In any organization, this question gets asked of their product's technical debt, many times over, and gets many "no" answers, until finally there's too much, and their "technical bankruptcy" is unavoidable. They suffer the (temporary) pains to deal with some or all of that debt, and get back on track.

I'm just wishing we could treat our industry that way. I think we're "there" at that point of decision. I just want to tip us over the edge into admitting it.
Sent. I'm benly ;)
Building automatic login tokens for emails with Rails and Devise
The conversation limits are for new conversations received per month. So for the Growing plan you can receive up to 1,000 conversations per month. Oh and don't worry too much about hitting the limit. We'll always accept your incoming messages and send you a friendly reminder to upgrade once you start going over. Does that answer everything?
Kodak Movie Film, at Death's Door, Gets a Reprieve
I wonder why this submission is falling so fast from the front page yet still getting upvotes?
Sent. I'm evoL :)
I think we're talking at cross-purposes. I'm just saying that because it's underspecified, the Zend engine can be both accurate to what's in the PHP manual, and to what's in the spec.

Anyway, it's a slightly pedantic point, so I'm probably not contributing much to the conversation here :)
We're very excited to make this available to the community and welcome pull requests, bug reports, etc..

Pitch in on Github: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro
The video is required to zoom to show the driver of the vehicle as well for identification purposes. It prevents people claiming they were not the driver.

(e.g. it looks like this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pictured-speeding-motor...)
"...making the case for human intervention in teaching, at least for those students who are not 100% self-motivated and self-assured (that is, those students who actually need to be educated, rather than left to educate themselves). Two relevant notes of today."

This is really important. The discussion about education in this community (HN), and the a lot of the discussions I've seen related to the MOOC movement (or at least where it has seen success), tends to focus on self-motivated, usually high-aptitude students. But, almost by definition, those attributes do not describe most students.
I keep experiencing the Tim Ferris 4-hour work week idea of the thing that is hardest for you to do at any given time is the thing you need to do the most. Sounds like you have embraced this as well.
Think for a moment about how effective that kind of defensiveness is. Think about the word absurd, as stated by a public official.

By stating that it is absurd (unthinkable, out of bounds, paranoiac, laughable) the director has cleanly shoved people accusing the CIA of political coercion into the same camp as "conspiracy theorists"-- people who are too ridiculous of a parody to be trusted or listened to.

Who was objectively correct on this one? Whose statements were reality, and whose a falsehood? The CIA, or the conspiracy theorists?
Hate to say it, but there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to marketing. Everyone tries everything and modifies based on how well it works. A lot of slow information is the same as trying to go for the quick money.

At the end of the day, the problem with the Mill is there's no hardware implemented. No real world benchmarks to be had, and the world of hardware design is full of seemingly slamdunk ideas which have giant problems in actual implementation.

This isn't to disparage the Mill or its team - but the content and results are important. Not the style of the message. Anyone can style a message.
Congrats to the PD team. They have a great product and expanding like crazy.
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/apples..., which points to this.
I search for my problem and then click on the answer in stack overflow.
Our engine can be run independently & outside of Excel, and it works on Mac too (albeit without the nice UI in Excel).
Good point (and same to @ambler0). I have little first-hand experience here so I may be way off base, but on average are families paying far less than the retail price of 60K/yr? I mean, if your family had a 100K income, would you still get a break? How much loss is Harvard absorbing?
Ask HN: What's the most black hat hack you did as a young child?
Just because these always make me laugh.
> How is their customer service?

Not that bad, not that great, and its developers are underpaid ;) (I was one of them).
obviously comment so I can give you some good karma
It won't be news. The media has a lot of ties with the CIA that run decades deep. [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
My personal experience as a UNIX convert - straight from a Liberal Arts background - forged by years of intuited computer know-how seems to bear this out.

I haven't had much use of this yet, but supposing others aren't aware of it, people like to share their cli gems here: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
Seven habits of highly fraudulent users
https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/cost...

> approximately 70 percent of Harvard students receive some form of financial aid.

About 2/3rds of Harvard students graduate with no debt. http://madamenoire.com/111119/the-10-schools-that-generate-t...
> For instance, I said, "Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence." Then you said that "the board is composed of Jed, Keith Rabois, and me".

Sorry, mostly I was just alluding to the fact that most of the board is composed of external members.

> In any case, I'm more interested in hearing about how Stellar is or isn't like Ripple. Is it essentially the same technology with a different governance structure on top of it? If not, in what way(s) is it different?

There are technical differences (like the inflation), and they'll diverge more over time, but I think the technical differences are of secondary importance relative to the issues around coin distribution and governance. If a distributed financial network is going to succeed, I believe that it has to be run by an impartial organization.
Hang in there. Things will get better.

I know a lot of people who feel the same way. In computer science, you can make your own path to a job:

1. Do interesting projects in open source
2. Using (1), apply for internships - offer to work unpaid
3. Using (2), get relevant experience on your resume
4. Apply for jobs - there are interesting startups that look more at skill than degrees.

These steps have nothing to do with your degree at all. You are quite lucky to be in CS where the skills matter more than the degree - make use of it!