skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a little disappointed with the scope of this writeup.

There's a teaser at the end that there will be a follow-up article about UnsafePointer.

I just hope they hurry up and post it soon. I have half a large app that relies on UnsafePointers, and I could really use some clear documentation to reassure myself that I'm not abusing them.
I hope that more people read this, because it's the most useful comment in this entire story.
Detailed accounting of a fully outsourced “civic data” project
In principle, I have no problem with web companies tracking my movements and habits online. The problem with the current system is that they are doing it without my consent. I have no problem disclosing my Amazon shopping history (or current shopping cart) to Overstock - maybe Overstock will offer me a better deal.

You know what would be awesome? A global, secure, private and auditable web session and personal information management system. I want to be the arbiter of who has access to my metadata. (Given the huge amounts of metadata I product in a given year we might as well just call it "data"). If the contents of my hard drive are sacrosanct why should the data I provide to Comcast, Verizon, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. (which dwarfs the capacity of my hard drive) be any different?
Taleb's book is basically anti-science, in the sense that he's making a (good) case about the dubiousness of the epistemology underlying the scientific method. In the colloquial sense though a black swan has just come to mean an event that most people didn't expect.
impressed by their early adoption of insider trading when they eventually rise up
I thought it was fascinating to get a glimpse into the detailed expenses of this database of public information, where almost 100% of the development, research, and content was outsourced to oDesk.
A similar feeling, but more to much more intense.
Brokers (of all kinds) have been around for millenia and will be around for millenia more. There are always consumers who are willing to pay for expert advice and there are always sellers/producers who are willing to accept less than top dollar because they don't want the hassle of dealing with the consumer (which doesn't scale).

I think that technology can empower the consumer, but doubt it can empower the consumer enough to eliminate middlemen (of which brokers are one type). I've heard that story before, and all I saw was a different kind of middleman (heck, Amazon.com is a middle man for a lot of products).

So, that said, how can you align incentives? You have a limited number of ways to pay the middleman or broker: you can pay them a flat fee, you can pay them an hourly rate, or you can pay them based on the size of the deal. Which incentive structure do you think aligns interests the best?
Atom: https://github.com/atom/markdown-preview https://github.com/atom/language-gfm

and

Gitbook editor: https://github.com/GitbookIO/editor
Ask HN: How to do Guerilla Marketing?
I am building an application for young professionals within the Financial Industry whether they are in Ops, IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Investment Banking, etc...

The users I am trying to acquire must be from the same 3 companies (ex: JP Morgan Chase, UBS, etc.. ). Very targeted, ultimately, having several users from each company.

Currently I activated Facebook Ads.

1. LinkedIn Groups (Intern Class 2012, etc... ) = No, Private Groups
2. WallStreetOasis = Yes
3, Twitter Blast = No, might be conceived as spam

What are other channels I can get in-front of these users?

Thanks.
Thanks for answering my questions.

I like the idea of the seller being responsible after the sale--that would make most sellers more honest.

That tax is interesting--what does it support (national government? city government? schools?)?
Let me be clear. I am not chiding you for pointing out that Scala does not have the backwards compatibility feature set it would need to compete with something like C. Only that, C wasn't designed with backwards compatibility in mind, it just sort of arrived at it. Scala is most certainly sacrificing compatibility in the short term to allow for "improvability" for lack of a better term. I have no idea if that is a good or bad thing, but my intuition is as a new language with low uptake it makes some sense. A major challenge going forward is going to be maintaining the proper balance with regards to compatibility.

I couldn't agree more about SICP and TAoCP but you'll notice that neither is written in a widely adopted language.

I'm surprised that you actually use bare Tex. Even the most ardent users at this point will at least start with LaTex even though it isn't technically as portable...

Finally, how do you cook an egg not on the stove?
You may not intend this, but you have been implying that racial prejudice is somehow tolerable.

Your down votes are proof that it is not and that we must judge people not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character, as a wiser man than me once said.
Its definitely cheaper because

1) UberX is covered by personal insurance, drives a lot of other people around (hence the cost is shared over many rides).

Your personal car also is covered by personal insurance but drives only "you" around.

Of course, UberX has an insurance advantage!

2) UberX driver is doing it part time, so he/she certainly has a lower paying job (~minimum minimum wage) or no job at all, at which point, the UberX driver's hourly rate is wayyy less than that of a Silicon Valley techie.

3) Since an UberX waiting for a passenger is probably idling somewhere or is driving around the high density of pickups area, the vehicle, technically is not required to pay for parking at any point, but if you driver your own car, you have to leave it somewhere, and pay for the parking (at work, and in SF, at home too).

Bottomline: UberX can be (strike that), will be cheaper than owning and operating own car once Uber + autonomous vehicle becomes a reality.

why?

1) Insurance: Less human error --> Lower premium

2) No need to pay a driver: 50% of UberX price goes to pay the driver (assuming 30% costs, 20% Uber commission). If Uber just keeps that 20% of commission, and costs remain the same, the fares can go down an another 50%!!!!

3) More people moving to autonomous UberX will lead to increase in premiums for manually driven cars (Insurance company has to make profits!).

Until this Autonomous UberX happens, all other explanations of UberX is cheaper than driving, needs to be taken with a pinch of salt
It's a new Myanmar community organized around Laravel web framework and related stuff. It was started by an attempt to translate Laravel documentation to Myanamar language. I hope to see the community continue growing in the future.
The project to offer ssl free to every user of Maven Central is already underway. Stay tuned for details.
It's java who cares?
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One option is to alternatively switch between both broadcasts on a single radio.

You broadcast a single iBeacon-only message, sleep for a few hundred miliseconds and then broadcast a new AltBeacon message.

The beacon does this so quickly, that it's usually sending out two or three of both kind of messages every second. It's effectively an iBeacon + AltBeacon in one device.
Macdown is ok
Completely off topic, but please please please, keep banging the drum on the whole "theirs no such thing as a sales vs tech. battle". The most recent podcast and your comments are so spot on.
To the tune of Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel:

Hello malloc() my old friend,
I've come for mem'ry once again,
Because a pointer silently creeping,
Filled buffer that I was keeping,
And the signal that I trapped was a bus error.
Didn't care.
Because I still... have malloc()

There were pages that I missed.
My OS had sent them to disk.
Try my best to not hit swap,
Looking for data I could safely drop,
I compressed some bits that I kept stored in place
Freed some space.
But then I still... used malloc().
Ah awesome thanks! Didn't cross my mind to link to the commit's line number. Still, have to agree with some commenters about having the link go to it by default.
#clickbait
AutoCAD? Seriously?

For consumers, who are the primary market here on Amazon, looking to get started, why would they buy very expensive software for the CAD part?

Blender is a free CAD tool that I use, as well as millions of others, and is just fine for 99% of consumers. If they get serious & professional, then they'd feed right into the expensive corporate CAD solutions: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, etc. But, it's odd that Amazon would start you with B2B tools like that.

Of course, that makes me suspect that AutoCAD is paying Amazon for this positioning. If not, then it's just a mistake IMO.
Oh, bull. It'd be significantly easier to use credit cards for IAP than Bitcoin. Apple prevents this easily with the review process.
Likewise, I'm running into UnsafePointers with IOKit.
Where are you that you're taking up a parking spot? Just park on the sidewalk next to the venue.
Ya, agree with everything you said. Unfortunately untangling a hairball is a bit harder than constructing one. Working on it though!
You only need enough tuna for one tiger.

(couldn't resist ;)
Sublime Text 2/3. Great for code and markdown. I used to use Brackets because of the live preview for web development, but the simplicity and design (I use the "spacegrey" theme) makes it a pleasure to use. It has an unlimited trial or you pay $60, I believe.
That's interesting, doesn't Maven offer a checksum option to begin with? I feel like just the other day, someone was saying "who ever uses checksums anyway," but a package manager run over insecure methods seems like the perfect time to do so.
I don't actually use Tex that often. That admiration just comes from realizing that all of my old .tex files still work. As do all of Knuth's. Has been educational going through some of them that I can get my hands on.

I also think that the bare Tex that he writes is easily as readable as any of the latex I have ever written. Even the somewhat archaic looking cweb that he writes is actually more approachable than I would have expected.

Egg cooking is just one of the most gadget filled areas of kitchen accomplishments I personally know of. Seems every time I'm in the grocery store I see some new little device that lets me microwave eggs "perfectly." A friend has a toaster that will toast your English muffin at the same time that it steams an egg. Neat and all, but amusing in how little work it actually saves.
They have an option to "personalize" [1] the objects you're printing.

I agree it's kinda missing the point, but they're likely focusing on the larger, mainstream, Etsy-style users. People that don't want (or don't know how) to create their own objects, but would like to get something semi-personalized.

And, of course, they can avoid the entire discussion about copyright infringement, or printed guns. It's a safer first step.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Create-Your-Own-Printed-Mixee/dp/B00KD...
What granularity do you see Terraform acting at? Could it replace Puppet, say?

I would love to keep the complete codebase for our infrastructure's config in a single place, in a single language; I can see Terraform driving Puppet with variables, but there's an overlap here (declarativeness and modularity) that would benefit from being seamless.

Then again, with something like Docker you hardly need Puppet, and could simplify the recipes to the point where Terraform injected vars into a dockerfile before deploy.
This!

I am totally happy donating $10 to whisper systems for this work instead of forcing me to donate $10 to Apache Foundation (although a worthy cause) to be able to get https access to Maven Central.
Author here.

Brian are you speaking as a representative of Sonatype, or are you a 3rd party?
I'd love your feedback on a similar Rack middleware for Rails: https://gist.github.com/frankie-loves-jesus/d7eec0ebab0525e9...

To me it's mainly for cosmetic purposes -- partly because Google does it and I want to be like Google -- and because I want to give a little "fuck you" to my competitors who will inevitably try to read my source.
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If they don't say it's terrorism, how are they going to justify the 30-year maximum-security prison sentence they hand out to whatever group of kids carried out this totally harmless prank?
I've used FoldingText:

http://www.foldingtext.com
What if I discover a way to make ambulances explode by making a specially-crafted HTTP request? Is it OK for me to announce this to the world?
Is there any chance your code is public?
There's an argument that while Sam's living in the future, other people will be joining him.
Technically paying for an auth token is not sufficient. The token cannot be used directly by Maven or Leiningen, but only by a Nexus proxying repository manager. Not a big deal if you work at a professional Clojure shop, but a huge hassle if you're freelance or just getting started.
No, not with more diversity and colors. The general idea is that when the balance is disturbed a whole range of specialist species will die and only generalist species remain. It can take millennia before specialist species reemerge.

You'll end up with more rats and jellyfish, and less whales and elephants.
Thanks a lot, this is a really interesting perspective!

I'll comment tomorrow!
The hairy part is the millennia between crashing the ecosystem and its renewed flourishing. During that time it might become much harder to sustain seven billion humans.
I'd be really delighted if you could show me a better tool for writing a parser, given a grammar in Golang than goyacc. You're absolutely right that the error reporting in yacc isn't that modern, but it's very functional, very powerful and (best of all), a lot of people have experience with it.

I certainly couldn't find any better tools in Golang when I started, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone had started one since.
founder @thinknum here. worked at a GS for 4 years and saw analysts email spreadsheets ('carelessly tossing around revenue models') by email. with @thinknum banks are better able to track their content.
I'm just starting off working with nixops. quite nice IMO, although not getting into the meat of it yet (i.e., trying real deployments). Nix solves the dependency problem really nicely, and I can spin up machines from scratch really fast. Also curious about comparisons here. If this is a tight implementation of something like nixops I am stoked.
The difference is that you could track down the keys either directly from the author or by someone who has already personally verified and signed the author's key. In practice this is very difficult, and using a key that you haven't gotten your friends and co-workers to sign is not any better than skipping the signing altogether.
Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (2012)
> you can hail any car on the street

This makes a lot of sense. New Yorkers might charge more. I would guess the biggest objection would be safety -- how do you know you're not getting in the car of a kidnapper, thief, rapist, etc.?

On one hand, I think people greatly over-estimate that risk. On the other, many criminals likely would take advantage of the service to find victims.

What do the Kazaks do about that?
I imagine they use a process similar to Shapeways for that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VOwqtOglg

I wouldn't be all that surprised if Shapeways or similar is actually doing the printing.
I also enjoyed "Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship" by Dyson. It's about another grand engineering project at the edge of possibility: Building spaceships powered by nuclear bombs that theoretically could lift whole cities to the stars and accelerate to 3% of the speed of light.
With Microsoft in Sights, China Starts to Squeeze U.S. Tech Companies
This looks awesome, but then I saw there was no android support yet. Is there somewhere I can sign up for a notification once android is out?
This seems cool, though I don't entirely understand it. "Generates raw WAV output by hooking malloc() and read()." What does that mean exactly?
You are correct, this is a more accurate statement.
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> I'd imagine nearly no one is buying Android phones because you can get a Bitcoin app for them.

No, they're buying Android phones for just about every other reason (approx 80% marketshare according to IDC [1])

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-v-android-market-share...
I really hope the future doesn't involve an order of magnitude increase in the cost of car ownership.
It's a shame spheres are so hard to do, it'd be even better :-)
Smart competitors will just run it through Tidy :)
Scotty/blaze for Haskell as well.
My main experience with Maven has been downloading some source code, and having to use Gradle to compile it. It went and downloaded a bunch of binaries, insecurely. There were no actual unsatisfied dependencies; it was just downloading pieces of Gradle itself.

I would've much rather had a Makefile. Build scripts and package managers need to be separate.
Regarding the US, I think the typical deal is that the seller's agent and broker each get 1.5%, and the same for the buyer's agent. Some agents are their own brokers, but I believe that's rare.
But meanwhile these generalist species have specialized, so it is just a regeneration cycle.

Moreover I kind of agree with Taleb on the Black Swan / Antifragile theories: the more we protect something (our kids, world finance, ecosystems) the more fragile they become, and the more dangerously they fail when they fail (because they will fail, it's just a matter of time).

I think this is well understood for startups and projects: fail early, often, learn from mistakes, what do not kill us makes us stronger, etc.

This is obvioulsy the same when growing kids, and I personally take care that my 1.5 daughter is falling enough on the safe floor of our house and eat enough dirt in our courtyard, so she will not be fragile when going to kindergarten, where she will catch viruses anyway.

I think this applies equally well or better on natural environment: if we protect an ecosystem in order to prevent it from disappearing, maybe we are just prevent a new, more solid and more adapted ecosystem to appear there.

I know, this is pure heresy. I think we need more heresy.
Same here. I wish I'd just not replied.
Heh really cool
Actually a decent tune here:

https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/jingy-compiler-1#t=6:00
And rectangular box:

http://rolande.files.wordpress.com/2005/01/spam-can.jpg
>The latter may be mostly bureaucrats in power (perhaps the reason for the overriding influence of this paradigm) worried about it for job security reasons, but the motive doesn't matter.

Go talk to some ordinary people sometime and behold how easily swayed they are by cable news soundbites and shit they heard from whatever trusted idiot in their social circle they happen to take seriously for no reason at all. Be sure to have some drugs at the ready for after you're done - you'll need them.

No, it isn't just bureaucrats claiming they could have blown up the bridge. If it were, the FBI wouldn't be gearing up for a nationwide manhunt to track these people down.
How to start a startup while female and new
Hi there. I'm eager to know how to do this. I have never been involved with a startup. In thinking of starting one, and am really eager with my idea. I don't even know how to code, but I've been hustling and learning; so far I have my home page and it looks really good as told by my friends that has seen it. The premise is also really good and will most likely win over the hearts of many. I just need guidance. I wish someone would hold my hand and take me through it all.

I want to gather users, but I do not yet know what to do in terms of gathering users (for which I know the target users and where they are), and how to have them use the product.

Any thoughts?
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From the article:

> When JARs are downloaded from Maven Central, they go over HTTP, so a man in the middle proxy can replace them at will. It’s possible to sign jars, but in my experimentation with standard tools, these signatures aren’t checked. The only other verification is a SHA1 sum, which is also sent over HTTP.
Startup | A new way to discover movies thru friends
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Like in real life, friends know exactly your taste they'll suggest you movies matching with you
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The referenced article, "We Experiment on Human Beings", is discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097415
Just to clarify, this isnt for me but for others. :)
App Rot
Reminds me of when I was a kid, and I had a Tandy CoCo and a tape recorder deck that was the only way to save any programs you wrote on it. I tried playing the data tape a few times.
> Build scripts and package managers need to be separate.

This. Especially when there's broken links, you're gonna have a bad (and long) time.
Look at the history of the terms discussed (plus a bonus, "femur") and their history in print.

I'm a huge fan of Google's ngram viewer, which allows tracing the frequency of occurrence of words and phrases.

E.g., "femur", which scoofy mentions, grew in usage during the first half of the 19th century: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=femur&year_sta...

"quantitative easing" has a rather newer pedigree, emerging briefly in the early 1980s, and again following 2000.: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quantitative+e...

Google Trends shows the more recent interest as a search term: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=quantitative%20easing

CDOs emerged in the late 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=collateralized...

Euro zone is a post-1995 phenomenon: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Euro+zone&year...

REITs date to the 1970s, but boomed in the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=REIT&year_star...

Hedge funds may date to 1949, but print, they're another concept which emerged only in the later half of the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hedge+fund&yea...

Securitization: the latter half of the 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=securitization...
As someone who has spent a long time trying and failing (and taking classes) on how to cook eggs correctly, I completely understand the hopeful nature of an egg cooking gadget. That said, I've never found one I preferred to the standards.

For what it's worth, I do prefer Scala to Java ;)
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It uses hooking to intercept calls to malloc() and read(), calls the real functions, generates a square wave whose frequency is based on the size of the operation, dumps the generated sound data to WAV, returns the output of the real function calls.
Even if you have carefully installed the correct key from the author, if your download is intercepted and an attacker sends you a bogus artifact and signature it looks like Lein will just retrieve the attackers key from the keyserver and validate the signature.
OkCupid Lied To Users About Their Compatibility As An Experiment
Sure, but at least I got to say fuck you :)