skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the legality of sports stats isn't as clear as you might expect. Yes, the numbers themselves might be facts that are in the public record, but there are issues with how those stats are acquired. This is similar to issues with map data. There is even a practice of occasionally altering the stats to try to catch unauthorized use like catographers would occasionally make up islands.

You would basically need to collect your stats yourself from the game. Considering current technology, that basically means having a human watch the game and record the numbers. However, there are issues with this method because not all stats are 100% objective so your stats might not match the stats. In the end you also need to monetize this enough to cover that large overhead. The end consumer likely isn't going to pay for something they can get for free from the source on the internet. So your customer would only be the people who want this information in bulk.
They did it using a Samsung die manufacturing process if I'm not mistaken.
The fact that on a Mac the font is thinner makes me wonder if you can even see it on Windows?
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Bingo: the beauty of the cookie is that the client stores it for you.

If you start storing IP address and user agent info, you open yourself to attacks that try to flood your database. If a botnet visits your website with millions of different IP addresses, and each one fakes half a dozen user agents, oops!

(The lesson from TCP and why it has SYN cookies now.)
Yeah good points all. I say this as somebody who generally is supportive of various kinds of welfare programs, because I've seen how they can be actual safety nets for people in trouble. I think these programs don't address this point at all, and don't really want to face it.

There's a kind of mythology in welfare advocacy circles, that people just need to have that safety net, and some sort of kernel of desire will bounce them right back out of it. I know that's true for some people, but there really are quite a lot of people for which it isn't. And addressing this is a tremendous social problem. The problem in my eyes is that advocacy circles don't want to recognize this and thus haven't really done any real work in addressing.

On the other hand addressing it might also undermine most of modern consumer culture which is a fundamental driver of modern capitalism.

This might translate into a general lack of research dollars and interest into actually solving this problem on the low success end of the bell-curve.
From the article:

> The kids who got a better start — because their parents were married and working — ended up better off. Most of the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor.

How about we develop public policies and environments where the family thrives?

Let's do that instead of some Orwellian permission to procreate and mandatory training (have you ever been to government-mandated training?!).

> Should we, as a society, allow children to be born into situations where they will not be properly cared for? We usually see reproduction as a right, but should it be?

Are you advocating eugenics? Forced sterilization? Forced abortion?
You're operating under the assumption that men with criminal backgrounds can't get work. Unfortunately some people do discriminate, but not everyone does. There are ways to combat this.

1) we learn that it is OK to hire people with previous criminal convictions
2) we change the prison system to successfully assimilate criminals back into society

Probably most importantly:

3) we change drug laws so that holding small amounts of certain drugs becomes a misdemeanor
Agree with others that it depends on what you are trying to protect against. It's also worth reading through the options that Cloudflare supports for origin server communication:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-strict-ssl-protecting...
http://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero/

I like at the end of part 1 where his buddy texts him and asks him if he wants to go to Hong Kong and to meet in 5 hours at SFO.

Must be nice. . .
Ok! Webgl and camera support is all we need from it!
Developing in the open
IBM's TrueNorth processor mimics the human brain
Meant to upvote you but may have fudged it. You've hit the nail precisely on the head. SV is now a well oiled machine for taking ideas and turning them into money for investors via IPOs. Technology and "saving the world" have got nothing to do with it, other than being convenient tools and marketing to achieve the primary goal of money making.
That's 90% related too PHP. Not really Wordpress. I mean the whole setup LAMP is probably about as easy as it gets in regards to deploying something.
Namecheap vs Gandi is like 6.5 vs 12 EUR. Yes is almost double, but I don't know if I would consider them as cheap and "expensive".
The problem with C4 is that it requires a kernel module, so it's obviously not suitable as the primary GC.
How someone could bury the treasure without anyone noticing them? Well, the same way they dug the hole without putting the treasure into it, I would think.

Why nobody would notice you is that it's 1600- or 1700-something and you're somewhere in the woods of what will be Canada one day.

What I don't get is why someone would play an elaborate prank, knowing that they probably won't be around to watch people's faces who try to find the treasure. No, it was no prank: this was a real pirate cache site.

I think that treasure had been there before, but it had been removed by the time those boys discovered the site. The encrypted sign was left behind, that's all.

I believe the encrypted sign was originally at the surface, perhaps not buried at all. Heck, maybe that sign had been put up in a nearby tree or whatever. The pirates used that sign so they can return to the site and recover the treasure. The treasure was 40 feet below that. When the pirates (or whoever) removed the treasure, they just threw the sign deep into the hole and buried it. So then the idiots who came later thought that the sign pointed down another 40 feet from there. (Why would anyone do that, doh!)

Pirates often left themselves clues to find their caches, like encrypted signs and such. Think about it: thousands of miles of ocean and coast-line (all of it self-similar) in a world without GPS navigation.
Thank you. I missed that post.
Not only that, but in general information loses its value over time.
I think even fewer reader understand that we really, really have very few clues about how the overall data processing of the brain happens.

Indeed, I could even claim that given how little we know, the actual "real processing" happen in the brain wind-up being much less than it seems. But yes, it appears that whatever the brain does is fantabulously more complex than any chip that's even being sketched today.

What this looks like is a chip that does some canned machine learning routines. It seems sad to have to hype a parallel chip of this sort this way. But it would be sad if the chip itself is hard corded for just whatever fake-brain computations its creators thought were right (I've scanned several pages deep for real information on the chip but it comes back hype and more hype). The thing is it's actually possible to build a more general kind of parallel chip - a cellular automaton on chip such as Micro is doing, see: http://www.micron.com/about/innovations/automata-processing.

Also, the Wikipedia page gives the impression this is mostly an exercise in seeing if they can scale chip to neural scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyNAPSE
Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun as well, but it's more confidential.
One possibility is to use the neuromorphic chips as souped-up branch predictors -- instead of predicting one bit, as in a branch predictor, predict all bits relevant for speculative execution. This can effect large-scale automatic parallelization.

See this paper at ASPLOS '14 for details:

http://hips.seas.harvard.edu/content/asc-automatically-scala...
An investigative piece from ProPublica into the piecemeal securitization of the 1998 tobacco settlement revenue, and the increasing toxicity of the ensuing debt. States essentially sold out their future revenue stream, and committed to paying more back out in order to plug short-term budgetary holes. These obligations extend for decades, and have ballooned into the billions of dollars, dwarfing what the actual payouts would have been. It is unlikely that these bonds will ever be repaid to the agreed upon terms.

The securities in question are Capital Appreciation Bonds (CABs).
Weheartit is 8+ years old. They didn't build 30 million users in the last few months. New to you, doesn't mean new.
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just checked now, Gandi is 40€/yr, not that expensive compared to big names like Verisign & co.
I have used in the past RapidSSL, but it is same price, 50$/yr.
I've just checked Namecheap and it's reselling other SSL like Comodo or Geotrust, but it looks less expensive, so yes, probably it's the best price.
This is some hugely impressive amount of highest quality work done by a single person. I cannot recall seeing anything more astonishing than this.
Developer here, would love to hear feedback from HN on the app, website, or anything else.

Also for curious developers: this was built using the really cool new 'Chrome Apps for Mobile' tool. It's a Google fork of Apache Cordova that allows you to publish Chrome apps to Android and iOS. I built this with AngularJS on top of that tool. I'll also happily answer questions on the development experience.
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Not a real 1980s suit otherwise!
HHVM versus PHP-FPM 5.4 vs. PHP-FPM 5.5: performance comparison
PSTR and PWSTR have a size implicit in their name. They are not going to change. PTSTR (so far not talked about) happens to change based on a macro but I would not recommend using it in this century - it's easier to build all your Windows apps as utf-16 and pretend everything is PWSTR (could be a whole other topic).

It sounds more like you err on the side of inserting lots of pointer casts into the code without considering or very well understanding what the types mean, in order to "shut up compiler warnings" that might not even exist. This is pretty common but it is often a really good sign of someone who doesn't know what they are doing, they are fighting the compiler warnings in their own head instead of solving real problems. (It's really easy for a pointer cast to mask a bug too.)

Frivolous pointer casts are always suspicious. It's much better to let your compiler generate the warnings, listen to them and understand them, and in a lot of cases, fix issues without mindlessly putting in a cast.
If 8ms matters, aren't we talking about HFT? I'd be incredibly surprised if the rest of the industry ran on that kind of timing. Doesn't it take minutes to hours for a trade to happen if, for example, I click buttons on E-Trade or call my broker?
It's reasonable to suppose that the NSA have a whole bunch of private signing keys for a whole bunch of CAs, and will just MITM anyone they please regardless of our puny efforts.
The IO talk covers this. There's a few steps involved beyond just sending a 301 such as putting a rel=canonical on the https site.
No, I wrote it solely for the purpose of this blog, but I wouldn't mind open sourcing it after I add a couple more things to the admin panel (if there's interest).
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Your guess is as good as mine.. but I imagine it's covered in the publication:
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/long-shadow

Tables/data from it is available:
https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/Alexander_Tables...

Edit: Google books: http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1610448235
Any one got their hands on one of these badges yet?
Extreme liberals do not want "equal opportunity". What they actually want is "equal outcome in all circumstances", which is obviously never going to happen, not even under socialism/communism.
A) cultures are different and such subjective argument is not enough to use down-vote. If you are some smart ass who want something without emotions, go and chat with your PC, but if you are reading public opinions, do not be surprised that they are written by humans (probably containing some emotions).
F) when someone makes something good and publishes it to be accessible by society it is normal to receive thanks, especially if it is open source project or non-commercial project aimed to make the world better. But suddenly some smart asses appears from nowhere with zero contribution, but with privilege to make other achievements invisible.

In my belief down-voting system is unfair. Especially if you are advised to shut-up when you are down-voted because it makes conversation boring... As HN does not stimulate responsible conversation, but only something like "say and shut-up if we do not like you", there are no reason for me to keep track of conversation and provide more arguments to prove that I am right.
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Yes, prices frequently fluctuate on many products. Luckily, there are a few sites that provide historical info and alerts. e.g.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-M...
It's actually located in a beautiful location my wife and I got married at Oak Island Resort which is just on the mainland across the water from the island.

Its a touristy area already its close to Peggy's cove and Lunenburg.
> I don't understand how the overhead costs are higher

There's an agency problem when one actor is making purchasing decisions on behalf of others without any necessary alignment of interests, which, absent other controls (which themselves have a not-insignificant cost, both in terms of administration and in terms of potentially distorting results in other ways), those decisions end up reflecting interests of the decision-maker rather than the nominal beneficiaries -- this is the problem that gives us, on the one hand, outright corruption in government purchasing when there aren't adequate controls, and, where controls are adopted to fight that, frequenly byzantine bureaucratic rules nominally designed to prevent corruption that have the side effects of making both sides of government contracting more costly in administrative terms and effectively restricting government contracting to those entities that specialized in navigating those rules -- restricting competition and decreasing efficiency.

With the central welfare authority deciding what people need, where to source it from, and in what quantities, there are lots of points where either corruption opportunities or expensive corruption controls are necessary; when the only administrative determination that needs to be made is whether straightforward class membership like "citizenship", etc., are met, the number of points at which you either pay the cost of corruption or corruption controls is reduced.

> Isn't the goal to provide basic living for people who can't provide for themselves instead of letting them die on the streets?

IMO, the goal of BI is, on the theoretical side, to address systematic distributional inequities in capitalist markets, and, on the pragmatic side, to provide a glide-path out of an economy oriented around wage labor as the primary source of individual support as automation and other changes render that increasing less viable as a basis for the economy with broad prosperity.

Enabling people to avoid starving in the streets is a necessary but far from sufficient condition for that.
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This is amazing, it's a simple app but https://github.com/aaronbassett/Bad-Tools only needed 1 single line change to work. Really impressed although I do need to read up more on the app.json schema.
The price wars for domain registration pushed the cost way down over the past few years. Certs are starting to move in the same direction. As volume picks up, they can cut margins. And some guys will start to treat it as baseline feature and not a buy-up.
Correct: sex, race, looks, parents, place of birth and so on
..Or the Indus Valley civilization script.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script

Quite tantalizing to have a ton of artifacts belonging to that civilization, along with seals having specific imagery (like a bull); and then not being able to decipher the what the symbols next to the script mean.
So, you're saying that using HTTP instead of HTTPS doesn't increase the privacy of users? I'd say that it does "increase" the privacy, although nobody is saying that it fixes every hole in the boat...
Nice. It remembers me what Carmack wanted to do in Quake 1: add a Potentially Hearable Set (PHS) in addition to the Potentially Visible Set (PVS) used for hidden surface removal of the game. After investigation, it seems that it was actually used in QuakeWorld:

An interesting extension of the PVS is what John calls the potentially hearable set (PHS)—all the leaves visible from a given leaf, plus all the leaves visible from those leaves—in other words, both the directly visible leaves and the one-bounce visible leaves. Of course, this is not exactly the hearable space, because sounds could echo or carry further than that, but it does serve quite nicely as a potentially relevant space—the set of leaves that have any interest to the player. In Quake, all sounds that happen anywhere in the world are sent to the client, and are heard, even through walls, if they’re close enough; an explosion around the corner could be well within hearing and very important to hear, so the PVS can’t be used to reject that sound, but unfortunately an explosion on the other side of a solid wall will sound exactly the same. Not only is it confusing hearing sounds through walls, but in a modem game, the bandwidth required to send all the sounds in a level can slow things down considerably. In a recent version of QuakeWorld, a specifically multiplayer variant of Quake I’ll discuss later, John uses the PHS to determine which sounds to bother sending, and the resulting bandwidth improvement has made it possible to bump the maximum number of players from 16 to 32. Better yet, a sound on the other side of a solid wall won’t be heard unless there’s an opening that permits the sound to come through. (In the future, John will use the PVS to determine fully audible sounds, and the PHS to determine muted sounds.) Also, the PHS can be used for events like explosions that might not have their center in the PVS, but have portions that reach into the PVS. In general, the PHS is useful as an approximation of the space in which the client might need to be notified of events.

http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch70/70-02.html
Ask HN: What tool do you use for tracking employees time-off/expenses requests?
[R]emember that you can get SSL certs from $9 (e.g. from NameCheap).

NameCheap provrides a wide range of certs. I'm sure this is true of other SSL-cert offerings.

Are they all at least adequate for Google's SEO purposes?
How do you handle a glitch during a presentation?
How do you load this onto a phone?
It doesn't matter how long you practices the art of design, there are few people that can pull this off by themselves. I believe this guy has natural design talent coupled with years of practice.
I've spent summers at my family cottage, looking across the water at Oak Island for 40 years, and am always interested when it comes up. I've been on Oak Island and the myth is 100x more interesting than what is there now, the rusting remains of recent exploration efforts.

So if a crew of pirates|Incas|freemasons|French Royalty spent the effort to dig elaborate tunnels and traps, where are the remains of their campsites? The middens? The cooking fires? All infrastructure to support a huge constriction project, all with hand tools?

Everywhere else from that era you find the garbage that gets left behind - ashes, clay pipes, lost tools, buttons.

These particular mysterious builders were not just super skilled, they were also the tidiest contractors known to history.

Sadly, the whole story is a mishmash of charlatans, myth, and a lot of basic geology. There's no mystery.
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Revoking StartSSL is only $25. If you go 3 years without needing revocation then you're ahead of paying Namecheap or anyone else for basic domain validation.
Not sure about this year (I doubt its changed) but in the past no.
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I see your point, but it is not a zero sum game. The goal is not to make sure she gets more success than other children, but to make sure she achieves a high degree of success.
> With a good 2FA system, you can use a junk password because the chances of someone having both factors is next to zero.

If you use a junk password, then the chance of them being able to secure both factors is essentially equal to the chance of them being able to secure the other factor. Whether slowing them down matters really depends on context -- for most applications that may be an acceptable risk (if either the value of the access goes down with a delay or you will be able to report the loss in a way which prevents a slowed attacker from gaining access -- and its unlikely that an attacker will be motivated enough to prevent you from doing so -- this makes sense. This is not always the case.)
Would be nice to have some sort of link back to the article just to confirm the two.

Also weird I put in my email and the page just scrolled down and revealed some aviation manuals. No indication if it "worked" or not.
If you're interested in this topic, you may enjoy the alt-hist comic book "Ministry of Space", set in a world where the UK space programme is much more successful.
FWIW, the LMAX Exchange currently uses Oracle's HotSpot JVM, but they've announced they want to switch to Azul's Zing.

I guess my overall point is that the GC guarantee in question is an upper bound. It's perfectly acceptable for a financial application to only deliver x ms latency 99.9% of the time.

Also, the JVM is only one component in the stack. If you aren't using a real-time OS kernel, you're not guaranteed any maximum latency anyway.
If you only use one image how will your navbar have JavaScript hover substitutions?!
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Why is it that intermediate companies do not end up having a big impact? And what are some examples of such companies?
To get a more accurate benchmark you should probably do higher then a single concurrent connection, and 100 requests.

That's why you only saw a single core being used. Because it can be different optimizations between the different PHP VMs that have different outcomes with lower concurency values.
I don't get it. A domain is just an address, how can you scrape through your domain? Do you mean server? But scrapping is an outbound connection, how could they monitor it?
I'm not sure that's a safe assumption and, regardless, an active MITM attack is a much bigger deal than passively collecting traffic as it flows past you in the clear.
Truly pioneer. It took Valve's Steam, 20 years later, to realize the concept.

That shows how sometimes the market potential is there, but the technology is not.
Judging by my windows machine and using just my eyes, yes, it's a little thinner, and no, there's no problem reading it. The faded-grey-ness of the words "to Heroku" is a much bigger legibility problem than the minor change in font weight.
I think there is interest :). Btw how do we access the admin?
> Want it back? Scroll a small amount up, albeit rapidly.

Doesn't work. AFAIK, there isn't a way to show the address bar unless you scroll all the way up to the top. I'm aware that Firefox on Android has the behaviour you mention.

Also, I haven't yet found a way to quickly scroll up to the top of a page.
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