skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it a bit smarmy the realtors who imply they can get your property attention from these out of the country investors. It reminds me of the old trick of the realtor showing you a picture of the buyers to enable discrimination without actually bringing it into the conversation.

That said, for a number of foreign nationals buying real estate is a more durable way of expatriating wealth because it is hard to 'freeze' and it can be difficult to claw back. During the Iranian crisis there was a student at USC in my dorm whose parents were sending him money by first buying a number of houses in west LA and then funneling the rent money to him as his monthly allowance. It seemed very creative.
This is one of the reasons using things like boost's boost::shared_ptr (which uses atomics for ref counting) can have a huge time overhead in multithreaded code.

Often people think atomics are much faster than mutexes for simply checking or incrementing single count/bool values or pointer swapping (and they can be), but they can also be just as slow, depending on the use-case and situation.

In certain situations, they can even be slower! as using them in spinlocks doesn't allow the thread to yield, wasting CPU time doing nothing.
Birds Do It, Bees Do It Animals use smell to code messages
The reasoning in the article is correct. Cubicles 1-10 are occupied in both scenarios, but the observation of (self <= 10) is much less likely in the Doom Late scenario. This means that if you observe (self <= 10), the conditional probability of Doom Soon is much higher.

They key point is that, if Doom Late occurred, then the probability of ending up in cubicle 1-10 is only 10%. So if the only observation that you have is that your cubicle is numbered 1-10, which is more likely: Doom Soon (50% absolute probability), or Doom Late (50% absolute) and you happened to end up in 1-10 (10% of the 50%)?

Therefore, the conditional probability of Doom Soon is higher than 50% based on the observation of self <= 10.
Thanks, I did not catch that before. I hope that the confusion will subside after Yeah becomes more well known.
My parents moved to the US in the late 80s. A few years ago, they moved back to China. Most of my Chinese co workers from their generation also plan to retire back in China.

On paper, there is no comparison between American and China. Cleaner air, food, and water, better Transportation, more stable government, etc. But eventually these immigrants hit a ceiling at work or miss some intangible quality about their homeland.
Developer here,

One of our near future plans is to implement a more personal recommendation/sorting feature. Any data entered would just be for that session. Maybe at some point it would be convenient for users to have some way to save preferences, but if that was the case privacy is the first concern and the data should not be used for anything else.

Thanks for checking it out!
It is given that you are but it's not given that that was a sure thing to happen. Imagine this:
God flips a coin, creates 10 cubicles. If the coin is heads he puts you in one of them if it tails the God flips another coin and if it tails again he puts you in one of the cubicles but if it heads he doesn't.
You wake up in a cubicle. It's given that you are in one! what are the chances the first coin landed heads ?
The probability isn't 50% because there is underlying probability that you would be in cubicle at all (1 vs 0.5 after first flip). There is the same problem with doomsday argument just better masked.
XBMC + wayland + Tizen:Common running on Intel NUC
I've been thinking that would be possible with just a microphone (or a few) and DSP.
This is more meant for rural riding, but the tech is getting there: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/07/hands-on-backtracker-rada...
> C# introduces the concepts of fields and properties.

This goes back to at least Eiffel (1985).
There are only finitely many ways to arrange matter in a finite volume under a finite temperature. If it's safe to assume that anything we could classify as "human" will fit inside a sphere of radius 1 light-year and has a temperature under 10^20 K, there are finitely many humans.
"Rec Room is a Node.js utility ..."

I am curious why there is no SpiderMonkey* based Node.js ?

* SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's JavaScript engine: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp... , https://wiki.mozilla.org/JaegerMonkey . Node.js is using Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Both JS engines are fast and have their advantages and disadvantages.
> journals that jealously guard knowledge from the people who (often) paid for it via their taxes in the first place

The only reason the journals can do this is that the governments that fund the research allow them to. A simple change in the rules for government funded research would fix that.
What is needed is a standardized set of these required by law components, they should be mass produced and very cheap. Did I just find a niche - a hobbyist pack for car makers?
> because of Moore’s Law, computing power is increasing as price decreases.

Is this referencing storage or compute? If Google Drive is using deduplication for consumer data, that would also be reducing costs.
Your mistake is assuming that the "type of a variable" has to be explicitly denoted by the programmer in some way. That's not the case in a lot of modern statically typed languages, which have type inference (OCaml, Haskell, Rust, modern C++, etc.)
I'm lucky not to have to worry about this, but I figured that having Perl is a safe assumption for desktop and server Unix systems.

Not embedded devices, but I guess those are different enough that you're probably not targetting them for portable scripts. Oh no, have I contradicted myself? :)
After generating $12 in revenue, startup faced a difficult decision
WSK left it out on purpose because it doesn't want to dictate how you manage dependencies or module loading.

I don't use Bower. I build AngularJS applications and I prefer CommonJS over AMD, where I use Browserify for Node-like requires. Browserify allows me to use npm modules on the client-side as well, which eliminates my use of Bower completely.
Lol its ACPO becoming over mighty ACPO is effectively the senior coppers Union.
For me the major miso-triggers are the sounds of people eating and the sounds of people typing -- which are wonderful triggers to have in the tech industry. :) Weirdly, these sounds only seem to set me off in an otherwise quiet environment. I can handle the sound of a thousand keyboards aflutter in a busy office. I cannot handle a totally quiet room with one person's typing in it. I can handle a group meal, but if I'm alone in a room, listening to one or two people eating, it drives me nuts.

There are also visual triggers, to make matters worse. For some reason beyond my understanding, I hate when people bounce their legs around in their seats, or tap their feet repeatedly on the floor. Drives me insane.

I've never had Tourette's, or any Tourette's-like symptoms, but I completely sympathize with those who do. My symptoms are similarly uncontrollable. I know they're weird, and I know that telling people about them generally pisses people off. So I am consigned to my own special hell, quietly mustering the mental energy to block these stimuli out in everyday life, knowing that nobody understands the problem nor has the slightest sympathy. Medical research barely takes the condition seriously, and a lot of doctors still refuse to acknowledge that it's real, and not some Freudian, neurotic symptom.

In a way, I feel like what someone with Tourette's must have felt like, back before Tourette's was medically or societally acknowledged. Every now and then, misophonia gets a cursory writeup in a major newspaper or magazine -- but even that coverage typically ends with some dismissive caveat, such as "Medical science doesn't currently acknowledge this as a legitimate condition." Well, I'm certainly not doing this for the fun of it. :)
Uber is fighting governments in plenty of places where there aren't legal monopolies, so I'm not sure that's the explanation, or at least not all of it. They've had run-ins with Stockholm, for example, even though Sweden has deregulated taxi pricing and no medallions. Anyone who's properly licensed and insured can start up a taxi service, charging anything they want, even $1000/km if they want [1]. However, while you can charge anything you want, you have to post what that's going to be, publicly and conspicuously on the outside of the cab, which Uber doesn't want to do. Maybe that shouldn't be required either, but it's definitely not a taxi-monopoly question.

[1] This part has caused some problems with legally overpriced taxis ripping off tourists. The fact that Sweden uses SEK rather than EUR helps that scam, because some tourists initially arriving don't yet have any intuitive feel for what 100 or 1000 or 10,000 SEK is worth, and naively assume whatever the taxi is charging must be "the going rate", since they assume taxi fares are probably regulated (like in most places).
Not really.

http://zeroturnaround.com/blog/goodbye-liverebel/
The relevant paragraph in TFA is as follows:

"""
James Olson, a former Chief of Counterintelligence at the C.I.A., who was involved in clandestine operations overseas for many years, described undercover sexual involvements as “something that we should not do in the C.I.A., absolutely not.” He went on, “Our liaison friends in other services think that we Americans are ridiculously puritanical and that we avoid using something that works.” The masters were the East Germans—particularly Markus Wolf, whose Romeo agents seduced government secretaries in the West. As for Bob Robinson, Olson said, “It’s very easy to fall into that trap—the righteousness trap. Some people are so convinced that what they’re doing is for the good of the country that they’re willing to excuse what would ordinarily be gross misconduct on their parts. They lose sight of ethical constraints.”
"""

I note that he doesn't say the US doesn't do this, merely that the CIA shouldn't do it, which UK authorities have also said about the UK police, while seeking to conceal the fact it happened and defend their right to do it again. I doubt the CIA actually refrains entirely from using this effective infiltration technique. If they didn't, they would lie. If it hadn't been for Mark Kennedy being outed by political activists in 2010 this probably wouldn't be widely known about in the UK either.
I've started Onarbor, https://onarbor.com, to address this issue. Onarbor is a publishing and funding platform where all the value in terms of ownership, reputation, and money goes to the academics. The ownership, citation part of the reputation system, and funding are made possible through the Bitcoin Blockchain.

For those interested, I'm a molecular biologist at Harvard (REF.1) and am working to encourage people to give it a try. If you might spread the word or would be interested in hearing more I'd love to hear your thoughts at tim@onarbor.com.

1. http://labs.mcb.harvard.edu/o'shea/people/tim.html
"Disrupting politely" apparently means "drivers don't make a profit therefore aren't classed as professionals". In other words, "if you would like to compete with our monopolized transportation mafia you can't make any money out of it". Which simply means that you are not allowed to compete. You can only run charity and we'll call it "disruption" and continue taking profits.

I can't wait for a purely p2p service that allows drivers to pick up people for bitcoin and get paid directly without any intermediary that is forced to "comply" with whatever arbitrary "regulations". To make sure both drivers and riders and not morons, they could use 2-of-2 multisig insurance deposit (both parties deposit $50 each with a single $100 output and can unlock it only together upon arrival, with respect for the fee). Upfront deposit would put people in nash equilibrium and force them to be nice towards each other. Instead of centralized ratings we could use an implicit web-of-trust formed by personal recommendation tokens that are passed from friend to a friend when one recommends a driver to another.
...or its some Freudian neurotic symptom. Why not? What evidence distinguishes it?
That was the point. GP said, "You can't hack a plant control system from outside because that network is physically isolated." What happened in Iran proves you can (or more strictly, that systems don't remain perfectly physically isolated even with an air gap).
Glad he is at a again. I had a hard enough time dealing with critics for my game (which only had 1k downloads). Can't imagine the hell he went through.
There is a JEP for alleviating the problem.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8048330
"The current methods of inter-vehicle communications used by emergency vehicles (loud ass sirens and flashy lights) are ridiculously error prone, and becoming less and less effective"

Yes, you could solve that problem with complex, interdependent systems that will fail in unpredictable ways.

Or you could just mandate better driver training and education which is the clear failure point here, at least in my experience.

My experience is both as a driver and as a firefighter who regularly drives a fire truck.
The fact that nobody mentioned Quandl in this article is criminal negligence.
Why can't the richest become even richer in China? Which parts of the western infrastructure do they need to grow their own utility and/or wealth?
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As far as I know my car (a 2011 Chevy Aveo) does not have anti-lock brakes. Wikipedia indicates that they are mandated in the EU but not the US.

My car does have a tire pressure monitoring system though. I believe it was also one of the last cars produced for the US without electronic stability control.
List of proposed JEPs so far.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8048330
I've read "Do The Work", the later, shorter companion to "The War of Art". Resistance and procrastination and related, but not identical. You get resistance about creative acts that expose you to public assessment of your work, or really anything that might upset the status quo in your life. Sure, you can procrastinate about a 600 word article or a term paper. But when you avoid even starting to write your first novel, or coding on your side project startup, that's getting into resistance. I think the more ego we wrap up into a task, the more resistance rears its ugly head.
At an organisation I worked we used SimpleSAMLphp as an SAML 2.0 Identity Provider in combination with the Shibboleth Apache Module for Access Control when we realised SSO for their WordPress and MediaWiki in 2011.

I bet nowadays there are authentication plugins for all kind of web applications so this could be done even more comfortable and also with other web server software.
Those requirements did not always exist, and now that they do, are we really that much better off? Some obviously have more impact than others.

The concern of the GP comment is that regulation is stifling potential innovation, so we should always be on guard about nickel-and-dime regulations that come down from the govt.
Look at flaws in aviation communication systems like ADS-B. This is highly regulated territory and full of agency approvals. With car owners as customers, the manufacturers will need to build the onboard units as cost effective as possible. I doubt that they will develop hardware and software from scratch in order to employ maximum security.
Think the cloud isn't secure enough for you? Ask the CIA
NYRB has brought out an excellent slim volume having the opening and closing chapters of Adams's history of the US 1800-1816. Interesting and amusing though The Education of Henry Adams is, the history is much superior. Yvor Winters's book, In Defense of Reason, a volume mostly of literary criticism has the best essay on Adams that I have ever read, addressing some of what the linked essay does.
But on the other hand a UK police force would not be allowed to run out of control as it has in Ferguson and there are much stricter rules on entrapment and agent provocateurs.

In one case an IRA gun runner got of on a very minor technicality over a single informant ( oh they caught they guy bang to rights with the guns) compared to what the FBI seem to get past the radar in encouraging foolish young Muslim Americans
Stopped reading after this: "Today, China's borders are wide open. Almost anybody who wants a passport can get one."

Obviously poorly written article.
But the incredibly regulated market also has its costs. A great example exists in China, which is currently experiencing a revolution in low-cost electric vehicles[1].

The low-speed electric vehicle revolution has exploded in China's countryside, so most people living in cities in China do not know these vehicles exist. The industry literally grew up while regulators in the cities weren't looking.

That article is worth taking in as a whole, for its implications are broad. First and foremost, this unregulated and illegal transportation revolution is becoming a means for China to remedy some of its severe pollution problems. Second, these networks of new manufacturers will become the experts in a manufacturing domain which will certainly have reach well outside of China.

In the US (and the West more broadly) we're progressively adding regulatory burdens to the auto manufacturing market, but little comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. This itself is a substantial inhibitor to innovation which might completely upend transportation as we know it.

For more really excellent discussion along these lines, I highly recommend Horace Dediu's Asymcar podcast[2]. Asymcar digs into the nature of the transportation market, its players, and the conditions under which transportation market disruption might arise.

[1] http://green.autoblog.com/2014/07/25/a-window-into-chinas-lo...

[2] http://www.asymcar.com/
As Rift leads the charge, Oculus hopes competitors don't mess up VR
An Internet citizen's guide to Ethereum
Very interesting discussion. I'm left thinking that these things depend very much on the kind of business you're trying to start. Some will have great need of a non-technical co-founder; others won't.
Checking the validity of Twitter accounts
That's a good point. I think it's a combination of (1) My friends in tech are, on aggregate, about 3-5 years older than me and (2) There's still the (probably misguided) advice floating around of "You should write down every language and framework you know so that your resume shows up in a keyword search!"

Your advice makes a lot of sense, I'll keep to one page. My feeling is that North American HR people generally expect one page resumes.
But by that logic we should ban every single car older than 30 years - they have no anti-locking breaks or airbags or electronic stability control. As long as these cars are a tiny minority it's not a problem - the same with enthusiast self-built cars - as long as they pass all the inspections(I know most US states don't have the equivalent of European MOT, but you should), then I have no slightest problem with them.
I apologize if this is ignorant, but how is C++ versioned?
Aphex Twin teases new album called SYRO via tor
This is a cool and much needed social network however it appears signup is broken at the moment. I tried 2-3 times to make it through the signup page and couldn't do it with either Facebook or Email signup.

Having your user registration broken when you get a positive article published about your service must really suck.

EDIT: Seems to be a chrome issue. Submitted a request to their support time. Safari seems to work just fine.
Conspiracy theory slip in of the week. 'Not only did the gpvernment totally kill him, they did it with a method no one has yet shown is even technically possible'.
Parts of the western infrastructure that spring to mind are stronger environmental laws, stronger property and ownership rights, less corruption. I'm sure there's more.
Yeah but it's not given that God chooses at random who is going to cubicle. He might have for example created you first and then put you in a cubicle regardless if it's 100 of them or 10.
I agree with your resolution of that paradox though. It's reasonable to assume - having no information about the process - that God creates humans randomly and it's 10x more likely that you are created in a world with 100 cubicles than in a world in 10 cubicles.
In my mind there is no paradox at all there.
Here's another similar experiment but this time only in one mountain village and the (much less in number) participants were middle-aged and seniors. the results are pretty much the same though.

http://www.u-ths.ac.jp/wp-files/2014/04/kiyou2013-5.pdf
New features like auto and shared_ptrs.
Stop giving your writing away for free, and start making money
How to build stronger, more succesful teams
By the year the standard was published.
The main advantage of computer craft is turtles, programmable robots. You can automate all sorts of things in the game and it's fun. Automating things with redpower is possible, but takes massive complicated contraptions and great feats of engineering.
I'm starting a new Anki deck to memorize the names of people I meet. When I add a new contact I usually make notes in the "other" section of my contact book but they're not very useful if I don't get reminded about it (i.e. I don't randomly bump into the person on a semi-regular basis). I have a feeling spaced recognition for remembering names is also going to help me keep in touch with people that I haven't seen in a while.
The same goes for Vancouver, which the article briefly mentions.

A study in 2010 reported that of the 164 sales of $3M+ homes in Vancouver's West Side (richest area) and Richmond (largest chinese suburb of Vancouver), 74% went to buyers with Chinese last names. This number was 46% in 2008. Not the most scientific study for many reasons, including 2nd/3rd gen Chinese, but knowing Vancouver, that demographic doesn't intersect with the affluence much at all. This "study" wouldn't work as well in SF, but you get the point. There is a lot of yuan coming to the west coast.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/real-est...
In Robin Kelley's excellent recent biography of Monk, he discusses this article: "for all his defense of Monk's sanity, Lapham fell for the oldest myth of all: 'An emotional and intuitive man, possessing a child's vision of the world'". I highly recommend the book if you like the music. The context is a series of critics who failed to grasp Monk's sophistication and described him, incorrectly, as an untutored musician who had some original improvisatory talent. All these misapprehensions are almost comically reproduced in the Monk entry in Baker's biographical dictionary, for example.

I consider Monk to be one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.
Show HN: A marketplace for client-side apps
"BlaBlaCar is restricted by unnecessary and economically damaging laws, but puts up with them. Uber and Lyft fight them"

That's the take away. You can't compare the two and say one is simply being "polite". They take different approaches. Uber and Lyft are doing a whole lot of good and making big and beneficial waves. BlaBlaCar simply offers a competitive service where it's allowed to do so. The article smells of a "holier-than-thou" attitude which is completely unfounded.
Ask HN: What happened with the supposed “BadBIOS” that jumps airgaps?
Did this turn out to be real? Did Dragos Ruiu say anything else about it? I never got any closure on this topic.