skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it. I agree with @smt88 on putting some more info on your homepage
I feel like there are already so many services like this!
Getting a Clear Picture of a Computer Network's Security
Unfortunately for the title of the piece, there's a distinction between "economics" and "teachers of economics".

I would also like to see a breakdown of the study's economic professors based on the different "schools" of economics, roughly (and presumably self-identified): Chartalist, Keynesian, Monetarist, Austrian.
Why do you think the author failed to understand the quote? It's pretty clear that the author understood the implication that self-interest causes cooperation, but is pointing out that there are other forces which cause cooperation as well, and that focusing too much on self-interest can diminish these other forces.
You're right, but it's even worse than that. This system is trivially vulnerable to sybil attacks.

I can create 16 identities, each posting an opposing investment thesis on 8 securities.

For the 8 identities that were correct in the first round, each posts a new thesis for 4 securities.

For the 4 identities that were correct in the second round, each posts a new thesis for 2 securities.

Now I have two identities with a spectacular record of three perfect calls in a row. Not due to skill, but purely due to chance.

What is the value of the next prediction by these remaining stock pickers? Their 100% accuracy record has exactly zero predictive value.
That's assuming the technology being developed is to store an existing credit card on your phone - isn't it more likely that Apple will try to make a play that involves your app store payment setup? Presumably, the implementation would be to expose your payment setup as a "virtual" Amex on your iPhone, but without making you a direct customer of Amex, but clearing the transaction through the Amex network.
Yes, it is. But I think Staltek may be right in that Firefox essentially takes the same approach as emacs and lets extensions access the main application runtime directly (Although with some security constraints).
As a physician and researcher, I look at these and see two categories: poor decision-making and genuine molecular biology problems.

Heart disease, COPD, and type 2 diabetes are tractable now. Eat less, don't smoke, exercise. The other diseases are horrible luck played out at the molecular level. Type I diabetes belongs in this other category.

HIV treatment is pretty well at a management phase. A vaccine would be great, but this goes to the general problem of human molecular biology still being not entirely known. Funding is to some extent molecular biology research.

Cancer is a molecular biology problem. Same as HIV.

Neuromuscular diseases are molecular biology problems.

My dad has prostate cancer. I'm working on prostate cancer. But the studies involves pathways in the embryogenesis of fruit flies and tested in zebra fish, and a lot of the work on these pathways has been funded by breast cancer research, agriculture companies, DoD looking for dual use agents, all sorts of weird cross-talk.

Meh.
Looking at this reminds me how small some projects are when you put things in perspective.

For example, most of the node.js project actually consists of less than ten developers. (http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/21166...).
If you plan to make money in the long term with your blog, you should buy your own domain and use a shared hosting like BlueHost (or something similar).

Alternatively, you can buy a domain and use GitHub to host your blog for free.

In any case you should own a domain name.
Nice build, I have something similar but with 3TB disks. My disks are grouped into 8 disks as the thought of trying to recover the whole array if that fails I'd probably cry a little.

Also I invested in 10GbE, at first was only server to server using some SFP+ NICs and DAC leads I picked up off eBay for between £10 and £80. But have since bought a couple of Dell 5524 switches and a PCIe enclosure for my Mac and having 650MB/s read/write to my server from the desktop certainly reduces the waiting around :)
The Discover brand is non-existing, but Diners Club (which is owned by Discover) is somewhat popular.
None of this is relevant if you have a child or dog. I know that Uber are starting to make provisions for children but there's a long way to go. But try getting a 140lb dog to the vet without your own car...
That makes the assumption that you can earn that wage in the incremental time you gain by having someone do a task for you. Maybe if you're an independent consultant or otherwise have a business where you bill by the hour and are turning down work you simply don't have time to do but would otherwise be happy to take it. But that doesn't describe most people.

I do pay to have a number of things done for me on a regular basis that I either don't like to do or don't consistently have the time to do (like getting my lawn cut), but it's more about how much I'm willing to pay for the service as opposed to how the $/hour compares to what I earn.
Echoing one of the comments -- why Linux? I thought most open source ZFS configurations used FreeBSD. (I know there are the open source Solaris variants, but I would imagine most customers still pay for support.)

ZFS is production ready on Linux now?
Nifty little tool. I would make the sliders much wider, since 70% of the space in the property window is unused anyway, and it's easier and more fun to drag sliders and watch the result real-time than changing text values.
ones that promote quickly-spawned, ephemeral processes and which rely on reboots for cleanup (Unix).

The only modern OS I know of that "relies on reboots for cleanup" is, ironically enough, the one famously descended from VMS (I am of course talking about NT-kernel-family Windows).

And this is not a VAX vs. Unix story; it's a story about by-the-numbers IBMers who dress in the Right Clothes and say the Right Things being completely feckless in the face of a VAX, development and maintenance of which has quite a different tradition and culture, mainly consisting of scruffy guys who Get Shit Done. Of which there is not a lack in the Unix tradition either.
Hey mate, I've got a few questions if you don't mind:

How much does it cost in terms of power to have something of that size running 24/7 (I'm assuming it is?)?

Now you've set it up, does it require much of your time to manage monthly?

What sorts of things are you using the space for?

Lastly, how much did it cost in parts/time to get it all up and running, does it work out cheaper rolling your own or would you have been cheaper using a cloud solution instead, or does that just not meet your use-case/needs?
Or he's supports video processing/FX production. RAW data takes up multiples more than compressed outputs.
Poor design choices aside (looking at you, frames), calendar math is absolutely fascinating. This is mostly because of how annoying it is to have the world's schedule dictated by the poor choices of a 512 year old pope.
Ned Flanders ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
I thaught this was a joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqGj--yJuzY&src_vid=djPd9802Qso&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_426677303
Thank you very much for this list!
Some folks seem to almost have a religion about buying used cars. The one relatively low mileage used car I bought as an adult ended up with a lot of maintenance bills for whatever reason. I also had really bad luck with a new Dodge but my other new car purchases have all provided a pretty good lifetime of service. One of my current cars is a 1997 Honda Del Sol and it's still going strong at 160,000 miles.
I think a discussion about the realities that cause people to organically isolate along "segregation lines" is more valuable than pontificating about a new set of edicts. Declaring something by law is rarely actually effective if it contradicts the natural, logical course of action. Most areas that were racially segregated in the 60s are still effectively racially segregated (see "white flight").

If indeed "we're all better off" with an unsegregated situation, why is there an almost universal instinct to remain in these specific insular groups? Humans are social animals and surely a natural connection would be made between these segments unless there is a strong incentive against it. I for one don't really buy the "everyone is a bigot" line that's normally used anymore, so I'd like to have a discussion about what motivates rational people to self-segregate.
If the results are true, it's not surprising when we see economics as politics, and economic statements as ultimately moral ones. (Why organize production/consumption/allocation one way, rather than zillions of alternative ways? Does the economic system not affect society's power structures? Don't we spend over half our weekdays as producers, under boss rule?)

Econ-as-morality becomes clear when we discuss challengers/improvements to capitalism, and flamewars erupt. (And not just unimaginative alternatives like Soviet socialism, as if the only alternative to Coke is Pepsi...)

What do we know about capitalism's properties? Its supporters constantly talk about the moral benefits of sociopathic behavior. They say it harnesses humanity's greed... as if that's the only emotion to consider. (Rather than saying it rewards greed and punishes empathy.) So what else do we expect from courses in captalist doctrine?

And this is obvious when we imagine (largely uncritical) training in any other economic system; training in morality.
Did you even read the review article?
Well, there are brick laying robots already (although not combined with 3D printers): https://plus.google.com/photos/+Construction-robotics/albums...
Happy for this guy. It's almost like his 17 year old is going off to a college designed just for him. Got to be a good feeling.

Being a week younger than Anand, and brown, and a tech head since around the same age has been great (for me). We both made our first Geocities site around the same time, although mine was dedicated to the Chicago Bulls and filled with animated gifs. Does anyone else feel strange kinship to other members of their (00) high school class? Britney is looking good right?

We've really entered into a review economy these days; it's almost like no one spends time or money on anything without reading a review of it first. Anand's "reviews" have always been so thorough that even though something's rating may be high, he might tell us why the product might not be the right one for us. It's a great life lesson; the best _______ may not be the best _______ for YOU.

Thanks, Anand. Wish you all the best!
The sphere would not be defining the kilogram: it will be used to count the number of atoms it contains, which would allow to redefine the Avogadro number without reference to the kilogram, which would then define the kilogram as the mass of a fixed number of Si28 atoms. See the video I posted in another comment.
Where do the rejection rules used in Frequentistburg come from? And what prevents the faraway enemies (from Machine Learning City?) from selecting the poisonous/sinking kind to kill all the Frequentistburg population as they did in Bayesianville?
The reason they get credit is that people actually use the solutions they provide.

The entire payment industry is moving to chip / NFC, and the parent offers up that maybe Whole Foods is prepping for Apple.

No, they aren't. They're prepping for, again, the entire payment industry. Hundreds of products across all major payment vendors. You haven't used it because the US payment space in particular is very slow, but soon enough every card you carry will feature it, and the technology will be ubiquitous, with or without Apple getting involved.

This happens repeatedly: Apple is very good at choosing the right time to enter a market -- hitting it when it hits primetime -- and then they get credit for creating the market. Incidental, but I saw an incredible conversation the other day where multiple participants were vilifying Apple's competitors for copying Apple on wearables.
Surely there must be an easier way?
The authority has stated over and over again that the travel time will be as good or better than the ballot measure protected. The ballot measure did not promise any particular cost. It only said it would cost 19.4 billion to pay off the initial 9.95 billion in bonds.
I feel that everyone can learn in all the major ways, although using a variety of learning styles makes it more engaging and fun.

I view learning styles more like food preferences. Sure, I may like Italian, but that doesn't mean I should eat Italian for every meal. Variety is also important. In terms of nutrition requirements, I can get calories from any food and the rest of the requirements in many different ways.

Also importantly, the nature of the material may make certain kinds of presentation more useful. Visual for geometry. Auditory for music. Kinesthetic (physical, touch) for sports. They don't have to be solely in those styles, but the core material probably should be, with supporting material in other styles.

The easiest way to cater to learning preferences is variety. Have it in oral and written form, graphics and text, hands on experiential. Come at it from all angles. The most surefire bet for learning is to saturate them all, but it's rarely practical, so try to cover at least a couple.
It's worth noting that HN is among the websites that remove functionality for Tor users (eg. registration). Despite all the talk on surveillance and anonymity on here, HN does not make it possible to express opinions or reveal information under real anonymity.
There's "usage tax" which is something like $200 - $400 per year. If the car is a diesel, it's significantly higher (but diesel is taxed at a lower rate). Diesel cars are cheaper only if you drive a certain amount of kilometers per year.

There's also the 'car tax' you pay when you buy a new car, which is rather high. A $31k car in the United States is about $48k in Finland.

Winter does increase car ownership. Cars rust more, and you also need two sets of tires (and winter tires tend to wear out faster than summer tires).
This article seems to measure something orthogonal to learning styles, namely that multiple styles combined and variety/novelty also play a key role.

Can someone explain to me what the data in this article has to do with learning styles as they're commonly thought of?
Agreed, I make almost all my purchases with my Amex card (mostly because of unlimited 2% cash back on everything). It's usually smaller independent restaurants that don't take American Express. It's something that I never really understood, because American Express in my experience charges lower transaction fees than Visa/Mastercard. When I had an Amex merchant account they charged a flat $7/month fee with no per-transaction fees, though our volume wasn't very high.

However, you have to setup the American Express account separately, which probably has a lot to do with why many mom and pop type restaurants don't take it. But now that a lot of new restaurants seem to be using processors like Square, this is a complete non-issue.
"... a VRML tutorial is now a video about birth control."

VRML tutorials are all fundamentally about birth control.
The incredible precision with which the two spheres mentioned in the article have been manufactured sure is mind-boggling. But I think the article itself is a good example for what I find pretty annoying in popular presentation of quantitative results in science.

- "off by anything larger than one one-hundred-billionth of a degree"

- [normal gyroscopes] "are over ten-million times less accurate"

...and to a lesser extent, because people in mechanical engineering or metal-working are actually used to measure in micrometers:

- "three ten-millionths of an inch away"

- "only 25 nanometers away from being perfectly round"

The precision is presented as a very impressive sounding, but to the typical reader pretty meaningless number, because in our normal lives we don't have any reference for hundred-billionths of anything, and frankly many people have difficulties writing up 100-billionths correctly, anyway.

I'd really like to see the general notion of "order of magnitude" be used for these kinds of achievements, which can be presented as a "number of digits" figure easily:

- To measure the relativistic frame-dragging, Gravity Probe B had to measure the degrees of rotation of its gyroscopes with a precision of 11 digits after the decimal point whereas (military gyroscopes) only are accurate up to 7 digits.

- three ten-millionth of a inch -> Diameter (in inch, let's assume it's 3 inches) specified with 8 digits of accuracy, similarly for the "25 nanometers away from being round)
Guess what?

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/most-...
Snappy response to sexist harrasser
Send your friend a message…a stranger will deliver it verbally
perfect for punch the monkey 2.0
Erasmus – should you consider it?
The fun thing about that is that you can use Uber in those circumstances, and still have the freedom to jump in your car and drive off whenever you want to instead of living by someone else's schedule. His argument is just plain bad.
This is the main reason I adopted zotero for my citation manager - it saves a local version of the resources I want to cite, preventing link rot and paywall from obstructing returning to an old research topic.

If your bookmarking habit is article, rather than web-services, your bookmark manager needs a way of saving bookmarked content.
True, but AFAK with Amex there is no "lending institution." You get the card from American Express itself and it does not involve a relationship with a bank.
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Seems some people beg to differ. However AMEX costs more for the retailer, therefore, with everyone already with Visa/MC, why, as a retailer allow people to pay with AMEX? If you want to double your transaction costs, eat into your profit margin, have more admin for the book-keeper, then why not!!!

Part of the point of AMEX is that everyone is insured against scammers that bit more, hence the higher price/charges, however, in Europe where we have C+P nobody really wants AMEX - their business case just is not heard.
Ideas for open source projects in Swift
Timothy Leary claimed that he could and did help people change sexual orientation. I don't know how verifiable any of his claims are.
I have a similar system at home (almost exactly the same except I don't have the quad network adapter) using 2T drives from Hitachi. I quite love being able to save everything, and the peace of mind that ZFS brings.

As a plug, I've been using CrashPlanPro for offsite backup, I've been very happy with their service.
Smaller VDEVs make it a bit easier to increase size if you're rolling your own system. Buying 6 more drives instead of 8 or 10 is a smaller cost.
Creating angular.js single page web apps using Powder.js (screencast)
I do think "learning styles" can be easily used as an excuse to give up at the first sign of difficulty. However, I'm not sure that it's "rubbish". I've always been very good at spatial reasoning, so I often try to explain things in terms of pictures. Among generally intelligent people,
some of them understand me immediately, and others require a lot of tries with different variations on the explanation.

I would be tempted to say that the people who don't understand should just be more willing to think spatially instead of being stuck in their other modes. However, then I imagine how it must feel for someone with perfect pitch to try to explain to me how to recognize pitches. I can't do it just by "trying" harder; I don't even understand what it is I'm supposed to be doing.

This is not to say that e.g. people who are not good at spatial thinking shouldn't still try to get better at it. But it does lead me to think that to some extent these learning styles really are, if not genetic, at least deeply embedded in our personalities and early childhood development.
Took a 10 day vacation with a single DSLR shooting RAW... 60GB of photos/videos. I've not gone through and deleted anything yet... but I don't really have to either.
I know a great many people collect recordings of tv series and movies, it's a hobby that can get quite out of hand disk wise. Most don't go for such a professional solution though. I know one who had 20+ external USB drives connected to a few servers.
This still introduces a new link, which will overload your brain if you have too many of those.

To give you some context:

In the app I'm developing now, we've got roughtly 25 global user interactions (meaning an event that will be triggered with a DOM event).Most of these events affect more than one model. Quite a lot of those also trigger complex event chains.

Multiple models have complex dependencies that would form branched dependency chains with conditionals.

It's just impossible to have everything in your mind at all times, which you need to if you want to extend a chain without bugs.

Now you might not have this issue in your projects, because they don't require that kind of interactivity. If thats the case don't bother, keep doing what you are doing.

But if you ever realize that things get pretty complex in one of your projects, then you know where to start :).
Another benefit to driving your own car is that you can take your client to lunch without asking her to drive.
There is indeed a great and active open source ecosystem of Illumos (ex open-solaris) distributions.

Illumos is the de-facto upstream of open-zfs and has many features not found in oracle solaris. [1]

So it is well worth checking out at least one of those:

- SmartOS, which is a fantastic Cloud-Hypervisor [2]

- OmniOS, a classic server distribution, probably best for what OP is building. [3]

- NexentaStor, a storage appliance - but i have not tried it yet [4]

I can definitely recommend using ZFS on a Illumos system as it has much better integration with things like kstats and fault management architecture that I would miss on any other OS.

[1] http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features

[2] http://smartos.org

[3] http://omnios.omniti.com

[4] http://www.nexentastor.org
PostgresXL (http://www.postgres-xl.org) is one alternative solution.
It's like a manual vs an automatic vehicle. You aren't forced to constantly pedal, so much as your legs must move at the same speed as the pedals. At low speeds you are much more connected to the bicycle. Taking a low speed, sharp turn is more akin to walking and feels much more natural.

Also, it enforces good form, like pedaling thru turns.

Small speed adjustments are natural and easy. Also, when accelerating, the pedals are moving regardless of input, so you can simply tap them down on the downstroke, hovering your foot above the pedal on the up stroke.

There is a reason a fixed gear is a popular configuration and it has little to do with being cool or hip.
Matthew Garrett AMA next week
I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays
It seems to me more like you have a problem with students using "learning styles" as a cop-out. I don't know how I compare with others, but I know I'm a visual thinker. So if I'm having trouble understanding something, and I think a visualization will help, then it's my responsibility to try to find one or create one.

Have you not noticed that some students are consistently playing with something or tapping their foot as they're listening, while others don't? As I was told, that's part and parcel of "the whole learning style mish-mash", and definitely consistent with my experience.

At the same time, it was always made clear to me that people's learning styles are more like linear combinations of the main styles than something you could sort into a bucket. And I've never heard it explicitly said that they were fixed, so I don't think that's essential.
I used 0.6 series on Ubuntu LTS and it was stable. I have since then upgraded my Proliant uServer to pfSense 2.2 to do the routing/firewall duty and it seems equally stable at the least.