skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identify one simple reason why it fails, fix it and put in a unit test (or something in your build process or whatever) so it doesn't happen again.
I never sensed that type of bias on anandtech. The present career change does seem a bit like selling out.

As the downvotes are starting, I feel like pointing out that I don't blame him for accepting the offer. My point is that it's a point that can legitimately be made, whereas claiming that he was in Apple's pocket all along seems to me baseless.
I wanted to explore to see what charting types were available. I couldnt find that information anywhere.
Is the student who hires a consultant to tell them what classes to take, or what clubs to join, or what organizations to volunteer for, and then follows through with those, less deserving of a spot than someone that happens to randomly fall upon the right combination of activities?

Yes, I think that's the general idea. Ideally the criteria are kept secret of course. It's the same as picking employees who do open source or learnt Haskell in their spare time. You want people who independently make certain choices for reasons unrelated to getting a college place or a job, but the signal is much less useful when everyone knows that you are looking for it.
"2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?"

* "Evidence-Based Medicine"

* "Large Randomized Controlled Trials"

* "Things Are Either True Or False"

* "Psychogenic Illness"

* "Replication As a Safety Net"

* "Reproducibility"

* "Falsifiability"

* "The Power of Statistics"

* "Certainty. Absolute Truth. Exactitude."

* "The Rational Individual"

* "IQ"

* "Mind Versus Matter"

* "Infinity"

* "Statistical Significance"

* "Artificial Intelligence"

* "Theories of Anything"

* "Computer Science"

* "Simplicity"

* "Scientific Morality"

( details : http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-... )
There are a few good comments in this thread, but then this one...what a joke.

Let's recap: Advertiser sells ads, doesn't run ads on App Store submitted version, complains that they had to run ads so Apple could verify what the ads are,...?

I'd rather Apple put this app through its places 100x through rather than let a nefarious ad machine through.
Best Quote of the article...

"Essentialism rears its ugly head in racial terminology. The majority of "African Americans" are of mixed race. Yet so entrenched is our essentialist mind-set, American official forms require everyone to tick one race/ethnicity box or another: no room for intermediates."

Yes, this has driven me nuts for years. I had to fill out a form a few days ago with the "race" check box (optional of course...). I keep scratching my head and wondering how one exactly determines this and what difference it makes and most of all... why would somebody put such an unreasonable and fallacious question on a form?
Wow, BuzzFeed just liked straight to /b/... I feel like many BF readers will click the link and be rudely surprised by what they find.
UberX is easier and cheaper than a taxi when you normally take public transit but don't want to this time (or want to expedite an inconvenient first/last mile.)

Uber proper is priced for people who are used to driving their BMWs or hiring limousines but don't want to this time.

I assume they realized that the former is a larger (and currently underserved) customer base.
I wonder how often apps are rejected and how often they get through for this rule. I'd much rather use an app that uses my ID instead of making me sign up/sign in. It also makes it easier to stop people from posting crap in your app than if you assigned ids on your own.
Given how reliably the video system fails on the 777, I'm going with the In Flight entertainment system.
Microsoft Is Shutting Down MSN Messenger on October 31st
A friend of mine is rewriting Doom 3 in Ada.
There is rightly a consensus that iOS Apps are generally better than Android Apps.

IMO this is mainly because of the iOS SDK/Xcode and not due to the App Store review process.

The review system is geared for consumer focused apps. Business Apps need specialized domain knowledge and complex setups to review. That is why there are so many consulting firms doing this for clients.

The review process currently just drains some resources but may really start hurting the iOS ecosystem when business Apps become the driver for mobile platform choice. It already is in the developing world because for many, the phone is their only computer.

A user may really want to use iOS, but if my key problem is solved by an Android only App - I will need to use Android.

This is one of the reasons why we ended up with Windows dominating.

iOS now has a robust sandboxing and an excellent permission system - so the risk of an App doing harm is low. All apps without in-app purchases should be automatically approved. Approvals can always be revoked later if issues surface.
It's extremely different in other cultures.

Take China and Hong Kong, parts of the same country. In mainland China, queueing isn't a well respected practice. If you're at a counter, people will just come next to you and start talking to the clerk as if you didn't exist.

Try that in Hong Kong and you're going to get an earful at best and will probably get refused service.

Mainlanders visiting Hong Kong who don't realise these subtle differences in social norms end-up facing angry crowds and, sometimes, the altercations end-up on youtube, fuelling the rather prevalent local sentiment that people from China have no manners.

When you've been educated to respect queueing, visits to countries that have no concept for it can lead to unnerving experiences.
The thing is we won't have cheap air travel in the very near future. It's high time to plan and build a system that doesn't rely on cheap liquid fuels for its operations.
If you decide to give it a shot, pay close attention to the policies and procedures that companies post. Facebook has refused to pay people in the past because they didn't use the framework/channels that they have provided.
The 777 was rated for ETOPS 180 minutes initially, increased to 207 minutes, and then to 330 minutes (5 1/2 hours) in 2011. It can use its range.

Ref: http://aviationweek.com/awin/faa-extends-777-etops-approval
>Is it really broken for the users or broken is your definition of broken because that's your baby and your dreams etc etc etc?

That is a part of it certainly but when we are doing our unit tests about 1/2 to 3/4 of the time the service doesn't do what it should and the user has to reload all their data from scratch (takes about 15-20 minutes).

>let the users know what's missing and what's your plan to ship the rest of the service, and possibly show them a milestones timeline so they see this is not the crappy final version of the whole thing and that you are working hard on the other 75%.

I like that approach - largely because all of our first customers have been really enthusiastic and engaged in the product development. Thanks.
Agreed.

Last time I used it over a course of several days, Uber regularly had surge pricing whereas Lyft never charged me extra.

On top of that, Lyft drivers were way friendlier.
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I think that's stupid, and gives an unfair advantage to people from more educated and/or connected backgrounds. Instead of blaming admissions consultants, I'd blame the colleges using these bullshit proxy metrics.
This one?

https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3
Just because they don't focus on benchmarks in their marketing does not mean that there isn't some serious behind the scenes effort going on.

If you want your end result to run smoothly, your internal engineering metrics are probably looking a lot like the guts of an in depth Anandtech article.

I bet they know exactly what their maximum frame delay, FPS, load times etc while loading and using their core apps are across every revision of the hardware and software, probably even using an automated system.

For what it's worth, I doubt he'll be so specialized - my guess is some kind of consumer advocate focusing on a higher level (of which performance would be just one part). Essentially reviewing products before they're released, probably even while they are still hypothetical or in prototype phase.
If she has experience writing 3 pages of justification for every 5-6 lines of code, perhaps she should join the functional-programming community...
With React there really is no notion of manipulating DOM, so there is no need to test it.
In particular:

* Inheritance-heavy subsets, which avoid templates in favor of dynamic dispatching.

* Template-heavy subsets, which avoid dynamic dispatching in favor of templates.

* Subsets avoiding exceptions.

* Subsets avoiding RTTI (dynamic_cast and friends).

* Subsets avoiding pointers (including smart pointers).

* Subsets avoiding the use of container libraries.

* Subsets avoiding the use of <string>.

* Subsets avoiding the use of <iostream>.

You can search for large projects' style guides. For example, Clang uses C++11 features BUT they avoid RTTI and exceptions, which is a relatively common choice.
I have a similar setup with 12TB capacity. ext4 over mdadm RAID-6 w/ 2 spare drives. It's specifically setup such that any single failure (including SATA expansion card) can't bring down the pool. It's been stable for ~2 years, and it's really nice to have that much storage in the house.

You don't need ZFS for this, as cool as it is.
Sybil in mythology just means "oracle", so that's probably the inspiration in both cases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl
Thanks for the link. After reading the "Computer Science" entry I'm ready to recant and call Dawkins' essay flawless in comparison.
Over 40 celebrities have iCloud accounts compromised and nude photos stolen
This might well wind up being the highest profile security breach we've ever seen in terms of national media coverage. The story is still developing but I'm interest to hear HN's thoughts on it as it does. How is Apple going to respond? Will this hurt their image and how?

Here's a few links to get you caught up:
http://www.bgr.in/news/jennifer-lawrence-nude-photos-leaked-after-alleged-apple-icloud-hack/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/31/jlaw_upton_caught_in_celeb_nude_pics_hack/
Regardless, it's still frustrating that so many failure modes for ZFS have an answer of "blow it all away and start again". And that's with Solaris/ZFS.
I guess I would also point out that nobody books rail travel a month in advance, either. In places with real rail networks you just walk into the station and buy a ticket at a machine or at most buy them a day in advance if you want first class reserved seats or something. If you want air tickets to LAX tomorrow returning tomorrow it's going to cost a lot ($400 or more).
Link to blog post http://news.appbase.io/posts/222589-twitter-appbase
Better get busy.
Jennifer Lawrence's Nude Photos Leak Online, Other Celebs Targeted
Except in this scenario described, there are no lines.

*We don't have the concept of queues back here*
The hardware access routines, real time operating system, and bottom level I/O can't be written in ADA. CPUs accept only machine code, so those programs have to be written at least partly in machine code.

Likewise the compiler has to generate CPU instructions,the opcodes and operands of which are embedded in the code generator as binary data. That is code that isn't in ADA either.
> It's quite questionable whether this is true: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/07/study-no-link-betw.... The U.S. spends more on education than all but a handful of countries with high costs of living (Norway, Switzerland, etc): http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/america.... Yet our school performance lags.

I've read this before too and I find it baffling. Is there any research into why this is? Either money is getting spent in fundamentally different ways or the US education problem is not attributable to schools and is caused by some other factor.
I worked on the B1-B Lancer as well. We never touched Ada with OpenGL. It was mainly C++ with VAPS (http://www.presagis.com/products_services/products/embedded-...). I'm not certain where they're getting the 99% Ada portion as a lot of it is in C or C++.

I got out of that space though. I do mobile application development now.
Our app requires you to log in to do anything. We've supplied a test account to the review team and they have never once bothered to log in but have approved dozens of updates.
I guess our splash screen meets their quality guidelines? It seems silly that we have to wait 1-2 weeks to push an update if there's no real review going on.
From my experience you're required to push the WPS button which remains active for 3-5 minutes before turning back off in most cases. It was only a few of the early "WPS-compatible" routers that default allow for PIN entry.
Can I ask what her first name was? I used to work the exact same job. They moved all their operations to Oklahoma City and I helped with the transition.
Another solution is wal-e[1] which handles continuous archiving. It was built by the Heroku guys and as such is battle-tested.

I use wal-e myself and its indispensable and easy to use.

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
What ever for... Masochistic enjoyment?
Cars have annual production runs in the tens to hundreds of millions. There were six shuttles built (one a replacement). Keeping production facilities upon and staffed to create one or two craft per decade was impractical.

Similar arguments apply to military aircraft: the last B-52 was completed in the mid 1960s. Dies and machining for the SR-71 Blackbird were destroyed after the initial production run was completed. Aotomobile production and economics simply don't apply.
I would be interested to see if Apple have covered themselves against liability here in the Terms & Conditions associated with iCloud.
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I worked on an app that was rejected for taking an image of the user's Mac, obtained from public NSImage APIs, transmitting it over the local network, and displaying that image on an iPhone.
How on earth can you make that point?
I know a lot of people (@SwiftOnSecurity) are leading charge that this is an iCloud breach, but I'm thinking maybe not for a few reasons.

- A couple of photos seem to be taken with Android phones/web cams. I know this doesn't mean much, but makes it less likely to be a Photostream breach, as for that to happen, we'd likely only see photos taken with iPhone or iPad. This makes it much more likely to be from someone's personal backup. Could be iCloud, but not likely to be a Photostream exploit.

- Some videos in leak, and as far as I know, though I could be wrong, Photostream doesn't back up videos, only photos. So again likely a backup.

- Specifically with what look to be webcam examples, I don't want to downplay these celebrities tech knowledge, but to send webcam photos, I would guess email or something was used, not iMessage, etc. Again, likely to probably be from a backup.

My thoughts are that someone who has been overly friendly with a lot of female celebrities either had a really bad Apple ID password, so it was compromised on a device, where photos from a Photos.app backup were grabbed from. That, or some sort of stolen phone/laptop for the same person. I'm skeptical, but doesnt look like a wide spread Apple iCloud exploit yet.
Which parts aren't automated?
Well, I'd imagine your average client won't object to being taken to lunch in an Uber Black, so this oughtn't be too big an issue.
The galley is a main source of in flight fires. I'd expect such systems to be classified as critical to flight safety. Obviously not as much as the auto pilot, but it is still a system that could bring the plane down if an oven or cofee pot shorts. IFE, on the other hand, is not.
This really reminds me of one of the plots in the book "The Year I Owned the Yankees" which is a novel written by a former Major League pitcher.
Hi, the Zotero project is open source and non-profit, currently getting the majority of its funding from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Following the open source model, it depends on people like you to help out with coding new features. If doing full WARC captures is something that you feel is important, you might want to help out and contribute the necessary code. Zotero's code base is pretty approachable. I've personally submitted fixes to the project. Go here for more information on how to get involved: https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/
You do realize you're begging the question by simply asserting that economics is the discipline that makes the world a better place and that critiques from outside are shallow?
As the author points out below[1], this use case does seem to be solved by the built-in postgres replication.

So, there is a single solution. If you want greater flexibility, pgpool2 may be an option; otherwise, just use what's built-in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250497
Oxford and Cambridge professors are conducting multiple technical interviews with each candidate for centuries for both domestic and international students.

And today C and O admit based on comprehensive objective tests just like almost all of the world's elite universities outside the USA.

US universities could avail themselves of that system, if their priority were academic quality or equality and fairness.
This is exactly what I needed. Thanks.
But that's really the case either way, it's possible that having known metrics gives an even greater advantage to those who are economically well off as violin tuition gets more expensive due to rising demand.

The most equitable solution would be to base admissions purely on grades but that isn't possible when you have grade inflation, because more people get straight As than there are places at top universities.
The process isn't perfect, but it isn't nearly as bad as you are ranting about.
But there are no frequently occurring types. They are all 5% or less.

I'm trying to make a point here, but it obviously went over your head.
> Isn't it. You drive, you burn fuel.

I'd refer you to the Rocket Equation [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
>This is great work! Most comments here are always going to go negative on the data he collects

That's because the "data" is crap. He's picked numbers to get an unreasonably high idea of the cost of owning a car, then used rosy assumptions to show that Uber is cheaper.

Change the input and you change the conclusions, so I'm not going to give the guy a pat on the head just for effort.
Why on earth were the dies and machining destroyed? That just seems like a wrong decision.
Hahahaha, true I have a ridiculous dog, but the classic family pet (I'm thinking lab, retriever, pit, etc.) is easily in the 40-90 lb range. I have no idea what taxi or Uber policies are for this situation, I know that they turn a blind eye to dogs small enough to be held on your lap. To literally replace the family car all these cases need to be covered, not just the convenient single urbanite cases
Google has been serving those wanked URLs in search results for years, but only to logged-in users. Even if you turn off all search history settings.

They apparently use the data to measure the strength of their ranked results. But that doesn't explain the logged-in vs not disparity.
Cory Doctorow's Makers describes a very similar item tracking and locating system based off of RFID. With effective reader ranges being up to several meters, this could be extended to a L&F system.
Perhaps they're hiring him to be their "taster" - the guy who tests a prototype and says "it's perfect" or sends the team back to the drawing board. Jobs was famous for this role and Anand would be great at it, having spent 15 years doing it.
Go’s runtime C to Go rewrite, by the numbers
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Presumably you are going simply by blogosphere opinions and never actually worked with app review yourself.
also works great with lxc, i pushed a juju charm which automates the config for lxc http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hazmat/charms/trusty/rudder/tru...
What was the stated reason for rejection?
First, thanks for bringing this perspective, even if unpopular.

Why are college courses giving "major" assignments that can reasonably be completed in 5-10 hours by a smart person with no training in the field?

Without knowing the assignment, it's because the college students are still growing up. A lot of things that are hard for high school and college students are easy for smart adults. Part of that is because the college students haven't ever done them before and don't know what they can do.

Or maybe the assignments are just crap. That could 100% be true.
Interesting article. These superfund sites are pretty scary, especially how they can be 100 years old or so. In the meantime, new stuff has been built over it, which hampers the clean up exponentially, and no one really knows about the danger that lurks.
From the linked article, this [0] talks a little more in-depth about the gowanus canal.

[0] http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-what-would...
If there is one man out there who has been "overly friendly" with all these women then...

a) Wow! Nice work dude. I'm genuinely impressed. However...

b) He will be ridiculously easy to track down and catch and the consequences will probably be pretty severe. Why would a man who is capable of boning two dozen Hollywood hotties bother to take that kind of risk?
Assuming Uber goes public in the near future (and I believe it will), I wouldn't be surprised to see them buy Lyft. Who knows. Lyft could IPO before that happens, but I would bet on it happening. See also: Seamless & GrubHub, Zillow & Trulia
Did you learn anything particularly interesting about Windows internals while you were writing adware?

Is there anything you learned (programming or otherwise) that you still find useful today?
AFAIK the only solution to this in the MySQL world is MHA. And that seems not that much better than the way Postgres does it. Which Relational databases are you referring to that do have this?
The only way i can see the average American paying $1300 per year or $100/month is if they are including the added cost of have a parking space at home. Remember, $1300 is the average. Most Americans pay nothing for parking except for a few $10-20 parking fees when going to a big city.

I'm guessing the assumption is that if you rent a place for $1500 per month and it has a parking space, $100 of that is the cost of the parking space. Technically correct, but an odd way to look at it.
I'm sure you're aware of this, but the high demand from foreign language students is likely because US colleges often have a foreign language requirement. At my college it was four semesters, which is pretty common.

The effect is that you get a slew of totally unmotivated, clueless students who slow things down for everyone else. Spanish especially, since it's the "easy" foreign language for English speakers, was overloaded with students who had no desire to be there, at least until you made it to the 5th semester and beyond classes.
FAA certifies software and databases (and the data in those databases) of companies like Boeing.
> I would like to see fluffy degree programs ended, so that legitimate work in the humanities can continue without anyone wasting time...

> ... the heaviest users of the service were education majors..

Aren't you contributing to the fluffy education problem by creating fluffy educators?
Besides the fact that his public goodwill and expertise is valuable, Anand has been behind the scenes at many of Apple's competitors.

His extensive knowledge of the competition's 4-year product timeline is well worth whatever extraordinary concessions Apple must have made for him.
Yea, definitely the fact that it's not organic makes it go from potentially cool to cringey.
Uber leaves whether to allow pets up to the individual driver[0], and suggests calling the driver after ordering the ride. I imagine if you ordered an SUV (uberXL), it would very likely be fine.

[0]https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/201955127-Can-I-r...