skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only need to use 288 tokens to hit 400 user profiles/second.
Not sure, but planet-<foo> is like a chain. Planet lisp, Planet haskell.
Should we change the url to that?
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He can specify his own User-Agent string. If he sends the user agent 'silkroadparserbot v0.0.1' with every request, that is going to provide no information at all.

Even if this wasn't, did you think that after one change of UA he would be getting more 'uniquely identifiable' with each new request sent?
I dunno... all of this sounds like fearmongering and some of these things are perfectly analogous to the way stuff already works.

For example: "Want to continue using SuperAwesomeApp? Too bad..." Want to continue using TwitPic? Too bad. Obsolescence happens, companies shut down, products go off the market and cease to be supported every day. This isn't new. If there's enough demand for an alternative, it will happen. Where there's a market, there will be product.

Or: "It's either pay up or lose access." When I stop paying my gym membership I loose access. Nobody complains that "it's either pay up or get fat." Photoshop used to be a product, now its a service. This isn't an "injustice" it's normal business.

Data safety in the cloud though is a reasonable concern. You don't know what's going on with your data on remote servers. But then, most people don't know what's going on with their data on their own machines. We've found ways to implement safety and security on our local machines (monitor for malware etc...), I imagine we will eventually find ways to ensure it on remote machines as well. Maybe.
Practice Does Not Make Perfect
If you're BT mac address is randomized, does it means you have to re-associate the BT HEADSET all the time?

What's the triggering event for new randomized address for both BT and WIFI? reboot, screen on?
I've seen this same argument time and time again and it's just silly. We preach that curl | sh is evil because of a potential lack of "transparency" but rarely does anyone denounce the evils of binary packages.

When you run third-party code on your system there is ALWAYS a risk of it doing nasty things, it doesn't matter if it's an easily readable bash script or a .deb you downloaded. The biggest argument I see about curl | sh that I can agree with is the issues that happens when your connection dies in the middle of the download. Just download the file, then run it.
There is a lot of reaction to the headline here (hmm, maybe rumors spread through headlines), but I am curious about a new Web-based service mentioned in the article text, namely the service called Emergent.

http://www.emergent.info/

I saw another news report that was mostly but not entirely about Emergent the other day, and shared that story on my Facebook wall. Evidently the people who run Emergent are good at press relations.

I post information about things like this on my Facebook wall because I try to be PREVENTIVE about rumors. I don't want rumors to be circulating among my friends. Both on Facebook and here on Hacker News, I try to post stories and articles about truth-finding and rationale thinking and about little known historical and scientific facts that can be used to examine commonplace rumors. Some of the postings appear to be ignored, but others appear to have some uptake and to prevent subsequent belief in the latest rumor going around. We can all do our part. We can enjoy working proactively to help one another think better and to know more facts and to practice more thoughtful examination of rumors.
Was originally going to post "Well that's a big fat 'DUH!!!!'", but then I thought better.

It's good to have studies to back up these sorts of things that typically get treated as common sense.
Is this any different from downloading and running software without reading the source code?
I like to think of syntax highlighting as a quick draft-parse. It lets you know how the computer is parsing the code structure. I know, "Code is written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute", but you'd be quite put out if the computer didn't execute your code.

If human languages were written for one more-or-less uniform reader, I'd love a feature that showed how people would resolve pronouns ("Mary gave Sue her laptop.") or ambiguous attachment in general. Granted that's semantic, and probably closer to the feature in some editors where other instances of the same variable are highlighted on hovering, but they are both a form of visual feedback as to how the input token stream will be interpreted. I'd also say it's more important to get that information with a computer, because humans are pretty good at error recovery, and can often resolve syntax errors at the semantic level ("This sentence doesn't make sense; presumably it's a typo and <x> was meant, because that makes sense in context.")

In fairness, I dislike most highlighting schemes, but they definitely have a certain value.
Not only is this article fascinating, even more so is the 600-page report it links to! Thanks.
depends on how regulated and taxed it is
Would you get simpler (faster) ops if you stole the high bit instead of the low bit?

e.g. x+y becomes (x + y | (1<<63))

Or does the loss of overflow detection hurt you more?
Biggest advance in video in the past decade: true HDR
The thing is that I already have a VM running, it would be nice to be able to move that over. I don't I can do that with the pre-packaged Workspace-stuff? I need kinda of a powerful machine, but with regards to price, wouldn't I just be able to spin it up for the day of the week I need it?
How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks
Ask HN: How can I move to Canada to work as a Software Engineer?
My wife and I are currently living in the US, but we're considering trying to move to Canada in the near future (next 1-3 years). We're both software engineers, but she can't work right now because of her visa (H4).

We'd like to know more about what the process is like in Canada, and how it compares to the H-1B system in the US. Also, is obtaining permanent residency as daunting as it is in the US?
This quote is incredibly meta because while Mark Twain is the person whom it is most often attributed, he certainly wasn't the person to first say it and may have never said it at all.[0]

[0] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
I assume a lot of other animals rely on mosquitoes for food, for example fish and spiders. What would these guys eat when we eliminate mosquitoes.
Wouldn't curl return an error and break the pipe? (I haven't tried)
Ask HN: Is there any repo includes any “Hello World” projects you want?
I'm seeking for a git repo which has successful "hello world" templates for anything. Examples: an OpenGL project displaying simple triangle, an OpenCV project reads a png file and applies a simple filter, an HTML5 project which has style.css and app.js which have 3-4 lines of code, a very simple node server, a java project having only main method and System.out.println() inside it.

If there is no project like this? or I'm planning to start. Each project might have it's own repo and can be unified under a repo with submodules. This could be a useful resource if anyone wants to start a new project. Also, I want to know if anyone wants to join so we can build together.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

This is a fun saying, and long precedes air travel, but Mark Twain probably was not the first person to say it. (Professional researchers on quotations and their transmission say that in English no one is more likely to have a pithy quotation falsely attributed to him than Mark Twain, so I immediately looked this up.) The origin of this saying is hard to trace.[1]

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/07/quotes-uncovered-how-lies...
The government backed down in 2003, which is why this could be different. Unlike 2003 when China was still emerging, China is now legitimate and increasingly assertive superpower. China is now much more hawkish than it had been in the past. This is also a new government.
The emacs style CSS is cool. A friend started to work on a prototype: https://github.com/ronaldpoi/puercoblog?files=1
"Humans who evolved for constant outdoors activity and verbal co-ordination amongst tribe members don't do so well being told to sit down and shut up"

There are somethings that "civilisation" has brought us like medicine and plentiful energy and food that we want to keep - and some things like industrial work patterns and sedentary indoor lifestyles that we will want to remove.

Getting that balance right is not medication. It's whatever the opposite of medication is.

Edit: thank you for the science of common sense mention - I forget that we have too many politicians who already know what is common sense irrespective of double blind controls and it is worth celebrating the effort to prove one.
Metal by Example: Texture Mapping in 3D
They support the Alliance for Public Gardens GIS nonprofit which ties into the ArcGIS platform. We are working with a lot of public gardens so it just made sense to go with the flow, plus they are pretty awesome.
That was my first thought, too. Fun facts [1]:

- its ignition was the most powerful artificial explosion in human history

- The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Uh no.

You see the reason personal computing exists is because it was people who wanted this level of control and "their own computer" started using these cheezy "calculator chips" to build their own computers. What they could do was a lot less than what the mainframes/minicomputers/workstations could do but you could own your own.

All of those things are still true.

But there is a rub. Today you can go on some warez forum and get a cracked Adobe CSx suite and run it on your machine at home. That feature goes away, Your only option is to run Gimp, and if it doesn't have features you need, then you get to write new features yourself because, well its open and you have the source code.

So the world will change, it always does, but the ability for engineers and hobbyists to have their own computers that do exactly what they want them to do, that won't change.
No but I'll go check that out. Thanks!
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Wait, with 2 bits you can represent 4 possible values, but you listed 5. What's up with that?
Wikipedia says it was four times as powerful as Tzar Bomba, which would put it in the neighborhood of 200Mt. Technically Tzar Bomba was suppose to yield about 100Mt, but the scientists dialed it down a bit because they were worried about it.
True - I'm not the expert by any means, but that's the general layman's explanation that I got from talking with a friend or two in private equity.
The Tsar bomb was in the ballpark of a 50 megaton explosion, whereas estimates that I've seen for Krakatoa put it at up to 200 megatons. That said, there would be differences due to the fact that h-bombs are exploded at a height to maximize the damage from the blast wave, and that a significant fraction of Krakatoa's energy would have been spent on throwing earth around. It's always hard to compare different explosions because it's difficult to know what fraction of the energy output goes into acoustic energy, but I think it's reasonable to assume that Krakatoa was louder (at least in that the sound was heard further).
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Whether or not this is the next Tianmen Square will depend on Beijing's reaction.
Capital makes things go faster. Bootstrapping with a 5 person team instead of taking money so that you can expand to a 20 person team is a perfectly reasonable strategy. There are just trade-offs.
"There is no “Cloud”: There are only Other People’s Hard Drives."

-- http://www.loper-os.org/?p=44

Having no local state is a wonderful vision. I see why that makes you excited, but "the cloud" is the death of programmatic computing.

What we should move towards is personal servers, either physical machines or (for 98% of the population) some kind of "gmail for servers" like https://sandstorm.io/.
Sorry, but if you can do that (spend 99% of budget on servers), then you have bigger problems. :(
A day in the curl project
Okay, so it might be a good thing if we rid the world of mosquitoes.

Could we even do that? How?
Another method to protect against malformed output due to the connection being cut short - "shell armour":

http://drj11.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/piping-into-shell-may-...

{ echo { && curl https://thing && echo } ; } | sh
No sadly. The winning entry involved video conferencing. (which also came to pass but not in quite the way that person envisioned it, I still think there is a chance we'll see it in games).
iOS apps are sandboxed away from reading the wifi mac since iOS7, by the way.
It's not really a new idea. Seen any homo neanderthalensis around lately?
I think when people pick a bone with Java, they are really talking about the community, not the language. To generalize, the Java community is seen as enterprise-y. They often like process and unnecessary complexity.
It appears that paper has nothing to do with kids who have been diagnosed with ADHD... at least there's no mention of that in summary unless I'm really missing something. The article in the Atlantic cites other work that is ADHD-specific.

This is important because it is not uncommon to find interventions (including drugs) that benefit people who do not have a given condition that do nothing for people who have the condition.

To take a ridiculous but hopefully memorable example: steroids will not help a person with no arms lift more weight, even though they may help other people a lot. In the case of metabolic diseases, sufferers are generally missing important metabolic pathways that the rest of us have, so the example isn't completely irrelevant.

In the present case, I think it's perfectly reasonable that exercise will help (although what I think is perfectly reasonable and what is true have nothing to do with each other) and as the Atlantic articles says, other studies have shown this, but I just wanted to make a pedantic point about that particular pediatric paper.
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Snapchat spam is calling people fat
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This would be fantastic for disaster situations if coupled with the right software. If the radios can speak on unlicenced spectrum, it'd open up even more possibilities. For example, you could have a "cellular" connection on all your devices, and not just your cell phone.

See http://stevenjewel.com/2014/01/android-mesh/ for some of my ramblings along these same lines from earlier this year.
meta-optimizers need to factor in a few more things like memory usage. Right now the FFT modules are insanely memory-hungry, and the versions written with reasonable memory usage (Michael Mathieu wrote one), are not as fast as batched CuFFT + CuBLAS
I understand the distinction. To clarify, I initially intended "properly value work" to refer to economic value, not moral value. The fact that employers benefit from low wage workers who are productive because they are healthy, partially thanks to food stamps and Medicaid, demonstrates they're not paying the real cost of that labor. However, I believe both ways of talking about "proper value" is correct (moral and economic).

In regards to your comment that "You don't compromise your value of hard work by choosing to pay low wages, you just lack charity." Perhaps to a business owner in a competitive market, paying more than prevailing rate would feel that way. But on a broad societal level, it's not charity to hold that everyone who works full-time should at least earn a lower middle class subsistence. If this were polled, broad majorities of progressives, conservatives, and libertarians would agree that work should be enough to raise one out of poverty. Nonetheless, we lack the political will to enact any kind of reform to realize that, because we worship "wealth creators" and the "invisible hand," and, for instance, raising the minimum wage is hence off the table.

If we really truly valued work in more than a symbolic manner, this wouldn't be the case; the libertarian right would be providing concrete policy proposals that would actually address the problem in a way they consider non-coercive. Instead, we hear post-facto justifications for our inequality, or even arguments that it's a good thing. Hence, I stand by the idea that we don't "value," as in moral value, work, no matter what we claim our values are.
ok... so kids in the first world have mobile broadband and can sit on a bench in central park and photoshop away on their fancy chromebook pixel.

Meanwhile, kids in Egypt who don't have mobile broadband sit at a desk in an internet cafe and photoshop away on their cheap chromebook.

I don't see what the problem is?
@jwr - Chris from WAi here (contributor).

I couldn't agree more about having trouble finding the parts you want on disty search engines. The best thing to do is use the filters but even then it can be overwhelming. That's exactly why having a common parts library is useful. It just helps narrow your scope a bit. If all you need is a simple indictor LED then you're search is over. 1K resistor, done. It should take 80% of the effort out of building a BOM. The rest is obviously up to your specific design.

I agree, I would love an EDA extension. I think Octopart is thinking/working on this.
My girlfriend just received this spam from me twice, some weird stuff going on!
So the sound got harder to hear as you were farther away, but what if you were at the exact antipode on Earth? Would it have been audible at all?
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That's why I'm suggesting that an end-run may do better than direct political pressure. I'm not making any promises of success of course.
@owenversteeg - Chris from WAi here (contributor)

Any recommendations?
TL;DR: Go home, Kurzweil, you're drunk.

Ray Kurzweil has never been particularly good at predictions. In his book published in 1999, he said by 2019 a $4,000 computer (in 1999 dollars) will be able to do 20 million billion calculations per second. We're still 5 years out, but it sure looks like he's off by several orders of magnitude.

He also said that by 2019 that humans wouldn't even be allowed to drive on highways — it would all be completely automated.

His predictions about nanotechnology, stem cells, and other medical technologies were even more wildly optimistic.

It's not just that he (badly) misjudges the rate of growth in CPU power, he also seems to think there can be exponential growth in all forms of scientific knowledge, even though it's perfectly obvious that the number of scientists isn't growing exponentially (if at all), the funding for research isn't growing exponentially (if at all), etc.

Maybe he expected preposterously fast and magically programmed AIs to achieve all these scientific & medical wonders? I don't know. I do know his predictions from 1999 seem pretty silly now (and I for one thought they were silly at the time), and I don't put much stock in his grand visions for the year 2044.
The sound was only audible up to 3000 miles in radius, or about 1/13th the globe. It wasn't audible in the other side of the Earth (although it was detectable.)
Thanks for dominating discussion of the story with this horseshit.
Herb Sutter has prompted a variant of the Pimpl idiom that kind of goes this way, as have others. Linus was proudly showing how C was better than C++ by virtue of being able to do something much like this, but of course you can accomplish this in C++, of course there are some down sides that accompany it. Most importantly with C++ you can much more easily provide more robust compile time type safety with little or no runtime overhead.
>Wiping out a species deliberately flies in the face of the philosophy of environmental conservation that we all learned in school and from media.

Not necessarily. If wiping out a single specie provides enough economic value to save every other specie from their current path to extinction then it is still in the interest of environmental conservation to do so.
Does anyone else remember micq, a command line ICQ client? It was such a beaut.
@reportsingsjr - Chris here from WAi (contributor)

As Sam mentioned about, this is definitely something they'll be working on. If you use some of these parts and have a known working footprint, I'm sure they'd appreciate your help.
@tomkinstinch - Chris here from WAi (contributor)

As Sam mentioned about, this is definitely something they'll be working on. If you use some of these parts and have a known working footprint, I'm sure they'd appreciate your help.
1.000 probability of being a man. Thank you for affirming my masculinity.

However, my business has a 0.885 probability of being a woman, which is odd for a men's brand.
> Since the data is public, we can use any of these tokens to access hashtags and account followers

I'm fairly certain this isn't an intended use of the API. Kudos to you for posting your method here, but I wouldn't be surprised if your app gets banned because of this (a lot of people at Instagram read HN).
@helhawary - Chris here from WAi (contributor)

I'm glad you like it. Anything you particularly like or are disappointed that you didn't see?
Setting the high bit would mean that the integer values are no longer automatically distinguishable from pointer values, which is kind of the whole point.
Well, operating systems are used for more than just end user workstations. Servers are a one example.
A good start would be some injection or orally taken medication that causes mosquitoes to die after they feed on us.
As you noted, one of the wonders of capitalism (or free trade, or the right to transact, or the right to refuse to transact) is that every voluntary trade increases net wealth. Only when both parties are made better off does voluntary trade occur. This concept is very mysterious without the understanding of subjective preference.

My objection is only to the specific justification of progressive taxation based on interpersonal utility comparisons. There are other justifications of progressive taxation not subject to my objection.
SBCL allows unboxed machine-word sized integers in certain cases. This allows for hand-tuned inner-loops and also efficient coding of algorithms with an implicit MOD 2^64
They do actually use Git a little. Both the OpenBSD & the Portable LibreSSL source code have mirrors on Github that are updated in sync with the CVS repository.

Whether that's because there's a demand to host the code on Github as well, or because they like Git, or a little of both is something I wouldn't presume to know.
Alrighttt!! The Tec-giant is emerging again! Really excited to hear this news.
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@yid. I'd be curious to understand why you think they would ban us? For using the tokens this way? Well they know everything about our usage of these tokens, and any analytics tool out there behave similarly, right?
I like 12345 (it's more convincing if you know how to spell _and_ pronounce Schenectady, NY)
Ok, good to know, thanks!
Well, the original context seemed to more or less be someone saying "You're not really going to be paging anymore..." I suppose a more precise response on my part would have been "there are also other caches to consider", but meaning "processor caches" when saying "cache" with no other modifiers is fairly typical in my experience.

Upvoted anyway for precision.
Not sure if this still applies, but there was an article a few years ago [1] that talked about some areas of Canada having more relaxed requirements than the popular MTV (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) cities.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/world/americas/13immig.htm...
Hehe, the network was trained mostly on humans (see the data set section)... So all bets are off for a non human account :)