skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just you, though it sounds like his reasoning is based around the ideological context of conflating "democratic choice" with "choice in a market". The role of price is a principal guarantor of democracy, after all. /sardonic
Microsoft Law Enforcement Requests Report
Coursera actually offers several classes that can be done at your own pace. It's gradually expanding, and will eventually offer a wide range of courses. There's also plenty of courses that aren't closed after their completion date.

EdX has done the same with their Introduction to Linux course: https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx...
No, not really. They have been saying that they are scaling back with eye toward ending it, but not before the unemployment rate is under control. For example this is from July 2013.

Fed Chief Ben Bernanke announced in late May that the central bank intends to start slowing down the pace of its purchase “later this year” if the economy continues to improve. He said the purchases could conclude by mid-2014 if the unemployment rate is close to 7%.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-gives-no-hint-on-qe-tap...
Here's one more secret Goldman Sachs tape)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7TWstSV_E
I don't think investors agree with you. If you look at the yield curves for the 1 year to 5 year treasury bonds[0] over the last year they have stayed relatively stable. Which means the investors expectations of future interest rate have been relatively stable. I don't think this supports you're theory that the Fed will be raising interest rates any time soon.

[0]
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...
You can play with 6 people without much difference than 7. You can set your turns to be short. I played one Friday evening with 30 minute turns, and a four-year game-span. It was quite pleasant. No, we didn't get to the end of the game (we picked a winner on who controlled the most places, I lost by 1 on the final resolved move), but really, when I've played longer games, at some point it becomes apparently who will win but it takes a couple tedious years to bring the game to completion.

As for friendships, I think one has to state clearly at the beginning of the game that one has a strong chance to turn against their allies at some point. It's a feature of the game. There are ways to manage this risk for one's sanity. :)
Automatic notification would be a neat feature.

Have it text a family member when a seizure is detected so they can follow up with a phone call in a little bit to make sure everything is ok.

As more and more 911 centers accept SMS messages, it might be cool to allow the user to specify some threshold after which an automated text is sent to 911. The vast majority of epilepsy related seizures do not require an ambulance, but in the event of a seizure that does not stop in a 'normal' time frame[1], it could get help coming that much faster.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_epilepticus
I'd use the term "can" rather than "does" just because the performance is tiny[0] and some RAID controllers don't do a very good job utilising it.

[0]http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=429
"Home cloud" is 100% buzzword-compliant. Servers are those things with tape drives and blinkenlights from the 80s!
David Phillips – The Pudding Guy
I haven't read this yet, but I can't imagine what ARM would say that I'm not already expecting from a company selling a proprietary product to say about an open source competitor. I think the fact that ARM even thought they should "address this", say quite a lot about RISC-V.
I know this is not really an issue but is there any use for this "function exporting" feature in the first place? I had never heard about it before and when I did it kind of sounded like an ugly hack.
"There's a reason most people in tech use Macs: most open source tools and frameworks were developed for OSX, then ported to Windows or Linux. "

What cloud does this guy live on?
Thom Yorke's new album is “the first-ever paygated torrent in history”
The source is on GitHub...

https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings

The magic you're looking for is here:

https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings/blob/master/xlwin...

Surprisingly simple actually.
People using ad blockers doesn't actually bother me, I know it's a pointless argument. What bugs me are people sitting around concocting elaborate moral justifications. If you don't like my site, don't visit it. The end.

In any case, fortunately for you (and for everyone else!) content providers by and large have decided that, rather than spend their time and efforts doing whack-a-mole trying to "block" ad blockers from their sites (something you seem to think is much simpler than it is), that it's more in their interest to invest time and resources in developing more of that same content or functionality that drew people there in the first place.
That is true (and definitely a valid point). But still, we have to wonder why the regulator tried to hush her up in that situation.
That only 10% of the energy used by a lightbulb is converted to light does not mean that the bulb is wasting energy.
Ethereum: A Next Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform [pdf]
Great points, worth keeping in mind by wannabe authors.
Father and Daughter Reunion
I think it's definitely on the right path. You can see the developers daily changelog[1] and there's also a great modding community already started[2].

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_rCdGYp3nbSUXFG4Ky96RZW1...

[2] http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?board=15.0
This is a home server, not a cloud server:

- no remote access to the console if ssh stops working

- no possibility to remotely power it down/up

- if the hardware dies, no possibility to restart on a different hardware remotely

There's nothing wrong with a home server, I have one or three myself, but these limitations are why I move "essential" services (e.g.: email) to the cloud.

Home servers are better suited for exactly this, need of high CPU, and also need of a lot of storage, for a backup server for example. I used to run everything on home servers and back them out to the cloud, but I have now started to reverse this, run the services in the cloud (cheap for small service, remotely accessible etc...), back them up to the home server (cheaper large storage, it's fine if they go offline for a few days while on holiday for example).
Southparks - Go Fund Yourself episode about startups is timely: http://www.hulu.com/watch/691075
Good info. Supports my theory that the plan is to kick the can down the road until it inevitably falls off a cliff.
Komodo 8: the smartphone vs. desktop challenge (chess software vs. hardware)
This looks beautiful! Love the database model, which reminds me of Salesforce's flexibility with an AWESOME front end. Really excited to see how people use it.
Agreed, most moocs follow a traditional method by recording lectures and posting them weekly. For a better way of learning check out udacity. Go at your own pace and is somewhat more interactive. Khan academy is also good for specific subjects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_A._Breuer
Because doing so would be illegal.

And why go to jail, literally, for trying to fix other people's mistakes? Few have that little to lose.

Plus companies would claim they spend $$$$ fixing the "damage" you did (e.g. reimage the machine, audits, management meetings about it). They'll claim they "spent" $50K or something stupid after your "illegal break-in" and try to sue you.
Slack Acquires Spaces
That's something I had overlooked. There is definitely a ripple effect in the event of a bubble popping, and if we are in one and if it does pop that will potentially ruin a lot of 'for devs, by devs' companies.
Ok, did anyone else notice the reference to "John Gault"? I know it is spelled slightly differently by Ayn Rand, but I found it amusing none the less. Probably just my brain miss-firing. lol

From the article:

"One farsighted man rose on the Convention's second day to ask that the gauge-size decision be reconsidered. He was John C. Gault, general manager of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, and he made some persuasive arguments:"
Does this count stay at home parents in the 1 in 4 figure?
The structure of this short story / personal essay is a series of chained vignettes. They are linked together only loosely or suggestively. That is probably deliberate. The story is about searching for an antidote to boredom, and finding that antidote in a surreal, arbitrary game where you get to meet unusual people. Therefore the structure of the short story, while initially a little opaque, actually helps you get more simpatico with her state of mind as she was going on this personal journey. I suppose it's not for everyone, but I think the structure is actually quite clever.
Indeed, the entire mechanism should be available to the general public for use, or in other words - entirely radical thinking - why don't we defeat the NSA by demanding it open-source itself, 100%? After all, it might make all the difference in the world if maximum intelligence was suddenly and irrevocably available to every single living human on the planet .. its actually within our grasp, as a species, to share such a moment. Gimme root, NSA.
Btcd v0.9.0-beta released
There are plenty of people in online learning that agree with your first paragraph, but it's easier said than done.

Lectures are easier than creating a completely different methodology for teaching, so it's the first step in the process.
Perhaps a non-problem for startups, but it's definitely a problem for bigger companies where the group that purchases certs may not be the one using them...
Maybe next you will explain a way where individuals on their own can have more power than groups of other individuals acting in concert.
Precrastination: Worse Than Procrastination?
Solve this for free wifi password
No, the drop has been quite substantial. From what I can tell the Fed was buying $85B worth of bonds monthly at peak. It's down to ~$45B now and they are planning on a final $15B in October.
IBM develops a new chip inspired by the architecture of the brain
Why bad bugs hit good people
"There are no public ivies."

Yet somehow the University of California at Berkeley has one of the 4 best computer science programs in the world, and it's better than all but 3 programs at private schools (Stanford, CMU and MIT).
He's saying putting a price on it helps gauge market demand as expressed by willingness to pay, a signal that people find it valuable. What's so unreasonable about that?

He didn't say it is a way to find what's important, he said it is an important signal to find what people value enough to spend their money on.
My point is that those wages Soothe pays probably won't be as high as a typical tip-based wage one could earn without Soothe, because Soothe will want to minimize its costs as much as possible.

But again, isn't that how almost every job works? I mean, the vast majority of us are working for companies which want to minimize their costs as much as possible. Message therapists just happened to join the other 90% of us. Why the special concern?

This may be a cultural issue, since where I come tipping is much less common.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374003

Not sure if I should repeat myself a lot or not.
The flip side of "no fragmentation" is, there's no ARM core with hardware multithreading, and there won't be one until ARM decides to make one, which AFAIK may well be "never". You can license a core with hardware multithreading if you need it - say, MIPS from Imagination - but the ISA won't be ARM-compatible. To the extent that ARM's "software ecosystem" is valuable, it's a pity nobody can make a multithreaded ARM-compatible core. Similarly for other features.

On the other hand, x86, which is "open" to all of Intel, AMD and VIA who reached a patent war stalemate, has the problem of incompatible instruction set extensions, as documented in "Stop the instruction set war": http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=25

Which problem is worse is hard to decide.
Unless you count World of Warcraft, HumbleBundle, or anything else this rag didn't allow to interfere with their clickbait.
For PHP development? No. However it can be useful to have the development machine match the expected deployment machine so you can spot bugs earlier.

Windows and UNIX-like systems in particular handle files very differently and understanding the edge cases (e.g. what can filenames contain character wise?) can be important.

I'd say that Linux is by far the most popular PHP host, however Windows desktop might be the most popular development platform.
I guess in today's world, even doing something helpful, the means that may not be "ethical" is seen as bad...
That networking has to be done in proximity to other people is, and will increasingly be, an outdated concept.
Why can't you track periods in Apple's Health app?
> If the above command outputs the current date (it may also show errors), you are still vulnerable.

Well, it does, and no amount of apt-get update / install bash is fixing it.

Is there a fix for this new issue?

Do we know when it's going to be available in the big distros?
Yeah, I suppose that if they're saying "gratuity is on us" then they should actually tip (or as we call it in the rest of the economy, pay bonuses).
This is definitely true to a degree. It doesn't work well for all things though. For instance, I am particularly interested in Electrical Engineering (I want to build modular synthesizers) right now. I have no foundation in it and I found some MIT lectures on youtube. They were awesome but sadly the lecture series was incomplete. I know I could just read a book but they tend to be very dense. Having the lectures was super helpful. I see these MOOCs as a way to open these lectures to the world. They just need to not try and fit it into the old style. Truly voracious and driven students should be able to progress at their own pace while having high quality presentations. Scheduled curriculum feels like a huge barrier to me. I'm not inclined to pay for a scheduled curriculum where I would pay for a all-at-once lecture series.
Show HN: Applying to YC? Let's bet on it
true but then you need to actually renew it amd then install it....too many times tickets are filed but get put at the bottom of this list until last minute, or worse a customer reports the nasty browser security warning page

though i do wonder if "this is a feature, not a company"?
Looks pretty great. I'm not sure if I have a use case personally, but seems quite well-executed. Any plans for an Android app?

Also, minor note. On the fifth step of the tour, the word "seperate" is misspelled.
The certification model can work for lower level math and some social science or humanities subjects. But how do you certify in subjects like abstract algebra or Byzantine paleography or chemical engineering? A multiple choice test is not going to cut it. The subjects either take place at too high a degree of abstraction or require access to materials to do properly, or both. What you describe could work for a community college level education but not for a real university education.
Structuring One on Ones to Maximize Your Team's Success
Fundamental problem with the classic:

>benefits of standardization trumps openness

Is that openness provides the same benefits of a standard. A ground floor that everyone can stand on, build on, and has no cost of entry (unlike a business ran standard).
We were thinking about that.

Would you see anything else of value?
Dell (T20) and Lenovo (TS140) sell quiet and low-power servers which are targeted at homes and small business. Prices start at $300. Model with VT-d and vPro Xeon E3 is $500. Dell model officially supports RedHat Linux, so there's no Windows tax.

http://www.rackrealm.com/dell-t20-server-and-openmediavault-...
We are now Cask
noise be damned

Holy crap you're not kidding. I (briefly) had a 1U server in an upstairs home office for a project, it got banished to the basement within an hour because of the jet-turbine noise coming off of it. I could still hear it in the basement.
Why? Is Battlestar Galactica going to another service?
In principle, sure. But IIRC the article has already appeared on the front page.
A new view of the housing boom and bust
If it was so unremarkable, why did her colleague instruct her to pretend it never happened?

Most likely the regulator simply didn't know what to make of what the Goldmanite had said (and might not have even been aware of the exemptions granted to accredited investors -- assuming those are applicable here). So (being in over his head) rather than confess his ignorance, he did what must have come naturally for him: he shat his (presumably male) pants, and told his co-worker to keep her trap shut.
Mostly the last one, IME. A misappropriation of the common "fake it til you make it" advice.

The REALLY sad part is how many companies build out these offices that are expensive as hell, super nice inside and out and then (ignoring 40 years of studies) they structure them in large open floor plans designed to maximize noise and distraction and minimize the ability of developers to reach a useful state of flow.
How much are they with 8 real cores and 24 - 32 GB RAM? And two hard drives?
There's a feedback loop to consider. Conclude the purchases when the unemployment rate is close to 7%, then the unemployment rate hits 9% because the nearly-free money tap is off.
Khan Academy is really cool. I do find it to be pretty surface level though. At least for what I am interested: Electrical Engineering and Music Theory.
They forked OpenSSL and inherited all its bugs.

And if you pay attention, you'll notice that this overblown bug was only relevant to Linux. Linux simply lacked some functionality OpenBSD has so they tried to hack a solution into the compatibility layer. So the first one or two preview releases turned out not to be perfect.

OpenBSD was never affected.

Though there were a few other unintended OS-agnostic changes that did actually slip in and were subsequently noticed and corrected.
That's not my point. They built the logistics to provide good customer experience despite having tonnes of traditional delivery/logistics options available. They didn't do it just because they can, they built it because they had to differentiate themselves. And dabbawalla is an entirely different entity. They have shared ownership of the food delivery network. This is not going to be the case with e-commerce logistics.
I didn't know that. Perhaps I will have to revisit it. Thanks.
Personally I like this approach from netbsd much better, it's not ripped-out, just disabled by default. Though it would be nice if there was a single char shopt so set, $-, and shebangs could all work with it, but then again it might be such a rare (and somewhat questionable) thing to export functions that it's a good idea just to leave it like this with only a longopt. Might force people to think about it some and use /usr/bin/env foo=bar ... - /bin/bash now, or just do the system(exec ... like I had above. But changing the shebang would be simplest, something like #!/bin/sh -g for the scripts that need it. And yes I had to deal with code like this doing exporting functions from perl and C in the past, it was for gross reasons to emulate older systems poorly.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/755
Can Ultrascale Computing Remain Sustainable?
Also, does Apple intend to release a fix for OS X?
Thanks for checking it out! Yes, an Android app is on the roadmap for the near future. Thanks for the heads up, will fix the typo in the next deploy. If you want some inspiration for uses cases, we do have a template gallery here: https://airtable.com/templates
A company that has grossed 100k doesn't need a CFO. You need an accountant. Don't slap a fancy title on someone until you need to actually hire someone who deserves it (like when you're grossing $5-10m/yr, or want to go public). Don't do it if for no other reason than when you get to the point where you actually need a CFO, you're going to have to tell the guy who isn't qualified that he's out.
AWS Nightmare: Leaked Access Keys Result in a $6,000 Bill Overnight
A16Z, Bill Gurley etc. saying startups are spending too much money, and in inefficient ways, and thus there is a burn-rate bubble.

I'm running with their definition and saying that, if 1) VCs give less money to companies - i.e. their max is spending is capped, 2) the companies are able to exit for more $, this issue is certainly not showing up in the data.
I wonder if there's a loophole to explain why interest rates haven't budged.
Obviously the initial comment about most developers using macs was pretty dumb but as a mac user, I do use a lot of these things. Maybe it should be titled "tools for new developers using macs"?

I don't use sourcetree, alfred, jumpcut, spectacle, screen hero. I also don't think there's any special dependency of a developer on something like file vault or time machine. In fact, using git and a remote server naturally backs up nearly all I do. Also, not sure why a developer would have a special need for lastpass or incognito mode?

Ok, so I use SOME of these things. :)
1. I cook because it's cheap. Sometimes I cook for the ladies... err, well, actually just the one lady:my gf

2. Sometimes. Depends how fancy we're getting. No weekly meal plan

3. Simple/fast/practical meals, specifically stir fries and salads. We want to get into shakes (we just bought a blender)

4. trying to follow Paleo

5. best life hacks? Get a cook! Or use a service like BigOven, Gobble, AmazonFresh/GoogleShoppingExpress,TheStoneSoup (5ingredients, 10min recipes) or just be disciplined about developing good habits! BigOven, for example let's me find stuff to cook fast. It's on iOS, Windows, Android and it even lets you import from text. Only thing I hate about the service is the fact you're locked in because there's no way to export your data...
Sorry, can't watch due to all the chemtrail smoke in my eyes. And once it clears my mind will be controlled by them anyway, so I won't want to watch anymore.
A big part of that "efficiency" is the rules required by Congress (daily mail delivery to everywhere). If it wasn't required it wouldn't be provided and that "efficiency" would go away.

Maybe parcels can save them, but it will require a lot of change because unlike the junk mail that currently keeps the lights [halfway] on, packages take up quite a bit of space. I regularly see UPS unloading more packages for a single building than would fit in a mail truck.
I park at the furthest spot away because

* I want to maximize my walking time

* I don't want my door to get dinged by another car's door, and remote spots are usually desolate
Are you seriously suggesting a Fed regulator at Goldman wouldn't know about something as basic as accredited investors?
HP-built Itaniums go for $100 on eBay. I bought one the other day (for kicks). The performance is pretty nice.
Iterable Is the Next Generation of Email Optimization